camp have claimed. i expect you are going to see more from mr. assange who again, i think is a hero. guest: the next big event on this campaign will be the first presidential debate coming in -- coming up in september. what do you think we can expect from donald trump in terms of the debate? also, what do you think his performance in the republican debate, what does that tell us how he will perform in the general election? roger: i think he did very well in the republican debates. i think he won almost all of them. there is one i would call a draw, but i think he performed in all of them, in view of the fact that he is never done this

-- he has never done this before. all of his opponents had run for state and local offices. the only thing predictable about donald trump is the fact that he is entirely unpredictable. you don't know where he is going to come at hillary. you don't know whether it's going to be in regard to bill clinton's selling military secrets, missile guidance secrets to the chinese in return for campaign contributions, or whether it will be the 1994 crime bill that incarcerated an entire generation of black men, african-americans for nonviolent crimes. hillary said it was necessary because blacks were super predators who needed to be brought to heel. perhaps he will focus on the clinton foundation or focus on benghazi and the lies hillary told in her testimony before

congress. perhaps it will be this new round of lies she apparently told to the congress regarding her e-mail. you never know where donald trump might come, but he is a brawler. if she attacks them as a misogynist, she will be opening .he door to the full story of shall i continue? guest: would you advise donald trump to bring up bill clinton's past? roger: bill clinton is not running for president. hillary clinton led the campaign to intimidate, bully, and threaten those women into silence. that is a provable fact.

i expect in the fall that many of these women will be speaking out. i know that the that people will seek to discredit them. all of that is false. anybody who has better rate or -- anybody who has been through sexual assault does not want to relive it. it is relevant to hillary. i think attacking bill clinton's record is only salient when it is relevant to hillary, where she has defended it, supported it or in the -- in this case where she has acted as an accessory after the fact to what i consider to be sex crimes. guest: one thing that trump and you have alleged frequently is that this election could be rigged. why do say that? do you think that is a dangerous

thing to be saying for democracy? thing it is a dangerous to not be saying. between a distinction voter fraud and election theft. voter fraud is somewhat limited. election theft is something very different. that is the fixing of the machine, which is easily done. a princeton professor demonstrated how easily it is and pointed to a number of situations where it may have occurred. you compare the results of the exit polls to the results on the

machines. be other way it could controlled, allowing third-party, truly unbiased, to look at the software before the voting begins. the stanford university study showed the voting machines were rigged against bernie sanders in many states. anybody who believes these machines cannot be rigged easily and have not been rigged easily by the party in power is being naive, in my opinion. you can take a $15 device you can get at radioshack and vote multiple times. this is a real issue.

we live in a technological age. fore machines can be rigged a desired result. the precursor to that, of course, is to inflate the polls so you create an expectation and you make the machines reflect that outcome. when reuters got caught red-handed inflating the sample on the democratic side to enhance a lead by hillary clinton, it is evidence to me that this may be what is afoot. guest: there have been a lot of reports about tension between various members of donald trump's campaign. i wonder if you buy those reports. what does it say about donald trump's leadership style? will there be future personal changes? -- personnel changes?

roger: i do think that the donald trump campaign will continue to expand and bring in new people. they are running a very skeletal, low-cost operation. this is a guerrilla campaign versus a well oiled, longtime political machine. i liken that to the british royal army opposing the american colonists. i think bannon and paul manafort will have greater for daschle tactical flexibility. guest: what does the republican party stand for today? when i first met you, you were working for the first george bush. you've gone from one extreme to the next. roger: to be clear, i have never

been a bush republican. i wrote a book entitled, "the bush crime family." i did go to california at the very end of the 1988 campaign and take the reins and george bush beat michael the caucus by one point -- beat michael dukakis by one point in california. every republican president has remade the party and his own -- in his own image. lincoln, grant, mckinley, eisenhower, nixon, reagan. if donald trump is successful, he will remake the party and his -- remake the party in his image. it will no longer be a wall street-k street party. i am afraid my party has morphed into the big-money party. the party that has eroded our civil liberties.

