go soft on her before she was interviewed. katie: james comey wrote that exoneration memo of hillary clinton long before she was even interviewed. two other things are they either wanted hillary clinton to win the presidency and allowed that to jeopardize their investigation of her and treat her fairly and equally under the law. or they believed donald trump couldn t win and they wanted to go soft on hillary. based on all the other texts that we have seen about how they felt about trump, i m pretty sure it was the former. jesse: bill clinton is riding dirty in an suv. he had a fan who started say something things to him. he rolled his window down. you are the best president,
go soft on her before she was interviewed. katie: james comey wrote that exoneration memo of hillary clinton long before she was even interviewed. two other things are they either wanted hillary clinton to win the presidency and allowed that to jeopardize their investigation of her and treat her fairly and equally under the law. or they believed donald trump couldn t win and they wanted to go soft on hillary. based on all the other texts that we have seen about how they felt about trump, i m pretty sure it was the former. jesse: bill clinton is riding dirty in an suv. he had a fan who started say something things to him. he rolled his window down. you are the best president,
katie: comey s former deputy expected to face questions on peter strzok, the fbi official who also played a key role in drafting clinton s exoneration. strzok was dismiss from the mueller probably forrics changing anti-trump texts with a bureau lawyer. steve, how does the credibility of this investigation and how they handled the clinton investigation affect the credibility of the special counsel? that s a good question. i m not sure. but there are real questions about this investigation. i think trey gowdy raises one of them. stop for a second and think about what trade gowdy said. they drafted an exoneration memo two months before interview of hillary clinton the subject of the probe. that is extraordinary. i don t care how are, i don t care where you sit politically, how do you draft an exoneration memo before have you interviewed the key witness? katie: can you imagine robert mueller drafting exoneration letter of president trump? sandra: the defense of it has been it is no
circumstances are for the military if the deal doesn t get done. he wasn t always a defense hawk. the moderator said in all his 30 years in the defense world, it was the first time he had seen a speaker of the house make this kind of plea for defense spending. the defense budget is being held hostage for daca, which is not a deadline that expires tomorrow. good faith negotiations are underway right now but we should not be be holding hostage the military for this. congress is likely to pass another short term spending bill to fund the government but that doesn t get the military its desperately needed new jets and repairs to ships will be slowed, melissa. melissa: thank you. jon: meantime the house intelligence committee hearing from former f.b.i. director james comey s chief of staff with the focus on the hillary clinton email scandal and the drafting of that exoneration memo. what lawmakers are learning.
f.b.i. s handling of the clinton email probe. he could reveal new information. there was an exoneration memo drafted in may of 2016 that as a former prosecutor i just found stunning. i find stunning that a law enforcement officers would draft it two months before you have interviewed the target of the investigation and before you ve interviewed almost two dozen witnesses. we need to know what role in any this special agent had in that. sandra: catherine herridge is live outside the committee hearing room. it s a really highly fluid situation here on capitol hill. the latest information we have is that the house intelligence committee is waiting for a response from steve bannon s lawyer as to whether he is going to appear today or try and schedule a date in the very near future. as the morning has progressed the likelihood he is going to appear has diminished. bannon was up here on capitol hill for 12 hours earlier this week before the house intelligence committee in a closed sess