Forecast that were getting right now. Well stay on top of it together with you, jennifer, thank you very, very much. Thats it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, donald trump oneonone with the mexican president. Did he ask mexico to pay for the wall . Vicente fox versus donald trump and the former president of mexico in a fierce war of words with the republican nominee. Fox is my guest tonight. New polls show the race is tightening. Is trump making a major comeback . Lets go out front. Good evening, im erin burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news, donald trump face to face with the president of mexico talking about the Core Campaign issue that he has had since the beginning and that is the wall. Major questions tonight about
what really happened behind those closed doors. Trump sharing the stage afterwards with president Enrique Pena Nieto. The republican nominee speaking in softer tones about the relationship between the two countries calling mexicans tremendous, even though as he stood by his call to build the wall. We did discuss the wall. We didnt discuss payment of the wall. That will be for a later date. Trumps visit came hours before hes scheduled to give a major speech outlining his immigration approximately see and that is tonight and as we count you down tonight jim acosta begins your coverage in mexico city. He was there and you have breaking news about what the president of mexico told trump about that wall. Reporter thats right. You remember during this press Conference Donald Trump said that they did not discuss who would pay for that wall that donald trump wants to have along of the u. S. Mexico border. In just the last few minutes Enrique Pena Nieto the president of mexico tweeted at the beginning of the conversation with donald trump i made clear
that mexico will not pay for the wall. That directly contradicts what donald trump told reporters and told the world during that press conference and obviously, that wall is a big subject in tonights speech on immigration. It may be his most donald trump move yet, flying to the capital of a country he has slammed time and again, today trump met face to face with president Enrique Pena Nieto to talk, what else, immigration. We recognize and respect the right of either country to build a physical barrier or wall on any of its borders. Translator the mexican population in the United States contributes to development in both mexico and the u. S. Theyre honest people, working people, people of good will who respect family. Mexicans deserve everybodys respect. Reporter but after their meeting trump told reporters he and pena nieto never discussed whether mexico will indeed, pick up the check and the gops
signature proposal, a wall on the southern u. S. Border. We did discuss the wall. We didnt discuss payment of the wall and that will be for a later date. This was a very preliminary meeting. I think it was a are an excellent meeting. The jawdropping meeting, with the gop nominee may well overshadow his own speech on immigration later tonight. Big speech on immigration. Well be talking about that in arizona. That appears to be just fine with the campaign which quickly scrambled to arrange the visit just days after receiving pena nietos invitation against the advice of u. S. Embassy staff who said the trip would be difficult on such short notice. He gets an invitation late last week from the president of mexico and drops what hes doing to sit down. This was no lovefest. Trumps incendiary comments on mexico and tweets on mexicans have enraged this neighbor to the south. When mexico sends its people theyre not sending their best. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. His immigration speech set for tonight trump is expected to steer clear of highlighting his original proposal for a Deportation Force to round up the nations undocumented in favor of prioritizing the removal of unauthorized immigrants who have broken the law and aides say he will push hard for a wall along the u. S. Mexico border standing by his signature pledge to voters. We will build the wall 100 and mexico will be paying for the wall reporter even though trumps son and other aides stressed trump is listening to advisers who want him to moderate his tone. Correct, but you have to start withic bahhy steps. That shift isnt selling well south of the border where former mexican president vicente fox has blasted trumps views. I am not going to pay for that [ bleep ] wall. He should pay for it. Hes got the money. As it turns out, exactly who is going to pay for that wall is
still an issue between donald trump and the government of the republic of mexico, erin. Another thing that came up during this press conference, i asked donald trump whether he and pena nieto exchanged apologies about the tough words they said about one another over the last months and donald trump said no apology was issued although pena nieto did say that the mexican people have felt hurt by Donald Trumps comments. Thank you very much, jim. Sara murray is out front in phoenix because thats where donald trump will be giving his muchdelayed and very important immigration address tonight. Sara, what are we going to hear in this speech . Obviously now this will become a big issue as to the payment of the wall. What are we going to hear tonight . Reporter oh, absolutely. The big question is if donald trump is seeing these reports and if hes going to come out here and address what president pena has said since donald trump left mexico. What we were hearing from advisers is that donald trump going to talk