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The blame on lochte. Describing him as drunk and unruly. Hes done it, history has been made. An unprecedented triple triple for usain bolt. I cant think of another athlete since muhammad ali that has captured the public imagination. A lot going on in the world. We appreciate you keeping us company. Good morning. Good to be with you. 10 00 here on the east coast. 7 00 out west. Cnn newsroom becomes right now. We also are going to be looking at this hour the olympics. Those are winding down. But the action is still going on there. Heres our cory wire with what is ahead today. Reporter talking about speed and a whole lot of it. Were going to go boating through the latest on all things olympics from beautiful copacabana beach here from rio on newsroom coming right up. Before we get to that boisterous cory we want to begin with donald trump. Soon hell be make ing with the National Hispanic Advisory Council for trump. This is as his campaign is going through a major overhaul. His Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is out. With the new leadership trump is trying to bring in new approach to reach out to black voters specifically. Watch this. I say it again, what do you have to lose . Look, what do you have to lose . Youre living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. 58 of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose . Lets bring in chris frates. We would assume this is part of the outreach of the new trump . How is it resonating . What are you hearing . Yeah, thats exactly right. You know, trump continuing his outreach to africanamericans yesterday. This time telling a mostly white crowd in a predominately white suburb that Hillary Clinton is taking black voters for granted. Now, trump promised if he were to run for reelection at the end of his first term, hed win 95 of the black vote. And thats a really tall order considering that president obama, our nations first black president , only won 93 of the black vote in his reelection. And trumps question of what the hell do blacks have to lose by voting for him . Was answered swiftly by the Clinton Campaign in a statement the Campaign Said donald trump asked what the Africanamerican Community has to lose by voting for him, the answer is everything. From a man who questioned citizenship of the first africanamerican president , the courts White Supremacists and has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color. Trump painting the entire community as living in poverty with no jobs continues to show hes completely out of touch with the Africanamerican Community and Hillary Clinton tweeting this, she said this is so ignorant its staggering. So clinton not mincing words there, guys. So lets talk about Paul Manaforts departure. A lot of people are wondering how that will shape the kmcampan moving forward. I found it depends on who you ask. A friend of manafort telling me this morning manafort was not going to take orders or relinkish powrelin relinquish power. Thats nothing against steve banyan and kellyanne conway, but thats how manafort rolls the friend tells me. A Senior Campaign aide telling me that trump lost faith in manafort a couple weeks ago, feeling like manafort wasnt quick enough with his answers to trumps question. That aide saying trump and manafort lacked chemistry and another source saying manafort who was facing increasing scrutiny over his lobbying ties to ukraine and russia, lots of bad stories out this week. Told trump he was becoming a distraction and didnt want that to continue, guys. All right. Boy. Great information there. Chris frates, thank you. Youre welcome. Lets bring in the executive director of the National Diversity coalition for trump and april ryan, White House Correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and author of the presidency in black and white. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. Bruce, i want to start with you, executive director of the diversity coalition. When you hear donald trump say to africanamericans and this is his pitch to get the votes from africanamericans. Youre living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs, what the hell do you have to lose . You know it . Is that what he believes about africanamericans . Its not so much once again you can take a particular sentence and frame it the way you want to. At the end of the day, there is a need in a lot of our cities and a lot of our predominately africanamerican cities that have call to have change with their School Systems as well as jobs. Mr. Trump has been meeting for several years. He has a lot of friends across the country. A lot of pastors, hes close to the Faithbased Community because it has a pulse about whats going on. Understood. Well get into the Faithbased Community. First, words matter. And we know that during this campaign. And donald trump who the day before apologized sometimes you dont choose the right words. He regrets that. The following day he says that black people are living in poverty, have no jobs going to bad schools. Theyve got nothing to lose. Vote for him. Why is that the whole pitch to africanamerican voters. No, its not. For example, here in atlanta, its no secret that weve had a situation with our own atlanta Public Schools here in dekalb county, atlanta weve had a situation under democrat rule. The deal is, at the