Donald trump just wrapped up his rally in vegas. Sunlen serfaty is there. Joining me now, donald trump did seize on the investigation but what else . Reporter thats right. He did, fred. It seems as if donald trump is campaigning with a new spring in his step and capitalizing on the email server scandal. Hes been relentless and today is no exception. He almost joked to this crowd, i never thought wed be thanking Anthony Weiner nine days out. Heres what he had to say. Her cell action was willful, deliberate, intentional and purposeful. Hillary set up an illegal server for the obvious purpose of
shielding her criminal conduct from Public Disclosure and exposure. She set up this illegal server knowing full well that her actions put our National Security at risk and put the safety and security of your children at risk. Now, Trump Campaign officials feel this is an opening that theyve been given in this final nine days. Also, Something Else from donald trump, going after obamacare premiums, raising potentially going up next week, thats something hes been talking about on the Campaign Trail and will continue to stay on the offensive according to Trump Campaign officials. They are looking at Battleground Polls that are tightening and midweek they may see a tickup in the polls. They certainly have that anticipation and that hope, fred. Sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. So as the Clinton Campaign continues to demand more information from the fbi about their review of the emails, they are also acknowledging that this scandal would have never happened had clinton not used her private email server. Cnns jake tapper spoke with Clinton Campaign manager john podesta on state of the union. Do you accept the premise that the reason were here that Hillary Clinton and her inner circle, not including you, made a horrible decision to set up her private email server and everything thats happened since then is her fault . Look, i think shes apologized for setting up a private email server, said it was a mistake and she wouldnt do it over again. Its very clear that this has been an issue through the course of this campaign. I think she obviously would like to take that decision back. But shes learned from it. And i think whats important about this campaign at this stage, with nine days to go, is
who is fit to be president , who has the experience and the question of whether donald trump is too dangerous, too tempermently unfit to be president of the united states. So thats what were going to close off and were going to talk about the future she wants to build in building an economy that works for everyone, not just people at the top. I always hear the clinton team say that shes learned from it. What has she learned . As shes said many times, she wouldnt do it over again. Its the kind of decision that i think needed more thought, more review and i think she regrets that and i think its regrettable and you learn and move on. Again, i think in contrast to her opponent who never seems to
learn from his mistakes and keeps repeating them and doubling down on them. One of the things thats interesting and one of the things that democrats in washington, d. C. , are debating is whether or not Hillary Clinton has actually learned from this experience when it comes to people in her circle. Im not necessarily including you in that group but people who are more of a new guard even if you have a longstanding relationship with the clintons, were stunned when word of the private email server was first reported in march of 2015, according to the stolen emails published by wikileaks and i know you say this is the russians and its not me saying it. Its a lot of people saying it, including the government. Okay. Intelligence professionals say that. Be that as it may you wrote, did you have any idea of the depth of this story . A clinton ally cochairing your transition why didnt they get this stuff out like 18 months ago so crazy. You responded unbelievable. I guess i know the answer they wanted to get away with it. July 25th, do we know who told hillary she could use a private email and has that person been drawn and quartered . Youre acting like the server was a simple mistake but you knew this was going to be a big problem. Its easy with 20 20 hindsight. If someone had taken the steps and looked at it, if one would have definitely made a difference decision but it happened. I think it was at the beginning it was just done for convenience, but at the end of the day, it was a major problem i think as i told you, i think shes learned from it. Ive worked with her closely in this campaign. She takes hard advice, she respects people who will get up in her face and i think that the reason that ive kind of survived through the whole campaign is because thats the
