An operation to retake mosul from the islamic state. The countrys Prime Minister saying the time for victory has come. The battle for mosul begins. U. S. Defense secretary ash carter calling this a decisive moment. Another thing hes saying is that the election is rigged. Is that a responsible thing for a candidate to say . The American People are getting awful tired of this of this two on one fight with media doing half of Hillary Clintons work for her every day. Lets talk about the hacked emails that the Clinton Campaign shared. John podesta i dont give credence to any of these dumped documents because i dont even know if theyre accurate. No power in the south and the pacific northwest. To see all the trees down, its amazing. Its scary. Vandals fire bombed a gop office in North Carolina. We will not be scared. We are not going anywhere. Some bills fans voiced their disclosure with Colin KaepernicksNational Anthem protest. Im going to continue to fight for what im fighting for. China launched its newest space mission. Two astronauts blasted off. In florida a car flies off a road. Good samaritans help pull everyone to safety. All that. Marge and homer made Television History with the 600th episode of the simpsons. Row. They split the first two games of the nlcs in chicago. And all that matters. Donald trump calling snl a hit job. Ive been helping kids my whole life in 1992 i helped a kid named Kevin Mcallister find a hotel lobby. On cbs this morning. Wikileaks leaked all these emails from hillarys campaign and no ones talking about them because the trump stuff is so much more ridiculous. Would do less damage than access hollywoods billy bush . This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Welcome to cbs this morning. The fire bombing of a republicans Head Quarters in North Carolina is raising fears about Political Violence in the final weeks of the president ial campaign. Pies damage caused by the attacks. It happened overnight saturday, no one was hurt. Now the office is in hillsborough just north of durham. Jeff pegues is following investigations where some local Republican Leaders call an act of political terrorism. Jeff, good morning. Good morning. The fbi and the atf have now joined local police in this investigation. So far no suspects have been named as Campaign Offices around that fiercely competitive battleground state have been asked to step up security. Emotions you feel when you see Something Like this today. No one was inside the gop headquarters in Orange County during the overnight attack. Officials say a bottle filled with flammable liquid was thrown through the offices front window, burning furniture and signs inside. On the outside of a nearby wall a spray painted swastic to with the words, nazi republicans leave town or else. That is what we all wonder. We will not be intimidated. We will not be cowed. And we will not be scared. We are not going anywhere. Local republican officials are calling the violence an act of political terrorism. Democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton, who recent polls show leading in the battleground state, condemned the incident, calling the attack horrific. And unacceptable. Donald trump blamed the violence on clinton supporters. Hillary clinton and dems in North Carolina just fire bombed our office in Orange County because we are winning. The objective of terrorism is to intimidate and scare people. And our volunteers have been coming through all day long and we know that its on their mind. But theyre not going to give up. Reporter the democratic leaning county scored lopsided wins for president obama in 2012 and 2008. Gop officials in the state say they have not received any threats of violence prior to this at this is not what Orange County is. It may be a liberal county. But it is not a violent county. In a sign of unity, a go fund me Campaign Page has started, by democrats, and it has already raised more than 13,000 to help reopen the office. Gayle . Thank you very much, jeff. The election is now just 22 days away, and donald trump is accusing the clinton machine and the media of a conspiracy to the latest cbs news Battle Ground tracker Shows Hillary clinton now has a sixpoint lead, 4640 across 13 battleground states. Clinton and trump were tied in those states just a month ago. Trumps repeated claims of a rigged election are even drawing objections from his own running mate. Major garrett is covering the trump campaign. Major, good morning. Good morning. Donald trump once ran as the strongman in this race. Now hes the victim. Beset on all sides by Hillary Clintons campaign and conspiring who accuse him of Sexual Misconduct and now local officials and volunteers apparently eager to rig this election. Trump sees villains everywhere. Leaving the explaining to surrogates like his running mate. Donald trumps made it clear that he categorically denies those allegations. Reporter republican Vice President ial candidate mike pence defended donald trump against numerous allegations of Sexual Assault. People see an overwhelming bias in the national media. Campaigning in maine over the backgrounds, but similar stories, made it all up. Lies. Lies. No witnesses. No nothing. All big lies. All right to trump its not a question of his character, but an indictment of media recklessness, which he laid out in a twitter onslaught this weekend. The election is absolutely rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing crooked hillary but places. Listen, what i said is nothing compared to what bill clinton has done. Okay . Reporter trump also