hillary clinton striking an optimistic note. >> i want to be the president for every american. democrats, republicans, independents. people who vote for me. people who vote against me. we have to bring this country together. >> donald trump less so. >> i'll let you know on the evening of november 8th whether i'm glad. >> reporter: with 15 days to go, trump no longer talking about when he wins but if. >> if we win on november 8th, we are going to fix our rigged system it's a rigged, broken, corrupt system. >> some people are sore losers and, you know, we just got to keep going. >> reporter: a wild weekend with trump visiting gettysburg for an unusual gettysburg address. overshadowing the plan for his first 100 days in office by pledging to sue the women

accusing him of inappropriate behavior. >> every women lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. total fabrication. all these liars will be sued after the election is over. >> reporter: kellyanne conway bluntly acknowledging the uphill climb. >> we were behind. one, two, three, four points and our advantage is that donald trump is going to continue to take the case directly to the people. >> reporter: trump undermining that acknowledgment. >> investors business daily, the most accurate poll from the last election and the two elections before that just announced that we are leading nationally by 2 points. numbers are looking phenomenal in florida. don't believe the media. >> reporter: but a new abc national poll shows trump trailing clinton by 12 points. cnn has learned that clinton is

increasingly -- a democrat close to clinton saying she's not being arrogant, she's being dilige diligent. clinton is sizing up candidates for white house chief of staff. one top contender ron klain who led her debate team. all this as president obama is tying gop senator candidates to trump. visiting nevada, one of the hottest battlegrounds. >> you're for him, but you're not for him. but you're kind of for him. what the heck? >> reporter: it's not just president obama making that case. michelle obama returning to the campaign trail this week, app r appearing together with hillary clinton for the first time in north carolina. now, trump is all in in florida. he's spending the next three days in the state. virtually no path to the white house without those 29 electoral votes. heading clinton heading there tomorrow ho tomorrow to hopefully block that path. >> political anchor of time warner news, errol lewis and

washington bureau chief for "daily beast" jackie kucinich. trump goes first basically saying i'll lay out the first 100 days and i'm doing it at gettysburg and what happens? >> he steps on his own message. let's keep in mind aside from the sexual assault allegations, for a president or even a presidential candidate to try to settle personal scores using the platform that he has -- >> when you say personal scores, what did he say he was going to do? >> he said he's going to sue all the liars and sue "the new york times" and he talks about suing and a way of blowing off steam, i suppose. talk about personally, that's essentially what he was saying. the rest of it was kind of an interesting summary of a lot of promises that he has made. he doesn't have it really

together and didn't issue a campaign book the way the clinton campaign did. he doesn't have it all together on his website. a nice, compact description of the things he says he wants to do. again, though, he made sure that that would not be the headline by saying he was going to sue a bunch of people. >> kellyanne conway admitted they are behind in the polls. that's something donald trump has not admitted. are people not breaking it to him on his campaign that he is actually behind in the polls? why do they have such different messages? >> the extent to which anyone on his campaign can tell him anything and have it sink in is something that is worth asking. yes, he has always liked to cherry pick polls. he liked to cherry pick in the primaries, as well. consistently hillary clinton has been in the lead and look at "l.a. times" poll and trump with massive leads and hillary clinton is leading in that now. every indicator is that donald trump is losing.

i think she is aware that after this election, she is still going to have to be working politics. i think what trump was doing yesterday or over the weekend in gettysburg i think he understands the odds are low right now and he needs to change the perception of himself after the election, as well. which is one of the reasons why more of the priority was protecting his personal brand. >> trump, other than saying he is going to sue the accusers which he is not going to do which will open him up to discovery and be talked to under oath that i don't think he wants. he is doing something very different than clinton, though. he says i'm going to change the following things that are problems with this corrupt system. here's what i'm going to do. the clinton campaign is starting to shift away from that and move into a broader sense of, what do we do with congress. there is risk in that, isn't there, jackie? >> there is. congress could reject her. a lot of friction immediately because if trump doesn't win, as

