. [cheers and applause] >> larry: he has -- he is giving donald trump some feedback. [laughing] >> larry: on how his convention went. first, let's bring you up on the rnc last night and check in with the unblack ening. (screams) [cheers and applause] >> larry: so last night marked the end of the republican national convention. it's been quite a convention, you guys. from michelle obama's beautiful speech. [laughing] >> larry: to -- [cheers and applause] >> larry: to ben carson playing six degrees of lucifer. >> larry: to grander ma munster sew yack killer getting booed off the stage. the children of the orange stealing the spot light. they were awesome. a hell of a week. i mean that, it has been the week from hell. donald trump, your big night to make a case to the american people. what did you have to say. >> the american people will come first once again. >> larry: oh. the american first will come first. isn't that jumping in -- [ applause ] >> larry: you know what i'm saying. >> larry: how are you going to do that big boss? okay. i see. he's not just appealing to the base. he's also worki

. >>> it is the top of the hour. you're watching "cnn tonight." we're listening to donald trump give a campaign speech in everett, washington and finding out he'll be meeting with the mexican president tomorrow and giving a speech tomorrow in arizona, donald trump speaking, making an appeal to african-americans right now. let's listen in. >> thank you. the destruction that nafta started will be finished off if the transpacific partnership is approved. it is a disaster, a disaster for our country, a disaster for our workers. we don't let it happen. we cannot let it happen. these are very, very quiet protesters, i will say. i will say one thing, when bernie sanders had his protesters out, they had a lot more energy. much better. they were much better. they felt it a little bit deeper in the heart. but that's just the beginning of what we're going to do for the american worker. on taxes, we're going to provide massive tax relief to all working people and lower the tax rate on small business from 35% to 15%. low and middle income parents will also be able to fully deduct the average cost o

heilemann. "with all due respect" to donald trump, we heard about your minnesota ballot troubles and you should have known. lot of weird stuff happens up there. >>> oh, yeah. you betcha. we have a good show for you tonight. okay. after a week of being hammered over her family foundation, hillary clinton was back on offense today, calling b.s. on donald trump's latest efforts to soften his rhetoric and reach out to minority voters. this afternoon in reno, nevada the democratic nominee devoted her speech to reminding the world of trump' unseemliest remarks and retweets dubbing him a hero of the alt-right. >> from the start, donald trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. he is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the republican party. let's not forget that trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. he promoted the racist lie that president obama is not really an american citizen. the de facto merger between breitbart and the trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for this group. a fringe el

really going after donald trump in some of her strongest language yet. she said he built his campaign on paranoia and saying he's stroking the ego and mainstreaming really extremism here. i think we're really getting into a moment here where she and her campaign made the decision to go head on. no more beating around the bush. >> donald trump just says she's a bigot. and hillary clinton up there reciting back from donald trump's days working with his father, preventing black people from renting in their buildings, putting a "c" for color ed makig sure their application was rejected. >> it's pretty damning. they had had to pay a fine to the justice department. the materials are there. one thing that i think might have gotten forgotten was some years ago when there was the central park incident and the five young men that were unfairly targeted, went to jail and donald trump took out a f l full-page ad urging the death penalty. these guys were innocent. they were railroaded. when they were released and the city had to pay them, he never backed down. the classic thing is the guy's action

the authors of a new biography of donald trump. from thursday's washington journal, this is an hour. strengthen the community college system. >> for our total schedule go to c-span.org. >> washington journal continues. next hour, a conversation with the co-authors of the washington post book titled "trump revealed: an american journey of ambition, ego, money, and power," an and joining us now the table is marc fisher and michael kranish. what kind of reaction did you get from donald trump? guest: for this book, donald trump was gracious with this time. he spent 20 hours with a team of reporters doing interviews. the day before the book came out he tweeted, don't buy the book, it is boring. he cannot have read it because he did not receive a copy. people will see this is a thorough biography. let me beginsher, where you begin, his life story. he knew how to be famous, he knew how to win numbers, to get ratings. he made a lifelong study of how to create buzz. let's was one level up from flash. can you explain? guest: he has a hierarchy of reaction he can get from the media and he has

to get the purple heart. this was much easier. >> so that was donald trump's week last week as seen through the eyes of the clinton campaign and as seen through the eyes of plenty of americans. clinton leading in every single national poll that came out last week. pretty much all of the swing state polls that came out last week too. in fact, trump was down 15 points in a poll that came out last week. that was a bigger margin than mitt romney had faced at any point during the 2012 election. by the way, the polls haven't gotten any kinder for donald trump today. we're going to get to that in just a few minutes. last friday night in the face of what had been the worst week his campaign had endured since he came down that escalator and got into the race, last friday night donald trump seemed to make a gesture toward trying, at least, to repair all of that damage from the week. he was in wisconsin for a rally and on stage there he read haltingly from a prepared statement. he took a piece of paper and read from a statement endorsing paul ryan and john mccain and kelly ayotteayotte. some o

