with all the other things you talked about? well, i will say no, matt, i don t think that will surprise you. wow, matt asked the right question there, that was of course hillary clinton talking about her 2016 defeat on the today show this morning. hillary clinton opened up the fact about the loss, and didn t hold back about who she thought bore the brunt of the blame. i think the determining factor was the intervention by comey on october 28th. it stopped my momentum. it drove voters from me. and so i think that in terms of my personal defeat was the most important factor. i was just dumbfounded. i thought what is he doing? the investigation is closed. i know there is no new information. i feel very strongly that he went way beyond his role in doing what he did. despite her words on comey, secretary clinton doesn t agree with president trump s firing of
speak. do you think that s possible we re going to actually see a record number of latinos voting? i know you ve been pushing towards that but could be the case? absolutely. we ve been seeing this across the board and talking about it quite a bit. not only the voter registration numbers received but the volunteer efforts, the engagement. one of the things that isn t often followed as closely on english media is the work she s doing on spanish media as well, on some of the programs that are really traditional in the latino community and of course, i was in arizona with senator kaine when he gave his speech all in spanish. that s a first time that s ever happened in a presidential campaign. let me ask you about another key group. african-americans. their turnout is not as robust in states like north carolina as it was back in 2012. secretary clinton doesn t need to match exactly what president obama did but she needs to get close. are you concerned about that and president obama obvi
criminal charges against hillary clinton. republicans rage he was covering for the obama administration. comey s response i lead an organization that is resolutely apolitical. reporter: he was a registered republican most of his life, although he says not anymore. president obama is offering at least a little cover from democratic fire. the president doesn t believe that director comey is intentionally trying to influence the outcome of an election. reporter: but does comey even want such support? it s hard to say. he rarely answers critics directly and he once told congress decisions like those the fbi has to face should be made by people who don t give a hoot about politics. all right. tom, thank you. outfront now, former u.s. attorney general under president george w. bush, michael mukasey. thank you very much for being with me. so i want to get to this. fbi director comey says if he didn t notify congress about these new e-mails, he felt he could be hiding relevant
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
were not marked as such the time she sent them. still, this is becoming a major political problem for the front runner. republicans trying to argue that the e-mail issue suggests clinton can t be trusted. while her democratic rivals are not joining in that chorus, burn asanders is making a race of it with one poll showing him leading clinton in new hampsh e hampshire. an iowa poll shows clinton still has a commanding lead there. one campaign official tells me they have accepted the e-mail issue will be with them throughout her campaign. clinton s strategy, to try to turn the page. she wants to focus on her policies and she s going to aggressively go after republican rivals. she s going to try to put all of that into effect at the iowa state fair this weekend. jose. kristen welker, great seeing you. thank you. now to my one-on-one interview with secretary of state john kerry who by this time tomorrow will be in havana for the flag raising at the u.s. embassy in cuba. the event has b