donald trump is still running against donald trump. until they come to grips with that, they are just not open -- there's just a huge part of the country that's not open to anything that donald trump has to say. he needs to talk more about himself and about donald trump and what he would do. i think he needs to be more specific in his regret so that it has some actual meaning and resonance with people. and then i think americans will always give someone a second chance but only if they ask and say they need it. >> you mentioned the debates and we are at a place where people are starting to talk about debate prep. you were very involved in mitt romney's debate prep. he did pretty well in his first debate against barack obama. what advice would you give hillary clinton as she starts thinking about how to prepare to take on donald trump in the first debate? >> well, debates are like most things in life. the best practice is to have done it. she's done a lot of these now. i think that's really going to help her. going into these debates. e

trump. this last-minute presentation. puck it off under a shroud of secrecy. >> officials warn that moving so quickly was enadvisable. it was a security concern. trump did it anyway. there is now some real fallout. from the beginning, trump said he would build a wall and who is going to pay for it? mexico, right? that's what we hear at all the rallies. now, president pena nieto said he is not paying for it. that's not what donald trump. during his join statement. he said the issue payment never came up. how can he put with it the very fiery tone we often see from trump on the campaign trail? it is sort of yin and yang how they fit goat a key big day for his campaign. >> that's the question. obviously as you say, his campaign was looking to present a presidential tone in terms of how he perform down there in mexico city. this is a candidate you know better than anybody else. you put him in front of a crowd that wants the red meat. he seems to rise to the occasion. what is your read of it? wha

no donald trump yeah, yea no donald trump no donald trump yeah no donald trump no donald trump yeah no donald trump no donald trump yeah, yea am i trippin'? let me know i thought all that donald trump bull-- was a joke know what they say when rich dudes go broke.. look, reagan sold coke, obama sold hope donald trump spent his trust fund money on the vote i'm from a place where you prolly can't go speakin' for some people that you prolly ain't know it's pressure built up and it's prolly gon' blow and if we say go then they're prolly gon' go you vote trump then you're prolly on dope and if you like me then you prolly ain't know and if you been to jail you can prolly still vote we let this clown win, we gon' prolly feel broke you built walls? we gon' prolly dig holes and if your ass do win.ù yea, yeah! no donald trump no donald trump yeah, yea, no donald trump yeah, yeah, no donald trump yeah, no donald trump yeah, no donald trump yeah, yea, no donald trump yeah, yeah, no donald trump, yeah, yeah, no donald trump, yeah we the youth we the people of tomorrow of this country we got a vo

rejecting trump. coming out against donald trump. citing, constant stream of cruel comments and says she has to accept what she calls the unpleasant reality that trump won't change. more republicans turning against their nominee. many people saying donald trump's repeated use of that phrase coming under scrutiny. critics charge he's using it to camouflage distorted claims. now even sparking a twitter trend. who are these people? do they even exist? >>> and spied from the sky. satellite photos reveal what appears to be reinforced airplane hangars on islands built by china and disputed territories. the buildings are big enough to house any of china's fighter jets even though the country promised it won't militarized the islands. how will the u.s. respond? >>> we welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. there's alarms by remarks by donald trump some see a threat against hillary clinton's life and trump supporters insist were only encouraging gun right

they're anti-trump. this has brought up trump's history of belittling the military, from john mccain. >> i want to build on what you just said. i think -- >> no. i'm still here. >> basically what you're talking about, you're saying that donald trump wanted to highlight the fact that there's a problem with radical islamist terror. let me play for you how donald trump tried to explain what he thinks has angered mr. khan. >> border security is very big. when you have radical islamic terrorists probably all over the place -- we're allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. and i think that's what bothered mr. khan more than anything else. i'm not going to change my views on that. we have radical islamic terrorists coming in that have to be stopped. we're taking them in by the thousands. >> we've allowed them to come in by the thousands and thousands, radical islamist terrorists? that's not true. >> well, i would distagree. we've seen instances where we've actually experienced death. >> thousand

donald trump is trying. alan west reiterated the message that donald trump put forward which is you voted to the tune of 95% -- >> didn't mitt romney have higher poll numbers? >> yes, he did and so did george w. bush and so did nixon. >> they went from 1% to 2% and in north carolina he's pulling 3%. and i've seen polls for 8%. he's moving forwards and i think he will beat mitt romney's numbers and alan west's question is a profound one, is have you seen a return on your investment. >> they're essentially tied in north carolina. clinton leads trump 88% to 3% and trump has nowhere to go, but up with that number. >> he's at 1% and i think he thinks he can double it to 2%. the reality is what jamar brown said one of the people that gary interviewed, donald trump's hateful language is affecting everybody and to think that african-americans react differently than latinos who are appalled by donald trump's angry, hateful language, i think misses the point, and i think that's why he's polling so low. african-america

