Huma abedin. Hillary Clintons Campaign turning the tables on comey. It is impossible to view this as anything less and a blatant double standard. Reporter refusing to comment on the donald trump ties and his campaign to russia. On comey accused of sitting on explosive information. Trumps russia connections without offering proof. Cnn cannot corroborate any of the reports. The u. S. Officials tell cnn that russia is behind hacks that could potentially influence the u. S. Election. Meanwhile, trump is capitalizing on comeys email probe. It took guts for director comey to make the move he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. Reporter comey said the emails on the computer appear to be pertinent to the closed email investigation. We can be sure what is in the emails is devastating. We will find out, by the way, for the first time. Thank you, huma. Thank you, anthony weiner. Reporter huma abedins attorneys responding saying from the beginning, she has complied fully and voluntaril
Today, rosenstein refused to answer questions on who specifically asked him to write the letter. With me now, cnn political director David Chalian. David chalian, if he knew that comey was going to be fired before writing the memo, why write the memo . Well, remember, there was a meeting that weve previously reported on with rosenstein and sessions and the president before that final decision was made and so its not terribly surprising, i guess, that rosenstein knew beforehand. Heres the discrepancy. This is what is so odd about where we are, brooke. Yeah. Youll recall that initially, after the firing , everything that the white house did was hanging on this Rod Rosenstein memo but then the president completely walked away from that, told nbc news, no, no, no, i was going to fire comey regardless of the memo. That was after we learned that rosenstein, according to sources, was not very happy with the way that the rollout of the comey firing went and that everything was sort of being hu