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Hillary Clinton's Debate Performance Assessed; Interview with Senator Debbie Stabenow; Authorities Closing in on Drug Lord 'El Chapo'?; CNN Poll: Carson 48%, Clinton 47%. Aired 8-8:30a ET
Aired October 19, 2015 - 08:00 ET
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[07:59:54] HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: -- after all, the eighth investigation.
REP. TREY GOWDY, (R) SOUTH CAROLINA: Unless you're on the committee, you have no idea what new facts we have found.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Closing in on the notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was injured in his face and leg as authorities were closing in.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a lot of people in Mexico have a financial stake in "El Chapo" being on the run.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lamar Odom still in the intensive care unit.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Kardashian family asking the brothel owner to keep quiet.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Kardashians are for talking to the media. I just want the true story to come out.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota, and Michaela Pereira.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: I said that before.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Not me.
CUOMO: What do you say? You'd say, you stabbed my face. We say in the face. It doesn't make a lot of sense. That's is what we discuss on the show. Good morning, welcome to your new day. It is Monday, October 19th, 8:00 in the East, not just on the East
The results are in. We now have a new poll showing how Democrats and registered voters responded to the big debate. Here it is. Nearly two-thirds of Democratic viewers believed Hillary Clinton won. Check out this new CNN/ORC poll. Democrats who watched the debate judged Clinton by 27 points over Bernie Sanders. The needle against Bernie, though, didn't really move. She still holds a 16 point lead, and she leads in just about every issue statistical category. Joe Biden still third with 18 percent, but there's a storyline there as well.
CAMEROTA: OK, so more numbers to show you -- 70 percent of the Democratic voters say they are satisfied with their choices, 30 percent say they are not very satisfied or not satisfied at all. Also, take a look at the Biden factor, as Chris was saying. If the vice president decides not to run, Clinton benefits, extending her lead over Sanders to 23 points. We're also seeing some signs that voters may be growing weary of waiting for the vice president to decide. A slight majority of Democrats now believe he should not enter the race.
So issues with trustworthiness have plagued Clinton's campaign. Has she turned the tide on that? CNN's senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar is live in Washington with those numbers. What are you seeing, Brianna?
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn. And 46 percent of all those polled, representing all Americans, have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton. That's actually up two points since August. And 50 percent have an unfavorable point of view about her. That is down three percent since August. So the glass half full here is that she's heading in the right direction if you're looking at this from her campaign's perspective, but the glass half empty is that she's still underwater on her favorable/unfavorable.
When you look at Democratic leaning voters and Democratic voters, you ask them which candidate do you trust on the issues, on a myriad of issues. Look at this. Hillary Clinton performing so much better than Bernie Sanders. He's closest to her on income inequality. But check out on foreign policy -- 62 percent say that this is an issue that she would do the best on, foreign policy, a key issue that Republicans are going to bring up in a general election.
This is also the week where Hillary Clinton will be talking about foreign policy as she goes into this Benghazi committee testimony. And then overall, match her up against the Republican frontrunners, this is really interesting be. she is statistically tied with Ben Carson when you look at a national contest. Donald Trump, though, who is the Republican front runner, she bests him by five points. The margin of error, three, plus or minus. So you see there that she is beating him in this poll. This is a competitive general election matchup, Michaela, but certainly, Hillary Clinton does not have this in the bag.
MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: All right, Brianna, thank you.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, says he is not blaming President George W. Bush for 9/11, but says if he were in the White House, the attacks would never have happened. Trump's remarks drawing a sharp response from Jeb Bush, who called Trump an actor playing the role of candidate. CNN's Athena Jones live from Dallas. My goodness. Watching this from the sidelines is something.
ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Good morning, Michaela. Both of these candidates seem to believe this feud is helping them. Jeb Bush gets to show donors and supporters that he has the fire in the belly to fight for this nomination and that he's not low energy, as Trump has been saying for months. Trump gets to poke Jeb Bush, which seems to be one of his favorite pass times, and he also gets to link Bush to the past.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm not blaming George Bush, but I don't want Jeb Bush to say, my brother kept us safe.
