bash now. dana you hear me? >> reporter: i can hear you. >> that conversation was going nowhere so i'm going to talk to you about the republican civil war because i do think this is important. i mean, really, all of america should be concerned about what's happening within the republican party right now because it's important that we have two strong political parties in this country and, again, there's this civil war going on, something that donald trump said he was going to fix, that he could unify his party, but it's quite clear this morning that he can't do that. >> reporter: it's -- it's -- let's just be specific about what's going on, carol. in the past ten minutes donald trump has sent his second, at least second tweet of the day specifically going after paul ryan, the republican speaker of the house. this is the first one. it says despite winning the second debate in a landslide, every poll, which these are online polls, i feel the need to say this every time it's up there, they were online s

dana bash, as you just saw, she caught up with donald trump today as he cut the ribbon on his new hotel here in washington. dana, trump told you he may dig a lot deeper into his own personal pocket to get some cash into his campaign? >> that was based on some questions i was asking him about some frustration i have heard from republicans that he hasn't done that enough given the fact that he says he is worth billions and billions of dollars, in order to be more competitive in television ads against hillary clinton. here is what he said. >> let me just tell you that we have -- i'll have over $100 million in the campaign. hillary clinton has nothing in the campaign. she is all special interests and donors. they give her the money and then she'll do whatever they tell her to do. i will have over $100 million in the campaign, and i am prepared to go much more than that. now, here is the question. new polls are coming out. we're leading florida, we're doing great in north carolina. we're doing great in pennsylvania. we're doing great all over. we're doing really well in new hampshire, ohio,

please welcome dana bash!> trevor: welcome to the show. >> it's so good to be here. >> trevor: thank you very much for being here. it's an honor to meet you. we watch you all the time, and the fact that you can keep a straight face -- >> right now? >> trevor: -- when you are reporting some of these stories. no, now you can say whatever you wanted the say now. >> i still need to work tomorrow, so i'm going to be real careful. ( laughter ) >> trevor: let's talk about that. you have been with cnn for 23 years. >> i have ( applause ) >> trevor: you have been doing an amazing job, working, covering everything from congress -- this is your sixth presidential race you're covering. is this the craziest thing you've ever seen? >> yes. ( laughter ) i mean, there is this and this is everything else on the planet ever. >> trevor: yes. >> no question. >> trevor: there must be a point when you're covering this and looking at this as a journalist, and at some point do you not go, there is too much? there is no story that bui

cnn chief political correspondent dana bash hit the trail to find out.porter: donald trump gets the raucous crowds, but his daughter's trip on the trail is speaking volumes. ivanka trump's whirlwind schedule is to determine whether her father becomes president. the suburbs of philadelphia. >> i wouldn't be able to go into the office every day if i didn't have a safe place to bring my child. >> reporter: she played it very safe. fielding some of the same softball at multiple events. why she thinks her father would make a good president and dartding out and ignoring our attempts to ask questions. first in chester county. >> what was your reaction when you heard your father's tape? >> reporter: and later again in delaware county. she preaches to the choir, pennsylvania women already all in for trump. despite his lewd language caught on tape and the new multiple allegations of groping. >> i'm voting for donald trump. >> reporter: you sound a little reluctant when you say that. >> well, i think it's just been a hard road. >> he wasn't saying what he does to w

dana bash is with me. highest ranking republican woman in the house has now come out and said something, and what is her response? >> reporter: the house republican conference chair has said she promised to never be shy about disagreeing with donald trump and in this statement she's not. i'll read part of it. "it is never appropriate to condone unwanted sexual advances or violence against women. mr. trump must realize that it has no place in public or in private conversations, today or on the past." first of all the statement is strong and what strikes me is what says sexual advances or violence against women. and that is something that to hear from a top republican, the top republican female lawmaker saying that what she heard in that audio tape wasn't just lewd. it was suggesting violence against women takes it to a level we've been talking about. but to hear it from her and to see it in black and white is pretty strong. >> and a woman i know said this happened to her. he had leaned in and kissed her, off

