welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thanks for sharing time with us. packed day on the campaign trail, 22 days out including mike pence and bill clinton veents just this hour. keep an eye on them. dip in if we need to. polls released from battleground states. first battleground state of ohio, move it ut 0. pull you in. battleground state of ohio, good news for donald trump. bad news lately in polls but donald trump up 48% to 44%. third party candidates at 4 and 2 respectively. and battleground ohio, a state

donald trump needs to win. and north carolina, poll shows hillary clinton with the narrowest of lead. 1-point lead. dead heat in north carolina. gary johnson 4%. jill stein not on the ballot in north carolina. west to nevada. this is a surprise. a state democrats won convincingly the last two times out, but take a peek here and look at numbers. 46-44. again a very narrow clinton lead. statisticians say a dead heat. gary johnson 7. none of the above, do that in nevada, 2% see if it goes high are election day. a trump supporter, well, after a tough couple of weeks, reason to think the glass is half full. and hoping to reseek the momentum in the third and final presidential debate. the other map, electoral map, clinton's state-by-state advantage is overwhelming heading into the stretch. narrow leads for her in nevada and north carolina.

trump up a little bit now. perhaps in ohio. hard truth for trump is, she can afford to lose all three of those states and still win the election. which is why trump now adds the polls s ts to his growing list complaints and conspiracy theories. >> false sortories, all made up. lies, lies. no witnesses. no nothing. all big lies. it's a rigged system. and they take these lies and they put them on front pages. this is a rigged system, folks. >> with us to share reporting and insights beginning the week -- our panel. let's start with these polls, because there are three of the most competitive states in the country. very close right now. if you've looked at the past weeks you think, why isn't it a blowout? everything thought, republicans,

tell you the race is over. a big debate wednesday night. as i said, hillary clinton can afford to lose north carolina, ohio, afford to lose nevada. don't want to, don't think they will but can afford to lose all three. just that they're tight enough does that tell you for all of this talk that it's over that trump has a chance, if, capital f, bold face yurnunderline turna compelling debate? >> yes, but he can do now. right now a solid group of supporters that stuck with him and will continue to stick with had him basically no matter what happens, but needs more consistent outreach particularly to women, to independents, to moderate republicans. he needs to move them over into his camp. i think what's helping keep this close is that hillary clinton remains unpopular. even as she has pulled ahead in some of these polls. look at her favorability ratings, haven't seen huge changes there. she's not out on the campaign trail a lot, not doing a lot pro

actively to change impressions and a slow, slow drip from wi wikileaks. >> and this last big debate, 60, 70, 80 million people watches, who knows. ratings will be, first one got 80-something. is this the right argument for donald trump saying this is a rigged system? right now before the vote? remember, we didn't hear this when winning republican primaries. did hear in a bad stretch in the republican primes. donald trump tweeting a time the campaign means the media, you in the media are trying to rig the system. that's not what donald trump says. of course, large-scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. what do rubben leaders deny what is going on? so naive. >> he doesn't seem to have evidence of that, and secretary of states of state across the country, a number of them republicans including in ohio are saying, no. there is no evidence of large-scale voter fraud, but

donald trump has never really sort of felt the need to back up these kinds of claims. the real problem for him right now is, these kind of tweets sound like he's already conceding defeat. >> a lot of people who think that. a lot of people sek lation hepe attacking the republican party, delegitimize a clinton party if there is one, trying to, part of a postelection plan for trump? >> goes beyond the debate or even tweeting, because the problem for him has always been the map is a little more friendly and has more built-in votes for democrats. so he has to, as this point run a perfect game from here on out the next couple weeks. not sure we've seen evidence he can do that. remains close because undecided voters, look at focus groups are different than in the past. unengaged, clue in at the last minute and make a decision. undecided voters this time, very engaged and disgusted with their choices. it's unclear how they'll behave

