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HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Hala Gorani. We're coming to you live from CNN London and this is WORLD RIGHT NOW. Well, Donald Trump is trying to re-energize his campaign as the election nears saying, he'll do, quote, "whatever it takes to win," unquote. The Republican candidate shaking up his campaign staff again, this time sending a clear message that he's out for a fight. He's hired the executive chairman of a right wing news website as his campaign chief executive, a man the campaign knows has been called the most dangerous political operative in America. If there's any doubt about what Steve Bannon's role might be, just look at this website, Breitbart, it featured a photo of him today with the title, "Bare-knuckled fighter." Later that page changed to this, the headline Trump's Stephen Bannon hire considered a middle finger to the Republican establishment. Jessica Schneider has more on the major overhaul.</s>JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump shaking up his campaign leadership team again for the second time in two months.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People want to criticize Donald Trump.</s>SCHNEIDER: Senior adviser, Kelly Anne Conway confirming that she has been promoted to campaign manager and the executive chairman of Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon, is now the campaign's chief executive. The campaign's embattled chairman, Paul Manafort, will stay on despite his relationship with Trump going sour in recent weeks.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The campaign is doing really well. It's never been so well united.</s>PAUL MANAFORT, DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN: Trump is very plugged in. He's very connected. The campaign is working contrary to what the media is saying.</s>SCHNEIDER: Manafort is under investigation by Ukrainian authorities for allegedly receiving millions in illegal payments from the country's former pro-Russian ruling party. This is the second major shakeup for Trump's team. Back in June, he fired Corey Lewandowski weeks before the Republican convention.</s>TRUMP: He's a good man. We've had great success. He's a friend of mine. But I think it's time now for a different kind of campaign.</s>COREY LEWANDOWSKI, FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: I had a nice conversation with Mr. Trump and I said to him it's been an honor and a privilege to be a part of this.</s>SCHNEIDER: The news comes as Trump tries to appeal to black voters in Wisconsin, but the audience was mostly white.</s>TRUMP: I'm asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future.</s>SCHNEIDER: Trump addressing the violent protest in Milwaukee after police shot and killed a black man Saturday.</s>TRUMP: Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society, a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent, shared directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee and many other places within our country.</s>SCHNEIDER: He's placing the blame for inner city unrest squarely on what he calls failed Democratic policies.</s>TRUMP: The African-American community has been taken for granted for decades by the Democratic Party. It's time for the rule by the people, not rule for the special interests. Hillary Clinton backed policies are responsible for the problems in the inner cities today and the vote for her is a vote for another generation of poverty, high crime, and lost opportunities.</s>SCHNEIDER: With only 83 days until the election, Trump is digging in on his combative style in hopes of turning around his slide in the polls.</s>TRUMP: I am who I am. It's me. You have to be you. If you have to start pivoting, you're not being honest with people.</s>GORANI: Well, Jessica Schneider reporting there. Trump is taking a break from the actual campaign trail today to receive his first classified briefing on U.S. national security. Just a short time ago, he held his own security roundtable at Trump Tower in New York. The focus there once again as was the case during a speech a few days ago, Islamic terrorism. Let's bring in former Congressman Jack Kingston, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. Let's talk a little bit about this big campaign shakeup. Paul Manafort keeps his title, but essentially he's been sidelined. Stephen Bannon and Kelly Anne Conway have become the campaign managers. Is that because there is a lot of concern that this campaign is just not going well right now?</s>JACK KINGSTON, SENIOR ADVISER, TRUMP CAMPAIGN: Well, actually, Hala, I think that the shakeup is a bigger deal in the press than it is in the close quarters of the campaign itself. We had a great call today. I've known Kelly Anne for years. She's actually already been involved in the campaign. I'm not certain how much involvement Stephen has had. These are both very political people, very conservative people. So for them to be elevated as a position and formally so in the campaign, I don't think is that big of a deal. Certainly we are running to win. We want to get talent on board. Kelly Anne knows lots of people. Steve's a great operative. Paul Manafort staying on. It's not like he was booted or anything like that. We're growing this campaign and feeling good about it. And as you know, we've had a very, very good week. And when we stay on message and minimize the distractions, Hillary Clinton runs. She's afraid. She doesn't want to talk about the economy. She doesn't want to talk about the inner city and jobs and lack of opportunities, but we're taking on these issues. So changing some personnel along the way, I think, is just what campaigns do.</s>GORANI: So you're saying the media is overplaying this?</s>KINGSTON: Absolutely.</s>GORANI: That it's really no big deal.</s>KINGSTON: Absolutely.</s>GORANI: That it's a little reshuffle.</s>KINGSTON: Absolutely. Ronald Reagan did it. In fact, I did not research it, but I bet you most campaigns have had an adjustment within a six-month period of November. Part of it is the post primary elections are different than -- general elections are different than primaries and so forth. The campaign grows. There's opportunities. There's gaps that you want to fill in.</s>GORANI: Yes. Well, Corey Lewandowski was fired and then Paul Manafort came in and now we have this change. All the while against a backdrop of polls that aren't going in Donald Trump's favor. He also addressed a crowd there in Milwaukee, talking to African-Americans and his poll numbers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, I mean, the spread. I don't think I've seen in any other race a spread like this one, 1 percent of African-American voters say they will cast their ballot in favor of Trump in Pennsylvania, but Ohio 91 percent say Hillary Clinton.</s>KINGSTON: Well, it's surprising that Hillary is not going to Milwaukee. It's surprising that an African-American would be so loyal to them. When you look at there is a Democrat mayor in Milwaukee. The policies that have led to the poverty, breakup of the family, and low education standards in that community are all Democrat policies. Trump scares the Democratic establishment to death because he's going in there and talking. He's talking to the African-American Sheriff David Clark and personally taking his advice on what do we need to do? How do you balance the need for law enforcement and safe community and --</s>GORANI: But it's not translating. It's not translating in the polls. You saw that number in very important swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio.</s>KINGSTON: Well, as you know, one of the great tactics that the Democrat Party has done very effectively for 33 years is pull out the race card every election, every four years, whenever it's needed and send signals to the African-American community that somehow whoever's on the Republican ticket is racist. But the reality is here's a guy that if he had a background, a history of racial discrimination, a guy who has so many companies and corporations, employees, we wouldn't know about it. The lawsuits would be there. But they're not there. So what we get is a lot of innuendos, a lot of fill-in-the-blanks, a lot of sentences, and a lot of statements. But the reality is good behavior should be rewarded by the press. A recognition that a Republican candidate who is only getting 1 percent of the vote, but is willing to go into Milwaukee and talk about jobs and opportunities and talk about policing and talking about families, that's a good thing. And that's something that the press and, frankly, I think this is beyond politics, the Democrats should be happy about it, and say, you know, what - -</s>GORANI: You know the press's role is not to reward anything for anybody. It's to report the facts and we have with the numbers and we certainly covered his address.</s>KINGSTON: But the reality is it's good behavior and it's something that the press should say instead of going out and finding some disgruntled resident who doesn't like Donald Trump, why not say let's interview sheriff -- African-American Sheriff David Clark and see what he has to say about the Trump visit, and I think you'll find it's a very, very positive thing. He gave a substantive statement on what to do about the inner city and what do we hear from Hillary Clinton? Silence.</s>GORANI: All right. Well, we did cover that and we certainly covered Hillary Clinton's proposals in that department. I want to ask you quickly about this classified intelligence briefing. This is what Donald Trump told Fox News about the intelligence community and then I'll get your take on that. Listen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you trust intelligence?</s>TRUMP: Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. Look at what's been happening over the last ten years. Looks what happened over the years. It's been catastrophic.</s>GORANI: You also said he wouldn't use some of the information from the intelligence community if he's elected as president. What are Americans to make of this?</s>KINGSTON: Well, let me say this as somebody who sat in on intelligence briefings, I can tell you that I think it's wise to question them. Were these the people who told George Bush that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or were these the people who told President Obama that ISIS was only jayvee. We have had flawed intelligence come out of these so-called experts for decades now, so I think you have to look at it with a grain of salt, which is I think what he's referring to. I'll say this as someone who's sat through many intelligence briefings. It's not unusual at all to walk out of those briefings and see it in the newspaper. So those briefings tend to be porous. They tend to be superficial anyhow.</s>GORANI: All right. Jack Kingston, thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate your time, an adviser to the Trump campaign. We'll have a lot more, of course, on Donald Trump, on Hillary Clinton, on this very important and crucial race-- presidential election and race for to the White House. Let's turn our attention to Rio. It's day 12 of Olympic competition. The focus not entirely on sports once again. There are growing questions on a reported armed robbery of American swimmer, Ryan Lochte, on Sunday. The "Daily Mail" has released this video clip. It appears to show Lochte and three of his teammates returning to the Olympic Village after they reported the robbery. The judge in the case also noted that they didn't seem shaken and that they were making jokes and that the men are also in possession of several high value items like their telephones that you would expect would have been stolen during the robbery. Now the judge in Rio has issued a search and seizure warrant for Lochte and another American swimmer. The problem is Lochte is no longer in Brazil. Nick Paton Walsh has all the details and he is live in Rio. So what are people -- what conclusions are people drawing in this case as a result of this video surfacing showing these swimmers after they reported the robbery?</s>NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think the simplest conclusion is the people in Brazil are wondering what on earth happened that particular night. The key issue as you mentioned there is in that CCTV video, the judge's opinion they don't appear shaken. And you can see in their possession the kind of high value items. Every Brazilian knows it's exactly what an armed robber would take from you. So yes, the Rio court made this extraordinary move in the middle of the Olympics that one of the men high profiles athletes of the country, currently the top of the medals table to surrender his passport along with that of his other swimming colleague, James Vegan. These are both two of the four swimmers who have statements to the police. Now I should point out that Mr. Lochte's lawyer says he cooperated with anybody who has asked him questions and will willingly do so in the future. He left Brazil ahead of this search and seizure warrant being issued as he has previously scheduled and hasn't been contacted asking for more help, but it really adds to this extraordinary development and a tale here. You know, it was unclear what initially happened. Some denial of saying he had been robbed, then being robbed, then this video emerged. How come the armed robbers didn't pick up the things everyone seemed to be think they'd be after here in Brazil? There is a lot of politics being mixed around too. Brazilian officials want to be sure that if the idea that there are men out there dressed as policemen with guns robbing people is somehow undermined. But there are still a lot of questions really about this. The judge particularly highlighting the discrepancy in the counts between the two swimmers. They both spoke to police and they both had different numbers of the robbers who were arm and whether or not they were surprised by them. So some discrepancies there. At the end of the day, Mr. Lochte basically facing more questions about what happened that night. I should point out at this point nobody's saying anything anyone has done anything wrong at this point. It's surrounded by a whole host of confusion -- Hala.</s>GORANI: Right. Certainly when you see the video, you have some questions and perhaps the swimmers will be able to answer them to everyone's satisfaction. Thanks very much, Nick Paton Walsh live in Rio. There's a lot more ahead. Infamous drug pin, "El Chapo" left the Sinaloa cartel in the hands of his son when he was arrested. A source tells CNN one son let his guard down and got kidnapped. Stay with us.