cuomo. >> the race for the white house appears to be getting uglier. his surrogates now being told to use former president bill clinton's infidelities against hillary clinton. >> what is clinton going to do? she brought out some big name democrats to try and got after millennial voters. they're just 40 days left to the election. how are they going to spend this time to get your vote. just ten days until the next presidential debate. we have it all covered for you. let's begin with cnn's phil mattingly in iowa. council bluffs. great place. >> reporter: early voting starts here today. that's a big deal, particularly for donald trump. coming off what even advisers behind closed doors acknowledge was a weak debate performance. those same advisers say they have a clear winning message, the types of attacks that will certainly resonate with their voters. now if they can just get their candidate to make them. >> i don't think she did well in

the debate at all. >> reporter: despite pundit after pundit calling donald trump a debate loser, he remains convinced otherwise. >> we had the debate the other night. every online poll had me winning by sometimes a landslide. >> reporter: trump citing surveys that allow anyone to vote multiple times. as trump remains defiant, his advisers are moving to sharpen his debate skills and attacks on hillary clinton before the next face-off. hitting clinton in releases online and back-to-back speeches on her connections to wall street and corporate interests. >> hillary clinton is an insider fighting for her donors. i am an outsider fighting for you. we're fighting together. >> reporter: the democratic nominee deploying her party's biggest guns to undercut trump's efforts. >> when making life or death, war or peace decisions, a

president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally. no. we need an adult in the white house. >> reporter: all while trump takes his most explicit shots at clinton's health yet. >> see all the days off hillary takes? day off. day off. day off. all those days off and then she can't even make it to her car. isn't it tough? >> reporter: giving his biggest supporters in iowa exactly what they want. trump unscripted and off the cuff. touting his support among evangelical supporters. trump jokingly singled out non-christian conservative supporters in the crowd. >> raise your hand if you are not a christian conservative. i want to see this, right? there's a couple of people. i think we'll keep them. should we keep them in the room? yes. i think so. >> reporter: kind of an awkward

and intended to be joking moment but one that can make people increasingly uneasy. still when donald trump goes off the cuff, that is exactly what his supporters want. and that's extremely important now and here in iowa. early voting starts today. and that's extremely important for the campaigns as they try and bank those votes. democrats in iowa have the upper ha hand. republicans thinking they can make gains this year. 44% of iowans cast their ballots nearly 2012. this is a key moment for those campaigns. >> it sure is, phil. that's why hillary clinton is also in iowa where early voting begins today. this comes after a big push to court millennial voters with the help of the first lady, bernie sanders and chelsea clinton. chris freight is in washington with more. hi, chris. >> reporter: good morning. hillary clinton trying to dip a little into the political fountain of youth urging

millennials to vote for her in november. clinton has problems closing the deal among young voters, many of whom passionately supported bernie sanders in the primary. the campaign stop at the university of new hampshire yesterday, sanders tried to use his mojo to help his former rival and clinton worked to make the election less about her and more about issues that resonate with young voters. college affordability and climate change. >> this election is enormously important for the future of our country. it is imperative that we elect hillary clinton as our next president. >> it's not just my name on the ballot. every issue you care about. >> she has a lot of work to do. a recent bloomberg poll shows clinton leading trump by just four points with third party candidate gary johnson grabbing 11%. now four years ago, president obama won young voters by 29 points, according to exit polls. yesterday first lady michelle

obama told a crowd that a vote for a third party candidate was essentially a vote for donald trump. and the clinton camp set to turn up the volume on that message. sanders is planning to ramp up his campaigning in this final month hitting key campaign battlegrounds like ohio, pennsylvania and wisconsin as they try to turn out young voters. >> chris frates, a lot of concern about whether clinton can capture the obama coalition. let's bring in some people for perspective. co-chair of donald trump's new york campaign, joseph borelli and national spokesman for moveon.org, careen jean pierre. she supports hillary clinton. state of play in the election. i want to play some sound. lester holt asks hillary clinton something about race and its play out in our society. trump responds. here's the sound back-to-back. >> do you believe that police are implicitly biased against black people? >> i think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just

