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maureen dowd, thoroughly enjoyed the book. it's great to have you.s a point, it's filled with columns and work of yours only about these two. that's how much you've written about clinton, the clintons, and donald trump. >> yes. but it also has a long essay about the bush family, whom i've covered for 30 years. and also i started covering on the national stage obama and biden, so all of the cast of characters at this crazy dinner party i started with. >> i've gotten so many things wrong as donald trump likes to remind people about this cycle. what have you gotten wrong that stands out? >> oh, wow. i don't know. you tell me. i don't know. >> maybe it's all subjective. donald trump listens to you. you know, when you've -- you point this out in so many columns that when you raise with him concerns or questions, it seems like he's interested to know what maureen dowd is thinking. >> well, listens to me i think is a bit strong. you know, i picture kellyanne conway like a lion tamer trying to keep donald trump on his stool. but, no. i have confronted him wi

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for more let's bring dowd. hey, matthew, good morning. >> good morning. >> how badly does this hurt her and her campaign. >> i think it hurts her pretty badly. not -- it's not lethal. it doesn't sort of take away the election but what it does, is it totally feeds the narrative in the story line can you trust her and is she the status quo and this whole story feeds that. it's amazing to watch. here's somebody that every time you think she's about to score using a college football weekend, she fumbles the ball in some way or throws an have two candidates that are fundamentally distrusted and disliked by the country and we'll have the pick. watch the third parties as we go in the course of this. >> you could argue trump was fumbling the ball on many occasions but speaking of trump he'll be speaking at an african-american church, the first time he's spoken to, you know, a mostly african-american crowd but these questions and answers are heavily scripted. is this going to be enough to sway the minority vote for him.

charlie: maureen dowd is here, she is a pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "new york times."he joined the paper in 1983 as a metro reporter. her career covering politics spans nine presidential campaigns. she describes this election as the most epic battle of the sexes. she describes it in a new book, the book illed "the year of voting dangerously: the derangement of american politics." jim, co-founder, writes dowd surely captures the theater of politics better than anyone else. i am pleased to have her back at this table. welcome. maureen: thank you, charlie. charlie: so this is the easiest way to make a buck i know. put your columns together and there it is. it's not that easy, is it? maureen: some of them are my columns and new material, in a tom sawyer move, i forced my brothers and sisters to write original essays. but also, i have a really long essay on my 30 years with the bush fall and i have all of my letters from papi bush, not all of them, i used snippets of them and how he was able to maintain what he calls a love hate relationship all through the six or seven yea

dowd is here. you have a book. you wrote something interested in your introduction about just covering presidential candidates. you yourself have come to the conclusion that there are different things that go into what makes a good presidential candidate. you noted the resume argument. just because you have the longest resume doesn't necessarily mean you are going to make a good decision. you were noting you thought this was not necessarily the best argument for president obama to make on behalf of hillary clinton. >> yes. well, i think we learned a lesson with dick cheney and donald rumrumsfeld that you can still make a mistake. >> i wonder looking back on what we have seen with clinton and i wanted to bring this up in the last part of the conversation. h has she spent too much time clinton campaign a focus on turning her attention to talking about who she is and what she's going to fight for. younger voters don't know her, they don't know her history and what she's fighting for. you will see a laser-like focus. >

maureen dowd joins us again at the table. welcome. >> thank you. it versus the queen of hallmark. >> it's amake. her problem is she's too tightly controlled. his problem is he's out of control. his problem is he's too bold. and her problem is she's sometimes not bold enough. >> you call it the battle of the sexes. billie jean king and bobby riggs. >> well, gayle, it's interesting for centuries women considered temperamentally and unbiologically unsuited for office. you get a candidate who is bitchy and sometimes hysterical and worries about hair care, but it's not the woman. >> yeah. >> and yeah, then you have one who is very controlled, a hawk. and wears tailored suits. and it's not the man. tank, maureen in your column. you say they both have a fluid relationship with the truth. that gaffes don't seem to matter, neither does is the truth. what does matter to voters. and what do you think it will take to sway undecided voters where the clock is ticking? >> i think voters are more fearful and depressed and anxious than they've ever been. they're tr

