mr. preston.how would you fund, or how do you see funding be made available for perl dems like universal preschool and would this be done through a new parcel tax or sales tax? or neither? >> thank you. i'm a parent of two young girls. one in preschool and one in public elementary school, both here in the district 5. what educational issues have always been important to me but taking increasingly personal importance to me. i am rolled out as part of my proposal, if in office to move forward with a universal preschool program. new york has done that i think san francisco absolutely should do that. we should be guaranteeing four-year-olds the right to go to preschool and families the ability to actually afford to be in san francisco without paying a fortune just to educate their children. it's also an equity issue ensures everyone starts kindergarten with the same opportunities. i see a stop sign being held up a happy talk about funding but-- >> thank you. supervisor breed >> i'm proud of the work t

mr. preston. how would you fund, or how do you see funding be made available for perl dems like universal preschool and would this be done through a new parcel tax or sales tax? or neither? >> thank you. i'm a parent of two young girls. one in preschool and one in public elementary school, both here in the district 5. what educational issues have always been important to me but taking increasingly personal importance to me. i am rolled out as part of my proposal, if in office to move forward with a universal preschool program. new york has done that i think san francisco absolutely should do that. we should be guaranteeing four-year-olds the right to go to preschool and families the ability to actually afford to be in san francisco without paying a fortune just to educate their children. it's also an equity issue ensures everyone starts kindergarten with the same opportunities. i see a stop sign being held up a happy talk about funding but-- >> thank you. supervisor breed >> i'm proud of the work

mr. preston.how would you fund, or how do you see funding be made available for perl dems like universal preschool and would this be done through a new parcel tax or sales tax? or neither? >> thank you. i'm a parent of two young girls. one in preschool and one in public elementary school, both here in the district 5. what educational issues have always been important to me but taking increasingly personal importance to me. i am rolled out as part of my proposal, if in office to move forward with a universal preschool program. new york has done that i think san francisco absolutely should do that. we should be guaranteeing four-year-olds the right to go to preschool and families the ability to actually afford to be in san francisco without paying a fortune just to educate their children. it's also an equity issue ensures everyone starts kindergarten with the same opportunities. i see a stop sign being held up a happy talk about funding but-- >> thank you. supervisor breed >> i'm proud of the work t

mr. preston >> thanks for the question. we have a crisis and am amazed out unwilling city hall is to recognize the crisis we are experiencing with on affordability. the people you mentioned between 3000-100,000 are the ones being hit with incredible rent increases across the disk. people like kate-in the haight got 175% rent increase. in examples of folks were getting priced out of the cities. what have i done and will i do? protect rent control housing. what i been doing for the last 16 years, fighting to protect rent control housing and believe me, real estate developers and real estate speculators were all too close to our mayor and moderate board allies have their sights on rent-controlled housing and are trying to convert it. so i'll continue to) control housing and make sure that folks have a right to counsel so they can fight to stay in the rent-controlled homes. >> thank you very much. mr. preston the next question goes to you also. airbnb another subject in here in the city of san francisco, eight 2015 study indica

mr. preston, and gloria borger with us. c corey this is a clip from 2014, by a reporter and trump biography, michael deantonio, audio obtained by cnn. >> i was a rebellious kind of person. i don't like to talk about it really. and a very set in my ways -- >> in eighth grade? >> i loved to fight. i always loved to fight. physical fight. >> arguments? >> all types of fights. i loved it, including fist fights. >> he's a fighter. we know that. he said he's a counter-puncher, but i'm wondering if that's a double-edge sword. he's been fighting with minorities, gold star parents, everyone s. th everyone. is that a double-edged sword? >> i want to fight for the underdog and make donald trump go out and make people proud again. what he's talked about is america first. let's have somebody fight for us for a change. >> my question, does he sometimes fight with the wrong people? you can't fight with everyone. >> you can't fight with everyone, but if he's elected president of the united states, i want him fighting putin, i want him figh

mr. preston. comey breached protocol in the first place. talking about why he would not bring forward a case. there was already something done here that was a perversion of it. the other overlay is why is there so much paranoia right now? one name in your head donald trump, saying this is worse than watergate. what are the politics at play? >> a couple of things. what donald trump is saying before the crowds should be -- what he is saying is he is taking little iotas of facts and blowing them up. the bottom line is what donald trump says to gin up his crowds and get poll numbers up should be discounted. to matt's point about comey, i do agree the fbi was put in a difficult situation. chris, you are right. he came out and did a news conference and said he wasn't going to file charges this summer. when this information was presented to him, he felt he could not do anything else, but except come out and tell congress what he had. imagine if this had gotten out afterwards and what people would think about fbi and law enforcement divisions right

