yes, the world is watching what we do. yes, america's destiny is ours to choose. so let's be stronger together, my fellow americans. >> welcome to this specially digs of "the journal editorial report." i'm paul gigot. that was hillary clinton accepting her party's nomination in philadelphia, where she was hailed as a change maker by her husband, former president bill clinton, and an experienced,

steady hand by the man she hopes to succeed. >> there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not bill, nobody, more qualified than hillary clinton to serve as president of the united states of america. >> joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist bill mckern, mary kissel, and james toronto. the democrats had three goals, they needed to unite the party, raise hillary clinton's favorables, and they needed to reduce donald trump's favorables. let's take them one at a time. how did they do at uniting the party, getting the sanders people on board? >> they did well on two points. they rallied the hall, lots offof enthusiasm. the media gushing over hillary

clinton and the goosebump moment. >> but are sanders voters on board? >> we don't know. there was a lot of protests outside. i think a lot of them will vote for hillary in the end. >> they couldn't have asked for much more than bernie sanders. he really delivered, mary, for clinton. >> yes, he certainly did. and there wasn't a ted cruz moment there like there was in the republican convention. i think, though, one of the harder tasks that they had was to humanize hillary clinton. i'm not sure we can believe bill when he gets up and tells a wrenching personal story about how much he loves her given his personal history. chelsea clinton clearly adores her mother but isn't that great of a political communicator. i think that was a tough task for the democrats. >> somebody being in public life, james, for 25 years, a fairly fixed view of her in the american public. i think that the negatives were high enough that the democrats looked at that and said we have to do something. they devoted all of bill

clinton's speech to that task, when usually bill clinton is the contrast man, right, it's here's what we favor, and then a caricature of what they favor. he's very good at that. >> he is. but the underlying problem, as you said, is people don't like her, they don't trust her. and in a sense i think the convention kind of underlined that problem, because it was sending out all kinds of different, often contradictory messages, where one moment they were honoring black lives matter, the next they were honoring police officers. her speech obviously -- >> that's the tension within any political coalition, isn't it? you give them their moment, you give sanders, you give warren, all those people their moment, you do it on monday so get them out of the way so on wednesday and thursday you can appeal to the middle. >> i think what it lacked is what her speech lacked: focus. donald trump has been criticized but he sticks to what americans are telling pollsters they care

about right now. number one, terrorism. number two, the economy. >> i just want to go back to the party unity question. i think there was a ted cruz moment when sanders spoke. i was in the hall and distinctly heard him get booed when he endorsed the party's nominee, which was the opposite of what happened to cruz, he got booed when he declined to endorse the party's nominee. mrs. clinton's speech on thursday was interrupted by hecklers at least a dozen times. i understand that didn't come through at home. but you heard these spontaneous and unusually timed chants. >> there was a particularly nasty moment when leon panetta was making the case for a hawkish foreign policy, they booed him. >> that goes to the stuff about the military and the cops. you can't fool all the people all the time. they put police officers up there, they put military up there. this is equivalent to the clintons before supporting traditional marriage like break, it's a wink, they don't believe

it. they went with the hillary they got. i don't think they tried as much to humanize her. she's a policy wonk, that's what she presented herself as. i think they realize the unlikables are kind of baked in. this week there's a poll showing donald trump slightly ahead of her, he has 58% unfavorables, that's a huge improvement. >> i'll just add on the b bio issue, one thing that came clear, even with morgan freeman's beautiful narration, there are no tangible achievements. the signature achievement they were telling us about was the deal that orrin hatch and ted kennedy cut 20 years ago when her husband was pretty. >> a fascinating strategy, mary, the democrats didn't try to make this a classic left-right ideological battle.

they basically tried to separate trump from the republicans and the conservatives, saying he's a threat to our democracy. that's very rare for what the democrats did, they didn't do that in 2012 or in 2008, they haven't run that kind of campaign in a long time. smart strategy? >> yeah, i think it's a smart strategy for now, insofar as they want people to be afraid of a trump presidency, so afraid that they turn out to vote. >> but there is a risk as well. i notice jane sanders, bernie sanders' wife, was quoted saying, we have to unite against donald trump because he's different kind of republican. that could be taken either way, the republican party isn't so popular. >> the brand isn't so great. >> they're trying to get republicans. >> exactly. >> independents and republicans, never-trumpers. >> the republicans aren't happy with the people who have been running the republican party, that's why they picked him. this idea that he's outside the establishment, i think that cuts in his favor.

>> but on the other hand there are a lot of suburban republicans and college-educated republicans who are really nervous about trump, they don't like his foreign policy, for example, his temperament. >> one thing that's very different, and you see the democrats reacting, for the first time in 30 years, maybe even longer, the democratic presidential nominee is going to face a republican who is relentlessly on offense. that doesn't happen, that didn't happen with mitt romney, that didn't happen with mccain. >> we'll talk more about this later. when we come back, donald trump enjoyed a post-convention bounce in the polls. just how big was it and should hillary clinton expect the same in the days to come? [siren] come on! ♪ come on. ♪

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after a post-convention bounce for donald trump, the presidential candidates are once

again neck and neck in the latest real clear politics poll average. with democrats wrapping up their own convention in philly, should hillary clinton see her own bump in the coming days? republican pollster ed goas joins us from washington. where do you think this race stands after both conventions? >> first of all, i think the bounce from the first convention, the republican convention, was somewhat overstated. hillary had been running about four or five points ahead of trump in the average of all the polls. but after the fbi director's statement, she had declined to -- she was only about a point and a half going into the republican convention. quite frankly, the thing i think everyone is looking for is to

keep looking for big movement in the polls. both these candidates had a 55% unfavorable rating when they entered the race a year ago. trump is at 57, she is at 56% rating. i don't think we're going to see big jumps in the data. we'll see inches as opposed to yards in the movement. maybe with the exception of the first debate. >> so doug schoen, a democratic pollster, wrote for "the wall street journal" this weekend that hillary clinton is now the underdog because of trump's bounce in the polls, and the desire in the electorate for change. do you agree with that? >> we have to make it interesting. the bottom line is that it's all new territory with having two nominees now that have an overwhelming majority being negative towards both of them. it's going to be very hard to tell where this is going or what direction it's going to take.

