trump. >> you are done? >> i'm done. >> i can't find a campaign that wants their candidate to be on the stage with trump. >> no one can get any air time because everyone is following donald trump saying crazier and crazier things. >> the fact he is not talking about reality is annoying. >> everything with him is the most, the at least, the best, the worse. >> i'm concerned about the joining us by phone is "washington post" the co-author of the breaking news report. what else do we know about the call today? >> it comes at a moment when a lot of republican leaders across the country are beginning to worry that donald trump has moved out of the category of being sort of an embarrassment and novelty candidate in to the realm where essentially the whole party is going to have to own his comments. >> he is in a situation where he has to in effect calm the investors in the republican party who will be investing in some individual candidates, who they imagine can be banged around by donald trump on

but donald trump's cause is donald trump. and his businesses and branding the businesses and that's my take on it. i mean let me play a little more of the event today. >> everyone figured keep trump out of the debates because he'll never file his financials. because he doesn't want to see -- he doesn't want people to see that maybe he's not as wealthy as people thought. well, it turned out that i'm much wealthier than people thought. i built a great company. the apprentice they paid me 213 million. you know what that means? when i give up "the apprentice" to run to help you people straighten out this mess -- >> you see nothing about policies. there's no policies. there's no causes there's no this is how we ought to be governing. it's just all bluster. and is that the way to run against him, perry? >> i think the way to run against him, would be to focus on iowa and new hampshire. remember, the polls last time showed the national polls rick santorum was way, way down. he went to all those counties he won the primary. that's ho

>> which trump will show up? maybe there will be multiple trumps. if trump says something outrageous then you must meet that outrageousness with a come back. otherwise you are playing your own points as much as you can. the people who are going to be at the kids table the one before the debate, they also have to have a time to break out and get to the grown up stable. the way you do that is by -- grown untable. the way you to that is to show likability and trust. that's what you have to do. they have to get on that next stage. trump understands that in order to talk about trump the next day it's not serious thrawmple show up buttrump thatshows up. >> if you are in that second tier event and you want in the big show do you even mention donald trump? >> no of course not. you are not reacting to anything that happened before. you can avoid the trump play. the people on stage -- >> they have the tougher job? >> yes. >> how would you coach them? >> i would say if the opportunity arises you have the obligation to set him straight before the audience. >> b

donald trump dominating the coverage. donald trump ripping iowa's top newspaper. even as some pundits attack him, dismiss him or struggle to figure out his appeal. >> some of the political media is great and really honest. even if they don't want to be they are really honest. i find that 60% of the political media is really really dishonest. >> i think what this really shows is donald trump is a political fraud because donald trump isn't playing by the normal rules of political combat. he's not backing down here. he's not giving an inch. >> people don't trust you and if people don't trust the media, and i understand why. >> why is the donald still driving the news coverage and is the media boosting his campaign. we talk about whether john mccain a war hero with the senator's daughter. >>> two federal investigators seeking a justice department probe of whether hillary clinton's private e-mails revealed classified information and the paper changes the story after her campaign pushes back. we'll take a look. >>> those disturbing planned parenthood videos. why have so

trump, media everkill. and "all outlets know that donald trump moves the dial, and that drives it." >> who else is doing anything media worthy? >> trump and the media are related, he purchases and they enable his narcissism by making it look as if it matters. no narcissist in television, right? >> a huge blow up at gawker, the gossip site with two editors resigning, with the founder take down a story of a media executive who paid for a gay porn star before back out because of extortion. there was a decision to remove and it and unacceptable and breach of the space editorial fire walk and turns the claim to be the largest independent media company into a joke. and one who is openly gay said he made the decision as publisher with his business colleagues and it could have cost $1 million to lost advertising but this is the company i be, i was ashamed to have my name and gawker associated with the story of a private light of a closeted gay man who some felt did nothing. that is not what gawker should stand for

trump's message. many of the other republican presidential candidates and mainstream media are not happy with the style or substance. here's a look at donald trump's rise in his presidential race. >> i am officially running for president of the united states. we are going to make our country great again. >> right now donald trump is doing well in the polls. the reason is they want somebody successful with that mindset to straighten out the country. >> people want to stop being pushed around like a bunch of patsies. >> mr. trump has lapped the field in the republican race. >> they lose their will and a lot of things. ain't going to happen with me. i know how to make things better and work. that's what i do. >> he says what he thinks. he's unedited and uncensored. >> i only tell the truth, and frankly, mexico is sending not their best and not their finest. >> he says what comes to his mind and doesn't sound scripted. 20% of america likes that. >> we will make america great again, better than ever before

