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CAMEROTA: Millennial voters make up as much of the electorate as baby boomers now and they seem to lack enthusiasm for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. This important voting bloc is a focal point now and this is a front page story in "USA Today" -- just this morning, that we're showing you. So here to discuss what is important to millennials are CNN political commentator and Trump supporter, Kayleigh McEnany. And national spokesperson for MoveOn.org and Hillary Clinton supporter, Karine Jean-Pierre. Great to see both of you ladies this morning. So, you know, "USA Today" -- you guys were on the front page. Everybody wants to know what makes millennials tick. Karine, what are the issues that are most important to millennials?</s>KARINE JEAN-PIERRE, NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON, MOVEON.ORG, CLINTON SUPPORTER: Well look, Alisyn, millennials are the most diverse, right, and the most progressive group -- generation that we have. And as you were saying, they're going to make -- they're going to be a huge factor, maybe make or break the election this cycle and so they really care about the issues because of that. They grew up in a time where nasty ads -- T.V. ads really took over and so this is why they really care about climate change, they care about income and equality, college -- you know, debt-free college and that's what they're going to be looking towards. And I think Hillary Clinton really aligns with the issues that they truly, truly believe.</s>CAMEROTA: And yet, we keep hearing that they're not enthusiastic about either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. What do you think is behind that, Kayleigh?</s>KAYLEIGH MCENANY, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: That's true, and I think the big story with millennials is that they are progressive. They do lean left but they don't like Hillary Clinton. Something that Donald Trump hasn't hit nearly enough -- in fact, I don't think he's hit it ever -- is the fact that Hillary took $2 million in speaking fees from universities on the backs of students. She spoke at UCLA for an hour -- took $300,000. Her team called it the special university rate. That could have funded six students going to college.</s>CAMEROTA: But is that her fault or is that the university administration deciding to pay big-ticket speeches?</s>MCENANY: It's her fault, too. Her fault, too. If you're going to give a speech at a university give the money back so that six students can go to school free. Don't tell us you care about student tuition. I have student loans out right now. Don't tell us you care about my student loan debt --</s>CAMEROTA: OK.</s>MCENANY: -- if you want to take it and profit from it.</s>JEAN-PIERRE: Forty million people -- 40 million people in this country have student loan debt so that's definitely a reality.</s>CAMEROTA: But wouldn't have -- would it have helped the millennial's enthusiasm for her if she had said I'm going to give this to a scholarship fund?</s>JEAN-PIERRE: So, here's the thing. There's a Quinnipiac poll that came out before 'P****gate', less than a month ago, that showed that millennials believe -- 73 percent of millennials believe that Donald Trump is biased towards women and minorities. I mean, that's just -- that's just the fact. So --</s>CAMEROTA: I want to ask you.</s>JEAN-PIERRE: -- we're talking about them being progressive and diverse.</s>CAMEROTA: I do want to ask you about the most recent controversies. Do millennials care about, you just said, 'P****gate'? Do these controversies -- is this something that millennials are talking about? The controversies with either Bill Clinton's past or Donald Trump's lewd comments?</s>MCENANY: I think they do care about both of those things. What I think they care about more is being respected. I think they care about authenticity. I think they care that they turned out to support Bernie Sanders to the tune of 90 percent in most states and then they find out that the DNC actively thwarted his campaign. And then they find out from this WikiLeaks documents, you know, they care deeply about Wall Street and paying their fair share and these are progressive values millennials hold. And yet, Hillary Clinton is standing before Wall Street not releasing the transcripts because she was telling Wall Street she is going to do everything she can for the financial industry while telling millennials something different and using the DNC to thwart the messenger for those causes in the form of Bernie Sanders.</s>JEAN-PIERRE: But here's the thing. Here's the thing, Alisyn. Hillary Clinton has Sen. Sanders, Sen. Warren. She has President Obama, Michelle Obama all behind her. Who does Donald Trump have at that level? Nobody. So that's sort of just the reality that we have there.</s>CAMEROTA: Let's look at the poll numbers right now in terms of how millennials are feeling. If you're under 45 -- is that really a millennial? I think you have to be younger, right?</s>JEAN-PIERRE: We're getting older.</s>CAMEROTA: I mean -- but anyway, there's where we have 54 percent of under 45-year-old voters support Clinton right now. Only 29 percent support Trump. So I hear you, Kayleigh, that they wanted Bernie Sanders but they're not crazy about Donald Trump.