jackie kucinich with me, the washington bureau chief for the daily beast. michael warren, staff writer for the weekly standard. david swarloff, assistant editor for "the washington post" and todd graham is the debate director for southern illinois carbondale. welcome to all of you. so, todd, big, big huge picture, you hear mr. trump saying i had a bad microphone. lester holt threw me really awful questions. who won this debate? >> well, i think it was pretty easy who lost this debate. donald trump had a very, very bad night. so when i graded him today on my cnn.com piece, donald trump got an "f." >> why so, why did you give him an "f"? >> well, i mean, there's two aspects to every debate. there's content and delivery. i didn't think he came through on either. as far as his sort of delivery, well, he started with a frown and growls and that was on the first answer from hillary clinton. and it just went from there to his interrupting her constantly over and over and over again. frankly, it was rude and annoying. it was just too much. as for his content, well,

jackie kucinich and alex burns and joined by political anchor of time warner cable news. here's what she had to say. >> do you think that the next president needs to level with the american people that words like destroy and defeat isis that your opponent loves tause a all the time how quickly it will happen that that is not the reality. the reality is this is generational and there is no quick win against isis. this is going to be a really, really long time. do you think it's time the american people are told that? >> i think it is time for a candid, honest conversation about what we face because it's not just isis. i actually think that intensifying our efforts against isis could lead tatheir defeo t. taking back the cities they seized in iraq. but that's not the end of the struggle. the struggle is against a violent ideology. we have to protect our country by working with one another. and that most certainly includes the american muslim community. what, unfortunately, donald trump has done is made our job harder. and given a lot of aid and comfort to isis operatives, e

bringing back our political panel, david chalian, david preston, jackie kucinich. weaknesses. >> the first is the truth. a weakness of his, and so obviously you've seen a lot of coverage about the counterfactual statements he's made in just the last week. we've seen this from lots of news organizations. and we've done it ourselves. checked a lot of the things he's said. that's a problem on a debate stage, because both hillary clinton and lester holt presumably will feel the need to correct, if he tells a whopper, a real incorrect statement he puts out there, to correct the record in that moment. and that is going to be -- i know donald trump thinks, oh, the press doing their thing, but the american people have a right to know what's fact kmul and what's not factual. >> is lester holt the moderator going to do that type of fact checking? the presidential debate commission says that's not necessarily the role of the moderator. that's the role of the opponent. the other presidential candidate? >> right, and it was said here on "reliable sources" on brian stelter's sho

we have mark preston, jackie kucinich, and alex burns. e, the clinton campaign had to be watching very closely yesterday. i'm sure they had whiplash by the end of the today. at first, donald trump went down, appeared at the podium, appeared presidential. there seemed to be a conciliatory meeting. then he flew to arizona and gave that speech. is it okay for clinton to just stand back and watch all this unfold and sort of take a passive role, or does she somehow need to be inserting herself into this and accepting invitations from foreign leaders and going herself? >> that's not something -- a place needs to bolster her resume. in the president of mexico's speech, he said something to effect of i can't wait to welcome hillary clinton back here because we've met here before. so that's not somewhere where her resume needs more padding. in terms of her standing back, i'm going to butcher this expression, but why stop your opponent from killing themselves when they're doing it themselves. i totally butchered that. >> i think we got the message.

back with us now sarah huckabee sanders, sarin johnson, jason johnson and jackie kucinich.arah why did donald trump change his mind do you think? >> i'm not sure he has. all along he said he was going to release his health records this week. that hasn't changed. he'll do that -- >> -- on brian kylmeade, he said i know this that donald trump will turn over those records right to dr. oz who will analyze them and it will be a surprise to dr. trump what dr. oz is going to say. that's what brian kilmeade said on his show as he was interviewing dr. oz. so it seems like he changed his mind. >> well not necessarily. i mean as far as i know brian kilmeade isn't a spokesperson for the campaign. and i think that the campaign itself has been extremely clear that donald trump will release his records this week from a physical he took on friday. we're in the middle of the week. it's certainly not over and he still plans to do that. but he is unlike hillary clinton willing to sit down with a doctor in a public forum and have a very open discussion about his health just as he's done on hun

