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Erin burnett. Donald trumps grand entrance. Arriving for a rally in alabama in what can be called true trump fashion. His private jet roaring over a mobile, alabama, football stadium just moments ago. Just hundreds of feet off the ground, circling the stadium several times. The flyby kicking off what trump tweeted out earlier today as a wild time in alabama tonight. Just a short time ago, the gop candidate tweeting again saying, cant be late. Trump campaign hoping to fill the place for the biggest political event of the year. People started lining up at 6 00 this morning. By late this afternoon, a long line snaking around the stadium. But you are looking at live pictures of the crowd in that stadium. It is nowhere near capacity at this point. Many of those seats when you get on a wider shot are empty, as is much of the infield of the stadium. In a few minutes, donald trump will be speaking here. The campaign has been hoping for a huge crowd saying they got more than 40,000 rsvps. So fa ....
Ground? of course not. if you have been in combat, you don t want to be in combat. the reality is that you have to be able to have the ability to do it or nobody is going to take you seriously. right now, the united states of america is a joke on the world stage without a doubt we re a joke. mr. trump is going to change that. keith, thank you for taking the time tonight. thank you very much. i appreciate it. now, cnn political commentator ben ferguson, jeffrey lord, a former political dre director and douglas brinkley. doug, i want to begin with you. if you look at this early crowd here granted there are a few minutes to go. it does not look like he will fill the stadium. was this a mistake to aim so high for a venue like this tonight? yes. donald trump made a big mistake saying over 40,000 people. at this juncture, i think he will hope to say 20,000. at least he could get a bernie ....
Venue by the time trump speaks. regardless, this is still going to be an impressive showing. we probably are talking somewhere 15,000 to 20,000 people that are going to show up, which is going to make it one of the biggest campaign rallies so far. the idea that a presidential campaign can draw this large of a crowd is impressive. but trump playing the expectations game here today. probably could have filled a 10,000 seat arena which they were going to be in. now moving to this big stadium, the crowd doesn t look as impressive. regardless, it s a big crowd here tonight. a few minutes to go now before donald trump is scheduled to speak. ryan nobles, he will be there in the middle of it. among those at the stadium tonight, former marine and trump supporter keith quackenbush. he got to the stadium at 6:00 this morning. i spoke to him and asked him why he is so excited about trump s campaign. for the first time in my lifetime, i actually am hearing somebody who is running for ....