you've got an fbi -- you've got a presidential candidate under fbi investigation.an he stick to that? >> an answer to that question, i would say if anybody in politics could blow this, it would be donald trump. because he has fumbled away so many other gifts. so yes, of course it's possible he could fumble it away. but to the first part of your question as to whether or not it's a game changer, i'm going to say a tentative no simply because the polling on this race has been -- even though the margin of hillary's lead has been variable and it's now at a lower ebb, she's never really been behind. not since the convention. and i think that as you were saying before, the e-mail thing is largely priced in. as george pointed out, millions of people have already cast their ballots. having said that, i think what is interesting about this is that hillary is now trying to actually turn it into an advantage. the way she's talking about it is to cast herself as the victim of this sort of profid use fbi director and to enflame and arouse the democratic base over this issue. >>

fbi. >> that was a total abandon a abandonment much her responsibility, she is the one who should decide whether to bring a case before the grand jury. i did not like that i did not like that meeting that you mentioned on the plane, that put comey in a position he had to make this announcement, he gave some facts he made it. you could tell he probably was not happy with it. and now, other thins have come forward. and he stepped up, and told -- done what his duties is, i think, evidence to go forward with further criminal investigation, he has no other responsibilities than to follow that. and then tell the american people what he is doing. lou: i take it, infer from what you say to us, you don't believe that we would have had this development, that director comey would have made this decision to open the investigation if he did not have blockbuster evidence priming ising it is momentum. >> well, it certainly significant. and i don't believe, a minor matter would have lead to him making thi

fbi's election curveball.reveal newly discovered e-mails apparently related to hillary clinton's case just 11 days before the election. the evidence found during the sexting investigation of anthony weiner, the estranged husband of clinton's closest aide, huma abedin. new details this hour. >>> not so rigged. donald trump says maybe the fbi's investigation of clinton isn't as crooked as he thought. his campaign is practically giddy right now with clinton's e-mail scandal back in the spotlight. will this new twist distract from trump's many controversies? >>> mid-air miss. a russian warplane flies close to a u.s. jet. tonight, the risk of an actual collision that could raise global tensions even higher. >>> panic on the runway. an american airlines jet aborts takeoff in an emergency that sends smoke shooting from the plane and terrifies passengers. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room."

trump thanked the fbi for having the courage to right its wrong referring to fbi director james comey original decision in july not to pursue criminal charges against hillary clinton. what we decided to do because this is fast and furious, the news is breaking, put together a timeline regarding how this all unfolded, specifically 12:57 p.m. eastern, the twitter universe lit up as jason chaffetz tweeted this, fbi director just informed me the fbi learned of the existence of e-mails that appearing to pertinent to the investigation. case reopened. 1:02 p.m. eastern, fox obtained a copy of fbi director comey's letter to congress saying -- let me get to blake burman working the phones in washington, d.c. both campaigning scrambling to respond, so far the hillary camp has not responded. >> reporter: two different differences, hillary clinton came down the stairs of the airplane in iowa where she was campaigning, shadowed a couple of questions on the ground, a live picture of hillary clinton in iowa and no response. she opened up her address like any other stump speech, any other friday, no

that is director comey and the fbi. and so they beat up on him and they had basically subpoenaed almost every single document, every single syllable that might have been brought up in this investigation. and that's -- by the way, that's very unusual. so i think what happened to director comey is that he knew that whatever he did, there was going to be a microscope placed on whatever came up. so he said, well, let me make sure that i make them aware of what is going on. it may not be anything here. and yet he had to notify them. as soon as they got the notice, they ran to the press and said, oh, the case is being reopened and after they had then villified the commissioner, then they came back -- the director, then they came back and said trump and others are saying, oh, he's okay with us now. that's not how justice works. justice is a process. and you -- just because you don't get the result you want does not mean it's a bad thing. the fact is, is it's a process. you want it to be filled with integrity and fairness. i th

