Certainly in southern louisiana. I am briana keilar. That is it for me. Wolf blitzer will be back here on monday after his couple weeks of granddad duty. Thank you very much for watching. Erin burnett out front starts now. Breaking news the Clinton Campaign accusing trump of pushing ku klux klan values. An explosive new charge tonight. Plus, the Trump Campaigns new ceo accused of attacking his exwife. The details from that case coming to light. And a sitting governor leaves a profanitylaced, threatening voicemail. Well talk to the lawmaker who got that message. Lets go out front. Good evening, im jim sciutto in for elin burnett. Breaking news, tim kaine equating klan values with trump values. He has supporters like david duke connected with the ku klux klan who are going around and saying donald trump is their candidate because donald trump is pushing their values. Ku klux klan values, david duke values, donald trump values are not american values. Theyre not our values, and weve got to do all we can to fight to push back and win. Reporter this is the latest attack in an increasingly explosive war of words, particularly over race. Each candidate accusing the other of bigotry and racism. Moments ago, rnc spokesman sean sponsor tweeted, kkk comments are reprehensible and over the top. Democrats who dont denounce are complicit. Miguel marquez, both campaigns digging in on this increasingly aggressive line of attack. It is aggressive. They are digging in. It may be the dog days of summer, but you wouldnt know it by the fact that the hotbutton issue of race is playing center stage in president ial politics. A man with a long history of Racial Discrimination who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and these kind of white supremacist, White Nationalist, antisemitic groups should never run our government or command our military. Reporter clinton and her campaign, keeping up a blistering racebased offense against donald trump. Ku klux klan values, david duke values, donald trump values are not american values. Reporter trump rejecting outright support from david duke or other White Supremacists. Do you want White Supremacists to vote for you . No, i dont at all. Not at all. Reporter clinton citing trumps hiring of breitbart
edtor steve bannon to run his campaign. His tirades against immigrants, americans, muslims, mexican americans, this tv ad running in swing states. What do you have to lose . Youre living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. Reporter trump hitting back Hillary Clinton is a bigot. Reporter insisting clinton has the race problem. They are often the kinds of kids that are called super predators. Reporter trump releasing this Instagram Video highlighting a term clinton used in 1996. Many see it as racist. She has apologized for it, but it has dogged her campaign. It was a racist term, and everybody knew it was a racist term. Reporter keep in mind that most polls show that minority voters have already made up their minds about these candidates. So the use of race in this situation seems to be candidates who are trying to point out that the other candidate, and this is for sort of moderate independent white voters out there, that
other that the other candidate is worse on race. Thank you very much. Out front, patrick healy, New York TimesPolitical Correspondent covering the 2016 president ial campaign. Clinton supporter bazell smickel, boris epstein, clinton supporter bacari sellers, trump supporter paris denard, and correspondent for the New York Times, as well. You heard sean spicer moments ago saying democrats have to denounce these comments. Do they . No. I mean and seans a good friend of mine. Let me raise my hand as being one complicit in the charge and assertion. For many people, especially young africanamerican millennials who i talk to a regular pace is, our fathers, our mothers got an opportunity to beat back many of the project disses, xenophobia, bigotry, hatred of the 50s, 60s, 70s. There are many thanks donald trump espousing. The xenophobia, bigotry, racism. Having White Nationalist say hes speaking to us, i think its more than troublesome. Trump has to do more than say i dont think i want their vote. He has to do what john mccain did. He has to do what bob dole did. He has to say that this has no place in the Republican Party. Boris, the difference here is theyre not hinting that these are related to. Tim kaine equating them with kkk values. First of all, i was shocked to see tim kaine on the trail. I thought he was sleeping for the past month. Havent seen him at all. He looked very weak. Weak attack dog. Pathetic. This line started because donald trump went out there and started talking to the africanamerican communities. Talking to the africanamerican people and saying that we want to revitalize inner cities. And the democrats became so paranoid, they started calling him a bigot and racist to respond. Well, who is using race to divide people . Not us, not our campaign. Its the democrats, and its the language by tim kaine, the deplorable language by tim kaine you saw out this. Its disappointing that governor