JONES: The feud between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush is heating up.
JEB BUSH, (R) FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR: For him, it looks as though he's an actor playing the role of a candidate for president.
JONES: From the Sunday shows to social media, with Bush defending his brother's handling of the September 11th attacks.
BUSH: He united the country, he organized our country, and he kept us safe.
JONES: Bush said by repeatedly bringing up 9/11, Trump shows he's not, quote, "a serious person," and that he has grave concerns about Trump being in charge of nuclear weapons.
[08:05:05] BUSH: Across the spectrum of foreign policy, Mr. Trump talks about things as though he's still on "The Apprentice."
JONES: Trump said he was taking issue with Jeb saying during the CNN debate that his brother kept America safe.
TRUMP: The World Trade Center came down. So when he said we were safe, that's not safe. We lost 3,000 people.
JONES: The latest chapter in this battle of GO contenders began Friday, when Trump told Bloomberg Television --
TRUMP: When you talk about George Bush, say what you want, but the World Trade Center came down during his time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hold on, you can't blame George Bush for that.
TRUMP: He was president, OK.
JONES: Bush quickly fired back on Twitter, calling the GOP frontrunner pathetic. Now his campaign is mocking Trump in a new video using his own words.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who do you talk to for military advice for you?
TRUMP: I watch shows.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's one of the ways he bones up on our national security.
JONES: And fundraising off the dustup, sending this appeal to supporters, arguing that under Trump's logic, FDR should be blamed for Pearl Harbor. This as Trump assisting he could have prevented 9/11 because his tough stance on immigration would be kept the hijackers out.
TRUMP: There's a good chance those people would not have been in our country.
JONES: Meanwhile, Ben Carson made an unusual claim, saying President Bush could have used oil as leverage against Arab states to find Usama bin Laden sooner.
BEN CARSON, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think they would have known where he was.
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JONES: And Ben Carson is also defending George W. Bush, saying it's ridiculous to suggest he's responsible for 9/11. Huckabee echoed Carson, saying the blame lies with Islamic jihadists. Alisyn, Chris?
CAMEROTA: OK, Athena, thanks so much for breaking all that down for us. Let's circle back now to all the CNN new poll numbers out just this morning and what they reveal about the Democrats and Hillary Clinton. Let's discuss that with Clinton supporter Senator Debbie Stabenow from Michigan. Senator, thanks so much for being on NEW DAY.
SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW, (D) MICHIGAN: Good morning, it's great to be with you. And I love those number, I have to tell you.
CAMEROTA: I bet you do. Let's look at them. These are the first numbers since the debate. These are really telling. Let's look where Hillary Clinton is now. In September she had 42 percent of Democrats choice. After the debate she has 45 percent. Bernie Sanders went from 24 percent to 29 percent. Is this the bump that you were expecting? Should she have had more after her strong debate performance?
STABENOW: I think this is a great bump, frankly. And what it says to me is people understand when you break down all of the issues that you talked about, that they understand this is the candidate who can go the distance or everything from foreign relations to the economy to income inequality, all of the issues. And what I love is that the person that is the best qualified, most experienced, has all of the right experience to walk in on day one, is a woman. And so how great is that?
CUOMO: That is great for you. However --
STABENOW: It's great for everybody, Chris.
CUOMO: But here's why I would say -- I'm saying that. Because you have the combination of Bernie Sanders, big number, and the appetite for Joe Biden, which, in this poll, is 18 percent, you wind up having about 45 plus percent of your party saying we wish it was somebody else. Do you believe the secretary has work to do in terms of trying to knock down that unfavorable she has that people are now calling built-in?
STABENOW: I think, first of all, as we move along, that will change. She's taken all incoming -- let's face it -- from Republicans, from everybody so far, and she has done well. She's going to do well this week with the Benghazi hearing, one more time focusing on that. Hopefully we put it behind us as a country in terms of a political issue.
