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How Speaker Paul Ryan has sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, requesting that he denied any classified information to Hillary Clinton for the rest of the twenties sixteen campaign. Let's find out more about Hillary Clinton, the email scandal and James Comey, the director of the FBI, testifying before Congress today. I want to bring it in
the thesis national security reporter for Bloomberg News. Thanks for joining us and the FISAI tell us a little bit about what is at stake here in terms of the sort of reputation of the FBI and the Justice Department. Hi. Thanks yeah. Today, UH, Director James Komey was under an
intense grilling from the Committee on Oversight Government Reform. He was answering a lot of questions about whether there was any kind of biased or political influence from Hillary Clinton the campaign on his decision not to bring about criminal charges over the use of private email while she was secretary, and UH call me reinforced his message from a couple of days ago when he said they would not bring about charges, repeating himself several times and saying that no
matter the circumstances, he would have reached the same conclusion. He spoke about how they had question Clinton some of his agents on Saturday, UH and found that she didn't really have an intent to you know, break any laws, and so again saying why he came to that conclusion.
Republican chairman of this committee, Jason Chavitz, said that he was mystified and confused, um and saying that there seems to be two standards for people who are safe, famous such as Hillary Clinton and an average, an average Joe. So again, they asked him, um, you know, was there any type of double standard? And if so, um, you know, was he did he take any bribes? Was there any kind of influence? And he kept saying no, there was no bias, and he dismissed any kind of accusations or
allegations that he was swayed in any kind of way. Oh, he was certainly steadfast on that. You know. It was a long testimony, and it's it's it's the story once again is in everybody's eye. But along in answering many questions, did he say something along the lines of he he did not want to leave the impression that in similar cases there would not be consequences that others might have
to face. Does that then give the critics some grounds for saying, well, hey, if other people might have consequences for this kind of action, why doesn't Hillary is it just because she's running for president and you guys don't want to upset the apple cart. That seems to be the sense, right, And you you heard that from some other public alotmakers saying that, you know, are you creating a precedent that you know, says Hillary Clinton becomes president,
she might be allowed to do the same thing. Or if there's an average person who were under the same kind of circumstances, uh, you know, high classified information, but wasn't as high profile as as Hillary Clinton, that you're saying that you know, she might be allowed he or she might be allowed to get away with something like this. And he said again and that you know, being able to establish whether the person actually wanted to break the law was part of what helped determine whether they were
going to bring about charges. And so that's what's making it um you know, sort of a intense, attense discussion intense time because there is a lot of discussion around the fact that you know, it is Hillary Clinton, and the timing of his announcement the other day, uh, two days ago, where he made the announcement and then shortly after that we had President Obama campaigning with her. Lu Clinton so again, so the you know, congressmen were asking,
you know, did you plan that timing? They were suspicious of how the events unfolded, and again because of Hilly Clinton being the presumptive Democratic nominee NEPSA. So you, thank you so very much for joining us on such a busy afternoon for you and your team in Washington. She's
national security reporter fort Bloomberg and News. Now we turned to Jennifer Jacobs, she's senior national political reporter for Bloomberg News, also joining us from Washington today, and Jennifer, certainly the BA may have declined to file any kind of charges again Hillary Clinton, but we can be pretty sure that Republicans, led by Donald Trump will be filing all kinds of charges. Uh, in their in their remarks over this. What are you
hearing so far? Yes, um, I know that that was a topic of of Donald Trump's meeting with some of the members of Congress this morning, and in fact, one member of Congress said he left that meeting saying that he's more confident in than ever that Republicans can defeat Hillary Clinton. Now, so it's definitely a point of confidence for Republicans and something that they planned to use on the campaign trail. Can you bring us up to date on the vice presidential candidates for Donald Trump as the
Republican candidate for president? Yes, So, who knows who he's going to choose? Um My sources familiar with the search have told me he's narrowed it down to five people that he intends to make up his mind, hopefully by the end of next week, but definitely before the convention. But he truly does not know yet who's he's going to pick. The vetting process continues, but in the meantime he seems to be having a lot of fun instead of sneaking around and doing covert meetings with people. He's
been very public about it. He had Sarah Palin tag along with him in Colorado Friday to a big fundraiser. He played golf on Saturday with Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana. On fourth of July, he had lunch in New Jersey with Joni Ernst, the senator from Iowa. Um in North Carolina, a big swing state. He had Tennessee Senator Bob Corker on stage with him and flying with him.
