Joining today's show are Mike Barnicle, Harold Ford Jr., Kristen Soltis Anderson, Eugene Robinson, Carol Leoning, Carly Fiorina, Chuck Todd, Dorian Warren, Sen. John Thune, Sen. Chris Murphy, Sen. Bill Cassidy, Jonathan Capehart, Sen. Dick Durbin, Brian Sullivan and Bishop T.D. Jakes
FBI begins looking into Hillary's email server. The Washington Post reports the FBI has begun looking into the setup of the private email server Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state. Reporter Carol Leonnig discusses. The FBI has begun looking into the security of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private email correspondence, according to a report.
Federal investigators contacted the Denver-based company Platte River Networks, which helped manage the former Secretary of State's personal system, according to the Washington Post.
Some government officials have said that they are worried that hundreds of emails that passed through Clinton's service contained classified information from her time in the State Department and that the info was possibly compromised.
The FBI also made contact with Clinton's lawyer David Kendall, who confirmed contact with the FBI, about a thumb drive with copies of the former Secretary's work emails.
Justice Department officials and Platte River Networks, which offers 'managed IT services' including security, did not reply to the Post's request for comment.
Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill repeated claims that any emails that went through the server were not marked classified when they were received.
Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough III had referred the matter to the FBI in July after finding that four out of 40 emails he reviewed had classified info.
At this point the FBI's probe is said to be preliminary, focusing only on how classified information was handled.
Campaign press secretary Brian Fallon tweeted Tuesday night that the Post story confirmed that the probe was 'not criminal'.
A previous story in the New York Times was heavily criticized and then corrected after it gave the impression that Clinton herself was under a criminal investigation.
The issue of Clinton's private email server first emerged last year ahead, of her announcement that she would seek the Democratic nomination for president.
She turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department in December, and chunks of the records are being slowly released. The candidate deleted others that she deemed to be involving only personal matters.
After news broke of her exclusive private email use in March, Republicans called for an investigation and said that she may be using the system to hide her correspondence from government records.
Clinton's husband, former president Bill, had a private server set up at the couple's Chappaqua, New York, home.
However, sources told the Post that the system was too small as Hillary was becoming Secretary of State and a system used for her 2008 presidential run was installed at the house.
The person responsible for the server was the campaign's IT director Bryan Pagliano, who joined the State Department in April 2009.
He was also reportedly responsible for the private server while at the department, including when the system briefly crashed during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Clinton hired Platte River Networks in 2013 to manage the system, the same year she left the State Department.
A Wall Street Journal article from October of that year names a Bryan Pagliano as an analyst at technology research company Gartner, where he stayed until December 2014.
Fox announces lineup for GOP debate -- with Trump at center stage.
x News on Tuesday announced the lineup for the first Republican presidential debate, one that will probably be dominated by the figure standing at center stage, Donald Trump, whose attention-grabbing skills have allowed him to leap to the front of a crowded GOP field over the last six weeks.
Flanking Trump in the 10-candidate debate Thursday will be Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and onetime GOP front-runner, and Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin.
Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and John Kasich of Ohio and Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, will round out the field. The remaining seven announced GOP candidates will be invited to participate in a separate forum earlier in the day.
"Our field is the biggest and most diverse of any party in history, and I am glad to see that every one of those extremely qualified candidates will have the opportunity to participate on Thursday," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement.
With 17 candidates who have announced that they're seeking the nomination, debate sponsors have to find some way to cull the field. Fox, the broadcast sponsor for Thursday's session, announced in the spring that 10 candidates would get to debate, picked based on who has the highest average standings in the five most recent national polls released by Tuesday evening.
Despite concern that the polls would vary widely, the most recent ones, including those released Tuesday morning by Bloomberg and CBS and Monday evening by Fox, all told pretty much the same story: Trump with a big lead, followed by Bush and Walker.