they have supported bailouts for swindlers and crooks on wall street. the party of an incoherent but expensive neocon foreign-policy. i think the party will change. it has already changed. in all truth, donald trump's nomination was a hostile takeover of the old republican party. the old republican party is tied to 30 years of bipartisan bad -making. host: roger stone, thank you for being this week's newsmaker. let me turn to our reporters for a quick wrap up. the polls, donald trump likes to recognize the polls when he is ahead.

what is happening now with polling? roger stone is skeptical. is that something the campaign believes? guest: the numbers are what they are. there is a proliferation of data in swing states and all points in the same direction -- in the same direction. time is running short. it is almost labor day. early voting begins in some states. and donald trump is behind. he lacks campaign infrastructure. he is starting to run against the clock. host: you broke the story about the staff changes. we will call them that. what were you told about these changes? guest: when i called him two

nights ago, and i wanted to confirm he was shaking up his campaign. i said, why are you doing this right now? he said, i want to win. -- he is not touting the polls. clearly, by saying, i want to win, he was reasserting, i will not take this sitting down. i wouldn't if i don't do something. i have to remake this campaign to support the person i am. from the big step of bringing in -- we are running this

like a business. this will be my campaign, my way. host: if the accessible like that to reporters? >> if i desperately need him, i will use it. he was about to go on stage. i have 7000 people out here waiting for me. he loves to talk about the thousands of people waiting to see him. he did mention the one poll that showed him down by two. i met him many months ago.

that was one reason i got to know him early on. back in the day, i could reach them more easily. nevertheless, he clearly is under the gun. he has to do something and he has to do it fast. the dealmaker in him knows. reaction --s the what are you hearing about the party? folksre are a lot of around washington who are starting to move on. what do we need to do to save the house and senate majorities? that is becoming a bigger concern. we need to check on hillary clinton and make sure the house and senate are our firewalls. host: what are you looking for

here over the next couple of days? : i am watching donald trump. i am not following the congressional races. is in abest when he more corporate setting. i will see if you will start running this the way he ran his brand. is he having fun? when he is having fun, as .pposed to feeling downtrodden i will look to see, is he feeling good again? he will be fast on his feet. unlike hillary clinton, she is much more cautious.

she looked at her notes every sentence. that is what i think we will see more of now if he is feeling like it is fun and in charge. >> will the shakeup change? house andrt to see ,enate republicans accelerate run away from him faster than they already have? host: thank you for being a part of newsmakers. released hismp first tv ad this week 14 months after announcing his candidacy.

hillary clinton's campaign responded with a competing at. -- ad. america,lary clinton's [inaudible] stayal immigrants get to collecting social security benefits, skipping the line. more of the same, but worse. donald trump's america is secure. dangerous criminals kept out. the border is secure and our families are safe. trump and ild approve this message. i decide to run for office, i will produce my tax returns. taxes -- heery low plays very low taxes indeed. either he is not anywhere

near as wealthy as he says he is or there is a bombshell in his taxes. >> some of the headlines this week. all of this from the chief medical correspondent -- political risk -- political correspondent from the washington post. all of that in just one week. >> it is pretty remarkable, isn't it? it has been one day after another with the trump campaign and they continue to make news every day. >> let's talk about what donald trump did yesterday. we use the word regret.

why is he leaving? , earlier in the week, kellyanne elevated conway to become campaign manager. " in stephen -- and brought in newsen bannon of breitbart . i think the other contributing , there has been intense scrutiny about the work paul manafort had did over the recent years in ukraine on behalf of pro-russian forces.

