also former reagan white house political director, jeffrey lord, a donald trump supporter and ryan lizae new yorker. ryan, kayla mcinerney said yesterday, she thinks that donald trump really needs this endorsement from kasich. he -- this is one of the important ones. do you think it's critical? >> yeah, look. he's already finally patched things up with john mccain in arizona. obviously north carolina contain is pretty popular republican there. kelly ayotte in new hampshire, similarly a popular republican. and the most popular republican in wisconsin, paul ryan. so i would find it amazing if he did not find a way to reach out to kasich and figure out how they could reach some kind of accommodation. >> do you think that's possible, listening to kasich? do you think that's possible? >> i mean, trump says he's one of the greatest deal-makers in history. he should be able to figure out a way to get the endorsement of arguably the most important republican governor in the country for his electoral future. right? if you are running for president and you want to win and the one state you have t

>> it's hard to know where to start with jeffrey lord. donald trump started off his career attacking five innocent african-americans in central park five, he took ads out in that -- and that was 20 years ago. >> are we not talking about super -- >> are we going to talk about the crime bill. >> how most americans know donald trump is through his attacks on the first african-american president. his attacks on his birth status. his vicious assaults. >> they know him as a successful businessman. >> and in this campaign he's attacked the civil rights discussion on policing and other issues, attacking people who have raised these issues. so the reality is that african-american community recognizes his -- that for 13 months he's been attacking civil rights heroes. he's been attacking the president and three months ahead of the election when he knows he's going to lose and lose badly all of a sudden he wants to do fake outreach, and i think it's actually an insult to the intelligence of african-americans and the broader public who know his positi

jeffrey lord, thank you. charles blow as well.ike lee joins me with his take on violence in chicago and donald trump's attempt to appeal to black voters. >> i laugh because i don't think he's a good person. i don't think he has a good heart. and i don't think he cares about anybody but himself. ♪ is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the summer of audi sales event is here. get up to a $5,000 bonus on select audi models. whmade plastics that tmake them lighter?rs the lubricants that improved fuel economy. even technology to make engines more efficient. what company does all this? exxonmobil, that's who. we're working on all these things to make cars better and use less fuel. helping you save money and reduce emissions. and you thought we just made the gas. energy lives here. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is

let's bring back jeffrey lord, trump supporter. ffrey, your reaction to what we're seeing from governor palin or ex-governor palin. i wonder, what is the potency of a palin endorsement these days? >> i think she's got a lot of clout with a lot of folks. i have nothing but the greatest respect for governor palin. i have a great deal of affection for her. i think she's terrific. yeah, she certainly does. >> but would you want her division here, or separation from donald trump? >> these things happen. somebody's going to win and we'll go on from there. >> well, i would imagine if these things happen and somebody's going to win, donald trump could have stayed where he was and not endorsed ryan and ayotte and mccain? >> he's in a different spot. he is the party's presidential nominee. giving you an example, ronald reagan was no fan of the late arlen specter, who was running -- a liberal republican, on the ballot from 1980, in the senate for the first time. he won in the reagan landslide. six years later after irritating ronald reagan mig

jeffrey lord is a donald trump supporter. you've served every republican station the last 40 years.voting for hillary clinton over donald trump. how did you get there? >> thanks for having me on. look, it started with donald trump. and i mentioned two points in that essay, john. one is, look, if not exclusively articulating a bigotry, he evokes bigot sentiment toward groups and that should be unacceptable in public life. secondly, multiple bankruptcies. this is a fellow who has four different bankruptcies and yet seems to have -- troubling for traditional republican voters. tho's are two problems i articulated with trump. >> how did you lose lavin? what ds that mean for trump's bid for the white house? >> that's not really frank lavin. that's someone who has had an invasion of the body snatchers. frank is somewhere else. we're really trying to find him. listen, i know frank. i love frank. i have great respect for him. this is the discussion within the republican party, discussion among people who supported and worked for ronald reagan, george w. bush, george h.w. bush, jack kemp, et

