Struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future. Reporter trump addressing the violent protests in milwaukee, after police shot those pedaling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society, a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent, shared directly in the responsibility for the unrest in milwaukee and many other places within our country. Reporter hes placing the blame for inner city unrest squarely on what he calls failed democratic policies. The Africanamerican Community has been taken for granted for decades by the Democratic Party. Its time for rule by the people, not rule for the special interests. Hillary clinton backed policies responsible for the problems in the inner cities today, and a vote for her is a vote for
another generation of poverty, high crime, and lost opportunities. Reporter with only 83 days until the election, trump is digging in on his combative style, in hopes of turning around his slide in the polls. I am who i am. Its he. You have to be you. If you start pivoting, youre not being honest with people. Reporter and in just the past few minutes, donald trump has been addressing the additions to his team, putting out this statement, saying, i believe were adding some of the best talents in politics with the experience and expertise needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in november and continue to share my message and vision to make America Great again. Paul manafort also talking about it, saying the team is adding toptiered talent, not talking about a shakeup, instead addressing this as an expansion. As for donald trump, hell be receiving his First National security briefing today. Its the first time hell have access to classified information. Alisyn and chris . Jessica, thanks so much for all that background. Lets talk about it. We want to bring in our panel. We have cnn political director david chalion. We have cnn reporter rebecca berg. And cnn political commentator, errol louis. Hot off the press just 23 minutes ago, we get this press release announcing this shakeup. What do these changes mean . It means the campaign is not going according to plan and not going very well. Thats what it means first and foremost. Youre 80 days away from a general election. Thats not normally the time youre going to shake up the Upper Echelon of your campaign. As you noted, alisyn, just two months after you already did so. To me, its a clear recognition that the last two months did not work. Under Paul Manaforts leadership. I also think we have to remember at the top of this is the candidate. Staff matters. Ive covered a lot of president ial campaigns where theres a lot of skilled staff,
not so skilled staff, and that makes a difference. Nothing matters as much as the candidate. When you see him two nights in a row stick to the teleprompter, give a speech thats on message that causes some of the concerns inside the Republican Party to be assuaged, in addition to make these staff changes, people will start saying, hey, maybe hes putting something together that can get us through to november 8th. Heres what we know. What david just said, donald trump hates. The idea that we already know that. Him being on message and being a good little boy and getting patted on the head by people he doesnt respect and hes been successful against literally makes him physically ill. That was something that had to change. This is not an unusual situation because of where we started. Paul manafort had big problems. In his first interview here, w b went right to it. Donald trump decided to bring him in. So he brings in one guy whos
been telling him hes been doing it wrong. And he brings in somebody whos proven to him that she knows how to do it right in kellyanne. That makes a lot of sense right now. Keeping manafort does as well, you could argue. Why get rid of him . It only makes it more true, the speculation about him. Thats true. He wasnt charging the campaign, so theres no expense to keeping him there. Hes got a lot of wise counsel to offer. It looked like theyve got something of a team. I think Kellyanne Conway referred to what she called the core four. We know the candidate will make the final decision in this case. Having Kellyanne Conway is important, not just in that theres been a shakeup, but she runs a polling company. She doesnt talk in the language of numbers, but she deeply understands the numbers. They give him a nice balance. Hes got the old hand in manafort. Hes got a real polish eed proKellyanne Conway. Then hes got that breitbart pedigree. Hes got a mix of all these Different Things now. You want to bring in rebecca berg . Yeah, what do you think, particularly about the steve bannon addition . Well, its a really interesting choice. If you think about some of the problems that donald trump has right now in terms of his campaign, its pretty simple. He doesnt have a ground operation. He hasnt been advertising. And he hasnt been staying on message. Im deeply skeptical that bringing in any new blood is going to fix those problems. Steve bannon obviously understands politic, but he hasnt led a political campaign. So hes not steeped in ground operation, advertising, in the way that a more experienced political hand would be. And of course, the issue of donald trump not staying on message, it goes back to what david was saying. Thats up to the candidate. Thats ultimately Donald Trumps decision. What donald trump has indicated is hes not really interested in pivoting to a toned down message
