around when you do false reporting and sometimes used that way and seems more like a bullying tactic, that's not to say some of the criticism is valid all around, of course. >> the fact that we're frustrating both sides should be seen as a good sign. >> we are supposed to be working for the viewers and i think for the most part, we're asking questions the viewers want to have asked. >> jim, brian, thank you. great to have both of you here. there is a lot of news to tell you about. let's get right to it. >> hillary clinton is running a policy-free campaign. >> my mother is the only person running for president who has a real plan. >> my father has created a plan that is designed to provide working parents with options. >> to be president, you have to do your homework and you have to know what you're talking about. >> well, my opponent slanders as you as deplorable and irredeemable. i call you hard-working american patriots.

>> she advanced the notion if you're chumming around with the head of the ku klux klan, that's deplorable. >> we cannot afford suddenly to treat this like a reality show. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alyison camerota. his expanded proposal is considered a big shift from traditional gop doctrine. trump's daughter, ivanka, helping to sell that plan. on the other side, president obama blasting trump on the campaign trail and hackers reveal that colin powell called trump a national disgrace. all of this as hillary clinton says she will return to the trail tomorrow. election day now 55 days away and early voting begins in just nine days in some states. trump and clinton will face off in their first debate 12 days

from today. we have it all covered for you. let's begin with joe johns with more. what is the latest, joe? >> morning, alyison. this is clearly a play for the women's vote. unusual for a candidate and the idea of six weeks of paid maternity leave in the form of unemployment benefits for new mothers whose employers don't offer maternity leave. the critique on that is that this doesn't address leave for fathers. also some subsidies here otherwise known as tax breaks and allowing parents to deduct the average cost of child care in their state based on the age of the child and would be available for up to four children or elderly dependents. and the plan would also provide tax deductions for stay at home parents with a working spouse. donald trump speaking last night explaining the importance of this policy proposal. but in the midst of it, also mischaracterizing the work hillary clinton has done on the

same issue. listen. >> for many families and our country, child care is now the single largest expense. would think that even more than housing. had very little meaningful policy work has been done in this area and my opponent has no child care plan. >> so, what did he get wrong there? the last part about hillary clinton. in fact, she has had a child care plan up on her website for more than a year. her plan calls for 12 weeks of paid family leave, also essentially would put a cap on the cost of child care at no more than 10% of the family's income. also providing flree pre-k for all 4 year olds. some say the trump's proposal doesn't go far enough. after spending his entire career and campaign supporting working families donald trump released a regressive and insufficient

maternity leave policy that is half baked and ignores the way americans live and work today. the so-called pay fors on both these plans are a problem. where would the money from these programs come from? trump would say do it by elimnading fraud and hillary clinton would do it by raising tax on the wealthy and both approaches don't take into account some practical and political realities. chris? >> you mean that everybody promises to take fraud out of different systems and it never happens. >> years and years. >> you can't pass a tax right now against the wealthy or anybody else in this country? well pointed out, joe, thank you very much. former secretary of state colin powell's e-mail was hacked. we all know what he thinks of donald trump and it's not good. president obama is making the case for clinton armed with brand-new economic ammunition. phil mattingly is live in flint, michigan. a very urgent situation in and of itself. he has more, phil? >> no question about it, chris.

when it comes to colin powell, national disgrace and at least in private that's how the former aer secretary of state is describing donald trump. barack obama with a very similar tone. >> i really, really, really want to elect hillary clinton. >> reporter: dubbed hillary clinton surrogate in chief, president obama blasting donald trump's qualifications to replace him. >> one candidate who's traveled to more countries than any secretary of state ever has and the other who isn't fit in any way, shape or form to represent this country abroad and be its commander in chief. one candidate's family foundation has saved countless lives around the world. the other candidate's foundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a

