forget surprise. >> your guess is as good as mine. >> it's a late october stunner. >> bemust not let her take her criminal scheme into the oval office. >> the fbi reopens its investigation into hillary clinton's emails. >> donald trump says he can still win, and you know, he's right. anything can happen in an

election. >> with just over a week to election day, will it sway early voting and impact the democrats' early edge? >> voters decide who wins and who loses, period, end of story. >> plus the obamas factor. the. the and first lady have starring roles in 2016's final act. >> she doesn't just talk the talk, she walks the walk. and the other guy is just making stuff up. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king, thanks for sharing your sunday morning on a beautiful day in warm wash. what a difference a week makes in this unpredictable ride that is campaign 2016. nine days until we count the votes. the hillary clinton email investigation is back in business. three quick questions related to frame the high stakes and our sunday morning conversation. one, is this the game changer

that puts donald trump in the white house? >> this is bigger than watergate. this is bigger than watergate n my opinion. >> two, can hillary clinton calm sudden democratic jitters and protect her lead? >> the director himself has said he doesn't know whether the emails referenced in his letter are significant or not. i'm confident whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in july. >> and question three, will the fbi director explain why he took this extraordinary step just days before the election and explain to us exactly what is under review. >> director comey is withholding the most important information that would shine a bright light on what's at issue and what's being looked at here. >> with us to share their reporting and insights, jonathan martin of the "new york times,"

molly ball, karen tumulty and jeff zalany. we are in a place no campaign has gone before. >> what happened today starting with the fbi, maybe the system will become a little less rigged. beautiful. >> so we don't know the facts, which is why we are calling on the fbi to release all the information that it has. >> just a little more than a week out the election and sudden turmoil, the nation's top law enforcement officials at odds. one the fbi director deciding to go against longstanding protocol and make public something with the potential to change votes, maybe even change who wins the presidency. if that isn't enough this late campaign shock exists only because of a separate investigation into the disgraced former congressman anthony weiner and his fetish for sexting. in this case a teenager.

happy sunday. as we go into this end, one of the things i want to make clear from the beginning we don't know a lot more than what we know. we don't know what the investigation about and what the impact of this will be number one on voters generally and number two because of the propenity for early voting. jeff, you spent so much time covering the clinton campaign. do they view this as a game changer with the potential to change the winner? >> no, they do not. they believe this is an issue, a problem. i've not seen anything in the last year and a half of this campaign that they've reacted to so swiftly. of course, that makes sense with nine days to go, but i was in des moines on friday, and she doesn't usually have press conferences, she doesn't usually sort of, you know, they want to make this a new chapter in an old partisan fight. they want to rally democrats and i think in that case that might work, but the reality here is with nine days left they don't know where this is going and

uncertainty at the end of the campaign is not something they want and it's also about her. they wanted to close this campaign with questions about donald trump, not questions about her, and that's a problem. >> one place it may be a game changer is some of these down ballot races. >> right. >> just this week the cook political report had changed its forecast and said there was a better than even chance that the senate was going to change hands. this may once again sort of reinforce the argument that republicans have been trying to make in these down ballot railses which is if you're going to elect hillary clinton anyway, cast your vote for a republican in congress as a check and a balance. >> it's a great point. we don't know in the presidential race what the ballot will be. i'll show you polling, but be careful. polls immediately after things like this sometimes they swing out, ask donald trump about the "access hollywood" tape, they blow out and come back. the tracking poll shows this

down to hillary clinton with a one-point lead. several days ago she had a 12-poind lea12 12-point lead. it's a tracking poll but a good polling firm. we don't overfocus on one poll, here is our cnn poll of polls shows this a five-point lead 47-42, that averages the most recent national polling including that "the washington post"/abc poll. again the five-point race here, that's down from eight or nine a week or so ago. tightening is natural. the obama/romney race on this day in 012, nine days before the election was a one-point race and so for democrats out there, for panicking it's getting closer not necessarily. but? >> it wasn't that close when you came to election day because of the lex recall to college. that's what is working in hillary's favor right now is that yes, there is some obviously partisans coming home on the republican side but she's got an advantage at the state level tough for trump to

