10:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. thanks for watching "legal view," my colleague wolf starts right now. >> hello. i'm wolf blitzer, it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london. up first, it's the economy. with less than 9 days and counting until the election, pocketbook issues are front and center in the u.s. presidential campaign today. we're expecting hillary clinton to deliver a major speech this hour, trying to contrast her economic plan with the one donald trump outlined on monday. clinton will be speaking at a plfrg plant in warren, michigan, outside detroit. you're looking at live pictures right now. her running mate, tim kaine

campaigns in louisiana. donald trump is on the campaign trail in florida today while his running mate mike pence stumps for votes in wisconsin. doubled down on calling trump - president obama and hillary clinton the co-founders of isis. >> our government has unleashed isis. i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. they're the founders. in fact, i think we'll give hillary clinton -- if you're a sports team, most valuable player, mvp. you get the mvp award. isis will hand her the most valuable player award. her only competition is barack obama. between the two of them. iraq has some of the greatest oil reserves in the world, and we handed them iraq chl we handed it to iran. >> sara murray is joining us live from miami beach. donald trump has not backed away

from the comments calling president obama, calling hillary clinton the co-founders of isis. he said it several times over the past 24 hours. so how are democrats, first of all, responding? >> reporter: well, wolf, the clinton campaign is seizing on this comment and hitting back hard as a sign that donald trump just doesn't take foreign policy seriously. let me read a portion of the statement they put out today saying donald trump should apologize for his outrageous, unhinged and patently false suggestion opinions the founding of isis. this is yet another out-of-control statement by a candidate who is unraveling before our very eyes. combating terrorist threats like isis is a deadly serious undertakin undertaking. wolf, you can see them setting up the juxtaposition, the idea that hillary clinton is a steady hand when it comes to being a commander-in-chi commander-in-chief, being in charge of the nuclear codes and donald trump is out of his depth when it comes to dooling with issues like terrorist threats. >> he's also facing other

questions today, sarah, as you know, about the relationship he has with republican national committee chairman reince priebus. what's the latest we know about >> reporter: this comes in the wake of the "time" magazine article that shows donald trump melting down. it gets to the frank conversation between reen priebus, the rnc chair and donald trump in which priebus set out the lay of the land, pointed out that he's falling behind and that when trump sets off political fire storms, it has ramifications not just for the man at the top of the ticket but any man in congress in a tough re-election battle. we know there's been tensions similar herring between reince priebus and donald trump in the last couple weeks. those were particularly heightened during the few-day span when donald trump would not endorse paul ryan. this is a difficult relationship. trump has been. >> reporter: reliant on the rnc in key battleground states to build a ground game for him when

he has none. these two camps will have to find a way to work together if they want a shot at defeating hillary clinton in november. >> sara in beautiful miami beach for us today. in her economic speech hillary clinton will portray donald trump's plans as wildly unrealistic. aides say she'll cast herself as the candidate who will help working families in the middle class while portraying donald trump as catering to millionaires and billionaires. senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is in warren, michigan, with a preview. i assume she's got a big crowd waiting for the speech. what are some of the areas clinton plans to focus on? >> reporter: hillary clinton will be giving an economic speech basically in two parts. one, she will be putting forth her proposals, renewing the proposals that she has had throughout the course of the campaign. she has been one of the candidates who has been giving policy speeches. so that is not news. it's something she has done.

donald trump has done far fewer of those. in this address today she'll going to talk about how she would plan or propose to create more jobs, a bigger investment in jobs than any other point since world war ii, mainly through infrastructure spending, fixing roads, fixing bridges, bike paths, green energy jobs across the country here. she says she can create some 10 million jobs in the opening stretch of her administration. of course, anything like that is simply an estimate because if the house and senate are controlled by republicans, or if one is, not all of her proposals would get through if she were to be elected. wolf, she also will hit donald trump hard. this is the second part of her speech. it is going to be a harsh speech in terms of the reality of what he's proposing economically. she's going to unveil a new term today, wolf, that i think we'll hear a lot for the next three months of the campaign, the trump loophole. she's going to highlight one of his tax proposals he delivered

