the fbi knows. >> how would i know? >> chris, you cannot get a search warrant under the fourth amendment, that justifies you to get a search warrant. if the clinton people really want to know, then and comey to reveal the moving affidavit or reveal the search warrant. >> but the investigation of hillary clinton's possible misuse of or mishandling of information is an ongoing investigation. isn't that investigation got authority to continue and to get the necessary warrants to compete it? why would it have to show criminal information since the investigation has never really been called off, it's continuing, why would it need evidence of criminality to continue? that's what i don't get. it's an ongoing investigation. why would it require evidence or proximate cause of criminality at this point to proceed? >> to retrieve somebody's lap to be, who failed -- who actually violated the law and failed to turn it over. >> they have the laptop, they've been investigating with regard to the alleged sexting by the former congressm

. >>> 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.

nine days later what the fbi is saying and it's significant when an fbi commits a letter like this to update, he's saying, never mind. nothing here. to pivot off what it didn't say or did say. what's important when we look at this coverage, it's now clear fbi director comey got the process wrong, made a procedural mistake and that's why he's basically had to have a do-over. whether the substance is wrong is what they care about. the original investigation with all its research come to the right conclusion of no charges or wrong conclusion and folks can debate that from the outside. but the notion that a few more stray e-mails from a person, huma abedin, who was part of the original inquiry, were going to change that conclusion was always unlikely. >> ari melber, our chief legal correspondent. >> thank you. >>> coming up, we are, of course, talking about what the political fallout of this latest letter could be. where does the race stand right now 48 hours until election day. nbc news "wall street journal" poll, we'll take you through all these numbers. we're going to take a trip to th

we're the fbi. it had previously been reported that new york fbi agents brought this anti-hillary clinton breitbart stuff to a meeting -- excuse me. brought the anti-hillary clinton stuff to a meeting with career justice department prosecutors back in february and one of the participants in that meeting described it as, quote, one of the weirdest meetings i have ever been to. but all we knew before now was that they had brought some stuff of hillary clinton and clinton foundation to that meeting. we now know based on the current reporting what the new york agents brought prosecutors at meeting wasn't just generic anti-hillary clinton stuff or hillary clinton stuff they had cooked up on their own. no, it was this stuff that had been cooked up at breitbart. it is the stuff that came from the eco-sexuals having sex with trees website. that is what they had and brought to career department of justice prosecutors and reportedly the current prosecutors were like, oh, where you did you get this? i'm not su

that was the fbi's mistake. the fbi decided, as long ago as july, there was no prosecutor to bring charges here. having been a prosecutor for six years, that conclusion made a lot of sense. you don't go forward where there is not intent to do wrong. there's never been evidence of that. the case should have been closed at that point. if new information came to light, that could be reviewed. it's not something that you share publicly when you don't know what you have. as we later learned at the time of the director's announcement last week, he hadn't reviewed the e-mails. had they taken the time to do that, we wouldn't have had this final chapter that has embroiled the fbi in the campaign. >> quickly, should comey resign? >> look, all i'm prepared to say is i think this was a very bad judgment by the director. at this point, i'm going to leave it at that. i hope we will learn from this. i hope the bureau will learn from this. it not only was, i think, a mistake to inject this into the race, but we've had the mista

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 on the part of hillary clinton. this news comes as the candidates make a final push and a final plea to voters. take a look at this. you're looking at live pictures right now of a hillary clinton rally in cleveland. also a donald trump event that starts next hour in sterling heights, michigan. first, let's go to our justice correspondent, pamela brown. first of all, let me read a passage from the new letter from fbi director comey. quote, based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. pamela, this is shocking. the revelation, the timing, all of this happening two days before the election. tell us more about the letter and, specifically, about the timing of director co-my eor co conclusion. >> another curve ball from fbi director james comey. announcing today the review is complete of the additional e-mails. the fbi will not change its initial decision of n

one go after the fbi. raise questions about the fbi, raise questions about comey which something donald trump was doing previously a and the clinton [indiscernible] . is that going to be enough? there is nothing there -- >> well actually i think what has been one of the the most interesting things that's happened in the last day and i think this shows how much oxygen the hillary clinton e-mail stuff has taken, but this has been a bad news cycle, 24 hour news cycle for donald trump. if you see all of the stories that have come out about him. you have the story about the legally dubious maneuver to not pay any taxes. there is a story in the washington post about his charitable donations or lack tlo thereof. a story how he and the trump organization erased hundreds of thousands of e-mails and information during depositions of court dates. and, you know, that's a reason why a lot of these court dates haven't happened. and so you have a lot of these news focuses for donald trump that could certainly be made an

