Hillary Clinton Tries To Clarify Statements About Her E-Mail Saga; Trump Endorses House Speaker Paul Ryan.
ALLEN: U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admits she may have short circuited some answers about her email scandal. She spent time Friday trying to explain. Suzanne Malveaux has that from Washington.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: America is better than Donald Trump.</s>SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hillary Clinton laying into Donald Trump at a conference for black and Hispanic journalists in Washington.</s>CLINTON: We need to stand up as a country and say that Donald Trump doesn't represent who we are and what we believe.</s>MALVEAUX: Clinton was asked about her claim in a pair of recent interviews that FBI Director James Comey said her public answers about her e-mails were truthful. Here's what she told Fox News Sunday. [CHRIS]</s>FOX NEWS HOST: After a long investigation FBI Director James Comey said none of those things that you told the American public were true.</s>TRUMP: [Chris], that's not what I heard Director Comey say. And I thank you for giving me the opportunity to in my view clarify. Director Comey said that my answers were truthful and what I said is consistent with what I have told the American people.</s>MALVEAUX: That statement which she repeated in another interview Wednesday ruled false by fact checkers. Clinton tried to clarify those comments referring specifically to what Comey said about her FBI testimony.</s>CLINTON: I was pointing out in both of those instances that Director Comey had said that my answers in my FBI interview were truthful. That's really the bottom line here. I may have short circuited it and for that I will you know try to clarify because I think, you know (Chris Wallace) and I were probably talking past each other because of course he could only talk to what I had told the FBI and I appreciated that.</s>MALVEAUX: Clinton addressed questions about her struggles with voters who do not see her as honest and trust worthy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How would you lead a nation where a majority of Americans mistrust you.</s>CLINTON: Every time I have done a job people have counted on me and trusted me. I take it seriously. You know it doesn't make me feel good when people say those things and I recognize that I have work to do.</s>MALVEAUX: : As the Democrat nominee picked up another high profile endorsement. In a New York Times op ed former CIA Director, Mike Morel said he would be voting for Clinton in November and warned of Trump's impact on the world stage saying "Mr. Trump has no experience on national security. Even more important the character traits he has exhibited during the primary season suggest he would be a poor, even dangerous commander-in-chief." Morel also slammed Trump's praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin saying "In the intelligence business we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation." Nationally Clinton's lead over Trump continues to widen. An upswing helped perhaps by President Obama's rising job approval rating and a positive jobs report. More good news for Hillary Clinton, a new poll out of Georgia showing that she is four points ahead of Trump of course within the margin of error but this is typically a red state. It is significant, this movement, this development. The last time that Georgia went for a Democratic nominee was bill Clinton back in 1992. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, Washington.</s>ALLEN: Other polls in swing states are showing a Clinton lead. Trump was ahead weeks ago, but here you can see Clinton has pulled in front in the battleground state of New Hampshire leading by a massive 15 points.</s>ALLEN: And in the historically tight and critical state of Florida, Clinton ahead of Trump by six.</s>ALLEN: Some of Trump's poor numbers could be attributed to his refusal to endorse top republicans running for re-election.</s>ALLEN: He switched course on Friday. Trump announced his support for house speaker Paul Ryan, the country's highest ranking Republican. He also gave his backings to Senators Kelly Ayotte and John McCain while stressing party unity.</s>DONALD TRUMP, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: In our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our speaker of the house, Paul Ryan. [ applause ] Paul Ryan, good, he's a good man. He's a good man and he's a good guy. I hold in the highest esteem Senator John McCain for his service to our country and I fully support and endorse his re-election.</s>ALLEN: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will soon start receiving security briefings containing classified intelligence and a number of people are concerned with Trump's ability to keep the information confidential. Our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr with that.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: The plan to give secret intelligence briefings to the presidential candidates isn't new, but the this year, it is different, says former CIA Officer and Briefer David Priess.</s>DAVID PRIESS, FORMER CIA OFFICER: You have a candidate who seems to say what he thinks without a filter. And on the other hand, you have somebody that the FBI Director has called out publicly for being careless with classified information. We've never had a situation like this before.</s>STARR: Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton's e-mails scandal the put the country at risk.</s>TRUMP: And I'm saying, you can't brief her. You can't brief her. Let's protest.</s>STARR: Democratic leaders have a different solution for Trump.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I said publicly, give him fake briefings.</s>STARR: But the man in charge, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, is making clear both will be briefed and get exactly the same intelligence.</s>JAMES CLAPPER, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: It's not up to the administration and certainly not up to me personally to decide on the suitability of the presidential candidate.</s>STARR: Priess knows the type of secret intelligence Trump and Clinton will receive.</s>PRIESS: On the one hand it's no kidding classified information including top secret information which, by definition, can cause exceptionally grave damage to national security.</s>STARR: But there are limits.</s>PRIESS: It's not the crown jewels. It is not everything about the intelligence sources, the things that would put lives at risk.</s>STARR: Isis is a likely topic, but only a president elect and a sitting president would be told about covert counterterrorism operations against the group. Trump and Clinton don't need security clearances to attend the briefing, but their aides would. Intelligence experts say Trump may find the briefings a unique new experience.</s>PRIESS: Donald Trump will present a challenge to a briefer, but a challenge that most briefers that I worked with back in the day would have relished. Here is a chance to try to get a message through to somebody who appears to take information differently than many other people.</s>STARR: And the candidate who already may mow the most, not Hillary Clinton, but her running mate, Senator Tim Kaine. Kaine is already a member of the senate on services and foreign relations committees and those two positions give him access to current classified information. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.</s>ALLEN: The party that has ruled South Africa for 22 years is facing its worst electoral defeat sense the end of racial segregation under apartheid.</s>ALLEN: Voters and local elections are showing their discontent with the African National Congress or the ANC, that's the party that Nelson Mandela helped build into a national power house. CNN's David McKenzie reports from Johannesburg .</s>DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The election results are a stinging rebuke for the ruling ANC. It's their worst showing for more than two decades in a Democratic South Africa. The key issue here are the major metropolitan areas, three major cities the ANC was unable to get that majority to rule those cities outright. And most embarrassingly, they lost Nelson Mandela Bay to the opposition Democratic Alliance. Nelson Mandela of course their most famous struggle icon. It's a different picture in the rural areas. The ANC is still an election juggernaut but many South Africans in the cities are angry at the level of income and equality and the sluggish economy. Youth unemployment is more than 50% in this country. The ANC now faces tough questions after this election particularly about Jacob Zuma, the country's President. He's been wracked by a series of corruption scandals. Many people right now are blaming him in part for the loss. David McKenzie, CNN, Johannesburg, South Africa.</s>ALLEN: Next hear, the story of an Olympic rower once terrified of water but he grew up in a drought stricken village in India.</s>ALLEN: We'll have his story for you right after this.