If you have been watching MSNBC over the past three years, you would find host after host and guest after guest arguing that President Trump has nothing to complain about with all the investigations into alleged his wrongdoings, after all nobody is above the law. Nobody, that is except for Hillary Clinton or any of her former aides. Any investigation into her is a waste of taxpayer dollars and a distraction from what really matters: Trump's misdeeds.

On Monday's MSNBC Live host Hallie Jackson invited Greg Jaffe, co-author of the Washington Post story that broke the news that the State Department is intensifying its investigation into Clinton's aides as part of the investigation into her e-mails, and former Obama State Department official and managing editor of Time magazine, Richard Stengel to talk about the story.

The segment should not have been that controversial as Jaffe acknowledged what the original article stated, "The Trump administration and State Department's line is that they've been at this for three and a half years, that there were millions of emails that are just getting through them all." Standard operating procedure does not make for exciting TV, though, so Jackson turned to Stengel, asking for his thoughts on Clinton comments where she declared that "The president is a corrupt human tornado."

The former Obama official declared, "Here's what I would say about the e-mails. It's a ridiculous distraction. It's a colossal waste of taxpayer money." He then said that he spoke to "someone" on Sunday night that said the State Department had "gone through all of them" before Trump took office and that "All of these officials who are being investigated were sending e-mails in good faith and it was only because Secretary Clinton was using a private server that they're even being looked at." He reiterated, "Americans should protest this. It's a colossal waste of their taxpayer dollars."

Jackson again went to Jeffe, reporting the State Department's take on the issue, "essentially and I'm paraphrasing, we would be doing this no matter who was in the Oval Office, right? Can you explain some of that there?" Jeffe responded that it was hard to explain, but it "strikes me as like a diplomatic stop and frisk kind of operation. Just kind of low-level harassment is a little bit what it feels like to the people who are going through it." All of a sudden, routine investigations are harassment again, wonder what changed?

Stengel finished by re-emphasizing his previous point, "there are probably 1,000 things that the State Department should be doing. Stengel, who admitted to not caring about national security during his days at Time, then accused the State Department of doing this to distract, "from all of the accusations being made, not only about Secretary Pompeo but the State Department assisting Donald Trump black mailing an ally into getting political dirt on his opponent."

All of a sudden, routine investigations are harassment and a waste of money again, wonder what changed?

Here is a transcript for the September 30 show: