Its very last minute. It appears to be them jumping back in in a very big way. Its interesting, weve got details on that ahead. Weve also got tremendously good names tonight concerning the obama family. Its news that is slightly more personal than it is political, but thats ahead tonight as well. So theres lots lots coming up, including for once some news that is more good than bad, which is always nice. But were going to start tonight with some new tape that has never been heard publicly before. Its never been broadcast before. Were going to break this here live tonight with you. And i have to tell you, youll be surprised to hear this, but this new tape that has never been broadcast before, it is tape from the greatest Baseball Player in new york. I was the best Baseball Player in new york when i was young. Do you recognize that voice . Thats a remarkable thing to have learned today from this brand new tape thats never been broadcast before. Its donald trump speaking. He says when i was young, so
were thinking were talking about maybe he was 17 or 16 years old, when he was 16 years old, that was 1962. Thats when the yankees went to the world series, they won the world series. It was like mickey mantle, roger maris. Even if you dont know anything about baseball, you know mickey mantle. But it turns out none of them were the best Baseball Player in new york that year. No, it was this other guy. I was the best Baseball Player in new york when i was young. This is the best tape weve gotten our hands on in a very long time. This is incredible. All right. This is from 2014. There is a pulitzer prizewinning reporter named michael dantonio. In preparing the book he did hours and hours of interviews with donald trump, just raw footage of them talking. Some of those tapes have been obtained by the New York Times. The the New York Times has
been doing a little bit of reporting on them recently but they have not published this audio we are about to play. I dont totally want to spoil it here, but arm chair psychologists, start your engines. This is incredible. I went to military academy, New York Military Academy for five years, from the year before freshman. So eighth grade on . Yes. Whose idea was this . Well, i was very rebellious and my parents thought it would be a good idea. I was very rebellious. I loved to fight. I always love to fight. Physical fights. All kinds of fights. Physical. Arguments . All types of fights. Any kind of fight i loved it, including physical. And i was always the best athlete, something that nobody knew about me. But one guy you should speak to before its too late, because hes a pretty old guy now, is major dobias. So when dobias was a Drill Sergeant in the army, and these guys were rough. This guy was so rough. In those days, theyd smack the hell out of you. Its not like today where you smack somebody and you end up going to jail for the rest of your life. So i went up there, ill never forget. Eighth grade . And im standing there at military academy. This guy comes up and hes like a bulldog too, rough guy. He was a Drill Sergeant. Now they call him major dobias. But when i first knew him he was sergeant dobisa right right army. He was physically rough and mentally rough. He was also my baseball coach. And he said things like stand up, and i went give me a [ bleep ] break. And this guy came at me. You would never believe it. It was really fantastic. Did he rough you up . Oh, yeah, absolutely. Grabbed you by the shirt . Well, it doesnt matter, but it was not like what happens today. And you had to learn to survive. It was tough. It wasnt today. Those were rougher times. That was before vietnam and these were guys that didnt take [ bleep ]. You must call him, before its too late. Ask him about how was trump as an athlete . Because he said he coached for many, many it was like 35 years. He said donald trump was the best athlete ive ever coached. Donald trump was the best Baseball Player ive ever coached. You know, just something to when did you know that you were good . I always knew i was good. I was always a good athlete. I was always the best athlete. Like in first grade if the kids the a game from before the first grade. I was the best Baseball Player in new york when i was young. Now, in those days, you know, You Couldnt Play Baseball because there was no real you know, it wasnt a thing. Plus my father was in the real estate business, which i didnt want to go into. I wanted to go into theater. I wanted to go into sports. But i also know that was very limited because in those days you couldnt even make any money being a great Baseball Player. Didnt the dodgers train at west point a couple times, in the spring . Everybody wanted me to be a Baseball Player. Right. But i was a good at other things too. I was good at wrestling. I was really good at football. I was a good i was always good at sports. I was always like the best at sports. Always the best. At all sports. My favorite part of that, i love the explanation for why, you know, nobody knows even now that he was the greatest Baseball Player in new york. He says when i was young, i was the best Baseball Player in new york