danny colson is a former fbi director deputy assistant director and fbi hostage rescue team commander. are you surprised? >> a little bit, yes. we don't know, i didn't have any information as to what the elements was but i think we can take some confidence from the fact that they clearly did a very detailed investigation. the fbi is the best in the world at doing these things you combine the technology and the ability to assimilate information. james comey is probably the most respected man in washington dc and if he comes up with the idea, the conclusion that there was no criminality here then we got to go with that. i don't know of any organization in the world that can bring out a case like this and i don't know of a better person to be the front person and manage this thing then james comey so i'm very confident if he says it's not criminal then i have to go along with it, i have to believe it's true and we're lucky to have a man like that running the fbi, he's very independent and very capable. jon: absolutely and his reputation is above reproach. i was surprised somewhat that th

the fbi does. when hillary clinton was in that meeting today for 3 1/2 hours, she may not have known what of those other 20,000 e-mails the fbi had recovered. so you're going in there blind. >> colleen mentioned that earlier today. we talked about bill clinton with her on the campaign trail. initially he had been rolled out, a huge asset, obviously the former president beings very jovial character. now it's shifting whether or not he could be a liability on the campaign trail. >> certainly his decision-making this week is being called into question. >> a a lawyer you would know what's right or wrong. >> law 101, would you not meet with the prosecutor investigating your wife. you have to live with the fallout of it. you don't know if that meeting did not occur, if she could have done things behind the scenes, now she is going to accept the findings of the fbi and what they call the career prosecutors at the department of justice less influenced by political appointees. doug burns is on the phone wit

investigation as in fbi. so the less said by hillary clinton and her aides and assistants at this point the better from her standpoint. >> and three and a half hours? you think that's going to be it? will she be back in front of the fbi? >> there's no way to tell that. i mean, it's -- also, you know, having done one of these fbi investigations in connection with a leak of classified information, i know that everything you say is going to be weighed against what others have told the fbi, and if there's a contradiction, whether or not she's culpable or liable for anything relating to the e-mail server, ifthere's a contradiction and they can prove she made a misstatement she's potentially liable to perjury charges so this is a very serious moment for her and no matter how she kind of attempts to slough it off and say this is just concluding something that's gone on for too long, this is a moment of truth for hillary clinton. >> all right. judith miller. thank you so much for being with us today. always appreciat

all that aside, give us an assessment of how the fbi director did. >> i was proud to be a retired fbi agent. he did an amazing thing. he asserted the integrity of the fbi and laid out which is unusual. this is what we did and how we did it in a lot of detail and the intimate conversation between prosecutors and the fbi. which is not often put out to the public as well. the fbi is a fact- finding organization. and it does happen because you have conversations throughout the investigative stage and ultimately there will be opinions rendered and the opinion of the fbi based on past cases this should not be charged. he laid that out for the public and the transparency was amazing and he did a great service to the public by p having the press conference. >> he said something that caught my ear. jim comey has a reputation as a straight shooter and rock ribbed and upstanding guy. there is evidence of potential in the statutes. our judgment that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. you could argue that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case because they would not want t

the fbi directors told us the fbi doesn't do security reviews. they do criminal investigations. she is a target. this day is behind her but what's in front of her only the fbi and the justice department knows. but one thing is for sure, she is a target of a criminal investigation. >> so when you look at this and we're just a few weeks away from the democratic presidential nomination and the convention, that is, what happens now within the clinton camp and what does the trump camp do as they're watching this from the sidelines perhaps gleefully or perhaps cautiously so they don't step into the middle of it and make themselves look bad? does this give trump an advantage? jehmu? >> i certainly hope that the trump campaign does not look at this gleefully and probably most americans hope that, but we know donald trump. we know that he's going to have a number of reactions. >> gleefully but perhaps suspiciously, maybe that's more of a word. >> of course, donald trump is going to try to tap in this with his name calling and immature behavior. we know what to expect from this man. he's

ups to the fbi director james comey. and as we saw over the weekend on saturday, the former secretary of state, hillary clinton, had her more than three hour meeting with the fbi on saturday and then today, the fbi director comes out and gives a very unusual press conference in not only laying out the process of what he and the investigators went through, but the determination that they made that they were sending to the attorney general. something that's not usually done. and by saying to me in aspen that she would be accepting the findings and recommendations of the career prosecutors and investigators she was making it clear that what was happening was something that was being done, not by political people, but by career people and that once they handed those over to, to her, she would look at them and make her, and make her determination, but when it pressed her on that in an interview, ten-minute interview after the aspen interview which was also on the record, she made it clear that she could not -- she said, i do