in the next couple weeks. it doesn't surprise me a ton that it keeps tightening up for that reason. people want a change but are afraid of the change he's offering. >> and democrats don't like it when we say this, we live in a center right country. look at the national map, republican house minority, 54 senate seats, 30 governors across the country. legislative games in the last eight, ten years mostly republican. a center right country, but democrats win the white house when voters in the middle, moderates, suburban women reject the -- you mentioned the secretary of state of ohio. bring him up. a republican's. trump will say i'm at war with the republicans in ohio. governor won't endorse me, this guy is a friend of the governor. trump says, same old establishment criticizing me. listen to the secretary of state in ohio, pretty big state in the country, secretary of state says, rigged? no way. >> i'll say a couple things. first of all i can reassure donald trump i am in charge of elections in ohio and they're not going to be rigged. i'll make sure of thatone of the

bedrocks of american democracy. we should not question it, or the legitimacy of it. it works very well in places like ohio. we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. we have a bipartisan system of elections. >> there's a republican secretary of state, and there are 50 of them, plus an official here in the district of columbia and saying, yeah, every now and then a couple shenanigans at this or that polling place, but no such thing. he has rudy giuliani, in addition to donald trump's tweets and steve king, congressman from highway wa, of course they cheat, get dead people to vote. no offense, mr. mayor and congressman, i'll ask these four not to come in and give you the whole hour. bring me evidence that says this election was swayed by fraud and here's the proof, you can have the hour. bring me the proof. so why is trump saying this? >> because he's -- again, i think it's -- they understand that he's in a losing position. he's in a defensive crouch right now and all he really has.

trying to suppress overallvoter turnout, making people sick and tires of it, wanting it to go away. it if they do that, perhaps the numbers came out in their favor. look at the numbers in ohio, nevada, republicaning lag in all three. keep it close in nevada, the state we're waiting up for most of all on election night, democrats believe they can do it. done it before. for harry reid in 2010, did it in 2012. ohio again. turn out black voters in the last few days of early voting in ohio democrats believe they can eke ahead, and found enough white progressive whites and hispanics to shape, maybe the flooding affects it a little, otherwise think they can get ahead because republicans don't have operations in these states. >> a good point. we'll dig deeper into the numbers later in the show. mitt romney woke up election day thinking he would win it. every reason to believe that, but out hustled on election day

and before election day with all of the early voting praises. mike pence has been a little different. donald trump tweeting this morning, we've seen this on other issues in the past. syria, from the vice presidential debate, then donald trump saying the next debate, no, no. disagree with mike pence. donald trump saying, large-scale voter fraud. essentially saying if she wins, she cheated. trying to say in advance. mike pence said, no, i don't think so. >> we will absolutely accept the results of the election. look, the american people will speak in an election that will culminate on november the 8th, but the american people are tired of the obvious bias in the national media. that's where this sense of a rigged election goes here. we'll accept the will of the american people. you bet. >> now, he's, again, blaming the media, which is a -- bring your specific complaints, but it's -- >> classic republican line in a close election. say it. >> can we see -- if hillary clinton wins will she walk out

and say i just got a call from governor pence as opposed from donald trump and governor pence accepts the will of the american people but donald trump doesn't? >> a real question. until donald trump trumps the idea of voter fraud on november 8th, it's an open question whether he would accept results. obviously, mike pence and other republicans, don't want to cast them all under a rigged election, a lot of concerned about the perception that the results would be deemed illegitimate by millions of people. it's dangerous to our democracy. trump seems to be conflating to things here saw it in the democratic primary and this election. a lot of americans think that much of what we see coming out of government is rigged against them. that it's rigged for the wealthy. that the media is rigged for democrats. that's a real concern that thy we should be discussing, but taking it to this level saying the actual results of an election are rigged is something much different. >> and i don't think he's going to let go of the argument,

because he did this during the primaries. a bit of an insurance policy if he loses, that he can blame it on something. part of his personality. as usual, the story is in the middle. voter fraud is a real thing. people are prosecuted for it. doesn't usually happen in large enough numbers to sway elections. some of the voters he speaks to, and not having this whole thought process, are mad, when it happens, it's largely ignored and think elections should be secure and feel they're beat up for thinking elections should be secure and have things like voter i.d. when he makes this argument they react? a visceral way but i don't think many of them used to buy the idea it swayed elections. see if he convinces them otherwise. >> laying the predicate for what will happen after the election if he loses within the republican party, where the party is going to be arguing whether the problem here was they nominate add flawed candidate or that they didn't get behind the flawed candidate, and by saying that the results of the election are illegitimate, you're giving a

