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(brian fallon / clinton campaign press secretary) "i think if she had her dt for california today." the sunday moment has now put her campaign on defense over her health and transparency. (brian fallon / clinton campaign press secretary) "in retrospect, i think we should have provided more information more quickly." clinton's campaign now says it will release more information about her health this week. neither hillary clinton or donald trump have released comprehensive medical records. (brian fallon / clinton campaign press secretary) "we are going to take the step to get additional material together and release further information in light of yesterday's incident." (nats clinton coughing) in the midst of a rough week... ...several of clinton's top aides have been sick with respiratory illness, too, one even hospitalized and treated for dehydration. her campaign is also calling for the same level of health scrutiny to be directed at donald trump. trump has been critical of clinton's health on the trail. (trump) "she doesn't have the strength or the stamina to make america great aga

brian fallon. brian fallon said today, we don't want to be judged on a curve. i think that's what's going on here. i think most people will judge us on a curve. if donald trump comes out there and is calm and serious and matches her point by point, people will say, he won. that could happen. i'm just saying, i think that's what the clinton people are deadly afraid of. an even match, he wins. >> trump's told me he's not doing formal debate prep, as we know. >> why? >> roger ailes is playing a role, not a formal role, in getting trump ready for the debates. trump said ailes is walking him through the history of debates, how former candidates, people he's worked, nixon and others have handled the these debates. and one thing trump's working for is, does clinton attack him? he said he's ready to be the statesmen if that's the tone of the debate. he's also ready to be the attack dog. it will be interesting to see how clinton handles him. does she bait him, bring him out, or keep hip on a different level. >> well, donald trump jr., a top e >>> i ereleased mine, i thi

you can look at the pieces of this and look at what brian fallon said and put this together and kind of figure out what happened here which was she knew on friday she was sick. she thought i can take the antibiotics and power through this and we'll see what happens on monday. that didn't exactly work out. >> do you think she was ever going to disclose if she could get away with it? >> who knows? given the narrative that was already out there and being pushed -- by the way, i don't think many people know this -- this had been going on for many months. "the national enquirer" wrote a piece back in october saying she would be dead in six months. there's been stuff out there that's been circulating. >> you shop in safeway, you read the stuff in those papers. it's horrendous. >> unfortunately for her, this takes some of that stuff mainstream. these people feel empowered. >> how are they going to jump this to a serious question of health beyond pneumonia? i had pneumonia five or six years ago. let me put it clearly. i've had malaria and pneumonia. pneumonia felt worse. i ended up getting s

joining me now is brian fallon, joining me from inside the head quarters in brooklyn. brian, it is good to have you with me. as casey is talking about there of the lead that secretary clinton had is effectively gone. it is a dead heat and that includes gary johnson and jill stein in this case. cnn has her down in the battleground state in ohio. >>. >> no, i don't think so. the tighten that we are seeing is as natural point here in the campaign where it is happening post labor day. i think in fact there was probably a little bit of an effect after the conventions where our balance were a little prolong by the fact that donald trump was incurring all these self inflicted wounds. i think this given the level of polarization of our country today, this is the norms of our presidential elections. they are in tight contest. we in north carolina today. that's a state that president obama did not win in 2012. all of these states are really close until the end. it is important to have a strong organization in place. we have 300 offices opened. that includes 50 in florida and ohio

get your reaction, brian fallon is saying what he doubled down. melissa: no he didn't. >> he did the opposite. he specifically said. melissa: it is over. >> he is the president was born in america. that is over. let's move on. julie: what changed his mind? six years, i'm sorry, close to six years, five years of him saying the president was not born here, sending investigators to hawaii to search out the truth of implying president is foreign citizen sent here -- harris: what is next from hillary clinton? julie: i would like answers. >> candidates change the mind all the time. president obama and hillary clinton changed their mind on gay marriage. julie: stop, no, in 2011 he produced birth certificate as recently 2014 and 15 pushing discredited theory. harris: i don't think i'm getting answer what hillary will do. in 2011 trump said i am really honored, frankly to have played such a big role hopefully getting rid of this issue. he said, today i'm very proud of myself because i have accomplished nobody else has been able to do, and that was get the

