Camera. Kyung lau, cnn, los angeles. And the cnn film holy hell airs later tonight 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Thats it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, immigration blowback. Donald trumps latino supporters jumps ship and one of them saying he doesnt want to be part of trumps scam. A hurricane bearing down on the u. S. Millions in its path from florida all of the way up the east coast and cnn going oneonone with trumps controversial doctor. Wait until you see this. Lets go out front. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, whiplash. In less than 24 hours donald trump speaking on both sides of the border and both sides of his mouth. Trump talking tough tonight on immigration on the campaign trail. Were going to build the wall. Mexicos going to pay for the wall. Were going to stop but in a radio interview with conservative host laura ingram, trump created more confusion by saying he was going to soften his position on deporting undocumented immigrants. Were softening. Well do it in a very humane way and well see it with the people that are in the country. Joe biden firing back at donald trump dismissing his highprofile mexico visit and his immigration speech. I dont know if he knows his own immigration policy. And tim cane charging that trump lost his nerve when he went face to face with mexicos president. Losing his will and losing his backbone in key moments when hes supposed to be such a great
negotiator and pour on the red made and saying the divisive things again, keep america safe. Its no time for amateurs. Jim acosta begins our coverage tonight out front in miami. Jim, so last night the fiery speech after the much more tempered speech in mexico, and now today saying hes softening. Whats going on . Reporter thats right, erin. Donald trump is back to referring his immigration stance as a softening, but that is not how his toughest critics and even his strongest supporters see it and as we saw earlier some of his highprofile latino surrogates are bolting from his campaign. Donald trump proved once again today his stance on immigration is a moving target. Were going to build the wall. Mexicos going to pay for the wall. Reporter at two different events in ohio, the gop nominee was talking tough on immigration while toning down his rhetoric
on mexico one day after his historic visit with mexican president enrique pena nyetieto. A visit designed to show he could be diplomatic. I just came back from a meeting with the president of mexico where i expressed my deep respect for the people of this country. Including a radioa peerance, suggesting he will justify the deportation of krim wicriminals. We have a lot of people in this country that you cant have and those people will get out and then were going to make a decision at a later date once everything is stabilized. I think you will see theres quite a bit of softening. Problem is there will be no amnesty. You cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country. Most of his supporters and
critics heard trump hardening in his immigration speech in phoenix warning every undocumented person in the u. S. Is subject to deportation and it led some of the latino surrogates straight for the exits. Ive resigned. I know other people have resigned. Its not a good feeling because the alternative is not much better, but im unwilling to be part of his propaganda machine. The Clinton Campaign insists trump hasnt softened a bit except when it comes to confronting mexicos president over who should pay for a wall on the southern u. S. Border, a matter trump claims he didnt discuss with pena nieto. We did discuss the wall. We didnt discuss payment of the wall. The mexican president insists he made his stance clear. Translator i was emphatic that mexico would not pay for the wall. That was a choke, and i think it shows that diplomacy is not for amateurs. Donald trump is an amateur. Reporter erin, we should point out there say bit of a mini staff shakeup inside the Trump Campaign. We found out from sources that earlier today rick gates, a deputy who is under the former Campaign Chairman of Paul Manafort is leaving the campaign while the campaign is now bringing on a man named david bossie to be the campaign manager. David bossie worked with the conservative Group Citizens united and here we are heading into the final stretch of the campaign and donald trump is still making moves with his staff. Thank you very much, jim. Out front now, david gergen served as adviser to four president s including reagan and clinton. Basil smikle, boris epistein, clinton supporter. Corinne jean pierre and the spokesperson for moveon. Org and mark preston, executive editor of cnn politics. Mark, let me start with you, though, yet another change, shift within the Trump Campaign. A manafort loyalist out and
another change. Change is still happening here, three different leaders in just two months. Right, and the question is will we continue to see changes in the coming weeks . Look, this has been a campaign that is certainly unconventional and his really thrived on chaos in being disarray. However, we are at the point right now where the campaign really needs to bring it together, and i have to say that Kellyanne Conway and steve bannon when they had taken over a few weeks ago have tightened things up. I dont think it will necessarily hurt donald trump right now. I think his bigger problem right now is really appealing to a broader base of voters and he really needs to focus that. Boris, to that point, a broader base of voters. Jake monty resigning, one of several saying they no longer could stomach being with the Trump Campaign. These are guys who had gone on tv, hispanicamericans and said donald trump is not that bad. Vote for him. Steve cortes is another hispanicamerican who continues to be an ardent supporter. Its one thing in the report to name names and jacob monty is the name we just heard. There are several others. With all due respect to those individuals and thats their individual choice and we do hope to win back their support for november 8th because in the end its a binary choice between donald trump on one side who will secure the border and end sanctuary cities and catch and release and make sure everify is universally instituted and Hillary Clinton whose immigration approximately see is muddled and increase to syrian refugees. Thats the bottom line. Basil, go ahead. What donald trump has been doing is playing Good Cop Bad Cop with the American People. His speech last night was one of the darkest ive ever heard. It was authoritarian, and the specter of these deportation forces going into my community, into our community. Oh, nice and rounding up individuals is scary to me. I think the American People should resoundly reject the kind of language that the kind of language that donald trump is bringing to this race. Its absolutely. Thats not whats happening in the polls. The fact of the matter is hillary is about keeping families together. Thats not what donald trump is talking about. Youre right the polls are narrowing, but david gergen, what is the significance . You had alfonso aguilar, a pastor in texas and mr. Monty, all of these individuals and highprofile hispanics that they could no longer be with the campaign. Basil is right. Last nights speech was too much. Will it matter . I think zee to see it in context and donald trump is getting closer and he still could win this thing. Nobody should count him out and hes showing the strength that we had not expected given Everything Else thats happened and having said that, this has been a mess and he wasted precious weeks in the campaign over trying to find a position he can support that would keep his base while also expanding his appeal in the hispanic
