more about this from the man who wrote the book on hillary clinton, cnn political commentator carl bernstein. he's the author of "the woman in charge, the life of hillary rodham clinton." you know, carl, you were on cnn's "new day" this week and said she should release her medical records. many folks would like to see both candidates' medical records. as our jeff zeleny, we know less about these candidates' health than we do for many other people who have run for president in the past. do you think she will now release her health records? is that the smartest move? >> it's certainly the smartest move, but it's clear that she tried to hide this, and this is going to hurt her, certainly in the short term in that regard. at the same time, it's important, as you note, that donald trump has released virtually nothing of any importance having to do with his health. but more than that, trump really has covered up the reality of his life. we have now seen great reporting by "the new york times," "the washington post," "the wl street journal" on donald trump as a lifelong con man in business, and we

douglas brinkley, david gergen, joe johns, carl bernstein., how both candidates handle today's news going forward on the campaign trail. you're watching cnn. ♪ [cheering] ♪ the highly advanced audi a4. ♪ ha-ha-ha! um-hmmm! hey! nikki! what are you doing here? you tell me, stephen. what? i'm snapping. you've been streaming my videos all morning. now you're with this thing? no! it's not you! it's verizon! they limit my data. i had to choose. come on, girl. let's get us a man with unlimited data. why pay verizon more for data limits? introducing t-mobile one. one price. unlimited data for everyone. >>> welcome back to our continuing coverage. the headline, hillary clinton will not be making a planned fund-raising trip to california, thus after she was diagnosed with pneumonia. we just learned about this diagnosis tonight. her competitor in this race, he has not ylt responded to the news she has been diagnosed with pneumonia. sources tell us that the trump campaign wants to be respectful of clinton's health. they say surrogates and staff are bein

you want to keep it and carl bernstein and ben bradley, the editor of the posted. finally, mark who is the number two in the fbi, think it was 11 years ago he was 90 at the time, he decided to reveal he was that source. so he and i were able to tell that story. in fact there was a movie that i think will be out about mark either this year or next year. we will see more of that detail. >> host: do you think his reason for being so-called, deep throat , was personal, patriotic, revengeful? >> guest: one of the things, as a reporter, as a human being, you realize that there are always multi- reasons and drivers and motives for any action. in the case of mark feld, i

the rumor popped up from carl bernstein a respected breaking the watergate scandal and tweeted he heard bill weld is concerned former massachusetts governor and vice presidential pick for libertarians isn't catching fire as they hoped and wanted to be the 15% mark and get into the debates and they have not gotten there quite yet and doing better than but not like four years ago and weld is increasingly benefit donald trump and not a fan of hillary clinton but scared of donald trump. gary johnson addressed the rumor. take a listen. >> bill weld is in this for the long hall and beyond my wildest dreams bill weld is my running mate and look, we don't thinket side offers the alternative that americans really want. weld himself did say he has no plans on dropping out and if that did it wou

carl bernstein. good to be with you. >> good to be with you. >> you wrote a fascinating piece about this and delved into more of it on cnn.com right now and you wrote that clinton needs obama to carry her across the finish line. how do you think the president can be most effective? because it's not that he hasn't been out there. he has been out there. he will be out there in force in these last 40 days. how can he do it most effectively to help her with the voters she doesn't have locked in. >> he has credibility with those voters. this is about two visions of america -- an inclusive progressive america such as obama represents, such as the tradition of the modern presidency represents and a fearful vision of america under siege from within, under siege from foreign adversaries. and he's got real credibility. his pop you lairty is as high as it's been. he can appeal to millennials, he can appeal to white women which is where trump needs to expand his base. but also hillary has done a great deal in th

