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Belonging to huma abedins husband, former congressman, anthony weiner. Abedins Attorney Says she has no idea how her emails ended up on this computer. And fbi Forensic Experts are still trying to figure out how they got there. Comeys been under attack, including all three most recent attorneys general, from the bush and obama administration, tall three are finding fault with comeys handling of the comey investigation, and particularly for commenting on the latest abedin email discovery, just days before an election. Comeys current boss, however, attorney general Loretta Lynch, for the first time, met briefly with him yesterday on the sidelines of a National Security meeting. Lynch, as you remember, was posed to comey sending his letter to Congress Last friday, but were told that the conversation yesterday was a friendly chat between to officials, who are under a great deal of scrutiny over this clinton investigation. Chris . Evan, thank you very much. The Clinton Campaign is going directly at the fbis chief. And they say this is a blatant double standard. Hell talk about the emails when he doesnt have the underlying proof, but he wont talk about any investigations about donald trump. For that we have phil mattingly, live in chappaqua, new york, of course, thats where Hillary Clinton lives. What do you have . Reporter chris, you nailed it. It is an escalation right now. It started with shock. The Clinton Campaign, obviously, had no idea this was coming, when that letter was sent to capitol hill on friday. But slowly, over the course of the last three or four days, youve seen an escalation of attacks. A clear effort by the Clinton Campaign to undercut what that letter means and its not an effort were going to see slow down anytime soon. There is no case here. Reporter Hillary Clinton and her campaign firing back at fbi director james comey, slamming his decision to notify congress of a new investigation into thousands of emails, found on a computer, belonging to the estranged husband of a top clinton aide, huma abedin. Clintons campaign turning the tables on comey. Its impossible to view this as anything less than a blatant double standard. Reporter seizing on reports that comey refused to publicly comment on potential ties between Donald Trumps campaign and russia. On sunday, Senate Minority leader harry reid accused comey of sitting on, quote, explosive information. Trumps russia connections, without offering proof. Cnn cannot corroborate any of these reports. U. S. Officials do tell cnn that russia is behind hacks that could potentially influence the u. S. Election. Meanwhile, trump is capitalizing on comeys new email probe. It took guts for director comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had. Reporter comey has only said the emails found on disgraced congressman Anthony Weiners computer, quote, appear to be pertinent to the nowclosed clinton private server investigation. We can be sure that what is in those emails is absolutely devastating. And i think were going to find out, by the way. For the first time. Thank you, huma thank you, anthony weiner. Reporter abedins attorneys responding, saying in a statement, quote, from the beginning, miss abedin as complied fully and voluntarily with state department and Law Enforcement requests and reiterate, they only learned of the emails on weiners computer friday from the press. Clinton continuing to apologize for her private email server, but issuing a challenge to investigators. Im not making excuses. Ive said it was a mistake and i regret it. By all means, they should look at them. And i am sure they will reach the same conclusion they did when they looked the at my emails for the last year. Reporter all of this as the New York Times obtains documents that they say show trump potentially escaped tens of millions of dollars in federal personal income taxes in the 1990s, by using a taxavoidance maneuver, later outlawed by congress. Trumps campaign responding to the report in a statement, saying, quote, any tax experts that you have consultaed are engaged in pure speculation. There is no news here. So, alisyn, the big question seven days out, what is the state of play of this race after these last crazy four or five days. So to get a sense of things, look at where the candidates and their surrogates are. Donald trump today in pennsylvania for a big speech with his running mate, mike pence, on obamacare. Then going to wisconsin. Hillary clinton is in battleground, florida. President obama, ohio. Vice president biden, north carolina. What does all of that mean . Donald trumps going to blue states. States with a clear democratic advantage, basically saying, he has to flip these states, almost pull off an upset if he wants to win. Hillary clinton and her surrogates in battlegrounds. Battlegrounds where if she just wins one of those three, she likely locks up the white house. So that, at least as of now, thats your state of play, alisyn. Thanks so much for updating us. We want to wring in now South Carolina congressman, trey gowdy, chair of the House Select Committee on benghazi which first discovered that clinton used a private email server. Good morning, congressman. Good morning. How are you . Doing well. Congressman, explain why you are comfortable with director comey releasing word to congress that there is this new wrinkle in the investigation involving huma abedins emails, before knowing if theres any there there. I think there are two reasons. Number one, lets just concede, being a Police Officer and a prosecutor is a lonely and tough jobs and unusual facts make for some pretty tough conclusions. But he did Tell Congress