Sean Hannity Show - Why Is Trump Doing Better? - 9.6

Sept. 6, 2016 - Sean Hannity Show

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Why Is Trump Doing Better? - 9.6

Polls are showing that Donald Trump has closed the gap and there are a few suggesting that the last three weeks of campaigning are paying off. Trump has stopped picking fights and is showing the high-energy campaign he promised. The Sean Hannity Show is live Monday through Friday from 3pm - 6pm ET on iHeart Radio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	All right, which candidate am I?
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	Seconds ago, and you can see her there having a little water and getting ready to begin.
	Let's listen in.
	You have $63,000 to go.
	Oh, this gets better.
	Just hang in there.
	Hang in.
	Listening to Hillary Clinton here about to begin her remarks in Cleveland.
	Don't you love to...
	We're listening to Hillary.
	She's about to do her remarks.
	Let's pull away now until Hillary can gather herself.
	Well, thank you.
	You're welcome.
	All right.
	It's better now, right?
	Well, you just heard the next vice president, didn't you?
	I almost feel bad.
	Somebody get her a glass of wisdom.
	Oh, they did get her water.
	Marsha Fudge.
	Let me also thank your great senator, Sherrod Brown.
	Excuse me.
	All right, I've got too much news to get to.
	It is.
	Two other great.
	I just have too much news.
	Anyway, glad you're with us.
	It is now post-Labor Day, and now the games begin.
	63 days till Election Day.
	And what did I tell you last week?
	I said, look, Trump has now had the best three and a half weeks, I think, since he started this campaign.
	And things are going right for him in 100 different ways.
	Now, if I was talking to Trump, I'd say, well, why do you think three and a half weeks you're doing so well?
	And I'd say, wait, don't answer.
	I'll tell you the answer.
	The answer is, number one, he's not picking fights with other people except going over, comparing, and contrasting his vision for the country with the failed record of Obama and Hillary Clinton.
	I mean, Hillary was just done bragging about how she's going to raise taxes on the wealthy.
	They need to pay their fair share.
	Well, it's everything.
	It's class warfare, divide people, young and old, rich and poor, black and white.
	She played the race ad.
	That didn't work out.
	And I said, look, look at what Trump's been able to do here.
	While Hillary, he has, you talk about low energy candidates.
	He should have called Hillary low energy.
	Compared to Jeb Bush, Jeb Bush is the energizer bunny.
	I mean, Hillary's nowhere to be found.
	She hasn't had a press conference in, what, 277 days now.
	She's afraid of the media.
	Most of the events she has, they don't pan back on television and show you there's only 100 people in the room.
	She is not getting anywhere near the crowds what Trump is getting or showing the enthusiasm that he's showing.
	Trump is altering his schedule.
	Something happens in Baton Rouge.
	He's down in Baton Rouge.
	He gets invited by the Mexican president.
	He goes down to Mexico.
	He's given policy speech after policy speech, one more substantive than the next.
	He is staying on message and on script.
	He's spelling out his vision and the choice you have in this election.
	I think he gave, and we'll discuss it later in the program today, but I thought he gave one of his best speeches to date on Saturday when he went to Detroit.
	He's reaching out to the black community, the Hispanic community.
	He's pointing out what even P. Diddy has picked up.
	You see what P. Diddy said?
	Actually, Sean Diddy Combs, he actually said that black voters won't get fooled again, insisting that Hillary Clinton has to prove herself before she gets the black vote because blacks got short-changed by Obama.
	But when you have a 58% increase in black Americans on food stamps, yeah, they got short-changed.
	When you have a 20% increase, black Americans that are not participating in the labor force, yeah, they got short-changed big time.
	As a matter of fact, disproportionately, they have been negatively impacted by the bad economy.
	You know, it's inner city schools.
	We have in many of these neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, the worst schools in the country.
	We have abandoned and we have absolutely mistreated black America in terms of the poor educational opportunities that they have in many communities.
	It's just wrong.
	And even union members now seem to be breaking away from Hillary Clinton.
	Bill Clinton was heckled during a Detroit union parade.
	No thanks, NAFTA boy, somebody shouted.
	95 million Americans out of the labor force, as I have been telling you.
	How hilarious, by the way, was this the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duerte, calling Obama a son of a bitch.
	Like, whoa, where did that come from?
	And then he canceled the meeting with the Philippine president.
	I thought that was even more funny.
	And he said that he told Obama not to question him about his country and the killings that have been going on in his country.
	And then Obama's China visit got off to a rocky start.
	He gets off, he tries to emerge from Air Force One, and on the tarmac, they didn't even have any stairs waiting for him.
	That's how prepared they were to meet him.
	Anyway, White House press photographers traveling with him tried to get in their usual position to mark his arrival, only to find a member of the Chinese welcoming delegation screaming at them.
	It was hilarious.
	But that's what happens when you're viewed as weak.
	You know, think about what happened.
	Look at the Mexican president and the joint presser that they had together.
	And Donald Trump got the meeting and Hillary declined.
	Why did she decline?
	She doesn't want to be seen as following what Donald Trump does.
	But Trump jumped on the opportunity to go to Baton Rouge and offer people aid and comfort and support and donated money.
	Hillary Clinton didn't do a thing, lift a finger.
	You know, Newt Gingrich had a pretty good line about her.
	He'll join us later in the program today.
	He actually said that the Clintons in a normal society would be ostracized as totally unpatriotic scammers.
	You know, now we've got another scandal that has emerged.
	You know, you want to talk about acting intentionally and with criminal intent.
	I thought Giuliani this weekend did a good job.
	There's powerful evidence that the Clintons acted with criminal intent with the revelation that 33,000 emails were erased with a very expensive software called BleachBit.
	Well, that's used by criminals.
	Criminals use it to hide evidence from law enforcement.
	And the notes released from Hillary Clinton's FBI interview make it abundantly clear that she was, you mean like with a cloth ad?
	It wasn't what, like with a cloth or something?
	No.
	You mean like did I wipe my server with like a cloth?
	Is that what you're asking?
	No, they use bleach bit software, which is extraordinarily expensive.
	By the way, see how much it costs to put bleach bit software, Linda, on your computer.
	See if you can look that up.
	But she acted intentionally and with criminal intent, as did everybody else around her.
	And then on top of that, then we've got other revelations here.
	You know, Clinton aides were saying, well, they didn't know about the email server, but it turns out that's what they were telling the FBI.
	But emails that we now have been able to uncover show just the opposite, that they did know too much.
	And you see the Democrats are getting nervous because Nancy Pelosi is out there this weekend.
	Too much is being made about emails.
	And Joe Biden is talking about, well, Hillary, maybe you need to talk about some passion so you can fix your trust problem.
	Then the Trump campaign is calling on the FBI to make additional Clinton email investigation records public, which they should.
	And then you've got even the New York Times.
	Remember back in 2015, they did a story about her use of a private email setup.
	One of her aides began deleting the emails right thereafter.
	In other words, they started deleting when they knew that they were wanted and subpoenaed.
	And Hillary's, and then on the, of course, we have the whole issue of pay to play, and half the civilians she meets as Secretary of State were people that were donors or had pledged money.
	And she's trying to make the case that Bill should not have to resign from the foundation until after the election.
	Really?
	I don't want to, that's where their bread is buttered.
	Money means everything to them.
	There's a new poll that came out, Suffolk University, USA Today poll.
	A majority of Americans believe that Bill and Hillary failed to avoid conflicts of interest as these millions of dollars float into them.
	Anyway, that's only then, of course, you got the $18 million that Bill Clinton got as an honorary chancellor for a for-profit college, and even they got meetings at the State Department.
	270, what, seven days now, and Hillary has yet to hold a press conference.
	And she's not going to hold one either as long as she can get away with it.
	But anyway, after all these incidents where Trump now is staying on message, staying on prompter, Trump is showing 100 times more energy than Hillary Clinton is showing.
	He goes to Baton Rouge.
	He goes to Mexico.
	He meets with the Mexican president, shows himself in a presidential setting.
	He gives, I think, the best speech that he gave his entire campaign in Detroit before a black church, resulting in a standing ovation.
	And now you see what I had predicted last week.
	I said, I want to come back next week and see where these polls are.
	Well, now you've got him either ahead or tied in the CNN poll, L.A. Times poll, Rasmussen poll, Investors Business Daily poll, the Reuters-ISIS poll.
	And then he's also made ground in some very important swing states.
	He's within three points in Wisconsin, within two points in Virginia.
	I think Ed Gillespie was down 18, and he had like a less than one-point race by the time all was said and done.
	That means Virginia is in play.
	He's winning in Iowa.
	He's winning in North Carolina.
	He's winning in Arizona.
	And 37% of the country think we're on the wrong track.
	Well, that's all good news for Donald Trump.
	You know, if you look at the CNN poll, which I think has gotten the most attention, it's the first poll taken by the pro-Hillary media that shows Trump in the lead, but the press is using the NBC survey monkey poll to offset the impact of the CNN-ORC poll.
	I'm not a statistician, but, you know, there's certainly a dramatic change that has taken place.
	The difference is with the NBC poll, they have Hillary up by six among registered voters, but more important than that is the partisan breakdown.
	The CNN poll is the very first poll I've seen this election season that sampled a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats.