much as we hate to say it, the shift will focus to 2020 with a lot of republicans who will start talking about their own personal brands. look at ted cruz, i'm sure he is already getting up for that. the other thing they're talking about is healing and how they will heal the rift in the country at large. >> what is the plan for that one? >> free ice cream. >> exactly. >> that would go a long way. kittens, puppies. she was taurking about it on the north carolina, just, you know, how much everyday people are going to be part of that trying to heal the rift that this election has opened up in this country. >> errol, is it too early to measure the drapes in the oval office. she is thinking about her transition team and her chief of staff, this is the reporting. 15 days, anything can happen. >> yes, look, the reality is both campaigns have transition

office. there was great reporting on what goes on. any new president has 4,000 positions they have to fill and couple hundred, 250 that are absolutely essential that have to get filled immediately just to keep the lights on. melody barnes who used to run the domestic policy council said her first day when she finally found her office the phone was ringing when she walked in the door. the government continues. so, it would be irresponsible not to have something in motion. they probably ought to try and kill any of the speculation and reporting because it's not just a distraction, but it really starts to cast her as maybe a little bit more self assured than she wants to portray herself as being right now. >> christie said the reason he wasn't doing more media is because he's so busy with the transition team. the question becomes, philip, why so much confidence in the turnout projections? why the confidence that the democrats will get more voter turnout than they did in 2012?

why would that happen? >> i think there's a few things. we're likely to see higher turnout than 2012 part of population growth. this is 2012 and didn't have high turnout compared to 2008. we added more people since then. another reason why is hillary clinton is leading by so much, the democrats feel more confident with turnout once you're ahead by that much. >> so, you think if you're up more than people vote because i would think intuitively if you're up, maybe you stay home. >> turnout makes a couple percentage point difference. the democrats also have a stronger field program which is the turnout operation. but theirs is better than the republican. they're less worried about it and donald trump's core strength is with white men without college degrees. they vote less than most white voters do. >> you know, in 2012 mitt romney and his team were confident that he was going to win. the reason was in part was because they had this internal polling that suggested they were

up in battleground states. is there any way that the polls are wrong and that they haven't sort of fastened on the demographics that are now this country or some other special sauce that they're missing? >> that's certainly what the trump campaign is banking on right now. they are hoping you hear about their silent majority of people who aren't being polled and aren't answering pollsters questions accurately. this lead is so big. i would be surprised. also, the clinton campaign isn't taking any chances and that's why you see this huge emphasis on early voting. and getting people out and, you know too, the polls. not just on november 8 to make sure they can have a good lead going into election. >> 5 million votes, i believe, already counted in early voting and we are told that they are leaning towards clinton. >> the trending is suggesting that it's better for clinton thus far. but you don't know. it's still early on. that's why hillary is bringing out the big gun in michelle obama.

certainly the media has embraced michelle as the star player in this surrogate campaign. what does it mean to have her with -- so the first lady with the former first lady who is now running to president in north carolina. >> well, what it says to me among other things is that they're worried about black turn out, especially among millennials in north carolina. they're pulling out all the stops. the state itself, i think, is one that the obama team feels like they should have won last time. it was their narrowest loss in 2012 and they won it in 2008. they want to really withdraw the map and settle more scores and put that in the democratic column of going forward. and michelle obama is their best bet to try to do that. >> panel, thank you. up next, hillary clinton surging and donald trump dropping in the polls. what is behind those numbers? do they signal the end for trump, or is there another way to look at those numbers? our panel discusses that, next.

