he said he would vote for donald trump. work for donald trump, support donald trump. yet donald trump said he is not quite ready to do the same as far as paul ryan is concerned. exactly one week before his primary. >> well, if paul ryan's role as speaker is to chair the convention. so he's doing his job. and mr. trump appreciated paul reason doing what he did at the convention. at the same time, it is still a primary and donald trump simply stated he is not ready to endorse. that's not an attack. >> why is he tweeting nice things about paul ryan's challenger for the republican nomination? >> well, paul ryan's challenger has said nice things about donald trump. as you know, donald trump returns the favor. there is really nothing to see here other than what's making the headlines in the media is some orchestrated attack that never occurred. >> what said to donald trump trying on unite the republican party two weeks after the convention? >> we're still talking about uniting the republican party but we have yet to hear about the disarray at the dnc with debbie wasserman s

donald trump is still running against donald trump. until they come to grips with that, they are just not open, a huge part of the country is 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. he these to be more specific in his regret, so it has some actual meaning and resonance with people. then i think americans will always give someone a second chance but only if they ask and say they need it. john: you mentioned the debates and we are at a where people started talking about debate prep. mitt romney did pretty well in his first debate against barack obama. what advice would you give hillary clinton as she begins thinking about taking on donald trump? >> the best practice is to have done it. that will really help her. going into these debates. everybody has a different strategy. i've done this going back to then governor bush's. it was very interesting when i did governor bush's debate prep and dick cheney's debate prep. vice president cheney loved to h

trump, billionaire. all of that after these words by our sponsors. ♪ john: donald trump wasn't the only candidate who went to the sunday shows this weekend. hillary clinton sat down with chris wallace for a fox news sunday interview. for the most part, it was a strong performance for the democratic nominee, but clinton was confronted by a topic she should be used to talking about now, her e-mails. >> fbi director james comey said none of those things you told the american public were true. >> chris, that is not what i heard director komi say, and i thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify. director komi said my answers were truthful and what i said is consistent with what i've told the american people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain e-mails. i made a mistake not using two different e-mail addresses. i have said that, and i repeat it again today. it is certainly not anything i would ever do it again. i take classification seriously. i relied on a

sell was donald trump. his career would finally make trump into a household brand." guest: this was an interesting transformation from the real estate developer role, holding buildings in new york city and around the country to realizing that he didn't need to put up his own money. he didn't need to finance projects. he could make a lot of money simply by selling and franchising his name. of hisecent years, most projects in the united states and around the world have been cases in which donald trump has rented out his name for a guaranteed annual income that he perceived, whether those projects received or not. likent reporters to places panama who look at some of the donald trump projects that are not donald trump projects. other people put up the money. other people create these buildings and golf courses and donald trump rents his name. get if the building doesn't off the ground, he has a guaranteed stream of income. much more secure than the type of risk that a developer takes as he did earlier in the c

so there are longer speeches and more of them, but trump is still trump. the guy is not going the change. he's 70 years old or about to be. >> obviously, you know politics is stagecraft as well as anyone. the donald trump we will see tomorrow, giving the prepared speech, reading from the teleprompter, i get a sense it kills him to have to do that. because this is a guy who is always thinking do i have the audience's attention. he feels maybe he's slipping there. >> he is a performer. not my taste but he's a gifted performer of what he does. he might be bridling to go by the script. he wants to be don rickles, insult people, ad lib, so you can feel him chafing. you don't have to be a student of theater. you can watch tv, you can see when someone is reading from a teleprompter, bored out of his mind, doesn't want to do it, isn't speaking the way he really speaks. it comes across as phony. that's not what brought him here and he knows that. which means there's a real tension i'm sure as he tries to follow the script. >> not playing the game he wants to play i

it's trump against a gold star family. trump against obama, trump against his own party. or just another day on the trail here in 98 days from the 2016 election. trump's feud with the chaun family, the muslim american parents of an army captain killed while serving in iraq is the latest outrage to bring condemnation from paul ryan, mitch mcconnell and most forcefully senator john mccain. but just as with trump's proposed muslim ban, his star of david tweet, his attacks on the ethnicity of judge gonzalo curiel, and countless other controversies, top republicans have stopped short of withdrawing support for their party's nominee. today in a press conference with the president of singapore, president obama had a message for those republican leaders. >> the question, i think, that they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say, in very strong terms, that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him? what does this say about your party, that this is your standard bearer? there has to be a point at which you say, this is not somebody i

i don't know if bannon found trump or trump found bannon. what breitbart has become is sort of the outside the establishment conservative group beating down the walls. that's exactly who donald trump was when he decided to run for president. very early on, bannon and some other folks were up talking to trump, advising him informally. after the big break that trump had with megyn kelly and fox news, bannon and breitbart were real champions of trump, while fox and the other wing of the conservative movement stood up for kelly. so they butted heads there. i think trump enjoys the aggressiveness and spirit that bannon brings to breitbart news. and clearly wanted to do something to shake up his own campaign to kind of unleash his inner trump. sew brought in bannon to be ceo of his campaign. >> on the spirit of unleashing the inner trump, here's my sort of big question as we look ahead to the all-important first presidential debate september 26th and what the bannon fingerprint would look like on the verbal trump jabs with hillary clinton on stage

and the latest shakeup was designed to let trump be trump. so to do that he hired stooempb banen, the head of a right-wing website as the campaign's ceo. to give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they have published. and i'm not make this up. birth control makes women unattractive and crazy. would you rather your child had feminism or cancer? gabrielle giffords, the gun control movement's human shield. hoisted high and proud, the confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage. and that one came shortly after the charleston massacre when democrats and republicans alike were doing everything they could to heal racial divides that banen tried to inflame. just imagine. donald trump reading that and thinking this is what i need more of in my campaign. now e he has nasty things to say about everyone. he railed against hum for rubbing his catholicism in his nose every second. the only presidential candidate ever to get into a public feud with the pope. it's truly hard to believe, but according to the sovereign southern poverty law c

here's where trump's wall comes in. i think they need to build a gigantic wall between the clinton foundation and the white house. >> and just to be -- >> i think that trump, as we have said all week, whatever mileage they can get out of any of these stories, they just can't even move on to that road, because of all of the stuff trump is saying, particularly that second amendment comment. >> we know that the fbi has never confirmed or denied the fact that it's looking into any type of impropriety or connection between state and the clinton foundation. and certainly, folks are going to ask for all kinds of favors if they think you can actually help them out. we'll see if there is more to come of this. nick, ej, thank you very much for joining me today. again, we're still waiting on that speech from donald trump, again, appearing at the national association of home builders. you see it set up. we'll bring it live as soon as it happens. plus -- >> words can have tremendous consequences. yesterday we witnessed the latest in

>> so the trump reboot, the trump version of a reboot, on display in detroit today. time will tell if it has staying power or if clinton's narrative will overtake it or if it will only last until the next time trump veers off script. joining us now is the nbc correspondent who has covered donald trump ever since he started his run for president. she joins us now. thanks for taking a few minutes. let me just start by saying it is sort of remarkable. it's after the republican convention. we're in the general election season now, and we're watching this speech today saying it is remarkable that a majority party's nominee is reading a prepared text. yet that is a commentary in a way on how unusual the donald trump campaign is. what is it that convinced donald trump to go out there and do something conventional today? that's not been the donald trump recipe. >> well, you know, he had a chorus of folks try to tell him he needed to get back on message. i think ultimately it was the poll numbers. donald trump is down in almost every poll right now, including double digits in

challenging trump's american values. trump's response this weekend shocked many. even within his own party. overnight, his running mate stepped in to try to calm the storm. we have kristen holmes with latest from washington. >> reporter: john and christine, donald trump is taking heat from all sides after lashing out at the parents of a fallen american hero. khizr khanon

towards donald trump. disqualify donald trump. disqualify him as being a good messenger on the company. being someone you can trust in the president of the united states. >> the trump campaign says they're doing to spend $10 million on this ad by, in terms of national campaign is not a big number and we believe they've spent 10 million when they spend it because they've made such claims before. but what about this huge gap in the tv advertising between the clinton campaign and the trump campaign and can the trump campaign ever close that gap? >> no, they're never going to close the gap. and the gap on television advertising is going to be something that we're going to be talking about between now and the end of the campaign. the scariest moments of the romney campaign four years ago were during the summer because of the way the rules work, we weren't able to raise any new dollars, any new general election dollars and we're limited to how much money we can spend and the obama campaign had over $100 in the b