	Now, I would argue that is a slight oversampling probably of Republicans, but it doesn't matter.
	There's too many polls that now show this is a tight race.
	Hillary's speaking about the military today and about foreign policy on a day where nearly 90 retired military leaders have gone out and endorsed Donald Trump.
	But I think the all-importance here is you've got an implosion going on before your eyes.
	You've got a dramatic shift in this campaign, and the timing couldn't be any better for Trump as we now head out of Labor Day.
	You know, five or six major developments over the weekend, all bad for Hillary.
	The cumulative effect of it is so bad.
	And what's happening now for Trump, you know, if this were happening to Trump, is the Trump campaign in danger of imploding?
	Well, is the Hillary campaign in danger of imploding?
	You have the very first all-important post-Labor Day polls, which the media has been telling us for weeks is indicative of how this race is going to turn out.
	And I mentioned all the polls that have Trump tied or ahead.
	So we've got that out there, including the CNN poll that has Trump up by two.
	State polls tend to be a lagging indicator.
	In other words, they tend to indicate where the race is going in these individual states.
	At least that's been the pattern.
	Even 538 recognizes that little bit of fact.
	You have Hillary telling the FBI she can't remember certain briefings in 2012.
	She can't remember 40 times.
	And her reason is because she had a concussion back in 2012.
	Well, what else can't she remember?
	Now, this brings back the health issue.
	When you add Clinton AIDS, they said 327 times they don't recall details about the private server.
	She also, Hillary said, that the FBI setting up her illegal, unsecured server was Uma Aberdeen's idea.
	I'm sure Uma appreciates that on top of what she's been living through with Weiner.
	Anyway, we have a report that Hillary's top scandal lawyer, Cheryl Mills, actually stormed out of her own interrogation by the FBI after she had somewhat 87 times, I think, said she didn't recall.
	Those developments alone would be bad enough, but there's more to come.
	You got a boatload of Hillary's scandal emails due to be released in about 10 days from today.
	Julian Assange, who's going to be on Hannity tonight from WikiLeaks, is promising his own Hillary document dump before the election.
	He says it could be a game changer.
	You have Congress now, even Paul Ryan, pressing the FBI to launch a perjury investigation into the Hillary email gate testimony.
	You've got the Clinton Foundation bribery scandal.
	That's percolating out there.
	You got the Washington Post today finally picking up on Bill Clinton's Laureate University diplomas where he made $18 million, and many of the students feel they got screwed.
	Why did it take them so long?
	Maybe they should just listen to this program because we did it months ago.
	Then you've got Hillary coughing, having one coughing fit after another all weekend as the race now begins to go into the home stretch.
	And the coughing fits one this weekend went on for four minutes and 22 seconds in Cleveland.
	It nearly forced her to end her speech.
	She tried to have a mini press conference after on her campaign plan and started another coughing fit.
	And this weekend was probably the single worst three days for Hillary.
	And meanwhile, Donald Trump is going to black churches in Detroit and getting standing ovations.
	And he's meeting with heads of state.
	And Donald Trump is on message.
	And I can't tell you how many people this weekend, everywhere I go.
	And I know you talk to Mr. Trump, but you got to tell him, keep doing it.
	No more fighting with other people.
	I'm like, okay, I'll tell him.
	Sure, that's going to go far, but I'll tell him.
	He knows.
	This is now game time.
	It's like playing a golf tournament.
	It's the last.
	He understands golf analogies.
	I think he owns the best golf courses ever built.
	I've asked him.
	He asked me once if I ever wanted to play his course.
	I said, no, I don't want to play your course.
	I don't want anything from you.
	I want you to be a good president.
	He said, really?
	No, no, no, you should play it.
	He goes, you need to go down and play.
	I said, no, I'm not going to use your golf course.
	He goes, no, you really should.
	It's one of the best courses you'll play.
	And I said, I want you to be a good president.
	That's all I want out of this.
	Hannity's going to work for Trump.
	Did you read that?
	Isn't that great?
	Jonah Goldberg called me a puppy dog over the weekend.
	He said I was on another tie rate.
	Yeah, Joan, I'll get to you later today.
	I'm blaming you, Jonah, for her Supreme Court appointments, unvetted refugees, anything that happens along the border because we don't have a wall.
	If coal miners lose their job, coal companies go out of business, I'll blame Jonah for that too.
	And every other anti-Trumper that's stubborn, arrogant, and frankly, ignorant of what's at stake in this election.
	I'll say what they're afraid to say.
	I'll say, I'll say it.
	Somebody else will say it.
	Let's live in.
	Yeah, I'll say it.
	All right, so you have the CNN poll.
	It's not the only good news for Trump today.
	Now, do I think this election is over?
	Absolutely not.
	We got 63 days to go.
	It is an eternity in politics.
	As a matter of fact, one thing you're never going to hear from me on this program is, oh, this race is over.
	I just have never thought that way.
	I mean, go back to 2000, the weekend before the Tuesday election, the DUI George W. Bush story came out.
	What impact it may or may not have had in Florida, we'll never know.
	But you always know Democrats are up to dirty tricks.
	Julian Assange is joining us on TV.
	He swears that, in fact, they've got a lot of big news as it relates to Hillary.
	He said a lot of things in an interview.
	You know, he's gone on to say the American liberal press is falling all over themselves to defend Hillary.
	They're erecting a demon that is going to put nooses around everyone's neck as soon as she wins the election, which is almost certainly what she's going to do, he said in an interview.
	Anyway, then he also talked about that he's working around the clock.
	They have a lot of material, a lot of revelations, that it will lead to the resignation of a lot of officials like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, which happened at the convention.
	He says it's complex what they do.
	And he also said that there's a lot more coming out before our election.
	And so I think it's going to be interesting.
	See what he'll find out.
	Anyway, 800-941 Sean, he said in one interview that we have a significant amount of information, and the information itself is significant.
	It pertains to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	We will be releasing it in several batches as we finish the journalistic work on each batch.
	He said, I think it's interesting.
	So my position as an analyst is that, yes, Hillary Clinton is a warhawk, but the statement was made within the context of the early phases of the Democratic primary.
	It doesn't mean an endorsement of Donald Trump.
	I don't know.
	I think everything about this guy is kind of fascinating to me.
	All right, so you have, there's certain things I'm looking at.
	You have the CNN poll.
	And again, you go back to polls.
	And again, polls are snapshots.
	National polls in particular are snapshots of a particular moment in time.
	It doesn't mean it stays.
	I mean, it's not stagnant, doesn't stay.
	There's an ebb and flow to the political cycle.
	And I think when Clinton aids and Americans become aware that they said 327 times they didn't recall details about the private server or that Hillary did that 40 times, I think that will have an impact that, yeah, that reinforces the idea that Hillary's lying.
	I think Hillary's cough is a problem.
	I think Hillary's saying to the FBI that, well, I couldn't remember this because I had a concussion.
	Well, what else is she forgetting?
	And then again, you look at a lot of the poll numbers and you look at Reuters and you look at CNN and, you know, then you look at what Donald Trump is doing.
	And you've got six different polls that all show that Donald Trump's doing well.
	Anyway, the Reuters polling in the six key battleground states show Trump leading or tied with Hillary.
	In Iowa, there are two polls out.
	The Reuters poll has Trump up 4441.
	In Maine, Donald Trump's been spending a lot of time in Maine, 4242.
	In Michigan, Trump's up 4241.
	In New Hampshire, Trump's up 45-44.
	In Ohio, Trump's up 46-43.
	In Wisconsin, Trump and Clinton are tied at 38.
	There is a massive opening here for Donald Trump.
	And he seems to be willing to make all the trips needed to go out there and push his message.
	But there are certain things I'm looking for as Donald Trump continues like he did this weekend, and we'll get to it later with Newt Gingrich, this outreach to the black community.
	I want to see if Donald Trump hits double digits in the black vote come November.
	He certainly wants their vote.
	He's doing things I think Republicans should have done a long time ago.
	Point out that they're the party of Lincoln, that it was people like Robert K. Byrd, Hillary Clinton's mentor, that was out there filibustering the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 64 and 65.
	Al Gore's father was nowhere to be found.
	Lyndon Johnson required Republican help for the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act.
	Anyway, the one poll, the CNN poll, shows that Trump is winning massively among independents.
	I think also I want to see if Trump makes inroads into the black community and Hispanic community.
	Well, then this game is over.
	This game is over, which is why Hillary is playing the race card.
	The other thing that I'm a little concerned about from Trump's vantage point is that he only has about 73 to 75 percent of Republicans in terms of the Republican vote.
	He needs 90 percent.
	And you can blame these idiots at the Wall Street Journal and National Review and Bill Crystal and the entire Mitt Romney staff for doing everything they can do and Glenn Beck doing everything they can do every minute of every day to talk down Trump.
	This isn't a simple choice for everybody.
	Jonah Goldberg, if you're listening, and I know you are because you talk about my quote, tirades.
	These are not tirades.
	This is a simple, even you guys at NRO, I know you think you're a lot smarter than everybody else, but every time you guys write a book, now that you guys hate me, maybe you won't beg everybody at National Review to be on my shows so I can sell your book because nobody wants to buy it on their own.