be trump. is the race about to get uglier? >>> street fighter. we're digging into the the background of the man who's running trump's campaign. will he live up to his billing as the most dangerous political operative in america? >>> under scrutiny. more questions about donations to the clinton foundation as a major newspaper urges hillary and bill clinton to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest and end the foundation's work if she wins the white house. >>> and out of control. a massive wildfire is raging in southern california. it's quickly burning through homes and neighborhoods east of l.a. and many people have been warned to evacuate before it's too late. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." >>> tonight, donald trump has been entrusted with classified information about america's security. his first closed-door intelligence briefing just wrapped up a few hours after he met w

so trump, not trump, david patraeus. he said no, he was going to write in somebody else entirely. >> unendorsing trump, but not endorsing clinton, correct? >> no, not at all. because hillary clinton was for the iran agreement and i can't support someone who was for the iran agreement. >> who will you be voting for and writing in? >> in my case, i will be writing in colonel powell. >> colin powell is enthusiastic supporter of the iran agreement. so now he's back to supporting david patraeus. he's telling all of his supporters in illinois that they should also cast write-in votes in the presidential election. there's problem with that, in illinois write-in ballots are not counted for people who are not officially registered in candidates. he's encouraging millions of people that will not be counted. leadership. and also happens in senator mark kirk is locked in a very tough race of his own. he's at real risk of losing his senate seat. that's why he said that the president's policy in iran had him acting like the drug deale

one other point, the republicans and trump supporters and non-trump supporters are rolling their eyes why did you do this today when there is sustained clinton attention. why would you do it? >> secretary clinton will be on the program and we will obviously talk to her a lot. john king, dana bash, david axelrod, plenty more to come and we'll monitor the trump rally to bring you news on the immigration. and the clinton foundation story and her camp company's counterattack, plus with donald trump in the middle with the outreach to african-american voters and we'll tell you a defining moment of his battle with the justice department over allegations the company systematically kept african-american tenants out of trump buildings. what body aches? what knee pain? what sore elbow? advil liqui-gels make pain a distant memory nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain? advil. i thodid the ancestrydna toian. find out i'm only 16% italian. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didn't know about. looktry align probi

trump. hat you see is what you get. donny: mark, how vulnerable is she on the economy and how much is him moving some of the issues to the left does she start to get flagged in? mark: the child care thing might sound good, the clinton campaign says it benefits wealthier people. some people at least don't like the way things are going and he has got a more populist change oriented stance on the economy. even though a lot of things he is arguing before is just as much status quo as what she is for and they're tired republican ideas and she has tired democratic ideas, she is vulnerable to someone who says i have a sense of what working class people need. it's more the atmospherics than the proposals. by adding dense republican orthodoxy, he is doing something that suggests change. i ask all of the clinton people, tell me an area, one position she has that is against democratic party orthodoxy has, they can't name one. donny: all because she got pulled to the left, a guy named bernie sanders. ma

has this new team and trump will be trump. he has talked about crooked hillary. won't the attacks become worst? >> that's what we would expect. especially when you have steve bannon running his campaign, if you've taken even a casual glance at some of the coverage coming out of breitbart this election season, regarding hillary clinton and her close aides, that is a sort of thing that we should be expecting now to hear from the mouth of donald trump. so i am expecting that his rhetoric will get much harsher, steve bannon is described by some people as a political street fighter. he plays hard, and some would say dirty. so that's what we can expect now out of the trump campaign. now it is no surprise of course, that they would focus on this issue. he is trying to portray hillary clinton as corrupt as someone who puts herself above the law, and above average people. and the e-mail issue plays into that narrative. very, very well for him. as long as this is in the conversation, as long as republicans can keep this conversation goi

i think this is trump's trump, basically. so, i actually think this is a guy who's going to reinforce the let trump be trump narrative. i think he's going to be very agre aggressive and tell trump what trump wants to hear. not to say that's necessarily bad advice, but it's sometimes helps to have someone confirm what you believe. so, if trump was ever going to go after hillary, i think the odds are now dramatically increased that he will be very aggressive. >> i want to ask you about roger ailes. and he's going to help trump with the debates. >> we know that these are two friends that have been friends for decade sas. it makes sense they're sharing advice with each other. these phone calls are happening and will continue to happen. we know they met up over the weekend at trump's golf course as well. so, ailes can bring a lot of television expertise to the table and help trump with the new channel perhaps. >> kellyanne conway is going to help the new campaign manager. do you think kellyanne can do it, keep him on message? >> w

