Dems issue a strong warning about protest votes. The stakes are far too high to take that chance. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. At this hour donald trump is about to kick off a rally in waukesha, wisconsin, focused on, quote, law and order. His second rally of the day. Speaking in iowa this afternoon trump lashed out at Hillary Clinton once again claiming she somehow lacks the stamina to be president and referenced clinton leaving that september 11th Memorial Service when she had noom yanchts you see all the days off that hillary takes . Day off, day off, day off. All those day offs and then she cant even make it to her car. Isnt it tough . All those day offs. Right. Do you ever see her chart . She wont be campaigning today. She wont be campaigning today. This is day in, day out. And im campaigning saying whats going on . The record trumps comments came two hours after clinton took the stage at a Campaign Event with Bernie Sanders today in new hampshire. Trumps campaign is continuing to reel today from what was by nearly all accounts a disastrous debate performance by the candidate on monday night. A new nbc News Survey Monkey poll, 52 felt clinton won the debate while just 21 , one in five said trump came out on top, a remarkably low number. For his part trump maintained that despite the overwhelming consensus and data to the contrary, monday night went great. You sit back and you hear how she did so well in the debate. I dont think she did well in the debate at all. I dont think she did well at all. And i just walked in and i saw some of the great people that represent your state. And they said, wow, you did so great in the debate. And we understand it. We understand it. Even some of trumps most ardent supporters including two that nbc news spoke to at a trump rally in florida are acknowledging the obvious. He was a little unprepared, but hes honest. Hes not a politician, so you know, hes going to, you know, be a little slower than the other ones. But hes got experience. He did seem unprepared, yeah. I appreciate that he was out on the campaign, but he did need to get himself prepared for what might be coming at him and be able to respond appropriately rather than incomplete sentences and repetitive limited vocabulary. In washington this afternoon, Lindsey Graham echoed those thoughts. I thought she really was quite together. I thought donald had good moments. Missed a lot of opportunities. And the only advice i could give him, and take it for what its worth, prepare better. Trump largely did not do traditional debate prep. But now ahead of the second debate sunday, trumps advisers plan to more rigorously prepare him by drilling the republican nominee on crucial answers, facts and counterattacks. One Campaign Aide telling nbc news there are plans for mock debates, even talk of hiring professional debate coaches to help trump improve. Trump may not be willing or able to actually put in the work. Amazingly, people in trumps own orbit, people committed to getting him elected to president of the United States, his allies, are characterizing him as lacking the interest or Attention Span for any sort of sustained debate preparation. New york times reporting that whether hes open to practicing meticulously is a major concern in trump world. Sources saying that trump found it hard to focus in previous debate sessions. A Campaign Aide told nbc news that while trump knows he needs to do better in the next debate he simply is not good at staying focused for extended periods of time. Another close to trump and his family called the debate a disaster and said that trumps children are unhappy with the Campaign Leadership who they did not think sufficiently prepared their father. They think the campaign is hurting the Family Business although the trump children denied that claim directly to nbc news. In a statement, Trump Campaign disputed it by saying they are happier than ever before as they should be given the success in the polls and in mondays debate. Theres no truth to this fabricated lie. The business continues to be tremendously successful. Just take a guess who wrote that statement. Trump also offered nbc news a personal statement. Quote no guessing here. Your sources even if they exist are probably sources that have been fired long ago and have no knowledge of what is happening in the pain. Hard to be unhappy when we are doing so well. Steve, you talk about debate prep, prep or not. Would you concede that being president of the United States requires some degree of mental discipline, diligence, sustained periods of attention and focus . You know, chris, of course, i would. And is it important to practice . I think it is. Did he practice enough . And listen, you know this, i concede when you think our candidate perhaps missed steps. Heres what also is important. Its important to practice what you preach. And when we look at our opponent who is continually tried to act like she is the champion of the working person, what she has actually done in fact is take tens the of millions of dollars in speaking fees from wall street firms, hundreds of millions of dollars along with her husband from all kinds of unsavory characters all over the world and yet tried to act as though they are name the unsavory characters. Saudi arabia, russia. Which ones specifically. Russia, the uranium one deal is the most