sanjay gupta, cnn analyst jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for "the daily beast." breanna, since you've been covering hillary clinton since the beginning -- >> before the beginning. >> before the beginning of all this, was there anything that kristina said that surprised you? >> no. i think heats what we've been hearing from the campaign, and we also heard brian fallon say earlier, that pneumonia is the one thing that is afflicting hillary clinton. where you see the campaign in this position of pushing back on some of these unfounded assertions by donald trump surrogates that there's a bigger issue to hillary clinton's health and perhaps the fact that she had a concussion in 2012, she hasn't fully recovered from that. of course those in the clinton circle say is definitely not true. so you know, they found themselves in this position where they've had to come out and say hillary clinton has pneumonia two days after she actually got the diagnosis and they're trying to be very clear now that that's it. >> sanjay gupta, what are your unanswered questions on her health

also with me is jackie kucinich, the washington bureau chief for "the daily beast."d trump is talking about this still this morning when he was asked but i want to play the video of what he said this morning. >> she was the worst we ever had. the worst. the absolute worst. she was impossible and she was a a miss universe contestant and ultimately a winner who they had a tremendously difficult time with. she gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem. we had a real problem. not only that, her attitude, we had a real problem with her. >> kristen, how do you think this plays for donald trump and that he still is basically defending himself talking about her weight? >> normally we'd say "i can't believe we've found a new low to reach." what's bizarre is in this election for voters the fact that trump is a jerk is baked in so the question is is this new? does this somehow -- not only this old clip the from the past which had he come out and say "i apologize back in the '90s, there were different standards for these things, i wouldn't say that now." maybe

and jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for the daily beast. welcome to all of you. >> thank you. >> okay, so jackie, both candidates will be in the state of ohio. hillary clinton surrogates are all over the place. they're in pittsburgh, they're in ohio, they're all over. i'm sure mr. trump will send out his surrogates as well. a winning strategy for both candidates? >> well, the rust belt is just going to be incredibly important this election. we've seen this again and again. and each candidate has a different goal here. but it's interesting, you don't see some of the traditionally states that are at plates at this point in the election we've seen in other years. it appears virginia and colorado are not going to be in play because they seem too far gone for donald trump at this point. so it does become about michigan, ohio, wisconsin, pennsylvania. we're going to see then there a lot, particularly targeting blue collar voters who might be on the fence who may, as phil was saying, who may have been democrats and now republicans. sort of the neve

with me now is washington correspondent for "the daily beast" and cnn analyst, jackie kucinich, and toddrom southern graham university. welcome to both of you. let's start, jackie, with mark cuban. could he really troll trump from the audience and could that actually play in clinton's favor? >> i mean, mark cuban's going to mark cuban, i mean, he could. i'm sure he's going to be tweeting throughout but i think the biggest challenge for donald trump will be hillary clinton that night and the moderator, for that matter. he's probably not going to go into the nitty-gritty of facts, but, it seems like he's going to -- there was a great "new york times" layout this morning and it said he was going to try to remain positive and push his message to keep calm and look presidential. and that is the goal for donald trump. and i don't know that mark cuban is going to throw him off his game all that much. >> i don't know. it will just -- you -- i ran into someone this morning who said he's calling off work and taking a vacation day so he can sit down and watch this debate. because i think everyone w

want to bring back our panel, jackie kucinich, ron brownstein. let's talk right now about where president obama is in his tenure and his popularity. historically speaking, his popularity is quite high. >> yeah, and it's also quite significant for the 2016 election. you go back and you look, the popularity of the job approval, particularly in the outgoing president, is extremely significant. it's one of the assets for hillary clinton that president obama is ending his presidency by and large on a high note. not vastly high, but his approval rating is right at 50% or above, which is a thumb on the scale in her direction. again, he's particularly popular among what have been the key elements of this modern democratic coalition, what i've called the coalition of millennials, college educated white, especially women. that's the core group that elected him twice and that is certainly the core group that hillary clinton is relying on. it is why states like when john king was doing the piece a while ago, why you see virginia and colorado moving away from

we have ron brownstein and maeve reston and jackie kucinich. >> he said called sean hannity. know that the hannity defense is legal. >> beyond that, isn't this a weird rabbit hole? he wasn't -- >> there were several weird rabbit holes. the taxes, the birther, iraq, comments about women. he cannot transcend the personal controversies in his past. it is important for clinton to bring up. an issue of sloughing off what happened before and move forward. he was in the arguments as much with lester holt and with hillary clinton. that deepened the questions. he faced questions about qualifications and temperament. despite what he said about temperament. he looked peevish. he kept getting wrapped around the axle of the old disputes. he could not get to the issues republicans want to hear. >> david, this is a rehearsal for how you handle the job. you have to own your words as president. the birther moment stuck out for me as much more than a rabbit hole. he had an opportunity from lester holt. he said what do you say to the people who are offended by this? people know this wasn't a sh

