Discussing that announcement yesterday and getting your reactions here on washington journal. Democrats can call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media come on twitter them on facebook social media, on twitter and facebook. Papers around the country leading with this story. From the New York Times this morning. Front page of the Washington Times. To the front page of the wall street journal this morning. Here is a bit more from fbi director james comey yesterday announcing why he decided not to recommend to bring charges. [video clip] there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges. There are obvious considerations like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding the context of a persons actions and how a similar situation has been handled in the past. In looking back at our investigations into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involve some combination of clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information or vast quantities of information exposed in such a way to support an inference of intentional misconduct or this loyalty to the u. S. Or efforts disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice. Phone lines are open. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans,ats 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Flushing, new york. Line for independents. Caller i agree with the fbi investigation. The investigation exposed one important thing. Careless with National Security this cost a life. Clintons character issue has been a problem from day one. She lied bigtime. This is not about charging her or not charging her. Is. Is exposed for who she she lied bigtime. She is above the law. This character cannot qualify her as the best man or woman. She is acting. This is not about voting against. Onald trump we hav we have nobody to vote for now. The decision for america has been made crystal clear. We need to look for someone who is responsible and thats what im looking for. Host bill in myrtle beach, south carolina. Republican. Caller thank you for taking my call. Your previous caller hit it on the head. This is another example of mrs. Clintons character and bad judgment, which there seems to be no end. Kurt wrote color an article this weekend that said the rule of law instead. Yesterday, we saw a very pivotal , thet in u. S. History first time a speaker of the quicklys come out so and basically said what it is. Held to ans are different set of standards compared to republicans. ,f this had been a republican they would have been gone a long time ago. Now, there are two sets of laws. The u. S. Is founded on the rule , voluntary social contracts to be abided by and now, a lot of people are being held to a different standard than the clintons are in the government we are seeing with all the scandals, the irs and all these other ones that get swept under the rug, we are at a dangerous point in this history of our country where the rule of law does not apply to all equally. Its obvious to the American Public that the fix is in. I would like to commend the citizens of the United States that on the ground level of our society are still abiding by the rule of law and the judicial system. Now, it is evident that our federal government has become beyond my imagination. The ground people have not become that corrupt because if it gets to that point, we will , absolute looting in the streets. Host you mentioned paul ryan. The fbi might be done with the investigation, but the house is certainly not. Republicans are gearing up to grill fbi director james comey about why his agency recommended. Ot to bring charges certainly this story not done. Lets go to fran in jacksonville, florida. Democrat. Good morning. Caller i was listening to what you just said about the house recommendation. I recall when george bush was weredent and the democrats reeling for impeachment of nancy bush, first thing pelosi said as bigger of the house, we are not even considering that speaker of the house, we are not even considering that. Lets move forward. Please, america. Would you really want donald trump to be president . I heard what the fbi director said yesterday, i was concerned about it, too. He does look like theres a lot of stuff that was wrong that she did. But it is nothing compared to what donald trump would do to and our livelihood. Host if donald trump werent the Presumptive Republican , with this announcement yesterday and your concerns about it cause you to vote for a republican . Caller hardly. Their whole point of view about how the country should be run is contrary to what i believe in. It doesnt have to do with actually elevating the people. Its about everyone being out on their own, no United States. We are supposed to look out for each other. For me, republicans think that, hey, everybody got an equal opportunity, which is a policy fallacy int place the first place. That camecarelessness out as a result of this investigation. A term used by fbi director james comey yesterday. Heres more of him talking about how careless Hillary Clinton and her staff were with classified i material. [video clip] though we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. Seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the topsecret, special Access Program at the time they were sent and received. Those chains involved secretary clinton both sending emails andt those matters receiving emails about those same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in secretary clintons position or in the position of those corresponding with her on this matter should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that information. We also found information that was properly classified in secret by the u. S. Intelligence community at the time it was discussed on email. None of these emails should