Arrangements. Theres chatter about the cremated remains at wrigley, too. Over the years a lot of people told their family dad, just wait until next year, i think they surreptitiously scattered cremated remains at wrigley. Its a special day for cubs fans who are here and who are not. Appreciate you even covering that angle. Maureen odonnell, congratulations to you and your great city of chicago. Appreciate it. Lets continue on. Top of the hour, im brooke baldwin. Youre watching cnn, five days to go in the campaign trail is teeming with developments. A couple highlights. Senator ted cruz who once called donald trump a sniveling coward is appearing with donald trump. On the same side, you have Bernie Sanders with Hillary Clinton in the key state of North Carolina. President obama has not just one but two events in florida today, including one this hour in jacksonville. Well keep you posted on that the big event thus far, we just saw it, the solo appearance of Melania Trump on the campaign trail. I played a snippet of her in a suburb called berwyn just outside of philadelphia. Love for this country is something we immediately shared when i met donald. He love this is country and knows how to get things done, not just talk. He certainly knows how to shake things up, doesnt he . [ cheers and applause ] take note where the president ial candidates themselves will soon be North Carolina. Trump will be in the west in the city of concord shortly clinton in the east in winterville. Lets turn to Phil Mattingly in raleigh where Hillary Clinton will be tonight with senator Bernie Sanders and pharrell, as one does. Phil mattingly, why the focus on North Carolina. If you look at all of the possibilities donald trump has to get to the white house, every last one includes having to win North Carolina. Thats why youve seen president obama down here, thats why youll see Bernie Sanders on stage, Michelle Obama was here as well, every top Clinton Campaign sur gas happen here, will continue to come here and thats why Hillary Clinton will be here as well. Brooke, look at the state of North Carolina and get a sense of where things are. In 2008 president obama won this state. 2012 mitt romney did. Now, the Clinton Campaign looks around right now and they like where theyre situated. Consistently theyve polled one and two points ahead of donald trump in the state but as you dig through the early vote, there are some areas of concern, most prominently the africanamerican vote is down from 2012. Republicans are looking to their early vote turnout saying look, were doing well in North Carolina. But brooke in talking with clinton advisors they make two crucial points. First, president obama is not on the ballot, thats a major driver of africanamerican votes but second there have been a lot of changes in the state in terms of access to ballot places and polling places they believe has helped push the early vote down. They feel confident about where they are and they feel good about what they have planned ahead. You want to talk about what theyre doing tonight, Bernie Sanders will be here, the musical artist pharrell, he of happy fame or the neptunes if you want to go back further. Driving out black vote, driving out millennial vote. They feel good about where they are and the reality is simple, if they win North Carolina, the race is over. Phil mattingly, you set it up perfectly. I want to begin with North Carolina and other critical battleground states. Let me bring in my panel. Cnn politics executive editor mark preston is with us from the cnn decision desk. Well start with with mark before we go to my other voices. You have some new early voting numbers, mark. What do you have . Brooke, the last time we talked it was about 24. 4 Million People voted early. Look where we are now. New data that just came in in the last hour, 31 Million People have cast ballots in 38 states. But i want to look at four different states right now. Two in the midwest. Two out west. Lets look at iowa right now. Almost 499,000, 500,000 people have cast their votes in iowa. Lets dig deeper. We look at 2016 and right now documents have a 41,000vote edge. But if you go back to 2012, they had a 60,000 ballot edge in return ballots so not necessarily good news for democrats in the state of iowa, public polling shows donald trump is leading in that state. Lets stay in the midwest and go to ohio. 1. 3 Million People right now have cast early ballots in the state of ohio. Lets go deeper. 2016 right now and if you look, 65, 800 ballot advantage for the republicans. If you look right there. If you go back to 2008, though, brooke. The gop only had a 6,000 ballot return advantage. Thats a sizable difference. Again, not good news for democrats as were heading into the final five days of the election. But lets head west to arizona. Hillary clinton was there last night, tim kaine is there today. About 1. 