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We start with donald trump and his frantic push to find a path to 270 electoral college votes. just last in our north carolina trump hammered clinton over the fbi e-mail probe. >> she illegally destroyed 33,000 e-mails after receiving a congressional subpoena -- i mean, think of that. she made 13 phones disappear. some with a hammer. she is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency. >> nbcs katy tur joins us live from wilmington a new poll this afternoon shows clinton wit...

Let me talk about the states that peter mentioned. whats the strategy, what can we conclude from the states that hes jam-packing in the final snow showers. >> i agree with peter. its impressive that hes hopping from state to state to state, certainly theyre battle grounds. what is his specific path? he needs to nail florida, ohio, and possibly pennsylvania. hes hitting those states along the way, but hes also bouncing in other places, too. the path hes following to 270 is unclear. theres no ques...

At this point donald trumps path to 270 includes turning at least one blue state red. right now michigan could be the campaigns best hope. the latest detroit free press poll showing donald trump trailing hillary clinton by just four points there. a trump campaign aide tells nbc news michigan is one of two states that is a top priority for surpassing the threshold of 270 electoral votes. pennsylvania, of course, the other. joining me now, kathleen braid, political reporter for the free press. tha...

To choose from, and its tighter for donald trump, so its strange he is hop scotching the way he is. the states they need just to begin with are florida, ohio, pennsylvania, and why he is not staying in those states and digging down and drilling down to get the votes out in those really big states that would make the difference to him is a little unclear. at the same time, even if he gets all of what are the traditional battle grounds, he doesnt get to 270 electoral votes so the next thing he wou...

He says hes perfectly happy to pay and hes not voting for clinton. its a far off possibility he could personally throw the election here, though. at 270towin.com, there are 97 different permutations in which this election could end in a 269-269 tie, and the electoral college. if he doesnt vote the way his state votes, if he says hes not going to do it, 269 minus 1 gets you to donald trump is president. that could happen. stay with us. ♪

Then he would have to get this congressional district up here in the north of maine to get him the extra electoral vote and dpget him to 270. this is the no room for error map for donald trump. >> all right. there you have it. what about hillary clinton? do you have anything on her for us? >> well, listen, hillarys entire mission is to save the blue wall. let me show you a different trump path and where hes looking to break through that blue wall. it is right up here in the rust belt. this is wh...

>> remember this, obamacare in north carolina is going up 40%. obamacare nationally does not have a good brand, if you will. its going up in other states. but in philadelphia, 53%. so -- >> i think its 2% in ohio. so do you think hillary clinton will win ohio? >> lets take a quick break. weve got a lot more with the panel, including the battle on utah, where independent evan mcmullin is doing his best to rye to throw a race into the race. his goal, to block hillary clinton and donald trump from ...

I think you will see her continue to hit donald trump hard. shes been sharpening her attacks in recent days. last night saying the campaign is literally making voters sick. i think here today in pittsburgh shell try to draw a sharp contrast with him when it comes to women and the economy, paid leave and making child care more available. sharper attack and trying to hold down the states to get to 270. >> sharp attacks are what we are seeing from donald trump today. within the last five minutes he...

Complicated. for you unfamiliar with ways of our republic, you need 270 votes to win the election. hillary clinton wants new hampshire. now polls find it tied there. and a new poll from nbc news has donald trump ahead by one point. he has no chance without georgia. joining us this morning is cnn political reporter eugene scott. start with new hampshire. four votes that are so important. you can count those on your fingers. >> we said in the past whoever is grabbing the headlines, there is negati...

Poll, donald trump has a lead over hillary clinton. independent candidate evan mcmullin is at 24%. gary johnson and jill stein in the single digits. mcmullin is only one on the ballot in 11 states. hes registered as a write-in in others. his goal is to block both major party candidates to gets to 270 electoral votes needed to win. heres what he said earlier on cnn. >> people in utah are very uncomfortable with donald trump and opposed to him, but they also dont like hillary clinton, due to her c...