hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. 8:00 p.m. in mosul, iraq. 9:00 p.m. in kabul, afghanistan. wherever you're watching aaron the world, thanks for joining us. down to five days and counting in the u.s. presidential election. there are at least 36 scheduled campaign stops today from the candidates, their supporters and surrogates. that includes melania trump making a rare speech, that's coming up soon. here's where the candidates are,

their running mates, where they're stopping told. donald trump in florida and north carolina. mike pence in iowa, michigan and pennsylvania. hillary clinton has several stops in north carolina today. while tim kaine focuses in on arizona. the clinton camp also had president obama continuing his campaign tour through the south. he's in jacksonville, florida, this afternoon, was in miami this morning. here's part of that message to young voters. >> if you disrespect the constitution before you're president and threaten t een to down the press when it says something you don't like or threaten to throw your opponent in jail in a live presidential debate, without any regard for due process, if you discriminate against people of different faiths before you are president, then that is what you will do in office. except you will have more power to carry out -- the twisted

notions that you had before you were in office. so you can't make excuses for this stuff. >> donald trump just wrapping up his own florida stop. his fourth in the past two days. he spoke today about the fbi, trade and president obama. listen. >> and i just left, by the way, miami. and in leaving, i see air force one. so i said to myself, i wonder who that could be. and it's our president. and he's down here campaigning for crooked hillary. now, why -- why isn't he back in the office? sometimes referred to as the oval office. why isn't he back in the white house bringing our jobs back? and helping our veterans?

>> cnn national correspondent jason carroll is in jacksonville, following the trump campaign for us. our white house correspondent michelle kosinski is in miami. they're both in florida. michelle, has the president's tone in these recent events been changing as we get closer and closer to election day? >> absolutely, wolf, and you've heard that too. i think every time we hear the president speak, getting down to the wire, there's a headline that companies oy comes out of he's done this differently or this is the most energized we've seen that. there's a cap to that. you can't see him go crazy by the end of this or get to be much more energetic than he's been before it starts getting a little strange. we, yesterday in north carolina, keep in mind, we're in florida now. these are both crucial battleground states. this is where we expect to hear the president's best arguments. but yesterday, it was kind of bordering on a scary warning to

voters. not just urging them but also begging them to vote. saying things like the fate of the world is teetering. the fade of tte of the republicn your shoulders. today it was more of a celebration. the president was back to his slightly comedic routine with his common refrain of, come on, man, as he's mocking donald trump. so that's kind of a return to what we saw earlier on. but, as the white house puts it, he wants to get everything in there as much as possible. he wants to cite siriticize don trump, he wants to criticize republicans. he wants to focus on local races and down ballot races. we saw him turn rubio's words back on him. things that he said in the past about donald trump. and the president also wants to hit on his legacy and talk about how hillary clinton will continue that legacy. so what we're seeing is the president wanting to keep up

that energy and what he needs to do for hillary clinton are get in those voters that she needs. the young people, african-americans. by the way, we're at florida international university now. they do a lot of national polling. i think what's been really fascinating here, nationwide, too, is the latino vote. latino vote is 18% of the florida electorate. what fiu just it, they put out some recent numbers that show latino support for hillary clinton has ranged from in the low 60% up to 84%. well, this week, it's down. it's around 73%. for donald trump, though, his latino support has ranged from a low of about 8% to 17%. and that's what it is right now. it is at a high, wolf. >> michelle, stand by. jason, donald trump's campaign manager, kellyanne conway, says her candidate is focusing on the positive in these final days. is that actually playing out in his campaign speeches?

>> well, let me just tell you this, as he just wrapped up his speech here today, just a few moments ago. he talked about doing great with african-american voters, even though there's no evidence of that. he did say this is a campaign doing great in the polls, doing great in the state florida. he said we're going to win florida. in that way, it was a positive message. the bull nl ge of what we heard what we've heard many times before. this is the message, he says, look we're doing terrible with our military, so that's not very positive. he says we're doing terrible with trade. he went on to say crime is on the rise across the country. help talked about hillary clinton, once again calling her crooked hillary. when the crowd shouted "lock her up, lock her up," there was no rebuttal from the candidate. you know, yesterday, we heard donald trump say i've got to stay on message. my advisers want me to stay on message, stay cool and stay on

