deal yet. a lot feel this could be seen as a failure so far. president obama will talk about syria and weigh in on the presidential election here. the race is a bit closer than a few weeks ago. we will bring you the comments live when the g20 summit coming to an end just as north korea fires three ballistic missiles. a lot going on. we want to begin with michelle kosinski live in china. good morning, michelle. >> reporter: hi, john. yeah, a lot of what the president is trying to do here is manage relationships, deal with relationships that are in some cases extremely difficult, including the relationship with china itself. the president sat down with the president of china for four hours during this trip. keep in mind, this is likely the president's last trip to asia, the last time he'll get the chance to have these conversations, which are difficult. the president said that, you

know, some of what he's going to be discussing will be areas in which he and these other countries are don't agree, including human rights. he also sat down with the leader of turkey. that relationship has also been strained lately. what's really causing a buzz is the meeting the president just came out of with russian president vladimir putin. these face-to-face meetings almost never happen. part of that is because of the relationship itself, how difficult it's been. just a few days ago, president putin called the relationship between the u.s. and russia frozen. but they talked about the situation in syria, in ukraine, as well as cyber issues. you look at what's been going on in this relationship, russia's suspected hacking of the democratic national committee, the clinton campaign, the possibility that russia has been trying to influence the u.s. election, that's a big issue here. however, in this meeting, which was just an aside, not a formal bilateral meeting, u.s.

officials say they didn't go into a lot of detail on that, partially because it is such a sensitive issue. that's one of those areas where there needs to be more discussion as well as trying to hammer out that agreement with russia to finally reach a cease-fire in syria. more to come definitely. so the president will be asked a lot about this russian meeting likely, but also about his legacy in asia. keep in mind that both u.s. presidential candidates oppose the big trade deal, the trans-pacific partnership, that is supposed to be considered the crowning glory of president obama's rebalance to asia, something he's been working on for many years. obviously there's still a lot of question marks associated with that and other issues. back to you guys. >> a question mark at the asian pivot. already, michelle. thanks. we'll bring you the president's press conference live when it begins. that's scheduled to begin in a few minutes. >> turning now to the 2016 race. with only 64 days left until

election day, the general election fight enters the home struch. donald trump's advisers trying again to clarify his immigration plan, this as the clinton campaign finds itself battling the one issue that will not go away. cnn's phil mattingly joining us with more. >> hey, 64 days. not that anyone's counting. >> except us. >> today is traditionally the starting gun to that final sprint towards election day. labor day, this is when voters are supposed to start paying attention. this has been not quite a traditional campaign. people have been paying attention for a long time. that said, both campaigns expecting to ramp up their campaigning and their attacks. >> reporter: donald trump's campaign still struggling to explain his immigration policy. >> i think donald trump's been completely consistent. >> reporter: giving little clarification on their nominee's conflicting statements on how to handle the 11 million undocumented immigrants. >> we don't know who will be left.

we don't know where they live, who they are. >> after the 2 to 3 million get put out of the country because they're committing crimes, hurting americans, selling drugs, doing things that are illegal, once those people get dealt with first, and i think everyone agrees on that issue, then we can deal with the remaining 8 million people. >> reporter: another top supporter of trump says he no longer wants mass deportations. >> donald trump as he expressed recently would find it very, very difficult to throw out a family that's been here for, you know, 15 years and they have three children, two of whom are citizens, and that's not the kind of america he wants. >> reporter: a comment that runs contrary to trump's own words when he laid out his immigration plan after a visit to mexico. >> for those here illegally today who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and one route only, to return home and apply for re-entry like

everybody else. >> reporter: and new criticism following trump in detroit this weekend. >> no trump! no trump! >> reporter: trump reaching out to african-american voters at a predominantly black church. some critics question the sincerity of the visit. >> for centuries, the african-american church has been the conscience of our country. so true. >> reporter: all this as hillary clinton is losing ground to trump in the latest national polls, dogged by the fbi publicly releasing its report on her use of a private e-mail everybodier as secretary of state. >> she's apologized for that. she said it was a mistake and she's learned from it. >> reporter: clinton's running mate now slamming trump with a new attack, referencing watergate, drawing a parallel with trump's seeming invitation to hack and release clinton's e-mails. >> contrast the hillary situation where the fbi said there's no need for legal proceedings with an attack that is being encouraged by donald trump on the dnc by russia

