her spokesman, brian fallon, tweeting, just moments ago this -- "we were always confident nothing would cause the july decision to be revisited. now director comey has confirmed it." kellyanne conway replied to that tweet saying "when why did you, your colleague, and your candidate attack comey and his credibility"? kellyanne conway is going to be join us here live in just a few minutes. obviously very curious to see what the trump campaign's reaction to this last-minute twist is. before we get to her as we figure out exactly what's been going on and what has been a very busy hour here, want to bring in kristen welker. she's been covering hillary clinton's campaign. she hosted the last hour. she joins me now. fast-moving development here, but, again, for last ten days, almost the last ten days, the clinton campaign has sort of been existing in limbo. you've had that letter from james comey on october 28th saying, hey, look, new e-mails were discovered, the initial report suggested we were not going to hear from him again until after election day, but now 48 hours until election day, he

she tweets, this is in response to brian fallon from the hillary clinton campaign. did you, your colleagues and your candidate attack comey and his credibility? david? >> well, you remember how this went, right? when jim comey came out in july and said he was recommending no charges, though he thought hillary clinton had -- >> republicans jumped all over it. >> you got it. republicans jumped all over him. then a week ago friday, when he came out and said there were these new e-mails found. we have to go through them. democrats jumped all over him. no doubt it happened. each was playing to that perspective. kellyanne conway is saying, hey, it was a week ago that you guys were complaining about this guy. although i will say, i don't hear a lot of praise for jim comey. i hear more relief that the matter has been resolved. i don't think you're going to see, quite frankly, from either eid of the aisle at this point, a lot of people standing up and saying jim comey acted so incredibly well in this presidential campaign. i think you'll hear from both sides of the aisle tha

i'm joined by the clinton national press secretary, brian fallon, brian, thanks for being with us. last night we had you all on in philadelphia with a crowd of tens of thousands of people out there on independent hall. i know we still got a few hours before polls close in pennsylvania. how are you feeling about pennsylvania tonight. >> we have been riding a big surge of momentum in these closing days and there is no state in the country that is more important then pennsylvania. philadelphia today we had largest crowd of our whole campaign last night as you mentioned and today we're seeing surging turnout in the key part of philadelphia where we need to have a successful result tonight. we think it could potentially smash 2012 hashing where 70 percent of register voters participate we could than on pace to exceed that today. >> what do you think this driving those numbers. >> i think that the secretary has really closed this campaign in a positive uplifting message about how she wants to be president for everybody, not the just those who vote for her in fact tonight in addition to t

we saw brian fallon, one of clinton's spokes people, mentioning the investigations from the agency into donald trump's housing discrimination cases for the '70s. so they're just harping on it, wondering what is behind all of this. >> and the fbi came out overnight with a defense, a pretty technical defense of the fact that they're releasing this. what do they say? >> reporter: yeah, we've got part of the statement here for us. the fbi is saying in part, by law freedom of information act materials that have been requested three or mower times are posted electronically to the fbi's public reading room shortly after they are processed. >> interesting. >> reporter: very interesting. so the thought is that they did nothing wrong. they did just what they would normally do. it just happens to be not great timing for the clinton campaign. >> i'm reaching back into my brain because it is one of the stories i covered as a derivatives, a futures market reporting, because it was someone who was well-known. his wife i believe was a big fundraiser for the clintons, so at the time all of this was a bi

. >> clinton campaign press secretary brian fallon joining me. what is happening behind the scenes, what is the mood and what are you doing in terms of -- what are you looking at for getting out the vote? >> we're all tired, but pretty much elated. i was on the plane yesterday with her and you went from philadelphia where you had the largest crowd of our campaign and you had that hugely symbolic moment where because president obama was graciously agreed to speak before secretary clinton introduced, she actually took podium with the presidential seal in front of you and you could feel that you were on the doorstep of making history. and then on to raleigh, you wonder how you could possibly top philadelphia and lady gaga had the crowd whipped up into a frenzy and no one was tired at the end of that event. and then to be greeted at 3:30 in the morning by all the supporters at westchester county airport. i think she's in very high spirits. and this morning what we're seeing is anecdotally reports of high turnout in all the areas that we need to perfo

