Found on a laptop seized from abedins estranged husband, disgraced former congressman, Anthony Weiner. That was all part of a separate investigation involving accusations of weiner sexting with an underage girl. But, it is this man right here who is now coming under intense criticism. Fbi director james comey. Now, the Clinton Campaigns former federal prosecutors highranking Justice Department officials and even a former republican congressman all were saying that director comey should have never made this bombshell announcement so close to the election without having all the facts. Lets begin with evan perez, our justice correspondent, with new information. Evan, i understand you have a little more on the timetable of the review of the emails and the resolution. What do you know . Well, brooke, theres a lot of work thats being done behind the scenes by these fbi investigators. Now that they have a search warrant, theyre going through these emails, theyre cataloging them, again, to try to remove things they dont necessarily need to take a look at. They want to isolate the emails that could be of interest, that may have to do with classified information. And that may have touched the Hillary Clinton private email server. We know that some of the work was already done in the past few weeks, as the fbi agents who were doing that weiner investigation stumbled on these emails. One of the things they did see was that there was some metadata analysis that was done and it showed at least some of these emails had gone through the clinton private server. Thats the reason why you see that letter from the from director of the fbi, jim comey saying there appeared to be some emails that were pertinent. Theres a lot we dont know at this point. We dont know how many of these emails are duplicates, in other words, theyve already seen, theyve already investigated. We dont know whether or not theres any classified information on this. We only simply know that theres a belief that, from the agents that took a look, that there might be. So, theres still a great deal of work that needs to be done. We expect the initial look through these emails will take just a couple of days. But then additional work will have to be done. That means its very unlikely well have this all buttoned up by the time election day comes by. Thank you, evan perez. The white house is weighing in. Well get to that in a second. Moments ago, donald trump, he pounced all over Hillary Clinton, while applauding james comey at a rally in michigan. Lets go to our senior White House Correspondent there at the rally in grand rapids. To the white house, we just heard from josh earnest, spokesperson at the white house speaking more or less on the president s perspective on comey, what did he say . Reporter very interesting, brooke. President obama, according to White House Press secretary josh earnest, is not suspicious of what the fbi director decided to do by announcing this publicly, that the bureau is now reviewing some additional emails that may possibly be linked to Hillary Clinton. The white house is also saying, we should point out, brooke, theyre not going to defend or criticize jim comey in all of this. Theyre trying to stay on the sidelines of all of this. Donald trump not so much. He is grabbing onto this with both hands at a rally here in grand rapids. Donald trump is talking right now. He praised the fbi director. Youll recall, brooke, that is a big shift for donald trump. Earlier this year trump was saying because of the fbi directors announcement that the that investigators would not be seeking any charges against Hillary Clinton over that private email server, trump was saying over the summer, well into the fall, that the fbi was part of this rigged conspiracy to throw the election to Hillary Clinton. Contrast that with what donald trump just said about jim comey a few moments ago. Heres what he had to say. And 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 kind of opposition he had where theyre trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. You know that. It took a lot of guts. I really disagreed with him. I was not his fan. But ill till what, what he did, he brought back his reputation. Reporter so, there you go, very different words, a very different take from donald trump on the fbi director. Trump went on to thank Anthony Weiner during his remarks just a few moments ago. Of course, the disgraced former congressman is now at the heart of these emails that have been swept up by the fbi as part of this new look at those emails used or sent across her private email server. And, brooke, its not just an email message from donald trump today, although you might think thats the case. Hes also talking about the economy in places like michigan. A lot of people here were hard hit by that recession. Theyre hoping against a lot of data out there that they can, perhaps, flip this state red. Brooke, thats at the hard of Donald Trumps strategy heading into the final week of this campaign. They have to flip some states that mitt romney lost four years ago if they have any chance of winning this thing. Even though the news cycle is working to their benefit the last few day, they still have to win this elections. They have to flip