overcome because it's hard to see how he could win pennsylvania, north carolina or florida, let alone colorado or virginia, and the fact that she's going to be in arizona this week to me tells you the story. we are in such a polarized country. lot of folks yesterday talking to voters at early balloting places around the country. people who were democrats said tired of hearing about the emails, don't care, i'm for hillary and republicans said i knew the clintons were crooked. it just reinforces their preconceived notions. i think people are dug into this thing and it has little ultimate impact. >> are there enough, though, molly, undecided soft clinton supporters former trump supporters who thought they'd vote for clinton because of trump groping and kissed them. >> i don't think there are enough to change the outcome but i do think this does have an effect on people who are not solid democrats or republicans. partisans are going to react are

already reacting to this in a predictable way. hillary clinton was building the gaudy leads in the polls, up by 12 points that was republicans an conserve leaning independents bailed on donald trump and convinced themselves hillary clinton was acceptable. anything that makes her unacceptable to the people they can't bring themselves to vote for a democrat when they've never done it before. that cuts into her lead, that potentially cuts into some of the down ballot races, i agree with that. anything that galvanizes republicans to decide to vote since donald trump doesn't have a ground game and since a lot of those republicans are so discouraged by an election that looks like a foregone conclusion, anything that could rouse them from their recliners and have them actually to the polls. >> if anybody put money down in vegas six months ago to jim comey, anthony weiner would be a factor in the election that's money you'll collect. let's step back to what we're

looking at now. remember the clinton email investigation was shut down in july. comey said they looked at all this and said no reasonable prosecutor would ever press a case against hillary clinton. jim comey is a republican serving in a democratic administration. republicans were furious and thought he was cooking the books for hillary clinton. now republicans love jim comey because he sent this letter to congress on friday and said investigators came in the weiner investigation, under investigation for apparently sexting an underaged girl in north carolina, i hope i have to never speak that sentence again but said on his laptop emails pertinent to the clinton investigation. even though fbi says don't talk about ongoing investigations period, that's one policy. the other policy is close to an election don't do anything that could sway voter, don't get out in the middle of of an election campaign. "i agree that the fbi should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails. the fbi cannot yet assess whether or not this material may

be significant and i cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work." that was the letter to congress. to his own employees, comey wrote in "given that we don't know the significance of the newly discovered collection of emails i don't want to create a misleading impression. in trying to strike that balance in the middle of an election season there is a risk of being misunderstood" boy are those words too. john podesta is the campaign chair nonfor hillary clinton, the white house chief of staff and a key bill clinton aide during stuff like this back in the day. the interesting reaction from the clinton campaign was to go swinging at comey. >> director comey was the one who wrote a letter that was light on facts, heavy on innuendo knowing full well what republicans in congress would do with it. it's now up to him who owes the public answers to the questions that are now on the table.

>> make it partisan. the ideas saying we are auunder attack. >> this wasn't a letter, it was a shock test. >> and initially, there was some confusion about who it was sent to. on friday night in des moines at the impromptu press conference the candidate said he even sent the letter to republicans and the spokesman said he sent it to republicans. it was sent to republicans and democrats so that's something that they cleaned up over the weekend but the reality here is that that is the best hope here to rally democrats. democrats were already pretty unified. i think this has had an amazing unifying effect for republicans. republicans finally have something else to seize and hold onto other than donald trump who they've not been that into. >> the media conversation for at least a few days, we're talking about this instead of trump's latest bombast. real fast i was struck by how