police. i think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other when it comes to policing since it can have literally fatal consequences, i have said in my first budget we would put money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by retraining a lot of our police officers. >> then, in our debate this week, she accuses the entire country, including all of law enforcement, of implicit bias. essentially suggesting that everyone, including our police, are basically racist and prejudiced. by smearing tens of millions of hard-working decent americans, she's rendered herself unfit to be president. >> my guess is you two have -- you heard different things there. what did you hear, careen? >> this is coming from the same

person who said i want to make stop and frisk into a national policy which, you know, even during that time during the debate he was told in 2013 that was deemed unconstitutional and didn't believe it. and so this is the thing about trump. he doesn't understand at all the community. he really, really does live from the towers of trump, and it's unbelievable because what stop and frisk did was it actually pulled over, stopped, 4 million new yorkers. and it actually at its heyday in 2011, close to 700,000 people were stopped and frisked, and 9 out of 10 of them were innocent. and he just doesn't understand that. >> this is a larger point that he's making. in new york, a federal judge found it to be unconstitutional as applied. there's the terry case. google terry. stop and frisk can be constitutional. it is all how you do it. she's speaking to something else. this is why i played the sound. white people do not like to hear

that they are implicitly biased. they don't want to hear it. hillary clinton said that. donald trump seizes the initiative and says she's calling all of you biased. she's unfit. >> right. but, look, she, i think, did the best -- she really answered the question the way it should have been because there is an issue what's going on out in this world. we see videos after videos that are showing black men, black women being, while unarmed, being shot and killed because of a traffic violation or whatever it is. so there is an issue there. and so people complain about collin and him standing on his knees, getting on his knees and protesting, doing a silent, nonviolent protesting. then there's a shooting last week in north carolina, and no one gets all crazed about that. >> this is not the first time that hillary clinton used this line of attack where she painted a broad stroke for basically all of law enforcement and all the people that might be sympathetic

to law enforcement. she said it on the steve harvey show as well. i think broader american society doesn't like to be painted with a broad stroke of being implicitly biassed. the police officers i know don't want to be painted with implicit bias. stopping stop and frisk under mayor bloomberg. bloomberg is a hillary clinton surrogate, not a donald trump surrogate. mayor de blasio uses stop and frisk almost at the same numbers giuliani did. >> it's less. >> in the height of giuliani, about 100,000. but nowhere near the level bloomberg used it at 500,000 a year. >> the problem you have is this. trump said it's the reason crime came down in new york city. you'll not find a police commissioner to agree with that. >> it's not true. >> the main reason that it came down. and words matter. trump said they should do it in chicago. they do do it in chicago. does it concern you -- >> stop and frisk doesn't work. it doesn't work.

>> so, listen, you have a combination -- >> doesn't know the facts. sounds like he doesn't know the facts. >> i think you have a combination of stop and frisk, broken windows policing, having an effect. there was something like 250 or 300,000 crime victims before mayor giuliani took office in 1990. let's talk about the crime victim rate. that number dropped dramatically by the time his tenure was up and even by the time bloomberg's tenure was up. this is going back to -- >> stop and frisk was a racial profiling. it was deemed unconstitutional after -- >> which trump is in favor of. he said we need to profile more. >> it didn't work. >> the judge in that case was removed. >> crime in new york city is at its lowest it's been in years. >> and stop and frisk is still being used as a tool by the police department. >> that is not true. >> mayor de blasio pulled the appeal for the stop and frisk lawsuit -- >> i don't want to confuse

people at home. is stop and frisk used in new york city? yes. is it used the way it used to be? no. and de blasio is a big part of his campaign. >> it was. >> he wanted to change it. bratton then came back with him of new york city fame as police commissioner. just retired. he said it depends on how you do it. it has to be more selective to target reasonable basis of having a criminal stop. so they changed it because it was not being done the best way. >> has to be used as the constitution allows it, via terry v. ohio. that's how mayor giuliani used it, how de blasio is essentially using it now. it's an effective tool for policing. this is something that gets painted with a broad stroke where she has this -- >> can we -- >> makior final point and i want to move on to something else. >> can we talk about the larger aspect of this? donald trump and his outreach to african-americans and the latino -- >> talking point.