have been on an inclined of been on any kind of unclassified system. Host he systematically obliterated many of the key defenses clinton and her advisers have offered to reassure the public in the last 15 months since the discovery that she used a private email system. One of those assurances is that she never sent or received information that was marked classified at the time it was sent. Hillary clinton did a phone email on saturday with msnbc in which she repeated the statements. [video clip] let me just repeat what i have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified. For the a process review of material before it is released to the public. There were decisions made that material should be classified. I do call that retroactively classifying. Therefore, it would not be publicly released, but that facts as ive the explained many times. Host that was Hillary Clinton from a few days ago. We heard what the fbi director had to say yesterday. No headsup given, except for 90 minutes before the fbi director held that press conference. He took no questions, it was 15 minutes long. He made his statements and then walked off at the fbi building. North carolina. Line for republicans. Good morning. Caller im very disappointed this almost looks like a coverup. All of a sudden, it is thrown out the window. There is something definitely not right about this. All those people who died in shehazi because of her cannot protect our people over there. She is a liar. They have caught her in millions of lies. She should not be allowed to run for president. This whole thing is really out of control with her. I used to be a democrat and i switch to republican. This is ridiculous. We are showing our viewers some video of Hillary Clinton yesterday on the campaign trail yesterday afternoon with president barack obama in the comeys director kom announcement. Her Campaign Spokesman did put out a statement yesterday in the wake of that announcement. He said we are pleased that career officials handling this case have determined that no further actions by the department is appropriate. As the secretary has long said, it is a mistake for her to have used her personal email and she would not do it again. We are glad that this matter is now result. Is it resolved . Will it impact your vote this fall . Bill in canton, illinois. Line for independents. Good morning. , it is it is a sad day sad for the president to be ng around with this lady mrs. Clinton came before the public eight times and light about her emails. Lied about her emails. She liked to the American People about her emails and we still dont know about her charity. Lied to the American People. I dont know how anybody in the likecould elect someone Hillary Clinton and put our National Security at risk. Any other Office Holder in the u. S. , they would be barred from accepting any classified information. It is a cover up. It is definitely a cover up. Feel sorry for mr. Comey ive lost all respect for the fbi. Host jeffrey writes in on twitter another tweet this morning getting your thoughts on twitter and facebook. Our phone lines are open. We will be on this topic for the next 45 minutes. Your reaction to that press conference yesterday by fbi director james comey. Gainesville, virginia. Democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning, sir. I am a lifelong democrat. For president obama, i went doortodoor. Im very disappointed about the decision yesterday by the fbi director. The comment he made that mrs. Has not committed a thee com, it insults intelligence of the American People. If you go in each of lane when or are not supposed to go you drink and drive, you are charged with a crime. Coverupan you get a that it is a sad day. The beauty of this country is the Justice System and how it is carried out. Justice has to be applied to everyone in equal way. Hillary is part of the problem. She is corrupt. She has corrupted money and the big banks. I dont know how im going to vote this time. Host not the only person disagreeing with the eventual conclusion of the fbi after their investigation. Mike on the opinion page in the wall street journal. Those are many of the same questions that are likely to come up from republicans in congress. The house expected to ask the fbi director to testify perhaps as early as next week. Jim in chicago, illinois. Independent. Good morning. Caller this is my comment. Im not surprised what happened yesterday regarding hillary, but this is my concern. More than likely, she will be the next she will be worse the a dictator, constitution will not matter and she will start more and more invasions of other countries. Right now, she feels like she is untouchable. I fear for people who are going to vote for her. World worse than a third dictatorship. Bills ares and evil. You havent seen anything yet. Host have you ever voted for a democrat . Caller the last democrat i voted for was Hubert Humphrey in 1968. I mainly vote for republicans. Host have you ever voted for an independent candidate . Caller ralph nader in 2000. Host detroit, michigan. Line for democrats. Caller good morning. Compare to president bush, who went into a war by a lie that cost or to 5000 american lives, that looted the treasury, the fbi director is probably a republican himself. The Republican Party is full of it. Where we are now is caused by bush and the republicans. Host some information about the fbi director. He was appointed fbi director in june 2013 by president obama, confirmed by the senate, 93 to one in july 2013. He was the Deputy Attorney general from 2003 to 2005 under and was u. S. H attorney for the Southern District of new york from 2002 two 2003. 