the polling numbers, you know, there's just too many polls out there that are using different sampling, and we compare apples to oranges. "the wall street journal" poll is very good, the fox news poll is very good, the cnn poll tends to be very good. for example, in that average of polls out there is "the l.a. times," which is going back to the same people and asking. i think there's plenty of room for stories out there, but expect this to move in inches, not yards. >> one of the fascinating things i've been looking at is the extent to which 20% of the electorate still seems to be undecided. that sounds to me like a lot at this stage in the race. are they really undecided? maybe they're just saying because they don't like each one and they'll come around to their party favorite in the end. but does that tell you anything interesting? >> it does. you know, the closing that we saw, whatever closing we saw during the republican convention, was trump catching

up with republicans voting for him to where hillary was with democrats. but we do have that 15 to 20% of undecided, when normally in this period of time it's about 7 or 8%. and i think the big question is union those independent voters out there are really the ones that don't like either one of these candidates. and i think the question is, are they undecided or are they going to end up being nonvoters. i think that will be a key question we'll have until the end of the campaign. >> what about the midwest strategy that trump is talking about, he and his campaign are saying we're going after states that romney didn't win, ohio, pennsylvania, even michigan, iowa, perhaps even wisconsin, because they have a lot of white working class voters, didn't go to college, have really felt economic pain these last eight years. is that a plausible path to victory for donald trump? >> ohio and iowa is always in the mix. it's always kind of plus or minus a couple of points as you go through. the new ones, the blue states, the real blue states, are the

michigan, the pennsylvania, the wisconsin. >> is that plausible for trump? >> it is, but in the same token, we're also beginning to see, missouri was added as a toss-up state today by real clear politics. you have georgia. the map is expanding on both ends. he is not doing as well in some of the red states, utah being another one. and he's doing better in some of the blue states. i think it's going to be, again, anything can happen in this election. the one thing i will say, there's nothing in the data to say either hillary will win or trump will win or both of them will not lose. so right now, it really is a toss-up between the two. >> you really think it's a 50/50 toss-up? >> i do. the one caveat i would give is, having done this for 40 years, i believe real campaigns matter.

and i do get concerned sometimes what i hear from the trump campaign, that they are not going to put as much into the ground game in terms of the campaign, because at the end of the day, that could be the deciding factor if this is a dead-even race. >> trump people are saying that out, we don't think advertising on the airwaves matters as much because we get all this free publicity, we have such a better use of social media. but if you're outspent to such a great extent and you can't is to understand to those attack ads, they really hurt. >> they can. again, i think the negatives are so baked-in on both of these candidates, he may be right on not spending as much money on tv, because it may not in fact move things, just like i don't think you're seeing it move as much with the conventions. i think where he may be wrong is saying i'm not going to put as much into the ground game, voter i.d. and turnout. and at the end of the day, we're still going to end up with 70% of registered voters voting.

and whichever side does a better job of getting the voters out may be the whole difference in this campaign. >> ed goeas, thanks for coming in to see us. >> thank you. still ahead, with the polls closed and the conventions behind them, the candidates will hit the battleground states. our panel's take on how the race is shape up. >> we have 100 days to make our case to america. for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads to places like... this... this... or this. today, there's a new option. introducing drug-free aleve direct therapy. a tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors' offices. its wireless remote lets you control the intensity, and helps you get back to things like... this... this... or this. and back to being yourself. introducing new aleve direct therapy.

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presidential candidates are wasting no time barn storming the states that are likely to decide the outcome in november.

donald trump and hillary clinton are hitting the campaign trail. donald trump will hold a town hall event in columbus on monday. polls in battleground states show a tight race in the final three months of the campaign. we're back with our panel. james, you heard ed. what do you think is trump's best path to victory? >> i like that he's focused on the economy and terrorism. i think he needs to focus even more on the economy, not just talking about the problems created by washington politicians. he needs to talk about growth. we got this terrible report on gdp on friday, the economy barely moving now. if he's talking about tax, regulatory reform, how do we grow. >> can i push back on that? i don't hear him talking about that. i hear him talking about immigration, you shrink the labor supply, illegal or legal. second, trade, shrink the supply

of goods to raise the cost of goods. those are his two economic themes so far. how does that help the economy? i agree with you. >> you asked me, i've just given donald trump the key to victory. >> do you disagree with me that he's not focusing like he should on the economy? the campaign issued one statement on the gdp figure, one, by a policy adviser. did you hear donald trump come out and say, i'm the guy who can restore the economy? i don't think you did. >> he did tweet -- >> he tried to talk more about how we grow. >> he did talk about taxes today, there's a tweet saying hillary's going to wreck the economy and so forth. >> that's how he communities. ari fleischer said that he should stop talking about crooked hillary and start talking about 1.2% hillary, representing the anemic growth rate. >> to some extent, you, paul, and you, james, are arguing about different things. you're arguing about the politics and you're arguing about the policy.

i think trump benefits passively from the 1.2% economic growth. that certainly runs counter to the morning and america message we just got from the democrats at their convention. >> that's a fair point. hillary clinton has come out of her convention saying we're going to make the biggest investment in jobs, mary, since world war ii, a huge investment, they're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. if trump doesn't have a comparable here's how i can fix it message, all right, then hillary clinton's argument might carry the day. >> it might. hillary clinton is clearly trying to keep the obama coalition together, trying to appeal to women, minorities, college age students. but she is too trying to appeal to the trump base, those disaffected economically depressed workers, principally along the rust belt, which is also where trump things he can motivate people to come out. she's trying to put forth a

unifying message by sloganeering. >> and a laundry list of ideas, james, which was a really pretty liberal agenda. the sanders voters aren't going to dislike what they heard when she talked about expanding social security and mandates and new regulation on business. >> that's where i think she went off track. it was kind of a harangue of the progressive wish list. climate change, alleged institutional racism. i don't think she has a focused message on the economy. and i look at that friday reuters poll which was touted as good news for her. >> a five. >> a five. but look a little deeper, nearly 70% of the country says we're on the wrong track and nearly 80% of independents are saying that. so -- >> i think the economic argument on both sides will be highly negative. i also think we all to take the polls with a grain of salt. ed was talking about this when he talked about the electorate. all the polls are the same in how they crunch their numbers.

but they start with an educated guess about who's going to turn out. >> right. >> the person who has the right number, the right makeup of the electorate, is going to be right about this. with 20% undecided, no one really knows. i just find it humorous, the polls say within a margin of error of four points, and there's 20% that haven't made up their minds. we read too much into them. >> and we know from the brexit vote in britain, they didn't have the majority yet they prevailed. >> i'm not saying trump is going to win. he can win. jesse helms used to say, never won a poll, never lost an election. >> it looks like they're going to go after trump by mocking and taunting him and trying to get under his skin. his politics, trump's, are personal, i can deliver for you. but he has a thin skin. i think they're taunting him to

try to blow him up. >> i think that's right, and they're trying to disqualify him. it's a big message people got from the democratic convention, if their big message was ronald reagan, morning in america, it was a failure. if their message was trump is an unstable lunatic who will start a war, i think that's a more powerful message for the democrats. >> much more to come on this special one-hour edition of "the journal editorial report." ahead, new evidence the clinton campaign was a target of cyber attacks. is russia trying to meddle in the u.s. presidential race?

