i invite you to be part of this campaign. >> reporter: the clinton campaign is registering voters across the state. nowhere more intensely than the i-4 corridor from st. petersburg to the ocean across central florida in orlando. that is where some many puerto rican s live. the young people can help deliver a victory to the white house. the clinton campaign has 12 offices on the ground. two more opening this week. the trump campaign only has one central office in florida. it has other republican offices helping them out. no question the road to the white house runs through florida. the republicans do not believe he can win the white house without winning florida. ryan and alison. >> thanks, jeff zeleny. >>> the parents of two americans killed in the benghazi attacks have filed a lawsuit against hillary clinton. patricia smith and charles woods are seeking damages for wrongful death and emotional distress. the suit filed through judicial watch. a campaign spokesperson responding saying the investigations of the secretary of state handling the benghazi incident have found no wrongdoing. >>>

. >> jeff is in miami, and he is covering the clinton campaign, the clinton campaign with a very quick and forceful response to donald trump and his comments about maybe the second amendment people can take care of hillary clinton's ability to appoint justices. you heard what the trump campaign says. but a lot of people in washington, including people in the national security apparatus didn't take it that way, they thought he was making an inappropriate joke about someone shooting at hillary clinton. >> that is right, the clinton campaign did react quickly. with the campaign manager, specifically saying that violence should not be part of this campaign, this is all part of what the clinton campaign is trying to do, saying that donald trump is an unacceptable nominee. even if they not voting for her, they don't have to vote for him. >> hillary clinton is casting a wider net today, looking for newly supportive republicans. the clinton's campaign concerted effort to recruit republicans peeling off of trump is paying off in small waves. two prominent republican environmentalist who ran the

what will they say about the clinton campaign and the trump campaign? >> they will say that the clinton campaign has tried to press home its advantages. why the trump campaign has been reeling from a series of missteps particularly if hillary clinton in this is election. there could be an argument if hillary wins this election that this month a letter to be on the air almost unopposed. that may well be seen as a ervice mistake for the trump serious mistake for the trump campaign. >> the negative campaign ads between the clinton and the term campaign and the story available at the hill.com. thank you very much for being with us. > my pleasure. >> for campaign 2016, c-span continues on the "road to the white house." >> we need serious leadership. this is not a reality tv show. it's as real as it gets. >> we will make america great again! >> ahead, live coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debate on c-span, the c-span radio appear. on tuesday october 4th, vice presidential candidate governor mike pence in farmville, virginia. washington. lead

the clinton campaign and the trump campaign? >> they will say that the clinton campaign has tried to press home its advantages. the cup campaign has been -- come campaign -- trump campaign has been reeling from missteps. there could be an argument if hillary wins this election that this month a letter to be on the air almost unopposed. that may well be seen as a service mistake for the trump tempe and -- serious mistake for the trump campaign. >> the negative campaign ads between the clinton and the term campaign and the story available at the hill.com. thank you very much for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> donald trump held a campaign rally in manchester, new hampshire. is scheduled pence to be in virginia on saturday. we will that live at 3:00 p.m. here on c-span. today, politico reports that governor mike pence left the campaign trail to tour neighborhoods damaged by severe storms swooping in on a black hawk helicopter. a rare day of bipartisanship. to be willontinues to supporters with his apparent shift on his signature

what is the clinton campaign saying about all of this? >> reporter: well, as you can imagine, they are pushing back quite forcefully on the fact that those notes from secretary clinton's interview with the fbi were released to lawmakers. let me read you a statement from brian fallon and discuss it on the other side, steve. it reads, quote, "this is an extraordinarily rare step that was sought solely for republicans for the purposes of further second-guessing the career professionals at the fbi. we believe that if these materials are going to be shared outside the justice department, they should be released widely so that the public can see them for themselves, rather than allow republicans to mischaracterize them through selective, partisan leaks." and that is really the crux of the clinton campaign argument. that, essentially now, these documents are open to potential leaks. so, they are saying, hey, release these documents to the public so everyone can see. important to point out, steve, these are not the transcripts, these are the note

