that has come at against donald trump. you tried to position yourself as a check on hillary clinton. >> there are people that are upset. and god bless them but i cannot bring myself to vote for donald trump. of the day, the end they will look at who do they want as eager of the house. do they want to return to what morgan carroll would call the good old days where you have hillary clinton in the white house, potential democratically controlled senate and nancy pelosi. where they cram things through without a single republican vote and there are no checks and balance is on the white house. i think i will secure their votes. you said earlier this week that you do not support any check on a woman's right to an abortion. which other right other than

abortion do you believe are absolute? rights that you have to do process, equal protection against the law against cruel and unusual punishment. to me, it is partly the constitution and partly a moral question. i don't think any third party or government has a right to force anything on a woman or her body without her consent ever. wellis a moral position as as a constitutional one for me. earlier this week that we need to move to a system of tough immigration enforcement. you said to make quote if you are here illegally, you will be deported. less like whatot we have heard from you in recent years. >> i think that is a system we ought to move through. but we have had to fact oh amnesty to some extent in this

country for a long time. there are people that have been in this country for a long time that have not violated any laws other than the immigration laws. this is what i feel about the young people that were taken here not of their own choosing. adults that knowingly broke the law, i think they should have the opportunity to come out of the shadows and have a legalized status. i would like to see us move to a much tougher system after that point and time. we have to get control of our borders. right now, -- we have time for you to ask each other when more question. >> could you please if your opinion -- the fact is that hillary clinton received a subpoena to turn over her

e-mails and decided what she to evade public scrutiny. what do you think about that? >> she said it is a mistake. i do not defend it. >> she broke the law. >> i think the folks that did the criminal investigation -- >> do you think that was a good investigation? take an investigation over a political strategy. i think it is better investigated repeatedly. one thing that i do think it's curious is that when transparency is important, it is reminder for everyone on security protocol. trust the people that have done the investigation to determine if there was wrongdoing. what i do find curious is that is exempted from your

version of the open records act. we are pushing for more transparency in government. law where you a would give yourself a blank or some privacy protections or an ability to get out of something? >> the fact is that i think you are right. members of congress should be subject to all of the laws, regulations that they impose on the american people. and that is why when obamacare was passed i dropped out of the plan that was available to employees and bought my policy without a subsidy through the insurance exchange. i found that my deductible went $4500 and then went from there to $6,200. i had to pay 40% of that. congress hader of done what i did, obamacare would

not be standing here today. >> i appreciate you both sticking to times so diligently and having a spirited and civil conversation. we are nearing the end of our 30 minutes. it is time for closing statements. the order was decided ahead of time and the representative that the floor first. >> thank you so much for doing this. as a combat veteran i have led whichght against the va has failed to meet the obligations to the men and women that served our country in terms of giving them the health care that they need and deserve. taken my military experience in challenge to the department of defense on wasteful spending. i believe that every dollar wasted by the pentagon is a dollar not spent defending this country. i believe fundamentally that the greatest threat to the security of this country is our rising debt. for a continue to work balanced budget requirement to stop washington spending money

that we do not have. i have worked with republicans and democrats to find common ground to get things done in washington. whoeverll stand up to is in the white house whether they are republican or democrat their actions do not reflect the values in the priorities of colorado and our country. >> congress is broken. before there was a donald trump, there was a congress that was an embarrassment to this country for his refusal to do anything. to work with each other. our date problems of remain unaddressed because folks have been more interested in pointing fingers and obstructing than getting things done. to me, we cannot afford to have congress not work. likest take up issues student debt reform now. immigration reform now. lobbying reform, now. change to take climate

seriously. we should be passing the equality act. thated to fix the whole got blown into the voting rights act. we should be enforcing and supporting policies like dapa. the reason i would respectfully ask for the vote of this six district. >> thank you so much for participating in this debate. our debate is over. we are not. live eightor the edition of balance of power. our political experts will be in the seat. we will dive into the presidential debate as well. with election week less than three weeks away, stay with us. >> c-span brings you more to be more debatesm --

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earlier today, the justice department released -- the washington post reporting that the fbi now plans to take new investigative steps in regard to the issue. director komi's letter reads in part, "in connection with an unrelated case, the fbi has learned of the existence of e-mails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. the fbi should take investigative steps to review e-mails to determine whether they contain classified information." the state department also commenting on the revelations. there is what spokesman mark toner had to say. >> as you know, the fbi director has just informed congress that they have found new e-mails that are pertinent

to their investigation into the secretary's server. what do you guys know about it? do these e-mails related to while she was secretary of state? what do you know? have you been asked to cooperate? mr. toner: we do not know much more than you know. we just saw the news reports of the letter. at this point i would have to refer you to the fbi for more details about what e-mails they may be looking at. >> what they are looking for? any more details at all? mr. toner: we do not know about the scope of this new investigation, in this effort to look at additional e-mails. we do not know what these e-mails pertaining to her time while she was at the state department. we do not have any information at this time. >> you say you just learned about it from the letter --

mr. toner: what they reporting. >> and congress -- mr. toner: this is the first navigation we have had. >> you will cooperate? mr. toner: of course, we will cooperate to the full extent we can. we are mystified, but unaware. >> has the state department turned in e-mails -- because people are trying to understand -- mr. toner: i do not have additional details. we do not have any additional details or information to provide at this point.

>> the court has ordered you to produce several more batches of the e-mails that the fbi turned over. do you anticipate that those releases will continue as per schedule and -- in other words, any investigation by the fbi is not going to interfere -- is not going to affect your release of the e-mails that they gave to you? mr. toner: speaking as someone without full vision on this new development, i do not see that they would be in conflict.

we plan to proceed with publishing these e-mails in accordance with legal commitments we have made. >> you are not aware if those e-mails are at all pertinent to this? mr. toner: no. >> what about the idea if these are new clinton e-mails, they would be state department assets? they belong to the state department if they were clinton e-mails or someone who was working for her during her tenure as secretary? so the question would be, were you or have you asked the fbi to hand over those documents, and and if you have not, will you? mr. toner: we are trying to figure out what these e-mails

even pertain to come if they were relevant to the time when she was secretary. we cannot make assumptions at this point. if they are, we will work with the fbi, but i do not have more details to provide at this point. >> reaction from members of congress was swift. among them paul ryan who released a statement that reads and part -- reaction from secretary clinton's presidential rival donald trump was quickly forthcoming as well. here is what the nominee had to say at a rally in new hampshire this afternoon. mr. trump: i need to open with a very critical breaking news

announcement. the fbi has just sent a letter to congress informing them that they have discovered new e-mails pertaining to the former secretary of state hillary clinton's investigation. [cheering] mr. trump: and they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct.

that threatens the security of the united states of america. hillary clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the oval office. i have great respect for the fact that the fbi and the department of justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made.

this was a grave miscarriage of justice that the american people that people fully understood, and it is everybody's hope that it is about to be corrected. so that is a big announcement that i heard 10 minutes ago, and i guess obviously most of you folks have heard about, and in all fairness, for all of the people that have suffered, we're doing this so much, including a four-star general, james cartwright, general petraeus, and many others, perhaps finally justice will be done. >> in reaction to the news of

additional scrutiny by the fbi, the chairman of the hillary clinton campaign john podesta released a statement, saying -- part of the statement from john podesta. >> later in the day, hillary clinton made a brief statement thees moines concerning fbi's announcement regarding the discovery of new e-mails. she -- she took a few questions from the news media. clinton: good afternoon.

wordsd like to say a few and then take your questions. i have now seen director komi's letter to congress. we are 11 days out or perhaps the most important national election of our lifetimes. voting is already underway in our country. the american people deserve to get the full and complete fax immediately. saidirector himself has that he does not know whether the e-mails referenced in his letter are significant or not. i am confident that whatever they are, will not change the conclusions reached in july. therefore, it is imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question -- and question whatever it is without delay. i look forward to moving or word to focus on the important challenges facing the american people, winning on november 8, and working with all americans to build a better future for our

country. thank you. >> have you or any of your advisers heard from director today andhe fbi are you concerned about whether these e-mails will relieve -- will unveil classified information? mrs. clinton: we were not contacted by anyone. we do not know the facts which is why we are calling on the fbi to release all of the information that it has. noted thator comey this new information may not be significant so let us get it out. you have 11 days ago. what would you say to a voter who right now will be seeing you

and hearing what you are saying -- saying i did not trust her before, and i don't trust her more now. this is clinton: i think people a long time ago made up their minds regarding the e-mails. that has been factored in to what people are thinking and now they are choosing a president. i would urge everyone to get out and vote early in all of the states that have early voting because i think americans want a president that can lead our country, get the economy working for everyone, not just those at the top and bring our country together. i offer that, i can do that, and i am confident that the american people know that. we will continue to discuss what is at stake in this election. i believe that it is one of the most consequential elections ever. >> secretary clinton there are e-mailsorts that these found on the device of one of your aides.

has she given you any information on this? >> we have heard these rumors and we do not know what to believe. it is incumbent upon the fbi to tell us what they are talking about. right now, your guess is as good as mine and that is not good enough. thatve made it very clear if they are going to be sending onlykind of letter that is going originally to republican members of the house, that they need to share whatever facts they claim to have with the american people and that is what i expect to happen. >> thank you very much everyone. this is clinton: thank you, all. clinton: thank you all. thef you missed any of

presidential debate, go to c-span.org. you can watch the entire debate choosing between the split screen or the switch camera options. you can even go to a specific questions and answers from the debate, finding the content that you want quickly and use our video clipping tool to create clips of your favorite debate moments. your desktop, phone or tablet for the presidential debate. with just over a week to go until the elections, newsmakers is pleased to host stephen law. he also has the american crossroads and a nonprofit called one nation, all of which aim to keep the republican senate in the majority. thank you so much for being with us. as we started out, i should tell folks that you have been chief of staff of mitch mcconnell. and still have a great relationship with him.

all of that experience to our discussion this way. let me introduce our guests who will be asking questions. eric wenner is chief congressional reporter. ladies, thank you for being back with us this week. as we start out, you gave an interview to political last week talking about the prospects for keeping the majority and you ignore knowledge to a tough road ahead. and said you were going to go out with guns blazing. attached toney at the tight races, and a few more days, do you feel differently at this point? mr. law: we have a lot of challenges. they have been with us for the last six months. the top 11 most competitive races, we have been doing battle. republicans own 10 of them. continues to be

that way. in addition to that, we have a ticket that is not totally unified the way that we typically go into presidential election years where everyone is galvanized and pushing in the same direction. , theyy other races coming are in tough states where president obama won and where hillary clinton is likely to win. our candidates have to outperform. host: these are the ones that are closest. nevada, newdiana, hampshire, north carolina, and pennsylvania. are you focusing on any in addition to those? mr. law: florida. we are finishing our work there. otherwise, the focus is going to be very heavily there. i would say that just of hours ago, we heard that the senate majority pact was looking at wisconsin. they are worried about that race tightening. we need to look at that race as well.

speaking of tightening, to what do you attribute the last minute shifting in the polls? suddenly, we are seeing some shifting in new hampshire where kelly ayotte has fallen behind, missouri where ray blunt is tied up with his democratic challenger. how do you explain these last-minute shifts in the polls? this cycleat makes interesting and challenging is that there is no one-size-fits-all way to look at these races. the variations are being caused by unusual circumstances. kelly ayotte took a tumble with republican voters when she publicly announced she would no longer support donald trump after earlier acknowledging him as a role model. i think that is coming back. i think that race will stabilize in at least a competitive direction. that was a unique circumstance. for roy blunt, his race is getting cross pressured by both

the presidential election and the gubernatorial election in his state both of which are dominated by talk about outsiders and senator blunt has been a great senator for missouri but i think the democrats have attacked him for someone who is a washington insider and that has hurt him. measure the you impact of donald trump on these down ballot races? he is not your typical republican nominee. he is having an impact on individual basis. -- on individual races. what has the impact been of donald trump? months ago, democrats predicted a senate blowout because we had donald trump at the top of the ticket. what we have seen is fairly marginal impact. in our polling, in most of these states, the republican candidate's position on donald

trump, is a relatively negligible impact on how voters deal about the senate candidate. the other thing we often forget is that there is roughly a quarter of hillary clinton support -- hillary clinton voters who do not really like her they just dislike donald trump. impact themselves with diehard republicans who are also supporting donald trump but they will pick up some independents who are currently for hillary only because she is not donald trump. clear, do you anticipate that on november 9, republicans will have retained majority in the senate? >> i will not -- mr. law: i would not predict how things will turn out. but what does concern me is the breadth of the battlefield. in addition to that, very significant challenge we have is in typical presidential years,

whether you love your presidential candidate or not, there is a tremendous amount of cross the board ticket unity. everyone is doing what they should be doing. voter turnout is being handled by this group and every thing is working seamlessly. we do not have that this time. there is a lot of division in the ticket. the machinery in the things that need to be done to make sure that we get out the vote are less and down than they typically are which gives me a good deal of concern. i will say that six months ago, democrats that they were going to win florida, ohio, and arizona. those have been taken off the table all the completely. three months ago, they thought they were going to win indiana. i think we have thought that to a tie and in the end i think we will end up winning that race. even in the states where clinton is likely to win, all of our candidates are running against donald trump somewhat narrowly. we will see if they can

outperform him enough to hold those seats. defend so howto it all turns out i am not able to say. >> you mentioned florida. where senator rubio is running for election after mitch mcconnell coaxed him into doing so. there has been some reporting lately about democratic dissension about the decision to abandon their candidate there, patrick murphy. if democrats were able to come up with $10 million to put it behind murphy at this point, when it gave senator move -- rubio more of a contest? mr. law: the number one problem patrick murphy has is somewhat what carlos threw had in the primary. murphy is not well known. he doesn't have enough root -- resources to fully make a case against marco rubio.

could drive up the negatives by spending a lot, but could not make himself a viable. if you look at our polling, most public polling shows the same thing, patrick murphy is not well known, and has fairly even favorable and unfavorable ratings. that gets very hard to push out in the last week of elections. it was a tough choice for the democrats to cut their losses, but probably from their vantage point, it was the right choice. they would have to spend $5 million-$10 million to even make it competitive, and even then, marco rubio woodwind. -- would win. ms. ferrechio: can you ask -- explain your last-minute expenditures? you are revving things up and putting more money into races i most unexpectedly. can you talk about that decision and what was behind it? mr. law: absolutely. typically, this time of the

election cycle is agonizingly bankedecause we have everything, we cut all the ads, now we just sit and look at the polls. of thiser lining activities, we are able to thrust ourselves into the work that still needs to be done. but what we have seen for several weeks is democratic money coming in tens of millions of dollars into senate races. as far as we can tell, it is because groups, particularly unions, are under the view that hillary clinton may have won the presidential race, and it is time to focus on down ballot races. that created a huge imbalance in the polls. we felt we have to find a way to overcome this, and we were able to. i was not sure we will able to, but we were able to raise a significant amount of money within the space of six days, and he played to at least even out the disadvantage our candidate had.

if you subtract out the $25 million that we have put in in the last two weeks, we will have spent from labor day to election day a total of $85 million in and it raises -- senate races, on top of the $25 million at the end. we were able to expand, do more digital advertising, so we were able to do more at the end. but it was necessary because of this title wave spending on the democratic side. how did you raise $25 million in six days? mr. law: we were on the phone a lot. [laughter] the longer answer is, in particular, leader mcconnell at the beginning of the cycle recognized there needed to be a correlator to what harry reid successfully built in the senate majority pack, and what both republicans and democrats have done with their them -- governors association's. he encouraged us to make the thete majority fund --

senate leadership fund, and build a corollary. over the course of the last couple of years, he and others, including myself, have worked hard to build a national donor network that is invested in saving the senate majority. i can't imagine how many miles he has logged, but he has worked to convince people this is important. we have gotten a lot of buy-in from that. that ended up being critical because a number of donors, particularly donors we have had in the past, have been discouraged about the presidential race. some of them have checked out. they just haven't been that involved. their ability to focus on something that is achievable, which is helping senate candidates doing something they a measurable impact, enabled us to build the network. in fairly short order, we can send out the alarm, and send the bat signal, and do everything we need to do. a lot of the donors responded

generously. without the legwork, it would not have been possible to do it that fast. >> how do you sell that to the donors? if they think the top of the ballot is not someone i necessary like -- necessarily like, and he drags down lower ballot races, what do you say to donors about maybe the disconnect between who they favor as a nominee and the republican senate candidates you are asking them to help salvage? mr. law: sure. donorsng is a number of had supported other candidates in the primary process. they started from a position of disappointment that whoever they invested in did not be the nominee, but a lot of the donors also had a lot of buy-in to the senate majority.

we helped get a number of people in who a lot of people think are the future of the republican party. people like tom cotton, joni people who arer aspiring, sharp leaders who are conservative, but have a tremendous amount of appeal. support the future of the party, and something that i think a lot of the donors gravitated to, at a time when they fell at the top of the ticket had not worked out the way they hoped. ms. ferrechio: can you talk about the way the different candidates have handled donald trump? we saw some that endorsed him early on and stuck with that. those that never backed him, those that endorsed and unendorsed, and then re-endorsed. which of those scenarios has been more successful in this election? [laughter] susan mentioned at the

onset, my long relationship with senator mcconnell. admired is always his ability to lock down in a position and stick with it. very often what happens if people stop asking you. if you will give the same answer today that you got six months ago, you get bored and move on to somebody else. i think one of the challenges some of the candidates have had is they feel the need to respond to every new cycle, and everything that trump says. that has caught some of the candidates up. as i said earlier, polling indicates that where a candidate is on donald trump a relatively negligible impact on voters. if they are marginally against him, they pick up hillary clinton voters who don't like her that much, but they may side. the republican i think where the candidates have gotten in the most trouble is where they have taken multiple positions in short order, that makes them look like they are trying to achieve a political advantage rather than

on principle. i think that is the area of candidates have gotten themselves in trouble. at the end of the day, does it matter much? i think it may not matter that much in the end, but that is a risk. ms. ferrechio: as you say, mcconnell has locked down his position on trump, he has endorsed him, but has kept quiet throughout much of the campaign. as, in you see his role the next congress, if it is a 50 finish senate, which is possible? then you will have a tiebreaker for the white house. what do you see as his role in the minority? if the remaining as the republican leader, or maybe moving on? a lot of people are wondering what the future holds for the majority leader. himlaw: i haven't talked to about that, but my expectation is that his unique tips of morership will be all the necessary, regardless of where we end up, whether donald trump

happens to income or hillary clinton is president, or whether we are at 50 or 49. one of the things that has stood out in this particular election is that senator mcconnell has worked probably harder than any republican leader in history to make sure that there was an outside effort that was funded, and aggressively focused on making sure we get everything we could to the majority -- majority. i think that will matter a lot. additionally, he's a tremendous leader for figuring your way circumstances. if we are in a situation where the wind is not at our back, that will be something where people want his leadership. the other thing you can't forget post this election, is two years will bew, there another election, where it will be the absolute inverse. , versus justocrats eight republicans.

that's an opportunity to get the ajority back, and having four-time consiglio ringleader like senator mcconnell would be an asset. say donald trump does not win on november 9. say republicans are in the minority, or even the majority. it doesn't matter, there is talk of maybe anger or backlash against leaders, either for not endorsing him or not supporting him enough, not getting behind him, not helping prop up the top of the ticket. what the -- what do you foresee in terms of potential backlash post donald trump at the gop establishment, who has along the way, has had a lot of criticism in terms of how they did or did not support him? mr. law: some of that is kind of hard to protect -- predict. one of the things we spend a lot of time trying to figure out is whether this particular election and this particular nominee was

part of a new direction of the party, or sort of an anomaly. was he able to win the nomination because he cobbled together a small but secure part of the republican base, that while the other candidates were contending against him, had to divide up the rest of the pie, or does he represent some sort of future more populist representation of the party? the party has been pretty consistent in and laminating -- nominating a mainstream candidate.e this is a completely different direction. i think how it is resolved will essentially be the answer to that question. is the party itself changing direction, or was this an anomaly driven in part by the circumstances of this contest? ms. ferrechio: how do you think it resolves?that is the big question. mr. law: i think probably two

thirds are still a mainstream conservative party. that is where we are and where we end up. you have, obviously, some defending what trump does. does he go away, does he build another building, does he make the wrecking ball to the republican party? you also have the freedom caucus part of the party, people who are locked in very safe districts, who think we ought to be taking on battles that end up in box canyon defeats, but at least we stood for something.i think all that will have to get sorted out. but i think in the end, the party as a whole is a mainstream conservative party. incidentally, i think the democrats have their own challenge. i think the reality is the center of gravity of the democratic party is a progressive, far left, liberal party. you look at how far bernie sanders got, even though it was mano a mano against to a clinton, two people from the beginning, he came fairly close

to knocking her of her perch. i think the center of gravity for the democrats is more far the center of gravity for the republican party is far right. the challenge for the republican party is donald trump did speak and energize and activate, a center of the electorate that is not strongly republican, but available to the republican party, but i think the republican party has largely ignored them for years. hasink the republican party pitched itself more to kind of mainstream business constituents, which i think is good, but there are also a lot of blue-collar soft conservatives, typically in rust belt states, who don't like the democratic party. it is too liberal, but they have not heard anything in the republican party that appeals to them. that is the question going forward, whether the party can appeal to them without necessarily engaging in a kind of rhetorical excess we have seen from -- excess we have seen from donald trump. ms. swain: we have five minutes

left. you mentioned 2018 and the red state democrats that are going to be up for reelection. thinking about how the republican party tries to put itself together, does that argue for mitch mcconnell, who makes deals with hillary clinton , potentially in the white house, and chuck schumer as the democratic leader, or one who tries to turn -- opposed them at any turn? mr. law: that's a great question. i like the phrase putting itself together, because we don't do that successfully. that success lies in the direction of finding things to get done that don't compromise our principles and our base. assuming weto that, hold the house, which i assume we will, i don't think the house would allow for a shift in any kind of leftward direction anyway. think whether or not we hold the senate, if we are

close or hold the house, i think it is equally interesting how hillary clinton relates to that if president. a ascension is there will be desire to get things done, to show forward progress, but it could end up being that the white house wants to stay pretty andleft, and the house majority of republicans in the senate are not going to want to go in that direction, so you could end up with potentially two years as a stalemate. ms. werner: on trump and the red ticket -- frederick from him on the rig election and so forth, is there anything that hurts down ballot candidates? is there any evidence that that would take place? mr. law: that's an interesting question about whether that kind of rhetoric can make people think it is all for not --

naught. hillary clinton has her own mobilization problems as well. both sides seem to be pretty motivated to vote, based on polling. i think the main concern i have is whether the machinery is there, as it typically is. , to make sure that people who are more episodic voters are still encouraged to go out and vote. that part, i don't know about it we have been watching some early voting, and it doesn't suggest have an overwhelming advantage compared to past years, but there are signs we are concerned about that the machinery is not delivering the vote the way it needs to in some places. a a close race, the change of couple percentage points could determine the outcomes of the election. ms. swain: two minutes, final question.

it's interesting talking about the future of the parties and how the white house would interact, one big topic is immigration reform and that there could be a strong push for immigration reform in a democratic white house in the early days. what is your sense/ ? that is an enormous and divisive issue for the republican party. how do you think that would be handled by the senate, where there's a lot of division, and there would be also a lot of pressure to try to get something , as it has been lingering around congress for many cycles? where do you see that going? mr. law: i think the republican party is going to continue on border security as a key deliverable. democrats are very uncomfortable with that. this issue is going to be different now than it was three or four years ago, when the gang

of eight was working on it, in part because there's a lot of evidence that illegal border crossing and attempts are at record levels. in addition, you have an overlay of a national security concern. in the past, we never used to think or worry about people coming into the country who might really want to do us harm here they may be here illegally, but they are looking for their own financial benefit. has becomes issue more complicated. i think there's a risk for democrats taking the immigration issue is the same immigration issue it was four years ago. i think republicans have a few more arrows in the quiver than they had before. that's not to say it is an issue we can be blind about. i think it's important for republicans to find a way to deal with immigration, so we are not hurting ourselves badly with immigrant communities, be they hispanic, or increasingly large groups of immigrants in the asian-american community.

i think it is important we deal with that. but democrats are not at risk in this. they have their own division. organized labor is very ambivalent about reform. both parties will have to figure to if there's a way for them not just seek partisan advantage, but to get enough done so they can hold interest in common. ms. swain: if hillary clinton wins the white house, do you see the majority leader pushing merrick garland as the supreme court nomination? mr. law: that's not in my crystal ball. it might be moved to get it done, i don't know how the democrats would take it. at this point, above my pay grade. ms. swain: thank you very much for being with "newsmakers." mr. law: thank you for having me. i appreciate it. ms. swain: "newsmakers," is back after our conversation with steven law, who heads the senate leadership fund, dedicated to keeping the republican majority.

morning, we friday had the head of the democratic party in ohio who made a comment that this election cycle is showing why citizens united should be repealed, that it is showing that the koch brothers can buy senate seat. we heard a lot of money going into the senate elections. is it clear where the money is at this point? ms. werner: i think we should make the point this is going on on both sides. at the end of the day, when you ,ake everything into account that is the republican and democratic groups, there will not be a huge amount of difference on how much each side has spent. saying, themr. law senate leadership fund has been remarkably successful, particularly in october, raising some $43 million in the course of the month to date. donors, writing big

checks. certainly, there are those who want to get that money out of politics, mitch mcconnell is not one of those people. i don't think we will see that change anytime soon. ms. ferrechio: i would agree. both parties are big spenders. these elections have become increasingly expensive. laws, whenn finance you look at public polling, you bottom of what citizens are concerned about. part of the reason they don't understand the flow of money 's,ween big donors, the pac the candidates, and lawmakers, it is all confusing, even to people following it daily. i think that's one of the reasons why it never moved up on the level of importance for voters. it is talked about every election cycle, but it takes a lot to get movement on campaign finance reform. it is really difficult. the last time congress did anything about it was years ago.

i don't see it happening anytime soon, especially if you have the divided government that we are predicting in the fall, and in 2017, where you will have republicans likely holding the house. any effort to move campaign finance there would be practically impossible. ms. swain: that was a good portion of the conversation, not just on mechanics and money, and senate races, but what washington looks like after election day. the prediction is that republicans will keep the house, even if the democrats win the stalemate. years of both of you cover this town. you agree with him that stalemate will be the order of the day after the election? ms. werner: yes is the short answer. once you get used to covering congress, it is like you are so used to stalemate, it becomes a degrees. i'm sitting here thinking, well, they might get an infrastructure bill done with international tax reform.in our world, that would be a big deal people,think to regular

that is like, what is congress doing? the possibility to do something that is really landmark legislation i any area is small. susan asked about immigration. it is hard to see a republican-led house signing onto a major immigration reform bill, maybe something around the edges. stalemate would be the name of the game. [laughter] ms. ferrechio: it will be very hyper political. democrats are actually divided. you are going to have the bernie sanders and elizabeth warren side of the party, and all the people who backed bernie sanders putting pressure upon hillary clinton to fulfill the promises she made two win over those sanders voters. that is going to push her further to the left. nothing gets harder than i white house to the left, and a house center-right. wide,a gap to wide -- too

philosophically, to come together. paul ryan has a strong desire to do tax reform. so does charles schumer, and potentially the incoming democratic leader. that leads to maybe a sliver of compromise potentially on international tax reform, and perhaps in infrastructure bank or money. big ideas, you almost need unified government, either all democrat or all republican, in order to get past the partisan fighting. ms. swain: mr. lott was not willing to tackle the supreme court question, but would both of you give us a sense of what the supreme court nominations might look like with a slim democratic majority, or even the republicans retaining majority and hillary clinton in the white house? ms. werner: that is hard to predict at this point. there has been rhetoric from a couple of republican senators recently, john mccain and ted cruz, suggesting they will take a very obstructionist approach in any nominee from hillary clinton.

