nine days after james comey's surprise announcement that fbi agents were reviewing the e-mails from hillary clinton's server, comey revealed the investigation is over. he said based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions we expressed in july with secretary clinton. sources tell cnn that investigators worked around the clock to sift through thousands of e-mails and the investigation wrapped up quicker than expected because most of the e-mails were personal or duplicates of e-mails already reviewed. no more investigation, but plenty of investigations of whether the fbi director should have gone public in the first place. >> all this is happening and we are in the final full day of campaigning. donald trump and the press corps that follows him just landed in florida. after a full day of campaigning. we're well in the next day at this point. cnn is everywhere following every twist and turn. i stand with the coverage of the clinton campaign with phil mattingly. >> reporter: good morning, john. the irony with the comey letter to capitol hill. the clinton campaign wanted to hear nothin

thank you. >>> the clinton campaign is accusing james comey of a double standard. bby mook jumped on reporting by cnbc that last month, comey opposed naming russia as the state actor hacking. he argued it was too close to election day. >> it is 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 a democratic nominee for president is nothing short of jaw dropping. >> we should knnote that cnn do not have the same reporting. >>> hillary clinton says flat out there is no case here. she said go ahead and dig in the e-mails. she said they will find nothing. joining us on the phone from chappaqua, new york, phil mattingly. what is the case for the next seven days? >> reporter: christine, it is a dual tract. you heard robby mook in the sound that john played. they are going after the fbi to under cut his argument, but undercut comey and his integrity. there is also what hillary clinton is doing. christine, as you noted. she is licking at the letter th

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

james comey is a smart guy. the problem because she had this email server that is less secure than g mail, not to trash g mail, that's why this dirt bag pervert as our secrets on his laptop. >> alleged. >> no, he is a pervert. i'm not saying he's a pedophile, yet. he's an alleged pedophile but he is a pervert. >> am i the only one intimidated? >> this is what i did for a living. >> no wonder you host alone. >> this is incredible. >> brian, how about you host with me this weekend? >> this weekend. who wants to host with me? >> bulk yourself in. >> we just had ed klein on who has written the book "guilty as sin." essentially what he did, according to his sources inside the fbi, comey sees this as a do over here. he feels so bad that he blew it in july. >> it givens him a second bite of the apple. now he's got the ability to go forward, but he doesn't have the department of justice, jim. here's the mess-up. doj told you not to do it, so how do you access a grand jury? james comey is with the fbi. he doesn't call up

>>> 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

fbi director james comey sending to congress this afternoon a letter saying he and his bureau finishediscovered e-mails linked to the private server hillary clinton used as secretary of state. comey also telling lawmakers that the review does not change the conclusion he reached back in july. that is when he said that hillary clinton should not face charges in this matter. the justice department agreed. she was not prosecuted. the clinton campaign said she's happy the matter is resolved. bring in presidential historian michael beschloss. michael, nine days ago when that first letter went to congress from james comey we started looking, when have we seen october surprise in presidential election. >> sure did. >> thought back to 1992, weinberger indictment on the eve of the election, bush dui. now the added twist of the story nine days later producing a second surprise. this really does feel unprecedented. >> look at the timing. the most recent one of these things was 2004 when john kerry was running against president george w. bush friday before the election. there was an osama tape tha

right now -- able there are few people in this country right now who believe the damn thing that james comey don't think there are many people in the krmingt who believe we haven't seen loretta lynch attorney general she's a nonperson right now, and obama has gone from -- supporting koamg comey and falls in line. >> attorney general and deputy attorney general basically rejected opportunity to move forward and president stepped in and basically put the cue on it, and my sense today is only going to help because it reenforcing the message of trump. >> let's got to this election and arab did i i want to ask you where is rnc and i want to know where the ground game is and particularly in north carolina, and ohio, pennsylvania, florida, you know a little new hampshire action wongts hurt either. what have you got for us? >> to give us a brief every single day we're winning on the ground game and winning in places that you would never believe. the votes that they need to win are down, the votes that we need to win are up. and then when you go to places like michigan or wisconsin suddenly you're se

