the balance of power here is going to be really important. because we have to see how congress reacts to this. congress is going to want to investigate exactly what happened here. you don t fire your fbi director as he is investigating your campaign and russia hacking of the elections. just which willy nily. they re going to want to talk to comey i m sure. they were going to want to talk to jeff sessions i m sure and rod rosenstein who wrote the letter. let me say one thing rod rosenstein s long letter detailed a lot of complaints that a lot of democrats had about james comey, that he shouldn t have gone on on july 5th after he cheered hillary clinton and the email controversy and said, okay but she is reckless. and he shouldn t have sent that letter on october th and turned
for president became the center of the closing days of a presidential election. before voters went to the polls last november, they had been inundated with stories about the f.b.i. s investigation of senator clinton s emails. the press coverage was wall-to-wall. every day there was another story about secretary clinton s emails. every day questions were released every day questions were raised about whether classified information had been released or compromised. and over and over again there was commentary from the f.b.i. about its actions and investigation. on july 5th, 2016, two months before the election, director comey publicly announced that the f.b.i. had concluded its investigation and determined
criminal charges against anybody. and as ron pointed out, this is being run by the counter intelligence organization. that is how this started. what were the russians up to. the initial thinking was they re gathering information to use themselves, information to leverage either russian government policy or vladimir putin s personal information. but when they began to go public with it, that s when the thinking changed a enyou saw the assessment of the intelligence agencies evolve over the months. let s listen in to dianne feinstein. she is now talking about the 2016 election. and investigation. on july 5th, 2016, two months before the election, director comey publicly announced that the fbi had concluded its investigation. and determined that no
has to go back to the attorney generals, days before after the encounter with bill clinton on the attorney general s airplane when she said i will go with the recommendation of the fbi. i ve said before and i ll say again, on july 5th, the director s only announcement should have been we ve completed our investigation and we ve submitted the results to the department of justice, for the department to decide whether or not to prosecute. and i don t care if the janitor at doj made the decision. it should have been made at doj, not publicly made by the fbi director. i think that was the beginning of the slippery slope of political contentiousness that went on throughout the rest of the summer. and all the way up to and including the election. there are many who agree with you that he should not have gone into the carelessness of the use of the server and confidential information. democrats also questioned the announcement 11 days before the election of opening up this investigation into
we are looking back in dallas, texas. this is disturbing. i m not sure what we are seeing, but it looks from this vantage point like an officer down. we are not sure. i we are not sure. this is my speculation as i look at the screen, standby, and that i don t know what i am seeing. this is the control room trying to tell me that they have a better vantage point. i am sorry for the speculation. the police we are all seeing this together. this is not a clear. the process that and i were in t reaction to two officers involved shootings occurring just one day apart. the first on july 5th, when alton sterling is shot and killed by police outside of a baton rouge convenience store. the following day, another black man, philando castile a shot and killed in minnesota during a traffic stop.n, a couple months later, tensions further escalate when terence crutcher is fatally shot in