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growing concerns tonight, wolf, that moscow's promises across the board aren't anything that the u.s. can count on. >> elise labott at the state department, thank you. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. "out front" next, the breaking news, donald trump refusing to support john mccain and paul ryan in their reelection bids as president obama calls on republicans to pull their endorsements of trump. he accepts a vet's purple heart saying he always wanted one. the zika virus spreading in florida, and governor rick scott. let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, trump drops the gop in an unprecedented development refusing to support house speaker paul ryan and
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senator john mccain in their re-election bids and this is coming as the first day as the first republican congressman says he will vote for hillary clinton, not donald trump. richard hannah, a three-term congressman from trump's home state new york calling him deeply flawed. also today a former top aide and trump loyalist saying she, too, will cross party lines and vote for hillary clinton. this comes as president obama calls on republicans to withdraw their endorsement of trump and that trump, is, quote, unfit to be president. >> the question that i think they have to ask themselves is if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable why are you still endorsing him? >> dana bash begins our coverage "out front" tonight. let's start with trump's stunning move dropping the gop.
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this is an unprecedented situation. why is he refusing to back paul ryan and john mccain? >> well, it seems as though in the case of both men it's personal, but for paul ryan it is much more significant, as you say, because of his position. he is the top-ranking republican in congress, and in elected office. let me just read to you exactly what donald trump said about ryan who has a primary a week from today, a republican primary challenge. i like paul, but these are horrible times for our country. we need very strong leadership. we need very, very strong leadership, and i'm just quite not there yet. i'm not quite there yet. now, if those words and phrases seem familiar, and that's what paul ryan told our jake tapper about trump when he became the presumptive nominee and he held off for a month before formally endorsed trump and since then he has and actually chaired the convention that trump was
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formally made the nominee for. >> diana, you have donald trump coming out with this stunning move, what is the response? what does paul ryan say? >> he hasn't said much, and that's kind of in keeping with the way paul ryan tends to be in situations like this. his campaign spokesman simply said they never asked for donald trump's endorsement. that's what he's saying publicly, but i can tell you, erin, privately, in talking to paul ryan's closest friends and confidants many of whom have endorsed donald trump, they're just stunned. they're stunned because of the fact that clearly, ryan has not been all that comfortable with endorsing trump with going out and doing even what he did at his convention, nominating mike pence, formally being the person to do that as his vice presidential running mate, but donald trump, i mean, you know, we don't know, we haven't spoken to him, but it's hard to imagine what paul ryan said in the past
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few days about donald trump going at that time with gold-star parent, the parents who spoke at the dnc. he was very tough and others were, too, including john mccain, and it's pretty clear that donald trump didn't like that very much. >> dana bash, thank you very much. very tough and not withdrawing their endorsement which is donald trump is now saying he will not endorse either of those men. jason is out in front covering the campaign. is the gop concerned about this move? john mccain and paul ryan, not only republican leaders and not only the highest ranking republican in the united states in the case of paul ryan and especially popular when you look at ryan as the speaker. >> i agree, and it's a valid question. at this point, no response from the trump camp. expect that there will be at some time. look, i think there is a very strong argument that at this point in terms of where donald trump is, based on what we've seen and based on what we've heard and not sure donald trump has any regrets about any of the
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controversial things that he has said or the things that he has done. donald trump out on the trail in virginia today steering clear of his confrontation with the family of a slain muslim u.s. soldier humayun khan who was awarded a bronze star and purple heart, instead, trying to draw attention to his military support. >> a man came up to me and handed me his purple heart. i always wanted to get the purple heart. this was much easier, but i tell you, it was such an honor. >> the purple heart is awarded to those wounded in combat. swift reaction coming in from hillary clinton tweeting this from a man who says he sacrificed for our country. clinton pointing to trump's response to khan's father who criticized the gop nominee during the democratic national convention saying trump had not sacrificed for his country. amid the bipartisan backlash to trump's comments, trump's son
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eric today insisted in an interview with cbs that his father has apologized to the khan family. >> i think he has by calling them a hero. >> donald trump trying to keep his focus clinton hammering his democratic rival today on trade, immigration and her ability to improve the economy as well as her character. >> here is a woman who is a total thief. i mean, she's a crook. she's got a bad temperament. she's got the temperament of a loser. >> reporter: trump getting sidetracked during his remarks by a crying baby. don't worry about that baby. actually, i was only kidding. you can get the baby out of here and his off-color comments continuing to be a concern to gop leaders. republican congressman richard hannah of new york becoming the first to say he will support clinton writing in an op-ed while i disagree with her on many issue, i will vote for mrs. clinton.