mr. preston, trump gave a speech to revitalize the inner cities. listen to this. >> we will also police our streets. have to make our streets safe. i want every poor african-american child to be able to walk down the street in peace and not be scared and not be hurt. the problem is not the presence of police, but the absence of police. we need really a great group of people to keep you safe, to keep us all safe. the war on police urged on by my rival is really reckless. what's happening is reckless and dangerous and puts african-american lives at risk and all you have to do is look at the statistics and you see what's happening. we must work with our police not against them. we're going to work together. >> mark, there has been an ongoing debate about what these speeches are really about, who he's targeting when he talks about the inner cities and police like that. who is it? >> you know, i think donald trump thinks he's targeting everybody in those but that's a very difficult speech to give in the sense he's sending two messages and when you put t

mr. mark preston, hillary clinton celebrated her 69th birthday and donald trump cut the ribbon on his new hotel in dc. what are the next 13-day strategy? >> we know they're not going to be fundraising in big events. they're going to be on the campaign trail. donald trump took a brief detour, came to washington, d.c., opened up his hotel, and went quickly back to the campaign trail. bottom line they're spending all of their time in the battleground state and those states they think they need for a path to victory. for donald trump, states such as florida, colorado, north carolina. states in order for him to get to 270 he needs to win. >> donald trump needs to expand his base, as you said, that's to win. today he's talking about revitalizing cities. is he adding voters among african americans or minorities? >> we've seen the polls tighten and we're starting to see democrats start to continue to consolidate behind hillary clinton and see that move towards donald trump. the fact of the matter he needs to get more republicans to come out and say they're going to be with him and vote for him on

mr. mark preston. they both join me here in new york. that's how important this is. getting down to the wire. let's start out with the polls. mark, for you, it shows 5% -- that's tighter than all the recent national polls which show clinton well ahead, there wassan one poll who had her 12% out. >> right, an abc poll. >> anything is possible? >> >> he needs to stop offending people, which he seems to do on a daily basis. he needs to stop offending women. he needs to do a better outreef to minor it to get the college educated white vote who is on the fence about whether they should support him. when holds rallies for instance in gettysberg when he wants to talk about what his plan is to make america great again he needs to stop prefacing it all these women accusing me of sexual allegations, i'm going to sue them after the election -- all that does is cloud the message. he should focus on the economy which he does well on in this poll and try to go forward and try to win night i have heard his supporters saying they don't want to hear him sort of crying for lack of a be

mr. mark preston, let's get to you, 32 days until election day. what does this stunning development mean at this point in the race. look, i can't imagine donald trump can survive this. when i say survive, this he needed to excite voters. he needed to get people to want to vote for him. these comments have really caused an enormous setback for him, not only with women voters, because women voters were offended by what he said, but we're talking about men, we're talking about fathers, granddaughters who have daughters and sisters and wives and mothers and they hear these very crude comments and it's very hard i think for them to get over that. this comes at a time, too, don, when the republican party was trying to coelesce behind. we've seen statement, after statement, after statement, from republican leaders condemning donald trump for these remarks. now, a lot of these folks didn't like donald trump from the very beginning, but some of theme were like mitch mcconnell. he's the republican leader in the senate. he's criticized donald trump for these

mr. pearlstein: there are 1700 people, actually. sec. preston: well, ok, but the people we deal with. mr. pearlstein: with omb and the councils, there are 1700 people. sec. preston: but we were dealing with a senior person, or a number one or two person. so we will pick up the phone if there were issues, they pick up the phone. and if you have the right relationship, you work through the issues efficiently. we could also offer to leverage our staff for their benefit. the issue comes when there is not communication, and people are not working together. mr. pearlstein: do you think you drove housing policy from your department, or do you think housing policy was driven by the white house? sec. preston: i think -- first of all i came in the middle of , the housing crisis. there was already a bill on the hill. there was already a lot going on. what i ended up driving was i was extremely involved in a lot of how is the issues around mortgage modifications and different programs to help homeowners. on a number of occasions, i called the white house and reversed issues on budgeting, prevailed