the clinton campaign changed their posture in 12 hours. it would so strike, tells us everything about mod he were politics. you can't be a neutral entity in politics, right? they saw comey as somebody who basically put a jersey on and the second he did that in their eyes he was fair game. it gets at the total war and nature of today's politics, man. he was in their way, boom, he's adversary. >> they have backup on this, some republicans are quoted in the morning papers saying unprecedented, he's flying solo of course and he is. >> sure, they have their case. >> we'll talk more about that as we get later. i want to bring into the conversation donald trump on the trail. listen to donald trump on the trail, sees this as an opening. the question is, is he going too far when he says -- >> -- nobody blame but herself, for her mounting legal troubles. her criminal action was willful,

deliberate, intentional, and purposeful. hillary set up an illegal server for the obvious purpose of shielding her criminal conduct from public disclosure and exposure. >> now, he's right that she has nobody to blame but herself. if she'd listened to the president's advice and set up an email server at state.dpof we wouldn't have this conversation. he says her criminal action, illegal server, the server is not illegal, it was against policy but not illegal. is he going too far especially he could be president-elect in nine days in saying the fbi is going to get it right? >> well he's already said that when and if he becomes president she'll be in jail, so i don't know how you can go farther than that. but you know, donald trump is reading this off a teleprompter so these are things his campaign has prepared for him to say. it's not as if he's sort of

winging it and exaggerating. this is what they believe and he believes and a lot of his followers believed and believed before any of this happened, so this just reinforces the view that donald trump had and that a lot of republicans had, that a lot of the people you meet at trump rallies had, she is literally a criminal who ought to be in jail, so i don't know how you can say that this is somehow excessive for him to be saying that, based on everything he's already said. >> a lot more to discuss on this story including next to the map, the week of campaigning left, how does this stunning october surprise impact hillary clinton state by state strategy? first though, we do get to have a little fun, halloween version of "politicians say the darnedest things." >> this year i'ming a'm going witch. >> that's not a witch costume. >> i'm a woman on television over 40 already in costume. where's yours? >> dressed up as what happens when young people vote. >> someone gets really old really fast? >> that's not it.

>> is that white spray paint or fun halloween cobwebs? >> sam i'm still president for another three months, careful. >> yeah.

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arizona, the outlier there, traditionally red state but it was on the map on the schedule before the fbi announcement. hillary clinton doesn't want to show signs of panic so she keeps arizona on the schedule. what is her top priority as we go to the final week? protect the blues. yes, a week ago the clinton campaign was ambitious thinking we can get 330, 350 electoral votes. maybe that's the way it ends up, right now keep it at 270, keep donald trump from turning anything that's blue on this map red. if you can keep the blues she wins the election. she'll go out to arizona because it was announced, love to win arizona. the top priority keep an eye on the polling in pennsylvania, on the polling in michigan, keep an eye on the polling in new hampshire, states leaning blue but not yet locked up. priority number one hillary clinton knows if she can just win one of thieves, win one of florida, north carolina and ohio, she blocks donald trump's path so yes she'll go out west this week but look for a focus

along here in the battlegrounds. behind the scenes they'll watch the polling. publicly hillary clinton says don't worry, just get to the finish line. >> i've always stayed focused on one thing, you and your families. what i worry about are the problems that keep you up at night, and i'm going to stay focused on that, because you know, on november 9th, that's what's going to matter. >> this is a giant test for a campaign team, when you have a surprise like this late in the race especially late in the race that was going your way and some people think overwhelmingly going your team. she has mostly team obama in terms of campaign strategists. the people who helped obama win in 2008 and 2012. john podesta clinton campaign and clinton drama veteran. behind the scenes -- >> clinton drama. >> -- jitters here, they've never done this. these guys have run two successful presidential

campaigns but never with a late surprise like this. >> and the obama campaign famously no drama. that is not a luxury afforded to anyone in the clinton's orbit because it is constant drama in clinton world. as jeff was saying before they really have responded to this with all hands on deck in a way we've not seen them be nimble in the past. they preferred rather to downplay or ignore the controversies or revert to the bunker and pretend it's not happening. but i think you know, the strategy beyond just making a public statement and trying to discredit these allegations that they like us don't really understand, but they also are focused i think on the mechanics of the campaign on turning out their voters, keeping that engine of the ground game in the early vote going and just staying focused on that. >> to that point, let me put the numbers up on the screen. 18.6 million votes have already been cast. we count the votes next tuesday.

