all the media black out did not help. the conservative media has been divided over donald trump candidacy for a year and sean hannity strongly becomes him let the fellow conservative pundits have it. >> let me say to all of and you that includes the commentator class, the jonah goldberg class, that includes radio talk show hosts, here is what i say to all of you never trumper, and i hope glenn beck is listening, you own hillary clinton's supreme court agreements. you own it. you are doing everything you can do to cast doubt in people's minds. >> you and hannity are having a twitter war. the larger point, the national review and others who are still in never trump on the right, could be responsible for the election of hillary clinton. >> in we could not. there is a lot of pad journalism where they say anyone who isn't voting, who is part of the normal republican bloc not voting for donald trump is a never trumper and they treat i as in it is electoral demographic these are people not persuaded. the women in the philadelphia

>> i think maybe so, because the media was not treating statements fairly. ey would chop them up and shorten the statement, didn't sound proper or didn't sound as good when they did that. it was very unfair. now i'm doing it a little bit differently. we've had a great month. i see we're up in florida, up in ohio, we're up in iowa, we're up all over the place. and we're up in the national polls, too. the los angeles times just came out, we're five orn the los angeles times, that's a national poll, and -- >> and it's a one-point race according to a fox news poll. it's a one-point race according to the latest fox news poll. clearly, the race is tightening. i wanted a sense of how you have adjusted. donald trump, thanks very much for calling into the show. >> thanks very much, thank you. >> interview took place before the press conference about birtherism. let us know what you think, when we come back, did trump stage the media to talk about birtherism? and later, why cbs went way over the line in editing bill clinton. remember here at ally, nothing stops us from

the news media is frustrated with the news media. okay. m frustrated with the news media, and he many the news media, so that makes one of us in the news media who shares your frustration with the news media. joy reid does too. we just learned that. like you, i am so frustrated with the news media's coverage of this presidential campaign. i usually don't know where to begin, but tonight i do. for months, for months now i've been trying to get the news media to understand that donald trump's excuse for not releasing his tax returns might not just be an excuse. it might be a complete lie. >> when the audit's finished, i'll release my tax returns. >> the news media bought the audit line completely for a while, but then they discovered president nixon released his tax returns even when they were under audit. but there is no proof that donald trump is actually being audited. in march, donald trump released a letter from his tax lawyer, willie nelson. no, seriously, his tax lawyer is willie nelson. and willie nelson's letter to donald trump is su

does it change the media handling of the case? is the latest anthony weiner embarrassment anything other than a tabloid >> reporters were scrabbling on friday of labor day weekend when the file put out the interview with hillary clinton over private e-mail servers and investigation of the summary of case. sarah flores said it does not seem to provide major revelations and paint the staff as unaware or unconcerned about state department policy on e-mail. was there more news than that? >> incredible and the file doing hillary clinton a favor by putting it out on friday of labor day weekend. to be clear, private corporation had destroyed e-mails in anticipation of litigation they would be in enormous trouble and this is part where maybe there is a gap in political reporter whose do not know the law, are not entirely familiar with security issues saying this was nothing new when, i thought it was explosive. >> what does it say to you that the weapon said no major revelations. >> they will be backtracking off of that as people point ou

he said the media should be congratulating me. st not fundamentally the job of the media. so be telegraphing these impulses about the media, these almost like troske ideas about how the media should treat a presidential candidate or politician, i'm not surprised that so many have taken such an unfavorable view of the media at large because he's really done a tremendous job turning the populous against this very necessary and important institution. >> i like to think that we are part of the central nervous system of democracy. we actually do work for the viewers although sometimes we don't do a good job of explaining that and showing it. david, let me go back to you. what would you like to see your colleagues do a little differently to try to earn back people's trust? >> i think we're working really hard. people at the "post" as far as i know and i've seen this effort going on for months are writing about all these things that trump says and does. i think that we've put a lot of it out there. the key is to try to figure out and i th

