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to be biased for them. they expect to be biased for them. they expect breitbart to have an agenda for them. that's not the appropriate reaction if you want to bring unity to the country. it comes from a place of vengeance and very angry. >> let kelly -- >> do you know what the approval of the mainstream media is right now? you don't. you come in every night -- >> it is called prepared. >> i believe in numbers and facts. >> when you look at -- i have a law degree from harvard. >> for gallup, the media has the lowest approval rating in recorded history. >> aren't you doing what donald trump says the media does and you say you are smarter than everyone else and studied and know things and went to a fancy school thatty didn't. donald trump is their own worst enemy. >> i'm not engaging in that kind
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of attack. >> they say hillary clinton was an enabler. [ talking at once ] >> one at a time. >> listen, we were working on republican campaigns way before you were. for you to say we are not representative of republican women i think is a mistake. we need to learn to live with our differences and embrace diversity of thought. i need to learn to live with your thoughts and focus on whatever we may have in common -- i'm sure there is something. >> there's no question. >>. [ talking at once ] >> 75, 78% of republicans are supporting trump. 95% of democrats are supporting clinton. you want to talk facts, that's a fact. >> i want to apologize for being a millennial. i know they are not allowed to have opinions in this day and age. >> oh!
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>> let me play my old ancient stradivarius for you. >> this panel has gone in to attacks when the statistics and numbers are brought up. when you don't have facts to retort to my facts. >> >>. >> what do you call it? >> you make up a poll. it is not a fact when i quote polls. >> we will take a break. oh, we're not actually. >> oh, why would we? we are just past the top of the hour. welcome in you are just joining us. hope you are having something to eat and drink. >> some wine. >> i'd like some wine right now. another big hour ahead. >> orange kool-aid could apply. donald trump's kids telling about the dad they know including their take on some of the most krefcontroversial comm.
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>> he is who he is. he is going to say exactly what he is thinking. dedoesn't need to hear the question is or the story in advance. >> the polling puts the race at three points and narrows to six points. hillary clinton leading by less than a couple of days ago. donald trump just wrapped up an event and has discounting the polls for weeks as rigged. he has a boost there as he takes a knock or two on new statements from one of his top surrogates in his decision to step away from the battleground. more on that from our jason carr. >> i'm tired of the excuses from our politicians. i'm tired of being told what cannot be done. >> donald trump taking a brief break from the campaign trail to promote his new hotel in washington, d.c. and striking an optimistic tone. >> there's nothing we cannot
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accomplish. the united states is great. it's great. it's people are great. >> reporter: trump says his business acue men is what the country needs from its president. >> this is what i want to do for our country. this is what we are working so hard to do. right now, just about everything our government touches is broken, or they break it. it's always over budget, behind schedule, and simply nothing works. >> reporter: trump took an opportunity to, again, take aim at the media. >> by the way, congratulations, newt, on last night. that was an amazing interview. we don't play games, newt, right? we don't play games. >> reporter: the gop nominee referring to megyn kelly's interview with trump adviser and former house speaker newt gingrich. gingrich losing his cool when kelly pressed him about the women accusing trump of unwanted sexual advances.
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>> you are fascinated with sex and don't care about public policy. that's what i get out of watching you tonight. >> you know, mr. speaker, i'm not fascinated by sex, but i am by the protection of women and understanding what we are getting in the oval office. i think the american voters would like to know. >> that's why we are going to send bill clinton back to the east wing because you were worried about sexual predators. >> he's not on the ticket. >> he will be in the east wing. >> in the deeds of hillary clinton's husband, they are in the deeds of the man that asked us to make him president, donald trump. we will have to leave it at that. you can take your anger issues and spend some time working on them plrks speaker. >> and you too. >> trump taking offense when dana bash asked if hotel ribbon cutting was worth it. >> people say you are taking time out of swing states to go and do this, you say -- >> i say the following, you have
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been covering me for the last, long time. i did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches and i have been doing this for weeks straight. i left there for an hour and a half. i am going to north carolina, florida, new hampshire. for you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because hillary clinton does one stop and then goes home and sleeps, and yet you'll ask me that question. i think it is a rude question to be honest with you. >> jason carroll is joining us. trump says the polls that show him behind are almost all inaccurate that he is actually winning, right? >> he mentioned the polls tonight. he talked about the phony polls, the national polls showing him behind, the polls showing him behind in battleground states. he said they are phony polls put out by the rigged media. he did mention a new poll out of the state of florida which shows him up by two points.
