campaign was in cahoots with the justice department as doj was investigating hillary clinton s private e-mail server. this e-mail is purportedly from clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon to clinton staffers. let me quote brian here. doj folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning so we could have a window into the judge s thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today. so let s first go to jim sciutto, our chief national security correspondent, on this. first context. can you give me the context of the e-mail? we know fallon is a former doj employee. he was citing public information about a case involving a foia freedom of information request. was this out of bounds? listen, just throw the e-mail up on the screen again. first of all, as you say, the fact that a status hearing is coming up would be public information. second of all, to get a window into the judge s thinking. that s not because they re going out for drinks with the j
like in illinois politics? obviously illinois politics can be a bit of a cesspool. there s you could line up quite a perp walk of illinois politicians. what was hastert s political reputation? first context, chris, illinois is regarded as the third most corrupt state in the nation, chicago the most corrupt city. denny hastert comes out of what s called the illinois combine. the combine was republicans and democrats who controlled the political structure and it was a mix of business and contractors and politicians, all of whom seemed to do extraordinarily well within the political confines. remember, denny hastert spent four years in the illinois house as a representative, then a number of years in congress. and he, as speaker, was one of the key figures in the illinois combine, a combine that basically takes care of contractors and business people and politicians. so he is not stranger to the
scuttlebutt that so and so is under investigation for such and such. this is one of the few times in my 40 years of washington illinois politics that something has come completely out of the blue. there hadn t been an inkling of acknowledgment that anything was going on with respect to denny hastert and past transgressions. and so i agree with the previous guests that this is about as shocking as a political indictment can be. what was hastert s reputation like in illinois politics? obviously illinois politics can be a bit of a cesspool. there s you could line up quite a perp walk of illinois politicians. what was hashastert s political reputation? first context, chris, illinois is regarded as the third most corrupt state in the nation chicago the most corrupt city. denny hastert comes out of what s called the illinois combine. the combine was republicans and democrats who controlled the political structure and it was a mix of business and contractors
and he picked me up and i remember him carrying me athe street or into the street and he i guess took his belt off and created a tourniquet on my leg. have no idea who that person was. saved her life. she says she remembers the comfort she felt while a police officer held her hand while she was loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital. some of the staff at the new hospital say they ran in the marethon themselves and they say they are. to help anyway they can. now, to syria. first context. u.s. officials announced late last week chemical weapons had been used by syrian forces. now, growing questions about how the united states should respond to news of chemical weapons being used there. just hours ago, senator john mccain said the red line
comes a day after the state department said they never concluded it was triggered by the youtube video. this despite the fact that u.n. ambassador susan rice repeatedly called it spontaneous. the president s top counterterrorism adviser met with the libyan president today and discussed the effort to track down those responsible for the attack. of course, this is an election year and certainly politics to all this. democrats say they have been completely left out of the oversight investigation. being led by republican chairman issa. mitt romney recently made the attack a focus of criticism of the president on foreign policy. let s put it through the spin cycle. first context. i think issa would have more credible if he didn t try to make a scandal stick to the president. he was the one that was behind the fast and furious and all male panel on contraception. the idea of him conducting a