catty. i would expect something different here. >> and fairness, mr. trump has attacked the president over and over again. he has not put up the fire yet over whether or not he believes the president was born outside of the united states. i thought it was a formidable piece. if i were on the other side of this equation, the biggest worry it would have is whether i would disagree the two of them along .ith their supporters mark: the reason donald trump is here today is no coincidence. to step onbasically the obama-clinton visit. kellyanne: perhaps one of the

greatest assets of donald trump is that he is unapologetically i'm afraid of hillary clinton, bill clinton, and all the clinton candidacy means. we've had republican candidates in the past pull punches. he is saying i am not seating to you one of the swing states in north carolina, the only one of and mitt romney bothered to win in 2012. it is the only red-blue state. it has a republican governor. he will go out there and make the case against hillary clinton. today, he quotes right from the comey press conference. adsink they can run directly from the press conference. is taking the case

and telling north carolinians we will be back here again and again and make the state and the. week, hillarylast clinton was with senator warren. is there any risk that she starts to look a little uninspiring next to such a heavy hitting lineup? harold: it reinforces for voters and a party and independents alike the wealth and diversity and strength of the party. hillary look at a clinton in the white house, ,hoever she chooses for her vp in might consider the ceo of apple, tim cook, to be a part of that team. i think it signals to the country that year is a president who can work with congress that can get things done. heard republican senators quietly say they can work with her on form policy

issues, economic policy issues. obama,day with president it opened with a lot of electricity, a lot of excitement and a lot of substance. and you heard the president underscore how smart she is. i think it emphasize the point more that she is not only ready but is prepared to work with congress. maybe over time, it won't wear as well and she will be diminished under the far brighter star power of elizabeth warren, certainly barack obama. tranceknow that cool is -- is not transferable. you can't infuse that to someone else. i think it will do a great job, barackinton did for obama in 2012. she runs the risk of looking

like she needs to be propped up, like she can't do this on her own. mark: before you joined the trunk campaign, you thought tom cotton was the pick. got a think he's very strong list to choose from. i like the fact that he is meeting with them one-on-one. and being somewhat public about it, being very honest about who is being considered. it also shows a unifying of the party that is often not mentioned fairly enough in the press. mark: next, our take on the vice presidential sweepstakes. ♪

john: welcome back. final stretch of the -- season. they were all dishing out clinton talking points while dodging questions over whether they would join a ticket with hillary clinton. where do things stand with her running mate decision? mark: i don't know who she is planning to pick. ,ut according to clinton people they are very happy with the choices. no one is going to make the case that her choices will revolutionize the race.

people seem genuinely happy with those and perfectly satisfied. my sense is they don't think she is headed for the -- i still think she won't pick until trump does and maybe not after his-- convention. he may well take on the eve of his convention. the: i think that is one of elements share, the timing. some timegive clinton through the republican convention to the time that she will announce to step on his headlines. i hear tim kaine a lot more than tempora's. tom perez, someone who seems maybe someone who they want to seem in consideration rather than someone who is actually in consideration. tim kaine is the front runner and i still think elizabeth warren is the best

choice. [laughter] vilsack, i thought he was the onesh that she was going to pick. as tim kaine,ing a governing partner, someone she likes to work with, someone who is loyal to her. i'm not hearing that necessarily is [indiscernible] main case for tom vilsack as she likes him a lot and you can't discount how important that is. -- it seems hard for me but hard for me to believe that he will end up on the ticket. returning to the question of donald j trump, billionaire and presumptive republican nominee, trump met with two possible indianamates, it governor mike pence, who huddled with trump on saturday, and ios

and at her journey -- joni ernst , who had her face-to-face trump. with you've got senator bob corker from tennessee. the same question i asked you before come up where does trump's decision stand in your mind? mark: one of the funniest things i have ever heard was kelly and conway. it is similar to what happened with john mccain. now to a handful of choices in and say, you know what, these choices may not be good enough. expanding to pants and expanding to joni ernst. look at the list and said no. no one on that list is actually right you need to think a new and think more broadly. , it seems that maybe

