please always remember that the spin stops right here because we are definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, hillary clinton back on the campaign trail after a health scare sidelines the candidate and the political reporters are saying it could not come soon enough as a series of dramatic new polls show donald trump gaining traction across this country and in the states that matter. welcome to "the kelly file," everyone, i'm megyn kelly. we are now just 54, 54 days away from a race that -- well, ending, that not long ago seemed to be mrs. clinton for the taking. but the last week has produced the kind of headlines that has some democrats, for lack of a better term, how you say freaking out. nbc news tonight saying clinton is back on the trail and not a moment too soon for dems.

the hill sent out "polls darken for democrats" and vox said, "a brutal new batch of polls for clinton." in a few minutes, charles krauthammer will be here. first, trace gallagher is in our west coast newsroom tonight with new data from the critical battleground states. hey, trace. >> "real clear politics" has moved colorado to a toss-up. this week alone, real clear politics has moved new hampshire, michigan and colorado into the toss-up category. back on august 15th, hillary led in new hampshire by 8, michigan by 7 and colorado by 11 points. also concern for the clinton

campaign is just in the past 48 hours, rcp has trump taking the lead in the all-important battleground states of florida and ohio. both are well within the margin of error, mind you, but it's important to remember, the last time a candidate lost ohio and won the presidency was 1960. and no president has lost florida since 1992. the simple math here is that over the past month, 72 electoral college votes have moved from hillary clinton's column to the toss-up column. so as of today, the map has clinton with 200 electoral votes and donald trump with 164. here's the concern for trump. you need 270 to win. for trump to hit the magic number, he would have to win the same 24 states that mitt romney won in 2012, which is certainly not a given, and he'd also have to win ohio and florida. if you plug in all of the real clear politics averages of where

the candidates stand at this very second, even with hillary clinton's current dip in the polls, the electoral college projection map gives her 293 electoral votes to trump's 195 but the needle is moving in the right direction. >> trace, thank you. as you heard, hillary clinton holds the edge on the electoral map but the momentum seems to be with trump. my next guest says if clinton doesn't want to lose this lead, she better come roaring back and in a big way. larry sabato is joining me. when you look at new hampshire, michigan, colorado, all moving from leaning dem into a toss-up, trump taking florida and ohio, it tells me that she suffered an electoral disaster over the past 30 days. was it basket of deplorables, the health?

what was it? >> actually, i think the last week was the most damaging. most of these new polls were conducted at the time when she had said basket of deplorables and then you had the liable omission about her health problem. i think it was very damaging to her. the first part of the month was simply losing all of the convention bounce which was expected. she's deteriorated further because of the things she did last weekend. it's hurt her. i know the clinton team doesn't believe in pushing panic buttons, but i think they ought to at least test it out because if they continue to deteriorate and they are getting close to the 270 mark, they've got to be worried about that. >> falling from being above 270 and she's fallen down below dangerously close to it. >> absolutely.

look, if they don't increase the enthusiasm among the base democratic voters and also minorities and young people who, by the way, are flaking off to the third-party candidates, not criticizing the third-party k d candidates, they are coming in second. >> i want to ask you about that because we see -- a fox news poll came out and we see this often now, the two-way race and four-way race. the one between clinton and trump and the one with the two other candidates. and clinton does better, according to our fox news poll, if the other candidates are in. she does better if they are in. she's got a one-point lead over trump with the other candidates in. trump is beating her by one point. so what does that tell us? >> megyn, actually, most polls show exactly the opposite. i've become convinced that especially in the swing states,

gary johnson, believe it or not, is hurting clinton more than trump. why? because he's become a parking space for so many of those millennials who supported obama but don't like clinton. and, of course, jill stein mainly takes from clinton. she takes almost nothing from trump. >> going to make madea benjamin her secretary of state. i have to ask you this quickly. when you look at the numbers and talk about the millennials, what rule could president obama or bernie sanders play for hillary because they are unleashing him in ohio for her this week. >> surrogates help but they alone cannot pull you across the finish line. only hillary clinton can get across the finish line and she's got to show vigor. she's got to show endurance and stamina, not just on the campaign trail but in those debates coming up. >> uh-huh. she's got to fight for it.