some states for that to happen, brooke. Well take a closer assessment to see where Hillary Clinton and donald trump will be, zigzagging in the final stretch. Jim acosta, thank you there in michigan. On this whole issue here with the fbi and Hillary Clinton, nearly 100 former Justice Department officials all signed this letter, critical of james comey. And they come from Republican Party and democrat party. They write in part, quote, we do not question director comeys motive, however, the fact remains the directors disclosure has invited considerable, uninformed public speculation about the significance of newly discovered sterile just days before a national election. For this reason, it goes on, we believe the American People deserve all the facts and fairness dictates releasing information that provides a full and complete picture regarding the material at issue. With me now, one of the cosigners of that letter, actually, used to jim comeys boss at the department of justice, he is jim cole, served as Deputy Attorney general from 2011 to 2015. Thank you for joining me today. Pleasure to be here, brooke. Thank you. , so just straight out, why was james comey wrong here . You know, the department of justice has some longstanding policies that say, you do not disclose information about criminal investigations because you dont know whether or not the facts are going to turn out one way or another. Its just unfair to the people who are involved in this investigation. What i think weve seen here is an example of how that works in the negative. He let this information out, rampant speculation that has no foundation at all, in fact right now is being put out on every news program in america. And it is just unfair. He put out he shouldnt have said anything in the first place. Then when he said it, he said too little. Let me just push back on you. From what ive read, those who disagree would say, assuming this would be reopened based upon the laptop and the tablet and the cell phone they got early october, and if comey had not gone public, had not written this letter to leaders of congress, isnt it possible, jim, that one of the investigatory agents on the case could have leaked it to the press and wed be singing a much different tune which is, comey and the fbi would be painted as covering something up. First of all, he doesnt really know what he has. Before he starts saying things officially from the fbi, he should make sure he knows what it is he has. If the only reason for him speaking is that hes afraid that somebody within the fbi is anonymously going to leak information, thats not a good enough information. Hes the head of the fbi. He should say, thats not what the fbi does. When we speak, we speak formally through the director. Jim, you know, as folks are pouncing on comey, lets talk about the original sins. One, Hillary Clinton over and over admitting it was a mistake, her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Two, that tarmac chat between the a. G. , loretta lynch, and bill clinton, all the while his wife are being investigated, arent those the ones that should be in the critical spotlight here . Isnt that fair . I think those have been talked about. Theyve been analyzed. Theyve been put in their proper perspective. The real thing you should be looking at right now is quloo information about the activities of the fbi are being put out unfairly and with very, very incomplete record. And are really skewing the Public Record on this. People think this investigation has been reopened. It really hasnt. They dont know whether theres enough information present here to warrant reopening the investigation. This is just going to be a preliminary look at some things they found that they dont even know what those things are. Thats the context that i think has to really be remembered here. Let me just ask you, listen, ive certainly never worked at the department of justice. Youre the expert. If you know that you have helped sift through an investigation, i. E. , the private email server investigation, it had been hked, you know, in the end, we remember jim comey on tv early july saying intent not criminal. Then, unbeknownst to you some time later, out popping other emails that could be germane to that very same investigation. So you, whatever word you use, review, reopen, is that not all important to consider . Well, the thing i would find out first is, what is it we found . Are these just duplicates of the emails weve already looked at . Then thats going to be a very significant fact. Do these emails have nothing to do with classified information . Another very significant fact. Before i start going into any form of characterization, im going to want to know what it is i actually have. Before i you would have waited . You would have waited to figure out the significance of the emails before saying anything . I would have, yes. Okay. Jim cole, thank you so much. To a different opinion, joining me, jim pomerance, nice to see you again, on the flipside. Thank you. You think james comey was write right in what he did friday. Tell me why. Specifically as to what he did on friday, i think he was right. I have some issues and concerns going back to july well go back to that. To the conference. Well