there was a very pro-comey comment back in july. anti-comey comment since then. but mr. trump also flipped on this. he was very critical in all the we weeks after the july conclusion. then he was welcoming to comey, expressing gratitude to him and the fbi agents. we saw a flip on both sides. you'll agree, right? >> no, not at all, wolf. mr. trump was very clear. he said all along he thought the fbi got this wrong back in july. there's no way we could have all of these deleted e-mails. that we could have five different people taking the fifth in this investigation. clearly, we know all the e-mails weren't about yoga and wedding planning. then to find out -- i don't know how they went through 650,000 e-mails in one week. the fact we had sensitive information ending up on the laptop of anthony weiner is unconscionab unconscionable. the front page of the "washington post" showed clinton had her aide print off classified information. she was reckless, careless, disregard for top nation security information. it's not talking about the investigation that is clearly still going

so the comey letter is no news to them. think to talk about the battleground states, let's talk about pennsylvania. there is not early voting in pennsylvania. but there is enthusiasm. you will see clinton supporters out, hundreds of them canvassing. what this does is that it reminds voters that donald trump's signature argument against hillary clinton was built on nothing but thin air and it falls apart. hillary clinton's closing argument is a closing argument about hope and optimism for the future. donald trump's entire campaign was negative. he did not need this letter to come out to rally his supporters. i think some air falls out of his balloon today. but for hillary, her message as never been focused on this. charles: after october 8 the news center took her off guard paint made her look angry and defensive for many many days. i'm not sure what it means now. 348 hours and we'll know. >> even though this particular situation with the f.b.i. may have stayed away for a little bit. there is still wikileaks. jennifer palmie

comey's judgment.uestions about his character if indeed you can double or triple source the story regarding russia and its involvement in trying to influence our election and mr. comey saying he did not want the fbi to sign on to that. >> i forgot your question now. >> what's more important? >> okay. >> mr. comey's reputation or democracy and the outcome of the election. >> that seems to be an easy choice, does btd it? >> presidential election. >> let me answer. jim comey, my job is my job. i can't -- i'm not the insurer of american democracy. i'm not the insurer of the constitution all by myself. i'm the insurer of my integrity, reputation, and my agency's integrity and reputation. and that's the decision i make. apparently, comey is that type of guy. >> he has hurt the fbi. >> that's what you say. i'm sure that comey would suggest, and i don't know because i have been very critical of comey myself. i think the news conference he ran after indicting -- not indicting her was outrageous. you either indi

comey's current boss, however, attorney general loretta lynch, checked in on comey yesterday to see how he's doing. lynch was opposed to comey sending his letter to congress last friday, but we're told the conversations yesterday were a friendly chat between two officials under a great deal of scrutiny over the clinton investigation. >> evan, thanks so much for all of that. the clinton campaign is going after the fbi chief for what they call a blatant double standard. a new report has donald trump's taxes back in the headlines. phil mattingly has it all for us. least live in chappaqua, new york, with more. hi, phil. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. look, the clinton campaign made very clear over the course of the last three days they are going to attack jim comey, they're going to attack the fbi. it has been a slow escalation, and right now it seems like it's peaking. >> there is no case here. >> reporter: hillary clinton and her campaign firing back at fbi director james comey. slamming his decision to notify congress of a new investigation into thousands of e-mails found on a comput

was sick, comey took over. >> i became the acting attorney general. >> 12 years ago, comey defied top bush officials in a tense show down. the issue was domestic surveillance. comey said he would not sign an extension to the secret wiretapping program. bush's lawyer rushed to ashcroft's hospital bed to get him to override comey. comey rose to his bed to confront him. they turned on the emergency equipment and drove quickly to the hospital. >> ashcroft agreed with comey and president bush and gonzalez backed down. keep that in mind when you hear gonzalez criticize comey today. >> you don't comment on investigations. commenting on the investigation may jeopardize the investigation. that's the box he's put himself in. >> well, certainly comey shook things up. with that now it's time to show something that could make everybody's heads explode. >> the changes on the map raised the chances deadlock. donald trump and hillary clinton could both be in for a big surprise on tuesday. if donald trump wins the south, as republicans often do, plus ohio, new hampshire, and nevada, which are swing st

