was created on a illegal act. is this another attempt to try to fire mueller in some way or at least a threat? i think what he s referring to here is the fact that some of these memos have been considered classified after the fact. i would point out that the fbi director does have discretion to consider what is classified and what is not chas phied. comey said look, when i was writing these, i did so to make sure that it wasn t classified. now the ag is looking into this. the president has cooled off on attempts to fire mueller and fire rosenstein. part of the reason is rosenstein told him he was not a target and he has sort of backed off. but there is nothing to preclude him fromming moving from a subject to a target. there are some efforts on capitol hill right now to try to protect the special counsel s probe.
how significant is this? well, look, i think to the president s detractors or critics or even those within the president s own party who want to see this investigation reach its conclusion, it definitely takes the situation in an interesting direction. and we ve seen this, right, in the public comments this week, alex, from james comey about him not being able to guarantee any details about that trip to russia. but on the flip side of that, i spoke with a source very close to this white house who pretty much put it in context as, according to president trump s supporters, he s teflon done. these scandals have not been able to slow him down yet. melanie, the president last night appears to somewhat undercut his victory in the north korean crisis and he serchbt out this tweet. james comey illegally leaked chas phied documents to the press in order to generate a special council? therefore, the special council
clinton got now classified benghazi info on private e-mail. but that one word there, that word now is key because that information was not classified when hillary clinton as secretary of state received it. but it is very easy to drop in that tiny word which is just what house speaker john boehner did today, blasting out this image on twitter, quote, she had classified info about benghazi on her private e-mail. snooert cornan also sweeting about it saying quote, what s clear is that hillary clinton consistently played fast and loose with the rules in the interest of her own political gain. every new revelation is a constant reminder that hillary clinton can t be trusted. even beyond the specific accusation around chas phied information, conservatives and republicans are clearly champing at the bit to use these e-mails in some politically assailant