jeffrey lord here.l clear here, this is an important issue but not dispositive of how people are going to vote but it is important because of her age. we have to see whether donald trump is going to actually do this. he promised to release his tax records a year or so ago. he promised to release his medical records and he did this one-pager. we'll see if he gives up the details because i really do want to see if he's able to say he's the healthiest president in the history of the world, in the history of the united states. i want to see how his medical records verify that. i doubt that they can. but i have no concerns about hillary's health and her stamina. she's up by 10 to 12 points. i think it's going to -- whatever her health is, it's going to carry her to victory in november. >> jeffrey, then i'll go to ron. newfound transparency here on the health records. how about the tax returns? >> i for one don't think he should do it -- this is just my personal opinion. >> why not? every president's done it

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sudden about-face that we've seen by trump i'm joined by my panel, ryan lizza, maria cardona and jeffrey lord. thank you so much, guys. >> hello poppy. >> hi, poppy. >> thanks, poppy. >> ryan, to be a fly on the wall in whatever meeting i surmise donald trump had on thursday night that made him come out and tweet friday morning that he was wrong about that video he said exists of seeing the money come off the iran to, frankly, then coming out last night and endorsing mccain, ryan, and senator ayotte, what do you think happened in that meet if that meeting did take place? >> i mean having watched the campaign for a year now, i mean it's just been mesmerizing to watch donald trump suddenly respond to traditional political pressure and act a little bit like the head of the republican party, not someone who is just off on his own and completely unwilling to bend to the will of the republican establishment. look, i think in this case, on paul ryan, he is more identify logically in line with paul ryan's opponent in that primary than he is with paul ryan. i think that has gotten lost in in. but when

jeffrey lord is so proud to say things like. >> two of the most popular speakers at this convention areck americans. ben carson and doct-and uh, sheriff david clarke. that's that's-that's nice but it's completely irrelevant. but thank you, sir. [applause] >> larry: i don't need any thinking music for this one. [bleep] that guy. so lord mentioned the other crazy convention brother sheriff david clarke and that guy is skeazy-pass in full effect. you guys know clarke, right? he's the fox news pundit and black yosemite sam who got to loudly proclaim this at the rnc. >> blue lives matter in america. >> larry: let's be 100% clear here. we all agree that blue lives matter. everybody already knows that's true. it's like going to a beyonce concert and holding up a sign that says beyonce is talented. yes. she is. right? everyone agrees with you already. but blue lives matter was never meant to just support cops, it was meant to cynically co-opt the black lives matter slogan in order to shut it down. it's a message to black lives matter and the message is shut the [bleep] up. and everybody in the

. >> jeffrey lord -- >> as long as she continues to push her message, those numbers aren't going to change between hillary and trump and what the polling is showing. >> jeffrey, you heard scott call trump a scary candidate. i imagine you have thoughts on that. >> yeah, i think the scary candidate here is hillary clinton. and i think she does scare a lot of people. and jim, you are absolutely right about this, with the third term problem. ronald reagan managed to turn that trick for george h.w. bush. popular presidents like bill clinton, dwight eisenhower just couldn't get it done. they are not alone. and i suspect that this is a problem. one of the things that happens here, as we saw with this tragic event today, events that are in theory unrelated to the campaign happen, whether they are terrorist attacks or this terrible situation in chicago or what have you. then they get fed into the narrative of the campaign and each candidate's narrative here. so we have no idea what is going to happen one hour from now let alone in the next 70 days. >> let's not wish that on either party, to be fair

trump had a chance to serve in vietnam -- >> so did hillary clinton, she didn't serve. >> but jeffrey lord said he had a disability. you know this, jeffrey. >> she lied. >> there was no draft of women. jeffrey, let me say one thing and i would love for you to respond. donald trump said he had a medical disability when he was 22. he is in astonishing health. donald trump is one of the fewer people healthier at 70 than 22. how do you explain him getting healthier. he played -- >> all kinds of people. >> he played baseball, squash and tennis in college. comings out and said i can't serve in the military. >> let me have jeffrey respond. jeffrey, jeffrey. >> well, look, dean, as somebody who grew up in that era, bill clinton got elected president and was without doubt a draft dodger. barack obama did not serve. hillary clinton did not serve. she made no sacrifices. very interesting that mr. kahn said donald trump doesn't know about sacrifices, and neither does hillary clinton. she has made zero sacrifices. >> can i something about hillary clinton. >> that's all it is. >> miguel gr, go ahead. >>

