let's digest trump university for a second, then we're going to move on to that comparison. let me ask you. the timing, you know, is not ideal for those defending trump because it was four days after the donation came, four days after it was reported that pam bondi's office was weighing whether to investigate trump university. so four days later, he donated, and then she said, never mind, i'm not going to investigate you. so you see why people say that stinks a little bit. >> i could see how the clinton campaign is trying to make it sound that way, and you had mentioned earlier in the package where mr. trump has been consistently contributing to politicians, particularly in florida. it is his second home, and it was one of his biggest criticisms by his opponents in the primary. the situation here, pam bondi took office in 2011, and during her tenure, there was one complaint, megyn, that didn't even make it to her office. this was a staff decision. >> when it comes to trump university, you mean? >> right. >> unlike new york, she was not flooded with angry consumers saying go

trump university was already out of business. prior to her taking office, florida's attorney general's office received 20 complaints against trump institute, a business affiliated with trump, but it too was out of business. since pam bondi took office, up until the decision was made, florida received just one complaint against trump university. according to a spokesman for florida's attorney general, it wasn't enough to justify florida filing suit. instead, staff doing due diligent reviewed the complaints and the new york litigation and made the proper determination that the new york litigation would provide relief to aggrieved consumers nationwide. in other words, floridians could join new york's lawsuit. the spokesman also told cnn pam bondi had nothing to do with it. the decision was made by staff. in fact, the spokesman says pam bondi didn't even know there were complaints against trump. but around the same time, the florida attorney general's office was deciding not to pursue a case against trump. pam bondi was pursuing donal

they never discussed trump university. e the case never even got up to her. >> mar-a-lago, holding events during this election, events where trump paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to trump businesses, campaign dollars. >> this is fully within all fec rules and regulations. he can't give away his spaces. that would be against regulations. this is fully compliant with the rules, unlike what hillary clinton has done when she was secretary of state with the foundation and her e-mails. those are much bigger issues we should be talking about. >> i want to talk about donald trump. with hillary clinton there's been investigations. >> what are you talking about? investigations which turned out the fact that she lied to congress about turning overall her e-mails. she said she used the one device. she used 18. they used hammers in the department of the secretary of state to destroy blackberries. there are computers with classified information missing. and we're talking about mar-a-lago? >> we are talking about mar-a-lago. this is

at onetalk.com. >>> three years ago the attorney general filed a fraud lawsuit for operating trump universitythe university that was not a real university. in new york state it's illegal to call anything that's isn't actually a university, a university. as we've reported many times, the new york attorney general found that many of the ways of doing business within trump university, besides the name, constituted fraud. it was such a compelling case that the florida attorney generals spokesperson said she was considering joining the new york attorney general's fraud case. four days after florida attorney general pam bndy made that announcement through her spokesperson, she got a campaign contribution of $25,000 from donald trump. the associated press that the attorney general said she personally solicited donald trump for that campaign contribution. within weeks of receiving that $25,000, attorney general bondy decided not to join any case against trump university. >> you said recently "when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do". >> you better believe it. i will tell you that

in 2013, florida attorney general pam was considering opening a fraud investigation against trump university. around the same time, the irs says the trump foundation improperly donated $25,000 to a group supporting her re-election. trump insisting he never discussed the investigation with bondi. >> first of all, she is beyond reproach, a fine person. never spoke to her about it. >> bondi ultimately deciding not to proceed with the investigation. >> there are so many things that are questionable about that and the irs certainly thought so. and said it was illegal and fined -- >> and alisyn, this is something you'll hear repeatedly from the clinton campaign in the days ahead, they are saying rite now when you talk to their advisers, they've been attacked for just the allegations of pay to play with the clinton foundation, what this shes down in florida with trump university is actually pay to play. at least according to the clinton team, hillary clinton in florida today. pretty good chance she brings that up. donald trump in swing states in virginia and north carolina. >> we'll talk about all

trump university was already out of business. to her taking office, florida's attorney general's office received 20 complaints against trump institute, a business affiliated with trump, but it, too, was out of business. since pam bondi took office, up until the decision was made, florida received just one complaint against trump university. according to a spokesman for florida's attorney general, it wasn't enough to justify florida filing suit. instead, staff doing due diligence reviewed the complaints and the new york litigation and made the proper determination that the new york litigation would provide relief to aggrieved consumers nationwide. in other words, floridians could join new york's lawsuit. the spokesman also told cnn pam bondi had nothing to do with it. the decision was made by staff. in fact, the spokesman says pam bondi didn't even know there were complaints against trump. but around the same time the florida attorney general's office was deciding to not pursue a case against trump, pam bondi was pursuing donald tr

