battle. now, more republicans, new prominent republicans have jumped ship. including one big donor. a big fund-raiser, now saying she will become hillary clinton. let's begin our coverage with manu >> reporter: it's quite possible, john. just two weeks ago, republicans left their nominating convention saying they were more united than ever. we've seen donald trump lurching from one controversy to another, and many in the party keeping their distance from their own nominee. turns out that unity was just papering over deep-seeded divisions. >> i don't regret anything. i said nice things about the son. >> reporter: republican leaders and donald trump's own campaign staff frustrated with their candidate. sources tell cnn even trump's campaign manager paul manafort is upset with trump. the tipping point, trump openly challenging the parents of slain

muslim soldier captain humayun khan. >> this person is not fit for the office he's seeking. >> reporter: trump refusing to drop his fight with the gold-star family, despite the urging of senior staff and failing to stay on message and attacking hillary clinton. >> i was hit very hard from the stage, and you know, it's just one of those things. no, i don't regret anything. >> reporter: this as trump refuses to endorse house speaker paul ryan in his republican primary, telling "the washington post," i'm just not quite there yet, i'm not quite there yet. trump thumbing his nose at ryan's delayed decision to endorse him back in may. >> i'm just not ready to do that at this point. i'm not there right now. >> reporter: trump also declining to back former gop nominee arizona senator john mccain, who is in a tough re-election battle. i've always felt he should have done a much better job for the vets. trump's tension with mccain has been brewing ever since trump

criticized the war hero for being captured in vietnam. mccain telling me back in may, he http:/wants trump to apologi p.o.w.s. >> when he says i don't like people who are captured, then there's a body of american heroes that i'd like to see him retract that statement. >> reporter: the avalanche of trump's controversial statements prompting several prominent republicans to break from their party and back hillary clinton. president obama using the weight of the office to slam trump at a news conference with the foreign leader at the white house. >> the republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. >> reporter: and blasting republicans for standing by their nominee. >> if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him? this isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe.

this is daily. and weekly, where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making. >> reporter: trump firing back. >> well, he's a terrible president. he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country. he's been a total disaster. >> reporter: now, earlier this morning, trump tweeted it that there's, quote, great unity inside his campaign, perhaps more than ever before, but down ballot, that's just another question. in arizona, mccain's biggest challenge will be navigating the forces of trump in a general election, where he'll have to court latino voters upset at trump. so all this infighting only bound to distract from the republican effort to project unity. >> okay, manu. stick around, if you would. we also want to bring in political analyst david gregory, and "washington post" reporter philip rucke, who interviewed

donald trump. that made a lot of news. everything has been making a lot of news. but phil, your interview with him certainly did. david, let's start with this disaffection that's been reported by dana bash among donald trump's top lieutenants who include his chairman, paul manafort, who seem to think that unless he can stay on message and become more disciplined that donors are getting cold feet and top republicans are getting cold feet. what now? >> you know, donald trump has been the ultimate disrupter in this political campaign, but now he seems to be moving into the area of self-sabotage. that's what has people concerned. the fact that a campaign that has been so disruptive has said, look, let trump be trump, and now what's spilling out is all this dysfunction. it takes it to a different level. the lack of unity in the republican party a couple weeks after their convention has to be very troubling, for a simple reason. how does he start adding to his base of support? he seems to be detracting from

it. he's like a street brawler taking on all comers here, instead of a disciplined candidate. you're seeing that disaffection play out among his staff and of course in phil's interview with "the post," so revealing because he's just all over the place on so many of these different issues and giving people a lot of anxiety inside the campaign, within the party. >> forget unity in the party. there's a unity issue apparently with his own campaign. phil, you're a great reporter. there are three reasons people leak. number one, great reporters get you to do it without their knowledge. number two, they want to send a message to the candidate. number three, they want to cover their own butts because they're embarrassed by what's going on and don't want to be connected to whatever is happening inside a campaign. i think options two are three are the most likely here. when these campaign staffers are leaking overnight that there's disarray, that they're mailing it in, you know, including paul manafort, it's significant in and of itself that these leaks are happening. >> it is significant, but it's

also nothing new. they've been promising a pivot from him to be acting more presidential for months. i remember back in may, paul manafort told the republican national committee that trump would be a new trump in the general election. we have yet to see that. i think what we're learning is trump is going to do what he wants to do, say what he wants to do, make news when he wants to make news. i don't think what he had to say yesterday about paul ryan and john mccain, for example, was any planned strategy by his campaign team. i think this was just trump sort of mouthing off about what was on his mind. a lot of his supporters find that refreshing. the problem is, it's not the most disciplined approach when you're running for president of the united states. >> that's interesting, phillip. it does sound like what he said to you about paul ryan and john mccain did sound planned by him. maybe not by his campaign. >> by him. >> yes, by him. so let's read a portion of what he said about paul ryan. when asked if he was going to endorse paul ryan, 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. david, that rings -- there's an echo there. it sounds awfully familiar. that's what paul ryan told jake tapper about donald trump in may. >> right, and so this sounds like nothing more than donald trump saying, well, i'm not so sure about him either. we'll just have to see. >> it's payback, right? the fact he's using the exact same words, doesn't that sound like, oh, i remember and feel a little vindictive about this. >> that's right. i think he's just keep can go everyone kind of at bay here. as phil said, what is refreshing to so many trump supporters, that he would just go completely, you know, from the gut on any particular day, is what has i think people around him so worried, what has donors worried, all of these things. donald trump has been very successful as a candidate doing it this way. but what he's doing -- i mean,

he has got to unify the republican party. then he's got to start adding to what his base of support is with women, with minorities, with independent voters. i think one of his problems f y -- if you look at white-collar voters, is independent, white-collar voters, they're paying attention to these kinds of flows in the news cycle. they're the ones that are most impressionable when it comes to questions of temperament, fitness, knowledge of the issues, as well as kind of self-discipline, as well as a candidate. >> this isn't just a finger in the eye of paul ryan. it's the middle finger in his eye. it's an unmistakable statement he made there. manu raju, one of the things our friends reporting right now is that maybe more republicans will come out and break with donald trump in the coming days. they're looking at these off-ramps right now, this debate with the khans has really made it something that is more possible andi incould happen an

minute, any hour today. you saw sally bradshaw. now you see meg whitman, a republican candidate, a big donor, hundreds of millions of dollars to her own campaign and others through the years. she says she's voting for hillary clinton. will more people come out over over the next few days? >> john, i think you can definitely expect some of these more prominent republican operatives, donor types, people more in the establishment, moderate, right of center camp in the republican party begin to break ranks. what is challenging for republicans in congress, particularly ones who are in tough re-election races, even in plu states, purple states, swing states, is they cannot distance themselves totally from donald trump because they need donald trump supporters to come out at the end of the day. so they will need to court donald trump supporters, but at the same time, they'll have to reach out to the disaffected people in the middle, people alienated by donald trump, hispanics, minority groups,

people in new hampshire, like kelly ayotte, who donald trump criticized. she's still supporting donald trump, even though she's not, quote, endorsing him. it's a sign she needs those donald trump supporters in her race, even if she can't fully embrace him, given new hampshire's moderate leanings. you're seeing that happen all over the country. really a bind that a lot of these republican lawmakers are in, in these tough re-election races. >> team clinton -- i mean, the president has jumped into this as well, creating kind of a momentum that these republicans are about to break. we're not seeing that. senator mccain issued a blistering critique on donald trump, and he's not renounced his support. that will be the test, as to whether there's an unraveling in the party that's real. they are worried about this core donald trump support, which is very, very strong. i go back to what i said at the beginning. the core is very strong. it's how he adds from there that is the real test of the general

election. you know, seeing these other republicans break will be whether they're really willing to stick the tiger in the eye and say, you know, i'm going to sacrifice my potential chances for honor, if that's what they really believe. >> so president obama threw down the gauntlet basically about this very thing yesterday, saying that it is time for republicans who say, i disavow what he said, to now change their endorsement. so listen to president obama. >> and 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? >> i don't know, phil. when president obama chastises

republicans, i don't know if that gets them to get on board any more quickly. >> no, but i think this was a notable development for president obama. he's had a lot of negative things to say about donald trump over the last few months, but this was by far his sternest rebuke yet. he actually went on to say, look, i don't talk about my political opponents this way. when i ran against john mccain and mitt romney, i argued with them about ideas. i didn't think they should be president, but i never doubted that they were either qualified for the office or that they had sort of common human decency and would follow the established rules of being president and that is not the case with donald trump. so i think he's trying to send a message to the country at large that this is dangerous, that he does not -- he truly does not think donald trump is ready to succeed him, even if that's what the voters might want. >> he's really speaking to independents and moderate voters. core republicans hear that and say, really? i like trump more. >> okay, panel. stick around. we have some breaking news to

tell everyone about. thick smoke and flames shooting out of an emirates jet after it apparently crashed upon landing. emirates airlines has confirmedaconfirmed a an accident occurred. let's go to london live. >> reporter: good morning. an emirates boeing 777 making its way from southern india to dubai international airport experienced what emirates airlines are describing as an accident upon landing. we know on board, 275 passengers, including crew. we also know that thankfully they are all safe. reports from the dubai government media office saying everyone is safe, there are no reports of injuries so far. everyone has been evacuated, alisyn. now, we're looking at that plume of smoke on our air right now. other images seen on social

media show what can be described as dramatic visuals. the front portion of the plane pretty much not standing on its feet. the front landing gear, what it looks like from it, the front landing gears may have collapsed and then the plane slid. this is just what our experts have managed to figure out for the time being. of course, an investigation will be looked upon in the next couple hours. we know that dubai flights have been -- flights into dubai have been delayed but not canceled. of course, dubai is the busiest international airport in emirates. we know the boeing 777 has a very good safety record. no doubt they'll be looking into exactly what happened. thankfully, no reports of injuries thus far. >> and 275 people safely evacuated. that's another big headline. please keep us posted when they figure out what went wrong. thank you for that reporting. all right. up next for us, what did donald

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now, i said to him, i said to him, is that, like, the real one, or is that a copy? and he said, that's my real purple heart. i have such confidence in you. and i said, man, that's like big stuff. i always wanted to get the purple heart. this was much easier. >> donald trump facing criticism for those comments. he was given as a gift a purple heart from a veteran at a campaign event. one man is particularly outraged by what you just heard, the father of the fallen muslim-american soldier currently in a feud with donald trump. in an interview with anderson

cooper last night, khizr khan seemed to barely be able to contain his anger. >> donald trump, you had the time. you did not serve. you know what you should have done? and listen to me and i want his surrogates to listen to me. you should have pinned that back to that veteran's chest and should have hugged him and thanked him. that is lack of -- i'm sorry, i'm shouting. i'm just so upset at this lack of empathy, lack of common sense. >> bring back our panel right now. david gregory, manu raju, phillip rucker of "the washington post." legitimate criticisms of donald trump, or is this now in the context of what was already a tough week for him piling on? >> i think it's probably the latter. i think the biggest mistake that trump has made based on the reaction of allies, other republicans, and the general public is attacking this family to begin with, the khan family to begin with.

now he's in the arena of getting batted around on anything that has to do with the military. so it doesn't appear he's actually going to apologize. i think he continues to elevate this issue by staging an event like that where he accepts a purple heart. look, the military, the aspect of the military support for him, whether it's former generals and others, is very interesting because i think trump will have a lot of support. not everybody will -- >> he does have a lot of support. >> yeah, he does. and we're also in a different time politically where the notion of his own service, that he got multiple deferments, i think the political class has kind of moved on from that, as we've now elected presidents who no longer served. >> but phil, isn't it a little politically dicey for donald trump to say, i always wanted the purple heart. well, there would have been a way to get that had you not deferred several times service. i mean, going there, does it open the door for criticism?

