he is in illinois campaigning with tammy duckworth. let's listen in. >> immigrants, people of other faiths, mocking the tis abled, insulting our troops, insulting our veterans. that tells you a couple things. it tells you that he's insecure enough that he pumps himself up by putting other people down. not a character trait i would advise for somebody in the oval office. it tells you that he doesn't care much about the basic values that we try to impart to our kids. it tells you he'd be care leles with the civility and respect that a real vibrant democracy require, and it sure has heck tells you he's never met somebody as tough or smart or patriotic as tammy duckworth. we want to see leadership, that's the kind of leadership we've got to look for. so bottom line is this, if you want to send a message in the this election, then you have to vote for hillary clinton and you have to vote for tammy duckworth. if you want leaders who actually respect americans and value hard work, if you want higher wage, better benefits, a fairer tax code, a

our next president, hillary clint clinton. [ applause ] and our next senator, tammy duckworth. and i've had the pleasure of knowing tammy for a long time. i could not be happier that she's running for my old senate seat because i loved being your senator. it was a great job. i got to spend time traveling across this great state. small towns, farmlands, the world's greatest city. and what i always explain to people is illinois is a microcosm of the country. more representative than any other state of the broad diversity of america. it's a place where democrats and republicans and independents and people of good will, of all races and faiths, share certain bedrock values. if you rank 50 states across the categories of age and education, household income, race, religion, then the land of lincoln is the best mirror for who we are. >> that was president obama. president obama speaking at a campaign event in chicago, illinois, for tammy duckworth, a congresswoman running for the senate seat there in that state aga . we'll monitor that and see if he has anything newsworthy to say. a so

so tammy duckworth was born in thailand. her mother is chinese.ution. when you are hearing kirk's comment and we heard it all morning, it is hard to figure out what he was going at there other than some kind of a racial reference. it is unclear here. tammy duckworth is an army war vet who lost her legs and partial use of her arm in iraq and was awarded a purple heart. >>> police in riot gear clashed with protesters over the dakota oil pipeline. 117 demonstrators calling themselves water protectors were arrested. this after they were blocking the pipeline as path. they claim the land rightfully belongs to the native-american tribes. >>> let's get a check on cnn money stream on friday morning. a stream of weak corporate earnings has investors in a funk. dow is down slightly. losses in the europe and asia closing lower. oil has turned lower. the volatile 2016 presidential election might be spooking mom and pop investors. estimated $17 billion was yanked from mutual funds in the past week. nearly all from u.s. mutual funds. the most investors pulled o

republican senator mark kirk seemed to mock or question the heritage of his democratic challenger tammy duckworth. watch this. >> my family has served this nation going back to the revolution. i bleed for this nation. i still want to be there in the senate when the drums of war sound. people are quick to sound the drums of war. i want to be there to say this is what it costs. if that is the case, let's go. let's make sure the american people understand and hold allies accountable. >> sfenator kirk. >> i forgot your relatives came to serve george washington. >> she was awarded the purple heart. it was extraordinary. >> yeah. lots of words to describe that moment. >>> the feds say a former nsa contractor stole the names of u.s. agents. details next on "early start." ♪ this is the new comfort food. and it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. california grown with no antibiotics ever. let's get comfortable with our food again. >>> new this morning, the battle to liberate mosul getting bloodier. 900 isis militants killed in the first 11 days of the mission. the few remaining are using human

tammy duckworth appears to be on a glide path to win.et's not forget, illinois, democratic state, also barack obama's home state. putting that aside. sign of desperation, though, right there. as you said, a lot of people have weighed in including hillary clinton. let's take a look at what she put out on twitter this morning where she says thankful for tammy duckworth and her family's service to the country. it's really not that hard to grasp. to tie this all together, tammy duckworth is correct. her mother is from thailand. her father was born in the united states and her father's side of the family goes all the way back. i think mark kirk probably woke up this morning and said what did i do to myself. >> mark preston, many thanks. >>> coming up in the newsroom, die-hard trump supporters quick to share their opinions of hillary clinton. [ chanting ] but it isn't just chants. some supporters are taking it farther. warning of a revolution if clinton wins. never saw coming... grilled, glazed korean bbq shrimp. and try as much as you want of

