The fight to isis than just making political happy talk. Charles clinton answered Media Questions on the tarmac today. Maybe it was last nights debate threatening poll numbers are overall criticism its been mounting about her not having a press conference. Today finally Hillary Clinton stepped up to the mic, and donald trump did weigh in tweeting a new poll showing donald trump and Hillary Clinton in a statistical dead heat in at least four key states that hillary was winning last month. So is the tide in the election starting to turn . Joining me lisa boothe, rob taub. I guess we have a press conference, spoken to the media three days in a row, why . Because she has to. Shes seeing her poll numbers take a hit, and a lot of focus in the media. And essentially been driving a lot of the headlines is negative news stories regarding private email server as well as the Clinton Foundation. Shes trying to get out in front on the stories and try to answer some questions, because she realizes the damage that thats doing. But i found it a little suspicious the fact she wasnt asked the questions this morning at the press conference about her private email server. The fbi released a lot of information before labor day weekend, including the fact her aides smashed phones with hammers and the fact that her emails were deleted after a New York Times story hit. Theres a lot of new information she needed to be pressed on. Charles might be new to you, wasnt new to the media. Heres the thing, rob. Obviously, listen, hillary has gone by an old school playbook. You take august off, raise a lot of money. Hang out in the hamptons, whether there is a disaster in louisia louisiana, shes paying a heavy price for it. Is this her s. O. S. . Not her s. O. S. , the mistakes shes making and shes got to step up, i watch a lot of law and order marathons. Charles i hope i never get hooked on it. Asked and answered. Thats what happened with the emails. Shes got to say with the press, weve discussed this, the fbi cleared me, move on and talk about important issues like isis, like syria, like the economy and deal with that. Charles heres the thing, morgan. You know, she unveiled the plan this week that had the whose plane is bigger, do we know . Charles i know hers is greener. Trump has more fixtures. Charles trumps plane goes back to 1991. Its greener, environmental embracing and the colors of the united nations. Make of that what you will. [ laughter ] having said, that she spoke to the press a little bit back and forth going on, on the plane, more here. Theres clearly no doubt that not only i think that last night played a role in this but the humanizing of hillary, the project. This dr. Frankenstein project of making her human. She smiled. Tried to chuckle. Have a little banter. Its painful. Charles what was the guy, he had a hat she had never seen, and the back of his mind is like ive been wearing it 277 days, thats why you never saw it. What do you make of it . K. T. Mcfarland, i was her press secretary. Charles really . That was a bruiser. I love k. T. Charles the new york media was tough on k. T. They were totally dishonest with her. Charles the media can pick and choose who they want to be tough with. Hillary has a task and shes got to use the press conferences to her advantage. Shes just bad. Bad. Former press secretary is going to say, you always think about wanting to put your candidate in the light that makes them look best. She is mechanical. Shes awkward, and i dont think you can change it. Its who she is. Listen, not everybody who runs for president has a type a personality and is an extrovert. She has the command of the facts whenever she is not backed into a corner. I dont think there is changing it. This is the Hillary Clinton weve seen for 30 years and its just cranking her up and trying to make her look as good as possible. Charles tarmac press conference help or hurt . It didnt help, it didnt hurt. I think shes got to be less vituperative and be natural and discuss the issues. If she does, shes going to see a change there. Shes got an opponent who doesnt have the handle on the issue. Rob, she could be more natural if she stayed out of the hamptons and went to places. Instead of fundraising, hang out with normal americans and shed understand why trump is so popular. Charles shes going to hit the ground, shes in North Carolina which is a tossup. Go ahead, lisa. Charles, if you remember, there is a picture of her at the chipotle with her sunglasses on, not talking to anyone. Hillary clinton genuinely doesnt like people, and it comes across in her interactions with the media. But to the point before, Hillary Clinton also cant talk about the issues because she owns president obamas failed foreign policy. She also owns president obamas failed economic policy. Hes literally going to go downsa the worst president as far as economic growth. So there arent a lot of issues that Hillary Clinton is strong on to embrace or talk about either. Charles i dont want to digress too much. I did an exhaustive report on that, its not going to matter, i dont think, his overall thing as long as Third Quarter looks like were building momentum. Thats what people might believe or see. I mentioned the other person on the show, the gentleman, what he said prior. I havent been called a gentleman. Charles i was confused too, lisa. Confused who she was talking about. I cant see you and didnt hear your name. I was trying to be polite. You sound like a gentleman and a scholar. [ laughter ] talk about the project, humanizing