this is "nightline." >> tonight inside the final 30. the fbi's clinton bombshell. a sexting investigation rocking the presidential race. newly discovered e-mails now under investigation in connection with hillary clinton's server. >> they need to share whatever facts they claim to have. >> donald trump pouncing on the revelation. >> her criminal and illegal conduct. >> with just 11 days until the election, will this impact the vote? >> plus, the almighty dollar. a church leader pedaling his so-called miracle cure to desperate followers but could the concoction be lethal. brian roberts confronts the pulpit bully. >> you're an actor, okay? you're a piece of [ bleep ]. >> and --

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good evening. thanks for joining us. just when you think it can't get weirder, tonight a federal sexting investigation into anthony weiner leading to an october shocker put hillary clinton on the defensive. the fbi revealing it is investigating new evidence relating to his e-mails. it's linked to the disgrace of a former congressman. how will it impact the presidential race? more on our countdown series "in the final 30." >> we have not been contacted by anyone. the first we knew about it is i assume when you knew about it. >> a rare and hastily called press conference tonight for an october surprise no one saw coming. >> we're about to leave to head to the airport, her campaign says we're going to take you guys first to this room. we walk in the room, there's a podium and all of a sudden there's a press conference.

>> the director himself has said he doesn't know whether the e-mails referenced in his letter are significant or not. i'm confident whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in july. >> reporter: the fbi announcing they are once again investigating secretary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. >> a bombshell so close to the end of an election, we've never seen anything like it. >> this is a new breed of october surprise. it comes from the fbi and it comes in the middle of voting. more than 18 million people have already cast ballots. millions more are doing so every day between now and election day itself. this just lands plop in the middle of this very volatile election season. >> reporter: trump pounced immediately. >> we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the oval office. >> it was like an explosion. you couldn't even hear what he was saying in the room. the crowd was hopping on every

single word. louder and louder and louder. >> it was deafening. the fbi found the e-mails in the e-mail of huma abedin and anthony weiner during the scandal. >> huma aberdeen was another person on that private server. had she been sending e-mails to her husband anthony weiner? maybe those are e-mails that the fbi wants to look at. >> fbi director comey in a bombshell letter writing they will determine whether they include classified information. and stresses the fbi cannot assess whether or not this material may be significant. they cannot predict how long it will take to complete the investigation. >> we don't know exactly what's on the e-mails. in order for the fbi to do an about face here and say we've decided now to charge hillary clinton, a, you would have to have evidence from these e-mails that hillary clinton mishandled classified information, not huma

abedin and number two that she intentionally mishandled it. >> reporter: the fbi's shocker coming just 11 days before the election. the day began like any other on board the campaign plane, clinton seen chatting with her top advisers, including huma abedin, unaware of the tidal wave about to hit. >> we are behind. the polls are going to tighten. >> reporter: but while team clinton is in the air, the explosive political news breaking on the ground below. >> breaking news that the fbi has reopened their investigation >> into hillary clinton's e-mails. >> why now? 11 days before the election. >> reporter: even trump's own campaign manager learning the news in realtime. >> that's extraordinary news. the americans deserve to know everything. >> reporter: but the clinton team remained in the dark. >> we just got off the plane. there was no wifi in the air. no one had any idea what was happening while we were in the air. staffers were completely shocked. >> secretary clinton, any reaction?

>> secretary clinton, any reaction to director comey reopening his investigation into your e-mails? >> donald trump supporters have a big new reason to show up and not elect hillary clinton. hillary clinton supporters have a reason to question her candidacy. >> her number one person, huma abedin is married to anthony weiner who is a sleaze ball and a pervert. i don't like huma going home at night and telling anthony weiner all of these secrets, okay? >> anthony weiner, of course the disgraced former congressman with the proclivity for sexting. >> today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. >> bye-bye, pervert! >> reporter: after his first public fall from grace, a comeback campaign with his wife by his side, an unlikely run for mayor of new york city chronicled in the documentary "weiner." >> this is anthony weiner calling.

