hillary clinton: all these years later, his teacher still treasures his memory. this teacher wanted me to know, he wanted me to know that despite what donald trump may say, immigrants are not rapists and criminals. [applause] the truth is,n: this young man and not have been born here, but he represented the best values of our country. [applause] hillary clinton: we teach our children that america is one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. not just for people who look a certain way or worship a certain

way, but for all. everywhere i go, people tell me how concerned they are by the extreme policies and divisive rhetoric they've heard from my opponent. from the racist lie about mexican immigrants that launched his presidential campaign. two his racist attacks on a federal judge. and every time we think he has hit rock bottom, he sings even lower. -- sinks even lower. his target, a minister in flint, michigan who respectfully asked him not to use her pulpit for political attacks. he called her a nervous mess. how insulting. how dead wrong. she is not a nervous mess. she is a rock for her community

in trying times and she deserves better and so does america. [applause] hillary clinton: again, today, he did it. he was asked, one more time, where was president obama born? and he still would not say hawaii. he still would not say america. this man wants to be our next president? when will he stop this ugliness? this bigotry. he has tried to reset himself and his campaign many times. this is the best he can do. this is who he is. and so, we need to decide who we are. if we just sigh and shake our heads and accept this, then what

does that tell our kids about who we are? we need to stand up and repudiate this divisive rhetoric, we need to stop him conclusively in november in an election that sends a message that even he can hear. [applause] hillary clinton: we need to set the kind of example we want for ourselves and children and grandchildren. parents and teachers are already worried about what they are calling the truck affect. -- trump affect. bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools. especially targeting students of color, muslims and immigrants. at a high school basketball game in indiana, white students held up trumps signs and taunted latino players on the opposing

team with chance of build the "build the wall" and "speak english." donald trump is running the most divisive campaign of our lifetime. his message is that you should be afraid. afraid of people whose race or ethnicity is different or whose religious faith is different or who were born in a different country. there is no innuendo. or dog whistles anymore. it is all right out there in the open. we have got to come back twice as strong and twice as clear. just this week, and mother in florida wrote to me about her 11-year-old son, francisco. he is proud to be american, colombian, ecuadorian and puerto rican. as he calls it, a potluck of hispanic heritage. francisco has been following this election very closely.

he wears his "love trumps hate" pin every day and refuses to take it off. when his father warned him that that might make him a target for bullies, francisco flicked his -- looked his father in the eye and said, i was always told to stand up for myself and what i believe in. i believe trump is wrong. good for you, francisco. that is what we have to do in this election. [applause] hillary clinton: that is what so many of you have done already. stand up to the bowling and that's bullying -- to the bullying and bigotry wherever it comes from. we must send a resounding message and we need to inspire a level of turnout that will help us win up and down the ticket. we set an ambitious goal of registering and committing 3 million people to vote in this election that would not have otherwise noted.

-- voted. we can't do it without you. nearly half of latinos in america are under 35 and we need you to show up and make your voices heard in this election. [applause] so, we are going to keep asking for your help. keep hitting the campaign trail. please, talk to your friends, your neighbors, the community. everyone you see between now and november 8. tell them to go to hillary clinton.com or text join to 4726. this election is too important for anyone to sit on the sidelines as we have heard from congresswoman sanchez. so, let's stand up for a future where we put families first, where we build bridges, not walls. together, we can prove that love trumps hate. thank you all very much.

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make your art piece about or what materials you can use. >> it is restricted to two-dimensional art. it can be pastel, oil, colored pencil, whatever the artist wants to use. it's limited to 28 by 28. the students come up with some incredible things. remindingo keep yourself that these are high school students. the ark is so incredibly done and it is so incredibly diverse. orple sending a message talking about experiences in their life that may be painful. there are people who are extremely patriotic. the diversity of different artwork that is done is incredible. >> have any of them gone on to

become famous artists? >> we don't really keep track of them, but we know of some artists becoming more successful. occasionally, someone sees one of these paintings and they want to buy it. there are a million people who trouble this hallway over the course of the year. some of the students are from native american reservations. they get an opportunity to show they would get nowhere else. the opportunity for these kids is outstanding. we've seen as we were waiting to start filming that several groups stop along the way and point out their district. i like about this is how bipartisan it is and how members get together on both parties and it's like a celebration.

there's always a democrat and republican cochair to the art competition and they get excited about it. you get members of congress doing what they do best, serving their constituents in a bipartisan way. it gives you a nag you of what things could be like if more things were like this. >> explain how you got involved in this. >> the institute is designed to help members of the congress at or communicate with their constituents and educate the public more about their national legislature. the congressional list institute got involved 11 years ago. this has been going on for 35 years. we've been involved for little over a decade. we are at 427 of the 441 total delegates now participating. >> what are the excuses from the offices that don't participate? >> it is wide-ranging.

everything from it is not in the constitution to they just never have. the best majority participates. i think they really enjoy it. like to show off their district's picture. some of them can be very different, esoteric, some are traditional. amazing different collection of art. it is as diverse as the country. >> thank you for the time. >> my pleasure. minutes, up in 45 michelle obama will be in fairfax, virginia touting the democratic presidential nominee, hillary clinton. i wrote to the white house coverage continuing here on c-span at 3:00 eastern time today. until then, a portion of today's "washington journal." joining us from dallas

isk, senior writer from newsweek. how the trump organization's foreign business ties could of been u.s. national security. thank you for joining us. --e us a sense of the skies size and scope of the trump organization, where does most of its money come from? ofst: you went to the heart the question, it is impossible to know because the trap organization -- trump organization is in a black box, a private company that does not file any information that is publicly reviewable. except for when an entity was in it borrows money from the public debt market. that does not happen all that often anymore. trying to dig through it is really an effort at trying to

break down a wall and see what we can see. we cannot get a whole picture. host: how the organization's foreign business ties can of been u.s. national security, they say his global deals would make it impossible for him to conduct foreign policy in many countries without padding or depleting his wallet. tell us more. guest: to do this story what i had to do was contact a lot of people outside of the trump organization, financiers who have been doing business with him, people who have tried to do partnerships, people who are aware of what the partnerships were. the way this works is that within the trump organization there are hundreds of subsidiaries, we are talking in excess of 500. those subsidiaries -- i looked at 15.