but the clinton campaign, at least hillary clinton, is not this weekend. why is that? >> well, she's out of sight for us, but that doesn't mean she's not working. they are hitting all of the playgrounds of the rich and famous over the course of the next couple of weeks to raise money in a final fundraising push. they were on martha's vineyard for bill clinton's 70th birthday friday. they are having a fundraiser. ku see on the screen. some of the famous names hillary clinton is going to be appearing with, cher who wrote a fundraising e-mail for her, jimmy buffet, tobey maguire, leonardo decaprio. clpt doing a series of fundraisers in l.a. before she has one campaign event potentially in reno, nevada. otherwise this is going to be the last chance to wrap up those millions of dollars she's going to need to stay on tv and continue her campaign through the fall. there's not much of a chance to do it after labor day. >> nbc's kasie hunt. thanks, kasie. >> shake-up and regret. trump campaign senior adviser joins us. >>> first general election foray into the tv ad war. up next

clinton, her campaign is going to twist every single thing he says. he's got to understand and be more precise with his language. it's clear, mrs. clinton, her campaign and the democrats do not want to talk about the issues. we just got gdp number that is are atrocious for the american worker. second quarter, 1.2% gdp growth. first quarter, .8%. we got a report today that said productivity is the lowest. it eegs the lowest since the 1970s. the average american worker is suffering. they don't want to talk about that. then she'd have to be in a position of defending the last eight years and democratic policies. she has been in the press and will do her dirty work for her. donald trump has to understand, that's what he's up against here. >> charles? >> well, when i first heard it, i thought he's talking nra folks lobbying against these judges. the alternative is too nuts, even for trump, even in his offhanded remarks, even in his wise guy mode. i still think that's true. i can't quite believe he would have implied otherwise. how many times have we heard

virginia, up 14 points for the clinton campaign. we remember from 2012, virginia was one of the closest states barack obama beat mitt romney only 3 percentage points. the fact that virginia is a double digit state, colorado as well, the clinton campaign feels confident about that at this point. we see the numbers on the screen right there. it's still a potential for shifting. polls are not predictions. they are a snapshot in the moment. in this moment, donald trump is losing both of those states. >> what are we, i guess what is our assessment of what's happening with donald trump right now? he's had this shift in his campaign management. he did have a couple of days -- he says things that are controversial but seemed like he was sticking to topic. top he goes on a twitter tirade against the msnbc morning show hosts when he's supposed to be focused on immigration. >> this is not what his campaign wants him to bo doing now. they want him to stick to one topic. make it unique every week. this week is immigration. next week is education

what can you clarify as a hillary clinton campaign's computers been hacked? >> well, chuck, as we've explained in the press, the campaign, itself, based on everything we've been told by the experts that are monitoring this work constantly, the campaign itself, to our knowledge, has not been breached. the system that you're mentioning, is the system run by the dnc that our campaign and another other entities were utilitizing. >> what kind of concern that the voters have by dnc and by extension they can't protect data? >> well, chuck, first of all as i said, you know, there's an absolutely no evidence that the campaign has been breached. i know the dnc is taking all necessary steps to protect the data and our campaign will continue to do the same. i think what's very disturbing about this entire situation is first that there's a foreign power, aggressively breaking in to data systems trying to apparently influence the out come of the campaign, but then we saw the other day that donald trump made comments to actually encouraging more of this behavior, more espio

i should say we have the clinton campaign here. they will come on the next block of this show to respond to this information. in the meantime, now to an event so big, it makes the super bowl seem like pop warner, the stakes higher than a grateful dead concert on mount everest. with the pregame spin so ferocious it makes a pit bull seem like my little pony, the first hillary clinton-donald trump face-off, less than one month away. we have brand new details about what's going on behind the scenes to get ready or perhaps i should say what the campaigns want us to think is going on behind the scenes to get ready. the trump campaign is said to be a free wheeling debate, chats over burgers. for clinton, they say a surgical thought process, forensic-style analysis of trump's earlier debate performances. here to discuss the details, patrick healey, cnn political analyst and "new york times" correspondent, great details in a new article in "the times." lanhee chen, cnn political commentator and mitt romney's former public policy director wh

the clinton campaign calls the comments dangerous. trump says his remarks are being misinterpreted and that he was calling for political action. >>> and at the olympics, michael phelps won two more gold medals. one in the 200-meter butterfly and part of the 4x400 relay. he has a total now of 21 gold medals. katie ledecky won the 200-meter freestyle for her second gold medal this olympics. and the women's gymnastics won the team gold medal. >>> some residents in the poverty-stricken communities around rio say they are being left out. jamie yuccas reports. >> reporter: this is the largest favela in rio de janeiro. houses are jammed nearly on top of each other and motor taxi drivers help people navigate the slopes and narrow alley ways. marcos has lived here for 34 years and never imagined himself anywhere else. >> translator: i love this place. i love the people of this place. >> reporter: but he says the olympics are forcing him out of the neighborhood. the wealthy areas nearby received infrastructure upgrade but nothing changed in the