>> you went off for a while here. let me have my second. he chooses to do that by wanting to put back stop and frisk on a national level nor chicago, however he wants to frame it. and also his speeches to the community has been, hey, you know what? you live in a squalor. you guys are going to get shot in the middle of the street. he doesn't understand the folks. he doesn't understand black people. it's just wild what he does. and then his immigration plan is completely insulting. and then he tries -- and then in speeches when he's trying to outreach to the african-american, he tries to pin the latino community and african-americans against each other -- >> taking every african-american vote for granted since the 1960s. >> african-americans are sophisticated voters just like white people. just like anybody else. >> correct. >> and there's a reason we have supported the democratic party. >> and there are african-americans who are small business owners. >> don't insult us by saying we've been stick with the

democratic party that's done nothing for us. that is absolutely false. i take insult to that. >> point, counterpoint on this. i have a married. >> although in this state it would be okay. i still have a shot. so if we go forward with this election taking a turn towards bill clinton's past and hillary's involvement in it, it is going to start a deaflution in this campaign, the likes of which we've never seen. donald trump is not one to get on a high horse and talk about morality with hillary clinton. do you stand against that as one of his surrogates? >> the issue is not bill clinton himself and what he did to these women or what he did not do. it's the treatment hillary clinton gave to the women after they accused bill clinton of -- >> it will be about his sex life, what she did, the women, what trump did, about his divorce and rape allegations. >>ed my heedia media is okay

take something statement from machado -- >> it wasn't about trump having an affair with her. it was about den graigra denigr. >> after the way clinton and her surrogates treated her in then in 90s. if you want to give a platform for ms. machado, you should give a platform to the juan eat a juanita brodericks of the world. >> if republicans decide going after bill clinton for -- >> hillary. >> going after bill clinton after what -- for 20 years ago, they'll lose more women voters. it is -- one there is only one candidate throughout who is calling women bimbos. >> hillary, in the '90ss. >> one calling women fat. there's only one candidate out there who has insulted and disrespected women over and over again over the last 14 months.

heck, over the last, you know, years of his life. >> bimbo was a word hillary clinton used in '90s. >> karine, joe, thank you very much. appreciate the spirited discussion as always. we've learned more about the deadly police involved shooting we first told you about yesterday. this one was near san diego. an officer shot alfred alongo after he pulled a vape smoking device from his pocket and pointed it at officers while taking that's shooting stance you see on your screen. you and i wondered what it was he had in his hand as everyone did. now we know the answer. you can see that on your screen. police arrived on the scene after getting calls of a man not acting like himself and walking into traffic. the 38-year-old refused commands. friends of alongo say he suffered from mental issues. >> my legal opinion will be this case is not going to last very long in terms of justifiable

violence. you point something that looks like a gun at the officers, you'll get a result. then knowing what this call was about, how much did they know about it being a mental illness? how should they respond? should the protocol be the same? we see them repeated with tragic consequences as well. president obama coming face-to-face with veterans and military families at a cnn town hall. did he convince them that the government is doing enough to help our nation's heroes when they return home, next. that's why at mccormick pure flavor is our mission. so you can realize the rich taste of pure flavor. after all, the smallest pinch of mccormick can make meals legendary. because pure tastes better.

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military families confronting president obama at an emotional cnn town hall last night. cnn white house correspondent michelle kosinski was there. hi, michelle. >> you know lately i can't tell you how many times we're at an event with the president and whatever the conversation is supposed to be about, it veers right to politics or the first question out of the gate over and over again is about something donald trump said. but this was completely different. this very specific group of people, they have lived the administration's policies on the military. they've lived through the changes to the military. their questions were tough and at times extremely emotional. in an intimate, solemn space, members of the military and their families addressed their commander in chief directly. >> are we doing anything now greater to combat islamic

jihadists? >> discussing some of the thorniest challenges of our time. iraq, syria, terrorism. president obama asked this by a gold star mother. >> why do you still refuse to use the term islamic terrorist? >> reporter: illiciting one of the most thorough, blunt answers we've heard. >> if i think someone who uses the phrase islamic terrorism that it's a huge deal? no. but i don't want to validate what they do. i don't want to -- if you had an organization that was going around killing and blowing vanguard of christianity, i'm e not -- as a christian, i'm not going to let them claim my religion and say you're killing for christ. i would say that's ridiculous. >> reporter: the president emphasized n ed that worldwide r attacks haven't increased substantially, though little comfort after the horror of

