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Chicago is seeing this huge up tick, but homicides jumped in 16 of 20 major cities this year. dagen: 37 out of 65 country's biggest police departments saw year-over-year homicide increases through september maybe. part is the drug epidemic, opioid problem. that starts with prescription medications quite frankly in many instances. it is part of that but not fighting the drug cartels. it is not enforcing our immigration laws. and it is not standing up for our police departments. >> yes. dagen: and behind and by and in front of our police. dagen: you have leaders in this country who stigma -- sti...

>> reporter: so the trump campaign sees the polls and they see that they are tied ore behind but shows a significant tightening and momentum for trump but we can start, for example, in new hampshire. every poll since the general election started showed hillary clinton well ahead by 10, 11 moin points recently as last week but this week shows dead even or trump just ahead. to them, that looks like a significant momentum jump for donald trump. so what he's trying to do today is stay on message with hillary clinton's e-mails and the fbi but also, the affordable care act and here in new hampshire,...

With substance abuse. and it's affecting sadly not just new hampshire and northern new england, it's affecting states in the midwest, states all over the country. when ebola was a threat, we put a billion dollars towards fighting ebola. we need to be looking at the heroin and opioid problem in just the same way. this is a health -- a public health emergency. and we need to treat it that way. >> i'm curious too, we say this is something that cuts across the political divide. it seems sometimes like democrats and republicans are having completely different conversations about completely differen...

Country? >> the number one reason to support trump's wall is to save lives. because you interdict the drugs. we interdict enough fentanyl that would kill millions of americans because it's so lethal. you seal off the southern border from the drugs coming across, you will save thousands and thousands of american lives. we need to do the wall for that reason alone and for the immigration stuff. but it's mission critical. if you look at the opioid problem, the prescription abuse has actually declined. states have taken action. we were better positioned there. it's the street drugs killing a lot o...

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