letter, new comey letter. nine days after that other letter he mentioned fbi in every speech probably several times. in this speech in minnesota, he doesn't mention fbi once even though he did say hillary clinton he said would be under investigation for a long time. he didn't actually say fbi. it was to me a stark omission. again, one of those blue states he said it will be an upset there. now we're going to michigan that you've been talking about. michigan tomorrow as well, in fact, is where he will end the campaign. he just add add very late 11:00 rally in michigan. right now we're about 30 minutes away from sterling heights, just a suburb of detroit where he will hold a rally there. we expect him to hit his core messages of obama care again. jobs as he always does when he's in michigan. we're all waiting to see if he'll talk more about the fbi. as you know, kellyanne conway, their central message. i would note i was, as others were, a little surprised right after the initial comey letter he didn't talk more

him. >> get comey great again. i'll get hats. >> donald trump was saying the shift has been righted. he's kind of -- he's got to back his reputation. is he going to say the same thing now? does he have confidence in comey if he's president? >> this doesn't change a couple facts. the one we know she lied about the devices and having the server to begin and the classified information. >> does your candidate have confidence in the f director? >> i will tell you, this doesn't change a simple fact, which is this investigation was bungled from the beginning. otherwise, today wouldn't have been the day we found out hillary clinton was asking her maid to print out information, even though the lady doesn't have a security clearance, we would imagine. that is new information. >> that was a story we haven't an able to confirm. >> hillary clinton left information at a hotel in china. huma abedin had information on the front seat of her car. it's sloppy and things have been mishandled and none of that changes. look, we also kno

although i will say, i don't hear a lot of praise for jim comey.ear 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 that he probably was a little too involved in the presidential campaign. >> let's take a moment and listen in to donald trump on the stump in minneapolis. >> as we all say together, when we win on november 8th, we are going to drain the swamp. and i'm going to help you on immigration in minnesota because i know what's happening to you. it's not a good thing. it's not pretty. at the core of my contract is my plan to bring jobs back to our country. america has lost 1/3 of its manufacturing jobs since nafta. a deal originally signed by bill clinton and supported by hillary. america has lost 70,000 factories since china entered the world trade organization. another bill and hillary-backed disaste

comey -- >> reporter: james comey became the seventh director of the fbi in 2013, in the beginning of >> so help me god. >> congratulations, sir. >> reporter: but years before that, he became the number two at the justice department under president george w. bush and was a registered republican. although now he says he's, quote, not registered any longer. but in the past, he donated to both the mitt romney campaign in 2012 and the john mccain campaign in 2008. he also served as a counsel on the white water committee in 1966. but his reputation for fairness has been well known. when comey took over the fbi director spot from bob mueller, this is what mueller had to say. >> i have had the opportunity to work with jim for a number of years in the department of justice and i have found him to be a man of honesty, dedication, and integrity. >> reporter: comey gained a degree of fame for his role in one of the most dramatic incidents during george w. bush's tenure in the white house. comey's boss, attorney general john ashcroft, was gravely ill in the hospital. two of president bush's top a

meanwhile, trump is capitalizing on comey's new e-mail probe. >> it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. >> reporter: comey has only said the e-mails found on disgraced congressman anthony weiner's computer, quote, appear to be pertinent to the now-closed clinton private server investigation. >> we can be sure that what is in those e-mails is absolutely devastating. and i think we're going to find out, by the way. for the first time. thank you, huma! thank you, anthony weiner. >> reporter: abedin's attorneys responding, saying in a statement, quote, from the beginning, miss abedin as complied fully and voluntarily with state department and law enforcement requests and reiterate, they only learned of the e-mails on weiner's computer friday from the press. clinton continuing to apologize for her private e-mail server, but issuing a challenge to investigators. >> i'm not making excuses. i've said it was a mistake and i regret it. by all means, they should look at them. and i am sure they will reach the same conclusion they did

james comey has just done another 180. the latest batch of clinton e-mail, into big deal, nothing that would wash that would warn reopening the old probe. if you're confused, you're not alone. the system remains rigged. ed henry following all the developments. ed. >> very interesting donald trump who like james comey might now say he's part of a rigged system and hillary clinton who disliked james comey appears to like him again now. this is a traumatic turn of events. october 28th, remember james comey appeared to be opening the door to reversing what he had said in july when he had the really remarkable news conference right smack in the middle of the summer as the conventions were about to heat up, saying there were potentially bad actors and it appeared that she had mishandled classified information. but said that based on intent, he did not think any prosecutor would actually bring criminal charges against clinton. huge sigh of relief for the clinton camp then. republicans were furious. then tax forward to october 28,

