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Amy stoddard, associate editor and columnist for "real clear politics." quickly, david. the president talks about the e-mail issue, the fbi review of whats going on right now. when he does that it generates more news coverage. this is a story the clinton campaign would like to see go discussed as were doing right - now. >> as were doing right now. its not going to go away. i think they understand that. certainly the president understands it. from a narrower, strategic point of view they recogniz...

People as well. so i dont think that this e-mail issue, which i know its got a lot of media attention, i dont think thats actually wast going to drive voters in phoenix, arizona. >> reporter: early results show that the republicans are ahead. but let me go back and talk to the clinton campaign what they said to me from the beginning. if theyre going to win in a place like this where theyre outnumbered in terms of registration, theyre going to have to bring some of the republican and independents...

Particularly on the e-mail issue. so i think the more likely impact is putting the brakes on turnout a bit. and depressing enthusiasm for her. >> david swerlic, all of a sudden at the end of this campaign we see donald trump showing up in traditionally democratic or blue states, whether wisconsin or pennsylvania, and some of his strategists are saying he should really focus in on those battleground states he desperately needs to win, ohio, north carolina, florida. hes spending time there. but wh...

Hampshire that makes this a tied race in this scenario and gets it thrown into the house of represe representatives. >> that is incredible. people say wait a minute that would be an incredible thing indeed. thank you david chalian. and as david said, that is why so much is riding on new hampshire. imagine that. >> 269 to 269. trump tonight hammering clinton on the e-mail issue but the question is will it make that difference in the crucial state of new hampshire? miguel marquez is out front. >> ...

About all the stories on your last segment about donald trump. when the focus is on him, he suffers, because he also has unfavorability ratings just as high as hers. >> john, im here in wisconsin, where trump and pence are coming in just a little bit, and we saw them in michigan yesterday, out in new mexico. are -- is your sense that those states have moved at all, and the trump campaign has a reasonable chance of winning one or more of them, or is this out of desperation because they cant fine ...

A handy cam. >> the clinton campaign clearly wants to talk about russia. robbie mook yesterday all but called the conference call to say. but do you think the clinton campaign is successfully muddying the waters here? >> i think the -- frankly, the panel you just heard that i listened to from a safe distance shows the degree to which the waters have just been muddies kind of across the board. i think reintroducing the e-mail issue as comey did on friday was certainly not helpful for hillary clin...

Scathing ads that the clinton campaign has used against donald trump, using his own words. so this is her focus today. as they try to change the narrative a little bit. theres so much focus now on the e-mail issue. her aide, huma abedins e-mails, on her estranged husbands anthony weiners laptop, theyre trying to change the topic of conversation from that. >> director comey felt it was incumbent upon him to announce the fbi had some information hed never even looked at, but they wont reveal conne...

Wie the same token, arent they so simplified and really going to move things. >> thats what i tried to figure out. the race has been stable in some ways and the bottom dropped out for a few days. let me ask you what you think. we are talking earlier with katie and donald trump, not talking in his speeches about the fbi. about the e-mail issue. whoever has a zero now has a tight script. today the subject was obamacare and they are keeping him away from the issues and keeping him away from the fbi...

This morning, donald trump and his running mate mike pence will share the stage with members of congress and also ben carson. they will go after what they call the disaster increases in the premiums for obamacare and the plan to fix it. you can bet trump will bring up hillary clinton and the e-mail issue. sara murray has the latest on that. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. donald trump kicked off his week by spending the day trying to convince the american voters that the fbi was s...

When i hear from people about the issue, i hear from the people who are trump voter who is are angry at him who i hear from the moderate voters. >> toomey has not com paped with trump and campaigned with four senators in the last week. senator cassidy as well. is is it a big deal that he would be a check and is that a winning strategy? >> he thinks it is and part of that is that we see that hillary clinton has her own popularity problems. he is trying to tell the voter who is may not like clinto...