similar to what led to the resignation of a president 30 years ago. >> so guys, clearly a few issues both candidates really need to cheer up as they hit this home stretch. one thing we know for sure in the days and weeks ahead, a renewed focus on battleground states. both clinton and trump will be in northeast ohio today, just like they were last week. gone will be the long fundraising swings and the rallies in places like connecticut and washington. from here on out, it's places like ohio, florida, and pennsylvania. that's the road to the white house. >> makes sense, phil. thank you very much for all that background. here to discuss which campaign won the weekend, we have cnn political commentator and political anchor of time warner news, errol louis, and washington bureau chief for the daily beast, jackie kucinich. great to have both of you here on this labor day holiday. there were missteps on both sides this weekend. let's start with donald trump, where his surrogates and campaign officials tried once

again to clarify where he is on mass deportations, whether or not there will be a deportation force for the 11 million undocumented immigrants here. so let's listen to some of the people connected to his campaign trying to make sense of it. >> he's been completely consistent on this point. >> on this, no, he's not. he's not been consistent on this issue, what to do with the 11 to 15 million. >> well, but there are people in different circumstances in that category. >> but if they aren't criminals, do they have to go? >> he has said that you should stand in line and immigrate legally. >> donald trump as he expressed in one of his interviews recently would find it very, very difficult to throw out a family that's been here for, you know, 15 years and they have three children, two of whom are citizens. that is not the kind of america he wants. >> okay. so errol, rudy there was the

most explicit, sounding like they will not be deported if they're not criminals. >> yes, yes, he was. but when it comes to consistency, there are a lot of inconsistencies here. rudy giuliani ran a sanctuary city. donald trump always says we're going to get rid of sanctuary cities. we're not going to get a lot of consistency out of the trump camp here, i think. when he says there's one path and one path only, the rest is just details. when you hear mike pence saying he's been perfectly consistent, i think all they're talking about are the details of what is essentially an unworkable plan. if what they're saying is we're going to deport 11 million people but we're going to take the criminals first, or we're going to take certain categories of people who are already in the system first. that doesn't answer any of the real questions. i mean, i think what all the questions are getting at is, are you going to get sort of mass camps in place in order to hold these people. who's going to pay for this?

one estimated costs is $400 billion to $600 billion. >> yeah, what does it look like? >> the reason there's this confusion is because donald trump hasn't told us. on sunday, the trump team is still trying to explain the speech he gave on wednesday because they are saying he gave a speech than he, in fact, did. they're trying to tell us he did soften on immigration when, in fact, you had to really look at it with a fine-tooth comb to see a single line where he backed off on anything. >> that's because the speech was kind of a disaster. after he was in mexico, had a relatively good press conference with the mexican president, the wall aside, he gave this speech that resulted in several members of his hispanic coalition resigning is or saying they felt misled. so of course they're trying to fix this because donald trump, again, got in front of a crowd, got a little carried away, and went off script and said a lot of things he said during the primary. that speech was focused solely on the people that are already

voting for donald trump. when it was meant to try to expand his base and start looking a little bit more presidential and it didn't do that. that's why we're still seeing this cleanup several days later. until they solidify what they're talking about, i think we're still going to see this equivocation even going into this week. >> let's talk about the hillary clinton side and what was a misstep there, or not even misstep, just a major hiccup that's been continuing throughout the campaign. that's the e-mails. the fbi released their report. the republicans say they released it on the friday before a holiday weekend. >> they, in fact, did, release it on the friday before the holiday weekend. >> they see something in that timing that they think benefits hik. here were some of the findings. there were many in this report. here are some of them. turns out clinton did not completely understand classification markings. clinton relied on her staff to determine how to handle classified information.

there were these archived e-mails that actually were deleted after the house benghazi committee requested all e-mails be sent to them and nothing be deleted. where are we, errol, with all of this and these findings? what do they change? >> i think they change nothing, in some ways. the timing of it, the release of it, i interpreted this as not so much politics as maybe the fbi wanting to not have to do a lot of follow-up work over the holiday weekend. they were as interested as burying it as anyone else. on the other hand, this is going to continue to be an issue. every poll we've seen suggests that people don't trust what she has said about it. there have been too many inconsistencies. the only question becomes, is it serious enough for somebody to say, i can't vote for her for president. it seems to be a very mixed bag there. i think she's sort of at status quo. she's created a huge problem for herself and for her surrogates, having to always explain and