paris, orlando, bangladesh, turkey and the list goes on and on. but this group has witnessed its own suffering, too. and it quickly became personal. emotional. >> mr. president, i stand before you today with my husband's flag because he was always his desire to meet you. >> reporter: donna coates, wife of barry, who lost his battle with cancer after waiting more than a year for a colonoscopy at a v.a. hospital. >> the only true change that's come since we began talking was that i am now a widow. and my family, we will never be the same. >> we now have a situation where about 80% of individuals who interact with the v.a. are satisfied that they are getting timely treatment. i want that to be 100%. and that requires more work. >> reporter: and amanda souza who lost her marine veteran husband to post-traumatic stress and suicide. >> this was his livelihood, and

he was too scared to go get help because he did not want to risk being labeled as unstable or weak. >> reporter: there was this surprising question about women in combat from marine lauren cerrano who earned a bronze star in iraq. >> a study by the marine corps revealed mixed gender combat units performed notably worse and women suffered staggering injuries. mixed gender units took up to 159% longer to evacuate a casualty than all-male units. as the wife of a marine who deploys to combat often, that added time could mean the difference between my husband living or dying. why were these tangible, negative consequences disregarded? >> i don't think any studies are going to be disregarded. i don't want a military, an institution that starts with the premise that women can't do

something. if it turns out they can't do something, then we'll deal with that specific situation but i don't want to start off with that assumption. >> reporter: some recent polling of members of the military, not all of these have been scientific but it shows the approval rating for the president is anywhere from 15% to 30%. the point is, it's very low. they also support donald trump over hillary clinton, 2 to 1. and in one recent survey, a big chunk of u.s. troops, one-fifth of them who responded said they didn't even want to vote at all in this election given the choices. they don't feel like either major party represents them. president obama clearly wanted to change some minds last night. but that venue, he didn't want to get too political. chris? >> michelle, thank you. joining us is paul ricoff. good to see you. thank you for your service. i asked you, what do you want to talk about?

what mattered about last night. and you said that it happened. why? >> we asked our members how they feel washington is doing. and only 20% felt like president obama was listening to iraq and afghanistan vets. this is a conversation long overdue. we should have had it every year. seven years ago, during the v.a. scandal. it's good we had it and it was a really smart conversation. the questions from the veterans and military folks were excellent. we got substantive issues. we should have had this conversation before the v.a. scandal and maybe the president could have been ahead of it n cnn wouldn't have had to do stories about people dieing on the waiting list. this is becoming a regular political conversation and that's a good thing for veterans and a good thing for our political debate. >> you often say, listen, are we sick? is ptsd a bigger problem? yes, yes, but don't treat us like we're all sick. we have real needs when we come back home and everyone says they support the troops but they

don't support us when they come back here. >> we're not all damaged and broken. combat is a typical thing to experience. ptsd and other things are a real problem but many of us are doing great things. we're in school, community leaders, first responders. i thought a good first moment for the president is when he took on the stigma of mental health. he's really evolved in his language about how folks can come forward and get help. it's a sign of strength, not weakness. that's a real step forward for the conversation on mental health more broadly, not just veterans. >> they often say take the deal. just say pts. don't call it a disorder. >> technically it still is ptsd in the dsm but regardless of what we call it, the point is folks need to come out and get help but the government needs that's help ready when they do. that's the real issue. president obama's record on v.a. issues and veterans has been disappointing. there's been some headway but his legacy -- >> he said he expanded the budget 85%. >> yeah, and we had the biggest

scandal in v.a. history that caused the secretary to resign. budget increases alone are not the problem. we've made progress on homelessness and joining forces has been a good step forward. we also have folks on waiting lists, disability backlog he was going to get to zero. they were going to end veterans homelessness. many promises made that are like the promise to close guantanamo. it sounded great on the campaign trail but just hasn't gotten done. the rhetoric is strong. the president does care but we've had a lot of major mistakes and unforced errors that could have been avoided. >> two other issues. the g.i. bill. very important to you. congress was being sneako it. you contacted me and said put your eye on this because they're going to do a sneaky vote in here. they'll not have a roll call and they'll submarine the g.i. bill. we jumped all over it and they ended up doing the right thing on the g.i. bill. >> it's not over yet. >> how fragile is the situation? >> it's very fragile.

