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Whatever the hell this guys name is. C. P. A. Anonchts onchtskaine and pence on the record with brit hume starts now. With 62 days until the election, the president ial race has clearly tightened. The real clear politics average of the latest polls Shows Hillary clinton with a 3. 3 point lead. Down from as much as 9 points less than a month ago. Tonight the new cnn poll of likely voters shows donald trump with a slim 2 point lead over clinton in a four way race. That, of course is, within the margin of error. Suggesting at least in this poll that the race is now a dead heat. Good evening. Im brit hume in washington. And i will be here through election day. My friend Greta Van Susteren has left fox news and i will have more to say about that later in the hour. One other poll number of interest tonight, that cnn survey shows donald trump with a 20 point lead over clinton among independent voters with 49 for the republican candidate and as you can see 29 for secretary clinton. The remainder is split between libertarian candidate gary johnson and jill stein. We will get to what the candidates were doing and saying in a moment but first some analysis of the new poll data from john crush hauer politics editor here in washington. Great to be here, brit. We know the race has tightened. Is this trump rising or clinton sinking or what. Its pretty fascinating. Clinton is losing ground in the polls but trump isnt really gaining. The numbers you talked about independent voters. Donald trump is doing better than romney did in the 2012 polls with blue collar whited voters. We have this educational divide within the electorate. Where the cnn poll shows trump doing much better than mitt romney did with blue collar voters but doing much more poorly than did he with white collar voters. The difference in the margin, at least in this poll between what trump is doing with independents and romney won the independents if my memory serves in 2012 by 5 Percentage Points leading by 20. If that were to hold through election day what would that suggest to you. If that were to hold a very competitive general election. Some Clinton Campaign operative think it is outlier it is cleesh that Hillary Clinton is losing ground. Favorable numbers just as poor as Donald Trumps in that same cmnn poll. Hillary clinton is doing her darnedest to poll as poorly as donald trump is. Would you think that so none of this in your view is attributable to the fact that trump has changed his style since his new Campaign Team came on board in the sense that he is not laying about himself with the same freedom that he used to, the same free willing style. He is giving more set speeches. Outlining more specifics. If that hasnt helped him, has it at least arrested the sinking of the decline that he seemed to undergo there for a while. He certainly has the opportunity to pivot, but his own numbers have been remarkably consistent ever since the republican and Democratic Convention about negative 20 favorable rating. And it really stuck at that 40 mark. Now with a lot of third party candidates, gary johnson and jill stein eking out a lot of votes as well. The magic number for this election could be closer to 40 than 50 . Donald trump is certainfully this election but has fundamental challenges with republicans, republican women from particular and also College Educated white voters. Is it possible that this aversion that we are seeing with Hillary Clinton which is really manifest in the current polling is such that trumps challenge really is to simply become an acceptable alternative, that he doesnt have to be loved by everybody. Is that possible . Its possible. And when you look at the top two issues, the economy and terrorism, Donald Trump Holds an advantage over Hillary Clinton in the cnn poll and a lot of the other polls that have been conducted recently. Biggest weakness is people still dont see him as a plausible commander and chief. Those numbers have been remarkably consistent throughout. Of his campaign. If he can pivot, if he can have a more moderate message in these final couple of months, its possible. This is learnly a race to the bottom and trump is still in this election. But winnable. Its winnable but he has a lot of challenges. Josh, thanks for being here. I hope to see you again. As we tighten both candidates are tightening on the battleground states. Right now donald trump is getting ready to speak in North Carolina. Here is a glimpse at the campaign trail earlier today. Isis just evolved out of all of the turmoil, all of the weakness, all of the stupidity of decisions from Hillary Clinton, from barack obama, and isis started off on a small area and now i read the other day they are in 28 different states or nations. 