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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

it's the fbi. it came from the fbi. it didn't come from wikileaks. it didn't come from "national enquirer." >> or russia. >> it didn't come from an anarchist working with putin. it came from the fbi. that's why this is important, because it's part of the american process. it's not rigged at all. >> not rigged. >> one of the devices, to be anthony wiener's. one to be huma abedin's. we have to determine what the other two devices are. much more on this breaking news. stay right there. more reaction from the trump campaign. we will check in with our other reporters traveling with the clinton campaign coming up. stay with us. redid you say 97?97! yes. you know, that reminds me of geico's 97% customer satisfaction rating. 97%? helped by geico's fast and friendly claims service. huh... oh yeah, baby. geico's as fast and friendly as it gets. woo! geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. burning, pins-and-needles of beforediabetic nerve pain, these feet played shortstop in high school, learned the horn from my dad and played gigs from new york to mi

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

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

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

with precedence. >> the fbi. >> the fbi broke with precedent. come on be honest. >> don't want to undermine confidence in the system. >> that would never happen. >> richard good stein, it's great to see you this morning. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> what is it like behind the scenes when hillary clinton got blindsided yesterday. you heard the democratic nominee demanding the agency release evidence. hopefully her name. can ha happen legally and what would happen if it did? judge is here next with his ruling next. >>> welcome back. a quick look at some headlines, chaos in cabin. video inside a burning plane shows passengers running for their lives. >> go, go [bleep] we can't go. >> go you mother [bleep] >> go, go. >> jump and slide. >> people are panicking, but hector with his cell phone didn't panic. he was able to shoot video while everything was on fire. they were sliding down american airlines flight. rare uncontained engine failure causing the plane to burst into flames just mommy's before takeoff at chicago's o'hare airport. tho

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

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

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

i'm going with the fbi. at this point look, we see republicans kind of gravitating and sort of coming home to trump to a certain extent. democrats are doing the same. that's what happens in the closing days of an election. i don't know that this really sort of is going to stir that basic dynamic. that undertow that they spent millions of dollars in the last year sort of setting up. i don't know if the comey situation can stop the dynamics of the election. >> can say one thing -- >> more of a question now than it was let's say thursday or friday morning. >> we're going to take a break. erol, paul, thanks for being with us, appreciate it. >>> next james comey's old boss, former general alberta gonz, he has called this a mistake. and he offers up some advice to his protege. he's going to join us. >>> the clinton campaign going nuclear with their version of one of the most famous political ads in history. >> one, two, three, four -- yes. you know, that reminds me of geico's 97% customer satisfaction rating. 97%?

going back to the fbi. you said that you don't have enough, or the white house does not have enough independent information to either criticize or, or to come out with a position on comey's letter, but then i guess what do you say to the american people, if the white house doesn't have enough information, to decide whether the letter was appropriate or not, seemingly the american people are then left with questions about what to believe. there are lots of criticism right now from both sides, or lots of calls from both sides of the aisle asking director comey to release more information. do you feel that the american people don't have a right to more information about this probe? i mean, they are going to the voting booths right now and next tuesday? >> well, look, this is an entirely legitimate question to ask and these are the kinds of questions that are being carefully considered at the department of justice right now, and given the institutional responsibilities that are vested here at the white house, y

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

i said that the fbi -- i said that the fbi was looking at this and the fbi would make its conclusion, and indeed they did. i never said, as senator sanders said, they shouldn't look at this. i said they should. and, in fact, they did. and they concluded there wasn't anything there. i think the bigger issues in this race have to do with -- >> that's not at all what the director said. >> they concluded there wasn't anything actionable there, tucker. look, i was a lawyer, perhaps you were, as well. what they concluded was they couldn't make a case. they could not find any criminal intent. they could not find any examples of classified material that was willfully released. that's what they concluded. >> no, that's not what they concluded and not to relitigate this, but he went on to say we're not bringing charges. anyone else who did this would be in a heap of trouble. i'm wondering if maybe the principle of equal treatment under the law isn't worth presoeving here. are you bothered, for example, the attorney general of the united states met with the subject of the investigation's husband

fbi. with few details made public, democrats accused the fbi director of playing politics. we have all angles. we begin tonight with kasie hunt in florida. fbi. harry reid of nevada sending a letter accusing james comey of violating the hack act of so close to election day. >> hillary clinton did not mention the fbi issue at all. >> hillary clinton trying to stay the course in the face of the fbi's bomb shell announcement. >> powering ahead like early voters florida. >> you need to get out and vote. and on church on sunday. >> no matter what is thrown at us, we need to stay focused on our goals. >> the first female president of the united states, hillary clinton! on saturday, partying with j-lo. >> going on offense against fbi director james comey demanding he tells the public more about possible to the clinton's e-mails. >> it is unprecedented and deeply troubling. voters deserve to get full and complete facts. sources tell nbc news the newly discovered e-mails were found in the investiga