clinton, her campaign is going to twist every single thing he says. he's got to understand and be more precise with his language. it's clear, mrs. clinton, her campaign and the democrats do not want to talk about the issues. we just got gdp number that is are atrocious for the american worker. second quarter, 1.2% gdp growth. first quarter, .8%. we got a report today that said productivity is the lowest. it eegs the lowest since the 1970s. the average american worker is suffering. they don't want to talk about that. then she'd have to be in a position of defending the last eight years and democratic policies. she has been in the press and will do her dirty work for her. donald trump has to understand, that's what he's up against here. >> charles? >> well, when i first heard it, i thought he's talking nra folks lobbying against these judges. the alternative is too nuts, even for trump, even in his offhanded remarks, even in his wise guy mode. i still think that's true. i can't quite believe he would have implied otherwise. how many times have we heard

and when we come back, the clinton campaign chief strategist. a real honor to see him here, in our studio, on this set, after these words from our sponsors. ♪ alex: fresh off hillary clinton's scathing critique of donald trump and the alt right, we are joined by democratic pollster in senior strategist and clinton's campaign, joel benenson. thank you for your time. important man in an important time for hillary clinton. the donald trump campaign seems to be suggesting that the speech today was trying to pivot away from her worst week in politics. >> i think donald trump has been -- the wheels are coming off his campaign, he is on his third campaign manager, claims he hires the best people in the world. i think we are in a phase now where the issues have to be put front and center. he's in trying to make some statements. whether he has been fed them by advisers, people putting them in his teleprompter, who knows. but we will hold them to account on positions he has taken that have been divisive and dividing, that have been hateful, and we will

and the clinton campaign was so eager to go down that road. their statement today was andtically gleeful, they have been trying to make it clear that it was not just manafort. they want to establish a pattern of ties between trump and putin in the same way the media has between manafort, ukraine, and putin. i don't think that will go away for them. some of this stuff will eventually end up in television ads, and it will break through to the american public. if there is anything that americans understand, it is an us versus them, axis of evil forces us kind of situation. i think that is what the clinton campaign is trying to set up. , based on your conversations, he has given substantive speeches, he has rearranged the top ranks of his campaign, he is doing his first disaster tour, something we have not seen him do. does this suggest a real reset, and are republicans going to be ok with where things now stand? i think wase things striking in some of the conversations in the last few days is, to try to digest the first advertising or the changes

the clinton campaign is in ohio in force. donald trump's presence there, while he's hired some top-tier staffers is minimal. one person on the ground i spoke to this week said it's dismal. that stit ate is super plugged john kasich, who beat donald trump by 240,000 votes in march. that team, if donald trump could activate them could win the state for donald trump. all they've done is battled with kasich's. the ohio republican party is mostly frozen and donald trump is now in a major deficit both spending, staffing, data, in the state where he has to win. >> so many people are scratching their heads why he was taking on kasich when he was in ohio, at the convention. why continue to beat that how he was. stand by. >>> a lot more tocomeincluding this. new e-mail questions for hillary clinton bring up concerns about her time as secretary of state. >>> olympiad take our "inside politics" quiz of the day. who would be best to handle the economy? donald trump, hillary clinton, jill stein or gary johnson. (burke) at farmers, we've s

the clinton campaign calls the comments dangerous. trump says his remarks are being misinterpreted and that he was calling for political action. >>> and at the olympics, michael phelps won two more gold medals. one in the 200-meter butterfly and as part of the 4x800 freestyle relay. phelps now has a total of 21 gold medals. katie ledecky won the 200-meter freestyle for her second gold and the u.s. women's gymnasts won the team gold medal. >>> some residents in the poverty-stricken communities around rio say they are being left out. jamie yuccas reports. >> reporter: a sina is the argest favela in rio de janeiro. houses are jammed nearly on top of each other and motor taxi drivers help people navigate the slopes and narrow alleyways. >> reporter: he hopes children here can have a future that is brighter than the what olympic promised, but didn't deliver. jamie yuccas, cbs news, rio de janeiro. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," new concerns about a cyberattack on the presidential election. we will look what is b

