. >> reporter: trashelle odom, then the wife of a trump donor, was seated next to corey lewandowski at a charity dinner in a las vegas hotel in september of 2021. she sat down with me, speaking out on camera for the first time about what she called a terrifying night. >> it felt like he could just do whatever he wanted and get away with it. >> reporter: trashelle odom says she didn't really know who corey lewandowski was when she met him at a fund-raiser in las vegas in september of 2021. >> he said, "i'm very powerful. i rule like politics, who goes in, who goes out, i'm the one that makes all those decisions." >> reporter: a loyalist and dogged defender of the former president, lewandowski is now back at candidate trump's side as a senior adviser. >> in 2016 when i ran the campaign donald trump won. i'm here to help him win again. so that's my goal. >> reporter: lewandowski faced scrutiny during that 2016 campaign for his treatment of women after cctv footage showed him grabbing a reporter's arm following a press conference. then in 2017 a woman told police lewandowski slapped her bu

let's get to trump 2024 senior adviser corey lewandowski. corey, talk to us about what will j.d. strategy be tonight? we've got multiple of course surprises now. iran at a greater war with israel, the biggest strike ever -- airstrike, a major port strike, hurricane helene and j.d. vance is going to do the 2 2-minute final closing statement. he has the last word. what is his strategy? >> well, the strategy tonight, liz, is very simple, to remind the american people of the failed leadership that sits in the oval office right now, and kamala harris should not be promoted and that governor walz and vice president harris are the most radically dangerous nominees that any major party has ever put forth. so, listen, the two candidates tonight on this debate stage have a fundamentally different view of what america should look like going forward. one is in favor of national security, homeland security and economic prosperity, and the other is going to tell us that the government should control your money, we should have open borders, and we won't protect our greatest ally in the middle e

. >>> ahead, corey lewandowski.n we come back, tv news playing catchup on the devastating hurricane and the candidates trading charges. ♪ ♪ howard: as hurricane helene was inflicting almost unbelievable damage last weekend in north carolina and other southern states, television news just blew it. somehow it wasn't much of a story. but that changed at the beginning of the week when tv outlets went to appalachia and found death, destruction, desperation and total death toll now over 220, much of that or some of that in that region alone. >> we need things like baby formula, baby food, pet supplies. we need outreach. >> please, baby hasn't eaten in fife days. he's a year old. -- five days. and i have a 9-year-old son that's got epilepsy, and i haven't been able to feed him anything in three days. >> and it's just really horrifying. because there's still people there that are really hard to get to, and we're really worried about all the people that are still there. howard: it's just absolutely heartbreaking, and it's no

trump back in butler, pennsylvania saturday, lens bring in a somebody who was at the return, corey lewandowski show. what was it like in butler, it feels like the campaign was surging there, what do you think? >> it was a fantastic rally obviously tens of thousands, hundred thousand were there, the great bard when we were traveling on the airplane, donald trump asked the staff, how sure i started this? should be with the moment of silence? always a paying respect to corey who lost his life there, his idea was to say as i was saying and he heard the crowd react as he took the stage and said that peter could was amazing. typical trump fashion just the right note. >> trace: he talk about crowd reaction, gonna play this from elon musk was at this about the election. >> think this election, i think it's the most important election of our lifetime. this is no ordinary election. the other side wants to take away your freedom of speech. >> trace: we are cutting it off there but what was the response to elon musk coming up in saying that? >> not only what he said by the way he entered the stage, you ju

pick attacking on cable news trying to say athlete label i talked to sr., advisory corey lewandowski he told me vance is prepared not letting jabs impact him going to focus on two top issues. >> that is what the american success story is he lived it so i don't think he is going to be a thrown off by any attacks on him whatever it maybe he is fully prepared focused to talk about messages, that american people care most about, the economy immigration, the fact that walz harris continue to never mention families who have been des maids by illegals pouring across the border. >> some changes compared to presidential debate mix hot respond to one another or talk offer one another. maria: madison alworth in new york study by conservative watchdog group finds cbs has been very friendly to kamala harris, the walz campaign between july 21 and september 27, out of 346 minutes coverage, 84% of the harris-walz coverage has been positive. 79% of the coverage of trump and vance has been negative, it is even worse for the violent candidate take a look at numbers 89% positive coverage for tim walz, 8

