they say they went so far as to have a reporter in kenya look into it because of what sydney blumenthalhas secretary clinton or the campaign in any way looked into whether blumenthal was pushing the birther lie? >> jake, sydney blumenthal has categorically denied that. but sydney's not running for president. let's talk about donald trump. he started to push this notion in 2011 and has been pushing it for five years. >> that's true -- >> i have to explain -- but i just have to explain why this is so painful. this just isn't a wacky guy saying something wacky. as you know, jake, from the time african-americans arrived here in 1619, through the end of the civil war, an african-american could not be a citizen of the united states. free or slave. born here or born else where. that's what the dred scot decision decided -- >> i got it -- >> somebody with african descent could be a citizen. when someone says the african-american president is not a citizen. that's so painful to people who still have deep feelings about that dark chapter in american life. and he either believed it when he said it

i was raised by sydney blumenthal. he said the president was born in the united states.is unequivocal. >> here's the problem, corey, even if you are right. >> -- >> you are still wrong. >> i'm going to agree with you, corey and say on the facts is it likely that a clinton operative tried to plant something is that more likely than a reporter lying about it, so great, you are correct. so that was in 2007. why is donald trump following the leadership of after low-level clinton operative or high-level clinton operative four, five, six, seven, almost a decade later. at some point you have to take responsibility for your own candidate's decision making. the only thing you can say now is to continue to point back and pointing back to somebody no one has heard of or cares about to justify your candidate's by hair shows you he has nothing to stand on and sad you won't admit, that yeah, guess what he saw an opportunity to demagogue and undermine someone who's a commander in chief of our military and the president of our country and he saw a political advantage in it. he took it a

sydney blumenthal works for the campaign and very close friend of secretary clinton. and her campaign manager, patti doyle, went to -- during the campaign, her campaign against president obama, fought very hard, and you can go look it up and you can check it out and if you look at cnn this past week, patti doyle was on "wolf blitzer" saying that this happened. blumenthal sent

why don't you speak to sydney blumenthal, he's never going to tell you the truth. take a quick look at what she said to wolf blitzer. >> did you take the bait -- >> i was broad of the fact that i was able to get him to put up his birth certificate and hillary clinton failed. she can't bring it home, i mean, she just can't bring it home, she'll fail with jobs and she'll fail all the way along the line. i think we proved that ton. she failed with getting him to do it, i got hip to do it. i'm proud of that. >> what changed, sir. >> will you accept the outcome of the election. >> oh, yes, absolutely. >> mr. trump -- >> that's a live look at donald trump -- >> i happen to have the tape of marshall mcclellan here. let's play what patti doyle originally said on wolf blitzer. >> he just tweeted a couple tweets, let me put them on the screen. hillary clinton or her '08 campaign did not start birther movement. i was there. another tweet, i fired the rogue around i called david plouffe to apologize. what does that mean? someone in the campaign, someone who was supporting hill

there is this question what did sydney blumenthal do? he's long been a problem for hillary clinton.nies he did anything. sydney blumenthal is not running for president. >> i hope she gets asked about it and has the courage and push sydney away. unlikely in clinton land. maybe he was trying to change the subject. friday night at a rally donald trump said something he's touched on before but said it in a new way that makes people say, i don't know if you ought to be president. >> i think her body guards should drop all weapons. they should disarm, right? right? i think they should disarm. immediately, what do you think? yes? yes. yeah. take their guns away, she doesn't want guns. let's see what happens to her. take their guns away. okay? it would be very dangerous. >> is that supposed to be funny? >> we've heard him say things like this before and he just took it another step further. but it's not funny. our colleague evan perez has been reporting about why this is not funny. because members of law enforcement are telling him it's not going to be hillary clinton who is going to get hu