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early voting is under way, including in the key swing state of florida. that's where donald trump will be campaigning today. this new abc news national poll has hillary clinton with now a

double-digit lead. our latest cnn poll of polls has clinton at 48% and trump at 39. can trump turn things around with these two weeks left in the race? let's bring back our panel, errol lewis, philip bump and jackie kucinich. let's dive in the poll that came out yesterday. gender. at the moment, clinton is leading by 12 points. with men, hillary clinton is now leading in this abc news poll 44% to trump's 41. was this all the billy bush tape? what happened here that turned the tide here? >> this is something of an outlou has this floor of support that he hasn't gone above very often.

when he has gone above republican women and independent women have come onboard and then he loses them. he lost them after the democratic convention and he lost them starting at the first debate which overlapped with the billy bush tape. the question is if these women will come onboard team trump. at this point they're off team trump and hard to imagine what might happen over the next 15 days. >> more and more the number that really has stuck out is his overall. he hasn't been able to get over that 40%. there have been different moves in those, you know, in those interior cross tabs whether you talk about gender or different economic and at the end of the day, this was he has to grow the base. he has to expand. is the explanation for the numbers his lack of expansion which you can contribute to the tape or 15 things like that tape. >> that is the issue as phil said the whole time. i will say this also, this is about the time trump started to be trump, again.

and it has failed. he is down with people with the rigged election message. >> we have that. let me interrupt you for one second. abc asked trump asked the election might be rigged among likely voters. 59% consider him to be making excuses. >> but when you look at the trump voters. when the poll, trump voters are all in on that message. again, he's speaking to his base. we said this story in the debates. there really isn't a willingness to expand. we see it reflected in the polls. >> this is the time polls start to matter when you get closer to election day because people start to think about it more seriously. sometimes it's whimsy and sometimes just a snapshot of a moment. you get a better read where their heads actually are and that's why these numbers are more troublesome to the trump campaign. >> 34 states where early voting

is happening right now. it starts to look more, in some ways, more like an exit poll. if you're polling in a state where lots of people are going to the polls and you're capturing real behavior of reporting it as we're seeing today is going to influence a lot of people who are going to the polls today. it really is, it's crunchtime. you know, the trump campaign and trump himself, we have been saying this for about a year now. if he's going to build on his base, you have to ask the question, where. geographically, where is it going to be. demgraphically, where is it going to be? you can fight against the establishment but fought so much against all establishments that he's shedding muslim voters and immigrant voters and he's insulting the black community. he's insulting women. at some point you basically run out of runway and i think that's where we are right now. >> there is also polling now for the first time about how voters feel about his rigged election claims. so, abc news asked the question trump refusing to ask whether he accepts the outcome and likely voters approve of that.

65%. so t seems as though this is also hurting him. >> yeah, it's a weird claim. it is an outlayer claim. there's nothing comparable to it and i think that when people assume it is because he's making -- we are 15 days away from election day. essentially nothing he can do at this point. he had lots of opportunities to compel the american voters to come to his side. all those opportunities have been wasted because he's focused on his base. seems like what they're trying to do is get that base and push as many to the polls as they can. not enough people here to make the difference. people see this for what it is and him having an excuse. >> it is also about the team he built. he built a very specific team, especially with the breitbart guy in there. your campaign start what are you for and two-thirds what you're

against and then shift back to what you are for. this is an attack team that he has in there. so, now, what he needs most is what he set up for least which is the argument to the people about while he'll make their lives better, positive, strength. not his strength. >> we were talking about enthusiasm during the break. 12% of republicans has dropped for trump. 12% of republicans and those are mainly the ones that are supporting someone else during the primaries. so, again, he can't expand from his base. if you don't like some '90s conspiracy theories and if you don't like some of the scandals of the clintons. i mean, some of these debates are a '90s fever dream. if you don't like that message they're pushing out during critical parts of the campaign, you're not feeling real good about this right now. >> one last thing, i don't believe we have the graphic for it. that's how white voters are feeling. very instructive to look at this. trump's lead is at four points.

romney won by i believe 20 points. >> this reflects women breaking against donald trump. white women in particular, college educated by a huge margin. if he would find the discipline to stop talking about the sexual assault allegations. if he would stop insulting, you know, hillary clinton in particular ways, it might have gone in a different correctidir >> let's say he stops that today. >> he stops today and says, let's be honest. a horrible thing with the recession. obama didn't do what he promised and created a huge new problem with obama care clinton will extend all of these, do not reward them. let me get in there, let me do it differently. i'm the only person who can get the gop to work in congress. that's why you picked me. >> but, also, they're looking to cut his mike off and shove him off stage. when he goes off script is when he gets a problem.

