ms. abedin will continue to be, as she always has, forthcoming and cooperative. >> a lot going on overnight. comey standing by his guns. obviously what is interesting now is the idea we may not hear anything at all before election day. >> interesting also in that statement from huma abedin that she had not been contacted by the fbi yet until she heard about it from press reports. thank you so much. >> and not on the campaign trail. >> we saw that. >> traveling with hillary clinton. >> we will talk to you. >> the clinton campaign is accusing james comey of a blatant double standard. robby mook jumped on reporting that last month comey opposed naming russia as the so-called state hacker hacking democratic officials, arguing it was too close to election day. >> it is impossible to view this as anything less than a blatant 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 and russia. t

ms. abedin's computer show national security violations. so while comey was covering his butt last summer, he may be also covering it now. finally, there is a civil war within the fbi, comey knows that, some career agents have offered their resignations because they don't believe the clinton e-mail investigation was conducted in a rigorous way. comey, lynch, and president obama could have saved the nation all of this turmoil had they done what they should have done in the first place convened a federal grand jury to review the evidence presented by the fbi. that would have gotten politics out of it. but, in america at this point in history, justice takes a backseat to politics. not acceptable. and that's the memo. now for the top story, reaction, joining us from washington charles krauthammer and you say? >> 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 presen

ms. abedin will continue to be, as she always has been, forthcoming and cooperative. error in judgment by the director. >> reporter: comey's handling of the situation has generated fierce criticism from both democrats and republicans. the list of former attorneys general coming out against fbi director comey is growing. they say he mishandled the information. we spoke to alberto gonzalez, who served a republican president. >> i think his decision has raised some very troubling questions. it is to some degree puzzling to someone like me. people are left to speculate criminal investigation and ultimately a criminal conviction of secretary clinton, and of course, she may be totally innocent. >> reporter: late today the department of justice responding with a letter. the department of justice appreciates the concerns raised in your letter. we assure you that the department will continue to work closely with the fbi and together dedicate all necessary resources and take appropriate steps as expeditiously as possible. >> this is the biggest scandal since water gate. pummel

ms. abedin will continue to be, as she always has been, forthcoming and cooperative. joining us, managing editor of bloomberg politics and co-host of "with all due respect." also with us, charlie sikes, radio host from milwaukee and a msnbc contributor. so we have this statement from huma abedin, hillary clinton taking just a much smarter approach to this today. because it's very, she's playing it very offhand, very relaxed. making it sound like the familiar story that it is. and not looking for any direct clash with comey. >> well, you know, they got, what they managed to do over the weekend was two things the clintons are good at doing. when attacked, going on offense, and then finding a lot of surrogates. outsourcing the attack on comey. once they had the wide degree and bipartisan degree of criticism of comey, it allowed her to back off and basically say, we'll let the surrogates do this. i think it's one of the key differences between this and other october surprises. this is not new information, right, it's not like the "access hollywood" tape where donald trump

ms. abedin. there is discussion to complete this investigation the fbi will not only need to look at the e-mails make judgments about classified material but possibly sit down and interview huma ab den again. they haven't even reached out for that. the possibility of those dominoes falling before election day, very low. >> let's talk about the politics of all of this, with just eight days to go, almost just seven days to go, will we even know the full impact this e-mail news on voters before election day? >> we might not. i think towards the middle of this week we might know a little bit more of the impact. i think we'll know sort of state by state whether thing have taken a turn in any particular state. so far, it seems to me that the polling is still pretty stable. look, this isn't good news for hillary clinton. any say she is talking about herself and talking about this e-mail case and not talking about donald trump is not a good day for her. what she has been trying to do is change the subjec

ms. abedin will continue to be as she always has been forthcoming and cooperative. meanwhile the clinton campaign continues attacking donald trump that he's erratic and unfit to control arsenal, particularly the nuclear arsenal. later today the campaign said that former miss universe will introduce hillary clinton. it was alicia who donald trump has spoken harshly to and the clinton campaign says that this event will serve as a way to demonstrate that donald trump is unfit to be president also when it per tapes to women and girls, back to you. jenna: thank you. john: new numbers out this morning in the race of the white house giving donald trump the edge. an abc washington postpoll finds donald trump ahead of hillary clinton 45 to 46, essentially it puts them in a tie. white house correspondenten at the wall street journal and chris deputy online editor at the weekly standard. when you look at the numbers, it's the first time that donald trump has led in this particularly poll since may. what does it say to you? >> as you delve into them probably the most interestin

