. >>> fbi to hillary clinton, you are innocent. let's play hardball. >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in new york. with just hour to go until election day breaking news from federal bureau of investigation. director james comey late today told every member of congress that fbi has found no evidence of any wrongdoing by presidential nominee hillary clinton. she is clean of any possible charge, innocent after fbi has looked at all the e-mails on anthony weiner laptop. that's the blockbuster after combing through all the e-mails. the fbi realized those e-mails sent or received by hillary clinton during the time she was secretary of state are either duplicates are ones discovered earlier or have nothing to do with state department business. nine days ago fbi director james comey rocked the election and announced to congress that the bureau was reopening the investigation of hillary clinton's use of personal e-mails. e-mails found on aide huma abedin's husband anthony weiner. the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb at that point.

the fbi wasn't eager to do this. you can see that which they gave them, the cia, the witness statement in small doses and they only gave them one third of the total eyewitness base. they are only working -- on december 31, 1996, the cia analyst, give me a call sometime. and explain what people saw contained in the plane itself come all they saw was flight 800. he decided the nose of the plane was blown off and the plane took 90 ° up, 70 or 80 , and aviators know what a crock this is. and in the course of that, deceived people into seeing a missile, i talked to many aviators. this can't happen. it went to 13,000, 17,000 plus feet. that is what confused them. we will get back to that in a second. they contracted with creating a video to show that and that closed the case. that was december 31st. by february 1997, george tenet who has been promoted to the director of central intelligence, the number 2 guy when it started, and john deutsch signs off on it. the plane falls off, shoots up right, this is what it is. one he

fbi agents. we want to know who the agents were and exactly why they're doing this. it's basically undermining the fbi. when you lose trust in the fbi, clearly you can end up with a crisis of legitimacy. >> and, congressman, in your time in public service as a member of congress, have you ever seen the fbi essentially leaking information about a supposed investigation publicly before an election? have you ever heard of an investigation that was begun on the basis of a partisan book? >> no, no i've never heard of either, joy. don't forget, joy, i practiced criminal law for some 20 years before coming to congress. normally when there's a question of whether somebody or something is being investigated, what you have is the fbi basically saying no comment. 999. -- 99.9% of the time they wouldn't tell you whether they're looking into something. we're having all kinds of leaks regarding hillary clinton. it's interesting, however, we have not heard any kind of statements coming out about -- at least fro

fbi at their word. i think they are trying to do the best job that they can. i think only later on whether through the fbi having a hearing with congress or if it comes through leaks do we find out what information the fbi had and will we be able to judge director comey and the decisions made during the campaign. >> the reason i suspect you take the fbi at their word is because of two things. one, you are being a responsible public official ask you don't have proof otherwise. you are backing a man for president who does not ablth on those bases. he will spread that doubt about one of these critical institutions of our democracy for his own political gain. you say you don't focus on what donald trump says and does. don't you have to if you want him to be president? >> chris, if i will be sirly with you this morning i will say you are supporting someone. >> you just did. did you learn that from trump? >> you are supporting someone who actually took top secret information and put it on a private server. yo

she knows it, the fbi knows it, the people, the fbi they know it -- i think it's very embarrassing to them. and now it's up to the american people to deliver the justice -- >> and that rally in virginia wrapped up only about two hours ago and the mad dash for donald trump today continues. i want to show you a snapshot of where he's campaigning. he's on to pennsylvania, new hampshire and michigan. this curious late in the game stop by the trump campaign. this is a state that hasn't voted republican since 1988. the trump campaign sensing some opportunity that's why they're having a symbolic last closing message argument tonight in michigan. >> thanks so much. great to have you here. one of the states everyone is watching this morning is pennsylvania. both candidates will be there today. their 20 electoral votes at stake, still it has been a republican target for just as long. polls show hillary clinton with a consistent lead there but narrowing as election day approach approaches. live for us in philadelphia. good morning, sarah. >> reporter: that lead was within the margin of error so

i have to give the fbi credit. that was so bad what happened originally and it took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the opposition that he had trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. you know that. >> well, just over a week to go until election day how will the fbi email case effect the race? our nightly political badge is back byron york cleve correspondent of "the weekly standard." byron, what do you think. >> we haven't had enough time to see in any polls. we haven't had enough time. we will know later. i think it's pretty clear that the race was tightening before comey came out and made his -- sent his letter on friday. if you go back to around the time of the last debate. the last debate was october 19th. hillary clinton had about a 7 point lead, real clear politics average of polls, now it's less than half that maybe 3. maybe 2.8. somewhere like that. >> average real clear politics average is under three as of tonight. >> exactly. so, i went back and looked at a peri

