We continue along. Youre watching cnn, im brooke baldwin. Thank you for being with me. Lets get to it. Donald trump just detailed what he would do if he is elected Commander In Chief, a first runup to his first Commander In Chief forum with Hillary Clinton tonight. Unlike the upcoming debates, the first one in less than three weeks, the two wont be on the same stage but they will face the same crowd, no doubt, the president ial contenders know that Absentee Voting begins in one week. And many people will be sending in ballots early. Many of those folks who are active duty military in his speech, speaking of, donald trump said he would boost defense spending, that he would pump up troop numbers, battalions, ships, jets, and he was there in philadelphia. He laid out his plan for rebuilding of the nations military and in doing so, he ripped into Hillary Clinton, into her foreign policy. Her emails and, oh, so much more. In a trump administration, our actions in the middle east will be tempered by realism. The current strategy of toppling regimes with no plan for what to do the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists. Gradual reform, not sudden and radical change, should be our guiding objective in that region. Sometimes it seemed like there wasnt a country in the middle east that Hillary Clinton didnt want to invade, intervene in, or topple. Shes trigger happy and very unstable, whether we like it or not, and she said she didnt know the letter c means confidential or at least classified. If she cant remember such crucial events, and information, honestly, shes totally unfit to be our Commander In Chief. Totally unfit. Let me bring in retired rear admiral charles kubik, National Security policy advisor to donald trump. Admiral, welcome back. Nice to see you. Good afternoon, brooke. Now we hear trumps plans. He says once elected president , he will give his generals 30 days to essentially come up with a plan to defeat and destroy isis. But he has said for the last 16 months, admiral, that he has a plan all along. Hes called it a secret plan to defeat isis. Which is it . I think folks are really not getting the point. What mr. Trump has done today once again is articulated his strategic intent, his commanders intent. Now he is starting to roll out the Operational Planning details. Its all the same plan, and elements of it will still be classified and secret. But what hes saying is as a part of his plan he is not going to rely on his white house staff to direct the military. Hes going to go to the admirals, to the generals and ask them to develop an Operational Plan to support a strategic intent. As a part of that, there will be various courses of action and these courses of action will be both overt and covert he hasnt had a secret plan, admiral. Just so were all on the same page. Well, its the same plan, you know, brooke. Hes just now articulating the details. But parts of it are still going to be secret. Hes still going to be unpreageunpr unpredictable. We arent going to tell the enemy what or how were going to do it. Hes talked about the fact that weve got to fight the ideology now, weve got to look at economic operations, cyber warfare, and also our political aliningses. Hes given a lot of detail at the strategic level. Now we are talking at the operational level, hes going to go to the military professionals, not to white house staff. We give him credit for the detail today. Hes been slammed over and over for being vague so he provided a lot of detail today. So much so when he talked about libya and iraq that it was in direct contrast to what he actually said in 2011. Just to remind everyone, roll the tape. I cant believe what our country is doing. Gadhafi in libya is killing thousands much people. Nobody knows how bad it is and were sitting around, we have soldiers all over the middle east and were not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage. Thats what it is. It is a carnage. We should do on a humanitarian basis immediately go in to libya, knock this guy out very quickly, very surgically, they effectively and save the lives. So, which is it, admiral . Well, lets remember i think mr. Trump has clarified that when he made those comments, he was a private citizen. He was acting on the information that he was receiving primarily from open media. And he was reacting to the potential humanitarian crisis in libya. Hes learned since then, and hes clarified, that had he known that there was no humanitarian crisis, that Hillary Clinton was going to far exceed the mandate of the u. N. Resolution, and that in fact she was going to press an attack against a country in violation of the law of war and then lead to a disaster when theres no plan. Admiral, forgive me. Whether its libya or its iraq or guns or some other major issue, i mean for months folks have pointed out, critics have pointed out, at one stage he said, x, and at another stage he said y. If were talking about being elected to the top office in the land, shouldnt there be consistency . He clarified when he said x, he was operating with limited information. Once he got more information he began to reshape his opinions and he began to realize that the real issues were how these