We often switch to PBS from Chris Matthews - same time in our market - so I was taken aback.

The Koch brothers influence?

Also, I understand the markings were in the body of the letter and not in a header in big letters like it is supposed to be. So actually she received ZERO Classified emails.

not sure exactly why, as opposed to the header.

requested given that you have now been taken to school on the matter?

I have. I hope many more would. She is the best bet (except for Joy whom you should email as well) to break through the false narrative being pushed by msm (Rachel is during prime time).

Comey admitted it at the hearing...she should just make a commercial with his remarks and run it.

Sadly that was in response to clarifying questions from Democrats and has not been replayed in the sound bytes.

And two of the three were deemed not classified by the State Department.

That leaves a total of ONE email out of 30,000 which was deemed classified after the fact because one or more paragraphs had a (c) embedded in them, yet was never properly marked as classified.

Mountains out of tiny molehills.

I seem to recall the committee asking Comey if he was aware that the State Dept. had determined that those emails were erroneously marked, and Comey's answer was NO, HE WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS.

Why can't the salient points be presented more clearly?

They know she has been saying since summer of last year "Marked Classified". They know the three emails were incorrectly marked. Doesn't matter. If they give Trump all the negative coverage and don't give her some too it starts to look like their in the tank.

when Hillary received them. Comey admitted it later - AFTER the damage was done and he was corrected by the DoS.

Clinton did make some claims that were not quite accurate, but they weren't far from the truth and there is no reason to think that she was trying to deceive anyone. She did say that she neither sent nor received any emails that were marked classified, and that turned out be a little inaccurate. There were 3 that did have markings in the body of the email that, perhaps mistakenly, identified some of the content as classified. Hardly the crime of the century to have overlooked three such emails. Perhaps her mistake was a result of her lawyers accurately assured her that none of the emails had the standard classified header.

She also said that she neither sent nor received emails that contained classified material. In Comey's opinion, dozens of emails contained classified information even though they were not marked as classified. But opinions on what is actually classified can differ, and so the "fact checkers" shouldn't just assume that Comey's opinion is correct. Moreover, it would not be surprising at all if Clinton, perhaps speaking somewhat loosely in her public statements, was using the expression "classified material" to mean "material marked classified." And then we are back to just three, improperly marked emails.

All of this is much ado about nothing IMHO.

without eyes glazing over.

Is that more work than journalists can handle? Comey couldn't continue to spread his anti-Hillary talking points under direct questioning from the Dems.

- NO e-mails were marked classified in the proper way. No header or subject saying "classified."

- 110 were deemed "classified" by the people conducting the FBI inquiry. They don't say what departments thought they were classified. They were not marked in any way.

- 3 were "marked" classified by containing a (c) in the body of the text. Comey agreed in the house hearing that it would be reasonable that a person might not notice/understand those marks. 2 of those have been acknowledged by the state department to have been mis-marked.

So it's not good to lead with "only 3," as anyone you want to persuade will respond with "110". Then they'll add "you're lying," because misunderstandings and oversights are not part of our political discourse, it seems.

... for unbiased reporting. I saw the DeJardin report, and was struck by it because it was the FIRST time someone on the Newshour didn't say "she lied." BUT, Lisa did report that 110 e-mails were deemed classified even though they were not "marked." It is not known what department of government thought they were classified. Anyway. The point is that the FBI labeled 110 e-mails "classified," while admitting that only 3 were "marked" classified, and 2 of those were wrongly marked classified. In the larger scheme of things it's not important, except if you're canvassing and find a fence sitter.

which is technically classified until the day itself (and then becomes public record)

Is this part of is 16 dimensional chess crap?

him. THis is something not one GOP Toady of M$M will point out to viewers as it shows Clinton spoke truthfully when she said she did not send or receive anything that was marked classified.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/7/1546038/-Comey-tanks-key-GOP-talking-point-admits-classified-materials-were-not-properly-marked

classification. Did they even view the Cummings questioning of Comey?