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carl bernstein is absolutely right on that. the last nine republican nominees for the presidency have disclosed their tax returns. the last nine going back to ronald reagan in 1980. every single one. it is a tradition that is followed by the democratic party as well. and it's more important for trump's case than anybody else's, because he's running entirely as a businessman. and the success of his business, and he won't let us understand and see the numbers to back up his claims. he's been really generous with charitable -- charities. he says, let's see the numbers. let's see what he's been paying out in taxes. let me make one other point. now that he's coming forward with health records, it's bewildering to get this report that he's going to do it with dr. oz. i mean, talking about a way to trivialize this subject, and politically, i think it's a mistake, because he's had hillary clinton on the defensive here for one of the first times, and now he's going to make -- if that's the kind of course he's going to pursue on his heal

carl bernstein, you know the woman, you wrote the book on her. as joe johns was reporting earlier, look, this is someone who powers through. what do you expect her to do now? clearly she's resting at home. what will her next step be? >> i don't think we can predict. we can hope some people around her will finally say, hillary, you have to open up in all kinds of ways here because that's when you're at your best. i think among other things, she and her doctor need to be in front of the press for an hour with medical records and discussing and open to questions about her medical history and donald trump needs to do the same, and we need to demand it of both of them. >> across the united states, ceremonies have been held to commemorate the 15th anniversearies of 9/11. >> nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the worst terrorist attack on u.s. soil. on sunday, the nation paused to remember the dead. ♪ >> 15 years may seem like a long time but for the families who lost a piece of their heart that day, i imagine it can seem like just yesterday. >> mi

cnn political analyst, journalist and author, carl bernstein. carl, what do you make of this?mediately after the incident in new york happened, the candidates started positioning themselves on the issue. >> well, first of all, donald trump has thought from the beginning that he can exploit all terrorist incidents into something that works in his favor, and the clinton campaign has been very worried about his ability to do just that. so it's sought to undermine his exploitation. the sound bite that we just heard, if all trump had said was, we have to be careful, that would be one thing. he's been much more incendiary than that. he's called for on outright ban of muslims entering the country. he's using the rhetoric to further enflame this electoral cycle and clinton is trying to say, hey, look, there is a smart way to fight terrorism, it requires nuance, it requires knowledge, and we can't just go about this by suspending civil liberties and screaming that the house is on fire. >> dana, our latest cnn national poll shows that in terms of who would better handle terrorism, or wh

>> guest: carl bernstein and i tried, he declined understandably. he did die in 1994.hat was 20 years after he resigned in 1974. nixon spent that 20 years giving interviews, writing books, his memoirs, to a large extent he spent that time declaring a war against history, to say what i really meant, watergate was just a blip, not as serious as people made it out to be. nixon resigned not because of the democrats or the media. he resigned because of the republican party which saw this evidence, all the testimony. exemplified by barry goldwater, conservative from arizona who took the position too many crimes, too many lies. >> host: at what point in 1972-73 did you know your life was going to change and revolve around that? >> it was incremental, in october 1972, carl bernstein and i, people didn't believe it. it was inconceivable and carl, to his credit, realized it was likely nixon who was going to be impeached because there was so much here, so much sabotage and espionage, the democratic presidential candidate. >> host: let's begin with a call from ottawa, illinois wit

carl bernstein and i tried a number of times, and he, declined. understandably.he did die in '94, and he spent -- and so that was 20 years after he resigned whichh was in 1974. and nixon spent that 20 years giving interviews to david frost, writing books, his memoirs. and to a very large extent, he spent that time declaring a war against history to kind of say, well, what i really meant, watergate was just a blip. it was not as serious as people made it out to be. and, of course, nixon resigned not because of the democrats or the media, he resigned because of the republican party which saw this evidence in the final tapes, all of the testimony exemplified by barry goldwater, the conservative from arizona who took the position too many crimes, too many lies. >> host: at what point, bob woodward, in 19 72-73 did you know your life was going to change and revolve around this? >> guest: it was incremental. in october 1972 before nixon was reelected, carl bernstein and i had written lots of these stories. people didn't believe it.oc it was inconceivable. and carl, to

. >> carl bernstein has a line, if hillary wins it is because obama is dragging her over the finish linels you everything you need to know. michelle obama approval ratings and popularity is enormously high around the country. even republicans to an extent have a respect level for the first lady. this is the only card hillary has to play. they're warm and likeable. shows in their approval ratings. sheave is not. and i think this is all they have gotti point but obama saying this could ruin my legacy. i take it as personal insult especially to african-american voters. says a lot. you're right if trump gets elected it is reverse on everything obama claims to represent. >> think about the numbers. you're absolutely right, meghan. 59% is hillary's disapproval rating. negative ratings. michelle obama is 25, 15. the president 40. these are, they are liked. certainly, as i said even republicans have a lot of respect for mrs. obama and actually for the first family, whatever they think of their policies. they're a good, decent family. in having them out there contrast to be honest somewhat less a