fbi agents. we want to know who those agents were and exactly why they are doing this. it's basically undermine the fbi and when you lose trust in the fbi, clearly you can end up with a crisis of legitimacy. >> that was democratic congressman elijah cummings. he and congressman don conyers respectively, the ranking members of the house oversight and judiciary committees have isn't a letter calling for an investigation into the fbi leaks to the trump campaign. for rudy giuliani, he raised suspensions he received leaked information from the fbi when last week he teased an imminent surprise that could shake up the election and then just days later as promised, fbi director james comey delivered that shake-up with news of new e-mails which may or may not be relevant to hillary clinton's use of a private server. giuliani denied being given that information from anybody currently at the fbi. >> i had no eidea that jim come was going to do what he was going to do the day he did it, nor did i think he wa

or exploited by the fbi. here's another interesting part. sources are now saying that 99% chance exists that foreign intelligence agencies did access clinton's private e-mail server which was the danger we've been talking about from the beginning. couple this with wikileaks and their revelations, they show a finding of intent, meaning conspiracy to commit a crime. officials have high confidence in what the agents found about the foundation. they think they have the information for a prosecution. let's go to the wall street journal. we had it up there for a second. they're reporting secret recordings of a suspect talking about the clinton foundation fuelled an internal battle between the fbi agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption and that goes back to what we were talking about earlier about this guy that's friends with john podesta and prosecutors who viewed the statements as worthless here's. people familiar said people using it from corruption. i don't want to take up the whole hour. >> i mean,

the fbi knows it. now, it's up to the american people to deliver justice at the ballot. >> reporter: law enforcement officials tell cnn they worked around the clock and that the e-mails were mostly personal and duplicates of what had already been reviewed. trump's reaction, a complete 180 from the praise he once expressed for the fbi director. >> there's little doubt that fbi director 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 a whopping six states on sunday alone. keeping up his attack on clinton, culminating his push in blue states with a midnight rally in virginia. >> hillary right now is fast asleep. >> reporter: trump publishing his closing aurms in a new op-ed in "usa today" offering his contract with the american voter outlining what he calls a 100-day action plan to clean up corruption and br

the fbi can take your freedom. they have incredible power over you. >> yes. >> we now have a cell essentially within t 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 oppon

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 have ties to the russian mafia. >> i think it raises 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. >> paul manafort tells us tonight none of it's true. there's no investigations going on with the fbi that i am aware of. as for donald trump, tonight his spokesperson told us mr. trump severed his ties with mr. manafort many months ago. mr. trump has no kno

and the fbi, there is a mutiny in the fbi. that's why all this stuff is coming out. four offices that continue to investigate although justice has tried to shut this down saying there's not enough evidence. this recording from this other person who is an informant is hearsay. this woman should have been indicted a year ago. a simpleton could figure out that she would make a deal with a particular country, the money goes into the foundation. bill makes a speech. and then they get the benefit. classic rico corruption. go to jail. >> let me stay on your argument because you're right. fbi agents were pressing and pressing and there was a rebellion building within the fbi. i know this from my special agent friends. they tell me they were embarrassed at what james comey did back if july and were tired of answering questions from everybody that knew that they were in the fbi. but i think the interesting part of this, why is the justice department where we now know you have, they cluded with the clinton campaign, john podesta, spokesman for the investigation is john podesta

there's no investigations going on with the fbi that i'm aware of. as for donald trump, his spokesperson told us, mr. trump severed his ties with mr. manafort many months ago. mr. trump has no knowledge of any of his past or present activities. lester? >> cynthia mcfn, first time the voice of a killer during the largest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. police in orlando have released the audio recordings from the pulse nightclub massacre between the gunman, omar mateen, and a crisis negotiator. nbc's gabe gutierrez has late details. >> reporter: the chilling 911 call came in at 2:35 a.m. >> i want to let you know, i'm in orlando, and i did the shooting. >> reporter: by then, hundreds of people were scrambling to escape the pulse nightclub in orlando on june 12th. >> i pledge my allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi on behalf of the islamic state. >> reporter: the killer at first speaking with an emergency dispatcher, then a police crisis negotiator. >> can you tell me where you are right now, so i can get you some help? >> no. because you have to t