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that poll he does agree. he said many of those folks who are showing up in the state of florida for early voting, he believes many of those folks are trump supporters. once again, he did mention the phony polls, those are just the polls that show him behind. the poll that shows him up, that one he likes. >> hillary clinton marked her birthday today. she did not get a birthday president as we have seen in the latest polling which is why she maybe campaigning hard. more on her day in florida from phil mattingly. >> florida can make the difference. >> reporter: with new polling that could suggest a tightening race in florida, hillary clinton is taking nothing for granted. >> i am going to work as hard as i can over these next 13 days reaching out to as many people as possible. >> reporter: the democratic nominee spending her second straight day in a state that could all but guarantee the white house.
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warning against complacency. >> we can't take our foot off the gas, even for a short time. >> reporter: throwing more jabs donald trump's way. >> listening to donald trump's campaign, i truly doubt that he has ever read the constitution, or if he did back in school, he certainly doesn't remember it and he doesn't understand it is the most important founding document for the longest lasting, greatest democracy in the history of the world. >> her attacks including a dig, donald trump's detour. his campaign scheduled to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony for his new hotel in washington, d.c. >> while the hotel may be new, it's the same old story. he relied on undocumented workers to make his project cheaper.
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most of the products were made overseas and he even sued to get his taxes lower. >> clinton had two new ads. the latest from catalyst provided to cnn showed 7 million votes have been cast. including more than 4.6 million in battleground states numbers that underscore the importance of the moment. one where clinton maintains a comfortable national lead according to the cnn poll of polls. this coming on clinton's 69th birthday. a moment celebrated with a surprise cake before heading back on the trail. ♪ happy birthday >> reporter: now a new headache for the clinton campaign in the latest wikileaks release of hacked e-mails. they acknowledge the mess her private e-mail server created saying "there's no good answer. it's an acknowledgment that adds to the fallout created by a
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separate e-mail. this from one of clinton's most loyal advisers saying when it came to the e-mail server, the clintons wanted to get away with it. >> phil, that new poll in florida showing trump leading by two points seems to fly in the face of what we have been seeing there for weeks. what do you hear from operatives on the ground there? >> that's right. if you talk to clinton campaign advisers over the last two, three weeks they are getting more comfortable where they stood in the state of florida. that was borne out in the public polling, as well. what this underscores where donald trump's support is, north central florida, the panhandle. if he can turn out those voters, this will be a close state. it is worth noting, 29 electoral votes in this state, talk to any clinton adviser and they will tell you if they win florida the game is over. that is why this is so important. that's why hillary clinton was
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here the past two days and will be here on saturday. the early voting, this weekend will be the first full weekend of in-person early voting. this is where democrats usually close the gap and they are already closing the gap. that's an area democrats feel good about. but all eyes on florida. this is a make or break state for the campaign. >> back with our panel. maggie, does the clinton campaign have a contingency plan for tightening of the polls? >> i think they still believe they are ahead. if you look at the average of the polls they are but they are concerned from democrats i talked to about apathy among their voters. people thinking it is over so we don't need to turn out. because it is something of an unpredictable election cycle, previously leading up to this, they want to essentially make
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sure they are doing everything they can to turn out their base. i'm not sure what we are hearing, everything with wikileaks, is actually sinking in with the public sdplchlt you don't think it is? >> i haven't seen any polling that shows it is. but there is so much noise against the democrats with the wikileaks exposures and the donald trump accusers. it is becoming -- they have field separations and that's what they are leaning on. i expect they will continue to. >> do you think the drip, drip, wikileaks, there hasn't been one major e-mail that's leaked out that is going to change anybody's mind but there's been days and days and weeks of that stuff. do you think it is taking a toll, plus with obamacare premiums going up. >> only 30% of americans think
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she is trustworthy and that is probably a function of wikileaks. staff around her call her the e-mail in chief thinking she could get away with the private server. >> in addition to jobs and the economy, which trump was leading, also untrustworthy i think he was six. >> you have that and couple that with hillary clinton says before obamacare there was hillary care. in florida if you have the humana plan in the obamacare your premium will go up in 2017 by 35%. that's a real number. that's squarely on hillary. she cannot walk away from barack obama and the disaster that this has become. she is tied to it. >> the problem with wikileaks here, in my view, the problem with that, it's complicated and confusing to people. compared to donald trump being a sexual predator. if you compare to the things that have come out in parallel over the last two, three weeks, if you are the average voter, particularly women listening to
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this, wikileaks is a morass. being a sexual predator -- >> he's been accused of -- >> you don't know that. >> he's not a convicted sexual predator. >> thank you. >> the language donald trump uses toward women is sexually predatory. >> he says he didn't actually do it. >> i believe he did and i believe all the women that came out and testified to that are good judgment in that. my point, if you compare the two, wikileaks, the issue of wikileaks, trying to ferret through who talked to other. >> you think the other has more power. >> much more to the average voter. >> part of the problem for trump has been there's a tendency in the general election to seize on the headline of the day. chasing at a shiny object. there hasn't been a consistent message. not a surprise that premiums are going up in october. we have known it was coming for a while. the scope may have not been
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known but we nigknew it was com. he could have tied it to a broader economic message over many months and they have mad more impact. >> do you want in the crucial days with the tightening of polls, do you hope that donald trump doesn't have any -- i think the sports term is unforced errors? >> very good. >> jonathon has been teaching me about the world series. stay on message. don't make any mistakes. >> to be candid, donald trump himself yesterday was on rush limbaugh show and admitted, he said, i do this and a lot of people say don't do this, but i believe it is important to answer issues, et cetera. i'm one of those people that would say stay on message and drive it home. sum up the argument and do it over and over again. anywhere in the swing states where the health premiums have gone up. zero in on that. >> don't underestimate the power of obamacare. remember in 2010, this is where the tea party movement came in and took back the house and
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senate on obamacare. you saw the democrats were upset they were seeing premiums go up. this is an issue -- actually a bipartisan issue. people see it. that's where the power is coming in. >> can you admit he is an undisciplined candidate in terms of focusing on what you are trying to say? >> i'm trying to get something. >> don't waste time. >> we are 13 days out. 80% of people voting have made their decision, right? early voting is starting. that's where we are. i think the bright light, at least for democrats, is that women, the women early voting is really high, in record number. i think that says volumes. >> and young voters. >> ahead tonight, republicans who find themselves in hillary clinton's corner. randi kaye talked to a number of them. the trump children on their dad.
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last night it was trump himself and tonight we hear from his children. >> do you want your father to go in to politics? >> as an american i do, as a businessman i'd rather not. >> the year before donald trump sr. announced his candidacy. >> i'm officially running for president of the united states. >> two years before he gave up
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questioning the president's birthplace. >> president barack obama was born in the united states. period. >> trump would go on to falsely claim he ended the birther kroes by forcing president obama to release his long form birth certificate in 2011. >> i was born in hawaii. >> his son saw his questioning as admirable. >> i appreciate someone, right, wrong, who has the moral conviction to stand by, you know, a belief. what's wrong with questioning something these days? you know, you see it, whether it is political spectrum, racial divide, it's being increasingly difficult for, again i'm -- this is coming from the white privileged son of a rich guy. right? there's a point where i'm not
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allowed to have this conversation in america today. >> there could be potentially ramifications for taking these stances and he has the conviction to say, that's fine, i don't care. this is what i believe in. to me, as an american, that's a very powerful thing. that's a very admirable quality. >> reporter: one argument donald jr. makes against president obama is the same used to question his father's fitness for the oval office. >> community organizer is a phenomenal position but you give that guy the nuclear football? i don't know. >> reporter: the three hours of audio provide an early window in to donald trump, an unpredictable candidate like no other. >> does he understand that there is, i don't know, half of the people that have a weird opinion of him or think he is a buffoon or a -- does he recognize that? i get a sense sometimes he thinks, really, everybody kind
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of -- there are people that hate him. >> i think if you are asking do i think that he knows that he's a polarizing guy, yes, i think the answer is 100%. >> yeah, yeah. >> do i think he cares, no. >> on the tape his children, donald jr., eric and ivanka can find little failure. >> there's very few times in life when you come across a person who has never failed at whatever they have done. >> he is who he is. >> from the tapes it seems even a year before his declared his candidacy he and their family had their eyes on going all the way to election day. >> you can't, you know, run a primary and be incredibly right or left and then for the general -- well, we have changed our views in the last 72 hours since we became the front runner because now we have to have a view that appeases more of the
