really brought it. that's it fours "special report" is next. is there a secret nuclear deal with iran? the white house says no. but two republican lawmakers, freshly returned from meetings overseas say yes. this is "special report." >> good evening. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. as president obama continues to both court and mock critics of his legacy-shaping nuclear agreement with iran there is word tonight of a separate covert deal between the islamic republic and the u.n.'s nuclear team. two of them in fact that are not going to be shared with members of congress nor with you. chief washington correspondent james rosen is at the white house tonight.

>> reporter: two republican lawmakers, senator tom cotton of arkansas and congressman mike pompeo of kanlz allege officials of the iaea informed them in vienna last week that the u.n. nuclear watchdog secretly reached two quote unquote side deals with iran one governing access to the military base at parchin, suspected site of clandestine ex peermts with high explosives. second with other questions surrounding the nuclear program's possible military dimension. pompeo told fox news that secretary of state john kerry briefing lawmakers on the deal today acknowledged he himself had not seen the text of the iaea's separate deals with iran. >> i can't imagine any member of congress returning to their district and telling their constituents that are going to vote for an agreement of this historic importance when they haven't even seen all of the documents. >> reporter: top obama aides denied withholding from lawmakers the details of any agreements reached with iran. >> we have provided congress

with all of the documents that we drafted or were part of drafting. and all documents that have been shared with us by the iaea. >> reporter: in early july iaea chief quietly traveled to tehran to finalize the terms of agency inspections. u.s. officials said the documents memorializing those agreements are held own by the two parties but that their substance is no mystery to washington. >> we have been briefed on those documents. we know their contents. we're satisfied with them. we will share the contents of those briefings in full and classified session with the congress. >> reporter: appearing on "the daily show" late tuesday president obama sought to disarm critics of the deal by invoking a republican with a reputation for hawkishness on national security. >> typically they're vague and they fall back on well if you beat your chest a little bit more. >> done in 2011. >> or if you'd brought dick cheney to the negotiations. >> let's not get crazy.

>> everything would be fine. >> i'm not sure why the president was so fixated on my dad there. but certainly it would be hard to have gotten a worse deal. >> reporter: today also marked the one-year anniversary of "washington post" rozane being held captive in iran. his fate was not tied to the talks. now "washington post" has petitioned the united nations human rights council to work on an urgent basis for his release. bret? >> james, in addition to the many questions about american hostages there are also these questions about the sanctions being lifted on key figures from iran's nuclear and military agencies. >> reporter: yes. and one of the individuals who will be removed from the sanctions list of the united nations and the european union over the next eight years is ca seem sulamani, head of the iranian military kuds force squarely on the radar of army chief of staff general raymond odierno. >> he's the one who's been

exporting activities throughout the middle east for some time now. he's absolutely responsible for killing many americans. in fact i would say the last two years i was there the majority of our casualties same from his surrogates not sunni or al qaeda. >> reporter: that from an interview this week with our pentagon correspondent jennifer griffin. bret? >> james rosen live on the north lawn. james, thank you. a kenyan newspaper has reportedly published a second supposedly top secret air force one schedule for president obama's upcoming trip. we told you last night how the original timetable had been e-mailed to a large number of people by a kenyan government official. the secret service refused to comment. today white house press secretary josh earnest said there is no reason to change security precautions. now to politics. never has the dichotomy that is the hillary clinton presidential campaign been in sharper focus than tonight. she is still far and away the democratic favorite. but clinton is taking more and more severe hits with the public on character issues. and for the first time in

head-to-head matchups with multiple republican candidates chief white house correspondent ed henry has that story. >> reporter: while her advisers call it an aberration there's fresh evidence hillary clinton's presidential bid has run smack into a summer stall. a new quinnipiac university poll finds in the battle grounds of colorado iowa and virginia clinton is losing in head-to-head matchups with three republicans, former florida governor jeb bush wisconsin governor scott walker and florida senator marco rubio. a sharp fall for clinton from quinnipiac's april poll which showed her leading most republicans as questions about e-mails and the clinton foundation have eroded her favorability rating. >> that's a hard number to move. it's a hard number to change especially when you've had a 30-year career and the public has watched you and basically has made a judgment they don't trust you or particularly like you. >> reporter: except democrats note the three republicans named in the quinnipiac poll plus the rest of the crowded gop field