[laughter] >> we have to talk about comey. >> talk about comey. we are doing a thing called trump has 99 problems. you may know the song, 99 problems. >> yeah, yeah, we can talk about some of that. >> good. it's hard to understand when he says bullseye. no. just the first one about -- yeah, yeah, no. and also you know, the -- worst since watergate. >> we have a real-life russian in studio and ask him about his involvement. that's a cheap joke. i'm sorry. there are -- maybe we can touch on early vote. there are seven states where you can get your ballot back. >> no? >> and do what with it? >> change your vote. >> really? >> yeah. seven states. seven. i don't know which ones they are. yeah. >> did you guys early vote? >> i voted. >> bill lives in california, he does the mail-in thing. i go on election day. >> i do too. >> the first year i voted -- >> this is still fresh for me. >> you were 18. 2008. >> that's right. i'm actually aging backwards. >> broadcasting around the nation on your radio, on your tv and online. this is is the bill press show. >

do they have something on james comey? reports reports said doj has been stone walling investigation or did bill clinton work out a deal with loretta lynch when they met for 30 minutes or because president obama directly tied to clinton's private server. the president lied when he claimed he first learned about the server from news reports. wiki leaks showed they knew clinton was using a private server because he was sending her e-mails on the server. regardless of whatever it may be the conclusion is clear comey is protecting clinton and like the abusively biassed liberal mainstream media is protecting the clintbes by not covering this today we learned john podesta thought cheryl mills was against clinton's running because of her server scandal. the server scandal in total. her own staff said the server was a political disaster. we learned that chelsea clinton was apparently using money from the family foundation for all sorts of things not related to c take take a look at what clinton aid wrote, the investigation ntaxes

let's start with fbi director comey. he informed congress just ten days ago that the bureau was reopening the probe into hillary clinton's server after 650,000 e-mails were found on the laptop that was shared by top clinton aide huma and anthony weiner's laptop. the first time it took them almost a year to go through 30,000 e-mails. now somehow they were able to analyze 650,000 e-mails in only ten days. any logical person can see it doesn't make sense. what about the fact that comey's own agents say there is a 99% chance that up to five foreign intelligence agencies hacked the server and stole the e-mails. in other words national security secrets. what about the fact that clinton's team remember they used bleach to permanently delete 33,000 e-mails after clinton was served a subpoena to serve them. are we to believe those were really about yoga, a wedding, a funeral and e-mailing with bill clinton who doesn't e-mail? what about the fact that wikileaks showed that the clinton staff they said they didn't think she turned o

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 this is very important. what's also clear is that there are several voters who are still teetering about whether they would even turn out to vo

the comey effect. it changes every week. what today has the comey effect of the last nine days been? >> the legacy of this can be debated for a long time. no question this letter stopped clinton's momentum in a huge way. up until that time, this was a debate in the election about his fitness. donald trump's fitness for office. it switched and became more about her and her bad judgment and e-mail server. that stopped the momentum. she came out of that and it is trending her way. the damage has been done in the focus on this and another sign of why it was so unfortunate that comey allowed himself to be inserted into the political process. >> the fact they were able to review this so quickly using the software they had, makes the initial decision to go forward before you review the e-mails more defensible. >> no source i have entertained the idea if this is hard to cultivate. to david's point. the letters from comey showed clinton at her most vulnerable. the response to this is showing trump at his most vulnerable. these claims

the clinton campaign is accusing james comey of a double standard. robby mook jumped on the cnbc reporting that last month comey opposed naming russia as the state actor hacking democratic officials arguing it was too close to election day. >> it's impossible to view this as anything less than a double standard. that director comey would show more discretion in a matter concerning a foreign state actor than one involving the democratic nominee for president is nothing short of jaw dropping. >> we should note cnn does not have the same reporting on comey in russia. >>> on the campaign trail, hillary clinton says flat out there is no case here. in ohio, clinton invited investigators to go ahead and dig into her aide's e-mails, but said they will find nothing. cnn's joe johns has latest from cincinnati. >> reporter: hillary clinton kicking off the final full week of campaigning in ohio trying to use the anxiety surrounding the controversy to get out the vote. at kent state making the case there is no fbi case on the latest e-mails that were discovered.