so once this happens, i'm cures, is the clinton campaign concerned? how are they responding to these latest allegations another dump is coming. >> they haven't really engaged yet. at least formally and i think if there is something that he has, they would prefer it to come sooner rather than later. there's a reason it's called the october surprise. it comes a month before the election. if -- if wikileaks actually has something that might be damaging, they would want it out there as soon as possible >> do you see movement from the clinton campaign any action on this now to defend her? >> we haven't seen movements and two, there's the possibility that some are except tall about asaunge having something big. and what it is, no one knows, officially, the clinton campaign is not going to engage with this until something more concrete comes out >> defend her from what? but in advance, >> thanks storage for coming in. >>> sarah palin back in the news defending donald trump, and saying she's not worried about claims he's gone soft on aggravation, which is cre

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the clinton campaign calls comments dangerous. trump says his remarks are being misinterpreted and that he was calling for political action. >>> and at the olympics, michael phelps won two more gold medals. one in the 200-meter butterfly and part of the 4x400 relay. he has a total now of 21 gold medals. katie ledecky won the 200-meter freestyle for her second gold and the women's gymnastics won the team gold medal. >>> some residents in the poverty-stricken communities around rio say they are being left out. jamie yuccas reports. >> reporter: this is the largest favela in rio de janeiro. houses are jammed nearly on top of each other and motor taxi drivers help people navigate the slopes and narrow alley ways. marcos has lived here for years and never imagined himself anywhere else. >> translator: i love this place. i love the people of this place. >> reporter: but he says the olympics are forcing him out of the neighborhood. the wealthy areas nearby received infrastructure upgrade but nothing changed in the favela but his rent whi

and when we come back, the clinton campaign chief strategist. a real honor to see him here, in set, after on this sponsors.s from our ♪ ♪ alex: fresh off hillary clinton's scathing critique of donald trump in the alt right, we are joined by democratic pollster in senior strategist and clinton's campaign, joel benenson. thank you for your time. an important in time for hillary clinton. the donald trump campaign seems to be suggesting that the speech today was trying to pick it away from her worst week in politics. >> i think donald trump has been -- the wheels are coming off his campaign, he is on his third campaign manager, claims he hires the best people in the world. i think we are in a phase now where the issues have to be put front and center. he's in trying to make some statements. whether he has been fed them by advisers, people putting them in his teleprompter, who knows. but we will hold them to account on positions he has taken that have been divisive and dividing, that have been hateful, and we will hold him to account for the next

how does the clinton campaign get over that? donald trump caused all this by politicizing it to themselves. if there is a risk, how do they avoid it? >> there's always a risk. i don't see evidence that the clinton campaign is ginning this up. you have the khans going out there very humbly saying donald trump should get his facts straight and chill out. the trunk campaign and donald trump himself are continuing to attack. they are working themselves into this hole, and they are complaining they are in the hole that they are in. i don't see any involvement or participation from the clinton campaign. you are right if that were evident that it could be a problem at some point, but right now, it's the trump campaign manager itself. >> it's also the difference between the primary and the general election. the general election started last thursday night when hillary clinton took the nomination were accepted the nomination. in the primary, trump could bulldoze through these controversies because there wasn't enough opposition to sustai

hillary clinton's campaign manager is here tonight. we've got lots to ask him about, including the donald trump campaign hiring a campaign manager of their own. the new person, who is apparently going to be in charge of the trump campaign is a, i think, widely seen as a very unusual choice for the job. it frankly has a lot of people freaking out today. we'll talk with robby mook about that and we have more than 100,000 americans in two states who have now been evacuated from their homes in devastating, but very opposite disasters. also tonight some surprising, almost laughable news out of one of the reddest states in the country. so lots to get to tonight. lots of diverse news to get to. we'll start tonight, though, with a very, very strange letter, that was released this past december by a new york city doctor. one of the sort of strange but necessary things that happens in national politics is that we get doctor's notes about our presidents and about our would-be presidents. so even though it seems intrusive, even though it seems lik