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the khan controversy, not the only comments from trump raising eyebrows this week asked about the sexual harassment allegations against former fox news chief roger ailes and how his daughter ivanka would respond under similar circumstances, trump said i would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case. eric trump backing up his father with these comments. >> ivanka is a strong, powerful woman. she wouldn't allow herself to be objected to it. >> and erin, in another interview with a local reporter, trump said that he had no regrets about anything that he said about the khan family, and the reporter also asked trump about that comment he made about hillary clinton referring to her as the devil. trump also saying that he did not feel as though he went too far with that comment, as well. so at this point, erin, no apologies, no regrets. er erin?
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>> jason carroll, thank you very much. out front now our panel, corey lewandowski and basil smikle and jamie, i want to start with you on this conversation because former adviser and strategist for chris christie who is a loyalist, a trump loyalist criticized him today on the military issue, but one of the most loyal backers. she is coming out and saying she will not back trump and vote hillary clinton. >> this is maria comella and to give you context, she's been with christie since 2009 and is in his inner circle and he is widely credited with launching him on the national stage and she's been working seven days a week, 24 hours a day to make him a candidate. she came out today and did an exclusive interview with us. the whole thing is on cnn.com, and she said point-blank, she is voting for hillary clinton and that every other republican
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should get out there and do it, too. i just want to read one quote from her. she said if those of us who believe that donald trump shouldn't be president don't say anything, we are just part of the same problem. i'm voting for her, hillary clinton because i don't believe it's enough to say you aren't for donald trump. and she's a registered republican in new york which will go for hillary clinton, but she says you have to vote. >> so let me -- corey, i'll go to you because you had maria comella and an adviser, richard anna, the first congressman to come out and say he is voting for hillary clinton and not just not voting for donald trump, saying trump is unfit to serve the party and cannot serve this country. are you worried more will follow? >> i'm not. here's what i think. every person from warren buffett to corey lewandowski gets one vote in the ballot box and everyone votes for who they think will be the best president
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of the united states and if congressman hannah who is not seeking reelection decides that he doesn't want to support donald trump he's entitled to do that, but at the end of the day it's a decision that's binary and you can have another term of the obama administration with hillary clinton who is against trade and good trade for our country who is for open borders or have a strong leader that will stop and build a wall and make sure that we renegotiate trade deals and bring jobs back to the country. you can have that choice and that's a choice to make in the ballot box. >> you have a choice to make here. >> i announced in january that i wouldn't be supporting donald trump and the fact that cnn is hosting a town hall with the candidates. >> you are one of those who believes you'll vote for someone, and -- >> i'll vote for paul ryan. >> this is the big question now facing republicans because you can come out and say that, paul ryan is not going to win. hillary clinton and donald trump are not going to win and ultimately by doing that you are implicitly supporting. i don't think that's the case,
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and i've known maria comella for at least 12 years and she's a dedicated republican staffer that has worked in iowa and to see people like maria and sally bradshaw means more people are going to do so and that's not beneficial to the trump campaign. >> president obama says trump is unfit to be president and let me quickly play it in his words. >> i think the republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. i said so last week, and he keeps on proving it. >> trump has just come out, he's been responding. here he is. >> he's been one of the worst presidents in the history of our country. i think he will go down maybe as the worst and we'll see how this all comes out, but he's been one of the worst presidents in the history of our country and for him to be calling me out is almost an honor because he truly doesn't know what he's doing. he's been a very, very weak president. >> and then he just said moments ago, basil, i think it just
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means he's concerned i'm going to win. is that true? the more president obama starts mucking it up with trump it's fear? >> no. it goes to the points that were made earlier, it's country over party, quite frankly. i think what the president is saying, look, i may have been disappointed if mitt romney became president of the united states, but that being said, we have to start thinking about what it means to be presidential, and i think what barack obama is saying is that donald trump is not presidential in any that he has said or done, and i respect congress member hannah from upstate new york. he may be not running for reelection, but he does represent upstate new york and we talk a lot about new york values and donald trump being a new yorker and what represents him does not represent new york val us. >> with trump saying coming out saying i'm not going to support john mccain and paul ryan and that's personal. he's done all these things since