are all getting roughed up. >> none of these three bush, rubio or walker have a lock on the republican nomination right now. >> reporter: the new poll though shows clinton is still dogged by the honesty issue, with voters in the same three battle ground saying she's not trustworthy by wide margins. to try and go on offense, clinton's camp has a new video reviving the war on women charge. after senate republican leader mitch mcconnell declared the gender card is not enough for her to win. ♪ >> reporter: the only woman running for the republican nod, carly fiorina, says that rhetoric is stale. and she's urging republicans to follow ronald reagan's 11th commandment. >> i guess i would say to donald trump, in the end it is hillary clinton we have to beat. >> does he frustrate you a little bit? >> maybe it would be nice to take a shot at her occasionally as i have been doing for months. >> reporter: as the federal

election commission today released donald trump's 92-page financial form which he says shows a fortune over $10 billion, he agreed with fiorina it's time to focus on clinton. >> if i'm chosen i will beat hillary and get the hispanic vote. i employ thousands and thousands of hispanics. they love me. >> reporter: when you look deeper inside this quinnipiac poll bernie sanders runs better than clinton against bush walker rubio, it may provide an opening for another democrat to get into this race. president obama mocked his critics last night in another appearance on late night tv as you saw. senior political correspondent mike emanuel tells us the president made a special point to try to rewrite history on one particular scandal. >> reporter: on "the daily show" prebz said the irs targeting of conservative groups didn't happen and said blame congress. >> look. you've got this back offense. are going after the tea party. well it turned out no.

congress had passed a crumby law that didn't give people guidance in terms of what they were trying to do. >> reporter: the president continued defending the tax collection agency with john stewart poking fun. >> you really do have only a year left. that's unbelievable. that's throwing it out there. >> hold on john. this is important. the truth of the matter is there was not some big conspiracy there. they were trying to sort out conflicting demands. you don't want all this money pouring through not for profits but want to make sure everybody is treated fairly. >> reporter: the treasury inspector general said the irs did give tea party and other irs conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status extra scrutiny. today republicans reacted strongly. >> that systematically and for a sustained period of time targeted people for exercising their most fundamental right, a right to speak first amendment rights. they went after conservative groups. they were put on a list denied their tax exempt status. of course there was targeting.

>> he is saying this is no conspiracy and this is all sort of something being made up then be more open about it and explain to us why as you said lois lerner refused to testify to incriminate herself. >> reporter: she publicly said she did nothing wrong but twice refused to answer questions from congress. mr. obama says the true issue is the irs doesn't have the resources to go after tax cheats. >> the real scandal around the is right now is that it has been so poorly funded that they can't go after these -- we cannot go after these folks. >> maybe he should transfer the hundreds maybe thousands of people they've hired to enforce obama care over to the collections part of the irs. >> no matter what the president says congress is not giving up. a new government accountability office study on the irs targeting is due out in the morning. timed with testimony from irs commissioner john kostonen.

>> mike thanks. up next was the chattanooga shooter radicalized in jordan? we will take you there. first here's what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in new york with a huge warehouse fire in north brunswick, new jersey. flames from the toyota body shop could be seen for miles. police at the scene say high levels of arsenic have been found in the smoke. fox 31 in denver with the first day in the sentencing phase of the trial of convicted theater shooter james holmes. he was found guilty last week on 165 counts of murder and other crimes. holmes killed 12 and injured 70 in that 2012 attack. this is a live look at tampa from our affiliate fox 13. some bugs in the camera. they're covering the search for a bus passenger so upset that he head butted the bus and lost. this happened in winter haven after the driver told the man it would cost him $2 more to go to another destination. the driver got out. and locked the bus.

