our justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. i have to say, the last part of this was the most striking to me for this reason he said, well, the russians, i m pretty sure they attempted to interfere, and when you asked him about the server, he didn t seem to even remember wikileaks, remember the stolen dnc emails, remember the stolen podesta emails. there seems to be a lot of missing information. he used the word nothing after july 1st 2016 and i m thinking, huh, why do you pick that date, not anything not all of the stuff that happened before then? is he cherry picking here? i can t figure this out. well, of course, the date that he used for the beginning of the investigation is when the fbi opened the investigation of the trump campaign, so, he s talking about the duration of the fbi s work on the investigation. and then, at the end, on the stuff on ukraine, you know, my take on that was, he was trying to make it clear that he is not
new this morning, lawmakers on capitol hill getting their hands on a new batch of text messages between two fbi officials who worked, albeit briefly, for special counsel robert mueller s team, talking about 400 pages of text. joining me now, cnn justice reporter jessica snyder. what are you learning? reporter: texts have become the focus for republican lawmakers who have repeatedly criticized the fbi. so this latest batch was partially released over the weekend by homeland security chair ron johnson. they re texts between fbi agent peter strock, who worked on the clinton e-mail server investigation, and then the russia probe until he was pulled off this summer for anti-trump texts. and they were between him and an fbi lawyer lisa page with whom strock was having a romantic relationship. in that handful of texts that were released this weekend, there is this one from july 1st,
department when he found out, the disturbing texts are part of a new file of nearly 400 pages released from the fbi on friday. some of the texts show that fbi agent peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page knew then presidential candidate hillary clinton would not face any charges even before she was interviewed by the fbi. another text exchange, page reveals to strok knew about plan to exonerate clinton. two texting each other on july 1st, 2016 stating this, they wanted to say that timing looks like hell, yeah, that is awful problem. it s a real profound courage since they know no charges will
new file of nearly 400 pages released from the fbi on friday. some of the texts show that fbi agent peter strzok and lisa page knew then hillary clinton would not face any charges even before she was interviewed by then fbi director james comey. another text exchange, page reveals to strzok knew in advance about then former fbi director james comey to exonerate hillary clinton, the two texting this to each other in july 1st, 2016 stating this u timing looks like hell, yeah, that is awful timing, it s a real profile encourage since she knows no charges will be brought. and then four days later on july 5th, 2016 comey made stunning announcement about clinton. although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information u our
minutes acquitted him of murder, first, and second and involuntary manslaughter. this is the case that brought the term sanctuary city to the forefront. person deported five times to mexico, would have been a sixth time but san francisco is sanctuary city and doesn t comply with federal immigration detentions and therefore let him go. many thought would be a slam dunk case for the prosecution, kate steinle, walking along this pier, this well-known pier in san francisco, july 1st, 2016. with her dad. gunshot rings out. within an hour police had their man. but defense did a very good job in poking holes in prosecution s theory. said it was intentional murder, that you had this person point a weapon at kate steinle and pull the trigger. but prosecution doing effective