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Co-Host Meghan McCain Omits Yesterday's ProPublica Report That Huma Abedin Did Not Forward Thousands Of Clinton Emails To Husband
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Fox's Outnumbered co-host Meghan McCain claimed that former Clinton staffer Huma Abedin forwarded “emails from her boss Hillary Clinton to her husband Anthony Weiner,” failing to note a May 8 ProPublica report that found that “much of what” FBI Director James Comey said during a hearing last month about Abedin's email practices “was inaccurate.” The report states, “FBI officials have privately acknowledged that Comey misstated what Abedin did and what the FBI investigators found.” FBI officials acknowledged that “it was likely that most of the emails got onto the computer as a result of backups of her Blackberry.” According to The Washington Post, “Abedin did occasionally forward emails to her husband for printing, but it was a far smaller number than Comey described” and “none of the forwarded emails were marked classified.” Despite information from this report being republished on several news outlets including Fox News itself, McCain still proceeded to accuse Abedin of committing “a possible crime,” while guest Allen West said that it was “without a doubt a criminal offense.” From the May 9 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered: