they were young and beautiful, and it just, everything changed. everything change. the innocence of what the world was like, and then we lose martin luther king and robert kennedy of years later. it's like we live in a different world than that very moment. 20 minutes later everything has been changed. >> we can hear the recording in the background of walter cronkite announcing the assassination and death of president kennedy as we make our way inside this replicate of the 707 used november 22, 1963. where are you right no? >> i'm sitting in the president's seat aboard air force one. yet the staff in this room. there was a sofa in this is where you would have all of his meetings with staff, the secretary of state, robert mcnamara. so this wasn't the command center basically for air force one. they could talk to anybody in

the world from this airplane. >> you take a lot of attention to detail dinesh d'souza duck that was on that day. how did you research it? >> we had a wonderful company in kansas. they we outfit airplanes. if all the photographs and schematics of the airplane big it took about six month to get this point exactly the way it is. we recently loaned the chairs in the airplane to hbo. hbo. they did of this series on lbj all the way. when the movie opens up, johnson is sitting in this chair. it's after the assassination and they're on the way back to washington. this is the most realistic with a world map, even the clock on the wall at the time president kennedy died, 12:30 p.m. central top november 22. >> of course the cockpit is exactly what was 50 some years ago. >> the command center, the typewriter, a stenographer station behind us with a typewriter.

testing the machine is exactly the way of one like it wasn't that they. >> finally, why is this your passion? >> i should love politics since the day that kennedy died. i wanted to be involved in politics and worked with campaigns and was kept collecting memorabilia. when i got a chance after 9/11, we lost for three as children coming to washington because of security. so i just purchased the airplane. the window to branson, missouri, and built a museum called the american presidential museum. i knew those kids. i grew up in the hills of north carolina. i knew those kids also in the ozark. if they didn't get to go in high school, they may never get to washington and see what it's like. instead of incoming there, i took it to them. i built an oval office and had ronald reagan's presidential limousine. we became the main educational

history exhibit through northern arkansas, southern missouri and oklahoma. it's turned into more education because i want to turn kids on to political history and presidential history in particular. and we are rejoined by adam hoskins inside the oval office. this is pretty neat. >> this is a real replicate of reagan's oval office. we have a replicate of a photo that's been in reagan's oval office, president obama's oval office and george w. bush's oval office as well. and just as well. this is really cool. we have actual photos of president reagan, reagan's jellybeans used to keep on his desk. this experience has taught me a personal side of the presidency to see outside of the public persona. >> this is an office there

should give him a chance to go through, serving the public is not about to do with the oval office when they go to the white house but it's an exact replicate, correct and? >> an exact replicate of reagan's oval office. it's a interesting snapshot in history. this has been presented to us by facebook who's been a great spot to with political fest so far. >> thank you for the tour. >> thank you so much, steve. >> as they spend less is in philadelphia to ask people about the democratic convention and the issues most important to them in the 2016 presidential campaign. >> i think the convention is great to have been fully considered we had a new mayor just a year ago and the pope came down and so. having the conventioneer makes sense, it's where all started. >> i'm an elected pledged delegate for hillary for mississippi. i was chosen because i'm a community activist. i know that there is no plan to

be. we have to take care of our planet are unconcerned about the epa been diminished and going away and about more. i don't want our planet polluted and to what hillary to take his us. czeslaw plans will be great to take of americans i supporter. thank you hillary for running. >> my name is zach walz, i pledged delegate from iowa city, iowa. i'm a delicate this time in 2016. i was a speaker in 2012 but i only got funding for the wanted to talk about my family growing up with two moms in the state of iowa and why same-sex marriage is important to me and my family. i'm happy to be back this time supporting hillary clinton and the democratic party to protect marriage equality, sounds like much all over the country. >> the issues most were to be is equal pay for equal work. i feel like secretary clinton is the best woman for the job. she has worked under the obama administration to make sure that every woman gets equal pay for

equal work. >> my name is jessica and i represented the seattle area. , delicate for tranfive and appeared to represent the kansas delegates of the people who voted force. we went in seattle and washington by 72%. either to make sure their voices are heard and represent the things we wanted in the report as a party spent voices from the road on c-span. >> politico has an article look at donald trump's call for russia to investigate hillary clinton's online correspondence. best wishes donald trump invited russia to back hillary clinton's in a ask and find the 3000 e-mails missing from the personal server she used turner classic this day. it would be interesting to see, if you're listening, i hope you find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing the republican nominee said at a news conference in florida quote i think you will probably be rewarded finally by our press.

that news conference from earlier today is in right now on c-span and you can read more of this tour in political today. donald trump will be traveling to scranton, pennsylvania, this afternoon for a town hall meeting with mike pence. we will bring that to live starting at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span2. the atlantic council poste hosta discussion focusing on 2016 congressional races in key swing states. speakers include senator chris coons, congressman joe crowley and ben lujan. and cook political report house editor david wasserman. >> it's nice to see you all

there. i'm president of atlantic five and welcome today to over a morning briefing at the dnc. i hope everybody had enough coffee and banana nut muffin to kick start their day. i want to thank our underwriters have made this week in philadelphia possible, american potomac institute, aft and makers mark. they will provide us with bourbon ballot at the talk to our this afternoon. you will have to come back at 4:00 for that. like yesterday after this session our friends from lululemon are going to come over and lead a meditation session. if it sounds like a joke it's not. i was a bit of a that are yesterday but i did it and accompanist after the session and i promise you, it would you, it will take a day off to good start. we are on twitter at hashtag the

atlantic it relied on c-span and after both of our conversations is when we'll have time for your questions. so now to the subject at hand. as the democrats gather in philadelphia they have three major goals. first, to win the white house together to come when back the house, win back the senate. the battle for congress is what we'll be talking about. that are 34 senate seats up for grabs issue. 24 are controlled by the gop, and the house republicans occupy two and 47 of the 435 seats on the ballot in november. so the democrats have a big job. to talk about the chances we have an excellent line. so please welcome the guests for the first overdue conversation. new york congressman joe crowley, vice chair the democratic caucus. [applause] congressman. senator chris coons is the junior senator from delaware. [applause]

>> and new mexico congressman ben lujan is just the democratic congressional campaign committee, the dccc. [applause] david wasserman is the house editor for "the cook political report," also but as an analyst on abc news election night decision desk and for his book. and leading the conversation, my colleague, molly ball. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> hi, everybody. thank you so much for coming. let's jump right in with the big question, starting with the senate, senator coons are democrats going to retake the senate's because i'm confident the democrats will retake the senate majority. it will not be simple or easy but as you look at the map to the numbers were mentioned in the introduction come as you look at the candidates we've got and if you look at the resources we've got as the party i'm fairly optimistic that we're going to take back control of the senate.

if you look at the map for getting 245, i think it is relatively at this point straightforward to predict what about this going to be. i'll say that evan buys decision to jump into the race in indiana which you can applaud, basis and it took a difference. he is up by 30 points in one poll by 20 points in another bowl, $10 million in the bank, terrific name id and i think he will contribute to make sure we are able to put over the top. we are in pennsylvania. katie mcginty is running a good strong race after having millions of dollars of negative ads against her in the last six weeks. she still buy couple of points. by briefly way of introduction am optimistic about the resources we've got coming out of this convention. if i were running in pennsylvania i want joe biden next to me everyday as i was campaigning in wilkesboro in scranton and pittsburgh. if i were campaigning in ohio or illinois or wisconsin, i'm having all the different resources we have in terms of

folks have a national profile, the experience, whether it's president obama or tim kaine will be a great campaigner or it's all the folks who were engaged in volunteering as centers to help our colleagues am optimistic. coming out of cleveland use either a divided republican party. they had a difficult messy primary process. the governor of ohio didn't even bother going to the republican convention in his own home state. i can we've got a coherent and strong message, great folks able to deliver it and they run up canada's. >> before i start arguing with you i'm going to go -- let's go to the house. are democrats going to retake the house speaks i think democrats will have a very strong year this year. remember back in 2015 we launched an effort to create a battlefield of the least 65

seats across the country with recruited candidates. many people talk to us and said you're not going to find recruits in those expenditures across the country. it will be very challenging. as we get closer to january of 2016 and all of sudden this guy named donald trump start to surge that you they cannot stop them, a different thing start to be set and/or different observations. look, here's the plaintiffs of democrats are optimistic the am optimistic where we are. the end of the front lines where the shipping doing very well. we challenge them all to win end off your to develop strong infrastructures and reach out to their candidates, to their constituents, to the electorate across the country. as the senator coons session to make sure you're leaving by example with constituent case work as well and acting like a small town in each and everyone of these districts. they've been there. we have competitive seats across the country, 50 that president

obama won in nearly lost. that solidified the base for those districts across the country. now we are working with president clinton, with all of our allies in the states where we will have battleground against as a presidential battleground states, senate battleground states. our districts don't battleground in those areas as well as state house and state senate seats. in places like in utah where existed but we may not be playing with the senate or the presidential but we're digging into utah to make sure you don't go once, all the resources he asked. we have seen an expansion of the battlefield down in florida. i guess i haven't made any predictions going forward with the house, but leader pelosi challenged me to put the house and play. we are working day in day out with every photo across the country in every district.

i want to see we can do to maximize those wins come november. >> i am sure you noticed the edge to my question was not yes. can you provide us with an objective reality check? how do you like the democrats chances? >> current outlook is again. i don't think it would be a bad night. democrats challenge is hosted by pennsylvania perfectly. in 2012 the last and it was a presidential election democrats want 83,000 more votes for congress discounting houseboats but they won five out of 18 seats. republicans are not on able to take offense of the fact that democrats are clustered in cities like philadelphia, but they're also able to draw a map after the 2010 census that doctor democrats into only five district. out of the states took in republican held seats there's only one we currently rate as a truly competitive race and that's in the philadelphia suburb, eighth district which is

open. if democrats have a relative majority were gone to places like the philadelphia suburbs. i think it has been a challenge in terms of timing. if you said last year with one thing would really tank republicans majority announce? how about a crazy like a nominee like donald trump? the problem in terms of house level attachment to trump is that the filing deadlines had passed in 81% of districts by the time donald trump captured the nomination early may. while there has been some democrats, i think the dccc has done and admirable job of getting credible candidates and races bother still time to do so, it was too late in a variety of districts. a gain of between 10 and 15 would be a good night for house democrats. >> congressman connolly, does suggest a big part of the democrat strategy is going to be running against donald trump. do you see that being the

biggest theme of your house candidates speak with one of the big things. as david said himself, what do you call them? crazy? even leader pelosi said yesterday it's a gift that keeps on giving. i think you're right in terms of philadelphia and the suburban area on the road to capture the house. i also don't think you can discount new york. look at the first long island, great candidate come look at cedar key is in calling deacon, both running against republican. both a vision of going back and forth in election years. when you have i think, great candidates at the same time mr. that comes out that doesn't speak well, doesn't bode well for republicans in states like new york. there's a whole bunch of other, about nine seats in new york that we'll be a grizzly engaged in. i feel that optimistic.

it's in the realm of possibility. with a much more higher hurdle than the senate does. the airplane get that a lot better. have a lot more republicans of-democrats. but windy recognize the landslide? it's unpredictable in terms of a donald trump will do. and what impact will have on the down party ticket. my colleagues why see from time to time when we're in session, they were on their heels, very nervous about themselves. and about my colleagues did not go to the republican convention. they found an excuse, vacation being one of them. they had stabbed those and things. it was remarkable to not don't john kasich in his own home state of folks were not coming from around the country. i was there monday and tuesday leslie. i've been into a lot of folks i saw a lot of folks missing. i think that's also something to keep in mind. they are afraid of the own candidate.

>> with the trump effect and clarity observation with republican gerrymandering that we saw come out of 2010, the battlefield is different. there were trends nationally going to naturally going away overtime we saw in republican districts a more democratic. families that were getting started, moving from the city to the suburbs. those trends come t you see thoe districts shift. and then emerging electric coming away. those were coming to democrats. donald trump is excelling that. that's an important observation of a look at a new battlefield. >> on the other and you talk about a landslide right now is as good a convention on the right now donald trump is that in most other national polls. nate silver to sing if election held today he would win. senator coons come how much do you need a strong performance by the top of the ticket? >> if you take a look at a number of the states that we hoped might be in play, all the

most recent polls show the actual input. in arizona, in missouri, iowa, north carolina a we've got candidates who are within two to 4.1 the margin of error against fairly strong in most of those cases income but republican candidates. ya special head-to-head is going to be bouncing around. i would ignore all national head-to-head polls for the next couple weeks but it our battleground map we have expanded it into several states where we both got stronger candidate than we might hope, six-month ago. we've got weaker upon is that we might've hoped six-month ago and were unconvinced donald trump is make our candidates viable in places that would've been difficult race two, 46 years ago. >> you mentioned arizona. we had a great waldin in a discussion in cleveland, said of the republican congressional committee, and what he said was it is easy to tie democratic candidates to hillary clinton who is a popular than to candidates to donald trump

because hillary is a regular democrat. wes donald trump is not so obviously a regular republican. easier for republicans to distance themselves in arizona, a democratic candidate running against john mccain. there's an ad against her now tying her to hillary clinton. is the top of your ticket going to be a drag? >> i don't think you'll be a drag particularly as folks get to know tim kaine. some of the strength, so the reach and capabilities going to bring will excite and mobilize and engage voters who might not otherwise have performed quite the same i love. tim kaine is progressive catholic. the combination of the service and experience on armed services and foreign relations come this time in honduras, he fluids pashtun his fluency in spanish and is believe believed to worke list connect a number states that monopolies have been impolite but where he and hillary will put them in plan makes me optimistic about winning a number of seats that even a month ago a lot of those optimistic predictions didn't

say we were going down and play. i think she and tim kaine think she and tim cable b and left for us. >> do you think it significant senator coons seems want to talk about tim kaine more than about hillary clinton? >> it certainly is a solid pick for secretary clinton. tim kaine is a happy warrior. i don't think that can hurt the ticket. i think it's hard to find anyone in congress who dislikes tim kaine. but this it will be decided on the presidential race to go for leopard when the presidential battleground and the senate battleground is profound. only a couple states with our competitive senate races that off the table in indiana perhaps. when you go down the list of illinois and wisconsin as the first to best democratic opportunities in the senate followed then by new hampshire, pennsylvania, ohio and florida.

when you add in going in indiana, i think those last five are going to decide the fate of the senate. senate democrats have advantages the democrats in the house don't have. some of the demographic shifts that are helping hillary clinton and senate democrats are in places like florida where you puerto ricans moving from the islands to the mainland, particularly the orlando area. those new voters who are automatically eligible by virtue of their citizenship are helping hillary clinton win florida. they are potentially helping democrats in that senate race potentially beat marco rubio. that's a house district they already hold. >> florida is seeing an increase by collision with puerto rican voters and that was stephanie murphy jumped into the race against mr. mica. it is the least, if the statistics we should see a bump

because of that shift. >> let's talk about the other side of the demographic going to congressman crowley, you are from a new digester, the bronx and queens. the first but also guys who sat in look like you. do you read a lot of these white working-class trump voters we keep hearing about? not saying you are a trump voters spewed water you talking about? >> i apologize. but have you seen among your constituents or elsewhere evidence that is a group of previously disenfranchised people being brought into the electorate by trump? >> first it's interesting to i come from a saber as the donald trump i call him on mendon. -- con man gone. he did go up anyway like i did. he kind of has disavowed his queens citizenship. and quite frankly we don't like to refer to people from queens the way. it's kind of even.

i think there is a blip but keep in mind as well hillary clinton service new york states senator for eight years. u.s. senator. she's incredibly familiar not only as a political figure but people know where. i think coupling that, there was a little bit of that in terms of long island on the first and third district some concern about that. you have a groundswell of the voters who come every four years, african-americans, latinos. he just gets worse and worse with latino voters come a growing population on the island that is not as widely known as some. i think you would be surprised all the people who look and talk like i do is speak like i do are firmly behind hillary clinton. >> senator coons, you talked about the pennsylvania senate race. this is a state that has been touted as potentially being put

on the map by town's candidacy despite having gone democratic in the last several presidential elections. you think pennsylvania is in play? >> i think pennsylvania is a key battleground state just because of the math. if the donald trump can't win pennsylvania i don't see a path to the white house for him. we need to hold pennsylvania in order to win the senate. it's going to matter for both sides in a critical way. i think it leans democrat. i think there's developed as muscle memory of voting presidential come in presidential years for democrats we built up the machine to get out the vote but it is the status went back and forth pretty strong from election to election. we have the benefit of a democratic governor, and having come through what was a tough primary we reunited the pennsylvania democratic party. cady i is campaigning for a har. is campaigning for hard to estimate a the mr. grimsley she's also kind of a help from a guy named joe biden.

i never met anyone who is tide list indicates an effective a campaign at the grassroots level as joe biden. i think tim kaine and progressive catholic who speaks to a lot of central pennsylvania's will be someone who will be here and be helpful and effective. i think the combination of the to working with key that would put this thing away on the democratic side of the column relatively early. many of us recognize the centrality of pennsylvania to the outcome of this election and appointed pushing to make sure all the resources, all the volunteers and all the airtime weekend will get invested in pennsylvania. >> let's talk a little bit about the issue set of this election. again, your republican counterpart believes this election is going to turn on national security, crime, a kind of vicious donald trump was talking about last week. do you see those as being the main things beside donald trump better candidates are going to be talking about?

