it's my mom's birthday. she turns 84 years old today. she just moved up to live with us in connecticut. she has lost most of her memory. we were having a talk with her around the table a few months back and she asked, did i have a good life because she doesn't remember much anymore. i said yeah, mom. we have had a great life and have had a great life thanks to you. thanks for being with us. happy birthday, mom. good morning. this morning trump strikes back. the rebuttal after hillary clinton shreds his business record. >> he has written a lot of books about business. they all seem to end at chapter 11. >> trump up at bat later this morning promising to take down hillary clinton in a self-proclaimed big speech. the search is on. new information on who clinton

is eyeing for number two, the veep vetting has begun. we have the short list. isis in indiana? an american teen charged with trying to join the terror group and accused of searching for terror targets inside america. how real of a threat was it? we begin with promised big speech from donald trump roughly 90 minutes away from now. a huge opportunity for him to show his campaign in reboot mode getting off focus of problems within his own campaign. gave what may be a preview in an interview last night. >> she has had a very bad time of it if you really look at her record. her record is a disaster. she is crooked hillary. she is crooked hillary. she always has been and nothing is going to change. >> to drive the point home trump rolling out a new website to go hand in hand with the speech. the website called lyingcrookedhillary.com. that is not the only changes.

he is adding staff including a new national political director to help transition. all of this happening a day after trump's campaign manager was let go. katy tur is in new york where trump is going to be delivering that speech and we have our kasie hunt joining us with hillary clinton and reaction from washington, d.c. trump was supposed to give a speech last monday. that was put on hold because of the tragedy in orlando. but in that time we have had lewandowski out and clinton coming out with the shredding of his business record. the sources inside the campaign are telling you what about how updated this speech is today in light of corey and clinton? >> reporter: i'm not entirely sure how much they changed it since the corey lewandowski stuff started to bubble. the broad theme of the speech is that trump represents change while hillary clinton represents

the status quo and worst features of politics. that is a message they are going to try to hammer home. they are hitting five broad topics talking about trade, clinton foundation, terrorism, human rights and immigration. expect him to talk about relationship with china and what he sees as fraud within the clinton foundation. they are trying to paint hillary clinton as not only a status quo politician but somebody who is untrust worthy and proven to be untrustworthy. that is the point of the campaign and the picture they believe will be most effective. hillary clinton not trustworthy going into general election. >> what is the bigger campaign infrastructure looking like now that corey is out and we know they have announced new hires and we have the website that is going up i believe it says they want you to text your phone number or text trump to a certain number that way they get your telephone number and you

get access to the website. >> reporter: trump coordinating tweets to series of e-mails that went out to journalists, the instagram video thrks website where you can put your phone number in and get text messages back. bits and pieces of this has been gloati floating around. it is pretty standard for most political campaigns. it certainly is an apparatus that hillary clinton has been honing, an apparatus that most campaigns have from day one even at the state congressional level or the local level but donald trump has not had this. he has been a one man messaging machine and been able to do that by former campaign manager orie lewandowski. the problem is they made a lot of problems they needed to change things up in order to get the party behind them and get

donors to start giving them money. they have a huge money problem only $1.3 million cash on hand from the may fec filing. corey lewandowski's ouster was sending a signal. today is another example of that if he stays on message, if he reads a teleprompter. it will do a lot to prove that he is changing. >> also, a way for the campaign to collect easy data on potential new voters. katy tur right there in new york city. thanks so much. we will see you later for the speech from donald trump. we have hillary clinton now bracing after donald trump gives his remarks to give her own. we saw trump live tweeting during her speech and he was trying to rebuke some things she was saying. kasie hunt is following the clinton campaign joining us from capitol hill. we know the secretary is having

a meeting with democratic leadership today. do we also anticipate hillary clinton to live tweet remarks? have you heard anything from the campaign? i don't think the clinton campaign is adopting the play book her twitter account is active after things like this. the clinton campaign is trying to make sure reporters have the information that they need to discuss many claims they are expecting from the trump speech. they are certainly watching it carefully, trying to paint the picture they want to paint of the clinton foundation arguing that giving a donation to clinton foundation is essentially just for good works. the expectation that donald trump is going to make references claiming people were buying influence. clinton is also going to be in north carolina laying out her economic proposals.

