Emails. And then the letters comey sent to the hill, one saying we found more emails on Anthony Weiners laptop that could be pertinent to our investigation, we need to look at those, and then his followup letter a few days before the election in which he said, weve done that review and we havent had anything. Hillary clinton herself has said she thinks that first letter in late october changed the course of the election. So, the Inspector General is going to look at that and a couple of ancillary things. There have been allegations that an fbi Deputy Director should have taken himself off part of this case because of some connections to the campaign or his wifes connections to the political to politics in virginia. Some allegations that an Assistant Attorney General for legislative affairs passed information along to the Clinton Campaign, and other employees disclosed nonpublic information. The Foeklecal Point is the two actions by the fbi director, the letter to the hill in late
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everything in accordance with the statute that john mclaughlin referred to earlier, the intelligence community, the protection act and the orders that president obama and dni clapper issued for the protection of whistle blowers. because there has been some questioning are you saying if adam schiff subpoenas the whi whistleblower tomorrow, the whistleblower won t be breaking the law disclosing class filed firefighter if they testify on the hill? that is a really interesting situation. this is one of those areas where congress and the executive disagree. that is where i was getting at and that disagreement i assume limits adam schiff s i think that he why he went to money. it is an acknowledgement that subpoena isn t really helpful here. i don t think so. schiff suggested that he had a case and that judge might act quickly on it but historically
page is a russian agent who was recruited back in 2013. what they don t tell the court is he never capitulated and in fact he helped the u.s. government prosecute russians. if the court had known that they would have said what is this rubbish? get out of here. steve: russians thought he was an idiot. yes. that was one of their text messages. ainsley: you write about john brennan the ex-cia director. the president is thinking about revoke the security clearance for six exobama officials. brennan is a dangerous guy. he has always been a clinton sycophant as i describe in the book. he is out there propagating the dossiers a pretext to investigate donald trump and clear the path for hillary clinton. it is dangerous to allow a guy like that as well as clapper and comey who are partisans to have security clearance. they can use the classified
government contractor. but, again, to revoke it would be more of a slap in the face than it would be anything else. steve: well, sure. it does look like he is punishing his critics. and i know james clapper yesterday said it was petty. we had a sound bite, greg, with jim jordan, the congressman from ohio a little while ago, and he do tailed a number of these six people when they were in office did lie, did leak. perhaps he should have been, you know, they should have gone after the security clearances and fired them at that point rather than afterwards because to some it does look petty. that s exactly right. the kind of the water has already gone over the dam. they should have definitely looked to revoking those clearances back when there was criminal activity involved. ainsley: all right. thank you so much for joining us. thank you. steve: of course, it s still a question whether or not the president will do it and, you know, is he thinking about it. ainsley: is he considering it
national security investigations. many people are saying it s a punishment because they don t like him. but, he is saying they re going out and they are making money on baseless accusations. they are leaking information. steve: right. ainsley: he is saying i don t think they should make money on this i need to revoke their security clearance. rand paul said i would take it a step further. anyone who used to work for cia or any intelligence organization needs to have their security clearances removed completely. steve: here s the thing. if and we have heard the list of those six people, a number of them have lied and leaked. when they were on the job. if they if people knew that at the time, they probably should have been fired and prosecuted at that point but, you know, i don t know out of the six how many actually still trade on that because they are out of government aside from clapper and some people who just talk about stuff like that. many people say it looks like it s punishm