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 children are out

there, including daughter ivanka trump, who will be in michigan and north carolina. donald trump is focusing on florida with three stops, including one in miami right now. that's just wrapped up. watch this. >> the work of government would grind to a halt if she were ever elected. she'll be in court for her entire tenure, and she'll be convicted, because, look. the first time, i mean, frankly -- forget about this time. the first time she gets a subpoena from the united states dog, and she deletes everything? there shouldn't have been a second time, but i have respect that the fbi has given it a second chance. >> our jason carroll is in miami. following the trump campaign for us. our white house correspondent michelle kaczynski is in chapel hill, north carolina, ahead of president obama's appearance there later this afternoon. jason, three stops in florida for donald trump today. what's his message to florida

voters? we heard his attack on hillary clinton just now. >> reporter: well, first of all, a quick observation, wolf. at one point donald trump, you know, he likes to refer to hillary clinton as crooked hillary. at one point he said, that's going to be a great term for a president. of course, he meant it sarcastically, and i'm sure didn't mean it as any sort of sense of foreshadowing. what you got to see happening now in the campaign is the trump closing argument. hitting the themes, why voters should choose trump over clinton, and we've heard many of these themes before. he mentioned the e-mail controversy. meaning, he saying you cannot trust this candidate. talked about wanting to repeal and replace obama care. if he's not in office he says it's just going to be four more years of president obama's policy and finally, wolf, hitting once again on this unfounded claim of a rigged system. a vote for trump means you can get in there and try to clean up washington. these are the closing arguments

you're hearing today and that we're going to continue to hear as we head to november 8th. the trump campaign knows in order to get to the 270 that magical number of electoral votes, they've got to flip a blue state and they've got to take the state of florida. why they're here in miami-dade. this is a blue county. make no mistake about that, but donald trump came here to make his statement here today. early voting seems to suggest that hillary clinton is doing well with early voters here in the state, but a poll also shows that perhaps donald trump will do better with those who intend to vote on november 8th. once again, the bottom line, donald trump has to win the state of florida. making a stop here. he also has two more stops in orlando and pensacola. wolf? >> all right. jason, thanks very much. michelle, this is president obama that's about to be his second campaign stop in two days. what's the strategy for the president?

does he have a specific target for his rally later today? >> reporter: yes, definitely. look where he's stopping. yesterday ohio, today north carolina. very similar situation here, where weeks ago we saw polls showing hillary clinton with a pretty sizable lead over donald trump. and then you saw the tightening. i mean, in both of these states it get down to the point some polls show trump in the lead. others show hillary clinton with a smaller lead. so obviously the campaign feels, this is where president obama can be most effective at the end. also, with early voting. i mean in this state, there are -- there's a lead of democrats over republicans, about a 13 percentage point lead over who's early voting, but those numbers are not where they were four years ago. same thing with african-americans. that's a reason for the campaign to worry about it. especially since larger numbers of republicans usually turn up op the day of the election. in this election, there's a lot

of question marks out there. you see the urgency here. so president obama has been trying to make that appeal to the people that hillary clinton needs. young people, and african-americans. interesting to hear the president as he's been doing these multiple interviews with radio programs that are popular among black americans. just today, spelling it out in very plain language. saying, look, i know the excitement was there for me. well, you have to show that excitement for hillary clinton. and just today being out here and talking to some of the black students, they're saying, yeah. there is a gap in the excitement level for hillary clinton. obviously that's going to be there give than president obama was the first black president. but they're feeling like you know, some of their friends and colleagues, they need to be pulled out toal po athe polls. why they're not showing up in enormous numbers for early voting. we'll see how that works out on election day. also today we heard the president weigh in on the e-mail controversy in an interview. he's been avoiding that topic.

given he was asked directly about it today, he pretty much echoed what we've heard from the administration. he reiterated what the fbi had said months ago, that there was nothing prosecutable there. but he also wants to hit on hillary clinton's mistakes, in the sense that, you know, he kind of frames this in terms of a lot of noise and distraction out there surrounding this issue. how he's been terming it, but also been saying, look, everybody makes mistakes. i'm not a perfect president. i've made mistakes. hillary clinton has made mistakes but often gets a bad rap, or it's blown up to the point that it has before. that's how he frames the controversy as he makes his pitch for her being the better of the two candidate. wolf? >> michelle kaczynski reporting for us. thank you very much, michelle. i want to play a little clip of what else the president had to say about the fbi's review of the hillary clinton e-mail issue. listen to this. >> i do think that there is a

