beautiful bucks county, pennsylvania. just up the river from where we are where donald trump will be tonight down the river is where i grew up. pennsylvania key to both candidates. hillary clinton will be headed to nearby philadelphia tomorrow. we are looking at live pictures. donald trump revving up the crowd in north carolina. he urged them to take advantage of early voting now in the second day of the state. >> early voting is under way. make sure you send in the ballot. we cannot take a chance of blowing it. we cannot take a chance. >> we start with reporters on the campaign trail with the two candidates. i want to go first to jacob rascon. what are you seeing in the room? donald trump is speaking. what's his strategy in north carolina? this really important battleground, one of four the campaign is going after really

hard. >> he was ahead in a lot of polls in north carolina. even as recently as early september. but right now several polls are showing him behind including us. four points, two, one. wasn't doing as well. that's true for every critical swing state. he's tied in ohio. the room is electric. they are loving everything that donald trump is saying. he talked about three polls that show him ahead. the l.a. times, ras musen. he said i think we'll win and the crowd goes wild. he said something interesting two minutes ago. he started talking about the ads running against him in florida. he interrupted himself and said people don't like me being particular about these things. i like to deny things. we acknowledge there the difference in what the staff is saying. that aligns with trump supporters. many think he'll win but we talked to them for a while and

said, he has to do something else to get more people into the party. i wish he would focus on issues. we heard it a lot after the khan family controversy and the first debate. i'm hearing it now and he's admitting his people want him to do that. >> you're in north carolina. katy tur is back in new york for us after the al smith dinner where al smith was. i want to talk about battlegrounds. we are in p.a. where polls show clinton leading. she's led every poll for a while. when you look at north carolina, key battlegrounds, what is the team doing in the last 18 days before the election? >> he's in the more rural parts of pennsylvania and north carolina today. that's where he's going. not necessarily the big cities which tend to be more liberal. certainly in pennsylvania where philadelphia is a very democratic strong hold. he's trying to rally the base of

support to basically try to counteract what you are seeing in the cities. get every single republican in those areas out to the polls on november 8. he's also saying when he's in pennsylvania quite a lot to make sure people watch the polls in places like philadelphia. he claims there is voter fraud going on. dead people on the voter rolls. people voting twice. he's accused of playing the race card. he says they are african-american areas that don't vote for republicans. back in 2012 mitt romney didn't earn a single vote in some of the philadelphia precincts. donald trump criticized for using that terminology. you know the areas we're talking about, that sort of thing. so far the campaign doesn't have a strategy we can tell that goes beyond just trying to whip up his base to counteract what they

are seeing in the cities, potentially trying to supress hillary clinton voters but certainly at this moment not doing anything to add more people as jacob was saying to the base of support. >> right. it's interesting. that's actually a stated strategy from the campaign. when you talk to sources inside and close to the campaign they say that's the goal for the last 18 days, to whip up the base. i want to go to kristen welker who was in white plains. you're ready to go out campaigning which we haven't seen hillary clinton do a lot so far in october. she's been off the campaign trail doing debate prep. i assume that will change. is this like a full out battleground blitz for her, do you think? >> that's a great way to describe it. it will be a robust final sprint to election day. just one more note about where you are now. pennsylvania. that's the clintons' fire wall. bottom line, donald trump cannot win the white house. if he doesn't win pennsylvania.

she's headed to ohio today. expect a lot of activity where you are now between now and election day. in terms of what we'll see from secretary clinton she'll be in pennsylvania. she's going to north carolina, new hampshire, florida in the coming days. we are told she'll have multiple events every day as well as her top surrogates. in terms of messaging hers is the opposite of the one katy talked about. she'll be hitting donald trump for talking about the fact that the election is rigged. the democrats see it as a real opening. they think it was a fatal mistake by donald trump. they are going to be saying it is anti-democratic. they will be using it to try to energize voters and clinton will be in ohio where early voting has already gotten under way and her message will be get out to vote. the real challenge talking to campaign officials is she wants to try to pivot to a more positive message to try to energize voters and try to unify