one more thing about the media. they produced part of that visible primary in which basically they did that with the way and perhaps. and basically giving the invisible primary to donald trump long before he was in the polls or anything like that. it was the use of language by the media during that process that did have an impact on those lives. i certainly think you could feel america media on television struggling with the challenge of how to cover donald trump he doesn't represent an unexpected development in american politics let's just put it that way. but also particularly in the context of television and we spoke about this. utterly compelling viewing for a while. most politicians have a good idea roughly what they say and do hillary clinton would be an extreme example. very familiar voice familiar policies in a familiar way of speaking that many surprises. that may be a very good thing. but very familiar. donald trump he was clearly he was kind of just saying it as it came into his head is very different and

the single weapon that she's got is the media. the mainstream media, she wouldn't even be here, folks. that i can tell you. she wouldn't even be here. she wouldn't have a chance. >> donald trump calling out the mainstream media. now this comes amid the latest example of liberal bias in the press and how they are covering the former miss universe. alicia machado's accusation against donald trump. aj delgado and from the hill, joe concha, and we discussed earlier in the show, how do you have a debate, joe, when you don't talk about obama care or hillary taking money from countries that persecute women, gays, lesbians, jews, how do you not talk about benghazi, state of the economy, pay to play scandal, e-mail server, clinton foundation, vetting refugees. how is it possible to go through 90 minutes of uninterrupted air time? >> sean, it is very easy to go fair. in this case, he had three easy things going in. birther, taxes and holt interrupted donald trump 41 times to clinton's 6. i believe that's seven times as much. clinton, her pi

that's when the media's instant replay will help shape the argument, but you're free to ignore all that that is it for this special edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. give us a like, let me know what you think on twitter. e-mail us mediabuzz@foxnews com. we're back in washington next sunday with the latest buzz. >>> we are less than 48 hours away from a historic showdown. hillary clinton, donald trump will debate for the first of three debates inside this hall tomorrow night. just as a brand new poll shows the two candidates in a virtual dead heat. it's come to this, america. high noon on a sunday. good morning, everyone. special edition of "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer. >> one day away. good morning, everybody. i'm mar that maccallum. we're coming to you live from hofstra university in new york. tomorrow night the university will play host to one of the most highly anticipated political events, maybe sporting events. we'll see how the numbers are, that we have ever seen. this is

>> the media is not going to force mr. p to say anything he's not ready to say. >> what about the position being a birther? >> that came out in 2008. >> right now we have you. go ahead, robert. >> let's be clear. it's not about asking donald trump to have honor and decency and have respect for the truth. >> respect for the truth? you support hillary clinton. >> i beg your pardon on? >> you're talking about respecting the truth and you're supporting hillary clinton and the american people think she is not truthful. >> megyn, you're dodging the issue. we're talking about the fact that donald trump will not discuss. >> you're in a glass house. we're talking about truth. >> you're talking about truth and talking about donald trump refuses to recognize president obama is an american citizen. it's disgraceful and racist and it's dishonest. for that matter, pastor timmons defended him when being heckled. and he backed down and did what he was told. >> he was very respectful. very respectful. >> then, when he left the church, on fo

the media said on a curve it was an excellent speech. e were democrats on other networks framing the democrats it was terrible. they can't say they have a lower bar for donald trump when the media is sending their resumes to get jobs in the clinton administration. charles: hillary went to the mic and tried to shore up on the capture of al-baghdadi. what do you make of her notion, it will be air power. we'll get the kurds involved and the wholes involved, and this is how we'll win this thing. >> that's why we have complete and total victory today and the world is at peace. unfortunately it's not. she is doubling down on obama's strategy. if we are depending on the iraqi army for our own security and to defeat radical islam at large we are in deep trouble. it will be a challenge to define something new for the voters and she failed at that. charles: the market today not going anywhere. oil had a huge, huge session. what's missing from this market? it's you, the consumer. are you coming back? ...as a combination of see products.. and custome

where's the media on this? i don't know. >> well, one of the tools that donald trump uses or tack is to vilify the media. which is distrusting the media to begin with. not necessarily for bad reason sometimes. >> it took and interview in the a studio with chris wallace and hillary clinton to get to the bases of her campaign. but you're right. the proponents of each of the candidates will come after you. i know that intimidates the media. i don't want to be in a crowd like that and i know you don't either. direct questions with followups have to be asked. >> i follow your post on social media. one of my favorites you went after some nationl tv news people for saying, down there in florida. why? >> i'm tired of people referring to us as down there. talking about electoral votes and impacts on elections. but to keep calling us like we're in some other continent, down there. i want to say, wait a minute. we're all watching tv. we're all on the same wavelength. we're all in the same time zones for the most part even

that is a challenge for the media for sure. e idea that hillary clinton gets off scott free because her scandals are just too complicated, hillary clinton scandals are not complicated. brian: what about the banners on the bottom of the screen? she should be held accountable. ben: she will say things like, i never had classified material on my server, and the fbi said, no, you did have classified material. the chiron underneath will say "clinton: no classified information on my server." there is no parentheses that says, not true. it does not really exist. trump is always perceived to be fibbing. sometimes that is true. a lot of the times he is fitting. with hillary, she is always perceived as telling the truth, and later if it turns out she's lying, the media will rush to cover it. this is what happened with the health situation, the e-mail server situation. for months, all we heard was it was a big deal until the fbi revealed it was a big deal. brian: i don't know what shows you are watching. what i hear sometimes is a victimiz

the fbi. jas jason chaffetz is here. >>> and then, america's media took a stunning hit today. howie kurtz is next on how this issue is going to shape this election. >> is it fair to just say the liberal media is out there trying to make a case against donald trump? the media was front and center sunday morning playing it over and over and over when hillary clinton tripped. she faces a double-standard every day right, left and center. ♪ like a human fingerprint, no two whale flukes are the same. because your needs are unique, pacific life has been delivering flexible retirement and life insurance solutions for more than 145 years. ask a financial advisor how you can tailor solutions from pacific life to help you reach your financial goals. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. siriusxm's free listening event that's might be over,ckin'. but now you can turn us back on with packages star

where the program has been made the slightly clearer of media attention. of the political parties of the ideological purity so the ability of compromise is greater. and then the grade is lower for your opponents but in this memorable in these circumstances. those that are extremely well spoken in public. >> and that and some days the moments where he became a national character and with that persona but it is quite close to who boris johnson is. with those who would speak his mind. as one of those interesting figures of mazing politicians that the members of the establishment are the opposite of that. >> but to me comfortable with the english language. >> and the interesting thing of the anti-politicians like cruz and johnson to say what they may later regret very controlled and focused group >> but i want to say my book is about the zero language and other things matter. i would rather have a competent person to is not a great speaker running a government department or country than the speaker felt could not deliver. >> you have a wonderful chapter in the

the media takes time to work out how to cover them. would say you can see between the primary process and the super -- bit the summer the coverage of donald trump is more thoughtful, more critical, and i think there's a reasonable chance that the u.s. media will equit itself really well in the formal election which has only begun this week. the formal campaign. but what i do think is that -- why that report is on to something. something we try to do in the uk during our general election campaigns, is to cover the issues which the public are asking questions about, even if the politicians aren't talking about them. so an example in the elections in the first decade of the century, 2000 2010 is the politics didn't want to talk about immigration, and that may well have been for good reason, or at least well-intentioned reasons. that they thought that it was an emotive subject. it sometimes did quickly verge into interracism and soing for. best not to talk about it. the trouble was, we knew, reported up and done the country talking to ordin

we begin tonight with a look at politics and the media, i'm joined by brian stelter of cnn and ben schapiro of the daily wire. >> you may read a hundred stories where it feels like trump is being let off the hook, the press is going easy on trump. there are a hundred other stories on the facebook feed where he is being severely screut niezed, rig losely covered. we live in a choose are your own venture, choose your own news environment which makes it increase leigh difficult for the audience to get to the reality of the situation. >> we continue with ray kelly who discusses his new book vij lens, my life serving america and proteching its empire city. >> i think the lone wolf threat is going to be with us for a long time to congress come. the self-radicalized or small groups who through the interin the become radicalized and then decide to act. and what we have seen is after they do radicalize themselves, they act pretty quickly. so it's difficult to predict who is going to react to the thousands or hundreds of thousands of tweets that come out and we conclude with charlie's regular sment w