carl bernstein of watergate fame reported over the weekend that gary johnson's well-regarded runningmater massachusetts governor bill weld might quit as gary johnson's running mating over concerns the libertarians could play a nader-esque role this year and tip the race to donald trump. they're both absolutely denying the report. there is no way bill weld its quitting the ticket. that provocative report does exist. as does gary johnson's own persistent problem of saying extremely dumb things about extremely serious subjects. last week it was the almost unbelievable spectacle of him answering a qution about the war in syria by saying, what is aleppo? like it was an obscure flavor of ice cream or some fancy foreign version of alpo dog food. never heard the word before. now gary johnson has weighed in on the attacks this week end. where 29 people were hurt in a bomb blast saturday night in manhattan. hours after ten people were stabbed at the saint cloud, minnesota mall. here was his response. >> well, first of all, just grateful that nobody got hurt. >> actually, never mind. perhaps not ma

let me bring back carl bernstein and errol louis of new york one and a cnn political analyst as well.et your sense of this story as a new yorker. how do we keep perspective when our media culture makes things seem to big, so loud, so scary in a situation like this? >> it's very much a challenge. i think people would be -- i almost wish you could bottle it and sort of share it with other people the way real new yorkers act when something like this happens. in part we're a little bit shell shocked because we've had so much trauma between hurricane sandy, the two world trade center attacks and on and on, but the reality is if you're living in a city with constant spectac spectacle, whether it's a positive or negative spectacle, people figure out that after a while that their lives are not necessarily going to be completely knocked off balance. >> i guess -- i'm sorry to interrupt. i was going to say to carl, i guess the point is it's about reacting but not overreacting to these sorts of threats. >> i watched both cnn and msnbc last night, and i thought that both did a terrific job. the a

that was carl bernstein, but not me, but go ahead. >> there are moments i thought about, this you known with watergate and all of those people arrested with the felons with the watergate lies. it's just lie, after lie, meanness after meanness and twitter and the new media is allowing us every day to be able to fact check very quickly and we're finding seas of misinformation often from hillary clinton, too. >> i want to play the moment when trump reversed himself -- reversed course and of course it was only after trump got to p promote with free media did he make this statement? >> lirk ahillary clinton and he campaign of 2008, started the birther controversy. i finished it. i finished it, you know what i mean. president barack obama was born in the united states, period. now we all want to get back to making america strong and great again. >> so two things here, carl. we know hillary clinton did not start the birther controversy and we know donald trump different finish it. these are your wards. y you called him a pathological liar a liar. >> i'd like to ask doug, we've never gotten a

we'll see if those comments, what you say will come to it loochlt carl bernstein, have a great weekends, thank you for joining us. we'll be right back. ♪ guyhey nicole, happening here? this is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. kid's a natural. but thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. shhh. alerts on anything at all? not only that, you can act on that opportunity with just one tap right from the alert. wow, i guess we don't need the kid anymore. custom alerts on thinkorswim. only at td ameritrade. always has to be who sat your desk? phone now, with one talk from verizon... hi, pete. i'm glad you called. (announcer vo) all your phones can work together on one number. you can move calls between phones, so conversations can go where you go. take your time. i'm not going anywhere. (announcer vo) and when you're not available, one talk helps find the right person who is. hi, john. (announcer vo) so wherever work takes you, you can put your customers first. introducing one talk-- another way verizon conn

we had carl bernstein on the show.s the remedy for hillary and what would hurt trump the most is go full transparency. hold these press conferences out the wazoo. give the speeches from wall street. give everything and show this is the kind of president i'll be. the suspicion is you can't trust me. here. here's everything. what do you want to know, and i'll give it to you. trump won't. why doesn't she play it that way if you're going to ask them to do impossible things? >> first of all, i like carl's advice. i agree with it. i think it runs contrary to her dna and probably to his as well, meaning bill's. they really are of a mind set there's a vast right-wing conspiracy. part of that is true. there is, but it gets fueled by the way in which they handle these sort of circumstances. i think that's probably a brilliant strategy that she immediately now be forthcoming with everything and shine the spotlight back on him. >> all right, michael. thanks. always great to get your take on all of this. thanks for being here. >> s

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