or at least start the process ahead of election day. there are concerns on november 9 no matter who wins it will be a deeply divided electorate. >> we are watching the split screen. donald trump speaking live in fletcher, north carolina. kristen is talking about get out the vote. here trump's campaign is with no national political director or the director taking a step back from the campaign. what can you tell us? >> jim murphy for donald trump. he's basically playing a key role in setting up field offices in states across the country, specifically in battleground states, working with the local gop there. politico is reporting he's taking a step back for personal reasons. pretty bad time to take a step back from a campaign a few weeks after the election. our sources told us he's been layered by somebody else, certainly not playing the role he was playing earlier on in the

campaign. >> go ahead. >> i was going to ask in the rnc taking a better role. an outside role. donald trump doesn't have a field game out there. he doesn't have many field staffers. they have been relying on the rnc, on state directors. in some places that works better than others. there was cohesion between the staffers and the gop that they understand the stated goals for kelly ayotte. they understand there is a divide. kelly has to run a certain race. in places like ohio where there is a deep divide between trump and the ohio staffer, gop staffers and operation out

there. we have seen john kasich. he hasn't voted for donald trump. the gop there lashing out. even letters going back and forth were the two sides criticizing the other. jim murphy would be the one to help smooth it over. they just don't have a reason to make it work. >> exactly. >> a way to make that work better. it's not good news for the campaign. >> let me go to kristen. one thing we have talked about in the team meetings is trump doesn't have a surrogate to help him. hillary clinton does. one is president obama. he's cutting ads for down ballots. he'll be back out again for hillary clinton on the campaign trail. this is different from the role we saw the president play a couple of years ago. >> it is different. he's campaigning for secretary

clinton, making tv and radio ads for down ballots. races like mcginty and toomey in pennsylvania. illinois, the kirk race there as well as other key battlegrounds. north carolina, the reason it was significant is president obama had a complicated relationship when it comes to members of congress. he didn't do a lot of campaigning for him. in 2012 he didn't either. his popularity ratings weren't as high as i hoped. they didn't ask him to do a lot. the fact he'll be out there on the air waves and on the campaign trail first his approval rating is above 50%. they see him as an asset. on the part of members of congress they think it was a mistake not to have him out there in 2014. it was a tactical error. it is a tactical error the clinton campaign has been

talking about. one reason you see them so engaged with hillary clinton. >> thank you very much for this. i want to get over to joel watt kin, former aide to former president george h.w. bush. >> hey, hallie. >> i want to talk battlegrounds and pick up where katy tur picked up talking about the national political director for the team taking a step back. when you hear that you have been in politics a long time. disorder, sort of in the national side. what kind of trickle down effect will that have in pennsylvania. >> it hurts. especially you need people on the ground fighting for you making sure you identify voters to get out the vote on election day. donald trump has raised money but not nearly enough. he's been outraged by hillary

clinton. he hasn't used it to hire staffers. doesn't have people on the ground and the people he has are johnny come latelies. not to have the political director take a step back from the campaign with only a few weeks remaining is a blow to the campaign. >> donald trump still on stage now as we look at the split screen. apparently talking about the ads hillary clinton put out saying they are mostly untrue. i want to talk -- did you get to watch the al smith dinner in new york? >> yeah. opportunity lost for donald trump. >> why is that? >> it's supposed to be a lay-up, a time when you show your better self. candidates from both parties. the two nominees. supposed to be friendly, warm spirited. a time of laughing at yourself and poking a little bit of gentle fun at your opponent and doing it all in the sense of

american unity and good faith. he missed the opportunity by not being nice. the atmosphere was tense and the jokes weren't funny. >> you talk about the idea that the dinner is supposed to be aiming at unity. right? >> yeah. >> when you look at unity within the republican party you have to wonder what happens when they wake up if donald trump loses. it is something the republican congressman from texas said during a radio interview last night. >> he called her a nasty woman. >> well. >> is that appropriate? >> you know what? she's saying nasty things. >> do you think it is appropriate to call her a nasty

woman? >> i'm a genteel southerner, alan. >> that means no? >> no. i think sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty. >> oh, really? >> that's your reaction? i have to ask you. that was congressman brian bab bit of texas. does that illustrate the divide in the party? where trump supporters are, where the more traditional establishment is and how the party tripes to come together if trump doesn't pull it out on november 8. >> there is a divide. we need to bring the party together november 9 and bring the country together. we need to not be at each other's throats. even if we disagree and work together. the less democrats and republicans work together we have to move forward. within the republican party we have seen it again and again. we have to invite in african-americans and latinos