second wind to sort of trumpian politics. >> and, remember, he spent years trying to delegitimize the current president being a cheerleader for thebirther movement. plans if he loses, set up shop after the election saying she's not real, not legitimate. don't support anything. don't support compromise. see how it goes. on this point, bring in tim kaine, talking about this, asked about it does he think donald trump is up to something? >> he's blaming the media. he's blaming the gop. he's saying that america can't run a fair election. he is swinging at every fan pha of his own imagination, because he knows he's losing. >> and -- >> ah, that's the argument they're make, in the closing days here, and, you know, the democrats will once again have to push back against another series of unsubstantiated claims he's making.

this is how he keeps his name in the news and how he continues to frustrate a lot of democrats who think they're putting this away, but you know -- >> and telling donald trump he's acting a way because he's losing makes him act that way doubly. >> even more. >> close on this note. if there is consistent persistent widespread election fraud in america, then the republicans stole the house's representatives, the international, governors races? i think not. won they are fair and square. wikileaks medias may well about russian plus but also a campaign headache as she prepares for the final debate. how much protein does your dog food have?

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for hillary clinton heading into the third and final presidential debate. release of fbi documents related to her e-mail investigation. senior washington correspondent joe johns with new details. joe? >> reporter: john, the latest red flag some congressional republicans say they've identified and a continued look back into the hillary clinton e-mail server situation. new documents released by the fbi shed light into a back and forth between the fbi and the state department. questions got raised about whether a top state department official was trying to strike an inappropriate bargain with the fbi to change the classification of a secret document relating to the report of arrests in the benghazi attack. the question was whether undersecretary of state for management patrick kennedy was suggesting the state department would consider addressing a need for additional space for fbi personnel stationed in other countries, in exchange for making the classification change. the fbi looked into the situation, and putting out a statement today said that while there was never a quid pro quo,

these allegations were nonetheless referred to proip offici appropriate officials for review. starting with the speaker of the house saying the situation demonstrates hillary clinton had a complete disregard for properly handling classified information and that the state department official in the middle of this was just trying to hidemishandling of information. state department said the allegation of a prid pro quo is inaccurate and doesn't align with the facts. >> see how this carries over to the debate. back to the group. can donald trump distill this stuff, this from the fbi, other stuff in the hacked john podesta e-mails, the campaign chairman john podesta released by wikileaks, take that and say, here's the problem. why she houn be president and i asam the argument part of this system, collusion, insider training and all the like. can he do it? >> i don't know if he can do it but should do it if he hopes to

win. the clearest, most concise argument he and other republicans have made about hillary clinton is that she comes from this political system, that most americans agree is flawed. in some cases maybe rigged against middle class americans and that you can't trust her, because there is a different hillary clinton behind closed doors and that the one you see in public. look at the wikileaks e-mails that have been coming out the last few days you certainly see there is a lot of discussion what she should say publicly, how to present herself and it does feed into that narrative, but trump just, like, cannot get himself focused on these issues. if he can, it's effective. >> and hard. confusing issues. conversation with the state department, back to the fbi about classifying a document, somebody brought up the fbi needs office space or safe spaces to live. in places like iraq. >> right. >> what? >> that's the point. >> people know what a deal is and what a quid pro quo is and seems to look like this guy was trying to minimize fallout for hillary over e-mails. people can understand that.

in the second debate, trump did seem to have studied up a little more on the e-mail stuff, on the classified markings and all that but short-handing it saying with the c on it, wasn't explaining it to the people who aren't following all the time. if he can make that step it could be go for him. he needs to make the argument over and over these e-mails, i think they do, show she is business as usual in washington and business is bad. an effective argument but needs to dress it up with the facts. >> most effective. >> my read of the e-mails as well is that the sort of worst part of them watching a campaign struggle to sell what they view, acknowledge, as sort of in the e-mails a flawed product here. i think what it does is basically in the e-mails you see the campaign struggling with a lot of the very same issues that bother the american people about hillary clinton. smoking gun, new information? not necessarily, but it is kind of a reminder of what it is that, has made a large section of the public uneasy with.