But I believe as people see what she's all about -- I've known her for 30 years. I've known her as a person out there trying to protect children, working with the Children's Defense Fund. I was in Beijing, China, when she gave that incredible speech, women's rights are human rights. I served with her. We came into the Senate together in 2000. And I've seen what she's all about. And the more people are hearing about her wanting to lowering the cost of college and create jobs, and focus on mental health, which I'm passionate about, and other issues that will grow the economy, I think she's going to be fine. I think she's going to do great.
CAMEROTA: Let's talk about what's going to happen on Thursday when she goes in front of the Benghazi Committee. We just had one of the committee member, Congresswoman Susan Brooks, a Republican, on, and she answered the question that Hillary Clinton herself has asked and so many Democrats have asked, what more is there to learn? What more are they looking for? She said that they now have new information that they want to ask Secretary Clinton about. So listen to what she told us on NEW DAY.
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[08:09:57] REP. SUSAN BROOKS, (R) INDIANA: So we've gotten over 57,000 new e-mails. So the committees that had investigated this before, and while I applaud their work, they did it in a shorter time frame. They didn't have the e-mails we have. None of the committees had Chris Stevens' e-mails. Chris Stevens' emails share with us what his concerns were, what his requests were. The secretary is just one fact witness. We have more witnesses to go after Thursday.
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CAMEROTA: So number one, it doesn't sound like it's going away on Thursday.
STABENOW: Right.
CAMEROTA: Number two, they have Chris Stevens' e-mails. Doesn't that sound like new material that needs to be plumed?
STABENOW: Here's what I would say. We have had, I think, eight different committees dealing with this. We know from two Republican members of the House as well as one staff member, former staff member now, that this is mainly focused on bringing downhill Clinton's poll numbers. I'm sure they're going to keep churning. I tell you what I wish they would be churning and working with us on is making sure we have enough embassy security in terms of the budget. Right now instead of developing a bipartisan budget, which is what
we're supposed to be doing right now, negotiating a bipartisan budget that doesn't cut embassy security and put the State Department in a position where they have to pick which embassy to keep safe, which is basically what they were doing because they didn't are the resources at the time, I wish they would take one less committee, one less hearing on the political pieces of Benghazi and focus on what the American people want us to get done, which is a budget that makes sense.
CUOMO: The ball is in the secretary's court now. She goes, she testifies. If there is satisfaction, it seems like he's giving back everything they're asking on, then she'll be able to help herself the most in this situation. So we'll have to see what she says, and then we'll go after it again after the testimony.
STABENOW: Right.
CUOMO: Let me ask about something else, mental health. You have a bill. I want you to discuss the bill, but do it this way. In the context of, you're getting more attention to mental health, but a lot of people who advocate in the area are saying it's not the right kind. And now the mentally ill are being blamed for this gun violence, and they're statistically less likely to be violent than people who don't have mental health. What is your Bill? How do you see the issue?
STABENOW: The great news is that we actually have moved beyond the bill to something that's going to be announced hopefully today that will begin to take effect on increasing security mental health services. And you're right, Chris, one out of four people in our country will have a mental illness, any -- during a year. And the majority of them, you know, are struggling with a brain disease. They're not going to be out committing violence. In fact, if anything, somebody will be committing violence against them.
So it's a tough issue because we need to do something about community mental health, no matter what. But we also know that when we see these gun violence issues, there is a tie in terms of lack of mental health services and what's been happening.
The good news is this -- for the first time since President Kennedy actually signed a bill over 50 years ago, the Community Mental Health Act, we have a federal strategy that'll be announced today, hopefully today. And 24 states are going to be receiving dollars to assess and plan how they bring their mental health services up, 24 hour emergency psychiatric services for the first time. Law enforcement is desperate to have this, as well as families and individuals.
The good news is they're assessing and going to be ready for new quality standards that will be put in place. The challenge is that we have provided funding for only an eight-state demonstration project. Now, if Congress really wants to do something about mental health, they'll fund the Excellence in Mental Health Act that Senator Clinton and I authored, that will, in fact, do this nationwide, because, no matter what, we need to make sure health care above the neck is treated the same way as health care as below the neck, and we have comprehensive services.
