before he was fired. l that, all of it mostly focusing on loyalty and the president repeatedly asking james comey to tell the american public that he was not under investigation. also talking about what he did with mike flynn. one more thing before we go. it was nearly a year ago, july 5, 2016, that then fbi director james comey made an announcement. he recommended no criminal charges against hillary clinton related to handling of classified information while she was secretary of state. that is where we begin as we ll take a look at the series of events that brought us to right now, to today. we are about to hear from the fbi director james comey, expected to make a statement from fbi headquarters in washington. although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive
second paragraph basically says, hey, by the way, thanks so much for those times when he said i m great and i never did anything bad. that was great when you said three times i didn t do anything bad. oh, also, sorry, you re also fired. i mean, that is he said he was doing it because he had to agree with the finding of the department of justice, but our reporting is that he commission that had report. rosenstein has been there two week and it took 18 days for them to act on flynn. but within two weeks, they got this all together and all those memos and letters a er ters wer yesterday. and this all happened july 5, 2016, the not charging hillary clinton. so david zhanger, the president seems intent on putting this on the democrats as motivation. and to the just in the typical obama did it way that the white house keeps doing, but he said first last night when the first wave of coverage came chuck schumer stated i don t have
heat, he just couldn t take the heat from the republicans. critics are calling it is the move of a fascist dictator. former us attorney for district of columbia said the president made the right call. the fbi director and acted like he was the attorney general, even the president of the united states, violated every known rule of the permit of justice about how an investigator is supposed to conduct himself and for that he usurped the powers of the attorney general on july 5, 2016, and from there on in he was no longer able to lead the fbi. as his testimony last week before the senate was viewed by many as so bizarre, so self-indulgent, self-righteous that many people believe he lost it and could no longer function as leader of the fbi and they were correct. he interjected himself because he wanted to be a hero. he wanted this to be about james comey. he wants to save hillary clinton s candidacy and that is what he did, he did it for
the letter, you believe, lists mostly prior grievances. that s correct. and the letter basically has dates in it. so, this is a fact, not a piece of analysis. right. the dates are july 5, 2016. the announcement of the conclusion of the inquiry into hillary clinton. the dates, october 28, 2016, which everyone who followed this campaign remembers, that controversial and very opaque recondite letter he sent to congress about finding new e-mails. and then to the end, we say we want to return to traditions, although the president has the power to remove the fbi director, mr. rosenstein writes, the decision should not be taken lightly. i agree with the nearly unanimous opinions of former department officials which have been quoted in the letter. those quotes also old because they were real-time reactions for the most part to his campaign activities. and then you have oat other letter which i think it is fair to say only this president would
candidate for president became the center of the closing days of a presidential election. before voters went to the polls last november they have been inundated with stories about the fbi s investigation of senator clinton s e-mails. press coverage was wall to wall. every day there was another story about secretary clinton s e-mails. every day questions were released, every day questions were raised about whether classified information had been released or compromised and over and over again, was there comme commentary from the fbi about its actions and investigation. on july 5, 2016, two months before the election, director comey publicly announced that the fbi had concluded its investigation and determined