the guy who hired him, anderson, bob cramer, he's one of the partners in democracy partners. he announced today that he, too, will no longer be working on the clinton campaign. >> so, these guys on tape, they were working directly for the clinton campaign, is that correct? >> not for the campaign, but with the campaign. that is how the clinton campaign is describing the relationship. cramer's group, democracy partners -- >> not sure what the difference is. >> -- was hired by the democratic national committee to work with the campaign to stage these countered protests and demonstrations and news conferences at campaign events. we should also know, anderson, bob cramer is the husband of chicago democratic congresswoman, jan schakowsky. i spoke with him on the phone and he described what's being said on these tapes as barroom talk. and he said with respect to foval's comments on tape, they're straight-up wrong. "we have gone to extreme measures to make sure that no violence took place at any of our events." the dnc is also distancing himself from the whole thing, saying there is

bob cramer. is also on the video. he was under contract with the dnc.owski. i spoke with him on the phone. he said folvul is a braggart. with respect to his comments on tape, they're flat-out wrong. we've gone to extreme measures to ensure no violence took place at any of our events. basically his events where counter demonstrations or counter news events at trump events. his contract with the dnc began in june, two months after the violence in chicago. for its parts, the dnc quickly distancing itself from this whole thing as well. here is a statement they wrote us. the practices described in video by this temporary regional subcontractor do not in any way comport with our long standing policies on organizing events, and those statements and sentiments do not represent the values that the committee holds dear. we do not believe or have any evidence to suggest that the activities articulated in the video actually occurred. james o'keefe, they point out is a convicted criminal with a history of doctoring video to advance his idealogical agenda. he pled gu

to a clinton aid by a left wing strategist reading quote want to pass along with note i sent to bob cramerho as you know is consulting for the dnc and is close to robby mook. mook insisting he had no connections to the clinton campaign. wikileaks promising to unleash phase three of the election coverage next week. >> eight days left until the election. clinton campaign rocked by another one. the fbi reopens another investigation into hillary clinton's e-mail server. nearly one-third of voters are less likely to vote for the democratic nominee. here to weigh in democratic strategist chuck broach yah and joe burrell lee. thank you for joining us this morning very early. >> great to have you here. let's talk about this. what's happening right now in term of the polls and how they continue to change. do you think this is a trend that will continue for eight days until december? >> you build your campaign around what is expected. like when you and your sister were in the barn you jucome on snake and you jump back. you send your sister to see if it is a good or bad snake. it is already out there

the latest wikileak revelations over the weekend included an e-mail that links bob cramer, seen in this inciting violence at trump rallies, with hillary clinton's campaign manager robbie mook. however, here is an e-mail from one progressive to another progressive about the campaign. e-mail reads i just want today pass along this note i sent to bob cramer, who as you know is consulting with the dnc and robbie mook. and mook went on and said he's never been a part of the campaign, he flat-out lied. tammy bruce, have we gone too far? >> we can dove tail those with the project veritas video and where they're breaking campaign laws. transition is high up. like attracts like. dark arts and messing around with people. so of course you're going to get people who behave in that same manner. this is the problem when the top of the fish is as rotten as it is in clinton land. you're going to get the rest of the fish is going to be stinky as well. wait a minute, top of the fish? robert cramer was in the white house, he visited the white house 342 times. >> this is the democrat party. it's barack oba

the guy who ran the entire operation is a guy named bob cramer, long time democrat supporter.s married to a chicago democratic congresswoman, he has also removed himself from doing any work on the clinton campaign, brooke. >> drew, when were the videos taken? how old are they? >> i don't have the exact timing on these but they were taken, according to james o'keefe, the filmmaker within the last year or so, that is what he says, we don't have time stamps on these and cnn has not independently looked at the raw video yet. >> thank you so much. let's get the clinton campaign response. kristina schake is with me, deputy communications director for hillary for america. kristina, good to see you in vegas. >> great to be here. >> just quickly off of the reporting, the james o'keefe tape, did the clinton campaign have anything to do with this? >> absolutely not. we didn't participate in this in any way. we would never support that. it's also to point out that when the gop convention was taking place in cleveland there were lots of reports there were going to be arrests and protests,

they agree with bob cramer's decision to step away and separate from any work on the clinton campaign. but they are also going to investigate james o'keefe to find out if he did anything illegal in obtaining or gathering these tapes. we also did just get a statement in from democracy partners. that is a group of -- partnership basically that works on democratic campaigns. they said we were breached and betrayed but still standing. and we condemn -- excuse me here. -- violence and election tampering in all forms. so that is where it stands tonight, anderson. >> all right. drew griffin, thanks. you can bet the panel has plenty to say about this. clinton supporter and former obama senior advisor van jones. maria cardona. gloria berjer. jeffrey lord and scotty nell hughes. it certainly looks damning on the tape. >> it certainly does. and we don't know how big a deal it is. it is just more garbage in this ugly and divisive campaign. we don't know whether it was locker room talk, to use the phrase or -- >> it is sort of ironic that they are using the term barroom talk when they condemn dona

the white house was pressed about this today, about these meetings that bob cramer had at the white house least according to -- >> i think there's a narrative that somebody could make that is pretty damaging to her. the problem is no one is making it. i will tell how is not making it, donald trump. i mean, he could be standing up there every day talking about wikileaks and putting these pieces together, and he hasn't been. as steve said earlier. >> he may tonight. >> he mighti think that would ma pretty effective argument against her. most democrats i talked to think that bottom line, wikileaks is embarrassing but not disqualifying, not something that's going to change the dynamic of the race. but there is plenty to ask her about. and i think the fbi stuff may be even more damaging that john podesta's emails. >> these videos, ed, show these democratic operatives planning to put agitators at the donald trump rallies to stir up trouble and to encourage in one instance getting punched in the face and then to play the victim. in fact, that happened. he brags that a 69-year-old woman at one ra

