Transcripts For MSNBCW The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

Transcripts For MSNBCW The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20161107

It is the old age of those Voting Machines. Some of them are definitely going to break down. Well tell you what to do if that happens to you on tuesday. A november surprise. The review of these new emails is over. The recommendation from july that no charges should be brought stands. Aides on clintons plane relieved. I dont believe its politically good or bad. We have not made this the centerpiece of our messaging. If she were to win we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial. The only one facing trial is going to be donald trump because of Trump University. At Trump University we teach success. Its going to happen to you. This campaign has taken away his twitter. Real geniuses. If somebody starts tweeting at 3 00 in the morning because snl made fun of you this whole election has been so mean. I just feel gross all the time. Then you cant handle the nuclear code. We have arrived at a moment of reckoning in this election. Going to be called brexit plus. Vote. Vote. Lets finish the job Hillary Clinton has not yet commented on the letter released by the fbi director seven hours ago. What appears to be the last word from the fbi investigation of secretary clintons email. Fbi director james comey sent a followup letter to the republican and Democratic Leaders of the congressional committees today about the fbis investigation of emails found on a laptop shared by Anthony Weiner and his wife huma abedin. The letter says the fbi Investigative Team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. During that process we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. Based on our review we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. Joining us now, nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams. Pete, i am struck by the last words of the operative sentence in that where they say they have not changed their findings with respect to secretary clinton. Does that mean that it is possible that there is still some exposure here for huma abedin and anyone else who has been investigated in through the Hillary Clinton state Department Emails . I think the answer to the question is that it doesnt mean that theyre out of the woods but its not what that sentence was meant to mean, if i can parse it that way. All theyre saying is, all we looked at here were whether there were problems with new classified documents that we didnt know about and what the fbi director says is, that doesnt change the bottom line. What i am told is that the review of these remember, weve heard this number 650,000. Thats the total number of emails on the computer. They narrowed it down to those sent or received by huma abedin and then those that she sent to secretary clinton while secretary clinton was secretary of state. So you have subsets of subsets there. They found that most of them were duplicates of what the fbi had already seen during its months and months and months of looking through Hillary Clintons email server. Some were strictly social, nongovernmental. What time do you want us to pick you up, that kind of thing. They did look at some of them. They concluded that there was no substantial change here that required them to rethink the prosecution thing. What else does it mean . Who else is off the hook or on the hook . That is not anything they were focusing on. The whole goal here was to try to get through these emails and answer the question, if they could, before tuesday. And pete, the Trump Campaign tonight saying absolutely impossible to search 650,000 emails in a week. I guess it depends on how you do it. Because what the fbi says is that most of this work most of the hard work was automated. They already had a database of all the emails that were found during all the months that led up to the director comeys announcement in july. They could compare that using a system, a system called dduping to find out which were not duplicates. The task of figuring out which were hers, what time frame, could be done relatively quickly with an Automated System. Its an Automated System as well that did most of this work. Thats the fbis answer to how did they do it so relatively fast. Pete, do we have a sense of the number of emails that the fbi actually had to take a closer look at . We have this somewhere we got the notion that there are 650,000 total. We dont know how many of those belonged to Anthony Weiner. Right. They looked at only those that were to or from secretary clinton. Do we have any idea what the number was of those . No. They have not given us that detail. They dont really want to give us that detail now. I suspect eventually well get it. What i said to one fbi official today is, you know, you gave us so much information after the clinton investigation, including the number of documents that contained classified information. Will you supplement the record with that sort of information . I got the impression that they would but not before tuesday. Pete, do you have any sense that todays letter was, in any sense, rushed by director comey because of the pressure he had been experiencing in the last several days and including this, what seemed to be a crosscurrent of leaks from the fbi . I think whatever pressure that they that they were working under was selfimposed. I think, after they sent the letter to congress two fridays ago, they have always wanted to try to get whatever answer they could before election day. What they told us repeatedly is, if by tuesday we cant give you the final score, were not going to give you a partial. Were not going to say were 80 through and this is what weve found. They would only Say Something if they were done. But they did try to get it done quickly and thoroughly. I think it was selfimposed more than anything. They say that was always their goal. Pete williams, thank you very much for joining us tonight. I really appreciate it. You bet. Here is how donald trump reacted to the news tonight. Hillary clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency of the United States. The investigations into her crimes will go on for a long, long time. Right now she is being protected by a rigged system. Its a totally rigged system. I have been saying it for a long time. You cant review 650,000 new emails in eight days. You cant do it, folks, Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the fbi knows it, the people know it. Were joined now by joy reid, msnbc National Correspondent and the host of a. M. Joy. Also jay sykes from milwaukee also an msnbc contributor. Joy, so its there is another day left. So theres time for at least one more letter from the fbi. Sure. Absolutely. You know, when they did this sort of oh, never mind letter today when comey put this letter out, the thing thats so maddening about it is that its quite clear they could have gotten ahold of the laptop, done the exact same thing theyve done for the last nine days, gotten a court order, looked in the laptop, seen what was there. If you really felt he needed to send a letter, he could have sent that letter saying we have this laptop, we looked through it, there was nothing on it. Thats your update. If he felt so compelled. The reality is instead of doing that he throws a grenade into the election. There are nine days in which people are voting based on that information, which one campaign is allowed to dine out on that information, and even make allegations that Hillary Clinton was going to be criminally indicted or that she should be impeached for nine days. So you cant take that nine days back. I think comey they