3 Million People in arizona have cast ballots, dig deeper right now and look at the Historical Data right now. Republicans have a 71,000 ballot advantage, so to speak, in returns right now, but if you go to 2012, their advantage was 87,000. So a state that democrats are contesting, polling shows its even if not tight. Good news for democrats. Lets end up in nevada. About 512,000. People have returned their ballots so far five days before election day. We dig into it a little bit here and democrats have a 29,000 ballot advantage over republicans. Go back to 2012, they had a 38,000 ballot advantage but as were tracking this, this is tracking along the same numbers, good news for democrats. This is not predictive of what will happen in the election. It does give us an idea of how the gop operations are working, the get out the vote operations for both political parties. Its worth noting the voters both parties are trying to get out, these are low propensity voters, one they dont think will necessarily show up on election day, they want their vote banked right now. Brooke . Thank you for those numbers, mark preston. Gloria borger is with us, cnn chief political analyst, manu raju, political reporter, kirsten power, cnn political analyst and columnist for usa today and david gergen, cnn senior political analyst and advisor to four president s, including Ronald Reagan and bill clinton. So to my native north carolinian, cnn has crunched numbers. A win for trump in the state of North Carolina is plausible. Do you think its all going to come down to that . North carolina. I think its going to North Carolina being one of the two or three states. Trump needs four states florida, North Carolina, ohio, and pennsylvania. Hes got a very decent shot of winning ohio. Mark was talking about the early votes there, they look like theyre helpful to trump. Hes in a very competitive situation in florida. He has to win North Carolina but pennsylvania is a much tougher go. If he doesnt win pennsylvania he has to take all sorts of other states in the west and upper midwest so he has he started out three or four weeks ago as a long shot. Shes a short long shot now. Im keying in on it because we know Hillary Clinton and donald trump are there today so gloria let me ask you my next question. Phil brought it up but honing in on the fact that tonight former rivals now together on the same stage, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. I dont think weve seen them together since he endorsed her in New Hampshire some months ago. Who exactly do you think and add pharrell to the mix there as well. Who are they trying to reach out to . Well, theyre trying to reach out to younger voters. I think theyre trying to reach out to minority voters. I think youre talking about the state of North Carolina and david was talking about that. 25 of the voters in that state are africanamerican and nobody expects in the state of North Carolina for the numbers to reach what they were with barack obama nationally or in the state of North Carolina. But if theres, say, like a 10 reduction nationally in africanamerican turnout, that could well flip that state so what i think theyre trying to do is get these younger progressive voters engaged in all of these battleground states, particularly in a state like North Carolina which is so diverse because you have the rural conservatism, you have evangelical, and then you have multicultural progressives so all in one state and everybodys trying to pick off their piece of the pie there. Donald trump is fighting, it is close, i want to play an ad they rolled out today where of course he refers to her as crooked hillary and he brings in a face and voice weve only been talking about again recently. Roll it. Hillary clinton is under fbi investigation again after her emails were found on pervert Anthony Weiners laptop. Think about that. Americas most sensitive secrets unlawfully sent, received, and exposed by Hillary Clinton, her staff, and Anthony Weiner . Hillary cannot lead a nation while crippled by a criminal investigation. Kirsten, this is a part of the Closing Argument donald trump has been making. You elect her, you get years of drama, years of investigations. You think its a solid argument . Well, that ad is actually kind of jarring in a president ial election, pervert and this kind of language. I guess only with donald trump. It could work. The problem for her is obviously that anything related to her honesty and which has been rejuvenated, this issue has been rejuvenated with the fbi director coming out and making this announcement before the election and all the issues that could come up for her, this is the one that harms her and trump has hit on something that a lot of people feel, we dont want to go back to the 90s, we dont want to relive the constant inve investigations. The republicans are a little guilty of that because they overinvestigate the clintons but the clintons invite it as well. But its something i feel goes too far, it could possibly turn people off. Just a little too in your face. We are talking about different folks out on behalf of each candidate and manu you cover capitol hill so let me talk about senator ted cruz, former rival of donald trump. Hes called him in the past a pathological liar and serial philanderer. We saw him do a quick gaggle with governor pence saying see that plane with the big name on the side, trump . Im getting in that plane, i voted for donald trump. What is this about for ted cruz . Hes under pressure, brooke, remember after that Republican Convention speech where he refused to endorse donald trump he got a lot of backlash from Trump Supporters and the worst thing that could happen to these republicans looking for future either another run for the white house or what have you, theyre worried about this race is tight that they could get blamed for not doing enough to help the top of the ticket to ted cruz calculated several weeks ago it was time to