literacy. >> if you can read you can educate yourself. there's a book about anything out there. >> reporter: in 1995 parton started the imagination library in honor of her father. >> my own father didn't get a chance to go to school. he couldn't read and write. it really bothered him a lot. >> reporter: according to a u.s. department of education survey 32 million adults can't read. parton's imagination library strived to lower that number by providing new, free books every month to preschool aged children. >> my dad was so proud when the kids would get the books. he just was prouder than that than probably my great success in show business. >> reporter: the charity has given out over 82 million books in the u.s., uk, canada and australia. >> what can be better than reading? >> from dolly parton to "inside politics" with john king. now. john and kate, welcome.

welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. beautiful day here in the nation's capital. gorgeous picture. thanks for sharing time. six days until we count votes and a big hour ahead. four brand new cnn polls to unveil. from pennsylvania, arizona, nevada and the numbers now, it won't be easy. emphasis, it won't be easy, but donald trump is in much better shape than a week ago. in the hunt now in large part because of chronic doubts about hillary clinton's honesty. >> as you know, the fbi has reopened its investigation into hillary clinton. this is the biggest scandal since watergate. and now it's been reported that there are fbi inquiries, probing virtually all of hillary clinton's inner circle. >> with trump close on her heels in florida and now closing in in

pennsylvania as well, clinton, on the attack. >> when i think about what we now know about donald trump and what he's been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women. and i've got to tell you. some of what we've learned, some of this stuff is very upsetting. >> and we count the votes tuesday, but early voting is the wholly grail for clinton, and slumping african-american turnout in that voting, an urgent worry. >> make no mistake. this -- this is not something you can take for granted. donald trump -- don't boo! vote! booing doesn't help! voting helps.

donald trump is uniquely unqualified to be president. he has temperamentally, he is temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief. >> with us should tear reporting and insights, our panel. first to to brand new numbers. some might surprise you. start in nevada. a state deobama in both of his victories. our new poll shows donald trump with a six point lead among likely voters. in a state hillary clinton very much wants to win. critical to donald trump's math. wow. six-point lead for donald trump in nevada. hkillary clintrodham clintoclin arizona today. numbers conducted after the fbi announcement. 49% donald trump, 43% for hillary clinton. thinking she has a chance to bend the numbers. may be a surprise to her organization.

and florida, donald trump cannot win without florida and look at these numbers. clinton lead, just two points. donald trump in play in florida heading into the final week. the closest rastate between oba and romney. donald trump in play for florida hoping to hold on there, early voting. critical in that state. biggest surprise of all, donald trump was in pennsylvania yesterday. hasn't voted a republican for president since 1988. previous polls at seven or nine points, close at the end in pennsylvania. why is this happening? back out and look at this. interesting. on issue number one to voters, economy, in all four swing states. numbers, trump leads in arizona, florida, nevada and pennsylvania. issues voters think is key, biggest issue donald trump leads. doing better in polls, one of the reasons. this one, too is striking especially in the wake of the

fbi announcement. which candidate is more honest and trustworthy? trump wins in all. donald trump viewed at the candidate more honest and trust worthie. look at those four states, how does it change this map? does it make it easier for donald trump to have a panel for 270? if trump holds's lead in nevada, keeps arizona, comes back in florida. again, clinton, with a narrow lad. some trump momentum. if trump can come back there it gets him into play. in the end still not enough. what does he need? he needs to win north carolina. it's a must-win state and close to the end. needs to win ohio. that one is close to the end. even the clinton campaign concedes tlaump mrump has momen. this gets trump at 258. enough to get him over the top with michigan or wisconsin. next several days are key to

trump, continuing the momentuom. he thinks the key to that, keep focusing on the e-mail problem. >> hillary is not the victim. the american people are the victims of this rigged and corrupt system in every way. and this is your one chance to change it. it's your one chance. i don't think you're going to have another chance, folks. we have an election coming up. you're not going to have another chance. in four years, you can forget it. if she were to be elected, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. >> a long wind sdwroup to get t the polls, in play everywhere. campaigns exaggerated in end. you see better numbers in arizona, ahead in pennsylvania, but looking at trump, looking at white blue collar states to be down four in pennsylvania is a lot better than couple weeks ago looking at seven, eight, nine or

