back with us mike murphy and steve.you know, it works better when you actually pay the campaign staffers that you hire. >> you don't want to lose the smartest people on the campaign. you need those policy experts. donald trump is so loose with the facts and so shallow in his knowledge of issues, these are the people he really needs by his side. you know, he was asked last night over and over and over again what is your plan for x, what is your plan for y? he couldn't answer one of those questions. that's not what we need in an american president. >> so, mike, your couple of weeks away from the debates. your policy staff quits, all walk out the door when it's time to do debate prep, you just saw your candidate be challenged about vladimir putin in ways donald trump didn't understand. he needs a serious briefing on vladimir putin alone for the first debate and they've got nobody. >> my guess is they've ran out of the building. it's not a campaign, he doesn't have serious heavy people around him. you know, i'm not surprise

radio network hugh hewitt, glenn isle co-anchor of the pbs "newshour" and republican strategist mike murphy. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" request chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. it's an nfl sunday. really, this feels like a pregame show. the big game is tomorrow night at hoff straust university on new york's long island. with a super bowl size audience expected. usually the first debate is the most important campaign moment until the next debate. probably not this time. hillary clinton comes in with nervous democrats feeling a little bit better about things. four national polls showed clinton up in a four-way race. three of the polls she's up by six points. in today's washington post/abc poll she's up by two. some battleground state polls show donald trump better and having a legitimate path to 270. trump has never been more competitive than he is now. there's a sense if clinton doesn't knock him out tomorrow, she may never be able to before november. both sides are engaging in psychological gamesmanship. the clinton

joining me for insight and analysis are doris kearns goodwin, hugh hewill, gwef and mike murphy. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> good sunday morning. it's an nfl sunday. really, this feels like a pregame show. the big game is tomorrow night on new york's long island. with a super bowl size audience expected. usually the first debate is the most important campaign moment until the next debate. nervous democrats feelin a little bit better about things. four national polls showed clinton up. three of the polls she's up by six points. in today's washington post/abc poll she's up by two. some show donald trump doing better and have a path. trump has never been more competitive than he is now. there's a sense if clinton doesn't knock him out tomorrow, she may never be able to before november. both sides are engaging in psychological gamesmanship. the clinton campaign has placed mark cuban, a huge trump critic, up front in the audience as a way to rattle trump. in response, as hard as this is to believe, trump has invited gennifer flowers to sit in the front who had an aff

mike murphy your thoughts.is the first time in a very long time that we didn't have it consensus leading into a decision. they came and said he was willing to do whatever was necessary. he was gonna go in there and do whatever was necessary to support the european economy. the data there has not been terrible since then. the fact of their doing nothing here and a lot of people wanted them to extend the bond purchases i think it's can be a negative and i think people are going to be excited about this news. we had been seen mixed action leading up to this decision. markets have been in a wait and see. how much power does he have here. he has ultimate power. if you believe as i do that the market is where they -- they are where they are because of central banks let's take a look at currencies right now. it is hitting a two-year high a two week high we are seeing that this again as they have held rates unchanged the other news coming out of that it does expect to remain at present level. they are going to do what

mike: congressman, it's mike murphy. i agree with the points you're making.day we are going to get mr. trump's economic plan and we have heard for weeks, he needs to hit on the economy, he needs to focus on the economy, that's his strong suit and that's hillary clinton's weak suit. >> wait, if hahs -- that's her weak one, what's her strong suit? [laughter] mike: i think with trump's plan today, i think he has hit it in the right time. well, now that he has the momentum he's coming out today. i was wondering if you can speak out to that. >> i think you're exactly right, mike, i haven't known trump. i have met him a few times but like andrew talked about, you know, hey, i may not be that bright, i think trump is brighter but he always knew how to gather smart people around him and i'm thrilled with what i'm seeing and i know mike pence is about to be on your show. he was on the hill this week. pulling mike pence around him, i was just really encouraged when i saw mike on the hill again, mike and karen were up here. it was just such a great feeling to see mike h

joining us is mike murphy, republican strategist and veteran of many campaign war rooms and the hosta radio pod cast. >> i think the facts in the memo are basically correct. the democrats have a generic advantage in the electoral college, and if you look at the demography of the states and the internals of the polling, the clinton campaign is right to say they have an advantage and an easier path in the electoral college, that said, things are not going particularly well for hillary clinton. the generic forces behind her are loving to be stronger than her success as a candidate. that's something they've got to reverse. and this memo is kind of a function of nervousness in the democratic ranks, but the substance is basically correct. they do have that advantage. >> there's a new nbc news tracking poll which uses kind of a massive sample, and it shows nationally, likely voters, hillary clinton at 45, donald trump 40, gary johnson 10, jill stein 4. what does that tell us, mike? >> that's an interesting poll, because it has a massive sample size of about 13,000, but it's basically an int

