the cnn newsroom. donald trump set to take the stage in battleground ohio. three stops, pennsylvania, virginia, ohio. today we stand by and also, clinton in the keystone state right now and monitoring all of it. i'm poppy harlow. before that, "smerconish" begins next. stay with us. i'm michael smerconish. we welcome you. 17 days until election day. who's kidding? it's already upon us thanks to early voting and people are surrounding the polls. is it over before it begins? in the final sprint with the numbers against him, donald trump is not giving up. he says his election will be brexit times five.

whoever wins, what does the morning after look like? plus, widespread condemnation of debate approval to accept the election outcome but pat buchanon is here and said criticism comes from an establishment terrified they'll mefr get trump's supporters back in the fold and wikileaks founder julian assange on a vendetta to topple hillary clinton but has he gone too far? are all the private e-mails he's releasing actually undermining him? but first, so often, you hear from my colleague's envy there's 18 days left but today, that number is 17 but that number is misleading in this psychicycle. election day is now. already 5 million votes cast. balloting is well under way by mail or at the polls in 34 of the 37 early voting states. and america has been utilizing the opportunity at a rate far

o outpacing 2012. 45 million people expected to vote before election day or as much as 40% of all votes cast. many endorse early voting as a means of boosting participation but one of my guests believes it has a negative impact on the democratic process. a visiting fellow from hoover institution. first, while we can't see the ballots that have been cast so far, nevertheless, they give us clues to who's winning and losing and for that, i turn to michael mcdonald. associate professor of the university of florida and a fellow at the brookings institution specializing in elections and methodology. we can't open the envelopes yet but we do know things. what do we know? >> we know in some sattates, if there's party registration, the people who have voted and make a comparison to 2012 in many cases and other states, age, gender

and in a very limited number of states, the race of the people who have voted so far. >> and you certainly know the party affiliation, right? so you can look at a particular state that allows early voting and you know who has shown up from what party or what absentee ballots have been requested from republicans as compared to democrats and presumably if they're supporting their party nominee, that will give you clues. >> you would have a good suspicion if you're a democrat, probably supporting clinton and if you're republican, likely supporting trump. >> i want to show you on the screen a graph that tracks the escalation of early voting in the united states. i mean, look at that. that's pretty stunning. if you go back to the 1992 cycle, it's less than 10% and as i represented at the outset in this election, 2016, we may get as high as potentially 40%. why is that the case? >> well, it started back in 1980 when california adopted no

excuse absentee voting and slowly starting out in the west coast, a number of states adopted mail balloting options like no excuse absentee voting and in the mid 1990s, texas, tennessee, and florida adopted no in-person early voting and that's another phenomenon that's spread mostly on the east but of course, some places on the west as well that use in-person early voting and as states have adopted the more permissive forms of early voting, we've seen an expansion just as people use the option but then over time, you see once a state has adopted an early voting option, more and more people tend to use it over time. in oregon, for example, people were accustomed to used mail balloting people decided to run it all by mail back in 2000. >> something that troubles me on the screen right now, people voting in georgia where lines up to two hours. i thought the idea was to facilitate, make it easier for folks to vote.

why go out and vote early if i still have to stand in line for two hours? >> you know, funny thing is if you go back to the very founding, we had in-person early voting. we ran the election over several days to allow people the opportunity to get to the polling location. now, what's happening right now in some of these states like georgia and north carolina is that by choice, local election boards have decided to curtail the early voting option. the opportunities by reducing the number of polling locations. now, those number of locations will expand in the week prior to the election but right now, you've got a lot of people interested in voting and they're trying to get through this one bottleneck of like georgia, one polling location to vote. >> so you've given us a nice primmer. now let's delve into the data. tell me, if i'm donald trump, is there reason for optimism in any of the early voting patterns thus far and if so, be specific. talk states. >> right. well, first of all, let's be

cautious here. right? we've still got a lot of more weeks, 17 days. a lot can change in the election and we've still got a large volume of early voting to get through and we're at 5 million but we're going to see over 40 million by when it's all said and done. there's a lot of voting left to be done. that all said, when you lookty numbers, clinton is looking strong on the east coast. democrats are outpfrpierforming. at least we expect but places like virginia, maine, we can see that democrats are outperforming their 2012 levels. same with florida. although, it's a little bit complicated and then due to various law changes and then in north carolina, what we're observing that, i think the bottlenecks, the levels are slightly down for the democrats. but they're much further down for the republicans, and so we might suspect there's a bit of enthusiasm gap that's actually working against the republicans in a state like north carolina.

