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Eric Holder / Washington Post:
James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake — Eric Holder was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015. — I began my career in the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section 40 years ago, investigating cases of official corruption. In the years since …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Poll: Comey's bombshell changes few votes — The race for the White House is tight, but it has not been radically changed by the FBI director's bombshell announcement last week. — Hillary Clinton has a slim three-point lead over Donald Trump one week before Election Day …
Hillary Clinton 2016:
Open Letter from Former Federal Prosecutors and High-Ranking Officials of The U.S. Department of Justice — Sunday, as reported by the Associated Press, a group of nearly 100 former federal prosecutors and high-ranking DOJ officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations …
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Eamon Javers / CNBC:
FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing: Source — FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document …
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
James Comey Just Unmasked Himself — His carefully maintained nonpolitical image is now starting to fray. — WASHINGTON You have to be extremely political here in the nation's capital if you want to acquire a reputation for being nonpolitical. — James Comey, as shrewd and politically attuned …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Abedin tells colleagues she's in dark about new email trove
Abedin tells colleagues she's in dark about new email trove
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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
The FBI Director's Unworthy Choice
The FBI Director's Unworthy Choice
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Comey Is Not the One Whose Unorthodox Actions Are Casting a Cloud over the Election
Comey Is Not the One Whose Unorthodox Actions Are Casting a Cloud over the Election
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Clinton scandals revive Trump's spirits
Clinton scandals revive Trump's spirits
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Page Pate / CNN:
Don't blame Comey for this mess
Don't blame Comey for this mess
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile — CNN says it is “completely uncomfortable” with hacked emails showing that former contributor and interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile shared questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation.
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
New Email Shows Donna Brazile Also Gave Clinton Questions Before CNN Presidential Debate — Yet another hacked email from the latest Wikileaks dump Monday shows that acting DNC head and then-CNN contributor Donna Brazile provided questions to Hillary Clinton before a presidential debate.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
CNN ‘uncomfortable’ with apparent leaks to Clinton campaign, cuts ties with Brazile
CNN ‘uncomfortable’ with apparent leaks to Clinton campaign, cuts ties with Brazile
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
WikiLeaks email suggests Brazile sent debate question to Clinton camp
WikiLeaks email suggests Brazile sent debate question to Clinton camp
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is refusing to pay his campaign pollster three-quarters of a million dollars — Donald Trump's hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Sucks To Be You! Trump Won't Pay Pollster Almost A Million Bucks
Sucks To Be You! Trump Won't Pay Pollster Almost A Million Bucks
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Trump: Thank You Anthony Weiner! Good Job Huma! — At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Donald Trump comments on the latest twist in the Hillary Clinton email saga. — “Thank you, Huma,” he declared to Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin. “Good job, Huma.” — To her husband he said: “Thank you, Anthony Weiner!”
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S COMPANIES DESTROYED EMAILS IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS — U.S. DONALD TRUMP 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HILLARY EMAILS — Over the course of decades, Donald Trump's companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
NAACP Sues North Carolina Over Alleged Voter Purge Targeting Black Voters — The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, along with a handful of individual voters, sued the state's elections board and three county elections boards Monday over an alleged voter purge that it claims disproportionately affected African Americans.
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Katie McHugh / Breitbart:
Team Trump: Early Voting Numbers Show The Donald on Warpath to Victory
Team Trump: Early Voting Numbers Show The Donald on Warpath to Victory
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Harry Reid's incendiary claim about ‘coordination’ between Donald Trump and Russia — In a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey on Sunday night, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) says Comey may have broken the law. — And that's not even the most brazen claim in the letter — not by a long shot.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Reid: FBI has ‘explosive information’ about Trump, Russia
Reid: FBI has ‘explosive information’ about Trump, Russia
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Deep Unfavorability for Clinton, Trump Marks the Election's Sharp Divisions (POLL) — Likely voters see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump equally unfavorably, with a nearly complete partisan split in views of the two — testament both to the unprecedented unpopularity of the candidates …
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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute — Indiana — Young Catches Up to Bayh for Senate; Trump Widens Lead for President — Democrat stays ahead in governor's race — West Long Branch, NJ - It no longer looks like Democrats can count on Indiana for an easy “plus one” …
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Rabon / FOX News Radio:
Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH): I Think This Was Probably Not the Right Thing For Comey To Do... To Come Out This Close To An Election — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined Kilmeade and Friends today to discuss the latest scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's campaign: 650,000 emails were found …
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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Analysis: The Vengeful World of Donald Trump, and Why It Matters — Summarizing Donald Trump's worldview isn't easy, but this may come close: The world is a violent place, and it demands a violent response. — His campaign might seem like a storm emitting strikes of lightning …
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Jugal K. Patel / New York Times:
Voting Early, and in Droves: Nearly 22 Million Ballots Are Already In — With nine days until the general election, almost 22 million people have already voted, through early voting and absentee ballots. — In many states, the number of early voters is lower than at the same point in the 2012 cycle.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Clinton's critics know she's guilty, they're just trying to decide what she's guilty of — The Prime Directive driving bad Clinton coverage. — The latest Hillary Clinton email revelations arose out of an unrelated investigation into Anthony Weiner's sexting.
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Tegna / KENS:
Man dressed as Freddy Krueger shoots five at Halloween party — Five shot at Halloween party overnight … SAN ANTONIO — A Halloween party turned violent overnight with shots fired and five people injured and sent to the hospital. — According to police, around 5 a.m. early Sunday morning …
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