Trump: I Have A "Very Good" Marital History; Gov. Christie To Be In Charge Of Trump Debate Prep?; Chelsea Clinton Courts Millennial Voters.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks for joining us for the second hour of "360". Tonight, a new interview with Donald Trump in which he's asked about his widely reported history of infidelities in his marriage. As you know, Trump has been giving himself a lot of credit for not bringing up the Clinton's marriage at the first debate, but he brought up the fact that he's not bringing it up which is, of course, a way of bringing it up. Today Paul Steinhauser of New Hampshire One News asked Trump if he'll talk about it at the second debate, as he's threatened to do, and also how he though the first debate went overall. Take a look.</s>PAUL STEINHAUSER, POLITICAL DIRECTOR FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE ONE NEWS: Back on Monday's debate, going to that debate, a lot of people said that Hillary Clinton was going to try to bait you and some people say maybe you took the bait. Will you be more disciplined maybe in the second debate?</s>DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't think I took the bait. You know, every online poll had me winning the debate. So every single one of them, many of them. So, look, I found it to be an amazing experience, actually. We had 88 million people or something around that number. And I just found it to be an amazing experience. No, I think we did well. I think I did -- you know, I'm very happy with the way it turned out.</s>STEINHAUSER: You were asked about the birther question and you said you were proud of what you did, you did a service to the President and to the country. So do you stand by those comments? You're proud of what you did?</s>TRUMP: Well, I'm the one that got him to put up his birth certificate. Hillary Clinton was unable to get there. And I will tell you, she tried, and you look at her campaign, and everybody knows it happened. And I would say that pretty much everybody agrees with me, but she tried and she was unable to do it, and I tried, and I was able to do it. So I'm very proud of that.</s>STEINHAUSER: You didn't mention Bill Clinton and his past affairs. You may do this in the second debate?</s>TRUMP: Well, she was very nasty to me. And I was going to do it, and I saw Chelsea sitting out in the audience and I just didn't want to go there. I thought it would be too disrespectful. I just didn't want to do it. But she was very nasty.</s>STEINHAUSER: What about the second debate?</s>TRUMP: We'll see what happens, but I just didn't want to put it there. It was -- it's a hard thing to say in front of somebody's daughter.</s>STEINHAUSER: If it doe come up, though, in the next debate, do you think maybe your past marital history is also fair game?</s>TRUMP: I guess. I mean, they can do -- but it's a lot different than his, that I can tell you. I mean, we have a situation where we have a president who was a disaster and he was ultimately impeached over it, in a sense, for lying. And so, we'll see whether or not we discuss it.</s>STEINHAUSER: You're not worried about your past history at all?</s>TRUMP: No, not at all. And I have a very good history.</s>COOPER: Well, Donald Trump was back in the campaign trail for a rally in New Hampshire today. Jason Carroll joins me now live. What do you have to say today on the trail?</s>JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, first of all, I mean, basically, a lot of what we heard during this rally today was much of what we've heard during his basic stump speeches, with a new attack that he's been outing out, he calls it the "FBI Immunity Five", referring to some of Clinton's former aides who received immunity in order to testify about her e-mails. But in terms of what he's been saying going forward, he's basically been saying that he went easy on Clinton by not mentioning Bill Clinton and his past indiscretions, if you will. But when we heard what we said at this rally here today, even though he said he wasn't going to go into it, in an indirect way, that's exactly what he did.</s>TRUMP: The Clintons are the sordid past. We will be the very bright and clean future.</s>COOPER: There are also reports that members of hid campaign might not have been as pleased with his debate performance as he says he was.</s>CARROLL: Right, right. I think you're referring to that conference call that went down yesterday, where basically, it was made very clear that Donald Trump is not happy with some of the surrogates who were out there talking to reporters, and saying that he didn't do as good of a job as he could have done during that past debate. Chris Christie speaking to CNN a little earlier today, when asked about whether or not he would step in and perhaps take over debate prep going into the next debate, he said he has been asked, but if he was asked, certainly he would step in to do it. Christie also said he felt as though Donald Trump did well during the last debate. He also said he would do a better job during the next debate. Trump, for his part, at this rally today, Anderson, basically saying that he felt as though the debate was rigged against him, but having said that, you heard him there in the interview, he still says he won that debate.