trump. >> okay. so we're covering all the angles of the story this morning. we start in mexico city with john bobbing ahead of trump's visit. he's on the phone. john, take it away. >> caller: i'd like to say donald trump not popular in mexico to say the least. not just because of tough words on immigration. he's had a tough policy on trade as well. mexico has bnt focus of his campaign since the day it began. keep in mind, this is the place that makes pinatas of trump. also, the current president of mexico, enrique pena nieto, back in march he drew a line connecting trump and fascist dictators in europe. he said there have been episodes in human history where this strident rhetoric led to ominous situations in the history of humanity. >> oh, my goodness. we lost him. i apologize for that. because i was really excited myself to hear what john vause has to say. donald trump is head today mexico before his big speech in arizona that will happen sometime later this morning. as you heard john vaus

trump. the gop senator even telling jamie gangel that trump poses a risk to the nation. >> donald trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous. >> her announcement coming soon after a group of 50 gop national security officials said they can't back trump either, arguing he would put at risk our country's national security. trump quickly dismissed the snub. >> these are 50 people that have been running our country forever, and they said we can't support donald trump. the reason they can't, you know why? because i'm not going to hire these people. i don't want these people. >> reporter: as he struggles to keep his matter in line and lags in the poll, trump says the key to the victory is more of the same. >> i've always had a good temperament and it's got me here. we've beaten people in the primaries and i don't think it's appropriate to start changing when you've been winning it as well as finding openings to hammer his democratic opponent and today mocking clinton wh

he seemed to avoid escalating his feud with trump. trump has been on script for 72 hours. how is the unity project which his campaign does care about going? donny: interesting on script. doesn't he look so uncomfortable on script. he wants to rip up that script. it's not where he excels. look, they are necessary bedfellows. we can talk, at some point they bail out the down ticket, you want a check and balance on the congress and the senate against this democratic president, 80% of all toss-up senate elections in the last 12 years have gone to the presidential winner. so these senators across the board, congressional issues are different, they're going to make, it's moving that direction as you said, typical republican platforms as far as the economy, a little bit of a bridge towards ryan issues, it's fine. we all know at any moment it can blow. mark: i think in the end, if he is doing poorly after the first debate, you may see more separation. today was a big step. weeks ago as paul ryan started unveiling all of these policy proposals, this is ideal for trump. he has no po

he's the problem -- the problem with trump is trump. all this stuff about pivoting and teleprompters, it's still trump. >> what do you do in the clinton campaign in a situation like this. you're watching him attack a gold star family, days later, less than a week of dust is cleared after that and here he says this thing today that gets the secret service interested in what he had to say. is -- i mean, is there something -- is there a way for the clinton campaign just to kind of sit back and let this happen? >> well, yeah, she's problematic candidate. they don't want the spotlight on her, trump does. i think what they have to do is keep the heat on trump because he'll keep doubling down and picking fights with the media and being trump, which is a gift to them. i think they're doing a good job. there are two trees they have to chop down, so to speak of perception. >> mike, i'm sorry, i have to interrupt you. paul ryan is taking the podium in wisconsin. we all want to listen to this. >> first of all, i want to say thank you, and welcome t

trump's part. he's the best hope to keep the arizona senate seat which helps republicans in the senate and the better john mccain does in arizona, the more it will help donald trump. john mccain's primary opponent would get beat by 15 points in the general election. paul ryan will win his congressional district very handily. the person running against him is an unknown. i saw him on tv last night. paul ryan will run up the numbers in his congressional district, helping mr. trump. our senate candidate and everybody else running in wisconsin. so it's pretty short sighted to attack people who actually will help you by being on the ballot with them. >> what do you think is behind it? do you think it's just because he holds a grudge? >> yeah, i've said all along he can't take criticism. if you really want to be president of the united states, this is the best chance you'll get. you're running against somebody most people don't want to vote for, they don't trust, they don't like. the reason you're doing

we had barack obama slamming donald trump. we have seen polls slamming donald trump. it all goes to one word, temperament. does this go to that? >> it does. a lot of people are talking about convention bumps. i think it's a comment bump you are seeing hillary be the recipient of. saying if you can beta man with a tweet, you can't trust him with nuclear weapons. that gets to the core of what voters are looking at this election season, the temperament of donald trump. hillary clinton comes across as statesman like and donald trump comes across as silly. charles: i got a statement from the paul ryan campaign, the campaign spokesperson said neither speaker ryan nor anyone on his team have ever asked for donald trump's endorsement and we are confident in a victory next week regardless. this is a big issue. it's become a big issue and i think it's bleeding over into some other areas. i think it was a cnn poll that show donald trump tied with hillary clinton. foreign policy 59, he is 36. i don't think the american public doesn't think he's not good on these things, i think i

donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. donald trump. >> donald trump. donald trump. donald trump. >> donald trump. >> they obviously got to the pope and tell him what a bad guy donald trump is. he doesn't know me. >> doesn't know me. never met me. doesn't know what i'm all about. >> she doesn't know me. she knows nothing about me. >> they are really trying to stop me. everybody knows it. >> everybody knows about me. >> the "new york times" i call it the failing "new york times." >> failed. failed. >> failed horribly. >> they're friends of mine. >> hillary's a great friend of mine. her husband is a great friend of mine. >> tom brady's a great friend of mine. >> friend of mine. >> some are friends of mine. >> get him out of here. get him out. get him out of here. >> get him out of here. get him out. >> get him out of here. get him out. >> get them out of here. go ahead. get them out. >> you can get the baby out of here. >> we don't know where they come from really. this could be the all time great trojan horse. >> this could

trump. we expect them to talk about illegal immigration, trade policy and of course drugs. as we were coming in here to mexico city, this was certainly the talk of the city and the talk of the country, fob quite frank here. during talk radio, you could hear people calling in. the sentiment of the country seems to be one of bewilderment that mr. trump would come here and quite a bit of anger, many saying they don't welcome here. in a recent poll by mexican media, only 4% of mexican haves a good opinion of mr. trump. that's in stark contrast with hillary clinton who hovers around 77%. so we do know mr. trump will make his way here against some folks that are very reluctant to see him or possibly even host him. that will be happening here, craig, it looks like in the next few hours. >> also this new twitter war that started a short time ago here. donald trump tweeting first, quote, former president vincente fox who is raling against my visit to mexico also invited me when he apologized for usin

he accused trump of nasty things. trump is stubborn. trump didn't delete 33,000 emails. trump didn't send out secret information. trump didn't lie about the fbi. hillary did all that stuff. and if you look at peter schweizer's piece in the "wall street journal" this morning. there is evidence they were dealing with the russians. evidence that secretary she approved things that helped the russian military number of things news media could be excited by if they want to do take this race serious solid unbelievable. the only thing the elite media wants to do is go after donald trump. >> i'm a little one beat off in the sense to say what i really find sort of distasteful it's like my grieving parent is more grieving than your grieving parent. i don't like parties playing grieving parent. to me both the parents are in some way being used and i hate it you can argue they are being used and at some point they want to do be used. >> no. i get that. >> and i think when you look at mrs. smith and you realize she is telling you that hillary clinton looked her in the eye, just this c

donald trump. steve has always wanted, in my opinion, to be very close to power. he's latched on to politicians ranging from michele bachmann to sarah palin to andrew breitbart and now donald trump. steve will help him be more focused and down dowuble down which i don't think is bad but andrew spent a lot of time talking about the media complex was a terrible, terrible thing, unspoken assumption that all of the members of the media and now we have the same thing on the right with breitbart and trump. >> why would you argue that bannon giving him advice, that you would presume to be more trump-like and militant would serve donald trump? i ask you this because there's so many in the republican establishment who say that is not what he should be doing. he should be calming down a little bit, trying to reduce the drama so he can attract people in the middle of the political spectrum. >> as you probably know, i understand that trump has no capacity to control himself and be this sort of stayed politicia

trump. thank you so much! and if you would all like to join us for lunch, we have a strolling lunch. we need you to leave in this door. the food is in the next ballroom. you can eat in the atrium, outside on the patio. it is a beautiful day. thank you all for coming. with that, this meeting is adjourned. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> gop senators susan collins has announced she will not be voting for donald trump in november. she wrote in a "washington post" opinion piece, "this is not a eecision i mak lightly, but donald trump does not have the appropriate approach for healing our country." our road to the white house coverage on the c-span networks. the political director for abc news is joining us on the phone from washington. thanks for being with us. news.com, calling this a new version of donald trump's economic plan. how did he

trump campaign, right? it seems to me i ought to be able to get newly announced campaign manager kellyanne conway to come on this show. i would love to talk with you, kellyanne conway, about the campaign, the way that i have twice now been able to talk with your counterpart, robby mook, about the campaign. it only seems fair. kellyanne conway is great on tv. she has done a ton of tv over the course of her career, at this network, at other networks. she's available unavoidable for comment on cable news, right? i'm cable news! come on! it will be fun! kellyanne conway, hello! it will be great to have you here. you are most welcome here. i would love to have you. and here's a sweetener. i'll help you cheat. if you do agree to do an interview here on this show, i'll tell you what i'm going to ask you first. my first question is going to be this. where do you start? with a problem as big as the problem you have right now. larry sabato is director for the center of politics at the university of virginia. he's the