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

i'm going to leave it to the fbi. and even though, everyone has given director comey, at least up until now, a lot of credit for being independent and having unimpeachable character, he is still an employee of the department of justice. he still works for the attorney general. so i think a special prosecutor should have been appointed at the very beginning of this investigation, so we at least had a prosecutor for the fbi to turn the case over to. >> could one be appointed now? or is it too late? >> sure. no, one could still be appointed now, but i don't know how they complete or finish this investigation before the election. we're ten days out at this point and it sounds like there are thousands of e-mails to review. so it sounds like it's too late to get it done before the election is over. >> and sources say there are thousands of e-mails to go through. director comey, danny, says that the fbi cannot assess whether or not the material may be significant, but the fact that he is releasing this ten days prior to the

one that was not previously seen by the fbi. that's the reason why they're investigating whether it affects the case that the fbi thought was completed back in july when the fbi director james comey recommended that no charges be brought against clinton or anyone else. investigators found the e-mails weeks ago. stumbling on them as they conducted an investigation on abedin's estranged husband, former congressman anthony weiner. he is under investigation for allegedly exchanging sexually explicit messages with an underage girl. that's leading to questions from the clinton campaign about why all of this only became public on friday when comey sent a letter to congress days before the president election. investigators spent the past month doing a lot of work, trying to figure out how big of a deal this was. technical experts spent time cataloguing the e-mails and to determine a significant number of the e-mails appeared to have gone through the clinton server. they cwere constrained that a search warrant that was limited to the wei

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

we learn from the letter from fbi director comey, the fbi is reviewing a new batch of e-mails reulating to hillary clinton's use. donald trump calling this the biggest political scandal since water gate. there are still unanswered questions. how were the e-mails discovered or what did they contain and are they duplicates of e-mails known to the fbi. with few details made public, democrats accused the fbi director of playing politics. we have all angles. kasie hunt in florida. >> reporter: democrats upping the anti on the fbi. harry reid of nevada sending a letter accusing james comey of violating the hack act of so close to election day. >> hillary clinton did not mention the fbi issue at all. >> hillary clinton trying to stay the course in the face of the fbi's >> powering ahead like nothing's wrong and working to get out the early voters florida. >> you need to get out and vote. and on church on sunday. >> no matter what is thrown at us, we need to stay focused on our goals. >> the first female president of the united states, hillary clinton! on saturday, partying with j-lo. >> going

fbi director comey says the fbi can't yet say whether knees e-mails may be significant and he doesn't know how long it will take to find out. in a letter to fbi employees yesterday, comey says while the bur bureau doesn't normally discuss these kinds of investigations, in this case he felt an obligation to do so. fbi director james comey informing lawmakers he's reviewing materials related to the clinton e-mail investigation. the new e-mails were not from clinton but sent and received from one of her top aides, huma abedin. she was found on a device shared by abebin and her estranged husband, anthony weiner, who is involved in a separate investigation. all of this after comey recommended closing the e-mail probe. he said in connection with an unrelated case the fbi has learned of e-mails pertinent to the investigation. the fbi should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these e-mails to determine whether they contain classified information as well as to assess their importance to our investigation. in july, director comey said clinton had acte

breaking news we are continuing to follow the fbi director is now saying the fbi discovered new e-mails pertinent to the investigation. no time line or explanation of what this new material is or where it came from. a few hours ago on the 500th days of his campaign. donald trump gave his version of what was happening to his supporters. >> they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the united states of america. >> now, as thomas just said reopening is not accurate according to our justice correspondent, pete william is joining us now. we know it is not the investigation of russian hacking or the looking of john podesta's e-mails or anybody else involved in the clinton campaign in that russian hacking case. if you think about it, it is not anybody who was already investigated. what we were told that this was a device suggesting of laptop or a cell phone, officials would not be more specific about that. it has to be something that they did not look at before. it is not hillary clinton's e-mail server, it is not any of the laptop or phon

