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MSNBCW MTP Daily November 6, 2016

News right now. So look, well break down the path to 270. Well break down and give you more of the nbc News Washington journal poll, but lets begin with the breaking news out of the fbi. The fbi has concluded its review of supposed new emails into the investigation into clintons private server. Director comey sent this we reviewed all the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. Based on our review we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. In other words, they are standing by their original decision not to recommend pursuing a case against secretary clinton. According to our own Pete Williams, nearly all of the emails they found in this review were duplicates of emails they had already seen. Were going to have the latest from Pete Williams in just a few minutes. The Clinton Campaign obviously breathing a big sigh of relief even though the damage may have been done. We are glad to see the fbi director as found, as we were confident that he would, that he has confirmed the conclusion that he reached in july and were glad that this matter is resolved. The Trump Campaign, well, guess what they did . They went back after the fbi when the fbi revived the investigation, going so far as to suggest clinton would be indicted. The candidate himself didnt mention the updated news today in his stop in minnesota. Heres Kellyanne Conway with Steven Kornacki a few minutes ago attempting to put the best possible spin on this latest decision. Let obesity fair. She lied about the server, lied about the number of devices, she lied about having classified information. The fact that she put your and my security at risk does not change. It doesnt change october 28th and it doesnt change today. Conway also argued the Trump Campaign has not been making this news a centerpiece of their closing argument, but if you ive been watching trumps rallies these past few days, you might think otherwise. Join meganow on the phone with the latest is our own justice correspondent, Pete Williams. There had been speculation many of these emails were likely to be duplicates and it appears that way. They thought most of them were. That does mean that they found some other emails. What were those . Well, chuck, what im told is, first of all, that the investigation is substantial done so, thats thing one. This is not an interim report. This is the end of the road for the examination of the server. What they say is that as you noted at the beginning, most of what they looked at was duplicates of what the fbi investigators had already seen in looking at the clinton email investigation, looking at the documents on the server over the past several months. Some were unrelated to official business, social things, that kind of stuff. There were some documents that were forwarding previously known classified documents. What im told is that the bottom line on the number of classified the number of documents containing classified information that were found on the server, that number hasnt substantially changed. Its not clear whether it went up by one or two but its not a substantial change and thats why the fbi director says it doesnt change the bottom line on whether the case should be prosecuted. Pete, it was amazing that he decided to send a letter that he sent with 11 days before the election, and itch to say im equally shocked that he sent another let we are two days to go before the election. What was the thinking behind this inside the fbi . Well, i think the thinking all along was that if they could say, having put that letter out there two fridays ago, if they could say that they had reached a conclusion they would, they wouldnt simply sit on it. If they had reached a conclusion they wouldnt simply sit on it until after the election was over and then say oh, by the way, we did our investigation and we didnt find anything material. So the decision all along was if they could get there, they would, that they wouldnt put out an interim report, in other words, they wouldnt say, hey, were 80 done. Most of the documents seem to be duplicates. They decided against that. Some of the criticism from some very wellknown republicans including speaker gingrich implies he caved under pressure. How much pressure did director comey feel about getting something out before the election . I dont know if pressure is the right word. I think he just felt that that was the right thing to do if they could. Now, i will say that i think it was selfimposed. The fbi wanted to try to get this answer before the election if it could. And this was an all hands on deck 24 hour a day kind of operation to get through this. But they insisted its thorough and that they always thought to themselves they could say what the answer was, they would. By the way, does this mean theyre almost done with the Anthony Weiner part of this investigation . No. Still a separate thing. Okay. Yes, indeed. Pete williams, i know you were trying to get yourself in front of a camera. Ill let you go. Joining me by phone from manchester, New Hampshire, kristen welker, who just spoke with the Clinton Campaign. Describe the mood of the Clinton Campaign on this news. Well, chuck, they are breathing a sigh of relief. Theres no doubt about that. This top clinton official said to me this announcement effectively takes the wind out of Donald Trumps sails. Hes had the rug pulled out from under him. He can no longer stand at the podium and suggest that secretary clinton is the subject of an investigation a and that she might be indicted as we have heard from him in recent days. But i asked him about the political impact and they insist, look, weve seen a tightening of the polls, not only because of this announcement by director comey but because this is what happens in president ial elections. Of course you and i have been watching these pols. Whether they are tightening because of comey or otherwise, the bottom