now we are getting reports that one of the key players caught on tape, a guy by the name of bob cramer has been a frequent visitor to the white house. trace gallagher has the new details from our west coast newsroom. trace? >> in fact, bret, robert cramer has visited the obama white house 342 times including 47 meetings with the president himself over 7 and a half years that's about one visit per week. the clinton campaign is trying to back away from this story because as the dots are connected the campaign is being drawn further in. the undercover video from the conservative action group project veritas shows robert cramer openly talking about how the campaign and hillary clinton herself know all about the various tactics used to disrupt trump rallies. or as the director for americans united for change scott foval put it to get trump's people to freak the blank out. listen to his so-called rapid response coordinator for the democratic national committee talk about how the protests are designed to look spontaneous and disguised to look organic. watch. >> the undercover tape also shows

. >> so bob cramer from democracy -- it's not a super pac, but he's a strategist. he got fired. bombshell story. he's caught on tape saying basically we're trying to subvert democracy. what's the response? i go to politico this morning. they keep track of everything. >> and? >> no story. totally suppressing it. in their view, james o'keefe is not really a journalist. he's a right-wing agitator. they just write him out of history because they don't agree with his politics. you don't have to agree with the politics of a reporter to appreciate the work that he produces. i read liberal journalists every day. some of it's good and some of it's not, but you assess it on its merits. they dismiss it like it doesn't mean anything or it's untrue simply because they don't care for his personal politics. >> also, what did we notice over the summer? a lot of times we see these trump events and violence. see what's happening with trump? he brings the violence out. well, a lot of people said, i'm a bernie sanders supporter and i'm creating that violence. others, it turns out, were commissioned

bob peck, an analyst, and jim cramer as well. we'll weigh in.edge fund manager and activist/investor the back with his top picks. and the top-ranked apple analyst makes his case on why he thinks that stock is about to soar, all at the top of the hour. carl, see you in about 15. >> sound good, scott. thanks. let's get over to the cme group in chicago, rick santelli, and kw get "the santelli exchange." >> good morning, carl. it's earnings season it's time for corbin projection. what is the third quarter saying to investors or reflecting what investors said to you? >> sure. you know, it's very interesting what's going on this quarter. investors are feeling pretty good about lowered expectations heading into third quarter. north of 70% are expecting in line to better than consensus results, and the number expecting misses has been cut in half since last quarter. >> it wasn't long ago you were telling me investors were worried about climbing the wall of worry, all the issues and headwinds with stocks. the wall's gone? >> the wall was broken down in d

bottom line, one more method of cramer's madness, when you see insider buying on a stock that's already at a solid run, you probably want to be buying too. bob in new york, bob. >> caller: jim, steeler booyah to you. >> steelers from new york, all right. well, why not? what's up? >> caller: jim, i have a question about interest rates. when the fed raises interest rates, good companies with attractive dividend yields and growth prospects suddenly rapidly go out of favor. can you add some clarity to why? >> well, because people extrapolate, bob. once they see rates start to go up, they figure they're going to go up for a while. if that's the case they want to get out of what they perceive as being a risky yield, which is a stock yield, and go into what's a certainty, which is a bond yield. so it's all relative basis. rick in california, rick. >> caller: booyah, jim. >> booyah, rick. >> caller: how do i add to a position if my stock hasn't gone down to the average -- >> no, you can't. i'd say the vast majority, not just a few times, not just the majority, but the vast majority of times, we pay up above our basis. well, i got to tell you. >> sel

cramer you might hate najarian. and that's not what disney wants or procter wants. i mean, what kind of data is that? >> no, doesn't that speak to the user experience, bob, and that's one of the underlying -- >> it's terrible. >> it is and part of our note we released when you looked to third quarter numbers it looks like the olympics, all the politics and events did not help. you probably have a flat quarter base, maybe even down some. given that twitter wants to be live and both events are very much live, you're not seeing some inflex in both users as well as engagement and that's what it portends to what jim was talking about. >> you wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole. >> i wouldn't and i would take profits here. the fundamentals stink. they really do. revenues are a third what have they were a year ago. u.s. ad revenue growth is up 18%. facebook 69%. and they are seeing twitter is seeing a deceleration at a very fast clip. no engagement, fundamentals stink. i have no it idea why you would still around since the stock is up almost 40%. take your money and put it elsewhere. >> it's down -- >> can i just say, scott, let me just say there's a pres

bob pisani, thanks very much. ringing the closing bell, u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. he will be interviewed by jim crameray. >>> welcome to the "closing bell." i'm kelly evans. it looks like we have declines on wall street. vix moved up half a point. dollar roughly unchanged. nasdaq dropped 26. 5283 its closing level. 2143 for the s&p and 28, 171 for the blue chips. the cnbc iq 100 kicked off today. hey, at least it was a green spot today. it rallied with 0.8%. it will be a busy hour for irns. we have apple due out around 3:3 4:30. apple shares a little weaker on the session today. and it's not just apple after the bell. we also get chipotle, panera, pandora. and just to name a few. joining me is michael santoli, jon fortt and guy. welcome everybody. what about the market? >> i think earning season has been good enough to keep the story intact. you have a lot of offsetting good versus bad and i do think the consumer pressure was the most evident theme between underarrest mower, gm had a gown 4% reaction to a very good quarter, whirlpool, you obviously had some kind of a spending pause in third quarter. i

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