in about the same time as pam bondi's office was looking at considering this lawsuit against trump university is very coincidental. >> is the issue, part of it, one of the things you dug up, a donation of this kind, from the trump foundation to a pac supporting an attorney general running for re-election, that's improper, you can't make those kind of donations legally between those two kinds of entities. do we know if he's done that with other pacs? >> i've looked for it and not found it. he took a real interest in state attorney general about the time the trump foundation was coming under fire. the other ones were coming out of his personal account, as is proper. >> in terms of your overall beat that you have right now, looking into trump's donations, his charitable contributions, his foundation, are you discerning anything that we should see as a pattern or any sort of predictive tick in terms of understanding how donald trump has spent money charitably, how he's made donations, how those things follow from his public statements? >> sure. you find a real interesting pattern. back in the '80

trump university. that isn't a hard ad to make. t i think trump has where if he's going to keep trying to litigate the foundation and keep trying to litigate e-mails and take advantage of it, he's not going to get anywhere if haez not releasing his tax returns and if we don't know anything about how he plans on dealing with his businesses. if he actually gets elected. how is he going to avoid conflicts of interest. so, i think the more he goes down this road, the more complicated it gets for him because he's got so many financial deals that when the light shines on them are going to raise a lot of questions. >> before we leave this segment, can i get back to that transition process that you two were talking about. you were there when bill clinton, the governor of arkansas, got a transition call from a president of the united states basically saying congratulations, you beat me. you were there when the united states senator john mccain, candidate for president, made the call to barack obama. and you think that that will not happen in

quickly found out that trump university was a scam. >> reporter: in pampa florida yesterday n front in front of ay military audience, trump's company fired mostly military member when is they were deployed overseas and elicited quite a reaction from the crowd down there in florida yesterday. national security is going to be a big issue in the coming days. we've already seen that especially my producer lucas tomlinson has reported from the pentagon today that a reductius aircraft flew very close to a u.s. aircraft today. the pentagon putting out a statement about that, so national security a very big issue. hillary clinton says she will not send more troops to the middle east but she did however shepard, on her plane talking to reporters yesterday, say that she said always favored a no-fly zone over northern syria to attack isis from. she was overruled during the obama administration when she was secretary of state, but she indicated she thinks a no-fly zone is appropriate. >> and the family out on the campaign trail it appears. >> reporter: that's right, chelsea clinton is campaigning

attorney general of florida at the time she was being asked by her constituents, to investigate trump university because of the effects that these people that she's responsible for had experienced. >> for weeks, trump and his allies have been accusing clinton of pay for play, alleging without a shred of legitimate evidence that as secretary of state clinton handed out political favors, in exchange for donations to the clinton foundation. he was at it again tonight at a rally in north carolina. >> hillary clinton using -- and you know this -- she was using state department to dole out special favors and access to her friends and to her donors. totally special favors. it's called pay for play. >> trump continues to make that attack even though he boasted about giving money to politicians in exchange for them doing his bidding when he was still just a businessman. >> i give to everybody. when they call, i give. and you know what, when i need something from them, two years later, three years later, i call them, they are there for me. >> when i want something, i get it. when i call, they kiss my [ bl

trump university was already out of business. to her taking office, florida's attorney general's office received 20 complaints about trump institute, a business affiliated with trump, but it, too, was out of business. since pam bondi took office up until the decision was made, florida received just one complaint against trump university. according to a spokesman for florida's attorney general, it wasn't enough to justify florida filing suit. instead, staff doing due diligence reviewed the complaints and the new york litigation and made the proper determination that the new york litigation would provide relief to aggrieved consumers nationwide. in other words, floridians could join new york's lawsuit. the spokesman told cnn pam bondi had nothing to do with it. the decision was made by staff. the fact the spokesman says pam bondi didn't even know there were complaints against trump. but around the same time the florida attorney general's office was deciding to not pursue a case against trump, pam bondi was pursuing donald trump hims