why don't you see the reporter from mcclatchy, speak to sydney blumenthal because he's never going tol you the truth. take a quick look at what she said to wolf blitzer. >> do you apologize for the birther pass? >> i got him to put up his birth certificate. hillary clinton failed because she can't bring it home. she'll fail with jobs and fail all the way along the line. i think we proved that tonight. she failed with getting him to do it. i got limb to do. i'm proud of that. >> will you accept the outcome of this election, mr. trump? >> say it? >> will you accept the outcome of the election? >> absolutely i will. >> all right. savannah, that was a live look at donald trump walking through the spin room. his campaign manager kellyanne conway behind him. trump talking a bit about some of the moments tonight particularly the birther moment. republican operatives texting me tonight, one calling it devastating. we will see how this plays out with the crucial undecided voters. savannah? >> hallie jackson, thank you so much. who needs surrogates when you have the candidate, himself? chuck, y

but, sean, trump said that i'm the one who got obama to turn over the birth certificate, and sydney blumenthal blumenthal was doing. he was pushing the rumor obama was from kenya, and i don't think most americans watching on the debate that aren't on top of this the way you and the sheriff are didn't get that. she started it. her waterboy, sydney blumenthal pushed it. >> they didn't bring up the e-mails or clinton foundation or saudi arabia or immigration or vetting of refugees. >> obama care. >> dig deep into those things. i think there's a lot of ground to cover, but with that said i will give the list of polls. you have -- let's see. if i can pull it up. i have it in front of me. time magazine, drudge report, cnbc, the hill, cbs, the only one that has hillary winning is cnn, and they have a clinton news network anyway. they only had like 500 people they surveyed. these other ones have hundreds of thousands if not millions. >> i have never seen an opponent more target-rich than hillary, that's all i'm saying. my goodness, he could have nailed her on so many things. and she gets away with thi

why don't you see the reporter for mcklatchy and speak to sydney blumenthal, take a quick look at what she actually said to wolf blitzer. >> will you apologize for that birther past? >> hillary clinton failed because she can't bring it home. she can't bring it home, and she'll fail with jobs and all the way along the line. and i think we proved that. she failed at getting limb him it. >> will you accept the outcome of the election? >> oh, yes, absolutely, i will. >> all right, savannah, that was a live look at donald trump walking through the spin room. >> donald trump doing the rope line of press. his comments self-explanatory. steve schmid, forgive me. we had to interrupt you in mid thought. >> sure, we have this juxtaposition about him talking about nuclear weapons, and its gibberish. and then he's talking about add whom nen, out of left field justification for why he attacked rosie o'donnell. there's never been anything like it in a presidential debate. he was very much on the side of change, that he painted her into the status quo corner. he was effective on his trade argumentatio

sydney blumenthal works for the campaign and very close friend of secretary clinton. and her campaign manager, patti doyle, went to -- during the campaign, her campaign against president obama, fought very hard, and you can go look it up and you can you look at cnn this past week, patti doyle was on "wolf blitzer" saying that this happened. blumenthal sent mcclatchy, highly respected reporter, to kenya to find out about it. they were pressing it very hard. she failed to get the birth certificate. when i got involved, i didn't fail. i got him to give the birth certificate. so s it. i'll tell you why i'm satisfied with it because i want to get on to defeating isis. i want to get on to creating jobs. i want to get on to having a strong border. because i want to get on to things that are very important to me and that are very important to the country. >> i'll let you respond. that's the point. i want to get the answer here. the birth certificate was produced in 2011. you continued to tell the story and question the president's legitimacy in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, as rece

sydney blumenthal started that issue. clintons are throwing anything they can at donald trump and the campaign. it is failing. you seeing it in the polls. >> down to almost the final few weeks. >> about 50 days. >> in 50. >>> my political panel is next to break down all of that plus what we now know about the investigation into multiple attacks on u.s. soil. bomb blasts in new york and new jersey and a rampage at a mall in minnesota. we will update you next. you t arkansas really cares? >> clearly because used to be ahead by about ten points on terrorism and national security issues. >> my original question is this. how does this impact the race? you think it helps donald? >> no doubt splmpt ? >> no doubt. i think the rest of the issue helps hillary. whenever they talk about policy she does better than he does because he doesn't have policy. >> that's not true. >> a measured response. his initial response was not measured at all. his initial response was in fact that not just about it being a bomb but that we have to get