trump. there's a way to undo this app if you get tired of seeing it honestly the internet is more useful if you keep it installed. god bless fusion and the trump web. it's the best new thing in the world today. that does it for us tonight. time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening lawrence. >> good evening. >>> the chairman of the republican party called trump to ask him to tone it down. >> people like what i say. they agree with what i say. >> republicans fear trump's comments will be a drag on the party. >> i have great relationship with the mexican people. >> and will cost them crucial latino voters. >> if i get the nomination,ly win the latino vote. if you listen to hillary. she is so weak on immigration. we will have a crime wave like you have never seen. >> i have already stated any views about donald trump. >> you are done? >> i'm done. >> i can't find a campaign that wants their candidate to be on the stage with trump. >> no one can get any air time because every

i am not pro-trump. slightly anti-trump. so sick of the establishment types being so earnest in disdaining him. it serves the republican party right, debate, ten people, excluding minor candidates, and others might get excluded. set this up. tried to control everything. set of the situation who've will dominate the debate. i suspect donald trump. it serves the others right. puts pressure on jeb bush and scott walker and marco rubio, people i like and respect to have something to say. if they get up there and are platitudeness politicians they will look pale compared to trump. >> paul, again, donald trump has given a ton of interviews. hillary clinton has given her first national one yesterday. do you think -- is he upstaging her? why? why isn't she coming forward and -- talking. it does seem -- surprising, no? >> she is talking a lot just not to national media except cnn. >> talking to small groups of people. >> right. she is already famous. and hillary i'm sure she has an ego. she doesn't have an ego like donald. >> she is

. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. >> donald trump. the patron saint of topical comedians who are running out the clock. >> republican presidential candidates are changing their cell phone numbers tonight after this. >> lindsey graham calls me a jack ass and i said to myself you know, it's amazing. he doesn't seem like a very bright guy. okay. he actually probably seems to me not as bright honestly as rick perry. but today i am called a jack ass by this guy. and then i said didn't this guy call me four years ago, yes, three, four years ago, lindsey graham. i didn't even know who he was. he said mr. trump, this is senator lindsey graham. i wonder if it would be possible for you to call fox. brian and steve and elizabeth. fox and friends, they are great people. great. he wanted to know whether or not i could get him a good reference on fox. he wanted to know which would i do that and of course he wanted to know if he could see me for a campaign contribution and he gave me his number and i found the card. i wrote the numb

you whack donald trump and he whacks you back and then trump responded and then what does it mean? so even this weekend being out in arizona and l.a. he still is dominating the coverage. >> it's great for trump. he gets to go on tv. he gets to yell and gets attention he craves. we get clicks and traffic. that's good for business. it works both ways. >> what about the people who you say who your colleagues who don't really want to talk about him were calling him a blow hard. what if they're in a bubble and he's wrong and he's touching a nerve with the primary republican electorate? >> majority of reporters live in new york and d.c. in urban areas and skew left and don't spend time with donald trump fans and they/we are surprised to see blocks and blocks in phoenix full of people waiting for hours in 100-degree weather to hear this guy. for most national politics reporters, the love of trump is baffling. >> this is a legitimate story for media to be covering. it's justified by the polls and what is this man doing but holding up a mirror to our political system? he knows how to work t

trump is playing to their needs emotionally. >> donald trump is a chameleon. donald trump is someone that looks at the moment and figures out what side is is the best one for him to pick at that moment. you've got to remember donald trump has given money to rahm emanuel. he's given money to harry reid. he's helped nancy pelosi. he's given money to hillary clinton. this is not a guy that's a traditional conservative or a gop member. >> quick break. we're going to be back with men and mark on the other side. a lot to unpack here. stay with us. tor. yes! when diet and exercise aren't enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. crestor is not for people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor all medicines you take. call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of serious side effects. i'm down with crestor! make your move. ask your doctor about crestor. developing s

