it quickly. thanks very much. good work. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >> out front next, flip-flopping on his plan to beat isis. what does trump really want to do? the fbi director saying we don't play games on the clinton investigation. the debut of the iphone 7 will customers turn a deaf ear to apple's newest idea? let's go "out front." ♪ ♪ and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, donald trump attacking hillary clinton in a major speech outlining his plan to vamp up military ships and trump charging that clinton is reckless and in his words,

totally unfit to be commander in chief. >> sometimes, it seemed, like there wasn't a country in the middle east that hillary clinton didn't want to invade, intervene in or topple. she's trigger happy and very unstable. trump is speaking rather softly in his tone for him. he did read off a teleprompter declaring the united states is unprepared to face enormous threats around the world and he has promised to boost military spending by giving top generals 30 days to defend a plan to him. jim, trump has -- today was raising a lot of questions and obviously, his position is very different what we heard today from what we've heard in the past. >> reporter: that's right, erin. he was on message today. the problem was at times that message was conflicting with previous messages he put out to the public and there was one thing we saw that was consistent today and donald trump was making it very clear when it

comes to national security and when it comes to defeating hillary clinton. he believes the best defense is the good offense. >> laying out a national security vision he dubbed peace through strength, donald trump pulled out the heavy artillery on hillary clinton. >> sometimes, it seemed, like there wasn't a country in the middle east that hillary clinton didn't want to invade, intervene in or topple. she's trigger happy and very unstable. >> promising a approximatepolic diplomacy, the gop nominee pledged to boost military spending and enhanced the nation's cyber defenses and unleashed a state-of-the-art missile defense system and a new military plan to destroy isis. >> i will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy isis. >> reporter: that's a new approach for trump who claimed he had a secret strategy for defeating isis earlier this year. >> i said i have a great plan. it's going to be great.

what is it? i'd rather not say. i want to be unpredictable. >> as soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military. it is so depleted. we will rebuild our military. >> reporter: that's a reversal for trump who said three years ago sequestration didn't go far enough. >> frankly, this is a very minor amount of the cuts that have to be made ultimately and a lot of people are saying and even democrats are saying that. >> reporter: but time and again, trump tried to chip away at the public perception backed up by poll numbers that clinton is more fit to be commander in chief arguing her use of a private e-mail server was a disqualifying mistake. >> hillary clinton has taught us how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking. that's probably the only thing that we've learned from hillary clinton.

>> reporter: yet it was trump who once invited russia to hand over clinton's missing e-mails, a remark he said was a joke. >> rush a if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> reporter: now, there is one area of defense that he can work on as a candidate and that is his campaign war chest, a trump campaign official tells cnn that donald trump and his campaign raised some $90 million last month, erin, that is a lot less than hillary clinton raised last month and it is enough to start firing back at the ads she's running all over the country and the way this campaign is headed he's going to need every penny that he raises. >> jim, thank you very much. hillary clinton was off the campaign trail today nonetheless, she was firing back at trump's hits there. brianna keilar is covering the clinton campaign out front in new york tonight. brianna, what was she saying? >> reporter: this is her communications director jen

palmery on what trump took aim today, hillary clinton's national security and foreign policy. >> like a school yard bully that can't rely on facts and issues, he has one way of responding to criticisms, i know you are, but what am i? hillary clinton certainly does have vulnerabilities when it comes to foreign policy. a lot of experts will look at how closely she's been tied to president obama, the fact that syria has been regarded as many -- by many as a black mark on his legacy. she's made the case in the past that she argued to arm the syrian rebels and she lost that fight, but make no mistake about it she is tied very close to president obama and questions of this rise from isis. the status of libya is also something critics point to and just the idea that there isn't a really clear, significant foreign policy success that she can herald and this pivot to ash

that has been so important to president obama and that hillary clinton was involved in and the keystone of it is the tpp trade pact which clinton has now disavowed at this point. instead she focuses on the fact that she's well versed on issues and tries to bring up what donald trump has said on foreign policy and many of his statements that have seemed ill-informed or outrageous and that has really been where her focus is instead of defending her legacy. >> all right. brianna, thank you very much. and let's get straight to our panel now. major general james spider marks joins me along with higby and clinton supporter basil smikle and trump supporter jeffrey lord w and jeff zeleny our correspondent. his only way to responding to what she dubs legitimate criticism is to say i know you are, but what am i?