target for the trump campaign to dive on top of and a huge new bunch of targets for the clinton campaign to have to defend. >> reporter: a headache for the clinton campaign that could last until the election and be. news, washington. >>> donald trump meanwhile is coming under fire for the way he's attempted to appeal african-american voters. anybody's kristen welker looks at why critics say that appeal is falling flat. >> reporter: tonight donald trump raising eyebrows with his new pitch to african-american voters. >> what do you have to lose? >> reporter: trump's arguments, democrats take black voters for granted, he can do better. >> you'll be able to walk down the street without getting shot. right now you walk >> reporter: but that has some african-americans bristling. >> that is condescending at best, and bigoted at worse. >> reporter: arguing trump is delivering his message to predominantly white audiences. >> he's talking to those suburban white women who may want to vote for him but afraid they'll be voting for a racist, a bigot. >> all that giing the clinton campaign fodder, poi

the fact that the clinton campaign is taking those foreign donations seems highly questionable as of this strategy. mark: hillary clinton should have press conferences. donald trump should release his taxes. thelieve -- i called managing editor of bloomberg politics and i managed nothing and added no one and there is that. i do not think many voters care. the clinton foundation is a huge problem because in our last poll we had 53% of people think that the fact it accepts foreign donations is problematic. it gets into the areas that i care about which is actually persuadable voters. before not already committed to donald trump or hillary clinton interesting subset, not deciding between clinton and trump. but deciding whether they will will the liver for hillary clinton as they would for a democrat or for donald trump. i think there are a lot of donald estimate her to her unsettled by the clinton foundation and they have not clean this up with a have handled it today in the fact that they are scrambling suggest the recognized phone ability. talk we did not get to about the 15,000 e-mai

>> reporter: well, wolf, the clinton campaign is seizing on this comment and hitting back hard as a sign that donald trump just doesn't take foreign policy seriously. let me read a portion of the statement they put out today saying donald trump should apologize for his outrageous, unhinged and patently false suggestion opinions the founding of isis. this is yet another out-of-control statement by a candidate who is unraveling before our very eyes. combating terrorist threats like isis is a deadly serious undertakin undertaking. wolf, you can see them setting up the juxtaposition, the idea that hillary clinton is a steady hand when it comes to being a commander-in-chi commander-in-chief, being in charge of the nuclear codes and donald trump is out of his depth when it comes to dooling with issues like terrorist threats. >> he's also facing other questions today, sarah, as you know, about the relationship he has with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. what's the latest we know about >> reporter: this comes in the wake of the "time" magazine article that shows donald tru

higher especially for the pro-clinton campaign. >> guest: yes, that's right. the clinton super pacs about spent the trump super pacs by a significant margin as well. when you put it all together, last week the most recent data we have, reached over $100 million, around about 104. that outspends all the code from advertising by a margin of around nine to one. >> host: the clinton campaign is focusing on key battleground states are the trump campaign at least so far with focus on florida, ohio, pennsylvania and north carolina, four states that the trump campaign insist are a must win. let's look at some of the ads now on the air spent on hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> america depends on steady leadership. >> knock the crap out of him, would you? seriously. >> believe me. >> and you can tell them to go to be blan -- i would not -- >> hillary clinton's america, the system stays rig against americans. syrian refugees flood in, illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, clicking salsas get it benefits them skipping the line. it's

the clinton campaign calls the comments dangerous. trump says his remarks are being misinterpreted and that he was calling for political action. >>> and at the olympics, michael phelps won two more gold medals. one in the 200-meter butterfly and as part of the 4x800 freestyle relay. phelps now has a total of 21 gold medals. katie ledecky won the 200-meter freestyle for her second gold and the u.s. women's gymnasts won the team gold medal. >>> some residents in the poverty-stricken communities around rio say they are being left out. jamie yuccas reports. >> reporter: a sina is the argest favela in rio de janeiro. houses are jammed nearly on top of each other and motor taxi drivers help people navigate the slopes and narrow alle marcos has lived here for 34 years and never imagined himself anywhere else. >> translator: i love this place. i love the people of this place. >> reporter: but he says the olympics are forcing him out of the neighborhood. the wealthy areas nearby received infrastructure upgrades, but nothing changed in the fave

jeff zeleny is on the trail with the clinton campaign out front in miami tonight and the clinton campaign reaction was extremely swift, but not actually from the candidate herself. >> reporter: it was indeed, erin. so far we have not heard directly by secretary clinton and that is by design. she was asked by a reporter at a political stop. she declined to answer a question on it and she is at fund raisers in miami tonight and she's making the case that he is an unacceptable leader and a dangerous leader and she is going to not dwell on this. in some respects she doesn't have to. we saw her running mate there make some harsh comments about it and of course, her campaign manager said this is an example of donald trump being dangerous here, but democrats are rallying to her aid, to her side tonight, erin. one that we are taking particular notice of is from elizabeth warren, the senator from massachusetts. look at this tweet she sent out just a few minutes ago. donald trump makes death threats because he is a pathetic coward who can't handle the fact he's losing to a girl. erin, not exactly h