donald trump? guest: for this book, donald trump was gracious with this time. he spent 20 hours with a team of reporters doing interviews. the day before the book came out he tweeted, don't buy the book, it is boring. he cannot have read it because he did not receive a copy. people will see this is a thorough biography. let me beginsher, where you begin, his life story. he knew how to be famous, he knew how to win numbers, to get ratings. he made a lifelong study of how to create buzz. let's was one level up from flash. can you explain? guest: he has a hierarchy of reaction he can get from the media and he has made a lifelong study of manipulating the media and using the media. he learned at a early age that all publicity is good publicity and he genuinely believes that getting his name out there in all of these different ways through his entire life, from being seen with the prettiest models and celebrities in the 1970's although we up to his rallies today with lots of stocks on saturday night live what he didania -- with that is the idea of donald trump as a brand and image. someone

our guest this morning is the senator from massachusetts, donald trump's most appointed critic. she will take it. they give for joining us this morning. -- thank you for joining us this morning. senator warren: i think trump wants to win everything. let's start with that. the problem is, he stands up every single day and says come in what way can i prove that i'm unfit to be president? let me dare the american people to like me president. janet: a lot of people have revitalize the trump brand and that he never planned on winning until things started happening. senator warren: i don't think trump plans much of anything. he is a man who seems to be driven by impulse and a lot of his impulses seem to come from somewhere deep within. i don't pretend to understand that. ed: i want to talk about the purple heart incident. up and presents the purple heart. he first accepted and says i've always wanted one of these and it's way easier to get it this way. one step, to step, three -- two step, three. senator warren: all three of my brother served in the military. that's brothers served in the

>>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news, a major shift from donald trump on immigration. meanwhile, hillary clinton blasts him in an exclusive interview with cnn. this is "cnn tonight," i'm don lemon. trump in an interview saying there would be no amnesty but promising to, quote, work with undocumented immigrants. and in a blistering speech in mississippi, he calls hillary clinton a bigot. she fires back accusing trump of peddling bigotry, prejudice and paranoia with our own anderson cooper. i want to bring in mark preston and miss dana bash. let's start with the word bigot on the campaign trail tonight. here's donald trump. >> hillary clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. she's going to do nothing for african-americans, she's going to do nothing for the hispanics. she doesn't care what her policies have done to your communities. >> and here's hillary clinton talking to anderson cooper tonight. >> donald trump has shown us who he is and we ought to believe him. he is taking a hate movement mainstream, he

third and final debate between hillary clinton and donald trump taking place at the university of nevada las vegas on october 19. live coverage of the presidential and vice president rnl debates on c-span. listen live on the free c-span. and live on demand at c-span.org. >> next we'll hear from the co-authors. they'll join us on thursday, wearnl. for our total schedule o c-span.org. >> washington journal continues. next hour, a conversation with the co-authors of the washington post book titled "trump revealed: an american journey of ambition, ego, money, and power," an and joining us now the table is marc fisher and michael kranish. what kind of reaction did you get from donald trump? guest: for this book, donald trump was gracious with this time. he spent 20 hours with a team of reporters doing interviews. the day before the book came out he tweeted, don't buy the book, it is boring. he cannot have read it because he did not receive a copy. people will see this is a thorough biography. let me beginsher, where you begin, his life story. he knew how to be famous, he knew how to wi

imgragz and it is a major shift from what we've been hearing from donald trump in his campaign. you know we've been getting hints about it. tonight, we do know the details and we'll tell you what they are and see if he talks about it at tonight's rally. also a 360 exclusive. secretary hillary clinton joins us in her first national television interview in nearly a month. she's facing more heat and sources say the campaign expected or the clinton foundation. her husband fired back late today and perhaps she will, too, tonight. plenty to talk about, in any case and we begin with a new batch of polling and inside politics arningor john king joins us to break it down by the numbers. who has the edge in the polls? encouraging poll numbers from donald trump tonight. he still has a long way to go and encouraging numbers and let's start out in the red state of arizona. there's been talk hillary clinton could compete there. among arizona voters, and gary johnson 4% for jill stein. that's significant, 16% for the third party candidates and in the state, some thought might move clint's way. so