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then from the mexican judge on, and i'm done with it. i no longer endorse. is that what donald trump wants? >> kong rercongressional approvg right now is 10%. 10% think that congress is doing a good job and 68% think they're doing a bad job. i don't think donald trump is concerned and i ran the primary campaign, zero days in washington, d.c. not one vote to gain in washington d.c. and the issue is washington, d.c., has failed the american people for the last 30 years so going and asking for their support and their endorsements has never amounted to anything. if that was the case jeb bush would be the nominee. >> will there be more? you've had two people in two days. i absolutely think there will be more. i think they're will be some that come now. i think there are going to be some october surprises, and most important, i think that these people coming out are sending a message. i've spoken in the last couple of days to a lot of republicans around the country saying what
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are we supposed to do? they're not trump supporters and they don't like hillary, but when you see people like sally bradshaw and maria comella and x, y and z to come saying it is your responsibility to vote for hillary clinton it may influence some votes. >> all right. well, thanks to all. all staying with me, of course. next hillary clinton winning the fund-raising war and is trump closing in. trump fires back after warren buffett calls him a failure. he signed up for the draft. why didn't he serve? our report coming up.
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900,000 donors and not just 20 as he has been claiming and bernie sanders would say during the primary, you know, that his donations were smaller. he had more donors to show that his campaign was more grassroots and so they're pretty adamant about setting the record straight. >> all rid. thank you very much, brianna. i want to bring back my panel. alex burns from "the new york times" joins me as well. trump raising only half of that amount. he's clearly behind, okay, and at some point money does matter. not always, but do you think it really just doesn't matter? >> it doesn't matter. jeb bush raised $150 million in the primary and had three delegates. >> good comecomeback, corey. >> donald beat 16 candidates and spent a traction of what they spent and he largely funded his own campaign. he continues to fund his own campaign. he has the financial resources and he wants to put $5 million
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in, or $100 million in and he can do that. >> he has the ability, but he doesn't put that money in. >> there's no need. hillary clinton has put on tens of thousands of ads against donald trump and she had a post-convention bounce and she was running dead even or behind after having spent tens of millions on advertisement which clearly hasn't made a difference. >> at the same time, if we talk about him being able to get this earned media in lieu of the cash that he's raising? he's doing that by making these statements and putting his foot in his mouth and he gets tripped up every time. that may have worked rell in the primary and is that suitable in the general election in is that suitable for a general election? my guess is you will start to see more republicans say i've had enough. they may not pull back their endorsement. >> alex, he points to the press
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that's the bogeyman or he relishes the coverage he's getting negative though it may be. >> this whole jab coming out at jabbing and ryan and mccain. he clearly wanted that story to be out there. >> yes. >> he wanted to make a big splash like that and it may succeed and changing the subject of him from the khan family and i don't know if over time it helps you consolidate support from republicans and do i think, erin, we tend to talk about money and campaigns in terms of advertising and there is a whole other universe of staffing and infrastructure and data that you don't get if you don't have the money for it, and when it comes down to that october crunch time, i do think that's what makes republicans nervous for trump and their candidate and calling on the turnout operations to be there. >> that's what you hear from the down ballot. i'm from north carolina and we are talking about white suburban women, and these are people that the trump campaign will have to spend money to identify and spend money to get absentee
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ballots to chase the absentee ballots to get them to the polls and not only is that not happening and it's early for a lot to that to happen, because not only is the money not there, the infrastructure is not there. iowa is a key swing state and there are three paid trump staffers in iowa and that's a problem. >> that's the question. the question is does paul ryan and does john mccain actually care if donald trump actually endorses them? >> no. >> because to your point, you can create a fire wall around donald trump and -- >> they certainly didn't want or need that endorsement anyway especially john mccain. >> democrats are looking very hard at. >> ted cruz won paul ryan's district comfortably and the one that trump did get involved in, renee elmers got crushed. the trump endorsement doesn't necessarily mean anything because there was a 17-person primary that trump was able to take advantage of. >> the polls have shifted and you have a post-democratic bounce for hillary clinton and it is a significant one, corey.