so that's the good news for the democrats for clinton is that the strength so far in the east coast and get some numbers on the west coast soon. they're starting to vote and we start to get numbers there. but it's preliminary. so that's the good news for the democrats. the bad news for the democrats is the midwest and we've seen this in the polling all throughout this election cycle that even as the national numbers have moved towards clinton, there's been real resistance to that movement, national movement in places like iowa and ohio and when we look at the early voting numbers, we can actually see as well that democrats are not as engaged as they were in 2012. so it's just the opposite story of what we see along the eastern sea board that it's democrats disengaged in the midwest and it's republicans who are engaged at the same levels of 2012, iowa and ohio and i suspect because of some of the things we can look at under the hood in iowa that some of that weakness in iowa bleeds over to southwestern

wisconsin and that may be also why we see, although we don't have the good comparison numbers, it's just a hunch that i have that wisconsin also, we've seen clinton has a lead but it's not nearly the lead that she should have if we think there would be a big national swing towards the democrats. >> let me make sure i've got it for the takeaway. early signs for donald trump that are good. iowa, ohio, and wisconsin. early signs that support hillary clinton. virginia, north carolina, and florida. am i right in saying that that could represent a realignment of the parties? >> yeah. that's interesting, right? so why is it that one part of the country is moving one way and another part of the country is moving another way? we first saw this back in 2008 when applachia moved in the wave election in 2008. it may be what we will see is that further sort of wave of

places like virginia and north carolina moving more in the democrats' direction even though we're going to see places like west virginia which is in 2008 moved towards the republicans and then we see these midwestern states that may be moving back towards the republicans as well and that would be what we would think if that's persistent. maybe this is just a trump phenomenon that just lasts for one election and then it's gone. if it's not a flash in the pan, then that may represent a fundamental change in the party coalitions that could have long lasting effects on our politics. >> michael mcdonald, thank you for the analysis. we appreciate it. is this tend toward no excuse early voting a problem? it presumes much of the campaigning falls on deaf ears people know who they're voting for. is it a threat? james huffman is visiting fellow at stanford university's and dean emeritus. you don't like this trend.

is that fair to say and if so, why not? >> that is fair to say and let me summarize quickly three, four, five reasons why. as you indicated, it means that the debate taking place in the campaign is irrelevant to the voters that went early. the president of the united states case, voted on october 7th before the last two presidential debates. of course, we can imagine how he would vote but really concerns me about the debate is the down ballot candidates. i can't imagine that the president had a good read on all the down ballot candidates in illinois when he voted and that concerns me. secondly, i think it increases the cost. you don't have a peak. in oregon where i vote, you have a three week period where ballots are being cast. thirdly, i think things can happen in the future. candidates can even die and change their positions and can be revelations as we've seen

about their past. fourthly, i think now the two most important points to me is it's a civic event. it used to be the election. when i was a kid, i went with my mother to the ballot place. it had some real significance. and now we're basically voting alone. we're voting whenever we choose and i think that civic part of it is critical and lastly, i think it contributes to partisanship. the presumption is that people will know how to vote before they even know who the candidates are. straight party tickets and that's certainly true of some people, but i think the presumption that that's true of everybody contributes to the partisanship we see in our politics. >> dean huffman, what are the arguments in support of early voting is that it supports turnout. does the data support that argument? >> it does not in oregon. in oregon, if you look at the ten elections before vote by

mail was instituted in 1992, the turnout was 74% on average. ten elections after 1992, the turnout remarkably was 74%. in primary elections, turnout is worse in the ten/eleven elections before. and turnout was 52% in the 10 elections since 43%. and certainly in oregon, there's no evidence it helps with turnout. >> let me just say, i agree with you that some vote too soon. the idea in minnesota, you could vote a month and a half before election day is too much but at the other end of the spectrum, my home state of pennsylvania where it all gets done on one day and but for a showing of cause, you need to vote on that particular day. somewhere in the middle lies the proper number. perhaps at the conclusion of the third and final presidential debate. you get the final word. >> i think i could agree that a

shorter period of time would obviously be better. maybe last week or something but still, we shouldn't be focused entirely on turnout but focused on having an informed electorate and an election really about the importance of the democratic process and the civic nature of that. >> james houghman, thank you for being here. >> it's my pleasure. thank you. >> what do you think? tweet me @smerconish and i'll read the best later in the program. still to come, what donald trump wouldn't say, he set off a fire storm in both parties. pat buchanon said it's because trump scares the establishment. and inciteful and embarrassing secrets about how politics operates but is there a longer term cost to privacy and democracy?