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so let's talk about this with cnn political commentator and trump supporter jeffrey lord. en choy, executive director of new york state immigration action fund which has endorsed hillary clinton. welcome to both of you. so jeffrey, you heard gabriel right at the start of the show. he does say this may help mr. trump. what do you make of this? >> leadership. one of the things that crossed my mind is richard nixon going to china. where you have a president in that case who was a hard-line anti-communist and yet he opened the doors for real change with china. >> but president nixon didn't talk about china in quite the terms that donald trump has talked about mexico. >> he talked about communism in those terms. this was communist china. >> he didn't say china was sending its criminals into the united states and china was corrupt and -- >> what donald trump is talking about repeatedly is enforcing our immigration laws. building the wall. we simply can't -- i mean, this is a country, our country, is 100% composed of the descendants of immigrants. so it's not about being anti-immi

joining me now, cnn political analyst and editor in chief of the daily beast, john avalon, jeffrey lord, a trump supporter, and cnn political reporter, and hilary rosen. >> happy monday, carol. >> i don't think that's possible, jeffrey. but happy monday any way. jeffrey, i'll start with you. mr. trump needs to reboot. it is clear he needs to do that, because a cnn poll of polls, after an range of all the credible polls out there, shows secretary clinton with a ten-point lead. so jeffrey, is calling clinton unbalanced and unhinged going to close that gap? >> well, i think, number one, about the poll, let me just reminds everybody that at this stage in 1988 governor dukakis was ahead 17 points, and vice-president bush won the election in a landslide. similarly, they had polls like this for ronald reagan, he was supposed to be 22 points behind jimmy carter. >> this has to be concern for mr. trump. >> so, sure. but it is august, carol. it is august. he is going to present his economic plan today. s are real meat on the bones kind of speech, with lots of detail. that's exactly what he needs

. >> with me now to talk about all of this, cnn political commentator and trump supporter jeffrey lordcnn contributor and hillary clinton supporter michael nutter, he's also the former mayor of philadelphia. and journalist onusha hussein, editor and chief of new shades.com. jeffrey, mr. trump tweeted again this morning that mr. kahn is viciously attacking him. why can't he just let it go. >> well, look, he has been attacked. look, everybody has every respect in the world for the kahns and their son. captain kahn is without doubt an american hero. but i have to say, carol, when you choose to appear at either the democratic or republican convention, address 20 million people and in the case of the kahns, roundly attack donald trump for political reasons, you are going to get blowback. that's part of the first amendment here. that's the free speech. mr. kahn keeps waving this constitution. i have it right here myself. that's the first amendment. and mr. kahn choose to get up there and deliberately misrepresent donald trump's position on issues. of course he's going to get an answer. what

cnn political commentators, donald trump and former white house director jeffrey lord and former ted unications director amanda carpenter. welcome to both of you. >> happy thursday, carol. >> happy thursday. it's just one day before friday. thanks, jeffrey. okay, so jeffrey, i will start with you. you know some are calling pence apologist in chief for donald trump. is that fair? >> well, no, i mean, i might say it's standard, vice presidential nominees get the slings and arrows no matter who they are. and frankly, if somebody else had been at the head of the ticket other than donald trump, the vice presidential nominee would have been taking these slings and arrows so that's just sort of the way it goes. you know, carol, can i talk about the poll for a second? >> sure. >> the pennsylvania poll, let me talk that, that's a franklin marshall poll and i should say right off the bat i'm an alumnus of franklin marshall college, i know the director of the poll, who has told me that pennsylvania is well within reach for donald trump, he certainly can win it, and one observation -- >> and you'