28. Think of it. When it comes to fighting isis, he has been all over the map. You would have to literally map it out. He has talked about letting syria become a free zone for isis. Look at the map, donald. [ laughter ] he has talked about sending in american ground troops, not on my watch. That is not what we are going to do. The middle east now is a total catastrophe. Between the migration and all of the problems and all of the death. And im talking death on both sides, folks. Im talking death on both sides. Look at the people. They blow up a city and they say two people were wounded, all right. You know the real numbers. Okay. The real numbers are astronomical. And we started this whole thing. And i will tell you what, we are going to solve the isis problem but we have to also get back and we have to solve it big league and strongly and swiftly. But we have to get back to rebuilding our country because our country is going to hell. He says he has a secret plan to defeat isis. But the secret is he has no plan. I will work closely with our allies, not just to contain isis but defeat them. Fox news chief Political Correspondent Campaign Carl cammeron is on the trail with donald trump in greenville, North Carolina. Carl, what is trump trying to accomplish down there tonight . Well, as you said, brit, he is going to two very important battleground states virginia and North Carolina. The polls are quite tight in both although clinton has a bit of a larger lead in virginia whereas North Carolina looks to be more of a a as tossup. Todays message was about national security, making the United States save again. Dealing with foreign conflicts around the world. Part of the remark that you paid from donald trump in the beginning of this where he was talking about civilian casualties really raised a lot of eyebrows, particularly the because the speech he was delivering this afternoon was in virginia. The state with a very, very significant military population. Both active and retired. And to suggest that the United States is in some way engaged in concealing the amount of civilian casualties as a result of the bombing is not what you hear from republican candidates very often. Often from liberals. Donald trump has been consistent with his resistance that he was early oppose the iraq war and he suggested that because we started that in his words that there is god reason for the United States to withdraw from some of it overseas military actions. And to that degree, he went so far as to say today that he wasnt going to take issue with china over North Carolina. He was going to make that to be chinas problem. Essentially abandoning another alliance with the south koreans in much the way he suggested that nato would have to be dramatically reformed or we could potentially even pull out of that alliance, a very, very bold statement. And always pep ared with as it is this evening here in greenville, North Carolina. Plenty of attacks on hillary clinton and barack obama and today trump said that they had effectively turned the United States into a third world nation and we would be better off if they had done nothing in the middle east over the last 8 years. Brit . Thank you, carl. It gives us a sense of trump today and this evening. Good to hear your voice, brit, thank you. One of the big surprises this Election Year the state of florida as in many elections past. The new mason dixon poll Shows Hillary clinton with a slight 2 point lead in the Sunshine State but thats nearly a point less than the 2 point 7 lead she holds in the real clear politics average in that state. Support for both candidates is split across the usual demographic line. Democrats, women, minority voters heavily favoring secretary clinton. Men and nonhispanic whites showing support for donald trump. Adam smith. Adam thank you for coming. In how do you see the race in florida shaping up . Who is gaining ground . Who is not . Hows it look . You know, its florida, so florida is always a nail biter. You can count on that. Pretty much of a tossup here. What is surprising in a way is that its as close as it is considering that Hillary Clinton has been vastly outspending donald trump. She has got he has got a fraction of her Campaign Apparatus on the ground. This is a state where probably at least 30 of the vote is going to be nonwhite, which was theoretically not good for donald trump. And, yet, its neck in neck. Im sure you can see it i can my standpoint. Are you seeing heavy ad spending by Hillary Clinton and what are you seeing, if anything, from Donald Trumps side . Donald trump has just started but its overwhelmingly proHillary Clinton. I should say its really antidonald trump ads. Thats mostly what we are seeing here in florida. Nationally i think the two biggest markets for tv buying number one is orlando. Number two is tampa bay in my neck of the woods. There has been a lot of talk this year about whether these big ad buys make a difference. It didnt seem too much in the republican side, but, these ads that the clinton camp is putting up, im sure they have been poll tested and focus group tested. Do you see in the numbers down there that they have made a real difference . Well, no. Because its a tight race. And its been fairly steady. If anything, lately she has lost a little bit of ground like you say. The average she is up maybe a little less than 3 points. Thats neck in neck. I can tell you in my neck of the woods, tampa bay is sort of the rule of thumb, who wins tampa bay, this is the swing voter area wins the state of florida. There are some swing districts, legislative and congressional districts where donald trump is actually pretty strong. Is he not at all the drag on down ballot republicans that a lot of people thought he would be. So what does that mean, if you can tell, for the marco rubio race to stay in the senate . You know, i think thats going to be a lot is going to depend on what happens with Hillary Clinton and trump. But i think so far marco rubio, i think most people view him as the negligible favorite. I think in a way that probably works out pretty well for both of them. That donald trump could give him a little bits of an edge in north fowrld where trump is strong and rubio could give trump a little bit of a help in miamidade, a big population area where trump is especially weak. Adam, very interesting stuff. Thank you