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Melania Trump Gives First Speech Since GOP Convention; Melania Trump: Social Media Can Be "Too Rough"; Melania Trump: "Some Women Have Been Left Behind"; Trump Aloud to Self: "No Sidetracks, Donald"; Cruz Stumps for Trump After Calling Him "Coward"; Ex-Rival Ted Cruz: I Voted For Donald Trump; Trump and Clinton Woo Women Voters Around Philadelphia; Obamas and Clinton Campaign Together on Election Eve; Cursed No More: Cubs and Fans Revel in World Series Win; Cubs Fans Celebrate Championship, 108-Year Drought Ends; Cursed No More: Cubs Fans Rejoice in World Series Win; Fans Swarm Relatives' Graves to Revel in Cubs' Win. Aired 2:30-3p ET

Aired November 03, 2016 - 14:30   ET

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[14:30:00] MELANIA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S WIFE: Make America great again is not just some slogan. It is what has been in his heart since the day I met him.

Over the years of our marriage, I have watched my husband grow more and more concerned as he sees American workers suffer. I have watched him get frustrated as he sees parents struggle to care for children while working outside the home. I have watched him as he sees, over and over again, policies that make our country less strong, less secure, and less safe.

Every time my husband learned of a factory closing in Ohio or North Carolina or here in Pennsylvania, I saw him get very upset. He could see what was happening. He saw the problems, and he always talked about how he could fix them.

My family is truly blessed. The most important thing we have in our family is health and love and loyalty. Donald has built --

(APPLAUSE)

M. TRUMP: Donald has built a very successful company. The privilege to go to work each day to do a job that he loves alongside of his adult children, this is a great blessing for any parent. He had a great and fulfilling life, but Donald knew he could not sit by any more and watch what was happening in our country. And that is when this campaign, this movement, began.

(APPLAUSE)

(AUDIENCE CHANTING "TRUMP")

M. TRUMP: As Donald travels the country, he has asked some simple but important questions. What kind of country do we want? Do we want a country that is safe with secure borders? Yes.

AUDIENCE: Yes. M. TRUMP: Do we want a country where every American gets a fair shot?

Yes.

AUDIENCE: Yes.

M. TRUMP: Do we want a country that honors our constitution?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

M. TRUMP: Do we want a country that honors life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

M. TRUMP: Do we want a country that respects women and provides them with equal opportunity?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

M. TRUMP: Do we want a country where every child has access to a good education?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

M. TRUMP: Do we want our children to be safe and secure and dream big dreams? Yes.

AUDIENCE: Yes.

M. TRUMP: Do we want president who is beholden to no one but you, the American people?

(APPLAUSE)

M. TRUMP: Yes. Do we want a president who is a fighter for us and will never give up?

AUDIENCE: Yes.

M. TRUMP: Yes. Then we want Donald Trump to be our President.

(APPLAUSE)

(AUDIENCE CHANTING "TRUMP")

M. TRUMP: People have asked me, if Donald is the President, what kind of first lady will you be? It will be my honor and privilege to serve this country.

(APPLAUSE)

M. TRUMP: I will be an advocate for women and for children. Let me tell you a little bit more about what that means to me.

I'm a full-time mother to our son Baron, an incredible boy. As his father travels around the country running for president, I'm with our son. We talk a little bit about politics and a lot about life, homework, and sports. Baron has many privileges and advantages. We know how fortunate we are. Still, I have the same conversations with my son that many of you have with your sons and daughters and nieces and nephews, grandchildren and god children.

I want my little boy to know that he is blessed to have been born in a country that values individual freedom and constitutional democracy. I want our children in this country and all around the world to live a beautiful life, to be safe and secure. To dream freely of love and a family of their own someday. We need to teach our youth American values -- kindness, honesty, respect, compassion, charity, understanding, cooperation.

[14:35:24] I do worry about all of our children. As we know, now, social media is a centerpiece of our lives. It can be a useful tool for connection and communication. It can ease the isolation that so many people feel in the modern world. Technology has changed universe.