Then last night in Ohio, it was another audition at this time for new Grich the former speaker, and then he caught up with just Jeff Sessions in DC today. So he keeps tweeting about these meetings and talking about it with reporters. So he's just building the intrigue. Who knows whether he will pick any of these people are also it will be someone you know whose name hasn't even surfaced yet. But in the meantime, he's really stoking
the excitement over who he's going to pick. He certainly is um, is there any So what's what's the deadline? I mean, what how late can wait to tell us? Well, he needs to for sure at the convention, and we're eleven days out from the convention. But I'm told that he will make up his mind next week. He has not decided where he will announce, but he does want
to make a big announcement at the end of the week. Um. And you know, in the meantime, he really seems to be enjoying himself, and it seems like it's almost like he's running promotions for a big primetime TV show. By dropping all these hints, he's testing to see if these prospects can really rile up a crowd and how how
the geop bass reacts to them. But also, even if he doesn't pick obviously won't pick most of these people, he's showcasing that he has the ability to have elected officials, establishment Republicans respected people willing to stand up with him. Joni Earns, for example. You know, she has said that she's not being officially vetted, so it sounds like she's crossed off our speculation list. But just by associating with her, she was the first female combat veteran elected to the U. S. Senate.
Just by having her to lunch and be in public about that. And perhaps Donald Trump helps himself with female voters and with military members that sort of thing. So just by associating with these people, he's trying to promote himself in the campaign. Jennifer, can we just talk about money for a second, because Donald Trump what he raised more than twenty six million dollars through online and male solicitations in June, plus another twenty five million at Republican
National Committee events. But that's less than Hillary Clinton. She's raised sixty eight and a half million during the same time period. Are we just going to see increasing amounts of fundraising and as the GOP fundraising machine working. Yeah, so Donald Trump is really really proud of that fifty one million number that was for both the campaign and for the Goop parties, even though you're right it was
much less than Hillary Clinton. But he pointed out he was ramping up, he was just becoming the presumptive nominee. He was just getting his fundraising operation going. And for him to raise that much money in such a short amount of time, they really started trying new tactics, doing emails, these mass emails to Americans asking for small donations. He got his sons involved. Um people really respond to his children, to Ivanka, to Eric, to Don Jr. And so he
was having his son's send email solicious solicitations. He's been advertising on Facebook, so he's he's just starting to branch out. And he told members of Congress this morning in their closed door meeting that he expects his July number to
be much bigger than his June number. So, inside the Trump campaign and outside, when you talk to people on the Hill, uh are they I mean, Donald Trump continues to say things that maybe to light Democrats because I think they're so terrible and outrageous and will turn off voters, but they also seem to annoy Republicans because they're off message, and they seem to be concerned that Donald Trump has a hard time controlling what he says too much shooting
from the hip. What are you hearing right? Um? I talked to several members of Congress after their meetings, and h Read Ripple from Wisconsin said he's still not backing Trump. He said the reaction in that meeting this morning was muted. UM. But Trent Franks from Arizona, UH congressman from Arizona, said he was a vociferous opponent to Donald Trump. He's now one of his most committed backers. So it's it's just you know, I was I was told in this meeting
this morning. Donald Trump did mention that fifty one million that he raised. People raised some concerns that said, can we trust you to follow through with these promises that you're making on the campaign trail? Will you reform wealth the welfare system? Will you help us defeat isis? Will you help us secure the border? And his answers to these members of Congress this morning, according to some of
the members, was very satisfying. So for the most part, many of these members of Congress left these meetings and told us that they felt pretty good about it. There were some sense moments in the in the meeting with the senators, um uh, we're hearing. The Washington Post reported on that, But for the most part, it sounds like
they're building unity. People who didn't support him before are now telling us that they're starting to come on board, and they'll being They're very confident in him, in him. Thank you very much for spending time with us and illuminating the battle for the presidency. Jennifer Jacobs National senior now sational political reporter for Bloomberg News. You're listening to taking stock him pim Fox my co host Kathleen Hayes, and this is Bloomberg