it's very last minute. it appears to be them jumping back in in a very big way. it's interesting, we've got details on that ahead. we've also got tremendously good names tonight concerning the obama family. it's news that is slightly more personal than it is political, but that's ahead tonight as well. so there's lots -- lots coming up, including for once some news that is more good than bad, which is always nice. but we're going to start tonight with some new tape that has never been heard publicly before. it's never been broadcast before. we're going to break this here live tonight with you. and i have to tell you, you'll be surprised to hear this, but this new tape that has never been broadcast before, it is tape from the greatest baseball player in new york. >> i was the best baseball player in new york when i was young. >> do you recognize that voice? that's a remarkable thing to have learned today from this brand new tape that's never been broadcast before. it's donald trump speaking. he says when i was young, so we're thinking we're talking about maybe he was 17 or 16 years old, when he was 16 years old, that was 1962. that's when the yankees went to the world series, they won the world series. it was like mickey mantle, roger maris. even if you don't know anything about baseball, you know mickey mantle. but it turns out none of them were the best baseball player in new york that year. no, it was this other guy. >> i was the best baseball player in new york when i was young. >> this is the best tape we've gotten our hands on in a very long time. this is incredible. all right. this is from 2014. there is a pulitzer prize-winning reporter named michael dantonio. in preparing the book he did hours and hours of interviews with donald trump, just raw footage of them talking. some of those tapes have been obtained by "the new york times." the "the new york times" has been doing a little bit of reporting on them recently but they have not published this audio we are about to play. i don't totally want to spoil it here, but arm chair psychologists, start your engines. this is incredible. >> i went to military academy, new york military academy for five years, from the year before freshman. >> so eighth grade on? >> yes. >> whose idea was this? >> well, i was very rebellious and my parents thought it would be a good idea. i was very rebellious. i loved to fight. i always love to fight. >> physical fights. >> all kinds of fights. physical. >> arguments? >> all types of fights. any kind of fight i loved it, including physical. and i was always the best athlete, something that nobody knew about me. but one guy you should speak to before it's too late, because he's a pretty old guy now, is major dobias. so when dobias was a drill sergeant in the army, and these guys were rough. this guy was so rough. in those days, they'd smack the hell out of you. it's not like today where you smack somebody and you end up going to jail for the rest of your life. so i went up there, i'll never forget. >> eighth grade? >> and i'm standing there at military academy. this guy comes up and he's like a bulldog too, rough guy. he was a drill sergeant. now they call him major dobias. but when i first knew him he was sergeant dobisa right right army. he was physically rough and mentally rough. he was also my baseball coach. and he said things like stand up, and i went give me a [ bleep ] break. and this guy came at me. you would never believe it. it was really fantastic. >> did he rough you up? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. >> grabbed you by the shirt? >> well, it doesn't matter, but it was not like what happens today. and you had to learn to survive. it was tough. it wasn't today. those were rougher times. that was before vietnam and these were guys that didn't take [ bleep ]. you must call him, before it's too late. ask him about how was trump as an athlete? because he said -- he coached for many, many -- it was like 35 years. he said donald trump was the best athlete i've ever coached. donald trump was the best baseball player i've ever coached. you know, just something to -- >> when did you know that you were good? >> i always knew i was good. i was always a good athlete. i was always the best athlete. >> like in first grade if the kids the a game -- >> from before the first grade. i was the best baseball player in new york when i was young. now, in those days, you know, you couldn't play baseball because there was no real -- you know, it wasn't a thing. plus my father was in the real estate business, which i didn't want to go into. i wanted to go into theater. i wanted to go into sports. but i also know that was very limited because in those days you couldn't even make any money being a great baseball player. >> didn't the dodgers train at west point a couple times, in the spring? >> everybody wanted me to be a baseball player. >> right. >> but i was a good at other things too. i was good at wrestling. i was really good at football. i was a good -- i was always good at sports. i was always like the best at sports. >> always the best. at all sports. my favorite part of that, i love the explanation for why, you know, nobody knows even now that he was the greatest