conversation home? that s part of it. the inspector general horowitz definitely slaps comey on the wrist for taking things home that he shouldn t have. but he also says he sets a bat precedent for fbi employees who now think they can leak information in order to set in progress some kind of official action. but for people who iowa been talking to, justice department employees and former justice department employees today, they say horowitz completely misses the context here. and it s like if he were to charge him and he referred it to the justice department who declined to charge him, but it s like punishing someone for speeding on their way to put out a fire. that s the way a lot of people see it here. and the idea that what the information that he gave was confidential, which is the lowest form of classification, no one s been charged for leaking confidential information in the modern era, the idea that if you were to punish someone for that, that would be like charging them for go
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are embarrassed by this. but the idea of boycotting on the republican side with money is probably one of the most effective ways to punish them or slap back. he seems like the only thing that would be even more effective would be for everyone to get off twitter, even for just a period of time. has there been any conversation along those lines? in this instance, it appears money has talked. i m told right before he came on the air with you here that twitter has in fact freed mitch. the team mitch twitter account made that announcement. but it shouldn t have to come to that. president trump has, as you know, over 60 million twitter followers. that is a direct pipeline into the phones and computers of americans. and it s a way he can get his message to people complete the unfiltered by the news media. he shouldn t have to be forced to voluntarily give that up simply because money does talk. we will be successful in this time, getting twitter to do the right thing. and free mitch mccon
facebook as a primary new sourc source. martha: that s one of the reasons the doj is looking into it as well. before i let you go i do want to get your thoughts on today. i know you said you thought that it was sad to see robert mueller not a sharp, perhaps, on some of the facts. even before today, most americans had moved on from this issue. this issue, even before today, was as dead as 4:00 to them. what my democratic friends tried to do today was room a corpse, and they couldn t do it. they just couldn t do it. not a corpse is not only dead, it s buried. i do feel bad about bob mueller and i don t think they should have put him through this. bob mueller, in my judgment i know some of our viewers disagree, but he s an honorable man and he served this country well and hope the american people will remember him from his days when he was in his prime. he shouldn t have had to go through that. martha: it s notable, i
shirley skinner and a person kneeling beside her holding her hand. then a first responder motioned over to the other side of the room. i saw the body laying down there. any sign of life? no. it was stephen watkins, dead on the floor. a 9 millimeter glock handgun on a box several feet away. trying to get in my mind what happened, the ems personnel told me shirley made a statement to them that she had shot him. they reported to the chief that shirley had said a couple times is he dead? i shot him. he shouldn t have come back here. a stunning story, but this was secondhand information. from first responders quoting an elderly woman in the midst of a medical and family crisis. were her statements reliable? had she really said that? chief birdsell asked jenner what happened. he said stephen forced his way in the house and knocked her grandmother down and then he was coming after her and the baby
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