security, the safeguards on our elections in my perspective, as the top elections official in georgia, the eighth largest state in the union. as a georgia secretary of state i currently serve as the cochair of the national association of secretary of state selection committee. within the last three weeks i have agreed to serve on the department of homeland security's elections infrastructure cyber working group organized by secretary jay johnson. recent events including the hack of the dnc database as well as successful cyber attacks against voter registration databases in arizona and illinois have rightfully caused great alarm among the public as well as the election officials. however, it's imperative imperative that we as a nation respond the correct way to these attacks. administering elections is a great but unique responsibility, the foundation of our republic rest on the trust that americans have in the way that we elect representatives in our government. if that trust is eroded, our enemies know that they will create problems of the better walker of american democra

for the nation. elections with integrity strengthen democracy and confer legitimacy and public trust in government. concerns with earlier systems have the passage of the 2002 help america vote act. this requires the national institute of standards and technology for which we have jurisdiction to work with the assistance commission to work on the technical and voluntary guidelines for voting. we will discuss the current guidelines that are in place for the states to protect their voting and elections systems. though they were voluntary, i hope to hear whether they were sufficient to safeguard and whether the state effectively use them. this discussion is timely as many have been raised in recent months about the vulnerabilities of electronic machines and online voter registration. the discussion today will review the security of the system and it's entirety. we will examine what guidelines are in place, how we currently protect systems from potential technical vulnerabilities and what kind of work including res

election security is fundamental to the fairness of elections and democracy in the united states. elections are a key component of democracy and voting is the very essence of what president abraham lincoln meant when he said a government by the people. when our citizens vote, they choose a direction and set priorities for our nation. elections with integrity strengthen democracy. they confirm legitimacy and boost public trust in government. concerns with earlier versions of voting and election systems led to the passage of the 2002 help america vote act. this act requires the national institute of standards and technology over which we have jurisdiction to work with the elections assistance commission on technical, voluntary guidelines for voting. today we'll discuss the current technical voluntary guidelines in place that -- in place for states to protect their voting and election systems. though these guidelines are voluntary, i hope to hear whether they are sufficient to safeguard our elections and whether states infeeffectively them. this discussion is timely as concerns are ra

the municipal election where literally five to ten votes. one of the things we have done in georgia having good state walls on how the counties should handle the statewide voting system and training in that regard to protect the integrity of the election also as the commissioner said we'vcommissiod for the public's help. not only is it the poll workers but we have got to stop voter fraud in the e-mail that we monitor unlike some other jurisdictions across the country we actually have a law-enforcement division. any complaints that we didn't can be something may be as small as there is a handicap lift that wasn't working correctly at a precinct where there's not or th parking where there's long lines. we will respond to every one of those cases to see if it warrants an investigation. so we would encourage those that may see something improper if they feel like their vote hasn't been cast properly if somebody was manipulating them in a precinct, whatever it is to report that and we strategically put our investigators and inspectors around the s

they tread that in the obama election and the clinton election. facts about what is in their best interest, they rally around. we've always had issues because of the different sectors and we are able to reconcile those issues among ourselves and we end up being stronger. doesn't worry you? he is a skilled worker -- ironworker. the teacher union possibly withng legislatures? contributions in a fight over a pension bill? they are fighting with each other. mr. trumka: do you think citizens united has allowed people to bribe politicians? do you think the koch brothers contributing almost a billion dollars has any effect on politicians? do you think the system needs overhauled? i think the system needs overhauled. i think citizens united is probably the worst decision the supreme court has ever made and needs to be revisited. there are going to be differences among working people. when it comes to voting in the best interest, that is what they're going to do. they will do that this election with hillary quentin versus donald trump and we are going to d

the municipal election where literally five to ten votes. one of the things we have done in georgia having good state walls on how the counties should handle the statewide voting system and training in that regard to protect the integrity of the election also as the commissioner said we'vcommissiod for the public's help. not only is it the poll workers but we have got to stop voter fraud in the e-mail that we monitor unlike some other jurisdictions across the country we actually have a law-enforcement division. any complaints that we didn't can be something may be as small as there is a handicap lift that wasn't working correctly at a precinct where there's not or th parking where there's long lines. we will respond to every one of those cases to see if it warrants an investigation. so we would encourage those that may see something improper if they feel like their vote hasn't been cast properly if somebody was manipulating them in a precinct, whatever it is to report that and we strategically put our investigators and inspectors around the s