the senate is trying to cut $3 billion from the mostpost-9/11 bill. they snuck in this cut. we've been trying to oppose it. we've asked the candidates to appose it. you asked donald trump a tough question. does he support these cuts? hillary clinton said she opposes the cuts. the president hasn't said if he opposes the cuts. it's a really important nuanced issue that folks maybe aren't tracking. it matters to us and our families. and it will impact whether or not they can go to school. these are the issues we need to pull up and make a national conversation, especially when we're a country at war. you haven't heard a lot about the fact we've got folks in iraq, in afghanistan. just sent a few hundred more yesterday. that's forgotten. we want to make sure we're not forgotten. this conversation is a good step forward but it's only a step. it has to be part of a continuing effort to have a real national discussion on all these issues that have plagued our community for over a decade. >> as we've always said, you

tell us how to help the iava, we will because it's in the interest of all americans. >> we appreciate it. >> i need more of those. oscar mike, iava merchandise is there and it helps support the cause. >> thanks again. pundits in our cnn poll suggest that hillary clinton finished ahead of trump at monday night's debate. but there are still two more debates to go. can donald trump bounce back? is hillary clinton overly confident? we discuss. "you don't want to ride the 13l forever, do you?" "credit karma huh?" "yeah, it's free." "credit karma. give youself some credit."

isn't this one of the strangest elections you've ever seen? i really sometimes don't know what to make of it. standing on the debate stage the other night, i was especially thinking about that. >> hillary clinton taking a bit of a victory lap after the first debate. our cnn poll finds that she won

that night, but, of course, the election is still 40 days away. clinton heads to iowa today where early voting begins. is she celebrating too soon? joining us is democratic congressman and house minority whip steny hoyer. good morning. >> good morning. >> after you watched the debate monday night, what lessons do you think hillary clinton needs to take away and bring to the next debate? >> i think she did very, very well. i think all the polls reflect that. your poll but all the other polls as well. focus groups reflect it. i think she was strong. she was substantive. and she was on point on the answers. and i think her answer, absolutely correct. i think she had a very good night. i don't think she's going to be overconfident. donald trump is unpredictable, to say the least. i think hillary clinton will continue to be very focused on

the issues. i think in the next debate and debates thereafter, they are different formats but i think she'll do very well. >> the next format is a town hall style. and that one, you know, pundits say that donald trump really feeds off the crowd. he likes interacting with the crowd and that may be his strong suit. >> he certain lie feeds off the crowd and the crowd feeds off him, in my opinion, mostly negative. having said that, i think hillary clinton will do very well. in a town hall, people ask questions. donald trump doesn't have answers. hillary clinton has not only answers but a vision for the future. she's steady and she's experienced. and so i think she'll do very well in that format. i'm not worried about that at all. i'm not worried about overconfidence. we can't take this for granted. hillary did well in the last debate and needs to do well in the next two debates. and i think she's going to win this election. but we're not going to take that for granted. >> let's talk about what happened in congress yesterday

and the ability of the 9/11 families, or anyone, to sue a country that is a sponsor of terrorism. you voted to override the president's veto on that. why did you make that decision? >> i think it was a close call. there were a number of people who voted against it. only one person voted against it in the senate. and it was to give citizens who have been very badly damaged the opportunity to have their day in court. there are obviously concerns about it. i'm sure we'll be discussing those concerns over the next few weeks before we come back in a special session or in lame-duck session. but i think that as you saw the overwhelming majority, the congress thought it was fair to give these people their day in court. >> as you know, president obama says that this is a problem and that this exposes americans, military people who are deployed overseas, to personal lawsuits. that's what he was trying to

avoid. are you worried about that? >> i think that's a good point, and i think we need to be looking at that closely. that was certainly not the intent, nor do we think it's the effect, but it's a valid concern the president raises, and we have to look at it very carefully to make insure that his concerns are dealt with. >> but then why did you already vote to override his veto, which would have addressed that? >> as i said, the overwhelming majority of the congress of the united states believed that people hawho have been very bad injured, lost family members, devastated in many ways, deserve their day in court to see whether or not there are culpable parties that are involved in this that ought to be held accountable. so that's why the congress overwhelmingly voted for that. but the president's concerns are vald. we need to look at those. i'm sure we'll continue to do so. >> also last night the house passed a spending bill. it only lasts until december 9th. >> 9th, right.

