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Trump Outlines His Plan For First 100 Days in Office; Trump Says He'll Sue Female Accusers After Election; Your Money, Your Vote in Battleground Ohio; Clinton and Trump Neck and Neck in Georgia; Electoral Map Favors Hillary Clinton; "Parts Unknown" Revisits London. Aired 4-5p ET

Aired October 22, 2016 - 16:00   ET

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POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: For more on Jeff Payne's nonprofit and how you can help, go to cnnhereos.com. Hi, everyone. Top of the hour. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. So glad you're with us. We begin with politics as we wait for Donald Trump to take the stage at any moment at a big rally held for him in Virginia Beach, Virginia with just over two weeks until election day, he is trying to secure every vote that he can and there are votes that he desperately needs in the state. The latest polling out of Virginia once considered battleground now shows Hillary Clinton in the lead by 12 points. Earlier today, Trump campaigned in another Muslim state for him in Pennsylvania.

He spoke in Gettysburg where Abraham Lincoln his gave historic address during the civil war. There trump outlined how he would spend his first 100 days in office. But near the spot where Lincoln once tried to unify nation and promised equality for all, Trump spent the first 15 minutes of his address repeating his claim that the election is rigged and then threatening to sue the women who have come forward accusing him of sexual misconduct.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.

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HARLOW: Trump did return to the main purpose of his speech 15 minutes later, he did it outlined his 100-day plan. Here are the highlights.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TRUMP: First, a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of congress. I will announce my intention to totally renegotiate NAFTA, one of the worst deals our country has ever made. We will cancel all federal funding of sanctuary cities. And illegal Immigration Act. Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border that establishes a two-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentences if people coming in illegally for illegally re- entering the United States after a previous deportation.

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HARLOW: How his agenda being received and will Trump continue to push it when he takes the stage at this moment in Virginia?

Let's bring in CNN, CNN White House, Correspondent, Jim Acosta. He's at that rally in Virginia Beach. We just saw one of his top surrogates, Rudy Giuliani wrapping up. So, Trump should come out at any moment. But he gave this 100-day speech, a lot of it we've heard before especially in the economy, taxes, jobs. Some new proposals, though, Jim.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Poppy. We've heard Donald Trump talked about trade before he is threatened to renegotiate NAFTA and to toss out TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he did talk about that in his speech earlier today at Gettysburg, but there are some new proposals on, illegal immigration, he rolled out a plan for new minimum mandatory sentencing requirements for undocumented immigrants who are caught in this country, immigrants who have been deported already before. So, that was something new we had not seen before. But he also wrapped in the speech, Poppy, something in that was not expected, this was billed as a 100-day speech as what Donald want -- Trump would do in his first 100 days in office.

But he used the first 10 minutes of this address on hallowed ground as it's called where Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address to go after his accusers. He threatened to sue the women who have accused him of sexual assault. He went after the news media, he accused the media being complacent with the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, and trying to rig the election. He even went as far as he say, as president, he would oppose the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner which owns CNN. So, he, sort of, had his basket of his own deplorable, I guess, you might call it as he was talking about what he wanted to rail against in his speech.

But as you said, later on in his speech he did give us some policy specifics. And Poppy, we should point out, a lot of these specifics are things that, you know, people who are in the right -- the center right are going to like. Even some democrats are going to like the idea of perhaps term limits for members of congress up on Capitol Hill. The question is what are we going to hear from Donald Trump later on in just a few moments here in Virginia, is he going to basically go through the same litany of grievances or is he going to stick to policy and we should find here in just a few moments, Poppy.

HARLOW: I do think the term limit thing is interesting because he brought that out right before the last debate and then the Clinton camp just wouldn't respond really the questions about it. You know, our anchors kept asking them over and over again, they said she's focused on campaign finance reform, not term limits. They called it a stunt. You know, I don't know, what do you think the calculus is there by the Trump campaign obviously doubling down on it today? It's the first thing he said.