ten? >> that's welcome news for them in pennsylvania. you're seeing, went out to new mexico. in wisconsin, in michigan. don't know exactly how they're going to cobble together what they need to get to 270. they're cri trying to put a toe everywhere to see an opportunity and feel they have momentum at their back. even before the announcement by james comey and in the wake of that. people happy in trump tower to see just a four-point lead. >> in context, no question trump is in better shape than a week ago. absolutely no question about that. how much, the romney campaign felt good, too. comes down to money and organization. issue is dynamic. whether obama care premiums first and announcement about the reopened fbi investigation certainly made the race about her and not him. that's helping him. >> right. and you see that shows up in the polls. the headlines for hillary clinton have been terrible over this, these last couple of days

with the fbi and obama care, and you see that reflected in the polls. when you talk to people, pollsters talk to people, they usually have whatever is in the news at top of mind in terms of their choices. again, i think she's got that solid blue wall still on that map. we'll have to see what happens in terms of these days ahead. they're going to be fanning out. the trump family, fanning out all over the country. i think still hillary clinton has got an advantage in terms of the bench of people out there fanning out for her in these different states, and we'll see in the coming days whether or not they feel like they need to tweak their language. there are soft spots they have in terms of african-american voters, for instance. we'll see what happens. >> do you see a week ago people talking clinton getting 330 3shgs 50, republicans saying could reach 360, looks like now she's going to be extra cautious making sure she gets 270 and goes from there. >> steve bannon keeping over his desk, the trump campaign a politico story from another high point in the campaign.

that talked about the clinton operation getting over 300. sort of what wakes him up every day. and you see tightening. this is the strangest race in the world in that whenever the focus is on one of the candidates, that candidate starts going down in the polls. neither of these candidates have ever been able to generate positive momentum when the focus is on them. it is always -- always negative. and so in the final week here, more focus on hillary clinton. more focus on those candidate qualities you talked about, trustworthiness. >> honesty and trustworthiness. >> that hobbled her since the beginning. you see her instead of closing the race with a positive message what she'll do, closing with further attacks on donald trump trying to turn the story back to him. >> that part's interesting, matt. the campaign know this before we do. they're polling all the time. see the shifts every day and night and so it was clear yesterday both in advertising, a., added more states. states they thought they would be able to take off the map. b., the message to let's govern,

build a mandate, instead back with the "access hollywood" tape slamming donald trump about his views towards women. the tv advertisement hillary clinton in florida, too, making that, try to make it about trump again. >> -- he calls women ugly. disgusting. nasty, all the time. he calls women pigs. rates bodies on a scale from one to ten. i mean, really, can we just stop for a minute and reflect on the ob sturdy of donald trump finding fault with miss universe? but you've got to ask -- why does he do these things? who acts like this? and i'll tell you who. a bully. that's who. >> that's trying to protect your firewall. if she can win suburban women in suburban florida, suburban north carolina and philadelphia, she wins. >> like ryan was saying. don't look at me and my e-mails. look at that guy and what he

said about women, and going back to what really worked for her in that first debate with alicia machado and how trump handzeled that in the aftermath. other thing interesting about polling and impacts of it is, if you're joe heck in nevada, or pat toomey in pennsylvania, these numbers sort of spell a much better for them. and trump not weighing them down quite as much. able to just closed gap it will help the down ballot races as well. >> and a big issue here. talked about this a bit earlier in the week in the tense a lot of battleground states trump is trying to sell doom and gloom economic messages but things improved yet he leads consistently across the battleground statements on the issue of the economy. the campaigns know this. hillary clinton yesterday saying, donald trump cheats on his taxes. takes advantage of loopholes you can't. stiffs the little guy in every project he does. not just secretary clinton. the president as well. listen to the president going after donald trump on the economy. >> the notion that this guy is

your champion -- the notion that this guy's going to fight for working people -- when his entire life he did not have time for anybody who wasn't rich or a celebrity? who wouldn't let you into one of his hotels, unless you were cleaning the room. wouldn't let you on to one of his golf courses, unless you were mowing the fairway? come on! this guy is going to be your champion? come on. >> that's colorful from the president, and good from the president. he's not on the ballot. this is a question that we're asking a few days before the election, talking about throughout the primaries as well. bernie sanders scored a lot of points against hillary clinton not just because of liberal angst but had a more compelling economic message. we are five days from election and hillary clinton still has a problem convincing voters. go to her website, a progressive, lots of policies.

