florida. florida a very close state in 2012. president obama won it. less than a point. donald trump has the lead there. in the average lead, trump has the lead and that's pretty significant. he's in a better place than he used to be. mtp daily starts now. >> if it's thursday, hillary clinton is campaigning again and probably not a moment too soon. her poll numbers, though, continue to slip. >> tonight hillary clinton is back on the trail -- >> i thought i was going to be fine, and i thought that there wasn't really any reason to make a big fuss about it. >> also the phony fears about election fraud. it's almost nonexistent. so why do so many people believe it's a problem? and a tie in the electoral college. you may write it off as a political junkies' dream, but it's more possible this cycle than you think.

this is mtb daily, and it starts right now. good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington, and welcome to "mtb daily." moments ago hillary clinton made her return to the campaign trail and then spoke to reporters. she was asked multiple questions about her pneumonia diagnosis. she acknowledged the tightening in the polls. here's the big picture. clinton's return to the stump ant a moment too soon for democrats. trump is gaining ground everywhere you look. with just 11 days to go before the first debate, you could even argue there might be a reason for some in the clinton world to maybe use the p word, panic. before she spoke to reporters, clinton held her first big rally before being sidelined by pneumonia. speaking to a raucous crowd in north carolina, it was a much different clinton than the one we last saw on the trail when she was slamming half of trump supporters as deplorables.

clinton spoke about why she's running for president and what she would like to do if she wins. >> it's great to be back on the campaign trail! i'll never be the showman my opponent is, and that's okay with me. just look at the show he put on with dr. oz today. but i am going to deliver for you and your family. people accuse me of all kinds of things. you probably have seen that. but nobody ever accuses me of quitting. and i will never give up. >> that said, she still made her speech a lot about trump and hit him many times. here's just a few. >> we don't need someone who rushes out a half-baked plan. are we going to put a loose cannon in charge? my opponent keeps running us down. my opponent has america all wrong. there is nothing we can't do

when we come together as one nation, set big goals and pursue them! >> clinton's promise to focus more on why she's running for president comes amid drastic evidence that the campaign's poke trump strategy may be backing down. three consecutive polls this week have trump grabbing the lead. the latest is the suffolk poll. 42% and 39%. trump is up in bloomberg 44 to 39. in the cbs news and new york post, they are tied, and the quinnipiac, clinton plus 2.

history may be repeating itself in the clinton campaign. she tried to be putting sanders away, she struggled with millennials. clinton is struggling with me say sadais messaging, she struggled with millennials. if there's one thing about her, she gets better as a candidate when her back is up against the wall. i'm joined now by campaign strategist joel bennington. joel, glad to have you back. >> thapnks for having me, chuck. >> we've seen ohio, we've seen florida. he is now picking up. do you think this is all due to what happened last weekend, or is this an accumulation of things? what do you attribute it to?

>> i disagree with your assessment of it, chuck. i don't think the trend line is clear. i think there have been polls up and down in every one of these states. this race has tightened up since the conventions, as i always said it would, and i always said it would be a close race. mid to low single digits, that's what i expect. we are seeing two candidates entering another phase. it is going to be a comparison all the way through. but look -- and, chuck, you know me pretty well. i don't put a lot of faith in the public polls. you know that. when polls have been too high on other networks, i said, your polls are off. we used to refer to the public polls as monkey poles because they jump around. a week ago your nbc polls were different than some others you were talking about. >> the direction was tight.

>> i've said the race is tight ask there's and there's no doubt about it. we think this is a low presidential race. we've had very few blowouts. even in 2000 when george bush lost the popular vote by a bit, he won 270 electoral votes. that's what this is about. we are playing moreau fen offen the map and we will continue to. we have more states making them play defense, states they must win including states like. we are winning in all of those. >> the only north carolina poll you would be ahead in would be your own, because every other public poll that week has shown for what it's worth. so you feel confident you're ahead in north carolina and all the public polls there are wrong? >> i think we're in the offense in north carolina, i do. >> let me ask you about the

