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that may be part of the calculation. >> all right, david axelrod, let's talk about the important stuff. we have to talk about the cubs. >> finally we get to the bottom line here. >> we like to bury the lead. that's what we like to do in the show. you are a lifelong cubs fan. hillary clinton born in illinois, said she was born a cubs fan, then she became a yankees fan. do you accept her? >> yes. well, look, she is -- here's the question. i believe hillary clinton -- she is a cubs fan. i have no doubt that she's a cubs fan. there's a pit you were her enthusiastically watching the final outs of the cub victory, clinching the pennant on saturday. here's the dilemma. they're playing the cleveland indians in an important swing state, ohio. so how enthusiastically she goes out and touts her cubs fan dom is a question and i don't know whether they're going to have focus groups or polling on this. my hope is she will throw all that aside and let her true cubs fervor show. >> 2008, president obama, then just senator obama, bravely went to philadelphia and said, i'm a phillies fan with the philli

also with us, cnn senior political commentator, david axelrod. you can find his podcast on cnn.com.id axelrod, this messagedy donald trump, it certainly appeals to his core supporters, but what does that really do for him at this point? doesn't he need to expand his vote? women voters, young voters, minorities? >> this has been a dilemma for him for some time. he has a very committed base. when he said, i could shoot someone on fifth avenue and i wouldn't lose a vote, he was right. he has a base of followers who will follow him anywhere. but they aren't enough to win an election. and he has had real difficulty expanding beyond it. and he's been his own worst enemy in that regard. and particularly among these college educated white voters, who he seems to be systemically driving away, and among them, women, most of all. so, i, you know, all of the things he's doing now seem designed to reinforce support that he already has, but not to build on it. >> david gergen, historically, have you ever seen anything like this? a presidential nominee calling the electoral process into question t

axelrod. what do you expect trump to do sunday night in this debate?hink the ad reflects people, he's mired in the low forties. people understand or feel that he's all grievance and no solutions. he's trying to offer solutions. that is going to be important in a town hall meeting. the question is whether he can make a real connection with these people. this is something he hasn't done all campaign. the other thing is the ad refers to issues that are important to women and he's had a major problem with women. big gender gap. he talks about relief for mothers and for child care taxes. these are the kind of things i expect he'll stress on sunday night. >> will these town hall format type of venue, if you will, ron, will it change the way both candidates can attack the other. >> great question. hillary clinton has put out more detail than donald trump. . but they are both putting their argument on trying to personally disqualify the other: that is harder to do in a town hall. i expect sharp interchanges on policy but somewhat more kind of out of tune to re

and now jim axelrod has learned of a promising new treatment that begins behind bars. >> me and my brother turned to stealing and doping. >> reporter: every jail is fulli of stories. something i thought i needed to be. >> reporter: and while the ones these inmates are telling at the jail in kenton county, kentucky may not sound like it at first, they are all stories of hope. >> thank god that i screwed up bad enough that put me in jail. >> reporter: jeremy westerman ir doing seven years for dealing drugs to support his own opioidd habit. >> you come in here, and your hope comes back. you get your wits back. >> you're tired of living that life.t >> reporter: jason merrick is a inmate who took hard lessons and translated them into a new substance abuse treatment program, an innovative approach to kicking opiates for good. is it easy to point to inmates who are here because of opioid addiction? >> 83% of our intakes are directly or indirectly related to substance use. >> having a different person's perspective. >> reporter: merrick combines the traditional tools of psychotherapy and 12-step p

again, will say, i talked to david axelrod during a podcast.this conversation and he basically said you know, some of , these things that were revealing about clinton fell campaign culture, he had a very skeptic view in 2008 about what clinton fell campaign culture was like and he sees that laid bare. the ones to me that are the most dangerous are the ones that touch on president obama. i find it incredibly intriguing the notion that he had an e-mail account that he e-mailed under an alias and it is suggested he may have been in communication with hillary clinton under that eno. the things that touch directly on president obama, hillary clinton and e-mail controversy -- it is potentially damaging. potentially. mark: i think the press has accepted the narrative that these e-mails in their totality showing window into the kind of culture of a clinton operation that says one thing and does another. that is not unusual for political operations. i think that is primed the pump. and people also recognize it's possible whoever is controlling this disc