ken is a political analyst and co-author of "the party is over, how he became a democrat" and jeffrey lorder and cnn contributor. good morning to both of you. ellis, hillary clinton mocked truchl in the past saying he could be baited with a tweet. will he take the bait when it comes to these debates? >> she will mock him again, i promise you that. it depends on where he is. if he's still 10 or 12 or more points down in the polls, he's got to say a sign of the cross and a hail mary pass and that's basically what he's got. people who are way behind have to take chances in political campaigns. >> you think donald trump -- part of his strategy, if he's losing in the polls big time will be to skip the debates? >> the opposite. i think he's got to go and roll the dice. not going, he misses a key opportunity to present himself to the american people. what choice does he have at this point? >> jeffrey, is it possible that donald trump -- what do you make of all of this? i'll just ask it this way. >> i don't think he's going to skip the debates and i think he'll do very well. he is not hillary clin

and no shade to jeffrey lord, but it sounds like he's been watching jeffrey who repeats this mantra oftent i would say to that is it's really important to have -- to know history but it's even more important to have historical context. so there was a moment when there was a mass exodus from the democratic party to the republican party by white nationalists, white supremists at the time. and that all shifted. i think that's important. i don't know if they need to watch "eyes on the prize" documentary on pbs or know what happened when johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964 and subsequently signed the voting rights fact 1965 or the fair housing act of 1968 into law. but these are historical measures that are important and they are the beginning of african-americans allegiance to the democratic party for protecting racial equality and ensuring african-american advancement in the country. at least laying the foundation for that. since then, the republican party knows it has a black problem. not just by optics. not just by rhetoric. but also by the policies it pushed. that is why they issu

it's not just new hampshire, jeffrey lord, where trump needs some help in the polls. it is all the battleground states where he's losing by a pretty big margin in the polls this week. whether you talk about pennsylvania, michigan, new hampshire, even florida, even georgia, a traditionally red state, he's trailing clinton by four points. it's also the national polls. what does he say onstage tonight to try to start to turn thing around? >> when he talks about hillary clinton, for one thing, he needs to have -- and i think he's doing this, a laser-like focus on hillary clinton, on her temperament, on her judgment, on everything hillary. she is the opposition candidate here. she's the person who would be appointing supreme court justices and all the rest. i think that's what he will be doing. he did some of that when he was here in pennsylvania. i think he'll be doing more of it. and he should. >> ryan lizza, he's done that, that's hadwhat he's been doing,d look at these numbers. >> that's what i was going to say. it's hard to give the public new information about hillar

in cnn's senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" and political commentator, jeffrey lord, a trump supporter, he joins us via skype. hello, jeffrey, hello, brian. >> hello, don. >> there's been a lot of discussion over the past year about how to cover the trump phenomenon. >> oh, yes. >> you issued a plea to the media on your program this weekend. what do you think needs to be done? >> i was talking about one example in particular, donald trump last week saying he's worried the election will be rigged against him in november. this is not normal political rhetoric. this is not something mitt romney or john kerr y or al gor or any former candidate has ever said. this is dangerous to have a candidate talking about a possible stolen election. there's no proof. there's no evidence. there's lots of evidence to contradict it. yet, trump said it repeatedly on trump news and was not challenged by interviewers. my argument, when confronted by something that is downright dangerous, even interviewers who love donald trump and support him and want to see him elected have to step up and

and jeffrey lord. jeff, are you concerned, as we're roughly seven days away from election day, that trump is still having to explain what his immigration policy is? >> no. 70 days from election day. no. i'm not at all. and where he's going to do this, he's going to go to arizona which has had significant problems with illegal immigration. he's not good to one of the states in the union where there has been no problem with this. which indicates his ability to -- his willingness to confront a problem and confront it head-on and go directly there and talk about the situation. so i think this is all to the good. >> basil, we can stop debating whether he changed his stance, but if he does soften and sticks with that and pulls back from this initial claim in his campaign that he would deport all 11 million undocumented workers, and moves to the middle, does that make him a more formidable challenge to hillary clinton? >> i don't believe that to be the case at all. if we back a couple of months where we talk