donald trump 12%. after just two weeks of campaigning, trump's businesses are collapsing around him. >> they are sending people that have lots of problems and they are bringing those problems with us. they are bringing drugs. they are bringing crime. they are rapists and some i assume are good people. >> that statement is why those businesses are collapsing around him. first univision dropped trump's beauty pageants and msnbc parent company nbc dropped trump's beauty pageants and severed all ties with trump. after that trump's good friend bill o'reilly offered trump a chance to revise his remarks. >> would you take any of that back or rephrase any of it if you could? >> no because it's totally accurate. >> and then today, macy's dumped trump's merchandise from their stores and issued this statement. we are disapoinltd and distressed by recent mark remarks about immigrants. we have decided to discontinue our business relationship with mr. trump and will phase out the trump men's wear collection which ha

trump: i know. mr. luntz: question for microphone two. >> you talked about your faith how yourand i wonder faith and family has influenced -- have influenced how you raise your children. mr. trump: i have five wonderful children. i get questions similar to that because my children have done well. eric -- my three oldest children have done well. they have gone into business and they are solid. they have not been in trouble. more than any other question i get from people is -- how did you raise your kids? one of them was through the church, very important. where i grewrch up, a first presbyterian church in jamaica queens and that is where i grew up and that is where i went to church. i did all of the things that a lot of folks in this room did. it was an important element. church was. the other important element was that from the time they are two years old, no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. said -- daddy,e you are driving me crazy. she did not even know what drugs were. i see so many children get unde

trump can run. for trump's lead in the polls, he believes the billionaire is touching a chord with americans frustrated with washington. we'll be right back. >>> back with me, the round table. i want to get back to mike huckabee's over the top critique of iran. many made comparisons to the holocaust but huckabee took it to a new low. >> this president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. he's so naive he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> you know, i don't get it. the great thing is i have been there not many times but in israel they are open to debate. you can be at peace now with the crowd. you can have different points of view. disagree with the netanyahu approach without people accusing you of being a nazi. what is it about our culture? we can't discuss the middle east without these references? >> this is a special case for huckabee. he's appealing to what he thinks is a base at home. >> evangelical c

. >> trump can survive this. trump is surviving this. you know, this is a great, great teachable moment here. people make the mistake of assuming one thing and that is this, they make the mistake of assuming that the collective outrage of the washington establishment and the media is reflective of american public opinion. >> now, if rush limbaugh knows one thing, he knows his audience cornell. is this a signal that the republican base is ready to rally around donald trump? >> if donald trump stays out of the weeds, look his lane here is clearly that resentment speak truth to the base in a way that jeb, you'll never hear jeb talk like this or paul or main stream candidates talk like this. if he can stay in the lane reverend and build infrastructure and this is a big missing thing, right now he's rising but if he can bill campaign infrastructure and hires people who actually know how to win a caucus in iowa and win primaries in new hampshire, he's trouble. >> reverend al i think cornell is dead on on that. i talked to some senior advisors

other trump supporter? find out when we come back. ♪ john: classy. reaganesque. one of us. those are all of the words and phrases i heard it described by trump supporters last night. i met with a group of trump's in manchester, new hampshire. i asked him what a hypothetical trump presidency would look like -- them what a hypothetical trump presidency would like. >> he speaks the truth. john: and what truth is that? >> when he talks about especially immigration control and the border, he really says -- he doesn't care what people think. he says what we need to do. john: john? john supporter: yes, i think he says what he feels. washington-itis, but i don't think he will. >> the way i see it, the political rhetoric from most of the politicians is in pastel colors. they talk for two hours and then you go away saying, what did they say of substance? probably nothing. but they haven't offended anybody and they have tried to make everybody their friend. they are pastel but donald trump is in vivid colors because

trump will respond to that. the other question is whether or not republican leaders are out of step with republican vote orders this. because republican voters seem to like donald trump. donald trump today has just placed first in a statewide republican poll. ppp has just released its findings of a poll of republican voters in north carolina. and north carolina republican voters picked donald trump as the first choice for president by a pretty large margin. first choice. joining us now, tom jensen, from the poll which conducted the poll. thanks very much for being here. it is nice to have you here. >> thank you. >> so i don't mean to be too oblivious about this, but i really want an answer to this question and i'm hoping you are the man to tell me. who is it that wants donald trump for president as their first choice? what can you tell us about who are these respondents who tell us he is their guy? >> if you're a conservative in north carolina, your world has been turned on its head over the last couple weeks. h