explain and explain. oh, she meant this. oh, she meant that. we felt we turned over everything, but it turns out we didn't turn over everything. i don't know that it's the smoking gun that the republicans keep hoping they're going to find. remember, substantively, at the end of all of this, we're not seeing anything that shows you that national security was impaired or that something clearly financially corrupt went down. you know, we're not finding that. what you do end up with is what comey said all along, the fbi director. outrageously careless behavior. it's up to the voters to decide whether that matters. >> it's the type of thing you could clear up at a news conference or a press conference if you gave them as a presidential candidate, which hillary clinton doesn't. that's part of the issue here. she isn't explaining away these things because she doesn't try in front of the press that often. >> well, and her explanations tend to be, you know, staff told me to do this, i trusted people that told me to do this. it wasn't, you know, the buck stops here, this is my fault.

errol is absolutely right. in those fbi notes, there were details of a laptop that contained e-mails that was just lost. they just lost it. it was just this carelessness and sloppiness. at the end of the day, this just remind people why they don't like hillary clinton, why they don't trust her. and that isn't great for the clinton campaign. they need things like this to go away so she can start making the case of why you should trust her instead of being reminded over and over again what the problems are. >> got to bring up one thing that happened on twitter overnight. donald trump used twitter, which i guess is not news. but he went after a sitting republican senator in a swing state, jeff flake from arizona, who happens to be a senator who has not endorsed donald trump yet, but he does have a lot of influence in that state and also within the republican party. trump obviously mad at jeff flake. he said this, the republican party needs strong and committed leaders, not weak people such as

jeff flake, if it is going to stop illegal immigration. this is the kind of thing that drives reince priebus crazy. >> one more example of why he should be kept away from his twitter account by the team if they want to keep a coherent narrative going. jeff flake is essentially at this point the leader of the never trump elected officials who are out there. he says it consistently. he says it without being asked. he's not up for re-election for another couple years. so he's not in the same position as, say, a john mccain, who has to walk this tight rope between the conservative voters that like trump and the emerging majority that's coming into place. majority is probably too strong of a word in arizona itself. a rising percentage of the voters are women, millennials, latinos. jeff flake cannot expect to win re-election if he takes the trump hard line against all these different groups. he's already working the politics that made him very narrow victor in that race in

the first place. this is what trump is going to have to deal with. >> errol, jackie, thank you. stick around. we have many more questions. >> we are following breaking news out of israel. two dozen people are trapped after a building collapsed in tel aviv. emergency crews rushed to the scene. they've pulled 15 people from the rubble already. their injuries are considered minor. this building was set to be a parking structure. authorities are calling this an accident. german chancellor angela merkel hoping to pave the way forward for her political future. a right-wing anti-immigrant party defeated merkel in the german elections. she is attending the g20 economic summit in china. now for the panda news. we have lot of good news to bring you. an international conservation group is taking them off the endangered species list, saying

that china's efforts to bring them back from the brink of extinction are working, but the group warns that climate change is a major threat to the panda's bamboo habitat. even more good news, the panda population increased by at least two over the weekend. the 19-year-old panda at the atlanta zoo giving birth to twins. >> i support twins. >> me too. you and i have a lot in common with these giant pandas. >> they're working hard. population going up. >> excellent. we like twins. >> 16 minutes after the hour. hermine is churning in the atlantic. the storm's threat is still very real. tropical storm watches and warnings are posted for millions in the northeast. we'll tell you how this will affect your labor day, your beach plans. so many beach plans ruined already. we have a live report in the latest forecast next. i have asthma...

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a lot of beaches closed on this last day of summer, the unofficial last day of summer. what's it look like there? >> reporter: hey, john. good morning. this is a surfer's dream with these waves, but you said it, beaches are closed. they're simply dangerous at this point. 7 million people still under a tropical storm warning. let me give you a closer look at those waves. i will say we talked to a police officer who stopped by not too long ago. he says they don't seem all that impressive to him, but what we're noticing is you can see these waves crashing on the shore. two hours ago it was low tide. these waving are coming up pretty high from typically where they would be at this hour. when high tide comes around at about 11:00 this morning, that's going to be another concern that officials are keeping their eye on. will those waves crash and move into the streets for a sort of coastal flooding. so rip currents and coastal flooding. that's the issue here.