i see two puzzles in the russian election. first, in many countries around the world political elites face an ongoing challenge of populus rebellion. hungary, poland, the united kingdom, the united states state. very different countries but there is something in common is going on in the political sphere. russia should be in theory among these nations. this is the first election after the '90s taking place during a serious economic downturn. men people around the country -- many -- are unspeakably corrupt. but russia's community is not tired enough of the same old faces, names and policies to demand change. why? the second puzzle. i am under the impression that many ordinary russians. not u.s. experts. but ordinary russians are much more interested in and intrigued by american elections. are the stakes in the russian too predictable? is the result of the u.s. election that critical to russia? of course one may argue that in a political system which may be -- parliamentary elections are not that important. according to the cente

this is the craziest election ever. it is. s crazy because even in spite of aleppo, i think i will be the next president of the united states. [applause] mr. johnson: i do. gary!"]g "gary! mr. johnson: and beyond my wildest dreams, beyond my wildest expectations, bill weld he isrunning mate and somebody who passionately cares about this country and the direction this country is going and made an incredible difference as governor of massachusetts, being a role model for me throughout the whole process. bill and he has called me honest gary. we will trye names to adopt for ourselves. adversity. we all make mistakes, right? are part of everyday life. but it is how you deal with mistakes that ultimately .etermines success [applause] so tell the truth. you do not have to remember anything and the unforgivable in life is hypocrisy. [applause] saying one thing and doing another, bill weld and i are not hypocrites. [applause] of us believeoth in entrepreneurs. both of us believe all of us have the opportunity to be entrepreneurs. all o

it's the same with the election system. if one component goes down we have various components that come in. it doesn't create a nuclear war and i can't speak to what happens in the ukraine. i can only speak to what happens in the united states and i will tell you the election systems in the united states just like many other things in this country in spite of maybe what we think is the best system in the world. is it foolproof? absolutely not and i would also tell you there's no such thing as a perfect election. anybody who tells you that doesn't know what they are talking about because anytime you have 10,000 machines that play and 15,000 people from 65 things are going to happen. that's how you handle it then that's how you documented and move forward. so i'm very confident in it with the caution lights on. there's no disrespect to anyone who believes otherwise. we are looking at it. it has forced us to do so but i'm deeply concerned that i can speak to my democratic colleagues and my republican colleagues that have been o

so let's think about the 2006 election. the congolese and international community were united in wanting to have good elections in 2006, but there was a sense that the army could potentially play a negative role because that command and control abilities weren't good, the ability to commit violence against civilians was unfortunately very high, and a decision was taken not to ramp up security sector reform, but that the army stay in the barracks during the electoral period and the police begin in the role of working with the united nations group at the time to ensure the peaceful holding of elections and it works. the military stayed in their barracks and the elections of 2006 were remarkably peaceful throughout the congo. we have a similar challenge when elections will take place this time. i am not advocating the same action be taken in 2006. not at all. ten years have passed. but we think about what is appropriate to be done when what we want is to see, as the special envoy has said again and again, the alternation of pow

elections as a whole. the complexity of our american election assistance system both deters attacks and allows election officials to ensure the integrity of the election in the event of an attack. the complexity deters potential attackers from attempting to access american elections because of the number of resources that one would need to complete such an attack may be prohibitively high. there are thousands of individuals operating often autonomously. a bad actor would have to figure out how to successfully access a significant portion of these parts. additionally, and perhaps most importantly, voting machines are not connected to the internet. so a bad actor would have to access these systems in person. the amount of resources required to carry out this attack would be -- that's not to say no one will ever try to access american elections. recent events in illinois remind us this is not true. the breaches in arizona and illinois exemplify another strength in our election system because these state administe

this gets carried across the election cycle and it is built up by parties and outside firms. what this means is really looking to provide basic data infrastructure, cloud platforms that will support analytic services, databases, as well as the grunt work it takes to maintain and perform hygiene on data to make sure it is up to date over election cycles. this is where presidential campaigns become really important. in the course of presidential campaigns they make millions of voter contacts. when they send people out in the field and knock on doors they gain information on voters and figure out thing like active phone numbers and e-mails for them, whether they might be planning on voting in a party primary or general election. that makes its way back to the coffers that the campaigns and parties campaign and that is transferred across election cycles. so it is ongoing work of infrastructure building and mant maintenance they invest billions in to build up and gain advantages. >> host: how have digital campaigns evolved? >> guest: we live in a time of rapid change. cycle to cycl

