chris stirewalt fox news digital editor.'ll never forget being on the set when the democrats won the house and the senate and they were jubilant with the arms up in the air. and you're telling me now gallup is telling us now that the electorate feels more strongly about sending a disapproving message to president obama than those voters did to p. george w. bush. >> oh, yeah. it's not a statistically difference, but the factor is enormous. it's the largest. i know you guys aren't totally bound -- >> i get it. >> exactly. i know you guys -- >> pretty laid back. but around here the freak out is on. and democrats really understand it. this is the point in the electoral cycle where the president is sharp diverging, the president saying don't worry my policies are on the ballot. make no mistake. >> why isn't is he saying that. came out this weekend and said that was a mistake. shouldn't be saying that. >> i have my own quack pot theory which is that the president probably believes the senate to be gone. the president is probably m

chris stirewalt is a fox news digital politics editor and author of fox news first, a must-read by the watch i read it every single morning. >> i would say so. >> what are we to make now as we are down to the wire? go out to colorado for interesting voting guidelines and regulations changing that, right? >> certainly, the first year that colorado has been a vote by mail state. vote by mail states are democratic in our experience. washington state, oregon have both seep strong moves to democratic side since they put that in affect. the ski do people know how to poll colorado given this change and this advantage for democratic organizers who can now go out and instead of getting people to go to the polls, just need them so on on the dotted line so they can vote. that makes it a lot easier, gives democrats more time to get voters out, especially important in a year where democrats are feeling pretty depressed. there is not a lot for them to be happy about. so, this gives democrats advantage. so does gardner -- gardner's lead real? we will see on election day. >> very interesting. very int

let's bring in fox news contributor monica crowley, digital politics editor chris stirewalt.hanks for joining us. his approval rating near 40%. not surprisingly, jeanne shaheen, running for senate in new hampshire doesn't want him on the trail with here is what she had to say. >> i never said i didn't want president obama to come and campaign. the fact is, he is busy in washington. he is dealing with the ebola threat. he is dealing with the threat from isis. i think he is exactly where he needs to be. >> he is exactly where he needs to be, for jeanne shaheen. chris stirewalt, take it away. >> what is she going to say when he actually flies over her state? because he has to go to maine. i guess he could take a vermont side track but, look, obviously that is bunk. what are you supposed to say? by the way president can be happy she at least admits she voted for him compared to other democrats this cycle who won't seen say that. she admits she voted for him and says, the problem for democrats is the essentially this. the set of issues changed dramatically against their favor in t

chris stirewalt and lanny davis next on that. >>> plus, is secretary panetta sitting on a benghazi bombshell? see why there are new calls for him to testify under oath just ahead. >> we were concerned that the consulate there was in trouble. and it was based on that the president then said let's try to do everything we can. >> did you use the word terror attack? back to "the kelly file." >>> questions raised in leon panetta's new book on president obama's leadership put the white house on defense. some say the last place it needs to be when midterms are less than a month away. when it comes to 2014, democrats running for the senate have been running away from the president. take a look at these campaign ads. these are all democrats. >> i'm not barack obama. i disagree with him on guns, coal and the epa. >> the administration's policies are simply wrong when it comes to oil and gas production in this nation. >> i oppose president obama's gun control legislation. nothing in the obama plan would have prevented tragedies like newtown. >> i'll make sure president obama gets the message. >> chris

chris stirewalt and lanny davis next on that. >>> plus, is secretary panetta sitting on a benghazi bombshell? see why there are new calls for him to testify under oath just ahead. >> we were concerned that the consulate there was in trouble. and it was based on that the president then said let's try to do everything we can. >> did you use the word terror attack? >>> live from america's news headquarters pro democracy demonstrators not close to resolving current mill gridlock. negotiations were called off by the government friday when the two sides could not agree on an agenda. student protestors do not like candidates for office being selected for committee on main line china. huge clouds of smoke in syria sunday after another u.s.-led air strike. terrorists are advancing on the area and targeting isis positions more than two weeks. it appears the bombing is having little affect on the terrorists, isaac focusing on taking kobani since it would give it a major link between two positions it has in northern syria. now, back to "the kelly files". .". >>> questions raised in leon panetta's new bo

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bill: thank you, chris stirewalt. in washington, d.c. also in this polling by the way, republicans are favored 39 to 31% on who you trust the most when it comes to the economy, 13 days out. martha: somebody hit by mackerel and somebody with rocks in their jaws. chris stirewalt. we thank you him for that. will you vote in this year's election? midterms you never know. some people turn out. some people are not. some people are fire up. some are not. 13 days away. fire us a tweet. @marthamaccallum and @billhemmer. >>> u.s. shifting a strategy against isis. moving to the all-out effort to try to save the syrian border town of kobani. here is pentagon press secretary rear admiral john kirby on this. >> the situation in kobani remains tenuous. we maintain that kurdish forces are in control of majority of city. i hesitate to put a number figure. we do believe they are in possession after majority of it. that said, isil forces continue to threaten it. martha: remember when john kerry said it would be all right to lose kobani, just one battle tha