>> like the circle the wagon party inside her campaign. whatever the question is. whatever it's about, canid, transparent, open, saying what happened even getting her to say, "sorry." pausing a moment, this is a big part of the debate. what's in these e-mails? it's possible the government says likely that russia hacked into democratic party databases and john podesta, clinton campaign chairman database, horrible and should be worried. a foreign state actor playing in. but republicans say, whoever did it, the information is still available to us and clinton should answer for it. listen to differing opinions from giuliani, trump supporter and tim kaine, clinton's running mate. >> this is the hillary clinton i always knew existed but never proof of it. people say she's a socialist. okay, can't prove it. in canada, talking to canadian bank, whatever, says i like your system. your social ized system of medicine a lot better than ours. >> i can't think of a precedent of a foreign nation trying to destabilize an american

election, and i -- you know, i brought up a couple weeks ago the watergate analogy of trying to destabilize an election by going in and grabbing files, and this is the current version of that watergate attack, i think. >> so the clinton campaign says, we're not going to answer the specifics, because this is all part of some crime. it is part of a crime. but the specifics are pretty interesting, and force questions. rudy having fun there saying, ah, finally, here's the proof. >> this, i mean, i've spent time looking at these last week, and it does, as the mayor suggested, prove some of your long-held suspicions how they appropriate. i didn't get to the speeches but certainly diving into podesta's inbox. sorry, but it's available for us now. and there's proof that they have struggled with this and have struggled how to talk to her about her struggles with the truth, and that most of all i thought was quite telling. >> another thing trump may have fun with, which is the e-mails that do come from reporters,

heads um about this thing coming out. there is some -- sucking up, a little coordination. feeds into the argument he's making. republican voters will be more than happy to hear a few jabs at that. >> and the question is, does it, is it just fun? is it -- >> it can be both. >> wecan it grow. >> the most effective minutes in the first debate shts she's a creature of washington, been in the city 30 years part of the problem, this inbox proves it. the argument to make consistently across the course of the debate. >> and waiting to see trump populist and runs that way, democrats roll their eyes at that, but part of his appeal. how does he take advantage of an e-mail bernie sanders would have loved to have in the democratic pr primaries. podesta saying what if the speeches ever leaked out what's in them? in one is hillary clinton talking to goldman sachs saying, with political people again i would say the same thing. you know, there was a lot of

dplaning about dodd/frank, the bank regulating bill but a need to do something for political reasons. if you're an elected member of congress people losing job, shuts businesses, the press saying fault of wall street you can't syd idly by and do nothing. what you do is important. i don't know if that big legislation a hallmark of the obama presidency, that is a -- e last piece of the legacy of her good friend barney frank in the united states congress, she said, i don't really know if it's any good or needed it but had to do something to take a 2x4 to wall street. >> gets to democrats, younger democrats, more aligned with br bernie sanders and elizabeth warren throughout the campaign. the democratic party changed since bill clinton was in politics and she managed to position herself now to the left of where she's been on certain issues. the suspicion has always been more friendly 0 wall street than democrats are now. more pro-trade than democrats seem to be right now, and you

see her in the e-mails, her staff, debating where she should be on trade. talking to wall street and suggesting that dodd/frank was more a political necessity than a policy necessity. and i think that she should have to answer for that. >> right. >> one thing that crystallizes this idea many americans have, they don't do things well in washington. something must be done. this is something. let's pass it. nats not a. >> argument for someone in washington a long time. >> it is not. we know, again, i agree half with the clinton campaign pap legitimate issue. why are the russians doing it if it's the russians and doing it to support trump? a lot to be answered. >> a lot. >> one of our businesses toughest confer es chris wallace at the center of the debate. i suspect it will come up and it should. final debate, wednesday night.

