Clinton Stares Down Galifianakis On "Between Two Ferns"
ROMANS: Donald Trump says he may visit Charlotte after Monday night's big debate with Hillary Clinton. Yes, there is a debate in three days --</s>BERMAN: What?</s>ROMANS: -- and it is big.</s>BERMAN: I hadn't heard.</s>ROMANS: It is big. Trump is calling for a national anti-crime agenda, but claiming violent protests are making America "look bad to the world". On Thursday, he ramped up his tough law and order message at a rally in Pennsylvania. Joining us this morning to talk Trump and Clinton, "CNN POLITICS DIGITAL" reporter Tal Kopan, live in Washington. Good morning. And, you know, it was just a few days ago we were talking about how this bomber in New York and New Jersey -- this suspected bomber -- how that was going to influence the tone of the race and direction of the race. But now it has completely shifted and we're talking about law and order, we're talking about communities and police distrust, we're talking about racism and opportunity in America, and that will clearly be front and center, I think, on Monday, won't it?</s>TAL KOPAN, REPORTER, "CNN POLITICS DIGITAL": Yes, absolutely. You know, presidential elections always tap into the sort of feelings of the electorate, right? You know, when the economy is suffering it's all economic. And when you have major events like we've seen, whether it be terrorism or these really unfortunate incidents with the police shootings and protests that have followed, that is what people are talking about and that is what people are feeling. And if presidential candidates don't respond to that I don't really know what the point is. So, of course, this is going to be front and center during the debate. It depends on how the moderator handles it. But we've seen it sort of dominate the conversation from the candidates on the trail in recent days and so I expect it to be front and center, for sure.</s>BERMAN: So both candidates off the trail today. Both candidates doing debate prep including Donald Trump, by the way. You know, for the last several weeks Trump advisors would have you thinking this debate prep thing, we don't need to do it. We're having cheeseburgers at golf clubs instead of rehearsing questions here. They're both off the trail. They're both getting ready for this thing. In the Clinton campaign they would have you believe that it's very hard for them because we don't know what kind of Donald Trump we're going to get. And they point to pictures like this from past Donald Trump debates. Let's watch.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Most of the people on the stage I've given to, just so you understand. A lot of money. First of all, Rand Paul shouldn't even be on this stage. You get along with nobody. Excuse me one second.</s>GOV. JEB BUSH (R-FL), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: No.</s>TRUMP: I didn't want to forget --</s>BUSH: The simple fact is, Donald, you cannot take --</s>TRUMP: More energy tonight. I like that.</s>BUSH: No.</s>TRUMP: He referred to my hands. If they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee it.</s>ROMANS: I'd almost erased that from my memory, that last one.</s>BERMAN: Yes, here's betting -- here's betting that line doesn't come up at the debate on Monday night. But, Tal, how are both sides working the refs here? I mean, it really does seem like we're full into the expectations game and more than expectations. Both sides talking about what they need from the moderator. The moderator -- he needs to be aggressive to check the facts or not, depending on who you listen to.</s>KOPAN: Yes, absolutely. I mean, this is gamesmanship. The debate doesn't start and end only on the debate stage. There's an expectations game you set. The Clinton campaign really wants to sort of go out there and say expectations are low for Donald Trump, don't let him off easy. They're trying to make it seem like he needs to be held to a higher bar. And then, of course, the Trump campaign is saying Clinton should be wiping the floor with them. She's an experienced debater. But, you know, Donald Trump's pretty good, too. I mean, watching those folks. Remember the primaries? Those were some debates to watch. You never really knew what to expect. So it's not just about what they say on the stage. They're trying to set the ground for themselves to succeed. And, yes, they're trying to influence the moderators and what those moderators might feel comfortable asking. It's all part of the game.</s>ROMANS: You know, Hillary Clinton also trying to go after that coveted millennial vote -- the kids these days -- and whether they're going to vote for her. She was on with Zach Galifianakis "BETWEEN TWO FERNS". Can we listen to a little bit of this? Do we have a little bit we can listen to?</s>ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, HOST, "BETWEEN TWO FERNS WITH ZACH GALIFIANKIS": First, you supported Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership deal and then you were against it. I think that people deserve to know, are you down with TPP?</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm not down with</s>TPP. GALIFIANAKIS: No, you're supposed to say yes, you know me, like the hip-hop group.</s>CLINTON: Don't tell me what to say.</s>ROMANS: I guess, you know, millennials or Gen Xers is what this is going for here. But as our resident millennial expert and political guru, does this -- does this do well for her?</s>KOPAN: Well, you know, it's about humanizing her, to a certain extent, and also showing that she can be in on the joke, right? If you've watched "BETWEEN TWO FERNS" before, Zach Galifianakis is sort of out there and ridiculous and then it's up to the guest to sort of deadpan and play the straight sort of sidekick, and so she delivered. She did her role within that sketch. And we actually had some reporting that this was her idea. So the idea behind it is to show that she can be human, she can be in on the joke, she can be relaxed, and sort of cut through some of the negative noise that might be out there and speak directly to those people watching viral videos. So, in some ways it was probably effective in that regard. I don't know if it like wiped everything off the map in terms of the millennial vote but it was certainly effective.</s>BERMAN: All right, Tal, great to have you with us. Thanks so much.</s>KOPAN: Thank you.</s>ROMANS: All right, somewhere Steve Grogan is smiling as the Patriots third-string rookie quarterback --</s>BERMAN: You have no idea what that means.</s>ROMANS: -- comes up with his first NFL start -- John, I can read the prompter and make it appear that I know what I'm talking about. Details in the Bleacher Report, next.</s>BERMAN: Do you make conference calls? Today, companies are using virtual hubs to get everyone on the same page. Vanessa Yurkevich looks at how Boeing uses technology to spur collaboration and design.</s>VANESSA YURKEVICH, DIGITAL CORRESPONDENT, "CNNMONEY" (voice-over): It takes five to 10 years to take an airplane from the drawing toward the runway, and every year on an assembly line is another year manufacturers aren't getting a return on their investment. So companies like Boeing are speeding up that process right from the beginning by cutting the design time.</s>HAMSEL ADAM, BOEING EMPLOYEE: The complexities are only going higher and higher because the demands of the customers are also getting higher and higher. They want to be able to do a lot more with their airplanes for a lot less. Let's start with Spain. Go ahead, Ramon, introduce yourself, please.</s>YURKEVICH: Boeing has 11 different design centers, hundreds of different offices around the world and almost 20,000 suppliers who make everything from engines to seats to software. To get everyone on the same page, Boeing created the Casa Lab in Huntsville, Alabama.</s>ADAM: We deal with a lot of data. We've been able to put in place the computing infrastructure to be able to deal with that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, I'll take it from here, Andrew.</s>ADAM: And you will see the handoff of the design between the different sites, which is the power of collaboration.</s>YURKEVICH: It can cost $400 million just to develop one plane. Researchers are hoping better collaboration can reduce that cost.</s>ADAM: Designs used to be done in what I would refer to as silos. You don't want that system of marking up a design and saying here's my input, and passing it on to the next person. If there is an error in it and it's not caught, it keeps getting passed on. And you don't discover that you have a problem until you start to build the thing.</s>ADAM: The power of being together virtually allows us to be a lot more productive, but also be able to come up with solutions much faster.