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We cant tell yet. this comes as the president is about to address the group on the heels of him saying theyre the worst in history and tatters. >> thats right, poppy. what weve seen over the course of the last week or two, especially on fox news, is that defenders of the president in the media and on capitol hill, are saying, we need to turn inside the justice department, turn our gaze in there and look at whats happening. youve seen the president tweet about the justice department calling it th...

This is going to be a blockbuster hour. we here at fox news have obtained the draft of james comeys exoneration statement that let hillary clinton off the hook as it relates to the email server. the document shows that the term grossly negligent was, in fact, changed to extreme carelessness in two places. remember, grossly negligent is the legal standard which would have meant that clinton broke the law. and heres the other piece of new information. in the part where comey was talking about fore...

Weekly standard, kj torrance, and josh gerstein. thank you for coming into nights. there is plenty going on in the story. i hardly know where to start because we have the text messages, we have the ones that were released, maybe thousands well never see, we have the fbi letter coming into night from senator johnson that seems to outline in ways that the original draft statement about hillary clinton was edited and changed in a way that a lot of people would argue very favorable to her. >> right....

That he was not recommending criminal prosecution. these newly uncovered documents show repeated instances where his original language was watered down. "there is evidence to support a conclusion that secretary clinton and others to use the email server in a manner that was grossly negligent with respect to handling the classified information. that term appears in the statute signed, in an unauthorized setting. by the time the fbi director issued a statement, it was changed to say "although we d...

>> shannon: after chicago mayor rahm emanuel rejected the thought of a national guard patrolling his city streets, a city commissioner is proposing an international force to do just that. ♪ hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. new at this hour, g.o.p. senator ron johnson, the chairman of the homeland security committee, is joining the fray against the fbi and the justice department. senator johnson releasing the original draft statement about the hillary c...

Watchdog to an order to keep it from sharing its findings of government. is that allowed question mike senator johnson has sent two letters to the fbi. thanks for joining us. your office released the draft of this comey speech and its clear somebody changed it in hillarys favor. the question is who? youve asked the fbi to explain who made these edits? why will they respond? >> they dont believe they need to or they have to. whats interesting about this is this new draft statement was done months...

News he was one of those people. are you aware of that? >> i may have seen that in the news. but i personally do not know. >> and when i look through just a timeline here, just quickly to put this into the record. april/may of 2016, peter struck interviews huma abedin and cheryl mills. who happened to be in the resume with hillary clinton and her chief of staff and a subject to the investigation. then on may 2nd, comey e-mails fbi officials a draft statement. a couple of months before his recomm...

Peter strzok may have been one of those people? >> i do not know. >> its been reported in the news that he may have been one of those people. >> i may have seen that in the news, but i personally do not know. >> and when i look through a timeline here, quickly to drop this into the record, may -- april, may of 2016, peter strzok interviews huma abedin and cheryl mills, when happened to be in the room with hillary clinton and her chief of staff and is subject to the investigation. then on may 2nd...

News he was. >> i personally do not know. >> when i look through a timeline here quickly to drop this into the record, may -- april, may of 2016 peter strzok interviews huma abiden and cheryl mills who was in the room with hillary clinton and subject of the investigation. may 2 comey emails f.b.i. officials a draft statement a couple months before his recommendation not to prosecute hillary clinton and in that chain peter strzoks name shows up. its been reported he is the one that swapped out th...

Jack: try my new havarti & grilled onion and all-american ribeye burgers. judge jeanine: another hour of justice still ahead. but first did former fbi director james comey obstruct justice by protecting hillary clinton from prosecution? joining us is legal analyst gregg jarrett. there was a story in "the hill" that says a newly discovered document shows fbi director jim comey offered a draft statement accusing clinton of mishandling classified documents and being