very much. Thanks. And another day, another email issue for Hillary Clinton. Newly released emails show Hillary Clintons aides trying to influence questions at a 2013 Senate Hearing on an attack in the u. S. Con absolute in benghazi, libya. Fox news correspondent Catherine Herridge joins us. The emails obtained by the Group Citizens united wrote to chelsea clinton withup date on hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at that time the acting chairman was robert menendez. The email reads in part, quote we wired that menendez would provide opportunity two topics needed to depunk her actions on 9 11 and emails from Chris Stevens about moving locations. That is about ambassador Chris Stevens one of the four americans killed in the 2012 terrorist attack along with sean smith and ty woods and Glen Daugherty who died defending the cia base. The questioning covered both topics. Can you give us your insights on the decisionmaking process regarding the location of the mission . And as part of that, can you also, in your response, you touched upon it in your opening statement, but, what actions were you and your staff taking the night of september 11th and in to september the 12th . Well, first, youre right, mr. Chairman, that there was an ongoing discussion. We asked the Clinton Campaign in the Senators Office if they coordinated in advance of the hearing what was meant by this term wired and how shes males are consistent with the principle of independent congressional oversight. Both offices acknowledged receipt of fox news questions but, brit, they chose not to comment. You know, catherine, i have been around this town a few years and covered many a hearing and was a witness a number of years ago. One of the things that was pretty clear to me when i was doing that is that the partisan divide in the committee determined the questions. Right. It was very clear that the members of the congress, friendly to the administration asked questions that were friendly to the administration. Right. So, i know this is can be made like manipulation of independent process but is there anything new here . We know that horse trading goes on behind the scenes. I think its highly unusual to see it in Black And White and stark terms. I found it interesting that neither the Clinton Campaign nor the is that Rights Office chose to defend that email exchange. Yeah. I guess its pretty Black And White. Thats what we would like to call in this business a rare glimpse. Thank you, catherine. Sure. Here is what could be a clue as to why those National Poll numbers have tightened. In a new cnn poll 50 of likely voters say donald trump is the more trustworthy candidate. Just 35 trust Hillary Clinton more than trump. The on the record panel is here. The Washington Examiner Susan Ferrechio and real clear politic politic a. B. Stotd stoddard. Its a big deterioration for her, she counted on having the buffers of trumps numbers. His unfavorables and honest and trustworthy numbers being worse than hers. I actually see the drop in her poll numbers happening really as a result are of the push back by democrats on the record, including ed reynolds, former governor of pennsylvania and others saying they need to stop taking donations to the foundation and neutralize or shutter the Clinton Foundation now. A bunch of editorial boards wrote articles. What it does is people who have going to oppose trump and might have voted for hillary is repel them even further into the arms of gear johnson or just staying home and thats bad for her numbers on the margin. Susan, does it seem to you and what you are seeing here, in this number that trump has helped himself . Yeah, slal. I think its a combination of things. Exactly what a. B. Was saying. This is a reversal she was the more trustworthy candidate for along time. Look how trump has acted lately. He has stayed on script. He avoided the big gaffes that happened at the convention and right after it. He stayed on course. The combination of that and clintons downfall with the whole trustworthy issue and the emails and the foundation, the combination of those things plus, we know the polls always tighten up post convention. Thats a natural part of the process pollsters will tell you and tell me. Thats why we are seeing dead heat. My recollection of all of this is that convention bounce, which normally are available to both candidates and they do get a little bump out of their conventions and then those things subside. Am i wrong or does it seem a little bit more than that . This looks like the kind of tightening you see at the very end of a race, isnt it . I think it was always going to be the case that donald trump was going to get back within anything distancanyplacing distancenippi. The flip flop i thought was erratic and huge mistake and off script. If you look at what has been revealed about as i said about the foundation and focus groups and polling, people are very upset by that even more than the email story which they basically dont understand. I think it just has depressed her numbers and she might not get them back. She now is saying and has said in the last couple of days in these brief meetings with reporters that the decisions about how the Clinton Foundation are going to be managed and the family role in it and her daughter role in it are postponed until after the election. What effect in that . Its negative. In fact, you have other democrats actually saying these things should be taking place now. Recognize that the public doesnt like this. That the drip, drip of all the revelations, the speaking