the fbi director called her a liar. that is not true. what we found out is there were hundreds of instances. so now the state department must revoke her top secret security clearance. and therefore, as you point out, as rudy guiliani points out, you do not want to have even a democratic nominee making decisions about national security without being able to look at all of the blue papers, all of the details, all of our intelligence officers who are out in the field gathering information. there are instances where secretary clinton, hillary clinton, wouldn't be able to review the information before making a decision. and that is critical. >> and you see the optics right there, the political ramifications, hours after this happens, you see president obama already on the campaign trail with hillary clinton. and that is what's giving some of the viewers at home pause, to reconcile the two. rick, thank you so much for joining us on "the real story." >>> simon rosenberg is a former clinton campaign adviser. larry o'connor is host of "mornings o

. >>> tonight, no charges recommended against hillary clinton by the fbi despite calling her private e-mail use extremely careless and revealing hostile actors possibly hacked her account just hours before she campaigns with barack obama for the first time. >>> the system is rigged says donald trump after the fbi news while the deals with his own firestorm over accusations of anti-semitism. >>> dangerous extremes. a scorching heat wave growing across the country and tonight a new threat of tornadoes and floods. >>> american murderers, police make an arrest in the death of a u.s. college exchange student killed hours after arriving in europe. >>> guilt free eating, a surprising good news for your waistline if you like foods like this. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news with lester holt." >>> good evening. hillary clinton got some very welcome news today from the head of the fbi but it came along with a virtual public shaming. james comey said today he's not recommending criminal charges against hillary

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let's talk about the fbi's decision. how does the hillary clinton campaign brush off the very severe harsh criticism that was leveled by james comey? >> i don't think hillary clinton will quickly brush those aside. i think the extremely careless words will continue to come back and haunt her and will be brought up by many republicans. i think we're seeing the first indications of how the clinton campaign will attempt to move past it. that's to paint it as the closing of a book. they said we're so glad this matter is now resolved. full stop. and clinton acknowledging she has a trust gap and this is something she needs to work on. >> resolved legally maybe. but politically it has not been resolved. >> i think they know that. what she just referred to of hillary clinton laying the ground work in anticipation of this moment, get out there and talk about she has a trust deficit and she will continue to earn the trust of the american people. this does leave a few lingering questions that she is going to want to answer and sort

who was at the fbi meeting today? >> reporter: we don't know for certain because the campaign did not release the names of those present. her lawyer david kendall was present and cheryl mills is a long- time advisor was present and we saw her at hillary clinton's residence after the meeting. cheryl mills was questioned by the fbi not too long ago about her knowledge of the e-mail server and we know from the new york times that eight members of the fbi and justice department questioning hillary clinton. >> jennifer you have a great vantage point. what do you make of the timing? >> look at the timing of the meeting on a holiday weekend. that is by design and not it by chance. if you are the hillary clinton campaign, you would want it to happen in a new's cycle when the rest of america is focusing on other things in the 4th of july weekend. that is not a coincidence. the timing is good for it the campaign if they wrap things up before the convention. it is notable. it is not clear if it was arranged after bill clinton's

however, the fbi not recommending charges against fbi. i want to bring in shawn spicer, chief strategist for the republican national committee and communications director. thank you for being with us. i want to get your reaction to the news today. >> i think these findings by the fbi are a clear indictment on hillary clinton's judgment and fitness to be president. the office she is seeking requires the highest level of judgment, making sure our nation's secrets are protected, but also creating a culture where people understand the importance of that. what the fbi director laid out today was clearly someone who doesn't understand the importance of our national security, puts themselves ahead of the rules. i think this is a major problem when it comes to the judgment she would exhibit as president of the united states. this is a true indictment on her judgment and fitness to be president. >> indictment on her judgment and fitness. however, not an indictment. you heard from james comey that no reasonable prosecutor -- no reasonable prosecuto

