In a couple of states theyre rivaling president ial election numbers. But why in some states do we still get just one day to vote . And those who say i have no soul, i have no principals are losers. Those are bitter losers. Reporter infamous political operative roger stone with newly published emails seeming to show him a link. Was he involved in collusion or just political chicanery. And the gop no longer taken about the deset. Is that because the tax cut isnt paying for itself . But first good news. Yes, its been a rough couple of weeks for our national psyche. The contentious kavanaugh fight, pipe bomber and a murderous antisemmite has saddened and saped the nation of its energy. Its enough to make a casual observer think america is inexerably divided. Theres actually positive news around us if we would appreciate it and draw strength from it. First, just days before a florida loaner began mailing explosive devices, the notforprofit group, more in common u. S. A. Released a study based on an 8,000 person survey. While our nation is becoming increasingly diverse, a rel tbly small politically active group of voters are the ones divideige us. Its just 8 of americans, four of five of whom are white. They cheer lead for their partys campaign and stay active on social media. And on the hard left on the hard right its pretty much the same except efor the viewpoint and theyre only 6 of the population. So those polarized extremes are only 14 of us but theyre the ones controlling the national conversation. Accord thing to survey about 67 of the rest of us fall into an exhausted majority. Among whom theres agreement even on hot button issues. So why do we only see division around us . The politicians. A study of Political Division among the house and Senate Members published in the journal by zachary neal. He found active avoidance off bipartisan collaboration has gotten worse every year since the 1970s and yet those politicians dont reflect our believes if you look at exhibit number three. Unstable majorities and political stalemate. Despite how things appear in the news, aberage americans are no more politically divided now than we were in the 70s. They have not adopted more extreme eideological views. Instead its the parties and the politicians that there more poleized and have gone into narrow groups that dont represent the whole of the u. S. No wonder then result of the latest monthly survey of political affiliation. The Largest Group among us still the independents. 28 call themselves republican, 30 say democrat. 39 say independent. Bottom line, yes. Theres Political Division in the nation. But congress egged on by polar extremes and partisan media is out of step with the rest of us who dont view compromise as a dirty word and are clammering for independent thinking. Whatever your view, its time vote. Now a look at some of tuesdays hottest races. Neither ous know the outcome in either chamber but there seems to be more drama. Republicans currents republican currently have a 51 49 edge. Five President Trump won by 18 points or more. Republicans are defending only nine seats. So far according to cnns data, if you look at the senate seats that are solid, likely eor lean democrat, the democrats have 45 seats. The republicans, 49. That leaves six races too close to call. Arizona, nevada, tennessee, currently republican seats and florida, indiana and missouri currently held by the democrats. As many of us learned poll kz often be wrong or underestimate voter passion which translates to turnout. I wanted to go to voters on the ground in four key states. Tennessee, florida, nevada and texas. Joining me now is the State Government reporter for the tennesseen. Elizabeth co is the reporter for the miami harold and the politics reporter for the number nfb independent, tod gillman the Washington Bureau chief for the dallas morning news. Todd, im going to begin with you. Your race that youre covering might not be the closest in the nation but it seems like riltszer the marquee event, the main event. Why has it captivated so many of us across the country . Plenty of reasons. For one thing texas has not elected a democrat state wide since 1994. Thats a very long drought for democrats and if they can ever take texas blue, the president ial contest for the foreseeable future will be a slam dunk. Ted cruz pretty much has 100 name across the country. A polarizing figure certainly in texas as well. And here comes this otherwise obscure congressman orourke. He has raised sae 70 million. Its a record for anybody anywhere and democrats are really fired up in texas and they are wanting to reign input, send him a message and if they can punish ted cruz in the process, thats even better for them. Theres a lot at stake in texas, not just this one feet. Two polarizing figures, trump and cruz who can democrats are geared to try to take down. In nevada, quite a sea change from heller. What was the comment he made the 100 , 99 comment and how has he changed . Back in 2016 as some folks might remember, he was 99 against trump and 100 against clinton. He was not a big fan during the 2016 campaign and weve seen complete turn around. The president has been campaigning for dean heller, building up support from the base. At a rally just a few weeks ago the president said he had no better friend in congress than dean heller and recently dean heller saying everything the president touches turns to gold. And