point. and he did that. these are some of the points and the messages we've heard repeatedly throughout this campaign. we heard it again here today. so donald trump did do something. he did stay on message. but to your question, was it positive or not, you know, to someone sitting at home on the sidelines, i think that remains to be seen. for supporters here, they certainly like what he had to say here in jacksonville, wolf. >> jason carroll and michelle kosinski reporting from florida. i want to talk more about the two states the candidates are focusing in on today. florida and north carolina. here with us, "washington post" reporter david nacamari, carol lee, the white house reporter for "the wall street journal" and cnn political director david chalian. cnn's poll of polls right now has hillary clinton with a four-point lead in north carolina, 46 to 42%. florida, our poll of polls, that's an average of the most important recent polls, shows a

dead heat, 45 to 45%. there's still room to move over the next few days. obviously, that's why those states are getting so much special attention from both campaign also right now. david chalian, here's the question. are the races in those two states, florida and north carolina, as close as they really seem to be? >> i believe they are. quite frankly, both campaigns, they're the states that have seen the most advertising money in this campaign. this is where the biggest part of the ground game has been focused on both sides. these two states probably hold the key to the election in two ways. one, for donald trump, he simply can't get to 270 electoral votes without both of these states in his column. it's nearly impossible. >> if he loses either one, it's over? >> basically, if hillary clinton can win either one of those states, she can throw up such a massive roadblock to donald trump's path to 270, it would be all but over. >> interesting. carroll, president obama and donald trump, they're both hitting jacksonville, the northern part of the state today. how much can the president,

first, move the needle for hillary clinton? >> well, he can -- he certainly is popular among democrats and that's why you saw him in south florida. in jacksonville, what he can do there is narrow the margins. meaning it's a predominantly republican area but as you saw the president do in 2012 and 2008, he goes into these types of areas and trips to really get black voter turnout. higher than it has been in the past. so that's why he's there. and he's also there eight years to the day when he held his last rally in florida '08. >> november 3rd. the election was november 4th. exactly eight years ago tomorrow. we'll have more on that later. david, this morning, the trump campaign manager, kellyanne conway, suggested, sort of bragged, they were getting into hillary clinton's head, forcing her to go to traditionally blue states like wisconsin, michigan right now, spend time there. does she have a point? >> might not be necessarily the trump campaign getting into her

head but some of the public polling and some of obviously the problems related to the e-mails. you saw president obama react in frustration yesterday a little bit with the fbi's activities over the past week. but i think that hillary clinton campaign recognizes that given the state of the narrowing of the polls already, even before fbi director comey came out friday with his announcement the investigation would be re-examined with these e-mails, there's a sense now i think you can't take anything for granted. she has a big war chest. much bigger than donald trump. at least right now you see in wisconsin and other key states. you do see her biggest surrogates like president obama focusing on the states you are talking about. he's going to two stops in north carolina tomorrow. then florida again on the weekend. sending others out there as well. >> i think it's fair to say north carolina, florida, that could be the key right there. interestingly, david, senator cruz of texas, former republican presidential candidate, he was out campaigning today, but not with donald trump, with mike pence, his vice presidential running mate.

we heard this from cruz today. i'll play pay clip. >> the stakes in this election have never been higher for our country. i believe this election comes down to three critical issues. jobs, freedom, and security. >> i think it's significant that cruz is even campaigning with mike pence, not necessarily with donald trump. there was a lot of bad blood as we all remember from that republican primary. >> that's right, no love lost there. did you see where he was campaigning there, in the state of iowa, a state where ted cruz won the caucuses, where he may want to go visit again after this election. depending how it comes out. it probably serve ted cruz's political interest. help has a lot of work to do, rehabilitation to do, after the way he handled donald trump at the convention and beyond. >> when he showed up at the convention and didn't actually endorse a republican nominee. >> exactly. which didn't make the delegates thrilled, including his own texas delegation was not that

thrilled with his behavior. he's got some rehab bill tation to do with the republican party and helping out pence is part of that process. >> in terms of the base that could certainly help. >> yes, he needs donald -- it's very interesting he's coming in now, he's hitting the road. he needs those voters. this feels all about 2020. if he's going to run then, he needs donald trump's support, donald trump's base. >> if trump were to win, what role cruz would play. you can see clearly what role he would play with a clinton administration. antagonistic. grandstanding in the way he did with obama. what woe would he do with a trump administration. maybe he wants to make sure he's not completely sidelines. >> cruz is thinking of running in 2020 for the republican nomination. first he's got to get himself re-elected in texas. mike mccall, the chairman of the services committee, i spoke to him earlier this week, he's a republican, from texas. he didn't necessarily rule out the possibility of challenging told cruz -- >> he just didn't want to go there yet.