CAMEROTA: Best of luck with that. We'll be looking for the announcement later. Thank you for being on NEW DAY.
STABENOW: Thank you very much.
CAMEROTA: Michaela.
PEREIRA: An escalation on the violence in Israel. A gunman opening fire at a bus station, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding at least 11 others. The attacker, who also was armed with a knife was shot and killed. All this as joint chief's chairman makes his first trip to Israel, pledges cooperation during a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. Secretary of State John Kerry, meanwhile, is expected to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the coming days.
CUOMO: Could Mexican authorities be closing in on El Chapo? That's the question, and here's a little bit of the piece of the answer. It seems the drug kingpin got injuries on his leg and his face when he was evading authorities again in a raid last week. Now a pilot suspected of helping the fugitive is under arrest. Will he crack and help authorities? We have CNN's Rafael Romo. He is live with the very latest. What do we know about these injuries to the kingpin and what they think will happen next?
[08:14:55] RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Chris, the question this morning is, has Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo," been hiding in northwest Mexico all along and authorities just didn't know it? Well, that appears to be the case based on the massive operation launched in the area by Mexican Marines over the last few days in an effort to catch one of the most wanted criminals in both Mexico and the United States.
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ROMO (voice-over): New video emerging in intense manhunt for fugitive international drug kingpin, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Burnt out vehicles riddled with bullet holes. The gritty aftermath of massive military operations carried out in several small villages where the elusive Sinaloa Cartel leader was suspected to be hiding.
Federal authorities confirming that the notorious drug lord suffered injuries to his face and leg while making a hurried escape but, once again, evading capture. Marines storming several small towns in the rugged borderlines between Sinaloa and Durango, known as the Golden Triangle.
Shell-shocked residents describing a rain of bullets as their homes came under fire. Hundreds of terrified villagers forced to flee and seek shelter in neighboring towns. Mexican authorities say they're closing in on one of the world's most wanted men who has been on the (INAUDIBLE) since breaking out of the maximum security prison and escaping into an elaborate underground tunnel in July.
A new clip with audio emerging of the now infamous grainy prison surveillance video broadcast on the Mexican network, Televisa. It reveals loud hammering noises were being made in Guzman's cell before walking toward his private shower and virtually disappearing into thin air.
The video's timestamp indicates the prison guards didn't check on "El Chapo" until about 30 minutes after he had already vanished from his cell. It took about ten more minutes for prison authorities to enter the cell and follow the drug lord into the tunnel, arguable giving one of the world's most sought-after criminals a big head start to freedom.
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ROMO: And while the notorious drug lord got a taste of freedom, those suspected of helping him escape are in custody this morning. A pilot accused of playing a role in his escape was captured earlier this month and an additional 34 people have been arrested in connection with the July escape.
Alisyn.
CAMEROTA: Just incredible. Rafael, thanks so much for all of that background.
Meanwhile, there was a series of bizarre events on an Aer Lingus flight that led to the death of a 24-year-old man. Police say he became agitated on the flight from Lisbon to Dublin, eventually becoming violent, even biting a passenger. The pilot diverted the flight and other passengers subdued the man. But by the time the flight landed, he was unconscious and a doctor on board checked him out and he was pronounced dead.
PEREIRA: Well he's not out of the woods yet, but former NBA star Lamar Odom continues to make slow progress after waking up from a coma. The 35-year-old was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel last week. He is now able to breathe without a ventilator. He is said to be using his hands to signal communication. Later this hour, Odom's former coach, Jim Harrick, is going to join us live. We'll ask him what he has heard about his condition.
CUOMO: We got these big new poll numbers for you this morning. They show Hillary Clinton won the debate. They show why people think she won the debate. They also speak to what people still want out of the Democratic side of the ticket. Take a listen, when we come back.