. >> dickerson: we now go to democratic strategist and cnn political consultant david axelrod who is also in chicago. david, we must congratulate you first, a little history for the cubs. we wish them well next week in the world series. >> onl 71 years, john. >> dickerson: now that we've gotten that out of the way, give us your sense of where this race consultant on either side, any strategist who privately believes that donald trump's going to win this election, i think that hillary clinton is in a very strong position now. and you can see it with the fact that she's pressing into these normally republican bastions. your own poll in texas was shocking. she's got a lead in the aggregation of polls in arizona, and she's doing well in virtually every being state, traditional batt so the question now that you hear is: what impact will it have down the ballot. that's where i think the focus is going to be for the last couple weeks. >> dickerson: in those house and senate races. you've been in one of these. you know about early voting, the voting taking place right now. how does the campa

axelrod said today, hillary clinton should sit it out. doesn't appear she's going to. what kind of a role would you counsel for her, aggressive, passive as bob said, pick your points and move in? >> one of the smartest things anybody has said about politics in this modern era is david axelrod when he described this process as an mri for the soul. it is at the end of the day an elaborate character test and the test that hillary clinton is enduring now is one of testing her dignity. and so we're seeing someone who wishes to be our commander in chief, our american head of state. the head of government under a relentless assault on her character and on her dignity and her maintenance of that dignity is part of the task and i think prepares and serves her well when the inevitable happens which is a very substantial landslide victory on november 8th. and i'll be clear about something, this race is over. now, from a news perspective i understand we can't say this but i'm a political analyst. and i can look at the numbers and i can look at the trajectory. the moment of impact

david axelrod first.trump issued a scathing attack over the wikileaks released regarding the clinton foundation. could the argument suppress voter turnout among democrats, especially among some of the bernie sanders supporters out there who are probably pretty angry about this as well? >> yeah. i -- i think it's less a matter of suppressing democratic turnout than rallying republicans who -- some of whom have drifted away from him, republican-leaning independents for whom the attacks on clinton probably are resonating. the challenge for trump is always the same, which is can he stay on track and stay on the offense without shooting himself in the foot. i don't know if he has any toes left. but if he does, they're always in jeopardy. and that's really the question for him. >> mark preston, he was on message in his first speech earlier today in ohio. he didn't deviate much at all from the teleprompter. he is staying on that message for now, but how long can he do that? >> i am sure that his advisors right n

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jim axelrod learned of a >> me and my brother turned to stealing and doping. >> reporter: every jail its full of stories. >> being a drug addict was something that i thought i needed to be. >> reporter: while the ones these inmates are telling at jail in kenton county, kentucky, may not sound like it at first, they are all stories of hope. >> thank god that i screwed up bad enough that put me in jail. >> reporter: jeremy westerman doing seven years for dealing drugs to support his own opioid habit. >> you cof comes back. you get your wits back. >> tired of living that life. >> reporter: jason merrick reformed addict and former inmate who took hard lessons and translated them into a substance abuse treatment program. an innovative approach to kicking opioids for good. >> is it easy to point to inmates who are here because of opioid addiction? >> # 3% of our intakes are directly or indirectly relate to >> having a different perspective. >> reporter: combining psych therapy and 12-step support groups with a new one. >> inmates are given an injection of the drug vivitrol before they're r

jim axelrod reports. >> on a rainy day in september, 2014, president obama paid a visit to u.s. central command at mcdill air force base in tampa for a briefing from general lloyd austin. >> throw the grenade in the bunker. the explosive growth of isis. the cost of the program, $1.2 billion. >> i just received a briefing from general austin and met with your commanders. met with representatives from 40 nations. it is a true team effort here at mcdill. >> but at the time, centcom intelligence operation was anything but unified. critical assessments were altered by top intelligence brass. word like slow. stalled changed to deliberate. flee, retreat, changed to repositioned and relocated. which had effect of painting a rosier picture in final reports delivered to general austin and staff. it didn't stop there. in one instance, centcom's blocked a negative assessment of iraq's military from the president's daily brief. a top secret intelligence summary, viewed only by the president and his closest advisers. the pentagon defense intelligence agency concluded iraqi security forces wou

>> well, i agree you're a really smart guy on tv there david axelrod. it's not new information. most of this is baked into the cake. for a lot of voter it's white noise. women on trump side coming out with more stories, more e-mail on the other side on the clinton story. it's not like new information may move a lot of votes but the thing that is important that i'm struck by that david touched on this may place an even greater emphasis on the turnout, the targeting and turnout operation which the clinton campaign has spent a lot of time and money on and not nearly as much on the trump side, so i remember in august when clinton kind of was off the trail raising money and trump criticized her for being off the trail, that was a time when he kind of rose in the polls as you recall, because he was out there kind of dominating the media, but that's when she raised a lot of money and occurred to me back then she might have a real advantage in these last couple of weeks on the money side, which will now translate into a lot of targeting and turnout, and i think about the last reports i