conflicts were prosecuted and the fact that there was no plan for the day after. But youre clarifying that but when did he clarify that . No. He has. He has in even conversations with me and ive heard it on tv that hes basically said, hey, originally i didnt have the full story. Now i understand what about just quickly on his desire he mentioned today he wants to eliminate the defense sequester. All of those cuts. Are you a navy plan. Weve been chatting about my weekend in annapolis. I have a lot of sailor friends and a lot of ears perked when you hear donald trump talk about jumping the number of ships. I was on a cruiser in the persian gulf. I know there are 22. And the navy wanted an all brandnew and Congress Said heck no, were not paying for that. So instead they agreed to sort of have a compromise and modernize some of these cruisers. Im just giving this as an example because Congress Even really didnt even want to do that. How is he going to get congress to do everything he just laid out today . First of all, i think he pointed out today that the sequester was applied unevenly. Defense budget is onesixth of the budget. But it is over 50 of the sequester. So hes saying it is time to lift that from defense. He said it is also time to begin to look at a longer term plan to recapitalize the navy. I know the navy, for example, has a 30year plan and it is would be nice to bite it off in fiveyear chunks. It is going to take additional funding, but that funding is going to have to come from savings elsewhere and also from an increased economy. It is not going to happen overnight. But hes pointed out clearly that number of ships has dropped to 206. The navy is fighting to retain 308. He is saying looking in the years, we ought to be thinking as a goal of 350. When i was working as a young officer supporting john laymans 600ship navy, we almost got there. I think he is using that to show that, yes, dl is a need to recapitalize our military. Dont get too hung up on the numbers because they are so big and it is going to take a lot of money and it is going to have to be phased over time. Admiral kubic, appreciate your voice on the show. Thank you very much, brooke. Go navy. Thank you. Go navy. I mentioned that Hillary Clinton and donald trump will take part in what is being billed is a commander of chief forum. Hillary clinton will go first, winning the coin toss, answering the audiences questions. Then is Donald Trumps turn. The members will be mostly active duty. One guest happens to be the author of a pretty phenomenal book called columbine. It is a tough read but an important one. Dave cohen finally, i get to see you. You came to new york. Not for me, but for this. Thank you. I appreciate it nonetheless. I heard you call yourself a reluctant Hillary Clinton supporter. Yeah, thats fair. Okay. So you dont know the deal is you dont know which question you get to ask to which candidate. Exactly. Or even if you do. But if you had, i know you are prepared with questions. A question for Hillary Clinton would be what . Im still narrowing it down to Transgender Service members and probably army veteran suicide. And then traumatic brain injuries. But im leaning towards suicide with her. Whats the question on suicide . Well, its astounding. The Veterans Administration put out a report saying 22 veterans die at their own hands per day, which is just astonishing. Right now im taking part in the 22 pushups challenge. And im actually going to ask her if she would perhaps commit to doing it which i think would actually be fantastic and would be a way of really making everyone aware of that. But really i would like to know what she will do about that. Because im sure she is going to say that im very concerned about it and were going to do everything in our power and so forth. Just like you are interviewing pinning people down, it is like i dont want to just hear how youre going to do wonderful things. What specifically she might do to address that. Well talk pushups later. What do you Ask Donald Trump . Well, with him im sort of reevaluating after i saw his speech today. What i had been thinking of is talking about Transgender Service members. Because we had the ban lifted in june. But not quite. Ash carter announced a lifting, but with a oneyear implementation phase. That means the new Commander In Chief is going to take office midway through that. He or she can easily end that process. It wont be in place yet and reverse course and completely end it. So i want a commitment out of him are you planning will you commit to Going Forward or are you planning to reverse it . What are you going to do . He did mention he would take care of the Lgbtq Community during the rnc. I remember. I can see your eyes roll. Youre like well, you know, talking and walking are two Different Things. Quickly on walter reed. Did you break your back . I did, yeah. So you were in walter reed. Yeah. I lived there for five months. You were in pt with these amputees, these veterans. Yes, every day. Twice a day. It was kind of amazing. I was the only broke back. Everybody else was double or dr triple amputees. I never talked to any shrinks about this but it was kind of my impression the kind of worse case, the