he's a prosecutor in the fbi. once he went down that path, i think he unnecessarily implicated himself in a situation where every action of his was now going to be treated as partisan, is he investigating the russia and it's ties to trump, we don't know. is he investigating the clinton foundation? we don't know. is he investigating the trump foundation? we don't know. and that's how it should be. either he has a case or he doesn't think about -- if the fbi were to announce tomorrow that it were investigating a company, that company's stock would crater. that's why career prosecutors are meant to be very careful about what they say. >> people aren't left with enough information on this to make a sound judgment on who's in it and who's not. >> director comey has said he won't make any clarifications or give any updates, you think he should? >> yes, i do think he should give clarifications and updates before the election. it's urgent he do that. i have respectful differences with fareed on where we started on this. t

it's not even about the fbi. this entire conversation is being had because of a couple selfish people. hillary clinton is setti setti 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?

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. investigators on what caused >>> 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

that's the job of the fbi. they should not be taking donald trump's fbi file and giving it to the democrats or making further statements about hillary clinton. that's just going to make it worse. he's going to dig himself in deeper and deeper, and we have already destroyed the credibility of the fbi over the past few days with respect to this. now there are leaks coming out of the fbi about what they're investigating with respect to donald trump. this is a travesty. >> i respectfully disagree. >> not what we should be doing in an election year. >> having once made the announcement, i think he has an obligation on the day i made the announcement i knew no more than you did, because to say-so would violate the fourth amendment. so don't infer from anything i said any presumption of guilt or relevance and now i'm not going the say anything else. balls i'm not going to say anything else, i want to leave you with the message i didn't know anything about the content of the e-mails when i made the statement. that's re

they might be but the fbi will neither confirm or door knee it. are they fulfilling their from congress is asking temperature to look at hillary clinton's testimony before congress. did she or can she not exit perjury? they have not answered that question. in materials of the mail investigation, we are still shocked and dismayed they did not believe they had enough intent to look at whether or not to prosecute. they said in the letter today they did not look at the mails that hillary clinton could have been engaged in when she set up her server originally set up on the day she started they are confirmation hearings. that will is where you would look to find intent, what was she doing before she became the secretary of state? that is when this mess was set up. >> or after she was secretary of state when she was dealing with the e-mails. >> what about the other people? >> house minority leader nancy pelosi issued a statement after another round of exhaustive e-mails the file has given her a clean of health, while there was falsehood by republicans d

from the fbi? you're a former u.s. attorney. >> i will not like the people around hillary clinton take the fifth amendment or ask for immunity. i have no worry about being incriminated like the people around hillary clinton. she seems to be surrounded by, gosh almighty, it looks like eight or ten people that have gotten immunity or taken the fifth amendment. i mean it's actually disgraceful that you would be surrounded by so many people doing that. in my case it's real simple. i've talked to no fbi agent, i've talked to no justice department official, i have no idea about who's leaking information. what i do know from former fbi agents is that we have a very angry fbi because they feel that the justice department of barack obama has been corrupted by the way in which loretta lynch handled this case. she recused herself from this case, remember, and now she's reinserted herself in it. recusal from a case, wolf, means you take yourself out of it and you turn it over to your subordinate. so she keeps

the fbi. it's rather detailed. anybody can read it. >> it seems like you can't handle the truth here. if you want to say it's a coinciden coincidence. >> i guess it's the fbi that can't handle the truth. >> that's a candidate very helpful to putin. >> eamon javers reported, this is a single source story as well though. fbi director comey did not want to release information blaming russia for these hackings so close to the election that there was a worry that the clinton campaign called it a double standard. is it a double standard to release the information friday and not release this information that the fbi has about this investigation of possible motives by russia? >> i think it's comparing apples to oranges, although i see the point democrats are making, it's still not the same issue because of the ongoing investigation into clinton and what people believe was comey's requirement to let congress know. nobody's happy with that and the way it got leaked out. you can debate whether that was proper or not. whether

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 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 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. >> paul manafort tells us tonight