she took august off. she was just waiting and watching trump hoping he would implode and he didn't. she's suffering. larry, great to see you. >> thanks, megyn. well, this poll surge is not only becoming a topic for the headline writers, it's also becoming an issue on the campaign trail. with both candidates today talking about what's going on. >> the polls are coming out. we're leading in so many polls, i can't tell you. i don't know where to begin. but that's a good feeling. >> i've always said that this is going to be a tight race. i've said it from the very beginning, whether i was up, down, it didn't matter. those are the kinds of presidential elections that we have in america at this point in our history. >> joining me now, dr. charles krauthammer. let me start with her comment there. up, down. the thing is, she sort of downplays the huge lead she had

over him just three weeks ago. i mean, it's not an understatement to say that many neutral, political pundits were saying he was done. >> well, remember, he has that several weeks right after the convention that were the worst of donald trump and then her campaign strategy, since she didn't really have a positive message, it's really hard to come up with an edge. i don't think that she can come up with an answer. she gave a speech today where she said i've got 38 proposals on my website. it's about the most wooden thing any candidate could say. >> right. whoever goes there. >> trump, you've seen the ads, the new ad that came out just this week, showing a leaning republican politicians saying that trump is unstable, et cetera. so it was to make him very

negative and unacceptable. that's the strategy. but what happened was he ran into a very effective -- she ran into a very effective counterstrategy from his new team, trump's new team which was warm and cuddly, kinder and gentler donald trump. so it counteracted that image. there he was in a black church, there he was speaking about compassion for illegal immigrants with a foggy message and then you've got a few days ago this enormous new entitlement for child care. here's a guy who cares about african-americans, cares are minorities, about democrats, cares about mothers. and women. so you run into that new trump at the same time that he is escalated the rhetoric about the old, the bad, the bully trump,

talking about the basket of -- >> deplorables. >> deplorables, irredeemable, anti-american extreme. and the two images are clashing and his strategy is working. hearse is not. >> trump supporters have been with him since the beginning. but to those people who rejected him because they thought he was a bully or anti-hispanic or black or women or what have you, do you think they are being persuaded that for what they saw all of those months was not real? >> i'm as puzzled as you about the phenomena. i wasn't sure it could be done but he's shown a lot of -- it was his intense tift to the gold

star parents, the idea that this guy has no empathy. the entire campaign for trump for the last few woks has been an empathy emphasis. the tone, he's not shouting. and all of that contributes to a makeover. now, do i believe it? i don't know. do other people believe it? it seems to be having some kind of an effect. maybe not that people are rallying to him but those completely opposed to him perhaps are opening their minds and given the fire she's been under on the honesty issue, on the transparency issue, they may be looking at the race through a different lens. >> let me ask you this as a psychiatrist. if i've been told that a child with two bad parents will try to idealize the least bad one, they have to have one, do you think this is a situation where the mom figure is really not being, let's say, straight with us about how long she has?

and i don't mean to say she's dying. i just mean her health has clearly been one of the issues on which she has not been totally forthcoming and so it's like, okay, i have to choose one of these people and as she starts to look worse, he necessarily starts to look better. >> i would agree with that. but without the psychiatric context but i don't play one on tv. look, i think it's rather simple. you've got two choices. it's mostly people who are voting to prevent the other from getting in. she has looked really bad with all of the new e-mail stuff, with all of the transparency issues i don't think health has anything to do with this at all and then he's been this new image and perhaps that is -- look, i think the one thing that is true, in an age of social

media, the life expectancy of a memory, of a sound bite, of an image, is very small. sound bites are small, images are small. and there's no past, no memory. so i think it turns out there's a new persona with only two months to go. that's the question that this campaign hinges on. >> good news for anthony weiner. anyway, i've got to go. thank you, charles. >> some memories are -- >> great to see you. >> okay. meantime, a defiant donald trump. tonight, he went off script and back on the attack and in just moments we'll hear from his campaign and a top hillary supporter on the new controversy catching fire. plus, congress sent a subpoena to the fbi.