norm that, you know, 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. when this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the fbi, the conclusion of the justice department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that -- you know, she had made some mistakes, but that there wasn't anything there that was you know, prosecutable. >> let's bring in our panel, talk about this and a lot more. joining us right now, our panel including susan paige, the washington bureau chief for "usa today." cnn political analyst david gregory and david chalian and

amy stoddard, associate editor and columnist for "real clear politics." quickly, david. the president talks about the e-mail issue, the fbi review of what's going on right now. when he does that it generates more news coverage. this is a story the clinton campaign would like to see go discussed as we're doing right - now. >> as we're doing right now. it's not going to go away. i think they understand that. certainly the president understands it. from a narrower, strategic point of view they recognize this is hurting and on the minds of voters. i think they believe that there is a chance to turn it around to her favor. if the president's out here talking about this saying, look, her enemies are overreaching here. this is unfair. there are people who have to get out. you heard the president pointedly saying today to african-american voters, look we have one more election, even though i'm not on the ballot you've got to turn out for her, you've got to vote for her. there's a feeling the democratic faithful can be fired up, get a little more enthusiastic out of a sense of unfairness with

regard to what the fbi's doing, that's the best they can try to do at this point. >> we'll talk more about that. david, new polls in key battleground states released. put some numbers up on the screen. new cnn polls that just came out in arizona right now. donald trump leads hillary clinton by five points. traditionally in president's contests a republican state. it's a tight contest in florida right now with hillary clinton ahead by just two points. 49-47%. in nevada, the race shifted with trump now ahead, impressive lead 49-43% in nevada. in a pennsylvania clinton hold a four-point edge but it was bigger a month or so ago. what do the numbers, david, say to you about where the race is with only a few days left jrc? t >> i think the clinton campaign, you note add 2345narrow margin pennsylvania, a four-point lead is a pretty healthy margin and another poll came out, monmouth

university in pennsylvania today also showing a four-point lead for clinton. immediately you look for a blue-leaning state. is it holding? if you're the clinton campaign, you can breathe a sigh of relief there. the other side, good news for donald trump obviously. still very competitive in states he must win. florida, nevada. those nevada numbers some of the best in nevada i've seen for him in quite some time. we'll see if other polls agree as more nevada polls come out. look what's happening inside thee these numbers. look at enthusiasm levels. key to watch. look across all four states you see that in every state, except pennsylvania they're about tide, trump voters more enthusiastic than clinton voters. if the final home stretch that is really important. the other thing we learned i think you can see, some enthusiasm numbers right now. florida, ten-point advantage. arizona, three-point advantage. pennsylvania pa and big advantage in nevada.

take a look at temperament and honesty and trustworthiness, character traits at the very core of this election. you see flaws on each side. the temperament question, he is down in every single state. huge. look at that. 56-34. 20-point gaps. 23, 25-point gaps where she's seen as the one to have the temperament to serve as president. ask about hon effort and trustworthiness across all these states, that is her achilles' heel to what david was saying. down in every category there, in arizona he beats her 51-36. nevada, 51-37. florida, 46-40. pennsylvania even where she's ahead 46-38. so it is clear if this issue -- if the race is about character, you're going to hear the clinton campaign talk as about donald trump temperament as possible and hear the trump campaign talk about hillary clinton's honesty and trust worthiness. >> in these four states, interesting, donald trump has a better image being more honest

and trustworthy than hillary clinton. how worried should she be? >> the numbers weren't terrible for her. take heart you didn't see a plunge. i'm with david. the sort of internal numbers in here are interesting. it's not that his honesty numbers have gained in a lot of these polls in the last 36 hours. hers dropped. that's as a result of the fbi revelation. she's killing him on qualities for commander in chief, on temperament. split on immigration and trade. vision for a future, he has a stronger message. ties her in arizona but she beats him in the other states. he has economy and terrorism, top issues, but she also has him on health care, interestingly enough, a week into the obama news which is really tough and on foreign policy. it's such a mixed bag. it's really going to come down with both candidates now having sort of brought home their bases, particularly important for donald trump here in the 11th hour to turning out their

