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MARIA BARTIROMO, HOST, MORNINGS WITH MARIA: On a computer used -- Democrats blasting FBI Director Jim Comey this morning.
The Clinton campaign is on edge after Comey revealed that the agency found e-mails tied to Clinton's private server on a computer used by Huma Abedin and her husband.
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DONALD TRUMP, CHAIRMAN & PRESIDENT, TRUMP ORGANIZATIONS & REPUBLICAN PARTY NOMINEE, 2016 ELECTION: The FBI has found -- you're not going to believe this one, this just happened, another 650,000 e-mails.
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How do you get to 650 -- I think that's called the mother load, I think they found them all. This is the single, biggest scandal since Watergate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was long innuendo, short on facts. So, we're calling on Mr. Comey to come forward and explain what's the issue here. You know, so far there's no charge of wrong-doing.
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BARTIROMO: How this -- plus, the ongoing WikiLeaks dump will weigh on the race just 8 days to go until election day.
The massive manhunt in Oklahoma coming to an end. The fugitive Michael Vance killed in a shoot-out with police last night.
One officer injured in a confrontation, we've got the very latest coming up. And a bomb scare on the tarmac. A Spirit Airlines flight evacuated after a possible threat was made.
We will tell you what happened on board the plane, and it has officials worried this morning. Merger Monday on Wall Street today, General Electric combining its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes, creating an energy power house.
The combined company will have revenue of $32 billion, Baker Hughes stock jumping more than 4 percent, on the announcement that is just one of a couple of deals this morning.
Uncertainty surrounding the election weighing on markets though around the world. Futures indicating a higher opening for the broader averages, but we are off of the highs of the morning, and it's been quite volatile.
A lot of nervousness in markets this morning on that FBI probe. In Europe, decline across the board, take a look at the Eurozone indices here, and they are down between half a percent and two-thirds of 1 percent.
In Asia overnight, markets edged to the downside, that set the tone for global markets overnight, nonetheless, it was fractional moves lower. All those stories coming up this morning.
And joining me to break it all down, Fox Business Network's Dagen McDowell, Recon Capital's Chief Investment Officer Kevin Kelly, and London Center for Policy Research Senior Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer.
DAGEN MCDOWELL, FOX BUSINESS: I can't wait to hear from the guests coming up this hour.
BARTIROMO: We got a big guest coming up right away, joining the conversation this morning, Donald Trump's senior communication adviser Jason Miller here in the studio.
I want to get the Trump campaign's take on this FBI reopening its investigation. The host of "VARNEY & COMPANY" Stuart Varney will weigh in, you don't want to miss a moment of it, so do stay with us this hour.
As the spotlight on Clinton's e-mail server is brightened again after Friday's FBI bombshell. Fox Business senior correspondent Charlie Gasparino now with the very latest developments from the newsroom. Charlie, good morning to you.
CHARLIE GASPARINO, FOX BUSINESS: Thanks for having me, Maria, on this wonderful Monday morning. You know, listen, the announcement as you know last Friday was pretty much unprecedented.
And here are the facts that we know, OK? Just what we know was -- a lot of stuff we don't know here. It comes amid a feud inside the FBI from lower level guys who basically wanted Hillary Clinton indicted in July.
James Comey, the director did not do that, and now, he -- apparently he's done a 180. And here is something else we know from law enforcement sources.
That Anthony Weiner could start working as an FBI -- with the FBI on this probe. Now, we should point out that Weiner's attorney has told Fox Business, there is no agreement in stone just yet.
But from what we understand, this is clearly on the table as Weiner faces charges relating to sending pictures and illicit messages to an underage woman, and that's where this investigation started.
So, right now, we should point out, there's no agreement with Anthony Weiner with the FBI, but that is clearly on the table. Law enforcements sources tell the Fox Business Network.
And here is one other thing I would tell you, Maria, James Comey went into office as the FBI chief appointed by President Obama as a political choice.
A guy that feuded with the Bush administration when he was in the Justice Department working for George W. Bush over surveillance and NSA surveillance.
He came in as a none partisan guy. And what's really interesting since this revelation on Friday, he's apparently going to leave office when his term is up, or next year when a new president is sworn in as may be the most politicized FBI chief ever.
So, either way, James Comey, once known as a political is going to leave very politicized because this bombshell that he released on Friday clearly has upended this presidential election.
They guy that was being praised by Democrats a few months ago or a few weeks ago, maybe a few days ago because he didn't bring charges against Hillary Clinton back in July.
Which a lot of Republicans thought he should based on evidence of -- that's clearly according to Republicans like Mr. Judge Mukasey met the gross negligence standard is now being attacked by those very same Democrats.