</s>COOPER: Jason Carroll. Jason thanks very much. Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters today about among other things, Trump's threats to continue bringing up her marriage. Jeff Zeleny joins me now with that. So, the comments from Trump, talk to me about what Clinton had to say about them, how she responded?</s>JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, she was flying from an early voting rally in Iowa, voting actually started there, and she was flying to here in Chicago to a fund-raiser. And she was asked several times about the fact that some Trump surrogates are now going to be bringing up questions about, you know, these Clinton's sex scandals from the 1990s. And she was asked directly if she thought she should respond or if she planned to respond to these allegations or to questions of her husband's impeachment. She said, no. And left it at that. It's very seldom that she answers something so succinctly there, but she said, look, she's going to run her own campaign and not be sort of dragged into this. We'll see if Donald Trump actually goes there in the second debate and if she actually has to respond. But her campaign believes, actually, that women will be offended by any type of attack on her like this. So, this is definitely something the Trump campaign seems to be trying out before that next debate.</s>COOPER: And, Jeff, there was the "Newsweek" report today alleging that Donald Trump tried investing in Cuba, which if true, would violate the law. Did Hillary Clinton seize on that today?</s>ZELENY: She seized on it immediately, in fact, that's why she came to talk to reporters in the first place. That was her message, if you will. And she said, look, if this report is true, that some of his business executives traveled to Cuba in the 1990s to look at hotel businesses, it would be a violation of law. And then she linked it to other transparency questions. She said, he's still not released his tax returns, she said he's been evasive, he doesn't have the temperament to be president. So, Anderson, it looked to me like just watching her as she was talking about this, she knew everything about this story. This may be fodder for a second debate when there is such a big audience watching both of them.</s>COOPER: Yeah. Jeff Zeleny. Jeff, thanks for reporting. Donald Trump refuses to concede that he had a bad night in the first debate, but his campaign is looking to change the way he gets ready for the next one. A source says, one option is to, as you heard, get New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to try to help him prep. Christie told CNN today, as Jason said, that he hasn't been asked to do anything new. Brett O'Donnell is a debate coach who worked with the McCain and Bush/Cheney campaigns, he joins me now, along with CNN senior political analyst, David Gergen, who advised four presidents. David, the fact that Trump advisers seem torn over the next step forward, floating even the idea of putting Christie in charge of debate prep, seems like they're aware that something needs to change between now and October 9th. But if Trump himself won't admit he didn't do well, then that's an issue, isn't it?</s>DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR ANALYST: It's a real problem inside a campaign. You got a stubborn candidate. It's very, very hard to overcome their resistance and their sort of sense. You know, I remember one president used to -- when people used to come in and argue with him, he tap them on the chest and say, if you're so damned smart, why aren't you president. And that happens with campaigners frequently. In Donald Trump's case, it could be fatal. Because his lack of preparation I think really handicapped him in this first debate, pivotal debate. He keeps citing these online polls. The much more reliable polls have consistently had him losing the debate. The country increasingly thinks he lost the debate, so he needs to prepare. Now, Chris Christie brings certain qualities to it with the skill of a prosecutor and pressing the case. He's very, very good at that. And we saw when he took out Rubio during the primary debates.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>GERGEN: But whether he can impersonate Hillary in such a short time, that's a much, much harder proposition for him. I would think that Trump, if he wants to go -- if he wants more advice, he's going to go back to Roger Ailes before this is all over.</s>COOPER: Brett, I mean, part of the reason Chris Christie is being floated as reportedly because he's one of the only people in Trump's circle who can be brutally frank with him. How much -- if that is in fact the case that he's the only one, how big a problem is that? I mean, that his inner circle can't be completely honest with him?