about political leanings of fbi agents, rather than getting into the heart of whether or not there was solution collusion in election. we saw a shot being fired back from house speaker paul ryan s office today. saying, like, we need to conclude this as soon as we can so that we re not allowing any infiltration in the next election. as those shots fire back across the aisles, i think it can dilute the public trust in these congressional investigations because it s just looking more like political football than a serious investigation into a possible criminal matter. you mentioned fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. that testimony coming on tuesday before the committee. in that testimony, it was mccabe who appeared to contradict something that president trump has said in the past. this idea that then-fbi director jim comey had been asked to take this loyalty pledge. has there been any reaction to that contradiction?
effective stunt. wow, look at how i turned the narrative around on this. and this is a tactic that works well for him. as a distraction this is a home run. and given the incentives at work here and the values of this person and the administration that we are dealing with now, i don t know what the cure is to this. i don t know what the defense is to this for us as a country. because you can t let it go, right. i mean maybe you could let it go and if it is a private person or a public figure but when it is the president of the united states, a singular position, you can t let it go. what the president said yesterday about two of our colleagues here at msnbc is absolutely worthy of shock and condemnation which it has rightfully earned and which i share. and honestly, which everybody shares. and if it goes beyond what it appears to be and reflects an underlying effort at extortion or coercion, that should be investigated as a potential criminal matter. and on top of that, we also as a
the fbi reportedly started looking into this as a potential criminal matter, not just as a gross, sad, personal matter that ended a political career and a marriage. but that is the path that brought us to today s bombshell political news 11 days before the presidential election, because the cops and the fbi looking into anthony weiner s online sexual behavior to see if he behaved criminally apparently that resulted in the fbi coming into possession, we re not sure exactly how, coming into possession of what is described by one source as a laptop computer that was used by both anthony weiner and his wife, huma abedin. and that, according to nbc news sources is what led to this letter today from fbi director james comey. it says the fbi discovered new information that may be pertinent to its previous investigation of hillary clinton s use of a private e-mail serve if when she was secretary of state.