2003. The one vote against him in the senate, senator rand paul of kentucky made sure to remind folks that he was that one vote in a tweet yesterday. He was the lone dissenter as james comey was confirmed for his fbi post. Ann in florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I go along with the guy that was just on i do not understand how she can get away with anything she wants to she has liedws since she was secretary of state and yet, she tells people on tv come ive never told a lie. She is the most corrupt person up there. And she will be leading our country when she dont even know what a classified email is . We are going to be in the biggest trouble weve ever been in. Host do you think she is going to be the one leading our country . Caller i certainly hope not. In fix is everything is crooked. Ive never seen such a bunch of idiots in my life. I hope everyone that votes for her and up having to pay for it ds up having to pay for it. Obama was bad enough. She will be even worse. Host this on twitter when in birmingham, alabama. Birmingham, alabama. Caller im voting for her. I sure am. By the fbi. As made they did not have enough information to prosecute her. To everyone calling in this morning, now you know how black people feel. Hen the police kill thats when you say the rule of law is not working. They found that they did not have enough information to charger. Charge her. Liar to want a racist be the president. James comey went out of his way to protect the integrity of the investigation, the apolitical nature of the investigation. [video clip] i know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this recommendation. What i can assure the American People is that this investigation was done honestly competently and independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear. I know many opinions expressed by people who were not part of the investigation, but none of that mattered to us. Opinions are irrelevant and they were all informed we did our investigation the right way. Only facts matter. Ae fbi found them here in professional and apolitical way. Host plenty of people weighing in on our facebook page. In writes gary says todd below that writes we are getting your comments. You can call in as well. Our phone lines will be open for the next half hour. Two members of congress joining us later in our program today. Massachusetts come independent. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Iple points to make have a question for director comey. Im quite curious as to how this guy came to the conclusion over the matter of intent. When clinton said up a private email server in her own home, did she not understand that she would be dealing with classified information going across that server . Two, with emails being destroyed, how could that not email in which they discussed secret information be communicated over that server . That point, theres a lot in that 15 minute statement yesterday by the fbi director on whether emails were lost. Clinton and her lawyers handed over 30,000 emails they said were the businessrelated emails on her private system. Said in the process of deleting personal email come it is likely that there are other workrelated emails they did not produce. The fbi cannot recover these. Caller that is correct. From my understanding, you know its going to be a matter that will be investigated. You are not supposed to destroy any material. We have to take her at her word that she did not destroy relevant information that might happen been more conducive to charging her with a crime. This might have been more conducive to charging her with a crime. We dont have to vote for trump or Hillary Clinton. When they go to the polls this november, we should make this and unprecedented election and have all the bernie supporters of america and any independent supporters leaning towards voting for bernie that wasnt allowed to vote in the primaries because they were in a closed state, right Bernie Sanderss name in. Rite Bernie Sanderss name in. If that was to happen, theres no reason why we have to choose between hillary and donald. For those who are more visual learners, heres a graphic representation of the provided and not provided during the investigation by the fbi. The 60,000 emails left on clintons email server, 30,000 were provided for the investigation. Investigators looked at emails outside of those clinton provided as well. 2000 were retroactively deemed classified. Eight contain confidential information. Eight contain topsecret information. Reed is in shelton, washington. Line for republicans. With the manee from massachusetts. How could you not have the knowledge that the server is outside the law . She signed documents which you became secretary of state saying she could not do that. She knew she was breaking the law. If you look at the context, the posture of the fbi itself over. Ecent times, we need an fbii internal bureau of investigation. It would be a private organization run by private contractors, not people dependent on their pensions. Inspector Generals Office inside the agency but a private organization that receives Government Funds . Caller sure, they get paid for what they do, but there are contractors providing services for our government and there always has been. They are not government workers dependent on a pension and a salary. Thats why the fbi is another federal bureaucracy. They testified in front of the committee about the irs scandal. When chairman ryan asked the head of the fbi, the former head , how is the investigation going , he said i dont know. Are you aware of an investigation and he said, i dont know. This is the head of the fbi investigating the greatest scandal in the last 50 years or so. When people are above the law like Hillary Clinton, in her words, that depends on what the meaning of the word classified is referring to bill clintons testimony when he was being prosecuted. I get frustrated to hear democrats i watch washington journal every day