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>> this is like the walter mitty of presidents. >> mark hertling, general, when you talk about the politicization of the military, thats serious. no one thinks the military is above reproach and doesnt deserve criticism at times. >> absolutely. >> however, the president seems to be looking at it exclusively through a political lens and in this place perhaps a very misplaced political lens when dealing with admiral mcraven. >> yeah. and some in the military are picking up on that and it is unfort...

With this president. nor do the rules of the game or views on decorum. i must say i think this has been a significant victory for cnn and for the country. we have now reinforced through the courts and through the white house backing down, weve reinforced the sanctity of the first amendment, which was what was critically at stake here. and we go back to work. now, what we have to see, john, is -- in a night of ironies, by the way. an irony here is that this is a white house that prides itself on ...

Was not like hillary clintons e-mail use. according to her lawyer. it was far less frequent and there was no server in her baseme basement. we put in pretty extensive comments tonight in the story from her lawyer. >> one of the similarities is that her own personal lawyer was the one who was the initial vetter, vetted those e-mails and decide whatd was turned over to the government and what was not. and there will be. there already have been comparisons between ivanka trumps e-mails and hillary ...

Him. >> and what the president is saying now is different than what he was saying when bin laden was killed. correct? >> thats right. we talked about this before. theres a tweet for everything. in this case theres a statement for everything. the president when he was then citizen trump, then businessman trump, told our colleague maggie haberman over at "the new york times" back in 2011 after the bin laden raid was successful and took out osama bin laden he gave a statement to maggie had she was ...

On. on admiral mcraven. what is he saying now? >> he did because there was a lot of bipartisan criticism coming in, john, after he went after admiral mcraven. he put out tweet as you mentioned a few moments ago going after bill clinton saying the clinton administration missed their shot to take out osama bin laden. u.s. forces u.s. intelligence as you know, john, they did try to take out bin laden in the late 1990s but the president neglects to mention obviously that 9/11 happened under presiden...

The article that you wrote, josh, is that people inside the white house were not just surprised about the volume of personal e-mail use but also her initial explanation, which was what? >> people in the white house were startled by the fact that she seemed to be the highest offender. who had sent most of the e-mails. when they approached her about it, she essentially expressed ignorance of the rules, said that she did not know that all of them had to be done on the government e-mail server and b...