each of the 15 had business partners in overseas countries that play very critical roles to american national security. as you trace through the connections, i found that the business partners were often either directly connected to the government or supported by the government, were allied with particular parties of particular governments, were involved in the criminal investigations or criminal activities and time and again be scenario that was being laid out where you have a circumstance where somebody was paying money directly to donald trump or directly to the trump family through the trump organization, the interests of the partners and the scenario in the interest of the factions within those countries ran counter to the interests of the national security of the united states.

host: give us a couple of examples, the piece takes us from india to south korea to turkey to the middle east, can you point to a couple of examples that you are talking about to give -- to help amplify what you are saying? guest: the two easiest, one is very easy and one takes more time. in azerbaijan, donald trump has a business partner who is the son of a senior government official. that government official has been identified by american intelligence backend 2010 -- 2010 of having been laundering money for the iranian military. donald trump's business partner's dad has been found by american intelligence to be involved with the military of an american enemy. engaging in a criminal activity. there you have what is donald

trump going to do about that if president if it comes down to where he needs to take action related to the azerbaijany government official who is the father of his partner, will he think about his business or about the partner or a national security of the united states? if a criminal case he falls, will it be -- he evolves, will it be to the detriment of donald trump's business or not? a more complicated one is in turkey where you had a family which has a real estate enterprise, also runs a media enterprise that strangely is government critic. agreementmp struck an with them, they were close enough to the president of turkey that the president of turkey came out and dedicated

the building. he was the featured speaker at the opening ceremonies and donald trump met him and sure can. -- show cans. -- shook hands. fast a few years when donald trump is running for president and making anti-islamic comments and there is an uproar in turkey. an uproar directed at the turkish president who at that point was not far away from having a coup against him. the turkish president turned very strongly against donald trump, very strongly against the family that are his partners. the turkish president -- there has been an indictment of members of the dogan family and from -- in the story a report

that people have been talking to the president say that he is so angry regarding this entire situation that he is in because of donald trump's business/campaign that he is not going to be willing to continue to assist the united states in giving them access to a critical military base under a trump administration. that military base is a staging area for the american bombing of isis positions. host: phone numbers on the bottom of the screen for our guest kurt eichenwald of newsweek. you begin by saying if donald andp is elected, will he his family permanently sever all connections to the trump organization? what have they set about this -- said about this? guest: his responses sounded

good but he is too smart of a businessman to know what he is saying is not ridiculous. he said i will put the company into a blind trust. people do, thinking not know what a blind trust is an most people do not. it is when you take a portfolio of investments and give it to an independent individual who will have no contact with you. that independent individual is trading your investments, trading stocks, trading bonds on a daily basis. and you do not know what you own at any particular time. donald trump is saying i will take my company and put it in a blind trust and my kids will run it. that fails on every level. it is like raising a curtain around the trunk the building and saying i wonder what is behind the curtain. he knows the trouble company, the trump organization is in this blind trust. it is not blind.

he knows what the deals are that have been done that are contractually not going to be canceled. they cannot be coming he knows who is paying him money. he knows that the dogan family is paying him money. he knows what money he is getting from south korea and who the partners are. he cannot blind himself from that. and the children have two issues, they are not independent and the fact that they will continue to get this money is also a conflict. you are in a position where a president trump will be looking at a scenario knowing that the money is there for him in the future but let's say it is not -- it is his kids money. what will he do about azerbaijan? what if there is a trump organization stand up because of that relationship? we are talking about his children, what pressure will he put on it? said we will not be

making decisions, we are a private decision -- private company, we will make decisions in the interest of america. unless donald trump will share classified intelligence information or foreign policy planning, that is an impossibility. when they made the deal in azerbaijan, are they claiming they knew the father of their partner was suspected by american intelligence of engaging in criminal activity involving the iranian military? of course they did not because they are not an intelligence agency. do they know that the deal they have in india was going to result in conflict between india and pakistan? of course they did not. you cannot say we will rely on the trunk kids -- donald trump gets to decide what is an american best interest and what

is not in their dealings. there is a way to handle this and if they think the united states future is important, it is the only thing they can do which is to sever all ties permanently with the donald trump organization. they can sell the company, they will make a lot of money, start a new company if they want but they cannot continue operating or receiving benefits from the trump organization in any way, shape, or form. and avoid this conflict. host: kurt eichenwald is in dallas. let's hear from michelle from midland, georgia, a democrat. go ahead. caller: good morning. i have two statements i would like to make at this particular time. listen, all democrats, all blacks, all latinos, and all

muslims, trump is a fraud and a klansman and we have him on our ipad, if you would go and talk to david corn of mother jones, he had a piece in may where donald trump and his butler were planning on assassinating president obama. i would not vote for this hook of trash if you came down and sat in my front yard, he is dangerous to blacks, he is a klansman. have said he is a klansman twice, where are you getting that from? caller: on the internet. host: where on the internet? caller: black internets and we have black people that are on the ground, we know he has ties to the clan, look at david duke. host:

i want to try to stay on topic. that is the piece kurt eichenwald wrote, the headline is how the trump organization's foreign business ties cut up and national security. we spent some time talking about the details of the piece, taking us around the world. just a question for you maybe , not so simple, can you compare the trump organization to the clinton foundation? how are they different in terms of what we are talking about? guest: they are dramatically different. a lot of what has been the clinton foundation controversy has been people adding -- looking at one thing and another thing and saying there we go. the clinton foundation is a charity. it is an a-rated charity, 90% of the money it receives, most of which comes from grants, goes to charitable endeavors.

