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Same decision. >> the oversight committee and house judiciary committee are also putting the former attorney general loretta lynch under scrutiny after comey circumvented the justice department when he drafted what republicans call an exoneration statement two months before 17 key witnesses, including hillary clinton, were interviewed. lawmakers also question why human public with the email case that the same time remain silent about the probe of trump campaign associates. in a statement, democrats accuse republicans of launching a massive diversion distracting from the lack of republican over...

President if he's thinking about firing bob mueller, it will get worse. >> sandra: you have the last word. meanwhile republicans renewing our call for a special second counsel to investigate hillary clinton and the obama administration during last year's election. this follows allegations that former fbi director james comey drafted an exoneration statement for clinton leaked before interviewing her and more than a dozen key witnesses. republicans also complaining that he didn't report interviews despite justice department policy. and a letter to attorney general jeff sessions and ag rod rosen...

Affect a u.s. election. >> i think it will have a very significant political consequences. the way that it would be interpreted is that james comey was a partisan actor who did what he did for political purposes. and i think that that would really frankly cast a certain light over everything that jim comey has done. in the course of that investigation, two members of his inner circle were interviewed, and those transcripts as a lindsey graham indicated, that he began it drafting the exoneration statement of hillary clinton two months before her fbi interview. senator graham told fox news recen...

Those details emerged of interviews from fbi staffers suggesting that the former bureau director drafted an exoneration statement for clinton week, in fact two months, before her fbi interview over the fully 4th weekend last year. those transcripts are part of what's called a hatch act investigation that was launched by the justice department into whether comey used his influence and position as fbi director to interfere in the election last year. the records were provided after a request from senator graham and the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley. that hat...

Hillary clinton, this is not how they should be working, this is an abuse of power, and comey should be investigated, it really undermines the work of the fine men and women of the fbi. >> one, to that point, here is the actual evidence that he says among other things they are using, there are some transcripts, various fbi officials about how this exoneration statement in july 2016 came about for it james comey, these witnesses testified "sometime in the spring of 2016, the director emailed a couple folks to say knowing where these sort of investigation is headed, which would meet the most for...