you are the guy known for supporting that for saying let trump be trump. is he doing the right thing by saying he will not pivot? >> i think what you have to have whether you're a candidate for city council, state senate or the president of the united states is you have to be honest with yourself and what you're doing is telling people who you are when you run for office and they have to make a decision based on who you are or what you tell them and if they'll support you or not. trying to change or be perceived as changing when he's not looking to change that because his positions have been clear and he wants to relay that to the people and then you're up for the people when they go to the ballot box. by pivoting, that's not to say he's not going to provide more details and that's not to say he's going to be more inclusive. that's not the case, but he's going to remain true to himself which is what this campaign has been about. >> this pivot has been a crucial work. i've talked to people in the room during the conversations in the summer and they got very

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

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 voi

trump said the u.s. might not come to the defense in the event of military action from russia. >> very interesting important information. thanks very much for that. >>> coming up, we get back to the breaking news. 50 former national security officials, all republican, sign a blistering letter calling donald trump dangerous saying he put would america at risk. they say he lacks character, values and experience and temperament and would be quote, the most reckless president in u.s. history. mes to healthcare, seconds can mean the difference between life and death. for partners in health, time is life. we have 18,000 people around the world. the microsoft cloud helps our entire staff stay connected and work together in real time to help those that need it. the ability to collaborate changes how we work. what we do together changes how we live. to be taken care of. in good hands? like finding new ways home, car, life insurance obviously, ohhh... but with added touches you can't get everywhere else, like clai

donald trump supporter. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. >> good to be here, wolf. thanks for having me out. welcome back. >> thank you. donald trump issued a statement as you know saying there is a national security component of the marital issues involving anthony weiner former congressman and huma abedin. why is dl a national security issue? do you agree with it? >> first of all, i don't agree. i think this is a sad story. anthony weiner is a bit after weirdo. hillary clinton didn't marry him and she didn't hire him. she hired huma abedin. so to make the leap that anthony weiner is a security threat, i disagree with tp i think there are so many issues to discuss in regard with security breach, with hillary clinton and with huma, to take the lead to anthony weaner is a mistake. i've got eight kids. this is a young boy whose parent are splitting up up. this is a sad day for that little boy. we should leave the politics out of that separation. >> a lot of people agree with you on that, congressm

donald trump upends his campaign yet again. >> donald trump wants to go back to being donald trump. >> a major shake-up in the trump campaign with just 83 days until the election. >> kellyanne conway, steve bannon, both people who have supported donald trump being donald trump. >> it's not a shake-up, it's an expansion. >> reporter: the addition of the breitbart ceo should be an indication it's no holds barred. >> it's only fitting for a bully to hire a bully to run his campaign. >> he can hire or fire anybody he wants from his campaign. there is no new donald trump. this is it. >> worsening controversies, falling poll numbers, dire warnings from his party leaders to tone it down. >> eight weeks until people in ohio vote. >> donald trump wins wisconsin when pigs fly, and trust me, they don't here in wisconsin. >> ah, yes, night one for the new trump campaign. the shake-up at the top. meet steve bannon, trump campaign's new ceo. bannon comes to the campaign from breitbart news, a right-wing populist website founded by the late andrew breitbart. trump pollster kellyanne conway will take

and ryan formally endorsed trump back in june when trump became the nominee. but ryan has also made his discomfort with many of trump's comments and proposals very clear. when ryan weighed in on trump's war of words with the family of a slain american soldier earlier this week, that's when trump announced that he was just not quite there yet on endorsing paul ryan. this was just a couple days ago. trump saying, i like paul, but these are horrible times for our country. we need very strong leadership. we need very, very strong leadership, and i'm just not quite there yet. i'm not quite there yet. that was a couple days ago. when trump said that, it sent shock waves through the republican establishment and created a major story about republican party disunity in the middle of what was already a brutal week for donald trump. in fact, donald trump's non-endorsement of ryan happened on the same day that president obama hammered trump in a white house press conference for being far too prone to gaffes to be president. the president saying, quote, this isn't a situat

we've heard a lot about let trump be trump. if you let trump be trump, there will be holes and missing details. kellyanne conway telling our colleagues on the "today" show there will be details. here is some of the cost. the wall alone, $25 billion plus to build. then you have to maintain it. our current budget for i.c.e. and u.s. customs runs about $17 billion a year. that's a lot of money. if you look at what we actually do with that, tamron, that results in the removal of 200,000 to 300,000 people annually. if you are talking about going up to the millions, what kellyanne conway said, the 11 million, that will call multiples more. >> back to the i.c.e. part of the equation, donald trump has talked about deportation task force. his campaign is implying he was referring to i.c.e. the role he would want them to play, that's not what i.c.e. does. >> i.c.e. does not do massive interior deportations. the way it's broken up, there's what happens on the border and there's the rest of the country. i.c.e. goes after convicted criminal