that's not a decision for the fbi. they should give the facts -- >> congressman, you know -- >> to the attorney general and let them figure it out. >> you know that both sides don't say the system is rigged, only donald trump and his campaign say the system is rigged. hillary clinton doesn't say the system is rigged. >> when you were talking about -- i think it was senator feinstein, you were say thing is something that we have to put pressure on the fbi so they don't go through with this. that can be looked at they're trying to rig it on the other side. i don't like to get into the conspiracies and rigging. i know mr. trump says it a lot and we've heard that. i see that as political posturing, but i don't think there's a lot of weight into that, other than, you know, it's just campaign rhetoric. >> with all due respect to diane feinstein, she's a senator, not running for president of the united states. here's a question, let me just throw this out to you. has donald trump already eroded voter trust in our election sys

fbi has new evidence. there's no evidence whatever yet that there's new evidence pertaining to the e-mail thing. this is a contentless october surprise at this point. what mr. comey said is the e-mails appear to be pertinent. well, they can be pertinent without being significant because they can be redundant in demonstrating extreme recklessness. the category the fbi invented to avoid accusing her of gross negligence, which is a so we perhaps, and we don't know this, perhaps the fbi has already seen these documents. they don't know whether they're duplicates or not. after mr. comey has said no reasonable prosecutor could have looked at what they've already looked at and proceeded with a case. now, the "i" in the acronym fbi says investigation. the duty of the fbi is to investigate and when it thinks conclusion on to the prosecutorial arm of the department of justice, not to write letters to the legislative branch of government. people say, well, this is happening 11 days before the election. no, no, 17 mil

all. >> we commend the director of the fbi and the fbi for following through for their work if there was new pertinent information sufficient to reopen investigation, they would inform congress of that and would look forward. cheryl: she has this to say while campaigning in florida this weekend, listen. it's strange to put something that out with little information right before election. it's not just strange and unprecedented and deeply troubling. cheryl: her campaign criticizing the fbi director's action. >> we were very surprised by the letter. what we are asking that director comey get the information out on the table, all of it so that the american people can judge for themselves. cheryl: the clinton campaign says former federal prosecutors and justice department officials from both parties issued a joint letter expressing concern over comey's action. the letter says, quote, unprecedented decision, unprecedented decision to comment on evidence what may be ongoing inquiry just 11 days for presidential election leaves us astonished and proplex. lauren: we are eight dais out. senat

fbi colleagues.is all the information that we know definitively. it is interesting for the clinton campaign to say they want the information when hillary clinton set up a private server, deleting tens of thousands of e-mails and stone walling the process and lying throughout it. if you look at the attorney general as well who is being critical of the fbi and comey's decision, as well, the attorney general has moral high ground to stand on because she compromised herself in meeting with bill clinton. so i think fbi director comey is between a rock and a hard place. he either releases the information now which is what he decided to do or send the letter or wait until after the election. how is that going to go? there really isn't a good decision for him to make here. it's not like he has a lot of cover when attorney general essentially laid this thing at his feet. >> there are two, maybe more, leading theories inside the beltway. one is that comey is involved in cover your rear end situation because of

fbi director, the fbi learned of existence of e-mails that are pertinent to the investigation. case reopened. we have to understand what is happening and the timing is crucial. just days before the voting day. and there is a lot of early voting happening and timing matters and we'll check it out. hillary clinton is in iowa and hoping to boost her numbers. she is holding two early vote rallies in iowa and president obama heads to another battleground state. mike emmanuel is live in chappaqua, new york. mike? >> reporter: hi, jenna, hillary clinton is returning to iowa and known to be significant in the start of the presidential campaign. and meaningful in the end. it is it a purple state. small state and six electorial votes. they know it could be 1 or 10 or so states to decide the election. in the hawkeye state it is a close contest with donald trump holding a slight edge. and today the clinton campaign is out with a now add with president obama talking about what is at stake on november 8th. >> all. progress we have made in the last eight years is on the ball on the. respect f

