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Suit in july. Paul ryan and nancy pelosi gathered on the steps of the capitol to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. Bloomberg will have coverage. Im emily chang and this is the request. Warnings about exploding samsung phones getting louder. Shut them off immediately. His oftenplain why nine explosion is more mysterious one week later. And he is helping a new of being a new acquisition will clear the road to the worlds most congested city. Thetral bank scares dow fell more than 300 points after a Federal Reserve official warned that waiting to want to raise Interest Rates overheats the u. S. Economy and could risk financial stability. The a breakdown of successful breakdown. Wasf all the weakness tech a new means positive. Given the big losses this is one of the groups that held the a little bit. ,o give a little perspective this has been a group that has done pretty well. It has been the past best performer. Upre is still they are 10. 4 versus the s p 7 . Moving down relative to the rest of the stock market. Not so bad in the grand scheme of things. Then again speaks to the desire for investors to get into some of the companies largely in the tech sector that will do well if the economy continues to improve. This is a big one that happened today. A popular trade that has propelled the market. Investors are looking for its dividend yielding stocks is getting hit real hard today. At least 3 down. The question is whether that will continue and if we see yields in the on market rising the 10 year yield jumped the highest since june. That will hurt the sectors that depend on the lower yields as investors seek at regular income. This is the correlation between stocks and bonds. Bond yields. Hunting today into negative territory which means bond prices and stock prices are moving in the same direction. That has meant a good thing because they have in bull markets but if there is a scare and we get some fed hawkish behavior for a surprise in september or anything that signals in the future this will a seriouso be a weakness. This is why this could continue. It is not just about the utilities and the staples and high dividend stocks. They are computing to the lowvolume etfs that have become popular. These are the size of the moves versus the lowvolume etfs. They are supposed to drop smaller but they did not today. The green bar shows powershares, both losing more than the s p 500 not really completing their objective. That has been a popular trade and it will be important to shiva continues to be week Going Forward with more fed speculation. Emily thank you. Turning now to the biggest tech stories of the week my lets talk lets start with samsung. The u. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging users to turn phones off immediately and if you are charging one stock. This after aviation authorities authorities around the world advised them not to use them during flights or put them in check luggage. It hoping to get a head start on apples new iphones. How bad does this get now for samsung . This is terrible. Cadence ofnged their releases when they are releasing phones to beat apple. Big launch ofe the iphone seven they come out with a phone that is literally exploding. There are dozens reports already. It was bad enough when they said they would be replacing units that are affected and units not affected to everyone who bought a note seven and the u. S. Government getting involved in making it official, could not be worse timing for the country. Emily you had a contrary in view. What is your take . Before i heard they were being completely recalled. On the most recent developments in the last few hours i am with mark. Is ayour latest product total disaster and truly dangerous to use, that is going to affect the companys reputation. I would not be surprised if they start inspecting phones getting on planes to make sure youre not carrying one if they are this dangerous or if they are perceived to be this dangerous. That is really serious. It is if its a somewhat tragic given that they have in some ways a better physical design than apple does. They are not going to benefit from it because of this crisis and what is a tragedy. You ownhat do you do if one, how is samsung handling this recall . Is working internally to working through the carriers. Every carrier is handling this of it differently. Some are offering replacement phones up to the same value, offering perks. Your could you replace galaxy note with an iphone . Theoretically. Samsung is contacting people who have bought them whether or not they have one. That just to get the replacement model out. Line. Hurting the bottom we should emphasize there is no good way to look at this. It has not been a Consumer Tech product such as a smartphone in the middle of this key product cycle that is literally exploding, potentially hurting people and hurting lives. The fact that airlines and the faa are getting involved in telling people not to bring it on a plane like it is a weapon is absolutely unprecedented. Emily you have samsung and apple both ending the day low. Sort of about the same. We saw apple having a rough week as well. Why . Even though these explosions are happening and it is ridiculous to say it but it is happening. Platforma sense of stickiness. Both apple and samsung know very well how to lock people into the platform. Even though samsung is getting all this negative pr and attention because of this issue it is not going to destroy the company a couple years down the road. People are glued into their texting and contact and other content they have on their phones. People are not going to leave some sound and samsung and big bunches to apple. Emily