we, of course, heard her yesterday hitting donald trump over his potential. the second piece of that is for them to lay out what she says she would do policy wise. that is where she is going to head after she has the meeting here on capitol hill meeting with house democrats here in just a few minutes. >> fresh information about who clinton is potentially vetting. what more do you know about that? >> at this point the clinton campaign is in the vetting process. we do know that and there has been reporting from washington post that they are looking at among other candidates julian castro, elizabeth warren, tim kaine. we emphasize nbc news is working on this. vice presidential reporting. the pick is closely watched. there is calculations at work. warren might reach out to

progressives in the democratic party but could cause concern among potentially financial backers of clinton's campaign. brown from ohio is a name discussed. the question there is his senate seat very important to try to take back the senate for democrats this election season. and with cajohn kasich holding they lose it. >> look for confirmation from nbc on this. thank you. also want to get breaking news about this new information of what may be the largest health care fraud take down ever. want to go to pete williams. what can you tell us? >> this will be an announcement by the department of health and human services and the justice department at 11:00 this morning, series of health care fraud arrests. it's a reminder that though the government is trying hard to battle health care remains a persistent problem and what we

have seen is annual round ups to draumatize the problem with health care fraud, it is a multibillion-dollar scam on the government. we will hear about recent cases. we expect one of them will involve a case of the last couple of days, five brooklyn men arrested, charged with running a scam that involved physical and occupational therapy. the government says these men paid patients to receive unnecessary physical and occupational therapy. they billed medicaid for $86 million and got 38 million of it for themselves. federal prosecutors say they put the money through a series of shell companies to conceal it and hide from the irs. we will hear more from the attorney general, the secretary of hhs and a bunch of other federal officials about this in just a couple of hours. >> we will bring that news to everybody when it happens. thank you. we have house democrats

pushing for gun control legislation but they were shut down. so they tried forcing a vote last night but the gop majority was having none of it. frustrated democrats raised their voices in protest. >> the clerk will report the title of the bill. >> hr 5388 bill to amend homeland security act to provide for innovative research and development and for other purposes. >> so not sure if you can make it out but the democrats were chanting no bill no break calling for july congressional recess to be cancelled until gun control legislation moves forward. susan collins is sponsoring a compromise measure but that is also facing an uphill battle. up next, new details on the orlando gunman's final days and hours. one of his former friends speaking out and prompting new questions over whether the fbi missed big warning signs.

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we have new details on the gunman who shot and killed dozens of people at the pulse night club. the shooter arrived at the club

around midnight and left for two hours. he returned and opened fire. he purchased tickets to california to travel two days after the attack. we are joined with more. let's start with the plane tickets. >> reporter: omar am teen's wife says he purchased tickets to go to the san francisco area to visit mateen's wife's ailing mother sometime in july. certainly a lot of questions about that and why he would do so if he was preparing to die. from earlier reporting we know from law enforcement officials that he bought expensive dinners and jewelry as if he did not expect to pay it back. >> the plane ticket for all three of them, for mateen, his wife and young child. >> reporter: yes. exactly right.

he was expecting to go to california in july and we don't know how much money was spent on them. we know it was a friday before the shooting. really just over 24 hours before the shooting. >> we are hearing from a friend of mateen, someone who says they tipped off the fbi about the concerns he had witnessing certain behaviors. what did he say? in. >> reporter: his name is mohammed malik. they worshipped at the same islamic center. he said he had conversations with him over the years largely about religion and that he had met him at his brother in law's house in 2006. in 2014 he says he was talking to mateen about another american borne suicide bomber that had come from their mosque. the fbi was investigating that person. so he had a conversation with mateen in which mateen told him that he was watching the videos

from anwar al awlaki and that they were powerful. here is some of what he had to say. >> omar mentioned he had seen videos of anwar al awlaki which threw up a red flag. he told me they were powerful which raised the flag more for me. i contacted the fbi and let them know this is a gentleman at that point was in the second marriage. he had a son, starting a family. i didn't think he fit the profile but just in case i wanted them to look into it. >> reporter: so, again, the fbi looked into this in 2014 after a previous investigation a year before in 2013 where he was looked at for ten months. both cases the fbi says those inquiries turned up nothing of substance but does raise questions whether the fbi may have missed some warning signs. i asked attorney general about that yesterday. she says that is something that the agency is looking into to see what if anything they could have done better. >> we also know first responding

