In chief. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thank you very much for sharing your sunday morning. Well have an abbreviated program, just 30 minutes, so we can bring you some of the 9 11 events this morning. Hillary clinton and donald trump plan separate visits to ground zero this year. The 15th Anniversary falls 58 days before election day 2016. Clinton and trump both pulling tv ads for the day and promising no political attacks. The tough and controversial tone of the rhetoric this weekend suggests the respite will be brief. Here is trump in pensacola, florida, taking a detour from his Scripted Teleprompter remarks. Because she is being so protected, she could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart, and she wouldnt be prosecuted. Okay . Thats whats happened. That is whats happened to our country. I never thought i would see the day when this is happening to our country. That would likely be driving the political conversation this weekend, except for this. Listen here as clinton at a highdollar New York City fundraiser attacks not only trump but his supporters. Grossly generalistic, you could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. [ laughter ] right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic. You name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. A lot to talk about. With us. Niamalika henderson. Sara murray, jonathan martin. The context of this, the context is we are 58 days away. New polling. A National Poll from abc and the Washington Post showing a 5point clinton lead. A very competitive election nationally. Nbc Wall Street Journal marist released new Polling Showing in the fourway race donald trump up two in arizona. Dead heat. Donald trump up two in georgia. Dead heat. Up one in nevada. Dead heat. Hillary clinton up two in new hampshire. A dead heat. This on the heels of Quinnipiac Polling in florida, ohio, North Carolina and pennsylvania showing very close races, clinton up five in pennsylvania. The others dlocloser than that. 58 days out. Its a tossup. It is a tossup. You can see the pressure, i think, on the different candidates with Hillary Clinton making the statement at that fundraiser. It was not an instance where we saw before with the 47 remark or clinging to guns and faith from obama. She was very openly doing that. I think she knows that there isnt a lot of enthusiasm for her candidacy and there is also the thought among a lot of democrats and voters generally that shell win. So they very much need to jin up the supporters. Trump needs to do the same thing. The chip of complacency has fallen off the shoulders of a lot of democrats in the last week or two as the polls have tightened. To this point, youre right. Mitt romney should have known but it was a closed event. Somebody popped up and recorded him on cellphone. She knew she was on camera, but shouldnt she know better . If you want to say some of trumps supporters or trump has behind him or trump panders to these people, thats one thing. But you are insulting voters there. She, in a statement saturday said last night i was grossly generalistic and thats never a good idea. I regret saying half. That was wrong. She didnt say sorry. She said she got the math wrong. She Still Believes that some of trumps voters have those views. I think the clinton folks deeply regret saying half, because that makes the story much worse for them. I think theyre actually okay having a larger conversation about race and donald trump in part because of what you mentioned. Its a motivational tool for their voters. The biggest challenge she has now is not donald trump. This race, to me, is not a tossup. She still has an advantage. The challenge she has is motivating skeptical voters who hate donald trump but are not that into her. Theyre sitting on gary johnson or jill stein. Its getting them to the polls. This issue, litigating this question is the kind of material that can get clinton skeptics out to stop trump. We saw her act faster on this than weve seen her express regret before. She has dug her heels in. It was clear she had to Say Something yesterday. But they do want to have a broader conversation on race. Thats the issue here. There is a way to do that without insulting voters. And doing it at a fundraiser with Barbra Streisand. They asked all their surrogates today to refrain from doing any television or radio interviews out of respect for september 11day. And they said, if you go on social media only tweet about the men and women in the military. She had to do a bit of a ceasefire but they said this is not going away. Before the ceasefire went into effect, mike pence was here in washington yesterday. Listen to how he says where the Trump Campaign is going. The men and women who support Donald Trumps campaign are hardworking americans. Farmers, coal miners, teachers, veterans, members of our Law Enforcement community. So let me just say from the bottom of my heart, hillary, they are not a basket of anything. They are americans and they deserve your respect. Its very similar to what the Obama Campaign did with the 47 . Essentially saying you are insulting, mocking, showing your elitist disrespect for hardworking americans. It shows, again, how i think a lot of democrats and a lot of them on the Clinton Campaign do not understand what is driving the Trump Campaign. They, i dont think, have this whole time, and they dont understand, you know, some of his supporters and the frustration out there in the country. Granted, most of those people are not voting for her anyway. But that doesnt matter necessarily. There are going to be people in middle america, some of the swing states, who will be offended by this remark. So i think shell have to address this directly this week as she is campaigning. It is a fundamental misunderstanding of what is driving donald trump supporters. They think they do understand, at least partly, what is driving these voters. She had that altright speech. If she is listening to any of the women i am listening to in the focus groups. These are women who would say donald trump is a racist. 30 of the republicans feel like some of the things trump says appeal to bigotry. 