if i take $1 million, i give it to the clinton foundation, $900,000 of that money goes for say buying aids drugs in africa, one of the largest suppliers of aids drugs of any entity around the world. $100,000 goes to the operations of the foundation, which is a very, very high number of money to program to money to operation. not of that money goes to any member of the clinton family. i heard a caller who was on the last program saying there is no audit of the clinton foundation. that is untrue. pricewaterhousecoopers, an international accounting firm, audits the clinton foundation. i have reviewed the audit. the numbers i am giving you are coming out of the audited financials. i know what money goes to the

clintons, nothing. i know where the money is spent. it is a clinton slush fund argument is fantasy. that is the whole pay side. second is the issue that clinton met with people who gave money to the foundation. the question comes down to were there any meetings that a secretary of state would not have otherwise had, and i have yet to see one. you have something like a nobel prize winner who is a major individual in the economic actions in bangladesh met with the secretary of state, no kidding. and so you cannot simply say there is a contribution, and they had a meeting. you have to say what advantage was there from a meeting, did somebody get something they

would otherwise not gotten, absolutely no indication of that. i do not think people will give -- the idea people are giving money to charity, and some of them who otherwise would have sat down with the secretary of state got to sit down with the secretary of state is an issue. this is totally different, one more fact, all of the contributors are public information. we know -- that is how we know who met with her and who are contributors. nobody knows who donald trump's business partners are, it is a secret, it is a black box. it took an enormous amount of time to find out who are the partners are in 15 out of 500 entities. he is not releasing his taxes he is beyond that. he is not telling us who his business partners are. those people, when they make a deal with them, are paying

donald trump. the money is not going to aids drugs in africa, it is going to donald trump's butler. by which i mean he is getting it and spending it for his own interest. it is a completely different thing. it is personal financial interest versus charitable contribution. host: mount clemens, michigan. thank you for waiting. kenny is on the line here if you cannot hear, i will take notes. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call, i am a little nervous so please be patient. i am a veteran. i served from 1987 to 1993 in the army. i was going to be awarded clarence -- clearance above top

secret, i did not get it. the point i am trying to bring out is that it seems curious to me, because i read the art of the deal when i was 17, 18, it seems curious that he wants to be our president, our commander-in-chief and he had the opportunity to join the military when there was a war if i am not mistaken. it seems odd to me that he is healthy enough now, i am the healthiest president that is ever been or whatever the pundits put out there. in the time he had the opportunity to defend this country, he was not physically able. that is the point i want to bring up. guest: do you want to -- do you want to respond? guest: i want to thank you for your service. even if you were nervous, thank you for calling in. secondly, those are facts that

you are laying out. he did not serve in vietnam because he got -- because he was deemed not to be -- to have a health problem that prevented him from fighting, a permanent health problem. now he is saying he is the healthiest person in the world. i do not have any other information than the caller does. is that an issue? if it is an issue for someone listening, then it is an issue. i am not big on telling people what they should and should not think in terms of making their votes. i am saying here are facts, and those are the facts. host: we will go to ryan in michigan. go ahead, sir. caller: good morning.

let's backtrack. the problem, conflict of interest concerning the clinton in house all that is going on that was brought up by , the state department, they have their own inspector general. people like me noticed that it was kicked over to the fbi. who does the fbi answer to, here is where your conflicts keep going, obviously the attorney general in which we all know was appointed by president clinton is the one who promoted her within the ranks and rightfully so. you have a clear conflict of interest because the attorney general says they have been friends, so how can you have oversight? this does not make sense, this is a clear conflict of interest which is why we have had all these problems and why it was kicked over to the fbi because they knew the outcome. host: kurt eichenwald.

guest: a couple of things. number one, we have gone off-topic a little bit. the e-mails issue, again, i am not here to tell people who to vote for or what issues to be concerned about. if you do not trust the outcome of the fbi findings and you think that the e-mail issue is of sufficient import that that should influence your vote, that is your decision. i am a big believer in democracy, and what i consider my job to be is to go out, do reporting, talk to people that voters do not have the time to track down and talk to. and lay the facts out there to they can either accept the facts i am laying out, question the facts i am laying out there, ignore it and take another issue and say this is more important to me.

that is the nature of democracy. if that issue is an important one to that caller and that caller does not trust the outcomes of those investigations and believes they are conflicts of interest, that is an issue that he needs to consider when casting his vote. host: here is donald trump on fox and friends thursday morning responding to the newsweek article. [video clip] mr. trump: i did not read it, i heard it made me out to be extremely successful with a complicated company. my company is simple, i have deals all over the world, i make great deals and it is a very simple company from that standpoint structurally. i own my own company. it made me to be -- if you read the first paragraph, it got me

out to be very successful, which i am. >> they start by saying if you win, will you and your family permanently sever any connections to the trump organization while in office? donald trump: i will sever connections and have my children and my executives run the company and not discuss it, it is unimportant compared to what we are doing about making america great again. i just would not care. i guess you could say there was a conflict because as the country gets stronger, that is good for all companies. i would not care, it is so an apartment to what i am doing -- unimportant when it comes to what i'm doing right now. host: kurt eichenwald, any response? guest: this is the problem in a lot of what he was saying -- and a lot of what he was saying was nonsense. start off with i will not know what is going on. does donald trump remember who he took to the prom in high school, i remember who i took.

if i put my life in a blind trust would i forget who i went to prom with? he knows who his business partners are, and the american people do not. as laid out in the story, this is a man who sought business ties to moammar qaddafi. we are talking about a circumstance were almost no one was off the payroll. -- table. muammar gaddafi was bombed by ronald reagan and identified as one of the world's leading terrorists, and the trump organization is trying to cut a deal with his government. is there anybody else in there? number two, the fact that your family, your children, maintain these direct contacts, direct connections to all of these partners and all future partners, the conflict is not over.

the father has a conflict with -- because of his children's business. let's take it this way. imagine that chelsea clinton had dealings in india where that was a major part of the money she was bringing in. then a president clinton was faced with decisions on what to do regarding india and pakistan. is she conflicted? of course she is conflicted. the worst part of this goes back to donald trump's argument on everything, trust me. we know less about this meant -- man than we have known about any political candidate in history. i cannot say that, in my lifetime. we do not know where he gets his money from. we do not know who he is working with. we have not seen anything close

to a true medical history and medical report. we do not know what he pays in taxes. we do not know what his tax information is. we know he says, i give millions of dollars in charity. david carville doing great work at the washington post, he cannot find it. there are so many questions and donald trump says i will not answer that. in this one, he is saying it is not a complicated company. fine, release the names of all the partners. that is a very simple thing. release the names of all the partners. once we have that, we can look into it, and maybe a way can be figured out that a donald trump president would not be conflicted. but we have to know what it involves. we have to know who they are dealing with. there are connections in russia.

