the hillary clinton campaign.ed the democratic nomination, she has slowly been building up steam. her previous rival has intimated that he's dropping out. she's ahead of trump in the polls, and recently, she gained a powerful new ally. - u.s. senator elizabeth warren has made her debut on the campaign trail with the presumptive democratic nominee hillary clinton. - hillary clinton and elizabeth warren, joining forces today for the first time in the campaign. - hillary clinton will be the next president of the united states because she knows what it takes to beat a thin-skinned bully who is driven by greed and hate. - aww, yeah. that's elizabeth warren's badass fighting style. float like a butterfly, sting like the librarian who just shut up your friends in the library. let's take a second here to comment on what a historic moment this is. for the first time in american history, the presumptive democratic presidential nominee is a woman, people, and she's joined on stage by another qualified, powerful woman. i am s

hillary clinton was for sale. hillary clinton directly or indirectly insisted something of value -- i'm using a phrase from the federal bribery statute -- be put into a bank account to which she eventually had access in order for her to act in her official capacity to benefit the person who put that money in the bank account. stated differently, you want the secretary of state of the united states to exercise authority she has by giving you an exemption from a requirement or speeding up an application or process, you are not going to get it unless you contribute money to her and her husband's foundation. if this isn't the basis for a criminal investigation and if this doesn't arouse voters to realize the woman is the crookedest wombr person to run for president since lbj, nothing will. the a.p. giving us the exact number of people who met with, had phone conversations with hillary clinton and gave specific sums of money. you said she was for sale or put the u.s. government as part of a for sale sign. but this newl

a lot of hillary clinton on the trail of late. raising money. we haven't seen her on the stump. why this speech and why now? >> very simple. the clinton campaign and now obviously using the biggest asset from their perspective, the candidate herself are trying very hard to continue label and define donald trump as paletabl. she will focus on his new chief operating officer has said but not just about that mostly trying to tie that to, as she said to anderson last night, which she calls the real donald trump. this is beyond race, i'm told. this is something that is hate filled movement that merns should be weary of. >> it can be about gender as well as race. so called men rights activists say women are being oppressed by the feminist movement. >> does this speech have a new heightened importance because of what some are looking at as a somewhat different tone from donald trump on the stump about immigration? now also talking about, not too, but about certain minority issues. is that another reason why hillary clinton is doing this t

has and hillary clinton has not addressed. takes more than an outreach effort, it takes policies to help people. he doesn't have them. >> there i sharply disagree with you. here's the reason. clinton regardless of what she says now is clearly pro trade, we're not here to debate the merits of free trade. trump's policy being tough on trade will create a lot of jobs, not just for working class whites, for blacks, hispanics, a lot of jobs will be created and that's a policy that will help >> he stuff, you know, it's hard to say where he stands on any issue. >> unfortunately we're going to have to leave it there. thank you tore coming in and discussing this. we appreciate it. >>> as you know donald trump had his first classified national security briefing today. the meeting prompted a lot of questions like what exactly was donald trump told and will hillary clinton get some of the same information? >>> fox 5 ronica cleary looked into this and what did you hear >> well, you know, it's interesting, i think you could, this is probabl

took as secretary of state with people outside government were clinton foundation donors. hillary's chief of staff received more messages from the clinton foundation's chief operating officer than just about anybody else. 85 donors alone that she met with as secretary gave the foundation $156 million. and i know many of these people. these are not people that are going up to pay their respects and say, madam secretary, how are you feeling, isn't it a beautiful day, the weather is so beautiful. these are people that want things for their donation. these are people that expect things for their donation. when you follow it out and you see the people that left their office, you look at what those people and countries and companies got. believe me, you'll find out, it's plenty. on top of that, bill clinton's total speaking fees rose 44% while hillary clinton was secretary of state, often raking in money from people who had business or matters before the state department. very simple. as i said weeks ago, hillary clinton ran the state department like a personal hedge fund. it's hard to te

hillary clinton is the first candidate in history to have faced multiple investigations. he faced an fbi investigation because of her own doing and facing a joint u.s. attorney and fbi investigation in to the clinton investigation. and the irs is also probing the clinton foundation. it is the actions of hillary clinton. >> answer that ka rin dht e. we are at this place because the former secretary of state stieded to use a private e-mail server. >> the republicans have spent insane amount of time and resources on this issue. and the final results was clear which was that she didn't do anything illegal. we have to remember kevin mccarthy, the congressman said, we created the benghazi committee to help tank her polling numbers. her meaning hillary clinton. this is what we have dealt with for the past years. millions of dollars on this issue is put forth. taxpayer money. >> and putting that out, go ahead, lisa. >> this is a issue of national security. hillary clinton had information on her private e-mail server that is a national security risk. she had information on the iran