when i was young. Now he says but, you know, in those days, baseball wasnt really a thing. I was the best Baseball Player in new york when i was young. Now in those days You Couldnt Play Baseball because there was no real, you know, it wasnt a thing. He says in those days you couldnt even make any money being a Baseball Player. Again, the time hes talking about here is when he was in high school, like 1962, 1963. Yankees going to the world series. Some of the best remembered games of all time. Baseball, unequivocally the national pastime. Mickey mantle a national hero. But donald trump didnt want to bother showing up all of those lesser Baseball Players because baseball wasnt really a thing then. We didnt really have leather covered balls, we just had rocks that we hid into the cave art. Baseball wasnt a thing then . Thats why you werent . Everybody wanted him to play but there wasnt really a baseball organization. Donald trump believes, not hyperbolically, not jokingly, but apparently in all seriousness that he was the greatest Baseball Player in new york when he was a young man. He was the best at that. He was the best at all of sports. And why, mr. Trump, were you the best . I think you have a natural ability at things. Im a Big Believer In nature. No, not nature. Im a Big Believer In natural ability. I believe in being prepared and all that stuff. But in many respects, the most important thing is an innate ability. And you knew this as a kid . No, i never thought of it as a kid. Do you think you had it even then . Always. When you look back at yourself i had it. I always had it. I always had it. I never had to work. Other people have to prepare and do stuff, but i just came down from heaven, for example, as the greatest Baseball Player in new york. Were you a good hitter . The best. I was the best hitter. It gives you some insight, right . I mean if that is how this president ial candidate thinks of himself and has always thought of himself going back to first grade no, no, no, before first grade, i mean if you
understand that that is how he thinks of himself, then it is not a surprise when he, like, for example, today on The Campaign Trail tells a crowd of supporters in ohio that basically he is sick of this election. He is sick of all this working to earn this presidency thing. Hes sick of it. Just give it to me already. What a difference. You know, what a difference this is. And just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to trump, right . Why are we having it for . Just give it to trump. What are we having it for . What are you having this election for . I know. If you think of yourself as a person who has never actually had to work for anything because you were born innately great, you were bornin ately as the great is athlete, if you were excellent at everything you ever tried because you were born basically perfect, then why should you have to compete for something. I deserve it by virtue of me being me. So it offers an insight. This tape from the trump biographer which provided it to the New York Times, i think this is newsworthy tape, and i think it is helpful to understanding how donald trump is running for president now, because he on tape here talks in this very unguarded way about how he sees himself and that is a rare thing we dont ever get from any candidate, let alone from him. But there is another piece of this tape that has never been heard publicly before, which we have got for you in just a second. And this other piece of tape, i think this is just like a dart into the heart of todays news. And its on a subject that has only come up a little bit in the campaign so far. It came up for an instant earlier in this campaign when donald trump named mike pence to be his running mate. One of the controversial things in mike pences record is that he is on record being against Women In The Military. From the very beginning of him running for congress, mike pence was against not just women in combat, but even women being in combat support units. He was even against women being allowed to do basic training for the military. Mike pence wrote this creepy column in 1999 about young nubile 18yearold women in basic training. The column ends with this line, i kid you not. Women in the military, bad idea. Thats the bottom line of his column on Women In The Military. So thats on record already from mike pence, Donald Trumps running mate, when pence was a talk radio host. That was the time he lost running for congress. That run most remembered for mike pence using Campaign Contributions to pay for his mortgage, his grocery bills, his car payment and his golfing fees. He let his donors pay for all that stuff. If mike pence were running in any normal republican, i think he would have been a scandal as a running mate. Things in his record would have been a scandal and a problem to his running mate. It is testament to donald trump that he is so controversial that picking mike pence with mike pences record, It Hasnt Given Donald Trump a single day of heartburn in the entire campaign. I mean if in this campaign anybody could Pay Attention to mike pence for more than ten seconds without passing out for lack of oxygen, this thing from him about Women In The Military, bad idea, that would be a scandal, right . That would be a problem for a campaign. Maybe it will be still some day. For a long time i felt like this issue has been a Lurking Liability for trump and pence, just sort of waiting at some point to cause them trouble. Well, now that trouble may finally be coming to pass, because now with this new tape that we are about to broadcast for the first time ever, this has never been heard publicly any time before, this is the first time anywhere, here is donald trump not 16 years ago or 18 years ago when mike pence was talking about this stuff, heres
