which i think was particularly surprising to folks, as well as really focusing in on these new text messages from strzok to page, their conversations. new e-mails or text messages we hadn t seen before and trying to suggest this means there was this fundamental, systemic bias in the department of justice against him. but look at all the things this report doesn t say. the president had claimed for, i goet guess, years at this point that comey had mishandled the e-mail investigation, that there was some type of misconduct there and if only the i.g. looked at this, they would discover there was new material in there that was worthy of charging clinton. that s not in this document. the document says very specifically that although there were these agent who s may have done thing that cast a cloud in the words of the i.g. over the department, that the investigation was pretty much done properly. now over to mr. peters, who along with mr. schmidt is among the stars of the new showtime doc
proceedings, that that is a good argument for them. this gives him 500 pages of fodder. interesting last point there from mr. schmidt. jill, about that 18-acre complex you cover, also known as the white house, we have been amazed not to tempt the gods here, but we ve been amazed the president has not been on twitter on this subject. what do you know about how it was received and who did the back briefing, say, inside the white house? yeah, i think it s very notable the fact that the president has not weighed in on this since he was briefed by rod rosenstein earlier today. rod came to the white house. he was there for about two hours today. we understand first he briefed the president. then he gave a separate briefing to the vice president. but it was only before that visit that the president was tweeting. now, the response from the white house from the republican national committee, from republicans who are close to the president, has been trying to take as much as they can from th
the 11th hour on a thursday night begins now. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 511 of the trump administration brings something the president and his allies have been clamoring for, and that is the report from the justice department s own inspector general on the fbi s handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the doj has ended its internal review of that whole fracas. while it finds no evidence of political bias in the fbi s prosecutorial decisions, it is particularly critical of former fbi director james comey s handling of the case. here is a reminder of what comey said this is back in july 2016 at that news conference about the investigation. although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of
lies. there are not things about his credibility. maybe you don t want him in that position again, but you don t think he s a liar if you look at that document. i also heard it argued today if you re looking to prove political bias among individual actors, there s proof in there. if you re looking for proof that comey may have cost hillary clinton the election, there s proof of that in there. there s even a line about comey not knowing who former congressman wiener was married to. yeah. look, the good thing for trump is that in 500 pages, especially if you have someone like rudy giuliani out there, you will be able to find things to continue to throw at the wall. rudy has thrown an enormous amount of things at this investigation. one of them, direct attacks on comey. rudy believes that if it s trump versus comey, that is a good thing for them and that they could win that argument. if they were in the house of representatives in impeachment
handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the doj has ended its internal review of that whole fracas. while it finds no evidence of political bias in the fbi s prosecutorial decisions, it is particularly critical of former fbi director james comey s handling of the case. here is a reminder of what comey said this is back in july 2016 at that news conference about the investigation. although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. now, according to this i.g. report, comey s decision to make that announcement without consulting then attorney general loretta lynch was, quote, extraordinary and insubordinate.