there's not an equal amount of coverage for donald trump and hillary clinton. you should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. >> a mid year review and 70% of the statements by trump were falls versus 20% on clinton. >> we will get into hillary clinton on a segment later in the program. i want to put up this "time magazine" cover this week, meltdown, you see the melting face. >> great picture. >> the mainstream media have concluded not only is trump behind, creating a lot of problems, he's going to lose this campaign. i wonder if that's a trap that we are going to since it is august. >> they have accused him, take a walk down memory lane, of those exact words, melting down. time likes to push the envelope with its covers. i saw one about hillary clinton, you know, back during the e-mail scandal that was pretty provocative before there was even an investigation. you know, that said, i think, you know, we have to wait for several more weeks of polling as well as look at other factors like the fact that he is still taking in a lot of money before we can ne

hillary clinton with 45%. we were talking about they're undecided there here so when it comes to those up for grabs how much could the impact of these smaller parties have on outcome overall and who really has the most to win or lose given that. >> i'll tell you what i thought was an interesting finding in the in a fla poll which was the post conventions poll was that that 6 point lead shrinks to four points, 43 to 39% when you introduce the libber tarn aerta green party candidates. that number jumped to 7. stein was getting 7% among 18 to 34s in florida. both of those tie anonymousics are cancelling each other out right now. be stein or johnson were to rise into the high or single digits in florida such that the 18 or 34 year olds or independents were a 10 or 12% then they could have a major impact on the race. >> the second full day of the olympics is getting underway. we take a live look at the olympic venue. all the dots. all the little people there, from this vantage point filing into the olympic venn wit

donald trump and hillary clinton laid out their programs to get the economy growing faster, and both had to deal with new controversy. trump from self inflicted wounds, clinton from e-mails that show a cozy relationship between the clinton foundation and her state department. friday we traveled to indianapolis, home of mike pence. in his first sunday show interview since the convention, we talked about challenges facing both campaigns. governor pence, welcome back to fox news sunday. thank you for inviting us to the governor residence. >> thanks, chris. welcome back to indiana. >> do you believe hillary clinton was involved in a pay to play arrangement as secretary of state with big donors to the clinton foundation? >> looks that way more and more every day, doesn't it. the new e-mails that have been made public just in the last week seem to make a direct connection between favors done by state department officials and major foreign donors to the clinton foundation. but the american people have a right to know. i think people of this country are tired of the pay to play politics in wa

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. >> mark kelly, thanks very much for joining us. >> you're welcome. >>> amidst this, hillary clinton is put on the defensive today as newly released e-mails from her time as secretary of state are raising new questions over possible ties between the state department and the clinton foundation. these never before seen e-mails were released by judicial watch, a conservative watchdog group. 296 pages in you a including dozens that judicial watch claims were never turned over by clinton to the state department for an investigation. our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin has been poring through these e-mails. drew, what the evidence here that there could be possible influence, if you will, by the clinton foundation over the state department? >> the new batch of e-mails being released shows what we have seen over and over again and it's intermingling of interests and donations and favors being done between hillary clinton's state department, the clinton foundation and the donors who apparently have easy access to both when they need help. these are e-mails from 2009. one invol

i had him take a polygraph, which he passed. >> wow, hillary clinton laughing. disturbing clinton scandal resurfacing reported by the daily mail.com. back in 1975, hillary literally helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl avoid major charges and then laughed about it and pretty much indicated she thought he was guilty. >>> also tonight, according to a new report, department of justice stopped the fbi from investigating corruption ties between the clinton foundation and the state department during hillary clinton's tenure as secretary of state. in other words, the state department was for sale. judge jeannine pirro, monica crowley, lisa boothe. i am totally blind. i lost my sight in afghanistan. if you're totally blind, you may also be struggling with non-24. calling 844-844-2424. or visit my24info.com. that's charmin ultra strong, remidude. cleans so well... ...it keeps your underwear cleaner. (secretly) so clean... you could wear them a second day. tell me i did not just hear that! (sheepishly) i said you could... not that you would! ...charmin ultra s

how effective can he be for hillary clinton? s effective, especially for just getting out there on the stump. as many people have said, trump is making it so easy for people like vice president biden, people like secretary clinton, people like all her other surrogates, to go after him and make this about him, because he keeps making this about himself instead of going on the attack against clinton's vulnerabilities. >> i want to talk about bill clinton, another one of hillary clinton's attack dogs or surrogates. he is proving to perhaps cause some issues on the campaign trail. here's what he said in response to a question about hillary clinton's e-mail issues. >> wait a minute. that's not true. the fbi director said, when he testified before congress, he had to amend his previous day's statement, that she had never received any e-mails marked classified. they saw two little notes with a c on it. this is the biggest load of bull i've ever heard. that were about telephone calls that she needed to make. and the state department typi

kristen, hillary clinton expected to release her tax returns today. what are we looking for? >> well, look, we know that secretary clinton is expected to release her 2015 tax returns. and tim kaine is expected to release ten years of his tax returns. we should note we have the past ten years of secretary clinton's tax returns as well and we're basically going to see how much they paid in taxes, the percentage that they paid, where they earned their money, did she give any paid speeches in 2015, for example, but this is a political tactic as well, kate. it's about turning up the heat on donald trump to release his tax returns, something that he has said he can't do because they're current low being audited. of course billionaire businessman and clinton surrogate warren buffett has said my taxes are being audited as well but i'm happy to release them if donald trump does. this comes as the clinton campaign is releasing a new web video. it features conservatives and republicans who also call on him to release his tax returns. they're really trying to speak to those working class,

and let me tell when you reporters tried to ask hillary clinton about mateen's appearance there, pretty unbelievable. watch this. >> secretary clinton, should your campaign have known that omar mateen's father was at your campaign rally yesterday? secretary clinton? >> thank you all, very much. trish: i mean, she just completely ignores the reporter, though the reporter didn't exist. won't even acknowledge the question. later in the evening hillary's campaign issued a revised statement saying, quote, so again, i got to go back, how on earth did this guy end up at her rally? i mean, these things are very scripted. they are very produced and generally you make pretty darn sure whoever is seated behind you, if you're the candidate, is not going to make any funny faces or do anything that would embarrass you while the cameras are rolling. how could they have missed this? joining me the executive direct offer new york state democratic party basil michael and brad blakeman. you know how the campaign things work. >> i do. trish: generally someone from the community that is a supporter of that

of state with people outside government were clinton foundation donors. hillary's chief of staff received more messages from the clinton's foundation chief operating officer than just about anybody else. 85 donors alone that she met with as secretary gave the foundation $156 million. i know many of these people. these are people that want things for their donation. these are people that expect things for their donation. and when you follow it out and you see the people that left their office, you take a look at what those people, those companies and those countries got. believe me, you will find out, it is plenty. on top of that, bill clinton's total speaking fees rose 44% while hillary clinton was secretary of state. often raking in money from people who had business or matters before the state department. very simple. as i said weeks ago, hillary clinton ran the statement department like a personal hedge fund. it's hard to tell where the clinton foundation ends and where the state department begins. access and favors were sold for cash. it's called pay for play.

and hillary clinton's state partment. what do you make of all this money going to the foundation or going for huge fees for bill clinton's speeches and how the state department treated those people? >> serious unanswered questions. what's going on here? what's this all about with her and trump? in the case of trump, i have really no idea what he might do if he ever became president. if you look at the statements, the proposals, the ideas, it's a kind of a garage sale and i don't know that there's a rembrandt behind that lawn mower that won't start. but i he has not communicated that. she has somewhat communicated what she o would do. her personal e-mails, remember the fbi director said there are thousands of e-mails, work-related, that were not turned over. there are those top secret discussions, very, very serious. you find -- foundation. that was the new news this week. one case, doug band twho was, as we pointed out, a top official at the foundation, the clinton campaign says no, no, no. he wasn't working there. he was