</s>BRETT O'DONNELL, DEBATE COACH: That's a very big problem. Part of the thing that makes debate prep successful is being able to say to the candidate, that wasn't very good, you have to do it better. That happened in 2004 with George W. Bush after his first debate and he was able to improve his game, get better in the second and third debates. It happened with Barack Obama, by all accounts, in the 2012 debate. The candidate, as David said, has to be willing to listen to the advice of his debate preppers. And if he's not willing to do that, it's a big problem.</s>COOPER: Also, Brett, you know, Chris Christie did something that was -- I thought was very interesting during the primary debates. He would sort of the strategically flip questions on their side, answering with what he wouldn't do. You know, I'll tell you what I wouldn't do, instead of necessarily laying out policy specifics. Is that a good debate strategy?</s>O'DONNELL: Well, I think to some extent, it is. I mean, you want to be on offense. Debates are about being on offense. And in the first 30 minutes of Monday's debate, Donald Trump was on offense.</s>GERGEN: Right.</s>O'DONNELL: But then for the last 60, he was not. Really, what you got to do is figure out what are your offensive moments and figure out ways to pivot off of the defensive ones.</s>COOPER: David, the idea of Trump bringing, you know, Trump announcing at the last debate, well, I was going to bring up something about Bill Clinton in the past, but I just couldn't do it, seeing Chelsea in the audience. And saying, maybe it will be brought up in the next debate. Is that a strategy that could be winning for him? I mean is that really the way to get more women to vote for him?</s>GERGEN: Well, talking to people in the Clinton campaign, they would love him to do it in some ways. I think they tried to bait him into doing that in this last debate when they brought up Miss Universe. You know, they thought he would be tempted as he was to bring up Bill. He decided against it. I think he used the right judgment then. But, you know, Anderson, this week is turning into a mess because it's all about, you know, his relationship with women, his relationship with Miss Universe. Now, you know, now the question was he's going to bring up Bill. This is a worst way to run a come-from-behind kind of campaign and try to overtake the -- Hillary Clinton. And that is -- he ought to be talking about the future of the country. He ought to be talking about what matters. And he's gotten himself mired in this sexy stuff that is frankly, pretty -- it's pretty off-putting for, I think, for a lot of voters, especially women.</s>COOPER: Well, also, David, I mean if he brings that up about the Clintons, then, of course, as we talked from the last hour, he opens himself up to a whole host of criticism about his past, you know, marital infidelities.</s>GERGEN: About his past is not only refers to his marriages, but, you know, sort of the locker room talk out of the '90s, which is so pass today. It's like a re-run of "Mad Men" in the middle of 2016 campaign. Nobody talks like that anymore. And people find it deeply offensive, especially women. But there are a lot of guys around who sort of like, you know, come on, I don't want to have people like that in the White House.</s>COOPER: Brett, you said this would be a big mistake for Trump to bring up Clinton's past?</s>O'DONNELL: I think so. There's so much substantively that he can discuss. First of all, when we're talking about affairs, the American people are losing, because we're not hearing how they both would move the country forward. And I think there's a lot of substantive things that he can do to talk about Clinton's positions to show that there are real, meaningful differences. I think the e-mails, the foundation, her speeches to Wall Street, all of those things are fair game, because it's what she did rather than Bill Clinton. And by the way, bringing Bill Clinton up, in my opinion, not very good, because Hillary Clinton has changed her positions from Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was popular. And so, I just think it's a mistake for him to bring those up. He should focus his offense on Hillary Clinton and her problems.</s>GERGEN: I think that's absolutely right. You know, when he brought up the idea of, I'll put my tax returns out when she puts out her e- mails. That was a good offensive line. He dropped it. He ought to be back on that kind of offense and talking about the future of the country, not this crazy sexy stuff that has got everybody, what kind of campaign is this?</s>COOPER: Yeah. David Gergen, Brett O'Donnell, gentlemen, thank you, a good discussion.</s>GERGEN: Thank you.</s>COOPER: Coming up, we've got breaking news, new allegations against the Trump Foundation. A new report says Trump never got the certification required by law before charities can ask people for money. Details on that next. 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