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the big headline out of the final presidential debate had nothing to do with policy. instead, donald trump set off a fire storm in the media and both major parties by refusing to say whether he'd accept the election day voting results. the reason for the hysteria? my next guest, pat buchanan, said it's fear. the latest article "the establishment in panic" said it's horrified at the donald's defiance because deep within its soul, it fears the people for whom trump speaks no longer accept its political legitimacy. former republican candidate, pat buchan buchanan. i have a different take. the concern of what donald trump said in the final debate is about the problem that he poses for the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box. i mean, he seeks to undermine

that without even knowing what the results are. how am i wrong? >> you're wrong in this sense. i don't know if the vote is going to be rigged, but i certainly do know this. the system is rigged against trump and the fact that the hysterical reaction to a comment that someone says, look, i don't know if i'm going to accept it. what do they think he's going to do? march on washington as the head of the army? burn down the capital or something or say, i don't accept the results and hillary rodham clinton and say congratulations? what explains this panic? the simple comment. my belief is simply this, michael. i think the establishment is terrified that his loss to the country, the country does not believe in its leadership and for three basic reasons that trump raised. they left the borders open and millions of people walked into this country and changed its character. secondly, exported the

manufacturing base. millions and millions of american jobs have been shipped overseas. dispossessing the american, middle, and working class and one war after another after another after another. they cannot win or end. and the country has risen up against the establishment in both parties. >> you just raised three legitimate points for public debate in the context of this election. but none when the people speak through and including on november 8th are a justification for undermining the properly chosen successor to barack obama and that's -- >> let me give you some reasons. number one, bernie sanders ran a fair, tough fight. was not the outcome if i cfixed against him by the super delegates and the national committee working with the clinton administration as well as the white house and as well as the media working against him? donald trump and ted cruz won

75% of the republican vote. a vast majority of the country, 75% said we would like dramatic change in washington and we'll wind up with no change in washington if the election goes the way it's going. now, you tell me that's not a rigged system. >> pat, it's not a rigged system. i mean, debbie wasserman-schultz may have had her thumb on the scale relative to the dnc but i don't think she affected the outcome of the election. people who went and cast their ballot. you're giving too much credence to her ability as the head of the dnc to play favorites and influence the outcome. >> let me tell you. the country wants change and it's not getting it. one of the major reasons is the media. the 19th century marks that power is controlled of the means of production. arthur said power is the control of the means of communication. the left and the establishment control 85% of the communications in the united states. they have overwhelmingly weighed

the scales against trump. they have attacked him. look, trump made a statement about rapists when he came down the elevator, repeated 10,000 times. hillary clinton has called half of trump's supporters racist, sexist, homo fo home foebs. which has cnn used more often? >> you are conflating the rigging of an election with media bias and that is something that, let me finish now because i've been fair to you. that's something donald trump has done without being challenged on it. you reference in your current piece the clinton cable. i assume that's a shot at cnn with the regard in which we covered trump's statement in the debate the other night. let me show you "the wall street journal." "the wall street journal" is not clinton cable. here's what the journal, a republican oracle said. that again is mr. trump's ego talking. a man who doesn't like to lose refusing to take responsibility for his campaign. voters on the right and left

want to have pate in the electoral system. that's my argument. you're setting the stage for m people to question the legitimacy if she's won fair and square. >> i'm telling you. i don't know that the vote is rigged. i didn't say that. i said the system is rigged. you hold on. the system is rigged. you said cnn. you mentioned "wall street journal." editorial page. horribly hostile to trump. "the new york times." "washington post." you can't pick up that paper without reading anti-trump stuff. the three cable networks except for fox. overwhelmingly the left and the establishment control the media and they are controlling the outcome of this election and the very fact. what are we supposed to do? get up and salute? i'm in virginia. the governor of virginia six months ago says, i'm going to make 200,000 convicts voters by november and by executive order.