and young people and women. we have to invite in members of the lgbq community and listen to what their concerns are. and move forward of a party unified with an agenda all about solving problems, not about being more kentucky or whatever than the next person. we have to solve problems and fix what's wrong in america. we have to work with democrats to get it done. >> joe thanks so much. we'll have more on that later in the show. meantime, donald trump is headed here to pennsylvania. polls show him struggling big time in the must win suburbs where we are. former pennsylvania governor ed ren dell on why hillary clinton is surging with voters who typically vote republican. chatting with us coming up after the break. much more from washington crossing pennsylvania here. a lot of history. it's where george washington crossed the delaware river. christmas 1776. they reenact it here every year.

welcome back. we are here in the land of wawa, bucks county, pennsylvania. you heard earlier this state is hillary clinton's firewall. her husband bill clinton is in jacksonville, florida. we are watching because his rally is set to begin 30 minutes from now. the former president made an appeal to clinton supporters to try to embrace the other side. >> we have got to stop the craziness of trying to bring each other down to the lowest common denominator. don't fight fire with fire. look people in the eye and say, we need you. >> msnbc's kasie hunt is following the clinton campaign.

she joins me live now from headquarters in new york. when you hear an appeal like that from the former president, when you see where clinton is going how effective is the strategy for her campaign? >> in the final days here, they are really trying to broaden out their pitch. to as many voter as possible. we have gone through phases here in the campaign where we have talked about whether it's different groups of people or different issues. as they push forward the clinton campaign wants to make the victory. or in their view what they think is likely at this point to be a victory as broad and decisive as possible. partly because of the rhetoric around the idea of a rigged election. you're seeing the themes they have touched on throughout the last couple of months come up. take a look at the piece of the new ad they are running as of today. >> my son was 27 years old.

he was muslim-american. i want to ask mr. trump will my son have a place in your america. >> this, of course, referencing the khan family we saw at the democratic national convention. broadly for the clinton campaign, hillary clinton is going to be hitting the trail in a way we haven't necessarily seen for other parts of the election cycle. she'll be campaigning seven days a week in a lot of swing states. they are focused on expanding the map to utah, arizona, georgia potentially is a big one. the fact that democrats -- some democratic groups are spending money on the air waves tells you something. the thinking had been, yes, that was a state that would vote for democrats but it would be expensive. the tide is turning there. >> kasie hunt at the mother ship

in new york. thank you very much. i know i'm in your hometown just outside of philadelphia. >> have some walleye for me. i'm jealous. >> already did. >> also a hillary clinton supporter, thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> i want to talk about battlegrounds here before we get into other news. look at the latest polls from battleground georgia. strange we have been saying that. shows a statistical tie after six points. last week georgia hasn't voted for a democrat for president in 24 years. do you think the clinton campaign is making a tactical error by not pushing harder for georgia. should they be doing more? >> i think they will in the last 18 days. georgia is not the georgia it was 15, 20 years ago. georgia is the fastest growing state in terms of percentage of growth of the latino population

in the country. the demographics are changing like the demographics in texas are changing. are they changing fast enough for hillary clinton to win them? certainly the environment of the campaign is as good as it will get. go after them but don't forget the firewalls. pennsylvania is a firewall. we can't ignore pennsylvania. they have been 12 points up to four points up. >> do you worry? >> look, i'm worried about all this happy talk convincing people who want to see hillary clinton be the next president. they don't want to see donald trump saying to themselves, well, she's got it. i don't have to stand in line for an hour and staying home. that can become a

self-fulfilling prophecy. the message we have here in the five counties is let's get out in record numbers. number one, to prevent hillary losing. number two because we want to send a message in pennsylvania and a message nationally. it's important how much hillary clinton wins by. for governing afterwards if she wins by six or seven points nationally it's better than winning by two and a half or three. >> let me switch to other topics. the guardian is reporting that trump's confidante will be in nine cities are larger minority populations including philadelphia. do you worry about voter intimidation with that? >> their exit polls and our people we not only have the election judges inside who are

