Trump Has Plan for Fundraising
BALDWIN: When it comes to raising money for the general election, Hillary Clinton is crushing Donald Trump. We have the numbers. The Clinton campaign raised 27 million last month compared to 3 million by the Trump camp. Clinton's cash on hand at the end of May, 42 million. Mr. Trump, 1.3. But, Donald Trump speaking to NBC says he has a plan in mind to infuse more cash into his campaign if donations do not pour in.</s>DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESUMTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE: It gets to a point. What I'll do is just do what I what do to the primaries. I spent $55 million of my own money to win the primaries. 55. Now, you know, that's a lot of money, I mean, by even any standard. I may do that again in the general election. I have a lot of cash and I may do it in the general election. But it would be nice to have some help from the party.</s>BALDWIN: So we now know he will do that. Jake Tapper is joining me. CNN Chief Washington Correspondent host of "THE LEAD" and "STATE OF THE UNION," he will be matching donations dollar for dollar with the next days with the cap of two million. But here's my question to you, my friend, you know, not so much is to whether or not into the self-funding notion but, you know, weeks away from Cleveland, from the convention, the fact that, you know, mega Republican donors are not writing checks. How concerning do you think that is for the campaign?</s>JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: It's very concerning although I should point out there are efforts now to raise that money. Mr. Trump has done something along the lines of, what is it, 10 events in nine days to raise more than $8 million and then there's a group called Rebuilding America now that is (inaudible) $32 million in pledges, they say. So there will be I think in the future at D.C. reports more money in the Trump and pro-Trump coffirs. But that said, of course, this is a big concern. You don't want to be outspent in the general election. Although, we should note that of course he was outspent quite a bit in the primaries that he did go on to victory. He does believe his ability to garner all sorts of free media will compensate for whatever chasm there is between what he's able to raise and what the Democrats are.</s>BALDWIN: OK. Just looking though at -- if it moves in his campaign within, you know, 24 hours, you have Corey Lewandowski fired. You have, you know, this fundraising, I know Senator Sessions when I talked to him last 24 hours, he did not want to call it a stunt, but whatever he want to call this matching donations for two days, you have that, and then, you know, his big speech tomorrow. How do you see this? Do you see this OK, makes sense, you know, team Trump pivoting towards the general election appropriately so or is this sort of panic time?</s>TAPPER: Well, I mean, both. I think that after the last few weeks, look, Mr. Trump has had a very rough few weeks. And I think there is a recognition of that fact within the Trump campaign and certainly within the Republican National Committee and an effort to right the ship and get him to focus on the issues that were so appealing to so many voters when it comes to trade and immigration reform and the like, I do think that, of course, it's not unprecedented to get rid of a senior campaign person. McCain did it in 2008. Al Gore did it in 2000. And it's meant in some ways usually to send a signal to the donors and the party that everything is going to be OK. They're getting things under control and it's also -- generally also a substantive move to fix a problem to change something. Now what actual change will take place, I don't know. At the end of the day, Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump.</s>BALDWIN: He said this morning, he said, he will not change. Jake Tapper, we'll see you at the top of the hour on "The Lead."</s>TAPPER: Thanks Brooke.</s>BALDWID: Thank you very much. Thank you. Meantime, libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson has been picking up about 10 percent of the vote in recent polls. And CNN is give you a chance to get to know Governor Johnson and his running mate, Bill Weld. If you're not miss libertarian town hall hosted by Chris Cuomo, it is live tomorrow night at 9:00 Eastern here on CNN. Coming up next, several scandals rocking the Oakland Police Department. Officers there accused of having sex with an underage girl, others sending racist text messages. Nancy Grace will join me live to sound off on this one, next.