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

trump? he may have some things crazy to him but who doesn't and at least he loves america and he knows how to run a business. >> i took three months to travel to latin and south america. i went to mexico, guatemala, costa rica, peru, ecuador, and colombia. i found that when i told people i was from the united states one of the first questions i would get is about the election. so a lot of times when people ask me where i was from, i would lie sto them and say i was from canada because i didn't like the feeling of knowing that my name and me as a person was being immediately associated with donald trump and the things that he says. >> has four kids, four grand ids. she also votes for hillary. [speaking in other language] >> she says to be able to vote and not for trump. >> i'm sorry. i've been out of the loop. yes. i've been in the wilderness for six months this summer, so, you know, i turned the news on when i get back and it's almost the same thing they were talking about six months ago. >>

well, they are not going to vote for trump anyway as trump says no. we're not going to put up with that otherwise, we are not as sovereign and security nation anymore if we don't have these secure borders. so, no. what trump -- i wish he would focus on are those legal immigrants who agree with his sound policy, his proposed policy that would create disincentives for illegallies to trespass. >> would you premiere donald trump's stay rigid on deporting the 11 or 12 million if you are here illegally come back in legally. deporting them first would you prefer him to stay on that stance? >> i would prefer politicians to not campaign one way and governor way. we want to know that they are candid and sincere in the policies that they are proposing as candidates and then once they are in that administration that they would stick to it again, trump can be very, very strong on policies that would create disincentives for trespassers into our nation. and if he is strong on that, that shores up support that he is enjoyed thus far and that he will be gaining as mo

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donald trump is bad. he's helping hillary clinton make this a referendum on donald trump and if it is a referendum on donald trump, hillary clinton will win and if it's a referendum on hillary clinton, donald trump will win. >> this is very simple. donald trump is a warrior for the people, plain and simple. >> that's nice, but i would think he would want to win. >> you expect him to play by the political playbook and do the disingenuous thing and the scripted lines. the poll tested words, the tested groups. >> that's laughable. >> he is not that. donald trump is real. >> i'm sorry, you can't say that. like i said, he's gone down and addressed the house. he's gone down and addressed the senate republicans and again, look at his convention and look who had them, and they had the political establishment. donald trump should be focused on winning. >> donald trump likes and respects paul ryan. no question about it, but he is a messenger of change. he is a messenger that on behalf of the people there are some s

has the trump campaign commented on the trump tower climber so far? >> reporter: well, john, we don't have an official statement from the trump campaign on this and they are not commenting, but we have heard from michael cohen who is a special adviser to donald trump and with the trump organization calling this a ridiculous and dangerous stunt saying i'm 100% certain the nypd had better things to do and the trump organization is not particularly happy with the fact that they had to deal with someone scaling the outside of their building as well as broken windows today, john. >> they pulled out a lot of glass of that building. i'm sure they're not happen. as for the second amendment comments he said yesterday. is he addressing them at all? >> we're sit waiting for donald trump to take the stage and he's running a bit late and we're waiting to see if he will talk about those tonight and we have seen him take to twitter and we have seen his campaign put out a statement and they want to make certain people know that he was not trying to incite violence an

problem with trump? >> muslim is not a religion, partner, it's an ideology. >> you don't come and talk about america when you're muslim! >> vote for donald trump! >> i swear on tuesday i will go to the polls! >> our president has divided this country so bad. >> yeah, yeah! >> there's a group out there, just throw them the hell out. get out. get out. >> get out of here trump! >> hey. >> build that wall! build that wall ask the build that wall! >> i'm sure that paperwork comes in spanish. >> if you don't speak english and don't contribute, get out! >> i'm giving a lot of attention to tax cuts. >> hillary clinton needs to get her ass spiked. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> everybody gets offended. grow up. not a whole lot of women will come out and put these t-shirts on and i thought this is how i feel. >> exactly. >> i feel this is the last chance we have to establish law and order and preserve the culture i grew up in. >> so far we're doing well, right? have i been a good messenger? this is a movement li