youre not too impressed with it. Nothing looks that impressive in the phone business. These are the cutting edge devices of the industry. Was quite seven underwhelming in the opinion of many and from a design point of view basically nothing new. That has gotten a lot of flack from the tech press and ordinary users. There is no product that moreary users talk about than the newest iphone. Samsung has got people on their Android Version and they will stick with it for the most part. It could be that people start worrying about these smartphones. If all these explosions continue to happen. They have the basic battery sohnology and that is not good for apple. Not to say that there are any explosions happening on iphones at the moment that i know of. There have been occasional ones from time to time after all. My basic thing on the iphone and apples designs generally is that johnny ive his past is prime and not to go. Theres nothing on the latest announcements. There is the suggestion that the same Battery Technology is in all phones and coldly the iphone. Grexit me start with number two. Apple said it is not using the same battery components that have been found to explode. They could be doing double bit more to emphasize that we are not using the same battery tech. It is wellknown that apple and samsung have in partners on the component end of things. The comment, he had this rule change from the senior vp of design which is an executive Managerial Position to this chief design officer figurehead. You have to think about how long these products are in development. 7, this phone has been in Development Since before the first iphone 6 came out. These things have extra extraordinarily long lead times. There is no indication that his role has any connection to this design. Apple knows exactly that they were planning a big 10 Year Anniversary redesign. They knew for five years ago that it would look like this and that like this. If you look at the split phone elset in general, no one has anything else break through. The main competitor has a phone that is exploding and being banned from airplanes. There is no one who is eating apple to any remarkable technology. If we are having this if appleion next year, was not there then maybe it is time to talk about concerns for Apple Design Team but not today. Emily another big story developing in addition to unveiling the iphone seven, they are fighting the tax probe. A competition investigation was launched after the u. S. Senate to them off about apples practices. Take a listen. Soundbite bute the that is what she said that and david i would love you to respond to this. It was based on the u. S. Investigation into apples tax practice that sparked the eu investigation. What is your take . It was a Senate Hearing that drew her attention and the European Unions attention to the fact that apple was that had some unusual arrangement with ireland. That is probably true although in a way this whole dispute about apples taxes strikes me more as an intereuropean problem than the real problem with apples for apple. Apple has a big l to pay but the dispute is between ireland and the eu and whether the incentives are appropriate in the context of eu regulation, it sounds like a lot of money, 16 billion but this is a company that is the most profitable in the world. There will be paying a lot of taxes somewhere. Maybe the story is a little overhyped. Europeans are we ahead of the u. S. In general i looking at Large Tech Companies and asking the tough questions right now. Even though it was a u. S. Senate hearing that was talked about the tax policy. In terms of how are these companies behaving, europe and vestiger are pushing the envelope. Is a remarkable and fascinating piece of you news given the response to how the eu is dealing with the tax issue. We set and a lot of other figureheads can out and say this is not fair, this is going to stymie innovation. By to heard this is for by a Senate Hearing is interesting. Stock that didnt do well is nintendo announcing that they would be bringing mario to the iphone. Nintendo is a part owner. How long do you think nintendo can write on the success is a company that for so long just was not where the audience is . You want to and on a positive note. I am not sure i will give you one. It is still unclear what the financial implications of all these development really are. It is impressive they are getting modern. Pretty cool stuff happening. Does it go to the bottom line . I dont know. A littlebe has gotten ahead of the actual companies story. They my guest host for hour who covers apple for us, thank you for joining us. Coming up, elon musk appealed to twitter for health and cracking the mystery of the highprofile falcon 9 explosion. We will break at what we know. This is bloomberg. Amalie asset is so braiding the successful launch of a spacecraft that will run to view with a asteroid. It will touchdown in 2018. Once there, the osiris spacecraft will vacuum handfuls of gravel and deliver it back tears in 2023. After traveling more than 4 billion miles. Mosques spacex still reeling from the loss of its satellite bearing falcon nine rocket. X is leadingpace an investigation into what caused the fire accident but they are coming up empty. Musk took to twitter with the update saying still working on the alcan fireball investigation. Turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we have had in 14 years. He retweeted a message from the company asking users to send audio, photos, or video of the event to use in the investigation. For more on what we do and do not know we are joined by a and davidana hall kirkpatrick still with this. What gives this explosion an interesting twist is it was carrying a satellite