Hillary Clinton because weve got three debates coming up. Last night is something of a harbinger of things to come. She might lose the election because of the debates . I think hillary can be tough and mean and thats what she should be, tough and mean because shes good at that. Like bob dole when he was running and tried to be a nice guy. Charles did bob dole win . No, he should have been tough and mean and he wasnt. Charles is it fair, she has the criticism like Reince Priebus tweeted out, hillary looking mean and angry and uptight, is there something sexist about that. No. Charles she got three or four questions about that. Her people are pushing that narrative which is why she got three or four questions about it. Shes on television and it doesnt matter if you are male or female, youre going to be judged as a political candidate. If they talked about her looks, if Reince Priebus talked about her outfit, of course it would be sexist. If you are on television and people tell you to smile, people tell me to smile all the time on fox, so hi. If hillary comes across as tough its a lot different than grumpy. I would agree with rob, its about being your authentic self. Charles one second, go ahead, lisa . For trump, he needs to be careful. Ive worked on campaigns where you are working for a male candidate running against a female candidate and Hillary Clinton is going to play the card, going to do it in debate. Comes across as too hostile, too strong, that could potentially look negatively upon donald trump depending how he approaches her during the debate. Thats what he needs to stay cognizant of. Charles did you see him today . He had a speech on education, and began with an update after hillarys press conference. One thing that kellyanne has achieved is the lower volume, taking down the base sort of even paced cadence and those things, and i think thats what people call president ial, it looks more or sounds more president ial. Felt like he did that today . Absolutely. A remarkable change since the new leadership has taken over the campaign, and the donald trump giving nuanced substantive speeches about issues Americans Care about. Whether its the economy, school choice, improving the education system, these are issues Americans Care about, and hes done a good job. He should take the same tone he has been using and take that to the debate. He should still hit her and be strong and hold her accountable but needs to do it in a way that doesnt appear hes a bully because we know Hillary Clinton is going to play the woman card. Charles l preview for the debates to come. Which will be longer, more personal and a lot more jabs and baiting. Up next, want to talk about the Hillary Clinton finally taking questions from the media. First press conference. Heres the thing, all she had to swing at was soft balls. Pretty obvious the media who they want to win. But why . Why so obvious . Well be right back. Charles so Hillary Clinton finally coming out from behind the veil holding her First Press Conference this morning. The first time in nearly ten months, did you notice what was left unsaid. The press failing to ask a single question about clintons ongoing email controversy. The swirling scandal around the Clinton Foundation. Is there an explanation for the softball questions, here to break it down, Kelly Riddell and mark serrano. Hillary, rcp polls have you down by 5 . Whats the deal with troops . Are you serious . Third question, the rnc was mean to you in the tweets. What do you make of it . Its a complete dereliction of the press corpss duty, they are stenographers for Hillary Clinton and putting out her talking points. Listen, there are so many Unanswered Questions when it comes to the Clinton Foundation and why she set up a private email server at the state department. First, she hasnt acknowledged she violated state department protocols and policies. We dont know why she did it. No honest answer as to why she did it, and then a good question for her would be like what do you think the impact is of you having set up that server. To the rest of National Security as well as other employees with the intelligence service. We dont have the answers to any of these questions, and the press seems afraid to ask them. Charles you know, mark, it really is becoming painfully transparent at this point with the press and secretary clinton, but matt lauer, some people got upset at him for finally pressing her on the same issues, and its really the media that turned on one of their own who stepped up to the plate . He broke a cardinal rule, charles. You dont take on one of our own, matt, what do you think youre doing stepping out of line . Thats the message they sent him today, and believe me, he will not be as tough next time in questioning because of it. We did not witness a single act of journalism at the press conference today. After 273 days, the best the can do is say madam secretary, dont you think everyone is mean to you because youre a woman . Look, the kind of questions that have the greatest impact are the simplest. The kind of questions they should ask is did you violate the federal records act . Once . Ever . Since your foundation is open to foreign contributions will you reveal any contributions from a foreign entity to the foundation between now and election day . Will you or wont you . Those are the easiest most impactful questions. Thats what the media should ask, but theyre a bunch of sycophants who want to see Hillary Clinton elected as the first woman