Judgment and interest, an agency that reports directly to her, the fbi. In addition to Hillary Clintons email scandal the fbi is also reportedly investigating the Clinton Global Initiative foundation and its sources of money. The attorney general then may have met directly with a party directly involved in that part of the investigation as well. Donald trump says he was shocked when he found out. When i first heard that yesterday afternoon, i actually thought they were joking. I said no way. Theres no way thats going to happen. It happened. Im flabbergasted by it. I think its amazing. Ive never seen anything like that before. Adding to the bad optics and clearly bad judgment, were just learning the state Department Filed court papers yesterday seeking a twoyear delay to produce emails from Hillary Clintons top aides and the Clinton Foundation. A twoyear delay. Citizens united wants access to those emails, but if the state department has its way they wont be out until october of 2018. Well take all of this up in moments with former u. N. Ambassador john bolton. A lot to examine including a new navy report concluding weak leadership, poor judgment and a lack of war fighting toughness led to the capture of 10 of our sailors by ran. Nine have been disciplined for their actions which included giving up their passwords to their laptop, cell phones and Sensitive Data about their ships, giving all of that to their iranian captors. As we understand it, those officers held responsible for the i want and conduct of the sailors include at least one with the rank of captain. Following the istanbul terrorist attacks, the United States carrying the fight against the Islamic State, iraqi and u. S. Officials reporting airstrikes killed at least 250 Islamic State fighters in iraq. Donald trump says thats not good enough. He says Hillary Clinton, if elected, would do even less than mr. Obama. Im about wiping out isis. Look, isis was formed during her regime. Okay. It was formed. Shes done nothing about it. She never will. She doesnt have the ability to do anything about it if she wants to. She probably would like to but doesnt have the ability or strength to do anything about it and Everybody Knows that. Our top story attorney general lynch blasted over her clear conflict of interest when she met with with former president clinton. Two had a meeting on her aircraft at the airport while Hillary Clinton is a target in the active fbi criminal investigation, which may involve the Clinton Foundation itself, which would mean she also met directly with a party involved with the foundation, the former president. Lynch claims the meeting was, quote, primarily social and that the former president talked mostly about his grandchildren. Even democrats are having a hard time buying that, and they are voicing their outrage as well. Senator chris coons talked about it today. She should have steered clear. Look, i recognize have you a long record of leadership on fighting crime but this is not the time to have this conversation. David axelrod, a former adviser to president obama called the meeting foolish tweeting, quote, i take Loretta Lynch and bill clinton at their word that their convo in phoenix didnt touch on probe, but foolish to create such optics. Axelrod would be among the very few in my opinion who would take either two at their word on that obvious inappropriate meeting. The next guest not only former ewan ambassador, senior fellow john bolton, Fox News Contributor and himself an attorney. Ambassador, good to have you with us. This meeting, a former president and an attorney general dont have the judgment and sense of propriety to not have that meeting. Thats unbelievable. Literally, unbelievable. And utterly unacceptable. Number one, bill clinton never should have approached the attorney general. He and mrs. Clinton were a year ahead of me in law school. Maybe he was paying less attention than i thought. He should know in this circumstance that its utterly inappropriate to make whats called an ex parte contact unless he had something in mind. I dont know what it was, but it was inappropriate. As for attorney general lynch, look, she didnt initiate it. If aides called for the meeting, she should have politely declined it. If he walked on the plane, theres protocol at the state department if somebody comes up you shouldnt talk to you professionally disengage. You do not chat with them for half an hour. An attorney general is supposed to avoid not only impropriety but the appearance of impropriety. I would say two things. This is so deeply troubling, she should recuse her self. If shes unwilling to do that, i have another suggestion. I think she should unequivocally say shes submitting her had resignation and has no interest staying on at the department of justice no matter who wins in november. Theres a clear implication, you do right by us, maybe you stay as attorney general. That to me is the most troubling part and she should remove any idea shes thinking of that. John, there are more than these half hour meetings that are troubling the attorney general. She has some might say mostly sunny represented the nature of the investigation which the director of the fbi has said straightforwardly a criminal investigation, that the agency does no other. She tried to structure it as some sort of inquiry into the procedures of the state department. Secondly, shes talked about fighting the Islamic State, that the appropriate approach fighting terrorists is love. The lynch wheels are coming off here. This is the reason it seems to me for all of us to be there is one other point here. She has denied that she has spoken to president obama about the clinton email investigation. The media have not followed up on that. Theres a protocol. I think what may have happened, maybe she hasnt spoken directly to barack obama but some enterprising reporting should ask her have you spoken to the counsel of the president , produces counsel about this investigation because the channel to do this is for her to talk to the counsel of president and the counsel of the president talks to the president. I think shes been disingenuous at best at that point. I admire your faith in the administration protocol. I cant imagine it rising to the level they ignore nor does it right to the level of law which they enforce. I do admire your optimism about the administration. There is another issue here. Its only been two weeks since the president endorsed the subject of the investigation by the fbi, Hillary Clinton for president. Now his attorney general meeting with her husband in an absolute straightforward obvious conflict of interest. What does it take to get an independent counsel on this issue . Well, youre quite right about the president. Its unconscionable he should refer to somebody in Hillary Clintons position being investigated by the fbi and the department of justice. That, too, raises a cloud over everything going on. The signal it sends to career attorneys in the Justice Department to investigators in the fbi, i think what they should do is not have a separate independent counsel. I really think thats just a path that will kick this whole thing down the road for a couple of years. But i think the top political officials at the department of justice starting with attorney general and Deputy Attorney general at a minimum should recuse them selves. Lets let the career ranks at the fbi and Criminal Division handle this and hope they are immune from political influence. John bolton, i will accede to your recommendation and i fully support it. Thanks so much. As a matter of protocol i tend to do that with you. John bolton, good to have you with us. Were going to be right back. 