joining us now, clinton press connecticut brian fallon. thanks for joining us. polls tightening in the recent weeks. what's the one state you're most concerned about right now? >> well, jake, to be honest with you, woe're feeling pretty good right now. to give you a sense of one of the critical battleground states we've been watching all day. florida. a state donald trump must win. if he doesn't win florida it's game over for trump. not only did we see strong performance in terms of the early vote. latinos in particular. a million latinos voting in the early voting phase in florida, more than double 2012 early voting levels. in terms of the vote that we're seeing today, if you look at a heavily democratic county like broward county, home of ft. lauderdale, a big county along with miami-dade in southern florida, as of 3:00 today we were looking at about 98% of the ballots returned already. that's even before the afternoon post-work shift. similar numbers in terms of the pace compared to 2012 in hillsborough county in the tampa area. close to 100% already at 3:00

brian fallon, one of secretary clinton's top aides, tweeted this very strong reaction when it came out. absent a foia litigation deadline, this is odd. will fbi be posting docs on trump's housing discrimination in the '70s? the fact that this twitter account has largely been dormant for quite some time, as you pointed out, the way they're going to use this is to weave it into their broader strategy, really hitting director comey for raising this issue, this new probe over these newly found e-mails. as they have been arguing, they say it's unprecedented and they say it's inappropriate. we heard secretary clinton taking that line of attack over the weekend. i can tell you, brian, that in the 72 hours since director comey raised that issue with the newly discovered e-mails, they raised $11.5 million on line. that's their largest haul in a 72-hour period on line. they are using this to try to energize their base. is it working? it is if you look at that figure in terms of on-line donations. secretary clinton, though, taking a step back from hitting director comey on the trail today. she wa

from the clinton election headquarters in new york city is a clinton spokeswoman -- spokesman, brian fallon. brian, great to see you. center tonight, what are your feelings about what you learned thus far? >> thanks, shep, for having me on. we're feeling very confident right now. while there's still a lot of data to come in, we're outperforming president obama in 2012 in key battleground states, in wake county in north carolina, in fairfax county in virginia, which is a county that i think president obama won by 20-plus points, we seem to be with a small percentage in so far. and then if you look at pennsylvania, we've seen reports today from city officials in philadelphia that they expect turnout to surpass the 2012 benchmark of 78% of registered voters turning out. so in the key bellwether areas of these battleground states, we're seeing turnout where it needs to be. we think we're on a path to 270 electoral votes tonight. >> donald trump has already said if hillary clinton wins the state of florida, he cannot be the president. in florida. there appears to not be as great of turnout in th

brian fallon took to twitter. then the trump campaign was swift to strike back stating then why did you, your colleagues and candidate attack comey, and his credibility. bill, the saga never stops. your assessment on how this whole thing played out. >> charles, i am somewhat baffled by the whole thing. i guess what the director did on october 28 was inform the congress as he said that he would if anything came up that he had to reexamine additional documents. the conclusion today is that no there is nothing changed. but i guess what we have to remember is that's sphonl one portion of the equation. and the whole investigation regarding the clinton foundation is still in play. and that still has to work its way out. but it's a very confusing message to everybody who hears it. charles: it's being reported in part to the media that now it's closed. but this thing was never really closed. do you assume it's closed now? >> yogi berra once said it ain't over until it's over. i don't think some of the players put their cl

>> well, brian fallon called it odd.said it raises some questions about the motives behind the release of it. and it continues the narrative that the clinton campaign has put out, wondering why the fbi is taking the approach that it has towards the clinton campaign for the last week, or the last weekend, should we say. >> and the fbi has a release complaining why this happened? >> yeah. the fbi was saying, by law, foia materials that have been requested three or more times posted electronically to the fbi's public reading room shortly after they are processed. so they're saying this is not outside of the norm. this is what they do. it just happens is this not what they've been doing for much of the past year. >> eugene scott covering the latest intrigue with the fbi. appreciate it. >>> donald trump heads to florida today with events in miami, orlando and pensacola. his running mate mike pence goes to new mexico and colorado. at a late rally last night, trump jumped all over hillary clinton's e-mails. he raised a newly re