the fbi knows it. now it's up to the american people to deliver justice at the ballot box. >> reporter: officials tell cnn they worked around the clock and the e-mails were personal or mostly duplicate. trump's reaction is a complete 180 for what he expressed for the fbi director. >> there is little doubt that james comey and the great special agents within the fbi will be able to collect more than enough evidence to garner indictments against hillary clinton. >> reporter: now facing the final day of campaigning, sprinting to the finish. trump traveling across six states on sunday alone keeping up his attack on clinton and continuing with the push in virginia. >> hillary right now is fast asleep. >> reporter: donald trump with his closing arguments in "usa today." offering a 100 day action plan to clean up corruption and bring change to washington. and trump has another marathon day campaigning in florida and north carolina today. then he is on to pennsylvania, new hampshire and michigan. his last rall

the fbi didn't know. they weren't allowed to read e-mails. hillary clinton started to -- >> i think what happened was it was politicized. the republicans -- >> you're saying both sides. >> that's what i'm saying. both sides politicized it. the republicans did and the democrats -- that's -- >> once the -- the media should not take part in that politization process. should cover things down the middle of the road. we have questions we need answered by the investigation into hillary clinton, into the foundation and we're wasting all this time talking about james comey instead of the actual investigation. >> because there is an election for president going on both sides and one side is trying to use this to further its cause and the democrats are going to push against that. that leads to questioning why comey did it at that time, they're going to do that. the press has to report all this. >> let me get back to the road to 270 electoral votes. let me put up a frame grab as we call it, of cnn the other day, breaking news banner, breaking news, look

but i heard that from former fbi agents, not from current fbi agents. i i haven't spoken to a current fbi agent, i don't think, in the last nine months. >> so then you're innocent of knowing any inside information on the possible prosecution -- >> on comey, no. >> no. no, you have no inside information, as of this moment, from the fbi? >> correct. all my information comes from -- >> so you don't know anything more about the case than you are thinking about as a private citizen right now. you don't have any inside information about the possible guilt of hillary clinton? >> right. >> so what you say about hillary being guilty, is just a former prosecutor, yourself, talking about it. >> i said that a year ago. >> you have no advantage -- here's the question, hillary clinton, when she became secretary of state, this is public information, chose to have a private server. i don't know anything about this stuff, but she chose to have her own, obviously, she wanted to keep it private. by your argument, i believe, that was a felony? >> i would say the fact that

he is the former assistant director of the fbi. he was defending the agents reportedly pushing to dig deeper into evidence of corruption at the clinton foundation. since then, mr. kallstrom has taken heat for those remarks and he's back with us tonight on that. and all we've learned about this story in the last few days. great to see you, jim, thanks for being here. >> nice to be here. >> the daily beast is suggesting that you walked that back. you haven't really been in touch with the agents investigating hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. and that you are something less than an accurate spokesperson for the disgruntled fbi agents. >> well, they can write what they want. i never did claim i talked to the actual agents. i would never do that. i would never call up people that were investigating something and even put them on the spot. i wouldn't do that. but i've talked to hundreds and hundreds of people in the fbi. mostly retired people and some people that are currently on the job that are not directly involved, but, you know, it'

fbi clears clinton. if there was a movement toward trump of moderate republicans, of independents, of even some democrats who decided, i just can't do this because the nominee of the other party is under investigation, if they process the information, perhaps it stops. more importantly, before this news, the race had sed seth ttl. the pollsters have been in a panic pause they think they're in a plane with turbulence. some of the data doesn't make sense. >> not because they've taken sides but because they're confused by the data? >> they're numbers people. there are gold standard people in both parties who do this. they're like, what's happening? the volatility of the lelector e electorate. the unorthodoxy. the beiaggage clinton has. look at the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll, the numbers make sense. the demographic groups are lining up in a way that the pollsters are saying, data finally settled and makes sense. at the point it is at right now, she has a bigger national lead than president obama had

the door on the fbi's investigation. just two days before the election. thanks for joining us. i'm denise nakano. this comes nine days after comey shook up the race by announcing the fbi was resuming their investigation into the clinton e-mails. they reviewed e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop, the else strastranged husband of cl aide huma abedin. lauren is here to explain the latest develops. this is the latest announcement from the fbi director shaking up the race. >> both sides criticized the fbi director at different times for what he said. the decision he's made or just saying anything at all in the middle of an investigation. with this new information, the clinton campaign saying today they are glad it is resolved and they were confident he'd come to this conclusion. >> are you ready to vote? >> reporter: hillary clinton on the campaign trail in ohio with basketball star lebron james. as the game changed again with less than 48 hours till election day. clinton didn't mention it, but right now, democrats and r