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,

gi director james comeying delivering another surprise today.uptly announcing clinton e-mails some 650,000 of them has not changed his conclusion that hillary clinton should not face criminal charge hads. combmy saying had in a letter to con depressional leaders that the fbi has been working around the complok to review those 650,000 e-mails.

trump, have confidence in the fbi director james comey, that he is doing a good job? >> it's not my claeys play to s director comey is doing a good job or not. it is clear the system is rigged and this investigation hasn't been handled well from the beginning. i think most americans would say, how do you get through 650,000 e-mails in a week? just because many of them were duplicates from before, i'm not sure it really stacks up that there is nothing that was concerning in them. going back to the fact that there is an active investigation into the clinton foundation, should be troubling. >> they say in the letter james comey wrote to the chairman and ranking members of all these congressional committees, they said the fbi investigator team has been working around the clock over the past nine days to process and review a large volume of e-mails from -- in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation, referring to the anthony weiner investigation. that he was sexting with a minor, a 15-year-old girl. they said that fbi officials had all sorts of software to review

the fbi director james comey has completed his latest review into hillary clinton's e-mails and in a letter to congress, comey says he has not changed his bottom line conclusion from july, that there was no evidence of criminal activity in those documents on the part of hillary clinton. certainly, a sigh of relief for the clinton campaign. but clinton herself didn't respond to the news today at her rally in cleveland. her running mate, tim kaine, tells cnn this is the outcome that the campaign expected. >> there's still a lot of questions about it, about how it happened and why it happened and alter dynamic for a few days. we did have the confidence, when we were surprised with it two fridays ago, it'd be back in this place. they spent so much time looking at it and reached a conclusion that was so unequivocal. we're glad to get the news but not surprised. >>> meanwhile, we're waiting to see how donald trump will react to the news. he's getting ready to speak at a rally in sterling heights, michigan, this hour. we'll have live coverage. his running mate, mike pence, told a crowd in no

director james comey may be prosecuted himself in some regard if we are to believe an angry letter from senate minority leader harry reid. he says his office is investigating whether comey violated the hatch act which bars federal officials from influencing an election. joining me is senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano. comey said the investigation moving forward because of emails they found on an unrelated laptop. >> i'm not on the left but i share the outrage. this is a violation of due process by putting out the tantalizing hints that we have something against mrs. clinton but we won't tell you what it is. it violated f.b.i. regulations connecting anybody whose name is on a balancing lot within 60 days of an election. but it did not violate the hatch act and is not a prosecutable crime. the hatch act replies to everybody except from the president and vice president for campaigning for candidates while in office on federal property and using federal assets. as wrong as jim comey was to have sent that letter friday -- ken were what does he do? if he has 650,000 emails and he with

my suggestion to james comey get a dog.y be the only friend in washington that you'll ever have anymore. but who is -- what i think is -- >> his friends change back and forth . governor i didn't mean to interrupt you continue your point. fnlings no but i think you can't keep switching leak that and fact he says we've gone through 4650,000 e-mails in just over a week, i doubt that there's any human possibility that could be done. but maybe so. or perhaps they just turn to hillary filipino maid and said did you see anything that looks suspicious and she said no i didn't see anything, and off we go. now, but to think how ironic this is on the very day it is discovered that the filipino maid that hillary has in her house in washington, had full access to classified materials made hard copies of them. fax them, e-mail them with no security clearance. that same day that happens, combmy saids didn't see a thing. now, i say this is a new tv show in the making called hoover's heros, and combmy will play the part of sergeant schultz

i have the letter from james comey.e sent that letter since my letter, the fbi investigative team is working around the clock to process and review a large volume of e-mails from a device again the laptop obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. during that process, we reviewed all the communications that were to or from hillary clinton while she was secretary of state based on our review, james comey says, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. i'm very grateful to the professionals at the fbi doing an extraordinary amount of work. again, a little cryptic. doesn't directly say she's in the clear. but if the first letter on october 28th was correctly en r interrupted, that the foobi restarting the engines, certainly fair to suggest new that this letter is a signal from director comey that maybe those engines are -- >> so we're watching the trump plain pull up to the airplane hangar in minneapolis. technically speaking, the investigation wa

