[Hickman:] I have been in law enforcement 45 years. I don't recall another incident this cold-blooded and cowardly.
[Paul:] Continuing following that breaking news out of Texas this morning, where a sheriff's deputy has been shot dead. Officials say Deputy Darren Goforth was simply pumping gas when someone came up behind him and opened fire, killing him in an instant. An active manhunt under way right now. We understand in the greater Houston area to find this man. You see him there. This was seen in the surveillance video and this is the truck he was seen leaving in, a red Ford ranger. Local affiliate reporting that the suspect has been caught, but police are not confirming that yet to CNN. We do continue to make calls this morning. Goforth was a ten-year veteran in the department, just 47 years old, and a wife and two children now this morning are trying to reconcile all of this. We are also watching breaking news out of Thailand. Local police say they have arrested a suspect in the bombing that killed 20 people and injured 120 others earlier this month. The man is described as a Turkish national and police say they found ball bearings linking him to the blast in the apartment where he was found. Apparently, they would think kind of ball bearings that were found at the scene. At least ten people may be involved in this and police are still investigating possible connections to international terrorist groups. We will have a live report for you at the top of the hour.
[Blackwell:] Let's turn now to the 2016 race and Donald Trump is heading to Nashville today. And this comes after he spoke at an event in Massachusetts, which Trump made sure that he at least told everyone was not a fundraiser. We will get to that in just a few minutes. But first, let's talk about the event. Trump renewed attacks and now he's spreading the love around, taking aim at a top aide for Hillary Clinton. Listen.
[Trump:] You look at trade pacts. China, eating our lunch. Japan, like we're children. Mexico, both in trade and at the border, what they are doing to us is terrible. And I have great respect for China, for Japan. I love the people. I love the people of Mexico. I love Hispanics. Nobody nobody loves Hispanics like I do. I probably have more than almost anybody working for me. We have some low energy people. They are really low. I'm not going to say Jeb is low energy, but he is pretty low. Who would you rather have negotiate with Iran? Trump or Jeb?
[Audience:] Trump!
[Trump:] How about this? Trump or Hillary?
[Audience:] Trump!
[Trump:] Who is Huma married to? One of the great sleeze bags of our time. Anthony Weiner. Did you know that? She is married to Anthony Weiner. You know the little bing, bing, bing? Bong. I love you very much. So, no, think of it. So Huma is getting classified secrets. She is married to Anthony Weiner, who is a perv no, he is.
[Blackwell:] All right. So, shortly after those comments, Clinton spokesman tweeted this out. Donald Trump has spent the summer saying offensive things about women, but there is no place for patently false personal attacks toward a staff member. "He should be ashamed of himself and others in his own party should take him home and to stand up to him and draw the line for once. It's embarrassing to watch, frankly." That from Nick Merrill of the Clinton campaign. Let's talk about this with the CNN political commentator Ben Ferguson and with us, political anchor for "New York One News" Errol Lewis. Good to have both of you back.
[Ben Ferguson, Cnn Political Commentator:] Good morning.
[Blackwell:] Ben, I want to start with you. One could argue that there are strategic advantages to many of the other attacks. Many of the other statements. What is the strategy here with going after Huma Abedin?
[Ferguson:] No, I think he is pushing the narrative that Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted and that said, one word, people don't trust her. They associated her with the words liar. And I think his point was you can't trust her and look at the people she's surrounding herself with. They have an access to these emails, to top secret information, and then look who they are married to. Can you trust Anthony Weiner? Can you trust Huma? Can you trust Hillary? So, the way that he put it, there is going to be a lot of people that say it was not very classy or tactful, but he was telling the truth. She did have access to this information, she was around Hillary Clinton. I definitely wouldn't trust her husband knowing what we know about him. So I think for him, this is probably going to be one of the situations where the blunt talk, people are going to like it.
[Blackwell:] So, Errol, certainly the people there in the room ate it up, but is there any reason to think that because Huma Abedin is married to this former congressman she is sharing any of this information and let's also say Huma Abedin is not just any Clinton staffer.