	So I give you some airtime.
	And there are some good people over at National Review, Andy McCarthy and a few others.
	There are still people we like over at National Review, but by and large, National Review has become the never Trump, you know, Grand Central.
	But I mean, it's simple, Jonah, because if you aid and abet Hillary and you keep trashing Trump and you keep taking his views out of context, as I've watched you and others do, and you keep calling me a puppy and keep calling me saying I'm on tirades, it doesn't deal with this substantive issue, and that is Hillary's going to appoint Ruth Bader Ginsburg or worse, Sonia Sautomayor or worse, to the Supreme Court.
	You have a list of Donald Trump appointing originalists to the Supreme Court to replace Scalia.
	You know, people that have a deep fidelity and belief in the Constitution and separation of powers, co-equal branches of government, which would now impact this country for generations.
	That's why on the Supreme Court alone, that ought to convince any Republican that's on the fence to come over.
	And the same thing, we've got Donald Trump wants extreme vetting for people that come from countries where they either practice Sharia, which is the antithesis of our constitutional system, or that come from countries that have a high percentage of people that we don't have the potential to vet, but could be radicalized.
	He wants extreme vetting, and Hillary wants to build a bridge and let anybody in because she views immigration and she views refugees as the antidote that will keep the Democrats in power from now till kingdom come.
	So if Hillary allows unvetted refugees in the country and they end up doing what they've done in Europe, I'm blaming people like Jonah.
	And I'm blaming people at the Wall Street Journal and the rest of the NRO crowd and the Mitt Romney team.
	I'm blaming them all.
	This isn't funny anymore.
	And if we don't build the wall and the illegal immigrants come to our country and they kill Americans, you guys are partly responsible for that too.
	Because Trump's going to build the wall.
	And I agree with Trump on the wall.
	And I agree with him on betting refugees.
	And I agree with Trump on Supreme Court justices.
	And I agree with Trump that we need to repeal and replace Obamacare, something Republicans promised over and over and over and over again and never got done because they were too timid and weak and feckless and unwilling to use the power of the purse.
	So because of their spinelessness and their desire for power, they never did what they said they would do.
	They never stopped unconstitutional illegal executive orders either.
	And by the way, if coal miners are fired and put out of work, as Hillary promised, and coal mining businesses go belly up because Hillary promised that, I'm going to blame all of you anti-Trumpers too for aiding and abetting Hillary.
	Because Trump has told me numerous times in interviews that he wants to expand coal mining, fracking, drilling, nuclear power, and all the above.
	Well, that'll create millions of high-paying jobs for Americans.
	And it's in our best national security interest.
	And by the way, if we continue to have Obamacare and you have Americans that can't either afford it and lose their doctor and lose their plan, and on average, premiums for families has gone up $4,100 since Obama's been president.
	If that continues, I'll blame all of you people for that too, Glenn Beck included.
	And if education continues to be top-down, I'll blame you guys for that.
	And I'm not stopping.
	And the economy, if she raises taxes, as she said earlier today, $1.3 trillion and spending $1.4 trillion, and we continue to rob our future generations, you guys can take the blame for that.
	Now, if Trump gets elected, blame me for whatever he does or doesn't do.
	Well, with her, you know, everything she does is going to be wrong.
	But you still are so ignorant and stubborn, you people.
	Well, anyway, Trump really doesn't need you anyway.
	But cumulatively, you're having an impact.
	That number of Republicans needs to go up dramatically.
	We have the Politico writing they're scared.
	A week ago, Sunday, the Washington Post had Hillary Clinton measuring drapes in the White House.
	But after all, I would attribute a lot of this to Trump going to Baton Rouge and Trump going to Mexico and Trump going to Detroit and Trump giving outreach to the black community.
	I think Trump and Hillary with all our ethical problems, Political now reports, quote, Hillary may be blowing it, and they're not happy about it.
	No one, not the bullpen of the New York Mets, not the French Army, not Wiley Coyote, not even Al Gore is better at squandering a commanding lead than the queen of coasting Hillary Rodham Clinton, they write.
	And nobody is better at handing her adversaries talking points to undermine trust on emails on the Clinton Foundation and our refusal to do something as simple as talking to reporters who cover her every day.
	I love it.
	When Politico and the mainstream media is freaking out, by the way, Biden's freaking out.
	Biden's saying, you got to go out there and say something passionately so people believe you finally.
	Good luck with that strategy, crazy Uncle Joe.
	That's not going to work either.
	And what about this issue?
	Remember the guys at CNN, Brian Stelter?
	Remember the little pip squeak who's the stenographer for Jeff Zucker?
	Oh, I've got a tape of Jeff Zucker, I heard.
	Oh, it's priceless.
	It's priceless.
	I'm just waiting for the right timing.
	It's priceless.
	Let's see if they play it up on their Sunday unreliable liberal sources show.
	You know what I'm talking about, Ray Linda?
	Oh, yeah.
	Pretty interesting, right?
	So good, right?
	Can you imagine?
	Can you imagine?
	That tape is gold.
	No, it's platinum.
	No, it's like the black American Express card.
	It's that good.
	Yeah, none of it gets bleach bit, though.
	That's a good point.
	Anyway, Hillary's now confirmed that she still suffers from significant mental impairment.
	And they said I was advancing conspiracy theories by talking about the injuries that she incurred in 2012.
	During her July 2nd interrogation by the FBI this year, she invoked her cognitive disability when asked about national security briefings that she attended, explaining how classified information should be handled.
	Anyway, under questioning from the FBI over whether she had been briefed on how to preserve government records as she was about to leave the State Department, Hillary said she suffered a concussion, was working part-time, and couldn't recall even being briefed or every briefing she received.
	Wow.
	What else has she forgotten?
	She couldn't recall getting any briefings on how to handle classified information or comply with the law, she said.
	She had a bad concussion.
	She suffered a concussion, and then around New Year, the New Year, she had a blood clot.
	The FBI summary said this is the one they dumped on the Friday before Labor Day when everybody's off like me.
	Don't worry, I'm still keeping it in play.
	Yeah, but based on her doctor's advice, she could only work at the State Department a few hours a day, couldn't recall anything she received or ever receiving a briefing.
	And four years later, she still can't remember.
	Wow, sounds like she suffered terribly.
	I think the American people have a right to know how bad her cognitive abilities are.
	When she suffered two coughing fits in a single day yesterday, I thought one of the funniest revelations was Hillary told the FBI that the illegal server was Uma Abedeen's idea.
	Poor Uma.
	Hillary's top scandal lawyer stormed out of the FBI interview, Cheryl Mills, all told, by the way, Clinton aid said 327 times they didn't recall details about the private server.
	Yikes.
	By the way, Bleach Pit, which they used to delete all these emails, started in 2008, near as we can tell, was one of the few, if not only, companies that allows the deletion of software to be downloaded anonymously, no registration, no fees.
	That's pretty interesting.
	Anything weird that Hillary would seek out the one company that does everything anonymously.
	Wow, that one company.
	Washington Post reporter says Hillary should be worried about the latest polls.
	Dave Ignatius.
	They were all in a panic.
	Pelosi this weekend, Biden this weekend, Politico, Dave Ignatius from the Washington Post.
	Hillary's interrogator during the FBI interview was an Obama donor.
	Oh, did I tell you that part yet?
	Yeah.
	David Loffman is named in the notes taken during her interview July the 2nd.
	Since December 14, he served as a chief counter-espionage section of the Justice Department's National Security Division.
	Anyway, they've set high standards for the email investigation.
	They said they were independent and nonpartisan.
	Well, his role in the investigation is not totally clear, but the Justice Department didn't respond.
	But apparently he was right there.
	Obama's aid has her back.
	Unbelievable.
	You're watching the most fascinating election you'll ever see.
	And I'm telling you right now, you have no idea how this is going to turn out.
	Anybody that tells you they do doesn't.
	They don't know.
	I'm just being more honest than the average Joe.
	Our nation is too divided.
	We talk past each other, not to each other, and those who seek office do not do enough to step into the community and learn what is going on.
	They don't know.
	They have no clue.
	I'm here today to learn so that we can together remedy injustice in any form and so that we can also remedy economics so that the African-American community can benefit economically through jobs and income and so many other different ways.
	Our political system has failed the people and works only to enrich itself.
	I want to reform that system so that it works for you, everybody in this room.
	I believe true reform can only come from outside the system.
	I really mean that.
	Being a businessman is much different than being a politician, because I understand what's happening.
	And we are going outside of the establishment.
	Becoming the nominee of the party of Abraham Lincoln, a lot of people don't realize that Abraham Lincoln, the great Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican, has been the greatest honor of my life.
	It is on his legacy that I hope to build the future of the party, but more important, the future of the country and the community.
	I believe we need a civil rights agenda for our time, one that ensures the rights to a great education, so important, and the right to live in safety and in peace and to have a really, really great job, a good paying job, and one that you love to go to every morning.
	And that can happen.
	We need to bring our companies back.
	It also means the right to have a government that protects our workers and fights, really fights for our jobs.
	I want to help you build and rebuild Detroit.
	And we can do that, especially with people like Bishop Jackson and Dr. Jackson.
	I mean that.
	It's been an amazing experience.
	It's been an amazing experience.
