Minority groups, and later for speaking to black communities but not in them, the Trump Campaign took him directly to detroit today where he attended a service at a predominantly black church. It was not clear at the outset whether or not trump would address the congregation. But he did, he spoke in words he said were his own and that he said were straight from the heart. Listen. Nothing is more sad than when we sideline young black men with unfulfilled potential, tremendous potential. I met some people this morning that were incredible people, and theyre looking for jobs. These are incredible people, young people. Our whole country loses out when were unable to harness the
brilliance and the energy of these folks. Were one nation. And when anyone hurts, we all hurt together, and thats so true, so true. Were all brothers and sisters. And were all created by the same god. We must love each other and support each other. And we are in this all together. All together. I fully understand that the Africanamerican Community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made right. They will be made right. I want to make america prosperous for everyone. I want to make the city the economic envy of the world. We can do that. We can do that again. [ applause ] factories everywhere, new roads and bridges, new schools. Especially schools. And new hope. Ive been so greatly blessed and
in so many ways with no greater blessing than my family, and a great family. Nothing would make me happier and more fulfilled than to use what i have learned in business and in traveling all over the world. Ive sort of seen a lot. To bring the wealth and prosperity and opportunity to those who have not had these opportunities before. And thats many, many people in detroit. When i see wages falling, people out of work, i know the hardships this inflicts. And im determined to do something about it. I will do something about it. I do get things done. Some people have strengths. Thats one of my i get things done. Im going to get things done for you. Please know this. For any who are hurting, things are going to turn around. Tomorrow will be better. It will be much better. The pastor and i were talking about riding up the street, and we see all those clothes stores and people sitting down on the sidewalk, and no jobs and no activity. Well get it turned around. Well get it turned around, pastor. Believe me. Were going to win again as a country. And were going to win again for all of our people. I want to work with you to renew the bonds of trust people sit circumference and the bonds of faith that make our nation strong. America has been lifted out of many of its most difficult hours through the meteorologist of faith and through people like Bishop Jackson and dr. Jackson. So important. People have no idea how important they are. Now in these hard times for our country, let us turn again to our christian heritage to lift up the soul of our nation. I am so deeply grateful to be here today. And it is my prayer that america of tomorrow, and i mean that, that the america of tomorrow will be one of unity, togetherness, and peace. And perhaps we can add the word prosperity, okay . Prosperity. All right. While donald trump spoke about unity inside, this was the scene outside from protesters. No trump no trump those protesters demanding that trump leave their city. Lets talk about all of it with our political panel. Trump supporter andre bauer, a former Lieutenant Governor of south carolina. Also with us is basil smykel, former senior aide to clinton while she was a senator. Thank you both for being here. Lets begin with this. Look, andre, this comes as his poll numbers with africanamericans are not strong. Hes polling at 2 . Clinton is at 87 . Hes even polling behind the Third Party Candidates for president. 60 days out or so, is it too late to get enough africanamericans on board supporting trump to make a meaningful material difference at all . Absolutely not. I hear people criticize him because its too late, because he hadnt been in the communities. They continue to criticize. In the old words of teddy roosevelt, the man in the arena, you have one man out there every day, making multiple stops on the campaign trail, willing to listen to others. And the other campaign, its a candidate thats in hiding. We need hillary watch. I dont know why you would criticize anybody thats putting themselves out there and trying to get a better understanding of people that are suffering. Its so great for donald trump that hes making an effort to do an outreach. Im thankful that he is. I think hes grown a lot as a person. Basil, does he have a point, that donald trump went, he went to detroit, went to mexico, went to louisiana after the flooded . First of all, hillary is not in hiding, i dont know where that narrative came from. To answer your question directly, i never begrudge any candidate, particularly someone running for president of the United States, to go to the Africanamerican Community to campaign for their support. It went down as i thought it would. He had a very scripted speech and the community where he spoke listened respectfully. Will he engage with the community afterwards, with jobs, with things that are affecting our Community Disproportionately them number two, can we actually trust him . All the things in his history, going back to the central park five and how he talked about
