have leaving. and will. the girls were perfect and will did not screw up. thank you. that does it for us. have a wonderful weekend everybody. i'm off to get some of that maine lobster. >> they caught a blue one yesterday. >> okay. stephanie picks up the coverage. i'm not going back to college. i'm right here with you for the next hour. i'm stephanie. we have a lot of news this morning. donald trump relentlessly pushed his controversial attack on president obama. >> i meant exactly that. he is the founder of isis. she the most valuable player. >> but you won't believe the 180 he pulled on it hours ago. and breaking overnight, air scare, a yet blue flight, nearly two dozen people injured. >> everybody started screaming and flew up in the air.

it was like dropping from 50 floors in an elevator. >> one woman carried away in a stretcher. we'll hear from those on board. ♪ >> you're the best around, you know we are talking michael phelps smashing an olympic record more than 2,000 years old while the women of gymnastics winning gold and silver and more history until pool, the first african american female swimmer to take gold. we are live after the biggest most epic olympic night. you know what we have got to start with, donald trump backtracking saying he was being sarcastic when he called president obama the founder of isis despite the fact that he repeated the claim at ever rally

he held yesterday and passed on multiple opportunity to explain what he meant. take a look. >> it is getting stronger. it is getting bigger. >> he is the founder of isis. he is the most valuable player. our government unleashed isis. i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. these are the founders of isis. these are the founders of isis because of bad judgment. >> i know what you meant -- >> no. i meant he is the founder of isis. >> we have both campaigns covered. i want to start with katy tur. you i love that you're with me and you have life what it's like on the campaign. time and again he said founders, founders, cofounders. how is he saying it is sarcasm

now? >> i asked him if he was sure he understood what he was saying he said yes, didn't give me any pause. this time it's a little more glaring because he went and said that at least ten times yesterday repeatedly saying he did believe that president obama was the quote founder of isis. >> or is it our fault ? he pout out a tweet. >> he said basically the pun dants said they are challenged and cnn reports so seriously. i love watching these poor people to trying to figure me out. they can't. he is somebody who has not had

to, you know, quibble with facts. facts haven't been able to hold him down. some could call them lies even when he has been called out on them. they said he gave basically the lie of the year last year and it has been ongoing since this year began. when it comes to him saying things that are outrageous like claiming that the president of the united states is a founder of a terrorist organization, he has been able to get away with it in some ways. that is because his supporters believe in him rather than him as a politician. >> or they don't believe in hillary clinton. >> there's that too. >> there's that too. >> thank you so much. >> all right. we have to talk hillary clinton. along with her running mate tim kaine they are expected to release a batch of their tax

returns. it turns up the heat on donald trump. we are cover ing the clinton campaign. what do we know about this? >> this is about turning up the heat on donald trump. tim kaine will release ten years of his tax returns. last year clinton released ten years of hers. this is about putting pressure on donald trump. look, today the campaign is also out with a new web video which features republicans and conservatives calls on donald trump to release his tax rurn returns. they are essentially saying this is one more element that fits into that. will it be successful in terms of winning some of these working class voters?

it could be. that's what the campaign is really voting for. we'll have to see what donald trump says. he is not releasing those in the the audit finishes. >> she is also on the defensive. any update on the e-mails involving the clintons, their foundation and hillary clinton's role in the state department? >> a little bit of an update on that. they have been on defense all week. it involves e-mails between officials at the state department and aids with the clinton foundation. they raised questions about whether lines were lost. yesterday we heard from the state department. let me read you what they had to say. the department's actions under secretary clinton were taken to advance administration policy as set by the president and in the interest of american foreign policy. they think clinton is an asset.

he will be on the campaign later on today but this of course feeds into questions about secretary clinton's trust worthiness. >> vegas in august. who wouldn't want to be there? breaking overnight, a horrific plight, a jet blue plane that nearly two dozen people were injured. and the boston to sacramento flight, several people were tamen to the hospital. steve patterson is live in l.a. what exactly happened to you? >> good morning. the first thing i'm able to tell you is good news. this is always good. the flight that was diverted in south dakota safely landed moments ago. the people that were able to fly mostly smiles and nervous looks.

