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it's not a big chocolate cake. donald trump gives you chocolate cake, sorry. but that's what we saw from hillary clinton. that may work for her. we don't know. right now, it may work for her in november. >> it's interesting because later this week, brexit, u.k. vote to leave the eu. who does better in that situation? >> i want to thank all three of you and our viewers in the united states and around the world tuning in to this coverage of hillary clinton's important policy speech. thank you everyone, please stay tuned. this has been "legal view" but wolf starts right now. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 6:00 p.m. in london. 7:00 p.m. in paris. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, breaking news. we're following political breaking news. hillary clinton goes after one
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of donald trump's proudest accomplishments. his record as a businessman. in a speech just concluded in columbus, ohio. hillary clinton tried to paint donald trump as bad for the economy. especially for working class americans. she taekattacked his policies a took direct aim at past business dealings. she's hoping to convince americans she can run the economy better than trump can but a new poll suggests that could be a challenge. in the new cnn orc poll, look at this. 51% of registered voters nationwide say trump would better handle the economy compared to 43% who say hillary clinton would. that's a slight increase for both since the poll conducted towards the end of may when trump led clinton on this issue 50% to 45%. the economy issue with the new poll, by the way, hillary clinton leads trump 47% to 42% in a head to head match-up. trump wasted no time firing back
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at hillary clinton more than an hour before her remarks. he tweeted this, and i'm quoting him. i will be making a big speech tomorrow to discuss the failed policies and bad judgment of crooked hillary clinton. let's talk about the clinton versus trump battle with our panel right now. joining us, jathank you. and gloria borger joining us in a few minutes as well. your bottom line. what did you think of hillary clinton's attack on donald trump's economic record? we know in recent weeks, she's gone after him on national security foreign policy today. it was a direct attack on the economy. >> two thoughts, going directly at what he considers his great strength. he's a businessman that built the multi billion dollar empire. that's the core of his reputation to the extent people know what he's about. he knows how to build wealth.
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she went directly at that and connected it to his own economic policies. the other thing she did, there is a case donald trump occasionally makes. a much more economically populist message that's a break with traditional republican economic orthodoxy. she's gone after things like he doesn't want to raise the minimum wage even though on occasion, suggested he'd be open to that. he went after, she went after him on taxes in saying his tax plan is just the traditional republican tax cuts for the wealthy even though on occasion, donald trump has had a more populist, more middle class targeted tax plan. if donald trump were to stick to that more middle class economic populist message, that's the message democrats fear. she's going after him the same way going after mitt romney and not letting him make that turn. >> let me play a little excerpt of a key moment in her attack on donald trump. watch this. >> a few weeks ago, i said his foreign policy proposals and
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reckless statements represent a danger to our national security. but you might think that because he has spent his life as a businessman, he'd be better prepared to handle the economy. well, it turns out he's dangerous there too. just like he shouldn't have his finger on the button, he shouldn't have his hands on our economy. >> point after point after point trying to debunk this myth that he's been such a brilliant businessman. >> this is somewhere is a sense of strength for donald trump and has to chip away at that like at foreign policy. just especially in places like ohio, like pennsylvania. those rust belt states that donald trump said he's going to run hard for and try to flip
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from the "d" to the "r" column in the presidential race. this is part of the strategy. you'll hear her talking about this until the poll numbers start to drop. >> gloria, the notion it's the economy going back to the '92 when her husband, bill clinton was elected president, that feels h feels, that was his motto. if you convince you're better than the opponent, you're going to be elected. i assume that still hold today. >> if you look at the polling, some show them close. our poll says she's behind trump when it comes to the economy. the one thing that really struck me today was her attacking him on income taxes. not releasing his income taxes and went right at it. and said, what's he so afraid of? maybe learned he hasn't paid any taxes or he isn't as rich or he claims or that he hasn't given as much money to charity.