so former assistant director of the fbi of new york and former chief executive for the fbi in new york, miami and denver. bill, always a pleasure to have you with us. the issue here is whether clinton violated the es pa najim act by sending and receiving classified information on an unauthorized severver. the feds found 22 so would you have expected her to have been confronted with some of those documents today? >> i would expect that would happen but greg there's one thing we have to realize. the agents have looked at everything that they could possibly look at. it's not just the sever but it's probably the foundation as well. they've co lessed everything they want to look at and generated some questions and now they sit down with mrs. clinton to ask these questions. if as has been reported she dragged into that interview aids and attorneys. i can assure you in 3 1/2 hours they didn't kbget to hardly anyf those questions. they brought agents in there that knew what this was about and knew how to ask questions and knew how to interpret her answers. this wasn't a walk in the park. this

this fbi has done that. that was striking. the other thing i'll say briefly is there is still some bad, nonlegal news here in that the product of this investigation shows criticism of how the state department and secretary clinton did handle information. not criminal level in the view of comey. but criticism of a carelessness. >> he also made the point that in this criticism of the state department, this happened in his description, ari, even before secretary clinton took that position. let me go to nbc's kelly o'donnell, at the news conference there. and kelly, emphasizing or really highlighting here the tone from director comey, going so far as to say in reference to all of the pundits and opinions out there, that none of that mattered to what he called a credible investigation. that had no political motivation here. and you could see he was very strong on that and wanted to communicate that clearly. >> reporter: and director comey made clear at the outset of his remarks that no one in the administration, at the white house,

-- the fbi guy is not the prosecutor. >> fbi director comey went the additional step. not only did he say he believed there was a potential violation of the law, he believed that it could not be prosecuted successfully. so it was one and two. >> loretta lynch, the attorney general, still could decide given that he did such a great job laying out how she -- hillary clinton had broken the law, she could decide, you know what, i'm not going to listen to you. >> she's waiting on her career prosecutors for a recommendation. >> she already said she was going to go with whatever the fbi recommended. >> she was a little squishy on that. >> what do you say? >> it's all politics. >> send us your e-mails please. friends at fox news. in the meantime, we'll hand it over to heather. >> welcome back. >> great to be back. oscar pistorius sentenced to six years in prison for killing his girlfriend. that decision sparking worldwide outrage on twitter. some people saying it's too lenient pointed out the fallen olympian will only have to serve half that sentence. now the judge says she be

i am very proud of the fbi. that law enforcement is a very intense thing. -- the candidate will have the opportunity to run and be effective. -- [indiscernible] bernie sanders. think it will come back to her. i want to say thank you for you all for putting this on. and giving me the opportunity to talk. thank you. host: a couple of quick tweets why we have the chance. looked at everything she did wrong and what difference does it make? james comey must resign. now to live coverage of the u.s. house on c-span. paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2016, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the

kristen, we know now the fbi is not recommending pressing charges. they transfer their investive findings. a source i spoke to in the campaign said there's a sense of relief this is behind us however comey said clinton and company had a careless regard for classified information. have you heard from your sources about whether or not clinton will address any of this at the rally there today. >> well, we have reached out to multiple sources, thomas, no definitive answer on that yet. but i think it would be unlikely, here's why. the optics of this. it would put the president in a very walk ward position, of course, this is going to be the first joint appearance with secretary clinton and president obama and its aim to rally democrats and rally those sanders supporters who have been hesitant to get on board with secretary clinton. president obama is going to be a character witness for secretary clinton. he's going to argue that, look, she's my former rival and now she's one of my closest confidantes. that he made her secretary of state. the clinton campa

there are wonderful fbi agents. i think mueller did some damage with the five-year up or out policy, which cost us thousands of years of experience. he held over from bush -- host: what was the policy? guest: if you are in a supervisory position of any kind for five years, at the end of five years, you either had to come to washington or get out. my word, we lost thousands and thousands, so many fbi agents would get to the end of five years and say i'm not going to washington for i have got kids here. the other thing that law enforcement officers, federal and state and local understand, it takes about five years before you get enough credibility to be trusted by local and state law enforcement. just when you get that experience, you had to get out. lost thousands and thousands of years. why would mueller wanted policy like that? i can tell you when i first got out of law school as a prosecutor, state prosecutor, i was gung ho, and i did well, i knew the law, and i would look around, i know more about the law than hi