voters. >> he's got to touch a traditionally blue state like pennsylvania or michigan, for example, red, republican. he doesn't do that, probably not going to win. can he do it? >> looking pretty good in nevada pap state obama won four years ago. nevada is a state that has gone with the winner of the election every time since 2012. might be a state to look at. the con taeft has gotten a lot closer compare pid thursday. the day before the comey announcement. when the clinton camp decided to go to arizona. if making those decisions today they would not go to arizona but to a blue site to shore up as she is by going to michigan. they are no longer so confident that they're going to win the senate. and they are no longer so confident they're able to expand the map. they are back to a 270 electoral vote strategy, but after all that is enough. >> what's helping trump now, correct me if i'm wrong, david, he's listening to adviser and

basically sticking to the script, to the teleprompter. not add lits-libbing. they're afraid he could say things to turn things in the wrong direction from their perspective. >> i think that's absolutely right. you hear him when he's talking about, you know, getting business done in washington it will be difficult. that's a salient point. it's a strong ninety he makes. when he talks about her being convicted and put in prison, when he goes off the reservation, but he's sticking to that. something else is going on talking to senior republicans. the guilt factor all of a sudden going on among big time republican donors and other republicans seeing either in early voting or captured in these polls. people has thought basically trump was going to lose, and now all of a sudden it's tight and they think, oh, geez. if i'm blamed for, you know, for sitting this one out or not being with him that could be a story line i don't want toing that. i want to come home pup see a lot of republicans i think combined with his message coming home, and then they're being recented what they don't like

about her. i'm interested in what is the question voters have at the end? in 2004, if the question was terrori terrorism, karl rove says answer george w. bush. he won the election. is it character, temperament? eem on the eve of voting say who can i matchen in the oval office? you think that benefits her? i'm not sure what is the decisive question. >> and how many voters are still asking that country. we don't know how many late deciders, usually not that many and so, yes. what is the question going in? how many people are still asking a question? >> 25 million people or so is vurd voted in the leekelection. guys, stay with us. don't go far. you can kocatch all-day coverag right here on cnn tuesday. more than 24 million already cast their ballot. who are they voting, supporting? giving an indication where this election is moving. also, why house minority leader

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millions of eyes will be on the world series tonight. it's the final game. game seven between the chicago cubs and the cleveland indians. while it will certainly be a battle on the field it's also shaping up now to be a battle during the commercial breaks. our senior media correspondent brian stealth slter is in new y. campaign is trying to capitalize on tonight's historic world series game. what are you learning? >> reporter: that is right. the biggest television audience between now and tuesday night will be the world series. in just a few hours. today the donald trump bought one commercial for tonight's game and the clinton campaign moments ago bought four commercial spots. meaning several campaign ads during the game seven. also by the way, one nra ad. if you were watching last night you might have seen two clinton ads and one nra ad. now the trump campaign getting in on this baseball action, and the clinton campaign, with four

ads potentially, could be all over this game. here's the thing, wolf. games are unpredictable. we don't know all four will be able to run during all of these innings. that's what they've booked for now and we don't know what the ad will include. positive ads? negative ads? one thing we know for sure. millions are tuning in for the world series. probably 30 million viewers tonight. it's the biggest opportunity these campaigns have left to reach a lot of eyeballs all at once. >> i'm sure buying those ads, not cheap at all. but clearly feel money well spent with all the people watching this world series. final game seven a huge audience, i am sure. thanks for that report. once again, less than six days to go until election day here in the united states. more than 24 million americans have already cast their ballots. here's a snapshot of a few key states in colorado, iowa, north carolina and nevada. more democrats than republicans

have already voted. in arizona, florida, ohio and utah, more republicans than democrats so far have voted. joining us now from buffalo, new york, republican congressman chris collins, co-chairman of the trump house leadership committee, the first member of the house to endorse donald trump. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. good to be with you. >> the early voting total so far add up to about 20% of the voelgts vo total voters based on the 2012 turnout. how much is the trump camp reading into the early numbers? i know they're looking at them closely. >> actually, wolf, the trump campaign is very happy. typically democrats turn out for the -- or cast the early votes in much greater numbers than republicans. republicans tend to show up more on election day. so right now at least our data shows that the early voting by republicans is greater and bigger numbers than normal.

we're quite pleased where things stand right now on early voting. >> the trump campaign also, we've now been told, planning to spend what, about $25 million on advertising these final few days before the election. what's the strategy here? i know the money is being spent on tv stations in those key battleground states. >> you know, i really think, wolf, right now this is turn out the vote kind of messaginge ini. i don't know how many turn out the vote voters there be. understanding the binary choice of hillary clinton, supreme court, obama care. at the same time trying to message to the undecideds, if nothing else, trying to convince those undecideds that may not vote for donald trump to simply skip the presidential vote. vote down ballot. i think it's not so much converting democrats supporters of hillary to vote for donald, but getting the donald supporters out.

