thanks for watching. >> has my way hit the highway? let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris. days after kellyanne the republican nominee rolled out his first tv add of the general election. trump is actively trying to win back the voters he needs to have for a palt to victory in november. in a staff shake-up paul manafort resigned.

he resigned as campaign chairman. he didn't want to be a distraction for the campaign. it questions monoafort's connection. at his rally trump showed a rare moment of contrition, expressing regrets. here he is. >> some times in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. i have done that, and believe it or not, i regret it. i do regret it, particularly where it may have caused person

pain. >> trump is also out with his new tv ad of the general election. an attack with no surprise here of immigration. it comes after trump for the last couple of months effectively seeded the airways to secretary clinton who spent $60 million. she owned the airways. these trump campaign changes aren't coming soon enough. it is expected to head downward. we all watched trump's campaign crumble. late today trump also made a hard pitch to african american voters. let's watch what he said. >> look how much african american communities have suffered under democratic control. to those i say the following, what do you have to lose by

trying something new like trump? what do you have to lose? what do you have to lose? you're living in poverty, your schools are no good, 58% of your youth is unemployed. what the hell do you have to lose? at the end of four years i guarantee i will get over 95% of the african american vote, i promise you. >> joined by robert cost, michael steel's former chairman stephanie. stephanie, you're a lead-off batter tonight. what do you think of the regrets. he won't mention clearly but he is trying to be nicer so he'll

get women republicans to vote for him. i think that's what he is up to. i don't think it is aimed at black people. i think it is those that don't want to see themselves as racist, your thoughts? >> it seems to me really the only thing that he regrets is that he is losing. that's precisely what we are seeing. it's sad. i like this better when other things are happening. i mean here is the thing, he spent h entire campaign and most of his adult life offending women in this country. seven out of ten voters did not like him yesterday and do not like him today and i'm quite confident they won't like him on election day. he has clooefly proven he is -- clearly proven he is unfit for

the presidency. >> we all have our own takes of what's going on. i will become a giant loser and i will make changes. in comes kellyanne, your thought sns. >> trump was in the hamptons. he saw manafort as becoming a distraction. trump's family had grown supportive of him. he started to see issues with pro russian forces. this whole time he is talking to kellyanne, talking to steve bannonand saying we have to kick sart this thing in the next 80 days. >> do you think he is of this new approach, kinder gentler to flood victims by flying down

there? i'm not the s.o.b. some people think i am. he seems to be trying. is it real or is it -- that's a terrible question. answer whatever you think. we can never do that on television. go ahead. >> so it's not apples a and oranges. we'll see a little bit of this k kellya kellyanne. you got the bannon approach. >> yeah! let's take a look at this. trump campaign manager was asked about whom trump was addressing when he regretted some of things he has been saying. >> what was he talking about? >> anyone who was offended by

anything he said. i hope everybody who criticized him at some point for mocking someone, at least show some recognition and some forgiveness. >> will he reach out to the kahn family personally? >> he may but i certainly hope they heard him last night. >> i think she is saying accept it if you feel it. >> i think the important thing, a manmade it very important he doesn't apologize. he doesn't see a need to express what he did, express regret. i think she has had an immediate impact. he along with they are beginning to figure out how to do what robert just touched on, go into a battle but also have in place the message, the structure and the conversation beyond just going on attack. >> it's interesting.

donald trump released the first general ad. it comes two months after secretary clinton launched her first ad back in june. let's watch this. >> in hillary clinton's america the system stays rigged. syrian refugees. the border secured, our families safe. >> well, stephanie, back to what he started with, the battle of immigration to the battle of dangerous refugees. ingly don't si don't see it as change. >> you think illegal population in this country? do you think there are --

>> no. that's why we need immigration refofrmt i think it's important to note with these changes, you know, bringing on steve is not exactly a warming feeling for particularly women in this country. >> how about kellyanne? >> i think it will be really interesting to see what she does here. i want to remind folks on the anniversary of the statement. she was the one that defended aiken. >> i will get to you in a minute. i'm working on you. i want you to say something you think will be a smart political move, going out abdomnd saying have made mistakes. i think it has the kellyanne

fingerprints on it. >> it may have her fingerprints. he also said believe me or not. >> thank you. coming up, quid pro quo, the state department says it was leverage today get americans released. the white house is now on defense. that's next. this is "hardball," a place for politics. ♪ don't just eat. mangia! bertolli i'm not a customer, but i'm calling about that credit scorecard. (to dog)give it. sure! it's free for everyone.