mean, if you look at the hillary clinton folks who have come out on media and the posts on media, brian fallon said we'll have a lawyer present just to make sure everything is going okay but even we acknowledge that overcoming even the smallest of deficit which is in michigan is going to be nearly impossible. >> well, but they're still showing up. >> they're showing up. >> we have the trumps moving headlong into the transition which for reporters covering it unlike anything we have seen. used to be you had to hear the whisper campaigns and maybe a snippet of a source on the outside. and all the people who are possible candidates for each job -- i will serve the president-elect no matter how and then from the insiders we get something like this. from kellyanne conway. >> number of people who feel betrayed to think that a governor romney would get the most prominent cabinet post after he went so far out of his way to hurt donald trump, there was never trump movement and then mitt romney. >> and this is an isolated. we had newt gingrich on this morning also talking about mitt romney really, reall

brian fallon saying we were always confident nothing would cause the july decision to be revisited be, now director comey has confirmed it. i think what is most remarkable for james comey of course is that his credibility had already been under fire in wrjuly when walked the to up line saying the laws were broken and then didn't do anything. and then he inserted himself into the election is the auat se date and then the president obama saying there wasn't anything there and a lot of eyebrows raised there. but now here we are two days from the election where we didn't expect to hear from james comey at all saying something that the clinton camp certainly thinks is a sigh of relief. >> what is odd is how do we go forward. could you argue that comey was locked into it ever since july 5th where he said he wouldn't pursue anything criminal or recommend that. kind of locked in then to say if there were further developments, i'll let you know. there were further developments. t and then he would beholden to update if any news had come of that. so he kept locking himself in these positions wh

clinton campaign spokesman brian fallon responded back on twitter, absence a foia deadline this is odd. will fbi be posting docs on trump's housing discrimination in0's. after the pardon it was widely reported that the justice department launched investigation, denise, his wife, secured the pardon by making donations to the democratic party and clinton foundation. fbi director james comey was the attorney who decided not to pursue charges in that case. separately president obama weighed in on wednesday, today, on comey's letter to congress on friday about reopening the fbi investigation into secretary clinton's use of a private email server. >> i do think that there is a norm that, you know when there are investigations, we don't operate on innuendo. we don't operate on incomplete information. we don't operate on leaks. we operate based on concrete decisions that are made. reporter: the president said he would not comment on the particulars of the case to make sure he did not appear to be meddling in it. melissa. melissa: hmmm. interesting. peter barnes, thank you. david? david: all ri

. >> brian fallon, spokesperson for the clinton campaign, could have uttered that sentence there. newt gingrich tweets, comey must be under enormous political pressure to cave like this and announce something he can't possibly know. here's a democrat criticizing comey on news today. john conyers of michigan, longtime democrats. in the days that come we will have many questions about the fbi's handling of this investigation. in the meantime, however, i welcome this news confirming again that no charges are warranted into this matter. we have a political loser in all of this, james comey. >> from his point of view, he argued he was doing the right thing in both cases, that he had to bring the information forward when he did the first time and had to do it the second time, but he has put the fbi in the middle of a political campaign like never before. >> and the fact he wrapped it up literally two days before an election, it just seems unseemly. at a time when people distrust government thinking every single thing that is happening right now is for political gain it jeopardizes the f

were released on the fbi's twitter account from the 2001 investigation, with clinton spokesman brian fallonweeting, absent a foyette litigation deadline this is odd. with fbi be posting docs on trump's housing investigation in the '70s. an official i spoke to about today's release says it's really not about politics it's about policies. one saying topics of general information and freedom of information act automatically go the fbi's vault when ready for public consumption in the order they're released. the fbi trying to figure out how to respond to this. >> we should point out, pam, it's not just clinton-related documents this account is tweeting out. the fbi records vault twitter handle also posted something about donald trump's father fred. >> reporter: right. if you look at the twitter account from the fbi vault account it was dormant for a year and then the first tweet was right here over the weekend about fred trump. donald trump's father, an investigation into him several years ago, when the fbi looked into campaign donations and a hint of concern about organized crime. it didn't go

