principles. if i see and hear things i think are wrong, i won't sit by and say nothing. >> coming up, the candidate who's challenging paul ryan and backing trump, paul neilan. and trump's disastrous week has supercharged hillary clinton's pos post-come vengs bu post-convention pump in the polls. >> so far as i know it had nothing to do with any kind of hostage swap or any other tit for tat, it was something that was intended to, as i'm told, pay back iran for contracts that were canceled when the shah fell. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. after a week of bad headlines, is the donald trump campaign in

healthdown. several high-level republican sources tell nbc news they are pushing for an "intervention" to try to get the campaign back on track before it's too late but trump says things have never been better. >> it's never been so well united. we started on june 16 i would say right now it's the best in temples of being united that it's been since we began. >> a new setback for trump today. new polling showing a significant hillary clinton post-convention bump. a new fox news poll giving clinton a 10-point edge over trump nationally and she's expanding her lead in key battleground states. joining me, katy tur in portland, maine, where donald trump is holding a town hall. first of all, there's a reason for maine. maine, like nebraska has that purl electoral college rule where the congressional districts do the elections. they can pick up electoral

votes. both campaigns are doing that, nebraska and maine but in any case the trump campaign, donald trump sounding not just defiant but confident today, is that the tone? is that what you're getting? >> that is what the campaign is trying to portray, this idea of an intervention is something the campaign is pushing forcefully back against saying donald trump doesn't need that. that he was portraying himself as the outsider candidate and for him to have to endorse paul ryan is not something that should be expected because he doesn't need the establishment. as you can see he draws big crowds wherever he goes, they're chanting "trump, trump, trump, trump," so the campaign feels like they are doing okay and when you look at that polling in battleground states, you realize that despite the fact they draw these giant crowds, they are not doing so well. especially in the states that they need to win over. pennsylvania being a key state. to see him down that much in a

poll in august has certainly got to be disconcerting but as you heard this morning, paul manafort tried to brush it off by saying that it's early, it's a post-convention bounce for hillary clinton and that the polls should even out. >> you have his supporters like rudy giuliani rejecting the idea of any intervention. let's play a little of that. >> i find the word "intervention" completely out of line. >> what was this meeting about? >> there wasn't a meeting. i meet with donald trump all the time, i spent two and a half hours with him. we talk about issues, sometimes we make changes. it's an evolving campaign. he's a new candidate that adds a little bit of more of a learning curve than would normally be the ca case. >> and also a week after that whole khan controversy with the family this is paul manafort

saying there's no need to apologize. >> he's expressed his sympathy, he's expressed his support for what the family is going through. it's the same thing we're caught up in, what's the difference between i support you and i endorse you? we quibble over words but the sentiments are there and the sentiments he feels he's expressed. >> katy, i mean, in my recollection what he has said is that captain khan was a hero but he's not said anything at all sympathetic about the khan parents, the gold star parents. >> and that is something resonating with independent voters and voters not entirely sure about donald trump. i spoke with one voter yesterday who i've been following consistently throughout this campaign season who was a pretty fervent supporter of donald trump early on and now says he just doesn't understand why he keeps getting into these fights, that these are unnecessary fights. doesn't understand why he wouldn't show more empathy for the family of a fallen soldier

there are conversations being had behind the scenes from donors, party operatives, those closest to donald trump and his aides urging him to get back on message, to stay away from the unnecessary errors and to focus on hillary clinton, finding a way to attack her. finding a way to forcefully put forward his message. he hasn't been doing that and they're warning him he will lose this election if he doesn't do that. >> katy tur at a lively trump rally about to take place in maine. thank you, katy. a growing number of republicans are refusing to vote for donald trump. my next guest is one of them. joining me now, republican pennsylvania congressman charlie dent. congressman, thank you very much for being with us. as we talk today, there's a new franklin and marshall poll, a battleground state poll showing hillary clinton up 11 points in

pennsylvania. pennsylvania is critical to donald trump's somewhat narrow path to victory through the rest belt. is this -- does this poll reflect what you're hearing in the district? >> thank you for having me on the show. i saw the poll came out, i haven't broken down the cross taps but it's clear to me that these recent comments have not helped donald trump's campaign. that's putting it mildly. i would tell you that hillary clinton probably has a strong advantage in the -- in philadelphia in the collar counties, close to 40% of pennsylvania's population, donald trump has strength in the western part of the state in what we call the upper "t," he is strong there. but the point is that all these incendiary comments. all these unforced errors are hurting the campaign. it seems he's hell bent on losing a very winnable election to a very seriously flawed

