told brooke baldwin, just an appetizer. worried about other iz sproo s that may be in store? there s no depth to which they can go. you know, bannon has probably made things worse, but his whole crew and cast of characters there, dave bossy, bannon, et cetera, i m sure encouraging more antics like we saw in the second debate from donald trump, but, look, i think we re ready for anything, and and, again, i think this is a strategy that s driving trump down, and produced that lead. whatever they re going to do as michelle obama says, when they go low, we go high. quickly, the new york times reporting your campaign asked for a change in protocol so the two candidates at the top of the debate wouldn t have to shake hands. and that bill clinton wouldn t have to shake hands with melania trump or other members of the trump family.
are moving towards her. her approval ratings are going up. his continues to go down. bad strategy for him but we fully expect he may try it tonight. still questions of honesty and trustworthiness. ed rendell had advid fore advice for her. be presidential, hang in there, not to be smug or self-confident or over confident, because elections can turn. if you couldn t hear because there s a crowd behind us i got the advised her not to be smug, self-confident or over confident, if you will, because elections can turn. still almost three weeks to go. there s no one in the clinton campaign who s over confident. we re working every day. we built a tremendous organization on the ground, in contradiction to what trump has tried to do. she is coming in here to, again, talk to the american people, to take on the challenge that
into this important debate jie want to bring in clinton s campaign chair john podesta. thanks for joining us. good to be with you. doing debate prep mode now for several days. there s talk that donald trump may engage in a new strategy more storched earth strategy leveling charges against her. i assume she s practicing getting ready noor? she does practice for these debates, takes them very seriously. an opportunity to talk to millions of american people, and it s worked for her. that lead john talked about has opened up as a result of the debate performances, and donald trump s falters debate performances in the first debate and i think she won the second debate. so i think that he can decide to go scorched earth but that isn t working for him. maybe solidified his base, fired up his most ardent supporter, but when it comes to undecideds, people try to make up their mind
from falling out tonight, wolf, in addition to looking for hillary clinton to have some sort of big mistake or bad night. i think that is what donald trump is looking for tonight. john king, a new look at the road to 270. 270 electoral college votes you need to be elected president of the united states. wolf, look at this. jim talking about trump being trump. look at this, trump s coming in with a strategy. may not change, may show up his republican base, but not working when you get to the business of 270 electoral votes. the new list, clinton 307. donald trump slipping. takes 270 to win. the morning of the first debates at 272. trump at 196, but trump was moving, tied or ahead in nevada, tied or ahead in florida and north carolina and ohio. in play to get into the 260 es and make a play for the race. look at it now. taken utah and arizona. turned from red states to toss-up states because polling in those states suggest they re
as america and the world tunes in. right to our senior political correspondent brianna keilar following the clinton campaign. and john acosta, the trump campaign and anchor of cnn inside politics is here with us as well, john king. brianna, hillary clinton has been in debate probe now several days. are we expecting a new strategy? i think they re comfortable with their strategy. days of preparation. seen it again. laying low, allowing popular surrogates, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, president obama, first lady michelle obama, do a lot of the campaigning, and for whatever criticism she may have taken in the first debate she may have seen robotic or over prepared, she thinks, i m told making the case, look, a sign i m taking this seriously and her campaign is looking at the fact they think she did pretty well. so we see the polls. she s doing better in the polls. there attributing some to her