	True.
	All right, Donald Trump, that was Saturday, and that was in Detroit.
	I would argue perhaps his best speech to date.
	Notice a distinct difference.
	Unlike Al Gore or Hillary Clinton, they get before predominantly black audiences.
	Their tone, their pitch, their cadence changes.
	They try to sound like they're black preachers.
	I find the whole thing condescending.
	That was not the case with Donald Trump.
	He got a standing ovation.
	Somebody that thinks this is a really good idea is on our line, and that's former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
	You have been saying for years that Republican candidates need to get inside black churches, inner cities.
	They need to lay out their plan.
	They need to talk about how liberalism has failed.
	I think this was one of the best moments, really on the heels of many good moments for Trump now in the last three and a half weeks.
	Well, as you point out, he's had a tremendous number of breakthrough events, including visiting with the president of Mexico and going to Louisiana to look at the disaster and be with the people of Louisiana at a time when Hillary Clinton was too busy raising money.
	But having said all that, this was a historic moment because for the first time I can remember, at least since 1960, you have a Republican presidential candidate reclaiming the mantle of Lincoln, pointing out that segregationists were Democrats, that it was segregationist sheriffs, segregationist governors, segregationist senators and House members who imposed and sustained segregation for 100 years,
	that the Republicans were consistently for greater freedom for African Americans than were the Democrats.
	And who points out also that if you measure reality, you measure the nearly 4,000 deaths in Chicago since Obama was sworn in.
	You measure the failure of the inner city.
	Milwaukee is the sixth poorest city in America.
	You measure the failure in Baltimore where the last Republican city council member was elected in 1942.
	And what you find is that urban Democrats have failed just as nationally Democrats have failed.
	The one place that is a shining example of how to do it right was New York under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who really had a dramatic impact, brought down the murder rate by 85%, created prosperity, got 600,000 people off of welfare and into jobs.
	The kind of thing, as Rudy himself said the other day, without his leadership, New York could have become Detroit or Milwaukee or Baltimore.
	And that was a genuine pro-free enterprise, pro-safety, pro-opportunity leadership by Mayor Giuliani, who Trump knows well.
	Trump lived there when he was doing it.
	Trump watched and worked with Rudy on a number of key issues.
	So I think you have somebody who has brought a sense of directness to what he's doing.
	And by the way, this is not new for him.
	There's a terrific 1999 video which is available on YouTube of Jesse Jackson introducing Trump and thanking Trump.
	I just happen to have it.
	Let me play some of it.
	We've got it queued up right now.
	I do want to express thanks to you, Donald Trump, for being with us tonight.
	We need your building skills, your gusto, your writ package for people on Wall Street who represent diversity.
	And we thank you for coming tonight.
	Let's give Donald Trump a big answer.
	I now want to bring forth a friend who has, well, he is deceptive in that his social style is of such.
	One can miss his seriousness and his commitment for this success is beyond argument.
	When we opened this Wall Street project and we talked about it, he gave us space at 40 Wall Street, which was to make a statement about our having a presence there.
	And beyond that, in terms of reaching out and being inclusive, he's done that too.
	And created for many people a comfort on when I ran for the presidency in 804 and 88.
	And many others thought it was either laughable or something to avoid.
	He came to our business meeting here in New York because he has this sense of the curious and a will to risk to make things better.
	And so aside from all of his style and his pizzazz, he's a serious person who's an effective builder of billing for the builder people.
	Last year, he was a part of our workshop, of our panel workshop on what are the challenges and opportunities.
	And so this, a year later, Donald Trump thought humanist challenges and opportunities to embrace the underserved communities.
	Donald Trump.
	I will tell you, a large percentage of the people, and especially in construction, that are building these great jobs are black and minorities.
	And I'm very proud of it.
	We have close to 25%, and I think the number's going up.
	And we'll do a great job.
	There are no better builders than we have in New York, and a big percentage of that is black and minority folks.
	So I just want to thank everybody in the room for being here.
	I look forward to some questions.
	And thank you, and thank you, Jesse.
	There you have it.
	I mean, there was one poll that had Trump with the black community of 14.6%.
	That doesn't sound like a high number, but it would be higher than the last eight Republican presidential candidates.
	That's a game changer.
	Well, I think, and look, I think that there are a growing number of African Americans who realize that liberalism hasn't worked.
	You know, would you take a f look, for example, at the Dodd-Frank bill that has protected and enlarged the big banks, supposedly supposed to bring them under control, actually made them even bigger, had very anti-small bank, very anti-small credit union provisions.
	If you're a black neighborhood that's rising and that has a little extra money and you would like to create a local bank with a black president serving a black community helping black small businesses get loans, big government in Washington has rigged the game against you.
	You can't get it started.
	You can't get off the ground.
	And you can go through area after area where bureaucratic red tape and big government has made it harder and harder for minorities to rise.
	The liberal approach to communities has made it harder and harder to have safety.
	And so you just go down this list of things and you realize that once Republicans have the courage to go into the communities, and I was very proud of Trump being in Detroit, taking questions, being with people, I think folks are going to find this to be a really profound moment of change, partly because it changes the candidate.
	Donald Trump is seeing and talking with people that he has not met with before.
	It'd be almost like Hillary Clinton going to meet with white men in rural America.
	I mean, it'll be a great education for her.
	Take her back to her Arkansas roots.
	And I think you're in this kind of a setting where Donald Trump is learning new things.
	He's talking to people.
	He is getting a much clearer philosophical approach.
	And as a natural job creator, a real businessman who knows how to create jobs, he can bring a great deal to the African American and Latino communities on the job creation front.
	And if they conclude that he is a big part of their future in terms of jobs, he's going to do very well in these communities.
	Let's look at the poll numbers.
	We talked about what he did in Mexico.
	We talked about the speech in Arizona.
	We talked about the speech that he gave in Detroit.
	And I think in terms of pure energy of the campaign, he's outpacing Hillary at least 10 to 1.
	I mean, her in a coughing fits.
	I'll get to that in a second.
	But he's either leading or dead even in the CNN poll.
	He's up two in the L.A. Times, Rasmussen, Investors Business Daily, Reuters poll.
	He has cut the gap in states like Wisconsin.
	He's only down three.
	Virginia only down two.
	Michigan down five.
	It's fairly close in Pennsylvania.
	He's up in Iowa, North Carolina, and Arizona and other states.
	It seems like, and also right track, wrong track, 37% of the country thinks we're on the wrong track.
	How do you interpret these polls, these initial first post-Labor Day polls?
	Well, I think, first of all, by any measure, he is stronger than he was a month ago.
	And by any measure, Hillary is weaker than she was a month ago.
	And in a fair number of these polls, he's now beginning to be ahead.
	I mean, I love the fact that CNN did this survey.
	Trump's ahead 42.40.
	And the headline is not Trump leads, which, of course, is an 11-point swing in the last six weeks, 11 points in his favor.
	The headline is election too close to call.
	Now, if Hillary had been ahead by two, it would have been Hillary still leads.
	And you just see these biases over and over and over again.
	But I think he has had a good couple weeks.
	I think she's had a bad couple weeks.
	I think it gets worse for her every day.
	The very fact that we now have, I think it's 327 occasions where Hillary and her senior staff couldn't remember.
	I mean, think about this.
	327 times they couldn't remember.
	And ask yourself, if you're Donald Trump, how do you prepare to debate somebody whose two techniques are one to lie and two to forget?
	I don't remember this.
	I don't remember that.
	It's a stunning number.
	And I don't know of anybody who's ever run for the presidency.
	You know, you actually had a you were quoted with a line that I think you made on Fox and Friends last Friday.
	In a normal society, the Clintons quote would be ostracized as totally unpatriotic scammers.
	And I just, my question to you is: I agree with you, but yet these polls are even close tells me something's way off base in terms of the country.
	Sure.
	Look, we are a culture which has been taught for the last few generations that getting away with it is what matters.
	And that you can do anything you want to get with it.
	I just finished an astonishing book which Senator Rob Portman suggested I read called Dreamland by Los Angeles reporter Sam Klanonis.
	And it's about the intersection of Mexican heroin and certain opioid drugs manufactured in the United States and the degree to which it has led to an opioid disaster in which more people now die from overdoses than die in car wrecks.
	I think the first time since the development of the car that accidental deaths from something other than cars are the number one leading cause.
	And you read this and you begin to realize that, for example, people who want to get on Medicaid so that they can get the Medicaid, or they want to get a disability rather, so they can get a Medicaid card so they can score enough drugs that they can sell them.
	People who view Walmart as a wonderful place to go and shoplift so they can pay for their drug habit.
	Well, you know, you're talking about a really substantial number of people.
	And you read Dreamland, and I'm going to write about it in the near future in one of my newsletters, which, by the way, folks can get at Games Productions for free.
	But anyhow, I'm going to write about this book because it is so sobering a reminder that we have really developed a whole new culture around us.
	And there was a terrific article on Labor Day by one of our leading demographers who points out that there are 10 million males who are currently, Nick Eberstadt at the American Enterprise Institute, there are 10 million males who are currently not even looking for work, the highest number since the Great Depression, and that a great number of them have just dropped out.
	I mean, it's not that they're unemployed.
	They have no intention of going back to work.