you had her spokesman brian fallon talking about how she stood behind the podium with a presidential seal on it because she had been proceeded by two -- one former and then the sitting president of the united states. that is the mood in the clinton campaign right now. the second piece of this is the data they already have early voting. if there's a place where there's any nervousness or surprises, it's in states we don't have early vote yet, like pennsylvania and michigan, where they spent some of their last remaining time. i think they're pretty confident about florida. they think they could win there by a larger margin than president obama did in 2012. and florida was the closest state in 2012, less than one percentage point and 174,000 votes separating president obama from mitt romney. they're hoping and they think they have early vote totals. the one real nail-biter, they believe, is going to be north carolina. they think that could go late into the night. of course, if, in fact, that comes down to deciding the election, we've seen trump already willing to file these lawsuits. cl

spokesman brian fallon tweeting, "we're glad this issue is resolved but for the record this could easily have been learned before the first letter was sent. that was sent october 28th, threw this campaign into chaos. donald trump's campaign manager kellyanne conway joined us just after this letter was sent out. we will bring you her reaction, what she and her campaign are saying about all this in just a few minutes. let's start first with nbc's kelly o'donnell in cleveland. clinton just wrapped up a rally with lebron james. kelly, that was supposed to be the headline. king james, hillary clinton, big rally, swing state ohio. pretty much overshadowed this news. what is the reaction from the clinton campaign. is clinton herself going to be addressing this you think? >> i've fwn talking to senior advisers. do not expect her to talk about this. do not do this here. i was told she was informed about this latest letter her reaction was, quote, understated. i guess that's left open to interpretation what that means but understated was the word used. instead advisers say hillary clinton is tryin

the clinton campaign had this to say about sweizer, campaign spokesman brian fallon said, "hillary clintonlf did not participate in the review or district the department to take any position on the sale of uranium one." >> the campaign said typically these kinds of decisions don't go all the way up to the secretary and instead are decided at the assistant secretary level, and they produced -- assistant secretary -- to say she had never intervened on any case that he was involved in, but they didn't say, wouldn't, couldn't answer, is was she briefed? did, you know, before this decision was made? they didn't say. >> reporter: fallon also says, "without presenting any direct evidence in support of the claim, the "times" story like the book on which it is based, wrongly suggests that hillary clinton's state department pushed for the sales's approval to reward donors who had an interest in the deal." >> the biggest donors to bill clinton's foundation built, financed and eventually sold off to the russians a company that held huge stakes in kazakhstan and american uranium reserves while she was

the clinton campaign had this to say about sweizer, campaign spokesman brian fallon said, "hillary clinton herself did not participate in the review or district the department to take any position on the sale of uranium one." >> the campaign said typically these kinds of decisions don't go all the way up to the secretary and instead are decided at the assistant secretary level, and they produced -- assistant secretary -- to say she had never intervened on any case that he was involved in, but they didn't say, wouldn't, couldn't answer, is was she briefed? did, you know, before this decision was made? they didn'r: fallon also says, "without presenting any direct evidence in support of the claim, the "times" story like the book on which it is based, wrongly suggests that hillary clinton's state department pushed for the sales's approval to reward donors who had an interest in the deal." >> the biggest donors to bill clinton's foundation built, financed and eventually sold off to the russians a company that held huge stakes in kazakhstan and american uranium reserves while she was secretary o

spokesman brian fallon tweeted absent a foia litigation deadline, this is odd. will fbi be posting documents on trump's housing discrimination in the 1970s? clinton has been trying to stay on message and make her closing argument on the trail. today at her first event in florida she did not reference the fbi director james comey or their frustration with the agency for releasing information on the eve of an election. he left those argue. s to surrogates. she was joined today by alicia matched who donald trump called mispigy. he hoped to appeal to women releasing an ad today with some of the most offensive stuff trump has said about women. the headlines continue to be about the fbi investigation. she is here in sanford, florida. that, of course, is where trayvon martin was killed several years back. and hillary clinton has become very close with his mother sybrina fulton and other mothers of the movement. again, they are trying to talk about issues, national security issues, and they keep getting drawn back to this fbi issue. back to you. >> jennifer, i should no