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she's raising all of these questions just as mitt romney did and mitt romney released his taxes and so she's saying, you know what? it's very clear indication that this is something she's going to continue to go after him on saying that the american people have a right to know what his tax bill was. >> what if trump responds on that? right now, he said he can't release income tax returns but the irs is auditing years of his income taxes. >> richard nixon did while being audited. >> what if he takes something out of the bernie sanders play book and says, i'll release my income tax returns when you release the transcripts of your speeches before wall street fir firms. >> she might not want to take the bait against bernie sanders. a whole different situation. but maybe, maybe she'll end up releasing a transcript. if it would get him to release his tax returns, they have to weigh that and it wouldn't surprise me if, perhaps, they
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would do it. if she said something disqualifying to the fear of trump releing the tax returns? >> ryan, let me play you another excerpt or clip from hillary clinton's speech. watch this. >> he's written a lot of books about business. they all seem to end at chapter 11. and over the years, he intentionally ran up huge amounts of debt on his companies and then defaulted. he bankrupted his companies not once, not twice, but four times. hundreds of people lost their jobs. shareholders wiped out. contractors, many of them small businesses took heavy losses. many went bust.
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but donald trump he came out fine. here's what he said about a bankruptcy. i figured it was the bank's problem, not mine. what the hell did i care? >> he was tweeting during the course of her presentation. let me read some. i am the king of debt. that has been great for me. i made a fortune off of debt. will fix u.s. oba obama/clinton inherited $10 trillion in debt and turned it into nearly $20 trillion. and open border policies drive down wages for all americans and make everyone less safe. he's going to be delivering his own big speech, his aides say, tomorrow. going after her on a whole bunch of issues. >> we're seeing sort of this amazing mismatch in sources. hillary clinton with a well
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funded campaign to the tune of tens of millions of dollars and growing. professional speech writers, big speech and donald trump responding on twitter. right now, the story of the campaign is one campaign is completely organized the way campaigns need to be for a general election and one is in disarray. considering the mismatch, you might wonder how hillary is not doing a little bit better. it will be interesting to see what tomorrow's speech is like. a well coordinated message, surrogates echoing it and all the things a traditional campaign does. >> say what you will, jackie, about trump. whether he's worth $10 billion or $2 billion, he's worth a billion dollars at least. that's the argument he'll make. i am a rich guy and i can deal with these kinds of issues. >> one of the biggest criticisms is that hillary clinton plays by her own rules. trying to turn that around on donald trump. this rich guy is playing by his own rules and hurting the little guy. the other interesting thing is
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she's engaging in a little slogan. he likes to call her corrupt hillary. i'd elicit king of debt to be part of this king of debt a lot. >> you mentioned mitt romney before. this is so reminiscent of what the obama campaign did to mitt romney. this is bain capital right here in atlantic city. he filed for bankruptcy but the little people got hurt. watch this. it's a rerun for 2012. >> tomorrow, a big speech by donald trump. coming up here, donald trump preparing the rebuttle speech of his own slamming hillary clinton and we'll have a preview. just in to cnn, getting new details right now on the shooter's movements in the hours leading up to the attack on the pulse nightclub in orlando.
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we have new information about the orlando gunman who wounded 50 more at a nightclub last week. the details emerging as the u.s. attorney general loretta lynch travels to orlando. boris sanchez in orlando. what can you tell us? the new information you're learning. >> that's right. both the orlando gunman went to the pulse nightclub early on saturday night and then left before returning to carry out his attack as the gay nightclub prepared to close early on sunday morning. according to officials we're talking to, the gunman paid an entry fee and then entered the club. investigators believed he may have been checking out the security of the club. the fbi has been using surveillance videos, cell phone tracks with witness interviews to build a timeline of his whereabouts on the night of the attack but still working to determine what he was doing for a two hour period between when he left the club and returned. we're also learning that the day before he launched the attack,
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he bought three plane tickettic and a trip they were planning in july. investigators don't know why he was planning an attack, he made these travel plans. his wife told investigators when the gunman left his home in ft. pierce, he was angry and carried a bag with his guns and said she pleaded with him not to leave. grabbing him by the arm. she said she didn't know he was planning an attack but she tried multiple times during the night to send him text messages and to call him, wolf. >> interesting. hold on for a moment. i want to get boris on this as well. the attorney general, loretta kwlinc lynch meeting with whom in orlando? >> we're told she just arrived. likely meeting to offer condo len lens and support in the wake of the attack. and evidence that may lead to
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potential charges being filed, potentially against the shooter's wife. she's also set to meet with reporters as well and just an about hour from now, she likely will be asked a lot of questions about those redacted fbi reports that were initially released yesterday in which the shooter's communications with officials were blacked out and portions where he mentioned specifically his allegiance to the islamic state and called himself an islamic soldier. a lot of prominent officials including house speaker paul ryan came out yesterday and said, they did not like that approach. they felt it minimized the threat and kind of put on the back burner the source of this radicalization partly the basis of this attack. the fbi later released the full transcript and you can bet that the attorney general will answer questions about that initial report. >> boris, thank you very much. thank you to you as well. get some analysis on the new details emerging about the orlando shooter. i'm joined by cnn contributor