	Well, in those parts of the country, the fact that Hillary lies is irrelevant as long as she sends the money.
	But I mean, isn't this really what it's come down to?
	I tell you what, I've got to take a break here.
	You feel like sticking around a little bit?
	Sure, I'd be glad to.
	We've got to talk about Hillary's health, and, of course, her telling federal investigators, well, I don't recall the briefings just because I had a concussion.
	Well, I guess the next best, most important question: well, does she remember the briefings now?
	I mean, are all her memories shattered this way?
	I mean, what else does she remember or not remember?
	That's a problem for anybody that wants to be president.
	And, of course, her coughing fits over the weekend.
	He won't tell us where he owes $650 million.
	There's a lot of rumors about that.
	And he has made it clear that he doesn't particularly care whether Putin and the intelligence services attack American institutions.
	So get some water.
	Thank you.
	You Five seconds ago, and you can see her there having a little water and getting ready to begin.
	Let's listen in.
	Boy, we have 63 days to go.
	Listening to Hillary Clinton here about to begin her remarks in Cleveland.
	Well, thank you.
	whoa well you just heard the next vice president didn't you In addition to thanking Marsha Fudge, let me also thank your great senator, Sherrod Brown.
	Excuse me.
	Also, two other great members of Congress, Tim Ryan and Joyce Beatty, and your mayor, thanks to Mayor Jackson.
	And I hope, I hope that Ohio will send Ted Strickland to the Senate.
	Now, behind me are some of the great labor leaders of our country.
	Randy Weingarten, Lee Saunders, Rich Trump.
	I'm proud to be on the same stage with them because they're always fighting for working families.
	Now, once I get over my allergic reaction, let me say that we're here in part because we know how important this election is to Ohio.
	Our great senator, a decent, progressive human being, Hillary Rodman Clinton.
	Thank you all.
	Wow.
	Oh, I think we could go home right now.
	Excuse me.
	Too much to say.
	Thank you, Cincinnati.
	I am really delighted to have this opportunity to be here at the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines.
	Excuse me, just one second here.
	A lozenge.
	I have one.
	I am so happy to be back here in Youngstown.
	And I'm president with your help.
	All right, the first two of these were just this weekend, one on an airplane and the other when she was in Ohio.
	And then there's a series.
	Now, we've got some health issues that have come up here.
	We've got now some insight.
	We know that, for example, Reuters reported that Hillary Clinton told federal investigators she could not recall in the briefing she received on handling government records because of a concussion that she suffered in 2012.
	Okay, that news is fairly incredible, and she admitted she can't remember because of the concussion.
	Well, did she lose them forever?
	Kind of like the emails.
	Now, if we conclude that the concussion wiped away parts of her memory, like briefings and how to handle government records, well, what else did she forget?
	What else, for example, she remembered losing her memory of those briefings?
	What else did she remember losing?
	Just an idea, a thought.
	Now, all told, Hillary Clinton said she couldn't remember some 39 to 40 times.
	Cheryl Mills did it 189 times.
	We continue a former Speaker of the House, New Cambridge.
	How many times all told at her aides?
	I think it was 372.
	No, I think it's 327.
	327.
	Okay.
	There's the current count.
	Between Hillary and her senior aides, 327 times they couldn't remember to answer a question, which, you know, could just be a sign that they have really bad memory lapses.
	Although that would then make you ask yourself, so if they were in the White House, are we sure they would remember who they were talking to?
	Or that they would remember what country they were talking about.
	I mean, it's pretty weird.
	And this coughing stuff, I mean, you know, I hope she's all right.
	I don't think we should descend to a point where we wish bad health on anybody.
	But it's a little disturbing, partly because she has to have access to the best doctors in the world.
	And I would think that they would be working very hard to find some way to cope with this, depending on what's causing it.
	I remember years ago, Bill had acid reflux and really messed up his voice for a while.
	Of course, nowadays you just take an over-the-counter medicine, and it basically controls it.
	But he and I talked one time about 19, I guess, 95 or so, when I was speaking as president.
	He'd really gone through a period where he had his coughing attacks, and it turned out all to be caused by acid reflux.
	Her coughs are much deeper than his and last much longer.
	So I don't know what her problem is.
	But I would think both for her own health and to reassure the country that she ought to do something about this.
	And I'm really surprised that her doctors have nothing to do with it.
	It lasted for four minutes and 22 seconds this weekend.
	I mean, this is not, look, I've had issues with my voice.
	I mean, this is my job, and especially when I go out and I do radio, TV, and speeches, I tend to over a period of time.
	If I'm out on the road quite a bit, I'll lose my voice.
	And it's a pretty scary thing if that's how you make your living.
	But you've got, you know, a lot of prominent doctors now that have raised questions about this.
	Poor Dr. Drew over at CNN raising questions about the treatment based on the public records that are out there.
	He happens to be a really bright man and a good doctor and somebody that I respect a lot.
	He ended up getting fired by CNN for daring to raise the question.
	I mean, I think we need to know if she's healthy.
	She doesn't seem to have a lot of energy.
	If she had that bad of a concussion that she can't remember, I think we have a right to know if there's any other damage in there, right?
	No, yeah, and I think the whole question is re-raised by the fact that she is quoting her concussion as an example of why she can't remember things.
	Well, has that recovered?
	Does she now have a better memory than she used to?
	Was it only this period involving her emails that she had a bad memory?
	I mean, there's a lot of questions that come out of all this, I think, that are kind of weird, frankly.
	Yeah, look, I tend to think so.
	Now, we also have, finally, Republicans, I've been a little aggravated, as you know, with Speaker Ryan, but now I think he's focused finally on the right target here.
	He took a swipe at the FBI, as have others, and accused the agency and their officials of acting like political operators after they released this unflattering Hillary Clinton report just before this three-day holiday weekend.
	It seems like they did it on purpose.
	I would expect this from a political campaign.
	There was a Scripps news piece that Clinton charities were ignoring the law that requires them to disclose millions of dollars from foreign donors.
	And it seems that every day there's another controversy involving the Clintons and them selling out their office, which goes back to your earlier comment that I mentioned today, and that is in a normal society, the Clintons would be ostracized as totally unpatriotic, odd scammers.
	Well, I also noticed in terms of this New York thing that apparently it's very clear that this is just a plain out violation of New York state law.
	So it'll be very interesting to see how the Attorney General of New York has been very aggressive with other people, whether or not he's going to be very aggressive with the Clinton Foundation.
	And you have to ask yourself, I mean, how can these people think that they can just flagrantly violate the law?
	I mean, they're surrounded by lawyers, so it can't be that they're ignorant of the law.
	I think they just made a decision.
	They didn't want to indicate how many foreigners that they were getting money from.
	Yeah, I mean, it seems to me.
	All right, so let's talk about why has Donald Trump been successful the last three and a half weeks?
	I have my theory.
	Number one, he's not involved with extraneous discussions with people that are not the focus of this campaign, like Mr. Kahn or Judge Curiel or anybody else.
	He seems focused on Hillary and Obama and their failed policies.
	I like the fact that he's on teleprompter.
	I think he's good at it.
	I think he's sharp.
	I think he's staying on message, and I think he's laying out his differing vision for the future of the country.
	And I think he's doing a very good job of prosecuting the case against Obama and Clinton.
	And I think that discipline in and of itself is now convincing people that he's taking pretty bold chances.
	I mean, I think going to Mexico definitely had a risk to it, but he did it anyway, and he handled himself well.
	And I think people now could see him in an environment where, you know what, being strong, he can also be presidential.
	Well, I think it was quite striking that he, first of all, when he was standing there on the same stage with the president of Mexico, it was quite clear that he was capable, more than capable, of playing the role of president, and that he seemed perfectly natural in that role.
	So I think that was very helpful to him.
	At the same time, he stuck to his guns on immigration, which has been one of his most powerful issues, and indicated clearly that while he wanted to work with Mexico, he was not going to, in fact, give in.
	I also think you're right that the discipline of the script has helped.
	Now you sound like Hillary.
	Can I get you a drink of water or anything?
	By the way, yours didn't last four minutes and 20 seconds.
	Thank God.
	Yeah.
	No, I'm in good shape.
	At least I'm in better shape than Hillary.
	Well, a three-second cough does not equate to a four-minute and 20-second cough.
	That's true.
	But I also, I'm a little like you, and I fly so much that my throat dries out.
	It does.
	You have to dehydrate big time.
	Yeah, so I have to drink, and I also use Ricola, just cough tops.
	Ricola, yeah.
	Ricola, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I got it.
	All right, sorry, however it's pronounced.
	Anyway, I mean, I think part of what has helped Trump the last three or four weeks is that he's been more steady.
	He's had positive ideas.
	He said his new campaign team has done a great job.
	I mean, the speed of deciding let's go to Louisiana and leaving Hillary out on Long Island raising money.
	The speed of deciding the Mexican president's made an invitation.
	Let's take him up on it.
	You saw yesterday, Hillary said she would not go meet with the Mexican president, which is kind of weird since she was Secretary of State, and presumably meetings like that are one of her strengths.
	They've also, I think, moved a series of issues.
	The fact that they had 80 military leaders endorse Trump today, which is a day when Hillary's giving a speech on national security.
