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secret donors. >> well, its the democrats latest and perhaps final attack as our nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows the die may already be cast. im chuck todd and savannah, i swear to god, im coming back to d.c. today. >> well, guess what, im leaving, so i dont know when well be reunited, but good morning, everyone, im savannah guthrie. and also this morning, were going to reveal our up and comer on the list of our national stars. a candidate that is, how do we put this, head an...

im chuck todd. and later, the academy award-winning filmmaker debe hyped at kwn inconvenient truth" and now "waiting for superman" will also be on the show. lets get to the rundown. well start with those new poll numbers. five weeks from election day. our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows a little bit of a silver lining for democrats. when asked who they independent power come january, republicans still come out on top but their lead has shrunk to nine points. was 49/40 in ...

this november. with us this hour, tim kaine. and will president ahmadinejad take manhattan? irans president on the world stage. plus, nine americans die in a helicopter crash in southern afghanistan today. with us this hour, state department spokesman p.j. crowley. good day. im andrea mitchell live in new york. majority leader harry reid has only one hour to convince at least one republican to vote with democrats to try to repeal dont ask, dont tell. the controversial measure was...

Weeks later they won 30 seats. were not england. we dont have a functional third party. people have to make a choice between the party in power and a way to signal in off-year elections im not happy. i think president obama still has enormous strengths and enormous strengths heading towards 2012 because a lot of these disengaged voters will be back and reengaged. were looking at a way for midterms to say im not happy and i want to let you know it. >> and i would say the one thing about the repub...

>> i think of a decade or ago or a average person first response, maybe they could be right or maybe there is something to this. now the default position on either side is theyre wrong and i am right. >> this plays something of healthcare. >> you guys have clients on the ballot for 2018. ten years ago if you were to said to me boy, fred, for democrats, do they risk alienating, is there an argument made that democrat voters would punish democrats by a greater margin and same question vice versa. ...

The election as well. fred, to you on this. who are we seeing in the streets here? the poll numbers were showing us that there was a large class divide, if you will, of groups across different ethnic groups, for instance, that said im going to go with donald trump and that was the margin that donald trump was able to win by here. when were looking at these individuals, some of which are marching for immigration, others for other issues, who are they? >> well, i think we are seeing probably not a...

Ago. fred yang, fellow at the harvard institute of -- betsy woodruff, politics report we are the daily beast. were watching these protests across the country right now. were not getting a lot from the trump campaign, from the trump infrastructure, the transition team, if you will, on what has been happening here other than a couple of tweets from donald trump. dukes to hear anything from them? >> i think it might be fueling some of the folks who are currently protesting trump the lack of respons...

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So i dont think theres much mystery there. >> and fred, i guess you look at this and the education divide, which is the starkest. it really is -- i was talking with a muslim colleague who said, i was telling him about the irony of this education divide. he said to me, thats isis. its the uneducated so-called muslims that are gravitating to isis, not the educated. talk about your ironies of ironies. >> i think the numbers were real interesting. >> all right. fred, michael, thank you both. we got ...

40% of the 11 million people over here illegally dont overstay their visas. >> joining me now, democratic pollster, fred yang. good to see you, fred. lets talk about the iowa poll that shows bernie sanders within seven points of hillary clinton. is this because voters are hearing and liking what the senator has to say? or might it be because of hillary clintons recent troubles with her e-mails? >> i think its probably more the factor that senator sanders is new. hes a new face, relatively. even ...