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and the co-author. also joining us, our cnn senior law enforcement analyst, former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. what is your impressions about the new details emerging from evan, michael? >> well, it looked like he was definitely scouting the nightclub trying to figure out what the security detail was like. if other patrons are to be believed, he had been there many times before and sometimes drank quietly and sometimes acted e belligere belligerently. nothing to suggest that he may have been gay himself on his hard drive. also bizarre, presumably, he was going to be a martyr for the islamic state. why then buy a ticket for yourself and family and if you attack the lgbt community and go to san francisco is bizarre as
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well. a lot of things in the story don't add up and i think the fbi is probably sitting on more information than they're willing to disclose at this point. >> i'm sure you're right. you used to work in the fbi. the wife didn't know she was planning the attack but left the house with a bag full of guns. does it seem as though there's emerging enough information yet to charge? >> i think, wolf, almost. but still some question in her mi mind, i guess, or other minds, was she positive to do it then and then if they can prove it, another thing. she now has a lawyer and probably going to stop talking and going to have a third party source to prove what she knew and if she really was convinced he was going to do an attack. i think in the long run, probably won't be enough for a conviction. probably charge her but it will be difficult to convict her of knowing he's going to conduct this attack and also, i think right now, just speculating of
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what happened when he goes to the club, leaves for two hours and then comes back. yes, we hope that the fbi is able to get the cell phone tower tracking information to show where in orlando he went during that time. maybe he went to another club. maybe he was undecided. maybe he was going to do the attack and then had to think about it some more. then decided to go ahead and do it a couple of hours later. those are facts that we don't know positively at this point and we may never know what was in his head to cause the two-hour delay. >> thanks very much. let's get back to politics right now. presidential politics here in the united states. donald trump meeting privately with hundreds of evangelical leaders in new york city trying to win over conservative christians. gain their support. we'll have details when we come back. "exercise more." i know that. "try laxatives..." i know. believe me. it's like i've. tried. everything!
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when it comes to fund raising right now, clinton with $42 million in her war chest compared to donald trump's $1.3 million. that as of the end of may, her super pac also raising a lot more money. let's talk about this and a whole lot more. the changes that could be ahead for the trump campaign moving forward since the firing of the campaign manager, corey lewandowski. ed, joining us. the trump campaign new liaison to the national committee. thank you very much for joining us. i want to get your immediate reaction to what we just heard from hillary clinton.
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she delivered a scathing attack on donald trump's business record, painting as a danger to the u.s. economy. if he were ever to become president of the united states. your immediate response? >> i think mrs. clinton is trying to divert attention from the failed policies that put us in the economic mess we're in right now. 2% growth is unacceptable and almost $20 trillion in debt. that's unacceptable. the american public shouldn't stand for it and won't when it comes to voting for her this fall. >> she made the case, if he implemented the tax cuts he wants to implement, that $20 trillion debt could go to $30 trillion if not higher quickly. >> mr. trump not only to cut taxes but spending. reduce the size of government and his overall plan will start to reduce that deficit and get us back on sound economic footing. >> we know his tax plan, where he wants to cut for rich, for
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everyone else as well. but we don't really know where he wants to cut spending. he's given a few examples but hasn't gone into detail. will he do that? >> yes, he will. he's going to lay out a plan to show how it is he will take his business experience, bring it to government and put us back in a place where we're only doing things that government should be doing. our government is bloated. it's gotten way too big. we need to make sure that our government is doing what the people want, not what the bureaucrats want. >> will that be included in his speech tomorrow? >> i'm not going predict what he's going to say tomorrow, wolf. but we'll wait to see. >> he said he's giving a major speech tomorrow. i'll put it up on the screen. he said he'll discuss, i will be making a big speech to discuss the failed policies and bad judgment of crooked hillary clinton. what's his main argument there? >> i think that the policies that the obama/clinton team
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implemented failed our country. we've gone through eight years of economic failure. the number of people looking for jobs is at a record low. underemployment. unemployment and no growth. right now, government is strangling business and economy and needs to change. >> you see how much she has raised and the pro clinton super pac. he's raised a minuscule amount. how much trouble are you in when it comes to political fund raising? you know how important money is in politics. >> there's a lot of ways to run a campaign. one is to be able to communicate. the bottom line, you have to communicate to the voters your message about why it is you should be elected and why your opponent should not be elected. so far, mr. trump has been able to do that in his own style rallies or twitter or media in some cases but enough to get out the vote this fall.
