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To a viewer tweet suggesting "We're at an inflection point where both parties are going to evolve after this election," Smerconish responds,"I hope that's the case. I don't know.. I look at it as the latest incarnation of a lot of the same sentiments that we saw in the Tea Party movement."

"The one thing I love about America is, you can go in that booth and you can still close the curtain on what it is you think, and do what you feel is right," says Kevin Costner. "And there's times when you can feel like your voice needs to be heard, there's other times when you need to listen..we have something to protect, something to push forward, and the only way we get there is to lose our ego, and to fall back and have a higher understanding of what public service means."

The multi-part Western "Horizon" is screening in theaters, says star, director and co-writer Kevin Costner, because "it's a film that needs a curtain." And he's spent $38M of his own money hoping audiences "will find honor in the way people live, and find dishonor in the way people conduct themselves.

In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.

"There's no doubt that Russia and China want to affect the outcome of the U. S. election," says former White House Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke. So administrations try to game out what adversaries might do, "and how you would react to that kind of surprise so that you have a script in advance."

Catherine, Princess of Wales, joined other royals on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the King's official birthday, capping her first public appearance since being diagnosed with cancer. CNN's Anna Stewart reports.