>> hillary clinton is trying to jab trump at any number of things, but she's the one thing recently she brought up was the pay to play thing with the pamela bondi in florida. the bottom line is she is not one to say anything about anybody about pay to play or immoral or anything so i don't understand why she would come back with that childish response like that. >> general? >> i've got to tell you that so are you or what am i, however she phrased that is inappropriate. i don't think that's the type of discourse that we need to have. look, i've endorsed hillary clinton as the potential candidate to be president because i think she has been scarred enough. she's been the one in the arena. she's been in the arena. donald trump has not been in the arena so it's very easy to lob the criticisms against her, but she's been in the arena, and i can hope and i feel confident that she's learned from a significant number of mistakes. if her presidency becomes what i call 03, obama three she's got

big issues. right now she needs to distance herself from a number of the foreign policy issues that have been in place, and she was an architect of some of those, but she can raise her hand and say we don't like her mistakes. >> how many mistakes before she's not qualified to run my military. i think the military has an incredible number of very senior leaders who know what they are doing and are very, very measured. this military, unlike donald trump, this military is the finest military that you've been a part of and i've been a part of that i've ever witnessed in history. it's phenomenal. capabilities are enormous. thinking is enormous. we have leaders that really know how to engage at the policy level and the strategy level. i want the president to exist at the policy level and be extremely predictable and i don't want an unpredictable president. >> on this point what i thought was interesting today is trump

describing her as trigger happy. that does not fit with him trying to portray her as weak as he tries to do day in and day out. >> a, most democrats are not called trigger happy and, in fact, one of the criticisms against her and she's been too much of a hawk here and i'll be surprised if he keeps using that and in some quarters that could be a helpful thing to her militarily speaking and this is all about judgment and that is the one thing going forward here that donald trump is trying to show that he has the judgment in the eyes of those suburban voters who aren't sure yet. it's national security this week the most central issue of our time, really, that it's all about judgment, but calling her trigger happy, i'm not sure that that works. >> jeff, it's the opposite. he keeps trying to say she's weak and she's tired and sick and all of these other things he's saying and today he's portraying her as a strong leader there. >> trigger happy is a matter of

judgment. >> one of the things i have to say in listening, peace through strength as he mentioned today is exactly a phrase from president reagan who used it in 1980 in the campaign against jimmy carter and used it throughout. >> he was speaking off a teleprompter and i'm sure they were careful to say that was in it. >> there was a deliberate reference to it. in terms of his reference to hillary clinton who is trigger happy, president obama invaded in the entire eight years, but one country and that was gran aed aa and that coincided with the barracks. he wrote in his memoirs that he regretted it and he shouldn't have done it and what he learned is never commit these troops unless you're committed to victory and that's -- >> trump is now saying he's depending on his generals for a plan. 30 days come with a plan. obviously that's different from what he said before when he said

he had a plan and he wasn't going to tell us what it was. >> and it's interesting about what he had to say about the generals of this country. here he is. >> know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. they don't know much because they're not winning. >> donald trump has a goal, okay? he has had a goal. i think he has misspoken when he said he has a plan. he needs to take the handcuffs off the military and let them do their job. in 30 days i want a plan, you bring me your plan i'll give you the means to accomplish it? >> four four-star generals and 14 officers supporting donald trump, does it surprise you? >> it does surprise me and it was in response to the national security supporters about a month ago. the issue that i have is that the discussion of taking the gloves off of the military concern me as a guy who had the gloves on and in many case hess to take the gloves off is that when we talk about rules of

engagement the payer for the rules of engagement is either the soldier on the ground or there will be collateral damage which is the face of a family. we have to have imposed upon the application of force some measured responses that have to be -- you have to be able to assess. >> general, i've been at war first hand and those rules of engagement are killing our troops and i can point to circumstances firsthand that i saw and those measures and those extreme rules of engagement are getting our troops killed and i'd want someone like donald trump to accept a higher level of collateral damage. >> it's not only military and it's diplomatic and economic that have to be applied in a real synergistic way. >> hillary clinton calls it a scam and bill clinton says it was a payoff. did trump pay to play? we have new details breaking up this hour and plus trump's running mate making it clear, he