the politicization of the department of justice, of the fbi, j. edgar hoover is spinning in his grave. this is, and kimberly is right, the optics are so clear, you have somebody who owes bill clinton, he meets her when he knows he shouldn't meet her, fbi meets her on a day they don't normally meet her. she said i'm going to keep this person who has my career in her hands if they become president, next day they are on air force one. one way to handle this, congratulations we're having hearings tomorrow, this is a november decision and it's up to the american public. >> i only have a few more seconds, mr. adams, what happens -- for months we've heard you don't need to have intent if you're grossly negligent, that's still indictable. apparently now you have to have intent. when did it change? >> apparently it changed on the way to the press podium. you notice he avoided that entirely. a county d.a. could have prosecuted this case successfully. apparently, we're not going to see whether our justice department can. >> thank you so much. >>> coming up n

it's not for the fbi to decide. it's up to the prosecutor to decide. >> there are investigators. >> let's go to special agents and let's make that clear. >> they are doing their job. >> they're doing their job. the director, the prosecutor and the justice department have all the information that he had on who was ordering him to put on that performance today which he didn't take questions. he laid out a case and then said said --. >> is politically charged. lou: it's politically corrupt absolutely corrupt. >> it's inappropriate for him to draw conclusion. lou: wired being so gentle with your fellow attorney? >> it's appropriate. lou: i don't politicize guys. >> what about the special prosecutor? >> it's too late. it's over. lou: the american people are alternately going to be the ones who decide what she is guilty of and to what degree she should be held accountable and if they want to continue a political dynasty that's one issue. the second part is they want to continue with this kind of corruption in the justice

the fbi of hillary clinton is withers. you have would think americans would be to he electricity a person with exerm competency does it not? compared to questions about his competency, the email caves blows that out out of the worth. trump university? come on. no matter what happens there, it doesn't come bows chot fbi of hillary clinton's email situation. many who support don't care. they believe she is better for the country than donald trump so issues don't matter. same thing on the other side. millions of americans have already convicted mrs. clinton on many, many things they will never vote for her. talking points is in the business of infamily rooming and at times reforming. the intelligence thing bothers me. it bothers me. ocean if there were no i object tent to subvert fremple law the cob unone version happened. secretary clinton is directly responsible for that if you the american citizen lee a child in a hot carp and that child was harmed by that you will be eneven if your action was unintentional. many analysts

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but that's not what the fbi is supposed to do. the fbi looks at criminality or not. if they don't find criminality, which they didn't in this case, they aren't supposed to insert themselves in the middle of a political campaign as director comey did. it wasn't appropriate for a law enforcement official to do. >> matt, thank you. i see a lot of iphones and cameras which tells me perhaps this moment is imminent. where we will see the signs "stronger together" meaning both the president of the united states and secretary clinton. they'll walk out. this is the first time the president has stumped on the trail for the presumed democratic nominee. big picture she. our cnn political director is standing by. a cnn presidential historian. brianna keilar is there in charlotte where we are watching, waiting for those two to appear. david, first just to you. can you just tee this whole thing up with me? obviously you have the optics of this. walking down the stairs out of that air force one. walking out together. all the while this news hanging over both of them or depending who

it's not for the fbi to decide. it's up to the prosecutor to decide. >> there are investigators. >> let's go to special agents and let's make that clear. >> they are doing their job. >> they're doing their job. the director, the prosecutor and the justice department have all the information that he had on who was ordering him to put on that performance today which he didn't take questions. he laid out a case and then said said --. >> is politically charged. lou: it's politically corrupt absolutely corrupt. >> it's inappropriate for him to draw conclusion. lou: wired being so gentle with your fellow attorney? >> it's appropriate. lou: i don't politicize guys. >> what about the special prosecutor? >> it's too late. it's over. lou: the american people are alternately going to be the ones who decide what she is guilty of and to what degree she should be held accountable and if they want to continue a political dynasty that's one issue. the second part is they want to continue with this kind of corruption in the justice

a straight shooter and think the fbi does good work. and so on the one hand, they all think that hillary clinton did something wrong. on the other hand, they have faith in director comey. so donald trump is essentially attacking the fbi there. and we will have to see how that shakes out. but it's, obviously, been his standard message and this fits into it. >> the president is not going to touch this but when and how and if will hillary clinton address this further in person? >> welhe with an interview to answer some of those claims and questions because this is not just about something that happened back when she was secretary of state. this is about the answer she gave and the explanation she gave about an ongoing event and whether those matchup with the reality. that is kind of a central part of the presidency and so that is something she will have to address in some kind of interview to speak about it on the stump or if she were to choose to and fall in the realm of public relations again so she will have to find some point to addres