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centrists. it doesn't work. he is not willing to bastardize his beliefs for a bottom line. to appease a majority of the population. >> trump biographer is joining us tonight. it's interesting. the loyalty, at least the public loyalty that all of the kids have. clearly, you know, they had differences when they were younger, that have been well talked about and publicized but now they are this unified bloc. the kids are cut, or seem to be cut from the same cloth or trying to be. >> from the same piece of rose colored marble at trump tower. it is an us against the world kind of thing. it includes their business. they are all in the family business. two of the three kids went to penn. they have the same ivy league affiliation and seem to have the
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same political beliefs, although i think there is a generational divide that's not been voiced by the younger generation. i think their attitudes are probably quite different. >> it is interesting to hear donald trump jr. defending his dad on the obama birther controversy years after president obama put out his birth certificate. >> it is 100%. i think even this early in 2014 they were pretty sure they were going to run. it's funny to me, donald said he was making the decision to run based on twitter and i thought nobody is dumb enough to base a decision to run on twitter but the family was behind this and i believe they imagined much of what happened today. >> all of the things about winning, all the sort of values that donald trump clearly puts everything in to, i'm not sure
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if values is the right word but the idea of winning, it seems they are all about that, too. they seem to have -- ivanka trump has her own brand. she is marketing things even with the clothes she is wearing to public events, you can buy and she tweets on that. >> there is a family perspective on life and business. i think it is interesting that don jr. warned about the business problems that could arise if he ran for president and they are seeing it now. the younger generation talked to me about taking the brand in a different direction once their father was gone and how they wanted to broaden the appeal, make it more than just a third of the country that they'd sell to but the whole country. i think that has been lost to them. >> the other question is how does it affect ivanka trump, who's been developing her own brand as young entrepreneur, empowering women. how this affected in the short and long term. >> she is in a terrible spot. if you think of the civil rights
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era and children of parents who expressed bigoted ideas a then which children identified themselves as part of something new and better. we are in an era where bigotry or bias on sexual identification, no one does that but their father expresses old-fashioned ideas and surrounded by other men, 70 plus, who are expressing similar ideas. it's not modern. >> not good for the brand. >> no. >> is there anything that surprised you about them, about their relationship with the dad? >> the level of worship. they occupy offices one floor below his. when they talk about him they say he, almost like they are praying to the heaven. i think they really do look to
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him for almost everything. it makes some sense. they were embattled family. the kids banded together and i think they are together now. very supportive of each other and their parents. >> there's plenty of kids from well off families who have not, who fall by the wayside. they have been successful in -- however you define success. >> they are steady. i think people respect them. their family lives a they are exemplary. it is a new generation of trumps but how will they fair if this doesn't work out well? >> enjoyed talking to you. ahead we will hear from hillary clinton's supporters in one of florida's reddest counties. life-long republicans who have banded together to make sure donald trump doesn't win their crucial state. support prop 51.
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teachers, nurses and firefightes support prop 51. prop 51 will upgrade libraries, science labs, and classroom technology and relieve school overcrowding creating more opportunity . . . and better learning for students help students succeed vote yes on 51. more breaking news. a new bloomberg poll shows donald trump leading 2 points in florida. in a four-way race, florida crucial for trump. he himself has called it a must-win state.
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without its 29 electoral votes, he has virtually no path to 270. if trump wins florida it will be without the support of some of the reddest republicans. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: how many of you are lifelong registered republicans? and how many are voting for hillary clinton? in sumter county, florida, one of the reddest counties in the state these five lifelong republicans are not voting that way come november 8th. >> if you told me i was voting for hillary clinton a year ago i would have said absolutely not. there's no way that will ever happen. >> reporter: but that is exactly what is happening. linda is so turned off by donald trump she started a group called republicans for hillary. dozens of neighbors have joined her. her husband don had a disabled niece and wrote trump off after he said that trump mocked a disabled reporter. he thinks that trump is weak on immigration.
