And special guest kelly ripa. Top of the hour. Im poppy harlow. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. We begin of course with politics because if you thought this election was in the bag, think again. The epic race between Hillary Clinton and donald trump is now significantly tighter, and now there is a potential game changer for the fbi. Director james comey announcing yesterday there will be a brand new review of emails linked to a longtime clinton aid. For donald trump this is fresh ammunition. This is the biggest political scandal since watergate, and its everybodys deepest hope that justice at last can be properly delivered. The Clinton Campaign is hitting back demanding that the fbi come forward with all that it knows immediately. Its now incumbent on director comey to immediately provide the American People with more information than what is contained in his letter. He owes the public the full story or else he shouldnt have cracked open this door in the first place. Cnns new poll of polls updated just hours ago shows only a fivepoint spread, clinton in the lead there, 47, 42, as clinton and trump race across the Battle Ground states. Fbi director james comey defying the objection of Top Justice Department officials, sending this letter to congress yesterday saying in connection with an unrelated case the fbi has learned of the existence of the emails that appear pertinent to the investigation. Im writing to inform you that the Investigative Team briefed me on this yesterday and i agree that the fbi should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation. Comey says right now the fbi doesnt know if theres anything material in them or if its significant. Comey is breaking with longstanding policy practice really, not to comment publicly about politically sensitive investigations within 60 days of an election. This announcement came 11 days before. This as department of justice officials acknowledge the fallout from that summer day in june when former president bill clinton boarded attorney general Loretta Lynchs plane on the tarmac in phoenix for a private conversation not long before the clinton email investigation wrapped up. Well, thats putting a lot of pressure on them. In the optics of that, anything but good for Hillary Clinton. So what led the fbi to these new emails . In a bizarre turn, it apparently comes back to disgraced former new york congressman anthony weiner. Yes, the emails the fbi is reviewing were found on at least one computer used by his now estranged wife, huma abedin. She has been by clintons side as a close aid for the better part of two decades. A separate fbi investigation into sexting allegations against weiner, that is apparently what led the feds to this computer used by his wife, and now here we are. Whether these emails contain classified information or anything significant, we just dont know at this point. We probably wont know anything more about them before the election. Phil mattingly is traveling with the clinton camp and joins us from Daytona Beach, florida. Her rally is set to begin in minutes and huma abedin is not going to be by her side. That matters because these two are inseparable and politico described as her shadow. Why isnt she there . Reporter a noticeable emotion from the Clinton Traveling party. Very rarely do you see Hillary Clinton without huma abedin by her side, whether its on the Campaign Plane or bus or at the rally. Campaign officials are pushing back on the idea that this has some grander meaning but theres no question about it, Hillary Clinton traditionally does not go anywhere without huma abedin and it underscores the very real issue that the campaign is facing. This is a stunning development, and poppy, you ran through it point by point, laying out how epically amazing this story has become and huma abedin is right in the center of the right now. We are told Hillary Clinton is expected to address the fbi letter at the top of this rally and for the most part they want to move forward with their strategy and try and get around this. That might be one reason huma abedin isnt with them today. Do we know, phil, how shes going to tackle it, what shes going to say . I thought the press conference she took last night, she took three questions, it was pretty subdued. Reporter yeah. It was subdued and thats interesting because the campaign is angry, very angry. They were stunned by the governme development and stunned when they found out about it but very angry over the letter itself. Thats been repeated by clinton advisers and those in the orbit, democrats getting talking points from the Clinton Campaign over the last 24 hours. What you heard yesterday from secretary clinton, what you heard this afternoon from her advisers on a conference call, thats the strategy going forward. When it comes to the fbi letter, go after james comey, go after the fbi director, go after his rationale for sending the letter at all. Try and make it and partisan issue and try and force him to say more about the letter. Thats how theyre going to deal with that. Thats one way of doing it, and then they went Hillary Clinton to keep going with what she was doing. They felt the strategy she laid out, her tv buys, her travel, everything was setting her up very well. They dont want to move off that if they dont have to, poppy. Phil mattingly, thank you. Well get back to you as soon as clinton takes the stage. Thank you guys for being here. Cnn political commentator Mary Katherine hamm is here and ryan liz, washington correspondent for the new yorker. Mary katherine, let me begin with you. The problem here really is for the voters because we as voters just dont have the full set of information, and were likely not going to have much more before the