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Senior state department messages and those that were sent to the private e-mail server of hillary clinton. the reporter who broke that story is greg miller. talk to us about the reporting and everything that you learned in it. yeah, so, our story basically says that there are about 130 former, and mostly former employees at the state department who are basically being reinvestigated for their connections to e-mails that ended up in hillary clinton s e-mail inbox. i mean, in some cases these e-mails are 10 years old now. and the broader significance to us for this story was just the question that it raises about the trump administration using levers of power for political end which is what the story is that the whistle-blower story in ukraine is about and of course, there are some appearances that ....
I know that you have been reporting on the president s comment, and he said whoever provided the information to the whistle-blower is close to a spy, and how does that attack tell us about how this story is weighing on the president? what we are seeing is again to go back to what i was saying before the commercial break, now that almost sort of kind of not really transcript is out, who put forward this information is overtaken by the events, but it seems like the early stages of the repetition of the mueller playbook even though the investigation is over to try to discredit the substance of the investigation by casting doubt on the origins, and the whistle-blower is partisan or who are the people who told the whistle-blower the information that he put in the whistle-blower complaint that led to this sequence of events as if it makes a difference that the actual information is public ....
The republicans are going to close ranks, and this is the pol polarized times that we are living in. there is a general degree of quiet among the republicans on the hill, and few jim jordans the or lindsey graham out there right away to circle the wagons with the president, but there is an awful lot of the wait and see attitude i think among many of the republicans. i do not see this ending in trump being removed from office before the office, and there is not enough republican senators to break rank, but too much of the risk. but there is a difference of not removing him, but not supporting him that could have overtones. okay. good point, charlie and natasha. good points as always. and now the story that broke overnight, the trump administration is intensifying the investigation into dozens of e-mails of current and former ....
President has been fixated on a couple of things, right. he is fixated and constantly on hillary clinton and the e-mail issue, and constantly seeking to revive that issue as a political weapon that he can wield and as recently as this week at the united nations once again talking about it. and then of course, going after joe biden. so, those are the timing here and the linkages to his political adversaries are important. and greg, the last question here, the tenor of all of this and even some of the investigators from the state department, and the diplomatic security investigation unit who are apologetic about it, and saying that they are feeling pressure to make these inquiries. and yeah, we felt it is important and a consistent account from nearly everybody that we talked to in the story investigating and interviewed by the state department investigators that they, the state department officials were made it clear they were doing it only reluctantly and at the ....
It might be what this is about as well. and so in the article that you write, and here is the quote, the state department investigators began contacting the former officials about 18 months ago after president trump s election and then seemed to drop the effort before picking it up in august. talk about the timing specifically and why is this happening now? yeah. so, i mean, i wanted to say that obviously the state department and we quote the state department in the story saying that this has nothing to do with politic, and this is just process playing out in a legitimate fashion, but the timing, you know, it is raising questions. and yes, so a lot of those who are being pulled into this new investigation got notifications in the august time frame really closely thereafter, obviously, the july 25th call between president trump and the leader of ukraine, and i m not saying that the two things are linked, but these are looking like instances in which, you know, there are, you know, t ....