>> clearly as we talked about this upcoming election cycle and the nature of what is on everybody's mind, i was talking to sean patrick maloney recently, a congressman out of new york. he said look, thiss what i get when i visit with people as they feel unsafe, they feel like things are unaffordable. and the things are unfair. i agree with his assessment. as we talk about the notion of national security, whether it is foreign or domestic, we have a responsibility to keep people safe. we have to do that by securing our nation. looking forward in making sure that economic security is something that is real, that economic security can be built in such a way where families like the one i grew up in, my dad was an iron worker, mom worked in the local school district, that can be taken away from you overnight. and as we talk about what the wedding site is coming from not just economic, the voters are

feeling, but the real anxiety about the frustration with this outside secret money that is poured into elections as the result of citizens united, coming from 2010. democrats and republicans and 80p, it doesn't matter, they are tired of this. we have to do everything we can by working to secure our democracy as well. each and everyone of those areas will be working to make the contrast to show the difference between democrats and house republicans. here's what i think is puzzling to me. the republicans who recently sent out a series of white papers to share with the american people what they will do if they're in charge in 2017, here's the worst kept secret. they are in charge now. the american people are asking why aren't you doing this now? as congressman crowley spelled-out come house republicans left without doing anything about opioid addiction across america. they left zika on the table.

it didn't help the poor people that are suffering from flint, michigan, and all the lead poisoning. we have around the country. and the list goes on to zika and whatnot. that's the difference as i see that the people across america what action did they want us to work together but we all know that speaker paul ryan can't even when he made a commitment to move a piece of legislation that would address gun violence after the shootings in dallas and orlando come in baton rouge and other minnesota and the events around the world is going to move a package that got scheduled for a vote tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday and each day it had to get pulled because the republicans would not allow for the package to move. ..

even to the senate and the senate did a good job in terms of the murphy filibuster, it was a sit in on the floor and people are like actually coming up to us and saying i was incredible. is an issue that we have been identified with, i think house members will they go back, democrat and republican are hearing about this. an example of not being able to get the most common denominator of issues accomplished-- not talking about reenactment of the band-- weapons ban, which i would love to have happen, but i am also a and we are talking commonsense measures that this republican majority have never been able to get that accomplish at all, so i think that is one issue we have identified with house democrats more than anything else right now. >> senator kuhn, do you think gun control is a plus for your senate candidates, particularly ask chuck schumer and harry reid

working to get the gun issue off the radar so we could elect pro-gun democrats in red states in particular. and midwestern states, purple states do you think democrats can run on that platform? >> i think closing the terrorism loophole and enacting responsible background checks is something where we had the overwhelming majority, not just of americans, not just republicans, but nra members who say we may disagree about the assault weapons ban and gun control, but on those two issues, making sure people who cannot get on an airplane because they might be terrorists can go into a store and buy military grade weapons without restriction seems crazy and even family members of mine and friends of mine who are gun owner say if i do get a drivers license to show i can drive a car i am fine with the idea that i have to go through functioning background checks to purchase a weapon.

we really don't have a functioning coordinated national background check system. there are loopholes that are too big and i think this can be a winning issue. i'm going from here to a rally about responsible solutions to the challenges facing us because of weapons. i think the congressman is correct that the average american feels unsafe and insecure about a number of issues. you will see donald trump tried to emphasize the threat of terrorism. we have the record in record because we are the party that has funded state and local law enforcement this and have prepared americans to be safe and with other partners-- party cannot talk about nato have solutions. we do. >> congressman, what is the theme of the convention so far as division within the democratic party. your own delegation from new mexico is divided. do you see that impact in november? do you think democrats, a lot of former burnley supporters will stay home? >> i would not describe it as

divided. i come from a great state where we have passionate supporters on all sides and they are here. what's great about a small delegation like ours in a state that only has a population of under 2.4 million people is that you all know each other. when you come together united especially with the ugliness and divisiveness, racism, bigotry of donald trump where he then went to new mexico like he did ohio, and hereinafter r governor. i have never supported governor martinez, but what he did as was out of balance. when donald trump went to new mexico and attacked the republican governor, he helped pull away those republican votes as well, so not only new mexico, but across the country was senator sanders speaking last night and our first lady michelle obama's words of encouragement last night with little anastasia with her mom,

talking about that she was to become an attorney so she can help other people, this is part of the process. we are coming together and we will stand a stronger coming out of this convention than the republicans and the point i will make to highlight that is last week both president bush's where not there appeared governor romney was not there, senator mccain was not there. someone told me to watching was there, this week senator sanders spoke last night and we will hear from president obama, vice president biden. we heard from the first lady and we will hear from senator cain. we are coming together in a strongly. >> i want to take a couple questions from the audience, but while you're thinking of your questions, david, what are web the two things you will watch as we get closer to the fall to try to get your finger on the pulse of which way this thing is going? >> to districts that really

intrigued me on nebraska second district and main second district and you might ask what do they have in common. nebraska and maine are the two states that allocate their electro- college votes by congressional districts and those are the two districts that are considerably in play. main second district is a rural working-class white district where donald trupp might have appeal. nebraska second district in omaha is a white-collar professional diversifying district that might be uniquely for donald trump and brad ashford and nebraska is a freshman democrat who is the first of all elected in nebraska since 1992, first republican to be elected to the has a main since 1984. there's an interesting symmetry to the district. i think if a party manages to take both of them they will have a good night. >> brad is way up in his pulling

mccain is an incredible candidate as well, so i feel good about both. >> if you have a question regime hand and when the microphone comes to you please tell us who you are. keep it snappy and if you can let us know who you're addressing the question to. >> so, mike-- this is to whomever would like to answer first. i'm 18 years old and my demographic has aligned with bernie sanders in the election. how do you think hillary clinton can best gets my demographic to unify the party with all ages? >> i think it's a great question the first thing is, i don't think it's a theme we are divided. it's an observation that may be film at 11, this protest acted democratic convention. when has there not been a protest? it's something about us that we

embrace. i think every clinton today is a much much better candidate than she was prior to primary. bernie has done a remarkable job i don't think anyone here that-- i don't think anyone here that bertie would do as well as he did and i give him credit for that. bernie definitely did not know. i think in the end we are hearing fear and fear goes the distance in terms of motivating people, but without answers and without hope and i thought listen to michelle obama last night, listen to bernie talking about hillary as we go and we have barack obama and hillary clinton and the candidate herself. i think at the end of the convention it will have a unifying effect that we are looking for and not just the fact, because i think people will really believe in the hillary clinton that i know. >> i think if you look at through for the issues that

millennial's have set as essential to their future, climate change, not just hollywood's-- tolerance, but inclusion and real economic opportunity and a plan for addressing college affordable and college debt, those are all issues that were on the platform , the liberty, the proposal of the policy the democratic party has a strongly compelling idea and i think both secretary clinton and senator cain will campaign on those issues, push for those issues and i think that will bring a lot of excited and engage young people into voting for the democratic candidates as well. >> when you drill down on the polls, the main observation different from 2012 is the huge boat being driven by voters for johnson stein numbers are double but they are among young voters or double among young voters what they are among older voters and if there is one thing we are talking about issues this election, not only it appeals to

bernie sanders and base, but words ought donald trumps advancers is rebuilding in the structure. home. i think the more democrats talk about the better they will do. >> one more question. >> i'm from new york and yesterday at this wonderful breakfast we learned change versus steady in the notion of change, but that trump folks was seen to care what kind of change and yet steady to them sounds bad. so, i'm wondering in terms of some of the candidates are talking about, how do you address that because i think if you talk about change we all want to know what change, but i guess some voters don't care. how do you deal with this change versus steady because clinton is steady and to mean that makes sense, but i guess not a lot of voters. >> someone at the republican convention called her secretary

of the status quo. >> malik, what i would say is i see a different between good change a bad change in this goes back to the previous question as well with what will it take especially to reach out to millennial's and work together in the same way that millennial's innately inside of them have a sense of social responsibly to stand up to bullying, racism, bigotry, to injustice where they see it, they don't wait for some one else to do something about it. they organize and they stand up to that. donald trump is bringing about the wrong change for america. policies most foreign affairs experts have suggested would make us less safe as a country, withdrawing from nato, economic issues, withdrawing from the wto and look at what the cost of the economic policy domestically would have on the american people, namely burdening working people in america with his economic plan for.

