[Donald Trump,  Presidential Candidate:] There will be retribution, there will be a price to pay. We are going to renegotiate the horrible NAFTA trade deal, probably the worse deal ever made in terms of trade.
[Don Lemon, Cnn Anchor:] It is the top of the hour. You're watching CNN TONIGHT and we're listening to Donald Trump giving a campaign speech in Everett, Washington, also on the heels of finding out that he's going to be meeting with the Mexican President tomorrow, giving his immigration speech here also in Arizona. Again, Donald Trump speaking, making an appeal to African-Americans specifically right now. Let's listen in.
[Trump:] Thank you. The destruction that NAFTA started will be finished off if the Trans-Pacific Partnership is approved. It is a disaster, a disaster for our country, a disaster for our workers. We won't let it happen. We cannot let it happen. These are very, very quiet protesters, I will say. I will say one thing, when Bernie Sanders had his protesters out, they had a lot more energy, they really. Much better. They were much better. They felt it a little bit deeper in the heart. But that's just the beginning of what we're going to do for the American worker. On taxes, we're going to provide massive tax relief to all working people and lower the tax rate on small business from 35 percent to 15 percent. Low and middle income parents will also be able to fully deduct the average cost of child care from their taxes, a very important thing. On horrible, horrible regulations, which are taking over our country, I'm going to direct every agency and department head in my government to identify all needless and job killing regulations and they will be removed. We will have a temporary moratorium on new regulations to allow our economy to grow. I mean, our economy is a disaster, to allow our economy to grow. Economic growth for last quarter has been revised downward to 1.1 percent, a number that you can't even imagine. Just so you know, if China goes to 7 percent or 8 percent, it's almost like a national catastrophe. And what they do is they devalue their currency, they do lots of other things and they suck more blood out of our country and we allow them to do it, folks. And they get back on track and we keep going down. Not any longer. And believe me, we have the cards, they don't. We have the cards. We have all the cards. Meanwhile, our trade deficit in goods with the world is now nearly $800 billion. Think of that. Almost $800 billion trade deficit for the year. You really say to yourself, "Who negotiates these deals?" I know, I know. Political hacks and politicians negotiate them. No longer. We will further bring back our jobs by unleashing an American energy revolution, lifting restrictions on oil and coal and natural gas and all sources of American energy. This will create millions of jobs and lower the price of energy and your electric bill and every other bill for the American household. We are also going to secure our border and stop the drugs from pouring in and destroying our country.
[Lemon:] OK, Donald Trump speaking tonight in Everett, Washington, talking about what he's going to do tomorrow, and he's going to lay out his immigration plan, just now saying securing the border. Of course, he's going to be talking about...
[Trump:] Tomorrow night in Arizona, big speech on immigration. We'll be talking about that, Arizona, tomorrow night.
[Lemon:] I just want to listen for a second...
[Trump:] The Seattle Area recently experienced the largest number of heroin-related deaths, think of it, in 20 years. The largest number in...
[Lemon:] All right. So Donald Trump saying that he's going to give his speech tomorrow night in Arizona. But before that, he's going to meet with the Mexican president. Pretty big deal that he's announcing meeting with the Mexican president. Back with me now, Mark Preston, Corey Lewandowski, Angela Rye, Lanhee Chen and Ryan Lizza. Again, he just mentioned that as we were coming. So I wanted to make sure we got all of it. This is a pretty big deal. Give us some context.
[Mark Preston, Cnn Politics Executive Director:] Huge deal. I mean, look, he's now controlling the narrative of the campaign again. The narrative is back in Donald Trump's court. He is taking a big leap by going down to Mexico. There is some peril in it but I think for his supporters, it is going to help fuel them to look at Donald Trump, take his willingness to cross the border and meet face-to-face with somebody who he says is going to help pay for a wall at the same time that that president says that's not going to happen. So, this is a huge development. We're 70 days out right now. It's unprecedented. I don't think we've ever seen this certainly in our lifetime and Donald Trump is now again controlling the narrative. And Lanhee Chen, again, he said this is a many people think that Mark said this is a very smart move but it's also a risky move as well?
[Lanhee Chen, Cnn Political Contributor:] Yeah. I mean foreign trips are always kind of filled with potential potholes. And hat's why they're usually planned over the course of months, that's why you usually script them very carefully. You want to make sure that whatever the foreign leader is going to say is consistent with your message. But look, none of this is how Donald Trump has run his campaign so far. So we shouldn't be surprised that he's stepping out in faith, I guess, in doing this. And part of it is probably to address what some perceive is the commander-in-chief deficit, right, to go out and say, "Look, I can meet with foreign leaders. We can have this conversation as well."
[Lemon:] Corey Lewandowski, you said to me usually trips like this are planned much more farther in advance than this. There may have been some talk about it. But, again, this is a shift. I know you're former campaign manager, but this is a shift in the way this campaign is being run and, again, as Mark said, this is an enormous deal that he's doing this.
[Corey Lewandowski, Cnn Political Commentator:] Well, it is, obviously. And to your point, you know, any time you have the opportunity as a candidate for the presidency to meet with a foreign leader, it shows your gravitas, your ability to work across the aisle and across the political world that, you know, if you're elected president, you're going to have those relationships in place. Obviously, you know, the relationship with Mexico as a trading partner is very important. We understand that. Donald Trump has made it paramount on this campaign to renegotiate NAFTA, to build a wall on the Mexican border to prevent illegals from coming across the southern border. So as he looks forward to the next 70 days in the election 10 weeks from tonight, what he's doing is setting the groundwork for a long relationship with the Mexican president so that as elected president, he'll have that relationship in place.
[Lemon:] All right go ahead.