six-foot-tall painting of himself. >> reporter: obama rejecting trump's claim he is fighting for the working class. >> this guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern for working people. this guy suddenly going to be your champion. >> reporter: in discrediting trump's portrayal of the economy. >> we have a bad economy. >> by so many measures, america is stronger and more prosperous than when we started out on this journey together. >> reporter: obama's case bolstered by new u.s. census numbers showing the middle class wages rising for the first time since the recession and poverty rates dropping sharply. the president also slamming trump for his praise of russian president vladimir putin. >> their nominee is out there praising a guy, saying he's a strong leader because he invades smaller countries, jails his opponents, controls the press

and drives his economy into a long recession. >> reporter: trump fighting back on social media. tweeting, why isn't obama working? and russia took crimia during the so-called obama years. why does obama get a free pass? obama pressing the media to do more to hold trump accountable. >> donald trump says stuff every day that used to be considered as disqualifying for being president. and, yet, because he says it over and over and over again, the press just gives up and they just say, yeah, you know. okay. we cannot afford suddenly to treat this like a reality show. >> reporter: trump keeping up his attack on clinton for calling half of his supporters deplorable. >> well, my opponent slanders you as deplorable and irredeemable. i call you hard-working american

patriots. >> reporter: and continuing to go after his rival over her one-time use of a private e-mail server. >> this is far bigger and a far bigger scandal than watergate ever was. >> reporter: and, guys, those attacks likely to continue today. it's worthing his stop in flint, michigan, the ongoing water crisis was a huge issue in the democratic primary and not the republican primary. this is the second largest majority black city in the state of michigan. trump continuing his outreach to african-americans and also an expected tour of a water plant here in flint today trying to address that crisis that has overtaken this city and, in part, the state over the last couple of months. >> interesting to watch. thank you, phil. here to discuss everything that happened on the campaign trail, former donald trump campaign manager who is still

receiving severance from the trump campaign cory and christine quinn. great to have both of you. donald trump laid out his maternity plan. six weeks of paid maternity leave for new moms. you have to be happy about that. >> i'm not so happy when someone gives incorrect information about secretary clinton and her commitment. >> she did not have a plan, and she does have a plan. >> for over a year. >> he wants six weeks of pay and she wants 12 weeks of pay at two-thirds the amount of your salary and they talk about how they would both pay for it. >> the other thing i'm not happy about if you look at the chart, donald trump's plan might have been good 15, 20 years ago, right? he only is covering the mother. there is not coverage for the second parent at all. and it is really not a comprehensive, progressive plan. it comes from a man who one of the last times we heard him talk

about child care. he said the trump organization had all the benefits for children and all these services for children and parents. in fact, he was talking about the child care they offer, the guests at his hotel and golf resort. so, this is really kind of the height of hypocrisy and it comes after months of terrible language and comments and treatments of women and a lifetime of that. it's just clear hypocrisy and you can't believe it. >> well, cory, this is what his critics say that 55 days, 56 days last night before the election is a tad late to try starting to court female voters like this. >> let me just touch one thing phil just mentioned. going to flint, michigan. what we're going tasee is the poll recently done in south carolina which is the group that had the best percentage of calling the race properly in the primary. what they're going to release today is that donald trump is receiving 25% of the african-american vote in south

carolina. that is astonishing. that goes directly to his outreach to the african-american community which he's continuing today in flint, figumichigan. donald trump didn't outreach to the community and what we'll see today -- look, if donald trump receives 25% of the african-american community he is the president of the united states unequivocally. >> you're saying it's not too late. >> three weeks ago he did an outreach and criticized for not going to their communities. he's been to detroit and flint, michigan. >> what aboutthe the female vo he's not doing well with? >> donald trump has a 17-point lead. married females, donald trump has a 17-point lead over hillary clinton. >> when you look at all female voters as a whole, he's far down. >> the married women in cnn's old poll.