that could lead to a change in the filibuster rules that the democrats would push, allowing a nominee to be approved with just 50 votes. ms. swain: will she choose merrick garland? you hear from chuck schumer that he will not endorse merrick garland, he says i will talk privately with president clinton, if she wins. there are other possible nominees. the democrats may want someone more liberal as a nominee. the first question we need to ask, who will the nominee be at this point? it's not 100% certain. continues,the story as washington always done. -- does. lots more ahead after the election he will be very busy. thank you for being with us this week. thank you. on election day, november 8, the nation decides our next president, and which party controls the house and senate. stay with c-span for a coverage of the presidential race,

including campaign stops with hillary clinton, donald trump, and their surrogates, and follow key house and senate races with coverage of their debates and speeches. c-span, where history unfolds daily. >> republican presidential candidate donald trump commented on the fbi's announcement that they had discovered new e-mails related to their investigation into the private server used i then secretary of state hillary clinton.he made the comments during a campaign rally in manchester, new hampshire. this is just over 40 minutes. ♪ ♪

>> ♪ that i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that write to me -- right to me. i probably stand up -- mr. trump: thank you. thank you very much. we love new hampshire. i can tell you this. i need to open with a very critical breaking news announcement.

[applause] mr. trump: the fbi -- [applause] mr. trump: -- has just sent a letter to congress informing them they have just discovered new e-mails pertaining to the former secretary of state, hillary clinton's investigation. [applause] >> [chanting] lock her up! mr. trump: and they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of

the united states of america. hillary clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the oval office. i have great respect for the fact that the fbi and the department of justice are not -- now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistakes that they made. this was a grave miscarriage of justice that the american people

fully understood. it is everybody's hope that it is about to be corrected. [applause] mr. trump: so that is a big announcement that i heard 10 minutes ago. and i guess, obviously, most of you folks have heard about it. in all fairness, for all the people who have suffered for doing so much less, including just recently, four-star general james cartwright, general petraeus, and many others, perhaps finally, justice will be done. [applause]

mr. trump: with that being said, the rest of my speech is going to be so boring. [laughter] mr. trump: should i even make this speech? we will talk about voters. right? we will talk about trade. we will bring back our jobs, we will strengthen our military. and let's get going, ok? [applause] mr. trump: i want to thank general flynn. thank you for being here. just before general flynn was going up, we heard this news. i said general, get up there and keep them busy. we want to digest what just happened here. thank you, general.

in 11 days, we're going to win new hampshire. [applause] mr. trump: the state of my first victory. and we are going to win back the white house. 75% of the american people think our country is on the wrong track, and we're going to fix it. we are to get our country back on the right track, and very, very quickly. real change begins with repealing and replacing obamacare. we can't forget how big news that is. we can't lose track. it's a disaster, just like everything else in this administration. it has just been announced that americans are going to experience another massive double-digit hike in obamacare premiums. including a 116% premium hike to

our very good friends in the great state of arizona. even bill clinton admitted obamacare is the craziest thing in the world, where people wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. in minnesota, where the premium increase will be almost 60%, the democratic governor said the affordable care act is no longer affordable. jonathan gruber, the architect of obamacare, admitted it was all a fraud. he said it was passed because of the stupidity of the american voter. we are doing a lot of good work, aren't we? we are catching all of these people. we are doing a good job. jonathan gruber, there's

another. we didn't forget. i never forgot jonathan gruber. i said if we do this, i'm going to run, and people forget. i said i'm never going to forget jonathan gruber. the architect of obamacare, what he said. we didn't forget. can you imagine? it's a little more than a week before the election, we didn't forget the name jonathan gruber. but the only real stupidity is that shown by politicians to pass this monstrosity over the serious objections of certain politicians and the american voters. job killing obamacare is just one more way the system is rigged. but with what i have just announced, previously, it might not be as rigged as i thought. right? right? the fbi, i think they are going to right the ship.

they're going to save their great reputation by doing so. hillary clinton wants to double down on obamacare, destroying american health care forever. she wants to expand obamacare and make it even more expensive. i will repeal and replace obamacare and we will replace it with a much less expensive plan, and a plan that is much, much better. just this year, hillary clinton declared obamacare is one of the greatest accomplishments of president obama, the democratic party, and our country. that's turned out to be wrong. do they do anything right? we don't win anymore, i mean, you're going to have such a good time starting in 17.

we're going to start winning again. we're going to start winning again. because it's turned out -- i've been saying this from before it passed. obamacare is a catastrophe. beyond imagination. insurers are leaving, doctors are quitting, companies are fleeing. workers hours are being cut, part-time jobs are all over the place. beautiful full-time jobs you used to have don't exist. and deductibles are through the roof. you don't get to use it. if we don't get rid of obamacare, we have no choice. if we don't get rid of it, our health care system is gone forever. we will never have another chance. and by the way, if we don't win this election, you're never going to have another chance either. that i can tell you. it's never going to happen again. repealing obamacare is one of the single most important reasons we must win on november 8.

the real change also means getting rid of the corruption in washington, and again, maybe that's happened. wow. wow. it's a big day. think of it. i won my first primary in new hampshire, and i'm getting here is the news this morning is -- this is bigger than watergate. this is bigger. in my opinion. this is bigger than watergate. hillary deleted 30,000 e-mails after receiving a congressional subpoena. there were more serious things done, but that was so obvious. she gets the subpoena, she bleaches and deletes 30,000 e-mails.

it's not about the sale of uranium that nobody knows what it means. i know what it means. to russia. then she talks to me about russia. 20% of the uranium in our country to russia. but you know, the deletion of 33,000 e-mails, that is so out there. after receiving a subpoena from the united states government, she lied to congress, she lied to the fbi, she made 13 phones disappear, some with a hammer. the clinton crew gave more than $675,000 to the wife of the deputy director of the fbi, and the man who was overseeing the investigation into hillary's server. right now, that takes care of

itself. i'm very proud that the fbi was willing to do this. [applause] just yesterday, we learned that bill clinton's right-hand man just for clinton foundation donors and other donors to funnel as much a $65 million in personal profit to bill and hillary clinton. this man explained that the cozy relationship between the consulting firm, the foundation in clinton's personal income had helped bill and hillary enrich themselves and obtained in-kind services, including personal travel, hospitality relations, and the like. the same people were lobbying hillary clinton at the same time. these people are seriously

corrupt. terrible conflict. hillary's pay for play included defense contracts. take raytheon, they hired three lobbyists that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for hillary's last campaign. and are raising money for her campaign. and by the way, 50 to one in ads. in florida, we are winning. ohio, were winning. iowa, we're winning. doing great in new hampshire. i think we are going to have a tremendous victory in pennsylvania. we better have a great victory in new hampshire, please. ok? [applause]

in fact, when this news of the fbi's investigation, when it just happened a little while ago, they said mr. trump, i think they would understand. we could skip your speech in new hampshire. this is so big. i said i don't have the courage to skip the speech. believe me. i don't have the courage. i never will. we had the big rallies and they said the big rallies will never work in new hampshire. that you have to sit down and have dinner with everybody. i said that's a lot of dinners. they don't expect that. remember, i would have a lot of small meetings, people would talk in new hampshire with any other place taught me about drugs flowing into this country. and your police departments, so great. they told me.

i went to some and became friendly with them. i never knew, honestly, i never knew it was so bad. i said to the people of new hampshire, because more than any other place, you look at the beautiful little roadways and lakes and streams and everything is so beautiful. the trees, and you say how could they have a drug problem here? i would sit down with groups and say what's your biggest problem? i figured there was a maybe the veterans, which are suffering greatly in this area. and we will solve that problem. but it was always heroin. i said heroin? i learned so much. i said to the people of new hampshire if i win, which i did win new hampshire. if i win, i also said, if i go all the way, we are going to stop the inflow of drugs into new hampshire and into our country.

100%. and i gave the people of new hampshire my pledge. more than anybody else in this case. because they really, about what's happening with the world of drugs pouring in. hard to believe, it's just so strange when you look and see the beauty of this place, then you see that heroin and drugs are your number one problem. by far. anyway, within months, these lobbyists sealed over $26 billion in foreign arms deals, including over $19 billion in qatar, some people say qatar, which happened to offer bill clinton $1 million as a birthday gift for some face time. the lobbyists, one of whom was the sister-in-law to hillary clinton's current campaign chair, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees.

the contractor got billions of dollars in contracts, and hillary clinton got her campaign cash and money for her foundation. i am putting up your medicine ultimately. today i wrote another check for $10 million, i'm spending money like crazy. i will probably have close to or over $100 million of my money spent on the campaign. but there's something nice about that. unless i lose, in which case they would say what is that all about, right? but we're going to do is right for you, not what's right for some contributor or special interest. hillary put the office of the secretary of state up for sale. and if she ever got the chance, believe me, she would put the office -- you know what office

i'm talking about, the office, call the oval office, for sale. i propose a contract with the american voter which will end the corruption and give government back to our great people. i want the entire corrupt washington establishment to hear and heed the words i'm about to say. i have never loved this expression, but it's become the hottest. if we win in november, we are going to washington, d.c., when we win, ok. and we are going to drain the the swamp. at the core of my contract is my plan to bring back our jobs. you have been suffering with the jobs.

the jobs have gone like candy being taken from the baby. new growth numbers just released but the average growth rate for this year at a disastrous 1.5%. china goes down to 7% or 8%, gdp, it's a national catastrophe. last quarter, we were at 1%. our job numbers last week were horrible. they were anemic, as this person goes. anemic was the word they used. obama is the first president in modern history not to have a single year up 3% growth. it's hard because we are a large country. well india is a much larger country, they are at 8%. china is at 7%. and china is not happy. we are at around 1%, and we just

keep going along. just keep going along, losing our jobs to mexico and every other place. 47 million americans are on food stamps and 45 million people -- this is our country, are living in poverty. meanwhile, our trade deficit with the world is now nearly $800 billion a year. you say who negotiates these contracts? true, obama. it's true. instead of campaigning for hillary clinton, he ought to be in the white house, in the oval office, negotiating trade deals. beating isis. taking care of our veterans, which he does not do. we are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. they are stealing our jobs. the greatest in history of the world.

new hampshire has lost one in three manufacturing jobs since nafta. a deal signed by bill clinton and supported strongly by hillary. we lost 70,000 factories since china entered the world trade organization. another bill and hillary disaster. the trump administration will immediately begin negotiating, and we will start the negotiations so fast. we will start and if we don't get the deal we want, we will terminate nafta and get a much, much better trade deal. i won't go into the details, but they are under a different tax system. they are under a bad system, and we are under our system. the day the deal was signed, it was an ineffective deal, with us

having a massive, 17% at least disadvantage. so, it's complicated, i am not going to bore you with it, but we have been dealing with a defective deal for year, and we are going to renegotiate it. if a country wants to fire their workers and go to mexico and then ship their product back into the united states, we will charge them a tax of 35%. so, when you think these companies, which right now are negotiating to leave new hampshire, ohio, all of our great places, great states, and right now as we are talking, they are negotiating deals. mexico is the eighth wonder of

the world, what happening in mexico. what about us? it's going to be the other way around. but there will be consequences. you know, when they realize they have to pay attacks to come through the border, because it will be a strong border, with their products, they are going to say we are not going to move. very simple. the politicians are controlled by the people who give them campaign contributions and probably other things. does anybody know what i mean by that? we will also stand up to chinese currency manipulation, and we will stop the transpacific partnership.

we will become a rich nation again, but to be a rich nation, we must also be a safe nation. hillary clinton unleashed isis onto the world, and it has now spread into our country. there are right now 1000 open isis investigations in the united states, more than at any time that we have ever had. now, hillary wants to increase by 550% the massive number of syrian refugees flowing into our country, that's over the obama numbers, and those are thousands and thousands. a trump administration will suspend the syrian refugee program. and will help them with safe havens and will get other countries like the gulf states -- who have nothing but money -- we have $20 trillion in debt. we will get them to pay. they have to do their share.

you know why? we can't let people into this country that we don't know about. we don't know. let me say this as clearly as i can. if i am elected president, i am going to keep -- [applause] when. we love new hampshire. i love this place. i love this place. by the way, you know we are leading in florida, we are leading in all these places. we are down in new hampshire. i don't think so. these polls, these polls, these are called early polls, you know what that is.

she comes up here with four people and is like, we have a wonderful crowd. i don't think so. i think we are winning new hampshire. ok, so we will change it. when i am elected president, i am going to keep radical islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. a trump administration will also secure the defense borders of the united states. boy, you people have great energy. well, let's face it. you have been waiting a long time for the right person. you do have energy. [crowd chanting "trump!"]

a lot of the different places, reports are coming out, they hate to write it, you know, the dishonest media -- they are the worst. they are so dishonest. they are so dishonest, folks. a lot of reports coming out of the early voting states, people are voting who have never voted. they had never seen anybody who was going to bring back jobs and not let companies leave us in fire everybody and move. and then let product pour into our country with no tax. no, go ahead. fire all our people. move to mexico. make the products. your air conditioner carrier is a good example. they are leaving. they are probably not leaving, but they are probably all about to change their minds.