political analyst jackie kucinich in the middle. and phillip thump from "the washington post" on the right. the positions have nothing to do with their ideologies. it's been described as trump is keeping the foot on the gas from last night's big announcements of policy, the ten-point layout this morning with the veterans. just now as he was wrapping up in ohio, mark, do we expect this to be the definitive message, no more changes, no more strange softenings and hardenings and kindness and love and good people, just what we heard last night will be repeated? >> let me definitivity say we have no idea. this campaign has been dictated by that -- trump himself in an interview this morning said, in fact, what are we talking about, he did soften his stance last night. however, if you were to look at the first part of the day where he went to mexico, he talked about inclusion, talked about mutual goals, he talked about making mexico great again and making america great again and we're all in it together and a few hours later getting on an

. >> with us today, reporting and insights, lisa lare of the associated press and pierre and jackie kucinich of the "daily beast." tom hanks taught, there's no crying in baseball, but apparently there is whining in politics. >> and then i had to put up, put up with the anchor and fight the anchor all the time on everything i said. what a rigged deal. i'll tell you, we're in such a rigged -- it is terrible. >> now that was thursday afternoon in new hampshire when most of us were awake. then, while most of us were sleeping, an overnight tweet storm that washington buzzing and every republican i've reached out to saying they're embarrassed donald trump is there party leader. an attack on his own senior staff. anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying sources said do not believe it. there are no sources. there are just made up lies. actually, sorry, mr. trump, but there are sources. everyone at this table with me today has them. some of your paid staff. others top advisers who tell us trump refused to take debate prep as seriously as they wanted him to. waiving off the treaty to shu

political anchor of time warner news, errol louis, and washington bureau chief for the daily beast, jackie kucinich. great to have both of you here on this labor day holiday. there were missteps on both sides this weekend. let's start with donald trump, where his surrogates and campaign officials tried once again to clarify where he is on mass deportations, whether or not there will be a deportation force for the 11 million undocumented immigrants here. so let's listen to some of the people connected to his campaign trying to make sense of it. >> he's been completely consistent on this point. >> on this, no, he's not. he's not been consistent on this issue, what to do with the 11 to 15 million. >> well, but there are people in different circumstances in that category. >> but if they aren't criminals, do they have to go? >> he has said that you should stand in line and immigrate legally. >> donald trump as he expressed in one of his interviews recently would find it very, very difficult to throw out a family that's been here for, you know, 15 years and they have three children, two of whom are citiz

ron brownstein, jackie kucinich.r health is only a cursory aspect, a surface aspect of what we're really talking about hear. this is transparency. this is what this campaign decides to say and under what pressure, and similarly what trump ignores and throws back on the media as an unreasonable request. isn't that fair? >> that's paradox of this campaign. if we could measure the words written about this campaign, probably like 10,000 to 1. yet, we don't have so much of the basic information we've had on previous presidential candidates. i agree. you can look at this episode as a microcosm of the way clinton often deals with difficult choices. the first instinct is to hold information tightly around a narrow circle of advisers, even within the campaign, and only disclose what they have to disclose. whether that would work -- you would have to think about the question of not only what it means for the campaign but what it means for governing. similarly with trump and the lack of transparency and disclosure from him, if

jackie kucinich. kerstin, i want to start with you.put out a statement, he said what was about aleppo. he was immediately thinking about an acronym. i blank. it happens. it will happen again during the course of the campaign. >> this was glaring. gary johnson isn't going to be president of the united states. what effect does it have on the campaign? >> i think it is going to have an effect because he's pulling 9% or 10% on most polls. it's not a minor issue. some people think he's polling equally. the recent public policy polls in florida shows in the four-way match-up including joe stein, you have trump up. when you do a head-to-head with hillary, hillary is up. there's an effect of having you in the race, i think if he flounders or drops out, it could make a difference with him pulling away from other people. >> jackie, with that, is gary johnson's time in this race over? >> the other thing this says is it sort of squelching any talk of lowering the bar to get into the debate. there was some talk about, is 15% too high? after those c