race at that time, the discriminatory practices of his business, can he give africanamericans the opportunity to trust him again . I dont think he can do that, and i dont think that can happen two months from election day. He had every opportunity to do that a year ago. And hes doing it now . Hes in a primary, basil. That doesnt preclude him from going to visit black voters. Whats your point with that . Theres a multitude of different populations. He was in a 16way primary. He worked his way through a primary. Which means to me its more calculated than honest and sincere. Its amazing to criticize one candidate when the other candidates doing nothing. Im baffled how shes got a record in the black community. I could go through that record pretty good. I want you both to listen to what the democratic mayor of detroit said to me last hour. Lets play that. The reaction is, when are you going to give us a solution . Anybody can say that in cities in this country, we have too much poverty, we have too much crime, and the schools are in bad shape. Everybody knows that. What are you going to do about it . And still, we have not heard. I was hoping today that donald trump would not just describe the problem, that he would offer some solutions. And if you want to be sincere, tell us specifically what youre going to do. And thats what were still waiting for. Andre, to you, that comes from the democratic mayor, a Hillary Clinton supporter. He says clinton has offered a number of specifics. He didnt hear those from trump. Would you like to see your candidate put those specificatispecifics out there, ill do x, y, and z . He has. He said School Choice. Just to be clear, he hasnt talked about those solutions as they relate to detroit in particular. Not directly to just detroit. Hes talked more broadly to empower so many communities that are suffering. He also said, im coming here to listen, i want to hear your concerns. You hear democrats criticizing him. I saw a small crowd outside the church, it didnt look like even that big a crowd. Youve got a candidate making an effort to hear concerns, to give solutions, to talk about putting a businessperson in there that can help create jobs, help create a better economic environment, to create things like School Choice opportunities, where they dont have to go to a failing school, they can go to a school that empowers them to improve their lives, not being held down, by the government saying were going to take care of you and prop you up, but not the vision to get yourself in a better solution. Basil, lets get to that. Ive been covering detroit and ive seen the deterioration of the school system. They were literally running out of money this year to pay their teachers. When you look at the history, and the mayor even said, look, the city has run into hard times on the watch of democrats. Youve had democrats mayors in detroit since 1962. The city went bankrupt on the watch of democrats leading the city. Does trump have a point when he says try me, what do you have to lose . We have a lot to lose. Weve seen why we have a lot to lose. To address your point more directly, there are two things that i think we should pay close attention to. Number one, that even as donald trump runs as a republican, he has yet to criticize his republican colleagues for the role that they have played in how cities have been damaged, how schools have been damaged in our communities. And i think thats a very important point that donald trump has yet to address head on. The second point i would make is that the community, the Africanamerican Community, and im not an arbiter for what is black and what isnt in theAfricanamerican Community, but from a political standpoint, there are nuances in the community that he has yet to prove to me and to others that he actually understands. Because we can talk about failing schools and crime, because those are statistics that i think republicans like to pull up about black people. But they dont talk about how those making over 75,000 have doubled in the last 40 years, those making over 100,000 quadrupled over the last 40 years. There are nuances in the community where you actually have to go in and learn and work. My question is, two months from the election, why is he doing this just now . That begs the question, andre, two of my guests tonight, trump supporters, say he needs to hold a town hall with africanamerican voters and really double down on this. Do you as a trump supporter is that what you would like to see . How does he further his outreach effectively . Look, im not here to tell him how to run his campaign. What im seeing is someone making a conscious effort to
say, im going to work with you, i think you need federal funds to help get you out of the ditch. At least you have a businessperson, not a government bureaucrat thats been saying the same thing for 40 years. Youre advocating for more federal spending in the state, not what you would expect from a republican. Im not advocating, im telling you what donald trump actually said. If its improving schools, empowering people, trade schools, giving them an opportunity to become stewards and taxpayers and people that add to the community, in the end that builds into the whole system that funds of the government. We dont want people that are continually going to have to be dependent on the government. We want people that we can empower. What do you say to those who look at detroit and say democrats have failed the city . What would you say . Look, i would say that detroit has had a problem that