issue of being too much reliance on messaging and just being anti-trump? is it fair to say that when you get out the vote efforts, that pole that leaked out, we saw it on our own polls about -- for one reason or another. millennials, gary johnson is actually doing better on mill enyal. is this a variation on the trump strategy that you thought hagt tre trees. >> i think it was your show or your network put up a die gram of how many ideas trump has put out compared to hillary clinton. she has talked to everything about college debt, a detailed plan about how we create jobs in the future, and she has laid out an agenda on faechl leave and

wael taking on climate change where we can create clean energy jobs that makes america a superpower in the 20th century. i don't think it's been all trump. it's about hillary clinton, how we work in an competent that has run a far more campaign. he has a fire onfavorable. he's con sorted with the likes of that campaign, including the extreme right wing, right nationalists retweeting them. lfs this choice. she want to believe an academy for everyone.

knees already got that's not a recipe for success, that's a recipe for driving our debt more in the roof. i think a republican from the reagan administration said it will increase our deficit and cost us jobs. >> he says this of hillary clinton. she seems to see the american people in groups as a collection, a basket, if you will, of grievances. on top of this strong optimism that was. >> i believe he needs to get out on the stump morm. when we have each other's backs.

she has offered an optimistic vision about her patriotism, her belief in this krucountry. this is a woman who has devoted her public life to helping people as first lady. we're talking about that as well as what she's going to do for families going forward. i think we have the much more substantive family woman that believes that we're a country that is stronger together and not when we're at each other's backs. >> i'm sure you've heard from some nervous nellie democrats in the last 24 hours. what do you tell them when they say, how could you be losing to this guy? >> i don't think we're losing to this guy. we've been very aggressive. we're offense in most states.

they're playing defense because they passed the 270-yard limited. we think we're going to a better place. notwithstanding the hubbub and focused on the media that she demonstrated she is fit and ready to be charnd in chief, that he doesn't. >> for what it's worth, that forum. >> i'll be back next week, and i'm not sure what's happening there. >> bill bennett with the clinton campaign. thank you, sir. danny -- she's a big deal, too. are you going to just say, yes,

joel is right, or will you acknowledge that, hey, things are not as hunky dory as he's making it sound. >> yes, he's right, and there's room for improvement. how is that? >> yes, he's 100% right. whoever said there would abe a blowout, donald trump being who he is. donald trump has a strong floor of people who are going to support him because he's a republican nominee. so i'm not surprised that it's getting closer. i do think that the debates will make sort of that turning point as we get closer to the election. we just saw president clinton out on the floor, vice president biden. i do think things will dpget a little clearer. i don't think it's designed for panic. >> here we're talking and i'm hearing -- i expected this point in time it would be the trump

campaign waiting for the debates. and it's the democratic campaign. it's clinton going, no, no, let's just get to the debates. maybe they're right and maybe the debate will reset things in her favor. but that's an awful lot on the line for one event. >> three events. >> i would argue the first one loob t will be the most impactful. >> i'm describing this election as a multiplex theater. you're standing there with a ticket and you go to one or the other. the first one is one you hated, you've seen it before, you didn't like how it ended. and the next one is one that people said is the worst movie ever made. a lot of people are going to entertain the movie they haven't seen and it becomes a question of can he clear the bar, can he make himself enough of a credible movie that you're not

embarrassed to say you went to see it? >> kristin anderson the other day used one that said, donald trump is like an experimental drug. there's all sorts of side effects. but you think, maybe it will cure me. >> but it might kill you. >> it might kill you, too. that was her point. you don't know which, but some might be willing take an experimental drug. do you feel like you're seeing hillary clinton suddenly behave like every republican that couldn't beat donald trump in the primary? >> totally. it's been shocking in the three weeks since their convention ended, the way the trajectory of this race has gone, the way she decided how to deal with donald trump was to be just like marco rubio and chris christie and the way all the other republican candidates tried to be, and it hasn't worked. now, leading into the debates, which could be changing events

not over the course of the campaign, she has, because of her actions, because of her words, and because of the health incident, has set a path that is locked in and not on her terms. >> you know, this is the part of this that just feels like -- i get it. they both kind of think they want to make offense to the other, but trump feels more comfortable in that space. >> there are two choices, really. you have to make the case why you should be the leader but also you can make the argument why the other one is not safe. >> elizabeth warren clearly gets under his skin. everybody else beat him up. they haven't done it that way. >> i don't think they think they've had to. now i'm going to switch metaphors for you. >> you're loaded up. you're clearly a columnist.