[16:05:05] ACOSTA: Right. You know, it is a message (INAUDIBLE) it is a message that a lot of Republicans like this, something they certainly want to hear, and certainly a message that if you scrape away, you know, Donald Trump going after his accusers, Donald Trump going after the media and so on. It is a message that a lot of Republicans would certainly be rallying around at this stage of the campaign. You know, here in Virginia, you mentioned he is down by double digits. At this stage of a presidential election, Virginia has been a battleground state for the last several cycles. He should not be this far back in a state like Virginia.

But the, you know, the demographics are changing in the state, and also there's just a section of the Republican Party in the state and we're seeing another parts of the country who are just not going to go along with this candidacy. The question is in these final days, can he say something to get them on board? This contract with the American people that he rolled out today as he called it will remind people of a lot people of what Newt Gingrich talked about in the contract with America back in the '90s. That was very popular with Republicans. The question is, you know, can they separate the stuff that they don't like about Donald Trump going off on his accusers threatening to sue them and so forth, you know, from the things that they do like.

And there are -- there are probably a lot of things in that speech that and a lot of Republicans are going to like.

HARLOW: Jim Acosta live for us in Virginia Beach. We'll bring you Trump live as well as soon as he takes the stage. Let's talk more about this and the Gettysburg address that Trump gave this morning. With me, Ryan Lizza, CNN Political Commentator in Washington, Correspondent for the New Yorker, and Lanhee Chen is back, he's a CNN Political Commentator, former public policy director for Mitt Romney, and presidential historian, Douglas Brinkley. Gentlemen, thank you for being here.

RYAN LIZZA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Hi Poppy.

LANHEE CHEN, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Hi Poppy.

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Hi Poppy.

HARLOW: Ryan Lizza, to you -- so, this is a very symbolic place, of course, Gettysburg where he gives his 100-day plan as (INAUDIBLE) said harkening back to the contract with America and Newt Gingrich, but he starts it with 15 minutes talking about how corrupt the media is and saying he's going to sue all of the women, 10 of them now who have come forward and said that he sexually assaulted or harassed them. Does he step on his own message? LIZZA: Yes. Absolutely, and the look to the extent that the speech was supposed to be about what he would do in the first 100 days, the takeaway, the lead of all the stories is going to be that he is going to sue this nearly one dozen accusers, and oh, by the way, he, you know, he -- it had some, sort of, loose threats about the news media and breaking up Comcast NBC. Which politically I'm not sure why he did that considering that Comcast is based in Pennsylvania.

A lot of people work for that company there. But, so it's just this speech, there was so much hype from his campaign and his advisers in the last 24 hours at the speech, he's going to Gettysburg, he's immediately going to compare to one of the great addresses in American history. He's setting expectations so high and then to the extent that he wanted to talk about real policy what he is really going to do in the first 100 days, he completely stepped on that message by threatening women who have accused him of sexual assault.

HARLOW: Lanhee, looking at the map, the map for Trump's path to the White House has gotten even more bleak in the past week. If you look at this, there are four traditionally red states that have frankly turned into toss ups. And then Clinton is ahead by five points in Arizona, right? They've got a tie in some of the polling between them in Utah, other poll show him up six points. Texas, Georgia showing how close they are. At this point, I mean, you advised Mitt Romney, do Donald Trump advisers need to get him to send a different message to ensure that he holds on to those states not -- while at the same time winning some of the traditional battleground state like Pennsylvania, like Ohio, what's the messaging he needs?

CHEN: Well, you know, we live in a day and age where everything a candidate says is picked up. So, it's very difficult for him to broadcast one message to one group and a different message to a different group. The reality is very bleak as you pointed out. I think the strategy would have been effective several weeks ago let's say ahead of the first debate. To begin to turn the focus toward independent and undecided voters rather than focusing intently on a message that might appeal to some portion of the Republican electorate which as others have pointed out, he has already.

So, at this point it's a little late to be changing messages. I think the idea of a closing argument that is premised on what the first 100 days of a Trump presidency would look like makes a lot of sense, but he steps on his own message by talking about how he is going to treat those that have accused him and frankly, you know, we're 17 days away from the election. This would have been a great message two or three weeks ago, but now we're at the point where I'm not sure it makes too much of a difference, Poppy.