>> why can't congress pass one that lasts more than several weeks? >> well, in this case, we have not done our work. we have not passed a single appropriation bill. the republicans are in charge of the house and the senate. they haven't sent a single appropriation bill to the president for signature. there are 12 of those. we haven't even had five of them come to the house flowor. republicans control all the levers of power. the house of representatives could have done that. they didn't. the reality is the fiscal year ends september 30th, tomorrow. we needed to have what is called a continuing resolution which means the authority to keep spending money, i.e., keeping government in operation. some wanted to do a longer term. we did not. we want to complete the process by the end of this calendar year. i am hopeful and believe, as we did last year, thatwewillpass an omnibus appropriation bill

which will fund government through the balance of the fiscal year until next september 30th. we should pass appropriation bills individually. they should be considered, passi passed and sent to the president and then we'll take action from there. that's the way the process ought to work. the process is not working, notwithstanding the fact senator mcconnell and speaker ryan said we're going to proceed with regular work. we haven't done that, which required the passing of the continuing resolution. >> congressman steny hoyer, thanks for being on "new day." >> you bit. thanks a lot, alisyn. >> donald trump's talking points on the clinton campaign are out. and another flub for gary johnson. just some of the big political headlines that we're going to cover. how do they all play out ahead of the election? we'll give you the bottom line with david gregory next. ♪

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the bottom line. i like it. >> i, do too. look at that fancy new graphic. cnn obtaining an internal memo from donald trump's campaign that shows their talking points, what the surrogates were going

to be talking about to the media today. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski chimed in earlier on why they decided to bring up bill clinton's past infidelities. >> these aren't the talking points of the trump campaign. this is the a-1 story above the fold of the "washington post" talking about a 40-year history n specifically in that story, references george stephanopoulos who hat the time worked for the administration who quoted hillary clinton as saying we must destroy these women who are going after bill. >> are you confident this is a winning strategy to bring all this up again? >> i think it's about the h hypocrisy of hillary clinton calling into question what trump has said and what his actual path has been with women. >> okay. that's not all. but we want to talk about it now because it's the bottom line. we want to bring in cnn's political analyst david gregory. >> i think i should put on the

glasses. >> fetching. >> thank you for being here. a political round-up with you. here we have the talking points put out to the trump surrogates. number six is where they are responding. anybody who brings up the alicia machado, the former miss universe, then they are suggested, advised to go after bill clintclinton's past. how is that strategy working? >> i don't know why they want to keep talking about this issue overall and the miss universe issue when you have donald trump and newt gingrich talking about how it's important to keep your weight off if you want to be a beauty contestant. two overweight men. i don't understand why you'd want to go there. if you want to make a hypocrisy argument against hillary clinton it may have political potency. may be a reminder about a part of the clinton's past and past allegations and an ugly personal episode. i think hillary clinton will be prepared to deal with that. and the larger question for

trump is, does he think he can mitigate the ground he's losing among women or would he rather focus on those who think he's not qualified or doesn't have the temperament. this is potentially ugly territory. >> why would he oppose himself to the same level of analysis. this is not a man who stands on a high moral box, and the problem is, if they start talking about it, we'll start covering it. and then who knows which way this election goes. >> so you get into marital infidelity and judging each other. and the question as a debate moment, for instance, he's telegraphing what he's going to do so headquarter will illary c that much more prepared. i think chelsea clinton was interesting in this interview saying it's a distraction and so i don't think that hillary clinton is actually going to go there in the same way. i don't think she had the response trump did. this contestant machado, she gained a lot of weight and you

can't do that. we have a problem with that. he allowed himself to be pulled down into that. >> here's the new yorker's new cover just out and it has trump as a beauty contestant. >> hey. >> come on. that was a good one. >> that's "the new yorker" at its best. i don't know what the appeal is on that but this is really important. the donald trump that showed up to the debate for the first 45 minutes appeared to be a different, more disciplined campaigner in the final stretch. and then he unraveled and indulged his worst impulses. and the fact this is still a topic of conversation is just not where they want to be. that's the bottom line. he's got a big task, persuadable voters, are you qualified? this is microtargeting time. you have to know he has advisers telling him to stay on track

