refused to defend his running mate. >> don't put words in my mouth. if he's going to do that, you have to give me time. >> yet he is asking everybody to vote for somebody he cannot defend. >> you heard there tim cane bringing up donald trump. donald trump was watching the debate. he tweeted through the entirety, mike pence won big. we should be proud of mike. cnbc john harwood tweeted a trump but missed opportunities to defend the presidential pick t. pundits will argue over who won, debate, there is early word on what americans think. a new cnn-orc poll taken after the debate thought 48% thought pence won. 42% gave the nod to kane. >> as for the presidential candidates, themself, earlier in the day, donald trump and hillary clinton made campaign stops. as usual, they launched more

clinton criticizing trump's treatment of women and business prowess. andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: donald trump in arizona. >> i started as a very private successful business person. hillary clinton made her money as a corrupt public official. >> reporter: hillary clinton in pennsylvania trying to remind suburban republican women about the past week. in this moment with a 15-year-old girl. >> i see with my own eyes the damage donald trump does talk about women and how they look. >> you are more than the way you look. you should be health yell. you should take care of yourself, but we're not all going to end up being miss yuvgs i hate to tell you. >> clinton surrogates out in force, including michelle obama, knocking trump comblain complaining about his microphone. >> when she egets down, she doesn't complain, she doesn't cry foul. >> reporter: clinton is less

where all of a sudden 25, 000,000 people and people out there busting it 60 hours a week wind up with their privilege doubled and coverage in half. >> can you imagine what he went through after making that statement? >>. >> reporter: bill clinton talked that back. >> president obama talked about obamacare doesn't need to be sacked and strapped, it needs improved. >> reporter: on the trail today, donald trump will hold two rallies in nevada. hisun kicks off a bus tour with a rally in pennsylvania. hillary clinton doesn't have events. bill clinton has two events in ohio. bernie sanders campaigns for clinton in iowa and wisconsin. tim kaine will do so in we are learning more about an apparent security briech, yahoo complied with a classified government directive and scanned millions of customers incoming e-mails

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overtreatment. when you think of that stunning admission from ben stiller and also stunning when you think these are the second leading cause of cancer deaths and 70 viewers out there, one of view, it's more than one person will be diagnosed with that cancer for now. >> you see about 180,000 new cases a year, 26,000 deaths. it's parent when you see people come out with their personal story and come forward and tell viewers and people watching that they've gone through experience. stephen colbert had fun with the vice presidential debate t. late show staff put together a focus group that live streamed the show said, people don't know about the vice presidential candidates. nobody knows less than these ten kids. no word yet on how the undecided kittens fared. they are up for adoption from the north shore animal leaping. -- league. this is "early today." league.

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