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>> and also the e-mails. jonathan has written a lot about this the sort of obsession the media has with clintons a scandal bucket, anything they do is suspect. there was a piece in your book where it talks about bill clinton not wanting hillary clinton to apologize for the server. and to rather explain it. explain that a little bit. >> yeah, you know, there was a lot of debate about what she needed to do with the e-mail issue. and it took up a lot of oxygen that sumner 2015. they were trying, sh...

How do you deal with that in what is instant history? >> i think you read the words. we are telling the story of people inside the campaign, people who knew her, people who worked on the campaign. we didnt talk to many outsiders. this is their story. this is something that they wanted out there. its very easy to deflect and say this is all russia. i think as we said earlier it is part of that story and that narrative. i think her campaign was much more flawed as we detail in this book and all yo...

Lead between loretta lynch and the clinton rdf ai and justice department have been hamstringing serious investigations into the clinton foundation and frankly houthi quentin e-mail issue is handled generally. >> the association called for worth observers to withdraw it judgment. >> in specter general has a great reputation and it remains to be seen when we see the final report as to whether or not it was politically motivated through spokesman for present electron did not respond to my requests ...

Lead between loretta lynch and the clinton rdf ai and justice department have been hamstringing serious investigations into the clinton foundation and frankly houthi quentin e-mail issue is handled generally. >> the association called for worth observers to withdraw it judgment. >> in specter general has a great reputation and it remains to be seen when we see the final report as to whether or not it was politically motivated through spokesman for present electron did not respond to my requests ...

He was receiving, he eventually felt it was sufficiently serious for him to forward it to contacts at the fbi. he did this without permission from the american that hired him. the response was shock and horror. after a few weeks the bureau asked him for information on his sources but did the fbi follow up? >> the fbi did follow up. he was in contact with them and they asked him to send his reports as he continued to report on those memos to the fbi, so they did receive them. so there is -- but t...

Step of going in front of cameras and while he cleared her of any potential charges and said they were not recommending prosecution, the president conference itself then evolved into comey going very aggressively after hillary clintons actions in this e-mail issue. and so they were unhappy from that point. of course it did clear it away for them, but then of course it came back up just weeks before election day. and you remember i was sitting in the washington -- in our washington newsroom and a...

Now, i can see why that would be distracting to a campaign, however, nobodys arguing the contents werent real. so what we got to see was embarrassing e-mails between co-workers. now, that is em embarrassing, but it isnt necessarily -- you know, tactic may have been evil, but its not manipulating the information. and why is it that they are so concerned and wishing for government hem on this e-mailish knew -- help on this e-mail issue, and yet they felt everybody should just ignore fact that ther...

Do we know sn. >> we dont know. the fbi said never mind to what they did almost two weeks ago. they did up end the race to a great degree. we dont know the impact and i will tell you why. tens of millions of people voted and some of them may have been people who decided to vote because they were fed up with hillary clintons e-mails. we have no idea. we dont know how barked this issue was in terms of e-mails and by the way, the clinton campaign is not exactly going out on stage and trumpeting wha...

>> that actually is better than what i was going to say. >> and i left my phone in one of the -- anyway, go ahead. >> call him. >> i got it back. >> the question of whether or not these sort of swings back and forth makes a difference, maybe at the end of the day, not on the presidential level. on the next level down, the senate level, big time. >> mm-hmm. >> there are a lot of people i talked to on the democratic and republican side who think that the late momentum for donald trump and the focu...

Deal of people against donald trump at this point. its not just people you talk with. the people on the street repeatedly told us over the last few days the talk of what they view as racest aist and xenophoc speech from donald trump, but theres also people worried about what it could do to the economy here. donald trump talking about forcing mexico to pay for the wall that donald trump wants to build along the southern u.s. border, talk of tearing up the nafta trade deal as well as raising tarif...