for 7 million people under that tropical storm warning. other than that, people enjoying this weather. the nice cooler temperatures and actually the nice scenery. we saw a lot of people out here last night catching that sunset, alisyn. but it's still pretty dangerous. >> yeah, no, the sunsets have been very beautiful this weekend. thanks, brynn. let's see where hermine is now and why it was a beautifully sunny weekend here in the northeast. meteorologist chad myers joins us now to explain. chad, we had a beautiful day yesterday. weren't we supposed to have wind and rain and everything else? >> well, that was always that possibility. but this thing is still within the cone that the hurricane center put out on friday. it's about 150 miles or so farther to the east. because of that, didn't get the pushback with the cloud cover. obviously still big waves out there. i've seen some at 17 feet. the storm is still 70 miles per hour. it's still meandering out there. still going to be with us for a couple days. the waves are high, right onshore. the tides are about a foot and a

half to two feet above where they should be. it's still forecast to get a little closer. no, it did not stay close enough to really get back into new jersey, to get back this water into the hudson river into the harbor, into staten island. that really didn't happen. that's the good news. it was just far enough offshore that didn't push all of this ugliness back toward us. the waves, though, waves are still 5 to 14 feet. back here toward montauk and block island, waves are higher than that. the waves will stay offshore. i don't think we'll worry about this too much. it's not going to affect the u.s. proper. the waves are going to be big, the rip currents are going to be strong. please stay out of that water. >> there were a lot of people who said they canceled their weekend plans because they were concerned about this storm. these were people who just didn't listen to your forecast the right way. you said, it could be sunny. but the ocean, that's what you have to worry about. >> we always worried about the

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who delivered a fiery speech at the republican national convention. it made south carolina pastor mark burns one of donald trump's go-to surrogates. just last week, he apologized for a tweet showing hillary clinton in black face. now it's his own story that's appearing hard to explain and raising questions. cnn's victor blackwell has that story. >> we need a warrior! we need a champion! we need a winner! and that is donald! >> reporter: he's the small town preacher who's become a major surrogate for donald trump's campaign for president. >> the last thing i want to do is to draw attention away from mr. trump's policy. >> reporter: pastor mark burns. frequent cable news guest, a crowd favorite at trump rallies, even a speaker at the republican national convention. >> from the great state of south carolina -- >> reporter: but before the campaign, he was virtually unknown. >> i think donald trump is a great judge of character. you know, you would think he would just choose the greatest

names, but donald trump values character more so than popularity or name. i think that i fall in that category. >> reporter: pastor burns' harvest praise and worship center in south carolina is a small operation. the church just a few folding chairs, tables, and cameras for his televangelism after attending trump's november meeting with black pastors in new york, burns says former campaign manager corey lewandowski asked him to speak on trump's behalf at bob jones university. he's been a favorite of the campaign ever since. >> he just came out of the blue. >> reporter: virginia beach navy veteran damon davis says is he's a republican but had never heard of the fiery southern pastor. neither had his friends. >> they looked him up. he had web pages up. one of the claims is he was a member of kappa alpha psi. >> reporter: davis, who is a member of the predominantly

african-american fraternity, says he first saw the claim in pastor burns' bio on his church's website. davis says he captured this screen grab in july just days after burns spoke at the rnc. then he started investigating. >> what did you find? >> there's no person named mark burns, john mark burns, or any variation thereof in the fraternity ever. >> reporter: davis says he contacted pastor burns. soon after, davis says the web page disappeared. cnn called kappa headquarters too. they have no record of him, so when we sat down with burns, we asked about that. >> i did, without question, say that i had -- not crossed but started the process of being a part of that organization. but that's the furthest i've gotten. >> is that the bio from your website? >> it is, but it is not -- it is the bio, but this is not an accurate depiction. information has obviously been added. i own up to any mistakes i've

made, like i did with my tweet. obviously in this case, that's not -- >> so this is not from your page? >> this is from my page, but what i'm saying is obviously this has been manipulated or either hacked or added. >> reporter: cnn asked the site's host about the possibility that somebody could have tampered with the church's website. the company tells cnn there is no evidence of a hack. and cnn obtained the pastor's full bio from the church's website through an internet archive. >> you also claimed you served six years in the army reserves. is that accurate? >> yes, it is. >> we called the army, and they said you had no active army or -- >> i wasn't part of the -- i was part of the south carolina army national guard. >> you said six years in the army reserves. >> which is -- it is reserves. it is the army south carolina national guard is reserves. >> reporter: the u.s. army says burns served in the south