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[08:21:56] CUOMO: All right. We have new poll numbers out this morning. They show one candidate and one candidate only right now ahead of Hillary Clinton in the White House race. Bernie Sanders. No. Joe Biden. No. Donald Trump. No, no, no, no. Ben Carson, narrow lead in our new CNN/ORC poll, fairing better than even Donald Trump, which means he will now be the target of attacks. No.
Let's bring in Ben Ferguson, CNN political commentator, and host of "The Ben Ferguson Show" and Jeffrey Lord, CNN political commentator, former Reagan White House political director and Donald Trump supporter.
So first thing up, Jeffrey --
JEFFREY LORD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Good morning.
CAMEROTA: Hi.
CUOMO: What do you see in this perceived Carson strength? What does he have that Trump does not?
LORD: A couple points. I really think that's about it. And these polls are going to go -
CUOMO: Why?
LORD: These polls are going to go up and down. They are close enough for me. We will see more, and we will see other things, I think. So I mean, Heavens, this is October of a year before, so we have plenty of time here.
CAMEROTA: Don't yuck our yum, Jeffrey. Don't say that polls aren't fascinating this morning, because they are.
LORD: They are in their own special way. (INAUDIBLE).
CAMEROTA: I know. They're a snapshot. Right, and we all get that. But Ben, do you think that they are as easily dismissed, that Ben Carson is beating Hillary at this point, as Jeffrey does?
BEN FERGUSON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I look at it completely differently. I think there's two things to take away from this. One, Ben Carson is able to pull a wave of support from other candidates, where maybe their supporters are not obsessed with their guy as much as maybe even some of the Ben Carson supporters early on were, and also Donald Trump supporters.
I think the other part is this. Donald Trump supporters are fanatics and that's exactly what you want as a base. He has a large base with his campaign and with his supporters. But it seems that he has peaked and it's going to be very hard for him to be able to pull away other supporters from the other candidates left in the field.
If you're on Trump's campaign right now, you really have to start looking at these polls and saying, okay, what do we need to do to reach out to Rubio supporters, Huckabee supporters, Santorum supporters, all the other people in the field? Because they may have plateaued and that can put them in a bad situation going into New Hampshire and Iowa.
CUOMO: Jeffrey, how is the answer to Ben's question -- Let's go back at 9/11 and kind of suggest that President Bush did not keep us safe?
LORD: You know, I find this an amazing discussion. Let me read you one sentence here from Ronald Reagan in the Iran-contra scandal. "I am the one who is ultimately accountable to the American people. No president should ever be protected from the truth." I see that Jeb Bush is saying that, well, would you blame Franklin Roosevelt for Pearl Harbor? In fact, a joint congressional committee in 1946 did exactly that. So I'm not really sure, with your president, whatever happens on your watch, you are responsible for. Whether your name is Bush or Clinton or whether you're Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Benghazi. You are responsible.
FERGUSON: Jeffrey, the difference there is, you just used the word, "scandal." It was a scandal while he was the president. That is completely different than a terrorist attack on 9/11. You know there's a difference between the two.
[08:25:06] LORD: No, no. Ben, Ben --
FERGUSON: And that's the part that's such a head-scratcher here -
(CROSSTALK)
FERGUSON: No, no, let me be clear - When you have a scandal -
LORD: (INAUDIBLE)
FERGUSON: Hold on - let me - Jeffrey, hold on a second. When you have a scandal and you are the president, that is completely different than a terrorist attack like 9/11. And it should be acknowledged that those are different circumstances. So let's not use --
LORD: Ben, in the words -
(CROSSTALK)
FERGUSON: So let's not use Reagan's word ---
(CROSSTALK)
CUOMO: All right. Jeffrey, respond.
CAMEROTA: Hold on. Go ahead, Jeffrey.
LORD: In the words of John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs, "I am the responsible officer of the government." That's a fact.
FERGUSON: That was a decision made by the president.
LORD: Hillary Clinton was the responsible officer of the government for Benghazi.
FERGUSON: Totally agree.
CAMEROTA: But we're talking about 9/11.
FERGUSON: Totally agree.