	Nice counterpoint.
	Really, really coming together in a positive way.
	And so I see the campaign as more energized, the candidate as more disciplined.
	And I think right now they're in a pretty good place.
	What do you make of when you see, again, I go over these poll numbers.
	I mean, he's either leading or tied in the CNN poll, L.A. Times poll, Rasmussen poll, Investors Business Daily poll, Reuters poll.
	I mean, we had Hillary picking out the drapes three weeks ago.
	Then you look at important states, Iowa plus five, North Carolina plus two, Arizona plus four, but a state like Wisconsin, he's only down three, Virginia only down two.
	I look at that as a lot of hope.
	Pennsylvania seems to be in play for him.
	Well, look, I think there are a couple things going on.
	If he continues with the courage he showed Saturday in going, being really the first Republican candidate I can remember, going into an African American church, listening to them, celebrating with them, getting a standing ovation at the end.
	I mean, pretty remarkable stuff.
	If he can continue that, and as you were pointing out in our last segment, if he can begin to bring his share of the vote up to 15, 18, 20 percent of the black community, which will have a transformational effect.
	I'm running out of time.
	What about the base that don't support him?
	Because he has a lower number of the base than he needs.
	He's at like 74 percent.
	He needs 90.
	I think that's going to change dramatically as people come to grips with that the alternative is Hillary and that Hillary is so utterly totally unacceptable as the most corrupt candidate in modern times.
	So I think you'll see him at 90 percent or better among Republicans by early October.
	All right, we've got to let it go there.
	Mr. Speaker, good news is we get you back on TV tonight.
	I know you're away on vacation.
	In my next life, I do want to be you because you travel the globe like nobody I know.
	But the great thing is you share it with me, so I feel like I have some experience just living vicariously through you as you tell me about all the wonderful places you go to in Europe and around the world.
	So I feel like I'm in touch a little bit.
	I look forward to it tonight.
	We'll have a lot of fun.
	There are a lot of things to talk about.
	Yes, sir.
	I'm glad to be back.
	Welcome back.
	All right, former Speaker of the House, New King Richard.
	What I'm always reminding people is that although you'll see bumps, whether it's the Know-Nothings or other spasms of anti-immigrant sentiment directed at the Irish or Southern Europeans as opposed to Northern Europeans or the Chinese or today,
	Latinos or Muslims, the long-term trend is people get absorbed, people get assimilated, and we benefit from this incredible country in which the measure of your patriotism and how American you are is not the color of your skin, your last name, your faith, but rather your adherence to a creed, your belief in certain principles and values.
	And I don't expect that that's going to change simply because Mr. Trump's got a little more attention than usual.
	And I think if you look at the current polls, he's been able to appeal to a certain group of folks who feel left out or worried about the rapidity of demographic change, social change, who in some cases have very legitimate concerns around the economy and feeling left behind.
	But that's not the majority of America.
	And if you talk to younger people, the next generation of Americans, they completely reject the kinds of positions that he's taking.
	So, you know, we have to take it seriously.
	I think that anytime we hear intolerance, anytime that we hear policy measures that are contrary to our values, banning certain classes of people because of who they are, what they look like, what faith they practice, then we have to be pretty hard about saying no to that.
	And I think that America will do that this time as well.
	So overall, I'm optimistic, but I think we have to pay close attention to what's going on.
	All right, news roundup information overload hour Sean Hannity show.
	Yeah, well, the problem is that both in Europe and in the United States, there are some people that have not wanted to assimilate as the president suggests.
	That's why Great Britain has 88 Sharia courts.
	That's also why I think you can examine what has happened in Sweden, what has happened in Germany, what has happened in Paris and France and Belgium and all these other countries.
	That hasn't happened.
	Anyway, one of the big trends now is when you go back and look at the last three and a half weeks, there's been a dramatic shift.
	It seemed like the Clinton camp was ready after their post-convention bump to put up the drapes and it was party time and they thought everything was going to work out just great for them.
	Well, now the post-Labor Day polls show a very different story, where Donald Trump nationally is leading or tied in the CNN poll, L.A. Times poll, Rasmussen poll, Investors Business Daily poll, Reuters poll.
	He's up by five in Iowa, up two in North Carolina, up in Arizona.
	In Wisconsin, an important state for him to at least play in, he's only down by three.
	He's only down by two in Virginia.
	Anyway, wrong track of the country is at 37%.
	That's not good for anybody that wants to follow up on the policies of Obama like Hillary Clinton does.
	Joining us, John McLaughlin, pollster, founder of McLaughlin and Associates.
	Doug Schoen is a pollster, author, political analyst.
	You know, Doug, if you look at all the things that Trump has done and Hillary's not doing, you know, Trump is showing more discipline.
	He's not arguing with anybody but Obama.
	He's comparing and contrasting the Obama-Hillary economy and foreign policy with his vision for the country.
	He jumped at the opportunity to go to Baton Rouge.
	He jumped at the opportunity to meet with the Mexican president.
	He had no problem, and he got a standing ovation when he goes into a Detroit church.
	And I think which was good outreach on his part, staying on message, and Hillary is having one coughing fit after another, one ethical issue after another.
	Well, here's what I'd say.
	The race is now tightened to within a couple of points.
	The survey monkey poll of 75,000 respondents every state shows her with a very strong electoral college lead, 26, 25 short of a majority.
	That being said, you're right, Sean.
	The race is tightening.
	Clinton has been back on her back foot.
	But the other thing that you didn't mention, which I thought you would, is the ethical issues that she has are getting worse, not better.
	And she has no message of her own.
	And Trump has been better.
	I think John McLaughlin would agree that he's taking advantage of the advice John and I gave last week of developing a compelling narrative of change while the Secretary is sitting back on her heels.
	And she looks terrible.
	I mean, in the sense that, I mean, a four-minute and 22-second coughing fit, followed by another coughing fit on an airplane, followed by an admission that she can't remember 40 times while being interviewed by the FBI because, quote, of the concussion that she suffered.
	So I think now legitimate questions have been raised about her health.
	Her stamina, Trump is doing 10 events to her one.
	So I've got to imagine that the energy issue is going to become a factor in this campaign.
	You talk about low energy.
	She looks like she makes Jeb Bush look like the energizer bunny.
	Well, let's put it this way.
	The Clintons, they don't go down without a fight.
	I've been part of their machine.
	I know you keep saying that they're going to run ads, but running ads and watching Donald Trump give speeches and watching Donald Trump go to Louisiana and watching Donald Trump meet with the Mexican president, and she says she's not going.
	Is a massive field organization, use of social media.
	It will be a extraordinary effort.
	Sean, I'm not, listen, I am not taking.
	I'm an analyst.
	I am not taking her operation for granted one bit.
	I agree.
	She's the electoral map.
	Not at all.
	I tell you about how bad the electoral map is for Republicans.
	So, John McLaughlin, what's your take?
	Well, I think when you open this, you talked about that two-thirds of the country say we're still on the wrong track.
	And that's the key thing here: that all these wrong-track voters that aren't yet voting for Trump are ripe for what Doug's talking about, the message of change.
	And it's not just security and immigration.
	It's also the economy and jobs.
	So Trump is, as we said, he's grinding away.
	And the point about the electoral map, you know, back around August 10th, they had Clinton well over 300.
	You know, all the pundits had her well over 300 electoral votes, and she only needs 270 to win.
	Well, now, you know, you look on the real clear politics average because the battleground states follow the national poll slowly.
	There's a leg.
	And the national polls now have the four-way race in a tie.
	And the number that's moving up is Trump's grinding up and where he's either even or ahead of her.
	And also Johnson, as Trump goes up, he's lowering the Johnson voters.
	They really didn't know Johnson.
	They were just out there saying, I'm not going to vote for Hillary Clinton.
	And they know Hillary Clinton's dishonest.
	And that's why her health care is a problem, her own health.
	Because the average person is saying, well, she doesn't tell the truth about Benghazi.
	She doesn't tell the truth about the FBI emails, et cetera, that investigation.
	Well, with her health, I don't believe her.
	She doesn't look good.
	She doesn't sound good.
	And, you know, and Donald Trump's been out there.
	I mean, the guy gives interviews.
	He goes out there and he does the news conferences.
	He does the press conferences.
	He takes the tough questions.
	Hillary Clinton doesn't do that.
	And it's taken a toll on her.
	And you can see the difference.
	I mean, the debate is going to be that first debate on September 26th.
	It's going to be such a watch to debate.
	What about the town hall tomorrow night?
	Now, they're speaking at different times.
	Matt Lauer is, I guess, moderating an hour with each of them.
	Have you sent Matt Lauer his questions that he should ask?
	No, I think probably Doug has, or at least Felipe Reins has, or Uma has, or Cheryl Mills has, I have no doubt.
	Well, my point is, they're finding out today, like there's reports out that she had had questions sent to the members of Congress on the Democrats on the Menghazi panel what to ask her.
	So they asked the questions that she wanted asked, and she had the answers ready for them.
	So tomorrow, I'm sure Matt Lauer will ask, what's your favorite color?
	And something that's easier enough for her to answer.
	276 days since she held the press conference.
	When she does appear in public, she's having one coughing fit after another.
	She doesn't look well, Doug.