>> hit a new high at gallop approval. >> people have real problem with social issues, as well. but compared to these two, you know, obama looks like michael jordan all of a sudden. >> panel, thank you. you want to be part of history? of course you do. you want to see that cubs/indians world series game how about in person for game one. guess what, the bleacher report is talking about how you get there, next.

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hillary clinton leading donald trump by double digits in a new national poll. she is starting tophorics focus transition team. today they're focused on florida, a state he must win.

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for all the latest. the world series begins tuesday and what a matchup. if you want to see the cubs and indians play in person, you're going to need some serious cash. coy wire has more in this morning's bleacher report. no problem for you, you got that cash as long as train smoerke. >> 41,000 seats at wrigley field and the average ticket price for the three scheduled games there more than 3,500 bucks for a single seat. 700 for standing room only in game one. now, no matter which team wins this series they'll send their respective city into a frenzy. two longest baseball championship droughts. the cubs haven't made it since 1945 before color tvs and hula hoops were invented and they haven't won it since 1908. 68 years since cleveland won it. they will claim their second pro-sports title in the same year. >> hillary clinton streaming the

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at&t and time warner, the parent company of cnn, have agreed to an $85 billion mega merger. the move was announced saturday evening. it will be subject to a review by regulatory approval which could take more than a year to complete. this deal helps at&t expand beyond wireless and internet service and move into content.

time warner is also the parent company of tnt, hbo, warner brothers studio and more. for more on this blockbuster deal, let's turn to cnn chief business correspondent and "early start" anchor christine romans who is joined by the heads of both companies. >> it is literally a big deal, alisyn. jeff bewkes and randall stephenson. gentlemen, thank you. congratulations. why buy time warner? >> seems to us like a very natural extension of what we do. we're in an environment where our customers are demanding more and more video, more and more entertainment content not only on the tv but on the mobile device. we have a really large customer base in mobility and the ability to take really premium quality content is huge for us, huge for our customers. as we made the scan and looked

for premium content to bring to our customers, this is the premium content we think on the planet right now. so, the ability to do something special like this with time warner is a very natural extension for us. >> why sell now, jeff? >> well, it's not really selling, it's joining. so, this is our biggest customer, it's our biggest partner. directv, at&t and then all these mobile customers that we now will have together. and what allows us to do is move faster with more innovation, better consumer offerings and more different price points and more effective advertising and, therefore, people will see that more of the cost of content can be born by advertising and the experience of television can be better. >> what changes for the consumer. supersomebody watchi for somebody watching right now, what changes for these two companies together? >> the pace of innovation in

terms of delivering premium content and that pace of innovation is what is going to change. we're all trying to inovanovate this in this way and bring new product and capability to market. doing it in arm's length contracts is really, really hard. you put the two companies together and change how the customer experiences cnn, literally. that's what we think will change. the customer is demanding not only the entertainment, not only the content, but the ability to integrate social. doing clipping and posting and social interaction with their content. so, these are the kind of things we want to move fast through. >> talk to me more on how you see the future audience consuming the stuff. you have this young millennial in many cases they don't want to have a cable package. they have viewing this content differently. how does this deal see that or

feed that? >> the millennials. irn fa in fact, our customer base in general is not consuming less content. our customers are consuming more premium content today than they ever consumed. but they're not consuming it in different places. they're consuming it on their tablet and orn the mobile device and on the go and consuming it everywhere and it's really stark if you look at the amount of volumes. how they're increasing. fra traffic going to these mobile devices. that's video driven. we see that continuing. if we can actually inovate anov bring to the customer differently we actually thinks this doesn't slow down, this accelerates. this is the really important thing here because we're really excited about as how this accelerates and as the premium content continues to grow, it gives us more and more incentive to invest more and more and