. >> jeffrey lord, we talk about character and temperament.e subject of that letter where we heard from 50 national security advisers who worked in various republican administrations. they say as ambassador lavin is saying right now, that donald trump doesn't have the temperament to be president. >> let me reach over here. i wrote down a list of some of the descriptions of hillary clinton in some of these different books written about her as given by people who knew her. they accuse her temperamentally speaking yelling, throwing, hollering, volcanic eruptions, holds grudges, unleashes obscenity filled tirades. in other words, what they're describing is somebody who simply doesn't have the temperament for this kind of thing. book after book after book comes out. they all have some kind of story in there about this. this is not a good thing. ronald reagan did not throw vases in the white house, i assure you. >> you're far away in singapore right now, ambassador lavin. in terms of ronald reagan, jeffrey invokes him often. what do you think ronald

. >> let's get jeffrey lord's response. >> he was saying a version of this to me two years ago beforenning for president. long before he was running for president. i mean, i am hearing a version -- >> jeffrey, essentially you're saying he's still tough on immigration. i get you're saying that. but just -- honestly, if one month you say 11 million people got to leave, the good ones can come back, now you're saying you're not saying they have to leave anymore. that is a change. yes? >> yes. >> yes. >> okay. >> wait, wait, wait. it's a change but it's not a change in the end game. >> he wants to be tough on immigration. sure, fine. >> he still says build the wall, right? >> for now. yes. >> how is there not an etch a sketch element to this? the degree to which he said what he needed to do to win the primary and now he's hoping he can say what he needs to do to win in the suburbs. >> it's all about donald trump saying whatever he needs to say at whatever moment to benefit his own game. >> which by the way the trump campaign will quickly say hillary clinton -- >> we're talking about donald

what i think is also another huge pickle for donald trump and his campaign and why people like jeffrey lordellyanne who i think wants him to go one way and donald trump, himself has not gone there, so we'll see, the majority of republican voters during the primary season who voted for him, voted for him primarily because of his draconian stance on immigration reform. because he was talking about deporting them all. because he was talking about building the wall. >> there were a bunch of other republicans on that stage not going that far. >> yes, absolutely. >> in fact -- >> you know what's absolutely striking, look, since day one, this immigration issue, the theme of build a wall has been the pillar on which he has built his campaign. we are now 2 1/2 months out from election day. we are about a month and a half out from absentee ballots going out in a state with a lot of latinos like florida, and it is up to now that he's going to issue an immigration policy speech and he can't even issue it because he's not even quite sure what he's going to say. you know what i get the sense of when i he

and jeffrey lord, cnn political commentator and former reagan white house political director. america needs: the case for trump." jeffrey, before you launch into a very pained defense of donald trump, i must tell you, he's watching the show. good morning, mr. trump. thank you for watching "new day." and he said that we don't get his sarcasm. that he's being sarcastic here about this, jeffrey lord. so which is it? is he saying, no, they're actually the founders, or is he doing what everybody else would do, which is being sarcastic? >> chris, let me say before i depart on my vacation to new york to long island, new yorkers, as my entire family demonstrates, have a sarcastic sense of humor. >> really? see what i did there? >> exactly right. chris, i understand you exactly when i hear you talk because you're a new yorker. i understand donald trump. donald trump is exactly right about this. he was, to borrow from president kennedy after the bay of pigs, barack obama was the responsible officer of the government. he was in charge. it was his decision to remove those troops. it was h