. >> rose: maureen dowd, ken burns and artemis jow-- joukowsky when we continue. funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: maureen dowd is here, a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the new york times." she first joined the paper in 1993 as a metro reporter. her career-covering poll tinnings spans nine presidential campaigns. she describes this election as the most epic battle of the sexes. she described it in a new book. the book is you will kad the year of voting dangerously. the derangment of american politics. cofounder and former c.e.o. of "politico" writes dowd surely captures the theater about politics better than anyone else. i'm pleased have her back at this table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: so this is the easiest way to make a book that i know. just put your columes together and there it is. but it is not that easy, is it? >>

charlie: maureen dowd is here, she is a pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "new york times." she joined the paper in 1983 as a metro reporter. her career covering politics spans nine presidential campaigns. she describes this election as the most epic battle of the sexes. she describes it in a new book, the book is called the year of voting dangerously, the derangement of american politics. jim, co-founder, writes dowd surely captures the theater of politics better than anyone else. i am pleased to have her back at this table. welcome. maureen: thank you, charlie. charlie: so this is the easiest way to make a buck i know. put your columns together and there it is. it's not that easy, is it? maureen: some of them are my columns and new material, in a tom sawyer move, i forced my brothers and sisters to write original essays. but also, i have a really long essay on my 30 years with the bush fall and i have all of my letters from papi bush, not all of them, i used snippets of them and how he was able to maintain what he calls a love hate relationship all through the six or seven

maureen dowd is,, ♪ >>> "the new york times" columnist maureen dowd has covered hillary clinton and donaldze winner wrote about trump in 1999, as he contemplated a run for president. she said the businessman is fewer id. no trepid dags, no guilt, no pc restraints. dowd described her time to quote, to figure out a way to mend her image problems. she takes critical odds to the 2016 election. maureen dowd joins us again at the table. welcome. >> thank you. >> you call this election, you say we have the king of winging it versus the queen of hallmark. >> it's amake. her problem is she's too tightly controlled. his problem is he's out of control. his problem is he's too bold. and her problem is she's sometimes not bold enough. >> you call it the battle of the sexes. billie jean king and bobby riggs. >> well, gayle, it's interesting for centuries women were considered temperamentally and unbiologically unsuited for office. you get a candidate who is bitchy and sometimes hysterical and worries about hair care, but it's not the woman. >> yeah. >> and yeah, then you have one who is very controlled,

matt dowd, and cokie roberts. that's tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc. >>> we move on to a stunning tragedy on the water. miami marlins star pitcher, jose fernandez, one of three killed in a deadly boating accident. fernandez escaping cuba as a teenager, becoming one of the best in baseball, and recently announcing some big family news. here's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: tonight, investigators surrounding the chilling, overturned wreckage from an accident that killed a beloved baseball star. miami marlins pitcher jose fernandez and two other men dying early this morning when their boat slammed into a jetty off the coast of miami beach. >> it does appear that speed was involved due to the impact. >> reporter: today's marlins game, cancelled as teammates tearfully pay tribute to the 24-year-old known for his fastball, infectious personality, and passion for the sport. >> when you watch kids play little league, that's the joy that jose played with. >> reporter: that joy, radiating through his pride at becoming an american. jaile

how dowd can you be? all right. now, lsu? let's hear lsu. all right. who is louder? >> i think wisconsin is louder. >> wisconsin? >> yeah, wisconsin is louder. keep in mind we're in green bay. madison is a couple of hours up the street? right around the corner. >> like stopping by for groceries. so great to see you. great weekend. i got to say this feels really great. can i join you guys and be your mascot. just hang out. >> no problem. another job to add to my other five jobs. >> we are not willing to lose you so, no, i hate to be the bearer of bad news. >> ryan, one favor, please bring back some cheese kurds. >> i will bring you back seven pounds of cheese kurds. >> i will love you even more than i already do. >> yep, that and some spanx for men. >>> is it time to say to anti-bacterial soaps? why the fda says you don't need them and why they could even be dangerous. i'm a smoker for life." i wanted to be a non-smoker and i did it thanks to chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke some