perspective from someone who put out his campaign, david axelrod. as we saw in jim sciutto's reporting there was war been the clinton inner circle. you helped run president obama's campaign in 2008. is this infighting common or different? >> i think that there's some elements of this that are different. what's interesting about the emails as they emerged chelsea clinton apparently got involved in the clinton foundation, was unhappy with the way the clinton foundation was being run and some of what we've seen in the last few days seems to be a response from doug band who was very active around the clintons, bill clinton and the clinton foundation in defending his role and his contribution. some of it seemed odd to me. for example him boasting that he got speaking engagements for president clinton. i don't know any president of the u.s. united states who has problems getting speaking engagements for fairly eye-popping amounts of money and bill clinton is not any mean speaker. he's someone who is in demand, so it seems like the rooster taking credit fo

jim axelrod learned of a treatment that begins behind >> me and my brother turned to stealing and doping. >> reporter: every jail its full of stories. >> being a drug addict was something that i thought i needed to be. >> reporter: while the ones these inmates are telling at jail in kenton county, kentucky, may not sound like it at first, they are all stories of hope. >> thank god that i screwed up bad enough that put me in ja >> reporter: jeremy westerman doing seven years for dealing drugs to support his own opioid habit. >> you come of in here your hope comes back. you get your wits back. >> tired of living that life. >> reporter: jason merrick reformed addict and former inmate who took hard lessons and translated them into a substance abuse treatment program. an innovative approach to kicking opioids for good. inmates who are here because of opioid addiction? >> # 3% of our intakes are directly or indirectly relate to substance use. >> having a different perspective. >> reporter: combining psych therapy and 12-step support groups with a new one. >> inmates are given an injection of t

we heard from david axelrod who felt like that strategy back fired. what we really saw from kaine was more like buckshot, trying to throw out as.many punches as he could, seeing what landed, as opposed to being strategic. and it seemed like that really didn't work out for him. >> yeah. axelrod was tweeting throughout the whole thing. he was not happy with how kaine looked. k kaine interrupted pence 60 times. pence interrupted 37 times. so that said, any sense that the debate will have an impact with undecided voters? >> reporter: well, heading into this, we also heard from some people that because of the very high unfavorability ratings of the two people at the top of the ticket, that undecided voters may look at the two candidates to help them decide who they should cast ballots for, but after this debate, i don't think it's going to be any easier for them to decide between hillary clinton and donald trump. instead, we hear a lot of people who are looking forward to the next debate and potentially even the one that follows it. >> and what are the cam

axelrod says: "she has to be careful about how she makes her appeal in the final weeks, trying to get people out, trying to get people to vote, but talking more broadly about how she's going to bring the country together, rather than turning it into a partisan fight." trump though still believes he can win... despite most polls showing him trailing significantly. trump says: "investor's business daily, the most accurate poll from the last election and the two elections before that, just announced that we are leading nationally by two points." the g-o-p nominee announced his america over the weekend in gettysburg, pennsylvania. hurt says: "it talks right to the people who've been enthusiastic the problem is that is a little bit late." but his new message is overshadowed by his threat to sue the women who've accused him of sexual assault. benson says: "he creates more clutter and noise during the speech and of course the media covers it." (on-cam tag) today ... trump will hold rallies in florida ... while clinton will campaign in new hampshire. in new york, kelly wright, fox news.>> in

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we have former senior obama adviser and cnn senipolitical commentator david axelrod. how are you looking at the wave of hostility toward trump? do you think this is just a wave or the bottom? >> well i think that's the big question. has he bottomed out? because i do think remember in the primaries when he said i could walk out on fifth avenue and shoot someone and wouldn't lose a vote, you know, there's something to that. his supporters are very, very committed. and the question is, what is the irreducible core. we may be approaching the irreducible core. the question has always been, can he grow that base? and i think it's becoming very, very difficult to see that. i think he recognizes that, which is why he's gone to the scorched earth strategy to try and drag hillary clinton down because he knows there's a limit to how much he can grow his own vote. >> and what do you think about that strategy, david? that he seems to be trying to drag her down, suppress the vote, make people wildly unenthusiastic about turning out to pull the lever for either. can that work? >> we

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joining us now, cnn's senior political commentator, david axelrod, and gloria borger.this point in the stage, donald trump's down in marble polls by 7 to 10 points, losing most key battleground states and the stories that are dominating the news are sexual assault cases against him. can the campaign get back on track? tonight, they clearly seem to be trying to move away from it and focus on, you know, what trump wants to talk about, on wikileaks, on hillary clinton e-mails, and on the issues. >> sure. look, i think it's very difficult. he would have to run the table and then some. anderson, i think we can safely say that it would be unprecedented for a candidate, 26 days out from the election, this far behind, to stage a comeback. and win. not impossible, but unprecedented. particularly if you look at the battleground states. you were just talking about. we got a poll tonight, for example, north carolina, hillary clinton has a five-point lead. that's a state that romney won just narrowly last time. pennsylvania, hillary's ahead. michigan, hillary clinton ahead. wiscons