trump. he fought back saying his long time business partners were well here's what he said. >> you know what they cut back becauser that weak. weak and it's very sad to see. >> trump has filed a big lawsuit against univision seeking $500 million in damages. keep in mind univision is the most popular, spanish language network in this country. now it's being sued by a presidential candidate who is rising in the republican polls. i never thought we would be here a week ago. i am joined by a special guest, an insider in this six, the general council for the trump organization which means he is donald trump's top lawyer. thanks for being here. >> thank you thanks for having me. >> look on the day he made that comment about immigrants being rapists. did you criminal of something like that is so incendiary? >>ly not get into a back and forth on what he said and how it can be interpreted. i can tell you i was at his speech and his comments if anyone who heard his speech in full knew exactly what he

you heard what trump said. good morning to you first. >> good morning. >> if he's going to run this presidential campaign, making one controversial comment after another, i mean can that type of game plan sustain him for the rest of the campaign? >> well, look, it's always going to be an uphill battle for an outsider like donald trump. "a," because he is an outsider. "b" because the way he has gotten attention is by saying things that are very candid, very blunt. to many people very offensive. and that has been appealing to a certain amount of the republican electorate in this very divided race. i think there is something like 16 republican candidates who have declared. but make no mistake, i think it's very clear that the republican party establishment has been for weeks now trying to figure out a way to get donald trump's poll numbers down, and i do think, regardless of whether or not people watching find this offensive, i do think there is a degree of that in play here. there is a degree of no matter what, a

it just happens to be true these assaults on other guys. >> love donald trump, hate donald trump. you have to admit this guy is a political genius. >> why does truth hurt the other guys but the public wants to hear that hurt? they want to hear that punch. >> he games the system. he started out as a liberal. i got the pick on the following issues and i got to be savage. >> you're just like him now. gesturing, the arms are nighing. every time he says something, it's like this. >> or like this right. >> so everybody did think that about rick perry. he's wearing glasses to look more intelligent. we all knew. and he's the first guy to say the obvious. >> that's not what i personally thought. >> what did you think? >> because he had a vision problem. >> why on tv? you don't have to see anything on tv. i do it every night. >> i don't wear glasses. >> you don't wear glasses for show. a lot of people wear glasses like jack kennedy never wore them on television. because you don't need them on tv. >> i have no way of knowing that. i'll have to take your word for it. but in any event he's lan

despite what television actors do, which is play parts, donald trump is donald trump. >> what can you tell me -- do you think he's in it to win it? >> oh, yeah. he is in it to win it every time, with anything he does. that's what makes him fascinating and perhaps that's what resonates with people. so i suspect the end of the world is coming soon because, when cnn wants to know what gene simmons thinks about one of the presidential candidates, next thing you know people will be asking jeb bush what he thinks about led zeppelin. i can't wait for that to happen. let me give my caveat, caveat emptor. that means buyer beware, kind of, sort of. i am one individual. one voter. my vote is not worth any more than don lemon's or anybody else's. i will vote my conscience at the ballot box. what i do think is happening with the political spectrum, whether we're talking about donald trump or anybody else, is it's really become unkind. it's ungentlemanly, what we can all use is a chance to understand that al qaeda and the taliban and all the bad guys in the world hate all of us. far left, far right

trump. michael, thanks for joining us. does donald trump is regret the initial comments he made about senator john mccain having served as a p.o.w. during the vietnam is war? >> the answer to that and i discussed this at length on many cnn siege then segment, donald trump did not say anything that should have been taken the way that it was taken by this liberal media what me said specifically four times is that john mccain is a war hero and that john mccain should be acknowledged as a war hero. this is one of the reasons why he's disappointed and angry with the likes of the marco rubio or the rick perrys. he's angry because they're looking to grab a soundbite, a distorted soundbite and looking to jump over it in order to give themselves name recognition and tv time. >> last night when he was being interviewed by bill o'reilly on fox he seemed to back off and maybe acknowledge he should have phrased it better. i assume you saw that interview. >> i did see it and he did. he wanted to clarify t