happens to be the trump family home. this played out for about three hours with the elite severances unit, removing windows, cutting you this grill work. positioning themselves to take action. when the right moment came, it all happened very, very quickly. you can see the officers there reaching out, grabbing the climber, dragging him in, very quickly. from there he was taken to bellevue hospital for psychiatric evaluation. donald trump was not home at the time. he was on the campaign trail the day after controversial remarks about second amendment people stopping hillary clinton if she is elected president. speaking in sunrise, florida, donald trump had plenty to say about her as well as sharp words. headline making words, perhaps, for president obama. >> isis is honoring president obama. he is the founder of isis. he is the founder of isis. okay? he founded isis. and i would say, the co-founder would be crooked hillary clinton. that was donald trump just moments ago. jim acosta is at the event. he joins us now. donald

if he separates himself from trump, he could lose trump voters. if he attaches himself too much to trump he could lose swing voters. two things for paul ryan to worry about. to talk bhomore about this trump/ryan war, i want to bring in chris cillizza, founder of the fix blog. donald trump couldn't resist yesterday. paul ryan critical of him, and he basically seemed to deliver the message. if you can say that about me, i can do something right back to you. >> it's fascinating. i read through the transcript. this san interview my colleague did with trump. there's two things that stand out. one, trump is basically talking directly to paul ryan and saying, well, you know, the other guy has been saying nice things about me. i'm sort of on the fence. i wonder what you could do. like this is very much a sort of threatening without saying a word i'm going to get you. but you don't want me to be on the side of your primary opponent. they go off in another tangent after he talks about paul ryan. he comes back and says do you want me to answer that paul ryan

trump? >> reporter: that's right. >> interesting. >> reporter: that's right. that's what we're seeing right now. right. exactly. that's the question here. some republicans aren't willing to go the step further here so where do they go? >> all right. talk to me about what secretary clinton is doing today. she responded very quickly to donald trump's speech on the economy. what did she say? >> reporter: she did. she painted donald trump as having old ideas. it almost seemed like a flashback today. this campaign seems so new and fresh. today it seemed old and stale. she said his ideas are old, she talked about trickle-down economics. but more importantly, she went hard after his business record. again trying to make the point that he is someone who hasn't always paid his bills. he's someone who does not make his products here in the u.s. so trying to undercut his strength as a businessman. of course, it works among her supporters. doubtful it works among his. >> jeff zeleny with this breaking n

that's the trump tower. that's donald trump's office building. he works there, he lives there, and there was a man suction-cupping himself to the glass and trying to scale the tower. you see there, police got involved, this pretty bold, pretty daring. i guess you'd say it's a rescue. the guy didn't want to be brought back inside. they did it anyway. this was quite a scene that played out. it was on local tv here, national tv, more than two hours. this looked like the only thing people were watching. if you caught a glimpse of this, you couldn't take your eyes off it. you don't see it every day. again, that was at trump tower here in new york city. thought we would show you what played out this afternoon. a bizarre scene. >>> meanwhile, away from trump tower today, on the campaign trail, the fall-out continuing for donald trump, from his comments yesterday, that supporters of the second amendment could maybe do something to stop a president hillary clinton from appointing judges. some saying it was a clear and blunt incitement to violence by donal

trump's big week. with me now a trump supporter and a clinton supporter. paris, let's start with huma abedin. does mr. trump have proof that huma abedin is sharing state secrets with her husband? >> no, i don't think mr. trump or anybody has actual proof that she was sharing top secret information with her husband. >> why go there, paris? >> what it does raise is the seriousness of the issue of having a secret server and having top secret information that was accessible to a lot of people. and as the fbi said -- >> how does connecting anthony weiner to that -- >> because you have a person who has exercised bad judgment. if he's in incapable of keeping his own son out of his sexting escapades, certainly one would make the conclusion that he's not able to have good judgment as to information that his wife may or may not have shared with him. >> i want to clear this up. trump says that huma abedin is sharing secret information that she the got from hillary clinton with her husband anthony weiner who's pas

>> i think that for everyone that does not like trump, the anti trump crowd it's a flip-flop. if you're inclined to like donald trump given the benefit of the doubt he's working out a policy. >> he's evolving. >> he's evolving. you know, he's had a lot of tough rhetoric and maintained the wall stance and mexico is going to pay for it. he's unclear in the mass deportation. he's only brought up the deportation force in interviews with msnbc and hasn't talked about it with his plan and rallies. he could be working out the issues and paracticality. >> how should he react and insist this is about words and tone and emphasis but when kelly ann was asked what about deportation force, she said to be determined. >> i think the media has done a good job honing in on a central issue trump talked about. the definingi issue of the campaign and vague how he plans to implement the policy. what it's done is forced him to start to really define what he's going to do. he's gotten a lot more specific about what his plans would be on immigration, about bidding a wall, e verify, things having to d