donald trump two years ago in 2014, unprompted, answering a totally unrelated question. Just deciding to bring up voluntarily his donald trump opinion on Women In The Military. When you were young, what did you think of the 60s counterculture, the hippies, the music . You didnt do any of that stuff. No, i wasnt into it. It wasnt that i wasnt into it. What did you think . Well, i went i went to a military academy, which was from a different planet. We didnt have that. And we didnt have women in the academy at that time. Today you have women, which is a whole other story, you know, women in the army, and you see Whats Going On. Its like bedlam. It is bedlam. Its something that people arent talking about, but Whats Going On is bedlam, bringing women in the army. Bringing women in the army, Women In The Military, its bedlam. And his running mate says Women In The Military, bad idea. Ask military families how they feel about that in a potential commander in chief. Ask Women In The Military how they feel about that in a potential commander in chief. Ask women in general how they feel about that. Bringing women into the army, bedlam. Its something people arent talking about, but Whats Going On is bedlam. Bringing women in the army, its bedlam. Women in the military, bad idea. The two of them are in line on that question. It is, therefore, a reasonable question to ask if trump and pence do get elected, will they kick all women out of the military . Theyre both on record saying it is a terrible thing that women are in the military. Its a terrible thing, its even a disgusting thing. We ought to go back to only men serving in the military. Is that what we should do . This one has been lurking just under the surface for them for quite a while, but now weve got it on tape. I would love to hear an answer for this. Okay. Live here next well have the latest on what just happened at new Yorks Laguardia airport where indiana governor mike pences plane has skidded off the runway and the airport has been shut down. Thankfully nobody was hurt in this incident, but we are getting in some crazy images of the actual runway. Can you guys see those images there . Look at the tarmac. This is what this hard landing, this skidding off the runway, look what it did to the actual tarmac, to the actual concrete. Again, this was a hard landing tonight, last hour involving the republican nominee for Vice President and his campaign jet. Well talk with someone who was on that flight when it went off the runway. Somebody who says interestingly this is not the first time mike pences plane has had a really bad landing, which is an interesting thing. Whys that . Thats next. Members of the press were on that plane. We also think we saw a congressman from texas. We heard that a 737 usually comes in for a landing at 155 miles an hour and when its a wet, slick night like tonight, this kind of thing can happen. But the faa and maybe the ntsb will be looking into this incident to determine exactly what caused it here. Ill show you again, this is what the plane did to the tarmac at laguardia as it slid off the runway. I didnt know that that happened when you slid off a runway. All the air traffic at laguardia was suspended for over an hour in the wake of this incident. We are told as soon as the plane came to a rest following its rough landing and its slide into the grass with mud flying up and hitting the windows, governor pence immediately came to the back of the plane to check that everybody was okay. God bless him, thats the right thing to do. As you can see hes fine. He also stopped with photos with
First Responders in the rain. He had been scheduled to attend a fundraiser in new york city tonight but his spokesman said instead he is headed to his hotel for the night, absolutely totally understandable. About an hour after the incident the governor tweeted so thankful everyone on our plane is safe. Grateful for our First Responders and the concern and prayers of so many. Back on the trail tomorrow. Again, the most important thing here is no injuries as far as we know. But certainly some jangled nerves and some rushes of adrenaline and none of us need any of that at this time. Joining us now is a man onboard that plane, vaughn hillyard. He was on the plane when it slid off the runway. Vaughn, let me shake your hand. Im glad youre okay. Were you scared . No. The crazy part is this Wasnt The First Time first time weve gone off the runway, but weve had a lot of shaky incidents in the past. Hard impact, tough landings. We actually pulled out the phone this time and i snapped originally about ten seconds of
