Transcripts For WPVI This Week With George Stephanopoulos 20

WPVI This Week With George Stephanopoulos September 4, 2016

Is the cold war on the verge of reigniting . From abc news, this is this week. Here, now, coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning. Its labor day weekend. Game on. Counting the days. 65 to the election. 22 to the first debate. Just 19 to the first early voting. But for all the sound and fury of the summer, were more or less where we were in late spring. Hillary clinton cautiously nursing a small but consistent lead. Persistent questions about her trustworthiness making it hard for her to pull away. And donald trump still stuck around 40 . Still wavering between speaking forcefully to his base and reaching out to undecided voters. Donald trump at an africanamerican church in detroit saturday, getting an opportunity to reshape his image. Reading from notes. Speaking softly. I fully understand that the Africanamerican Community has suffered from discrimination. And that there are many wrongs that must still be made right. Reporter contrast that to this, last month. Unscripted, before a fired up nearly allwhite crowd. Im asking for the vote of every single africanamerican citizen. Youre living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. What the hell do you have to lose . Reporter earlier this week, another tale of two tones. Acting president ial in mexico. Speaking diplomatically. The bond between our two countries is deep and sincere. Reporter but hours later in arizona. I am going to create a new special Deportation Task force. Reporter so how did that message play . With our partners at ssrs, we asked voters for a oneword reaction. 67 had a negative one. Just 27 were positive. But Hillary Clinton has her own image problems. Our new abc News Washington post poll showing 56 of americans now see her unfavorably. Up six points in three weeks. Shes still avoiding questions. Holding just one public event this week. She hasnt held a fullblown News Conference in 274 days. Lets bring in the democratic Vice President ial nominee, senator tim kaine of virginia. Senator kaine, the fbi released more documents about the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails and a summary of her interview with the fbi. Let me just highlight what is new. She didnt seem to know what some classification marks meant. She said she relied on staff to tell her what was classified. Archived emails were deleted even after a Congressional Committee requested them. All shes said is that it was a mistake to use a personal server. Dont the American People deserve a better explanation . And think theyve gotten one. To add to what you just said, the reason these materials are being made public is that Hillary Clinton said, i want the public to see them. When Congress Asked the fbi, give us your notes, Hillary Clinton said, thats great, but let the American Public see it. The notes demonstrate in significant detail why the fbi chose not to go forward with any additional proceeding. She did make a mistake. She made it by deciding she wanted to use one device rather than multiple devices. Shes apologized for it. Said it was a mistake. And shes learned from it. But these notes, which hillary urged be made public, demonstrate why the fbi saw no need for additional proceedings. If you contrast that, on the other side, i mean, just saying, contrast the disclosure with a donald trump, who wont even allow the American Public to see his tax returns. Lets go back to Hillary Clinton. This is an issue that Americans Care about. A majority of americans do not trust her. Largely because of this email issue. 66 do not trust her in the latest fox news poll. Our abc Washington Post poll shows a majority, 55 disapproved of the fbis decision not to indiagnostic indict her. So again, isnt this an issue that she needs to better explain . Thats why she asked them to be made public. When you read the materials and the articles about them, they go into significant detail about why the fbi concluded that there was no need for any additional proceedings. I contrast that with a donald trump. But senator kaine, she hasnt answered questions about that. Shouldnt see be answering questions about this . Martha, i just have to disagree with you. I have sat with her while shes answered questions. Answered questions about what she did and why. She said, look, by using one device, i made a mistake. I apologize for it. Ive learned something. I wouldnt do it again. I want all the facts to come out. Ill talk to Congressional Committees. Well provide the materials. Fbi, release the materials to the public. But on the other hand, we have a candidate in donald trump who wont release his tax returns to the public after he promised to do so. Talk about National Security. He has openly encouraged russia to engage in cyberhacking to try to find more emails or materials. And we know that this cyberattack on the dnc was likely done by russia. A president was impeached and had to resign over an attack on the dnc during a president ial election in 1972. This is serious business. Contrast the hillary situation, where the fbi said theres no need for Legal Proceedings with an attack that is being encouraged by donald trump on the dnc by russia, similar to what led to the resignation of a president 30 years ago. Senator kaine, i want to ask you one specific question about Hillary Clintons emails. Let me go through a few specifics. From the very beginning of this, secretary clinton said she never sent or received any material marked classified. We learned earlier this summer that is not true. We did learn this week from her interview with the fbi she couldnt even identify the c classification in an email and consistently could not identify classified information