donald trump has five deferments. but he says senator mccain is not, and then under pressure says perhaps, is a war hero. ed o'keefe, help me here. know we the rules don't apply. donald trump is different. his appeal in this race is he is not a politician. he is first in some national polls, second in others. he is high in the polls. you cannot discount him. but is there a line and maybe has he walked up to it or crossed it here? >> i would think there is. but, you know, he survived the immigration thing. this now happens. i can only think that maybe grandmothers who bake pies is next, and maybe that's the next line that has to be crossed. i do wonder. i mean, very quickly, just about every republican candidate came out and denounced him. something they've been trying to do really wanted to do for the last few weeks. now they have an excuse. even the rnc got into it. but it exposed all sorts of other problems for him which shows how much of a problem he is for the party. >> let's look at some of that. jeb bush tweeted

last week republican party chairman told donald trump he struck a chord and now trump is strumming it harder than ever. he hit the political biggies in the gut in front of a packed house and attacked jeb, slammed hilary and bashed illegal immigrants. let's watch him in action. >> the poll just came out and i'm tied with jeb bush and i said oh, that's too bad. how can i be tied with this guy? he's terrible. he's terrible. hillary clinton is going to be a horrible president. horrible. they don't want to give it straight because the they lie, terrible people. i have an idea, i think it's good. every time mexico really intelligently sends people over, we charge mexico $100,000 for every person they send over. [ cheers ] >> the silent majority is back, and we're going to take the country back. [ cheers ] >> by the way, this is a point of factor in the clip, mr. trump was referring to an online poll that doesn't meet nbc standards but trump is on to something here. he doubled shut up port since april and the number two spot right now with 13% just two points behind jeb bush up there, those

but listen donald trump is donald trump. i'm not going to change him, you're not going to change him, and the american people are liking the truth and honesty and the clean talk that donald trump is portraying. you know what? last week when you and i talked you said that his approval rating was terrible 23%. it's now at 57%. i said wait a few days because it's going to increase and you know what? guess what. it did. it's now at 57%. i bet if you take a poll in a couple days in iowa where he is right now second behind scott walker, it will be better. >> you could absolutely be right. >> it will be better. >> okay. we have a bet. robert kiger, thanks so much for being with me. i appreciate it. >>> dinner next time i'm in atlanta. >> i'll take you up on that. >> okay. thank you. >> a deposition exposes even more sordid details about bill cosby. how he paid off women, hiding sex from his wife and claiming he could read women's sexual cues. up next accuser janice dickinson gives us her reaction. at ally bank no branches equals gr

trump. his income last year alone, at least $362 million. his fame's always been derived from his fortune but only now for the first time is the world getting a detail look at just how much donald trump is really worth. >> i don't need anybody's money. >> the answer, more than $1.4 billion. trump has boasted he's worth $10 billion. >> donald trump's net worth is huge. what we don't know is how huge it actually is because the documents aren't built to calculate this kind of wealth. >> because the financial disclosure form only asked for broad ranges. so here's trump by the numbers. nearly $2 million for seven speeches like this one for samsung. >> samsung is an amazing company. >> close to cl600,000 from the central park carousel. he's still making $50,000 off his best seller, the art of the deal. and before nbc dropped it, the ms. universe pageant was a money maker, earning trump more than $3 million last year. he's really raking it in on the greens. his golf empire worth than more than a ha

denounce donald trump for that. >> donald trump owes every american veteran and in particular john mccain an apology. >> jeb bush is saying "enough with the slanderous attacks. senator john mccain and all our veterans particularly p.o.w.s, have earned our respect and admiration ." >> jon: yes at long last does the man who accused the vast a majority of mexican immigrants of being drug-addicted rapists have no sense of decency? (laughter) but they're right! they're right! (applause) i so love this man! (laughter) i really feel like he's some sort of jewish holiday waiting to happen. like, we thought the craziness would only last a day. but by a miracle it burned for eight, ten holy (bleep)! that's what we should call it, holy (bleep)-ka! (laughter) why is everybody surprised about trump? the only thing you like him is because of the terrible things he's willing to say about obama. but he has no control over the vomit of dickishness that comes out of his mouth! his word puke will get on you! you should have known that, you have been down this road before! >> nancy pelosi is a ding bat. wate

