Let's turn our attention now to a battle of political wills. Alex Wayne is our White House sedator for Bloomberg News. He can be followed on Twitter at A A Wayne and he joins us from Washington, d C, home to Bloomberg one and one oh five point seven h D two. Alex Wayne begin by telling us the results of the latest poll for who will win in the battleground state of Ohio. Yeah, more bad news for Hillary Clinton today. Bloomberg Politics poll finds that she's down five points to
Trump in Ohio. That's quite a big swing from from really just a month ago, and she had been leading in Ohio. And it's of course probably I don't know if it's the most important battle ground. That's probably Florida, and she can pick up the most votes in Florida, but it's maybe second. Well. I think what's interesting about Ohio, alex is that it comprises many different kinds of people.
If you look at if you look at race, if you look at what people do, you've got anybody, you know, from farmers to you know, inner city people to you know. And I think as far as an important state to win, it seems to me that if Donald Trump can somehow if he gets a majority there, does it suggest perhaps that he is capturing more of the middle than a
lot of people thought he could. You know, I looked at Ohio's demographics a few weeks ago because I'm curious about this myself, and it turns out it's an awfully white state. It's wider than Georgia, for example. Um, so I am not terribly surprised that Obama excuse me, that Trump is doing better there than in other parts of the country like Virginia, which is probably a more diverse state. Tell us about the schedule that Hillary Clinton has set
for herself. Uh, perhaps after her recuperation from pneumonia, She's back on the trail tomorrow on Thursday with a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. My old stomping grounds actually used to work down there. Uh. And then I think we can expect her to resume a pretty pretty ambitious schedule of fundraising and retail politics and up to the election. So what does the Bloomberg Politics team learned from its
its contacts inside Hillary Clinton's campaign? Was there a lesson learned by them or was it oh well, no big deal. So what people are making too much of this. I haven't seen much remorse about the way they handled the pneumonia announcement. UH, you know this, this is a campaign and a candidate with a pension for secrecy. I don't I don't think that's unfair to say, and I don't think they're going to change the way they do things just because they got punched on the nose by the
media or how they disclosed her illness. Tell us about New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his probe into one of Donald Trump's operations, his charitable foundation one good partisan which Hunt deserves another on Twitter? UM, I think, I mean, it's it's hard not to view this as straight up payback for the investigations in the Clinton Foundation
by the Republican Congress. UH. He may have more to work with and the Trump Foundation than Republicans doing the Clinton Foundation, because there's really not any evidence that the Clinton Foundation has not anything wrong, whereas, according to some excellent reporting in the Washington Post, has been doing. The Trump Foundation has probably violated the law a couple of times through UH essentially a campaign donation to UH Florida's
Attorney general, which charities are not supposed to do. And also Trump apparently used money from his charity to buy a portrait of himself for himself. That's usually a no no, yeah, well can I ask you a question, But again, remind us what the what the what was being investigated with the Clinton Foundation, because my recollection is a certain extent. The charge was that, for example, there were uh donors who donated substantially the Clinton Foundation who later did business
with this did business whatever with the State Department. However you say what they did and they were looking for approvals, are looking for things to get done that got done, and that was that Uh wasn't but that was not the charge. But just remind us exactly what it was. That it was not breaking the law, but somehow it
was under scrutiny. The allegations were that yes, uh donors, particularly foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation, were in exchange gaming access to the Secretary of State and getting the State Department to help them with stuff. Uh. Really the only case where there's any uh, there's any really legit
spoke behind that allegation. There was this uranium mining deal in Russia where Bill Clinton got involved with the person trying to secure the Russian deal, and the person gave money to the Clinton Foundation, and he also got some help from the State Department uh in that deal. I it was reported a while back, and I don't remember whether he succeeded in securing rights to minoranium in Russia or whatever, but he did get both Bill Clinton's assistance
and some help from the State Department. The argument there was that I believe the State Department said, our actions on behalf this individual or or based on us interests, not his contributions to the to the Clinton Foundation. So and I don't think that the quid was ever proved, and the quid pro quo, that is, I don't I don't know that we ever we ever established that he gave money to the Clinton Foundation and as a result,
the State Department did something for him. There are lots of examples of people at the Clinton Foundation asking the State Department to do things for donors and then apparently not getting them. So again, not a lot of evidence that they've actually broken the law or even done anything
particularly wrong. Alex Wayne, thank you so much for joining us late us on the campaign trails, the race to the White House, and in fact alex is White House editor fort Bloomberg News based in Washington, d C. I'm Caffeine Hayes along with Pim Fox, and this is Bloomberg. H