, donald j. trump doing just the opposite these days. gallup is calling his convention the first in history that made voters less likely to vote for the republican nominee. are forming -- new cracks or for me. forming. on a day when donald trump was trying to turn the page, targeting hillary clinton and talking about the economy, as republicans want him to do, the fallout from his comments about the gold star family continues. today, one of donald trump is the strongest defenders chris christie became the latest republican unwilling to defend his party's nominee over the khan matter. >> the idea of me losing any one of our four children is unthinkable, and so you will not find me being critical of them no matter what they do, even if i may disagree with them. there was one particular statement they might make, but it is just an appropriate for us in this context to be criticizing them, and i will not participate in that. mark: this morning, the press speculating, it finally happened. a capitol hill republican, in this case, then your congressman richard hanna announced in an opinion

hoopla that hillary clinton is the one that's having a bad week and this is donald trump being true to his nature. he's always been anti-establishment. that's the same thing you heard paul manafort say, behind the scenes though, speaking to those that are close to donald trump and those that have been working with the campaign, there is some tension. there is a number of people in the campaign and outside of the campaign and those that are close to him are going and saying, you've got to back off and talk about your strengths, job creation, national security, the economy, not going on the attack even against hillary clinton. back off from that, back off from the counterpunching for the khan family. stay away from headlines. and let hillary clinton sink herself. that's what i'm hearing from some people that are closest to donald trump, others say, let's just focus entirely on hillary clinton. let's back away from the controversies. the consensus though is that donald trump needs to find a way to stay on message. they need to push him to find a way to stay on message. there's an inter

is now besting donald trump by four points, 37 to 33 among independents. then of course there's the issue of party unity. this was one of the major goals of the democratic convention. and it seems to be a successful part of the convention for hillary clinton. take a look. democrats say 44% of them say they're united. 40% say they're divided but will unit come november. only 14% say they are divided and will not unit by november. you remember bernie sanders going to the convention floor helping deliver the nomination to hillary clinton. this is a different story among republicans. take a look. not as successful in the unification effort. 20%, only 20% of republicans say they are currently united. 46% say they're divided but they will unit. 31%, nearly a third of republicans believe that they are divided now and will not unit by november. this is a huge warning sign for donald trump and something he needs to work on as you can see from this last weekend of controversy, though, it's going to be tough. lots of republicans still have concerns about his candidacy. >> political house divid

with breaking news. donald trump proving yet again he's something of a wildcard. washington hasser in seen this report. "the washington post" reporting donald trump so far refusing to endorse paul ryan and john mccain in their primary battles. for speaker ryan the vote comes a week from donald trump saying i like paul, but these are horrible times for our country and we need strong leadership and i'm not quite there yet. let's not forget paul ryan used similar language, "i'm not quite there yet" when he asked about endorsing donald trump. that may indicate donald trump may eventually come around, but it may also give us a glimmer of what the general election will be like. also the narrative that we are not seeing -- we are starting to hear we are not seeing the appropriate presidential temperament from donald trump. here to discuss it all. tammy bruce, kirsten haglund. and michael bowen. we had barack obama slamming donald trump. we have seen polls slamming donald trump. it all goes to one word, temperament. does this go to that? >> it does. a lot of people are talking about conventio

. >> yeah. you could see that in the polls. that's true. thank you, steve. >> okay. >> well, donald trump had the whole world thinking about assassination today, not just the united states, because donald trump's words yesterday about the possible assassination of the next president of the united states brought painful memories rushing back, not just here in the united states but in places where words like donald trump's have really been words that killed. >> hillary wants to abolish the second amendment. >> trump sparked an uproar. >> if she gets to pick her judg judges, nothing you can do, folks. >> with comments suggesting "second amendment people could act against hillary clinton." >> although the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don't know. >> words matter, my friends. >> the media is almost as crooked as crooked hillary clinton. >> the liberal media is making it impossible for him to carry on a campaign. >> it was very painful watching rudy giuliani, a guy that i've respected for a very long time, do that routine. >> yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual c

think it matters because the problem is donald trump. >> if he hires someone who will broaden the appeal or just a mirror that indulges his worse impulsions? given that breitbart has embraced conspiracies, i worry. >> with paul manafort resigning, will hiring the executive chairman of breitbart a fiercely pro donald trump website help the campaign? the media is skeptical about donald trump's tone. >> sometimes in the heat of debate and expecting on a moment tuesday of issues, you don't choose the right words. or you say the wrong thing. i have done that. believe it or not, i regret it. >> as journalists question whether this new approach will last. >> hillary clinton accused by trump lacking mental and physical stamina to fight isis, is the press calling foul on making her health an issue? >> comedy central cancels the late night show, can they no longer make comedy gold out of politics? should the press have fallen for ryan lochte's bogus burglary stories? i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz" today. donald trump insists he wasn't going to pivot, he want going to change, and he see

