in repairing the damage done to hillary clinton s campaign over the past nine days? i think it is a little bit late, wolf. and i think that donald trump is going to continue to talk about the e-mail issue. he ll continue to talk about the clinton foundation. republican national committee put out a statement where it mentioned the clinton foundation again. this argument against hillary clinton is not going to stop. i just got off the phone with a senior adviser to hillary clinton who said that they re not going to say anything else about this either. other than what they ve been saying, which is that they re glad the issue is, quote, resolved, unquote. they want to go into the last 48 hours of this campaign with a positive message. they don t want to be talking about her e-mails or anybody else s e-mails. they re going to go to new hampshi hampshire. some of the surrogates will talk
500,000. the state department has released what is likely to be the final line of hillary clinton s e-mails before the election. no big headlines there but this drip, drip, drip of e-mails, a consistent reminder to voters of this fbi probe and internal investigation there at the state department. let s bring in phil mattingly and steven colin son. so grateful to have both of you here with us. as victor said, no bombshell, so to speak, in this one. the fact that it is still coming out three days prior to the election, how does that drive voters? is there any gauge for that. if you talk to campaign advisors, they believe this is baked in? if you had a problem with the e-mail issue, you weren t voting for hillary clinton before now. this late drop isn t going to help. i think this feeds into the narrative the trump campaign is
boss, which doesn t understand what the commander in chief represent represents to the men and women in the military. as a woman and i think women listening to that would really think twice about it. nick, first to you. certainly, andrea, there is something gendered about that. i also think the military is by and large white and conservative. that s trump s core. i also think when you speak to veterans you often find they are very fixed on the e-mail issue. they worked in some cases with classified information and operational security as part of their training. they would often tell me in interviews they feel if they did half of what she had done they would have gotten in trouble. that s certainly the sentiment. they feel she s not an appropriate commander in chief.
what do you say to that? wolf, i frankly say that gravely concerns me that republicans are not preparing to govern in a way that will solve america s problems. the idea that two years of investigations of this e-mail issue strikes me as a distraction from the challenges that face us and we should come together to deal with our economy, grow decent middle class jobs through manufacturing and infrastructure, to confront the threat of isis and the challenges that we face in security overseas. secretary clinton has faced so many investigations that at the end of the day, ultimately prove to be without foundation. i ll give one example. i serve on the foreign relations committee. the tragic incidents of benghazi were the subjects of 12 or 13 hearings, mostly in the house, but in the house and the senate. although it s clear there were some mistakes made in terms of the response within the state
millbank. charlie, i want to start with you. besides the battleground states, which are obvious, donald trump and the rnc are now targeting blue states, like new mexico, michigan, your home state of wisconsin. is it realistic that donald trump could actually turn a blue state or is it more about optics? seeing him being aggressive actually appearing in a state where he could turn them, is that what it s about? because donald looks his best when he s on the aggressive. reporter: well, it is possible at this point. the reality, it s going to be a heavy lift. the reality, he has momentum on his side. he is getting the republican base back together again. obamacare is working on his on his behalf. he has the e-mail issue. hillary clinton has to find a way to flip this script. she s got to be able to turn this issue from her honesty, her issues to the issues of temperament and character and the danger that he poses to the economy and national security. we ll find out later on today what