>> he didn't want to go there yet. he wants to focus in on the current election. he certainly didn't rule it out. >> to david's point about how ted cruz deals with a potential trump administration. john mccain was and tag pastic for quite some time until he got very close to starting to run for the nomination again and then starnted to repair that relationship. you might see something similar from cruz. it's hard to imagine he won't be a little bit a thorn in the side of a trump administration from the senate as well. >> he probably will be. all right, guys, don't go too far. you can't catch all day coverage this coming tuesday all day here on cnn. coming up, melania trump is set to give her first speech since the republican national convention in july. looking at live pictures there outside of philadelphia. will she help her husband win back the women vote in that crucial battleground state of pennsylvania. plus, iraqi forces pushing into the heart of isis-held city of mosul. the terror group that still

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welcome back. both campaigns, they're focusing in on immigration in the key battleground states. tim kaine is set to deliver a speech in spanish later today in arizona. in less than an hour. take a look at live pictures. donald trump's wife will give her first major speech of the general election since the convention. she'll be talking about her experiences as an immigrant to the united states. that speech happening in the key battleground state of pennsylvania. while we wait, i want to take a closer look right now at where each candidate stands on the issue of immigration. here's what hillary clinton said about her immigration plan yesterday. >> if you care about immigration reform, you know what he thinks, i am going to be introducing comprehensive immigration reform within the first 100 days. >> as you just heard hillary clinton calling for

comprehensive immigration reform. her plan would create a pathway to citizenship and she says she'll protect families from deportation so children parents are not separated. that includes ending family detention and shutting down private detention centers. instead, hillary clinton wants to focus on deporting undocumented immigrants who pose a threat to public safety. one of the more controversial parts of her plan would allow immigrants to buy health insurance through the affordable care act exchanges. obamacare. donald trump meanwhile says his plan would put americans first. here's what he said yesterday. >> a trump administration will also secure and defend the borders of the united states. and yes, we will build what, we're going to build the wall. i want people to come in. i want tremendous numbers of people come in. we're going to have that big beautiful door in the wall. you know what, they have to come in through a process. they have to come in legally.

>> that border wall of course has been the foundation of trump's plan. trump says mexico will pay for that wall. however, messco's president insists his country will not pay for any such wall. trump also wants to deport anyone caught entering the country illegally and he's proposing mandatory prison time for those caught re-entering after being deported from the united states. he also wants to triple the number of border agents, end sanctuary cities, terminate two of president obama's executive orders on immigration, most controversial and muddy part of trump's plan deals with mass deportations. recently, he said he'd focus on deporting undocumented immigrants who have been criminally charged but he perhapsly has called for a deportation force, saying every undocumented immigrant must firm leave the country and only then apply for re-entry. clinton does have an advantage over trump when it comes to getting her message out. that's because of her

surrogates. along with the president and the first lady, clinton also has senator bernie sand earns, former democratic primary rival, on her at her side. he's been campaigning for months now, rallying together in the critical battleground state of north carolina later tonight. i want to talk more about all of this, the impact sanders could have. joining us now is representative raul grava, in arizona. he now supports hillary clinton. thank you very much, congressman, for joining us. >> thank you, wolf, i appreciate it. >> so donald trump says he doesn't understand why bernie sanders is supporting hillary clinton. after, especially after some of the revelations from those wikileaks e-mails that were revealed. why should sanders supporters vote for hillary clinton from your perspective?

>> it's the contrast. it's the choice. and bt choice i think to bernie and to all of us that not only supported bernie but support the platform that the party came up with, one of the most progressive in our times. the democratic party has. simply this. i think if you -- as personal yip has said, this is about ideas, policy positions. we have to look at that and, you know, do away with the personalities and just look at what ideas each candidate represents. another choice is so clear. i think bernie has done a wonderful job and a very classy job in unifying behind hillary. supporting her strongly. and urging his supporters as he's done throughout the last three or four months to vote for her, go out and work for her, not to throw our votes away. >> congressman, were you offended by any of those e-mails that were revealed through