sydney blumenthal sent the reporter. last week, interview with your former campaign manager, and she was involved, but just like she can't bring back jobs, she can't produce. >> i'm sorry. follow-up and i'll let you respond. a lot there. we're talking about racial healing in this segment. what do you say to americans -- >> well, it -- i say nothing because i was able to get them to produce it. should have produced it a long time before. i say nothing. when you talk about healing, i think that i've developed very, last, little while, with the african-american community. i think you can see that. and i feel that they really wanted me to come to that conclusion, and i think i did a great job and a great service not only for the country but even for the president in getting him to produce his birth certificate. >> secretary clinton? >> well, just listen to what you heard. and -- clearly as donald just he knew he would stand on this debate stage and lester holt would be asking us questions and he tried to put the whole racist

can you tell us what took you so long -- >> i'll tell you just simple to say, sydney blumenthal works for the campaign and close -- very close friend of secretary clinton. and her campaign manager, patty doyle went to -- during the campaign, her campaign against president obama fought very hard, and you can go look it up and you can check it out. if you look at cnn this past week, patty doyle was on wolf blitzer saying that this happened, blumenthal sent mcclatchey to kenya to find out about it, they were pressing very hard. they failed to get the birth certificate. when i got involved i didn't fail, i got him to give the birth certificate. i'm satisfied with it. i want to get on to defeating isis, to creating jobs. i want to get on to having a strong boarder. i want to get on to things that are very important to me, and that are very important to the country. >> i will let you reresponded, it's important. i want to get the answer here. the birth certificate was produced in 2011, you continued to tell the story and question the president's legitimacy in 2012, '13, '14 as recently as j

look, it's true, sydney blumenthal sent a reporter, you just have to take a look at cnn the last week, the interview with your former campaign manager. she was involved. just like she can't bring back jobs she can't produce. >> i will let you respond. there is a lot there. we're talking about racial healing in this segment. what do you say to americans of color. >> i say nothing, i was able to get him to produce it. he should have produced it before. i say nothing. when you talk about hillary, i think i have developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the african-american community. i think you can see that. and i feel that they rally wanted me to come to that conclusion and i think i did a great job and a great service not only for the country but even for the president in getting him to produce his birth certificate. >> secretary clinton. >> well, just listen to what you heard and clearly as donald justed a mied, he knew he was going to stand on this debate stage and lester hol holt what is going to ask us questions, so he tried to put the whole racist bi

sydney blumenthal sent a reporter, the last week, the interview with your former campaign manager and can't bring back jobs, she can't produce. >> i'm going to fall back to respond to that. there is a lot there, but we are talking about racial healing in this segment. what do you say -- >> i say nothing. he should have produced it a long time before. i say nothing. >> what did you take away from that? >> when you are at first, you are not moving anyone. when you are below 50, you are losing them. we saw this, especially this was one of the defining moments in the debate. when he went off the rails talking about birtherism and trying to rationalize it, he lost the folks. then the debate came unglued. in contrast to secretary clinton who had a solid performance. she didn't have as many highs, but didn't have any lows. that was really well when she was talking about american jobs and trade. when he talked about himself and these crazy experience theories, people were reminded of his temperament and the issues they don't like about him. >> as much as clinton cleaned his clock in this grou

when he starts an answer by saying sydney blumenthal. nobody know who is that is.e need to be caught up to that, but when you saw that, you saw what he consumes. >> here we go. trump asserted that nobody knows whether russia is behind recent hackings this this country. nobody knows that. despite the u.s. intelligence officials. >> i don't think anybody knows it was russia that broke into the dnc. she is saying russia, russia. maybe it was. it could be, but it could be china and lots of other people. it could be something on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. you don't know who broke into dnc, but we learned that bernie sanders was sataken advantage o by your people. by debbie wassermann schultz. look what happened to her. bernie sanders was taken advantage of. whether that was russia or china or another country, we don't know. under president obama we lost control of things that we used to have control over. >> can i say that was completely incoherent. completely incoherent. >> who are is this 400 pound person? >> who is the 400 pound person sitting on the bed? >>>

