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polls are are very inaccurate when it comes to women. i think we're doing better with women than with men, frankly. >> we think we can win it, so we're doing everything we can. but we're not running away with this. this race is going to be competitive up until the end. bill: so here is the map today. it's all on the east coast. trump has several events in florida today. tim kaine represents the clinton team in that state today. she is in new hampshire while mike pence is in north carolina. martha: senior national correspondent john roberts live in st. augustine, florida today. good morning, john. >> reporter: martha, good morning to you. at this point it's all about getting out the vote. donald trump with three stops in three different counties today, let's describe where he's going to be. first of all, he's got some smaller events in palm beach county, then he moves up to st. johns county where we are in st. augustine, and later he'll be in hillsborough county which is where tampa is. people are early voting as of this morning, and all three of those counties. not all of florida counties are open to early voting as of this morning, they kind of stagger it throughout the week, but those three are. yesterday he was in collier county in naples, another county that's open for early voting today. a big rally in that city where he again doubled down or quad quadrupled down on his idea that that the voting is rigged, that this whole political system is rigged against him, refusing to back down or apologize on that. also hitting hillary clinton very hard on this new wikileaks revelation that she tried to negotiate a $12 million donation to the clinton foundation with the king of morocco. here is what donald trump said about that. >> wikileaks e-mails show hillary was trying to get $12 million from the king of 40 morocco -- from the king of morocco in yet another pay-for-play scheme. my goal is to keep foreign money out of american politics. [cheers and applause] hillary clinton's goal is to put the oval office up for sale to whatever country offers the highest price. >> reporter: donald trump will also be hammering hard today this revelation in "the wall street journal" that a pac associated with virginia governor terry mcauliffe gave almost half a million dollars to a 2015 state senate candidate named dr. jill mccabe for her campaign. what's significant about that, dr. jill mccabe is married to andrew mccabe who is now the second in command at the fbi and had direct oversight over the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the fbi is saying there's nothing to this story, but watch for the trump campaign to hammer that hard today. martha? martha: quite a story, front page of "the wall street journal" today. so, john, some of the media are setting these polls that show donald trump really in trouble in some of them what's the campaign reaction to that? >> reporter: you know, they're saying don't count us out just yet. donald trump certainly has defied the odds before, and there's a little bit of mixed views in the polls. abc has hillary clinton up by 12 points, but an investors business daily tracking poll is out today that had donald trump up by two points, they're now even at 41-41. certainly, his path to victory is fairly narrow. kellyanne conway, his campaign manager, said yesterday morning we may be down, but we're not out. >> we are behind. she has some advantages like $66 million in ad buys just in the month of september. we feel that with hillary clinton under 50% in some of these places even though she has run a traditional and expensive campaign, that we have a shot of getting those undecided voters that somehow said i know who hillary clinton is, i don't want to vote for her, i don't much trust or like her, we immediate to bring them aboard over the next couple of weeks. >> reporter: potentially troubling indicators coming out of the state of nevada where early voting shows in clark county, which is las vegas, democrats are two to one over republicans in early voting, and up about a third where reno is. democrats typically do prevail in early voting, republicans on election day. martha? martha: fascinating. there's a lot of numbers to look at, john, with two weeks to go. thank you very much. bill: so some historically red states are turning less so, it would appear be, that would include texas. real clear politics shows that might be a toss-up. byron york, washington examiner correspondent, you are in charlotte, north carolina, you're in the belly of the political beast. generally speaking, what is the state of the race today? >> well, kellyanne conway is right, trump is behind. if you look at a lot of the national polls, he's in the 37, 38, 39% range. you don't win with 38, 39%. you just heard donald trump say he thinks he's doing better with women than he is with men, he is not doing better with women than men. he's substantially behind hillary clinton among women. his problem is that his strength among men voters, which used to be pretty big, used to be a pretty big, positive gender gap for him, that strength is actually declining. so he's actually not in such great shape now according to the polls which is why you're hearing him say he doesn't believe the polls now. bill: i think you're going to get a good sample as to whether or not north carolina has truly changed. you go back to 2012 and 2008. but he's a couple thing that are interesting. in texas you put all the polls together, there's about a diffe. in the state of arizona, it's about a point many favor of hillary clinton. in favor of hillary clinton. what do you think about these numbers? >> yeah. you can throw georgia in there too. these are states that you would expect, especially texas and georgia, to be very, very strongly republican, and they're not right now. trump has a lead, but not a very big lead. and i think what has happened is if you look after the access hollywood tape, after the answer at the debate in which he said he wouldn't promise to accept the results of the election, enthusiasm among republican voters has gone down. they're telling pollsters they're not as excited about vote aring as they were -- voting as they were, and they're not as excited specifically about donald trump as they were. the problem for trump is republicans who supported somebody else in the republican primaries, but then when trump clinched the nomination, they decided to support him. they were going to support the party's nominee. that's getting a little harder for them now, and their enthusiasm appears to be going down. bill: let me put the electoral scorecard back on. we take the polls from the different state to figure out what's happening. arizona is a toss-up, in our view. so is the state of utah. texas used to be a deep red, now it leans red. you know, it still will -- it could go republican, but we've moved out of that area, and you just mentioned the state of georgia as well. do you get a sense that this election is truly shifting the political ground in some of these states that had been reliably democratic or reliably republican for decades now, byron? >> well, it's bad news for republicans, but it may be temporary. i've talked to operatives in some of the states where you have members of the senate, republicans who are running for re-election, and some of them have found that voters see their republican senator as a republican, but they see donald trump as trump. and and that he's almost in a different category from their candidate. so it could be that trump or would be this sort of one off historical phenomenon, and fundamental support for the republican party many places like georgia and texas remains relatively unchanged later on. bill: very interesting last point. thank you. enjoy your time in charlotte. byron york, analysis on a monday morning. thank you. martha: meanwhile, looming over this campaign are these continued wikileaks releases from the inbox of clinton campaign chairman john podesta. we've been watching these over the last several weeks. chris wallace calling out clinton campaign manager robby mook for his selective outrage when things are leaked. watch this interesting exchange. >> these are stolen documents, stolen by the russians, it's now confirmed, from john podesta. they are being put out exactly for -- >> well, can i just speak to that? let me just speak to that though because, you know, the trump tax returns were stolen as well when they were mailed to the new york times. you guys didn't object to that, in fact, you jumped all over it. >> well, we don't know where those tax returns -- >> well, it was