Politics, ladies and gentlemen, is coming down

to the last couple of months, couple

of weeks, couple of days.

You know, we've been watching, watching, watching.

Hillary Clinton is sinking in the polls.

That's the news.

Trump is not rising in the polls.

Hillary is falling in the polls.

She was up an estimated 10 points, or even 12 point,

depending on which polls you looked at.

And now it's a two-point race, which

is within the margin of error.

So yet in the battleground states she's inching ahead.

In the electoral college she's ahead,

but Trump is gaining steadily.

So the question is, who would be the better president

to protect America?

And Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

And that's the big debate between the two candidates.

Well, Clinton is once again being

forced to defend her use of a personal computer

for government business, while Trump talked about how

he plans to defeat ISIS.

George Thomas has the story.

National security issues are dominating on the campaign

trail this week.

Both candidates talked separately Wednesday night

in a forum hosted by NBC.

Clinton was asked how voters could

trust her to be commander in chief given all the controversy

over her use of a private email server for government business.

It was a mistake to have a personal account.

I would certainly not do it again.

For his part, Trump was pressed for specifics

on his plan to defeat ISIS.

When I do come up with a plan that I like,

and that perhaps agrees with mine or maybe doesn't-- I may

love what the generals come back with.

I will convene--

But you have your own plan.

I have a plan.

Trump said if elected, he would give military leaders 30 days

to present a blueprint for destroying the Islamic state.

In a speech in Philadelphia earlier Wednesday, Trump also

proposed a major expansion in the number

of ships, planes, and service members in the US military.

We wanted to deter, avoid, and prevent conflict

through our unquestioned military strength.

With 60 days until election day, Clinton

is trying to paint her rival as unqualified

and temperamentally unfit to lead on the global stage.

After all his talk, the only thing that is clear

is he has no clue about what he's talking about.

Trump is portraying his democratic opponent as too

eager to go to war.

Sometimes it seemed like there wasn't a country in the Middle

East that Hillary Clinton didn't want to invade, intervene

in, or topple.

She's trigger happy and very unstable.

As far as who wins the military vote itself,

Trump has the clear advantage with current and retired

service members.

An NBC poll shows him leading Clinton among them

by 19 points.

George Thomas, CBN News.

Thanks, George.

Well, one guy who has been paying attention

to Hillary Clinton is former Attorney General

of the United States.

John Jessup had a chance to talk to him,

and here's his take on all this email scandal.

Thanks, Pat.

Alberto Gonzales told White House correspondent Jennifer

Wishon on how he would have handled Clinton's email

scandal if he were Attorney General now.

And Gonzales also talked about the 9/11 attacks

when he was chief counsel to George W. Bush.

It was the evening of 9/11, and for Alberto Gonzales,

the most memorable moment of his many years of public service,

watching President George W. Bush walk from Marine One

as he returned to the White House for the first time

after the attacks.

I was very, very curious about what I would see in his face.

And so when he gets off the helicopter and approaches us,

we greet him.

He doesn't say a word.

He just kind of acknowledges and walks straight by us

into the Oval Office, and I knew we were going to be OK.

He was determined, he was ready to go.

He knew that he had a job to do, and that we all had a job

to do in protecting America.

In the days that followed, Gonzales and his team

faced a firestorm of legal questions over the Patriot Act,

interrogation techniques, and pending war.

Despite controversy, he believes the relative security

America has enjoyed since 9/11 proves the policies worked.

We put into place this framework

that we hoped would outlast the Bush presidency.

We felt it was that important to do that,

to protect our country going forward.

Today he's dean of the College of Law at Belmont University,

but still engaged.

If you were Attorney General today,

how would you have handled the Hillary Clinton email

investigation?

I would either have recused myself

from receiving the recommendation of the FBI

Director, or I would have reviewed,

thoroughly the recommendation of the FBI Director,

because in the end, this really is not about Loretta Lynch.

This is about justice and the appearance of justice.

And anything that kind of shades that,

that harms that in the eyes of the American people,

is not good.

The story of how Gonzales arrived in Washington

is unlikely.

His mother still lives in the two-bedroom house

his father built for their family of 10 in Humble, Texas.

It's where we learned the value of family and faith.

He's written about his journey in his new book, True Faith

and Allegiance, where he deliberately

addresses all the controversies he's

faced to try and clear the air.

Looking forward, the Republican says

he hasn't made up his mind about Donald Trump.

You know, we have two very flawed candidates,

in my judgment, for president.

I'm hopeful whoever wins the election is

going to grow into the job.

But he's certain about what's important.

One of the things I think is very important

is to have someone who believes in God in that office, someone

who believes in the power of prayer,

because the decisions are much bigger than any one person.

Jennifer Wishon, CBN News, Washington.

Thanks, Jennifer.

In health news, one reason why adolescents

are overweight these days, they're

not burning enough calories.

A new study found that 15-year-olds

are burning 25% less calories than they

were when they were 10.

A study from the University of Exeter in England

suggests kids aren't active enough

as they become teenagers.

The BBC cites one expert who says the findings showed

there was an even greater need to improve children's diets

and protect them from the marketing of junk

foods and sugary drinks.

And Pat, that amounts to about 500 less calories a day.

Well, I don't think it's the calories as much

as the composition of the calories.

They're eating processed food.

There's a huge amount of the corn syrup

that's in there, high fructose corn syrup.

And the junk food just stimulates the production

of the various substances that make people fat.

It's terrible.

You know, I don't think we had as many snack foods

composed of the things you're talking

about when we were younger.

And also, kids played outside more.

We were just talking about that this morning.

You looked forward to it.

You know, first of all, in school you had recess.

Now that lawyers would come along and say,

you can't have recess because they might get hurt.

Well, yeah, sure you got hurt.

We had fist fights when we were little kids.

Of course you got hurt.

That was the deal.

I mean--

The beginning of your boxing career, right?

That's right.

I mean, we slugged it out a bit.

And then you played football and you didn't have any pads,

and you're out there playing.

And if you got hit on the ground, well,

that's tough luck.

But that was part of the game.

And we played and we climbed trees, and in my place

we had mock orange battles, and we threw those things

at each other.

We had King of the Hill.

We wanted to try to take-- I mean, a little play warfare.

I mean, that was part of the game.

But the lawyers say, oh, they might get hurt.

Oh, the little fellas that might get

injured, and they can't climb monkey bars

or they might fall off and hit their head.

I mean, come on, let 'em go.

But more, Terry, the problem is--

I guess we had the other day, it has

to do with this gut bacteria.

And what they're doing is they're

killing out the engine we have to destroy

all this food we're eating.

But it's just a mess, what they're eating,

this high fructose corn syrup and the heavy reliance

on starches, and the other things

that we've been pointing out on this program,

the trans fats, which are killers.

I mean, just go down the list.

But we are killing ourselves with what we are eating.

And I don't know if anybody is going

to have the guts to come out and tell the food processors,

you can't do it.

I don't think that's in Trump's wheelhouse.

He doesn't go for that.

And I don't think Hillary does either.

So I don't think we've got any champions right now

of good nutrition.