>> we kmenld the director of the fbi and the fbi for following through on their work. this is clearly a serious matter and we respect the institution of the fbi confident they'll hand this will in a professional and thymely way. >> but fbi officials note they're just starting to look at these e-mails. so shouldn't you and mr. trump be cautious in talking about how significant this? >> well, i think we have been cautious. the simple fact is that the decision by the fbi this summer was incomprehensible to millions of americans. the director of the fbi literally called a press conference in which he chronicled one vie lafgs the law after the other. and he was not going to recommend charges against hillary clinton in this case and then two days later he undercould the that decision by going before the congress. undercut that decision by going before the congress and saying in so many ways that hillary clinton had misrepresented the facts. you remember that famous dialogue between trey gowdy and the director of the fbi, where he said that hillary clinton said that nothing m

not unusual for the fbi to reopen, to look at the tip. it doesn't mean anything is going to come of it. it depends on what the tip is and how reliable the evidence is so we're really in the heavy speculation stage now. we don't have anything firm to go on as to whether this is serious or not. president obama will be in orlando stumping for hillary clint clinton. you can understand why they haven't addressed this because they need to make a wholistic and proper statement and response on the other side if president obama doesn't address it it's seem as being evasive. >> that's the eggshells that they're balking on right now, particularly in a state where one day hillary has been up by two points in a poll, the next day trump and yet we're in the middle of record level early voting so it's a situation where legal and political are colliding but this is a time when it looks like political is what is happening in the minds of the voters and i don't think that evasiveness is anything but giving the other side an opportunity to say look you're r

it's the option that fbi directors, fbi agents, prosecutors have followed in other cases for years. it's the practice and the rule, the precedent that the justice department lives by. there are -- there are two things at play here, one that the justice department, and that includes prosecutors and fbi agents, aren't supposed to talk publicly about ongoing investigations. they're not supposed to talk to the press or congress and he long ago kind of blew through that rule with his press conference in july when he announced he was closing the case, but there's an even more relevant precedent here which is that the department goes out of its way not to do anything publicly, and sometimes even privately, not to even send subpoenas that might leak and become public close to an election if there's any chance that it will influence the election, if there's any chance it will become public and people will be able to use the justice department's actions to color the election. >> wasn't there de facto 60 day before an election rule. >> that's exactly right. that's 60 days, the kind of rule tha

that's up to the fbi. be telling the fbi how to do their business as far as the timing of an investigation. this is a criminal investigation. it would involve more than just content of the e-mails. >> do you think, congressman, that what the fbi has done, comey sending thisler to congress saying there are some e-mails here that may be pertinent. i don't know if they are significant but heads-up, we are looking at them. is that helpful to the american voter without any more detail or context. if so, how does that help the voter? >> i think it is helpful. first of all, jim comey acted unprecedently when he said back in june that he didn't think this case should be prosecuted. that's really not his job. that's the job of the justice department. the justice department has basically deferred these decisions to jim comey. he is following up on that. he is a professional. if he feels that there is something that he has seen which could be contrary to his previous findings, then he has the obligation to come out w

now, they are coming to the fbi's defense, you know, hearing the clinton campaign go after the fbi. go after the fbi director and ask why this is being brought up now. you're seeing kellyanne to conway, other top trump campaign officials comes to the fbi's defense. goes to show you, until this race is over, things can get turned upside down and right side up over and over again as the days tick down, poppy. >> it is not over till it's over. jim, let me ask you about the strategy from the trump camp, and we'll have his spokesman, jason miller, on with me in the next block. colorado, he's down. clinton, 45%. trump, 37% in the latest public polling in colorado. perhaps the internal polling is different. perhaps this is a strategy, feeling emboldened and trying to arguably flip blue states. >> yeah, there is a little bit of gamemanship there. no question about it. they want to look like they're putting hillary clinton back on her heels. keep in mind, even if donald trump wins all of the states that mitt romney won in 2012, he's still well short of the 270 electoral votes he needs. he ne

the fbi looks at all sorts of material and cases. it is an fbi case. could it potentially involve hacks or other e-mails that have come to light? in theory. could it not? >> also yes, in theory. if politicians want to fit this letter into a precooked narrative as voters and journalists we should be careful about not falling into the trap. this evidence is discovered. that would be a supposition. there are e-mails they consider evidence worth reviewing. it would not be good if the fbi did the opposite thing which is to find new evidence and not look at it. from their perspective i work in a newsroom. i used to work in politics. this is a political bomb shell. the fbi, if you believe them and director comey served as a republican for years. if you find new material we don't close our eyes. we look at it. there is an explosive amount of information. for them to not look at it or wait that's the alternative. >> sat on it for 12 days. >> that wouldn't look good or be legally proper. this is a review of additional information. again, it is unusual for the fb