president. Charles kelly, could this backfire on her . Give an example, the quinnipiac poll out today. She lost a lot of ground with nonwhite voters, though shes dominating. Shes in a tie with donald trump in florida. Hes beating her in ohio, and numbers come down sharply in pennsylvania. So even with all of this blocking and tackling by the Mainstream Media could the fact theyre so disliked backfire on hillary . Absolutely it can, theyve been so aggressive with donald trump, and because of that, theres a bias that the average person, the average viewer has noticed. They seem to be rooting for Hillary Clinton, and that enables and emboldens donald Trump Supporters as well as influences independents, and youve noticed in the polls, its the independents flocking to donald trump. Now not that she hasnt done things to hurt her, the honesty and trustworthiness and the emails out of the state department. Were in a real rat race, its after labor days, things are getting started. Hillary clinton is going to have to face the media and tough questioning. Charles mark, i want to find out your thoughts on the debate. Do you think it will be sort of a fairer line of questioning for both candidates or still this bias . Well, i think theres going to be a lot more time. A lot more opportunity for tough questions, absolutely, charles, regardless who the moderator is. Hillary clinton is going to play for a tie in the debates. Donald trump needs to be himself. He doesnt need to worry about insulting a woman, show hes tough and president ial, and if he can hold her accountable like the media refuses to. Charles thank you very much, appreciate it. Coming up, donald trump is getting criticized for controversial comments about Sexual Assault in the military. Donald trump bounced back. Well, hes bounced back before from the comments, but the female voter will be key in this election. Well discuss it. Remember here at ally, nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Whos with me . Im in. Im in. Im in. Im in. One, two, wait, wait. Wait wheres tina . Doing the hand thing . Yep we are all in for our customers. Ally. Do it right. Always has to be who sat your desk . Phone we are all in for our customers. Now, with one talk from verizon. Hi, pete. 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Military increased as men and women served in greater depth along each other. Is the outstanding billionaire pushing female voters right into hillarys hands. Here to break it down is Morgan Ortagus and jessie jane duff. You have served in the military, outspoken on these things, what are your thoughts on the answer, the tweet, and overall this notion of i think a lot of people are shocked by the sheer numbers, are women in that much danger as they serve our country . The tweet reported said many of the Sexual Harassment complaints were unreported and the low number of prosecuted Sexual Harassment. So theres a big disparity there, you cant prosecute if its not reported. Thats the first error there. I dont think donald trump said anything negative. He said in his tweet this is whats going to happen when you put men and women together. Thats a nobrainer. When you are deployed, you are sleeping in the same quarters. 24 7, you have showers that are open, bathrooms that are open, not with the opposite sex but males reported Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment. What hes saying is what were they thinking . If they didnt prepare for this, weve got colleges and universities with high rates of Sexual Assault and harassment. It is a serious issue that has to be addressed, and the military buried this for many years, until the 90s. Charles are you saying the men trained to fight in combat cant restrain themselves or just makes a higher probability of it happening . I think that we would be naive to say that Sexual Harassment does exist in every aspect of our lives, we have to be trained on how to prevent it and how not to cause it. The military ignored this for many, many, many years and the reporting cycle with the numbers that donald trump presented told me many women didnt feel comfortable reporting it. There was prosecution but it was not reported. The military has come great ways. The marine corps made it so people have more access to report crimes. However, we also have to recognize everybody has due process. Just because somebody reports it doesnt mean it happened. But we cant do victim focus. Charles morgan, from a political point of view, i heard some today you do channel surfing and look at social media, but it feels like everyone is saying its a suburban white woman in the suburbs, is going to dictate this who will be any swing states in North Carolina and virginia and pennsylvania and other places. So this sort of thing, plus, it was so convenient that matt lauer had the tweet in the first place, lot of people believed donald trump was set up with this thing. Well, he wrote it. Charles the idea that someone would ask this question and matt lauer would have in his lap a tweet from 2013 was coincidental, winkwink. How was the answer . Is that the answer you prefer . It was a stupid answer, a stupid tweet and should apologize. Its offensive to every woman who served and is serving now. And stupid to all women. Offensive to all women. Its not unprecedented for donald trump to apologize, when kellyanne conway, we were just talking earlier what a great job hes done. His first speech was apologizing for some of the stuff he shouldnt have said and he was unprepared last night to talk out