line is they are very tight. So could this push her over the edge in some key battleground states . It could, the campaign believes. And they made the point, will this force some superpacs to take their ads off the air that have been focused on this, that are running in all of these critical battleground states . What time of impact might that have . Theres no doubt this is significant for the Clinton Campaign. In terms of messaging, what will we hear from secretary clinton . They say shes not going to dwell on it, shes going to try to focus on Rangana Herath closing argument. She wanted to close out this campaign on a positive note. Shes been in full attack mode against donald trump in the wake of this announcement by director comey nine days ago. Only recently starting to speak more about her policy issue, her vision for how she wants to take the country forward. I get the sense in these final 48 hours shes going to be hitting those notes and talking less about attacking donald trump. One final point, ive been talking to voters here in New Hampshire, chuck. Clinton sup sporter who is say their concern is the damage has already been done. We veal to see. Kristen welker on the clinton trail in New Hampshire. Kristen, thanks very much. Let me bring in Tonights Panel quickly. Ben ginsburg. Beth foomy. And maria teresa bravard. Welcome, all of you. Beth, impact, tuesday . What . Were all so i know. Our heads are spinning around. Were still processing the last news, now the newsnews comes. The Clinton Campaign has been trying to maintain an assumption that, you know, the email stuff is baked and people have already made up their mind about it and the polls would tighten anyway as kristen said. But you know they were furious and really frustrated this came to them the way it did at the time it did. Perhaps ipts off the table, but if theres been damage, its been done, they insist theyre moving ahead with the strategy as it was and in our own polling we found it didnt make a lot of difference in battleground states polling. The peak negative for her was wednesday or thursday last week and there was this sort of she was restabilizing a little bit. Obviously this isnt going to hurt. Do you think this moves the needle or is it at this point too late . No. And one of the interesting factors is the push for early voting and absentee voting. Locked people in in the midst of the middle of it. The middle of while comey was doing the investigation. It also served to remind people of the fact they do not think Hillary Clinton is honest or trustworthy. Thats something donald trump will hit in the closing argument. Cant resimulate either. If it had an impact, it could have been felt down the ballot that it helped republicans unite around a message at the end when they needed a message to unite around. But had it been any other candidate i think the Republican Party would have been able to capitalize on this lastminute moment, but he has his own issues. I was talking earlier with someone that in the last week of august you and i had a conversation ta any other candidate would have failed. But he has serious issues with not only the latino voter that is going to be so significant in arizona and nevada and florida, but he also has the other what i call the other voters that folks arent talking about, the muslimamerican and asian voters where theyll make a difference in ohio and pennsylvania, even texas when it comes to the muslimamerican community. I want to talk about the person that may be in the real political fire here is not clinton or trump but comey. Everybody is hitting comey again. Still left and right. Heres kellyanne last hour, conway, during another part of a response on this to Steven Kornacki. Take a listen. Hes mishandled the investigation from the beginning and this proves it yet again. In other words, why the dribs and drabs . Why the investigation is over, no, its not, i was just kidding, or were not pressing charges but let me go to congress two days later and testify under oath all the things she did wrong that might lead a different prosecutor to pressing charges. I think that was the frustration and indeed the consternation for many people including donald trump. Obviously, you know what, it didnt change my mind today that the investigation has been mishandled from the beginning. Brian fallon, spokesperson for the Clinton Campaign, could have uttered that sentence there. Newt gingrich tweets, comey must be under enormous political pressure to cave like this and announce something he cant possibly know. Heres a democrat criticizing comey on news today. John conyers of michigan, longtime democrats. In the days that come we will have many questions about the fbis handling of this investigation. In the meantime, however, i welcome this news confirming again that no charges are warranted into this matter. We have a political loser in all of this, james comey. From his point of view, he argued he was doing the right thing in both cases, that he had to bring the information forward when he did the first time and had to do it the second time, but he has put the fbi in the middle of a Political Campaign like never before. And the fact he wrapped it up literally two days before an election, it just seems unseemly. At a time when people distrust government thinking every single thing that is happening right now is for political gain it jeopardizes the fbi. This is longterm, yeah. Theres no sense anymore that anybodys a straight shooter, that anybodys a fair actor, that everybody is being influenced by politics, everybodys drawing their own conclusions selectively based on their own perspective. Its a shame. All right. So now by the way, ben, i want to go to something kristen said. Do those superpacs that have been using this, are they legally obligated to pull it down . I dont believe theyre legally obligated to pull it down. As superpacs, theyre allowed to put the ads up, stations can pull them down the they find the