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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...

So thats two months. two months from may 2 until july 5. >> bill: thats trey gowdy from special report with brett last evening. jason chaffetz, good morning to you. i want to drill down on the why here. specifically on the timeline. if its changing, if its true, what does that mean? >> well, if you go back to may 2 there is an initial draft exonerating hillary clinton that they still had more than two dozen people that they had not yet interviewed. so again under oath the director is saying to j...

>> were friends. >> bill: it must be christmas. >> bill: merry christmas. >> sandra: trey gowdy says he wants to see james comey back on capitol hill answering questions as new details come to light about the clinton email investigation. >> we are going to talk to his president and former colleagues. may 2 is when the heavily redacted memos appear where theyre discussing whether or not to make a charging decision. >> sandra: did the former f.b.i. director try to protect the presidential candidat...

>> bill: 9:44, washington, d.c., the room awaiting the arrival of jeff sessions. new evidence that former f.b.i. director james comey started writing his letter that exonerated hillary clinton before the email investigation was finished. all that seems to conflict with an answer that comey gave lawmakers last year on the hill about when he says he made that decision. first this sound bite from september of 2016. >> did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges relating to classifie...

Is a perception that your justice department may in the end cut secretary clinton a break or do her a favor. >> with every case, we handle at the same way. thats what i want to convey to the american people. >> bret: comey said that the tarmac meeting between loretta lynch and former president bill clinton was what precipitated his action of taking it essentially from doj. that doesnt seem to add up. >> the chronology does not add up. may 2 is when they are discussing their charging decision. th...

Out with these documents that suggest that decision was made well before that time. your thoughts. >> we are going to take him up on his offer. we are going to talk to his former colleagues. these memos came out and they are discussing internally whether or not to make a charging decision. its a month and a half later before he announces his decision in early july. thats two months. two months from may 2 until jul. two dozen witness interviews in that time period. if you are discussing whether o...

But i off ybviously dont agreeh him on this. hillary clinton was a strong candidate. winning 3 million more vote than donald trump. faced head winds in closing days of the campaign and ran a historic race with a a historic candidacy. >> you think joe biden will run in 20 in 2021? >> i dont know. this is something he will have to grapple with and answer for himself. >> you must have mixed feelings about comey being fired. hillary clinton remember on may 2 she blamed him and at least in part for l...

Theres every reason to believe that rosenstein is being set. maybe hes going to be fired. >> the interesting thing about president trump is he telegraphs what he is going to do. just last night the fact that he went on this tweet storm. he had his -- the home page changed to exonerate himself based on clapper. the fact that he so clumsily in this letter for no reason inserts this sentence like a -- its like a fifth grader inserting the sentence, you know, because the dog ate my homework, i am no...

Further, for not criminally charging clinton, but in addition to that fact, rosensteins memo expressing his concerns was dated may 9th, yesterday. the white house tells cnn the president had been considering firing comey since the election, most intensely last week, were told. hmm. if only there was some way for us to see what was on the presidents mind in realtime last week. oh, right. theres twitter. take a look at the presidents late night tweet storm of may 2. fbi director was the best thing...

Separate tweet saying in part still expect berkeley to provide a room implying shell do it inside. the only thing we can predict with certainty if she does show up there will be protest like weve seen several times in berkeley. the ones youre looking at right now. clashes between pro and anti-trump protestors during the tax day marches. nobody wants to see that again but sadly it looks as though we are headed that way at the moment. well see if and when she does show up. >> bill: what are you he...