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CNNW New Day August 18, 2016

Teammate, now conceding to nbc last night that his initial statement was a dramatic mischaracterization of what happened. The Surveillance Video obtained by the daily mail shows the swimmers returning to the Olympic Village just before 7 00 a. M. On sunday morning. The judge says it shows them seemingly unshaken and joking around after the alleged robbery. Lochtes lawyer tells cnn that video shows me nothing, it shows guys coming home at 6 00 or 7 00 in the morning and shows me theyre happy that theyre alive. Among the inconsistencies, the judge says lochte told police there was one robber while feigen says there were more. Brazilian police are now asking their taxi driver to come forward to verify their claims. All right, nic. This is really a startling series of events that came out of what seemed like a very obvious situation. Now, helping the notion of these guys may have been robbed is what happened overnight. Another athlete has come forward saying they were a victim of a theft at the games as well. Obviously one has nothing to do with the other. Everybody who knows anything about rio knows there is a lot of this type of crime, but whats your take at this point . Reporter well, a british athletes come forward and said they were also robbed. Unclear if it was at gunpoint. Weve been hearing these accounts for the last months, frankly, as athletes began to arrive. This is a city with a serious petty crime problem. They put a gridlock down here of military protecting copacabana. Its a bubble. But if you venture out, this is rio. Bad things could happen. Somehow, the way the story has been handled and the reaction of brazilian authorities, who have a slight role to play here in trying to reassure people there arent men disguised as Police Officers running around robbing people at gunpoint. The brazilian authorities have been quite so stringent in their reaction. We now have these two conflicting accounts. So the question will be if what the swimmers say happened didnt happen, what did happen . Well continue to cover this throughout the morning as we get more information. Lets turn now to the 2016 race. With just 82 days to go until election day, donald trump hoping to turn around his campaign with these new leadership changes. One thing is clear, trump will be doing it his way. Cnns sarah murray joins us with more. A lot has been happening in the past 24 hours. Absolutely right. Donald trump felt like it was time for him to make a chaung. Hes reshuffling his top aides, but not everyone is convinced this is the change drurp needs to dramatically turn around his standing in the polls. The advice i would give him is to be authentic because thats what americans appreciate. Reporter Donald Trumps new Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway suggesting trump is going back to basics. People do want change. They are tired of the corrupt system. Reporter and play managing outsider persona and bombastic style that catapulted him to the nomination, instead of sticking to the script to appease the republican establishment. Sources tell cnn that trump has grown frustrated with the direction of his campaign, that he believes he still has a chance to win, but if he loses, he wants it to be on his terms. You have with donald trump a who wants to be true to himself. That got him through primary process, by being true to himself. Reporter but some Establishment Republicans are wary that the appointment of combative breitbart executive stephen bannon, will help turn polls around. The trump people want to know, for unity, are you not prepared to give up what they backed you on from the beginning . When they hear paul ryan talking unity, what they feel is going to be a collapse of what you ran on and a collapse of what they backed you on. My folks have absolutely nothing to worry about. Thats the way it is. I mean, i won in landslides based on what i was saying and based on my ideas and themes and my statements, my policies. So im not going to go into a room and go right back to the old stuff thats not working. Reporter as some gop officials urge the rnc to abandon trump and shift resources to down ticket races, others warn that the party needs to continue supporting trump in order to hang on to vulnerable republican seats in congress. All as Hillary Clinton appears to relish her rivals latest reset, insisting it wont change his fortunes in november. He can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign, but he is still the same man who insults gold star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities, and thinks he knows more about isis than our generals. Now, even though some sources say this change is going to mean donald trump sis unleashed, he even more bombastic than he has been the last couple months, Kellyanne Conway is adding a note to that, saying she still wants to see donald trump talk about policy. So this may not be the end of teleprompter trump. All right. Why dont you just stay right where you are. Lets bring in cnn political director david chalian, and commentator mark preston. Everybodys had a chance to take a breath. The idea that bannon is coming in, breitbart is coming in as some type of new insurgent element to trump is a false premise, right . I mean, theres much reason to say that what trump is, what has been effective for trump, was born at breitbart. They were some of his early protectors. If anything, trump using the invective, using the insults has muddied the waters of what breitbart does very well, especially when bannon is on his game. I think the breitbart, you know, whole presentation of the campaign so far represents the values and the point of view of the fervent Trump Supporters