talking about our report or the fact that other news organization had printed i think fairly irresponsibly an entire dossier on which some of the annex that we referred to had been based. we now await president-elect trump s response not only to the stories of the last day but also questions from reporters. evaluated not faced questions from potentially adversarial press in quite some time, after that july press conference, he pretty much stopped, with a couple of exceptions, pretty much stopped except for reporters, anchors of channels that were rooting for him openly. we re hoping there will be some challenging questions, respectful but challenging, about this report, this allegation, and also much, much more going forward in terms of what kind of president he s going to be, what kind of administration he s going to have. jim sciutto, among the latest tweets, once again, he seems to be at bitter odds with the u.s. intelligence community. no question.
we know there was classified information that went through her server system. i think that we also have to realize that mrs. clinton brought this upon herself, not only that. we can also add that obviously, she was one where from a political strategy standpoint, it didn t work in the battleground states, her messaging was off. she was focused on trying to attack donald trump personally without pushing forward a strong economic message. martha, there are so many components why hillary clinton lost the election, that to say we re going to blame it on comey. let s remember that comey was not a fan of the republicans or the democrats, because when you look back at that july press conference, it was comey who didn t recommend to the department of justice to move forward on a clinton indictment, and at the end of the day, the republicans were upset at him. martha: exactly. we have to keep that in mind as the democrats continue to push forward the narrative that it s comey s fault that hill
you are right, perhaps was not to talk about it in july but also if i can just be a little more fair to comey for a second and say, loretta lynch did something that was unprecedented as well when she said, prior to comey s july press conference, i am just going to defer to the finding of the fbi in terms of their decision whether or not to charge. she removed herself from her key role, which is prosecutorial discretion. james comey has run with that torch ever since. it has had a domino effect that is more than inconvenient to hillary clinton. it is politically unpalatable to every voter. she quickly said that after bill clinton walked on to her plane for 30 minutes. she came out after and said, we only talked about golf and grandkids and i m going to go with the fbi here. i agree with you, poppy. the point you are making before. the more i have thought about this. as a journalist, my view is more
political and hurting people by release of secretive information, and we don t know if this is comparable. go ahead, poppy. it s interesting that you bring up hoover because paul callan wrote this column on cnn.com last night and he brings up hoover at the end and says j. edgar hoover liked to impact elections but he did it in private where this is public. if you re saying this is political motivation here by comey, some would say he was damned if he did, damned if he didn t because he had come out in this july press conference and said all these things so he would be seen arguably as withholding information if he didn t come out with this. i m not saying that there was political motivation. it may have been just covering his ass, however that phrase goes. in any case, he ought to have a very good explanation of why he did this in the last ten days. i made the assumption and i said it on the air that he wouldn t have done this unless there was
emails i mean, look, peter strzok and lisa page, they provided timeline because anything they knew about they blabbed to each other. it s a good timeline along side the other developments. paul: dan, what about the report that andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi who has been telling different sides of the story to james comey, he has asked for immunity in order to testify, what do you make of that? i make of that that andrew mccabe feels he has significant legal liability related to the inspector general s report and we are talking about criminal liability as well and, you know, the thing that i am trying to focus on this report is mr. horowitz, the inspector general said he would try to look at whether any of these decisions were made what he calls improper considerations,