Halperin: ‘Let’s Be Honest, a Lot of FBI Agents Don’t Like the Clintons’

Halperin: 'Let's Be Honest, a Lot of FBI Agents Don't Like the Clintons' (NewsBusters)

Joe Scarborough says there's an effort underway to delegitimize the FBI investigation of Hillary's email. Did Mark Halperin just abet that effort by alleging that FBI agents conducting the investigation are driven in part by personal animus toward the Clintons?

Appearing on today's Morning Joe, Halperin said that "of all the entities in the United States that represent a threat to Hillary Clinton being the next President of the United States, those FBI agents are probably in the first tier, in part because they're following the evidence wherever it leads, but in part because—let's be honest—a lot of FBI agents don't like the Clintons. View the video, and be sure to watch to the end to catch Hillary cackling in response to Jake Tapper's questions about the email.

Halperin did agree with Joe Scarborough that it was inappropriate for President Obama, in his 60 Minutes interview, to have declared that Hillary's handling of email didn't harm national security. But by alleging that the FBI is motivated in part by personal animosity toward the Clintons, is not Halperin undermining the legitimacy of the Bureau's investigation?