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breaking tonight, "the washington post" just published a new interview with donald trump. first, trump went after cnn's anderson cooper. "i don't think anderson cooper should be a moderator because he works for cnn and over the last couple of days, i've seen how he behaves. he'll be biased. very biased." and when asked if president obama was born in the united states, he said i'll answer that question at the right time. i just don't want to answer it yet. trace gallagher live in los

angeles with more on how mr. trump may be turning up the volume. trace? >> you know, many would argue, megyn, that trump's incendiary comments throughout the primary helped him win the gop. but in recent days, there are signs of the old trump making cameo appearances. for example, on sunday when hillary clinton collapsed at a 9/11 event, trump initially gave her a get well wish but last night he took a shot at clinton getting overheated. >> i don't know, folks, do you think hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this? i don't think so. >> then there was the confrontation at a church in flint, michigan, where pastor faith green timmons interrupted donald trump for attacking hillary clinton. watch. >> hillary failed on the economy, just like she's failed

on foreign policy. everything she touched, didn't work out. nothing. >> mr. trump, i invited you here to thank us and not give a political speech. >> oh, okay. that's good. >> trump responded on fox & friends by saying the pastor was nervous and shaking because she was planning on interrupting him the whole time. hillary clinton defended the pastor as a rock for her community. when hacked e-mails of colin powell called the secretary of -- called trump a disgrace, "i was never a fan of colin powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in iraq equal

disaster. megyn? >> thank you, trace. joining me now with reaction, katrina pierson and clinton supporter, robert zimmerman. good to see you both. let's talk about where trump is, katrina, because he's been on the straight and narrow for a few weeks and his poll numbers are doing great. why start in on anderson cooper who is a very solid journalist and who is not even on the air this week, he's out of town. and why start threatening to go after hillary and why for the love of god won't he say that barack obama was born in the united states? >> well, here we are 15 months later and still there are many in the media that expect donald trump to be some robotic politician and that's just not who he is. he was asked to respond to colin powell's comments and he did. he's not going to let the media determine what he talks about and when and that's exactly what you're seeing.

mr. trump is going to be mr. trump. he will respond when he feels like it. and it's just really unfortunate that mr. trump simply wants to focus on his policy, which is something that everyone has been saying they want to hear and yet we hear these diversionary tactics. >> but before i move on to robert, what about the -- barack obama being born here? because this is what his campaign manager and his chief surrogate rudy giuliani said about that issue is what they said a couple of days ago. >> i was born in new jersey. he was born in hawaii. >> donald trump believes now that he was born in the united states. but that issue was raised originally -- >> when is he going to say that this president -- >> i believe it, he believes it, we all believe it. >> he does? are you -- >> so why wouldn't he say it

when asked tonight? >> well, simply because he doesn't talk about that anymore. barack obama is not on the ballot. >> that is not going to fly. >> it is going to fly. because this is completely irrelevant to the election cycle. >> it's not completely irrelevant. you have a lot of people in this country, in particular, african-americans, who feel that that position was a racist position meant to delegitimatize the president. i'm taking no position on this. i'm relaying to you what they said. his own campaign manager came out and said that he shifted his belief on this and now when asked directly he refuses to confirm that. why? >> and you also have a poll in south carolina that shows that trump is pushing 30% on african-american support and hillary clinton -- >> that's a dodge. >> no, it's not, megyn. i've given you the answer. you want to know why?