[Errol Lewis:] Well, that's right. And first my way of disclosure, Anthony Weiner appears on my show every week. We talk about New York City politics. He and a number of other ex-officials. And for your viewers who don't know what all went on with Anthony Weiner. We should be clear he was caught up in a sexting texting scandal and he resigned from Congress, and it was a real problem for him, but it was all consensual. Nobody came and said that he did anything to them, no laws were broken, you know, nothing like that. For Donald Trump to sort of I guess run this line, it's a great talking point on right wing radio as my friend Ben knows very well, it's sort of a punch line that doesn't need much of an introduction. And so, I think Donald Trump was really just playing for laughs for the crowd. There is nothing at all serious there as far as a serious allegation. If he has a serious allegation to make, that would be one thing, but it doesn't sound like it was even meant to be taken seriously.
[Blackwell:] And Huma Abedin has worked with Secretary Clinton for many, many years close and trusted, confidant staffer there. Let's talk now about this event that was held. A hundred dollars a head to get in. And do we have the sign that was outside this event? Yeah, let's read this. "Please have checks made payable to Donald J. Trump for president incorporated, or cash ready on entry." Now that sign is outside. But this is what Trump said about the event. Apparently, we don't have it. So Trump has said that this is not a fund-raiser. Not a fund-raiser. Checks are being made payable to the campaign, Ben, looks like a fund-raiser and sounds like a fund-raiser. What is it?
[Ferguson:] Yeah, it's a fund-raiser and these are those little things that I think what can get any candidate in trouble. If you go out there and every day on the campaign trail you tell people how rich you are and that you're so rich that you don't have to be beholding the donors and you're turning down million dollar checks left and right and getting off of plane and someone is trying to hand you 3 million and you say no, I don't want it. But you take seven dollars from an average American who sends it out to the campaign. He said that's what he wants, he wants the little donations, not the big money and I'm going to turn it all down. And then you have a fund-raiser and then you try to tell people it's not a fund-raiser. Now, a $100, they are probably not making money a lot of money for his campaign. It is expensive to put these on. It is expensive for the security. I'm assuming the food was probably pretty good. And that argument, all right, I can see it, but at the end of the day when you say you're a multimillionaire and you're not doing fund-raisers and someone has to write a check for a hundred bucks to get in, he says people came for free too. I understand that, but it's either fund-raising and you're going to take money or you are not going to do it. You can't mingle the two together in these big, you know, huge statements that he makes, that I turn down millions every day from prospective donors.
[Blackwell:] Is he getting any big checks, any indication? I mean there has been no release or disclosure from these other groups that had been set up, make America great again and we know there is a nonprofit. But Errol, he has derided the million dollar, 5 million, 15 million dollar checks. 700 people at a hundred bucks a head is 70 grand. It's not going to make or break Donald Trump. Why does he do it?
[Lewis:] No, it's not. But I think look, if we look back in the last election cycle, it costs all in about a billion dollars for Mitt Romney and for Barack Obama. And Donald Trump, while he is a billionaire, I don't think anybody and this is how they get to be rich, right? They don't they don't really just spend money blindly and the reality is he can look at Jeb Bush who he has been attacking every day. Jeb Bush has a super-PAC that has a 100 million dollars ready to go. If it all starts getting aimed at Donald Trump and perhaps he has a reason to believe that it will be, he's going to have to fight back. Let's keep in mind, Donald Trump made his fortune as a real estate developer. Real estate development at least in New York is based on other people's money. You don't spend your own money. You get somebody else to put up the money. And so, I think both as a business model, as a practical necessity, the days of Donald Trump saying I'm not going to take any money from anybody are going to come to an end. He has got at least one super-PAC backing him.
[Ferguson:] He has got more than one that's going to come out and favored him. He was even talking about that last night. But there are just acts that are forming because they love what we are doing here. Donald Trump is going to have to play the traditional game of raising money when you're running a national campaign at some point. In fact, it's I think it's already started to happen. It's just this is a big promise that you're not going to take money, you're not going to fund-raise, and then when all of a sudden you start doing it, I think people start to say, maybe you are a little bit...
[Blackwell:] And you know what, it made him so attractive to supporters that he is the unconventional candidate and maybe that is changing. Errol Lewis, Ben Ferguson, thank you both.
[Lewis:] Thank you, Victor.
[Paul:] New details this morning about the one person who survived that Virginia shooting that was captured live on television. We will take you to Roanoke. Also, NFL player Michael Vick, he has a new job. The same old controversy, though, is following him it seems. Find out what fans of his new team are saying about their new quarterback.