get to that. That question of whether its reopened or not is a semantics question. The fbi is investigating based on new information, i. E. , new evidence or potential evidence theyve received. So, whether the case is reopened or not, thats a semantic issue. He told the congress when he testified that if there was new, Additional Information of significance, he would provide that. Now hes got it. And i think at this point he had no choice but to do what he did. Back to your original point, though, i feel there was a but. But back in july you feel the train went off the tracks, so to speak. Tell me why. I agree. I dont think that the traditionally what the fbi does is investigate. At the end of that investigation, they wrap up what they have and they send it to the department of justice or to u. S. Attorney, depending. And that entity makes the prosecutetive decision. I think having a press conference and saying the fbi does not feel theres enough here for Going Forward was a mistake. Now, put it in hang on, hang on. Just so im clear, you didnt feel like it was james comey who came forward and did what he did. You felt it should have been someone like loretta lynch, despite the fact she sat on a plane with bill clinton the week prior . Prior to your last comment here, yes, thats where i was going. It was the department of justices own action that set this in motion. That set this whole set of circumstances in motion. And, yes, thats apparently his reasoning for doing it. I still think i wouldnt have done it if i were director. I may be exercising 20 20 hindsight but i dont think i would have done that. As a former fbi guy, what do you think happened here . I mean, huma abedin and Anthony Weiner, i mean, i dont know if they shared an icloud account, all of a sudden the fbi has a laptop, phone, tablet and looking at thousands and thousands of emails. What happened . I think exactly, again, brooke, i think you said it pretty well yourself. That in the course of another unrelated investigation and that, by the way, is not its an unusual thing to occur, but not this is not the first time when information obtained in one investigation has bearing on another one. Obviously, looking at the allegation, the serious criminal allegation against Anthony Weiner, this came up. And the agents looked at it and realized it was relevant to not what they were doing individually, but to the larger work of the fbi. And it started working its way through the process. At some point in time, it cu culminated in that letter on friday. And here we are today, eight days to go and still dont know a whole heck of a lot. Steve pomerantz go ahead. Unpredictably i understand theres some bipartisanship in terms of the criticism, but overwhelmingly, it is partisan. The criticism you know, he was a hero in certain quarters in july and now in those exact same quarters hes a villain. The tides have turned. Youre right. So much thats something the fbi has to rise above and i give them credit for doing that. The fbi has to remain as impartial and objective as possible. Steve pomerantz, thank you. One of the Big Questions right now, where is huma abedin . As the government, federal government, is combing through her estranged husbands xushgts looking through these emails . She is not traveling with Hillary Clinton for the Third Straight day. And welcome back, daisy. 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Hillary clinton is guilty of all the things that director comey stated at his press conference and congressional hearing, and far more. He stated many things, but its far more and he knows that. And yet after reading all of these items where shes so guilty, he let her off the hook. I respect the fact that director comey was able to come back after what he did. I respect that very much. Again, a lot of democrats doing the reverse. With me now, cnn president ial historian item neftali, who used to serve as director of nixon president ial library museum, and cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Before we get to political fallout, dana, im curious because were reporting on huma abedin, whos a very, very close confident, surrogate daughter of Hillary Clintons. Todays day number three that she is not on the campaign plane. Do we know why . We dont know exactly why except i dont think it would be a bridge too far to have informed speculation that she has now become such a huge part of the story because the only reason were discussing this is because of a computer that her estranged husband that allegedly had her emails on it. So, that is, no question, big part of the reason. Maybe shes also dealing with her lawyers. Were just not sure. The point about her being a second daughter is right. People have talked about her now for a couple of days and trying to get at the connection here, but i dont think you can overstate how close these two are. And second daughter is just sort of maybe one aspect. And i think shes her official role is Hillary Clintons righthand woman. But its not just hand, its arm, its brain, its everything. She is the person who thinks what Hillary Clinton is going to think before she thinks it and makes things happen with her. Thats how close they are and have been for years and years