the election was playing out last week, a lot of votes in the bank before this happened. you see that 9.7 million of the yearly 19 million are from battleground states. if you go state by state in colorado, iowa, north carolina and nevada, those are states where the democrats are running ahead of 2012 in terms of getting democrats to vote early. you look at arizona, florida, ohio and utah republicans can be reasonably optimistic, doing better compared to 2012. it doesn't mean you're winning. you're doing better compared to 2012. >> while it is obama's political team responding to all of this, it's interesting the problems are being created by the old clinton people, whether it's huma abedin or the stuff coming out in wikileaks, and one big difference i think between this campaign and the campaign she ran in 2008 is that if this had happened to her in 2008 campaign that crew would have been in a circular firing squad now, they would have been leaking like crazy, they would have been essentially destroying each other. >> i have to say in the course

yesterday of doing some work on this story that we have today in the paper about this whole issue, it wasn't that hard to find some grumbling among the newer clinton types about the secretary herself and huma and sort of this culture of well, we don't quite know exactly what is in those emails on the hard drive, so we can't totally forcefully respond about what is or isn't in there. >> that's the question the candidate did not answer on friday, didn't answer a lot of things but the questions specifically about huma, she said we don't know exactly what the fbi investigation is. she was asked directly if they've talked about this. of course they've talked about this. huma and hillary clinton are as close as any adviser and a candidate family member could be. of course they've talked about this. going forward here, i think she's going to be asked more about this, and will have to answer the huma question. which she's never yet answered. >> the strongest argument for donald trump is nevermind this

investigation about what happened yesterday. is this the presidency you'd have tomorrow? are we going to constantly live through this? >> democrats believe this say candidate problem, this is a hillary clinton problem. >> exactly. >> by the way, what we were told at "the washington post" is that huma is telling people she herself doesn't know what is in the emails and she herself does not know how these emails got on to a computer that she considered her husband's property. >> oh, great. >> not necessarily good though. >> no, it's not. >> that's not good for them. sit tight. up next, what about donald trump's map, his math and apath to 270 two days ago was near viewed impossible. did the fbi just bull doze donald trump a new trail? first, what's the biggest october surprise in your opinion? maybe there's one yet to go, vote at cnn.com/vote.

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welcome back. let's do the flipside. how does donald trump try to take advantage of what they believe is a game-changing new

environment with the fbi announcement? mr. trump starts the week out west in nevada, in new mexico, a lot of republicans saying what are you going to new mexico for, sir, and in colorado. he moves on to michigan. all of the states at the moment leaning hillary clinton's way. can donald trump use this new environment to change the map? that's the big question and again, a lot of republicans are skeptical because if you look at the map, even in this new environment the map tilts in secretary clinton's favor when you go state by state. donald trump has to take something on the map that is blue and turn it red and win the gold, the tossup states. we talked about clinton trying to block donald trump by winning florida, north carolina or ohio. trump has to be perfect. he hases to win them all but then what? new mexico? a lot of republicans say what are you doing, sir, you're wasting time out there. the trump campaign says gary johnson will go up in the polls, the libertarian and bring hillary clinton down. republicans are skeptical. can donald trump win colorados? 'been consistently in hillary clinton's camp. this one makes a little bit more sense even though clinton has led consistently. even if donald trump is perfect

and wins the gold tossup states he needs more electoral votes. michigan is one of the places he'll look for those. as he campaigns, see if he can turn this new environment to his favor, he wants the number one issue to be the fbi investigation, but when he's out in colorado, donald trump is still saying people here get to vote by mail, donald trump says that doesn't pass the sniff test. >> i have real problems with ballots being sent. does that make sense? like people say oh here's a ballot, here's another ballot, throw it away. here's one i like, we'll keep that one. i have real problems, so get your ballots in. we're trying to have some pretty good supervision out there. we have a lot of people watching you people that collect the balance lots. >> never let a day go by without a good conspiracy theory. they have vote by mail in a lot of places, washington state and colorado now it actually works, gets more people to participate but the fact that donald trump is still talking about in a blue state a rigged system, that's not going to change but the bigger question is, if you

