cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, welcome to your "new day." up first, who will keep you safe? that's a key question in the election. donald trump says he has a secret plan to do that. and that he's going to demand that his top generals give him a new plan to defeat isis in 30 days. hillary clinton is slamming trump's secret plan as saying he has no plan. meanwhile, there's growing scrutiny over his political donatio donations, has he been paying for play? the stakes could not be higher. the first votes will be cast in 16 days when early voting begins in some states. clinton and trump will face off in their first presidential debate in just 19 days. let's begin our coverage with sara murray live in greenville, south carolina. sara. >> reporter: good morning, guys, our latest cnn poll shows that hillary clinton edges out donald trump on who is best prepared to

be commander in chief but trump is looking to turn the numbers around, laying some sharp criticism on hillary clinton. >> she never talks about policy. >> reporter: donald trump and hillary clinton clashing over who's ready to be commander in chief. >> he has no clue about what he's talking about. >> reporter: trump unveiling endorsements from nearly 90 retired u.s. military leaders. and revealing his plan to demands a plan to take down isis. >> we're going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction. they will have 30 days to submit to the oval office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating isis. >> he says he has a secret plan to defeat isis. but the secret is, he has no plan. rs clinton warns trump will lead the u.s. back to war. >> when it comes to fighting isis, he has been all over the map. you would have to literally map it out. he's talked about letting syria become a free zone for isis. look at the map.

donald. he's talked about sending in american ground troops. not on my watch. >> reporter: the democratic nominee capitalizing on trump's own words about veterans in this new ad. >> john mccain, a war hero. >> he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured, okay? >> reporter: as she touts her own military supporters. >> they know they cannot count on donald trump, they true him as a danger and risk. >> reporter: but trump says clinton is the dangerous one. >> hillary clinton favor what is called military adventurism. rushing to invade countries, displacing millions of families and then inviting the refugees into our country creating power vacuums fill bids terrorist groups like isis. >> reporter: as the two rival trade barbs over who qualifies as friend or foe. >> hillary likes to play tough with russia.

putin looks at her and he laughs. russia doesn't like isis any better than i do. >> we're going to work with our allies, not insult them. we're going to stand up to our adversaries not cozy up to them. >> reporter: trump also taking aim at clinton private e-mail servers, highlights that one of her aides destroyed old phones with a hammer. >> very shady activity. >> reporter: and seizing on clinton's interview that she couldn't recall. >> she hasn't remembered anything. were you instructed on how to use it? i can't remember. >> reporter: now, the focus on national security continues for both candidates on the campaign trail. today, we're expecting donald trump to continue to draw the contrasts between his approach to foreign policy, southwest clinton's. but we're also expecting him to call for an end to sequestration. he's supposed to lay out his

plans for bolstering the military and also explain how he will pay for it. back to you. hillary clinton slamming donald trump accusing him of concealing his foundation's $25,000 donation to the campaign of florida attorney general pam bondi as she was considering investigating fraud claims against trump university. now, we're listening this is not the first time that trump's political donations violated rules. cnn's correspondent jeff zellny joins us. >> donald trump has talked about what he calls a rigged political system. this morning, a fresh reminders that he's been part of the system for a long time. it's this $25,000 donation from his foundation to the florida attorney general that's receiving fresh scrutiny because it came just agency her office was set to review allegations of fraud at trump university. foundations are not allowed to make such political contributions. so she was slapped by a 2500

fine by the irs. the clinton campaign back on offense with hillary clinton and abill clinton raising all of this. its inability to release his tax return. >> surely, the goes on and on with the scams, the business relationships. the business activities that have stiffed workers, refused to pay small businesses. so clearly, his tax returns tell a story that the american people deserve and need to know. >> i got tickled the other day when mr. trump called my foundation a criminal enterprise. he made a political contribution to the attorney general of florida who at the time had her office investigating trump university. and mysteriously, the investigation vanish. >> now, touch says he never discussed this case with florida attorney general pam bondi or anyone. now, she says this morning she was not considering investigating her, but in fact