mike murphy and is doing something that very few people gwen ifill. more podcasts coming from her. doris kearns-goodwin who has an interview with the president. and hugh hewitt. there's one topic -- i want to spend a couple minutes on the ted cruz news. as you know, this is what ted cruz said about donald trump -- fiery donald trump three days before he dropped out. here is a montage. >> you are a coward. this man is a pathological liar. a bully. a narcissist at a level i don't think this country has ever seen. >> mike murphy, he is now an endorser. >> i think the editors of believe and absolutely nothing magazine have a new cover. he made the big move of the convention some people thought he distanced from trump. he claimed principals. there's a case to make there. now threatened with a primary in texas, a 180. it looks very cynical. >> how does he -- can he recover from this? is he a portrait, hugh, of transactional politician? his chief super pac donors became trump's. kelly anne now. you have a congressman thinking about challenging, rick perry. this feels like it was a move of

. >> the control room was just telling me, mike murphy is with us. hey, mike murphy, republican campaign veteran, all around nice guy. can't wait to get your review of what we just witnessed. >> well, hello, everybody. it was quite a night. i never heard the phrase "love me" in a presidential debate. >> nor rosie o'donnell. >> a lot of new ground was broken. these megadebates like this, these spectaculars are the test if somebody's ready for prime time, and donald trump failed that test. he pretty much collapsed in the second half. trump's problem is he's a one-trick pony, and in a 90-minute debate, the trick runs thin. trump has one thing that's very powerful. the main spring is that people want to fire politicians. so trump was effective at the beginning of the debate at taking almost every answer back to you've had your chance. hillary never had an effective answer for that. that will cure some of trump's sins. that has so much raw power in the election. that covers for some things. i don't think trump lost any votes of the problem is, he doesn't

bob shrum and mike murphy, who ran jeb bush's super pac right to rise.e started out talking about what to expect from the final stretch of the general election. traditionally labor day is the start of the general election. this summer has felt like it started a long time ago. does labor day now mean anything? >> i think it's the end of the election. i think we will look back and say this period from the republican convention, democratic convention, the aftermath, the trump tweets, the attacks, is ridiculous performance this week on immigration first in mexico, then in phoenix. i think we will look back on it and say that's when the election was decided. he didn't have much of a chance to begin with, i don't think, but this was a really fateful period. >> you think the election's over? >> i do. >> you? >> i called him a zombie for a long time, politically dead, yet still moving. >> you called him that when he was competing with the people in the republican party including your guy and you were wrong then. >> in context, i said he will never be president o

we are moving on to our next guest, the great mike murphy. who ran right to rise for jeb bush, not with a huge amount of success, but who is one of our favorite guests, because he is so damned smart. mike, thanks to you for coming on the show. i want to ask you this question. we should say to everybody who doesn't already know this, mike is vociferously and adamantly, never trump. but i want to ask you a question of ideology. we had donald trump jr. on the air and invoked the question of gas chambers. the clinton campaign jumped on it. their director of jewish outreach said this was ridiculous and an comable for him to use that in a casual conversation. there's a lot of discussion about other things the trump campaign has done, that's traded anti-semitism. what's your view about what's happening in terms of the campaign's impulses and what it gets out of, continuie ining to back to these tropes? >> it's a hard one to tifigure out. they go off today his attack on the pastor, or this gas chamber thing, and i don't know the full context of. >> j

and later, mike murphy is here. est in his appraisal of trump, kweeting trump starting to sound like the wild-eyed guy on a bus. we'll ask him whether the bus still that had same destination after last night's debate. first, here is bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> good morning. the rain is exiting the northeast, meaning the airports will be improving and also the roads. yesterday alt this time, we had incredible rainfall. charlotte had flash flooding and san antonio was really nasty, too. we got these pictures in from this water rescue. that's the ladder of a -- oh, almost fell back in. you can see his vehicle, the top of the car. he's standing on the top of his car. he was rescued. nice job there by our finest. as far as the forecast for the rest of today, we are going to be watching the heaviest rains exiting areas of the east. the southeast could deal with showers and thunderstorms from atlanta to charlotte to raleigh also in florida. the rain is going to redevelop. today is a quiet day in the rest of