that does not even begin to talk about making fun of people with disabilities, people of mexican heritage and our mexican brother's a just-- sisters suggesting that a judge could not hold his job as a federal judge because donald trump said he will build a wall on the southern border of mexico. 'shifted addition to not disavowing david duke when the question was asked of donald trump, what he thinks about white supremacy and david duke, that has no place in american politics and that is not the change i want to see. i want to see what secretary clinton has been promoting and putting forward as well as aligning with bernie sanders. putting the people voice back in the people's house. economic security, when it comes to more affordable college education. make a safer america by having tough and smart policies that will achieve that.

that is the vision i have going forward and if there is no one that could have said it better than our first lady michelle obama last night. who does she trust over the next eight years-- for two mike eight years with making sure we will be moving in the right direction with an eye on her girls. that captured it for me. >> thank you. thank you very much congressman. we will move onto the next segment of our panel. thank you. [applause]. >> so, now, we are turning to demographics. there was a fascinating survey that found the most common age for white americans was 55 and the most common age for hispanics was eight, so you can see in the snapshot the way things are trending. i would welcome to the stage carlin bowman, senior fellow and research coordinate at the

american enterprise institute. also, roy to share a. thank you so much both of you for being here. demographics, we have been talking about surface politics of this election, the underlying current, so let's start with the big picture. in your view, how is the electorate that issue going to differ from four years ago or eight years ago or 20 years ago in terms of its makeup? >> thank you for inviting us. we have been working on this for about the last 10 years together and our big report on states of change is available on all of our websites if you would like to work the work with them. i think the growing racial and ethnic diversity of the electorate is by far the most important long-term trend chasing the electorate over time >> what does that mean in practice?

>> if minorities could be as much perhaps as 30% of the electorate today, groups that have voted heavily democratic in recent election, so democracy favors the democrats at this point. >> what was it four years ago or eight years ago? >> 27% four years ago and as high as 30 this year if you are the total minority population. >> basically like clockwork the share of minority voters tends to go up by up couple of percentage points each presidential cycle and at the same time the white vote goes down by two points, but it's heavily concentrated among white noncollege voters who are the most conservative voters and direction of it increase in white-collar, so the changing mix of the electorate tends to push the democrats forward with minorities who vote 80% democratic, increasing and white noncollege voters voting like 36 or 37% democratic decreasing.

it's a recipe for pushing things in a certain direction. obviously, it demographics is not destiny, but it matters a lot. >> are there any variables that could change this makes whether it's changing turnout expectations? we heard about maybe many more hispanics were eligible for citizenship seeking naturalization just so they could vote. what variables to use the effectiveness? >> the key variable here would be differential turnout trends among different segments of the electorate like white noncollege, latinos, but it should be stressed that even if you see some of this-- these differences are not likely to affect the basic trend much. it could be the difference between minority voters going up by 2.1% consider 1.9 percentage points because primarily driving the shift is population change. even differences in turnout won't make as much of a

difference as you might think. latinos already vote in 2012 a pretty good democratic 16 points over white voters and you still seek the result we saw, so i would not expect latino turnout to crash in this election. i would expected to grow up. whites turnout, we will see, but i think to the extent we see greater white turnout will be counterbalanced in this case by increase minority turned. it's a variable, but just to stress that the key thing driving these changes is not turnout patterns. its population change. >> we are also looking at key group something about how they will turnout in november. will young people who supported bernie sanders stay home? we don't know the answer. will married women who have been pretty solidly republican group over time, with a turnout for donald trump? that remains to be seen. will african-american turnout be as high as was for barack obama? that will be in particular

clinton going forward, so these are also the kind of things we are working at, but he is correct. >> you famously wrote co-authored the emerging democratic majority back in 2002. believe that on that and that was a thesis primarily about the increasing mercy of the electorate and population change leading to a demographic-- democratic advantage in elections. what would you change about the book if he were to write it with perfect hindsight? >> if we were going to write it right now, i mean, i think the basic thesis about the presidential coalition turned out to be by a large correct. of the groups we thought were going to grow moved in the direction we thought and that states we targeted as moving towards the democrats basically did. if we were writing it today i think we would do a couple things and one is dealing bit more with the issue of congress because we do see congress is basically a big variable behind changes taking place in the

country that are pushing presidential elections in a certain directions, so talk more about that and that structural problems democrats may have transferring their demographic dividends into electorate payoffs. some of the issues around i think we talk about and then there were some states where we were kind of behind the curve in realizing how fast they shift in the other direction towards the republicans, the appellation states. i think of the book we still categorized west virginia at least for the near future as a democratic state and turned out not to be true at least in presidential. there are a couple things we would change, but i would have to say that the basic thesis seems pretty solid. i stand behind it. >> would you agree with that? >> i do agree with that. democracy-- tomography favors the democrats. i think he is correct, the republican party needs to wake up to these extraordinaire demographic changes. >> what would that mean?

>> well, it's-- they probably would start with more outreach to minorities and latinos started with latino population. i think the african-american vote is pretty solid democratic block overall so it would be hard to make inroads they are. , young african-americans are less democratic, but not more republican. they are moving into the independent camp. reaching out to the latino population be essential for the republican going forward and i also think thinking different about the growing number of single women and another demographic that we have identified works overall and will be important for time because the group is growing. >> you mentioned the idea that demographics are not destiny. i would like to drill down on that a bit. do we ever see sudden shifts in population groups? haven't we seen the asian-american vote become much more democratic than it used to mean the last couple of cycles? >> correct. if you go back to the early

'90s, 1990s, the asian-american vote was actually republican leaning, but it's changed dramatically since then, partly a result of immigration in the united states and partly result of cold war disappearing and communism no longer an issue and partly the result of voters shifted to the left. these have always been fairly pro-government voters and that's really come out with a vengeance to the point where the piety i did manage up to my credits among asian americans is slightly larger than among latinos, but the biggest and most consequential within groups we have probably seen in the last 40 or 50 years have been the shift of white noncollege voters from the democrats and the republicans. so, what that enabled the republicans, i mean, these democratic changes that are pro- democratic have been unfolding for a long time, but they were completely swamped to begin with by the movement of white noncollege voters into the republican camp particularly,

presidential, so yeah there are a lot of moving parts here and we hold every thing equal and you push forward your queen have a big report about different scenarios called america's electoral future. clearly if you push board with the basic patterns we have now it's a big advantage for the democrats especially several cycles down, but you can also see night with the are for example if the republicans increase their share of the white vote by a five points which we did in our report and if you do that they could continue to win presidential's a tell about the about 2028. eventually, even that runs out of gas, but demographic sets the plainfield, but doesn't determine all the outcomes. i think it tells party some of what they need to do and not do. >> carlin, sought in these discussions about demographics are deeply pessimistic for republicans. do you see any encouraging-- any opportunity for optimism in the electorate or are republicans entire coalition state on the

part of the electorate that are getting smaller and i now? >> republican coalition is getting smaller. the white vote has been the basis of the republican party and shrieking about two percentage points every four years. i'm not sure i see a lot of enormously positive things in the data for the republicans overall. i think postmortem at the vet 2012 election reflected they are aware of some of these challenges going forward, but break into the latino vote overtime will be very very important and they will have to do more work in that regard overall. issues matter, elections matter, canada's matter and we are looking at a lot of states that could be play this year that we would have never expected before donald trump seems to be doing better. hillary is doing better in the sun belt. i went back and read ron brown's 2009 article on the blue wall, the 18 states that voted in 2009 straight democratic 45 presidential elections, longest transcends fdr election and then

i looked at those states again after 2012 in those same states voted six times democrat candidates overall, but now some of those states, michigan-- michigan and particularly at wisconsin are in play. these trends change and so there are opportunities for the republicans in part because of issues and candidates all the rest. >> do you agree with that? >> i agree with that. i think in a sense you can also put it demographic ones on that where trump's chances seem best in areas where states with a white population is large, where sold and where the minority population and other ships are actually quite slow, relatively static states. wisconsin, michigan, ohio, so i think it makes sense that those would be in the target zone with some chances of moving in the other direction. with that said, i'm a little skeptical of the ability of