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welcome back. the first debate exactly three weeks ago. donald trump arrived and laid out the map then, still with secretary clinton getting to the finish line, trump coming to the first debate, tide or leading in

nevada, tied or leading in florida, in north carolina and tied or leading in ohio. forget about that. those states are back in the toss-up column. hillary clinton, possibly a small lead in nevada. a small lead in north carolina. polls in florida show her ahead there, too. ohio the only place trump is up. the map shifted dramatically to clinton's favor. talking be why. one point of concern for hillary clinton, look out in nevada. she has a narrow lead but gary johnson, libertarian candidate, getting 10% of hispanic voters nap is trouble for secretary clinton. a big lead over donald trump, but not as big a margin as president obama had over mitt romney back in 2012. or senator obama over john mccain in 2008. that a drain for secretary clinton in that state. other data. pop this out. in all three swing states, all three swing states, donald trump leads on the economy, and donald trump leads on who's most honest and trustworthy, even after that tape of donald trump bragging about groping, even after nine

women or more have come forward suggesting inappropriate behavior, donald trump leads on the question of hon effort and trustworthiness. tells you about voters questions about secretary clinton. she leads in these states, best temperament and on trust, donald trump advantage. one more look at education gap. we see consistently in the polling, in all three of these swing states, nevada, north carolina and ohio, among white voters with no college degree, donald trump leads. in north carolina, look at the lead. huge lead there. so white voters, non-college degree, a huge constituency for trump. slide this out of the way. pop out the converse. among white voters who have college degrees, clinton leads in all three states. not by as big of margins, look there, but critical especially getting into the suburban areas, places like north carolina and places like ohio. this is a very important constituency. mitt romney won these voters in 2012. donald trump continues to struggle with them. so close in the battleground

states. nationally, still advantage clinton going state by state. can donald trump change things in the third debate? number one, says he'd like the rules to be different. >> we should take a drug test prior, because i don't know what's going on with her. but at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like -- ah, take me down. she could barely reach her car. so i think we should take a drug test. i'm -- anyway, i'm willing to do it. >> unlikely? just again -- >> if in vegas, weigh in, drug tests are common with boxing matches. perhaps what he's going for. >> excellent point. some of these things make you laugh, but a candidate for president of the united states, and i would say, to their point that they complain, the media doesn't spend enough time on wikileaks, if the republican

nominee for president says things like that as a rally, guess what gets attention? >> we can't ignore them because he is the republican nominee. not just a reality television show host or someone flirting with running for president. he is now the nominee and his campaign or trump himself failed to understand when he throws these things out there and 20 minutes into his rally, 30 minutes, gets into wikileaks, the things at the top get the attention. basic politics here. >> oh, i think his campaign understands it very well. it's the problem, the problem, the k7 candidate won't. kellyan kellyanne conway insisting that's not what he went. look at the tweet. there he is saying, there's voter fraud all over the place. sometimes you wonder why you bother to interview the officials of his campaign, because they don't seem to be talking to the candidate. >> the cleanup operation, what we call it. what the candidate meant to say. interesting the moment we're in,

though. third and final debate. again, obama and romney were tied. obama up one. later in the campaign. october 16th, closer to the election. that race, people forget. neck and neck to the end and obama won big. a big question, where's hillary clinton? donald trump is out there everywhere. "boston globe" counted the events. august 1, october 10th. donald trump 80. hillary clinton 52. but she would argue this disappear strategy or do less strategy is working, because she's been scored the winner of both debates in the polls with scientific research behind them and ahead in the race if you go state-by-state. it it ain't broke, don't fix it? >> seems to be their strategy. there are some democrats in some of these bubble states or states that would like to become a battleground state would say, gosh, great if she'd come to phoenix or to the atlanta

suburbs or spent more time in north carolina that would help. maybe that's the plan after the debate. after all, her rehearsing for the first two clearly worked, because it set up things they were able to spend days following up on. either in the way she goaded him or the way he brought certain people and certain stories up. but i know having talked to people especially for example out in nevada. the more of her, the more of tim kaine or the others they see out there the better. >> in ways it makes sense because hillary clinton is just not great at a rally. gets crowds that like like you're at an interesting governor's race. not getting 10,000, 20,000 people and not great at getting them really motivated. she has other surrogates ta do that quite well and are out there. but i think that if she doesn't ramp it up after this third debate then it's a real question. why can't hillary clinton go out and make the case for herself? her own candidacy in a robust way? >> part of the value of a campaign, out there saying what they would do if elected.