But this thing is going to get -- could get very weird, particularly if Anthony Weiner becomes a cooperating witness.
Because remember, those e-mails that are sensitive in nature, government e- mails, many of them maybe classified, we don't know yet.
Was on a computer that both he and his wife, a former State Department official, someone who worked very closely with Hillary Clinton for many years as a confidant in the State Department, Huma Abedin, they both shared the same computer.
So, hold on to your seats, this could get very weird in the next couple of days and just in time for November 8th election.
BARTIROMO: Yes, so, I mean, he was dammed if he did and dammed if he didn't on Jim Comey, number one, and number two, is what you're reporting right now is there is no plea deal so far.
GASPARINO: Not yet.
BARTIROMO: Not yet with Anthony Weiner, but it's on the table that he's going to be cooperating.
GASPARINO: Well, listen he is -- we should just point out some of the nuances here. And it gets back to, you know, this whole -- this whole case is about nuances.
The FBI never really closed its cases we should point out. Even when you get an official closure letter, the door is always open if they find additional information as this was found recently.
And so, which reignites the investigation. The notion of cooperation is also kind of a -- it's kind of an amorphous term.
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Apparently, Anthony Weiner has handed over his laptop, he didn't need a warrant to do that. So, he's in effect cooperating --
BARTIROMO: I see --
GASPARINO: From that standpoint. Anthony Weiner doesn't have a lot of money, and if -- you know, if you look at the -- what he's facing here, he's facing a charge possibly, he's not -- you know, he's not been charged yet.
Where he was distributing -- sending pictures of himself to a minor, and maybe that minor had sent pictures of herself to him. If that's in a -- if that's a sexual -- if that's of sexual nature, you know, Anthony Weiner could face many years in jail --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes --
GASPARINO: Because of that. It's -- and so it becomes a sort of pressure point for the government to get him to cooperate in a more full -- in more fully terms where he actually starts giving evidence that he may have to bring a case against Hillary Clinton.
That's very much within the realm of possibility. We should point out that we called the FBI on that whole notion, they did not tell us to -- they did not ward us off, we called the Justice Department.
And as you know we have the statement from Anthony Weiner's lawyer that there is no official cooperation agreement just yet.
BARTIROMO: Charles, thank you, Charlie Gasparino, appreciate it very much and that part of the story sickens me.
We want to bring in senior communications adviser to the Donald Trump presidential campaign, Jason Miller is with us, Jason, good to see you.
JASON MILLER, SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS ADVISER TO DONALD TRUMP 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: Maria, guys --
BARTIROMO: Thank you so much for joining us --
MILLER: Thanks for having me on --
BARTIROMO: So, your thoughts on the FBI warrant and the concern over Comey's potential breach of protocol here. That's what the Dems are saying.
MILLER: Well, I think you're seeing a -- from the Democrats are setting their hair on fire this morning over the last couple of days attacking Director Comey which is a far cry from what we saw just back in July.
But I think one of the important things to point out with the Democrats saying that the FBI needs to release all these e-mails. I mean, isn't that what the American public has been asking Hillary Clinton to do for years now?
Where are the 33,000 e-mails? Are you going to release them or put those forward? But let's -- taken opinion and obviously the politicization out of this, taking a step back, I mean, 650,000 e-mails on a lap top?
How did they not find this before? How is this just now coming forward? And the "Wall Street Journal" report that I believe it was Devlin Barrett who first broke this yesterday or at least that was the story that I read.
BARTIROMO: Right, Dagen keeps mentioning that op-ed --
MILLER: Yes --
BARTIROMO: Today, that piece today, yes.
MILLER: Yes, a very in-depth, a lot of work by Mr. Barrett on that. But there were at least thousands of e-mails between Huma Abedin and folks in government and Secretary Clinton that were on there.
And so, I mean, if there's ever a laptop that need to be bleached or acid- washed or whatever you want to do with it, I mean, that would be the one.
But I mean, this is -- this is really concerning stuff. I mean, this is unprecedented amount of evidence, and I think this really shows why with 11 days out, FBI took this remarkable step.
BARTIROMO: I also think that Jim Comey is not a stupid guy. I mean, he knows where we are in the calendar, and knows this is a huge deal.
If there wasn't something in there that was blockbuster, I don't know that --
KEVIN KELLY, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, RECON CAPITAL: Yes --
BARTIROMO: He would be doing that.
KELLY: I think it's important to note too that the left and Harry Reid is saying he potentially committed crimes, and this could have been illegal.
