>> welcome to a special edition of all due respect from the republican national convention. we're here in cleveland wrapping up a week with surprising moments. there were high points, a few controversial points and in the end, the grnd old party conclusion with closing remarks for the official nominee for president jonled j. trump. mr. trump: beginning january 20, 2017, safety will be restored. nearly 180,000 illegal

immigrants with criminal records ordered departed from our country are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens. nearly four in 10 african-american children are living in poverty. two million more latinos are in poverty today than when president obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago. our trade deficit is $800 billion. think of that. in 2009, prehillary, isis was not even on the map. libya was stable. egypt was peaceful. iraq was seeing a big reduction in violence. iran was being choked by sanctions. syria was somewhat under control, the problems we face now, poverty and violence at

home, war and destruction abroad, will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place. my plan will begin with safety at home. which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. there can be no prosperity without law and order. i have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves. every action i take, i will ask myself, does this make better for young americans in baltimore, if chicago, in detroit, in ferguson, who have really in every way, folks, the

same right to live out their dreams as any other child in america? anyone who endorses violence, hatred, or oppression is not welcomed in our country and never, ever will be. i have made billions in business making deals. now i'm going to make our country rich again. we will never, ever sign bad trade deals. america first again. america first. next comes the reform of our tax laws. regulations and energy rules. we are going to lift the restrictions on the production of american energy. with these new economic policies, trillions and trillions of dollars will start flowing into our country.

this new wealth will improve the quality of life for all americans. we will build the roads, highways, bridges, continue else, airports, and the railways of tomorrow. this in turn will create millions of more jobs. i am your voice. so to every parent who dreams for their child and every child who dreams for their future, i say these words to you tonight. i am with you. i will fight for you. and i will win for you. john: up next we look back at how the week started. our breakfast with trump campaign chairman paul maniford is next.

john: welcome back. we are just across the street from the quicken loans arena where republicans kicked off their national convention today before things got started. our good friend and colleague, albert hunt, hosted a breakfast event for bloomberg politics featuring the trump campaign manager paul maniford and andrea mitchell, abc's jonathan karl and "the washington post" karen tumulty and jonathan martin of "the new york times." we'll go through some highlights of that conversation with paul starting with what trump's campaign manager said about the plans at the convention to introduce some of trump's lesser known traits to the american public. >> it's an important convention. you know, people need to see all aspects of donald trump, not just the part they've seen.

>> you've seen other parts of the personality, what are his traits. >> everybody knows about his business career. nobody know what is that means other than trump tower. >> you said personality, not accomplishments, personality, what is his personality? >> just his generosity, his caring about people, his focus on little things that he sees that -- and how he tries to fix people's lives. you know, one of the stories that have been reported in the past was one of the young kids who was dying of a disease, i don't remember it, but he saw in the newspaper and was a michael jackson fan and donald trump called michael jackson and said let's go visit this person and flew him on the jet to ohio where the kid was and made an impromptu visit, no publicity, nothing else. that's the kind of guy he is. this is not somebody he knew, not some celebrity. that's the kind person he is and that's what he does with his employees or the newspapers. if you don't want to fix a problem for yourself and you're not the people around the

table, have a story written for you for "the new york times" because he reads those stories and gets emotional. he's really a soft-hearted person. parts of those stories are going to be told. people see different parts of him. >> all right, so mark, you know, there's the private donald trump, you've seen some of it and others even parts of it, paul says we'll see it on display to some extent to this convention. how much does he have to do to counteract the perception of publics he respects even like pete weiner who says he's cruel or divisive and all this public persona, what does he have to do to fix it? >> i don't think trump can do anything to win pete over but for some voters and even some republicans paying close attention, i think if he shows again, you hit on the right word, it's that notion that he's cruel, the notion that he is a bad person. i think he needs to show people he's a good person, not just through -- i think it's less

about a recitation of charitable giving. those stories will be counteracted by some of the stuff. it's more stylistic and more -- it is said and i've seen it as others have that he has a close relationship with his children and is loving and in your churg. i think he needs to put that right on the stage. >> we've seen the ads the clinton campaigners run that have been effective and are ads with trump abusing people, dismissing people. >> paul says they're not effective because they haven't affected the battle state numbers. >> they play to some people's perceptions of trump. i'm just agreeing with you. i think recitations of charitable giving will do nothing. like that michael jackson story, who cares. it's all about can trump somehow give a different side of him than what we've seen in the worst images of him. >> there are thousands of republicans here in this town, or the convention this week. but some key anti-trump figures in the party are m.i.a., including some members of the bush family, former g.o.p.'s

