after months of making himself scarce, form president bill clinton is starting to speak up and hit the road on behalf of his wife, democratic front-runner, hillary clinton. here's the former front-runner on cnbc discussing hillary's e-mail controversy just yesterday. >> it really is similar to the strategy that the republicans employed against me with white water. but i'm glad it happened in 2015 instead of 2016. and i believe it will burn itself out. what the american people have to think of is this. a few months ago, she was still the most admired person in public life in america. why? because she was covered, because of the work she did. she'd been around a long time, people knew that she's on the level, she gets up every day and tries to do a good job. then all of a sudden, the only thing that matters is e-mails. what exactly does it matter? i trust the american people. they'll get this. they'll work through it. they'll understand they're being sent a heavy signal, we don't want to run against this woman. >> as hillary clinton's poll numbers continue to erode and bernie sanders' su

reverend al sharpton is protesting a bit against bill clinton when the crime bill passed. it was seen as a war between police and african-americans on the streets of urban america. he he does the will for reform bill trying to get ahead of gingrich and stop and worse bill from coming through. that has consequences for the white in the black in the country. this clinton pass which was on the one hand a golden economic age in african-americans loved bill clinton in a lot of ways there was a lot of tension there >> host: that's fascinating. i know you talked about the urban agenda and many of the civil rights community were trying to push it in the beginning of the administration as well as welfare reform that cost the fracture as well. so if fascinating aspects in the book. let's bring it up those two 2015. it's an amazing year a very tumultuous year with respect to race relations particularly when it comes to recent police interaction, police shootings. many of them have been captured on video and much of the nation has been shocked by this horrendous treatment and serious

is it about bill clinton the politician, hillary clinton, politician, or is it about more personal? >> it is a great question. the 1st crack that spreads is in 1968. four years after the civil rights act, three years after the voting rights act, and you have president johnson was heroic in the eyes of many african-americans suddenly pivoting away from the resourcing of the war on poverty which was meant to rescue not justjust black people but also wife were all-americans from poverty. you see him drain resources away from that and put it into the war. you also see protectionism in the non-. you are not welcome in these neighborhoods. they start to look at lyndon johnson five ways. and king comes out against the war, and then you have lyndon johnson go to the convention and 68 even after he was not going to run, and in order to insert hubert humphrey, the black freedom fighters, not expecting the voting rights act. then i don't even want him on tv. that was the 1st moment. as you know, you have the black establishment saying we need to respond and put up our own kennedy. show this de

it was around the time when bill clinton was attempting. jesse had a unique positioning, a former southern governor or you can talk to both of them that apprentice episode managed to nab. he he comes in and tries to use the same language to talk country slavery was wrong when he was in africa. and in the see his sexuality , the other thing signifiers, blackness, single moms a man child in the promised land. and youand you have this aspect misdemeanor. he can go into a black church and get on the pulpit and sounds like a preacher. had he been black and jesse jackson white bill clinton will have been a pastor a preacher. he was an aspect, i felt comfortable. >> and bill clinton didn't have to do that. is often said during the 1st run. how do you think it encountered his electability? >> it's interesting. it was tailor-made for him to be the 1st black president. banner, the land was brought up, white america and a convergence with white america and white anxiety. he perfectly communicated white anxiety. you could explain that in a way that did

that kind of bill clinton would be a tremendous asset to hillary clinton. >> bill jones thinks of him as one of the greatest defenders of his wife. listen to him on fareed zakaria. >> i have never seen so much expended on so little. the other party doesn't want to run against her and if they do they want her as mangled up as much as possible. >> he is one of the strongers po strongest political leaders on earth. >> will he make mistakes like 2008? earlier the president said this about then senator barack obama's campaign. >> give me a break. this whole thing is the biggest fairy tale i have ever seen. >> only to explain later that he was talking about obama's stance on the iraq war, not obama's quest to become the first black president. bill clinton also compared obama's south carolina primary win to jesse jackson's successful campaign in the state years earlier. a comment that angered black voters who thought he was marginalizing obama. clinton tried to explain. >> i think that they played the race card on me. this was used out of context and twisted for political purposes by the oba