when nbc news asked the fbi to comment on the inquiry, the fbi did not respond. >> americans have every right to be concerned about what they see in terms of trump advisers and their closeness with the kremlin, trump's policies vis-a-vis russia, trump's potential financial interests in russia. >> reporter: 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 two oligarchs -- one ukrainian, one russian, both billionaires. american officials say both have ties to the russian mafia. >> i think it does raise serious concerns about the policies that trump would pursue if he were president. >> reporter: while an inquiry is a preliminary look and falls short of a criminal investigation, in this highly charged atmosphere, it has some arguing that comey is using a double standard. >> here where the director has discussed an investigation involving one candidate, it opens the director up to claims of bias if he doesn't discuss other potential investigations. >> our thanks to nbc's cynthia

fbi headquarters here in washington was notified. we don't know why it took three weeks for the fbi director james comey to send friday's letter to congress. what we've confirmed is that the new york agents needed additional approvals to expand their search beyond the sexting allegations. after the review found multiple hits for the clinton server and state department records. agents can now read the contents of the e-mail. in the meantime, a course close to weiner's legal team believes that the laptop was used to back up abedin's smartphone contacts, and in the process it back up all of her e-mail. abedin told the fbi in april that she routinely sent e-mails like this to clinton to her personal yahoo! account where it was easier to print. and in a separate deposition with judicial watch, abedin swore that she never deleted in any e-mail and searched any device that could hold the records. the justice department sent this letter to capitol hill pledging to make every resource available to expedite the review before election day. but

both the cia and fbi cannot be politicized. what does that say based on what we are seeing now and what we are hearing from giuliani. do they trust the campaigns or the fbi and the cia? how much damage are they doing? >> there is no institution in america, no piece of the government that's coming away unblemished or unstained as a result of this election. >> is it realistic to ask somebody not to have a political view and use it, i guess? specially for folks in the fbi and the cia, who work here amongst all of these people. >> you hope that any variable here would be nonpolitical or a political, it would be the fbi. this has been the cycle of the leak from the "access hollywood" video. >> it is the leak election. >> patty, paris, brian, thank you so much. >> it is the e-mail scandal that has been plaguing the clinton campaign. the state department has released what's likely to be the last batch of e-mails. they have done so just days before the election. we are three days and out, folks. we will have details for you straight ah

the fbi is urgently searching the laptop from former congress member anthony weiner. we are joined by eugene scott tracking the latest for us. overnig overnight, we got the indication from james comey about how he feels about the controversy. >> an aide said he is standing firm. he will not update anyone on anything until after the investigation is complete. he has gotten so much criticism. >> what are the agents doing? >> they are sifting through the e-mails with the search engine comparable to what the fbi has at quantico. they are searching those e-mails they feel are relevant. they want to know if those are classified or if the sender or receiver knew. >> you need humans involved to see if it is classified. >> you have to go back to the agencies and see how it was classified. >> people muck things up. huma abedin. not on the campaign trail yesterday. what is she doing? >> as we mentioned, she has not been out in public since this became public to all of us. we have a statement from her lawyers. her lawyers are saying huma abedin learned for the first time on frida

the fbi knows it. the people know it. and now it's up to the american people to deliver justice at the ballot box on november 8th. >> just a very quickly a couple of thoughts from both of you, fred, on that reaction? >> well, look, he should know better. they didn't go through all of those. they had to wait -- to look at the ones just between huma and clinton. >> or her and clinton and somebody else. but that was the subsidy. >> this is an investigation that has not looked good for the fbi or the department of justice since the beginning for loretta lynch having a private meeting with bill clinton that we only know about because one reporter happened to witness it. the way they didn't record the interview with her. this is something that stunk from the beginning and i think people need to learn more before they are going to trust this. >> thank you to both of you. coming up, the praise for tucker crossner who is headed to this seat continues to roll in. much at my expense. mean tweets, state ahead. changes to make things

when nbc news asked the fbi to the inquiry, the fbi did not respond. >> americans have every right to be concerned about what they see in terms of trump advisers and their closeness with the kremlin, trump's policies, vis-a-vis russia, trump's potential financial interest in russia. >> reporter: 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 two russian. both billionaires. american officials say both have ties to the russian mafia. >> i think it does raise serious concerns about the policies that trump would pursue if he were president. >> reporter: while an inquiry is a preliminary look and falls short of a criminal investigation, in this highly charged atmosphere, it has some arguing that comey is using a double standard. >> here where the director has discussed an investigation involving one the director up to claims of bias if he doesn't discuss other potential investigations. >> paul manafort tells us tonight none of it's true. there's no investigations going on with