this was a bumpy ride that turned into a frightening flight particularly for 22 passengers and two crew members who had to be hospitalized after severe turbulence hit this flight. it was in route from boston to sacramento. it was diverted in rapid city, south dakota. all of the people who were injured were treated for minor injuries and released from the hospital. again, it was extremely scary for those on board. we spoke to some of the passengers. listen to this. >> the lady next to me started flying and the people behind me, he had broke the overhead with his head. >> it hit the seceiling? >> yeah. and the other boy knocked the light out. they hit it pretty hard. i thought we were going down. i was scared. >> i thought we were dying. the crying and the adults are

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welcome back. i can speak again. i seem to have a sore throat. bad news for my husband, i can speak again. i want you to take a listen. >> you mentioned president obama being the founder of isis. what did you mean by that? >> i meant exactly that. he is the founder of isis. he should get the most valuable player award. >> aren't those statements inflammatory? >> i tell the truth. >> he asked if he meant what he said when he called president obama the founder of isis but mr. trump tweeted he was simply being sarcastic. this is one of the few people that have seen trump's tax returns. tim, you know mr. trump quite well. i want to start with you.

>> okay. >> one could argue he was on message. he said it. he said it again and he said it again and again. so how is it to we are to believe he was being sarcastic? >> he said it after he invited russian hackers to look into clinton's e-mails. a day after that he said i am being sarcastic. it is part impartial of donald trump road somehow which is to walk up to a racist comment or a comment about national security or someone's record and then inflame a very charged debate about it and then when people come after him say i was just kidding. you are so really credulous. >> and is this working? for the last 24 hours donald trump has sparked this conversation and we have been discussing president obama and

hillary clinton's policies and their possible ties to the rise of isis. >> i think it's working for hillary clinton, certainly. i don't think it's playing well for donald trump. he need to expand her voter base. he is appealing to people who voted for him in the primaries thinking it can carry him through the general election. he needs to appeal to a number of different groups that he ignored but also alienated. >> and truwe know you have seen trump's taxes. >> i can speak generally but not specifically. >> so clinton want to turn the heat up. we saw buffet challenge him. do you think it could work? >> look, i don't think anything will actually force donald trump to release his tax returns. he doesn't want his tax returns out there. >> help us understand why.

>> the easiest the obviously income. you'll see how robust the trump organization actually is and secondarily you'll see whether or not he is a generous fi-- th real numbers are not as fill an tropic. he has gone after u.s. corporations about operating overseas. we know a lot of the trump organization entities operate offshore. so how much comes from offshore? the tax returns will show what financial and business influence or pressures could come to bear on him. >> of those four is there any specific one you think is the real smoking gun for donald? if it's truly he doesn't make as much money as he said?

>> it's not a bre va doe thing. he said i'm worth $8.7 billion. it magically floated to 10 billion. it is how he gains traction with a voter who thinks that donald trump is their idea of the rich guy! and you wrote an article about identity and race in this political -- in this election. just yesterday at a donald trump lally some came with a confederate flag. the trump team had them remove it, take it down. we heard earlier that donald trump's style could trickle down racism. >> i don't think it's trickle down race uchl. i think it's a faucet of build up of cultural resentment in this country frankly. a lot of under-represented white constituencies feel they have been ignored by the media.

i think frankly they actually have a case. they are misidentifying the people who are actually wronging them. frankly what we are seeing is an exposition of how the republican party exploited this constituency for votes. they think they can manifest out of pure cultural resentment. now they think it's okay to bring in a confederate flag. they think it's okay to shout any kind of nasty racist at a rally. i'm speaking specifically about the voters. they feel like empowered to come to a rally and be public in this sort of ang ri, ugly whiteness. >> angry, ugly, whiteness. do you think donald trump wants to be tied to that? >> he has been asked repeatedly

about kkk support for his campaign, david duke's past statements. he has not gone out of his way to say i disavow. he knows that kind of sentiment is embedded into a certain part of his voter base. >> if more pressure was put on him, if he had no choice than to put the tax returns out, tim, do you think it would be a game ender for him? >> i think the tax returns potentially could raise a number of questions he doesn't want to answer. you know, any time he is put under the gun where tlgs actual oath or paperwork that is contra to the statements he makes in public he usually ends up running in circcircles. >> there you have it. thank you. a string of terror attacks

