on the hill just a couple of days ago. days ago, sure. where he asked is there an investigation going on? is the fbi investigating donald trump s ties to russia. and comey said as you know we never reveal details of an investigation. and senator king, he is an independent but caucuses with democrats said there is some irpy there referring to this very incident. the senator from maine there. you are right. that was a line of question that had a lot of folks with their eye browse raised. we heard from pete williams a couple moments ago casey the impetus for this appears to be a number of congressmen and women reaching out. i he no you spend a lot of time there on the hill. yes. do you have any sense of these kong leaders, how many we are talking about? how many names? well. i have to tell you we are just starting to do the reporting on this.
again, i think those of us that were following this matter in real time always expected there could be some clamoring and some need for some entity, likely the inspector general us a office to do an after the fact review. as i mentioned craig it s not just the letter that was sent 11 days out but there was an incident two ooeks after the election where certain media publications were publishing details of rank and file agents in the new york field office wanting to launch get subpoenas issued over allegations from that notoriously debunked clinton cash book. they wanted to launch a full scale investigation into the clinton foundation over those baseless allegations and that leaked that was somehow allowed to leak out of the new york field office even though supervise at the fbi themselves judged it not worth looking into. the fact that the fbi is so arrive with leaks and the fact that the impact of those leaks
we ve been at odds on many things. i could give his speeches. he can give inmoo. we have reached that point in our relationship. and i listened carefully and sfad for virtually all of the hearing we had in the first day. but it was interesting because during the course of the hearing the story was unfoaling about this doesier of unconfirmed allegations against the elect. yesterday i asked michael mccasey. i said does the attorney general have the authority to stop an investigation in the fbi? and he said yes. well that raises a new question, one that i m going to pursue with written questions to mr. sessions senator sessions at this point. will he continue or impede any of the investigations underway relative to the russian involvement in this last election? i want his answer, yes or no, straight up. based on the man that you have known all those years what sense do you get? do you sense he is the kind of guy that would impede that investigation? i worry about it. i worry about i
to imagine it wasn t absolutely decisive. hillary clinton loses by 77,000 votes. three days out comey comes out again and announces by the way there is really nothing on that laptop. why send the letter in the first place? comey s actions were unpreced t unprecedented. unusual what he did. we heard from jim comey from the fbi. we heard from him a knew days ago. this is part of his exchange with maine s senator angus king. let s take a listen. you didn t say one way or the other whether each there is an investigation underway. correct. i don t especially in a public forum we never confirm or deny a pending investigation. i m not saying the irony of your making that statement here i cannot avoid. angus king s words will live in infamiliary because that s what a lot of people were tig at that moment when jim comey said that. it is curious, to say the least, e.j. it s all very kooer curious.
the fbi in new york wants there to be an investigation of hillary clinton. that bubbles up and actually starts to happen. we have the wiener investigation also taking place by the new york fbi which is not related at all to hillary clinton but this laptop they have in common because of huma abedin. they have the laptop but don t get a search warrant for it. they held on to the laptop. and then you have jim comey sending a letter not even j. edgar hoover intervened this much in an election. before we get the letter, we have chafe, et cetera, who is in oversight inside the house of representatives, previewing on his twitter feed there is explosive information. you have rudy giuliani going on tv previewing they have explosive information on hillary clinton. that series of events 11 days out of the election, nate silver has looked at the data it s hard for anyone including myself