what does debate prep look like with kellyanne conway?> i really couldn't say, but i think probably some of the things that i think are her trademarks, i don't know if they're donald trump's trademarks, she does her homework. she really is thoughtful. she will base what she says on research. she's very values oriented in her approach, and she realizes, as our book did, we did a tiypology of eight different kinds of women and we realized women were not monolithic and really went in depth to all kinds of women. she'll be attuned to tone, which is really important to women, and i think it's an attempt at counterbalance to her campaign partner who has a lot of rhetoric that trump has, and it's wildly unsuccessful with women. >> when you're donald trump and you're 20 points down among female voters, you wrote all about this. you wrote a book on this. what does he have to do to garner more female support? >> well, i think it may be too far gone. donald trump is like the worst date that many women have ever been on, and i think many women have f

here is what kellyanne conway had to say about the move. kellyanne: the home stretch, and we need to beef up the senior level roles in a way that we are dividing and conquering. what he does not like his people telling him what to say. maybe that is hillary clinton's game -- what do the focus group say? what do i believe? i picture her saying -- i know the country does not like me and trust me, but how do we win? that is not our dilemma here. fact is, with donald trump, he is still his own best messenger because people see him as very authentic. >> that is the campaign manager, kellyanne conway, newly minted. she is being joined by stephen bannon, he has had more gigs than an avett brother summer tour -- as a goldman sachs banker, a hollywood investor, a navy officer, and until recently , the head of the conservative news website, breitbart. he is leaving breitbart to become trump's campaign ceo. meanwhile, paul manafort, who replaced the campaign manager a few months ago, will stay on in his current position. the campaign manager who ford

he trusts kellyanne conway.he has not been on any winning presidential campaigns, but she has worked in politics. she understands the trump product. donny: what scares me is that a possible future commander-in-chief where kellyanne even said he needs a person next to him on the plane. this is the president. i want to know if that person calls in sick, the wheels will not go off. i do not think barack obama or bush needed someone by their side. mark: bill clinton ran an antiestablishment campaign in 1992, yet democrats were loyal because he said this guy can win and has a message about change we believe in. this team could help trump do that. i'm not saying it will change the race, but he gives him to people that he has confidence in. donny: and who he, temperament-wise, likes. hours before the world fond out -- found out about donald trump's non-pivot pivot, he gave a speech in wisconsin where he took sharp aim at the republican elite and embraced the outsider credentials that got him this far. mr. trump: i am n

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i respect kellyanne conway enormously. but i would say that steve bannon, his tactics almost undo what it is that she's there to do. i wouldn't be surprised if we saw trump going off teleprompter a little, as well, too. that's something that shored up his base. i don't think it plays as well in the general election crowd. i don't think we'll have teleprompter don for the next 80 days. >> rick, your thought on the new shakeup or structure of the campaign? >> look, i think it's a -- definitely a big shakeup. i think jessica's right. it was needed. but look, i disagree with her a little bit in that donald trump's problem is just with gop voters. if he can bring them home, the numbers show, and a lot of people in d.c. don't want to admit this, but trump is doing better than romney with nonwhite voters and categories except for with republicans. he needs to bring republicans home. the combination of steve bannon and kellyanne conway is exactly playing to that. they are try and would true republicans. they know the base and know

can they hide the alt right by putting kellyanne conway on tv? is there a way to hide them? >> kellyanne conway is not part of that but steve bannon has opened up the gates of hell, quite frankly. breitbart has enabled and brought in a lot of the at right people into the mainstream of american politics now, especially now that he's in this position a and for people who understand. i'm starting to get queasy about the term "alt right" because it's almost like a euphemism. when we're talking about alt right, we're talking about nationalism, anti-semite, white supremacists, we're talking about racists and you and i were talking about this the other day. this is kind of the dark underbelly of american politics that we have not seen. we have not seen emboldened in the way -- emboldened and empowered the way we have this year and breitbart has played a significant role so i think whatever donald trump says, there needs to be some scrutiny and he needs to be challenged on this again and when he's asked about the ku klux klan, when he's asked about david duke, don't let him get away