better their attitude. Those guys and the women had amazing attitudes with kind of two exceptions. But they were really amazing about it. But it was always Different Things than you would think. The biggest complaint all the time i hope this has improved but was their prosthetics and your stump atrophies considerably, especially over the first several months when theyre there. And when youre sort of between sizes, its hell. When its too loose, it moves around and does terrible chafing. They would be all red and sore. Then you are sort of waiting to get to the right size. Im hoping by now they have more sizes. But it was in a million years, thats not what i would have guessed was their problem. But their concerns and going about it is completely different. What i didnt learn that i always thinking about it, they had such amazing attitudes. But i saw them in pt and like my few sort of crying bouts were in my room with the door closed. So i never saw that with them. I dont know what was i talked to them. We were on the same schedule like 10 00 and 2 00 so i saw the same people every day, but, yeah, i never i never asked about that. Quite a place. I was there a couple years ago. M Montel Williams said, brooke, come with me to walter reed. Dave cullen, well be watching tonight. Good luck with your question asking. Good to see you as well. Under these circumstances. Yes. Just in here, another reminder, it is indeed 2016. We are getting word of an Arrest Warrant for president ial candidate jill stein. But why, you ask . Good question. Also ahead, Donald Trumps running mate now answering the questions donald trump will not. Was president obama born in the u. S. . Hear what mike pence has just said today. And it has everyone talking. The new I Phoew Iphone just rev without a key feature. 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Officials say this is an open investigation. Dr. Ben carson who is trying to woo black voters in to Donald Trumps camp says trump needs to apologize. He told jake tapper his candidate should say he is sorry for forcing the nations first black president to produce his Birth Certificate to prove he was in fact born in the u. S. But hours later in an interview with fox, donald trump came on tv and offered no such apology. You think it is time for donald trump to acknowledge that all that Birther Nonsense was a mistake and to apologize . I think that would be a good idea. Absolutely. I suggest that on all sides. Lets get all of the, you know, the hate and rancor out of the way. Do you think your Birther Position has hurt you among africanamericans . I dont know. I have no idea. I dont even talk about it anymore. I know. I dont know. I guess with maybe some. I dont know why. But i dont think very few people you are the first one thats brought that up in a while. He says he doesnt talk about it anymore. But it is important to remember, trump was one of the loudest voices on this issue back in 2011. Heres a look back. Why look, shes smiling. Why doesnt he show his Birth Certificate . And you know what . I wish he would. Because i think it is a terrible pall thats hanging over him. Barack obama should end this and he should provide the public with a Birth Certificate. And if he doesnt do it, hes doing a tremendous disservice to the public. Love to see what you know, perhaps it is going to say hawaii. Perhaps it is going to say kenya. You know who questioned his Birth Certificate . One of the first . Hillary clinton. Theres something going on. Look, theres something going on. And the words are now what does that mean, theres something going on . Theres just bad feeling. A lot of bad feeling about him. Well, heres a twist today. Donald trumps own running mate, mike pence, told reporters that he believes barack obama was born in the u. S. Joining me now, barry bennett, former. Campaign manager for dr. Ben carson, now a trump supporter. Also with us, angela rye, former director of the congressional black caucus. Barry, just begin with, why doesnt trump follow in the steps of mike pence and say, all right, youre right, he was born in the u. S. Done. Over with. Stop asking me. He probably should, right . The truth is no ones really talked about this issue much for years but it was a silly issue in the beginning. Obviously wasnt true. And it was a mistake to uk that about it years ago. But it would probably be a mistake to keep talking about it as well. Then what about looking at you, im also thinking of dr. Carson and the fact that he told tapper, yes, he should apologize, and perhaps even that would help him with the black vote in this country. What do you make of dr. Carson weighing in . You know, ben is a very strong moral person, so he has the right to do so. But if i could give both candidates some unsolicited and valuepriced advice stop talking about each other. Start talking about america. It is hurting. There are real problems. If you want to get elected, convince america you can solve these problems, not that your opponent is an awful person. Angela rye, what say you . Well, i agree with barry. First and foremost that this is a silly issue. It has always been a silly issue but if only it was funny. It really is no laughing matter. The fa