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CSPAN Washington Journal October 31, 2016

Prepare to head to the poll this is week. Give us a call this morning. If youre a republican, 202748 8001. Democrats, 2027488000, independents 2027488002. Catch up with us at social media. At facebook its facebook. Com cspan. A very good morning to you. A few headlines to begin our program this morning. Talking about how this latest email ment 6 clinton seeks to regain footing after email storm narrows. Poll, advantage. The New York Times in their 10 questions with this latest controversy, asks what this could mean for Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail. They note the short answer is its not clear yet and polling on weekends can be unreliable so it may be a few days before the effect of the development may be fully assessed. What is evident is a campaign thats largely been a referendum on mr. Trump particularly since the first debate is now not so clear cut. The email development will certainly matter but the question is just how much. 20 Million People have already voted and millions more have already determined who they support. The country was already politically polarized before this election. The opinions are overly cemented about the two household name nominees. Early on you can be reliable. This is the Washington Post abc poll that just came out this morning. The majority of those polled over the weekend, a majority of all likely voters in that poll say theyre unmoved by the f. B. I. s announcement friday it may review additional emails from clintons time as secretary of state. Just more than six in 10 voters say the news will make no difference in their vote while just more than three in 10 makes them less likely to support Hillary Clinton. 2 say theyre more likely to back her as a result. You can see the chart there. The story noting the issue may do more to voters with a preference to clinton than swing voters. Roughly 2 3 of those who say the issue makes them less likely to support clinton are republicans or republican leaning independents while 17 lean democratic and 9 lean towards either party. We want to hear your views this morning on the washington journal. What do you think . Has it changed your vote at all. Jim is up first, franklin georgia, a republican. Jim, go ahead. Caller how are you doing . Host doing well. Caller i love your show. This reinforced my opinion on this whole deal with mrs. Clinton. Over 30 years weve had nothing but clinton scandal whitewater boze law firm boze law firm and we can go through a litany of things with Hillary Rodham clinton. And guess what . There are roads in West Virginia not as quick as she is. But donald trump has been crucified the last 18 months and was a media darling until then until he won the primary election. All i got to say is this i cant wait to burn the roads up on november 8 voting date. Host cornell up next. Line for democrats. Water works, new jersey. Go ahead. Caller good morning, john. I have to disagree with the republican caller. The fact of the matter is it there was a smoking gun there, they would have brought it out. Its interesting a few days before the election they come out with something with no smoking gun and keep stirring up the hornets nest. The fact of the matter is that coming out did not give donald trump the qualifications to hold office. Secretary clinton has been put secretary of state the senator and actually the only person qualified that is running to hold the office, even the independent candidates, when you ask them the tough questions, half the time they dont know whats going on. The reason why donald trump is the dom knee he bullied himself into that position by calling ted cruz a liar, calling little marco rubio, talking about megyn kellys menstrual cycle. Hes not qualified to be president on anything else. Host this hasnt changed your vote . Caller no way, nope. Host east lake, ohio, go ahead. Caller i dont know if im going to vote. Traditionally in the past few years i had a tendency to vote republican. Im real liberal in my thinking but i have a tendency to vote republican on national elections. I dont really know if im going to vote. No way im going to vote for mrs. Clinton because im not interested in the policies. I think its more about taking money off our pocket than helping businesses. I really wanted to tell the American People, if we all want to protest we need to really write our own name in as president. If youre not happy with these people, write your own name in. Can you imagine the news if just a Million People wrote their own name in for president . That would really be a good protest vote. Host before you go you said youre really liberal but tend to vote republican in president ial elections. Why . Caller because i dont think the federal government should really create a lot of welfare policies. I think it has to be on the local level. Hillary drove it in in one of the debates. Trusm has been really disrespectful to her. What he did at that dinner last week, oh my god, that was horrible. He should never have talked that way about her. He went on to talk about she got a lot things done but when i analyzed it, it was all on money that takes it out of our pocket and all on welfare. The democrats have the tendency to have these lofty degrees and seem to know whats good for the little peeps and i cant stand that. They just have to go. Host alen in ohio staying on the independent line. Paul dallas, texas. Is this email probe and what came out impacted your vote . Caller how are you doing . Host doing well, paul. Caller my comment is theyre making a mountain out of a mole hill. I think mr. Comey is trying to cover his tail for what he did last summer. I think hes trying to make us think hes doing his Due Diligence and that kind of stuff. If