we are focused on the presidential election, the senate election, and down ballot races. senate races in those states. >> will democrats win the house? mr. trumka: it depends on the presidential election. we will make gains, and we will see how many seats, those will be determined on how big the win is in the presidential election. >> thank you for being here. [indiscernible] >> we have a republican candidate that is questionable on trade deals, speaking out on , so do you view that as a positive for the labor movement or a threat to the labor movement in that it could peel away voters that would otherwise agree with your views? mr. trumka: politicians on the same side as us we think of as a positive thing. about trump has talked being against trade deals and it is laughable. he has a history for being for every trade deal that has ever existed and he outsources every product he has. but he has seen the political part -- par with that issue and the opportunists that he is, he jumps on board. now we have every major presidential candidate tpp against -- candidate against tp

the local election boards do it in any citizen and i think the idea of federalizing our elections to where we have a a one-size-fits-all registration system or mandating the states to use a certain voting system or one type of voting system creates all kinds of problems and quite honestly i think it would make our system, make the system more formidable, not less. >> so are you saying from your. point of view the 50 different state systems plus tens of thousands of localities is justt fine and we shouldn't even look at it? >> i wouldn't say that you shouldn't look at it andld everything is just fine. there are certainly jurisdictions out there that do better than others. we have that in the state of georgia but i believe that we are better suited as a state to provide solutions for that than the federal government is. >> what about the voting rights act?the 1980 back in the 1950s and 60s the federal government has the state's jurisdiction and frankly the federal government hadad passed the voting rights actha they would still be disenfranchised including in your home state of mind. >>

ash carter warned russia to stay out of the u.s. election. eanwhile, is currently investigating allegations that the russians hacked the democratic national committee earlier this year. mr. cartedder's stern warning to russia came as concerns arose in the u.s. the election could be rigged here as well. james carville, remember him? said this earlier today. >> by and large, american elections are pretty much on the up and up. i mean, it is very, very -- i cannot tell that you somebody cannot rig a voting machine 100 votes here and 100 votes there that's possible. >> he went on to say, of course, that those kinds of numbers simply aren't enough to throw elections, even local elections as a rule. tracy, we have heard a lot of buzz this year it seems to me about the election being rigged trump predicting it might be rigged and all the rest of it what would it take to actually rig a presidential election? >> you're right. trump has paved the way for if he loses saying that the election is -- people cheated. and there is a -- it is a legitimate conc

the general election, take them down and turn them into the county.i've been on the receiving end when i took 45 minutes to an hour just for the drive time and people are wanting the results. what, the last question, is that right mr. sherman? >> what is the most critical time of a cyber attack? >> i would say a cyber actor who knows what they are doing is acting months to years in advance. because they don't necessarily have access. >> i'm saying if they are going to affect the november election coming up, is that something done the night of, the week before? are you saying years that they get into the system years. >> you get in way in advance and then you have whatever effect you're trying to have. if your goal is to create chaos than you want your affect late. and it all depends late. and it all depends on what you're trying to do. >> okay. i yelled back. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i want to thank the witnesses for their testimony and the members for your questions. and the record will remain open for two weeks for additional written comment

security, the safeguards on our elections in my perspective, as the top elections official in georgia, the eighth largest state in the union. as a georgia secretary of state i currently serve as the cochair of the national association of secretary of state selection committee. within the last three weeks i have agreed to serve on the department of homeland security's elections infrastructure cyber working group organized by secretary jay johnson. recent events including the hack of the dnc database as well as successful cyber attacks against voter registration databases in arizona and illinois have rightfully caused great alarm among the public as well as the election officials. however, it's imperative imperative that we as a nation respond the correct way to these attacks. administering elections is a great but unique responsibility, the foundation of our republic rest on the trust that americans have in the way that we elect representatives in our government. if that trust is eroded, our enemies know that they will create problems of the better walker of american democra