the clinton campaign seizing moments ago on a new report that fbi director james comey was reluctant to publicly blame russia for cyber hacking democrats this close to the election. they called that a jaw-dropping double standard given the revelations about top clinton aide huma abedin. this is the latest tonight top hillary clinton aide huma abedin not on the trail with clinton, as clinton intensified her attack on fbi director james comey, trying to rally the base and reassure undecided voters about the e-mail controversy. >> i'm not making excuses. i've said it was a mistake and i regret it. now they apparently want to look at e-mails one of my staffers -- and i am sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they looked at my for the last year. there is no case here! >> reporter: just a few months ago, clinton and other democrats praising comey for not pursuing criminal charges against her. >> i'm grateful for the professionalism of the fbi. >> he's somebody with the highest standards of integrity. >> this is a great man. >> reporter: clinton supporters now taking shots

tonight, president obama breaking his silence on fbi director james comey's explosive letter to congress. suggesting comey spoke prematurely. >> i do think that there is a norm that when under investigations, you don't operate under innuendo or under incomplete information, we don't operate on likes. >> reporter: obama's comments come as the department finds itself in further controversy. a stolen campaign e-mail released by wikileaks appears to show a top doj official in a conflict of interest. peter kadzik using his personal account to tell john podesta about a congressional hearing writing in part, the department was likely to get questions on state department e-mails. he appears to tip him off about a court filing related to clinton's e-mails. ♪ donald trump pounced on the release today accusing the clinton campaign and the department of justice of collusion. >> now today, in a newly released e-mail through wikileaks again, we learn that kadzik was feeding information about the investigation into the clinton campaign. >> reporter: today's wikileaks release is another black eye for th

fbi director james comey made his surprising announcement before those e-mails had been examined. but tonight nbc news has learned that process is under way. our pete williams has been breaking developments in the story all weekend, and has late details for us. >> reporter: the fbi's about 24 hours, starting the work just after getting a search warrant to analyze the thousands of e-mails discovered on former congressman's anthony weiner's laptop during a separate investigation of him. the big question, will these e-mails shed new life on the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server? tonight officials say, no answer yet. the clinton campaign has huma abedin doesn't remember using it. so another question, how did they get it and forgot, or e-mailed him and unintentionally launched a backup. the answers are on one of these, a hard drive from a laptop computers. officials say the fbi has made an exact copy of the one on wiener's laptop. that company is being analyzed in a computer forensic lab like this one. >> this is a great way to preserve the data, intact, the wa

the democrats who are saying ha, ha, we told you so, what happened to the way that you trashed james comey before? to be fair, what the democrats and what the hillary clinton campaign -- hillary clinton herself, what they had been saying, certainly, they were very critical of comey. but it was because he left such a gray area. he allowed the speculation. he sort of threw this out there without any conclusion. allowed the republicans to interpret it in a way that benefitted them in the highest, highest, sort of most political moment in any time in american history. so that is why, american history, what i mean is a week or so before a presidential election. so that is why this is turn on its head. privately, i was texting with a senior republican strategist, who said that there's no question that this is good for hillary clinton. you can't change the votes that have already happened, early voting, but there is no question it is good. the question for hillary clinton, how are they going to get this out there? i was texting with a clinton aide who said, well, it's more of a distraction becaus

director james comey doing something else that's unprecedented. this time comey right on the eve of the election saying the e-mails have been through and there's nothing there. the question for him, did comey cross the line? we will ask a former fbi senior intelligence official next. if your sneezes are a force to be reckoned with... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. try zyrtec®. muddle no more®. >>> all right. you have a real war going on in iraq and in syria. we're going to talk about the implications for the two major offenses and you have the political war here on the eve of the election. fbi director james comey going again in a breach of protocol to congress and saying clinton will not face criminal charges after the newly discovered e-mails. they were mostly duplicates and personal. not relevant to the investigation. what does it mean? what does the war effort mean? we start with former counter

