mark can i says gomez will vote for conservatives and is not the kind massachusetts moderate that gomez claims he is. he says mark can i is reckless big spender and washed up insider and budget responsibility for the debt after nearly 40 years in washington. if you want to talk numbers, the year was 1976. $680 billion was the national debt. it is now $17 billion, sir. you are washington, d.c. and you own the national debt, sir. reporter: pretty tough stuff. a nasty race with lots of name-calling attack ads by the campaigns and lot of outside groups. last night mark can i raised eyebrows for ridicule for gomez s federal debt and deficit vocabulary. to hear mr. gomez talk about math and budget. it is not math arithmetic. it noise not as complicated as math. something you learn in grammar school. reporter: there is distinction between arithmetic like addition and
by it. i call it noise as opposed to signal. romney/ryan will win with 281 votes. . avoiding the spin of talking heads, silver sticks to the numbers, averaging statewide polls, factoring in for uncertainty, and running a variety of scenarios for how these probabilities would play out. when we say obama had a 91% of winning the electoral college, when we looked at his combination, he won 91% of those and romney won 10%. like jonah hill s character in the movie money ball , he got his start in player performance. do you think you re the jonah hill of politics? maybe. or he s the nate silver. i m not sure. reporter: with four more years for the president, nate has his own vision for the country. math does not need to be intimidating. it can be fun and interesting
released a statement saying, why did the united states kill an unarmed man demanding a u.n. investigation. will this have any impact is? it noise or as we ve been waiting to see, will there be anger, impact, perhaps retaliatory strikes? i think it s not surprising that bin laden s own son would raise this issue, but you haven t heard that from the government of pakistan. frankly, there is no reason to believe that the use of force wasn t absolutely appropriate. it s clear when you talk to u.s. officials that they were authorized to use force, if they would have captured him, they expected to have to kill him. they had reasonable basis to believe there was a threat having to shoot one guy on the way to get to bin laden and having found weapons in the compound. there is no real legal basis for such a challenge, but we can expect some propaganda, some nice in the system and not surprising it s coming from bin laden s son. what is your sense ten days
way. that s the way it began, i can t explain it. just like that. mark: you have shared value ands beliefs and that sort of thing? i think so, but there s also a certain chemistry. president likes to cut through noise. i don t want to call it noise. there are two initials in english, you know? he cuts right through it. mark: yes. and it s refreshing when we talk about serious things, he cuts right to the point. and i appreciate that. i also remember him when i was ambassador of israel to the united nations and he was a very prominent businessman in new york and we occasionally bumped in the same circles, but we met years later, and it s been a direct and very positive relationship from the get-go. mark: as a matter of fact, when you served at the embassy here, you spent a little chunk of your life in america. in fact, you and i went to the same high school, not together,
i don t think so, folks. reporter: hammering away at the recent fbi scrutiny over clinton s private e-mail server. they just found 650,000 e-mails. i have a feeling those e-mails are going to be there s going to be some beauties in there. reporter: in an interview with people magazine hillary clinton calling it noise and distraction. while remaining confident in the final stretch. everything he has said and done both in his career and in this campaign is a pretty good preview of what s to come. reporter: today, the battleground state focus continues and where the candidates are going tells you what their priorities are. donald trump traveling to florida and north carolina today and hillary clinton making yet another visit to the tarheel state, as well. chris and alisyn? joe, appreciate it. a series of new cnn polls that show the race tightening in