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Trump himself. >> this segment is about donald trumps comments about the central park five. if you cant answer that about him without bringing in someone else, i dont know what to tell you. well let you come back and take another shot at it. back as well. and kurt eichenwald and fe. why donald trump would fit in on his talk show. i was too e kids to get a repair estimate. i was too e liberty did what? yeah, with liberty mutual all i needed to do to get an estimate was snap a photo of the damag...

Govern, it would be a worse situation for black people. unequal treatment by the law. our communities would be further ravaged by this double standard, which has huge implications for our community. he said the trump supporters said theres some people and we know theres a lot of people in prison for crimes that they did not commit in this country or where they were given a sentence where a white person did the same thing and was not given a sentence. this is a problem and this is much deeper tha...

So they should sue him. and the other point i find very fascinating about this is this is the same donald trump here and now in the present that said he would bail out his protesters, his supporters who were violent against protesters. he said he would bail them out for violence. he has encouraged violence from his own supporters against protesters but yet this is the same man that led a witch hunt against these black men. >> lets put back up to this ad. element six. this is the ad that donald t...

Regard information like that? >> i wouldnt advise them at all because i dont know what his returns looked like at that point. >> but you do think its important for voters -- >> youre talking 30 years ago. >> but you do think that its important for voters to be able to see the candidates tax returns? >> i do. >> and as i understand it, you havent heard anything from candidate trump that prevents him from releasing those tax returns? >> no. >> okay. jack mitnick, thank you very much for joining us...

Trump for help. joining us now, "newsweeks" kurt eichenwald. and back with us david cay johnston, who has been covering the adventures of donald trump for many years. kurt, its all about daddy. >> oh, absolutely. donald trump, he likes to portray himself -- he needs to portray himself as some sort of self-made man. but seriously, he was born with a golden shovel in his mouth. whenever he tried something, he failed. and whenever he failed, his dad build a him out. even when he had his success, it...

Smart, those were the years where he lost $400,000 and $1.3 million. it wasnt because he was smart. its because he mismanaged his rental properties in manhattan. he mismanaged three other partnerships. he failed to -- he borrowed $38 million that he couldnt pay the interest on. thats not smart. thats ignorant. >> and kurt, you report that when he went into the manhattan a real estate business, he actually had trouble renting the units. and this was something that his father had always feared. it...

Its because he mismanaged his rental properties in manhattan. he mismanaged three other partnerships. he failed to -- he borrowed $38 million that he couldnt pay the interest on. thats not smart. thats ignorant. >> and kurt, you report that when he went into the manhattan a real estate business, he actually had trouble renting the units. and this was something that his father had always feared. its why his father never wanted to go into the manhattan real estate business. >> right. he had to act...

The failure he so richly deserved from mismanaging his businesses. >> and kurt, quickly, before we go. there was such an interesting moment in the first debate, because donald trumps line has always been i borrowed a million from my father and i paid it off completely with interest. and thats his whole story. a million loan. he paid it off completely with interest. hillary clinton used a much bigger number in the debate. i think it might have been $14 million. >> 14 million. >> much bigger. and ...

Need to be to put this together given the way the rest of the map looks. but he wont go to either of those places on a diligent basis. heant really go to ohio because, you know, thats a state that the governor and the state party have a lot of reservations about trump. theyre worried about losing portman. theyre worried about having down ballot damage from him, which he seems to be causing in a lot of places. >> okay. were going to leave it there. rick wilson, thanks very much for joining us. >>...

Used to get money to donald trump because of his father. i mean, youre going up into 60, $70 million. its money he could not have gotten on his own. >> kurt eichenwald, another great report. thanks very much for joining us. and david cay johnston, thank you for joining us. i really appreciate it. coming up, mara teresa kumar will rejoin us to deal with this. >> senator, you whipped out that mexican thing again. and we are watching hurricane michael as it heads towards florida. the national h...