so jeffrey lord, trump is going first. this is what people need.need substance from their candidates. what should we expect to hear today? >> they'll get it. i think he'll be talking about childcare. he'll be talking about the death tax. he'll be talking about the labor participation rate, which is the lowest i think since 1977 when not so coincidentally jimmy carter was in office. he'll be talking about free market economics. the people he has advising him have actually created jobs, something hillary clinton has never done in her life. so i think you can expect some real meat on the bones, as they say, today. >> meat on the bones. they. he means me. that's what i said just before this segment. thank you for watching the show, jeffrey. >> yes, sir. >> that is this point of strength for trump coming into this, which is i'm a businessman, she is a bureaucrat. that's his attack line. >> i mean, i don't know why that is a point of strength because if you look at his business record, i mean, it's a record of multiple bankruptcies. it's a record of taki

bonjean, hillary clinton supporter, bakari sellers and former reagan white house political director, jeffrey lordwelcome to all of you. bakari, what do you make of this? >> well, i make of it, here we go with the e-mails. i think one of the major problems that i have with this discussion is the fact that these confidential conversations that 302s, investigator notes are being leaked to the new york times. you have incidenting like this where people can get parts and parcels of a story and spin them one way or another. there was a conversation at a dinner party. we don't know much about that party. here we go down this rabbit hole of e-mails, because we don't know the whole story. >> but it is a confusing story, but you heard joe, right. he was talking about how he has this e-mail detailing this dinner, where colin powell suggested supposedly that hillary clinton use a private e-mail server, but colin powell comes out in a ""people magazine"" event and says i never advised her on that. what do you make of that part? >> listen, carol, i am not going to sit here and try to condemn or attack general

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. >> comparisons to eiran-contra, jeffrey lord said had is worst., isn't it about the safety of americans to which have been taken since this deal was made a year ago? >> no, it is completely different from iran-contra, because first of all, that was something happening in a totally under handed way, lying to congress about it. in this case, we knew this happened. the obama administration explicitly -- >> we didn't know about the unmarked plane. >> right. and the reason we did that was on that issue, obama is exactly right. the reason we did it in cash was -- >> right. >> we have sanctions in place and want do wire transfers. that would be a violation of american law. the second thing to point out, again, the hostage issue, you know, as john was saying, this is a serious issue. look, the united states has a pretty good reputation on this. the european countries constantly negotiate and pay ransom for hostages in north africa and mali, places like that. when we do it, it is more of this complicated conversation where you can't -- you can't quite make

democratic party and jeffery lord former reagan white house political director. jeffr jeffrey, to you first, you and i talk a lot and you're a reasonable man. you look at this tweet, can you say at least clumsy, perhaps too opportunitistic in the hours after a death to say something like that? >> well, maybe it was a little clumsy but i don't think it was opportunistic. what is unfolding here with this death is the version in the african-american community of what happened with jameal shaw jr. who was an african-american kid, headed for a bright career, who was gunned down by an illegal immigrant in los angeles and kate steinle, the young woman in san francisco, who was killed by an illegal. it's the same kind of thing. >> no -- we're talking about something different. this had nothing to do with illegal immigrants. this is gunfire. i know that there is an issue and have been crimes by illegal immigrants but this particular shooting had nothing to do with that. >> i understand it but we're talking about violence here that is out of control. out of control. the people who perpe

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: "the birth of a >> brown: "the birth of a nation" tells the story of nat turner, who led a bloody slave, rebellion in virginia in 1831. >> the lordoken to me, visions of what's to come. a rise of good against evil. >> what are we gonna do? >> we'll fight. once it begins, our brothers and sisters will join.er and we'll number in the hundreds, thousands even. >> brown: 36-year-old nate parker wrote, directed and starred in the movie, which first wowed audiences last january at the sundance film festival. parker spoke of his motivation. >> people asked me who i wanted to be like, i'd say nat turner. about two years ago, i steppedt away from acting and said, the next film i'm involved with will be "the birth of a nation." >> brown: the movie won then. "audience award" and the "grandh jury prize" at sundance. fox searchlight bought itsse rights for a festival-record $17.5 million, and its national release is due in october.e but earlier this month, headlines emerged about a 1999 rape allegation made against parker when he was a student at penn state.de the alleged victim claimed she'd been unconscious.en parker was charged and later a