Hello and welcome to Whistle Stop a podcast of campaign curiosities.

I'm John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation. It's October.

October. Surprise! The 2016 presidential campaign has had an October surprise.

Of course you're supposed to have one of them about this entire month of October has felt like a surprise in the campaign of 2016.

The latest thing to jump out from behind the curtain is the decision by FBI Director

Komi to announce that his team of investigators have a new batch of emails that might or might not shed light on the closed

investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of her private server. The new

information was contained on a laptop owned by the husband of Hillary

Clinton's right-hand woman, whoma Abadine, her husband the husband

Anthony Wiener, former congressman who is at this date

under investigation for sending explicit texts to a 15 year old.

Now everyone hearing this knows these details but at times with this election you get

the feeling that you're at the beginning of a dark period in history.

People in the future in some post-apocalyptic world

will replay the tapes of what happened in 2016 as they look for the

initiating event into into what led to the apocalypse.

So when they're doing so in some mountain cave in 2242,

I just want to make sure that there is an accurate record

of what happened.

But that's not our topic today. The topic of close AIDS, October Surprises, the

FBI, and the whiff of scandal is reminding me of an abandoned

the 1964 presidential race.

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