HARLOW: Oh, I mean, Douglas Brinkley, why is that? You know, stranger things have happened in political races and races for the White House, I understand that, you know, Trump needs a Hail Mary here, right?

[16:10:06] If you look at what polling shows us pre-election and what the outcome generally is but is it unheard of that he could turn the ship around when you look historically what has happened in other races?

BRINKLEY: It's going to be almost impossible to turn this ship around. I mean, the Hail Mary story is one of Harry Truman in 1948 because the Democratic Party split into fractions to dixiecrats which drawn firm the Progressive Party of Henry Wallace. People thought Truman was going to lose, but here is an opportunity at Gettysburg which is sacred, American soil. I mean, it's really like Arlington National Cemetery and he co-opted from (INAUDIBLE) my 100 days and his lead is I'm going to sue a bunch of women, a bevy of women who accused me of being a molester.

How could that possibly be leadership for 2017? What I took from this was Trump setting up his exit strategy. He's trying to put those sexual misconduct allegations behind him. Theodore Roosevelt had sued a -- in -- after he lost in 1912, sued a newspaper reporter for libel for saying that he was drunk. TR didn't drink, and so he was angry. He lost in '12, but in '13, TR sued some Michigan paper for libel. And Jimmy Carter after he lost to Ronald Reagan.

The Washington Post said the Blair House was bugged when the Reagan stayed there before the Regan's inaugural. And Carter sued effectively the Washington Post saying, "I never bugged anything. All I have is my reputation. I'm going to it fight for it." So, both TR and Carter's cases, they were able to kind of rehabilitate themselves a little, and I think that's what Trump was starting to do way too early, but rehabilitate the post-election Donald Trump.

HARLOW: We do still --

LIZZA: And just quickly -- yes.

HARLOW: Yes. Quickly.

LIZZA: And just quickly, a lot of -- a lot of these threats of lawsuits from Trump are just ridiculous threats. They don't actually -- he doesn't follow through. He's promised to sue The New York Times and he hasn't done it yet.

HARLOW: Exactly. Well, we haven't seen that happen yet. We will see he said after the election he will bring these lawsuits forward. Ryan, thank you. Douglas, Lanhee, we appreciate it. Again --

LIZZA: Thanks, Poppy.

HARLOW: We are still waiting to hear from Donald Trump in Virginia Beach, Virginia that should happen momentarily. We'll bring that to you when it begins. He did layout his vision for America this morning as we just discussed in Gettysburg. What would he do in his first 100 days? He also promised as we discussed sue the women who have accused him of sexual assault. Another -- quite a week -- another remarkable week on the campaign trail. We'll bring it all to you live.

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[16:15:58] HARLOW: A short time ago Donald Trump laid out his vision for America, what he would do in his first 100 days in office if he is elected. He spoke to a crowd in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, obviously a very historic and significant point and place to make that address. He outlined several areas affecting the U.S. economy where he would like to see major changes. Listen.

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TRUMP: Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy, 4% per year, and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy.

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HARLOW: CNN (INAUDIBLE) Cristina Alesci is here with me. She's inpouring through all of it. Let's start with jobs because this is a bold claim, 25million jobs he says would be created under a Trump presidency over a decade. It came up as you heard in the last debate. can I get a reality check on that?

CRISTINA ALESCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, the reality is if you look over the last quarter at the least, we are on track of generating the current economy is on track to generate about 200, a little under 200,000 jobs a month on average. So, if you average that out over 10 years you get to 20 million, 25 million is actually a lot more of course. But --

HARLOW: Yes, we can look at what happened under President Obama as you -- as you tell it.

ALESCI: Yes. And -- but let's keep this in mind he has to generate a lot more jobs in order to pay for the tax cuts that he's talking about. So, of course he's trumpeting up for lack of a better term, for lack of better term, I can't believe I said that, but I said that. Of course he's saying that he's going to generate 25 million jobs. But the reality is, is he's probably going to go -- have to go even further because of the tax cuts that he's proposing, which are massive.

HARLOW: And we're on with the president, President Obama on pace to create 20 million jobs over a decade. You're also coming -- starting from a much lower starting point because he took off based of -- during the great recession.