kellyanne conway says it is august, not october.fort to the republican establishment and republican operatives worried about the direction of the polling. back to you. >> sara, thank you. to talk more about the presidential race this morning, let's bring in tom lobianco live in washington. good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> let's talk about this. the shakeup at the top. trump campaign pushing back. no shakeup. noting the change. fair to say we are seeing the trump triple down. trump saying trump will be trump on the campaign trail. and we saw donald trump with the people who would presumably advise him when it comes to terror. his round table on terror. a national security meeting with trump advisors. at the same time, we hear hillary clinton noting the changes and saying there is no difference. take a listen. >> i think it's fair to say that trump has shown us who he is. he can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. they can make him read new words from a teleprompter. but he is still the same man who insults

kellyanne conway. kellyanne knows this issue well.ne of the ten-plus pollsters that participated in a mark zuckerberg pro survey during 2014 for immigration reform. mark zuckerberg was a big proponent of immigration reform. republicans were trying to figure out what to do. kellyanne was part of that. in a memo she co-authored she said the majority of americans agree to a pathway to citizenship of some sort and that tea party members did not see that immigration reform as amnesty and would benefit the republicans with swing voters not only in 2014 but the next election. she understands the politics behind this issue so i know kellyanne has talked to him and said you got to soften on this issue because it doesn't resonate any other way. 71% of the american people believe in a pathway to legalization. 80%-plus of republicans believed in that. she co-authored that survey. >> it's so important to note that today donald trump, you know, is saying kellyanne conway's language. >> right. >> remember, tonight a rally. >> no doubt about it. >> t

we are joined tonight for the interview by donald trump's campaign manager, kellyanne conway. thanks so much for being here. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> i have to ask you, if it's a hard decision to do a show like this with liberal comy pinko like me. or do you guys -- >> i've never described you that way. no, it's a pleasure. i wanted to pass along a hello from donald trump. i told him i was coming on your show and he said it was a terrific idea. and i said i hope i'm your warm-up band and you'll come on the show sometime too. >> i would love to do that. i don't want to spoil it, so let's call it off here and say, that's the end of the interview. no. let me start by saying, congratulations. this is your first presidential campaign -- >> as a manager, yes. >> but it's also the first time any woman has managed a republican presidential campaign ever, so you're in history for that. >> can i ask you, how did you get the gig? did you interview? >> thank you. i didn't know i was the first female republican presidential campaign manager until someone pointed it out t

he trusts kellyanne conway.f has not been in a lot winning presidential campaigns, and i'm not sure she has been on any integral but she has worked for aitical campaigns long time. she understands the product, she understands trump. >> what scares me is that the possible future commander and chief, he needs a certain person next to him on the plane. he is our president. i want to know if that person calls in sick that they come the wheel will not go off. that is a big concern. i do not believe barack obama or george bush needed somebody by their side. mark: bill clinton ran an anti-establishment campaign, and andicized democrats republicans but democrats were loyal because they said, this guy can win and has the message of change we believe it. this team could help trump do that. say this is a brand-new day and that this is going to change the whole race, but this gives them two people he has confidence in who are in sync with message. >> hours before the world found out about donald trump's non-pivot pivot, he

stephen bannon and kellyanne conway. they're going to be taking on new high-profile roles at the taupe of the trump campaign, essentially overshadowing campaign chair, paul manafort. i want to bring in katy tur, she has more on the trump campaign, and pete williams following developments surrounding hillary clinton. katy, let's start with you. what's behind this change? >> well, donald trump wants to go back to being donald trump. the changes we're seeing with kellyanne conway coming on as a manager and stephen bannon coming on as being a ceo is back to what worked in the primary. it's, let's trump be trump. they believe what he did in the primarilies worked towards him and this change to trying to be more traditional as of late is what's been hampering him in the polls. >> specifically, what do these two bring to the table, though? because one could argue, trump's been trump for quite a while. >> reporter: yeah, you know, kellyanne conway is a longtime pollster. she's had donald trump's ear for years now. she talked to