baseball player in new york. he says when i was young, i was the best baseball player in new york when i was young. now he says but, you know, in those days, baseball wasn't really a thing. i was the best baseball player in new york when i was young. now in those days you couldn't play baseball because there was no real, you know, it wasn't a thing. he says in those days you couldn't even make any money being a baseball player. again, the time he's talking about here is when he was in high school, like 1962, 1963. yankees going to the world series. some of the best remembered games of all time. baseball, unequivocally the national pastime. mickey mantle a national hero. but donald trump didn't want to bother showing up all of those lesser baseball players because baseball wasn't really a thing then. we didn't really have leather covered balls, we just had rocks that we hid into the cave art. baseball wasn't a thing then? that's why you weren't? everybody wanted him to play but there wasn't really a baseball organization. donald trump believes, not hyperbolically, not jokingly, but apparently in all seriousness that he was the greatest baseball player in new york when he was a young man. he was the best at that. he was the best at all of sports. and why, mr. trump, were you the best? >> i think you have a natural ability at things. i'm a big believer in -- >> nature. >> no, not nature. i'm a big believer in natural ability. i believe in being prepared and all that stuff. but in many respects, the most important thing is an innate ability. >> and you knew this as a kid? >> no, i never thought of it as a kid. >> do you think you had it even then? >> always. >> when you look back at yourself -- >> i had it. i always had it. >> i always had it. i never had to work. other people have to prepare and do stuff, but i just came down from heaven, for example, as the greatest baseball player in new york. >> were you a good hitter? >> the best. >> i was the best hitter. it gives you some insight, right? i mean if that is how this presidential candidate thinks of himself and has always thought of himself going back to first grade -- no, no, no, before first grade, i mean if you understand that that is how he thinks of himself, then it is not a surprise when he, like, for example, today on the campaign trail tells a crowd of supporters in ohio that basically he is sick of this election. he is sick of all this working to earn this presidency thing. he's sick of it. just give it to me already. >> what a difference. you know, what a difference this is. and just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to trump, right? why are we having it for? >> just give it to trump. what are we having it for? what are you having this election for? i know. if you think of yourself as a person who has never actually had to work for anything because you were born innately great, you were bornin ately as the great is athlete, if you were excellent at everything you ever tried because you were born basically perfect, then why should you have to compete for something. i deserve it by virtue of me being me. so it offers an insight. this tape from the trump biographer which provided it to "the new york times," i think this is newsworthy tape, and i think it is helpful to understanding how donald trump is running for president now, because he on tape here talks in this very unguarded way about how he sees himself and that is a rare thing we don't ever get from any candidate, let alone from him. but there is another piece of this tape that has never been heard publicly before, which we have got for you in just a second. and this other piece of tape, i think this is just like a dart into the heart of today's news. and it's on a subject that has only come up a little bit in the campaign so far. it came up for an instant earlier in this campaign when donald trump named mike pence to be his running mate. one of the controversial things in mike pence's record is that he is on record being against women in the military. from the very beginning of him running for congress, mike pence was against not just women in combat, but even women being in combat support units. he was even against women being allowed to do basic training for the military. mike pence wrote this creepy column in 1999 about young nubile 18-year-old women in basic training. the column ends with this line, i kid you not. women in the military, bad idea. that's the bottom line of his column on women in the military. so that's on record already from mike pence, donald trump's running mate, when pence was a talk radio host. that was the time he lost running for congress. that run most remembered for mike pence using campaign contributions to pay for his mortgage, his grocery bills, his car payment and his golfing fees. he let his donors pay for all that stuff. if mike pence were running in any normal republican, i think he would have been a scandal as a running mate. things in his record would have been a scandal and a problem to his running mate. it is testament to donald trump that he is so controversial that picking mike pence with mike pence's record, it hasn't given donald trump a single day of heartburn in the entire campaign. i mean