Brian brianna . Certainly does. Michelle kosinski, thank you so much for that report. Im brianna keilar. Thank you so much for watching. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, breaking news, donald trump about to rally supporters in texas doubling down on his charge that Hillary Clinton traded favors as secretary of state. Plus trump backing down on his promise to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. Will the shift cost him with his loyal base . And Hillary Clintons longtime aide front and center in the email controversy. Who is huma abedin . Lets go oout front. Good evening. Im pamela brown in for erin burnett and out front tonight, breaking news, donald trump about to rally thousands of supporters in austin, texas and
tonight the Trump Campaign ramping up attacks on Hillary Clinton pouncing on an Associated Press report that more than half of the private individuals with whom she met with as secretary of state donated to the Clinton Foundation. Trumps running mate mike pence issued a statement calling that evidence a pay for play and saying, quote, no one is above the law. The Clinton Foundation must be immediately shut down and an independent special prosecutor be appointed to determine if access to Hillary Clinton was for sale. The clinton camp responding moments ago charging the a. P. Report relies on, quote, utterly flawed data. Jason carroll is out front tonight at the trump rally in austin, texas. Jason, what do we expect to hear from trump tonight . Reporter well, a couple of things. First and foremost, expect donald trump to go after Hillary Clinton on the issue of her emails and the 15,000 emails that the fbi found that had not been turned over and expect him to hit hard on that point tonight. Also, expect him to talk more about the Clinton Foundation. Weve heard him do this before, allegations from the Trump Campaign that this was basically a pay for play type of foundation. Anyone who wanted access to the state department got their access according to trump so long as they made a donation. Expect him to hit home on those issues, as well. One of the Big Questions that were wondering about tonight, pamela, since were here in texas, a border state, what will trump have to say about the issue of illegal immigration. His position in some ways seems to have changed over time. You remember initially he said that he wanted to deport some 11 million Illegal Immigrants living here in the United States and then he said he just wanted to get the bad ones out and then most recently saying that he would do much of what the president is already doing except he would do it with more energy. So the question is what will he say about that tonight . Well, he is expected to address that issue tonight, pamela. Not expected to make any sort of
policy speech about that tonight. That will come later. The Trump Campaign basically saying that what he is doing at this point is taking advice and talking to people about his proposals and his ideas and how to move forward from there. Pamela . Jason carroll, thanks so much for that. In light of this breaking news about who Hillary Clinton reportedly met with as secretary of state, it does not look like the Trump Campaign is going to stop with this line of attack any time soon. Phil mattingly is out front. Hillary clinton has totally forgotten the first rule of public service. The job of an elected official is to serve the citizens of the United States. Thats what the job is. Tonight, Hillary Clinton facing a series of sustained attacks from donald trump on the Clinton Foundation and the lingering controversy over her emails. Donald trumps running mate, mike pence citing an associated
press report on Clinton Foundation donor access to the state department launching this salvo on the campaign trail. This just in, the Associated Press is reporting today that 85 of the 154 meetings and calls of individual meetings that the secretary of state gave while she was in office were to individuals who contributed up to 156 million to the Clinton Foundation. Reporter all in the wake of trumps call for a special prosecutor to investigate the former secretary of state. After the fbi and the department of justice whitewashed Hillary Clintons email crimes they certainly cannot be trusted to quickly or impartially investigate Hillary Clintons new crime which is happen all the time. Reporter clinton allies are firing back defending the foundations charitable work as far more important than the political fires it has been engulfed in. None more strongly than the
former top adviser to clintons husband, james carville. Somebody that is shutting this down and theyre going to shut it down then people are going to die. Clinton herself preparing to go back on offense. Aides saying later this week sheila, tack trumps new campaign team, specifically ceos bannon, and described as a divisi divisive dystoppian view of america which should concern all americans. On monday talking about her preparations about the debates with the gop nominee. I am drawing on my experience in elementary school. The guy who pulled your ponytail. And pam, you know that the Clinton Campaign is pushing back on that Associated Press report and pushing back indeed and National Press secretary just releasing a little bit ago a
233rdword statement that reads in part, its cherry picked and a limited subset of secretary clintons schedule to give a portrayal of how often she crossed paths to individuals connected through charitable donations and the data does not account for more than half of her tenure as secretary of state. Obviously, the Clinton Campaign has a real problem with the story and they recognize that the story is a real problem. You saw mike pence on the campaign trail and the Trump Campaign has sent out statements like this from top surrogate Rudy Giuliani. Theyre also fundraising off of it already. Very Strong Language from the clinton camp. Thanks so much, phil mattingly. Out front now, former Campaign Manager for donald trump and Corey Lewandowski and Hillary Clinton supporters basil smiekel and maria cardona. Marias firm currently works for a proclinton super pac. Basil, i want to start with you because we just heard phil talk about this sort of scathing statement coming trt clinton camp about this a. P. Report
basically saying the information was, you know, was cherry picked, but at the same time it seems as though this was pretty straightforward. It says these are only nongovernment officials and the meetings only cover a specific period of time. So is it still not valid . Think its valid. I think it does omit and undercount what secretary clinton did during her course as tenure as secretary of state. 1700, at least on that order. So it omits a lot of them, but it also miscategorizes meetings that she took with Melinda Gates who is world known philanthropist and a nobel prize winner. I think it is erroneous and one more way that donald trump was going to use it and its just one more attack to miscategorize her time as secretary of state and she is within her own right