joined by martha raddatz, david muir, jon karl, tom llamas, cecilia vega, byron pitts and matthew dowd who you saw as well as cokie roberts and all starts at 9:00 eastern. there are a lot of other headlines. normally at this juncture we toss it over to ron but he's off today so paula and i will share making good on his threat to veto the 9/11 bill. >> the president rejecting the measure that would allow survivor and the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of saudi arabia saying he's concerned that it's going to leave the u.s. open to similar lawsuits, congress is expected to override that presidential veto. >>> authorizes say they suspect russian hackers were behind that massive attack that exposed 500 million personal yahoo! accounts and posted a scan of michelle obama's passport online. attack. >>> the fbi revealing that new york city terror suspect ahmad khan rahami took the train from his jersey home to manhattan with those bombs that he later placed on the city streets. new video shows a passerby kicking the can that contained that loaded pressure cooker which thankfull

and best selling author of "the new york times" columnist maureen dowd. to karl cameron who was at the site in asheville, north carolina with how this played out on the trail today. karl? >> reporter: very aggressively obviously. from the moment hillary clinton uttered her basket of deplorables line, the trump campaign was getting ready to run ads. and now that ad list will go in the four most key states for trump, florida, ohio, pennsylvania and north carolina. it will be a multimillion dollar buy. trump is making the argument that hillary clinton is debasing the american public, american voters. and to illustrate his disagreement with that, he brought a handful of folks up on stage today to explain why they, black, white, hispanic, were not xenophobic, homophobic or islamophobic ore any of the others and trashed hillary clinton saying that this statement makes her now officially unelectable. watch. >> hillary clinton has been running a hate-filled and negative campaign with no policy, no solutions and no new ideas. hillary clinton can never be president

but many of cruz's supporters are >> want to bring in abc news political analyst matthew dowd joining us from austin, texas, this morning. hi, matthew. apparently hell froze over and ted cruz endorsed donald trump. is it really going to party in the end? >> good morning. i actually think it doesn't help donald trump at all. it's not going to contribute anything in the course of this campaign but i actually think it hurts ted cruz in his future ambition, one to get re-elected u.s. senator in texas but, two, running if he wants and donald 2020. it makes him look cravenly opportunistic and unprincipled and doesn't help ted. >> let's loop back to the debate on monday night. style is tick differences between these two candidates could hardly be more stark. the super studious clinton and seat of the pants up until now trump. how is this likely to play out on stage? >> i think what will play out each of air strengths and weaknesses n hillary clinton cerebral but doesn't have a gut connection. she has to become more visceral i think in the course of that debate. i think donald trump very visc

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joining me for insight and analysis, republican strategist alex castellanos, maureen dowd and cornell belcher and katy tur of nbc news. i'm chuck todd and this is "meet the press." >>> an explosion rocked manhattan last night, and then a second pressure cooker device and a bomb like the one used in the boston marathon attack was found four blocks to the north. the u.s. foreign chief correspondent richard engel happened to be on the scene last night, and what can you tell us, richard, about what we know about this incident well, it wa explosion and did not cause a great deal of explosion, but shattered some windows and went off inside of a dumpster, and some windows as high as four stories were shattered, but we are not seeing the huge crater, and so it is a crude, ploeive device. a few blocks from where i am, the unexploded device was located in a pressure cooker looking very homemade and the kind of thing that you could find the recipe for online, and the investigation right now is focusi focusing on the linkages and who is responsible? a group of people? linked to the pipe bomb expl

