• [O'Reilly Factor] The political fallout from the FBI news

    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 2 05:00:00 2016
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    Hi, I'm Eric Bolling in for Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us. Bill
    will join us in just a moment and throughout the hour with tonight's
    breaking news story. Stunning new developments in the Hillary Clinton
    email scandal, as the FBI announced its reviewing newly discovered
    emails that could have a direct bearing on that case. The FBI's action resulting from a separate investigation into disgraced former
    Congressman Anthony Weiner, the husband of top Clinton aide Huma
    Abedin.

    Weiner is under federal investigation for allegedly sexting an under-
    aged girl in North Carolina. As part of the inquiry, the bureau seize
    devices from both Weiner and Huma Abedin where discovered numerous
    emails sent and received by Abedin apparently relevant to the Clinton
    email investigation. The FBI is not releasing many details yet and it
    is unclear if any of those emails were between Abedin and Mrs. Clinton
    or if any of them contained classified information. But Donald Trump
    and his supporters certainly praised that decision.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    TRUMP: As you might have heard earlier today, the FBI --


    (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

    After discovering new emails is reopening their investigation into
    Hillary Clinton.

    (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

    I have great respect for the FBI for writing this wrong. The American
    people fully understand her corruption and we hope all, all justice
    will finally be served.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    BOLLING: And just a short time ago in Iowa, Hillary Clinton addressed
    the news for the first time.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    CLINTON: The director himself has said he doesn't know whether the
    emails referenced in his letter are significant or not. I'm confident,
    whatever they are, will not change the conclusion reached in July.
    Therefore, it's imperative that the bureau explain this issue and
    question whatever it is without any delay.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    BOLLING: Now, you may remember that on July 5th, the FBI Director James
    Comey recommended no criminal charges be brought against Mrs. Clinton
    despite saying she was, quote, "Extremely careless in her handling of classified information." Then over the Labor Day Hollywood, he released documents that lead Bill O'Reilly to question Comey's entire handling
    of the case. Take a look.

    (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

    BILL O'REILLY, FOX NEWS HOST, "THE O'REILLY FACTOR": I have revised my
    opinion on Director James Comey because he released some very important information about Hillary Clinton last Friday afternoon before labor
    when few would see it. That was a political move. And even though I
    gave Mr. Comey the benefit of the doubt in the email investigation
    itself. I can no longer do so. He has lost all credibility. I mean,
    when he loses me, and he lost me, Mr. Comey. I'm gone. All right?

    I don't believe you should be running that agency any longer. I don't
    believe that this is an honest investigation. I believe that this is
    political. I believe they never wanted to find out what happened. It's
    obvious the FBI booted the investigation. I believe intentionally now.
    The campaign itself, the Hillary Clinton machine itself is admitting
    this is bad and they have got to do something and Comey doesn't think
    it has anything to do with the investigation?

    As everyone knows, Hillary Clinton did not tell the truth about her
    email. With the exception of one person. James Comey.

    (END VIDEO CLIP)

    BOLLING: Joining us now on the phone is Bill O'Reilly. So, Bill, we
    just heard your analysis of FBI Director James Comey. How did you know
    Comey booted the investigation?

    O'REILLY (on the phone): Well, it was quite apparent that you have a
    series of events and they are -- it is circumstantial evidence, but so
    much circumstantial evidence that Comey did not want to make this
    indictment. But the big smoking gun is that Comey did not call for a
    grand jury. I have spoken to dozens of FBI agents both retired and in
    the service now to a man they say that is extremely unusual in a
    complicated case like this. So now what you have is you have a
    political portion of this today and then you have a legal portion.
    Let's take the politics first, Eric.

    If you look at the new FOX News poll, the enthusiasm deficit between
    Trump and Clinton is about eight percent. Seven percent. That means
    that seven of Trump supporters are more enthusiastic to vote than
    Hillary Clinton. Keep that in mind. Anything like this erodes
    enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton. All right? Now her hard core people are
    still going to vote for her. But we are talking Independents. And we're
    talking Democrats who don't particularly like or trust her. So, that
    enthusiasm level drops. And what happens then? Lower turnout. All
    right? So that's what happened today politically.

    So, Trump seizes upon this and his -- if he doesn't blow it in the next
    10 days, which he could, his message should be she is corrupt and if
    you elect her, there is a chance she may be indicted while she is the
    president because the situation is fluid. It's fluid. Comey made a huge
    mistake by not calling the grand jury. Because the grand jury folks,
    regular Americans would have then heard the evidence that Comey himself
    decided wasn't enough to indict because she didn't mean it.

    Now, let's get on to what was found today. Huma Abedin is one of
    Hillary's best friends. So you've got to know that they were emailing
    all the time, all the time. She had three servers and -- no, she had
    one server and Weiner had three. You got to figure that Abedin passed
    some of Hillary's stuff on to her husband Weiner. All right? That's why Weiner's involved. So the FBI goes in to investigate Weiner on this 15 -year-old girl thing and they see stuff from Huma Abedin coming to
    Weiner about Hillary Clinton. You have to assume this.