here in michigan in detroit on monday. she's basically going to say his proposals to lower some tax rates on pass-through entities would simply benefit him and benefit the wealthy, not benefit working class americans. framing the debate more than anything today, trying to make the case that donald trump on the economy does not have the interest of working class voters in mind as much as himself and wealthy americans, wolf. >> all right, jeff. thank you. we'll stand by and have live coverage of hillary clinton's economic speech. earlier in the week we had live coverage of donald trump's economic speech in detroit as well. trump, meanwhile, is doubling down on comments he made last night calling president obama, and i'm quoting him now, the founder of isis. here is what he said in just the last few hours. >> he was the founder, absolutely the founder. in fact, he gets the -- in sports, they have awards. he gets the most valuable player award, him and hillary.

>> last night you said the president was the founder of isis. you meant he created the vacuum, he lost the peace. >> no. i meant he's the founder of isis. i do. he's the most valuable player. i give him the most valuable player award. >> i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. they're the founders. in fact, i think we'll give hillary clinton the -- you know, if you're a sports team -- most valuable player. you get the mvp awort. isis will hand her the most valuable player award. her only competition is barack obama. >> let's bring in our panel here in washington with me, our chief political kpant dana bash, cnn political analyst jackie kucinich from the daily bees, carol lee with us from the "wall street journal." in new york, our global affairs and economics analyst ali velshi, in new york for us. lots to discuss with all of you guys. dana, how effective is this

strategy now, doubling down, tripling down, quadrupling down that the president of the united states and the democratic nominee are the co-finders of isis? >> let's take a step back. i looked up the actual definition of founder. it is a person who establishes an institution or settlement. so a founder would be like if i founded the wolf blitzer fan club which i do because i believe in that cause. this is suggesting that president obama and hillary clinton believe in the cause of isis, which is just not true. it's just flat out not true. but suggesting that kind of goes back to what he has done for a while which is kind of playing to the fears and the concerns of people in this country who don't like president obama, that he is somehow not doing what he can to help america. >> how do you read it? >> to me it kind of sounds like a branding strategy more than a policy statement. you can see it on t-shirts and

you can see it on stickers. but when you boil down the words, they don't make any sense. you saw hugh hewitt try to throw him a lifeline to make this more of a policy argument. he said, no, no, no, they're mvp. that's what i said about them. it seems like he's trapped in what he was saying in the primary, again, into sort of these one-liners and quips rather than laying down solid policy and making solid policy criticisms. >> carol? >> this is the kind of thing that drives republicans crazy. you have a situation where there's a legitimate case to be made about the president's policy in syria, not to leave residual forces in iraq, to entirely withdraw. what you have is donald trump saying things in a way that it distracts from all of that and takes the argument and doesn't make an actual case when there is one to be made. it's not clear this is something that plays to the kind of voters that he needs to reach right now

in a general election. >> ali, i went back and looked at the interview i did with donald trump back on march 16, 2007. we spoke about what was going on at that time in iraq. he had pointed words. listen carefully to what he told me. this is back nine years ago. >> the war is a total disaster. it's a catastrophe, nothing less. it is such a shame that this took place. in fact, i gained a lot of respect for our current president's father that he had the sense not to go in iraq. he won the war and then said let's not go the rest of the way and he turned out to be right. saddam hussein, whether he liked them or didn't like them, he hated terrorists. he'd shoot and kill terrorists. when terrorists came into this country which he did dominate, he would kill terrorists. now it's a breeding ground for terrorists. look, the war is a total

catastrophe. >> who do you blame? >> there's only one person you can blame and that's our current president. obviously rumsfeld was a disaster and other people that are giving him advice have been a disaster. condoleezza rice who is a lovely woman, she never makes a deal. she waves, gets off the plane, waves, she sits down with some dictator, 45-degree angle. they do the camera shot. she waves again. gets back on the plane. no deal ever happens. >> you've got to close the deal at some point. >> you've got to make deals. the world is dying to make deals. we don't have the right people doing it. >> how does the united states get out of this situation? is there a way out? >> you know how they get out? they get out. declare victory and leave. i'll tell you, this country is just going to get further bogged down. they're in a civil war over there, wolf. there's nothing we're going to be able to do with a civil war. they are in a major civil war. >> those are fascinating comments when you go back and hear what he's saying today.

