up because of what the russians and saudis just did. i ll speak with don bacon and elizabeth slot kin. plus presidential portrait. maggie haberman has an in-depth look at his rise to power, including changing views on abortion, reversing the position he once made right here on this program. i m very pro-choice. yamiche alcindor and brendan buck. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. announcer: this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. i m kristin welker in for chuck to do. election day is just 30 days away. ronald reagan worried jimmy carter would engineer a last-minute release of u.s. hostages. carter, of course, did not, but the term stuck. there s at least three stories unfolding. first the nuclear threat from russia. then there are rising gas prices, now averaging just under $4 a gallon, which democrats worry there will be a sign to voters that there is a true. but the october surprise of the week, it could determine control of senat
So it s very unfair to him, if they re going to destroy him over doing by comparison nothing, i don t see how she can run. i think she s got much bigger problems than running for office. jeff pointed out to donald trump that petraeus s e-mails were more classified, hers were not. at least as we know up to this point. does that resonate, the e-mail argument, does it resonate with voters? you know, i hear it a lot more in the press than i hear it with voters. i think the only place where you can see that e-mail controversy resonating is in the polls. people say that they find other candidates more trustworthy than they find hirp. that is something hillary clinton has been working on every time she comes to iowa. she is spending time talking directly to voters and trying to held her story through the people that she meets on the campaign trail. so in a sense, you bring up and we ll pull up those poll numbers because it comes