question, about jobs, the economy or politics. log onto foxnews.com/happening now, to get involved in the conversation. we ll see you in 15 minute. minutes. bill: jon, thank you, breaking news from hill, a story that started on friday when nancy pelosi said she would like to retain a leadership position in the house. now, a number of house democrats apparently calling on nancy pelosi to step aside. and, our capitol hill senior producer on the stuff night and day, 24/7. what are you learning about the letter? i obtained the letter this morning, it is draft language of a a massive to the speaker from many of the democrats who lost on last tuesday, asking her to step aside for the good to the party, in the letter, they say they were victimized by a national wave of resentment toward democrats and a wave that ensnared you along with us and says that while we commend you for your years of service to our party and your leadership
tessier that was bankrolled by the clinton campaign and the dnc and which the fbi may have used it to launch a counterintelligence probe against comp advisors. and fox news has confirmed that strzok oversaw the questioning of former national security advisor michael flynn that led to his guilty plea last week. ed henry, chief national correspondent explains what this means and an increasingly skeptical congress. the mainstream media has been shaking its head at president trump for lashing out at the fbi over the weekend but the more we learn about this very senior fbi official, the more questions are being raised about whether the president is right on target about there being a double standard between how he and hillary clinton have been treated by the fbi. new tonight: it s been revealed that before james comey cleared clinton during the summer of 2016 in her email probe, the lead agent in that investigation, peter strzok, change that draft language in
change that draft language in comey s statement. shifting it from the fbi director saying it was grossly negligent which hinted at potential crimes to the much more lenient extremely careless about clinton s handling of the email server. it turns out peter strzok had been sending his girlfriend, another fbi official, text messages that were pro-clinton and extreme the anti-trump. leading special counsel robert mueller to pull strzok from the russia probe because of bias concerns. the other key piece of information that we learned tonight is that the anti-trump strzok helped conduct the fbi interview retired general mike flynn months after strzok led the fbi interview of hillary clinton that was widely seen as being too gentle. hillary clinton lied many times to the fbi and nothing happened to her. flynn lied and they destroyed his life. people have the right to assume people investigating them our objective they have not
who changed james comey s draft language in the hillary clinton decision from grossly negligent a phrase that carries possible criminal penalties to extreme the careless, a phrase with no real legal implications. bret: former trump campaign chairman paul manafort may be in trouble again. prosecutors say manafort has been working on an op-ed essay with a colleague that prosecutors assessed to have ties to russian intelligence services. that wouldn t be in direct violation of the judge s ruling that neither side engage in any public relations exercise in relation to the case. the op-ed was being drafted as late as last week with manafort under house arrest. manafort was about to make $11 million bail and give back travel privileges and shake an ankle bracelet. prosecutors want all that pulled by a judge. manafort is currently facing several felony charges. let s get some analysis and perspective in all the stories. house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy.
deliberately keeping the measure under lock and key. we get more from cnn s phil mattingly on capitol hill. reporter: dave and christine, just the week before house republicans are planning to launch their legislative effort to finally repeal and replace the affordable care act, something they ve been campaigning on for years and years, the whole process devolved into a game of hide and seek. seriously. so, senator rand paul is very opposed to what house republican leadership wants to do, discovered that members of one of the house committees that is considering this bill were going to meet behind closed doords to review draft language. he decided he wanted to review it as well. he s not on the committee. he s not even from the chamber. that didn t stop him. here s what he had to say. when i came here, i introduced a bill called read the bill. read the bills act. when i say that in public speaking people laugh because they re embarrassed it would actually not read the bills up here