Roosevelt once stayed there on his way to fight in cuba. Lot of history indeed. Good report bash rasmt thanks very much. The first president ial debate just ten days away. September 26th. Join us for live coverage here on cnn. Erin burnett outfitter starts right now. Breaking news. Donald trump says the racist card is being used against him as he finally admits the president was born in the United States and says hint started the birther conspiracy. And as clintons lead disappears Michelle Obama hits the campaign trail coming out swinging and donald trump wont release his tax returns because hes under audit. Is he . Where is the proof . Lets go outfront. Good evening im erin burnett. Out front the breaking News Donald Trump speaking for the First Time Since admitting president obama was born in the United States slamming democrats at this hour saying they are the
ones playing the race card. What they do is they spear opponents and you look at her history. And they question policies. And they talk all the time about racists, racisracists. The only word they know. They used it on romney. They used it on everybody. They use it. When they are in trouble they always pull out the racist word and they are in very big trouble i have to tell you. Earlier today after fife years of questioning the president s birthplace including a new interview released yesterday donald trump called a press conference to make what he called a major statement. Hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what i mean. President barack obama was born
in the United States, period. Now clinton of course never said anything such thing. Today she fired back at trump. For five years he has led the Birther Movement. To delegitimize our first black president. His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. There is no erasing it in history. Barack obama was born in america, plain and simple. And donald trump owes him and the American People an apology. Now, of course just to remind everyone, donald trump didnt push the birther theory just one time. Not even two times. He said he finished it. But he did this over and over again for five years. Here is just some of what he said. Something on that birth certificate he doesnt like. Oh my gosh. Im starting to wonder myself whether or not he was born in this country. One of the greatest scams in the history of politics and history period. His grandmother in kenya said oh no, he was born in kenya and i was there and i witnessed the birth. Now shes on tape and i think that tape is going to be produced fairly soon. Barack obama should end this and e he should provide the public with a birth certificate. A lot of people feel it wasnt a proper certificate. I walk down street they are saying please dont give up on the whole thing with birth certificate. Who knows about obama. His mother was a u. S. Citizen. Born in kansas. Was he natural born citizen who knows. Who cares right now. Jim acosta out front in miami where trump just wrapped up his last event of the day. Jims been five years. Why today . Why today . That is the question we should point out donald trump is speaking right now at this rally in miami. Hes not addressed the controversy so far but he is trying to take back that
falsehood hes spread for years that president obama was not born in the United States. And Campaign Advisors have told me they have been wanting to get this out of the way for a while now. But donald trump did just the opposite today. Nice hotel. Today donald trump once the leader of this nations Birther Movement finally came out and said he accepted the truth that president obama was born in the u. S. But in doing so he told more whoppers. Hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what i mean. President barack obama was born in the United States, period. Trumps claim that Hillary Clinton is responsible for one of the nations worst political smears is false. Same for a statement that he
ended the birther controversy. That is not remotely true. As trump was considering a run for president five years ago he brought it up. Why doesnt he show his birth certificate . Time and again. Ive been told very recently anderson that the birth certificate is missing. Even after president obama release you had it in 2011. A lot of people dont think it is real. The president was not impressed. I was pretty confident about where i was born. I think most people were as well. As for clinton she slammed trumps attempts to blame her as a disgrace saying in a series of tweets trump has spend years pedaling a racist conspiracy aimed t undermining the first African American president. He cant just take it back. Barack obama was born in america. Plain and simple and donald trump owes him and the American People an apology. And trumps birther reversal
as hes trying to reach out to African American voters a key voting block that overwhelmingly supports clinton. It was a surreal scene. Trump spent more time promoting his new hotel where he staged the event and listened to military leaders supporting his campaign, including one retired general who has always questioned mr. Obamas citizenship. Thank you. Its very simple. We all warriors here. Question why hes changing his mind now, ducking out as reporters for shouting for answers. Reporter and before he could say the words birth certificate donald trump did start off another controversy here at miami. When he talked about the issue of guns and Hillary Clinton. Here is what he had wbr id wbr4131 to say. I think that her body guards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. b
right . I think they should disarm. Immediately. What do you think . Yes . Yeah. Take their guns away. She doesnt want guns. Take their lets see what happens to her. Take their guns away. Okay . It would be very dangerous. Reporter and in the words of reince priebus, the rnc chair who was on the stage with donald trump earlier tonight, donald trump is not always politically correct. Truer words have not been spoken. Reince priebus lending wbrid wbr4501 his support to donald trump on what was a very big, important day for his campaign. He tried to put the birth certificate issue behind him. It is unclear that is what happened at all erin. Thaw very much. And to the Clinton Campaign. Zef zeleny is there. Clinton campaign thinks the birther controversy is going help them in a couple of ways. First and foremost this Obama Coalition we talk so much. Largely African American voters. Hispanic, young voters that propelled the president to victory in 2008 and 12 is supportive of Hillary Clinton but not as enthusiastically. They believe this whole trump controversy will help in this regard and the early indications are right. So much anger from members of congress. Black leaders, other, who are meeting in washington this weekend. And they were following this trump fuse very careful. They say they are motivated to go back to their communities and remind voters what donald trump has done. In their view try and take away, you know, the story of the First American black president here. So this is very personal to them. And the second way is this. Advisors have become worried that donald trump has started to seem more acceptable to some voters. Weve seen him rise in polls nationally and in battleground states as well. That is a key objective for the Clinton Campaign to make him not look acceptable. They believe by saying things like this, by having this attention on this birther