building. that's the trump tower. that's donald trump's office building. he works there, he lives there, and there was a man suction-cupping himself to the glass and trying to scale the tower. you see there, police got involved, this pretty bold, pretty daring. i guess you'd say it's a rescue. the guy didn't want to be brought back inside. they did it anyway. this was quite a scene that played out. it was on local tv here, national tv, more than two hours. this looked like the only thing people were watching. if you caught a glimpse of this, you couldn't take your eyes off it. you don't see it every day. again, that was at trump tower here in new york city. thought we would show you what played out this afternoon. a bizarre scene. >>> meanwhile, away from trump tower today, on the campaign trail, the fall-out continuing for donald trump, from his comments yesterday, that supporters of the second amendment could maybe do something to stop a president hillary clinton from appointing judges. some saying it was a clear and blunt incitement to violence by donald trump. some saying it w

john: with all due respect to donald trump's campaign that everything in his campaign is hunky-dory, there is someone you might want to call. >> reince priebus is unhappy now. >> furious with trump. >> quote apoplectic. >> apoplectic. >> quote apoplectic. >> apoplectic. >>, well, a couple of things bother me. ♪ now, happy apocalypse sports fans. unfoldonths left to before november 8. this they began with frenzied over thehe ngst possibility that donald trump has shifted from the chaos candidate to the, cozy candidate with his campaign spiraling out of control. reince priebus was furious over his washington post interview yesterday, in which donald trump refused to endorse paul ryan and john mccain. some of donald trump closes allies admitted today age or medic change of course was imperative. >> donald trump is still behaving as though it was the primaries and there were 17 candidates. not made the transition to being the potential president of the united states, which is a much tougher league. you everyl watch single day and take everything they can out of context, and he is not

letter was released. we played a little bit of an interview of donald trump's doctor and the medical letter released on donald trump, when we played a little bit of that interview we compared to it the timeline we noticed something strange about this part of the interview. >> what was the generation of this letter? how did that come about? tell that story. >> i guess he called and said the clinton organization was going publish a letter on her health. i know her physician and i know some of her health history which is really not so good, so i said, why not. i would do that for you, too. >> reporter: so the car was waiting outside. >> at the end of the day, they came to get their letter. >> reporter: so just tell me about the time crunch, like -- >> i thought about it all day. at the end, i get rushed and i get anxious when i get rushed. i tried to get four or five lines as fast as possible but they would be happy with that. >> reporter: but it was based on your evaluation? >> it's all true. >> okay. a couple things here. aside from him commenting on the health of someone who's not hi

, with politics here at home. donald trump get being ready to mack a big speech laying out his immigration policy with so many people asking okay, what was that thing you've been camp calling on now for more than a ye year. donald trump jr. says there's no change and no softening, all undo you meaned immigrants have to go it was breaking news and revelations about how his dad is preparing for the presidential debates. jorge ramos is also here. the clinton e-mail story, the fbi about to make public the details of what led them to recommend against criminal charges in the case. it's a big primary race tonight for very big names and arizona senator john mccain in florida and marco rubio who also made news by declining to say whether he'd finish his term if elected and the poll his close in florida and cnn's manu raju is there. what's at stake and we don't have results just yet. >> florida has become ground zero for the battle for control of the senate which is why republican leaders urged lobbied marco rubio to run for the senate seat and he ultimately did. what rubio wants to see

television the next morning and donald trump is still standing stronger than ever before and fighting for hard working americans. to make this country great. really is amazing. it proceeded out of a lifetime -- >> mike pence in des moines. he's warming up the crowd. we're expected to hear from donald trump srtly. wup one of two stops for donald trump today. going to be in wisconsin as we have been report ng the last few minutes, the expectation now, the expectation is that donald trump is going to endorse paul ryan, the house speaker, who's running for re-election. he's in republican primary, in wisconsin. that primary taking place next week. trump said just a couple of days ago he wasn't quite ready the to endorse ryan. obviously, that set off quite a bit of discussion, a bit of controversy, but donald trump now the indications are that he's going to do that. as you might have heard from halle jackson, the last few minutes, with donald trump, there's always that heir of uncertainty. even when something is expected to happen. you never quite sure until he follows through. the