i think we have the entirety of brian fallon's comments if you want to look quick. he talked a little bit about mistakes the campaign made in handling this whole thing. >> we have been in touch with her this morning. we are going to be releasing additional information about hillary clinton in the next few days. we have been in touch with her physician this morning to get those materials together. we will be releasing that to further put to rest any lingering concerns about what you saw yesterday. i can attest that it is the case that there is no other undisclosed condition. the pneumonia is the extent of it. >> so the issue for the clinton campaign, of course, is they are saying now this is it. the problem is they found out on friday she's suffering from seasonal allergies and there are people on the staff who didn't know what was going on and didn't understand why what happened at the memorial happened the way it did. taken together what's gone on with health and the deplorables comment represent the most difficult 48 hours for the clinton campaign so far. they hav

as a country we won't tolerate or buy the sentiments or rhetoric coming from donald trump. >> brian fallon, hillary clinton hq in brooklyn. brian, thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up next here, we're staying on this, a member of donald trump's diversity coalition will join me along with both sides of today's circ circus, that's what it was. circus. plus, he is a republican, the governor of a swing state, can't stand trump, hear why john kasich showed up at the white house today and moments from now the first lady, michelle obama, making her first appearance on the campaign trail after firing up the democrats at the dnc. she is in virginia today stumping for hillary clinton. we'll take it live. you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. cure cancer million? far off. liver disease treatment. that by voting yes on prop 61 - costs. dollars pass. don't let that happen. it - because one day it might. >>> welcome back, i'm brooke baldwin. after four years of feeding the lies, donald trump admitted his birther believes were wrong and stated clearly president obama was born in the united states. m

. >> brian fallon said your campaign will release more of your records. you know donald trump said he had a physical on friday and will release that soon. will you release your medical history and how detailed it will be and how far it will go back and what happened in 2012 when you fell and hit your head. do you know how far it will go? >> we will release more information. i think it is fair to say we already met the standard of disclosure of past presidential candidates like mitt romney and president obama. we will add more information. i already released information about my health in this campaign as well as nearly 40 years of tax returns. we already met a high standard of transparency. we know the least about donald trump of any candidate in recent american history. know virtually nothing about his business and foreign investors. it is really past time for him to be held to the same standards, not just as me, but everybody else who sought this job. >> hillary clinton speaking exclusively to anderson cooper. donald trump is campaigning in iowa and pen

>> we got this just moments ago, from brian fallon. it's a reaction to signs that the trump campaign and trump surrogates may be ready to step up their attacks and their personal attacks against the clinton family, particularly bill clinton for his past indiscretions. let me read you the statement we got from brian fallon. it says after his disastrous debate performance and his sexist attack on a former miss universe for her weight, he is now trying to deflect by going after hillary clinton about her marriage while trump and lieutenant may want to dredge up failed attacks from the 1990s as many republicans have warned this is a mistake that is going to backfire. he could try to distract from his demeaning comments against women, but if donald trump thinks these attacks against hillary clinton are going to throw her off her game and what matters to move this country forward, he is wrong. so a little bit of a warning there from spokesperson brian fallon. now, secretary clinton is going to try to stay on message. she's heading to iowa lat

steve: and let me conclude on that point, brian fallon. f the mechanics on preparing for the debates, can you give us any insight or color into how she is doing that, and who is playing donald trump in these preparations? mr. fallon: we haven't gone into great detail about exactly how those preparations are taking place. i can say the team of advisers that is working with her is the same as the group that helped with her preparations during the primary. in general, she does a lot of reading, absorbs a lot. she likes to do her homework. that is true in general, but particularly true of the debates. she is pretty fluent in most of the policy areas. we have been very proud of the fact during this campaign we have been very detailed and policy proposals we put forward. last week, we published a book called "stronger together," a conference of volume of vision that secretary clinton and senator kaine put forward that we are running on. she doesn't need to necessarily known up on policy issues, but i think donald trump says so much in the course

brian fallon, it is nice to see you. as we look at this new polling in colorado and pennsylvania, only one point ahead for hillary clinton, this is considered a firewall for you. how did your candidate reverse that trend. there is no doubt that the race is closed. i think in august, people got a misimpression about the race. some of the national polls having us up eight or nine or ten points. i think in those particular states, we feel better in those polls. we have to work hard in the next six. >> why take your advertisement out of the important states like colorado, virginia and ohio. >> we feel confident about a state like ohio and a state like virginia. >> with these polling numbers, what do you feel about that? >> even though we may not be on the air, we have our ground games in place. we feel like if we turn out our supporters that we identify them in most states that we'll come out on top. there is no question that this is going to come down to ground game and these three debates. tonight, actually the stakes are