dana bash spoke with trump one on one right after his hotel opening. here is the conversation. >> reporter: there are the people who say you are taking time out of swing states to go do this. you say? >> i say the following. you have been covering me for the last -- long time. i did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches and i've been doing this for weeks straight. i left here -- i left there for an hour and a half. i'm going to north carolina right now. then i'm going to florida. i'm going up to new hampshire. for you to ask me that question is actually very insulting. because hillary clinton does one stop and then she goes home and sleeps. and yet you will ask me that question. i think it is a very rude question to be hobbs and what i want to do is i want to back my children. my children very hard and at opening of the hotel i want to back my children. very important to me. so we had a ribbon cutting and i stopped in d.c. but the real key to is this is i want the american people to understand that this is under budget. ahead of schedule. and

john and christine. >> dana bash. 28 days to go. breaking overnight. teacher strike averted. a tentative agreement with the schools. teachers will be in classrooms. union negotiators throughout the night. >>> and hundreds of people stranded by flood waters after hurricane matthew. the only way out? a boat or helicopter. the rescues from north carolina. that's next. >>> all right. to north carolina. flood waters still rising in the aftermath of hurricane matthew. the governor says the flooding is likely to extend through the end of the week. much of the state inundated by flooding and washed away roads. 18 inches of rain fell in places over the weekend. look at these pictures from raleigh. in fayetteville, few homes were spared by flash floods. >> you have heavy furniture all in pieces and on the other side of the room or in another room. i don't understand it. there are a few things to be cleaned and saved. just about everything's gone. >> there have been 27 storm-related deaths in the southeast. 12 in north carolina alone. they expect the waters to keep rising. >> let's talk

dana bash joins us with details and political strategy. seems like dry run. >> one source told me it's scrimmage. really want donald trump to retain muscle memory from town halls. hasn't done as many town halls as chris christie or time in john mccain when he lived in new hampshire where town hall is part of the political dna. but the fact is they want him to be in intimate setting just like sunday night, chosen the place where chris christie had his first town hall when he announced for president in 2016 and chris christie is involved in trying to get donald trump ready stylistically for the idea of being questioned by undecided voters. even how you sit, stand, approach them, what you say when you approach them. the things that are obviously quite different from the traditional debate without the town hall. that's about as far i'm told as their getting in terms of getting trump to change up way he's preparing for the debate as opposed to the first debate. >> so you're hearing they're not doing other kinds of prep, mock debates or -- >> co

did you see dana bash the other day? he called her insulting because she asked him about why he was taking time from the campaign to go open up a hotel. it was a fair question. of course, it was a little bit provocative, but that's the idea of these questions, you provoke the candidate. and he was provoked. anyway, your thoughts? >> look, i don't speak for all women, obviously, but the women who are pronouncing themselves divorced from the republican party, prominent women, women who are republican political professionals, they're not doing this because they disagree with republican positions. they would very much like there to be a conservative party that women can be a part of. a party that is pro-life, a party for small government. they are not becoming liberals, right? if they're voting for the democrat, it's because they feel they've been forced to by, as chairman steel was saying, a republican party that has signaled it doesn't want to respect women as human beings. so it's a tough decision for a lot of these women

dana bash caught up with him. listen to that exchange. >> i'm going to north carolina right now. then i'm going to florida and new hampshire. for you to ask me that question is very insulting because hillary clinton does one stop and she goes home and sleeps. and yet you ask me that question. i think it is a rude question to be honest with you. >> to be clear, the question she asked is why are you doing a corporate event for your private business at a time when by all accounts, every moment in a swing state and battleground state is important. that response is interesting. he both got to slam the media and hillary clinton in one small answer. >> that's right. you know, for an outside observer, it is go-time. you think they would try to do as much as they possibly can to swing voters to get people in these niche places and undecided people. get out the vote. go to places where they need you most. a flip side for trump is i'm in this because i'm a businessman. you are here covering my hotel opening. i'm talking about how it is open early and ahead of time and under budget. i'm not

