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| FBI reviewing new emails related to Clinton investigation – campaign live | FBI reviewing new emails related to Clinton investigation – campaign live |
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| Billy Bush and Anthony Weiner are why you don't tell mediocre children that they can be anything when they grow up. | |
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| Gary Johnson has released a statement: | |
| With just days remaining before the election, the Democratic and Republican parties are offering a choice between a candidate under FBI investigation, and Donald Trump. Voters deserve a lot better than that. America deserves better than that. | |
| Integrity, honesty and treating all Americans with dignity are actually important. Is it too much to ask that our President should possess those minimum qualifications? | |
| Every ballot in every state and the District of Columbia has a third option, and that option is a ticket with two former Governors, each a Republican elected and reelected in a Democratic state. If ever there is a time when voters should have such a third choice, it is now. And they have one. | |
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| John Podesta: 'It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election' | |
| Hillary for America Chair John Podesta has released a statement in response to news that the FBI is reviewing new emails related to Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers during her tenure as secretary of state: | |
| Upon completing this investigation more than three months ago, FBI Director Comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this and added that it was not even a close call. In the months since, Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. | |
| FBI Director Comey should immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter he sent to eight Republican committee chairmen. Already, we have seen characterizations that the FBI is ‘reopening’ an investigation but Comey’s words do not match that characterization. Director Comey’s letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant. | |
| It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election. | |
| The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July. | |
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| This is uncomfortable. | |
| Huma Abedin, the top aide to Hillary Clinton and the wife of perv sleazebag Anthony Wiener, was a major security risk as a collector of info | |
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| According to a New York Times report based on anonymous sources within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the “new emails” being reviewed by the FBI related to the closed investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email servers were discovered after the FBI seized electronic devices belonging to Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband, disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner. | |
| The FBI seized the devices in an unrelated investigation into explicit text messages Weiner sent to a 15-year-old girl. Weiner was being investigated after he allegedly spent several months this year in highly explicit exchanges with the 15-year-old girl. | |
| The FBI had announced in July that its investigation into the Democratic presidential candidate’s private email server had concluded with a recommendation of no criminal charges in the matter, although James Comey, the FBI’s director, criticised Clinton as “careless.” | |
| But in a letter sent to members of Congress this morning, Comey said new emails had been discovered in an “unrelated” case. | |
| “In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,” Comey wrote. “I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed 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.” | |
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| Trump gleefully responds to new FBI investigation into Clinton emails | Trump gleefully responds to new FBI investigation into Clinton emails |
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| Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ignored the news that the FBI is investigating newly-discovered emails related to her use of personal email servers during her tenure at the State Department at a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this afternoon, instead focusing on down-ballot candidates and recent local flooding. | Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ignored the news that the FBI is investigating newly-discovered emails related to her use of personal email servers during her tenure at the State Department at a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this afternoon, instead focusing on down-ballot candidates and recent local flooding. |
| Republican rival Donald Trump’s negative turn in recent weeks, Clinton told the audience, is a craven attempt to turn off voters and minimize turnout. | Republican rival Donald Trump’s negative turn in recent weeks, Clinton told the audience, is a craven attempt to turn off voters and minimize turnout. |
| “His strategy is to get women to stay home, get young people to stay home, get people of color to stay home,” Clinton said. “It’s all part of his scorched-earth campaign - the last refuge of a bankrupt candidate. And it goes against everything we stand for in America.” | “His strategy is to get women to stay home, get young people to stay home, get people of color to stay home,” Clinton said. “It’s all part of his scorched-earth campaign - the last refuge of a bankrupt candidate. And it goes against everything we stand for in America.” |
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| Hillary Clinton campaigns in Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Hillary Clinton campaigns in Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| Watch it live here: | Watch it live here: |
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| Trump has released a statement on the FBI inquiry which turns out to be just what he said at the top of his New Hampshire speech. | Trump has released a statement on the FBI inquiry which turns out to be just what he said at the top of his New Hampshire speech. |
| The statement is inaccurate in a couple ways. Clinton has not been found to have engaged in any “criminal” or “illegal conduct.” And the FBI has not announced any “reopening” of a “case.” Comey announced they are looking at newly discovered emails: | The statement is inaccurate in a couple ways. Clinton has not been found to have engaged in any “criminal” or “illegal conduct.” And the FBI has not announced any “reopening” of a “case.” Comey announced they are looking at newly discovered emails: |
| “I need to open with a very critical breaking news announcement. The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s investigation, and they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America. | “I need to open with a very critical breaking news announcement. The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s investigation, and they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America. |
| “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office. | “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office. |
| “I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the DOJ are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made. This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understand. It is everybody’s hope that it is about to be corrected.” –Donald J. Trump | “I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the DOJ are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made. This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understand. It is everybody’s hope that it is about to be corrected.” –Donald J. Trump |
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| RNC on 'serious' 'stunning' development | RNC on 'serious' 'stunning' development |
| The Republican national committee has released a statement saying the timing of the FBI decision to look at additional Clinton emails – just 11 days before the election – indicates it’s serious. “This stunning development raises serious questions about what records may not have been turned over and why, and whether they show intent to violate the law,” the statement says, continuing: | The Republican national committee has released a statement saying the timing of the FBI decision to look at additional Clinton emails – just 11 days before the election – indicates it’s serious. “This stunning development raises serious questions about what records may not have been turned over and why, and whether they show intent to violate the law,” the statement says, continuing: |
| What’s indisputable is that Hillary Clinton jeopardized classified information on thousands of occasions in her reckless attempt to hide pay-to-play corruption at her State Department. This alone should be disqualifying for anyone seeking the presidency, a job that is supposed to begin each morning with a top secret intelligence briefing. | What’s indisputable is that Hillary Clinton jeopardized classified information on thousands of occasions in her reckless attempt to hide pay-to-play corruption at her State Department. This alone should be disqualifying for anyone seeking the presidency, a job that is supposed to begin each morning with a top secret intelligence briefing. |
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| Trump describes 'stampede of love' | Trump describes 'stampede of love' |
| Trump tells a story about a rally with so many people that safety and fire officials grew concerned about a dangerous stampede. | Trump tells a story about a rally with so many people that safety and fire officials grew concerned about a dangerous stampede. |
| “It’s a stampede of love,” Trump said. Yesterday he said: “Love can kill, too.” | “It’s a stampede of love,” Trump said. Yesterday he said: “Love can kill, too.” |
| “They said, we have very strong people, but Mr Trump, they’re not nearly as strong as 45,000 people.” | “They said, we have very strong people, but Mr Trump, they’re not nearly as strong as 45,000 people.” |
| That’s a made up number – Trump has not had a rally that big. | That’s a made up number – Trump has not had a rally that big. |
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