video, which im trying to get into the system here eventually for everybody, but the crazy part was originally we had the hard impact and then we went two or three seconds and thats with we started to swerve off to the right. And then all of a sudden we come to just a hard crashing stop. And thats when you looked out the window and you can see that the road was oddly close to where the plane was at. The road with cars on it. The road with cars. The circle k across the street. Thats when it became real. So when you say you were trying to get tape, you were filming as you were landing. Is that because you were expecting a hard landing because youve had so many . Its a joke. Its a joke how long are we going to last. Thats the part the fact that im on with you tonight is sort of the interesting end of this. This camera, weve captured a lot of crazy things in this campaign, but to get to the point where this is the news of the night was wait a second. Youre saying its become a joke how long are we going to last. Youre saying that the hard landings on the Pence Campaign plane specifically are so frequent and so notable that its a point of discussion among the press corps . Yes. And ill be honest that ive never pursued that. We havent pursued asking questions further about that because usually we dont fly on private, i guess, charter flights on campaign. This is my First Campaign covering so we just took it for granted. Have you only had bad landings in heavy weather . No. We landed in ft. Dodge, iowa, earlier and we had another rough landing where we hit. It felt like we went back into the air. You could see the blue sky again. Of course we didnt go off the runway at that point. Im just going to put this to you. Ive got a i went back and looked at my earlier coverage about something involving the mike Pence Campaign. I am sure this is just coincidental, but this is not the first time that we on this show have talked about issues involving mike pences Campaign Plane. And ive never been on that Campaign Plane so its not like i was reporting a personal experience. It was late last month we learned that the pilot, who is
entrusted with the Trump Campaign with flying the Pence Campaign and his press corps and his family around the country, he made news because he was fired for an unusual reason. The guardian was first to report that the pilot for the pence plane until one month ago was a retired Police Officer in addition to being pences pilot. He was the chairman of Donald Trumps florida Law Enforcement coalition. And the guardian reported that he was actively facing criminal charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. In 2015 he had allegedly driven over a coworker with his car three times on purpose, causing the coworker severe physical injuries. His name is vincent caldera. He pled not guilty to those charges but it turned out those werent the only charges against him. He was accused of a similar incident in 2014. In that case he was accused of driving into a woman with his motorcycle on purpose and seriously injuring her. The guardian reported last
month he hadnt actually been formally charged in relation to that episode because they hadnt been able to locate him to serve him with legal papers. Meanwhile hes flying the Vice President ial candidate around the country. So thats the pilot who got fired from the Pence Campaign plane last month. Do you know who they replaced him with . I do not know who the gentleman is. They switch people out. So its rotating . So its a rotating basis, yeah. How old are you . 25. Have you done a lot of flying in your reporting job and in your personal life . Yes. Is the Pence Campaign plane the only Campaign Plane on which you have had hard landings like this . Thats accurate. Thats really weird. John hillyard. I dont know what the relationship is between these two halves of this story, but knowing that this runway thing happened tonight after a series of hard landings that was a topic of discussion by you guys, it weirds me out and we will try to get to the bottom of it. And im glad that youre okay. Thanks. Appreciate it. Nbc news embed vaughn hillyard. Hes great. Important step forward. The time is long overdue. Pharmaceutical industry. Passes the ballot. His democratic opponent, congressman Patrick Murphy, is somewhere between two points down and tied with rubio in recent polls. Murphy, the democrat, has the endorsement of all four of floridas largest newspapers, including the big ones that endorsed marco rubio before this election. And perhaps most importantly, Hillary Clinton is doing great in florida. And the democrats have a huge Ground Operation in florida. This is a senate race that the democrats could win. Why are they pulling out . On mondays show, i put this mystery to steve shale, a veteran democratic operative in florida. And he couldnt explain it either. He told us here, quote, i think the momentum has definitely headed murphys way and i dont understand the democrats decision. Well, tonight the Democratic Party has apparently decided that they also do not understand their decision. At least some democrats have decided that. A spokesman for the biggest super pac supporting senate