analyst and "new york times" political correspondent covering the 2016 presidential race and jackie kucinichor the daily beast. patrick, i want to start with you. one poll is one poll. there are other polls that have been taken recently which show different numbers in ohio. but this is the first one, this was friday to monday, so two days that include the deplorables thing and also the pneumonia diagnosis and her near fall on sunday. is this a sign perhaps that voters have sort of taken a step back and are thinking hm? >> john, i think whenever something like basket of deplorables or one of these kind of flareups happen, you are going to see some adjusting in the polls. i know the clinton side at least is in the no bedwetting yet mode. they really are putting out the message the debates will be everything, those are high stakes for hillary clinton. she has to really deliver there. they just think these sort of ticks in the polls, couple points here, couple points there, really aren't going to be solidified until people see hillary clinton and trump on the same stage. that said, they are pour

cnn politics editor, and cnn political analyst jackie kucinich who's also the washington bureau chief for the daily beast. gloria, she sounded pretty good. she's been resting. she's been fighting that pneumonia. now she's back on the campaign trail. >> and she looked energetic as if she was really looking forward to what's coming on the campaign trail. saying we're going to have a press conference. i think they realize they have to turn this ship around. and that, you know, they've lost what they had after the convention. and donald trump gave an economic speech this morning. i'm sure she wants to respond to how his economic speech would affect the middle class. i'm sure we'll hear her talking about that. she has to let the american public know that she's energetic and she's ready and she had a small bout with that knopneumon move on. >> she's got a lot of work to do because the polls in the key battleground states and national polls this race is really tight. >> it absolutely is tight. if you look at the trends, the margins by which clinton had been ahead of trump. now all of these s

in senior editor of the atlantic, ron brownstein, washington bureau chief of the daily beast, jackie kucinich, cnn national political recorder meave restin, and cnn political analyst david gregory. david gregory, we begin with you. what popped out in terms of each side's spin? >> well, i think kellyanne conway is an effective advocate for donald trump, but some of the things she's saying are really not going to pass muster. the notion that donald trump is going to get points from women because he refused to attack bill clinton's infidelity and promised perhaps to do it the next time and that's something that women will respond to, i think that's a pretty thin argument. she also said about hillary clinton that she will say things that aren't polite and are not true, which is rich for someone who works for donald trump. so i think she is right and effective when she says trump had a very strong outsider message, particularly in the first 30 to 45 minutes of the debate. i think had he been better prepared, more disciplined, he would have been able to amplify on that throughout the debate and kee

discuss, cnn politics editor, mark preston, and washington bureau chief for the daily beast, jackie kucinich. let's start with donald trump. he's been on the campaign trail a heck of a lot more than hillary clinton has. look at some of the things that have happened here. wins and losses, don't pay so much attention to what we're calling wins and losses. let's talk about the events. the trip to mexico city. he excited his base with the immigration speech. he has made up some ground in the national polls. you could look at the speech on immigration the other night in a different way. >> the trip to mexico city, i thought, was a huge win. he would have won the day, the week, i think. he gives this speech which alienates the folks he was trying to get, the independents, to come to his side. he did excite his base. that was a win in the sense that his base was excited, that he pivoted back to being a hard line on immigration. having said that, i think it was not a good week for him. >> he also lost several of his hispanic advisers as a result of that speech, who dropped off yesterday, saying they

political reporter david chalian, dana bash, washington bureau chief for the daily beast jackie ku sin initi kucinich, paris denard and angela rye. let me read one more tweet from hillary clinton talking about donald trump's overnight tweet storm. hillary clinton wrote, what kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and conspiracy theories. david, that was overnight thursday into friday. the debate was monday night when hillary clinton first brought that up. how did we get from there to here? >> because donald trump brought us there. this is what is astounding to me about this week. we are 39 days from the presidential election and the republican nominee for president has chosen to take what was a widely panned debate performance and instead of seizing on two things that people said hey, stick to that trade message against hillary clinton, stick to that agent of change message, instead he has been out this week injecting bill clinton's infidelities into the campaign, toying with that, should we or should we not do it and this tweet storm overnight, taking the bait. it was a trap delib

also with me is jackie kucinich, the washington bureau chief for "the daily beast." donald trump is talking about this still this morning when he was asked but i want to play the video of what he said this morning. >> she was the worst we ever had. the worst. the absolute worst. she was impossible and she was a