>> let's go to the next question, dana. >> that was dana bash at his hotel opening.t least the 30th time the trump campaign has done double duty as advertising for his businesses. >> from the beginning, trump's brand has been all over his presidential bid. references to his tv show, properties, helicopters and hotels. it all started when he announced his candidacy with an escalator ride at his corporate headquarters and a shout out to himself. >> great to be at trump tower. great to be in a wonderful city, new york. >> and it has never stopped. >> trump racked up a slew of wins. he prided hess private club in florida. >> so great to be in florida. so great to be at mar-a-lago with the press and the media. >> that's where he accepted the endorsement of his rival too. he trotted out products his company made or once made. including steaks, bottled water, an airline, a magazine. >> here, take one. >> and he was off to open his new resort in scotland where he had a little to say about the brexit vote which had just occurred. >> i wish everybody a lot of luck. >> but much

trump just spoke with our chief political correspondent dana bash after his grand opening of his hotel. dana joins me from the event there in washington, dana bash, take it away. >> first i want to ask you about your event here. there's new audiotape of you talking about the fact that you have relied on your popularity and the fact that people come to your events and that helps you with free advertising. is that what this is about? >> not at all. this was just under budget ahead of schedule. that's what this is. my hotel officially opens today and we built it for less money than was anticipated and ahead of schedule by over a year. if a country would do that we would have a country that would be in much better shape -- you know, highways, they build highways for double and triple the cost. >> reporter: so to people who say you're taking time out of swing states to do this you say -- >> i say the following. you have been covering me for the last long time. i did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches and i've been doing this for weeks straight. i'm going to north carolina, then

cnn chief political correspondent dana bash was able to pull mr. trump aside for a few minutes at his hotel ribbon cutting ceremony earlier today. she asked how much trump would be willing to give to his own campaign financially to help push him over the finish line. this has been a big sticking point with republican officials in washington who feel trump has not spent what he promised he would and that that has hurt his and the republican party's ability to pay for tv ads or field staffers to get out the vote. let's listen to what mr. trump had to say. >> reporter: there is a new poll in florida that has you up a couple of points. other swing states have you really in the hunt. given that, are you prepared to write a check. >> sure. >> reporter: to help yourself get over the finish line? if so, how big. i am talking about advertising. >> let me just tell you that we have -- i'll have over $100 million in the campaign. hillary clinton has nothing in the campaign. she is all special interests and donors. they give her the money and then she'll do wh

dana bash, let me go to you first. it appeared he started on prompter, he was saying we're going to win, my thoughts and prayers to those of you in the wake of hurricane matthew and not too long later veered into the territory of these accusers their lies and i wouldn't have been alone in a club in the '90s. what did you make of all that? >> vintage donald trump there is nobody who thinks can defend himself better than donald trump. nobody has the flat form, nobody has the microphone or megaphone around the influence with his supporters more than he does and while i'm talking about his supporters, the thing we have to keep in mind here is that he does still have a core. maybe that core is shrinking a little bit but he still does have a core of supporters who hear these things and don't really feel compelled to believe the litany of accusations and continuously -- and just anecdotally, i was in suburban philadelphia yesterday with core trump supporters, republican activists who to a person -- and mostly women -- said, y

i want to start with cnn's dana bash, bryan preston, david swerdlick, kevin madden, and rebecca byrd. dana, i want to start with you. what do we know about this video statement trump has apparently made? >> not much except the fact that he did -- did make a statement that campaign intends to release fairly soon, this is according to a source familiar with this. presumably it will be released on some form of social media, twit or facebook, and so you know we'll see what he says. the fact that he decided to go this route, and tape his own statement without never mind a reporter there, but even a te television camera view, is quite telling how much they feel they need to try to control the message about how he's going to respond to this. and you know we thought maybe he was going to try to control the damage before the debate on sunday. we weren't sure how he was going to do that, the fact it was 11:00 eastern, maybe it's not going to happen but i'm told there is a taped statement from donald trump coming soon. >> uh-huh. so a taped statement we're waiting there at the bottom of your scr

our chief political correspondent dana bash is here. chief political analyst gloria borger, and author of "how's your faith?" david gregory and political reporter for "time" magazine zeke miller. you've covered the speaker a long time, dana. a sensitive moment. how is he going to address, for example, the allegations that donald trump groped women that have come forward in recent days? >> i can't imagine him getting that specific. >> he's going to be asked questions. >> yes. >> and i'm sure college republicans will have specific questions. >> we'll see. you would hope that they will considering the fact that this seems to be one of the only opportunities for him to get questions at all on this issue. one thing i can tell you is that, clearly, paul ryan did not anticipate the backlash against him, and what has happened to paul ryan in the last two or three days puts him in the, in the same camp as every other republican who tried to challenge donald trump. sometimes it was on the debate stage. it was because they were his opponents and ot