i'm that anthony weiner, the one running for mayor. >> reporter: but undone once again by more sexting, all while the cameras were rolling. >> the anthony weiner/huma abedin piece is almost too weird for words. if there are e-mails that emerge as part of the anthony weiner investigation that impact the presidential election, it's as if all of these political story lines come together as one combustible mess. >> reporter: the e-mails have dogged clinton throughout her campaign. >> new questions about hillary clinton and her use of private e-mail. >> e-mail. >> e-mail account. >> the news about her use of a private e-mail first broke just one month before she announced her campaign for president. >> i'm getting ready to do something, too. i'm running for president. >> reporter: it was revealed that clinton had a private server as well. the state department under a court order released tens of thousands of e-mails, but turns out clinton didn't turn over everything and trump has used this as fuel during the debate. >> the things that you should be apologizing for are the 33,000

e-mails that you deleted. >> reporter: the fbi investigation determining no crimes were committed by clinton. >> no charges are appropriate in this case. >> reporter: trump repeatedly attacking the fbi for refusing to recommend charges against clinton. >> the fbi and the department of justice let clinton off the hook. we have to investigate the investigation, folks. >> reporter: but today -- >> i have great respect for the fact that the fbi and the department of justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made. >> reporter: late tonight, fbi director comey sent a letter to all his employees saying while he wouldn't ordinarily do this, he felt compelled because he recently testified repeatedly that this investigation was complete. he said we don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of e-mails

i don't want to create a misleading impression. but he acknowledged in the midst of this election cycle there is a significant risk of being misunderstood. >> i think this puts the fbi director in a unique and difficult position. given what we know about how long it takes to complete fbi investigations, with 11 days to go, this is unlikely to be done by the election. >> reporter: tonight clinton doubling down in that press conference practically demanding more information and appearing confident that it will not hurt her chances on november 8. what would you say to a voter who right now will be seeing you and hearing what you're saying, saying i didn't trust her before, i don't trust her anymore right now and they're heading to the ballot box tomorrow? >> you know, i think people a long time ago made up their minds about the e-mails. i think that's factored into what people think. and now they're choosing a president. i would urge everybody to get

out and vote early in all the states who have early voting because i think americans want a president who can lead our country. >> when we come back, our confrontation not to be missed with a church leader, who is touting a miracle cure made with a kind of bleach. taug touting a miracle cure made with a kind of bleach. ♪ one smart choice leads to the next. ♪ the new 2017 ford fusion is here. it's the beauty of a well-made choice. ♪ try theraflu expressmax,nd flu hold you back now in new caplets. it's the only cold & flu caplet that has a maximum strength formula with a unique warming sensation you instantly feel. theraflu. for a powerful comeback.

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you know, when you hear about somebody accused of taking advantage of sick and desperate people, the last person you'd expect to be the culprit, a church pastor. but that is exactly what abc's brian ross has uncovered.

>> reporter: the leader of the roman catholic church can be found at the vatican. the church of england is overseen by the archbishop of canterbury. and then there's what's called the genesis two church of health and healing overseen by a man in the u.s. who calls himself an archbishop, claiming that what's in this glass is a miracle cure for any disease. preying on the desperate and vulnerable including women with breast cancer and the parents of autistic children. >> i would like to see somebody go get these people. >> reporter: it was a cloudy saturday morning in southern california as our abc news investigative team waited for the arrival of the archbishop. we had no idea we were on his tail. on this day his cathedral was a hotel conference room. his vestments a black leather jacket and bejewelled panama hat

and his sermons to people charged $450 a head came right out of the book of shams. >> i have a cure for prostate cancer, autism, brain cancer. >> all by drinking what he causes the sacrements available by making a donation. this man has exposed all kinds of medical quacks. >> we looking at the best. >> we're hitting upon something that sells. >> using internet videos and under the guise of a church, the archbishop and his supposed miracle cure called mms for miracle mineral solution are attracting an online congregation of followers that they say numbers in the hundreds of thousands.

>> vulnerable, desperate people are always going to be targets for con men. if somebody swoops in with the miracle solution to your health problems there's a huge emotional motivation to believe them. >> reporter: to find out what's in this miracle cure, we ordered a shipment of mms, $150 for these small bottles. we took our miracle cure to a respected testing laboratory. and the results were as expected. nothing miraculous about it. essentially a kind of chlorine. >> mms is an industrial chemical. it's an industrial bleach. >> dr. paul wong is the senior vice president of autism speaks. >> the fact that anybody would suggest that you should give this to somebody is ridiculous. this is scary, dangerous stuff. >> look what happened when we poured some of it undiluted on a pair of jeans. it turned white in both pant legs.