there are connections in libya. there are connections in south korea. he talks about south korea, he said south korea maybe should get nukes. donald trump's business partner in south korea would be a beneficiary of whether or not there was a nuclear south korea. i do not think that is a non-issue. the president of the united states should only have one concern, should only be thinking about the national security of the united states. not about his own financial health, not about the financial health of his children. even if he is of such character that that concept never enters his mind, this will be a situation that has never existed in the history of the united states.

that is something that is a reality, and donald trump cannot just simply wave it away and move on to the next issue. this issue has to be answered. it is not whether he is handed a couple of pieces of paper to dr. oz. it is about the national it is about the national security of the united states and it is important. there is a lot of nonsense in this campaign. we are deciding who will be the leader of the free world. we need to know, is that person able to act without conflict? we need to know the names of the partners and what they will do. and if they are going to separate from the trump organization completely. whole family, does not sound like they will. host: a call from harriet in maryland, republican caller. caller: good morning, i take it you do not like mr. trump at

all. guest: i have to stop. caller: should we guest: i cannot hear anything. host: hang on a second. can you hear better? guest: barely, somebody needs to turn something up. got it. host: harriet started by saying it is obvious you do not like mr. trump? how would you respond? guest: this is the problem. i have been asked questions about hillary clinton, and i have said if that is an important issue to you, that should help formulate your vote. my job is to marshal facts, if you do not like them, that does not make me someone who does not like donald trump. it makes me someone who is trying to do my job and present issues.

if you do not want to listen to those issues, i am disappointed. unfortunately in this country, we have people who say this is who i support, and i am done. i am covering my ears. i do not want to hear anything unless it is negative about the person i oppose. that is not patriotic, i will go that far. we have to go more in our consideration than i have decided and i do not want to know anything else and anybody who tries to tell me anything else is biased. if you have some facts to challenge, i will listen and if i am in error, i will correct that fact. if all you want to do is say, the only reason you are writing about a man who might be president of the united states is because you do not like him, that is a sign of how deteriorated the national

conversation has become. people seem to believe that if they support someone, nothing should be said about them. other than let's make him president or let's make her president. int: let's move on to anna louisville, kentucky, democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. can you hear me? guest: yes. host: go ahead. caller: ok. i am a registered democrat. i have almost always voted republican, but my opinion of these two candidates is that they are the epitome of corporate america, the rich getting richer on the backs of the poor. i do not even want to vote for either one. i will not be happy with either

one. they have nothing to offer us. host: let's hear from david in,, massachusetts, you are on with kurt eichenwald. caller: good morning. i think most americans of rational thought can agree that there are conflicts of interest with both of these candidates. i am curious about your opinion on the conflicts that arose from the bush administration with regards to halliburton and the carlyle group. and what conflicts we might have endured if let's say bernie sanders was the democratic nominee. thank you. host: mr. aiken well in dallas. guest: regarding conflicts in the bush administration, i was

early on not uncomfortable with the fact that dick cheney had been chairman of halliburton. he resigned and that was that. where things got uncomfortable was when halliburton was awarded single source non bid contract for rebuilding iraq. i think that was a bad decision in terms of optics, and it is pretty hard to escape -- there is a true conflict if you are the former chairman, and there is a non-bid contract awarded. that was a conflict. in terms of the carlyle group, i have never believed there is any conflict in any relationship related to that. host: here is a picture as part

of the piece in "newsweek," a billboard featuring donald trump for a luxury residential apartment in india. it says, he is trying to lower -- lure in buyers by using the donald trump name, how does he use his name around the world? he calls himself a developer but the piece says how he uses his name to generate lots of income. guest: one of the things that people do not get is that donald trump is no longer who they thought he was. he started as a developer. he became a casino operator. he became an airline owner. the casinos went bust, and the airline went bust and had to be sold off and it was not making a dime. the developments, he has stopped building buildings.

what he does now, he is trading off of his international fame from being a reality tv show host. and is selling his name. that is his business. that is why you see trump steaks, trump vodka. there are a lot of developments around the world, including in the united states, that have the trump name. trump university, what is coming out is that he's sold his name. there are a lot of developments ist have the name, but it really somebody else who is the developer, the business partner, the people generating all of the money. what you have -- donald trump, one of the things very unattractive reality is that there -- when there are developers with a project that

fell through and has been mismanaged and something terrible and lawsuits are filed by people who lost tons of money that they put up to buy apartments, donald trump says i had nothing to do with it, i am just selling my name. if there is an apartment building or some other development that works so well, he turns around and says that shows how great trump is. he plays it both ways, but he knows what he is doing is selling his name on an ongoing basis to partners all over the world, and he is making annual payments off of that. their success is his success. host: pennsylvania, a republican. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. let's get off of donald trump for a minute and get back onto mrs. clinton. i want to know what percentage

of the money taken into the clinton foundation, two questions, what percentage goes out, i have heard as low as 10%. you say they do not take any money, their daughter is the head of that, you tell me that there is no -- she should not be in that either. you cannot have it both ways. both of them should completely absolving themselves from the foundation and do it today. they should not wait until they are elected. i am a donald trump supporter. i do not like her because i do not think she is honest and i never have. he is a businessman, businessman and politicians deal with this world totally differently and you know that. i know that. i would like to hear what you have to say about the clintons

and their foundation. host: thank you for calling. respond to the question if you can and tell us more about what you know about the clinton foundation in context of this story. guest: again, this is the problem of the world we live in is that people will throw out information and people like your caller will hear it and think that it is real. the 10% number is false. i have gone through their financials. the charitable -- there are a series of charitable analysts who grade these charitable organizations based on how much of their money goes toward the actual charitable endeavors. the number is 90%. there is a reason why charity navigator, basically a system that people who want to give money go to to figure out which

one -- if i give money to that entity -- am i giving money to help the veterans or helping the organization? they give the clinton foundation an "a" because of the high proportion of money that is going to the program versus that is being used to operate the program. we can have our own beliefs, we cannot have our own facts. the fact she said about the amount of money going to the program are false. chelsea clinton is not the head of the clinton foundation. she is an unpaid member of the board of directors. there are many members of the board of directors, all are unpaid. let's go to the next step. we are talking about a charity. bob dole, to give you a sense of how far we have gone, bob dole had a charity that he operated when he was the senate majority leader on the republican side.