i enjoyed that. >> thanks. >> thank you very much, dana bash. i appreciate it. when we come back, can donald trump still stage a comeback? what would it take for him to turn things around with just 15 days to go? ♪ ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could help pay some of what medicare doesn't, saving you in out-of-pocket medical costs. you've learned that taking informed steps along the way really makes a difference later. that's what it means to go long™. call now and request this free decision guide. it's full of information on medicare and the range of aarp medicare supplement plans to choose from based on your needs and budget. all plans like these

you herd dana bash trying to get her attention. she did not say anything. how damaging is her silence? >> reporter: well i don't know what she can say. she looks up to her father. she adores her father. that is clear. they are very very tight at father and daughter. i'm not sure what she could say on the campaign trail other than these are false. these are lies. this is not who my father is. she did say though several months ago to cbs news that my father is not a groper. she made that clear when some other allegations had popped up. so she has defended him in the past. her role in pennsylvania was supposed to be very key. which is interesting. now that we see hem slipping in the polls. pennsylvania is one of the states that he really needs to win. and she was expected to be quite a person to help him try to get the suburban women voters. but we see that he's losing women voters as well as male voters. >> scotty, i remember that moment. and it was -- it sort of made you cringe do hear ivanka trump have to say my father is not a groper. she's been his top su

want to bring in chief political correspondent dana bash to explain what's going on. >> that's right. this is potentially a moment that we will look back on as a key turning point in the race in terms of how the republican sort of establishment writ large looks at where the resources go. at least that is what one of the groups, the chamber of commerce, is hoping. they are starting an ad they say today in new hampshire which is to benefit the incumbent republican kelly ayotte but more importantly, the message in it to voters in new hampshire is vote for kelly ayotte as a check and balance on the white house. doesn't explicitly say hillary clinton will win, but that is the clear message. let's take a listen. >> america's future is far from certain. but no matter who the next president is, new hampshire needs a strong voice in the u.s. senate. that's senator kelly ayotte. she works across the aisle to get things done. maggie hasesan's record, she voted over 100 times for more taxes and fees. just imagine what she would do unchecked in washington with a new president. >> now, you showed t

dana bash. moments ago, joe biden weighed in on trump's remarks. >> speaking of meanness and pettiness. [ laughter ] i'm going to be serious for a few moments about trump and i'm not looking for people to cheer oar boo, i'm not looking for any applause lines. i just want to tell you straight from my heart why this bothers me so much. there are only 13 people in american history who've ever served in the senate as long as i have. i've seen an awful lot of people come and go. wonderful women and men and i've worked with eight presidents. but, ladies and gentlemen, the things that donald trump is saying and doing is genuinely a threat to the democratic process which is based on trust. think about what it is. no democratic process can be sustained without a sense of trust. he's questioning not just the legitimacy of our elections, he's questioning the legitimacy of our democracy. if you assert a democratic election is fixed you are attacking the very essence of the notion, whether we have a democrat

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i appreciate it. >> dana bash joins us now. so why were you pressing him on the significance of he'll write a check. >> because i've heard more and more frustration voiced from republicans who want donald trump to win who think he can win in that he's fighting with one hand bind his back. and he even admitted to me he's being outspent or outgunned by hillary clinton on the air in hard hitting television ads against him, especially in places like florida. the complaint among republicans is he has the means to go one his own ads hitting her to have a fair fight. in fact i was told earlier this month the rnc chairman reince priebus went to him and said please mr. trump, you have got to get out that bank account and add to -- yes he's already given millions of dollars but even give more. because it is such a nontraditional campaign he's running. he's sort of in never, never land when it comes to the fundraising mechanism certainly way different than any modern day republican or any presidential candidate has had. so that is the rea

cnn's dana, b bash, chief politl correspondent. istical tie suggesting right now ohio, a key battleground state. trump desperately needs to win in ohio. so what does he need to do in ohio in these three appearances today in order to secure a win? >> the message that he has been putting forward over the last few days on issues. the times he hasn't gotten districted by other things. on issues. on obamacare. of course on his signature issue, on trade. which plays very, very well in the state of ohio. those are the things that if he keeps pushing his advisers think will push him over the edge n places like that. sticking on the issues. he also needs to hope and pray that the enthusiasm gap on the democratic side continues. that hillary clinton will have trouble running up the numbers in the urban areas. and that that will ultimately help donald trump. the problem with the trump campaign is the democrats do have historically -- not just this year, but historically, a really good get out the vote operation that is superior to the republic