how stupid is this? how stupid. i am a free trader. but these lines in florida are four blocks long. they were never like that. they have never seen anything like it. a tennessee congressman said we have never seen anything like it. people are coming out who hadn't voted in years. literally, hadn't voted in years. like in the last election, they didn't want to poll you. there are people in texas who hadn't voted in years, people that had never even voted, great americans, who just never saw somebody they wanted to vote for. they are coming out with the trump shirt, the hat, the buttons all over the place.

now, who knows? they may have all the trump stuff and you never know. maybe they are voting for crooked hillary clinton, but i don't think so, right? i don't think so. history has taught us that we don't think so, so i think we are doing great. and yet, on the border, we have no choice, we will build the wall, and mexico is going to pay for it. we've got to stop the drugs. we've got to stop the drugs. my pledge to everybody, but in particular to new hampshire, because i know what you are going through with the drugs. i know what your incredible law-enforcement, police, and fire department -- believe me, they are not spoken about. and how about when they are shooting during fires, shooting at the firemen. this is a new phenomenon. they are shooting bullets at

firemen going to fires and firemen going to fires and fighting fires. so, we have a divided country and we are going to make our country love again. we are going to make it like this room. countless americans who have died in recent years would not be alive today if not for the open border policy of this administration. this includes incredible americans like 21-year-old tara. you have seen her story. you have read about it. the man who killed her and heard federal custody and then was released into the united states community under the policies of this white house. he was released again and again after crime after crime and now is at large. sarah graduated from college just the day before with a 4.0 grade point average, top in her class, she was violently, violently killed.

outstanding individual. i know her parents. also, a convenience store clerk in mesa, arizona. he was murdered by a gang member previously convicted of burglary who had also been released from federal custody. so many people, please, please, don't release him. he is violent. and he shot a man through the head. a man gunned down in the sanctuary city of san francisco by an illegal immigrant. and this person was deported five times. now he has a good lawyer and the case will go on, and on, and on.

shot in the back while standing with her father, great parents, great brother. then there is the case of 90-year-old earl who was brutally beaten and left to bleed to death in his home. the perpetrators were criminals with records a mile long that did not meet the obama administration's criteria for removal. people beg that they be removed from the country, but our geniuses wouldn't listen. in california, a 64-year-old was sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a hammer. her killer had been arrested on multiple occasions. please do port him. there are thousands of cases like this.

when i'm president, it will end. not only will the borders keep out the criminals, they will keep out the drugs that are poisoning our youth. by the way, there are people in new hampshire who are not our youth who have a tremendous problem. we are going to try everything we can to get them un-addicted. un-addicted. as i said when i won the new hampshire primary, we will stop drugs from pouring into your community, and i guarantee you we will.

you will be so proud of your president. you will be so proud of your community. we have an amazing movement going on, and the movement like they have never seen before. a movement that hopefully won't be stopped. a movement that the biggest people in the world, the media, the biggest, have said they have never seen anything like it before. every crowd, every auditorium. the other night we had a situation, we had thousands and thousands of people, and i said to the fire marshal, isn't it possible to let more in? i said could we let the man? they said we can't.

they said we are worried about a stampede. it's a stampede of love. it's true. because there were so many people. they said we have security guards but they are not nearly as strong as 45,000 people come charging. we have something going on that's so special, so special. we are going to reduce your taxes, simplify your taxes. we are going to make your businesses welcome in our country. we are going to reduce taxes for middle income people, the

forgotten men and women. greatly simplify your returns. the only company that won't like us is h&r block. we will simplify your taxes. and your businesses, we will take your taxes from 35 percent, one of the highest in the world, and we will make them the lowest. tremendous amounts of regulation are killing small business and big business. we are going to have a tax friendly country again. it's going to mean jobs, expansion, growing. we are going to create the border, stop the drugs, have people come into our country -- we want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally. we are going to streamline the process.

we want them to come in legally. and we want merit. we want wonderful people that love our country. they want to get out and do a great job. we want to have them also come in based on merit. a word you don't hear anymore. too bad. we are also going to, very importantly, appoint justices to the supreme court or you can be proud of and who will respect the constitution of the united states. we are going to save our second amendment. [applause]

we are going to help bigly on education. we are going to go with choice. our military is depleted. we are going to rebuild our military. we are going to lead through strength. hopefully, we do not need to use our military, but i will tell you this. we are getting rid of isis. we are getting rid of isis. we have no choice. not since medieval times have people seem -- chopping off of heads, drowning in cages, burying in the sand, not since medieval times. it all grew during the tenure of obama and hillary clinton.

isis. she stands up and says what she says. she was there. it came out of the vacuum. we should never have gone into iraq, but once we did, we should've gone out the right way, not the wrong way, in the way they went out with so sad, so bad, including giving back mosul, which now they are fighting to take aback, and they should have used the element of surprise -- does anyone agree? we never use the element of surprise anymore. give them plenty of time to get ready and then attack. and it turns out to be tough for them they ever thought. we are going to have a country you are going to be proud of again. we are going to have a president that hopefully you will be proud of. i am going to work so hard for every community.

i will be working very hard for the african-american community, the hispanic community, for every community. and we are going to have this divided nation come together, and i just want to say, we are going to make america strong again. we are going to make america -- it doesn't sound nice, but we have no choice -- wealthy again. we are going to make america great again. i want to thank everybody in new hampshire. get out and vote. you are special people. you are very, very special people. god bless you and vote. thank you, new hampshire. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

>> donald trump in arizona this

weekend. all oficki is following this. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> why so much attention? why has it become purple in many respects? >> arizona is acting like a swing state. that was not expected by most people. it is due to donald trump. the consensus is if any of the weublican candidate had won, would not have this conversation. given trump's unique character, he has made arizona competitive for the first time in 20 years. your former republican governor has been an advocate for donald trump. what kind of an organization does he have on the ground? the trump campaign has almost

no ground game. very little infrastructure. just a few staff members, who hard-working, but they can't compare to the democrats who have 32 offices across the state. terms of the campaign infrastructure, trump does not have any. apparently he is content to make personal appearances and rely on media. he is coming back to arizona. ass will be his seventh time a candidate in arizona. he's going to make the case one more time. so far he has not been able to nail down the state. >> what about jan brewer? did she have any support to help donald trump? >> there is a segment of republicans who like jan brewer. i do not think she is as influential as she was five years ago.

she has been out of office for a while. is supported by the same wing of the party that love's very anti-illegal immigration. the republicans who support the wall, etc. that is not everyone. morerepublicans take a business approach. they have a little more sophisticated view of immigration and how it interacts with the 21st century economy. it people like john mccain support immigration reform. those type of people are less likely to be influenced by jan brewer. those type of republicans. hillary clinton in arizona next week. ,s you point out in your story her husband winning arizona in 1996 when he was challenged by

bob dole. you have to go back to 1948, harry truman, deal the other democrat to win your state. >> it is very much a traditional red state, which makes it surprising hillary clinton is the one who is in play this year. trump is his own worst enemy. his rhetoric has offended latinos, and energetic constituency. his playboy lifestyle has turned off of a lot of religious conservatives, especially mormons, and other segment of the gop coalition in arizona. in utah, there's been attention paid to the mormons and their views of trump. there's a lot of mormons in arizona as well. jeff flake is a mormon. he is not endorsing trump and has been critical of him. mitt romney has been critical as well.