candidate in hillary clinton. >> i was on the campaign trail with her through pennsylvania into ohio so she just had the impact of that bus trip. somehow that perceived looking at it from a political expert? >> i don't know, she had the bus trip, i don't know if that did a lot to help her. i think that her bump in the polls is more a reflection of i think donald trump's reaction right now to the khan family's situation. i think that's what's probably driving it right now. this seemingly -- this chaos in the trump campaign is driving her numbers up. that's not why i'm prepared to support donald trump for that and other reasons. and also the comments on foreign policy. on russia and yk, have to walk back the statement that russia won't enter ukraine when they've already annexed crimea and they're in eastern ukraine. these are issues giving

heartburn not only to me but many of my friends in the republican party. you look at the crowning foreign policy achievement of ronald reagan and george h.w. bush was a dismantlement of the former soviet union and to have the republican nominee seem like he's saddling up next to the -- this neo-russian imperialist trying to disrupt the post-cold war order that we led this order after the berlin wall came down, the soviet union collapsed it seems it flies in the face of what many of us as republicans have stood for. >> so what are you going to do? >> what's that? >> what are you going to two? whom are you going to vote? whom are you going to support? >> well, i'm not supporting hillary clinton under any circumstances. i certainly believe that her mishandling of the classified material recklessly and negligently should disqualify her from serving as commander-in-chief and i've

expressed my concerns about donald trump. i might have to write somebody in. secretary robert gates is a fine man. there are plenty of other people but i feel like many americans, very unhappy with the choices of the two major political parties and we'll have to think about this as we move closer. i'm not prepared to endorse our nominee. >> are you going to vote libertarian? would you consider supporting that ticket? >> supporting who? hillary clinton? >> no the libertarian ticket. >> oh, no. >> gary johnson. >> i have a lot of respect for governor weld, he's a good man. i don't know gary johnson. i think that ticket should be reversed actually. gary johnson has made statements, too, something like he wasn't going to smoke dope between now and the election. that's not particularly encouraging or inspiring but i'm not there either. so a lot of my colleagues -- i know my colleague adam kinsinger was on some shows today stating similar things i have that and

my other colleague -- i'm one of the co-chairs of the center right group in congress, the tuesday group myself, bob dole, adam kinsinger and we have all taken the same position right now and we're going to have more conversations about how we deal with this moving forward but we're not prepared to embrace our nominee. >> there has been some reporting there are even people within the party who are talking -- especially after what trump said about paul ryan and upsetting reince priebus who's so close to paul ryan, there's even talk about a scenario where the party would invoke rule nine and try to take back the nomination and come up with another choice. is that complete fantasy? >> well, i don't know if that's possible or not, to be perfectly candid. this is a mystery to me. why would the nominee poke a stick in the face of the speaker. the titular head of the republican party? it makes no sense. paul ryan is going to win his primary by a huge margin, why pick a fight with him? why restart a fight with john

mccain and kelly ayotte, two very important senators to maintaining our majority and why would he pick a fight with him? he talks about unity on the one hand but seems to involve himself in the speaker's primary, also again fighting with john mccain who he previously demeaned his service as a p.o.w. it's inexplicable and incomprehensible. if you're trying to win you wouldn't be saying things like this? >> congressman charlie dent from pennsylvania. pennsylvania is key among the battleground states. next to ohio, probably the most important place so you are a great thermometer of a window into what is going on. there thank you very much, sir, thanks for being with us. >> thank you, andrea. great to be with you. coming up. that proxy war, paul ryan's primary opponent thrown into the middle of the standoff between donald trump and ryan. he's joining me next on "andrea

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donald trump heads to wisconsin tomorrow, the home state, of course, of house speaker paul ryan. after tweeting a shoutout to ryan's challenger in next week's primary, an unprecedented slap in the face of the highest elected republican. on wisconsin radio today, ryan was unphased. >> he's had a pretty strange one since the convention. you would think you ought to be focusing on hillary clinton, on all of her deficiencies. she is such a weak candidate that one would think we'd be on offense against hillary clinton and it is distressing that that's not what we're talking about these days. >> trump continued his war of words with republican leaders when he pointedly used ryan's own words about him to say "i'm