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>> it is impractical to deport that many people. it feeds on a fear that people have that immigration is bad for the country and is taking my job away, which is not accurate. >> reporter: ed mercer has voted republican since 1972, but just this week voted democratic on his entire ballot. >> i'm not some giant hillary fan, i'm not a socialist. i'm not a big democratic fan. >> reporter: where do you think that donald trump is weak? >> my fear of donald trump with an anti-trade rhetoric tax cut proposals will take the little foundation we have globally and crumble it. i don't know what that recovery will look like. >> reporter: this retired economist compared both candidates economic platforms, looking closely at their tax and spend policies and decided to vote clinton. >> i realized what hillary clinton was putting forth and
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her platform was more doable. >> reporter: this group calls trump's idea of a wall at the southern border impractical and none of them thinks trump is cut out to handle isis either. >> him saying i know more than the generals do, that's another blow-hard tactic. he throws out generalizations that when you dig in to them there's nothing behind them. >> reporter: for this group it is about how trump treats others, especially women, who they believe he doesn't respect. they cite the "access hollywood" tape. >> i was offended by the language. i raised three sons and to the best of my knowledge they would never talk about women in that way. otherwise they would have me to answer to. >> reporter: the growing number of women who have come forward accusing trump of touching them inappropriately. >> he denied it. you don't believe him. >> of course i don't. he told us who he was many times
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by his comments and now women come forward to verify, yes, that's who he is and we're shocked? >> i noticed two women in the group you spoke with, are they voting clinton because they want to see a woman as president? >>. >> reporter: actually they don't care about that. they prefer to have a republican in the white house, even if it means a male president. they want to make sure if it was a man he was qualified and the don't think he is qualified. i asked the head of the group why not vote for gary johnson and she said it is the a swing state and every vote counts and she wants to make sure hillary clinton shuts down trump in the state of florida and deny him the presidency. >> thank you very much. a lot to discuss with maggie and
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gloria. focus on florida. gloria, in federal, what are you going to watch in florida the next two weeks? >> i will be looking for the percentage of republicans who are going to be voting for donald trump. i just got off the phone with a lifelong republican, very involved in florida state politics, who has decided to hold his nose and vote for hillary clinton. we were talking about mitt romney last time. in 2012, mitt romney lost by a little under 1% of the vote, a battleground state. mitt romney had over 90% of republicans with him, 92, 93%. right now, if you look at the polling, donald trump has 85% of republicans with him. he needs a larger group to go with him and say i may not love you but i will vote for you.
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marco rubio may help him. that way people that like marco rubio would decide to vote for donald trump. >> everything gloria said. the early vote tallies and how they break down in terms of democratic and republican counties is key to watch. a democratic strategist that says watch hills borough county. it voted for president obama and president bush twice. democrats are ahead in early voting, roughly 7% or something like this. these are not huge margins but given voting has begun and people are watching what is happening every day in the race, if those numbers don't creep up for republicans that is problematic. >> gloria, if people don't turn out in the numbers the clinton campaign needs? >> he could hope for that. the get out the vote effort on the clinton campaign is supposed to be pretty good. i think what he has to do is
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convince the voters that may stay at home because they don't like either choice to come with him i think they have work to do on that front. i think marco rubio can help him. this republican i was talking to tonight, it was interesting, on this subject he said, look, i'm voting against donald trump the way i feel i can atone for my sin is to also vote for marco rubio. he believes in a sense some of the anti-trump republicans could help marco rubio win. >> thank you. ahead for the the 30th time, his campaign emerges promoting his businesses and he talked about trump wine and what he said were trump steaks. they were sold at trump's mar largo but not actually trump steaks managing your credit is a skill. and like any skill, you have to learn to walk before you can run.
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donald trump had an event not focused on the battleground states but on opening his new
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hotel in washington. dana bash asked him about it and a lot more. >> reporter: to people who say you are taking time out of swing states to go and do this, you say -- >> i say the following, you have been covering the last, long time, i did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches and i have been doing this for weeks straight. i left there for an hour and a half. i'm going to north carolina right now, and then florida and new hampshire. for you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because hillary clinton does one stop and goes home and sleeps. and yet you ask me that question. i think it is a rude question to be honest with you. what i do, i want to back my children very hard, ivanka in particular, at the opening of the hotel i want to back my children. very important to me. we had a ribbon cutting which was quick and i stopped in d.c. the key to this is i want the american people to understand this is under budget, ahead of
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schedule. >> reporter: i have been reporting on the fact you are going to north carolina for a couple of stops from here. my next question is, there is a new poll in florida that has you up a couple of points. of those swing states have you in the hunt, given that, are you prepared to write a check to help yourself to get over the finish line and if so how big? >> let me tell you, we have, i have over $100 million in the campaign. hillary clinton has nothing in the campaign. she is special interest and donors. she will do whatever they tell her to do. i will have over $100 million in the campaign and i'm prepared to go much more than that. now, the question, new polls are coming out. we are leading florida, north carolina, pennsylvania, we are doing great all over, new hampshire, ohio, as you know and iowa are doing fantastically well. i'm telling you, cnn doesn't say it but i think we are going to win.