democrats this year, one of the super pacs that previously pulled millions of dollars in florida ad buys earlier this month, that super pac says tonight that they have changed their minds about marco rubio versus Patrick Murphy. They have changed their minds about pulling out. They have now decided that theyre going to make a, quote, sevenfigure transfer into that Florida Senate race to try to help out Patrick Murphy in his effort to oust marco rubio from his senate seat. Of course its very late, right . A lot of people in florida have already voted. More than two Million People have already voted in florida. But if i were Patrick Murphys Campaign Manager and i had a choice between getting outside help late or getting outside help never, id pick late. Id pick late. Seriously, is there anyone more inspiring than Michelle Obama . And maybe, maybe its especially meaningful to me because i do know something about first lady of the united states. Today first lady Hillary Clinton former first lady Hillary Clinton and current first lady Michelle Obama shared the stage at a Campaign Event in North Carolina. This was their first appearance together. An important one for Hillary Clinton because North Carolinas really, really important this year. And Michelle Obama is one of the most beloved figures in all of american politics. But there was one piece of business basically that transacted between Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama today at this event. I think it got largely overlooked among all the badly needed good vibes at this event. But what happened between them
today, an announcement made by them today that was a Surprise Announcement is something that i think is important and fascinating and weve got it coming up straight ahead right at the end of the show tonight. Its good news and weve pegged it right at the end of the show. Stay tuned for that. Coordination and the extent of that coordination is something that is now materially important to the breaking news that we reported here last night after the Democratic Party last night filed papers in Federal Court in new jersey asking that court to hold the Republican Party in violation of an ancient Consent Decree that dates back to the 1980s. It dates back to an election in which the national Republican Party sent basically vigilante Poll Watchers into Minority Precincts in 1981. Many of them wore guns, they wore these Ballot Security Task force arm bands and they patrolled voting sites in dozens of precincts that had mostly minority voters. And the republicans did very, very, very narrowly win that governors race in new jersey that year. But the Democratic Party sued over this Ballot Security Task force thing. And the democrats won that case. And the republicans signed on to a Consent Decree because of it. And now, 35 years later, the Republican Party is still trying to get out from under the legal restrictions that were put on them because of that case. And in the midst of that, heres what donald trump has been saying out on The Campaign Trail. We have a lot of Law Enforcement people working that day. Were hiring a lot of people. Were putting a lot of Law Enforcement. We have some great people here, some great leaders here of the Republican Party, and theyre very concerned about that. And thats the way we could lose the state. So important that you watch other communities, because we dont want this election stolen from us. When i say watch, you know what im talking about, right . You know what im talking about. You know what im talking about. Were going to have Law Enforcement doing this. We dont want this election stolen from us. We have some great leaders of the Republican Party. Donald trump is not under a
Consent Decree that dates back to the 1980s on this subject. The rnc is under a Consent Decree that dates back to the 1980s on this subject. I mean technically donald trump himself can go out and talk about all of this stuff, but the rnc under this Consent Decree, they cant take part in any of it. It has to be Crystal Clear that theres no working together here between the Trump Campaign and the rnc on issues of Ballot Integrity and poll watching on election day, particularly when those efforts target minority districts. If there is coordination, that may be a problem. The Democratic Party now argues that would be a violation of that Consent Decree. I finally pulled aside Kellyanne Conway and said what is the Campaign Going to do. Is this the central strategy to contest the election. She said shes actively working with the Republican National committee, the official party and campaign lawyers to Monitor Precincts around the country. So this isnt just an outside