not given a lot of things in details. ask her, somebody in 30 seconds, describe what hillary clinton view on the economy is, still hasn't gotten there. >> no. i think that's right. and she switched back and forth between stronger together. that's her banner. talks about, oh, when they go low, we go high. there isn't anything compelling. flash back -- >> trump says fight for the little guy, rip up the trade deals, get awe job. disagree but it works. >> screwed by washington. it's easy. i'm going to toss everybody out of washington, and -- and clinton is clearly all about sort of policy and incrementalism. obama plus. none of bumper sticker worthy and none are resonating emotionally with average voters. >> much, much more to talk about. up next, early voting numbers, also important. revealing a glaring problem for hillary clinton. african-american turnout is down. and she's running out of time to fix it.

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live pictures of a donald trump event in miami. yes it is, reince priebus, chairman of the rnc. hillary clinton plus two, new poll of likely voters. as always, florida a battleground to the very end. chairman of the party speaking now. when donald trump we'll jump into the meat of those remarks if we get a chance. president obama switching back, urging voters who twice gave him big wins to help hillary clinton. >> and, by the way i just want to say it, to the guys out there. i want to be honest. you know, there's a reason we

haven't had a woman president before. i want every man out there voting to kind of look inside yourself and ask yourself if you're having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we're just not used to it? so that you know, like -- like -- when a guy's ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well, that's okay. but when a woman suddenly does it, suddenly you're like, well, why's she doing that? >> you see those picture there's? columbus, ohio last night. ohio and then florida and north carolina when the week is out. places early voting is key to clinton's chances and where turnouts of the president's most loyal backers is slumping. look. according to data african-american voter turnout is down 5.3% from 2012 in the state of north carolina. in georgia, also down 5.3%. and in florida, down 3.2% nap comparison is to 2008.

this is a problem for hillary clinton. now, she thinks she makes some up with latinos and some with white suburbanites, however, this, she will lose on election day if 2016 is anything like 2008 and 2012, the democrats will lose in ballots cast on election day. this is absolutely critical that she's got a problem. >> yes. testing a theory here. is this a democratic coalition that the democrats have put together in the last eight years or an obama coalition? we don't know the answer to that. we don't know if african-american turnout in 2008 and 2012 was more a function of obama's historic nature of his presidency and it's always been a concern in the clinton campaign from day one. their saving grace, john, you pointed out, donald trump alienated a lot of college educated white women. a place they could make it up. testing something never done. >> i talk to folks in the

clinton campaign and they see it somewhat differently. they think the vote is actually up in florida. by raw vote totals. they see 130,000 more african-americans had voted at this point than voted at this point in 2012. they think some of the voting restrictions and the smaller number of voting, polling sites in north carolina is affecting things. they see some increase as more polling sites come online. listen, it's certainly a concern and they concede, listen, it isn't going to be the same. her coalition is going to look different. the electorate is probably a little less black than it was in 2012 and 2008, and certainly more latino. they feel have good about their numbers. think about 2012 in florida. about 17% latino. and about 13% black. it will probably still be 30% non-white but the makeup will be different. >> go ahead. >> i think the reality here, though, is they say they're not panicking. right, they may not be. hillary clinton doesn't add a snop detroit unless you're

worried about turning out african-american voters, and to me it begs the question, yes. she has more star power surrogates than donald trump does, but where's michelle obama this week? she is the best surrogate they have, and if you're looking at these numbers saying, our african-american vote totals are low, why don't you want michelle obama and barack obama out there for you on the trail every single day? >> a great question. she's not on the trail this week and nothing scheduled. we'll see. maybe sheer pop up. >> final weekend. everyone out. >> great question. you mentioned the detroit event with jay-z in detroit and going to cleveland, ohio, with jay-z, sorry. detroit, michigan, for her. she has to do this. convince voters to have a stake in her. we learned in 2010 and 2014, no offense to the president. he wins his elections. in 2010 and 2014, unable to turn out voters. let's dip into donald trump. >> one of the top justice department officials involved in the e-mail investigation,

assistant attorney general peter kazakh, is a close associate of john podesta. the two met for dinner after clinton testified about benghazi, and podesta, who, by the way, said hillary clinton has terrible instincts on wikileaks. described him as the man who kept him, podesta, out of jail. kadzik is also the one who helped lead the effort to confirm attorney general loretta lynch. now, today, in a newly released e-mail through wikileaks again, we learned that kadzik was feeding information about the investigation into the clinton campaign, and that -- right? and that kadzik said, "it will be a while before the state department posts the e-mails." remember? they were waiting for the e-mails.