looked at the map, if we were having this conversation on thursday or friday morning, we would be saying can donald trump really turn eight or nine states in a week or ten days? you need a national change in the race to do that. is this that national change? we won't know for sure until tuesday or wednesday when the polling settles down a little bit but the clinton campaign believes it's not. of course they would. one of the reasons is because of early voting we talked about already. like this race, it's not a traditional -- if this was a 2000 campaign before voting changes happened and there wasn't early voting it could perhaps but it just does not seem to me to be enough there to change it. i think the big e impact in the clinton campaign does not want to acknowledge this but it worries them once she gets to that building if she wins. post election day impact on her might be more important but before election we have to focus on this. donald trump would have to do something we haven't seen him do yet, that would be disciplined. eight days is a long time. >> new mexico?

>> yes, new mexico seems to be far-fetched to say the least but to jeff's point, extraordinary a major party candidate for president the week before the selection basically accusing the postal service and the elections officials i think of committing mass fraud and throwing out ballots. if any other candidate for the presidency in this country said that, can you imagine the coverage and what people would say? it is remarkable, and the fact that we're just here talking about the map, i get it but it's astonishing that a candidate would say that. >> and to what effect? the actual effect of his words could be to depress his less committed supporters from actually even showing up and voting. >> i have a bigger question about the environment. i know we're going to talk and have to study for several days whether the fbi reopening the investigation makes a difference. donald trump is running an environment that he talks all the time about the need for change but if you go state by state it's not as conducive to

change. he goes to michigan and talks about trade, in colorado yesterday talking about the economy but look at the numbers in ohio, north carolina, florida, pennsylvania, new hampshire, nevada, and even colorado which is not on this chart, unemployment rate when the president took office was up around 10% in some cases, above 7 in other places. new hampshire always throw. the battleground states now the structure of the race, stories that come along that grab our attention for a few days but most voters vote on how they feel so that's one of donald trump's big challenges in the end. he's saying gloom and doom. lot of people saying it's a little better. >> we remember talking to voters and sitting in on focus groups in 2008 when everybody was so freaked out and really desperate and in 2012 there was a little bit less of that, but now when you talk to voters a lot of people are not feeling nearly as sort of under siege, not feeling as precarious. lot more people are employed, a lot more people are feeling like their families will be okay no matter what happens. you have much more of a continuity argument.

>> we have an occupational hazard in the media, so much of what we see is through the prism of self-selected rally attendees, who obviously are stirred up for one side or the other, with you what you miss to molly's point is a great mass of people who aren't going to rallies for candidates. >> the silent majority. >> and the gdp growth this week pretty good after a sluggish year. the request he is george h.w. bush can tell you sometimes the good news come too late in the campaign and voters don't process them. even though trump has this moment and let's be clear we don't know where the fbi investigation is going and what it's b the fbi won't tell us specifically they saw in the email it's a moment for trump and as he tries to take advantage of it, republicans are not rushing to help trump. it helps in the senate race and house races and they're not rushing to help trump. this is marco rubio who is trying to get reelected in florida, cnn's maknew raju

asking do you think donald trump is a role model? >> like most americans people look at this and say these are not ideal choices. that's one of the reasons i ran for senate. no matter who wins we have to have a strong senate. >> so it's not like we're going to have this final week embrace of all the republican candidates rushing to be with donald trump at his rallies. >> or to underscore the things he's saying. if you're trying to make a case that hillary clinton has too much baggage, hillary clinton is involved in too many scandals and unacceptable. it helps to have a chorus of republicans speaking from the is imhymnal. all making the same talking points and same case, supporting you at your events and talking on television. donald trump has never had that because of the various divisions in the republican party, many of which he has caused. >> we'll watch to see if democrats stop showing up. they've been showing up consistently for her. up next fbi director comey says we no choice but to make this new investigation public. now democrats say unless he's drib ratly trying to sway the