>> i'm speak ing in concrete terms. when your opponent is bloodying himself in the corner of the ring, you stand by and watch. i think they thought he was bloodying himself to the point where he couldn't see straight, and i think that was always a bit of an illusion because we all acknowledged this was a race that was going to tighten. >> they got their act together at the last moment. >> and the clinton campaign didn't adjust to those new places. coming up, why people believe voter fraud is pervasive despite the overwhelming evidence that it does not exist. plus colin kaepernick's anthem protest has received support from other athletes. so why have major league baseball players been so silent? one black baseball star says he thinks he knows why, and yes, he

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another day and another excuse why we haven't seen donald trump's tax returns. he is the only nominee to not release tax returns. today's new excuse comes from his son donald trump jr. here's what he said when asked about why his dad's returns have yet to be released. >> because he's got a 12,000-page tax return. that would create probably 300 million independent financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that are going to distract from his main message. >> don jr. there seeming to confirm what many of us suspended. trump has calculated the damage that would come from releasing the returns and decided instead to weather the storm and the damage from not releasing them. but there is something else don jr. said today about warming up

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heard stories about certain parts of the state. the only way we can lose, in my opinion, and i really mean this, pennsylvania, is if cheating goes on. >> you say something enough and people tend to believe it. donald trump has gone so far as to call for voluntary monitors at the polls. but this is for a problem that virtually does not exist. a study from a loyola university law professor said 31 voter impersonations out since 2013. and there are studies out of university of arizona, barnard college, wisconsin, georgia that all found the same thing. very few instances of actual fraud. but the word "fraud" is a powerful scare tactic and political operatives know it. they show operatives and consultants in washington discuss launching a public campaign to alleged voter fraud

in 2011. quote, do we need to start messaging widespread reports of election fraud, unquote, so we are positively set up for rheth recount regardless of the final number? i actually think we should. accidents in voter fraud do happen, but they are few and far between. we did turn up an instance of a democratic poll worker who used her access to vote in the 2012 election. that's been it. ben, i want to start with you since this is an issue that your party has pushed more often than the other side. i get that it's a voter turnout tool, but if half the country now believes -- have we let this get out of hand? >> in some cases yes, in some cases no. the fraud has not been proven. we've been looking for it for a long time and it's not been there. but you also have 70% of the people who want to have voter identification because you do

want some confidence in your election that people who are properly registered to vote all get to vote. i was part of a bipartisan commission to try to get rid of it, to try to stop the barriers from legitimate voters from being able to vote. but we have 8,000 separate jurisdictions which means you have 8,000 sets of eyes on ballots. which means, as we've seen in every recount we've done, that you don't always get consistency in carrying -- >> but that's not fraud. >> so look, the model of how to deal with the charges of fraud really comes from richard nixon in 1960 in illinois and al gore in florida in 2000 who recognized for the sake of the country that what you have to do at the end of the day is say, we do tabulate our votes fine, we don't necessarily always have consistency between them, but there is a mechanism for all of

that. >> well, the decentralization is one of the securities, actually. we're now realizing this is an asset, not a liability. >> for electronic. >> for electronic voting. >> republicans have been on this voter fraud, a solution in search of a problem now, for a very long time skpch. and congratulations. you've now convinced half country -- >> one in five democrats. we could talk about before where a majority of democrats in '04 was questioning this. there was something that happened where a lot of democrats questioned voting in plor fl florida. but now they're citing voter fraud and what they did find wouldn't be protected by voter laws, anyway. it was very clear what they were doing. they were trying to keep democratic voters from voting. they were trying to keep black and brown and college voters from voting. >> here's the bigger concern,

though. now you have half the country right now saying they're concerned about this issue of voter fraud. and you have one candidate who is going around saying, hey, this election is rigged. as i vote, if it was rigged, they wouldn't let it happen. among trump supporters, 69% believe voter fraud happens, clinton supporters, 28%. if you say it enough, people start to believe it. >> not just the system on democracy, they're blaming the media already for having stolen elections. some of this come from 2000, but if i can get the multiplex. we just don't know how to lose anymore. kids have 50 trophies in the room and you can't move them around. >> you got a point. you're right. we don't know how to lose.