. >> joining me now, chris stirewalt. as you would say, chris, it's complicated. >> well, that will just make you feel real good, wouldn't it? let me restate your question to one i can answer is basically was the response from josh earnest there. and we've heard this decision described as bizarre. we've heard it described as all kinds of things. it's incomprehensible. why would you have this person do this? it's not incomprehensible here. it's not incomprehensible to people who watch this administration, which is this. they don't have an ebola problem, they have a political problem about ebola. therefore it makes sense that you would have a political fixer, which is what ron klain is. that's who he is. he's not famous for being joe biden's chief of staff. that's not exactly the a-number-one job in washington. the thing he's famous for is that in 2000 he tried to save the election for al gore down in florida. and i can promise you this, counselor, if kevin spacey has played you in the movie, you are not the guy who is going

chris stirewalt in washington, d.c. we'll watch all the nuance as it goes back and forth the next 20 days and so stand by. martha: a lot of people run decided at this point. we'll see which way they break in the coming weeks. more coming up on the midterms in a little while. new developments today in the benghazi terror attacks as well. new charges against a lone suspect. new word that sensitive information was stolen by those terrorists that night. that goes to a lot of premeditation potentially in this attack. we're live with the details. bill: how about a road trip, america? you might be pleased when you pull over to fill up. we'll tell you why the gas prices are diving, by the day. >> despite more airstrikes against isis the terror group taking more territory in iraq. new poll shows americans think we need troops on the ground to take them out. >> airstrikes are working very limited. i mean 600 airstrikes over the course of two months is nothing. particularly since most of them are not controlled. ally bank 2, but t

. >> joining me now, chris stirewalt. as you would say, chris, it's complicated. >> well, that will just make you feel real good, wouldn't it? let me restate your question to one i can answer is basically was the response from josh earnest there. and we've heard this decision described as bizarre. we've heard it described as all kinds of things. it's incomprehensible. why would you have this person do this? it's not incomprehensible here. it's not incomprehensible to people who watch this administration, which is this. they don't have an ebola problem, they have a political problem about ebola. therefore it makes sense that you would have a political fixer, which is what ron klain is. he's not famous for being joe biden's chief of staff. that's not exactly the a-number-one job in washington. the thing he's famous for is in 2000 he tried to save the election for al gore down in florida. and i can promise you this, counselor, if kevin spacey has played you in the you are not the guy who is going to be dr. killdare. you are t

chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. good morning to you. a czar too far? you say we also have an ebola czar? what do you mean by that? >> we have plenty of people, by the way, infectious disease and weaponnization of infectious disease that our enemies would want to use infectious diseases against us, i'm sure they still do, that was a big consideration in the bush era. set up new offices, set up new funding. we increased funding dramatically for the organizations. there are lots of people, lots of individuals who the president could say, i'm making this person the one who is in charge of the ebola response. which he has essentially done with dr. frieden at the cdc. when he talks about appointing a ebola czar, not talking about creating a new position because we need a new position, what he is talking about frieden lost public confidence in rather dramatic way. everybody they put forward to try to instill calm in the public has instead further panicked and alarmed because they have been wrong. so they're looking for a new face. bill: got it. from what i un

chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. how are you, sir? good day to you. what message is she trying to convey? what is the, what is the effect that she is trying to get out of comments like that chris? >> i don't know what she is trying to convey. what she is conveying she is losing and she will lose. that is the message there is, she is jammed up. she is desperate. and she is excusing her poor performance by blaming voters, by the way. here is a pro candidates. not a good idea to blame the people. so imagine this. you say to someone, that, the reason people oppose the president is racism. and the reason they're against her is sexism. then you say, but by the way, opponent of president obama, can i have your support? that is not very flattering and it is probably not something that, she wasn't survive likely anyway. this probably seals her off. bill: unbelievable. so landrieu, a woman. kay hague ban a woman in north carolina. michelle nunn, female candidate in georgia giving perdue a run for his money. a african-american president who won twice now in nati

