The Note: Top Political Stories of the Day

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FBI Director Says Investigation Into Clinton Emails Back On. FBI Director James Comey released a statement today saying that the FBI is going to continue the previously closed investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state. "In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation," Comey wrote in a letter released today. ABC’s MEGHAN KENEALLY, JACK DATE and CECILIA VEGA have more. http://abcn.ws/2fnPPpc

Trump Praises FBI Decision. Donald Trump applauded the decision to examine further emails and scrutinize the original investigation at the top of a campaign rally in New Hampshire. “I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made,” said Trump. “This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understood. And it is everybody's hope that it is about to be corrected.” The news led Trump to make a major reversal, musing that perhaps the election was not rigged after all, an idea that Trump has been perpetuating for months, ABC’s ADAM KELSEY and CANDACE SMITH report. “It might not be as rigged as I thought, right?” said Trump. “The FBI, I think they are going to right the ship, folks. I think they are going to right the ship.” http://abcn.ws/2fnYGXS

Federal Probe of Anthony Weiner Prompted Latest FBI Review. The newly discovered emails that prompted the latest FBI review of Hillary Clinton’s private server came from a separate federal investigation of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, multiple sources told ABC News. Federal prosecutors have been looking at whether Weiner sent an explicit text message to an underage girl in North Carolina. During that investigation, at least one device used by Weiner and his wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin, was discovered, ABC’s AARON KATERSKY, PIERRE THOMAS and MIKE LEVINE report. http://abcn.ws/2eNAjPG

TALES FROM THE TRAIL

ABC’s CECILIA VEGA: While on Hillary Clinton’s campaign plane, we did not have wifi access during the flight to Iowa. Campaign manager Robby Mook spoke to reporters mid-flight, seeming very happy about the state of the race. One reporter got wifi for a second and saw the FBI headline. Mook then asked Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill about it and Merrill seemed shocked. He had no idea what the reporter was talking about. Merrill then retreated and huddled in another cabin with top staffers. The development seemed to have taken the entire plane by surprise. Here is the Clinton October surprise-- on October 28th. Clinton did not respond to the news at either of her campaign rallies today in Iowa. Her campaign chair John Podesta released a statement, saying, “We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July."’

ABC’s INES DE LA CUETARA: I've been covering and traveling with Mike Pence since he was first tapped as Donald Trump's running mate this summer. Landings on his plane have always been rough -- it's been running joke among passengers. Reporters sitting at the back of the plane once joked they were busy pre-writing the “Pence Plane Skids Off the Runway” story. We frequently filmed bouncy landings on our cellphones and laughed them off. But Thursday night's landing wasn’t a joke. MORE: http://abcn.ws/2eY1urF

ABC’s ALEXANDER MALLIN: The White House says it is “no surprise” that Vice President Biden’s name is being floated among a list of candidates Hillary Clinton is reportedly considering to serve as her Secretary of State should she be elected. “I’m going to take the Clinton campaign at their word that they are 100% focused on earning the 270 electoral votes in order for this to be a decision that they have to make,” said deputy press secretary Eric Schultz on board AF1. “That said, I think it should be no surprise that Vice President Biden would surface as a possibility for this role.” Schultz cited Biden’s “deep foreign policy credentials” as proof he has the aptitude to serve in the position, and then named off a list of qualifications the president himself considered before choosing Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in 2008.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I want you to run through the tape. I don't want you to do an Usain Bolt and look back, all smiling, because politics isn't like track and field.” - President Obama on polls showing Clinton ahead.

HAPPENING TONIGHT (all times Eastern):

--8 PM – Donald Trump holds his third campaign rally of the day in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR THIS WEEKEND:

Sunday On ‘This Week’: With less than two weeks left until Election Day, the Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics, with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, ABC News Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, ABC News contributor and Republican strategist Ana Navarro, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and American Conservative Union chair Matt Schlapp.

WHO’S TWEETING?

@DanLinden: Hillary Clinton and her campaign had no advance warning that FBI would be issuing letter or any update to their investigation -@joshbhaskell

@MLevineReports: FBI knew it was b/w rock & hard place: disclose after election & be accused of hiding, OR disclose now & be accused of impacting election.

@sarahmccammon: Trump campaign fundraising off Comey decision to review more materials he says appear related to Clinton investigation; calling for "jail."

@anniekarni: Clinton is closing her campaign the way she began it - dogged by a pending email investigation and Qs abt Foundation http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-fbi-campaign-230472

@rubycramer: .@EvanMcS gets first reaction from Clinton-Kaine ticket on FBI. Kaine says timing/lack of details around inquiry "is very, very troubling."