speaking out inside the club but was ordered to stand down until s.w.a.t. arrived. what more do we know? >> brandon corn well, first responder did speak with the washington post, he and several other officers were honored last night. he says he was among the first responders and tells the paper that he went in there and that he was told by commanders to hang back while omar mateen was in the bathroom until the s.w.a.t. team got there. we heard that they engaged omar mateen. this officer says he never saw mateen and took the assault rifle and held the position until the s.w.a.t. team got there. it is a little more information from somebody that was actually there when the standoff started. mateen was in there for about three hours or so before the s.w.a.t. team made the decision to reach the night club and take

him down. >> thanks for the update. appreciate it. coming up next, the coast guard searching for a dad and three teens vanishing off the coast of florida days ago. we take you there for the latest. what are you doing?

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happening now a frantic search for a missing dad and three teen children. the family went for a sail boat ride sunday and have not been seen since. >> reporter: the search is ongoing and active. right now the coast guard will not tell us too much information. the last time i spoke to them they did say two aircrafts and three boats were in the waters scanning them looking for a 29 foot sail boat and the four people on board, a father and three teenage children all from sarasota. we caught one of the coast guard boats leaving the station to

participate in the search. we are told the father on board the boat contacted his brother on sunday afternoon to tell him he was struggling to survive against high seas off of the coast of englewood. the coast guard tells us they never received word that this family or this boat was in trouble until yesterday afternoon. a concerned family member contacted the coast guard and the coast guard began their search on tuesday evening. we know the ages of the teenagers on board, two boys ages 13 and 15 and the daughter is 17 years old. we will be sure to keep you updated when we have new information on the ongoing search. >> thank you so much. we will keep viewers posted on that if we get new information. this breaking, north korea apparently launching two medium range ballistic missiles in defiance of international sanctions. the first launch failed and the

other flew only about 250 miles. two wild fires are forcing people in more than 700 homes to evacuate. fire officials estimate the fires are only 10% contained. triple digit heat fuelled fires. dennis hastert reports to federal prison after admitting he tried to withdraw hush money for victim of alleged sexual misconduct. donald trump set to release what aides are calling full frontal assault on hillary clinton this morning. will it help change the trajectory of his campaign? we dive into that debate next. [ "dreams" by beck ] hmmmmm...

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attacks on democratic rival hillary clinton one day after she gave an economic speech that blasted him. house republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace obama care, part of how the gop would govern with a republican in the white house. a rescue plane left the south pole. the goal is to evacuate at least one sick worker there. later this morning president obama signs into law the first overhaul of toxic chemical rules in 40 years. the bill updates rules for tens of thousands of every day chemicals. and rory mcilroy isn't attending the olympics saying his health and that of his family comes before anything else. campaign troubles left donald trump on defense. in a speech coming up he is planning to go on offense in a

big way. on "morning joe" ben carson said he doesn't necessarily like the strategy but he understands it. >> this is where we are as a society. we like to see carnage. we are attracted to it and we respond to it. and successful politicians understand that and they take advantage of that. >> hallie jackson inside the trump sohoe where donald trump will be speaking. we can see the podium. if my vision is okay and i am wearing my glasses today, two teleprompters are set up by that podium. >> reporter: it's tough to show from our angle although i guess we can try it. i will step out of the shot and zoom in and show you. donald trump ready to deliver prepared remarks. the hope from many in the republican field is that he will stay at least somewhat on script as he goes after hillary clinton. we have previewed the five broad

topics. the main theme according to top campaign aid familiar with the speech is that hillary clinton is not a fighter for every day americans and donald trump is. he will tie clinton to wall street. he will tie clinton to washington as we refocus here as i step back in the shot. we talk a little bit about trump's goals. he is hoping to turn the page. talked about staff shakeup. talked about the reports of low fundraising numbers. it has not been a good week for donald trump. not a good couple of weeks for donald trump. you look at polling numbers and hillary clinton has widened her gap with him. trump looking to refocus in the idea of trump 2.0. we have heard about that before, this pivot to being more presidential, looking towards the general election. if new leadership is in charge of the campaign, what will stick? we are hearing from hillary clinton's team, a spokesperson calling the speech a distraction saying hits on clinton are trying to distract people from