wikileaks, for example, in which some negative words were expressed about bernie sanders and his supporters from hillary clinton's campaign? >> i think that after -- after the primaries and leel p lead up to the primaries, it was a contentious race and a tough race. after it was over, think the healing process occurred before and during the convention. i think that healing process has stuck. and whether or not there was offense intended or there was people underneath hillary making those comments, to a great extent, is irrelevant now. we're in a unified front to defeat donald trump and elect hillary clinton and that to me is preeminent. whatever offense was directed -- whatever offense was taken quite honestly, wolf, is irrelevant now. >> your district is in arizona of course. 30% of the residents in arizona identify as hispanic. your senator john mccain has not

had the best relationship with trump after trump implied he was not a war hero because he was a p.o.w., but clinton is polling now, according to the latest polls, five points behind trump in your state of arizona. do you think trump is going to carry arizona or do you think hillary clinton has a shot? >> i think hillary clinton has a real shot at arizona. if you look at those projections right now, four to five points, i think you have to factor into first-time voters. early voting has surged. i think it will surge to election day. that's the factor that is not considered. much is based on previous elections. this election has turned the book upside down. i think the strong expected vote from latinos, plus young people, plus the experience of arizona and this whole immigration

issue. the whole punitive attitude that arizona took toward immigration has backfired. i think you're hearing the same thing. everything is punitive with regards to trump and immigration. been looking for something else. looking for something real. something realistic. and an immigration reform, that's hillary clinton -- >> a arizona, as you well know >> -- we lived the experience. >> you heard me explain just a few minutes ago the differences and the approach from hillary clinton and donald trump when it comes to immigration here in the united states. so in your state, which policy would appeal more to voters in a state like arizona? >> i think the rationale policy, the policy that encakapcapsulat something comprehensive, something compassionate, something that deals with the real issues around immigration and undocumented families in

this state and across this country. something -- a process that is legitimate, real and real it'sic and that is what hillary's proposing. that's what the platform proposes. what donald proposes, nothing but the same, and that is punitive fantasy wall that he keeps talking about. mass deportation. those are all -- i think the american people and the voters in arizona have seen this scenario before played out in its own state and don't want to repeat that misery it caused. >> congressman grija sl a, thank you for joining us. coming up, melania trump, set to deliver a speech in pennsylvania. this is her first speech since they spoke at the national republican convention in july. live from just outside philadelphia. we're going to have live coverage, that's coming up. [ male announcer ] at customink, you can create

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donald trump's wife melania takes the stage in pennsylvania next hour. she gives her first speech since the republican national convention back in july. cnn politics reporter sara murray in berwyn, pennsylvania, just outside of philadelphia, where melania will be speaking. she will speak about her own story as well as her husband's policies. i know you're getting more information. >> that's right, wolf, obviously, we know donald trump is the attack dog of this campaign, but they really want melania trump to come out and deliver a more optimistic

message, to talk not only about what she would do as first lady and her experience as an immigrant coming to the united states, but also about sort of the more human side of her husband, what he is like as a life partner, what he has been like as a father to their son, barr baron, obviously, this is a different sense then we get on the campaign trail. particularly in light of the "access hollywood" tapes and some of it is struggles he's had with female voters. >> all of us remember melania trump's speech at the convention over the summer was criticized after the revelation several sentences were lifted from a 2008 michelle obama speech. wallace that a factor in the rather limited role she has played in the campaign since then? >> well, wolf, what i can tell you is that moment was a very upsetting moment for the campaign. donald trump himself was very upset with his own staffers. he felt like they had let

melania trump down by not doing their job to vet her speech. really most of the reason she's not been on the campaign trail is because she has said publicly and privately her number one goal is to take care of their 10-year-old son baron. it is telling that going into the speech she worked closely with kellyanne conway, donald trump's campaign manager. we obviously know conway has the trust of donald trump. she's also been working on building this relationship with melania trump. melania has privately been very supportive of kellyanne. so the two feel comfortable enough to do this speech. they say she is prepared, but there's no doubt she has reservations about being on the campaign trail. i spoke to another source who say they're hoping to get melania to florida for another campaign event but that didn't pan out. i think this goes back to her seeing her number one goal as sort of keeping the family intact, raising their son. she's not the kind of political

