James Comey will almost certainly face Senate hearing

Are Comey's days at FBI numbered? Republicans and Democrats demand embattled director is investigated after letting Clinton off the hook just eight days following dramatic announcement of second email probe

Senator Al Franken called for Senate hearings on James Comey Sunday

Senator Dianne Feinstein said Comey 'unfairly hurt' Clinton campaign

Franken predicted Comey would certainly answer questions before Senate

New Gingrich accused Comey of giving in to 'enormous' political pressure

Published: 02:08 EST, 7 November 2016 | Updated: 14:25 EST, 7 November 2016

FBI director James Comey is under increasing pressure from both Republicans and Democrats to explain his actions over the past eight days after announcing the bureau's latest probe into Hillary Clinton's private server wouldn't lead to criminal charges.

Comey rocked the Democratic boat 11 days before the election when the FBI decided to investigate additional emails in the case.

The letter in which he announced his bureau hadn't reached different conclusions than when it probed the case in July came just two days before Election Day.

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FBI director James Comey (pictured) came under fire Sunday after announcing that the bureau's latest probe into Hillary Clinton's private server wouldn't lead to criminal charges

Comey rocked the Democratic boat 11 days before the election - before announcing it would stick with its decision not to bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton (pictured)

Senator Al Franken on Sunday called for Comey to stand before the Senate Judiciary Committee - and was joined in the charge against Comey by fellow Senator Dianne Feinstein.

'I think that there should be hearings, and I'm certain there will be hearings in the Judiciary Committee on this matter,' Franken said on CNN's 'State of the Union'.

'We will have hearings. I'm sure that FBI Director Comey will be before us,' Franken added.

'I think he should be able to answer questions about this, and he should be able to control the FBI.'

Franken belongs to the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party.

Feinstein, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a Democrat, said Sunday that Comey's initial letter 'unfairly hurt' Clinton's campaign and 'changed the tenor' of the election.

Senator Al Franken (pictured left on Late Night With Seth Meyers last month) on Sunday called for Comey to stand before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sunday

Senator Dianne Feinstein (pictured in September) bashed Comey in a statement, saying his initial letter had 'unfairly hurt' Clinton's campaign and 'changed the tenor' of the election

THE CLINTON EMAIL CONTROVERSY

January 13, 2009: Hillary Clinton's aide Justin Cooper sets up clintonemail.com domain. Huma Abedin signs off on it

February 2, 2009: Clinton is sworn in as Secretary of State

March 18, 2009: Clinton stops using her BlackBerry email account and switches to the newly created hdr22@clintonemail.com account. The domain is hosted on her own private email server, set up by her aide Bryan Pagliano

September 11, 2012: Four Americans are killed in attack on a U.S. base in Benghazi, Libya including Ambassador Chris Stevens

January 23, 2013: Clinton responded forcefully to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC

February 1, 2013: Clinton steps down as secretary of state

Above then-Secretary of State Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya on October 18, 2011

October 28, 2014: State Department demands Clinton's work-related correspondence as part of a congressional investigation into Benghazi

Fall 2014: Clinton's lawyers delete 33,000 emails which they claim are 'personal'

December 5, 2014: Clinton's legal team provide roughly 30,000 emails to the State Department when they are demanded by a congressional investigation into Benghazi

March 2, 2015: The New York Times breaks the news that Clinton used a personal email account to conduct government business while secretary of state

July 25, 2015: Clinton says she is confident none of the emails on her private email server were classified at the time of sending and receiving

Above Clinton responded forcefully to intense questioning on the September attacks on U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi, Libya, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC

August 4, 2015: The Washington Post reveals the FBI has begun looking into the security of Clinton's private email set-up

September 10, 2015: Bryan Pagliano formally asserts his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions from a Republican-led House committee on her email arrangements

July 6, 2016: The Justice Department closes Clinton email probe and FBI Director James Comey announces the FBI won't prosecute. The decision was made by Comey because Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to recluse herself after a secret meeting with Bill Clinton

October 7, 2016: WikiLeaks begins release of thousands of emails hacked from the Gmail account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chair

October 28, 2016: FBI reopens its investigation into Clinton's server

November 6, 2016: FBI announces it will not change its original decision not to charge Clinton

Former House Speaker and current Donald Trump supporter New Gingrich (pictured) bashed Comey and accused him of caving

'Comey must be under enormous political pressure to cave like this and announce something he cant possibly know,' Gingrich wrote in a tweet Sunday

'The destruction of James Comey by political pressure is painful to watch,' Gingrich added. 'He is being twisted into an indefensible pretzel of contradictions'

Comey sent this letter announcing the FBI's finding after examining the newly-discovered emails on Sunday afternoon

'Today's letter makes Director Comey's actions nine days ago even more troubling. There's no doubt that it created a false impression about the nature of the agency's inquiry,' Feinstein wrote.

Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know

Donald Trump in Detroit, Michigan

'I believe the Justice Department needs to take a look at its procedures to prevent similar actions that could influence future elections.

'Now that this matter is concluded, I hope that the final days of the campaign allow the American people an opportunity to consider the important issues facing our country.'

The FBI decided in October to probe emails encountered during a search of former congressman's Anthony Weiner's laptop.

Trump attacked Comey's decision during a rally in an airport hangar in Minneapolis. He said the entire electoral system of being rigged against him.

He said: 'This is a whole different ballgame.'

During the rally in Detroit - which has been a Democrat stronghold since 1976 - he said: 'Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know. And now it's up to the American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on November 8th.'

Trump also received the strong backing of House Speaker Paul Ryan, who urged voters to support the billionaire businessman.

He called on people to 'bring the Clinton era to an end'.

'Regardless of this decision, the undisputed finding of the FBI's investigation is that Secretary Clinton put our nation's secrets at risk and in doing so compromised our national security.

'She simply believes she's above the law and always plays by her own rules.

'This is a pattern with the Clintons, and the American people should not have to endure four more years of their scandal and baggage.

'Fortunately, the American people have the opportunity to ensure Secretary Clinton never gets her hands on classified information again.

'Let's bring the Clinton era to an end by voting for Donald Trump on Tuesday.'

Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus said: 'The FBI's findings from its criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton's secret email server were a damning and unprecedented indictment of her judgment.

'The FBI found evidence Clinton broke the law, that she placed highly classified national security information at risk and repeatedly lied to the American people about her reckless conduct. '

ANTHONY WEINER SEXTING SCANDAL

The FBI, the New York Police Department, and US attorneys in New York and North Carolina opened investigations into Weiner's conduct in late September, after DailyMail.com exclusively reported on Sept. 21 that the former politician carried on a months-long online relationship with a 15-year-old high school girl.

Weiner exchanged flirtatious and sexually-charged messages with the teen for months after the girl struck up a conversation with him on Twitter in January.

Weiner told the girl he woke up 'hard' after thinking about her, sent her shirtless photos, and complimented her body. He also encouraged her to talk to him on the video-chat application Skype.

The girl alleged that during these Skype conversations, Weiner asked her to get undressed and touch herself. She claimed he also asked her to dress up in school girl outfits and pretend he was her teacher and brought up 'rape fantasies.'

Weiner issued a statement to the Dailymail.com apologizing for 'repeatedly demonstrate[ing] terrible judgment about the people I have communicated with online and the things I have sent.'

In one particularly lewd message, he told the teen: 'I would bust that tight p***y so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week.'

FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY'S FULL LETTER CLEARING HILLARY CLINTON AGAIN

'I write to supplement my October 28, 2016 letter that notified you the FBI would be taking additional investigative steps with respect to former Secretary of State Clinton's use of a personal email server.

Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation.

During that process, we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State.

Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton.

I am very grateful to the professionals at the FBI for doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work in a short period of time.'

Former House Speaker and current Donald Trump supporter New Gingrich bashed Comey and accused him of caving.

Trump himself slammed the FBI's latest announcement, claiming it was impossible to review 650,000 emails in eight days.

'Comey must be under enormous political pressure to cave like this and announce something he cant possibly know,' Gingrich wrote in a tweet Sunday.

'The destruction of James Comey by political pressure is painful to watch,' Gingrich added. 'He is being twisted into an indefensible pretzel of contradictions.'

Trump himself (pictured) slammed the FBI's latest announcement, claiming it was impossible to review 650,000 emails in eight days

The FBI decided in October to probe emails encountered while investigating former congressman's Anthony Weiner (right). The emails belonged to his wife, Huma Abedin (left), one of Hillary Clinton's top aides