podesta forwarded the e-mails to clinton's top staff and said, additional chances for mischief. these are the people that want to run our country, folks. the spread of political agendas into the justice department, there's never been a thing like this that has happened in our country's history. it's one of the saddest things that has happened to our country. but with your votes, you can beat the system. the rigged system. and deliver justice so show up early and vote. show up early. you know, the lines are -- incredible. the polls are all saying we're going to win florida. don't believe it. don't believe it. get out there and vote. pretend we're slightly behind. you've got to get out. we don't want to blow this. this is the one chance we have.

it will never happen again. it's not going to happen in four years it's not going to happen. it can't happen again. this is a movement like we have never seen in this country before. these crowds. the enthusiasm. the love. got to get out and vote. real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing obama care. and hillary is not going to be the answer, because she wants to make it more expensive. so she's doubling down. it's just been announced that the residents of florida -- sorry to tell you this, folks -- are going to experience a massive, massive double-digit premium hike. >> donald trump campaigning in miami, florida. the sunshine state. 29 electoral votes. new poll released at the top of the hour shows hillary clinton way two-point lead there. the closest state in 2012 between obama and romney. florida goes down to the end.

a must-win for donald trump. we heard him talking about early voting. encouraging people to get to out and vote. talk and the slump in african-american turnout. the question whether democrats can turn it around in final days. la tain oh numbers, early voting among latino, north carol up a tick from 2012. georgia, up a tick. florida, where donald trump is now, up 4.5%. comparison there to 2008. the only data available to us. in that regard, the clinton campaign -- that's the key to florida. getting it, especially because the latino population, go back 20 years thinking largely cuban-americans and puerto ricans. much more diversity from mexico and central and south america in the latino population in florida. hillary clinton hopes that her vote. >> that's the question. whether there is a new clinton coalition. you know? different from obama's coalition of african-american voters. you have the latino voters sort of energizing this campaign. we saw the numbers of more becoming citizens, in order to

vote to sort of, not necessarily affirm hillary clinton but to reject donald trump. i think that's one dynamic that we're certainly seeing and clinton's coalition always looked different. in 2008, her coalition was older, whiter. and it was more la teen oenchts his tank. >> right. beat obama 2-1 among latino voters and did well among african-american voters in the primary this go-round, but i do think there is a different kind of clinton coalition than the obama coalition. >> an interesting lesson for the republican party again to see how this all plays out on election night, because, remember, they did their autopsy four years ago talking about needing to expand the tent and bring in more latino and mine sortie support. donald trump what dohas not donf that. eve ton get an economic message out there. so if it does come out on election night that hillary clinton builds this coalition with robust latino support, then

they go back to the drawing board again and say, okay. we tried this by turning out white working class voters and now do you believe us? that the numbers aren't there. >> he could do better. could do better. right? >> looking at polls now, they may be on the way to a big muddle. what if the vote total is same at the romney vote? >> and he wins ohio. >> despite all disadvantages, running the playbook opposite of what all republican establishment told him to, but loses, no worse than mitt romney. that really muddles the republican party's debate after this. >> to the point we dipped in live there. trump talking about investigations of hillary clinton and using the krups of clinton inc. if you will. reading the teleprompter back and forth between podesta, campaign chairman and a friend at the justice department. the kind of stuff go to breitbart, the drudge report, go to conservative websites they break it down a minute detail and want all of these people rounded up and thrown in jail 20 years ago let alone now in this

campaign. is that what he should be doing as a candidate at the prompter ral ji been effective in recent days saying you elect the clintons, drama. constant investigations. no government done. who's he talking to when reading about kadzik? >> a steve bannon special seeing play out there formerly of breitbart. yeah. i think part of the reason people have moved beyond hillary clinton's e-mails and she was pulling ahead for a while and moved beyond some of the clinton foundation stuff is because it is hard to digest every single instance and back and forth, but it's not hard to step back and say you cannot trust hillary clinton. she did something with her e-mail server that's designed to hide information from you. she was careless with classified information and this is a scandal and going to be just like the '90s when we saw scandal after scandal. is that what you want for the next eight years? >> and suburban philadelphia, something that motivates them less than getting into the weeds of the fbi legislative director

and what they were doing. sort of takes it in a direction -- >> can i trust her? the question people process a lot more than who is this guy at the justice department and what's his relationship in? sit tight. up next, trump pulls ahead in ohio and arizona. closing in pennsylvania. how this reshapes the campaign map. for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads... here... here... or here. today, there's a new option. introducing drug-free aleve direct therapy. a tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors' offices. its wireless remote lets you control the intensity. and helps you get back to things like... this... this... or this. and back to being yourself. introducing new aleve direct therapy. find yours in the pain relief aisle.