The main unanswered question over the last few days was who would be the odd man out among Kasich, Christie and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. In the end, the polls made clear that the Texan would lose. Whether by luck or smart tactics, Kasich announced his candidacy last month, just in time to be enjoying the usual announcement bounce in polls as the debaters were chosen. The bounce is not much, but so far it has been enough to put him ahead of one or both of the others in most recent surveys.
In the Fox poll, Kasich had support of 3% of GOP voters, tied with Christie. Perry lagged behind at 1%. The poll, of 475 voters nationwide who said they were likely to vote in a Republican primary, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The Bloomberg poll was broadly similar, although it showed Christie, Cruz and Kasich all tied at 4% for the last three slots. Perry lagged behind at 2% in that survey. The poll, of 500 GOP voters nationwide, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The CBS poll differed at the bottom of the field, with Christie at 3% holding the ninth slot while Perry tied with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal at 2% and Kasich had only 1%. It was conducted among 408 GOP primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
In addition to the Bloomberg, CBS and Fox polls, Fox included polls by Monmouth University, located in New Jersey, and Quinnipiac University, which is in Connecticut.
Because the differences among the bottom candidates all fell within the polls' margins of error, the exact order was largely a matter of chance.
Fox News officials gave themselves considerable wiggle room on how to make the final decision. Although they had said they would average the most recent polls, they left some key details undefined until after the decision was announced.
Afterward, network officials said they had used a simple, arithmetical average of poll results, rather than one weighted by sample size, and had rounded off percentages to the nearest tenth. Given that the candidates are tightly grouped together, those factors all could have affected the outcome, but statisticians on the network's decision desk said there was at least a 90% probability that Kasich, in 10th place, was truly ahead of Perry, in 11th.
One point that all the polls agree on is that Trump continues to lead the field. He had support of 21% in Bloomberg's poll, which was conducted by J. Ann Selzer, an Iowa based pollster with a long track record of accurate polling, particularly in her home state. Bush was the first choice of 10% of those surveyed and Walker 8%.
In the CBS poll, Trump had 24%, with Bush at 13% and Walker at 10%.
Trump's support ranged broadly across subgroups within the GOP. Bush beat him barely among self-described moderates, the CBS and Bloomberg polls found, but Trump won among conservatives. He did less well with those earning over $100,000 and with evangelicals, the Bloomberg poll found.
The New York Times reports that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Remain in Dead Heat in New Hampshire, Poll Shows.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont continues to tighten the race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
The WMUR Granite State poll found that 42 percent of likely Democratic primary voters said they would vote for Mrs. Clinton, while 36 percent said they supported Mr. Sanders. The survey considers that gap to be a statistical tie, but it shows that Mr. Sanders continues to show strength after months of negative publicity about Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
The poll also found that Mr. Sanders is the most popular Democratic candidate in the state in terms of favorability, with a rating of 59 percent. That tops Mrs. Clinton’s 54 percent.
Other candidates, including Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, and Jim Webb, the former senator from Virginia, have gained little traction in Democratic polls so far; Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is still mulling a run, was a distant third in the WMUR poll.
Mrs. Clinton had an eight-point lead over Mr. Sanders in New Hampshire in June, a poll that was also considered a tie, and she led him by double-digits there in the spring.
Despite her significant advantages in fund-raising and name recognition, Mrs. Clinton has also shown signs of weakness against Republican rivals in recent swing state polls.
A bright note for Mrs. Clinton, however, is that only 20 percent of New Hampshire voters said they had definitely made up their mind about a Democratic candidate. Although the former first lady and senator is no longer the clear favorite in the state, she still has time to win over more of its voters.
Carly Fiorina is on the show now. She states among other things today that she would defund Planned Parenthood Republican.
The presidential candidate Carly Fiorina discusses also about not being on the main GOP stage for the first debate and why she would vote to defund Planned Parenthood and how she would defeat ISIS. Watch more here: http://on.msnbc.com/1IWYyrs.
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