margaret: donald trump wants to focus on donald trump. in this case, he did not want the focus to become about paul manafort. now the question is, is the focus want to stay on donald trump in the way his new team wants it to? joshua: so far, so good. he has managed to moderate his image a little bit with a speech that showed maybe there is finally going to be a pivot. margaret: is only 36 hours in. let's keep that in mind. last night in north carolina, they took the trump campaign rains. donald did something we have never seen him do as a presidential candidate. apologize. in a way only trump would do. donald trump: sometimes in the heated debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don't choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. i have done that. and believe it or not, i regret it. and i do regret it. particularly where it may have caused personal pain. stake for us to be consumed with these issues. but one thing i can promise you this. i will always tell you the truth. [cheers and applause] margaret: there is a word for t

so whether they've formally endorsed trump or not enzorsed trump they're developing their own messages, their own ground games, their own data analytics in a way that will allow them to localize the races going back to tip o'neill's adage that all politics is local and i think that's what you're seeing in the races today. >> and we know coreen, the words that president obama just delivered about the matter of fact -- trump being unpitt to that office. we know the baton he wants to pass goes straight to hillary clinton who was a member of his cabinet. why do you think or do you think these words will have an effect on voters now just clicking in and paying attention after the conventions? >> well i think you just said it, tom, voters are starting to pay attention and click in, especially after labor day we'll see more of that. there are only five living u.s. presidents out there that can speak what it's like to be commander-in-chief and two of them are republicans who have not endorsed donald trump, so, yes, the president gave a remarkable unprecedented rebuke against donald trump which

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 t 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 >>> 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 slide. the top line, 50% of

>> trump. >> reporter: donald trump? >> donald trump. >> reporter: why did you like trump originally? >> i liked him because he was different. i thought he would bring a difference to america. >> reporter: but for nancy jimenez, who has long considered herself a reagan republican, that was then. and this is now. so do you still support donald trump? >> no. >> reporter: what changed? >> when i saw the debate and i saw how he acts and how he comes across, he is not who we want to represent america. >> reporter: it's not easy to find republicans at a hillary clinton rally but as more gop politicians come out against trump, so do some republican voters. voters like nancy jimenez. midway through this rally, she liked what she was hearing. >> i want to be the president of all americans, democrats, republicans, independents, young, old, everybody in between. >> reporter: jimenez was disappointed she couldn't get close enough afterwards to get a picture with hillary clinton. but she says that was her only disappointment. >> she

donald trump for president. >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> trump's campaign stop in north carolina last night, the site of his big mea culpa, an 18-year-old college student was rejected from the rally and said he went from a trump backer to opponent after trump's security accused him of being a known protester. the student who is asian american and his father say they believe he was profiled because of his dark skin. joining me now, rick wilson, who is working for independent presidential candidate evan mcmullin and msnbc contributor josh barrow at business insider. i want to start where we ended there. i'll start with you, rick, because it wouldn't seem that you two are the obvious people to ask about this next question, but in a way you are. donald trump, both yesterday in michigan -- yesterday in north carolina and then today, is starting to make this pitch ostensibly to african americans. i want to have you take a listen to it. >> no group in america has been more harmed by hillary clinton's policies than african americans. no group. tonight, i'm asking for th

of trump. that's what she's going to say about john mccain in the election. she's going to say to latino voters in the state of arizona john mccain supports donald trump. you heard what donald trump said over the last year of the he's an ally of donald trump. you latino voters and general population of arizona, do you really want to vote for that? how do they separate from him in a general after committing to him in the primary. >> until the point where they see maybe there's a landslide happening for democrats, you're going to see this strategy continue. you don't see them running against trump. you don't see the national party distancing themselves from trump. a lot of people are telling me in washington that as awkward as trump can be and often is when it comes to minority outreach and hard line rhetoric he uses, because he's doing that, they feel like at least he's not stumbling and damage in tear apart their down ballot chances. >> florida primary voters heading to the polls. former chairw