will the fbi talk about it? >> i can only tell you what they tell me which is last week the thought was there is no way it could be done before the election. now there is thinking that if there is something the fbi can say there is. failing that i don't think we'll hear anything further. there is no plan from director com comey without new information. >> you heard pete say if the fbi can say something potentially the agency will. i imagine that would be welcome news to the clinton campaign which has really been calling on director comey to release more. right? >> right. they think the murkiness of this, the unknown is more politically damaging than if director comey were to come out and say a little bit of what may be in these e-mails. secretary clinton maintains that if all of the information is provided it won't change the bottom line equation which is that director comey called her careless but decided not to bring charges against her. they are using this as a political tactic, going after him, calling this

that way, you guys have covered the fbi enough. you know when they have an ongoing investigation, what do they always say? we can not comment about an ongoing investigation. melissa: but sir -- >> this election not having to comment. melissa: let me jump in for a second. how much of an impact do you think it has on the election? like you said it has been non-stop. we've been seeing emails come through wiki. we've known about this investigation. i mean in lot of way this is is just the latest chapter. a lot of democrats are trying to say, this is who, it is kind of, there is nothing new here. and a lot of people have already made up their mind and it is not going to have a big impact, that is what democrats are saying. what do you think? >> i think there are some people that are still making up their minds. they are torn between what they believe are two deeply-flawed candidates. hopefully they will wake up and sigh regardless whether or not one is-mouthed. the other one sold off the country we used to call treason, when we look the

clearer skin is possible. >>> the fbi is looking in to newly discovered e-mails which the fbi tredirectoro the investigation of hillary clinton's private server. reminds us of a story back in 2015. do we actually know who told hillary she could use a private e-mail? long time clinton adviser asked john podesta. and has that person been drawn and quartered? like whole thing is bleeping insane. our political panel joins me now. kirsten, not a good day for clinton with there story back in the news. >> no, definitely not. though i do think we have to take a step back. a lot of people are talking about it like she's under investigation again which is not really what happened. what he's basically saying is they have discovered some e-mails that they think might be pertinent and they need to look at then and he's let congress know about that. so we don't even actually know what the e m-mails are or how relevant they are to hillary clinton. >> another thing that is interesting, republicans on capitol hill normally would be giving press conferences and jumping on cable shows. they have been relati

one of the biggest field offices in the fbi.office -- the officials there felt -- some officials there felt this was taking too much time here in washington, while the people down in washington feel that they were taking the proper steps to make sure they had the proper authorization, to make sure they knew what they were looking at. obviously, there was some behind the scenes disagreement over how long this was taking. it's one of the reasons you saw the fbi director send the unusual letter on friday. he feared the information was going to leak. he knew some of his agents were not happy. >> but it didn't leak. frankly, we didn't find out about it until the letter went to congress on friday. evan, thank you for the reporting. the breaking news that the fbi has obtained the warrant to start going through these thousands of e-mails. seeing if anything is new or pertinent. >>> coming up, russia's president has defined perhaps meddling in the u.s. election. putin wouldn't put it that way. he has certainly denied it. but that doesn't

there's a huge difference in terms of the way this campaign is talking about the fbi and the fbi director in light of what happened on friday, poppy. >> there is indeed. he's being introduced there. as soon as he comes on stage, we'll listen in to the candidate. thank you very much for that. let's talk more about this. get a little more insight into what is going on. i'm joined by cnn legal analyst. also cnn political analyst and a former advisor to four u.s. presidents. david, given this new timeline, given that fbi new about the existence of e-mails that were potentially relevant to the clinton e-mail server investigation for weeks and came forward with them 11 days before the election, how does that change the game here. does that help hillary clinton at this point in time in her argument on this? >> i think it's made it even more urgent that mr. comey, the fbi and the jfrs department clear the air and tell us much more fully what's going on here. we've had a torrent of leaks from the fbi and the justice department that are conflicting, confusing and that have opened the door for oppon