in emails the fbi showed her. How could she make such definitive statements if she couldnt recognize classified material . Remember, my recollection of the jim comey testimony before congress was that many there were e emails that contained classified information that were improperly marked. When she received it, the material that is classified, which is supposed to be flagged, and identified as classified, was in many instances, improperly labeled. Im on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. We do look at classified material. We look at so much material. Unless its specifically pulled out and identified, its difficult to know sometimes whether a statement or a paragraph is classified or not. Thats what she was saying. Unless it is identified in the way it should be, its difficult to know whether particular material is classified. After decades in government. I do want to move on to Foreign Policy. Youre giving a major Foreign Policy speech this week, emphasizing u. S. Relationships with russia. I was over in that region with u. S. Pilots where the tension is escalating. Hillary clinton was in charge of the socalled reset with russia. Can you make an argument that it worked, given what has happened in crimea and syria . I dont think you can make an argument that the relationship with russia is in a good place right now. Thats not the u. S. fault. Thats vladimir putins. They violated an agreement by moving into a region of georgia. Theyve destabilized the eastern ukraine. Donald trump was not aware that putin had gone into crimea as recently as two weeks ago. He promised that pouten would not and had to be reminded that putin went in and took over crimea two years ago. This is one of a number of troubling instances where trumps coziness with putin, his cozy ps with russia. Look, hes already had to let go one campaign chairperson, paul manafort, because of his ties i want to go back to the i want to talk about secretary clinton. Polands minister of Foreign Affairs said the reset was a kind of american weakness. Suggested that nato is not as strong of an alliance as it was and that gave russia opportunity to act. Theyre talking about secretary clinton. Martha, i think trying to look, i dont believe in a blame America First strategy. Russia went into georgia when president bush was in office before president obama was elected. He went into crimea during the obama administration. But to try to say thats the u. S. fault is ridiculous. The guy is a dictator, who represses journalists. Theres another tie. Donald trump is banning journalists from outlets. Gnat he doesnt like from covering him on the campaign. Hes taking lessons from putin and others. To say that putins imperial ambitions are the fault of anybody in the United States is ridiculous. Lets talk about relationships with the press. You talk about donald trump. Secretary clinton has not held a press conference in 274 days. You argue that shes talked to the press on the campaign trail. Our Campaign Reporters and others say she doesnt answer that many questions. Is this going to change . Martha, shes had hundreds of interviews in the last year. I have to push back on the notion she hasnt done a press conference. She gave a speech to the National Association of black journalists. Within the last month, where there were also journalists, hispanic journalists there. She did a press conference there. Members of Mainstream Media outlets, television networks, asked her questions. Were about to switch into a phase of the campaign where well be on planes and the press will be on the planes with us. Which is something that donald trump does not allow. Were not banning press outlets from covering public events. And so look, all the time, as hillarys out on the trail, shes talking to the press. Hundreds of interviews. Im doing the same. The labor day to election day stretch that will ramp up more. Were not a campaign that is acting like putin and other dictators and banning press outlets from attending public events. Thats unamerican. Thats what donald trump is doing. So we can expect a press conference, yes or no . Um, theres been one in the last month, and youre going to see hillary very, very accessible to the press, as i will be between now and november 8th. Thank you very much for joining us, senator kaine. You bet, martha. Take care. Now, lets get a response from the republican side. Joining us is Donald Trumps campaign manager, kellyanne conway. And kellyanne, good morning. You heard tim kaine. Pivoting from the email questions to talking about trumps relationship to putin and the relationship with the press. Your reaction . Its disappointing to see senator kaine take that tack. Because youre asking him very honest questions that the American People want answered. 17,448 emails were not turned over to the inspector general. Thats in addition to the 33,000 emails that have been deleted. As you very correctly pointed out, if you see the c as the classification of National Security information, folks know what that means. Certainly a former United States senator, former first lady, and certainly the sitting secretary of state should know what the c means. I think that the polling data that you showed earlier really tells the tale here. Hillary clinton is having a hard time being accepted as a truthful and honest candidate. Vis a vis the American People. And i thought that senator kaine trying to pivot away to donald trump has really become my favorite parlor game these days. I watch secretary clinton. Excuse me, senator kaine and others who defend them, when you ask them a question about them, it take them about ten words to get to Donald Trumps name. Thats not how you answer a question. She, they want this election to be about donald trump. The American People want this election to be about honesty and trustworthiness. And her being more accessible and forthcoming in her responses. I thought the fbi revelations on friday were nothing short of astonishing. In that train of thought. Lets go to donald trump. Because thats who youre here to talk about. I want to tie up loose ends after mr. Trumps speech on immigration. He said the priority will be criminals and those who have overstayed their visas. That amounts to between 5 and 6. 