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 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 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 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. >> paul manafort tells us tonight none there's no investigations going

there's no investigations going on with the fbi that i'm aware of. as for donald trump, his spokesperson told us, mr. trump severed his ties with mr. manafort many months ago. mr. trump has no knowledge of any of his past or present activities. lester? >> cynthia mcfadde we're hearing for the first time the voice of a killer during the largest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. police in orlando have released the audio recordings from the pulse nightclub massacre between the gunman, omar mateen, and a crisis negotiator. nbc's gabe gutierrez has late details. >> reporter: the chilling 911 call came in at 2:35 a.m. >> i want to let you know, i'm in orlando, and i did the shooting. >> reporter: by then, hundreds of people were scrambling to escape the pulse nightclub in orlando on june 12th. >> i pledge my allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi on behalf of the islamic state. >> reporter: the killer at first speaking with an emergency dispatcher, then a police crisis negotiator. >> can you tell me where you are right now, so i can get you some help? >> n

he says what's happening at the fbi, you could even fine details in the former fbi's direct book. says it's deja vu all over again. >> it's kind of reminisce send the first time around. the white house itself became a revolving door of fbi investigations and i think we can expect more of the same if mrs. clinton is elected president. this leaves us feeling very sad. i know you've heard a lot of former agents talking about this. this looks like the fbi that i knew. even if the first line of defense fails when you have something really major with politicians, you could always count on the people that are in the trenches and doing the work to come through. >> yeah. and apparently the fbi investigation all started in ernest when peter shweizer's book called "clinton cash." there's an argument internally inside the fbi and also the department of justice about the fbi agents say we got some stuff. we got an informant on tape talking about what the clintons did, but the prosecutors felt it was just hearsay because he was not inside the clinton foundation so ultimately they decided at tha

is the fbi director cherry-picking which investigations he makes public? >>> battleground bombardment. donald trump and hillary clinton dispatch top surrogates to critical states in an effort to squeeze out a victory. and with the race tightening trump is now aggressively courting some states that clinton seemed to have locked up. can he move them to the gop column? >>> air wars. the candidates launch a massive final commercial campaign with hillary clinton returning to the airwaves in states where her ad buys ended months ago. and she's out with a new minute-long indictment of donald trump underscoring his remarks about women. is the final battle of the election unfolding on tv? >>> and striking distance. iraqi forces backed by u.s. troops are now within hundreds of yards of the isis stronghold in iraq. terrorist fighters are now taking desperate measures, including using civilians as human shields. will we see an isis defeat before the election? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the sit

. >>> 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

the fbi knows it. the people know it. and now, it's up to the american people to deliver justice on november 8th. >> meanwhile, hillary clinton's running mate said the entire episode raised a lot of questions. let's watch. >> i think there's still a lot of questions ab it, but about how it happened and why and altered dynamic for a few day, but we did have the confidence when we were surprised with it two fridays ago that we would be back in place because they spent so much time looking at it and reached a conclusion, so we're glad to get that news, but not surprised. >> it's clear the clinton campaign want to keep comey on the ground. it seems to me it's a pretty clear, they've cleared her. >> they've said they've gone through the e-mails. that part of the looking at these e-mails that were on anthony weiner's computer is over. this is not halftime. they have finished their analysis of the e-mails that the director told congress two fridays ago they were going to be doing. >> 650,000. how did they reduce it down? >> 650

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

i spoke with an official in the fbi. he said there have been multiple freedom of information act requests. the release couldn't come at a worse time for the fbi when the fbi is under fire for sending the controversial letter out a brian fallon released a tweet today saying absent a fayette litigation deadline this is odd. will fbi post docs on trump's housing discrimination in the '70s? the fbi official i spoke to said this is policy, not politics. we post on a first come first served basis when there is information of great public interest. because it received multiple requests, that's why it's posted. the fbi vault account, which posted this, also posted about donald trump's dad over the weekend, records pertaining to an investigation into his dad. >> it's still perplexing, the timing of this. have they released an official statement, the fbi? >> reporter: they're working on that official statement right now. i think they're trying to figure out a way to put it into context and explain why it happened now. i was told i

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 co 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 when y

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

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,

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

the fbi may agree. now you could get a letter from paul manafort to some unnamed russian -- you know, some guy's russian name that may be suspicious to us but means nothing to the fbi. >> that may or may not be true, but that train left the station when the fbi director made the statements he made, sent the letter he sent on friday. and before kayleigh brings it up the, i have said on this show that i have great respect for the director and his career. and i think it's sad that one of the things that's going to come out of this race is that reputation being called into question. not by me. who cares what i think about the fbi director. but called in by countless republican and democratic security experts across the country. so we are sadly now in a position, which you're right, could cause more confusion a week out. and why all this confusion is being caused is one of the great questions to look at after election day. but i think we have no choice because we need information to erase the confusion and g

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

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 effects 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 under able elections among a democracy. >> i'm up against the. i'm sorry, page, you can blame our fellow panelists. 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? with quicksilver from capital one. you're earning unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. like on that new laptop. quicksilver keeps things simple, gary. and smart, like you! and i like that. i

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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