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dana bash caught up with him. >> i'll have over 100 million dollars in the campaign.lary clinton has nothing in the campaign. she has special interests and donors and they give her the money and she will do whatever they tell her to do. i am prepared to go more than that. >> trump has a lot of spending left to do. the latest campaign finance numbers show trump loaned his campaign $47.5 million through the end of september. he says he won't take paybacks from his campaign on that money. trump is contributing $8.5 million. that is $56 million total. his campaign started with $35 million in cash. he spent $189 million. trump's timing is interesting. the contributions from october 1st to 19th will be released later today. donations after that date will not become public until december. we won't know how big a check trump has written to his campaign until after the election. >>> donald trump, that's his campaign. as for hillary clinton, her campaign asking biggest donors to put money behind senate candidates now. she has no more big fund-raisers scheduled. instead, she is

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as our dana bash reports, the campaign is using the best weapon it has to try and do that. >> donald trump gets the raucous crowd but his daughter's trip on the trail is speaking volumes. ivanka trump's whirlwind tour. in the suburbs of philadelphia. >> i wouldn't be able to go into the office every day if i didn't have a safe place to bring my child. >> she played it very safe. fielding several of the same softballs at multiple events. why she thinks her father would make a good president. then ignoring our attempts to ask questions. first in chester county. >> ivanka what was your reaction when you heard your father's case? >> then in delaware county. >> she preaches to the choir. pennsylvania women already all in for trump, despite his lewd language caught on tape and the new multiple allegations of groping. >> i'm voting for donald trump. you sound a little reluctant when you say that. >> it's been a hard road. >> he wasn't saying what he does to women, per se. i think he was bragging. >> team trump is hoping local media coverage will help with the political rally not reflected i

let's begin with cnn's chief political correspondent dana bash. good morning, dana. >> good morning, chris. forget about the attacks on the clintons, the republican nominee used precious campaign time on stump in the crucial state of pennsylvania to go after the republican house speaker. let's listen. >> you have people that can't fix a budget, but then they start talking about their nominee. but they can't fix the budget. isn't it really sad that we don't have stronger leadership on both sides? >> so what's going on here, trump is furious that the house speaker paul ryan held a conference call with his rank and file and told them he will no longer be defending trump and he wants every one of his members to say and do whatever they need to about trump. sources tell me several gop lawmakers on the call push the back at ryan, saying he's effectively conceding the race to hillary clinton. though republican leaders deny that it's his intent, the reality is that's exactly what ryan's message means. republicans i talked to are confident that trump will l

. >> but so on that, jeff zeleny, hearing kellyanne conway with dana bash, gloria mentioned 2000 and the automatic recount. that was florida law because it was so close. i don't think it's a fair comparison what happened in 2000 and what we're watching today. do you agree? it's not a fair comparison at all. if you listen to donald trump say it, he said al gore contested it. as all of us who covered the 2000 recount -- >> he called bush. >> it's bush v. gore. james baker and the bush team was the first team to file that action. it's an entirely different situation. in the runup to the 2000 campaign there was no suggestion from al gore or george w. bush the election would be rigged. that's why so many republicans were so alarmed by this last night, brooke, i can't remember something that has set off john mccain as much, at least recently, as this. he said he conceded in 2008 because it was his duty as an american and we all remember that speech as gloria and i were talking about earlier. it was a gracious concession speech in every way. so this is one way donald trump got in his own wa