when he was the republican nominee for president. a great charity that did a lot of good. people who gave money to the charity also gave money to bob dole's campaign. people were not making that a political issue because it was charity. could people have been buying influence with bob dole? if they were, they did not need to give him campaign contributions. that issue was off the table because people understood the difference between making money and not making money. bob dole was not making money off of the charity. the clintons are not making money off of the charity. the money coming in is going to charity. that is fine. if what you are saying is that you do not trust hillary clinton, that is also fine. but if you will not trust

someone, it does have to be based on fact. we can have our own opinions, we cannot have our own facts. the issue of a businessman being president, i have no qualms about that, but i think it is important to know what is the business, who are the partners? standing up and saying i am a businessman does not address the issue. the head of the enron corporation was a businessman. we certainly needed to know a lot more about what that enterprise was. i am not saying the trump organization is enron. i am just saying the entire concept of you just slsap a label on somebody and

that is that under does it. the concern here is that donald trump says it is all very simple. it is not simple. if it is simple, he needs to release the information. we cannot be in a situation where we have any president who has any question, any issue that might enter their minds other than what is best for the united states of america. if we have no idea, we will have no idea. i can tell you one thing that will happen is that if there is a democratic -- i'm sorry, a trump presidency and a democratic senate, the trump organization will be hit with hundreds of subpoenas because these questions will have to be answered, and there will be a lot of time wasted trying to figure out what are the conflicts of the trump organization as they relate to the president. these are problems that could be completely avoided if donald

trump will simply do what any other businessman will do, say, i am going to end the conflict, my family is out, i am out, we will sell the company, what we really want to do is be making america great again and then there are no more questions. they are not doing that. they are not giving any the problem still remains. i do not want to have a government where we spend months and months of hearings trying to find out things that could simply be released or could be avoided by making one simple step -- sell the company. host: let's get a couple more calls in, st. augustine, florida, is on the line on the democrat line. caller: good morning. i have a very simple question.

considering all of mr. trump's international business ties, should he really be receiving national security briefings? host: kurt eichenwald? guest: yes, he is the republican nominee for president. and nominees for president get national security briefings. what you are pointing out is that the conflict, the discomfort. it is uncomfortable knowing that there are all these issues. donald trump right now might know more about issues surrounding his business partners than he did beforehand. that is a troubling situation. but should he be getting the briefings? absolutely. i think when you have a presidential candidate who has

so many secrets -- and he does have so many secrets -- he will not release the medical report, or his taxes, he will not release the names of his partners, he will not release information about the trump candidacy, all we really know is that he was the host of a reality tv show. if he is truly dedicated to his stated mission of making america great again, then he has to show a commitment to it and let people know who he is, what his interests are, and what they are voting for. host: cottonwood, idaho, republican caller. caller: i am flabbergasted at the misinformation this clinton partisan is spewing on television. host: let me stop you. what have you heard? list things you have a concern

about. caller: the clinton foundation, -- to fairfax,you know virginia, where first lady michelle obama is campaigning for hillary clinton. first lady obama: hey! how are you guys doing? wow. look at you. my goodness.

[cheers] first lady obama: my goodness. let's get started here. you guys have been standing up for a while, right? so let's start talking about some stuff. all, let me just say i tothrilled to be here today support the next president and vice president of the united states, hillary clinton and tim kaine. yes. i have to do if you think use before we go in -- thank-yous before we go in. i want to thank henry for that introduction. i want to thank the members of congress who are here today, representative bobby scott, gerald connolly, and i want to point out the outstanding b&c

president, donna brazile. i want to thank charity for her fabulous remarks. anothernt to recognize great first lady of virginia right here, dorothy mcauliffe, who is here. so glad she could join us. the students you, of george mason university. look at you all. whoo! let me say, it is so hard to believe that it is less than two months to election day. family is almost at the end of our time at the white house. yeah, it is almost time. saylet me say -- i have to -- no, no --

>> four more years! first lady obama: let me say this. working me and barack on behalf of you for the rest of our lives. but let me tell you this time is bittersweet to me. it is a time of real transition for me and barack and our girls. my husband is going to need a new job. i am going to have to find a new job. we are going to be moving to a new home, so we will have to pack. we got to get the old house cleaned up so we can get our security deposit back. but in all seriousness, this is not just a time of transition for my family, but for our entire country, as we decide who our next president will be.

and transitions like this can be difficult. they involve a lot of 2008tainty, we saw that in when barack was first elected. i do not know if many of you were old enough to remember -- do you remember? had all then people kinds of questions about what kind of president barack would be, things like, does he understand us? will he protect us? and then, of course, there were those who question and continue to question for the past eight years, up through this very day, whether my husband was even born in this country. well, during his time in office, i think barack has answered those questions with the example he set by going high when they go low.

these has answered questions with the progress we have achieved together, progress like breeding health care to 20 million people -- bringing health care to 20 million people, creating over 15 million private sector jobs, hoping young people like you afford college, expanding lgbt writes snd marriage equal -- -- right and marriage equality, and we just learned that last year, the typical household income rose by $2800, which, by the way, is the record.one-year jump on people wereion lifted out of poverty. one-yearhe biggest

decrease in poverty in nearly 50 years. you hear me? all right. but even after all this progress, it is understandable that folks are feeling a little uncertain as he faced the next transition. so the question is, for all of you, for all of us, for the nation, is how we sort through all the negativity and name-calling in this election and choose the right person to lead our country forward. as someone who has seen the presidency of close and personal, here is what i have learned about this job -- first and foremost, this job is hard. stakes, is the highest most 24/7 job you could possibly imagine. the bottoms that cross a president -- the issues that cross a president's desk is