you've seen some republicans trying to link him to the clinton campaign. this is something i'm sure the clinton campaign did not want to deal with. they said this was an open event, anyone could have attended. he was not a guest of the clinton campaign by the end of the day they were forced to disavow support for him. >> every short, steven sloan. thank you. >>> billionaire investor icahn, the economy will tank unless donald trump is elected president. here's what he told cnn richard quest. >> if trump doesn't win, and you have more of the stance that we have for the last eight years we have a major economy problem. we don't have jobs, good jobs. >> some of those major problems that he mentioned include slow growth, low wages, manufacturing and far too much regulation. trump did say he'd love to have icahn to negotiate deals with china. icahn said yesterday he would never take a cabinet position if trump wins and prefers to be an advicer. >>> michael phelps, the final five. and the united states athletes going for gold and get something big wins. all the h

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the clinton campaign responding. we are not sure what additional materials the justice department may have located, but if the state department determines any of them to be work-related, then obviously we support those documents being released publicly as well. now also today, the conservative watchdog group judicial watch released some documents they have uncovered claiming 20 new hillary clinton work exchanges along with e-mails from

target for the trump campaign to dive on top of and a huge new bunch of targets for the clinton campaign to have to defend. >> reporter: a headache for the clinton campaign that could last until the election and beyond. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> donald trump meanwhile is coming under fire for the way he's attempted to appeal african-american voters. anybody's kristen welker looks at why critics say that appeal is falling flat. >> reporter: tonight donald trump raising eyebrows with his new pitch to african-american voters. >> what do you have to lose? >> reporter: trump's arguments, democrats take black voters for granted, he can do better. >> you'll be able to walk down the street without getting shot. right now you walk down the street, you get shot. >> reporter: but that has some african-americans bristling. >> that is condescending at best, and bigoted at worse. >> reporter: arguing trump is delivering his message to predominantly white audiences. >> he's talking to those suburban white women who may want to vote for him but afraid they'll be voting for a racist, a b

how does the clinton campaign get over that? trump caused all this by politicizing it to themselves. if there is a risk, how do they it?d >> there's always a risk. i don't see evidence that the clinton campaign is ginning this up. outhave the khans going there very humbly saying donald trump should get his facts straight and chill out. the trunk campaign and donald trump himself are continuing to attack. they are working themselves into this hole, and they are complaining they are in the hole that they are in. i don't see any involvement or participation from the clinton campaign. you are right if that were evident that it could be a problem at some point, but right now, it's the trump campaign manager itself. >> it's also the difference between the primary and the general election. the general election started last thursday night when hillary clinton took the nomination were accepted the nomination. in the primary, trump could bulldoze through these controversies because there wasn't enough opposition to sustain the conversatio

he clearly, their campaign clearly sees this as a potential advantage they have over secretary clinton. >> that's true. i'm not sure whether or not that bears out in the polls. if you look at the polling, people trust clinton to repair the damage between the black community and the police more than they trust donald trump to do so, for example, he's made this the focus of the campaign, but what we've seen over the past month or two months with the campaign is he's not figured out how to extend his core base and support. i'm not sure they'll let him expand outward in terms of the number of people he's reaching and he's in the low 40s in terms of polling and i'm not sure that reinforcing the same thing in this way will help him pass this mark. >> there were a lot of articles about lack of outreach to the african-american community to the united states and even to african-american conservatives. >> yeah. reports are that a lot of his supporters and advisers are urging him to begin doing that. i honestly think the trump campaign hasn't done any outreach to african-american voters because s

i don't see any for dissipation from the clinton campaign. you are right if that were true or evident, it could be a problem. right now is the trump campaign manager itself. mark: it'salso between the primary election in the general election. steve: it started last thursday and it would hillary clinton took the nomination. in the primary election, i think trump can bulldoze through these controversies because there is not enough opposition to sustain the spotlight on this, on any particular incident. now we are in the general election you do see the dnc and the clinton campaign and the senate candidates coming under pressure to comment on this from reporters, their opposition, democratic operatives, people like yourselves. that is the difference now. john: if i could, i think alex is right. there was one more element that seems to be present that wasn't during the campaign. it is easy for donald trump and it's only 20 or 25 reporters covering his campaign to bamboozle through them. you have everyone in the world, every reporter and journals i