fbi director, james comey went above his superiors that the fbi would review this. attorney general, loretta lynch and sally yates objected to comey sending the letter to congress. clinton is demanding the fbi immediately release the full and complete facts of the review. we know the newly found e-mails being examined are part of the sexting investigation into anthony weiner, former congressman, the estranged husband of clinton's long-time aide, huma abedin. comey's decision to review the e-mails is throwing the attention on him, garnering praise and criticism. what do we know about the fbi's top man? here is gary tuckman. >> i, james b. comey. >> he became the seventh director of the fbi in 2013, the beginning of president obama's second term. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> before that, the number two under president george w. bush and was a registered republican. now he says he's not registered any longer. in the past, he donated to both the mitt romney campaign in 2012 and the john mccain campaign in 2008. he also served as a council in the white water

and having accused the fbi. trump blasted clinton. >> hillary clinton tried to politicalize and attacking the fbi to only sending the letter to the republicans. it was a lie. it was sent to and democratic leaders in congress. >> reporter: the clinton camp said she misspoke having not seen the second letter. trump fanned the flames. >> the fbi would not have reopened the case at this time unless it was a most a grejous criminal offense. >> reporter: trump was gaining ground and has hopes are so raised he plans to campaign in michigan. >> we pulled ahead in numerous polls and this was all before this recent disaster for her. but justice for the country. we had gaps, but we are really moves. >> reporter: trump began a speech with a hepth healthy attack on bump bum care. saying the premiums will go up and he will repeal it giving the voters a reason to support him. and he blasted hillary clinton as his aides have said trying to suppress her vote for the e-mail scandal. >> carl, thank you. wooerl get analysis of the

we know that fbi director james comey says the fbi can't yet assess whether the new e-mails may be significant. he didn't know how long it would take to figure that out. and in a letter to fbi employees, comey said while the bureau usually doesn't discuss ongoing investigations, in this case, he felt an obligation to do so. >> reporter: fbi director james comey informing lawmakers he's reviewing materials related to the clinton e-mail investigation. law enforcement officials tell cnn the new e-mails were not from clinton, but were sent and received by one of her top aides, huma abedin. they were found on a device shared by abedin, and her estranged husband, anthony weiner, who is the target of a separate investigation into alleged sexting with a minor. all of this three months after the fbi director recommended closing the clinton e-mail probe. the fbi has learned of the existence of e-mails that appear pertinent to the investigation. director comey continued, the fbi should take appropriate investigative steps, designed to allow investigators to review these e-mails, to determine whether they

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

fbi director saying new e-mails have been discovered and the fbi is reviewing them to see if they contain classified information. it may be pertinent into the private e-mail server. we heard from kellyanne conway. now brian fallon is a campaign spokesman for hillary clinton. thanks for taking a few minutes. we read a statement with the campaign chairman. and how extraordinary it is 11 days away from the presidential election. let me take it from the other side and kellyanne conway said if he waited until after the election to inform the american team in new e-mails had been discovered and they will investigate to see if they contained classification information and say we wanted to know about that before we cast our votes. is there a fair point there? >> thank you for having me, steve. in his statement that was delivered to the republican congressional chairman that was bound to be leaked as soon as it was sent, the director refers to the possibility that these materials may not be significant at all. given that possibility and that likelihood from our vantage point, it boggles the mind w

she was also asked if she had heard from the fbi. she said she has not. and she stressed what you just played, lester, that she believes any new inquiry will come up with the same result. ultimately, of course, fbi director james comey did say she was careless, but said bring any charges. as secretary clinton was leaving the room, i asked her if she thought this would sink her campaign, she laughed at that question. lester, she has had a strong couple of weeks and then some thorny questions this week, due to those wikileaks revelations. so this is yet another difficult headline. again, she, right now, still has a lead in most polls. the campaign hoping that this doesn't cause voters to decide to stay home or not vote for her. chuck todd. is there a there there with what the fbi director put out, and does that make it more complicated? >> well, that's the question. there's rare agreement between hillary clinton and donald trump and there's rare agreement between democrats on the ballot and republicans on the ballot. they are all calling for comey to put ou