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the second dave violence in profertse of the results of the latest election. hundreds of people flood the streets of caracas, venezuela, calling for a referendum to remove their president from office. and in france, on the first day of the school year, fresh new security measures as people return to class under a heightened state of emergency. and we have been telling you about the explosion at cape canaveral in the united states. a spacex rocket has burst into flames there. you've got reaction from the companies operating that? >> yeah. very fortunately, as we've been telling our viewers, no lives lost in that explosion but certainly a great disappointment for those carrying out the test. the -- it was to carry a facebook founder mark zirkberg says he is deeply disappointed that the satellite has been destroyed in the explosion. it will have a devastating pact on the rocket company's p bottom line. moving on now, apple c.e.o. tim cook has lashed out at the european commission, calling the ruling against its tax arrangements in ireland maddening and entirely po

thankful the holidays are after the election this year. mauren said other journalists have to look for contradicting points of view. maybe we have time for more. >>> i don't agree with anything from cnn, watching for entertainment purposes only. i don't chair if you watch me for entertainment purposes or factual purposes, as long as you're watching. hit me with another tweet, please. >>> so instead of it being 15% to make the debates, why can't it be being on the ballot in all 50 states, it means all want them. >>> they are on all 50 state ballots, they should be on there. thank you so much, see you next week. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> tonight we begin with breaking news on cnn with truly global implications. military actions in syria, the united nations security council centralbling for an emergency meeting at this hour, and the military air strike that may have been a mistake. we take you to the pentagon for every angle of this breaking story and how it's impact will have a ripple effect across the globe. first, i take

elections for candidates. there are many other things that are more important. the electoral contest, who is incumbent, things like fund-raising and which groups are more likely to turn out on election day and really important structural factors like the state of the economy. all those things provide really the backdrop. the hands that candidates are dealt so to speak that they have to navigate effectively. where technology and digital media and data analytics come in providing real gains at the margins. can we deploy resources better in terms of contacting the right voters to turn them out on election day? can we use email in a really effective way, in a data tested way to raise even additional dollars or recruit additional volunteers for campaigns? can we use data in effective way to figure out which states we need to contest? which message will resonate with voters. how it will reach them, buying particular time on cable television or showing up at their door at an hour they're likely to be home. once they're talking to voters what is the right message to say to

happen at the elections office. i wanteded to ask you a little bit about are there lessons to be learned from a state oregon that does use vote by mail with a paper ballot for everyone? what the vow cuss on the two different issues, there is a voter record and then there are actually what happens at the -- with the ballot and tally, voting machine. if you want to talk a little bit about the lessons that can be learned from that system. then i also want to ask dr. romine, i know this is mostly concentrated its work to date in standards development for the actual voting machines, but you're now, i understand, working to isis thames dealing with the voter registration system. -- working to dealing with the voter reg stration system. -- registration system. 's really easy in oregon for anybody to check whether they are still in the database. and getting the ballot early means that there would be an early notice maybe there was a problem. assuming that somebody did get through a very secure system. mr. becker? mr. becker:

and they discussed that he would not contest the election. ry honorable and patriotic thing to do on nixon's part. it was the right thing to do. it would have thrown a cloud over the election of john f. kennedy. i think it would have been dreadful for the united states. >> it's the closest election of the century with the highest turnout on record. kennedy wins with a slim majority of just 120,000 votes, to become the youngest president elected in american history. without the votes of millions of african-americans, kennedy would have lost the presidency. ♪ >> and so, my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> it must have been a bitter moment for nixon. he'd had eight years as vice president. he had really thought that he would be sworn in that day. >> but kennedy was better at dirty tricks than nixon and nixon knew it. and it planted a seed with nixon that he never forgot. >> and that was the origin of watergate. v dukasis 040116 11pm >>> so you want to be the most powerful man in

the u.s.-russia relationship when he or she is elected. polarizing campaign rhetoric has overshadowed the real, very difficult issues in u.s. ru-rus relatio relations. the second part. the most surprising development in the campaign is that the major may be called or is often called [inaudible] in the past bashing russia was beneficial to mobilize some constituents. now we see something opposite. the major party candidate is promoting. why? how did it happen? next, never before russia preferred one candidate in the presidential race so openly and strongly. many people in mosco understand the risk russia may face if the american presidency is unpredictable. nevertheless, they hope the republican candidate will win. so why? it is understandable that russia would prefer the candidate who is making such statements about russia, crimea, nato and so on. i think maybe it is something deeper. i think a prominent russian analyst is right when he argues these statements are not just pro-russian. they so the russian principle on how the world should b