the new york state department of education was after trump university, telling them to stop calling themselvesere were additional problems they had with new york that they didn't have in other states. >> when you started the lawsuit it didn't cross your mind that donald trump would be the next president of the united states or at least the republican nominee. knowing what you know about your lawsuit against trump university, what do you make of that? >> i would have -- i found it -- would have found it incredible in august of 2013, if i had come on your show and told you he was going to be the republican nominee you probably would have never invited me back. seemed far-fetched then. i did get a preview of some of the tactics we've seen from mr. trump. he set up a website to attack me. put out preemptive hits in different newspapers to discredit my lawsuit before i even filed it. filed his own suit against me for $100 million. filed phony ethics complaints against me. i had to hire a lawyer to defend me in front of the ethics panel. all this stuff has been dismissed and discredited and my lawsu

looking at trump university.ic attorney generals -- >> the office said they were looking at it and they got it from the office. >> a lower level staff member also admit they had never sent it up to pam bondi. so it never made it to her desk. >> boy, when that was said about hillary clinton with reference to what was going on with security measures in benghazi, donald trump laughed it out of hand as a suggestion, and said how could you not know what's going on in your office if you're the boss. now when it comes to pam bondi that rationale is pretty acceptable? >> i think there's a big difference. very minor when you where one complaint filed in a state where they receive thousands upon thousands of complaints every day. >> they didn't just get one complaint about trump in florida. they got many. >> at the time when pam bondsdy was in office they only received one complaint at the time she was in office. there were other complaints filed prior to her taking office. >> so there were other complaints there to look a

and you have a whole string of these kinds of issues, whether it's trump university or the trump network, or this case with pam bondi, where there's a story or two, and we move on the next time he says something outrageous. the difference is, when it comes to hillary clinton, when there's something like the release of a new batch of e-mails, there's an all-hands-on-deck mentality, where dozens of reporters will be assigned to it, to investigate every nook and cranny to see if there's anything there that looks untoward. and even if there isn't, it drags out over the course of days and weeks and gets mentioned again and again and again. whereas most of these trump stories, they land and they just disappear. >> yeah, i think paul krugman was getting to that same issue when he wrote a column, excoriating the media, including his own newspaper, saying hillary clinton gets gored. he writes, many of trump's multiple scandals, what appear to be clear pay-offs to state's attorneys general to back off investigating trump university, get remarkably little attention. indeed, the associated press sto

whose office elected not to investigate trump university for fraud. katie turr. >> tonight donald trump who claims to have given millions away to charity is under investigation for his philanthropy. the new york attorney general looking into the trump foundation, after the "washington post" uncovered a series of questionable donations. at issue, a six-foot tall portrait of trump by speed painter michael israel. but using foundation money at a charity event. the painting possibly a gift for trump himself. >> melania, his wife, was it and i remember the first bid was $10,000 and then she graciously increased that bid to $20,000. >> if he kept it, and the campaign won't say, that violates new york law. and the irs code. another issue, a $25,000 political donation to a superpac linked to florida attorney general pam bondy. around the time her office considered, but never opened, a fraud investigation into trump university.

what about trump university? that is why this is damaging to trump. he has been making the same point about hillary clinton and this is a rather easy one to understand. trump was fined. he paid $2,500 to the irs. that's why this is a problem. >> and speaking of rebuttals. we saw joe biden on the campaign trail yesterday laboring on labor day defending hillary clinton on her trust issues that she has with voters. listen to what he said. >> hillary knows it's a problem. she's trying to figure out how to remedy it. my advice is to talk about what you care about. talk about it with passion. and people will see through it. >> this is an ongoing theme with hillary clinton. that trust issue that voters have with her. is this just the way to handle it? just open it up and be honest about the issues she has? is the campaign making head way on this? >> i think clinton herself is quite a bit more skeptical than that. she thinks that there's not a ton to gain by being open and honest with the press and with everybody else. she feels like she's tried that over thr

at the same time that she was considering investigating fraud claims against trump university. we're now learning this is not trump's only violation of political donation limits. not evenly close. cnn senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny has that story for us. it isn't new, but new in focus. >> donald trump has often railed against what he calls a rigged political system. but this morning, there is a fresh reminder he has been part of the system for a very long time. it's that $25,000 donation from his foundation to the florida attorney general that is receiving fresh scrutiny. because it came just as her office was set to review allegations of fraud at trump university. foundations of course are not allowed to make political contributions. so he was slapped with a $2,500 fine by the irs. the clinton campaign back on offense with hillary clinton and bill clinton raising all of this and trump's unwillingness to release his own tax returns. >> truly, the list goes on and on. the scams, the frauds, the questionable relationships, the business activities that have stiffed wor