kind of person i am. You certainly are. Has anyone in the government provided you with the status report, john, on the investigation into your hacked and stolen emails . No. Ive talked to the fbi at the beginning of this, and my attorney has been in touch with them. Its part of the investigation of the russian hacks, but the scope of it, who knew what when, the fact that the Trump Campaign seems to have been in contact with Julian Assange from wikileaks quite early at least as early as august, i dont know what their investigation is finding. Youre referring to roger stone saying trump confidant, let me correct myself. Okay. A trump confidant roger stone, who, you know, bragged about being in touch with Julian Assange and talked about the fact that they were going to come after me was, he did that back in august. So what the government has learned about the interactions between assange and the russians, it seems clear that the russians were the ones who did the initial hack, how they got to wikileaks, what the relationship was with roger stone, i dont know. I assume the government is looking at that but i dont know anything more. Maybe jim comey, if he thinks its important, will let us know and come out in the next nine days. All right. John podesta this morning. Well talk with our panel about this right after a quick break. When i started designing a bronx tale the musical, i came up. With this idea of four towers that were fire escapes. Essentially. Ill build a little model in photoshop and add these. Details in with a pen. I could never do that with a mac. I feel like my job is. To put out there just enough detail to spur the audiences. Imagination to fill in all the blanks. This windows pc is amazing, having all of my tools. Right at my finger tips is incredible. All right. You just heard john podesta respond to the fbi investigation. Lets talk about this with our panel, historian and professor, julian and david who is a cnn political commentator. Also with the Washington Post. Good to see you. David, let me begin with you. Podesta paints this as nuance. He thinks huma abedin truly did believe she had handed over everything. So even in your newspaper today its reported that beabedin did not use her husbands computer very much. So how is it that Clinton Emails may be in that device . I think what we know now is what Director Comey said. He issued this vague letter on friday which does have the Clinton Camp Up In Arms and you can certainly sympathize with Hillary Clinton and her surrogates saying that this was vague and, you know, overblew
the investigation but at the same time, fredricka, you know, fbi Director Comey did say he would update congress on any new developments in the investigation and this might be a very Small Development but its a development nonetheless. Julian, previously the Clinton Campaign largely avoided talking about the email scandal in rallies and in Press Conferences today. Clinton didnt address it directly when she was in florida but the camp did release this explainer video. So is it enough . Well, shes going to have to be out there talking about what is going on. They are talking about her and podesta until that interview on raising questions about comey and about the entire process. But you cant let that consume everything she does. Its important that Hillary Clinton also keeps talking about
her agenda and, frankly, her attacks on donald trump. Otherwise, if shes just talking about the email story, it will be all anybody hears about. So david, youre alluding to this, that its a promise that comey made that he wanted to keep everyone abreast. He didnt want to be in the middle of this necessary but through his transparency, he is. So could he or should he have anticipated that this would result just a few days before election day . Yeah, i think it was foreseeable when he sent that letter to control that it would throw the election into a little bit of a scurry in these last nine days. In the last two weeks, fredricka, donald trump has been closing on clinton in the polls prior to this information coming to light. Our own Washington Post poll this weekend shows its a twopoint race nationally and its tight in several of the key swing states. What its doing is not necessarily changing the entire dynamic of the race. Again, we dont know what is in these emails or what was on this laptop or device that was recovered from huma abedin or Anthony Weiner. We know its making it difficult for Hillary Clinton to make her Closing Argument in the last week of this race, which is what she was starting to settle in and do. She came out of the debates sort of the winner of those three debates, certainly the debates were trying to knock down a narrow polling lead and now shes got to defend this and its frustrating her aides, including john podesta. The relationship between huma abedin and Hillary Clinton, very, very tight. Huma has been working for Hillary Clinton since she was an intern in 1996. So now youve got this scandal potentially and the relationship with Anthony Weiner and that investigation. So might this mean a prelude to a split between a clinton and
huma abedin in the midst of all of this . It sure could. And even if this doesnt have a detrimental effect on the election for her, i think both with this particular situation but all of her advisers, it raises a question weve heard about Hillary Clinton. If she always surrounds herself with the best advice and surrounds herself with the best people and so i think this is clearly going to be a case where theres serious consideration, you would imagine, to severing this relationship after this is done. All right. So much more ahead, david, julian. Stick around. We have a lot more to tackle. The fbi is under pressure to give more details about its review of this email involving a clinton top aide, huma abedin. So coming up, youll hear from a republican lawmaker who has spoken to director james comey about the inquest. So find out what comey and lawmakers actually know about huma abedins emails. That i. We met when we were very young. I was 17, he was 18. We made the movie the book of life. We started doing animation. With the surface book, you can do all this stuff. You can actually draw on the screen. So crisp. I love it. Its almost like this super powerful computer and a tablet had the perfect baby. Its a typewriter for writing scripts. Its a sketchbook for sketches. Its a canvas for painting. You cant do that on a mac. Are coming, and california will suffer Budget Deficits all over again. So vote yes on 55. Because it helps our children thrive. All right. The pressure is on. Fbi director james comey to release more details about the bureaus review of emails possibly linked to Hillary Clinton. Definitely related to huma
