about her security clearance. and grassley stated any government worker that engaged in such serious offenses would at the minimum have the security clearance suspended. pending an investigation. three weeks ago the state department responded to senator grassley s 2017 letter saying at her request and her security clearance administratively withdrawn august 30, 2018. the letter went on to say on september 20, if security clearance of five other researchers had been revoked. only sheryl mills listed and the other four names redacted. this summer trump revoked security clearance of john brennan. at the time the what said it was reviewing the clearances of several other people.
in an investigation. absolutely. okay. my time is up. senator sass. thank you. mr. horowitz, who is sheryl mills and heather samuel son? mrs. mills was a counselor at the state department for mrs. clinton and why do they show up in your report? several reasons. on the one hand, after they left the state department and secretary clinton left the state department, they culled through secretary clinton s e-mails to decide which ones they concluded were work related and which ones weren t. the ones that were work related were forwarded to the state department. they were involved there. in addition, they appear as we describe here at secretary clinton s interview on july 2 representing her as her lawyer. so they have professional relationships in the government,
want to make their case and make their name. there is no bigger prey than the president of the united states. we have seen that with flynn and how strzok behaved in other instances. in terms of witnesses, a ceo, the powerful person is the worst witness. they are used to getting their way. everybody in the room sucks up to them. it s a different scenario when you are talking even casually to a prosecutor or fbi agent. it will be a big mistake for any ceo oren president, particularly for this president. laura: this is going for a legal chop. that s what giuliani s point was. his point was now that we have seen, we know just what was going on in there with the desperate effort to stop him from becoming president. sheryl mills gets to sit in
interviews. thhe declined to answer certain questions invoking the fifth amendment. the agents thought and prosecutors thought he had lied. they thought they had a decent chance to do an indictment. if this had been bob mueller or any other aggressive special counsel, they would have indicted him and put the fear of god in him and flip him. they give him immunity, admits he obstructed justice, which is what they suspected by erasing items under an order to preserve them. but after admitting that, he says that crucial conversation i had about these deletions on march 25 with david and sheryl, i can t remember anything about that. now, this to me, i know everybody is down on special
you have to seat a grand jury, touch put people under oath. there were some subpoenas. just to make it clear, there were some grand jury subpoenas, but no witnesses were ever forced to come to the grand jury. laura: people are given immunity that should have neveru been given immunity. i think it was sheryl mills who was in a meeting trying to decide whether to subpoena clinton. a potential witness in the same case. laura: sol, you learned this in ethics class in law school. continuing education, do we have to do this for the fbi? this is insanity. great panel. thank you for your insight. y stay right there for important reaction to the ig report you are not going to see anywhere