ALESCI: You're right.

HARLOW: So, you're coming from a place where things are a lot worse and you added a lot as a result.

ALESCI: You're right. And the reality is that many economists really doubt whether or not we can continue the rate that we've seen over the past couple of months. So, you're talking about a very aggressive goal and that 4% economic growth that he's talking about, we haven't seen that since the late, you know, 1990s. And you really have to think about it in terms of the fact that we are in a completely different economic reality these days. We are talking about a much more (INAUDIBLE) economy.

HARLOW: Right. Absolutely. And then the economy with totally different jobs. Technically to the advance jobs. But what about as we -- should we listen? Let's listen into Donald Trump. Stay with me.

TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's great to be back in Virginia Beach. Thank you everybody. Thank you. And what a job has done. Regent University what a great place. Thank you very much. This is terrific. This is so amazing. In 17 days, we are going to win the great commonwealth of Virginia and we are going to win back the White House. Early voting is under way, so make sure you go and send your ballots. We've got to win this November 8th. We've got to win it.

This is going to be our last chance, folks. I hate to tell you. This is about it. November 8th. One of the greatest privileges of my journey has been the time I've spent with the evangelical community and the people of faith across our nation. There are no more decent devoted and selfless people than our Christian brothers and sisters here in the United States. None. And I happen to be Presbyterian, but that's all right. That's good. (INAUDIBLE) together we're going to deliver real change that puts America first.

[16:20:10] Earlier today, I outlined my contract with the American voter, the steps I will take my first 100 days in office, and the bills I will send to Congress, and these will be bills that will put us on the path of making this country great again. Believe me. In fact, I encourage you go visit our website and read it. You'll see a lot of good things and a lot of things that will make you very proud, and very happy. At the very top of the list is one of the most important promises of all.

If I'm elected president, we are going to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. In the contract, I put forward that has to do Ethics Reform that will put the people back in charge of our government. We're going to renegotiate our terrible, and I mean, terrible trade deals, and illegal immigration, stop the massive inflow of refugees, reduce surging crime, cut taxes bigly, cut regulations even biggerly, unleash job, reducing American energy, cherish and defend fake and religious liberty, and we are going to get rid of the Johnson Amendment.

I hope you know what the Johnson Amendment is because it is a disaster for our great people and for our church. We will also repeal and replace the disaster known as ObamaCare. President Obama promised the American people that his plan would be affordable. Instead health insurance premium is going through the roof, and companies are being driven out of business, totally out of business. Many companies are being forced to flee the country. They are leaving our country, they are creating jobs in other countries instead.

And now, Hillary Clinton wants to double down and make ObamaCare bigger and worse, and much more expensive. And it doesn't get any more expensive. ObamaCare -- HARLOW: Donald Trump in Virginia Beach, Virginia making his case to a

number of his supporters there speaking at a Christian conservative university, Regent University there. Really speaking to his base doubling down in a 100-day plan that he outlined this morning in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Let's bring back in my panel. CNN (INAUDIBLE) Cristina Alesci, Ryan Lizza is with us also, and also with us presidential historian, Douglas Brinkley.

You know, when you look at the polling, Ryan Lizza, he already does really well among evangelicals in Christian conservatives. I mean, in the wait -- wake of the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, he still have 77% of support, 18% of those Christian conservatives going to Clinton. So, what he needs to do to win is get people who aren't already on board. Is he doing anything to accomplish that, making speeches like this?

LIZZA: Well, he has an enormous uphill battle here because, you know, so much of American presidential elections are now about motivating base and getting out your base, and your core supporters. So, he still needs to do that. But at the same time if he would turn to around to 68-point deficit he's suffering nationally. He needs to win over those Republicans that supported Mitt Romney, but have fled to Hillary Clinton in this election. That is the whole ballgame.

And those are mostly whites, women with a college degree. And that's the key demographic that has abandoned the Republican Party in this presidential election. So, Trump, you know, he's got two things right now. He's going to be excite the traditional conservatives, the base and the party, and he's got to -- he's got to win over these Republican leaning voters who set -- who, you know, have basically decided Trump is not for them, and they're holding their nose, and voting for Clinton.