that was supposed to deliver the internet for facebook around the world. What doing no about what caused this and what do we know . Dana what was unusual about this mishap is occurred on a launchpad when the rocket was nonoperational. When there are mishaps it happens after the rocket has launched area this is a routine static fire were they were testing the engines. There are internet conspiracy theories that it was hit by a drunk much investigation is preliminary. That is what you saw that if you and a line saying took videos send it to us. What is happening to the s . Ding contract whenever there is a mishap you do not fly. There is no indication that nasa who is their biggest partner or any of their satellite clients have failed. It is up in the air when they will fly again. To the teald speak group who did not think it would have a impact on spacexs reputation. Take a listen. In five short years this company has become the establishment player within the launch of the industry and to come so far in such a short amount of time and have had us you problems as they have had is amazing. What do you think about how this impacts the company but also elon musk who has a lot on his plate when he is trying to merge tesla and solar city, dealing with explosions, he has a lot going on. Grexit is unfortunate for him that this has happened around the same time that the self driving feature custom want to. Ie in a tesla car mostld agree with the recent expert you just quoted about longterm, at the moment people are still awed by this man. Spacex are lending their easter rockets on stabilized or just in the open ocean to reuse them. That is extremely. That bothsay Companies May be are so aggressive maybe possibly this shows that spacex might be pushing a little too hard to fast which is something a lot of evil have said about tesla. On balance, spacex is an externa continues tory and be. In terms of people pulling out, insurance is all over this business. People are not going to lose out too much, even facebook satellite will be reconstructed and paid for by the insurance companies, not face the gore spacex. I do not worry about spacex for the time being. Indication that investors are starting to have more concerned about elon musk in everything he is taking on . This has always been a concern you have the investors who are die hard for him and not theirs inc. He is crazy. Any change . Base ise investor different. Elon musk is the largest holder. Fidelity and google have a stake. His earlier investors tend to be his friends who believe in him. What is interesting is that last year, space had spacex had a mishap where one of their rockets blew up and six months later they landed a rocket back and then in april they landed on the drone ship so they have had mishaps followed up by extraordinary success. Having another mishap is unfortunate but i do not think is i do not think it is the death knell. Emily we will be right back. This is bloomberg. Emily snapchat has taken out a line of credit with Morgan Stanley to give them flex ability ahead of a public offering. The startup known for its disappearing messages and has not had yet serious talks with banks about an ipo. With a valuation of eating team that in dollars it is sure to have plenty of suitors. Still to come, ford scoops of the San Francisco started to tackle Traffic Congestion in the worlds biggest city. Ceo mark fields joins just to explain the deal next. If you like news check us out on the radio on the Bloomberg Radio at at and on sirius fm. This is bloomberg. Mark im mark crumpton, youre watching bloomberg west. Secretary of state john kerry says the United States and russia have a plan to ease suffering in syria following talks, secretary kerry told reporters in geneva that one of the key points is for syria to limit air attacks on opposition targets calling it beyond inhumane. They are calling for a ceasefire in syria beginning september 12. Donald trump says he is not picky when it comes to choosing alliances in the fight against islamic state. The republican president ial nominee spoke at the value voters summit in washington, one of the largest gatherings of conservative christians. Donald trump my administration on the other hand will work with any country that is willing to partner with us to defeat isis and halt radical islamic terrorism. And by the way, that includes russia if they want to join us on knocking out isis, that is just fine as far as im concerned. Mark democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton on friday met with a Bipartisan Group of Noble National security experts. Following the session, clinton told reporters that when it comes to americas security, politics should be set aside. Secretary clinton i hope and intend that our conversations will continue because as i said many times, i believe in a bipartisan foreign policy. We wont always see eye to eye, but when it comes to questions of war, peace, and the safety of our country, we cant let Party Affiliation stand between us. Mark unicef reports the food crisis unfolding in nigerias northeastern state, the center of the you are sur general si is likely the worst in the world. 4. 