    This is an assumption I'm making. And then they go back and they look
    at Abedin's phone and they see unbelievable amounts of emails from
    Clinton to Huma. Now, if you're the FBI and this is all benign, has
    nothing to do with national security or top secret, you don't do
    anything. If it's just what are you doing tonight? What kind of dress
    are you going to wear or look at this, Anthony, Hillary Clinton has a
    good idea to do X, Y, and Z, that's not going to rise. So you know
    there is something in there. Has to be.

    BOLLING: Yes.

    O'REILLY: Because Comey would never put his butt on the line. Now,
    here's the kicker. I have talked to a very, very influential FBI guy
    the other day. He said there is almost a mutiny within the FBI over
    James Comey's behavior in this investigation. He says that so many
    agents are angry that Comey knows he has lost all credibility within
    the agency. And that if he didn't put this out that they were going to
    go public with it. And that Comey's career would have been done.

    He had to put it out. That's not saying that she is going to be
    charged. I'm not saying any of that. What I am saying is that the FBI
    rank and file do not like the way James Comey conducted this
    investigation, do not feel it rose to the FBI standards, and this new
    stuff is enough to open, reopen the investigation, which is devastating
    for the Clinton campaign.

    BOLLING: Devastating. Devastating. First of all on a scale of one to
    10, I would like you to weigh in politically forget legally for a
    second but politically scale of one to 10, you have got to push it up
    towards the eight, nine, ten area especially just 11 days left to go
    before the election.

    O'REILLY: It's hard to say because the candidates are so polarizing but
    I do -- as I said in the beginning, I think it's going to suppress
    turnout for Hillary Clinton. People are just going to, you know, I have
    had enough. I don't want to vote for Trump, but I'm not going to go
    vote for her. And she needs a big turnout in states like Pennsylvania
    and New Hampshire. The other thing is that politically speaking, Trump
    now can run with this for 10 days. And raise the specter of absolutely
    chaos if Hillary Clinton is elected and the FBI then finally does
    convene a grand jury because it's reopened now.

    They can do that now. And the pressure is going to build on them. And
    the final thing is, the far left is going crazy. They're going nuts.
    They're accusing Comey of all kinds of things. Comey was their best
    friend up until three hours ago. Now he is the devil.

    BOLLING: Yes.

    O'REILLY: And you are seeing this unbelievably visceral reaction. I
    must say that Hillary Clinton was smart today in which she did. That
    was a smart play. Hey, get it out there. Because she knows the FBI is
    not going to get it out there.

    BOLLING: This is a very interesting point you make that she did go to
    the podium. She said, first of all, she said that the emails are
    factored in already. A lot of people on the right would disagree with
    that but it's very interesting that both Hillary Clinton and Podesta
    today have said get these emails out. Let the American public know. But
    so was Pence.

    O'REILLY: Yes. That's a smart play because they know they're not going
    to get them out.

    BOLLING: But one of them is going to lose in that. One of them is going
    to be a loser in that. If they bring them out now, someone is going to
    lose. Who loses?

    O'REILLY: Well, they can't. They can't. If you are investigative
    agency, you have to compare those emails to other things that she said
    Hillary Clinton has said. You've got to do a whole bunch of things
    before you arrive at any conclusion. You can't just throw them out
    there. That's trial by meeting. But Hillary Clinton now, you know, what
    can they do? They're going to have to say look, we didn't do anything,
    we want this all out, hoping that they can go up to Election Day and
    people will buy that. And I'm not saying whether it's true or not. I'm
    not. I'm just saying that right now Trump has the advantage if the
    Trump campaign then zeros in on corruption, corruption, corruption,
    corruption, in the next 10 days.

    BOLLING: You know, very interesting you say that because we have
    Kellyanne Conway, senior advisor to the Trump campaign coming up. Bill,
    I want to say thank you very much. We're going to check back in with
    you in a little bit later in the program to get your assessment of how
    this story will develop over the weekend. Looking forward to it.


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    BREAKING NEWS
    In other news, somehow Crooked Hillary still isn't in prison...

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  • From FPP@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Wed Nov 2 07:47:39 2016
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    On 2016-11-02 10:00:00 +0000, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> said:

    Stunning new developments in the Hillary Clinton
    email scandal, as the FBI announced its reviewing newly discovered
    emails that could have a direct bearing on that case.

    Where did they say that? They said they MAY be "pertinent"... they
    never said a single thing about "direct bearing".

    What a load of shit!
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    REP. JOHN DUNCAN (R): "Do you understand that great numbers of people
    feel, now, that there's one standard of justice for the Clintons and
    another for regular people?"

    COMEY: "Yeah, I've heard that a lot... it's NOT TRUE, but I've heard
    it a lot."

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