never black and white. think of the crises this president has faced. in the first year alone, barack had to rescue the economy from the greatest crisis since the great depression. made the call to take out osama bin laden. he had to work to stop millions of gallons of oil that were gushing into our gulf coast. he had to respond to devastating natural disasters like hurricane sandy and so much more. so when it comes to the qualifications we should demand in a precedent, to start with, -- president, to start with, we need to choose someone who takes this job seriously, someone who will study and prepare so they understand the issues better than anyone else on their team. and we need someone, not with good judgment, but with superb judgment in their own right, because the president can hire

the best advisors on earth, but let me tell you, five advisors will give five different opinions, and the president and the president alone is always the one to make the final call. believe me. we also need someone who is steady and measured, because when you are making life or death or war or peace decisions, the president cannot just pop off. [cheers] first lady obama: we need someone who is compassionate, someone who is unifying, someone who will be a role model for our kids. someone who is not just in this for themselves, and the good of this country. the end of the day, as i have said before, the presidency does

not change who you are. it reveals who you are. and the same thing is true of a presidential campaign. so if a candidate is erratic and threatening, if a candidate tracks in prejudice, fears, and lies on the trail, if a todidate has no clear plans implement their goals, if they disrespect their father -- fellow citizens, including felt to make extraordinary sacrifices for our country, let me tell you, that is today are. that's the kind of president they will be. trust me, a candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. just the office. in fact, because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest like there is, and there is no way to hide who they really are.

and at that point, it is too late. they are the leader of the world's largest economy. the commander in chief of the most powerful military force on earth. with every word that they utter, they can start wars, crash markets, change the course of this plan -- this planet. so who in this election is truly ready for this job? who do we pick? me, i am just saying, it is excruciatingly clear that there is only one person in this election we can trust with those responsibilities, only one person with the qualifications and the temperament for that job, and that is our friend hillary clinton.

we know that hillary is the right person because we have seen her character and commitment, not just on the trail, but in the course of her entire life. we have seen her dedication to public service. how after law school, she chose to be an advocate for kids with disabilities. she fought for children's health care as first lady, for quality child care as a senator, and when she did not win the presidency in 2008, she did not throw in the towel. she once again answered the call to serve. keeping us safe as our secretary of state. and let me tell you, hillary has the resilience it takes to do this job, because when she gets knocked down, she does not complain or cry foul. she gets right back up and she comes back stronger, for the people who need her the most. true,re is what is also

and i want you to think about this. hillary is one of the few people on this entire planet and clearly the only person in this race who has any idea what this job entails, who has seen it from every angle. stakes, the staggering the brutal hours, the overwhelming stresses, and here's the thing -- she still wants to take it on. she believes she has an obligation to use her talent to help as many people as possible. that is why she is running. let me tell you, that is what dedication looks like. it's what love of country looks like. i hear when folks a they do not feel inspired in this election, let me tell you, i disagree. i am inspired, because for eight years the privilege to see what it takes to actually do this

job. here is what i absolutely know for sure -- listen to this -- right now we have an opportunity to elect one of the most qualified people who has ever endeavored to become president. lawyer, a lawen a professor, first lady of arkansas, first lady of the united states, a u.s. senator, secretary of state -- do you hear me? see, that is what i am inspired by hillary clinton. i am inspired by her persistence and her consistency, by her heart in her guts. and i am inspired by her lifelong record of public service. no one in our lifetime has ever had as much experience and exposure to the presidency, not barack, not bill, as he would

say, nobody, and yet she happens to be a woman. [cheers] we cannot obama: so afford to squander this opportunity, particularly given the opportunity, because here is what we know -- that being president is not anything like reality tv. sendingt about insulting tweets or making fiery speeches. it is about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country. virginia, asson, you prepare to make this decision, i urge you, i beg of you to ignore the chatter and the noise and ask yourselves, which candidate really has the experience, the majority, and

the demeanors to handle the job i just described to you? words andidate's actions speak to the future we want for our country and the values we share, values like inclusion and opportunity, service and sacrifice for others? your answers to these questions on election day will determine who sits in the oval office after barack obama. electionsbe clear, are not just about who votes, but who does not vote. for is especially true young people, like all of you. in 2012, voters under the age of 30 provided the margin of keyory for barack in four battleground states, pennsylvania, ohio, florida, and right here in virginia. right here.

votes, barack would have lost those states and he would have definitely lost and election, period, story. for those of you who think my vote is not really matter, that one person cannot make a difference, i want you to consider this -- in 2012, rock won virginia by 150,000, and the difference between winning and losing the state was only through 31 votes per precinct, 31 votes. he won ohio. differences -- the difference there -- the difference there was just nine votes per precinct. you hear me #in florida, the

difference was -- in florida, the difference was six foot per precinct. per precinct. those are real numbers. presidential elections are won and lost on handful of votes. that are plenty of states where each of you could swing an by gettinginct just your friends and your few family members registered and out but it is going to take work. yes, we can. it is going to take work. it is going to take work. >> yes, we can. first lady obama: it is not

enough just to come to a rally, to take selfies, you get angry and just speak out. we also have to work and make that change and take action, and that starts with alleging folks who will stand with you and fight with you. and that is why you need to get yourself and everyone you know registered to vote today, and we have got volunteers here. are notou all, if you registered, i want you to find them, find them and get registered before you leave this building. and then we need to roll up your makingand get to work, calls, knocking on doors, thinking about those handful of votes that you could carry and get people out on election day. you can sign up to volunteer with any of the staff who are here, so get it done. right? george mason? work your hearts out.

