i'm michael smerconish. sweet home alabama. >> wow, wow, wow! unbelievable. unbelievable! >> donald trump unveiled his southern strategy last night by drawing tens of thousands to an alabama football stadium. mr. trump showed the depth of his support. is he channeling pat buchanan? plus, charles barkley will be here, sir charles unplugged. maybe unplugged from the democratic party? and mayhem in the financial markets. wall street's worst week in years. what is happening? and could it affect the 2016 presidential race? the trump juggernaut headed south to deep red alabama friday

night. the donald drew thousands in a stadium that usually features friday night football. it's just the latest showingp republicans are bringing strength. many respond to trump's message on immigration. >> support these amendments, i was right on it, you can do something with it and you can do something fast. you can do something fast. so we have 300,000 babies a year, 300,000 that you have to take care of, we all have to take care of, and you know in the case of other countries, including mexico, they don't do that. it doesn't work that way. >> donald trump has run a campaign like nothing we have seen before, or have we? he's often been compared to herman cane or michele bachmann, but maybe the real compareson should be to pat buchanan in

1992 and 1996. that's what jonathan chaffe believes, he said he's pat buchanon redux, and that's bad. perhaps the parallel to trump is still. listen to the way that he described that year's democratic convention. >> we are 20,000 liberals and radicals came dressed up as moderates and centerists in the greatest single exhibition of cross-dressing in american political history! >> that was pat buchanan 23 years ago. it'sen if funny, i remember exactly where i was when i watched that speech. and he joins me now. patrick, thank you so much for being here. is trump taking a page out of your playbook? >> i think he certainly is an outsider insurgent the way i was in 1992 and 1996. and he's also taken the issue of immigration and unfair trade

deals that robbed the country of jobs and investment. and he's riding the issues extremely well. the difference is, donald trump is far, far ahead of where i was. >> how so? >> in the polls he's running two to one ahead of the former front-runners in the republican party. the polls never had me that far ahead nationally. in 1992 i did well against president bush but we never had the massive enormous crowds that donald trump is getting or the enormous coverage he's receiving or the poll numbers he's got right now. look, donald trump as of right now is pretty much the favorite for the republican nomination in 2016. >> i want to show you something that jeb bush said this week because the terminology being used in the immigration debate is becoming a touching point. >> did you use the term anchor baby on the radio yesterday? >> no, i didn't.

>> you don't regret it? >> no. do you have a better term? >> i'm asking you. >> you give me a better term and i'll use it. >> don't yell at me behind my ear, though. >> anchor baby, is that not bombastic? >> no, it isn't. give me another word. >> what's the proper word choice? >> anchor baby. what you mean is people come into the country in san diego, places like that, 22% of the babies -- illegals come in, have their baby born in the united states achieves automatic citizenship, which are going to bankrupt the country if we don't stop it. >> it's regarded as a slur by hispanics, if for no other reason, is it losing electoral strategy? >> michael, political correctness is killing this country. there is nothing demeaning about saying anchor baby, it anchors the family in the united states. it's a child of an illegal alien

who broke into the country and the law. nothing wrong with the baby -- >> i don't think they mean that it anchors the family. >> it certainly does! >> i think it means they dropped an anchor here just to have a baby. that's the way people interpret it. >> that's not the way -- look, that's not the way i interpret it. let me say this, michael, what you're doing, with due respect, is just why the people detest the media. he's got a valid point. it's a tremendous issue. people are upset by it and the media are saying, why did you use those two words? why don't you get another two words. what is the matter with this country given the crises we're in, people running around asking if the verbiage is right or not? >> pat, we have known each other for a long time. the wall street journal on friday, a lead editorial born in the usa said, what happened to republicans? didn't they believe in exceptionalism? yes, the 14th amendment is exceptional. are they ditching that?