end of the day is like, give us a chance at this. Give us a shot. Let mr. Trumps Administration Come in and let us put something together that could work in terms of charter schools, local control. In terms of having an ability to have tremendous resources that have the ability to come in and make suggestions on how to help a community that has been, struggling. Let me come to you, april. The point that weve heard from Trump Supporters for the last 12 hours or so is that donald trump says that black voters in america did not get some windfall with the Obama Administration and give his administration a chance to fix some of the ills that have not been fixed. Well, victor, lets really look at this realistically and from a journalistic standpoint. I covered three president s. I started with bill clinton who had a conversation of race in his last four years. We are still how many years out still dealing with this. The issue of race is an evolution. You have moments where you move forward. But its been hundreds of hundreds of years where there have been problems in the black community from the time of slavery. The beginnings of slavery. If you expect for this president or any president in four or eight years to fix hundreds of years, youre sadly mistaken. Lets be realistic when you talk about the issue of education. Hes absolutely correct that there is a problem when it comes to black communities in their education and richer white communities. When you talk about education, lets drill down. When we see Public Schools in america that are suffering, ifrm baltimore. Me too. Amen. When you see Public Schools in the baltimore area, its about taxes. Under former president bill clinton more africanamericans bought homes during that time, so when you Start Talking about one issue youre going into another and theyre going down a slippery slope. If you want to talk about education, you know let me introduce some other facts here. Because, again, he says youre living in poverty, youve got no jobs. Lets put up the stats. Because the numbers are important here. The facts matter. Africanamerican Unemployment Rate 8. 4 lower than its been for some time. Lets go to the statistics as it relates to blacks living in the the poverty line in 2014. The latest number from census, 26. 2 . Not even a plurality of blacks living under the poverty line. Still too high. Let me ask you about the audiences. If donald trump wants to make a pitch to black voters, why isnt he speaking to black audiences. He has a spate of black pastors that support him. Why did he decline the invitation from the National Association from the blackjournalist and the naacp and he wants their votes he has ask to ask for them. I represent the National Diversity coalition for trump. I cant speak for the campaign in terms of where they travel and what venue they go to. I have actually said in these meetings and honored to be listening amongst some of our best pastors and awesome pastors from across the country. Like i said previously, this has been an ongoing thing for years. If its been years and years he should have a black church he knows he can go to. If its been years and years he would have spoken at naacp and nbj, urban league before. So why is it hes speaking to black audiences . When you go into diamond dale, doesnt that seem condescending . No. Once again i was asked this question on another show. You know, when mr. Trump moves, you know, and he comes to a city. If theres not a venue that reaches 20,000, 50,000 people, its so much about the venue. The other thing two, respectfully. When he has a speech there is millions of viewers that watch him. Donald trump comes to town, it takes a tremendous amount of infrastructure and resource. Im not trying to dodge that or anything like that. I hear you there. If he wants the Law Enforcement vote he made time to go to the fraternal order of police. He went to the faith and freedom conference. Weve got to take a quick break. Well continue the conversation. We have much more to discuss after the break and well be right back. Abdominal pain . Bloating . You may have ibs. Ask your doctor if nonprescription ibgard is right for you. Ibgard calms the angry gut. Available at cvs, walgreens and rite aid. Welcome back. Back to our conversation about donald trump and his pitch to africanamerican voters with bruce lavel executive director of the National Diversity coalition for trump and april ryan White House Correspondent for American Urban Radio Network and author of the presidency in black and white. April, i want to start with you on this block about something ive heard anecdotely from black voters trying to iowa during the primaries, traveling to ohio, florida, the Battle Ground states. There is residue. And thats being generous of the Birther Movement from 2011. Still holding over to this choice between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. I want people to remember what happened for those several weeks when donald trump was pushing this line of the president s citizenship. Watch. Why doesnt he show his birth certificate . Why has he spent over 2 million in legal fees to keep this quiet and to keep this silent . I want him to show his birth certificate. There is something on that birth certificate he doesnt like. I feel strongly about the fact that barack obama should give his birth certificate. If he doesnt do it hes doing a tremendous disservice to the public. 