while the presidential race tightens in the final push to election day. this is "special report." >> good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. a tightening presidential race with a background of growing concerns about russian efforts to sow serious doubt in the u.s. election. whatever warning president obama might have given president putin may not have had much effect yet. one day after their icy staredown in china, new ind kags from u.s. intelligence officials that putin's cyber spies are actively trying to disrupt the november election and attack other american interests around the world. kevin corke is traveling with the president. there are reports tonight from laos. >> with election day a mere two months away, u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating a possible russian plot to convince americans to distrust the voting outcome in november, even before the first ballots have been cast. just last week, officials reported that election systems in illinois and arizona have been hacked and that russia was most likely resp

the first general election debate now just 19 days away. ou would have to think that donald trump, being new to this and new to governance would be at at a disadvantage former speaker of the house newt gingrich joins us now. he has advised trump on a number of things. this is a challenge for him, wouldn't you say? >> it's a challenge. but i think you have to be very careful about him. because trump is lick a little bit like babe ruth. one of those athletes who doesn't do well in practice. >> the question is does he practice at all? >> yeah. i think he practices all the time but not the way normal people do. my sense is if he sees you he will say gee, brit, how do you think if she does this i do that it will be 40 seconds. he will listen very carefully. next person he sees rebecca gomez. gee, rule rude rude if if she does this or in the moderator does this i do that? you get this constant thinking about it. very dinner and i think in his case it may be right. i never did practice sessions when i ran. and the reason is. >> but, mr. speaker, by

i don't know, maybe that's the way to win the election. they certainly seem to think so at this point. >> i have to go to heidi. why is hillary when we show her in pretty damn strong position tonight, in fact, if things hang the way they are, she wins, why is she going to the nuclear button here? why is she going to accuse the guy of liking nuclear war? >> because it's part of a broader shift, trying to shift the narrative back to her credentials, her background, her experience on national security. you will have your forum tomorrow night and she wants to keep driving up his negatives. she has all these national security advisers, gop advisers coming over to her. she wants to keep the focus on that and on donald trump in a negative way. this does it. >> they are not that nutty, these neo-cons. i don't think they're for nuclear war. >> she's accusing trump of fomenting war and of course, he will say a lot of people now advising hillary are the people who got us into iraq. >> as the hawks join hillary she accuses him of -- >> exactly. >> anot

the 1800 election. the 1800 election was one of the -- one of the most important in history. it featured a clash of the titans, if you will. john adams against thomas jefferson in 1800. adams had been the sitting president. jefferson was his vice president. back until 1804, the 12th amendment, when you ran for the presidency, you ran separate, president and vice president. so the person that won was the president, adams. jefferson, his opponent, came in second, seheo he was a vice president. no love lost between these guys. i think adams needed a food taster, in other words. it would be similar today having a president in obama and mccain as the vice president. so not a very workable system. it was also an important election because arguably adams and jefferson were two of the most important founding fathers. adams chaired in philadelphia in 1776, adams chaired the committee charged with producing a declaration. jefferson wrote the declaration. so it was a real contest. it was also the first election in this young republic's history without george washington on the scene. was

it may be difficult to get that done before the election. maybe that is something brought up in the next congress. trumpl: nominate donald said something about his own criminal justice ideas. he was asked on fox news how do you reduce violence in the african-american community? he said that he's to be more stop and frisk. what are your thoughts? rep. jordan: i think some of the at thes in our culture unity level, the family level in the church level. i don't know that some new federal policy or something along this line is something we should do. i think a lot of times it's about the first institution ever put together with the family institution. when that is breaking down in some of our communities i think that's a problem. what we can do to help foster and promote families coming together is probably the direction that makes the most sense. i don't know the federal government has a big role in that. that is a local, community and church level. frankly schools as well. i would prefer a focus there to help strengthen and improve the situatio

can that happen between now and the election, i don't see it. could a correction happen 10 to 20% because of something out of the blue, plus the worries over the election, it could. i think it's a very low probability and investors should be buying that pullback because we are going to continue to inch forward with 2% growth, 3% growth and no yield in the world in the equity markets there i say there's no other alternative is the area of choice. gary: ingrid, your clients are looking at technology, if we do get this correction that joe grano has forecast here, where should investors be thinking long-term? >> well, they've got to look at at -- alternatives and the yield is very low and not a lot to be gained in traditional investments or cash. we have seen a lot in the private equity space and in some of the hedge fund space. they've got to have a portion of the capital put into some kind of alternative structure even just for divercification reasons. they're looking to put capital in for new industries. zyntec, energy resources, some of the autom

