Donald trump speak. Bob costa is driving the news cycle. High was loose tie was loose. There it is. There is the scene. Tommy what was significant tell me what was significant and why did he tell you he would not speak out on the birther issue and this morning he speaks out about it. Mark bob trump is very confident at this moment. Never seen him more bullish about his chances. He revels in looking at the poll numbers. Spending 10 hours with him, this is still donald trump, someone at the center of his campaign, running on his instincts. Campaignard his heager say a week ago, that believes president obama was born in the United States, i thought, that is quite a change in position. I asked him, what you think of conways statement . He said he did not want to engage on it. Trump said conway can say whatever she wants to say. This is still a candidate who comes out of that birther movement, a true outsider who does not follow the political rules. Charlie do you believe he believes barack obama was not born inside the United States . Is i cannot speak for what in his heart and mind. You have to look at someones actions. I covered him heavily in 2011 and 2012. This is someone consumed by the issue. He was obsessed with it. Charlie as to what it might do for him politically . Bob im sure it was a political, publicity stunt. Driven by ideology. On this issue, he was deeply interested, sending people to investigate, conspiracy theories. Charlie why did he change his mind . Bob he did not have his mind changed on wednesday night when we were speaking on the tarmac but he is under immense political pressure from fellow republicans and some of his campaign aides. In the final eight weeks of this general election, can he appeal to those skeptical suburban voters, minority voters, and College Educated women . Use trying to make a pitch to that he isrican and trying to make a pitch to africanamerican and latino voters. They take it personally. Asaid to trump, you recognize lot of these black voters you meet at the church and elsewhere issue as a cloud over you. Charlie he is trying to discredit the first africanamerican president. Is a cloudsaid it over the reporters. He think the press is to into this issue. The voters care about it. Charlie i dont know why he changed. Did he change because of political pressure and he didnt really believe it . Or did some of them caused him to say that i am no longer a birther, and they no longer believe the president of the United States was not born in states even though he submitted his lengthy birth certificate. Bob he gave a 60 word statement, something approximately around that range. That was it. States even though he toured his to word he hotel. I think he is driven on the polls. He sees a winnable race. Charlie number one, this comes from the national review. Not likenal review did donald trump. He used to work there. Bob conservatives cannot stand trump because they do not see an ideology there. Charlie the editorinchief bob said if you are not seriouy contemplating the biggest black swan event in electoral history, you are not paying attention. Trump had a weird penchant for proclaiming he was running for president. Is close to being elected the 45th president of the United States. Is falling. What has happened . Bob some of it has to do with clinton and her comment about deplorables. Thinks that is that he sees his supporters as people disengaged from politics and he thinks he can roust them to the polls. Outsider,total someone outside of partisan lines, and when i was with him in canton, and he saw this crowd, it is electric, workingclass voters. They are not bush republicans or romney republicans, they asked for trump. He loves it. He calls it a performance. Charlie he does. Bob he things of polls like he things of television ratings. He made sure to have medal of honor winners surround him. Yet four africanamerican supporters behind him. All of the networks carried him live before he made his terse statement. Charlie when you look at the constituency, they are in favor of Hillary Clinton. At the same time, it is a neck and neck race. Are her unfavorable ratings very high. It is not about trump winning over voters. Talk to talk republican strategists, they say look at the millennials. It is not so much that republicans need to win them over. Keep them home. Charlie hope they do not vote. That is why when i talk to the clinton strategists, i say what is the Biggest Issue . And they say turnout. They have got to turn out democratic voters. Bernie voters were democratic voters. Bob that is why you saw clinton ize on this issue. Clinton is talking about the birther issue on the campaign trail. In washington, talking about the issue on friday on the campaign trail because she knows a group of africanamerican with them women, this gets the base out. It is her base. A lot of democrats like her, respect her, but they are fatigued by the obama years in a obama andlly admire love him as voters, but fatigued by the political establishment intrigued by trump. She has run this campaign against trump based on temperament. Wrapping herself around the obama administration, it is the figure of obama. What he means to many voters. Charlie what is interesting about the election, apart from the candidates, president obama is over 50 in approval ratings, yet the country is going in the wrong direction. Bob the mood for change is out there. A lot of these swing voters