mr. trump to quit whining and make his case to get votes. >> gloria borger and mark preston, good evening. >> maybe the president will really say how he feels about donald trump. but welcome from las vegas. thank you so much, gloria. the debate is less than 24 hours away. donald trump is still talking about this rigged election. i want you to listen to him a short while ago at a rally in colorado. >> they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths where so many cities are corrupt and vote are fraud is all too common and they say there's no voter fraud in our country. no, no, there's no voter fraud. take a look at st. louis, take a look at philadelphia, take a look at chicago. >> so gloria, he seems to be lumping -- first he said there is widespread voter fraud and critics are saying there is no voter fraud, but there's no evidence of wide scale voter fraud is the truth of it. it's just not true. why is he continuing to push this story and as the president is saying he's crying before he even finishes the game? >> well, you know, the rig the election has two-parts. first p

mr. mike pence was on the defensive and very calm about it. and oftentimes, christine, he didn't answer the questions or come to a rushing defense of donald trump. >> mark preston, stick around. john phillips, eugene scott, cnn politics reporter. brian stelter, cnn media reporter and host of "reliable resources." we we just heard from mark preston. i want to get some sound to illustrate what mark was talking about. tim kaine almost sacrificed himself for hillary clinton. he didn't try to win for him. he tried to lose the debate for donald trump. listen to the prepared lines that tim kaine came out firing against mike pence but really against donald trump. >> and donald trump supremacist. your hired president in hillary clinton, or do you want in the fired president in donald trump. >> donald trump can't start a war with miss universe. >> he's got supporters. if you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then deputy go back to a fifth grade civics class. >> had we played the sound bite of mike pence first, tim kaine would have interrupted him because he was doing that a lot. >> whatever happened to mild-mannered dads. we were told this was

preston. welcome to all of you. so manu, i will start with you because you have a lot of great sources on capitol hill. you are our congressional correspondent. what did mr. trump say last night to make paul ryan feel more comfortable? >> well, one thing republicans wanted to hear was a lot of contrition. they wanted to hear him come out and say he was apologetic about what he said. we didn't get a lot of that from donald trump last night. in fact, he sort of dismissed the controversy. he did apologize but then he said, you know, this is a distraction and this is locker room talk, really dismissing it. i think what republicans at large feel is that he's able to shift the narrative, turn the narrative back to hillary clinton and make it not about the videotape anymore. it almost rallied the base behind him. in some ways it's not necessary that paul ryan is more comfortable. in a lot of ways he's sort of boxed in because paul ryan right now were to rescind his endorsement, it would create such an uproar within his party, especially after trump really rallying the base last night with such a bombastic performance against hillary clinton, that it would be a

preston, alan dershowtiz, cnn political analyst christen powers, a columnist for "usa today," ryan lizza, and david gergen, cnn's political analyst. i'm so glad to have you here this evening, but happy to have mr. dershowtiz, an attorney who can walk us through this. we'll start with you, mark, why was this not discovered before? >> well, that's the real question. huma abedin's lawyers probably should have turned any e-mails that she sent relating to the e-mail investigation in response to earlier subpoenas and the reason that question comes up is they shouldn't have found it in an investigation of wiener. when they took wiener's computer, immediately her lawyer should have gone to court and said, all right, you have wiener's computer and you can look at the sexting material but you shouldn't be able to look at any of her -- his wife's e-mails that have nothing to do with the texting investigation. >> why didn't that happen? >> well, because i think -- i'm speculating here, but i think the lawyers realized that probably they should have turned these e-mails over as part of the other investigation, so i think we have to think hard about the responsibility of huma abedin's lawyers in this whole

preston, cnn political analyst jackie kucinich, cnn senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny who comes with scoop. also, new york city councilman joseph borelli and doug thornell, senior adviser for the democratic national committee. mr. zeleny, we believe there were significant developments with the thrust of the clinton campaign just over the last 48 hours starting to focus on senate races and also starting to focus on maybe governing. >> exactly. the reality here is this race is locked in a direction. now the question is what is the size of the margin at this point. all the caveats, yes, things can change, but democrats now are tying to really run up the score down the ballot. you saw the president last night in las vegas, more than i have ever seen him before really pushing this. they are now campaigning, he's making phone calls. he is trying to reverse one of the biggest things that's happened during his time in office, his losing a lot of these seats. democrats have been just wiped out. >> the most ever. >> exactly. in this case specifically, a lot of the presidential battlegrounds align with senate battlegrounds. for the third day in a row, hillary clinton in a senate battleground state as well, new hampshire,