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Speaker 1: And now it's time for our daily Bloomberg labreef exploring

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Speaker 1: legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg Lahoe Student

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Speaker 1: Grosso and Michael Best discussed why a judge ordered the

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Speaker 1: unsealing of an FBI warrant used in the Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: email probe. They speak with Michael vettis a partner at

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Speaker 1: Steptoe and Johnson. Why don't we start by talking about

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Speaker 1: what exactly the search warrant says, now that it's been unsealed.

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Speaker 1: What was the basis for the FBI going into these emails? Essentially,

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Speaker 1: when they were going through Anthony Weiner's laptop, did they

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Speaker 1: they saw header information on emails indicating that there were

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Speaker 1: emails on the laptop belonging to Wiener's wife, whom Aberdeen

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Speaker 1: with the Clinton aid uh And the rationale in the

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Speaker 1: affidavit to the search warrant was that we know that

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Speaker 1: between two thousand nine and two thousand thirteen, Aberdeen and

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Speaker 1: Clinton sent thousands of emails to one another, and that

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Speaker 1: a large number of those emails containing class fied information.

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Speaker 1: That's what they learned from the the investigation that had

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Speaker 1: gone on into whether Clinton had violated any law in

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Speaker 1: r handling of classified information, and they said that they

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Speaker 1: found emails from Aberdeen between Abodeen and Clinton on Wiener's

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Speaker 1: laptop during that same period. Therefore, UH, there was probable

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Speaker 1: cause to believe that some of those emails contained classified information. Now,

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Speaker 1: the attorney who requested the unsealing of this, he said

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Speaker 1: that he was appalled when he saw what was in

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Speaker 1: this application. Why didn't the FBI disclose to Judge Fox

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Speaker 1: that Aberdeen's lawyers had already turned over all relevant emails

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Speaker 1: on Aberdeen's laptop and BlackBerry. I think that the really

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Speaker 1: the only legally important question is whether the affidavit established

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Speaker 1: probable cause to believe that there would be evidence of

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Speaker 1: a crime on the laptop, And in my opinion, it

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Speaker 1: does because the classified information of the emails that were

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Speaker 1: previously discovered, which you know, technically is a violation of

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Speaker 1: the Espionage Act. UH. The FBI director in the summer

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Speaker 1: said that no reasonable prosecutor would actually bring a case

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Speaker 1: even if there was technically a violation. That doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that there wasn't evidence of a crime on the laptop.

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Speaker 1: It just, you know, it may mean that they were

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Speaker 1: unlikely to find any additional information beyond what they had

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Speaker 1: already found, but it doesn't mean that there wasn't evidence

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Speaker 1: of of a crime on the laptop. As Michael ved

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Speaker 1: is a partner at Steptoe and Johnson, speaking with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Lahouse student Grasso and Michael Best. You can listen to

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