FBI Director James B. Comey wrote in a Friday memo to Congressional leadersthat "the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation" of Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server. The memo sparked a firestorm that rages hotter by the day, resisting all attempts to contain its damage.
Yet, for Trump, his "rigged" system is suddenly running like a Swiss watch and his gleeful supporters are counting the days until America is great again. This is a big shift for a campaign that last week threatened revolt if Trump lost.
Despite the joy, Trump is battling a strong headwind to the top and the new emails may not change the hearts and minds of most voters who have already made up their minds. We talk about why.
That may be okay for a Trump team whose candidate never fully grasped that the cultural movement he unleashed is larger than himself, even as the team quietly plans how to capitalize on it if the White House doesn't work out.
GUESTS:
- Gabriel Sherman is National Affairs Editor at New York Magazine and contributor to NBC News/MSNBC. He’s the author of NYT best seller, The Loudest Voice In the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
- Sahil Kapur - National political reporter for Bloomberg Politics
- Carolyn Lin - Professor of Communication at the University of Connecticut
- Paul Tieger - Founder and CEO of SpeedReading People and the co-author with Barbara Barron-Tieger of the best-selling book, Do What You Are
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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.