>> let me talk to that, first, "the wall street journal" has been a horrible influence on the republican party on the issue of immigration. secondly, you have to get control of this, the borders of this country. deal with the policy and donald trump, but the part about stopping that, it isn't in the 14th amendment. >> patrick, let me crunch numbers with you, mitt romney's pollster has pointed out that to win 50.1% of the vote in this cycle, the republican candidate, if the trends stay the same, is going to need 64% of the white vote. well, the problem is, that romney and mccain got 59 and 55 percent respectfully. there aren't enough whites only to win a presidential race for the republican party if they don't expand the tent, they will be a party of controlling the house but not the white house. >> all right, look, let's take donald trump. his appeal to hispanics in america, even some african-americans when barack obama is no longer on the ballot, is going to be whether

he can deal with an economy which just saw a 500-point drop in the dow on the last day of this week. these are the issues. he's up against bernie sanders and there's the possibility given hillary's trouble, you don't think donald trump couldn't beat bernie sanders? given hillary's problems, look at them, now. when a judge tells the fbi to start looking at her server and see if she's telling the truth, the lady is in real trouble. she's getting lawyered up. if she cracks and something happens to her, an indictment or loses her security clearance, who steps in for the democratic party? >> patrick, joe biden, probably, right? >> if he steps in and shoves hillary aside, how do you think american women will react to joe biden? >> patrick, i want to play for you something that happened on my radio show on friday. a truck driver from texas called and here's a piece of our conversation. listen to this. >> here's why he'll win, people, the wages are stagnant. one of the reasons why the wages

are stagnant is because of illegal immigration. big companies are gonna pay low wages for people that are not even citizens and they will get away with it. the immigrants years ago, when they came in to this country they built their roads, their schools, their churches, their houses. they built the subways, they built the railroads and they obeyed the laws, they assimilated they learned the english language and they paid their taxes. today an immigrant comes over here and asks what we've got for him. >> a guy who believes his wages are stagnant because of illegal immigrati immigration, overlooking the impact of globalization and technological changes. >> you have 31.3 million people who have come into this country in the last 30 to 40 years who are immigrants now legal and illegal. most of them are unskilled, many of them have no skills or semi-skilled or some of them skilled, don't tell me that doesn't depress wages of american workers. secondly, the trade deals that

donald trump is hitting, what do you think has sent 55,000 factories disappeared in the united states and 6 million manufacturing jobs. what we predicted has come to pass. and one thing -- now, look, i'm not saying donald trump is going to be the next president of the united states. i think there's a possibility that he can. and what is driving that is the anger of the american people at what has been done to them, and what they have failed to do. >> but pat, i'm suggesting to you that that gentleman who is nice enough to call my radio program, his anger is misplaced. it's all of these other factors that are at work. >> you're telling me that 40 million people from countries all over the world, third world countries, haven't had anything to do with that? >> now, i'm saying -- >> are you telling me the export of our factories through the lousy trade deals -- >> i'm saying tom freeman has it real when he says the world is flat and the world dynamics have

changed. here's what some of the things my friend pat buchanan is saying. these are some of the things that my ancestors said in the 1920s by the wasps. >> your slovack ancestors, my irish and german, they all came here by about 1925. michael, we had a time-out of 40 years so we could assimilate and americanize all the kids and grandkids of those people. so that by the kennedy and eisenhower years, we were one united america. what we are becoming is what theodore roosevelt warned us about, saying it would be the end of the country. if we become a boardinghouse for the world. i don't want that, i don't think donald trump wants that, and i hope michael smerconish doesn't want that. >> the next time you come here, don't hold back, let us know what pat buchanan really thinks about the issues. >> i'm getting older. that's why i'm like this. >> thank you, pat. >> thank you, my friend.

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nba hall of famer charles barkley is famous for not pulling punches when talking sports. now he's moving to the political arena. barkley says he's seriously thinking about converting to the gop. so whose team might he join? sir charles is here right now. charles, last night the donald was in your native alabama and drew a large crowd. what do you make of the trump phenomenon? >> well, i think it's -- anytime the media is going to follow who is hot. he's got a great personality and great charisma, so that's going to be media-driven. there's nothing happening right now that surprises me. >> he's a straight talker like charles barkley, is there some appeal for you?