75 if you look at nonwhite. They want to keep driving the message with this sort of sorrynot sorry allows them to make that communication that binds the Clinton Campaign together. Its hard to imagine bill clinton, george w. Bush, barack obama saying Something Like that as jeff pointed out in front of Barbra Streisand at a new york fundraiser. 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Ive already said he really is very much of a leader. You can say isnt that a terrible thing. The man has strong control over a country. Its a very different system and i dont lp happen to like the system. But hes been a leader far more than our president has been a leader. Thats at the nbc Commander In Chief forum. He called into larry kings show on that which is on russian television. He does a show licensed by russian television. Donald trump is talking to larry king, its a Kremlin Funded Network where he bashes the u. S. Media, criticizes obama and clinton. A lot of republicans, forget the democrats. A lot of republicans are thinking, yikes. Which is the point Hillary Clinton seized on. She said what would Ronald Reagan say about a republican president ial nominee talking like this to a russia. The Clinton Campaign believes this is a gift. It would have been had she not made her misstatement on friday. This goes to the Judgment Question that theyre trying to keep fresh in the minds of people. I hate to jump in. Lets take the pictures right now. Donald trump is at the 9 11 memorial. You see new jersey governor chris christie. And donald trump is just out of the screen for some of you rudy giuliani, who was the mayor of New York City on that day. This is awkward for us to a degree discussing politics on this day 15 years later. But donald trump making his stop at ground zero. Were also told hell go to a fire station nearby. One of the iconic fire station where so many lives were lost. You see trumps security detail. Not a day for politics. A shame, i was saying the other day in a meeting that Hillary Clinton and donald trump could not do this together. It would be good for the country. Were not in a state of this president ial campaign where we could see this. As we watch these pictures, Commander In Chief was a big test. We talked less about al qaeda. Hillary clinton saying she would not send large contingents of Ground Troops into syria or iraq. Donald trump saying maybe we need new generals to deal with this because he thinks President Obama has disrespected the generals. Think about this. You have the republican nominee for president who is running on a platform of being to the left of Hillary Clinton and george w. Bush effectively on the iraq war. It just really captures how much has happened since 9 11 and how different our politics are now compared to what was a much more conventional, you know, hawkish, conservative, dovish, liberal paradigm in the months and years after 9 11. And its been really sort of turned on its head now. You have the republican nominee saying the democrat is the hawk. She is socalled triggerhappy he says. Its a fascinating term. Do you guys agree that the National Security establishment would prefer Hillary Clinton at this point absolutely. Yes. The word establishment is critical. One of trumps strengths, as he says, these are the people who have gotten things wrong. The same people whether it was the george w. Bush administration or bill clinton administration, they have been getting it wrong for 20 years. But without a doubt the National Security establishment, Hillary Clinton had the meeting in new york the other day. A former federal judge and bushs Homeland Security director in the room with Hillary Clinton. You saw him try to reach out to the republican establishment when he talked about boosting the military, adding more troops to the ranks, adding to the naval fleet. That was a page really out of mitt romney in 2012. But very different from the standard issue Republican Party platform when he talks about putin, for instance. Reaching out to republicans about that. They cant figure out the putin fascination for trump. That is donald trump, the republican nominee for president. This is a day to keep our voices down, but he essentially beat 16 other candidates, most of them senior veteran party leaders, who had won elective office. He had never run for office. Among them governor christie. A more mainstream establishment candidate. The pictures there. This is a tribute at a Memorial Service but a stunning reminder of the change this wont end with trump, win or lose, of the turmoil and civil strife in the Republican Party and the Conservative Movement which are not always the same thing. Its remarkable. And 15 years later so many people from the era. Bernie kerric. Story to interrupt. So worried about donald trump and the National Security sphere. The Commander In Chief audition that played out this week we really dont always know what elections will be about. This one is ending at least right now on questions of National Security and how donald trump conducts himself and can he make himself more acceptable to some of the suburban voters and others who are not quite comfortable with him sort of controlling the nuclear codes. Thats his biggest challenge here. The Clinton Campaign trying to make the point he is not acceptable for that. Here you see this is a remarkable moment. Donald trump is there. Hillary clinton is arriving now. Donald trump is at the center of the Memorial Site with may giuliani and governor christie. I was at the white house on that day. It was a remarkable bipartisan moment that the country had. It lasted for some time. And moment of unity to rebuild the spirit of the United States of america. Which then slowly and then not so slowly started to fray with conversations, Hillary Clinton was part of the debate about was the bush administration, was the city of new york underestimating the environmental damage there, were they sending people back to work too soon. She was part of that and then of course the iraq debate which sprinta splintered everything. What you said about them not there