or changing the way he speaks on the campaign trail. So what im curious to see is whether adding steve bannon, adding kellyanne in this new role is going to make any difference in that regard. Right. So this morning we should be talking about his law and order speech that he gave last night that was supposedly outreach to black voters. Again, hes eclipsing his own news this morning by the timing of these announcements. That gets back to the let trump be trump philosophy that he seems to be moving back to with steve bannon. But he is eclipsing it with news of trying to right the ship, not with some off message. Its also leaked. I dont think they wanted this news to come out when it did. I think it leaked. So he has to deal with it when it falls into the media. But youre right. It does overshadow the speech. Then again, is that a good or bad thing . Yeah, the speech was one that was not only easily forgotten but one that perhaps he would have done well to sort of step on and pretend it never
happened. Because . Because what did it do for him . So much of this campaign really comes across as an infomercial for people who have already bought the product. You go to an allwhite suburb and you talk about law and order. Well, is this getting new voters for donald trump . Is this actually outreach to the black vote . He said it was. He said, im asking for the vote of every africanamerican citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future. And i will not set foot in a 40 black city to tell them that. That seems to be what the message is. I think people can read between the lines. Frankly, taken from his speech, if theres a choice between a politician who will pander to you and one who will ignore you, i think most voters will make the choice that at least somebody whos pandering is offering us something, even a hope or a promise that we can call them on later. Donald trump in the Republican Party generally has not done that. This is why the high point of black voters for republican president ial candidates was
gerald ford with only 16 . But i would argue its not just the direct appeal to africanamerican votes that was the goal of last nights speech but also to appeal to independent republicans who may be reluctant to the trump candidacy that hes willing to try to do some outreach. I think there are two things going on there. Remember, he still has work to do with the republican base. Thats not completed work. His numbers of republican support compared to Hillary Clintons number of democratic support in the polls, he has work to do with his own party. So i think some of this is aimed at doing that work, not trying to get his 1 up to 5 necessarily. 1 is the number of trump support that they see in the new poll. Put it up there. For africanamerican voters. This is hard to believe. Only 1 . Yeah, that its only 1 . Youre saying its much too high . 1 has got to be artificially low. But it does show the discrepancy
issues. Rebecca, the virtue of donald trump returning to what got him there. Yes, all the big brains have said what he did in the primary wont work in the general. He cant just go with this one faction of his party. Hes got to expand his base. At the end of the day, if youre donald trump and you look at your best chances to win this election, how do you turn away from yourself . You cant be suddenly a totally new person. I mean, weve seen in past elections how that tends to fail. You come off as a flipflopper. Donald trump doesnt need to completely reinvent himself, but it does help to moderate your tone a little bit. You are generally speaking to a completely new audience. A republican primary audience is not the audience youre going after in the general election. Now donald trump needs to be appealing to suburban, College Educated voters who are undecided at this stage. They have completely different interests, completely different values, completely different
priorities than the republican electorate in a primary setting. So its not really saying that he needs to become a new person and a new candidate, but he does need to direct his message, target his message, and try to speak to these new people and bring them into the fold, but he hasnt really done that yet. And it sounds like with this ship that thats not what hes doing. Hes returning to what got him here, and he wants the let trump be trump, shoot from the hip, the success of the primary, and that got him 13. 3 million voters, but hard to know if that will get him more now. It can never hurt to bring in quality, right. Kellyanne was already in there doing the polling, but having her more involved, that cant hurt you. I dont know what bannon offers in terms of expanding the base. Breitbart has been determined to be one specific thing in this campaign, and it is not a broad based Building Coalition outlet. Panel, stick around. We have much more to talk to you about. Coming up in our next hour, trumps former Campaign ManagerCorey Lewandowski joins us live to talk about this latest Campaign Shakeup. And another development. Congress now has its hands on the fbis report to the Justice Department explaining its recommendation of no charges in Hillary Clintons use of private emails as secretary of state. Now, the Clinton Campaign is blasting republicans, arguing that the classified report should be made public for you to see as well. Thats an odd turnabout in play here. Cnn investigative correspondent chris frates live in washington with more. Their initial reaction was this shouldnt be released. Now theyre saying everyone should have it. Thats exactly right, chris. Hillary clintons email problems really continuing to dog her campaign. Yesterday the fbi sent congress a classified report explaining why it recommended against charging clinton in connection with her use of a private email server as secretary of state. The report contains notes from interviews with clinton and other material related to the investigation. The decision to release the information in a case where charges are not brought is extremely rare. In a statement, the fbi said it provided the report to congress with the expectation it wont be made public. But the news drew a sharp response from the clinton cam pap, who said republicans were only looking to secondguess the fbi. In a statement, the Campaign Said this. They said, we believe that if these materials are going to be shared outside the Justice Department, they should be released widely so that the public can see them for themselves rather than allow republicans to mischaracterize them through selective, partisan leaks. Top republican senator Chuck Grassley seemed to agree with clinton, saying much of the material in the report is unclassified and should be made public. In a letter to lawmakers, the fbi reiterated director jaemes comeys opinion that her actions were extremely careless but it did not warrant prosecution. Judging by the fireworks the report generated on capitol hill yesterday, the political battle over clintons emails is far from over. Alisyn, back to you. Okay, chris. Youve given us a lot of food