>> we had just shy of eight weeks left in this campaign. that's all there is. people are now starting to focus. >> i just think it's curious that when asked specifically about the not comprehensive child care plan, the hypocritical child care plan and, in essence, the history of donald trump who is being someone who has not supported women, in fact, been rude and horrible to women. corey can't even stay on othat topic. and i do not believe the poll numbers that have yet to be released and i stand by the comments i made before that. the african-american outreach was not african-american outreach. it was designed to reach out to white voters and soften them. this is just another to quote, mike bloomberg donald trump. >> let's talk about something that could be a challenge for donald trump. that is if the economy is shown to be improving, which it is. president obama was on the trail

yesterday and there are these new census numbers that show on all sorts of metrics, the economy is ticking up. let me play for you what president obama said. >> more americans are working, more have health insurance. incomes are rising. poverty is falling. and gas is $2 a gallon. i didn't even -- thank you for reminding me. thanks, obama. >> so, corey, the argument things are so bad, things are getting worse. it doesn't bear out in the numbers with the economy right now. >> look, i'm glad gas is $2 a gallon. my f-150 drinks a lot of gas. but what i also understand you can't have a broad generalization. still a number of people who are underemployed or underemployed. >> there's a trend. >> look at the growth rate. we don't want to be at 1% or 1.5% growth. we want to be at 4% growth.

we need a president who has created jobs in the private sector to bring that notion to the public sector. if we have a 4% job growth. if we have a 4% growth in our economy, it solves a lot of problems that we still currently have right now including our massive trillion dollar deficit. >> these are independent numbers that have come out and verified that the economy is doing -- >> let me show so people know what we're talking about. median household has gone up by $3,000 in the past year. poverty has gone down by 3.5 million people. still too many people to corey's point, however, it's going in the right direction. >> you always want it to be bigger numbers and money to go up more and poverty to go down less. no question. those are significant numbers that we as americans should be proud of. those are good numbers that are going to help people. are there still people we need to help? absolutely. but they're not going to be helped by a man, donald trump, who has sent countless jobs overseas.

jobs that should be staying here with americans. it's not going to be helped by a man who has international deals that we don't even know the impact they have on american workers or the american economy and it's not going to be helped by a man whose tax plan focuses on trillions of dollars of tax breaks for the rich and nothing to help those folks who are finally seeing their incomes. >> corey one thing she's referring to "newsweek" piece with foreign entanglements with countries like saudi arabia, russia, ukraine, that the trump oel organization and foundation are entangled with. if donald trump becomes president, would he and his family step away from the trump organization that they have built because of those entanglements? >> look, absolutely not. >> absolutely not? >> his children are going to run his business. that's been very clear from day one. >> he didn't know it would be compromised if he was president.

the same individual who said george w. bush was directly related to the terrorist attack. same individual who refused to fact check this -- >> you dismiss what he's found in terms of the connection? >> if this author of "newsweek" has direct information that george w. bush was directly related to 9/11 produce that information. >> he has zero credibility. no, it's a point of credibility. he has said that george w. bush was directly involved with 9/11. he has no credibility. >> continue on with the foreign -- >> high did not fact check the story with the trump organization. >> there are foreign deals. >> of course, because he is a foreign businessman. >> there are foreign deals with saudi arabia and do those continue? these are the same questions we asked about the clinton foundation. >> run a $10 billion corporation that their father has built? absolutely. >> might be compromised by

foreign deals and foreign money coming into it? >> donald trump said he is going to go and if he's the president of the united states, he'll turn his company over. what is he going to do give up the company and unemploy 10 million people. >> the clinton foundation doesn't employ those kind of people. how many employees at the clinton foundation? 20, 30? >> not about the entanglement. pay for play opportunity at the clinton foundation which continuously has been shown that they are taking the relationship at pay for play and using it for the state department. that's what they did time and time again. >> other people aside from his children, who seem to be -- run business well but other people in the world, even in the city of new york, that could run that business. the question is -- >> who? >> alyison didn't say close down the trump organization. she said have somebody else run it. >> why would you turn it over to anybody? >> but your point is also absurd

that the only answer is to close the business down. two, we're talking, we don't actually know all the business entanglements. we don't know how to judge what's there or not. i can't tell you the comparison of the facts that are public about the "newsweek" story because not all the business dealings have been made public. >> kurt eichenwald said george bush ignored warnings. not that he was involved, but he ignored warnings. >> so he makes that george w. bush allowed this to happen. he has been a reporter who has failed to do his due diligence. he has a personal grudge against the trump organization. >> attack the messenger. that's what the trump campaign does when they don't have the answer, they ignore the answer and attack the messenger because there are real questions here