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the fbi of hillary clinton is withers. you have would think americans would be to he electricity a person with exerm competency does it not? compared to questions about his competency, the email caves blows that out out of the worth. trump university? come on. no matter what happens there, it doesn't come bows chot fbi of hillary clinton's email situation. many who support don't care. they believe she is better for the country than donald trump so issues don't matter. same thing on the other side. millions of americans have already convicted mrs. clinton on many, many things they will never vote for her. talking points is in the business of infamily rooming and at times reforming. the intelligence thing bothers me. it bothers me. ocean if there were no i object tent to subvert fremple law the cob unone version happened. secretary clinton is directly responsible for that if you the american citizen lee a child in a hot carp and that child was harmed by that you will be eneven if your action was unintentional. many analysts

and fbi technicians spent months going through all the information. discovering in all 113 e-mails containing classified information, eight of them top secret. a picture very different from the one she has described, a blistering attack of her handling of government secrets. was the material marked classified? >> i am confident that i never sent nor received information that was classified at the time it was sent and received. >>> any reasonable person in secretary clinton's position or anybody with whom she was communicating with on sensitive should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. >> reporter: was her private server safe from hacking? >> it was on property, guarded by the secret service and there were no security breaches. >> all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers. >> reporter: comey said she sent and received e-mails to and from her staff while she was outside the u.s. comey said the sloppiness did not meet the standards of bringing criminal charges in past cases. against her or a

. >>> tonight no charges recommended against hillary clinton by the fbi, despite calling her private e-mail use extremely careless and revealing hostile actors possibly hacked her account just hours before she campaigns with barack obama for the first time. >>> and donald trump deals with his own firestorm over accusations of anti-semiti anti-semitism. >>> tonight a new threat of tornadoes and floods. >>> american murderers, police make an arrest in the death of a u.s. college exchange student just hours after arriving in europe. >>> guilt free eating, a surprise for your waistline if you like foods like this. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news with lester holt." >>> hillary clinton got some very welcome news today from the head of the fbi but it came along with a virtual public shaming. james comey saying he's not recommending criminal charges against hillary clinton because of her personal e-mail server while he was secretary of state. he called her handling of sensitive e-mail -- pete williams begi

usually the fbi doesn't do this. they don't come out in detail with such precision exactly what they did. they piece together fragments of e-mails that have been discarded into a delete file that all of us delete and always happens but they went back and reconstructed that. he said they spent thousands of hours of manpower time, thousands of hours the fbi spent son this case. he walked through every step of the process and public will gain a sense of confidence from that or they won't. one thing you and i have to be asking, do we want the fbi spending quite so much time on instances such as this. could it have been done in a more trun indicated way. >> you said at the very beginning this is not over. take us into tomorrow and a week from now and month from now, into the fall. how can you forecast as to the effect and impact of today's headline and how that will play in a hillary clinton and what is clearly now a hillary clinton/donald trump election. >> you could see the statements from the republican national commit

>> to the fbi? we have no basis to conclude she lied to the fbi. >> did she lie to the public? >> that's a question i'm not qualified to answer. i can speak about what she said to the fbi. >> did hillary clinton lied under oath? >> not to the fbi on the case we are working. >> dishy review the comments for congressman jim jordan asked her specifically and she said quote, there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails, either sent or received, end quote. >> i don't remember reviewing that particular testimony. >> fbi investigators statements under oath on this topic? >> not to my knowledge. i don't think there's been a referral to congress. >> you need a referral to investigate her statements under oath? >> sure do. >> you'll have one. you'll have one in the next few hours. >> did hillary clinton break the law? >> in connection with in connection with use of the ml server, she did not. >> wishing not able to prosecute or did hillary clinton break the law? >> i do want to give an overly lawyer answer. is there evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that somebo

if it continues post fbi review, if the fbi does not reconclude anything bad had been done, illegal had been done, i'm sure they will talk about this being partisan, which is the argument we've heard before when the clintons have faced this situation. so i think that's kind of a three-step process of their response. >> austin, final word? >> i would just say it's funny, i think hillary clinton would be in the 67% saying that it was a mistake to do that. she publicly said she wouldn't do that again and wished she hadn't. so i kind of think if they can wrap this up and get on with it in a way that would be good for almost all sides. >> all right, good to see you both, thank you. >> thank you. >> straight ahead, usa department confirming now the death of one american in the bangladesh terror attack. more on that next. olay regenerist renews from within... plumping surface cells for a dramatic transformation -without the need for fillers. your concert tee might show your age...your skin never will. olay regenerist. olay. ageless. and try the micro-sculpting cream you love now with lightweig

