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Historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia? >> the problem is that when it happens this close to an election, it's very hard to separate what is important from what is trivial. one example is 1968, lyndon johnson on halloween announced a bombing halt of north vietnam in an effort to start peace talks. so a lot of these democrats were angry at johnson and hubert humphrey who was running as his heir, came flooding into the humphrey camp, humphrey was running ahead of richard nixon because people thought...

Running ahead of richard nixon because people thought there might be peace. at this point the south vietnamese said we're not coming to the peace table and millions of voters moved away from humphrey back to nixon. nixon won the election. later on we discovered that nixon's people backstage had been encouraging saigon not to go to these peace talks saying, you know, help nixon by not going, we'll give you a better deal. johnson was furious. johnson thought this was treason. but in those five days those things were happening so fast it was very hard to find out what was going on. >> and the cro...

Running ahead of richard nixon because people thought there might be peace. at this point the south vietnamese said we're not coming to the peace table and millions of voters moved away from humphrey back to nixon. nixon won the election. later on we discovered that nixon's people backstage had been encouraging saigon not to go to these peace talks saying, you know, help nixon by not going, we'll give you a better deal. johnson was furious. johnson thought this was treason. but in those five days those things were happening so fast it was very hard to find out what was going on. >> and the cro...

>> we've got the fbi intervention which is -- turns the out to be not just one story but sort of an ongoing story. is there a way to look at historical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia? >> the problem is that when it happens this close to an election, it's very hard to separate what is important from what is trivial. one example is 1968, lyndon johnson on halloween announced a bombing halt of north vietnam in an effort to start peace talks. so a lot of these democrats were angry at johnson and hubert h...

That would be left over after the peace process finished. a lot of folks aren't even sure if both sides are exhausted enough to drag themselves to the peace table and go through the process. and if they do, it could take years. >> let's talk about if there was an election process. first of all, can we trust it? what would the rules be? and how would we know that somehow there would in fact be a fair election process? >> well, the first answer is no. if you just took the general population -- what, is there 11 million syrians left? 10 of those 11 million don't like assad, but assad would have c...