marliner: next, fitzwater discusses the evolution of press relations and social media during presidential campaigns and how changes have affected news coverage. the--interviewed by this is part of an annual conference for high schools it is on the presidency in the press posted by the marlin fitzwater center for can indication of frequent peers university in new hampshire. this is about 35 minutes. >> i welcome you to our campus theew hampshire and to launch of a year-long celebration of the marlin fitzwater center for communications 15th anniversary. you are here today as part of the fitzwater center's high school student media program. no one is more qualified to speak on the topic then the men on stage, marlin fitzwater, one of the longest-serving press secretaries in history and one of three who served under two presidents. marlin got his start in journalism like some of you, as an eighth grade sports reporter in kansas. he went on a study journalism at kansas state. after graduation, more than went to washington dc with dreams of landing a job at the washington post. a number oftook

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the list goes on and on. she isn't available to media. en she is, as you pointed out, to hand-pick a small group and they all know their access is on the line. when you compare her to donald trump who is available every day, i can barely turn on my television without seeing him. >> i know, it's exhausting, isn't it? >> but it is access. mercedes -- >> that is what this administration -- >> mercedes, can i just remind everyone, remember when hillary clinton said, yes, press, you can come along for the ride but stay within this rope. and she literally roped off reporters. that is not transparency or not journalism. merce. >> that is clinton's biggest problem, the lack of transparency. the media's job is to inform the american people with the tough question. and i have to tell you, during that forum, one of the best questions asked was by the navy veteran who said, guess what? if i had top clearance, and i did what you did, i would have ended up in jail. and hillary clinton could not give a clarifying response to that man. and so i think that

and the news media quickly ignored it. because the other candidate for president said something that the political media decided was much, much more important. it wasn't a policy announcement. it was a description of donald trump's supporters, in which she used the word "deplorable", to describe many of their hateful ideas. she was careful enough to limit it to half of donald trump's supporters, but that wasn't careful enough for the news media, because the news media was clearly in the middle of a nervous break down on its way to a complete collapse which happened the very next day when hillary clinton felt a little sick and decided to go home. you've seen the video a few thousand times of by now of hillary clinton being helped into a car as she was clearly feeling faint. hours later, we got the word from her doctor that she's been diagnosed with pneumonia, and she's going to slow down for a few days. and today the news media lost its mind, lost all perspective on what matters in this presidential campaign. lost all perspe

that is a challenge for the media. the idea that hillary clinton gets off scott free because her scandals are two complicated, hillary clinton scandals are not complicated. brian: what about the banners on the bottom of the screen? will say things like, i never had classified material on the server, and the fbi said, no, you did have classified material. chiron will say "clinton: no classified information on my server." they will do that with trump all the time. this doesn't really exist. trump is always perceived to be fibbing. a lot of the times he is fitting. she is always perceived as telling the truth, and later if it turns out she's lying, the media will rush to cover it. it is what happens with the e-mail server. all we heard was it was in the big deal until the fbi revealed it was a big deal. brian: i don't know what shows you are watching. what i hear is a victimization narrative from conservatives. i would point out there are many liberals equally frustrated by news coverage. i interested in how much anxiety a

savvy candidate. >> the most mediae ever seen in my lifetime. >> so true. he blew the moment elementary tv elements. like not understanding what the split screen would do. not steeming get things that he got before with the tv producer's eye. explain that. >> i wonder if he, "a," shockingly, was he a little bit nervous? maybe he is human. i think that there is been so little consequence to him getting basic things wrong that you know he could get right in other situations. maybe he thought co-amble through and it would okay. and part of what has made him compelling is the hot mess quality. >> liberals will kill you on twitter for saying trump is human. >> he said maybe. >> is that my fault? >> i was waiting to step in. >> i'll never be on the show again. >> thank you for coming in. you're great. when you come back we'll give you a threesome you'll never forget. mark penn, doug senor, and bob epstein are live on the set. right after this. men. 80% try to eat healthy, yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients fro