abedin. The emails were discovered on a computer that Anthony Weiner shared with his wife. Robert goodlay told abcs this week that he encouraged comey to give the American People as much information as possible about the discovered emails before the election. You mentioned classified information. How do you or mr. Comey know that theres classified information involved here if you havent seen the emails . Well, we dont know. And we dont know what the basis was for mr. Comey making the decision to further pursue the case. We dont know whether thats informants, whether theyve had access to looking some of this information, we dont know what the basis was. We do know they know something is there. Cnn investigations correspondent chris frates joining me live now from washington. Chris, tell us more about what goodlay had to say. So far, it seems that comey is not telling lawmakers much
more than what hes saying publicly. Look, at this point, its nothing. Heres how he described his conversation with fbi Director Comey. Did mr. Comey tell you he would be coming forward with more information . He did not. His answer was with regard to a number of questions i asked him that he was not going to answer those questions at this point, meaning the conversation i had with him and mr. Conyers. But with regard to mr. Comey making a mistake, i think that he is very conscious of the controversy thats existed in the fbi. So despite the call by both democrats and republicans for comey to release more information, the fbi director is really not budging here. Thats largely because he doesnt even know yet whats in those emails. And so chris, how odd is that, that Director Comey would not know what was in the emails but would construct a letter to
the hill . Theres a reason for that. The fbi doesnt have permission to go through those emails yet. They are trying to get their approval. The government needs a new warrant because it only covers the investigation into abedins estranged husband, Anthony Weiner. They need to get a new warrant for these newly discovered emails. Right now, they only have a warrant to investigate Anthony Weiner. Its unlikely well have any answers to the big question here, which is, what is actually in these emails, until after the election, fred. Chris frates, thanks so much in washington. And well be right back. Mornin. Hey, do you know when the game starts . 11 hours. Oh. Well, im heading back to my room. Oh, wifi password . Super bowl, underscore houston underscore 51, underscore super bowl, backslash 51, backslash houston. Got it. announcer want to wake up at super bowl 51 . All caps. announcer enter courtyards super bowl sleepover contest at courtyard. Com for your chance to win. [ rear alert sounds ], [ music stops ]on ] On The Road Again just cant wait to get On The Road Again [ front assist sounds ] [ music stops ] [ girl laughs ] On The Road Again like a band of gypsies we go Down The Highway [ Beetle Horn Honks ] no matter which passat you choose, you get more standard features, for less than you expected. Hurry in and lease the 2017 passat s for just 199 a month. Perfect driving record. Perfect. No tickets. No accidents. That is until one of you clips a food truck ruining your perfect record. Yup. Now, you would think your Insurance Company would cut you some slack. Right . No, your insurance rates go through the roof. Your perfect record doesnt get you anything. Anything. Perfect. For drivers with Accident Forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. And if you do have
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clintons close aide huma abedin. Cnn is being told that the discovery of those thousands of emails was weeks ago. Cnns justice Correspondent Evan Perez is on the phone with me. This was not a discovery made this week when the letter went out but instead weeks ago . Thats right. We got the impression that the fbi made this disclosure to members of the congress and in that letter jim comey, the fbi director said that he had been briefed on thursday. What that letter doesnt say is is when the fbi first learned of this and were told by Law Enforcement officials that weve been talking to that they had this in their possession for weeks. We first reported cnn first reported back on september 22nd, just over a month ago, that the fbi that the u. S. Attorney in manhattan and the fbi were seeking possession of anthony
weiners communication as part of this sexting investigation. Were told that soon after that, they were able to get these Noon Indications and they were able to look at the emails and thats when the team in the fbi new york Office Discovered there may be huma abedin emails that related to the Hillary Clinton investigation. They stopped doing their w