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she is solidly ahead and well outside of the margin of error in our latest poll and he is not doubling down saying that the system is rigged. that if he loses it's because it's rigged. here's how he's saying it. >> we're running against a rigged system. >> and i'm afraid the election is going to be rigged, i have to be honest because i think my side was rigged. >> is that useful to say that to make people worried about the entire electoral system for president of the united states? >> there are a couple of things to look at. i don't think you can get hillary clinton's support for another week. she looked a week ago, donald trump was winning outside the margin of error and she's had her opportunity to do that and let's look at her numbers a week from now. has voter fraud been a problem? we see the federal courts have stepped in and called the voting rules unconstitutional and we had to go back and re-write those and in my home state of new hampshire -- >> you're staying that if she wins it could be fraud? >> no, what i'm saying is there
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is a potential in some states that have had voter fraud. no question. the other thing is just to go back to the infrastructure on this -- >> hold on, let basil. >> the voter fraud thing is very important and interesting to me because states like north carolina, alabama, georgia that have had these very restrictive sort of voting access laws that have been struck down, i want to hear donald trump talk about that. if he's talking about this rigged system, talk about citizens united and how a conservative supreme court gutted the voting rights act, talk about that. >> whether it's lindsay graham's cell phone and carly fiorina's face, the family of a fallen soldier and now a rigged elections and not endorsing candidates. we're not talking about donald trump and hillary clinton's campaign to defeat isis. what their jobs plan is. real issues affecting the voters who are starving for real issue answers from our leaders are not getting them because we have the outrage du jour coming from
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tonight, donald trump not taking the bait and refusing a challenge from one of the world's richest people, warren buffett. he told him, if you release your tax returns i'll release mine, too. trump says i don't really care what he says. it doesn't matter. he's a democrat and he's been a democrat and he's for her. this is the latest in the war of words because dwarren buffett i calling trump a failure. donald trump forced to defend his business brand this time against fellow mogul warren buffett. >> well, i don't care much about warren buffett. >> those comments after buffett took aim at trump's casino business in atlantic city. >> in 1995 when he offered this company, if a monkey had thrown
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a dart at the stock page the monkey, on average, would have made 150%. but the people that believed in him, that listened to his siren song came away losing well over 90 cents on the dollar. they got back less than a dime. >> in fact, the company's stock, djt, trump's initials, lost 89% of its value during its time on the market between 1995 and 2005. during the same time, the s&p 500, a broad indicator of stock performance, gained about 125% while trump investors lost out, trump received at least $40 million in compensation. >> i had great timing. i got out, and i made a lot of money in atlantic city over the years. i have to look at myself. i have to look at my company, and i made a lot of money. >> buffett, a clinton supporter not only challenged trump on his business record, but also on not
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releasing his tax returns. >> he can pick the place, any time between now and election day. >> trump says it's because he's under an irs audit. buffett says he, too, is under audit by the irs and that's no reason to withhold it. >> nobody's going to arrest us. there are no rules against showing your tax returns. you're only -- you're only afraid if you have something to be afraid about. >> it's a dare the outspoken trump has not yet responded to, but has previously said he will not release them. even though buffett criticized trump's handling of money, back in april he didn't seem to think the economy would suffer under a trump presidency. >> i will predict that either donald trump or hillary clinton becomes president or one of them is likely to be, very likely to be, i think berkshire will continue to do fine. >> trump has been pretty on the point when it comes to buffett. we don't see his usual activity on twitter. we didn't see any comments from him at the virginia rally today
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or any comments from him yesterday and as you summed up, i don't really care what warren thinks because he is a hillary clinton supporter. >> brynn, thank you very much. >> let me go straight to you. buffett was right. you saw brynn's reporting. the casino stock lost 90% of its value in '89. if you had made a random investment you would have more than doubled your money if you had it in donald trump's particular casino stock, you lost almost all of it any over that time he got paid $40 million. >> bill gates, microsoft stock. if he would have left his money in microsoft and not taken it out of the market you know what would have happened right now? he would have been worth $200 billi billion worth than what he is today. if he would have left it there, what it says is he's a businessman and a private investor, made an investment and received compensation for that investment and left atlantic city at a time when the market
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was oversaturated and did very well. that's what a businessman does for himself and for his business and for his family. as for warren buffett i think he should release his taxes and this is the same individual who said that his secretary pays more money in taxes than he does. if that's a case -- >> that's a percent. >> he should pay her more money and -- >> okay, but here's the thing. his company lost money during that time. so he wasn't running -- to the warren buffett point, isn't that he paid himself while the company was losing money. >> let's look at tech companies across the board that lost money. let's look at coca-cola or general motors and ford motor company that needed a bailout from the federal government to withstand and keep people employed. >> buy it over here? >> i don't buy it because if you go back to my 2008 and 2010 when republicans are talking about job creators and job growth. republicans used to say that a lot in those days.
