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Hillary clinton, do you think it did alter her performance having those pre-debate and putting those folks in the crowd. >> trump has threadenthreatenede issues of bill clinton and he did raise that issue. i don't think it helps. first of all, trump made a mistake by -- she won handedly for the u.s. senate race in new york. you know trump should learn something about history before he engages in these kinds of stuff. >> the optics were different. this was a town hall and they were expected to have the opportunity to move around the crowd and address the folks that actually had questions and th...

We've seen other incidents around texas. just this morning, i had to issue a news release calling on the fbi to investigate hate vandalism at a mosque in louisville, kentucky. so these things are occurring on a daily basis, and that's why we're asking our nation's leaders to push back against this rising tide of islamophobia. >> it came up in the pre-debate -- i don't know what they call it -- the debate last night, not the main stage, but the earlier debate. let me play an exchange with bobby jindal and lindsey graham over religious discrimination. let's listen. i guess we don't have it, but ...

>> correct. >> for a lot of folks in the republican party and perhaps america that's something to reckon with. i want to get to carly fiorina, as well. it is not only trump here although he's making his mark. she is moving up in the polls. she's done that as many pointed out despite being held off the man club, the old boys' debate and yet somehow punching through anyway and cuts against convention aal wisdom. >> there's one thing it does play into conventional wisdom. she had a great debate performance and that made a difference. even -- >> at the pre-debate. >> she got so much coverage for i...

Unsurprisingly to improvement among women. he and president obama are now tied in that key voting group. erasing the president's once considerable lead. and that -- i mean a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago, mid-september, he was up by 18 points. the president, that gap gone. that's huge for the romney campaign. >> several pundits after the 47% comment said game over. he is toast. and you just see, what a matter of couple weeks can do. election is actually four weeks from today. but he improved his status and pretty much everything from september from taxes, medicare, jobs, women. >> and ...

Politics says president obama blinked at a rate of 70.8 times per minute last week. much more than mitt romney. it's a measure of stress, but does it definitely say which candidate will win in november? on "meet the press," nbc political director chuck todd said that president obama may have a problem because hispanic voters are not as enthuse see as 12ik as they were in 2008. >> even though he's going to get more hispanics if less of them turn out, it's a net zero and yet you look at republican enthusiasm up, senior enthusiasm up. by the way, all of this, pre-debate. on abc's this week paul...