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welcome back. it's time for your morning primer. we'll start with another donald trump flip-flop. he said he was being sarcastic when he said president obama was the founder of isis.

they will divert $81 million towards developing a zika vaccine. they say without funds the program would run out of money by the end of the month. and more than 20 passengers on a flight from boston to sacramento were forced to make an emergency landing. a three-year-old boy tumbled from a wooden roller coaster. and it's the end of an era for a-rod. he will play his final game tonight in a sold-out showdown. good luck. we have breaking news on the weather front. a very serious situation in louisiana. bill is here with more. >> yeah. when you hear you got about 10 inches of la 10 inches of rain since midnight you cannot drive in or out of some communities. the greensburg population is cut

off. those are where water rescues are ongoing. that's where water is going into homes. this red color is our flash flood watches. in this case it is a flash flood emergency. it is a huge geographical. b it will continue into saturday. locally 10 inches in this same area. this area is getting horrible rainfall here. one river reached its record crest. it goes back to the 1950s. this is a historic flooding event in areas of louisiana. it is louisiana we are mostly concerned with and areas down to the south. the last map is the radar for the region. it continues to pour over the same area just north of baton

rouge and northeast of baton rouge. it almost looks like a tropical storm over louisiana. it is acting like one. we are in a very serious situation. >> thanks. now we'll take you back to the republican revolt. they are going public with party leaders. they want to focus on saving the senate. top g.o.p. officials are meeting with trump's campaign in florida but they say it is simply a routine gathering. here is a former senior foreign policy add size sore, now the cofounder. we have spoken about dump truck movements before during the primary, at the convention. they didn't work. now we are seeing this. is this different? why is this happening? >> the concern now is trump is collapsing. if you look at the clear

politics average of polls he is about seven and a half points down. that is double the difference between obama and mac camccain . it is double from 2012. if you go to some of the other places it is a total collapse. i give credit to the house republicans and senate republicans. they have good candidates running. they are well funded. at some point if trump does so badly, you know, you can't salvage that kind of strength. if the top of the ticket is in bad shape the bottom of the ticket will suffer. >> how important is rnc funding? you worked on romney's campaign in 2012. what would it have done to your campaign? >> i would have done serious damage to it. 1996 bob dole is running. it is clear that dole is not

going to win the presidential. they basically focus all of the rnc money which means operatives, mail, some paid med media. it worked. bob dole lost. i think we have to have the same mind set now. if you have your reasons for hanging onto trump for moerl reasons, i mean he is crude, erratic, dangerous. i mean i did it two nights ago with a friend whose during has autism. he told me that his son asked him if donald trump would make fun of his sister, my friend's daughter the way donald trump mocks the disabled reporter. there are more reasons you're constantly reminded but for purely survival reasons it's in the interest of republican leaders to make sure we don't lose the majority. >> but he is still the g.o.p.

candidate. >> and healthcaillary clinton c have a rocky road ahead. bowl it be wise for the g.o.p. leaders to leave their candidate for dead because the poll numbers don't look good or they think he talks crazy? >> if you're concerned that she could -- the exact scenario. we should work on replacing trump. i'm all for replacing trump. >> you have been all for it since the beginning. >> yes. if you tell me we need a insurance policy, we don't have anyone yet. >> i am all for you logging onto www point moveon.com. that ship has sailed. >> there is an independent

candidate running right now. he will get ton the ballot in utah. that's not for some to go. some republicans will wind up voting for gary johnson. there are places for you to go. you can go to the ballot box and write someone else in and moerlmoer morally feel this association for trump. >> if you're going to vote for evan or gary johnson couldn't one make the point well, you're helping hillary clinton. is that what you want to do? >> my response to that is donald trump fractured the republican party. >> no. the republican party fractured the republican party. >> but the fact that so many republicans feel so diseffected by our nominee and want nothing to do with him, that's the creation of donald trump and the

people who built him up. that is a result of his candidacy, the kind of person he is. you know, that's who has to answer for it. trust me, in 2017 there will be an audit of the rnc. if in 2017 the audit shows the audit was spending money to try to salvage the collapsing donald trump that could be a check onto president clinton. >> the only audit to me is the audit on donald trump's taxes because i want to see these numbers. coming up, the jet blue flight leaves 24 people injured. a passenger on that flight joins me next. and then, it was a massive day for olympians.