that should be answered. >> a businessman and continues to do business across the world. >> how will it affect america? >> got to go. thank you, both. let's get over to chris. donald trump alone on the trail for one more day. hillary clinton is still recuperating. we are told she's going to get back on there today or tomorrow. how will he capitalize in her absence? we'll talk to a trump supporter, congressman stephen king about what he thinks about the child care plan, these allegations at "newsweek" and the campaign. good to see you congressman. see you in a second. if you try to write, on a plain old mac the difference can be seen (it doesn't work) get the surface pro (the keyboard detaches from the screen) get the surface pro (i like the blue!)

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all right. a lot bubbling up in the campaign. we have some new policy from the donald trump campaign. something to compare with clinton and with what republicans usually want in the area of child care. we also have new reporting about donald trump's business interest that may come as a surprise to our next guest. let's bring in steve king. he has endorsed donald trump. congressman, thank you for joining us. let's start off with child care. let's put up the trump plan. some of the highlights. it's more involved than this.

expand the average tax deductible and guarantee six week and cover child care and educational costs. these are not things that the party have endorsed in the past. you were against the paid parental leave act of 2009, which tried to do some of this. do you support trump's plan? >> there are parts that i want to dig in a little deeper and see how this all fits together, chris. we have the family leave act which allows for six weeks of time off when a baby is born to an employee. i've been on both sides of that. we had babies born into my construction office before that act was passed and after. it did change the relationship between myself and my employees and we've raised babies in my construction office and we allowed our workers on occasion to work from home and we encourage, we encouraged mothers to have babies and have babies and raise them right. it's the best thing that can happen. i support the deductibility of the child care expenses because

that's an equivalent of legitimate business expense. when you get to the point of borrowing money from china, that's a different equation. we have to have a deeper debate about that. >> you're with some of it and against some of it. how he is going to pay for it and all your time in congress, have you ever seen anything get paid for by taking waste and fraud out of any system? >> well, i remember when i came here as a freshman a number of years ago, we were going to attack waste, fraud and abuse. that was the marching orders and i recall at the time thinking, i've heard this before in the state senate. waste, fraud and abuse has been a political target, but seldom. barack obama said he found $500 billion in fraud in medicare and he was going to clean all that up. he did cut medicare but i don't know, so i'm not that convinced that we can find enough fraud to pay for that. if we could, we should have been using that to reduce our national debt. >> what do you say to mr. trump who says not only am i going to

add billions of dollars but pay for it with waste, fraud and abuse. what is your answer to that? >> let's find the waste, fraud and abuse, mr. trump. i'm happy to go to work on that. i think we need to look at this thing in the whole package and like to see and hear more discussion on how we get to balance. that's got to be the number one thing rather than expanding here. let's get to balance. but the proposal of supporting mothers and fathers and families and encouraging more babies in this country, that is good. anything he might do with this, i would encourage him to promote the expansion of families because if we don't have more babies than we have funerals, we're going to end up like europe and we're going to be in a situation where we're importing a culture of the american way of life. >> two quick things. so, you would suggest to mr. trump that you've never heard of a plan being paid for the way he's suggesting to pay for this one, true? >> well, i heard of a lot of plans that are going to be paid for. >> you've never seen that

happen. i just want to make that clear. second of all, when you say encourage more babies and all that, would you include the lgbt community in terms of families to encourage having kids and expanding them? obviously, mike pence as the indiana governor and running mate may run in on that decision. >> i want to respect all people, but i want to promote the natural family, chris. that's the most wholesome thing we can do. >> what is the natural family in your opinion? >> a man and a woman joined hopefully together in holy matcu -- >> they are finding out more and more babies adopted into lgbt families are doing just as well, than what you call a natural family. what does that suggest to you? >> i think i need to look further into that research. we got down the global warming research and found out there was