trump's worst week? >> terrible. >> after a series of self-inflicted wounds. >> i think i made a lot of sacrifices. she's the devil. i always wanted to get the purple heart. this was much easier. >> his own party once again divided. >> yeah, he's had a pretty strange run since the convention. >> now, can hillary clinton capitalize? >> i have met people who were destroyed by donald trump. >> as trump tries to steady the ship, his adviser, rudy giuliani joins us live. >>> plus, our brand-new poll. how much did trump's stumbles hurt him? we'll get a real-world reality check from swing state voters. >> do you trust him with the nuclear codes? >>> from abc news, it's "this week." here now, co-anchor martha raddatz. >>> good morning. we begin today with new warning signs that donald trump's campaign is in serious peril. yes, it's only august. trump has time. and the opportunity in the upcoming debates to turn it around. but right now, our new abc news/"washington post" poll suggests he's in a dangerous summer

i have done that. [ applause ] and believe it or not, i regret it. [ trump trump trump trump ] and i do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues. but one thing i can promise you this, i will always tell you the truth. >> regret. he couldn't bring himself to apologize. donald trump is too small a person to ever find a way of saying the word "sorry," but he took the baby step today of saying that he had regrets. he has regrets for some of the things he said, but he doesn't have the courage to say what those things are and then in the same breath he told his audience that he will always tell them the truth, which, of course, is his biggest lie. it is the unbrel lalie that covers the entire campaign. no presidential candidate in history has lied with the pathological frequency of donald trump. in his speech tonight, he demanded that hillary clinton apologize for the decision she made, policy decisions and the decision the way she ran her e-mail. but donald trump still has not yet apologized for the lies h

from donald trump what donald trump has said. i at least have not seen anyone pull back an endorsement. >> i haven't either. guys, again, there's nothing -- there is nothing more inspiring about our country than the sacrifice someone makes of their own life to defend our country. so this seems like an issue that donald trump would, in his right mind, just not touch, right, and that's why you're seeing all out.e republican statements come but to me these moments tell us again the bind the republican party's in. because when you have someone like john mccain issue this unbelievable statement rebuking what trump has said about the kan's parents and about this issue, and yet nowhere in that statement is and this is why i am completely repudiating the trump candidacy. that part is missing. same with speaker ryan. same with mcconnell. so this is what happens. the republican party gets in a bind, they feel they have to get out there and say this is clearly just wrong what he's doing and going after the mother of this fallen soldier. and

trump. he's shaking up the senior management of a campaign widely regarded to be in serious trouble. this occurs as trump begins a nominee rite of passage, classified national security briefings. carl cameron is covering the trump campaign tonight from new york. good evening, carl. >> reporter: that briefing just minutes ago wrapped up. it's his first security briefing, classified, as the presidential nominee for the republican party. it comes as he's once again retooling his campaign. trailing in the polls less than 12 weeks from election day, and donald trump is again adjusting his campaign team, installing breitbart news boss stephen bannon and kellyanne conway as campaign manager. both figure his brash off the cuff political style to a more conventional campaign. paul manafort remains with the title campaign chairman, but the addition suggests efforts by him and others failed to persuade trump to be more on message. manafort, in 2012, is reported helped ukraine funnel millions in undiscl

let trump be trump and he wants to get back to that. last night he told a local television reporter, he is not going to pivot as many had hoped. he doesn't like that word "pivot." >> i am who i am. it is me. everyone talks about, are you going on pivot? i don't want to pivot. you have to be you. if you start pivoting, you're not being honest with people. >> that's the line, i am what i am. i am joined by the round table. with the "boston globe." the singled indicated columnist with the "chicago tribune." and tom roggin with the national review. the great magazine which i grew up reading. what do you make of it? i know kelly. every time she come on here she knees hillary. no matter what i ask, it is right at hillary. >> i think the real story was the local report he last night getting trump on the record saying he won't pivot. >> you mean he'll be the old trump. >> i don't buy into this idea that trump has fundamentally changed. >> don't you think, he has a straight jacket and he keeps trying to tate off. >> the press is the same. the hi

for donald trump. and i think it will in the general election. i believe this is a major addition to our campaign -- >> let me get the question back in there again. who is this designed to resonate with who is not already a donald trump supporter? in the primary, he was running for republican support. this was not a general election. i want to read you a couple of headlines from breitbart.com, which you've tried to paint as a take on all comers website. phony fascist tears, obama cries. birth control makes women unattractive and crazy. and tranies whine about hilarious bruce jenner billboard. and bill cristol, republican spoiler, renegade jew. this is the southern poverty law center, which tracks hate groups, white supremacist movements and the alt-right which is the dressed up in suits version of the neo-nazi and white supremacist movement in the headlines. is breitbart.com becoming a media arm for the alt right? they've under gone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of t

