Campaign war chest of more than 42 million at the end of the month. Which clinton is unloading in a blitz of more than 23 million in battleground state tv ads airing across the country right now. Trump, meanwhile, has spent zero, zero dollars on battleground ads. The Campaign Says that it doesnt need to spend big sums of money to get its message to the public. They say theyll catch up in the money race that theyve only started fundraising in earnest. This afternoon the Clinton Campaign kept the heat on trump speaking in battleground ohio, clinton portraying trump as a business fraud who would plunge the economy into recession as the president. Just like he shouldnt have his finger on the button, he shouldnt have his hands on our economy. The Economist Intelligence unit comes out with a new list of threats every month. It includes things like terrorism and the disintegration of europe. And this month, number three on the list is donald trump becoming president of the united states. Clinton went after trumps business record, his past rhetoric on working women, his temperament and his aggressive policies on immigration, taxes, debt, you name it. This is his one move. He makes overthetop promises that if people stick with him, trust him, listen to him, put their faith in him, hell deliver for them. Hell make them wildly successful. And then everything falls apart and people get hurt. Those promises youre hearing from him at his campaign rallies, they are the same promises he made to his customers at Trump University. Trump quickly responded with a flurry of activity on social media, he blamed the stagnant economy on clinton in this instagram video. He went after clintons judgment on twitter with references to benghazi victim ambassador chris stevens. He attacked clinton on immigration saying her open borders policy will drive down wages. He brought up the email controversy painting her as inept and not able to run the economy. He threw in jabs at clintons Foreign Policy as well including references to the growth of isis under president obama. But these attacks were tame compared to what weve seen from trump from the past. In addition, we also saw something notable today. It was unprecedented for trump. A traditional Rapid Response operation. His campaign blasting out a series of press releases heavy on policy and numbers. This was a significant change in tone and tenner for the campaign coming as trump prepares to deliver his rebuttal to clintons address tomorrow in new york city. Im joined by nbcs caskasie hu in columbus, ohio, the buckeye state. Nbcs katy tur is with the Trump Campaign at his headquarters in new york city. Kasie, well start with you. The economy obviously a thorny issue for clinton. Folks trust trump more than they trust clinton on this topic. So why did she choose this issue at this moment when Trumps Campaign was facing a lot of its own problems . Reporter well, remember, peter, this is a speech that was delayed in part because of the tragedy in orlando. So this was actually something that they had initially planned to be part of a swing through ohio and pennsylvania focused on those Economic Issues in the rust belt. But, of course, that got put off so rescheduled for this week and they, of course, did come back here to ohio to this Vocational Training center here to give this speech. Trying to send a message on this issue, you know, of course, donald trump has really struck a chord especially among a lot of these blue collar voters and there are some concerns that he could potentially reach out to some voters whove been disengrdis e disengaged particularly white men who live in places like ohio and pennsylvania, so i think that was pretty deliberate on her part and i also think that initially this was coming on the heels of that, what many people believed was a successful National SecurityForeign Policy speech. That shed given in san diego. And Hillary Clinton really found a groove in attacking donald trump on that front. And thats what you saw today. You saw more of her essentially trying to use Donald Trumps own words against him. There was one moment where she said, she described her aides giving her the research for this speech and reading through his quotes and saying, really, he actually said that . So you can hear the conviction in her voice there. But i have to tell you, peter, this ground is a little bit less comfortable, it seems, for Hillary Clinton, on the economy than that Foreign Policy ground was. And to a certain extent, thats just because of the reality of the situation. While many of those numbers, the economy has improved, its added jobs, the Unemployment Rate has gone down, for a lot of people theyre still not feeling it and she has to defend an obama record on the economy that a lot of people just dont believe or arent feeling in their own lives is successful. Thats inherently difficult to do. She may have to defend her own record broadly, not just the clinton family, the Clinton Foundation has come under attack from donald trump. How are they preparing for the speech that hes going to be giving tomorrow morning . Reporter well, for the most part, peter, i think you can expect them to respond to any personal attacks, for example, in the way that they have all the way along. Which is to just ignore them and essentially try to rise above the fray. Now, there are some thorny issues around the Clinton Foundation and other areas where its not quite personal the way some attacks on, say, bill clintons personal life that donald trump has leveled might be personal, so i think at this point, you know, they need to