did some early voting himself and attended fundraisers for hillary clinton and congresswoman tammy duckworth. is casting his own early ballot. democrats have been encouraging people to vote early nationwide. cameras watch from about 30 feet away as he marked his ballot. here is a look. [cameras clicking] [indiscernible] president obama: ok, let us do this. [cameras clicking] [laughter] [indiscernible] >> next, a look at some of the supreme court oral arguments

i mean, the polls already had tammy duckworth in the lead. what does this do to mark kirk?, mark kirk probably wasn't going to lose. he's a good guy, but you cannot fix stupid. what is it about republican senate candidates that every two years they have to blow themselves up. they have to say something stupid. there's no defense for that. he has to apologize for it. he's made probably an unwinnable race unwinnable and just a little more ugly. >> more unwinnabler. lynn, what do you think? you're from illinois. >> i'm covering the race. i listen to the debate last night. and it was an unforced error. what mark was trying to do was make a wise crack. and he didn't pull it off. it was something he should not have done. and he's military. she's military. i'm surprised he just didn't respect everybody's family service and move on from that. when you tell jokes during debates, you have to be pretty careful about what you do. and i bet we hear more about it today because it is -- kirk is facing an uphill battle. he needed a very, very strong showing from the debate. he didn't get i

and kirsten, tammy duckworth is a disabled veteran and yes, her mom is from thailand, but her father americans dating back to the american revolution. a horrible moment for him. >> it was terrible. he's already losing. now he's definitely going to lose. but it's just interesting because you see in sort of -- s.e. had a great piece broke the women's issue and republicans, but you see this is the kind of thing where republicans are just being who democrats always say they are. they're just walking right into the stereotype. >> and speaking of the woman issue, s.e., you're part of a cnn daigital series called call on t girls on the bus and you talk about the negativity directed toward female reporters, but you still think it's important for women to be out there fighting the good fight on social media. >> absolutely. we cannot cedeoffense. >> i'm very nice. >> social media is an awful place, but women use to social media for forces of good and to get our voices heard. so i hope they do. >> and ashley, you're a woman on social media. have you found it difficult this election cycle more t

washington this morning after spending this weekend in chicago stumping for senate candidate tammy duckworth... but before the campaigning, he gave some assuring words for people in the path of we got your back." "for the folks in florida, north carolina, south carolina, georgia the american people are with you in this time of need and we're just going to keep on working to make sure that as the waters recede you're able to rebuild and we're going to everything that we have to do to make sure that we got your back." at least 16 deaths have been attributed to hurricane in just a few hours -- former first daughter chelsea clinton will be in racine. she is stumping for her mother, democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton.ann sterling is live with more. chelsea will speak at "the living light community center" in racine just before 2 this we're told chelsea clinton will encourage supporters to vote early in wisconsinshe will lay november's election and urge voters to support hillary clinton and tim kaine's vision. bill clinton was also in wisconsin over the weekend. he was in milwaukee on

[applause] and please welcome democratic congresswoman tammy duckworth. now let's meet our panelist. political writer and cull imist, bernie shoenburg. jim leach is the news and rogram director at wmay radio. and jordan serves as political reporter for news channel 20. [applause] now, both candidates have agreed to the following rules. we'll alternate who speaks first for each question. the first candidate to respond will get 60 seconds. the second candidate will get 90 seconds to respond and then 30 seconds of rebuttal for the first candidate. we begin our debate with 90-second opening statements and after the coin toss before the debate, senator kirk will go first. senator. thank you.k: i'd ask people of illinois to send me back to another six-year term so i can continue giving the thoughtful and bipartisan service to the state that includes my record of saving the export-import bank of the united states, which is responsible for over 40,000 jobs right here in illinois. and put together the bipartisan kirk-menendez sanctions which was the entire reason