another side to that equation. i would want to look at it. i want to respect all human persons who are all gifts from god. but i want to encourage the natural family. that's the best and most wholesome way to raise a child and that's been the case throughout thousands of years of human history and we need to go with what works. >> we know what works is loving the kid, giving them the attention and giving them the time. there is no reason to believe that you have to have a man and a woman to do that. if we see anything with the break down of the family the man and the woman thing, look at all the destruction of children and family welfare in this country. it doesn't seem like a sure thing. why not encourage anything that gets a child loved and provided for? >> chris, i just don't think it's true that there is no reason to believe that there is a reason that a child needs a man and a woman to raise them. >> i didn't say there's no reason to believe it, i'm saying there's plenty of reason to believe it's not the only way it

can be done well. >> the evidence is very heavy on the other side of this thing. to have a role model as a and a father and a mother that are joined together and working together in a team, that is the best way that we can hope that all children are raised. and, so, i'm not discouraging or disparaging anyone, but i'm suggesting we should put our energy into promoting the model that has worked and that is the natural family. you could call it the nuclear family. that's what the research that i see supports and that's the human experience that we have for hundreds and hundreds of years. >> i will send you some research and an important discussion to have. let's end on one thing that is more close to the campaign. this "newsweek" article that came out do you know anything about donald trump's organization and its ties to foreign businesses? >> well, very little. just sketchy things. >> does it concern you? what's in this piece, when you take a look at it and your staffers digest it. if he has these kind of

entanglements with foreign businesses and countries that would make perfect sense, he's a global organization. isn't that something you need to examine if this man is going to be the leader of the free world? >> i would say this, not having examine this article, i would say we have learned by watching, especially the clinton campaign and the clinton family for several decades now, it's important to play your cards face up. if you don't play your cards face up when you're in the scrutiny of the candidacy or the president of the united states eventually your credibility erodes to the point where you can't give a serious message the the american people and expect them to accept it. that is my suggestion to the trump campaign. play the cards face up and let's have an open discussion about this. hillary clinton should devulage her medical records. the destiny of the free world is hanging in the balance here on november 8. >> does that go for taxes, as well? >> i would have said yes. i did say yes to that last spring, march and april.

$10 billion business if donald trump dumped his taxes out today, there would be all kinds of misinterpretations of that and maybe some real interpretations of that between now and november. that would be the only discussion we'd have. i would say the window is closed on that, but i wish he would have done so last march or april. >> so much for playing your cards face up. >> on record, however, saying that back then. >> interesting position. congressman king, thank you for joining us, appreciate having you on "new day." chris, as hillary clinton recovers from pneumonia she is relying on someone who is considered the ultimate campaigner. can president obama minimize the damage done by her health care. we'll ask david axelrod.

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investigates the connections between trump organization and foreign businesses and governments. the report finds that there are connections that would create, "a national security nightmare" if trump is elected. how will hillary clinton respond when she returns to the trail tomorrow. let's discuss with david axelrod former adviser to president obama. always great tahao have you her. potential global conflicts of interest for donald trump had been overlooked including sources of his vast debt. you think this is an underreported story. what are we missing? >> we don't know anything, really. this story sort of scratches the surface of his financial empire, but he's made it clear that he's not going to divest himself of his business. his kids are going to run the business. we know from some other reporting that the business has hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of debt. there's been some have come from

russian sources and the bank of china funded one of his projects. what does it mean to have this kind of president that has indebtedness and commercial ties globally while he's making decisions on national security? we heard a lot about the clinton global initiative, which is, it seems to me, a smaller issue than personal indebtedness and business ties around the world. we know nothing about it. donald trump is the most outspoken and least transparent candidate in american presidential campaign history. and i think what's happened is because there is this among elites and i include media in that. i know, i'll get smacked around for that. but there is this assumption that hillary clinton likely will be president. so, she gets treated like someone who likely will be president. and donald trump, to some degree, continues to get treated like a side show. and the fact is, he could be president of the united states

