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CNNW At This Hour With Berman And Bolduan October 26, 2016

Points in the mustwin state of florida. Most recent polls have shown clinton ahead there. Curious if he will stay this poll is rigged. But we digress. Lets get to cnns jeff zeleny with the Clinton Campaign in lake worth, florida and cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash is at the trump event. Dana, with campaign and lodging news. Reporter right here, its just lodging or more importantly, business promoting. The truth is that youre right, this is not an official Campaign Event. He is going on in fairness to the campaign to North Carolina which is very much a swing state. He will have a couple of events there. So it seems to me the sort of story here, the fact that donald trump is at this hotel for its opening or maybe even reopening because hes done several opening events here, is not so much about where he isnt but the fact that he is using the fact that he has hundreds of cameras frankly who are here and people who are following him around because he is the republican president ial nominee, 13 days before the election, to get, he hopes, he hopes, free media for his property. So this is about promoting and some of those pretty remarkable audiotapes the New York Times got ahold of, it was in this mornings paper, had trump himself talking about the fact that he likes to get free media and not pay for advertising and this is clearly an example of how he hopes to do that. I should say that because it is not a Campaign Event unless he starts to talk about Campaign Issues, if he sticks to what he discusses, the subject that he talks about here is only about his property, we are not going to see it live on cnn. Thats exactly right. Dana, thank you so much. Lets go to lake worth, florida, where Hillary Clinton will be taking the stage any time now. Cnns senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is there and joining us live. Jeff, see the people gathering. What are we going to hear from Hillary Clinton . Reporter well, we are in palm beach county, florida, the site of Many Political moments from president ial campaigns gone by, but Hillary Clinton is trying to drive up democratic turnout, the democratic vote, during this early voting period. So you can see behind me, this is what an early voting rally looks like. There are signs that say i will vote. Com, there are other people encouraging voters to go to the poll right now, to bank those votes. She is not in the persuasion period of her campaign. Shes not trying to win over republicans here. Shes trying to encourage and push democrats to vote so she will be appearing here in just a short time on her 69th birthday. She spent the night in miami, went to an adele concert last night for her birthday and will be here speaking on her birthday. But the campaign is also still trying to get beyond the daily drip and distraction of emails that are coming out in those hacked emails, the wikileaks. Interesting series of them yesterday, going back to a different set of emails, her private email server that she set up when she was secretary of state. Lets look at a couple right now. Longtime clinton friend and adviser neera tanden wrote to john podesta, chairman of the campaign, wrote why didnt they get stuff like this out 18 months ago. So crazy. Podesta replied unbelievable. She shot back, they wanted to get away with it. By the they she is referring to members of secretary clintons internal circle there. Sheryl mills, longtime chief of staff and adviser and others. This is one sort of flavor here of how concerned and surprised some clinton supporters and advisers were when they learned about that private email. This is something that is going to stay with secretary clinton long beyond election day here. Her advisers dont believe it will affect the outcome but you have to wonder among the independent voters who still dont trust her if it will influence their decision. Those independents so important here in florida as well as other battleground states. Jeff zeleny in palm beach county, one time home of the butterfly ballot. We will go back to jeff when Hillary Clinton begins that event. They like to claim that. Exactly. Says it on the sign. Home of the butterfly ballot. Im not sure. Might still be too soon. Joining us to discuss, kirsten power, usa today columnist and former Clinton Administration official, dan pfeiffer, former Senior Adviser to president obama, carl higby, conservative pundit and donald trump supporter and errol lewis, political anchor at Time Warner Cable news. Lets talk about housing and lodging and Hotels Opening up in washington, d. C. Thats where donald trump is right now. Hes opening up that hotel shortly. Dan, you take particular umbrage with this travel schedule. You think its a bad idea. One more time, why . I cant even imagine what the argument in the Campaign Context would be for how its a good idea. Theres nothing more valuable in a campaign, particularly the last two weeks, than the candidates time. Hillary clinton is doing what any candidate should be doing, which is in a key battleground state trying to get votes. Donald trump is in not a state, hes in washington, d. C. That hes not going to win, advertising his business interests. So it makes no sense in any way. Campaign strategists on both sides of the aisle are shaking their heads at this one. Carl, i dont see you shaking your head. Is this a good idea . Absolutely. Guess what . We are sitting here talking about it on cnn. Additionally, this is what Donald Trumps signature accomplishment is building things. Hes there right before the election about to open a hotel that was opened under budget way ahead of schedule. Absolutely. This is totally worth his time. I will say this. Even if you buy dan pfeiffers argument that a candidates time is the most valuable resource, it hasnt hasnt donald trump been using that time more wisely than Hillary Clinton . Hes been doing two, three, four events a day. Shes been doing one a day tops. Today she has two. Trumps going to North Carolina for two events later today. Whats the big whoop . On the other hand, shes got Something Like 40 fundraisers planned for the last two weeks. Hes essentially ended a lot of inperson fundraising. We will see how that all works out. I think also, its important to remember that donald trump, any day that hes in florida is a really good day for him. He just got this good news from the bloomberg poll that he has a slight lead over Hillary Clinton. He wants to hold on to that lead and extend that lead. This has got to be a distraction. Yes, im sure he hopes that everybody in florida is watching television but theres no, you know, this is election day. In the early voting era, this is election day. Thats the day you want to tell people go across the street, you pick strategically where to have the rally and tell people go across the street right now and put those votes in the bank. Thats what he ought to be doing. What about this campaign has ever been conventional . This is. Its working. Of course this question about is he in this for the public good or does he have commercial interests he never wanted to detach himself for, its not a great question to have lingering around here because whats he going to talk about . Is he going to talk about the public good, about isis, about i expect he will talk about marble fixtures on the walls. But in North Carolina later today, he will have two events where i think he will talk about voters and obamacare. Hillary clinton, we should say, we are waiting, she will be having a rally any moment, she will be taking to the stage, and when she does, heres a question, will she talk about obamacare . Will she talk about the bad news that came to her because of the bad news coming from obamacare yesterday . She did not address it before a crowd yesterday. She did talk about it, though, during a radio interview in florida. Listen to this. We are going to make changes to fix problems like that. The president and i have talked about it and look, this is a major step forward. 20 Million People, and actually, im sure you know this, predominantly working people, africanamerican, latino people now have access to insurance but the costs have gone up too much. We are going to really tackle that. Does that settle it . Well, i think what she just said is exactly right. I think specifically talk about how to fix this problem. You can focus on the positive aspects of obamacare which is you do have a lot of people covered who werent covered before, and look what happened was basically more sick people got on to the exchanges than they anticipated. They can say we didnt anticipate this, now we have the people who arent getting subsidies who are sort of bearing an extra burden here and we need to figure out a way to sort of relieve that burden because its not fair to put that on those people but overall its been successful. Can i just also say about what you are talking about before about donald trump, is that its not only that its a bad use of his time. I think its a little bit of a tell. Because the fact that he is now focusing on his business which really, im sorry, i know he builds things but i think most people probably already know that at this point, sort of suggests that what hes really trying to do is what a lot of people have accused him of doing all along, which is to build his brand. It seems like hes thinking about postelection more than hes thinking about the current election. And add in that all he does is attack the polls and say the system is rigged. Hes acting like a person who thinks hes going to lose. Guys, breaking twitter news right now. Prepare yourselves. Let me give you a dramatic reading of a tweet by Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the house, Fox News Contributor and current donald trump supporter writes for the record, megyn kelly was wrong, i dont have anger management issues. I do have media bias issues. All right. Why is this news, you ask . Give the back story. Why is this news, you might ask . Let me play a rather Dramatic Exchange between former speaker gingrich and megyn kelly that happened overnight. So its worth 23 minutes of the three networks to cover that story and Hillary Clinton and a secret speech in brazil to a bank that pays her 225,000 saying her dream is an open border where 600 Million People can come to america, thats not worth covering. That is worth covering. And we did. Go back to tapes of your show recently, you are fascinated with sex and you dont care about public policy. Me, really . Thats what i get out of watching you tonight. You know what, mr. Speaker, im not fascinated by sex but i am fascinated by the protection of women and understanding what were getting in the oval office. All right. Aside from that being very interesting to watch on a somewhat personal level, is there any bigger meaning here . Newt gingrich