tammy duckworth was born in thailand. r mother is of chinese her ij ta -- heritage. >> duckworth is an iraq war veteran and purple heart recipient. the big question here, is donald trump's campaign and the top of the ticket coming to the defense of this down ballot republican? not so much. his campaign manager kellyanne conway tweeted this. the same mark kirk that unendorsed his party's presidential nominee and called him out in paid ads? got you. good luck. that's from kellyanne conway. let's bring back the panel. emily, you see this, you think what? >> that it added a very strange dynamic in the presidential and down ballot where it seems okay to be questioning people's military service across the board. we saw it with the khans with trump. this is the second time it happened in the kirk/duckworth race. very strange dynamic. it's also happening in missouri in the senate race there. i think of the dynamic between conway and kirk, what we are seeing right now, is when voters in swing states who have these senate races up f

he writes sincere apologies to an american hero, tammy duckworth, and gratitude for her family's service, to you, down ballot is as krouscrucial as the top of t ticket right now, the potential that the senate could make a huge shift going from red to blue. is mark kirk the first one down in case that happens? >> i think mark kirk was probably if not the most vulnerable, one of the top two or three most vulnerable republican incumbents. this struck me as really odd, peter, because this doesn't sound like mark kirk. you have to imagine that inside his head, the pressure of being down and close to losing your seat really must be getting to him. but i do think that the larger issue here is just how big of a wipeout it could be on election night for the republicans. i know there is a growing concern that once -- there's a growing concern that it's not going to be just, you know, pennsylvania that they lose, just new hampshire, just north carolina, that this will happen in a sort of domino effect. that if you start to lose nevada, then you lose missouri, then north carolina, and many other sta

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tammy duckworth is challenging kirk, a republican, for his senate seat. she's an army veteran. she was a helicopter pilot who lost both legs in combat in iraq. during a debate last night, she talked about the human cost of war. >> you know, my family has served this nation in uniform going back to the revolution. >> i had forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washington. >> after the debate, congresswoman duckworth tweeted a picture and noted her mother is an immigrant and her father's fam heal had served in the military for generations going back to the civil war. senator kirk tweeted an apology today. >> we talked about the british decades ago. now, folks from our area are creating an invasion of their own with a whole lot of burgundy and gold showing up on streets of london. it's all for the big redskins/bengals game this weekend. pat colinicize across the pond and caught up with fans, including one very familiar face. hi, pat. >> hi, dorene. before i get started, a little house keeping. i got a chance to see doug's jacket that he's weari

republicans believe that perhaps he could survive, if the democratic candidate tammy duckworth underperforms is viewed as almost very, very likely to flip, just because it is so difficult for a republican to anyone a blue state, like illinois, in a presidential election year, and there's no outside money going in to help mark kirk right now. so that's going to be very hard for him to win back. one of the four that democrats are assuming they will pick up in taking back the majority. >> and if they get a 50/50 split in the u.s. senate, if there's a democratic president, democratic vice president, the vice president is the president of the u.s. senate and he presumably will cast that tiebreaking vote in favor of democrats. in the majority. dana, a number of reliably red states turning into toss-up states. early voting results showing that two in particular, talking about arizona and utah, are looking relatively promising for democrats. pretty xoidna pretty extraordinary. 1234 i isn't it? >> it is. and toss-ups for different reasons. utah is because, utah is largely mormon. that is not trump te

tammy duckworth would take out the incumbent. a but that's it. that's it for democrats. on the republican side, the one change that they pick up is nevada. look at those numbers. 53/47. a loss of one. that is the question, whether they can hold that. a lot of these races are within the margin of error. including north carolina, pennsylvania, new hampshire and right here in missouri. missouri republican senator roy blunt is hanging on to a slim two-point lead in his race against jason candor, that's according to this, the latest survey out today. he was up five points in august. the contest has become pivotal to the democratic efforts as you can see to retake the senate. here is correspondent matt fin. >> reporter: missouri's republican senator roy blunt is under pressure to deliver on election day. if republicans are going to hold their senate majority, he needs to win. >> my opponent is a guy who run for three offices now in seven years. he is clearly focused more on getting a job than he is on doing the job. >> reporter: blunt's opponent is a washington outsider, jason