5 Million People that he says will be quickly removed. The cost estimate for that is between 51 and 67 billion. How will he manage such a massive operation . And who will pay for it . Hell manage it the way it should have been managed all along. By enforcing the law and relying on the Law Enforcement officers and the i. C. E. Officers to do their job. Theyve been completely hamstrung in their ability to do their job. He says hell triple the amount of i. C. E. Agents. To try to help. If you look at everything he said in that tenpoint immigration plan, it goes beyond that. It talk about the everify program. Stopping the job and benefit magnet. Securing the the southern border. Building that wall. Having mexico pay for it. At least you have a president ial candidate putting fourth a tenpoint plan. I thought it was astonishing to hear senator kaine tell you that the Trump Campaign is banning the media when they havent had a press conference in 274 days. And americans know that the media cover the events. They turn on the tv every day and see donald trump taking the case to the voters, including the tenpoint immigration plan. Back to immigration. He said there will be no amnesty. All immigrants here illegally will be subject to deportation. Will they be subject to deportation and removal or will they have to go . If theyre criminals, theyre going immediately. We dont know what that number is. We hear anything from 1 million to 2 million. Of course, he has also said this being the most generous country to immigrants in the world, that if you want to come to america, and immigrate here legally, you should do that. And if theyre not criminals. That has been very clear. Hes talked about the criminals. If they arent criminals, do they have to go . He has said that you should stand in line and immigrate legally. An also hes said, once that we do things that have never been done. So youre saying they have to go . What im saying is people can read the tenpoint plan. At least we have one out there. The other side doesnt. That doesnt clear it up. Do the people here that arent criminals have to go . Correct. But, no, he also said, once you enforce the law, once you get rid of the criminals, once you triple the number of i. C. E. Agents, secure the southern border. Once you turn off the jobs and benefit magnet, then well see where we are. We dont know where well be. We dont know who will be left. We dont know where they live, who they are. Thats the whole point here. We have actually never tried this. Hell rescind those amnesties and try to work with the congress. Hes trying to solve a problem. Hes said he wants to work with Law Enforcement and immigration officials to actually see what we have left after Everything Else is done. One more thing to clear up. Mr. Trump said in his meeting with mexicos president , they did not discuss payment for the wall. Mexicos president says he told trump mexico will not pay for the wall. Is the president of mexico lying . They disagree on that conversation. I think mr. Trump clarified in arizona later that day that hell build that wall. Hes been consistent on that since day one. And hell have mexico pay for it. His position has never changed on this side of the border or on that side of the border. And, martha, all told, that was a very productive conversation. We were very happy to accept the invitation to have mr. Trump there to talk about not just illegal immigration, a vexing issue for both sides, but drugs, human trafficking, and the sovereignty of each nation that is protected once you have a border in place. A prosperous and safe mexico benefits us. A prosperous and safe United States benefits mexico. We look forward to continuing that conversation with the mexican president. We were happy that mr. Trump showed the leadership that a wouldbe president shows. Lets move to the ground game and the path to 2016. You have said pennsylvania is part of your campaigns path to the white house. Youre still down there by an average of seven points. On my recent visit there, lots of people were turned off by trumps aggressive, angry tone. Can you win this race without pennsylvania . We can. But were taking pennsylvania very seriously. The last six president ial elections its gone democratic. And thats something that we understand. We know that mr. Trumps message has been resonant among a lot of the working a lot of the works who feel like theyve been left behind in this economy. Can you win without pennsylvania . Yes, we can. Absolutely. We have several paths to victory. I would point out the growing number of stories just this week about the Clinton Campaign, how shes being told just prepare for a landslide. Run out the clock. Dont go talk to the voters. Shes doing this whiplashlike tour between hollywood, the hamptons, marthas vineyard, raising money, ignoring the voters, thinking, hey, ive got this one. I can win this through virus paths through the electoral map. Were taking every state seriously. Were making investments this week with absentee ballot outreach. Ads in 11, 12 states. Pennsylvania is one of them. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Coming up, the two major nominees from both parties are both deeply unpopular. Who has the upper hand . Ill check in with the pollsters. 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