her office was but a comment he made last summer is still resonating. he said this, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do. that is a reference to his political contributions for more than three decades which includes a laundry list of evading limits and in some case breaking campaign finance laws. >> and they have examples of different donations that he has given. so, is this -- is this a loophole that he has found? or are these actual legal violations? >> in some cases they're legal violations and he's been fined by entities largely shared in new york city. we can look at a list of them. in 1985, he evaded a limit by 18 subsidiary companies there. in 1990s he was fined by exceeding limits by nearly $50,000. >> illegal. >> and 2000, fined $250,000 by new york. and then, of course, tens of

thousands of dollars to four attorneys general, two democrats, two republicans, into trump university. he's, "a," new to the political system, and "b" it would change the system because he's in fact been a part of this system for a very long time. >> and it certainly continues this pay to play conversation we've been having for a few weeks now. >> and it's on his side. in both cases he's been charge with charges of doing so. in the clinton foundation there have been allegations but we have found no smoking guns. policy and politics to discuss. christine quinn, hillary clinton supporter and vice chair of the new york democratic state party. and corey lewandowski, former trump campaign manager still receiving severance from the campaign. donald trump says he has a secret plan and says he's going to demands the plan within 30 days from his generals. that rangels some of the

military leadership who feels that is dismissive. lieutenant general hertling ran the operation iraq. >> i had to say to myself, what the hell does he think we've been trying to do for the last 14 years in terms of al qaeda? it shows a complete misunderstanding of threat and ways to fight it. and national security policy. >> from the trump perspective, what is the genius of asking for a 30-day plan. >> first, let me say what the general also said he didn't recognize many of the names on that list of 88 admirals and generals supporting donald trump saying i don't know if they're on the front lines fighting. general mike flynn, a retired three-star general, the agency tasked with making sure the national secrets are protected. he's advising donald trump on a

daily basis saying i don't recognize those people. >> it's a sidebar conversation. it's fair for you to make the part if it bothers you. know this lieutenant general hertling he's nobody to assail. he knows his history. >> four star generals on the list who endorsed donald trump with his plan to move forwards. the question is, we've got one general who doesn't support donald trump he's entitled to his opinion but do not despairage the 88 generals. >> the 30-day demand, why is that the right way to do it? >> i think because what you have with donald trump, you have a leader. what he's already doing he's sitting down with the generals and admirals from around the country. with the best military experts, the day i take office, 30 days from january 20th, 30 day, later, we're going to have a plan that's precise, concise and will take out isis immediately. >> now, remember, this is a man donald trump who has said he knows more about isis than the

generals. he knows the most about isis. from word go that's insulting to our military leaders because they have been admirals and jens, 95 of whom, many republicans supporting hillary clinton. they've been on the front lines. no one should say they no more than the men and women fighting and leading. two, i don't really get -- he has a secret plan. do we ever get to see it. like chaos from "get smart" a secret cone plan. if he has a secret plan, why wouldn't he give the secret plan and ask the generals to work on it? he's really following through unfortunately on the statement from the republican national convention, he said it's all about me. i can get it done. when in fact, this is a long, complicated effort and task and mission we need to finish and

dictating to those who have been our leaders is not going to get that done. >> has hillary clinton spent too much critiquing donald trump as a leader and not enough time distinguishing her actual policy characteristics? >> i think secretary clinton has spent fairly a lot of time pointing out what is incorrect and wrong about donald trump's temperament. his vision, and his lack of real plans. and if she wasn't doing that the media would be saying, why is she letting him get away with it. and when somebody continues to act in a way that is racist and is clearly about their own financial interest, you just can't let that stand. >> but donald trump isn't who people are afraid of -- attacking him in the night. it's terror. so why doesn't clinton focus on her supposeded advantage which is i understand policy. i know how to do this. why doesn't she talk about that and use that as a highlighted

distinction instead of claiming hoarse worse battle? >> one, i think she has to do because what's at risk so significant in the world as it relates to foreign policy as it relates to security. and having someone who has clearly an unstable temperment leading our country is too dangerous, that potential to ignore. beyond that, i think if you look at the clinton campaign, they've put out far more specifics than the trump campaign in this area and in every area. and if you look at voters -- >> but on the website, it's a little bit about side play. but let me move on to something else. have you seen the secret plan? hold on a second. you have seen the secret plan? >> no, i have not. the answer is, donald trump gets things done. what the clinton campaign is in right now, they're in free fall. they're lose big 20 points in cnn's poll. they're losing married women by 18 points.