we have this letter from the fbi director from james comey to congress. he says look, bottom line, that judgment he made in july that there's no basis to press charges against hillary clinton stands. what do we know this review turned up over the last nine, ten days? >> first of all, we're told that in essence the letter means they're done. this is not an interim readout. this is the bottom line. secondly, the review found that nearly all the documents were copies of documents that fbi investigators had already seen in their months and months of investigating the clinton e-mail server. there were also some documents that didn't relate to business. remember, that's the whole question here. were there additional documents that contained classified information. what the investigators found is that there were some documents that were forwarded, other e-mails that contained classified information, but a senior official says that the investigation did not change the number of documents that were found during the investigation of the e-mail server that contained

what happens to james comey? attorney general loretta lynch her confidence in comey and ability to run the fbi she maintains that. do we see something happen? >> i think he has a 10-year appointment. it is not coterminus with the president. he is in there. unless they impeached him. i think he stays in regardless after the new president comes in. so he doesn't have to go anywhere for a number of years. harris: if i remember correctly previous to all of the october 28th language, hillary clinton had said she would leave him there. she would welcome that. i know a lot's happened since then, my goodness, but i can't imagine anything would go against now it has come out the way it has for her. >> i don't think she has the power -- kennedy: it is not political appointment in way of cab nest level position. >> what does it do for the country? trust in the government is so low. i worry about postelection and the fact you have the fbi director which a lot of people, depending on party, depending on the time, depending on

i think that's what james comey is going at. >> we all like james comey, we all think he is a decent guy. remember who the building is named after, j. edgar hoover. he is establishing a dangerous precedent for future directors of the fbi because they could, one, influence the outcome of elections. we are all saying what a terrible thing it would be if hillary clinton won the election and then it turns to out there might be negative stuff about hillary clinton. what about the opposite? what if he turns it on. donald trump wins the election and november 7th he anouns all of these e-mails were duplicates of ones we've seen before. sorry folks, but i was just doing my job. >> they have been dropped on his desk, he has to look into them. he could have worded the letter differently. >> he should do it now. >> there is nothing he can say right now that that's going to advance this debate. >> he could say when i made that statement i had no idea what was in hooes those e-mails because if anybody told me what was in those e-mails, they would be violating the fourth amendment. there was no sea

there has never been a movement like this. >> trump had been bouyed by fbi director james comey's decision to investigate e-mails found on a laptop used by top clint aide. comey said yesterday, agents sorting through the messages found nothing to change his decision, not to recommend charges against hillary clinton. the fbi, the director, was obviously under tremendous pressure. so -- they went through 650,000 e-mails in eight days. yeah, right. so sad what is going on. >> earlier in the day, trump florida he had done all he could do to win. >> in one day, we are going to win the great state of florida. and we are going to take back the white house. >> this is it. good luck. get out there. i did my thing. i mean, i worked. >> trump lightened the mood by reaching into the crowd for a flimsy likeness of himself. >> nice set of hair, i will say that. >> campaigning in pennsylvania, mike pence called his time as trump's runningmate an extraordinary journey. >> that man its ready. whether she catches the white house or not, hillary clinton made history. the only first lady to ever serve an elec

james comey opened this door.re asking for him to make it right and treat everybody the same. >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell cnn the fbi has conducted multiple investigations of alleged connections between russia and the trump campaign or its backers but none so far has yielded proof of criminal connections. the probes include a year-long investigation of former trump campaign manager paul manafort and his firm and their alleged ties to pro-putin figures in ukraine. the fbi has also looked into alleged meetings between former trump advisor carter page and russian individuals under u.s. sanctions and continues to examine allegations against roger stone, a trump supporter, about possible connections to wikileaks. stone acknowledged communicating with wikileaks but denied any illegal behavior. >> i have a back-channel communications with wikileaks, but they certainly don't clear or tell me in advance what they're going to do. >> reporter: on the hill in september, lawmakers pressed director comey on whethe

two days before the election, fbi director james comey has yet again weighed in on the hillary clintonail server investigation. today, in a letter to congress, comey said that the fbi has not found anything in those new e-mails discovered that would change their conclusions reached in july. here's what comey had to say back then in july. >> although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extre extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> in short, comey concluded that hillary clinton and her team were careless but not criminal. now, for a week, it appeared to be an open question, if the fbi would re-evaluate its findings two fridays ago. comey informed congress has investigators stumbled upon new, potentially pertinent

