host: coming up we'll talk to sebastian junger about his book.but first this campaign update. >> today we want to take a look at new campaign ads running in a few key senate races and joining us from the hotline studios, amy walter editor in chief of the national journal's hotline. let's start with illinois and if you could, give us a quick recap of what happened there with the race for the senate seat in that state this of course, is former senator obama 's of the united states and of course, had he stayed in the senate, he would be up in this election cycle. so the battle between ealexi, the state treasurer and congressman mark kirk from sub irban, chicago. if you look at the state, you say it's obviously a blue state and the expectation is democrats would easily hold the steat. but a funny thing happened along the way. alexi's family who owns a bank and she has been involved in that bank has been in trouble recently because of the bank. they loaned money to some unsavery characterize and recently the feds overtook the bank and was unable to su