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played in the hacking of computer servers at the democratic national committee, the democratic congressional campaign committee, and now, officials say, computer systems used by hillary clinton's presidential campaign. is vladimir putin attempting to meddle in the u.s. presidential race? we're back with bill mac kern, james toronto, and bill freeman. you thought the furor was overdone, how so? >> he said he was being sarcastic. that's the way it came across to me. >> you believe that? >> yes. second, if you think about what he actually said, he said i hope russia finds these 30,000 e-mails. people say, he's encouraging russia to spy on mrs. clinton. it is our understanding that the e-mail server has been offline for years now, that the easily ha e-mails have been destroyed now. if russia finds them, it's because they've already spied on them and have them in their

possession. >> do you give him a pass? >> i have to take a different view from james here. i think trump thought he was being clever in changing the news cycle to bring attention back to the e-mail scandal. but i think it made him look incredibly irresponsible. it also allowed the democrats to look like defense hawks. it also allowed them to change the story from hillary clinton not keeping her e-mails secure to, wow, donald trump once again cozying up to vladimir putin. i don't see how that plays well for the trump campaign. >> the trump/putin bromance, james, not a good look. >> i guess i'm more toward toronto. if we're looking for this question of was it a joke, when he said it, i laughed. i thought it was pretty funny. i don't think anyone who was watching the whole thing really thought he was encouraging espionage against the united states. beyond that, in terms of changing the subject, i don't agree. what the media is very eager to

do is bury stories like the e-mail scandal, like the democratic e-mail scandal, it's hard to keep track of e-mail scandals with hillary clinton. i think what he did, again, donald trump, is what he's been able to do from day one of this campaign, which is absolutely dominate the media discussion and the agenda. a lot of it, some of it i don't necessarily agree with, but he sets the agenda and makes other people talking about what he's talking about. >> isn't it creating an opening, bill, for the democrats to pose as hawks, as mary suggested, if they can say, see, he's so tight with putin. and it allows them to change the subject from the e-mails, which after all were exposed. >> i'm not sure they're successful in portraying themselves as hawks. in 2012, the republican nominee was mocked for considering vladimir putin an enemy, mocked by barack obama and the democratic party. now the democrats have discovered, in 2016, the

republican nominee is mocked for basically having the barack obama position in 2012. that said, i think it's like a lot of things with donald trump. he's missed an opportunity to take on the democrats' greatest weakness, the reset with russia and the foreign policy. i'm not sure if people buy this hawkish democratic party and so forth. one last thing about the e-mails, if this really did compromise national security, i thought these 30,000 missing e-mails were about yoga and weddings. it highlights again another clinton falsehood. >> but it allows the democrats to underscore a real concern about donald trump, which is what does he think of vladimir putin, what kind of relationship does he want to have. just in these last days he said he might consider recognizing russia's domain over crimea. he said he might consider lifting sanctions on russia. he's said in the past several times that he thinks putin is a strong man, he admires him, he likes what he's doing fighting terror in syria. >> of course remember george w.

bush said early in his tenure as president, he looked into mr. putin's eyes and saw his soul, and the obama -- >> this is not an election about bush. it's an election about donald trump. >> trump may be repeating the mistakes of the people who would like to be his predecessors. >> precisely. we've had the experiences with bush and obama, one would assume you would learn something. >> we're talking certainly in terms of policy, we would like trump to focus a little more on strengthening nato, thinking about those responsibilities. if we're arguing the politics, i don't think americans want to go to war over crimea right now. >> but that's not the issue. nobody's saying yes, go to war over crimea. what we're saying is are you going to recognize russia's invasion and illegal takeover of it. that's a different story. >> if this were so politically astute, why did mike pence come out and effectively disassociate himself with what donald trump said if this was such a

political winner for trump? >> i don't think it's a political winner. donald trump has a naive view of putin, i think he's boxed in by it. who's been soft on vladimir putin, who led him into the middle east and all this? so a lot of this stuff that hurts donald trump hurts hillary too. >> talking about the trump/putin bromance, as we go on, we'll learn more, as we always do, about clinton connections and their business associates' connections to russia. >> thank you, james. still ahead, europe's summer of terror. this week's murder of a catholic priest in norman ddy is just th latest in a string of attacks. are european leaders serious about stopping them?

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church in normandy, france, that left an 86-year-old catholic priest dead, his throat slit after he celebrated mass, the latest in a string of atrocities linked to the terrorist group, including a suicide bombing take music festival and an axe attack on a train in germany. our guest is an editorial page writer for "the wall street journal" in europe, welcome, good to see you. >> hi, paul. >> these attacks have been increasing in frequency and just -- they get worse. does anybody there think they'll subside or are they expecting more as the days and weeks go on? >> well, as far as average people go, everyone feels it in their bones. you sense the insecurity when you get on the underground train in london or if you're out and about in paris or any other major city. what's worrying is that a lot of the political leadership has adopted this tone where they

talk about islamist terror as though they're talking about smoking-related cancer. it's such a terrible problem but we'll be resilient and eventually beat it, but not in a sense that conveys this is an ideological war and a low-grade islamist insurgency where there seems to be an attack every day and we're going to defeat this. a certain set of social media memes come about and we get used to it until the next one happens. >> why are france and germany, why do they seem to be the main targets in recent weeks? >> well, for slightly different reasons. germany has been where most of the refugees went. >> from syria. >> yes, more than a million refugees from syria and also afghanistan and elsewhere.

and some of those, i mean, the two attacks, the axe attack on a train in bavaria and the suicide bombing at a concert, both were by -- were perpetrated by refugees or by asylum seekers. in france it's a slightlyas a l minority that from my assessment and many others is one of the least assimilated, least integrated, and therefore most prone to radicalization. >> president hollande of france, he says france is at war with these terrorists, with islamic terror. what does that mean in practical terms? for example, are they stepping up their campaign against islamic state in syria and iraq? or what are they doing that really suggests they're serious about this? >> paul, not much yet. i mean, what they've done after every attack, as i said, they lurch. for example, nice happens,

earlier than that the massacre in paris, they'll increase the number of sorties targeting islamic state positions in syria and iraq. nice happens and they'll increase shipments to the iraqi government of artillery and assistance to the kurds. but you don't see that proactive, strategic effort that takes into account the ideology that's involved that really says we have to own syria and iraq and libya because these are within europe's periphery, it's in europe's neighborhood. as long as these places fester and become jihadist, then we won't be safe in our western and european homelands. that's what's missing from their reaction. >> one of the things the french say they're doing is stepping up intelligence. and we know that one of the attackers, it's been reported, was on the terror watch list, one of the killers of the priest. and yet they didn't stop, they weren't able to stop it. is french intelligence maybe not as good as they say it is, or

how did they drop the ball here? >> i think the problem is capability versus need. there are just too many jihadist cases. françois hollande came to power, they had a handful or less than a hundred, let's say, of these types of cases. now you're thinking monitoring thousands. for each one it takes x many man-hours of intelligence and security forces. it's just not enough. that's one failure. in germany, i should mention germany is the epicenter of hysteria about edward snowden and the nsa's activities and so forth. they've deliberately defanged their own security and intelligence apparatus. >> if you can't play defense like that and they're not willing to play offense in the middle east, it suggests maybe they'll end up having to close the borders and shut down immigration. and you see that politically, parties are already asking for that in europe.