fbi agents were reviewing newly discovered e-mails from hillary clinton server the fbi director james comeyongress that review is now over and after all that, nothing. in a letter to congressional leaders, comey said, quote, based on our review we have not changed our conclusion that's we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. law enforcement sources tells cnn that investigators worked around the clock to sift through the thousands of e-mails and that the investigation wrapped up quicker than expected because most of the e-mails were personal or duplicates. while the clinton campaign no doubt welcomes the vin did i indication the question remains whether the fbi director should have set off this nine day whirlwind to begin with. >> i want to start with the clinton campaign phil mattingly. live and in the flesh for the latest update. >> they're really here off the campaign trail. >> here's what we know for sure. there was tightening in this race before this fbi letter was sent. here's what we also know. there was an absolute acceleration in that tightening since the fbi letter

he had written james comey a letter where he acknowledges the tough decision that james, he faced. he says without additional context, the disclosure is not fair to congress, the american people or secretary clinton. factual context is important. >> that brings us to our question of the day. if the election were today, who would you vote for? to answer, go to our website, cbs2iowa.com. click on the question of the day link and let us know. >>> toys for tots kicked off this week. you can now bring any new or unwrapped toys to one of many locations in linn county. toys for tots hopes to help this year. ages from newborn up to 14 years old. last year, the organization collected over 17,000 gifts and gave them to 2100 kids. that is phenomenal. this year, cbs2 news is a proud sponsor of toys for tots. you can find a full list of drop off points on our website. >>> coming up on cbs2 news at noon, showing off what iowa has to offer. how the iowa d.o.t. plans to do just that. >>> plenty of sunshine today. that translates into milder weather. showers late tonight. much needed rain tomorrow.

this is the soup that james comey has himself in. by saying so much last july and saying no reasonable prosecutor would go after hillary clinton. he divulged a lot. once you go through this and initiate that talk about the investigation, then where does it stop? this is where he finds himself. the clinton team are upset with the attorney general loretta lynch. she also has taken a backseat in all of this and given all of this independence to james comey. she said she would defer to the director of the fbi in the investigation. she felt she had to do that because of a monumentally horrible decision by former president bill clinton to initiate the off the record meeting with her on her plane on a tarmac somewhere. nobody in the clinton world can understand why he would ever think that was a good idea. you know, a lot of this they did bring upon themselves. it becomes a real factor. let's say from a political point of view, i think donald trump has done something very smart. what he is saying in addition to overreaching and saying thing

much come around on james comey. to what he said yesterday. >> i have to give the fbi credit, that was so bad what happened originally and took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. i really disagreed with him. i was not his fan. i will tell you what. what he did, he brought back his reputation. he brought it back. he has got to hang tough because there is a lot of people want him to do the wrong thing. what he did was the right thing. reporter: back today on policy speech on obamacare. mike pence is actually going to take the lead on this today. he will lay out policy he is going to say obamacare is the center piece for republicans to come back home, encouraging all those republicans out there who may be thinking about not voting or not voting for donald trump, everybody has to get on the same page. get together. repeal and replace obamacare, is something that the republican party has to do, and he will encourage all the republicans to get out to the polls e

that rule is why the department of justice officials told director james comey it would be improper for him to make the kind of vague pronouncement about hillary clinton that he did with this letter on friday. director comey, nevertheless, for his own reasons, went ahead and did it. now tonight, there are two incendiary reports of their own that are about the fbi. they are from cnbc and nbc news and concern what else the fbi might be working on that could conceivably impact this election even though we haven't heard anything about either of these. this was on "nightly news" tonight. watch this. >> law enforcement intelligent sources say the fbi has been conducting a preliminary inquiry of donald trump's former campaign manager paul manafort and his foreign business connections. when nbc asked the fbi to comment on the inquiry, the fbi did not respond. paul manafort was reportedly paid $12.7 million in cash by pro-russian politicians in the ukraine and nbc news can also report what some call disturbing ties to one ukrainian, one russian, both billionaires. american officials say both hav