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i've given to everybody because that was my job. i have to give it them because when i want something i get it. when i call they kiss my ass, okay? it's true. >> reporter: in 2000 trump was fined for failing to an institu institute, lbying a casino in upstate new york and told radio listeners the st. regis mohawk tribe was involved in drug smuggling, money laundering, trafficking illegal immigrants and the ads ended saying are these the kind of new neighbors we want? it turns out that the institute had been organized by roger stone, donald trump's longtime public relations pal and funded by trump both men settled the case against them and had fines of $150,000, the largest ever at

that time to the new york state lobbying commission. >> trump also got in trouble with the federal election commission in 1988 after he exceeded the $25,000 donation limit. he donated in excess $47,000 before, according to trump's attorney at the time, trump learned he had broken the law. trump says he tried to get the money back, but he didn't get all of it and wound up paying a $15,000 fine to settle the matter. trump's attorney stressing the fact that mr. trump acted voluntarily and expeditiously to correct an unintentional and unwitting violation. trump's case was so bad it made the federal elections commissions selected list of cases and he's right there on page 7, but before you say gotcha, trump has lots of companies much high or the sec's list including the democratic senatorial campaign committee and the republican national committee and obama for america and very near the top the

democratic national committee. lawrence noble, the campaign legal center says trump may not be the biggest campaign finance violator and he certainly should know enough to follow the law. >> he has made these types of things a serious issue and he has talked about political contributions and how they buy influence and how he expected people to respond so i would think that he would have some sensitivity to the laws involving giving political contributions. trump's defense over the years including his botched donation to florida attorney general pam bondi has been they were all mistakes, errors in accounting or not realizing he was violating the rules. >> i understand you find those other examples, drew, but when you mentioned the donation to pam bondi in florida, that wasn't all he did to help her, was it? >> no, that's not. in 2014 a year after that he opened up the doors of his mar-a-lago club for a big fund-raiser hosted for bondi and

you can see the invitation came from trump and rudy giuliani. minimum donation was $3,000. newspapers was able to raise $140,000 for bondi's re-election campaign. erin? >> thank you very much, drew. i want to bring back my panel. let me start with you, jeff lord. he gave mow money and fund raisers to pam bondi and in the months after she decides not to prosecute trump university and the couple of months after his daughter done eights to her campaign and he donates via his foundation to the campaign and he hosted the fund-raiser which local reports say it rented for $100,000 when it goes to $140,000 this is a clear pay to play. i don't think there's anything there. >> honest to goodness, politicians, donald trump and everybody else get donations from people like donald trump who he has been saying from the get go here and the case of trump of university, she didn't even know as i understand it, her lower level staff never

brought this to her attention. this just doesn't -- this just doesn't fit and to bill clinton's credit -- >> he knew, right? >> and he self-corrected here on this one. the point here is that i love bill clinton because he does exactly this, right? he is -- he is not what his wife is. he is a really good, slick politician and they don't call him slick willy for nothing. what he's trying to do here is to take the focus off all of the e-mails and clinton foundations and say this is a moral equivalent here and it's not even close. this isn't even apples to oranges. >> let's be clear here, donald trump specifically said he gives money to get the outcomes that he wants. this -- there was a clear -- it seemed as though this investigation was taking off and all of a sudden it stopped. mind you, there must have been enough there to initiate this because even here in new york state the attorney general is

prosecuting and investigating -- i might add -- >> is he investigating the clinton foundation? >> it wouldn't have been political if the attorney general in florida had gone ahead with her prosecution of trump university, but she did not, why? i don't know. maybe the charity actually gave her some money and taken it back and all of a sudden there's $100,000 fund-raiser for this individual? >>. >> he decided not to prosecute. that timing could be significant. >> he tuesday from his own mouth. he pays for his outcomes. >> today the campaign manager kellyanne conway calls it a coincidence. here's how she put it. >> mr. trump and attorney general bondi never discussed the trump university matter at all. it's very customary for him to contribute to republican candidates across the country and he's been very generous including the candidates who don't support him now in his presidency. >> monica, coincidence? >> well, that's their story and

they're sticking to it. they argue that the excessive amount of e-mails and the people that were able to make donations to the clinton foundation and get special treatment at the state department was much more excessive and consistent than his occasional mishaps or accidental problems with either the florida or any other examples, and if this is a changed election, they believe that what hillary clinton has shown with the clinton foundation and secretary of state as a washington insider is much more problematic for her than it is -- >> than an outsider trying to buy influence if indeed that's what people perceive. >> but the actions here, though, there is something that seems intention intentional. that wasn't anything in drew's report, 18 subsidiary companies trump used to give donations. that made it look like 18 different groups were giving so he could give 18 times what he was allowed to give. >> all of the ins and outs of