is trump deringed and triggered i want to start out with the first clip and i don't know why corey lewandowski the dire situation with the open border invasion and the over 10,000 illegal alien convicted of homicide that are roaming our streets. but you know jim kopght get past the fact that cory lewandowski mispronounced the name. >> custom border protection that are running around this country -- >> is there why do you guys same kamala it is kamala harris, cory you've been in the business a long time. you're i think you're a mature grownup it is kamala harris. can you just say kamala. can you say that or cannot say kamala? >> can you admit 99 murders that come into the country you say you haven't -- >> cory i appreciate you coming on maybe we'll have you back thanks for your time. >> what a clown. what a clown. >> if we have to talk about illegal immigration while focus on her name. >> exactly. i think it is pretty obvious that jim didn't want to focus on the facts or figures there because they're detrimental to the narrative but there's another group of folks brian who don't want to talk ab

. >> harris: the senior corey lewandowski had a reaction. >> the person would jab it is tim walz wants and donald trump was the president of the united states we have peace around the world and economic prosperity the country and a border closed. in four short years, everything has changed. >> harris: with that, kamala harris and tim walz giving new meaning to running for the white house. >> i think when you see the support they have gotten from the national security folks and the swamp, a lot of depot signed on to that letter about hunter biden's laptop and a lot of people show themselves to be partisans first. the american people see that chaos the world is in under biden and under kamala harris. i don't believe they believe they will be the right people to restore the kind of stability we saw under president trump. >> harris: because i have another second talk about the early vote and help change things this time around and we have seen it ramped up since the pandemic and not a lot of time but curious your point. >> i think one of the things that is a key factor going into this how

corey lewandowski is here. spiraling on an issue that kamala harris has not been winning. >> a home game for donald trump talking about the issue of immigration, the polling data shows he has a 15-point advantage over harris on this. this 3,143 counties in the united states of america. they have let 13,000 murderers in. that means four for every county in america is running around. i live in a town. if we had a murderer in our town they would be on lockdown. we don't know where these people are. not to say anything about the 17,000 rapists and others who they have let into the country. the data is incredible. 425,000 people pouring in that we know of that have criminal convictions and they are out in our nation running around. >> harris: all right. tonight senator jd vance and governor walz with face off in the cbs news vice presidential debate. no doubt it will come up at that debate and likely be the last debate before election day. vance is likely to call attention to walz's progressive record and military s

rubenstein: on the trump side, tons of people are running it, but corey lewandowski came in and said he would audit what they were doing. is he still embalmed on the democratic side? and then they've got some people who are still involved, but who is really running both campaigns? mr. smith: eric harris got in the -- mr. baker: harris got in the so late, she had to essentially keep the biden campaign in charge, but she layered in her own people. she brought in some obama people. it's been a, you know, there have been moments of awkwardness there, and you can see the awkwardness between the west and her campaign, it was just the other day when the president decided to come down to the briefing room and talk to the press. first time he had ever done that. why did he choose to do that the moment she was going on stage, that was asked a lot in the office of the vice president. the campaign said they didn't fully coordinate and there were some sore feelings. that is a complicated thing for them. they didn't really have time to create a, a structure. she had to take the structure she had o

that's a brink and corey lewandowski trump 2024 a senior official, good to have you with us.it interesting to the efforts to bring these cases back do not seem to be central in any of the campaigning, and for a while it felt like all of those lawfare or whatever you want to call it was going to be one of the major centers of the thrust of the kamala harris and democrats campaign. what he think is going on? >> it clearly the biden-harris administration wanted to use the two tiered justice system to push trump out of the race, probably tried to intimidate him with moral law go. what we see is that donald trump is a fighter, he is that it -- it is as been a political prosecution against him and the cases in georgia and florida with jack smith and in washington, d.c. and new york. it is only emboldened his supporters to support him more because he has said many times and i believe it's that he is the only thing standing between him that federal government coming after them is donald trump. >> martha: i guess what i was getting at, dazing that voters did not respond to that? they