tammy duckworth would take out the incumbent. a but that's it. that's it for democrats. on the republican side, the one change that they pick up is nevada. look at those numbers. 53/47. a loss of one. that is the question, whether they can hold that. a lot of these races are within the margin of error. including north carolina, pennsylvania, new hampshire and right here in missouri. missouri republican senator roy blunt is hanging on to a slim two-point lead in his race against jason candor, that's according to this, the latest survey out today. he was up five points in august. the contest has become pivotal to the democratic efforts as you can see to retake the senate. here is correspondent matt fin. >> reporter: missouri's republican senator roy blunt is under pressure to deliver on election day. if republicans are going to hold their senate majority, he needs to win. >> my opponent is a guy who run for three offices now in seven years. he is clearly focused more on getting a job than he is on doing the job. >> reporter: blunt's opponent is a washington outsider, jason

in illinois last night, a senate debate between vulnerable incumbent republican mark kirk and tammy duckworth took an ugly turn. >> my family has served this nation in uniform going back to the revolution. i'm the daughter of the america revolution. i've bled for this nation but i still want to be there in the senate when the drums of war sound because people are quick to sound the drums of war and i want to be there to say, this is what it costs and you're asking us to do. families like mine are the ones that bleed first. >> i had forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washington. >> move on to the next question. now your chance. >> lost both legs and earned a purple heart in the iraq war and tweeted, my mom is an immigrant and my dad and his family served this nation in uniform since the revolution. kirk's campaign issued a statement saying, senator kirk has consistently called representative duckworth a war hero and honors family's service to this country. >>> big promises about his own campaign but has he done that? we'll talk to the campaign but michel

tammie duckworth in nevada, maggie hassen in new hampshire and the list goes on. she has been emboldened enough to use not only an opening for her potential victory, but for women running for senate in this toxic environment. >> right, well, women are the biggest voting bloc there is. and many women are very upset. we saw what elizabeth warren said yesterday talking about nasty women. and i can't help but think about janet jackson, a throwback song, "nasty boys" when it comes to donald trump. what you have here is hillary clinton being strategic and want ing to win this. this is her second and final chance to win the oval office. donald trump has come out and said things against women openly. no one has coerced him. we have heard him say things. . she's capitalizing on that. and there is a chance the democrats feel there's still a chance she could possibly pull out some wins for the democrats in the senate. but the republicans are still saying even with what she's doing, they believe that they still have a chance. i think the senate is up for grabs. she's really t

what's being called a racist comment about the ethnic heritage of his opponent, congresswoman tammy duckworth. during a televised debate, duckworth leading in several polls told the audience her history of military service is one of the reasons why she's running for senate. >> my family has served this nation in uniform going back to the revolution. i'm a daughter of the american revolution. i've bled for this nation. i still want to be there in the smat when the dr senate to say, this is what it costs. this is what you're asking us to do and if that's the case, i'll go. families like mine are the ones that bleed first. >> and senator kirk responded this way. >> i had forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washington. >> move on to the next question. now your chance. >> duckworth later tweeted a family photo with her father service medals. my mom is an immigrant and my dad and his family served since the revolution. she actually can trace her family lineage to the revolution. joining me, democratic congresswoman. i want to get your reaction again. this is o

gone on twitter saying, an earlier statement trying to defend, offered most sincere appaology to tammy duckworthr dad a marine. they can trace their history back to serving in the revolution. look, he's going to probably lose this race and lose this race big, but she is, sitting next to an american hero. like, why? >> and that was -- video cringe-worthy. and striking, though, last night he didn't come out and apologize immediately. this came out today rather than after it was actually said. >> and trump's campaign manager immediately throw him under the bus. piling on saying, hey, he chose not to endorse us. but at the same time, there is this parallel and the republican party has to be worried about these constant kinds of remarks, whether from the top of the ticket or from republicans in battlenground senate races who say these kinds of comments and wind up alienating minority voters they need. >> up next, early postelection positioning. joe biden polishes his resume and bernie sanders wants hillary clinton's cabinet list. check it twice. see who's naughty or nice, to wall street. ♪ before it

