thought the business and was a sensitive soul. and donald stepped in to try to fit this role with his dad. and kurt is exactly right. donald throughout his father s life extracted money from his father. after he owned two casinos, he couldn t make the bond payments on the cast until atlantic city. and there was a ruse in which dad illegally put $3.5 million into his casino so he could make a bond payment. there is a complicated relationship here, but it s clear that father trump never was happy with his son. he shipped him off to a military academy at 12 or 13. and i think that s the reason that donald trump, a 70-year-old man, behaves with the emotions of a 13-year-old boy. he just never recovered from that. and his father tried i think to patch up and make this work because he wanted the family to continue as a powerful and wealthy real estate force. so, david, just to follow this through, your sense is that
that focus group thought that tim kaine was the winner. and that may indicate that voters may not have been changed as much as the political news media has been changed. by the year of political lying. the trump campaign is now in full leak mode about last night s debate and the next presidential debate on sunday. cnbc s john harwood reports the trump adviser told him, quote, pence won overall but lost with trump. he can t stand to be upstaged. the wall street journal is reporting tonight that the secret trump advisers who apparently only communicate to donald trump through newspaper articles are hoping that donald trump will imitate mike pence s performance in the next debate. which of course is to say lie with complete calm. the wall street journal reports that donald trump was forced to watch the video of his first debate with hillary clinton. the journal says mr. trump privately equivocated on his
need to be to put this together given the way the rest of the map looks. but he won t go to either of those places on a diligent basis. hean t really go to ohio because, you know, that s a state that the governor and the state party have a lot of reservations about trump. they re worried about losing portman. they re worried about having down ballot damage from him, which he seems to be causing in a lot of places. okay. we re going to leave it there. rick wilson, thanks very much for joining us. thanks, lawrence. thank you, lawrence. coming up next, donald trump s accountant will join us. he ll give us his views of what a presidential candidate s duties are in terms of releasing tax returns and other things. also, kurt eichenwald has a revealing new report about donald trump s finances and how he avoided personal bankruptcy. is it a professor who never stops being a student? is it a caregiver determined to take care of her own?
chips. according to fortune magazine, no amount of spin will make trump s dozen years at the helm of trump s hotels is the only public company trump has ever run, look like anything but a flop that damaged thousands of shareholders, bondholders, and workers. the campaign war room is coming up next. and later, what hillary clinton thought of saturday night live s new donald trump. on that business trip? should i stay or should i go? this fall at choice hotels, the more you go the better! now earn a free night whenou stay with us just two times. book direct at choicehotels.com. got a quarter?
interrupting mike pence. you heavy handed approach. you both have said vladimir putin is a well, hang on. thank you. thank you, senator. praised vladimir putin as a great leader. and yes, we will get to that, senator. and paid a few taxes and lost a billion dollars a year. that s it. just interrupting. not a word of substance in the republican party s debate ad. and as i predicted last night, and this was the easiest prediction i have ever made on tv, the clinton campaign today did produce a video with a sample of mike pence s lies told on the debate stage last night. let s start with not praising vladimir putin as a great leader. donald trump and mike pence have said he is a great leader. no, we haven t. putin has been a very strong leader for russia. vladimir putin has been a stronger leader in his country than barack obama has been in this country.