It's -- you know, it's only 17 days left. It's -- I hate to take out -- drain the drama from the race, but it's not very likely to happen.

HARLOW: Cristina, let's have into what you said about the economy because frankly, you know, the time, I've spent across the swing state, Ohio, Pennsylvania namely when it comes to jobs. I mean, to person, the -- Trump supporters say they're voting for him because he's a businessman and he can create job. So, now he said 25 million jobs created under his presidency over a decade as we just talked about. But he's also talking about major tax cuts to spur growth. The thing is he said, "We're going to make tax cuts bigly."

[16:25:00] Those are his words. And then he detailed the plan 35% tax cut from middle-income family. But he won't touch Medicare and he won't touch Social Security, so he won't touch entitlement. So, how does he do that and spur growth, and not just exploded the deficit?

ALESCI: That's an excellent question, Poppy. And bottom line is that in the short term those tax cut could have a very positive impact. So, that is a short term impact because as you say over time national debt will increase, and that is going to -- for the lack of a better term, crowd out private investment. And when that happen, and the government is borrowing so much money then companies don't have a chance to invest. So, he's going to be fighting that dynamic as he's trying to create jobs.

And a lot of this comes down to the point that he is (INAUDIBLE) out there talking about things that people want to hear, right? So, when -- we're analysing these policies, it's really hard to do that because we're analysing top line ideas without very much specific, it's almost not even worth analysing to a certain degree because there's really no specifics, no real plan as how he's going to make those 25 million jobs happen.

You can't do that through, you know, tax cut, and being top on trade is also, you know, not realistic. He's not saying what that really means. He's saying things that people want to hear.

HARLOW: It's an important point in his camp and his supporters would push back, and they would say, "Yes, well, you're not -- you're not counting into spending cuts that we would see, you're not counting in what getting rid of all this regulation would do to the economy. But we can't because we don't know what it would be or what Congress would actually let him get through. Douglas Brinkley, to you, he keeps harping on NAFTA, and he wouldn't as president have the power to scrap NAFTA.

The question just become is this a global economy in which you can just get rid of, you know, trade deal, and things will work just go, you know, geopolitics is complex it's not just about economic agreement. There's a lot to this, sort of, global partnerships.

BRINKLEY: Well, exactly. I mean, the NAFTA fight took place in the 1992 election when Ross Perot ran as a third party candidate, and almost saying, you know, "The giant sucking sound jobs you are leaving America is because of NAFTA." That's the '90s. We're way down the line for Donald Trump to wind up -- have play -- have America play ostrich bury its head. It is a global economy. What he offering today is more of the same trickle-down economics, trade wars, hot new tear ups, stopping the flow of immigration.

Anything you touch on in this economic plan it's very old fashioned. And hence, his demographic is over Americans that 19% that voted for Ross Perot. 19%, third party back in 1992. Those types are with Trump now. But the demographic is much more youthful and diverse, and they are -- they are abandoning him (INAUDIBLE)

HARLOW: Yes. But as you know, older voters come out to vote and drove especially retirees more so than younger voters historically, but it has a big gap to make up if you believe the recent polling. Guys, thank you. Cristina, thank you. Ryan.

LIZZA: Thanks, Poppy.

HARLOW: And Douglas. Coming out live in the CNN News, and we're going to take you to a bar. Why not? It's Saturday. Seriously, we're going to take you to a bar in Ohio where I went, met up with three drinking buddies with a very different views on this election. Democrat?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Democrat. HARLOW: Undecided? Republican?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, Republican.

HARLOW: But you're all drinking together?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. We all respect each other's (INAUDIBLE)

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HARLOW: All right, time for three guys in a bar. Seriously. Yes, a bar. Because they are teaching us all a lesson about civility this election season. I caught up with three gentlemen with three different political perspectives in the critical battleground state of Ohio. They manage to work and drink together despite not seeing eye to eye politically. It is something they wish lawmakers in Washington would do, as well. It is part of our series "Your Money, Your Vote."