not quite there yet" about endorsing ryan's reelection. today trump's campaign chairman paul manafort tried to smooth things over. >> he's tried to bridge the party together with paul ryan but ryan is running against somebody who is not going to win but nonetheless is a strong supporter of mr. trump's so not just in paul ryan's district, that gets the notoriety because he's the speaker. >> joining me is the man running for congress in wisconsin against house speaker paul ryan. thank you very much for joining us today mr. kneneelan. >> thanks for having me. >> do you have any pause? you just heard charlie dent, the conservative congressman, saying he can not support donald trump because of what trump said about the gold star family and also what he's said about russia and putin and ukraine and trump's lack of knowledge about what putin has done in ukraine and elsewhere. why are you supporting zplump. >> i'm supporting donald trump because donald trump is against

this trade deal, this transpacific partnership, this job-killing treat deal that is going to bring cheap labor into this country that will disproportionately hurt blacks and immigrants already here. and he's also against -- mr. trump is also for securing the border which mr. ryan is agai t against. so this identity politics and dividing the nation and using a muslim gold star family, you know, we all feel terrible that they lost their son and he volunteered to be in the army and so did so many other people but let's get back to paul ryan. paul ryan is the mercenary champion of this transpacific partnership, this absolutely job-killing district-leveling trade deal that gives up u.s. sovereignty, article 27 gives up u.s. sovereignty, it allows foreign corporations to bring

their workers to the united states. that's a terrible trade deal and donald trump is against that trade deal. i'm a business guy. i've done trade all over the globe. i've run fortune 500 businesses so i know trade. paul ryan -- name a time when paul ryan has worked harder for wisconsin or american workers than he's worked for his foreign doerne donors. paul ryan is taking food off american families' table by his polici policies. the reason he has those policies is because the corporations that fund paul ryan want those businesses. >> let me interrupt you. he doesn't have foreign donors, if he did, that would be against the law. >> i didn't say foreign donors, special interest. >> you said foreign donors. >> my mistake. >> why isn't donald trump

talking about them? why is he going off on all the other tangents? why isn't he focused on the economic issues key to the rust belt and wisconsin? >> i think he is focused on all these things. the media -- this is why the american people hate government and they hate the media. it's because we pick the -- this one thing and we'll continue to pick at it when, in fact, we should be talking about this. why are you asking me questions about this? why aren't you asking me questions about the trade deal. >> he kept it up for days and days. he was a candidate. >> you should be asking -- >> i'll decide what i want to ask you. what about the fact that mike pence has endorsed paul ryan? >> they're friends. if i had a friend i knew for 20 or 30 years, do you think i'd endorse somebody who i don't know? he's nott endorsing an open border policy, he's endorsing

his friend. and i give credit for donald trump saying "endorse your friend, i don't have a problem with that." my message hasn't changed from day one. i would run on transpacific partnership alone. paul ryan with the votes to get fast track trade promotion authorities to sell our jobs to foreign countries, he absolutely worked on that. paul ryan owns it, he can't say he doesn't agree with it because when he did that, that contract was already written. it was already set up, that treaty was already set up. >> and are you going to be campaigning with donald trump tomorrow when he's in wisconsin? >> no. i'm not. i'm going to be here in the district. i'm never going to say never that i would not be in green bay. i'm never going to say never. but my intention is to be campaigning in the district and that's absolutely what i've been doing. i've been having the greatest conversations with people at their doors and they are tired of paul ryan's history, 20-year

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donald trump and we are shoulder to shoulder in this campaign. sometimes things don't always come out like you mean, right? and donald trump and i are determined to work together. we have different styles. you might have noticed that. >> mike pence today with an 11-year-old at a rally who questioned donald trump's language. that's a remarkable exchange and it shows mike pence and his ability to relate. trump's running mate doing what he can to right the campaign's ship after a week of bad headlines and party defections. republican congressman adam kinsinger, an iraq and afghanistan war veteran the latest to make the break saying he can not vote for trump after comments about a gold star family. joiningis bill kristol, editor of the "weekly standard," an outspoken critic of donald trump. >> paul ryan, the house speaker, for the speaker of the house who is enormously popular in his district and among republicans

to be opposed or challenges in snarky ways from the republican nominee is quite a first. >> it's -- i think it's something new but trump is corrupting everyone who has supported him and is working with him. i've known mike pence very well when he was a washington congressman, mike and karen are friends, i have a high regard for him. if he had his way it would be a different looking campaign but he can't just say "look, i'm the vice presidential nominee, it would be better for the country if donald trump were president, here's why, policy, poll six policy." instead he feels somehow compelled -- i don't understand this. why does he have to say "i'm proud to stand with donald trump, shoulder to shoulder." he's not proud to stand with donald trump. i'm going to say that as a fact. mike pence goes home at night and thinks "oh my god." >> what did i get into? >> this guy is vulgarizing american politics. the attack on the khan parents is not inappropriate but despicable. i think mike believes that unless he's so rationalized it.