CAMEROTA: So -
(CROSSTALK) LORD: (INAUDIBLE) in Benghazi.
CAMEROTA: Yeah, so Jeffrey, you hold George W. Bush responsible, as Donald Trump does, for 9/11?
LORD: Look, I like President Bush. I think he did a great job in the aftermath of 9/11. Truly, I think he was fabulous. But the fact of the matter is, he was president when this happened. There's nothing remarkable about saying that.
CUOMO: Did he keep us safe?
LORD: Afterwards, he did. But -
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CUOMO: Because that's the assertion that Jeb Bush makes. That's what got the applause line at the debate. It does seem that this is Trump's opportunity or his tactic to defeat that premise.
LORD: You know, there's one other thing, Chris, here, that I should point out. This is what I call the Reagan-Bush divide. Within the Republican Party, President Reagan departed office with a 68 percent approval rating according to "The New York Times"/CBS poll. President Bush 43 left with a 22 percent approval rating. There is a real schism here, and I think Donald Trump has ultimately decided that he's going to identify with the Reagan side of this rather than the Bush side.
CAMEROTA: OK. Ben, what do you think about -- How do you think it helps Trump to bring this up?
FERGUSON: I think he has a personal war with Jeb Bush and any time he has a chance to attack him, he's going to do it. But these are the types of attacks that politically, to me, do not make sense. I think it's what allows him to peak in the numbers and not bring in new people.
When you imply that George Bush somehow, it's his responsibility to stop 9/11, something that had been literally years in the planning before he'd even thought about running for the White House, and to say that, somehow, that was his fault --
LORD: Which was President Clinton's responsibility.
(CROSSTALK)
FERGUSON: Let me finish. I agree. See, that's where you and I would agree. If Bill Clinton was president at the time, and the day before 9/11, he's talking about, I could have gotten Osama bin Laden but I didn't because some innocent people would have been killed and we're better than that, that's a fair criticism. But if Donald Trump was president on 9/11, I would not criticize him for implying that somehow it's his fault that 9/11 happened.
These are the types of conversations from the Trump campaign and from Donald Trump that I think are his biggest liability because most people remember 9/11 happened, that was done on their time, on their doing and in an insane way that no one could even conceptionalize. Using planes as missiles. And to then say somehow that George Bush is responsible? Not only is it irresponsible to say that, it's rewriting history.
LORD: He was president when it happened and when you are president, again, to quote JFK after the Bay of Pigs, you are the responsible official of the government.
FERGUSON: The Bay of Pigs was a political decision. The Bay of Pigs -- You should understand this. That's a political decision by the president to go in and to do something. 9/11 was not a decision of the president of the United States of America.
(CROSSTALK)
CAMEROTA: Look --
CUOMO: All right. Well here's one thing for sure --
LORD: It was a political decision not to go after Osama bin Laden between January 20th of 2001 -- and September 11.
CUOMO: -- for the GOP to win this election, they need the Jeffrey's Lords --
LORD: -- and September 11. That was a political rendition.
CUOMO: Here's one thing's for sure. For you guys to win this race, you need the Jeffrey Lords and the Ben Fergusons on the same page. So you guys are going to have to figure out which way this issue slices --
LORD: We're getting there sentence by sentence.
(LAUGHTER)
CUOMO: Sentence by sentence. Well, thank you very much. We didn't even get to talk to you about Benghazi. So now we're going to have to wait for the testimony and then bring you both back in and see how much congratulations you have for the former secretary of state.
LORD: Accountability is the key word.
FERGUSON: Sounds good.
CAMEROTA: All right, guys. Thank you.
CUOMO: Now when it comes to accountability, no one speaks for Donald J. Trump as well as he does. So tomorrow morning, we will test his latest statements and bring you national poll numbers and his take on them from the GOP field. Please, feel free to tune in.
Mick?
PEREIRA: Lamar Odom is taking small but critical steps to recovery after he was found unconscious inside a Nevada brothel. Can he make a full recovery? We're going to talk to someone who knows him very well, his mentor and former college coach, Jim Harrick, ahead.
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