this country, our country needs a nonpartisan fbi, an fbi that can go after scooter libby and do the investigation, if need be, of hillary clinton. we have to feel that this isn't the fbi of the time of j. edgar hoover when they played favorites. some people with all of the so-called leaking, people of a certain age think back to the hoover area when information about martin luther king and other civil rights leaders used to be leaked to damage them. i don't think this is the same period. what we don't want is for people to assume it is the same period that we are back with a politicized investigative team. am i worried? super worried. when you hear congressman javitz predict that if hillary clinton wins, he is going to start investigating her from day one. we have gone too far. we have criminalized our disagreements, not all of them deserve to be criminalized. few of them do. i am worried. there was a time when you could hope that, i hate to use the word establishment, because no one can say that anymore. when the leaders of the two parties would calm down some of their partisans an

if the fbi knows about it and the fbi is sitting on it, in order to not upset the presidential election. where are we on that side of the story? >> i don't know where the truth of the matter is. that is an incendiary claim. the fbi did not want to comment on those potential leaks. there is reporting of no such leaks in "the new york times" this morning. the fbi did not want to comment on what the intelligence community over the russia hacking of the dnc e-mails and trying to influence the election. the clinton campaign has talked about that. it has been known that the intelligence community knows about that. 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

they can't just beat up the fbi. they beat up the fbi, they question the motivation there, but she also had to address the her part of it and that's significant. they see something that we haven't seen yet. >> paul, do you know what -- >> i don't know what they know. i know what i think. >> what do you think? >> i think two things. gloria's right. this can motivate your base. if you feel like you're being unjustly attacked by law enforcement, a lot of democrats in america feel the same way on the local level. and i think she can use that to rally her base. and the problem is, if there's damage, it will not be with her base, it will be with these college-educated white people, who go back and forth, with each trump crisis, she gets inflated, i told you every time that we had her at 10 or 12, that was nonsense, and it slides back down. the criticisms from politicians don't, i think, move them. but the elite criticism of comey, i think, has been very powerful. >> what do you mean the elite criticism? >> larry thompson,

for months the fbi looked russian role in the links. investigated close advisors to trump in ties to russia. searched anyone who may have been involved in hacking democrats' computers. today the "new york times" reports none of those allegations -- investigations, excuse me, revealed the link between trump and the russian government. as the race for the white house takes unexpected turn, both the trump and clinton campaigns are changing advertising strategy. the clinton campaign is back on the air in colorado after suspending ads in july. back then it was a sign of confidence that clinton had wrapped up that state. meanwhile trump is maintaining ads in michigan and in new mexico. a sign he is trying to win those democratic leaning states. trump fraud.com, and trump suck.com. but it turns out that donald trump himself owns those and other similar dozens of other similar web addresses. the sites sound like they are bashing the nominee but by owning them trump makes sure his critics and rivals cannot use them to attack him. wikileaks just

on the eve of this election, the new fbi bombshell. the fbi director now clearing hillary clinton, after reviewing the newly discovered e-mails. both trump and clinton in the air when the news breaks. the cameras waiting. what she said, as clinton takes the stage with lebron james. and with just two days to go, our brand new tracking poll. where the race stands right now. >>> also, the serial killer confession. the woman kidnapped, discovered chained in a storage shed. tonight, the suspect leading authorities to several more bodies. >>> the fiery explosion in an apartment complex, bursting into flames. the race to save families inside. >>> the search for the mother, last seen jogging near her home. the ping allegedly used to find her phone. >>> and on a sunday night, "america strong." the boy, the favorite, finally in the game. >>> good evening. we are all here tonight because we're just two days away from this country electing a new president. every turn in this campaign, impossible to predict. and tonight, a new one. with just 48 hou

the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president, and there is precedence for firing an fbi director he or she believed was engaging inin misconduct. bill clinton fired sessions back in 93. i think the real question is if somehow despite everything we've heard so far, despite everything there director said and all the outward appearances, if there does turn out to be some kind of incriminating piece of evidence in the e-mails that suggests that secretary clinton broke the law, and again there's been no evidence of that, then frankly the remedy at that point would be the one the constitution prescribes which is impeachment. we would seek all sperm members of the house and senate to proceed in a direction that we are nowhere near that.d the point is understood is that it revealed nothing about secretary clinton either way. all it revealed is that there were new e-mails most of whichre probably have nothing to do with secretary clinton that he bbs aa are relevant to an investigation that is ongoing.ny so we are a long way away from any suggestion that no now discredited some kind of a s