the rape case. Cases in the military. He didnt understand the Judicial Court system. The courtmartial system within the military. And i understand that he doesnt want to be overprogrammed and doesnt want to come off like a politician but i think this was a test case for him that shows hes got to prepare a lot more on these issues when it comes to the next debate. And the bottom line is hes got to apologize. Its a really student and offensive thing he said and hes just going to dig himself into a bigger hole. Charles jesse, weve got 30 seconds, i want you to reply. Its not stupid, he was accurate. Charles and the question about suicides. What was he accurate about . That is so outlandish . What was accurate. What was inaccurate . The military has never treated Sexual Harassment seriously. The military has gone so much over the last five years. I am i active duty and the military did not address Sexual Harassment. You have been in the last five reayears . I have not. Exactly. Exactly. Theyve come a long way. You havent been in the last five years, you dont know what youre talking about. I do know what im talking about. Charles this touches a nerve, we will see and hear it a lot more. Tonight come back, maybe not now but later in the show or a different time about suicides, its a National Crisis and its a shame. Yes, it is. Charles thank you very much. Also coming up, clinton and trump were grilled to a degree on National Security. Want to break down their answers and performance, ultimately one of them will be our commander in chief. 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Military presence in syria and iraq. They are not going to get Ground Troops. We are not putting Ground Troops into iraq ever again or syria. Well defeat isis without committing Ground Troops. Charles did donald trump or Hillary Clinton prove their fitness to serve last night . Eric, its been a long time. Let me start with you. Last night both candidates had both had good points, both had soso point. Did either one of them make the case that they should be commanderinchief. I think trump won the night, even though i dont care for him. Hillary clinton was secretary of state for four years and she couldnt defend her record or the emails when she knew they were coming. If she cant be prepared for a question she had to know was coming for a year. Charles it felt that hillary was trying to push back on a notion she is some sort of a hawk. Maybe she wasntennable of that that we have troops in that region. Troops, combat troops, whatever it is. She failed to detime any kind of doctrine that wouldnt repeat the experiments and adventures she has been a part of whether you are talking about iraq or libya. Has she found a way to defeat china in the cyber war . This woman is supposed to the expert on foreign policy. And a tie mean she loses if you are talking foreign policy. She need to do better than trump, and she did worse. Charles the media is making a lot that he talked about our generals. You know its not unusual for a president to assign leadership, particularly military leadership at a time of war and crisis. This is an area where donald trump could have chosen his words better. I think what he meant to say is barack obama and Hillary Clinton when they were in office determining whether to intervene in libya did not lean on their generals as much as they should have and did not warrant the advice of the generals and count it. They went to ben rhodes. Thats what donald trump meant by that. Given the entirety of the night. Donald trump, i believe, should have been more specific and on point. But overall he did not appear like this madman that Hillary Clinton is trying to paint him out to be. On that point he won. Charles everyone says the bar is lower for donald trump than it is for hoik. Should it be that way . Lets go back to the Democratic National convention speech. It was terrible. She gave one of the worst speeches of a main nominee ever. The media said on a curve it was an excellent speech. These were democrats on other networks framing the democrats it was terrible. They cant say they have a lower bar for donald trump when the media is sending their resumes to get jobs in the clinton administration. Charles hillary went to the mic and tried to shore up on the capture of albaghdadi. What do you make of her notion, it will be air power. Well get the kurds involved and the wholes involved, and this is how well win this thing. 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Restoration hardware posted earnings of 45 cents. They clubbed the streets. They beat estimates. Now on the other hands. The biggest loser was tractor supply. Another great company. By the way, you dont want to miss wall street week. His thoughts on the health of our economy. I think the economy is more robust than we are being told. The employment rate is higher than being announced. I think its closer to 9 . If someone said ill guarantee a 2 gdp growth, i would hit the bid right now. Charles well take a look at aleppo its a city with an extensive history. World powers have crossed there many, many times. And now its under relentless siege. You both have a perfect driving record. Until one of you clips a food truck. Then your rates go through the roof. Perfect. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise your rates due to your first accident. And if you do have an accident, our claims centers are available to assist you twentyfour seven. 