for nomination and john kasich and romney and kasich is the home state governor of ohio, in cleveland all week but vowed not to step foot inside the quicken loans arena unless trump fundamentally changes his ways. don't hold your breath for that. at least not good enough for kasich and theers what maniford said at our breakfast when asked if governor kasich's absence this week would be harmful to trump. >> john kasich is being petulant and driven by john weaver to embarrass his party, he's embarrassing his party in ohio. and he's violating his pledge all just because he finished third by not having -- still didn't have any dell gets and we reached out. he said we are opponents and i'm willing to work together. and the negotiations broke down because john weaver thinks that john kasich will have a better chance of being president by not disappointing donald trump. guess what?

[inaudible] >> and that's a dumb, dumb, dumb thing. [inaudible question] >> we said ok, you don't want to be with us. we'll take care of the party in ohio. you want to hurt it, we'll make sure rob portman gets re-elected and we'll win ohio. >> there is no backing off on either side. john weaver, kasich's political advisor went after manaforth on a personal basis and what is it for mana fort to go after them and what is their interest? >> i find it more genuine than like the pence pick where i want party unity. trump all along said i don't care about party unity, i'm rebuilding the republican party at our image and i can win without you and if you don't want to be with me, screw you. that's manafort's attitude towards kasich. and i think kasich has genuine

profound problems with trump and also i think wants to be president in 2020 >> manafort said we're working with portman in running for re-election and don't need kasich's operation. he's been elected twice and beat trump in the primaries and seems like they'd like him on board but kasich says he's not interested. >> can you see portman running alongside trump? >> not possible. >> we'll see. we'll be interested. finally, mark halperin, he asked paul manafort to weigh in that hillary clinton is engaging in to brand trump in a negative way ahead of november. >> besides running negative ads against donald trump, how do you see the tragedy to win the election? >> i hope they keep running the negative ads because i like the impact they're having and spending a lot of money. i don't think this election is about hillary clinton but about donald trump. i mean, i think the last two months have proven that hillary

clinton is being discounted by the american people. this is an election about change. change. that ultimately, whether it's the black community or white community, the hispanic community, all of them are going through their own issues and crisis for whatever reason. and we have a candidate everybody recognizes is a changed candidate. we're running against the epitome of the establishment. i mean, we couldn't -- you tell me any candidate, i couldn't pick one off the shelf better than hillary clinton to run against on the change versus establishment. >> what do you think about that? >> what were you thinking? >> he referred several times in the breakfast to their own polling and research and suggested that states like oregon are potentially in play, connecticut, and that clinton's rd ads haven't hurt them and why they haven't gone on tv. the public polling isn't as emphatic as that but there's no doubt that clinton is a more

familiar political figure than trump is and when he says i want this election to be about trump, that's a little counterintuitive but is suggesting if trump can prove to people he's acceptable, game, set, match. i don't know it's right but seems to be their theory of the case. >> i've got to say, i believe donald trump could win this election. but if we three months from now, donald trump, if oregon and connecticut are in play, donald trump is not going to win, but i think he'll win but only a landslide could make those two states in play for him. >> coming up, republicans henry barber and wisconsin congressman sean duffy.

>> we have two guests tonight, the republican strategist and republican national committee member, henry barber, also joined by republican congressman sean duffy from wisconsin, that man on the podium last night with his wife rachel speaking. you did a nice job. >> thank you. >> did you ever contemplate starting four score and seven years ago. >> i thought i might get caught with base technology. someone might catch me if i pulled the language out of someone else's text. listen, we had fun last night, my wife and i did. we broke the speech and had fun. >> were you nervous and how much guidance did you get from the trump campaign? >> the trump campaign was good and they gave us some parameters. it was a security safety night but said take it where you want to go. they gave us approval and didn't have any critiques or

changes for us. they let us do what we wanted to put together and we had fun. >> people basically now in our business, you feel what happened last night is the first day was wrecked and there were problems with ivanka and then it was wrecked and is that overstated? >> this is about november, you know. i think we're going to come out of this convention more united than we came into it. i think the staff did her a disservice. look, she did a fine job. i don't know who wrote the speech but they ought to be gone by now. that's the key. you make a mistake, you move on, donald trump is -- got this thing going on the right path. we've got to stay on the right path. he's got mike pence working with him and republicans coming in here to cleveland to come together. we want to elect the next president, a republican president because we can't stay on this barack obama, hillary clinton path. it's killing the country.