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>> a lot still do. >> but they're not applying that to donald trump. while he will call himself a job creator, yes, he's created businesses and yes, he's pulled his money out and he's left people's lives in the wing, as well, and that's something that the democrats and hillary clinton will continue to talk about. the fact that for him it's dollars and cents, but there are people's lives behind those dollars and cents. >> the difference is in the private sector, donald trump has tried and created tens of thousands of jobs and put kids through college and health care. >> they've lived off of the government for their entire career other than the clinton foundation which is money coming in from foreign countries. >> they've neverry eighted jobs, so what -- >> what they've done is put people through high school and college, they have created jobs, number one. >> where? >> i will sta are the with this, 1994 the empowerment zone program and charlie rangel with -- >> the government actually does create jobs and the government
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actually can do that through careful investing and community reinvestment act and there are a lot of things that government does to grow jobs in communities particularly distressed communities and going back to early in the clinton administration. they were doing that. but what donald trump is trying to say that he's built all these buildings and these created all of these jobs and what he's done is he's played the system and he's gamed the system and a lot of people particularly in atlantic city where hillary clinton was some years ago where people have lost their jobs and lost their -- their homes and businesses. >> the message here is warren buffet and he's a household name and one of the richest men in the world. he's always a hillary clinton supporter and that isn't what we would hear from donald trump. he did not do that. why is that? is this the one person donald trump is actually arc trade of? >> i don't want to assume -- i don't want to put trump on the couch and say he's arc trade of anyone in particular, but in general, he has tended up to
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blow up big fights with people who are unsympathetic to his base of supporters and who are less well known to average americans and to some he can caricature or correctly describe as a washington insider of some kind. warren buffett is not that guy. he may be the only american businessman who is better known than donald trump before trump started running for president and look, this whole conversation that we're having right now about trump's business performance over time and how many jobs he's created, talking about that is a defensive argument and for him to escalate against warren buffett who is a revered and popularly known figure as a business leader that would drag trump into a days-long fight he doesn't want to litigate. >> he thought the market was a bad place to be and he would take his money out of the market. it's no one's job to be a cheerleader, but it is a proxy and prominence for the united states. mark cuban, he said if trump's
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elected it would go 20%. for trump saying the market's going go down? >> no. he shouldn't be and this is not a role where you're supposed to be financial analyst or predictor and time and time again these statements coming from trump that cause problems for markets or for his own campaign and who do they benefit? they largely benefit the democrats and hillary clinton have not had the talk for their awful staples that she made over the weekend when we go back to the judge in the case over trump university. we didn't have to talk about the awful job numbers and we didn't have to talk about the i.g. report and the terrible gdp report out friday and donald trump and he's masterful about this changes the conversation to whatever he wants it to be about. >> thanks to all and why wasn't donald trump drafted during the vietnam war and we'll tell you the reasons why he never served. >> and another case of zika in florida, and this one very different from the others and the florida governor rick scott is out front tonight. ♪ i'm free to do what i want...