so let's talk about bill clinton.s, wow, he's taking shots at donald trump now over trump's repeated criticism of hillary clinton's record as secretary of state. so is this just what hillary needs to boost her poll numbers, some firepower from her husband? >> it's always hard to tell when bill clinton goes out there and takes shots at people whether he's doing it as part of the a direction from the campaign, or just out there freelancing. i think, you know, at this point i'm not sure there's a whole lot of value for hillary clinton in having a tangle with donald trump, who tends to unload pretty heavily when he gets in fights with people. so i'm not sure exactly what's going on here. but i do think we're going to see more and more of bill clinton on the campaign trail and pretty soon. >> well, let's think about this, though. could trump have met his match with bill clinton? should he become more vocal in hillary's defense? >> you know, i think it's true that bill clinton gives as good as he gets and he's somebody who

if you're like bill clinton, bill clinton is a liar. and he tells the lies he needs to tell to get out of the situation he's in. he does so very charmingly. the point is, hillary, i think, would possibly have a sporting chance of surviving this if there was any good side to her campaign. but everything about her campaign is tone deaf. when she was endorsed by jean shaheen over the weekend, she had this ridiculous choir of arrythmic white npr listening women pretending to do some negro spiritual where they substituted jesus' name and replaced wit hillary. i don't know who thought that was a great idea. whether they're going to do that with every well-known hymn. what a friend we have in hillary. she walks with me and talks with me and tells me poll tested jokes. i don't know if they'll do that with every hymn.

if you have an incredible valuable asset like bill clinton, deploy them. the challenge is what you raise is right, they have to find the right balance this is hillary clinton running on her agenda for the kind of president she would be and not simply as she would say, not bill clinton's third term. if hillary clinton can go to iowa and bill clinton can go to raise money, that's what she has over opponents. >> jonathan, easier said than done finding the balance because bill clinton is a strong personality, strong character. how do you keep him in effect in that box for the next, you know, 14 months going forward and a long hard-fought campaign assuming secretary clinton is the nominee? >> dan won't brag how brilliantly the obama campaign used bill clinton in 2008 and 2012 but figured out the right measurement. in 2000 al gore distanced himself and that turned out to be a mistake but in 2008 in the general election and 2012 in the general election, bill clinton was a great suone. if hillary clinton can figure out how to get her husband to do that and stay on

here's betty liu with cgi founder and former president bill clinton. thinke commitment will have the biggest impact so far. pres. clinton: more than 90% now represent partnership. they have a chance to grow. some of them that are really exciting, another would have a chance to grow. the fascinating commitment the financial institutions putting in development of funds to bring clean energy jobs to native americans. they are still the poorest group of americans, ones that live on tribal land that don't have casinos. that has a chance to blow up. that, butseveral like the biggest one in terms of dollars and jobs by far is the continuation of the original $10 billion commitment by the american federation of teachers, --to retrofit buildings. the $5.6 billion of this commitment have been deployed and spent and they created 50,000 jobs. that's a lot. betty: what happens to the foundation, the great work you have done. what happens, as you have mentioned many times, this year is different because your wife is running for president. what happens if she does, in

to invest... ...in this big, bold, beautiful world. >>> praising donald trump, former president bill clintonbrows over the weekend because he did just that in an interview on cnn. so i asked trumped about clinton's comments when i sat down with him earlier >> so bill clinton obviously, you could be running against his wife if you are you the nominee. he said you're a master brander and have pizazz and zip and when asked whether you could be the nominee, he said i think so. obviously, he attended your wedding and you've known him a long time. would you say he's a trend? >> no, i haven't spoken to him for a long time and actually, he wanted to know what i was going to do and a long time ago he called. i haven't spoken to him for a long time. i always respected him. i've liked him. when i look at what is going on in the world and the job hilary did as secretary of state, she goes down as perhaps the worst secretary of state in history and when i run against her evenly in the polls, i'm doing very well against hilary and beating her, probably, though, i will tell you you're talking about the ira