5 Million People are in need of Food Assistance of at which at least a million are in immediate danger of extremely malnutrition. The flooding that damaged 11,000 homes and 100,000 vehicles in louisiana caused 10 billion to 15 billion. At least 80 of the damaged homes lacked insurance coverage. Some of the nbas biggest stars become official bubble legends friday night. Shaquille oneal, allen iverson, and yao ming headline the class of 2016 which will be enshrined at the naismith memorial babble hall of fame in springfield, mast, also joining them, Michigan State coach tom izzo and wnba star sheryl swoopes. Global news 24 hours a day poured by over 2,400 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. Emily welcome back to bloomberg west. Im emily chang. Now to a story we are watching, ford is acquiring charityots, a commuter ride startup in San Francisco. Chariot is a Shuttle Bus Service that crowd sources all routes via its website. Its pushing to position itself as an automaker and mobility company. Our mark miller spoke about the acquisition today. Take a listen. Cities are looking for answers and solutions and so we want to be part of that solution and so our series of announcements today is really around how do we work with cities to provide them solutions to some of the mobility issues and offer us a Good Business opportunity. So were announcing the intent to machine chariot which is a crowd source Shuttle Service based here in San Francisco which will be the cornerstone of us scaling that globally. Were announcing a partnership with motivate which will put up to 7,000 ford go bikes or bikes on the streets here to encourage bike sharing and finally, were announcing the formation within our company, a group solely focused on working with cities, were calling it ity solutions to help them with their mobility issues to solve some of the issues. Matt chariot service is active it other cities as well. Are you going to buy the company outright and what does the deal look like as far as the price . Mark well, were not disclosing terms, but it primarily focuses here in San Francisco. Its going to be, were going acquire the entire Company Including the Management Team and were going to use that scale to a number of different cities. Were actually announcing that in addition to San Francisco, were going to be expanding to five more cities globally over the next 18 months. Matt so youre going to work, though, closely with these cities. I know ford has partnered with cities in the past for these Mobility Solutions experiments, i guess its getting to be more of an experiment now with San Francisco . Mark absolutely. As we said when we announced our experiments a year and a half ago, we were going to use the experiments to learn. We have learned a lot, matt. We have a number of experiments on dynamic shuttles and used that now to turn it into a business. Thats what led us to say this is a good area to serve an unmet need and a Good Businessen opportunity for the company and it turns it into a real business after experimentation. Matt so the chariots, i guess well see them going around San Francisco, i assume theyre going to be ford transit vehicles. Are they still going to have drivers . Mark yeah, theyre still going to have drivers. The current chariot business today, they have about, oh, about 100 transit advance and they run 28 routes throughout the city. Obviously were going to expand that and we think this is a perfect we have talked about how were thinking about our business of our core business of designing and developing great cars and trucks and advance and these emerging opportunities, particularly in mobility services. This is a great example of how were using both and bringing them together and its not about going from an old usiness to a new business, just a bigger business. So it really shows how were moving from an auto to an auto and mobility company. Matt the old just a bigger business already makes a lot of money, mark. I mean, you guys had record sales, record profits. And yet the stock price continues to weaken, at least this year. Is this an attempt to show investors that you deserve maybe a bigger multiple . Mark well, matt, as you know, we dont manage the business on daytoday stock changes. We are just staying absolutely focused on the four drivers that drive Value Creation in a company. Thats around growth. Thats around reducing risk. Thats around improving returns and about providing rewards for our shareholders. Those are the things that were focused on and things like what were doing with chariot help in that regard. We think as long as we stay focused on that and delivering results that the market will reward us. Thats what drives us every day. Matt so with more people getting their transportation via chariot or other Solutions Like lyft or uber or Public Transportation, this is the way the company is going, you think this is the future for mobility . Mark you know, were seeing, our view is the world is moving from just an ownership mindset about transportation to owning and sharing and so we want to be there for our customers. Thats why were going to stay focused on our core business for those folks that want to own a vehicle and were going to continue to give them great products but also at the same time for those who want to share, we think thats a big Business Opportunity for us. Its who we are as a company. We have always been around making peoples lives better by helping change the world moves. Its very consistent with what our brand is. Emily that was mark fields with bloombergs matt miller. Up next, how singapore is taking the concept of a smart city to a whole new level. Well speak to the Government Official in charge of the citys digital efforts. This is bloomberg. Emily if you ever traveled or lived in singapore, you might be familiar with a Digital Management system that allows i think porean to access 60 Government Services including registering a business or paying your taxes. Its part of the city state initiative. The man leading the charge is singapores chief Information Officer who joins me here in the studio, still with initiati. Us from new york is david kirkpatrick. Ill start are you, tell us more about what this Smart Nation Initiative is and how it is improving digital efforts . The Smart Nation