>> i just don't want to answer it yet. >> the media is not going to force mr. trump to say anything that he doesn't want to say. >> the media didn't come out and take a position about being a birther. >> that came out of hillary clinton's campaign in 2008. >> and right now we have you. go ahead, robert. >> let's be clear, it's not about asking donald trump to be robotic. it's about asking him to have honor and decency and have respect for the truth. and that's really what is at issue here. >> you support hillary clinton. >> i beg your pardon? >> you're talking about respect for the truth and you're a hillary clinton supporter and the american people think that she's not truthful, to put it gently. >> but you're dodging the issue. we're talking about the fact that donald trump will not discuss whether -- may i finish my point, please? we're talking about trump and refusing to recognize that president obama is an american citizen and that reflects -- despite what his supporters say. it's disgraceful, racist and

dishonest. for that manner, pastor timmons, like a typical bully and coward, he stood up and defended him when he was being heckled and hold him to respect the rule of what the church has asked him to do, he backed down and did what he was told. >> he was very respectful. >> and then when he left the church and was on fox & friends this morning, he lied about it, like a typical bully, when confronted, he backed down. when on his own, he went out there and tried to antagonize. >> go ahead, kat. >> he made -- >> that is not racist, george. you weren't there. how can you sit there and say that? you weren't there? >> the media covered it. >> she was so nervous, this is

on "fox & friends," she was a nervous mess so i figured something was up, really. >> how is that an attack and how is that racist? >> i'll tell you why, because pastor timmons defended him at the church when he was heckled. >> she couldn't be nervous? >> and then when he left, like a typical bully, he started to ma line her. but this is the bigger point. donald trump jr. compared the holocaust to a bad day on the campaign trail. >> i don't know about that, robert. >> george wants to divert from other things, like hillary clinton -- >> no, first of all, it's robert. secondly, we're talking about -- >> we're talking about george. you brought up donald trump jr. he talked about the gas chamber

because it's a death penalty. >> katrina -- >> donald trump jr. tonight said that -- he defended his comment saying that they would be warming up the gas chamber if trump had said -- i'm trying to find the original comment. in any event, he made some comment about, if my dad did that, they would be warming up the gas chamber for him. >> that's right. >> and then you have the anti-defamation -- he acted like clinton, he would be getting the gas chamber. the anti-defamation chamber said you don't refer to the holocaust. he said it's referring to capital punishment. great to see you both. >> i do workout. i don't have time. my job, my kids. that's really all i do. but i do workout.

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this is the pursuit of perfection. 54 days to go and it's conservatives driving the drop with more than half of democrats but only one in ten republicans expressing trust. and who's proud of the plummet? the republican nominee, donald trump. listen. >> i think i had a lot to do because i've exposed the media. i am very proud to say that i think i had a lot to do with that poll number.

>> not showing a ton of regard to the media. >> i have heard that the press is stuck on their airplane and can't get here. i love it. so they are trying to get here now. they will be about 30 minutes late. they called us and said could you wait and i said absolutely not. let's get going. let's get going, new hampshire. >> joining me now, two journalists that have followed the media, howard kurtz and noah rothman, assistant online editor of online magazine. good to see you both. the problem is, without the press, he doesn't get as much coverage. they are not there to hear what he has to say. howie, what did you glean from these results? >> you know, i talked to donald trump tonight about this very point and he portrays it that

the media has been so relentlessly dishonest about him, in his view, that he's had no choice but to push back. at the same time, hillary clinton is sending out fundraising letters saying there's media bias against her. no wonder this is part of the reason that confidence is dropping. >> do we know why faith in the media has dropped among conservatives? i think it's because trump has criticized the media relentlessly. there are a lot of conservatives who fell that the media fell down on the job in vetting trump. >> precisely. that has a lot to do with it. that number bottomed out among republicans. last year it was in the 30s, somewhere in the low 30s. this is -- very few republicans have any faith in the press and it has a lot to do with, a, donald trump saying that the media people are horrible by their own terms and press rallies but also for republicans who didn't vote for donald trump who got a lot of unfiltered