innovate and infrastructure. this idea of 5g technology. >> what is that? >> the next generation of mobile technology. think about the fastest internet speed you get from the cable company is a gig. you can buy a gig of speed. 5g will allow us to provide a gig of speed to you wirelessly. as we innovate this kind of content. our customers can stream any kind of content any kind of video anywhere, ultimately, we think we'll be competing head to head with the cable companies with a wireless offer. combine it with this kind of content. we think this is exciting. >> we are talking about the cable-free customer or the customer who wants to be cable-free. you and i talked about some of the things time warner has been doing and talk to me a little bit about how this deal, how this deal fits in to that. >> well, we had progression for years. we wanted to have more video on demand. that was launched at hbo about

15 years ago. and then progressively we've seen broadbouand delivery give more think of netflix, hulu and amazon. we added film struck which is for film buffs and hbo now available. you can subscribe to that without adding anything else. you can do it a number of ways. i think what we're going to see with this kind of a platform and, you know, we believe this will be essentially a catalyst to more competition, more innovation and what we'd like to see is all the distributor companies basically doing more choices and more experiments and we think this will, if consumers like the kind of packages and more competition leads to lower prices and happier consumers and it tells us where to go. >> eight weerk weeks ago you me this building to start talking about this. that's pretty quick for such a big merger.

tell me about the timing here. we are in the midst of the most populous presidential election in modern history where big is bad and i'm wondering if that timing play had any effect on you guys. >> no, it had no effect on it. i came to see jeff because our business businesses, obviously, do a lot together. we buy a lot of time warner content. so, we see each other regularly. we get together regularly and came by to see jeff and we had lunch and as we began to talk me about where i saw the world of distribution going. 5g as we havespor spoken of herd the world of content moving and we came to an agreement that these things are converging and they will converge very, very quickly. >> a movie studio and a phone company. you think about how quickly things have really changed in terms of both of your businesses. i'm wondering about the

regulatory scrutsinscrutiny. immediate opposition in every single headline or first paragraph. we heard folks on the campaign trail taurkinglking about hilla clinton said will give it scrutiny if and there will be hearing in congress, no question. are you worried about the scrutiny? >> we announced a lot of big deals and this is not too much different than what we've seen in the past. this deal is unique, though. from any deal that we've ever done of any size. it's unique in this regard. this is a true vertical integration. >> explain what that means. it's means as if not two companies do the same thing already. >> think about at&t we tried to buy t-mobile that was a horizontal and a competitor was viewed to be taken out of the market. this transaction is not horizontal. we don't compete. in fact, it's vertical. jeff is a supplier to at&t.

his content is part of our package we buy. vertical integrations have a very standard review in the regulatory process. and there's not a competitor being taken out and, in fact, you're hard pressed to find in either one of our industries a time when vertical integration was shut down by regulators. generally what happens is where the regulators have concerns with a merger like this and impose conditions to help remedy the concerns that they might have. >> you're ready for that. >> we expect it to be a vigorous review. we're sure we'll get a chance to visit with congress and tell our story there. we feel like the information and the data will drive this and the law will drive this. >> some have been raising the comcast nbc merger and saying it has been failing to keep some promises it had made under that deal. does that hurt you? does some of the arm chair quarterbacking after that deal hurt you at all? >> i mean, when the regulators looked at comcast/nbcu, there

were two concerns. net neutrality and over the top video. if you look at this transaction six years after that, the net neutrality debate, i think it's over. the case was settled by the circuit court and i think net neutrality is behind us. over the top, i think netflix is somehow going to make it. i think they're going to pull through and they're going to make it. >> let me ask you about cnn and its independence here. cnn is just one of the many, many name brands that are in the time warner stable. but you have said that at&t will not be reaching into how cnn does its business or tells its story. >> i watched how jeff manages this business today and i think it's a model for how we want to manage it in the future. look, i think if a brand like cnn and the key variable of your brand is your independence. when people watch cnn, are they getting an independent assessment and reporting of the news. the last thing we want to do as