>> jill stein. >> hillary clinton. >> i'm undecided. >> reporter: dana bash, cnn, greenville, north carolina now, a support of hillary clinton simone, thank you for being here. >> glad to be here. >> excellent. we want to talk about real quickly about why young voters matter so much. at the end of the day, they can swing states. young voters made up 19% of the vote in pennsylvania. 16% in florida. 16% in north carolina. 19% in virginia. 19% in new hampshire. one poll, there it is, more recent poll, shows that between august and september, hillary clinton went from 48% support of young voters to 31%. we're talking about a 17% decrease in one month's time. what is happening? >> well, one, i don't think folks should be too alarmed by that one poll and here's why. we're professional politico as i like to say they've been changing direction for well over a year. lots of millennials, the folks 18 to 34, sometimes, 35, are just now tuning in. what you saw in the polls are initial reactions of young people who are just now dialing into this election. i think young voters care about the issues. and s

dana bash hit the road to find out. >> at field offices and 280 college campuses, millennials work thefor hillary clinton. >> i was wondering if you would like to come out and do voter registration or phone bank with us this weekend. >> reporter: young voters fueled president obama's win. a demo that was nearly 20% of the vote. now could be growing. >> young people could represent 25% of the vote. >> reporter: team clinton is putting such a premium on millennias, they hired youth directors in key battleground states. lily catlin runs north carolina, and says it is key. >> we can't knock on every door, and so it is, you know, having those kinds of conversations, but through our text list or through twitter. >> reporter: still, polls show clinton is under performing with millennials, so the campaign is deploying high profile surrogates. bernie sanders is lobbying his army of young supporters. >> it is imperative that we elect hillary clinton as our next president. >> reporter: chelsea clinton is hop scotching college towns. >> why has it been so hard to get your mom to do that, to get pe

dana bash joins us with the details and political strategy behind this. this basically seems like an obvious dry run for sunday night. >> one source told me it was a scrimmage. they really want donald trump to kind of retain his muscle memory from town halls. he hasn't done as many town halls as chris christie or john mccain who basically lived in new hampshire where a town hall is part of the political tdna there. but the fact is they want him to be in an intimate settic just like on sunday night. they have chosen the place where chris christie had his first down hall when he announced for president in 2016. and chris christie is involved in trying to get donald trump ready stylistically for the idea of being questioned by undecided voters. how you sit, how you stand, how you approach them. what you say when you approach them. the things that are quite different fairway the traditional debate without the town hall. that is about as far i'm told as they are getting in terms of getting trump to change up the way he's preparing for this debate. as opposed t

remember this is what he told cnn dana bash after. >> it sounds like you admitted that you hadn't paid federal taxes and that that was smart. is that what you meant to say? >> i didn't say that at all. i will say this, i hate the way our government spend our taxes. >> what now? what now? donald trump is up early this morning tweeting about this story. he said at 7:22 i know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has run for president and i'm the only one to fix that. does not give us any more information. doesn't say the times account is right. you know this was a debate a week from now and between now and then the vice presidential debate. the pressure on trump to show us more will be huge. >> he was very unlikely to release his tax returns at all had this not come out. i actually kind of think it makes it harder for him because right now there's an insinuation he didn't pay taxes for 18 years. it's likely to show he didn't or potentially worse. he's in a bind right now and they are doing, i think, probably the best they can by spinning it a case of him doing what's legally allow

dana bash, gloria borger, david, carol lee.ant to play a clip, a little more of where these two candidates last night totally disagreed. >> we need a supreme court that in my opinion is going to uphold the second amendment and all amendments but the second amendment which is under absolute siege. >> i understand and respect the tradition of gun ownership. but i also believe there can be and must be reasonable regulation. >> do you want to see it overturned? >> if we put another two or three justices on, that's really what is -- that will happen. that will happen automatically in my opinion because i am putting pro-life justices on the court. >> i want to get everybody out of the shadows. get the economy working. and not let employers like donald exploit undocumented workers which hurts them but also hurts american workers. >> we cannot give amnesty. now, i want to build a wall. we need the wall. the border patrol, i.c.e., they all want the wall. we stop the drugs. we shore up the border. one of my first acts will be to get all

let's go to dana bash. she is working her sources. she is on the phone with me.s amid a number of leading republicans calling for mike pence, the leading running mate, to take the top of this ticket. dana, what are you hearing? >> reporter: hey, poppy, one of the post-interesting things i have been told in the last few hours is about a phone call mike pence had with donald trump. when he explained that he did not feel that he could go to wisconsin to represent donald trump at the big republican unity event that trump was initially supposed to go to before he was disinvited by the house speaker. i am told pence told this trump earlier in this call was the only effective person to speak on this is trump, himself. and that pence said, he told trump, if he went to wisconsin, it would interfere with that. so that's kind of a diplomatic way of saying, you're on your own, dude. this is your problem. this is about you. this is about your character. this is about your action. never mind words and it's pretty clear from that conversation, from the fact that he issued a tou

