tasked with doing this review of the fbi director s conduct in 2016. what rosenstein concluded is at the fbi director had essentially colored outside the lines. he was the nation s premier investigator and he put on a prosecutor s hat when he made a public statement in july, recommending charges against hillary clinton in the email probe. the other nail on the coffin came last week. when he said, i will do it all over again. i stand behind this decision. what rosenstein wrote is at the fbi director failed to admit the errors that he had made in 2016. we have the white house, the vice president, squarely placing the decision on this recommendation from a career justice department official. jon: catherine herridge,
should also be a special counsel appointed to re-examine the evidence in the hillary clinton case and decide a new weather she violated the law. look at the statute, he looked at her conduct and it appears she flagrantly violated the espionage act. leave it to a special counsel to now decide and in the end, perhaps a jury will decide perhaps hillary quinn to be billings behind bars. jon: thank you, greg. jenna: we are waiting for the first white house news briefing since the firing of james comey. we will take you there live at the white house as soon as it starts. also, a few other news items, devastating wildfire going over to states. more on that in just a moment s e important to me than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want.
with the news cycle. how the timing of the firing could relate or not relate into the ongoing investigation into russia s meddling in our election. here is vice president pence who we weren t expecting at all. jon: some democrats are complaining about the firing of the fbi director, the tier with the vice president has to say. the yesterday president donald trump provided strong and decisive leadership to restore the trust and confidence of the american people and the federal bureau of investigation. i m grateful for the action the president has taken and i m confident as we go forward that the president will choose an individual who will be able to restore the confidence of our nation and our leading law enforcement agency. president trump made the right decision at the right time.
now fast forward a few months and call me is fired and chuck schumer is outraged. this is the kind of frenzy and delirium and partisan politics that americans are quite sick of. jon: senator schumer is saying to get a special counsel appointed here or an independent investigation. how does that happen? of the statute expired so now the attorney general can appoint a special counsel, and this case, it would be the deputy ag because of sessions recused himself. it would be an autonomous independent investigation and of president trump feels at sweetly confident that he and his associates did nothing wrong, there was no collusion with russia, then he should welcome a special counsel. however, given the reasons for firing comey, that he did mishandled the clinton email scandal investigation, there
do it. i think these investigations will continue. there will be a new fbi director and justice will have its course. jon: let me ask you this though, simon. a lot of democrats blame jim comey for hillary clinton s loss and president trump, the vice president said essentially the handling of the clinton matter as much of the reason for comey s dismissal. is the most ridiculous thing i ve heard come out of this white house since donald trump became president. jon: interesting. all right. guy, let s get your take. jim comey has been a controversial fbi director, especially since he said this over the summer. although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. jon: there you go.