and that's when the passenger head butted the bus, cracked the glass and briefly knocked himself out. there you go. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back.

the fbi says the chattanooga shooter who killed five military service members last week acted alone. without help. but they say it's too early to determine whether mohammed youssef abdulazeez was radicalized before his attacks on two military sites. the fbi confirming two weapons found at the joint marine navy center belonged to service members in possible violation of pentagon policy. they are trying to learn if abdulazeez was negatively

influenced by islamic extremism during his five visits to jordan. jordan is a country constantly pulled between western and muslim influences. and of course in the middle of a very dangerous neighborhood. fox news reporter benjamin hall takes a look tonight at radicalism in jordan. >> reporter: bret i learned on our recent trip to jordan that even a country with a reputation for moderation and modernity can be a fertile ground for terrorist recruiters. this small kingdom sits in the cross hairs of isis sharing borders with the collapsing states of syria and iraq from wit so-called islamic state has been carved. we went to jordan's second largest city of zarka, birthplace of the terrorist al zmalaki. he was killed in an american air strike in 2006. but his spirit lives on in zarqa.

>> translator: death to america. death to israel. death to the infidels. these are the words we have just heard shouted from the mosque behind us for the whole town to hear. congregate at this very mosque and hand out leaflets and cds encouraging people to go and fight. much of that has gone underground now as the jordanians crack down on it but we know it still happens. this pigeon seller says his own cousin died fighting in syria with isis. he told me "i know who all the isis supports are here. we protect each other" i wouldn't mind if my children went to fight with isis. i have nine of them. and i say let them go and fight. god be with you. it's a duty for good." >> reporter: there are over 2,000 jor danejordanians fighting for isis in syria. to some i spoke they're

considered heroes not terrorists. according to recent polling, only 62% of jordanians consider isis a terrorist organization. their support is made all the more remarkable by the aggressive crackdowns by jordan's intelligence services. even while we were interviewing ordinary jordanians on the streets of the capital ahman, we were interrupted by the secret police. the jor danedanians insist the terrorist recruiting in their midst is the reflection of an economic challenge face allege poor country that has opened its arms to waves of refugees. >> we've always known that extremists tend to try to fish and recruit individuals especially youth who usually end up who have all the potential but end up not finding the right economic opportunities. our biggest focus is to ensure

on creating opportunities, economic opportunities for our citizens. that's the best investment always to fight extremism. >> reporter: but by all accounts 24-year-old abdulazeez came from a prosperous middle class family in tennessee. in 2014 the chattanooga shooter went to see his maternal uncle a palestinian named assad ali who lives in ahman. i spoke to his uncle's lawyer by my jordanian-based translator. he told meet jordanian intelligence services aren't letting him see his client who is now being held without charge. he claims that abdulazeez's uncle is just a businessman with no ties to any extremists. the uncle insists through his lawyer that his nephew's visits were completely innocent and the young man came to jordan to help him in his shop where they sell tech gadgets like mobile phones and tablets. jordanian authorities, assisted by american investors, are now combing through the uncle's

mobile phones and laptops for clues about abdulazeez's visit. so bret it remains to be seen whether his visits to jordan was to learn more about his family's middle eastern heritage or something more sinister. >> benjamin hall in london thank you. stocks were down again today. dow lost 68 nasdaq was off 36. still ahead, pro-lifers multitask to try to punish planned parenthood. first the baltimore race riots. we will see and hear how outnumbered police responded.

another case tonight of confrontation between a white law enforcement officer and an

african-american. days later she was found dead in police custody. correspondent casey stiegel is in dallas tonight with a story that's exploding across all media. hello, casey. >> reporter: bret good evening to you. according to the arrest paperwork, sandra bland was initially pulled over for not using her turn signal while she switched lanes. the then dashcam video from inside the police car shows a heated exchange between the trooper and bland. watch. >> i'm going to yank you out of here. >> you're going to yank me out of my car? >> get out of the car! i will light you up. get out. >> wow! >> now. >> wow! >> get out of the car. >> for failure to signal. >> the trooper says bland kicked him so he took her to jail for assaulting a peace officer. some had suggested this video had been edited or manipulated before police released it late yesterday because it contained some glitches. but the department of public safety says that is not the case and an error in the upload process caused the issue.

