Headturning headline today. The state Department Says that 22 emails from seven different email chains will be withheld from public release at the request of u. S. Intelligence officials, because they contain topsecret information. Heres state department spokesman, john kirby, just a short while ago. I can confirm that as part of this monthly production of former secretary clintons emails, the state department will be denying in full seven email chains found in 22 documents, representing 37 pages. The documents are being upgraded at the request of the intelligence community, because they contain a category of topsecret information. These documents were not marked classified at the time that they were sent. And theres the important quote, there, that the Clinton Campaign talks about, not marked classified at the time. Clinton campaign responded swiftly with a statement from spokesman brian fallon that read in part, we firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these emails. S
complained about theรง widespre coverage of the story. for her part, the student herself spoke to the new york daily news saying, she s a fan, though never actually met con man weiner. as a representative of the people, it is fully within the congressman s rights to call for a police investigation, though as yet he has not. but he has hired an attorney. luke russert is at capitol hill and joins us now. luke, first of all, congratulations obscuring the interview. has representative weiner explained why he wasn t more forth coming to begin with and why he didn t call for an immediate investigation into this incident? i asked him that question, because, look, martin, i ve been up here a few years and anthony weiner is a media savvy congressman, somebody who is always armed with the facts. he has a very engaging twitter account that a lot of us reporters up here read and he s known to say interesting things on the house floor. for media wave to take him over was surprising y