>> nobody said i lost because it was my fault, nobody said i lost because things happen and i lost. everybody has a fight, everybody has a lawsuit in them, a grievance, because that's a reflection of the larger culture. maybe some leadership and some grace could help that. but frankly, i think the president has shown a lot of grace in office, and i don't think it's changed the political culture one bit. >> i have to say, this issue of not knowing how to lose, i mean, nobody accepts defeat. you just move on to the next fight. that's why governing is impossible because you don't accept defeat and then you don't allow the winner to have any mandate. >> this attitude is part of the whole polarization na has taken place over the last 40 years and why we're particularly surprised with that phenomenon given where everything else in this course of the country is. >> it just shows you 10 years of this issue and it moved -- and

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comcast. >> make a statement. i think there is a lot of history of sports figures doing so. i think he cares about some real legitimate issues that have to be talked about. and if nothing else, what he's

done is he's generated more conversation around some topics that need to be talked about. >> that was president obama commenting on san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick's national anthem protest. he did that last week, the president, that is, those comments. kaepernick did not stand for the anthem in his team's last three games in protest of the country's treatment of people of color. the entire seattle seahawks linked arms during the anthem in that same game. star rapino knelt during the anthem earlier this month. but there's been no such protest in major league baseball, and this was the sport that was once on the leading edge of social change in america, and it is now the sport on the sidelines for this story. it opened the doors for black

athletes and other major sports, so why the silence now? jones, the one of the more high-profile black baseball players said he couldn't see any black baseball players protesting because baseball is a white man's sport. let's start with -- first of all, adam jones appears to be the only ball player i've seen speak out on this. kristin yellich of the marlins spoke out but against the protest, against the miami dolphins. do you think adam jones is right? >> i think he's 100% right, and we spend so much time labeling people and calling them racist. whether it's racist or not, it is actually a racial

conversation that's rooted a lot in money. adam jones is completely correct. baseball is 80% black. you're not going to have the type of protest you'll see in football, what we've seen in basketball in duwayne wade. reggie jackson, that big major star power is really not there in the game anymore. >> the most powerful voice in your piece, the combination of star power and not being a white baseball player in this case in this story was david ortiz. he's a dominican, person of color, but he highlighted the latino issue. what adam jones said about, hey, this is a white man's sport, no, it's not. it's not on the field. it is in the front office. the largest minority group in baseball is latinos and there is one latino manager now, one

latino owner, and it's gone down. >> that's right, and virtually no pathway to become a gm, become a president and run a team. that's an issue you don't hear a lot about because we spend a lot of time talking about the jackie robinson connection -- >> we talk a lot about black and white. we don't talk a lot about latino. >> it's a color issue but it's a green issue. when you think about the history of baseball, you go to the cheapest talent source. 1947 to 1957, black players flourished. why? one, integration, but also because they were the cheapest talent source. then you get into the '60s and you have the rise of the academies down on the dominican republic, and today, same thing. you can buy hundreds of latino players and have them under control, meaning that the team owns -- >> minor league teams. >> -- minor league teams. one american player drafted is the equivalent of 30 or 40 or 50

latino players. >> so if we see any social justice movement in baseball, it's more likely to happen on the latino front more than anything else? >> you would think so except for the fact that baseball is still considered an american story instead of an international story, so it's black and white first. >> the nba and the nfl came under some criticism and they put in some rules. the famous one in football is the rooney rule. but there's been a lot of awareness even on the college level about the number of african-american assistants and coaches. baseball doesn't have any sort of rule that they've put in. >> it has. it's got the ceiling rule. they've tried but it hasn't worked. >> it hasn't worked. and if you came into this season, you came in -- if the nationals had gotten the manager they wanted first, i don't think there would be one. >> then the dodgers hired robinson, and you've got two.