nine years ago he blamed president bush for the disaster of the iraq war. he said the first president bush was smart, liberated kuwait, didn't go into iraq. you also heard him say the best thing the u.s. could do in 2007 was simply leave. >> right. and the getting out created a vacuum which allowed others to get in. you and i know one has to be careful about discussing unintended consequences versus intent. when you look at al qaeda, the u.s. armed the my gentleman ha dean to fight against the russians because we thought that was the greatest threat in afghanistan. you end up with a group that ultimately becomes al qaeda with the help and funding of osama bin laden. same thing about tensions about going in versus getting out. we know the situation is much more complex than donald trump wants it to be. to jackie's point, this is the

problem. in order to defeat isis which is a remarkable threat, one has to have the policy discussion about the way to do it. do you go after their financing, their structure? do you just bomb them. by oversimplifying it in the way donald trump does, it doesn't allow americans to sit there and weigh one strategy proposal versus another. that's the disservice going on here. unfortunately, it's so complicated, wolf, most americans don't have an understanding of what these greatest groups are. czar kawhi used to be the deputy in iraq. al qaeda kicked him out. al baghdadi is running the operation now. it's not clear how we solve the problem. suggesting hillary clinton and barack obama are the founders, it's sort of beyond the pale. >> when you listen to that clip, dana, what went through your mind? i thought it was fascinating. obviously especially the last part where he says declare victory and get out. well, it sounds like president obama took that advice.

>> in 2011. that date, by the way, for all troops out of iraq by the end of 2011. that was the date president bush put forward back while he was still president of the united states. >> as you well know, wolf, when the time came there were a lot of people, especially the john mccains and lindsey grahams of the world begging president obama not to do that and keep a residual force there, as carol was talking about. beyond that, the fact of the matter is that was donald trump the businessman. this is donald trump the republican nominee running against a president, trying to make the case that the world is not safe, and that he will make it safer and trying to kind of get into the either, as you said, the branding of president obama and hillary clinton who is running as a third term, will not be the people to make them safe. he's using his trumpisms to try to sell that. >> all right, everyone.

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last time a republican won the race for president in pennsylvania was 28 years ago when george herbert walker bush won the state. pennsylvania is one of those rust belt battleground states considered key to winning the presidency. as miguel marquez reports, although hillary clinton has a massive ground game compared to donald trump, many consider the state potentially ripe for the picking. >> so we need all of you on the ground helping us make sure hillary clinton -- >> the clinton campaign on the march, big time across the keystone state, this time targeting female voters. >> i'm working as much as we can, phone banking, going door to door.

>> clinton coming off a huge convention bounce already has 300 staffers here, three dozen offices open, more on the way. >> she's more than qualified. we cannot have donald trump as the president. >> all right. let's get him. >> reporter: trump's ground game just getting off the ground, opening his three offices in the state this week, only about a dozen staffers, many still to be hired. the campaign relying on the rnc and its 80 staff members and more than 400 volunteers. >> if trump can stay on message and be disciplined which i believe he can, i think he can yield some votes out of here. he doesn't need to win this county. he just needs to stay competitive here. >> competitive in the vote-rich philly suburbs in particular. can donald trump really be competitive across all pennsylvania? perhaps a telling sign, since early june, the clinton campaign has spent more than $4 million in tv advertising.

the trump campaign? zero. the last time a republican presidential contender won the state, 1988. today democrats have nearly a million more votes here than republicans, but conservatives are hopeful. despite democratic advantage, 13 of 18 house members are republican, and both houses of the state legislature are controlled by the grop. >> trump may be down for now, but this election too unpredictable to be sure of anything. >> we're part of this so-called rust belt theory. win the white blue collar workers in pennsylvania, ohio, michigan and wisconsin and you've got an electoral college mix that could get donald trump to 270. >> reporter: cheese steak in philly attracts voters of every stripe.