clearly stolen. do you think that trump had given them -- >> i don't know. i don't know how they got to "the new york times." >> i guess what i'm saying is if that, if we're looking at the fruits of that theft, and i will call it a theft, it's fair to look at the fruits of your theft. >> well, i think -- martha: so there's that. bill: the -- i think what's going on here, the amazing thing about the evidence they use about another campaign, it's all electronic now, you know? and if you can get your hands on it, wow, you've got a story. we've seen it for some time. there's also this new wrinkle involving hillary clinton's dealings with the fbi. the wife of a federal agent getting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a longtime clinton ally and that very agent later held mrs. clinton's hand in his fate. now, karl rove's going to analyze all that coming up in a moment here today. martha: and hillary clinton's team looking past donald trump trying to help democrats take back the senate. but is she measuring the drapes too early, some might ask. bill: also, tragedy on an american freeway. a bus plowing into a semi truck. investigators want to know how and why this happened. >> i hit all the seats. i got my jaw out of place, my face, all this broken. and, only 50 calories a serving... good morning, indeed. v8. veggies for all. at clorox 2 we've turned removing stains into a science. now pre-treat with clorox 2! watch stains disappear right before your eyes. remove 4 times more stains than detergent alone. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? 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>> it does have the appearance of impropriety. look, let's walk through the chronology. march of 2015 jill mccabe and her husband, andrew mccabe, an fbi official, then the director of the d.c. office, field office, visit with terry mcmcauliffe, governor of virginia, pledges that he'll back her if she runs for senate. she shortly thereafter becomes a candidate for that year's state senate election. this is also the same month when it is revealed to the country that hillary clinton has had a private e-mail server in her house in chappaqua, new york, through which she handled all of her e-mail while she was secretary of state. by july there's an investigation underway, and mccabe, as the d.c. field office director, is supplying support and personnel for that investigation. by the end of the month, he's promoted and made the number three official at the department of justice. and shortly after the first of the year, 2016, becomes the number two official and is a member of the executive management team of the fbi overseeing this investigation. now, it strikes me that he should have said to himself, you know what? terry mcauliffe gave my wife a third of the money that she had for her campaign either directly from the super pac that he controlled or the democratic party of virginia which he ran, and i think he should have said, you know what? i really need to recuse myself from any involvement in this matter. mcauliffe is a close ally of hillary clinton. i don't know whether he's involved in this or not, but out of an abundance of caution, let somebody else supervise this part, i will recuse myself from any executive management duties of supervising this. bill: let me ask you a basic question. she lost her election, right? >> yeah. lost in november of 2015. bill: state senate seat. $1.5 million? i don't know how these campaigns run, but it seems like a lot of money. is it? >> well, $1.8 million and, yes, it's a lot of money. now, this was -- remember, this is critical for mcauliffe's success. i think the democrats were down by one seat in the state senate. he was trying to flip the chamber so that his agenda would have a better chance. but look, to onus is not on mcauliffe. he's out there trying to win a state senate seat, trying to win control of the state senate. the onus is on the fbi official, andrew mccabe, who should have been sensitive, in my opinion, to these things. and because he wasn't, now all kinds of questions, all kinds of suspicion, justified or unjustified, all kind of allegations, backed or not backed, are going to arise about his involvement in the handling of this affair. bill: and mcauliffe goes back years with the clintons, right? >> oh, yeah. very active in '91 and '92. been close friends for decades. you know, very -- they campaigned for him when he ran for governor, he was an intimate of theirs when he was in the white house, he's one of their closest personal friends so, yeah. bill: okay. let's see where that story goes. i want to see where this story goes as well. you said on fox news sunday the following about the state of the race today and whether or not trump can win. watch. >> he would have to not only win two states where he is either only slightly ahead or behind by four, but he would have to pick up states where he is behind by at or above the national average. i don't see it happening. bill: that last part, i don't see it happening. what is the suggestion with that comment as to the state of this race? are you saying it's over or not? >> well, i earlier said that he would have to poll to an inside straight. i didn't think it lightly, but the race will not be over until november 8th. over six million people have voted as of this morning, and he's behind. and be my point is that he can't -- he's got to win florida where he is behind by four points in the real clear politics average, he has to win ohio where he is up by less than a point, he has to win iowa where he is on the real clear politics average outside the margin of error. but to get to 270, he's got to win states where he is at or above the national average of his, of the gap. he's got to win a pennsylvania or a wisconsin or a colorado or new hampshire and michigan or some combination thereof. and it's an inside straight. difficult to do. people do it, but it's really, really tough to do. bill: all right, karl, we're going to show the map in about 30 minutes. thanks, see you real soon, karl rove there in washington d.c. thank you, sir. 20 past. martha: so donald trump making his case to voters with a major speech over the weekend. >> it's a contract between donald j. trump and the american voter, and it begins with bringing honesty, accountability and change to washington d.c. [cheers and applause] martha: so we're going to show you the elements of what he listed and went true in that gettysburg speech over the weekend, but most of what the media reported about the speech was the threat that he made to sue the women who have accused him, he says falsely, during the course of this election campaign. he called that another instance of unfair coverage. howie kurtz joins us to break that down. bill: also thousands of service members being told to give back their bonuses because the pentagon says they were overpaid. martha: unbelievable. bill: how did that happen? ♪ tomorrow's the day we'll play something besides video games. every day is a gift especially for people with heart failure. but today there's entresto®- a breakthrough medicine that can help make more tomorrows possible. tomorrow, i want to see teddy bait his first hook. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto® was proven to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto®. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto® with an ace inhibitor or or aliskiren. if you've had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, don't take entresto®. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. tomorrow, i'm gonna step out with my favorite girl. ask your heart doctor about entresto®. and help make the gift of tomorrow possible. bill: there is a manhunt underway in oklahoma this morning for the map accused of shooting two police officers there. michael vance, exconvict, believed to be armed with an ak-47. police were responding to a call about a shoot anything a trailer park near oklahoma city when he opened fire. he stole a patrol car, then carjacked a woman, drove away in her car. vance is also wanted in connection with the deaths of to of his relatives. the officers are expected to be okay. ♪ ♪ >> we will drain the swamp in washington d.c. [cheers and applause] and replace it with a new government of, by and for the people. [applause] believe me. that is why i have chosen gettysburg to unveil this contract. i'm asking the american people to rise above the noise and the clutter. martha: donald trump in gettysburg, pennsylvania be, over the weekend laying out what he calls a contract with the american voters. he did that, as i said, on saturday. and it was full of moments like the one you just saw, but the media focused more on the next line where trump went after the women who have accused him of sexual assault or harassment. watch this. >> all of these liars will be sued after the election is over. [cheers and applause] but a simple phone call placed to the biggest newspapers or television networks gets them wall-to-wall coverage with virtually no fact checking whatsoever. martha: howie kurtz, fox news media analyst and host of media buzz, good morning to you, howie. >> good morning. martha: obviously, he is still very upset about the charges that these women brought, but a lot of people believe that he stepped on his own message with this contract. >> stepped on his own message would be a polite way of putting it. look, the media have a bias towards scandal over substance, no argument there. it's baked into the cake, every politician knows it. it was a heavily-promoted address at gettysburg in which donald trump was going to try to refocus on policy issues, this contract with american voters, and if that was all he had said, that would have been the story for the day. martha: yep. >> instead, he goes back into the boil who have accused him, calls them liars, says he's going to sue them, accuses the news media of not fact checking which is not right. complainants have shared their stories with at the time. and so it's hardly shocking that, you know, if trump's going to serve all these individualing tables, broccoli and brussel sprouts and mushroom ares of policy and then he serves up an ice cream sundae in the form of going back to the women that he's going to sue them -- martha: yeah. politically, it's a bad move. because that was not in the conversation over the last several days, and he put it right back in with that comment which is politically not the way to go. let's take a look at some of what he offered in this new contract because it would have gotten more attention had he not made that other comment. congressional term limits, a freeze on hiring federal workers, crackdown on leaving congress and then becoming a lobbyist, lifetime ban on senior executive officials lobbying foreign governments which would include, you know, the former secretary of state raising money from foreign governments, i would imagine, and a two-year mandatory sentence if you are an illegal immigrant and you are kicked out of this country and you return. you would get a two-year mandatory sentence. all of which are ideas that could be very compelling to conservatives in this country, howie, if he hadn't stepped on the message. >> right. some of this he said before, but some of these proposals were new, and if he had stayed with them in the beginning of september or the end of september, it really fits his candidacy well, and he's the outsider billionaire running against the status quo. martha: yep. >> hillary clinton the symbol of a failed system, i think these would have resonated. but we've seen this problem with trump before at the democratic convention, he spent several days attacking the khan family, the gold star family who spoke at the convention, after the first debate with the former miss universe, he kept that story alive. and be i think the legitimate story about the women who have accused donald trump of sexual misconduct was really starting to fade, as you noted. and then even with that one paragraph at gettysburg -- martha: he brought it back. >> yeah. martha: want to get your thoughts on this two-page spread in today's new york times. they spent a lot of ink on this one, and it covers the people or institutions that they say donald trump has insulted over the course of the election. can we expect they will run something similar on hillary clinton, howiesome. >> no. [laughter] now, i can't object on journalistic grounds to using a candidate's own words and even doing a big compilation because people aren't always paying attention every single day, but it's a question of volume. and we see this in all the major media outlets that focus so heavily on trump and much of that is negative. why not devote two full pages to many of the wikileaks hacked e-mails involving john podesta and the hillary clinton campaign. martha: there's an idea. >> i'd like to see a big comp bylation of that. that's the thing that gives people the impression that many of us in the press are not just reporting on don trump, but are campaigning against him. martha: a pretense of being fair in this particular case, but it's worth reading. there's some funny stuff. he goes after the state of new jersey and major league baseball, calls them ridiculous and somehow makes the list. bill: donald trump's team telling the clinton camp, hang on, now, not so fast. >> this race is not over. many in the media want to say it's over, for the 12th time they're counting donald trump out. bill: so are the democrats getting ahead of themselves? 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>> i think so. listen, it's a tough race more trump, and it's a tough race for these republicans that are office holders. what i'm amazed at is despite the abc news poll showing trump down by 12 points nationally and these close senate races like in new hampshire and north carolina, even in ohio, the republicans are actually faring pretty well. they're keeping competitive races despite being massively outspent by democrats and, of course, hillary clinton having a built-in advantage of having the president, the first lady, the former president, bill clinton, biden, i mean, she has a whole ross arer of people campaigning for her nationally which she needs because, to be quite frank, she isn't that popular. martha: there are a few polls that show donald trump leading in the national race, and many of these battleground states are pretty tight, but even kellyanne conway admitted over the weekend they've got, obviously, some work to do and that he's behind. here's an ad that kelly ayotte is running right now in new hampshire. let's watch. >> america's future is far from certain, but no matter who the next president is, new hampshire needs a strong voice in the u.s. senate. that senator, kelly ayotte. martha: so that sounds like an argument to people who may be leaning towards hillary clinton, mary ann, to continue to vote republican on the rest of that ballot. >> no question about it. and be that's the problem, martha. you have, especially, a lot of republican women who have now decided to vote against donald trump, for hillary clinton, and they look at these senate races. those women aren't going to vote for kelly ayotte now in new hampshire, they're going to vote for maggie hassan. they're not going to vote for -- martha: mary ann, i sort of disagree with that notion because as byron york said earlier today, it's almost as if many voters look at this as sort of donald trump as his own entity, you know? and the rest of the these people who are running as republicans and democrats. so if they're in favor of trump, they're going to vote trump, but they may want to put in a check on power in case hillary clinton wins and go republican down the rest of the ticket. chris stirewalt's been arguing this is what's going to happen for months. >> well, here's the problem, martha, the two republican senators i just mentioned never checked donald trump until it was too late. in fact, toomey still hasn't said he won't vote for him, and kelly ayotte just did that. so for the republican and suburban and independent women who finally rejected donald trump -- martha: why would those republican women care that much if those individuals didn't go the way they wanted them to go on donald trump when they do care about things like smaller government and supreme court picks? >> because if you -- kelly anne con is a pollster -- kellyanne conway is a pollster, first and foremost. for republican women to out and out reject donald trump, they're rejecting people who supported him as well. martha: well, we'll see. let's bring morgan back in here. >> that's the polling, martha. >> i don't know what specific polling she's referring to, but in my experience, my pac has supported kelly ayotte, and the women that i work with around the country under 40, a lot of them admittedly have issues with donald trump, but they're still very ender eyesed about bringing the party together and keeping the senate close. republicans are being massively outspent, and they're still making it competitive despite our national candidate being down. it's definitely not over yet, and i think the american people deserve the courtesy of not determine what the election's going to look like. people still have the chance to vote and still want