hello, i'm wolf blitzer, and it is 1:00 p.m. here in the united states and we welcome you to join us. donald trump is in hot water again for what he didn't say. he didn't challenge a supporter at a town hall meeting who made anti-muslim comment, and called the president a muslim. >> we have a problem in the country, and it is called the muslims. we know that the current president is one. you know he is not even an american. >> and we need the question as

the first question? >> anyway, we have training c camps growing where they want to kill us. that is my question. when can we get rid of them. >> we will be looking at a lot of different thing, and lot of people are saying that, and saying that bad things are happening out there, and we will be looking at that and plenty of things. >> and the campaign manager says that trump did not hear the anti-muslim remark, and all he heard was a question about training camps that we have to look into it, and the media want to make it an issue about obama, but it is a question about him waging a war on christianity. and hillary clinton wasted no time blasting donald clinton, and him not denouncing false statements about potus is hateful rhetoric about muslims is disturbing, and just plain wrong. cut it out. >> it is easier to afford your education, and get on with the rest of your life.

>> there was a remark that we have a problem in this country called muslims, and -- [ inaudible ] first of all, what do you think about that comment and secondly, how would you have responded if somebody said that in a town hall? >> well, i was appalled and as you may know, quickly put out a tweet expressing the great disappointment with that kind of rhetoric and calling on him, and anybody else who is seeking the highest office of the land, to start behaving like a president, to show respect and to stand up for the truth. he knew or he should have known that what that man was asking is not only way out of bound, but it was untrue. and he should have from the

beginning repudiated that kind of rhetoric, that level of hatefulness in a questioner in an audience that he was appearing before. so i would, you know, call on him and call on all of the candidates to stop this descent into the hateful, mean-spirited divisive rhetoric that we have seen too much of. >> and how would you respond? >> well, if that person would not have come to my revent, and if he did, i would have called him out, and that has no place in a political discussion like we are trying to have here, and not only out of place and wrong, but it is totally factually untrue, and to quit impugn iing the integrity of the president. i think it is prejudice and i think it is discriminatory, and i think that it comes out of the unfortunate reservoir of hateful

rhetoric that we have seen too much of where people are being set against one another, and that has no place in our politicsw. we have serious issues that we have to deal with in the years ahead, and we should be trying to bring the country together around solution, and not trying to divide up people and set them against each other. >> i was listening to lindsey graham in iowa and he said that this is a defining moment in the campaign for all republicans and that donald trump should go on national tv to apologize for what he said about muslims and what he said about the president, and what do you feel about it, because donald trump has canceled the appearances today, and should he go on tv to apologize and make this right or whether he is trying to appeal to the supporters who may have prejudice -- >> well, andrea, let's find out,

and le's see what he does. i think that his taking a time-out to think hard about what happened last night, what he did not call out or repudiate at the time, gives him the chance to express his regret about that kind of behavior and those sorts of comments in one of his political events. i hope he does. i hope he will take senator graham's advice and request and do just that. you know, we can all have difference, and that is what the e lek is shuns are about, and we can compare and contrast our experiences and our views and our visions and our program, and that is all fair game. but we have a bigger obligation to the american people to try to have a campaign that is about what is really going on in the lives of americans, and to do everything that we can to

eliminate from our political discourse the kind of comments that we heard yesterday. so i hope that he will. >> his campaign manager said that he didn't hear correctly. >> well, he should address that. >> okay. in talking to college students in new hampshire, they were pretty clear that they would vote on -- [ inaudible ] -- and why vote for your plan rather than -- >> well, there is plenty of time to compare and contrast, but briefly, i believe that my plan is more comprehensive, because i am aiming at getting the costs down and not putting more money in the system so that the costs keep rising, and i have a heavy emphasis on the paying down the debt and different ways to help the students do exactly that, and i believe that people who are getting an education need to have some responsibility for their education. so i have a plan that will make

it possible for anybody at the ending a four-year college or university to avoid having to borrow money for tuition, but we are still going to have to expect the students to do their part. i believe in the students working, you know, ten hours a week is what i recommend. so i think that my plan is really aimed at addressing the iss issues that i hear young americans talking to me about. >> more about the ten hours a week? >> it is beneficial and helpful for students to make their own contribution if they are seeking financial help for them to make their own contribution, and for the colleges to get costs down by having the students working toward the payments of, you know, their dues, their fees, their living expenses. and that -- no, but it is recommended and you can go online and see all of the