i'm supposed to salute that and say, isn't this a wonderful example of democracy? the point is, go back to the basics. the borders have been opened up, millions of people to change the character of the american electorate to where the conservatives and american electorate can never win again. it's the point of my column and it's the truth. >> your argument about the media ended in 1992. the media today is whatever you want it to be. it was liberal. today, it's breitbart. it's drudge. it's a.m. talk radio, if you want it to be. whatever you want to find, it's out there. here's what i'm saying in regard to your three items of substance. go and win it fair and square and if you can't win it fair and square, then don't whine about it when it's over and say the whole thing was rigged. >> tell me why 75% of the american people want a dramatic change and wanted it in the democratic party. we saw what happened to bernie. they got it in the republican party. but all of the sudden, the

election toward the end, we're not getting any change. we're getting the same people who brought us the wars, open borders, exported american manufacturing, who gave away all those jobs, who are responsible for the arresting of the wages of wages of working americans. do you think all the folks in middle america are enranged and turns out at trump rallies bringing him to a point not only at one point even but on the verge of victory despite the worst in both savage beating i've ever seen by the media against a candidate. you think all that is some kind of accident, michael? >> that beating has been administered to donald trump with his own words and actions. if women hadn't come out and said he sexually assaulted them, there would be nothing on that score for us to be reporting. come on, pat. >> why are you running? you guys spent all this time figuring out why trump should not have said that. you asked miss usa to spend her time at burger king, at the same

time, you've got all kinds of great problems in this country. focused on trivial pursuits. i admit, you've got this little misdemeanors but what is important about this country? the big issues. are you guys focused on those or focused on the running around gathering up the women to make trump look bad? i mean, the point is, if you think that trump's got a fair deal in this election, i don't know how you can say that and not watching the same media the rest of america is. why is the media's reputation so low, michael? why are they so detested out there in middle america? >> 17 days are left. this ought to be plenty of reason to go ant vote. they can choose their side. i'm not either of these sides. i want full participation. all right? >> wait a minute. i've seen -- >> go ahead, get your final word in. >> i've watched you on tv. i think i know who you're going to vote for, michael, and the other viewers do as well.

>> i don't think so, patrick. and that's why there's curtains on that ballot booth. thank you, my friend. keep tweeting me at @smerconish. we learned a lost at wikileaks. what cost to our democratic process? dan abrams here to discuss.

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baby wipes? what public purpose was served with that revelation? the latter point out, what's most troubling about the activism of founder julian assange. throughout this race, assange has been on a vendetta threatening to release materials so damaging, she could never get elected. my view is many cheered the document drop because it suits their short-term partisan political interests without thinking through the long-term privacy implications. marco rubio is an exception. he warned his party away from using such material saying, today it's the democrats. tomorrow, it could be us. so what is the future of such elicit hacks to our democracy, our privacy ask the electoral system? the tfounder of media newz witha "z." your sites published some of the wikileaks information containing to colin powell and then you had

second thoughts about it. i wonder how you're feeling today. >> i had second thoughts in the sense that i thought we needed to have this discussion. the one that we're having. with regard to wikileaks, my sites have been publishing that information as well. the most important thing to me when it comes to something like this is let's not just say wikileaks is releasing this. let's call it what it is. hacked, stolen documents. stolen e-mails and now it is clear likely at the hands of russia. i think that needs to be part of the discussion. does that mean it's not accurate? you have the clinton camp sort of winking and saying, well, we can't verify. and then the media organizations say, well, we can't verify. of course they're true. if they weren't true, if it wasn't real, they'd be coming out and saying, we can't, instead of we can't verifying,

saying, this stuff is not true. this stuff is made up. so let's accept the fact that what's in there is true. when you do that, it's tough not to report on it. but i think there is an obligation to keep reminding people that it's a really bad thing that the russians, it seems, are hacking into our political figure's private e-mails to try to influence the election. doesn't mean the information is not true. doesn't mean we shouldn't use it. does mean we should be highlighting. >> does the requirement become for the media to take it all? i want to run through a couple of recent revelations and ask dan abrams, should this enter the public domain? donald trump said this is evidence of a quid pro quo. it involves the clinton global initiative and whether she would go and meet with the king of moore ro morocco for allegedly a $12

million endowment from the king to cgi. that would seem to have great relevance against the backdrop of trump's pay to play allegations. yet, let me show you another one. put up number two. this is the baby wipes. bill is picking up charlotte for babysitting. they had to go out and sanitize the whole house. it seems a bit ridiculous that would be in the public domain. two or three more. is the comment about bernie sanders, this is john podesta. can you believe that doofus? and the hemispheric common market, open trades and i guess enough of them. but dan, as a media outlet or a proprietor, do you take them a case at a time or all? what do you do? >> i think in a different day and age. maybe 30 years ago. more importantly, before the internet.