brian fallon tweeting absent a foia litigation deadline this is odd. will fbi be posting docs on trump's housing discrimination in the seventies? a case settled years ago. and fbi officials insists today's release was not political. freedom of information act requests are automatically posted when they have ethey are ready for the public to view. the fbi also this weekend posted documents related to donald trump's father. today director comey appeared at a memorial service in washington. alongside attorney general loretta lynch. you know, learned tw t two talked monday for the first time since comey went against the department's recommendation not inform congress of e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop. comey is a republican who has donated in the past to gop candidates like mitt romney and john mccain but has not made contributions since appointed by president obama. but tonight democrats say there is a double standard. speaking publicly about the clinton server investigation before there is clarity but not about investigations connected to the tr

clinton spokesman brian fallon tweeting, "absent a foia litigation deadline, this is odd. will fbi be posting docs on trump's housing discrimination in the '70s?" a case settled years ago. the twitter account for the fbi records management division, which it calls the vault, has been dormant for a year. until this weekend, when a tweet was posted pointing to documents relating to donald trump's father. an fbi official insisted to cnn today's release was not political and that freedom of information act requests are automatically posted to the account when they're ready for the public to view and when there's public interest. the official says not posting the documents would have been a change in standard procedure. today comey appeared at a memorial service in washington alongside attorney general loretta lynch. cnn has learned the two talked on monday for the first time since comey wednesday against the department's recommendation not to inform congress of e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop. comey is a republican who has donated in the past to gop candidates like mi

a worse time for the fbi when the fbi is under fire for sending the controversial letter out a brian falloneased a tweet today saying absent a fayette litigation deadline this is odd. will fbi post docs on trump's housing discrimination in the '70s? the fbi official i spoke to said this is policy, not politics. we post on a first come first served basis when there is information of great public interest. because it received multiple requests, that's why it's posted. the fbi vault account, which posted this, also posted about donald trump's dad over the weekend, records pertaining to an investigation into his dad. >> it's still perplexing, the timing of this. have they released an official statement, the fbi? >> reporter: they're working on that official statement right now. i think they're trying to figure out a way to put it into context and explain why it happened now. i was told in order for the documents to have been posted later it would have been a break from standard procedure. it makes you wonder why there wasn't perhaps more oversight. >> good question. thank you very much for that

in one email campaign spokesman brian fallon laid out what seemed like a routine plan in 2015 to release bill and hillary clinton's income tax returns. but buried in the email are fallon's concerns about how activity at the clinton foundation might spark even more pay for play allegations. quote reporters will also scrutinize the 2013 speech list for overlap between speech hosts and campaign and foundation donors that could fuel pay-to-play story lines wrote fallon. despite these inevitable angles, we will have given ourselves the best possible fighting chance of promoting the most helpful story lines. >> thank you. >> fallon was particularly worried about the former president's ties to laureate university a for-profit college which paid him nearly $18 million to be an hahn area honorary chancellor. email trying to tip off the campaign about developments in the clinton email probe last year. in email chain titled heads up assistant attorney general peter cass sick warns poo desthat about a hearing and government filing that could push clinton emails into the 2016 window. forwarded to oth

i can tell you that at noon yesterday, brian fallon was on our show and i asked him about how they felt and he said tired but elated. i checked back with him at 6:00 last night before we went on "nightly news" at 6:30 and said, is it still fair to say tired and elated? he said no, elated. and that was the case as late as 8:00 last night when staff members were circulated around the javits center. so they did not see this coming. i even got word from democratic sources in michigan that the turnout in michigan was not turning out in detroit and flint. in other words, not getting the strong minority vote they needed there. it was fairly early in the evening, around 8:30, maybe 9:00. at that point, we started seeing a tightening of the polls. with the very early raw vote. but there were some clear warning signs. after that, there was no word from the clinton team. people who usually got back to us didn't get back to any of the journalists at the javits center. we waited for hours as they tried to absorb this. best indicator of the disconnect was john podesta coming over to the javits center