mike murphy, let me get to you. what's going on? you look at the polls. you. the new quinnipiac poll, by 15 points, americans think donald trump's more transparent than hillary clinton. hillary clinton seen as less honest and trustworthy than donald trump. you look at what states, in iowa, a seven-point swing for donald trump over the past week. in michigan, an 8-point swing for donald trump over the past week. we hear internal polls show wisconsin and pennsylvania almost getting into margin of error territory. tell us what in the world is going on. why has the bottom fallen out from hillary clinton? >> well, i think trump's having a little bit of a run right now. i think he's got an excellent shot to win the title of president of september 18th. he's peaking right on time. if you look, the problem with our business is we have a new poll every day we can react to, but these polls aren't anchored to much. what i have learned in politics is start with election day and look at who you know is going to vote. it's very predictable and who has what pieces. >> b

mike murphy ranjit push -- jeb bush is super pac.xpected about what to in the general election. >> labor day is the start of the general election. this summer has felt like it started a long time ago. does labor day mean anything? >> i think it is the end of the election. we are going to look back and say this from the republican convention, the aftermath, the trump tweets, the attacks is ridiculous performance on immigration in that account and in phoenix. we will say that is when the election was decided. he didn't have much of a chance to begin with but this was a faithful. i'm calling him a zombie for a long time. politically dead but still moving. john: you called him that when he was competing with your guy. >> i said he would never because it of the united states. john: you used the zombie thing when he was very much alive. >> i'm going to fight you on this. i thought he would never make it to the president. i didn't think he would win the nomination. i'm sure he will not win the presidency. john: elections do get decided earl

mike murphy has a great line, you could not fashion a candidate like a basement or a lab laboratory whouilt to hurt the party more. race and gender. who now is the new clinton's surrogate, a hispanic woman. those are the two groups, john. hispanics and females. >> and yet -- donald trump walked onto that stage last night tieing the national polls and tieing ahead of the many states. it is ever small now and a month ago, trump -- now, he has more menu options. she tried to mention his business record and making case that donald trump is trying to hide something. every since richard nixon releasing his taxes here in the united states. i am kidding. donald trump has refused to release his tax and hillary clinton released taxes going back to 40 years. she tried to press him hard on that last night. >> maybe he does not want the american people, all of you watching to know that he paid nothing in federal taxes. the only years that anybody ever seen were a couple of years where he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license and they showed he did not

great mike murphy, a strategist who rode to rise jeb bush. ask for coming on the show. y who does not already know this, mike is never trump. we had donald trump junior on the radio this morning in philadelphia. he made a perplexing comment that i don't even really understand, but he invoked the notion of gas chambers. the clinton campaign jumped on it. their director of jewish outreach put out a statement saying this is ridiculous, abominable for him to use that in casual conversation. a lot of other things the trumping campaign has done that suggest -- the trump suggest has done that anti-semitism. what do you think about going back to these tropes? to figure out.d every time things are going right for the trump campaign, it is like a signal goes off. his attack on the pastor in flint, and now this gas chamber thing, which i don't know the full context of. donny: i was offended when i saw it. donald trump, talking about hillary clinton -- donald trump junior, the media has been her number one surrogate in this. without the media, this would not even be a contest, but t

joining me for insight and analysis are doris kearns goodwin, hugh hewill, gwef ifil and mike murphy. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> good sunday morning. really, this feels like a pregame show. the big game is tomorrow night on new york's long island. with a super bowl size audience expected. usually the first debate is the most important campaign moment until the next debate. probably not this time. hillary clinton comes in with nervous democrats feelin a little bit better about things. four national polls showed clinton up. three of the polls she's up by six points. in today's washington post/abc p poll she's up by two. some show donald trump doing better and have a path. trump has never been more competitive than he is now. there's a sense if clinton doesn't knock him out tomorrow, she may never be able to before november. both sides are engaging in psychological gamesmanship. the clinton campaign has placed mark cuban, a huge trump critic, up front in the audience as a way to rattle trump. in response, as hard as this is