>> yeah, you know, that quote, i think, exposed him. when i interviewed him, it was shortly after that rally. he pulled the purple heart from his suit pocket to show me. he was so proud of it. i said, did not not think about giving it back to the veteran? he just insisted this veteran wanted him to have it. it was an odd moment. i think certainly he's exposed himself to criticism for his kind of flip remark about always wanting the purple heart, especially because it came on the morning when "the new york times" had a front page story about his lack of service in vietnam and the deferments. >> it's the timing of it, right. that service is part of the discussion. all these other things are going on that made it complicated. it's a show of devotion and commitment from the supporter to give him a gift, the purple heart. there's no doubt that that man supports donald trump. manu, i want to talk about another story in the news right now about the other party, the democratic national committee, which overnight had a purge. they got rid of three top

staffers at the dnc, largely because of their role in this entire e-mail hack, the things they said that were revealed in this hack. there's a kind of upheaval right now in the democratic party ranks while no one is looking. >> that's right. a lot of democrats wanted this to happen much sooner, including senate minority leader harry reid, who i interviewed last week. he told me this should have happened six weeks ago, eight weeks ago, particularly debbie wasserman schultz, who abruptly resigned just as the democratic convention was beginning in light of this e-mail hack. there's a real concern, john, that there are going to be more of these e-mails that are going to come out in the coming weeks, there will be more and more leaks, that it will reveal even more embarrassing disclosures. as much as we're talking about donald trump and his controversies right now, all these issues about the democratic -- the way they handled the primaries, other things they said to big donors,

could come back to light. that's why we're seeing right now democrats cleaning house, trying to suggest they're moving in a different direction before we possibly see even more embarrassing revelations come out in the coming days and weeks. >> david, how big of a problem is this shake-up for hillary clinton? >> well, it's a problem for a couple of reasons. one, it's a horrible thing to have to go through in the middle of a general election race. you wonder about the potential effectiveness as a party in terms of getting out the vote and things like that. were it not for donald trump and his daily headline making machine that is his campaign, it would loom even larger. i think the largest danger is that the democratic party is not immune from the kind of unraveling we're seeing on the right. the forces of populism and disaefection and anti-establishmeanti-establis anti-establishment fervor within the democratic party is real. just like the republican party did not pay attention to what was happening with the tea party and got donald trump as a result, the democratic party is sitting on that same kind of powder keg, if they're not careful. >> a purge may give you the

sense they are taking care of it. >> i think those are kind of obvious fixes. given some of the e-mails we've seen so far, you're going to take that obvious step if you're interim chair, donna brazile. there are going to be more things to come that are distracting and potentially embarrassing. i think it will reveal things already known, that this was tilted toward clinton, and that's going to continue to rangel those bernie sanders supporters. >> phil, let's talk about sexual harassment. you asked donald trump about his comments. he was asked by kirsten powers about what would you do if your daughter ivanka were sexually harassed at the workplace. he said, well, i would hope she would find a new career or a new job, which of course is, to many, not the right answer because you don't have to be sexually harassed at your workplace. there are laws against that, and you can fight them within your workplace. >> you should be able to fight them. >> you should be able to fight them. so his idea well, you just get out of there, seemed a little

antiquated. you asked him about that again. what did he tell you? >> i did. i said, why should it be up to your daughter to find a new career? shouldn't she be able to challenge this from within? trump had a long answer, but it basically came down to choose your own adventure. you can, a, challenge the system within, you know, press charges against your boss, try to get him fired, whatever works within your company, or b, leave and find a new career if you feel like you're being harassed unpleasantly in the workplace. he said it would totally up to the individual. so he did not come down on the side that absolutely the victim in this case should stay put in her career and stay working where she's working and challenge the authorities there. but she should choose what's best for her based on the circumstances in her life. >> so ivanka trump herself finds herself in the middle of this discussion that her father and brother have been engaged.

she was asked about it and she had a response very different from that of her father. listen. >> i think it's -- sexual harassment is inexcusable in any setting. i think harassment in general, regardless sexual or otherwise, is totally inexcusable. if it transpires, it needs to be reported, and it needs to be dealt with on a company level. >> that's the answer i think if donald trump had given or eric trump had given, we would have moved on. >> ivanka trump is not running for president. her father is. as impressive as she is, as appropriate as she is, as a counter balance to her father, it irrelevant. while she has a lot of influence, apparently not a lot. every day we're talking about this, donald trump is not talking about why hillary clinton should not be president, about the economy. >> obamacare issues. >> it's a lot of wasted opportunities. >> panel, thank you very much for all of your insights and sharing your reporting with us. we have a quick programming note. join us tonight for a live cnn town hall with the libertarian

ticket. anderson cooper is going to be speaking to gary johnson and william weld about the alternative they present in this race. that is tonight 9:00 p.m. only on cnn. we're following breaking news. an emirates air flight catching fire after crash landing in dubai. we have new details coming in. that's next.

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breaking news. just a short time ago, an emirates jet crashed after landing in dubai. you just saw that fireball. that's video we just got in of this incident. authorities say that all 275 people on board were evacuated safely. that is good news. so far we have no reports of any injuries. at this point, it's not clear what caused the crash or that fireball you just saw. we're going to get more details in, we'll have more for you throughout the morning. we're also learning the baltimore woman killed in a shootout with police as she held her son, was trying to livestream the seven-hour event. a tactical officer can be seen in the apartment pointing in th.

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what is the one state that could decide this entire

election? it might just be north carolina. polling from before the convention showed a slight tilt toward hillary clinton, but it went blue in 2008, red in 2012. it is decidedly a bright big purple. cnn with the latest in our battleground series, live in raleigh. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, john. we talked to a lot of voters here in north carolina this weekend. there are so many undecided voters still waiting to make up their mind. so both donald trump and hillary clinton are sensing a big opportunity. keep in mind, like you said, this is a state that really has been a roller coaster in past elections. razor close. obama winning here in 2008 by only 1% of the vote. romney flipping it back to republican control in 2012 by only 2% of the vote. put simply, north carolina is once again a toss-up state. >> i'm going to be in north

carolina so much that you're going to get so sick and tired of me. >> reporter: in north carolina -- >> we're going to fight for every vote in this state. >> reporter: -- this is where the rubber is meeting the road. ha hand-to-hand political combat being fought door to door and one phone call at a time. >> we need all hands on deck. >> reporter: and the stakes couldn't be higher. >> if hillary clinton wins north carolina, it's almost a sure thing that she's won the election. for donald trump, it's an absolute must-win state. >> reporter: on the ground, a stark contrast in approaches. team clinton has 12 field offices open throughout the state in coordination with the democratic national committee with a paid clinton campaign staffer in each of the 25 regions. the trump campaign has a smaller footprint, relying almost exclusively on the republican national committee for offices and staff. >> when i saw donald trump mock

a disabled person, i was just shocked. >> reporter: the clinton campaign has spent $5 million on tv ads in the state since early june with another $2.5 million coming from its allies. the trump campaign has not spent any money on tv ads yet. only one group supporting trump is on the air, the nra, with a modest $250,000 buy. >> hillary as president? no, thanks. >> reporter: another factor affecting the dynamics of the race, north carolina's rapidly changing demographics. the state is growing more diverse, more urbanized, with an influx of college graduates. and the clinton campaign is hoping to capitalize on these trends to mobilize a coalition of voters that helped then-senator obama become the first democrat since jimmy carter to carry the state in 2008. it's why the president and hillary clinton made north carolina the place for their first joint campaign appearance last month.

>> i'm ready to pass the baton. >> reporter: but clinton campaign officials say one of their top targets in the tarheel state are gettable republicans skeptical of donald trump. >> certainly whereas secretary clinton may not be the person some of the republicans or unaffiliated really want, she certainly is a much, much better choice. >> reporter: the clinton campaign is directing its efforts towards college-educated, suburban women, bringing in celebrities to help make the case. >> i know that i would not want to vote for someone who calls women dogs. if ever there was a year where people might be open to changing how they would traditionally have voted, i feel like this is it. >> reporter: like rafaela george, who has voted republican before, but not this year. >> i know she has a lot of baggage and people have criticisms of her, but i just can't go for trump. >> reporter: but others aren't convinced. >> i wish there was honestly a better candidate to run as a republican this year, but i again feel so strongly about the

other option that i won't vote for her. >> reporter: the trump campaign is tailoring its outreach, too, focusing on getting out their core base of supporters. >> we're looking to identify, persuade, and turn out gop conservative unaffiliated voters. >> reporter: a strategy being carried out step by step by trump volunteers. not visiting every house, only knocking on doors they know. >> hi. >> how are you? >> reporter: open to voting for their candidate. and there has been a pretty major development on the ground here in north carolina just in the past week. a federal appeals court struck down a voter i.d. law, ruling that it stood in the way of many african-americans being able to come out and vote. this is really seen as a big win for voting rights activists and certainly, alisyn, could be potentially a big win for the clinton campaign, being able to register more people from their base. alisyn? >> sunlen, thanks so much. very interesting to hear how people there are feeling today.

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wrongful death suit in connection with the accident that killed the actor in june. the suit is against fiat chrysler. yelchin was killed when his jeep grand cherokee rolled are backwards and pinned him against a fence. a new case of zika virus surfaces in a miami area in a different zone than the one that had been called out already. what does that state now do to contain the outbreak? governor rick scott joins us next.