supported by hillary clinton. right here in this community, you lost one in seven manufacturing jobs since bill clinton put china into the world trade portion. another hillary clinton backed deal, and he have be backing the transpacific partnership, tpp, if she is elected. just mark your words, just remember, you know it's going to happen, she considered it the gold standard. when she heard me talking about it, she said i can't win this one, so she went against it, he have go back immediately and you saw that when the governor of virginia, her friend, said that would happen. detroit lost more than one in three manufacturing jobs following the nafta and wto agreements that were supported very strongly by my opponent. no industry has been hurt more by hillary clinton's policies than the automobile industry, or as we call it the car industry. it has been a total disaster. according to the bureau of the labor of statistics, there was 285,000 auto workers in michigan. now that number is down to 160,000 and it will have

it might be that gary johnson is seeing this is an effective strategy against hillary clinton. this is what gary johnson had to say regarding this founding of isis comment that donald trump made. this was just this morning on msnbc. >> is hillary the founder of isis, obama the founder of isis? >> unintentionally. >> unintentionally. you would agree it's a policy issues, their policies that led to the rise of isis. is that what you're saying? >> yes, and it wasn't intentional, but you can't make it up, when they go in and support the opposition in leeb yeah and syria and the opposition is aligned with isis and we arm the opposition and they lose those arms to isis. unintentionally. >> is this a case, eugene of some infectious campaigning, an effect he's having on other people in the race? >> i think this is the case of two things with gary john soond with donald trump. we are in a post fact check culture in this election. and what we put out regardless of how much we say this is not what the evidence and intelligence supports, a lot of his supporters will not believe us because h

>> it's just another example of hillary clinton's absolute corruption within her office and secretaryt we can only expect she'll take to the presidency. the clinton foundation is nothing more than a slush fund. if you look at the breakdown of the budge they had, they gave away $5 million in grants but spent almost $86 million paying expenses and travel staff and just salaries to help out their political cronies. it's just a pathetic excuse for something they really need to reel in and another example of while hillary clinton is not qualified to be president. >> van? >> i see it very differently. first of all, i do think that there's some sloppiness here. just like we want donald trump to make sure his words are above reproach, i think it's fair to say hillary clinton should make sure her actions are above reproach. the reality is when you are a person in public life over many, many years, you wind up with a lot of people sloshing around you doing all kinds of stuff. this was sloppy, it shouldn't have happened. but i just want to say what people a year ago, two years ago were saying qu

clinton foundation and that relationship between the foundation and the state department under hillary clinton? >> well, judge, i wrote in "clinton certain" about what i call the clinton blur and that's the blurring of lines between the private activities, some of them commercial, some of them related to the clinton found decision and the state department, blurring them and the problem, of course, ethics laws don't allow you to blur them. the e-mails that are now coming out as a result of the work of judicial watch and also citizens united are confirming that contrary to the agreement hillary clinton made with barack obama, that there would be no overlap between the two, that indeed favors were done and access was given to clinton foundation donors by senior state department officials. so this indicates the kind of pay to play that i wrote about in "clinton cash." >> what's interesting, peter, we would not have found out about this, the m.o.u. signed right before hillary clinton became secretary of state, that she signed with barack obama, she swore that this was not the kind of thing that wou

quick, name three hillary clinton spots. you can't think about them. s $18 million of them, and he is generating so much free media. margaret: let's look at the clinton campaign's ad spending and what it tells us. ken: pennsylvania is on the board, as is ohio and florida and nevada, but what's interesting to me are the states not on the board for clinton and not on the board for trump, either, colorado and virginia. we can sit here and figure out what is a battleground, what is not a battleground. we know now that colorado and virginia are not battlegrounds, because neither trump or clinton are airing ads there. she is up in pennsylvania. we will see if she stays up in pennsylvania, but for now colorado and virginia are off the board. joshua: when do we expect the next ad from trump? [laughter] ken: i am done and retired from the predicting what trump will do game, especially when it comes to advertising. there was a bit of a battle in the trump campaign about what their first creative would be. given the previous conversation you had here, about once a

of state with people outside government were clinton foundation donors. hillary's chief of staff received more messages from the clinton foundation's chief operating officer than just about anybody else. 85 donors alone that she met with as secretary gave the foundation $156 million. and i know many of these people. i know many of these people. these are not people that are going up to pay their respects and say, madam secretary, how are you feeling? isn't it a beautiful day? the weather is so beautiful. these are people that want things for their donation. these are people that expect things for their donation. and when you follow it out and you see the people that left her office, you take a look at what those people, those companies and those countries got. believe me, you will find out. it is plenty. on top of that, bill clinton's total speaking fees rose 44% while hillary clinton was secretary of state. often raking in money from people who had business or matters before the state department. very simple. as i said weeks ago, hillary clinton ran the state depa