is that going to continue? >> absolutely. so angela merkel, the german chancellor, after the series of attacks said, i'm sticking by my open borders policy, as many as want to come. but within her own party there's this rebellion. in france, marianne le pen, a hard right nationalist party, is gaining in the polls, she's number one for the presidential race. because the mainstream parties are failing so dismally, the irresponsible parties are making gains at the polls, and rightly so. >> thanks so much for coming in. still ahead, gop leaders setting their sights on congress. where the battle for control of the house and senate is heating up. can republicans hold on to both? a look at the races to watch when we come back. >> we will fight to restore

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with the convention behind them, the congressional leaders are looking ahead to november and battle for control of the house and senate. with republicans in control of both chambers now, democrats need to pick up 30 seats to win back the house but just four to take control of the senate if hillary clinton wins the presidency and five seats if donald trump wins. we're back with our panel. mary, you heard nancy pelosi say we can do it, they've broadened their target list to 38 seats from 16. is she right? >> well, much to the horror of

many conservatives out there, i fear that it's not outside the realm of possibility for the democrats to take back both houses. here's how i think it happens, paul. if you have historic paul. if you have historic latino turnout -- >> in opposition to donald trump. >> if you have decent african-american turnout at the polls i think it's tough to get the levels that obama got but i think hillary can motivate those voters to get out there at a reasonable level. but most importantly, if you have women, if you have educated, suburban voters who are republicans stay home. because they don't want to vote for trump, they don't go to the polls and they're not voting in the house and senate races. if it's a blow out for hillary, it is possible that the democrats could take over the congress. >> john mccain lost by 7 1/2 points and they lost 21 seats in the house, republicans. mitt romney lost by a little more than 4, i think, and thlos

eight seats so it's possible. >> i don't see that happening. the question is where are all these new votes for hillary clinton going to come from? as we've said she's been in the public eye a long time. she's essentially i view her as running as the incumbent. she more than anyone else represents the establishment of the american political system. it's the third term of president obama as he told us the other night essentially saying she's going to carry on the work. given that, normally when an incumbent is way below 50% at this point in the race, you say they're in big trouble. and think that applies to her. what does that mean for the rest of the ticket? if this is even close, democrats are not taking the house and republicans probably -- >> that conditional clause is a big if. >> it is. it's what i'm telling you. it is going to be a close race and she might win. >> if that's true, then they probably don't take it. what about the house? what about the senate? >> well, i think it's worth noting that the republicans did very well in the house in 2014 and very well in the senate in 2010. which means that they have a lot of seats coming up.

>> very tough states for them to hold. >> right. so the democrats were always likely to make gains just because of regression towards the means. >> wisconsin, illinois, florida, ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire. those are all swing states they're trying to defend. >> and a couple of other states that are considered toss ups by some of of the handicappers like north carolina, missouri and indiana where he an inbye the former senator is running. >> what do you think? how well are republicans holding up so far in those seats? >> so far they seem to be holding up pretty well. it looks like illinois and wisconsin they're in real trouble. but in all the others they seem to be competitive. indiana is hard to know because it's difficult state to poll because their telecommunications laws and bye just got in but i think the republicans probably have about an even shot of holding the senate. >> mary, i think that so far rob portman, senator from ohio, seems to be doing quite well. he just got the endorsement of some unions, for example, even a local black lives matter group.

>> amazing, isn't it? but rob portman is a different kind of candidate. he's not only getting labor unions, he's viewed as a bridge builder and uniter, he has a gay son so he's reached out to communities that republicans don't typically reach out to. it differentiates him from donald trump. remember, too, portman goes back to ohio. you look at a state like for example wisconsin, ron johnson is underwater because he didn't pay a lot of attention to wisconsin. now he's going back to the state and i think voters there are viewing him as just another republican in washington that didn't do anything for them. >> i would push back a little bit on that on ron johnson. i think he's been a really good senator. trying to press national issues. also he's been talking about the veterans affair scandal, he's been talking about what he's been trying to do in and around milwaukee to create jobs. >> but compare him to a kelly ayotte back in new hampshire every weekend doing a town hall on saturday. >> i think the difference i think the contrast is the portman. portman i guess the nice way to put it is he knows when to move left on certain issues to get

re-elected. ron johnson doesn't. he believes in small government. i wouldn't say he doesn't understand. he understands the game. he's not willing to go there. he thinks the government ought to be smaller, that americans should be free. that's what's giving him trouble. but i think in his corner, this is increasingly a race about terrorism. and that is a strong suit for him. it's a weakness for his opponent, russ feingold. >> do you think briefly, bill, they're going to lose the senate? >> i think it's definitely a possibility. i think that if it breaks one way it's going to break for all. they need four seats, six are in states that obama carried. and the margins are all within four points. >> all right. we have to take one more break. when we come back, hits and misses of the week. ...clear for take off. see ya! when you're living with diabetes. steady is exciting. oh this is living baby! only glucerna has carbsteady, to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and try new glucerna hunger smart to help you feel full.

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snowden. after the week with the e-mail dump by wikileaks, ed snow den tweeted his displeasure, said he didn't like the way wikileaks had gone about it. they weren't responsible. wikileaks responded by accusing snowden of trying to curry favor with mrs. clinton in hopes of getting a pardon. in other words, each side is calling the other self-indulgent and obnoxious and both are right. >> freeman, top that. >> hearing liberal media folks talk about a wikileaks isn't what it used to be. but certainly hits to amazon, paul. americans shop online shopping mall. we've been talking about how the economy is terrible, earnings are terrible, businesses don't want to invest. but here's a company that just set another quarterly record for profit. sales are up big. and they're investing. they're building warehouses, investing in tv, movies. so let's hope we see more companies like this. >> go amazon. >> mary. >> well, i'm giving a big miss

to the fourth circuit court of appeals for striking down north carolina's voter id laws. the supreme court has consistently found these laws to be constitutional. but paul what you have here is a panel of judges that has now put this state, an important state in november, for the election, put this issue in focus, and it's going to i think motivate minorities to come out and vote in that state. not good for trump. >> all right. james. >> paul head to law enforcement in both cleveland and philadelphia. a lot of people had worried that we'd see a repeat of chicago 1968 when political anger boiled over into violence at that year's democratic convention. but the police kept peace and order in both cities, and hats off to them. >> you saw that. you followed the demonstrators. where were they worse? philadelphia or cleveland? >> there were a lot more of them in philadelphia. in cleveland the police presence was amazing. i went there to public square, the five-acre park there were maybe 400 cops there. >> and no incidents in both places. >> very few. >> all right. and remember if you have your