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HARLOW: What do you make of the election?

BRUCE DAVIS, UNDECIDED VOTER: I think it looks a lot like the movie, Idiocracy. I'm not sure that I can vote for either candidate at this point.

HARLOW: Did you vote for President Obama?

DAVIS: I did, both times and I don't think we got the change that we were promised. But he didn't really pull the people in the United States together. And is that his fault? I'm not sure. But I just don't think we he got what we really voted for.

HARLOW: The three of you have really good jobs.

Yes.

HARLOW: You make a good living. You can support your family. Right?

You're among the lucky ones.

RANDY BARR, SUPPORTING TRUMP: Absolutely.

HARLOW: So the "Obama economy" has worked for you?

DAVIS: Yes.

BARR: Well, in a sense.

HARLOW: Am I right?

DAVIS: Yes: BARR: But I don't think it's worked for a lot of other people. A lot of medium income people ...

HARLOW: ... so you're voting for other people?

BARR: Well, yes. I'm voting to go help ting to help the small guy. I still think I'm a small guy. But, yes, I mean I haven't seen wages, you know increase, jobs increase as much as what I thought everything would.

HARLOW: Have you lived the American dream? Is the American dream alive and well?

BARR: Well, that's a tough question. I'm still dreaming.

HARLOW: You're still dreaming.

BARR: Yes.

HARLOW: Have you lived the American dream?

DAVIS: Absolutely. Absolutely I have.

BILL LUTZ, SUPPORTING CLINTON: I grew up poor. My father left. My mother had to go on assistance welfare. Went to public schools in some of the first integrated districts in Cincinnati. In trouble with the law. Did service in the armed forces. Got a couple of good jobs. Was laid off. You know, up and down, up and down. Right now life's good. Come back and check with me in a year.

DAVIS: The American dream still exists. You know, it's obvious that you can make something of yourself in this country if you -- if you try. If you get the right breaks, you know the right people, or you move in the right circles. You work hard, it works. And, you can look across any stratus of society, whether they're immigrants, whether they have a you know, an inner city poor background and they make it, it's there. It's still there.

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HARLOW: Democrat?

LUTZ: Democrat.

HARLOW: Undecided. Republican.

BARR: Yes. Republican.

HARLOW: But you're all drinking together.

LUTZ: Yes.

DAVIS: And we all respect each other's position in conversation. I mean, that's what's so great about America I think is we can all have that conversation. We can all have differences of opinion we can all say that we vote for a republican or democrat or whoever, and still be friends. That's not a defining trait of friendship. If I tell Bill I totally disagree with his position in him voting for Hillary, he'd go so what, I don't care what you think. And that doesn't offend me.

LUTZ: And it ain't going to stop me from coming down and drinking with him tomorrow night. I mean, no it's not. And it's -- some of my best friends are republican. You know, are republican. So you know, if you have a decent conversation and a civil conversation, and you agree to disagree, and you layout your side how you feel and I lay out my side, and who knows, you might hear something that you'd never heard before, I might hear something that I've never heard before. But that's how you see the other side.

DAVIS: This is no different than a dynamic that we work with at work every day. We have a lot of heated conversation about how that work is to get done. And, yet at the end of the day ...

HARLOW: ... you get it done ...

DAVIS: ... We still come down here, we get it down, we get a lot of work done. And then we -- you know, we sit back and we go it was great, you know. And, so that's the way it should be and that's the way it should be in Washington. They shouldn't be having those kinds of arguments. They should be working hard to get the work done and then sit down and have a drink and laugh about it and say ...

BARR: ... look what we done today.

DAVIS: Hey, we helped the American people.

HARLOW: Amen.

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HARLOW: We helped the American people. That is their goal for their lawmakers in Washington. My thanks to Bruce and Randy and Bill for that. Bruce Davis who was undecided at the time by the way that we filmed. He let us know he's now voting for Donald Trump. You can see much more of our road trip to the swing state, just go to CNNmoney.com/battlegroundstates.

Coming up, while some democrats in Ohio could help Trump, a so-called safe state for republicans may not be so safe this time around.