and years. The irony has been that she has been such in the spotlight not just with this but because of her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner. There are a lot of staffers, im sure you know them, too, both of you, who kind of like being in the spotlight and there are others who do not like their names being out there. They do not like being a part of the news psych. Shes one of those. So, for her to be such a part of this news cycle must pain her as much as it is the content that were talking about why shes in the news cycle. Off of huma, tim, the question for dems, democrats are making this a referendum on jim comey. Theyre saying, show us what you know. Will that work . Well, one of the ways you can be sure that youre succeeding is a nonpartisan agency chief is you get attacked from both sides. Thats when you know you know youre doing the right thing. In july democrats loved him because he said theres no reason to indict Hillary Clinton. Now because he had told congress appear investigators that the case was closed, and then they had reopened, it he had to inform the congress that he was reopening it. He didnt, bilt, inform the congress publicly. Somebody leaked that letter. But he was under an obligation to do so, and he had been attacked by congress for being prodemocratic. So, hes right in the middle. And democrats have to keep in mind, i believe, that james comey is the same person who stood up to george w. Bush and refused to sign for the continuation of the nsa program that was violating our Fourth Amendment rights. So, either this man has is suddenly a different man, or in this very difficult Political Climate hes trying to thread the needle, in a controversial way, but hes trying to thread the needle to not to seem partisan. The person the dems should be angry at is Anthony Weiner. What a bizarre oh, my god. What a bizarre i know. What about trump, can he capitalize, he can stay on message . How can this really help him . Reporter well, your first question and your second question are directly related. Can he capitalize . Yes. Can he stay on message . Well know if he can capitalize if the answer is yes to whether he can stay on message. Teleprompter trump, as i call him, the one who does stay on message, has been out there for the past few days. He has not been attacking fellow republicans, hasnt been attacking accusers, people who accuse him of sexual assault. He has been staying where his aides want him to stay. Not just on the email issue and Hillary Clinton and talking about comey and even today saying thank you to Anthony Weiner and so forth, but also on a big issue that helps them substancewise, which is obamacare and the news for the past couple of weeks now that obamacare premiums have gone up. And so if he can do that then, yes, he can capitalize on it. The question is whether or not it is too late or not. Have i to tell you just really briefly to answer that question, i was in iowa the weekend with republican canvassers. One of the things they do on this app, which they use to figure out who is going to vote democratic or republican, the first question is, are you happy with the way this country is going yes or no . And the second is, are you going to vote for Hillary Clinton, yes or no . And their hope is that if the first answer is, no, im not happy and the second is, yeah, ill go for Hillary Clinton, that they actually can be persuaded no in this kind of climate. Give the fact that the spotlight is back on Hillary Clinton and questioning her integrity, for lack of a better way to say it. Well, maybe theyre persuade anl, to use your phrase, if trump remains teleprompter trump the last eight days. Then you have the Hillary Clinton ad, the latest daisy ad, where you have the Clinton Campaign trying to keep the conversation on trump and his temperament. This is me in 1964. The fear of nuclear war we had as children, i never thought our children would have to dpeel with that again. To see that coming forward again in this election is really scary. Trump asked three times. Three times, why cant we use nuclear weapons. I want to be unpredictable. Bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. Quekly, tim, trying to break through, will that work . At in point, Hillary Clinton, its in her interest to remind people of what a Trump Presidency means and that the president is actually, as george w. Bush said, and he was right, the decider. Tim neftali, dana bash, thank you very much. Coming up, the blue state strategy. Well take a look at the electoral map and the blue states trump is gambling on on his path to 270. Also ahead, trump and his Foundation Say they have given millions to charity. A claim thats pretty tough to verify without those tax returns. Well talk to the Washington Post reporter who has spent months looking into trumps philanthropy. What he discovered. Next. 