you may have seen presidential advisor corey lewandowski show up.annity a fox news. this should start at any moment. live coverage on c-span. ♪ host: was the freshest polling insight you can give besides it's good to be razor thin. fmr. pres. trump: we expect -- guest: we expect it to be razor thin. i would pay attention. to those 70 so important states. in my mind it will be about the economy. you see both came pains -- you see both campaigns revving up on that. you see trump emphasizing immigration to mobilize his base. it will come down to inflation in the economy. host: more than 42 million americans have already voted in this election. what are americans views about early voting and mail-in voting and confidence in those systems versus the traditional voting on election day. guest: we have about 25% of the voting population has voted already. it is an end there. it will be a net and grace. when it comes to vote capture. americans on -- are confident your traditional methods going to the voting booth and placing your opinion there. early voting

or something with his operation people who had really deep experi in campaigns versus someone corey lewandowski. what was the operation that they were trying to build the campaign they were trying to build and, i guess, to then fast forward to 20, 24? were they successful? well, it was a pretty and scrappy group that was with him at time, especially 2021. there somebody named taylor bordewich who brought on as a communications director and he had worked in tea party politics in california and, you know, he he been in in trump world. you had susie wiles. you still had some of political operatives who had always been with trump or who were close to don who were helping out in different ways or helping advise on endorsements or political ventures that trump had. but it's funny, with trump, i think was a real desire to have who would steady the ship for him. but at the same time, he's always been a superstitious person and he wanted to, in 2024, try to recruit some of the scrappiness that they had with the 2016 campaign. opposed 2020, which was a massive of operation and so i think with that in min

so what we just want to focus on the future, which is sort of what corey lewandowski was saying earlier on in this program. they don't want to talk, they just don't want to talk about this. they don't want to answer this question. >> how can you focus on the future credibly if you can't even admit what actually happened in the past and this is where they all just sink completely. and the problem with what my dear friend shermichael just said is that they can't answer that. and even if they do answer that, it doesn't speak to what donald trump is doing now, which is even injecting, continuing to inject though was lies. and even preparing for another violent insurrection using the same kind of violent rhetoric that he did leading up to the election in 2020. and so that i think was the moment last night that crystallize everything especially for independent voters across the country we heard in dials, we heard in the polls, and a lot of the media out there essentially said most of the independent voters sided with governor walz on the overall debate. they pointed to that moment in time wha

for example, right now i'm reading the cue cards and trying to figure out why corey lewandowski remindsith googly eyes. in fact -- [ laughter ] i'm now also imagining what a penis with googly eyes would look like, and on top of that, i'm also mentally clearing my calendar next week to make room for a meeting i have with hr because i asked our graphics department to photoshop a picture of a penis with googly eyes. [ laughter ] i'm also thinking back on how there was probably a better way to ask that question than to send an email with the subject line "penis with googly eyes." [ laughter ] and you know, actually, it's not even fair. he looks like a shark that got git with a frying pan. [ laughter ] that one's on me. [ laughter ] i own that. but i do feel like a day from now, maybe longer, you're going to go, "oh, yeah." [ laughter ] yeah, he does look like a shark -- [ light laughter ] also -- also, donald trump is the one who keeps talking about it. >> the only way they can do anything is if they cheat like hell. and we've been victims of that. we don't need the votes. we just want to m

and he made that clear when he announced corey lewandowski coming back this summer.id many great men and women from our previous two campaigns want to help us in this one, quote, we're going to take as many as we can. that's donald trump in full. also i think too much has been made of all the celebrities around kamala harris. these folks aren't necessarily celebrity, some of them clearly are. but when young men think of elon musk, they think of the future. they think of a guy who's in space and when the rocket doesn't launch, it melts down, he says let's try it again. when knows what he'll find in space. they see the future. they ls know that he rescued twitter. four years ago as we sit here, new york post couldn't be on twitter. they had been taken off by jack dorsey because they dare tell the truth about hunter's laptop to. so a lot of people see elon musk as a van a guard for freedom. he's got a lot of former democrats like rfk jr. and tulsi gabbard who ran against him for president. i think the untold story though is what they all represent beginning with trump w