the e-mail that we have from bill clinton's office shows he was seeking the permission in the summer f 2012. remember what the "wall street journal" reported last week, in july of 2012, hillary clinton's one of her top aides dick sullivan was meeting secretly with iranian diplomats in talks that paved the way for the iran nuclear deal that we're debating right now, and obviously opened the door to ending u.s. sanctions against iran, just as this lobbying group wants, and so what's interesting is have you this outside group trying to pay money for a speech to the office of former president bill clinton. in the end, we've learned the speech did not happen, but remember it follows a pattern we've seen there. was the speech to the group with ties to north korea that bill clinton was office ran past the state department, ended up not happening. a speech for a group tied to the democratic republic of congo very controversial as well. that speech did not happen. critics have been saying why wasn't the former president considering such controversial speeches? i spoke to his office today, they

here is betty liu with cgi president and founder bill clinton. tell me the commitment you think will have the biggest impact that has been made so far at cgi america. mr. clinton: more than 90% of them now represent partnership, with diverse people that have a chance to grow with our partnership. some of them that are really exciting are those who have a chance to grow. there was a fascinating commitment involving financial institutions putting in developmental funds to bring clean energy jobs to native americans. they are still the poorest group of americans. the native americans who live on tribal land who don't have casinos. that has got a chance to really blow up. there are several like that. the biggest one in terms of dollars and jobs by far is the continuation of the original $10 billion commitment for the american federation of teachers, infrastructure and the afl-cio to retrofit buildings. the first $5.6 billion of this commitment had been deployed and spent. they created 50,000 jobs. that's a lot of jobs. betty: mr. president, what happ

here is betty liu with cgi president and founder bill clinton. y: tell me the commitment you think will have the biggest impact that has been made so far at cgi america. mr. clinton: more than 90% of them now represent partnership, with diverse people that have a chance to grow with our partnership. some of them that are really exciting are those who have a chance to grow. there was a fascinating commitment involving financial institutions putting in developmental funds to bring clean energy jobs to native americans. they are still the poorest group of americans. the native americans who live on tribal land who don't have casinos. that has got a chance to really blow up. there are several like that. the biggest one in terms of dollars and jobs by far is the continuation of the original $10 billion commitment for the american federation of teachers, infrastructure and the afl-cio to retrofit buildings. the first $5.6 billion of this commitment had been deployed and spent. they created 50,000 jobs. that's a lot of jobs. betty: mr. president, what ha

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>>> more to come tonight from bill clinton. plus donald trump speaking his mind tonight. this is "cnn tonight," i'm don lemon. trump tangle with bill o'reilly on fox news. donald trump calling marco rubio a clown. guess who gets the last word? >> it's the clown stuff that's not fine. you can understand that. >> but he hit me very viciously. >> plus bill clinton says this about the trump brand. >> the thing about branding is you don't have to be -- you could be fact free. >> also the rise of dr. ben carson. is his campaign about to take off? >> we've had over 550,000 donations, just blowing everybody out of the water. >> and a message on black lives matter that may surprise you. >> don, i'm going to say it straight and i'm going to hurt some feelings but this is the truth. >> we're going to get to all of that tonight but i want to begin with donald trump. joining me is sam clovis, national chairman of the trump campaign. good evening. how are you doing? >> i'm fine. how are you? >> i'm good. donald trump ended himself boycott of fox news. he was asked about his high unfavor

they wanted bill clinton to be in the center of it.c has denied being a lobbying group for iran but has denied all sanctions against iran. david bossy who recently shared other e-mails about the vetting process for these speeches. bill clinton did not deliver those other speeches for groups tied to north korea, congo or this one with the niac. saying fox newsday, as we said before all requests were run by the state department. most importantly ultimately the president did not give this speech. but, of course, critics in those other speech requests that have come up before, why did the former president's office even entertain it at all? all of this coming at a time when hillary clinton has been dealing with a real slide in polls because of this issue of trust that's popped up again and again. >> what do you know about, it crossed my mind, those are the words that hillary clinton said about bill clinton as her vp. somewhat surprising. >> she opened the door by saying it's crossed her mind. in the next moment kind of shut the door by sayi

