perfect. but what it says is we will strive to be a more perfect union and you could only do that when you stare down hate and you stare down bigotry and people who do things that are in violation of all that we hold dear. i have 30 seconds, corin, you wrote an article that said none of this surprises. none of this. if you have been paying attention and if you are a brown or a black person or a woman or a lgbt person living in this country and you have watched the election the last 18 months or paying attention to donald trump if you lived in new york city or since 2011 when he pushed birtherism, it is not surprising it is what he was doing. he was pushing and tapping into hate and he saw something going on and used it to his advantage as a platform to really get his campaign moving. and he did it the moment that he announced when he talked about mexicans and being rapists, all the way through talking about black people and in front of all white audience, trying to ban muslim, you
significant. tons of super pac dollars. and tons of dollars. they couldn t raise money on their own. i think they re both casualties of the donald trump boom. i don t think we ve seen the last casualties of the boom. they had no oxygen when they needed the summer before the election. robert, do you have a sense of the capacity of the trump campaign to actually act like a campaign and change direction or do things to alter if it continues to be the case that his polling average declines? i spoke to trump at length yesterday. and i asked him about, do you need a second act in the fall? is there a way your campaign needs to evolve? he says he s not going to drop his blunt persona. he is who he is. he has a operations guy who helps build out his network. trump believes he needs to do more outreach. his schedule for later this month in october, he s going to meet with hispanic leaders and evangelical leaders. he needs to build his own relationships within the conservative movement t
i couldn t move. it was really rough. what was going through your mind? i swore we were going to die. all i could do was pray. half of the death toll centers in one small town. 9,000 people live in harrisburg, illinois, six people died there. don lemon is there. the national weather service says the tornado was the second most powerful on the rating scale. how widespread is the damage this morning? reporter: ef-4. it s huge. pan around here and look. this is a neighborhood, a fairly new neighborhood. go left here to show. if this had happened in the afternoon when it was full of people, there would have been probably many more injuries, many more deaths here. luckily there were only six and i m saying luckily because every single person we ve spoken to, even the person who lost his mom said he can t believe at that only six people died in all of this. they say they re going to pick up the pieces. the red cross is here. they have lots of help. this he could use more he
marriage. we are waiting on a federal court ruling from california on the constitutionality of proposition 8. it is the 2008 voter initiative that said same-sex couples could not get married. well, a federal judge struck down prop 8 two years ago saying gay couples were being unfairly denied the right to marry. the people behind prop 8 appealed it, which brings us to today s milestone decision. and what we re seeing on the ground in syria right now could be a turning point to ending the planned parenthoodshed or just more of the same. [ crowd noise ] syria s president wants to show he s got support, too. the thousands of people waving flags welcoming russia s foreign minister. this comes just days after russia threw a lifeline to syrian president assad. by vetoing a u.n. resolution that would have condemned him for killing his own people. since then, the government attacks have intensified. [ explosion ] unbelievable video we are watching there. syrian opposition activi
stay in they can make a race. shepard: where is romney today? guest: he had a decent performance, not great. he did not lose any voters and he has the big advantage of the money and organization. he was asked about hunting, and he mixed up, but he has hunting for nothing but big donors and he has overabundance of them and that is keeping the campaign moving. shepard: we don t hear about rick santorum or how he did. guest: not a great performance. shepard: is he done? guest: why think he is done, if he comes in third or fourth in this primary he will not have the resources to continue. shepard: and rick perry? guest: he will go home to austin after saturday. this is it. shepard: 4 percent or 5 percent. guest: probably, the tea thing he has done the last couple of debates, he has not come off as a stupid guy. he has performed very well. and if he went home a month ago he would go back with his tail