dave levinthal, have you done a t.v.ds intracking the 2016 election and point on ers to that article public integrity dot org. eight weeks to election, what looking into? guest: to the caller's point, lies, , transparency, issues that both hillary clinton has been lobbying on donald has been donald trump lobbing at hillary clinton. here was a head-to-head comparison of donald trump versus hillary clinton on the tried f transparency, we to take nine measures and empire on y rank them side by side who is doing a better job. i welcome people to read that. dramatic in the campaign. oth candidates bottom line, fairly secretive when you measure them against historical precedent. may do better against donald trump on some issues, not all issues. you look at medical records, john mccain released history s full medical and now we're debating about whether hillary clinton two-page letter is better than donald trump's one-page letter about history. very of issues like that, much going into the final few weeks, being talked about a

i want dave levinthal to weigh in on that. sure, just to clarify, the commission that oversees presidential debates is nonprofit organization. they in fact do take ontributions to fund their efforts to stage the debates that are going to happen at the presidential level. three of them and one vice presidential debate. they don't give money to candidates per se. hey have no role in the debates, especially in terms of bunting, the federal election money ton doesn't give any candidate, it is their role to disclose ility money being used to run laws ins, they regulate the country that deal with elections, but it should be note commission on presidential debate doeses take monfreprivate sources, in some nonprofit, other nonprofit organizations, it has been story tions, this is a that is kind of undertold, i think. i don't think a lot of people what goes into the operation. it is controversial in the sense if you are uirement gary johnson supporter, jill is really rter, this going to be a situation that is etrimental to their campai

and dave levinthal looks at presidential and congressional fundraising and spending for the campaign so far and u.s. election assistant commission chair thomas hicks on the security of the electronic voting systems and if they're vulnerable to hacking. as always, we take your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. host: good morning. it's monday, september 19, 2016. a weekend of violence in minnesota, new jersey, and new york has law enforcement on high alert this morning. no one was killed in the explosions in new york and new jersey, and only the attacker died in the mall stabbing in minnesota. but each happened in a very public place, and each had the potential to be very deadly. with authorities still working to provide answers in all three cases, we begin our program today on the "washington journal." simply asking to you take stock of how safe you feel in your community. are you concerned or has this type of violence in the united states become something of a new normal? phone lines are open this morning, want to

host: dave levinthal, you've done research on this.t that group and a lot of playing catch-up. and really being behind when it comes to the structure and the fundraising that in their cases theorting donald trump area irony is that hillary clinton she woulder campaign, have four principles by which she was going to run her presidential campaign. one of those four fights was campaign finance reform. hillary clinton has been outspoken about reforming the campaign finance system, about advocating against the citizens united decision, the supreme court decision that really changed the way campaigns are terms of outside money pouring into competitive campaign races. but even though she has advocated for all this reform, wants a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united, which would be a very difficult thing to do? do, she has been the chief beneficiary of outside money, the money that has benefited from this citi

host: dave levinthal, you've