told you from the get go and they are irrefutable. and mishanding top secret information on a private server and leaving subpeona e-mails and acid driving the bleach bit. and destroying with a hammer and removing simcards. any other american, all of you would be locked up for what hillary clinton did. still the ig report did not fault the f.b.i. s decision to clear clinton of all charges. they decided not to second guess the conclusions and they presented a mountain of evidence proving the guilt. and if hillary clinton had a real investigation she would be indicted. politics in the highest level of f.b.i. prevented all of that.
at the russia investigation. the entire thing has been a witch-hunt and there s no collusion. rosenstein became the man in charge once the attorney general recused himself so he s the one who hired the special counsel which leaves him as the man in the middle between trump and any move to fire robert mueller, a precarious place. oddly enough, rod rosenstein started out as a teacher s pet. he s highly respected, very smart guy, the democrats like him, the republicans like him. this guy is a man of upstanding character and the goal standard at the department of justice. reporter: rod rosenstein s stock rose even higher when after just two weeks on the job he wrote a now infamous memo at the request of the president lambasting fbi director james comey for mishanding the clinton e-mail investigation. if the president asks you to
house counsel and chief of staff and when and what they said about it and did about it. if there is a if there is a potential criminal matter here in terms of mishanding close e classified information, if the president never made the call to waive the process ex cleand cles young man, if that never happened, if the president believed he was operating with a security clearance, if somebody else cleared this to happen and put classified information in his hands, would the fbi investigate that on their own initiative? would there be a congressional inquiry? who looks into that? i ve written to the chairman of the oversight committee in the house chairman gouty tasked for an investigation of this. that s what they exist for. we know the concern for handling classified information because we were lectured about it through 2016. we ought to get to the bottom of this. you re right to ask ultimately
this just in to cnn. the federal indictment of a u.s. congressman. it s a racketeering conspiracy case prosecutors are working that involves pennsylvania democrat shaka fatah. he and several associates with named in a 29-page indictment for their alleged roles in bribery, mail fraud, falsification of records, mishanding campaign funds, money laundering, all with the purpose of putting money in their own pockets. they re also accused of trying to cover it up. let s bring in legal analyst danny cevallos and midwin charles to talk about this. for the background, it s an 85-page document including the congressman and four of his associates on charges of devise ago series of schemes to conceal how this money was borrowed and repaid and falsifying documents in the process. danny, to you first, what does this sound like to you? i know exactly where this comes from, i m from philadelphia. i ve been hearing the scuttlebutt about this for some time. it stems from a mayoral campaign
a strong condemnation of the pro-russian separatist controlling the crash site accusing them of mishanding l victim s bodies and destroying evidence as well. this morning almost five days after the plane was brought down, dutch investigators were finally given access to the bodies of the victims. they re getting some access to the crash site, at least 21 more bodies were recovered at the crash site. ukraine s emergency ever emergency service agency said they recovered 251 of the 298 bodies aboard that plane. joining me now senior white house correspondent chris jansing and mark murray. let s pick up where you left off. it sounds like you have been talking to some folks at the white house. the president is going to talk about specifically what happened on thursday. and options for the united states and options for the e.u. as well moving forward. we don t know the parameters behalf he s going to talk about. the white house officials say they don t want to get ahead of