getting back to the, what would you call the historical republican turnout model. some of those people on the fence so long now understanding the binary choice and maybe messaging to the bernie sanders voters, vote for one of the independents or just skip the presidential line altogether. >> we're hearing, by the way, congressman, some of your conservative colleagues are holding some sort of private closed door meeting today to look ahead down the future. some speculation they're talking about the house speaker paul ryan. they seem to be upset, at least some of them, with him, because he hasn't been very effusive, if at all in support for donald trump. he voted for him but is not really campaigning for hill. not speaking for him. where do you stand on this? >> well, i'm a strong supporter of paul ryan, but the freedom caucus which is meeting today, it's not about paul ryan supporting or no supporting with enough energy donald trump. it's more the freedom caucus has been frustrated, some bills they want to put on the floor, very

controversial, very far right bills, have not seen the light of day. they want to change what we would call a rule in our conference that if they can gather x number of members that automatically those bills go to the house floor nap would . that would be a big change not relying on the majority leader to decide what goes to the house floor. it's more about procedures, that they want paul ryan to agree to. in order to get their support -- it ra really nothing to do with donald trump. this is kind of inside baseball on how bills get to the house floor, and the frustration of the freedom caucus that some of their more controversial dills have not been voted on. >> some of us love inside baseball. especially on day seven of the final game. game seven of the world series. all right, congressman. thanks very much. chris collins, joining us from buffalo, new york g. to be with you, wolf. >> thank. house ma importanty leader nancy pelosi calling out the fbi director james comey for his

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former house speaker nancy pelosi. jamie is joining us now. what did she tell you? >> reporter: we started asking nancy pelosi if she thinks fbi director comey's action have interfered with the race. she said, yes, i do. she also thinks that it is causing problems and here's more of what she said. >> i am an admirer of comey in terms of what he has done in the past. i think he made a mistake on this and he clearly has a double standard when it comes to donald trump. keep him out of it. just when it came to the hacking by the russians, that the highest confidence of our intelligence community says the russians did this, i know it privately, because of being hacked by the russians, and he says, well, it's too close to the election to talk about that. and yet it's not too close to

the election to talk about the e-mails that he says may not be significant. so i think he made a mistake and these jobs if you're not in it for a while, you can't take the heat, and i think he just couldn't take the heat from the republicans. >> do you think he should resign? >> i'm not going to that place. i think that we have to just get through this election, and just see what the casualties are along the way. >> reporter: do you think hillary clinton used bad judgment in having huma abedin as such a close aide in all of this? >> the relationships that people have are something that i'm not going to comment on, no. huma's a lovely person. she has the confidence of hillary clinton. they're friends. i think huma used bad judgment in marrying anthony weiner. if you want to ask about questions like that, but i think that hillary's respect for huma goes back a long way and their friendship is important.

>> so, jamie, polls clearly are tightening now. does nancy pelosi think this latest e-mail scandal, if you want to call it that, is hurting hillary clinton where it counts in the ballot box? >> reporter: right. well, look, wolf. clearly all democrats are very unhappy about what fbi director comey did, and this announcement, and obviously, you can't ignore the polls. but she said she really feels that in the end, it will help get out the vote. that it's going to energize the base. so, you know, democrats have been worried about voters being complacent or not enthusiastic enough to get out to vote for hillary. so you know, as we've seen, nobody is happy with what fbi director comedy on the democratic side. but you can see in both her remarks, president obama's interview with cnn that they're not shying away from raising the issue, because it gets, they

hope, gets the vote out. wolf? >> all right. jamie, thanks very much. coming up, early voting numbers revealing a big problem for hillary clinton. turnout among african-americans in early voting states is down. president obama likely to address this when he takes the stage in north carolina later this afternoon. looking at live pictures from there. can he fire up the so-called obama coalition, which twice elected him president, to help hillary clinton? we'll discuss when we come back.