now that worry post-labor day, 62 days from the election, donald trump has continued to decimate what was the post convention hype. it's a 2% deficit or more. the problem is people are enthused about it. people want leadership. when it comes to defeating isis and terrorism, people believe that donald trump is going to do better than hillary clinton. when it came to brexit, donald trump called right. hillary clinton got it wrong. >> first of all, calling the results of an election right isn't leadership. and saying the results of brexit were good for him because he would make more money is the opposite of leadership it's selfishness. and we knew the race would get closer. i think both sides knew that. there are a myriad of polls out there there's an poll out there what that has hillary clinton leading. 56% of those polls say that hillary clinton is the person who has the best and most

significant foreign policy experience. >> just to lay that out for the audience and the way they can get it. there's a paradox if you talk about who will keep you safe in isis, trump does better on polls. if you talk about gnash security, clinton does better on polls. there's a little confusion which many polls also are. the mainstay of this race though, both have been motivated by campaigns is the character context. when you were running the show over there, were you aware of how long trump had been running around campaign laws? and was a concern to you guys in making the effort to go after clinton for pay for play? >> well, what we have known, when i was at the campaign, we have seen the full analysis of how much he's contributed to republicans and democrats over the past 40 years. as a businessman someone wanting to make sure that this company and family and business had the best opportunities. to get done what he did in

new york was unpayroralleunpara. to get the build of the entire west side. congressmen, right down the line from hillary clinton to george bush. donald trump was an equal employment supporter because he wanted to make sure there was a business objective. >> what i'm saying if you're going against the clinton foundation for allegations of pay for play. he's hot on this. he did that as a main behavior, he tried to find ways to circumvent the law. and in "the new york times" yesterday, this isn't opinion, it's in "the new york times," there's a list of things that actually happened where he was caught and had to pay fines how does that make -- hold on a second -- how does that make you a change agent? we get what the problem is. we get that it's corrupt. if you exploit the corruption, how do you change it? >> he said this many times he was the fair haired one. right. he knew the system better than

anybody. what he didn't do, he didn't make the $100 million of service for the federal government. he made his money in the private sector. and he used the rules in the private secretary to benefit his company. that's what businesses do. >> even if you believe your thought process there that he just used the rules, you know, nothing wrong with that, nathat not what happened. he in fact broke the rules. subverted the rules and at times was fined largest fines those authorities have ever given out. and it's not just about donations, when he was lobbying against a casino upstate in the interest of his own business, he failed to divulge that he was working in coordination with roger ailes and others. and that and he was fined -- >> roger stone. >> i'm sorry, roger stone.

they were fined collect difficuively $250,000. it's not that they were giving money to somebody. >> maybe he said i don't remember 39 times in an fbi interview, maybe he forgot - the deposition that he does when he sued o'brien, how many times he talked about what he knew and didn't know in that deposition. people say certain things under scrutiny. we get that. here's what i want to ask you, i don't understand where your confidence is on this because when it comes to, well, you know, had was trying to get around the system. 13 phones they destroyed with hammers, the fbi report says when it comes out? how are your voters supposed to take that? it's not just about oh, i had my own e-mail server i shouldn't have done it. hey, they said i could delete e-mails so i did. bashing phones with hammers, who does that? >> at the end of the day -- >> i'm saying if you're going to

get high and mighty about what trump did, how do you feel about the phones? >> at the end of the day, the fbi said there's nothing to investigation, nothing to move forward. as opposed where he's been fined by the federal election committee. the new york state lobbying commission. he gave a $50,000 loan to the president of new york city council. >> and problem is with trump, voters are analyzing what they know about him and probably won't like. with clinton, there's this question mark about what they don't know. >> there's very little that isn't known about -- >> bashed up the phones, the e-mails. >> i think there's very little that isn't known. but what's also a fact is these illegal donations and corrupt lobbying efforts have not gotten the attention they should have. i'm not saying the e-mails don't deserve attention. of course they do and they have gotten them but we also need to have attention on these types of donations which were clearly done as corey said to help his business and families. not abide big the law and not with a focus on what's best.