their voice to be heard and, you know, listen, i mean, hillary clinton is still wildly unpopular no matter how much people would like to run a victory lap. martha: the supreme court, the senate is the key to those confirmations, and i think that's going to weigh heavily -- >> yeah, but, martha, last point. i mean, the fact is people are sick of washington not working. and the republicans have run the senate and the house for years now and gotten nothing done, so they want washington to work -- >> so hillary clinton is the answer? hillary clinton? [laughter] martha: thank you, ladies. we've got to go. we'll pick it up next time. bill: so amid the latest polling numbers, the trump team sees a way to 270. we'll show you the board on that. plus this, coming up. martha: dash cam video shows a terrifying pursuit as a driver fires more than a dozen shots out the window at police officers behind them. >> you okay? / you can run an errand. (music playing) ♪ push it real good... (announcer vo) or you can take a joyride. bye bye, errands, we sing out loud here. siriusxm. road happy. this artoo unit must be delivered to the rebellion. come on artoo! ♪ artoo! welcome to the rebellion. ♪ this is for you. duracell and children's miracle network hospitals are powering imaginations everywhere. (announcer vo) you can go straight home. (howard stern on radio) welcome to show business. (announcer vo) or you can hear the rest of howard. bababooey! 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[gunfire] martha: a driver opens fire during an attempted traffic stop. reaching out the window of his suv, this is in madeira. more than a dozen shots fired. thankfully, the officer was not hurt. very close call. look at that windshield on the cruiser. it was completely blown out. authorities are searching for the gunman. ♪ ♪ >> she's still under 50 everywhere, and she's spent $66 million in ads, mostly negative ads against donald trump. our path is florida, ohio, iowa, north carolina. you add nevada, you protect arizona and georgia. bill: kellyanne conway yesterday on the battle for 270 electoral votes, how does trump do it? john, good morning to you. i want to show our viewers at home right now precisely how this would play out based on what she just said. all right, she said florida -- you can see the numbers changing, 270's where you need to go. she said ohio, she said iowa, she said north carolina, she said you add nevada, you protect arizona and you protect georgia, and you are still only at 265. right now today is it doable, john? >> you know, he's got to close maybe a seven-point gap or so. that's, this those states where he would need at least one more state to get an electoral college tie or win, he's down at least maybe seven points, six points in states like wisconsin, states like pennsylvania be, states like new hampshire. so that's what's really difficult. i mean, closing a seven-point gap, it's not completely unthinkable. he's done it before in the past, and it really hasn't taken much. he's just behaved presidentially. he went to mexico, did that trip, he did outreach to a black church, but it's getting really late in the game. it seems like the cake is kind of baked at this point. bill: all right, we'll see. early voting starts today in florida. any of these scenarios, you always come back to florida, 29 electoral votes. you really don't get there unless you get florida. i asked rove about this last hour, he reflected a little bit about what you said, but listen to him carefully here. >> to get to 270, he's got to win states where he is at or above the national average of his, of the gap. he's got to win a pennsylvania or a wisconsin or a colorado or new hampshire and michigan or some combination thereof. and it's an inside straight. difficult to do, people do it, but it's really, really tough to do. bill: you know, and on that point, john, if you hold all the states that romney won, you still need to do a little bit better than four years ago. what rove describes under this scenario, wisconsin puts him over the top. likewise, pennsylvania or michigan or new hampshire. that math works if you can get the votes. >> it certainly does. and like rove said, it's seven points down with two weeks to go, how do you turn things around. as i said, he's done it before in the past by behaving presidentially, but he hasn't given any indication he's going to do that n. the last week he's said he may not accept the election results, he's been attacking paul ryan, fighting with republicans. just yesterday he threatened lawsuits against those who have been accusing him, women who have been accusing him of sexual harassment or assault. so, again, you know, with two weeks left to go, you would think he would need to turn things around, behave differently, and is even then it's going to be tough to close that gap. bill: john, you watch the numbers in arizona and texas and georgia. do you really think these states are changing the way some of the pollsters suggesting? >> you know, that's what the polls show. in arizona he's down just a smidge. he's still ahead in states like utah, texas and georgia. i tend to believe the polls. i think they've generally done a pretty good job, especially if you look at the polling averages. again, he's ahead in texas and georgia. i would suspect unless the bottom really falls out if he just kind of gives up, he'll still be able to win those states, i would think. but again, he's got to hold those states and take another five or six battleground states. bill: john, thanks for coming in today out of martha. thank you, sir. here's martha. martha: thousands of soldiers who were paid bonuses to go fight for our country, now many of those same men and women in one state are being ordered to pay the money back or else. the growing controversy and the penalties that these heroes could a face. whoa, this is awful, try it. oh no, that looks gross what is that? you gotta try it, it's terrible. i don't wanna try it if it's terrible. it's like mango chutney and burnt hair. no thank you, i have a very sensitive palate. just try it! guys, i think we should hurry up. if you taste something bad, you want someone else to try it. it's what you do. i can't get the taste out of my mouth! if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. shhh! dog, dog, dog. martha: big controversy ares surround aring the california national guard and nearly 10,000 reservists who have been ordered to give back a huge enlistment bonus, a full decade after they were paid out. some are calling this a betrayal of our fighting hen and women. anita vogel live in los angeles. you have spoken with some of these veterans who received this money and are now being asked to give it back for their service. what's their reaction? >> reporter: well, good morning, martha. it's exactly like you said, they said they feel we be tried -- betrayed, even stunned in some okayses. a number of audits reveal the guard gave out too much money and in some cases to the wrong people, even though all of these folks completed their duties overseas. now nearly 10,000 soldiers in california alone have been ordered to pay back their bonuses of roughly $15,000 or more leaving most folks in a terrible pox of how to come up with the money and how to get past the bad tastes in their mouths. >> we were asked to complete these terms of service, do these tasks. we did so, and on the back end you're saying, well, it was a technicality, we want our money back. that's, that's absurd. it's insulting. it's also degrading to what we've done. >> reporter: unlike so many others, bob says he's already worked with a number of lawyers, he's spent a lot of time, a lot of money, and he has yet to resolve issue. martha: what does the national guard say about all this, anita? >> reporter: yeah, well, the california national guard says this is a federal issue and their hands are tied. they gave us a statement saying, quote: the california national guard does not have the authority to unilaterally waive these debts. however, the california national debt welcomes any law passed by congress to waive these debts. until that time, our priority is to advocate for our soldiers through this difficult process. now, many high profile veterans are highly critical of that statement, of this whole thing really saying the burden shouldn't be on the veteran to wipe away this debt. >> they gave at the office, and their office was a battlefield. those who are running for office right now ought to be pledging right now before the election to fix this and fix it fast. >> reporter: and apparently some members of congress on both sides of the aisle are speaking out about this. we're hearing from both democrats and republicans. in fact, just this morning representative darrell issa saw put out a statement calling on defense secretary ash carter to demand that these, to demand that this halts and for the veterans to pay the money back, and he wants congress to do something about it right now. finish martha. martha: anita, thank you very much. wouldn't you love to see the congressman or congresswoman who's willing to stand up and say, no, i don't think so. i think they were better pay bae money. you think about the stuff the government wastes millions of dollars on? 