if in this campaign anybody could pay attention to mike pence for more than ten seconds without passing out for lack of oxygen, this thing from him about women in the military, bad idea, that would be a scandal, right? that would be a problem for a campaign. maybe it will be still some day. for a long time i felt like this issue has been a lurking liability for trump and pence, just sort of waiting at some point to cause them trouble. well, now that trouble may finally be coming to pass, because now with this new tape that we are about to broadcast for the first time ever, this has never been heard publicly any time before, this is the first time anywhere, here is donald trump not 16 years ago or 18 years ago when mike pence was talking about this stuff, here's donald trump two years ago in 2014, unprompted, answering a totally unrelated question. just deciding to bring up voluntarily his donald trump opinion on women in the military. >> when you were young, what did you think of the '60s counterculture, the hippies, the music? you didn't do any of that stuff. >> no, i wasn't into it. it wasn't that i wasn't into it. >> what did you think? >> well, i went -- i went to a military academy, which was from a different planet. we didn't have that. and we didn't have women in the academy at that time. today you have women, which is a whole other story, you know, women in the army, and you see what's going on. it's like bedlam. it is bedlam. it's something that people aren't talking about, but what's going on is bedlam, bringing women in the army. >> bringing women in the army, women in the military, it's bedlam. and his running mate says women in the military, bad idea. ask military families how they feel about that in a potential commander in chief. ask women in the military how they feel about that in a potential commander in chief. ask women in general how they feel about that. bringing women into the army, bedlam. it's something people aren't talking about, but what's going on is bedlam. bringing women in the army, it's bedlam. women in the military, bad idea. the two of them are in line on that question. it is, therefore, a reasonable question to ask if trump and pence do get elected, will they kick all women out of the military? they're both on record saying it is a terrible thing that women are in the military. it's a terrible thing, it's even a disgusting thing. we ought to go back to only men serving in the military. is that what we should do? this one has been lurking just under the surface for them for quite a while, but now we've got it on tape. i would love to hear an answer for this. okay. live here next we'll have the latest on what just happened at new york's laguardia airport where indiana governor mike pence's plane has skidded off the runway and the airport has been shut down. thankfully nobody was hurt in this incident, but we are getting in some crazy images of the actual runway. can you guys see those images there? look at the tarmac. this is what this hard landing, this skidding off the runway, look what it did to the actual tarmac, to the actual concrete. again, this was a hard landing tonight, last hour involving the republican nominee for vice president and his campaign jet. we'll talk with someone who was on that flight when it went off the runway. somebody who says interestingly this is not the first time mike pence's plane has had a really bad landing, which is an interesting thing. why's that? that's next. members of the press were on that plane. we also think we saw a congressman from texas. we heard that a 737 usually comes in for a landing at 155 miles an hour and when it's a wet, slick night like tonight, this kind of thing can happen. but the faa and maybe the ntsb will be looking into this incident to determine exactly what caused it here. i'll show you again, this is what the plane did to the tarmac at laguardia as it slid off the runway. i didn't know that that happened when you slid off a runway. all the air traffic at laguardia was suspended for over an hour in the wake of this incident. we are told as soon as the plane came to a rest following its rough landing and its slide into the grass with mud flying up and hitting the windows, governor pence immediately came to the back of the plane to check that everybody was okay. god bless him, that's the right thing to do. as you can see he's fine. he also stopped with photos with first responders in the rain. he had been scheduled to attend a fund-raiser in new york city tonight but his spokesman said instead he is headed to his hotel for the night, absolutely totally understandable. about an hour after the incident the governor tweeted so thankful everyone on our plane is safe. grateful for our first responders and the concern and prayers of so many. back on the trail tomorrow. again, the most important thing here is no injuries as far as we know. but certainly some jangled nerves and some rushes of adrenaline and none of us need any of that at this time. joining us now is a man onboard that plane, vaughn hillyard. he was on the plane when it slid off the runway. vaughn, let me shake your hand. i'm glad you're okay. were you scared? >> no. the crazy part is this wasn't the first time -- first time we've gone off the runway, but we've had a lot of shaky incidents in the past. hard impact, tough landings. we actually pulled out the phone this time and i snapped originally about ten seconds of video, which i'm trying to get into the system here eventually for everybody, but the crazy part was originally we had the hard impact and then we went two or three seconds and that's with we started to swerve off to the right. and then all of a sudden we come to just a hard crashing stop. and that's when you looked out the window and you can see that the road was oddly close to where the plane was at. >> the road with cars on it. >> the road with cars. the circle k across the street. that's when it became real. >> so when you say you were trying to get tape, you were filming as you were landing. is that because you were expecting a hard landing because you've had so many? >> it's a joke. it's a joke how long are we going to last. that's the part the fact that i'm on with you tonight is sort of the interesting end of this. this camera, we've captured a lot of crazy things in this campaign, but to get to the point where this is the news of the night was -- >> wait a second. you're saying it's become a joke how long are we going to last. you're saying that the hard landings on the pence campaign plane specifically are so frequent and so notable that it's a point of discussion among the press corps? >> yes. and i'll be honest that i've never pursued that. we haven't pursued asking questions further about that because usually we don't fly on private, i guess, charter flights on campaign. this is my first campaign covering so we just took it for granted. >> have you only had bad landings in heavy weather? >> no. we landed in ft. dodge, iowa, earlier and we had another rough landing where we hit. it felt like we went back into the air. you could see the blue sky again. of course we didn't go off the runway at that point. >> i'm just going to put this to you. i've got a -- i went back and looked at my earlier coverage about something involving the mike pence campaign. i am sure this is just coincidental, but this is not the first time that we on this show have talked about issues involving mike pence's campaign plane. and i've never been on that campaign plane so it's not like i was reporting a personal experience. it was late last month we learned that the pilot, who is entrusted with the trump campaign with flying the pence campaign and his press corps and his family around the country, he made news because he was fired for an unusual reason. the guardian was first to report that the pilot for the pence plane until one month ago was a retired police officer in addition to being pence's pilot. he was the chairman of donald trump's florida law enforcement coalition. and "the guardian" reported that he was actively facing criminal charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. in 2015 he had allegedly driven over a co-worker with his car three times on purpose, causing the co-worker severe physical injuries. his name is vincent caldera. he pled not guilty to those charges but it turned out those weren't the only charges against him. he was accused of a similar incident in 2014. in that case he was accused of driving into a woman with his motorcycle on purpose and seriously injuring her. "the guardian" reported last month he hadn't actually been formally charged in relation to that episode because they hadn't been able to locate him to serve him with legal papers. meanwhile he's flying the vice presidential candidate around the country. so that's the pilot who got fired from the pence campaign plane last month. do you know who they replaced him with? >> i do not know who the gentleman is. they switch people out. >> so it's rotating? >> so it's a rotating basis, yeah. >> how old are you? >> 25. >> have you done a lot of flying in your reporting job and in your personal life? >> yes. >> is the pence campaign plane the only campaign plane on which you have had hard landings like this? >> that's accurate. >> that's really weird. john hillyard. i don't know what the relationship is between these two halves of this story, but knowing that this runway thing happened tonight after a series of hard landings that was a topic of discussion by you guys, it weirds me out and we will try to get to the bottom of it. and i'm glad that you're okay. thanks. appreciate it. nbc news embed vaughn hillyard. he's great. important step forward. the time is long overdue... pharmaceutical industry. passes - the ballot. his democratic opponent, congressman patrick murphy, is somewhere between two points down and tied with rubio in recent polls. murphy, the democrat, has the endorsement of all four of florida's largest newspapers, including the big ones that endorsed marco rubio before this election. and perhaps most importantly, hillary clinton is doing great in florida. and the democrats have a huge ground operation in florida. this is a senate race that the democrats could win. why are they pulling out? on monday's show, i put this mystery to steve shale, a veteran democratic operative in florida. and he couldn't explain it either. he told us here, quote, i think the momentum