>> there's no person in america who uses and destroys 13 phones unless you're doing something nefarious. that's what you see with burner phones when you destroy them. it's egregious to think that the federal government has bought hillary clinton 13 phones. >> it wasn't just her, right? >> well, people working with her in an official capacity, those have been destroyed. what we've seen time and time again, we're finding more information about illicit activity. >> and we're finding more information about donald trump's corrupt actions. >> that's why voters are faced with a difficult choice in this election. it's coming down to who is less bad. corey thank you, christie. >> alisyn, there's nothing worse than knowing that both people

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the house has responsibility. these are not hillary clinton's e-mails. these are federal records and i believe it's one of potentially the biggest breaches of security in the history of the state department. you can't just let all of this classified information in four years of records go out the door without some accountability. and without us making sure that it never happens again. >> well, that was republican chairman of the house oversight committee jason chaffetz making the case for new hearings on hillary clinton's e-mails starting tomorrow. this as an fbi report on friday revealed that this tech company working on clinton's behalf deleted a number of her e-mails after a congressional order was issued to preserve this. let's discuss this and so much with congressman adam smith. congressman thanks so much for

being here with us on "new day." >> you bet. good to be with you. >> what do you make of these new hearings that jason chaffetz is calling for. basically his rationale is that there's new information that has come to light that warrants new hearings, basically, that these e-mails were deleted by an i.t. guy, using bleach bit, i mean, to sort of permanently wipe them, after the benghazi committee called for them to be preserved. doesn't that warrant a new investigation? >> no, there's no -- nothing to warrant a new investigation. the fbi looked into all of these facts and concluding that there was no illegality. that in fact no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case under these facts. what we're seeing is not really a new rationale by jason chaffetz. we're seeing the same rationale that gets back to kevin mccarthy's comments that were at the origin of benghazi committee which i served on which is

driving hillary clinton's poll numbers down. that's really the motivation. really the only reason to open the case that the fbi just closed. we spent two years and $7 million on a wild goose chase looking for some facts that could tie hillary clinton to a standdown order in benghazi or a cover up in benghazi. after two years we found nothing along those lines. and i'm afraid this is just more congressional expenditure in the service of a campaign. >> but congressman, at least the public didn't not know that at least a dozen blackberries that mrs. clinton used were destroyed by a hammer by one of her staff. and they didn't know that a bleach bit was used in violation of a request to preserve e-mails. isn't this new information that can be delved into? >> well, certainly, anything can be delved into. is it new information? no, this is information that was actually uncovered by the fbi investigation. so these are all facts that the fbi considered and nonetheless

found no intent to hide information. no evidence of an attempt to violate the law. and said very sharply -- >> i have to entinterrupt you, attempt to deny the information, why were her blackberries destroyed by a hammer? why go to that length? >> i don't know but this is the part of revealing only parts of an investigation. we don't know the full facts that surround it. we do know that the fbi has looks at the facts. the fbi did a thorough and exhaustive investigation that's one of the things that leaps out to you in the details that they provided to congress. in themselves are only a small subset of this. they concluded that there's nothing that can be prosecuted by any prnl prosecutor. at some point, you have to be willing to say, okay, we accept the conclusion of the neutral professionals at the fbi. but, of course, that's not in the service of the political campaign. and we go on.

i do want to comment on something if i could, about the prior discussion about donald trump's secret plan for beating isis. because as somebody focuses on national security every day, this really leaps out. we've been told for months he knows a secret plan that he know better than the jens. now it's announced he's going to ask those generals he knows better than for a plan in 30 days. you can defeat isis sending in tens of thousands american troops but what donald trump isn't willing to tell the country, would he entertain that kind of plan? this is why i don't think he's ready for prime time? >> and i do want to ask you about something else that's cropped up in the campaign, that is, russia allegedly hacking into the dnc computers. do you think from intelligence that you can share that vladimir putin is trying to insert himself and meddle in this president yaial election? >> you know, i can only comment

on the public available information. but there's a lot of public available information thanks to these very credible private firms that have done the investigation for the dnc. and the dccc. and i think yes there's abundantly publicly available that russia hacks into these systems. and yes, i think they have the means and history of dumping into the campaign to affect the political outcomes. here i think they have a couple motivation. i think they have a motivation of discrediting democracies. we're champions of democracy and authoritarianisms. they clearly have a favorite candidate who wants to undermine nato. that is trump. high potentially wants to recognize russia's illegal annexation of crimea. and on the other hand, they have