fbi.omey, as far as i can tell, just scanning this letter in the past 30 seconds, does not appear to use that language in this letter. jason chaffetz uses the term reopen. what comey is saying here is that the fbi should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review the e-mails, determine whether they contain any classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation. the fbi cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant. comey going on here to say he can't say how long it will take to complete any additional work. he's not saying reopen, quote/unquote in this lettelett but it is clear that the fbi is investigating an additional cache of e-mails related to secretary hillary clinton. >> the use of the phrase classified e-mail suggested it has to do back with the whole issue of the story. don't move. we're goi ing to bring in rober costa of the washington post who joins us now. we were going to talk to you about

the reporting is they're investigating weiner for something sexting with the fbi, good for the fbi,s what they're supposed to do and they stumble on this device which the reports say was not produced in response to a direct demand by the fbi, they got a look at it and they say holy mother of you know what. these documents are responsive to her other investigation which was resolved in her favor but which is still ongoing, still open. >> so what they ended up doing -- i think the criticism from the democrats is because wackomy did is write a letter to a bunch of republican committee chairs saying hey, by the way, we're looking into more e-mails in the clinton case and he didn't have to do that. >> could have called it off? >> sorry. >> i've heard people make the point that he should have called because when you write a letter you know it's going to get leaked. maybe he's looking to make a record that he wasn't playing politics, he wasn't trying to protect anybody, he was just trying to do his job. >> to be fair to him, i think he's in a terrible position. had he not revealed this or

we're told the fbi

obviously, he says that the fbi -- he has been calling the fbi and jim comey lackeys and corrupt. and now we have members saying these are appalling. and also, by the way, we also have a letter from ron johnson who sent a letter to jim comey saying you oh us more information, as much information as possible about this investigation. >> what i do not understand and sort of am still trying to wrap my mind around is, a, how did the fbi not know about whatever device or devices that she sad with anthony had with weiner and now did they not see these e-mails and why didn't she turn over these devices and/or these e-mails during the original investigation? because it was her responsibility and anyone around clinton's responsibility to come forward with any information. >> you heard tonight from clinton she wants answers from the fbi. her campaign owes us some answers as well. what was the order of events here because the fbi certainly did not have possession of this. they didn't have possession until they obtained a number of devices as part of the weiner investigation. again, none of t

and the fbi director.if she loses and if she's inciting violence and anger? >> your candidate did that after the july decision? >> these are two different investigations. after the july decision it was simple. jim comey on july 5th went out and said we're not going to prosecute her, but he went on to give us all of the reasons why he should have. two days later under oath before congress he tells chairman trey gowdy, she didn't have one device. she had multiple devices. not true there wasn't classified or national security information contained on there. there was. he undercut hillary clinton's previous statements and undercut his own conclusion. this investigation is new and it's different. >> kellyanne, i think i know the answer to the question i'm about to ask. you have used hillary clinton as a risky choice and immediate risk of e-mails. what about people that want to know whether donald j. trump does business with russia, gets any money from russia, why not release his tax returns now? >> you know the

what do you know. >> the latest i have from an fbi source is that the fbi right now is going throughusands of emails that went to and from huma abedin. why is that significant? number one she is hillary clinton's most senior aide. secondly she is married separated right now but married to anthony weiner. that is how the fbi found out about these new emails. they had a separate investigation going on into his sexting and they found all of these emails that they believe tie back to the hillary clinton investigation. and what they're trying to get at is two things. number one, are these emails back and forth between huma abedin and hillary clinton, maybe? they could also be back and forth with other staffers within the campaign or any number of people. so we don't know an answer to that, number one, number two, we don't know whether or not there is classified information in those emails. that's what they are really trying to get at. remember, fbi director james comey in giuliani had extraordinary news conference as we wait for hillary clinton maybe to have one in a few moments. his news