trump to move an adequate sure about white noncollege votes so far his direction as to swamped the other trends in the general democratic leader in these states. it's really does look like the white college vote will swing pretty heavily towards the democrats, so that means in a lot of these states you have an -- over performed what you previously did during white working-class and i think it's a tub populous. >> democrats have this demographic advantage in elections, but how do you explain that there is no performance that we see the past couple of cycles? can that really only be explained by turnout of different groups? >> internet is clearly very important. so also is the strong federal system and you think about all of the different elections in the fact that democrats are largely clustered in big cities, density equals democrat is

another democratic outage, somatosensory publicans have done extraordinary well in governorships and even after this election they will probably hold the majority of the governorships. they are picked over 900 state legislative seats since obama took office, so there is something else going on and i could it's related to changing demography and also to the fact that these are more localized elections. >> is it also the changing dynamics of the parties and the reorienting of their coalitions because i'm old enough to remember 2006 when democrats won the midterm? >> i think that certainly the coalitions are different. the coalitions, the republicans have turnout in these off year elections there is bigger drop off among democrats, but two things that are important is one, the republicans have done a great job focusing on how-- house of state legislative races are to some extent if the product that some of these other changes are not good for them, so they want to maximize their

impact my mopping up in these off year elections in these house and the receipts and i think they have been job than the democrats. the second thing is something dave wasserman mentioned earlier, which are structural advantages below the state level for republicans, typically. the way districts are drawn, but democrats insist on living next to one another and they sort of minimize the effectiveness. republicans are far more district that are basically 55, 45 republican. democrats have too many districts that are 70, 80% democratic differs-- districts in that way's votes, so you can win a majority of the popular vote as the democrats did in 2012, yet still manage to lose in the house, so there is indications now that the democrats really would have to carry the house vote for like 46 that's not fair, maybe, but that's the way it is and helps

republicans at this point. >> i went to take a couple questions, but first to either of you see any sleep for subgroup among the electorate? we have heard a lot about for example single women. are there other groups or demographics in the electorate that have not caught as much attention as sort of the big-box that you think could either come on the radar this year or that you are interested in? >> i think i will be looking at african-american women. in part because the rate of voting by african-americans in the 2012 election was actually higher than the rate of voting by white americans for the first time in our history and african-american women in particular look very enthusiastic about hillary clinton with quite a bit of attention and she spent a lot of time courting that vote overall and i think that will be a very important vote in the fall. >> white college-educated women.

i just think they will be really big this year and i think they will swing very traumatically in the direction of the democrats and that will swing the whole white college-educated boat as i alluded to earlier tors the democrats and as these things go that's a big change. as ron brown's been pointed out the other day, democrats of ensuring that white college educated vote since testing, so i think that is an interesting thing. >> i'm so excited to be in a key demographic. who has a question? raise your hand. don't be shy. microphone is coming to you. someone writing front of of the blinding light great they are paired tell us who you are at who you want to ask a question of. >> my question is for both of you i guess. from california's 24th district, which is a very young district and a very white to district.

both in presidential and it's an open house seat this year. do you think the youth or the fact that it's a white district will play-- relative-- which one do you think will be more important in the petitioner? >> i not enough of a housed nerd to know whose district that is. >> what are your thoughts. >> young voters are not the most reliable voters. maybe they will be this year. their turnout rate is not necessarily high, so i would look at the white population. >> it's a little hard because i don't know that much by the district, but i do think that the performance of young whites, which is obviously a subset of the white vote overall is going to quite right-- is going to be quite important because if you look at the difference between whites by generation is quite dramatic between white millennial's for example in white generation, so to the extent that a presidential

election propel these white millennial's interaction in a district like that could be significant and tip the white vote more towards the democrats. you know, my senses i think, i mean, drop off elections are huge and i think this is unexciting election and we know people are really interested in level of camping interest is higher than it has been prolonged time, so i would not be surprised to see a spike in youth turnout. i think, you know, a lot of young people will think you know, maybe i like bernie sanders or maybe i'm not crazy about hillary, but if you today this guy trump is insane and i could go out and vote against him, so i think that's a something to watch, the white youth vote. think it might be quite impressive. >> white millennial's new vote for romney including white millennial women.

>> so, if the democrats move that back. >> don't we also hear about young people that they are are increasingly detached from political parties? >> they are much more independent than other generations. they seem to be just interestingly in the polling data, seem to be much more interested in state and local to national politics where they think everything is broken. >> one more. right if you're in the middle. i'm sorry, writes back their. you have the microphone. >> i'm danielle from austin, texas. of 18 years old. for me questions are circulating whether or not more meals will be showing up for the presidential election? and easy to be be a key demographic? >> we sort of address that a little bit, but as you mentioned , that is sort of the bernie votes and there could be a chance that they get discouraged but these i'll deal a stick in people-- idealistic

young people who could this-- could they look at this election say i'm staying home to make they could, but i question that. i don't see the evidence for why that's likely to happen. if you look at the vote of people who are consistent sanders supporters and look at who they will vote for today, it's like 90% for hillary clinton. i don't think there is that much reluctance to vote for hillary in this context and if they have a reasonable commitment to do that i can get the end of the day when the campaign ramps up choices are clear and i think they probably will get out to vote in numbers that are equivalent to before and maybe even higher. if they come out to vote for the president they will blow for the house as well, i mean, drop off his preschool between presidential vote in the house and senate vote, so the key thing is getting them out there for the election in general and once they are in the booth they

were-- they will vote for all of the offices. >> we hear so much that the ticket is splitting. do you think there is any chance it comes back in this election? >> i think it could come back in this election. >> thank you for coming. we will be back today with a lunch program on criminal justice reform at noon. please join us back here. thanks, everyone. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> we are led this afternoon awaiting remarks from donald trump who is in scranton, pennsylvania. the presidential nominee is expected to be joined by his running mate at this time that meeting, governor mike pence of indiana. expected to start a couple moments. live coverage from scranton,

pennsylvania, here on c-span2. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> again, awaiting donald trump this afternoon along with his running mate mike pence holding a town hall meeting in the scrap, pennsylvania. the associated press reported on a news conference is to come bed earlier today where he took a shot at henry clinton's running democratic senator tim kaine for doing a terrible job. the problem is mr. kane is governor of virginia. a look at that news conference down from earlier today. >> thank you. so, it's been 235 days since

crooked hillary clinton has had a press conference. and us reporters who give her all these glowing reports should ask yourselves why and i will tell you why, because despite the nice platitudes she's been a mass. you look at what's happened with isis, which isn't even mentioned you look at what's happening with law and order, they don't even mention our police. dimension everyone but our police. they don't have an american flag on the day-- dice until we started complaining and then they ran up with two very small flags, when that we saw. so, put myself through your news conferences often. not that it's fun. 235 days, no news conference for hillary clinton.

you ought to check it out. because there is a lot going on. her great disloyalty to the person that rigged the system for her, debbie wasserman schultz. totally rigged it. bernie sanders never had a chance and total disloyalty. it's like you are fired, get out fast. the e-mail situation and i caught the double e-mail situation, both very serious. what was said in the last one to the dnc was horrible, absolutely horrible. if i would've used language like they used about religion, that race, about everything else they discuss in those e-mails i would have had a run and hide and probably drop out of the race. with her, everything is just fine. so, just ask yourself why she

doesn't have news conferences and honestly, the reason is because there is no way she can answer questions because the job she has done is so bad. when they talk about change, i noticed they had change-- she has been there for 30 years. there is no change. it's going to be the same, an extension of obama and in my opinion worse. she lied about ttp. she was for ttp. she saw me on television, knocking the hell out of it because it's a poor showing will kill all of our jobs. it will be almost as bad as nafta, maybe worse, which her husband signed by the way, which destroyed this country, destroyed manufacturing in the united states and i will do something about it. that will be so renegotiated and by the way, yesterday for the first time she said she wants to renegotiate trade agreements. first time, yesterday. all because of me.