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state health officials in florida say the number of zika cases has risen to 15. the cdc issuing an unprecedented travel warning advising pregnant women and their partners not to travel to one miami neighborhood as a result. here to discuss the outbreak is florida governor rick scott. thanks so much for being here. >> good morning, alisyn. we have 15 cases. we have one square mile north of downtown miami where we're trying to make sure there's not continued spread of zika. we have very aggressive mosquito control efforts. we have a very good department of health, state health department. we brought in the cdc. they have a team that's helping us. we're giving free pregnancy tests to all the pregnant women in the impacted area. and we're going to do that across the state. we're treating this like a hurricane. we started working on this in

february when we had our first travel-related case. we're going to keep everybody safe. >> sounds like you guys are on top of it, but realistically, governor, how big of a threat do you think zika is to florida? >> well, look, we're taking it very seriously. the way to do anything like this is to take it seriously. we've been able to control other mosquito-born viruses because we have great coordination. we have 20.3 million people. we've probably already had 65 million tourists. and we have 15 cases of local transmission. so we're working hard to make sure we don't have anymore. i can tell you we're open for business. we're going to continue to take care of our citizens and all our visitors. while i'm frustrated the federal government hasn't been a good partner, i can tell you the state level will allocate all the dollars we need. >> what do you mean the federal government hasn't been a good partner? >> well, the president and congress haven't come together. they haven't provided hardly any funding. the president called me a couple

weeks ago and said they would send us $5.6 million from the cdc. the congress went into recess and provided no funding. they need to come together just like i work with my legislature. the president and congress need to come together and come to an agreement. they need to help us make sure we have all the resources we need. this is not a state issue. this is a national issue. we're just at the tip of the spear. >> well, it sounds like what you're saying is the president has called for more funding for this possible crisis in your state, but that congress hasn't voted on it. >> well, i don't get off the hook by saying i asked my legislature to do something. they've got to figure out how to work together. congress and the president have to work together to deal with this issue. this is a national issue. we're dealing with it in our state. i'm going to allocate all the dollars i need to, but the federal government has not been a good partner. >> you were talking about tourism. the cdc issuing this unprecedented warning about the

wynnwood neighborhood there in florida that, people can't be traveling there. that can't be good for tourist dollars. >> you're right, alisyn. it's a one-mile radius north of downtown miami. but we have boots on the ground. we have local spraying. we're going to be doing some aerial spraying. we are testing everybody there. we've already tested over 20,000 mosquitos in our state, and not one of them have the zika virus. so we're doing everything we can to make sure everybody's informed but also to make sure we don't see a spread of this. >> so what are you telling floridians today in terms of how to protect themselves? >> well, what we have been telling people since february. no standing water. make sure you use bug repellant. this is a local mosquito. it's not going to go very far. so you, by yourself, you can take care of your house. make sure you're doing that. no standing water, wear longer sleeves, and wear bug repellant. if you do that, you should be able to control this. >> governor, while we have you,

i want to ask you about what's going on inside the gop today. there have been a couple of high-profile republicans, i'm thinking of congressman from new york richard hannah as well as ceo meg whitman, who have said not only are they not supporting donald trump, but in fact they're going to vote for hillary clinton. what do you think is going on with the gop? >> well, i'm the chairman of the super pac that's spreading the ads right now. they're both on jobs. this election is going to be about jobs, just like my race in 2010. hillary clinton doesn't want the ad up that we have up because it talks about her saying she's fine with outsourcing. i'm not. i want the jobs in my state. of course, we want them in my country. but she is. she's okay with outsourcing to india and other places. i want the jobs here. this election is going to be about jobs. that's why i support donald trump. hillary clinton has never created a private sector job in her life. she had her chance to destroy isis. she failed.

she does not support our military or law enforcement. donald trump will sdestroy ie sis, build jobs. >> you say this is all about jobs, but donald trump has been speaking about other things besides jobs, including this sort of war of words that he's gotten into with the khan family, the father and mother of that fallen soldier. you were an early supporter of donald trump. have there been moments lately in the past week or so that have given you some pause about your support? >> so alisyn, i served in the u.s. navy. my father did all the combat jumps in the second world war. i appreciate everybody that puts on the uniform, that's willing to put their life at risk. here's what i know about donald trump. he believes in our military. he will support our military. i can't say that about hillary clinton. that's why it's an easy choice for me to support donald trump. jobs, support our military, destroy isis, take care of local law enforcement.

it's the opposite, hillary has done none of those things. >> senator john mccain, house speaker paul ryan, and senator kelly ayotte all supported trump. two of them, paul ryan and john mccain, endorsed him, but he's not returning the favor. what do you think is going on in terms of their races? he's not saying that he necessarily supports them or endorses them. >> you know, alisyn, i'm never going to agree with every candidate on everything they do. i don't know the inside workings of every campaign, but what i look at is i need a partner in washington. i need somebody that's going to say, i want lower taxes. i've cut taxes 55 times. our federal government is not cutting taxes. i need someone that's going to cut regulation. i hear every day about companies that the federal regulation is just strangling them. i need a partner in washington that's going to say, i'm going to -- they're going to get up every day and say i care about jobs. >> do you think donald trump should endorse these fellow republicans? >> that's an issue for him. what i want to do is i want to make sure he gets elected so i have a partner in washington so

we get more jobs. we've added 1,127,000 jobs. >> governor scott, thanks so much for being on "new day." >> thanks, alisyn. have a good day. >> you too. we're following a lot of news this morning, so let's get right to it. >> he'll go down as the worst president in the history of our country. >> he doesn't appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues. he's woefully unprepared. >> hillary clinton will be worse. she's got a temperament of a loser. >> we would like to see those tax returns, wouldn't we? >> the republican party reportedly growing frustrated with their candidate. >> i don't regret anything. i said nice things about the son. >> if a soldier like humayun can have that much empathy, where is that in the candidate of republican party? >> do you know about the zika virus that's going around? >> anywhere in the u.s. where this mosquito is present, there is a risk. >> i didn't know it was that bad. >> mosquitos may be resistant to

the insecticides being sprayed. >> tell the community to protect themselves. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day." chris is off this morning. john berman joins me. great to have you here in studio. there is trouble in the trump campaign. sources tell cnn that top aides, including trump's campaign manager, are increasingly frustrated by the republican nominee's behavior, picking battles they say take him off message. >> not only has trump spent days feuding with the father of a muslim-american soldier killed in iraq, now trump has ignited a new feud within his own party, refusing to back the house speaker paul ryan and senator john mccain in their primary fights. meanwhile, prominent republicans saying they will not vote for donald trump. at least one new one overnight saying she will vote for hillary clinton. let's begin our coverage with cnn's manu raju live in washington. >> reporter: good morning, john. just two weeks ago, republicans left their nominating convention

saying that they were more united than ever in their plans to defeat hillary clinton this fall. but we've seen when donald trump lurches from one controversy after another, his party keeps their distance from their own nominee. so it turns out that the unity that was projected in cleveland was simply papering over deep-seeded divisions. >> i don't regret anything. i said nice things about the son. >> reporter: republican leaders and donald trump's own campaign staff frustrated with their candidate. sources tell cnn even trump's campaign manager paul manafort is upset with trump. the tipping point, trump openly challenging the parents of slain muslim soldier captain humayun khan. >> this person is not fit for the office he's seeking. >> reporter: trump refusing to drop his fight with the gold-star family, despite the urging of senior staff and failing to stay on message and attacking hillary clinton. >> i was hit very hard from the stage, and you know, it's just

one of those things. no, i don't regret anything. >> reporter: this as trump refuses to endorse house speaker paul ryan in his republican primary, telling "the washington post," i'm just not quite there yet, i'm not quite there yet. trump thumbing his nose at ryan's delayed decision to endorse him back in may. >> i'm just not ready to do that at this point. i'm not there right now. >> reporter: trump also declining to back former gop nominee arizona senator john mccain, who is in a tough re-election battle. i've always felt he should have done a much better job for the vets. trump's tension with mccain has been brewing ever since trump criticized the war hero for being captured in vietnam. mccain telling me back in may, he wants trump to apologize to p.o.w.s. >> when he says i don't like people who are captured, then there's a body of american heroes that i'd like to see him retract that statement.

>> reporter: the avalanche of trump's controversial statements prompting several prominent republicans to break from their party and back hillary clinton. president obama using the weight of the office to slam trump at a news conference with the foreign leader at the white house. >> the republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. >> reporter: and blasting republicans for standing by their nominee. >> if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him? this isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. this is daily. and weekly, where they are distancing themselves from statements he's making. >> reporter: trump firing back. >> well, he's a terrible president. he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country.

he's been a total disaster. >> reporter: now, just this morning, trump tweeted there's great unity inside his campaign, saying perhaps more than ever before, but that's simply not the case down ballot, for instance in arizona, where john mccain is battling a difficult re-election race. he'll have to navigate those forces of trump in a general election where latino voters are upset at donald trump. but trump's loyal supporters will be critical for john mccain. it goes to show you that this infighting is bound to distract from the republican efforts to keep control of congress and win back the white house. >> all right. manu raju for us in washington. thank you very much. let us talk about this morning. joining us this morning, former campaign manager for donald trump, corey lewandowski. we should note, he's still receiving severance from trump campaign. also, vice chair of the new york state democratic party, christine quinn. corey, donald trump says there's great unity within the trump campaign. perhaps greater unity than ever. really? >> look, i think every campaign has highs and lows.