the weiner investigation evidently by the fbi -- we've not heard that from the fbi, but nbc news reporting this, that this came about because the fbi is looking into what anthony weiner did and the texts he sent. this has converged with the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mail and her private server, this headache and nuisance and real problem for th themo throughout the campaign. >> she was at the rally where she didn't address it, but she did afterwards. we'll listen. >> i think people a long time ago made up their minds about the automakers. i think that's -- the emails. i think that's factored in to what people think. and now they're choosing a president. i would urge everybody to get out and vote early in all the states that have early voting. >> how much confidence does the camp and hillary clinton have in that, the voter already factored in the emails in their decision? if so, why is she in the same breath saying, get out there, get on there for early vote? >> reporter: they've had a strong strategy around early voting. something like 20 million people have voted early in this

did he get the heads up on this fbi report or what? that's a while ago. >> that's the thing about trump. so often the things that he says that seem crazy end up having this kernel of truth to them later and that gives him this authenticity. and that's what his gut seems to be -- >> pillow talk between huma and -- now it's e-mail to be blunt about it. the same laptop with different e-mails. they used different e-mail addresses with the laptop. anybody know how it's done? they can find out any messages on these things? >> i cannot tell you. >> let me tell you, hillary clinton was asked about her connections to anthony weiner. >> secretary clinton, there are some reports that these e-mails were found on devices that belonged to your aide, huma abedin and her husband anthony weiner. have you spoken to huma? was she able to give you any information about that? >> we've heard these rumors. we don't know what to believe. i'm sure there will be even more rumors. that's why it's incumbent on the fbi to tell us what they're talking about, jeff,

>> reporter: wolf the fbi director jim comey sent a letter to congress saying the fbi is taking a look at another set of e-mails it hadn't previously take an look at while doing its investigation. you remember back in july the director of the fbi announced that they were recommending no charges be brought against hillary clinton in that investigation. her use of a private server while secretary of state during her tenure as secretary of state. this letter that comey has now sent to members of congress says that new e-mails have now come to the attention of the investigative team. this is a team of investigators in the counterintelligence division at the headquarters of the fbi and are now going to take a look at these e-mails. now, we're told that the investigators are flonow going see to see whether or not these additional e-mails uncovered contain classified information as well as whether to assess their importance to this investigation, wolf. this means that the investigation which we thought was over with is now back open and the fbi is taking another look to see whether or not the

the fbi apparently cares about those e-mails.gressman trey gowdy is with me live today in greenville, south carolina. thank you for coming back here on "america's newsroom." it's been reported that there could be as many as 650,000 e-mails on antiny wiener's -- anthony weiner's computer. if that is true, could you say that the deleted 33,000 on behalf of hillary clinton's own server are part of that cache? >> no, sir. i don't think anyone can say that. i don't think the bureau agents have read these e-mails, and i certainly have not. bill: have you considered that possibility? >> i hope that all records that are considered public records will ultimately be made available, but keep in mind, bill, we're talking about decisions that secretary clinton made years ago that prompted you to even have to ask that question. i want the entire public record to be complete, whether that's classified information or whether it's a benign e-mail about yemen, these are public records, and the public is entitled to them. bill: is a president-elect

with the fbi. i will be transparent with the viewers bottom i have from an fib source that as part of an investigation of anthony weiner, the law enforcement officials were collecting some of his electronic devices, information that he had been sending, whether they be text, e-mails and whatnot, and i'm still checking mye-mail to get more information but they came across some information from human peninsula abedin i don't have the specific documents but the important part is that while they are separated right now, they're still married, obviously, and huma abedin you can't find a more senior aide to hillary clinton than huma abedin, by her side at all times and specifically ex-let's not forget and squashed score, huma abedin's investigate by the fbi in the original investigation, and separate to related to all this before i got into the studio i spoke to another law enforcement source who told me that while democrats are now saying, look, go through the e-mails, the new ones do this today or tomo