evidence during last night's debate with his opponent congresswoman tammy duckworth.nd that's thing 2. >> i want to be in the senate. my family has served this nation in uniform, i'm a daughter of the american revolution. i've bled for this nation. but i still want to be there in the senate when the drums of war sound because people are quick to sound the drums of war and i want to be there to say this is what it costs, this is what you're asking us to do, and if that's the case, i'll go. families like mine are the ones that bleed first. >> senator kirk, 30 seconds to rebut. >> i've forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washington. >> what? that from the supposedly anti-bigoted wing of the republican party. senator kirk suggesting that sis his asian american opponent was born if another country she must be lying about her ancestors in america. congresswoman duckworth was born to an american father and a mother of thai and chinese descent. >> there's been members of my family serving in uniform on my father's side going back to the

tammy duckworth is the right person to fill my seat. kate brown is getting things down. knows you have to be fearless. reach for what we know is possible. support brad schneider and the democrats. >> he cut all those in the same day. but democrats down play an association with president obama in the past. now, they can't get enough. he popped up on a campaign mailer for republican congressman. here, he is praising the president. if you know isa, he's one of the president's biggest critics. never know where you might see the president pop up next. perhaps right here. more "mtp daily" coming up. uniquely designed for the driven. introducing the first-ever infiniti qx30 crossover. visit your local infiniti retailer today. infiniti. empower the drive. i'm not a customer, but i'm calling about that credit scorecard. (to dog)give it. sure! it's free for everyone. oh! well that's nice! and checking your score won't hurt your credit. oh! (to dog)i'm so proud of you. well thank you. get your free credit scorecard at discover.com. even if you're not a customer. >>> welcome back. t

here he is in an acrimonious debate with challenger tammy duckworth. >> my family has served this nationorm, going back to the revolution. i'm a daughter of the american revolution. i've bled for this nation. but i still want to be there in the senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and i want to be there to say this is what it costs, this is what you're asking us to do, and if that's the case, i'll go. families like mine are the ones that bleed first. >> senator kirk, 30 seconds to rebut. >> i had forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washingt washington. >> move on to the next question. this is bernie shoneberg. now your chance. >> all right, let's clear that up here. duckworth lost both legs and earned a purple heart in the iraq war, and according to politico, duckworth was born in thailand to a thai mother and an american father who traces his military roots back to the revolutionary war. kirk's campaign later issued a statement only partially addressing the comments, saying "senator kirk has consis

democratic congresswoman and iraq war veteran tammy duckworth had spoken of her family's history of militaryvice, going back to the revolutionary war. that prompted this from incumbent republican mark kirk: >> i had forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washington. >> reporter: duckworth's mother is a thai immigrant. her father's family does go back to the nation's founding. kirk later apologized. with a week and a half left, the twists and turns of campaign 2016 keep coming. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> woodruff: in the day's other news: the u.s. supreme court announced today it will take up the issue of transgender rights, for the first time. the justices accepted a case from virginia. it involves a transgender teen who was barred from using the boys' bathroom at a high school. a lower court has ordered the school board to accommodate the student. the secretary of the interior says she's "profoundly disappointed" with the acquittals in oregon's wildlife refuge takeover. secretary sally jewell says she's concerned it will damage the secu

mark kirk right now, the incumbent representative tammy duckworth has been leading him for quite some time right now, for the most part it looks like this race is lost. go to wisconsin, we have a rematch between ron johnson and russ feingold. hillary clinton is up by six or seven, depending who you talk to. russ feingold is up by three or four. another vulnerable person. then to pennsylvania, patrick toomey against katie mcginty. mcginty, an environmentalist who worked for tom wolf, chief of staff for the governor, toomey only up by one or two. hillary clinton up by eight. let's just go back to the top. here's the situation we are in right now. democrats are at 46 because two independents are with them, republicans at 54. right now if hillary clinton wins in november, all democrats have to do is to pick up four, a net of four seats. tim kaine would then be the deciding vote. but that is not just that, because they could pick up more. we are looking at north carolina right now, we are looking at missouri right now, we are looking at indiana right now, all the democrats could pick up. h

