Trump Calls for 'Extreme Vetting' of Immigrants; Finish Line Drama for Allyson Felix; Trump Campaign Chairman Named in Ukraine Probe.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: We cannot let this evil continue. ISIS is on the loose.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Donald has been all over the place on</s>ISIS. RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: Trump has the intellect and the strength to confront our enemies.</s>JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He is not qualified to know the codes.</s>TRUMP: Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment to lead our nation.</s>ALLYSON FELIX, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: I'm going to go out there and run with heart.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Allyson Felix came up just short of a fifth Olympic gold medal.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Breakout star Simone Biles takes bronze on the beam.</s>MICHAEL PHELPS, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: I'm definitely very happy I came back for one more.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As high as I've ever seen it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Historic, deadly flooding in Louisiana.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This car is under the water.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is still very, very dangerous. We still have waters rising.</s>ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It's Tuesday, August 16, 6 a.m. in the east. Up first, Donald Trump calling for extreme vetting of immigrants trying to come to the U.S. He talked about making them pass an ideological test.</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Trump also trying to clean up his case against the president and Hillary Clinton for the rise of ISIS. No more talk about founding. Now it is about policy choices. Vice President Joe Biden taking on that accusation. He and Clinton made their own new case for what Trump could mean for national security. We have every angle covered for you. Let's begin with Athena Jones live in Washington with more. Good morning, Athena.</s>ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Chris. The often unscripted Donald Trump was on message yesterday, talking about what he would do to defeat terrorism. And he made a turn in the speech. After repeatedly questioning the value of the NATO alliance, he is now vowing to work with the U.S.'s NATO partners in this fight against terrorism. And with Clinton and her allies raising questions about his temperament, he is now trying to raise doubts about her judgment and fitness for office.</s>TRUMP: I call it is extreme, extreme vetting.</s>JONES (voice-over): Donald Trump delivering a fiery speech on his ideas for fighting radical Islamic terrorism, proposing a different kind of admission test for people entering the United States.</s>TRUMP: In addition to screening out all members of the sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles, or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law. Those who do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred will not be admitted for immigration into our country.</s>JONES: Trump calling for bans on immigration from countries with ties to terror...</s>TRUMP: We will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism.</s>JONES: ... and simultaneously trashing Hillary Clinton's capabilities.</s>TRUMP: With one episode of bad judgment after another, Hillary Clinton's policies launched ISIS onto the world stage. She also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on</s>ISIS. JONES: The Democratic trifecta -- President Obama, Vice President Biden and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton -- hitting Trump on all fronts. At a DNC fundraising event Monday night, President Obama refusing to mention Trump by name but quipping, "I don't have to make the case against her opponent, because every time he talks he makes the case against his own candidacy." Clinton and Biden together in Biden's hometown of Scranton, launching their preemptive attack.</s>CLINTON: Friends should not let friends vote for Trump.</s>BIDEN: This guy doesn't care about the middle class, and I don't even blame him in a sense, because he doesn't understand it. He doesn't have a clue. This man is totally thoroughly unqualified to be president of the United States of America.</s>JONES: Biden slamming Trump as a threat to national security.</s>BIDEN: There's a guy that follows me right back here, has the nuclear codes. So God forbid anything happen to the president and I had to make a decision, the codes are with me. He is not qualified to know the code. He can't be trusted.</s>JONES: Trump holds a rally in a town hall in Wisconsin today while Clinton spends another day in Pennsylvania attending a voter registration event in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, in a sign of confidence, Priorities USA, the super PAC supporting Clinton, now says it's not going to air any local ads in Virginia, Colorado or Pennsylvania through most of September, the 2nd through the 20th, saying in a statement, "We know at the moment these are tough states for Donald Trump, and there isn't as much of a need for us to air ads there" -- Chris, Alisyn.</s>CUOMO: All right, Athena. Thank you very much. A lot to discuss. Let's do it. CNN political analyst and Washington bureau chief for "The Daily Beast," Jackie Kucinich; CNN senior political reporter Manu Raju; and CNN senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward. Jackie, let's start with you. In terms of what Trump needed to do here, the test was obvious: meat on the bones. Do you think he did enough to distinguish himself from just one liners into policy?</s>JACKIE KUCINICH, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: This definitely was a more policy-laden speech than other Trump speeches, but again, than other Trump speeches. I don't know that he -- there was a lot of meat on the bones. There was a lot of sort of ideas, but he didn't really fill them out at all. To me, this seems like another speech to Trump supporters. I don't know that this expanded his reach with other -- with other voters, particularly that line about the extreme test for immigrants. That isn't targeted to broadening the Republican base. That's directed solely to the folks that already support Donald Trump.