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if the fbi didn't, what he said, supplement the record. what he means is he had testified to congress in july that the look at the e-mail server issue was done. now he says if he doesn't be transparent that that would not supplement the record, it would be misleading. but he said given that the fbi doesn't know the significance of the newly discovered e-mails he didn't want to create a misleading impression and that he was trying to strike a balance in the brief letter to congress. and he says he knows that in the middle of an election season there's a risk of being misunderstood. it doesn't seem likely at this point that the fbi director himself will say more. at least that seemed to be the conclusion as of late last night. whether they will rethink that and do something more next week, we don't know. >> there's a what next even after the election, pete, when you talk about a newly elected president who this may involve. >> well, yes, we don't know of course who is going to be elected president, but what the fbi says is they will just tak

really putting this on the fbi. she's clearly, i agree that the fbi hasn't put out the details from the e-mail saying they need to put that information out echoing her complain manager john podesta today. your guess is as good as mine and i didn't think that's enough what she said. mark preston "outfront" with me now. tube b. david gergen and tom fuentes former fbi assistant director. mark preston, what do you make of her strategy? this is going on offense. come on fbi. you say you got something. put out there or i have nothing to say. >> and our reporting is telling us in fact it was a shared device that was huma was using with her husband anthony weiner. i suspect they do have an idea of what humaed a forwa ed had f the devices. so a very good defense is a strong offense. and the fact of the matter is this probably, there is a chance this doesn't necessarily touch hillary clinton other than the fact that one of her aides might have done something that was wrong. >> can i just add? we can argue as the clever strate

now the fbi director. he has a very good. after his july announcement, no criminal charges would be recommended. a lot he -- as a former deputy attorney general. now the fbi director. he would not have issued a statement like this unless there was something that convinced him there was a significant new development. >> well, you know, i think that's certainly the view the trump campaign has been pushing, but the reality is, he hadn't even read the e-mails. so there's no way for him to make that judgment. fm. many. they were only given the legal process of e-mails dealing with anthony weiner, so they couldn't really have gone into the contents of these other e-mails. >> you're a former u.s. attorney in the attorney's office o. form. sex being with a 15-year-old girl, which of course is illegal. if in the course of that, they saw some e-mails which maybe re rent. >> they're not sfoerpsd and the allegations against him, they're not even supposed to go through that. they're not legally entitled to go through t

clinton telling nbc news the fbi has not contacted huma abedin of the e-mails found during a second fbi probe into her former husband, anthony wiener. >>> donald trump supporters can't get enough of the renewed focus on the e-mails, trump railing against what he calls clinton's "criminal action." >> it was just announced on friday that the fbi is reopening their investigation into the criminal and illegal conduct of hillary clinton. her criminal action was willful, deliberate, intentional, and purposeful. >> nbc's gadhi schwartz, we often take the newsiest sound bite. you're out there. give us a percentage proportion, how much of donald trump's argument today is keying off this obviously big political headline and how much is about other closing arguments on policy or his outreach to voters? >> reporter: that's a really good question. it's hard to discern. today was a very energetic crowd. today it was all about every time he talked about the e-mails, every time he talked about the fbi, the crowd would go wild. the they were chants of "lock her up." when you talk to people in the crowd,

respect for the fbi. there are a lot of unanswered questions here, though, and i think hillary clinton is going to have to speak to this because we really don't know exactly what the fbi director intends to do, at least from my reading of his letter. we're not sure if he is actually reopening an investigation. what we know is that there is material that they have looked at regarding another investigation that made them believe that something would be pertinent to their previous investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails. this is happening, brooke, 11 days before a national presidential election. and unless we have some more transparency here, i would have to say that the fbi director -- maybe for the reason that he just wanted to be completely sort of transparent about this put it out there, but in his efforts to do so what he has done is inserted himself and his department into a partisan election so i think there's some more transparency that is needed here about whether there is in fact going to be a r

is the fbi going to look into the truthfulness of hillary clinton lies to the fbi?eveal this. by the way, the anthony weiner maybe an fbi witness? will hillary promise not to pardon top aides at clinton foundation? will hillary clinton agree in the event she is indicted she will resign if she won? we'll see you monday. >>> this is a fox news alert. a presidential campaign for the ages has taken an even more bizarre turn than anyone could have predicted. the fbi now says it will review e-mails that appear to be pertinent to its investigation into the hillary clinton e-mail scandal. this comes just 11 days before election day. those new e-mails, thousands of them we're told, appear to result from the sexting investigation of disgraced former democratic congressman anthony wiener married to huma abedin. as you can imagine, this has turned the political universe on its head. it has