The giant pay day happening the same day iran released four american hostages, but not bob levinson. And tonight the white house insisting that giant january Cash Transfer wasnt ransom, it was just a coincidence. Thats weird since thats not what iran is saying. And now a new report just out that the Justice Department objected to the iran deal. Senator tom cotton appears to point to the deal as demanding answers about that payment. He went on the record. Good to be on with you. Nsenator, the payment of 40 million, Obama Administration says that was not a paid ransom for the americans. Do you believe that . No, greta, not at all. I said it was a ransom at the time. I find it highly suspect that that a 36yearold claim was Miles Per Hour rack uhe husbandly solved on the same day. And now we have more american hostages in iran. Why do you think the president did this Company Inside dental with the time of the release of the time of the nuclear deal . If it werent ransom, wouldnt he have co
Gop conspiracy. Do you have any concerns that emails were deleted after they were already supposed to be preserved, and did you ask for them to be deleted . No, of course not. I have no concern on either count. None. And neither do the fbi. By the way, u. S. Attorney, not district attorney. In a moment, we will be joined by judge Andrew Napolitano who has reviewed some of the evidence and has an interesting take. And senior political analyst brit hume whos here on the fallout. First we go to Trace Gallagher live at our breaking news desk. Reporter hey, megyn. In calling for the obstruction of justice investigation, utah gop congressman Jason Chaffetz is citing evidence that focuses mainly on a three and a half month period from december of 2014 to march of 2015. December of 2014, youll recall, is when Hillary Clinton and her team turned over some 55,000 workrelated emails to the state department. That same month, according to fbi files, top Hillary Clinton aide cheryl mills, who is als
To remain orderly and just make their point, and others who actually want to who want and others who are unafraid of risking arrest. So several times protesters would walk out into the highway, shutting down traffic. Police would come in. They would create a phalanx and then push them back to the curb. Well, shortly after sunset, they made another attempt to shut down the highway. The highway was closed down for a while. Police came back in, and then they issued a warning that they are about to reopen the highway to traffic, and anyone who steps out on the highway, any of the protesters, are being threatened with arrest. Now, based on the two divisions that were seeing within this group of protesters, it could go either way. Whether people are going to go out on the highway and provoke police and potentially well see more arrests tonight, or whether theyre going to follow the voices calling for calm and remain on the curb and continue the peaceful protest that they began earlier this w
Following outcry about his remarks senator mccain released a statement saying that, he quote, misspoke but the senator appeared defiant when pressed on the matter later on thursday. If the president had not pulled everybody out of iraq, you would have never seen the rise of isis, so he bears responsibility so i want to be clear. You want me to be clear, im not backtracking on anything, im saying that the president of the United States actions, actions, were responsible because of the full withdrawal of troops from iraq which led then to al qaeda going to syria which led to isis and our failure to have a strategy to destroy isis has led the attacks on the United States of america and europe meanwhile president obama insists the United States is not letting up on campaign against terrorism. We will continue to be relentless against terrorist groups like isil and al qaeda we are going to destroy them. We are going to disrupt their networks and their financing. And the flow of fighters in
Where youre from. We move on. We begin with the scandal that just wont go away. New revelations bolstering claims, pay to play is the order of the day on the Hillary Clinton state department. Here is the newest information we have. Senior executive at the Clinton Foundation left nearly 150 telephone messages for cheryl mills. Clintons top aide at the state department, within a twoyear time frame. That is according to previously unpublished documents obtained by fox news. The review of state Department Call logs, found no other individual appeared with anything like that frequency for volume. This as newlyreleased batches of emails showing major clinton donors getting access to clintons state department. Many requests revealed in exchanges between hillarys close aid, huma abedin, and doug vance, a top exec at the Clinton Foundation. Including a request to grant the crown prince of bahrain who gave 32 million to an arm of the Clinton Foundation, a facetoface meeting with Hillary Clinton.