On FBN's 'The Evening Edit,' The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway stated the DOJ and FBI's role in the 2016 Russian interference claims put forth by the Clinton campaign: <blockquote> ELIZABETH MACDONALD: We welcome to the show for the first time 'The federalist' Editor-in-Chief, great writer, great author, Mollie Hemingway. I'm excited to have you on, Mollie. MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Great to be here. MACDONALD: Good to see you. Let's get your reaction to this sound of Hillary Clinton floating a new narrative claiming Trump stole the 2016 election from her. Watch. HILLARY CLINTON: You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you. MACDONALD: You know, Mollie, now that I see it, listen to it again, is she talking about herself or is she talking about Trump? HEMINGWAY: You know, that is a good question. Hillary Clinton has long claimed that the 2016 election was stolen from her. Something former President Jimmy Carter said as well. Pretty much the entire media complex, the entire Democrat party said throughout the Trump Administration that the 2016 election was stolen. In fact I think the only election you're not allowed to question is the 2020 election, even though that election was unlike any election that we have ever seen previously in terms of how it was administered. But yeah, they definitely pushed that narrative for quite some time. MACDONALD: But mollie, she has no prove or evidence, right? She is not suggesting any. HEMINGWAY: It's actually quite the opposite. The most major meddling that we saw in the 2016 election was done by this Hillary Clinton secretly-funded, secretly orchestrated operation to set a false narrative, one that continued throughout the Trump Administration that was this false narrative that trump had colluded with Russia to steal the the election that was something her campaign secretly bought and paid for. That caused so much damage in the 2016 election but throughout the entire administration of Trump. That was something that, it caused global problems. It caused domestic problems and it was done by her campaign and the Democrat national committee. MACDONALD: Mollie, it created severe credibility damage for the DOJ and the FBI. We talked to numerous FBI officials who are livid over this, got politicized, put into the D.C. FBI Office, not the New York office where they could have done the shoe leather. It was Trump Organization they were talking about trump here in New York. Let's watch former Attorney General William Barr. He was with us last week on what you were just talking about. Let's listen to this, watch. ATTONERY GENERAL BILL BARR: Why did the FBI act the way they did? There was such a flimsy basis, really no basis for them to go after the trump campaign. Even as they learned this information was bad and could easily be Russian disinformation, they continued. This was a campaign ploy to put out scurrilous information about Trump and then had the FBI investigate it, then leak that right before the election, sort of the ultimate corruption of democracy, to have the people in charge of the coercive tools of the country, national security police power, use it to choose the leader of the country. MACDONALD: Mollie, do you hear that? The ultimate corruption of democracy. What he is saying is the Clinton campaign did sort of like a hit-and-run. They put information inside of the FBI, DOJ, didn't want their fingerprints on it, in order to attack Trump when the FBI knew early on, they were told early on that this could be Russian disinformation. They knew that from the get-go in the summer of 2016. That is according to declassified footnotes in the DOJ Inspector General report that Chuck Grassley and Senator Ron Johnson got declassified. HEMINGWAY: That is exactly right. It is one thing for political operatives to try to do a dirty trick but for the DOJ or the FBI willing to participate in something they should have known from the very get-go was ludicrous. They were given reason after reason to know it was not something legitimate. Instead they weaponized this, they used it as a means to start a sprawling investigation that turns into a special counsel investigation, that hamstrings the Trump Administration. What this really was all about was a refusal of many people in elite circles to accept the result of 2016 election. To accept someone like Donald Trump could run for office and gain favor among voters. They were willing to throw out any norm or standard they had to subvert the election or the administration. It's a horrible thing what the FBI and DOJ did. There needs to be a massive cleanup. You see that with the Whitmer thing that happened last month, where too many FBI agents were involved in the plotting orchestration of this alleged plot to kidnap Governor Witmer instead of letting our FBI investigate it. MACDONALD: They didn't have, "Crossfire hurricane," they were not getting the evidence to support their narrative you know, it was Trump-Russia collusion it was winding down. They said we can use General Michael Flynn as a proxy to keep it open. It was sort of unspooled. That is what Bill Barr is saying in his book, they kept trying and pushing, and pushing when they didn't have the goods. When James Comey, James Clapper, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page later on would admit we didn't have the evidence, that there was no there there. Your final word. HEMINGWAY: At every step of the way there was no there there. You said earlier there were good FBI agents and good DOJ officials upset about what happened. Unfortunately there were far too few. Many people should have put a stop to this. Too few were willing to stand up to say this is un-American and this is dangerous to our Constitution.</blockquote>