at&t is anyone taint that in the slightest bit. >> they understand the separation of all that? >> yeah. you know, you've been at cnn for many years and it's been owned by time warner. has it been interfered with? no. one of two things. people watch news channels to be independent, honest and objective. that's always the challenge. when you're looking for the best journalists in the world, you would only work at a news channel that lived up to that standard. >> what changes for the time warner brand? you stay on for how long? >> at least a few years after the -- we'll all do it as long as we are useful for the new company. >> this is the first time i heard you say a few years. this is a really big moment. >> you have the tape. >> we have a year to get to the close and then we need some period of time, but we have some tremendous executives in both of

our companies that are going to be, you know, we're always trying to build the next generation. >> trying to build the next generation. you keep time warner sort of operating those brand as they are now with the leadership they have now? >> absolutely. >> and move forward. at what point, they operate as two sort of different companies. at&t and time warner. >> you should think of time warner becoming a subsidiary of at&t. jeff has built an amazing company over here with some amazing brands and i don't envision us stepping in here and we're going to fix this. this is a well-run company. i said at the very beginning, i think this is the premium content brand company in the world. so, i don't envision us changing a lot. what we do want to figure out and this is the management art that we have to figure out and that is how do we begin to think differently aboutcurating this content and get it to our customers in different ways and different formats and getting that seemlessly working across

the two companies, that is the management art we have to figure. >> what we're talking about here is what content will look like in five years and how you can harness it and get it to people. but for consumers, they want to know what's going to change for them. their bills. their phone bills and their cable bills. what is the biggest thing they'll notice differently, do you think? >> more choices of different channel packages. if they want a big package of a lot of channels on their big screen tvs and they can watch the show and walk out of the house with a tablet and have seamless connection or maybe they don't want that. maybe they've got a young couple that wants to use mobile devices to watch. maybe they don't want the full package of channels. more choice, better prices for consumers. >> you think better prices for consumers. >> yes. more competition usually leads to more price reductions. >> i'll give you a classic example of this. you'll see this actually next month and that is one thing

we've been working on since we closed on the directv a acquisiti acquisition. this is purely over the top package that's going to our consumers. this is going to be a radically lower price point than what the consumer is expecting or has typically paid. this is 100 plus channels. we're not talking channels that nobody watches. all of this content will be on there, espn, the disney content. mobile centric is designed for the tablet and the smartphone. now think of having an anchor tenant like time warner and hbo and that content and how you can integrate social into this and social interaction and can we clip the content and send it to friends and interact with our friends on this. these are the kinds of things that they're going to iterate much, much faster and change how the consumer experiences

content. >> i mean, what are your thoughts, i guess. >> it's our company. you're in it, too. look, this company invented the magazine. it invented satellite delivered supported tv at hbo, invented 24 hour news at cnn. we're proud of the information and telling autheptic stories and this will help us to do even more investment. even more variety and keep evolving the distribution system. that's what this is about. making sure that the break through content that we're seeing an explosion not just in our company, but in all the television companies. we need to get this out across the world in a way that harnesses the 21st century of mobile devices, broadband delivery, there's so much programming you need a good interface to figure out how i

can watch. >> thank you, gentlemen, so much. chris? >> great interview, christine. thank you so much. what needs to happen for this at&t/time warner deal to come to fruition and what is the plus minus for you? up next our media experts will take you through the deal, next. [ boomer ] imagine what you wear every day