here even as others are doing talking points about going after hillary clinton's views of women who, you know, may have been in a relationship with her husband. >> under the topic of ameliorating, do you think gary johnson will be able to ameliorate what happened to him again, this time with chris matthews and him just drawing a blank on something you got to know if you're going to be president. take a watch. >> name a foreign leader that you respect. >> i guess i'm having an aleppo moment in the former president of mexico. >> the whole world. anybody in the world you like. anybody. pick any leader. >> the former president of mexico. >> which one? >> i'm having a brain -- i'm having a brain freeze. >> fox. >> who is your favorite former leader. >> he's terrific. >> merkel. >> okay. save yourself. can't argue with that. >> david, what are we to make of that? >> it's disqualifying.

you can't be out there saying to the country that you are a legitimate third way and you don't understand who you may be dealing with on the world stage. look what we've heard in the past couple of days from the cia director and the fbi director about the nature of terrorism and the threat coming from around the world. foreign fighters who leave the battlefield in iraq and go to europe. syrian refugees, 7 million of them, who could become radicalized, some of whom who could be exposed to terrorist elements. young people who are homeless and displaced. these are real issues that require a leader who understands america on the world stage. and i think young people who may support johnson understand the importance of that as well. >> it also shows he didn't take aleppo as a teachable moment. >> which might be more important than all those other things. >> david's point is the right one. people are looking for alternatives. and many see this as the less bad choice but is this third option a real option? >> david, thank you.

great bottom line. the gifts that keep on giving for comics as "snl" prepares for their fall return and a new face taking on donald trump. who is that? >> controversial says camerota. look at her, though.

late-night comics having their fun with the 2016 race. here's a little dabble. >> the second presidential debate is just 11 days away. this one will have a town hall

format. first question will be, why did you have to do this in our town? can you do it somewhere else? >> hillary clinton is campaigning with bernie sanders for the millennial vote. yeah. yeah. they are trying to get millennials with the opening line, hey, our combined age is approximately one millennia. >> donald trump last night held his first rally since monday's debate and told supporters hillary clinton showed she is stuck in the past. luckily, hillary knows someone who can get her back to the future. >> the next debate donald trump is threatening to talk about all of bill clinton's affairs. yeah. hillary is not too worried because the debate is only 90 minutes. >> trump supporters claim hillary clinton used a secret device monday night to boost her debate performance. we have a picture of it right

here. to be fair, donald trump has been wearing a secret device this entire campaign. seems like everybody is watching the debate and it's reported that the taliban even had a debate viewing party. so for the first time it looks like they're torturing themselves. very interesting times we live in. >> okay. very funny. and we have some breaking comedy news. alec baldwin will play trump on the new season of "saturday night live." here are the promos for it. alec baldwin getting the eyeball treatment there. kate mackinnon with the eyebrow treatment. >> camerota, do you like the choice of alec baldwin? >> darrell hammond is so perfect. i feel he fills the essence of donald trump.

why mess it up? >> he is very strong but i must be pro-baldwin. he has an edge, a name value that will help the show. and i think he will bring something different to it. especially because of his political background. leanings, not background. >> i think darrell hammond is so great. when he -- there's too much lip with -- alec baldwin is giving too much lip. >> what do you think? too much lip? let alisyn know. "newsroom" with carol costello right after the break. can wear away your enamel. your tooth is gonna look yellower, um more dull. nobody wants to have yellow looking teeth. i recommend pronamel toothpaste because it helps protect and strengthen your enamel. it's gonna make them more resistant to the acid erosion so that your teeth are not bothering you and you feel good about your smile. it's such a wonderful combination, it's pro enamel, it's good for your enamel, it's a positive thing.

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♪ good morning. i'm carol costello. it is one of the key states that could tip the balance in the presidential race. and the first of those all-important votes are being cast right now. just within the last few seconds, iowa became the first state to allow early voting in person. it's no coincidence that hillary clinton and donald trump are courting voters in this battleground state. their attacks ramping up. the calendar ticking down. it's now just 40 days until the election. and a mere ten days until the next presidential debate. and it's all signs suggesting an uglier showdown. word of new tensions bubbling up inside one of the campaigns. a lot to cover this morning, as usual. let's begin with phil mauttingl. good