she also saw me talking about tpp and currency manipulation, currency devaluation and she heard and she said she can't win that subject in a debate, so all of a sudden she goes and she goes against ttp. her vice president is one of the biggest proponents of tpp and now he's going against it and bernie sanders was correct, he was against it. they will go for it tpp and voted in very shortly after the election. if she wins, which were the sake of our country we all hope and i hope that she doesn't. they will voted in. mark my words for coppola, we don't have to worry about it. she will change it paragraph of the 6000 page document that no one has even read. just a you understand, the other countries know every word on every power, every sentence, every one and we don't even read

it because we're led by stupid people. she saw me talking about tpp and realize she could not defend it. her special interest are pushing her hard. she is bonsall by the special interest. they are pushing her very hard, so she said she is against it. the day she gets in, which hopefully will never happen, she will approve or shortly thereafter tpp and that will be another disaster for jobs in our country. so, why do we start off your kenny questions? any questions? yes, sir. >> at the total deflection, this whole thing with russia and in fact i saw her campaign manager, if i'm on television and they asked him about russia and the hacking.

by the way, they hacked. they probably have her 33000 e-mails. i hope they do. they probably have her 33000 e-mails that she lost and deleted because you would see some beauties there. but come out watch this guy and he said we think it was russia that had an first of all, what was said on those that was so bad, but i watch it. he said i think it was russia that hacked and then he said and i am just it-- i'm an innocent person watching television as i have been doing and then he said, it could be trump. yeah, yeah, trump oh, yeah, trump. he reminded me of john lovett's on saturday night live in the liar or he would go yeah, yeah, i went to harvard, yeah, yeah. this is the guy. you have to see it. yeah, it could be trump so, so

far-fetched and so ridiculous. honestly, i wish i had that power. i would love to have that power. but, russia has no respect for our country and that's why-- if it is russia. it's probably china or could be someone sitting in his bed, but it shows how weak we are. it shows how disrespected we are i'm assuming it's russia or china or one of the major countries and competitors. it's a total sign of disrespect for our country. vladimir putin and the leaders throughout the world have no respect for our country anymore and they surly have no respect for our leader, so i know nothing about it it's one of the most far-fetched i never heard. yes, john. [inaudible question] >> i never met vladimir putin. he said one nice thing about me.

he said i'm a genius and i said thank you very much and that was the end of it. i never met vladimir putin. [inaudible question] >> i would treat vladimir putin firmly, but there is nothing i can think of that i would rather do than half russia friendly as opposed to the way they are right now, so that we can go and knock out isis together with other people. wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people? wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along as example with russia? i'm all for it and let's go get isis because we had to get isis and we have to get them fast. you saw what happened with the priest and it's only going to get worse and hillary clinton wants to allow 550% more people from that region into our country and we have no idea who they are, where they come from,

where their documentation is. it's only going to get worse and it's going to start getting that in our country. we are letting people come in by the tens of thousands. you see what happened to the french priest. a friend of mine, he said he was going to france by three or four months ago. i saw him yesterday and i said how did you like france and he said i wouldn't go to france took i wouldn't go to france because france is no longer france. france is no longer france. they won't like me for saying that, but you see what happened in nice, you see what happened yesterday with the priesthood was supposed to be a spectacular man. france is no longer france and this world better be very careful and they better get very tough and very smart and they will never do it with hillary clinton. by the way, in terms of change, she has been there for 30 years, doing this for 30 years.

all of a sudden things are going to change? she has bought sold 100% by special interest in lobbyist. yes, tom. [inaudible question] >> none. [inaudible question] >> i will release them when the audit is completed. i have had audits for 15 or 16 years. when the audit is complete i will release, but zero. coming i will tell you right now , zero. i have nothing to do with russia yes. [inaudible question] >> depends on the audit. on the way just so you understand, i have released my papers, 104 pages of documents. i built an unbelievable company, tremendous cash, tremendous company with some of the greatest assets of the world. you are all very disappointed when he sought, but that's okay. far far greater than anyone ever thought. i have a great company. i built an unbelievable company,

but if you look you will see there is nothing in russia and as far as the tax returns as soon as the audit is complete, like any lawyer would tell you, greta van susteren going over to a while ago, she's a lawyer and she said no lawyer would let someone release a tax return when they are under audit. routine audit. i've gone through audits, which i think is very and. , for 15 years. i have friends that are very rich and they never get audited. i'm audited every year. maybe that's because of politics who knows. i'm not going to tell vladimir put what to do. he already did something today where he said don't blame them for your incompetence. let me tell you, it's not even about russia or china whoever is doing hacking, it was about the things that were said in those e-mails. and they were terrible things. talking about jewish, talking about race, talking about atheists, trying to pin labels

on people. what was said is a disgrace and it was debbie wasserman schultz and believe me as sure as you are sitting there hillary clinton knew about it. she knew everything-- debbie wasserman schultz could not breathe without speaking and getting approval from hillary clinton, couldn't breathe. he saw that. it also showed that it was a fixed race, but i have been same outline before i saw the e-mails it was totally rigged it. debbie wasserman schultz redid for hillary clinton and the sad part is bree sanders-- bernie sanders to use an old word i use on occasion, he lost his energy. he wants to go home and go to sleep, but he had a lot of people that walked out last night. hundreds of people walked out of the democratic convention last night. i did not even hear about it. i do not see on television.

you people don't talk about it. the republican convention was incredible. i hear i had one of the biggest bounces in decades, like some people are saying nine points. in fact, he pull just came out 10 minutes ago, los angeles time , trump 47, clinton 40 and the reason is that people are sick and tired of hillary clinton. [inaudible question] >> why do i have to get involved with vladimir putin? i have never spoken to him and i don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. he does not respect our present and if it is russia, but it's probably not, but if it is russia it's bad for a different reason because it shows how little respect they have for our country when they would hack into a major party and get everything.

buds, it would be interesting to see. i will take this, russia if you're listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded by our press. let's see if that happens. yes, sir. [inaudible question] >> two big questions. the minimum wage has to go up. people are at least $10, but it has to go up. i think that's-- states should really call the shots. i live in new york. it's very expensive in new york. you can't buy a hot pot for the money you are talking about. you go to other states and it's not expensive at all. it puts new york at a disadvantage.

that things happen. at the same time people have to be taken care of. what i'm really going to do on the minimum wage-- it has to go up. bernie sanders flied. he said in his speech the other day that donald trump was the minimum wage to go below $7. i said where did he come up with that one. just like blowdried it-- joe biden lied today turkey said donald trump points to carpet bomb the enemy. that was ted cruz that said that, not donald trump. he's not a very bright guy, but that was ted cruz that said that he said it with such surety. i never said i wanted to carpet bomb. you will come from that, i think. so, i would like to raise it to at least $10 and what i'm going to do is bring jobs back to this country, so that people can start working again so that the $10 and the $15 and the numbers

you are talking about will literally be peanuts compared to what people can make in the country because i'm going to bring jobs back from mexico, which is booming. i have a friend who builds plants and he's a great builder plants and i was with him the other day, great guy. he builds massive plans for automobiles, computers, anything i think he is the biggest, but certainly one of the biggest and i said how is it going and he said unbelievable. he said no, the country's not doing well, but mexico is unbelievable. the plant handling in mexico, i have never seen anything, it's the eighth wonder of the world and he's not happy. he would rather build them here. he's an american guy. that is what has happened to our country because we have leadership that does not know what they're doing. [inaudible question] >> yes, we will be listing--

giving a list of those territories and if you come from those territories we have extreme vetting. we will have extreme abetting anyway. look, we have people coming into this country club very evil and we have people, whether it's san bernardino or the world trade center or a lot of other things and you look all of the world and you can see what happening turkey look at orlando. how bad was that? that was horrible. that was going after the gay community and it looks like. we cannot let this happen. we cannot let people come and. killer clinton wants to up it. her running mate, tim kaine, who by the way did a terrible job in new jersey, first act he did in new jersey was asked for a $4 million tax increase. he's a very popular in new jersey-- what? i mean, virginia. the first thing he did, the first thing tim kaine did was asked for a $4 billion tax increase and is not very

popular, so let me just tell you and i went all over virginia and i was there the other day and i thought he would be popular. he's not popular because he asked for tax increases, big tax increases in virginia and also unemployment went up, double door close to double during his tenure. he wanted to very strongly and he is on record, he wanted to have even more of the people from that region of the world come in that hillary clinton wants and it's unacceptable. yes i'm a david. david, go ahead. [inaudible question] >> i saw that. i do have a reaction to the prosecutor in baltimore, who indicted those police officers. i think she ought to prosecute herself. that's my reaction. i think it was disgraceful what she did and the way she did it

and the news conference that she had where they were guilty before anyone even knew the facts. i give a lot of respect and a lot of credit to those police officers who probably could have made a deal. i give a lot of respect, and a lot of credit that they stuck it out with victory after victory after victory and she had no chance here don't forget, she prosecuted the best case, what she thought was her best case of first. she should prosecute herself. she should be held accountable. [inaudible question] >> that was a bad case. i mean, if you're going to do that, it's okay because you have to-- there are times when police officers behave badly, but you had to get the right time. this was not one of those times and i think that she is a disgrace to the world of prosecutors for which he did.

