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Reporter im rachel crane in ashland, ohio where a harrowing 911 call led to the rescue of a kid napped woman, the recovery of three bodies. Im nick valencia here in atlanta. Were following a breaking story what officers say is an ambush of Police Officers in philadelphia. Reporter the protest is catching on in some high schools across the country. That is not what has happened at Colin Kaepernicks old high school. And new this morning, donald trump trying to disarm one controversy, but perhaps giving critics ammo for a new controversy instead. At a rally in florida, the republican nominee said hes a staunch defender of the Second Amendment and falsely again claims that Hillary Clinton wants to take guns away. And then trump wandered aloud about clintons security detail. I think that her body guards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. Right . Right . I think they should disarm. Immediately. What do you think . Yes, yes. Yeah. Take their guns away, she doesnt want guns. Lets see what happens to her. This comes as trump tries to pivot away from his birther claims. That was yesterday, now saying the actual words that president obama was born in the u. S. But falsely blaming the Birther Movement on Hillary Clinton. Clintons campaign is responding this morning with a web video out just a few moments ago. Watch part of it. Barack obama was born in the United States. Period. You dont still question he was born in the United States, do you . I have no idea. Heres the thing, just over 50 days to go until election day, the polls are tightening, the candidates and their surrogates hitting the Battle Ground states today. Cnns chris frates is kind of monitoring all of it, good morning to you. Good morning, youre exactly right. Its Battle Ground saturday out there on the campaign trail with candidates and all of their surrogates stumping in key swing states. Lets take a look at the map, get a sense of where the politics are popping today. In ohio, theyre going to see the most action with senators Bernie Sanders and elizabeth warren. Stumping there for Hillary Clinton. Donald trump, hes headed out west, going to colorado. And mike pence hes headed to the Sunshine State of florida. Hillary clinton is not in a swing state. Shes doing a fundraiser and a dinner here in washington, d. C. But her cesurrogates are out in force in ohio. Warren and sanders will be working hard to turn out two key groups that havent been fans of Hillary Clinton, those are young people and progressives. A recent cnn orc poll shows that clinton has work to do there. Shes trying trump by five points. 41 to 46 . On the republican side, mike pence heads to a Retirement Community in florida. Sunshine state, florida, and a cnn orc poll of likely voters there shows trump and clinton in a dead heat with trump edging out clinton 47 to 44 . Thats inside the margin of error. Razor thin for donald trump. Trump himself is headed out to the conservative bastion of Colorado Springs tonight. Hes trying to put colorado back into the republican column after president obama turned it blue starting back in his first run against john mccain in 2008. All of this campaigning comes as the polls have tightened this month in september. Cnns most recent poll of polls, shows clinton edging trump nationally by just two points. 43 to 41 . So a lot to watch on the campaign trail. Hey, chris frates, thank you so much for breaking it down for us. Moments ago, the department of Homeland Security released a statement of Donald Trumps comment to disarm clintons secret service detail. Its a longstanding policy of the department and u. S. Secret service we do not discuss the projective apparatus tactics, techniques or procedures around any protectee. Lets bring in the cochair of women vote trump and a donald trump supporter and farron johnson, a Hillary Clinton supporter. Good morning. Good morning. Amy, i want to start with you this comment from donald trump where he says lets see what happens to her. Before we get to gun policy, gun rights and gun control, what does he mean by that phrase from your perspective . Lets see what happens to her. Well, victor, i think he was just talking conversational style to his supporters there. I dont think donald trump wants anything to happen to Hillary Clinton. It was a week ago when she got sick and off the campaign trail and he said at one of his events that he hoped that she got better and returned to the campaign trail because he liked the competition. So to think that he meant anything else, i think he was just trying to show the hypocrisy of one set of rules for her and another set of rules for regular people. Let me ask you, in your heart of hearts, i know that so close to an election campaigns go for any gaffe on any side. Do you believe sincerely that donald trump was trying to send a signal for someone to act out violently against Hillary Clinton . Do you believe that was what he was trying to say . He is basically continuing everything hes done the entire campaign. Lets face it, since hes been running for office. Hes been inciting