campaign and outside candidate. Hes tying himself to the Republican Party with him. Its a tremendous question and i will tell you that the Trump Campaign and the Republican National committee are working very, very closely with State Governments and Secretary Of State of states all over the country to ensure Ballot Integrity. Working very, very, very, closely. I should say you just saw robert costa reporting what he had heard from Kellyanne Conway saying that the Trump Campaign is actively working with the rnc to Monitor Precincts around the country. After Kellyanne Conway told robert costa that and he reported it here on msnbc, Kellyanne Conway walked that statement back and the rnc is aggressively denying this coordination. But how about mike pence saying, right, that this Ballot Integrity is a tremendous question this year and the rnc, the Republican National committee, is working very, very closely with the Trump Campaign to ensure Ballot Integrity. How about that . He didnt walk that back. Part of the dnc filing from last night alleges that the Republican Party and the Trump Campaign are sharing staff, theyre sharing resources, theyre coordinating these things. Theres so much coordination that there are no lines delineating where one starts and another ends. The rnc, according to this complaint, quote, commingled its staff and resources with the Trump Campaign and so it is impossible to separate the two. Thats what the Democratic Party is alleging. Arguably, thats what theyre asking the court to determine. Thats the crux of this whole thing. When the Trump Campaign promises its going to do this in these cities, as trump says, inner cities in swing states, is he talking about doing that alone or is the rnc involved . Let me leave you with one more thing that seems relevant here. This is the head of the rnc, Reince Priebus, speaking on sunday. I dont mean his response to the debate, just in general when he goes out and says the election is rigged, he said it last night. I think hes trying to also tell his folks to watch out for this fraud that might occur. Hes trying to tell his folks to watch out for this fraud that might occur, says the head of the rnc. On one hand Reince Priebus is decoding donald trump there on cbs this weekend. On the other hand, i want to know about the rnc and this threat to rig the election and this fraud that might occur and whether the rnc is working on this. Tell me more, mr. Head of the Republican Party. Oh, youre not here. Lets instead ask ben ginsburg, former general counsel and an msnbc analyst. I am not asking you to be Reince Priebus or to defend Reince Priebus. I appreciate that. But i do want you to give me your view on Whats Going On right now with this complaint. Youre the man who said that you could basically guarantee that the democrats were going to make this court filing once you saw what the Trump Campaign was talking about on The Campaign Trail. Yeah, and what i added to
that and what i sort of said directly later in the evening was that in fact that activity was not taking place because well, i dont want the rnc, but i do know that the rnc takes the Consent Decree very seriously. What you have is some bad rhetoric, but not the actions. So the whole Consent Decree itself and the sort of muscling up in Polling Places has been a black mark on the Republican Party. That has harmed it not only reputationally, which is why the democrats or pursuing this Consent Decree, but also really politically. And so all in all, this is a moment that the Republican National committee wants to get beyond so that it can engage with its State Parties in the permissible looking at the elections. An important component of being sure that the voters understand that the election is fair and is not rigged and the practices in
the Polling Places are being conducted correctly. Thats part of this that ive been trying to get a handle on. Im glad to hear you explain it that way, because on the one hand what the Republican Party got nailed for in the 80s was comic book egregious, but i havent really understood what im assuming the Republican Party doesnt want to do the arm bands and offduty guns, im assuming, although we could no, we wont make that argument. Lets assume that the Republican Party doesnt. What does the Republican Party want to do thats not racist, thats not egregious, thats not suppressive, that theyre prohibited from doing by this Consent Decree . Why do they feel so constrained . Every state, every state allows representatives of the Political Parties or campaigns or a combination of the two to observe what goes on in the polling place. That is a matter of being able to ensure the fairness of elections. As a National Party committee,
it would be helpful for the Republican National committee to participate in those permissible, lawful activities just as the democratic National Committee does now. And the dnc can do that now and the rnc because of that Consent Decree, they cant. Correct. So when you say that the rnc is not doing anything that might violate that Consent Decree, theyre not doing any of this poll watching stuff, theyre not working on it, they cant be they can give advice to the so what about mike pence saying were working very closely with the rnc on Ballot Integrity issues and making sure this isnt stolen. I cant speak for him. I do know he made that statement in august and were now in october and none of those activities of the Republican National Committee Personnel working in the polling place,