paul ryan, why doesn't paul ryan just say "i'm withdrawing my support of donald trump, i'm staying out of the presidential race"? i think it's important the house have a majority of republicans for the following policy reasons, paul ryan would be better than anyone else in the country in articulating those reasons. why does he feel he has to support trump? that's an honest question, not rhetorical. i understand it's party politics and he's the speaker and his members -- but really at some point doesn't sort of self-respect sort of rear up and you just say to yourself "why am i saying things i don't believe?" paul ryan does not believe donald trump should be the next president of the united states. >> and donald trump has begun to say something about the system being rigged which is something he's picking up from bernie sanders, clearly trying to reach out to those supporters but there is another implication here, i wanted to play some of that. >> i'm afraid the election is going to be rigged. i have to be honest. >> it's a crooked system. it's a rigged system. we're running against a rigged system.

>> now there is an implication there which is to insinuate or inoculate against loss and to then inspire your supporters to not accept the verdict if it is a hillary clinton victory and it reminds me of what happened in 2000 when people praised al gore for after the ruling even though he had won the popular vote for coming out and conceding in a gracious fashion because there could have been a different reaction from the public. >> and richard nixon in 1960 i read about that, too, who could have contest add couple states. >> precisely. >> it's one thing to say the primary process is "rigged" because that is complicated. >> there are cautions, super delegates, et cetera. >> that's a more of a legitimate gr intraparty fight. but when he starts talking about his defeat ahead of time by inventing the notion the whole system is rigged, that's bad for the country and bad for

democracy. but, again, i'm shocked. the "washington post" headline we were talking about it before the show began "gop at new level of panic over trump" then all these republican consultants and office holders, if only he would get his message straight, stay on message. >> pivot. >> pivot, focus on hillary. do these people -- what do they think late at night? do think they donald trump should be president? if not, don't they have some responsibility to say no? it doesn't mean they have to support hillary clinton. there's a libertarian candidate. i think there will be at least minor independent -- libertarian but there could be an independent candidate on some ballots, not a famous person but at least someone. the degree to which people have rationalized continuing to support donald trump while making themselves feel better by giving quotations either on the record or on background or nbc news or the "weekly standard" saying "well, i'm upset about this latest thing, that's kind of bad." has anything changed? 13 months -- that was year ago exactly, he said john mccain, p.o.w., doesn't have any respect

for that, he's a loser, he prefers people who don't get captured. nothing's changed. nothing's changed. there's no new revelation about donald trump. >> let me ask you. what will you do? i asked charlie dent, he said he might write in bob gates. if it's a close election, close electoral vote as we approach election day, what will you do? in that case, a vote -- if you don't vote for hillary clinton it is a vote for donald trump so you can talk about. >> if you're a republican who votes for someone else, you're taking a vote away from donald trump. if i were in the clinton campaign i would want there to be -- speaking hard headedly -- an independent conservative candidate for republicans to feel they can in good conscience vote for. it may be a bridge too far to ask -- some republicans will vote for hillary clinton and they're friends of mine and that's fine. others feel they can't and you would want to give them another place to go. so i hope either the libertarian ticket gets its act together or another independent candidate on the ballot in at least some states and it could be a write in in other states, a

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joining me now, the surgeon general of the united states, thank you very much for being with us doctor. tell us what you plan to do about the funding? is there a new appeal? the h.h.s has written a letter asking congress to come back, i'm told they don't need to come back, they can just voice something pro forma but they won't. >> well, you're right, funding is an important part of this effort. zika is a public health interpret our country is facing but we can meet it if our public health agencies have the right resources. right now what is happening is the cdc and the department of health and human services are having to take money from other public health accounts and divert them toward zika. that's not good for other public health causes or a sustainable way to fight the zika virus. >> what about the spraying?