make sure that they are prepared to deal with those things and i think you can see the Clinton Campaign coming out with many of the defenses theyve offered in the past pointing to, say, the food wo good works the foundation has done among other things. I also think Hillary Clinton has planned for tomorrow a followup to her speech here today thats going to focus more on her record and her plan for the economy. While we heard her go after trump here today, shes going to outline more specifics tomorrow. So i think youre going to see them try to put the focus on that. Todays speech really punctuating what has been a terrific stretch for the Clinton Campaign. Their best stretch over the course of this campaign. Donald trump on the other hand starting what he hopes is the beginning of a new good stretch going forward. Katy, i know weve kind of used this language before, but was today the start of this, like, trump 2. 0 . We saw something wed never seen from the Trump Campaign before which was an oldschool policyoriented Rapid Response. Reporter tradition i think is the word that youre looking for, peter, and you really hit the nail on the head in that intro. We saw him tweet out nine separate times in response to this Hillary Clinton speech. We got nine different emails from the campaign. That is called Rapid Response. Its traditionally what a Communications Team and any Political Campaign does. And they start doing it from the beginning. Donald trump has never done that. He has been his own Rapid Response tweeting out his own responses to the various attacks that are coming his way. Oftentimes tweeting out insults instead of anything substantial. Today we saw a little more of the substantial. This is what we could consider at least on day one trump 2. 0 and while sources in the party and sources on the hill and donors dont necessarily believe that donald trump will change with this ousting of his Campaign Manager, corey lewandowski, and the more Traditional Campaign manager, more oldschool Campaign ManagerPaul Manafort taking over, they do believe that the campaign, itself, is going to change. And that means theyre going to have things like a Communications Team. Like Rapid Response. Stuff that we saw today. They believe its going to normalize procedure and theyre hoping, at least on the party side, theyre going to be able to capitalize on this frustration that the American Public feels about the economy. As you said, they think that he would do a better job than Hillary Clinton would. And they want to make sure that they can take that as well as they can and then put that out there and make donald trump own it instead of having Hillary Clinton dent his armor over and over again without any real response back. So, katy, help us set the table for tomorrow morning. What do we expect out of trumps speech tomorrow attacking clinton . This, too, was a speech that was expected to happen, frankly, right after orlando. They delayed it, of course, given what took place, that tragedy in florida. Now they want to squeeze it is before he heads overseas to scotland. Reporter i think theyre going to throw the kitchen sink at her. As you said, this was delayed because of orlando. They had this in the works. That means theyve had more time to work on this speech. Corey lewandowski is no longer involved so theyve had more time to get Paul Manafort, at least, to get their message into Donald Trumps head and i think we saw a preview of it today when he was tweeting out his responses toward Hillary Clinton. Hillary defrauded america as secretary of state, used it as a rich personal hedge fund to get herself rich, corrupt, dangerous, dishonest. Thats what he tweeted today. I expect to see him talk about the Clinton Foundation and the troubles he believes they are having. Benghazi, her reaction to that. Also libya. Her decision to go into libya. He says that he was against it even though he has said that he was before it in the past. Hes going to try and paint her as a danger to the american economy. Right. Reporter and a danger to american interests overseas. Kasie hunt, katy tur, thank you very much. Were joined by gene sperling, he was the top economic adviser to both president S Barack Obama and bill clinton. Hes now advising Hillary Clintons campaign. Mr. Sperling, thanks for your time. Why isnt clintons economic message connecting nationally . Voters, as weve been reporting, trust trump more than they do clinton to handle the nations economy. I think, theres no question, donald trump is known as a businessman. Hes been on tv. Of course, hes going to start out with that perception. But notice people do believe that she is the one who fights f for the middle class and i believe that as time goes by, his purported strength, his private sector experience, will go from being a strength to his achilles heel because i think people will see, and have already started to see, that one, when it comes to talking about the economy, his comments about that america would consid consider defaulting, printing money. These are dangerous words. What a president says doesnt just loose lips just dont sink ships. They can sink the economy. He has shown no sense he has the temperament to be the person at the helm. Secondly, when people start looking at his private sector experience, what theyre going to find is some of the worsts ethics and values in terms of normal hardworking americans. This wont be complicated stuff. When you look at what hes done at trump u. A lot of americans have been theres a lot of questions about Hillary Clintons ethics and values, obviously, on all sorts of