community and at the end of two weeks hes come full circle and hes done it in a way where hes now strengthened his base, but at the expense he has bombed his bridges into the hispanic community. This is basically over. Were going to see more resignations from this group. If i may i just want to finish. And during these two weeks he could have let Hillary Clinton be the headline and shes been on the defensive. I know were not the same person. Very different views and mine are right, his are wrong. Yours are right and mine are left. You just came out today and you had more emails come out today that doug band requested passports of huma abedin and said well figure it out. That was to go with bill clinton to release the journalist from north korea. That crosses lines. As far as the specific issue goes on immigration, donald
trump has been consistent and ive been on the program saying two weeks hold on for a moment because here he is it doesnt seem like that, okay, because it does seem like hes trying to have it both ways. Here he is yesterday in an eighthour period in mexico and in his speech. Let me play. We did discuss the wall. We didnt discuss payment of the wall and that will be for a later date. We will build a great wall along the southern border and mexico will pay for the wall. And there is crime, as you know, there is a lot of crime and there are a lot of problems, but i think together well solve those problems. I am going to create a new special Deportation Task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal Illegal Immigrants in america. For a second and Third Generation mexicans are just beyond reproach. Spectacular, spectacular, hardworking people. We have no idea who these people are, where they come from. I always say trojan horse. Joe . I think this is unbelievable. People dont realize what he said last night. The left has been looking for substance and hes bringing substance. The countries that will not but the question is hes saying Different Things at different times. Not the substance. No, very careful what he said. He said countries wont take immigrants back these illegals. You watched donald trump game the situation and shake down those countries for money at the end of the day however this pans out. So theyll pay for the people that should go back to those countries, whether its mexico or guatemala. Countries that wont take them back and watch him turn this into a financial win. He won the day in the morning and lost the day in the evening and the ramifications are what weave seen in the last 24 hours and will continue over the next few days. Next, a dangerous hurricane about to slam the east coast. One governor calling it lifethreatening to the millions in its path. 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This came from more than just fund raisers and youre talking about millions of dollars from fund raisers, each of them and some very rich people. No doubt about it, erin. It really is a goldplated list of whos who of celebrities, first of all. A combination of celebrities and actors and others and remember the california swing shake, 20 million in three days alone on that. Last week in the hamptons, one night alone some 7 million here and its not only that, to add up to the eyepopping number of 143 million, shes also getting
a small set of donors to give to a lot of state Party Committees across the country. The maximum amount that some people can give if you give to everyone 366,000 from one person alone. Thats how this number gets so high, erin. All legal and part of the Campaign Finance law, but thats how the number gets so high. By the way, its why people think the system is so broken. There are limits of this and you can give 600,000 and it seems ridiculous to most people and shes doing very well when it comes to fund raising and how is that impacting the polls or are the polls reflecting that big haul . August had been on track to be a good month for her after the convention and our cnn poll of polls which is a survey of the five most recent, highly respected National Surveys and she started the month ten points ahead of donald trump and shes ending the month five points ahead of donald trump. You can see right here 42 to 37 . So still a lead for sure in this National Poll of polls, but not what Many Democrats had hoped for and the Reasons Campaign officials believe is the drip, drip, drip that we talk about so often with the email controversy and the Clinton Foundation con troversy and the labor day kickoff of the campaign, and quite a few vulnerabilities, as well. Jeff zeleny, thank you very much. Boris, you have to admit these fundraising numbers are theyve been doing that since they left the white house. Thats what happens when you leave the white house dead broke and now are worth 250 million. May i just its all about the polls. We are either up on the polls. We are winning respond. Way to muddle everything. Look its called an answer. Thats what you think. Shes playing the long game here, right . Sure. Her map is expanding while his map is shrinking and its about getting to 270 or maybe more and this is whats going on so shes getting all this money and its great and this is what the National Political campaigns are all about is fund raising and you cant run the campaign its ohio and florida. Shes running a real campaign. More money in the product no one wants. She has an army in ten to 11 states. Hold on, because heres the thing. This money is coming from rich people. Justin timberlake, paul mccartney. Is it easy for her to say im with the average american when shes with the celebrities. She has a record of supporting the middle class. Wheres the example . She has a record of going
into the communities and working with people. She has a record of supporting the Clinton Foundation. She actually has a record doing this, but i will say this because hold on. Hold on. It was the warren hatch bill. Would you stop . There was a mention of state parties and let me talk about that, because what that money actually helps us do is build the party from the ground up. All of these state races shes raising money for a lot of others. Okay. I just want to add. You had state senate races and areas where the Death Penalty are on the table. Let her hang and also the senate is in play in the house and well see what happens there and that is also very important and thats the long game. You keep saying, but were gaining in every state. Hold on a second. To that point, the polls are tightening significantly. Trump had a tough month, okay . And yet her lead was cut in half
by the poll. I think thanks the convention, to be fair. As they get settled into a fivepoint race and what the trump people ought to be worried about that unregardless they close more they are still more and theyre behind in every single swing state. Trump is very competitive here, but why are they raising all this money . Its partly for insurance for her campaign and they want to roll up the score. If they can get the senate and if she can open this more after the first debate and then she can get the house and govern more effectively and thats the name of the game. We can win the presidency, but how do we govern and we need a big win. Is that really possible . Im sorry, thats just not happening. 100 . Yes. The senate is a lot easier than the house. Theyll neve