it's a precedent that comey continues to set. though the recent e-mail probe may be over, jake, well, he hasn't essentially said, i'm no longer going to insert myself into politics any longer. what if more e-mails come out before the inauguration and, in fact, she is elected president? this is an ongoing thing that will be capitalized on by the trump campaign and going forward for her opponents if she does takes office. because the whole point of this is essentially saying, we're not going to have a court of law decide. it's going to be the court of public opinion. the court of public opinion is exhausted at the prospect of impeachment proceedings or anything else. i think his impact is going to be far more lasting. it won't really be resolved by his continuous letters to congress, where he says, you know, it's a big nevermind. it is a big no problem here. we're going to maybe still have more e-mails that may come out during the course of investigations that aren't yet closed that would involve either her colleagues or herself. >

could comey have violated the hatch act? at least one former federal prosecutor i talked to today said no. comey was acting well within his authority and the scope of his duties when he informed congress late last week of the discovery of ai but at least one law professor said there may yet be a violation, although it has nothing to do with russian hackers. kathleen clark of the university of washington law school cited a separate letter comey sent to his employees on friday for proof. in that letter, comey said this: of course, we don't ordinarily tell congress about ongoing investigations, but here i feel an obligation to do so given that i testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. i also think it would be misleading to the american the record. at the same time, however, given that we don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, i don't want to create a misleading impression. in trying to strike that balance, in a brief letter and in the middle of an election

comey, man with integrity.iny little -- >> i'm a little embarrassed now. >> i didn't know you were going to do that. when i came in, i was looking for articles about it. this was head of the new york post. latest on hillary clinton. then i say the daily news. i was like, what? i pushed that aside. >> the premature elation is the fact that hillary clinton has already bought fireworks. she's going to have a two-minute display once she wins at 9:30 in the hudson river on election night. >> i hope they choose -- >> the fireworks, though, what if she doesn't win? do they still have the display? >> you lose your deposit. >> maybe they'll take it to the east river and sell it to donald trump. >>> meanwhile at cnn, apparently they've had it up to here with donna brazile who has been a long-time commentator there. after the latest wikileaks dump revealed that she has been fed two questions to the hillary clinton campaign. she has been fired. supposedly, cnn is floored. >> they also got rid of bernard shaw. she's taking

the question remains, wolf, about what will happen to director comey. the fact that really nothing new was in these e-mails will raise questions about why he sent the letter to congress in first place without knowing the significance of the e-mails and the question is, if donald trump or hillary clinton is elected on tuesday, what then? obviously, it's going to be an awkward situation, to say the least. it will put director comey in a tough spot given how all this has played out. >> we're waiting to hear directly from donald trump. we'll be anxious to hear what he has to say. thank you very much. let's get some more reaction to this latest twist in the presidential race. our senior white house correspondent is covering the trump campaign for our senior washington correspondent is covering the clinton campaign. do we have any indication if he will address this issue. if he is, what is he likely to say? >> reporter: it's interest that you asked that question because i asked that question of the campaign and they claim that donald trump did talk about this

>> comey did the right thing. and comey did the only thing he could do. he had absolutely no choice. there's no way when you have declared an investigation closed, and then you say i would open it if i got new information, and he is presented with new information how much of it he knows about the internals and we don't know. but he had no choice but to say that this is what's going on. now, whether or not he knows that there is something that will torture in those e-mails, nobody right now is in a position to know, which makes it an impossible situation. >> there are reports that the fbi agents who are looking at ms. abedin's computer, and this is anthony weiner's computer as well. both of them used it. there are reports they sat on this for a number of weeks. this just didn't happen. all right. so the fbi has been looking at this computer for a while. it seems to me that comey never, knowing now that comey is a political player, never would have roiled the election unless somebody gave them a heads up hey, this is serious. >> according to what i have rea

today, the white house walking a fine line, praising director comey's character -- >> director comey is a man of integrity, he's a man of principle. he's a man who is well regarded by senior officials in both parties. >> reporter: -- but communicating the importance of fbi traditions, limiting public discussion of ongoing investigations, especially close to an election. >> would not the white house say let's put more information out there then? >> i think that was the hope that director comey had. that was his stated hope of sending the letter in the first place. >> it's not enough. >> well, clearly had the opposite of the intended effect. >> reporter: comey's decision to go public so close to election day has drawn fire from both democrats and republicans. including george w. bush's attorney general, alberto gonzales, who spoke to cnn today. >> i really worry that in this particular instance, the fbi director has made an error in judgment in terms of releasing this kind of letter which really says nothing. >> reporter: however, when comey testified on the hill in september after rec