democrats have been outside. we have been instructed to contact the party, the committee of 70. i don't under estimate roger stone's ability to do dirty things. he's a master. i don't think it will work. look, understand when they complain that barack obama won some of the divisions of 106 to zero that's because they were african-american and extraordinarily loyal to president obama. there was nothing surprising about it at all. in fact, it's 97-3% anyway. there is no massive fraud in philadelphia. we are ready if they intimidate. a republican commissioner as on guard and adamant as fair as anybody. >> quickly, wikileaks, the release of another batch of

stolen e-mails from john podesta that hasn't been. wikileaks has, quote, poisoned hillary's relationship with the left and some groups will oppose clinton policy proposals. what kind of long-term damage do you see potentially from the release of the e-mails? >> i don't see any long-term damage. once the election is over, once hillary clinton is president elect and president of the united states actions will speak a lot louder than words. on tpp who cares what was in the wikileaks? who cares? action, not words. >> former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, thanks for joining us. we are in washington crossing in bucks county, a place we know well. >> washington. >> another battleground, north carolina. up next, how a controversial new law in the tarheel state is

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welcome back. we are taking a live look at new york. hillary clinton's plane. she's getting ready to board any minute to head to cleveland, ohio, for an early voting event in that particular battleground. we'll watch and bring it to you later this afternoon when it begins. we are here in another battleground, pennsylvania, specifically washington crossing in bucks county. my home area, my home county where president obama beat mitt romney by less than 4,000 votes in 2012. fewer than 4,000 votes. trump is headed here to pennsylvania later today.

he just wrapped up a rally within the last 25 minutes or so in north carolina where the second day of early voting has begun. a law mandating the use of public restrooms based on sex at birth is prompting a statewide lgbq voter registration push. you have been talking to early voters about the push. i understand you have somebody with you. what can you tell us? >> good afternoon from beautiful battleground north carolina where there is so much happening in the state. contentious races up and down the ballot. there is a lot at stake. 15 electoral votes in this presidential election, all colored by this hb2 discussion energizing both sides. noreen is a first-time voter and a field organizer for turnout north carolina. like me you are a millennial. this is your first time voting.

how important is it to you to be in the early voting lines and get started? >> it was incredible. i feel the election is so important. not only just at a national level what's happening but at a local level with the good-byer that toirl race. we are trying to get pro equality elected. we can see how it affected the state as millennials. we are coming out in waves to make the change. we want to show if you passed anti-trans legislation you will be voted out of office. >> we hear criticism that we talk a big game but often don't get out to vote. what's the ground game here in north carolina? what's the effort like to get people, students, first time voters out to the polls. >> that's what we are doing here. we are getting volunteers out to knock on doors to tell them

where, what they need to do. have their voice heard. it's that important. we either show the world that living with discrimination like what's happening here is not okay. we are going to show you with the votes that we can change it. >> thanks for joining us. we spoke to a lot of people, educators, students, organizers and the other side. members from the gop in the state who have a very different view of hb2. we have more coming up this afternoon. back to you, hallie. >> looking forward to it. thank you very much. steve patterson. we have a battleground blitz today for hillary clinton and donald trump. new polls show typically red states might be swinging into clinton's favor. up next we have a look at how the battleground map is shaping up. meantime, we are asking you this microsoft pulse question. our nbc news survey monkey poll shows 40% of voters will accept the outcome of the election if the candidate loses. hit us up to cast your vote.

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during the commercial break donald trump sent out this. the results are in on the final debate, he tweeted. it is almost unanimous, i won. thank you. these are very exciting times. trump leaving his north carolina rally sending that out on the internet. here's what the polling shows out this morning about the very results of the debate that hillary clinton, according to our numbers actually won 46-37% according to what voters believe. it is one of the many voters we are digging into from the new survey out today. take a look at the battleground map. we have states like arizona, georgia, utah. all of them toss-ups. just today a new georgia poll

