Trumps Threads Needle Again On Immigration; Clinton Raises $143M in August
MARQUEZ: New changes this morning at the top of the Trump campaign. Just two weeks after Trump reshuffled his team for the second time, he is now adding a deputy campaign manager for the home stretch to November. David Bossie comes to the Trump campaign from the conservative advocacy group Citizens United, where he is president. Trump describing Bossie to "The Washington Post" as an old friend and, quote, "solid, smart and knows how to win." Meantime, on the campaign trail on Thursday, Trump showing two sides of his political personality -- subdued and respectful at one and the next, fired up the base. CNN's Phil Mattingly has the latest from Ohio.</s>PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Miguel and Christine. For Donald Trump, it is a tale of which Donald Trump will you actually see. On Wednesday, you saw one version of Donald Trump, diplomatic and understated. During his visit to Mexico, a few hours later in Arizona, the fiery rhetoric, he was on point. It happened again in Ohio on Thursday. In Cincinnati, to the American Legion, lower key Donald Trump. Coming to Wilmington, Ohio, just a few hours later, real Trump country, deep red Trump country, the rhetoric was back. It's balancing act that you're seeing from Trump. Trump making clear during that hard-line speech in Arizona, that when it comes to immigration, he is not backing off most of his points. But in a radio interview afterwards, he had some different thoughts. Take a listen.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Oh, there's softening. Look, we do it in a very humane way and we're going to see with the people that are in the country. Obviously, I want to get the gang members out, the drug peddlers out, I want to get the drug dealers out. We have a lot of people in the country that you can't have and those people we'll get and then we're going to make a decision at a later date once everything is stabilized. I think you're going to see there's really quite a bit of softening.</s>MATTINGLY: Now, guys, I don't know a lot of people, Republican operatives, Democrats, Clinton supporters who saw that speech in Arizona and thought softening is the first word to come to mind. But it really underscores what Donald Trump is trying to do and kind of the dangers that he has as he attempts to navigate this thicket here in places like Ohio. Obviously, here in Wilmington, the supporters were very excited about that speech, those I spoke to. But in the suburbs, the places like Columbus, like Cincinnati, there are real Republicans who are very wary of the candidacy that Donald Trump has had up to this point, of the rhetoric that he has used repeatedly. Those are the people Trump is trying to soften his image for. Still, you've got to keep the supporters, especially those here at home as well. Guys, back to you.</s>ROMANS: All right. Thanks so much for that, Phil. To campaign money now. Hillary Clinton just finished the biggest fund raising month of the election season. Clinton pulled in $143 million in August. That's according to her campaign. She started September with $68 million in the bank. Her joint fund raising committee as $84 million in cash. That committee is called the Hillary Victory Fund. It's an account that allows the Democratic ticket to raise money for the Clinton campaign, the Democratic national convention and Democratic state parties all at the same time. These agreements allow Clinton's donors to give hundreds of thousands of dollars. And Clinton has been busy courting wealthy donors. She attended 37 events in August. Her most lucrative stops were a three-day tour in California where she brought in $19 million, then top that by raising $21 million with a three-day run through the Hamptons in New York. Who knew there was money in the Hamptons? I have not idea.</s>MARQUEZ: Who knew? There's a lot of money. They are smelling possibilities down ticket, aren't they?</s>ROMANS: Yes.</s>MARQUEZ: All eyes on Colin Kaepernick. The quarterback's final preseason game, did he repeat his national anthem protest? We will have that and the latest on Hurricane Hermine, next.