violence at his rallies, hes made these comments earlier on about Hillary Clinton saying to Second Amendment supporters if she becomes president , shes going to appoint justices that would take your guns away. I think he made a big gaffe by going far beyond. If you look at that speech, he went off script again. His campaign spent the last week and a half trying to make him more president ial. Try to put him more of he did it. Do i think that he wants Hillary Clinton to be murdered or shot . No. Do i think hes using it as another dog whistle moment to his supporters, absolutely. Were going to continue this conversation on the other side of this commercial break. Stay with us. Weve got a lot to talk about, including the scathing editorial from a former secretary of defense who served under bush and obama. Hes blasting both Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Well have a portion of that for you. He says one of them is beyond repair. How hes sizing up the next commander in chief potentially. Thats coming up. Also two Police Officers, four others, shot in a rampage overnight. Now were learning the shooter left behind a note. It looks great. Wow what is happening . Oh my gosh, its going up but the malibus not the only vehicle that was awarded. This is mind blowing. The chevy camaro, equinox, and silverado hd were awarded most dependable as well. This is extremely impressive. Theres so many doing it once, yea, great job, four times, obviously, theyre doing something right. Absolutely heres the plan. You want a family and a career, but most of the time you feel like youre trying to wrangle a hurricane. The rest of the time, theyre asleep. 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Ive had tremendous success, i think. Those are sacrifices . Mapping the oceans. Where we explore. Protecting biodiversity. Everywhere we work. Defeating malaria. Improving energy efficiency. Developing more clean burning natural gas. My job . My job at exxonmobil . Turning algae into biofuels. Reducing Energy Poverty in the developing world. Making cars go further with less. Fueling the global economy. And you thought we just made the gas. Energy lives here. Stop clicking around. Travel sites to find a better price. The lowest prices on our hotels are always at hilton. Com. So pay less and get more only at hilton. Com. Lets just get a sandwich or something. Or something . You dont just graduate from medical school, or something. And we dont just pull smoked chicken, bake fresh foccacia and handslice avocado. Theres nothing or something about it. 12 minutes after the hour. Former defense secretary robert gates has sharp words for each of the president ial candidates. In a oped hes calling donald trump beyond repair and says Hillary Clinton needs to dress forth rightly her trust worthiness before the election. Lets bring back our panel. And i want to start with you, and read a portion of secretary gates oped this morning. He says, mrs. Clinton has time before the election to address forthrightly her trustworthiness to reassure people about h judgment. To demonstrate her willingness to steak out one or more positions in National Security at odds with her partys conventional wisdom. And it will affect how many people vote including me. Your response . I think secretary gates is absolutely right. Hillary clinton is going to do just that. I mean, with 51 days left to go in the election, shes going to have the opportunity to particularly go to background states and really talk about her experience as being secretary of state. Now the untrustworthiness part, shes been transparent on many more issues than donald trump. Shes been open. I think youll see a wellrested and wellprepared and a qualified candidate in Hillary Clinton who is going to have a message thats going to resonate with American People. Does there not have to be some change if shes going to chaun change that number is . Its 2 3 of people according to most polls who do not believe shes honest. The first thing weve got to say, Hillary Clinton is trustworthy. Shes had a long, successful career in politics. President obama said it best. This is a person who was the first lady for president clinton and knows the white house, knows federal government better than anyone. I think this whole issue of trustworthiness is okay for people to feel, but lets not indict her as a person who has been full of scandals and lies. Let me read what he said about donald trump. At least on National Security, i believe mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our government and tempmenterally unsuited to led our men and women in uniform. Its unqualified and unfit to be commander in chief. Before i get your response i want to read what donald trump tweeted out a few minutes ago. I never met former defense secretary robert gates. He knows nothing about me. Look at the results under his guidance a total disaster. Whats your response to the critique from secretary gates . I think that the American People thing that washington is beyond repair and we need real leadership. Look at whats gone on in the world and how the middle east has