and as you are working your heart out for hillary, if you start to feel tired or discouraged by all the ifativity in this election, you want to just hide under the bed and come out when it is all -- i want you you to remember what is at stake. the choice you make on november 8 will determine whether you can afford college tuition. it will determine whether you can keep your health care when you graduate. on november 8, you will decide whether we have a president who believes in science and will .ight climate change or not you will decide whether we have honor ourt who will proud history as a nation of immigrants or not. you will decide whether we have a president who thinks that

women deserve the right to make their own choices about their bodies and their health. or not. and here's the thing -- at a time when incomes are rising, by thousands of dollars, when millions of people are being lifted out of poverty, ask yourself, is now really the time to fundamentally change --ection when we are looking when we are making so much progress? do we want to go back to the way things were before barack was president, a time of economic crisis, that wages, when we were losing nearly 800,000 jobs a month? or do you want a president who will keep moving this country forward? well, that is what is at stake, so we cannot afford to be tired or turned off, knots now -- not if this feels like

a time of uncertainty or division, i have never felt more hopeful about the future of this great nation. let me tell you, i feel this way because for the past eight years, i have had a great honor of traveling from one end of this country to the other, and that we tell you, i have met some of the most amazing people, people from every conceivable -- and ellen -- but people from every conceivable background and walk of life. i have seen again, proof of what barack and i have always believed in our hearts, are we as americans fundamentally good folks and we all truly want to say things. i mean, that is the thing. we are not that different. time and again barack and i had

met people who disagree with everything we have ever said, that they still welcome us into their community. they keep their minds open, willing to listen. and while we might not always change each other's minds, we always walk away reminded that we are really not that different. folks in this country are working long hours to send their kids to college, just like my mom and dad did for me. they are helping raise their grandkids just like barack's grandparents did for him. they are teaching their kids the exact same values that barack and i are trying to teach our girls, that you work hard for what you want in life and you do not take shortcuts, that you treat people with respect, even if they look or think differently from you, that when someone is struggling, you do not turn away, and you certainly do not take in. no, -- take advantage.

you imagine walking a mile in their shoes and do what you can to help cause that is what we do in america. we live in a country where a girl like me from the south side of chicago, whose great-great-grandfather was a go to some of the finest universities on earth. we live in a country where biracial kid from hawaii named barack obama, the son of a single mother, can become country that has always been a beacon for people who have come to our shores and poured their backbreaking hard work into what has made america great. that is what has made america great. do not ever forget it.

presidentdeserve a who can see those truths in us, a president who believes that each of us is part of the american story and we are always stronger together. we deserve a president who can always bring out what is best in us, our kindness and decency, our courage and determination, so we can keep on perfecting our union and passing down those blessings of liberty to our children. let me tell you this -- i have never been more confident that hillary clinton will be that president. --here is what i am pledging from now until november, i am going to work as hard as i can to make sure that hillary and tim kaine window selection. i need your help to do that as well. are you with me? i cannot hear you? are you with me? so roll up your sleeves. you got to make it happen.

virginie will make a difference in this election. questioneady, virginia mark thank you, all. god bless.

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event, it will be available later at www.c-span.org. this from a story this afternoon, libertarian party candidate gary johnson and green party candidate jill stein they'll to make the cut for the first presidential debate. the commission announced this afternoon in a significant blow for their campaigns. twoson and stein satisfied criteria, that they be eligible have ballot access to win a theoretical electoral college majority. neither met the threshold for polling. the criteria will be re-apply to all candidates in advance of the second and third presidential debate. the commission also announced this today. this item in "the washington

post," donald trump on friday acknowledged for the first time that president obama was born in the united states, and his long history of stoking unfounded doubts about the nation's first african-american president, but also seeking to falsely blamed hillary clinton for starting the rumors. this is not the first time that clinton has first accused questions are raising -- questions about obama's birthplace. the story goes on that trump's campaign said thursday night said he did not believe obama -- said that he does believe obama was born in united states and said he deserves credit for putting questions about obama's birth to rest, that from "the washington post." from this trump

morning, from his new hotel in washington, d.c., where he made his comment today about president obama's birth. mr. trump: thank you very much, everybody. please sit down. nice hotel. under budget and ahead of schedule. isn't that nice? no, it is a great honor. this is a brand-new ballroom. you only see a small piece of it because we have it broken down, but the hotel was completed. we will be having our opening ceremony in october, and it will be something very special. it is such an honor to have our first event. this is our first event.

it is such an honor to have our first event for medal of honor winners. i mean, they are the finest. and we get so many endorsements from the medal of honor winners, is incredible, and i look forward to spending a lot of time coming here. they have a lot more courage than i do. it is such an honor to have this particular ceremony be the first ceremony, because i think when the hotel opens officially, it will be one of the great hotels anywhere in the world, and i want to thank the gsa, the general services. they have been spectacular. these are spectacular people. these are tremendously talented people. all the workers, all

construction folks, all the managers, hotel staff, amazing how good our country can do when we want to do it. but we have put in tremendous amounts of work and energy and money, and i really believe, i said this will be the best hotel in washington. i think it may be one of the great hotels anywhere in the world. that is the way it turned out. i am really honor to have this as our first event. so i am pleased to be here this morning with two medal of honor recipients, and the six flag and general officers. we have a tremendous amount of talent, a lot of generals, and general kellogg, general flynn, we have just -- the room stacked with generals and talented people and leaders. i love leaders.

the great people represent 120 flag and general officer endorsements. 120. and that number is going up very rapidly. and now 17 medal of honor recipients. in addition, that's a tremendous amount of very brave people. in addition, i am honored to be joined by the many veterans that are supporting us all throughout the room. thank you very much for being here. i am also honored to have a gold star wife, jane horton here -- and shane is with us this morning -- where is jane? please stand. thank you.

thank you. incredible. jane lost her husband, specialist chris horton, in afghanistan on september 9, 2011, and, jane, it is such an honor to have you here, and i hear so many things about chris, and he was a winner, and thank you very much on behalf of the country. thank you. it is incredibly humbling to be in the company of these real and true heroes. i have the privilege to introduce our first medal of honor recipient, mike thornton. mike is a retired united states navy seal, a tough cookie. and a recipient of the united states military's highest decoration, the medal of honor.

for his actions in vietnam, the vietnam war. in addition, he is the recipient of a silver star, three bronze stars, and a purple heart. i am proud to have him on my team. it is such a great honor for me. and also, fellow recipient bob patterson, who likewise as the medal of owner, who is also here. we have 17 medal of honor recipients, and they have all endorsed before president of the -- endorsed me for president of the united states, and i have been endorsed by generals and many of the generals have become very good friends of mine. we seem to have a very good chemistry together. but even the generals admit there is something very special about medal of honor recipients. so, mike, if i might ask you to just say hello, say a couple of

words, and thank you very much for being here. mr. thornton: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. we do not need no more than that. i have known mr. trump since 1986, and when it was not fashionable to support the military in 1986, some great people like donald trump and zack fisher, the uss intrepid, and he supported us at that time. the medal of honor i proudly wear around my neck i feel i do not deserve. it belongs to every man and woman who have served our great men and women in this country, because, ladies and gentlemen, freedom is not free. right now today is the most trying time in my life, and life is very short.