hillary clinton surging in swing states. as donald trump blames the media, stokes fear of a rigged election, and faces calls to step down from some in his own party. meanwhile, the mogul turned reality star turned presidential candidate says this about the plan to defeat isis. >> the time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. i call it extreme vetting. i call it extreme, extreme vetting. >> and hillary clinton says this. >> sometimes he says he won't tell anyone what he'll do because he wants to keep his plan, quote, secret. >> let's get right to cnn's sara murray in youngstown, ohio, where donald trump laid out his isis plan today, and here with me in new york is cnn justice correspondent, pamela brown. good to have both of you on this evening. sara, you first. donald trump is trying to get his campaign back on track. today he gave what was billed as a major foreign policy speech outlining his plan to fight terror. what were the highlights? >> reporter: well, don, he did unveil a pretty b

donald trump after tripling down on calling president obama and hillary clinton the co-founders of isis, is now tweeting this, quote, ratings challenged cnn reports so seriously that i call president obama and clinton the founder of isis and mvp. they don't get sarcasm? let us take a brief walk down memory lane of the last 48 hours. >> he is the founder of isis, he's the founder of isis. i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis, they're the founders. barack obama and hillary clinton, these are the founders of isis. >> last night, you said the president was the founder of isis. i know what you meant, he created the vacuum, he lost the peace. >> he's the founder of isis. he's the most valuable player. i give her too by the way. >> but he's not sympathetic to them, he hates them he trying to kill them. >> i don't care, he was the founder. >> all right. meanwhile, something nearly unheard of in trump world, an admission of vulnerability, maybe even weakness in states you would never imagine. let's go to chief political correspondent dana bash live for us in washington

e-mail crimes, they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate hillary clinton's new crimes which happen all the time. some former prosecutors have even suggested that the coordination between the pay for play state department and the clinton foundation constitute a clear example of rico racketeering, influence corrupt organization enterprise. the justice department is required to appoint an independent special prosecutor. because it has proven itself to be really, sadly, a political arm of the white house. >> so m.j., trump calling for a special prosecutor in the e-mail scandal. that's new. >> this is very harsh rhetoric we're seeing from donald trump against clinton on the e-mail issues. i think if you're a trump surrogate or a trump aide or even his former campaign manager, a number of his exaides, i think you see trump behave this way tonight, take this kind of tone and you're wondering, where was all of this this summer? you know his aides and campaign advisors have wanted so badly for so long for trump to really focus and get on message and really hit clinto

he calls hillary clinton the devil. here is more of what he had to say. >> by the way, did you see the nielsen ratings? my final speech against hillary's final speech, not even a contest. won by four or five million people. now, the press doesn't report that as an example when bernie sanders people walked out. you had the mass exit. nobody showed it. when they showed bernie angry, they are talking about bernie because he made a bad deal. he would have gone down as doing something important. once he made that deal, believe me, he has buyer's remorse. he looked at that and he was so angry when they were talking about him. his people are angry at him. they should be. if he would not have done anything, go home and go to sleep, relax. he would have been a hero. he made a deal with the devil. she's the devil. it's true. >> reporter: trump appears to be gearing up for a battle with his fellow republicans. one day after paul ryan issued a statement, trump posted a tweet monday night saying he appreciated the kind words from ry

father of the gunman who killed 49 people at an orlando nightclub is spotted standing behind hillary clinton at a florida rally. he says clinton would be good for u.s. national security. the u.s. clinton campaign says he was not invited. >>> and i want to debate, donald trump says he is on board for three debates with hillary clinton but he wants to see the terms and reserves the right to renegotiate. will he show up? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news, donald trump goes unscripted again and sets off a stunning new controversy. he says hillary clinton was to apolish the second amendment and if she picks her supreme court justices there is nothing you can do. then trump suggests maybe the second amendment people can do something. the clinton campaign calls the remark dangerous saying a presidential nominee should not be suggesting violence. the trump campaign says he was talking about the political influence of second amendment supporters. >>> another republican senator, susan collins, is refusing to vote for donald trump. she

