Wolf Blitzer Grills Hillary Clinton Spox Brian Fallon on Email Report - She’s Got Something to Hide

[NWCorona]

When Wolf turns on you it's bad news.

[cali]

1. He pretends the fbi investigation is just a review

He has the gall to say that the state department review wasn't legitimate and that it arose out of anti-Clinton bias.

Wanker

[NWCorona]

2. Wolf should have called him out on that as well.

[Baobab]

21. Does this remind people of Iraq and Bagdad Bob?

nt

[Aerows]

29. Not to mention conflating this with the Benghazi hearings

which had shit all to do with the fact that she had an unsecured server sitting in her basement bathroom closet and conducted business of national security on it.

[JudyM]

4. Any defense will do.

[kstewart33]

31. Fallon did an outstanding job.

Clinton and her aides have been questioned several times including various Republican-controlled House committees and the Justice Department wherein Clinton is waiting to be interviewed.

Good that Fallon pointed all of that out.

As for Colin Powell cooperating, he declined the request to provide all of his State Dept emails.

[scscholar]

32. This. Compared to Stephanopoulos...

this guy is a Jedi.

[IdaBriggs]

47. 38 lawsuits and counting. They will be answering questions for a long time.

It's what happens when you screw up in Washington - lawyer up.

The funny part is that she thinks she doesn't need to be accountable to the different departments.

Oh, well. Indictments ought to clear up some of her confusion.

[JudyM]

3. There is an ongoing review by DOJ? I thought it was still at the FBI and with the 2 I.G.'s.

Wolf did a decent job here.

For those who don't have time to watch -- Clinton's reasons: "prioritizing" the DOJ review, questions raised about whether the State I.G.'s investigation was based on anti-Clinton animus. Also, that she did a good job under fire by the Benghazi rethugs' investigation.

[KoKo]

20. He didn't mention the FBI Investigation...but, kept saying "Justice Dept

Review." So, I'm puzzled, also. I'm guessing that the FBI has turned what it found over to Justice and she is going to be called to testify there?

[beaglelover]

23. Um......the FBI is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Justice.

[KoKo]

25. So..are you saying that Comey has finished and turned it over to Justice

Department? That would be significant given the upcoming Primaries.

[leveymg]

26. The FBI will issue its own report as will the Intel Community IG.

The FBI report will be reviewed by the DOJ before it is released, but I doubt they'll dare mess with it. They could take their sweet time reviewing it though. In any case, I strongly suspect both reports will come out any later than a few weeks before the Convention. Have to settle things down and herd the cats before the delegates start voting.

[KoKo]

35. Yes..there's that!

I hear you!

[Fawke Em]

27. I'm gonna guess that "Dept. of Justice" tested better than "FBI."

DoJ sounds less imposing.

[KoKo]

36. Maybe..but Fallon never mentioned the FBI and gave impression

that it was already Up to the Dept. of Justice where Hillary would need to appear.

Something is UP...just don't know quite what it is ...but, Fallon gave his interview very late this afternoon...EST.

He skipped over the FBI Investigation and went to the DOJ right away. Given he lied when the news broke yesterday about Hillary's Server from the SD-IG where he ignored it to reporters...with Spin...the difference late this afternoon was significant.

[AzDar]

5. K & R

[thesquanderer]

6. What a terrible attempt at defense.

If this is the best they've got, it's worse than I thought.

[beac]

8. Indeed.

Repeatedly saying "personal email" as if it were a synonym for "personal SERVER" is pretty pathetic.

[Bob41213]

7. Did Wolf ever say it's an INVESTIGATION?

I wanted to smack him every time I heard him mention "this review."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. do they teach classes in obfuscation and not answering

the question asked, but rephrasing it and simply saying what you want to say?

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. When you deal with PR folks

I do...this is part of the job description

[HereSince1628]

34. Some call them spin doctors, I called them truth-slayers

It's always shoveling shit and finding evidence of a pony within the pile.

[NWCorona]

13. Most definitely

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Ok there is a whole new narrative

Underway. This is from media analysis.

[NWCorona]

14. What's your take?

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. My take is the big boys (and it is mostly boys)

Got a memo, or heard something at the watering hole on background. That is my take.

[NWCorona]

16. You'd have to wonder what is being said behind the scenes as this was like a light switch.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. It started last week

I got my suspicions. The IG report though solidified that. I know I am ghoulish. But really that airplane now and all the time was a way to avoid it

[unc70]

18. Agree. Comey's statement a signal

The FBI investigation was far enough along that the DS IG report could be finished, with the IC one close behind. The interviews are mostly done, so a lot of the FBI's case has been revealed to those involved.

I think Clinton and her circle are rattled, pushing ahead while totally panicked inside. They do not have control of the situation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. No tjey do not

I wonder how soon for the one on one with her lawyer

[me b zola]

22. ^This is my take on it^

I remain dubious about a potential indictment, but it sure feels like something is coming down the pike.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Something is coming and I got my suspicions of what.

But the tone media wise is very different. Hell, even NPR was talking with Zogby today about the platform committee... in a balanced way.

[Barack_America]

30. I don't think the State IG would have been so critical...

...if, ultimately, there wasn't evidence that her emails, and the classified info contained therein, ended up in very wrong hands.

[KoKo]

37. I agree..and also wonder about a wider Investigation....

The FBI Confiscated the Clinton Foundation Server for the time period when Hillary was SOS.

Brian Pagliano (now under Immunity) set up the Server in Chappaqua for Clinton Foundation and Hillary set up her e-mail on that Server with her State Dept. Address and maybe other Address and Huma Abedin and a couple others corresponded through that Server (Set up for Clinton Foundation).

There maybe is much more that FBI has..but, is concentrated on Hillary's SOS E-Mails and that's what they are Going For....For Now.......?

[felix_numinous]

12. K&R!

Definitely a change in the wind when Wolf Blitzer gets the scent.

[jalan48]

28. Hillary is sinking faster than the Titanic.

She should bow out of the race and let Bernie focus on Trump. It's the right thing to do for the Party.

[Uncle Joe]

33. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, NWCorona.

[leveymg]

38. Yes , thank you again! You bring a great deal of value to this board.

[oberliner]

39. Strange how these crazy RW sites become popular here as long as they are anti-Hillary

That Lenny Brook YouTube page where this video is hosted is a site to behold.

[NWCorona]

41. I know right! The nerve of Wolf and Brian Fallon to allow themselves to be hosted on that site.

[oberliner]

42. They had no say in the matter

It's up to the people posting the videos here to decide where they want to post from and link to.

[NWCorona]

43. You thought I was serious?

The host is irrelevant as the video was purely CNN content.

[oberliner]

44. Why would a far RW YouTube user host that video?

And why would that be the host you would use when posting?

Surely, they must be other options.

[NWCorona]

45. Not at the time no.

[oberliner]

46. Fair enough

My more general point (and I wonder if you will agree) is that it seems like RW sources are used here at times, which is kind of odd.

[NWCorona]

48. I can agree with that.

[jwirr]

40. The way this is hitting all over the media I get the impression

that the media is a bit angry at being led astray?