together. This is striking. Its different than anything weve seen in a president ial campaign. You see the nominees on each side of the screen. Theyre within shouting distance of one another or within a short walk of each other. The state of our politics, not just this campaign. It has gotten worse in this campaign. There is a big divide between these two. The rhetoric until yesterday afternoon was very tough between these two. They are both promising a timeout today. Well see later today as part of the nfl football ceremonies. President obama and president bush both prepared videos on 9 11. I guess im being nostalgic to think it would be nice for the country to do this. A fitting tribute as we watch the moving about. Mr. Trump is signalling to people, i think somewhere he has to go. At 8 46 well have the first Moment Of Silence when the first plane hit the first tower. The president will lead a Moment Of Silence at the white house. There will be more of the reading of the names in new york and a ceremony at the pentagon, shanksville, pennsylvania, which should never be forgotten in this conversation. It is a reminder of what a day it was. In the first president ial election after 9 11, george w. Bush won a very narrow reelection. People forget how tight the race was over john kerry. There is a bin laden tape in the campaign that most people think was a big role. Dont change the horse. Dont change your Commander In Chief in the middle of this moment. That faded as we got into the iraq war, the toxic political environment of the iraq war was the driving issue in 2008. The economy in 2012. I think you raise a great question. Where will we be when we get to october of this year. Late october of this year when voters are framing. Ask the voters today. Most democratic voters say the economy is number one. Republican voters are more inclined to say terrorism is the top issue. Yeah. Who knows what will happen between now and then. I mean, there are all sorts of unknowns in terms of what happens with National Security. God forbid Something Else happened. But those are the sorts of things that can frame campaigns immediately in the minds of voters. But i think these polls, again, they show the Deep Division in this country. And the real i think whats sad is the deep distrust among Republican Voters of democratic voters and democratic leaders. You wonder, Hillary Clinton is out there saying she is a bipartisan figure, but certainly the polls dont reflect that. I think you can see the influence of 9 11 in this election, john. To me this election is not about the economy or National Security. I think its much more fundamental. Its about american identity. I think part of that includes a sort of question of what kind of country are we going to be. What are we going to look like. What are we going to stand for. This is bedrock stuff here. A lot of it is driven by the threat of islamic terrorism and the threat of insecurity generally that you can trace back to 9 11. There was the saying that we had a holiday from history before 9 11. I think, ever since then, including up to this day, this question of who are we going to be, how do we reconcile freedom and also at the same time safety and security. Thats always been the challenge in this country. But its its so palpable now. You have the demographic part of whats our identity that changes in the country. But you do have a stylistic part of that question where his in the republican primaries he was tough and strength. He was out of the box on the social issues. He was out of the box. He had been a democrat and independent. It didnt matter because he was tough and strength. She wants to make the case experienced and calm. Talking about 9 11 has changed everything, of course. But as i remember being here in washington on that day as well, the unity on that day, its almost hard to imagine at this point. Donald trump has made himself the nominee by saying he was against the iraq war. Hillary clinton, of course, voted for the iraq war. The politics are upsidedown in this case. But barack obama would never have been the nominee if he hadnt opposed the war. So that still shapes everything we do here. I do think the election is still about National Security and now people feel comfortable and strong and whatnot. I think thats a big advantage for him. The Trump Campaign wanted the overarching theme for this week to be National Security. We all wondered if he could stick to it. He really did until he got to the pensacola rally and went off script with a couple things when he said im going to be the best jobs president that god ever created. He went off script with that hillary could murder someone and get away with it, the shooting of iranian sailors if they give inappropriate gestures. He stayed on script for almost a month now. The problem is the matt lauer thing. There was no script, and he made seven mistakes that could haunt him. That is overshadowed now because of hillarys challenges but thats his challenge. He has three debates coming up where there is no teleprompter. Is he ready. Thats the question. Can he do it. Is he ready. Is he prepared. First debate two weeks from tomorrow. Thats it for inside politics. Thanks for sharing your sunday morning. The special coverage is ahead right now as part of State Of The Union with jake tapper. \s gordon m. Aamoth jr. Ed. So many things can go wrong. Its my worst nightmare. 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Most people using stelara® saw 75 clearer skin and the majority were rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. Be the you who talks to your dermatologist about stelara®. Good morning and welcome to a Special Edition of cnns State Of The Union as we reflect and remember on the 15th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Memorials are about to get under way. In new york where over 3,000 people were slaughtered as the planes crashed into the twin towers. Just outside washington at the pentagon for 184 people were killed when another plane hit that location. And then in shanksville, pennsylvania, for the 40 passengers and crew of flight 93 lost their lives