>> to the fbi? we have no basis to conclude she lied to the fbi. deirdre: fbi director james comey says hillary clinton did not lie to the agency. congressmen accused clinton of saying one thing to the fbi and the other to the public. this is "risk & reward" i'm deirdre bolton. one of the most intense exchanges came between the director and south carolina representative trey gowdy. here's part of it. >> secretary clinton said there was nothing marked classified on e-mails either sent or receive. is that true? >> that's not true. a small number of portion markings on three of the documents. >> secretary clinton said i did not e-mail classified material to anyone on the e-mail. there is no classified material. was that true? >> there was classified material. >> secretary clinton said she used just one device. was that true? >> she used multiple devices during the four years of her term as secretary of state. >> secretary clinton said all work-related e-mails were returned to the state department. was that true? >> no, we found work-related e-mails, t

had the fbi looked over here or there. by the speech leading up to the announcement, he let everybody know he did consider all the facts and circumstances. so we've got to -- ashley: covering his backside. >> we've got to respect the integrity of the process. we were saying that. ashley: yeah, okay. >> and he did that to make sure that we're not sitting here at the table afterwards saying where was he when this happened? why didn't he look at that? he did consider everything that we know about and much more, i guarantee you that. and then still reached that conclusion. >> but we don't necessarily agree with that. what we heard him say, be we all thought he should be indicted. so just because he gave this case that they considered everything. if they considered everything -- ashley: well, they did consider everything. >> the conclusions they came to -- don't add up. >> that's why people are wondering whether this was a political decision. and it gets back so what we're talking about. why petraeus and not hillary? >> rigged;

and by the fbi director. and then as is the common process, they present it to me, and i fully expect to sep their recommendations. >> did you notice she says she expects to accept? does accepting their recommendations mean she doesn't have the right to overrule it? no. she didn't say i will recuse myself. she didn't say i'll stay out of it. she didn't say i'll ask for a special prosecutor, aisle ask for an independent counsel. this is all smoke and meld mirr folks. what's going on in this country? you have a president lying about everything in benghazi to you can keep your health care and doctor. and the despicable video causing the deaths of an ambassador and three americans to having her own server for convenience. folks, these are people for whom there are no consequences, and yet they keep going higher and higher in our government. these are people openly flaunting the system while we ordinary americans are held to a completely different standard. now, i've spent over three decades in the criminal justic

attorney's office and the fbi. i've also tasked colonel edmundson and the state police to assist as necessary and as they call upon the state police to help them throughout this investigation. i have full confidence this matter will be investigated thoroughly, impartially and professionally it and i will demand that that's the way it's conducted. and i know that the people of louisiana will join me in doing so. and i will say that based on the information that i have obtained from law enforcement but certainly the footage that i observed of the video that was made available, i have very serious concerns. the video is disturbing to say the least. and at this time, i'm asking for leaders in the faith-based community, other community leaders here in baton rouge to work with me, to work with all of us, to ensure we remain calm and peaceful as details continue to unfold. i know that that may be tough to some but it's essential we do that. i know there are protests going on. i'm urging everyone to remain peaceful. one th

who was at the fbi meeting today? >> reporter: we don't know for certain because the campaign did not release the names of those present. her lawyer david kendall was present and cheryl mills is a long- time advisor was present and we saw her at hillary clinton's residence after the meeting. cheryl mills was questioned by the fbi not too long ago about her knowledge of the e-mail server and we know from the new york times that eight members of the fbi and justice department questioning hillary clinton. >> jennifer you have a great vantage point. what do you make of the timing? >> look at the timing of the meeting on a holiday weekend. that is by design and not it by chance. if you are the hillary clinton campaign, you would want it to happen in a new's cycle when the rest of america is focusing on other things in the 4th of july weekend. that is not a coincidence. the timing is good for it the campaign if they wrap things up before the convention. it is notable. it is not clear if it was arranged after bill clinton's