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sydney blumenthal sent the reporter the interview with your former campaign manager and she was involved. but just like she can't bring back jobs, she can't produce. >> i'm sorry, i'm going to -- i will let you respond to that. there's a lot there. we're talking about racial healing in this segment. what do you say to americans -- >> well, i was very -- i say nothing. i say nothing because i was able to get him to produce it. he should have produced it a long time before. i say nothing. but let me just tell you, when you talk about healing, i think that i developed very, very good the african-american community. i think you can see that. and i feel that they really wanted me to come to that conclusion and i think i did a great job and a great service not only for the country, but even for the president in getting him to produce his birth certificate. >> secretary clinton. >> well, just listen to what you heard. and clearly as donald just admitted, he knew he on this debate stage and lester holt was going to be asking us questions, so he tried to put the whole racist birther lie to bed. i

he was invoking the name sydney blumenthal and it means nothing. is this going to be a permanent thing for him, the birtherism issue? >> the fact that he cannot bring himself to apologize to the nation for basically putting out misleading information after the president showed his birth certificate, which, by the way, was an embarrass. i mean, as an american. i have a birth certificate, my parents have berth certificates a and. >> is there any way to stop this from being an issue in each of the next two debates? >> racial reconciliation is a process that we all want to make and achieve. unless you're able to believe in that as a nomination for a party. >> the other issue he was entangled with tonight and didn't seem to have any way to get out of is his tax returns. and hillary clinton went through all the possible reason in he didn't interfere. he allowed them to go back and forth. maybe you didn't give enough, maybe didn't pay enough. maybe you have. >> it's another form of disrespect to the american people. every major candidate who has run for p

he said at some point, jim asher at some point said sydney blumenthal had been telling him or suggesting to him that he give this a look. that's what is out there. critically he should point out and hillary clinton never, never publicly came forward and said she had any doubt or question about where president obama was born. nobody from her campaign ever came out and said anything like that. that's the clinton campaign and the question of the campaign starting this. donald trump alleges. in terms of who is believing this, i want to take you on a trip through time. this is the first poll we can find on this subject of birtherism. this was taken in the summer of 2009 in the first few mots of president bush's term. 62% of the people said the president was born here. 24% said he wasn't. there was a clear partisan edge to that 24%. i think we can show you where that was coming from. 62% of the people saying the president was not born here were republicans. that is the biggest. a few democrats and independents as well. then donald trump enters the picture in 2011 and starts flirting with the c

and she brushed off the sydney blumenthal thing that it wasn't true, but it is true. >> everybody is going to fact check, but donald had a chance, if you understood those issues to talk more about them. it wasn't like he just stuck to the script. he went in whatever direction he wanted to. they asked him what are you going to do about domestic terrorism? . >> i thought he did unbelievably well about crime and justice. and the issue of crime in new york city, it turns out, rape, robbery, murders skyrocketed, property crime, inconsequential crime is down. he should have brought that up. but that is true. serious crimes on the way up. when it comes to law and order, she won't even say those words. >> we have a sound byte of that. let's watch trump and hillary arguing over crime in new york city. >> stop and frisk had a tremendous impact in new york city. tremendous beyond belief. so it had a very, very big impact. >> it's fair to say if we're going to talk about mayors that under the current mayor, crime continued to drop, including murders. so there is -- >> murders are up. >> murders

campaign pushed the birther lie, this afternoon a former washington bureau chief tweeted that sydney blumenthal pushed the obama was born in kenya lie to him. a top source tells me that plume shal was not officially on the cam pin, because blumenthal is certainly an ally of the clintons. neither blumenthal nor the clinton campaign respondeded to a request for comment. let's talk about all of this with maureen dowd, out with a great new book titled the year of voting dangerously. thanks so much for being here. what a great day to be here. what did you make of the press conference today and the fact that this issue is back in the news? >> well, i thought it was funny that the press was getting upset that they were horn swagled into getting trump publicity. because it they thought that they weren't doing an infomercial for the new trump hotel, they need to buy my book and they were lucky they got out there have without having to buy time shares. >> were you satisfied with his statement that barack obama was born in the united states, hillary started it, i ended it, obviously the last two parts are

