On Saturday, Hillary Clinton spent three and half hours answering questions at FBI headquarters about her use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. More than 100 of those emails were found to contain classified information, and Clinton had previously been cited by an internal investigation for going outside acceptable protocol for handling such sensitive government information so casually. For months, she's been haunted on the campaign trail with the threat of more serious charges.

Things heated up last week, when it was revealed that Bill Clinton had a private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Lynch said that nothing related to the investigation came up, and promised she would follow the recommendation of the FBI.

On Tuesday morning, FBI director James Comey made a surprise announcement:

“We cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involve some combination of clearly intentional or willful mishandling of classified information or vast quantities of information exposed in such a way to support an inference of intentional misconduct or indications of disloyalty to the United States or an obstruction of justice. But we do not see those things here.

None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system. But their presence is especially concerning because all of the e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers, not even supported by full-time security staff like those found at agencies and departments of the United States government or even with a commercial e-mail service like Gmail.”

So what does this mean as the two parties prepare to hold their conventions in a just a few weeks? Can Clinton breathe a sigh of relief? Boston Globe Columnist Scot Lehigh (@GlobeScotLehigh), Former Attorney General Martha Coakley (@marthacoakley) and Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party Kirsten Hughes (@KirstenHughesMA) joined Jim on Tuesday night to discuss. 

Jim asked the guests why Clinton was not indicted. Coakley said that Comey made a decision based on the facts, and "there was no intent on her part to transfer information to anybody." She also added that Comey was an attorney general himself. Hughes said that, "the damage is done to Hillary Clinton whether she is indicted or not." She added that she disagrees with Comey's decision. "The facts that have come out of this investigation are troubling," she said. "The result might be cooked."  Lehigh wrote in The Boston Globe a year ago, that they weren't going to bring any charges against Clinton. He doesn't think this scandal will endure. "Come November, people won't care about the emails," he said.

Jim asked if this feeds the notion that Clinton can't be trusted. Hughes answered that this "adds to the laundry list of reasons to distrust Hillary Clinton." She added that the Clinton's "think they are above everything." However,  Lehigh raised the issue of trust with Trump. "Trump lies every time he opens his mouth," said Lehigh. He mentioned other scandals, such as Benghazi, as a "rolling scrum of scandals" that "go poof."  

Coakley stated that the Clinton's "want to move on" from this. She said that Clinton acknowledges that the technology part is not her strength, and that she will hopefully hire people, if elected, who are strong in this area. "I think it's a very small factor going forward," she said. Coakley also added that we are "in the high season of mud throwing." Lehigh said that come November, he said, people need to discriminate between what is a disqualifying issue, and what is not. And he added that, "this is not a huge disqualifying issue." 

So where should Clinton go from here? Lehigh said that she should apologize, and say that she has learned from it.