>> put it in perspective as well, she's donald trump's wife and delivered a nice speech last night, sadly portions were lifted but she's not the candidate or the vice-presidential candidate. barack obama has had his own problems in the past with lifting portions of duvall patrick's speeches and joe biden had the same problems. this is a political thing when you give a lot of speeches and rely on speech writers, both republicans and democrats have had issues with lifting things but no one can say donald trump as he goes onstage unscripted is pulling anything from anybody because the guy is so unconventional. and that's the candidate that's in the lead. and i think the media has to get beyond and over this and we have to really talk about the issues that truly matter which is this is about security. this is about the economy and growth and families and wages and feeling safe in your home and community. >> what's donald trump's best original idea of creating jobs? >> there's nothing under the

sun if you look at republicans and democrats. >> shouldn't there be and candidates come to us with inspiration. >> is it new to say the tax code is too complex. >> it's not new. so he has no new ideas? >> of course. there's a debate over too much or too little in the tax code and too many rules and regulations. that's the standard debate. you can only be on the left side or right side of that debate and it's that debate that america has which drives us into what kind of government we have in our lives. >> i would say look, one thing that's new and washington is not good at will have the back of the people and people are sick and tired of nobody having their back and donald trump is ired up. sometimes he's in the ditch but rolling with the current of this river and hillary clinton is paddling upstream and working against us and her own private email servers and republicans are coming together. i think donald trump has this

thing moving in the right direction and he's got to continue to make progress and keep it between the ditches. >> no one said they want to build a wall and let mexico pay for it. >> that's a first. >> you think that's a new and good idea? >> it's innovative. that's the question i've been asking republicans the last couple months. you have reservations about donald trump. what separates you from your friends and colleagues and other members of congress, other republican strategists? >> everyone is on a different timetable. some of us, it's a little easier when indiana did their thing. it was just easier. the voters have spoken. this is where they want us to go. he wasn't my first or second or third pick. this is where we're going and we're going to follow the voters. some folks will take longer. i'm convinced people who say they never will vote for donald trump and as they think of the supreme court and federal appointments to the bench, they're going to get there, mark. it's going to happen.

it may be august for some and november for some but i think it will happen because hillary clinton is unacceptable. i think frankly seeing the guys from benghazi last night she should be disqualified from commander in chief based on benghazi. >> i look at my district and they love donald trump, republicans and democrats. and they say this guy is fighting for me. he cares about my security and my job and he cares about my family and frankly, they think they're just like each other. they don't know donald probably has gold faucets in his penthouse and think they live the same life. we can't deny this guy, donald trump, has had more votes than any republican presidential primary candidate in our history and he had 17 opponents in the race and so as we sit and fill ossify and pontificate what's happening, he's touching a chord with america. and i think the politicos which we all say we are are eventually getting onboard and

saying this is where the train is going, either i'm with donald trump or i'm going to be with hillary clinton. and i think as has been said, our side of the aisle is going to consolidate eventually to donald trump and they'll all be at the polls because they don't want hillary clinton as the next president. >> we should note at this moment though you guys are coming through loud and clear on television, there's noise people are hearing on tv as well. these protesters, people yelling outside, not complaining about you, too, though there might be crowds, you have to be hearing the noise. you think donald trump can win the election? >> absolutely. >> you think so? >> i do. >> you think it will be a close election? >> i do. >> you think it will? >> if donald trump performs well it will be close. >> if he wins it will be close? neither one of you think there will be a blowout or do you? >> he could pull away a little bit. if you get a two-point win and you're a republican, it's a blowout. >> they both think it's close. so every nominee and candidate has some problems, some challenges, right? what's the key problem donald trump needs to address in order to win? >> i think he has to stay on

script. when he goes off script and he sets up for 45 minutes and says what's on his mind, he can get in trouble because i think the media is looking for, lack of a better phrase, crazy things that he says and sometimes he'll take it out of context. >> what's the key thing he says? >> i think trump is exactly right. i think he has to be disciplined and some of that is don't put him in these settings with 10,000 screaming people where he wants to feed the beast. put him in small groups. he does well there. let him sit down with a bunch of reporters and go in the african-american communities and hispanic communities. whether he wins votes or not in that community and i think he will. he will send a message he cares about all americans. he's got to bring all americans together and i think as swing voters in states like wisconsin see that, him and african-american or hispanic community, i think he win as lot of points and wins votes where maybe we can win a state like shawn's state in wisconsin. >> each of you who have it going, give me a sentence if you're in the room with donald