in july that the investigation had been completed. And he had determined that she department have specific intent to commit a crime. So i think he felt the need to supplement the record. Remember, john koskin is being investigated for potential impeachment for failing to update the record and update congress. So i think number one, you take him at his word that he wanted to supplement the record, but number two, lets say that Hillary Clinton were to say today, all of this is in the rearview mirror, ive been investigated, all of my aides have been investigated, theres nothing here. Well, if comey knows that there is potentially new information that may impact the investigation, then what shes saying is not true. So under the general theory that the public should be given the information and then they can sort it out, my guess is, he wanted us to know that there was new potentially relevant information. Before knowing if it is relevant. You know. Youve heard lots of legal experts say, it just breaks with protocol. Him coming forward before knowing if theres relevant information. Yeah, i wish i had a nickel for every time i asked the media to not report facts in my murder trials and they did itnyway. I wish the president had not prejudged the investigation when he did so. I wish Loretta Lynch had not met with bill clinton on the tarmac. I wish a lot of things had not happened in this case. Again, this is an unusual fact pattern, which leads to unusual conclusions. Okay. So in terms of the publics right to know, do you share that same measure about whether or not the fbi should talk about any investigation they had into Donald Trumps campaigns ties to russia . Well, as a general rule, the bureau does not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation, although that rule lately has been honored more in its breach. So if you want the bureau to update the public about an investigation into mr. Trump, then theyre also going to need to update the public about the Clinton Foundation investigation, if one exists. Remember, theres a referral on secretary clintons perjury. Theres an allegation that she committed perjury. There was a referral letter sent by senator goodlatte and chaffetz. They have not updated congress on that. I dont view his letter as an update on the facts of the investigation. I view it as a notice document. I want you to know my previous testimony has changed. The matter is still open. Thats how i viewed the letter. Well, one of your colleagues on the House Oversight Committee Says that you and your republican colleagues are basically just accepting this double standard. That you do want the update on Hillary Clintons emails, but youre not pressing the fbi for any update that could be, of course, wildly relevant to the president ial race, if Donald Trumps campaign had some sort of connection to russia. Well, im sure my colleague on the oversight was not referring to me. Maybe im a universe of law, and i dont want an update on the status of the email investigation. Im not entitled to an update on the status of the email investigation. I used to work for the department of justice. They should not be discussing the facts of an investigation, until the investigation is over. If my colleague meant that comey should have kept it a secret that they had potentially hundreds of thousands of new emails, i just find that interesting. A couple of months ago, they thought that jim comey was the second comie ining of christ. And a couple of months later, now they think that he should be investigated for violation of the hatch act. I dont like relativism. I think the same rules should apply. This is a very unusual fact pattern. But alisyn, it is difficult and unusual because of decisions made by people not named jim comey. Secretary clinton is the reason you and i are having this conversation, not jim comey. So, congressman, if Hillary Clinton were to win the race a week from now, should the American Public and voters expect years and years of more investigations and Committee Hearings into things that you believe are wrongdoing . It depends. Congress does not have jurisdiction. And frankly, we are terrible at investigating potential crimes. But the legislative branch does have an obligation to provide oversight. And part of that oversight, frankly, includes the department of justice. The department of justice is funded by congress. So we should provide oversight after things have happened. Just like we should provide oversight over the cia and the state department. But its not our job to investigate potential criminality. Were bad at it. And even if we found evidence of a crime, theres nothing we can do about it. Thats an executive branch function. So, i kind of depends upon the nature of the investigation and what our motive and intent and purpose is. Congressman trey gowdy, thanks so much for joining us on n new day. You too. Chris . Lets get the other side with senator ben cardin of maryland, a Hillary Clinton supporter. It depends, senator. Trey gowdy giving a good description to have the limitations of the house in terms of investigating crimes, but he didnt say there would be no hearings on a then president elect or president Hillary Clinton. What does that tell you . Well, chris, weve already seen that the house of representatives has had more and more investigations concerning secretary clinton. So, its hard to predict what theyll do, but i would like to think that they would be objective and that they would only do an investigation if there was a reason to. But that has not been the practice in the past. So, lets go from what could happen in the future to whats going on right now. Goudy and other republicans are making