it was in response to what brian fallon tweeted. of the clinton campaign, "we were always confident nothing would cause the july decision to be revisited. now director comey has confirmed it." kellyanne conway then tweeted, then why did you, your colleagues, and your candidate attack comey and his credibility? of course that's something that both campaigns have been engaged in. i want to bring ben jealous of the naacpnto this conversation. ben, thank you for being here. let me just get your reaction to this development and the fact that director comey has s now saying they have reviewed these newly discovered e-mails and nothing has changed. >> look, there's no doubt that this has done damage. what's critical is the next 48 hours, and folks need to get out and vote. i mean, you know, we're seeing that black voting numbers are up in most states. we're also seeing that black voting percentages are down in several states, and that's because the white vote has surged more. and so, you know, i think what that shows is that folks get that

we take our cues from her. >> brian fallon from the hillary clinton headquarters tonight at in new york city. thanks so much for being here. we love to check in with yr people throughout the night. we wish you all the best. >> absolutely, shep. >> fox news decision team projects in the state of florida the marco rubio will win his senate seat yet again. 86% of all precincts are reporting. marco rubio with 51.5% of the vote. patrick murphy, the challenger, 44.9% of the vote. marco rubio facing a man from a wealthy family, put about $5 million of his own money in there. decided they weren't going to put a lot more than that in. there was a time when it looked to pull it out in the end. we don't know yet what the margin of victory is going to be. marco rubio will return as the senator from the state of florida. that means that is not a pickup for a democrat. that's hold for republicans. and that means democrats still need to pick up four more seats and not let any get away. kelly ayotte may have something to say about that. we'll be able to update the presidential race repeatedly and we be

. >> >> for the clinton campaign brian fallon clinton campaign. ve from clinton headquarters tonight. brian, your thoughts. you just heard that what state are you looking to and where do you feel most confident and most, perhaps, vulnerable for secretary clinton tonight? >> i think one state we have been watching closely throughout this campaign. one state have you seen secretary clinton travel to again and again is pennsylvania. pennsylvania is a state that donald trump really needs. it's hard to imagine a path for him if he doesn't win pennsylvania. and right now if you look at areas in philadelphia, we're hearing reports from city officials there suggesting that they think they're on pace to break the standard from 2012 where you saw almost 70% of registered voters turn out in the city of philadelphia. we look good in philadelphia in the city limits. we also like what we are seeing in terms of the outer ring suburbs outside of philadelphia based on secretaryppeal with suburban women especially. that's the state that i think has the trump campaig

. >> want to go back to robin roberts, there with brian fallon from the clinton campaign. >> you've been very patient, standing here with us. watching intently, listening intently what are you hearing and how are you feeling about florida right now? >> well, a state like florida is important, but it's important to keep it in perspective. there is a large portion of the vote still out in southern florida. looking at miami-dade and brow ward, where you are seeing a we're outperforming president obama in many key counties in florida. if we do win florida, the story of it will be the surge you've seen in the latino vote. to the point just made on the panel, we had a very targeted strategy, recognizing that the latino vote is not a monolith. we've talked to the puerto rican community, the cuban community, and the mexican community, when you look at a state like nevada. we have taken a s but while florida is important in terms of if donald trump loses it, very hard to see how he could get to 270, it's not going to be decisive for him just if he ones florida. he's going to have to run the table

with more on the retail winners and losers this black friday, brian nagle with oppenheimer and oliver chen, retail analyst with fallonnd company. welcome to both of you. brian, i'll start with you. i wonder how much does black friday matter anymore? i mean, it used to be that black friday was the day when the shopping season really started, then it kind of crept into thanksgiving. now all week, especially online, we've been seeing these tedeals get rolled out. how does it look to you? >> great question. i've been watching your programming all day. i have my team out looking at stores in various parts of the country. the easy answer is black friday is not what it used to be. stores are operating in different hours. we have online commerce, so consumers can shop online whenever they want. a lot of these traditional black friday deals have been offered far long time. you know, the retailers put these out as early as three weeks ago. what i'm hearing about these reports of maybe some weak traffic in stores, that really doesn't mean much to me because, again, this black friday holiday has been spread out dramatically. >>