But like anything that is powerful, it can have a bad side. We have seen this already. As adults, many of us are able to handle mean words, even lies. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They are hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. This makes their life hard and can force them to hide and retreat.

Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers. It is never OK when a 12-year-old girl or boy is mocked, bullied or attacked. It is terrible when that happens on the playground, and it is absolutely unacceptable when it's done by someone with no name, hiding on the internet.

(APPLAUSE)

M. TRUMP: We have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media. It will be one of the main focuses of my work if I'm privileged enough to become your first lady.

(APPLAUSE)

M. TRUMP: I will also work hard to improve everyday life for women. The women in America are incredible. They are strong, intelligent, generous, committed, determined. With opportunity, women will advance and achieve.

But some women have been left behind, I see that. We cannot call ourselves a fully developed or advanced nation when 50 percent of our women live in poverty. When 60 million are without health insurance. When too many are choosing between basic needs like rent, food, and health care. This cannot be cannot be. We cannot afford to have more of the same. We must break with the failures of the past and embrace a future that is worthy of this great nation and her beautiful people.

(APPLAUSE) M. TRUMP: We must win on November 8th. And we must come together as Americans. We must treat each other with respect and kindness, even when we disagree. I will be there to support my husband's efforts to help all Americans when he is President.

Donald Trump will make America fair. He will make America safe. He will make America prosperous. He will make America proud. And, yes, this man I know so well, Donald Trump, with your help and God's grace, will make America great again.

(APPLAUSE)

M. TRUMP: Thank you. God bless you. And God bless this beautiful country.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: And there you have it, Melania Trump, speaking to a packed crowd there. This is in a more affluent suburb of Philadelphia there in Berwyn. You know, she talked about what we had anticipated, a little bit about her immigration story and about if she were to be first lady, how she'd really want to prioritize, you know, working for women and working for children in this country.

I've got Dana and Susan and Emily. Let me just bring all of you back in. And we'll talk about that "Aquarius" walk in song in just a second. I promise, we're going to get there.

[14:40:03] But, first, Dana, let me just ask you. I mean, I jotted down when Melania said, you know, I want to be an advocate for women and children. And then she went on and said, "Our culture has gotten too mean or too rough." She talked about bullying.

How do I ask this? I mean, her husband refers to Hillary Clinton as "crooked Hillary." We heard about "lying Ted," "low energy Jeb," not to mention some of his tweets. Would Heidi Cruz agree, for example? Like, how would you respond that?

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. I mean, yes, I was listening to that, thinking, you know, going into this speech, we were discussing the fact that we knew that she was going to be talking about trying to deal with the social media issues for children. But actually hearing the words come out of her mouth, all I kept thinking was, have you met Donald Trump? Maybe you should talk to your husband about the example that he has set on this issue.

You know, obviously, the biggest was Heidi Cruz, the fact that he retweeted something which was not very nice, making fun of her looks, comparing her, ironically, to his wife --

BALDWIN: Melania.

BASH: -- who is, as you saw there, a model. So, yes, it certainly was an interesting thing to push given the history of her husband's own social media activity. But if you can separate that, which is a big if, the idea that she's trying to relate to women who are dealing with this and men who are dealing with this in their homes, if they are parents, every single day -- I mean, I know personally my son is not old enough, luckily, to have a phone yet, but my friends who do have kids, it's a big, big problem.

BALDWIN: Yes.

BASH: Cyber bullying and getting texts and things that are just things that kids would never say to somebody's face that they do on the phone. Let me just say that that is a weird dichotomy. But just big picture as I toss it back to you Brooke, the fact that she gave this speech, regardless of who wrote it or how it came to be, again, not in her first language, not something that she does very often at all, it was a pretty remarkable performance. Just on the performance factor alone.

BALDWIN: Emily, what do you think?

EMILY JANE FOX, STAFF WRITER, VANITY FAIR: I thought she did a great job. I thought it was classic Melania Trump and, actually, classic Trump family speech where it was so polished and very well delivered, and you walk away thinking these people are so impressive. They're natural entertainers. They really have a gift for that.