three days after her arrest guards say they found sandra bland hanging in her cell at the waller county jail which is about 60 miles northwest of houston. authorities say the 28-year-old committed suicide by hanging herself with a plastic trash bag. the medical examiner's autopsy report is consistent with that narrative. but her family and friends do not buy that story. they believe there is a coverup of sorts here saying she would not have taken her own life despite reports she'd attempted suicide in the past. >> i can tell you that we take issue with the the notion that she was suffering from depression. she was never clinically diagnosed as this family understands. everybody has hills and valleys. and the bottom line is that there was no medication that we were aware of that she was taking to address any sort of epilepsy or depression. >> reporter: now, bland's death has sparked protests down in the

houston area. those who attended say this is just the latest instance of a white police officer using unnecessary force on an african-american citizen. right now there is a joint investigation under way between the fbi as well as the texas rangers. bret? >> we'll continue to follow this. casey stegall live in dallas thank you. we are getting a taste tonight of what baltimore police had to deal with during race rioting last spring following the death of an african-american man in police custody. correspondent leeland vittard has the sounds and the images. >> reporter: the video and dispatch tapes released by the baltimore police department paint a chilling picture of officers outnumbered and ill equipped to take on the thousands of rioters who took to the streets on april 27 following the funeral of freddie gray the 25-year-old black man who died in police custody.

>> whoever has [ inaudible ] on the scene bring them to me and we will use them. i am not going to let my guys get hurt because we have equipment and we're not using it. >> reporter: listen to the order less than two minutes later. >> hold the line. do not go forward and do not chase them. >> reporter: it was just the beginning. and experts say the hands off approach those first few hours led to even more violence and the loogt of hundreds of stores. we reported back in april the stand down order came from baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings blake. >> we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well. >> reporter: on the tapes there are repeated calls for officers under attack. >> officers [ inaudible ] can we have the mace? >> reporter: sources on the ground in baltimore told us city hall ordered officers not to wear certain protective gear. at least 100 officers were hurt in the riots, some seriously. >> so why can't we ask questions? >> reporter: back in april we tried to get answers from the

mayor about that stand down order. >> what do you have to say to the businesses who were looted because of your order to stand down? >> excuse me one minute. >> you don't have anything to say? nothing to say to business owners? what about to the police who were injured? >> excuse me. >> reporter: the mayor's office today said they had no comment on the tapes since the riots the baltimore crime and murder rates have skyrocketed. rank and file officers say they feel unsupported and fearful of prosecution just for doing their job. the mayor sacked the police commissioner although officers say the commissioner wasn't the real problem. rather it is the mayor herself. bret? >> leeland, thank you. the man accused of killing nine people at a charleston south carolina church last month is facing hate crime charges tonight. the attorney general made the announcement today. a federal grand jury has indicted dylann roof on dozens of new counts some of which include the death penalty. he is charged with nine counts

of murder in state court. no grapevine tonight. when we come back, getting paid more and working less.

pro-life activists and republican politicians are turning up the heat for more repercussions against planned parenthood following yesterday's release of another undercover video showing an executive

discussing prices for fetal body parts and talking about the gruesome extraction process to leave body parts intact for transfer and sale. correspondent peter doocy tonight on the multitiered effort to bring down the abortion providers. >> reporter: what's being built behind that fence here in d.c.? a planned parenthood center. and now pro-life activists are trying to shut down its construction any way they can. starting with complaints about code violations. >> nowhere around this building is there any building permit. in fact walking by no one would even know what's going on here. >> reporter: a big push from republicans running for president to stop sending taxpayer money to this women's health provider that may be breaking the law. >> that shouldn't be federally funded. >> maybe it's time to talk something a little deeper than just defunding planned parenthood which should have happened a long time ago. >> we should cut off every penny