jim comey himself said she did. why did she lie when she used one device when there were up to 13 of them? why did she lie that she did everything by the book and colin powell told her so? no, he didn't. it's high after lie. and the idea that less than the 64% of american who is already say they don't trust her and a slightly lower number that don't like her are going to change their mind because of this, it's folly. they're not. some of the facts are still the same. she was reckless, she was careless, she was selfish. there was no reason to set up that server in the first place. by the way, there was no reason for us to have wasted all these resources of our federal government to track down her petty peevish, selfish interests, her setting up the server, her lying about it, congress having to investigate it, the fbi needing to investigate it. the doj. people will still make up their minds about what they think loretta lynch and bill clinton discussed on that tarmac for at least 39 minutes. a lot of these facts don'

how will comey news affect it all?atch "new day." >> it is time to close the history books on the clintons. >> are you ready to vote on tuesday? >> you cannot review 650,000 new e-mails in eight days. >> the fbi clears hillary clinton again. >> we are glad to get that news, but not surprised. >> this is a marathon. we're not playing games. >> i'm ready to get to work for you. >> don't vote for her. she will be a lousy president. >> it is a choice between strong, steady leadership or a loose cannon who could put everything at risk. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to "new day." it is monday, november 7th. this is it. hillary clinton gets a late break in the final hours of the campaign. james comey telling congress the discovered e-mails does not change their conclusion. clinton is focusing on uniting the nation, but is it too little too late? >>> donald trump back to say the system is rigged and asking the american people to quote deliver justice at the polls. both candida

jim comey wouldn't be a factor.own about this activity by clinton, by huma abedin and their closest advisers, and the case would have been resolved one way or another. >> unfortunately, hindsight is 20/20, so here we are. on friday, the letter that james comey put out had explosive results. huma abedin's lawyer today said the fbi still hasn't reached out to her. how does that make sense? >> there's a process here. the fbi first wants to find out what they have in their possession. there have been reports since friday that it's thousands of e-mails, tens of thousands. you know, i have heard 650,000. i don't know what's true. the fbi presumably is trying to figure out what's true. determine first from what they possess lawfully and what they have the right to examine, which purportedly occurred over the weekend, they want to know what they have before they reach out and start to think in terms of an interview. i think they're just informing themselves. >> real quick, if there's a process, if there's 650,000 e-mails, t

what director comey did here.ou can criticize in terms of his timing and his decision but he wasn't trying to influence elections. he had told congress he would inform them of developments and did he. >> that gets to the other question which is whether, indeed, for him to write this letter and to send it to capitol hill knowing that you might as well announce it from the rooftops of washington to accepted it up there. that it was immediately going to become public whether there was in fact improper 11 days ahead of the election and did he really he's suggested kind of have to do this? >> i think there is fair criticism directed towards director comey that historically they have avoided major decisions, major actions or inindictments before election. it's not that it hasn't happened before. in 1992 you had the indictment of casper wineberger days before the election. >> casper wineberg err just in case anybody doesn't remember was the former secretary of defense under ronald reagan. he was some way close, the sugge

he made it clear after defending comey and attacking him. >> i would say what's happened here with comeya lot of people who speak well of him. but the obama administration from the top is -- >> anybody who is willing to work for the obama administration you have to apply that. there is a strange decision-making process to be willing to work, especially after that first southern, that first dynamic to work for the second term. this is about politics and personal power. the pressure of the media. lou: it's about corruption. that city is fullly corrupted. there are pockets of decency and some correctness, i don't mean to suggest otherwise. but that city is now an awful place. and as donald trump said we have to drain that particular swamp. you have got your own swamp in philadelphia, don. it's a fascinating swamp. the transit union going to federal court, the city and the transit union to compel them to return to work. what is the likelihood? if they do like the rest of the country, they have an election tuesday. >> i have seen a brinks truck back up to the union headquarters today. for vie