information was false so, it will come down to the wording that is in the superpac ads. Again, this comes a little late to influence eiththe messaging. Stick around. Coming up, the campaigns, well get into some mill handicapping you could call it. Theyre crisscrossing the country as they search for various ways to 270. Well have the latest look at our electoral map. And deep zbooif the final nbc news wall street journal poll for the homestretch. And later the latest on the high stakes battle for the house and the senate. Does the comey news have any impact there . Keeping the power lines clear,my job to protect public safety, while also protecting the environment. The Natural World is a beautiful thing, the work that we do helps us protect it. Public education is definitely a big part of our job, to teach our customers about the best type of trees to plant around the power lines. We want to keep the power on for our customers. We want to keep our community safe. This is our community, this is where we live. We need to make sure that we have a beautiful place for our children to live. Together, were building a better california. Welcome back. Even before todays surprise, the fbi had concluded its reviews of the emails on Anthony Weiners laptops, both campaigns and surrogates were in hyper drive, crisscrossing the country in a slew of battleground states. For the trump side, they were doubling the number of states. With clinton, there was definitely a little more focus. Take a listen. We have one chance. Its our last chance. Its on tuesday. Its the 8th. Its our last chance. Two days, florida. Two days to decide the future of the country. And i need you to go vote. I will never, ever quit on you. No matter what. A lot of democratic big gun surrogates hit the trail today. Wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, arizona, florida to name a few where folks are. Just last hour, Hillary Clinton rallied with king james in, where else, cleveland, ohio, could have been akron. Republicans blited the battlegrounds today themselves. New hampshire, iowa, minnesota, yes, minnesota. A blitz of swing states hes got to win just to stay in the game plus some of those big blue states in the upper midwest including michigan where trump and pence have made four stops in the past seven days. According to folks inside the Trump Campaign, internals are showing a dead heat in michigan and they claim a threepoint race in minnesota. Cl Clinton Campaign is taking michigan pretty seriously in their final blitz along with stops in cleveland, minnesota, ohio. Minnesota is calling trumps bluff on that one. The map favors clinton but the Trump Campaign is hoping to pull out a win. Our nbc news wall street journal poll, clinton holds a fourpoint lead nationally among likely voters but that is down from an 11point lead in october. Those numbers came out this morning. We have new numbers this hour and they paint a pretty dark picture about the future of american politics. Look at these numbers. 64 of likely voters we surveyed say the election has made the nation more divided. 62 say were on the wrong track as a country and that same number 62 say this election has made them less proud of the united states. Whoever gets to 270 is going to face a potentially unmanageable political storm in this country. And these campaigns are looking at very different roads. Let me do little refresh. Theres the Clinton Campaign in our battleground map. We have her sitting at 274. We still have michigan, not a tossup but in leading democrats. Im going to walk you through a basic trump scenario. His shortest path sweeping the big three of florida, north carolina, and ohio still leaves him short. Needs arizona and utah. New hampshire. And everything on the board, youve seen me do this plenty, hes short six. Yes nevada would do it but the numbers dont look good there. Thats why theyre in michigan. This is a plausible scenario for h him sweeping but the problem is florida is something if you believe this early vote data is somewhat leaning in clintons column. If that happens hes got to find 19 somewhere else. Pennsylvania would do it. But pennsylvania, boy, that becomes a reach. You see here, florida, north carolina, ohio. They all go red, michigan makes a lot of sense. If just one of these three ends up going blue of the big three, florida, north carolina, ohio, then michigan wouldnt be enough. Its a narrow trump path. Its not unrealistic, but as you can say its precarious, especially as weve seen with the hispanic vote. I want to go around into some of these lastminute battlegrounds. Weve got folks that we want to check in with in both florida, wisconsin as well and of course our own kelly odonnell. Let me start in wisconsin. Charles benson, veteran political reporter for our nbc affiliate in milwaukee. Charles, walk me through wisconsin. Is it closing at all or is wisconsin looking like it normally does every four years since 1988 . Yeah, its looking like every four years in wisconsin. Republicans have not won here since 1984 when Ronald Reagan took the state. Since then democrats have won seven in a row. Keep in mind, chuck, you have to go back to the april primary. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton were not their first choices. When they came back into the state, they knew they had to refwrr regroup from that moment. Donald trump has been at wisconsin five times. Hillary clinton has been here zero time s. But the early voting has been concluded here, one out of four wisconsin voters has already voted and the two counties that have produced the biggest number of votes so far in early voting, milwaukee county, dane county, and that spells good news for Hillary Clinton. Ron johnson has been making a furious camback in this race. Total nailbiter at the end . Yeah. Milwaukee was not in the world series but if theyre looking for a game seven it will be tuesday night with ron johnson, t

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