because she wanted to get off the fbi. you know who got hurt worse by the fbi than anybody? burden bernie sanders because he was waiting for the fbi to make him the nominee, and it didn't work out! and he's the other one, you know. he copied my language a little bit, but he was starting to say with the superdelegates that the system is rigged, and you know what's happening? i just saw a poll, 22% of the bernie sanders voters are coming to trump. it's interesting. [ cheering ] >> i don't know. [ cheers and applause ] i don't know. who knows? who knows? >> we're having a good time. i thought it was one of the better speeches. hey, do i give a good speech? but i thought it was one of the better speeches. the place was packed. they never show how many people. can you imagine if i ever had an empty place? it would be the biggest story in the news business. the place was packed and everybody was having a great time considering the subject is no good because the subject is about our country and our country's in trouble. between the debt and between the joblessness and let me tell y

my -- i have the greatest admiration for the fbi. my grandfather was a career fbi agent. i'm here because we're mystified and confused by the fact pattern that you laid out and the conclusions that you reached. it seems that there are two standards. and there's no consequence for these types of activities and dealing in a careless way with classified information. it seems to a lot of us that the average joe, the average american, that if they had done what you laid out in your statement, that they'd be in handcuffs and they might be on their way to jail and they probably should. and i think there is a legitimate concern that there is a double standard. if your name isn't clinton or you're not part of the powerful elite that lady justice will act differently. it's a concern that lady justice will take off that blindfold and come to a different conclusion. hillary clinton created this mess. wasn't republicans. it wasn't anybody else. she made a very conscious decision on the very day that she started her senate confirmation, she set up and got a domain name. and set up a sy

>> to -- not to the fbi. not in a case we were working. >> did you review the documents where congressman jim jordan asked her specifically and she said, quote, there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails, either sent or received, end quote? >> i don't remember reviewing that particular testimony. i'm aware of that being said, though. >> did the fbi investigate her statements under oath on this topic? >> not to my knowledge. i don't think there has been a referral from congress. >> do you need a referral from congress to investigate her statements under oath? >> sure do. >> you'll have one. you'll have one in the next few hours. did hillary clinton break the law? ? >> in connection with her use of the e-mail server? my judgment is she did not. >> you're just not able to prosecute it, or did hillary clinton break the law? >> well, i don't want to give an overly lawyerly answer. the question i look at is there evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody violated a criminal statut

do you want to trust someone that the fbi director calls extremely careless. that's where is he going to go. keep pushing not only crooked hillary and lying hillary. that's going to be effective. this is going to be a rallying cry. fbi director comey's position is a ralliying cry for republicans who are feeling the fact that the clintons once again are following a different set of standards and the mere fact that you -- literally comey's comments today were prosecuting hillary clinton by basically calling her like a pathological liar. >> will comby's action today, kirsten, change any voters' minds. >> i don't know that there is that many persuadable voters at this point. you have people in the middle i don't know this is what they are going to be voting on persuadable issues. the issue of the rigged system resonated on the right and the left which is trump's strong suit i think applies here. if you look like i said before, type of people who get prosecuted for doing far less. hillary clinton, in fact, has spoken out about prosecuting chelsea manning and so if

fbi agent, think there is no case here. i'm sure it has happened but -- >> he's not talking about your attitude. he's saying what do you have to go into court with. >> that's what he's talking about. >> by the way, remember who jim comey is. he's a former deputy attorney general. he's a former united states attorney in new york and manhattan. he's been on the other side of the table many times making those judgments. he's uniquely situated to be able to -- >> uniquely situated in the administration, i think people will say, and that's where the politics come in. >> he has a tenure appointment. >> this is going to be parsed in every single solitary way including the twitter universe. errol, jeffrey, thank you. >>> donald trump is also going to take center stage after he continues to defend some tweeting of his own where people have questioned his judgment because they showed a six-pointed star. many saying the jewish star, the star of david. and hillary clinton would scatter hundred dollar bills. he's saying, are you kidding