we see show up at rallies. Theres no doubt theres a nexus there. So i think outsider, kill the machine, republican and democrat, and take deep dives on who Hillary Clinton really is based on what she is and what she was. Right. Upend the establishment and take the fight to Hillary Clinton every day. That has been what breitbart has, the organization, has injected into the campaign. That is what donald trump sort of rode throughout the entire primary season. Youre right thats not brand new. What is giving some people reason for saying, hey, lets watch what the impact of this will be, is because those arent necessarily the things that you want to do at all costs, if anything else, 83 days out from the election. As sarah just put in a wise note of caution at the end from Kellyanne Conway, cant stress enough how happy all factions of the party were with Donald Trumps performance on monday and tuesday. Very on message, law and order, National Security speeches. But he seems them as a bunch of losers. But its not just the establishment folks. He was on a message that could work for firing up the base as well as potentially bringing in some people from the middle. Okay. Given all that, that they were happy with the teleprompter, law and order speech, what is going to change now with bannon and Kellyanne Conway at the top . Kellyanne conway is well known, well liked by the republican establishment. She understands analytics. Could she perhaps be something who is going to be by Donald Trumps side day in and day out and perhaps try to rein him in . We know if he does it at a rally or on social media, he can go off the rails. Thats whats concerning to Establishment Republicans and many people in his campaign who are used to running traditional campaig campaigns. Having said that, its not just bannon that we have to be looking at right now. There are two other folks that are part of this campaign, whether theyre informal or formal. One of them is radiolooger aile former head of fox news, and roger stone, whos been with donald trump forever. These two gentlemen are hard hitters. Bannon knows how to play hardball. What i dont think is that bannon is just going to go out there in a shotgun way and throw everything at Hillary Clinton. Hes very smart. Hes strategic. The question is what are the three or four things theyre going to focus on. This is a home run for bannon. For breitbart, they have arrived. This is what theyve wanted from their inception. Not so much when bannon was with andrew, may he rest in peace. But now theyve wanted a stake. They want to say, move over, you establishment people. And breitbart put out a very celebratory press release about Steve Bannons new role yesterday, but this is why Establishment Republicans are nervous. When Paul Manafort was calling the shots, they felt secure at least paul was trying to nudge donald trump into this establishment lane. Steve bannon isnt going to do that. Or sis it going to be conspirac theory after Conspiracy Theory from a president ial candidate who was one of the original birthers. Michael come hen, the trump executive vp of the trump organization, was on with Brianna Keilar on cnn yesterday. She was trying to ask him about the flagging poll numbers that have gone down for donald trump. Michael cohens response was basically ear muffs. So listen to this. Watch this exchange. You say its not a shakeup. But you guys are down. And it makes sense says who . Polls, most of them, all of them. Says who . Polls. I just told you. I answered your question. Okay. Which polls . All of them. Okay. I cant get enough of it. Its one of the great moments. Of live television. I guess theyre just going to ignore the polls and say, what polls . Nothing to see. Ill tell you whos not ignoring the polls, donald trump. We know the candidate is completely obsessed with his poll numbers, by the way as most politicians are. We know how closely he reads and understands the polls. By the way, if the polls were going in another direction, i dont know that we would have seen the shakeup that weve seen this week. Theyre obviously making a change because it hasnt been going well. So obviously Michael Cohen is being a loyal lieutenant, a combatant willfully blind. Yes. Because you cant find polling right now a poll came out in the state of indiana where hes 11 points up. The Clinton Campaign is not really playing there. You cant find a poll in a state that he needs to win over to add to what mitt romney had where hes up right now. But in most cases, the margins are lean, sarah, right . 83 days out. 82 days out until the polls open. A lot of things can change, especially if this gamble, which is the negative baked in with Hillary Clinton already, or is there room to deep dive more on that. If thats true, if you can take more from her, trump just brought in the right guy to do it. And its worth noting that when i talked to Kellyanne Conway about the polls yesterday, she had a bit more of a polished answer than we got from Michael Cohen, saying essentially were not panicking because these are the numbers in august, not the numbers in october. She said if you look at Hillary Clintons unfavorables, theyre very high. Obviously Donald Trumps are too. But if you look at the percentage of voters who want change in november, thats also very high. So this is our moment to sort of capitalize that. She was saying, we need to remind voters that this election is not a referendum on donald trump but this is a choice between donald trump and between Hillary Clinton. So if you truly are a change voter, their challenge is to make the case to them that trump is actually the better option. I think thats whats been so frustrating for people inside of the campaign. This is an argument kellyanne has been making all