laptop. several days before the election saying there s nothing new there. there s this exchange between james comey testified before the senate intelligence committee and senator angus king, and his refusal to confirm there s an ongoing investigation. listen to this exchange. mr. comey, did you answer senator wyden s question that there is an investigation underway as to connections between either the political campaigns and the russian russians? i didn t say one way or another. you didn t say that was my intention at least. you didn t say one way or another, whether even there s an investigation underway. correct, i don t especially in a public forum, we never confirm or deny a pensding investigation. the irony i m not the irony of your making that statement here, i cannot avoid, but i ll move on. so what position has he placed himself in now, now with the president with that july 5th?
the difference is july 5th, he s saying we recommend no charges. shortly thereafter, the attorney general says the case is closed. not only against hillary clinton but her assistants and everyone else that was the subject of that investigation. so, once that was officially disclosed, the fbi can discuss, at least in testifying before congress, the nature of the information and many of the aspects of the investigation. it s now a closed case, not a pending one. so, that s standard to say we re not go to talk about a pending case. i think that s what s caused so much contuconsternation here. but the case is not related to the fbi, that s libel to be disclosed she should have been prosecuted. i think the democrats have to be careful for what they wish for here. because to go back and relitigate the entire investigation and comey s final
the fbi by saying is this over. there s a process begin for the attorney general, the doj s handling of this investigation. tom fuentes, always good to have you. a baby girl kidnapped from the hospital. now 18 years later, she discovers her true identity. it is a fascinating story. we ll bring you that next.
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
good morning, victor. back in july, republicans were outraged now, we re seeing it from the democrats. do you think they ll be able to weather the storm. or, should he resign? well, i think the question is, you know, do we want fbi directors to resign strictly because of political pressure, even before any investigation is conducted into how he conducted his business. and how he directed the decision-making from the fbi. so, that s the reason why congress passed the law and the president signed that the fbi director is the only leader of an executive branch agency that does not serve strictly at the pleasure of the president. his term does not expire when the president s term expires. he has a ten-year term. that s why to keep politics out of it. now, unfortunately, the director helped become in the middle of this political firestorm with his july 5th announcement that he was now recommending charges. i think the part of that blame