Candidates On Labor Day Campaign Blitz; Clinton Welcomes Press Aboard New Plane; Poll of Polls: Clinton Leads Trump By 5; 7 Million Still Under Threat From Storm
KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: That is tonight. But for now, thank you so much for joining us at this hour.</s>JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: LEGAL VIEW starts right now.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone, I'm Christine Romans in for Ashleigh Banfield. Welcome to LEGAL VIEW and welcome to the homestretch of the 2016 race for president, just 64 days separate Labor Day from Election Day. And that explains some labor-intensive campaign travels that aren't limited to the candidates themselves. Today, Hillary Clinton gets some campaign help from Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, who can talk about labor and election in the very same breath like nobody else. They will be spread out across five state today. Donald Trump meantime has his running mate, Mike Pence, by his side as he campaigns in the crucial swing state of Ohio. A short time ago, he sat down at a round table with labor leaders in the suburb of Cleveland.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: -- that he (drive) from (inaudible) to Mexico. And your manufacturing is it's incredible what's happening. And right now as we speak, they're negotiating deals to move out of Ohio and go down to Mexico. So it's going to be a two-way street. And with me, it's going to be a one-way street for a while, I will be honest with you.</s>ROMANS: Now, more proof that politics doesn't take a holiday my blue- ribbon panelist Labor Day, CNN Political Director David Chalian and Senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar joining me from Washington. CNN Correspondent Phil Mattingly and our Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger are here with me in New York. Welcome everybody. There are no holidays and there are no weekends between now and Election Day. So we're all working stiffs here. Brianna, Hillary Clinton getting back on the rally circuit with a brand new airplane. And she's sharing it with reporters. That's a first for her or trump. Check it out.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Hey, guys.</s>REPORTERS: Hi.</s>CLINTON: Welcome to our big plane. it's so exciting.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you think?</s>CLINTON: I think it's pretty cool, don't you?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I never feel very (inaudible) --</s>CLINTON: You're supposed to say yes. I am so happy to have all of you with me.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Have you missed us?</s>CLINTON: I've been just waiting for this moment. No, really. And I will come back and talk to you more formally. But I want to welcome you on to the plane.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How is your Labor Day weekend?</s>CLINTON: It's good. It was really good, yes. We had a good time. The last moment of -- hello, Mark.</s>MARK: How are you (inaudible) --</s>CLINTON: I recognize your hat. How are you? I'm glad you are here. Yes, the last moment before the mad dash, the next two months. So I hope you guys are ready.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you ready?</s>CLINTON: I'm ready. I'm more than ready. Are you ready, (Ro)? Has (Aronda) taking good care of you?</s>REPORTERS: Yes.</s>CLINTON: (Aron) has been -- how long have you been working for me now?</s>CLINTON: Two and a half years. He started right out of -- he was still -- you were still in college, right?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right out of can.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right out of can.</s>CLINTON: I know, I know. We're so happy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy Labor Day.</s>CLINTON: What?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Happy Labor Day.</s>CLINTON: Happy Labor Day. I know. That's exactly right.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you have a Labor Day message?</s>CLINTON: I like you, you're good. I definitely -- I definitely do. If you want more happy Labor Days, you know who to vote for. Thanks. I will come back later. Thank you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bye.</s>ROMANS: Thanks. I will come back later. I think maybe that means maybe there's going to be a more formal Q AND A. But to me, correct me if I'm wrong. You've been on the campaign. You've been in these planes before with candidates. That feels like kind of an awkward first date to me.</s>BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think there always is perhaps an element to that. And let's just be clear so the viewers know, there's still a separation between the press and the candidate. The candidate has some privacy up at the front of the plane. I believe, you know, in some of these cases, you could even have the press entering through the back of the plane while the candidate enters through the front. I remember on Bernie Sanders' plane, you would actually walk by the senator. And when I was on his plane, you know, he would just read his newspaper and sort of be doing his own things so even as you entered, there might not really be a chance there. But, you know, as a journalist, this is something that is welcomed. Hillary Clinton declared her candidacy last April and for the last 16 months or so has traveled on a separate plane than the press. A lot of times -- and look, we should mention as well, Donald Trump does that. But a lot of times, you know, you think back to Romney, 2012, he traveled on the same plane as his press. There is still some separation; make no mistake about that. But there's definitely an opportunity, a bigger opportunity, if traveling on the same plane that the candidate can come back and gaggle. That goes two ways. If there is something they need to address, they can come back and quickly talk to the press about that. And then hopefully, it does give the press more access. And that Hillary Clinton hasn't had a press conference which is that's the formal press conference, right since December, it's very welcome.</s>ROMANS: You know, Gloria, I want to ask you about Biden. Because Joe Biden is out there in his element in Pittsburgh rallying against 'People Like Trump' he says while praising the minimum wage. Let's listen to that.</s>JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Where does it come from? It comes from people who understand what it's like to look across the table in the bargaining room and know that the guy on the other side really doesn't respect you, know that there are so many people like Trump who look at us like we're not their equal. I'm sick of it. I've had it up to here.