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And i am sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they looked at my emails for the last year. There is no case here. And they said it wasnt even a close call. And i think most people have decided a long time ago what they think about all of this. Now what people are focused on is choosing the next president and commander in chief of the United States of america. You heard it there, Hillary Clinton speaking at a rally in ohio. There is no case here on fbi director james comey now reopening this investigation into that private server. Hillary clintons comments come today as more than 18 million americans have already cast their ballots. Before that controversial announcement on friday from fbi director james comey, through that letter to members of congress about the discovery of new emails possibly relating to clintons private server. It raises the question, is early voting really a good idea, particularly in an unprecedented election season when a late october price could be just about anything. Mark preston, let me go straight to you. Senior political director at official cnn decision desk. On early voting, how are the numbers comparing to this time four years ago and are any folks expressing buyers remorse, early voting remorse . First of all, as we talk about what happened now and what happened four years ago, theyre talking about this being a suppressed election but were seeing high numbers of voting. As you said, more than 18 Million People have voted so far. This is only through friday. This is the latest data we got from catalyst, which is sourcing it for us. Well get more data by tomorrow. That will certainly raise this number up. When we get now to where the votes are, lets look at the battleground statements in yellow. About 9. 7 Million People in the battleground states, the states that are going to decide the election. If you live in a gray state, thats it, im sorry, youre not going to be as important as these yellow states are right now. How are they doing when it comes to the Political Parties . Well, in colorado, iowa, nevada, in north carolina, democrats have a lead when it comes to registered voters putting in their ballots. In arizona, ohio, florida and utah, republicans have the lead. But the story is a little more complicated than that. Lets dig into three specific states. First of all, the state of colorado right here, 700,000 people have cast their ballots right here. Whats interesting about colorado, its an all mailin state. You dont go to a poll place. You get a ballot in the mail, you check it off, stick it in the mail or drop it off at a registrars office. Lets see how those numbers are shaping up. Right now democrats have an edge by about four Percentage Points right now. Why this is important, look what happened back in 2012. Republicans at the same time had a 3 edge. Thats a sevenpoint swing in a state right now we saw donald trump in yesterday campaigning. Lets look at the big state of florida as well. Look how many people have voted in florida so far. More than 2. 7 million. Of course, this number we believe has increased exponentially over the weekend. But how are they doing here in florida, democrats and republicans . Look at this right here. Republicans have about a half percent lead in the state of florida. Look at this number right down here. About 20 , 5333,742, these are independents or belong to another Political Party. As we compare the 2016 numbers to 2008, the republicans had a much wider margin. So, even though democrats right now in florida are trailing republicans theyre actually not doing too bad. Lets go to the state of ohio where we saw Hillary Clinton holding that rally, talking about her emails, about 936,000 people have voted so far through friday. Lets see where these numbers drop. Look at that rite lead by republicans. Its about 4. 5 over democrats. Look down here, a third of the electorate, 36. 5 , independents, we dont know if they voted democrat or republican. Check this out. If you look at 2008, it was basically even. Republicans are doing much better. I have to say these early vote numbers arent going to tell us necessarily who is going to win, but they are instructive about how each Political Party is getting out their message to vote. Thank you. Donald trump, lets talk about donald trump, he says no one is as generous as he is. Claims hes given away millions of dollars to charities. It seems like the money trail should be an easy one to track. Apparently it isnt. The Washington Posts David Fahrenthold joins me. It is awesome having you on. You know, you start this mega piece of yours with this story. Its like Celebrity Charity ribboncutting where you have frank and kathie lee gifford, the former mayor Rudy Giuliani and in strolls donald trump. Frank gifford is saying, why is he here . Tell me that story. This is in the fall of 1996. Theres a ribboncutting at a new nursery run by this charity in new york called the association to benefit children. Its a Nursery School for children with aids. Trump has never given any of this charity any money, hes not invited. He shows up anyway and he actually steals a seat at the front of the room they saved for someone who was an actual donor, another guy who was a developer. Trump takes that guys seat as the ceremony begins and sits there through the whole ceremony. He sings this little light of mine, dances with the children, sitting there looking like hes given to this charity. As soon as its over, he leaves. Doesnt give a donation, is just gone. Its a story if i hadnt seen pictures, im not sure i woul have believed it. So, do you all this digging and digging, david, and you can only find instances where he is donating, was it 7. 