Daily Beast: Obama Will Address Hillary’s Email Scandal on First Ever ‘Fox News Sunday'

[antigop]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/08/obama-will-address-hillary-s-email-scandal-on-first-ever-fox-news-sunday.html

Wallace predicted that the president’s remarks concerning his former secretary of state’s ongoing email troubles will generate headlines.

“I think where he makes the most news is about Hillary Clinton,” Wallace said—an assessment that is likely to be greeted with apprehension at Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn. “He hasn’t been asked about it in awhile. Back in October, on 60 Minutes, he said she had not jeopardized national security with her private email server. Since then, we’ve found out that 2,000 of her emails were classified and 22 were top secret. So could he say flatly that she didn’t give away America’s secrets?”

Wallace continued: “In addition, we talked about the FBI investigation. Can he assure the American public, and does he direct his people, that any decision on the Clinton emails be a legal decision, not a political decision? And he makes some news there.”

[grasswire]

1. whoa nt

[antigop]

2. so why would he go on Fox News? I don't get it. nt

[upaloopa]

5. It's the belly of the beast. The source of lots of anti Hillary lies posted on this board.

The messengers from the right who aide Bernie during primary season here but would tear him a new one if he ever wins the nomination.

It is the enemy of my enemy is my friend kind of thing right now.

[NWCorona]

8. So are you saying he's trying to sabotage Hillary?

Obama and Bernie aren't afraid of fox

[upaloopa]

13. Don't reply to me with "So" then add your words as if they were mine

That is not honorable

[NWCorona]

14. It was a question lol

[upaloopa]

22. I wasn't impressed

[NWCorona]

23. Ok

[awake]

7. It will be about the words came out of Obama's mouth not anything Fake News said

Obama agreed to the interview, it will be interesting to hear what our Demorcatic President has to say about a topic that has been talked about a lot on this site.

[BernieforPres2016]

10. I think Chris Wallace is a better and fairer journalist than anybody on MSNBC

I think it is perfectly reasonable to go on Wallace's show. He is not O'Reilly or Hannity, he's an actual journalist.

[yourpaljoey]

4. I will add a whoa to your whoa

[djean111]

3. Or it will be a great big free campaign ad for Hillary. Not expecting much from the guy who

enthusiastically endorsed Debbie Wasserman-DINO, who openly supports her GOP cronies down here, against Democrats.
This campaign has really redefined "Democrat", IMO, used to be a set of principles, now it is just a decal, a font, and a lot of money and favors. And the principles have been shat upon. Inconvenient things, they are.

[yourpaljoey]

6. Good way to deflect from her felonies, if the questions are 'just right'

[grasswire]

9. red meat for Republicans from FOX

Viewership for this will be very high. They can't wait to start shredding her skin from her bones and humiliating her in every possible way at the polls.

Which is why she should not be the candidate. The right will turn out huge numbers of voters to vote against her, and the left and independents have no enthusiasm to vote FOR her.

Democrats cannot win without the left and left-leaning independents.

[procon]

11. Just saunter into the belly of the beast and bell the cat!

Man's got stones.

[pdsimdars]

20. Not quite like that. . . .he's a lot "Republican" so it's "friendly territory"

[procon]

21. Oh noes... it's da purity police. nt

[KPN]

12. Nothing Obama says on Fox News Sunday will hurt Hillary.

The people who watch that show already hate Hillary. She's not going to lose any support from this.

And I'm a Bernie supporter by the way.

[Barack_America]

18. Except that he wouldn't block any indictment suggested by the FBI.

And I would have to imagine this would be the question posed to him that he would actually answer.

If he were to speculate (read:interfere) on what the FBI has or has not found, I would be beyond disappointed.

[KPN]

19. You are right. There is that

but I doubt any Dems will watch the interview, and even if he says that, the FBI and DOJ would still have to level charges and indict -- I doubt that will happen.

Though it wouldn't hurt my feelings if it did -- as I said, I'm a Bernie supporter.

[paulthompson]

15. Uh-oh!

Obama doesn't have a good history of comments on on-going investigations. He tried to protect David Petraeus, and last year tried to protect Clinton. Also, note yesterday when he commented that Clinton is qualified to be president, another defense of Clinton to help her against Sanders.

I expect to see more "nothing to see here, move along" spin from him.

I'm working on a big timeline about the Clinton e-mail scandal. Here are some timeline entries I made on his last comments.

October 8, 2015: In a 60 Minutes interview, President Obama calls Clinton's use of a private e-mail server a "mistake." But he also says, "I don't think it posed a national security problem. ... This is not a situation in which America's national security was endangered." He adds that, "We don't get an impression that there was purposely efforts ... to hide something or to squirrel away information," However, several days later a White House spokesperson says Obama will wait for the Justice Department investigation's determination about that. Politico will later comment, "Agents and retired FBI personnel told journalists the comments were inappropriate given the fact that the FBI inquiry was ongoing." (The Associated Press, 10/13/2015)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20151013/business/310139975/
(CNN, 10/13/2015)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/13/politics/obama-hillary-clinton-email-server-60-minutes/
(Politico, 3/9/2016)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/03/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-fbi-email-investigation-220500

October 13, 2015: The White House backtracks on President Obama's assertion that while Clinton's use of a private e-mail server was a "mistake," he doesn't "think it posed a national security problem." White House press secretary Josh Earnest says that Obama's comments were made "based on what we publicly know now." Earnest adds that those comments "certainly [were] not an attempt, in any way, to undermine the importance or independence of the ongoing FBI investigation." (CNN, 10/13/2015)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/13/politics/obama-hillary-clinton-email-server-60-minutes/

October 16, 2015: The New York Times reports that FBI investigating Clinton's use of a private server are upset with President Obama's recent comments that he thinks Clinton made a mistake but didn't endanger national security. Although the White House backtracked later, "Those statements angered FBI agents who have been working for months to determine whether Mrs. Clinton's e-mail setup did in fact put any of the nation's secrets at risk, according to current and former law enforcement officials. Investigators have not reached any conclusions about whether the information on the server was compromised or whether to recommend charges, according to the law enforcement officials. But to investigators, it sounded as if Mr. Obama had already decided the answers to their questions and cleared anyone involved of wrongdoing." Ron Hosko, who was a senior FBI official until he retired in 2014, says, "Injecting politics into what is supposed to be a fact-finding inquiry leaves a foul taste in the FBI's mouth and makes them fear that no matter what they find, the Justice Department will take the president's signal and not bring a case." (The New York Times, 10/16/2015)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/us/politics/obamas-comments-on-clinton-emails-collide-with-fbi-inquiry.html
An unnamed upset FBI agent at the Washington Field Office, where the investigation is based, says, "We got the message. ... Obama's not subtle sometimes." (The New York Observer, 10/19/2015)
http://observer.com/2015/10/hillarys-email-troubles-are-far-from-over/

[antigop]

16. "nothing to see here,move along"

Yes, that's what I'm expecting.

But why Fox News to make such an "announcement"?

[restorefreedom]

17. what could he possibly say that is newsworthy?

this will proceed as it is supposed to, of course my finger is not on the scale, blah blah

i won't be wasting my time