friday, the controversial letter. so these are documents that were released seemingly out of nowhere today, wolf. it was a freedom of information act request, documents from 2001 investigation by the fbi looking into the pardon by president clinton at the time to marc rich. and the fbi was looking into whether he was pardoned because his wife had donated to the dnc. i am told by an fbi official, wolf, that there were multiple requests for this and so that is why these documents were released publicly and it s basically the release when they re ready to go. and if you were to wait to release them later, after the election, that would have been a break from policy. so there are still a lot of questions. we re waiting for an official statement from the fbi to learn a little bit more about this, but the timing could not be worse and it s only inviting more criticism to the fbi certainly from the clinton campaign. how long does it take to write a statement explaining their decision? it sh
one person not here, house speak speak speaker paul ryan. very significant, you have scott walker there. the surrogate support that donald trump has wanted. thank you jim. outfront now our panel. corey, robbie mook, the fbi sticking to protocol when it comes to donald trump, refusing to comment but not so with hillary clinton, coming out with this letter and dumping these documents via twitter today related to the mark rich part. i said this very clearly on july 95 when director comey came out and had a press conference saying we re going clear hillary. i think he should have gathered the evidence and given to it a
john podesta s e-mails have been a subject that trump s people have been attacking him about for the past two weeks. but the idea you can t attack paul manefort because he s not associated with the campaign. he s the carhairman of the campaign. from the clinton campaign the fbi is investigating paul manefort. is that actually taking place and. the fbi leaked the story last night apparently to the new york times that there was no evidence connecting the russian ties to donald trump. where did that come from? why is the fbi even leaking information? of course there is a the double standard. comey should never have had a press conference back in the summer but after that he continues to be pressured and bullied by the republican party and republicans in congress to release information that doesn t have to be released. it is time for him to shut up and just do his job. this is a democrat administration and that democrat justice department. and a republican fbi
silence. when you hear this criticism jim, what do you say? if he hadn t come out and exonerated her the way he did in july he might not have had to come out now and say i m still looking it a. the fbi has been around for a long time. they have been the investigative arm for the federal government since 1908. i think the fbi from its inception was created to be an apolitical organization. follow the evidence. we go where the evidence takes us. this director in particular. i served under four of them. two that were appointed by democratic presidents and two by republican presidents. this director has a moral compass and a level of transparency i ve not seen before. i think he was dealt a difficult hand. he didn t go seeking it out. he didn t go looking for it. he followed the evidence. and when he made the decision i think it was one he felt was right to make. and the obama administration
october surprises are so yesterday. now we re talking november surprises. we re going to have surprises right up to the end. early voting has always been a key element for democrats because the democratic constituency tends to be a working-class constituency, younger voters, more mobile, republican voters, older, a lot of them vote by mail. they re habitual voters. it s easier to organize when you have early voting. and democrats try to bank early votes going into election day as a hedge against those republican voters who come out on election day. so it s very, very important. it s also important to note that a lot of these votes were cast before any of this came up. and so it won t those votes won t reflect any effect of this fbi story. we know, sara, that early voting for the clinton campaign,