Well, let's take a step back. What Hillary Clinton did was illegal with her private e-mails or she's negligent --
BARTIROMO: She's the crime --
MILLER: Completely --
KELLY: She completely broke law, so, I don't know how they keep pointing the finger at James Comey when they should be pointing it back at themselves.
Especially Huma Abedin had said in a deposition that she had given all her devices back. So, she did it to herself --
BARTIROMO: So, she lied again --
KELLY: They lied again, they're consistently doing it themselves, and now they're painting a guy that they praised a couple of months ago as the villain.
MILLER: Well, and keep in mind also that we already have five people in this investigation who have taken the Fifth Amendment.
KELLY: Right --
MILLER: Now, obviously by taking the Fifth, that doesn't state that you did something wrong. But when you have five people lined up that are all taking the Fifth --
BARTIROMO: Yes --
MILLER: Clearly something here stinks. I mean, this is bad news, and it goes back to the biggest point from this last week, why does this matter?
Not just from the confidential and classified and top-secret information and potential secrets that were given up. Not just -- which I think there's a very strong chance we could find obstruction of justice issues.
A knowledge that this -- or could this route of getting around the official set up, so things could be foiled(ph).
But all goes back to a lot of -- much of it goes back to that $66 million, the Clinton inc. that was all set up in a lie, we have this whole server set up --
BARTIROMO: Yes --
MILLER: So this foundation -- all this together makes most folks at home to say I'm disgust with this, we just need to -- need to drain the swamp, we need something different.
BARTIROMO: Yes --
MCDOWELL: But how do you convert this news into changing the vote in those critical swing states. In the critical swing states you've had about one quarter of people have already voted early.
And in the state of Florida for example, the Democrats are out voting the Republicans. We just got new information from Adam Shapiro, it's 4.5 million Republicans to 4.8 million Democrats.
As it stands right now in terms of early voting in -- by mail if Republicans win, but again, as more in person voting is picked up, the Democrats are now dominating. How do you take this and convert that into a change in the vote?
BARTIROMO: In California, it's a third of people who --
MCDOWELL: Yes --
BARTIROMO: Voted --
MILLER: Yes --
BARTIROMO: By the way --
MILLER: And yes, people are voting in two things I'd say on that with regard to Florida specifically in terms of overall message.
You know, there are two polls out in the last couple of days showing that Mr. Trump is leading by 4 percent in Florida.
The "New York Times" up -- shot poll and there's another one a couple of days ago. But with Florida, one of the things to keep in mind are, there's registration within the actual votes that have been turned in.
And what we saw through the first five days of early voting and absentee voting this past week, the first 5 days returns coming in was that Republicans -- the Republican response rate was 7 percent higher and the Democrats were 10 percent lower.
So, what does that mean? That means that usually, Republicans come out with a deficit in the pre-election voting and then win on election day with numbers coming in.
We're already 100,000 votes ahead of the pace where that delta was between Romney and Obama four years ago. So, from our end, not only are we seeing the polls, seeing that Mr. Trump is ahead by 4 percent.
But we have an extra 100,000 votes that we have improved on. And so, to your point, you were talking about registration.
But when you look at the actual early voting in absentees, we're 100,000 ahead and that's a great place to -- and even beyond Florida we're 35,000 votes ahead in -- of the pace from where the delta was four years ago in North Carolina --
MCDOWELL: I'll correct that, those four -- that 4.5, 4.8 that's the total registered voters, and you're right, Republicans are leading slightly in terms of the votes cast, and it's because of the -- and it's because of the ballots --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here's what I'm concerned with --
MCDOWELL: I mean, the mail-ins.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm concerned with --
BARTIROMO: Oh, the mail-in?
MCDOWELL: Yes, mail-in --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm concerned about the national security aspects of this. So, one of the things that was talked about was why can't they just take a thumb drive?
Why couldn't Huma come down here to Fox News, drop off the thumb drive and say here is all the e-mails, go to town.
Would you guys call for that, and secondly, if they don't do that, what about a special prosecutor? Why don't they just call for someone, a third party to come in? --
BARTIROMO: Right, the jury, yes --
MILLER: Well, I mean, I think these are all good ideas, and one of the things that everyone saw this weekend was the Clinton campaign conference call that they had with Mr. Podesta and Mr. Mook.
And they were calling on the FBI to put everything forward. And you saw them yesterday on the Sunday shows, they were all asked, well, have you guys picked up the phone and called --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly --
MILLER: Miss Abedin and asked her to release all this information. I mean, certainly she should be --
BARTIROMO: Yes --
MILLER: Able to, I don't know why not? And so, you know, I don't think this is so much just trying to put her back on the director.