>> i normally vote democratic but they don't have a candidate to get my juices flowing. there's only a few democrats i would vote for and neither are running. i like elizabeth warren but she's not going to run. julian castro, the mayor of san diego, i think he would make a fantastic president. but right now i'm leaning towards governor kasich from ohio. just looking and listening to him on television and reading a couple articles about him, he's the one who has my attention right now. he's the frontrunner for me, for me. >> you say that normally you look at the top of the democratic ticket but nobody is getting your juices flowing. what's the issue with hillary? why isn't hillary clinton getting charles barkley's juices flowing for this campaign? >> well, you know, she just doesn't have the "it" factor. first of all, i think she's a terrific lady and wish her nothing but the best, but i

don't worry too much about the party. the only reason i have not been a big believer in the republican party in the past, i think they divide and conquer. for the last amount of years they have been using the abortion debate, now in the last few elections they have been using the gay marriage things and those aren't working. now they are pulling out the other ace in the hole which is immigration. i think there's a disservice in this country to act that they are all illegal and not law-abiding citizens. live in arizona. is there a problem with immigration? there probably is a problem with it, but to act like immigration is the biggest problem in this country is a disservice to hispanics. >> so i'm hearing you say with regard to hillary clinton, she's a good lady, but you're not feeling it. she's lacking some kind of pizzazz that charles barkley is looking for?

>> it's certain things, i want someone who's going to inspire me to want to go out and campaign for them, talk to my friends about them, and right now i'm not getting that from the democratic party. right now, governor kasich from ohio, just listen to him, he talks about being inclusive. what politics really are, certain amount of people going to vote democratic, certain amount of people are going to vote republican. you have to try to manipulate a certain little 5 to 7% that go way one way or the other, the republicans have always used negativity, like saying, well, there was gay marriage, abortion, now it's immigration, that's the problem i've always had with the republican party. >> i'm going to talk about governor kasich and the republicans in one second. what about bernie sanders? what if joe biden gets into this? >> well, you know, bernie sanders hasn't inspired me yet

to be honest with you. no disrespect, i need somebody who has -- i'm going to go and campaign with this guy, i'm going to tell my friends i like this guy, that's no disrespect to senator clinton or mr. sanders, joe biden seems like a really nice man, he's a person, like my grandfather ace type. i would be concerned about his age to be honest with you. >> kasich is a guy you're looking at, i take it you watch the debate, you saw something in the debate where you said, kasich is a guy who has some starpower? >> no, i asked him to do a sitdown interview on cnn with dana bash, he talked about being inclusive, he talked about young black kids giving us an opportunity. his idea of being conservative is being inclusive. most of the conservatives, they prefer to attack blame, it's always somebody else's fault why

these people aren't doing better. it's kind of like these black lives matter campaign. you can't just go to rallies and scream and yell, you have to come up with a game plan, the black vote, the hispanic vote, we have to band together with these candidates and come up with answers how we can get more economic opportunity to blacks in the ghetto. to hispanics in certain neighborhoods. they're using us as a scapegoat, instead of us using the power we have, we have to come together and use that power. >> you've been critical of the gop, does the democratic party take that minority vote for granted? >> they always have 100%, that's a great question, michael. they have not done enough for poor people. everyone sits around and wants to make this about being a democrat, a republican, a liberal. what america has become is poor people get screwed by rich

people. poor people need more economic opportunities, they need better schools, they need better neighborhoods. that's what this is really about, it has nothing to do with political parties, it's rich people trying to keep their thing -- i don't hate on rich people trying to be successful. but rich people, myself included, we have to do a much better job for poor white people, poor black people and haase panics. if i can get those three groups together, we're all in the same boat. they just make us fight with each other. >> final subject, let's talk about you have a lot of opinions, a lot of well informed opinions, when are you getting off the bench and into this arena yourself, it's been talked about a lot in the past? >> you know, michael, it's become silly. the reason i decided i'm leaning toward not getting involved, just watching television every

day just getting two democrats and republicans on television, they're just silly. why would i get involved in a field where somebody's going to -- i know going in, just because their republican and i'm a democrat or i'm a republican and they're democrat, we're going to disagree every single day. >> maybe you would get in, because 43% of the country are not in the r's or the d's, but they're among the i's and they're looking for leadership. >> well, i think the biggest problem is, the political system has become so big, you can be an independent. but republicans and democrats, they're so powerful, they've all sold their soul to special interest groups. i think you can be an independent but if really becomes irrelevant, you have to pick a team. >> sir charles, thanks so much for being here. >> no, thank you for having me.

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it's been a very tough week on wall street, the worst selloff since 2007. the dow fell more than a thousand for the week. and the nasdaq dropped as well. christine romans is the chief correspondent and i watch her every morning with john berman. >> you get up early. >> absolutely. i'm a knuckle head when it comes to this stuff. it's august and hard to get people on the phone because so many people are on vacation. >> it is vacation season. that can make the big swings worse. this has been a long overdue thing. i would say don't panic, it's long overdue and there are a lot of reasons why the stocks fell. >> what are they? >> china is slowing and there

are a lot of concerns that we don't know how slow it is growing. there are a couple numbers there discouraging. and a number of markets see the chinese economic miracle of the last 20 years and the multinational company deriving money from there. oil crashed below $40 a barrel. great for consumers in this country will see $2 gas by fall. i think you will see $2 gas by >> $2? >> i think you'll pay $2 gas by halloween in many parts of the country. you'll have interest rates that are going to rise soon. we don't know when but the interest rates will rise. all those things together really gelled into a big, big market rally. >> i'm a political animal. so when this occurs, what i think of is 2008, lehman brothers, it's the midst of the campaign, people forget mccain and obama were neck and neck. that's when john mccain famously said the fundamentals of the economy were strong and all of a

sudden they parted company in the polls and mccain could never catch him. what happens politically? >> the fundamentals of the economy are strong, in the u.s. they are. in the u.s. the republicans are trying to see if they should speak about this. the gas prices are not hurting them. they are getting extra money. remember last time around the republicans promised $2.50 gas if you voted for the gop? well, barack obama is the president, two terms of a democrat and you are probably going to see $2 oil. remember the campaign trail, the thing that you feel every day might be a little overrated. but i think that jobs have been growing nicely over the past three years. and republicans have -- especially the elite party, they want to focus on the people sidelined with jobs. and you'll be hearing from those not benefiting from the jobs market. when you look at all the jobs

numbers, while a slow recovery, they are getting better. so that poses difficulties when trying to have an economic platform for the republicans. >> i'm a big fan of jack vogel. he says don't even look at your monthly statement. if you bought into the total market mutual fund, if you own the totality of the stock market, forget about it until retirement time. but it is hard for people to panic. tell everybody what they should be doing, if anything, in the face of this? >> don't just do something, stand there. it's a famous phrase on wall street. you need to make sure you're balanced for when you retire, for how old you are with the risk. if you are going to retire next year, you should not be 100% in stocks, and you probably aren't. but if you are a generation x or early baby boomer, you love a stock market pull-back because you buy stocks more cheaply. all i have heard over the past two days is people asking me, should i be borrowing the stocks

taking a dive? some of the stocks like apple and disney -- >> what is the answer to that? >> they are in a bear market right now. i haven't heard people say, should i sell my stock but when should i step in and buy? that's been the hallmark of the last six years. it will be interesting to see if that happens starting next week. >> what great advice. continued efforts weekdays with berman. >> thank you. coming up, the sound bytes on the hillary clinton e-mail controversy and talking facts. and he advised donald trump for decades. roger stone is called the master of the political dark arts. people say it is just his civil participation. i'll ask him about the donald's big alabama evening. the possibility of a flare swas almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go...

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i've been paying close attention to the hillary clinton e-mail stories. it's complicated.

this much i know, the optics are hurting her campaign. i have specific questions and a well credentialed attorney to bhoem i can direct them. julian epstein is part of the house judiciary committee. and he's a legal advisor to the clintons and is joining me from washington. mr. epstein, during her tenure, did she produce from her private e-mail server any documents in response to freedom of information act requests? >> good morning. there's a case in the courts right now that showed a number of information e-mail requests. she'll be providing the e-mails in accordance with the law. the law with respect to freedom of information with regulations issued in 2009 that permitted mrs. clinton to use private e-mails for official business. so she was certainly complying with the law. even if there are some that believe that officially e-mail

would make it easier to comply with the freedom for information requests. the law requiring officials used only official e-mail addresses for official business. it was not passed until 2014. so i think she's perfectly in compliance with the freedom of information requests, although equivocally in that. >> but i'm asking a slightly different question. i'm sure there are journalists out there who during her tenure made requests for her information. or if she alone, or individuals acting at her behest controlled that server, she would have determined whether documents were produced. it's a pretty straightforward question. with were there productions of documents pertaining to requests that came from that server or was it a barrier to media access? >> i'm not familiar with all of the fore requests that were made while she was the secretary of state, but whether they were on

her private e-mail or her public e-mail, official e-mail, it doesn't really matter, she still has the ability as every other official in the executive branch to make determinations as to what are official e-mails and what are private e-mails. the virtue of the fact that she's using a private e-mail server doesn't really complaining what the substance of her response would be to a foyer request. >> let me show you something that michael mukasey, former attorney general wrote this week about this matter, he said it is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment by not more than a year, to keep documents or materials to keep e-mails or classified information at an undisclosed location. the issue does not turn on whether they bear a classified marking. did he get it right? >> kind of, he's not really giving you a full explanation.

the law requires in order for there to be a violation, that you know something is classified and you then intentionally move it to an area that is unsecured, like an unsecured server. in this case, there's no indication whatsoever, that any of the e-mails that hillary clinton received or sent while she was secretary of state were classified, even if there are now some kind of disputes between the different agencies as to whether some of them retroactively should be classified. certainly when she received them or she sent any of the e-mails in question, none of them were marked classified. it's almost that she could not move information to a unsecured location. and if you look back at all of the cases kind of involving the prosecution of mishandling of classified information. you always have a very clear intent on one of the parties to move something that is known to be classified in an unclassified

area. this is the essential point. even her strongest advocates would concede the point that it was a mistake to use a private e-mail and private server exclusively for her public business. what her political opponents are trying to do is turn a mistake into a crime. and i think it is very, very farfetched to argue that this is a kind of a crime or scandal the way her political opponents want to. >> let me speak to that. we all remember famously, i'll show the short clip, 1998, here's what hillary clinton had to say. >> the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write before it, and explain it is this vast right wing conspiracy that's been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. >> mr. epstein, i believe there are individuals who are out there -- i know you did, and that's why i'm glad you're here. there are individuals out there

lying in wait for her every day. i'm not one of them. i think there are legitimate questions and concerns that have been raised here, and i think this issue has gotten away from her, what it demands is a sitdown and complete explanation. >> as a political matter, i don't disagree, i think this has become a real problem for the campaign. but i think you have to and i think political opponents are entitled to make the argument that it was bad judgment to exclusively use a private server, there's a big difference between the argument that it was bad judgment on one hadn't and having that be political grist if you will. and making the point that she violated the law. three of the last four secretaries of state had the same policy she did, she did not want to hand over classified e-mails, she wanted to handle it on hard copy.

there's lots of reporting out there about public officials using private e-mail accounts. including those who had access to classify ied accounts. the chairman of the government oversight committee has his private gmail account listed on his business card. this season the to point fingers at others, this is merely to show there's a great deal of kind of confusion and lack of clarity, certainly until 2014 when the law was passed on this, about the use of public and private e-mails. >> the sooner there's a full disclosure by her and explanation of why she went this route to begin with, and what exactly if anything, was kept out of hands -- i wish i had more time. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> i will talk to top political

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"recount" about the battle for electoral votes in florida. the bush confidant says this is hurting the political department for decades. he first told me, this is about participation. they announced a two-week split weeks ago, but i'm not so sure. he's sporting a two-piece suit looking pretty dapper. looks good on you. roger is back with me now. >> the full atticus spin. >> it looks good on you. did trump book a room that was too large? here's the new york times, trump fails to fill the alabama stadium. >> that's so typically the new

york times, new york bomb hits new york city. there were 30,000 people in alabama, the biggest crowd you've had yet in the republican contest and he was on fire, i'd prefer to see the glass half full rather than half empty. >> the enger takenment value was priceless last night. here's a cut i thought had your thumb print all over it, roll that. >> i said it the other night. my second favorite book of all time. what's my first favorite book? >> the bible. >> the bible. and as much as i love the art of the deal it's not even close. we take the bible all the way, right? >> roger, come on, man, you're almost smiling at this, this is a guy who a few weeks ago said he eats the little crock cracker, now you have him down there in bible thumping

territory telling people he likes he knows his audience. think about how much better off we would be if john kerry and barack obama would have read "the art of the deal." >> jeb bush engaged mr. trump in a way. his massive inconsistencies aside the immigration plan is not conservative and does not reflect our nation's values. are they about to go head to head? >> makes no sense for jeb because all he is going to do by attacking trump is help galvanize the not bush voters. it's interesting to me among the other things bush attacked donald for is to say he was a democrat, and he became a democrat, yes, he left the

republican party to protest the policies of george w. bush and a pointless war, and he did leave the war in protest of bush policies. >> i thought the jeb tweet and some of the things he said were at odds with what mike murphy said. i think murphy is a smart guy and he runs the jeb super pac, and he said trump is other peoples' problem, and i think what he was saying is he is cruz's problem and carson's problem and santorum's problem because he is cutting into their support and not ours. >> because they can potentially win the same votes. all they are doing here is elevating trump by attacking him. look, jeb bush is not the person haob talking about people's conservative records. he made money out of obamacare -- >> what? >> he made money on obamacare

through his association with tenit health care and made obama through obama phones through his holdings in trac phones. >> what are they? >> the phones that the federal government gives out and that contract is held by a company called trac phone and that's partially owned by jeb bush. he made money on obamacare and obama phones and now wants to make money on common core. >> roger stone, classic stone tweet from you this week. with the weak performance of @jebbush, @jebbush, i have a very good rolodex when it comes to the party.

i do think with jeb's failure across the board, his under performance and the pale yo diet, he is just passion, no can-do spirit. this is why trump is zooming past him. >> what do you anticipate from trump go into the september 16th cnn debate at the reagan library? is it going to be continue to follow this playbook which we talked about here last week? >> there is no way of knowing because nobody puts words in trump's mouth and he is unscripted and unhandled and you will see the genuine trump. i suspect he will be aggressive as he always is and he will stick to his themes. i would like to see him take the deal on the iran deal. >> how so? >> look at this deal. we are giving them 150 billi$15,

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at the end of every program i like to say you can follow me on twitter if you can spell smerconish, and many of you are. thank you for the tweets. are you offended by the term anchor man? that's funny. erica said amen pat, as in pat buchanan. smerconish please stop telling

us why we are angry and what words we can say. the point i was trying to make to pat buchanan, the gop candidates ought to stop saying it because they can't win with the white vote alone. that was my point. sally says, charles barkley is on cnn with smerconish and i find myself agreeing with him. i don't know what to think about that. i think you can think you are an independent thinker, sally. adrian says relative to my interview pertaining to the clinton e-mails, hillary says why she used a private e-mail and it's dummies like you that choose not to accept her answer. what i am saying about hillary

is, she needs to tell the whole story, she needs to do a sit-down and layout everything from soup to nuts everything we want to know about the e-mail. see you next week. 7:00 eastern, and 4:00 p.m. pacific. i am poppy harlow joining you this saturday night from new york. we begin with an amazing story of heroism. tomorrow they will meet with the president of france who wants to thank them personally. just yesterday spencer stone, and alex skarlatos and anthony sadler took down a gunman. the gunman is believed to have ties with isis.