the fbi can take your freedom. they have incredible power over you. >> yes. >> we now have a cell essentially within the fbi allied with rudy giuliani, her opponent in senate. she came out and publicly denounced the murders of dialo and doariz. now you have elements of the new york-based fbi determined to lock her up. and there aren't just talking about it or using one vote which they have like anybody else. they can be republicans if they want. they're taking a hack book which is financially related to the ceo of the donald trump campaign, peter schweitzer runs a fake sham foundation that was begun by steven bannon. so you have the financially connected ceo of the republican presidential candidate connected to a book that agents then used to launch an investigation. which they can do against anybody, by the way. based on a sham book and intend to put you in prison and colluding with republican members to say we'll take the sham investigation. we don't care what comey says. we'll put her in prison for being the opp

the fbi director now in the hot seat, why did he go public before the fbi even looked at the e-mails themselves? and tonight, donald trump on the attack. >>> also this evening, the bomb scare on a passenger jet here in the u.s. the emergency declared. >>> calm under pressure. the 911 call just released tonight from that nightclub in orlando. the shooter and the very calm negotiator who was trying to save other lives. >>> the father on trial tonight, his son dying in their hot car. this evening, the wife takes the stand. and what she says about her husband. >>> and up in flames. the new condo complex, the inferno, and the race to clear out the neighborhood. >>> good evening. and we begin tonight with just eight days left until the election, nearly 24 million americans voting already. and tonight, the fbi right now searching through those newly discovered e-mails. the fbi director saying he's not sure if they will be significant or not. and because of that, fbi director james comey is under fire tonight. many asking, why did he speak out without having seen the e-mails first? we know t

he did not talk about the fbi director directly. in the summer when it was the fbi not doing anything anymore with the clinton e-mail investigation. donald trump was saying that the fbi was part of a rigged deal and rigging the election for hillary clinton and then at last week or so in new hampshire when the bombshell was dropped he's been saying maybe the system isn't rigged. we are anxious to hear what donald trump has to say about this later this evening. i talked to three top campaign officials. they insist this does not change the contours of this race. they say the public will continue to be suspicious no matter what the fbi says. i suspect the trump campaign will continue to hammer that message home. keep in mind that tempers are starting to flair. beginninewt gingrich was on twi hour ago talk about the destruction of jim comey and he must have been pressured into doing all this. there are feelings inside this campaign that he did is not helping their campaign. they see this state as a jump ball heading into tuesday. they fe

fbi under fire. president obama breaks his silence criticizing fbi director james comey for going public on the revived clinton e-mail probe that comes as a stolen e-mail signatures the clinton campaign had inside help at the justice department. is the fbi between a rock and a hard place? >>> the blue wall. clinton campaign spent time and money to strengthen its blue state firewall even as it tries to paint red states with its own colors and president obama leads a democratic all-star team into crucial battleground states. new polls show donald trump is gaining in some states. he's going all out and must win florida which could be anyone's to lose. and out of control. more than 2 1/2 years after flight mh-370 vanished, no one was at the controls when the airliner plunged into the ocean. so what went wrong? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news, president obama publicly criticized james comey for going public on the revised clinton investigation. he says it violates estab

he has an fbi, jim has an fbi that's in revolt right now. and i think that's one of the reasons why he came out and did what he did to try to control his agents, who after all, are true law enforcement people. and what they see is about the slimiest stuff that we've seen in washington since probably tea pot dome. this is worse than water gate. they corrupted the state department. pay for play. and corrupted the justice department. you can't go much further than that, megyn. >> mr. mayor, good to see you. >> thank you. >> joining me with more with, hillary clinton supporter, melissa vif reeto. there are conflicting reports about whether the fbi is in fact divide end low morale as some claim and whether that case that comey declined to prosecute in july was in fact prosecutable. >> look, i think that it is it is a nating that wee are seeing all of this emerge six days out, two weeks out of an important election. and we have a candidate in donald trump who is on the press business, on the owe busine business,pies /* on the owe business, and whe

take a step back and think about the fbi. the fbi was blamed for failing to connect the dots. the fbi under the direction of bob miller has continued under the direction of director comey to really restore its luster. >> they have come all the way back. >> yeah. so to see them go through this is wrenching as an institution to watch them build themselves back up after 9/11. perplexing is the right word that kristen used. there is nothing i can fathom in the week before an election, the branch is so cautious. i remember before the 2004 election of george w. bush, they weren't allowed to touch it because they were so hyperaware that we were in the heat of a campaign. so the fact they're either not aware or they're acting despite the fact we're days before an election is stunning. >> this plot line to niccolle's point. if you're the leader, you're trying to run it out. if you're the challe enger, you're trying to run it out every day. >> it's mind blowing. there have been mind blowing moments in this whole election process and this whole campaign. i bet in some respects the clinto