as a distraction and did not seem to be slowing down. if anything, it was intensifying . it was the combination of factors that brought this to a head and has resulted in paul manafort leaving the campaign. unfold in this all the last 12-24 hours. >> we're still trying to piece that together. wasounds as though his role reduced with fanon and conway elevated -- stephen bannon and conway elevated. there was the new york times story on sunday about the payments in ukraine. we had another strong story today about more aspects of what

paul manafort had done. it all just came to a head in the last 24 hours. it sounded as if paul manafort believed he was going to stay in the campaign. exactly what say happened because we're still trying to report that. it sounds like there was some hours over the last 36 that brought this to a finale. -- finality. >> you wrote about this in your book. how the candidate needs to essentially build on their base and expand the electorate. that seemed to be one of the goals the trump campaign had. is it safe to say that based on

the development today, the campaign is taking a different approach? is the certainly speculation. it remains to be seen exactly what they are going to do. the indications are that because we know some of the history of stephen bannon and he is a fighter and he wants to stir things up and he is antiestablishment. paul manafort is an establishment kind of republican. those two people to coexist is questionable. conway has helped republicans figure out how to be more appealing to female voters. this has always been a deficit for many republican candidates. it is a particular weakness for donald trump. 's efforts were

aimed at tempering his style. donald trump made it clear that he was not happy with that idea. what he did last night was a departure from what we have seen in the past. he has been totally resistant to expressing any regret about past statements or actions, even when he admitted they had heard him. the language last night, which was written in a written speech which he read on a teleprompter, suggested he was at least prepared to say that. happen over a period of days and weeks before people will be certain that this reflects a true change in the style of his campaign and it is possible this will continue to be a campaign aimed primarily at negative attacks on hillary

clinton. >> let me go back to your essay earlier this week. the unraveling of donald trump's candidacy continues, if he were deliberately trying to avoid winning the election, he could hardly be doing a better job. >> that was written last weekend. all of the objective evidence pointed in that direction. if you talk to people in the trump operation now, they would say this has been one of their better weeks. take that with a grain of salt. they have had a significant shakeup of their staff. turmoill lead to some in the operation. gave argument is that he good speech on monday on foreign policy and a good speech on tuesday on law and order and

gave a speech on thursday in which he expressed regret for some of the things he said in the past. today he went to louisiana to look at the impact on the flood victims. which hillary clinton has not done and president obama has not done. they would suggest they are on suggestsa way that greater stability on the part of the whole operation. >> chief political correspondent for the washington post. thank you very much for being with us. three years after a supreme court ruling overturned part of the voting rights act, towards across the country have struck down a number of state laws saying they discriminate against specific group of voters. ofurday night, we look voting rights and the impact on the 2016 election.

we will feature part of the 2013 supreme court oral argument. members of congress look at whether to restore the voting rights act. a discussion on whether the voting rights act is necessary. here is what the candidates have to say. id, what this voter does that mean? you just keep walking in and voting? >> what is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchised people of color or people -- poor people, and young people. watch saturday night at 8:00 c-span.orgc-span and . rica isident of costa in d.c. next week. he will take part in a

conversation on the immigration challenges confronting his country. we will be there live monday at 3:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. tumblr -- tom wheeler called robo calls a scorch. -- scourge. the group's goal is to prevent unwanted calls and texts for consumers on the national do not call registry. this is about 25 minutes. >> good morning. >> good morning, everyone.

for those of you i have not had the opportunity to meet, i am allison cutler. part of my bureau's work is to help consumers stop unwanted robo calls. we are pleased to be able to host the first meeting of the robo calls strike force. i look forward to working with you all in my role as the liaison to this group. you will hear from several speakers about the importance of protecting consumers from annoying and fraudulent robocalls. chairman wheeler will speak about the steps the commission has taken to tackle this problem. at&t chairman and ceo will conclude today's meeting.

thank you for being here this morning and i will turn it over to chairman wheeler. mr. wheeler: thank you to all of you who have volunteered your time to spend the next 60 days buckled down on this very important issue. it is significant that we have not just carriers, not just ateway providers, but also equipment and service providers here at this table because this is a challenge that is going to . quire everybody's commitment i want to thank my colleagues for joining us today and i particularly want to thank mr. stephenson for stepping up