. >>> hillary clinton is facing some of the blame of her loss on fbi director james comey decision to reexamine her use of conference call with her campaign's top donors yesterday. according to a source, she said comey's letter raised doubts that helped stop her momentum. clinton acknowledged other factors contributed to her failed bid. >>> the first saturday night live after the election, it featured a somber opening. >> kate mckinnon dressed up as hillary clinton. she sat at a piano and delivered her rendition of leonard cohen's >> it is a cold and broken hallelujah. >> shortly after she finished the song, she had this message. >> i'm not giving up and neither should you and live from new york it is saturday night! >> things started to pick up when host dave chappelle took the stage and delivered his monologue hitting trump on his victory. it featured a surprise he appears in a skit on friends watching results come in on election night. >> why are women voting for him? >> i don't get you ladies. the country is 55% women! i mean, if the country was 55% blacks, we would have tons of b

james comey opened this door. it's now up to comey to explain it. is mook wrong? >> a reason why fbi directors have a ten-year term. they wanted the director to vhae an apolitical term. i think rank and file fbi acts the ones that know the investigation was conducted without a finger on its scale, put out there. i think they're behind this director. the most communicative director we've had. >> thanks for helping us shed light on this. >> thank you. >>> new information just in about huma abedin, the hillary clinton aide at the sent center of this new development. missing on the trail three days and one of hillary clinton's closest allies you often see her in every picture hillary clinton would take. where is she today? that's next. >>> and this just in. hillary clinton closest aide, one of her closest aides, huma abedin does not appear to be on the trail again with presidential candidate making four day nas row since the news broke, of course, of the fbi reviewing e-mails found on the computer of anthony weiner, abedin's estranged husband. >> plus keeping our eye

for a second time, director james comey said hillary clinton should not face charges. he said that to members of congress in a letter, today. a-b-c's mary bruce reports. he final countdown of the campaign? and hillary clinton has a new reason to smile? this letter - a last minute november surprise? the fbi tonight is standing by its decision not to bring a criminal case against hillary server. it's been nine days since the fbi director james comey rocked the campaign by announcing a renewed investigation into clinton's emails. now, he's informed congressional leaders that "based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton." those conclusions? that clinton should not be prosecuted. sot - jennifer palmierie / clinton campaign communications director "we're glad that this matter is resolved." nats - on the trail sunday - clinton d sot - hillary clinton / presidential nominee"i hope ohio will turn out in the biggest recorded vote in history on tuesday ?"the democratic nominee instead calling on her star sup

give me a sense of what you role in james comey's this election and whether it is inappropriate.uest: director comey inject himself into an election in ways that he didn't need to and shouldn't have. i think he took the institution of the fbi with him and that is unfortunate. luckily, as many of us have expected, he has found there was thatng to the new e-mails had been discovered and we can move forward, but it is unfortunate because you want to know the premier investigative body in the united dates of america will always be impartial and independent. james comey, i hate to say it because i think he wants to be injectedding american, himself and the fbi in ways that are probably going to harm him and the institution for some time to come. think the fact he , do youk in this late feel as though he has rectified the sixth -- the situation by dming out with a statement or feel that 10 days was damaging to hillary clinton in a way that you find problematic? guest: with 24 hours to go, i'm focused as much as possible on making sure hillary clinton wins, but on the question of hillar

i think the james comey think through the trump campaign off momentarily. had a very big challenge and he does not. one thing i have learned based on the way the comey thing played was in the age of twitter in the age of rapid response and polarization it takes a really , big event to capture the news media in a way that clearly helps one candidate or the other. you saw that in the previous mess but i don't think anything in the next 12 hours barring a martian invasion is going to shake up this race. john: i agree with that. from the time he sent his letter to congress 10 days ago more 11 days ago the ap was reporting 24 , million people voted in time. that is a lot of people who voted in a time when the comey news was driving mark: it will negative headlines. clearly affect the down ballot races. john: that had a real impact. it certainly changed trump's closing message and gave hillary clinton a chance to pivot to a more positive message. kind of talk about unity and to bring in the country together. at this point, you are right, hard to imagine anything