people want to get things changed, and i definitely do, i think the biggest thing is vote for the down ticket offices. The senate and the house. If we want to get things changed in washington, we need to change the house and the senate. Not the president. The president doesnt have that much power. Not as much as you might think. Host you think all this attention again on the emails and Hillary Clinton as opposed to caller its not going to change my mind. I dont think it will change a whole lot of peoples minds. A lot of people have already voted. He did this last friday and for some states the polls have been open two or three weeks. Host it seems like youre correct, not too many people saying this will change their mind on our polls. Lets start with kurt, never have voted for a democrat for any office and never will. Elizabeth below that says nope, no way on this earth i would vote for her anyway. Caroline green says no, i was voting for trump. I knew hillary was a criminal by her actions. Another one says Hillary Clinton will still be our next president and doesnt change his vote. Susan says not one bit, im still voting for the only qualified candidate. Rafael says not in the least this will change his vote because theres nothing there. Hugo says emails or no emails, i never had any intention of voting for hillary. Jeff says nothing will come of the hail mary to try to save the republicans. Thats just a taste of some of the comments on facebook. Facebook. Com cspan if you want to join the conversation or head over to twitter cspanwj is where the conversation happens. Bilking says in terms of whether it will change his vote, not at all. It made me are mo of a clinton supporter and believe the whole thing was planned by comey and the g. O. P. Which another response, comey was a fine outstanding Public Servant a few months ago according to the democrats. I want to hear your thoughts this morning. You can engage with us over twitter or over email on facebook or give us a call like carolyn did for our line for democrats. Carolyn is in dublin georgia. Good morning. Go ahead, carolyn. Caller yes, im still voting for Hillary Clinton no matter what she has done. Shes apolicy guised and thats all she apologized and eas thats all she can do. What else do you want from her . Host lets go to howie. Good morning. Caller thank you. Yeah, you know, shes been around politics her whole life. The democrats are always trying to fool people, just like president obama fooled us april 8, 2009 when he established the office of health reform. I mean man that was a shout out for doctors against pharmaceuticals. Both candidates, i do have a comment. Now, Hillary Clinton if theres anything i know personally about her, id like to hear from the black College Roommate from her early days. And trump, you know, his father is very controversial but i guess hes not donald trump. And i hear this racist stuff. Didnt he appear on a ice cube rap album in 1997 . I just want to say this, because it seems like one party is getting paid all by the rich people and the other party is making all the rich people crazy. The next president better stand side by side with the American People and stop facing us or else the facts will come towards you. We know whats going on. Thank you. Host herbert is up next in camilla, georgia. Democrat. Good morning. Herbert good morning. I mean, they come up with these emails so many things to destroy this woman here and then they come up with wikileaks and the Russian Organization coming in to interfere with our National Security by bringing information. Next thing you know, theyll have them saying people will come and pit country against country. We shouldnt even allow this. Every time you look around it is a republican investigating and spending millions and theyve not passed the infrastructure haw or anything to keep them allowing doing these things. The Republican Party needs to stop doing this here. Govern if youre going to be governor and we prepared for you 174,000 to go every year where people are paid 7. 25 and here we let the republicans its obstruction. Me and my friend right now, i said come on, staff and i tell them, i say the man is 70 years old, im 65 years old, i know when i see racism as i can see it, man. A lot of times a lot of those people who voted, they think trump is the white hope because they want these privileges back again and will make the country great again and take the country back. This is a dog whistle thats saying they want these privileges back against other nationalities. I love everybody. Until we start acting like a christian nation and stop letting this pessimistic foolishness, our United States of america, man. We need to stop this foolishness. Host herbert in cammilya georgia. Herbert mentioned russia, russia also brought up by Senate Minority leader harry reid in his letter he released yesterday directed to james comey and he writes in that letter, your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for the treatment of Sensitive Information with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one Political Party over the other. Party over the other. The double standard established by your action is clear, he writes in my communications with you and other top officials in the National Security community has become clear you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between donald trump, his top advisors and the russian government, a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States which trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information, he writes. I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public. Theres no danger to the American Interest from releasing it and yet you continue to resist calls to inform the public of this critical information and closes his letter by saying the clear