It quickly. Thanks very much. Good work. 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, flipflopping on his plan to beat isis. What does trump really want to do . The fbi director saying we dont play games on the clinton investigation. The debut of the iphone 7 will customers turn a deaf ear to apples newest idea . Lets go out front. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, donald trump attacking Hillary Clinton in a major speech outlining his plan to Vamp Up Military Ships and trump charging that clinton is reckless and in his words,
totally unfit to be Commander In Chief. Sometimes, it seemed, like there wasnt a country in the middle east that Hillary Clinton didnt want to invade, intervene in or topple. Shes trigger happy and very unstable. Trump is speaking rather softly in his tone for him. He did read off a teleprompter declaring the United States is unprepared to face enormous threats around the world and he has promised to boost Military Spending by giving top generals 30 days to defend a plan to him. Jim, trump has today was raising a lot of questions and obviously, his position is very different what we heard today from what weve heard in the past. Reporter thats right, erin. He was on message today. The problem was at times that message was conflicting with previous messages he put out to the public and there was one thing we saw that was consistent today and donald trump was making it very clear when it
comes to National Security and when it comes to defeating Hillary Clinton. He believes the best defense is the good offense. Laying out a National Security vision he dubbed peace through strength, donald trump pulled out the heavy artillery on Hillary Clinton. Sometimes, it seemed, like there wasnt a country in the middle east that Hillary Clinton didnt want to invade, intervene in or topple. Shes trigger happy and very unstable. Promising a approximatepolic diplomacy, the gop nominee pledged to boost Military Spending and enhanced the nations cyber defenses and unleashed a stateoftheart Missile Defense system and a new Military Plan to destroy isis. I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy isis. Reporter thats a new approach for trump who claimed he had a secret strategy for defeating isis earlier this year. I said i have a great plan. Its going to be great. What is it . Id rather not say. I want to be unpredictable. As soon as i take office i will ask congress to fully eliminate the Defense Sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military. It is so depleted. We will rebuild our military. Reporter thats a reversal for trump who said three years ago sequestration didnt go far enough. Frankly, this is a very minor amount of the cuts that have to be made ultimately and a lot of people are saying and even democrats are saying that. Reporter but time and again, trump tried to chip away at the Public Perception backed up by poll numbers that clinton is more fit to be Commander In Chief arguing her use of a private email server was a disqualifying mistake. Hillary clinton has taught us how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking. Thats probably the only thing that weve learned from Hillary Clinton. Reporter yet it was trump who once invited russia to hand over clintons missing emails, a remark he said was a joke. Rush a if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Reporter now, there is one area of defense that he can work on as a candidate and that is his campaign war chest, a Trump Campaign official tells cnn that donald trump and his campaign raised some 90 million last month, erin, that is a lot less than Hillary Clinton raised last month and it is enough to start firing back at the ads shes running all over the country and the way this campaign is headed hes going to need every penny that he raises. Jim, thank you very much. Hillary clinton was off the Campaign Trail today nonetheless, she was firing back at trumps hits there. Brianna keilar is covering the Clinton Campaign out front in new york tonight. Brianna, what was she saying . Reporter this is her Communications Director jen
palmery on what trump took aim today, Hillary Clintons National Security and Foreign Policy. Like a School Yard Bully that cant rely on facts and issues, he has one way of responding to criticisms, i know you are, but what am i . Hillary clinton certainly does have vulnerabilities when it comes to Foreign Policy. A lot of experts will look at how closely shes been tied to president obama, the fact that syria has been regarded as many by many as a black mark on his legacy. Shes made the case in the past that she argued to arm the Syrian Rebels and she lost that fight, but make no mistake about it she is tied very close to president obama and questions of this rise from isis. The status of libya is also something critics point to and just the idea that there isnt a really clear, significant Foreign Policy success that she can herald and this pivot to ash
that has been so important to president obama and that Hillary Clinton was involved in and the keystone of it is the Tpp Trade Pact which clinton has now disavowed at this point. Instead she focuses on the fact that shes well versed on issues and tries to bring up what donald trump has said on Foreign Policy and many of his statements that have seemed illinformed or outrageous and that has really been where her focus is instead of defending her legacy. All right. Brianna, thank you very much. And lets get straight to our panel now. Major general James Spider Marks joins me along with higby and clinton supporter basil smikle and trump supporter jeffrey lord w and jeff zeleny our correspondent. His only way to responding to what she dubs legitimate criticism is to say i know you are, but what am i . Hillary clinton is trying to jab trump at any number of things, but shes the one thing recently she brought up was the pay to play thing with the pamela bondi in florida. The bottom line is she is not one to say anything about anybody about pay to play or immoral or anything so i dont understand why she would come back with that childish response like that. General . Ive got to tell you that so are you or what am i, however she phrased that is inappropriate. I dont think thats the type of discourse that we need to have. Look, ive endorsed Hillary Clinton as the potential candidate to be president because i think she has been scarred enough. Shes been the one in the arena. Shes been in the arena. Donald trump has not been in the arena so its very easy to lob the criticisms against her, but shes been in the arena, and i can hope and i feel confident that shes learned from a significant number of mistakes. If her presidency becomes what i call 03, obama three shes got
