also point to his testimony that he said just the other day about forwarding e-mails. comey s testimony. comey s testimony and the inaccuracies that he made and those in addition to what comey has testified in the past is a series of events that have culminated. the white house is paying on our leg and trying to tell us that it s raining outside. the idea that the trump white house is the least bit concerned about how hillary clinton was treated with respect to the e-mail investigation is laughable and if he came in and had serious concerns about how director comey conducted the investigation he would have been on firmer ground to await the results of the watchdog investigation that is already afoot and if it came out and said that they disagreed with director comey s handling of that they could have cited that and then taken action against director comey. it was political and getting too
instead, the e-mails were automatically sent by a backup system on abadin s phone, according to what u.s. officials told cnn last fall, but comey seemed to confuse the issue when testifying last wednesday. huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him, and i think to print out for her, so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state. reporter: analysts concluded abadin may have forwarded some but not the hundreds and thousands comey referenced, and e-mails on weiner s computer were not marked classified at the time they were sent, though the fbi later determined that classified information was contained in some of the e-mails on weiner s laptop. comey said some turned up in the renewed investigation. during the following week they reviewed 40,000 e-mails. i understated how many they reviewed, and found 3,000 of them were work-related and came from blackberry backups and a bunch other things and 12 of them were were classified,
perspective. thank you so much. thanks, brooke. let s talk about james comey, the fbi director under fire for some false statements he made under oath. cnn has confirmed that when the fbi director testified last week, comey overstated the number of e-mails that hillary clinton s aide huma abedin forwarded on to her then husband, anthony weiner, as well as the number of confidential classified e-mails forwarded. huma abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him, for him i think to print out for her, so she could then deliver them to secretary of state. she forwarded hundreds of thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. turned out those e-mails ended up in abedin s husband s computer because of a backup system for her phone. essentially in the cloud. the actual total is far fewer than the hundreds of thousands comey had claimed.
today s white house briefing set to start any moment. wee goi we re going to bring it to you live. while we wait, the fbi director james comey is take something heat right now. cnn has confirmed that while the fbi director was under oath last week he overstated the number of e-mails hillary clinton aide huma abedin forwarded to her husband. here s what he said last week. huma abedin appears to have had a practice of forwarding e-mails to him for him to printout for her so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state. she forwarded hundreds and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. let s talk about this with our panel. politics reporter and editor chris, our justice correspondent
on anthony weiner s laptop. was there classified information on weiner s computer? yes. who sent it to him? his then spouse, huma abedin, who has a regular practice of forwarding e-mails for him to printout for her so she could deliver them to secretary of state. joining us now is the senator asking the questions. senator john kennedy of louisiana. good morning, senator. good morning, alisyn. you got new information out of director comey there that we hadn t previously known about how huma abedin would send e-mails from secretary of state clinton to her husband to print them out. that prompted senator graham to ask comey should somebody be prosecuted for sending classified information to anthony weiner. then comey said there is no anthony weiner statute. what did you think of that