no hit on jim comey. here's what he said. >> the investigations into her crimes will go on for a long, long time. the rank and file special agents at the fbi won't let her get away with her terrible crimes, including the deletion of 33,000 e-mails after receiving a congressional subpoena. they forget about all of this. right now she is being protected by a rigged system. it's a totally rigged system. i have been saying it for a long time. you can't review 650,000 new e-mails in a day. you can't do it, folks. hillary clinton is guilty. she knows it. the fbi knows it and the people know it. it's up to the american people to deliver justice at the ballot box on november 8th. >> don, we are not seeing any drop off in terms of enthusiasm. this is one of the biggest crowds we have seen in pennsylvania for donald trump. the line getting into the venue at the pittsburgh airport stretched about a mile long. the crowd here as they have been waiting for donald trump, he is a couple hours late, they were criming lock

the clinton campaign is now accusing director comey of a double standard, asking why comey was concerned about the timing of the election pertaining to russia, but not with the new e-mail discovery. >> why, then, if those protocols are so important, if you understand them, if you are following them in late september and october, would you violate both of them in a letter delivered to congress on october 28th? that letter discussed a matter that was a pending investigation, and it discussed it in a way that he absolutely knew members of congress would release and talk about. donald trump within minutes was using that on the campaign trail. the letter also released sensitive information 11 days, not a month, 11 days before a presidential election. so there is a very clear and extremely troubling double standard. >> we're talking about the fbi against justice department policy, against every -- everything that we all know, getting involved in a presidential laelks. if you want to defend that, you defend it but i'm not. i think this is outrage. i think the fact that the kgb is involved in th

>>> james comey standing firm. the fbi boss thinks he made the right call on clinton's e-mail investigation. >> the clinton campaign crying foul, accusing james comey now of a blatant double standard. >> donald trump and mike pence teaming up. they will be on the same stage together today. good morning, everybody. welcome to early start, special very, very early start. i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. one week to go until election day and a slew of developments in the last few hours. fbi director james comey says he will not give an update on the new ex mails that could be related to the clinton investigation until his agents have reached a conclusion. hillary clinton maintains the investigation will amount to nothing, saying there's no case here. donald trump warns it would be a constitutional crisis for the country if clinton is elected and all of this as the "new york times" is out overnight with new reporting on donald trump's taxes and how he might have avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars i

comey is a decent man. he's a man of integrity, but he has to defend himself now because he's being criticized by republicans and democrats alike, by scholars and academics, and he's out there. i'm not going to defend him, says the president, he has to defend himself, and he's not doing a good job of it. his silence now is unacceptable. >> richard, i want to ask you -- so, richard, on what alan just said, would you like to see the director come out and make a clarification? if so, what would you like him to say? how can erect phi this? >> i think he ought to do his job, which is investigate and not to be talking to the public or to members of congress about his investigations. that's the job of the fbi. they should not be taking donald trump's fbi file and giving it to the democrats or making further statements about hillary clinton. that's just going to make it worse. he's going to dig himself in deeper and deeper, and we have already destroyed the credibility of the fbi over the past few days with respect

what does that do for comey? puts him in a tough place with just seven days before this electi election. but people don't really care about him. let's discuss the impact on the election with jeffrey toobin and cnn contributor and senior editor at "the atlantic," mr. david frum. jeffrey, on the legal side, the criticism is that the fbi doesn't usually talk, and comey breached protocol twice and both times to ill effect. the second time now without any basis of fact to support the disclosure. how do you see it, fair criticism? >> well, i think the key issue is the timing. you know, even i, a lowly assistant u.s. attorney in the 1990s, knew that one of the things the justice department, including the fbi, never did was make an announcement that affected an election in the last two months. this is just a rule that's been in existence at the justice department for decades. we can argue about whether comey should have made either of these statements, the elaborate explanation of the exoneration and the announcement of

. >> let me say this about direct you're comey first. -- about director comey. this always greats man. we are privileged in our great country to have him. >> i want to prayed you for the independent investigation. >> i greatly appreciate the work the f.b.i. and the department of just distid, and they hand it very professionally. >> the f.b.i. under the direction of a wonderful and tough career public servant jim comey is somebody with the highest standards integrity. lou: now many of those democrats are trying to blame jim comey. instead of hillary clinton for creating this political pot boiler and this potential crisis. >> why in the world the f.b.i. would decide to jump into an election with no evidence of any wrongdoing. >> we are asking the f.b.i. director, you violated these two protocols. you owe the public full information. >> director comey made a mistake. we all make mistakes, but this is a grave mistake. lou: hillary clinton wasn't winking and grinning at the irony. all she and her long-time aide need do is simply tell us all what's on that laptop. wha