about what they see as the signature of hisBorder Security plan along the border with mexico and then he would talk about how he would pay for it not just as what he sees as mexicos contribution and defunding sanctuary cities in the u. S. Things like stripping benefits that they believe go to undocumented immigrants in the u. S. All of that would be used, advisers believe, to help pay for a portion of the wall and that tone could change in the wake of what were hearing now from president pena. The other key issue, erin is what weve been talking about over the last week. The way Donald Trumps tone has waffled on how to deal with 11 million undocumented immigrants in the u. S. Upon advisers are saying he will address that tonight, but the question is will he lay out a clear plan about how he will deal with the 11 Million People as president or will he gloss over the issue and say the most important thing is Border Security and after we deal with that well deal with the 11 million. Sara, thank you very much. Border security and i. E. , the wall when youre talking to donald trump. Clinton supporter maria
cardona who does work for a proclinton super pac. Trump supporter, kayleigh mcnany, and Senior Adviser to the Trump Campaign boris epistein and former director of the nixon president ial library. All of you with me, let me start with you. This is trumps first meeting as head of state and they were both at the two podiums and he had a very subdued tone. Now, of course, you have this controversy brewing over whos lying . He says paying for the wall didnt come up and the president of mexico said one of the first things he said he is not going to pay for the wall. This is a very good day for donald trump. Any time a candidate can be seen with the stature of president with the pomp and circumstance, and donald trump seen as so bombastic with many people saying i cant see him being president ial. As for the wall and the payment,
i have never taken that seriously. Ive never understood how he said he will get mexico to pay for it. The wall is going to be built. I dont think its an important issue in any substantial way. Boris, but if it comes to somebody lied then it could become very important and all of a sudden this big day for donald trump, what if hes a liar. The president of mexico is calling donald trump a liar. Lets not jump to any conclusions. Azhar i said, it was a great day. Its about leadership. He has shown he was the true leader of this country, just like when he went to louisiana first and just like he responded to brussels, nice, paris, San Bernardino and orlando. He has shown the leadership that we have not seen from barack obama and definitely not from Hillary Clinton who is sipping champagne cocktails in the hamptons most of the time. Thats one and very important to know. As far as she says, the wall is going to be built. As far as who pays for the wall . Thats a negotiation and this he said she said will be part of it and this is just the start of a
longterm discussion that will happen once donald trump is president. But, tim, donald trump said they did not discuss paying for the wall. The president of mexico said he said mexico is not paying for it. Somebody is lying. Until about three minutes ago this was a great day for donald trump because as ari said, thats why when people run to reelection they dont want the other candidate to debate them because they were on the same stage. This is a summit for donald trump. One of the first rules of International Diplomacy is you do not embarrass your host. Clearly, pena tweeted that because he felt embarrassed when trump said we didnt even talk about the wall. There are a lot of people in mexico who expected their president to make clear to mr. Trump that you do not force mexicans to do that. I think that was a huge error on his part. So despite the fact the optics looked great at the time this is a huge problem. Kayleigh . First of all, i dont think donald trump discussed this with the president. Maybe the president made a passing remarks. Who knows . Donald trump did not discuss it and you know why he didnt discuss it . He has five Revenue Sources that mexico will pay for the wall that dont require the consent of president nieto. Halting remittances, raising ports which might be unconstitutional. Raising port fees and increasing the fees for visas issued to mexican ceos. He doesnt need the approval of the mexican president to do that. What happened today is historic because for the first time you saw the mexican president consenting to a border wall. You saw him agreeing to parts of nafta and this was a huge day for donald trump. Hillary clinton, everyone go on her website, no immigration policy to be found. Did it all change three minutes ago when the president of mexico put out a tweet saying essentially donald trump is lying. Let me parse some words here because it could come down to that. Donald trump said who pays for the wall . We didnt discuss. I looked up what the definition of discussion was. Merriamwebster said, the act of talking about something with another person or a group of people, a conversation about something. So to kayleighs point that could have been a passing comment or certainly a very to which trump did not respond to and kept moving on. So in that case, and that definition hes not lying. It doesnt put a dark cloud over what we saw today which is exactly what youre saying. We knew this was going to happen, by the way. Who thought they would both walk away from this into some kind of he said she said moment. I actually do think it puts a dark cloud on a day that i actually dont think was a good day for the Trump Campaign because it was also seen by many as a desperate act. He needed to change the conversation. He has seen the national polls. He was at a podium with the president of mexico. His arch enemy, and the guy actually took a meeting with him. How is that bad . Because he needed to change