but i got to to talk to the trump/vance campaign corey lewandowski ahead of the the debate, he it wouldthat, instead choosing to focus on the two top issues. >> that is what the american success story is, and he has lived it. i don't think he's going to be thrown off by any of these attacks on him for whatever it may be. he is fully prepared and focused to talk about the messages that the american people care most about which is the economy ask and immigration and the fact that walz and harris continue to never mention the families who have been decimated by these illegals pouring across the border. >> reporter: so going into tonight the team around walz has been saying he's not a good debate, trying to maybe set the bar low. this is something that the trump camp says is patently false. he's been in politics for nearly 20 years, so they expect a strong performance. the mics are going to be hot, so that means the candidates, they're going to have an opportunity to the pond to one another or -- respond to one another or to talk over one another, but hot mics, anything could happen. stuart

. >> the only person who wants to hang out with donald trump or adjacent miller and my homey corey lewandowskijust think that there's a lot of energy to be had, particularly philly pittsburgh detroit, milwaukee, and a lot of black men are coming out. so i'm excited about the energy people want to know when the beyonce concerts happening, but we'll, we'll see, we'll see, go ahead at every today is national cheese curds day. >> in america i just want you to know that as a californian, i've never had them but when i was in milwaukee, wisconsin for the republican convention, and i visited the cnn grill. they were on full display. >> and i got to tell you something when you bite those suckers, you can hear the squeak and i'm happy birthday. >> republicans left their wallet in milwaukee squeak republicans are spending a last-minute ad blitz across the country on the issue of boys playing girls sports on search engender surgeries for criminals, and on the idea of allowing children to get puberty blockers with their parents, printer but consent. >> this is the issue that got glenn youngkin elected in

. >> the only person he wants to hang out with donald trump or adjacent miller and my homey corey lewandowski and i just think that there's a lot of energy to be had, particularly in philly pittsburgh, detroit, milwaukee and a lot of black men are coming out. so i'm excited about the energy people want to know when the beyonce concerts happening, but we'll see, we'll see. >> go ahead. >> every today is nationally snl cheese curds day in america. i just want you to know that as a californian, i've never had them, but when i was in milwaukee, wisconsin for the republican convention, and i visited the cnn grill. they were on full display. >> and i got to tell you something. when you bite those suckers you can hear the squeak and i'm happy birthday. republicans left their wallet in milwaukee republicans are spending a last-minute ad blitz across the country on the issue of boys playing in girls sports on surgery engender surgeries for criminals, and on the idea of allowing children to get puberty blockers with their parents, parental consent. this is the issue that got glenn youngkin elected in v

the sense of it's basically inner campaign warfare, but happening through reporters, because corey lewandowskirump campaign and then this reporting is going forward. i heard from a source on the trump campaign that they still have $250 million on hand and they are still doing around $2.5 million every day, so is this more of an effort tore corey lewandowski to try to oust chris lacivita within the campaign? >> well, we know that corey was brought it to bring some kind of budget discipline to the campaign. we also know that kamala harris doesn't need to do any more fundraisers, she's raised over a billion dollars. the trump campaign has raised $300 million or at least by the end of august, and we know that they're having this very hurried fundraiser tonight. so we know that they feel concerned they don't have enough money, and like all campaigns, there's definitely inner warfare, but it is fascinating that though campaign managers often get handsomely paid or are incentivized to win for their candidate and are expected to get bonuses when they do this, this is an eye-watering sum of money even

does not try to substitute for his team, he supplements it, he made that clear announcing corey lou wi lewandowski coming back this summer. we'll take as many as we can. that is donald trump in full. also, too much has been made of celebrities around kamala harris, they are not necessarily celebrities, young men in particular think of elon musk, they think of future, of a guy who is in space, and rocket doesn't launch, he said let's try t it again, who knows what we will find in space, they see future, and they know he rescued twitter, "new york post" could not be on twitter, they were taken off by jack dorsey because they dared to tell truth about hunter's laptop. a lot see elon musk as a vanguard for freedom, and a lot of former democrats who ran against him for president, untold story is what they all represent, beginning are trump, forget about random republican acts and why. you are not telling story, mainstream media about millions should be, would be democratic rank-and-file voters going toward trump. you can have 500 republicans that endorsed kamala i'll take millions of union households,