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Then the fbi dumbs a lot of documents about bill -- why are you smiling? they dumb a bunch of documents from former president bill clintons pardon of mark rich and say its a foia request and thats why they did it. theyre first come first serve. uncompelling explanation? >> look as a guy that doesnt have much hair left this is a bad hair day in the fbi. if you want to claim that the fbi director went to the public affairs office and to the people who review classified information and said hey, le...

Waiting when president clinton pardoned mark rich on inauguration day. it was a huge deal. and i remember calling into the white house for people because it was such shocker at the last minute and even then law enforcement agencies were not happy. they thought bill clinton made a political pardon at the last minute. so this bad blood goes back years in the investigative community and we know theres been some frustration that the fbi director jim comey in july said case closed. >> anderson may i ...

Its the middle of the evening for your west coast clock. two things we should point out. part of david gergens point tonight was dont tell me this was an automatic document release. nothing can be automatic 60 days within the time of the envelope of an election. second, weve combed over what was released from mark rich at the end of bill clintons presidency. it doesnt seem to be newsworthy, just to use the vernacular, its out there. what has the campaign said about all of this, todays fbi story,...

And the documents became available, that they did all that they needed to do to make it public, and when that happened they just -- poof, they put it online because thats what you do. except for the fact that what they put on line is highly political given the fact, as you said, its about what bill clinton did back in 2000, 2001 right before he left office, a controversial pardon. a reminder of the clintons doing controversial things when theyre in the white house. were waiting for a statement f...

Breaking news this hour with our guests including democratic congressman hakeem jeffries and our correspondents and our expert analysts. they are also standing by. lets begin with the breaking news in the presidential race. our justice correspondent pamela brown is with me with the latest. pamela, more dramatic developments and potentially embarrassing developments as well. >> thats right. we were all surprised by this, by the fbis document release today from its 2001 investigation into presiden...

The whole problem the fbi got into is that comey violated this principle particularly close to an election. but the worst thing the fbi could do is compound that by disclosing partial information about donald trump. a big problem here, though, is that the fbi is leaking like a sieve. so james -- so its in a way the worst of all possible worlds. theres this partial, perhaps inaccurate information coming out. but the fbi should do its job and shut up until they have charges to bring. >> and all of...

Been trying to shout down hillary clinton throughout the course of the rally. a lot of passion on the ground here in florida, something we expect to continue over the course of the next seven days. >> thank you very much, phil mattingly in battleground florida. an odd development on the campaign trail at a time when democrats are accusing fbi director joames comey of havinga double standard when it comes to cases involving hillary clinton to cases of donald trump. when democrats are accusing t...

Bill clintons presidency, he pardons mark rich, and a week before the election the fbi releases a lot of documents from its vault on this. are you suspicious about that? or is this simply the ruflt a freedom of information request? >> its another very puzzling development. were in the final stages of an important presidential campaign, perhaps the most consequential election of the 21st century. we should be talking about issues and the very different visions hillary clinton has in terms of movi...

Say i dont like the guy and they voted for him. >> unpack those numbers. half of those numbers are conservatives and republicans dont like the clintons. 20% of the democrats have a problem. the drum beat of benghazi bun gauzy. but the piece was a great piece of work it really didnt say they were crooks, it said their behavior is familiar. and she went through the whole thing with mark rich and the motel 6 at the white house using the lincoln bedroom as a money maker. it was familiar. what i thou...

Of mistakes that people have been making over the years and for hillary clinton heres the deal. we remember -- you remember mark rich? remember what he was in trouble for? he got a pardon for bill clinton in the fleury of activity at the closing days of the clinton presidency he got a pardon because he was on the lam in europe for violating trading rules with iran. it was so serious big enough that he fled to europe and stayed there and somehow at the end of the clinton presidency got a very nic...