whats the name . Bill clinton got 500,000 for a single speech in moscow. I cant tell you the name of the person who signed the check. But they try to hang putin on us. Called him on the phone to thank him for that. I want to tip my cap to whoever in trump world googled the uranium one stop is now using it. Its not a terrible talking point for you guys. Theres a lot to that deal that looks sort of weird. I will absolutely 100 concede. I think its great that you guys have discovered this 45 days before the election. But to me that speaks to the fact that i just dont trust forget ideology, forget anything having to do with that, Donald Trumps vision, et cetera, experience. It just seems to me incredibly upsetting to think of a person who the people closest to him say he is incapable of studying or preparing for the most important 90 minutes of his campaign, having the most powerful job in the world. Chris, youre right. I will answer that. I would strenuously disagree with that. The Mainstream Media has tried time and again to point out this supposed discord within the Trump Campaign almost always with Anonymous Sources with people unwilling to go on the record. Ill tell you wait a second. Do you think the sources are made up . I think what theyre probably doing is disaffect people. People who either dont have what they want within the campaign or have been let go from the campaign. I think the campaign is, number one, incredibly disciplined, nobody two, incredibly excited about where we are. I think we are winning. I dont just think so. The polls show in battleground states. About 2. 3 points for Hillary Clinton right now. Thats within the margin of error. Were either winning or essentially tied. How about that, we can agree that were essentially tied right now. So theres enormous, i think, enthusiasm within the Trump Campaign and enormous unity. But the Mainstream Press tries to create this aura, this deception that theres division. Thats not the case. So will he prepare, of course he will. As a reporter, let me tell you, reporters are going to go knocking on the door of any campaign thats going to speak out of turn and print it from any campaign. Believe me do you remember back in 2008 people around Hillary Clinton were talking to the press anonymously all the time. The reason was because the campaign was sort of a disaster. That may be the case here. Let me ask you this, right . Donald trump doesnt have any experience in Public Service. You guys think thats a badge of honor. You think hes going to shake up the system. But at a certain level, right, there are qualities that he must possess or perfect as president of the United States. Sure. The idea that youll sit in a situation room meeting after a possible terrorist attack in the United States and impossible to get the man who is commanding the u. S. Military to concentrate for more than 15 minutes is unnerving. Sure. Chris, no, listen, you make a fair point. And we do hang our hat a lot on him being a maverick and an outsider, but as much as thats an attribute, there is a potential risk there and reasonable people have a right to be skeptical about that. I would, i guess, point to two things. One is i think his trip to mexico. He showed us when he went and visited president nieto, he showed us on an International Stage steve, whether he was president ial or not in that moment, they ended up calling each other liars within 24 hours on twitter. Listen, there was fallout afterward because trump was in the middle of a campaign. But also i would point to this, too, in the debate, was i thrilled with every part of the debate . No, i think theres things he can do better. Hell be better in the coming debates. He did fine. He certainly didnt lose anyone. But we need to make sure we win over a lot of voters. But he showed america that hes note a rash person, that hes absolutely ready even though hes never Held Public Office that hes absolutely ready to assume what you rightly describe is a very serious and at times grave responsibility of being commander in chief. Theres going to be a big audience for the American People to make that determination. I leave it to them. I do appreciate you coming on and not just spewing talking points genuinely. Thank you. Steve cortez. Chris, listen, heres what i think is important. Joining us now is gabe sherman, National Affairs editor and the author of the loudest voice in the room county on roger ailes. Roger ailes involvement. Longtime friends, someone who boosted his profile among conservatives by giving imhad this callin slot on fox and friends. Its already september and the blame game is getting reported here. You have two storylines coming out of this disastrous debate. One that ailes wanted to have a bigger role and couldnt get trump to focus. You have sources closest to the campaign saying we didnt want Roger Ailes Amz help, hes a shadow of his former self. Came and told war stories and was eased out of the circle. He has a personal relationship with trump, was on the phone with trump but wasnt present at any of the debate sessions such as they were. James carville was on our air after the debate saying youre going to see someone from the ailes camp leaking that ailes had nothing to do with it. In the times today youre seeing these story lines with each side trying to put distance between themselves and that performance. I think i