i know kellyanne conway and steve very well. kellyanne more than steve. think they both share the vision that donald trump has about main stream america being left -- main stream america being left behind and building a new coalition of working class people that have a bigger role in the republican party. so i think these announcements today, the personnel announcements, come after a week that was pretty darn good. three major speeches, raising a lot of issues that are important. some issues that no republican in recent history has been willing to do. we can talk about that. i think the campaign bottomed and it is heading in the right direction. >> you can see that trump is behind, right? you can see that? >> i think if you take a look at the overall polls, he is definitely behind. i disagree with the margins. >> i get her theory of the case. trump would seem to need to expa expand. how does someone from breitbart, how does that person help him expand his appeal to more voters? >> well, i think the one thing that trump needs around him are people that agr

kellyanne conway is great.ve to be herculean to be able to bring in donald trump. >> i think you saw the interview this morning. she was very careful to say she wants donald trump to be donald trump, be comfortable in his own skin, to be able to go on the campaign trail and feel like it is his message. having said that, by getting him to follow her advice and feel comfortable, she believes that by narrowing this message down making it to three, four, five issues, that is going to be more effective than this shotgun blast we see donald trump do where he goes out into these rallies and starts rifting left and right and goes off on tangents. if you're able to near row the focus on issues critical to the selection and quite frankly could be damaging to hillary clinton, then donald trump can get back in the race already quickly. >> didn't paul manafort already do that? >> the problem with the trump campaign, paul manafort took the role as campaign manager, but really was not campaign manager. it's not yroll, hr. it'

kellyanne conway has been my friend far long time. she is an extraordinarily gifted strategist, pollster and traveling with donald trump, that telegraphs that the message in milwaukee, which is a good message will be repeated and refined and focused. i don't know steve bannan. i'm not a fan of breitbart. andrew was my close friend, and i interviewed on the day he died, sadly. and i don't know mr. bannan. i don't know if he is good. he is a navy officer, and a lot of people like him, and a lot of people don't. i know kellyanne conway. that's good. there are three stories today. the nsa was hacked in a way that's critically damaging to the u.s. security. it's a pearl harbor of cyberattacks. etna dropped out in 15 states. perilling a broken and dangerous experiment impairing the health of americans, and hillary clinton's russian reset button worked to put russia resetting into iran for bombers. this is a disastrous day in obama's presidency. this is inconsistency, and insatiable desire for power. that does not seem like the media doing i

the second person added is the new campaign manager is kellyanne conway. she's a longtime republican pollster and consultant. both bannon and conway have known trump for years. so this sort of lair s -- lay paul manafort who will remain on the job, but it suggests that manafort and others who have tried to get trump to pivot and be more mainstream has not been that successful and trump continues to run the kind of campaign he wants to run on his own terms. >> we've got them coming up. carl, thank you very much. as you just heard, duch is holding a roundtable. this is a followup. he told a crowd there in milwaukee last night that hillary clinton is against the police, he believes, and working to win over african-american voters. >> the police, believe me. you know it and i know it and guess what? she knows it. they have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in america and all throughout america. i'm asking for the vote of every african-american citizen the democratic party has failed and betrayed, the african-american community. >> he touched on som

kellyanne conway says it is no reason to panic. that may be cold comfort to the republican establishment increasingly worried about the polling. back to you. >> sara, thank you. >>> on the democratic side, hillary clinton is mocking the trump campaign overhaul. she targeted trump's economic plan as welfare for the wealthy. at a campaign rally in ohio, clinton spotlighted her proposal to tax the wealthiest of americans. her campaign fending off questions about the state department under clinton's leadership and whether it showed favoritism to the clinton foundation donors. we have the latest from joe johns in cleveland. >> reporter: george and christine, hillary clinton here in cleveland hammering the republican nominee for choosing the head of breitbart to lead the campaign. mrs. clinton making the case, no matter what trump changes in his campaign, he will still be trump. >> i think it is fair to say that donald trump has shown us who he is. he can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. they can make him read new words

