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>> i don't know, i have no idea, i don't even talk about it any more. >> yeah, but it is there and on the record. i don't know, i guess with maybe some. i don't know why. i don't think -- you're the first one that brought that up in awhile. >> and his running mate, mike pence, of course is being questioned about all of this, breaking with donald trump over his involvement in the birther movement. saying off camera today i believe barack obama was born in hawaii. i accept his birthplace, i just don't know where he is coming from on economics and obama care. >> and he did not call for trump to apologize after repeaced requests by reporters. >> a new plan for fighting isis, a trump military advisor, michael flynn, the intelligence agency is joining us live, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me, wolf. >> you just heard trump once again saying he will ask the generals for a plan within his first 30 days if he is elected president to defeat isis, and you also heard during the campaign trump indicated he had a plan that was foolproof, and he didn't want to release it to tip off the terrorists. does he already have a plan or is he defending on the generals? >> this is about four weeks ago, if you listen to some of the speeches he has been giving, he has been talking about this issue for a long, long time and there are four components. cyber, military, ideological. at the end of the day, we have to stop being so predictable to the enemies that we have around the world. we're the best enemies because we continue to telegraph every single move we make. whether it is putting 500 more soldiers into iraq, leave 8,000 here, we have to be more unpredictable especially when we're fighting radical islamic terrorism. >> does he have a plan in mind already? is he depending on the generals to come up with a plan in his first 30 days? >> i think what he has and what we have discussed, we have quite a bit that we have talked about in terms of laying out a overarching strategy. i do completely agree that, you know to give a chance to the department of defense and some other parts of our cover to come in within the first 30 days, laying out a strategy, and laying out mission orders or intent that trump will provide. i see it as a very masmart move one that is calculated and to a degree is unpredictable. when we talk about these types of plans we have to fight our enemies, once a strategy is chosen and we begin to move towards that goal, then the president has a responsibility, as the commander and chief to say here is how we will approach this. i think, if i can, one of the numbers that donald trump used today, and it just came out in the last couple days, we have spent upwards of $6 trillion, an unimaginable number for most people, in the last 15 years, with this persistent conflict. we can't afford to keep doing this. we have to have a strategy that gets us to winning. >> how do the members of the joint chiefs been giving president obama their best advice. how will donald trump's approach be any different? >> i think it will be vastly different. it has been very sort of intentional on the part of the white house. again, narrow operations, using narrow tools, and really not going after some of the bigger components. i think we can do more on the final side, more on the id logical silodg ideological side. i know we are discussing and we have discussed that we would be offering to be able to come back with very sound objectives. >> are you suggesting the colleagues have not been doing their best. >> i'm not suggesting that at all, wolf. i think they have been giving their best military advice. there is a lot of frustration and i'm telling you there are people that know we can do more in our military for sure, and i know we can do far more on the ideological. >> let me get to that in a moment. do you have confidence on the current leadership will trump accept them or new generals and admirals. >> these are lifelong servants, courageous people that have given it all, and i think what they need to be able to do is up leash our military capabilities and others that we have in our government system. and other cape abouts that we have. get this thing over with instead of continuing on with this p perpetual war. >> you spent a lot of time in the u.s. military. worked your way up. i have spoken with several of your colleagues privately. they say drone strikes are important, cyber warfare is important. . you have to send 50,000 troops into mosul, raqqa, syria, destroy isis. is that what you're talking about? >> this is exactly the point. we have to stop being the best enmys in the world and the worst friends in the world. we're the best because we constantly talk about exactly what we're going to do and we're so predictable. we're the worst friends because we place our friends in the middle east in a position where they're opposed to each other. look at what we have done with iran alone and all of the other nations in the middle east saying we're not even sure if we can trust you any more. he says he wants to unleash the military. is he talking about deploying thousands of ground troops? >> i think part of this is the imagination, the ingenuity of the american soldier. in very close cooperation with the allies and friends that we have in the region and elsewhere in europe. the number's game, wolf, is not something that i will get drawn into and i think it is a shame any time that one of our leaders talk about getting another thousand, put somebody here. we should stop doing that today. >> we have more questions, i would like you to explain more about what trump was saying in his major national security speech here today. more with general flynn after this. safety doesn't come in a box. it's not a banner that goes on a wall. it's not something you do now and then. or when it's convenient. it's using state-of-the-art simulators to better prepare for any situation. it's giving offshore teams onshore support. and it's empowering anyone to stop a job if something doesn't seem right. at bp, safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. at bp, safety is never being satisfied. put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture every day. amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. sleep number beds adjust on both sides for your best sleep ever. don't miss the biggest sale of the year - all beds on sale with the queen c2 mattress only $599.99. final days! -ends sunday. know better sleep. only at a sleep number store. won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. and if you have more than one liberty mutual policy, you qualify for a multi-policy discount, saving you money on your car and home coverage. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. 