election. What can voters do with this . Where do we go from here . Many of them have already voted which is one of the reasons i dont actually early vote because i like for all of this to play out. Im not sure theres much voters can do besides stay tuned and hear whats going on. Can i be real and say it feels like were in season six of a Shonda Rhimes series and this thing is going off the rails and it does not end happily. Like after this is over you just end up in season 17 sitting on the couch drinking wine. Like there will be some more information about this forthcoming, and Hillary Clinton is paying the price for things that she has done to herself. She knew that this was wrong, frankly. Theyve admitted as much, if not very nicely, but they have. Its not going to go well for her. I think it was chuck todd that tweeted yesterday something to the effect of like it was billy bush and anthony weiner. Can you believe that its come to this. Guys, lets go back to the primary for a second. Lets take a listen to bernie sanders. The American People are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails. Are they, ryan . Depends on who you are. I think a lot of republicans who believe that there was more to this scandal than say the fbi director believed in the end who decided not to prosecute, they think the emails are a big deal. My view of this right now is that i think both sides are blowing this out of proportion. I think a lot of democrats are blowing out of proportion the idea that this is some earth shattering event, that james comey has somehow, you know, thrown such a grenade into the final days of this election and that the voters are these poor sensitive beings that they cant make sense of this and somehow its going to lead to a donald trump victory. I dont think its that earth shattering. I think voters can process this relatively quickly in the ten days we have. At the same time, i dont believe as trump has been going around saying that this is some big aha moment and hillary is now finally going to end up in the slammer because of this. I think in the end, if Hillary Clinton becomes president and comey had not revealed this and it had come out that leadership at the Justice Department would not allow him to reveal this, that would turn into a scandal. I think comey was in a tough situation and given the situation he was in on balance made the right decision here. Im a journalist. Im always in favor of more disclosure rather than less. I think it would be hypocritical for me to say comey should have kept quiet when we all know it would have leaked out anyway. But to that point, perhaps for the first time in this entire 16month race, team trump and team clinton are on the same page. They both want the same thing from the fbi. Lets listen to what Trumps Campaign manager, kellyanne conway, said last night to anderson cooper. So we heard secretary Clinton Press her case, kellyanne, on saying she wants more information from the fbi, saying the American People deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately. Do you agree with that . Do you think voters are entitled to more information . Yes, im for transparency and full disclosure and immediatesy and honesty. Weigh in on this. They both want the same thing. Evan perez reports its not going to happen. So now what . Well, i mean, it would be extremely helpful for comey to clarify exactly what it is that hes looking at and looking for, but its pretty clear that the timeline is you know, the timeline of this election is just too accelerated. And i do think that there are questions. Obviously this does, you know the decision to make the announcement cuts against traditional government policy. On the other hand, the point of what if secretary clinton is elected and it came out later that the Justice Department is squashing this, thats fair too. But i think its extremely difficult to know what to do as a journalist with basically a floating allegation, and i think it really comes back to the voters. Thats my beat, is covering the voters and having gone to both conventions, et cetera, there are some people, particularly people who work in the government who are conservative who say if i had done what secretary clinton did, i wouldnt get the same treatment. At the same time, i dont think theres any evidence of a smoking gun. The problem is it plays into i wouldnt even say narrative. I would say belief among some that the clintons on the whole live by a different set of rules than others. If you look, Mary Katharine ham, back to one of the emails from nina tandem who you running this, in one of them, she was asked why didnt aides make public clintons private server, and she said because they wanted to get away with it. Yeah. I think its obvious to most voters that the clintons do live by a separate set of rules and that other people would have gotten in trouble and other people have gotten in trouble. Its sort of her weirdly get out of jail free card. I mean that not literally, to run for president. If you look at the polling, many people do not think its fair. The problem with all of these scandals is that they do confirm this idea about the clintons and they will continue to do that for the next couple of days. Whether that makes a difference in the election, im not sure. I think what it does do is it gives us a preview of what a Clinton Presidency will probably look like with scandal after scandal, and to ryans point in voters not being helpless and unsophisticated, it may mean they split more ballots when you think about the question of a check on Hillary Clinton if it looks like shes ahead in the last ten days which it does look like at this point. There may be more ballot splitting than weve seen in the past. Lets pull up this