but deciding whether they will will the liver for hillary clinton as they would for a democrat or for donald trump. i think there are a lot of donald estimate her to her unsettled by the clinton foundation and they have not clean this up with a have handled it today in the fact that they are scrambling suggest the recognized phone ability. talk we did not get to about the 15,000 e-mails. campaign fund-raising tantamount and it was an impressive haul for donald j. trump, billionaire. they spent 18 nine dollars and has $38 million in the bank and loan his campaign $2 million that instead of investing into the tv ad war and operational ground game most of trump's spending went to war to firm that handles digital ads as well as merchandise, travel, and reimbursing travel on companies for campaign expenses. she spent 36 nine dollars it has 58 million on hand. hillary clinton's campaign has reserved a million dollars worth of television air time in battleground states which will include spots like one of the campaign released today which is his donald trump's own words against himself. of c

>> hillary clinton's ahead, not because people are in love with hillary clinton.fact, her negatives are in the 50s in each of these states. the trouble for trump, his negatives are in the 60s in each of these states. not to use the old cliche, the lesser of two evils, but you have someone who is very, very popular in donald trump and someone who is not particularly popular in hillary clinton. so that goes clinton's way in all these states. >> the best thing clinton has going for her is trump. >> although the clinton people are more favorable to clinton, than the trump people are to trump. clinton's people are motivated by their like of her than their dislike of trump. so there's a little difference there, but the bottom line, this is an election that has really no great road maps because we've been surprised every other day. and there's likely to be many more of those down the road before we're done in november. right now, it's playing hillary clinton's way. we'll see if it continues. >> you'll do a lot more polls before then. thanks for the time. much more ahead.

hillary clinton is the only candidate with two f.b.i. ations, one on her mail server and now this new revelation that there is an investigation into public corruption charges with the clinton foundation. she is literally put our national security at risk potentially risking lives, as well, with the information based on her serve are but the hyperbole gets more attention than action that put her nation at risk. >> do you agree that some news outlets including the big newspapers and cable networks have covered the story in some substantial detail? >> to an extent but not enough. she is facing two f.b.i. investigations and she is the democratic nominee. that is mindboggling. >> hid what jumped out is the big donor who wants a meeting with the state department and the top aides are at it and the meeting never took place, but, heidi przybyla, was this undercut that there was no incriminating e-mail written by hillary clinton? >> it supervise her aides but they are the closer aides including huma huma aberdin the >> it was not hillary clinton w

clintons made last year right after this. ♪ ♪ mark: one day after an economic speech in michigan, hillary clintonying to put pressure on donald trump and his campaign by releasing her tax returns. she is calling on the republican nominee to do the same. she and president clinton earned $10.6 million last year, 34.2% federal income tax rate, and donated 9.8% of gross income to charity. the clintons have released decades of tax returns. her running mate released 10 years of his tax history. donald trump has refused to release his returns citing an audit by the irs. with us is katie tur. do you think this will cause him to relent? >> no. he will not release his taxes. it is not going to happen. >> zero chance. warren buffett was under order. i feel strong about this. we all have one job as a citizen, pay taxes and not break the law. taxes are a peek into the soul of how you live your life and conduct business. possibly zero tax. we could get a real estate tax attorney in here and explain the business, a lot of funny business. there have always been rumors that he is the least charitable rich guy aro

. >>> hillary clinton taking to cnn to defend herself from trump's attacks. what she said about the republican nominee and how she is defending herself on the e-mails and clinton foundation. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday, august 25th. donald trump seems to have a new position on immigration

hillary clinton is racing towards election day. ll numbers getting a boost after the democratic convention. >> hello, columbus! >> clinton is leading donald trump nationally by nine points. 52-43. a turn around from a week ago when trump was ahead by three points after the republican convention. >> would you rather have a, you're fired president, or a you're hired president? >> with a little help from her running mate, virginia senator tim kaine, clinton is hoping to widen that lead looking for support from white blue collar voters on the fence about which candidate to deport. >> he goes around saying he wants to put america first and america workers first. and then just today we learn once again he's asked for visas to employ foreign workers at his country clubs because he says he can't find any american workers. shame on you, donald trump. shame on you. >> fresh off a bus tour through pennsylvania and ohio, clinton will campaign in nebraska and will be introduced by billionaire warren buffett who endorsed her in september. >> i wi