do you want to clear up what you thought about what the clinton campaign, sydney blumenthal, what didlieve? >> it's news to us that this was coming -- >> i don't think so. >> it's news to us. i was on the campaign. so for us on the campaign, we never saw this as something being driven by the clinton campaign. >> you never thought mark penn was trying -- you said -- mark penn wrote about other. did you think he was toying in that world? >> before you answer, i have it here. from his memo, which mark called lack of american roots in which mark penn says, quote, i cannot imagine america electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally american in his thinking and values. now, if donald trump had said that in 2008, we would all be sitting here saying, well, that was the start of birtherism. >> he has been saying -- >> mark penn said this. >> it never came from -- it never came from hillary's mouth. >> just her strategist. >> it's coming from your candidate. it's been coming from him for quite a while. >> it did come from hillary clinton on a "60 minutes" in

and he didn't seem to have any way, he was invoking the name sydney blumenthal whom i've known forever, and it means nothing. is that going to be an original sin for him? >> look, donald trump led a campaign to smear the president of the united states, a president who was ledelected no once but twice with over 50% of the vote. the fact that he cannot bring himself to apologize to the nation for basically putting out misleading information after the president showed his birth certificate, which, by the way was an embarrassment, i mean, as an american, as someone who, i have a birth certificate, my parents have birth certificates, but my grand parents and other grandparents had no birth certificates, and i don't want to take it back to the ancestors who came here in shackles and chains, so for a leading candidate to put this out front and center and to be unable to tell the country he made a mistake, it's wrong. he should have stopped it. >> is there any way he can stop this from being an issue in each of the next two debates? >> racial reconciliation is a process we all want to achieve.

i have a book here by sydney blumenthal, the life of abraham lincoln which is my next three. sometimes the authors i remember less than the person they are writing about. so what else has he done? >> guest: he has done presidential histories in effect right now he is writing one that should be out in the year two on gerald ford. here's the was the director of the gerald ford presidential library in grand rapids. he has been director of the dole institute in kansas, the reagan library in simi valley. he has been all around. he is better on see spend quite a bit. i hate to do this but if you go to book tv.org and type it richard norton smith and find all sorts of videos. what you do and marilyn? >> host: eugene is gone. let's hear from jennifer. >> caller: hello. i just just love c-span a book tv. i just love it. i want to tell you the book i have been back. >> host: you have been watching all day? >> caller: pretty much. >> host: okay well send your address to book a tv at c-span.org and we will send you one of these nice book tv bags, how does that sound? so just send that em

she flubbed and fitted on the birth risen because sydney blumenthal absolutely have the reporter at the washington post go over to kenya and check on the birtherism. mark 10 was involved in that, too. glossed over it. did not address it. she looked good, she is a good policy wonk and good for her but i was a big fan of the clintons in the 1990's and it is time to move on. i am proud to be a trump supported. she had the gall to bring up benghazi. 11 hours of obscure gating and lying about her was on stability for top and what does it matter? never leave anyone behind? they left for pager attic that die back there. this is typical for bad judgment. trump is not perfect but i am for him all the way. host: thank you. now back to peter. facebook,ording to the top social moment of the debate was donald trump saying "my strongest asset is my emperament." and the top issues, taxes. isis, racial issues, economy, crime and criminal justice. a couple text we have received. jill and tragic, ohio. he moderator was completely left-leaving. completely unfair. into her last caller said that trump cower

ancient principle in political philosophy that any foundation that has sydney blowm that on the payroll is up to no good. >> sidney blumenthal time clinton friend, intimate and operative who enjoys here in washington and elsewhere not the greatest reputation for straight dealing. >> huh-uh. >> joanna, susan, thanks very much. coming up, there is no better way to end a workweek like reading all mean tweets viewers send. in we have a few more of them straight ahead. stay with us. ♪is it manwich night? ♪ it's kinda like eating a big... warm... hug. ♪make tonight a manwich night at bp, we empower anyone to stop a job if something doesn't seem right, so everyone comes home safely. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. miles from the latest we are getting on twitter. i was encouraged reading this one from jeff cupp who said if i didn't have but six months to live i would want to spend six months with you because that would be the longest six months of my life. was jonathan tuttle being entirely serious when he tweeted quote: please keep the feedback coming, folks. we really do like hearing from