along. Make it a referendum on Hillary Clinton. I think the biggest thing in a successful president ial campaign is a threelegged stool. The first leg is your base. You have to keep your base. The second leg is you have to keep those who are within the base but have a little bit of concern about you. Then the third leg is the undecided voters. The problem for donald trump is that he hasnt convinced everybody within his party to be with him, and if he hasnt been there, he hasnt been able to get the undecided voters. Panel, stick around. We need your wisdom in the next segment as well as we talk about Hillary Clinton coming up in our next hour. Well be speaking with trumps new Campaign Manager, Kellyanne Conway. We have a lot of questions for her. In our 8 00 hour, well get insight from trumps former Campaign Manager, corey lewandowski. So how is Hillary Clinton going to deal with what trumps new strategy may be, and what will she give him in return . A little bit of con textext her more talk about the state department and the Clinton Foundation. Well she loves to say, well, fantastic a lot. I do say that, you see. I study psychobiology. Im a fine arts major. Nobody really believes that i take notes this way, but they actually make sense to me. I try to balance my studying with the typical college experience. This windows pc is a life saver being able to pull up different articles to different parts of the screen is so convenient. I used to be a mac user but this is way better. By finding a policy to fit your budget. [ coughs ] sorry, tickle in my throat water would be nice, but that would go right through me. Ghost problems. For anyone waiting for donald trump to suddenly become more responsible, remember what a great american, maya angelou, said. When someone shows you who they are, believe them. There is no new donald trump. This is it. That was Hillary Clinton blasting trump after his campaign shakeup. So how is she preparing for the onslaught of attacks about her past that trump is expected to now intensify . Lets bring back our panel. We have david chalian, mark preston, and sarah murray. David, clearly the Clinton Campaign has been enjoying these past three weeks while donald trump has made some missteps. Now things might get more serious with the addition of steve bannon from breitbart. What are they doing to prepare . I think the Clinton Campaign always believed they were going to be in a real brawl at some point in this campaign against donald trump. So i think now they are preparing for the fact that the fall might be that. Take that whole bannon and breitbart mentality into it, and maybe some uncomfortable issues are going to start getting injected into the campaign the way they were hoping to avoid but not necessarily not prepariprepare ing for. In talking to folks in brooklyn, this is not completely unforeseen. That doesnt mean its going to be any easier. Also, it doesnt have to mean the low road. It doesnt have to mean ugly. You could argue thats what trump has been, but thats not what breitbart at its best theres no question as a frequent victim of that website, i can tell you they often go low and cheap. But at their best, mark preston, what she just said about maya angelou, is also true about her. Somebody has shown you who they are. Believe them. That is the narrative that trump, if he harnesses the power of the deep dive, is what they can do to Hillary Clinton. Look at this foundation. Its never ended. Its always one after the other. Thats what they could do. The question is would trump be disciplined enough to stay on that tact. To that point, i think in many ways, trump has muddled his own message from day one of the beginning of the general election campaign. Instead of there being such a focus by republicans or by donald trump strictly on Hillary Clinton, its been what is donald trump saying today . What is happening to his campaign . Can you believe he made this comment . Did you see what he did at that rally . Which has created this whole white noise around the campaign, which is hard for the Hillary Clinton stuff to breakthrough. Having said that, theres still a lot of days left in this campaign. If theres a focus, if theres a renewed focus by the new leadership of the campaign to focus on just a handful of issues, then this could be very effective. Lets talk about some of those things that might dog Hillary Clinton and have thus far. That is, of course, the emails, but the substance of what was in the emails. There are these newly released documents obtained by citizens united, the rightwing conservative group, obtained by cnn. They purport to show a connection between these brothers and the state department and whether or not there was favoritism. So is that what is there a smoking gun there . I think the trick to prosecuting these attacks against Hillary Clinton is not to get into the weaves of which brothers got one and through which funnel. The point that donald trump needs to make if he wants to cast her as someone thats untrustworthy is this is pay to play, another example of the clintons playing by their own rules, whether it was at state department, whether it was at the clinton department, and just hammer home that case. Obviously donald trump has shown that hes willing to play fast and loose with the facts. So it almost doesnt matter to him whether theres any there there. I think theres enough instances that will raise questions in peoples minds and her numbers on trustworthiness are so bad already that if they decide they just want to hammer her on this, they certainly can bring her poll numbers down. Also, theres something to look at here. Were talking about bringing in these new people and what the potential upside is. Th

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