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welcome back. live picture there of the jefferson memorial, it's a beautiful, beautiful late october day here in washington. republicans were furious back in july when the fbi director james comey closed the investigation into hillary clinton, and said it wasn't even close, that no reputable prosecutor would conclude there was a case to be made. >> did hillary clinton break the law? in connection with her use of the email server my judgment was that she did not. >> did you just not able to prosecute it or did hillary clinton break the law? >> the question i look at is there evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt did somebody violate a criminal statute and my judgment here is there is not. >> now, comey, who say republican by pedigree, serving in a democratic administration was villain "a" to the

republicans then. now he's a hero because he sent this letter up on friday saying we have this new evidence that we have to take a look at. the hard part for the clinton campaign is we have no idea the sig assistance of the emails, how many of them are there, duplicates of what they looked at? we'll get no answers before the american people vote. the idea of what it's doing in the town, loretta lynch "comey's decision contrary to policy" is t says in the "the washington post." justice department warned fbi not to do this it says in the "new york times." we have discord at the top of the law enforcement community where they're saying you don't do this so close to an election and never disclose ongoing investigations. the attorney general a democrat obama appointee you can't do this. >> it's unprecedented but in some respects we have to get to that after the election and that is going to linger after the election. james comey is not running for president but the actions he's doing, if you talk to people who respect him and known him for a long time's damned if he did and

the damned if he didn't, if he didn't disclose a new investigation it would have been an issue. there are republicans and democrats who have worked in the justice department for a long time who say unprecedented. i think we have to set that aside but the reality here is he will stay on as fbi director, or will he in the clinton administration, if she wins, what would she do with him. it is explosive, a good thing that congress is not here i think, and they're out in america because that would really be even crazier than this. >> it's also important to note among the many unknown things about this whole situation people are demanding more information from the fbi. it's far from clear that the fbi itself has a clear understanding of what is in these emails. i mean the fact that they are talking about additional investigative steps, one interpretation of this could be that they are still trying to get the warrant so that they themselves can go through these. >> and again to be clear, they were investigating anthony

weiner, the disgraced former congressman under investigation for sexting a 15-year-old girl in nbc in, sorry i have to do that to you on sunday morning before you head out to church and on a laptop with his estranged wife they found emails could be perth nent to the investigation. we have no indication any of it is classified or anything that will change the conclusion director comey made in july. hillary clinton says how dare you put out this partial information, you better come forward. >> in fact, it's not just strange, it's unprecedent eed a it is deeply troubling because voters deserve to get full and complete facts, and so we've called director comey to explain everything right away, put it all out on the table. >> voters are being asked to make a pretty important choice here in the sense that if you don't know what this is about and if you're inclined to think

it's possible it could be something important, are you going to elect a president to then find out in january or february that this is a big deal. >> well, and from the republicans perspective from the trump campaign's perspective, this is a fact that voters deserve to know and james comey did the right thing by disclosing it. either way the decision he makes is political. if he had decided to withhold this information to withhold the fact that there was something that they were looking into, that would also be seen as trying to put a thumb on the scale of the election. >> he'd be following precedent though of what's happened in this town for a long time. that's the difference here. >> i don't know there's any precedent for this situation. there's no precedent for this type of investigation, no precedent for a presidential candidate to be ensnared in something like this, which was because of decisions hillary clinton made that this is even an issue to this day. >> even though you would assume advantage to trump, even he when he reads the headlines about the attorney general disagrees, washington is a mess.

