mattea, you're looking at three states now critically important. which ones? >> one, north carolina. donald trump absolutely has to win north carolina, if the map follows what we've seen historically, and we are seeing president obama go that state twice this week. they're practically taking up residency there. something the clinton people believe they can cut him off very early if they are able to lock down north carolina. two states that are warning signs for the clintons, however. michigan, seeing the trump campaign put in money and we really, clinton is going to have to really drive up her share of enthusiasm among african-american voters in that state in order to win, and colorado, where the clinton campaign went back on the air in a state where they thought they had locked down. >> looking at three states too? >> conventional, though. ohio, norlg carth carolina, flo. donald trump doesn't become president without them. he needs to win those three states. states that see results. certainly not final results, but see results early on, and no mistake we see

the other "washington post" story is a mattea gold standard about trump apparently refusing or at leastaluating payment to his campaign pollster, tony fabrizio. so, same question we asked about the russia stuff. is there any there there on the financial stories and will any matter in the last week? >> well, i think "the new york times" piece is on the basis of how much it gets into this detail of another -- it's now the second big "new york times" piece that suggests that donald trump has played the tax system in a way that no normal human being could and has avoided paying taxes for many, many years. i think that story is as devastating, maybe more devastating than the first one, that suggested that he might -- he could have not paid taxes for many, many years. i think, you know, look, donald trump's hiding his tax returns. we just talked about this in the last topic. he's hiding them for a reason. it now seems to be circumstantially clear that the reason he's hiding them is because he hasn't paid any taxes for a really long time and he understands the political damage from that would