tweet, a columnist. He wrote flip this around and imagine if comey came out and said were looking into evidence re trump and russia. Dont know what that means. He has a good point. A lot of people would be upset about that. If there was a genuine investigation that was important for the voters to know before they go to the polls about donald trump, you know what, i want the government to tell us about that. I want to know about that before i vote, and i think most people do, too. Thats why i say disclosure is better than nondisclosure, even when its imperfect. Guys, thank you i agree. Thank you very much. We got to get a commercial break in. Ryan, Mary Katherine, thank you. Mary katherine, good luck on your big marathon tomorrow benefitting veterans and families of fallen heros. Thank you very much. Good luck. Well be watching. You can help runners with fundraising donations by visiting the Marine Corps Marathon website. We are ten days out, folks. That is it. November 8th you choose. Ahead this hour we will take you to the Battle Grounds of north carolina, colorado, ohio and florida where at any moment Hillary Clinton will make her first stop of the day. She is expected to address this email review. Stay with us. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Only those who dare drive the world forward. The cadillac ct6. Abdbloating . In . You may have ibs. Ask your doctor if nonprescription ibgard is right for you. Ibgard calms the angry gut. Available at cvs, walgreens and rite aid. At any moment Hillary Clinton will make her First Campaign stop of the day. She is expected to of course address the latest emails. I believe is that her . Nope. Shes being announced. Well bring that to you as soon as she begins. Fbi director james Comey Told Congress that he found new emails possibly linked into the zegs of Hillary Clintons private server. He didnt just go against department of justice practice but against those who advised him to do otherwise at the very top of the d. O. J. Sources tell cnn sources expressed certain saying that sending it this close to the election goes against how the d. O. J. Does business. Now his decision is being blasted by the Clinton Campaign and officials. Matthew miller is one of them. He joins me now. He was up late on twitter last night. Thank you for being here. Thank you. How many tweets did you send about this . 14 . Too many probably. You hate this. Why . I think its appalling. Why . By the way, just to correct something, clinton said in the press conference last night that he sent it to republican. Yeah. Thats not true. He sent it to democrats and republicans on the committee in congress. Im sure she probably made the same mistake a lot of us did when you first saw the letter which was released by republicans and there were Images Released on twitter, they only showed the front page and not the ccs on the bottom. It was equally distributed. Why do you hate this . It flies in the face of the way the fbi handles investigations or is supposed to handle investigations in any other case. They have a blanket rule which is they do not comment onion ongoing investigations. He already blew through that right. There is a longstanding practice that in the final days before the election and they interpret final days as the last 60 days, they dont do anything that can be seen by the public as trying to influence the election. So to come forward 11 days and put this out there with no facts and give political opponents the opportunity to raise innuendos and spread rumors is really irresponsible and goes against d. O. J. Practices. While we talk i want the control room to pull up sound from team clinton back in july, the press secretary spoke pretty highly about james comey. Well play that as soon as we have it. But at the same time, why does the public not have the right to as much information as possible . Team trump and team clinton want the details of these emails, but for the voters, why is it not beneficial for the voter to even know that this is going on . I think it is helpful for voters to have information about the candidates but the problem with what director comey did yesterday is he didnt give them any information. All he did is say were looking at something. So the reason d. O. J. Rules typically prohibit that is oftentimes the public when they hear that the fbi is looking at something they always consume the worst. Oftentimes those investigations go nowhere. In this case were now hearing that maybe the emails arent from secretary clinton. They might be duplicates of other copies. But you create this political football, this flurry of activities close to the election. Then again, if you dont say anything and dont put anything out there and if she is elected and it is learned a month or two later that indeed they were doing this new review before she was elected, many voters might feel like they werent given the full story. Stay with me. Lets listen. Youre a Hillary Clinton supporter. Lets listen to what she says. She is addressing her supporters in Daytona Beach, florida, a critical battleground state, a state with 29 electoral votes. She wants this state, she needs is this state, and now shes going to address for the First Time Since that press conference last night the latest revelations about emails from huma abedins computer that, according to fbi director james comey, appear, quote, pertinent to the investigation into her private server. Wow. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you all. Wow. Thank you, thank you. I am just thrilled to be here. Are you ready to canvas . All yes well, we need your help in these last ten days until the election. I want to thank leslie pierce for that introduction and her lifelong work on behalf of children. I want to