I think they very simply -- that plan when the plane landed on Friday, I mean --
BARTIROMO: Yes --
MILLER: Couldn't they have just asked then what was on it?
BARTIROMO: By the way, we are all expecting the Clinton campaign to come out and at some point try to change the conversation here because that's what they've done --
KELLY: They have to -- they have to --
BARTIROMO: Numerous times.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's a trap --
BARTIROMO: Do you know of anything out there that they may have on Donald Trump at this point --
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That we should expect them to drop today or tomorrow?
MILLER: Well, it is Halloween, so who knows what kind of craziness they might pull off. But no, look, Mr. Trump is very excited, you know, he's in New Mexico, traditionally blue state yesterday, he's in Michigan with multiple events today.
Tomorrow, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, these are blue states --
BARTIROMO: Exactly --
MILLER: That Mr. Trump is putting in play, and that's where all the energy is in this campaign.
BARTIROMO: All right, Jason Miller, good to see you --
MILLER: I thank you all --
BARTIROMO: Thank you so much --
MILLER: Appreciate it --
BARTIROMO: We'll be right back, stay with us.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back. An 8-day manhunt in Oklahoma is over, Cheryl Casone with the story, Cheryl.
CHERYL CASONE, FOX BUSINESS: Yes, Maria, we were talking about this story last week when he was on the run. Well, police say that 38-year-old Michael Dale Vance was killed in a shoot-out with law enforcement last night.
Cops say that Vance was seen early yesterday before he shot and injured a deputy. Then police got a call about a suspicious vehicle near a camp site before that second shoot-out began.
Vance was wanted for allegedly killing two relatives, one that the county sheriff calls a rage killing. The deputy's injuries are not life- threatening.
Well, a bomb scare delaying a Spirit Airlines flight in Florida. It all started after one of the passengers told the flight crew he saw a disturbing message on another passenger's cell phone.
The flight was evacuated before it was checked and cleared by investigators. That flight scheduled to depart Fort Lauderdale 8:15 last night, it didn't take off until 2:30 this morning.
And finally this. Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. According to the mask index, this is a poll that's released by the retail chain's Spirit Halloween.
They track the sales of all of the presidential candidate masks. They do this every four years. The poll has correctly predicted every presidential election winner over the last 20 years. So far this year, Donald Trump is ahead of Hillary Clinton 55 percent to 45 percent, back to you.
BARTIROMO: Wow, all right, Cheryl, thank you.
CASONE: You bet.
BARTIROMO: Coming up next, the U.S. election could roil global markets, why investors may wind up losers in the race for the White House, we're going to take a look at that.
And then the fight for Florida, we will find out if Friday's bombshell from the FBI is changing voters' mind in the key battleground state, stay with us.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back. The presidential election starting to weigh on Wall Street and market. The FBI's renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton's e-mail server shocked the markets on Friday, sending stocks lower.
And then it is also weighing on global markets this morning. Kevin Kelly with us this morning, we are eight days away from the election, what are you expecting?
KELLY: Well, so, one of the reasons why the market went down is because Hillary is such a known commodity. And there wasn't any anticipation that the financial sector would be disrupted by her presidency or even the tech sector.
And those are the two larger sectors. Now, Donald Trump is not a politician. They don't know where he stands and his policies have changed over trade-tiers and that's kind of what's been pushed through.
Whether it's true or not into the system, so that's why when all of a sudden you saw this come out, the market fell. So, the job worries --
BARTIROMO: It sold off then it came back by the close on Friday.
KELLY: Yes! Well it came out, it -- so it was down -- I mean --
BARTIROMO: That was down --
KELLY: We were up about -- we are up about half of a percent and then we ended up down on the day which was pretty significant.
So, you saw about a percent move in the overall market. But I think it's important to note that the market is rebounded now, the Futures -- and so the -- over the weekend, we've had time to digest.
But make no mistake, whoever becomes president within the first 100 days has to come out with a fiscal plan that can turn this economy around, because the numbers are not great when it comes to the economy.
BARTIROMO: Well, we did have a 2.9 percent GDP on Friday, we'll see if that's revised lower. But also some of the insights of markets, new stock offerings raised nearly $3 billion, best stretch for IPOs in more than a year.
Some of the debuts did fall short including ZTO Express that was down 15 percent in its first day of trading. The Chinese shipping company raised $1.4 billion for its IPO, but it stumbled.
So, you've got -- IPOs seem to be coming out, and then -- coming back, and then there's the mergers, $300 billion in M&A in the month of October, most ever.