>> what's this? >> look, you know what this is -- >> is this a high? >> no, this is hillary clinton getting a good bounce out of the democratic convention, and the latest poll numbers which are not going to be a true indication of where the race stands right now has some people concerned that she has a bigger bounce than maybe what people perceived she was going to get. i think what you see is a week ago when donald trump finished his convention, he had a nice bounce. so let's fast forward a week and see where it is. this is not time to press the panic button. people right now understand this is the dull drums of august and the media wants to write a story that may not be there. >> but dana bash heard from good sources overnight that there are people within the campaign who are incredibly frustrated, feel like they are wasting their time, are the words they used. that doesn't sound like perhaps greater unity than ever. >> i don't think that's the case. look, i've been part of that team. i know what the people are like

on that team. i hired a lot of those people on the team. they will do anything. they get up every day with one sole mission, which is to get donald trump elected president of the united states. that's what their job is. that's what they want to do. they're there because they want to be there, because they fundamentally want top change washington. >> you don't think any of them are frustrated that they think their candidate has been undisciplined picking fights in the gop? >> i think you have people, the media, who say this is not the way to run a conventional campaign. he's not a conventional candidate. what has worked for him is driving the media narrative and there are some people who have been involved in campaigns in the past who don't understand that yet. >> paul manafort? >> paul understands that. paul understands donald trump because he's been there a long time. there are new people coming into the fold who don't understand that. donald trump speaks for donald trump. people who want to backtrack on what donald trump is saying, that's not the way this campaign has been. that's not the way the campaign should be. donald trump is the best messenger for this campaign. he knows precisely what he wants to say. he's the one who's driving that narrative. >> look, i agree. donald trump knows -- seems to

know in any given second what he wants to say. it's almost always an attack on a person or a group of people. mexicans, a mexican judge, muslims, women, the list goes on and on. and yes, corey is right, donald trump is driving the media narrative. honestly, and it -- right, seems to be, in the ground for his own campaign. out of the dnc, he created and then every time you thought he was going to let it go, kept the story going around the khans. we've had this debate. clearly we had it the other day. but whether he should have said anything, whether he's being inhumane and nasty, let's set the humanity of it aside. strategically, it's not a good story for him. but yet, he, in my opinion, is so temperamentally unqualified to be president, it's shown in this. he keeps driving it, keeps

driving it, keeps driving it. i don't understand that. i'm not unhappy he can't control himself as a hillary supporter, but just as an observer of politics, of course his staff is frustrated. i'm not saying they're walking out the door. i'm not saying they're disloyal people. but you would be not in touch with reality physical you had set up a monday and a tuesday and a wednesday and a sunday and a saturday of issues focus and he blows it up and blows it up and blows it up. >> just one last question about this. is it a failure within the campaign, or who is responsible for keeping -- look, if there were leaks like this when you were the campaign manager, you would have gone nuts. you would not have been happy if there had been staffers on that campaign talking to cnn overnight, telling us that they feel like they're wasting their time. whose responsibility within the campaign now is it to make sure that these staffers feel like their job is worth something? >> look, i think that the campaign has responded and said there's no truth to these allegations, is what the response has been from the communication shop.

jason miller put out a tweet saying there's no merit to this whatsoever. look, this campaign is very focused on one singular thing, which is defeating hillary clinton. i think every person at this campaign who is part of this team is waking up every day saying, what can we do to talk about her failures? what can we do to talk about the fbi's investigation? what can we do to talk about the differences between hillary clinton and donald trump on trade, on immigration, on every issue. >> which is not what mr. trump is talking about every day. >> and what can we do to stop having donald trump attack gold-star families? the truth is, nothing. donald trump is about donald trump, not the american people. >> does he take advice from people around him when they say stop talking about the khan family and start talking about h hillary clinton? >> look, of course he takes advice. he takes advice from people all around, whether it's homeland security issues or immigration policy, or issues like this. there's a core group of people he meetings with on a regular basis. some of those are family.

some of those are key advisers. some are elected officials. at the end of the day, donald trump is the person who's driven this campaign and driven the narrative and has been very, very successful in doing so. what are we talking about today again? donald trump. what did we talk about yesterday? donald trump. what are we going to talk about tomorrow? donald trump. this network covers donald trump because donald trump drives ratings. what we know is the american people -- >> and he's the presidential candidate. >> but you're not covering him in the same nature you are hillary clinton. this is much bigger. >> bigger isn't always better. the station, in my opinion, thank god, no credit to humanity, has not had to cover hillary clinton attacking a gold-star mother. they've not had to cover her questioning a woman's faith and whether that faith renders her unable to give honor to her son, because that's not true. >> we do cover hillary clinton all day long. >> she knows that russia annexed

crimea, so we haven't had to do on tv a deep dive into the ukraine and what hillary clinton knows about it because she knows what happened. >> corey, a moment ago you said that everything donald trump is doing gets to the issue of what can we do to defeat hillary clinton. what, then, does refusing to endorse paul ryan do in helping to defeat hillary clinton? >> look, let's look at the congressional approval ratings in washington, d.c. you know what they are? 10%. 10% of the american people think that congress is doing a good job. 61% think they're doing a bad job. there's a fundamental problem taking place in washington, d.c. right no uh. the system is broken. number one, paul ryan hasn't asked for donald trump's endorsement. >> but he endorsed him. >> that's right. >> shouldn't donald trump return the favor? >> it's not the way the business works. what donald trump says is i'm just not there yet. there's another week before that primary takes place. the issue is, donald trump and paul ryan have fundamental differences on some major

issues. when it comes to immigration reform, that's a major difference. i think donald trump has held true to his positions about immigration reform and paul ryan is on the opposite side. he's more of an open-border individual. before trump is going to make that endorsement, they need to continue to have those addition us cans and find the issues they're going to agree on. >> it's curious because donald trump had paul ryan open the convention. if he is someone he so disagrees with, if donald trump wants to have nothing to do with congress, why did he have paul ryan open the convention? it doesn't make sense. it's pivot and spin to whatever mistake donald trump has made recently. if he didn't ever want paul ryan or any of the congressional republican's support, why did he go to washington? why did he meet with them? why did he apparently try to woo them months ago? it doesn't make any sense because the prior facts don't support t and it's just about how to dig out of the tantrum of the moment that donald trump has, which proves he is not temperamentally qualified to be president. >> i have heard you speak of the

loyalty of donald trump. he has personal loyalty to you. this is something you're proud of and you note as one of his endearing qualities. what kind of loyalty is he showing to paul ryan? paul ryan stood up for him at the convention. paul ryan, who moved toward donald trump until the month before the convention. is this the kind of loyalty that republican officials can expect from donald trump going forward? >> look, i think if you remember when paul ryan originally spoke on this network, it took him a month from the time he said, i'm still thinking about it, i'm not there yet, before he endorsed donald trump. >> so is this payback? >> no, donald trump was the presumptive republican nominee at that time. what paul ryan, the speaker, heard was from his rank and file membership that said it's time to get behind the republican nominee who is going to be the next president of the united states. it's time to endorse him. paul ryan felt that pressure from his own internal caucus. paul ryan could have supported paul reinhart significantly earlier. but this campaign, particularly

through the primary process, did not court endorsements from washington, d.c. if endorsements mattered from washington, d.c., jeb bush would be the republican nominee because he had more endorsements than anybody else. the difference is he spent $150 million on three delegates. >> one more question because you're the head of the new hampshire delegation. what's going on with donald trump and senator kelly ayotte? he's not supporting her. >> i think what he said about kelly ayotte is you need a leader who's going to be strong. the people of new hampshire have been very good to donald trump. he's gotten to know them well. he dominated the republican primary process up there. look, he's going to do very well in new hampshire. that's going to be a state that is going to be critical to get to -- >> with or without senator ayotte, and he doesn't need to support her. >> look, it's not a matter of who he needs to support. >> he said she needs a strong senator, so is she weak? what's he saying? is she weak? >> it's not a matter of who he

is supporting, who he's not supporting. the american people are supporting donald trump. that's what's going to matter on election day. >> then why does he keep telling us? if it doesn't matter, he shouldn't talk about it. >> take it to the green room. thank you very much. great to get your perspective. >> on the subject of freedom of speech, congresswomen programming note. join us tonight for a live cnn town hall with the libertarian ticket. that's tonight at 9:00 only here on cnn. all right. we have some breaking news we want to update you on. this is an emirates jumbo jet. it crashes after landing at dubai international airport. you can see all the aftermath. there was a huge fireball that exploded on the runway. it has sent debris flying. we want to get now to cnn's isa suarez live in london with the breaking details. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. this is an emirates boeing 777 making its way from south india to dubai international airport.

according to emirates, it suffered what they're calling an accident upon landing. we still do not know what exactly that may mean. we know thankfully the people on board, 282 passengers and 18 crew, alisyn, they are safe. they're all accounted for. they're safe. all have been evacuated. no reports of injuries. within international regulations, alisyn, everyone has to be evacuated within 90 seconds, even they have only half the doors operable. it seems that may have happened here. if we look at those images, it looks like this could have been an incident after landing. why did that happen? well, it could have been an obstacle on the runway, maybe the runway was slippery. or maybe the way the plane landed, we're still not sure. some are suggesting perhaps the landing gear didn't work properly. what we can see in these images is a plane crumpled on its

belly, a tower of fire, and then an explosion. so it could have been a very normal landing and then something clearly went wrong. for the time being, we know that flights for the international airport have been suspended and they will investigate. >> thank you very much for that update. we'll check back in with you. a lot of news here this morning. of course, he's the fallen muslim-american soldier whose family is at the center of a feud with donald trump. who was captain humayun khan? we're going to be joined by a friend and fellow soldier who was there the day he died to share her memories of this hero. (alert from the mom's phone.) everyone loves the picture i posted of you.

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the khan family, of course, has been in the news a lot. we've learned a lot about khizr khan and his wife. they're the couple who criticized donald trump at the democratic convention last week. this morning, we're learning more about their heroic son, captain humayun khan. joining us is lacy walker. she served as sergeant under captain khan's command in iraq. sergeant, thanks so much for being here. >> thank you for having me.

>> we know how close you were to captain khan. can you tell us how you developed a close friendship with him? >> it was pretty much impossible not to be close to captain khan. he was always there for everyone. so if you knew him, you were friends. >> we didn't know him, of course, but we've gotten to know him a little bit through his very proud parents, who have spoken of him, and these photos we have where you see him in his uniform and he looks so handsome and other shots of him even looking more casual. what can you tell us about him? >> he was an amazing leader. he was an amazing man. he was always there for everyone. >> what was he like to work for? >> oh, he was the best. if you worked for captain khan, then you knew you were taken care of. you knew that everything was going to be okay. you knew you were safe.

in all honesty, pretty much everyone at some point in time did work with or for captain khan. >> i read that you said he was an incredible man to work for. he was easy to understand. his orders were concise and clear. you always knew what he wanted and that if you had to work through lunch, he would make tuna fish sandwiches for all of you so that nobody went hungry, which of course you appreciated. can you tell us about the day that he was killed. where were you? >> i was not on duty. i was in my con ex. i experienced -- well, felt the explosion and found out later it was him that was killed. >> how did you find out?

