Stay updated with breaking news from E mail practices. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
And they are worth investigating and we should absolutely do that. as you point out, president obama was aggressive about doing that. meantime these leaks are being used, and they should be investigated, but they re being used as misdirection. let s think back here. secretary clinton has sloppy e-mail practices, there s no evidence that foreign powers got those e-mails, the classified information in those e-mails was not particularly dangerous, no harm was ever shown with respect to secretary clinton s e-mails. we had an investigation after investigation after investigation. the fbi comes out and talks about their investigation. now what we re hearing is, oh, don t worry about the contacts that appear to have existed between a presidential campaign and an antagonistic foreign power, what we really need to focus on is leaks? yes, we should investigate the leaks but this is a misdirection to take attention way to a challenge to our national security. meanwhile the president is actually a ....
shepard: and back to katherine for more news. first the national politician editor for the wall street journal, our corporate cuss ijs. how are we to bross is this, what does it mean in the big picture? well, what it means is that we as a nation are not moving on from the 2016 election. we ve been talking about another matter, the russian-backed hacking of e-mails from the democratic national committee, which generated a lot of headlines that were negative for hillary clinton, added head winds at the end of the campaign, whether donald trump believes the russians are behind that. this is a separate but related issue, the other big e-mail issue that the clinton campaign thinks was more damaging. the revelation by director comey of the f.b.i. 11 days before the election that they were reopening the investigation into hillary clinton s e-mail practices and whether classified material went through her server. those headlines just before the election. ....
For her, she appeared on stage with the miss universe pageant winner, alicia machado, and brought up the subject of trump and women. contestants say that donald trump came in to look at them when they were changing. some of them were just 15 years old. we cannot hide from this. we ve got to be willing to face it. this bhaman wants to be preside of the united states of america! today, a new abc news/ washington post tracking poll, the data from that survey has trump now leading by 1% nationally. that s, of course, within the margin of error. but, oh, the symbolism of trump being ahead, after being well behind in that poll. and amid everybody wondering if the revived fbi probe into clinton s e-mail practices might be doing her some damage, her campaign says, it raised $11.3 million online in the past 72 hours. so, john, seven days left, is ....
Come out. the clinton campaign find of figures it this way. if you had a problem with her e-mail practices or these investigations before this letter from jim comey went to capitol hill, you weren t going to vote for her anyway. they believe this is already baked in. while the campaign advisers will be out and we ve seen them out repeatedly attacking director comey for this, what hillary clinton s role going forward will be to campaign, talk about their issues and what they want to do. essentially, act like this didn t happen. keep on with their strategy and bring out that coalition that they thought they had in place before all of this happened and they think is still in place in the wake of this bombshell moment that we had on friday, fred. sunlen, there in las vegas, the contrasting message, donald trump seizing on the opportunity underscoring this fbi review. what more is he saying? reporter: that s right, fred. it s quite clear that donald trump is trying to capitalize on this ....
Account people have had a lot of access to both leaked and hacked e-mails as well as great deal of transparency on the part of james comey. extraordinary transparency. and describing what he found wrong with her e-mail practices. so i think there is just not enough new in this to really shape democrats. usually you don t have the fbi coming out public in a race this close to an election. very unusual. and sending out something publicly. this is very unusual. i guess one thing i would say it elise, i don t think you can argue she s above the law. she s not. she s been subjected to this long investigation and now, you know, ten days before the election, this came out. i think she there are some practices that are easily challenged. i think the e-mail, the private server was a mistake, but the idea that she is above the law, she s very much subject to you have this almost double ....