the gas. energy lives here. ♪ >>> at precisely 11:12 p.m., election night 2012 nbc was the first to declare thathas been re-elected president. until then, everyone had followed journalistic protocol waiting until the last polls had closed but the result was surely not news to either the obama or romney campaigns, which operated sophisticated war rooms in which they track voter turnout. here is the question, why did the public watching tv all day long hear reports about the weather or turnout in a very general sense but nothing more definitive? if the campaigns know they're doing well in realtime, why can't that information be made available to the public? my next guest wants to give americans insiekt into who is winning the election as the vote is taking place. would that be good for democracy or will this technology suppress or otherwise impact the vote? joining me now to discuss both points of view, ken smukler is the founder of vote caster, that's a project to broadcast vote turnout as it happens. and of course jeff greenfield is the veteran emmy-award winning journalist who worked with cnn,

usually there is a tide in the last two elections, one way or another. t to dump too much of the pundits, but they spend way too much time on the swing states when in fact it is the type that matters. coming up, the cost of insuring deutsche bank's debt got into a record. we have a charge a heavy pressure is mounting. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> this is "bloomberg markets." away from the closing bell and i am looking ahead to nike will be reporting. it is looking towards his first stock price decline in eight years and one reason why is weakness in north america futures orders. this is a critical metric for nike because attract the amount of shoes and apparel that retail orders months in advance. last quarter you can see 6% growth, that was a deceleration for north america. it is the lowest score in the region for 2010. the preceding quarter, nike recorded 10% growth. china and japan are the drivers futures orders. when it comes to the actual numbers, i was looking it up and north america makes up 45% of nike's revenue. 6% slowdownismiss a from the precedin

>> i don't think they will raise it before the election because like it or not, the site has become alitical institution. even if they simply are independent, they don't want to be accused of wheat through this election to donald trump or hillary clinton or whatever. i don't think they want to do that. i guess the last hope would be a december increase. i that. nicole: last year we would have already had her headaches it didn't happen. losing credibility along with it. gary b. smith, fox news contributor, thanks for your insight this morning. cheryl: thank you, gary. in sports come of the united states eliminated by none other than canada. in baseball, the wild-card series he said. this playoff picture right now. complicated for brad pitt and angelina jolie. >> there's a huge space between us and it just keeps filling up. cheryl: apparently did not have a prenup which puts their $400 million in assets up for grabs. who gets the french vineyard cometh the mirror ball. you are watching "fbn:am," your first look at morning and breaking news. ♪ cheryl: well, there is one now. rapid and an

he said they were trying to rush before the election. james: i think the commission is clearly in a rush right now. frantic to get these three proceedings concluded before the end of the year, and if they can, before the election. i think that is obvious to everybody, whether that is politically motivated or legacy motivated, i don't know. but i do know, based on my spirits and government, that it is always about idea to try to rush policy if it is half-baked. i think what we are in the set-top box proceeding is an ill-conceived and ill written proposal that is clearly half-baked. in for criticism from virtually everybody involved in the industry and from both parties in congress. is a sure sign that as a policy maker, they should slow down and take stock of this. they do not have to conclude every one of these things before they run out the door. the fcc is an institution and has its own credibility at stake here. asis damaged if it is viewed rushing to judgment or rushing proposals out in a half-baked way, were, frankly, being pushed by

regulators in california say the inaction is impacting elections throughout the state. in one case foreign money was spent to illegally influence a ballot measure and the fec did nothing. >> it is the people's voice. it's the initiative process of the people. keeping that strong and acting on foreign nationals making contributions to 0 influence california elections was very important to us. if you have a story, call our tip line. >>> the most important person at the polling place on election day is you, but the second most important person is the volunteer. how you can be an election day volunteer. you don't have to do it for free. away from the election-- =kris/2shot= >>> it may feel like the election cycle has gone on forever, but we are only six weeks away from the election. >> polls are getting tighter between hillary clinton and donald trump. this weekend big name democrats including actor john lithgow campaigned for hillary clinton. senator warren had choice words for donald trump. >> a selfish low life who puts his own interest ahead of everyone and everything e

