The investigation is the biggest political scandal since watergate, and its everybodys hope that justice at last can be delivered. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. Both president ial candidates are trying to navigate the latest october surprise thats threatening to shake up the race just ten days before election day. And its not oppo from the Trump Campaign or wikileaks. Instead, courtesy of the fbi. Once again, the email issue that has dogged Hillary Clintons campaign almost from the start is at the center of the firestorm. On friday, fbi director, james comey, sent a willer to congress, announcing the fbi had uncovered new emails that may be pertinent to its investigation into clintons use of a private email server, while secretary of state. Those emails were apparently found as part of a separate investigation into Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of huma abedin. The sudden twist came as a surprise to the Clinton Campaign, to say the least. No. We have not been contacted
It, it is a bad day for you. I dont agree with the direction on this one. You need a thesaurus for the word stupid because im running out of descriptions for things like this. Scores of republicans and members of trumps cabinet, most notably, his top economic adviser, gary cohn, hate, despise, detest this idea. All this hysteria is a lot to do about nothing. Didnt give a damn that billions were lost in the stock market yesterday. He got a smoke screen for 24 hours. Thats a bad day by any measure as you look at the world. Cnn reporting the fbi has been looking into a International Business deal involving first daughter and Senior Adviser ivanka trump. The report not confirmed by nbc news claims investigators are looking at the negotiations and financing surrounding Trump International hotel and tower in vancouver. Just days after her husbands security clearance was downgraded. This is the foreseeable type of harm you get with nepotism. The latenight meeting at the white house with a top
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I know. Not a lot of time off. Usually its a monday or a friday. It feels like youre getting 30 years often. Now its like phil says, 15 minutes. Heres a sparkler, go out back. The parking lot in secaucus, light it, come back in. Were happy to be here. Love being here. And for Washington Post David Ignatius and Pulitzer Prize winner, soul of america, jon meacham. Author of the bestselling book the soul of america the battle for our better angels. Happy Ash Wednesday, everybody. Happy Ash Wednesday to you, too, and make sure we keep the easter bunny in easter. Or whatever. However this goes. I dont not sure. July 4th. So this is actually i mean, seriously. I i understand that, like, Hallmark Cards or something invented mothers day. If anybody were to invent a holiday for the soul of america it would be this day. The fourth of july. So very nice of Thomas Jefferson and the whole gang to be thinking of you ahead of time here. It was big. Big. Very generous. The message that so many people
I support mrs. Fords decision to share her story and now that she has it is in the hands of the fbi to conduct an investigation. This should happen before the Senate Moves Forward on this nominee. Last hour i spoke with the writer of that Washington Post piece. Heres how she describes that story. What did she say about why she decided to lose that cloak, why she decided to talk to you using her full name . She felt like she was already starting to pay a price for having written that anonymous letter. Reporters were showing up at her door. A reporter came to she teaches graduate level courses and she was leaving a lecture, was approached by a reporter. Reporters called her colleagues. She was just feeling like her privacy was already invaded and she has had all along i think a feeling like she had something important to say. And i think her calculation changed over time. Like she had already sort of paid a price for writing that anonymous letter and she figured she might as well come ou