Secretary of defense here tonight. We know last week he made a Surprise Announcement at his first thank you rally saying yes hes indeed choosing general james mattis for defense secretary. But the fact that two will be up on stage together, certainly notable, especially given that is the military friendly town. So donald trump hoping to cash in on the energy here almost to validate his pick for Secretary Of Defense. And we know trump has many thank you tours and rallies ahead. Just two this week alone and thursday hell be in iowa and friday in michigan. You heard him taking credit for what he said is a 50 billion investment by softbank. What are you learning about this . Reporter i have to say not a lot of detail coming from the Trump Transition Team or the company tonight. But certainly a little
showmanship on the part of the president elect today really trotting out on the ceo of the company and trump towers there before cameras gathered. Contours of the deal are 50 billion investmen
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. Right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islam phobic, you name it. But those other basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures. And they are just desperate for change. Clinton said in a short time ago, quote, let me read you part of it. Last night i was grossly generalistic. Thats never a good idea. I regret saying half. That was wrong. She goes on to say its door morible that trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a National Platform to hateful views and choices. Now to trumps latest attack on clinton, the republican president ial candidate last night speaking at a rally in florida suggesting clinton could commit an act of violence in public and not face any consequen
Middle of the heart, and she wouldnt be prosecuted. Meanwhile, the pundits keep critiquing donald trump, but he is gaining ground. Both nationally and in swing states, leading democrats to wonder, why isnt she doing better . Also, in the closest thing to a debate that we have had so far, the big loser was the moderator, matt lauer. Will the medias Rough Treatment of lauer impact moderators of the real debates. And as we mark the 15th anniversary of 9 11, congress has just approved letting victims sue saudi arabia. But will the president stop that with a veto . I will ask the nations first secretary of homeland security, tom ridge. But first, both candidates said shocking things last night that will only perpetuate their high negatives. Theres a third party in the race, fighting its way to the debate stage. And the libertarian ticket, gary johnson and bill weld, will be joining me later in the program. This week, johnson finally became a National Name in the president ial race, but not
Thanks for joining us for the second hour of 360. If you thought you heard it all in this election, one candidate says Vladimir Putin is more of a leader than the sitting president of the United States. The head of the rnc is criticizing the first woman nominated by a major party because he thinks she didnt smile enough last night. There are still two months to go. The first debate just a few weeks away. We have reports from both camps. Sara murray joins us now. Trump spent a lot of today explaining what he said in the forum last night. Reporter thats right. He did go after Hillary Clinton. He took another opportunity to take a couple shots at her for her use of a private email server but he launched into a very lengthy defense today of his view of The War In Iraq. He again restated that he was opposed to the war before it began and this went on for quite awhile. I want to play just a portion of it for you. Before the war, much closer to the war, i gave statements that we shouldnt go i
One of the things that donald trump said that i think stood out for a lot of people was him having to comment on his answers that he knows more than the generals. This was the exchange between him and matt lauer. The generals and you barack obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful do you know more about isis than they do . I think under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble, they have been reduced to a point thats embarrassing for our country. We have a force of 30,000 people, nobody really knows, but probably 30,000 people and i can see The Great General George Patent Spinning in his grave as isis we cant beat. Certainly and we have discussed this, don, there are some in the military who may want to see more action but donald trump did not really answer the question there which was basically saying that he knows more than the military. He did not address that at all. And then the other thing was pretty surprising, it was