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tonight, donald trump's most loyal political backer new jersey governor chris christie is publicly taking issue with the republican nominee. christie who is a finalist to be
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trump's vp saying trump is wrong to criticize the parents of a fallen muslim-american war hero. >> and for mr. and mrs. khan, the pain of losing their son while defending our country is unfathomable, and i think it gives them the right to say whatever they want. it's just inappropriate for us in this context to be criticizing them, and i'm not going to participate in that. >> the criticism coming as trump says today that despite five draft deferms he now wishes he had served in the military. suzanne malveaux is "out front." >> thank you. >> reporter: a rare admission from donald trump expressing regret about not serving in the military. >> it's something i've always missed and i built and helped built the vietnam memorial in downtown manhattan. to me, that was a very important thing to do, but i've regretted not serving in many ways. >> trump has been under fire for days after criticizing the family of a fallen soldier who challenged trump at the democratic national convention.
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>> you have sacrificed nothing! and no one! >> i think i've made a lot of sacrifices. i work very, very hard. i've created thousands and thousands of jobs. tens of thousand of jobs. >> reporter: trump's reaction spurring more angry and scrutiny of his own military record. >> i was fortunate to really not have to go. this was during the vietnam period and we were in a very, very highly contested and unpopular war. >> june 1964, trump registered for the draft after he graduated from the new york military academy. he received four education deferments while he was at fordham and wharton. then september 1968, trump started his real estate career, got a medical deferment because of a bone spur in his foot. >> i had deferments because of college like a lot of people did, numerous deferments, because of college, and i had a foot thing, and the deferment
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for that. >> reporter: despite the fact that trump had been active in various sports including basketball and baseball. >> the battles have no fixed front. trump often explains it was his high draft number. 356 which spared him from going to vietnam. >> that was an amazing period of time in my life. i was sitting at college, watching, i was going to the wharton school of finance, and i was watching as they did the draft numbers and i got a very, very high number and those numbers never got up to it. >> reporter: as it turns out, the draft lottery was never a factor when trump was in college. out of school for 18 months been before the lottery even began. the republican candidate prides itself on being a champion for veterans. >> and we're going to take care of the vets, believe me. we're going to take care of their medical and we're going to take care of them. >> reporter: today, a veteran gave trump his purple heart. >> i always wanted to get the purple heart. this was much easier.
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>> well, that comment is spurring even more anger tonight from some veterans groups who see it as highly insensitive as making light of an award that is given to those injured in service to those country. one veteran leader noting people who receive this award have lost an eye or an arm or worse, saying, quote, no one wants a purple heart. erin? >> poignant there. thank you very much, suzanne. next, the breaking news, another case of zika in florida and this one not in that zone. florida's governor rick scott is my guest next and jeanne moos with a word for donald trump, silverware and chicken not the way to go. between life and death. for partners in health, time is life. we have 18,000 people around the world. the microsoft cloud helps our entire staff stay connected and work together in real time to help those that need it.
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breaking news tonight. a new case of non-travel related zika in florida. officials saying there are a total of 15 such cases and this newest case and this is what's crucial tonight is outside of the area where officials said active transmission has taken place. florida governor rick scott joins me now from tallahassee. thank you so much for being with me. accord from the statement we have from the florida department of health, this newest case is outside of the area where active transmission is taking place. obviously, that's a pretty
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frightening headline, does it mean zika is spreading? >> erin, right now what we believe is it's still confined to that one-mil radius just north of downtown miami. we have 15 cases. we've been getting prepared since february. we have very good mosquito control. we've southwested over 20,000 mosquitos in the state and not one of them has zika. so we have very good department of health of state and county. the cdc is down with their emergency response team. we are offering everyone, all pregnant women in the impacted area a free test for zika and we'll be rolling that out statewide for anyone that's pregnant at any one of our county health departments for free. we will be working on doing that. so we're going to make sure everybody is safe. >> let me just ask you, if there is a case, the florida department is saying there is outside the zone, what does that mean if it doesn't mean that it's spreading. you have this zone and this unprecedented move that is now with the travel ban and now
