>> i'm katrina hall. my qualifications is i'm a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. i had been in a homeless shelter two years ago. if elected to the committee, there is a lot of things that i would like to accomplish that i've seen fall in the shelter seven and a half months. these things were like related to the program areas, such as the conditions, sometimes the areas didn't really promote, you know, a safe and decent environment. for program activities to be conducted. the children sometimes played, you know, on things that -- broken furniture, staff would watch or if the children were going to fall or get injured or something, no one said anything. that's the main focus. another area that i would like to see improve would be reporting deficiencies like if there was an incident -- they didn't report it if a child was injured. the staff wouldn't file a report. it would look like maybe the parents did something. they wouldn't say your child got injured on a chair or got a scratch.

>> i'm katrina hall.

>> i'm katrina hall. my qualifications is i'm a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. i had been in a homeless shelter two years ago. if elected to the committee, there is a lot of things that i would like to accomplish that i've seen fall in the shelter seven and a half months. these things were like related to the program areas, such as the conditiomons, simes the areas didn't really promote, you know, a safe and decent environment. for program activities to be conducted. the children sometimes played, you know, on things that -- broken furniture, staff would watch or if the children were going to fall or get injured or something, no one said anything. that's the main focus. another area that i would like to see improve would be reporting deficiencies like if there was an incident -- they didn't report it if a child was injured. the staff wouldn't file a report. it would look like maybe the parents did something. they wouldn't say your child got injured on a chair or got a scratch. th

>> i'm katrina hall. my qualifications is i'm a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. i had been in a homeless shelter two years ago. if elected to the committee, there is a lot of things that i would like to accomplish that i've seen fall in the shelter seven and a half months. these things were like related to the program areas, such as the conditions, sometimes the areas didn't really promote, you know, a safe and decent environment. for program activities to be conducted. the children sometimes played, you know, on things that -- broken furniture, staff would watch or if the children were going to fall or get injured or something, no one said anything. that's the main focus. another area that i would like to see improve would be reporting deficiencies like if there was an incident -- they didn't report it if a child was injured. the staff wouldn't file a report. it would look like maybe the parents did something. they wouldn't say your child got injured on a chair or got a scratch.

hall interview was taped in advance and then aired in the entirety. absolutely no part of the exchange between trump and chris matthews was edited out. katrina pierson is the spokesperson for the trump campaign. always good to see you. thank you for being with me. >> great to be here. >> why can't donald trump settle on one answer and just admit he answered inartfully and leave it at that? why claim it was edited when we know that is not the case? >> i think a lot of this is stemming from the actual media fallout. at first, there were reports that mr. trump called for an outright ban of abortion which was simply not true. and then secondly, he did clarify the statement when it came to this hypothetical context of illegal abortions which even today in the reporting, the media including this network has been saying that donald trump said that women should be punished for having an abortion, not an illegal abortion which was exactly the context. so when you have a lot of confusion and media headlines, you're going to get different responses. >> but the fact that he said we edited the tape, that's not true. and the campaign has yet to acknowledg

katrina pearson. always appreciate your time. thanks for being with me. >> thank you. >> let's start with mr. trump's appearance this morning on "today." i want to play a piece of sound from the town hall. this is where he talked about transgender people, using quote, the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. here's what he said. >> there's a big move to create new bathrooms, problem with that is for transgender, first of all i think that would be discriminatory in a certain way but it would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and the country. leave it the way it is. >> let's talk about abortion, another potent social issue. the republican platform every four years has a provision that states that the right of the unborn child should not be infringed and makes know exceptions for rape or incest or life of the mother. would you want to change the republican platform to include the exceptions that you have? >> yes, i would. absolutely. for the three exceptions i would. >> katrina, those two positions right there on transgender bathroom use and abortion, you've got a number of folks, ted cruz who we just saw who have always said that donald trump isn't a true conservative. are we c

katrina pearson. appreciate you making the case on "new day" as always. >> great to be here, thanks chris. >> tonight senator cruz gets his turn in the town hallary clinton set to face off tomorrow night a high stakes cnn debate. the two candidates stepping up their attacks six days ahead of the critical new york primary. cnn's chris frates is tracking all of the latest for us. good morning. >> good morning. so the bernie sanders campaign continues to hammer away at clinton. taking a swipe at her credibility after one of her attacks on sanders was rated mostly false by a fact checker. this latest after sanders spent days questioning clinton's judgment and qualifications. just yesterday sanders criticized her vote for the iraq war. >> secretary clinton was a united states senator from your state, new york state. she herd, she listened to the same arguments from bush and cheney. her judgment was faulty. she voted for that disastrous war. >> here is what's interesting. clinton's camp telling me they are not concerned the attacks will hurt her with democrats. the word is sanders is manufacturing bullets that republicans will fire at her in the fal

katrina pierson, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> stay with cnn all this week as the republican presidential candidates, their wives, their children, they will take questions from new york voters in three town hallsver three remarkable evenings. tonight john kasich and his family. tomorrow night donald trump and his family. wednesday night ted cruz and his wife, all starting 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. much more right after this. u a ♪ every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. those who have served our nation. have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. ♪ no, you're not ♪ yogonna watch it! ♪tch it! ♪ ♪ we can't let you download on the goooooo! ♪ ♪ you'll just have to miss it! ♪ yeah, you'll just have to miss it! ♪ ♪ we can't let you download... uh, no thanks. i have x1 from xfinity so... don't fall for directv. xfinity lets you download your shows from anywhere. i used to like that song. . >>> he was off the campaign trail for a few days but now donald trump is back and lashing out at the republican deleg