a candidate in secretary clinton who they will know she will maintain sanctions against russia. and will build a coalition to maintain those sanctions. so it's pretty clear who the russians want. and it's pretty clear that the russians also want to impeach our very democracy. >> troubling stuff, congressman adam schiff, thank you for being on "new day." clinton has her troubles and donald trump has his. a big controversy of his own brewing right now. a $25,000 campaign donation in question. fined by the irs. was it pay to play politics in action? we ask an adviser -- next.

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that both campaigns are banking on the character test. so, here, on "new day," we're going to dig deeper into the growing list of controversies plaguing both candidates and press their campaigns about them as a service to you. in the next hour, we're going to take on hillary clinton's controversies with one of her surrogates. right now, we're going to discuss donald trump facing new questions about whether a $25,000 political donation to florida's attorney general is an extension of this history he has to trying to get around the system to benefit himself. we have attorney general pam bondi involved in that. but let's discuss what's going on with the whole category of concern. senior adviser for the campaign sarah huckerby sanders is joining us. people don't like how it is. they need a change agent. how can donald trump be the

change agent when he so actively engages in what is the problem? >> i think that is very simple. he's the only candidate in the race who is isn't completely controlled by the donor class. clinton has been the access the day she stepped into washington, she's proven that time and time again. donald trump has come in and can shake thing up, he's not beholden to the donor class. he can change the way washington works. >> but he's also the only person we have in the race with proof that someone who has abused the system for their own gain. how do you get confidence that he'll do it the right way when the onldz record we have is doing it the wrong way? >> i don't necessarily think he's done it the wrong by with rules brought by hillary clinton that are corrupt. as a private citizen to get

access, you have to be a donor. donald trump was a businessman. that's why, you know, he was part of that process. but as president, knowing how that system works knowing how corrupt it is and not being beholden to the donor class who can actually come in and change the way that washington works and he's the only person that can do that. that absolutely has to happen. >> but knowing the system is different than abusing the system, right? it makes you go from cop to criminal in a metaphoric complex. >> if anybody is going to be a criminal in this race, it's absolutely hillary clinton. she actually broke the law. >> nobody is a proven criminal. if you talk about breaking the law, but up "the new york times" reporter -- >> they're such a credible source. >> all right, fine. all they did is go through the record of different things that have happened that have been record as fact. he used the 18 subsidiary companies back in the '80s. i'll give you that as a loophole. because each of the different buildings was found in new york

to be able to have its own pocket, relating to politics help did that they didn't like it during the election laws, they went after him. he was then fined several different times for circumventing the laws. this bondi thing, the irs caught his charity -- >> actually, it was self-reported. it wasn't that the irs taught -- donald trump's own organization self-reported and paid every penny back and corrected that mistake. >> well, that there was a construction to the record once the irs flagged it and fined it they corrected. he has paid fines for these things more than once. it's not just using the system as a businessman, it's abusing it, right? >> there's nothing wrong with a republican giving money to another republian. >> or to a democrat. >> to a foreign government, that's corruption, that's pay to play. that's a problem. that's what disqualifies hillary clinton. donald trump was give money to a

private system to somebody he's known for years and somebody he supports as a candidate and frankly a great candidate for florida. and the type of thing that clinton is sleetly about surdz. what she's done as disqualified her if becoming president. >> which of the two has been found to have broken the law when it comes to pay for play? >> i think hillary clinton has certainly broken the law. >> which one has been found to have broken the law? look, i get the arguments you want to make about what's wrong with clinton. you can do that but don't you have to own what trump has done. he's been fined and caught more than once for breaking the rules. don't you have to own that? >> well i would say the situation with pam bondi is say clerical mistake. they self-reported. they corrected it immediately. and donald trump paid that full price back, every single penny. >> and the timing of the attorney general contacting trump asking for a donation then saying she's considering looking at trump university getting a donation, not going after trump