How Georgia could go from ruby red to purple. Next.

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HARLOW: You're looking at live pictures 17 days out from the election now of the two candidates.

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Donald Trump speaking live in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Hillary Clinton campaigning in Pittsburgh today. She's about to take the stage there in Pennsylvannia. Two states, two must wins, two rallies before the voters, you, decide who wins this election. Meantime a new poll shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a

statistical dead heat in the traditional red State of Georgia. A state that voted heavily for republicans frankly for more than two decades.

A new Atlanta Journal Constitution Survey shows that Trump leads Clinton by two points, 44-42 among likely voters there in Georgia. That is within the margin of error. Georgia has voted republican in every presidential contest since '92 when it broke for Bill Clinton.

Our Nick Valencia spoke to folks in - Georgia about the Trump/Clinton showdown.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Poppy, the demographics in Georgia are changing. What has been traditionally a red state, may now potentially change to purple in the 2016 election. There's a number of reasons why; one of them is that newly arrived residents are democratic voters. Another reason has to do with the GOP candidate, Donald Trump.

Many republicans we've spoken to say they're having a hard time getting behind the candidate. You're about to meet one of them.

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VALENCIA: It's Friday, at the Mosqueda household. The sun hasn't even come up yet and they're already talking about their future.

KEISHA MOSQUEDA, WIFE: Solomon, do you want to try this avocado?

VALENCIA: Alberto and his wife, Keisha moved from Virginia to Georgia about two years ago. This will be their first presidential election as state residents. And it's people like them who are changing the historically red state, purple.

ALBERTO MOSQUEDA, HUSBAND: You can tell everybody is looking at him like, man, just end this.

VALENCIA: Mosqueda is a conservative. He didn't vote for President Barack Obama in 2008 or in 2012. Nor does he really support democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. But he says he's voting for her any way.

A. MOSQUEDA: If it wasn't for the candidate that's running right now, I probably would have voted for that other candidate than for Clinton.

VALENCIA: You would have voted republican.

A. MOSQUEDA: More than likely.

VALENCIA: What is it about her that's it's hard for you to totally accept her.

A. MOSQUEDA: The e-mails, the Benghazi stuff. You know, being a military guy, you know, you take all that into account. The Benghazi, especially the e-mails, the security and all that. And, it's just like there are direct breeches and direct violations of what the simple things that they teach you even as a lower enlisted guy in the military.

K. MOSQUEDA: Try it. It's good.

A. MOSQUEDA: Smell it. You smell it? It smells good.

VALENCIA: The Mosqueda's are a house divided. While husband Alberto usually votes republican and relies on his Christian values, he says he can't bear to vote for Trump, especially after what he said about Latinos. His wife, Keisha, has always voted democrat. Her vote she says is guided by what she wants the future to look like for her 5- year-old son, Solomon.

K. MOSQUEDA: I'm very concerned about him and the future. A minority male that's something that's just always on my mind.

VALENCIA: Solomon might not yet understand the importance of his parents or the effect their votes could have in Georgia. But he knows this much --

K. MOSQUEDA: Which color are you voting for?

SOLOMON MOSQUEDA: Blue.

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VALENCIA: The Mosqueda family says they're complicated. Mrs. Mosqueda says she actually thinks she's the conservative in the family though she votes democratic and her husband traditionally votes along republican lines. One thing is certain in the Mosqueda household, they say there's nothing that Donald Trump can say at this point to change their minds about him. Poppy?

HARLOW: Nick, thank you very much. We'll see what happens with Georgia.

Just, incredibly close there. The electoral map has shifted in Hillary Clinton's favor. Now 17 days out. Her campaign certainly looking to capitalize on that. But it's not all said and done until it's all said and done.

Looking ahead, we will look at which historically deep red, states are suddenly in play. Plus whether Donald Trump is tweaking his strategy based on latest polling. Stay with us, you're live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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HARLOW: All right. 17 days out and this shows you just how close we are to Election Day.