3 weeks ago when i started i thought he was born in this country now i have a much bigger doubt. April, from your perspective and your reporting preparation for your book, how much of that do you believe is still at play here in this psyccycle . Its still at play. Sometimes when you say things people believe them. You say it enough people will believe it. Even though its not fact. You still have people there are polls being done. Is president obama a u. S. Citizen, was he legally born in the u. S. Somewhere. And theyre like, no. So you still hear people say that. Indeed, the president has try today play on the fact that, you know, hes talked and joked about it and at least two of the White House Correspondents dinners. Its a problem but also interesting, you have people like ted cruz, no one talks about, you know, about his birth. The Republican Party wanted to play that down this year for this election cycle. At the same time, its still as you say in the best of terms i guess you would say the residue still lingers. With president obama, you have it one way with ted cruz its another way. You wonder if theres a racial component there. Bruce let me come to you. Before i get to that question, do you know you know donald trump if he Still Believes that. We havent discussed that. Weve been so busy, you know. Do you think it would be important in his effort to get black voters to for some mea culpa or some explanation. He called the president , 93 of the voters voted for president obama. In 2007, the Clinton Campaign, Hillary Clinton started that Whisper Campaign about the president s birth certificate. That did not come no, sir. That came the birther was donald trump. No, sir. Did donald trump not put up a 5 billion bounty that came from the Clinton Campaign back in 2007. Along with biden, the whisper. They did not want that was part of their strategy to beat him in 2008 that came from Clinton Campaign. Let me ask you these questions. Donald trump, did he or did he not put up a multimillion dollar bounty for information about the president s birth certificate in hawaii . I dont know anything about that. I dont. The last question, how will he get black voters . Hes at 1 in the latest poll. If you noticed the other day, two days ago, breitbart came out with 6 . Here in atlanta were at 6 and climbing. As the message goes forward. As we go on to november 8th as it relates to our job and School Situation and a lot of our communities that desperately need change, youre going to see a major spike in term of well get 20 plus. I dont know if thats been the reality for the last couple of elections, thats the prediction for bruce lavel. April ryan, bruce, thank you for being with us, both of you. Better parenting, tough love, a real friend. A newspaper columnist says ryan lochte needs all three and he is not buying the olympic swimmers apology. Were talking to the writer of a blistering open letter to lochte. The clock is ticking in the clinton email controversy. Judge giving her 30 dayess to answer questions about that. What effect might it have on your campaign . Thats ahead as well. Stay clois. Bad headaches. They steal moments from my life. X. L. O. A. W. C. L. Os. E. And it works on sensitivity to light, sound, even nausea, all of it. It works fast, and lasts for hours. Excedrin specializes in treating migraines. 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Ryan lochte is facing criticism from home. I want to read this to you. The writer says to lochte, dear stupid and you know who you are, ryan lochte, no wait you dont know who you are. You dont know what a dope you are because youre acting like a spoiled brat. At 32. The writer of that column steve ros rosenblum is with us. Thank you for being here. Thanks for asking. I want to point out that dear stupid, that whole thing is how he started this letter. So your anger seems to be very evident from the beginning, what got you so riled up . The end of it when he issued the nonapology the apology. The insincere words they were just a bunch of manure. It was heavily lawyered it didnt mean anything. It didnt do what it was supposed to do. By the end of my column i got to what i would have done. Look at what he did. He certainly checked off all the boxes of idiocy and being a spoiled brat. Showed up in somebody elses country because the u. S. Oc brought him there. And thought he could vandalize small little business and he thought he could lie about it and he lied to everybody starting with his mom, to the usoc, the ioc, local authorities. Couple of broadcast outlets and then he skipped town and left a bunch of teammates to answer for the stories, the lies, the misconceptions, whatever he did, and then he comes out and starts shoveling this insincere pile of manure. Im wondering as an alleged apology. Let me read a little bit just in fairness. Lochte issued the apology via instagram. And he said in part, this is part of it, regardless of the behavior of anyone else that night, i should have been much more responsible in how i handled myself and for that i am sorry. What part of that do you take issue with . What do you see is in sincere . He hasnt fessed up, hasnt given us a breakdown of the lies he told. He should have been much more responsible. I dont think he wrote those words. You read that whole thing you can pick out words and sentences, read the wh