. >> the clinton camp jumped on trump's answer with the brian fallon tweeted quote trump ned to say it himself, on camera, and admit he was wrong tore trying to delegitimize the first african-american president. hillary clinton took to task for the birth >> he was asked one more time, where was president obama born? and he still wouldn't say hawaii. he still wouldn't say america. this man wants to be our next president. when will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry? herself defending her camp, a series of battle ground polls show trump leading 53 days before election day. >> i've always said that this was going to be a tight race. i've said it from the very beginning. when the polls were up, down, it didn't matter. what matters is who registers to vote and who is motivated and mobilized to turn out the vote. i will keep doing everything i can to deliver my message about what's at stake in this election continue to work hard every day to turn out every voter we possibly can. >> and we now have where clinton will deploy her strongest effective candidates to the campaign trail, all barn s

here with me is clinton campaign press secretary brian fallon. thanks very much for coming in. >> thanks for having me, wolf. >> is it true she's still practicing, mock debating today? >> i don't know about another mock session today but certainly taking last-minute preparations. she takes these debates seriously. i have to point out something reince priebus said. you asked about donald trump's qualifications, he's stressed 14 series finales of "the apprentice," they're hoping to coast on style and tell vis showmanship. no doubt about it, during the primary debate that carried him, but on this stage with one of these two candidates standing behind those two lecterns will be the next president of the united states and i think the bar is higher for donald trump. not just come out and put on a new show. he has to show command of the issue. it's not about who has the best growth policies, reince said. it should be. the american people will hold donald trump to a higher stand and hear his policies. >> which donald trump are you bracing for? which dona

. >> the clinton camp jumped on trump's answer with the brian fallon tweeted quote trump ned to say it himself, on camera, and admit he was wrong tore trying to delegitimize the first african-american president. hillary clinton took to task for the birth issue, hersel where was president obama born? and he still wouldn't say hawaii. he still wouldn't say america. this man wants to be our next president. when will he stop this ugliness, this bigotry? >> but on her first day back on herself defending her camp, a series of battle ground polls show trump leading 53 days before election day. >> i've always said that this was going to be a tight race. i've said it from the very beginning. when the polls were up, down, it didn't matter. what matters is who registers to vote and who is motivated and mobilized to turn out the vote. i will keep doing everything i can to deliver my message about what's at stake in this election and my campaign is going to continue to work hard every day to turn out every voter we possibly can. >> and we now have where clinton will deploy her strongest effective c

awe all brian fallon. >> whose decision was it not to reveal the diagnosis of pneumonia friday? >> she made the decision she wanted to power through, keep her schedule. and because she didn't thing it was going to affect any of her activities she just wanted to keep going and conducting business as usual. >> reporter: that approach led to a day of confusion sunday. clinton arrived at ground zero at #:20 a.m. by 9:30, reporters noticed she ft but the campaign would not say where she had gone. video from bystanders would later show clinton had to be lifted into her van by multiple aide and agents. even as the reporters assigned to stick with her were left behind and in the dark. at 11:00 a.m., a campaign aide informed them clinton felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment. >> how are you feeling, senator clinton? >> feeling great. she emerged 45 minutes later york. >> reporter: 5 1/2 hours later clinton's doctor revealed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia friday. the same day she did two fundraisers, held a national security meeting and answered question as

joined by clinton campaign press secretary brian fallon. welcome, sir. >> hi, chuck. >> the basic premise of donald trump's hit on hillary clinton today could also be in a broader way. we've been too involved in the middle east. he is essentially saying i'm going to get us less involved. hillary clinton is more of an interventionist. the country wants to be less involved. hillary clinton's history is to be more involved. what do you say to that? >> i think you'll hear from hillary clinton tonight her vision of the use of force and when it's appropriate. her view is it has to be a last resort. when it's necessary, she's going to make the commitment. we have a defined achievable objective n provide the resources to our military to get the job done. donald trump has been all over the map. earlier in this campaign he had a secret plan to defeat isis. now he's going to need 30 days and defer to those generals who previously he said he was smarter than. this is somebody in the last two weeks seesaw him fly down to mexico, meet with the president