of taxpayer funds. >> reporter: senator rand paul introduced an amendment today that would halt federal funds going to planned parent hoot. the white house doesn't want to do that. >> you've heard me take a pretty dim view in the past of ideological writers that are unrelated to the -- to the baseline bill. >> reporter: other democrats are now pushing to portray planned parenthood officials who didn't know they were being recorded as victims with several house democrats asking the attorney general to quote investigate whether any laws were broken by individuals who participated in an elaborate, multi-year scheme to impersonate corporate officials from a fake biologics company. so now both side are investigating each other, but one big question remains. will the feds still give planned parenthood more than half a billion dollars a year? >> i think there's very little chance that there's actually going to be cuts from planned parenthood funding. this is a debate we see over and over again in washington. it's just very emotionally tied

up in the whole abortion debate. >> reporter: planned parenthood continues to complain that their executive never said it was okay for the center for medical progress to record her. now the center for medical progress president is firing back saying that defense ignores the part about selling what he calls baby body parts. bret? >> peter, thanks. some fascinating new information tonight about how some minimum wage workers are reacting to the new higher pay scale in certain places. correspondent dan springer tells us for some employees it now appears less is more. >> reporter: seattle's $15 minimum wage law is supposed to lift low wage workers out of poverty and off welfare. but some workers are asking for fewer hours so they don't lose public subsidies for things like food childcare and housing. a local radio host is hearing several workers want to work less. >> there's a view that single mom with two kid and all of a sudden you make $1,000 too much you're no longer eligible for food assistance.

well why in the world would you want to continue those hours? >> reporter: despite a booming economy, the state's welfare caseload has dropped very little since the wage phase in began in april. meantime prices have gone up. some restaurants are charging 15% more and no longer encourage tips. several restaurants closed unexpectedly. >> it's what happens when the government imposes a restriction on the labor market that normally wouldn't be there. and marginal businesses get hit the hardest. >> reporter: unintended consequences are also being seen in san francisco, which followed seattle's $15 lead. a bookstore has begun to sell graphic novel club subscriptions in order to meet payroll. >> i was looking at potentially having to close the store. and yes my family would then be how would i make my living? >> reporter: despite the warning signs coming from the west other big cities seem poised to copy the seattle wage experiment. chicago is on its way to $13 while new york city's mayor wants to make the leap all the way to $15 an hour.

this as president obama and congress debate whether to raise the federal minimum wage to just over $10 an hour. bret? >> dan springer in seattle. dan, thank you. is there a secret deal on iran's nuclear weapons? we'll talk about all of it with the panel when we come back.

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administration didn't plan to reveal this deal. >> he confirmed there were agreements and told me he himself had not seen the agreements. he said simply i trust the iaea. that's not a direct quote. he implied these were verifications details and members of congress simply shouldn't worry about those things. >> so side deals in the iran deal? what does congress know? what will you know? this is all as the administration is trying to sell on capitol hill as we take a live look at times square right now, ongoing there's a rally called stop iran rally taking place there. more than 100 organizations sponsoring that rally to push back against this deal. let's bring in our panel, yogi dreessen managing editor of foreign policy. kirsten powers "usa today" columnist and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. what about the news that we broke today, yoki about all this talk of side deals? >> the deals in question these

iaea deals, they've happened before. they've always been secretive. you look at any agreement the iaea has with any country, those deals are always secret between the agency itself and the government of that country. there's really nothing new in the notion of the iaea having something secret with iran. that's been the case before. frankly a lot of what we know as a country about iran is from previous inspections also carried out under previous and other secret agreements. what i think is a better question is, what loopholes are built into the agreement as we've seen it that raise questions. the biggest to my mind is there's a 24-day period iran has built into the agreement as it is in which they can delay delay delay and theoretically hide what they're doing at any given site. to my mind the better question is not what we don't know in agreements that already exist that have always been secret. it's now what do we know object what we have in front of us the agreement itself. >> let me push back a little bit about the iaea and interaction with iran. they do this when they're making deals with countries directly. take another listen to representative pompeo as he

