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>> reporter: hartman hasnt forgotten that he and many of his employees here in pennsylvania helped elect president trump for the promise he made them, to keep the doors open at businesses like cheetah. >> he sold us on, im going to help you with that trade issue and people remember it. people in this factory remember it. you know, if we cant do something, whether its this tariff or if its something else to help us have a fair playing field, a level field with china, im not sure people are going ...

Committed no crime and what we saw was, again, a double standard that very much hurt secretary clinton and very much helped elect donald trump. elizabeth: all right, double standard, we heard that as a talking point. here to discuss, former hillary clinton advisor. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: that talking point weve heard from john podestpod weve heard it from chuck schumer and congressman schiff. do you agree with the talking points? at the same time i want your reaction to congressm...

Get done about it. joe arpaio, i appreciate you coming onto make the case. thank you. >> thank you. >> and from one of hillary clintons critics, we now bring in her former campaign chairman and director of the center for american progress, john podesta. good to have you. >> good to be with you. lets talk about this ig report. it seems its being viewed largely through a partisan lens. whats the headline for you and what you saw? >> you tried to say there were good facts and bad facts. i only se...

Versus the investigation of russian interference in the election, and its connection to the trump campaign. you know, he ended up hurting hillary clinton. he helped elect donald trump. theres 560 pages of detail of that in the ig ease report, but thats the facts. and people try to spin one e-mail or a bunch of e-mails one way or the other, but those are the fundamental facts of what happened last july. >> but youre leaving one out. >> and thats what mr. horowitz said. >> he says loretta lynch, i...

And the fbi would be unfairly accused of hiding the e-mails to protect candidate clinton. but he appears to have placed no comparable value on the corresponding risk for making a public statement that he and the fbi would not only be accused of violating long-standing department and fbi policy and practice but that he would also be unfairly accused of hyping the e-mails in a manner that hurt candidate clinton. and thats -- thats the big i think political lesson here. the inspector general isnt f...

Being against donald trump. it was bad judgment for on july 5th in deciding not to indict hillary clinton doing a bill of particulars at the lengthy news conference at the height of the campaign against her and doubling down with even worse judgment in the last 11 days of campaign in re-opening the e-mail investigation and closing it two days before the campaign. arguably, hoping to elect donald trump. >> this is the kind of report that has something for everybody. it definitely does not look go...

Card, youre allowed to not talk about those investigations. he continued to countritique hiy clinton after he said the case is closed. you dont play school principal once you decide not to press charges. he was wrong. get over it. >> jeffrey toobin? oh, we cant hear you. do you have a microphone on? >> i do. >> okay. now i hear you. go ahead, my friend. >> oh, well, ill start from the beginning. i think comey made some terrible, terrible decisions during this investigation and i think hillary cl...

The report doesnt back this up at all. >> i want to get into the issue of woos there political influence on james comey or not. comey himself has given two different explanations. the first one was during testimony on capitol hill. listen. >> one of my junior lawyers said, should you consider that what you are about to do may help elect donald trump president? and i said thank you for raising that. not for a moment. because down that path lies the death of the fbi as an independent institution i...

Wigmore has denied the lunch happened. but one of dozens of communications between wigmore, banks and russian officials. >> there is nothing illegal, as long as you are not breaking sanctions. we want to know about the nature of the contact and what was being discussed. an investigative committee in parliament, banks denied giving the russians anything sensitive but did admit handing over one piece of information, how to get in touch with the president elect. >> the only thing we gave in the sec...

Met for more than an hour with the new president elect even before trump met britains prime minister. they say that meeting was unplanned. what hasnt known until now was aaron banks was communicating with russia ambassador to the u.k. banks and whit more had lunch again with the ambassador. nigel faranalogy asked him about it on his show. >> we had had a pleasant lunch with them in the last six hours and he saw a picture of us in trumps apartment. and of course he got in touch. >> reporter: the ...