issues over the course of this campaign. Hold it. On the economy, which what were talking about, is that donald trump, youve seen story after story from reuters, usa today, wall street journal that donald trump has throughout his career stiffed hardworking small businesspeople of thousands and thousands of dollars to so many. These are carpenters, mechanics, window makers. These are regular hardworking americans who he has stiffed repeatedly. His Trump University sought to get older people to take money out of their 401 k s for this fraudulent proposal. They would not give a refund to a mother and teacher with a down syndrome child who was bilked out of 25,000. So let me when people see this is how he has made his money, what its going to show is hes not a successful businessperson who created value and jobs. If hes made money, its at the expense of other people, expense of hardworking small businesses, average americans. Let me get in here really quickly. A weakness, not a strength. Hillary clintons obviously had plenty of her own weaknesses through the course of this campaign. The question, less on donald trump, respecting this is binary, but on Hillary Clinton, the woman you advise specifically here, is clinton running on four more years of the obama economy . No, i think that she is running on the idea that barack obama inherited a near great depression. That he did a very strong job facing a recalcitrant republican congress. When you think about it, when mitt romney ran for president , he promised by the end of his first term, unemployment would go to 6 . Its now 4. 7 . Barack obama with the difficult congress he has has made great progress. Shes also made clear that this economy is not strong enough. That wages are stagnant for the middle class. Where does she disagree . Where does she and the president disagree economically . Well, i think the place they may have some disagreement is on trade. She is going to be taking a tougher approach on trade. She is not supporting the tpp. I think youre going to see a very aggressive effort against against china, you know, much more aggressive litigation. I think that and taking them to task for where theyre breaking our trade rules. Donald trump says thats his strength. But i think where Hillary Clintons strength is going to be is that she has an economic plan in which the entire focus is on strengthening middle class security. About whether jobs are being created here and shes putting forward specifics on modernizing infrastructure. Creating jobs through energy, manufacturing. About debtfree college. About giving more people the skills and kcredentials they ned to fill the jobs that are open. About paid family leave and the other things that are important for family security. Every day, theyre going to be hearing her with a concrete plan for the middle class and from him probably bombastic lines about isolationism, antiimmigrant rhetoric which is not going to be good for the economy. Its not good for our values as a country. Let me in for a second. Hillary clinton dodged this socialism question. Bernie sanders, you remember, still in this race right now. She was asked by Chris Matthews about it earlier this year. I want to play it for our audience then get you to help her out. Whats the difference between a socialist and a democrat . Well is that a question you want to answer or would you rather not politically . You know, youd have to ask im asking you. Youre a democrat. Hes a socialist. Im not one. Okay. Whats the difference between a socialist and democrat . I can tell you what i am, ast a progressive democrat. How is that different from a socialist . Who likes to get things done and believes were better off in this country when were trying to solve problems together. Gene, help her out. Whats the difference between a democrat and a socialist . Look, im not here to do general definitions, but i believe that the kind of progressive democrat that she is is one that understands that were, of course, a market economy, that we, of course, rely on job creation, small business, entrepreneurship here. But believes that we as a country have a responsibility in the face of strong economic change to make sure that we are shaping that change so that it is not hollowing out the middle class or being indifferent to the middle class as i think weve seen from too Many Republican administrations in the Republican Leadership and one that is actively seeking to shape economic change so that it strengthens the middle class. That it focuses on our middle class families seeing their wages, hopes, their aspirations, their dignity and security rising. That is the singular focus of what her campaign is, why shes running for president and i think thats going to do a lot better than mr. Trump who has spent a lot of his life taking advantage of the very middle class people a point youve certainly made well here. Gene sperling, thank you very much for your time. We appreciate it. Thanks for having any. Joined now by msnbc political analyst rick tyler who was, of course, a top adviser on the Cruz Campaign. Nice to see in person. Thanks so much for your time. No secret that the Cruz Campaign let you go. Can the firing of a top aide, cannot change the trajectory of a campaign . Yeah, i think so. The campaign was bleeding. I mean, the numbers are the negative numbers are so high. 77 of women with africanamericans, with hispanics, on and on. And they needed to show, especially their donors and their base, that somethings going to change. So does this is this enough to show that somethings going to change . Well see. Every time the