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>> we looked at what donald trump is spending some of the money on. look at this. he's spending $694,000 on t-shirts, mugs, and $5,000 on signs compared to $347,000 on his payroll, $115,000 on online advertisement, $5,000 in print ads. as a long time political strategist, is this the most effective way toexpenses? >> i know people around america love his hats. but communications are working. cnn poll just came out today showing a tight race. polls in ohio ands pennsylvania show things tight. it's a lot that the trump campaign is doing right and will continue to get better as we move toward november. >> it does show in pennsylvania and ohio a tight race at least according to new cnn poll. florida, not so tight right now and nationally, the new poll shows hillary clinton topping donald trump 47% to 42% and many
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of the registered voters out there in the national survey say she has a better temperament for the presidency and as i said, an 8 point lead in florida. that's disturbing. can you win the presidency without florida? >> i think a lot of paths to presidency. we'll compete in florida. we'll fight for florida. i think eventually, mr. trump will do very well down there. people literatur are hurting do. retirement community getting hurt. i think we'll do well once we take mr. trump's message to that state. >> ed brookover with the trump campaign. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me, wolf. >> donald trump right now looking to shore up the evangelical vote. the presumptive nominee meeting with nearly a thousand of the most christian conservative leaders in new york right now. expected to field questions and engage with these christian leaders in an efforts to get to know them better and gain their support. let's bring in senior white
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house correspondent, jim jim acosta from outside trump tower. what do these evangelical leaders want to hear right now from donald trump? >> reporter: wolf, i think they want to hear and this is based on what we've seen during the primary process is assurances from donald trump that he cares about their issues. he'll fight for their issues. and eric trump, one of donald trump's sons came out of this meeting earlier this morning and said that's exactly what his father is going to do. we do understand, wolf, that the presumptive gop nominee wrapped up his participation in that meeting and left the marriott that was taking place but this was a meeting that was attended by some pretty big influential christian conservative leaders like ralph reid, tony perkins, michelle bachmann, the former presidential candidate. donald trump was essentially talking to really all of the most important leaders of that movement. but wolf, just to go back to the primary in wisconsin and donald
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trump going back and forth on the question of abortion rights, when he had that stumble on how he thought women should be punished if they undergo abortions and backtracked, those are the kind of questions that christian conservative leaders want to press him on and i did talk to somebody who was in the room earlier this morning who said part of this process was taking place in this meeting involved questions and answers. back and forth with donald trump. and according to one participant in the room, tweeted out a video just a little while ago, wolf, donald trump was saying something we've heard him say on the stump a lot of times and that's doing well with evangelical voters. won a lot of them. the vast majority of them, as he likes to put it during the primary process. this is something donald trump has to count on. we've been talking over the last 24 hours about these fund raising numbers, sliding in the polls. this is no time for donald trump to be dissing the evangelical community or losing their
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support. he needs them probably now more than ever heading into this general election campaign. as you know, wolf, over the last couple of presidential cycles, it seems firing up the base of each individual party is almost as important as reaching out to the moderate independent voters. >> he's going to need that conservative base. others show up and vote if he has a chance to be elected president of the united states. jim acosta, thaunk you very muc. important programming note. cnn hosts a presidential town hall with the libertarian ticket. gary johnson and vice presidential pick. william weld. that's tomorrow. 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. coming up, the u.k. preparing a vote on whether or not to leave the european union. how will this decision impact the united states? the u.s. economy, the global economy, for that matter. we have details when we come back. think fixing your windshield is a big hassle?