own hit or miss, please be sure to tweet it to us @jdr on fnc. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel. thanks especially to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you all right here next week. this is a fox news alert. hillary clinton and her running mate senator tim kaine making a campaign stop in western pinz pennsylvania. they're at a johns town wire technologies factory. it's part of their jobs focused bus tour through pennsylvania and ohio. let's listen in. >> i talked about it at the convention the other night. so many people when they believed in him they found out they got stiffed. and now he's still saying, hey, folks, believe me. we've got a candidate who respects you enough to lay out a plan. here's what i'll do and here's how i'll do it. and i thought one of the best lines that hillary said the other night was, i've got details, but remember, if it's about your own kid, or it's

about your own business, it's not a detail it's a big deal. and you ought to have to tell people what you're going to do. but trump just says look, believe me, trust me, and we'd be fools to do it. i can't help but think what would have happened if my dad's business had been trying to do work with seven or eight employees for a guy like trump who just felt like he could use them and then just kick them aside. i wouldn't have had the opportunities i have today had my dad dealt with people like that when he was running his iron working shop. the last thing i'll say before i bring up the secretary is this. virginia and pennsylvania sharing is in common. and that is we call ourselves a commonwealth, not a state. there's 46 states, and there are four commonwealths. kentucky, penn, massachusetts and virginia. when i was lieutenant governor i went to a school and talked to a student just about your age,down lady, standing right in front of me. i was at a classroom.

a little girl asked me why are we a commonwealth and everybody else a state? i did what a good politician does who doesn't know the answer. i made something up on the spot. and i said, commonwealth. state is a dotted line. it's a geography. commonwealth says it's something about our values. the wealth we hold we hold in common. it's got to be about the community. it's got to be about bringing everybody together. in pennsylvania, you have the boldness to say, that's how you want to be known. and in virginia, we have the boldness to say that's how we want to be known. that's our values. the wealth we hold we hold in common. and those are hillary clinton's values, too. so i'll just ask you this last question and then bring up our next president. i think as far as it goes with the economy, we got to really really clear choice. and i'll boil it down to this. johnstown, pennsylvania, do you want your hired president or your fired president? i mean, i don't think it could be any simpler. we got a you're hired president

in hillary clinton. and i'm so proud to be her running mate and so proud to bring her up to talk to you. hillary clinton. give her a big round. >> all right. so there's secretary of state -- former secretary of state hillary clinton, the democratic presidential nominee, and you just heard from the vice-presidential yom knee, tim kaine. they are in johns town addressing a crowd. we wanted to listen to that for a little bit to give you the tone and tenor and flavor of what's going on in johns town as they try to appeal for votes. we're going to go back to that for about a minute and listen to hillary clinton. let's listen. >> now united states senator. because he's someone who really instills confidence in those whom he serves. and as america gets to know him, that's exactly what i think will happen as well. we've had an incredible week here in pennsylvania. i can't tell you how much i

loved being here. and some of you may know that my father was from scranton. my grandfather came as a small child from england, an immigrant to scranton with his family. he worked in the scranton lace mills, factory, his entire life. because he believed that he could produce a better life for his children. and he did. and every time i come to pennsylvania i think about the many journeys we made from where we lived outside of chicago to scranton every single year we would go every summer. we went some i was brought back as were my brothers to be christened in the little court street methodist church. we really have a great deal of love and after affection for pennsylvania. my father plus one of my

brothers played football at penn state. so it's always a joy for me to be here. and to come to johnstown, a place that i've been to before. and look forward to coming back and being here. >> so again, hillary clinton, the democratic presidential nominee, and also tim kaine, her vice president y vice presidential pick speaking in pennsylvania. we have not heard of any events for donald trump the frontrunner. we bring you fox news alert again. authorities in texas describing a significant loss of life after a fiery hot air balloon crash. it happened this morning in lockhart, texas, just south of austin. police say the balloon burst into flames before crashing with at least 16 people on board.

and with that we welcome you to a brand-new hour "inside america's election headquarters" i'm kelly wright. >> and i'm patti ann browne. today's tragedy is the deadliest balloon crash inside the united states in more than 50 years. federal officials are preparing a full-scale investigation. >> rudy kosky from affiliate ktcb austin joins us live from the scene in lockhart, texas. what can you tell us? >> good afternoon, everyone. the scene is still being processed. we're about 30 miles south of austin and about an hour ago a federal special response team arrived to start processing the scene that you see directly behind me. an exact cause has not yet been determined. but we spoke to several witnesses who tell us they believe that power lines that you see directly behind me were involved. >> this scene is next to high voltage power lines just west of lockhart. margaret wiley who lives nearby says she heard the balloon make contact and then crash. >> i heard one pop before i

stepped out the door. then i heard another pop, and i'm looking around to see who's shooting because it sounded like a gun going off. and then i looked off over there, and the next thing i knew you saw a big fireball go up. and it was just -- just praying that whoever was there got away from the thing in time. >> investigators believe 16 people were on board at the time. there were no survivors. >> to the families that may be watching us right now, we offer our thoughts and prayers to all of them for the loss. and this will be a difficult site for us to work through. >> according to officials with the ntsb, the balloon was operated by a company called heart of texas hot air balloon rides. a man who was in a chase vehicle told fox 7 that the ride had just started when they lost contact with the balloon around 7:20. about the time that they found their friends, emergency crews were already here on the scene. local residents say this part of the county is very popular for ballooning. >> i live so close. i just wanted to see how far and

how quick. because they park behind my house before. they've come down behind my house before. and i was wondering, man, this could have happened right behind my house. >> you're looking live again at the scene as the investigators are processing it. i'm told that the actual area of impact is a very small impact area that they're working at right now. but the bodies have not been removed. the bodies have not been processed yet by the medical examiner here in texas. there's been some concern with regards to regulations for hot air ballooning in texas that the regulations are not tough enough and that without tougher regulations accidents like this could indeed happen. the power company that serves this area, i contacted a spokesperson. they told me they did not lose any power to this area but circuits did pop and they had to reroute some things. but power continues to flow and the power lines directly behind me are still hot. back to you in the studio. >> very sad and tragic situation in lockhart, texas. rudy, thank you for that. meanwhile, donald trump spending the day in his home

city of new york. the republican presidential nominee scheduled to campaign in pennsylvania on monday. in a state that could prove crucial for his electoral hopes. this as he also responded to the barrage of attacks on him at the democratic convention. brian yennis is live at trump tower here in new york city with the latest. hi, brian. >> reporter: hi, patti ann. donald trump may not be on the campaign trail but he has found a way to make news today responding for the first time to what was widely considered one of the best and most effectsive speeches at this week's democratic national convention, which served as a searing repudiation of trump's call to ban muslims from entering the country. remember, kazzir khan, self-described patriotic american muslim and a gold star father to army captain himayun khan killed by a suicide bomber in iraq in 2004. during that speech, his wife stood alongside khan some somberly throughout the speech