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there is a case outside it. >> so what we're saying with this one-mile radius is that's where we believe there is a chance of getting zika right now. the likelihood that there is still active transmission. what we're saying with the other cases is we don't believe around them, we are testing people. we tested over 2300 people around the state and we don't believe in any other areas there's the likely local transmission at this point and we are hopeful that through all of our mosquito control efforts will be the case and it will be that one area. we've been very good with other viruses like chickkungunya and dengue. >> what are you doing about spreading? some mosquitos are immune to the pesticides and whatever it is that kills the zika mosquitos. some of the mosquitos are immune and what are you doing about that or the reality is that we
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have to accept the fact that there will be more zika in the united states? >> we are doing a variety of spraying and bringing in additional experts. we've always figured out how to handle this in the past and we'll figure it out in this case and we have individuals from the cdc and individuals from other areas and we are doing backpack spraying and other spraying and we're doing what every citizen should do and get rid of standing water, wear repellent. we've given people protection and equipment to protect themselves and wear long sleeves and pants and all these things. we've had 60, probably 65 million tourists this year. we've had 20 million cases, so we have one square mile and we're doing everything we can to make sure everybody is safe. >> so i want to ask you also, governor, while you're with me a very important question about the election. for those who don't know you were a very early donald trump supporter and you are now more than just a supporter and you are chairman of perhaps the main trump super pac. you also, though, governor, are a veteran. you served in the navy, and i
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know it's an important part of who you are. are you okay with donald trump's comments to the gold star parents of the khan family? >> well, i was proud to have the opportunity to serve in the navy. i'm very proud of my father who did the combat jumps in the second world war. i've done a lot of things with the gold star families in our state. i'm very appreciative of everybody that served, and my heart goes out to anybody that's lost a loved one. i know that donald trump cares about our military, and he will do whatever he can to build it up, but let's all remember, this is an election about two people. it's going to be about jobs. we have an add-up in rebuild america now that hillary wants taken now. you can look at rebuild america now.com because it talks about her in her own words and she's not going to stop the outsource of jobs in this country so this election will be about jobs. >> the bottom line is you're not changing in any way your support or endorsement of donald trump? >> no.
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look, there are only two choices. donald trump or hillary clinton and she's a career politician and never created a job, and had her chance to destroy isis and she failed. >> governor rick scott, thank you very much, and i appreciate you being with us tonight. >> nice seeing you, erin. >> jeanne moos on donald trump's problem with fast food. ♪
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we know donald trump eats french fries with his hands, but
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what about a big mac or fried chicken? here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: every so often we are treated to donald trump food tweets. remember the i love hispanics taco bowl? and then there was the mcdonald's aboard his private plane instagram. followed now by a kfc tweet and what may or may not be the same seat, but it's the knife and fork that have folks dropping their cutlery and manhandling the chicken. >> who would do it with a knife and a fork? >> donald trump. >> donald trump does? oh, my god, you've got to eat it with your fingers. >> oh, my hand, yeah. i'm a man. >> reporter: how would you eat it? >> with hands. >> reporter: we all know that donald is a neat nick and a germ freak. so why should critics stick a knife in him for using a knife and fork on kfc, maybe because this is trump's second cutlery faux pas. the first was when he took sarah palin out for pizza? >> are you eating it with a
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fork? a [ bleep ] fork? maybe it's not as weird as eating a snickers with a knife and fork as characters on seinfeld did. the practice spread. look, she's cutting up an almond joy. i saw someone on the street eating m&ms with a spoon. >> what is wrong with all you people? why stop at eating kfc with a knife and fork? really, you should just inject it directly into your artery with a needle like that. >> just use your hands and use the grease off of your fingers and keep the combover in lace. >> reporter: there are no do-overs when candidates eat in public. >> i learned early on not to eat in front of all of you. >> after hillary resisted eating cheesecakes stephen colbert taught her how to do it. >> we'll take a little bit off the top right here and then eat as much as you want. colbert used a fork with his hands and straddling the issue like a cheesy politician.
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jeanne moos, cnn. >> what a [ bleep ]! >> i'm very jealous for jeanne for getting to eat that kfc and gets your stomach growling, doesn't it? >> you can watch "out front" any time on cnn go. "ac 360" with anderson. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> we just learned that a federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss the class action lawsuit against traucump university and also tonight, khizr khan joins us and donald trump saying he has no regrets about anything he regrets about the khan family and giving critics who say he has thin skin and more ammunition. speaking to the washington post he declined to endorse gop candidate john mccain or paul ryan who has