go back, promised you this. you have to be out there to make promises. will they expand the map or cautious inside the clinton campaign, how much is bluffing? sending the first lady, wrberni sanders and chelsea clinton, doing polling, see what the local media does, going on the air actually in texas. i would not panic if i'm a texas republican. a stunt but important stunt in a campaign you try to rattle the other guy. got a little extra money, spending tv money on ads to move numbers a little. >> one thing to say about her min ma' minimal schedule, cautious, each planned for impact. the trump campaign likes to be in front of an audience. not sure -- doesn't have all the data hers does. may be part of it. i'm with you that maybe she's not at helpful as conventional wisdom would say when out there. >> when talk of arizona going blue or at least purple, talked to smart democrats out there who said they would have seen good

information trending their way when they start sending people like the current first lady to arizona to help us out. that's suggests they're seeing it. the texas thing, yeah. probably not winning texas. texas democrats point out this is now the fifth or sixth poll. one late friday night showing her within single digits. keep it within single digits they like to think in two years, governors, senate race, get closer and mariraculously win o. >> and donald trump is down because he has to win somewhere. even ohio, north kacarolina car and florida, still not going to win. >> why does he pick the state the automatic story sets foot in the state, he's warring with every other politician there. >> when do we -- okay. when do we stop talking about trump campaign schedules and ask the question, why? up next, donald trump says they're all lying. allegations of inappropriate with conduct are adding to what was already a big problem for team trump.

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welcome back. a lot of numbers flying around these days as we dissect the dizzying number of polls and debate ease candidate's past the electoral votes. 53, percentage of women in the 2008 general electorate and 53% again women in 2012. republican primaries majority male. november elections majority female. a problem for donald trump anyway. even more so now after release of a tape bragging about groping women and since then allegations by at least nine women trump made unwanted advances. >> next thing i know there's a hand up my skirt. like, oh, that's donald trump. oh, yeah, that's donald trump. >> did he actually kiss you? >> yeah, yeah. >> on the face or on the lips? >> wherever he could find a landing spot. >> i am being viciously attacked with lies and smears. >> karen, were you first to

report the woman you saw at the top of that piece there, and zorn cooper interviewed her an your piece in the "washington post," kristin anderson. donald trump says lies and smears of women in cahoots with the democrats and media and conspiracy and a billionaire as well, was that kristin anderson's story? >> not at all. in fact, the "washington post" approached kristin anderson shortly after that videotape came out. we received a tip from someone who said, i know a person to whom the exact kind of groping that donald trump describes on the tape happened. so we approached kristin. she was reluctant to talk about it. we spent most of a week checking out as much as we could of her story including getting two people on the record who said that she had told them about this years ago, and in one case, just several days after it happened. ultimately, these things are always asaid/she said story,

but in her case everything that was checkable checked out. >> the important part. not taking sides. these women put their names, not anonymous, put names and reputations on this and find out not last week, years ago told friends about it. and they'll go on the record. that's important. no question this hurt donald trump. fox news national poll released last week, clinton six point lead. looked add women, women 457 a45 dropped. white women, college degree dropped seven. republican women overall dropped six. again, that's one poll. that's last week as all was playing out. sometimes dissipates, things swing back. look at the numbers there, if donald trump doesn't fix that starting in the big, with the big debate audience he gets, a game over graphic. >> right. doesn't change messages easily.

talks about what donald trump wants to talk about. a few days breathing room no new allegations before the debate, perhaps he will be brushing up on wikileaks and bringing that to bear. the question is, always, i think the next several weeks, whether more is coming. with donald trump, miked up 25 years, there's always a possibility more is coming. >> can he say in a debate, they're all lying? they're all part of a conspiracy? or, i mean, if that's what -- if that's his story, he's sticking to it, if he says that, is it essentially a game over if you look again -- >> the polling out since the tape and since the allegations continue to show downward trajectory as he continues to deny and go after the accusers. i simple i'm sorry, may have done this and i'm, know, moving on and will never do it again kind of thing, at least brings those gop women numbers back up. still makes it hard for him but might be enough out there who say, at least he apologized. >> zero evidence in donald trump's not just political life,