and he should be treated like that. >> some underlying assumptions that are worthy of discussion. number one, we know exactly what hillary clinton will say about "newsweek." we don't know enough about him, the media doesn't ask him about his businesses, she said it many times. she will say it again. we know that. the trumps are now going to move away from this organization. ivanka dismissed it out of hand. this is who they are, they are not going to let it go. no putting it into a blind trust. you can't put into a blind trust what you already know. that's the purpose of a blind trust. this would be the opposite of that. that is not going to happen. she is held to a different standard. she has been in public office and she's done thing as a public servant. that has a higher bar of legitimacy. >> in terms of scrutiny. >> that's why she gets it. >>ive i i've been critical of her, as well. but right now they're both candidates. they are the finalists for

president of the united states, with all due respekrespect to t third-party candidates. they should be held to high standards. >> what is the difference, david, between the clinton foundation and its entanglements and its access and the trump organization? >> the difference is the clinton foundation is not a profitmaking venture. they don't derive income to it and not indebted in the way. in which i took a loan from you, you would have leverage over me. >> that's what the trump organization does. >> they, obviously, have a lot of debt. you know, one of the issues is he hasn't released his tax returns and they don't release their financials. we don't really know the answer to all these questions. he is very gifted at sort of bogarting his way through these questions to the point where questioners have to move on. we saw it in that commander in chief on different issues. it's concerned.

and i think it is a source, it should be a source of legitimate concern, not just to the media, but to the public. >> this "newsweek" article does lay it out if people want taread more. let's talk about hillary clinton's health. >> yes. >> she has been off the campaign trail with pneumonia. antibiotics can take care of pneumonia, what is the cure for unhealthy pension for privacy that creates unnecessary problems. you want to expand on that? >> first of all let me say on her health. i've seen her close up as an opponent when i was working for barack obama in 2008 and as someone who worked side by side with her in earlier years and when she was secretary of state. she is a relentless, tenacious human being. i have no doubt about that. i suspect she'll come back on the campaign trail with, you

know, full of vinegar as the expression goes -- can you say that? >> you just did. another unnecessary problem you brought up. but it goes to the transparency. that's the bigger issue. >> her vulnerability is not health, it's stealth. what she did in trying to, i think, navigate through questions about her health she created more questions on the other side, which is really a greater vulnerability. from my standpoint, it was ill considered and i said so. >> meaning, she should have disclosed it on friday. >> i think if you have a health issue but you continue your schedule and it doesn't stop you from doing what you're doing, then that's fine. i don't think there's any great urgency to disclose. if you have to leave an event because you're ill and you have to bring your, take your schedule down, then i think you have to be more forthcoming about it. had she acknowledged at that moment, you know what, i was diagnosed -- >> when she fell on sunday.

>> i was diagnosed with walking pneumonia and i was advised to take a few days off and i really wanted to be part of this 9/11 ceremony and i tried. perhaps i should have listened to my doctor. i think she would have gotten a lot of credit for that. not for forthrightness but for trying to be at this solemn occasion. >> always good to see you. >> always good to see you. the syrian paepal are desperate for help, but will the cease-fire hold long enough to get the aid they need. the assistant joins us to get the latest on the unfolding humanitarian crisis. you should be getting double miles on every purchase! switch...to the capital one venture card. with venture, you earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, everywhere, every day. not just ...(dismissively) airline purchases. seriously... double miles... everywhere.

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and get them help and we're also going to talk about what's going on in iraq right now. a final push there to free up a couple major cities and to talk about both of these things, we have tony blinken deputy secretary of state joins us live now from baghdad. i hope you are safe there. you and your staff are going to talk about the situation on the ground, important enough to bring you there. syria important, too. tony, what can you tell us about the nature of the cease-fire and whether aid will be able to get to these people in such desperate need. >> thanks, chris. look, the cease-fire is a day-by-day proposition and we're trying to test it over seven days. we've seen in day one some violence and humanitarian assistance start to flow back into these very hard to reach places to get to people who haven't got it. that's what we're testing over the next seven days. we've gotten off to a start for