KELLY: I know, it's merger Monday, and we can continue to see this happen. The capital markets are open and flowing in over $3 billion last week alone were raised on the exchanges which is phenomenal --
BARTIROMO: Yes --
KELLY: For the market, showing how healthy it is, and the market has done its job pricing security. So, we talk about this bubble in private equity, in V.C., it's not happening in the public markets, and it's showing that we are at least on that side of the economy we're doing OK.
MCDOWELL: I think that in terms of the deals getting done, a lot -- maybe it's ahead of the election, trying to get ahead of the next administration.
But also trying to get ahead of the Federal Reserve, starting to maybe raise interest rates more significantly.
More than just once and then wait a year, which is what we've seen in the last year. And I'll highlight again what's in the "Wall Street Journal", that core inflation last quarter was running at a two-year high of 1.7 percent.
Wage is growing at 2.4 percent, so there's some evidence that inflation is picking up --
KELLY: And --
MCDOWELL: Not a lot, but enough to maybe make --
KELLY: Well, I'm glad you brought that up --
BARTIROMO: Yes --
KELLY: Because in the healthcare side, we've seen costs on healthcare go up, and actually that's been the biggest worry for investors in the marketplace.
Last week alone on Tuesday, you saw a lot of hedging in the XLV which is the healthcare ETF, people are really worried, and that's a problem, and not just biotech --
BARTIROMO: Yes, well, they sold off --
KELLY: Overall --
BARTIROMO: When they thought, yes, the Democratic sweep --
KELLY: Yes --
BARTIROMO: Of (INAUDIBLE) biotech --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have a question about the very issue, the Democrats sweep. So, same thing go the way they're trending, Trump is elected.
We saw the reactions Friday of the Hillary potential demise. We saw in Brexit, since I -- that's something I have been dealing with directly. All this gloom and doom from the Brexit happening, it didn't happen.
So, do you think the markets will tank if we see a President Trump or what do you think is --
KELLY: No, of course not, because he's got great tax plans and policies, and she's starting to mimic those. When he talked about repatriating capital back here from overseas, she followed that policy back up.
So, it's interesting, that it's just uncertainty, markets still like uncertainty. So, it had been priced in that she had this, and she is a known commodity, and she is a crony capitalist and she does do deals with all of these big corporations.
Who booked all these deals with --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right --
KELLY: Tanaio(ph) and Doug Band. Dow Chemical, Coca-Cola, so just -- just think about Donald Trump is talking about shaking up the system.
And that uncertainty reverberated into the markets on Friday because who knows what he's going to do, but he's going to do right by the American people, he says.
BARTIROMO: We'll see -- we'll see initially, maybe there's a sell-off because of the uncertainty factor --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Of course --
BARTIROMO: But I agree with you on the tax plan, 15 percent corporate tax is a positive, out-and-out positive for the market. Coming up next, bracing for more bombshell after releasing thousands of e-mails from John Podesta.
WikiLeaks is teasing a mysterious phase three of the data dump as the election enters its final days. Then it might just be the first refrigerator to ever go viral. A Texas mom's chilling Halloween costume take the internet by storm, back in a minute.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back, happy Monday everybody, good to have you today, I'm Maria Bartiromo, and it is Monday, October 31st, Happy Halloween, your top stories right now 8:30 a.m. on the East Coast.
The FBI's October surprise. The agency obtaining a warrant to search the 650,000 new e-mails found on a computer used by Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner.
Friday's bombshell now has one-third of likely voters saying they are less inclined to vote for Hillary Clinton.
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TIM KAINE, VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If he hasn't seen the e-mails, I mean, they need to make that completely plain, then they should work to see the e-mails and release the circumstances of those once they have done that analysis. That's what Hillary said immediately, when she spoke to the press on Friday. She said, look, you can't break both of these protocols and then leave it just kind of up in the air with a question mark. You owe people the complete information.
MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: What we've already know here is troubling to the American people, and it's convincing millions of Americans that Hillary Clinton is just a risky choice in this election.
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BARTIROMO: And the overall polls are narrowing with just 8 days to go. We will take a closer look at fresh new polls. Nearly two dozen people mowed down in a NASCAR race, a car drives out of control. We've got all the details coming up on that. And a combat veteran denied from flying with her service dog, now she's fighting back. We've got those details coming up this morning. Merger activities drying the action on Wall Street, we've got deals today, General Electricity and Baker Hughes, as well as Century Link acquiring level three communications, all those stocks involved on the move. October was the busiest month ever for M&A, $300 billion in mergers and acquisitions.