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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 clinton's pardon of mark rich and say it's a foia request and that's why they did it. they're first come first serve. uncompelling explanation? >> look as a guy that doesn't 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, let's hatch a conspiracy, within a week of the election release all this information from 15 year...

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 there's been some frustration that the fbi director jim comey in july said case closed. >> anderson may i point something out quickly. i think pamela mentioned something as she was finishing her report. bu...

It's the middle of the evening for your west coast clock. two things we should point out. part of david gergen's point tonight was don't tell me this was an automatic document release. nothing can be automatic 60 days within the time of the envelope of an election. second, we've combed over what was released from mark rich at the end of bill clinton's presidency. it doesn't seem to be newsworthy, just to use the vernacular, it's out there. what has the campaign said about all of this, today's fbi story, if you will? >> reporter: brian, let me give you the official response and then i'll take y...

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 that's what you do. except for the fact that what they put on line is highly political given the fact, as you said, it's 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 they're in the white house. we're waiting for a statement from them to try to explain why they did this. they say that in order to not do it it would have ...

Breaking news this hour with our guests including democratic congressman hakeem jeffries and our correspondents and our expert analysts. they are also standing by. let's 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. >> that's right. we were all surprised by this, by the fbi's document release today from its 2001 investigation into president clinton's pardons and his foundation. and it came out of nowhere and had a lot of people scratc...