Weekend left in this race. Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Welcome to early start its christine romans. Im john berman. It is friday, an important friday, november 4th. 3 00 a. M. In the east. Final friday of the race, four days to go. Here is the latest for you. Donald trump overnight takes a swipe at Hillary Clinton, asking veterans to imagine her as commanderinchief. Hillary clinton slams donald trump, accusing him of dog whistle politics. This as both candidates find themselves also in two of the same states today, pennsylvania and ohio. This morning counting the 270 is hard, not just because it is a big number and you dont have enough fingers but because adding up the states on the electoral map to get to 270 is getting more complicated for each candidate. For those of you unfamiliar with the glorious ways of our glorious republican, you need 270 electoral votes to win the election. Hillary clinton wants New Hampshire to be part of her equation. Suddenly polls show a tie there
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Conflict between iran and the u. S. As both sides escalate rhetoric following apparent attacks on two tankers. U. S. Officials double down on ak zakss iran was behind the tanker incident adding new allegations if iranian proxies shot down a u. S. Reaper drone, its been done over the red sea there. Iran continues to scale back their commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal and european governments are expressing fears of the potential for miscalculation, even if iran is found to have been behind the tanker incidents. A sentiment increasingly shared by american lawmakers. It is an act not of strength but of desperation. But heres what we cannot do, we cannot respond to that with a further military escalation because then whats going to happen is were going to increase the likelihood of mistakes happening. We will increase the likelihood of an iranian soldier making a mistake, and then we proceed down the course to war. Nbcs Courtney Kube is joining us from doha. That was a sobering statem