INTERVIEW — JAKE TAPPER – Host of THE LEAD and STATE OF THE UNION on CNN

• CNN’S JAKE TAPPER TO HOST TOWN HALL WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA ON ‪SEPT. 28. CNN announced today that the network will host the CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and the Commander in Chief, with President Obama ‪on Wednesday Sept. 28 at 9pmET. CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper will sit down with the President to discuss veterans, national security and foreign policy issues impacting the US military. President Obama will field questions from the audience made up of veterans, active duty service members and the military community.
• Discuss the state of the election and previewed next week’s debate.
• Polls tightening:
• NBC/WSJ Poll: Clinton Leads Trump Ahead of First Debate. In a four-way horserace, Clinton gets support from 43 percent of likely voters and Trump gets 37 percent, while Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is at 9 percent and the Green Party’s Jill Stein is at 3 percent.   In a head-to-head matchup without those third-party candidates, Clinton’s advantage expands to seven points, 48 percent to 41 percent. This is the NBC/WSJ poll’s first general-election poll of likely voters in the 2016 race. Among the broader electorate of all registered voters, Clinton is ahead of Trump by five points in the four-way contest, 42 percent to 37 percent – down from Clinton’s nine-point lead in August. And in a two-way race, Clinton’s edge among registered voters is seven points, 48 percent to 41 percent – also down from nine points in August.
• FOX NEWS POLL: Trump tops Clinton in battlegrounds Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio. Fox News battleground polls paint different picture than NBC/WSJ national poll: OH: Trump leads 42-37 NC: Trump 45-40 NV: Trump 43-40