goes well beyond just the politics of a democrat being in office. Its also about republican governors. Its also about the fact that the Business Community, you know, africanamericans in the Business Community there and in other places have had trouble. We have to do more, and we meaning sort of all of us, and particularly our candidates, have to do more to do things like additional job training, apprenticeship programs. Those are things that actually Hillary Clinton is talking about, retraining workers. Hes been in leadership and it hasnt happened. Whats fascinate to go see, guys, is a lot of private sector businesses, a lot of big corporations have gone and poured a lot into detroit to do exactly that sort of job training. Final thought to you, andre. Again, youve got somebody out there working it. The other person is over in montauk sipping mint juleps with bon jovi. Thats unfair. Hold on, andre. Hes listening and trying to andre, you said Hillary Clinton is until the hamptons. I dont know that shes in the hamptons right now. Donald trump lives on fifth avenue. Three miles from harlem, where he hasnt been, by the way. Youve got one candidate going to the places they said he wouldnt go, and the other candidate, you cant find them. You cannot convince me you will not be able to convince me that Hillary Clinton is afraid to go any place that donald trump would go. She refuses to take questions. It has been 273 days since she held a press conference. Thanks, guys. Coming up, dr. Ben carson says trump is, quote, anxious to get started and knows exactly where to begin. Youll hear that, next. [engine revs] [cheering] the highly advanced audi a4. Brewmaster. Risktaker. I sold everything i had to own a brewery. You might have heard its name. Stella artois be legacy
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now supporter dr. Ben carson, a part of detroit that carson said is not prospering. He spoke to our Jeremy Diamond this morning. Listen. He had an opportunity to speak with several people. More importantly, he had an opportunity to see, you know, some of the parts of the city that are not prospering. And a chance to talk to some of those people, as well as at the church. And i think it just fortifies, you know, every time ive talked to him about detroit and about the problems in the inner city, he gets very, very animated. Hes very anxious to do something about it. What is his plan exactly, to address crime in inner cities . Ive heard him on the stump, he talks about bringing jobs back and stuff, but it doesnt seem like theres enough concrete specifics. Theres not one specific thing. Its a host of things. For instance, using the trillions of dollars that are overseas, repatriating that
money, incentivising it to come back, and then using a portion of it, because the stipulation would be, were not going to tax you but 10 of it has to be used, enterprise zones, to create jobs for people who are unemployed, underemployed, on welfare. What that does is twofold. It would be the biggest stimulus package since fdrs new deal. Number two, it gets businesses and corporations once again interested in reaching out to the communities and helping people in the communities, which is what they used to do before the government took over it. The government has plenty on its hands without doing things that we the people should be doing for each other. So it seems like what you have, what donald trump has is an economic plan for the country. Is there something specific that he needs to do to address the problems that are very different in the inner cities of america thats more than just stimulating Economic Growth in the country . A large part of the problem
is economics. You know, its like in a marriage. What are the two things that make marriages go bad . Economics and sex. Well take the sex out of it. But economics, you know, its the same kind of thing for a society. When things become tense economically, it creates a lot of the problems that dont need to be there. And, you know, you look at a city like detroit, which was once a hub of innovation, and entrepreneurial risktaking and Capital Investment and you look at whats happened to it because of the enormous number of regulations that stifle that creativity. And thats not helpful to us as a nation. We americans have always been creative people. That cando attitude. We dont want to trade that for the what can you do for me attitude, because that always runs out. All the societies that have gone that way end up looking the same way. A small group of elites at the
top who control everything, a rapidly diminishing middle class, and a vastly expanded dependent class. We dont need that. When trump talks about poverty and crime in the inner cities, he describes a world in which you can walk out the door and get shot. His answer is bringing more police into the communities. Is that enough . Thats one of the things youve heard. But the thing that you havent maybe concentrated on is him talking about providing the right kind of education and educational choices for people, because that changes the trajectory in their lives. You havent yet heard him talking about what kind of things we need to do for young men. Theyve grown up in homes with no father figure. That creates problems because people dont learn how to react appropriately to authority. And the First Authority figure they meet is a policeman or someone whos badder than they are. In either case, it dont work out well. Frequently they never really had a chance. We need policies that bring families together. Dr. Ben carson speaking there with our Jeremy Diamond. All right. On monday night here, labor day, 8 00 p. M. Eastern, a cnn special report takes an indepth look at the lives of the two major candidates for president , Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Heres a sneak peek. I accept your nomination. For the presidency of the United States. The essential Hillary Clinton. We a