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we were in an elevator and fell. when i'm looking at some of the passengers they were floating. floating so when we stopped it was like we went down and it stopped and then they went up and hit their haeead. >> did they not have their seat belts on? >> one kid didn't have his seat belt on. he really flew around the cabin but most did have their seat belts on and still got injured. >> and your mom is in a neck brace. she is hugging a nurse. she had her seat belt on. how is she doing now? >> she is doing pretty good. we both got injured actually. we have to go back to california and get checked out through our doctor. it is terrifying. it is unreal. >> what is your injury? >> basically my neck and my arm.

a lot of people have the same kind of injury. we were tossed around like rag dolls. >> how did jet blue staff handle things for you? >> they were good. the hospital staff was just fabulous. they took care of everybody. they were almost like a trauma unit that would be in a big, huge city. they took it on and went full force. i haven't talked to anybody with jet blue because we just woke up. >> right now while you're tending to your injuries, you're stag at a hotel in south dakota. are you nervous? >> yeah. i wanted to get a train but it looks like we have to take another plane. i don't think it could ever happen like that again but you never know. >> i am so sorry you had to have this experience. sending our best to you and your

mom. be safe, get well. sorry to hear about this. thanks so much for joining us this morning. moving on, team u.s. a. continuing to rake in the gold medals. they are dominating and breaking incredible records. chris joining us from rio. you know i love the olympics. we have got to start at the pool and michael phelps breaking a 2,000-year-old record? >> reporter: it is crazy, right? he surpassed who won his 12th gold medal in 152 b.c. phelps now has 22 golds overall, 26 medals total, winning the 200 im by a staggering 2 seconds. you have to think 2,000 year frs now people will be talking about him. also making history simone

manuel becoming the first african american woman to win gold in swimming. she says it isn't just for her but other african american girls. >> i think that's why it was emotional for me. throughout this process it was tough fitting in. i hope that i can be an inspiration to someone else because i know the journey wasn't always easy for me. >> i love it. i want to talk a little bit about the other simone. she is being called the best gymnast of all time? >> yeah. if there was ever any question simone biles proved she was the greatest. i have never seen anyone so effortless. her floor routine yesterday, breathtaking in the gravity defying brilliance, just as she

had a feeling it might be. >> as soon as i woke up yesterday i walked in and i said i have a really good feeling about today and she said me too. >> she is talking about ally who came in a strong second. a tearful finish for silver. check it out. they are on the kellogg's special k box. skb >> i love it. you know i'm tuning in. what are the must-see events today? >> michael and kate di back in the pool, both historic swims. phelps could distance himself more from future swimmers in the history books and ledecky could be the tonight win single-style

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it is getting stronger and bigger. it is the founder. >> he is the founder of isis. i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. these are the founders of isis.

these are if founders of isis because of bad judgment. >> i know what you meant. >> no. i meant he is the founder of isis. >> that was all day yesterday. this is donald trump today, slamming the media for taking what he said seriously, incredibly describing his remarks as sarcasm. less than an hour ago pivot, trump tweeting, quote, isis gained tremendous strength during hillary clinton's term as secretary of state. when will the dishonest media report the facts! i want to bring in jason osborn, a trump supporter, previously with the ben carson campaign and basil smickle. jason, i want to start with you. is it fair -- did you believe at any point yesterday donald trump was being sarcastic? as he was saying this over and over, trump supporters who did appear across media networks, they were saying, well, maybe what this is, it's about foreign

policy, it's about president obama's policies, but donald trump kept saying no. president obama founded isis. so help me out. >> well, no, so what i heard yesterday from donald trump was that the underlying premise that under the obama-clinton last eight years, we've seen a rise in isis. we've seen nothing from this administration to stop the terrorist attacks occurring across the country. however he described it, that didn't matter to me in more of the sense that i knew that what he was talking about was fundamentally this administration has done nothing to prevent the rise of isis. >> bazil, whether or not donald trump was being sarcastic or not, what he did do is get everyone to focus over the last 24 hours on president obama's policies and on hillary clinton's policies. so in the end does donald trump win here? >> no, not at all. jason and i could agree to disagree. he and i get along very, very

well and we could have a real discussion about isis and the role of the president in this fight. but for donald trump to say that a sitting president of the united states is a co-founder or founder of a terrorist organization is disgusting to me. there's no room or place in the national dialogue for that. this is not for him or at least how i received it is not a full discussion about issues, it's actually creating a sense of -- it's sort of contributing to that dystopian belief or sentiment that donald trump likes to promote and it's disgusting to me. there's no room for this. >> jason, donald trump also tweeted this. i love watching these poor, pathetic people, pundits, on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. they can't! why is that a good thing? for many, many voters out there, for all voters out there, especially undecided ones who donald trump and hillary clinton need to rein in, don't you want to have a clear message?