endorse donald trump. He was asked about Donald Trumps past criticisms. He didnt walk back those past criticisms so hes in an unusual spot here. So the over factor is that ted cruz himself may face a primary challenge in 2018 for Senate Reelection race and thats also being powered by in part by trump voters frustrated that ted cruz has not done enough so there are a lot of political pressures for cruz himself and he can say at the end of the day hes helping his party. One other thing. Ted cruz campaigning for senator roy blunt of missouri in a difficult reelection race. Roy blunt a member of the Republican Party leadership. The same leadership ted cruz bashed repeatedly as part of the Washington Cartel so strange bedfellows in the last few days of the campaign on the republican side. David, i saw you nodding listening to manu. I want to hear more from all of you. Let me hit pause on the conversation. I want to ask all of you to stick around and a quick reminder to you. Dont forget, tuesday, its all been leading up to this, Election Night in america. We have every race, we will have every result. Stay with cnn until the last vote is cast. Up next, well talk more about Melania Trumps big moment. Her first speech and the more affluent suburbs of philadelphia. Hear what she said about women and what she said about how our culture has gotten too mean and too rough. Plus, as we wait for president obama to speak live in florida he is going off on republicans. He is getting mighty candid about his last eight years with them. Im brooke baldwin. Youre watching cnns special live coverage. Well be right back. Welcome back, youre watching cnn, im brooke baldwin. In case you have been under a rock, the election is five days away and for the Clinton Campaign the headache is not going away. Donald trump wasted no time bringing up the Clinton Foundation woes. The investigation is described as a high priority. Its far reaching and has been going on for more than one year. It was reported that an avalanche of information is coming in. The finn agents say the investigation is likely to yield an indictment. Reports also show the Political Leadership at the department of justice is trying to protect Hillary Clinton and is interfering with the fbis criminal investigation. This is the reporting. You just heard donald trump. Evan perez and our justice correspondent crew in washington essentially in talking to their sources within justice saying there is no talk of indictment, thats number one. Number two, there is a bit of push pull between fbi and doj, thats an issue as theyve been looking into these Clinton Foundation woes. Thats the facts, thats what we have from our cnn reporting. I have gloria, kirsten and david back with me and also manu. David gergen, let me begin with you, on cnn. Com someone wrote it like this in reference to the fbi and doj. Another casualty of 2016 has been the mystique of the fbi. The fact that it appears that not everyone is on the same page. The leaks have been horrendous. Leaky. Very leaky and there ought to be some way to put a stop to it. It ought to be a firing offense if youre caught leaking because the leaks are confusing, depressing and unfair to mrs. Clinton but there have also been some leaks against mr. Trump so both sides have reason to be rarngry but where is the leadership of the Justice Department and fbi to crack down on this . You have to put people under pressure and say you leak, youre gone. Its not just donald trump who has been saying the i word, impeachment, impeachment. And theres no basis for that. Weve been doing the checking. There isnt that weve seen. So manu my question is with the cacophony from republicans on impeachment, of all people, you know, you have darrell issa who is essentially saying to all these calls of lock her up to put in the a way i would say it slow your roll. From darrell issa, of all people. Its been an Interesting Development about darrell issa over the last several days hes taken a more conciliatory tone towards the administration. He led the charge on a number of these oversight hearings trying to go after the white house why . Darrell issa is in a tough reelection race in his california district. He may not win come tuesday and he wants to present himself as a guy who could work across party line lines he said impeachment will not happen, hell be the adult in the room and push back against that notion. That comes just a day after other republican congressmen suggested it is a possibility of going the impeachment route. Most notably mike mccaul, the Homeland Security chairman, one who is respected on National Security issues within republican circles saying possibly she could be impeached. Mccaul had his own political considerations. He could challenge cruz in the primary in 2018 so at lot of members dealing with their own personal politics as they deal with this impeachment issue, brooke. Lets cut past the politics. Evan perez, set us straight. Are set the public straight. Youve been doing the reporting on all of this. Whats the deal . Fbi, doj, impeachment, Clinton Foundation. Set it to me straight. Brooke, i think one of the first things is you heard from donald trump there he says theres an indictment in the offing in this Clinton Foundation investigation and you know from the reporting weve been doing for a year now on this issue, were not anywhere near close to that. Were still, frankly at the starting gate