>> when i got up to the gate to fulfill my duty as a soldier, i got up there and wanted to know howic help, along with a group of other soldiers that were with me. and found out that it was one of the most respected people i've ever met in my life that was tragically killed that day. >> i know that you were understandably devastated. we've heard a little bit about that story and about his heroism. what did he do that day to save the lives of his fellow soldiers? >> what did he do that day? i don't know. i was not there. but i know as the human being he was, as the soldier he was, every day he would always look out for us. he would always make sure we

were safe. i can't speak to the fact of what actually happened that morning. i don't know. i wasn't there. >> but you just heard the blast and then you heard that your friend was lost. >> right. my superior, my friend. he was a lot more than that to a lot of people. he was a comrade in arms, if you will. i don't really know if that's the right word. >> i think so. and i know that you, to commemora commemorate him, have gotten a tattoo. tell us what that says. >> it says unforgotten. >> and what does that mean to you? >> when we were getting ready to go to iraq, he got the order saying that he was going to be

going to force protection, and i was still working in shop office. i said, sir, you can't leave me, i can't do iraq without you. and he said, i'm not going to leave you, you're fine, we're going to be there together. it's going to be the same thing. we're all going to be -- there was a group of people, a group of soldiers that we were all together. after he passed away, after he tragically died, i had a dream that he came to me and i said, sir, you said you wouldn't leave me. you said i wouldn't have to do iraq without you. he said, i'm not gone. just don't forget me. i'll always be here with you guys, just don't forget me. so i had the tattoo unforgotten. >> sergeant walker, that's a beautiful sentiment. thank you for sharing that with

us. and you are doing a lot to remember your friend and cap pain and to keep his spirit and memory alive by speaking out about him. thank you for sharing is all of that with us here. >> thank you for having me and allowing me. >> sergeant lacy walker, we appreciate it. let's get over to john. >> right. thanks so much, alisyn. donald trump refusing to release his tax returns. why doesn't he want them to go public? up next, we're going to speak to two reporters who have dug in extensively to trump's financial history. he wrecked the rec room this summer. his stellar notebooks will last through june. get back to great. this week, these items just one cent each. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great. the check they sent isn't enough to replace your totaled new car. the guy says they didn't make the mistake. you made the mistake. i beg your pardon? he says, you should have chosen full-car replacement.

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now you can watch nbc's coverage of the rio olympic games live at home or on the go. i'd like to make him an offer, an offer i hope he can't refuse. i would be delighted to meet him any place, any time between now and election. i'll bring my tax return. he can bring his tax return. and just let people ask us questions about the items on there. >> mega billionaire warren buffett challenging billionaire donald trump to release his tax returns, something that donald trump, despite decades of

tradition in presidential politics, has thus far refused to do. joining us now to discuss, "vanity fair" contributor and "bloomberg view" executive editor. both men have written extensively about trump's financial history. who among us thinks there's any chance that donald trump will accept warren buffett's invitation and release his tax returns before election day. raise your hand if the answer is yes. >> i'm sitting on mine. >> let the record show, no one raised their hand. why not? why doesn't donald trump want his tax returns released? he says it's because an audit is being conducted. >> well, he tweeted a picture of himself and his tax returns. it's a stack of paper rising above his head. i think one reason is there would just be a feast in there for journalists of all sorts of shenanigans and games. donald trump is in real estate.

there's pretty much no sector like real estate for tax shenanigans and deductions and all sorts of squirrely loopholes. there would just be an endless amount of stuff for people to talk about. >> there's all kinds of information that comes out of it. we don't know someone's net worth from tax returns, but you do learn their income. you do learn charitable givings. you do learn sources of income. by that i mean which countries. everyone is wondering, does he have any dealings with russia? we should have a disclaimer. you were involved with litigation with donald trump. you've seen some of these returns. you can't tell us specifically what you saw, but generally speaking, what types of information might be most revealing for voters? >> just on the litigation, he sued me in 2006 for libel over a book i wrote. he lost that. my lawyers deposed him about his taxes and we got his tax returns. i think there's very practical things in those documents that

trump doesn't want to produce because they're going to undermine a whole series of claims or attacks he's made on the campaign trail over the last year. obviously it won't get at his net worth, but it will show his income. income is one pillar of how much money someone's actually making, obviously, and how robust their business is. i think he might have hesitations around revealing that. he's repeatedly on the campaign trail describing himself as a generous philanthropist, as a big backer of that. there's very little public information available that shows that he's actually been a philanthropist. certainly in new york, he's not known as a major philanthropist. he's also spent a large portion of his time on the campaign trail criticizing american companies for operating overseas at the expense of the american worker. we know he sources a lot of his clothing overseas. he hires workers for his hotels and resorts from overseas.

the tax returns would reveal some of that. and i think at the end of the day, one of the really crucial things is he's running for the highest office in the land. he's running to be one of the most powerful people in the world. the taxes would show what kind of financial interest or pressure would come to bear on him in the office. and that's the reason historically presidents have revealed and released their taxes. >> and there's cold-hard facts on paper in tax returns. we would learn very specific things about subjects that donald trump speaks. until the real estate business, it's a messy business, especially if you're involved at the scale that donald trump is. you make money, you lose money. sometimes you write off things by design to reduce your tax burden. >> yeah, i mean, when i wrote this, when i investigated this story, i was looking really for two things. one is does he use tax havens.

because mitt romney in the previous campaign wound up being quite badly damaged. and two, is he paying zero or pretty much zero in federal income taxes. he told me a very interesting response when i asked him if he used tax havens. he said, i don't use them, that's because i can get everything i need in america. now, whether or not he uses tax havens is still a moot question. i didn't find very much. there are little bits and pieces there. he does use delaware, which for some people is a bit of a tax haven, not least because it provides -- it with shroud your financial affairs in secrecy, and you can get some juice on state taxes. but in terms of the zero tax thing, he said i can get everything in i need in america. most of the evidence i found suggested strongly that he has cut his federal income tax bill down to, if not zero, close to zero because of the feast of loopholes and shenanigans available in the real estate

sector in particular. those deductions you can get can travel to other parts of your financial empire that aren't in real estate if you manage it correctly. i asked him if he was classified as being able to do this. he didn't really answer, but me did say that he still spends, even on the presidential campaign, a lot of the time active in real estate. so the evidence suggests that he pays very, very low taxes indeed and possibly pretty much nothing. >> he says he pays as little tax as possible. timothy o'brien, nick, thanks for joining us this morning to talk about donald trump's tax returns, which seems highly unlikely we'll see before november 8th. what is your take on this? please tweet us @newday or post your comment on facebook.com/newday. alisyn? >> john, another case of zika virus in south florida as the outbreak spreads beyond one neighborhood. so what can you do to protect yourself? that's next. with kindness" playing) play it again. (selena gomez's "kill 'em with kindness" playing)

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south florida on high alert this morning as the zika virus outbreak rose to 15 cases. officials are scrambling to contain the nation's first cluster of local infections. cnn's dan simon is live in miami's wynnwood neighborhood where this is all taking place. >> reporter: good morning, john. this is the area that's most concerning. we were told there was going to be an aerial spraying of insecticide this morning, but that's been delayed because of some of the bad weather we saw in miami. that should happen sometime tonight. nearly all of the 15 transmissions that have occurred in this neighborhood, so that's why there's a constant focus

here in the area. we're talking about 15 transmissions. that's why the cdc is telling pregnant women to avoid this area and that if you live in this area or work here that you should go to your ob/gyn and get tested. in terms of the efforts of that insecticide, it's not clear how effective it will be, but authorities say they have to try something. hopefully that will occur, again, sometime tonight, john. >> dan simon for us. alisyn? >> all right, john. we have a new cnn/orc poll about the zika virus. it shows 23% of americans say they're at least somewhat worried about themselves or a family member becoming infected with zika. so joining us now is director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. doctor, thanks so much for being here. >> good to be with you. >> given that the cdc has issued this unprecedented travel advisory to this one neighborhood in the miami area, how concerned should americans be about zika? >> well, when you talk about americans in general, the broad

united states, as we've said many times, even though we prepare for the worst, it's unlikely that we are going to have a broad, widely disseminated outbreak of zika in the continental united states similar to what's happened in brazil and what is happening in puerto rico. however, there are certain areas particularly in this country that have the right conditions to see the kind of thing that we are seeing in south florida. and that is travel-related people, namely people who have been infected elsewhere, likely south america or the caribbean, who come to the united states or americans who have traveled there and come back. when they're in the community and you have mosquitos all over that are quite capable of transmitting, then you have the possibility of a local case, cases, or even a cluster of outbreak. so right now focusing on that constrained area in south florida, that's of concern, and the reason why the cdc

appropriately had a travel alert telling pregnant women to avoid that area. because the main issue with zika is to protect pregnant women. beyond pregnant women, it is not generally a serious disease. but it can have, as we all know know, rather devastating consequences if a woman is infected during pregnancy. >> let's talk about that. i think there's some confusion. obviously it's most dangerous for pregnant women. however, if you are a woman of child-bearing years or her partner, if you're planning to have a child in, say, the next year, is it also of concern? >> right. well, the answer is that the virus, when it infects an individual, man or woman, generally stays in the blood for approximately seven to ten days and is then clear. there's a special circumstance with men because under certain circumstances, men have

sequestration of the virus in the semen for perhaps an extended period of time. we're still trying to find out how far out that goes. there's one case that was reported as 80 days. but focusing on your specific question about women, if women are in an area where there is infection and you do get infected, if you wait eight weeks following either getting out of the risk area or having been infected, generally it's safe. so women ask us the question all the time, i want to get pregnant six months from now or a year or two from now. if i'm in this area or i've gotten infected, is it going to have a deleterious effect on my pregnancy? the answer is, there's no reason at all to believe that that's the case because we know that the virus gets cleared literally within a week or ten days from the blood. >> dr. fauci, how confident are you that the zika mosquitos are contained in just that south florida miami neighborhood?

is it possible people can live elsewhere in the country and also be infected? >> well, you're asking the question about -- there are two questions there. first, how confident am they the mosquitos are going to be contained? i'm not 100% confident at all because these are very resilient mosquitos. they breed very, very robustly, even under the most stringent conditions of standing water. the health authorities in florida are trying very hard to eliminate the mosquitos by cleaning up the environment and by doing the kinds of insecticide and larvacide you mentioned in the piece. that's not always effective. regarding other parts of the country, there are mosquitos that are capable of transmitting zika in other parts of the country. that's the reason why one has to have good mosquito control wherever there's the possibility of this occurring. >> so today you're telling americans to wear repellant and what else? >> well, there are several

things one can do, particularly for pregnant women, but for everyone. when you're in an area where there are mosquito activity, you protect yourself from mosquitos by the following. if you live in an area that you have some control over, get rid of standing water in pots, pans, tires, anything that has standing water to prevent them from breeding. to the extent possible, stay indoors with air-conditioning. if you live in a place where you have windows and doors that have screens, make sure that they are in good repair. when you go outside, wear clo e clothing to cover as much of your body as possible. on the exposed areas, do not hesitate to use insect repell t repellant, particularly insect repellant that contains 30% deet. >> dr. fauci, thank you so much for the advice and information. >> good to be with you. >> john? a member of team usa about to make history at the rio olympics. the muslim-american fencer will be the first to committee wearing a hijab.

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rio for the 2016 summer games. we have just learned that record breaking swimmer, michael phelps will be the flag bearer on friday, as if he needs more honors at this point. but before the competition begins, one u.s. athlete is already making history. cnn special correspondent, spoke with the fencer about to make history, jamie. >> you didn't say her name, did you? >> i left it for you. >> okay. so we spoke to ibtihaj muhammad and for any athlete, it is a long road to the olympics. for her, there have been special challenges. we talked to her about being a devout muslim. we talked to her about donald trump. but we started by watching her fence. you don't want to be on the other side. under that star spanning would mask, who is lightning fast with a ferocious yell.