university -- >> i don't think she ever said she was considering looking at trump university. in fact democratic attorney generals -- >> the office said they were looking at it and they got it from the office. >> a lower level staff member also admit they had never sent it up to pam bondi. so it never made it to her desk. >> boy, when that was said about hillary clinton with reference to what was going on with security measures in benghazi, donald trump laughed it out of hand as a suggestion, and said how could you not know what's going on in your office if you're the boss. now when it comes to pam bondi that rationale is pretty acceptable? >> i think there's a big difference. very minor when you where one complaint filed in a state where they receive thousands upon thousands of complaints every day. >> they didn't just get one complaint about trump in florida. they got many. >> at the time when pam bondsdy was in office they only received one complaint at the time she was in office. there were other complaints filed prior to her taking office. >> so there were other

complaints there to look at. i'm not saying that there is proof that he did this. i'm just saying, it doesn't look good. and that is the measuring stick for what you're doing with clinton. there's no smoking gun. there's no proof of pay for play. but certain things don't look good. taking a ham hammer to a blackberry, doesn't look good. it's not illegal according to the fbi but that doesn't mean it's right. i'm asking, where is trump's high ground here? >> i think there's a very big difference to give. i go back to try to impair a republican giving money to a fellow republican. versus a foreign government giving money to a secretary of state. the level of corruption there is absolutely uncomparable. i mean, those two things are not even remotely similar in my mind. >> and as we move forward on this campaign on this basis of what to do, donald trump hasn't said how he would change the system yet? doesn't that matter? if he's go to be a change agent and understands the system, say, look, what would he do

differently, how would he fill in the holes that he himself exploited and actually broke the rules. how would he fix it? >> i think for starters he has the ability go in and do a lot of things he's campaigned on whether the border, helping reform of health care. hillary clinton is so beholden to the donor class, she has no freedom, she's controlled by a group of 15 to 20 donors that will control every move she makes. donald trump doesn't have the hand cuffs on him. he will go in and make decisions, bold reforms and hillary clinton has no freedom to do that. >> sarah huckabee sanders, these are not easy decisions. we appreciate you being here on "new day." you heard the defense of them. tweet us @"new day." just hours before the big debut, all of the buzz surrounding apple's new iphone 7

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apple unveiling it's highly anticipated iphone 7 today. new changes has questionable changes. cnn's money/tech correspondent samuel burke is live in san francisco when the announcement will be made. it's early there. what are you hearing, sam? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn, to upgrade or not to upgrade that will be the question that's answered. today, take a look at this list, we're expecting a water-resistant phone.

drop your water in a river, pool, body of water, hopefully, it will survive. we're also expecting a dual lens camera, hopefully something like a wedding photographer will take. more storage. 13 gigabuys. and elimination of the headphone port that hole where you plug in your headphones. how do you listen to music? a lot of people think you'll have headphones going through the charging port. also wireless headphones. those are on the market and maybe apple will be selling their own. maybe use an adapter. they work fine and they're cheap. keep the pair of headphones that you have. a lot of people asking me how does apple think he can get away with a big change like this. we've used the headphone for years but they have a history of guesting rid of the floppy disk drive, the dvd and all eyes will be fixed right here, chris.

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stretched too thin in the ground game. let's ask shawn spicer, the republican national committee. >> good morning. >> how would you describe donald trump's ground game today? >> phenomenal. excellent. you look at the ground game we've put out this cycle, working hand in hand with the campaign, the most comprehensive ground game any political operation has put out. >> is that the same as biggest? >> we have more staff than we've had before. we're covering more states. we've made more voter contacts. at the end of the day, what matters is the number of voter contact, the amount of data you're collecting and finlgure t who will get out early and persuade those who vote for you. we feel good being to the final stretch. >> help us understand the numbers. this is the amount of offices that donald trump has in battleground states versus hillary clinton. let's pull this up for everybody. in ohio, he has less than half n

florida, he has one, she has 34. in pennsylvania, two. she has 36. in north carolina, zero. how is that comprehensive? >> first of all, and i don't mean to be facetious. what we learned in 2012, is figure odd wha figured out what they did well and improved upon it. that's what we focused on. voter contact, trained in the field, making contact, registering, understanding more about them. we've had over 5,000 volunteers. i mean, these are fellows having weekly metric trained. we've got over 1,000 paid staff on the ground. each one of those people are going out and making sure we understand every voter, where people live, what is making them vote, what issues are important, who the key influences are, they voting early, absentee. we've got the most comprehensive ground game and i would say any party has ever had and the proof will be on election day. offices don't vote. remember, you can have a million

