and their claim is that the fbi only came in to take the sierve and go through the remaining emails to certify what s classified and what s not. and to make sure you ve got all of these intelligence agencies fighting over information. make sure more information does not leak out. the point being the clinton camp claims that it s not really an investigation of hillary clinton. it s an investigation of the information and the server. if this is true, that there s a widening investigation, and it s looking at false statements, statutes as well as the mishandling of classified information, that would blow their explanation to their own campaign donors out of the water. it would mean she s in bigger trouble than they re letting on. is there any way the fbi, any indication the fbi wants to look for the 30,000 emails that hillary clinton and her staff scrubbed prior to turning over whatever she turned over? that s the smoking gun if there is one. there s no clear evidence that they are an
the investigation into the deadly ferry disaster in south korea is widening. three members of the south korean shipping association have been arrested suspected of destroying evidence connected to that sinking ferry. also this morning, the coast guard released new video of the ship sinking and passengers being rescued. just as prosecutors start to investigate whether the agency failed to adequately do its job. nic robertson has more on the widening investigation. reporter: prosecutors here say they have arrested another three people. they worked for the korean shipping association, an association that takes care of the interest of korean shippers. they accuse these three people are destroying documents relating to the company that
is a serious development. it shows a widening investigation, that federal authorities are taking this seriously. forgive my layman s ignorance on this subject. and tell me if you don t know, but as far as i can tell, the fact that these are called federal grand jury subpoenas, that doesn t necessarily mean that a federal grand jury has been convened specifically to look into this matter, right? we shouldn t read that into the type of subpoenas these are? yeah, i m not clear. as you pointed out the u.s. attorney s officer has been very tight lipped about this. very. i anticipate that will continue. we may not know what s going on in the u.s. attorney s office in terms of the direction of this investigation for some time. let me also ask you, what you think the significance is of the fbi and federal prosecutors interviewing people who say they may be able to corroborate the mayor s charges against chris christie will? sure. to some degree, it s routine. when someone comes for
happens. but certainly, issuing subpoenas is a serious development. it shows a widening investigation, that federal authorities are taking this seriously. forgive my layman s ignorance on this subject. and tell me if you don t know, but as far as i can tell, the fact that these are called federal grand jury subpoenas, that doesn t necessarily mean that a federal grand jury has been convened specifically to look into this matter, right? we shouldn t read that into the type of subpoenas these are? yeah, i m not clear. as you pointed out the u.s. attorney s officer has been very tight lipped about this. very. i anticipate that will continue. we may not know what s going on in the u.s. attorney s office in terms of the direction of this investigation for some time. let me also ask you, what you think the significance is of the fbi and federal prosecutors interviewing people who say they may be able to corroborate the mayor s charges against chris christie will? sure. to some de
identified some federal laws. let s remember, these are allegedly vindictive lane closures. there is not a federal statute that matches up for lane closures. this is not your garden variety. there is no federal law that says toll lane 23 must be opened to people from ft. lee, right, exactly. fair to say. that means, in other words, what you are saying is for them to have taken this act of furtherance, to issue binding subpoenas to people means that they, in order to get that far, they have to think that some federal law is implicated. that s a threshold issue for a serious federal inquiry. exactly. to be clear, though, there is a long road ahead, and this is not to say that there is any allegation that a law has been broken at this point. but to carry an investigation to say dime, for example, or someone is held criminally responsible, there are a lot of steps that need to take place before that hams. but certainly, issuing subpoenas is a serious development. it shows a widenin