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>> the investigation is the biggest political scandal since watergate, and its everybodys hope that justice at last can be delivered. >> good morning and welcome to "a.m. joy." both presidential candidates are trying to navigate the latest october surprise thats threatening to shake up the race just ten days before election day. and its not oppo from the trump campaign or wikileaks. instead, courtesy of the fbi. once again, the e-mail issue that has dogged hillary clintons campaign almost from t...

From secretary clinton herself. important to point out, though, richard, this e-mail issue is the issue that has overshadowed her campaign from the very beginning. its the issue that feeds into voters lack of trust in her. no doubt this rattled the campaign and could be a political problem, but were going to have to wait a number of days to see what the polling has to say about that. right now the campaign is focused on energizing supporters particularly in this early voting state, richard, yes....

Mind-boggling that this is going on. but somewhat explainable, if youre jim comey, youve got to cover your backside. thats what hes trying to do. >> the other side, hillary clinton and the campaign, can you imagine being on that plane when they found out. and kristin welker shouting, "when did you find out?" she said "right when you did." is the clinton camp saying, you know, were fine, is the spin saying people made up their minds about the emails months ago? >> i think a lot of people made up ...

Whos in a very difficult reelection fight said in a statement saying congress needs to be -- they need to elect a republican -- this decision shows exactly whey we need strong watchdogs in congress to ensure thorough oversight of the executive branch. people that we have not heard yet from are democrats, particularly ones in difficult reelection races. some of them have already give an pass to clinton on the e-mail issue but we expect to hear more from them now. they will be forced to respond so...

Hillary clintons accountability problems. and republicans have decided in large enough numbers they dont care about donald trumps morality issues. so if this is kind of more of same for what we know of her, im not sure how impactful it will be. >> the problem with clinton is that the e-mail issue. that is the place where you have really seen her stumble and after the server news broke, you did see her affected by that. so that that is the only reason i would say if there is one thing that was ac...

Spot, asked about donald trumps recent comments. will democratic candidates be asked about the e-mails? the fbi investigation. that could make for an ugly and painful one. they are in the cat bird seat now. >> regularly donald trump goes after hillary clinton on the e-mail issue, a lot of things. he was supposed to begin at 1:00 p.m. which is when the news broke. i cant imagine now that the rally has been pushed to two they are scrambling to rework the introduction or probably the bulk of the sp...

Would be good for clinton to show humor and how the dinner could be a good opportunity to do that. in the end, mandy, a clinton media adviser, nixed the idea, saying we dont know whats in the e-mails so were nervous about this. might get a big laugh tonight and regret it when content of e-mails is disclosed. that exchange shows there was a clear awareness in clinton world, that these e-mails -- this e-mail issue could be a problem. also, a clear understanding that clintons own words could later ...

Welcome back. they debated how she should handle her brewing e-mail controversy back in 2015 and considered advising her about it at a gala dinner. we have more on this latest leak from washington. >> this is interesting because it speaks to the sensitivity around this e-mail issue. an issue thats dogged clinton from the beginning. she was preparing to speak to emilys list and her campaign toyed with the idea of making a joke about the e-mail issue. lets put some of those messages. the first is ...

Considered advising her to crack a joke about it at a gala dinner. athena jones has been pouring through the stolen e-mails and joins me tonight. what was the calculus there? >> theyre speaking to the sensitivity around the e-mail issue in clinton world. its an issue that has dogged clinton from the beginning. we see in the latest batch an exchange from march of 2015. it is a month before clinton officially announced she was running. she was preparing to speak to emilys list, the political actio...

>> look, shes got some challenges tomorrow she hasnt had to face before. shes always had difficulty dealing with this e-mail issue, even when it was much more simple. she bobbles this every time. this time well have a donald trump newly emboldened, and shes got to be able to nail some of these answers and so she could take on a little bit of damage. hes on a glide path to defeat, but she has got to figure out some way to answer these questions and reassure some voters who feel her answers and he...