kaine decided to go this. He has no experience in national politics. Thats why he decided to do it. So were paranoid, is that the bottom line here . Were paranoid because were paranoid because a man who is leading a National Ticket didnt engage the black community. He spoke at the black community. He talked about black people. He talked about plaque people about black people in a way that was condescending and threw up every racial stereotype he could put together. No let i let you talk. Let me talk i let you talk. Now let me talk. You dont let me talk. Okay. The bottom line is is that he has not as bacari said, hes not renounced a lot of want support yes, he disavowed, disavowed, disavowed. What he needs to do is if hes going to engage communities of color, go into the community. Dont talk about them in absentia like they dont exist. He is going to community what he needed to do, he needed to do that early on. The timing listen, would you let me talk . Let him finish. I want to let him finish and get your response. The fact is what donald trump is doing is incredibly dangerous. And he has not taken any proactive steps to tone it down and stop it. All hes doing is saying to the communities we want to revitalize you. We want a better life for everybody. What is wrong with that . In those communities let me say patrick first theres been a real runup of hot language this week. Its worth remembering, though, that Hillary Clinton and her campaign have boon has been using the word bigoted to describe donald trump for months now. For months. And theres reason that they can certainly argue for why theyve been doing that. Kkk is a step up kkk is a step up. Donald trump went to mississippi to call mrs. Clinton a pigott. That word hadnt bigot. That word hadnt been used before. The problem for trump is hes opened himself up. Hes vulnerable to this by his sort of hitting on attacks onIllegal Immigrants. The antisemitic tweet. The language any candidate whos running this country for a long time. The i want to if donald trump has a path here with africanamericans, why does Hillary Clinton today have 86 of the black vote to 2 for donald trump . A few months ago it was 0 , then 2 in the margin of error. 8 in some polls. I see a range. I think what youre seeing is Hillary Clinton is so desperate and afraid that donald trump is going to connect with the black community because he is speaking why do those numbers spark fear . 86 to 2 . Is y why is she doing thi . I do want to ask managy to pipe in here. The Trump Campaign pushing, its not just saying the word
bigot, but theyve released campaign video. Ill show a clip here, bringing up her past statements. Lets have a listen. Dr. Kings dream began to be realized wbr id wbr5499 when president Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Its as if you are minimizing i have a dream. Its a nice sentiment, but it took a white president to get blacks to the mountaintop. The damage between the clintons and africanamericans in this country might be irreparable. Obamas support among hardworking americans, white americans, is weakening. Maggie, is there a vulnerability there for Hillary Clinton . There were certainly bad moments for the Clinton Campaign in the 08 primary. I covered it. I covered a lot of what she said at the time. She has addressed some of that. Shes also addressed things like the super predator line from the crime bill which theyve talked about a lot. I think what weve seen with the Trump Campaign, patricks right, that clinton has been making a b
variance of this charge for a while. Shes doing two things. Shes trying to make it essentially that the pivot trump has been attempting in the last week cant stick, which is what a lot of this is about. Trump and his responses to clinton increasingly the last couple of weeks have basically been she levels a charge, he wbrid wbr6189 levels the exact same things back. There is a difference when you have, yes, trump has said the words i disavow about david duke. His campaign gets defensive whenever asked about it. Theyre trying toing is, whichever reporter raises this, is doing something change or weird. I dont think that trump has a huge chance at improving his appeal among black voters in the way that hes going about this. And perhaps we are wrong and well see. What about the Community Well be able to get back to this. Thankfully weve got more time with you after this break. Out front next, Donald Trumps doctor says that he wrote that glowing letter about Donald Trumps health in just five minutes. Was it accurate . Plus, trumps campaign
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and at the end, i get rushed, and i get anxious when i get rushed. I tried to get things five minutes to write the letter while the driver waited for me. Now this comes as donald trump and his supporters continue to question Hillary Clintons own health. Jim acosta is out front tonight. Is this going to be an issue for trump, particularly in light of how aggressively hes gone after Hillary Clintons Health Records . Reporter i think so. Keep in mind, dr. Borenstein has been Donald Trumps personal physician for some 35 years. Hes again stating for the record that he believes the gop nominee is physically fit to be president of the United States. Dr. Borenstein has already released a letter on Donald Trumps health. We know that. We can put that up on screen. Heres a clip. It says, if elected, mr. Trump, i can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. Thats obviously a very strong