</s>MCENANY: Yes, and this is where Donald Trump could improve. He has a message that millennials will hear and that is I'm going to better the economy. You're going to have jobs. You're still hurt by the Great Recession and, you know, I'm here to help you. But I don't think he's effectively brought that case to college campuses, to millennials. I think he has four weeks left, he should start to do that. It's really important and that's where he could improve.</s>JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, and I totally agree. Look, last night, Hillary Clinton was at Ohio State -- 18,500 people showed up. It doesn't speak to who's going to vote but it definitely speaks to enthusiasm. And look, millennials aren't stupid at all. They're very smart, they're paying attention. And just like the night of the debate there was a Muslim woman who -- a young Muslim woman who asked Donald Trump hey, how are you going to deal with Islamophobia, which what did he do? He gave an incredibly Islamophobic answer. A black man asked him hey, how are you going to bring America together as president? What does he do? He talks about inner-city violence, which he assumed because he was black that he lived in an inner city. I mean, so millennials are paying attention to that and they're listening and they're watching.</s>MCENANY: And they also don't need these answers refiltered. He said to the Islamic woman look, Islamophobia is a real problem and we've got to address it and we have to make sure that it doesn't happen. And then he proceeded to talk about Islamic terrorism and the importance of saying that word. So I think millennials see the nuance there and it's important to say that word. Which, by the way, we've learned today that in these WikiLeaks Hillary Clinton said terrorism is not a problem. This was in 2013. How prescient was she? Look at ISIS now.</s>CAMEROTA: Karine, what about the idea from Kayleigh's side that millennials are not that familiar with the Clintons -- Bill Clinton's controversial past with women and that by bringing these women into the debate, Donald Trump sort of raised awareness of what had happened in the 90s. What do you think about this?</s>JEAN-PIERRE: I think it's a -- I think it's a completely -- it's failed strategy. It's not going to work. That's not what millennials actually care about. They care about the issues of climate change, they care about college affordability, they care about income and equality. Those are the things that they care about. Now we have to remember, they grew up in a time where attacks really took over their lives and that's why issues matter to them. That's why Bernie Sanders really resonated on those types of issues.</s>MCENANY: I think it -- I think they care deeply about this because look, there's a revolution on college campuses. I was on Harvard Law School's campus last year. Sexual assault was the dominant issue among young people -- that and "Black Lives Matter".</s>MCENANY: They didn't know about it, it's important to them.</s>JEAN-PIERRE: Look, at the end of the day, especially when we're talking about "Black Lives Matter" there's only one candidate meeting with "Black Lives Matter". There's only one candidate that's talking about implicit bias. She spoke about it in the first -- in the first debate. There's only one candidate who has the support of the "Mothers of the Movement" and I think that's what matters. That's what they care about.</s>MCENANY: And Donald Trump has talked about Sandra Bland. He said that that was wrong.</s>JEAN-PIERRE: No, no. What Donald Trump --</s>MCENANY: The situation --</s>JEAN-PIERRE: Not at all. What Donald Trump has done is that he goes in front of a majority of white audiences and does a character assassination of the black community. And what does he offer? Hey, what do you have to lose?</s>CAMEROTA: OK, ladies, thank you for spelling out both of your positions. Really appreciate it. What do you all think? You can find me on Twitter @AlisynCamerota. I'd love to read your comments. OK, we're following a lot of news including the growing turmoil in the GOP. Let's get right to it.</s>REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), HOUSE SPEAKER: I meant what I said and it is still how I feel.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: People that can't fix a budget but then they start talking about their nominee. Isn't it really sad?</s>SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: I no longer support Donald Trump.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Any of you see that debate? I'm not sure you'll ever see anything like that again.</s>TRUMP: If they want to release more tapes we'll continue to talk about Bill and Hillary Clinton.</s>CLINTON: He just doubled down on his excuse that it's just locker room banter. That is just a really weak excuse.</s>TRUMP: WikiLeaks -- I love WikiLeaks.</s>CLINTON: We now know who Donald Trump is, but the real question is who are we?</s>ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.</s>CUOMO: Good morning, welcome to your NEW DAY. Up first, is there a Republican civil war happening right now? House Speaker Paul Ryan declaring he can no longer defend his party's nominee. He says the focus has to be keeping control of the House and Senate.</s>CAMEROTA: This, as the first national poll is out after Trump's vulgar comments on that audio surfaced. They show Trump's 11 points behind Hillary Clinton today. Trump is promising to ramp up attacks against the Clintons. Only eight days until the final debate and just four weeks left until Election Day. CNN has every angle covered for you. Let's begin with chief political correspondent Dana Bash. Good morning, Dana.