this. on the one hand he was a businessman doing business. this is the whole crony capitalist thing. this is why all of this establishment people hate him because he has turned on the system, and he has said it's corrupt, and he is the one leading the charge. >> can he -- can he get away with saying they're going to kiss my you know what and it's a good thing? >> it definitely makes him look like a politician which we know of course, he is. he has been giving to a lot of democrats including the attorney general in california. so i don't know that we can't prove that there was pay for play here. absolutely not, but we can't prove it in the clinton foundation either, so it certainly muddies the water and since he brings it up in the clinton foundationdation there are certainly as many examples here and that's why people hate all of this here. i'm not sure this changes the ball at all, and for the clinton

campaign it's a distraction. >> if i can interject and we said this and sort of talked around this that he may not be a typical politician and he's trying not to present himself as that, and i've heard this line of reasoning that the bar will be set really low for him. my issue is if you'll hold him accountable hold him accountable to the same way that you hold hillary clinton accountable. you lower the bar. >> he's running for president of the united states. if you're going to hold her accountable, hold him accountable the same way. >> we'll leave it there. thanks to all. mike pence, as he believes barack obama is born in the united states. i guess that still qualifies as breaking news. should donald trump apologize for his birther conspiracies and a republican lawmaker struggling with this simple question about donald trump. >> are you comfortable with him having his finger on the nuclear button?

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>> breaking news,'s growing number of republicans ditching donald trump to ditch the birther issue, and each mike pence told reporters i believe barack obama was born in hawaii. i accept his birthplace and i don't know where he's coming from on foreign policy, on economics and on obamacare. and here senator lindsay graham's advice to donald trump tonight. >> here's mr. trump's problem. if you hang on to these views and you can't say, you know, that's not right, then people question your judgment. if you really do believe that this president was born in kenya, then i'm not so sure i want you to be my president. >> sunlen serfaty is out front. there's no side that trump seems to be changing his tune on the birther issue, is there? >> no signs at all, erin, that donald trump is backing off in one bit as he has in the past

and not really walked away from those insinuations that he made in the past or renounced the birther movement in any way, and it was very notable not only senator graham and one of donald trump's chief surrogates and top surrogates, ben carson said that he believes that is hurting donald trump right now especially when talking about how he's trying to court african-american voters and ben carson notably said that he believes that it would help donald trump to apologize for making these charges that president obama was not born in the u.s. when everyone knows when he was born in the u.s. donald trump did not appear close to an apology and here's what he said on fox. >> so you think your birther position has hurt you among african-americans? >> i don't know. i have no idea. i don't even talk about it anymore, bill, i don't bother talking about it. i don't know. i guess with maybe some. i don't know why. i really don't know why, but i

think -- you're the first one that's brought that up in a while. i don't think so. i mean, look, i went to detroit. we had -- it was like a lovefest. >> reporter: it's not really an act of defiance by ben carson for donald trump and ben carson carrying so much weight within the african-american community casting this aside as a non-issue. >> sunlen, out front now, pastor darryl scott a donald trump supporter and a hillary clinton suppo supporter. bishop vaughn, let me start with you. you just saw donald trump, and he doesn't think the birther issue has hurt him that much with african-americans and he's not apologizing for anything he's said in the past. what do you say? >> i say what i've always said, mr. trump needs to say that he is sorry for making those statements, for being a part of that conspiracy against our president. i think that even when he was with us in detroit, had he just

started with that and said, you know, maybe i over spoke it, but that's not where my heart is today. that would soothe a lot of feathers, and i believe it would go a long way in the african-american community. >> pastor scott, ben carson, one of trump's top surrogates said donald trump should apologize for the birther issue and you heard senator lindsay graham saying the same thing. mike pence says president obama was born in the united states. why can't trump just say it and apologize? >> i don't think he has to apologize. in 2010, "the new york times" conducted a poll which revealed that 43% of all americans believed president obama was born outside of the country and they were not sure. donald trump was among that 43%, but the thing that people have to realize is that it was not racial. it was political. it was a political move, not a racial move and the democratic party has taken something that was political and tried to make

it racial. trump has grudgingly accepted this citizenship -- >> grudgingly, yes. >> he has grudgingly accepted it and it does not require an apology. watch this. the same issue was brooched in 2015-2016 with ted cruz and his citizenship was questioned and nobody thought it was racial. the race card was not played. it was known to be political, which it was. now, did trump offend canadian-americans and does trump have to apologize to all canadian-americans and they took something that was political and made it racial. >> when you say he's among the 43%, there are some who say he was the driver of the 43%. he wasn't among, he was the driver. >> the poll was taken in 2010 and donald trump didn't bring up the birther issue until 2011 so he came in afterwards. he was not the leader. g. gordon liddy was the leader of the birther issue and the former house majority leader tom