here is betty liu with cgi president and founder bill clinton. ell me the commitment you think will have the biggest impact that has been made so far at cgi america. mr. clinton: more than 90% of them now represent partnership, with diverse people that have a chance to grow with our partnership. some of them that are really exciting are those who have a chance to grow. there was a fascinating commitment involving financial institutions putting in developmental funds to bring clean energy jobs to native americans. they are still the poorest group of americans. the native americans who live on tribal land who don't have casinos. that has got a chance to really blow up. there are several like that. the biggest one in terms of dollars and jobs by far is the continuation of the original $10 billion commitment for the american federation of teachers, infrastructure and the afl-cio to retrofit buildings. the first $5.6 billion of this commitment had been deployed and spent. they created 50,000 jobs. that's a lot of jobs. betty: mr. president, what happen

welcome to a special edition of "erin burnett out front with president bill clinton this is his organization dedicated to solving global problems. it's 10 years old. what is next for cgi and president clinton has his wife runs for the white house? please welcome president bill clinton. this is all coming on the heart of the 2016 election. we are right in it right now. so let me just ask you because the other day you said it was possible donald trump could win the nomination. which republican do you think will win the nomination? >> let me first of all say this is my life now. i last ran for office -- >> this is your way of saying you don't want to be vp? >> yeah. i also think it violates the spirit of the 22nd amendment. even if hillary did not run for president, someone else was nominated, i still shouldn't be vice president because i think it violates the spirit of the 22nd amendment which clearly limits any individual to two terms. you don't want the person who is first in line for the presidency to be somebody who can't serve because then, like consider what that would mean here. means y

let me quote from the e-mail that came from bill clinton's office.d would the u.s. v government have any concerns about wjc doing a paid speech for the national iranian american council. we have been approached for president clinton to speak at a fund raising gala there. this is in 2012. we obtained the e-mail as it came in from a lawsuit. he's gotten some e-mails involving the bill clinton speaking request. there were previous ones involving north korea that were quite controversial. in the end bill clinton did not deliver the speeches and he did not deliver this speech. we just got the statement stressing they were not asking permission but as we've said before, as a matter of course all request were run by the state department and most importantly, ultimately the president did not give this speech. very interesting because we're starti ining as some of these e-mails pure out to get an inside look at the speeches the president was considering. >> okay. very interesting. hillary clinton also struggling right now with female voters. when you break that down, what did

segment. >> but you like bill clinton?i like redd fox. >> that's what i was going to say. >> well, i mean, can you blame him? >> would it be so bad to have bill clinton back? >> i'd rather have him than hillary. >> absolutely not. there are people who think that way. >> you think so? >> yes, not me. >> you know what i think, did you see. >> a show of hands -- >> have you seen twice now hillary clinton said i would love to debate donald trump on the issues. she was trashing him about don't cherish women, respect women. twice she said she wanted to debate him. can you believe, trump with ler history of excusing bill clinton's indirections right under her nose. >> i don't think they want to go down that road. >> oh, he would go down it. >> trump would bring that up? >> if trump -- >> he'd drive down that road with a mack truck, trust me. waving the blue dress over his head, whew. >> he would show up in a blue dress. >> now that would win -- >> he is shows up in a blue dress? >> pull one out of your pocket. >> this cultural. i

us as we celebrate eddie's retirement, and start planning your own. >>> and back to president bill clinton here at the clinton global initiative. we talked about the difficult choice of abortion, which there will be a lot more choices as people get more information. but there are also people in china, this year, when they were able to mess with the gene. you know, as this goes ahead and you're thinking on the moral frontiers, right, you may be able to say not just do i want a baby with blue or green eyes but i want somebody with this personality trait or i want them to be that way. that power could be in our hands, right? >> it is in our hands today except we don't know the genetics around personality trait. >> it's kind of terrifying, though, isn't it? >> i find it very exciting, depending on how you use the information. you can actually select a cell, we can do the genome sequence on a cell, and you can find the cell lacking for a terrible disease that will kill the child in the first ten years of life. so just by knowing the code you can make the decision about whether to have an aborti