>> i enjoy having to chase my opponent to score a point. >> but 30-year-old ibtihaj mohammed is no ordinary member of team usa. the rio bound saber fencer is making history. becoming the first muslim american woman to compete in the olympics, while wearing a hijab. >> i wish it wasn't the case. i wish there were tons of women before me who had achieved this. >> getting to this point hasn't been easy. muhammad grew up in a big family in maple wood, new jersey, and is a devout muslim, allows her face and hands to show. >> my mom was always, you know, changing uniform for me by adding long sleeves or adding long pants, where my teammates will wear tank tops. >> while sitting at a stoplight with with her mom, she saw something that would change her

life forever. >> they had on long pants, they had on long jackets, and they had these masks on, and i clearly remember my mom saying, you know, i have no idea what that is, but when you get to high school, i want you to try it out. >> she did, with huge success. >> there was the first time in my athletic career that i could remember, you know, being seen solely for my skill set. >> muhammad went on to compete at duke, a three-time all american. and win gold as part of team usa in the 2014 world fencing championships. but she couldn't change how people looked at her off the fencing strip. >> when you walk down the street, when you travel, when you go through tsa, what is your reality? >> nightmare. i mean, tsa is a nightmare. i'm sure it is for everyone. always randomly selected for a special search. always. >> always randomly.

>> always randomly selected. for like special screening. and when you travel as much as i do as an athlete, it can be frustrating. >> the current political environment also frustrates muhammad, driving her to do something usually athletes avoid, talking politics, taking on republican presidential nominee, donald trump. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shut down of muslims entering the united states. >> starting with his call in december for a temporary ban on muslims entering the u.s. tweeting friends don't like friend like trump. >> i say the words donald trump, and you say -- >> i don't know. >> what do you say? >> where do you start? >> do you think he is dangerous? >> i think that his words are very dangerous. when these types of comments are

made, no one things about how they really affect people. i'm african-american. i don't have another home to go to. my family was born here. i was born here. we've, you know, i've grown-up in jersey. where do we go. i'm hopeful that in my efforts, you know, to represent our country well as an athlete, that they change the rhetoric around, you know, how people think and perceive the muslim community. >> that's one of the reasons she was invited to the islamic center of baltimore this year, for president obama's visit. >> i told her to bring home the gold. >> we don't have -- >> and much to her surprise, being different has now made her one of the celebrities of the u.s. olympic team. with a stream of profiles, photo

shoots, and lucrative endorsements. >> i'm focused on preparation. >> train, train, train. >> yeah. >> and hopefully, gold. >> i always say that if i'm blessed to win a medal this summer, that it will be icing on the cake. >> good luck to her. jamie, to ibtihaj, we heard her concerns about donald trump, has she weighed in or kmenltcomment his feud with the kahn family. >> we reached out to her and she said she is training, didn't want to get involved. but she really is worried about the rhetoric. she -- when she walks down the street, people yell at her. sometimes people follow her. she gets scared at times. so it is a big concern for her. but she is trying to weigh being an athlete and speaking out at the biggest event of her life. >> it is unusual to hear from olympic athletes about politics. that was interesting. jamie, thank you so much. best of luck to ibtihaj in the olympic games that start tomorrow night. >> right. we're following a lot of

news. let's get right to it. >> the republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. >> he is a terrible president. >> for him to be calling me out is almost an hor nnor because h doesn't know what he is doing. >> increasing frustration inside the trump campaign. >> we're running against a rigged system. >> i don't regret anything. >> i'm just so up set at his lack of empathy and common sense. >> you have son in the military, how do you tolerate his disrespect? >> i have never been around someone more devoted to the armed forces of this country. >> i always wanted to get the purple heart. this was much easier. this is "new day," with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. good morning, everyone. welcome to "new day." john berman joins me here in the studio. great to have you. >> good to be here. >> a lot to talk about. turmoil in the donald trump campaign, we're told. sources telling cnn that top advisors, including trump's campaign chairman, are growing

increasingly frustrated by trump's refusal to stop picking battles, instead of staying on message. >> days of trump publicly feuding with an american muslim soldier killed in iraq. now, trump is feuding with members of his own party, refusing to back big time republicans in their reelection primary fights. as this is happening, at least one prominent republican joins a growing list of those, saying they will vote for hillary clinton. let's begin the coverage with manu raju in washington. >> reporter: they left the nominating convention, saying they were more united than ever, but since then, trump has lurched from within controversy. so that unity that was projected in cleveland was just papering off deep seeded divisions. >> i don't regret anything. i said nice things about the son. >> republican leaders and donald

trump's own campaign staff frustrated with their candidate. sources tell cnn, even trump's campaign manager, paul manafort, is upset with trump. the tipping point, trump openly challenging the parents of slain muslim soldier, captain humayun kahn. >> this person is not fit for the office he is seeking. >> trump, refusing to drop his fight with the gold star family. despite the urging of senior staff. and failing to stay on message, and attacking hillary clinton. >> i was hit very hard from the stage, you know, it is just one of those things. i don't regret anything. >> this, as trump refuses to endorse house speaker paul ryan, in his republican primary. telling the "washington post," i'm just not quite there yet. i'm not quite there yet. >> trump, thumbing his nose at ryan's delayed decision to endorse him back in may. >> i'm just not ready to do that at this point. i'm not there right now. >> trump, also declining to back

former gop nominee, arizona senator john mccain. who is in a tough reelection battle i've always felt he should have done a better job for the vets. trump's tension with mccain has been brewing, ever since trump criticized the war hero for being captured in vietnam. mccain telling me he wants trump to apologize to pows. >> when he said i don't like people who were captured, then there is a great body of american heros that i would like to see him retract that statement. >> the avalanche of trump's controversial statements, prompting republicans to break from their party and back hillary clinton. using the weight of the office to slam trump at a news conference at the white house. >> republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. >> and blasting republicans for standing by their nominee. >> if you are repeatedly having

to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him? this isn't a situation where you have an episodic gaff. this is daily. weekly. they're distancing themselves from statements he is making. >> trump, firing back -- >> he is a terrible president. he'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country. he has been a total disaster. >> now, earlier this morning, trump tweeted there is, quote, great unity inside his campaign, programs more than ever before. but his refusal to endorse paul ryan in particular, has prompted turmoil internally. senate and house republicans tell us they believe trump was simply acting vindictive in such remarks will make it harder to stop more republicans from defecting and refusing to support trump this fall. >> all right, manu, you've given

us a lot of food for thought. let's bring in hillary clinton supporter, bakari sellers and trump spokesperson, katrina sellers. i'll start with you, everything manu has raised, is there concern within the trump campaign that mr. trump is not staying enough on message, and keeps sort of being diverted with these other issues? >> no, alisyn, look. it has been over a year, and we are still hearing cnn report, quote, turmoil in the trump campaign. it is simply not true. these are still anonymous sources that kentuccnn uses i w is not true. trump is excited moving towards the debate, because there will be a clear contrast versus the status quo with hillar clinton. >> just because they're anonymous sources doesn't mean they don't exist. these are people who are talking

to cnn who don't want to be named because they want to protect their jobs. they're telling us they're very concerned with the way this campaign is going, in particular, some of the statements that he has made aboutle kahn family over the last five days, also, some of the things happening now with speaker paul ryan, refusing to endorse paul ryan in his primary. do you want to see, katrina, reelected, paul ryan from wisconsin? >> well, mr. trump has already said earlier, john, that he wasn't interested in involving himself in primaries. this is a primary. there is nothing new here. what he didn't say is he wouldn't endorse paul ryan. he said he wasn't ready yet. >> bakari, what do you think of donald trump not -- i mean, paul ryan and john mccain did come around to endorsing donald trump. what do you think about him breaking with protocol and not endorsing them? >> well, there has been absolutely nothing normal about this donald trump campaign. we can say that as being a fact. but donald trump has not just

unendorsed or not endorsed john mccain. he has blatantly disrespected john mccain and pows, he has given paul ryan a slap in the face. the only person he has truly endorsed is vladimir putin. the fact that he won't stand beside his own colleagues show he will be an infective president of the united states. he will not be able to govern, if he won't stand beside paul ryan, he won't stand beside john mccain if you are the president of the united states. >> katrina, i want to give you a chance to -- >> let me thank my friend, bakari, for acknowledging that donald trump is not your typical go along politician and follows protocol. he is doing what he thinks is best. we keep for getting that these individuals severely attacked donald trump. it wasn't like donald trump just came out and said some things. they were in response to what was said about him. >> how did paul ryan severely attack donald trump? >> when he didn't want to

endorse donald trump after it was already known that he was going to win the nomination. saying that his policies were bad, even though the republican voting primary supported him overwhelmingly. these are criticisms of donald trump. and donald trump hasn't criticized paul ryan. he just said i wasn't ready to endorse him yet, because he already said early on that he didn't want to get involved in primaries. these are primaries, not general election races. >> so what goes around comes around, ca trina? >> no, what i'm saying these are primaries. i don't understand why we can't distinguish the difference between a primary race, because there are a lot of trump supporters who are supporting other candidates. most politicians -- >> that's not -- >> out of primary races for that reason, and he already said he didn't want to get involved. >> kelly aod is not in a primary in new hampshire. she is running for reelection against the democratic governor. donald trump has been critical of her. >> well, absolutely. he has been critical of those

who have been critical about him. again, this is nothing new. for some reason, why donald trump has to tow the line, particularly for republican whose have scored less than 30% on the heritage action scorecard, is beyond belief. these are republican whose actually support hillary clinton in many ways. >> katrina, we want to give you a chance to clarify something. you seem to be blaming president obama and hillary clinton for captain humayun kahn's death. you said it was under barack obama and hillary clinton, to change the rules of engage. that probably cost his life. and of course, he was killed in 2004, that's when president george w. bush was president. last night, captain kahn's father, khizr kahn, responded to your comments, let us play those for you. >> do i need to say anything? lack of understanding.

lack of factual correctness. i would, again, appeal to his surrogates that, please show some decency, refrain from what you attempted out of anger and out of this ugly partisan. >> katrina, do you want to apologize to mr. kahn? >> apologize for the timeline, what i was talking about is the fact that donald trump has no connection to anything having to do with captain kahn, who was a brave war hero. the timeline is very simple and true, alisyn. hillary clinton voted for the war in iraq. she did not support the surge. barack obama made things worst, by invading more countries than president bush did. >> he was killed in 2004. >> and got tens of thousands of soldiers that were killed. >> but he was killed in 2004, when george w. bush was president. >> alisyn, may i comments, please. >> that's the only point.

