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Welcome back. it is time now for your morning primer, everything you need to know to get your day started. we start with the presidential candidates battleground blitz. donald trump is in the must-win state of florida where early voting begins today. while hillary clinton campaigns with senator elizabeth warren in new hampshire. at&ts $85 billion buy-out of time warner is drawing a lot of skepticism and concern. top senate leaders plan to probe the deal for potential anti-trust issues. >> and th...

Crash. the california highway patrol tells nbc news that fatigue may have been a factor. and this is a weird one, i would say, in sports. last nights seahawks/cardinals game ended in a bizarre, get this right, 6-6. that was the score. 6-6 tie, after both teams failed to convert short field goals in overtime. this was the first tie in an nfl game since 2014. >> and in a sign of just how extraordinary this race has become, it appears that even the so solid red state of texas may be in play. hill...

Donald trump presidency looks bleak, why wouldnt leading gop members start to leave him in a bigger way? >> well, its all complicated. youre todd young in indiana, mike pence is on the ticket. mike pence is helping todd young catch and surpass evan bayh who has kind of collapsed under charges of cronyism and being absent out of the state. todd is a veteran of the iraq war. so todd youngs individual calculation in indiana is not to say anything about donald trump but to stay focused on evan bayh ...

The state. thats been proven with a great deal of effort and information that has demonstrated clearly otherwise. and as hillary clinton said the night of her debate, the last debate, she stands behind the work of the clinton foundation and the incredible efforts that the clinton foundation has gone to to fighting aids around this country or around the world, and of course, they have taken donations to further that work. and i dont think that they shy away from making sure that theyre proud of t...

Democrat back in 2012. certainly a lot of attention not just inputal election in florida but those down ballot races, as well. >> thanks for joining us. coming up, welcome to the pants party. i said pants. its a new kind, a pants party. hundreds of women protesting after a published letter called yoga pants the worst thing ever to happen to fashion. clearly the man who wrote this forgot about the 1980 and my mom in those crunch suits. thats next. tol, virgini w...i tennessee. on thiside of the r...

Surrogates could make their way down there in the next 15 days? >> i know for sure theyre going to. in fact, it was bizarre this weekend, i was watching football at home like many texans do on a saturday afternoon, and there were ads, and its surprising because we never see ads in presidential elections here in our state. we have always been written off, and im glad to see it because i think it helps us over the long term. when were investing in making sure that voters believe they have the powe...

On the stump for that senate candidate yesterday in las vegas at a local high school. take a listen. >> catherines been a national leader in the fight against sex trafficking of teenage girls and violence against women. the other guy is supporting donald trump. what the heck? >> chris, how unprecedented is it for a sitting president whos got a job to do at the white house, is going this deep in state senate races? >> well, i mean, look. the u.s. senate is obviously very important for his legacy,...

You cant get an inch of daylight between them because of their districts, because of the makeup of the demographics of their districts. but overall, i see it as a case by case, district by district, state by state examination of what works and what doesnt. >> back to those trump supporters calling into your show this morning and the fact there is a shift to the down ballot races. for some of those really big hillary clinton surrogates, is the clinton campaign running a victory lap too soon? this...