were leaked to the new york times. did that blunt the coverage of the state department release, make them seem a little less newsworthy? to some extent they did. perhaps there s been some speculation that perhaps it wasn t the benghazi committee that leaked the documents to the new york times, as many people have suggested, but rather the clinton team to lessen the impact. there s no way to blunt the impact rather than dumping them out on a friday as you well know. on a friday on memorial day weekend. you bet. what was it like as a reporter to spend friday plowing through these e-mails? well it was tough. you had 296 e-mails to try and get through. they were released at 12:30 p.m. sharp on friday. eastern time. and so you had all of these reporters, hundreds of reporters
the new york times has just published 349 pages of e-mails from hillary clinton s private e-mail can t but e-mail e-mail account. we have new details about the first gop presidential debate in august which will be limited to ten candidates. joining me now live senior political editor it s good to see you. good morning. i guess we are starting out with the new york times releasing the e-mails. we knew from the judge s decision that he told the state department to move quickly and here we are. here we are although it doesn t seem this is part of the state department release. this was coming from someone else. what is in these e-mails the ones i have been able to look at so far tell us a lot that we know. the new york times had a piece about how former hillary clinton adviser was sending her a lot of e-mails and memos about libya
does not secure the release of americans held hostage in iran, which is exactly what s happening here, is outrageous. i sent a very strong letter off to secretary of state kerry on friday, urging him to obtain that release of saeed abedini before they execute any agreements. not even getting to the merits whether it was a good deal or bad deal for the united states, i have opinions on that, but focusing on saeed abedini, this was the perfect time for a confidence-building measure from the iranians to release this pastor and the other americans held. the secretary of state evidently, according to the sources we ve had, including the state department release, did not bring that up at all. and, i mean, shannon, this was a historic blunder of huge proportions with significant repercussions. we re easing the sanctions on iran while they continue to torture american citizens held in their jails. to me, it s outrageous. well, my first question always with this case, and why we haven t taken
why do some think julian assange is a hero, first amendment champion for dumping the documents he got from manning? it is fair to say in the case of the afghan war logs, he did release documents on his website which had not been properly redacted. he withheld some thousands of those documents. when he released the iraq war logs he got it right, releasing documents but properly redacted. in the original state department release, he only released a few thousand. he held back a great many. there was a con thicket going on inside wikileaks but it is not fair to say he dumped them all. he made a number of mistakes. the problem with julian assange he nerve properly learns from his mistakes. the fact he is hiding out in embassy in london, for sexual assault charges in sweden, does
are said to have endangered sources and methods in a way that seemed to be indiscrimin t indiscriminant. why do some people think that he s a hero, first amendment champion for dumping these documents? i think it s fair to say that in the case of the afghan war logs, he did release documents on his website which had not been properly redacted. but he also withheld thousands of those documents. when he released the iraqi war logs, he got it right. in the original state department release, he only released a few thousand. he held back a great many. so i think there was a conflict going on inside wikileaks. but it s not fair to say that he just duped them all. that s not the way it worked out. but he did make a number of mistakes. the problem with julian is he never properly learns from his mistakes. the fact that he is now hiding out and missing in london, hiding from the sexual