don't you want people to understand you? >> well, i don't know if you're referring to me as being one of those poor and pathetic people, but i think having worked for kind of a nonpolitician myself in dr. ben carson, these two candidates have broken the mold on what a candidate is in this day and age. and so i think it is very difficult for people to -- you know, that are in this business to understand that they're not going to be your typical politician and say the politically correct words that are needed in every situation, that they're going to speak off the cuff and they're going to speak as if they're speaking to the people out at these rallies, et cetera, because those are the people they communicate with on a daily basis. >> but when does that cross a line, because it's exactly that, that lack of political correctness, that different voice, that's why people like donald trump so much. but when does that side messaging, the off-the-cuff comments that need apologies,

when do they become too much? he should be turning to the economy and jobs, which he claims is his central platform, yet since his speech on monday, we've barely heard it. >> well, i think we are doing a lot of that in talking about the economy. the media does like to highlight kind of the controversy more so than they do kind of the boring policy aspect of things. and i think -- >> hold on a second. hold on. hold on. that's such a generalization. we're covering the thing -- donald trump has said this ten times yesterday. he had the opportunity to talk more about his economic plan, to dig down into where he's going to have tax deductions, but he didn't. over and over he said president obama is the founder of isis. so how is it the media choosing that? this is the candidate choosing his talking points at his events. >> no, and -- don't get me wrong, i'm not saying it as a criticism, i'm saying that that's the business of the media is to highlight the sensationalism of different aspects of whatever the news is that day as opposed to going in

and kind of looking at exactly what the underlying meaning is on a lot of these cases. yesterday we have a situation where we have new e-mails that are coming out that are showing the clinton foundation and the department of state are actually colluding together on helping foundation donors. so we looked at that a little bit but we focus on the aspect. >> there's no collusion there. the truth of the matter there is donald trump has had this approach to politics since he started running for office. that approach suggests to me that he will not be content until every political institution and most political leaders are dragged down with him, leaving nothing in its wake. instead of building up and trying to unite, he's busy trying to tear things down. and that, i think, is the inherent problem here. he doesn't know when to stop, and that means to me that there's no proven leadership there. there's a leadership that is unrestrained, and that to me is more dangerous than sglig all

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about diabetic nerve pain. tell 'em cedric sent you. that wraps us up this hour. have a great weekend. i'm stephanie ruhle. coming up right now, more news with thomas roberts. hey, stephanie, thanks so much. good morning, everybody. on the day that hillary clinton is set to release more of her tax returns, donald trump is attempting to put out yet another august fire. after repeatedly and it appeared seriously stating that president obama and hillary clinton co-founded isis, trump now says it was all a joke. in a tweet this morning, trump specifically criticized cnn about the serious nature of the reports on those comments and he asks, in all caps, they don't get sarcasm. for those who missed the punch line, here it is again. >> last night you said the president is the founder of isis. i know what you meant, you meant

that he created the vacuum and lost the peace. >> no, i meant he was the founder of isis, i do. he was the most valuable player. i give him the most valuable player award. >> but he's not sympathetic to them, he hates them. >> he was the founder. the way he got out of iraq, that was the founding of isis. >> they just sat back and waited, and when we left, basically isis was formed. and he calls it isil. the reason he calls it isil, he likes to bother everybody. but isis was formed. and -- >> but aren't those statements inflammatory when you say something like that? >> i tell the truth. i tell the truth. actually a lot of people like that i said it. he is the founder of isis. and hillary clinton is right there with him. >> so trump's defense comes as he and republicans are mired in reports of a serious break in unity. his team and top party officials are scheduled to meet today, contradicting more dire reports, a high-level rnc source told me this morning i