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gum® brand. it's one of the reasons the federal reserve here in the united states didn't raise interest rates. president obama warned it could affect trade and we already see evidence it's impacting u.s. markets. it's britain's decision whether or not to remain in the european union otherwise known as brexit. with the referendum two days away, david cameron made a plea. >> brits don't quit. we get involved. we take a lead. we make a difference. we get things done. if we left, tif we left, neighbors would go on meetings and decisions that profoundly affect us, affect our country, affect our jobs but we wouldn't be there. they would be making decisions
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about us but without us. >> cnn international richard quest joining us live from london. this vote is really the only thing people over there are talking about. tell us why. >> because it's going to the heart of the strategic future of this country. a general election is held once every four or five years but everybody agrees this vote is more important. the last time we voted on eu membership was 40 odd years ago. and as the prime minister said it, this is irreversible. there's no saying friday morning, oops. we got it wrong. can we please stay and a process will have begun and wolf, it is absolutely -- the side had the small gain last week before joe cox was murdered. now they're literally neck and
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neck with about an 8 to 10% undecided. and nobody has any doubt. this is the single most important vote that most of us will cast in our lifetime. >> very significant, as you know, david beckham is weighing in. in a statement, the soccer star said this. for our children and their children, we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone. for these rnleasons, i am votin to remain. what's your gut? what's your hunch tell you? what's going to be the outcome? >> what a question. i would have said likely to win and now i'm starting to believe the remain is going to eke out a small victory but wolf, in 24 hours of campaigning left and no campaigning on thursday itself. it is. look, i can't answer the question, wolf.
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i can't answer it. >> it's going to be exciting to see the result. you correctly point out not just for britain but so much of the rest of the world are enormous right now. we'll watch it closely with you. thank you very much for that. coming up, a deadly terror attack on the border of syria and jordan. we're going to tell you who's targeted, who's claiming responsibility and how jordan is responding. plus, live pictures from orlando right now where the u.s. attorney general loretta lynch will address the news media any moment. press conference coming after spending the day with victims, law enforcement officials and investigating the terror attack. we'll bring you that live coming up as well. detecting threats faster, responding faster, recovering faster. when your security's built in not just bolted on, and you protect the data and not just the perimeter, you get faster. wow, speed kills. systems open to all, but closed to intruders. trusted by 8 of 10 of the world's largest banks.
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key u.s. ally in the middle east reeling after another terror attack along the border with syria. the suicide bomber drove his car out of the syrian refugee camp early this morning at high speed before detonating at the jordanian border killing at least six members of jordan's security forces. jordan's military closed parts
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of its border with syria and calling this, i'm quoting now a cowardly terrorist attack and king abdullah condemning the attack and vowing to strike with an iron fist anyone who attacks or attempts to harm security and borders. during the deputy prime minister, nas\sir is joining us live and minister, thank you for joining us. your government is calling this terror attack. who was responsible? which terror organization? >> well, when you have a suicide car bombing from the direction of syria and an area accumulated over the last few months. about 100,000 people coming from the north and northeastern part of syria where terrorists are operating, doesn't take much imagination to figure out where this is coming from. regardless what name they go by, who attacked the border today
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and in any way shake or affect our result to continue leading the fight against terrorism and extremism. >> dash or isis as we call it was responsible. did this come from an order from the isis or dash headquarters in raqqa and will jordan retaliate? >> i'm not saying something conclusive seen on the web site. some people claiming responsibility for this heinous act and saying, we assume that it is that because like i said, they're aware of the suicide car bombing came from is an area that has a lot of people infiltrated by that. so we are being very vigilant. we're not reeling. you mentioned we're not reeling. we're not reeling and leads when it comes to terrorism and extremism and doesn't shake our resolve. we remain steadfast but have to remain prudent and vigilant.
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>> there was concern about the border area. this is the second deadly terror attack against jordanian forces in the last few days and three intelligence officers were killed earlier this month after an assault on a jordanian intelligence agency office so what's your biggest concern right now. is dash or isis infiltrating the refugees who are pouring into jordan? >> the two incidents as yet are not related, wolf but the fact you're talking about it a few days a days ago was a lone wolf inside. this is the first attack of its kind on our borders. this is the first time we have a car, a suicide car bombing. as you know, the world will vouch for the proficiency of our border guards and our security services. but this is a war, like i said. and these people, in fact the border post and we lost six brave young men.
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we have 14 injured. hopefully a speedy recovery for them but like i said, this is a dangerous area. they came from the direction like i said, not from inside the refugee camp but within jordan. they came from what we have seen over the last few months is a collection of people that are coming from the north and northeastern part of syria. and many have been infiltrated by that. not saying that all of them are bad but they're right on the border and we'd be under a lot of pressure by the national community to allow people in blindly without screening and vetting them carefully and we don't need an ugly incident, a heinous attack to have people understand that we have security needs and accommodated 1.3 million syrians with its meager resources i think done much more than many, much more powerful in the countries. >> nas\er, the deputy foreign
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minister. good luck to you. good luck to everyone in jordan, i know as we speak, the u.s. congress is considering an increase in u.s. military >> well, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> an important programming note, chris cuomo will take you inside the paris terror attacks. a cnn special will air tonight "terror in paris" at 9:00 p.m. eastern and 6:00 p.m. pacific. coming up, loretta lynch, the attorney general, will speak in orlando about the attack on the pulse nightclub. republican senator susan collins of maine is about to unveil a new gun proposal in the wake of that attack. what it entails. is there any hope that this legislation -- proposed legislation could last? the details, next. thanks for the ride around norfolk!