trump's statement. i hope americans understand the remarks don't represent the views of our republican party, its office or our candidates. our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not unfettered license to defeign those who are the best among us." he's one of many who have been denouncing his words but not renouncing their support. he said it doesn't represent the republican party. yet the republican party is supporting donald trump. how do you reconcile that? >> they're walking this fine line, and i have to applaud john mccain. one, john mccain is a hero. and i think john mccain was the first one who was disrespected in terms of persons who've, you know, had the utmost military service in this country and being a prisoner of war. and he was disrespected just man to man by donald trump. but you saw him at least mention his name. paul ryan on the other hand didn't even mention his name. you have republicans who have general elections like john mccain who were simply having to walk this tigh

trump. he's shaking up the senior management of a campaign widely regarded to be in serious trouble. this occurs as trump begins a nominee rite of passage, classified national security briefings. carl cameron is covering the trump campaign tonight from new york. good evening, carl. >> reporter: that briefing just minutes ago wrapped up. it's his first security briefing, classified, as the presidential nominee for the republican party. it comes as he's once again retooling his campaign. trailing in the polls less than 12 weeks from election day, and donald trump is again adjusting his campaign team, installing breitbart news boss stephen bannon and kellyanne conway as campaign manager. both figure his brash off the cuff political style to a more conventional campaign. paul manafort remains with the title campaign chairman, but the addition suggests efforts by him and others failed to persuade trump to be more on message. manafort, in 2012, is reported helped ukraine funnel millions in undiscl

donald trump. that he's incapable of saying he's sorry, of changing ks of learning, of growing. gwen: there's more. 50 foreign policy experts signed a letter saying they would not support the nominee. another 07 gop activists and staffers signed another letter bemooning what they call trump's divisiveness, recklessness, and incompetence. trump says his crowds tell another story and that voters will soon see the light on hillary clinton. >> she's got the temperament of a loser. i have the temperament of a winner and we have to win again. we have to win again. gwen: this is "time" magazine's cover this week. "meltdown." michael, is it just that it's august or is something else going on? >> something more than august. not a melt down like a nuclear reactor, melt down where it will never be rebuilt where it is contaminating everything around them but clearly a melt down. there is not a republican i've talked to this week that you can find who's not worried about what's happening. those numbers, double

so we have seen donald trump's behavior, you are famously never trump. you think trump's a disaster. we see his behavior and all the controversies he's had, right? we now see him surrounding himself with steve bannon, roger ailes, sean hannity, media barons, all. is trump actually trying to win this election or does he have some longer term end game that's more hollywood than washington, d.c.? >> well, quickly before i answer that, i have to do the ironic note to file that my old friend stone was predicting the end of television on a.m. radio. there's nothing older than that. so everything may change but it changes slower than people think, the hand-held device is the appliance of the future. to your question, trying to tell the future of trump is a risky business because it's so erratic but he certainly appears to be at least better at constructing the next great racket streaming business than a winning presidential campaign. he now has the pieces that could lead to something akin to what glenn beck did where he traded his own pay fee streaming network,

advisory council for trump. on saturday in donald trump's pretend cabinet room at tump tower. jacob monte a texas immigration lawyer who attended the meeting said afterwards, "i really liked that trump acknowledged that there's a big problem with the 11 million people who are here and that deporting them is neither possible nor humane" he said that donald trump told the group that he would announce a plan to grab legal status to those 11 million people, that wouldn't be citizenship but would allow him to be here without fear of deportation. donald trump's initial surge in the polls, in the republican primaries was based on racism, bigotry and hatred of president obama. with over 60% of trump supporters believing donald trump's lie that president obama is not a natural born citizen and 66% believing that the president obama is muslim. the only policy, the only policy position that fuelled the start of donald trump's campaign was his treatment of the southern border. he would build a wall, force mexico to pay for

glad you arnen't playing golf. >> donald trump. mr. trump. mr. trump. here. mr. trump. mr. trump. thank you. thank you. mr. trump. mr. trump. mr. trump. >> joining us from washington. the trump campaign announced in a statement that paul manafort submitted his resignation and the campaign accepted it, what more do we know about how this unfolded? >> reporter: in light of this staff shaken up this week, it was very clear that paul manafort quite frankly was not on this new trump train as it was leaving the station on this new direction that the trump campaign is trying to go. his role had been sidelined in recent weeks and he once had an influential voice within the campaign but that had been diminished in recent weeks in light to have shifting power die in -- dynamics taking place, he announced that he was becoming a distraction for the campaign, and since he was brought in on the campaign in the spring he was trying to pressure donald trump to be more presidential, reassure more established republicans that he could be the republican they wanted him to be, read off teleprompters