for thought there. Our Political Panel will weigh in and debate all of that coming up next. Tempurpedic mattresses is that they contour to your body. It keeps us comfortable and asleep at night. Change your sleep, change your life, change to tempurpedic. Learn how you can change your sleep by requesting a free sample of tempur material. Call or click today. By finding a policy to fit your budget. [ coughs ] sorry, tickle in my throat water would be nice, but that would go right through me. Ghost problems. Hillary clintons email problems may not be a legal issue, but theyre certainly a political issue. Even more so now with the latest turn of events. An fbi report with notes on clintons interview with the bureau over her private email is now in the hands of congress. The Clinton Campaign is making an interesting play here. Theyre saying everybody should see it, make it public. Lets bring back david chalieon. Federal agents, they do not put you under oath. They do not transcribe. They do not record very often in the context of these kinds of interviews. Voluntary interviews. But they take notes. So what could be in there . Well, the notes of the
different topics that got discussed in that interview that jim comey gave us a window into when he held his press conference and went to capitol hill about what was discussed. This carelessness among the emails seems to be something that was discussed in the interview with secretary clinton. Then what we dont know yet is what i would love to know the most out of these notes. What in the notes, in the portion of the conversation about the markings of classification that she didnt seem to know to be classified material. To me, those little they were misclassified. Didnt we get that explanation . But we dont have the readout of the interview about how she responded. From her telling of it, she has spoken publicly just the way that she spoke privately with the fbi. Errol, the Clinton Campaign basically is suggesting this is a fishing expedition, that director comey put this to bed. The fbi went through it. They heard all the testimony. This is the clinton statement. We believe that if these materials are going to be shared outside the Justice Department, they should be released widely so the public can see them for themselves rather than allow republicans to mischaracterize them. So what more is congress doing here . I think theres some truth to this. They want to find and i think we all heard this. The reaction to comeys press conference was immediate. From people who had long praised him an the fbi, all the sudden a complete reversal. Theres something wrong here. Theres something thats not quite on the level, comey should resign, all kinds of things started coming out of the mouths of the partisan politicians on capitol hill. They want to be in this game. They want to control and be part of this whole discussion. What the Clinton Campaign is y saying wisely, look, lets give
this to the voters. Lets not decide this in yet another tenhour hearing on capitol hill or on the steps of capitol hill or in commercials being cut by different republicans running for reelection. She wants this in the political realm, nowhere near the legal realm. What were going to see is people are going to seize on something. There will be something in those notes. Some notes, some suspicion. A discrepancy. Not even a discrepancy. Just a reference to a possible crime. Lets keep in mind, thats what the fbi is about. They want to find out was some kind of a law broken. There will be something in there saying, i wonder if a law was broken. People are going to jump on that and say, aha, the fbi knew she was breaking the law, lock her up, and the whole thing starts to tumble down the same hill weve seen it go down for months now. The republicans are right about one thing. The fbi is what eerrol just sai. Theyre in the job of proving fault. This time comey did both jobs effectively. Rebecca, ultimately the political reality is what we see in the polls on this issue. Lets put up some numbers and talk about how this is playing, what we see in the state of play between the two candidates. Florida is a big battleground state. A few weeks ago, it was knotted up, which was a great indication of how tight this race could be. Now, not so much. Hillary clinton up nine points there. Gary johnson and jill stein somewhat irrelevant. What do you see in those numbers . Shes having a very good month. Make no mistake about it. When you dive down a little deeper into these polling numbers, you see that Hillary Clinton is still consistently under water on the question of whether she is honest and trustworthy. Thats where these emails and the continuing discussion about them is really going to hurt her in the long run because this is an issue she and her campaign, unsurprisingly, would love to be able to move past, turn the page
on, move on to something they would like to be talking about. The fact that congress is getting this report, that new emails keep surfacing, this conversation keeps going on and on, its really damaging for her campaign in the long run because it reminds voters about these misgivings that they already have about her. But at the same time, its not affecting her sort of overall numbers in the battleground states. Lets look at virginia, david. Clinton said 52 to trumps 38 in virginia. So i hear