Initiative is about people. How do we improve the life of people in singapore through technology. Its really not a Technology Driven answeringle the its how to use how do we improve the life of people in singapore through technology. Its really not a Technology Driven answeringle the its how to use Technology Effectively and really improving the lives of people and making it productive. Emily you had a major announcement a few weeks ago, there is a company that is debuting selfdriving cabs in singapore before any other country in the world. How do we improve the life of people how involved was government in this initiative and why . The big part of involvement is how you make a Framework Companies like this to work in singapore. We are very much in this environment and its very important for the first mile and the last mile of transportation in singapore. Transportation is all about in singapore. Transportation is all about in singapore. Emily the c. E. O. Told the wall street journal that singapore will be the first country in the world to offer a consumer offer a Consumer Service on a National Scale targeting 2018. Is that realistic . Yeah, right now within the limited area and thats going well. I think it will also prove itself in the next couple of years of if a National Rollout is possible. Singapore is an interesting country because its small. Its like a living lab. These solutions can be easily tested and deployed to larger areas. Emily have you ridden in one of these . Yes. Emily thats it like . There is a guy into there, too, its just like any other vehicle, yeah. Emily some smooth or its pretty smooth. I dont feel the difference between that and a car. Its pretty good, actually. Emily david, whats your take on this, singapore being the first in the world beating google, apple to the punch . Vonnie well, david kudos to singapore for having a chief Information Officer. There are extremely few countries that do, perhaps he knows how many there are. I bet you can count them on your hands at most. Singapore is one of the countries and its partly because its size has enabled it to be a little more organized that has put tremendous emphasis on technology for a long time and has seen the potential of section nothing as an economic driver. I have tremendous admiration for singapore. Its a major internet hub. There are all kind of Startup Energy in singapore. I think its something other countries and cities really should emulate more, many of them do watch singapore carefully. I hope that continues and accelerates. What is happening there is important and is the kind of thing that should be happening really everywhere. Emily are you hoping to partner with Silicon Valley mpanies, if so, what kind of companies . I think im here, this is my second trip in one year, actually. The reality is San Francisco and Silicon Valley is really a hot bed of innovation. We are actually linking up with companies and the new technologies in singapore. One thing is for sure, our view is that practicality is important, its not just been technology. Ts what makes sense to help us solve real problems on the ground. Emily talk about some of the other initiatives you have going on. You have other things in the Public Transportation realm, first responders. You know, one of the things hat we realize improving mobility within the country is not just about that vehicle. A big part is optimization. We have reached a point in life ty within the whereby you really cant build more roads so what do you do . One of the things that happens, we realize its getting more and more difficult for ambulances to get to cases quickly. To get an ambulance in 10 minutes is impossible in more cities. We have created an app to crowd source first aid and medical practitioners. This app has 10,000 volunteers all around singapore and when a case happens, anyone with 500yard radius will be paged on their phone for notification and you can just choose to respond. It saves numerous lives right now, we call it first responder. Emily its fascinating stuff. Well see if you can hit that 2018 goal that they have set for the country. The chief Information Officer from singapore, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks, emily. Emily in tuesday on singapore, dont miss the interview 8 00 a. M. Local time, right on bloomberg tv. Coming up, airbnb is out with an antidiscrimination report detailing racism. And were sitting down with the live gaming phenomenon on wednesday. This is bloomberg. Emily after complaints of racism and other kinds of discrimination. Airbnb has unveiled a series of steps. Bringing on a new head of diversity earlier this year, i spoke to the c. E. O. About the importance of it in april. Have to make people at airbnb successful. Emily i sat down with the have airbnb feel like theyre welcome and included. They cant all look and feel the same way. The diversity idea will make you more author of airbnbs new 32page report detailing the new rules to combat racism. Senior advisor and former head of the American Civil Liberties union joined me from washington, d. C. I asked her about the key findings in this report. Take a listen. Some of the findings included the fact there is a problem with discrimination on the platform. There was not an Adequate Customer Service support effort for victims of discrimination, people werent properly trained, the company itself wasnt as diverse as it should be. Emily being devils advocate here, hosts are not employees and they have a right to say who they want in their house or not if they want people to take off their shoes, for example, you know, how do you, how can you tell hosts what to do or what to think, you know, when theyre not employees of airbnb . They are not employees of