coverage. so, yeah, on both sides of that aisle, there is no faith in the press. >> howie, you look at the lowest point in 44 years, or in gallup polling history, the faith in the media. how does that play into this election? >> well, first of all, i have to say, if you look at those numbers, you have to sell it. that's how bad those numbers are. and it's a result over the years of self-inflicted wounds, bias, blunders, sensationalism, so a lot of it is on us. it plays into the campaign because when we try to fact check the candidates, people don't believe us. when we try to report object the candidates, they think they are not getting the straight scoop from us. although i have to say we can take most of the blame, a lot of partisan folks don't have any interest. they want us to either back their candidate or trash the other candidate or both. so it's hard to please

everybody. >> but then you have this woman on msnbc who thinks that -- can we play that thought? it was bias for the media to show her falling down. how did she put it? she stumbled and the media kept playing it over and over. it was like the woman passed out. she did not appear conscious. what was she supposed to do? ignore it? >> and that's what is absurd about the situation. she shunned the press. she kept the media press away. she was in an enclosed space so they couldn't cover her. if you have press pool on her, you might have had something that was a little more explanatory. they would have had to have come up with something that was a heat stroke, pneumonia, chronic dehydration. this is all of the simulation because they kept the press at arm's length. they have nobody else to blame but themselves. >> and for keeping us in the

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will the fbi provide the congress with personal redaction of personal identification? >> i cannot say that. >> i'm going to issue a subpoena

and do it right now. i've signed it. we want all of the 302s and we'd like the full file. you can accept service on behalf of the fbi? >> certainly. >> that was the chairman of the house as congress looks into how the feds handled mrs. clinton's e-mail and whether they have been forthcoming with investigators looking into it. the story did not end there. joining us live, jason chaffetz. great to see you, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> so that was an attempt to give you an unvarnished look at the interview and the notes of who they talked to. today you had a beef with this guy brian pagliano who set it up and you served a subpoena to come testify in front of you and he blew you off? >> we provided a second subpoena. he also blew that off.

subpoenas are not optional in our country. you have to comply with them. >> why wouldn't he want to appear before you? >> i don't know. that's why you give people an opportunity. we can investigate anything at any time. it's how we do the checks and balances in this country. it's why we have this subpoena power to compel people to come before congress. sometimes they talk, sometimes they plead the fifth. >> the democrats on the committee say you are trying to harass him and humiliate him, that this is only a political show and you're trying to drag this guy before you who has already asserted he wants to exercise his fifth amendment rights. >> we have a duty to provide executive oversight. this is one of the security breaches. classified information that could get people killed. of course we're going to talk to the very person who essentially pulled the trigger and used the bleach bit and tried to destroy documents that were under subpoena. of course we've got questions

for him. >> julie, i'll get to you in a second. >> say it loud. what a welcome. >> before we get to you, i want to ask you whether this is going anywhere because this is -- like, what is it all going to amount to? you're trying to talk to people who set up the server and talk to the fbi but the fbi has already issued its ruling. she's not going to be indicted. >> when director comey came before the committee, he didn't look at anything that she said under oath and all of the things that congress has asked for. >> julie, what say you? >> you have a right to make hay out of a political issue but you know he's going to invoke his fifth amendment rights. you're going to drag him up to the hill, make him invoke his

fifth amendment rights and you get applauded by the conservative base and we all go on with our lives and that's what this is all about. i'm not a lawyer but it's very obvious to me that this person is not going to testify. you know it. and yet you're asking him to do this purely for the political theater. >> you don't actually know if they are going to do that until they actually get there i want to hear it from him himself. he has immunity so i want to look at that document. that's what we need to ask these witnesses. you can't just say, well, nobody is going to want to talk to us because it's going to be inconvenient and let it go. if you get into that game and say, hey, you can blow off congress, you don't need to show up, nobody is going to show up. >> before we go, is this hurting

her? her numbers are falling. >> her numbers are falling not necessarily because of this. her numbers are falling because of this. she's been off the trail and let's see what happens after next monday's debate. i will say to this congressman, if you've heard from his lawyer tomorrow that he's going to invoke his fifth amendment rights, would you still let him testify? >> he needs to come and testify. >> we'll leave it there. great to see you both. >> donald trump on jimmy fallon and we have a clip. ♪ some relationships you stick with. over time, they get even better. that's why more people stick with humana medicare advantage. we work together with you to find the best plan, however your needs might change. because great things are ahead of you when your health is ready for them. humana medicare advantage.

