Clinton Vows Not To Be Derailed By New FBI Probe Of Emails
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton enters the final full week of the race on defense once again over her use of a private email system.
The FBI investigation appears to center on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman and estranged husband of Clinton confidante Huma Abedin. It's unclear whether the material on the device was from Clinton, nor is it known if the emails in question are new or duplicates of the thousands the former secretary of state and her aides have already turned over.
Clinton, who is set to campaign Monday across Ohio, vowed over the weekend that she would not be "knocked off course" in the election's final days by the discovery of new emails in an unrelated sexting investigation.
"I'm not stopping now, we're just getting warmed up," Clinton told a crowd in Wilton Manors on Sunday.
The former first lady will be back in Florida on Tuesday. Meanwhile, her campaign has launched a vigorous, coordinated effort to press the FBI to release more details about the inquiry, hoping more information distances Clinton from the new discoveries.
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder is assailing FBI Director James Comey for divulging that the bureau has reopened its investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails, saying he unleashed "a torrent of conspiracy theories and misrepresentations."
"That decision was incorrect," Holder writes in an op-ed in Monday's editions of The Washington Post. "It violated longstanding Justice Department policies and tradition."
Holder was referring to Comey's notification to the Republican heads of congressional committees that the scrutiny of Clinton's emails was being resumed in light of information turned up in connection with an unrelated investigation.
Holder said the Justice Department "has a policy of not taking unnecessary action close in time to Election Day that might influence an election's outcome."
Meanwhile, a newly emboldened Donald Trump is seizing on the discovery of a trove of new emails that may be pertinent to the FBI's investigation and trying to open new paths to victory by campaigning in traditionally Democratic states.
Trump heads to Michigan for a pair of rallies Monday — a state that last voted for the Republican nominee for president in 1988.
"The polls have come out and they have been amazing, even before the big blow-up on Friday," Trump told a crowd of thousands Sunday who had packed into an airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico — another traditionally Democratic state.
"Traditionally, you understand, Republicans aren't quite there, right?" Trump told the crowd. "But this is a Republican who is there and we're going to win this thing."
Trump has praised Comey for his decision, declaring that he believes justice will finally be served.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Comey was in "an impossible spot" when he acknowledged the FBI was looking into the messages. "Had he sat on the information, one can argue that he also would be interfering in the election," by failing to disclose the review, Conway said.
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