as you can see he draws big crowds wherever he goes, they're chanting "trump, trump, trump, trump," so the campaign feels like they are doing okay and when you look at that polling in battleground states, you realize that despite the fact they draw these giant crowds, they are not doing so well. especially in the states that they need to win over. pennsylvania being a key state. to see him down that much in a poll in august has certainly got to be disconcerting but as you heard this morning, paul manafort tried to brush it off by saying that it's early, it's a post-convention bounce for hillary clinton and that the polls should even out. >> you have his supporters like rudy giuliani rejecting the idea of any intervention. let's play a little of that. >> i find the word "intervention" completely out of line. >> what was this meeting about? >> there wasn't a meeting. i meet with donald trump all the time, i spent two and a half hours with him. we talk about issues, sometimes we make changes. it's an evolving campaign. he's a new candidate that adds a little bit of more of a learning curv

not be trump. what i think we are seeing now is the real trump. actually, i think what's happening with paul ryan and with john mccain doesn't surprise me at all, because i think we have seen from donald trump that he cannot stand the idea that someone would treat him unfairly or that someone would question him, and when mccain and ryan questioned his statements on the khans, i think he thought that was fair game. donald trump cannot stand any criticism. that's why he's -- >> it's worked for him, certainly in the primaries. that was one of the things people loved about him. >> it's important to understand how this all started. we saw two years ago where the house majority leader, eric cantor lost out of nowhere to a no name professor and everyone was shocked. the anger started there. we saw it trickle through this election. >> i completely agree with you. >> when donald trump was reaching 1237 they said he's not going to reach it. when he reaches 1237 then we will accept him. he reaches 1237, then

trump? >> when someone speaks ill truths to something what is near and dear to my heart like pro life and pro second amendment, those are both yes and no answers. no one's worked harder for pro life than i have in my personal practice. we wanted voters to know we're pro life, pro second amendment. >> i was reading the kansas paper this morning trying to get a local senls of how this race went down. there was a quote from patrick miller, a professor at the university of kansas, he said this about your opponent -- "i think his personality is the underlying issue. he is a combative, often controversial, sometimes divisive approach to politics that doesn't sit well with some republicans." i know you mentioned agriculture. you're downplaying any sort of support of donald trump. but what about personality here? >> certainly we're two different persons. the opponent and myself. i'm a leader, i'm an effective conservative that brings people together. my opponent seems to be a person who threw gasoli

trump is up only 2 points. and the larger picture is this tests the limits of the coalition of trump so far built. which is to say, if you go to arizona, 80% of hispanic voters say they're more motivated to vote in this election. so that is clear to make inroads in the upper midwest with white working class, traditionally democratic. they exist. but there's want a lot of wiggle room in doing that. if he has a bad week like here this week, you see some of the other states might start to shift a little bit towards clinton. and maybe that's the territory. >> john: so, ron, you're saig he's doing poorly with hispanic, but encouraging them to get to the polls. what do you see in terms of the larger mass? >> if he has trouble with arizona, that's -- we have 11 states basically swing states at least since 2004 in modern politics. they really fall in two buckets. one group of rust belt swing states and new hampshire is a swing state. and michigan, oeyeo, iowa, and pennsylvania. they're white, older and more blue collar

trump. that's a seven-point jump. most americans will have more choices on their ballot come november. so you see the libertarian gary johnson and jill stein. so a healthy eight-point lead for hillary clinton. why is this happening? whether it's the two-way or four-way, hillary clinton has moved up from the democratic national convention. a four-point edge for secretary clinton, worth remembering, anderson, on election day 2012, president obama lost to mitt romney by five points. so this is a good number for her. if she can hold that lead among independents, she'll be hard to beat. one more point, most of the party pros tell you out of the political convention, which party is more unified, advantage clinton. 95% of clintons say they plan to vote for their nominee. only 78% of republicans say they plan to vote for trump. >> any particular issues behind the rise for clinton and also any warning signs for the clinton campaign? >> let's look at the personal qualities. this first one, has the rig

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

in another sign of trump's larger influence on our politics, paul ryan's notorious opponent whom trump shouted out in a tweet earlier this week, now thinks the u.s. should consider rounding up and deporting all muslims from the united states. i'm joined by cornell belcher. what do you make of this bevy of polls over the last few days? >> i think it's the trump campaign is falling apart. i want to curb the enthusiasm a little bit for us democrats. hillary clinton is not going to win the election by 15 points, or 10 points. american elections just don't happen that way. although, it's a real danger now, and particularly problematic if you look at a state like new hampshire and pennsylvania, states where trump is supposed to be doing well. new hampshire, a third of that electorate there are independent voters, and a large swath of that state there, you know, not a very diverse state. it's a really white state, independent state. state with a large swath of white working class voters. these are the voters that donald trump is supposed to be doing really well in. but what you're seeing, par

