Simone manual becoming the first africanamerican woman to ever win an individual swimming event. Good morning, and welcome to saturday, were so grateful for your company as always. Cnn newsroom begins right now. We want to begin with the 2016 campaign. New polls from Battle Ground states across the nation showing a potential uphill climb for donald trump now. Hillary Clinton Holding leads in colorado, florida, north carolina, and virginia according to nbc, the wall street journal. Trumps poll problems do not end there. Chris frates digging into the numbers. I know you are focusing as they are, on pennsylvania with this report. Yeah, thats right, but first lets take a look at the rough couple of weeks Donald Trumps had. They seem to be playing out in all the polls. In the recent nbc poll it shows clinton leading. In florida shes up five. Virginia, shes leading by 13. In colorado, leading trump by 14 points. Now, trump who you all know is a huge fan of polls when hes leading has taken an argument the soystem is rigged. Trump argued the only way he could lose the state is if theres funny business. The only way we can lose in my opinion, i really mean this, pennsylvania, is if cheating goes on. The only way they can beat this in my opinion and i mean this 100 . If in certain sections of the state they cheat. Okay . So i hope you people can sort of not just vote on the 8th. Go around and look and watch other polling places. And make sure that its 100 fine. Now, trump provided no evidence that theres any cheating going on in pennsylvania. The accusation comes as trump is badly lagging in the polls there against Hillary Clinton. And thats a state thats critical if trumps going to win the white house. A recent quinnipiac poll of likely pennsylvania voters shows clinton beating trump by ten points. 52 to 42 . Today, Trumps Campaigning in connecticut which like, pennsylvania, hasnt voted for a republican president ial candidate since wait for it, 1988. But unlike the keystone state where trump is hoping to win by appealing to the working class white voters, connecticut, pretty solidly blue state. With trump lagging, clinton in those key Battle Ground states we talked about. The decision for his campaign to go to connecticut raised a lot of eye brows, Trumps Campaign guying insisting they think connecticut is in play. All right. Chris frates, good to see you, thank you sir. Lets bring in Donald Trump Campaign spokesperson katrina pearson. Good morning. Good morning. Donald trump says the only way he loses pnennsylvania is i theres cheating. I had a panel who said neither was able to say whether he was sarcastic with the comment or s sincere . He meant it. He was feeling like there has been voter fraud in the past, there have been election Board Members in pennsylvania that have been arrested. Just on monday we havent seen this reported yet but abc reported that there is a potential problem with the electronic Voting Machines. They cited a document released by the Brennan Justice center. There could be a problem there. So donald trump was sincere with the statement that the only way they can beat him is if democrats cheat . He did say i feel. So this was a moment but he always said and i mean this 100 . So if a man, any man whether hes running for president or sitting across the table says i mean this 100 should we not assume hes being sincere some. Yes, mr. Trump feels like he absolutely has the edge in pennsylvania regardless of the polls have come out. You did mention the polls earlier. We have seen cnbc leave out the waiting of the affiliation in the parties. Whats the evidence that if he loses its because they cheated . There is no evidence because the election hasnt occurred yet. Why make the comment . Donald trump has no evidence its a concern. It is a concern that there is election fraud, particularly with the electronic Voting Machines like i said abc reported this just on monday. And its a concern we should all be worried about as americans. Thats what donald trump said. Donald trump didnt say that im concerned that there will be something awry in november. What he said the only way let me directly quote him. I dont want to paraphrase. The only way we can lose in my opinion i really mean this pennsylvania is if cheating goes on. The only way they can beat it in my opinion, and i mean this 100 , is in certain sections the state they cheat. Hes not just concerned. Hes saying this is the only route to a loss. And you just quoted him in my opinion. Because there is a concern with the electronic Voting Machines. I just told you that there have been election board officials of the state of pennsylvania that were arrested for tampering with voter machines. This is not far fetched. Election fraud in this country has been a concern for a very long time which has not properly been addressed. I think we should address it. It isnt something thats wide spread. Lets move on. If one county can determine an election thats a problem. Lets move on. I want to go to mr. Trumps statements as