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spurred by the mass shootings, the killings in orlando, four senators from both parties attempted to enact tighter laws on firearms but they failed. the senate rejected legislation to include mental health records and terror watch list alerts and background checks for gun shows and internet sales and block anyone in federal terrorist screening database to be denied. barbara boxer is the author of "the art of tough," fearlessly facing politics and life. senator, thank you for joining us. thanks for writing this book. >> thank you. >> let me put up a tweet from the president of the united states. "gun violence requires more than moments of silence. it requires action.
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failing that test, the senate failed the american people." >> the senate failed big-time. we had two measures out of the four that would have done something to stop terrorists from getting their hands on a weapon, to make sure that if you buy a gun through the internet or from a private party or subjected to a background check, those were the two. >> those were the democratic proposals? >> what about the republican proposals -- >> let me finish. >> they were supported by the nra. >> let me finish. it didn't. if you look at both bills, they brought us back, not forward. i don't have time to go into it. but one of them, the grassley bill would have said, the minute you get out of a mental hospital, you can get a gun. here's the point. instead of looking back at yesterday, which was a dark day. and i want to say why. we lose over a ten-year period,
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300,000 americans over a ten-year period. in the vietnam war, you remember the vietnam war, it brought our country -- we were so divided, we were so heart sick, we lost 60,000 of our beautiful fighting men and women. 60,000. we lose 300,000 and we did nothing. i'm encouraging susan colins to work across the party i'll which she is now doing to come up with a provision that will do something. >> susan collins, the republican senator from maine. >> yes. >> you're working with her to come up with a compromise, if you will? >> i'm supporting her efforts. she's working with people on both sides of the aisle. it won't be, in my mind, as good as the feinstein bill because it's much narrower but it's something. and by the way, the nra hates it. they are already out there robo calling against sue. she's courageous. >> it will need 60 votes to
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pass, will it? >> it will. >> are there 60 votes that will be there? >> i believe i could predict we would get all of the 46 democrats. i'm guessing. i'm reaching, but i think so. and all she needs are 14 republicans and i told her yesterday, sue, you need to get those republicans. she said she was really working on it, wolf. >> chris -- senator chris murphy, as you know, told reporters at "the washington post," he led the filibuster the other day in the senate, "we've got to make this clear that republicans have decided to sell weapons to isis." those are strong words. >> what he means is, since 2011, we've seen the terrorists go out on youtube and say to their quote/unquote followers in america, america is awash in guns. go get one and commit a terror act. that we know. that's what he means. that by doing nothing, we're
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enabling this to happen. look, we saw it in orlando and in my great state in san bernardino. what are we going to wait for? a third time? a fourth time? we need to move. i'm really hopeful that susan will be able to put it together. i'm giving her all of my strength in the background. >> you are retiring from the u.s. senate. not going to seek re-election. you've written this important new book. you say stick to your basic principles. what's the most basic principle you stuck to? >> doing what is right even in the face of people deriding you. you have to be true to that self. there's nine rules of the art of tough but the first one is don't be afraid. step up and do the right thing. >> "the art of tough" is the name of the book and you're going to go out there and sell a few copies. >> i'm doing some speeches about it. people want to hear about it and see if they can use those rules in their own lives. >> you still have a day job? >> if you think i'm not doing
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that, i am. >> we'll see what happens with the susan collins legislation. thank you very much, senator boxer, for coming here. >> thank you, wolf. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. for international viewers, "amanpour" is coming up next and for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" starts right now. wolf, thank you so much. great to be with all of you. i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with breaking news. chilling new details this afternoon about the movement of the orlando gunman before he committed the worse shooting massacre in u.s. history. cnn has learned that the shooter bought three plane tickets for himself, his wife and his young child and he did that just one day before murdering 49 people. law enforcement officials revealing what the killer did the night o
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