as referenced in a state where mining is an important part of the economy. But he really needs the support of the Republican Base in order to win this election and by all measures hes done a good job of moving back to the right, creating support with the base and he wasnt immediately behind repeal and replace plans. He eventually got there and supported a vote to move that forward. He actually ended up being right there on kavanaugh. He was quick to support judge kavanaughs conformation. Weve seen him be quicker to support the president s proposals and hes often talked about the tax reform pack nl and how great that is for the state of nevada. Well have to see if that ends up being enough if republicans turn out in support of dean heller. In florida not one but two barn burners and im wonderinging if the candidates are assisted by their running mates quote on quote. My state of pennsylvania has a tradition of ticket splitting. But wed also be sending the quote on quote real bob casey tee the state governor mansion. So if hes running so well in the Gubernatorial Race in comparison to the senate race, does that necessarily help rick scott . Hopefully youre following my very cumbersome question. I kind of understand what youre trying to say. Youre right that there are two really competitive races happening both for the position of Florida Governor and for bill nelson in the u. S. Senate. Year looking at situation where bill nelson you might expect to have an advantage but hes going up against rick scott, the current governor, term limited. On the other hand youre looking at governors race where currently the mayor off tallahassee is going up against a conservative sanchez. Gill umhas gained momentum in the race and what gillumis able to bring to the table is voter turnout and on both sides is too close to call. Some are showing bill nelson underperforming in terms of how much support theyre able to draw. So theres a slim possibility off a gillum scott win. Unlikely but it is possible. I can say this for a whole host of states. The enormous margin President Trump won by 2016. He would be comfortably ahead. But in the Marcia Blackburn race, thats not the case. Why not . Why that disconnection with between the president showing just two years ago and where blackburn finds herself today. Obviously one of the most popular democrats this state has ever produced. Marcia blackburn, his opponent is a fiery partisan who has really tried to rile up the base. She has really tide herself to President Trump who is planning to come here one more time before the election. Which kind of shows you that the election is really close. Weve had several polls that say its actually black burn ps advantage right now. More recently there have been two that said its a dead heap. But given theres been millions spent in this race affiliate would chuck schumerer and mitch mcconnell. The moderate tone and appeal to independents has really been a welcome i think in this state to some folks who arent yet convinced this is as red as it appears to be in some cases. Todd, im following that texas race through your reportage. You commented on the surge of early voting. Who benefits from it, if you know . It seems likely that it is the democrat orourke whos ben fitting from the surge because hes really the xfactor. We have early voting at levels that are likeb a president ial race. It is extraordinary. Weve seen 500 increase in younger voters, which almost certainly benefits the democrat. This is a race between two completely polar opposite guys. This is ted cruz who brought the federal government to a screeching halt with a government shut down over obamacare and orourke who came to National Prominence by taking a 2,000 mile bipartisan road trip with a republican congressman when they got snowed in back to d. C. The choices that we see is pretty extreme and its the democrats and many independents who are coming out and saying year little tired of the shut down kind antics, the smash mouth Tea Party Politics of ted cruz and donald trump and baito, although extremely liberal and progressive, he supports legalizing marijuana for instance. He also projects this idea that compromise is not a bad thing. Kind of like what you were discussing before. They really seem to be responding to that message. Trrs theres an enormous push back. We better turn out too. So its a little hard to say. Theres enthusiasm on both sides and much closer than anyone expected. Todd, megan, joel, elizabeth. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. I want to know what you think. Go to my website. This is the poll question of the day. Tuesdays Midterm Election will result in. Im asking you to prognost kate. Tell me what you think will happen. A democratic sweep, split houses, or a gop sweep. At the end oof the hour ill give you the result. This just in from facebook. Amen, michael, we are not as divided as they say. Ive been banging that drum for a long time. If dwrou paid attention to headlines and the contentious nature of whats going on in the last several weeks, you would be convinced theres a partisan divide that runs deeply between all of us. There is but not the way in which its been characterized. I take solace in the fact that theres some 67 of us here, not here who want change and compromise. Thanks for the comment. Up next does an email exchange between former Trump Advisor Roger stone and the then campaign chief of staff bannon prove that stone was involved in the wickey leaking or just involleyballed in puffery . Hes here and i will ask him. Now that ive got you here for a minute, or two actually, ive got to tell you something. With the capital one venture card you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. 