with the job. >> within the last hour, donald trump just lost another republican senator, suzanne collins announced she won't be voting for donald trump. a neighbor republican senator of hers who has decided not to vote for donald trump will join us. but first, what donald trump needs to learn about the value of a dollars, actually the value of a nickel. to be perfectly precise, i actually mean 4.3 cents. donald trump needs to learn what 4.3 cents can mean to the multi trillion dollar budget of the united states of america. >> today i will outline my economic vision. >> if you look at this as strictly policy speech. >> poverty, poverty. >> it's a hot mess and you just give up. >> i am proposing an across the board income tax reduction. >> he wants to repackage, trickle down economics. >> the rich will pay their fair share. >> you know, that old saying, fool me once, shame me on you, fool me twice -- >> full me, you can't get fooled again. >> trickle down economics does not help our economy grow. >> these reforms will offer the biggest tax resolution since the reagan tax reform. >>

donald trump during that 40-minute address all ahead of the major immigration speech that donald trump is set to driver later tonight in arizona. >> you don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. you do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships. getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state. it's more than a photo op. it takes consistency and reliability. actually it's just like building personal relationships. people have to get to know that they can count on you, that you won't say one thing one day and something totally different the next. and it certainly takes more than trying to make up for more than a year of insults and insen wagss by dropping in our on neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. that is not how it works. >> strong words from the secretary of state, the former secretary of state. i want to talk about that and much more. trump's upcoming meeting later this afternoon with mexico's president enrique pena nieto. jeff zeleny is in since gnat for us covering the clin

john: with all due respect to donald trump, we heard about your minnesota ballot troubles. you betcha. we have a good show. after a week being hammered over her family's foundation, hillary was calling bs on donald trump's rhetoric to reach out to voters. this afternoon in reno, she devoted her speech to reminding the world of trump's remarks and tweets, dubbing him a hero of the alt right, fueled by white nationalism. >> from the start, donald trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. he is taking hate groups mainstream, and helping a radical fringe take over the republican party. let's not forget that trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. he promoted the racist lie that president obama is not really an american citizen. but a de facto merger between breitbart and the trump campaign represents a landmark achievement for this group. a fringe element that has effectively taken over the republican party. and this is part of a broader story. the rising tide of hard-line, right-wing nationalism around the world. no one

knew you would be here for us. glad you arnen't playing golf. >> donald trump. mr. trump. mr. trump. here. mr. trump. mr. trump. thank you. thank you. mr. trump. mr. trump. mr. trump. >> joining us from washington. the trump campaign announced in a statement that paul manafort submitted his resignation and the campaign accepted it, what more do we know about how this unfolded? >> reporter: in light of this staff shaken up this week, it was very clear that paul manafort quite frankly was not on this new trump train as it was leaving the station on this new direction that the trump campaign is trying to go. his role had been sidelined in recent weeks and he once had an influential voice within the campaign but that had been diminished in recent weeks in light to have shifting power die in -- dynamics taking place, he announced that he was becoming a distraction for the campaign, and since he was brought in on the campaign in the spring he was trying to pressure donald trump to be more presidential, reassure more established republicans that he could be the republican they wanted him t

states. as donald trump blames the media. stokes fear of a rigged election. and faces calls to step down from some in his own party. meanwhile, the mogul turned reality star turned presidential candidate says this about the plan to defeat isis. >> the time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. i call it extreme vetting. i call it extreme, extreme vetting. >> and hillary clinton says this. >> sometimes he says he won't tell anyone what he'll do because he wants to keep his plan, quote, secret. >> let's get right to cnn's sara murray in youngstown, ohio, where donald trump laid out his isis plan today and here with me in new york is cnn's justice correspondent, pamela brown. good to have both of you on this evening. sara, you first. donald trump is trying to get his campaign back on track. today he gave what was billed as a major foreign policy speech outlining his plan to fight terror. what were the highlights? >> reporter: well, don, he did unveil a pretty big shift in terms of how the u.s. approaches foreign policy. saying it's time to put an end

a brief respite for donald trump of all the coverage about second amendment people acting to stop hillary clinton. instead, for a few hours, all eye on trump tower where a climber was in the process of scaling the glass face of the building, using suction cups and other equipment. police opened up a window lying in the climber's path and were eventually able to pull him >> tonight on "all in" -- small planet compared to the universe, right? >> announcer: this is the last word on campaign 2016. >>> though i am a murderer, i am not a liar. those are the words of a self-confessed assassin. he surrendered on the spot to police after putting two bullets in the back of his target. and the spot he surrendered on was a political rally. and the spot where he was inspired to become an assassin was at another political rally. a boisterous, combative political rally of the candidate who he, the assassin, supported. the assassin's favored candidate had many rallies where the opposing candidate was delegitimized and dehumanized. and instead of chants of "lock her up" the crowd chanted "traitor"