president obama as the founder of isis in his sarcasm. Obviously im being sarcastic. Then, but not that sarcastic to be honest with you. Sarcastic but not that sarcastic. Which is it was he being sarcastic or not being sarcastic . Well, i guess it depends on the interpreter. Of course it was sarcasm. He didnt mean that barrack or Hillary Clinton founded isis in the litteral sense. If you play out that entire discussion he talks about the policies that absolutely gave rise to the formation of isis. This is something that general flynn had reported in august 2012. Barack obama and Hillary Clinton ignored the dia report which told them if you arm the resistance, you will feed isis and an Islamic State was formed. He said this wasnt a blind eye. This was willful ignoring of the intelligence. You know that isis actually started in 2004 with aqi al qaeda in iraq and then morphed in 2006 the Islamic State in iraq. This is not something that started during the Obama Administration. There is an argument to be made and i think in these conversations on Television Many people have said there is a path there for donald trump. Hes saying that he was sarcastic but not that sarcastic about something that happened in 2004. If youre moving into if you want to go way back, we can look at the troop surge. And after 2007, al qaeda was essential in ashes. It was barack obama and Hillary Clinton who then destroyed the entire rollout by wanting to pull out early, announcing their plans, ignoring intelligence and thats the reason why isis is a global issue and not a barack obama in 2004, is that what you said . No, i said afterwards. After the surge when al qaeda was in ashes. Entering barack obama and Hillary Clinton remember we werent even in afghanistan by this time, barack obama went into afghanistan creating another problem. It was Hillary Clinton and her incidents in libya. They armed the rebel and funding them. Youre saying barack obama took the country into afghanistan post 2009 is that what youre saying . What im saying is, the policy you just said we werent in afghanistan. Barack obama and Hillary Clinton that was obamas war, yes. Okay. Mr. Trump is saying weve got the policies of barack obama and Hillary Clinton ignoring intelligence created the hot bed for global terrorists to travel the world under the name of isis. 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For factual sake, sake of just correct information when you said that barack obama took the country into afghanistan, it was not during as you know during the Obama Administration when we first went into afghanistan. No. It was shortly were talking about isis specifically. Your statement was that barack obama took us into afghanistan and it was his war. It was president bush that took the country into afghanistan shortly after 9 11. I thought we were talking about the founding of isis. Isis came out of the obama side of the war. Is that not a fact . No, it is not a fact. Because in 2004 as i stated in the last segment that aqi, al qaeda in iraq was started by a t zarqawi and then it later became the Islamic State in iraq and syria. After the but, also in 2004 we werent this was also obama saying that they were the jv team. Again. The incompetence of even recognizing the threat while he was in office. And then to make it worse, going into libya and creating a vacuum, leaving all of those weapons behind essentially arming the enemy . I hear that argument, thats not the argument that donald trump has been making. He has made over the last several days that barack obama was the founder of isis and said it was sarcastic. Hes put his supporters and his surrogates as we saw this morning in a really difficult place. Not knowing when hes being sincere, when hes being sarcastic. I want you to watch over the last two weeks some of the acrobats some supporters have had to go through on cnn. Watch. Isis is honoring president obama. M he is the founder of isis. The point hes trying to make is the contrast that exists i feel deeply for the loss of his son, mr. Khan has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim i have never read the constitution which is false and say many other inaccurate things. The First Amendment to the constitution allows mr. Khan the right to stand on stage and say whatever he wants. Why would mr. Trump say he doesnt have that right . Thats not what mr. Trump is thats what the statement said. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there, i dont know. Although the Second Amendment people is, could mean you can vote against her. Thats exactly what he meant. The tape is of the people, taking the money of the plane, right . That means that in order to embarrass us further, iran sent us the tapes. I would think if he makes that claim, surely hes got a tape to back it up. Again, i have no idea. Hes not going into ukraine, just so you understand. Hes not going to go into ukraine. You can mark it down. He doesnt always say things perfectly. He speaks from the gut emotion he has. What we saw here was the fact is when trump said when im president. He cleared it up in a tweet. You see thats just the last two weeks weve gone through where donald trump said something that was unclear and untrue in the case of a 400 million on a pallet going to iran. Hes leaving his supporters to figure that out. Is that not dangerous for a president to not be clear and precise. Sark sarca sarcasm, does it have place in the oval office s . If depends if youre the media talking about a democrat or republican. When she was asked about cleaning her server, she asked with a cloth . You dont see that kind of discussion when mr. Trump is giving an actual policy discussion like hell be giving on monday. Again, this was the media taking Little Things he says to try to fit the agenda and the narrative to paint mr. Trump though werent reporters who were having difficulty understanding and conveying what donald trump was saying, those were his own supporters. They were trying to defend against what the media had created for them. You know, it was quite interesting this week when mr. Trump initially made that statement and the cnn chryon. I had to make sure it said cnn instead of onn. Its the cover cnn has been giving Hillary Clinton. Were talking about what donald trump may or may not have said sarcastically. But we just found out that three fbi field offices wanted to investigate the Clinton Foundation. She leaves the campaign trail and were still talking about sarca sarcasm. Nobody is forcing Hillary Clinton or the campaign to address the problems of the Clinton Foundation. Weve had that conversation all morning. I think its important in the conversation about that banner across the bottom of the screen, that at that point, donald trump was given the opportunity to say that this is a figure of speech. Im saying he enabled isis, but he on the hugh hewwit show, i watched youd listen to it on cable news, pushed back against that and said, yes, i mean that he is the founder. So in the interest of accuracy, we say figurately and not literally. Nobody knew that like i said, this is figureeratively. Not littleerally. I dont think anybody outside the media thought barack obama went and filed papers of incorporation for isis. Thats not what anybody else thought. This is something that cnn specifically wants to focus on. Because hthey dont want to as much time talking to threats to National Security like the email scandal or the corruption that has gone on with the Clinton Foundation receiving millions of dollars from hostile nations. Lets look at the time spent on each. You talked about the money coming into the Clinton Foundation. And this week, we saw donald trump, he said hes a chart person, he held up a chart at an event, i believe it was in florida. Guys do we have that picture of Donald Trump Holding up this chart . Yeah, this we have the video Donald Trump Holding up a chart here. Can you tell us where this chart came from and if the campaign created this themselves . I cant see the chart that youre referring to. But, again, i will say that when you start focusing on both candidates evenly, then we can have a proper discussion instead of constantly picking out pieces of words that mr. Trump says at a rally and creating a headline around it and a false outrage. This election is not being treated fairly. Mr. Trump is not being treated fairly. You are the spokes woman for the Donald Trump Campaign. Clearly im going to ask you questions about donald trump when youre on with me, right . I expected you absolutely and im happy to answer any questions anytime youve asked me come on ive come on and answered everything question. Hillary Clintons Campaign cannot say the same. I dont want to go forward with this sign, you dont have a monitor there, do you . No, i dont. I dont want to continue with that. Because that would be unfair to have her answer questions about that. I want you to listen to something that donald trump said this week about judges. He said this in fayetteville. We are going to appoint justices, you know, i named 11 people. That are highly, highly vetted. Highly vetted. Heritage and different people and gone through different people that i respect. Conservative people, smart people. Donald trump said highly highly vetted. Heritage, different people. His heritage part of the qualifications that donald trump he inplimplied he will to pick justices. Its one of Many Organizations that have vetted these. Its a foundation thats highly recommended among conservatives. We want to make sure we have conservative appointees to the supreme court. Hes talking about the heritage foundation. Yes. Thanks so much. Great to be here. Lets talk olympics. Michael phelps set to make his last splash. Cory wire is in rio for us. Reporter today is the last day well see the great Michael Phelps in an olympic pool. And thats where the u. S. Has dominated. Right there, coming up well talk about that and more on new day. Mapping the oceans. Where we explore. 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