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reporter: that is big part of turnout operation and ground game that polls show hillary clinton are ahead pan out on election day. interesting that john podesta in ernie sanders a doofus. attacks his health care plan. his actual proposals sucks but we live in lefty alternative universe. with when he reached out to bernie sanders whether any attacks coming out in emails are affecting him, he seemed to suggest no, tell in a statement the job of progressive movement is to look forward, not backward, no matter what secretary clinton said behind closed doors, what is important millions of people stand up that the democratic party implement the most progressive platform in the history of our country. bottom line, despite some of these revelations people within the democratic party say we're not looking backward. we're looking forward. we're letting her off the hook. bill: get back at it. day 17. more to come. >> voters seem to pay a lot more attention around issues surrounding donald trump. steve hayes, writer for "weekly standard" and fox news contributor. >> good morning to you, martha. martha: a lot of stuff coming out this morning more worry pouring through we may get up on the screen in a moment, your take how this is getting treated and what is getting more attention? >> certainly media are paying more attention to donald trump's troubles, electoral prospects, accusers, donald trump is saying in many of his speeches. makes it easier for media to justify continued attention on donald trump and story about the accusers when donald trump says, for instance, as he did this weekend, that he is going to sue his accusers after the election. but that doesn't in any way diminish the importance or significance of some of the revelations coming out of these wikileaks documents, whether you're talking about marking certain potential significance stance programs in haiti for friends of bill. whether you're talking about the very troubling story about the king of morocco and hillary clinton agreeing to do an event there for the clinton global initiative in exchange for $12 million, at least described in the email from huma abedin. these are serious issues. i think they indicate a certain level of clinton corruption many of us assumed was there, seen in the past was there. they provide new and i think troubling details. martha: to the extent that these permeate people's understanding of the election, they are disturbed by it when they see the levels of corruption, level what some accuse are pay to pay-to-play but donald trump has not held up his end of the bargain focusing on things he got with the contract with america over the weekend and making sure those points are the ones that do get through when thinks stuff does break through. >> yeah. i mean he is sort of can't help himself. there is a lot of material here for a republican to work with, for republican senate candidates, for different republican nominee perhaps but donald trump sort of can't get out of his own way. anytime he is attacked or accused of something by the media he feels the need to respond, to defend himself at length, lash out at his accusers, we've seen this play out in the debates in the primaries and general election. we see it now. we see it in the stump speeches. his speech in gettysburg was billed as dramatic departure, somebody who would focus on substance and take on washington, lay out he will do that, but there was some of that in the speech but it was overshadowed about the things he said about his accusers and his need to defend himself in news cycle story of the day. martha: but he would say, his folks would say that is because the press just decided to focus on those three lines rather than the substance of his speech. that there is a huge sort of conglomerate effort against him in the press. two-page spread in the "new york times," steve, all people insulted by donald trump. some are really reaches. >> yeah. look, i'm not unthreat tick to the media, as if reporters are trying to outdo one another to take next shot at donald trump. i get that, i think that is true but if you're the trump campaign, looking at two weeks, one day to election day, why would you do anything to give them more material? why would he include the three lines in the speech, if you know based on your experience over the past 18 months that is what will be the focus? you i also do think on the other hand, it is the case that some of these stories, some of these things donald trump says require additional media attention, require additional scrutiny. it is newsworthy when he accuses all of his accusers of having made stuff up when trump in fact himself suggested that he might have behaved in these kinds of ways. so, you know, the media has to cover that. i think trump campaign can complain about the excesses. i don't think they can complain about the basis of the coverage itself. martha: the story was starting to fade a little bit and he brought it right back into the focus, clearly, over the weekend. steve, thank you very much. good to see you this morning. >> you bet. bill: 15 days to go, both parties trying to control balance much power. president obama campaigning for hillary clinton in las vegas to make sure clinton wins the white house and democratic candidates win house and senate. >> presidents can't do everything on their own. if i didn't have harry i couldn't have gotten done what i would have got done. if i hadn't had nancy pelosi we would not passed so many laws that benefits millions of americans. bill: rich edson, watching clinton team, manchester, new hampshire is the first stop of the day. how are you doing, rich, good morning? reporter: good morning, bill, doing well here. hillary clinton and her campaign are spending more time, resources and rhetoric trying to get democrats elected to congress. clinton herself has acknowledged she is not really spending all that much time responding to donald trump as she says she already debated him for four 1/2 hours. after the final debate clinton traveled to and campaigned for democrats in states like pennsylvania and north carolina. here in new hampshire, governor maggie hassen, the democrat is trying to unseat the kelly ayote, the republican incumbent senator here. allowing clinton campaign to do so is here rise in the polls. even senator tim kaine running mate is acknowledging and touting that the campaign's confidence going into the general election. >> what you start to do, you look at who is asking for absentee ballots. who is participating in early vote. who is registering for the first time. all over the country i'm going to tell you, we are seeing evidence that this could be a very big and historic win for hillary clinton. reporter: republicans also seem a little more focused on congress. there are some conservative and republican aligned groups, running ads essentially say, republicans to out and vote to maintain congress and control of it, so we can combat or temper anytime of clinton white house initiative from there. just a little bit, hillary clinton will campaign with liberal senator elizabeth warren. as the two appear together there are skeptics wondering how long they will be together at least on policy issues, especially specter of hillary clinton cutting deals with senator mitch mcconnell, majority leader in the senate right now or republican controlled house. certainly on issue of regulatory appointments. there are reports that elizabeth warren and her allies are assembling a list of those who should not be appointed to regulatory posts because of their ties to wall street and corporations. remember, when you tie this into the whole wikileaks thing that came out a couple, pieces of information we learned from the speeches that hillary clinton gave to wall street firms, she said when coming to and regulating wall street, that those who are in the industry seem to know the industry best. bill, back to you. bill: rich edson, watching that. rich, where you are in new hampshire by the way, you