kellyanne conway brings a lot to the table. her background he experience.he can tell donald trump who to attack and who to attract. she understands we need to attack hillary clinton for her support of obamacare and her ideas to expand it. her failures in terms of foreign policy and inability to recognize radical islamic terrorism. and also the need to attract women, first and foremost that is one of her areas of expertise. romney had the ten points down in the gender gap with obama. and mccain even more so. it's incumbent upon trump to bridge the gender gap and she can help do that quite a bit. also independents. she understands the need to reap out to independents and bring them into the fold. steve bannen on the other hand is just the opposite. he comes to the table with his finger on the trump scale from the very beginning of him walking down the escalator. he is very extreme on his views. and what he -- the breitbart vote, we've got that. that is hay in the barn. we need to expand the message. hopefully donald will listen more to kellyanne than bannon a

kellyanne conway, the reason this is such a good decision, two reasons. number one, she is someone who knows conservatism. she worked for ronald reagan's pollster and mike pence and she knows how to shore up the space. not only that, she has staked her career in the republican party on bringing female voters into the fold. in terms of consolidating the base and in terms of females and this is the pick that can win this election. >> bringing in new voters and adding is the key here, lonnie. when you look at adding she's talking about kellyanne conway, but steve bannon, his website, bright bart news. readers of breitbart news, how does that add. >> the desire to go out and get more independent voters to get more for the general election and a move that seems to double down on the very base that donald trump already has and so there's i little bit of tension and it's not clear to me what the goal is because if the goal is to go out and reach independent voters then the message should be similar to the message that trump gave in his speech which is that progr

kellyanne conway tried to clarify things. >> we heard last night that new tone. he actually said that sometimes along the way in the heat of the moment, you say the wrong thing. but he went further, donald trump saying, i do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. what was he talking about? >> he was talking about anyone who feels offended by anything he said. and that's all him. >> you mentioned anyone who has been personally offended by what he said. john mccain early on, when he said, you know, he's a war hero because he was captured, i like people who weren't captured. what he said about the khans. will he reach out to them personally? >> he may, but i hope they heard him last night. >> bear in mind what made this so remarkable, that it came from a man whose personal doctrine has been that telling like it is means never having to say you're sorry. like back in may when he was asked whether he regret disparaging senator mccain's military service. >> do you regret saying that? >> i like not to regret anything. you do things and you say t

kellyanne conway telling our colleagues on the "today" show there will be details.ll alone, $25 billion plus to build. then you have to maintain it. our current budget for i.c.e. and u.s. customs runs about $17 billion a year. that's a lot of money. if you look at what we actually do with that, tamron, that results in the removal of 200,000 to 300,000 people annually. if you are talking about going up to the millions, what kellyanne conway said, the 11 million, that will call multiples more. >> back to the i.c.e. part of the equation, donald trump has talked about deportation task force. his campaign is implying he was referring to i.c.e. the role he would want them to play, that's not what i.c.e. does. >> i.c.e. does not do massive interior deportations. the way it's broken up, there's what happens on the border and there's the rest of the country. i.c.e. goes after convicted criminals around the country and do the border patrols. the vart majority, over 90% of the non-criminal removals are at the border. if he wants to do the rest of the country, which is a policy

and you see the influence of kellyanne conway and the question is can he stay on track? >> i want to distinguish between bannon and conway. kellyanne conway, we saw her hand in the charlotte speech. what experience does she bring to the trump campaign? >> look, she is more of a veteran person in politics worked on a lot of campaigns with anti-establishment characters in the past so she's comfortable in that realm and knowledgeable about the women's vote and made a study and an art of it. her goal is to try to i think maybe make donald trump not just more rigorous and disciplined but humanize his campaign and make him more optimistic. she said as much. >> that's not steve bannon's forfo for forte. >> it's to appeal to unionized democrats, blue collar workers, the forgotten people as trump describes them. trump has finally figured out he's not going to win merely with the base that provided him the victory. 35%, 45% of the vote. the opinions polls show that you lose if that's all you get in the general election. now i read that speech where he talks about the system being r