how healthy that, is people are told stay indoors after you hear the planes. what about the health effects for people who are immune logically challenged -- the elderly, the young. >> what we know is there are a number of mosquito control measures that we have to take to address zika, these mosquitos aren't easy to kill so we've been advising everyone to use mosquito repellent. it's also why insecticides is an important part of that strategy. aerial spraying has been used a number of times before in the united states, as recently as last year, in fact, in florida. this is something that is studied, that we understand the health impact of it and i believe that that it's

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and that's why it's important to bring more resources. >> and what about your concerns beyond florida? what likelihood is it that it will spread beyond florida? >> we've been concerned for many months that we would see local transmission of zika in the continental united states and we're worried about that. we've seen many cases in florida. we've had to issue travel guidance to pregnant women for a section of florida that's just north of downtown miami. it's important we take steps to reduce the mosquito population and that's also why it's important individuals take steps to protect themselves including staying in air conditioned spaces, wearing long sleeves and pants and getting rid of stagnant water because these mosquitos can breed in an area

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ann gearan and karen tim multi. chris, the battleground states, it's early, we're in august and there's time and the conventions were early. but this is not a good trend line for trump. >> no, the question here for donald trump is is this a convention bounce that hillary clinton is enjoying that will wear off and the race will move back to low single digits in a lot of these places or this lasting in some way and even if it fades slightly and it's a seven, eight point race in new hampshire, how problematic is that for him? remember, this isn't just about the two conventions, andrea, this is about the last six days donald trump has had which are -- i hesitate to say this because you never know but among the six worst days of -- i can imagine any candidate having so i think it's the convention bounce compounded with what he's done and not done in this last few weeks that we see where he is in polling.

>> and karen timilty, you've spent a lot of times covering republicans as well as democrats what are you hearing from inside trump world and the republican larger world? >> well, inside trump world you don't hear a lot because basically trump world consists of trump. there's a panic setting in among republicans not just because of the top of the ticket but look at those new hampshire numbers. those are bad for kelly ayotte, who is senator kelly ayotte running for reelection. she has an even bigger deficit. i talked to one republican political consultant yesterday who does races around the country and he says the first question for every single candidate is how do you deal with donald trump? how do you distance yourself where you need to without alienating his supporters. >> ann gearan, this iran situation was such an unforced

error for this administration. they came out on camera, the president, january 17, they never explained that this other money was going -- $400 million. it's unrelated to the nuclear deal. why do it on the same day? >> it's a mystery why exactly -- they didn't need to do it that day, there was nothing in particular forcing their hand that we know of to do it that day. but also why hide the ball at all? they could have been up front at the beginning in describing the hole, the entirety of the money that was going to go to the iranians and how it was going to happen. there's nothing objectively wrong with the way this deal was structured financially when laid out has a reason, you can disagree, as many republicans do, with the theory of the case that any of it should have been paid at all but the way it was structured is financially fine. why not just lay it out there rather than waiting for the "wall street journal" to find it

and then having it look like they were hiding it all along. >> and, in fact, hillary clinton responding to it at a denver nbc affiliate kusa interview yesterday. >> so far as i know it had nothing to do with any kind of hostage swap or any other tit for tat. it was something that was intended to as i am told pay back iran for contracts that were canceled when the shah fell. >> and i interviewed jim jeffrey, the former ambassador, he said he doesn't have a problem with the deal but the impression of the sigh mull tin nayty gives iran the opportunity to say "we saw it as a sign of paying ransom." and you don't pay ransom for prisoners, people who have been detained for hostages, that has been a policy of this

administration. they don't pay for americans held by isis. it's consistent policy but the practical effect is our hostages have been executed and the europeans who do pay ransom have gotten out. >> the subsequent "wall street journal" report which is that it was also a concern to the justice department that the timing of this was just too -- too coincident al and it gave iran a talking point which i think that more than anything is the real problem here for the administration politically. the optics are horrible. >> now, as the economic issues are front and center at the same time, chris cillizza, hillary clinton we -- two days ago i guess we reported exclusively this expanded map of where isis is and it was a cynthia mcfadden report on "nightly news" showing how isis has spread in the last couple of years. now libya being hit with american air strikes, the president going to the pentagon today.