controversy, which is ridiculous and everyone knows it is not true. They believe that makes it look like the donald trump of old. As opposed to the donald trump of the future. Thank you very much. Jeff and out front now our panel. I want to get to that specifically in a moment. But first bishop vaughn. Donald trump came out and said president barack obama was born in the United States, period. Was that enough . No. Absolutely not. It is not enough. And im also positive that everyone within the African AmericanCommunity Feels the same way as i do. It was very dismissive. And very disrespectful. We really expected him to say more. We already knew that our president was an american
citizen. So we were expecting more. Pastor scott, dismissive and disrespectful . No. He stepped up to the plate, said what he had to say and walked off. Hes not going grovel or beg or cry. And you know what and people need to stop whining so much. Stop whining. Yall want some cheese with that whine. Whining so much over this birth certificate stuff. It is over. It is done with. Quit trying to resurrect old stuff. Trying to play the trump card as the race card and bring this stuff up and make something out of it that it is not. It is over with. He shut the door. Okay. I believe hes born in america. Now lets move on. Of course this is not something that trump had brought up and let go. He brought it up again and again and again including multiple times this year. Yeah. This is not something that just can be dismissed as past news because his advisors want it to go away because there is politically inconvenient for a president ial election. Donald trump has been selling this swill as the conspiracy
entrepreneur for five years. Hes continued to sound the notes throughout the campaign and even in todays statement he lied well telling the truths are by saying it was Hillary Clinton who started it personally trying to deflect and then he ended it. So let me ask you on that. You have looked into this claim. Absolutely. And what have you found . . My reporting back in wing nuts these conspiracy theories have different tributaries that lead to them. But what i followed was the source of the first lawsuit and the person who took credit for bringing it to the lawyer. It was a clinton supporter out of texas named linda star. She was furious about the state of the primary like many Hillary Clinton supporters. She brought the suit to phillip burg and they launched it right before the democratic primary. Sure. Not the Clinton Campaign. These were hard core hillary supporters who were furious she lost the primary. It percolate and then picked up
by conservatives and they have been carrying it ever since. Lou dobs mainstreamed and it then donald trump did more than anyone else to keep it alive. And does he then as Hillary Clinton says owe an apology . No i dont think. Because it was not racial. It was political. It was political in origination. It was political as it moved forward. It was simply a political maneuver. Used the same maneuver against ted cruz, questioning his citizenship. The democrats are playing on the emotions and emotionalism and the sensitivesties of black americans because they are afraid donald trump is making inroads into the black community. They are scared. And were going to talk about that very issue. The black community and the racist part of this in a moment but i want to play first gloria the breaking news of what donald trump said moments wbr id wbr7720 ago at Hillary Clinton and guns. Here se he is. I think that her body guards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. b
right . Right . I think they should disarm. The immediately. What duo you think . Yes. Yeah. Take tear guns away. She doesnt want guns. Take their database lets see what happens to her. Take their guns away. Okay . It would be very dangerous. Echoes something he said that got him in a lot of trouble last month. On the Second Amendment. Look i think donald trump wbrid wbr8090 was off script this evening. And maybe he wanted to change the subject. I dont think he wants to change the subject that way. But that is donald trump probably not reading off of a teleprompter. I think what we saw today and its been alluded to before was an active political expediency. And the issue of birtherism and trafficking in these ridiculous these conspiracy theories is what got donald trump onto the
national stage. And i think some of his political advisors who believe that it could derail him in his quest for the candidacy. And i think that is why you have heard adviser after advisor come out and say, including mike pence, say that i believe the president of the United States was born in hawaii. And then finally they wanted to button it up. And they wanted to button it up because they didnt want it to come up in the campaigns. And donald trump was not willing to do that in his own way because he wasnt willing to apologize. Or to say i made a mistake. And he just came out there with one sentence. And you cant delete the history of what occurred over the last five years one, short sentence. And as a result, they have extended the controversy rather than ending it. All right. Well we have paused there. Thanks to all. Next harry reed calling donald trump a human leech. Trump firing back and mocking
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states. Erin. All right manu, thank you very much. I want to bring back pastor scott and. I want to start with you pastor scott. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Lets go through some of the words here. Racist, bigot. Disgusting. Fraud. These are some of the words they used today. Do they cross the line . You know what i saw a lot of trump haters calling trump a hater. I saw lot of pots calling the kettle black. I saw them hurdling insults at someone they say they dont like him because he insults people. You dont ever have you know, you cant take an offense as justification to her allow insults yourselves. So they are guilty of the hypocrisy they accuse trump of. Stop whining Congressional Black Caucus. Stop crying and whining and move on and find Something Else to talk about in this election. Rather than keep talk about old
stuff. Listen it is trumps progtive to believe what he wants to believe. If he wants to believe trump was born on mars that is his prerogative. Move on. Moving on this issues. Person after person, productive . The right thing to do . We are here in washington d. C. , erin, at the democratic black caucus. We represent basically all of the policy makers and the