turned into an inferno under obama and secretary clinton. And people want change. And when you look at what happened yesterday when donald trump had admirales and generals and medal of honor recipients up there supporting him, i think that speaks volumes. I have to throw this in here, victor, you know, as far as secretary clintons trustworthine trustworthiness. The polls show the American People dont trust her. Everything time theres a document dump we learn more and more. Stand up and tell the truth. You would think after four days off the trail she would be rejuvenated and revived and talk about new things and she comes out and its the same old policies thats what with let me throw this to you, amy. Weve discussed the untrustworthy numbers, but the unqualified numbers for donald trump are in the high 50s to low 60s. If theres a choice for the voters between unqualified and untrustworthy, do you think if this is their classification and their summation here, theyll choose unqualified over untrustworthy . Well, this is the thing, donald trump is not a politician. Hes never held elected office. He is a successful businessman. And its all about the people he surrounds himself with. You cant change that trustworthiness. She has a long period of time where people dont trust her. And a lot of it has just been recently. So i do think the polling shows the American People are with donald trump. He has the momentum. They want change. They dont trust Hillary Clinton. Those numbers are tightening. Ten seconds and weve got to go. Listen, donald trump is going to try to lie his way to november. I mean, we just caught him lying on the birther issue. Amy he didnt yeah, he did lie. He also is going to basically, you know, try to be this new and improved guy. He cant. Well see the same old divisive donald trump in the next 51 days. We got to wrap it there. I know you want to come back in on that birther issue. We got to go. Okay. All right. Getting word this morning that one person is dead and five others injured after an overnight shooting spree in pennsylvania. Two of those people who are injured, are Police Officers. Nick valencia has been looking into this. Good morning, another ambush on Police Officers in this country. This time, in philadelphia. Im nick valencia here in atlanta. Well give you the details about the shooting and what the note found on the gunman said. This is the cnn newsroom. All you need is love plays my friends know me so well. They can tell what im thinking, just by looking in my eyes. They can tell when im really excited and thrilled. And they know when im not so excited and thrilled. But what they didnt know was that i had dry, itchy eyes. But i knew. So i finally decided to show my eyes some love. Some eyelove. When is it chronic dry eye . To find out more, chat with your eye doctor and go to myeyelove. Com. Its all about eyelove, my friends. Two Police Officers are in the hospital, a suspect is dead after shooting in pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Police commissioner says a man walked up to an officer last night. And shot her. As she sat in her car. He ran off. Officers chased him for blocks as he shot five other people encountered along the way. Nick valencia is following this. There was a note that was left behind by the suspect as well . It may indicate his motive. We havent seen the note. But according to an affiliate it expressed displeasure about Police Officers. Police are confident this was an ambush in philadelphia. About 11 30 p. M. Last night the suspect approached a Police Officer sitting in her car, struck her twice. No words were exchanged. I mention that police found that note, according to our local affiliate on the suspect who is now deceased. The Police Commissioner in philadelphia addressed the shooting last night. Dont know what his ideology is or thinking. Im not even going there. Its just a hatred of Police Officers. There was no mention of religious nothing like that. We have no reason at this point to believe its related to any beliefs of a religious nature or anything like that. Just his feelings about Police Departments and Police Officers in general and probation officers. We mentioned that the suspect is dead. Six people were shot all together. Those two officers as well as four civilians. In addition to opening fire there on that police car, the gunman indiscriminately opened fire on a bar. Two people are in critical condition. We mentioned a civilian, shot seven times. Shes now deceased. We appreciate it so much. All right. Lets take you now to orlando. One person dead. Another six wounded after a shooting there. This happened in the middle of the street. It happened early this morning. In fact, someone started shooting as patrons were leaving a local pool hall. Officers are still trying to find a suspect. And they dont have a description to release just yet. When they do well bring it to you. Donald trump promising a huge overhaul of the economy, but how realistic is it . We weigh the pros and cons and how it stacks up against Hillary Clintons plan. 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