want change, but president obama remains very popular. She is trying to latch herself onto that popularity, but she needs to also find a way to be the change agent. Did not beat quickly in condemnation of secretary clinton when it was discovered and we had the video and she went home to rest for several days for a day and a half. He did not think a thing. What is influencing him not to Say Something to take a nonattack position while she was getting all the attention on her pneumonia . Bob that was the most illuminating part of my full day with trump, who really has influence in this inner circle that is a mystery to most of the country. These names are not on tv all the time. Kellyanne conway people know she is on television. Stephen bannon, he is kind of the soul of the Trump Campaign. Himself as a populist nationalist, and he has latched himself onto donald trump, the horse that can bring his worldview to prominence and power in america. David bossi, the anticlinton investigator, operator, he is providing a lot of fodder for trump. Killian conway, Kellyanne Conway is pretty conservative. The thing that unites all of these new people is they get trump as a new yorker, as a businessman, in a way that Paul Manafort never did. The other thing is too. Ie kushner, he is the liaison. He is someone who shies away from the press. He is almost always off the record when he talked to him. He is talking to businessman, connecting trump with the donors, and people in washington in a way that governor christie is in a similar way and new grin gringrich. Wt is becoming more of a spokesperson. She is someone who he deeply respects and admires as a spokesman for his company and for his campaign. Charlie heres what he said you about his medical issues. I have done everything i have done. No more. It was just a few records about his cholesterol. Bob very limited information. I pressed him on this. This is a letter. Your doctor has had some controversy and scrutiny for being a little different. Charlie he wrote the letter while they were waiting outside. Bob that is exactly right. The doctor is very respected, but charlie wife you trying to shut it down . Why is he trying to shut it down . Asked him pointblank because i am curious as an american and reporter. Have you ever had a major illness, have you ever had a heart attack . He said no. Charlie what else came out of this conversation you had . Bob he sees this race in a different way than i think a couple months ago. I pressed him on the issue of will he form a Media Company if he loses the race . I am background. The chatter there is what is this all about . Is he going to start something with roger ailes . Bannon, who ran breitbart . Trump pushed that aside and said it is a false rumor. Charlie he really wants to be president. Bob i believe it. Charlie he wanted to be president for a while, not just two years ago. He wanted to be president when he raised the birther issue. There is no other explanation for me as to why he raised the birther issue is that he wanted to get involved in right politics. Bob you cannot assume trump does not want to be president. Charlie why wouldnt you want to be . He is clearly intoxicated by the process. I am in the as newspaper, i am winning. Get my name right. Spell it right. Talk about will debates in a minute. Roger ailes said he is my friend, we talked to him, but he is not an official advisor. What is he trying to save their . Say there . Roger ailes has a lot of controversy. There is a lot of concern within trumps orbit to not have role. Have any formal they do not want to link trump to ailes. He is influential. When someone goes to trumps golf course in new jersey, and trump told the, he is telling all of these stories about history, his time with nixon, his experience in the 1980s and 1990s. Trump loves it. Charlie what is his agenda for first, the debate is coming up. How does he see his own path and how he spends his own time between now and the debates and between the debates and the election . Consultantspublican are advising the Trump Campaign to focus on certain swing state, north carolina, florida, pennsylvania, a few others. Charlie in north carolina, how is he doing . Bob it has been tough. Triangle, educated voters, it is very competitive. Torlie he has to appeal College Educated women in the suburbs, a clear constituent. It makes it a very difficult challenge for him. What else does he have to do if you want to score one of the most surprising political upsets in political history . Bob on the wind in front, ivanka is going to be on the campaign trail more. She has been rarely seen since the Republican National convention. You see trump on policy. He is not a traditional conservative. He is advocating more spending on child care. Charlie he believes that tax codes will be paid for because of economic growth, correct . A natural fit with that wing. He has taken up some of their policy proposals. Charlie in polls, he is viewed on questions of economics and handling the economy of the United States, more favorably than she is. Bob he is seen as a strong steward of the economy on questions of tone and temperament, he has weaker numbers. Your question is the most important one. What does he have to do between now and november 8 . Alliesalking to a couple , who are well known. One of them put it to me like not really about trump, but about change, frustration with clinical institutions and parties. Can