brian fallon with hillary clinton's team. he is her national press secretary.that the clinton campaign is going to release more medical information on hillary clinton later this week. here's his quote -- it is our intention we will be releasing additional medical information about hillary clinton. adding their work wig her doctor to get that information together and should come later this week. brian fallon will be on with wolf blitzer at 1:00 to flush that out a little more. sat the same time time donald trump said on cnbc i just had a physical and will release big numbers, i thinks quote, big numbers. >> big numbers. >> some numbers you don't want to be big! you really don't. i think i know what he means, inarticulate but will release more information, again, from the same physician, though. >> helpful, still incomplete. a sin of omission here. right? i don't think anything is saying it's inaccurate but it's incomplete. you release a snapshot in time of a few laboratory tests you're getting a snapshot in time of an evaluation. you really want to know what the

this is from brian fallon, he just tweeted, trump needs to say it himself on camera and admit he was wrong for trying to delegitimize america's first african-american president. this comes at a great time for hillary clinton because she's had her own rough patch, and she's trying to restart her campaign. and this certainly gives her a new line of attack, she saw an opening and she took it. >> the forklifts are already at work in the d.c. convention center following the speech. kristen, thanks, be careful out there. nicole, i already heard some of the reaction on the cables tonight. i heard people saying, well this certainly gets the subject off hillary clinton's recent illness because she's clearly back and responding tonight. i heard people say another news cycle has been commanded for better or worse by donald trump. >> it's for worse. the way the cycle has gone down so far, the person in the news is usually in the news not because of a triumph, but because of a bad development, a bad story line. so he's back in the news. this is exactly what she needed to sort of start to get her

(sot: brian fallon/clinton campaign spokesman/courtesy: msnbc)"in the next couple of days, we're gonna be releasing additional medical information about hillary clinton.""we've been in touch with her physician this morning to get those together. we're gonna release that to further put to rest any concerns about what you saw yesterday." republican donald trump wished clinton well as covere. he also said he had a ph just last week and plans to release the res a "bounce-back" day on wall street today. today. -nats closing bell- stocks rallied. the dow jones industrial average gaining 239-points, after losing nearly 400-points on friday. investors apparently shook off concerns about the fed possibly raising interest rates later this year. 3 next at five, the mayor of waukesha talks about that historic...and still controversial....plan to draw drinking water from lake michigan. goes highbrow....bango is about to make his debut in the ballet.we'll explain when the news at five returns. 3 it's a bell that won't ring again until next week....but what an occasion it will be when we hear that so

brian fallon says quote, as fbi notes, neither hillary clinton nor her attorneys had knowledge of the platte river employees actions. it appears he acted on his own and against guidance given by both clinton and platte river attorneys to retain all data with congressional preservation request. juan, how foolish if you had to be working at i.t. facility like this to go completely rogue, knowing there is a congressional order and a subpoena for these emails to be preserved and you go ahead and not only delete them, but you send them through a program that digitally shreds them so they are in essence irretrievable? only a person with professional death wish or someone wants to be incarcerated would do that of their own volition. >> key thing is, did know? remember essentially what justice department did, we're not after him. what we're interested is hillary clinton. we want to know if she was up to some tricks here. so we'll grant him immunity. that has come back to bite them arguably. i don't know if you heard earlier today on fox, congress people from the republican side saying justice

brian fallon, the clinton campaign press secretary is joining me from new york.ou with us, have of trump's deadly lies, and you have released a list of donald trump's campaign lies that you believe that lester holt should bring up on stage, and why have you done that pro activity? >> well, we have never seen a candidate like donald trump, and today, politico has assessed that he told a lie every three minutes approximately. and this is somebody who politifact said that 75% of the lies were from donald trump. so if you have him up there on 90 minutes and a moderator who takes a hand's off approach and s says they will not fact-check the candidates and sit there and close their ears to donald tr p trump's lies, it is going to be extending the unfair bias to him, and the equivalent of giving him more time to speak. >> and you are going to agree that clinton shades the truth, and you may not agree with me on that, but do you agree that lester holt should hold both sides accountable for misstatements or falsehoods? >> yes, absolutely. we are not asking lester holt to