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i'm not sure people who say i'm for donald trump like donald trump. and in the end that's not for real votes. >> holding two simultaneously ideas. one is donald trump is not be the republican nominee ask the other is he won't be president. but at the same time he matters. he can continue to effect the race. and i think this is a brilliant thing he's doing with the republican party. right now, the interest of fox news and the republican party which are normally in perfect alignment are not. everybody in television wants trump. everybody in the party doesn't want trump. and trump is threatening the party and saying if you try to block my akis and try to shut me down, i will gf third party. that's what will happen, and he would draw from republicans. that threat -- the party doesn't have that much power, but that's a powerful threat if he goes forward and looking for the oxygen and then he has months where he could occupy minds and media talking about whether or not he's independent. and they will court him and bribe him to want do what they don't want h

trump said my husband said i love him. >> so you took more offense at john mccain calling the trump supporters crazies because there may have been some veterans. show of hands, how many people on election day plan to vote for donald trump? undecided? >> i'm undecided. you know i can see myself voting for him and then if somebody else comes along to care about myish shoo uh issues and my positions, then i can see myself voting for them too. >> unlike ryan i want to see the policies and want to know what it is about. i want to see that it is fairness for people. i understand what trump is saying it's a little put on and for entertainment, it's a lot of show person in there. so i'm waiting to see what policies are going to look like and what he's going to say moving forward. >> we had hoped on this panel to have it be more ethnically and racially diverse. we tried very hard to reach out to african-americans and to hispanics, and though connecticut where we are is 14% hispanic we couldn't find anyone who wanted to come on and support donald trump. do you imagine hispanics coming around to support

trump says he smells conspiracy and donald trump blames union bosses who he says do not want people to know how bad it is on the border. we'll bring you the donald's comments live, set to start in just a moment. they have a sent up and all the reporters are in there sweating, as one would do on a hot day in south texas. donald trump's immigration stance has been cycles, calling mexicans criminals and rapists and some were good people. that created backlash many of his business partners and republican rivals. donald trump respond with various insults calling many of the board ear dumb or idiots or a combination and says that republicans, if they don't treat him better -- listen now -- he would absolutely consider a third-part run for the white house. he would absolutely consider a third-party run. much like, well, ron paul once did. that's accord together reporting of the hell newspaper. analysts predict a doomsday scenario for the gone gone should donald trump run. according to the "washington post" and abc news poll in a hypothetical matchup between hillary clinton, jeb bush jeb do no

trump had a lot of -- there's bnt trump effect. a huge impact has been what it's done to all these, well they were first tier candidates. i have to call them second tier candidates now. what it's done to ted cruz and marco, what it's done to rand paul. he has sucked the heart and support out of a lot of candidates that we were talking about really seriously a month or two ago. >> he had to help jeb bush. everybody else is frozen in place. >> but jeb just keeps collapsing. i mean we had a poll last week out of new hampshire. he's being doubled here. trump's beating him. i see you smiling. i'm sure that jeb people are smug about it all. i'd be worried now. >> being ahead doesn't mean you'll be the nominee. jeb doesn't need help raising money. some other candidates are going to struggle to raise money. some others will struggle to learn how to be a presidential candidate under the spotlight. jeb bush does not have either of those problems. trump has florida ties. you look at who is the governor of florida? a wealthy businessman outsid

. >>> and the trump factor. republicans pile on after trump says this about john mccain. >> he's a war hero. >> he's a war hero because he's captured. i like people who weren't captured. >> is this the moment republicans decide enough is enough. >> i'm chuck todd. joining us thomas friedman of the "new york times." andrea mitchell finally back from vienna. danielle pletka and bill richard richardson richardson. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> good morning. new developments into the investigation in chattanooga. those victims, lance corporal skip wells gunnery sergeant thomas sullivan staff sergeant david why yet, and sergeant holmquist. the gunman mohammad youssuf abdulazeez investigators are focusing on a text message he sent to friends just hours before the shootings, including a link to islamic verse who says this. whosoever shows enmity to friends. his family offered a statement offering condolences to the victims and stating their son suffered from depression for many years. i'm joined by gove