has definitely headed murphy's way and i don't understand the democrats' decision. well, tonight the democratic party has apparently decided that they also do not understand their decision. at least some democrats have decided that. a spokesman for the biggest super pac supporting senate democrats this year, one of the super pacs that previously pulled millions of dollars in florida ad buys earlier this month, that super pac says tonight that they have changed their minds about marco rubio versus patrick murphy. they have changed their minds about pulling out. they have now decided that they're going to make a, quote, seven-figure transfer into that florida senate race to try to help out patrick murphy in his effort to oust marco rubio from his senate seat. of course it's very late, right? a lot of people in florida have already voted. more than two million people have already voted in florida. but if i were patrick murphy's campaign manager and i had a choice between getting outside help late or getting outside help never, i'd pick late. i'd pick late. seriously, is there anyone more inspiring than michelle obama? and maybe, maybe it's especially meaningful to me because i do know something about first lady of the united states. >> today first lady hillary clinton -- former first lady hillary clinton and current first lady michelle obama shared the stage at a campaign event in north carolina. this was their first appearance together. an important one for hillary clinton because north carolina's really, really important this year. and michelle obama is one of the most beloved figures in all of american politics. but there was one piece of business basically that transacted between hillary clinton and michelle obama today at this event. i think it got largely overlooked among all the badly needed good vibes at this event. but what happened between them today, an announcement made by them today that was a surprise announcement is something that i think is important and fascinating and we've got it coming up straight ahead right at the end of the show tonight. it's good news and we've pegged it right at the end of the show. stay tuned for that. coordination and the extent of that coordination is something that is now materially important to the breaking news that we reported here last night after the democratic party last night filed papers in federal court in new jersey asking that court to hold the republican party in violation of an ancient consent decree that dates back to the 1980s. it dates back to an election in which the national republican party sent basically vigilante poll watchers into minority precincts in 1981. many of them wore guns, they wore these ballot security task force arm bands and they patrolled voting sites in dozens of precincts that had mostly minority voters. and the republicans did very, very, very narrowly win that governor's race in new jersey that year. but the democratic party sued over this ballot security task force thing. and the democrats won that case. and the republicans signed on to a consent decree because of it. and now, 35 years later, the republican party is still trying to get out from under the legal restrictions that were put on them because of that case. and in the midst of that, here's what donald trump has been saying out on the campaign trail. >> we have a lot of law enforcement people working that day. we're hiring a lot of people. we're putting a lot of law enforcement. we have some great people here, some great leaders here of the republican party, and they're very concerned about that. and that's the way we could lose the state. >> so important that you watch other communities, because we don't want this election stolen from us. >> when i say watch, you know what i'm talking about, right? you know what i'm talking about. >> you know what i'm talking about. we're going to have law enforcement doing this. we don't want this election stolen from us. we have some great leaders of the republican party. donald trump is not under a consent decree that dates back to the 1980s on this subject. the rnc is under a consent decree that dates back to the 1980s on this subject. i mean technically donald trump himself can go out and talk about all of this stuff, but the rnc under this consent decree, they can't take part in any of it. it has to be crystal clear that there's no working together here between the trump campaign and the rnc on issues of ballot integrity and poll watching on election day, particularly when those efforts target minority districts. if there is coordination, that may be a problem. the democratic party now argues that would be a violation of that consent decree. >> i finally pulled aside kellyanne conway and said what is the campaign going to do. is this the central strategy to contest the election. she said she's actively working with the republican national committee, the official party and campaign lawyers to monitor precincts around the country. so this isn't just an outside campaign and outside candidate. he's tying himself to the republican party with him. >> it's a tremendous question and i will tell you that the trump campaign and the republican national committee are working very, very closely with state governments and secretary of state of states all over the country to ensure ballot integrity. >> working very, very, very, closely. i should say you just saw robert costa reporting what he had heard from kellyanne conway saying that the trump campaign is actively working with the rnc to monitor precincts around the country. after kellyanne conway told robert costa that and he reported it here on msnbc, kellyanne conway walked that statement back and the rnc is aggressively denying this coordination. but how about mike pence saying, right, that this ballot integrity is a tremendous question this year and the rnc, the republican national committee, is working very, very closely with the trump campaign to ensure ballot integrity. how about that? he didn't walk that back. part of the dnc filing from last night alleges that the republican party and the trump campaign are sharing staff, they're sharing resources, they're coordinating these things. there's so much coordination that there are no lines delineating where one starts and another ends. the rnc, according to this complaint, quote, commingled its staff and resources with the trump campaign and so it is impossible to separate the two. that's what the democratic party is alleging. arguably, that's what they're asking the court to determine. that's the crux of this whole thing. when the trump campaign promises it's going to do this in these cities, as trump says, inner cities in swing states, is he talking about doing that alone or is the rnc involved? let me leave you with one more thing that seems relevant here. this is the head of the rnc, reince priebus, speaking on sunday. >> i don't mean his response to the debate, just in general when he goes out and says the election is rigged, he said it last night. >> i think he's trying to also tell his folks to watch out for this fraud that might occur. >> he's trying to tell his folks to watch out for this fraud that might occur, says the head of the rnc. on one hand reince priebus is decoding donald trump there on cbs this weekend. on the other hand, i want to know about the rnc and this threat to rig the election and this fraud that might occur and whether the rnc is working on this. tell me more, mr. head of the republican party. oh, you're not here. let's instead ask ben ginsburg, former general counsel and an msnbc analyst. i am not asking you to be reince priebus or to defend reince priebus. >> i appreciate that. >> but i do want you to give me your view on what's going on right now with this complaint. you're the man who said that you could basically guarantee that the democrats were going to make this court filing once you saw what the trump campaign was talking about on the campaign trail. >> yeah, and what i added to that and what i sort of said directly later in the evening was that in fact that activity was not taking place because -- well, i don't want the rnc, but i do know that the rnc takes the consent decree very seriously. what you have is some bad rhetoric, but not the actions. so the whole consent decree itself and the sort of muscling up in polling places has been a black mark on the republican party. that has harmed it not only reputationally, which is why the democrats or pursuing this consent decree, but also really politically. and so all in all, this is a moment that the republican national committee wants to get beyond so that it can engage with its state parties in the permissible looking at the elections. an important component of being sure that the voters understand that the election is fair and is not rigged and the practices in the polling places are being conducted correctly. >> that's part of this that i've been trying to get a handle on. i'm glad to hear you explain it that way, because on the one hand what the republican party got nailed for in the '80s was comic book egregious, but i haven't really understood what -- i'm assuming the republican party doesn't want to do the arm bands and off-duty guns, i'm assuming, although we could -- no, we won't make that argument. let's assume that the republican party doesn't. what does the republican party want to do that's not racist, that's not egregious, that's not suppressive, that they're prohibited from doing by this consent decree? why do they feel so constrained? >> every state, every state allows representatives of the political parties or campaigns or a combination of the two to observe what goes on in the polling place. that is a matter of being able to ensure the fairness of elections. as a national party committee, it would be helpful for the republican national committee to participate in those permissible, lawful activities just as the democratic national committee does now. >> and the dnc can do that now and the rnc because of that consent decree, they can't. >> correct. >> so when you say that the rnc is not doing anything that might violate that consent decree, they're not doing any of this poll watching stuff, they're not working on it, they can't be -- >> they can give advice to the >> so what about mike pence saying we're working very closely with the rnc on ballot integrity issues and making sure this isn't stolen. >> i can't speak for him. i do know he made