columnist kim strassel. kim, in the on going e-mail saga, what s the most important detail we learned this week? i think the most important thing a couple of things. one, we found out the server that was turned over to the fbi was, according to mrs. clinton s lawyers, wiped clean. we still don t know what that means yet in terms of their ability to retrieve data. but that was one thing. we ve also seen the clinton camp become very defensive about this which suggests that they and the democratic party realize that there is a bit of a problem for them because of revelations about classified material which have also been in the news yet more again this week. kim, we ve also learned that there really was a lot of classified information that closed her e-mail back and forth, maybe more than 300. that s just based on the documents that have been looked at so far. so this is an escalating problem of mishandling classified information. yes. we also have new reports
sensitive material on her private e-mail server after a court filing this week revealed that intelligence agencies are flaiged more than 300 documents from clinton s account that may contain classified information. the problem her campaign argued this week isn t clinton s handling of the emails, but the dysfunctional system used by the government to designate what s secret. during a testy exchange with reporters in las vegas tuesday, the former secretary of state claims she s the innocent victim of that agency battle. it has nothing to do with me, and it has nothing to do with the fact that my account was personal. it s the process by which the government and sometimes in disagreement between various agencies of the government make decisions about what can and cannot be disclosed. joining the panel this week wall street journal assistant editorial page editor james freeman. editorial board member joe rago, and washington columnist kim straussel. kim, in the ongoing e-mail saga,
andy. for one it was exciting to see trump tweet something about an issue. the economy in this case. it is hard to parse what he means. almost like a fortune cookie what he means by that tweet there. if he were president he has given so many mixed signals over the years in the current context of the campaign he s talked about going toe to toe with china, on trade, on the economy. however in the past he s also called for taxes on assets for the wealthy which is decidedly liberal. so i think it is sort of up in the air and perhaps maybe the debates coming up would shed light on where he actually stands. all right. thank you so much for your time tonight. ahead it seems like hillary clinton s e-mail saga is never going to end. now a federal judge wants the fbi to expand their investigation. the details ahead. not confidentr company s data is secure, the possibility of a breach can quickly become the only thing you think about.
other secretaries of state didn t do. they had private e-mails. colin powell recommended she have a private e-mail. so that s number one. number two, she didn t break any state department regulations. that was affirmed after the newspapers got it wrong. so no. i think she s been basically telling the truth. she may have parsed things here or there but basically telling the truth. and i do think she s right that this she s fortunate this is taking place almost a half a year in front of the first caucus and a year and a half in front of the first the dwal election itself so i think by the time november 2016 rolls around this will not be an issue on the front burner. dealing with it now, leaky pipe of the e-mail saga, also affecting her poor polling coming to her being honest and trustworthy as we ve seen, what do you make of the surge of bernie sanders considering that? well, i think the bernie
threat posed by a lesser known challenger. this last development here, how big a ken for party leaders? the concern is that, you know, hillary clinton has promised that this time around she would be running a very open, accessible campaign. now that we have these questions about the e-mails being raised, it does appear that, first of all, they are trying to dismiss it all as a big political exercise when, in fact, it s hard to say that when we re talking about the fbi and justice department prosecutors. the second thing is that they are relying on sort of legalistic sounding defenses. not that the material wasn t sensitive or, you know, shouldn t have been discussed, but that it wasn t marked classified. that is not really the standard the intelligence committee the intelligence community looks at. what i bring attention to two ways that this e-mail saga can be viewed as far as two clips