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Call or go online today to switch to x1. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton hitting one another hard. Clinton hung up on all sorts of phobias, apparently. I am not sympathetic to the kpen phobia, misogyny, islamophobia, and all of the other xenophobia dog whistles trump uses. All of the phobias that nobody even knows what shes talking about to be honest with you. Why doesnt she say it like it is. The lines of people we have that are so sick and tired of hearing things like what she is just saying. Nobody even knows what shes talking about. You tell me, thats president ial . Shes president ial sitting there . I dont think so. Campaign fox news strategist and both are experts on all of this. The list, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, islamophobia and then all the other dog whistles. Suddenly dog whistles and phobias are synonyms . Who knew. What do you make of it . This is the old tired playbook democrats crafted in 2006 that they have been using consistently on republican candidate. Sadly, lou, up until now it has worked. What shes not anticipated the type of candidacy trump created that supersedes this type of name calling because he goes to the heart of the matter and speaks on the issues in a way real people understand. When he talks about terrorism hes not doing it in that politically correct old vernacular. 90 of americans fear an attack on the homeland. That would be islamophobia. If you put it in hillarys words, correct. Discussing it without the trappings of Political Correctness and pem relate to it, which is why hes ahead on these types of issues. This guy, when it comes up, im referring to, i should say, when donald trump comes up on the screen and says what is she talking about and who ever dreamed a candidate would have the judgment to dismiss that kind of nonsense out of hand the way he did. First of all, to correct my friend here, tony, this was way back before 2006. Go back to say the campaign of 1980. Effectively in the modern times. Certainly. Well have a sidebar. As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, shes trying to woo republicans who may not be satisfied with donald trump. I get press releases from her Campaign Daily as to which major republicans are not tracking with donald trump. If this is how shes going to do it, this is not really the right way to do it. Lets be straightforward here, what she just did looked silly as the dickens to me. I mean, theres no connection there. Trump makes a connection with almost every sentence with those he wants to reach with his message and shes using latin derivatives that are utterly lighter than air. Any time a liberal ends up using race im, xenophobia and those types of as we like to call them dog whistles, very often people who may be in the middle, people who may not be necessarily happy with donald trump, even they roll their eyes, here we go. As unoriginal as it is, lou, here is what shes hoping to accomplish, even her presentation was tired and lame. Trumps reaction was perfect because he called her out on it. The problem is you have almost 400 running for office that are not as courageous as donald trump to take these issues on. What shes trying to do and weve seen it in the presses on capitol hill is to get the media to say, hey, Hillary Clinton just said donald trump is an islamophobe. Donald trump, the standard bearer from the party, some of them are running from him. Are you seeing evidence in your campaign cinema congressmen, senators are having trouble because of donald trump . Certain races and certain regions, certainly, of course. I have to tell you where are those places . What percentage of the races and how big the problem . Are they attracting attention and positive flows. Downside suburban districts female voters where the gender gap occurs. There are extended suburban districts ive seen in races in new york where trump us performing strongly and yet you still see candidates coattails. He will have better coattails than she will. Thats quite a statement. The democrats better start getting all ginned up then, because with that statement they are the ones who better be worrying about down ticket. Remember, as long as we have these terror attacks happening right now particularly if Hillary Clinton is not responding in a way people are beginning to feel a little more fearful that it could happen here, again, she may have problems in the future. A number of republicans on trump are beginning to feel more confidence. Its interesting to see the numbers in these polls in the weeks ahead. I know its early and doesnt matter much. It does look like theres a change. First of all, an observable change, the way hes communicating and getting his message out. Its going to be interesting to see if that has an effect on the numbers. So were coming toward it. Kerry and tonight, good to have you here as always. Thank you. 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He may even be right about that, but that makes him niece right nor tolerable. Listen to selfrighteous, disloyal and pompous remarks romney added while speaking in aspen. I think youll find there will be some republicans that will get behind the president ial nominee and work with them and others who will want to distance them selves from that nominee, and ill be working with them. For me its a matter of personal conscious and i cant vote for either one of those two people. Ill either write in my wifes name, who would be an ideal president. Who has romney become . The failed president ial nominees remarks are nothing, in my opinion, silly, trivial and really sad. Romney has old side kick with him and the two are making quite a spent cal of them selves. His former running mate paul ryan will participate in a town hall if you would like to mark that down. Thats less than a week before the beginning of the Republican National convention. The speaker, of course, will be pushing his personal agenda during that event. You heard me right. The speaker is arrogantly and absurdly advancing his own agenda competing with that of the partys nominee. What is motivating ryan . Well, quite a few things, i believe. Monks them hes trying to raise a lot of money for himself, maybe trying to set up a president ial run. Maybe doing the bidding of his donors and cribbers and looking for all the cover that ryan can bring them. The folks on k street motivating him wildly. Maybe hes pushing open border and more failed trade agreements at the bidding of the president. Perhaps the democrats wont run or adequately finance a serious opponent in the congressional race. I know. That sounds too much like a conspiracy and t which makes it possible. I would wager if reign survived the challenge as hes expected to, democrats and dcc wont spend a nickel trying to contest the speaker who lines up far better with their ideology than republicans. Ryan is no longer just an irritant for donald trump, the Republican National committee and House Republicans enemy opinion should rise up against this delusional rhino they installed as speaker. For some that will be quite a test. Ryan is part of the risk mafia, including rnc chairman priebus, Governor Scott wa