a lot of mormon republicans look to them for direction on these issues. much haveask you, how the clinton campaign been spending in arizona and what impact has the senate race had? the clinton campaign poured $2 million into arizona. they are up on the year running television ads and they have digital ads and other platforms they are advertising on. they've got an aggressive ground game. they've had several get out the vote rally's, some big name surrogates like bernie sanders. all out forlly winning arizona. been putting that kind of money into arizona. is interesting because everybody knows trump and mccain have been feuding.

trump has been struggling in arizona. mccain seems to have opened up a double-digit lead over his opponent. so.s show him 12 points or it is interesting there seems to be some ballot splitting going on. they will be separating the races in their own minds. the democratic attempts to tie trump to mccain, which have been going on, seem not to be working. >> this has to be terrific as a political reporter in arizona. >> it is unprecedented in arizona in decades. is going to be here seven times. hillary clinton is coming. mike pence has been here three times. once with trump. it has been one after another with big-name political events. >> we will look for a work

online. dan nowicki writes for "the arizona republic." thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. >> tomorrow bill clinton speaks in columbus, ohio. p.m.coverage begins at 2:15 em, coverage of donald trump in phoenix, arizona. see them both on c-span. c-span brings you more debates from key u.s. house, senate, and governors races and saturday night, the senate debate between pat toomey and katie mcginty. followed at 11:00, trey gowdy debates in the south carolina fourth district race and at

midnight, the north carolina governors debate between pam ccrory, roy cooper, and lon ecil. grayand paul and jim debate for the kentucky senate seat. now until election day, watch debates from house, senate, and governors races on the c-span networks and listen on the c-span radio app. c-span, where history unfolds daily. >> now president obama campaigns for hillary clinton in orlando, florida. this is just over 45 minutes.

orlando! obama: hello, i said hello, orlando! [applause] hello, ucf. i understand you play houston this weekend. you guys feeling all right? are you fired up? [applause] are you ready to go? [applause] i'm fired up. look at this crowd. i think it is being broadcast outside of the auditorium.

a little tooeing packed. the fire marshal had to close things off. i want you to know if you are outside, i love you, too. [applause] give debbiey please a round of applause for that great introduction? the kind of young lady who makes us proud. a couple of other people, your outstanding mayor is in the house. [applause] your wonderful senior senator, bill nelson, is here. your next members of congress, stephanie murphy, your next united states senator, patrick murphy.

[applause] and all of you are here. and i am here to say thank you. i want to say thanks. been -- i love you back. [applause] you know, it has been -- you know, it has been a privilege of a lifetime to serve as your president.

michelle and i could not be more grateful for your support and your prayers overall these years. hold up, hold up. we are not done yet. campaign left in me. [applause] michelle and i have more work to do. florida tooday in ask you to work hard as you did hillaryo make sure clinton is the next president of the united states of america. [applause]

i did not see the band back there. [applause] sorry, i love marching bands. i had to acknowledge the marching band. are you guys -- [applause] are you from the high school? where are you from? what did they say? high school. there you go. all right. we are proud of you. where was i? listen, hold on.

you guys are so excited. let me say this, florida is always a battleground state. big, diverse state, which means the races in florida are always close. i remember when i was campaigning in the closing days of another hard-fought campaign yout years ago and some of if you willur, but recall, we were going through two long wars. of the in the early days worst economic crisis of our lifetime. everything from health care to climate change to criminal

justice, we had been kicking the can down the road for too long. time, i said that that i was not a perfect man. i would not be a perfect president. elected me, we would not solve every problem on day one. we would not solve it all in one year or one term or even in one presidency. what i told you was i would work as hard as i could every single day to do right by you. [applause] that every day when i walked into the oval office, i would be thinking about the folks i met on the campaign trail. i would be thinking about the students trying to get a good education without a ton of debt. the workingg about

families trying to figure out how to pay the bills and maybe they had lost their homes or their pensions. because of the economic crisis. i would be thinking about folks who did not have health care and were worried about how they were going to make sure somebody they loved got treated fairly. this, i havell you made mistakes during these eight years. there has been ups and lows. i kept that promise to work fo r you as hard as i could. andkept faith with me working together what we have in america at the edge of depression battle back. we turned job losses into 15

million new jobs and last year incomes went up faster than any time may have been keeping records. poverty went down faster than any time since 1968. we just learned this week that the economy grew faster than any time in the last two years. thatve seen in america went from too many people uninsured to noun 20 million people with health care who did not have it before. the lowest uninsured rates in our history. we have seen an america that was .ooked on foreign oil we've kicked about addiction and we are producing solar energy, fighting to protect our planet by reducing harmful

carbon pollution. seen our men and women in uniform, the best to there is, sign up to serve and meet every mission. terroristshe responsible for 9/11. get osama bin laden. make sure justice was served. we have seen a country where freedom was limited in so many places. to a situation where every state you can marry the person you love. [applause] we have increased access to pell grants. we have seen the highest high school graduation rate in our history. we have seen the biggest jump in

college enrollment in our history. board, by almost we areeasure, significantly better off now than eight years ago. and part of it is because we've got policies right and part of it is because of you. all 50 statess and i have seen what makes america great. i have seen folks working hard, starting businesses, reaching into their own pockets to make sure kids get an education. i have seen doctors serving the poor. i have seen our brave men and women in uniform and our brave police officers and first responders running towards danger and working to keep us safe. patriotism ofe

young activists speaking out to make the country better, even if it makes us uncomfortable. calling on us to live up to our highest ideals. , americans of every party and of every faith, knowing we are stronger working together, whether we are young or old, men or women. white, latino, asian, native american, folks with straight, it gay, does not matter. pledging allegiance to the red, white, and blue. that is the america i know. that is the america i love. thrall of the ups and downs, i have not been worried about this country because i have seen the heart and soul of the american people

and it is good. it is deep and it is strong and it is resilient and there is only one candidate in this race who i believe can continue the progress we have made and i know that because she has devoted her life to make america better. that is the next president of the united states, hillary clinton. [applause] so i am going to work over these next 11 days. i don't know about you, but i'm not tired. i'm feeling good. [applause] i'm ready to work. i need you to join me. florida, i need you to join me.

young people, i need you to join me. you don't need to wait until november 8. because here in florida, you can vote early. here in florida, you can vote right now. vote, and turn out to i want the young people to listen -- hold on hold on, hold on. i want to talk to young people here for a second. people,ote, you, young vote. if you vote for somebody who wants to make sure college is more affordable. somebodynt to vote for who make