</s>ROMANS: Sick of it, people like Trump. This feels sort of personal for Biden, doesn't it?</s>GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think it is. And don't forget, you know, he is a boy of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He's middle class Joe. He believes that he can speak to these voters that Donald Trump is speaking to and get them on board with Hillary Clinton. And so I think he becomes the character witness for Hillary Clinton with the working class. And that's his role. And it's going to be his role in Pennsylvania. It's going to be his role in Ohio. It's going to be his role throughout the Rust Belt. And I they he believes that he can make that connection and take on Donald Trump very directly on that issue, asking where has he been, where has he been, for example, on the minimum wage, et cetera, et cetera and that's going to be his role.</s>ROMANS: And he will say I feel your pain --</s>BORGER: Yes.</s>ROMANS: -- that working class voter. But I know how to fix it. The Democrats know how to fix it, not the Republicans. Dave, I want to look at the latest poll of poll showing Clinton's lead half what it was a month ago but it (inaudible) to 12 from all those fund-raiser. So, how does she stand heading into these final 64 days? Particularly, in these states that Gloria just talking about where, you know, there's a working class voter who is, you know, who went for Trump.</s>DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: Yes. Listen, I think the state of this race is sort of back to where it was before the conventions, when she opened up a wider lead after having a good convention and Donald Trump was immersed in controversy over the Gold Star Family, the Khans. That sort of created more separation that we had seen on cycle. Now, it's kind of returned to this slight advantage Hillary Clinton. But in talking to her campaign, I don't even think they take a ton of comfort in that word slight, Christine. I think they really do see this as going to be a close fought campaign all the way through the fall even though right now as you look state by state, she's got this slight edge. But, you know, nine weeks is a long time to make some movement.</s>ROMANS: It really is. And so many times over the past year, Trump has been underestimated. No question about that. You know, Phil, I want to talk about the tax issue, you know. Trump's running mate now says he will release his tax. The whole word wants to see Mike Pence's tax, not. But Mike Pence is going to release his tax return sometime this week. And Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, keeping the pressure on Trump to do the same. Here's what Kaine said this morning, guys.</s>SEN. TIM KAINE (D-VA), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Donald Trump is now looking at us and saying, hey, guys, trust me. I'm not going to give you my tax returns like everybody has done. Even Richard Nixon produced his tax returns. If you can't meet the ethical standard of Richard Nixon, I mean, God help you, folks. God help you. You wouldn't hire somebody for a summer job who wouldn't answer your questions in a job interview. And he wants you to hire him to be president of the United States? He thinks we're chumps.</s>ROMANS: I wonder if Mike Pence, Governor Pence, assuaged concerns about Donald Trump's taxes by saying he will release them eventually when the IRS audits are over or if he just drew attention to it again?</s>PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He just drew attention to it again. Because that's no change than their position has been for the last couple of weeks and months. And look, if you talk to Trump's advisers, you recognize theirs a calculation here. His lawyers advised him according to the campaign not to release his taxes while under audit. But there's nothing illegal about releasing your tax under audit. If he wanted to do it, he could. The question is, what's the political calculation if he does? What would people be able to see that maybe Donald Trump wouldn't want them to see related to charitable givings or perhaps his tax rate --</s>ROMANS: Or the lack of charitable givings.</s>MATTINGLY: Lack of charitable givings. Look, he's in real estate development. There's loopholes all over the place.</s>ROMANS: Right.</s>MATTINGLY: The idea that his tax rate would be extremely low is also their associations he might have through his businesses. The calculation here is, is it worth giving people all of that to look into over the course of this campaign numerous possible stories to hit him on, a load of opposition research for the Clinton Campaign or is it worth just having Tim Kaine out on the campaign trail, every once in a while talking about this issue and assuming that voters don't care about it. I think that's the calculations going on right now. And if you talk to his advisers, they're leaning a lot more towards no sense in releasing them right now, I think, if they're being honest.</s>ROMANS: We're watching the Hillary Clinton's plane, by the way, landing here outside of Cleveland. You know, Bernie Sanders, Gloria, you know, he is stumping for Hillary today. But he made some comments over the weekend about the Clinton Foundation that almost gave more ammunition to Trump. How much does Hillary Clinton still need Bernie Sanders here?</s>BORGER: A lot. And what Bernie Sander said was that there has to be a separation between Hillary Clinton and the foundation and if she's elected, a complete separation.</s>ROMANS: Right.</s>BORGER: I think she needs Bernie Sanders a lot. I think she needs him to go to every college campus in America and and get out younger voters, younger African-American voters -- she is still not doing well with that demographic and Bernie Sanders is the one who can tell them what the binary choice is here and that they will be better off with Hillary Clinton. And she needs him.</s>ROMANS: I'm so lucky to have all of you guys around for the next 64 days. No vacations, everyone.</s>MATTINGLY: None.</s>ROMANS: We're going to feel awful seven days a week on Labor Day. Thanks, guys, Phil Mattingly, Brianna Keilar, Gloria Borger, David Chalian, thank you everybody. Nice to see you. Just ahead, President Obama gets face to face with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Conference in China, hear what he said about their meeting next. And be sure to tune in tonight starting at 8:00 P.M. for CNN's back to back special report and in-depth look at the life and times of a two major party candidates for president.