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Trouble. and i dont doubt at that north koreans will try to use him as a bargaining chip as they have with so many others. but the cost this time is going to be very high. >> greta: let me turn to the investigation of benghazi. the state department, the ig, inspector general, is apparently reviewing the accountability review board that investigated the events of 9/11 in benghazi. one of the allegations is that the review board failed to interview key witnesses who had asked to provide their acco...

Michael davis. thank you. thank you. and there are new questions surrounding the socialite that there will be a new program called the friends of macdill here. and i want to start with general petraeus has hired an author who has also represented sarah palin in a new book deal and why would he need to lawyer-up? >> well, he is under investigation of the cia and the office of the inspector general which might have something to do with it, and i do know that he shunder investigation by the i.g...

Back, no, no, he wont. well stop it. matt miller, your response. >> that is an appalling thing for an fbi agent to say, to think. it would be worse if he acted on it. there is no evidence that he did. and the i.g. found that there was no evidence and that he didnt take any steps to -- based on animus, based on bias. when you look at this report in total, i think the top conclusion is that it explodes the lie the president has been telling about the department of justice for over a year now. yes,...

>> joyce, let me get you to weigh in on the same question. your reaction to the report, and to the analysis that, for all the problems that are revealed in this report that frank just went through, it doesnt exactly confirm the presidents harshest or even least harsh attacks on the fbi as being in cahoots with hillary clinton. in fact, most of the conduct as described here ended up helping trump. >> i think thats exactly right. its important to keep in mind that at the end of the day, to the ext...

It. >> the headline right now from "the wall street journal" doj report blasts -- >> the report was strong. there was total bias, when you look at peter strzok and what he said about me, when you look at comey. its interesting, it was a pretty good report and then i say that the i.g. blew it at the very ending with that statement because when you read the report, it was almost like comey. he goes point after point about how guilty hillary is but he says were not going to do anything about it. th...

Youre going to hear all of the significant things the president just said this morning. were going to go through them really line by line. just minutes ago he stepped out onto the north lawn and gave an extensive interview to his favorite news network, fox news. heres a bit. >> the i.g. report came out yesterday. the fbi looked bad. >> very bad. >> your fbi. >> well, no, its comey. they were talking about comey, not my fbi. it was comey. the people in the fbi are incredible. i would bet if you t...

Has worked in d.o.j. and who loves the institution because its clear that there were people who engaged in conduct that was unprofessional. the text messages between the agents are particularly difficult. but at the same time, the i.g. reaffirms that people set aside their politics when it came to making decisions about the investigation, and that there was no political taint in those decisions. that the clinton case was properly closed, that those decisions, even though the sausage-making proce...