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>> but to do that, you have a pretty big bank account. time is running out. the clock is ticking. will you write a check? >> i have already written a number of them. >> reporter: specifically to get on the air and combat the ads that hillary clinton is running. >> in florida she has 50-1 against me. >> but you have the means to combat that. >> sure, i do. in the meantime, 50-1 and i'm leading. in the old days you get credit if you spend less money and have victory. that would be a good thing. today they want you to spend money. i will have 100 million and will spend more if i have to. one other thing we are seeing it in florida and other places the lines going in to voting booths, voting areas, are unbelievable. in florida yesterday, we passed four of them, the lines were three and four blocks long. those are not her voters because her voters have no enthusiasm. >> can you be specific? how much are you willing?
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>> no. i will have over 100 million in and i'm willing to invest more than that. >> reporter: how much? >> let's go to the next question, dana. >> in the 30th time that trump's campaign trail has done double duty advertising for his kbiz businesses. tom foreman takes a look. >> reporter: from the beginning trump's brand has been all over his presidential bid. references to his tv show, properties, helicopters and hotels. it started when he announced his candidacy with an escalator ride at his corporate headquarters and a shoutout to himself. >> it is great to be in trump tower and wonderful city, new york. >> reporter: >> reporter: it's never stopped. trump racked up a slew of super tuesday wins he plugged his private club in the sunshine state. >> so great to be in florida, to
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be at mar-a-lago with the press, friends, media, everybody. >> reporter: that's where he accepted the endorsement of rival ben carson, too. >> i brought some things up. >> reporter: on one primary night, he troded out a series of products his company makes or once makes including steaks, bottled water, airline, magazine. >> it's great. want one? here, take one. >> reporter: and off to scotland where he had little to say about the brexit vote that just occurred. >> i wish everybody luck. >> reporter: but much more to say about his golf course. >> we have number 11 which is a spectacular hole. >> reporter: time after time trump used politics to push his brand and brand to push politics. >> i have a great balance sheet and if we could run our country
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the way i have run my company we would have a country you would be so proud of. >> reporter: linking it together is risky. his tweet pushing for latino voters while promoting trump tower taco bowls blew up in to an internet joke and some have backed away from trading with trump and some want boycotts of his business. it is too soon to know if that will last but -- >> it's a different brand. no question. >> reporter: daniel advises companies on reputation and brand marketing. >> the assumption for many people he will lose and he has a damage brarnd that will need to be re built. >> trump said his name alone is worth a fortune but you can take it as it will. the trump hotels announced the latest brand will not bear the candidate's name but instead be called cyan. ahead an announcement about the mountains of debt soldiers are facing after ordered to pay back bonuses they earned a
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the takebacks on crooked enlistment officers. today, ashton carter suspended all efforts to reclaim the bonuses until the review is completed. presidential election, dominating the news spotlight. we want to focus on another important vote. it's time to choose the cnn hiro of the year. the top cnn heroes for 2016 were chosen from thousands of nominations from viewers like you-all around the world. you can vote for your favorite hero at cnnheroes.com, through facebook messenger and on twitter, and up to ten times a day per method. voting ends at 6:00 p.m. pacific at midnight for the top ten finalists. here are the top ten finalists. in columbia, jason hasn't let
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cerebral palsy stop him from giving young ones a bright future. and a life-changing kayaker, brad ludden, helps young adults with chancer. sherri franklin rescued nearly 4,000 senior dogs and found them forever homes. and umar omar traveling by boat, land, and air, bringing care to thousands of people living near the kenya-somalia border. and through education, and soccer, helping those in the united states. in chicago, sheldon smith is breaking the cycle of absentee fathers by helping young dads become positive role models. becca stevens has dedicated her life to helping women escape addition, trafficking and prostitution. and georgie smith takes make-shift spaces into dream homes for those who have aged out of the foster care system.
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at 86 years old, harry swimmer using his horse farm to give special needs kids a leg up. and in richmond, virginia, craig doddson mountainors the most at risk youth living in richmond public housing. start voting now. don't forget to share your votes on facebook and twitter. we'll announce the cnn hero of the year, december 11th, 8:00 p.m. pacific. i will be co-hosting our live event cnn heros an all live tribute with the great kelly ripa. be right back.ed about that.
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and that does it for us. what a night. "cnn tonight" with don lemon starts now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking news, you know the old saying, it ain't over until it's over. new polls show this race may be closer than anybody thought. this is "cnn tonight," i'm don lemon. hillary clinton's lead shrinking in our new poll of polls, down to six points over donald trump, and the whole thing could come down to the sunshine state, florida where the new bloomberg poll has trump in the lead. just barely, but remember, this is a state that barack obama won twice. clinton today, taking nothing for granted. >> we can't take our foot off the gas even for a short time. every vote counts. just and my friend, former vice president, al gore.