that statement in august and we're now in october and none of those activities of the republican national committee personnel working in the polling place, activities has taken place as far as i know or as far as the democrats could say. >> what about the rnc staff working basically in-house at the trump campaign now. you know, rnc like sean spicer has been working basically in-house with the trump campaign. if one of the things the trump campaign is doing is getting people to sign up to go be poll watchers, does that mean that the rnc with having their staff inside the trump campaign, that they're in effect participating in it? >> no, because i think the way they're working it is that you've got a sort of a unit, the field people, trying to get people in place to be able to observe as they're allowed to under state laws. i think the rnc personnel have at least been given instructions to not participate in those activities. gives this so much heat and energy, we have already heard that they've asked, the judge has asked for this to move really fast. they've asked for the parties to be in court on wednesday morning. >> there's a long tradition of being in the federal district court nowhere close to the elections. thank you. stay with us. we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] and maybe, maybe it's especially meaningful to me, because i do know something about being first lady of the united states. >> she has been first lady of arkansas, first lady of the united states, secretary of state. she has -- [ crowd chanting "hillary" ] >> yeah. that's right. hillary doesn't play. >> hillary doesn't play. that was hillary clinton and michelle obama today in winston-salem, north carolina. this is the first time they have done a joint campaign appearance. and, as that was kind of, we played that bit there to give you a sense of the vibe there. i think basically taking turns heaping praise on one another, and this event was one of hillary clinton's biggest events of the entire campaign. there were apparently 14,000 people there at this north carolina rally today. and this was a good one to choose to be a big one, because michelle obama was there. one of the most beloved figures in politics right now. one of the most popular figures in politics, certainly among democrats, particularly among african-american democrats, and a absolutely key constituency. this may have been one of hillary clinton's most important appearances today. and it was warm. and hillary clinton was at her best, and it was probably one of the most effective things she has done. but. what might be most important here is we got an answer to a question that has been floating around the obama family's pending departure from the white house. now this has not been covered widely today. maybe everybody else doesn't see this as the biggest deal of the world. i realize that the fate of the free world does not rely on this question. but, you know, it's a stressful time. in this most stressful of elections, we here at the show and we in my family have been chewing on our fingernails a little bit, wondering with a little bit of actual stress what's going to happen to the white house vegetable garden. what is going to happen to it? the kitchen garden planted by first lady michelle obama. this has been a passion of her time in the white house, for almost the entire time she's been there, she's been building it up, maintaining it and showing it off. recently, expanding it. and different presidents and their families do different things to the white house, there are no guarantees that the next occupants will keep anything that the last occupants of the white house did to the grounds. the new president would be absolutely free to plow the vegetable garden under, if they like, right? jimmy carter, you want to put solar panels on the white house, ronald reagan wants to take them down. really expect melania trump or bill clinton to be out there tending to the turnips and harvesting the okra? really? are they going to keep it? as her time grows short, michelle obama has hardened the garden's defenses. she unveiled an expanded garden now twice its original size and it's got hard parts. stone walkways and planters made from concrete and steel and picnic tables and stuff. first lady michelle obama announced a multi-million dollar grant for maintaining it. so it won't be an excuse if they wanted to get rid of the garden for that reason. not incidentally, michelle obama planted a couple of crops that are in the ground now that won't be ready for harvest until the spring, when there's a new president. what are you going to do? waste that food? so it's been a discussion. will the next president keep the garden or put up a parking lot? today we got an answer. at least if hillary clinton wins. >> now she also planted an amazing vegetable garden at the white house. [cheers and applause] and i can promise you, if i win, i will take good care of it, michelle. [cheers and applause] >> if hillary clinton wins the election, the garden lives! look how happy that makes michelle obama. i don't really totally understand why i'm so attached to this vegetable garden, beyond the obvious reasons that i am a card-carrying member of the