i'll ask president bill clinton when we come back. the syrian civil war isn't going to end any time soon. what will happen? >> well, first, even and if there's a silver lining isis has a model of how they want the world to work and how they want the middle east to work. they want to redraw the boundaries set after world war i. > >>> i will speak in spanish not english. i'll be translating. thank you for welcoming me and giving me the chance to be here with you to share this moment in your lives. it's a difficult moment. a time fraught with challenges. i know this moment is painful for you but i also know that it's painful for your families and for all society. because if a society or a family cannot feel the pain of the children, it cannot take their pain seriously. if the pain becomes normal or expected then that society imprisons itself. it's condemned to imprison itself and fall prey to its own suffering. i stand among you a pastor, a shepherd but above all your brother to share in your plight and make it my own. i am here that we

with johnson's legacy, whether to run away with it which the party by large did, spearheaded by bill clinton who shifted the party to the right as a corrective to what i think a lot of party leaders saw as the consequences, the electoral consequences of embracing so much social change. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. japanese lawmakers have voted into law new measures to allow japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time since the end of world war ii. the vote came after days of protests which brought tens of thousands to the streets to defend japan's pacificist constitution. japanese prime minister shinzo abe has pushed to weaken the pacificist provisions as part of a broader strategy of militarization. opposition parties had sought to block the pro-military measures which were opposed by a majority of the public. protesters vowed to continue fighting. >> it doesn't mean we should let it pass. we can't just develop because it pass. after all, it was passed in the most regular way. celebratedranc

they're trying to give money to former president bill clinton in terms of a paid speech that would have been hundreds of thousands of dollars the a time, the summer of 2012, when some of hillary clinton's top aides at the state department were meeting in secret. we now know it but at time it was secret that summer. they were meeting behind closed doors with iranian diplomats about paving the way for this iran nuclear deal that mike emanuel was just reporting on. here is the bottom line. in the end he did not give the speech just as bill clinton didn't give other speech that was controversial tied to a group tied to north korea that popped up a couple weeks ago. this adds to questions why it wasn't dismissed right away from the former president's office? why would it be contemplated by such a couldn't versal group? number two, happening in environment where hillary clinton is dealing with a real slide in the polls. "washington post/abc news poll," suggesting that for example, she lost 29 points in terms of support with female voters supposed to be her bedrock, david. in part because of t

>> we've been hearing a lot of whispers about more bill clinton. a week or two ago hosted first fund-raiser for his wife in chicago. i don't think anything negative holding him back in early days. in fairness to hillary clinton, she clearly doesn't want to be in the long shadow of bill clinton. everybody knows he is better than she is in retail politics bringing voters in. she obviously failed in 2008. so this time campaign wanted her rightly to get out on her own last few months, but as she is struggling the idea bill clinton might get out there not just for fund-raising but new hampshire, at rallies. i been to some of the rallies. she doesn't get very large crowds. as she gets closer and closer to caucuses in iowa, bill clinton the big dog, to real in big votes, that seems like near certainty, trish. trish: we'll be watching for it. ed henry, thank you very much. i quickly want to touch on the market. you look at dow off 186 points. it is clear the economy is going to be in focus in this election. a lot of concerns about the global economy and in

clinton, like al gore, is experienced, intelligent but also married to bill clinton and al gore wasn't. >> molly, you went through all that with -- earlier this week you wrote a fascinating piece like they can talk about all they want about repackaging clinton, trying to presenter in a different way but hillary is hillary and what you see is what you get. >> she is. at the same time, you talk about her having trouble coming out from under bill's shadow, separating herself from obama and it's because she herself is not very well defined for people. and her campaign keeps trying to make this not about her, make it more about the policy or the substance, that's the ground she's most comfortable on, but it's always going to be about her and she has trouble creating an image of herself in people's mientds that really stands out and so you have her saying things like "i'm comfortable in the center, i want to brung everybody together." her new line now that she's stopped saying "everyday americans" because they decided that was weird. so the new line is -- >> because the every other day ameri