real issues at hand. you know clinton issued the blistering assault yesterday set to deliver another economic speech not so much slamming trump but looking more at promoting her own policies on the economy. that is an area where she trails trump. new polling shows that more voters trust him than her when it comes to the economy. >> hallie jackson, ready for donald trump's speech. we appreciate your hard work. i want to bring in nbc senior political editor mark murray. we expect trump to be on the scene. we know thereat he has sent out e-mail blasts saying to folks act now, donate. i will match up to $2 million. this is really a commercial for donald trump right now to get campaign fundraising in gear to be competitive against the coverage that we have given and shown the huge multimillion

dollar contrast of what hillary clinton has in the bank compared to him. >> fundraising has only been one part of the problem of what has been disastrous last three weeks for donald trump. it all started after the blowback and criticism he received after criticizing the federal judge accusing him of being biassed in the trump university lawsuit case because the judge is mexican-american. it has gone on from there one bad story after another. one way to view today's speech with teleprompters in place is that trump is trying to turn the attention back to hillary clinton. one common thread to all story lines has been donald trump in the conversation and in a negative way. he is trying to turn that negative attention on to hillary clinton. what i'm going to be watching for is obviously the delivery. he has sometimes struggled a little bit when talking to teleprompter but also whether this sticks and whether this lasts for more than one day because one day doesn't make up for what has been a tough last

three weeks for trump. >> trump was supposed to give a speech last week that he cancelled in new hampshire i believe because of the tragedy in orlando. this is pretty much the same speech but that was when corey lewandowski was campaign manager and before hillary clinton's speech yesterday. how much do you think has been updated to demonstrate a potential strength and reboot of what the campaign means going forward? >> i don't think the speech necessarily will be signaling a reboot. this was kind of already in the works. we know what is coming. a lot of it is based on the anti-clinton book that came out last spring about clinton cash and how donations to the clinton foundation ended up benefitting people who gave them money. i think we end up hearing that from donald trump and that was going to be the subject of whether lewandowski was still the campaign manager or not. we saw yesterday from the

campaign awas a much more disciplined campaign. rapid response e-mails coming out, fundraising solicitations, someone who wasn't donald trump taking over twitter account to live tweet at hillary clinton's speech. all of the signs of a functioning campaign. the bad news is we finally got to the point which is 4 1/2 months to go before the general election. >> yesterday trump met with evangelicals here in new york. one of the leaders there captured -- >> she has been in the public eye for years and years and yet there is nothing out there. it's like nothing out there. it's going to be an extension of obama but it is worse. with obama you had your guard up. with hillary you don't. >> so that is inaccurate.

hillary clinton is a methodist. faith has come up a lot for hillary clinton before. the person who videoed that knew that and was able to put that out knowing that she is a methodist. so is the faith rhetoric a problem for the evangelicals that he really needs, that strength a voting block for the general election? >> this whole evangelicals story line i think has been fascinating. on the one hand you end up getting from donald trump prominent evangelicals, michele bachmann on the list. on the other hand you have prominent evangelicals who were criticizing donald trump and saying that they could see themselves backing him and also really interesting split particularly given that evangelicals christians make up one important leg of the republican party stool, but in

addition to that as my colleague noted yesterday this is the first time that donald trump has gone after someone and ended up attacking ted cruz, mitt romney, barack obama. this has just been a standard operating procedure, standard attack that donald trump has sometimes thrown to opponents. >> thank you, sir. i appreciate it. we are going to talk about new details about an indiana teen facing federal terrorism charges accused of trying to join isis. pete williams joins me again. explain how long he had been on the fbi's radar? >> probably on the radar for about three years. this is an 18 year old from brownsburg just outside indianapolis, indiana. these pictures are what they say they found on his cell phone of him. they say this is a pose that isis fighters use. three years ago they say he had talked about downloading propaganda videos from anwar al