shows trump with a two-point lead within the margin of error. we have a special treat. john lipinski. we typically lock him in a bunker on election night. we let him out 18 days prior to chat about this. take a look at the new survey. shows something interesting when you ask whether people would accept the results of the election when you look at the republican folks surveyed. tell us what stood out when you examine the numbers of how people said they feel about the results of november 8. >> thanks for having me, letting me out of my home. the most striking number is first of all, she won the third debate. donald trump needed a good debate. she won all three. she really performed extremely well. she was near double digits in the third. if there was ground to be gained by trump he certainly didn't do

it, i think, in the third debate. what's perhaps more interesting is this question of whether or not essentially people would accept the results of the election if the candidate loses. what's interesting in the poll numbers that you see is the world is different depending on partisanship. if you look a the overall numbers it's a large majority that say would accept the results. when you break it out bi-partisanship almost half, essentially 45% of republicans actually would not. those are stark numbers. what that tells you is the message donald trump is actually putting out there is resonating with some of the republican base. >> i want to talk about pennsylvania. that's where we are now. when you look at the gap between where polling is in the suburbs it is extraordinary. hillary clinton leading donald trump in places like bucks county, 56% to 28% according to

the bloomberg politics poll. put it into context for us. it feels dramatic. is it to you? >> when you look at the subgroups you want to look at. obviously pennsylvania is a very key state for trump. it is his easiest, when you think of the path to 270 for him, pennsylvania is pretty critical. what's interesting is what you pointed out. you picked a great state to be in today. when you look at montgomery and bucks county, these are suburbs of philadelphia. republicans expect to be very competitive. you are looking at a lot of essentially white, college educated people who live in these places. it's bread and butter for republicans. if trump wants to win pennsylvania he has to improve the numbers here. it is absolutely critical. >> john lipinski, the director

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we have new images coming out of iraq as forces continue their offensive against isis fighters outside of mosul which led to the death of one american soldier. video shows the surprise assault launched by isis militants in the northern iraqi city of kirkuk. four days of real gains made by u.s., iraqi and kurdish forces. richard engel joins me live now. talk to us about the new isis strategy that's being revealed

here and what the u.s., iraqi and the kurdish coalition is going to do. what's the latest? >> i don't think it is a new strategy. it is the classic isis strategy. isis is both a terrorist state that has land and it's also a terrorist organization that can launch commando-style operations both in this country and abroad. what you saw over the last 24 hours is while a major offensive is under way to push isis out of the city of mosul, a city of about 1 million people living right now, isis went around the back. it went away from the front line and carried out a coordinated series of assaults in the city of kirkuk, attacking a power plant, police station, government center, forcing authorities to put the city on lockdown. there is ongoing battles in the city with a few militants holed

up in one particular building. frankly we could see more of this where isis relies on strengths and its strengths are the ability to carry out suicide attacks, move in small numbers and attack targets where it sees opportunities and not necessarily only focus on the front line. >> richard, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. we'll swing over to breaking news on the bridgegate story. as you know the trial happening now. bridget ann kelly and the person who sent the now infamous traffic problems in fort lee e-mail has a new claim about what governor christine knew and when. here to break it down is someone who knows the story like the back of his hand. steve, tell us what happened and what it means bigger picture. >> bridget anne kelly has been silent for two and a half years since the "time for traffic problems" e-mail was released in

january of 2014. she's now on trial. she said nothing in the two and a half years. her lawyer hinted in that time that when she finally spoke and took the stand, more context would be shed on that e-mail and it would look different. what's she saying? she is saying a couple of things. she said she had a conversation with david wildstein. the port authority official, the christie appointee. you see it on the screen there. pleaded guilty in the case. now testifying against bridget kelly. she said david wildstein reached out to her with an idea for a traffic study at the george washington bridge and asked her to run it by chris christie. he told her this was something that would ease congestion potentially on the george washington bridge. headed into new york. this would be something

presumably the governor of new jersey would be interested in if he could claim credit for easing traffic. she said wildstein told her cryptically about the idea for a traffic study that it would have an upside potentially of easing congestion, a down side while the study was going out of causing massive traffic problems in fort lee where the bridge runs through. bridget kelly said she ran the idea at david wildstein's request and the governor said the traffic study would be fine. she said that's where the e-mail came from. having run it by and having been told this would cause massive traffic problems in fort lee she wrote back to wildstein, time for traffic problems in fort lee. she also says that a month after that conversation when the actual shutdown of the lanes was playing out she had a conversation with the governor where the governor was returning from a 9/11 event, september 11, 2013. of course we know there are