>> how important is it to vote? >> very important. just make sure you don't vote for trump. >> bill was a democrat until last march. the retired teacher now all in for trump. >> i know this for a fact, there's a lot of people that will not say they're voting for trump because he's been so demagogued by a lot of the media. >> no offense taken. >> and by hillary the last few months that you're now considered not that intelligent if you're going to vote for trump. there's a hidden trump vote. >> but the clinton campaign is targeting conservative voters, opening offices in 12 counties won by mitt romney in 2012. why? college educated white voters in pennsylvania prefer clinton by a whopping 30%. republicans counter. they just have to find the

conservatives who sat on their hands in 2012. >> keep in mind the last time mitt romney lost the state by five points, there were 800,000 republicans who didn't vote. >> reporter: with less than three months until election day, an enormous effort under way by both sides to find voters and get them to the ballot box in november. miguel marquez, cnn. >> live pictures right now, she's touring the engineering and tool factory in warren, michigan. after this tour she's presumably going to walk over to the microphones and deliver the speech. a niez size crowd has gathered there. nice coverage of her economic speech today just as we had live coverage of donald trump's economic speech on monday. as we await hillary clinton's economic speech, let's take a closer look at the battle playing out right now in pennsylvania. with us once again, chief political correspondent dana

bash, jackie cues sin itch and white house correspondent for the "wall street journal," carol lee. pennsylvania, the polls have hillary clinton at a 10 point advantage. donald trump needs pennsylvania if he's going to win. can he over come that disadvantage right now? she's spending so much more money there, so many more staffers there. >> it's incredibly hard. it's not just about donald trump, this is the way pennsylvania is going. this is the way it's been going and trending for many, many cycles. it used to be pennsylvania was a real battleground state. we used to spend a lot of time, those who covered politics there in what they call the collar counties around philadelphia because that's where the moderate republicans were, suburban republicans who were fiscally conservative, not so much on the social side. the whole state has changed. the question now, as miguel laid

out his piece is whether or not the hard core conservatives in the middle of the state like james carvel call alabama, are going to come out and vote in the way they haven't before. a lot of people still think pennsylvania is a very, very big stretch. >> carol, you're from philadelphia? >> i am. levittown, one of those districts that swings back and forth in congress. you know, i guess i would say what donald trump would need to do, as you were saying, get the voters, the conservatives really to turn out. the clinton campaign has the benefit of the obama ground game, and they really know how to turn out the voters in philadelphia. so he would need to do very well there, and also then try to change minds in those districts around the suburbs of philadelphia. >> i want to get back to the donald trump accusation that president obama is the founder of isis, that hillary clinton is

the co-founder of isis. she is now tweeting hillary clinton. you can see the tweets are going up there. anyone willing to sink so low so often should never be allowed to serve adds our commander-in-chief. no, barack obama is not the founder of isis. it can be difficult to muster outrage frequently as donald trump should cause it. but his smear against president obama requires it. >> this is one of the arguments you've heard the clinton campaign over and over again, that he's temperamentally unfit, that he doesn't have any interest in knowing these policies and he kind of just says ridiculous things. this plays into the narrative that hillary clinton's campaign has been pushing and continues to push throughout this campaign. >> but remember, president obama is pretty popular now, particularly for somebody who has been in office for two terms. historically speaking, his

numbers are pretty good. there are still a lot of people out there who don't like him. those are the voters donald trump is continuing to play to. bottom line, hillary clinton has completely embraced barack obama, basically said she is running as his third term. that was clear up until the convention and at the convention. so he is taking that embrace and trying to turn it on its head and find the people who don't like that. >> i would say politically the clinton campaign, the white house, they love he's taking this argument about isis in this direction because it keeps away from having a serious policy conversation and they can just keep hitting him with that, he's unfit for office and he's temperamental, not presidential. the more he continues to do this sort of thing, the happier they are with that. >> we'll continue our analysis. there's more news coming in as well including this. cnn learned the fbi and department of justice met several times opening up a corruption case into the clinton

foundation. also any minute hillary clinton will take the stage in michigan. there you see live pictures, warren michigan, specifically. she's expected to offer a rebuttal to donald trump's economic speech and call for the release of his tax return. we'll bring you that live and a whole lot more. stay with us.

