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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...

From muellers investigation he was a top official. he walls the guy that actually signed the document that kicked off the russian investigation. also oversaw the handling of the anti-trump dossier, the russian propaganda when it was given to the fbi. he was in charge of the interview of former national security advisor lieutenant general michael flynn. this is where it really gets interesting. giving strzok anti-trump/pro-miller text messages he also played a pivotal role in this clinton email e...

>> thanks, within the last 2 minutes fox news has obtained a letter that was sent this afternoon to fbi director christopher wray from the senate homeland security committee. what is key about this letter is we believe its the first time weve seen one of the original drafts of director comeys exoneration statement from july of last year that recommended against criminal charges in the clinton email case. i have the five pages of that exoneration statement here. we have been combing through it he...

Statute for prosecution for the mishandling of classified information. the other key thing, and we havent seen this in any media reports until now, they made a change about the likelihood that a hostel actor was able to penetrate hillary clintons email server. the original drafts had "given the combination of factors, talking about the lack of security with the server and the fact that it was, we assess its reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to secretary clintons private email a...

He was writing an exoneration before an investigation. our own catherine herridge is reporting that strzok was on the ground floor of that clinton email server investigation. this is crucial. that includes participating in the july 2nd, 2016 interview of the former secretary of state. also remember, she was not under oath, and strzok was involved in recommending whether or not hillary clinton should be prosecuted. remember, they hadnt fully investigated. and fox news has confirmed that the fbi o...

At the time because he said they could not find intent even though the gross negligence statue has no such requirement. also helped draft an exoneration statement, a statement delivered by director comey two months before clinton and other interviews were complete. and he also led the review of the classified abedin e-mails found on her estranged husbands probe before last years election. then theres more. he also played a very senior role in the russia probe that opened in july of 2015. that wa...

Government, the fbi. is the fbi working to assure that there are no others on the fbi team with this kind of biased? >> one of the things to watch this week, the justice department moved very quickly to say they were going to provide records and individual so the house intelligence committee on the dossier and other related issues. we believe as early as thursday this week they could get one of the witnesses, either the fbi agent or the deputy at the fbi. andrew mccabe has his own issues which h...

To published reports he was the one that insisted on finding intent. he was also part of the email chain that helped draft the so-called exoneration statement. this statement in july that was drafted two months before hillary clinton was even interviewed. in the same fbi agent was also part of the review of houma aberdeen and anthony weiners emails. that is when classified information was found and because the case to be reopened and shot in the matter of days. he is right there in the sweet t s...

Catherine herridge live in washington with the latest. >> sandra, this f.b.i. agent, peter strzok at the center of a new investigation was on the ground floor email intelligence referral to the f.b.i. in 2015 after highly classified information passed through clintons unsecured server used for government business. according to a lengthy "new york times" profile on f.b.i. director james comey two weeks before he was fired a profile done with the full cooperation of the f.b.i. media office, this a...

Pete: doing the happy dance. chanting lock him up. lock him up. the amount of giddiness that you see around news rooms and unfortunately it looks like based on text messages. apparently fairly damning. rachel: will we see them? ed: there have l. have to be a public accounting. they were bad enough and anti-trump enough that even robert mueller said whoa, this is going to overshadow my investigation. this is going to be a problem. i mentioned james comey. he is at the center of this. another one ...