three straight days because presidential candidate donald trump decided to attack each of them. they will join us again, tonight, through all of those days donald trump couldn't bring himself to utter one positive word about their son, army captain, who sacrificed his life to protect and save other people's lives, something no one in donald trump's family has ever done. >> you have sacrificed nothing and no one. >> well, that sounds -- who wrote that? did hillary's script writers write it? >> i will keep telling him be safe and don't become hero for me, just be my son, come back as a son. ♪ he came back as a hero. >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. she probably -- maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. >> to launch an attack, as he did, on captain khan's mother, a gold star mother, i don't know where the bounds are. i don't know where the bottom is. >> no one has given more for our freedom and our security than our gold star families. >> i think i made a lot of sacrifices. i worked very, very hard. i've had tremendous succes

situation room." erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> "out front" next, donald trump one-on-one with the mexican president. did he ask mexico to pay for the wall? vicente fox versus donald trump and the former president of mexico in a fierce war of words with the republican nominee. fox is my guest tonight. new polls show the race is tightening. is trump making a major comeback? let's go "out front." >> good evening, i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news, donald trump face to face with the president of mexico talking about the core campaign issue that he has had since the beginning and that is the wall. major questions tonight about what really happened behind those closed doors. trump sharing the stage afterwards with president enrique pena nieto. the republican nominee speaking in softer tones about the relationship between the two countries calling mexicans tremendous, even though as he stood by his call to build the wall. >> we did discuss the wall. we didn't discuss payment of the wall. that will be for a later date. >> trump's visit came hours before he's

>>> the campaign is doing really well. it's never been so well united. >> donald trump for me is beginning to cross a lot of red lines of the unforgivable. >> there is no doubt in my mind that donald trump is unqualified to be president. >> our country took $400 million and flew it over to iran. >> this is not someone who understands the honor, the duty, of serving america. >> our leaders are incompetent. >>> hello, everyone, i'm john berman. >> hi, everybody, i'm kate bolduan. as pat benatar would say, love is a battlefield. so are the great states of new hampshire, pennsylvania and michigan. it doesn't look like donald trump is getting much in the love department from these states right now. brand-new polls show hillary clinton with a commanding lead over trump in all three states. this, after a rough week for trump, including a fight with republican party leaders and with the parents of a fallen american soldier. >> pat benatar might also say hit me with your best shot and trump's best shot might be $82 million he just brought in in july, closing the gap with hillary clinton.

. >> did donald trump reverse and re-reverse a key part of his illegal immigration proposal? the cornerstone issue of his entire, unprecedented battering ram of a campaign? we'll ask his running mate governor mike pence where trump stands in an exclusive interview. >>> plus, race and the race. >> hillary clinton is a bigot! >> there has been a steady stream of bigotry coming from him. >> with the civility and restraint of a facebook comment section, the accusations hit a fever pitch on the campaign trail. is this the election's most ugly turn yet? is any of it fair game? and, chief distraction? donald trump's brand-new campaign ceo now accused of anti-semitism. is the guy brought in to stop the distractions on his way to becoming an even bigger one? plus, the best political minds will be here with insights from the campaign trail. >>> hello. i am jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is softening, or maybe it's hardening. tough to tell. the stairway to heaven of donald trump's campaign, his biggest identifiable hit with the his fans. unapologetic. nonnegotiable s

>>> donald trump seems to have a new position on illegal immigration. >> they'll pay back taxes. they have to pay taxes. there's no amnesty as such. there's no amnesty. we work with them. >> they're going back where they came. it's a very, very hard thing. >> there is an appearance of a conflict of interest with the foundation. >> i know there's a lot of smoke, there's no fire. >> she's got bad judgment. she doesn't know what she's doing, folks. hillary clinton is a bigot. >> donald trump has shown us who he is. he is taking a hate movement mainstream. >>> hello i'm john berman. indicate bolduan is off today. do you know where your immigration position is? it's a big question for donald trump. i guess a possible shift because he hasn't said what he believes, at least i don't think he has. he used to think every single one of 11 million undocumented immigrants in the united states has to go by force, if necessary. now it's less clear. listen to the difference. >> they're illegal immigrants. they got to go out. we're going to have a deportation force and you're going to do it huma