comey has no choice but to open it up again and look at the 650 and 50,000 but if you go back to comey'sddressdh it. he did not want this to be a political witchhunt. >> host: i point our viewers to c-span.org if they want tore re-watch the hearing but stephen vladek go ahead.e >> guest: there are two points to clarify in the caller's comments. first i don't think anyone ever suggested including director comey that it was extremely clear that secretary clinton violated the espionage act simply by keeping couple of e-mails that may have containedr classified information under server. one of the most common misconceptions about the espionage act, does not generally illegal under u.s. law simply to discuss classified information in a form in which you're not supposed to. the espionage act is not categorical. it is a 99-year-old statute that is full of holes and overlapping so i really think folks need to be careful before saying because it was classified and must be illegal. that's not how the law works. on the point about hillary clinton's e-mails let's be clear the e-mails at the heart of

he's not the fbi, not director comey. director comey made that decision and mr. trump gave his opinion of it. i think it's a very logical opinion to have, conclusion to make. it does hurt her. she's hillary clinton. chris, the idea people started to question hillary clinton's ethical standards or cloud of corruption that follows her aurnd, the idea that had happened for the first time last friday is a fiction. people don't trust her. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you. i try to hear all your thoughts. we're going to your candidate on stage at a rally in sterling heights, michigan. let's go to the trump campaign. >> the worst trade deal ever signed by any country ever, china's entry into the world trade organization, the job killing deal with south korea, another beauty that was a disaster. and hillary now wants trans-pacific partnership. she calls it the gold standard. hillary clinton's policies have devastated your automobile industry all to the benefit of special interests. we will put a stop to all of that or november 8th. get out and vote, michigan. you know, i do

even before the comey news.ary clinton had a 12 point lead in that poll about a week ago and then it went down to a 1 point lead yesterday and now donald trump has a 1 point lead and when i've actually looked at polls, tamron, the ones that are very stable and move a point or two, particularly when there's not a big news event or the ones i pay more attention to, the ones that kind of go all over the place. >> what about those that have 11 point swings? we've seen some of that. are those the same people being re-asked the question? does the 11 point swing represent two people? how does some of the data get acquired? >> a lot has to go with the likely voter model and how you decide that is the person incredibly enthusiastic or know if they go to the polls or have a good idea? every different poll has a different secret sauce on how they try to determine who the likely voter is going to the polls and i think that's one of the big reasons why you often have differentiation and our nbc survey monkey poll, an online

but you saw democrats really coming after director comey. and i definitely think it's dangerous when we start to politicize the fbi and the justice department. it's really dangerous when folks like donald trump and governor pence are questioning the legitimacy of what the fbi is saying, what they're handing down. our justice department is something we have to uphold our truth in it. when we start questioning if the career prosecutors, and if the justice department is doing what's in the best interests of the american people, well, that's when we start eroding. >> even president obama weighed in this weekend in an interview more than frankly josh earnest, you know, was willing to go and comment. >> but i do think so. here is the difference. i think it's okay to say that i don't agree with the method and way in which director yom comey went about this. it went against precedent, which we know. there is departmented evidence. there is documented citations to support that. but it's not okay to say i just don't know about director comey. the syst

today, donald trump praised comey for his guts. hillary clinton called the decision to go public this close to an election pretty strange. nbc news reports that since sunday night fbi officials have been going through the e-mails, which belonged to a top clinton aide, huma abedin. the e-mails were found on a computer belonging to her estranged husband, anthony weiner. eric holder and alberto gonzalez criticized comey, and holder wrote i'm deeply concerned about fbi director's e-mails potentially connected with political interest. that was incorrect it. violated long-standing department policies and tradition, and it encountered a guidance i put in place four years ago laying out the proper way to conduct investigations during election season closed quote. gonzalez had this to say today. >> i didn't understand it. i didn't understand what he was saying, what he was trying to say. i didn't understand the purpose of the letter. to me, it was very inconsistent with the protocols that presently exist at the department of justice. >> you

the clinton campaign says they bottom post-comey.he race was tightening and acknowledged it was but that their worst day in the polling was wednesday. from that point, they started to see a widening out of her lead to the point where they felt toe they had some room breathe and the atmosphere around her, she had a much more casual -- a much less intense campaign schedules and donald trump did and the people around her seemed relieved confident. mark: the trump bubble is surprising. we on a press plane, not on trump lane. there's almost no information available. i haven't spoken on the ground in the senior status. we never see trump except the rally. it's ending as it began. it was trump and a couple of others. there are a few other people traveling with him, but it's giant rallies in big places. they are not trying to spin the press or find out what we are working on. it is unlike a traveling roadshow organism unlike any i've ever covered, even when you think a would be influencing what they're traveling press is writing about. no in