media organizations would go through and very, very carefully decide, is this important enough? is this in the public interest? is this private? the reality is that now, a media organization can decide, npr, for example, going through great hand wringing over these wikileaks disclosures and whether npr does or doesn't report on the mundane and private aspects you're talking about, it's out there. i know it's a cop-out answer to say, you know what, it's out there anyway so what are we going to do? but it's also the reality. the reality is the minute in this day and age that wikileaks is releasing it, everyone is going to have it. if a handful of media organizations say, you know, we're not going to disclose this piece of information or that piece of information. i get it. it's a nice principled position to take but also living in an alternate universe where the

media sort of leaders had the power to decide what the public got to see. those days are over. >> dan abrams, thank you for your analysis. >> good to be with you, michael. donald trump last night said the election will be brexit times five that he's going to up end all expectations. thomas frank said many brits fear the same and blame journalists. we'll find out why and hill billy author jd vance is here and everyone has election day november 8th circled on their calendar. how can anyone put the pieces back together again? me in different countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm everything. i'm from all nations. i would look at forms now and wonder what do i mark? because i'm everything. and i marked other.

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donald trump's debate refusal to say he'll maybe not accept the outcome heightened my worry. half the nation wake up in a funk and many who voted for the

winning candidate will have done so reluctantly. our reaction and that of the candidates set the course for the next four years. so here are a few thoughts. first, from the citizen rate. forbearance. it will be tough. but if trump wins, we need to let go of his incendiary rhetoric and let him start from scratch and if clinton wins, we must put to rest the fixation with benghazi and her e-mail server. too much to ask their pasts will be forgotten but reasonable to say we move on for national unity and trump, if he wins, be m and include many women and people of color but if he loses, stop making accusations and accept it with grace. clearly a tall order for him. if clinton wins, she should

immediately reach across the aisle and request that the senate confirm merritt garland in lieu of her selecting a pick of her own. should she lose, she must be gracious and give trump the opportunity to show that actions speak louder than words. as for the new, a leader tells his party it's, quote, the single most important goal to make the opposition a one term president. it's healthy for one party to wish to defeat another but the nation can't afford the type of attacks president obama has endured being redirected towards his successor. is an uneasy truce realistic? the perfect guests. welcome back, jd vance, author of the best seller. hill billy eulogy. react to my naivety? >> i think civility is an

important value and frankly, it will be a relief to get a little bit of it after all this is over. but i think issues are more important. i think that, you know, dealing with the crisis that a lot of people are facing in their lives that we've seen via the trump movement but that's more important. that's my view. >> jd, you heard perhaps at the outset of the program professor michael mcdonald said he thinks there's potentially a realignment taking place this this country largely along the divide of education. you are so plugged into the trump constituency. what becomes of them should donald trump lose? and i'm speakingolitically. >> i think a lot of people will be obviously very frustrated. they'll still fundamentally be a part of the republican party and still vote for republican politics but i think what happens to them politically depends on donald trump. if he decides to make this election about how it was stolen from him, then folks will be angry and less engaged in the

political process than they otherwise would be. i hope he follows your advice and acting magnanimous. >> does donald trump have control of the constituency you write about from appalacha or just right place at the right time? >> i think a little bit right place right time but because of that, definitely a certain leadership role within the community because he's been the person who sort of thumbs his nose up at the elites and makes him popular at this group of people. so i don't think people will necessarily fall with donald trump but i think he has a certain place because of the way this election unfolded and hope he uses it well. maybe he will. maybe he won't. >> thomas frank, pat buchanan talked about the rigged nature of the election in his eyes and i wonder if things he said about bernie sanders, you speak for so well for the liberal community, things he said about the bernie sanders constituency. did that represent a rare

agreement between you and pat buchan buchanan? >> by the way, i really enjoyed that interview. i've never heard someone on american television referred to coxy's army ever before. that's the first time. but, you know, i think, so i have the cover story in the latest issue of "harper's." the media, specifically, "the washington post" treated bernie sanders and, you know, yeah, there's a sense that it was really unfair but look, you're asking about the larger question. whether or not people should accept the results even though it's unfair. well, of course, they should. no question about that. that's how the system works. >> if we saw a repeat like the year 2000 where there was a divide between the popular vote and the electoral college, i would, of course, expect more trump or mrs. clinton to hang in until the very last vote is counted. i'm worried in what i try to

