with the details on this. evan, you know, the fbi backtracking here? reporter: a little bit, john. what the director of the fbi was trying to describe was essentially a forwarding system that huma abedin had whereby her e-mails were instantly, automatically forwarded to the laptop computer that anthony weiner was using. that s not exactly how he said it, however. so take a listen to what he said at the hearing last week. 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 and thousands of e-mails, some of which contained classified information. reporter: and really what he was trying to say and should have said is, indeed, there were a couple of probably there were some e-mails that she did forward for printing purposes, but this was more of an automatic forwarding system, an automatic backup system that she was using. propublica was the
reporter: tonight n a terse letter, president trump informed fbi director james comey, you re hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately. it was just last week, comey said he was mildly nauseous that his idea of hillary clinton s e-mails may have had an impact on the election. comey upended the election just announcing his investigators 11 days before the vote, announcing his investigators were now pouring over new e-mails discovered on the laptop of anthony weiner, the disgraced former congressman married to hillary s close aide huma abedin. just two days before the election, comey revealed there was nothing there. last week, comey testified that e-mails. a regular practice of forwarding e-mails to him for him i think to print out for her to deliver them to secretary of