yesterday was dominated by the comey news.the comey news broke, he seemed a little rattled and a had to readjust. he also shortened up his speech. last night running well behind schedule the last two events in pennsylvania outside of pittsburgh and then in leesburg, virginia, much supporter -- order some speeches. he seemed a little bit tired but was still support -- performing and trying to show the level of confidence he needs to convince his supporters that he is rising at the end even though the clinton people are supremely confident. we are going to take a break. when we come back we will talk to a hillary clinton supporter, democrat from california after this. ♪ ♪ john: we are back and is still getting ready for election day and talking about all we have seen over the course of the weekend. my question for you, at this moment, what is your sense of how donald trump is going to spend election day? mark: we get back tonight, he comes to new hampshire from pennsylvania, does an event and then goes to michigan. even if he st

i think comey is a good guy in a tough position. everybody is criticizing something he's doing what he would normally do. he's releasing the information that they are looking into this. it's an investigation. anthony weiner did this only a few weeks ago a few weeks ago. perhaps this is something where iner is making a deal. kennedy: i think he knew what he was sitting on. i don't think the f.b.i. agents stumbled on to this. i think they were directed toward this material. anthony weiner. this was the last bargaining chip he had. judge napolitano said weiner could be facing 50 years in jail if he has pornographic images of a 15-year-old on his laptop. >> i think the most probable cause of this sort of renewed probe into clinton is the possibilities that emails on that computer were not turned over to the f.b.i. in the first place. it may or may not implicate hillary. but there is a probability it implicates huma. so you are talking about serious potential charges. kennedy: 650,000 emails. if even a quarter of those are work emails, t

you're accusing comey of violating that.hat's a very serious thing to say. >> well, it's -- he did violate it. the members of congress, they are not subject to the hatch act. >> right. >> there's the president. but the president can't order the fbi or pressure the fbi to investigate his political enemies. neither can members of congress. and that's what's been going on here and we've had it going on for a year and the fbi's conducted its investigation. they closed the investigation and, by the way, they did not reopen the investigation. i don't know where that came from. but once this letter was sent, it's been blown out of proportion in the media. it's being used for politics and the hatch act prohibits the use of official position to influence an election and i can't imagine a worst violation of the hatch act than the fbi getting involved in partisan politics in trying to influence elections. >> jennifer, the clinton campaign has been very aggressive on this. you know, they've organized several phone calls, they've been pu

he's not the fbi, not director comey. director comey made that decision and mr. trump gave his opinion of it. i think it's a very logical opinion to have, conclusion to make. it does hurt her. she's hillary clinton. chris, the idea people started to question hillary clinton's ethical standards or cloud of corruption that follows her aurnd, the idea that had happened for the first time last friday is a fiction. people don't trust her. >> i'm sorry to interrupt you. i try to hear all your thoughts. we're going to your candidate on stage at a rally in sterling heights, michigan. let's go to the trump campaign. >> the worst trade deal ever signed by any country ever, china's entry into the world trade organization, the job killing deal with south korea, another beauty that was a disaster. and hillary now wants trans-pacific partnership. she calls it the gold standard. hillary clinton's policies have devastated your automobile industry all to the benefit of special interests. we will put a stop to all of that or november 8th. get out and vote, michigan. you know, i do

they're going right after jim comey. this story exists because of hillary clinton and i'll add on because of anthony weiner. two very selfish people who put their peevish political personal interests before the safety and security of the nation and have us in this conversation and this mess. i have the message for all of the never trumpers, all of the undecided and independents tonight. if you truly want to break with the past and more specifically the cloud of corruption that is hillary clinton, you can't vote for her. i respect your ability to vote how you want but please don't pretend you want to make change and move the country in a real and different direction and actually vote for hillary clinton. the other thing that's going on, i would imagine every focus group facility from would are, colorado to harrisburg, pennsylvania has been booked solid. just last week the mainstream media was telling the clintons, you won. it's over. he has no path. his path is narrow. his path is nonexistent. trump is finished. landslide