some people still view labor day as the kickoff to the general election. the polls are closing in his direction. back at the beginning of the month after the conventions hillary clinton had a ten-point lead in the national polls. these are the average of all the national polls. the most recent ones her led down to 5. so the race is tightening. beginning of the month. here is donald trump's problem. state by state through the key battlegrounds, hillary clinton is leading in all of them. some of the leads are small. florida at the beginning of the month was 1. now 4. ohio was 1 at the beginning of the month. now a three-point lead. north carolina a close race. pennsylvania in single digits. that's still a comfortable lead at 7 points. virginia she leads by even more. wisconsin, closer than a lot of people would think but still a clinton lead. colorado, a big clinton lead. if the election were held today, by our projections, hillary clinton would be already over the top with 273 electoral votes. donald trump could win all the tossup states and not clinch the

the new data. he's been a horrendous general election candidate. things, i thought he would instantly switch to talking about jobs in the economy and change and switches demeanor to something a little bit -- >> rose: did they get him to do that. >> i thought he would execute it. so no, i no longer would say he's that great because i've looked at the totality of his career in politics about a year and-a-half, and the first part of it was stunning. a stunning achievement. and he is lucky that she's got so many problems with so many americans who don't trust her and don't see her as the kind of president they want that he's in this. he's behind but he's in it because there are some structural things on the other side that work to his advantage. >> rose: when they have a chance to look at some of these f.b.i. questions it feeds the questions of absence of transparency, caution and perhaps bordering on full disclosure. >> i think that if there was a most valuable player in the clinton campaign in the last at report out on a fridaygomby afternoon before a

al gore was the nominee and selected to win the election. he chose liberman, the most conservative democrat in the body. gore did poorly in the three debates. the choice of his vice president and the snubbing of clinton gave third party candidate ralph nadir on the left and the election came down to florida. gore failed to carry ten states clinton carries. the supreme court decided the election and bush became president. bush was suburb as a politician but had little executive experience, little traveling abroad, a short attention span and genuinely believed he was god's agent put here on earth. with the exception of appointing colin powell as secretary of state and rumsfeld as secretary of defense and he assigned top officials and cloaked himself in the white house with staff from texas and rice as his national security advisor. it is not conceivable that roosevelt would have turned the selection of the cabinet over to john garner or that eisenhower would have allowed nixon to do thereat especially after the scandal -- that. as a result of c

you have 500 members of the lower house, 300 are elected in single districts just as they are in the u.s. but 200 are elected on the basis of mexico divided up into multiple regions and it is based on a percentage of the votes that each party receives in that region, then they get so many representatives into the lower chamber. a lot of observers in analyst in mexico and the u.s. think that system needs to disappear because it was evolved originally as a means of getting broader representation from the opposition parties who were not winning because of fraud in most cases. >> host: do you agree? >> guest: yes, i think it is no longer necessary and what it does is it biases the composition of the chamber of deputies among those 200 individuals who are basically very strong party attached leaders rather than individuals who are coming up from their home district, developing relationships with their constituencies and developing a pattern in which they are deciding what is important congress. >> host: if we were in mexico city today, what would would be some of the front page headlines?

the election results on the federal level are again something completely different. upon polls here are still showing that the cdu is the strongest party with angela merkel heading up that party. so back to you. >> thank you, that's, in part, because there is no other alternative to angela merkel at this point. thank you, annetta. >>> tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets over the weekend to protest the transatlantic trade or ttp. an 180,000 people took part in trade deals with the u.s. and canada saying the deals would undermine democracy and lower food safety, environmental and labor standards. >> it is interesting, i was just in germany last week and was speaking to people who work in shops, things like that, everybody very supportive of merkel that i spoke to, i only spoke to a handful, but they were also saying they were quickly realizing how difficult it is to push anything from government without merkel. and she kind of makes everybody come together in some way to get the bigger issues pushed through. so that was the view of a couple germans.