8 million to his own foundation . Hes given 7. 8 million i found over his lifetime, going back to the early 80s. The bulk, 5. 5 million went to the donald j. Trump foundation, which is a Charity Weaver seen as he treats as a second bank account for himself. Its nominally a charity but hes used it to buy two portraits of himself, other art, signed tim tebow football, and used it for his forprofit businesses. Now, youre on the phone or contacting the Trump Foundation and channelling your inner cuba gooding, show me the moerngs show me the evidence, i want to know what youve given in charity. And you do this work, then you turn around and you call charities. What did you find from those charities . Trumps people say he gives tens of millions of dollars and provide no backup. They just though out that number. I called 420 charities that seem 420 charities. Let me give you credit for doing that. What do they tell you . I was asking the trump people, give me a list . They wont do that. Im trying to find the donations that seem closest to trump, do my own search. What i found between 2009 and the march of this year, only one gift out of trumps own pocket in that sevenyear span, that was for less than 10,000 in 2009. For many years i could find no evidence that he gave a dollar out of his own pocket. Maybe somebody from the Trump Campaign is watching, will give you more information. In the meantime, great job digging and your journalism. David fahrenthold of the Washington Post, bravo to you. Thank you. Moments ago Hillary Clinton saying the fbi does not have a case involving her emails, as the spotlight remains on the fbi director and the what it is theyre actually going to find. Did james comey go too far . Youll hear from both sides of the debate next. 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Lets hear from both sides. Author Charles Kizer who has penned a cnn opinion piece, and pete paige, supportive of james comey. Gentlemen, welcome. Charles, let me begin with you. The premise of your column is you say in this incidence, comey went farther than jay edgar hooverer. Hoover did many terrible things as director of fbi, founding director. He undermined democracy in many ways. He tried to undermine the civil rights the tapes and committing suicide. One thing that even he would never do was put his finger on the scale of an election. This has never happened before in the history of our democracy. No justice official has ever done anything like this. Can you see today this is no longer a partisan question when you have 100 former Justice Department criticizing him, former attorney general criticizing him saying this is the equivalent of kind of a reality tv of federal criminal investigation. And you have the former ethics lawyer, chief ethics lawyer of the white house saying he has, in fact, violated the hatch act. This is a very bad day for american democracy. Thats how you see it. You see it differently. Tell me how you see it. I dont think its fair to compare him to hoover. Everyone prior to this letter thought that james comey was a great guy. I never thought james comey was a great guy. I think hes misbehaved all year. What he should have done in july was, he should have announced that there was no case against Hillary Clinton, that she had not committed a crime. He should have issued a oneparagraph press release. This is the latest incidence of his misbehavior. We didnt see your opinion piece back then. I wrote those actual words at that time. I didnt see it and i doubt the rest of the country saw it. At this point you have to look at what hes faced with. Does he not investigate this is not a question of investigating. Exactly. This is a question of whether he announces it or not. What does he do, then . Does he tell people what he said to Congress Earlier is now inconsistent with the fact there is an open investigation . He doesnt have to say thats his responsibility. Say anything. There was no reason for him to say anything at this point. And all of the former senior officials of the Justice Department, democrat and republican, agree on that point today. You threw the policy book out the window when you had james comey as the fbi director making the final decision about prosecuting or not prosecuting someone. Ive been critical of the way theyve handled this. I thought there should have been a personal prosecutor appointed months ago. There was never any crime committed here. There is no crime. This is not maybe not. Maybe not. Then, why werent these emails provided to forgive me. Let me just turn to you and ask you, a fear would be critics have said, what if he went ahead and reopened this looked at this review, looked at whatever emails they found on weiners laptop and somebody could have leaked that they were looking into this. Well, thats exactly that is the postential of having a cloud hanging over the fbi. Thats exactly and covering it up. Mr. Comey has proved he isnt qualified to be in this position because he caved into the pressure of irresponsible republicans and, b, because of his own rightwing fbi agents. If hes acting today out of the fear