spokesman brian fallon putting out a statement saying that they are glad that these are out in the publicecord, that this is what they have been calling for. you can see it there. these materials make clear why the justice department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case. of course referring to that fbi investigation that ultimately cleared hillary clinton. it was not recommended that she be prosecuted. but of course fbi director comey having some tough words for her. and donald trump seizing on what new information we did learn from these interviews, namely that clinton didn't know what the markings were on the e-mails, and also point out that her interview was not recorded and demanding to see one. take a look. >> why is it notes? why don't they have tape recordings of this meeting? they're taking notes of the meeting. the notes are horrible, by the way, for her. they're horrible. but why wasn't she put on tape? who ever heard of a thing where she wasn't put on tape? wh they use tapes for everything else but didn't use tapes to interview hillary clinton? why isn't s

. >> brian fallon is the press secretary for the clinton campaign. you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf, for having me. >>> donald trump says it's time for a businessman of his caliber, not a politician, to be the president of the united states. but if he were in charge, what would the u.s. economy look like? some hypothetical numbers, trump's senior economic advisor is standing by. we'll discuss with him when we come back. then your rates go through the roof. perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. and if you do have an accident, our claims centers are available to assist you twenty-four seven. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >>> donald trump made lofty promises in his economic policy speech delivered in the past hour before the new york economic club, promises some experts say he will simply be unable to keep. trump today vowed that if elected the u.s. economy will see an average of 3.5% economic growth every year. th

it's important for the clinton campaign to come out with something and back up what brian fallon said there is no underlying condition. >> why did they run on this thing months ago? why have they been ranting on the topic of health care -- not health care -- >> of her health? >> yes! why did they get on to this thing? >> look at who some of her advisers are. this is a tried and true tactic. didn't they try to do the same thing in 1988 with dukakis? >> they said he was seeing a shrink. >> it's the power of the suggestion. they even had reagan say, you know, an invalid, right? it helped create the impression and that was -- >> it didn't create pneumonia, though. that's gratuitous or serendipity on their part. sunday donald trump was carrickriescally -- uncharacteristically silent about secretary clinton's abrupt departure from the 9/11 ceremonies. this morning he called in to fox news and cnbc and addressed the incident. here is what he said. >> i hope she gets well soon. i don't know what's going on. i'm, like you, i see what i see. the coughing fit was a week ago, so i assumed that wa

clinton campaign is responding to what trump had to say tonight mostly, i would say with mockery, brian fallon told us in a statement that donald trump, quote, seems cranky, maybe he needs a happy meal. so right now that's the extent of the clinton campaign response to that idea that he's lying in bed, brian. >> let he who is without sin cast the first cheeseburger, give us more on this ohio trip tomorrow by the candidates. i would look for this to be what she was supposed to be doing this past week, selling hillary clinton as the president, as opposed to painting donald trump as somebody who's unfit to be president. they have been making a pretty effective, they believe case against trump. but voters aren't necessarily buying, as they move the polls, the case for hillary clinton, and she had planned a series of speeches, focusing on different policy areas, the economy being a chief one, so i think you're going to start hear her making that case tomorrow. >> casey hunt with her view from the clinton campaign, casey, thank you very much. we're happy to have here with us in the studio, one of do

clinton's spokesperson brian fallon says the public should see the full picture plus on labor day and for the first time clinton will begin traveling with the press corps. up until now she's been choosing to fly separately. >>> bernie sanders hits the campaign trail next week to stump for clinton and other democratic candidates. he says that he will push her economic plan, one he says will work for everyone not just those at the top. clinton took in $143 million as a side note in the month of august. her most lucrative month of fund-raising yet, diane, devin. >> adrienne bankert in new york this morning. adrienne, thank you. >>> a powerful earthquake rocked new zealand's north island today. the 7.1 quake triggered a tsunami warning canceled after several hours. some reported items shaking from chefs and several large aftershocks but no major damage or injuries. a 5.1 quake hit the same area thursday. >>> president obama is back in hawaii after a trip to the midway atoll in the middle of the pacific. >> that tiny island was the scene of a critical u.s. victory in world war ii so the pr