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gum® brand. take a look at this. live pictures coming in from warren, michigan, where hillary clinton will soon deliver remarks on jobs, the economy and, of course, on donald trump. we'll have live coverage of that once it happens. she's touring a factory there in the meantime. but let's get to some new breaking news we're following. a u.s. official telling cnn today that several months ago the fbi and top justice department officials met to discuss opening a public corruption case into the clinton foundation. our justice correspondent pamela brown has been getting new information. what are you learn? >> we learned that what initially grgrabbed the fbi's attention into this was the fact that a bank notified the fbi saying there was suspicious activity surrounding a foreign donor to the clinton foundation. what the fbi wanted to do earlier this year is open up a case and investigate whether there was a conflict of interest at the time that that donor was

making contribution to the clinton foundation during clinton's tenure at the state department. there were three doj field offices in agreement that a public corruption investigation should be launched. top doj officials met with fbi officials earlier this year to discuss whether a case should be brought. we're told there was some disagreement during that meeting, a split that some top doj officials felt like a case should not be brought. the doj, department of justice looked into allegations against the clinton foundation after the book "clinton cash" was released, felt it was unsubstantiated and not sufficient evidence to open a case this year until ultimately a case was never opened on the clinton foundation. again, there was this disagreement. some top doj officials felt like there wasn't sufficient evidence. others felt there was and a case should be opened. >> bottom line, no case open right now? >> bottom line, no case open

right now. these discussions happened earlier this year and they felt like there wasn't a case. but we do during this meeting, wolf, that this investigation that cnn first reported into terry mcauliffe and a donor to the clinton campaign could continue. the officials said you can continue focusing on that investigation, but we don't think there's enough evidence to open an investigation into the clinton foundation. >> terry mcauliffe, the governor of virginia and a good friend of the clintons. >> pamela brown reporting for us. coming up, electronic watergate. that's how a top democrat is characterizing a massive hack targeting politicians in washington. why officials now think the hack is bigger than they initially thought. hillary clinton set to deliver a speech on the economy. looking at live pictures from warren, michigan. aides tell us it will be a direct response to what we heard from donald trump on the economy

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hillary clinton now at the microphone in warren, michigan, about to deliver her economic speech. we have live coverage. let's go there right now. >> -- for a number of reasons. first, it's wonderful to be back in michigan. you can really feel the energy and dynamism that is driving this state's comeback. in detroit we've got new businesses opening, neighborhoods like midtown and eastern market are coming back. the auto industry just had its best year ever. over in ann arbor high-tech firms are thriving, the next generation of engineers are getting trained up in houghton, and here at futuramic, so well

named, you're on the front lines of what i believe will be a true manufacturing renaissance in america. i just was given a short but exciting tour by mark jurak and john couch who were telling me about how this company was started as, and for most of its early history was an auto supply company. and then in 2000 as the market began to change and some of the auto companies began to realign, they were faced with a choice. we all face choices in life, don't we? and this company could have just said, hey, you know, our business not going to be what it was, we've got to just fold up.

let's just kind of quit, but that's not what happened here. what happened here is what can happen across america. you are in now what is largely an aerospace company. and because of the workforce and the work ethic and the commitment of futuramic, you are seeing the future unfold. so i got to see what's happening here to help build the sls rocket that is going to go from macomb to mars. i saw the two halves of an f-35 nose cone waiting to be put

together. i talked with some of the workers about the absolute perfection that is required to do this work. and what i believe with all my heart is that what's happening here can happen in so many places. if we put our minds to it, if we support advanced manufacturing, if we are the kind of country that once again understands how important it is to build things. we are builders, and we need to get back to building. so we're making progress. none of us can be satisfied until the economic revitalization we're seeing in some parts of michigan reaches every community, but it is inspiring to see this combination of old-fashioned hard work and cutting-edgin know investigation. i know my opponent in this