you heard kellyanne conway say, no, we're seeing a different donald trump. best week of the campaign in the last week. he's reinforcing that with new policies. while hillary clinton promises more of the same. >> well, george, we're not seeing a pivot. donald trump himself said this was not a pivot. he wants to double down on letting donald trump be donald trump. that's why he's brought in to wrote -- ran a so-called news organization, breitbart news, which has peddled some of the worst conspiracy theories around. they've run news, quote unquote news that's defended white supremacists, that's been sexist, racist, the worst of our politics. i think we should be concerned. i would also point out that paul manafort has been pushed out. that doesn't mean that the russians have been pushed out of this campaign. the hand of the kremlin has been at work in this campaign for some time. it's clear they're supporting donald trump. we need donald trump to explain the extent to which the hand of the kremlin is at the core of his own campaign. there's a web of financial i

we are joined tonight for the interview by donald trump's campaign manager, kellyanne conway.hanks so much for being here. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> i have to ask you, if it's a hard decision to do a show like this with liberal comy pinko like me. or do you guys -- >> i've never described you that way. no, it's a pleasure. i wanted to pass along a hello from donald trump. i told him i was coming on your show and he said it was a terrific idea. and i said i hope i'm your warm-up ba a

kellyanne conway we know. she was just seated in this chair yesterday. steven bannon, maybe some people do not know him. >> breitbart news, a conservative news website, loaded with opinion, much of it anti-clinton and anti-obama and very much pro trump. by bringing in bannon on the team as ceo, tough populist approaches towards immigration and other topics. bannon is a master of the political dark arts. being called the most dangerous political operative in america. that would make you think we're going to see even more tough, fiery approaches from trump in the weeks and months to come. >> and he's also former editor at large, ed shapiro said he shaped it into and none too flattering. >> he hasn't run campaigns before. he's run media companies. he's brought on a media ceo now. >> boris, this is the second big shakeup since june. we had corey lewandowski dumped off the top of the ticket. a lot of secrecy about why that happened and now this. what's going on over there? >> everything is great. it's an expansion, just as jessica pointed out. you want a toug

kellyanne conway helps secure a relationship that's been building over the last couple of weeks withr families and they're some of the biggest donors in republican politics and they more or less come over to the trump campaign and the daughter has absolutely come over to the trump campaign. that's effective not just big money to a campaign. it's affected because a very targeted approach on the super pac side and it's affected on the data side and cambridge analytics which is a major republican data firm. all of these things are very important. you want to talk about a single donor that really matters and even though donald trump is for the most part is funding his own campaign. >> and the koch brothers out of this one for the trump side, at least. >> we appreciate it. >> out front next, american swimmer ryan lochte and this as michael phelps weighs in on the controversy tonight for the first time. also it's politics at the grassroots level. people stealing donald trump lawn signs. it is all caught on tape. i want my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba

but now after elevating kellyanne conway to the role of campaign manager, softening his expressing regretay conway said the candidate advocated expression of those regrets. >> that's all him. he took extra time yesterday going over that speech with a pen, so that was a decision he made. those are his words. and i hope that everybody who's criticized him at some point, david, for being insensitive or for mocking someone at least show some recognition and some forgiveness. >> joining me now is correspondent for the nation, joan walsh and republican strategist, susan del percio. welcome to both of you. thank you for being here on a friday. susan, i'm going to start with you. the strategy of kellyanne conway is to do the softer donald trump, right? but doesn't he have to then get specific? once you say ivory grets, the natural question i tried with congressman jack kingston, didn't get anywhere, is that you need to be specific. as a strategist do you think that he should then be specific, specifically with the things that he said about women? >> i don't think he actually has to do that right

here's what trump's campaign manager kellyanne conway said about it earlier. >> those comments are for all americans and i live in a white community, i'm white, i was very moved by his comment. in other words he is trying to tell americans that we can do better and i think he said that i think got a great deal of resonance is that maybe hillary clinton looks at you as voters, i look at you as people. >> during a rally in fredericksburg, virginia last night, trump issued this following challenge to his party regarding african-american voters. >> i fully recognize the outreach to the african-american community is in an area where the republican party must do better and it will do better. the gop is the party of abraham lincoln [ cheers and applause ] and i want our party to be the home of the african-american voter once again. >> trump is off the campaign trail today as is everyone else. he has a rally in ohio tomorrow and his running mate mike pence will hold an event in iowa. on the democrat side, tim kaine will travel to las vegas for two events during which he'll deliver remarks at t