carolina national guard from 2001 to 2005, was discharged in 2008. he has no active army or army reserve service time. >> did you attend north greenville university? >> i did. >> did you graduate from north greenville university? >> no, i didn't complete the degree. >> reporter: in fact, the university tells cnn he was here one semester. >> again, the bio that's on your website claims that you earned a bachelor of science degree. did you make that claim? >> i asked you just a moment ago as we were -- first of all, i said we were off the record. >> i didn't agree to that. >> but i did. >> we're still rolling. i'm still asking you questions on the record. >> i'm off the record. >> did you make that claim? >> i think this is not fair that you -- this is not fair at all. i thought we were doing a profile, and all the sudden you're here to try to destroy my character. >> i'm not coming here to destroy your character.

these are claims that were made on your website that was live while you were speaking at the republican national convention. my question is, are those claims accurate. >> i understand this is what media does, and i understand that when you find someone that is speaking out their heart and speaking out their desire to bring people together and to get past the political correctness of society, that the job of that -- of investigative journalism or, you know, in this case is to try to destroy the character of the individual so their voice is silenced. what i'm saying is this. in reference to my website, if there's inaccurate information on there, that can easily be manipulated by other people and can be manipulated by hackers, people can do and say and create whatever they want to create. >> reporter: again, the website's host says there is no evidence of a hack. >> i don't feel comfortable at

all. this is not -- >> you also claim to be studying at the anderson theological seminary. >> yes, i did. >> reporter: currently working on his master of theology and pastoral leadership, according to the church's website. >> we called them. you're not enrolled there. you enrolled in 2008 and never advanced. >> right, but you know how hold this is? i think there's an updated profile on me that's on the website. >> so is it old or tampered? >> these are old information. this is extremely old information. >> reporter: seconds later -- >> this is a -- thank you. thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming. you just take this. >> reporter: pastor burns walked out, leaving us in his church. victor blackwell, cnn, atlanta. >> just amazing work there by victor. cnn submitted questions to the trump campaign about its vetting process, particularly in the case of pastor burns. we've not received a response. however, pastor burns told cnn

to his knowledge he was not vetted by the trump campaign. they simply liked his message. you know, what's so interesting here, there's nothing that was part of his record that was falsified. no claim he made which would have made him more or less acceptable to the american public or more or less acceptable to the trump campaign. you say things for no reason. people do these things, and it only ends up hurting. when you make stuff up, it ends up biting you. >> he said, look, this is what the media always does. yes, we investigate things. that's what we do. we fact check. we cross-check things. that is right. that is our job. >> if you're going to stand at the republican convention and support somebody, you are in the public, and you have to expect you're going to be looked at. >> and people can expect honesty. anyway, we'll follow that story since it continues to develop. meanwhile, the race for the white house appears to be tightening. john king will break down the electoral map for us. >> and the election entering the home stretch as of today.

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>> donald trump says as we reach this point, the polls are closing in his direction, and to a degree, he's right. let's take a look. back at the beginning of the month just after the conventions, hillary clinton had a ten-point lead in the national polls. these are averaging out all the national polls. if you look at the most recent ones, hik's lead is down to five points. donald trump is right, in the national polls, the race is tightening. here's donald trump's problem. when you go state by state through the key battleground, hillary clinton is leading in all of them. some of the leads are relatively small. florida at the beginning of the month was one. now it's four on average. ohio was one, now it's a three-point lead. north carolina a very close race. pennsylvania in single digits, but that's a comfortable lead. virginia has moved in clinton's direction by even more. michigan, single digits but a clinton lead. wisconsin, closer than a lot of people would think. colorado, a big clinton lead. that's the problem when you look at the battleground states.