it is being pushed to the parents of autistic children desperate for a cure. >> you thrive on the illusion that you are going to fix your kid. your going to unautism-ize your child. >> reporter: but he stayed away from mms for his son after doing online checking. >> you are doing it at the defense of these children. >> reporter: but it was only after the death of the wife of doug nash, retired nasa scientist, that the government began to investigate who was peddling the miracle mms solution. on a sailing trip to the pacific with his wife sylvia, friends offered her a small container of mms as protection from malaria. >> about 15 minutes later she began to indicate she was feeling bad. >> reporter: what were the symptoms? >> diarrhea, nausea, vomiting

and that increased in intensity. i felt her go slump and her eyes flipped up in her head and defocused. i think that's when she actually died, when her heart stopped. >> reporter: right there? >> right there. >> reporter: in your arms? >> in my arms. yeah. >> reporter: an autopsy could not determine the cause of sylvia nash's death. and the church denies mms played any role, to the outrage of her husband. >> mms did kill my wife. there's no question in my mind. >> reporter: in the wake of the death of sylvia nash, federal authority opened an investigation of the mms network, resulting in the conviction of one of the mms distributor, daniel smith, now serving four years in prison for selling mms as a drug. >> he turned to profit and people were buying it it believing it would help them. >> so calling it the sacrament of a church they created they're

still open to prosecution? >> it can still be prosecuted if they are selling it in order to cure diseases and telling people it will cure diseases. >> reporter: the archbishop says that the church is collecting donations for the miracle cure, not selling it. >> help us help others. >> reporter: but as we saw in our undercover investigation, he continues to make his outrageous claims. >> just with the one drop an hour from prostate cancer to brain cancer, to autism. >> reporter: plus hiv. >> we get rid of that quick. >> reporter: leukemia with children. >> we got some kids with leukemia. >> reporter: mr. grenen, abc news. can we talk to you for a second, please? >> reporter: but outside of the room pulpit, the archbishop didn't seem eager to talk about his miracle cure. do you think you are harming people?

you stand by this report that you can cure all these diseases? >> we cure many things. >> abc [ bleep ]. who owns that, the rothschilds? you are really out of touch, you are so out of touch. reality. >> do you honestly -- >> abc, cbs, fox news, you're all liars, it's all scripted. this guy's an actor. >> reporter: are you really serious about this? >> i'm a reporter. you honestly believe this can cure cancer? >> you're an actor. you're a piece of [ bleep ]! as they say in spanish. >> just leave. >> this is our church service. >> i've got the facts and you people are [ bleep ] liars! and you're just an actor. you're a puppet. a little puppet. look at you. look at me. do you know this about the fda? sir? you don't know what the hell you're talking about. >> reporter: i do know what i'm talking about. >> you're a scripted actor. that's all you are. enjoy yourself, buddy. you stupid son of a bitch.

>> mms as a medicine is a fraud. mms is a dangerous substance. >> you're preying on desperate mothers and fathers. how can you not call that evil? >> reporter: for ""nightline," brian ross, abc news. new york. >> when we come back, the nashville clean who gave us jury trial joleen" dolly parton receiving one of the highest honors in country music. [ "on the road again," by willie nelson ] ♪ on the road again [ rear alert sounds ] [ music stops ] ♪ just can't wait to get on the road again ♪ [ front assist sounds ] [ music stops ] [ girl laughs ] ♪ on the road again ♪ like a band of gypsies we go down the highway ♪ [ beetle horn honks ] no matter which passat you choose, you get more standard features, for less than you expected. hurry in and lease the 2017 passat s

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and finally tonight, the one and only dolly parton receiving a once in a lifetime cma award. she may be the hardest working woman in country music. ♪ jolene, jolene >> with chart-topping hits like "jolene," stealing scenes in "9 to 5." >> i'm going to change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot. >> and she'll add another notch on her rhinestone belt. she'll be awarded the lifetime achievement award at the cmas.

>> every country person's dream is to be a part of the cmas and to win a cma award, you never get over it. >> thank you so much! god bless you! >> for more dolly, check out all access nashville, celebrating the cma awards with our own robin roberts. it airs monday at 10 p.m. thanks for watching abc news. and as always, we're online at abcnews.com and on our facebook page. good night, america. have a great weekend. online at abcnews.com and on our facebook page. good night, america. have a great picked. -- weekend.