delay, and that's his right as an american citizen to believe whatever conspiracy theory or whatever it is that he wants to believe, but once again, it's political and they took something that was political and made it racial. since trump is making inroads into the black community, hillary clinton gets this old argument back out, dust it off and tries to play on the emotions and the sensitivities of black to say don't vote for him because he questioned our president. >> bishop vaughn? >> be that as it may. here's where we are today, with african-americans now at 2% in terms of favoring mr. trump as a presidential candidate. if you want to engage us, be that as it may, you can, quote dates, you can quote facts and you can quote names. the reality is you're 2% or less in the polls with african-american. if i think that that is something that can bring more that can engage more people to

me, then just make the decision as a leader and say, listen, i'm sorry. >> you don't apologize in politics, though. >> this is what we want. we want the votes. you'd be surprised what has to happen, and i don't think it's just racial. i don't really think it's just racial. i really don't. >> it was political. >> it was, but at that point. >> bishop vaughn -- >> let me finish. at that point he wasn't running for president. today he's running, so let's close the gap. close the gap, and that's not all -- that's not all that the african-american community is concerned about. >> let her finish. >> let me jump in. political parties always look for a reason to disqualify their opponents. >> absolutely. >> he's looking for a reason to disqualify him and there's nothing unusual about that. >> all i'm saying is now that we are -- >> go ahead. >> -- >> and i understand that, scott, but where we are today with your own surrogate advising you to

say it! this is your top surrogate. >> so what? >> that is inviting you to say it? >> so what? >> why not just say it? just say it? >> i wouldn't say it either. >> what is so hard about those two words? >> why should he be sorry for a political statement? >> not necessarily sorry for the statement, scott, but sorry -- he said something that was untrue, pastor. >> if it was racist then he has to be sorry for it, but if it's political. >> why isn't anybodying can him to apologize to ted cruz? >> canadian-americans in an uproar. >> ted cruz was born in canada. that is the difference. >> the citizenship is questioned. >> he's trying to win the african-american vote. the point of it is -- >> now watch us -- >> i'm going to hit pause here, but we are going to have you both back on this -- >> erin, i've got a point -- >> i've got to leave it there.

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breaking news, the fbi director james comey firing back in a letter to the employees of the agency strongly defending the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mail. comey standing by releasing the investigation over labor day weekend, quote, we don't play games. evan perez is out front. obviously, he's on the defense. how unprecedent side this memo? >> erin, it's extraordinary frankly. there's nothing ordinary about that case and it's not normal for the fbi to release so much information about the case that we decided not to bring charges on and comey said in the letter to employees that at the end of the day, quote, the case itself is not a cliffhanger despite the

chest beating by people no longer in government and there wasn't a prosecutable case. you get a sense he's not only talking to employees, and he's talking to members of congress and former fbi officials who are out there criticizing his decision. >> he's being criticized by members of congress paul ryan among them and the fact that you're putting information out over labor day and you're trying to hide it. >> i think what's happening here behind the scenes is this. the fbi officials know that republicans are not happy about the decision not to bring charges in this case, but you know, behind the scenes what they're talking about is this. do you want the fbi to bring a case against a presidential candidate weeks before an election. do you want that? this is not the decision for the fbi to make. this is a decision for voters and that's the decision that they feel that they've put in the voters' hands here. >> evan, thank you very much. also new tonight in donald trump we don't trust. a number of lawmakers on capitol hill refusing to say they have faith in a possible president trump handling the nation's

nuclear codes and this is coming from republicans. manu raju with this out front exclusive. >> reporter: as donald trump tries to sell voters on his national security credentials, some republicans in congress are struggling with the key question. >> do you trust him having his finger on the nuclear button? >> i support the republican nominees. >> what about the nuclear card? can he be trusted on that? >> i support the republican nominees, and i'm glad to do it. >> do you trump donald trump with his finger on the nuclear button. >> i think he's a better choice than mrs. clinton who has proven to be untrustworthy and i don't think -- somebody said she can't even talk truthfully about whether he's telling the truth and that troubles me terribly. >> i think he's a better choice. >> the top republican in the senate has no doubts. >> do you feel confident that he can be trufrted with his finger on the nuclear button? >> i didn't hear the speech today, but the answer is yes.