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today. one of the last chances they have to convince people to get out and vote. let's bring in cnn politics executive eder mark preston at the cnn decision desk. mark, you're focusing in on two battleground states. florida and north carolina. what are you seeing in those states? >> wolf, as you said. six days to election day. more than 24 million people have actually voted across the country. but the two key states we want to really focus in on are states that are the key to the road to 270. look at north carolina right now. let's look at the breakdown here. you have democrats at this point have a 219,000 vote advantage over republicans in return ballots. sounds like it's good news. except when you look where they were in 2012. they had a 292,000 vote advantage at that time. so clearly a bit of a drop-off from four years ago. why is that? as you can see from these numbers right here, wolf. right here you have the african-american drop-off vote

right here. as well as just a little bit of an uptick of the hispanic vote, but this is troublesome. barack obama will be in north carolina today to try to rally those voters. let us go to the state of florida right now, wolf. when you look at florida, about 3.5 million people have voted already. but you know what? where are they right now? republicans have a slight advantage in the state of florida right now when it comes to this, wolf. about a 9,000 vote in returned ballots at this point. however, go deeper into 2008. look at that. democrats had a 50,000 vote advantage at this same time. so, again, troublesome. let's look into the obama coalition. part of the obama coalition that was very helpful to him winning. african-americans are responsible for about 12% of returned absentee ballots at this point. go back, though to 2008. they were responsible for 15. 1%

p a decries by 3.2% in return ballots. good news for democrats, this number right here at the bottom, wolf. the hispanic vote is up 4.5% than it was over in 2008. barack obama again in north carolina today, wolf. he'll also return there on wednesday and, of course, donald trump is in florida campaigning. wolf? >> thanks very much, mark preston for that. just moments ago president obama boarded air force one for chapel hill, north carolina, where he'll speak at a campaign event for hillary clinton later this afternoon. that's where my next guest is now. democratic congressman g.k. butterfield, chairman of the congressional black caucus. congressman, thank very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. good afternoon. it's electric here in chapel hill awaiting the arrival of the president. >> i'm sure it is. let me ask you this. the african-american voter turnout, you just heard, is slightly down in north carolina

at this point in early ballot voting than it was four years ago. are you concerned that the, the motivation is not there in big numbers for african-americans to go up, to show up and vote as they did for president obama back in 2012 and 2008? >> no. the motivation is here. i don't think it's a good comparison to look at 2012, because we've just gone through a 500 year flood with hurricane matthew. let me tell you, as of yesterday, 465,000 african-americans had voted in north carolina. that's a 30% turnout and we still have six days to go in this election. north carolina is poised to win this victory for hillary clinton, and to wane senate seat in our state. the name of this game is turnout, and we are actively engaged in voter turnout across the state. we also are playing defense because the republicans are saying they are going to intimidate african-american voters on election day to try to nullify their votes. we are playing offense and

defense, but you should know that 2 million people have already voted in north carolina. 43% of those are democrat. 31% republican. north carolina's not sleeping. we are wide awake in this election. our eyes are wide open and we're watching the republicans every day. >> president obama says, as you know, he's counting on hillary clinton to continue his legacy of these eight years on the tom joyner morning show today the president made an appeal to african-american voters that don't necessarily feel as enthusiastic as they did when they voted for him four and eight years ago. lyn to what the president said. >> and i know that there are a lot of people in barber shops and beauty salons, you know, in the neighborhoods who are saying to themselves, well, you know, we love barack. we especially love michelle and so, you yo, it was exciting and now we're not excited as much, and, you know what? i -- i need everybody to

understand that everything we've done is dependent on me being able to pass the baton to somebody who believes in the same things i believe in. and so if you really care about my presidency and what we've accomplished, then you are going to go and vote, but if we let this thing slip, and i've got a situation where my last two months in office, preparing for a transition to donald trump, whose staff people have said that their primary agenda is to have him in the first couple weeks sit in the oval office and reverse every single thing that we've done -- >> so congressman, how effective is that message to the african-american community? >> it's hugely effective. african-americans are paying attention to this election, because we know so much is at

stake. not only do we have the supreme court that hangs in the balance but domestic policy as well. african-american communities will suffer tremendously, not only under republican rule, but with donald trump at the helm, we are going to be neglected and will be set back for generations. we've got to get this right. african-americans are attune to this and we are prepared to vote in unprecedented numbers. i believe by the time election day comes you will see a greater than 70% turnout of african-american voters in north carolina, because we get it. >> congressman g.k. butterfield, chairman of the congressional black caucus from north carolina. thanks so much for joining us. >> well, thank you. we're awaiting the arrival of the president and this city is absolutely eelectric as the state is as well. we are fully engaged in this election. the president's going toing back on friday and two more venues across our state. north carolina is a battleground for sure. >> he's working really hard for hillary clinton right now.

we'll see how he does in north carolina and a bunch of other states as well. congressman, thanks once again. coming up, there's other news we're following. important news right now. civilians in the isis-held town of mosul are said to be in grave danger right now. the terror group is getting more desperate as iraqi forces push further into the besieged city. going their live. a live report from the front lines, right after this. i'm dragging. yeah, that stuff only lasts a few hours. or, take mucinex. one pill fights congestion for 12 hours. no thank you very much, she's gonna stick with the short-term stuff. 12 hours? guess i won't be seeing you for a while. is that a bisque? i just lost my appetite. why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex lasts 12 hours? start the relief. ditch the misery. let's end this.