. >> chris stirewalt. >> it's very powerful unfortunately there is one problem.exhibit a. let's watch. >> well, i don't know what i'm featured in, but i wouldn't say that anything is responsible for what's going on in ebola. i think what others have said is that certainly the nih funding has been flat, which means functionally because of inflation that has gone down i don't think you can point and say it's because of that that we have a problem with ebola. i think that would be too specific. >> oh, but point they did. >> oh, well, what does truth have to do with any campaign ads? that's the last thing anybody's thinking about. the democrats are down. they're way down. they're having a terrible year. they're three weeks away from election day. it's pretty heinous. when it gets heinous, you do heinous things. we sigh it in individual campaigns around the country. now we see as a motif. as democrats understand they have this deep vulnerability on the issue of ebola because of the administration's handling of it they're trying to turn it around. it's not just groups

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chris stirewalt. the fox news digital politics editor.e board behind us we cued up and lot of things. at 6:00 p.m. we got a lot of information. right to the center part of the country. in kansas this has been a battle. pat roberts has a 5-point lead on the independent greg orman. you put all the polls together airport's less than that, 2.4. disapproval for the president in kansas is 63%. >> rob earth woke. and orman if you were a republican sounds like a republican. if you are a democrat he sound like a democrat. as it goes forward's aligning more like democrats. for kansas voters they see him more clearly as a vote against a republican majority in the senate. bill: come east in kentucky it is red for mitch mcconnell. kansas has not voted for a democrat since 1932. if greg orman were to pull this off it would and national story. in kentucky mitch mcconnell is in a significant challenge. ' ream clear politics average drops town to 3 points. also in kentucky the disapproval number for the president is at 59%. not as high as kansas but still

bill: chris stirewalt out of washington leading in the our coverage today. martha: what does the president have to say about this. we are going to hear quite a bit more of this. >> we just did a deal in and there are three days ago to keep 10,000-plus that country. on twitter @billhemmer and @marthamaccallum. martha: the fourth american diagnosed with ebola. the nbc cameraman contracting the disease while he was on the ground in liberia. meanwhile four family members of the first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states are being ordered to stay in their dallas apartment after they basically flew in the face of those orders in recent days. if they try to leave they will be arrested. a very different tack being taken as casey stegall joins us in dallas. the hospital is responding to how they first handled this case. >> reporter: last thursday dunn and showed up to the emergency room at texas health presbyterian hospital complaining of fever and abdominal pain. his family claims he told the nursing staff he had just come to dallas from liberia but the

we want to bring in chris stirewalt. how are you? this map is not doing well.s is live television. we do this what if thing. we have seen another debate new hampshire. we saw self debates throughout the work. 55-45, dems on republicans. gop needs six. i can give you 20 different scenarios that may or may not happen. this battle in new hampshire is 1.5 points apart. i saw on cnn this is a dead heat. why is that happening in new hampshire? >> after watching her debate a couple of times one gets the sense why she doesn't do town halls and why she doesn't want to do debates. she doesn't fare well. new hampshire is a democratic leaning state. they are open to dmablg republicanism from time to time. brown i would say is still short of the goal line but it's so close. and when we look at the generic ballot and how people are leaning. he could pull off a stunner. bill: that is a blue state republicans want to turn red. was is a blue state republicans want to turn red. quinnipiac came out with a poll that shows ernst with a lead over prayly. in the white house they -- o

chris stirewalt just can't wait to dig into no ez documents this morning -- into those documents this >> well, when you used the phrase "laid bare," i think that may have been more apt than you meant, madam. [laughter] what we know is in there is a lot of internal communications from the white house about how to handle what's going on. now, james rosen, the intrepid james rosen will be sifting, panning for document gold through these things all amp. it is a friday, and it's also, of course, a holiday weekend. so that is the right time in american political life to do your docu-dumping. so they're putting it out there, the one they know is going to have the headline-generating things. but remember, hillary clinton is the front runner for the democratic 2016 nomination. this is part of her story, and while the lewinskygate and all of that stuff in there is certainly titillating, certainly exciting, the more material things for her may end up relating to the things that aren't as sexy including allegations of selling pardons and other mischief at the end of the clinton administration. ma

chris stirewalt in washington.martha: the whole country is on the lookout for someone like thomas duncan. starting today you will see four more i.s. airports who will screen passengers as they arrive from west africa. shannon, how confident should travelers be at these new screenings will be thorough enough to be effective? >> the administration is hoping it will be reassuring to them. a lot of people coming from places all off the world that they should be safe. dulles is one of the airports getting this new screening. passen jerts from sl *, guinea and liberia will be met by customs and border protection agents. they will be questioned and screened. if there is any suspicion necessity go through an extra level of screening, even if they are okay they have to leave contact information. otherwise th into additional screening. if they have signs or symptoms that lead to any suspicion of ebola they c be transported by ambulance from this airport to the nearest hospital equipped too handle ebola. they will be notified