the post-labor day election push has begun. the candidates ramped up their efforts and more americans start paying closer attention. today, hillary clinton campaigns in florida, while donald trump is in virginia and north carolina. media yesterday and trump's view on immigration seems to conflicts with what he said last week. hena daniels is here from new york to break it all down. both met yesterday. p >> han>> hanna daniel isk it down. >> reporter: meanwhile, clinton debuted her own private plane. the candidate took questions from the press at the back of a boeing 737 in an effort to entered the final stretch, of the election season, promising the media a greater aspect of the campaign. the democratic nominee traveled aboard her new plane to illinois and ohio on labor day yesterday, this time with reporters eager to ask her about the fbi investigation into her e-mail scandal. >> the fact that i couldn't remember certain meetings doesn't in any way affect the commitment that i had and still have the treatment of classified mate

other koch brothers buying the elections here in nevada this year? >> i think the koch brothers is spending a lot of money. george soros is spending a lot of money. i think the koch brothers have said they will be supporting the various races from u.s. senate on down. i think they are kind of staying out of the presidential that is going to be up to sheldon adelson to see if he comes through with what he would 100 million i believe for trump. we will see when that happens. >> what you think about the money that's pouring in? >> we did a press conference about the same thing. totally unrelated to what the democrats are doing. what we have found, the research we did, there was a think progress article became last week, and if you look at the koch brothers spending it's about $6 million plus that they are planning on nevada. if you look at joe heck spending is about the $2 million mark. but cortez is already around the koch brothers spending as well. it looks like the case that koch brothers is doing joe heck's dirty work. they're paying for selection so

the french election and other things. all leads to a certain mix seeeactions that you could in the next year that may be difficult for her. she will stick to her strategy. she will not change course dramatically, and she will hope there was no one in her own party or anyone challenging her successfully, and i do not see anyone right now. >> her hands were full before the brexit a couple of months ago. how do you grade how she is handled that so far and what that might mean for the influence on germany going ahead? >> it was extremely important to have this alliance within the european union. some of the states were reluctant with france and others . that is gone now. with mainlya chance struggling internally in their own country, it makes it hard to push the european question further. that means we will not see the necessary reforms and the european union, and might make it easier for the u.k. to put pressure on europe if the chancellor is somehow weaker right now. we will see another your pass by . >> how do you see the

to sow public distrust in the upcoming election and political institutions. firmly do they believe this is true, and what is the evidence they have, and, when will we know more? i think they believe the election part of it is one part of a broader, what they call covert influence operation on the part of the russians inside the united states. this is something that the russians have been doing in europe for the last several years, since perhaps 2012 in particular, when they saw their influence waning, when they really got worried about nato expansion, when they took over crimea, and now we are seeing it come to the united states. and part of that operation is that they believe, to disrupt or at least sow distrust in the u.s. election process, and that, they are not saying what particular part of the process, because they probably don't but their willingness, the russians, at least cause the american public to question the results of the elections. they don't think that the russians are trying to sway the election to one candidate or the other, but that they ar

the election showdown for the agents. the most highly anticipated presidential debate in american history, but we've also got this, folks, germ's most prominent bank in serious financial trouble, some are calling it another lehman brothers moment. deutsche bank slumping to lowest level in more than 20 years, down more than 7%. it got hammered last week suggesting german chancellor angela merkel threw the bank under the bus saying the government will not step in to back the troubled lender? the u.s. justice department is demanding deutsche bank pay up, 14 billion to settle securities probes. weighing on the broader financial sector. it's the worst performer in the s&p 500 today. all 64 stocks in the red that make up that part of sector rotation. this developing in the last couple of hours. walt disney reportedly working with advisers on a potential bid for twitter. remember last week the microblogging company surged nearly 20% after reports that sales force and google were among the companies vying to scoop up the troubled

but the elect was an upset. george won in texas, jeb lost in florida, and from that point on, george became the likely successor to his father. texas is really the largest -- second largest state in the union in terms of area and the second largest in terms of population, but the governor of texas has no executive authority. that reflects the post reconstruction constitution. 1876, which stripped power from the governor. the governor of texas is essentially a symbolic figure, a little like the queen of ligland. most political science school ares of state government consider the texas governorship the weak nest the united states. the governor of texas cannot even issue pardons. and in that setting bush thrived. [laughter] as the symbolic leader of texas he was overwhelmingly re-elected in 1998. and he also built a very effective political machine there, held by karl rove and karen hughes, and was quietly exploring the possibility of running for president in 2000. bush announced his candidacy on june -- in june of