entire public life that he will give a full throated afaal apolopau a full-throated apology. what these women are saying is exactly what he was caught -- bragging what he'd done. it's hard to rationalize how all could be making this up. >> one interesting part, hillary clinton has been relatively silent throughout this play a little sound and talk quickly on the other side. >> this election is incredibly painful. i take absolutely no satisfaction in what is happening on the other side with my opponent. i am not at all happy about that. because it hurts our country. it hurts our democracy. damage is being done that we're going to have to repair, divisions are being deepened that we're going do have to try to heal. so our job doesn't end after this election.

>> interesting piece in the "new york times" yesterday, saying one of the reasons hillary clinton has largely left this to the first lady and others, if she talks about it, people talk about bill clinton. fair? >> reminds you sort of the situation people recall teddy kennedy being in during the anita hill hearings as well. stirs up too much of her own background and the argument, politics 101. if your opponent is destroying himself, don't get in the way. >> get out of the way. everybody, sit tight. remember the theory hispanic voter registration jumping through the roof to cast ballots against donald trump? maybe not the case. shares notebooks, next. americans are buying more and more of everything online. and so many businesses rely on the united states postal service to get it there. because when you ship with us, your business becomes our business. that's why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes

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around the "inside politics" table and ask reporters to share from their notebooks. >> realtime reminder the next u.s. president will face a massive challenge in the middle

east. iraqi and kurdish forces backed by u.s. air strikes started the campaign to take mosul back from the islamic state. the u.s. sees it as a test of the iraqis' ability to defeat the islamic state and also the ability to do that without a massive u.s. troop presence on the ground. clinton has been definitive in this campaign about ruling out putting a large-scale u.s. force on the ground in iraq or syria, but the feasibility of that position if she wince will be put to a test in the mosul campaign. >> if there are gains sustaining falls to the next president. >> over the weekend, john, a store looking at whether or not all of donald trump's attacks on mexican-americans on mexico and all of that re drove up hispanic voter registration. turns out it really didn't. at least 13.1 million hispanics expected to vote this year. a big number. a big jump. 17% verse four years ago. an 8% increase in latino share of the electorate. it's on par with what happened in 2008 and 2012. important to remember that

basically all the way through 2032 we're going to see record gains in hispanic turnout and hispanic participation every year because of birth rates. again, latino leaders, a lot of democrats hoped a bigger surge. doesn't appear to be happening this year. >> deadlines are -- >> gone. except for california. >> i think as it is looking more and more like hillary clinton is headed towards victory here it's not too early to start thinking about what kind of mandate she would have to govern to actually get things done. and looking at her strategic decisions going into this, the size of that victory, where it happens, if she can bring states into this that are not normally democratic states, that's going to say a lot, and then it's also going to be hinging on things like how resonant is donald trump's argument that there's something illegitimate going on about this election? >> 22 days. count them down. mary kathryn. >> telling me there's a chance for third-party candidate. evan mcmullin, full disclosurdi

running mate a personal acquaintance. donald trump is within a point, six electoral votes. a finy chance there's a mcmullin map throwing this to the house of representatives, unlikely, but interesting if a third party candidate gets electoral votes, historic. interesting. i wonder whether it changes the strategy how third-party candidates act in the future? >> growing worries among top republicans are helping donald trump build an organization he will use after the election to tear apart the republican party. the financial times reported trump's son-in-law had at least one meeting with potential investors in a postelection new trump media venture, plus top gop sources tell cnn campaign chairman steve ban on leave from breitbart news brags to friends cultivating a list of 25 million names and contacts gathered during the presidential run. aides deny tv or media

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hello. i'm wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 8:00 p.m. in mosul, iraq. wherever you're watching from around the world thanks very much for joining us. following two major breaking stories this hour. a decisive moment in the fight against isis, and moving towards a decisive day in an ugly and very bitter presidential race here in the united states. in iraq, the battle is underway to recapture the city of mosul from isis. the coalition leading the battle is made up of mostly iraqi troops and peshmerga fighters backed by u.s. air powe