>> i think that's donald trump continuing to be donald trump. this guy is is a loose cannon who is liable to say absolutely anything. he suffers if stream-of-consciousness. i have yet to hear him discuss policy issues. i think he is appealing to legitimate fears and frustrations that people have with the diss function in washington. when he is not offending mexicans, he is offendsing service men and women. when he is not offendsing service men and women, he is offendsing -- you name it. other candidates running for the nomination. it is a one more day in donald trump's reality show, akaa the republican nomination. i find his comments about mccain particularly offensive because i know john mccain. john mccampaign is a friend of inmoo. i have spent a lot of time with him. he is not a guy who speaks a lot of times about his time as p.o.w. he talks about others who were prison and how much he owes to people like bud day, another hero who was haled from iowa. the people that allowed him to survive. john mccain is a guy who cannot lift his arms past h

it's to attack donald trump. it's to be attacked by donald trump. it's to raise your own profile by getting in a fight with him. that's sort of what has happened now. that's what rick perry is doing. and this rick perry compared to the one who ran last time is pretty impressive by comparison. he's using -- he's found a way to at least for a day demonstrate his compassionate conservative, the fact that he has a more modulated view on immigration, the fact that he wants some kind of reform in that. and he does it by making a contrast with donald trump. i think it was pretty successful. >> we all grew up, i think you did 250, watching "gunsmoke." and every week somebody came into town trying to make their representation by taking on marshall dillon. and they all ended up dead. does this guy got it? rick perry, who has been humiliated by donald trump called the guy with the glasses but you can still tell he ain't smart? can he go into this or is this an oops on his part? >> oh, no, i think it's the right thing for him to do. otherwise he is not in the c

trump but mr. trump and he was very clear that he disagreed with the comments that michael cohen made and michael cohen's comments are those of his own. he was upset with the acquisition of a story 30 plus years old that's been widely reported on in the past and felt obligated to say things that he clearly regretted. so mr. trump was clear about this. he did not condone this. he did not approve, did not know about this when this took place. mr. cohen will stay on board with mr. trump. >> there is a question why you want to keep him on board with mr. trump because this is a person he's not affiliated with the campaign you say but he is suggested by the campaign as someone to speak as a surerogate you want someone to speak with a reporter on behalf of him? >> michael cohen is not a campaign employee. he works for the trump organization. he serves as special counsel and advisor to mr. trump in that capacity. >> corey, is that a difference without a distinction? >> it's a very important distins. he did

that you asked about trump. this came from you back in 2004. >> it did. it was really good, too. >> well, okay then. here's how you asked -- you were asked in a celebrity apprentice contestant. your question was this and what about this fascination with donald trump? it doesn't seem to be abating? what the heck is the deal with this? i know we're a big celebrity culture? what's the deal with this guy. that was your question. >> that's really good. >> answer your own question. what do you make of this? >> no, no. i asked somebody. >> i know. what was their answer because i'm not getting into that. >> he's larger than life, is what he said. >> he's just fascinating. >> chuck what is your read on this? >> i don't really pay any attention to it. >> i understand that. >> i don't have a read on it. i'm not talking about him. >> the preannouncement video for you from new day for america, your superpac on july 19th that went out, and lfs a line in here that made me raise your eyebrow and said it said, kasich then worked

trump. let's go to the original comments that created the first bit of controversy. >> when mexico sends its people they're not sending their best. they're not sending you. they're not sending you. they're sending people that have lots of problems. and they're bringing those problems with us. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. and some i assume are good people. but i speak to border guards. and they tell us what we're getting. >> stephen, we know now in texas alone, and i learned this when i was down there with governor perry and i was on the border and i was briefed on border security. 642,000 texans have been victims of crime including nearly 3,000 murders, thousands of sexual assaults by illegal immigrants against just texans. so my question is isn't trump right in that sense? he's right. >> well i think if donald trump had said exactly what you just said by marshaling facts and building an argument he would be more right. i think he's right in the general se