as khan pulled out a pocket-sized constitution and held it in the air offering to lend it to trump, accusing him of never having read the constitution. he noted his son a muslim american would have never been able to serve in trump's america. he then said of trump "you have sacrificed nothing and no one." trump responded for the first time in an interview with abc this week today saying that he has indeed made sacrifices. >> who wrote that? did hillary's script writers write it? i think i made a lot of sacrifices. i work very, very hard. i've created thousands and thousands of jobs. tens of thousands of jobs. >> trump said that because of those jobs people got an education. he also mentioned that he helped build a vietnam memorial here in man hat than. he called khan a nice guy and then had this to say about his muslim -- khan's muslim american wife. >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there. she had nothing to say. she probably -- maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. you tell me. but plenty of people have

written that. >> reporter: meanwhile, trump on twitter today saying that the three upcoming presidential debates are rigged against him. tweeting "as usual, hillary and the dems are trying to rig the debates. two are up against major nfl games. same as last time with bernie. unacceptable." remember bernie sanders had complained during the democratic primary that the debates were put on obscure weekends so that people wouldn't see them. the problem with what trump tweeted is that the debate schedule was done by a nonpartisan commission on presidential debates, and this debate schedule was set back in september 2015. now you have critics of donald trump speculating whether this is just trump trying to get at the debates that could favor clinton. patti ann? >> brian yennes, live in new york for us. thank you. with the political conventions now in the books, which candidate made the best appeal to voters across party lines? a fair and balanced debate coming up.

>> just ask yourself. do you really think donald trump has the temperament to be commander in chief? >> this is the legacy of hillary clinton. death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.

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. the general election is just 100 days away. both candidates are reaching out to voters across party lines. but in one of the most divisive presidential campaigns in modern history, hillary clinton and donald trump have their work cut out for them. >> and you heard -- you heard from republicans and independents who are supporting our campaign. i will be a president for democrats, republicans, independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don't. for all americans together! >> millions of democrats will join our movement because we are going to fix the system so it works fairly and justly for each and every american! >> all right. tammy bruce is a radio talk show

host. allen colmes host of the allen combs show on fox news radio. both of them are fox news contributors. thank you both for joining us. >> hi, p hi, patti ann. >> they had two goals shore up their bases, both unpopular with their bases. the others obviously to reach across party lines grab some of those moderates. allen which goal do you think was more important to them and did they achieve it? >> i don't think the republicans achieved it. even today you've got donald trump going after khazir khan, the muslim dad on this fallen soldier. going after his wife and saying she probably can't talk. that's why she was so silent. and i sacrifice, too. that's not exactly reaching out to veterans, to soldiers, to muslims. he's doing the opposite of what he needs to do. if he just wants to appeal to basically a white crowd and not reach out and you saw much more outreach at the democratic convention. you saw certainly among the speeches, if you look at the people who were speaking, you look at the message, the inclusiveness. it's not even a contest here.

>> tammy. >> i think in answering your original question is that donald trump, his persona, it's baked in that he responds and that the american people across the board respond to him. a new harris poll has 82% of americans believing that the establishment doesn't care about them. so if they're looking at somebody who's going to bring something different, who's going to be good in the top two issue, the economy and terrorism it's donald trump. let me just say that when it comes to alienating the american people, burning the american flag at the dnc. >> that's not hillary clinton. >> just a minute, though. it is the nature of the people who are attracted to that message. americans are tired of the divisions. allen -- >> my division? >> of the divisions that are perpetrated, including your opening remarks. we want finally to get things done. we're tired of -- mr. trump has responded -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> your argument about people attracted to the message. neona

to donald trump. >> we're talking about the convention. >> you said who's attracted to the message. >> the "l.a. times" had an opinion piece echoed many that we're seeing that the two political parties have never been further apart, the country has never been more divided. do you agree with that? >> i agree with that largely because of donald trump's divisive nature. he's run an insult campaign. he's insulted veterans, the disabled, hispanics. you go down the list. that's why the country's divided. the division is coming from the person who is the standard bearer of the republican party which is why many republicans we just saw in the clip that you just played are actually supporting like brent scowcroft supporting clinton. >> donald trump showed up a year ago. the number i just said to you, the american people are united. they're united in being sick of what's been going on for the last eight years. obama said that he was going to pass the torch to hillary. if you want more of what we've had for eight years, vote for hillary. 82% of the american people do not like the direction of the country, feel that they've been

alienated. and that is not because donald trump showed up a year ago. he embodies the nature of the change that the american people want. and regardless of what party you're in, this is why he's being responded to by independents. bret baier said at the convention, independent union members were voting for him despite the union's endorsing hillary. that tells you -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> tammy bruce, allen colmes, always a pleasure. kelli? >> thank you. from the world of politics to the age of aquarius, the fifth dimension celebrating 50 years of being in show business. due to major back surgery marilyn mclemore was forced to retire lately. all of them get along as close friends. lamont recently celebrated his mother's birthday who turned, get this, 102 years old. lamont still thinks -- thanks

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this right now, i'm totally totally blessed. >> lamont recalls growing up in st. louis, living in poverty and having little hope of making life better. but he had a dream. >> i was born in a garage, and my bed was a dresser drawer. we used to pull it out and put blankets in. my brother -- i had one brother and two sisters. and my father just said hey, i can't hang no more. left a note and just ran off. i had personal dreams, my own, just dreams, no hope. i told my grandmother, i said, look at these travel magazines. and i wish i could go to all these places, rome, italy, russia and everything. i said, but i know i'll never get a chance to go. she said, you know what? stand up. i stood up. she said, now take a step. i took a step. said now what? said now you're one step closer. >> lamont followed his grandmother's advice, believing the first step is the beginning ofr dreams. after graduating high school, he

joined the navy. >> i can say for kids that don't really know where or what to do, join the service. because the service actually saved my life. >> in the navy, lamont served as an aviation photographer. his photography skills stemming from his childhood when his mother gave him his first camera. after the navy, he began working as a children's photographer, ultimately landing jobs at jet magazine and motown records. >> stevie wonder's first album cover, the supremes, temptations, everybody. >> photograph yes, lamont explains, actually opened the door for him to start the fifth dimension. he met marilyn mccoo and florence larue after taking pictures of them in a beauty pageant. he then recruited two of his high school friends from st. louis. ron townsend and billy davis. >> we had a lot of problems in the beginning because people said, a black group with a white sound. i said, a white sound? the sound is our sound. how can you color a sound?