bias in the media. vering a story with a couple can nominate insulted a woman about her weight, nothing to do with liberal bias -- covering a story where the republican nominee insulted a woman about her weight. if that makes trump think the story is going away, i say again, wrong. john: it's like a bunch of monkeys with their hands over their ears and eyes and mouth. when we come back, we will talk about bernie sanders' and michelle obama's millennial hopes and dreams right after this. ♪ 'sup, millennials? ofhave talked about how many you are still lukewarm on hillary clinton, which is why today, clinton is it a college studenttalk more about debt with the coolest white-haired dude in all of politics, her former rival, bernie sanders. we have noticed a of the lineal being used by clinton and their team. they're concerned young voters might vote for libertarian candidate gary johnson or green party jill stein or might not turn out at all. her many attempt to inspire young voters to turn up for clinton, m

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the media. if you watch fox all the time, for example, you do not believe anything you here on cnn because you know that has the liberal point of view and fox as the conservative point of view. one of the problems is fox has been so successful, made a lot of money and they are the highest in ratings. now the print media is doing the same thing because that is the road to getting the money, and you have to follow that. so it has caused people to have to think differently about what they are hearing, about their sources of information. some do a better job of that than others. but i am pretty forgiving of the press, themselves, although they have become advocates on both sides just like everybody else. but it is intellectually a tougher game for everybody involved. and i do not really know he do that, i think it has to be worked out. the media, for good reasons i think rather than bad, is kind of a self-correcting profession. if you look at the media growth historically and the change in the last

he knows how to manage you, not you personally, but the media, not you personally, but the media. he has had a reality show. he knows every trick in the book. so i know that he's entertaining. people want to hear what outrageous things he will say. something outrageous he will say next. yes, people get the, he gets the attention that most people could get. >> let's talk more about her and less about him in this section of the show here. the millennial number that came out today. we've seen a huge drop among young voters falling 29 point lead in august to a 10 point lead today. we know that elizabeth warren, bernie sanders and the president has challenged young african-americans saying this is our legacy. this is my legacy but she still is seeing that dip. so tonight, what does she need to do on that stage? set aside everything that's happened. what does she need to do tonight? >> you know, listen. i'm hearing all of this talk about what she needs to do and people speculating about how she's going to look and what she's going to say. she's smart, as a matter of fact, she's brilliant

. >>> breaking tonight, one of the most dramatic media moments in donald trump's run for the white house and that's saying something. this morning ended with a 40-second sound bite and touched off a day of political fallout that has not stopped yet. welcome to the kelly file everyone, i'm megyn kelly. after five years of raising questions about exactly where president barack obama may have been born, donald trump yesterday declared he would finally put the issue to rest. first he announced a news conference, then his campaign followed up with a written statement, trump hit the early news shows promising a major announcement. and by 10:00 a.m. this morning, all of the nation's major media outlets were breathlessly gathered awaiting the candidate's comments. at 11:03 a.m. an hour after the event was supposed to begin, out walked trump, surrounded by a group of veterans who proveeded to take the microphone in terms praising mr. trump's commitment to the military. some 90 minutes after the start of nonstop live coverage by all of the cable nets, we finally got to hear more about what is know

clinton was a liar, diplomatically, hardly covered by the lame stream media. her health issue out there for months but only until she collapsed after leaving the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies earlier did it final become a mainstream media issue. they go easy on the democrats, hard on the republicans, it's been that way for decades. >> bruce, look at the headlines, "usa today," bogus trumpanomics, politico, donald trump's shortest attribute isn't his fingers. we could see a lot about these headlines. >> let's take this week, the president when he spoke in philadelphia with his reagan-esque like approval ratings. the liberal "new york times" had five stories on hillary clinton's health issue, and she's examined by an internist as opposed to a person who prescribes heartburn medication. i mean, this goes both ways. i think the president wants more serious -- now that we know that he was born here, i think he's due some serious coverage of this campaign. >> the fact is that those "new york times" headlines were factual. she did who would information about her pneumon