double standards established by your actions strongly suggest your highly selective approach to publicizing information along with your timing was intended for the success or failure of a partisan candidate or political group. Under harry reid yesterday. Two other reactions from members of Congress Without statements or comments on twitter, this is congressman steve cohen, a democrat from tennessee, a member of the Judiciary Committee and writes in light of the recent comments by f. B. I. Director comey regarding Hillary Clinton emails, i call on him to resign and a link to his full statement. Then theres congressman jeff duncan, a member of the Homeland Security committee, he wrote on twitter yesterday, hes a republican from South Carolina, if you dont want the f. B. I. Involved in elections, dont nominate someone who is being investigated by the f. B. I. Line for republicans nathaniel is up next. Caller hello. Im a colin powell republican. And he would have been a great candidate if you wanted change. He would have been superb. But he has all of the background and the sophistication and etc. The only person i compare on the republican ticket, my ticket is Hillary Clinton and shes republican. She has the ability and has the history. The problem is that women are not respected in our country yet. They are still trying to break the Glass Ceiling and men are still throwing plexiglas on top of the breakage. Theyre doing everything they cannot to make it equal. If she were equal she would win like colin powell would have won. I ask everybody, just stop dealing with it on a level of being a republican or democrat. Lets deal with who is best equipped, who can make it happen. Dont be a gilani politician. He couldnt win on his own, now hes going through donald trump. He never was good at all. Host when it comes to the email controversy and concerns about republicans about how she handled classified emails, what do you say to them when you talk about who is best equipped. Shes shown shes careless with Sensitive Information, how do you respond to that . Caller its easy. The bottom line is this what information has donald trump ever had to have to be able to secure the interests of the United States of america that he could be journaled on. Not a dad gone thing. She has nothing to compare to the physical ti education of this lady. She made a mistake. Technology is moving quickly and will continue to move quickly and if youre not being told constantly that hold it wait, you cant make the left, you have to make a right why . Because we have satellites. He has never been graded on that level. Hes only graded because he has a nice family, because he has good businesses but he cant show what he can do to protect the interests of the United States of america. Hes never been vetted or tested on that level. And he will make a lot of mistakes. Trust me he will. Host tony up next. Independent. None of our callers said this will change their opinion one way or the other. Will it make an impact for you when you head to vote . Caller yeah already, because i cant understand what he has do an said. [inaudible] this has completely moved by vote for hillary. And i know the bombshell is that in missouri you watch out for the senate seat because hes going democrat and the government will be democratic, too. Thank you. Host missouri, one of those closely watched senate races, the reelection effort by roy blunt there in missouri. Jason candor is the Democratic Senate candidate challenging him there. Democrats, if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, democrats would pick up four seats to take over the senate. If donald trump wins the presidency, democrats would need five seats to take over the senate. Caller im a latino voter. And the misinformation thats been spread, the hatred from Donald Trumps campaign. Theres no smoking gun with the f. B. I. Letter. Its simply a letter saying its an Ongoing Investigation and it didnt imply shes wrong or that shes broken the law. However, theres a lot of assumptions out there as a result of more campaign rhetoric. Lets look at the facts and not look at assumptions. Host to your point, jeremiah, trying to put out the latest information that news outlets have been able to find out about this investigation in friday from the Washington Post noting the f. B. I. Has obtained a warrant to search the emails found on the computer used by the former congressman Anthony Weiner and may contain evidence related to the email server and it was obtained in new york as the investigators have possession of the laptop and the important facts uncovered in the weiner investigation are 650,000 and reflect many emails not relevant to the clinton investigation. However, others said it included a significant amount of correspondence associated with clinton and her top aide huma abedin. And whether the emails included classified information, that process could be cumbersome and drag on after the election. Sandy is in eerie, pennsylvania, a republican. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Im calling because the emails obviously anything going back to undermine heres the thing. America is being told by mr. Trump we have major issues. He was not a politician. And he didnt become corrupt. Not that he would. The movement has been towards corruption and getting away scotfree. This country and even when he talks about votes, not just emails but voters when obama stood there on b. E. T. And they had a picture of him in one corner and the sunshine coming down as if he was christ and said the Second Coming and went through emotional african and black and host where are you going with this . Lets talk about the impact of the emails. Caller right. This started a movement to appeal to not the brains and the mind

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