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the democrats allege that the payment may have influenced bondy's decision not to investigate trump universitya claim bondy denied. joining me now is the man leading the washington post investigation into the trump foundation. thank you so much for your great reporting and being here. i want to read from you your latest piece. you write that three of the mysteries in the file of the donald j. trump foundation have been sochld here's what we know. trump's campaign says he's given tens of millions to charities, offers no details or proof and how he retooled his charity to spend other people's money is a headline you got out this beak. what do we now know about the donald j. trump foundation we didn't know last week? >> we learned a little more how it operates. one of the thing the trump campaign explaining why there were errors in their tax returns, why they gave a political donation when there were rules after. that why after they get a political donation, they file a false tax return that listed a fake donation in its place and their answer seems to be that there were not a lot of good control

or considered suing trump university. major garrett is in cleveland where trump spent labor day talking about jobs. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. at a county fair just outside a blue collar youngstown, donald trump and mike pence found a huge crowd. very enthusiastic, the ride was a bit rougher, however, from cleveland to youngstown, as trump faced questions on immigration, debate preparation and trump university. to ohio's largest county fair. >> trump, trump, trump! >> reporter: donald trump and running mate mike pence campaigned in democratic northeastern ohio. and morning roundtable with union workers trump turned his attention to china's perceived diplomatic snub of president obama calling his ceremonial exit from air force one a sign of weakness. >> other leaders they're coming carpet. and obama is coming down a metal staircase. >> reporter: on the same day hillary clinton allowed reporters to start flying on her campaign plane, trump summoned reporters for his private jet for the first time in mont

they also say that they did speak about that donation, but not about trump university. >> thank you very much. let's get more on our exclusive new orc poll showing donald trump and hillary clinton locked in a virtual tie. clinton has 43%. third party candidates are in single digits. let's dig deeper. david, what else do the polls indicate. >>. >> let's first look at the key independent voters. donald trump is besting hillary clinton by 20 points, 49% to 29%. you see gary johnson there with 16, and jill stein with six. remember mitt romney won independent voters by five points, but he still lost the election, a 20 point gap among voters. now look at the next fact vor. looking at the state of the race. enthusiasm. take a look at this finding, wolf. 58% of donald trump voters tell us in this poll they're very or extremely enthusiastienthusiast. only 46% of hillary clinton supporters say the same thing nap is a big gap there. that is something that the clinton folks will want to work on if they want the kind of turnout they're trying to get from this election. and the honest and trust worth

she didn't go ahead and launch an investigation into trump university. ch of a problem is this for trump? >> it is hard to know with the people who support him. it won't be a problem. the question is, he tries to broaden his appeal. in you look at what happened, it is more damming than what happened with the chin foundation which he has called the most corrupt enterprise in political history. just look at the nakts mid to hate august of 2013. bondi solicits this donation personally. this is what we flernld a consultant to her re-election campaign. the consultant said she didn't know that there was an issue with trump university. you had the new york state attorney general who was launching this investigation against donald trump. he was pushing back on it. but then fast forward to september 13 of that same year. pam bondi said for the first time. she's considering joining this new york state probe. and four days later, receives a check, the group backing her up receives a check. and then spoof! this goes away. donald trump was asked, why are you donating

trump has been ripping off people for a long, long time, long before trump university. the list of people cheated by donald trump is a mile long at least. glass company, new jersey. children's singing group. real estate brokers, plural. plumbers, painters, dishwashers and many, many more. they all got fleeced by this so-called billionaire trump. when trump gets sued for not paying, here's what he does. he hires lawyers, lots of lawyers most of the time to defend him from having cheated lots of people. and then guess what? many times he doesn't bore paying those lawyers. they have to sue him. he rips off people only to profit for himself. now, a lot of his business i don't understand very well, but i understand atlantic city. i was the chairman of the nevada gaming commission for four very tumultuous years. i was there when we allowed nevada operations to go to atlantic city. so i understand what took place in atlantic city. he'll do anything to make a buck for himself. if donald trump -- he applied for a license a number of years ago in nevada and was a passive owner. he

trump university is not acredited.nd then laureate is challenging and the hillary clinton team say that is she is committed as ever to on the institutions and she rails for profit schools and she and her husband have made $17.6 million in one of them and that's gogs going to put the campaign under and now an enterprise reporter for the washington post. roseland, you have written on this and take us into this and what kind of a world are we talking about here that bill clinton is taking in $20 million of honor their chancellor. what is he doing for that money? give us a sense of it. >> sure, this is a highly contra versele industry. they only have five campus in the united states. they have something like 80 all around the world. they have faced scrutiny in other countries as well as this country. one thing that we see is that they had a great deal to gain from sog a tie and recognized and incredible figure and it probably helps to explain why they were so interested in paying him what is a high amount of money. we foun