he's head of the fbi. he's conducting an fbi investigation. >> listen, i want to get your -- >> did not come to any conclusions. >> i want to change subjects quickly, i need to get this in. this is a new clinton ad from her campaign. it's running, it's an updated version of the iconic 1964 daisy ad by lyndon b. johnson. >> i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> this was me in 1964, the fear of nuclear war we had as children, i never thought our children would have to deal with that again. and to see that coming forward in this election is scary. >> trump asked three times -- >> three times, why can't we use nuclear weapons. >> i want to be unpredictable. >> what safeguards are there to stop any president from launching a nuclear attack. >> the commander in chief is the commander in chief. >> bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. >> is this effective? >> i think it's over the top. if i had a son or daughter in the military, if my family is under siege and calls for american help and that call is not a

it's not even about the fbi. this entire conversation is being had because of a couple selfish people. hillary clinton in setting up the private server if the beginning, lying about it, deleting e-mails, being reckless and careless. secondly, anthony weiner. the only reason we're having this conversation again, the only reason there's not one, but two fbi investigations now, is because anthony weiner is texting pictures of himself to a 15-year-old girl in north carolina. that's how this all started. i think when hillary clinton cannot blame the trump campaign, cannot blame the rnc, cannot blame the vast conspiracy, they're really at sea, because they're trying to blame, they're cursing the sky and it's not working. >> let's talk about the polls. trump's campaigning today in michigan. according to real clear politics average, clinton is leading by seven. it's a state which hasn't voted republican in presidential elections since 1988, i think. why spend crucial hours there? do you believe michigan is up for grabs?

he's represented these fbi agents. he's hired them. they work for him, and he can't know about the quote revolution. the question is the cause and effect. to what extent did he feed it, to what extent does he feed these people to give rumors. the misconduct here is not just comey. the misconduct is wider than that and the violation is historic, to be affecting a presidential election with lies about old investigations that have gotten nothing as a result of the investigation and -- just days before an election. this is a major crime against freedom good speech, and distinct and understandable elections among a democracy. >> i'm up against the clock. i'm sorry, page, you can blame our fellow panelists. or jay z and beyonce. see you next time. thank you, gentlemen. >>> when we come back the economy is a top priority, but who will win with working-class voters? . . . . . . . . . . if you're told you have cancer, explore your treatment options with specialists who treat only cancer. every stage... every day.... at cancer treatment centers

mexican peso rallied on the fbi news. when whatever wall streets thinks of con viewed as the status quo for the financial community which prizes predictability. a clinton victory would simply come with fewer unknowns. >> thank you. >> a fun fact it was 100 years ago today that the first woman was elected to congress. montana sent janet rankin to the house two years after the state granted the right to vote how to women. it would be another four years however, before women nationwide >>> janet reno was the first woman to be u.s. attorney general. appointed by president bill clinton. it was reno in 1993 who ordered the raid that brought a fiery end to a siege at the branch davidian compound in waco texas. more than 80 people died. reno called that the worst day of her life. janet reno died today, of parkinson's disease. she was 78. >>> coming up next -- strong earthquake close to t country's largest oil terminal. and, later, the push for minority votes. i'm here in bristol, virginia. and now...i'm in bristol, tennessee. on

investigating trump, fbi sees no clear link to russian government. >> that's just the fbi -- the fbi is in cahoots with the kgb which is in cahoots with the republicans, that's what james carville was sputtering on msnbc. it's so bad that james carville is attacking tom roberts who i don't think is a trump fan. >> this other story, in the 90s crisis, trump used a tax tactic now banned. not banned then. >> laura, before we go, serve days out, given this news of the day, trump is surging. what happens? >> i think trump is going to win a few states that right now nobody predicts he's going to win. i think it could be an outliar state. what i'm going to do just for my only connecticut roots, connecticut is in terrible shape. they have had some terrible governance. i'm saying that connecticut, i know this is an outliar, connecticut, connecticut. you need change. >> i know it's crazy, i'm going to say. a state like connecticut, perhaps a wisconsin, maybe, maybe, maybe even what's happened with the obamacare premiums in minnesota. i think there's going to be one or two states, maybe -- none

shouldn't be the fbi. felt from that point on this became a highly political situation. >> tom bring in the panel. angela you talked to congressman cummings. think should be investigate? >> raise a number of good points. one thing say in the letter unacceptable for fbi to leak unsubstantiated and in some cases false information about one presidential candidate to -- equally intolerable. lack of public trust is the issue. cummings talked about with blitzer, can't trust the fbi and don't believe in the system or doj, compromised it. that's bigger than partisanship. >> i see you shaking head. >> shocking to me. punted it in the summer right? then because the investigation is going on with huma abedin's husband find more information and because doj recused themselves as mr. fuentes just explained, puts the director in bad position. should have been special investigator on this. kicked out of the political realm. you have evidence from the e-mails, people leaking from the fbi. >> you don't know that. >> people