surprise visit. donald trump set to meet with the mexican president ahead of a major immigration speech. trump, who kicked off his campaign attacking the country and linking immigrants to major crime. >> they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. >> mexico's former president already slamming trump's visit. >> he's going to be rejected by everybody here in mexico. to me it is a desperate move. >> today new clues on trump's immigration policy. >> we are also going to secure our border and stop the drugs from pouring in and destroying our counted. >> and this morning trump's campaign manager doubling down on those controversial part of his plan. >> no amnesty. he's absolutely going to build that wall. >> we got to begin with the breaking news donald trump heading to mexico city in just a few hours for a meeting with the mexico president before delivering his major speech on immigration tonight in arizona. we have got our team of reporters and correspondents all over the story. i want to start with hallie jackson live on the u.s./mexico border in arizona. this announce

i talked to donald trump this morning about my support for paul ryan and our long-time friendship. he encouraged me to endorse paul ryan is and i'm pleased to do it. >> joining us is paul ryan's challenger. appreciate you being with us. >> thanks for having me on. >> donald trump has not officially endorsed you. he did say you've been running a good campaign. we heard pence pence endorsing paul ryan saying trump encouraged him to make that endorsement. you said you have had no contact with the trump campaign lately. what's your reaction to all this? >> i'm not surprised in the least. wouldn't you expect somebody who has got a lo good friend to endorse their friend. i don't chalk that up to anything other than these guys having a friendship. >> mike pence you mean? >> i have a ton of respect for mike pence. i went to see him the other day. and for the trump campaign and i think kudos to mr. trump for saying, hey, i respect the fact you have a long-time friendship with paul ryan. of course, i disagree with who he selected to endorse. he's all in for the transpacific partnership, whi

campaign around in time. the new donald trump apology thursday. >> sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a muudltite of issues, you don't choose the right words. and believe it or not, i regret it. >> dickerson: we'll hear from reince priebus. and jeff sessions along with pennsylvania voters who once supported trump that are now waivering. what will it take to win them back? >> initially being authentic was great. >> dickerson: as hillary clinton gains in some polls -- >> even though we're doing fine right now, i'm anybody anywhere for granted. >> dickerson: we'll hear from her campaign manager about their strategy for the fall. and we'll take a look at the state of play in the battleground states with new battleground tracker polls. plus, the authors of the "washington post" comprehensive new biography hon donald trump. and our political panel, all ahead on "face the nation." good morning welcome to "face the nation" i'm john dickerson. we have new battleground tracker numbers from two key states. in ohio, hillary clinton is up 46% to 40 over donald trump. that is a two-poin

week we finally see the new and different donald trump so many republicans are hoping for? back in the spring, trump mused about it. >> by the way, i can be more presidential than anybody. i can be more presidential, if i want to be. i would say more presidential, and i've said this a couple of times, more presidential than anybody other than the great abe lincoln. he was very presidential, rit? manafort promised the gop change was coming. >> you'll start to see more depth of the person. the real person, youl see him in a different way. >> after a summer of bad news and tanking poll number, trump fired manafort this week. vowed to run his own way. >> i am who i am. it's me. i don't want to change. everyone talks about, oh, well, you're going to pivot. i don't want to pivot. i mean, you have to be you. >> then came thursday's surprising admission. debate, you don't choose the right words. or you say the wrong thing. i have done that. and i do regret it. particularly where it may have caused personal pain. >> so was that the handiwork of trump's new leadership team, campaign manager

furious over his "washington post" interview yesterday, in which donald trump pointedly declined to endorse paul ryan and john mccain. even some of donald trump's closest allies admitted today a dramatic change of course was imperative. newt: donald trump is still behaving as though it was the primaries and there were 17 candidates. he has not made the transition to being the potential president of the united states, which is a much tougher league. people are going to watch you every single day, and take everything they can out of context, and he is not performing at the level you need to. i am, frankly, reminded of joe montana, when you went through a stretch in his career when he kept throwing interceptions, and for half a season he was not joe montana anymore, then he figured out what he was doing and changed. john: newt gingrich told the "washington post" that donald trump cannot win the presidential election operating the way he is now. she, meaning hillary clinton, cannot be bad enough if he is determined to make this many mistakes. compounding the panic are various media repo

separating for anthony weiner. donald trump who understands nothing about government and understands nothing about running for president does understand new york post covers. and so because anthony weiner long-time aid of hillary clinton's, donald trump decided that this new york post cover is really all about hillary clinton. donald trump issued a written statement saying hillary clinton was careless and negligent in allowing weiner such close proximity. >> of course, thought it was a perfectly reasonable thing to say. >> he knows him well. and he talked about the close proximity he may have had to national security information that could be highly classified and that it may have compromised our national security. >> also in trump world today, everyone including donald trump and his campaign manager, everyone trying to figure out what donald trump actually thinks about deporting 11 million people who are in this country without legal documentation to be in. donald trump promised repeatedly to deport all of those people, every one of them, repeatedly said that it had to be done, but