	I think the fact that she used a concussion as an excuse not to remember with the FBI, that's certainly problematic.
	And, you know, weeks following the New York Times story that unveiled her use of a private email setup, one of her aides began deleting the emails from the server.
	That's against the law.
	Sean, she managed to escape prosecution.
	The best I can do on this sorry tale.
	She is hoping against hope that she can change the dialogue.
	The problem is she doesn't have a contrary message yet.
	If I was working with her, which I'm not, I would be sitting down forcing the campaign to come up with an alternative narrative that would say why she should be elected, other than just the negative ads.
	But the characterization that you and John offer is not one that is inaccurate.
	It speaks to the dynamic that is now working in the direction of Donald Trump.
	If he can own his message and raise the money necessary to communicate fully, this will go down to the wire, as they very clearly.
	Yeah, I think it's very possible.
	But I think Rudy Giuliani on Sunday made a very good point that she acted intentionally and with criminal intent with regard to the email server while Secretary of State.
	And, you know, he laid out the fact that powerful evidence when they use bleach-bit software, which we now discovered, this wasn't just erased.
	This was erased, as Trey Gowdy said, with the hope that God could never read these emails.
	You know, that is evidence of criminal intent, isn't it, Doug?
	Well, thank goodness that the FBI director drew from her point of view.
	But the next president could draw a different conclusion, couldn't they?
	The next Attorney General could draw a different conclusion.
	They could.
	I don't think it'll ever be relitigated.
	But there's also the issue of the Clinton Foundation, which Donald Trump has not raised despite your administration.
	What do you think, John McLaughlin?
	I mean, Clinton Aid's telling the FBI they didn't know about the server.
	Emails suggest that, in fact, they did know otherwise.
	Even Joe Biden is out there saying she needs to talk with some passion to fix the trust problem that she has.
	Nancy Pelosi made similar comments over the weekend.
	I mean, she's got problems.
	Right.
	She's losing the character battle now.
	And Doug hit on an important point about, and they should call you Doug, but I hope they don't.
	Because if anything, I know the Trump campaign is listening to what Doug's saying because she's losing her narrative.
	John narrative.
	Right, what narrative?
	But the other part is, how are you supposed to win that you're the most experienced candidate for president when you can't recall things?
	The FBI puts out these interviews on Friday.
	The FBI that's supposed to be above politics, nonpartisan, above board, they put it out the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
	Is that the most political thing going?
	It's what politicians under indictment do.
	And here she's, and Sean, you hit the nail on the head is the Clinton Foundation, it's looking more and more like a pay-to-besides a pay-to-play scam, it's a bribery scam where, you know, did that Russian company that got the uranium deal with the United States, did they get State Department approval because they gave money to the Clinton Foundation?
	I mean, is that what this has come to?
	So she's losing the character war against Donald Trump, and he's being out there, being forthright, being honest, and she's losing the narrative that she's the more experienced candidate with the good temperament to be president.
	Instead, Donald Trump looks disciplined.
	He looked presidential in Mexico with the Mexican president standing side by side with him.
	He looked like a president, and his message was good, and his message resonated.
	I think these are opportunities.
	With Hillary saying she's not going to Mexico, I think she's blown an opportunity.
	And I think Hillary has got to be nervous when Donald Trump seems to be messing.
	Look, for example, in the black community, a speech he got a standing O in this church in Detroit.
	You know, you've got Sean Diddy Comb saying people got shortchanged by Obama.
	There was a New York Times piece.
	Young blacks voice skepticism on Hillary Clinton.
	It's worrying Democrats.
	You got a video of Bill Heckel during a Detroit union parade.
	No NAFTA boy.
	I mean, it's pretty brutal out there.
	And you've got 95 million Americans out of the labor force, which I keep pointing out to people.
	And I just don't see this going very well for them in the end.
	Well, it's going to be a very, very tough race.
	It'll come down to a couple of swing states, I guess, for I would predict in the Midwest.
	The electoral map works to their advantage, resources, organization, and, yes, experience on the campaign trail.
	But, Sean, I think we're looking now at a dead heat.
	And I think the biggest pay-per-view event in America that'll be for free will be the first debate.
	And if Donald Trump comes into that debate and wins it, will he be the president, Doug?
	Will have a leg up in a way that will be what are the odds right now you give for this election?
	Who's going to win?
	I'll start with you, John McLaughlin.
	I think it's a coin flip right now, but when Trump wins the debate, he's on his way to being president.
	What do you think?
	If the election were held tomorrow, who would win?
	Secretary Clinton.
	John McLaughlin.
	You know, Doug has to just jump in, and I didn't even ask him the question.
	But no, I think what's shifting is the electoral map is shifting because there were 90 million people who were eligible to vote four years ago and didn't vote for president, and they're coming in for Trump, and they're going to shift the numbers.
	You saw them over the weekend in Ohio?
	The Democrats are worried about Ohio because there was 800,000 voters who didn't vote in 2012, who had voted in 08 and 10.
	They're still there.
	They're coming in for Trump this time because they hear his message about jobs.
	And that's going across the Northeast, the Rus Belt, and other parts of the country.
	Wow.
	All right.
	So what do you say the odds are for Trump, John McLaughlin, as of today?
	I think he's going to win the debate, and he's going to be the next president.
	All right.
	We got opposing views.
	I'm going with him winning the debates, too.
	I think Hillary is just incapable of showing anything that is impressive.
	He did okay in the debates with Bernie, but I like Bernie better.
	That says a lot because he's pretty left-wing.
	All right, guys, thank you.
	800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	When we get back, we'll hit the phones.
	Let's hit our busy telephones.
	Let's go to Kenny.
	He is in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, home of Wake Forest University.
	What's going on, Kenny?
	How are you, sir?
	Glad you called.
	I'm doing great, Sean.
	I wanted to talk about the CNN poll that came out earlier today.
	Yes, sir.
	Up to Trump, plus two.
	Plus two, but he's winning in massive numbers with independents.
	And I've noticed that in a few other polls like Reuters, even when he was winning, or I'm sorry, losing by Clinton by six to ten points, he was still sizably outside the margin of error winning these independents.
	And I'm just wondering why no one's really bringing that up.
	I mean, well, he's winning independent.
	Look, I'm looking at two numbers that are key to me in terms of analyzing this race.
	And, you know, all weekend long, wherever I was, whoever I ran into, that's all people want to talk about is the election.
	And everybody, they have two observations.
	All right, Trump's doing a lot better.
	Can you just, when you talk to him, make sure you tell him to not stop.
	You know, just stop.
	Just don't fight anybody else.
	Just stay on message.
	You know, just shut it.
	Basically, just shut up.
	You go tell Trump to shut up for us.
	And, you know, Trump's going to be Trump.
	But I do think he has been showing a lot of message discipline, and it's now showing up in the polls.
	I mean, appearing next to the Mexican president, going down to Baton Rouge, going to this church in Detroit, these are not small issues.
	Him showing 15 times, 30 times, 100 times the energy of Clinton is not a small issue to people.
	Anyway, so yeah, I do believe John McLaughlin, who was on earlier, is right.
	I think these national polls, you know, state polls tend to lag national polls, but I do think that they are indicative of a major swing that has taken place.
	Hillary's lack of energy, her coughing fits, her ethical issues, you know, are front and center every other day.
	I think their hope that Donald Trump would create a controversy a day has gone away, gone away.
	You know, Clinton's staying on message.
	The wealthiest are going to have to start paying.
	Okay, well, the wealthiest top 10% pay 75% of the bill now.
	Who's she talking about?
	The bottom 50% pay nothing.
	So I don't think that message resonates, but she's using class warfare.
	She's played the race card.
	That backfired on Saturday at the Detroit church.
	So, look, I think everything's going well for him right now, and I think independents are great.
	But the two measures I'm looking at, to go back and finish my thought, one, I'm looking not only at the independents, I'm looking at the black American demographic, the Hispanic American demographic.
	He seems to be reaching hard to go into these communities and say, I am going to change things around.
	The black community, I think, is receptive in particular as they have been disproportionately, negatively impacted by horrible economic policies as it relates to Obama.
	58% increase since Obama's been president in terms of food stamp participation.
	That's insane.
	That is insanity.
	You nearly double the number of black Americans on food stamps.
	A 20% increase, black Americans out of the labor force.
	And Trump's saying, no, we're not going to have bad trade deals.
	And B, we're not going to allow illegal immigrants to compete for your jobs and drive down wages.
	I think that resonates that message.
	And he said it in the church on Sunday, and he didn't tander.
	How refreshing you had a presidential candidate that didn't go in and try and sound like a black preacher.
	It's ridiculous what they do.
	It's so condescending when Hillary and Gore do this and others.
	And the other number I'm looking at, I want to see his number among the Republicans go up because of the Wall Street Journal types, the Jonah Goldberg types.
	Did you see Jonah?
	He called me a puppy.
	He said I was on a tirade when I mentioned his little name.
	Hey, Jonah, here's my message for you.
	You can be a never Trumper all you want, but as long as you know, I'm holding people like you responsible.
	And I know it's a little hard for you, brainy acts, you self-aggrandizing, arrogant, you know, NRO people to figure this out, but Donald Trump is going to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, people with fidelity to the Constitution, a belief in separation of powers, co-equal branches of government.