will have really good battle for the senate with kelly ayote and tough, tough race right now. republicans 54, democrats 46. that is are with the senate stands right now. come election night in 15 days from now you will see very, this could go very late into the night. democrats think they have got a chance of pulling even, at 50-50. we'll see how that goes right now. new hampshire, this is well within the margin of error right now, with kelly ayote trying to hold her piece. this is where democrats believe they have got a shot making this interesting. they think they're good in wisconsin and also in illinois. if they can flip new hampshire and flip perhaps north carolina, already looking at 50-50. you have got republicans out here battling in indiana which is really good race as well. out in nevada with joe heck if republican flint that -- flip that state take seat vacated by harry reid. number of scenarios, hang on by vote or 50-50. you start to see places like north carolina now. this is within the margin of error. richard burr trying to hang on to his seat. i mentioned indiana. evan bayh had a huge lead in the state for months. todd young really closed the margin in indian -- indiana, about four points, depending on polling. i mentioned in nevada, with harry reid's seat open with joe heck and mastro, still within the margin of error. bottom line in all of this balance the power in the senate will be something with a lot of drama come election night. we'll see how it goes. see whether or not republicans can hold power in that part of congress. martha. martha: thank you. so tragedy strikes moments after takeoff. a small surveillance plane crashed into the runway and erupted into a ball of flames. the breaking details where this happened and who was on board. bill: also georgia teenager survives a three-day coma but wakes up speaking entirely different language. how the doctors are explaining this one. martha: how about that, right? 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[applause] martha: that was donald trump over the weekend, delivering his own "gettysburg address." mr. trump at the famous civil war battleground offering a contract to american voters. vowed to crack down on washington and promised to deliver on the economy, immigration and national security. but after laying out his vision he went after his accusers so did his original message end up getting lost in that shuffle? former maryland governor robert erlich is a donald trump supporter and he joins us now martha, how are you doing? martha: good to see you this morning. that is what is getting all the attention this morning. >> martha, that clip you paid is the best of trump. it was the best of trump, from the heart and it also laid out an agenda, by the way, that congressional republicans should have been laying out for last two years. i understand your point getting off topic, this is quintessential trump as you know. he is going to throw in the agenda with responding to the attacks. it is his personality. it is him. it defines him. it defines this movement. and so you get both. whether you're going to buy both or not we'll find out in two weeks this, as i said trump real. this is not consultant. not listening to paid folks in washington from the establishment this is unvarnished trump. martha: he had a period back in september where he maybe was listening to his advisors a little bit more and he really stayed focus. >> you're right. martha: there wasn't a lot of this stuff going on to grab everybody's attention and he did well. why would he not be doing that what couldn't be a more crucial time? >> point well-taken as you said, media, it has been, it has been incredible, attacks over the past few weeks. and, he is not going to mange his m-o with regard to responding attacks. this is him. you saw in the debates and third debate, performance very solid. martha: it is preventing him from accomplishing his pole. >> that is the issue. martha: frustrating to supporters like you. >> of course it is. martha: i can imagine that must be pretty tough to watch? >> listen, talking about, my notes here from the contract, from infrastructure and climate change and repealing obamacare and immigration reform, tax reform, corporate, as former governor making medicaid a state function, these are all great ideas. they are substance. they're real. it is important. your other report, steve really put it past it, we have a lot of material to deal with. it is also the uber-left on steroids. elizabeth warren wants to vet hillary clinton's appointments to cabinets. are you kidding me? four more years of obama? this is really uber left on steroids. hopefully the last few weeks we can focus on, martha. to the ex-extent we don't. it is our problem. our campaign will fail. america will fail. his surrogates need to do it. martha: romney campaign was frustrated how with mitt romney he failed a candidate he choked because he wasn't willing to go there against his opponent and lay out the vision he felt wasyy essentially. >> he set out vision. martha: donald trump could be accused of the same thing by republicans and conservatives wanted him to carry the mantle once he got into the position to do so. they would say to him, but you're undisciplined? >> well, again, most of that speech was terrific. it was from the heart. it was why he ran. it defined him as candidate. defined his movement. sort of philosophical foundation. he lays out a program for america which is pretty reliably, republican, conservative, right of center, whatever term you want to use. your point, got it. take as few minutes to do his thing with regard to his detractors, to get back at them. that is his personality. martha: i understand what you're saying. >> he is not listening to consultants. martha: country gotten to some extent used to it, not being reflected well for him in the numbers. for the next two weeks, can he stay on message and can he close the gap i guess is political question you guys face? >> well, it is, your last half hour of show, all the wikileaks and story of virginia, and clinton scandal after scandal after wikileaks email. after the private server, you know, listen, my view is 85% substance and 15%, and by the way, this is what you're going to get. you get elizabeth warren and more scandals and more grand juries and more ethical problems. these are the clintons. this is what they do. i think more of a focus on the contrast between right-left here, liberal-conservative, heartland. he closed the deal with the voters that mitt romney could not close deal with. the working class folks you have been talking about, all of us talking about for years as republicans. now he needs to expand that base. martha: governor, thank you. >> my pleasure. bill: new details about a link between hillary clinton ally and the fbi. the campaign donation raising questions about a conflict of interest. poll watchers alert to any signs of voter fraud. the way hackers could create problems for the race without ever changing a vote. >> we have to be prepared for it. we have to be organized about it. you shouldn't be turning anyone away. anyone with a right to vote should be able to cast the ballot without any sort of hesitancy. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. proven to help the majority of people find clear or almost clear skin. 8 out of 10 people saw 75% skin clearance at 3 months. while the majority saw 90% clearance. do not use if you are allergic to cosentyx. before starting, you should be tested for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur... ...tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms... ...such as fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. or if you have received a vaccine or plan to. if you have inflammatory bowel disease, tell your doctor if symptoms develop or worsen. serious allergic reactions may occur. see me. see me. see me. on my way. find clear skin... and a clearer path forward. for a different kind of medicine, ask your dermatologist about cosentyx. we can't go back to the years of devastating cuts to public education. so vote yes on prop 55. prop 55 prevents $4 billion in new education cuts, without raising taxes on anyone, and with strict accountability. budget forecasts show if we don't pass prop 55 big cuts that hurt our kids are coming, and california will suffer budget deficits all over again. so vote yes on 55. because it helps our children thrive. martha: a georgia teenager wakes up from a coma after surviving a life-threatening head injury, but imagine his parents surprise all he could speak was spanish. he was kicked in the head playing soccer. he was a goalie. they