welcome back. a dipper dig on tinting ra ideee poll. donald trump lead in nevada. a state hillary clinton wants to win. trump advantage. clinton is in arizona today. look at this. leading in recent public polling. our new poll has donald trump with a five-point lead among likely voters in arizona. a red state he needs to put back in the fold. east to the sunshine state. florida, the biggest prize among the toss-up battleground on the state. close every year. this one goes down to the wire as well.

49-47. slight clinton lead. trump important for a state to win. and polling today, the surprise, pennsylvania. clinton on top, but look at that. four points. four points in the state of pennsylvania. 20 electoral votes donald trump would like to keep it. told you at the top of the program, the reason trump is leading or doing better in these states, all four states voters trust him more on the economy. two, especially in the wake of the fbi announcement, hillary clinton numbers on honesty and trustworthiness taking another hit. deeper into the poll. more dynamics. clinton can look up, optimistic view, turning the focus on trump's fitness to be commander in chief. she wins in all four battleground states. who's better able to be commander in chief. an interesting question. in these battleground states in the final days especially the ones trump has to make up ground, like pennsylvania, like florida, could you change your mind? 15% of pennsylvania voters say they might. 14% in arizona.

a small audience of people open to changing their minds but enough to make the difference in each of these states as the candidates make final appeals. other quick digs deep into the poll. this number in florida. a constant clinton theme in the final days. trump leads on the economy, honesty. she want to say he does not have the temperament to be your president and in all four states scores very well on that question. one last point here -- are you extremely enthusiastic about voting for president? if you note this, in arizona close. in the other states, pennsylvania, pretty close. in nevada and florida, more enthusiasm on the trump side. this is a test of the clinton organization in the final days. more enthusiasm for trump, they have to overcome that with organization and turning out their voters. donald trump knows early voting hurt him in in states. listen to him here. you live in a state already voted but allowed and change it,

go and change it. >> this is a message for any democratic voter who have already cast their ballots for hillary clinton and who are having a bad case of buyer's remorse. in other words, want to change your vote. you can change your vote to donald trump. we'll make america great again. okay? >> now, he says this message to any democratic voter. i suspect to any republican voter because of their -- we're laughing about this. is this at all real? and as we have the conversation, there are some states that matter. pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, then michigan, connecticut, mississippi. the first three, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, could be important. you are allowed to change your vote, a real effort? donald trump talking at the podium? call people and bring them in to file the affidavit and change

their votes? >> they have to go to the precinct and track down your ballot and retrieve it. it's quite a process. unrealistic, given most of the people who vote early know who they're supporting and the just doing it ahead of time. not sort of susceptible to changing their mind based off of -- >> if you voted early, you were pretty locked in. >> yeah. in wisconsin, you can do this three times. change your vote. really, really indecisive. but i think the notion this is a big, organized thing by the trump campaign, like their field organization is not. hillary clinton's field organization, not like hers. the rnc picked up a lot of slack. talking to republicans in wisconsin and they barely see a field operation there that could help boost trump's momentum currently. much less a field organization that will find republicans who defected or democrats switching and take them back. >> a critical point. pause for a second. critical point. we see tinting ing itightening. a less steep hill, still a steep

hill but less to 270 than a week ago, but you hear things like that from state after state after state, romney had a good operation. didn't do well in early voting but a pretty good operation and couldn't. won north carolina. only close one. lost florida close, ohio close some other ones close. a critical point hearing trump say go change your vote. the question, can they turn out votes? >> romney's operation on the day, on election day, orca. electronic operation completely failed. and trump's staffing-wise, the number 3-1, 4-1. clinton staffers to trump staffers on the ground. a big advantage. cliche among the ground game operatives like a field goal team. you know? it's there at the very end if you need a few points, but otherwise, the field operation doesn't make a huge difference in this camp for -- he needs a few points in just about every state. >> crazy in the final days making campaigns a ton of fun.