number of e-mails that the fbi actually had to take a closer look at? we have this -- somewhere we got the notion that there are 650,000 total. we don't know how many of those belonged to anthony weiner. >> right. >> they looked at only those that were to or from secretary clinton. do we have any idea what the number was of those? >> no. they have not given us that detail. they don't really want to give us that detail now. i suspect eventually we'll get it. what i said to one fbi official today is, you know, you gave us so much information after the clinton investigation, including the number of documents that contained classified information. will you supplement the record with that sort of information? i got the impression that they would but not before tuesday. >> pete, do you have any sense that today's letter was, in any sense, rushed by director comey because of the pressure he had been experiencing in the last several days and including this, what seemed to be a cross-current of leaks from the fbi? >> i think whatever pressure that they -- that t

also today, a report from cnbc sourced to a former fbi official that director james comey kept the fbi from signing on to an interagency statement blaming russia for recent political hacking. comey reportedly felt it was too close to the election. a second source later confirmed that same story to "the huffington post." now, this all comes as comey faces growing backlash for his decision three days ago to announce the bureau had discovered a new trove of e-mails belonging to top clinton aide huma abedin discovered during an investigation of abedin's estranged husband, anthony weiner, for allegedly sending elicit texting to an underage girl. we still have no idea what's in those new e-mails and we have no idea if they have anything to do with the original investigation of potential classified information on hillary clinton's private e-mail server. the fbi has now began to review abedin's e-mails but it remains unclear if they are finished before election day. what we do know about the e-mails and the decisions to make them public 11 days before the election has come largely by leaked to

here is what the fbi is doing. director comey has recognized the severity of this particular risk and combating get one of his top priorities. we as an organization are constantly evaluating how we go about dealing with our responsibilities prefer those of you looking got a news this morning, the department of justice, inspector general pushed out of report talking about how the fbi is looking at the cyber threat and giving us areas for improvement, all of which we will take very seriously and implement as possible. for the less winners is your years, the fbi has worked cases heard much in the same way. we assigned to investigators there are either aware of where the victim companies are at it does not work and cyber so we had to change in the model. it has not been without pain. we make a case assignments based on subject matter, expertise and where the expertise resides. we have created cyber action teams. we are taking our best technically trained agents and computer scientists and employ them to areas. we are m

the fbi investigation is over, but fbi director james comey is left with lots of explaining to do. >> hillary clinton is guilty. she knows it, the fbi knows it. >> reporter: donald trump supporters say she should have been prosecuted over the e-mails. she said the fbi should never have brought up the latest >> the director himself has said he doesn't know whether the e-mails referenced in his letter are significant or not. >> fbi officials say comey wants to give a full accounting of his role in all this, including the decisions he made, which he might do in a couple of weeks, and whatever his own plans, members of congress are eager to pull him up for hearings, but he intends to stay for his full ten-year term, which would mean >>> still ahead tonight, on high alert, top secret, underground ops center where u.s. security stands ready to act over heightened concerns over outside interference in america's election. >>> beyond the nd and all the unforeseen twists and turns, there is another reason why this election is unprecedented. the security operation on election day, aimed especial

mexican peso rallied on the fbi news. when whatever wall streets th viewed as the status quo for the financial community which prizes predictability. a clinton victory would simply come with fewer unknowns. >> thank you. >> a fun fact it was 100 years ago today that the first woman was elected to congress. montana sent janet rankin to the house two years after the state granted the right to vote how to women. it would be another four years however, before women nationwide under the 19th amendment. >>> janet reno was the first woman to be u.s. attorney general. appointed by president bill clinton. it was reno in 1993 who ordered the raid that brought a fiery end to a siege at the branch davidian compound in waco texas. more than 80 people died. reno called that the worst day of her life. janet reno died today, of parkinson's disease. she was 78. >>> coming up nex earthquake close to the country's largest oil terminal. and, later, the push for minority votes. i'm here in bristol, virginia. and now...i'm in bristol, tennesse

with the fbi director james comey now saying the fbi has found nothing in those new e-mails that changes their original decision that there was no criminal activity onhe