hillary? a clinton aide told nbc news they will not be releasing more medical records and that it is up to trump to produce a legitimate and detailed letter from a doctor. they are referring to the friday disclosure by trump's physician to nbc news that he wrote a four paragraph letter calling trump's health astonishingly excellent in just five minutes. >> i guess he called, he said the clinton organization was going to publish a letter on her health and i know her physician and i know some of her health history which is really not so good, so i said why not. i would do that for you, too, if you needed it. >> and so the car was waiting outside? >> the end of the day, they came to get their letter. >> so just tell me about the time crunch. like you wrote it quickly? >> i thought about it all day and at the end, i get rushed and i get anxious when i get rushed. i try to get four or five lines down as fast as possible that they would be happy with. >> but it was based on your evaluation? >> it's all true.

it's just another example of hillary clinton's bad judgment. it is possible that our country and its security a have been greatly compromised by this. for some the story about the husband of the current vice chair of hillary clinton's presidential campaign and previously her chief of staff at the state department is a potential question of national security for others just a cheap tabloid story. but for huma abedin, it was apparently the last straw. in statement, she said i have made the decision to separate from my husband. anthony and i remain devoted to doing what is best for our son who is the light of our life. she also asked for privacy. in 2013, during come back effort as he ran for mayor, weiner was caught for a second time sexting with women under the alias carlos danger. huma abedin defended him before the cameras. >> really what i want to say is i love him, i have forgiven him. i believe in him. as we have said from the beginning we are moving forward. >> but today separated, their marriage dissolving, even before the public announcem

but hillary clinton apparently won't even fill out the questionnaire. ion feels snubbed saying the clinton campaign indicated right up until the deadline that she would seek the endorsement. the union president says, quoting, you would think with law enforcement issues being so much in the news, even if she had disagreements with our positions, she would have been willing to say that. the union has also criticized the democratic party for being more focuses on deaths caused by police than officers killed in the line of duty. when asked about the endorsement, the clinton campaign side stepped, saying, quote, hillary and her team have engaged law enforcement throughout the campaign to listen to ideas and solutions, and she will continue to do so as president. clinton has gained the support of mothers of the black lives matter movement and has actively courted the black lives matter movement. but the founder of blm has said the clintons, vote, use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities. donald trump is actively seeking the p

for people that said hillary clinton runs and hides, we have been hammering hillary clinton harder this week than we have in a long time. what did she do? she came on the show for 20 3to 30 minutes. she heard the tough criticisms, harsh, and she came on the show anything. i think it says something about her confidence to lead. >>> all right. tonight at 8:00 "morning joe" music will be live at vinegar hill music in maine. you can watch a live stream of the show on facebook.com. that does it for us. here is stephanie. >> you and i will be there and the whole "morning joe" gang. >> and stephanie picks up the coverage right now. >>> thanks. ere is a lot to unpack. good morning. hillary clinton has been ton offensive in the last 24 hours ramping up her attacks on donald trump just moments ago. >> a man with a long history of racial discrimination who traffics in conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of super market tabloids and these kind of white supremacist, white nationalist, anti-she memitic groups. >> the rnc standing by to react live. >>> donald trump seeming to backtrack on his own

i would say the co-founder would be crooked hillary clinton. nder, absolutely the founder. in fact, he gets the -- in sports they have awards. he gets the most valuable player award. he and hillary. >> last night you said the president was the founder of isis. i know what you meant. >> i meant he's the founder of isis. i give him the most valuable player award. >> barack obama and hillary clinton, these are the founders of isis. these are the founders of isis because of bad judgment. these are founders. >> gloria, why is he doing this? >> he's trying to appeal to his base. he's trying to get out the base voters who don't like president obama. who were not in favor of the war in iraq. he knows the gop voters vote on the terror issue. it's either at the top of their list or number two on their list. he wants to remind people that isis is still around. even when hugh said i understand you created the vacuum and that's what you're talking about. he said no, no. i'm talking about barack obama founded isis. it's very simple. he does this over and over

deirdre: critics, colonel say, that hillary clinton essentially put the state department up for sale they pulled strings, they did favors for fat cat donors to the clinton foundation. are you surprised? i guess not. in the e-mails showing or implying heavily a pay-for-play scheme? >> goes back to the lincoln bedroom in the first clinton administration, doesn't it? but the state department's interesting, their response. it tells me they are already looking forward and expect a clinton -- another clinton presidency and they don't know want to be on her bad side. they want state to get the funding, get the right promotions, et cetera, et cetera. the clintons, i'm not endorsing either candidate, but the clintons, really reminds me of the old mafia families, and there are three things that strike me. one, clintons aren't doing the same kind of business as the old mobs were, but at the same time, the old mobs were asking las vegas oldtimers, they were loyal to their people, to their communities, and the third crucial difference is the old mobsters never got to influence the attorney genera