chafed at saturday night lives portrayal of him, calling it a hit job and linking it to the quote, media rigging election. November 8th. This is it. Were going to either win or were going to have a whole different country. Pence declined to stand by trumps allegations that the election is already tarnished. Outcome of this election should ever attempt to make any other american nervous in the exercise of their franchise to vote. Reporter if claims of election tampering were not enough, trump introduced another specter. Clinton on some sort of drug therapy. I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate. I do. I dont know whats going on with her. But at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped it was like, oh, take me down. She could barely reach her car. Reporter the issue of voter fraud it is actually extremely rare. And errors that do arise commonly come from clerical errors or bad data matching. The Nonpartisan Center found the average american is more likely to be struck by lightning than impersonate someone else at the polls. Thats interesting. Thank you, major. Our Battle Ground tracker also shows women turning away from donald trump. Ground states prefer Hillary Clinton by a 15point margin. Thats 5136 . Now that is a tenpoint gain in just one month. Nancy cordes is covering the Clinton Campaign, and she has more of those poll numbers. Nancy, good morning. Good morning. The swing among women has been so pronounced, norah, that clinton is now gaining on trump even among republican women. The catalyst it seems was that 2005 access hollywood video. 70 of women said they found it offensive and in a new ad this morning clinton compares tru convenients most famous bullies. She ate like a pig. Youre so stupid. How stupid are the people of this country . I want to see you get him out of here reporter in the new ad the Clinton Campaign argues trump is promoting bad behavior. What are you going to do about people who want to be mean and bullying . Its important to stand up to bullies wherever they are. Reporter the latest cbs news Battle Ground tracker find voters question clintons truthfulness. More than 50 say the hacked private than in public. There is sort of the double standard for a woman candidate. Reporter Vice President argued sunday clintons being held to unfair expectations. I may find myself choking up. Anybody looks at me and said, well hes a good father. Or what a decent guy. She chokes up and says something, you know, for whatever reason, and sheetz playing the woman card. This is the difference. Reporter over the weekend a top House Republican raised a of a private email server as secretary of state. The fbi has Given Congress more details about its investigation, and congressman Jason Chaffetz says he sees evidence of a quid pro quo. Chaffetz says the fbi documents show an undersecretary of state Patrick Kennedy contacted an fbi official in 2015 to dispute the classification level of one of clintons benghazirelated emails. Which had just been marked longstanding request for additional fbi slots at u. S. Missions overseas. Chaffetz says the documents indicate kennedy offered a trade, a lower classification level in exchange for the fbi swap. In a statement the fbi says it looked into it, and the classification of the email was not changed. There was no never a quid pro quo. The state Department Denies the quid pro quo, as well. Though theyve been very open about the fact that the way many of clintons emails were classified. They did not believe the information was as sensitive as the fbi and intelligence officials did. And from a political perspective, charlie, the higher the classification level, the worse it looks that clinton stored those emails on her private server. Thanks, nancy. Washington bureau chief of the wall street journal, good to have him back. What do you think the campaign maximum possible. And in the process, try to drive down Hillary Clintons. Keep his base up, drive her swing voter registered swing voter support down. I think her strategy is a little harder to figure out right now because shes kind of moved between going on the attack with donald trump, engaging with him on his terms, and also trying to sort of like go positive and rise above as she says. And i think the interesting question this week is, whats the debate strategy for each of scorched earth strategy. I think shes got a course to make. Rise above that and try to go higher and positive or do i stake in the fight . Is there anything in the wikileaks emails that surprises you or that you find damaging to her . Well, i dont think theres anything very surprising but i think the most damaging thing to her is probably the tone of the conversation with the Goldman Sachs bankers. Again not shocking but its sort of confirms what Bernie Sanders supporters always thought which is she says tough things about banks in public but in private that would have been more damaging in the primaries than it is now. The wall street journal poll has Hillary Clinton up eleven points nationally. Theres now a discussion about whether her team will expand the electoral map. Do you expect they will fight in georgia, arizona, utah . Well theyre going to fight in utah because its the most bizarre state. The most republican state may go independent or democrat this year. I think theres a real conversation under way in the campaign about whether georgia, and over. I think theres more of an inclination to fight in arizona but theres also kind of a temptation to at least try in georgia. Georgia has a big africanamerican population. If