brian fallon, her spokesman, says she has no underlying health condition. that's the big question everybody wants answered in all of this. what's your take away * from that report and your statement. >> the report that came out yesterday was extensive about the pneumonia, where it is, a very common pneumonia and she is oxygenated well. there was no mention of that faint she sustained, previous histories of fainting or underlying neurological conditions. about the pneumonia, it looks like she is doing well. martha: here is another part of the statement from her physician. the remainder of the physical exam was normal and she is in excellent mental condition. >> there was a ct scan of her brain which is also very helpful. there has been a lot of reporting that dr. bardack says it's a non-contagious bacterial pneumonia. those two words don't go together. there is always a concern it's contagious. after you have been on antibiotics for a few days there is less of a chance you are contagious. martha: do you bleachm -- do yoe fallon when he says there are no unde

. >> clinton press secretary, brian fallon. >> whose decision was it not to reveal diagnosis of pneumonia friday. >> she made the decision she wanted to power through. keep her schedule. because she didn't thing it was going to affect any activities. she wanted to keep going.8:20 a. at 9:30, reportered notice she'd left her spot at the 9/11 memorial. the campaign would not say where she had gone. video from bystanders would later show, clinton had to be lifted into her van by multiple aides and agents as reporters assigned to stick with her were left behind and in the dark. at 11:00 a.m., a campaign aide informed them that clinton felt overheated. so departed to go to her >> feeling great. >> reporter: she emerged 45 minutes later with praise for the weather. >> beautiful day in new york. >> reporter: 5 1/2 hours later clinton's doctor revealed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia friday. the same day she did two fundraisers, held a national security meeting and answered questions about north korea. >> how will a few more sanctions help? >> in a cable interview today, trump suggested ame

and lester holt needs to say that hillary clinton can't do it herself on the debate stage sxment brian fallon catch donald trump out for the lies. the new york times thinks that hillary clinton smashed 13 of the devices. it is two that she smashed. isn't it enough that she smashes devices. and >> that's not why it was smashed and destroyed so people can't see what is in it. >> alan, have you smashed a device with a hammer before? >> donald trump said mrs. clinton smashed devices. kelly, let me show you. they have to put them up to a lie detector test. this is scope of trump's falsehoods. unprecedented. >> and new york times, a week of whoppers from trump. and 32 falsehoods and exaggerations and 0 for mrs. clinton. there was nothing on clinton and washington trump's week reveals bleak view. and get the point across. isn't it unfair. and that is he means good bye. he lies because his lips are moving. but i don't think it is the role of the moderator to play traffic cop can eastern to be the trains run on time. >> viewers have to do their own home work and determine what is true or not true. >>

you have seen it from brian fallon and other aides who said the bar should be set at the same level. each candidates should be scored the same way. there might be good reasons why journalists and commentators are going in with uneven expectations. we have seen clinton for 30 years. we have not seen trump like that. the campaign is trying to push hard for thorough fact checking. >> it is interesting. i saw a poll. in 2012, there were higher expectations for obama than romney than there are for clinton than donald trump. people thought barack obama was in favor in the first debate which he lost in the first debate over mitt romney. i think the media expectations are different than the voters. eugene, this is a bizarre weekend. having to do with who is sitting in the audience? trump threw out the thought that gennifer flowers would be in the audience. the trump campaign saying no now. >> we saw the facebook and tweet and we had to reach out to gennifer flowers people. the thing that is interesting about it is we are going into the debate thinking donald trump was taking things seriously

. >> hillary clinton's press secretary brian fallon tweeting in response the wall is a metaphor for trump's bid in presidency. divisive on its face and ultimately never going to happen. joining me now, the "hardball" roundtable. i'm trying to figure out here does this move the needle with anyone who wasn't already a trump supporter. if he is running from behind, he has to bring new supporters into the fold. does this get him there? this was a very hard line speech. no question about it. this was a very hard line speech in terms of the policy, but it was married with rhetoric about respect for mexico, the idea of working with mexico, the fact that he had just had this meeting with the president of mexico. does that change the equation, do you think, for any of the voters who so far have been resistant to trump? >> i think this depends on how this is packaged tomorrow and in the coming days. i think his meeting earlier in the day was effective in terms of being diplomatic, showing a softer -- i shouldn't say softer, but a different kind of tone and approach. but then he talks about in his imm