same, too, for tammy duckworth over mark kirk in the state of illinois.sed on the averages all put together. but way out here in the west, joe hecht is running for the seat in nevada. this is harry reid's seat that will be vacated. he holding onto an advantage which would bode well for republicans, flipping that seat in nevada. marco rubio down here in florida, he has held a consistent lead over the past month and a half, two months over his challenger, so it would look as if republicans at the moment may be able to hold that seat. north carolina, keep an eye on that. not sure how it's going right now based on early voting and turnout, but based on this scenario, republicans would maintain the edge in the senate. but, again, this'll be something we'll watch late into the night especially with nevada closing late, so something to watch. martha: day by day, it sure is. thanks. >>> more on the fallout over the wikileaks e-mails and the comments that clinton staffers made about faith, about religion, the catholic religion, evangelicals, mocking in its tone. w

and including representative tammy duckworth and peter welsh, all requesting a hearing. mr. chairman, i do appreciate you doing that, and working with us to get the documents that we have been -- that we'll be getting. let me be clear. i told my staff, prescription drug prices and the unconscionable raising of those prices is one of my top three priorities in this congress. and the reason why is one of the top three priorities is because i think it's unfair. it's like putting a gun to a sick person's head and say, either you pay or you go into bankruptcy. either you pay or you get sicker. either you pay or you die. so we cannot even have this discussion about premium increases unless we address that. and i hope that our witnesses will do that. so the majority of americans, democrats, republicans, and independents, by the way, believe this is our number one health care priority as a nation. number one. it used to be the affordable care act. now it's prescription drugs. that's republicans, democrats, independents. they're saying, this is a major problem. you know why? because

tammy duckworth, the "chicago tribune," has endorsed her, u.s. senate seat, in illinois. and they write, the reason we're bringing this up, they write that while a stroke by no means disqualifies anyone from office, we cannot tiptoe around the issue of senator mark kirk's recovery and readiness. his health is a fundamental component of this race. hotly contested matchup that could return control of the senate to a democrat. we aren't physicians. kirk's doctor attests to his good cognitive health, but we're voters, writes the tribune, and our reluctant judgment due to forces beyond his control, kirk can no longer perform with the fullest job of u.s. senator. we're unable to endorse him for another six-year term. kirk is the republican there. he writes back in the "chicago tribune" this way, my stroke changed me but i still fight for illinois families. more specifically, he writes, that instead of judging me for the work i have done in the senate, the "chicago tribune" editorial board sucker punched me by judging me on my health. it would be comparable to the pull lithser p

racially charged comments, questioning the military service of his democratic opponent congresswoman tammy duckworthlet's take a look at the exchange. [video clip] owne cannot do it on their and i went to be in the senate. my family has served the uniform going back to the revolution, i am a daughter of the american revolution. i bled for this nation and i still want to be than the senate when the drums of war sound because people are quick to sound those drums of war and i went to say that this is what it costs, this is what you're asking us to do, and if that is the case, i will go. families like mine are the ones who go first, but let's understand what we are engaging in. we cannot do it all. forgotten that your parents came all the way from thailand to serve george washington. discussionnuing about the u.s. supreme court and whether you have confidence in the court. nick colling and on the republican line from california. good morning. caller: good morning. host: are you confident in the u.s. supreme court? confiden., i'm not no, i'm not-- confident. in the last 10 years, they have ,ecome too po

turning to chicago, is chicago visit in illinois, president obama giving support to tammy duckworth,he u.s. senate candidate. turning tosaying and reporting of the fundraiser saying wealthy donors paid anywhere from $1000 to nearly $13,000 to attend the fundraiser. the top-tier donors attended a vip reception and had a photo opportunity. she's facing republican incumbent mark earth #earth -- mark kirk. his campaign is not release its fundraising numbers. a poll has duckworth ahead. kirk's campaign responded saying the illinois senate race remains a statistical tie voters respect his style of independent leadership and that's why he continues to significant outperform donald trump. if you go to the efforts of the democratic senatorial committee responsible for getting members into the senate, they released an ad taking a look at republican senators and senator candidates, and helped build the party of trump. they are part of the advertising that's going on, that's a press release. republicans will do anything to save their careers. if you want to go to ds cc.org for more for on that a