the demolition of violence and now we need to see the assistance start to flow. >> what is your take on this reported division and growing division between you guys at state and the pentagon? they don't want to work with the russians and they don't trust them and they don't want to share information. they think the russians are trying to help assad more than they're trying to stop isis. how do you deal with that? >> chris, it isn't a question of trust. it is a question of actions. what we're going to find out over the next six or seven days is whether the russians are serious about making sure that what they control and, in particular, the actions of the assad regime are moving in the right direction. that is that the violence comes down and stops and that assistance gets in. that is based not on trust but facts on the ground. >> what if you give them intel and end up sharing intel with an organization that only donald

trump seems trustworthy and worth working with at this point. the pentagon doesn't seem to share that opinion. >> chris, the reason this is so important, there are two things we can achieve. first, if this works and emphasis on the if, then part of the deal is to take the syrian air force out of the skies over heavily populated civilian areas and stop the bombing and stop the chlorine weapons, stop this egregious violence against syrian civilians. second, if it works, then we'll be in a position to get russia more focused on what it claims to be doing in syria and that is also isol and basically the al qaeda affiliate in syria. so, if we can move things in that direction, that is a profoundly positive development for the people of syria and a positive development for the al qaeda affiliate. >> right now you're sitting in baghdad a place you do not go to lightly.

what is the catalyst for you being on the ground there, the urgency and what is the state of play there? >> because we're coming to a critical moment in the fight against isal. what i'm seeing here is they're on the run and on the ropes. over the last year, the iraqis with the strong support of this coalition that we've put together has taken back more than half the territory that they once controlled. we've taken out senior leadership and tens of thousands of combatants and equipment, the financing is dropping and the foreign fighters are dropping. we're at a point now where the big remaining piece is the city of mosul, which is where they have tried to establish its so-called caliphate. that is the next front and the iraqis are preparing to liberate mosul. going to be a daunting operation. but it's critical to taking away the entire foundation in iraq.

also a big humanitarian piece because as the cities liberated, there is a risk that a large number of people, hundreds of thousands are at least initially displaced. we're trying to put in place the resources to make sure they're cared for. we're going to be adding about $181 million to the humanitarian assistance we're providing to iraq to help people who are displaced by the conflict. we want to make sure that they're cared for and they can go home as quickly as possible. by the way, just in the roughly year since i've been here, nearly 1 million people have been able to research turn to t homes in iraq of cities that. the big next piece is mosul. >> i remember an iraqi general telling me, don't count the dead. count how many stores are open on the streets, that's what matters winning the peace. tony, you have shared a similar message. please, stay safe there with your team and let us know when you have information that matters to the american

>> thanks for having me, chris. appreciate it. >> all right, tony, be safe. alisyn. >> he was a presidential speechwriter and he now predicts that the first debate 13 days from now could be the most watched television event ever. james follows will be here on what each candidate should try to do on that debate stage.

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the first presidential debate is 12 days away and it could be one of the most-watched tv events ever. so what can viewers expect when the sparks fly between hillary clinton and donald trump? let's bring in james fallows a former chief speechwriter for former president jimmy carter. he's also the author of this month's cover story, and it is a long one, for "the atlantic" on these debates. jim, great to see you this morning on "new day." thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. it's long, but thorough and interesting, right? >> it is really interesting. i was wondering what was weighing my bag down last night it was so heavy on my arm. it was your article when i fished it out it's like five pounds. but, but jim are we overstating it to say that this could be one of the most watched television events ever? >> certainly the odds are in that favor. remember the controversy a couple of weeks ago when the schedule was announced by the

trump team, they said oh, no these are against nfl games. historically debates have way outdrawn even the nfl by a factor of about three to one. the stakes for this one, the first time we'll ever see hillary clinton and donald trump face to face where they're so different in their styles, their politics, their intellectual approach and everything else, i think many people i interviewed said this probably will exceed m.a.s.h. and the o.j. chase as the biggest audience worldwide. >> oh, my gosh. that is huge. i mean putting it in that perspective. so let's talk about from your research and all of the experts you've talked to, the way that clinton can win the debate, and the way that trump can win the debate. let me put up a couple of points for our viewers. in terms of how she wins. she is obviously seen as this kind of titan of debate prowess. so the odds are, i mean conventional wisdom says that she trounces him. but not so fast. let's look at what we think what you say could help her get the advantage. she's had many one-on-one