i have been around for almost 70 years. this election means so much. we do not need any more bureaucratic leadership from washington, d.c. we need true leadership from the top. mr. trump has never failed in anything because he listens to his advisors, his people. for the last 8 years, our president has not listened to anybody. and that is the reason why we have lost cia directors, we have lost secretaries of defense, and many, many general officers that have dropped out or resigned because of his leadership. we cannot stand for four more years of leadership like that. we need somebody who is going to lead from the front like donald trump.

so thank you very much for having us here. god bless you. god bless america, and god bless donald trump. oh -- i'm supposed to introduce bob patterson, my good friend for 45 years. mr. patterson: i am here to tell you something right now. i spent 26 years defending this country. and after that i spent another 17 years taking care of those veterans who i served with and we are still serving, because i worked for the 17 years for the v.a. before i finally retired. i have watched our country to get complete turnaround from where it was. we used to be the shining star on the hill. and we are getting dimmer and

dimmer and dimmer, and it is all because of all the bureaucrats here in washington, d.c. and it is time we send somebody to washington that knows how to say "you are fired." the gentleman i am going to introduce is a major general, the ceo and president of the united states-mexican chamber of commerce based in washington, d.c. he has served on many commissions under many presidents. he entered the military in 1964, and he has numerous awards and decorations, including the silver star, five bronze stars,

and a purple heart. >> what bob just did to me, he made me older than anybody up here. mr. trump, thank god for you. being a vietnam veteran and serving all the way through the iraq and afghanistan war in the department of defense as the chairman of the reserve forces policy board for half of the military that we deployed for that region, 15 years ago, and you're still there. we are national guard and reservists. and when they came home, he could not use the v.a. because they were not veterans because they were still part of their reserve and national guard unit.

i know the next president, donald trump, will fix that. i also would like to say deplorables are also deployables. ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor for me to be here in supporting the next president of the united states, who will lead from the front, who has the kind of leadership that we need and is not afraid to make that decision. ladies, i am really honored to be with donald trump, and i am all with you. i actually probably did this on purpose, because this next fellow is a personal friend and

have immense respect for him. he won his silver star in korea when the north koreans tried to take over our location on the dmz. he is a very special warrior. he is a major general. it is my honor to introduce you to him. >> thank you, and we do go way back. i do not go back to the korean war, but that is where i was awarded the silver star. after 40 years of serving this nation in uniform and four combat deployments, i am convinced our nation needs a multidisciplinary approach to defeat our enemies and secure fruits of victory. what we need is fresh thinking,

innovative approaches, and strong leadership. it has been my privilege to have spent quality time with mr. trump on and off the campaign trail over the past few months. and i have been extremely impressed with this gentleman's stamina, and you would be amazed what he has been able to do. in addition to his stamina, i have been impressed with his intellectual curiosity and his raw intelligence and his energy and his enthusiasm, and, yes, indeed, his temperament. he has the right temperament to be in the white house. but the thing i have been most impressed with is his love for the men and women in uniform and the support he is going to give

them from the white house. and i can guarantee you -- and that their families make it home will not be in vain, in addition to the billions of taxpayer dollars that are supporting them, and that is why i am supporting donald trump to be our next commander in chief. now it is my pleasure to introduce a fellow comrade in arms, who commaned a destroyer squadron. he was an executive assistant to our naval forces commander and he ended a career as a deputy director for strategic planning for policy. my pleasure.

>> thank you, everyone. we are a group of national security professionals who have dedicated our lives to the security of our nation, as deplorable as we are. we are not a political group. but we are a national security group that has chosen to support a political candidate. the series of discussions you have all listened to mr. trump have deal with national security. national security is not solely about the military. it is comprised of many facets, defense, diplomacy, development, economic security, energy security, border security, cyber security, homeland security. the logical -- the logical policy presentations that mr. trump has delivered

over the last few weeks lay out a sound, strategic approach to providing the security of the nation and the security of all americans. these policies comprise a holistic approach to addressing the complex facets of national security in a complex and extremely dangerous international world. moreover, mr. trump combines this multifaceted approach to our security with a pronounced committment to those in uniform serving our nation today. and in fact, all veterans who have worn the cloth of the nation. and that commitment extends to the families of those who have served. for as all of us in this room know, their sacrifice has been -- has been equally difficult.

george washington said, the willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceived veterans of earlier wars were treated and are appreciated by our nation. mr. trump has embraced those words of our first president. mr. trump has also shown an extreme dedication to those that have shouldered the wounds of battle in the service to our nation, and we have several of those people with us today. and he has committed himself to the words of president abraham lincoln, words that are emblazoned in the motto of our department of veterans affairs -- to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan. this is why all of us here are

assembled to support donald trump for president. we have -- we have lived national security for a large part of our lives. we understand how a strong economy, cooperative governance, combined with skilled diplomacy, sound energy policy, sound alliances, and a united american public, all defended by a well-trade, appropriately funded, fully committed, and technologically unsurpassed military come together to make america strong and make the world a safer place. and, finally, finally, all of us on this stage, all of you in the audience who have served, you

took an oath, you pledged, sealed with your honor and commitment to your lives, not solely to the country, not to a , not to aour flag chain of command, not to a commander in chief, but an oath to a piece of paper, a piece of parchment upon which is written those ideals in which we believe, those values that define us as a nation, those very virtues that those who have served before us defended with their lives, an oath to defend the constitution of the united states from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance that constitution, to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, to ensure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

that oath is important to all of that oath remains the cornerstone of our lives long after we have taken off the uniform. that oath is important to donald trump. and he in fact will take the very same oath on january 20, 2017. [applause] that is why we assembled in this room along with many other veterans and their military families all support his candidacy for hit the breed -- his candidacy for the united states of america. together we will all make america great again. thank you for your service, may god continue to bless our united states of america.