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It is i id tell bannon but he doesnt call me back and ashurs bannon that assange will be providing a load go engforward. And stone himself published the emails in a daily caller opinion piece called the treachery of steve bannon. The author of stones rules joins me now. Do you anticipate that when the midterms are over and mueller is back in action in a public means that you will be indicted . Well, first of all i have to respectfully disagree with the interpretation of everything you just said. Lets set some background. Here on cnn june 2016, Julian Assange said he had a huge batch of material and repeated it on fox on augs 24th. I had a tip from a journalist who told me that this was incendiary, a bomb shell, devastating, incredible with royal the race. I testified truthfully about that. I have passed two polygraph tests asserting ive never had any direct contact with julian sange or wikileaks. Now the entire world expected assange to drop the first treacherous material on october 2nd when he scheduled a press eevent. When that did not happen, he did announce a specific schedule for weekly disclosures between that time and election day. And so that was a matter reported by politico, was not a secret reflected in my email to bannon. Tr the reason he did not say anything on the second i was told by my source and i wrote on march 9th, 2018, was out of security concerned. Remember Hillary Clinton had threatened to hit him with a drone and even now he fears arrest and extradition. So everything in that email is public. So what i have done here is perfectly legal. I took a solid tip and entirely Public Information that can be gleened from the wikileaks twitter feed and by setting a google news alert and reading every inch of you to hype and punk and promote and poster and bluff the dchls. Democrats. Thats politics but its not culugsz. Collusion. Whats the answer to my question . The decision is made on the basis of evidence and facts and truth, the answer would be no. If this is a political vendetta, anything is possible. You told the House Intel Committee a year ago you had no advanced knowledge regard thing wikileaks disclosures. What about the timing . Did you have inside information and im not talking what was in the public domain. Did you have inside knowledges to the timing of things to come . Only that my source told to me it would come in october and everybody expected that to be october 2nd when assange scheduled a press event. Again he tells politico he will have a release every week beor the election and all election material will be published by election day but the Washington Post reports he made some vague pledge off future publishing. This is perfect example of fake news. Okay but your explanation is essentially one of youre paying very close attention to what was being reported on assange and you were reflecting that in your own tweets. Matthew boil of breitbart ask what does assange have . I hope its good and your response is to say it is. What insight did you have or were you bsing . Hardly. My source told me its a bomb shell, its devastating. It is incredible. It will role the race. You were just taking his word . He had a 30year relationship and interviewed assange. Yes. You have that exchange with bannon. Apparently he wants to know whats on roger stones call. And this is the email you tell him he can anticipate a load per week. I think your explanation is too say i was simply paying attention to what assange himself had said publicly. Five hours prior to the email, assange says there will be a publication a week and all related material would be published by election day. This is in the press. Im telling him a largely over looked fact. At the time. Most of the media focussed on the fact that assange produced nothing of substance on that october 2nd presser. Very few picked up the fact he picked up a weekly schedule and said all the u. S. Election material would be published by election day. October 7. October 7 was the day the world learned of the access hollywood grab them by the p tape. Then wikileaks. Did you know something was coming about podesta on the day that occurred . Mean thing all access hollywood revelation . No, i did not and assange had already announced a weekly relea release schedule. But to change that narrative after the billy bush tape is a false hood and i had no advance notice of the nbc tape either. Why did you say the Washington Post just this week that bannon would be disembling to say otherwise . First of all i have over 1 million emails. I dont recall this particular one but i published it. Picked up by the druj report and heavily footnoted. And bannon has inmous for me because of a piece i wrote urging he be terminated by President Trump and two days later he was. So his agents leaked this email. It has a perfectly legal and reasonable and footnoted explanation. It most certainly does not prove any communication with julian or any advanced note os it content or the source of the wikileaks disclosures. Michael cohen now saying that he heard President Trum