[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
The Big Three's evening newscasts all devoted full reports on 2 September 2016 to the FBI's release of its notes on their interview of Hillary Clinton over her e-mail scandal. However, ABC's Cecilia Vega stood out for spotlighting how "careless," as FBI Director James Comey put it, Mrs. Clinton was in her handling of classified material on her private e-mail server: "Just how careless? Investigators say 81 e-mail chains on Clinton's basement server contained classified information at the time they were sent; 68 of them remain classified to this day."
NBC's Andrea Mitchell omitted the e-mail chains detail during her report on the new development, but pointed out that Clinton "told the FBI she didn't recall receiving any e-mails she thought shouldn't be on an unclassified system — including e-mails about the targets of future drone strikes." CBS's Julianna Goldman took a similar approach as Mitchell, but zeroed in how the FBI "didn't have access to the 13 smart-phones the report found Clinton may have used....One aide recalled two times where he destroyed old mobile devices by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer."