>> a lot to discuss in the town hall tonight. be sure to watch cnn's presidential town hall event, america's military and the commander in chief, tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. thank you all so much for joining us at this hour. >> "inside politics" with john king, starts now. kate and john, thank you. welcome to "inside politics." three quick questions framing the campaign and shifting terrain after the first presidential debate. one, is donald trump dumping the scripted teleprompter approach in favor of a more raw attack mode? >> for 90 minutes i watched her very carefully, and i was also holding back. i didn't want to do anything to embarrass her, but i watched her, and she was stuck in the past.

for 90 minutes on issue after issue, hillary clinton defended the terrible status quo. >> question two, will help from important friends help hillary clinton fix her enthusiasm gap with millennials and african-americans? >> spikes in early voting, and we're seeing voting rates among african-americans, latinos and young people going up. and for the first time, the estimate is that young people could represent 25% of the vote. now -- [ cheers ] -- i would love to see that. >> here's question three, will trump's insults of a one-time beauty queen come back to haunt him now? >> we can't accept, we can't

accept more insults for my latin community. no more. no more insults for the women. i know very well mrs. trump, and i can see the same person that i met 20 years ago. >> with us to share their reporting and insights, mary katherine hamm, federalist and from the "washington post" and a busy hour ahead. michelle obama on the campaign trail for hillary clinton in philadelphia. the first of two stops in pennsylvania today. we may dip in on that event and on capitol hill, congress meets. several important moving parts including a senate vote scheduled this hour in an attempt to override president obama's veto on the legislation clearing the way for 9/11 family victims to sue the saudi arabia. and a goal for donald trump, liver a stronger performance in the second presidential debate, one week from sunday. he said he'd make it more parn

a person and sharpen his case that hillary clinton won't and can't change washington. >> she's been there for 30 years, and hasn't fixed anything. it's all talk. no action. typical politician. in fact, her only experience has been at failure. look at everything she's touched has been failure just about. one failure after another, after another. what has hillary clinton accomplished for your family in the last 26 years that she's been doing this? nothing. nothing. >> pretty effective there. a case for donald trump that you need change, don't want a democrat to follow a democrat. that, mary katherine one of the better points in the debate. the voice for change. he won all the sham polls.

one one pol one poll he won. i'm shocked. first, do we expect that trump gets -- will he prepare better or just his aides saying we need to get limb to prepare better? >> an effective line, 30 years line, best moment maybe of the debate, and the problem is for short periods of time. whether he can sustain that is the question. it's possible he can get better. i also watched donald trump throughout the year revert to being donald trump every time he sustained something for a short period of time. more likely. he may get on the stage and let's talk about the last debate. he tends to go back to these things. but this message is a decent want. people want a changed election, but are not sure about him. >> through this before, president obama first debate against mitt romney, did well, game back, second debate did well and then the third, a provincial landslide. can he cam bacome back?

>> no. 's president obama the problem in the first debate a lack of energy. seemed to be out of it through much of that debate. that wasn't donald trump's issue. donald trump was aggressive, tried to make points, but as was said, he has trouble with focus, trouble sustaining that. so he has to calibrate it, and it's going to be more difficult in a town hall setting than in a straight setting with a single moderator. a more complicated comeback than president obama had. >> and in some ways the town hall format is better suited for him. he won't necessarily be able to interrupt hillary clinton as often as he did when voters are asking a direct question to her. you know, that was i think one of the things that probably the other day when we look at the polls, i would not be surprised if that hurt him. people don't necessarily like someone constantly interrupting. they want someone to wait their turn. when i talk to a lot of republicans about this afterwards, one of the things they pointed out as well.

not thinking that he just did not -- as one republican congressman said, mark sanford, he looked a little sophomoric, constantly interrupting hillary clinton. perhaps that format could be a little better. >> mark sanford says house speaker paul ryan went through this, over prepare, over prepare, over prepare, trying to begentle. you get the hint. and do they take seriously in the first debate i was going to go after bill clintons character, indiscretions, was going to say she was an enabler but pulled it back because chelsea was in the room. maybe in the second debate that's where i'll go. take it seriously or trump luster? >> prepared through all of that, but coming out of what happened on monday night, seemed pretty clear trump didn't prepare for clinton needling him and trying to set him up and he fell for it

a lot of the time, towards the end with the beauty queen stuff and also at the very beginning, when she started talking about his wealth. so they recognize that trump may fall into all of those sort of, actually quite risky insults about bill clinton and all of that other stuff, but it actually just leads him to spiral out of focus and out of control, and that helps them. so in some ways, you know, if trump does what he did on monday night, that's to their advantage. >> i remember chetty clintchels going to michelle obama campaigning in philadelphia. dip in for a little bit. >> -- let's give her a round of applause. yes! i also want to recognize your u.s. state -- u.s. senate candidate katie mcginty. katie's here. your u.s. house of representatives candidate dwight evans. your candidate for attorney general, josh shapiro.

[ cheers ] your state senator art heywood! and city councilwoman cindy bass. i know you all heard from them earlier today. so let's thank them for being here, and let's wish them luck on the future. we're going to get a lot of things done, but most of all, i want to thank all of you here at lasalle university. [ cheers and applause ] yes! [ cheers ] well, i have heard some great things about this school, and about the students and staff, so i am so proud and honored to be here. now -- whew -- it's hard to believe. [ cheers ] hey! i -- i see you all over there. i love you all, too. but we've got work to do here

today. because it is almost one month to election day, and i cannot believe it. and it's about time for my family to end our time in the white house. all right! it's all right. two terms. it's a reason. it's a good thing. it's a good thing. but i have to tell you, even though we've had a -- this is a bittersweet time for me. i mean, because we're engaged in a time of great transition, for me, for barack, to malia, sasha, even beau and sunny. i mean, what are they going to do when we xwleleave? my husband's got to find a new job. i've got to find a new job. leave our home. pack up the old house, get it cleaned up to get our security deposit back.

but, of course, this isn't just a time of transition for my family, but for our entire country. as we decide who our next president will be, and transitions like these can be difficult. they can involve a lot of uncertainty. we saw that back in 2008 when barack was first elected. i don't know if you all remember. especially that little one there, you weren't even born. but back then, people had all kinds of questions about what kind of president barack would be. things like does he really understand us? will he protect us? and then, of course, there are those who questioned and continue to question for the past eight years whether my husband was even born in this country. and let me say, hurtful, deceitful questions, deliberately designed to undermine his presidency.

questions that cannot be blamed on others or swept under the rug by a sentence uttered as a press conference. let me take a moment. but during his time in office, i think barack has answered these questions with the example he set and the dignity he's shown by going high when they go low. [ cheers ] and he's answered those questions with the progress we've achieved together. progress like health reform, passing health care, creating millions of jobs, slashing the unemployment rate. lifting millions of people out of poverty. expanding lgbt rights so marriage quality is now the law of the land. i could go on, but even after

all this progress, it's understandable that folks are feeling a little uncertain as we face this next transition. so the question is, how do we sort through all of the negativity? all the name-calling in this election, and choose the right person to lead our country forward? well, as someone who has seen the presidency up close and personal, let me share with you what i've learned about this job. lessons that seem even more relevant, even more critically important after watching monday's debate. first and foremost, this job is hard. it is the highest stakes most 24/7 job you can possibly imagine. the issues that cross a president's desk are never easy, and solutions to persistent

systemic challenges are never black and white. now, just think about the crises this president has faced these last eight years in his first term alone, barack had to rescue our economy from the worst crisis since the great depression. he had to make the call to take out osama bin laden. respond to devastating natural disasters, like hurricane sandy and so much more. so when it comes to the qualifications, we should demand in a president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously. someone who will study and prepare so that they understand the issues better than anyone else on their team. and we need someone with superb judgment in their own right, because a president can hire the best advisers on earth, but i guarantee you that five advisers will give five different

opinions, and it is the president and the president alone who always has to make the final call. we also need someone who is steady and measured, because when making life or death, war or peace decisions, a president just can't pop off, or lash out irrationally. no. we need an adult in the white house. i guarantee you. and, finally, we need someone who is compassionate. someone who will be a role model for our kids. someone who's not just in this for themselves, but for the good of this entire country. all of us. see, at the end of the day as i've said before, the presidency doesn't change who you are. it reveals who you are. and the same is true of a presidential campaign.

u.s. presidential campaigns are very long. nearly 2.5 years, or half of one presidential term. just think about that. so if a candidate is erratic and threatening, if a candidate traffics in prejudice, fears and lies on the campaign trail if a candidate thinks that not paying taxes makes you smart -- or that it's good business when people lose their homes. if a candidate regularly and flippantly makes cruel and insulting comments about women, about how we look, how we act, well, sadly, that's who that candidate really is. >> michelle obama on the campaign trail there in philadelphia one of two stops in pennsylvania today. both on college campuses. pretty tough language for donald trump there. if a candidate thinks not paying his taxes is smart, she talked

about that, says unsensitive things about women and an earlier college speech also said, talked about him, without mentioning his name, part of the birther controversy. said today you can't get away with a "insincere sentence uttered at a press conference" referencing, 39 short seconds, fine, donald trump says barack obama was born in the united states. tougher language from the first lady, who used to say she didn't like campaigning. seems like she's having fun there. >> this is personal for her. for sure. this is exactly the kind of thing that she really wants to get out there and have a say about, because i think she's offended by it. it's about her husband. and i also would say that the campaign has -- it's amazing to watch the way that they're handling the surrogates here. barack obama and michelle obama are doing such sort of intense campaigning and surrogate work on their behalf almost as if it's barack obama's campaign all over again. i mean, we have a straight to

camera ad from michelle obama doing what you would expect from, like, you know, a senate candidate on behalf of hillary clinton, because of how effective they can be, for millennials and african-americans. >> the question, trump has no such backup band, if you will. no high-powered republicans. both former presidents, bush, aren't for him. most other republicans are tolerating or running from him, one or the other. not embrace him happily. does it matter in this campaign? a new michelle obama ad, you mentioned, looking straight at the camera, what kind of president do you want for your daughter? the ad up on the tv. a good communicator. 2007, 2008, showed doesn't like this. the president, bernanke this morning on the steve harvey show, no question, he takes this personally. >> if there's one message i want to deliver to everybody, if you don't vote, that's a vote for trump. >> wow if you don't vote, that's a vote for trump. if you vote for a third party

candidate who's got no chance to win, that's a vote for trump. >> that a very strategic president, dan, there, in the sense that especially where the first lady is today, virginia, just outside of washington and early voting. worried she has an enthusiasm problem with african-americans. try to turn them out with early voting. the president telling the people you need to vote. a lot of millennials going for gary johnson, to a lesser degree jill stein. interesting, the president of the united states, not just some campaign manager. the president of the united states saying a vote for him is a vote for trump. >> we've never seen a president this actively engaged on behalf of somebody trying to become his successor ever. it is an extraordinary effort he's expending. part of it the belief if she is not elected a lot of his legacy is eroded or ended. part of it, his deep offense at donald trump. his belief, which we've known for a long time that he would be unfit to be the successor to

him. but as i say, it is an extraordinary effort he's expending. the question is, how much of his luster is transferrable? it's not been clear in senate races in 2010 or 2014 he was able to do anything about it. we don't know if he can do it for her. >> the mid-term a boom for the republican party. not just house and senate, the states as well. it is just remarkable to see the president making this so personal. part of it is trump. do it anyway, but part of it is trump and he was behind the whole birther charade. a great sign of clinton's strength. she has president popular with the democratic base a first lady a good campaigner. "bones" popular with millennials and liberal, elizabeth warren is out there, the vice president as a blue collar lunch bucket guy. president bill clinton out there. she needs help, struggling to generate enthusiasm among african-americans. a lot of millennials, no, an

older brand. we want something new. >> end of the day she has to make the case for herself. there's only so much surrogates can do. reiterate her points and speak to audiences skeptical of her. the brns thing ernie sanders th interesting. sanders promised to do a lot more campaigning for her in swing states that he won and also in states that perhaps aren't considered traditional battleground states like minnesota, for instance, that perhaps could come on the map if trump is supposed to do a lot bet oernt ground, because they believe he can still motivate that base even if hillary clinton at the end of the day has to make that sale herself whnks it comes to millennials, hillary might be a victim of obama's success in many ways. that generation came up feeling voting will feel emotionally great for me and hillary clinton, this does not feel good and told to live their heart song, and vote accordingly. and hillary doesn't feel like sheetz she's it.

emotional appeal from a figure they like is more likely to bring them in, but they operate on that level looking for emotional payoff and not getting it. >> another part of the clinton strategy, high-powered democratic stars trying to help her and more purple states. virginia one of them, trending blue, still nervous about virginia. rolled out a former icon of republican politics in the state of virginia. former senate john warner. look at his baseball card, secretary of the navy in the '70s. millennials don't know him. served more than 30 year in the united states senate. known as a moderate, pragmatic senator. tim kaine, hillary clinton's running mate and today appeared side-by-side. john warner once the chairman of the armed services committee, takes national security very seriously. navy veteran. i mentioned, secretary. donald trump simply not prepared to be commander in chief. >> that individual that is best qualified to lead this nation and first and foremost to have a

very firm and fundamental understanding about how this nation developed, how we got to where we are, how we became the leader of the world, and what our responsibilities are to maintain peace and freedom. not just for us, but for much of the world. and that cannot be learned overnight. you don't pull up a quick text, like national security for dummies. that book hasn't been published. >> you get a sense of what senator warner this of donald trump's abilities. clinton campaign, great. a big deal once in virginia politics comes out. great. gets attention. does it translate to jane and john doe thinking about their vote? >> the most influential people in the republican party, in his day on national security issues. clearly speaks to a certain

segment and a sign, too, there's a concern within the clinton camp that republicans are consolidating behind trump. at least before that first debate. perhaps if they can roll out high-profile republicans, convince some of the other more mainstream, moderate, independent-minded republicans not to jump on the trump train. but we'll see if the surrogates are enough. >> interesting to watch. stay with us. more live events could come up. live events in congress happening today, too, and up next, donald trump once called her miss housekeeping and an eating machine. now miss universe is looking for payback at the ballot box. i'm claudine and i quit smoking with chantix.

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seeking damages. the first veto override if the house follows suit of the obama presidency. after that vote is continued we'll discuss that. back to the campaign ahead of us here. one of the problems donald trump aides tell you in e have, telling him he needs to be different, act differently, stop saying some things, do more debate prep. donald trump looks at this map. all of these red states donald trump wins in the republican primaries. donald trump looks and says what's all the fuss about? i can win just about everywhere. the problem, winning on this terrain is different than winning on this terrain flshg. a key differences. exit polls republican primaries. 28 exit and entrance polls. the 2012 general election, who votes come november. 90% white in the republican primaries. a much more diverse electorate in the general election. majority of men in the republican primaries. women the majority getting to the general election. voters under 45 tend to be more democratic made up only 30% of

the republican primary electorate. half of the vote come november. older voters, more republican. 7 in 10 republican primary voters over the age of 45. 54% over the age of 45 in 2012. the republican primary electorate very different than the general electorate. more women, much more diverse. latinos are critical in several of the important swing states, why the clinton campaign now thinks a ven se venezuelan beaun is a great new surrogate. >> he's trying to destroy myself esteem and now i'm a voice in the latin community. that is the point. he can say whatever he wraunts to say. i don't care. i'm in this moment in a great moment in my life, and i have a very clear life. and i can -- and i can show my

taxes. >> after the democratic convention, it was the clinton campaign, gold star parent turned into a surrogate. some thinking maybe alicia machado can be the same thing. talked about the president, former president, president clinton, elected politicians for hillary clinton does a real person help more? >> i think that in this case, i think it was, it's clear obviously self-destructive for him to bring her up the day after the debate, because obviously his action doss not reflect well on him. the other hand, the clinton campaign has a little issue because of her past, according to some cnn a.p. reporting from back in the day, she had ties to some venezuelan criminals and the crimes they did. in the political parlance, i know mr. khan, you may remember mr. khan, unassailable surrogate. this one slightly different, but i think the theme of the attack is not bad. >> yes. attacking her weight and you know, bringing that up pro

actively, i mean, regardless of her past is not a good thing to be talking about. i asked senator mcconnell this yesterday. speaker ryan. about machado criticism. they dodged it completely. didn't want to touch it. neither did any republican. they're not going to defend this, and so the trump campaign wasn't happy he brought this up himself, one reason why they're trying to side step, move on. >> interesting. she brought it up in the debate. clearly a planned moment. they'd done research and apparently helped coordinate media interviews until after the don't. not a coincidence. how a smart campaign operates. you plan things like this. where did you get this? seemed indig knit in the debate. you mentioned yesterday on fox news, listen to donald trump. insaid to of saying, i'm sorry, a long time ago, i don't want to go back there, i'm running for office now, he doubled down. >> -- that person was a miss universe person, and she was the

worst we ever had. the worst. the absolute worst. she was impossible. >> did know know that story. >> i didn't know either. >> she was -- she was the winner, and gained a massive amount of weight, and it was -- it was a real problem. >> this stuff is so easy, so easy to get it right and yet somehow they don't seem to prepare him for these kinds of moments. i mean, i think mary katherine is right. she may not be the perfect sort of model for anything, really, but the point is, when women look at the video that the clinton campaign put out hours after the debate, and they listen to what she had to say and they watch these old clips of her exercising on the treadmill and trump standing over her, and talking about how she likes to eat, it's really easy for voters to understand what that's about. >> the video on the screen. >> easy to understand what that's about and all trump has to do is -- not talk about it. and maybe apologize for it,

or -- >> say that's a different phase of my life. >> i got an e-mail from a republican in one of the swing states, who said, who was beside himself about this, and about the whole debate, but said what trump has done on this particular issue will not play well with women in the suburbs. he didn't limit it to latinos. just -- >> women in this country. >> women in the suburbs. >> he came into the debate with momentum. happens at key moments, see what happe happens. back to the breaking news. picture of the united states senate that voted, they've voted to override the presidential veto. this has never happened in 7.5 plus years of the obama presidency, a veto not overturned. one chamber, moving on to the house. knows ago more about the congress considered the tougher chamber? getting the two-thirds majority allowing families of the 9/11 victims to sue saudi arabia. not a state player in terrorism but many of the actors were from

saudi arabia. where's this go from here? >> looks like the house will pass this probably as early as tomorrow. the administration has been lobbying behind the scenes to kill this in the senate, because they're worried about potentially opening up americans overseas to lawsuits or retaliatory actions by foreign governments in response to american millary actions overseas against americans abroad. that fell on deaf ears. such a sensitive issue. democrats and republicans know that they've got families of 9/11 saying the saudi government but didn't stop obama from calling mitch mcconnell, harry reid to stop this. the only recourse, perhaps reopen negotiations after it becomes law in a lame duck session of congress. see if they're able to get support. right now they don't have much. >> in the sense, if he held his own democrats, kept him from getting to two-thirds. republicans have 54 in an election year. too dicey? >> the clinton campaign is on the other side of the white

house on this. it's a hard issue to defend. the days going into the debate they knew there was a chance that this thing could come up. i don't think it did, but they thought that it was possible, and she's not siding with obama on this and that's a rare thing in this election cycle. >> more support from republicans than democrats, even paul ryan is receptive to the white house concerns as well as bob corker the former relations chairman. warren hatch, prerhaps can go back into it after it becomes law. >> might be hard to come back into, after the election. some things are close. needed two-thirds. 97-1. the vote in the united states senator and our producer on capitol hill, one of best in the business, because of this momentum thinking taking up the override in the house later today. embarrassment to the president of the united states. isa 2016 campaign issue or more of an obama legacy issue? >> more of like i'm just going to lame duck this thing out. not great for him.

something with 9/11 victims in the tithle, you have to go to te mats with that if you want to stick with this veto. the president hasn't been historic about doing the canoodling necessary for this kind of thing and in this case, didn't get done. fairly obvious. >> 97-1. maybe taken a little for this president. a problem with those ratios. on the subject on capitol hill, this is an kbaembarrassment fore president. the last couple days, prospect of an election year government shutdown. this is one of donald trump's big effort and most effective theme. this town doesn't work that well. dissipated? right? democrats insisting money for flint, michigan. republicans to support money for the people of flint, michigan, the infrastructure of flint, michigan to help a breakdown at every level of government and a disaster, actually a crime against people who live in the united states of america nap one's done?

>> looks like a deal will pass to keep the government open, pass the friday funding and for zika, stalling on capitol hill. deal with aid from the louisiana flooding and move this flint package separately. enacted in december. republicans realized nair a tough spot on that issue, particularly as donald trump himself going to flint, michigan, talking about this eschew, about the flint water crisis. republicans wanted to deal with that but deal with it separately from this government funding package. some conservatives are not happy about that knowing it's a bailout for flint, michigan. there will be potentially theatrics thick week but expect those votes to pass in the coming days. as early as today. >> assume we're getting these votes all of the sudden and getting things passed and done because they have the same calendar we do. 41 days to election and all want to go hoe? >> right. >> shocking how nothing like scheduling an election to get the congress to do its job. right? >> yep. >> self-preservation.

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we took you live at the top of the program, first lady michelle obama out campaigning for hillary clinton in philadelphia today. important on a college campus. spoke out about donald trump and the birther question. >> and then, of course, there are those who questioned and continued to question for the past eight years whether my husband was even born in this country. and let me say, hurtful, deceitful questions deliberately designed to undermine his presidency. questions that cannot be blamed on others or swept under the rug by a sentence uttered at a press conference. let me take a moment. but during his time in office, i think barack has answered these

questions with the example he set and the dignity he's shown by going high when they go low. >> we could debate going high, going low, but she wants that in the public square, this conversation to the point you made earlier, abby, this is personal for both obamas. personal because of democrat loyalty and because it happens to be donald trump. it was interesting in the debate, lester holt tried again, in the statement he made, donald trump spent more time giving propaganda promotions for his new hotel in washington that day than he did when he finally said, okay, i believe barack obama was parn in the united states, period. wouldn't take questions. hasn't explained why for five years after the president released his birth certificate. never mind the period before that. still kept saying i think it's a fraud, met with people who says a fraud. in the debate asked about it and he said, i say nothing. democrats think this is clearly a way to motivate not just the

african-american vote but suburban moderates to say i can't vote for this guy because of this. >> the way he handled in the debate is why this continues to be a problem for him. he can say 100 times i want to move on to other things. that's why i said what i said. but the way he tried to again pin it on hillary clinton's campaign. i thought she was effective in ignoring the piece of what he said and simply going straight to what he had actually done and take the fight back to him, because that throws it into a position that he's in, almost is in an impossible position. >> and 20 lech leelectoral vote pennsylvania. look at the state of pennsylvania, donald trump will win vast swaths of pennsylvania, democratic since 1988, you have to have a huge margin in central city philadelphia, where the african-american vote is and no early vote in pa. one of the say it's they then the get to use advantage, data,

voter identification and outreach. vice president briiden there, a the president and michelle obama. that's not an accident. >> and cycle after cycle pennsylvanians are viewed as someone who can come in their column. romney saw this as a possibility, put out emphasis on this and it didn't turn out that way, but this time, both showed, this is very close in pennsylvania. perhaps they can win, but it's an expensive state to campaign in. have to spend a lot of money in the philadelphia media markets, if they want to win and seems like that -- that trump is taking it seriously. >> and if you listen, obviously, we keep using the term personal. the president again, back to "the steve harvey show," the president of the united states is biz ishs things to do but promised the clinton campaign a lot of time in october to make the case and here again, "steve harvey show" speaking to

predominantly an african-american audience and personal. you don't get more personal than this. >> the notion that i'm not inspired because michelle and barack are not on the ballot this time and maybe we kind of take it easy. my legacy is on the ballot. all the work we've done over the last eight years is on the ballot. >> his approval ratings, above 50%. some polls show it around 50%, some a little better than 50%. how important, how big is the obama factor? >> the obama factor is very big. i mean if his approval rating were 53% or 54%, hillary clinton has wind at her backs as oppos to a swing election. he's trying to do everything to leverage himself, his popularitily particularly among the people they need to turn out in big numbers. not just a big margin among african-americans but big

numbers in terms of turnout. >> this is the world we live in. two campaigns trying to do two very different things turning out their vote. not competing for that many of the same people. not that much of a middle anymore. can donald trump say, look at him, the president, vice president, centers, establishment, even throwing in senator warren, the establishment is for her? >> i think he can make that argument and that's what people -- people want change. right? responding to that part of him but scared what he offers. pennsylvania because the ground game is slightly less important is helpful to him. and i think had it not been for a decent performance by her in the debate, the pennsylvania numbers would be panic button mode. nonetheless you see an army of surrogates going to pennsylvania because there is an underlying real serious problem with pennsylvania. >> went from plus 8 or 9 to plus 2pending what polling you believe. seeing the polls after the debate, check on the battleground states. interesting. just ahead, millennial icon

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tonight on cnn you won't want to miss a live town hall with president obama talking about veterans, being commander in chief, and i'm guessing the presidential campaign might come up. jake tapper moderates. never miss a conversation wit president of the united states. 9:00 p.m. tonight right here on cnn. ask our reporters around the corner, mary katherine? >> clarissa explains millennials, actress melissa joan hart said she is signing up with johnson's campaign as a connecticut chairperson. this is emblematic, because, clarissa, for me, millennial icon we grew up with and is taking the third-party route

doing it proudly and it speaks to the trouble these campaignless have luring these guys back. millennials want to do it the right way and don't want to do something reluctantly and this is how i'm going to do it. >> interesting. >> #imwithclarissa. >> going to bust the internet. dan? >> the next debate is the vice president debate, as everybody knows, and four years ago, joe biden helped president obama recover among nervous democrats after the president's bad performance. mike pence is in a similar position. he's got to do something to try to bring back the enthusiasm around the trump campaign. talking to people about what to look for in this campaign, a., that tim kaine will prosecute the case as much as he can to force pence to defend everything that donald trump has said and done over the last year. but pence may be able to prosecute the case against hillary clinton more effectively than donald trump was able to do

in the first debate, and if she does, that will set up the second debate for trump effectively. >> no pressure governor, at all. >> republicans are bullish about keeping control of congress, house and senate. kevin mccarthy, house majority leader said this week he thinks the republicans connection, pick up seats in the house. we expected all along they would lose seats. have to lose 30 to lose the house majority. he thinks could win seats. the senate side, polls looking better for senate republicans. mitch mcconnell, majority leader warning folks internally not to get too excited. focus in october. donors need to put more money into the states and watch for terrain in the senate states to go to red states, missouri, indiana, north carolina. that's where the battleground will be in october for the next senate majority. >> watching that. always forget sometimes, the presidential race, you forget tough ones. abby? >> one bing thing out of the debate, donald trump isn't really going to change the way he explains his actions around the housing bubble, or whether

or not he paid taxes at all. that's a big opening for the clinton campaign who had been looking for sort of something more concrete to kind of get at how trump might handle the economy and how he might be a steward of it. i think you have really strong ammunition, we've seen ads coming out talking about how trump has paid no taxes. i think this could be an opportunity for them to pivot back to the economy. we've seen slippage in the polls in terms of whether americans think she can handle it better than him. they need this opening in order to turn that around. >> watching that one. close, instead of a notebook, beak neighborly. first day of d.c. for daily inside politics. over my shoulder, this guy, wolf blitzer. many know him. >> nobody probe just feeds my loyalty. don't try to hide them. this guy back not this sunday a week from now, but wolf blitzer is a son of buffalo. proud son of buffalo. this weekend, the last non-tom brady weekend, the new england patriots play the buffalo bills.

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