big issues. Right now she needs to distance herself from a number of the Foreign Policy issues that have been in place, and she was an architect of some of those, but she can raise her hand and say we dont like her mistakes. How many mistakes before shes not qualified to run my military. I think the military has an incredible number of very Senior Leaders who know what they are doing and are very, very measured. This military, unlike donald trump, this military is the finest military that youve been a part of and ive been a part of that ive ever witnessed in history. Its phenomenal. Capabilities are enormous. Thinking is enormous. We have leaders that really know how to engage at the policy level and the strategy level. I want the president to exist at the policy level and be extremely predictable and i dont want an unpredictable president. On this point what i thought was interesting today is trump
describing her as trigger happy. That does not fit with him trying to portray her as weak as he tries to do day in and day out. A, most democrats are not called trigger happy and, in fact, one of the criticisms against her and shes been too much of a hawk here and ill be surprised if he keeps using that and in some quarters that could be a helpful thing to her militarily speaking and this is all about judgment and that is the one thing Going Forward here that donald trump is trying to show that he has the judgment in the eyes of those suburban voters who arent sure yet. Its National Security this week the most central issue of our time, really, that its all about judgment, but calling her trigger happy, im not sure that that works. Jeff, its the opposite. He keeps trying to say shes weak and shes tired and sick and all of these other things hes saying and today hes portraying her as a strong leader there. Trigger happy is a matter of
judgment. One of the things i have to say in listening, peace through strength as he mentioned today is exactly a phrase from President Reagan who used it in 1980 in the campaign against jimmy carter and used it throughout. He was speaking off a teleprompter and im sure they were careful to say that was in it. There was a deliberate reference to it. In terms of his reference to Hillary Clinton who is trigger happy, president obama invaded in the entire eight years, but one country and that was gran aed aa and that coincided with the barracks. He wrote in his memoirs that he regretted it and he shouldnt have done it and what he learned is never commit these troops unless youre committed to victory and thats trump is now saying hes depending on his generals for a plan. 30 days come with a plan. Obviously thats different from what he said before when he said
he had a plan and he wasnt going to tell us what it was. And its interesting about what he had to say about the generals of this country. Here he is. Know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. They dont know much because theyre not winning. Donald trump has a goal, okay . He has had a goal. I think he has misspoken when he said he has a plan. He needs to take the handcuffs off the military and let them do their job. In 30 days i want a plan, you bring me your plan ill give you the means to accomplish it . Four fourstar generals and 14 officers supporting donald trump, does it surprise you . It does surprise me and it was in response to the National Security supporters about a month ago. The issue that i have is that the discussion of taking the gloves off of the military concern me as a guy who had the gloves on and in many case hess to take the gloves off is that when we talk about rules of
engagement the payer for the Rules Of Engagement is either the soldier on the ground or there will be Collateral Damage which is the face of a family. We have to have imposed upon the application of force some measured responses that have to be you have to be able to assess. General, ive been at war first hand and those Rules Of Engagement are killing our troops and i can point to circumstances firsthand that i saw and those measures and those extreme Rules Of Engagement are getting our troops killed and id want someone like donald trump to accept a higher level of Collateral Damage. Its not only military and its diplomatic and economic that have to be applied in a real synergistic way. Hillary clinton calls it a scam and bill clinton says it was a payoff. Did trump pay to play . We have new details breaking up this hour and plus trumps running mate making it clear, he
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ive given to everybody because that was my job. I have to give it them because when i want something i get it. When i call they kiss my ass, okay . Its true. Reporter in 2000 trump was fined for failing to an institu institute, Lbying A Casino in upstate new york and told radio listeners the st. Regis mohawk tribe was involved in drug smuggling, money laundering, trafficking Illegal Immigrants and the ads ended saying are these the kind of new neighbors we want . It turns out that the institute had been organized by roger stone, Donald Trumps longtime Public Relations pal and funded by trump both men settled the case against them and had fines of 150,000, the largest ever at
that time to the New York State lobbying commission. Trump also got in trouble with the federal Election Commission in 1988 after he exceeded the 25,000 donation limit. He donated in excess 47,000 before, according to trumps attorney at the time, trump learned he had broken the law. Trump says he tried to get the money back, but he didnt get all of it and wound up paying a 15,000 fine to settle the matter. Trumps attorney stressing the fact that mr. Trump acted voluntarily and expeditiously to correct an unintentional and unwitting violation. Trumps case was so bad it made the federal elections commissions selected list of cases and hes right there on page 7, but before you say gotcha, trump has lots of Companies Much high or the secs list including the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee and the Republican National committee and Obama For America and very near the top the
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