</s>CAMEROTA: So Clarissa, help us understand what the process is. Is Donald Trump right that there could be better vetting of refugees, or as the Department of Homeland Security says, do they already have what they consider extreme vetting in terms of a painstaking process? How does it work?</s>CLARISSA WARD, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think the U.S. Is very well known for having one of the most stringent vetting processes that there is. As a result, the U.S. has only taken 8,000 Syrian refugees, as compared to the more than 800,000 that Germany alone has taken. So the idea that you would have some kind of a questionnaire really just beggars belief, to me, Alisyn, if I'm an ISIS operative, I'm not going to fill in a questionnaire saying, "I hate America. I want to hurt Americans and implement Sharia law." So I'm not exactly sure how this questionnaire or this vetting process would work, but suffice it to say that ISIS operatives are at least sophisticated enough, I would think, to be able to handle that kind of questioning fairly adeptly. And that is the entire problem. He talked very broadly about we must just ban recruitment, stop recruitment. Well, that sounds like a great idea. How do we do it? His suggestion was to shut down the Internet in certain parts of the world, which first of all, I don't think it's logistically feasible. But beyond that, I would venture to say that our security services glean a lot of their intelligence from information that they gather online. So, as you just heard from Jackie, a kind of mishmash of ideas coming through, but none of them really seeming clearly to me to make the case for better security.</s>CUOMO: And Clarissa, as you've reported to us many times, the irony here is that the vetting for refugees from places like Syria is the most exhaustive. Because as another layer of U.N. vetting as well than typically entry into the U.S. Manu, how about the political score here? It was clear intention by Donald Trump to put a lot of blame for the current status of what's going on in Iran and Iraq, specifically with ISIS, on Obama. How effective?</s>MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think that's an open question. I mean, clearly part of this, too, Chris, was a design to show that Donald Trump has the experience and temperament to lead this country. Remember, I mean, not only are polls showing that -- that Hillary Clinton is viewed as someone who could be a commander in chief, not Donald Trump. Increasingly so, Donald Trump is questioned, and his approval rating is slipping on that specific issue. But -- and also the foreign policy establishment, 50 Republican national security officials coming out last week saying that Donald Trump cannot lead this country in a time of a perilous world, a time of so many national security trials (ph). Donald Trump trying to reverse that. That is really the open question here. How much did he bring on, not just reach out to those independents, convince folks that, well, Obama and Clinton are to blame here, but also to convince his own party whether or not they could get behind him. Yesterday it was interesting, Chris and Alisyn. We did not really hear a lot from the Republican foreign policy establishment, from members of Congress. There was a deafening silence from a lot of members of his own party. It really just shows the challenge that Donald Trump has in selling folks on a lot of those ideas, particularly on that issue of vetting, the extreme vetting of immigrants coming to this country. It does not sound like the Muslim travel ban, but in a lot of ways it's a lot broader than the Muslim travel ban. That's what gives a lot of those folks in the Republican foreign policy establishment and members of Congress a lot of pause. So lot of questions about whether or not he was able to bring on his own party and reach out to some of those independents.</s>CAMEROTA: Well, we heard from Joe Biden yesterday. He made the case again, as Hillary Clinton has, that Donald Trump should not have his sort of finger on the button. And Joe Biden also talked about a guy who follows him around. So let's listen one more time to what Joe Biden said.</s>BIDEN: There's a guy that follows me, right back here, has the nuclear codes. So God forbid anything happened to the president and I had to make a decision, the codes are with me. He is not qualified to know the codes. He can't be trusted. I was proud my son Beau served for a year in Iraq, came back a highly decorated soldier. I must tell you -- I must tell you, had Donald Trump been president, I would have thrown my body in front of him.</s>CAMEROTA: What did you think of the effectiveness of Biden's speech?</s>KUCINICH: Not only is Joe Biden sort of not-so-secret weapon for Hillary Clinton when it comes to blue-collar workers, he also has a wealth of foreign policy experience because of his work in the Senate, and as well as being vice president for, you know, almost eight years. So I think he was very effective, particularly to the audience that he was speaking to. I would not be surprised to see Joe Biden on the campaign trail in several Midwestern and Rust Belt states. Because, I mean, remember at the convention, he was one of the only speakers throughout that entire convention that was solely dedicated to speaking to that blue-collar vote that has so far been kind of resistant to Hillary Clinton.</s>CUOMO: So we have Clinton now with Biden, making the case that Trump cannot keep you safe. Trump and his supporters' case is that Clinton and Obama have not kept you safe. Rudy Giuliani came out very strong on this, drawing controversy because of some context that he provided in his statement. Here it is.</s>GIULIANI: Remember, we didn't start this war. They did. We don't want this war. They do. Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office.