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this historic potential merger between at&t and time warner. what does that mean inyou hav? h you have hbo, warner brothers and cnn. we'll bring in cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter and keep them here by talking about "saturday night live" because another epic offering. first the deal. bill, when you look at it, if you're a consumer, what is the plus and what's the minus? >> the plus would be it's a forward-looking deal. the landscape is changing dramatically. this is a way to get mobile involved and content, et cetera. all the things they say which is positive. i think the questions are eventually, you know, is there too much control and too big and does that force prices up, eventually. >> brian, they did not answer the question that chris and i felt are most pressing and what does it mean for us and what

does it mean for the cnn viewers? >> means "new day" is 12 hours long. what it means is nothing in the short term and hopefully positive things in the long term. promoting the idea of tv everywhere five years. tv is not everywhere yet. that idea has not yet succeeded. i should be able to walk out of my house and keep what was on my big screen tv and see it on my phone. i should buy one bundle and see it anywhere orn any device. that hasn't come to fruition yet. companies have been trying and it's been very slow. stephenson talked about arm's length negotiations. the premise of this deal is all these things are going to happen no matter what, but at&t can make them happen faster if they own time warner. i think that does make a lot of sense. >> what were you going to say, brian? >> very happy to see them talk about cnn independent editorials. one of the biggest newsroom in the world and it was important to have stephenson on the record saying we're going to leave cnn

alone. we'll take advantage of the news gathering, but not meddle in the editorial. >> hearing some of the regulatory babble this weekend. they say the comcast deal with nbc, the comcast deal with nbc. this is really only like that in terms of it being a big deal. but at&t is a very different company. very different kind of integration and sophisticated stuff they will have to get into. might the regulators and another two big media people getting together. >> hillary clinton has indicated she will take a tough stand on this. >> the bigness of this is going to cause tremendous scrutiny because people are going to say this is an enormous, gigantic, combination of forces and there has to be really strict scrutiny on it. >> the reason why there is an expectation that will get approved after a year-long review is i think at&t and comcaco are similar. watching via comcast or charter

or via directv. they are watching some sort of cable or satellite. in the future you're increasingly going to be watching through a mobile connection. you're going to be buying your cable service through at&t or v verizon or comcast. we're going to take cable and say wireless. >> i think you met bigly and that leads us to "saturday night live" this weekend that took on the final presidential debate. >> will you accept the results of the election? >> i will look at it at the time because, frankly, this whole thing is rigged. even the media. every day i turn on the news and all of the newscasters are making me look so bad. >> and how are we doing that? >> by taking all the things i say and all of the things i do and putting them on it, v.

>> donald, donald, listen, i'm trying to help you, buddy. repeat after me. i, donald trump -- >> i, the best ever donald trump -- >> promise to accept -- >> promise to accept -- >> the results of this election. >> the results of this election if i win. >> huge ratings, right, brian? >> yeah, every week now with these guys. >> this is the biggest so far. the biggest four weeks that they had in years. >> alec baldwin has taken it to some level. he's not a professional mimic, but, boy, were they wrong. >> they're taking a break this weekend but next week right before election day, they'll be back. i'm guessing we'll see a clinton cameo. >> but trump has been the key to this. that performance has been the key. kate mackinnon is great. >> don't they have to give

donald trump a cameo. >> shouldn't they? >> legally, no reason they have to. >> there's no satire equal time. >> listen, i think viewers would enjoy it. >> he said it's a terrible program, it should be canceled. >> he could change his mind. >> they won't change their mind about him. you want to reward him for saying something terrible. >> four years ago they thought mitt romney would show up at the last minute. >> when sarah palin did, it was great. we could talk about this all day. >> a lot of news, we just had the two big men involved in this at&t/time warner merger right here. what did they say? let's get to it. >> isn't it amazing the way they say there is no voter fraud. folks, it's a rigged system. it's a rigged election. believe me. >> some people are sore losers and, you know, you just have to keep going. >> there's no accountability in washington. >> these republican politicians

suddenly are all walkingi away. what the heck, what took you so long? kurdish forces closing in on mosul. now just five miles from the occupied city. >> it is absolutely essential that we destroy isil. >> they're booby trapping doors and windows and deadly, deadly business. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. the 2016 race entering the final stretch. hillary clinton and donald trump set to deliver closing arguments to voters as they storm the battleground states over the next two weeks. a new national poll. this shows clinton at this point with a double-digit lead. the trump campaign acknowledges they are behind and zeroing in on must-win florida. >> meantime, clinton intensifying her charge into red states and