>> polls paint a different picture including a recent survey that about 54% of voters trust clinton with the nuclear codes compared with just 35% for trump. clinton's lead is just five points when voters are asked which candidate would be a better commander in chief. >> other republicans in tough races this november like kelly ayotte. >> my race is about me. >> and neither will endarininged house republicans. >> are you comfortable with him having his finger on the nuclear button? >> i've yet to endorse him. i don't anticipate that getting by november. if he had his finger on the nuclear button would you be comfortable with that? >> i have strong policy disgreenspans with mr. trump. >> reporter: today in philadelphia, trump painted clinton as the one who was reckless. >> she's trigger happy and very

unstable. >> and congressman joe hack running to be nevada's next senator isn't dancing around the question. >> you're completely supporting him? >> i am. >> do you trust him having his finger on the nuclear button? >> i do. >> why do you say that? >> why wouldn't i? >> and erin, i asked the trump campaign to respond to the republicans who won't say trump can't be trusted with the nuclear codes and the spokesman referred me to the 88 retired admirals and generals saying he's doing better with military family, plus the trump campaign believes voters will ultimately trust trump over clinton because of her mishandling of classified e-mails. ier snin. >> manu, thank you very much. out front next -- >> they're going to come after us. we don't have a place on this campus. >> intolerance on college campuses, why some young trump supporters are afraid to admit they're voting for him and jeanne moos on the newest iphone. did apple make a huge mistake?

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backed clinton and 40% for trump, again, a statistical dead heat, but on one of america's most liberal college campuses, trump supporters are not only outnumbered and scorned for supporting trump. kyung lau is out front. ♪ we shall overcome >> 1964 the university of california berkeley. >> there will be freedom scho s schools! >> decade after decade, berkeley symbolized free political speech on america's campuses, a bastion of liberalism. >> fast forward to 2016. >> my shirt says trump make america great again and my hat says make america great again, the berkeley republican club, on one of america's most liberal campuses, this is head turning, ridiculed. >> it doesn't get any better than this, kids. >> insults receiving. >> i'm shocked.

on campus anyone your age would be doing that. i'm ashamed. >> claire says she's heard it all as a republican student of berkeley. they're going to come after us, we don't belong on this campus. >> and her arc tendance says california's delegate at the republican national convention led to online threats. >> people feel like republicans don't have a home here and it's a little bit intimidating to have people walk by and want to yell at you or denounce your beliefs simply because you're sitting out there identifying as a republican. >> it's a feeling shared by others in the club. >> how many of you are reluctant to share your political beliefs on campus? >> almost everybody. >> the undercover trump voter, but it's really. >> kellyanne conway called that public shaming the reason why trump performs better on online polls, more anonymous than telephone polling. >> it's become socially desirable especially if you're a college-educated person to say you're against donald trump.

>> it isn't just socially undesirable here. >> if you are going around supporting someone who is known to be an open racist that kind of puts a target on your head, as well. >> especially if you're club president jose diaz. >> i don't know your ethnicity, but none of the racist comments stun you? >> there say complete lack of tolerance that any member of the berkeley community can hold the beliefs that we do. >> reporter: a place that forge free speech on employ da us uncomfortable with political speech with which they disagree. >> we spoke with the head of berkeley's political science department, and he says that these conservative students actually end up thriving on campus because their beliefs are constantly challenged. those conservative students for their part, they agree. they say they love their campus and they've learned an important lesson, erin, that it is best in political discourse to have your

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those watching the iphone 7 unveiling got a charge out of james corden. singing carpool karaoke while pretending to transport apple ceo tim cook to the event. presenters extolled longer battery life better cameras and jokesters mocked apple for its airpods and created parody products like the apple pencil, writes on things and instant recharging. this is no parody. apple introduced two new iphone colo colors. >> there is a second new black. we call it simply black. wires and headphone jacks only '90s kids will remember. >> infrared sensors detect which each air pod is in your ear. >> it's one more thing to worry about. >> sia. unfortunately, we couldn't see

whether or not she was wearing airpods. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> and thank you so much, as always, for joining us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. "a.c. 360" starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. representative elija cummings has released an e-mail exchange between secretary of state colin powell and then secretary of state hillary clinton. the exchange took place two days after clinton was sworn in and there are new details tonight about the decision to not charge clinton in the investigation to her use of a private server and fbi director james comey speaking out about that in very stark terms tonight. justice correspondent evan perez joins me now with late details and let's talk about this exchange between clinton and powell. what does it is a, exactly? >> anderson, it helps to put some context here. remember this was back in