express about the undermining of whomever is elected by the will of the people on november 8th because of the november 9th. what's your idea about how we best move forward? >> i think you're absolutely right that there's a difference between using the legitimate judicial process to challenge the results of an election versus actually questioning whether that election was rigged or whether the outcome, once the courts decided it's legitimate actually going after the outcome. i think that's a serious problem. and the way that we have to move forward is, i think, on the republican side, republican leaders just have to do a better job. i think that trump is fundamentally a result of their political failure in the first place, to recognize that these voters who are part of their constituency feel very underserved and they have an opportunity, i think, on november 9th, 2016, to do a better job by these folks but if they don't, i think we continue

to have some of the same problems that produced donald trump in the first place. >> thomas, there's a consistency now to the polls. both the national polls and the swing state polls. donald trump said last night, hey, this is going to be brexit times 5. you were just in the uk. what's the view from over there? >> well, they're scared. i talked to many, many people. by the way, i spent most of my time in london if not all of my time but i didn't meet a single person who supported the brexit. this had come to everybody i met as a terrible shock. a terrible event and every single one of them is convinced that trump is going to win. and i would say to them, well, you know, he's well behind in the polls and the polls don't mean anything anymore and i would try to explain the electoral college and that sort of thing. no dice. they were absolutely convinced that this guy was going to win. it was really strange. >> among those you write about in "hill billy el ji" the way

this turned in the last couple of weeks. how are they rationalizing that data? >> well, i think a lot of folks think that the polls just don't reflect reality so they see trump at 6 or 7 or 8 points behind and say, at his rallies or the online polls on cnn or so forth, he's actually winning and don't recognize those aren't, especially scientific methods of choosing the candidates. so i think a lot of folks, if trump loses as the polls tell us he will, i think a lot of folks will be surprised and again, it falls back on the political leadership to say, look, it's not good. we wish he hadn't lost. but he did. and we got to move forward as a country together because if we don't do that, if the republican party doesn't at least serve that role, then, you know, who knows how people react? at the end of the day, people follow political leaders. >> i agree with you. i've got, as i say, november 9. the day after circled on my calendar for exactly that reason

because in the name of national unity, we need to come out of this. thank you, i appreciate both of you being here. still to come, your best and worst tweets. can we put one what do we got? buchanan just watched you put a smack down on smerconish. thank you for saying what we are all saying. well, i don't think it was a smackdown. but i appreciate having pat here as i always do. all the networks are great now. we're talking within a 1% difference in reliability of each other. and, sprint saves you 50% on most current national carrier rates. save money on your phone bill, invest it in your small business. wouldn't you love more customers? i would definitely love some new customers. sprint will help you add customers and cut your costs. switch your business to sprint and save 50% on most current verizon, at&t and t-mobile rates. don't let a 1% difference cost you twice as much. whoooo! for people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay.com. the possibility of a flare was almost always on my mind.

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right i won't surrender. smerconish, graphic wrong for early voting, north carolina. we apologize. it did start october 20. what else? smerconish, you are a rude man. the way you yelled at pat buchanan today was disgusting because buchanan was right and you are not. holly, i pride myself on civility. i don't think i was rude. i was disagreeing with pat buchanan and that right i will not surrender. pat to me like donald trump conflates media bias a legitimate subject of debate, with the rigging of an election for which i have seen absolutely no substance to support trump's arguments or pat's. next tweet, please. smerconish, nice job. look at this. there it is. so pat now comes across as bully. i think that these two tweets back to back just show that in these partisan times people see and hear what they want to see and hear. by the end of this program i will be accused for some for carrying water for the right and some carrying water for the right. somewhere in the middle lies the truth. smerconish, don't give wikileaks any validation and don't report it. you are abetting stolen goods. i think there's a tendency to rush all of these leaks presumably stolen by the russians right in to our media platforms without first starting to say, well, how did this actually get obtained. it troubles me. i think those who are cheering

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hi, everyone. top of the hour. you're in the cnn newsroom. so glad you're with us. we want to take you right to ohio where donald trump is set to take the stage at any moment, this is miss third campaign ral live the day as we enter the final stretch of this presidential campaign. earlier today trump gave a major speech in gettysburg using the place where abraham lincoln once spoke of unity to their that the election is rigged against him, that the media can't be be trusted and he addressed his accusers.