statement from the doctor there. The doctor told nbc news that he wrote the letter in five minutes while a limousine sent by Trumps Office was waiting outside of dr. Borensteins office. Thats that disschool closu d will raise questions about Donald TrumpsPhysical Fitness to be president of the United States. On top of that, as you mentioned, thank you very much and his surrogates have been airing their doubt about whether Hillary Clinton is physically fit to be president. Theyve been saying in recent days and including donald trump, he said it himself, doubting whether or not she has the physical and mental stamina to be president. This is something well be hearing about, Donald Trumps personal physician, dr. Borenstein told nbc news that in his opinion, Trumps Health is excellent, especially his Mental Health. So the doctor felt it was necessary to emphasize that he also believes that Donald TrumpsMental Health is also in excellent shape. Obviously this is not the last
well be hearing from dr. Borenstein. There will be lots of other news outlets including this one, who will want to get this kind of comment from dr. Borenstein on the record, as well. Jim . Jim acosta in las vegas. Also tonight, other hard questions for the Trump Campaign. New revelation thats steve bannon, the new head of the campaign, was accused of Domestic Violence, auto keep in mind in 1996 by his thenwife. Chris frates is out front with the report. The latest shakeup was designed to let trump be trump. So to do that, he hired steven bannon, head of a right wing website called breitbart. Com, as the campaign ceo. Reporter now the conservative news chief is drawing headlines of his own. Bannon was charged with battery and Domestic Violence stemming from a 1996 incident involving his thenwife. According to documents obtained by cnn, an argument over money allegedly got physical after bannons thenwife told him she
wanted a divorce. The responding Police Officer wrote, she appeared as if she was very upset and had been crying. I saw this her eyes were red and watery. She first said oh, thank you, you are here. The Police Report went on to say that bannon grabbed her pie the neck and wrist pulling her down and leaving red marks where he grabbed her. The report said she fought back, got away from bannon, and dialed 911. Neither the Trump Campaign nor a bannon spokeswoman commented. And bannon is among those who have drawn controversy. Former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manaforts lobbying ties to ukraine and russia and former manager cory lewandowskis rough treatment of a breitbart reporter drew unwanted scrutiny. And defending a decades old rape accusation that ivana trump later walked back, Attorney Michael Cohen argued, of course, understand that by the very definition you cant rape your spouse. Trump friended unofficial adviser roger ailes left fox news, the channel he founded, following allegations of sexual
harassment. Trump seem to invite controversy sometimes. Just today news that the campaign hired bill steppan as its National Field director. Steppian of a top aide and Campaign Manager to Chris Christie who was fired after the bridgegate scandal, claiming political retribution. Steppian of never charged in the federal investigation. This month, Court Documents revealed a text between christies aides said the governor had flatout lied about steppian not being involved in the lane closures. Christie denied there was any truth to the text. Shows just how long that controversylonge controvers lingers, some two years. Joining us, cnn political corrector. Boris, the real question is about the pattern. You have past charges against steve bannon, his new Campaign Manager. You had lewandowski with what was described as a violent encounter with a female
reporter. You have ailes, forced out of fox news. Comes on as an informal adviser to the Trump Campaign. Does this create a cloud around the Trump Campaign regarding treatment of women . Let me set the record straight. Roger ailes is not an informal adviser. Its not true. Whoevers telling you that is not correct. Hes not advising the campaign in the candidate in any way . Not an informal adviser in the campaign. Thats oly petrigrew, in none of the instances thats only one. In none of the instances was there a conviction. Steve bannons case was dismissed. He didnt mention that. That was not mentioned in the report. Thats something key to mention. When youre on the air when youre talking about somebody. Let me finish now. I will set the record straight when youre done. Youre next. This was part of a divorce. Mr. Bannon is still close with his exwife. They get along fine. They have raised two collegeaged children the two years came later. Were talking about this must be a slow