a very obvious case about what jim comey just did. He owed it to congress. He said he would tell them if anything changed, and thats why he wrote the letter. They just took it as a status change, nothing more. Obviously, donald trump takes it as a hell of a lot more than that, but theyre distinguishing themselves from him. What do you say . Heres the situation. Information was discovered. The fbi does not know whether its relevant to secretary clinton or not. They havent reviewed the emails. There is no indication that theres anything new that would warrant this type of a scrutiny. But they need to look at it. Theres a reason why close to election, when you have that type of information that does not point to an active investigation active concern, that you dont make that information public. You hold off because of the impact it could have on the elections. I think director comey when he released that should have anticipated that donald trump and toaster would then say, use that, and draw conclusions. Conclusions that have no merit whatsoever in the information that the fbi has. Its part of a strategy do you think its part of a strategy, i think do you think senator, do you think that the fbi director should come out with more information about the case before the end of the election . Do you think that he should do an expedited review . Or do you think thats even possible . The suggestion seems that he is not inclined to do so. Well, first, i dont think he should have sent that notice to congress. Secondly, now that hes done that, yes, i think its important that that information be made more public, so the public can draw conclusions, rather than having donald trump and others draw their own conclusions, that just are without any merit to the information thats available. The criticism is to make more the criticism is, you loved him when he was on your side. Now he seems to be doing something that could help the other side, so you dont like him. Youre having it both ways. Well, quite frankly, i would like to see investigations done out of the spotlight of the public. But director comey was the one who made his decisions. The fact that he closed the investigation, that is public. The fact that theres more information now that may be relevant, may not be relevant, that needs to be investigated before Public Comments are made. So i think he look, hes a good person, he made a bad judgment here. And you see how its being spun in an effort, i think, and a strategy to deal with some of the clinton supporters, to say, well, maybe theres a question here, you need not come off the vote. I think it has something to do with suppression of the voter turnout. People get depressed about this election. And its been used. And director comey fell into this trap. Well, youve got to be ka careful about that, right . If he fell into a trap of others, thats maybe a bad judgment. If you say hes part of that trap, that would go to the hatch act. And thats what harry reid was suggesting. You dont go that far . No, i think he made a judgment. I think the judgment was a bad judgment. The russians and their impact on the election. The hacking of these emails seems fairly clear to the governments resources. The Clinton Campaign is pushing for there to be more disclosure from the fbi about any potential connections between members of Trumps Campaign or trump himself, and russia. Are you in favor of that, when we dont really have any basis to understand that they are even investigating Something Like that. Theres word, maybe, theres a probe or an inquiry, but certainly not enough for the director to feel confident enough to say anything. In fact, he didnt even want the fbi put on the disclosure about russias the source of the hacking. Chris, i have deep concerns about russias engagement here in the United States. I have serious concerns about Donald Trumps international involvements. I would like to see his tax returns. We have a right to see his tax returns. Hes running for president of the United States. I think that could be telling, as to his international dealings, as well as his use of our tax code. Thats relevant information. Russias involvement in the u. S. Elections, important information. And any of those associated with the Trump Campaign and their association with russia are all very, very relevant. But i stand by the point, this close to an election, you dont want to have the fbi, if theyre active investigations going forward, they should be very cautious as to what they make public, because it will be used in a political way. Thats why, i thought, it was absolutely wrong to send a letter to congress, a few days before an election. Senator ben cardin, thank you very much for being on new day, as always. Alisyn . Chris, we are following some breaking news out of baltimore, where as you can see, the aftermath on your screen right now, a school bus has crashed wth a transit bus, killing at least three people. We do not know if any children were on the school bus at the time or which bus the victims were on, but you can see it was a terrible accident. Investigators are on scene, trying to figure out what led to this crash. So, of course, we are working on getting much more information for you. We will bring it to you as soon as we have it. All right. North carolina is big and in play in this election. And its also now the focus of a really ugly moment. Senator richard burr apologizing, but what did he say that deserved an apology . Pout it this way. It involved having a bullseye on Hillary Clinton. Next. Et videos. Tv oh, its gonna get crazy this is black friday that is insane. I would never do that. 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