answering questions about that. rachel crane, thanks very much. >>> on the campaign trail, donald trump is still trying to clarify exactly what his immigration policy is. at an event for veterans in des moines, iowa, he tackled the subject again, but this time he tried to narrow down exactly who would be deported if he's elected. >> on day one, i'm going to begin swiftly removing criminal, illegal immigrants from this country. including removing the hundreds and thousands of criminally illegal immigrants that have been released into the united states and united states communities under the incompetent obama-clinton administration. >> trump specifying criminal illegal immigrants, which is actually a change. before he said all illegal immigran immigrants, and it has critics saying that is a shift from his original plan, using a deportation force to remove all undocumented immigrants from the u.s. some 11 million, it's been said. but trump's running mate, governor pence, has said it's not been fluid at all. he sat down in "state of the union." >> governor pence, good to see you again. >> than

donald trump would be, quote, the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency is breaking his silence, talking about how his now famous and trumpy sounding letter came to be. >>> and another red flag for some women voters centers on trump's new campaign ceo and past domestic violence allegations. details now from cnn's chris frates. >> very good. >> reporter: trump's new campaign chief, steve bannon, is already drawing democratic fire. >> the latest shake up was designed to, quote, let trump be trump. so the to do that, he hired stephen bannon. the head of a right-wing website called breitbart.com, as the campaign's ceo. >> but now the conservative news chief is drawing headlines of his own. bannon was charged with battering and domestic violence, stemming from a 1996 incident involving his then wife. according to documents obtained by cnn, an argument over money allegedly got physical after bannon's then-wife told him she wanted a divorce. the responding police officer wrote, "she appeared as if she was very upset and had been crying. i saw that her eyes were red and watery.

for donald trump. >> reporter: increasing concerns about trump's rhetoric and another concern, donald trump, saying he's not ready to endorse paul ryan. trump telling "the washington post," i like paul, but these are horrible times for our country. we need very strong leadership. we need very, very strong leadership, and i'm just not quite there yet. i'm not quite there yet. if that language sounds a little familiar, it is. >> i'm just not ready to do that at this point. i'm not there right now. >> reporter: it's nearly the same words ryan used when he first declined to endorse trump. trump also saying he's not supporting senator john mccain in his primary bid in arizona. quote, he has not done a good job for the vets, and i've always felt that he should have done a much better job for the vets, so i've always had a difficult time with john for that reason, because our vets are not being treated properly. and trump did not stop there. he also took aim at senator kelly ayotte, calling her a weak and disloyal leader in new hampshire. while out on the trail today, trump steering clear of

vacationing chris matthews. donald trump is promising a major speech this wednesday on the subject of immigration. on saturday the republican nominee will held to detroit, where he will speak at a black church. all of this part of what trump's campaign says is an effort to reach out to minority communities. last week, trump continually asked african-american and hispanic voters what do you have to lose by voting for him. many people took issue with the tweet saturday morning reacting to the news that the cousin of nba star dwyane wade had been shot. trump tweeting out on saturday quote, dwyane wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in chicago. just what i have been saying. african-americans will vote trump. hours later, trump tweeted his condolences. critics of trump accused him of politicizing the tragedy. the next day, trump's running mate and campaign manager were asked about it. >> do you think that was a presidential reaction to a tragedy? >> well, right after that, he issued a tweet expressing his prayers and his thoughts and his condolences. a lot of you peo

want to be. [applause] donald trump: clinton not only embraces president obama's job killing energy restrictions, but wants to expand them, including going after oil and natural gas somection, which employs 10 million americans. according to the heritage thedation, by 2030, obama-clinton energy restrictions will illuminate another half a million manufacturing jobs, reduce redud economic output by $2.5 trillion and reduce income by $7,000 per person. a trump administration will end this war on the american worker and unleash an energy revolution that will bring fast new wealth to our country. according to the institute for energy research, lifting the restrictions on all sources of american energy will do the following. increase gdp by more than $100 billion annually. add over 500,000 new jobs annually and increase annual wages by more than $30 billion over the next seven years. [applause] donald trump: additionally, it will increase federal, state and local tax revenue by almost $6 trillion over four decades. increase total economic activity by more than $20 trillion over the next 4