dana bash, cnn, pennsylvania. >> we are going talk more about that.ald trump is just taken to the stage there in portsmouth, new hampshire. we are going to monitor his comments and bring them live as it merits. let's talk about ivanka trump's role in all this. tara and donald trump supporter, gina, both back with me. ladies. tara, let me begin with you. not trump's wife, but his daughter, ivanka, who is, indeed, a force. on the campaign trail, 24 days now ahead of election day and usually you see prominently the wife or the spouse of a candidate. what does this say to you in terms of the relationship, the family, the positioning of why ivanka trump has been anointed as a real force in reaching out, particularly to these suburban female voters? >> because ivanka is more polished, she's been out in public most her life. she's able to handle it more than melania. i don't think that's really what -- she's happy being in the background. that's clear. plus, what happened to her at the convention left a bad taste in her mouth. for her sake, they would rather

. >> trump taking offense when dana bash asked if hotel ribbon cutting was worth it. >> people say you are taking time out of swing states to go and do this, you say -- >> i say the following, you have been covering me for the last, long time. i did yesterday eight stops and three major speeches and i have been doing this for weeks straight. i left there for an hour and a half. i am going to north carolina, florida, new hampshire. for you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because hillary clinton does one stop and then goes home and sleeps, and yet you'll ask me that question. i think it is a rude question to be honest with you. >> jason carroll is joining us. trump says the polls that show him behind are almost all inaccurate that he is actually winning, right? >> he mentioned the polls tonight. he talked about the phony polls, the national polls showing him behind, the polls showing him behind in battleground states. he said they are phony polls put out by the rigged media. he did mention a new poll out of the state of florida which shows him up by two points. that po

i want to play this sound, following the monday night debate in the spin room with dana bash when dana bash seized on the moment about makes me smart. she asked hix about paying federal taxes after the debate. this is what he had to say. >> it sounds like you admitted you hadn't paid federal taxes and that was smart. is that what you meant to say? >> i didn't say that at all. i will say this, i hate the way our government spends our taxes. >> all right, so ron, how do you put all of this into context, in terms of reporting, what he has been on record as saying and even there, it's not necessarily trying to offer some clarification. what does this do in terms of the campaign and attention and demands that the voting public would make on getting a better understanding of this. >> been audited for 15 years, paid all he owes, that's the tax system, convoluted system. lobbiests get loophole for business people and smart people take advantage of it. it's a big nothing sandwich. if you have net operating losses, every business in america cares and some companies buy other companies for their

susan page, let me begin with you i think the word from dana bash's reporting is calling it a krim imagine, this real life town hall tomorrow on the trail for donald trump. we know chris christie has been coaching him. it's a solid move but i haven't seen many real life town halls with voters across the spectrum with donald trump in the last 17 months so how much will tomorrow truly help him? >> it may help him some because you are exactly right. he's very rarely done town hall formats even during the new hampshire primary where town halls are expected for candidates to do up and down the state. trump did very few of them. he did these big campaign rallies instead. so he doesn't have much experience with this format. it's interesting he's choosing to get practice in and maybe that's a sign that the preparation that clearly paid off for governor pence is something he'd like to have more of this time around in the presidential debate. >> isn't a piece of this, manu, the fact that tomorrow will likely be a friendly crowd? sunday you will have a mix, those who love donald trump, those who aren

dana bash, let's pick up where we left off. tell us what was going on behind the scenes last night with the trump family, juanita broderick, paula jones, catalina willie, and kathleen shelton. where the four women sat. >> we could see right before the debate started that these women walked in. excuse me, and sat in what ended up being dark during the debate, where frank also sat in -- because the entire real audience was dark. they sat there because they were forbidden from sitting where the trump campaign wanted them to sit, which was with the families, which would have meant if -- you remember at the beginning of the debate, the families kind of came out at the same time, it turned out to be a large trump family and just bill clinton on his side. what the trump campaign was planning was for it to be a dramatic moment for bill clinton have these women confront him on live tv. frank ferrencoff got wind of it, one of the cochairs of the presidential debate commission, he knocked on the staff door of the trump campaign and said l