many democrats sided with the clinton campaign who called the remarks dangerous. gaby giffords who was shot in the head during a mass shooting tweeted we must draw a line between political speech and suggestions of violence. connecticut senator chris murphy tweeted don't treat this as a political misstep. it's an assassination threat. easily won his state's primary tuesday spoke out. >> it sounds like a joke gone bad. you should never joke about that. >> reporter: trump has been under fire from members of his own party to stick to message. yesterday, he took aim at the media for allegedly ignoring the presence of omar mateen's father at one of clinton's rallies this week. >> if that were me, this would be a headline all over the world. >> reporter: the clinton campaign has since disavowed is not an invited guest. clinton is scheduled to talk about jobs today in iowa before delivering what her campaign calls a major economics speech in detroit on thursday. >> brian webb here in new york, thank you so much. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," we will talk with dan

does the clinton campaign think there is any danger to them politically? kasie: look, i think they are very much aware of it. this is something they are treading carefully around. clearly, she is tied into this, but they feel like it is another example of a story overshadowed by what is going on with the donald trump campaign. i mean, they have been pretty lucky over the course of the last couple of days. she had that misstep in her fox news sunday interview, where she talked about james comey saying she was truthful and all of her statements about her e-mails. that was something that got buried underneath everything going on with the kahn family. and i think there are some similarities here with that. we will see. she has done a couple of local interviews. we will see us to respond. of course we have not had a , chance to put it to her directly today. kasie, always a pleasure to have you both on the show. thank you for being here. come back soon. when we come back, anxious republicans. we will talk to two former party chairmen, right after this. ♪ >> wh

you know, the clinton campaign said that mrs. clinton has only offered support to huma abedin, that they spoke sunday, that huma learned about this and fairly quickly said to anthony, i'm separating from you. he knew that huma's statement was coming this morning as he left the hamptons and drove back to new york. there's an effort to sort of contain this in hopes that it all kind of washes out with debate prep and dog days but we'll see. >> cory, do you believe it actually does have an impact on the election? do you think voters can a? >> look at the end of the day, voters will vote on hillary clinton or donald trump. what we see right now is that the last five weeks, hillary clinton has thrown everything that she can at donald trump. florida, tied in ohio. very competitive in pennsylvania. so that's what the voters are looking at. moreover, huma abedin -- pat is exactly right at this she has been at the center of attention at state department pay to play scandal, clinton foundation. it wasn't just the crowned prince but multiple

smart ad for the clinton campaign. they're trying to get to what they view as donald trump's vulnerabilities. number one this is tv, it's not real. but then that he's a hypocrite on the outsourcing issue. >> we hear about outsourcing from democrats every two years. it's something that tests well. what you have heard from democrats since the beginning of the campaign, that she has had trouble making a positive case for her candidacy. in the convention it was the same thing. very effective negative case against donald trump. her speech on the last night felt relatively flat, didn't get the same ratings as the other nights in terms of compared to the republican convention and still struggling to articulate. even where she is leading donald trump by a wide margin, she is not over 50%. she is not consolidating the people who were voting for donald trump because there is a void in the reason affirmatively to vote for her. >> a lot of the feelings are baked in. she has been in the light for several decades. this strategy inte

the clinton campaign said trump was inciting violence. trump's campaign had another major. >> scott, donald trump's first impulse was to put out a statement that blamed the quote dishonest media. the trump camp felt no need to explain what trump meant and address accusations that even indirectly he was calling for violence against hillary clinton. however, trump did address this moments ago in an interview with cbs affiliate wncn here in north carolina. >> if you could explain what you meant. >> what i think you about, i am not sure, i haven't heard this question. you are talking about the power of people that are in favor of the second amendment. they have tremendous political power. and i think they really are strong, they to are united. >> even so, comments like this have driven away members of trump's own republican party. among them, maine senator susan collins. who wrote this morning in "the washington post," trump's quote, lack of self restraint and his world even more so. the national rifle association which endorsed trump in may

