, the democrats put up a lousy candidate in indiana. substituted him in mid july for former senator evan bayh who they thought was going to be a locken the seat. he came in to the race leading 21 points mid july. now at mid september and he is up by 4. the republican candidate has turned out to be a terrific candidate named todd young. and evan bayh turned out to never have moved back to indiana to become washington insider, influence peddler. >> whoa. >> he has 4-million-dollar condo in florida, a 3-million-dollar house in georgetown. a 2.5-million-dollar house in spring valley, washington suburb that he is attempting to sell and $53,000 condominium in minneapolis that he rarely, if ever, visits. >> influence peddler might be a little strong. is he suffering from those residences in the race? >> oh, absolutely. because, particularly last week, he was asked by a reporter about his -- about the condominium, the $53,000 condominium he has in indianapolis which it already turned out he very rarely is at. his utility bill is 20 bucks a month. the minimum required. he is very rarely ther

a big lead but big improvement back in july when the same pollster showed mrs. clinton with a 4 point lead. both these states have captured sentiment since this past weekend, which was to say the least eventful. for some thoughts on all this now, we turn to byron york, chief political correspondent of "the washington examiner" and molly hemingway the online publication the federalist. molly, as you look at all of this, where does the race seem to you to be. >> i think what these polls show is that americans have known since hillary clinton ran for president in 2008 she is a terrifically awful candidate. she is struggling even with all the help she is getting from the political and media establishment who are trying to sort of drag her across the finish line. the underlying dynamic we have seen. >> when you say she is an awful candidate, you mean an awful candidate for the office or an awful campaigner or both. >> just as a campaigner. she has a lot of trouble. and she can't even put away a candidate who is ostensibly as weak as donald trump. both have unlikability numbers. who g

in july. so what happened the last two months? nothing of substance. trump actually went on to attack cruz. say that his father was involved in jfk's assassination completely unsubstantiated. conspiracy theory. never recanted that. what happened is the race got close. it's a tight race right now. there are threats that ted cruz might face a primary challenger in 2018 for the senate race. he doesn't want to take the blame if trump loses narrowly and i think he originally made a calculation that trump was going to lose big. it doesn't lock that way right now. >> two things. i say it's texas. he has got chairman of a house committee threatening primary him in texas and he has got some others there in the state who would love to see him go. a lot of people don't like ted cruz in the senate. is he worried about 2018 when he has to run for re-election. >> second thing is. >> 2020? >> 2020. and you and i talked about this earlier today. the 40%. trump has this 40%. whether he wins or loses, who is going to lead that 40%? new, cruz, we can all guess probably has big ambitions about 2020. he c

sanders have campaigned together since he endorsed her in july. but she needs him right now. that's why they were here on a college campus in new hampshire. speaking to millennials. here's what she said. >> isn't this one of the strangest elections you have ever seen? [ laughter ] i really sometimes, don't know what to make of it. standing on that debate stage the other night, i was especially thinking about that. [cheers and applause] >> today clinton took a teenage out of bernie's playbook offering debt free college education. essentially promising those families making under $125,000 a year free tuition at public universities and colleges. a plan that would essentially make college free for 83% of the population. no word how they would pay for that. clinton also promised to forgive the debts of students who go in to public or national service. >> it is imperative that we elect hillary clinton as our next president. [cheers and applause] >> there were long lines of students waiting to get in to the event today. about 400 were turned away. why is hillary clinton making a push on colleg

state department on a series of disks in july after the fbi director said he would not recommend criminal charges. the argument before the federal court here in washington has been its july since you have had them. it's time to process them and release them. the state department said we don't have the resources to do. this the judge said you need to put more resources on it speed it up and process them so they are out before november. at the state department today, spokesman john kirby seemed to waffle whether they would make them public by early november. he was virginia noncommittal whether they would be able to do that. >> do we have any sense about what these might contain and what the subjects are? >> what key with expect is a lot of duplication from records that are already out there. critic will say it's evidence that she did destroy government-related records in the emails. others will say, look, there is nothing here anymore. you have to keep driving. there will be some benghazi records. what we know is that almost all of them are duplicates. but, for those who feel that

million doors in june and july already. hillary clinton mentioned earlier held a national security meeting in new york today. the former secretary of state and new york senator attempted to promote her foreign policy credentials by meeting with a group -- a by partisan group i should say of national security experts. that group included michael chertoff, the former secretary of homeland security under president bush. and former general david petraeus. in comments after the meeting, mrs. clinton cited the need to take out the leader of isis but reaffirmed her pledge not to send ground troops or more ground troops, i should say, back to iraq or syria. and republican vice presidential candidate mike pence received his first intelligence briefing since becoming donald trump's running mate. it lasted two hours and was held at a national guard base in indiana. governor pence said afterwards that he was, quote, grateful for the briefing. governor pence had a busy day today. he also released 10 years of his tax returns. the returns show that the pence family don't united states take home p