one go after the fbi and raise questions about fbi and comey, which trump was doing previously, now it's the clinton campaign. at the same time get the talk back on their opinion of the trump character. is that enough? there's nothing new there on the donald trump, her interpretation of donald trump's character. >> i think what has been one of the most interesting things that has happened in the last day, shows how much oxygen the hillary clinton e-mail stuff has taken, but it's been a bad 24 hour news cycle for donald trump. if you see all the stories about him. the story about the legally dubious maneuver to not pay any taxes. story in "the washington post" about charitable donations or lack and story about erased e-mails and information during depositions of court dates and reason why a lot of the court dates haven't happened. you have a lot of these news focuses for donald trump that could certainly be made an issue and what hillary clinton is going to do is package all of that up and focus on the unfitness of donald trump to be commander in chief. >> but if those stories were so pow

fbi agents are still sifting through messages discovered last week and notified the fbi director of. huma abedin's lawyer tells the press she knew nothing about her e-mails being on that laptop. she turned her devices over the to the fbi months ago. pete williams joins me now. where do we stand today, pete? >> i don't know. that's the best information i have. the process has a long way to go. we thought initially and there was optimism among investigators as well that they could apply this offer andot done. i'm told they don't at this point know what the percentage of e-mails they found with those found during the clinton e-mail investigation. what i can't tell you because they can't tell me is how long is this going to take, will it be over by election day. that's what everybody wants to know. that's what they want to know. there is no good answer to the question yet. >> well, you know, pete. that's really bad news for the clinton team. this is a shadow hanging over them. they were trying to ignore it initially. then as you know they struck back hard, got more aggressive last night.

on the eve of this election, the new fbi bombshell. the fbi director now clearing hillary clinton, after reviewing the newly discovered e-mails. both trump and clinton in the air when the news breaks. the cameras waiting, what she said, as clinton takes the stage with lebron james. and with just two days to go, our brand new tracking poll. where the race stands right now. >>> also, the serial killer confession. the woman kidnapped, discovered chained in a storage shed. tonight, the suspect leading authorities to several more bodies. >>> the fiery explosion in an apartment complex, bursting into flames. the race to save families inside. last seen jogging near her home. the ping allegedly used to find her phone. >>> and on a sunday night, "america strong." the boy finally in the game. >>> good evening. we are all here tonight because we're just two days away from this country electing a new president. every turn in this campaign, impossible to predict. and tonight, a new one. with just 48 hours to go, the fbi director clearing hillary cl

do you think the fbi is behind all of these leaks? >> well, with bret baier and katherine her raj i think they are getting multi source from the fbi, it is who they are sourcing that to. megyn kelly said it is not normal for the fbi to have this many leaks. the fact that they are counter attacking the fbi at some point in time you have to put it in perspective. all of the senior executives are agents who worked 20, 25 years within that agency. the last thing they want to sees the hard work to seek justice for all americans go to waste by political inquiry. >> all of the stuff she is facing in the clinton foundation alone. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, heather. >> so interesting. we want to check with bray an kill mead to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." they have scenarios where donald trump wins, the one state he has to win in every occasion is florida. >> who is going to turn the blue red and can he hold all of the red states? he has to be perfect. is he on that track? perhaps. isn't it amazing. in the moni

he calls on the fbi director to step down. he writes in the most divisive political season in memory mr. comey has become the rare object of political consensus. his motives distrusted by trump and clinton and voters alike. his judgment doubted by congressional republicans, democratic justice department officials and probably a great many agents in his own bureau. he needs to go. he outlined some of comey's other career achievements and highlights and goss through his whole tenure as fbi director and even before that and it's worth a read this morning especially as he continues mr. comey to be at the center of the story. >> with one week to go. we're approaching the top of the hour, the team is getting ready for "squawk box". michelle caruso-cabrera has a look on what's coming up. >> a great show on "squawk box". we have jayleno coming on. we have senator judd gregg joining us and talk about the intersection of money and politics. we're one week away from the election. we go live to china talk about yum spinning off. that stoc

. >> i want to see what fbi agents thought about comey's decision putting the fbi front and center days before people going to the polls. what i found was an extraordinary climate. some people were saying that no matter of the support for trump, some were serious and kind of -- there is a tremendous towards hillary clinton. >> did you find folks wanted to speak out on this on background and give you the kind of insights and look at what the climate was like? >> it was extremely difficult. >> people were reluctant to criticize an agency that they feel they are personally attached to. >> has comey put himself in an in possible position? >> he's extremely in a difficult position. >> some point presuming that she's elected president. comey is going to have to find some way of working with with her and that may under mind the relationship between the white house and the fbi. >> we played this earlier of rudy giuliani raising eye brows of what he said last week about this and what he said today. >> you are going to hear about it the next few days. i am talking about some pretty big surprise.