came out after three-day coma, they were very worried he would not survive the issue. this is his third concussion. he was english speaking young man and when he came out of the coma he could speak fluent spanish, a language he couldn't speak before. his ability to speak is spanish is slowly returning, his ability to speak english is returning and but spanish is receding in his brain. what do you think about that? isn't that amazing? all those things, they say you use, about a third of your brain? bill: yeah. martha: there is a lot of other languages back in there apparent. bill: bueno for him, rights? being bilingual. election officials keeping out for voter fraud amid concerns hackers could cause problems. experts warning that the people could change the voter registration list, party affiliation, impacting election without altering any votes. eric shawn, live in the newsroom. what is up with this? reporter: election officials tell me there are new warnings from the fbi about potential hacking of the nation's voter registration rolls. the department of homeland security says hackers have tried to attack the voter registration rolls in 20 states. russian hackers are suspected of hitting illinois, grabbing upwards of 200,000 names and arizona, this summer. in ohio, second tar of state john husted said voter rolls in his state could be vulnerable. >> our voter registration is connected to internet. that does expose us to a potential cyberattack. reporter: he says the state's voter registration lists are backed up every night. he is confident voters will be protected. >> there is potential for disruption but not potential for chaos because of backup systems we have in place. we're doing all we can but as i noted, you can never eliminate the threat. reporter: in the last presidential election many states saw long lines and delays of hours at polling places. some fear if hackers get into the voter rolls this time, they could make problems even worse. >> terrifying thought to think our system could be hacked, the greatest system in the world could be hacked. reporter: new york voter muffy as ten, waited for hours to vote in 2012. there was more confusion in the voter registration rolls when she showed up in april. she hopes officials have the ability to safeguard the election system by preventing any hack saying everyone's vote should be protected. >> we have to be prepared for it. we have to be organized bit. you shouldn't be turning anyone away. anyone with a right to vote should be able to cast the ballot without any sort of hess tan city. reporter: miss astin said the system should be expanded as well as foolproof. she is going early to vote to make sure she is registered correctly in the books to make sure her vote is counted which something all of us hope when we show up to vote. bill: eric shawn in new york city. martha? 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>> no, this is not against the law. under virginia law, governor mcauliffe can make contributions of that magnitude from a variety of entities to dr. mccabe's wife. dr. mccabe's failed senate campaign a year ago. under the law, andrew mccabe as number two person in the fbi can supervise the investigation of mrs. clinton. but there is the appearance of impropriety. there is the appearance he was aware of the relationship of terry mcauliffe to the clintons. governor sununu can speak to that. that relationship is well-documented, it is political, personal and financial. and that makes it look like his decisions would be colored by his wishes to please people behind the person who gave this money to his wife. that is it in a nutshell. bill: what should have done? >> he should have excused himself from the case, because as a lawyer he has duty to avoid, quote, the appearance of impropriety and appearance of impropriety here is profound. now, i have got a couple of takeaways here. one, how did we learn about this? we learned about it from a tip. a tip from several fbi agents part of the team that investigated mrs. clinton, who believed that their work was destroyed by management in the fbi. hard-working men and women in the fbi who actually gathered evidence against her, who were prevented from presenting it to a grand jury, who couldn't get search warrants, who couldn't get subpoenas because of decisions made by director comey and deputy director mccabe. so we really have a situation here that looks terrible. bill: so the agents were ticked off? >> yes. bill: that is why the information is now public. >> yes? >> stand by one second. let's get the political side of this. governor, good day to you. the judge has a feeling that the constant drip, drip, drip of this is already baked into the voting public's minds and you throw whatever you want at the wall and nothing more will stick. what is your feeling when you look at election 15 days you in? >> we have to start talking about it in stark terms. this is another defining example of the culture of corruption that the clintons brought to the democratic party for the last quarter century. since 1992 they infused culture of corruption and now reached into the fbi which used to be one of the most hallowed and respected institution in the u.s. government. they used to bend over backward they weren't related to a party and now you have this action by terry mcauliffe, friend of clintons putting money into the campaign of the wife of the deputy direct are to it is unbelievable. the clintons have created this culture that infused the party and you had the democratic leadership trying to stick it to bernie sanders. you had the clintons enriching themselves individually, in terms of wealth and in terms of power and that extension of power is shown by their capacity to influence the fbi in this case. bill: let me stop you there, governor. dr. jill mccabe in statement put this out. it reads the following. my husband had no formal role in my campaign other than to be supportive husband to me and our children. as a federal official every who participated in our campaign understood and respected he could not participate, end quote. you heard what the judge said. he said there is no violation of the law here. >> it is not a question of illegality, it is a question of corruption. it is question of bringing to the political processing a grand diesment of themselves and control of the civil. it reached into the fbi of thewt statement from the wife of the deputy director, that is just garbage. half a million dollars plus contribution to that lady from the clinton-controlled operation certainly had an influence on her husband. bill: she lost the election i about i think entire campaign was about $1.8 million. sound like a lot of money for a state office, is it? >> it is. and almost half of it funded by the clintons. you don't think that they're planning ahead in terms of how to influence the process? this is corruption in the democratic party. this election has to be a election of change and throwing out this party that has, even the president of the united states today was nutured and promoted by the corrupt political system is in chicago. corruption is the keynote democratic party. they're trying to convince america a 15-year-old tape with garbage talk on it is more important than these issues of corruption including what happened with the server, where they were deliberately trying to hide things from the public and from scrutiny. this has to change. bill: on that server, to the judge's last point, the it happened in march of 2015. >> right. bill: that was the same hot month where the emails were deleted, order came from congress and on and on. >> that is when the investigation began and it as assigned to mr. mccabe, director mccabe. two other points. terry mcauliffe is himself investigated by fbi for allegations of corruption. we do not know if mccabe is in charge of that vision as well. the governor is exactly correct. it is a question of corruption. it is not a question of violating the law. bill: thank you governor, thank you, gentlemen, thank you for coming on. 20 before the hour. here is martha. martha: a a decade after signing up for war, thousands of soldiers are being to give back the enlistment bonus they received. for many that is long gone. what happens if they don't give up cash? 