no basis to believe she lied to the fbi. i'll speak with the clinton campaign for the first time since the decision was made not to prosecute the presumptive nominee. >>> black in the wrong place, the mother of a minnesota man fatally shot by police during a routine traffic stop says her son, was, quote, just black in the wrong place. the after math of the shooting streamed live on facebook. anger and protests are growing after the second police shooting of a black man in two days. >>> and meeting trump. donald trump meets with congressional republicans in an attempt to unite the party but clashes openly with some of them even as concerns grow about a possible convention coup. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> one deadly incident in louisiana. different situations, same result african-americans shot by police officers. president obama says the shootings are not isolated incidents and that all americans should be deeply troubled. these images are graphic. first caught on camera the video shows the time baton

the focus of the fbi director and the agents, the great agents of the fbi was not either on the foundation or on benghazi. melissa: yeah. >> that is interesting. a lot of press reports have said across all the networks that in fact that was part of the inquiry. apparently that was not part of the inquiry at all. melissa: peter johnson, jr., thanks so much for your insight. i want to bring back out to the couch. meghan, let me start with you. if you watched whole thing from the top because i know you did we've been glued to it, the tone at the top was very tough. he was going through, said it wasn't just one server and many servers and many different email administrators. we took all the time and found some deleted and some of them forsenically we will never get back because of the way they were deleted, it sounded very tough like he as ramping up to something. kind of astonishing, a lot of reaction how could you go through that whole thing and end, with, i don't think prosecutors could make the case? meghan: i completely thought she would be called for something at the end. i didn't think

well, we heard -- we've heard fbi director james comey lay out the fbi's case. he went into -- he went pain stakingly details on this. i think trying to not necessarily mitigate public outrage per se but trying to explain to the public what the process is. are you excited with the outcome from the fbi's point of view? >> well, i think really what the american people want, charles, is they want the same set of rules for everyone. whether you're on main street or on k straight or in washington d.c. and they're not seeing that. now, director comey, i have great respect for him. and as he went to lay out that case, it was all about, well, the prosecutors can't really prosecute with criminal intent. but what's -- what he did go on to say is the fact that hillary lied to the american people and that's a big word, but she said that she did not actually transmit any classified information. we know today that that was false. we know that based on this investigation not only was it false when she did it but when she repeatedly said she was not engaged in that. so i think

is the fbi prepared to look the other way? and i suspect that's what bill clinton was talking to loretta lynch about. i hope she was honest and forthright to say we're not having that conversation, mr. president. clearly the optics are just awful for the clinton campaign. >> david corn, one last question. this is about the latest nbc wall street journal poll that found 41% of respondent said that donald trump was more honest and straight forward. 25% said the same of hillary clinton. do you think giving this interview today with the fbi is going to hurt or help her image among those? >> i don't think it's going to have an impact either way. i think you'll have people like donald trump calling her crooked and people like david here speculating and kind of ins insinuating she's already guilty of committing a crime violating the es pe espionage act. it's a matter of intention and a matter of consequence. and we have yet to see any consequences here or any intentions. there are a lot of open questions. i can't speculate on what ha

but that's not what the fbi exists to do. the fbi exists to bring charges or not. so for, for them, you know, for him to come out and let me just back up and say, you know, what paul ryan says that no one is above the law. that's true. hillary clinton certainly shouldn't get any special treatment, she shouldn't get any worse treatment than anyone else would get either. i don't remember a time in history when the fbi director or when an attorney general has reviewed a case, decided that the evidence does not support bringing charges, and still make really reckless statements about an underlying individual's behavior, it's really just not appropriate, unless he's ready to back them up in court which obviously as he said today, he doesn't believe is appropriate. >> thank you very much, matt miller, former spokesman for the justice department. >>> coming up, carolina on their mind, we are here in charlotte where in just about three hours, president obama will be deplaning from air force one with hillary clinton. the first joint campaign appearance live right here on ms

the fbi director comey made perfectly clear she did. but what democrats got was that in no uncertain terms, james comey is standing by his decision that there was no intent to commit a crime. there was something for partners on both side of the aisle, but the fbi director stood out to me as the only hero in what was only otherwise a sad state of affairs. >> and we're forced to pivot and bring our viewers in on the other drama that's been taking place today. and that is concurrent can that hearing, drump has been on capitol hill today. he met with republicans in the house and he met with republicans in the senate. we have a member of the house standing by to tell us about the first meeting. in the second meeting, nicole, things did not go well, as trump called out some members of the senate on their loyalty or lack of it to him. >> that's right. with the senator jeff flake, is the confrontation you're talking about. i talked to someone who was in that first meting and i understand it went much better than the second. but to jeff flake, h