</s>CUOMO: Now, Clarissa, the obvious problem there is that Rudy Giuliani knows better than most the question about 9/11. The question is why doesn't he include that in his analysis of all of this and the idea in general of this all started under Obama's watch? What do you make of it?</s>WARD: Well, first of all, let's be clear. ISIS actually began in a military prison camp run by the U.S. in Iraq called Camp Bucca. That is where the al Qaeda zealots for the first time were being held in the same corridors as the Ba'athists, and you had this toxic brew that was made between ideological zealots and people who actually knew something about state running. So it happened in Camp Bucca, before President Obama and Secretary Clinton entered on the scene. Beyond that, you heard in Trump's speech yesterday that he is essentially trying to lay blame for the entire Arab Spring at the feet of the Obama administration, which is just absurd, frankly, Chris, because the Arab Spring was a result of decades and decades of political repression in that region. This is not something that America singlehandedly somehow cultivated. And the other thing that we heard coming from Trump was that we should be, in fact, cooperating more with these brutal dictators. In fact, he seemed nostalgic to the heyday of the Middle Eastern dictators. So I think he also upheld Syria and Libya. These are the classic examples, he said, of the failure of the Obama administration's policies. But they're very different. In Libya, you had an intervention and disastrous consequences. In Syria, you had no intervention with even more disastrous consequences. And Syria, by the way, is where ISIS has really taken on a whole new life.</s>CAMEROTA: Panel, stick around. We have much more to talk to you about. But first, we want to get to some good news, because the Olympic games, there's been many dramatic finishes and here's another one. This was the women's 400-meter sprint. And the Bahamian, Shaunae Miller, dove for the gold at the finish line, edging out star Allyson Felix. And gymnastics superstar Simone Biles picks up another medal. CNN sports anchor Coy Wire is live in Rio with more. Tell us all the highlights, Coy.</s>COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Good morning, Alisyn. So Simone Biles takes the bronze. And the positive in Simon Biles not taking a fourth straight gold is that we now know she is human. It just wouldn't be fun or fair if she were. So bronze in the beam competition, and that adds to the U.S.'s tally. Let's get you your medal count here on NEW DAY. USA leads the way with 75. China is in second with 46. Great Britain in third with 41. But the thing everyone is talking about out of Rio this morning, 400- meter final with American Allyson Felix and Shaunae Miller, the Bahama mama with the finish line drama.</s>WIRE (voice-over): Running sensation Allyson Felix setting out for gold, the favorite to win in the 400-meter final. But in the home stretch, the Bahamas' Shaunae Miller diving across the finish line in a photo finish, Felix denied gold by seven one-hundredths of a second, taking home the silver. Allyson Felix becomes the most decorated woman in U.S. Olympic track and field history.</s>ALLYSON FELIX, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: God has been so good to get me this far. It's been a fight all season. I just gave it all I had tonight. It's going to be tough, you know. Just try to pick myself up.</s>WIRE: All eyes were on Simone Biles in the beam finals. And in a crowd-shocking moment she loses her balance, touching the beam, a deduction that cost her the gold. Laurie Hernandez delivering a nearly perfect routine, outscoring Biles and landing the silver. The Netherlands, unexpectedly taking home the gold. Meanwhile, Michael Phelps soaking in the rest of his time here in Rio, reflecting on what he has said are his fifth and final Olympic games. (on camera): What's been the most impactful memory from these games thus far?</s>MICHAEL PHELPS, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: Having my son here is the best. Being able to share this moment with him in my last Olympics. And I'm looking forward to sharing these memories when he gets old enough. In a couple years, hopefully, I'll get a chance to take him to Tokyo and watch some events over there.</s>PHELPS: Greatest Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, set to retire again after his fifth and final Olympic games. Let's show you what we have to look forward to today. Twenty-five gold medals up for grabs. This will be the last time we see Simone Biles compete in Rio. She'll be in the floor exercise with fellow American and reigning Olympic champ Aly Raisman. We'll also see the men's 110 meter hurdles. Devon Allen is one of the favorites there. And the huge beach volleyball semis final match of Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross of the USA taking on the team from Brazil. And let me tell you guys: it is going to be rocking here in Copacabana.</s>CUOMO: Wow. You're also going to get to see Usain Bolt run in his heat for the 200, right, Coy?</s>WIRE: That's exactly right. He'll be in a heat. I think he might break 19 seconds. We'll see, man.</s>CUOMO: That's the drama. I forgot how much I love track, because I got so distracted by the gymnastics and the pool. CAMEROTA; Right.</s>CUOMO: You have to see the fastest people in the whole world whipping around that oval. Boy, it's amazing.</s>CAMEROTA: The Olympics are great, but Coy's wrap-ups are just as great.</s>CUOMO: Coy is the rhymin' diamond.</s>CAMEROTA: I know.</s>CUOMO: He really is.</s>CAMEROTA: I love that about him.</s>CUOMO: All right. So we want to talk about the policy; also have to talk about the politics at play in the election right now. Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is under investigation in the Ukraine. Did Paul Manafort receive secret cash payments from that country's former pro-Russian regime? He says no. But that is only the beginning of what is going to be investigated about him. Also, on the Clinton side of the ball, new more e-mails from Clinton's private server. What do they tell us? A closer look next.