>> i think mike murphy said it best when we were on "morning joe," and he said donald trump will be the president on september 17th, and right now he would be. we had the october surprise, there's always one. and as i said, you have an extraordinary undisciplined and unpredictable candidate, and that draws attention on him and when the attention is on him, he loses. >> 52 days is a long way to go in this particular election cycle. thank you both for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>> from the birther questions to donald trump on dr. oz to his questions about hillary clinton's secret service detail, is this the stuff republicans want to hear a week before the debate? some answers ahead, next. who's with me? i'm in. i'm in. i'm in. i'm in. ♪ ♪ one, two, - wait, wait. wait - where's tina? doing the hand thing? yep! we are all in for our customers. ally. do it right. we are all in for our customers. get between you and life's dobeautiful moments.llergens flonase gives you more complete allergy relief. most allergy pills only control one inflammatory substance. flonase controls 6. an

i want to play you what mike murphy, a gop strategist, said about it. >> i think politically this isse for him than it would be for a normal politician because cruz has always presented himself as the one guy who's uncompromised by the ways of washington, the one man against the machine, the creature of principle. and now he seeps like just another politician and that's kryptonite for him. >> what do you make of this? big moment in this campaign season. i was with senator cruz for most of the primaries up until beginning of may. and he repeatedly refused to say what he was going to do. now he says he's endorse, frankly, antagonizing people who had been in his camp. how much impact will it will on cruz's future and donald trump? >> it helps trump. it brings very conservative republicans back into the fold. a new "washington post"/abc news poll showed there were already people voting for romney the last time, far-right conservatives already coming around to trump even though many don't believe he's a conservative. >> do you think cruz has that kind of sway? >> i don't think he sways, y

mike murphy hosts the radio-free gop contest.he right supporting jeb bush during the republican primaries and joins me now. pleasure to see you. as an expert in all of this, how do you, taking a look, what is your read of it on this day after labor day? >> we're a little over 60 days out and trump is in big trouble. what you're seeing is kind of a surround and squeeze strategy by hillary clinton trying to win the traditional swing states, but also carry the map a little further, the states that have leaned republican, but been battleground in the past. so trump needs to change up his game and find a way to appeal to a lot more voters pretty quickly or even without with all her weaknesses, she's got him on the run. these are not good numbers. >> when you look at the cnn/orc national poll with trump ahead margin of error 45 to hillary clinton 43 in a four way race, is that cause for concern? should that be cause for concern for democrats? >> well, i'm a believer that all campaigns should run like they're two points behind, but thes

>> they definitely hear people like jonah goldberg, bill crystal, mike murphy who was on "meet the press" this morning with me. the never trumpers are small in number but large in voice and their never trumpism is amplified. does it matter in an election which is a tsunami, a ground shaking election? this morning on your program i predicted somewhat out there that by the end of the week the headline would be dead heat in pennsylvania and you noted correctly that pennsylvania has always been the foothold of the republicans charlie brown. this afternoon there's a new poll that shows hillary two points ahead of donald trump with him closing. so i don't think the never trumpers have any impact on the seismic nature of this election. >> on the other side of that, april ryan, you've seen these third-party candidates, gary johnson, who has the larger of the number, you would think in theory because he's a libertarian would be taken from donald trump. but you see the clinton camp fighting hard to peel particularly young voters away from these third-party candidates, away from gary johnson. what

back the curtain and have said why am i wasting my money on these idiots like stuart stevens and mike murphy don't know their heads from poland . >> host: why does the press he him so very much? >> guest:, ... >> host: here you have a candidate who says, there are many reasons to be concerned about prop but here is a candidate who says i'm here to represent the middle class system, i'm here to speak for a rigged system and you think of the press as being a populist system, against the powerful at least that's what they tell the rest of us but almost to a person they come out against trump in a very assertive way. what is that about? >> guest: part of it is what we were just describing. who benefits? not only illegal immigration but in a lot of ways legal immigration, a lot of people do. they get cheap gardeners, cheap made and the gardeners and the maids don't live in their neighborhoods, they live out in the suburbs so it's those, other people's emergency rooms that are being bankrupted. it's other people's schools that can't have pageants anymore because they're spending all their money on

mike murphy, your comment on the initial rally. >> you are 100% correct.as with an aunt denied into the morning the market was selling off. that has less to do with the debate than it does the overall market sentiment. we've been in a market for the last several months. right now i think we are going to sell the rally market. any sort of rally that fell into that. that's a joke in candidacy. stuart: is in command of foreign traders thinking hillary had won the debate on stability on wall street and that is why they voted. that is why they bought stock last night. >> foreign investors want the status quo in the united states and hillary clinton as the establishment candidate for republicans and moderate democrats. if you look at the spin that they got immediately after the debate, places like cnn which broadcast into europe, the response was scripted before they ever appeared. it was so pro-hillary that she got the response today. as we get more information it is unclear who adjust the market a little bit. >> donald trump said the stock market is a bubble f