trump and john kasich who are still feuding, give me one thing you'd say to him. >> tell trump to be patient. i'll tell kasich, what are you doing? get on with it, hillary clinton. >> i would say think about bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and that's who hillary clinton is going to be. do you want bernie or do you want donald? get onboard, john, the train is leaving and if you want a future in politics in a four years or eight years from now, you've got to be a part of this team or you'll make a lot of people angry. >> coming up, we hear from the other side of the isle, democratic national committee chair debbie wassermann schultz. that's next. ♪ >> when i was a little girl, i

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oz." there were similarities that appeared to me. fury, evennd and the a fog machine. curtain,pull back the it was just donald trump with nothing to offer the american people. that was hillary clinton speaking about the republican national convention. here with us now in cleveland is debbie wasserman schultz. you're planning your convention that starts on monday. vilsack is a wonderful governor and i would. as ourne a fantastic job secretary of agriculture. mark: liberal?

conservative? debbie: he is centerleft, moderate. mark: tell me about tim kaine. debbie: he did a fantastic job as governor of kenya. he was my predecessor at the dnc. he has a lot of experience in terms of foreign policy. he lived abroad. mark: if either of them were picked, how would your delegates and your party members react? debbie: well. i think anyone who has been talked about on the short list that secretary clinton is reviewing would make an excellent vice president. john: do you have any doubt in your mind that elizabeth warren would generate more excitement

than those other two guys? debbie: i think there are different assets that each person being considered would bring. elizabeth warren would bring an excitement. there are other candidates who would bring a different kind of excitement depending on what you are trying to draw from. do you think hillary clinton, does she have an enthusiasm issue? debbie: i think hillary clinton on her own is going to be able to excite our base. we have an opportunity to make history by electing the first woman for president. that, she is the most respected and admired woman in the world. she is the most prepared candidate. generateg to

enthusiasm. it that this race is even close? debbie: it's july. i know all of you in the media look at national polls. john: they are within the margin of error everywhere. debbie: in july, polls don't a lot. what means a lot is your round game. publicly andns are admittedly far behind us. donald trump has no staff here to speak out in ohio. it's a very paltry staff in playa -- florida. that's going to make a huge difference. mark: there was a big controversy last night. usually your party would jump all over it. there's been virtually no reaction to the controversy.

debbie: melania trump gave a very nice speech. she presented herself very nicely. it's up to the trump campaign to defend the content of that speech. mark: you would normally jump whenever there was a week and sore problem. do you think spouses are off limits? debbie: this is a story that is between the donald trump organization and the people who hold them accountable. they have had a full day. mark: there were lines lifted from a speech from president kennedy. would you leave that alone is to mark debbie: there is huge difference between the person on the ballot and their spouse. this is definitely a concern. the trump organization has to answer for it. they've not done a very good job answering work all day long.

mark: we will hear from some of the journalists from on the ground here in cleveland.

mark: joining us is jonathan friedland. his latest dispatch from the convention is titled a vicious campaign. also with us is jennifer jacobs. she wrote a piece today about donald trump. tell me about your impressions of his performance last night.

jennifer: he seemed intoxicated about being on stage. he really ramped up the excitement. you could tell he was loving it. morning, hest this was asked about his political ambitions. he said maybe once his kids were out of school. he said this is something he would like to consider. mark: what is your impression of him? anathan: he is much more like professional politician than his father. he was actually better at that than some of the people that had gone before. he looked as if he is been doing it a long time. he fits the profile of a conventional television much more than his father in a

he's talked about policy and no one else had. it, butot go deep into there was something there. it was written. it wasn't just ramble. jennifer: he doesn't like talking points. most politicians have marbles in their mouths when they get off the talking points. it was unusual to see someone at doing that. john: among the weird things in this convention, people say things like the reason donald trump but when is because of brexit. the polls seem mysterious. qc parallels? -- do you see parallels? data saidall of the

written would vote to rain -- remain. we didn't. i can see that would give heart to trump people. there were people who would not tell pollsters how they felt and it was a cultural taboo about saying it. we have shiite trump supporters. of world stagen and being more isolationist, i think there is a global jonathan: here in there is a rage against elites. they are turning on the establishment they feel has failed to protect them from globalization. that would point to the success of trump. the demographics of britain, you could win with white working people and win. this is a very more diverse

society. nothing that is more interesting than what is jennifer's notebook. jennifer: i was asking some of the people at the ted cruz party if they think he is going to endorse donald trump this evening. they said yes. they said they were sad. we loved ted cruz, but we are over it. said is there going to be a who in the room? we haven't bought a trump t-shirt did we are on board. jonathan: i think it will be a technical, legalistic endorsement. i would guess he would air on the more of checking the box without showing any love. jennifer: he was hoping to give the speech at thank you party

without talking about the nominee. then that trump check flew overhead. he has an uncanny ability to step on his rivals. mark: the main goal is to show more of what is multi- dimensional about donald trump. we are halfway through. can something give people a better sense? jonathan: the speeches from his family members have shown them in a good light. she performed quite well. is shedding junior light on him. telling humanizing thing came from tiffany. i think they did it quite well for themselves. maybe that's a trump lesson, you look up -- out for number one.

if you thought he was an alpha male business guy, you still think that. haven't given us much to go on. jennifer: i think that's exactly right in it seemed like donald trump juniors speech was clinical. i'm not sure many of this reaches have appealed so much the people in the middle. jonathan: if i were regular thinkingn, i would be what is happened. to thene second fiddle political kardashians. you can see the energy in the room. there is no star factor when they come on. people are not that interested. rear, waspolitical going into politics a mistake? john: welcome to the trump show.

joining us at the table is our friend al hunt. been an eventful three days. you've done a lot of these conventions. give us the big picture. : i've never seen anything like it. in the old rules, this would be a near disaster. they stepped on their lines every day. they stay immune from that. there will be some highlights. i thought might dance was very good last night. -- mike pence was really good last night. i don't know it made a huge difference one way or the other. what what is your sense of the trump world thinks about how this is going? real view?

there is a lot of frustration. donald trump called in to fox news to do it interview during the convention. thengered the people at convention. there was a controversy over mrs. trump's speech. there is a ceiling of even when they think they're owing to have a great moment, when they are going to put his wife out there to speak for him and humanize him, something seems to happen to blow that up. we will see how tonight goes. aboutas supposed to be unity. we have seen shades of that. whose whenroke into ted cruz did not endorse donald

trump. brick us monday morning -- breakfast monday morning. doesf the first things he is blast john kasich, a popular governor of ohio. it's a great dichotomy that seems to exist. pence had a great night last night. he wants people to know how well like he is. that's not normal. put the ted cruz thing in perspective and does this have implications going forward. al: i don't think it helped unify the party. it was not diabolical in that

sense. we will find that out later. i think going to the point about unity being the purpose seven, maybe it doesn't matter. a convention where the second and third place finishers won't endorse the nominee, where here,ent governors aren't have the brightest young women house members, that's a disaster by conventional sticks. hillary clinton has been aggressive this week in a public events. any idea what the republicans plan next week? >> i think they are looking to be just as visible and upstage her whenever possible. if there is one theme that has hung over, there is the campaign theme.

the real theme of the week has been we can't let hillary clinton be president. that has been the theme of every speaker who has been getting up. the clinton campaign was fighting back against that. i have to think that messaging is going to continue next week. this is one issue that republicans can rally around. they don't like hillary clinton. trump will do the same thing next week in philadelphia. can you spot a rising star? al: you think of the kids to begin with. they looked good on their first test. there is nobody that i say gosh, they were so good. they are going to be terrific in the future? tom cotton is interesting.

the reality is there are so many people skipping, so many of the best people aren't here. -- walk you watch around me see some prominent politicians. mostly it's just delegates. al: my highlight last night with south carolina with lee atwater's wife. about one third of the convention. there's a third the just accepted trump. a third that will make it quite clear that they are very unhappy. maybe he will actually should someone on fifth avenue just to test the principal.

of he will give a slew interviews next week. there is a 0% chance he will shoot someone on this avenue. will roger ailes become part of the trump campaign? i do not know anything. more of the best of all due respect ahead. ♪

mark: thank you so much watching the special edition of "all due respect." we will be back on monday. you can head to bloomberg.com for coverage of the election. you can listen to us on the radio.

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