you could energize that vote for clinton it might be within reach. But georgia is the Charlie Brown football. It always looks tempting to democrats and pulls back at the end. Given that donald trump is trying to suggest that the election is rigged, is there a thought that they need to win big in order to silence any doubts well one of the interesting clinton are not particularly optimistic about a Hillary Clinton victory. What the country would be like, whether it would be governed that way. So i think winning big would at least help her create a bigger mandate if thats where they want to think about it. But having watched campaigns over the years, campaigns are very reluctant to start counting how large the victory is going to be. Mostly theyre just happy to have a win at all and i dont think theyll get too carried away. You expecting any surprises . You know, if we said you shouldnt expect surprises this year, wed have been w turn, right . So, yeah, i mean by definition i dont know what they are. There are going to be thousands more wikileaks documents. Ient expect there to be something to be really shocking and stunning but who really knows. I think the biggest question is the way each of them choose to finish this out. Scorched earth for donald trump, probably. Does it go high for Hillary Clinton . I think well find out on wednesday a lot more. Thank you, gerry, great to have you here. The final president ial debate is on wednesday night. Gayle and i will be in Las Vegas Dickerson and bob schieffer. Our coverage begins at 6 00 p. M. Pacific time right here on cbs. The major offensive to retake mosul is under way right now. American war plaens and special forces are backing thousands of iraqi and kurdish fighters. Theyre moving on mosul. Isis seized the northern iraqi city more than two years ago. Holly williams is on the front line. Good morning. These kurdish fighters are trying to retake the main road direction over there. Just after dawn this morning we were with them as they broke through the front line, and then a column of tanks and Armored Vehicles moved in to this area which has been controlled by isis now for over two years. The kurds have light arms and artillery. Youre seeing isis respond this morning with a suicide car bomb. Which moves through this area, government iraqi forces have moved in positions around the outside of mosul and they include the iraqi army, kurdish fighters, and militia men. The u. S. Coalition is also involved in this fight and there are around 6,000 u. S. Service members currently here in iraq. Over the last few days, weve seen video emerging from inside mosul of what appear to be u. S. Coalition air strikes inside the city. Its thought that there are between 3,000 and 5,000 isis fighters inside mosul, and that they have laid explosives to protect themselves. For isis, mosul is really the jewel in the crown of its socalled islamic state. And nobody here is expecting this fight to be quick or easy. Holly williams, cbs news, just Holly Williams on the front line in iraq. Secretary of state john kerry warns that russia and syrias government could face new economic sanctions over the war in syria. Air strikes continue in aleppo. Weekend ceasefire talks failed to reach an agreement. Video shows a child being saved from the rubble of a building yesterday. Elizabeth palmer is in aleppo, where she learned about some of the crude weaponry that is causing so much destruction. Elizabeth, good morning. The siege of eastern aleppo, which is slowly choking the life out of almost half the city is so painfully drawn out because neither side is Strong Enough to win decisively, more weak enough to be forced to capitulate. One missile has become a trade mark of the opposition fighters in aleppo. Its deadly, cheap, and homemade. In a neighborhood recently recaptured from the rebels by didnt want to be identified took us into the basement of a ruined building. Everywhere there were piles of parts to build a simple bomb. Cooking gas canisters sawn in half were packed with explosives and minuted on crude tail fins. The result isnt pretty but its unique. Its not filled with explosives, though, right . The rockets were launched, and aimed, sort of, through an ordinary piece of steel pipe. The syrian army, too, has improvised weapons like the by now infamous barrel bombs. But puts crude weapons in the hands of poorly trained and overstretched fighting forces on both sides of this grinding war. And heres what you get. Devastation on an epic scale. And stalled front lines. Here in southern aleppo its taken the syrian army three yards to those white buildings over there. And all around, theres misery for the civilians who are trapped in a war they didnt ask for. And now have no power to end. And the fact that no promise of a ceasefire came out of the talks between the u. S. And russia this weekend is a further blow to people who have lost almost everything. Norah . Elizabeth palmer reporting from inside syria. Thank you. Cleaning up this morning from a series of damaging storms. In oregon 80mileperhour winds whipped the coast. Heavy rain flooded streets and highways. Tornadoes and falling trees ripped homes apart and knocked out power to thousands. But the storms were not as bad as some forecasts had predicted. A famed black bear who walked on his hind legs were reportedly killed during a legal hunt. Ahead the outcry of the apparent death of petals. The bear and how several people hacked emails allegedly show Hillary ClintonsCampaign Chairman was warned about a character problem. Ahead, other Clinto