people sitting in an office. what you want is a bunch of people talking to voters, making sure understand what the issues are, what the concerns are. >> sure. >> are they going to vote, do they have an absentee ballot. when are they going to vote, what are the key influences. and then following up. >> i hear you. in north carolina, you're saying you do have tons of volunteers. they're just not in an office. you don't have a physical office. >> no, in some cases we have victory centers, they're working out a county party or whatever. what we recognized is getting a punch of people to sit around an office is not helping us win an election. i think what obama did effectively over the last two cycles is recognize that voter contact, community oorging rgan understanding those voters face-to-face, learning about them, learning about the issues that's important, and that propelled him to victory. any close election, which this will be, a good game is worth three to five points.

>> absolutely. that's why we were asking about the ground game. you think the trump campaign is pulling its weight. you don't feel the rnc is having to -- we've read reports that you've had to supplement. >> reince priebus said no more tv ads, what we're going to focus is building the comprehensive data and ground game operation. no more stockpiling money. we told all of the candidates at the beginning of the process when you're all focused on becoming the nominee, we're going to focus on the best most comprehensive ground game out there. you guys focus on your candidacy, building out the campaign. we've worked hand in glove, so we're not stepping on each other. we've got people out there. they're putting out state directors helping to direct where we need the key people in different battleground states, but it is a hand in glove operation that is working

absolutely sleeamlessly and effectively. >> it doesn't sound like you're stretched too thin. that was the worry when the office leaders sent a letter last month where they worried that there wasn't basically going to be enough manpower and energy for the down ballot. let me read it to remind you and our viewers. only the immediate shift of all able rnc to vulnerable house races will prevents the gop from drowning with a trump em blaze ended anchor around its neck. that's a strong message. >> i respectfully disagree. it is a hand -- you can't cut off the top of the ticket and expect the bottom to survive. anybody who has a fundamental understanding of politics, you need a robust top of the ticket to win. what they believe is somehow y bifurcate the ticket. key senate states, ohio, nevada,

new hampshire, illinois, wisconsin, florida, they're all battleground states, and that's the difference. it is one thing if you had battlegrounds that weren't senate competitive and trying to figure out how to allocate resources. the competitive states, you can't separate the two. that's where i think they're frankly respectfully mistaken. >> sean, you sound energized, thanks for breaking it down. great to have you here. we're following a lot of news. let's get to it. my top general will have 30 days to submit a plan for defeating isis. >> after all his talk, the only thing that's clear is he has no clue. >> hillary clinton is the superior candidate in every respect. >> she is a disaster in so many different ways. >> she made a political contribution to the attorney general of florida, and mysteriously, the investigation

vanished. >> how about the 33,000 missing e-mails that were acid washed. >> the scams, the frauds, the business activities. the list goes on and on. >> putin looks at her and laughs. he laughs. >>announcer: this is "new day," with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning. hillary clinton and donald trump clashing over national security. trump says if he is elected, ale give his top generals 30 days to give him a new plan to defeat isis. clinton insists the secret plan is no plan at all. >> trump is getting a taste of his own medicine when it comes to pay for play allegations. there a new report showing a long history of violating campaign giving limits by trump. big numbers for you to remember. 62 days until election day. stakes could not be higher. when are the first votes cast, not 62, 16 days.

and just 19 days until trump and clin to be face off in their first debate. new developments, we have them covered. let's get to sara murray life in greenville, north carolina. sarah. >> reporter: good morning. donald trump is trailing hillary clinton on who is best to be commander in chief in our latest poll, but he is trying to turn the numbers around and trying to do that by going after hillary clinton not just on her foreign policy approach, but also on her use of a private e-mail server. >> she never talks about policy. >> reporter: donald trump and hillary clinton, clashing over who is ready to be commander in chief. >> he has no clue about what he is talking about. >> reporter: trump, unveiling endorsements from nearly 90 u.s. military leaders, and rere-veelg his plan to take down isis. >> going to convene my top generals and go i have them a simple instruction. they will have 30 days to submit to the oval office