laptop and rekindled the clinton probe. thank you, huma, thank you, anthony weiner. reporter: trump is pushing back on democrats who blame comey. this is the biggest scandal thi since watergate. clinton wants to blame everyone else for her mounting legal troubles but she s brought this on her self. reporter: specially with republicans like former attorney general alberto gonzalez taking issue with comey s actions. to throw out this kind of letter without more information, without really knowing what the facts are, with respect to these additional e-mails, i think was a mistake. reporter: polls show trump is closing in on clinton so she s expanding his own electoral map strategy with events in colorado, new mexico, michigan and wisconsin. states that once seemed out of his reach. still, trump advisers worry he could spoil this moment by wandering off message with overheated rhetoric. in michigan, he warned clinton will bring about a third world war. now hillary trapped in
there were tens of thousands of e-mails, there would be some question about the legitimacy of the result of the election. if mrs. clinton were elected. so you think he may have well done the right thing. now obviously comey has said, this is what hillary clinton is now saying, fine, look at the e-mails, you came to the conclusion of my e-mails there was nothing there. he said he found no reason to charge her after a full year-long investigation and he was very definitive about it. here he was. the appropriate resolution of this case was not with a criminal prosecution. we went at this very hard to see if we could make a case. we did not find evidence sufficient to establish that she knew she was sending classified information. he was definitive. i know, he was definitive in what he said. what he said was not accurate. now how whooy do you thin it was not accurate? he said we went at this very hard to make a case, i know what it look like when the fbi goes
to distance themselves from this deplorable behavior. unfortunately, she failed to remove herself from her candidate s behavior. the very first thing not the first thing he said, but the very first press conference announcing his candidacy, he called mexicans rapists and drug dealers, and every turn since then, and in so many instances before he ever decided to run for president, he s used some of the same rhetoric. about women. about black people. about latinos. this is the reality of this particular campaign. keith hit the nail on the head. this is something where it absolutely comes from the top. and this person has demonstrated consistently that he doesn t respect people with different ideals, women who are his peers on the stage, he cannot handle hillary clinton being that way. she s a nasty, nasty woman. right, his words. yeah. it s very simple. secretary clinton doesn t respect the law. secretary clinton that s not true. her team doesn t respect the law. donald t
notorious criminal. now 55, a graduate of william and mary and a family man, he s handled plenty of high-stakes cases, prosecuting the gambino crime family, investigating terrorist activity, even sending martha stewart to prison. and he s not afraid to stand up to power. former u.s. attorney general john ashcroft was gravely ill in 2004, some officials in the george w. bush white house, ashcroft to approve a controversial wiretap program. comey raced to his hospital bed to back them down. i was very upset. i was angry. i thought i d just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general because they d been transferred to. secretary clinton said i did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail, there is no classified material. is that true? there was classified material e-mailed. reporter: comey was just as steely when he announced no
is the problem of secretary clinton. had she been forthright, had she been honest, had huma done what she was supposed to do, had they not taken hammers to devices, had they not deleted 33,000 e-mails to begin with, none of this would have happen. so they can be upset with director comey all they want to. senator reid can complain. but at the end of the day, this goes back to the negligence and the incompetence of secretary clinton who should have known better. she sent an e-mail out to employees at the state department saying what you should not do. she should have noun better. they can complain but at the end of the day the buck has to stop with her. thanks to all. you re staying with me through the hour. next, new polls showing the race tightening in key states. does trump now have a cleaner, clearer path to 270? and how sex assault accusations against trump could kill his chances in a must-win state. and by the way, who is jim comey? i get a tenure term to ensure i stay o