Donald Trump speaking live in Virginia Beach, Virginia trying to rally his base. The former President, Bill Clinton speaking live in Pensacola, Florida trying to lock in that swing state for his wife. And Pittsburgh, that is where the candidate for the democratic party, Hillary Clinton will speak at any moment. We will bring you those live when we hear from Clinton. This is the first speech she's made on the trail today, the first of two.

Meantime looking 17 days left until the election, and looking at the electoral map it is favoring Hillary Clinton right now in a pretty big way. Sources close to the campaign tell CNN that she will send five new staffers to Utah next week.

Why does that matter? Because folks, this is a state that hasn't voted for a democrat as President since 1964.

Clinton hasn't yet campaigned in Utah, she literally has not landed her plane there this entire election season. And she doesn't have any ads on T.V. there. But clearly they see this as a state that is in play.

Sources say that her surrogates will make appearances in the final weeks before the election in Utah.

CNN Presidential Historian and Rice University History Professor, Douglas Brinkley is with me. Give me some historical context here. I mean now clearly the Clinton camp is making a play for Utah. When is the last time that we saw a race this close to Election Day, 17 days out and a candidate from a party not expected to have a chance in a state makes a play for it?

BRINKLEY: Well, it's starting to remind me of 1980 when Jimmy Carter ran against Ronald Reagan. And Reagan started out -- he was successful in the only debate which was just days before the election really and the Reagan people started smelling blood in the water that they were going to be able to throw the liberals out of Washington. You're seeing Hillary Clinton now in that kind of mode. They're looking to do real damage to the Republican Party. The idea that Hillary Clinton could win Utah, Arizona and Georgia is mind boggling. And the cosmology couldn't be better for Hillary Clinton right now.

HARLOW: The cosmology?

BRINKLEY: Yes, well just that sense of how everything is coming together for her in almost a surreal way.

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BRINKLEY: I mean the first woman candidate in American history running against somebody who's being charged with sexual abuse of women. The fact that the republicans of states that are open right now and the Senate races are looking very good for the democrats. Nobody thought that was possible. On and on and on. It's just, things are working for her right now. She would have probably lost to Kasich or somebody.

HARLOW: And, these are obviously charges all of those sexual assault charges, charges that Trump vehemently denies. In fact today he went as far to say he's going to sue the women that made those allegations after the election.

Quickly, Douglas, before I let you go, does this feel like a wave election to you? Or do you think there is -- I mean is there a Hail Mary here? Is that something that could turn it around?

BRINKLEY: It's a wave election. The only thing Trump has going for him, he might be able to pull Ohio out of this and hold the deep south. At all costs, he needs to fight now in Georgia, Arizona, Utah. Do not lose those states because it would do great damage to the Republican Party. Maybe he doesn't care. Maybe he really is a third party outsider masquerading within the Republican Party. That's at least the way it's looking to a lot of people right now.

HARLOW: Douglas Brinkley, thank you for the historical perspective.

We're going to take a quick break. On the other side, we're keep an eye on all those live events going on right now.

The former President speaking in Florida. Hillary Clinton about to speak in Pittsburgh. Donald Trump just wrapping up his remarks in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The campaign is pulling out all the stops to win in November. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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HARLOW: There is a brand new episode of CNN "PARTS UNKNOWN" airing tomorrow night. Here is a look.

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ANTHONY BOURDAIN, ANCHOR "CNN PARTS UNKNOWN": Here we are in London again, but this time it's different. England has just voted rather unexpectedly to leave the European Union. And the effect here in London anyway has been tectonic.

What it's really shone a light is how divided the country is.

This is a city where even in the best of times the drinking can take on an edge of desperation. But, never so much as now. Is it the end of the world?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It feels pretty bad. When the going to gets tough, we want to get out and just look after ourselves. It's so selfish.

BOURDAIN: It's like the whole city has had a nervous breakdown. And at times of uncertainty, I like to turn to old friends. Will it all work out in the end?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have no idea.

BOURDAIN: Wow.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the honest truth.

BOURDAIN: Nothing is certain.

(END VIDEO CLIP) HARLOW: Bourdain takes on London in "PARTS UNKNOWN" tomorrow 9pm eastern right here on CNN. We'll be right back.

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