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successful getting support from the republican establishment and the republican hawks that he needs in his corner. >> during the campaign you heard donald trump saying he has a plan, a foolproof plan to destroy isis, today he says he wants to consult with the generals if he is president, get a specific plan in his first 30 days in office. does he have a plan of his own? >> in the course of the primary, as you said, he laid out any number of things he might do. he talked about 20 or 30,000 ground troops, then he said very few troops. he also talked about taking out the oil fielding in iraq, even though most of that activity has been in syria. i think this gives him a pretty safe landing space, a nonplan plan that he has to ask the generals once he is in the white house, this gives him a way to say listen, i'm not going to reveal my plan, it's a secret olympian, but he would find out 30 days into his tenure as president. i think he has a lot of work to do. mark talked about getting some of the hawkish republicans around him. he has work to do in terms of getting the folks to back him. you asked them, for instance what is the biggest concern you have about donald trump, and they would say his foreign policy knowledge and plans. today i thought it was a pretty boilerplate republican ideas. >> i expect you're right. he calls hillary clinton in a speech today trigger happy, very unstable. she is going after his character saying he is unfit to be president of the united states. in the next few months it will get very personal. >> i would argue that it already has. what is unusual about this presidential race, one of about a million thing that's are unusual about this presidential vase that each of the candidates is really making the argument that the other is unfit to be president. not that they are wrong on policy necessarily. not that they are not qualified, that they are unfit to be president of the united states. so it is a very personal argument they're making at the same time you have hillary clinton saying that donald trump is pushing racist ideas through his campaign. donald trump saying hillary clinton is corrupt. these are very strong terms. very strong terms, but at the same time, i mean we could hope for maybe more of a high minded policy discussion, but when you have a candidate like trump, and his campaign is based on who he is and not a policy prescription, you're left with a discussion that becomes very personal. >> hillary clinton is upping the pressure on him to release his tax returns and he says he can't do it because there is an audit. he says he will not do it, mike pence says he will release his tax returns tomorrow, that will increase the pressure on trump. >> yeah, and trump said the american people don't care about seeing my taxes. and they do, right? so if you go back and look at polls next month, a strong majority of them, 60% or 70% say they think donald trump should release these tax returns. i think this comes to the issue of honesty and trust worthiness. we're talking about hillary clinton, her e-mail server, her work at the clinton foundation, and also the fact that donald trump continues to stonewall and releasing any information about his taxes. >> he could release his earlier year that's are no longer under audit. >> yeah, he has, and he has been pretty steadfast in this whole idea that he will not release them, he is under audit. i think last night he may have said he would release them if hillary clinton released her e-mails. i think that the american people, as mark said, they do care about this, but i don't think many voter wills be voting on whether or not trump releases his tax returns. at this point i think there is little incentive to do so. he finds himself tied in a lot of polls with hillary clinton. whatever damage has been done by him not releases his tax returns is baked in at this point. >> everybody stand by, more coming up including new words, just released today by the fbi director, 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additional help. i want to bring in joe jones, the one person we did not see on the campaign trail today was hillary clinton herself. >> that's true, but it is her husband, the former president, doing the heavy lifting having his own foundation's activity called into acquisition by his wife's opponent. hillary clinton getting campaign reinforcements from her family. bill clinton rallying supporters today in florida where he hammered donald trump for paying a fine to the irs for making an illegal donation to a political group backing the state's attorney general pam bondi in 2013. >> her opponent attacked my foundation. i think that's because he knew they were about to report that he used a foundation to give money to the attorney general of florida, which is not legal. pam bondi said she was considering an investigation into the now defunct trump university. >> saying you're going to make america great again is like me saying i'd like to be 20 begin. that as hillary clinton picks up a rare endorsement from the dallas morning news editorial board that has not backed a democrat in more than 75 years writing that clinton made mistakes but her errors are in a different universe from trump. >> we have to keep working. the endorsements don't vote. people vote. >> and hillary clinton getting some good news in arizona, a red state she is hoping to turn blue this year. a new poll there shows her neck and neck with trump with nearly a quarter of voters in the state undecided. a cnn poll last month showed trump ahead five points. a new cnn orc poll finds immigration now rivals the economy as a top concern with voters evenly split between clinton and trump between who is best able to handle the issue. there is little support for some of trump's proposals with 58% saying they oppose his plan to build a wall on the southern voter, and two in three saying they're against mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. and clinton's daughter, chelsea, also hitting the campaign trail today for the first time since the bit of her second child. >> even if i weren't a mom, this is the most important presidential election of my lifetime. everything that i care most about i worry is at risk. >> just a little while ago, the clinton campaign issued a statement blasting the childish insults of donald trump's speech today comparing him to a schoolyard bully saying he only has one way to responding to legitimate criticism of his vulnerabilities with "i know you are but what am i." >> thank you, joe johns reporting. more breaking news coming into the situation room. there has been a new close encounter between a russian jet and a military plane. stand by for details. >> and apple's latest iphone doesn't have a headphone jack. all computers on sale like this dell laptop. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great. mornin'. hey, do you know when the game starts? 11 hours. oh. well, i'm heading back to my room. 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