ashley, liz, tom horwitz, mike murphy, all of them. i'm going to start with oil.re seeing oil stocks down, the price of oil down. is that hurting the market? todd horowitz to you first. >> no, i don't think it's hurting the market. i think that oil is going to 40. the market has found some price volatility and wants to work its way lower. i think there's independent investment. oil has gone down and the market is going down. stuart: it's agreeing with the webster ratio. ashley: well done and thank you for that. and the change covering yesterday, a lot of traders were blaming algorithms for the 400 point drop, set not only into the numbers, but the words that fed officials say, x-number of words said in the same speech, sell. stuart: really? >> down 400 points. in the old days you may have had a big drop, but have people come back in and nibble more. >> humans stepping in, mispricing the market. ashley: the whole thing goes down, 400. comes back 200. stuart: is that what's going on. >> not an exact number, but roughly 60% of the daily volume on the new york stock e

they're supporting a bill by senators chris murphy, mike lee, al franken, and rand paul which would block the u.s. from supplying the kingdom with more than $1 billion worth of tanks and other military hardware. governors in six states have declared a state of emergency after nearly 340,000 gallons of gasoline spilled in central alabama from one of the region's major pipelines, prompting gas prices to rise across the region. carriesnial pipeline 1.3 million barrels of gas a day down to refineries in texas and louisiana, counting for a full 40% of the east coast gasoline. epa officials say the massive spill narrowly avoided reaching the cahaba river, home to endangered spepecies. in news from the ongoing standoff at standing rock, a federal appeals court has officially halted construction of the $3.8 billion dakota access pipeline within 20 miles on either side of lake oahe along the missouri river in north dakota. the d.c. circuit court of appeals says this ruling will give the court more time to rule on the standing rock sioux tribe's request for an emergency injunction against construct

mike. the name of chris murphy's dog is wilson.you sitting there crying watching this movie with your bromance guy? chris murphy? >> do you know why the volleyball? ya, chris named his dog after the volleyball in the movie. and why did they choose the wilson brand for the volleyball? >> rita wilson. >> chris is also lonely and didn't have any friends so that's why he had to name the dog after it. >> bonded together. >> in fact, chris is leaving fox 29 next week. and probably we'll have that scene in my driveway soon. >> where you run out? >> what's your sad movie? >> well, there are a loft ones, and i was thinking about the best man, holiday, i cried, cried that one. couldn't find -- respect the movie, put it on youtube. preachers wife, danzel washington, heavens and the april else, so sad about that. >> the notebook, you guys know why. >> no, barf. >> sweetheart, sorry i haven't been able to be here to read to you. >> i didn't know what to do. thought were you never coming back. >> i'll always come back. what's going to happen? wh

. <<< ((tyson fight)) ((vanessa murphy)) fight night in las vegas on september 7th - 1996. mike tyson versus bruce seldon, but violence erupted outside the ring. gets into a scuffle in the mgm grand lobby which is caught on camera. moments after he leaves, he is shot in a drive-by. ((shane: cop cars kept flying by us so we knew something was going on.)) ((shane: we just started following 'em.)) ((vanessa murphy)) two young paramedics... ((jim: i was driving.)) ((vanessa murphy)) ...were working nearby. ((shane: i had been a medic for roughly five years. jim: i was umm 22 years old at the time.)) ((vanessa murphy)) jim and shane - now henderson firefighters - have asked us not to use their last names because safety. they're speaking publicly for the first time. ((shane: jim and i did everything that we could and gave him every ample...but the general public doesn't know that.)) ((vanessa murphy/reporter: the shooting death of tupac shakur remains unsolved. but 20 years later - jim and shane describe an effort to save the 25 year old man's life at the scene they stumbled onto.)) (

. <<< ((tyson fight)) ((vanessa murphy)) fight night in las vegas on september 7th - 1996. mike tyson versus bruce seldon, but violence erupted outside the ring. gets into a scuffle in the mgm grand lobby which is caught on camera. moments after he leaves, he is shot in a drive-by. ((shane: cop cars kept flying by us so we knew something was going on.)) ((shane: we just started following 'em.)) ((vanessa murphy)) two young paramedics... ((jim: i was driving.)) ((vanessa murphy)) ...were working nearby. ((shane: i had been a medic for roughly five years. jim: i was umm 22 years old at the time.)) ((vanessa murphy)) jim and shane - now henderson firefighters - have asked us not to use i they are concerned about their safety. they're speaking publicly for the first time. ((shane: jim and i did everything that we could and gave him every ample...but the general public doesn't know that.)) ((vanessa murphy/reporter: the shooting death of tupac shakur remains unsolved. but 20 years later - jim and shane describe an effort to save the 25 year old man's life at the scene they stumbled o