the conversation and the fact of the matter is he needed to go there, and if he did not discuss the wall which is something that he has put front and center, you have people at his rally saying build the wall, deport them all and if hes saying we didnt discuss the wall. What are he said he discussed the wall, but not payment. He has put that front and center and now, pena nieto is saying that they did talk about it and mexico is not going to pay for the wall and is now donald trump going to call him a liar . You wont find anything in that meeting to say it was bad. Lets just be fair about that. Do i think when one person says something happened and another says it didnt thats a problem. Its semantics. When donald trump and he is the president and he is the leader he will not need president nietos approval or consent to build the wall or for mexico to pay for the wall and there were ways for them to pay for it. Hold on remittances, serious
constitutional issues which is beyond the scope of what were going to talk about right now, far from easy to sure, were going to pay for it. Would you expect him to do that . Theyre not going to pay for the wall, boris. Its as ridiculous as ari said and it was never realistic. Can i just say this . Very quickly. Hillary clinton did not have anything to prove. She didnt go to louisiana. She knew pena nieto, she has met with him before and has met with World Leaders and she has nothing to prove. Donald trump has everything to prove. You guys you are all going to stay with me because next clintons big lead in the crucial state of wisconsin, gone, poof. Whats happened . Trump comeback or not . Trump taking on former mexican president vicente fox and their war of words getting very ugly and vicente fox is my guest. Trumps campaign chief amid antigay and antisemitic claims
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breaking news. A brandnew poll showing a dead heat in the race for the white house. A National Fox News foal showing clinton with just a twopoint lead over donald trump and that is within the margin of error and closer than any recent national poll. In wisconsin, a Marquette UniversityLaw School Poll finds clinton ahead by nine points among registered voters and what is significant is earlier this month is nine points and an incredible narrowing in the race that was positive for Hillary Clinton just a few weeks ago. Joe johns is out front. Reporter Hillary Clinton today dismissing Donald Trumps meeting with the president of mexico. It certainly takes more than trying to make up for a year of insults and insinuations by dropping in on our neighbors for a few hours and then flying home again. That is not how it works. Reporter clintons remarks today come after she spent much of the last week focusing on fund raising and debate
preparations. The stakes this fall are as high as any election in our lifetimes. Reporter trump was her focus today in a speech to the American Legion in cincinnati. You dont build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. Reporter the democratic nominee hammered her rival on Veterans Issues calling out trump for insulting the khan family and senator john mccain. I will never, ever disrespect goldstar families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation or prisoners of war who endured so much in our name. To insult them is just so wrong and it says a lot about the person doing the insulting. Reporter meanwhile, team clinton is bracing for the fbis public release of its report investigating clintons use of her private email server as
more uncovered emails are making headlines and giving trump fresh lines of attack. Hillary clinton said under oath that she turned over all of her workrelated emails, but we now know that is just one more clinton lie. The state department announcing tuesday it may have uncovered additional emails related to the benghazi attack. The 30 emails in question could include duplicates and are being examined. These were emails about benghazi. It just never ends with the clintons. Reporter amid the ongoing questions about clintons email practices during her time as secretary of state, a New Washington post abc news poll shows her unpopularity reaching an alltime high in the survey. Among registered voters 59 say they have an unfavorable view of clinton while 60 say the same about trump. Hillary Clintons Campaign chair
john podesta put out a statement on trumps visit to mexico. It says in part, donald trump has made an outlandish policy to force mexico to pay for the wall ask its the first opportunity to make good on his offensive Campaign Promises. Trump choked. He doesnt have the courage to advocate for his Campaign Promises when hes not in front of a friendly crowd. Erin . Joe johns, thank you very much. Of course, all eyes on donald trump tonight and what hes going to say to a friendly crowd about the wall and immigration. My panel back with me and also with me now the executive director of the new york state democratic party, basil smikle, let me start with you. I think its fair to say a lot of people were widening to the point of no return for donald trump. Here we are, down to five. National poll up, according to know and we have to see if its true, appears to be withering. Most folks