awlaki, the al qaeda propagandist. sometime after that they say this is his apartment searched after he was arrested. after that they say he showed great interest in isis that he was corresponding with people from isis trying to figure out how to get there. they say he tried three other times to get overseas. he had passport problems but was arrested yesterday at the bus station. he had a trip to new york. he was going a get on a plane and go to morocco. this was his fourth attempt. they also say a couple of years ago he bought an isis flag. there is a picture of him posing in front of the flag and posted pro-isis messages on social media. in one conversation he says was wondering how can one get to libya and then began corresponding with someone he did not know was fbi under cover. according to the fbi he said he

was scared because another isis figure told him he should go through syria. the fbi also says that last month he visited a wal-mart store and they were tailing him at this point and say he appeared to be looking at pressure cookers after looking for material about explosives online. he never bought anything. this is a traveler case. one other point about these, we saw a lot of these last year but the fbi said the number of these attempted cases to go overseas and join isis has dropped in recent months although there is no clear indication of why. the fbi theorizes that the word is getting around that when you go there to join icitous is pretty rough and your odds of surviving are not really high. >> thank you. coming up, we have more on a rare and dangerous mission. it's underway as we speak right now to save a sick worker at the south pole.

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the latest temperature, it is 115 degrees below 0 with wind chill. that's almost unimaginable. it's such biting cold that the aircraft fuel, the parts, the sick patients can freeze. this is a life or death mission. i understand from the head of the u.s. antarctic base that the sick worker has a life threatening illness. we haven't been able to get confirmed that there may be a second worker on board that flight but they treat these flights with huge caution. they really are very dangerous. this flight back not without risk. so there is a second plane standing by to rescue the people on the first plane if anything goes wrong. we won't know probably for a few hours what the outcome of this flight is at the bottom of the earth with a life hanging in the balance. >> you have been to this exact area and talk about the weather

window needed. explain in the eight month period where it is unflyable, explain how bad the conditions are. >> they really are bad. i waited, for example, in mid summer four days for a weather window to get a flight to the antarctic. >> that was latest temperature 115 below zero. your breath would freeze. your coffee would always be iced even if you had it. with the pressure it feels like 11,000 feet. the pilots are very experienced. they have flown from calgary, canada ipthese planes, the only planes that can fly in the area. imagine, no other plane will be in the air over antarctica at the moment. antarctica is the size of the united states. there will be no other human being, for example, in between

where those people were picked up and the south pole. the distances, the temperatures, the conditions are almost unimaginable. there is no life there. no animal life, no plant life. the most extraordinary conditions and the plane you see there will fly sometimes about 100 feet above the ice pack. there are icebergs. the maps are irrelevant because icebergs will move so the pilots really have to be incredibly skilled. it is a dangerous mission and a daring one. >> we hope for the best for that flight crew and those on board. bill karins joins us now. as we were hearing how extreme the weather conditions are but they have a window that they are able to deal with. >> more than half way through on their way back. they call it six month night because that is the next time they see the sunday.

they have a weather observation station. negative 76. this was the key. the wind was about 13 miles per hour. here is a picture of the plane as it landed from national science foundation. one person greeting on the so-called run way and then as they move through the transition they let the pilots rest for a little bit. i counted 12 people outside. only 48 people total at the science station. 12 were getting the gear ready to go. you can see the engined wrapped up. the flight back is 1,600 miles. they are enroute to here. you can see the bottom of south america here. they will be in the clear if they get to the the research station they are in the clear and jump into south america. >> we will keep everyone posted on the flight. we have hillary clinton set to arrive on capitol hill for this meeting with house democratic leadership. a live report next.

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welcome back, everybody. we have breaking news concerning marco rubio. once not running for re-election for his senate seat in florida, "the washington post" now saying that he will be running for re-election in that seat. an announcement will be coming later today. we know that there was much speculation recently about whether or not he would want to try to go after and maintain his position in that seat. so we will look for him to make a formal announcement coming up later today potentially, but this reverses a pledge that he made a year ago that he would not run for re-election. this was during his presidential run and that he would return to private life. so this is a big development for him and certainly a big development for republicans, who would like to see him maintain that seat. kelly o'donnell is live for us in washington, d.c. kelly is on position to wait for hillary clinton who's going to be speaking to democratic leadership. kelly, this is a big reversal