his own agents would leak this if he didnt announce it, this is proof he does not have control over his own agency and hes not qualified to have this job. Youve lost your mind. Do you realize president obama appointed this man as director of the fbi . Hes presumed to be completely nonpartisan and objective. Now you dont like the news youve decided hes all of a sudden partisan. Thats not true. James comey has been the only person in this entire mess who does not have a political agenda. And the idea that hes doing this with a political between you and the Deputy Attorney general of the George Bush Administration disagrees with you. If hes not partisan, how is it possible hes now accused formally of violating the hatch act by george bushs chief ethics lawyer . How is that possible . Theres no violation of the hatch act. If youve read the hatch act, you realize it requires the government to show that the intent was to cause some effect to the election. Thats exactly what it does not say according to the lawyer for george bush. Its in the books. It sdpnt require its the effect. Why are all these republicans opposing him now . Why are all the republicans opposing him now . Because its antitrump. And i get that. I dont support donald trump, but that doesnt mean james comey caused this mess. This mess started with those emails james comey is a candidate who basically defeated last week should proceed according to policy and then determine if they mean anything. Perhaps they dont. But dont blame its fine to investigate this but there was no reason to announce it. The only thing he accomplished by announcing it was to throw a life line to a faltering candidacy. You think he wanted to do that . Yes, do i. Hes contributing to the only strategy the Trump Campaign has, which is voter suppression. Why do you think they wanted to throw a life hold on. Why do you think he wanted to throw a life line to trump when you saw what he did, which had trump and republicans up in arms earlier this summer . Actually saying he went both ways earlier in the summer. Saying it was not criminal. Earlier in the summer he properly found there was no crime, but instead of leaving it at that, he then decided he had to engage in character assassination. This is the sort of thing mccarthy did 50 years ago. Its a disgrace we now have an fbi director doing the same thing as Joseph Mccarthy did. Engaging in character assassination after hes declared shes not guilty of any crime. Page, do you think comey did absolutely nothing wrong . I dont think he had to send the letter. Let me be clear about that. He was under no legal yes, were clear about that. Would you please let me answer brookes question. I agree with. You there was no legal obligation for him to send the letter. Ethically, he left america and congress under the impression that the investigation was closed. He wasnt looking for Additional Information. He wasnt trying to investigate clinton but these emails came to light, they were put on his desk its invisible to every other former Deputy Attorney general. In is an ethic page invented. Nobody else is aware of it. Im the only person here without any political motivation in this at all. Im not normally a friend of the fbi. Im a criminal defense lawyer. Im not supporting either one of these candidates for president. Im a proud democrat and i am supporting Hillary Clinton, but thats not what this is about. Clearly. Thats not what this is about. Its whether you believe in the rule of law, page. I absolutely believe and the fbi director undermined the rule of law. He has not distorted a single law. No Justice Department official has ever done and its an outrage and its a sad day for american youre saying the obligation is not to look at new evidence that may potentially no. Im saying his obligation is not to announce it. I did not say that. Move on he did not have to announce it. He left the public with the impression there was nothing left to investigate. The only thing i agree with you, page, you wrote there is no chance this will lead to a new indictment or anything else. I agree with you entirely about that, which is another reason it never should have been announced. Then whats the fear here . Let him look through the information. They have a subpoena now. They have the ability to go through these emails. Theyre already cataloging them he said, these emails he didnt even have a subpoena to look at them before yesterday. Right. He had no idea whats in these emails. He is behaving in an outrageous, shameful fashion. Now well go into the details of the investigation. You cant have it both ways. There was no reason to announce it, page, none. We disagree, respectfully. So do all the former officials of the Justice Department i think the law is clear. Im not talking about my personal position. Im just talking about the facts. Okay. Charles, page, agree to disagree, i suppose. Eight days. This is a huge, significant deal here as voters are weighing what they should believe as they go into that voting booth. Gentlemen, i appreciate both of your perspectives. Meantime, Hillary Clinton just in the key state of ohio just weighed in on this very matter moments ago. Stay with us. 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