start to fall. that's just in time for the start of fall. low 80s wednesday and thursday. 70s and 60s friday through the weekend. >> pretty nice. >> i like fall. >> fall, yes indeed. we're going to head town. morning folks are going to head in. they'll get cracking starting at 4:30 in the morning. >> that's early. >> it is. >> before we go we have some fall colors from silverthorne.

this sunday an explosion in new york city injures dozens. another device is founded blocks away. >> it sounded like a million pianos dropped. donald trump ends one false claim. >> president barak obama was born in the united states, period. >> and embraces new ones. >> hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. i finished it. >> did he end it? or did he just revive an issue that's bound to hurt him? i will talk to tim kaine and trump campaign manager kelly ann conway. margin of panic. with the polls tightening,

feeling. what's behind clinton's sinking numbers? joining me for insight and analysis are alex castellanos, maureen dowd, cornel belcher and katy tur. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." good sunday morning. another reminder that we're all living under the threat of violence and terror. an explosion rocked lower manhattan around 8:30 last night wounding more than two dozen people. later, a second pressure cooker device, a pressure cooker bomb like the one in the boston marathon attack was found two blocks to the north. richard engel, who happened to be on the scene last night, joins me this morning. richard, what can you tell us

incident this morning? >> reporter: well, it was a loud explosion. it didn't cause a great deal of damage. it shattered a lot of windows and apparently went off incsidea dumpster. some windows up to the fourth story were shattered. we're not seeing a lot of scorched ground, we're not seeing a huge crater. it seems to have been a crude explosive device. a few blocks from where i am, an unexploded a pressure cooker. it looked very homemade, the thing you could find the recipe for online. the investigation right now is focusing on the linkages. who may have been responsible. was it a group of people? is it linked to a pipe bomb explosion that went off earlier yesterday in new jersey? but so far, doesn't seem to have caused many casualties. about half of those two dozen people or so who were injured

you to the middle east and obviously, you spend a lot of time in turkey, any of your international sources finding any claims? anybody taking credit for this outside the united states? >> reporter: i haven't seen any credible claim. just talk and chatter. but i haven't heard of any connection to international terrorism or anything on that level. unfortunately, it is not just the middle east. the last year or so, i've b this all across europe as well. that's what the immediate concern was, did something happen in the united states? but i will say, this doesn't seem to be the kind of attack that one would stage if you want to kill many people. putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it by -- with a timer by a race, it is not the most -- not the kind of -- similar to

rifles. >> richard engel on the scene last night when it happened, thanks very much. that explosion last night in new york, as richard was referring to, was not the only event yesterday. they may be unrelated. they may not be. there were incidents where a pipe bomb-style explosion along a 5k route in new jersey, during a race, it is being investigated as a potential terror incident. no one was hurt. eight people were injure mall where a man made references to allah before he off-duty pol. let me bring in pete ia inciden. okay. what did he mean by th or group? >> welhey want to know whether there's a connection. they want to know if it's the

the al qaeda magazine has run articles about how to build similar devices. they will look at the very microscopic level, how were the wires connected together, that kind of thing. >> tell me what we know about minnesota. is that definitely unconnected? is there some thought there -- >> there's no reason to think they're connected at all. that appears to be a coincidence of timing. nothing similar at all. they will be looking at the man'spa killed. looking at his residence, seeing if he was inspired by isis propaganda. >> going back to new york city, there's probably more cameras there than any city in the world. i assume -- i have to think they may think they might have suspects in mind or persons of interest. >> they have some video. it appears that the device that did go off in new york was dropped into this dumpster outside the buildings there. that's another difference between new york and new jersey.

everywhere in new york. not so lucky in new jersey in finding surveillance video. but that's another productive line of inquiry for them. >> pete williams, i know you will work the story. thank you, sir. both presidential candidates responded to the news last night. was breakingin new as the n york. >> just before i2008 campaign. there's evidence some sport sup derz did president is the rumor. it has been promoted and nurtured by donald trump for five years. second on friday night, trump again raised the specter of violence against hillary

clicli clinton. >> i think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. they should disarm. let's see what happens to her. take their guns away. okay? it would be very dangerous. >> clinton campaign immediately condemned those remarks but hopes that they will help slow trump's momentum in the polls. joining me now is the senator from virginia, tim kaine. weba press." >> good to be with you. >> before i get into the campaign, i want to get y the world trade center as they were looking for survivors. she's been through this. it's been a searing experience in her life. she was part of the national security team that worked together to revive the hunt and wipe out bin laden. it's an important time where you

you have to support the military. that's really important. on these instances whether they are in our cities or european cities, the key is having intelligence and having strong alliances where you can share intelligence. that's the way you stop one-o e at stake here? >> i think the if i deal i am used to only close races. i encourage secretary clinton to run in 2014, but i told her, you

that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how. welcome back. it has been a whirlwind 96 hours. joining me now is the campaign manager for donald trump,