a spokesman told us that bondy received one complaint against trump university when she decided not to pursue a case. >>> bondy was noticeably absent from a florida missing attends. her office didn't make her available to talk about the trump donation. >>> all right, now first at ?? 4:00 weather. here's meteorologist julie phillips. >>> after what was a fairly dry weekend for a lot of us, rain chances going up starting today, you can all ready start to see a little bit of rain fall down on the camera. no measurable precipitation yet. but temperatures in the upper 80s now. expect those to fall. you can see scattered storms moving from east we've seen deeper moisture in place. with that easterly flow, pockets of heavy down pours rolling through. you can see some of those near the brooksville area. a lot of lightning, heavy rain near ininvestor mess in pushing toward the west. also tracking showers and and rain toward bradenton down through venice tracking spotty showers and storms. inland, you can see heavy showers and storms in highlands county, around sea bring, drifting toward the wes

trump says it doesn't matter because he's going to winhe trump university case. well, not entirely. trump's charitable foundation had to pate irs a $2500 penalty, charlie, for making and failing to properly disclose this contribution. >>> hillary clinton spoke to reporters yesterday about that trump foundation donation. >> i am quite taken aback by the foundation making a political about to investigate trump university. and then ending the investigation. and there's so many things that are questionable about that. >> susan page, "usa today" bureau chief is with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> what are the political risks for this for donald trump? >> nothing is more than the charitable foundati one is it's inappropriate for a charitable foundation to make pay contribution to a political committee. and the other is, the timing raises all kinds of questions whether he was trying to affect her decision, the attorney general's decision, whether to go ahead with an investigation of trump university. >> did she say before hand, not that she got the contribution but did she know the a

trump university quickly became under investigation after a scam.paid $1500 and what they got for the word high-pressure sales tactics were the faculty would stand over them and show them how to get more money and credit cards so they can pay $35,000 to get the full trump university package. ,onald made a promotional video trump university is all about success and you will have success. we are going to have the best faculty. they will be hand-picked by me, the best of the very best and will get a better education from the best business school because i went to the best. he did not, by the way. he went to the undergraduate program not the graduate. it turned out that the faculty knew nothing about real estate. they included the manager of a fast food joint, two people in personal bankruptcy and a lot of people with experience in high-pressure sales tactics as getting people to run other debt. by the way, if you run appeared to him borrow as much as the banks will possibly give you two paper trump university, how do you have any borrow status for real

a donation, it's linked to the attorney general, a few days later she says i won't look into trump university, do you see the problem this there? >> i can see how the optics can be problematic. if you look at that in isolation in florida alone that the money came out of the trump foundat n foundation. i think there's a reasonable explanation. mr. trump does an enormous amount of business in florida. he owns more property therein than any other state in america. he supports pro-growth candidates like pam bondi all over the country. when you look at the attorney general and this investigation into trurch university, 49 out of the 50 states decided there was no issue here. me didn't pay or give donations to all 49 attorneys general so there is no quid pro quo in this case. what he was doing is supporting a fine leader for the state of florida who believes in pro growth policy. there is no "there" there when it comes to trump university. the overwhelming majority of students who took his courses were satisfied as reported by their own surveys. >> still being litigated in court. i want to play you

didn't reference any discussion about trump university specifically. but there does seem to be at least sort of the sequence of these things does seem to raise a bunch of questions. >> you detailed it pretty well. what we're talking about is a public declaration from her office that they're going to look at whether to join a suit with respect to trump university and trump institute. four days later that $25,000 check comes in. at some point in late 2013, early 2014, it is announced she will not join the suit. and in march 2014, he holds a fund-raiser for her. there is no proving quid pro quo here. to prove a quid pro quo takes an extraordinary amount of evidence that rarely surfaces. but we are in the midst of a conversation about donors to the clinton foundation and what they got from that and if that is going to be a conversation we're having here then we must have it there. >> here's my question. the strangest thing about this story is it's the trump foundation. i'm not a lawyer. if you hired me to be the general counsel any of foundation tomorrow,