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

clinton: and the latest shake-up was designed to, quote, "let trump be trump." to do that, he hired stephen bannon, the head of a right-wing website called breitbart.com, as the campaign ceo. to give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they have published, and i am not making this up. "birth control makes women unattractive and crazy." [laughter] ms. clinton: would you -- "would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?" "gabby giffords: the gun control movement's human shield." "hoist it high and proud: the confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage." [booing] ms. clinton: that one came shortly after the charleston massacre, when democrats and republicans alike were doing everything they could to heal racial divide that they tried to inflame. just imagine donald trump reading that and thinking "this is what i need more of in my campaign." now, bannon has nasty things to say about pretty much everyone. this spring, he railed against speaker paul ryan for, quote "rubbing his social-justice catholicism in my nose every second." no wonder he'

challenging trump's american values. trump's response this weekend shocked many. even within his own party. overnight, his running mate stepped in to try to calm the storm. we have kristen holmes with latest from washington. >> reporter: john and christine, donald trump is taking heat from all sides after lashing out at the parents of a fallen american hero. khizr khan honoring his son on the democratic national convention stage said trump sacrificed nothing. trump responded. >> i made a lot of sacrifices. i work very hard. i created thousands and thousands of jobs. tens of thousands of jobs. when i can employ thousands and thousands of people and take care of their education and so many things. >> reporter: khan hit back during an interview on "state of the union" telling jim acosta, he hoped trump's family would teach him empathy. here is more. >> this person is total incapable of empathy. i want his family to counsel him. teach him some empathy. he will be a better person if he could become, but he is a black soul and this is totally unfit for the leadership of

is trump and he'll build the wall. but there is more reservation on that side. >> jeanne, clinton had her own troubles again this week. there was another story about the clinton foundation and her time at the state department and new questions raised over the appropriateness of that relationship. where are we on that? and how much is this affecting clinton with the way voters see her? >> right. this week started out to be one of hillary clinton's worst weeks. and they brilliantly changed everything at the end with the speech that they gave on race. and he gifted her with the mistakes he made on immigration. but at the beginning of the week, what we also saw was the release of her private calendar, her meetings that she had at the state department. and cross referencing them some of those meetings were with substantial donors to the clinton foundation. so ethical questions were being raised. if you made a big -- cut a big check to the foundation, did that buy you into a state department luncheon discussion on this polic

i call the trump whisperers, people close to donald trump who donald trump listens to, the newt gingrich, chris christies of the world to try to convince the candidate to try to get back on track. i'm not sure where those conversations went, if any conversations subsequently happened between those individuals. i would imagine the answer is yes because these are people who talk to donald trump quite frequently. but we do know that it sounds as though the campaign is setting the stage for donald trump to try to reset although they're not calling it that this afternoon. >> one thing we do know for sure is trump did come out and say he's not ready, he's not there yet to endorse paul ryan, maybe taking a dig at him in a way that he felt he was in some way insulted when paul ryan initially was asked if he would endorse trump and then later withheld and said, i'm not there yet and eventually did endorse him. manu i want to ask you this question because here we are less than 100 days from the election and it seems like trump is trying to pick a fight with people in his own party. >> yeah, and th

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

donald trump's running mate. what's the point you're trying to make about the clinton foundation and can you point to any actual evidence that as secretary of state she actually changed a policy because of this access that donors allegedly had? >> it's a fair question. but access is also very valuable. and this week we learned from the "associated press" that more than half of the individual meetings that secretary of state granted during her tenure -- >> not including government officials or foreign officials. >> of course not. these are individual meetings that she has discretion over. more than half of those meetings were granted to individuals who contributed tens of millions of dollars to the clinton foundation. look, you know, this has been unfurling over the past few weeks. we learned from a congressional investigation that the so-called e-mails on wedding plans and yoga, that she eradicated with some high-tech software called "bleach bit" which completely eliminates the capacity, in most cases, to recover