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Candidates at an early voting site in south florida. they both told me their internal polls had them ten points up, and they are running against each other. i do think that the polls are all over the place. we have seen them be all over the place in florida, for example. and we have seen election day surprises in places like florida where everybody expected hillary clinton to win two years ago. so its true. the only poll that matters is election day. so get off the couch. when were done, get off...

In nevada a new york times poll shows republican dean heller leading his democratic challenge jackie rosen by two points. im joined by tim kessler, former adviser to senator schumer and alex koenig, partner at firehouse strategies. i want to talk about three races. lets start with nevada. jim, let me ask you something, has jacky lost her ability to sort of full aled in this race? >> i dont think so. i have seen a private poll that shows her up two points. both polls can be accurate with the marg...

Year. theres a lot of democrats that dont like this president. its a battle. but at the end of the day, ted cruz is loved by many, many people in texas. thats the reason why i think hes going to win this five, six, seven points up, eight points maybe. texas is just not california. and beto is a guy who wants to turn into california. or i should say robert francis, the guy who wants to turn this into california. this is a guy who is anti-gun for goodness sakes in texas. i dont know how you think ...

Michigan. >> no question. >> unless everybody was worried. >> no question that the polls have been tightening. i dont want to be completely polyanna about it. i would say to your point, van, in that very poll that you describe where shes four points up, she gets better marks on trade than he does, by four points. because people have seen what she has said. bernie sanders has been there, campaigning for her. and she really has been very clear about wanting to renegotiate nafta. >> while were talk...

Overwhelmingly in iowa and ohio, two states where trump is favored, are really surging and showing him strong support, why wouldnt they show up in michigan? >> thats right. and shawn can probably speak to this more than anybody else. power of big data right now. this is both sides. robby mook said -- >> the clinton campaign manager? >> the clinton campaign manager. he has said the race is tightening. what you can do when you have all this data coming in, make these last-minute decisions. in the ...

Thats not the case anymore. its not the case anymore. >> you and i talked about this. she was teb points up and i said no way. it is a dead heat. anyone with a lick of sense. >> the super pac pull pd out of virginia. >> you know what the amazing part is? only in a campaign when you take donors money should you say we shouldnt take it home. how about you give it back to the people. >> who does that? >> donald trump uses his own money so he is more judicious. >> you are the super pac guy. >> we wi...

Administration, all the current officials for choosing not to get involved in syria. what that points up, frankly, is the difficulty of the job that you had, and i thank you for taking it. im not sure i would be so bold. it is a very, very dangerous world. bad things are going to happen. what we are witnessing today is if bad things happen, you will be dragged out over months and months and months in this partisan atmosphere, and that is very unfortunate. this needed to be investigated. 9/11, we...

>> reporter: this is pretty dirty politics. >> look, its public statements he made. i think its fair game. >> reporter: also fair game, democrats can vote in this gop primary. life-long democrats like gary gusler are crossing over for cochran. do you think that cochran has been a good senator? >> i disagree with him on all the fundamental issues. but i think his performance as a senator over the years has been very good. and he is in a very powerful position and can bring lots of advantages to m...

In places like austin, texas, local officials say you have to have a background check. governor scott walker said if youre a domestic abuser, you cannot keep your guns. in washington state, we passed a law saying the same thing. there are great victories all over the country. you just cant focus on georgia. the momentum is shifting in favor of common-sense laws that do nothing to keep guns from law-abiding gun owners. >> is mike bloombergs pact going to target some of the democrats who are endan...

Numbers were crunched and how they came up with this. this one, we are relying on the mathematicians from inmarsat and the other advisors that have come up with this idea of where this plane landed -- or crashed, i should say. >> dave, you wrote "why planes crash." what do you think about jeffs questions about this plane -- the flight ending in the water? >> well, im really glad that we have jeff to bring these points up, because its so easy to get on a one-track mind and just look at the one th...