Greatest represented democracy in Human History and thats us and happy halloween. And thats hardball for now. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in why in the world the fbi would decide to jump into an election with no evidence of any wrongdoing with just days to go. Fbi director james comey under fire. Ten days to go . I think its disgraceful. Criticism coming from across the political spectrum. I think this is probably not the right thing for comey to do. But is the fbi decision actually impacting voters . Well breakdown the state of the race with over 23 million votes already cast. Jew usa rom lock her up to jew sa if in a donald trump
close to the election. A second source later confirmed that same story to the huffington post. Now, this all comes as comey faces growing backlash for his decision three days ago to announce the bureau had discovered a new trove of emails belonging to top clinton aide huma abedin discovered during an investigation of abedins estr
had to be listed in the charging document, in the indictment or in the criminal information or else we didn t talk about it. and if there were no charges, then we would never divulge derogatory investigative information, least of all opinion about the suspect who had never been charged. so director comey broke that rule right off the bat with his first press conference. the second bright red flag is that you don t engage with the legislature. he had no obligation to congress to clarify anything. once a prosecutor goes down the rat hole of trying to make sure that congress thinks that what he s doing is fair, there s no going back. and congress is perfectly able to manipulate that by denying its approval, by false criticism and so comey is caught in a terrible trap now of his own making and it s stunning to people who are prosecutors if someone has experienced and honorable as him would fall into this trap.
derogatory investigative information, least of all opinion about the suspect who had never been charged. so director comey broke that rule right off the bat with his first press conference. the second bright red flag is that you don t engage with the legislature. he had no obligation to congress to clarify anything. once a prosecutor goes down the rat hole of trying to make sure that congress thinks that what he s doing is fair, there s no going back. and congress is perfectly able to manipulate that by denying its approval, by false criticism and so comey is caught in a terrible trap now of his own making and it s stunning to people who are prosecutors if someone has experienced and honorable as him would fall into this trap. it s fascinating to hear that from a member of the article 1 branch, u.s. senator, to say that this idea of sort of bending the congress or being worried that he was misleading the congress, you don t think