sound bites. i say that because i think it speaks to whether they resonate. watergate resonated because it was a burglary nobody wants their home broken into. we can relate to that. white water? what was that about? give me a couple minutes and i ll try to lay it out for you. i think this is a serious issue because there s this new book clinton cash. the theory of the book is that foreigners who are precluded from making donations to domestic candidates here nevertheless tried to curry favor with the clintons by engaging him to speak or making contributions to the foundation and therefore got close to the clintons. this furthers that narrative. under the guise of a speaking engagement. correct. for big bucks, michaela. big dollars being paid. and not by business interests in the uk or germany or france. but a lot of rogue nations for a lack of a better descripter again, will you find a quid pro quo, a smoking gun where bill
friday. this is the day, the e-mails. the first day. and some 850 of the thousands that are supposed to be coming. right. are you sensing from what you ve seen leaked released so far that there are smoking guns to you? no. we know you look at things a little differently. nor do i suspect there will be any smoking guns revealed during the whole course of this process. remember she blended together personal and professional e-mail. she was maintaining them on a private server. she then determined or someone at her behest determined what would be handed over to the state department. 55,000 were then handed over to the state department. if there were smoking guns i would think, michaela they were among those that weren t handed over to the state department. and so now 850 of the 55,000 have been given to a congressional committee, the new york times has seen a third of them. and we are now reading what the times has seen. thus far no smoking guns. okay. no smoking guns bu
including action on key parts of the patriot act set to expire june 1st. senators are sharply divided over extending the nsa s powers of mass phone data collection. cnn s data bash live in washington as the clock ticks on. reporter: hi michaela. ever since the public learned years back during the bush administration that the government secretly gathered its phone records and more it s been highly controversial. we know that. but that s why the republican-led house passed an extension of the program this week. [ technical difficulties ] okay. we lost dana there. meanwhile another story to tell you about. protests in olympia, washington last night over the shooting of two unarmed black men by a white police officer. some 400 people turned out for this demonstration. olympia s police chief says the two men were suspected of shoplifting and one assaulted an officer before the shooting. he says the incident is being investigated. both shooting victims expected to survive. new threats