let trump be trump. hillary clinton has no problem with him getting embroiled in controversy while she focuses on her campaign. but as we said, there are still 87 days to go until the election. that means 87 days for things to take a wrong turn, for mistakes to be made. 87 days for donald trump to somehow find his footing, recover, and make a comeback. so what do you do when you're in the clinton campaign's position right now? how do you maintain a lead like this for 87 days? how do you keep the good news you've been getting for the last two weeks going for another 87 days? how do you guard against complacency? it's been a while since a campaign has been in this position, leading by this much, so close to the election. what do they do for the next 87 days? joining us now is bob shrum, professor at politics at usc. thank you for joining us. let me start with the sports analogy. if football, if you're ahead trying to run the clock out, you go to the prevent defense. in basketball, you might have the four c

trump's ads? now that the trump campaign is going to be running ads, are they going to put one of the greatest republican ad makers of all time in charge of trying to change the way america sees donald trump on television? ailes' track record on that kind of work is legendary. he's been involved in everything from the ronald reagan in the morning ad, to the ad that seemed like dukakis would let all the rapists out all over the country, told papi bush to stop wearing button-up short sleeve shirts in public so he wouldn't look like a dweeb. and he let the country know they could get their republican television on this one cable news channel, while slamming all other sources of news as being unbalanced because they weren't right-wing like fox. love it or hate it, it worked. so that's one thing to watch. that's a potentially game-changing thing to watch. does roger ailes really get in there and take over trump's whole media strategy? the whole presentation of trump to the world? that's one thing to wa

he is doubling down on trump being donald trump. >> i don't know what bannon is going to be doing. paul manafort is for change. and while kellyanne is part of the republican establishment. she's worked for the republican national committee. she knows leading members of congress. i don't know how much this affects him. everyone i talked to say he has a huge role in the campaign. while he wants to turn it into a shake-up, they're woefully understaffed. they have two senior people who have trump's confidence, trying to help deal with decisions. and i will tell you, if kellyanne conway goes to events with trump, keeps him focused. i don't care what the down side is. i think that helps his chances of winning. >> both of them have the same tone as trump. you can see, we talked yesterday. we were showing a clip of trump giving a speech and i am, look how uncomfortable he looks. these are his kind of people. he is backed in a corner now and he wants to come out -- we had kellyanne on the other day. she knows how to pivot in a second. she's stuff. >> and make stuff happen. >> she is tough,

if this campaign is about trump, trump loses. if this becomes about hillary, her corruption, if it becomes about supreme court judges, if it becomes about her dismal record as secretary of state, then i think he has a shot of winning. i want to point out one double standard here. back in april hillary state, "his insulting language towards muslims is making him the recruiting sergeant for isis." this was not even a blip in the news cycle. i think it's more proof that the media focuses on things that frankly you guys and me included a little nervous, things that trump says versus things she has done that ought to scare us. things like the corruption, the lies, the lack of conscience and of course, making the world more dangerous under her watch. >> under than that, she's doing a heck of a job. >> other than that, she's great. >> trump's self-inflicted wounds and/or the coverage of it seems to be catching up with him. there were bad numbers from key swing states. let's put the numbers up. in florida, trump is down 5. in north carol

trump is right. we have nothing -- absolutely nothing to lose as african-americans by going over the to the other side and voting. i've been a conservative most of my life but the around me are the throw in vote for the democratic party, and this is why we have what we have right now. trish: pastor, hillary clinton will continue to hammer this idea that donald trump is going to be bad for these communities. she says he's going to be bad for the economy that his economics proposal is only going to help the rich. and it is going to do nothing to help these disenfranchised communities. what do you say to that in return? >> so i would question ms. clinton. like, what's going to help us? because a term with her is barack obama's third term. so if the numbers are what they are with him, they're going to be the same with her. i haven't seen anything except we're going to tax the rich, you know? we've heard that same ol' moniker over and over and over. but in taxing the rich, you're going to affect the littl

today goes to donald trump, right? >> big day for donald trump. he took a risk and it worked out very well for him. >> except for the tweet from the president that came out where the president said. >> no, i was going to get to that i was going to give him his props, actually. he took a risk and he handled it very well. but, it's really bad for donald trump that a good day ends in him looking like he has been caught in a lie. i don't know if the president of mexico is lying. but, you know, his signature issue when he speaks to his next rally and i don't think his immigration speech tonight is going to be in front of a raucous crowd. when he does that, who is going to pay for the wall, it's going to be awkward for him because apparently they discussed it in some way. >> except for one thing, erin, i --aaron what donald trud we didn't discuss, didn't discuss who was going to pay for it and what president nieto tweeted was this at the beginning of the conversation with donald trump i made it clear that mexico will not pay for the wall. that was the e