	Then you've got Hillary.
	She's going to give us as many Soda Mayors and as many Ruth Bader Ginsburgs as she can.
	So I'll hold you responsible if Hillary wins because of your arrogance, your impatience, your closed-mindedness on Donald Trump.
	You own Hillary, Jonah, as does Brett Stevens of the Wall Street Journal, as does Lindsey Graham and John Kasich and Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, unless they endorse like they promised they would, as does everybody else in the Never Trump movement.
	You own it.
	You own her Supreme Court nominees.
	And I'll say it again.
	If unvetted refugees kill Americans, well, you own that too, because I believe that extreme vetting that Trump is proposing is the better way to go in light of what our top national security and intelligence officials are warning that ISIS will infiltrate the refugee population.
	So if unvetted refugees kill Americans, you own that too, because I'm listening to Clapper and Comey and Steinbeck and Brennan and Mike McCall and General Allen.
	Apparently you guys are not.
	If the wall doesn't get built and we have open borders and more Kate Steinleys happen, I'm going to blame you from the day of the election forward for what illegal immigrants do because we won't secure our borders.
	If we don't move, if coal miners are out of work, Jonah, I'll blame you because Hillary's promising that she's going to fire them and put them out of business.
	Coal company's out of business, coal miners out of work.
	Donald Trump supports expanding coal, supports expanding drilling and fracking, things that we can use to create jobs and become energy independent.
	If Obama cares to the law of the land, I'll blame you for that too.
	This is, you know, the little puppy dog is going on another tirade.
	But I'll say this, you own your decision.
	Now, if Trump wins and you want to hold me accountable, if he doesn't keep the promises that he's made to the American people and to me specifically in interviews, I'll take the blame.
	I can only take people at their word.
	And I believe that that is really, truly, honestly, Trump's agenda.
	And if Hillary raises taxes $1.3 trillion as she promised and spending $1.4 trillion and we keep robbing from our kids, well, I'll blame you too for that, Jonah, as well as all you other anti-Trumpers.
	This shouldn't be that hard for you to figure out.
	But for whatever reason, you have locked yourself down into this arrogant, really, you're kind of providing an assist for Hillary.
	All told, all combined, people like Glenn Beck, people like NRO that write for the NRO, write for the Wall Street Journal, the George Wills, the former presidential candidates, Republican congressmen, Republican senators that all seem to just care about themselves.
	Most of those guys created Trump because they didn't keep their promises to begin with.
	You know what?
	You own Hillary's decisions, and you should own it, embrace it, and you should tell people that you're okay with Hillary making Supreme Court appointments, Jonah.
	You should tell people you're okay with not vetting refugees as Trump will do it.
	You should say you're okay not building a wall.
	You should say you're okay with Obamacare.
	You should say you're okay with coal miners getting fired and coal companies being driven out of business.
	You should say you're okay with top-down education that is run from Washington because Hillary's so beholden to the NEA.
	You know what?
	Own it.
	That's your position.
	That's what you're doing.
	You're providing, you know, basically you're aiding and abetting her.
	So when, if God forbid she gets elected and you own what she does, and if Trump gets elected, I will take responsibility for being a Trump supporter for what he does.
	I'll own that too.
	I think that's a fair deal.
	800-941-Sean, our number.
	Ernest Jonesboro, Georgia, listening to News Talk WSB.
	Hi.
	Hey, Sean.
	How you doing?
	I'm good, man.
	How you doing?
	Pick up your phone.
	You don't hear me?
	Pick it up, man.
	You're on a speaker.
	I'm going to hang up on you.
	Rule 101.
	Okay.
	Just one second.
	Yeah, just one second.
	Now, there's a lot of, this is valuable airtime you're wasting.
	Go ahead.
	Okay, Don, can you hear me good?
	No, now I hear you better.
	Go.
	Okay, anyway, I'm calling by Collins Putnick.
	I think he's right.
	Anybody that listened to the third stanza of the song knows better.
	I mean, it's against the blacks.
	The guy was a racist that wrote the song.
	All right.
	Don't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
	All right.
	So you and Obama support Colin Kaepernick.
	He's exercising his constitutional right.
	All right.
	So when it comes to the flag and national anthem and the meaning that holds for the men and women in uniform, no, Mr. President, it's not just for the men and women in uniform and those that fought for us.
	This is a tough thing for them to get past, but I don't think, I don't doubt his sincerity.
	If he cares about real.
	By the way, did you see his socks that had, you know, a pig dressed as a policeman?
	Yeah, Colin Kaepernick.
	Go ahead.
	You can keep him in San Francisco.
	He sucks anyway.
	Any talent he had is gone a long time gone now.
	How about Amazing Grace?
	Wasn't that written by a slave owner?
	It's a true story, right?
	One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
	Sung in churches all the time.
	When I die, you can sing Amazing Grace at my funeral, Linda.
	I'm sure you sing it wonderful.
	Go ahead.
	Do the first two lines.
	Go.
	I'm not Obama.
	I don't just break out into amazing grace.
	Come on, let's go.
	Do it.
	Let me hear.
	Come on, do it.
	Ready?
	Come on, sing the first two lines.
	I don't want to beg you, go.
	Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound.
	Sing it.
	Come on.
	Everybody knows you're a great singer.
	Just do it the first couple of lines.
	Please don't make me.
	I'm making you.
	I'm embarrassed.
	I'm making you.
	Don't get into a coughing fit like Hillary.
	Please don't do that.
	All right.
	You shush.
	If I wanted your opinion, I would have asked for it.
	Go.
	Ready?
	Amazing Grace.
	How sweet the sound that had saved a wretch like me.
	That's it.
	That's really beautiful.
	What an amazing song.
	You're such a good singer.
	Makes me like you more every time you sing.
	So you should do it every day.
	I've never disliked you.
	All right.
	Let's go to Bianca in Florida.
	Hey, Bianca, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Hi.
	I'd just like to talk about what you were just speaking of, the Achilles tendon in Trump's heal, the Republican establishments, the establishment Republicans that are the never-Trumpers.
	And I just want to say that they cannot say they love this country and oppose Donald Trump because if Donald Trump loses due to their sabotaging his campaign, which he is doing amazingly well right now.
	However, my biggest problem I have is those Republicans that are still opposing him.
	When I debate with liberals, they say to me, well, what about these 28 Republicans that oppose Trump?
	And I'm sorry.
	But my answer to them is they are going to destroy this country if Hillary wins because we will lose our Constitution.
	We will be at risk of losing our Second Amendment rights when we will need our guns the most because Hillary wants to allow 550% more Syrian refugees into this country.
	They're unvetted.
	And we will lose the Supreme Court.
	And that is what they are putting at risk.
	And therefore, as a longtime Republican, I am a person who wrote a letter to Richard Nixon when he left office, when he resigned.
	I will leave the Republican Party and I will never vote again.
	And I can tell you about 14 million Republicans that voted for Donald Trump, they will feel the same.
	Look, I'm going to talk, listen, I am holding everyone accountable.
	And, you know, I don't mind that I'm getting pounded by the Jonah Goldbergs of the world and the Brett Stevens of the world and the Wall Street Journal crowd.
	This is a choice election.
	And for whatever reason, there are a lot of arrogant, elitist, establishment-supporting Republicans that have decided they're going to sit this one out.
	And they think they can sit it out and bear no responsibility for the outcome.
	That's just not going to happen.
	If they aid and abet Hillary by their constant, constant, obsessive, compulsive trashing of Trump, often not true, but that's besides the point, then I say they own what it is that they're doing.
	And they own, in part, helping supporting Hillary.
	And I'm sorry, but for me, it's a simple choice here.
	It's not that complicated.
	This is a no-brainer.
	I'll proudly pull the lever for Trump.
	I think Trump would be a great president, and I'm glad to do so.
	Elaine in Pennsylvania.
	Elaine, hi, how are you?
	What's going on?
	Hi.
	I want to add to another group that I think is highly arrogant is the women who tell me they're going to vote for Hillary because she's a woman.
	I am in total shock.
	I think that puts us, I mean, it puts them in the same category as the 28 Republicans and the liberals out there who refuse to really see that this country is in bad shape.
	So I'm holding these women accountable if Hillary gets in.
	I'm holding them accountable for our taxes going up for the criminal cities, the sanctuary cities we have in Philadelphia, the crime rate, the unemployment, the non-vetting.
	So if they rather see, they want to see a woman, even if she is the most corrupt human being walking on this earth in there because they want to see a woman president, they're going to be held responsible, and I will nail them to the wall if she gets in.
	That's all I got to say.
	Well, I think you said a lot in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania, too.
	Anyway, thank you.
	Appreciate it.
	800-941-Shump.
	We've got Julian Assange is on Hannity tonight.
	Anyway, we've got a great Hannity tonight.
	Look at this lineup we've got.
	We've got Newt Gingrich, which is awesome.
	We're going to get into Hillary's coughing fits in the press, Laura Ingram and Herman Cain.
	We've got Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder.
	We've got also Dave Bossi and Doug Schoen and Larry Elder tonight and Reverend Darrell Scott and Sheriff David Clark, 10 Eastern, Hannity Fox.
	I can't do better than this lineup.

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