>> hi, chuck. thank you. >> let me start with friday's news first. how and when did donald trump conclude that the president was born in the united states? >> you will have to ask him that. that's a personal decision. but we heard very clearly the three things he said on his own time line in his own terms on friday. number one, that associates of the clinton campaign started this birther question in 2007. questions senator the iowa volunteer coordinator and, of course, as the mcklatchy d.c. bureau chief, now former, hasbl bloomenthal told him that senator obama was born in kenya. they sent somebody to africa to check it out. d i'mn' seenourcom she's not nimble, she's not resi resilient. it's expected she deserves it, it's her turn. so i do think it matters where it started.

trump has talked about every policy issue that there is. we have a few more to go. but if people want to hear what he thinks about policies that affect them, the economy, radical islamic terrorism, senator kaine told you before this segment, if you want to see what we think about policy, we wrote a book. go to our website. really? we're out there every single day -- >> kellyanne, hang on a minute. in a press release on friday, w

million charity offer -- or $50 million charity offer. is he going to pay up on that front? >> you would have to tell me the details of that before i can answer that question.hse? >> our campaign event wasn't th that it was going there for something. they don't need to cover it. but they want to cover him. by the way, if you look at people's twitter feeds after

people are supposed to be covering our candidate, not slandering him. consistently on social media. there's a lot of cleaning up to go there. >> let me ask another way of asking the issue whether he believes this or whether this was him looking at the election and you telling him, you have to soften your image. because he has been on now both sides of the following issues. birtherism, taxes for the

wage, iraq invasion, abortion, self-funding his campaign. accepting syrian refugees, japan and nuclear weapons. he has been totally changed his position on all of these issues within the last year. why shouldn't voters look at

get intertwined with his international business dealings? doesn't he owe the voters a detailed explanation how of how. five million? good. we scale on demand. hybrid infrastructure, boom. ok. hl what if 30 million people download the app? promotion on friday was a lot different. he did try to give the cameras only no editorial presence a

that doesn't jive with what kellyanne was saying. he was off script when he was talking about robert gates over the weekend, trashing him, off script when he was talking about calling it a bomb in new york before the officials were calling it a bomb in new york.

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f free pass because as she said, i'm the only thing standing between you and the ability. democratic strategists are -- >> there is -- let's talk about the numbers behind this concern. i pointed out the millennial issue. you have noted some of your work appeared in the "new york times." you noted there's an enthusiasm issue with the obama coalition. its voters under african-americans, young latinos, what is the concern here? what hasn't she's dreaddressed? >> obama was a great love affair for these voters. 62% of the voters were under 35. we brought in a cadre of new voters. that's part of why he won. they were obama voters. they weren't democratic voters necessarily. they are more with us than they

issues. in the frame of this conversation, does she have to expand and get that vote? yes. but at the same time, you see trump right now rally. my question is, are they going to wait in line to vote for

are hillary clinton voters going to take a day off work and wait in line? that's the big question. the excitement level is different on the trump side, because they are so enthusiastic about him. >> let me sneak in a little break. what makes running for president

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dowd is here. you have a book. you wrote something interested in your introduction about just covering presidential candidates. you yourself have come to the conclusion that there are different things that go into what makes a good presidential candidate. you noted the resume argument. just because you have the longest resume doesn't necessarily mean you are going to make a good decision. you were noting you thought this was not necessarily the best argument for president obama to make on behalf of hillary clinton. >> yes. well, i think we learned a lesson with dick cheney and donald rumrumsfeld that you can still make a mistake. >> i wonder looking back on what we have seen with clinton and i wanted to bring this up in the last part of the conversation. h has she spent too much time

clinton campaign a focus on turning her attention to talking about who she is and what she's going to fight for. younger voters don't know her, they don't know her history and what she's fighting for. you will see a laser-like focus. >> it's september 18, man. >> we were nervous about the young voters in 2012. they came out, alex. >> it will be tougher this time. >> i guess -- go to, how does -- this temperament problem? >> i think it's all the same question we were just discussing. if this campaign is about hillary clinton or donald trump and their character or temperament, it stays the way it is now. what donald trump does well when he makes his campaign not about either of them but about the american people and their future and is there something better