pictures of governor christie that day talking to david wildstein and bill baroni at ground zero. we had testimony from bill baroni and david wildstein that they talked about the lane shutdown with chris christie that day. now bridget kelly is testifying that chris christie returned from the event on september 11, 2013 and told them he had just discussed it with wildstein and baroni. these are explosive things in the context of the case that she's testifying to as we speak. >> i know this is happening literally at this moment, unfolding now. christie or his team haven't responded. do you think they will? >> they have no choice now. this is coming out of federal court as we speak. there are no cameras in there. it's leaking out the old fashioned way. chris christie hovered over this thing.

he's right in the middle of it. >> i will let you get back to moderating this. we'll check back with you. washington crossing pennsylvania. we are taking a look at this wild week in politics. a vicious debate. repeated threats of rejecting the election results, all of that. we'll unpack it in the next segment coming up with jeremy peters from the "new york times." stick around.

i am joined now to break down this kind of wild week, jeremy peters, let me start off last night where you saw donald trump booed hillary clinton getting up and trying to make some jokes here. >> do yit was interesting they k hands and looking at them on stage on wednesday night, the thing that jumped out the most was the disgust that these two

people have for one another. they do not like each other. i asked a senior trump adviser about why trump seems to angry on the debate of the memoriable shock, well, he was in hillary presence. and listening to hillary clinton, you can take that she quivers for this guy. the joke got as nasty as they did last night does not surprise me at all. >> the disgust. i find this interesting showing that republicans overwhelmingly feel donald trump is representative of their view than paul ryan. how do you see this playing out later in november and end of 2017. did the gop bracing for total battle here? >> absolutely, make no mistakes

about it. >> donald trump may go away and not so certain about that. the issue animating the campaign will not. there is a sizable group of republicans of inside the trump campaign and in the group of people who make up donald trump's supporters who are going to make it their next goal to complicate paul ryan's life as much as possible. i think that can play out a number of ways. it could be whether or not the house of republicans tried to form some type of investigation into hillary clinton or could be broadly into the opposition of whatever legislative agenda she puts forward. i am not surprise of this coming over head of immigration reforms as well. when immigration ends up on the capitol hill, that's a recipe for ripping republicans apart. >> jeremy, before i let you place, this was a place that president obama beat romney but not by much.

with information of the trump campaign, they know pennsylvania is important but they are focusing on north carolina and places of ohio where places look a lot closer. >> the suburbs around philadelphia are just too impossible for trump. he alienated too many upper incomes -- it is incredible of the dynamic of this race just flipped and you have the wealthiest people breaking in big numbers for republicans and that's just not the case anymore especially true among women. >> jeremy peters with some excellent insights. stick around, we are here in washington, crossing pennsylvania, we'll be right back. it is time for your business entrepreneurs of the week. it may look like a seen from a reality tv show. this group of recent college grads ventured for businesses.

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pen pensbury, it had the best prom in america. this is prom my senior year. the love of my life is here, too. my mom came to watch the show. hi mom, what do you think of the show? >> very excited. >> yeah, you are so cute. mom is here with us. i am probably going to go home and have a home cooked meal. got to go to the trump rally first. later on today. >> thanks for hanging out. we'll kick it over to my buddy thomas roberts. >> everyone's favorites, my mom's favorite. >> give your mom a kiss for me. can we show that prom picture again? >> miss jackson, you had that hair yesterday? if i am right, you were hearing that hairdo yesterday. >> it is a great picture.

i expected more ruffles or something off the shoulders. we'll see you in a second and great to see your mom here. we have a lot to cover. drup trump is down in the polls but not in language. he comes swinging at the battleground of pennsylvania. for the first time, he's making aim on michelle obama. his new attack on the first lady during his rally today. >> here he was an hour ago. >> we have a bunch of loser and maybes running our country. they are losers. we have a president only wants to do his campaign and his wife also wants to do his campaign. and i see how much his wife likes hillary? was she the one that originally started? if you cannot take care of your home or the white house or the conference,