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trump on a daily basis. we get phone calls from veterans, including when we go on the campaign trail or out doing business deal one of the things that people comment they're talking about are veteran's issues. we talk about what happened at the va. you talk about what happened the double books and these, you know these injured whether it is psychological or physical and they're hurting and the administration has basically left them without recourse. and donald trump wants to be the voice of reason. >> and that's why the question becomes what is he going to do for them? other than say i'm mad and nobody is good for them. he doesn't have the plan for what he would do. what are the specific policies he wants for veterans to back up his -- >> first thing he's going to do is ensure that veterans get the proper care and treatment that they're entitled to. >> how? >> he feels they've been betrayed. >> everybody does. how? >> john mccain has been in service now for 30 years. 30 years. and we're in worst shape for al

how does that affect their coverage of trump. >> we're covering trump the way trump is being covered by everyone. it's of special interest to our audience because of some of the derogatory comments he made the day he launched his campaign were directed at part of our audience if not all of our audience. one thing i think people need to understand is that you can't have it both ways. you can't say i support immigrants as long as they're legal but i don't support illegal aliens. by the way, we don't use the word illegal because a human being is not illegal. a human being is undocumented. we come from the same region. we have the same blood. we have the same ancestors and some had a better opportunity to cross the border than others. so for hispanic voters many of which have parents, grandparents that maybe arrived illegally. maybe they themselves were here illegally at one point or they have friends or family members that are now here in this country without documents, this is a personal attack. so you cannot separate them. you can't have it both ways. >> i know that trump has done int

i think the donald trump doctrine is donald trump. back then he thought that's what would get him tang and support. now he's saying something else. that i think the analogy to gingrich is amount. there were a lot of candidates who were at the top of the polls. and i don't think he has the campaign skills that gingrich certainly had after running all those campaigns. i think the republicans are kind of hoping that he just falls under the weight of his absurdity and what he's saying and they won't have to counter him. they don't want to lose that part of the vote either. they don't want to alienate that is part of it. >> it is a test of personality in a way. so many is personality. can he sell the republican base on, yeah, i said this about abortion, no longer, yeah, health care, is it strong enough to get them nodding their heads? >> by the way, this isn't unique. four years ago there was a guy named mitt romney who had positions as governor of massachusetts that were completely contradictory to the positions he held as a republican no

for donald trump will end? he's going to take part in that first debate on august 6th right? >> oh he'll be there. he's fairly high up in the polls. he'll probably be at the cnn debate in september. the first real votes are cast february 1st in the iowa caucuses. february 1st. it's july. think about how many days -- no how many hours, how many minutes there are for donald trump to say more outrageous things between now and then. >> thanks for your insight. i appreciate it as always. >>> and if elbow room in the gop field wasn't tight enough for trump, it's about to get a little tighter. a republican is hours away from officially entering the race. >> what are we going to do about america? and how did we end up with 20 people running for president? i don't think a good leader really reads polls or listens to focus groups or who yells the loudest. a good leader has a sense intuition about what's good for the country. >> john kasich becomes the 16th republican to run for the white house. cnn's aa >> the governor w

people being asked about donald trump after those john mccain remarks. donald trump in 1st place. now the new poll that came out today the economist poll donald trump again the leading candidate, quote, donald trump's rise in the republican contest for the 2016 nomination does not appear to have been slowed much by the recent controversy over his criminals of arizona senator john mccain. he is still ahead and far ahead when republicans are asked to choose among the current candidates. if you look specifically at that poll donald trump is further ahead in that specifically poll now. he's further ahead now than he was in that poll before he said what he said about john mccain. he's increased his lead since he said that about john mccain. i do not get it. how do you say what donald trump said denigrating the military service of a war hero and have republican primary voters as the nominee. they want you more than they used to as tear nominee. i cannot get my head around these things. i need help. i need dan rather to explain what is happening. luckily, dan rather is here to help. join

trump. rudy giuliani is the former mayor of new york and knows trump well. thanks for coming on. hillary clinton was asked about donald trump's comments on immigration. here's what she said. >> i'm very disappointed in those comments. and i feel very bad and very disappointed with him and with the republican party for not responding immediately and saying enough, stop it. but they are all, you know, in the same general area on immigration, you know. they don't want to provide a path to citizenship. they range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile toward immigrants. and i'm going to talk about comprehensive immigration reform. i'm going to talk about all of the good, law-abiding, productive members of the immigrant community that i personally know, that i've met over the course of my life that i would like to see have a path to citizenship. >> mr. mayor, what do you think of that? you're chuckling away there. what do you think of hillary's attack on your base, the gu