spouse who's telling donald trump every day what his talking points should be and looking through the polling, she's the kind of spouse that will just pull them aside once in a while and say, donald, don't know about that, back to you, wolf. >> all right, thanks very much, sara murray, we'll stand by for that speech. melania trump steppeded into presidential politics almost a year and a half ago, when she stepped on to that gold-looking escalator, trump tower in new york, rode into the political spotlight with her husband. since then, she's been in and out of the public eye as events unfolded. >> are we going to see more of her on the campaign trail? >> i think very much. >> melania, say a few words, come on. >> hello, iowa, this is very, very special night, and you voting for your next president. >> i would be me. i will be different than any other first ladies. >> from a young age, my parents

impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life. >> michelle obama gives a speech and everyone loves it, it's fantastic. they think she's absolutely great. my wife melania gives the exact same speech. and people get on her case. >> she's actually going to make two or three speeches. >> oh. >> all right, let's bring in our panel, our chief political correspondent tdana bash with u. kr kirsten power, "usa today," and the author of the book "broad influence," there you see the book cover. dana, trump is trying to win

over white educated women. how much is melania giving this speech, how much is that helping? >> well, it doesn't hurt, that's for sure. you're right, he needs to up his numbers with regard to women. not just women, regard to white educated men. that is really the core of the vote melania trump is going today. tended to vote more democratic in presidential years. i was there a few weeks ago when ivanka trump went, wolf, and the support for donald trump wallace very, very solid then. bum that was as "access hollywood" and that tape was beginning to seek into the con p consciousness. would said he really dipped in the polls big time but he's been

coming back and acording to the source republicans have been coming home. this speech by melania trump is an attempt to just push them right through the door, make sure they stay home. >> kirsten, the location of this speech outside of philadelphia, pennsylvania, what does that say, they decided to finally get her out there, deliver the first big speech since the convention, doing it in this location? >> they're saying they think they can win pennsylvania. as dana was saying she is going to try to reach some suburban women, get some of the white, you know, college-educated men and women. and, look, i think we've seen some of -- a little bit of erosion for hillary with the women's vote. she was having really overwhelming numbers with the women's vote. the most recent poll, she was up 12, exactly what prime minister president obama had, which you would expect with a female candidate running against somebody who has multiple sexual assault accusations. that number might be a little bit bigger.

they are probably also trying to keep that number down a little bit. >> you spent time studying the impact of women in presidential politics, local politics. how much of a difference will this speech make? >> i think we talk a lot about the white educated women's vote but i think what they're looking for here is the white noneducated women's vote. that's the vote that really has swung quite enormously for donald trump back and forth for donald trump during this campaign. it was a vote he very much had coming out the convention. they then swung away from him after the whole access hollywood allegations that women came forth saying he was groping them. there was one poll that had him even with hillary 40/40 among college noneducated, noncollege educated white women. that's a group that goes almost for republicans in every election. they're now edging back towards donald trump. why you see him coming up in the polls. based on that support. that's the group he's really going for here.

on the edges, trying to get more noncollege educated white women and that's a group that melania can appeal to. >> let's talk about one of those melania trump moments that stood out. here's what she told our anderson cooper about that now infamous "access hollywood" tape. >> is that what it is to you, just locker room talk? >> it's kind of two teenage boys, actually, they should behave yebetter. >> he is 59. >> correct. i've said i have two boys at home, i have my young son and i have my husband. >> so why does that stand out to you? >> because she's trying to appeal to wives out there and women who are with spouses who sometimes act in an adolescent way and try to kind of connect on that surface. but, again, we're not just talking about a spouse and a husband. we're talking about a potential

president. that struck me because i think it's very much, you know, on a different level but very much in epcouping with what we're seeing on the campaign trail right now as donald trump tries to stay on message, wolf. i'm told that part of the reason that trump team has been successful over the past week or so in doing that is because they're -- it's my words, not my sources. they're treating him like the boy melania was talking about, trying to get him to get out all of his angst and anger and frustration from the thing he's hearing from hillary clinton before he goes on stage so he doesn't go on stage and say something he shouldn't say and step on his own message. that to me is striking in the comparison and how he's being described by the people around him and his own wife. >> kirstin, you had another moment that stood out to you, also in the interview with anderson cooper, i'll play it. >> in terms whach he actually said on the tape, not saying he