But when you actually sit there and listen to what was said -- and this is true for Melania in the past and for each of his children who have spoken on his behalf -- there's very little actual personal information about their relationships. I don't think I heard a single example of how she relates to her husband other than he'll make America great again, he really believes in this country. It was true for her convention speech as well and true for the convention speeches of Ivanka and Tiffany and Donald Jr. and Eric.

Maybe they would throw in one or two personal examples of playing with, you know, blocks on their father's office floor, but you rarely hear the personal side. And if the whole point of having them on the campaign trail is to humanize him and give him that third dimension, we really don't get that very much in the Trump family.

BALDWIN: Susan, just kind of going round-robin and I want you to just jump in, but also, I think we all were texting and noting with "Aquarius." I mean, correct me, I think that's like one of the songs from the hippie musical "Hair." Maybe she's a big 5th Dimension fan, but, you know, looking at the lyrics and part of it is "harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding." Susan, what do you think?

SUSAN PAGE, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, USA TODAY: We would all hope for the lyrics of that song to become true. It doesn't really seem like it has characterized this particular campaign. I would just agree with Emily. I thought it was a missed opportunity to have her actually give us a window into what her husband is like in a way that voters have not seen him before, in a way that kind of casts him as a father or someone with, you know, a more humane side.

You know, I was struck the same thing when she spoke at the convention, that she didn't say more there. There's not an anecdote there that tells you something about the Donald Trump you didn't know before. In fact, most of that speech, with the exception of the part of being an immigrant, Karen Pence could have delivered it, saying, you know, Donald Trump is going to make America great again.

BALDWIN: You wanted more. You wanted more of the personal anecdotes.

It's what she could give us that no one else could.

PAGE: It's what she could give us that no one else could.

BALDWIN: Yes. Absolutely. Let's move off of Melania. And let me just play some sound. This is Donald Trump himself, here we are five days out, kind of, you know, poking a little bit of fun at himself, saying that -- you know, we've been talking about how he has been disciplined and staying on script. Here he was.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are going to win the White House. Going to win it. It's feeling like it already is, isn't it? Just -- we've got to nice and cool. Nice and cool. Right? Stay on point, Donald, stay on point.

(LAUGHTER)

[14:45:10] TRUMP: No sidetracks, Donald. Nice and easy. Nice. Because I've been watching Hillary the last few days. She's totally unhinged. We don't want any of that. She has become unhinged.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: Dana, let me just go back to you on that. I mean, I give him credit for just that's what we have been talking about, the fact that, apparently, Steve Bannon has been travelling with him and monitoring his Twitter feed, you know, that he is talking about substance and the rising premiums for Obamacare and this FBI reopening, you know. And he's saying, yes, I'm trying to stay on point.

BASH: He is. I mean, you kind of want to go to him and say, psst --

BALDWIN: Where were you --

BASH: -- that's actually your outside voice, not your inside voice. You're saying this out loud?

(LAUGHTER)

BASH: Because this is what he has been trained to do. It took them months and months and months, like the whole campaign, but finally. In fact, I have a story on CNN.com about all of this right now -- I call him "Teleprompter Trump" -- how they've gotten him to this point.

And you're exactly right, there are a lot of reasons, one of which is that the end is in sight and that he has finally agreed to stay focused, but another way that they have been doing it is by traveling the people who -- sort of the closest trusted advisers, whether it is Steve Bannon or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, or the RNC Chair Reince Priebus, and they try to, you know, make sure that he doesn't go off script beforehand.

One of the ways, I'm told, that they do that, these and other people, is by literally telling him to get it out before he gets on stage. Just, if you have any anger issues, if you're upset, if you're frustrated at Hillary Clinton or anybody else --

BALDWIN: Get it out now.

BASH: -- do it now before you do it on the stage.

BALDWIN: That is funny. That is funny. By the way, we were just talking about Heidi Cruz, you know, we remember the tweets and the poking fun of appearances. Now, what a difference a couple of months makes. You know, finally, Ted Cruz, he endorsed Donald Trump after, you know, words were exchanged about liars and sniveling fools and this and that.