specifics of what i am offering, and in particular the national service component and the young parent component is something that is overlooked by too many people and not in part of other people's plans. >> and specifically, what did you believe of carly furnna's views the other night, and -- carly fiorina's views other night and her views of planned parenthood the other night, and allow women to break through the glass creeling? >> i will let you be the pundits and i saw that all of the candidates were against funding planned parenthood and i vigorously disagree with that and i believe it is fair and wrong to single out planned parenthood and it is unfair to deprive the millions of women who get care from planned parenthood and access to those

services, and it is not one candidate, but all of them, and some of them standing on that age plan on shutting down the government of the united states over the $500 million dollars that the government provides to planned parenthood to take care of breast cancer screenings, and blood screenings, and other women issues, and that is what i will defeat, and the counter productive, damaging ideas of shutting down the united states government over it. >> and secretary, will you support the house bill to support -- last year in the conference at las vegas, you said that there would be economic opportunity to lift --

ins incentives for the attached -- >> well, in general in the absence of a broader energy plan that does include concessions from the oil and gas industry, i don't think that the ban should be lifted. i'm not against it under all circumstances, but i have not yet seen any legislation introduced that would strike the right balance from my perspecti perspective. i will put out and continue to put out the whole range of energy policies that the i support. and among them is how we shift away from the fossil fuels, and that is how we shift away from the increasing production, and shift away from the subsidizing of that production, and indeed distribution. so i am looking at it wholistically and the bill as i understand it does not come anywhere near doing what i

believe has to be done to move towards the energy transition that is so important to our country. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. so while we are going to go from the hillary clinton q & a to the white house press secretary josh earnest who has been asked about donald trump's comments. let's listen in. >> and that is precisely what every presidential candidate is doing when they do not denounce the cynical strategy of donald trump, because they want the same votes. other republicans have used the same strat jishgs and one republican congressman told a report er th reporter that he was david duke without the baggage, and he was elected by a position to the third the ranking position in the house, and those same members of congress blocked immigration reform, and those same members of congress blocked reauthorization voting act, and those same members of congress could not support a simple

funding bill, because they are eager to defend the confederate flag. so those are the priorities of today's republican party, and they will continue to be until somebody in the republican party decides to summon the courage to stand up and change it. >> should donald trump apologize to the president? >> i am not really, and i have not seen any evidence to indicate that he is interested in my advice about what he should do. aisha? >> i would like to ask because secretary kerry said in london that the u.s. believes that -- >> and very tough response from the white house to donald trump's controversial silence in the face of someone who showed up at the town hall meeting yesterday, and we will get full analysis of what is going on, because this is right now exploding into to a major story in the race for the white house, and the analysts and the reporters are standing by, and we will take a quick break, and much more after this.

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hall meetings said something like that, i would say that the president is a christian and born in this country. i mean, i think that the two things are self-evident. >> it is right for mr. trump to apologize to the muslims this morning? >> donald trump has to decide and i said it all along, he has to determine how serious a candidate he and i am not lecturing him about what to do, and i will tell you what i would do. >> and i will ask you, you are a donald trump supporter, jeffrey loe lord, and should he apologize to the muslim community about what he said or not? >> wolf, this is enormous hypocrisy, and i'm a member of the united church of christ a christian, and for 20 years, barack obama was in the same denomination, and so i have some authority to speak to this, and i have been president of the church council for six years and on the regional board of the

united church of christ here, and the theology of the church of christ here is that the members are responsible for the minister, and the minister reports to them, and the minister can be fired by the member, and president obama heard in the pews all of those years and heard all of the anti-semitic stuff by jeremiah wright for years and never moved to fire him, zero, and he did zero, and now we are hearing the white house talk about donald trump and i want to know where is hillary clinton on that? and the shame from president obama? this is a massive double standard, and massive double standard. i believe he is a christian, and he belonged to my denomination, and i know the rules of my denomination, and he did noth g nothing. and he is not called on it ever. >> all right. i want to get reaction from the other commentator, but do you think that trump should apologize though for his silence in the face of the smears? >> i want him to apologize when president obama apologizes. >> all right. hilary rosen, you respond,

because you are a good democrat. >> well, jeffrey is wrong, because he did take on reverend wright for a long time. >> and did he get him fired -- >> hold on, one at a time. >> and go ahead. >> he, is and here is the issue, right, in the last month, donald trump has insulted mexicans, and insulted people in the mill tashgs and he is now doing this with the muslims and i think that the issue is really, you know, we saw ten minutes of hillary clinton talking about presidential policy and college affordability, and acting like a grown-up, and republicans like chris christie who i thought had a good answer today, he is not, nobody is responsible for donald trump and jeffrey is not responsible for him, and he has to decide if he wants policy discussions or news with insults. >> and today, later some event in south carolina that he canceled, because he has some

business track business transactions that the business has to deal with, but this is how john mccain handled something similar in 2008 when he was running for a presidential nomination. >> i can't trust obama, and i have read about him, and he is not -- he is a -- he is an arab. he is not -- [ laughter ] >> no ma'am. no ma'am. he is a decent family man, citizen is, that i just happen to have disagreements on fundamental issue, and that is what this campaign is all about, and he is not, thank you. >> and a lot of people, tara, as you know, would have liked donald trump to have responded to that question the way that john mccain did in 2008. >> listen a lot of people would have liked donald trum top respond and handle things a lot differently, and that is not who he is, and donald trump, it is not long ago how he was out

there paying investigators to investigate president obama's birth certificate, and so it is not an anomaly, and john mccain handled it better than hillary clinton and when she was sinking in the primaries to stop barack obama's momentum, she was on "60 minutes" saying he is not a muslim than i know of, and so john mccain was more authoritytive than john mccain was when she was losing in 2008 and so this is par for the course and i don't know any more republican kacandidates and chr christie gave the answer which is strorngs and i don't know any other republican candidates who would entertain this nonsense and it is nonsense, and we are blowing it out of proportion, and this is trump being trump.

>> and we did a poll a week or so ago, and we asked people all over the country, and do you believe and happen to know what religion barack obama is, protestant, catholic, muslim, jewish or not religion, and nationwide, 39% said he is christian, and 29% said that he is muslim, and that national poll, but if you dig deeper among the republicans, 29% think that he is christian, and 43% think that he is muslim. so this is a questioner who stood up at donald trump's town hall meeting is reflecting what a l a lot of of the people out there believe. >> yes, 43% of the republicans, and look, it is not up to the republican party to make sure that people know that president obama is a christian. but it is up to the leadership in the republican party to dem crate respect for the office. i think that, you know, i give chris christie credit today, and he stood up for it. but, you know, the fact that so many of trump supporters feel that way is -- >> clearly not just trump

supporters, and that is a national poll, and not just republicans there. and you know, barack obama is proud of it. >> and i was going to go to the different point which is a broader point of people of color many this country which is that there is an enormous amount of uncertainty, you know, subdued racism and all sorts of issues associated with people of color, and -- >> if you dig deeper in the poll, 15 p% of democrats believe he is muslim, and 15%, and that is a significant percentage. >> and it is a important dist g distinction. >> and that guy on tv was saying that people who are muslims shouldn't be allowed in the country, and that we ho have to get rid of them. and that is different from w wondering if the president is -- and wondering if the president is, it is kind of a different issue, and that is what it is.

and these guys have to be grown-ups if you want to be president. >> and e jeffrey, give me the advice that you would give donald trump right now if he called you and this story is obviously got some leg, and it is out there right now, and he can fix it one way or another, and what would you tell donald trump? >> i would go directly to the president and call him out on the hypocrisy and call secretary clinton out on the hypocrisy, and i do believe he is a christian and he was a member of my church, and he did nothing, and zero, and the double standard applied to donald trump for some bozo questioner in new hampshire, and by the way, what is wrong with being a muslim, and what is wrong with that, and i have friends who are muslims, and there is nothing wrong with that. >> and there is nothing wrong with being a muslim. >> and so you heard the tone of the question though from the person who stood up, jeffrey. >> right. and so i did, but if that is the -- >> so i am, and what are you? >> and if we are concerned about the tone of some questioner in new hampshire, then i am concerned about what president

obama didn't do in his own church when he had the authority to do it. and he is sort of broken a wai y from this, but for 20 years he had the authority to get reverend wright fired, but he not only did nothing but he said that he was a uncle to him and baptized the kid or whatever he did, and he knew it was going on, and he did zero. >> and guys, stand by, and there is a lot more to dissect from the story that is not going away, and by the way, in case you missed the wednesday night spirited republican presidential debate, and you want to watch it again, cnn is going to reair it tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. much more coming up after this. - now that's smart nutrition. ensure's complete balanced nutrition has 26 vitamins and minerals and 9 grams of protein. ensure. take life in. so you don't have to stop., tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. the first is fast. the second lasts all day.

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former secretary of state hillary clinton was the target of the real gop candidates at wednesday night's cnn presidential gop debate. she was criticized on a range of

issues from the support of planned parenthood to the private use of e-mail servers, and car ly fiorina said if you want to stump a democrat, ask them for one accomplishment of mrs. clinton, and so i asked her what was your number one accomplishment as secretary of sta state? >> well, didn't see all of it, but this is the usual back and forth political attacks, and the kinds of the things that you would say when you are on a debate stage and you don't have much else to say. i didn't hear anything from any of them how to make college more affordable and get the student debt down or equal pay for equal pay for women, and what they are going to do to make sure that we deal with the challenges of raising incomes for hardworking people, so i don't really pay a lot of attention to this kind of the rhetoric that heats up the

debate stage. they are all trying to vie for more attention from obviously, the republican party, and i'm going to let them decide how best to do it, but if anybody is interested, there is a long list about what i have done, and i am very proud of it, and you can read my book "hard choices" and how i negotiated a cease-fire between israel and hamas, and how i put together the coalition that led to international sanctions against iran and you can read about what i did when i was first lady to get the health insurance program or as a senator working across the aisle on issues like getting better health care for the veterans, and you know, this is the silly season. i am looking forward to eventually debating on that stage whoever they finally nominate once they get around to doing that. >> so listen to what carly fiorina said, madam secretary, about videos about planned parenthood, an organization that

you support. >> i dare hillary clinton, and barack obama to watch these t e tape, and watch a fully formed fetus on the table, and its heart beating and the legs kicking while someone says "we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain" and this is about the character of our nation. >> all right. planned parenthood says that video does not -- madam secretary, let me explain, the planned parenthood says it is not going to depict an aborted fetus, but it is a miscarriage, and first of all, have you seen the very, very controversial videos? >> well, wolf, let's break down what is happening here, because i think it is important, and i know that there is a move on by some of the republicans in the congress to actually shut down the united states government over their demand that we no longer give federal fund iing t

planned parenthood to perform the necessary health services that they do for millions of women. so let's puts a side for a moment here that there is no debate, and there should be no absolutely no argument that planned parenthood does cancer screenings, and helps to provide family planning and contraceptive a advice and works to provide some of the most difficult kinds of counseling when it comes to giving an hiv test for example, and what this is about is the fact that some of the planned parenthood facilities perform abortions which is legal under the laws of the united states. i understand that the republican party and in particular the candidates that we heard from last night, wish that were not the case, and wish that abortion were illegal and they could turn the clock back. and so i think that we ought to be very clear that planned parenthood has served to provide health care necessary health care for millions of women. and i think that it deserves not

only our support, but the continuing funding from the federal government so that these women and girls who are seeking the kinds of services that are provided will be able to achieve that. >> all right. have you, are you confident that planned parenthood, madam secretary, or any of the affiliated groups if you will have not violated any federal laws? >> well, wolf, let me tell you what i know, and that is there is a willingness on the part of planned parenthood to answer questions, and they have been doing so. some people may not want to hear the answers, but they have certainly put the answers out there into the public arena. and if the issue, the core issue that some on the stage last night or some in the congress are trying to promote or trying to raise questions about has to

do with the kind of research that is done legally in the united states, then that is an issue that goes far beyond any planned parenthood example. so i think it is important to sort out that there is a lot of emotion and a lot of accusations that are being hurled about, but it is important to sort out, and try to actually figure out what is going on. if it is the services that they are trying to shutdown like providing family planning or the breast cancer screenings, that is wrong, and women deserve to be given support to get those services provided. if they want to shutdown the legal provision of abortion services, then they have a bigger problem, because obviously, they, the planned parenthood does not use federal dollars to do that, and if they are more focused on the reserarh that is going on, then that is a

set of issues that is certainly is not only about planned parenthood. so i would hope that the republicans and particularly the republicans in the house led by speaker boehner would not put our country and our economy in peril pursuing some kind of emotional, politically charged partisan attack on planned parenthood to shut down the government. i think that is a very, very unfortunate decision. >> all right. let's talk about another source of criticism that you received last night, and this one from governor chris christie who said at the debate that you can't tell the american people the truth about the e-mail, and the controversy and he said that you should be prosecuted about having a server in the basement with national security secrets running through it, and an 18-year-old could be hacked into the server.

do you think it is possible they could have hacked into the server. >> this is no evidence of that, and again, rhetoric and baseless charges to somehow gain a footing in the debate and in the p primary, and it is not going to deserve any comment. >> and it took you a long time to say you are sorry with the mistake to organize that server for a long time, a nd why did i take so long? . >> and you know, well, i was trying to explain what has happened and obviously, it was clear that i should have used two different e-mail account, and i have said that was a mistake and i'm sorry, and i have taken responsibility, but i have also for more than a year now been asking to testify before the congressional committee that is investigating the situation in benghazi, and they would not let me appear finally, and i'm very happy about this, i will be appearing in the end of october, andly be looking forward to answer all of the questions, and i'm trying to be as transparent as possible,

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before the break, we heard the former secretary of state hillary clinton talk about the campaign rivals and in my exclusive interview with her on "the situation room" last night i asked her about the campaign

and her standings in the polls. you have dismissed donald trump's campaign as entertainment, and suggested that it is not really serious, but the top candidate donald trump and ben carson and carly fiorina and in the democratic party bernie sanders as well, he is running a hehead of you in t democratic party in the polls ahead of you in iowa for example. >> well, i have said for a long time, that the polls will go up and down, and i'm comfortable and confident about the strategy and i feel that the campaign in iowa and new hampshire and early states, and now move ing ing to states that come after are really coming together well. i am excited by the level and the intensity of the support that i have, and i always thought that it would be a competitive election. i am looking forward to it. this is an important job and the

most important job not only in our country, but in the world. people have to fight hard and make the case and earn the vote s of the american voters. >> you sat next to joe biden when you were the secretary of state for four years, and he has been the vice president of the united states for almost seven years, and a heartbeat away from the presidency, and if he decides to run, will you be able to tell the american people that you are more qualified to be president than he is? >> well, wolf, i'm not going the comment on the hypothetical, and certainly not going to be commenting on my good friend and former colleague, because he has to make up his own mind about what is best for his family and his choice, and i will tell the people that my set of experiences and my vision for the future and the vision for america and what it should be and what i have told the voters that i will do from everything of making college affordable to paying down the student debt to tackling climate change, and to

dealing with subis stance abuse and addiction like i did here in new hampshire today, and i have a comprehensive agenda that, i believe, and dresses the varied issues that americans are talking to me about, and i know that having been around the presidency both as the first lady and in the '90s and then as a member of president obama's cabinet working with other presidents as a senator, and even in private life, i feel very confident that i'm the right person at the right time to lead our country to deal with the growing issues around incomes that are not raising enough money for people to feel they have a better future, about the kinds of jobs that we need more of, and about how more workers get to share in the productivity by sharing the profits of what they helped to produce. i am the one out there talk thing specifically about what i would do, because i want to run

a campaign that lays out my agenda, because when i get elected, i am going to be working on it immediately. >> i know that your time is limited, and a quick question here sh here, and are you ready to tell the democrats and indeed the american public today, that you are ready to accept more democratic presidential debates than are already scheduled, because you are under pressure to do so? >> well, wolf, i have said from the beginning, i am looking forward to debating and the debate next month, and now just a month away, and will certainly show up anywhere the democratic national committee tells us to show up, because i want us to have a good exchange of ideas and to make sure that democratic voters are first, and then the general voters to follow, and see exactly what we stand for and what our positions are, and so, you know, i am ready and willing no matter what they the decide to show up and be there. >> are you ready to ask the dnc

to authorize more democratic presidential debates? >> that is up to them. they made the decision, but i have made it clear if they want to do more, i am happy to do them. >> clearly, you are influential with the dnc, and if you want more, i am sure that debbie wassermann schultz the chair of the dnc would go ahead, and let me ask you one more question before you go, and you have praised your president as a great president, and let me ask you this, would you be a better president than bill clinton was as president of the united states? >> oh, wolf. [ laughter ] that is one tof the questions that i cannot and i will not answer, and i will say this, if you look at the last 35 years, and actually, going back further, i think that it is pretty indisputable that having a democrat in the white house is good for the economy and better for the economy than the alternative and i think that my husband understood that and

produced. and president obama inherited a big and dangerous mess and he has been able to get us out of the ditch. so i am not running for the my husband's third term or president obama's third term but for my first term, but i believe that both of them understood what what it would take to try to clean up the messes they inherited from the republican predecessors and begin to get the economy and the country working again for everybody, and that is the exactly kind of president i will be as well. >> madam secretary, thank you for joining u and good luck out there on the campaign trail and we will look forward to covering you and obviously, all of the democratic presidential debates as well. thank you for joining us. mark your calendars, because in three week, cnn and facebook will host the first democratics debate tuesday october 13th in las vegas. we will take a quick break and more news after this.

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