he hold on and ride this wave into victory . He cannot get distracted. Maybe that is why he came out today. I have not spoken to trump about this. Smalle out with a statement. I know his Campaign Officials want to get rid of the noise that has always been around trump because they see this wave. Charlie that is why they latched onto to some kind of identification with it which was considered with brexit, which was considered a movement. Sense, he did not produce it, but he got to the head of the parade on the issue of discontent and the anablishment having had opportunity and failed, and what was necessary with a new direction. Bob one thing that really struck me was he was reading the paper on the plane about ford moving some of its operations to mexico for some of production. He seized on this. He started scrolling notes, i am going to talk about this. He has a teleprompter that he treats from for most of the speech. It about mexico, the wall, 35 tax hes proposing on board and others who produce abroad. Is not a natural charlie basically trying to make the appeal that all of the things he has been talking about in terms of trade and saving jobs. Bob he is mentioning things like obamacare, some usual republican talking points, but it is mostly unusual talking points. Heavy trade tariffs, talking about mexico and populism and globalism, and talking about jobs, jobs, jobs. That is what he thinks charlie this whole idea of what did they call them, the alt. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Thatbob that is a cloud over hm still. He shrugged it off. He said the old right the is a fiction. It is not. It is very vocal and has had a presence in this election. They have connected themselves with donald trump. Bob charlie he has not disavow them in any sense, has he . Bob he does not seem to want to talk about the concept of the altright. Charlie the name has been around for a while. Bob it is the ugly side. Charlie 20 does that say to you . What does that say to you . He wants their support but does not want to acknowledge it . He wants them but does not want them . Bob it says that to an extent. I think you can connect back to how he handled the birther issue. He does not engage or even want to talk about any kind of moral side to politics, whether it is about apologizing for talking about were the president was born were disavowing the altri ght. Someone is talking down to their base, and trump does not want to go there ever. Charlie it is great to have you here. Of the washington post, back in a moment. Stay with us. Charlie joining me now is nu ick. Welcome. Donald trump gave a press conference. We speak at lunchtime on friday and talked about the birther issue. What did he say and why did he say it at this time . Hes finally said that president obama was not born in this country. He said Hillary Clinton had spread the rumor in the first place and he has now got to the bottom of it. Nick he seemed to have put it behind him without acknowledging his role in endologix in the first place. He has been hounded about it by the press. His campaign wanted to put it behind him. Error ort admit any mistake but still somehow said the right words about president obamas birthplace. There was never any compelling evidence of any kind that the president was not born in hawaii. Charlie it was primarily internet chatter, wasnt it . Nick correct. Her Campaign Never had. Clinton herself never had. It was confined to the conspiracy reaches until trump came along and became the prime proponent of it for five years. Charlie is he in any way a hostage to the early supporters who gave him his first substantial core support in this president ial race . Nick he is 100 hostage to them. It is the core of his support. He has shown time and time again that instead of debating on immigration, let us say, he will not do it because he does not want to lose the passion of those core supporters. They are the people who brought him through the primary, the 40 backing him in this election. Choice. Either or how does Hillary Clinton get the support she needs . Charlie when you look at her campaign, she has got a former president , her husband campaigning for her, barack obama campaigning for her, a lot of surrogates out there. Are they making a difference . Nick i think you will see some movement out there. Among the obama coalition, her challenge is to reassemble that coalition which had elevated turnout of millennials, black, and brown voters. It will make a difference to have the leader of the coalition, out and stump for her. Out andtion come stump for her. Theis trying to prepare for operative debility of it. It is not clear to me how trump is preparing at all. He has only recently decided he wants to get into the debates. It is going the to be a real tet for him. She is an excellent debater. He is good at front of their balance in these debates. Im not sure you can see anything like that in modern politics. I am sure it can be prepared for. That before, when he was behind, it might have been his only chance to change the fundamental tenor of the election. It is closer than we thought. Of them. Time for both she can remind people of what they are getting along with his unconventionality. He can access a new pool of people who might take him seriously after seeing him on a president ial debate stage. It is a real test for both of them. Stay with us. 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