election was here in michigan about a week ago, and it was like he was in a different place. when he visited detroit on monday, he talked only of failure, poverty and crime. he is missing so much about what makes michigan great! and the same is true when it comes to our country. he describes america as an embarrassment. he said, and i quote, we're becoming a third world country. look around you, my friends. go visit with the workers building rockets. that doesn't happen in third world countries. we have a lot of urgent and important work to do, and that's

what i'm going to talk about today. because all the people i have met throughout this campaign really prove how wrong this negative pessimistic view is. america's best days are still ahead of us if we make up our minds to actually go out and make that happen. just consider our assets. we have the most dynamic, productive workforce in the world, bar none. we have the most innovative businesses, the top colleges, universities, community colleges, training programs in the world, and the best science and technology. we have enormous capacity for clean energy production. we are resilient, determined, hard working. there is nothing america can't do if we do it together.

and i know this because this is how i was raised, and i don't think mr. trump understands any of it. he hasn't offered any credible solutions for the very real economic challenges we face. now, those challenges emerged long before the great recession, and they have persisted through our recovery. there is too much inequality, too little upward mobility. it is just too hard to get ahead today. but there are common sense things that your government could do that would give americans more opportunities to succeed. why don't we do it? because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in congress.

how can you not be frustrated and even angry when you see nothing getting done. a lot of people feel no one is on their side and no one has their back, and that is not how it's supposed to be in america. if i am fortunate enough to be your president, i will have your back every single day that i serve. and my mission in the white house will be to make our economy work for everyone, not just those at the top. this is personal for me. i am the product of the american middle class. i was born in chicago. i was raised in a suburb. but my grandfather worked at the scranton lace mill in scranton, pennsylvania, for 50 years. and because he worked hard, my

dad was able to go to college and eventually start his own small business and then send me out into the world to follow my own dreams. no matter how far those dreams have taken me, i have always remembered i am the daughter of a small business owner and the granddaughter of a factory worker and proud of both. so here is what i want. i want every american family to be able to tell the same story. if you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. that is the basic bargain of america. now, whether we will be able to renew that bargain on even better terms for the 21st century depends in large measure on the outcome of this election.

so here are four questions that i hope the american people will ask of both candidates, and that the answers should help make your choice in november crystal clear. first, which candidate has a real plan to create good paying jobs? second, who will restore fairness to our economy and ensure that those at the top pay their fair share of taxes? third, who will really go to bat for working families? and fourth, who can bring people together to deliver the results that will make a difference in your lives? now, i hope that after giving a

fair hearing to both sides, you will join the millions of people across our country supporting this campaign, not just democrats, but a growing number of republicans and independents as well. now, when it comes to creating jobs, i would argue it's not even close. even conservative experts say trump's agenda will pull our economy back into recession. according to an independent analysis by a former economic advisor to senator john mccain, if you add up all of trump's ideas from cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations, to starting a trade war with china, to deporting millions of hard working immigrants, the result would be a loss of 3.4 million jobs.

now, by contrast the same analyst found that, with our plans, the economy would create more than 10 million new jobs. so let me tell you how we would do that. i believe every american willing to work hard should be able to find a job that provides dignity, pride and decent pay that can support a family. so starting on day one, we will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good paying jobs since world war ii. we will put americans to work building and modernizing our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our railways, our ports, our airpor

airports. we are way overdue for this, my friends. we are living off the investments that were made by our parents and grandparents' generations. we will also help cities like detroit and flint connect underserved neighborhoods to opportunity expanding, affordable housing, and we will repair schools and failing water systems as well. [ cheers and applause ] i happen to think we should be ambitious. while we're at it, let's connect every household in america to broadband by the year 2020. it's astonishing to me how many places in america, not way, way, far away from cities, but in cities, and near cities that

don't have access to broadband. and that disadvantages kids who are asked to do homework using the internet. 5 million of them live in homes without access to the internet. so you talk about an achievement gap, it starts right there. and let's build a cleaner, more resilient power grid with enough renewable energy to power every home in our country as well. some country is going to be the clean energy super power of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. it's probably going to be either china, germany, or america. i want it to be us. we invent the technology, we should make it, and use it, and export it. which will help to grow our

economy. and here's something that you don't always hear enough of from democrats. a big part of our plan will be unleashing the power of the private sector to create more jobs at higher pay. and that means for us creating an infrastructure bank to get private funds off the sidelines and complement our private investments. $25 billion in government seed funding could unlock more than $250 billion and really get our country moving on our infrastructure plans. and we're going to invest $10 billion in what we're calling "make it in america" partnerships to support american manufacturing and recommit to scientific research that can create entire new industries.

