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Giving these numbers. it's the model based on polling data. so the question is, what impact will it have on the polls? the intro, a 2-point impact would make this a much more competitive race, from a five or six-point race to a three point race. that's the margin the 2000 polls were off when al gore won the popular vote. the brexit polls missed, for example. so if you were to have -- >> if we get this down to where now you have them at about five to six points apart. if you get it to three, three and a half apart, that's when we don't know. >> it making for a more interesting election day. >> ...

Greece. we're joined by a professor of economics at harvard university, former chief economist at the imf and a professor of public policy now. and peter moricci, professor at the university of maryland school of business. gentlemen, thanks to both of you. ken, let's start with you. give us some sense for our audience, who heretofore has probably seen greece as a bit of a side issue that's affecting europe. why do we need to be concerned about what is going on in greece, in southern europe generally? >> well, they're having political chaos there. the european union together is a bigger economy...

A joke since i've been covering them, that the party in power is trying to push through their choice, and it is a dance. ever since judge bork of saying nothing while in that chair. deflect as much as possible. non-answer as much as you can. fail to recall, deflect. that's what we're seeing with kavanaugh. can you in good conscience say, yeah, this is a really open and full vetting of this man? we know exactly where we are and what we're going to get from what we've learned here? >> no, you're right. judge bork changed things. not judge bork himself but the confirmation hearings. and every mem...

I said that it's settled as a precedent of the supreme court. >> you don't need to be a lawyer to get this. settled law means what it sounds like. the supreme court has decided. here's the thing. that answer is good if you're trying to get a seat on a lower court because those courts must follow the supreme court. it does not apply to the supreme court itself because they undo precedent and create precedent. that's what they do. and do you know who made that point in a memo? kavanaugh. so for him to say now that it's settled law when he knows damn well that he can unsettle it once he's on the ...

That he apparently shares with his wife. we found something on that computer that is relevant to the investigation of the state department e-mail investigation. he's told that yesterday by those investigators. let's now imagine, and they recommend to him, while they're telling him, we recommend that we investigate this. let's now imagine director comey says, i will take that under advi advisement, i will think weabou that and does absolutely nothing until november 9th, after the election and either goes along with the investigation or doesn't go along with the investigation. when that story's ...