mean for the fbi. this is your reporting. you think comey would ever admit that was his thinking all along, that s the question. i think at some point he ll have to sit for an interview and explain it. what do you think it means, erick, for the trump collusion/russia investigation moving forward? well, i think what we ve seen through this story and others is that the fbi was a bit slow off the mark on this investigation. yes, they quietly began this investigation in july but the cia and other agencies seem to be out ahead of them and the fact that hillary was sump a public investigation and russia was the exact opposite is more indication, at least feeds into sinnism is some on the left that the fbi was not as aggressive as it should have been and it may still be a while before we come
out is that like a lot of us the fbi and jim comey thought hillary clinton was going to win and was concerned about what the fallout would be if it looked like the fbi was helping her secure that victory. let s talk more about that, erick. you say in the case of mrs. clinton, he rewrote the script partly basised on the fbi s expectation that she would win and fearing the bureau would look like it was helping her. is it fair to say that so many of the decisions made were because they assumed clinton would win? i think that was the subtext for many if not all of the decisions. it was never stated explicitly but in our reporting, certainly that was the undercurrent. that, like the rest of the country, k comey and the fbi
to beat. erick: you re a dead man benny, i bet again. benny: i m a dead man. okay. two pair! pair of deuces. two pair! pair of tens! two pair! erick: oh no. benny: pair of kings! erick: benny! oh! benny: full house! erick: goodness, benny. benny: huh? erick: you got a full house. this is unbelievable. is there, like, a cooler standing behind us? anthony: all right, well that works for me. benny: thank you very much. anthony: this is what we call a learning experience, in my case. erick: that was fun. we got away with our shirts. anthony: let s not do it again. erick: yeah, let s never do it again. (vo) ahhhh, all right. all right flows downstream. both ways. all right says i dare, and sometimes i do. all right never gets lost
croupiers. three shifts a day they slip in and out of the casinos almost unseen through their own entrances. but it s these people who ve seen it all. seen everything. night after night. benny s been working here since caesar s opened in august of 1966. he s dealt cards to everybody. benny: i ve dealt to diana ross, harry belafonte, sinatra, sammy davis. anthony: sinatra was not supposed to be, uh, particularly, uh, amiable at the table. benny: sinatra was class. anthony: really? benny: he was class. he was a gentleman. but those were the good days. but, it s nice now too. anthony: would you describe yourself as a degenerate gambler? erick: yeah, i definitely have been, i m trying to move past that. we have a 2-year-old at home. so i m working in that phase. but i ll always have that gambling gear, there s no doubt about it.
anthony: erick and erica lindgren are professional gamblers. poker players to be precise. it s routine for them to sit down to a game with a bankroll of half a million dollars. tonight? slightly smaller stakes. erick: hey benny, how do you like my chances? benny: good. good. erica: that s a trained answer. anthony: instead of actual poker, we re set up with a dumbed-down, for the camera version, of texas hold em. you play against the house. the odds, to say the least, are stacked against you. benny: oh here s a winner! here s a winner! yep, two pair. he s cutting up over there. see how easy it is? you got this game down. anthony: uh-oh. those are famous last words. erick: all right, let s put out a hundo, let s see what happens. enny: all rit now we have a pair of vens. erick: i want to bet. benny: okay. i have trips. that s going to be pretty hard