i think the biggest thing that happened in baseball is the dollars. in front office, you see them completely shut out because the game is being treated like a fortune 500 company now. the baseball ownership, they want ivy league front office gms. therefore -- >> nobody who has ever had experience playing the game. >> exactly. dave stewart is a gm in minnesota but there are very few gms now who ever played the game or had any on-field experience. if you're looking at americans in totality, do you know how hard it will be to find those candidates who have the world at their feet trying to get into baseball. >> you're saying the issue here isn't black and white, it's color, it's green. with hillary clinton it's my l millennia millennials. and they're concerned about it. you could say the lack of diversity is intertwined in this. millennials shia way from any

diversity these days. >> baseball has always had an issue where the difference between basketball and football and baseball is that those two sports pretty much adapt to the people who play. you go to a basketball game, they're playing music while the game is on. it's cool to go to a basketball game. >> some teams say you can't even have facial hair. >> the yankees. that makes it difficult for a lot of players. when ken griffie jr. came on, he played a basketball game with his hat on backwards. one of the biggest problems that the game has is you used to have african-american players directly in the pipeline from high school. today baseball goes to latin america. they go international to asia, and then they go to college. you're not going to find a lot of african-americans in any three of those categories. college baseball is 2% black. >> the problem with college baseball, c.c.c. sebathia said

well. if he had gotten a football scholarship, he would have gotten a full ride. in baseball there's no full rides. always read him when you can in espn magazine. up next, why i'm obsessed with one major flaw in our electoral system. as donald trump and hillary clinton vie for the youth vote, could it be a game changer? i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message.

he's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. he's not a serious adult. i can't vote for donald trump given the things that he said. trump should not be supported. i believe he's disqualified himself to be president. i just cannot support donald trump.

time to share with you my obsession of the day. today i'm obsessed with this. the number 269 -- remember that number -- as recently as three weeks ago we were talking about whether donald trump would be this year's barry goldwater, the first republican to get routed in a republican election since 1964. you don't hear that kind of talk anymore, do you? let's talk about giving trump 206 votes that romney got six years ago. in florida whit had him ahead, ohio, iowa and nevada. in maine, which divides its votes by congressional district, and trump is up 266, just 40 shy of the number he needs. throw in new hampshire, and voila, 270 votes. grab the popcorn and watch the

inauguration of president trump. remember what i said about nebraska, clinton is slightly ahead. if she wins it, we're sitting at 269. they're both at 269 and you would have your tie in the electoral college. cue the confusion. what happens then? as some of you know if you read your states' congressional election, you get one vote. you never know who would hold the majority in congress. are we sure every state will vote that same way? are we sure the electorate will vote for her same candidate? why are there way too many scenarios that get us here. 269 could become the most important political number since george w. bush won florida in 2000 by 535 votes. this is a flaw in the discussion that somehow we should fix. we'll be right back.

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welcome back. they are not necessarily all in for hillary clinton. check this 18 to 34, clinton has a lead over trump. got to feel good, right? oops, look at the four-way. clinton only has support from 31% of young voters. just ahead of libertarian nominee, gary johnson, who, by the way, will be on the ballot in all 50 states. the first time a libertarian has done that since '967 young voters your were key for barack obama in 1990. time for the lid. the panel is back. daniella, i'll start with you on this. hillary clinton had a millennial problem in the primaries. she still has it. and i know the talk is it, eventually gary johnson will fade, gary johnson will fade. it's september 15th. >> it is, but i do think gary johnson will fade. >> same thing about donald trump, as i recall.

>> i don't know if i ever said. i think he will fade. but like i mentioned earlier, you see a more concerted effort by the campaign, bring out the effort who really do resonate with millennials. barack obama, joe biden, and when you look at the policies that hillary clinton is putting forward, attacking the issues that millennials really care about, i think you'll start to see those numbers shift. >> i wonder on the millennial front, though, matt, if, you know, to me the best asset of the millennials or one of the digs at millennials is this idea that, a, they're impatient and want to be disruptive. >> i find it very disruptive -- >> who's the most impatient, disruptive candidate in this race? one, it's trump. voting for gary johnson is an impatient, disruptive thing to do. hillary clinton is not a disrupter. i wonder how much that hurts her. >> she's a very institutional figure in an anti-institutional race. the issues have been clear from the beginning. she doesn't have the kind of enthusiasm, say, the president