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new questions tonight as hillary clinton returns to the campaign trail, days after a health scare at the 9/11 service on sunday. clinton left early and appeared to collapse as she was getting into a van. hours later, she emerged from daughter chelsea's apartment looking like she felt much better. >> how are you feeling, mrs. clinton? >> great. great. >> can you give us a little statement? >> it's a beautiful day in new york. >> now, some are pointing to pictures of hillary leaving the event and then hours later leaving chelsea's apartment saying that woman on the right was not hillary clinton at all. it was a body double.

brian is author of "thomas jefferson." i could not believe how much circulation this actually got. >> it's unbelievable. and you have me do it. so let's look at what we saw a moment ago where the circles used to be around quarterbacks and plays and now it's around buttons and pantssuits. they are saying that this one woman has a different body composition. one is slimmer than the other and one has more wrinkled skin than the other, one has higher cheekbones than the other and one shot with her standing and her feet are kind of out, kind of like ronald mcdonald and they say that hillary clinton never stands like that. the best theory is, there's no secret service. secret service, as we know, cannot guard oh body doubles. so secret service aren't allowed to do that. that makes sense. the child runs up and says hello. >> it doesn't make any sense whatsoever because it's absurd.

because clearly the same person has the same stomach and skin and everything. >> this is why you haven't starred in "murder she wrote." however, this did not go away. if you see the comments underneath these stories, they build on it in a way i couldn't think of. >> on twitter it says we are wrong. >> he tweeted out, does anyone know i'm in los angeles so scott baio blew the lid on this and now find jody. >> she loves chachi. in the wake of the health scare madness, this happened at a local station and we didn't want you to miss it. >> we begin with breaking news about hillary clinton's death. hillary clinton's doctor has just revealed she has been

diagnosed with pneumonia. >> oh, it's bad. live tv, you say stupid stuff. >> not me, but others. >> wabc is usually the number one station. you grew up watching them. he said that and meant to use the word health and not death. she's alive. >> if you said that, james would stop you and say something and he went the whole show, nobody fixed it until the end and he said he misspoke. but you know what he meant. >> he clearly did misspeak. you have to laugh a little because as a news anchor you do say stupid stuff. you're my witness. >> right. >> it's embarrassing and then you have to correct it. >> i don't. >> something happens tonight on the tonight show with jimmy fallon involving donald trump. >> can i mess your hair up?

[cheers and applause ] >> the answer is yes but the people in new hampshire where i'm going to be in an hour from now, i hope they are going to understand. go ahead. [cheers and applause ] >> good for him. >> another reason why jimmy fallon is great and another reason why they say donald trump has a humor and hume milt about him. >> absolutely right. i would say that jimmy fallon is great and he copied me. >> what do you mean? >> watch. >> not bad. >> a tiny, tiny bit of receding.

>> i'm getting a little older. it's not that bad, huh? >> i am. >> that was from 2011. trump has a great sense of humor and has the ability to be self-deprecating and if he can show more of that, he may be contrasted starkly to his opponent. >> who has yet to show it. but that's the october surprise, his sense of humor. >> behind closed doors, she is funny. >> have you heard that behind closed doors? >> yes, absolutely. >> how many doors are there? how many do you have to walk through? i have not seen that. >> if he can bring that, not like the hair to the presidential debate but if he can bring a sense of humor and find a way to make people laugh, that will be huge for him. you know she won't take that risk. >> because you know her goal is to unnerve him and get him angry to make him look like a bully. >> that's right. she wants angry trump. >> that's right. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i'm going to do it, too. see you. we'll be right back.

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