jansing joining us from phoenix, arizona. >>> coming up, democrats and hillary clinton are blasting james comey him. is he violating the hatch act or simply doing his job? a former assistant director under comey joins me next. hey look, it's those guys. [music] shawn: look at those pearly whites, man. [music] bud: whoa, cute! shawn: shut-up. jess: are you good to drive? shawn: i'm fine. [music] [police siren] jess: how many did you have? shawn: i should be fine. jess: you should be? officer: sir, go ahead and step out of the vehicle for me. shawn: yes, sir. bud: see ya, buddy. today, shawn's got a hearing, we'll see how it goes. good luck! so, it turns out buzzed driving and drunk driving, they're the same thing and it costs around $10,000. so not worth it. >>> hillary clinton's campaign is crying foul over reports the fbi director opposed releasing information of russian interference close to election day, yet they announced another probe of her e-mails last week. joining me now is former fbi assistant director, also the president of the law enforcement legal defense fund. ron, do you believe

senator minority lead accused james comey better for breaking the law. we knew secretary email practices were legal. . >>> donald trump campaigns in five states today including pennsylvania. meanwhile clinton will also be in pennsylvania joined by bill and chelsea clinton. president obama and the first lady and also bruce springsteen. >>> meanwhile bay area polling places are working to make sure they have the volunteers it takes to count every ballot. kpix5's jackie ward is live in the newsroom on the outreach efforts underway. >> reporter: even the patients at the hospitals in berkeley and oakland can rest assured their votes will count. volunteers making trips to the election offices for any patient who wants to vote. volunteers will pick up the ballot and deliver the ballot back to the appropriate election office. santa clara have counted the 300,000 ballots that have came in. >> they should have integrity and we have a number of safeguards and procedures that we put in place for every ballot to make sure that every vote that should be counted is cou

the big news of course that we can talk about the last few days, the announcement by fbi director james comeymake a mistake come in your opinion, in raising this whole issue with 11 days ago in the campaign? >> i'll say this, bill. i know jim comey pretty well because he played a key role in the u.s. attorney's office, the eastern district of virginia when i was the mayor of richmond. i have high regard for them but i'm very troubled by this puzzled by. i think it's pretty clear what he did was in violation of the least two really important protocols that the law enforcement community follow. and what is not talking about an ongoing investigation. you don't do that. and second there is a clear, long-standing pattern in the fbi and justice department of not putting out information that could be politically controversial on the eve of an election. we know from reporting yesterday that director comey is very aware of both of those. he appeared before congress at the end of september and was asked questions about investigations into russian activity, come from a the american election. he said we

minority leader senator harry reid attacked the fbi director james comey who he had praised three monthsarlier when he decided not to pursue charges against clinton, quote: i am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the hatch act which bars fbi officials from using their official authority to influence an election is through your partisan actions you may have broken the law. the white house took a different tact today and defended the fbi director. >> the president doesn't believe that director comey is intentionally trying to influence the outcome of an election. the president doesn't believe that he is secretly strategizing to benefit one candidate or one political party. >> and, brit, fox news has confirmed tonight that the fbi has been investigating trump former campaign manager paul manafort for his relationship to russia and that there are two other campaign officials who may also be part of that investigation. campaign manager robbie mook had a conference call tonight with brian fall lodge, another spokesman for hillary clinton, accusin

gary tuchman tonight reports. >> hi, state your name. >> i, james b. comeyrector of the fbi in 2013, in the beginning of president obama's second term. >> so help me god. >> 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

everything at risk. >> clinton received good news late yesterday from the fbi director with director james comey telling congressional leaders the fbi had reviewed her i mails and his decision not to prosecute stands her campaign is not as relieved. >> we have seen director comey on the hill. we are glad to see, we were confident he would he confirmed the decision he reached in july. we are glad this matter is resolved. >> the impact of the e-mail mess over particularly the last 9 or 10 days is unclear at this stage. clinton campaigning in two typically democratic states pennsylvania and michigan today. the fascinating swing state of north carolina. >> the fbi may be letting hillary off the hook once again off of her e-mail mess. the hill.com. thank you for joining us this morning. lots to talk about yet again. comey announced clinton would not be prosecuted because of the e-mails. october the 8th he announced we found some more so we are going to investigate again. yesterday said going back to our original decision in july we are not going to prosecute her. will voters say it is over and gone w