ms. abedin's computer, which anthony weiner has access to. >> and he did not have a security clearance.was no longer in congress in recent years. why would he have access to that? here is another big thing. a big development today from wikileaks. i'm sifting through all these emails and there is a couple there in which they were -- clinton's own aides in 2015 were raising questions about did she really turn over all official email like she told the public? remember, she said i only deleted the personal ones that had to deal with yoga routines. her own staff was doubting that. they had a question amongst themselves. what did she call personal? stuff with huma abedin and cheryl mills because they are close friends? hillary clinton never answered that why is that significant? it ties back to what james rosen just reported. huma abedin was at the state department on the payroll. her emails, not all of them. some of them could have been personal. most of them official business. taxpayers were paying her salary at the state department along with cheryl mills. they also abedin and mills did wo

ms. abedin has complied fully and voluntarily with state department and law enforcement requests and reiterated abedin 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'm sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they looked at my e-mails for the last year. >> reporter: all of this as "the new york times" obtains documents that they say show trump potentially escaped tens of millions of dollars in federal personal income taxes in the 1990s by using a tax avoidance maneuver later outlawed by congress. trump's campaign responding to the report in a statement saying, quote, any tax experts that you have consulted are engaged in pure speculation. there is no news here. and guys, if you want to get a sense of where the race is just one week out from election day, you can just kind of look at the map, get a sense of where hillary clinton is, where d

ms. abedin was given the status of special government employee which allowed her to double dip.h carolina, bill, you are the most naive person in the world if you don't know why hillary clinton will not do an interview with you. when trump is your guess, you hammer him worst than the fbi did with hillary. mr. trump survived the chats here in fine form. so did mrs. clinton in 2008. california, justice department official giving john podesta about a congressional questioning is corrupt but rudy billian any delivering fbi information to fox news isn't? that's just desperate, jim. desperate. the mayor is a private citizen. if he has information he has a right to state it. a government official whose salary is paid by you and me has no right to secretly play politics. good grief, pennsylvania, i believe the factor covering who the bushes are supporting will have a negative effect on donald trump. please consider. we don't select stories based upon who they will help or hurt. come on. we select based on news value. china, i believe the election of trump would indicate that traditional

ms. abedin will be as she always has been forthcoming and cooperative. the white house staying on the sidelines. >> i'll defend nor criticize what director dircomey has deci to communicate to the public abou that director comey is intentionally trying to influence the outcome of an election. >> reporter: donald trump sounding thankful for a pre-election day surprise. >> good job, huma. thank you, anthony weiner. >> reporter: now, clinton's strategy on this, she really seems to be trying to tackle it head on. the big question how does this play out when it comes to the ballot box? george, nearly 25 million americans have already cast >> thanks, cecilia. we are joined by hillary clinton's campaign manager robby mook. robby, thanks for joining us. i take cecilia's last point about a lot of early votes already in the bank but our new poll shows donald trump ahead for the first time since may. pretty dramatic drop over the last ten days. are you worried this race may slip away from you. >> i'm not, george. but what we are focused on right now is making sure e

ms. abedin will continue to be, as she always has been, forthcoming and cooperative." secretary clinton has three stops in florida today. donald trump starts his day in pennsylvania with a speech about obamacare. >> kristen, thank you very much. >>> breakin n maryland where officials are investigating a horrifying crash this morning. at least three people were killed, many others injured when a school bus and city bus collided in southwest baltimore, collapsing much of the front of the school bus and tearing off the driver's side of the city bus. emergency vehicles are on the scene caring for people along the side of the road. >>> now to alabama and concerns about the nation's gas supply. on monday a massive explosion killed one worker and injured five others. heavy equipment ruptured the gas line that started the fire. the pipeline is now shut down. this happened just a few miles from the site of a pipeline leak back in september. that incident led to gas shortages and higher prices throughout the southeast. >>> coming up, jay leno is here. he's joining us for trendin

ms. abedin has fully complied. she learned for the first time on friday from press reports that a possibility of a laptop belong to go mr. weiner could contain emails of her. joining us gabi and campaign manager presidential campaign, good to see you, thank you so much for joining us. how do you think it is hillary clinton's campaign? >> talking to voters where they are seriously considered who they will support in the case tuesday and acting them do you want to support somebody who will be in criminal investigation. that is a powerful argument for him to be making seven days for the election and one he will likele carry in battleground states this week. maria: but just seems, steve, the clinton campaign the only answer here to double down, dig in. we have been down this road. is that the strategy. do you think they need to ramp it up in a different direction. there's one and call point to make here. hillary clinton was under investigation throughout most campaign and she was ahead the whole way. nothing new here w