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people. you can always join the service. >> that's great. as always, kelly, thank you. well, continuing coverage of that deadly hot air balloon crash in texas coming up. how governor greg abbott is reacting to the tragedy. plus the democrats grappling with repeated cyber attacks. we'll tell you about the latest breach and what it could mean for national security. the right things working together can give you an advantage. like trubiotics with immune support advantage. its unique formula supports immune health in two ways. with probiotics that work in your gut. and antioxidants that work throughout your body. trubiotics from one a day. grain free pet food committed to truth on the label.l when we say real meat is the first ingredient, it is number one. and we leave out corn, wheat and soy. for your pet, we go beyond.

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the fbi investigating a cyber attack against the computer system used by the clinton campaign. a clinton spokesperson calling the breach part of a larger attack affecting the democratic national committee. a federal official says russia's intelligence service appears to be responsible for this. joining us now is general jack keene, retired four star general, chairman at the institute for the study of war and fox news military analyst. general good of you to join us today to shed some of your perspectives on what's going on with these cyber attacks. let me read to you quickly a statement they have here from the fbi. the statement goes on to say it did not mention the clinton campaign specifically, but it went on to say "on cyber intrusions involving multiple political entities and is working to determine the accuracy, nature and scope of these matters." that could be a very broad statement about the nature of cyber warfare that we're now seeing, general. >> yes. well, i think it's pretty much

established now, given the intelligence sources who are telling us that the russians are behind this, two private cyber security companies, very credible, that did autopsies on this and have come to the same conclusion that the russians have penetrated as you said the dnc, the clinton campaign, and also the democratic congressional committee. they've used the fsb initially and also the gru, which is their russian military intelligence to do this. and this is part of a pattern. the russians are very aggressive. we've got the world's number one cyber offensive capability, but russians are number two. even though the chinese are more prolific. the russians really have a great capability. and they have penetrated the white house's unclassified network, the state department, the chairman of joint steefs of staff. >> the irs. >> think tanks, yes. so they are very aggressive in doing this. and the other facts our viewers

should understand, the united states government and other governments routinely conduct cyber espionage to gather political intelligence, which is what this can be. what is different here -- we do it, by the way, of adversary governments and we also do it, let's be honest here, of friendly governments. what is unusual here is that these e-mails to gather intelligence, that's coection, but they distributed those e-mails. and you can only speculate the e-mails are being distributed so the american public can consume them. is that so that the russians are trying to influence a political outcome in an american election? is that what they're trying to do? that's only speculation. >> general, what are you concerns about all of this when you look at what they're doing in terms of the dnc? it's quite possibly they could also be some future date even trying to intrude upon the republicans as well. but the bottom line here, how does this affect national

security? >> well, i think if they're trying to influence an election, certainly, they have the skill sets to do that. there is a pattern here that our viewers may not know, that they have done this in many of the eastern european elections. british intelligence has reported out through sources that the russians were trying to influence the british withdrawal from the e.u. because it would be to their political and national security advantage to have the british out of the e.u., who advocated the sanctions. so if you take that pattern together, there seems to be some logic that maybe the russians are trying to influence a political outcome here in the united states. i don't think it will happen, frankly, and i don't think the release of the e-mails in of themselves would be that damaging. the american people are going to pretty much make up their mind on the basis of who these candidates are and their

qualities and certainly what policies they have. >> general, tell me why they would want to do that to begin with. why would they want to influence the outcome of our election and perhaps swing the balance either way? >> well, i think they would -- in eastern europe, clearly, they favored one party over another because they thought relationships would be better and it would be to their advantage. i already stated why in the e.u. if they were trying to influence this election, it would be that they believe one party over the other would be in their national interests in terms of having a relationship that they believe would be better based on that political party. that happens any election that's conducted in the united states. all of our friendly countries and all of our adversarial countries form opinions about which candidate running for offers they would rather be working with in the future. i mean, that's obvious. the fact that they're doing something grefr about it is different. what's your advice to those

operating the clinton campaign, for that matter those operating the trump campaign in terms of safeguarding their cyber security? >> well, listen. we got to be also honest here. all finance and banking system, our utility system, our transportation both air and ground systems in this country are not secure. and it doesn't surprise me in the least that the russians could penetrate a political organization in this country. we have got a long way to go before we have really bona fide signer defensive security. >> general jack keene, thank you for sharing some insights into that. thank you, sir. have a good day. >> good talking to you, kelly. >> all right. hillary clinton sitting down to talk to our own chris wallace tomorrow on "fox news sunday." it is something you have to watch. it will be mrs. clinton's first interview since the democratic national convention. it's also her first appearance

on" fox news sunday" in almost five years. so don't miss this exclusive interview with hillary clinton. you can check your local listings for the channel and the time in your area. a fox extreme weather alert. cleanup is under way after heavy rain caused flooding in parts of the new york city area. it may not be over. more rain is expected this weekend across the region. senior meteorologist is live in the fox weather center. >> we're going to be dealing with more flooding issues across the northeast. last week in pennsylvania and philadelphia we had so much rainfall, and unfortunately we have a slow-moving system across the ohio river valley that's going to bring more heavy rain to the mid-atlantic and the northeast. so let's track it. there's our future radar. a slow lumbering system. a lot of tropical moisture being pulled up here. and the potential for several inches of rainfall in the next couple of days. there's the radar estimated

precipitation over the past week. so in some cases, isolated amounts of 3 to 4, even 6 inches of rainfall. and let's take a look at the next couple of days as we head into sunday and monday and tuesday as this slow system moves in yes, more rainfall in and around pennsylvania, new york, also new jersey, in towards the mid-atlantic region as well. so watching this carefully we're going see flood watches and warnings posted. the past 24 hours shows you all of that moisture moving in. and then into the west where we're dealing with the wildfires. 28 of them so far right now. 26, rather, and large fires being deemed 100 acres or more. and look at this, the west is just burning here. the drought continues to be extreme, to exceptional, especially across portions of california. and we're not getting the moisture that we really need. a little bit in there because it's monsoon season across the southwest. but it's so dry here that any moisture sometimes evaporates before it hits the ground. and you've got the lightning

that could spark more wildfire danger. a quick look at your temperatures. we got a cooler system moving into the northwest. otherwise it's going to remain summertime over much of the country. there's a quick look at august through october. the temperature outlook looks like above average across the west, across the southeast, even towards the northeast. and then in terms of precipitation just not getting the moisture that we really need in areas that we need it the most across the west. so we'll continue to keep you up-to-date. patti ann, back to you. >> janice dean in the extreme weather center, thank you. >> of course. all right. historic, a historic visit to poland for pope francis taking an emotional trip to the nazi death camp at auschwitz and celebrated mass today with hundreds of faithful in krakow. it's a message of service coming up next. and vice presidential nominee mike pence contradicting his own running mate in a radio interview. tell you what the governor is saying about name calling in