debates in her career. trump, of course, has had no one-on-one debates. the depth of her policy knowledge, she's considered a wonk so she has specifics on executing plans, he avoids details on plans. what else do you think we might see on that stage in terms of her advantage? >> her advantages are, as you said, this is something she has done many times back with barack obama eight years ago when she ran for the senate in 2000 with bernie sanders, and there's a very particular skill to doing these head-to-head debates where you have to be prepared to fill a couple of minutes on talking about how you're going to fund things. you know, what your -- the details of your foreign policy will be. it's quite different from the primary cycle and donald trump was going against, you know, eight or ten other people on the stage, and you just had to get in some kind of zinger, as what we'll discuss. so i think the main challenge for hillary clinton is likely to be exactly this expectations game. this is so much in the wheelhouse of what she has done that people might think that if

donald trump comes out even looking vaguely alive, then he will have deflected something where you would expect her to be dominant. >> okay let's talk about what some of your other experts say about how he wins that night on that stage. so, we'll pull that up for our viewers. if he -- he's witty, he's unafraid of shock value so he can have some memorable lines. she's more calculated and cautious. keeping it simple is to his advantage. he has uses easy-to-understand language that does speak to the voters on sort of a visceral gut level. she has years of government jargon that she might fall into. what else? >> and i think that it's important to recognize that while we call these debates, they have nothing at all to do with college debates or high school debates, or legal appeals debates or things which are fundamentally intellectual. these are fundamentally, in their effect, not just -- not emotional so muches akind of human vibe. it's how people end up feeling

about these two candidates who are before them, one or the other is going to be the president. and if something in donald trump's very unusual bearing on the stage catches hillary clinton unprepared, if it provokes her into a slug for slug, insult for insult match with him or makes her seem -- if she seems to be too jargon bound, or indirect or evasive in dealing with his very blunt, very simple statements, that could make her look bad. the main thing which is not maybe inspiring to know about these debates but seems to be true is the way that people look. how do we feel about them? even if you turned off the sound on the tv, how would you think about that person's bearing, confidence, ease, sense of humor? so if donald trump can make hillary clinton look on the bad side of those sorts of calculations, that would be the win for him. >> and very quickly, jim, i want to talk about what each of their kryptonite is. and i think that from your article what you've said is that if she goes after his wealth, if she pokes fun at maybe it not

being as much as he has touted it, that could be an awkward moment for him. what's her kryptonite? >> i think her kryptonite would be something that, that if the main opponent argument against her is that she is, quote, evasive, unquote. if he or the moderator poses questions to her that she seems indirect or beating around the bush in answering, that is the way that she could make her situation worse. >> james fallows, it is a fascinating read. great to have you share all of your reporting with us. thanks so much for being on "new day." >> my pleasure. thank you. >> we're following a lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. donald trump says stuff every day that used to be considered disqualifying for being president. >> hillary clinton's actions are far more corrupt than we ever imagined. >> one candidate's family foundation has saved countless lives. the other candidate's foundation took money and then bought a

six-foot-tall painting of himself. >> for many families in our country, child care is now the single largest expense. >> my father has created a plan that is designed to bring relief. >> secretary of state colin powell, tearing into donald trump in a series of leaked e-mails. >> this is far bigger than watergate ever was. >> are you calling him a liar? >> i really, really, really want to elect hillary clinton. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> we won't even know who it is after awhile. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning, welcome to your "new day." up first, donald trump's unveiling his child care plan in an effort to close the gap with female voters. trump's daughter ivanka, outreaching to women helping to craft and sell the proposal. >> president obama is out on the trail and he's making the case for clinton, and against donald trump. we also have