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Are we to assume from the fact that they are sending the first lady as a surrogate to arizona? >> glad you asked about that, brian. that is the other really big story today. the math, if you look at most of the polls including our latest polls shows secretary clinton has opened up a pretty sizable lead. our poll shows her with an 11 fi -point lead leading 20 points among women in the wake of these controversies donald trump is dealing with. she is sending the first lady to arizona big headline t...

Lady as a surrogate to arizona? >> glad you asked about that, brian. that is the other really big story today. the math, if you look at most of the polls including our latest polls shows secretary clinton has opened up a pretty sizable lead. our poll shows her with an 11 -point lead leading 20 points among women in the wake of these controversies donald trump is dealing with. she is sending the first lady to arizona big headline today. shes also sending bernie sanders, as well as chelsea clinton...

There. the polls were watching right now, national polls are interesting to follow. its really the state polls we should be focusing on. >> exactly. i think some people dont quite understand the electoral process, right? so if donald trump wins the popular vote in ohio, he gets 18 electoral votes. thats winner take all, right, just like in the primary. >> correct, correct, but, you know, having said that, if he needs to get to 270 electoral votes in total, and if you add up all states where hill...

Trying to under mine our democracy, i object. you are making the statement with some authority. >> absolutely. for those of us who have come from the intelligence world we see what russia is doing. its plane as day. our faith in our political process. a lot of folks see your competitive race but for you to win the only chance is neither candidate gets 270 votes. then the race gets kicked to the house of representatives. the only time that scenario has happened is twice in our entire history. the...

Correspondent, our own steve kornacki joins me here at the wall. give me an update first, lets look where we are on the electoral map and where she wants to go. >> look, a magic number is 270. the good news for the clinton campaign, right now, theyre in good shape in more than states with more than 270 electoral votes. you can see some of the gray here, the gray are the toss-up states. were starting to talk now about romney states in 2012. this is supposed to be the hard-core base that donald tr...

Clinton, spend all your money here, because its going to be the worst investment youve made in your campaign. >> can donald trump win without winning arizona? can he win the white house without arizona? >> yes, i dont -- its additive, right, you want 270 electoral votes. weve got 11 here. every single vote counts right now. so i would say that when youre running a smart campaign, you want to win every state. you want to have the best outcome where he can. when you have a red state like arizona t...

Quickly, the polls that show hillary clinton with a massive lead, and do you change what you said a week or two ago, theres an outside chance trump gets to 270. >> theres two ways to look at the election, two puzzle pieces donald trump has to deal with. one is he needs to shore up the romney states and win all the states that romney took in 2012. we have been talking about that in terms of north carolina being the challenge area, and the problem for trump is the challenge got bigger in the last ...

As more honest and trustworthy than secretary clinton. three tight races in three battleground states. how does that affect the map that matters most? well, lets go to where we now stand heading into the election. as we have it now, clinton would win. the gold states are the battleground states. guess what, the gold states are the three we just went through, with north carolina, ohio, and nevada. so what does that tell you? theyre important states, but clinton can win the presidency without them...

Its not enough i would throw iowa into the mix as another state donald trump has as a must win. i think colorado and pennsylvania are unlikely for him. his most likely path is something like holding on to every last state that mitt romney won. he cant lose north carolina, georgia, arizona. some of these states that have come into question in recent months. and then he needs to win iowa, florida, including perhaps one of those congressional districts in main where you have all the states electora...

Voting, absentee voting and so on, theyre banking their votes, turning out their votes, theres no reason to think thats going to change between now and november 8th. >> four new national polls out today, two over the weekend, this is cbs news/new york times has clinton up 9 points. mon nout university poll, clinton is up by 12 points. abc poll, clinton up 12 points. nbc news wall street journal polls, it gives clinton an 11 point lead. i mean if you are looking at these polls, if theyre accurate...