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welcome back. we're going to have much more on the presidential race in the united states in just a few moments but i want to bring you another major story we're following right now. the battle for mosul. as the sounds of gunfire ring out, they have encountered ieds and mortar shelling. arwa damon has just returned from the front lines. arwa is joining us live. arwa, tell us about what you've seen and how this battle is

progressin progressing. >> wolf, as the counterterrorism unit we were in has been pushing towards the city of mosul itself, they've come across what are fairly common isis tactics, the suicide bombers you are mentioning there but also roads in lane with ieds. today we were in the humvee with them and over the radio we could hear the chatter and it was civilians who on more than one occasion were telling the troops where isis buried these roadside bombs. they were able to detonate them and push forward. some fairly intense clashes in some instances, a lot of mortar fire being traded, especially the closer we got to the city of mosul itself. the front line as it currently stands where we were earlier today is around 600 feet from the first mosul residential neighborhood troops would potentially be entering and in that particular area there was a lot of mortar, rocket and sniper

fire the soldiers position there had were telling us. some were trying to stay in their homes, others were trying to flee as far away as they could and, wolf, some of the stories they were telling us were horrific. >> it's an incredible story unfolding right now, arwa. you've spoken to civilians who have been liberated. what are they telling you? >> a lot of them are very relieved. they are also wary, though. remember, the last time these people in mosul and on the outskirts of it interacted with the iraqi security forces, that was when they basically abandoned their positions, fled and left them to their fate of being ruled by isis. so there's a lot of trust that needs to be built there and there is starting to be being built in these initial stages. and as i was saying, the stories they have are chilling stories of being detained.

stories of having loved ones executed but the most horrific was the story of a woman who was enslaved by isis, raped, she gave birth to a son, she told us all she could do is pray she never has to tell him who his father is. >> arwa damon reporting for us. let's get the latest now in the investigation into a pair of deadly ambush style police shootings in the united states. in iowa, police have a man in custody, scott michael green, has not been arrested but police say they consider him a suspect in the killings of the des moines police sergeant anthony babendio and justin martin. police say both officers were gunned down while sitting in their patrol cars. they were found two miles apart from one another. police say several shots had been fired at both scenes. police say greene was walking down a road, flagged a government worker, showed his

i.d. and asked the worker to call 911. >> mr. greene was taken into custody without incident. he complained of a flare-up of some kind of existing medical condition so he's been taken to the hospital as a precaution. >> hillary clinton's canceled an event in iowa with bill clinton and tim kaine in light of the shootings. republican donald trump tweeted "praying for the families of the two iowa police who were ambushed this morning. an attack on those who keep us safe is an attack on all of us." coming up, a closer look back to the 2004 presidential campaign and which famous faces were out on the trail with only six days left to go. >> this may very well be the defining election of our lifetime. i certainly believe it.

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it's only six days out and the presidential election -- for the presidential election. trump is spending today pitching to voters in florida. clinton was in florida earlier today. later she'll be in nevada and arizona. friday, by the way, she'll head over to detroit to shore up her support in michigan. back in 2004, just six days before voters went to the polls then president george w. bush was also making a play for michigan. >> i'm here in michigan today and tomorrow. i'll be back on saturday. i'm here to ask for the vote and to ask for your help. [ cheers and applause ] his opponent, democrat john kerry, went to a state he knew well that the point in the campaign, iowa. >> i spent 90 days here. i'm almost qualified to pay

taxes. you know, i used to tell people that i learned how to measure my life by the height and color of your corn. >> those last-minute pushes didn't work for either candidate. bush lost michigan and kerry lost iowa. that's it for me, thanks for watching, the news continues right now on cnn. >> here we go. you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. less than one week until election day. we do have brand new polling from four critical battleground states. we'll get to those numbers in just a moment. no question, both presidential candidates feeling the heat. they're pulling out stops by bringing in a swarm of surrogates to cover as many of these battlegrounds as possible. look at this graphic. we'll call this the ultra cluttered