describes it. he went overseas and got briefed about these side deals. >> i was incredibly surprised to learn that there were components of the deal that congress was not going to have privy -- be privy to. that there were deals that were arranged in vienna during these negotiations that were not going to be turned over. this is crazy. they're talking about in a place there were suspected explosions related to the nuclear program and we are not going to get to see the verification procedures surrounding that? i get that on the ground we might say no you can go here and you got to walk 50 yards this way. this is not that. these agreements are at the center of the understandings that were reached in shevienna. now congress is being told we can't do this. >> this is parts of the place that had explosions that were tied to the nuclear program that was covert. >> right. the congress especially those skeptical of the deal would want to know the details.

parchin is a source of concern. these are legitimate sources of concern. the only thing what they say isn't quite accurate is that these deals have always been secret. again to my mind a better question is what can iran hide or not hide under what we already know of the deal as seen in the text of the deal. >> kirsten? >> i think these people are pretty bad at keeping secrets, the iaea if you have two senators that show up and they tell them about it. so they said senator cotton put out a statement and said we went and met with them and we were told these deals existed and congress would not be told about them. but they were being told about it. so it doesn't seem to me they're really trying to keep them secret. this is breaking news. we're going to get more information about it. i think we need to wait to get more information. because this doesn't really make sense. if it's so secret and congress isn't supposed to know about it why are they telling them about it? >> senator cotton came out after a briefing this afternoon just

within the last hour and said we are going to stop this deal. charles, your thoughts on first of all this the side deal thing we're talking about. but also the role congress has. you've talked about this. >> these secret deals are extremely important. who cares if it's been done in the past? this is at the heart of a historic deal. obama himself sees it as historic. which essentially and as of monday removes iran's status as a pariah state and gives it the legitimacy from any normal state in the world from which it can develop its economy, its aggression and nuclear weapons. these are not trivial issues. the parchin facility and accounting for past military activities were red lines of ours. these were absolutely central to being able to verify the agreement. we're told oh, it's not this is going to be verification.

parchin as you say is where they do the marrying of the weapon. the weaponization of this. to make sure it can actually explode and destroy a city. we have been demanding access and denied access for a decade. you would think if we're going to normalize relations, give it $150 billion. allow it to export all the oil it wants and normalize everything it does with the rest of the world we would have access to parchin. secondly if we don't have an accounting of the previous military activities we don't have a baseline of where and when and how they did stuff. so we have no way of knowing how to look where to look so that we can know in the future that they are not in violation. these are the central elements the administration actually thought he could leave this a secret? >> in the meantime the iranian foreign minister is doing his own sales job or at least trumpeting of what he was able to accomplish in vienna.

>> translator: the deal is a horrible nightmare for netanyahu and american hard liners. it's not only their is islam folk islam phobia iranian phobia all infrastructures of iran's nuclear program will remain in place. today i am glad to report to you that with god's help as i said with our supreme leader before mplgs we have maintained all or most of our red lines. >> if you're chuck schumer that's not the best thing to hear, is it? >> it's interesting how many phobias he managed to throw into one sentence. the point of view of the iranians and critics on the hill there's a lot of truth to what he's saying. the physical infrastructure of iran remains intact. that said, many centrifuges are taken off line. the access to other particular facilities is bigger than before. some of the changes to those reactors make them much weaker than before.

but constructly speaking the physical infrastructure of all these facilities remain open. they are not shutting down. they're not being closed down. you can understand why for him and for his supporters they see this as a victory. >> they're not being dismantled in any way. kirsten, last thing. what about the president making the case on the iran agreement on "the daily show". >> i don't have a problem with it. i don't think it should be the only place that he goes. but i think it is an influential show. it is influential with the people that he wants to reach. and so i think it's perfectly appropriate for him to be doing it. >> i agree. i don't care where he goes. i don't have a problem with the venues in which he defends this. i have a problem with the substance of this which is really a catastrophic agreement from which we will suffer for decades. >> next up. is the hillary clinton campaign in trouble?