thought ailes would play a rather significant role when he was ejected from fox news by the murdoch brothers because of a string of allegations of repeated serial, serious Sexual Harassment over the course of many years, some of which on record including blackmailing, really heinous behavior that was so ubiquitous that apparently dozens of people have come forward. Yeah. Just to make that on the record. What was your anticipation with that relationship would be like and how has it shaken out . The problem is that clearly hes a liability, a public liability. So if he signed on either as a paid adviser or official adviser, that would give the Clinton Campaign an opening to make ailes a major talking point. The trump people dont want that. Particularly given the centrality of misogyny in the kind of attack that the Clinton Campaign is currently leveling against donald trump. And you pointed out that the trump people want to go there, they want to make bill clintons women history an issue. If you bring ailes into the fold, thats an issue. Hes still advising the campaign. Hes still on the phone with trump and still in that orbit of trump world. Gabe sherman, appreciate it. 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I was going to Say Something extremely rough to hillary, to her family, and i said to myself, i cant do it. I just cant do it. Its inappropriate. Its not nice. Im very glad that i diplomat didnt mention, because chelsea was in t room, indiscretions by bill even though shes taken all these ads. Donald trump and his campaign have been patting themselves on the back for not bringing up bill clintons marital infidelities while at the same time bringing up bill clintons marital infidelities. Congratulations peaked yesterday in an interview with eric trump. That was a big moment for me and probably will actually be my life and this campaign and probably something ill always remember. I mean, he really took the high ground where he had the opportunity to go very, very low. Im proud of him for doing that. I think that took a lot of courage in so many regards and i think, you know, i think he really answered that well and took the high ground and kept the high road. Took a lot of courage. In congratulating himself for not bringing up bill clinton, trump was the one who in fact brought up bill clinton. Im not saying but im saying. Amid new scrutiny over his insulting treatment of a onetime Miss Universe winner alicia machado, trying very hard to change the subject. I find it so interesting that there continues to be this conversation about what he has said when you look at what she has done, gennifer flowers, paula jones, Monica Lewinsky, my goodness, lewinsky started an antibullying foundation because of what the clintons did to her. I think if you look at Hillary Clintons background and if you look at her being an enabler really in the 90s and really attacking these women, it goes against everything that she now tries to spout as a candidate for president. Theres so many more important issues that women care about including jobs, national security. If we want to dig back through the 90s at comments made about women, we can refer to secretary clinton referring to Monica Lewinsky as a neurotic loony tune. It will be tough to sell what on its face is a pretty ludicrous argument. Who is more of a miss only nus, the thrice married and calls women fat pig and reviews their chest sizes regularly on the howard stern show or the potential first woman president . So great to have you here at the table. Great to be back. What do you make of this bizarre turn that the campaign took in the last day in which apparently they want to have an argument about who is the real feminist. I saw talking points circulated by the Trump Campaign that i cant vouch for but the idea that Hillary Clinton is a feminist is a joke. It may be a form of swiftboating, because you have a happy marriage here where two people, the clintons, actually like each other, are interested in the same issues, talk to each other as much as to anybody else. Right. And then you have trump and all the horrible names hes called women. And in the swift boating example, that kerry suffered, it meant that you were accused of what you did right not what you did wrong. Yeah. I think its more evident in calling her a liar and cheating hillary and so on because every single Fact Checking service has pointed out that she is the most accurate and honest of all the candidates, and so instead of going after her weakness, he goes after her strength. And its also a projection. Like a reverse reality world or through the looking glass. He accuses the Clinton Foundation which does good stuff and about which absolutely no serious evidence of quid pro quo has emerged. On the other hand his foundation is being invesgated by the new York State Attorney general. Has had to pay jtice department fines more than once. You know, more stuff is coming out every day. But he takes what he is and what he does and projects theres this bizarre. She has had a hate filled campaign. You just told me youre waiting for the mad hare, the mad hatter and the white rabbit to come by. He is smart, though, because he has the biggest gender gap and race gap in the history of the nation. It is pretty remarkable to look at how much along demographic lines this race is shaking out. Women voters ultimately