on july 5 through director comey. i thought it was a terrible decision. it sets a terrible precedent for prosecuting people in the future who mishandle classified information, but it s done. move forward. that s one reason. the second reason is this administration is doing so many positive things. they get a deal with china on trade, they re moving forward on the fight against isis, healthcare, tax reform. they have a very positive agenda. that s what they really ought to be focused on. bill: was it okay if the president asked james comey whether or not he was under investigation? it s no problem at all. the president can ask that question. it s up to james comey. he is the professional in the room in terms of law enforcement and procedures. he can say yes, he can say no, he can tell the president you know, mr. president, i can t share that information with you. but for an individual to ask am
the electoral college is almost impossible for a republican to win. very hard. you start off at such a disadvantage. so everybody was thinking they should have won the election. this was an excuse for having lost an election. bill: that from the president on nbc. the firing of james comey raising the possibility the bureau could revisit the hillary clinton email matter. someone said i d be surprised if they didn t review all the investigations of hillary clinton and come up with a conclusion regarding prosecution, the statute of limitations has not come into play yet, end quote. pete hoekstra is with us after a bit of a break. it s nice to see you again, sir. good morning to you. good morning. great to be with you. bill: would you support the investigation of hillary clinton s server at this point? i really would not. it s time to move on. the system made a decision back
ray rice, adrian peterson with child abuse. that s one we didn t mention. it s piling on top, one on another. i think it was ridiculous, definitely ego-based and i think the judge made the right decision nullifying the suspension because there wasn t enough proof. meanwhile the fact that there s an appeal shows another ego situation with goodell. he doesn t want to be the man left out of he doesn t want to lose. yeah, he doesn t want to lose. i ll come back to roger goodell in a moment. wasn t the decision not about the guilt or innocence of tom brady? it was all on process, in the way that roger goodell applied the suspension, is that correct? yeah. one of the dynamics is roger goodell. players hate that he has this power and think it s unfair. a lot of players are suspect of the patriots they love that tom
are not good, pete. the president came out a week less than a week ago, and tried to doe nigh the thing he has been taking credit for for years now, which is that he is the one responsible for pulling the troops out of iraq. here he is once again answering a question from cnn. you wish you had left a residual force in iraq? any regrets about that decision in 2011? well, keep in mind that wasn t the decision made by me, that was a decision made by the iraqi government. if that s true, why did he say this in a presidential debate he had with mitt romney when romney was challenging him on the subject of iraq? with regards to iraq, you and i agreed i believe, that there should have been a status of forces agreement. that s not true. you didn t want a status of forces agreement? no, i would not have left 10,000 troops in iraq that would tie us down. that certainly wouldn t help us in the middle east. the president said at that
specifically, do you regret p l pulling all of the troops out of iraq? you think he would stand by the decision he once made and defended in a debate with m.iit romney and so on. this is what we got. do you wish you had left a residual force in iraq. any regrets about that decision in 2011. that wasn t a decision made by me, it was a decision made by the iraqi government. well, we all know he could have, if he wanted to. he could have left enough troops that maliki would have agreed to. by the time he cut it down to 3,000, maliki realized it was going to take closer to the 20,000. he said we re going to deny terrorist safe havens, but he s already ruled out u.s. raids and air strikes in syria. those are mutually exclusive