>> they declined them but it was not that, bill clinton didn't want to do them eyou can see -- wjc, bill clinton wants to know whether or not he can accept the $650,000, and put it in foundation. several years ago now foundation was never going to be releases its donor list, only now did they get forced to. >> interesting, because of your efforts, of organizations like judicial watch, other activist organizations, where would we be, why is there not a rule, a law, a regulation requiring, total transparency? there there is supposed to be, that is what foye - -- laws are about. if we came up with this, we filed a request and had to wait a year then went to court, you have to have resources to lit litigate these. lou: american people deserve transparency, this should not be necessary, there -- we should have both parties, working together. >> there needs to be foyeia. lou: they are not going to do that. >> durning to, if we may. political empac embassy pack, ay other person i would imagine. to me, in this situation, would not have the guts to remain a candidate for the presidency of the uni

we do know she was bill clinton's secretary of state so of course she is an advocate of hillary clinton. she's saying while permissible she would not have done it. that bolsters the argument that indeed what hilalary clinton di was not the better judgment. why bill was upset at the gop for calling her out on this is amazing to me. >> he's stuck in the '90s. >> it's an add ver sairian process when you run for president. >> the right-wing conspiracy started with them. >> come on! he's stuck in the '90s. those are the politics bill clinton knows how to plays. that's why he keeps mentioning the vast right wing convict spirs i, which hillary clinton suzed the same words and it again does not justify why she decided to have a private server in her house, decided to -- now we have the fbi investigation which again we're showing that these e-mails that she wasn't completely honest because these e-mails that are coming out now they're work related e-mails coming out. >> got to see how this all plays out. politics are never not interesting. ladies, we'll see you again soon. >> thank you. >>> time

it has been 20 years since we with vietnam,ons led by bill clinton. what lessons can we apply from be non-tequila or other countries? ms. demmer: this is a very important question, something i will hopefully be looking more at in the future, just what we mean by normalization. i think it is important to remember that each of these case studies has been different. one obvious example is that when president clinton announced normalize relations with vietnam, congress had already lifted the embargo on vietnam. whereas, with cuba, president obama announced relations normalized, but the embargo remains. malleablevery concept, where we are -- we don't have a set definition of the announcement of normalization. to 1975.ant to go back the war had just ended, one of the most divisive wars in history. thousands of men had died in vietnam, the draft was in place, and yet, when the war came to an end, these americans came to the -- vietnamese americans came to the u.s. take us back to what these vietnamese were thinking, and why they wanted to come here? ms. demm

director for president bill clinton don beyer plus republican congresswoman diane black on houseplants on a bill to lift the export oil bed. back in a minute. maria: good morning, everybody. it is one day come september 16th. joining me fox business andersen at and meredith advised their founding -- the republican field gives up for the second debate tonight. the top 11 candidate including carly fiorina will participate in the apm debate. the remaining four candidates will appear in it debate at 6:00 p.m. events will be held at the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. we will take you there straight ahead. front runner donald trump not wasting any time. trump made a foreign policy speech last night aboard the uss iowa taken on immigration. >> right now, and you know it, we have illegal immigrants treated better by far than our veterans. it's not cannot happen anymore. maria: also a big day for the market that the federal reserve kicks off its two-day policy meeting. i look at inflation numbers in the pci number comes out. yesterday was below expectations and f

: why even consider this given a conflict of interest. >> it's not accurate to say bill clinton asked anything. one of his aides asked. bill: assume can the aide was not requested by bill clinton. >> the headline does not save assuming. the aide asked the question and the answer was no. and as far as i'm concerned that's the way the process should work. whether the aide should have asked the question ... bill: you see something wrong with this? yes or no. >> the aide asked the question and the answer was no and that should have been the headline. no matter what hatches somehow bill clinton makes it into the headline even thought it's completely inaccurate. it was one of his aides who asked the question. and the answer was no. bill: march 2015, after a state department request hillary clinton said all my emails that could have been work-related have been handled over. now we are finding five months are missing. what's up with that? >> it's all speculative. i have no idea whether it's true. we have no facts. somebody said five months is missing. we have no proof of that. remember whitew