as is her husband. What do you think, cory . Is it not problematic considering it is a slice of the people that she met with secretary of state. I dont think the a. P. Is an altright organization. What theyre reporting is straightforward. 85 of 156 individuals that they looked at contributed at least 156 million. 40 of those at least gave 100,000. And what the a. P. Did 16 foreign governments gave as much as 170 million to the Clinton Foundation and they excluded those from these numbers, but they said those were in the course of a typical diplomatic e viernment and so when they excruise 170 million from individuals from foreign govern ams and they include the other, 85 of 154 meetings totaling 156 million, this is clearly pay for play. The state department has come out and said, look, this happens routinely that individuals including those who have donated to political campaigns, nonprofits or foundations
including the Clinton Foundation made contact or had meetings with officials in the administration, in light of what you had the state department saying. Thats precisely why it is so wrong and this is typical washington behavior and its the government for the people and you see the state department doing what washington ordinarily does where big donors get access and the voters do not. So you have a prince from bahrain who comes in and cant get in access to the state department and instead he suggested it goes through the Clinton Foundation after a 20 million donation and he gets in. International security advisory board. A man with no experience handling sensitive, Nuclear Issues is put there simply because he was a Clinton Foundation donor. We can go on and on, and there is a lebanese billionaire and its to dilute yourself from the truth. Hillary clinton signed this pledge when she began cutting her ties with the foundation. She has said over and over again that there was no sort of combination of the two at the time and yet these emails come
out and we hear about these meetings. How problematic is this for Hillary Clinton and the optics of it . Sure. Let me say this. This is something clearly that the Trump Campaign and the republicans who oppose Hillary Clinton will continue to hammer at it like a dead horse because they have nothing else. Now the appearance of it, sure, to people who dont understand how these things work it could be problematic. Thats where you have to look at the packs and i understand that trump has never met a fact that he has liked or that he has used, so thats understandable, but facts do matter to the American People and when you look at the Clinton Foundation that it has done and the amazing work theyve done around the world and 11 Million People with access to hivaids drugs and literally saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and for donald trump and his campaign to just off handedly say the Clinton Foundation should be shut down is using is literally no, no, no. Hang on let me finish. He has said that. The huffington post, its the boston globe and major media outlets. They are wrong, too. Everybodys wrong let me finish. I will give you your turn. Yes, i completely agree that they are also wrong because nothing has come out that has been able to make any real connection. So then on that note between an action and a meeting. So let me ask. I want to ask kayleigh because you went to law school and donald trump insinuated something criminal has been going on here. Have you seen any evidence of something criminal happening here from what weve seen so far. Certainly if there were special favors being gained there is a credible argument under the rico statute that Rudy Giuliani has proffered. The Supreme Court came out and said just having meetings and that kind of thing is politics as usual. That happens. You have no proof. You have to prove intent and thats very true and thats very hard to prove and its donald
trumps call for a special prosecutor and you appoint a prosecutor when there is an appearance of improp righty. Bill clinton meeting with Loretta Lynch just before she clears her of charges is improp righty and the fbi saying the Clinton Foundation is being investigated. There was a disagreement about it because they didnt feel that there was sufficient evidence. They looked at everything, but i will say is clearly, this is creating an issue. You heard the statement and that is an indication and the Clinton Campaign does not want this out. These every day these news stories coming out. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this, basil, because now were hearing that, of course, the clintons are going to stop taking foreign done eggs and that bill clinton will sever his ties if Hillary Clinton is president and that raises a question if there is cause to do it now, why wasnt there cause to do it when she was secretary of state . Well, because contrary to what was said before, there is no pay for play and no quid pro quo. If you look at the email exchanges, everyone that asked for a meeting is told they should go through or had already gone through official channels. Thats an important thats an important point to make because essentially folks are saying no, no, no. Im not going to do this. If you want to go through the meeting, go through the official channels. Having said that. Look, bill clinton is an insanely popular former president who retired or was retired very young relatively speaking and so he had a tremendous amount of good to do in this world and the foundation, as you said, is is doing and has been doing incredible work so to say shut it down means it impacts real peoples lives around the world and that will be unfortunate. Millionaires get access and the American People do not. Guess what . I will tell you what, youre all coming back. I learned my lesson last night. 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Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, im going to do the same thing. A far different tone from when he was vying for the gop nomination. Youre going to have a Deportation Force and youre going to do it humanely, but more important than trumps immigration rhetoric is his policy which his new Campaign Manager says is now a work in progress. Will that plan include a Deportation Force, the kind that he just you just heard in that sound bite and that he talked about during the republican primaries . To be determined. For many, its hard to imagine trump even considering backing away from deporting all undocumented immigrants. The core of his campaign since the start. We have to get them out, the
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