>> this is the lowest point in the history of hour country, government corruption spreads out like a cancer, and infects the operations of government itself. when you look at what's happened over the last year, with the fbi and with the department of justice, nobody in this room has more faith now. you have a lot less faith. >> i think it does raise the question, we were already worried about was trump trying to say a clinton win would be illegitimate, what would his supporters do after the fact. >> the lowest point in history as donald trump makes a great real estate developer. >> excellent. everybody sit tight. up next a sneak peek into our reporter's notebooking, the andy warhol moments and more from hillary clinton's innersirkle. what is the biggest october

surprise the majority of you said the access hollywood tape with donald trump. lot of democrats up this morning. >> surprise, surprise.

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back. let's close as we always do ask our reporters to share from their notebooks. i always say around, we'll go across. >> with such different candidates it's fitting in the final week of the campaign they are inhabiting separate universes when it comes to the political map. you've got donald trump going to new mexico, colorado, michigan, three states where if you called out both parties they'd almost all say the states are sure to go to hillary yet trump is spending his valuable final days in those three blue states. hillary much different view of reality, much more conventional, places she's trying to protect

like ohio, which say little bit tougher for her, places she's trying to get like arizona, but it's between the 40 yard lines of american politics. trump far afield. >> i think fascinating to see the first test of whether this is good for trump whether this brings arizona, utah, georgia more solidly home. molly? >> there's already been a lot of discussions about the future of the republican party, a lot of republicans and conservatives looking past the election to try to figure out how they're going to regroup in what they assume is going to be another presidential loss for their party, increasingly what you are hearing from conservatives is that they are going to leave the republican party and start something new. you hear this in the rhetoric from the evan mcmullen campaign which has gained so much momentum in utah, being openly critical, him and his running mate of the republican party. conservative policy experts think tank people, consultants who made a life in the republican party before increasingly coming to the conclusion that the existing gop

apparatus is too broken, they're going to have to leave, start something new. could there be a splintering after the election? it's increasingly looking like that might happen. >> a fascinating question. watch evan mcmullen in the last week. people think he has a chance to win in utah. >> the final days of the campaign have brought to center stage something that i think is going to continue to be the story for the next four to eight years if hillary clinton is elected which is the sort of complicated machinery of her inner world, of her inner circle between wikileaks and this latest revival of the email scandal. we realize that clinton world is fraught with tension, fraught with conflict, and it's populated by a lot of people who have big titles and no power and people who have little titles or ambiguous titles and a lot of power. >> and you can read karen's

great piece today at your house or in "the washington post" online. >> one of the things worrying some of the people inside her inner circle are november clouds. the clinton campaign is still and democrats are still pretty confident of her outcome on election day but they're increasingly worried what comes after that. the effect of this fbi new development new investigation is that it is going to make if she wins it much more difficult for her to governinthisown. so she had started some outreach to republicans. she was trying to sort of smooth the way here. this has blown up all of that here and undermines her first is 100 days and what happens between election day and january. this is an issue that hangs over her. republicans often overreach. saying there's going to be investigations et cetera but that's what many people inside her campaign and democrats are now worried about, there's no

mandate of course but even more than that, these clouds hanging over her if she is elected. >> done als rumsfeld would say knowns and unknowns. i'll close with quiet grumbling, democrats old enough to remember past clinton dramas in which somebody or somebodies not named clinton always seem to pay a higher price. bill clinton survived being impeached after the monica lewinsky scandal, sky high approval ratings at the end of his presidency. two republican speakers of the house lost their jocks because of their own personal failings. most democrats think clinton will still win but they might pay the price. karen talked about this earlier the case from the democrats that the fbi stunner will make the already long shot hope of winning back the house near impossible and they think it perhaps will help democrats swing one on two of those senate races critical to the fight to which party controls the united states senate. there's a lot of i've lived this movie before in the inbox this

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october surprise. a sudden twist as the fbi director says they have found emails possibly pertinent to the probe into hillary clinton's private server. >> we are calling on the fbi to release all the information that it has. >> with pressure building from both sides, will the fbi have to say more? and trump turnaround? there's new pep in his step after weeks of struggle. >> this is the biggest political scandal since watergate. >> will this move voters to him in the final days? plus carlos danger. dangerous to