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. -- dowd by the mid-lake corridor. and then it turns really nice as we head to tomorrow afternoon . thanks to a big area of high pressure set up right over portions of the mid- atlantic states bringing us slightly cooler temperatures. that will start to shift towards the east as we head into tomorrow. looking to the east is a big area of low pressure in the cold front swinging to the east as we move through tonight into tomorrow. it will be by here by monday. looking at it now it is not a big or strong front in terms of thunderstorms. maybe some rumbles will be the worst we will see on monday. behind that though is an interesting set up. cooling air over the warm lakes and we will start to talk about our first lake effect of the season. don't panic. this will not be snow. i think it is all rain. rain showers developing especially for tuesday's. places east expecting rain. temperatures by tomorrow morning into the 40s and 50s. by lunchtime tomorrow lots of sunshine -- maybe 60s. we will end up in the 70s showers approac

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and here with me in new york, maureen dowd of the new york times. she is also the author of a new book, the year of voting dangerously. i am pleased to have all of them here. i began with mark halperin and john heilemann at hofstra. they are not here yet, so i will begin with maureen dowd. give me your reaction. maureen: i would say hillary won, but not in such a decisive way, not in such a decisive way that my conservative siblings, which i call my basket of deplorables -- think he won cured so i am not sure she got any of his people, and i'm sure he didn't get any of hers. she was able to beat him, not a total jack nicholson, a few good men meltdown, but on women, the birther thing, iraq. he ended up kind of admitting and bragging about not paying taxes, and he ended up kind of admitting about the housing bubble was good for him and defending that. and he reiterated that rosie o'donnell is a fat slob, i think. he admitted that he stiffed people in his business, and he was sort of bragging about weird things. i think he lost an opportunity on iraq,

sot - matthew dowd / abc news political analyst "the debates will determine this. hillary clinton can either put donald trump away or donald this race overcome this lid he seems to have at 40, 41 percent." kenneth moton oncam close: that first presidential debate is just 3 weeks away. and veterans. kenneth moton, abc news washington. happening today -- nevada national guard in carson city and in kuwait are marking a deadly shooting at ah ihop. four people were killed in 2011 -- including three guard members when a gunman opened fire at a restaurant. at home -- soldiers and airmen honored the victims with a walk around that ihop.. and today at utah's zion national park...park officials expected record numbers but had a tough time controlling the crowd.... 1:30 'a bus runs every 4 minutes, each hbus holds 68 people, and were literally having people wait almost an hour. thats a lot of people in this busiest with visitors from all over the nation. but it doesn't mean they're equipped to handle everyone who comes in. park officials tweeted out overcrowded and there were

matthew dowd here at the table once again. talking about this morning. the most highly anticipated presidential debate in recent history. more than 100 million people expected to watch. a growing number op big-name brands are banking on hi interest in the election. and matthew, doritos. we have our bags here. tell us what this is about. >> we're going to have a super bowl-like moment and we need the point is to get young advantage of a key moment in the campaign in an election that's drawn a lot of interest. >> 7-level is getting in the game. >> is there any risk for company? >> for good. they want to make people convince them to go vote. especially younger people whose turnout is low. i think they're doing it for a profit. they understand this is like a super bowl commercial. this is going to be a huge audience. it's a pop culture moment. lit exist on social media. >> get people to vote. >> we need arnold. and arnold palmer to drink with to honor the golf person the king. >> thank you. >>> we move on now to this hack of pippa middleton's icloud account.

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dwyer, we want to thank you and joining us from austin, texas, abc news political analyst matthew dowd. matthew, good morning to you. thanks for joining us. said the last thing we need is a president with more name calling but calls half his supporters in a basket of deplorables. do you think this will haunt her. >> when i first heard that it reminded something you'd hear in a "despicable me" movie when gru can't find his minions he calls dr. nefario and says get me the in the book of bad campaign ideas there is a chapter on attacking voters at a fund-raiser. obama did it in 2008 when they cling to their guns, when mitt romney talked about the 47%. it's never a good idea to go after voters even if you believe a segment of voters is that way in this. i think this will be a bad few days for her. it will ultimately pass over. but the campaign, i know, doesn't want their candidate going after voters. >> okay, so let's talk, though, about donald trump's r praise of vladimir putin. this is where the clinton campaign really wants us to be focused notwithstanding the basket of deplorables. for