activities has taken place as far as i know or as far as the democrats could say. What about the rnc staff working basically inhouse at the Trump Campaign now. You know, rnc like sean spicer has been working basically inhouse with the Trump Campaign. If one of the things the Trump Campaign is doing is getting people to sign up to go be Poll Watchers, does that mean that the rnc with having their staff inside the Trump Campaign, that theyre in effect participating in it . No, because i think the way theyre working it is that youve got a sort of a unit, the field people, trying to get people in place to be able to observe as theyre allowed to under state laws. I think the rnc personnel have at least been given instructions to not participate in those activities. Gives this so much heat and energy, we have already heard that theyve asked, the judge has asked for this to move really fast. Theyve asked for the parties to be in court on wednesday morning. Theres a long tradition of being in the Federal District court nowhere close to the elections. Thank you. Stay with us. Well be right back. [cheers and applause] and maybe, maybe its especially meaningful to me, because i do know something about being first lady of the united states. She has been first lady of arkansas, first lady of the united states, Secretary Of State. She has [ Crowd Chanting hillary ] yeah. Thats right. Hillary doesnt play. Hillary doesnt play. That was Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama today in winstonsalem, North Carolina. This is the first time they have done a joint campaign appearance. And, as that was kind of, we played that bit there to give you a sense of the vibe there. I think basically taking Turns Heaping praise on one another, and this event was one of Hillary Clintons biggest events of the entire campaign. There were apparently 14,000 people there at this North Carolina rally today. And this was a good one to choose to be a big one, because Michelle Obama was there. One of the most beloved figures in politics right now. One of the most Popular Figures in politics, certainly among democrats, particularly among africanamerican democrats, and a absolutely key constituency. This may have been one of Hillary Clintons most important appearances today. And it was warm. And Hillary Clinton was at her best, and it was probably one of the most effective things she has done. But. What might be most important here is we got an answer to a question that has been floating around the obama familys pending departure from the white house. Now this has not been covered widely today. Maybe everybody else doesnt see this as the biggest deal of the world. I realize that the fate of the free world does not rely on this question. But, you know, its a stressful time. In this most stressful of elections, we here at the show and we in my family have been chewing on our fingernails a little bit, wondering with a little bit of actual stress whats going to happen to the white house Vegetable Garden. What is going to happen to it . The Kitchen Garden planted by first lady Michelle Obama. This has been a passion of her time in the white house, for almost the entire time shes been there, shes been building it up, maintaining it and showing it off. Recently, expanding it. And different president s and
their families do Different Things to the white house, there are no guarantees that the next occupants will keep anything that the last occupants of the white house did to the grounds. The new president would be absolutely free to plow the Vegetable Garden under, if they like, right . Jimmy carter, you want to put solar panels on the white house, Ronald Reagan wants to take them down. Really expect Melania Trump or bill clinton to be out there tending to the turnips and harvesting the okra . Really . Are they going to keep it . As her time grows short, Michelle Obama has hardened the gardens defenses. She unveiled an expanded garden now twice its original size and its got hard parts. Stone walkways and planters made from concrete and steel and Picnic Tables and stuff. First lady Michelle Obama announced a multimillion dollar grant for maintaining it. So it wont be an excuse if they wanted to get rid of the garden for that reason. Not incidentally, Michelle Obama planted a couple of crops that are in the ground now that wont be ready for harvest until the spring, when theres a new president. What are you going to do . Waste that food . So its been a discussion. Will the next president keep the garden or put up a parking lot . Today we got an answer. At least if Hillary Clinton wins. Now she also planted an amazing Vegetable Garden at the white house. [cheers and applause] and i can promise you, if i win, i will take good care of it, michelle. [cheers and applause] if Hillary Clinton wins the election, the garden lives look how happy that makes Michelle Obama. I dont really totally understand why im so attached to this Vegetable Garden, beyond the obvious reasons that i am a cardcarrying member of the
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