kellyanne conway is great on tv.s done a ton of tv over the course of her career, at this network, at other networks. she's available unavoidable for comment on cable news, right? i'm cable news! come on! it will be fun! kellyanne conway, hello! it will be great to have you here. you are most welcome here. i would love to have you. and here's a sweetener. i'll help you cheat. if you do agree to do an interview here on this show, i'll tell you what i'm going to ask you first. my first question is going to be this. where do you start? with a problem as big as the problem you have right now. larry sabato is director for the center of politics at the university of virginia. he's the author of the famed "crystal ball forecast." larry sabato is one of the people who does what i think is the easiest way, clearest way, really the most honest way to see reasonable predictions about the election. it's not a national poll number, it's not extrapolating from some specific bellwether county or demographic group. it's a projection

this ad seems prekellyanne conway. -- pre kellyanne conway. that i think people are starting to gravitate for. >> e for energy and economy. we talked during the break, the economy is always the number one issue in the end. this is not a good economy and that's something trump can hammer hillary clinton on because she was part of the barack obama administration. we are missing the bigger point. bruce mcgill fills narrating that? who is bruce mcgill? he's d day from animal house. the lawyer from the insider. bruce mcgill. morgan freeman, screw that. charles: when i'm on that quiz show and they give me that lifeline on obe media stars i know who i'm going to call. every time there has been some sort of terrorist act, donald trump's poll numbers go through the roof. you can argue this is the kind of thing people are worried about. terrorism, immigration, if something goes wrong people will reflect back to this ad and say, yeah, he's the guy. >> i'm not sure if that's true. after the orlando shooting the first thing he did was congratulate himself.

pollster kellyanne conway is now campaign manager.anafort remains chairman but his power is likely diminished with these new moves. bannon is an ardent critic of house speaker paul ryan. and trump making a pitch to african-american voters with his law and order speech. giving a speech near, butter not in milwaukee, just days after violent protests of a police shootings of an armed african-american suspect. trump made his appeal with very few african-americans present. he called for more police in poor communities. more police in poor communities and targeted hillary clinton as anti-cop. >> the war on our police must end. and it must end now. those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society, a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent, shared directly in the responsibility for the unrest in milwaukee and many other places within our country. every time we rush to judgment with false facts and narratives, whether in ferguson or baltimore and foment further unrest, we do a direct disservice to poor african-americ

my hat is off to kellyanne conway.as made a very clear difference very, very quickly. >> let's talk about that rick. we know paul manafort was out. that was the big news today. who is in, stephen bannon, the breitbart chairman is now there kellyanne conway as guy just mentioned. what impact are they going to have? how are they going to change or will they seek to change donald trump? >> well first of all, let's say congratulations to donald trump for appointing the first female campaign manager for a g.o.p. nominee. that message is not getting out there. he is not getting the credit for that appointment. kellyanne is a fantastic pick as campaign manager. look, i think that the two of them together, bannon and kellyanne, are a good force. because trump has had a problem with convincing people like my friend guy here, that they should join the trump campaign. we need more republicans. that's where he is going to do better. and by having bannon and kellyanne two well known hard core conservatives, i think it's going to se

trump also promoted senior adviser kellyanne conway to campaign manager.onway-- a longtime pollster-- will focus on messaging, as she did on "fox news" this morning. >> it's the busy homestretch to election day, and we just need to sort of beef up the senior level roles in a way that we are dividing and conquering. >> reporter: then there's paul manafort, the campaign chairman who will keep his title. his role going forward is unclear. last night, trump stuck to his script at a rally in wisconsin. >> i'm asking for the vote of every african-american citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future. he in milwaukee steel reeling from unrest touched buf a a police shooting that left a 23 year old black man dead. >> the violence, riots and destruction that have taken place in milwaukee is an assault on the right of all citizens to live in security and to live in peace >> reporter: trump was slated today to receive his first official intelligence briefingal as the republican nominee. that's despite telling "fox news" on tues

