. >> kristen welker, kasey hunt, the road warrior gang out here. thank you all so much. >>> mark murray joins me now break down the polls we're talking about. so mark, there is a lot of information coming at us just this morning. walk us through this polling here. >> you're right, halle, we have a plethora of new polls out today. including the nbc survey monkey. this is the join line weekly tracking poll. and halle, it has hillary clinton with a six-point lead, unchanged from last week. sop not a lot of movement over the long labor day weekend that we've actually seen. but, there is another poll that does show some movement. and this comes from cnn, and it has donald trump up two points among likely voters. our survey monkey online tracking polls among registered voters, likely voters, it has donald trump up two points. but when you break down a lot of the recent badle ground polling, it seems to confirm more to our online tracking than the cnns, and let me show you, this is pennsylvania, and hillary clinton with an eight-point lead according to cb

kasey hunt covering the clinton campaign, and nbc news national correspondent peter alexander, and we just heard from donald trump, hillary clinton not out today, bill and chelsea clinton are. we'll talk about that in a moment. just heard from donald trump, peter, there's a big contrast between the two candidates, he is talking about numbers just running through the numbers that the campaign released to us and our fact check against pentagon numbers, he's talking about a big increase in the army, back to the bush years before president obama drew down in iraq and afghanistan, but that was also a pre-determined path out from president bush whom you covered in the white house. the numbers for the marine battalions not clear because they no longer count according to baale toons and our pentagon experts. talking about building up the surface ships from about 276 to 350. it's not clear whether he means -- >> he talks about one of the modernized -- he talks about the modernized of nuclear weapons right now for the navy. he talks about wanting to improve the ballistic missile system, all of

hunt. thank you for hanging out with us today. jacob, kristen, peter, kasey, jacob, you, the trump speech, put this into context stood out for you. what are the headlines for tonight? >> reporter: he spoke to a crowd, of course his supporters, including many retired generals who signed that open letter just yesterday, he started off attacking hillary clinton, he had a lot of names for her, reckless, trigger happy, unfit to be president, and other names, then he went into a plan, a lot of specifics, in fact, including adding 50,000 soldiers, 74 navy surface ships, 87 new fighter aircraft, a cyber security upgrade, the big question, of course though, how to pay for all of it. and he proposed fully limiting the defense sequester, of course, many have tried to do that, a gridlock congress has tried and failed to do that repeatedly. i talked afterward and asked them about that. i don't know, we just believe that trump will do it. then in addition to that, of course you heard at the top, a mentio

. >> kasey hunt joining us there from brooklyn. let's head to the political panel. we have got a packed team just a short time from now looking ahead of elizabeth warren rallying clinton supporters in philly trying to give a boost to katiey mcginnty. all of it as a poll released within the last 24 hours showing clinton with a five-point lead in pennsylvania. you see it there, but in other battleground states, florida says the race is raiser thin. this is why we're bringing in our panel. jeremy peters, political writer, mark caputo, and cincinnati inquirer we are chrissy thompson. thanks for joining us while we're on the road at the voter value panel. jerry, let's start with you. rip off of pa for a second. is elizath warren really going to move the needle more for hillary clinton there? >> i think in the areas in and around philadelphia, she could probably have some impact, that's where you have a lot of well-educated white suburban voters. especially women, right? white, college-educated women are going to be the key to this election. and she could be tremendously

. >> thanks so much, kasey hunt, kristen welker, and katy tur. and now retired admiral, supreme ally commander at nato and we should mention until recently you have been been msnbc analyst. this week you've been asked to advise the clinton campaign your role with us today is on hold. while you're advising the campaign. that said, take us behind the scenes, you've been to a lot of meetings like this in the past. what is likely going to happen inside this meeting today? are they really going to talk about well if you send in more ground forces or special ops or maybe you shouldn't have said on my watch they'll never be ground troops in syria and iraq, large forces. you know, what today about north korea which just exploded it's largest test ever today. >> andrea, i think you've got the agenda down, that sounds pretty close to it. i'll add let's face it, you're going to have two former secretaries of homeland security there, so to the very good riff you just did, i would ad, looking very hard at the homeland and at countering violent extremism which