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get back anyway. this is much more add venn teenaadd ve -- interest schedule. >> i spoke with john kirby. he defended the to reimburse the same time they released four american prisoners. listen to this. >> in basic english you're saying you wouldn't give them the 400 million in cash until the prisoners were released, correct? >> that's correct because we already had the end game we didn't want to take any chances. so we believe that as much

leverage could be had we wanted to be add. >> the obama administration secretly supported an air lift to iran that coincided with the release of four americans detained in iran. it described the deal as a random for politics. here he is. >> the timing on this was in fact dictated by the fact that has a consequence around the nuclear deal we had conversations with iran for the first time in several decades. >> we have joe here. my question, i might as well start with the tough one, the cutting question.

who told iran that if they gave us our people back they would get the money? that statement, they knew they could get the money if they released our people, who told them that and isn't that a trade? >> i think we'll find out in the congressional hearings. >> he told them, you know, you'll get the money if you release our people. >> right. >> that sounds like quid pro quo. it sounds like a deal. part of a bigger deal but part of a deal. >> the u.s. owed this money to what used to be iran. >> and pay ago bill ton day prisoners are agreed to get out. >> right. the u.s. agreed to it several months after jason resigned was already taken captive. >> why do you think they denied it was a linkage?

>> we were able to solve this debt and able to make a prisoner exchange. >> we are saying they didn't release the prisoners. it's not the same as saying you'll get the money if they release the prisoners. if i say if you do that i'll give you the money? >> he didn't say that. this is what he said. in what world does he release the hostages and wait for the money to be made? >> we got nervous that it was audiotape supposed to be synchronized. the plane with the money was supposed to be there. >> it sounds like the ransoming. >> you have a child kidnapping case. they say give me 50 million

bucks. the baby is there. if the baby is not there you say you're not getting the money. it sounds like ransoming. >> that's not what we are talking about. why did they deny linkage? >> if you don't agree to part of it you don't get the whole deal. there is no relationship between getting the money and prisoners being he leased? >> there is relation. >> there were accusations it was some sort of a ransom. >> we don't pay ransom. if we did we would start encourages americans to be targeted which countries that pay ransom end up having

citizens taken by groups. >> you don't have to get into loaded words like ransom. they are opening up the deal about -- everything was on the table, the arms deal, end of sanctions, money coming back after 37 years of us freezing assets. it was all in this package and all of the other pieces of it. >> i think -- >> nothing is agreed upon unless everything is agreed upon. >> why did they say that? >> i think they disclosed the $1.7 billion as part of the a2k3wr50e7 agreement but president obama was already under so much heat and so much fire because of the nature of the negotiations. >> here is the problem. there already were sneaky asp t

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russia's apparent meddling has been one of the stranger stories of 2016. security experts say with near certitude it was the hacking. it was done and perpetrated by the russian intelligence agencies. in the washington post he explained putin has rational motives for wanting trump to win. trump's most shoeking is pro-kremlin proposal is to look into recognition of crimea. of dnc was hacked trump called on russia to find clinton's e-mails. here is trump earlier this

month. >> they say putin likes trump. he said nice things about me. he said we are going to win. that's not bad. that's good. >> is it? we are joined by michael right now. i guess we have to start with the facts that we know. wid you know it hacked into the dnc e-mails and dumped them on us? >> yes. government officials have said as much on background. a public firm has investigated it. i talked to senior people at the white house about it. let's remember, that is their job. it is called spying. it is called intelligence. we do it too, by the way. it's not their job to get cut. >> why did they dump it?

>> let's be very precise. wiki leaks, made very clear they don't like secretary clinton and want to do damage to her. the part we don't know is did the russians give it to wikileaks? they aren't doing to tell us and russia aren't going to tell us either. >> you have to figure out what they are up to. what is in their interests regarding our election that you can decertain? >> i think it's simple as day. it is crystal clear tlchlt is one candy cat that says we should look into it and another says we absolutely should not. one says we should renegotiate and another candidate says absolutely we shouldn't do that.

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