up to philadelphia to see melania trump in the suburbs. hillary clinton in vegas, tempe, arizona. donald trump showed you him in miami. two other stops in florida. surrogates are out everywhere, too. look at the map. the president's in north carolina, bill clinton's out, chelsea's out, mike pence out and some of the trump children out. they don't make the graphic. didn't get the trump children on there they're out as well. does team clinton having so many a-list surrogates, no offense to the trump team but he doesn't have the senators and the president going around. does that help? >> yes. i think it helps. it helps with enthusiasm. they are basically putting these surrogates close to early voting places. they're putting them on college campuses. you saw michelle obama out in north carolina with hillary clinton at wake forest. also near historically black colleges as well. it matters. it matters in terms of enthusiasm, in terms of reaching

voters, making the local press as well. so, yeah. >> i think what nia said is key. you might be drawn in by jay-z, barack obama, who are the surrogate is. the clinton camp made a good job telling you where to go, how to vote, where you need to be. the trump people have actually begun to steal a page their their playbook. in colorado this past weekend, the convenient at a po event was at a polling place. if they want to vote in person do it right there. so kind of ripping off the clinton campaign a little bit there. >> we talk about advantage clinton in organization, in money. she had a pretty good lead in the electoral college map. now we see getting tighter. some is natural. live in an evenly divided country. expect tightens at the end. this is telling to me. bought $14 million in television ads this week. s $14 million.

they increased $32 million. more than double. you don't do it because we have a few extra dimes in the bank. you do it because you are suddenly nervous. >> and spending some of this money in the upper midwest which they thought they lock downed. seems their goal has gone from expanding the map into georgia, arizona, utah, into protecting their firewall. >> the big blues. if you look at wisconsin, ten. michigan, 16. pennsylvania, it's 20. they have to keep trump from getting one of those big blues. if he gets new hampshire it's four, nevada it's six, they don't want that, but that's small math. >> and this is where trump was supposed to be strong. right? he was supposed to really reshape that map, the rust belt and do well in states like michigan. do well in states like pennsylvania. do well in wisconsin. wisconsin is 85% white nap might be a state that he should have paid more attention to earlier. they're doing it at the last minute. we'll see if it make as difference. >> to the point earlier about the president, before we went live to the trump event. this is fascinating to me.

republicans love the obama years except for the presidential years. in 2010 and 2014 republicans won everything. state legislative seats, house then the senate. bigger majority in the house and the president wasn't out all the time, trying to help democrats and could not translate his personal appeal to democrats. the question is, can he do that for hillary clinton? listen to the president this morning on the tom joyner morning show. desperately trying to help her turn that slump in african-american early voting around manand making it persona >> i just want everybody to understand. we've got one more race here. >> uh-huh. >> this one -- even though my name the not on the ballot, our legacy is all at stake, and we can't take it for granted. so -- please, everybody, get out there and do the work. find people, you know, who have not voted yes. >> yes. >> and tell them, i was listening to the president, and he personally asked you to go out there and vote. do your thing.

>> i mean, he's putting his legacy more on the line than he did in those midterms. >> yeah. >> and criticized a lot because he wasn't campaigning with other people. he's campaigning an awful lot for hillary clinton. in fact, in north carolina he spent more time in north carolina this year than he did in 2012 for himself. he's spending a lot of time there trying to translate that african-american support. >> and in 2014 democrats didn't really want obama out there. right? if you think about, down in louisiana, he didn't want him. alison grimes didn't admit she voted for him in kentucky. this go-round he's essentially running the strategy. doing the black radio and samantha b. and all of these things, jay-z onboard as well. >> not just among african-americans but more popular than hillary clinton just why the wider electorate. approval ratings is in the

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welcome back. you may have met donald trump before he was a politician on television. he went full "apprentice" on the campaign chairman john podesta n. a newly released e-mail john podesta has been caught saying, we have to dump all of those e-mails. can you believe this? that's wikileaks. and he also said, to me this made a big, a big statement.