yes ma'am. [inaudible question] >> i have a great relationship with governor pence. we have spent the last three days together. he was absolutely my first choice and i never wavered despite the press. the press was saying-- it was interesting i spoke to him at 1105 and i told them i was going to be choosing them if i would be lucky enough for him to accept that he accepted and that was it. for me that was it. right around that time you had attack a nice, and i was going to have a conference either the following morning or the next and i had to delay the news conference because there was a horrible attack. horrible attack in france. i delay the news conference and everyone said he is having second thoughts. i never had a second thought. it was such a life. he has been so great.

honestly, he's been even better than i thought. [inaudible question] >> i think every-- we have a whole new world. when i said nato to-- i got attack. three days later, people that study nato sake trump is correct. we have a lot of things that are 20, 30, 40 years old. this is not a country from 40 years ago and today we had a different threat. we have a terror threat and an crisis threatened by the way, isis is not even mentioned, it's not even mentioned during the democratic convention. everyone is talking about it. the reason i can't mention it is because they blew it. [inaudible question] >> katie, i would renegotiate so much of everything i really-- will renegotiate our trade deals katie, i'm going to renegotiate our military deals.

everyone agrees with me except that the media and the media never says that. i like nato, so you understand. i like the concept of nato. it's a somewhat outdated because it doesn't cover terror the way it should. i've been saying this for six months. front-page "wall street journal" , acting natives great, but it is got to be modernized and countries that we are protecting have to pay what they are supposed to be paying. [inaudible question] >> i am a person that believes in enhanced interrogation, yes. by the way, it works. [inaudible question] >> let me tell you-- once again let me say it again, many

countries including the nato countries, some of which i think you have five that our current that have paid what they zero and they can afford to pay this. it's not like they can't afford. they jesse has as a soft touch and in business we say someone has a soft touch. i don't know if i have been called a soft touch, but in business they call them soft touch. they have to pay us-- excuse me, i don't talk. i'm not like obama where he tells you everything he will do. we will go and do, we will go into that. i don't talk, but they will pay. it sends a signal. it says we will pay. someone said, but we have treaties pick that is correct and in the trees they are supposed to pay and they will pay. go ahead. [inaudible question]

>> we will have a whole policy on that over the next three weeks. i will do a big thing on that. i've been doing very well with the hispanic community. i mean, really well. the poll numbers are going up. ..

>> putin has said hings that were really bad. -- things. he mentioned the n-word. i was shocked to hear him mention that. a total lack of respect for president obama. number one, he doesn't like and doesn't respect him. i think he will respect the president if elected and i hope he likes me. yes, sir? [inaudible question] >> president trump would be so much better for u.s.-russian relations. it can't be worse. when i was a young man studying history one thing i always heard was you never want to do anything to unite russia and china.

well they united and have never been closer. we forced them into this position. wait a minute, no, i am not going -- no, not at all. i have tenants from china. i have the biggest bank in the world from china paying me rent. i have great relationships with china. i am not blaming china. i am blaming our leadership for being incompetent. if china can get away with trade deficits of hundreds of billions, if they can get away with that my hats off to them. i have a problem with our incompetent leadership allowing that to happen. i believe hillary clinton is even more bought and paid for than barack obama. it is going to be four more years of obama which is unacceptable to a lot of people but i believe hillary clinton will be worse than obama.

yes? [inaudible question] >> that is right. that is right. i am going to be doing something over the next four weeks. very much so. no, i am prepared to say we will have great plan. one thing i think as i traveled all over the country and you know where i am going, i am going to toledo, and different places today, and i have met so many people. this is such a great country and these are great people. one of the saddest thing i see is college students who do a great job, number one they don't have jobs because our jobs are going to mexico, china, japan over all the place. it is like my friend who builds the plants but doesn't build them here much. these students are in debt up to their neck. they can't breathe.

they are scared. they are so scared. they have leveraged their entire life. they have leveraged their infire loans. they have loans, and the colleges are viewing to students at a conduit. college costs are out of control because the colleges say what difference does it make? you look at the salaries being paid and what is going on with the college and this is a pass through and students are a conduit. we will help the students. maybe that doesn't fit beautifully within the republican framework but i told this during various times to lots of different people and nobody has a problem with. we have to help our students. our students are under tremendous pressure to a point where it is making them sick. we have help our students. i will have a plan over the next

four weeks. excuse me? [inaudible comment] >> everything is on the table. you will see. it is a very important subject. yes, ma'am? [inaudible question] >> i think my message is resonating because they have confidence on my at the border. likewise they have confidence with me on isis not only in terms of getting rid of them but also in terms of keeping them out of our country because i will not have people coming to our country who want to do damage to our people. i think they have confidence in terms of me bringing back jobs because i see carrier and ford and companies leaving and going to mexico, they make the product and sell it back it the united states, no tax or nothing. we get nothing except unemployment. i think people see that. i can tell you, i mean i am like a pollster myself.

in front of the passive audiences one thing you get, you people know because you are there, the biggest applause is a repeal and replacement of obamacare because obamacare is a disaster. in texas going through blue cross blue shields, they just announced a 60% increase. on november 1st you will have new numbers come out for obamacare having to do with increases. president obama is trying to get it moved to december because it is election-defying. it is going to be a massive number. the biggest number ever in our country's history for health care. i ask the press, don't let him do that. obamacare is a disaster. people are dying with it. it is a disaster and everybody knows. it is going to fold anyway. in '17, if i am president i have to take over this mess, and it is going to fold anyway.

but repeal and replace obamacare, people like it. they like the fact that i am going to protect the second amendment, they like the fact i am going to rebuild our military which is very depleted. they don't feel hillary clinton can do it. go ahead, john. [inaudible question] >> i have nothing to do with russia. john, how many times do i have to say that. i have nothing to do with russia for anything. what do i have to do with russia? you know the closest i came to russia, i bought a house a number of years ago in palm beach, florida for $40 million and i sold to a russian for $100 million including broker commissions.

i sold it. bought it for $40 and sold to a $100 for a russian. i guess i sell condos to russians. of course, i can. i buy a house -- i have nothing to do are russia. i said that putin has much better leadership qualities than obama but who doesn't know that? [inaudible question] >> of course not. i own the trump organization. zero. zero. go ahead. [inaudible question] >> i am. [inaudible question] >> i did. [inaudible question] >> i did because i would love to see a woman become president of the united states but she would be so wrong. even women say that. women don't like her. she would be so wrong.

look, hillary clinton, is a disaster. she has been a daisaster. even her husband left out the most interesting chapter. the chapter i waited for because it was pretty boring, the chapter i waited for i never heard. hillary clinton is a disaster. i would love to see a woman become president and it will happen, absolutely. but i think it would be bad for women if it were hillary clinton. yes, ma'am? [inaudible question] >> i speak about it all of the time. in fact, i mentioned the most recent death, excuse me, i speak

it all the time. they have one -- this is a real problem. you don't see the good work they do. if they make one concern out of a 1,000 it is night after night. the police in this country do an amazing job. i mention that all of the time. yes, ma'am, go ahead. [inaudible question] >> no, but they seem to be. it is probably not russia. nobody knows if it is russia. the sad thing is with the technology and genius we in this

country, not from government unfortunately, but with the genius we have in government, we don't know who took the democratic national committee e-mails. we don't know who it is. i heard one report they don't think it is russia. they think it might be china. another reporter said it might be a hacker. a guy with a 200 iq who can not get up n morning. it might be russia. if it is russia it shows how little respect for have for the united states. [inaudible question] >> the biggest thing is number one we have stop by keeping people out. these people have something bad going on up there. really bad going on.

