MSNBC's Kasie Hunt said she and other reporters tried and failed, again, to speak to Hillary Clinton on the rope line Wednesday in the wake of the political firestorm surrounding the FBI report on her private email use.

Hunt said that Clinton made a "calculated decision" to only respond to a voter who shouted at her into the crowd in Atlantic City, New Jersey, while avoiding reporters after her speech criticizing Donald Trump's business practices.

Hunt said this was due to FBI Director James Comey's statement about her email scandal on Tuesday. Comey did not recommend charges but slammed her conduct as "extremely careless" with classified material.

"The challenge, though, what's been looming over her with these emails," Hunt said. "We tried to talk to her here on the rope line. She made no mention of her emails in her speech. We weren't able to get up there to get her to answer our question, even though she could—she had responded to a voter who was here and who shouted at her into the crowd. So, a very calculated decision not to respond ahead of Comey's testimony coming up on the Hill."

Clinton had been previously called out by Hunt on MSNBC for avoiding reporters on the rope line the day of the FBI making its announcement: