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>> a serious issue they should debate at least. thanks very much for that report. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. please be sure to join us right here in the situation room tomorrow. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >> all out war tonight, donald trump escalating attacks against bill clinton and hillary clinton firing back slamming trump over his money and business news. and breaking news in egyptair flight 804 tonight. we have news about the pilot moments before he took off. >> good evening. i'm erin burnett. donald trump hoping to get right to the finish line tonight as voters in washington state are still casting ballots at this moment. at stake for trump, 44 delegates as he makes his way to that
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magic number of 1,237. this as trump is getting ready to take the stage in new mexico tonight where he's hosting a $10,000 a head fund-raiser. all eyes on whether he will up the ante on his attacks on bill clinton, alleging sexual assault on women. trump tells the "washington post" today they are fair game, he said "they said things about me that were very, very nasty. and you know, as long as they do that, you know i will play at whatever level have i to play at. i think i've proven that. is it a winning strategy for trump, though? jim acosta begins our coverage tonight. jim, this is as nasty as we have seen it and, as i said, deeply personal. >> reporter: that's right, erin. it's gotten ugly early. donald trump is holding a rally here in albuquerque, new mexico.
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he's running two campaigns, one to organize and rally the gop behind him, the other to tear down the clintons early and often. but donald trump says, as you pointed out, it's all in the name of self-defense. advisers to donald trump say why not? if the clinton machine is attacking the presumptive nominee on his past treatment of women, trump is going to hit back hard. it's been in the making for weeks. >> have you ever heard what hillary clinton did to women that bill clinton had affairs with? and they're going after me with women? give me a break, folks. >> reporter: but in just the past week, trump went further, drudging up old unproven allegations that former president bill clinton had once sexual live assaulted a woman, claims clinton's attorneys have vehemently denied. >> deputy white house council vincent foster jr. committed
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suicide last month. >> unfounded conspiracy theories that foster was murdered have lingered. trump told "the washington post" in an interview on monday it's the one thing with her, whether it's whitewater or vince foster or whether it's benghazi, it's always a mess with hillary. >> does she have a good body, no. does she have a fat ass? absolutely. trump's advisers say it's all payback going after the real estate tycoon's past dealings with women. >> he's exposing not just bill clinton for what he was and he had done but it's the same as it relates to hillary. she attacked mr. trump as being a sexst misogynist and that's not accurate. he's not anything of those things. >> reporter: consider what trump told wolf blitzer eight years ago. >> look at the trouble bill clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant and
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they tried to impeach him which was nonsense and yet bush got us into this horrible war with lies by lying and saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true. >> reporter: the clintons have been down this road before. the former president saw his approval numbers soar after the public determined his gop adversaries overreached during the 90s. history, he says, is repeating himself. >> you think the stuff i said about her is bad? they accused me of murder. our memories are short. it's what they do. >> reporter: hillary clinton made it clear he won't engage. >> i know that's exactly what he is fishing for and i'm not going to be responding. >> reporter: as for that rally that donald trump is holding later here in albuquerque in just a couple of hours, he will not have the top republican in the state by his side. she told reporters here in new mexico she is too busy to attend
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this rally. erin, keep in mind she has in the past been very critical donald trump's comments on mexican immigrants. another notable moment, donald trump is holding his first fund-raiser, which is taking place very shortly here in albuquerque. that is a first in this campaign, something he's doing jointly with the rnc. he liked to say in the past that he was self-funding his campaign but that is no more. as for the rhetoric in this campaign, hard to imagine it could get any lower. >> it might. outfront now, susan del percio, scotty van hughes, kellyanne conway and lamont hill. thanks to all on this election night. trump going deeply personal and i mean deeply personal. we are drudging up things from
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the past, many of which have been debunked. is he going too far? >> yes, once you start going past the self-inflicted sex scandals, to the conspiracy theories and that cottage industry of total hatred which has been totally disproven, that's when you're embracing conspiracy theories and you lose any right to say you're simply fighting back, you're pandering to the ugliest, the lowest common denominateors, things that have been totally disproven and it's despicable even for trump? >> his supporters won't care but it's the independence and all the people he has to woo. >> he's got to remind folks why he is a better choice than hillary clinton. and by sit hearing and going not after one but two, three, four, five, multiple conspiracies. it's not just like one little spark. there's a lot to go around. >> you just said multiple conspiracies. that concedes it's a bunch of b.s. >> no, it does not mean it's
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b.a. >> if the republican party -- that discredits your own party. >> did you actually hear him say i believe in this, i -- >> no. he plants the seed of doubt. >> that is so deeply cynical. >> no, it isn't. >> you just admitted a seed of doubt. >> he plants the seed and people go and do their own research. >> we know donald trump has jumped the shark about 23 -- 22 times so far. we never know how far he's going to go. so far it has worked for him. the voters will decide how far is too far and we'll see that happen. but right now i agree with part what scotty said. his job is to unite the party. he has to have as many people behind him as early on because he has a heck of a job -- >> to the right. >> to the right. he has to have that solid because pretty soon hillary clinton wouldn't be finding a
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battle on the left and right, she'll just be attacking him. >> doesn't matter what donald trump himself has said. forget he's drudging up things that have been discredited, kellyanne, here's donald trump talking about his once pal, buddy ol' pal bill clinton. >> i think bill clinton has done a terrific job. i don't think he's been treated very fairly. paula jones is a loser but she may be responsible for bringing down a president indirectly. look at the trouble bill clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant and they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. >> okay. >> donald trump is continuing to be consistently inconsistent. in the 90s he said one thing, today he said something else. that's a pattern. it's entertaining, it's a side show. the voters want to hear conversations about them, their future, their lives.
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>> except they don't seem to want that, mark. that doesn't seem to be what's resonating. >> what resonates in ratings isn't what's going to resonate with people around the kitchen table. >> the polls have moved dramatically. it is resonating with somebody. >> strategically it doesn't make a lot of sense. you don't go into personal attacks this early in the season. it usually gets chippy around july, august. we're only in may and he's already doing this. you doesn't want to go negative this early because it takes away from the issue. however, donald trump continues to defy logic. everything he does continues to work. it's unethical, immoral and continues to work. in some polls he's up 2, 3 points. >> paula jones is a loser, consistent terminology over the years, except for now she is the person that he is saying is in the right and bill clinton is this horrible person. >> now he's running for elected
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was a against hillary clinton. then he was speaking as a private citizen and you're saying one clip. i think we're all overthinks this. what if donald trump's job as hillary clinton takes on two men, bernie sanders on her left and donald trump in the general election. it's his job to show two things -- one, he's unapologetically unafraid of hillary clinton, bill clinton and all a clinton candidacy would mean. and, number two, he needs to get into their heads. if anybody tells me he's not in hillary clinton's and bill clinton's head, you're lying. >> he's trying to not make the election about him, his positions and prior statements. he's trying to distract attention away from his lack of policy positions and what he said about -- >> hold on. the last person that came out and talked about issues with donald trump was jeb bush. here's how donald trump treated him. >> jeb bush is a low-energy
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person. for him to get things done is hard. this guy can't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. jeb, he's asleep. he's asleep at the wheel, folks. he will do like a puppet whatever they say. i watched him this morning on television and it's a little bit sad. don't forget, he was supposed to win. >> does hillary clinton run the risk by saying she will engage with him but not on the level he's engaging of being like jeb bush? >> she has to wait for -- she has to do it. >> there is a case to be made that hillary is the jeb of the left right now. she's trying to run a legitimate campaign, he's a showman on a different level. now is when he's lying. he's a demagogue with a microphone. >> today he released a video about the veterans, about all the money he's raised for them
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as well as what he want to do veterans. are we talking about that today? no, we're talking about something he posted yesterday on instagram. >> are you saying we shouldn't talk about wa he said 24 hours ago? >> he did talk about policy and it's not being covered. >> because he's raising murder conspiracy. you can't get mad at us for talking about the things he -- >> don't tell me he's not talking policy. he's covering all the gamut. >> veterans and murderers in the same day. i never expected that to be part of a presidential campaign. >> hold on, thank you. next the clintons say they were dead broke when they left the white house. wait till you hear what they've earned since then. and breaking news on the missing
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tonight scandal in clinton land. a long-time friend and ally of the clintons under investigation. terry mcauliffe denying any wrong doing after cnn broke the story that the fbi is investigating illegal campaign contributions. one donor giving money to both mcauliffe and the clinton foundation. this is not the only money that could haunt hillary clinton. sunlen serfaty is out front.
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>> i didn't make much money but i could afford to do it but i was paying back a low percentage on interest. >> reporter: but she avoids drawing attention to the vast wealth she and her husband have accumulated since entering the public eye. the clintons nearly $141 million over an eight-year span from 2007 to 2014 according to tax returns released by the campaign. they own two posh properties, a five-bedroom, four bathroom home in chappaqua, new york, purchased for $1.7 and a four bedroom house in a ritzy d.c. neighborhood that came with a price tague of of $2.8 million. last summer the couple rented out a home in the hampton. the bill for one week, 50 grand. clinton's comments about her
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economic status has tripped her up before. >> we came out of the white house not only dead broke but in debt. we had no money when we got there and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for chelsea's education. you know, it was not easy. >> that dead broke remark prompting a quick clean-up. >> i regret it. it was inartful but accurate. >> it is factually true that we were several million in debt. >> reporter: but coming off eight years in the white house, the couple was ready to cash in on their political fame. hillary clinton's books raking in multi-million dollar deals, the last two getting at least $8 million apiece. even more lucrative for the clintons, the speaking circuit. the clintons earned more than $155 million from paid speeches over a 15-year period with the
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average speech bringing in more than $211,000 a pop. clinton's democratic rival bernie sanders has seized on her speeches to wall street in particular. >> now, what i have said is if you're going to get paid $225,000 for a speech, must be a pretty good speech. >> clinton says she does not regret taking the fees for those speeches. >> i made speeches to lots of groups. i told them what i thought. i answered questions. >> but did you have to be paid $675,000? >> well, i don't know. that's what they offered. >> and clinton's latest financial disclosure forms reveal last year alone hillary clinton made over $1.4 million in paid speeches and over $5 million just from her book royalties alone. >> sunlen, thank you very much. my panel is back with me. mark lamont hill, let me start
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with $1.5 for six speeches in 2015. some of these in the month before she announced she was running for president, ebay, $315,000 in march, one month later she was running for president. is that bad judgment? >> it's not bad judgment to take a lot of money for a speech. >> a month before you're running for president? >> marc's going to do that -- >> i'm available everybody. >> marc's more interesting. >> ultimately i don't think it matters to voters. she's running against donald trump. donald trump has no moral authority to talk about making too much money or about molding your message to meet the audience. he does both of those. >> donald trump hasn't done the same thing. >> he has employed thousands and thousands of people. the clintons are worth $150-$200
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million. they didn't hit the lottery. $250,000 the month before she's going to run for president. go and donate the money. it looks terrible. they interrupt me but it still looks bad. she should have donated the money so lower income money can go camping. >> should donald trump have donated the money he made? >> let's see his tax returns. >> go read "clinton cash" and see the movie. follow the money. >> he certainly made more than $1.5 million. >> the overall speeches, 92 speeches, she has disclosed this, this is a full disclosure, $21.7 million. i looked through them.
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obviously got a lot of banks, goldman sachs, they're all on there. you just heard her say to anderson cooper the reason she got $225,000 is because that's what they're offering. almost every company paid her $225,000. that doesn't look like an offer, it looks like an ask. >> it's a bid offer to use wall street terminology. >> and it gets into what the definition of is is. the average family of four makes $55,000 a year. that's a big number for folks to ingest. that's a hurdle she's going to have to clear. it's more of an issue against bernie sanders than against donald trump. >> hillary clinton recently said she's not that great of a campaigner. clearly she also doesn't know how to be a good candidate because a good candidate would not be taking these speeches knowing you're going to run for president. it was absolutely ludicrous. beside what kellyanne mentioned, the fact that she took all this
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money from schools, including new york university, buffalo, she should have donated the money back. >> a lot of that did go to the clinton foundation. >> it's showing good judgment. >> this is all about buying input. it's not about her giving a great speech. it's about buying influence. that's why when she became secretary of state, bill clinton that, day his speaking fees doubled. it was all about getting face time with possibly a future president. >> what about the perception? whether that is true or not, it could be a perception. >> it's fair game but it's in comparison to donald trump who hasn't released his tax returns and we have no idea what his charitable contributions are. the entire conversation is a distraction and a side show away -- >> no way. >> away from the real issues in the campaign. i think that's what we're seeing playing out. donald trump doesn't want to discuss his positions or his record. he wants to keep the focus on his opponent.
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>> ladies watching, it takes you on average four to six years to make what hillary clinton made in one speech. she's here for women, for the middle class, she's going to save everybody. >> donald trump is a billionaire. >> but it is capitalism. if you get to be first lady or secretary of state and you can capitalize on that, what's wrong with that? >> when you all talk at the same time, no one can hear any of you. >> she doesn't have to take a vow of poverty to run for president. >> she does not, you're right. donald trump raising millions in three days from big california donors. how can trump justify that after months of slamming that kind of fund-raising? i'm going to ask my next guest, ben carson. and bernie sanders saying if he wins california, he wins the nomination. >> and if we march out with the democratic nomination, donald trump is toast. >> is hillary clinton making a
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right now we are awaiting hillary clinton, who will take
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the stage at a rally in california. clinton expected to hit trump tonight where it hurts the most, his wallet and how rich he is, questioning if he's a good businessman. it's a new line of attack from the democratic front-runner. >> you know what happened during the great recession. he actually said he was hoping for the crash that caused hard working families in california and across america to lose their homes, all because he thought he could take advantage of it to make some money for himself. >> our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is traveling with the clinton campaign. he's live in riverside, california tonight. jeff, why does the campaign believe that this attack right now is actually going to stick? >> reporter: erin, the campaign believes everyone knows donald trump is successful. what they're trying to get people to think about is he being a success for himself or is he fighting for everyone else? this is the beginning of a long
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argument the campaign wants to make against donald trump. it was happening across the democratic party. there were congressmen from battleground states making it, surrogates making it and the candidate herself will make it again tonight. they are trying to take away a strength of donald trump's and turn this into a weakness. donald trump released a statement to us a short time ago. he says i am a businessman and i have made a lot of money in down markets. in some cases as much as i have made when the markets are good. frankly this is the kind of thinking our country needs, understanding how to get a good result out of a very bad and sad situation. erin, donald trump is not backing away from that. he's simply saying that's the sign of a good businessman. of course voters will have to sort out which side they believe in. democrats believe this is a good argument for them. we'll see if they put any money behind it in commercials and ads. that's always the sign of how effective an argument is. erin? >> thank you, jeff zeleny.
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jeff lord is out front, a donald trump supporter along with bill kristol, editor of "the weekly standard" and tim ryan of ohio who has endorsed hillary clinton and is speaking about this very issue to voters. you're going to the mat with this, congressman. hillary clinton trying to hit donald trump where it hurt, how rich he is, how good at business he is. he is doubling down tonight saying this is the kind of thinking this country needs, even trying to defend things like saying ift would be great f the real estate market crashed so someone like me can come in and make money. a lot of people in the united states felt a lot of pain during that time. >> this is going to be very interesting. the clinton's so business experience was whitewater. for those who forget this or were not around at the time, there was a criminal referral to the fbi on their dealings in
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real estate. whatever else you want to say, the clintons had absolutely no business sense whatsoever. donald trump has employed more people than hillary clinton has ever seen in her lifetime. so that's number one. number two, if we're going to get into the housing crisis and all of this kind of thing, the housing crisis wasn't caused by bill clinton and his housing policies in the 1990s -- >> this is about trump bragging about profiting from people's pain. >> well, what do you think whitewater was about? >> so you think it's equivalent? >> what i'm saying is that they have no business sense, they have no business sense, they're up against a real business man who has run a successful business like a lot of small business people around this country. the clintons have no clue how to do this and they've shown it. >> congressman ryan, you were shaking your head. >> this is a total distraction. the bottom line is anybody who has played monopoly knows if you have a lot of money, you can make money in a down market. that's not exactly a business genius. and jeff does not want to answer
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the question. donald trump was rooting for a market collapse. he was cheering it on. he was hoping for it. and for those of us who were in the foxhole in 2008, '09, '10 with families calling our office are going bankrupt, losing their homes, breaking up families -- >> because of clinton policies. >> no. you had your turn, i have mine. that disgusting us to think that someone with the means of donald trump was sitting in his gold plated tower in downtown new york city, jet setting all over the world, hoping for a collapse in the housing market, knowing 400,000 families were displaced in ohio. it has nothing to do with business. this is about the kind of attitude and i think this disconnection he has from how real people live in the world. >> do you think that it's fair to use the word disgusting, a word that donald trump likes to
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use to apply to him and his behavior here? will it stick to him and his voters? >> i think the word is depressing. really? are we going to have the 2016 election be about that? this is the kind of campaign we're going to have if this is just a clinton/trump campaign. 60% of americans already dislike both of them and it going to get higher. that's why i think there is an opening for an independent candidate. not because i don't like either of them but think about this, are we really going to have this kind of campaign between these two people, who incidentally attended -- didn't the clintons attend the trump's wedding? >> yes, they did. >> in donald trump is so outraged by clinton's past, why
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was he so proud to have that photo taken with the clintons and if hillary clinton is so disgusted, why was she at the wedding? >> donald trump was running against 16 other people and they took him on about a human issue related to his business. you remember, the widow, he took away her home because of eminent domain because of a casino in atlantic city. here's what they said. >> what donald trump did was use eminent domain to try to take the property of an elderly woman on the strip in atlantic city. >> a man who has a multi-decade history of exploiting the immigration laws to take advantage of the little guy is not someone we can trust to stand with the working money and women of this country.
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>> that failed. both of those men are not running for president. why do you have think it going to work when you're trying it? >> first of all, nobody's watching. >> toes debates, have i to tell you a lot of people were watching. >> second, nobody know what is eminent domain is. and, third, people know when they go bankrupt. there's 400,000 families in ohio that went bankrupt and lost their home during the housing crisis and now they know that donald trump was rooting that on. those people didn't know that. i think this is just the very beginning of the unraveling of donald trump because this hits people in their pocketbook, it hits them in their home and this is going to be the demise of donald trump. this is the beginning, you mark my words. >> bill clinton -- >> we will see. >> bill clinton hit these folks in their pocketbook and donald trump will remind them. >> 22 million new jobs, that was their pocketbook, right? >> glad to have you both on with bill kristol shaking his head in the middle of the screen here. next, donald trump's attacks on
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breaking news. trump getting a big endorsement from a former rival tonight. rick santorum to dropped out of the race in february is backing trump saying he was swayed as trump's possible list of supreme court nominees. trump will hold his first fund-raiser in albuquerque, $10,000 a ticket and he has another big fund-raiser in los angeles tomorrow. he has raised nearly $6 million in less than 72 hours for that los angeles event. with us, dr. ben carson. trump has repeatedly slammed fund-raisers like the one he's hosting tonight and he's bragged
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until the cows come home about fund being his own campaign. i've talked to donors, at lot of them are hesitant. they want him to put a lot of his own money in the game. are you starting to see big donors come on board? >> yes, there are big donors who are getting very interested. right now i think there's some confusion as who which one of the super pacs to commit to and i think that's in the process of being worked out. but i think the donors will come. they recognize that it's more of an investment. you can invest your money in this campaign of donald trump and somebody who believes in traditional american principles or you can hold on to your money and allow somebody who has more of a socialist bent to get in and they just take your money anyway. >> one top fund-raiser told me that he thinks he was raising money for all the governors and others running this election
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season, that donald trump needs to put half what billion of his own money in to convince big donors. he keeps saying he's got $10 billion. if he has $10 billion, it should be no problem to put half a billion, never mind a billion in of his own money. is he going to do that? is he going to put in real serious, hundreds of millions of dollars to put his own skin in the game? >> well, i know several people who are big real estate developers and they have a lot of money. but it's not liquid. it's in buildings. it's in properties. so it's not that easy to liquid eig liquidate all that and just put it into a campaign. if worst came to worst, i think he would but it doesn't look like it will be necessary. >> donald trump is going against hillary clinton, reviving decades old sex claims against hillary clinton. >> she's married to a man who is
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the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. she's married to a man who hurt women. have you ever heard what hillary clinton did to the women who bill clinton had affairs with? she's got one of the great abusers of all time sitting at her house. >> dr. carson, i know you're supporting donald trump of course, but do you think that these attacks on a personal level are fair? >> it probably is a part of who we have become as a nation. would i love to see a situation where the candidates sat down and actually talked about the issues and about the ideas so that people could really make the right kind of decision, not based on emotionalism? i would love that. i think we would all love that. but that's not where we are as a nation. we're in what i call the wwe raw stage. and if you don't understand that, you're going to be at a
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disadvantage. i guarantee you that hillary and her crew will be using it. so if donald trump sit back and says i'm going to be a nice guy, it probably will work to his disadvantage. that's not the way it should be and i hope that someday it won't be that way in america but today it is. >> all right. dr. carson, thank you very. always appreciate talking to you, sir. thank you tonight. >> always a pleasure. thank you, erin. >> next, breaking news in the crash of egyptair flight 804. and barbara starr is in iraq with an exclusive report "outfront."
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the official says those remains are small in size. egyptair's vice chairman is refuting remarks in any high very lossty impact it leads to fragments. this is not indicative of what caused the accident. as of now this is all speculation. >> reporter: body recovery is critical. a detailed examination of the bodies could reveal important clues. >> we would x-ray the bodies to look for fragments of bomb blasts. >> reporter: another point of contention tonight did egyptair flight 804 make a dramatic swerve before it vanished. shortly before the crash the defense minister said the plane swerved before it plummeted but a top egyptian aviation official now denies that saying the aircraft did not swerve before
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it disappeared. a veteran control and radar expert says it's possible neither official is wrong. they're saying simply what their own respective radars picked up. >> the greeks had potentially multiple surveillance radars tracking the airplane and the airplane had flown over their airspace and was in close proximity so they would have been able to have a higher resolution on what the airplane was doing. >> reporter: the egyptian radars may have been much further away when the egyptair flight came into their airspace and they tracked it for about a minute before it disappeared. >> when you look at this time to get answers the man leading the investigation is the same man headed up to the investigation of the metrojet crash. the egyptians denied terrorism was involved for a long time. you now have the same person in charge of this. are we going to ever find out what happened to this flight? >> i don't have a tremendous
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amount of confidence that we're going to get straight answers from the egyptians. there are other accidents in history where they haven't come clean as well. this is a subject of international concern and worry. we're talking about one of the most widely flown aircraft in the world. if there's a problem with it we need to know now and if there's a security breach, a terror attack of some kind we need to know that as well now and since it is an international concern it seems to me these investigations should rely upon the best and brightest in the world, not just one country. >> so you have real concern and you mentioned something, if this is a terror attack it is a game changer for the whole world and for airports around the world but on a mechanical basis you point out this is one of the most widely flown aircraft. you have lives at rick now around the world possibly if this was a malfunction.
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>> i think it's the responsibility of airlines and countries that fly these aircraft to demonstrate a certain amount of capability and kpe expertise to get accurate answers when these circumstances happen. what we're seeing right now doesn't give us a lot of confidence that is what's happening. >> thank you very much. next isis forces under siege the battle for a crucial iraqi city under way, our barbara starr with this report on the ground. it's true what they say. technology moves faster than ever. the all-new audi a4, with apple carplay integration. ♪ ♪ (singing) you wouldn't haul a load without checking your clearance. so why would you invest without checking brokercheck?
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tonight a battle with isis new video just in to cnn showing iraqi troops attacking the isis strong hold of falluja. they are pounding isis with air strikes. barbara starr is out front with this exclusive. >> reporter: iraqi forces moving in on falluja, trying to take back a crucial city in the province from isis's grip. >> translator: we have secured safe out let's to let displaced families get out of the city. >> reporter: thousands remain trapped complicating the battle. the top u.s. commander running the war against isis is watching
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carefully for the stress on the iraqi military as it struggles on multiple fronts including falluja. >> they're having to make decisions in terms of where the forces are going. >> reporter: trouble brewing in bagdad. suicide attacks are a constant problem raising security questions inside the green zone. >> i think we have the right security forces on the ground from the u.s. perspective to take care of ourselves. >> reporter: cnn was the only network with the u.s. commander in charge of the war against isis as he traveled in iraq getting the latest assessments on security and the iraqi forces. they are trying to strike a balance and convince iraq's military to make sure to station enough troops around the country rather than flood bagdad with
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security forces falling into isis's trap and removing troops from the battlefield. >> they're attempting to divert attention away from other areas where the coalition forces and the iraqis are having success. >> reporter: this u.s. military warehouse in queue wait brimming with military weapons for those forces. getting isis out of mosul remains the ultimate goal. if iraqi forces can focus on that, it is here at the rarely seen coalition operation center in bagdad that the attack will be tracked. >> when the fight for mosul begins you want to make sure there's no unexpected fighting as a result down here in -- >> we can't allow this to destablize down here because it feeds into bagdad. >> reporter: that's part of the challenge. all of these towns and vil animals are linked strategically. progress has to be made on all fronts. >> barbara, thank you very much.
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thank you for joining us. we'll see you tomorrow night. "ac 360" starts right now. we begin tonight with new attacks from donald trump against hillary clinton that are actually neither new or against hillary clinton when you get down to it and at least one case trump is trafficking conspiracy theories that have been false. trump fiepds new ways to sing a song about her marriage and her husband's behavior. in the past trump has minimized many of these same allegations saying the bill clinton sex scandals were unimportant and calling the women who made the claims losers and physically unattracti unattractive. so why he is assuming the role of judge and jury, because he's now running for president. these clms