but when i spoke with kellyanne conway tonight, she was careful to say that he would be talking aboutssues, obama care, national security and that he's not going to leave that teleprompter behind. one of her top goals is to make sure voters understand this is not a referendum on donald trump because we know he's been a very divisive figure but rath er a choice between hillary clinton and trump. they want to play to those voters who might be looking for a change. as of now, donald trump is lagging in basically every battleground state. but we will see if new advisors could help change that tide. >> now i want to bring in cnn's politics executive editor and bryan celter, cnn's senior media correspondent. john phillips, kabc talk radio host and trump supporter. and matt lewis, senior contributor to the daily caller trump's polls are making prominent republicans have been defecting. now this shake up. and the lawyer called this an expansion of winners. what's the reality here? >> the reality is that donald trump realized that what was going on with his campaign and the struggle of trump b

joining us now from new york with a preview of those remarks, trump campaign manager kellyanne conway. kellyanne, thanks for being here. >> hi, bret. thanks for having me. >> i want to start with where this race is right now. where do you see it? i hear from a lot of trump supporters who don't buy the polls. they don't think that he is trailing. even though it has gotten tighter nationally, where do you see the race now in those important battleground states? >> so, breath, like three weeks ago all the pundits and reporters were saying look at the polls, race over. he can't recover. now that the polls are tightening particularly in states like north carolina, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, we see these tightening of these races in these swing states that they don't want to talk about the polls. they sort of want to talk about the weather and the back-to-school sales. i think that tells you something. what we see in the polls, emerson college released several battleground states. we see within the margin of error within michigan, pennsylvania and ohio. in those states which is incredibl

. >> kellyanne conway admitting on cnn the release of a specific immigration plan has gone -- has gone from asap to tbd. >> as the weeks unfold, he will lay out the specifics of that plan that he would implement as president of the united states. >> that that plan include a deportation force, the kind you heard in that soundbite and that he talked about during the republican primaries? >> to be determined. >> >> thus the conversation. meantime, hillary clinton has her own steep hill to climb with breaking news in the investigation to into the use of a private e-mail server. the state department we're hearing now could release thousands upon thousands of new documents uncovered in the fbi investigation just before the november presidential election. we have both sides covered for you, of course, let's begin with sunlen serfaty who joins me in washington on the trump camp. we know mr. trump has told fox news he wants a fair but firm immigration system. what does that mean? >> that's a good question, brooke. we have the same question, too. we await donald trump's definition of what "fair

we saw kellyanne conway talking about part of her job is taking an assessment of the field operationsng about trump is good at these retail politics situations. so can they really take retail politics that trump could be good at and broad than out to help expand their numbers when it comes to the electoral college? >> thomas, i'd argue now is late in the time to be assessing where your organization is. the clinton campaign has so many more organizers and field offices than donald trump has so that's a very big disadvantage for him. there is one way you can have retail politics that matches ground game. states where you have early vote, you can hold big rallies, you tell everyone to go to the polls. we saw president obama do that in 2012 where you would have rallies right next to voting centers. you end up getting 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people to vote and say right next door is the voting booth and you lock down those early votes. so that's one way you can merge big rallies with a turnout operation. >> we saw this tweet from donald trump earlier about, you know, they'll be calling me m

donald trump under the tutelage of kellyanne conway who is becoming the carville, the axelrod of this circle, can get him to focus on the very unseemly clinton foundation spreading wreck of an indictment of hillary clinton. forget the server. let's go to the foundation. and so i think what you see cleg away here in august is the beginning of the comeback and the story for september will be that donald trump is closing a gap that is real but that he's closing it under the guidance of kellyanne conway and with a new rhetoric. i think you will hear the names mark rich, bill clinton, hillary clinton, about 1,000 times because that is the unseemliest part of the clinton story. a month from now, the olympics won't be in the way of the narrative and we will be focused on what did she sell and when did she sell it, how much access was for sale at the state department under hillary clinton. >> i know a lot of republicans want donald trump to be focused on that and i take your point about hillary clinton having miscues as well. the difference it seems to me is that he has offended groups of peo