when mark and john were giving me the tour and i was talking with some of the workers along the way and asking them where some of the precision machinery came from that is being used here. what i hear all over the country -- germany, japan, italy. i want to bring that precision manufacturing back to the united states. there is no reason we can't begin to make those machines ourselves and supply the rest of the world instead of buying from somewhere else. let's also expand incentives like the new market tax credits that can bring businesses, government and communities together to create good jobs in places that have been left out and left behind. from neglected neighborhoods in detroit and flint, to logging country, coal country, native american communities, from rural

areas ravaged by addiction and lost jobs to industrial regions hollowed out when factories closed. as president, i will also make a major push to empower small businesses and entrepreneurs with new national initiatives to cut red tape at every level and expand access to credit, especially through community banks and credit unions. i will propose a in new plan to dramatically simplify tax filing for small businesses. right now the smallest businesses, the kind that my dad had -- because it was a really small business -- spent 20 times more per employee to prepare their taxes compared to larger companies. it should be as easy as printing

out a bank statement. let's free entrepreneurs to do what they do best -- innovate, grow and hire. as mark said, this company started because of a drive down a road and thinking about it, talking about it, then seeing one of the old oldsmobile future amics. in america, if you should dream it, you should be able to build it. and we're going to get back to doing that. now donald trump has a different view. he's made a career out of stiffing small businesses from atlantic city to las vegas. there are companies that were left hanging because he refused to pay their bills. a lot of those companies scraped together what they could to pay

their employees, and many of them put their businesses at risk and some of them ended up taking bankruptcy. it wasn't because trump couldn't pay them. it was because he wouldn't pay them. and that's why i take it personally. my dad ran a printing plant. he had two really long tables. he printed fabric for draperies. he would lay out the fabric, then he would take a silkscreen and he would go down the table. he'd put the silkscreen down, he'd pour the paint in, he'd take the squeegee, he'd go across the screen, lift it up, go down, go down, start on the end, go all the way to the other end. he worked hard. when he was done, he'd load up all that fabric and take it to the business who had ordered it, maybe a restaurant, a hotel or

some other office. he expected to be paid when he showed up. he did the work. he paid for the supplies and the labor that he often hired to help him on big jobs. he expected to be paid. i can't imagine what would have happened to my father and his business if he had gotten a contract from trump. and showing up and submitting his bill had been told, we're not going to pay. and if you don't like it, sue us. my father never could have sued a big organization like that. i just don't understand it. i've met all kinds of workers, painters, plumbers. i met small businesses that provided pianos, installed glass or marble, all of whom were denied payment. and after going back time and again, being told, well, maybe we'll pay you 30 cents on the

dollar or 50 cents on the dollar. that's not how we do business in america. so we've got to create more good jobs that are going to help more people. for example, our modern service economy is empowering consumers with more choices and greater flexibility. but we do have to empower the workers in our service sector, too. the people taking care of our children and our parents. they deserve a good wage and good benefits and a secure retirement. and it's crucial that every american have access to the education and skills any need to get the jobs of the future so we will fight to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone. we will also liberate millions

of people who already have student debt by making it easier to refinance and repay what you owe as a portion of your income so you don't have to pay more than you can afford. it is just not right that donald trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance their debt. and here's something else that i really want to emphasize. i don't think anybody in america's talking about this enough. and that is a four-year degree should not be the only path to a good job in america. you should be able to learn a skill, practice a trade, make a good living doing it. so many americans have the talent and the will to succeed, whether they're kids right out of high schl