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As much as i hate to say it, just knowing ahead of time what the issues are, very quickly, that wouldnt have been an issue. Charles morgan, what do you make of his explanation and what happened today . I like that he was forthright and said i screwed up. At least he was honest about it. I dont know that there is much of an excuse for not knowing about this. Beyond whatever you think about American Intervention or lack thereof in syria the last four or five years. Aleppo is home to genocide and mass murder. Its a base for isis. I dont know how you run for the presidency of the United States and dont know. I understand he apologized. But i think the republicans that were on the fence about voting for donald trump or him, if you have a National Security focus you went over to the trump camp after he made that statement today. Charles , aleppo, raqqa, syria, they pose an amazing challenge for the next president. Historically it has marked the domination or siege of aleppo was the crowning jewel of conquerors throughout the beginning of time. Yeah, but i think for an american president ial candidate its not that big of an issue. I note twitter vers and the talking heads like to make a big deal out of this. There are many humanitarian tragedies some we get involved in and others not. American voters dont care about aleppo. They care about isis and radical islam. But its not a big deal frankly to me. Charles if you care about isis, dont you have to address aleppo . You have to have a strategy for syria. This was a gotcha question from a journalist. The issue isnt the humanitarian tragedy. Thats the end result of radical islam and person incompetency. Thats more an issue for europe. If this was something happening in mexico or Central America this would be more of an issue for us. To think that we can alleviate harm and suffering in this part of the world. When it came to the question about what do you do about syria, he answered it well, i think. Its a complicated subject thats hard to boil down on television. There is a period of time the first two years i think we could have made a difference in syria and maybe gone the assad out. The next President Trump or clinton likely will inherit a mess. This is something i hope the American People and the candidates will take time to think about and talk about. Charles and the role of russia and turkey making it much more complicated. Coming up, well compare it plans from Hillary Clinton and donald trump. And the ever growing problem with isis. We have a special guest who has a new book out. Scales on war. Hes next. Remember here at ally, nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Whos with me . Im in. Im in. Im in. Im in. One, two, wait, wait. Wait wheres tina . Doing the hand thing . Yep we are all in for our customers. Ally. Do it right. One of many pieces in my we are ai havlife. 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The navy is down to 276 ships. And the air force is about to break 1,000 in the number of available fighter planes. Donald trump has this right. Before we do anything, we have to ramp up the quality of our military, the numbers, and i think most important, the modernization. If we were just fighting isis, we wouldnt have a problem. All three of those militaries are modernizing themselves. 5 years from now my grandson may be in a take battalion that still uses reaganera material. Charles i know we have b52s ready to go at any time. The critics will say we spend more on our defense than all of those nations you mentioned combined, and we have been doing that for decade. Why would we not be prepared on a hardware side to confront any he merging threats . Thats a great question. And the answer is, the American Military particularly the Ground Forces have not modernized since the reagan era. 22 main Army Programs have been canceled the last 910 years. The army is essentially living with the relics of the reagan era. We spend more on the military. But personnel, thats pay, allowances, and medical care take up 70 our budget. What we spend on our close combat forces, the infantry, those who do the killing and dying, those numbers have gone down the last four years. Lets say we can somehow turn his around. Hillary clinton asked for the removing of the sequestration last week. Donald trump asked for it last night. We rebuild the military. Are we able to walk softly and carry a big stick. I dont think china is going to back off this global ambition. First of all, for china and russia, and so extent north korea, the key issue is deterrence. The the russians arent going to do anything against us if they know they will be defeated. The same holds for china. Isis is a different more pedestrian, more sort of muddy boots type of enterprise that some day, charles, perhaps in the next administration, maybe even after that. Some day the army and the marines are going to have to go into syria and take them out. I just want to point out. On the back of your book you have an endorsement from general petraeus and wesley clark. It takes a special person to get them and more to endorse their book. Up next, here is lou. Lou good evening, everybody. Im lou dobbs. Brandnew polls out tonight show donald trump gaining on Hillary Clinton in critical battleground states. The quinnipiac survey shows in ohio trump is ahead of clinton by 1 point. In florida trump tied with clinton. In North Carolina, clinton up by 4 and in pennsylvania she is up by 5. Hillary clinton last night did lit toll help her cause in a commanderinchief for up