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a quick check of the headlines. three people are dead and one injured after a shooting near seattle. police say gunfire broke out at a home. a suspect is in custody. judge sentences former illinois cop drew peterson to 40 years in prison for a murder for hire plot. peterson is already serving 38 years for the kilting of his third wife. he was convicted in may of trying to hire a hitman to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars in that case. and pope francis celebrating mass today in poland. the pope continuing his historic visit to the country for world youth day. the pontiff encouraging catholic priests and nuns to leave their comfort zones. this is pope francis's first visit to eastern europe, included yesterday's stop at the site of auschwitz, the nazi concentration camp.

let's get back to the campaign trail. republican vice presidential nominee mike pence chris sizing president obama for using the term demagogue in a veiled jab at donald trump during the president's primetime convention address on wednesday. in an interview with conservative radio host hugh hue wit, trump's running mate said "i don't think name calling has any place in public life, and i thought that was unfortunate that the president of the united states would use a term like that, let alone laced into a sentence like that." now, joining me now is sarah westwood. an investigative reporter with the washington examiner. sarah, what do you make of mike pence's statement? >> well, it's perfectly consistent with pence's own background. he has long been against campaigning negatively. we saw that in his gubernatorial campaigns in indiana. obviously it rubs against what donald trump has been using as

his campaign rhetoric a little bit because as you saw throughout the republican primary he's very fond of name calling, especially some people within his own party. but this is the kind of yin and yang that donald trump was looking for when he picked mike pence. he was looking for someone who's much more milder in his rhetoric, who's not going to be the same sort of bombastic figure as donald trump is. he's looking for that balance. and that's what pence is bringing to the ticket. >> is it really balanced that he would reach out and call out the president of the united states when as you've just said donald trump, who's working right there alongside of him, is using a lot of rhetoric that would be name calling of people that he's come in contact with that he doesn't like or have opposed him? >> well, this is another instance of donald trump sort of not communicating with the people that are around him. and we saw this in particular with the fallout from melania trump's speech plagiarism. some of his aides and people are the from the rnc were left to

twist in the wind. they went out and said this was just a result of coincidence. the next day trump comes out with a letter from one of his aides that admitted to the mapl. maybe pence and trump aren't quite in sync as you might see if this was a more professionally run campaign. >> as you know, mike pence is probably trying to hold back from doing a lot of name calling. that's not his style. it hasn't been. but at the same time, one would sit back and look at it from the outside and find it or perhaps say is it being a little bit hypocritical in calling out one person attacking donald trump and not calling out his own running mate who's attacking others. >> well, it looks like the distinction pence was trying to make here was that there's a difference between the rough and tumble rhetoric of the campaign trail and what a sitting president says to the american people. and president obama, he's sort of opening himself up to that criticism more because he's going to be more involved in the campaign this year than sitting presidents have been in the

past. like for instance, how bush was not this involved for john mccain. >> so in your opinion, mike pence is say together president of the united states, tone it down. tone down the rhetoric. if you're going to be the campaigner in chief, don't get into name call. >> right. that's the distinction he was trying to make. but obviously as you mentioned it does seem a little odd to the observer who's just taking a quick look at this, because donald trump has made name calling sort of a central piece of his campaign. >> have you ever seen a campaign like this one? there's no way to predict the outcome of this. favorable ratings on both candidates. they're so high. >> oh, yeah. absolutely. i'm done making predictions because i think anyone who's made a hard and fast prediction has been proven wrong at some point in this campaign. >> hold onto your seats. sarah westwood, thank you. >> thank you. do you ever take dietary supplements? there's an alarming new study about them. a doctor will talk about how those supplements could potentially harm you and what

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welcome back. with less than a week to go until the olympics defending gold medicinalizes bob and mike

ryan say they will not travel to rio to participate in the men's dennis doubles 14 u.s.a. the brothers calling it the toughest decisions of their careers but saying as husbands and fathers the health of their families is the number one priority. a number of athletes are skipping this year's games because of zika and other concerns. it would have been the brothers fourth olympics. a new study finds some dietary supplements could harm you. they are categoryized as foods or n so they're not subject to the same regulations. what exactly is the danger here? >> first of all we need to understand that these supplements that we're using they do not have to show their

safe or effective to be used. that's different than when you get fda approval for a pharmaceutical or prescription drug. >> there are doctors that are recommending these for patients and then there are tragic deaths as a result is this the tragic death you're talking about was an eight day old and they were using a probiotic to prevent a deadly intestinal infection. that's what many consumers want. they want a benefit to fend off diabetes or to lose weight but they are not aware of some of the bad effects they can have. >> people are bombarded by commercials and e-mail links saying take this because it's a great dietary supplement, it will help you loss weight, all these great things, but yet as you stated the fda doesn't approve of these particular supplements. so why is it not regulated more?

>> that goes back to 1994 there was an act put into place that they will not be at the same regulations but this does not mean as consumers we can't have a role in what we do. before you take a supplement it's important to do your research and consumer reports has put out 15 ingredients you should avoid. so i recommend always doing your research. whenever you're looking that helps you lose weight, makes you stronger or enhances sexual performance, those are some of the ones that have the highest side effects so i caution against that. before taking that talk to your pharmacist, talk to your physician because they may know some of the interactions that can happen with other medicat n medications you can take. imagine you're taking a heart medication and the supplement you're taking to help you lose weight can offset that benefit. >> one of the issues here is that doctors in some cases are prescribing if you want to call it that, these supplements.

does the medical community have to get more educated before they recommend use a probiotic? >> right. there are doctors we like to look at the science. in this situation this is why we need to scrutinize this. the doctors are doing this for a purpose. they want to prevent this deadly type of infection in this child so as a result they prescribed this. that's why we need to understand regulations are in effect to protect consumers. >> give us the best advice for people using supplements or want to get healthy and stay healthy. >> do your research. make sure you talk to your pharmacist. make sure you talk to your physician. just because there's a label or seal on there that says it's certified it does not mean it's safe or effective. it means that the ingredients listed on there may be accurate and the amounts they state are accurate and they do not contain harmful contents such as led. >> in some cases not all the

ingredients are listed. >> exactly. while no one likes to talk about regulations but when it comes to heal health and safety it's important. this is not an isolated case with this 8 day old. the food & drug administration and the centers for disease control show that every year 23,000 people go to the emergency room for complications from supplements, mainly on their heart. thank you. >> use your brain. >> exactly. >> thanks for joining us. a brand new hour from america's election headquarters is coming up next.

the 2016 race kicking into high gear with both conventions now wrapped up. hillary clinton and running mate tim kaine barn storming across pennsylvania on their bus tour rallying for that crucial rust belt vote, a state that donald trump thinks he has a shot at. hello and welcome to inside america's news headquarters. >> this of course coming amid more e-mail problems they say for mrs. clinton with new reports today that her campaign's computer system was hacked. jennifer griffin is traveling wi