End in sight for FBI probe into Clinton’s email server?

Clinton sat down with the Federal Bureau of Investigation just days after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, walked across a hot airport tarmac in Phoenix for an impromptu meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Lynch’s husband, who had just landed.

It could take weeks or longer to reach a decision, but news that Mrs Clinton, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, had been questioned in the J. Edgar Hoover Building three weeks before her party’s convention quickly spread. The private, unplanned meeting between Bill Clinton and Lynch comes at a time when the Justice Department should have completed its examination of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server for her emails as secretary of state. The FBI as a matter of course seeks to interview individuals central to an investigation before concluding its work.

That desire to retain Lynch could, however, becomes problematic, as illustrated by the recent controversy over the revelation of a secret meeting between former president Bill Clinton and Lynch on a Phoenix tarmac, even as there is an ongoing federal investigation into Hillary’s use of a private email server while she was serving as secretary of state.

On Saturday, Clinton repeated what she has said in the past. Vice President Joe Biden will reinforce the message Friday in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with Clinton at his side. So pervasive has the image been that her opponents have only to utter buzzwords like “Whitewater” – the name of the Clintons’ failed land deal in which neither was implicated in wrongdoing – to invoke the image of what Trump terms, “Crooked Hillary”. And the timing of her credibility campaign is no accident. And Graham is endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton’s plan for no-fly zones in Syria. Agents had earlier interviewed top Clinton aides including her former State Department chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and Huma Abedin, a longtime aide who now is the vice chairwoman of Clinton’s campaign.

FILE – In this June 7, 2016, file photo, former President Bill Clinton, left, stands on stage with his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, after she spoke during a presidential primary election night rally in NY. “I don’t know anyone who hasn’t”.

Republican Trump also suffers from a lack of trust, stemming from opposite circumstances: his political inexperience and impulsive style.

Clinton’s campaign did not comment on the meeting between Lynch and the former president. The White House says Obama will say he believes Clinton has the “character, the toughness, skills, and experience” to be president. “I know that some have nonetheless viewed the meeting in a different light”, Clinton said.

Perez repeated Clinton’s own reasoning that in the quarter century since her husband was first elected president, some accusations against her have stuck, rightly or wrongly. Now we’re going to see if they were actually honest in their selfless, and supposedly single-minded effort to save America, or if it was just a lot of political posturing in an effort to prop up Hillary Clinton.

Chris Cilizza, who discusses the situation after the jump, notes that she does not have the 2,383 pledged delegates necessary for the Democratic presidential nomination.