that's the only point. donald trump is being blamed for something he had nothing to do with, and he did not attack this family. >> but you are blaming president obama. >> katrina, the words you used, probably cost his life. president obama and hillary clinton changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life. you do acknowledge that you were just wrong? >> well, absolutely. that's why i used probably, because i was just going through the timeline. since then, we have had tens of thousands of soldiers that have been lost. 1 million wounded. $6 trillion later. how can we put the onerous on donald trump. it is absolutely absurd. that's why you see all this confusion surrounding this issue. donald trump had absolutely nothing to do with it. >> no one was blaming donald trump for captain kahn's death. you were blaming president obama and he wasn't president yet. >> no, i was talking about hillary clinton specifically voting for the war.

that was during that time period. >> you said change the rules of engage that cost his life. that's what you specifically said. >> in the chronological order, absolutely. >> alisyn, john, if i may, just briefly. this is the type of fact free environment that we're living in. not only do people to realize or katrina fails to realize that president obama was against the iraq war, and actually blamed a sitting state senator in illinois for changing the rules of engagement in 2004 and causing the death of this war hero, but further, you get down to the bones of the trump campaign and the fact that katrina pearson won't even apologize this morning is indicative of not only her, but indicative of this campaign. it is exactly what captain kahn's family was talking about. it is about decency and respect. >> katrina, you acknowledge you got it wrong. >> donald trump did not vote for

that war, period. >> he said he was supportive of the war before the envision. >> he did not vote -- >> he absolutely said he was -- >> he couldn't have voted. he was a private person. >> he was a private person. barack obama -- >> that's my point, alisyn. that's my point. that's why this is a ridiculous conversation. donald trump had nothing to do with sending troops, like captain kahn, into iraq to begin be. >> nor did he have anything to do with opposing it until after the war had been gun and wasn't going well. >> he had nothing to do with this war that sent captain kahn over there. that's the whole point here. mr. trump had nothing to do with this. but somehow, for the last few days, this has been revolving around a war, and donald trump. something he had nothing to do with it. >> well, it is surrounding -- the rhetoric between donald trump and khizr kahn. that's what this war of words is. >> well, cnn has been talking about an attack on the families.

so what exactly was the attack? >> he said he -- >> we can clear that up. >> the grieving mother of this soldier who was killed in battle in 2004, questioned why she chose not to speak at the democratic national convention. that specifically is what people are talking about, katrina. >> well, if that's what we're talking about, then go back and check the tape. he was specifically talking about reports that the father not the son and i think it is very important to separate those two, because donald trump did say that the son was a hero. he was speaking specifically to the reports that the father, who is a strong proponent of -- how the constitution should be subordinate to shia law. >> that's not true. the father has addressed that. i'll just read to you, unless we have it on tape. he said that -- we have it on tape. let's play it. >> the law as we have titled, no such thing as shia law. these are laws of various muslim

countries, which are hodgepodge of french laws, portuguese, tremendous discrimination of genders, which disqualifies them under the constitution of united states, cannot be implemented, cannot be brought. how can i be a person that has read this. i preach that. that i do not stand for any sheria law, because there is no such thing >> he doesn't stand for, never has stood for it. he carries around the u.s. constitution -- >> alisyn, you're right. you're right. that's what he said. but i'm just telling you the reports, and the documents that he wrote were put out there for all to see, which says the exact opposite. that's what mr. trump was referring to. there was no attack. it was an observation. >> but alisyn -- >> we're going to have -- we have to go to break. mr. trump was talking about the mother and why she didn't speak at the convention.

that's exactly what he said when he said it. >> bakara, katrina. >> and he said reading the reports. check the tape. >> thank you. we'll put on our own twitter accounts the account as we know it. a quick programming note for you. join us tonight for a live cnn town hall with the libertarian ticket. anderson cooper will talk with them and what they present to this race. breaking news, emrates plane has crashed in dubai. lisa, what can you tell us. >> reporter: hello, john, a terrifying moment for passengers flying from southern india to dubai international airport. the plane skidded on the runway, and we see dramatic images you're seeing there.

basically a plume of smoke. billowing from the aircraft, we then see the plane crumbled on its belly. 18 crew and 282 passengers. all of which are safe and accounted for. emrates gave us a list of the passengers, six of them are u.s. nationals. everyone is safe. theories now, starting to what exactly happened. one aviation expert that i spoke to believes the incident may have happened after landing, perhaps it was an obstacle in the runway. these are working theories. they're trying to investigate. but of course, with the plane still on the runway, john, of course, in dubai international air has suspended all flights, saying an eight hour delay. john and alisyn. >> delay is not the issue. the lives that were not lost, which is a miracle. >> a miracle. isa, thank you for that

reporting. president obama calling on gop leaders to drop their endorsements of donald trump. somehow that going to go over with the gop? we're going to talk to former advisor of the president, david alex rod, next. ras ras

president obama, who is a democratic, you might have heard, calling out republicans for supporting donald trump, saying the president did that donald trump is unfit to lead

this nation. >> and 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? >> we want to discuss with your political commentator and senior advisor to president obama, david axelrod. i don't think we've seen a president of the united states standing next to a foreign leader in the white house that the nominee from another party is unfit to be president. that's one thing. but the president also said something i thought was remarkable. had john mccain or mitt romney beat him, he would still say this is our president. with donald trump, he seemed to indicate he wouldn't say the same thing, suggesting some sort

of continuity of power here. i thought that was an extraordinary comment from the president. >> i'm sure the president would say that ultimately, the american people have their say, and whoever wins in november will be president of the united states. so but i think the point he was trying to make is the point that, you know, richard hannah, the republican congressman from upstate new york made in an essay yesterday, and meg whitman made and so on. there is a lot of concern about donald trump right now. i've never seen a few days like the last few days that he has had. i actually felt for poor katrina in your last segment, trying to explain, you know, what is bizarre behavior, you know. some of it, you know, just strange things on issues from

sexual harassment to phantom letters from the nfl, and not knowing the status of ukraine. just crazy stuff. and you know, i would say this. if donald trump were trying to lose this election, and i'm not saying he is, but if he were, i'm not sure he would behave any differently than he has in the last few days. i mean, this is something i've never seen before. >> but david, i mean, hillary clinton got a bounce obviously from the democratic convention, so her poll numbers are higher. we need to see what happens next week, when they stabilize. what makes you think he is losing? what makes you think that his supporters don't think that, once again, he is being politically incorrect and saying what some of them think, and he is brave enough to say it? >> no, that may well be. look, i don't doubt that he has loyal supporters who will stick with him. in fact, he has 13 million of them we know from the primaries, alisyn. here is the problem. you need 65 million to win a

general election. and the question is, are you growing or are you shrinking your support. everything he has done in the last few days from the episode with the kahns, which was maybe the most egregious through some of these other antics have -- common sense will tell you, and i think the polls will as well in the next few days, these were devastating mistakes. and i'm just talking nows a clinical matter, someone who has been involved in presidential campaigns. what it suggests is a campaign that is out of control and a candidate that's out of control. no campaign would have put donald trump together with a "washington post" to do a 50 minute interview yesterday that was nothing short of bizarre. that was the interview where he said he wasn't for ryan and mccain. by the way, i heard katrina say he doesn't get involved in primaries. that's not what he said. he said last night on fox, he said he never much cared for

john mccain. i mean, this was more than simply saying i don't get involved in primaries. this was a statement about two of the major leaders of the party he is seeking to lead. so i hear you. i'm the first to say we're 97 or whatever days out, there are going to be a lot of twists and turns in the road between now and november. but there are signs here of distress in his campaign that portend greater problems as time goes on, and as the pressure ratchets up. >> can you tell me why it is qualitatively different than what happened in june with judge curiel to get off the trump train, why is this different than that? because trump recovered from that. why do you think this is worst? >> he did recover, and he had a convention and you know, you have the fbi director making his statements about hillary clinton, which helped him

recover. but now we're deeper into the campaign. you're supposed to be turning to the general election, and literally, there were nine or ten stories, you know, kicking the baby out, the purple heart thing. just serially, that suggest that as the pressures ratcheting up, he is kind of losing his grip on the -- on himself, on his campaign. there was a story this morning, i don't know whether it is true or not, about a rift between him and manafort in the leadership of the campaign. these are not the things that you want to be happening as you turn the corner after the convention and head to a general election. you don't want questions about whether you can be removed as the nominee, kind of bruted about. you don't want stories about your mental health brooted about at a time like this. this is just an objective, i mean, you know, partisanship aside, this, you look at this, you just have to shake your

head. >> he is rewriting the playbook in front of your eyes. david, thank you very much for all of your perspective. >> all right. >> on this. so reports that donald trump is at war with his own party, you just heard david axelrod talk about that but now big name republicans say that not only are they not supporting donald trump, they're going to support hillary clinton because of this. former george w. bush press secretary, ari fleischer, joins us next, with his take.

so we have some news this morning, and sources are telling cnn that trump campaign aides, including the highest ones, and backers are frustrated by donald trump's behavior in recent days. while trump is refusing to endorse now house speaker paul ryan and senator john mccain in their primary races. what to make of all this. let's discuss with ari fleischer, former white house press secretary for george w. bush. great to see you this morning. >> good morning. david axelrod was just on, and said he has never seen anything like this. he means after the republican

convention, this many sort of diversions, this many feuds, this lack of message discipline, what about you. >> i hate to agree with david axelrod, but he is 100% right. a disaster in the making. he is such a good counter puncher, he is knocking himself. he has gone after susana martinez, a judge who is an american citizen, and finally the kahns. if he would focus on hillary, focus on the economy, talk about barack obama and we don't want a third time, he could win the race. he is hurting himself and hurting the cause. >> if you are in the republican national committee right now, if you're candidate running for congress, a key swing state or republican senator, what do you do? >> you speak the truth. you differ with him where you have to differ, and you say why. i don't think it is hard. now, at the end of the day, you still have to cast a vote and my

case, i've made my decision, and donald trump was my 16th choice in the republican primary. hillary is my 19th. >> it sounds like she is getting closer. >> well, no, i'm going for 16 over 19. that's my point. at the end of the day, when you have to vote, you have choice between hillary and trump. it is not areferendum. you can still call him out where he has done wrong. donald trump is an independent. he is not a republican, has never really been one. he is an independent, who is different from everybody who has come before and that's why he is willing to break glass and be a disru disru disrupter. >> you can't condone the things he is saying, then how can you vote for him? >> because of somebody he is running against. i find hillary to be reckless on principle and dishonest. i worry donald trump may turn out to be all those things, but i know hillary clinton is all

those things. she has a track record to prove it. that's why i'm voting for donald trump. as much of the things i disagree with him, i cannot not vote. i can't vote for hillary. >> have you seen any sign over the course of the last, i guess, 14 months into the trump campaign, that he can change his behavior? that he can be more the candidate that you want and are calling for right here? >> he is hot and cold. if he is going to win, he is going to have to stay hot. he has to stop making these fundamental mistakes like going after other people. counter punching, he took pride in the primary, and it worked when he was going against other opponents. the kahn family is not hopponen. if he keeps saying these negative things, he takes the sights off of hillary. >> is he treating paul ryan and john mccain like opponent as soon as. >> what he has done here is not good for him, and it is not the

worst thing not world. he is an independent. i don't know why people hold him to account that he should endorse republican. he is apolitical in this. he should realize he needs republican unity as much as he needs independent votes. he is probably hurting himself. this is a routine hurt. i'm more worried about the profound hurts. >> what about the leaks overnight. you never leaked, ever. >> thank you. >> airtight. >> that's my story. >> that's true. >> you know these things are real, when they happen. we're not making this stuff up. people are telling us that there is disarray in the campaign, feel like they're wasting their time. >> well, look, i think there was one story they've given up and that's totally wrong. i know a lot of people in the trump campaign and i disagree with that. you cannot be anybody who is worked in politics before and see your boss go out and say the things donald trump is saying, especially about the kahn family, and not be frustrated.