did it, but what he said the behavior he described to you, is that sexual assault? >> no, that's not sexual assault. he didn't say he did it, and i see many, many women coming to him and giving phone numbers and, you know, want to work for him or inappropriate stuff from women. they know he's married. >> so kirsten, why did that stand out in your mind? >> like most trump supporters, saying this doesn't describe sexual assault, which i think there's real division in the country, a lot of women feeling it did. and then also, you know, i think she just -- sorry, i lost my train of thought. what was her other -- oh -- >> when she was talking about the inappropriate stuff and they know he's married. >> right, putting that on the

same category as being sexually asalted. and then she's going over here and saying but at the same time women come and give numbers to, phone numbers to my husband and obviously that's bad and of course that is bad but that's not on the same level as sexual assault. >> and very quickly, you picked a tweet involving melania trump and heidi cruz, ted cruz's wife. the treat read, a picture is worth 1,000 words. why did you choose that? >> it's always been his wife is sort of the trophy wife in this relationship. such an unusual -- >> it's a donald trump tweet. >> it's such an unusual role for a modern women and one that incited a lot of feminists on the left to say this is not somebody you should put up as an example for our young women in america and so it will be interesting to see how they sort of roll her out today as a good example for young women in america. >> we're standing by. we're going to hear momentarily from melania trump. we'll have that speech live here on cnn. stand by for that. there's also other news we're

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mortar shells are flying. witnesses say snipers are shooting at people trying to flee and isis is using civilians as human shields. our international diplomatic editor nic robertson is joining us from erbil in iraq, not too far away, nic, how intense is the fighting now? >> well, right now, iraqi forces are in two neighborhoods on the eastern side of mosul, there's been very heavy shelling in a neighborhood in the northeastern side of the city, as well. this is somewhere the iraqi army is trying to advance. what they're finding, now they're getting into the city, as they're finding what they're describing as pockets of isis resistance, isis snipers on rooch roofs of buildings. their advice to civilians is stay indoors, raise a white flag on the roof of your building, we will try to evacuate you if possible. they are try to create safe corridors for people to leave the city. all indications are at the moment isis continues to put up

stiff resistance. there was an isis convoy on one of the bridges in mosul today. witnesses there say they saw air strikes on that convoy. u.s.-led coalition spokesman said a convoy of isis vehicles or isis targets were hit on an important bridge in mosul. there is a sense while the government forces are entering the east of the city, that it is in the west of the city across the river in the wet, closer to syria, closer to where, if you will, isis could, if they choose, flee the city, go into the countryside and sort of regroup back towards syria, there is a sense that isis will put up a stronger fight in the west of the city and it is around the west of the city that some of the shia militias, the pmus have, if you will, been taking a flanking maneuver to shut off that back door so the noose is tightening on isis and they will be well aware now there are groups of people in the city who are more willing, more capable to try to take up

arms against them but this is just the beginning, wolf, of a very long series of intense urban conflicts, wolf. >> i know we're hearing stories. remember, mosul is a city of a million people, imagine the disaster unfolding in that city for civilians leaving in big numbers right now. we'll get back to you. we have more coming up, including the race for the white house in the united states. up next, a flashback to the 2000 presidential campaign when a huge story broke just five days before the election- >> i think that when he's running on that kind of campaign, i think something like this does become an issue because, to me, that's his integrity right there.

five days out from the presidential election and the trump and clinton campaigns are on the attack, but back at exactly this point in the 2000 presidential race, the republicans were on the defense when a moment from george w. bush's past suddenly came to light. >> countdown to election 2000.

five days to go. >> as this long day in this long campaign came to a close, the race took a surprise turn just within the past hour with a new development affecting republican george w. bush which could have potentially adverse affects on his campaign. for the latest, we go to cnn senior white house correspondent john king just outside of chicago. john, tell us what's going on? >> reporter: wolf, the bush campaign acknowledging tonight that when the governor was 30 years old on labor day weekend in 1976 he was pulled over for driving under the influence of alcohol in the state of maine. now, the bush campaign also raising questions about the timing of all this saying they believe this has been done in a deliberate effort to smear the governor and damage his chances in the presidential race coming out so close to the election. >> that was it, back in the year 2000. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. east american the situation room. in the meantime, the news

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hi there, i'm brooke baldwin, you are watching cnn. thank you for being with me. count them with me -- five days to go, five. high drama on the campaign trail. any moment now melania trump will be stepping behind that podium there, stumping, of course, for her husband. making her first solo speech on the trail and her first speech from the republican national convention in cleveland. she is not the only one. ted cruz, remember he called donald trump a sniveling coward, he will be on the stump for