have dealt with issues of money laundering. for example others i have dealt with the mob. we are still i would just cancel edward to keep your eye on that investigation. and the political disruption. the political disruption, the house intelligence committee and it is unfortunate. allegations to some critics undermine some of the faith and institutions that you say is troubling. with peter strzok and lisa paige emails about trump it would be a disaster if he was elected president and they have insurance policy. on page 7, finally peter strzok and lisa paige emails are we see this reporting in the accusations and yet you have this in cold print information went to the fisa court this is a lot of that noise had nothing to do with the application. that is what adam schiff will say. it is a lot of noise. that there was evidence presented to the fisa court independent of that.
that said whenever you re actually talking about the legal issue of perjury both the question and the answer have to be absolutely unambiguous, something like the question and answers that michael flynn provided to the fbi. she probably has enough wiggle room, at least based on what we ve seen in public, to say she is not in sort of legal jeopardy. that said, this certainly could be a profound issue for her confirmation to her post as ambassador. it also raises questions about sort of the general lack of candor and truthfulness on the part of the trump team and about sort of russia issues specifically. it seems pretty clear from reporting at this point that the k.t. mcfarland was aware, you know, in substantial detail about these conversations that flynn had with sergey kislyak. all right. finally peter strzok, was the one-time counter intelligence official in the fbi, dismissed by robert mueller because he wrote politically charged texts during the campaign that came to light. seems
from special counsel robert mueller s team earlier this summer after exchanging those private messages that could be seen as favoring clinton and mocking president trump, may now further fuel those who are looking to discredit special counsel mueller s work, since strzok was previously on the team, and meanwhile, we ve also learned that fbi director christopher rey is privately trying to rally the troops at the bureau after the president s tweets over the weekend where he said the reputation is in tatters. rey never mentions the president by name or strzok but told staff in an e-mail they should welcome tough questions and told them to keep calm and tackle hard, john? laura jarrett, thanks so much. you always keep calm and tackle hard. joining me now national security analyst susan [ inaudible ]. i want to tick off the newest ones with the greatest significance and one is the lingering discussion about obstruction of justice, this notion floated by john dowd the president s persona
off the mueller team for sending texts, one-time critical of then candidate trump, officials tell us that peter strzok made what could have been a legally significant edit to james comey s remarks on hillary clinton s e-mails back in july of 2016. justice reporter laura jarrett helped break the story. what have you learned. good morning, john. electronic records show peter strzok changed key language in comey s statement that cleared hillary clinton of wrongdoing. initially describing her handling of classified materials as, quote, grossly negligent but changing that to extremely careless. we re told that this process of drafting the statement was a collaborative team effort and it makes sense that language would have been adjusted down from gross negligence since that s the legal standard carrying criminal penalties and decided not to recommend charges anyway. from a political optics anyway the news of strzok s direct hand in the statement combined with the fact that he was dismisse