s office was considering a fraud allegation against trump university. okeswoman said this is a minor issue that is brought to the attention of the foundation and addressed immediately. the donation violates the law governing political activities by foundations. trump reportedly reimbursed the foundation. we will see where that one goes. hillary clinton has said this about the story. >> he has been accused repeatedly of fraudulent behavior. we have recently learned that his trump foundation has been fined for illegal activity when it made a political contribution to the attorney general of florida at the time she was being asked by her constituents to investigate trump university. >> let's balance this out. we have two dirty stories on both sides. i'm joined by eli stokles and rose helderman. rose, let me go to you. bill clinton has been paid according to the records almost $18 million over the pace of five years for services rendered. in life, even the most expensive lawyer or consultant charges by the quarter hour. how many quarter hours did he give to

the first dealt with trump university. the new one centers on the trump foundation. main your garrett reports. >> reporter: the donald j. foundation began in 1987 as a family charity. a lengthy investigation by "washington post" revealed trump stopped donating to his charity eight years ago and made questionable purchases using donor's money and prompted a new york state investigation at the moment trump hoped to focus on working parents. >> we have been concerned that the trump foundation may have engauged. >> new york attorney general, eric snyderman is suing donald trump over alleged fraud at trump university. on tuesday, snyderman said he now has question as but the gop nominee foundation. >> wheat have been looking into with the laws that govern charities in new york. >> reporter: recent reports found trump's foundation repeatedly broken irs rules. at least 25,000 dollars of donor's money was used for an illegal political contribution. 12,000 was spent on football gear, signed by tim tebow. and $20,000 on a six-foot tall painting of trump himself. president obam

in florida, wolf, or the -- >> the attorney general's decision in florida not to investigate trump university yeah. and this relates to what you just had on with the house democrats. this is a separate issue. this is whether or not pam bondi in 2013 soliciting a donation from donald trump decided to drop any kind of investigation against trump university. her office at the time, her staff at the time, i should be clear, was looking into a complaint that was made in the state of florida about trump university. and those staffers were trying to decide if they joined the new york attorney general's lawsuit against trump university or not. it was decided based on reviewing the case that the one case that they had in florida complaining about this could easily be revolved if that person in florida or anyone else in florida would just join the new york attorney's lawsuit. the problem is all of this happened at the exact same time that this donation was made, which is why the house democrats are asking for the department of justice, i guess, to see if pam bondi is basically selling favors down in fl

. >> pam bondi is the only person in the world to ever make money from trump university. >> stephen cohen bear ripped attorney general pam bondi and her relationship with donald trump last week. a $25,000 check from the trump foundation to her campaign came general decided not to make a case over trump university fraud allegations in 2013. democrats are making the connection between the check and these comments from trump in january. >> i give it to everybody. that was my job. when i want something, i get it. when i call, they kiss my. >> the state attorney general is supposed to look out for us, is taking illegal campaign cut emissions. >> the attorney general's office has said this is not a pay for play situation. >> a spokesman says a lengthy email pushing back against the allegations that the contribution led to bondi choosing not to pursue action. the email sites there was never a multistate case, there was never an invitation to join the original lawsuit and there was only one florida complaint the attorney general was absent from a florida missing children's day event in tallahasse

any of you guys go to trump university? one guy? ( laughter ) you will never forget those college memories. and you really shouldn't forget. they're important for the lawsuit. a couple years back, trump u. was being investigated for fraud. there were so many complaints from former students that even florida was considering an investigation. and their state seal is someone dumping a body. true story. it's true. we didn't make that up. that's true. ( applause ) but florida's attorney general and stepmom, who can't understand why you don't warm up to her, pam bondi, decided not to investigate trump u. nobody knows why, but now it's come out that, right before she made the decision, a pac supporting her campaign received "a $25,000 gift from the donald now, attorney general bondi has denied that her office's decision not to join the lawsuit against trump university had anything to do with the money. and i am sure it also had nothing to do with the fact that trump held a fundraiser for her right after she dropped the investigation. so one

was a scam that preyed on those who wanted to get rich like trump. >> at trump university we teach successhe big political story this morning surrounding donald trump is that he's not backing down from his attack -- >> telling his top surrogates in a conference call that he won't apologize. >> we are in front of a very hostile judge. >> and igniting a firestorm because the judge, gonza gonzalo currell, an american born in indiana was of mexican descent. >> he's given us ruling after ruling negative. >> i've been treated very unfairly by this judge. this judge is of mexican heritage. i'm building a wall. i'm trying to keep business out of mexico. >> he's an american. >> he's of mexican heritage. >> if you are saying he can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism? >> i don't think so at all. >> but others said yes, it was. >> i regret those comments. >> including republican house speaker paul ryan. >> claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of the textbook of a racist comment. >> this is one of the worst mistakes trump has made. i thi