may have been Donald Trumps running mate at one point. Look, i think its interesting because its consistent with pretty much what we have heard donald trump saying which is they dont understand Sexual Assault. The idea that because megyn is asking him about allegations against donald trump of sexually assaulting women and then he says youre obsessed with sex, its like its not about sex. Its about assaulting women. It just shows they still fundamentally dont understand this issue. This is Newt Gingrich speaking to fox news viewers and saying this. How is this helpful when you see a top surrogate like him saying that . Look, tensions are high. People have been not sleeping. I know im one of them, for like four weeks now and we are coming to the end. You are blaming this on lack of sleep . No. What im saying is Newt Gingrich right here is in a spot where hes sick and tired of the medias bias. When he said sex, i dont know if he was talking about actual the act of or the entire thing of whats going on now with the Sexual Assault scandals, whether getting debunked as fast as they are coming out. I dont know what he was talking about. Doi know the fact he did point out there is acute media bias in this race. Thats what hes annoyed about. They are not getting debunked. I have to say that. They are not getting debunked. They are not getting debunked. They are not getting debunked. Its just not about sex. Its about Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault, its not about sex, its about abusing women, its about power. Lets keep that clear, okay . If it was such a big deal why didnt they come out when it actually happened . We have talked about this, though, a million times. Thats not the way it works. This was triggered, these accusers say, from anderson coopers question to donald trump during the debate about the access hollywood video. When he said i never did anything described in the video, these women say thats what triggered them and thats what made them come forward, when they heard this on a president ial debate stage. Just for the record. Thats fine. What i am pointing out here is two of the women who came out and said this happened, the events they said it happen at never occurred. Im not sure thats actually the case. But thats two out of 11. So theres nine more to go even by your math there. Dan, whats interesting, beyond what we have been talking about already about this, is the digital assistant to donald trump put out a tweet about this but donald trump hasnt. Im not praising him for restraint. Im merely stating a fact that donald trump has not weighed in to this megyn kelly Newt Gingrich issue where in the past he has not resisted going after megyn kelly or tweeting about almost anything. Well, the day is still young. Well see what happens. I dont think donald trump has developed late in life discipline here. We may hear about this in North Carolina. I would say its pretty rich that the Trump Campaign is now at a point where they are complaining about media bias at fox which did more to promote trumps candidacy than anyone else. These are all signs of a campaign thats losing and knows they are losing. . Errol . Thoughts . Look, i think its understandably frustrating for Newt Gingrich and other top surrogates and members of the campaign that this issue wont go away but the reality is just in pure television terms, seeing the candidate say these things, these obscenities, these boasts about what he does to women, does not compare with a hacked email that suggests some further reporting may be needed. Its not in any way i think biased to say this is what the guy said, these are words out of the candidates mouth. 11 women came forward and said hes a liar and i dont know why Newt Gingrich thinks the media is supposed to just drop that and say we dont want to talk about that anymore, especially when the candidate keeps bringing it up as he did at gettysburg. We will be talking about wikileaks in the show. Do not worry. Newt gingrich just decided to pop into our twitter feed so we decided to bring it up. Thanks, guys. Great stuff. All right. Fear of losing a love of fighting. New audiotape just released offering new insight into donald trump in his own words. Thats next. Plus we have our eye on two events in two different locations. You are looking at live pictures from a hotel in washington, d. C. , new trump property that hes going to open up proudly there. And also, Hillary Clinton is in palm beach county, florida for a rally there. Will she address the obamacare issues . Will she address frankly this new feud between megyn kelly and Newt Gingrich . Stay tuned. flourish spray nois flourish spray noise flourish spray noise the joy of real cream in 15 calories per serving. Enough said. Reddiwip. flourish spray noise share the joy. [ crowd noisewhoa. [ gears stopping ] when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. Try this. But just one aleve has the strength to stop pain for 12 hours. Tylenol and advil can quit after 6. So live your whole day, not part. With 12 hour aleve. You tell your inthey made a mistake. 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I was a very rebellious kind of person. I dont like to talk about it, actually. But i was a very rebellious person. And very set in my ways, and in eighth grade . I loved to fight. I always loved to fight. Physical fights . All kinds of fights. Arguments . All types of fights. A

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