. >>> hillary clinton taking to cnn to defend herself from trump's attacks. what she said about the republican nominee and how she is defending herself on the e-mails and clinton foundation. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday, august 25th. donald trump seems to have a new position on immigration to go with a new line of attacks. last night, donald trump suggested to fox news he would allow some undocumented immigrants to stay in the united states. why does this matter? for more than a year, trump made clear that all 11 million undocumented immigrants, he thinks, he thought, they had to go. even if it took a deportation force. apparently not anymore. >> they will pay back taxes. they have to pay taxes. there's no amnesty. there's no amnesty. but we work with them. i had very strong people come up to me. really great people come up to me and they said, mr. trump, i love you, but to take a person who has been here 15 or 20 years and throw them and the family out is so tough. i have it all the time. it'

instead, he is using his time to hammer hillary clinton. he accused her in akron, ohio of pay for play. and called for a special prosecutor to look at the ties with the clinton foundation and state department. >> pay the clinton foundation huge sums of money and throw in big speaking fees for bill clinton and you got to play. the amounts involved, the favors done and the significant number of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately, immediately. >> reporter: not only was this red meat to his republican base, but it is an overture to independent voters who may wonder if she is trust worthy. this is a question on whether donald trump is dealing with immigration. his campaign manager suggested that the deportation force he once called for may not come to fruition. in akron, ohio, there was no sign. he vowed to build the wall along mexico and vowed for extreme vetting. as for the immigration speech he will give in colorado, the campaign has scrapped that. he will back on the trail tod

chelsea, bill and hillary clinton can do nothing that -- the foundation, the record shows that nothing been established that ever shows they did compromise their roles with the clinton foundation. the e-mails prove that point. >> how can you say that? how can you say that, when large donors are requesting favors from the state department? you tell me how many other people at foundations across this nation would have access to the secretary of state, like the people at the foundation did. and the fact that -- >> didn't she -- didn't she agree not to take any money to the foundation, when she was secretary of state? there was some agreement there that was violated. >> amy, the very questions you're asking were already answered by an investigation by the "wall street journal." they showed no favoritism. >> right, because she didn't turn -- this is the problem -- >> i didn't interrupt you. the second point, if you look at the issues involved with the work of the clinton foundation, it in no way compromised any work that hillary clinton did as secretary of state. in fact, the e-mails make t

. >>> hillary clinton facing heat over her long-running e-mails and the strong language bill clinton is using to defend his wife. >>> thank you for spending your saturday with us. i'm elizabeth prann. >> nice to be with you. i'm leyland vitter. welcome to american's election headquarters from washington. >> louisiana governor declared a state of emergency in his area. deadly flood waters have risen there and the forecast does not look much better. we are keeping a close watch on the gulf coast. you can see the radar right there. at least another one to two inches of rain is expected today as more storms roll through the area. flood conditions there are expected to continue to get worse and then waters rise even after the rain ends. at least two people died. hundreds of miles of roads are closed in that state. baton rouge has been hard hit, over 11 inches of rain in just 24 hours. you can see there them bringing in military trucks to try to get through some of these flood waters. congressman represents baton rouge and joins us by phone. give us a sense how bad is it. are you really wo

what about the attacks on hillary clinton's health? is that a winning strategy? yeah, i think he has to be very kaucareful. his attack should be on washington and status quo, not just hillary. when he does go to hillary, they have to be where they're not personal, they have to be where she's been there for 24 years, she had her chance, she was tested and failed to test. we need somebody who can move us in a different direction. we already know that. most people don't think america is going the right direction. so when he makes it personal, he loses. when he makes it about be bigger issue and makes it anti-washington, it's much, much more powerful. >> the question is can he do it? is that even in him to do that? john king, republicans are seemingly jumping ship. many of them by the day. some ready to cut trump loose all together. and today, extraordinary -- an extraordinary editorial from the "wall street journal." it says if they can't get mr. trump to change his act by labor day the gop will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on sa