john podesta -- tell you what, if he worked for me i would fire him so fast. he is such a nasty guy. i would fire him. like "the apprentice." john, you're fired! amazing. >> at issue, courtesy of wikileaks, this march 2015 message from podesta to longtime clinton aide serial mills. on another matter not to sound like lanny but we are going to have to dump all of those e-mails. better to do sooner than later. now, trump in and allies spinning dump as meaning destroy. that ignores fact, history and context. the building behind me, covered it 8 and a half years. lanny davis, bill clinton without aide brought in for crisis control skills. friday document dumps mean reeg leases releases to the media legendary. the philosophy, records that might be used against you, release them first, before your enemies can get ahold of them.

dump, mr. trump, sorry, it's a rare clinton call for transparency. i say that not to be a shell for hillary clinton. plenty in the hillary clinton documents to take and hammer we are hi. plenty of thing that are critical. that's not a defense of hillary clinton. but this is just wrong. dumpt dump the e-mails became legendary in the lewinsky scandals. document dump. >> got the story wrong here. cheryl mills and the people around hillary clinton at the state department were much more interested in keeping this under wraps. much more in sort of the close the ranks camp. podesta and the people who are going to have to run the campaign were much more in the let's get this all out because we have to defend this in 2016 running for president. >> wanted to get it out in 2014-15, get it out there. >> right. >> and also him sounding like rush limbaugh. like he has to just fill time and want to say wikileaks as

much as possible. >> good impersonation. >> i can't imagine -- >> do that again. >> so, yeah. i mean, i just think it's ineffective. i think the more effective thing is to frame hillary clinton as almost the pigpen president. someone who is surrounded by drama and scandal all the time. and talk about clinton fatigue, to your point earlier. >> to that point, then you jump in. donald trump is doing just that with one of his closing campaign ads. a lot of people questioned, a powerful one here from donald trump. >> so how did hillary end up filthy rich? pay to play politics. staggering amounts of cash poured into the clinton foundation from criminals, dictators, countries that hate america. hillary cut deals for donors. now the fbi has launched a new investigation after decades of lies and scandal her corruption is closing in.

>> to your point earlier, sarah pap more powerful message about, you don't want this. you want to change washington, get rid of big money in politics, get rid of clinton drama, investigations. more powerful than reading details and getting into the weeds of this stuff. >> right. the reality, yes, comey's announcement muddled the race and our understanding what's in the e-mails and what's going on. use the words hillary clinton and an fbi investigation together in a ad, that's problematic. no candidate wants to be in this position. a simple way of saying, is this really what you want for two terms? >> voters care a lot about that. they don't care wab john podesta. that doesn't resionateresonate, the focus on hillary clinton. trump struggled with. focus on her the whole time and drag her numbers down. >> first time today in another radio interview the president of the united states asked. white house press secretary very careful saying he's not taking sides. jim comey, fbi director works for the president, even those

it's a ten-year term decided to reopen this investigation. the clinton campaign saying it's a double standard, shouldn't have made it public before the election. listen to the president united states trying to say neutral but leans in a little tiny bit. >> i do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don't operate on innuendo. we don't operate on incomplete information. we don't operate on leaks. we operate based on concrete decisions that are made. >> so he's trying to say, and it goes on in the interview, just a snippet there. i know hillary clinton. she's an honest person. the last investigation found nothing prosecutable. made mistakes but nothing prosecutable. not trying to bash comey but throws in an innuendo -- >> it's pretty clear he's suggesting he was not happy that comey did this. and, look, there's a norm

against presidents commenting on investigations that their justice department are doing and frankly, barack obama broke that norm last year in an interview with "60 minutes" essentially said he didn't think hillary clinton did anything wrong. long before the -- >> during the investigation, a lot of people on the right pointed to that why, you know, loretta lynch and other folks in the obama administration needed to have this investigation, the face of it, comey. so unusual for, to even imply that his fbi director has done something wrong here. >> and a significant difference from the other day with josh ea earnest. the immediate aftermath, not questioning integrity whatsoever. what's happen eed in the ininte >> we've shifted from talking all about donald trump and a clinton blowout. very tight. that's it for nx. stay here throughout the week. after a quick break, our

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hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's noon in des moines, iowa. 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 8:00 p.m. in baghdad. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. it's now all hands on deck with less than six days to go in the u.s. presidential election. for the clinton camp, there are a lot of those hands. hillary clinton is in nevada and arizona later today. while others including the president and the vice president, they hit key battleground states. the trump campaign has an equally long list of campaign stops today. four of his c