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>> some did. the basic contours 10 years ago we're in middle of a hot war. we need people signing up again. as a result we're giving them bonuses in specialty jobs and general jobs, large bonuses, 10, 15, $20,000, to sign for three to six more years at time of war where they may potentially go back to iraq and afghanistan. the program makes sense. they sign in good faith, i understand i'm putting my life on the line and military will compensate me for it. that is what it is in general. fast forward 10 years later someone looked at audit, some improper processes some who didn't necessarily qualify or there was corruption indecide the bureaucracy. who is being blamed for it? it is individual soldier who thought they could sign up for three to six years for the bonus and serve their country. that is the outrage. we made a promise to these guys. we put money their bank account and 10 years later we're taking it out without explanation and doing it with a wide net. maybe who did so improperly but so are ones that did nothing wrong. martha: kevin mccarthy is leading charge on this. it seems pretty obvious i think to most americans that most politicians this would be a very wrong move. when you look at the stuff we waste money on in this country, to take back money from people who used it in many ways to put down payment on house, make an investment in their future seems mean and ridiculous. >> and it is and it is. that is why i think this will change. ultimately the california national guard can do nothing about it. it is federal issue. kevin mccarthy are fighting to get this taken back. i think it will be -- there is a sense this is wrong and it is. this happened to me before in my military career. military pay system is complicated thing. they took back parts of my bonus. i was never told about it. it started coming out of my paycheck. you're individual soldier and losing money and bills, threatened by bureaucracy nowhere to go except your champions in congress. this should get fixed. it is outrage. really is, and billions we spend on a lot of other things and can't help a few soldiers that went to iraq for us? martha: you say certain instances perhaps somebody received it by mistake. >> sure. martha: isolate those incidents and ask those people for the money book. >> that's right. martha: there is no reason to do blanket over this. there is 10,000 people? they have so many people working in these bureaucracies they can't spend a little time to figure out who they are? >> well, you hit the key word on it, martha. it is bureaucracy. bureaucracies don't do specialization very well. they use a few criteria and apply to all. unfortunately that is what is happening in california. there is one other part here. california national guard had issues with recruiting scandal a couple years ago. there were extra eyeballs in scrutiny. there were recruiters that did improper things. this is not what we're talking about. these are soldiers signed doing one thing and hoodwinked 10 years later. bureaucracy is in its own way. it will take members of congress to fight for a soldier on the ground. martha: seems like focus should be back on the bureaucracy to get it right and figure out who those individuals are and not punish rest of them. that really shouldn't be that hard to do. >> that is -- martha: good to have you here, pete. >> got it. bill: jon scott coming up next on "happening now." good monday, jon. >> good monday morning to you. you know what two weeks from tomorrow is? election day. early voting is underway in several more states today, including most of florida. that is where we find donald trump today. plus hillary clinton, vice-presidential pick tim kaine in the sunshine state. we're waiting for clinton rally in manchester, new hampshire, another battleground. we have new polling to share, plus the mainstream media are they writing off mr. trump too soon? disturbing new discovery on earthquakes in california. internet attack on friday. all "happening now." bill: good deal, jon. see you then. 12 minutes away. the chicago cubs won the national league pennant over the weekend. what a celebration this was in chicago. [shouting] they behaved too, by the way. martha: really good time. bill: now they face the cleveland indians what will no doubt be a matchup for the history books, for both cities. wow, cleveland, chicago, tell you why. coming up. ♪ how tall are you? how do we measure greatness in america? it's measured by what we do for our children. it's why as president i'll invest in our schools. in college that leads to opportunities... not debt. and an economy where every young american can find a job that lets them start a family of their own. i've spent my life fighting for kids and families. i want our success to be measured by theirs. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. ♪ >> [shouting] the cubs have won the pennant. bill: nice. cubs win! lots of celebrating in chicago. cubs win pennant over the weekend. putting them up against cleveland indians tuesday night only here on fox. wow. that is awesome. martha: they're having fun. bill: stakes are high for both cities. they share the longest combined championship drought in baseball history. jim gray, sportscaster, fox news contributor. how are you doing, jim? good morning to you. this is great for cleveland and chicago clearly. i think it is great for baseball as a game, for the sport. >> bill, you're right on both counts. this is great for america. what a better time could this come? people having fun, total enjoyment, 176 years combined these two teams have not won a world series. indians had a chance. they were an out away. heart break of edgar renteria and marlins in 1987. 108 years for the drought in chicago. look at celebrations. look at joy this brought to people. they have been waiting their entire life for this. so it is just wonderful. i hope it plays out and gives the country a great break from this election. bill: chicago, 1908 since last time they won world series in chicago? >> that's correct. bill: more than the iphone, we have invented the toaster, the traffic light, sliced bread came along. bubble gum and sunglasses from 1929. >> and, it has been 1948. don't short the indians. they haven't won in a long, long time. indians won 94 games, 103 games the cubs have won. these two teams, they played terrific baseball getting there, beating san francisco, the giants and then los angeles. of course boston and tampa. and these two managers have done a great job. terry francona. think about what he might be able to accomplish with the indians as you see him getting hugs right there. he broke the red sox jinx, 86 years for them. could do it,8 years for the indians. joe madden has been wonderful. three-time manager of the year. it will be a good time. won a world series ring with the angels on the bench for mike scioscia 2000 two. twice in history mlb and nba team won a world series and baseball world series. that was the 2002 lakers and angels. in 1988, lakers and dodgers. so the indians and the cavs have that chance. cavs get a ring on tuesday night, an hour before the game starts. bill: everything going on in cleveland. enjoy the series. i don't know, who has got the edge, cubs or indians? >> bill, you're an ohio man, i'm sure you're going with ohio right there, right? bill: would i take that for sure. '95, '97 -- you take chicago. i take cleveland. >> just to go on the other side. bill: i get it. thank you, jim. the toaster. martha: sliced bread. bill: sunglasses. martha: are you rooting for indians or root for the cubs? there is a cleveland, cincinnati rivalry, right? bill: you're all buckeyes once you're outside of the state borders. >> no shooting within the ohio tent. bill: correct. martha: all right. back to politics unfortunately. here we go. candidates focusing on battleground states as new poll comes out. very interesting number indi north carolina. when we come back. and forgot ab. until a dump truck hit your pickup truck the cost of a tow truck? who knows? you didn't read it. you can't even find it. the liberty mutual app with coverage compass™ makes it easy to know what you're covered for and what you're not. call liberty mutual for a free quote today at coverage compass™ gives you the policy information you need at a glance. available 24/7 on your mobile device. switch to liberty mutual and you could save up to $509. call that's liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. you're a smart saver. you find ways to stretch your dollar. so why not compare your medicare part d plan with other options? call or go online now and see how aetna medicare rx saver could help you save. with a low monthly plan premium. access to over 60,000 pharmacies. plus $1 tier 1 generic medications at preferred pharmacies including walgreens and walmart. shop smart. compare your part d options today. and find out if aetna rx saver is right for you. . . . 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