we've got a lot to cover in this broadcast so let's get right to cnn's gloria borger and dana bash, and george sesno of george washington university, good to have you back on, frank. dana, i want to talk to you. you just heard trump praising mike pence. the consensus was pence came out on top if you look at the polls we can from watchers. what was your take to this debate? >> there's no question that pence had the smoothest performance. he stayed calm. i know just from reporting going into the debate that he tried incredibly hard with his team, worked really for months, on being the kind of performer that he was last night, staying calm, not getting excited, not taking the bait to use the term that we're using over and over again to describe what donald trump did last week. but at the same time, he definitely showed some daylight between himself and donald trump, not just on rhetorical issues and how they describe things very differently, but on policy issues and questions. that was tim kaine's goal going in, to show that daylight, to make the case that even his running mate doesn't agr

i've got dana bash watching this with me, our chief political correspondent. you saw how hillary clinton had said trump seemingly conceding defeat, but i'm pretty sure i heard donald trump over the weekend saying he's winning. why that's dangerous of her to say that. >> whether or not, let's just say that he suggested he's conceding defeat. if you are hillary clinton and you're trying to make sure that everybody gets to the polls, not just now in states where there is early voting, she's not in one of them right now, but more importantly, on election day you want to keep up enthusiasm, you want to get people energized to stand up and say, oh, donald trump is already conceding defeat, if i'm somebody who is on the fence as a voter in a swing state, i'm going to take my kids to school, go to work and come home if i'm not that enthusiastic to begin with. >> right, right. so, interesting note there. then, meantime, have you this reporting from jeff zeleny on phone calls. i know, like at clinton hq, robby mook, campaign manager, he forbids anyone from talking about

dana bash is here with me in washington.observers widely rate pence won last night but there are reports that trump may not be happy because pence did not defend him strongly enough. >> that's right. of course, donald trump wanted his running mate to do well, but perhaps not at the expense of defending him at all costs. trying to translate trump's language into more palatable rhetoric has been pence's main role since he was picked. the indiana governor took that to another level at times last night, seeming to reshape some of trump's policies. mike pence could teach a master class in the art of deflection. >> why the disconnect with your running mates? >> there is a reason why people question the trust worthiness of hillary clinton. donald trump and i would never support legislation that punished women who made the heart-breaking choice to end a pregnancy. >> why did donald trump say that? >> just never would? >> why would he say that? >> look, he is not a polished politician like you and hillary clinton. >> pence repeatedly

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dana bash, stand by, as well as evan. i want to bring in cnn politics executive editor mark preston, alan dershowtiz, cnn political analyst christen powers, a columnist for "usa today," ryan lizza, and david gergen, cnn's political analyst. i'm so glad to have you here this evening, but happy to have mr. dershowtiz, an attorney who can walk us through this. we'll start with you, mark, why was this not discovered before? >> well, that's the real question. huma abedin's lawyers probably should have turned any e-mails that she sent relating to the e-mail investigation in response to earlier subpoenas and the reason that question comes up is they shouldn't have found it in an investigation of wiener. when they took wiener's computer, immediately her lawyer should have gone to court and said, all right, you have wiener's computer and you can look at the sexting material but you shouldn't be able to look at any of her -- his wife's e-mails that have nothing to do with the texting investigation. >> why didn't that happen? >> wel

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. >> reporter: and getting upset when cnn's dana bash asked him about the hotel step. >> for you to ask me that question is actually very insulting because hillary does one stop and then goes home and sleeps and yet you'll ask me that question. i think it's a very rude question to be hoppenest with y >> reporter: bringing up clinton attending an adele concert in miami. >> attended an adele concert and i did eight stops yesterday, three rallies. >> reporter: helped ring in her 69th birthday. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: stevie wonder cereinated clinton on her radio show. now to give you a sense of how important ohio is to the trump campaign, justteric take a look the numbers. he visited this battleground more than any other state. 12 visits, 21 events and that continues here today. goes on to springfield and toledo and then in geneva. not the only person campaigning here in ohio. tim kaine will also be in the state. meanwhile his running mate, hillary clinton, going to the other swing state of north carolina with michelle obama. alisyn. >> thank you for all of that. >>> another i