and one that some people had suspected might come from marco rubio. >> reporter: well, marco rubio had been getting pressure from fellow republicans because they are very concerned about maintaining control of the senate with the election coming up and believe that there was not a strong enough candidate in the republican field and so they have been pushing him to do this. now, for a long time those close to marco rubio said he would not be anything but a private citizen come january. in part wanting to move into the private sector, he's got four young kids to raise, college to pay for and wanting to kind of take a turn. they also had insisted he would only run for one office and that, of course, was president. his bid for the republican nomination ended months ago. but this is an opportunity for marco rubio to remain on the national stage and that is part of what is inspiring this. to be in public life and to try to run again perhaps in 2020 if he wants to try for the republican nomination, if a

republican does not win in november, it is an easier thing to do if you have the national platform of being a united states senator. now, that does not mean it's an easy race. this is a very expensive state in which to run, a very competitive field, and at the same time marco rubio has gotten a lot of attention for kind of talking about not enjoying the senate so much. and so that has been a criticism that his opponents will certainly exploit, so that's breaking news here. as you mentioned, thomas, we are in one of the hallways of capitol hill and we expect that secretary clinton will be arriving here shortly. we just saw the democratic leader, nancy pelosi, walk by. i said what are her expectations for today and she gave me a very sunny "we expect it to be wonderful." this is a chance for secretary clinton to meet with the 188 democrats in the house. part of what she will wanting to convey to them is a sense of the direction of the campaign. any of them seeking re-election are on the ballot in november and many believe with hillary

clinton at the top of the ticket, their chances to expand their numbers in the house will rise. of course that's a headache for republicans, who have an advantage with 247 republicans. they have control. and in the house, having control means just about everything in terms of getting things done. so this is a pep talk kind of day, a good to see you kind of day. of course secretary clinton has been out of the senate for several years now when she first began to serve for the obama administration, so there are quite a number of members of the house who don't know her personally as well and haven't worked alongside her, so it's a chance to build on relationships, encourage her to have some new ones and they all have a stake in this. the message for the fall campaign will come in many ways down from what the democratic nominee, presumptive at this point will do. so we are standing by. a little behind schedule, but that's okay. as soon as we see the secretary arriving, we will let you know, thomas. >> okay. kelly o'donnell, you're always on time. so we appreciate it and we know

you're in position. thanks so much. again, that breaking news about marco rubio. just to give you a little background here, he had said on wednesday in light of the orlando terrorist attack, i take very seriously everything that's going on, not just orlando but in our country. that was an acknowledgement when asked would he run for re-election. just a reminder, he lost his home state in the primary by double digits to donald trump, carried one county during the primary in miami-dade, but "the washington post" saying this announcement will be coming later today. we will have it for you on msnbc. and yo doctor about your medication... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me go further. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. doctors have been prescribing humira for over 13 years. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis.

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to terrorism. also a programming note to pass along, msnbc's kate snow has an exclusive one-on-one interview with the u.s. surgeon general, dr. murphy. they'll discuss fighting the prescription drug addiction coming up today on kate's show, "msnbc live" at 3:00 p.m. eastern. i'm thomas roberts. coming up right now, more with jose diaz-balart. >> thomas, thank you. good wednesday morning. a busy morning ahead here on msnbc hour. we'll be hearing from hillary clinton and donald trump as the two candidates sharpen their attacks on each other. clinton is on capitol hill right now meeting with house democratic leaders to rally the party a day after blasting trump's economic record. donald trump set to take on clinton's economic plan later this hour during a speech in new york city. and any minute, house speaker paul ryan will take questions for the first time since three national polls show a trump slump. let's start our coverage with hallie jackson in new york

covering the trump campaign. hallie, good morning to you. what do we know about this frontal assault on hillary clinton today? >> reporter: yeah, what aides are describing as an all-out attack here on clinton, specifically on five broad areas of her policy that we expect to hear trump go after when he takes to the podium in maybe a half an hour or so here in downtown new york city at trump soho. first you've got trade, terrorism. watch for trump to attack her on the clinton foundation, human rights and economic impact in the united states. trump i'm told will strike a surprisingly optimistic and less angry tone, although you obviously will see him go negative against clinton. as for when trump talks about himself, expect it to be more philosophical and less policy oriented. trump has delivered a couple of what his campaign has billed as policy speeches over the last couple of weeks. this one is intended to really go after both clintons hard. this comes less than 24 hours afterli