And so, now, Senator Cruz has just spoken to the media as he's been on the stump for Trump today.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS: I'm here campaigning for Donald Trump, for Mike Pence. I recognize some of you guys are wanting to write stories suggesting divisions among Republicans. I'll make a point. I'm getting ready to get on a gigantic airplane that has Donald Trump's name painted on the side.

On Monday of this week, I voted for Donald Trump. I voted for Mike Pence.

GOV. MIKE PENCE (R), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thanks.

CRUZ: And I'll tell you, we're just a few days away from Election Day. And I'm doing everything I can to defeat Hillary Clinton because Hillary Clinton would be an absolute disaster as president. And I'm doing everything I can to keep a Republican majority in the Senate.

As Mike pointed out, I think there are many issues, front and center, in this election but none is more important than the U.S. Supreme Court.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: Susan, I think that final point about the Supreme Court is really front of mind for Senator Cruz. But I'm curious, do you think he's holding his nose as he walks up those stairs to get on that plane?

PAGE: Yes. So we're suggesting there are divisions in the GOP, you know?

(LAUGHTER) PAGE: Yes, it's us. You know, one of the weaknesses that Donald Trump has compared to Hillary Clinton are the surrogates that are out campaigning for him. She's got Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. And Donald Trump has not been able to field the top team, the A-Team, of Republicans.

We don't have George W. Bush out there. We don't have Mitch McConnell out there in serious way. We don't have Paul Ryan being willing to mention his name.

BALDWIN: Chachi.

PAGE: And then --

BALDWIN: Chachi, Susan.

PAGE: So this is a big help to Hillary especially in these final days when she's trying to turn out young voters, African-American voters. Her surrogates put her in a better position, and that is just not something Donald Trump has. In comparison, when Ted Cruz goes out there, we all revisit the stories about what Ted Cruz has said about Donald Trump and the reverse, what Donald Trump has said about Ted Cruz in the past.

BALDWIN: You make a point but I still hear the voice of Kellyanne Conway saying, well, if they've got all these folks and the race is still this tight, what's going on?

Ladies, thank you so much for all of that, with me today.

Also, another big announcement, today, the President and the first lady will be joining Bill and Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on Monday night for this mega rally on election eve. Let me bring in Stephen Collinson. He's our CNN politics senior reporter.

You know, we just saw Melania Trump in one of the Philadelphia suburbs. We talk to you about impact there this year.

STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: Yes. The Philadelphia suburbs is going to be absolutely crucial to this election. We know that Donald Trump really needs to put a Democratic state in play if he's going to get to 270 votes.

Pennsylvania has long been one of those states on his list even though it's gone Democratic in the six presidential elections. You know, the way Pennsylvania sort of shakes out in a presidential election is that the Democrats come out of Philadelphia and Allegheny County around Pittsburgh with an advantage of about 500,000 votes.

[14:50:05] The Republicans win almost everything else, all the rural counties, and you have these counties around sort of Philadelphia where there are a lot of suburban voters, suburban women voters, educated women voters, the kind of voters that Donald Trump is having trouble attracting his campaign. And that's one of the reasons why Melania Trump was there today. She's trying to appeal to these voters. Now, you know, I think it was an effective performance. There's

something effective about seeing someone who is not a professional politician give testimony to a candidate. But it's a real big political assignment to that think Melania Trump can, you know, repair the damage that Donald Trump has done to himself with those suburban voters with the "Access Hollywood" tape, with some of his rhetoric, with some of his tweets that you were talking about earlier.

But the suburban counties around Philadelphia are the key to the election for Donald Trump in many ways. The last Republican presidential candidate to win Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, George H.W. Bush, won that southeastern section.

BALDWIN: All right. Stephen, thank you so much. Again, this battleground state of Pennsylvania, we know you're going to have a mega super surrogate party on Monday night on election eve. Still waiting for news for any sort of Trump event that Monday night as well.

Meantime, we just heard from Melania Trump. We're also going to now be hearing from the President of the United States stumping, of course, for Hillary Clinton. We'll take it live. Stay right here.