hillary clinton campaigned with her tuesday in florida. meanwhile, e-mails from hillary clinton state department staff are once again putting her family's foundation in the spotlight. here is nbc's kristen welker. >> raising fresh questions about the relationship between the clinton family foundation and secretary clinton's state department. one, dated 2009, a clinton foundation executive e-mailed secretary clinton's top advisers huma abedin and cheryl mills requesting they set up a meeting between a billionaire donor and the u.s. ambassador to lebanon. this is very important he said. critics have pounced on foreign donations to the foundation, questioning whether that bought donor's access to the state department. >> it's called pay for play. >> reporter: last year, bill clinton defending the foundation to cynthia mcfadden. >> we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of american government policy. >> reporter: the clinton campaign telling nbc news these new e-mails don't relate to

the clinton campaign says it's simply not true. and it fueled the fire that donald trump has been calling on for really several days to put an end to the clinton foundation. now, effort clinton campaign on the defensive here about the foundation already changing rules. just earlier this week, president clinton said he would step down from this foundation. he would stop raising money from the foundation if hillary clinton was elected president. the latest report is one more example that the nexus between the secretary of state office and the foundation will remain an issue. today, hillary clinton in california raising money, looking forward to a speech tomorrow in nevada where she will question donald trump's temperament in its installment of what trump called the lecture series. >> what some call, what jeff zeleny calls the lecture series. >>> the republican nominee also going after her stance on immigration saying she wants to open the floodgates at the u.s. borders. >> hillary clinton wants a totally open border. she wants catch

i know it makes a good story for the clinton campaign. it's kind of icing on the cake of maybe a good week for them. the reality is it is an absolute fantasy. >> an absolute fantasy. what say you? >> i'm okay if they want to continue to think that until november. the polls over the past month have shown time and time again that not only is georgia in play but clinton is leading. we have continued to close the gap cycle after cycle. president obama got 47% of the vote without any significant presidential investment. in the past eight years, we have done nothing more but trend toward a more democratic electorate. we feel very confident that we're going to be able to bring this home for hillary clinton this november. >> rebecca dehart, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll see you in georgia. thank you all for joining us. >>> hi, everybody. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." if we're not in the homestretch in the race for president, we can see it from here. election day is just 90 days away and we're

>> you tell me how the clinton campaign is doing. in virginia and colorado they have roughly nine, ten, 11-point spreads. is it too soon to call those states or should trump forget about them as well? >> the clinton campaign has such a massive cash advantage, when you get down to it, you have to reserve the time. if you had money, you could probably get in at the end if you were concerned about it. if you look at the states where the clintons are concerned versus the states where they're not, when we look at virginia and colorado, these states have increasingly large non-white voter populations and more affluent white voters, more voters with college degrees. that has not been the sweet spot for trump. but then you flip the other side, why is nevada so close? why is iowa so close? why are these states that have been democratic for two cycles and have been very strong for barack obama, why are they open to trump? the answer is we flip the demographics, on the other side these are states that have the opposite democrat makeup among the

what is the clinton campaign saying? >> they are trying to, you know, keep these individual bumps in the polls kind of in context and keep an eye on november. but this is the beginning of when polls really start to matter on the national scale. where after the convention, finally getting to a point of kind of equilibrium where we can finally assess, this is a benchmark we should be weighing all future polls against. americans are actually beginning to tune in really for the first time, even though we have been all covering this for a long time. still, again, you've got to keep an eye on the state polls more than the national polls. >> and kelly, very quickly, is the trump campaign very jittery when they look at these numbers? >> i think they are concerned, because they thought there would be a bounce for them, and obviously hillary clinton's convention had a lot of high points and so she is enjoying that now. i think that it will be another news cycle, and trump will find another way to throw a punch. we have seen him so

hillary clinton is running a post-citizens united campaign. that matters. if you look at the spending totals to date, priorities usa, the clinton super pac, $131 million. make america great pac, $12.1 million to date. that is a major difference in spending. >> i will tell you the other piece of that. the priorities usa has nearly $40 million cash on hand today, still holding it. >> with $40 million odd pledged in addition to that. >> i think there's no question that the clinton campaign is in a better state as an operation. i don't think anybody in the world would disagree with that. they have ground operations, they have targeting operations. they are using data in a sophisticated modern way. they are on the air, all that stuff is true. it continues to be surprising to me that although it is unquestionably true that clinton has established a real lead nationally and in a lot of battleground states, that trump is still in a lot of places within striking distance and that he now is raising money to put him in a position to close that gap. but to close that g