[Angela Rye, Cnn Political Commentator:] At least we know that that's what he's hoping. I think the challenges are that his rhetoric hasn't matched, you know, some diplomatic effort reaching across the border to the Mexican president, desiring some type of strong partnership. In fact, it flies in the face of that. The way that the Trump campaign has even talked about undocumented people, calling them illegals, calling them even worse, drug dealers and rapists is also a part of the problem. I think one of the things that Corey mentioned earlier about the four things that Donald Trump will say during the speech tomorrow, you talked about the felons and the convicts and the number of people that it's a constant talking point of the campaign, the number of people who've been released. We forget often in this country that immigration is a civil issue, not a criminal issue. And so the people who have been released from ICE Detention are people who have served their time, they're own parole, they have they've paid their dues, they paid their debt to society and I think it flies in the face of another thing where Republicans struggle and that is the feeling disfranchised even at the polls. So you're constantly dealing with people as if once a criminal, always a criminal, and we need to get them out of here even though they've served their time.
[Lewandowski:] What did you say to be fair though was that if you are a convicted felon and you're here illegally, the day I'm sworn as President of the United States, you'll be shipped back to the country that you're from. So if you are convicted of murder likely so Kate Steinle's family or Jamiel Shaw's family, those people who are in the country illegally, that ends, you are no longer being interned in a U.S. prison system. You're going to be sent back to your country and that's the way it's going to work.
[Lemon:] Ryan Lizza let's bring in Ryan Lizza from the New Yorker, our correspondent from the New Yorker. Ryan, my question is, Mark Preston said this is Donald Trump is controlling the narrative. This is the way this campaign is being run now. Does it matter who gets there first? Is this a misstep for the Clinton campaign and a good one for the Trump campaign?
[Ryan Lizza, Cnn Political Commentator:] I think whether it's good for the Trump campaign depends on the outcome, right? I mean, he has basically turned the president of Mexico into an adversary. He has said that this guy is going to that Enrique Pena Nieto is going to pay for our border wall, right? And he's going to go down there and I think most observers are going to wonder after the meeting, well, what did he get out of the meeting, right? This isn't just a traditional meeting with a traditional ally where you kind of shake hands and say hello and have a cup of tea. This is Donald Trump going to the person who he has made a core campaign promise of, saying that this person in his country is going to pay for a wall that's going to cost tens of billions of dollars and he's going to do it by seizing remittances that they Mexican send back to his their country or increasing tariffs on Mexican goods. Well, the press is going to ask the President of Mexico, "So, what do you think of this border wall idea? Are you willing to pay for it?" The President of Mexico right now has an approval rating in the low 20s. Donald Trump is not a popular person in Mexico for obvious reasons. Do you think that the president of Mexico tomorrow is going to miss an opportunity to confront Donald Trump when he's dealing with scandals at home and low popularity? So, I mean, you know, maybe Donald Trump is a secret genius and this is a very smart trip but it seems like it has high, high chance high risk involved here. On the other hand, getting into a fight with the president of the Mexico might not be the worst thing for Donald Trump.
[Lemon:] OK. That's where I'm going. So let me pose this to the panel, to you and the panel. I want to get this out. And this is the statement from the Mexican president. It says, last Friday, the president sent invitations to both candidates, which were well- received by both of the team campaigns. There is no confirmation to the meetings at this point. So, his is a Mexican president. Now, Donald Trump has confirmed that he is going. Why would he send this? Why would he send invitations to both candidates if indeed, you know, he's got low you know, he's got a low approval rating? Donald Trump isn't the most...
[Preston:] Well, he has his own issues back home, right? So if you're a leader and you're trying to get your approval rating up, you certainly want to show your voters, your constituents that you're working, you know, across that board or to try to make your country better. So, it's actually it's a very smart move I think on the Mexican president's part with any indication.
[Lemon:] Yeah.
[Preston:] You know, what's worth noting though is that Mexican citizens don't vote in this election, right? U.S. citizens do. So even when Donald Trump goes down there, if he does come back and the Mexican president says, you know, the meeting was a joke and we'll never pay for the wall, Donald Trump could perhaps turn that around and be rah, rah, rah, you know, America first, America first, and that could potentially help his campaign.
[Lemon:] I want to get to I need to get to Phil Mattingly quickly, Phil Mattingly who was there in Washington at this rally. Phil, Donald Trump is still speaking. He's arousing applause. There were a couple of protests here. How is this message going over at this rally?
[Phil Mattingly, Cnn Correspondent:] He's been pretty consistent tonight, Don. And he mentioned obviously the immigration speech. You played that a little bit. But for the most part, it's been a very consistent, on message speech, the type that we heard really over the last couple of weeks, staying very close to the prepared script that we got. I will say, Don, over the course of the last 35 or 40 minutes, word did start to trickle out to the audience about the trip to Mexico, a lot of kind of raised eyebrows, a lot of intrigue as to what it might mean going forward. But as I mentioned earlier, Don, there is a lot of focus on what tomorrow night's speech will be about immigration. Not a lot of focus on that tonight but definitely looking forward. His supporters are very focused on what he'll have to say tomorrow in Arizona.
[Lemon:] All right, Phil, just thank you very much. And just quickly, I would I had assume that this would be in lieu of the Arizona announcement that he would do it from there, that he's going to do the announcement from Arizona.
[Lewandowski:] That's right. He's still going to make the speech in Arizona. He's going to talk about the four principles that he has talked about. And what he's also going to do obviously is recap that speech, the conversation that he had with the president of Mexico at the time and that's going to give additional color and it will continue to drive the narrative going into what is traditionally a quiet Labor Day weekend. All the news will be focused on Donald Trump again.
[Lemon:] All right, thanks, everyone. Stick around. When we come right back, Donald Trump's trip south of the border tonight. That is our breaking news. It is a bold move but will voters buy it?