should stop talking. They keep talking. Yes. Yeah. Charlie, the the former Justice Department officials i have talked to i havent found any who can make sense of whats happened with the fbi, especially as of today, because some of them were saying up until today, well, it must be that he that comey knew there was something serious. Theyre more flummoxed now than they were before, and they kind of all say that the ones i have talked to that he should have relied on the principle that you dont say anything while a campaign this close to an election day. And what the what they stress is, that principle, that practice, has been initiated to protect the fbi from the accusation that theyre being partisan by, in effect, being accused after the fact of withholding information. That that principle is there to say, well, the reason we didnt say anything about it before the election is this. But here we are tonight. Yeah. And what a total farce. And the damage james comey has done to the reputation of the fbi is really amazing. You think about the damage this whole campaign has done to trust in american institutions. You know. And including institutions that had once been considered to be above politics. And where do we go to get that last nine days back. Look, i know that democrats have been upset about this, but republicans would be absolutely hair on fire if something similar had happened. Of course, were now going to go into this campaign with the back and forth. Somebody needs to tell donald trump, by the way, how Computers Work and that we have computer programs that do this kind of thing. I understand the trump world has now gone into full, absolute denial about all of this. But, you know, this was not necessary, to go through in the last nine days of this campaign, and i think the fallout from this is going to be awful no matter what the results are on tuesday. Can we get the video of donald trump up again, or at least a frame of him in that speech that we just showed him giving where he was talking about the there. Now, that guy, joy. Thats the guy who is telling you that the fbi is rigged, the investigation is rigged, and um, i dont know, but no, no. Not that video. Not that. The one that we just had up before. Yeah. It seems to me that the one thing you want to see is the candidates face when he is offering these conspiracy theories about how the world works. Instead he looks like some movie villain. Doesnt he have an investment in the hat company that makes his hats . That hat is way too big. He actually maybe needs a stylist in addition to some other things his campaign could have used to be more professional. That hat is way too large. Charlie makes a good point that, by doing what he did, james comey triggered and news cycle in which not only did we explore on the republican side whether or not Hillary Clinton is some sort of super criminal, but you also then explored the fbi. So now what weve had is some great reporting that has exposed this protrump cell, if you want to call it that, in the new york office of the fbi. There are further stories coming out about the fact that agents were insisting upon using a book that has a financial connection to donald trump through steve bannon as the basis for launching investigations. That is terrifying for american citizens who now understand that a group of politically motivated agents armed with that much power can go after anyone they want based on partisanship alone even though what theyre doing is actually financially connected through their resource material to one of the candidates for president. That in and of itself shatters the fbis reputation. Charlie this is go ahead. This is scary stuff. She is right. This is very scary stuff. I am really grateful for the reporting that Pete Williams has done. He actually came on my radio show friday to debunk the completely bogus report that was on fox news about the expansion of this mythical investigation into the clinton foundation. I am sure there are issues to be dealt with here, but you think about what has happened in the final days of this campaign, what was leaked out. What was leaked out with an intent to influence a president ial election. This can go either way if in fact you have Rogue National security employees, whether its the fbi or anybody else, and i do hope that, when this is all over, we look back on this and ask what exactly happened and why were we so credulous about it. Charlie gets the last word on this segment. Thank you for being here tonight. 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Ive never liked marijuana. But im voting yes on prop 64 to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and over. It has important safeguards for families, like strict product labeling and childproof packaging of all marijuana products. And banning edibles that would appeal to a child. Raising a teenager, that regulated system makes a lot more sense than what we have now. Plus, 64 taxes marijuana to Fund Priorities like afterschool programs. Personally, marijuanas not for me. But my minds made up. Im voting yes on 64. You may have heard that this was just announced, i just read it, so i cant confirm its true, but apparently this campaign has taken away his twitter. In the last two days they they had so little confidence in his selfcontrol, they said were just going to take away your twitter. Now, if somebody cant handle a twitter account, they cant handle the nuclear code. He read it in the New York Times. The New York Times is reporting today, aides to mr. Trump have finally wrested away the twitter account that he used to colorfully, and often counter productively, savage his rivals. The New York Times report from inside the last few days of the Trump Campaign, depicts, quote, the neediness and vulnerability of a once boastful candidate now uncertain of victory. The times describes the Trump Campaign staff as a band of squabbling and unfireable advisors with confusing roles and inability to sign off on basic tasks. Advisors cut loose from the Campaign Months ago like Corey Lewandowski still talk to the candidate frequently offering advice that sometimes clashes with that of the current leadership team. The times also reports, not even Staff Members who volunteer to be dismissed are let go. The Senior Communications advisor jason miller offered to resign after he was spotted at a Las Vegas Strip club the night before the final president ial debate. The offer was rejected. Joy reid is back with us, and joining us now, rick wilson, a republican strategist who has been a part of the nevertrump movement. An advisor to Evan Mcmullin who is running for president as an independent. Joy, its as crazy in the trump bunker as you imagined, i think. That was the most extraordinary story. Its kind of sad. You sort of see donald trump sort of begging his staff to tell him hes winning. He cant seem to handle the reality of his situation. And it seems to be just utter chaos. Its sort of pathetic, to be honest. Rick wilson, so there is a campaign where you cant get fired if you try. [ laughter ] you know, this is like an unesco story. These people are trapped you know, hell is Donald Trumps organization. This is a guy who is trapped that is king lear, i mean donald trump, live walking off of his airplane with, of of course, the hat. A better fitting hat. The hat covering his thoughts and his face. Go ahead, rick. This is an obvious organization in distress. I am looking beyond donald trump right now at the fact that he is dragging Republican Leaders down with him. I mean, you saw the paul ryan tweet tonight. Felt like they had a Family Member hostage be

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