airbnb, but they join a platform that is infused of values. One of the values, the primary value is belong anywhere. The company is asking people values. One of the values, the primary value is belong anywhere. The company is asking people to join airbnb with a commitment to treat people with respect and without values. One of the values, the bias. Emily why do you think that will make a difference . Laura well, i think there will in place where hosts are going to face sanctions if they only choose white customers over hispanic customers or black customers. They are going to have in place commit to an antidiscrimination policy as a condition of using the platform. They are going to get higher Search Rankings if they agree to take antibias training. So there are a lot of carrots to incentivize people to engage in less discrimination. Emily unconscious bias is unconscious and so many of these things are simply built into the very fabric of our culture. How much of an impact do you think these changes from airbnb will actually have in practice . Laura well, i think if you look at the lbgt movement 10 years ago, you couldnt talk about transgendered education , but with people now can say that and understand what youre talking about. The same is true with discrimination and bias. If people now can say that and people want to imp can improve. D if theyre given the tools to make themselves less biased, airbnb needs to do more. He apologized for how long it b airbnb will provide the tools to them. Emily you have worked with brian, he admits took them to make his changes. What was yours experience in working with brian and his level of commitment because at the same time it also affects his business . Laura i think he is very committed to addressing this issue. He came up with some ideas that are totally his that are reflected in the report. For example, he has committed to anybody who feels they cant get a room because they have been discriminated against that airbnb will help them find a the at the same cost, if only room they can find is more expensive, airbnb will make up the difference. Emily airbnb will limit the use of photos. Why not limit the use of photos entirely . Laura youre going to see a person eventually. Its just a matter of when you get an image of that person. Theyve appointed at least a dozen people, engineers, data scientists, researchers, designers to work fulltime on eliminating bias and building inclusion. So youre going to have a team of technologieses there who are going to experiment with bringing photos up later in the oking process or not letting the photos take up the entire screen when you first are introduced to a potential guest. There are a lot of things that can be done with photos. But i think when you have a platform that is like a mixture of hotels. Com and match. Com that is very social in nature, that is about bringing people together, people shouldnt have to hide who they are as a condition of getting a room. Emily that was airbnb Senior Advisor laura murphy. Still with me, my guest host, david kirkpatrick. David, obviously the sharing economy has opened up new issues around discrimination Companies Like airbnb and uber. These are issues like facebook and twitter have been fighting for a long time. What do you make of these efforts that airbnb has taken . Do you think they are Strong Enough and do you applaud them for making these moves even though it could impact their business . Donny well, david well, absolutely a applaud there. There is some discussion around today whether they have gone far enough. They have gone farther than any company i can think of in any industry now that theyre basically going to require any use e, whr theyre a host or a guest to sign a document basically saying that they pledge not to treat people with disrespect. Its really extraordinary that a company should ask its customers to do that. I think its wonderful. I mean, its one of these amazing developments that underscores what a weird time were living in, that the platforms are so gigantic, they are becoming social norm setters. Theyre global. This is a Global Platform as are some of the other ones that you mentioned. I wonder whether it might have some really wonderful social ramifications beyond what it does for their business over the long term. Im sure there are people who dont want to sign that document. Thats exactly why they need to make them do so or say go take your business somewhere else. A applaud it. Emily david kirkpatrick, always great to have you with hour. Guest host for the it is time now for this day in tech history. This is a good one. On september 9, 1947, engineers it is time at harvard working on Early Computers found the firstever computer bug literally. The operators traced errors in the machine to a moth that was trapped in a relay. The computer was debugged and computer pioneer grace hopper taped him to a notebook with a quote. First case of a bug being found. They reside in the museum of American History and we continue to call computer glitches bugs. If you missed any of our interviews, dont miss the best of bloomberg west on saturday. You can catch our allstar panel. That is all today from San Francisco, have a wonderful week. i ¿ from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Charlie we begin tonight with politics. A new president will be elected two months today. Polls showing donald trump making up ground on Hillary Clinton. The candidates squared off last night in a commander in chief forum about national security. Clinton vowed not to send troops into iraq ever again, while trump said he would have a plan to eliminate isis in the first 30 days of his administration. The event was viewed as a preview of some kind of their highly