Reporters covering Bill Clinton today in Pennsylvania were barred from getting too close to the ex-president in the wake of the news that the FBI would again be investigating his wife's emails.

At his second campaign stop of the day, in the Blair County town of Duncansville, the media was stuffed in the back of the room behind an intricate set of metal gates and velvet ropes, with minders escorting reporters if they wanted to step up closer and get a picture of Clinton onstage.

The former president has not addressed the FBI investigation nor has a spokesman returned an email about the developing situation, which could turn campaign 2016 on its head yet again.

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Bill Clinton talked to supporters today in Blair County, Pennsylvania, but reporters weren't allowed to go anywhere near the ex-president

Access to the Clintons at individual campaign events has gotten more restrictive since the primaries, with reporters unable to move to the front of the crowd to get a question in, at a majority of events.

At the same time, Hillary Clinton has gaggled much more often with journalists traveling with her on the campaign plane.

She spoke to the media, several hours after the FBI news broke.

'The American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately,' Clinton said. 'It's imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay.'

Bill Clinton, choosing to embark on several bus tours instead, will generally answer questions thrown at him by journalists during stops.

He had concluded a two-day bus tour of North Carolina, before heading to Pennsylvania Thursday and Friday.

Clinton tried keeping things business-as-usual at the Duncansville rally, where supporters were packed into the the local American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union headquarters.

Clinton noted how he had been a member of this particular labor union back when he was the governor of Arkansas.

He told the crowd he had just made a campaign stop in Washington County, at a diner, the Shelley's Pike Inn, where he had a substantive conversation about policy, saying it was 'crazy' the election was 11 days away 'and people have not been able to hear this because of the screaming and yelling and name-calling.'

Just one local news reporter, of Washington County's Observer-Reporter newspaper, covered Clinton's visit to Houston, Pennsylvania, which occurred just before the FBI news broke.

'It's hard not to run this election on Hillary's opponents hits,' Clinton said in Blair County, going harder on Donald Trump than he has in recent days. 'Because there's so much much material and so little time.'

'Let's talk about you. And your children and grandchildren,' he added.

But the political world was talking about the Clintons, with FBI director James Comey writing a letter to congress affirming that he was again looking into Hillary Clinton's emails as new messages were found on electronic devices belonging to the former secretary of state's top aide Huma Abedin and her husband, disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner.

Comey wrote that the messages, brought to his attention from the separate Weiner underage sex case, 'appear to be pertinent to the investigation.'

At Bill Clinton's first event since the Comey letter went public, he told his same stories and delivered the same lines that he's been using on the stump for days.

'Boy, this has been an unusual election,' the ex-president remarked, his standard greeting to his crowd.

He was briefly interrupted in Duncansville by a 'Bill Clinton is a rapist' protester and, even then, continued on.

'I didn't want you to boo that guy that was shouting out back there,' he later told his crowd.

He concluded his talk with his new favorite campaign line: 'If you don't want someone to drive the truck off the cliff, don't give them the keys,' he said, using Pennsylvania's swing state voters to hand those keys to his wife Hillary Clinton instead.