if the election were held today, by our projection, hillary clinton would already be over the top. donald trump could win all these yellow states and not clirch the presidency. to get there t he's got to turn some of these that we lean blue, he's got to turn some of the blue red. pennsylvania would be the biggest prize. hillary clinton, one of her biggest weaknesses in this rust belt, blue-collar voters. >> let's discuss all this. we want to talk about the latest polls and swing states with cnn political commentator and anchor of time warner news, errol louis. and ron brownstein, senior editor of "the atlantic." ron, i'll start with you as the newcomer to the panel this morning. so national polls, i guess, don't matter since we are now in the last stretch. we should only be looking at battle ground states, right? >> now, national polls matter

because the battleground states are part of the nation. they rise and fall together. i think what's striking about the national polls is no question that hillary clinton's support has eroded, partially because the post-convention glow has faded. also because of the difficult story she's been facing about the clinton foundation and e-mails. it's hillary clinton's number coming down that's makes the race closer, not donald trump's number going up. i think there's one credible national poll since august 1st that has had him even at 40% or 41% in a four-way race. almost always he's below 40%. i think the big reason for that, obviously, is he's facing huge negatives among the key elements of what have been the winning democratic coalition in five of the last six popular vote in the presidential elections. he's facing huge resistance among millennials, minority voters. the new dimension is underperforming among those college white voters,

particularly women, in the suburbs of places like denver, northern virginia, and philadelphia. that's why those states are so difficult for him right now. >> stories out of philadelphia, a lot of reporters to talk to these white educated voters, and they're not going for trump at all. if we can put up the electoral map, john king's map shows that if the election were held today, hillary clinton is at 273. that's without any of the states in yellow. you need 270 to win. by my math, that means if she were to lose new hampshire, that would go down to 269. what is she doing raising all the money in new york and california and everywhere else. why not just move to new hampshire. why not just spend your time shuttling between manchester, new hampshire, and charlotte, north carolina. just go back and forth. that seems to be where the election hangs on right now. >> well, right now, but these things shift, as we know, as you get closer. they're going to need that money to tip the scales, frankly, as

we get closer to november, which is why she got all the criticism from the trump campaign about quote/unquote hiding. she was actually just bulking up her treasury to ensure they have enough money to sort of hammer home her message and hammer donald trump going into the final weeks of this campaign. >> errol, do we have any historical lesson we can look at when the two candidates are divided this way in the electoral map on labor day? >> well, sure, yeah. in fact, the last several cycles you've had candidates that go into labor day divide roughly matched up. what you'll end up seeing is, in part, some of what hillary clinton i think you can expect her to do is to try and tie down trump's resources many states that are supposed to be safe states for him. so she's buying ads in georgia and in arizona. i wouldn't rule out a clinton visit to georgia. not so much because she really

expects to flip that state, which is traditionally republican, to the democratic column, but she's force him to have to do some work there and spend some time and money there. it gets to be an interesting kind of strategic final dash to the finish, and i think that's what we can all expect in the next 60 days. >> ron, if hillary clinton is going to win across the doesn't ri, she's going to need a strong african-american turnout. historically high numbers for president obama the last two elections. it's interesting donald trump has been making this overt effort the last few weeks to make it seem like he is doing outreach to the african-american community. let's play some sound of him in detroit this weekend. >> we must love each other and support each other, and we are in this all together. all together. i fully understand that the african-american community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that

must still be made right. >> you know t ron, is there any sign that there's any softness in the polls when it comes to the african-american vote for hillary clinton? jonathan martin of "the new york times" has an article today talking about black millennial voters who may not be as enthusiastic as they have been in 2008 and 2012. >> i look at it as a subset of our biggest problem in the electorate now, the underperformance among millennials. donald trump is enormously unpopular among millennials. yet, often in these polls, he's only polling around 50% among millennials in general. as jonathan's piece points out, drawing on research from a former cnn commentator, the democratic pollster, that it's particularly among younger african-americans and younger white voters and younger hispanic voters, all of which, you know, she's facing kund of

an enthusiasm gap with. that's where the third and fourth party candidates are polling best. it is a legitimate reason for concern among them, particularly in some of these battleground states where is they need big numbers among young voters, north carolina as a good example. >> errol, i see you nodding. according to "the new york times," one of the issues that trips her up with young black voters is criminal justice issues. maybe the crime bill. they believe she representing the establishment, which they don't trust as much. >> that's right. there's been this whole theme running throughout the primary season even about the 1994 crime bill, what was in it, what she did in connection with it, what the results of it have been. i think a lot of science behind the political conclusions people have drawn are really, really kind of fuzzy. it's not as if she went out and personally caused mass incarceration over the last 20 years, although that's how some young people seem to be interpreting it. she's got to get out there and argue for what the bill was in the past and what the policies going forward will be. >> all right, guys.

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