did among that generation. that could be for a lot of reasons. it's interesting, because you would think, you know, as the first woman, potential president, that that would actually, you know, energize some idealism among -- it doesn't. >> i remember -- i think it's joel benson argued that to me two years ago. well, that'll help. >> and it doesn't. >> i get why you thought it would. >> she's not going to win on enthusiasm. that's not her -- her numbers are pretty much set. i think that's not the kind of candidacy she has. the gary johnson thing is interesting. i know he really wants to debate. i think he is a more compelling figure for a lot of these uric voters and perhaps for the electorate when he doesn't debate. i think if he gets up on stage, i say this with great respect, i don't think he's going to be -- >> there probably would be nor aleppo moments. >> i think that's probably right. what all of this points to is going to be one of the great mysteries of this cycle, which is turnout. who's going to turn out, what are you going to turn them out, who are the turnout models and who's controlling in the different states, which voters you turn out.

because, this is shaping up as an election, with a lot of ticket splitters. once you have ticket splitters, then the i.d. work gets a little messy, and especially how millennials fit into that. who's going to turn them out? >> it's interesting. it has been something, though, with gary johnson, would you want him in the debates if you're hillary clinton or not? he made a case for him in. trump doesn't want him. i would think if you're trump, you would want him in, since you've never done a one-on-one debate. >> i think you want him in. >> if you're clinton, you want him in? >> i think so. every time he has done media, it has not helped him. >> especially if you're clinton, he's clearly taking more from her than anybody else. >> i think you want to do a head-to-head with him to show, this guy clearly isn't ready. >> i think bill welds would be a different answer. >> don't you think if you were trump you would want johnson in this thing? >> maybe, especially over the millennial vote. it's probable given the way the

millennials feel about the two of them that having gary johnson in there would actually take a lot of hillary clinton's potential millennials and move them to him. >> by the way, i think he should get to debate. i don't know if it's good for him. >> i'm of the mind-set, you have one shot, and let's see what happens, type of thing. like, i don't know, and you raise the barrier as -- >> that's not what those numbers -- >> not, right now, he's not there. before we go win teased this earlier, don trump jr., i think this happened on tape. let me play what he said. it made some eyebrows raise. here it is. >> without the media, this wouldn't even be a contest. but the media has built her up, that i have let her slide on every indiscrepancy, on every lie, on every dnc, you know, game, trying to get bernie sanders out of the thing. i mean, if republicans were doing that, they would be warming up the gas chamber right now. >> the campaign put out a statement saying, they weren't talking about anything to do with anything, that it was not meant as some sort of

anti-semitic remark. that he was talking about, here it is, don jr. was clearly talking about capital punishment to make the case that the media continues to take wards out of context in order to serve as the propaganda arm of the hillary clinton campaign, something that's only gotten worse as trump's poll numbers have improved. funny, the only thing i'm hear from the clinton campaign is how pro-trump we are. i'm confused in my role. but ben, those remarks, some ugly remarks. >> that was a really bad choice of words. he should apologize for -- >> yes, they should just apologize! >> why can't they -- that's what i don't get. >> admit what she said was horrific, and say i'm sorry. >> they never will admit. >> just like hillary clinton won't -- >> they never will admit. thank you. we're back with one more story we think you might have missed. stay tuned. of everything online. and so many businesses rely on the united states postal service to get it there. that's why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. the united states postal service.

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in case you missed it, because we all have over the past two years, it's the u.s. capitol dome. for a long time, it looked like this. hidden under more than a million pounds of scaffolding, as the dome underwent a multi-million project to repair 1,300 cracks and other structural issues. and here's what it looks like now. the architect of the capitol tweeted this scaffolding-free shot this morning. we'll give you a live look here. we've got these fun cameras here in washington, d.c. look at that. it's shiny, it's new. new layers of paint. capitol dome, baby, it is back.

it looks good, feels good. we missed you. it's fun to see. there is still, i get a chill when you fly into national, you look over, and you see the dome. good to have it back. that's all for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more "mtp daily." "with all due respect," though, starts right now. >> i'm john heilemann. >> and i'm donny deutsch. and with all due respect to those who are mocking donald trump's assertion that his campaign events are form of exercise -- >> well, it's a lot of work, you know, when i'm speaking between 15,000 and 20,000 people and i'm up there using a lot of motion. i guess that's a form of exercise. >> who are you to judge how a man uses his hands?