this is an area where hillary clinton arguably could be vulnerable. she was very aggressive in pushing for the military action against libya and there was by the president's own acknowledgment now a failure of follow-up. >> and if you say "look at my record and compare that to my opponent's record" which is what she is doing in this campaign, you have to own that record for good and bad. if you look at this campaign andr andrea, you would think hillary clinton would be ahead by 25 points just because donald trump has done so many things to hamstring himself is. self-inflicted wounds. talk about the supreme court. talk about foreign policy. he does some of this. he says, you ow, the world's a mess and it's on obama and clinton. that's not a bad message. the question is can he stick to the message? i tend to believe the donald trump that we have seen for this past 15 months is the donald trump that you get. that there's not suddenly going to be a more disciplined pivot happening. there's zero evidence that

that's the case and i think more is the pity for republicans in that situation because this is a race on the dynamics of it, whether that's the economy, whether it's foreign policy, whether it's hillary clinton's own image problems is winnable for the republican party without a question. >> chris cillizza, anne gearan, karen tumulty, thank you all so much. kick start, women's soccer wrapping up their first olympic win and the u.s. men's basketball team have yet to compete but they are having a lot of fun off the court as seen in this video of the nba stars singing on their way to the olympics and not all the players are very happy about it. ♪ and i need you, and i miss you ♪ and now i wonder >> look at k. d.! ♪ if i could fall into the sky ♪ >> the new york knicks carmelo anthony apologizing saying he's not a morning person. more from rio coming up.

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that's the music of the olympic games under way in rio de janeiro. the u.s. women's soccer team beat new zealand 2-0 yesterday. a great start for team usa. still, a lot of concerns in rio from security to zika. just a day before the opening ceremony and our own ron mott is there joining me now. ron, great to see you there. first of all, the preparations and also there were a number of tweets and some booing for hope solo because of the zika mask and the sprays she displayed online before she got down there. local reaction, presumably, against the defensiveness and the protections by the u.s. women's soccer team. >> yeah and i guess, andrea, the booing was some people perhaps were offended by what that image might have said to the world

about brazil and whether this country is infected with these mosquitos. we've been here, some of us, for a week already. i have not seen a single mosquito yet but that does not mean we're not taking precaution, obviously. but back to the match yesterday and obviously hope got booed every time she touched the ball which was a lot considering she is the goaltender but it was a great match for the u.s. women. they're going for their fourth gold in a row and one distinction that they're working to achieve here at these games in that if they can win gold here in roe owe they will be the first women's team to win the world cup one year and then the very next year win olympic gold. that's never been done before. they are the favorite, obviously, the number-one seed in the world so the high expectations for the women's team. obviously unfortunately the men are not here in rio but the zika thing, we believe that may be over now that the folks in the crowd got their sort of frustrations out at hope solo because of her social media posts. >> and let me ask you about that yacht. the basketball yacht, the nba players don't seem to be staying

in the olympic village. are you hanging out on the yacht with them? >> well, i wish. i'm waiting on my invitation so i'm checking the mail everyday at my hotel. they're not staying at the athletes village for a number of reasons. we're dealing with multimillion dollar athletic properties, if you will, brands, these basketball stars so they have decided to just stay, along with the women's team, at the -- in the port on this big cruise ship and some of the rooms have been outfitted with beds that can accommodate 6'10", seven-foot frames and so they have to go through that one gangway all the way to the boat everyday. i'm assuming they have to go through a lot of security to get there. i'm assuming the process of getting in and out of there is a little bit annoying for the athletes but once they're on board i hear it's pretty decked out and pretty mice compared to the athletes village which has had sporadic problems here and there. >> while you wait for your invitation, i wanted to ask you

about a really heart-warming new team, the refugee olympic team, first time, and the flag bearer has been announced. can you tell us? >> yes, the 800 meter runner from south sudan will be the flag bearer at the opening ceremonies tomorrow. it is a great story. this is a special story because these people have dealt with some of the worst things in the world. she's 23 years old and she will be along that parade of folks representing various countries and groups, michael phelps as you know representing the united states tomorrow with a very cool jacket, by the way. so this is going to be a big day tomorrow to start these events which have begun as we mentioned with the soccer. there's soccer again today but everyone's taking extra notice about tomorrow and looking

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ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. that does it for us. follow us @mitchellreports. follow the show on facebook and twitter. chris jansing picks it up next right here on msnbc. >> thank you so much. can donald trump survive the heat of august? two hours from now he hits the stage in portland, maine, with doubts, defectors and also defenders inside his own party. his campaign today trying to push back on new battleground poll numbers in michigan, pennsylvania, new hampshire, all with one clear message -- clinton is winning and winning big. one big reason? check out these new numbers from fox news by 50 points 69% to 19% voters say trump's comments about the gold star military family he criticized were out of bounds. >> the drop in poll numbers were ex