donald trump does what donald trump wants. there is no message of the day. no campaign saying here is what we think you should say. he goes out and says it. he does wlhe wants. >> if you are willing to vote for an independent as you say that you are, if that's what donald trump, why not the libertarian ticket. >> because they're going to cut the military too much. there are substantive issues with the approach the libertarians support and i can't support that. >> what do you think is happening inside the rnc right now? there is all kinds of crazy stuff out there, buyers remorse, ten days after the republican convention. >> rnc did the only thing they could do. voters in the republican primary and a fair process selected donald trump. they have to back the winner of a primary. what choice do they have to say the voters, the people are wrong and we in washington have superior knowledge and we're right. you can't do that. so it is a bad year, john. this is a terrible cycle for people who believe in less government and conservatism. donald trump is changing all of

that. but it is a choice. that's my fundamental issue. so the party is in a bad spot, but i also take a long approach in politics. i remember in 2002 when i was in the white house, unprecedented in a midterm out of power to lose seats, and many white house reporters were saying the democrats were in disarray. i remember thinking they're not in disarray, they just lost an election. the country goes on. life goes on. goldwater brought the republicans down in '64, they came roaring back. democratics were down. it is still winnable for trump. will he stop competing with himself and making himself a loser. >> ari, thanks so much. she called out donald trump for disrespecting the military and good booed for it. we'll ask the military mother who confronted trump's running mate, what she thought of the response you're hearing right now.

it was a memorable moment this week, when am i will temporary mom, catherine burn,

confronted vice-presidential nominee, mike pence, over donald trump's comments about the gold star family of a fallen u.s. soldier. watch this. >> time and time again, trump has disrespected our nation's armed forces and veterans, and has disrespect for mr. kahn and his family is just an example of that. will there ever be a point in time when you're able to look at trump in the eye and say enough is enough. you have son in the military. >> that's okay. >> how do you tolerate his disrespect? >> well, i thank you for the question. that's all right. that's all right. folks, that's what freedom looks like, and that's what freedom sounds like. >> joining us now is that mom, catherine burn, her son, raymond burn, is an air force serviceman, currently deployed -- >> ray mmond hermann. >> good morning, thank you.

>> what was your plan? what did you want to have happen when you went to confront vp nominee, mike pence? >> i just, you know, confronting governor pence about, you know, to stand with donald trump really confuses me. so i think the donald trump's, you know, the words to the kahn family over the weekend, were just so angering and so upsetting, and to have pence in town and to have the opportunity to ask hem a question, you know, straight up about how can you stand next to somebody who shows such disrespect for the military, and it is just really upsetting. so my -- my goal was just to get my voice out there, and ask a tough question at a town hall meeting. >> well, you accomplished that, and the crowd booed you after --

during -- >> yes, they did. >> what did they say to you? >> well, i was surprised. i think i was taken off at the moment. i didn't think they would get so loud. i knew i would get some opposition, but i didn't expect it to be so, you know, so really explosive. >> yeah, i mean, you just pressed through -- >> exactly. and it actually kind of, the issue is respect or lack of respect, so the crowd kind of answered the question a little bit. even though you know, governor pence didn't directly answer my question about standing side to side or supporting somebody who is so disrespectful. that's really my question to governor pence. and i didn't get that directly answered. although he did, you know, governor pence's respone to me was very respectful and very thoughtful and i thank for that. >> he said he honors your son's

service and never met anyone more committed to the troops than donald trump. what did you think of that answer? >> i don't understand what that means to him. because what comes out of mr. trump's mouth is just so disturbing, so i don't know how that -- how we can call that support of the troops. and to offend our generals, what our generals know and to offend gold star families is just not the behavior that i was raised being a member of a military family. >> catherine, i don't know if you saw this other moment yesterday, it was when this military veteran presented donald trump with his own purple heart that he had obviously received for his bravery and injuries sustained in combat, and he gave it to donald trump. donald trump accepted it. and said that he had always w t wanted a purple heart. >> i said to him, i said to him

is that like the real one or is that a copy. and he said that's my real purple heart. i have such confidence in you. and i said man, that's, like, that's like big stuff. i always wanted to get the purple heart. this was much easier. >> donald trump, you had the time, you did not serve. you know what you should have done, and listen to me and i want his surrogates to listen to me. you should have pinned that back to that veteran's chest, and should have hugged him and thanked him. >> so catherine, that was mr. kahn's response to donald trump, saying how much he had always wanted the purple heart. what do you think of that moment? >> well, donald trump did not earn a purple heart, so i don't think he should, you know, have one. but obviously he was given a gift by somebody, and that's between him and the gift giver.

>> so you disagree with mr. kahn -- >> he didn't earn it. >> he said he should have pinned it to that man's chest and hugged him and thanked him. >> i certainly wouldn't have accepted a purple heart. i don't think i would have accepted it from somebody, huh-huh. i wouldn't behave that way. >> catherine byrne, thank you. >> should he give it back, sure. i like mr. kahn's response to him, yeah, yeah. >> thank you, catherine, for sharing your story with us and telling us what went into your confrontation there with mike pence. nice to have you on "new day." >> thank you, thank you for having me. >> john. new deadly police encounter that was on video. is recording these incidents with police a good idea, or does it just create growing mistrust between police and communities? that's next. ncer diagnosis can be overwhelming and complicated. that's why at cancer treatment centers of america, every patient gets their own care manager,

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joins us. the details are murky so i don't want to get into the details, other than she was live streaming it. i don't believe the police had body cameras. >> they didn't. >> it shows the role the video that new information, that knowledge is adding to this discussion as a whole. >> absolutely. it is changing public sentiment. five years ago, if we heard a story about a woman who pointed a gun at police and was shot, oh, my good, the police defended themselves. there would be little question. everything we've seen like walter scott in charleston, when the videotape emerges, it is different than we thought. even when a police officer has a good shoot, there is still doubt. >> our eyes have been opened to what is happening out there. at the same time, we also see that police themselves feel under siege. we see the retaliatory strikes against them. after baton rouge and what happened in dallas from where you sit. what is the answer? >> we have to do two things at

once. alton sterling and philando castile happened, and we have these police shooting in dallas and baton rouge, all of our attention was diverted. we were talking about how we should mourn police, which we should. more than 600 people have been killed by police. we have to be able to talk about state violence and it is a systemic problem. these outrage things happen like picking off five officers, we can talk about that and find justice for them too. >> can we talk about them simultaneous simultaneously? how do we talk about better protection for the police, better protection for the community? >> great point. they're competing claims. anyone who advocates for violence, police accountability, they're framed as people who hated police. because that happens, we no longer are able to have that conversation. but i think one thing that helps is surveillance, body cameras, cop watch programs by community. those things not only protect

the community, but they also protect the police. body camera, you're doing the right thing, that helps you as an officer. >> that's why so many want them. the title of your book is chilling to me, i look at it, it says "nobody." the sub title, casualties of american war from ferguson to flint, you include flint in there. so tell me about nobody, and tell me where flint factors in? >> i went down there to cover the death of mike brown on august 10, 2014, the day after he was shot and talking to a woman named key sisha, and a wh person wouldn't have had that experience. he laid there for four hours. they left him out there as if he belonged to nobody. for me, that resonated with me, because it wasn't just about what happened between darren wilson and mike brown, it was about the school dils strict th -- district that failed him, emerson electric that left him

jobless, it create aid pocket of vulnerability in ferguson. we have a system that renders its systems to be nobody, as if they are disposable. not just police shooters with guns, but also a town like flint, where the entire city is being kind of collectively punished for being poor and disenfranchis disenfranchised. i wanted to talk about state violence, not just guns, but disregard. >> all the experts we've had on after police shootings or excessive force always say that there is one answer. the answer is community policing. when you know the people in your community and you know the kids and grandmas, then you have personal relationship with them, and you can send them home to their grandma's house and it is more respect. since everybody agrees that that's the answer, why isn't more of that happening? >> we have a history in society of knowing what works. early childhood education, jobs, reducing crime, pregnancy, suicide. we don't do them enough. political will is a different issue.

the other thing is are we willing to invest in the policing that can lead to different outcomes. some of it ideological. people want to get tough on crime. you get elected by getting tough on crime. we had a whole thing on rnc making american -- imposing law and order. you say hey, i'm going to be less tough on crime, do community policing, it is bad for business. >> the title of the book "nobody." you are not nobody. >> thank you sir. >> thank you for being with us. good stuff is next. cked thec room this summer. his stellar notebooks will last through june. get back to great. this week, these items just one cent each. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great.

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flonase, six is greater than one, changes everything. ♪ time now for the good stuff. since the ambush in dallas where the police back in july were killed, five officers were killed and nine others were injured, well, you can imagine support for police has been pouring in. so let's meet 7-year-old angelie. she set up a lemonade stand, and when it came time to distribute her dimes and nickels, she said it is going to the dallas police department. the grand total, nearly $170, and of course, she is not the first. earlier in july, a pair of dall dallas tweens raised $10,000 for

the dal lace police department. most just skipped the lemonade and just dropped money off. >> sentiment is priceless. it's time for "newsroom" with carol costello. thanks so much. you guys have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom," disarray. >> donald trump lurching from one controversy to another. >> this person is not fit for the office he is seeking. >> trump's top aides concerned he is way off message. >> donald trump has been the ultimate disrupter in this political campaign but he seems to be moving into the air afterself-sabotage. >> my whole life has been handling pressure. i know how to win. >> how does he get back on track. let's talk, live at the cnn "newsroom."