they did and pence makes a lot of sense. --n: he's got the circle of he's got to solve the problem he has right now, republicans to come home. and pence may be the best solution. thes christie doesn't solve problem of getting republicans to come home to donald trump. i know the clinton people, they still think trump will go with his gut in the end. they don't know anything about what is going on internally, but they expect in the end it will be chris christie or newt gingrich. i don't know this for a five, but i have one source suggesting that he has been talked out of gingrich and that they will find another role for gingrich in the administration. that may well be a dead letter. but everybody says, and the end,

this is trump's decision, that he will go with his gut and that could mean anything. just like with palin, they are under pressure to that someone -- to vet someone. up, edmund dell and alex stewart. -- ed rendell and alex stewart. ♪

john: our final guest tonight is in fact to guests tonight. and alice stewart.

i asked about what seems to be a said renewed, something something going on with the dump truck moving to cleveland. people sayingp they might be able to pull off a trump coup. alice: that is to be expected. people have been -- have had concerns with donald trump for quite some time and will continue. they will be speaking loud and clear. but what we expect to see at the convention, the rnc has gone through the rules process. what is expected to happen is people will galvanize and rally behind donald trump and he will be nominated as the nominee for the republican party. while there is a lot of folks holding their nose and have

issues and concerns about some of his policies and where he stands moving forward, the number one goal, though a number one focus for all republicans defeatservatives is to hillary clinton. we cannot do it divided we have to do united. the best way to do it is to get together at the convention and rally behind donald trump and put all focus and all eyes on defeating clinton. ed, i'm going to ask you about james comey. the things that director comey said about her were brutal yesterday. in some respects, showed her to honest,n not totally some would say an outright liar with respect to some of the ways in which she handled her e-mail in the course of the last year. how bad you think the political fallout from the comey statement

yesterday is for her. : i think the problem is that donald trump blew a good andrtunity yesterday implied that director comey was in on the process being rigged. rigged, it isis hard for him to turn around and use director comey's used -- words used, words that were skating in part, against clinton. because donald says that it was rate. if this was all a mess to make it look good. i think he boxed himself again by not taking a deep breath, forgetting about crooked hillary, forgetting about she should have been indicted, and saying this goes to dutchman, to care and applies to serious and this is what director comey said. i think he made a big mistake in

handling what could be a very serious problem. let me stick with you for one thing on hillary clinton. hasn the things that comey said in the discrepancies he put forward, she will clearly have to talk about this at some point. does she not have to step forward at some point and ask all of the many now questions that reporters would like to ask her after what comey said yesterday? ed: eventually she does. it is not exactly clear what the facts are. for example, director comey said , noidn't bring charges reason a prosecutor would and why people who did similar actions were never charged -- well, who are those people? that would be interesting to know. he said that a lot of the e-mails have sensitive, classified material.

bo was the e-mail in its entirety classified? that would be interesting to know. i think there is a letter fact-finding before anybody is in a position to answer questions. of themagine, in one three presidential debates, someone is going to ask hillary clinton those questions. if shet would be nice had a press conference before that it's been a long time since she has had one. alice, as a communications affectional and a longtime republican, how do you think your party and its presumptive nominee have handled the potential political opportunity that james comey has presented with a things he said about hillary clinton yesterday? alice: i agree somewhat with the governor. there is more to focus on yesterday as opposed to the rigged system. the sheer facts that comey outlined and, yes, a large

number that were sent through her personal server were marked classified at the time they were sent. her flies in the face of repeated unequivocal the now that any of the e-mails that were sent were marked classified. in and of itself, that fact , she lied repeatedly to askedess and anyone who those questions. i see it hard for her to get through the next few months ,efore getting to the debate given the group of reporters on the ground, without having to answer some of these questions. that will be difficult for her to do. in addition to the fact that we have mass security information, who knows who has access to this now? we don't know who has tapped into that system. that is the question that will not a known for some time. those are the kind of things any to be pointed out, the fact that she lied repeatedly about this information, and just the sheer fact that she knew what the rules were. she knew what the laws regarding

the use for a personal server and she felt that the rules did not apply to her. and those are the kinds of things that the republicans in the gop need to continue to hit on in the next months. just two words, who would be the best vp pick for hillary clinton? ed: i like tom vilsack. john: some might say ed rendell. great to see you both. thanks for coming back on the show. we will be right back. ♪

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