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[14:55:51] BALDWIN: In the year 1908, President Lyndon Johnson was born, Babe Ruth and Al Capone were kids, the Wright brothers revealed their flying machine, the first Ford sold for a cool $850, and the Titanic was merely a drawing known as Ship 401.

And by the way, 1908, the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, until now.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here comes Bryant on the first. And the Cubs have won the World Series!

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A moment that many thought might never happen.

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BALDWIN: Magical sports. Magical. And listen to this. Cleveland was down 3-1 in the NBA championship before winning like the Cubs. Both teams won on the road.

Here's more trivia, there are 108 stitches on a baseball, the very same number of years since the Cubs won. Last night's game won in the 10th inning, eight runs, 108. When Wrigley Field was built, it was known as building 108. And when it comes to magic, whether you are a Cubs fan or not, seeing Bill Murray like this, it's pretty close to perfection along with thousands of his new friends.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I bit them off. Normally, there's this long and I bit off my nails off because I couldn't anymore -- I couldn't take the nervousness.

THEO EPSTEIN, PRESIDENT OF BASEBALL OPERATIONS, CHICAGO CUBS: One hundred and eight years. (Inaudible). They've been waiting for a team like you, boys.

(CHEERS)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm just, like, weeping openly right now. I'm covered with tears and cheers, and I just can't believe that this has happened. I was numb before and now it's all coming out. It's all coming out.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: Tears and cheers. CNN National Correspondent Ryan Young is with me outside of Wrigley where fans are proudly flying the W in November and into the off season for the first time in more than a century. Also with us, Maureen O'Donnell, obituary writer for "The Chicago Sun-times. There is a whole storyline there. So thanks to both of you for joining me.

And, Ryan, I mean, with all the pictures of the champagne and the beer, is anyone sober at Wrigley Field right now?

RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Oh, I'm not sure about that. Of course, there's a lot of kids here so I would say yes. But the idea that we've been out here so long, you know, we were out here until 3:00 last night and we could feel the party. Cub fans are fired up for this day because they've been coming out here nonstop for hours.

There's a reason why they were excited about this finally, Brooke. It's because for the first time in a very long time, in over 100 years, they could have that up there, the fact that they're World Series champions.

Look, this is the friendly confines. This is the place that you want to watch baseball. All these fans have been coming out for hours and hours because they've been waiting for this moment for quite some time.

And look, dad, I know you've been walking around. What has this meant to you, the fact that Cubs have won finally?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Absolutely insanity. It's great for everyone, for the city, for these great Cubs fans!

(APPLAUSE)

YOUNG: So, clearly, they're still excited. And you were singing a song earlier, weren't you?

BALDWIN: Oh. YOUNG: What's the song that you were seeing earlier?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nice and loud.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: We're singing, go, Cubs, go. Go, Cubs, go. In Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs are going to win today. They got the speed to go.

BALDWIN: Oh. I mean, well --

YOUNG: Aha! Awesome, buddy! Listen to that. You can hear Chicago here. The fans here are excited about it. Look, people are dressed up like Cubs fans. This has been going on for hours. And every time we think it's going to stop, it goes to another level. So, guys, this has been amazing to be a part of them. Brook, I'm sure you're going to be hearing these fans singing until next year.

BALDWIN: It doesn't need to stop. Keep the party train rolling. I'm cool that. Evidently, the bleaches of Wrigley is a special place for it indeed.

YOUNG: You got it.

BALDWIN: And, Maureen, you were talking to me at commercial break. You said you never thought you would live to see the day. You are an obit writer for the "Sun-times."

MAUREEN O'DONNELL, OBITUARY WRITER, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Yes.

BALDWIN: And I'm sure people are like, why are we talking to an obit writer. It's because so many people didn't live to see the day. And so what are you seeing in Chicago cemeteries?

O'DONNELL: There's huge posthumous devotion to the Cubs. And this is something that gets passed down from family to family to family, generation to generation, the lovable losers.

[15:00:02] It was a sort of a perverse tradition. And now that it's reversed, I think all the memories and sentimentality and nostalgia is just bubbling up, and people are going to cemeteries. They're decorating their --