then people in terms of islam and radical islamic terrorism, a term that our president refuses to use. i cannot believe he is not still using it. he is still not using it. she doesn't want to use it other than i forced her into maybe using it. she said she would but so far hasn't. she will probably use it tonight. like the american flags, as soon as we put up the thing they put american flags on the stage. you had a room without flags on the stage. i think the people in the community know what is going on whether it is in a mosque or in the community and they have to report these people. when you look at san bernardino, many people knew what was going on. they had bombs on the floor. you walk into somebody's house and there are bombs laying on the floor. i think there is a problem there. you have to report them. by there way, david hinkley

should not have been freed. john hinkley. i think he should not have been freed. i just heard about it two seconds ago. in my opinion that is. [inaudible question] >> i said to the president, let the president talk to him. here is problem katie, here is the problem, very simple. he has no respect -- >> you said i welcome him to find -- >> they probably have it. nope, because if they have it they have it. you know what gives me more pause? that a person in our government, crooked hillary clinton. be quite i know you want to save her. but a person in our government, katie, would delead or get rid of -- delete -- 33,000 e-mails.

that is a big problem. after she gets susubpoenaed she gets rid of the e-mails. if russia, or china or any other country has those e-mails, to be honest, i would love to see them. [inaudible question] >> the most ridiculous conversation. don junior -- let me save you a lot of boredom. mike pence will play a role. i want to talk about kasich. i never spoke to him about being vice president. we don't have good chemistry. i would never pick him and there

was never a conversation. he has a habit of saying things that might be shaky. that was so long ago i didn't know i was going to get the nomination at that point. i would not have picked john kasich just so you know. it would not be the right guy. for that to get out there it was so ridiculous. i was going to put him in charge of national and worldwide policy and what is left for the president? i think you know me better than that. he is a nice man but i would never have chosen him. i spoke to various people and there were some people that called me that very much wanted to be vice president. but i picked a man i have a lot of respect for and mike pence is doing a great job. i never asked john kasich to be vice president and never would

and i by the way, i am leading in ohio by three points. [inaudible question] >> he probably has. our government is so weak on this stuff. i have a lot of checks and balances and good system. i am not an e-mail person. i am not an e-mail person myself. i don't believe in it because i think it can be hacked. but when i send an e-mail, i send it almost never, i am not a believer in e-mail. but maybe it is hacked. who knows. [inaudile question] >> yeah, but my message wasn't dark. it was optimistic because we are going to fix the problems.

[inaudible question] >> no bases. look, john, i didn't have to do this. -- basis -- you see this, one of the greatest in the world. i could be here enjoying myself. i don't have to be with you guys. where -- i have places that are the best in the world. i am doing this because we going to make america great again. i am doing this because when i looked at the iran deal which was incompetent, when i looked at the jobs being torn from the country and going to mexico and what is happening with china, and with isis, and the military being depleted where we have old fighter jets and have to take parts from museums and graveyards. when i look at all of this i say i have to do it. this country has been great to

me. as far as running the campaign, i guess it isn't difficult. when i ran there were 17 people. total of 17. governors, senators, ben carson who is a fantastic guy. capable people. wait a minute, everybody said, wow, he can never win because look what he is doing. he is giving a talk to 5,000 people in new hampshire instead of going to everybody's house and having dinner. then i won new hampshire and 30-39 states. and won not just by a little bit but won with the highest vote in the history of the republican party. so just -- but john, the point is this. it is a different kind of campaign but it is what i think is good. i think it is working here, too. [inaudible comment]

>> well when joe biden says i want to fire bomb the enemy, which was on television this morning, or carpet bomb he used the term, when he makes the statement donald trump wants to carpet bomb i never said that. that was ted cruz. when sanders, and i think a lot of his people will come to me, but when bernie sanders makes the statement i want to go lower than am minimum wage it is a lie. -- than the. -- my people say don't respond. it doesn't matter. but i say it matters. politici politicians tell lies very well. that is what they do and why they are politicians. but i am lucky in a sense because i have a big -- i can say biden lied when he said that or i can say i didn't say that

and you guys know i didn't. in fact, he was criticized by the people who fact check because i never said it. president obama said a year and a half ago donald trump will never be president. today on the "today show" he said this is democracy. it is a little bit different. a little bit different. david, go ahead. [inaudible question] >> my positions are down. take a look. go ahead. yes, i did. [inaudible question]

>> i don't know what he said but excuse me, we were doing miss universe in russia, it was successful, and there were developers in russia that wanted to put a lot of money in developments in russia and wanted us to do it but it never worked out. frankly i didn't want to do it for a couple reasons but we had a major developer in particular but numerous developers who wanted to develop property in moscow and other places but we decided not to do it. yes, ma'am, go ahead. [inaudible question] >> he did say that. he just did. anything is possible. i think i am going to win. i think people are sick and tired of incompetence and sick and tired of having politicians leading them down the tubes whether it is taxes, whether it is debt, whether it is anyone of 15 different things.

that is why. i mean i think i will win the election. i think you will see that in the polls. john, go ahead, hope your arm is okay. [inaudible question] >> well it is tradition but i don't think do things that are traditional. i have great support from israel and i will back israel a hundred percent. i would like to go there but i have great relationships, as you know, to the people in israel. by there way, obama in my potential is the single worse thing politically speaking that happened to israel. he has been a disaster to israel. i don't know. i haven't set my schedule yet. it could happen. [inaudible question]

>> no, i think it is possible. but i am only interested in winning. once i win, i will get along great with foreign leaders. the problem we have with foreign leaders, whether it is china, russia or anybody, is they don't respect our leadership and in the case of china they take tremendous economic advantage of us. to a point it is hard to believe. i will get along great with the leadership and we will do well. yes, in the back? [inaudible question] >> we will be looking at that, yeah. go ahead. [inaudible question] >> right. right.

[inaudible question] >> i am not making it a point but at some point people will change their mind but i am not making it a point. yes, ma'am, go ahead. [inaudible question] >> who said that? i think president obama has been the most ignorant president in history. his views of the world, as he said don't jive, and the world is a mess. you look at what is happening with the migration with syria, with libya, with iraq, with everything he has touched. he has been a disaster as a president. he will be going down as one of the worst presidents in the mystery of the country. and i believe hillary clinton

will be even worse. go ahead. katie said that, many polls show you are winning. can you katie turic of nbc? is a disguise. go ahead. [inaudible question] >> you have been asking me a lot of questions for a lot of times and i turned out to be right. i turned out to be right on nato and they changed the whole program because of me. excuse me, katie, hillary clinton said yesterday she is going to start renegotiating trade deals. she said that yesterday only because of me. i am the one that is prepared. president obama didn't know anything when he became president and honestly today he knows less.

he has done a terrible job. i have been seeing and feeling and i have been involved in politics from the other side. i understand politics or i would not be here. i beat a lot of talented people. [music] >> hello, scranton! i am governor mike pence. i am humbled and honor to have

the opportunity to run and serve with the next president of the united states of america, donald trump. [applause] >> you know it is a joy to see you today. it is wonderful to be in pennsylvania. our nominee and i have been traveling relentlessly since the close of a great and successful republican national convention that sent the message to america that america longs to hear. when i got the call two weeks ago at 11:00 at night, i was in my office, my wife at my side, we had prayed through it and when donald trump called and asked me to serve as his running mate and vice presidential nominee i answered in a heart

beat because donald trump has the vision to make america great again. [applause] >> i answered the calls for three reasons and i will share them before i bring in the main event. number one, for all of my years in public life as a governor and on capitol hill, after seven and a half years of failed leadership that has weakened america's place in the world and stifled our economy, i said yes because hillary clinton must never become president of the united states of america. [applause]

>> secondly, i said yes in a heartbeat because i know what strong leadership can mean. strong, commonsense, conservative leadership changed the trajectory of my state of indiana. it was about ten short years ago, indiana found ourselves nestled in the midst of what the rest of america calls the rust belt. we were awash in deficits and debt but then we elected strong, conservative leadership and in ten short years, i stand before you today as governor of the state of indiana we have been able to demonstrate you can make record investments in education, build the bridges and roads of america, expand opportunities

for disadvantage families to chose the school of their choice and pass tax cuts every year and still have the strongest balance budget in any state in america. that is what strong republican leadership will give you and that is exactly what donald trump will bring to the white house. and lastly, i said yes because i had the priverage to get to know this good man and his wonderful -- privilege -- family. he is a dreamer. he is a building. he is a fighter. he is a patriot. he is a man who will put america

first and put america back on top again. so let me say, for a stronger america at home and abroad, for a military that will be able to defend our nation and stand for our allies -- [applause] >> -- to have a commander-in-chief who will name our enemy and mark resources to crush them at the source -- [applause] >> -- to restore fiscal sanity to washington, d.c., to lower taxes for better trade deals and a secure border were the united states of america -- [applause]