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i think the trust issue is really he what is drawing her back. it's affecting her favorability rating when you have a 56% unfavorable rating in a state like iowa that is a pretty neutral state, my sense is that it shows an erosion and she just has has a few months anything to undo that. >> this certainly isn't where the clinton campaign would want to be, but they are in the thick of it in all these states. >> okay. two of our experts talking about the polls. the polls they are talking about quinnipiac out with new head-to-head polls. polled against a few republican, hillary clinton here you see the big picture here. clinton against jeb bush in colorado iowa, and virginia. these are swing states, obviously, purple states. clinton against governor walker clinton against marco rubio. there you see she is upside

down in these three states. as you continue her poll her favorable is way down as you heard rawlins next in those three states. honest and trustworthy is not a good figure for hillary clinton in these three important states. the one thing she does have leadership qualities and there you see colorado, iowa and virginia turns around for the clinton campaign. is this a moment in her campaign? is there a problem? we're back with the panel. kirsten? >> those numbers are consistent with the national numbers. you have to ask one question which is do people think -- are they willing to overlook the trust issue if you are a good leader? because that's what those polls sort of say. they say they think you are a good leader in spite of having really horrible unfavorable numbers. >> i have heard some democrats point to bill clinton and saying he had similar trust problems. >> we don't know. we don't know if what's happening with the polls with the republicans is because of the trust issue. it could be. it also could be that she didn't have any real

opponents before. it was inflated a little bit. now you have actual real people that are actually pretty good candidates. there are actual alternatives. people start looking at that and start seeing well, maybe i would. before it was this kind of generic we don't know -- we like hillary. she is a known quantity. she is a name we know. now we have got some other people that we can choose. >> charles? >> it goes beyond that it's not just not opponent she doesn't have real opponents who are going to challenge her for the nomination in the end. but we have gotten to see her. and it turns out that the more you see her the more her numbers go down. that's the definition of a weak candidate. i think what was astonishing in s. that in some of those polls, when they ran the republicans against bernie sanders, not exactly the second coming of ronald reagan or fdr in sort of attractiveness he does better. that tells you that democrats have a problem.

some of you is not going to be tested and who is going to have to learn to do it once she gets the nomination up against a single owe pony innocent. >> if you are vice president joe biden sitting in the white house and you are looking at the it quinnipiac polls, are you saying, maybe it's time? >> i think until you start he seeing the national polls begin to reflect the quinnipiac ones in these three states and right now they are not. i don't think so. i think if you are bernie sanders, i agree with charles he is not going to be the nominee. he is he able it better her on the weakness. vote for the iraq war in 2008 was fatal kryptonite. she is on the wrong side where the party is on inequality wages fairness in the economy. he won't beat her but he is he able to to hit her where the passion of the party is and she is on the wrong side of that that's a real problem for her. >> how much is this email thing factoring in if anything. a judge on judicial watch case on the emails saying if documents are destroyed between now and august 17th the government will have to answer for that and, you know, if they don't want to

do anything out of the ordinary to preserve between now and then, they can make that choice, i will allow them to make that choice, but they will answer for it if something happens. i'm of the opinion these are not the things people are going to be voting on. if this drags on and goes on through the entire campaign, then maybe. it's not going to. it's going to be be old news by the time people are voting. i think that again it -- people see this think she is a good leader. the question is whether or not the fact that they don't trust her is going to outweigh the fact that they think she is a gadd leader. >> look. the email in and of itself is not going to sink her but it is the reason -- one of the reasons reinforce the idea that you can't trust her. what's important here is that whereas the press is likely to ignore this, when you have got a judge on the case he will not ignore it. >> all right. panel, thank you. that's it for the panel. stay tuned to see why one presidential candidate is in destruction mode.

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