. >>> donald trump wins the media praise for his surprise trip to mexico, then endures the media scorn for his mediation. >> here he is standing on the world stage with a world leader. this is a big step. >> i think this is actually the single best day of the general election campaign for donald trump. >> it seems that this probably turned out for donald trump to be a pivotal moment, and i would argue probably the best day of his campaign. >> this is the best thing he's probably ever done in his life. >> this was certainly the most diplomatic moment we've seen from donald trump. >> welcome to a trumpian stunt. he went to a country that's openly mocked him to meet with a leader that at one time compared him to hitler. >> sometimes it turned sharply negative. >> there will be no amnesty. >> trump yesterday, he's diplomat, and then he's red meat populist, and you're right, it's a con torsitortionist. >> it was a terrible trap for trump and he played into it. >> the mexicans are bad again, they'll have to pay for the wall, they're too dumb to know it yet, and by the way, the mexican immigr

the way isis does media. they have adopted a certain set of visual style. they have upped the production of what they are doing. so you know they are trying to learn and do better jobs of counteracting this. but other bad guys learned less lessons from isis and learned to improve the way they do media. >> and there is lessons learned with demographics. the average age of a recruit in the united states is 26. these guys grew up on social media. they understand the platforms in ways that normal people that who haven't grown up to this wouldn't. so they are able to learn those lessons and apply it to trying to get the message out. you are dealing with a group of people and their beliefs. they will spend their waking hours pushing this in a way government works 9-5 to do. it is a difficult dynamic to encounter. >> host: there is a high level of sophistication. >> alberto knows better how they dississe disseminate the message. there is not just one way. there is this narrow casting of if you are interested in utopi

joe, you are an expert on the media and how the public interacts with the media. is this playing out? i guess they believe nobody will ever sell their season tickets or give them up? >> this will be a p.r. disaster if they fine players for honoring 9/11 victims. last year william gay many mother was shot and killed with domestic violence and he wore purple cleats to bring attention to that, angela williams the same thing, and theyined the it's a bad look at the nfl. you have to have standard, but you have to make exceptions in certain cases. charles: someone like a brandon marshall, does he have to make the point in he game. and they are smacking a lot of fans, particularly the veterans. >> i can tell you that in brandon' case he's going to decide on an individual basis how often or how frequent or how long through his career. but brandon is trying to be a positive member of the united states. he's not trying to offend anybody. he's not trying to hurt any veterans or anyone affiliated that has been heroic or done their dudey. this is not meant to be offensive to a

one of the things raffy said she hasn't been out in the media. to a certain degree people will something to hide. with this last push she needs to be out there. she needs to show people her face. she can't let donald trump dominate the headlines. that's why he won out of the field of 17. >> you know, this is interesting. president obama, i have a lot of respect for him. let me be clear on that. i voted for hem the first time. median income is up, popularity is surging. but all that he has it does not translate to help mrs. clinton. why? > about that. >> tell us why has it translated? >> i don't think he's been on the campaign trail enough for her. he's been out in philadelphia the other week talking to my len y'all voters. speaking at the democratic national convention. but you're going to see him a lot ton campaign trail next month. he wants his legacy cemented. >> really? win. if trump is elected there goes everything. >> there hasn't been a democrat president for a while. poemgz is an interesting guy. there's no love loss between the two for a

i am not blaming donald trump for what is going on, i am blaming the media. when you are not asking the candidate direct questions and answer the question that you are asking, it is going to be a mess. i am watching the last debate thursday night and he is asking direct questions. and this man is walking away about the question. the reality is this, donald trump, he lies about when he states he sent investigators to hawaii to find barack obama's birth certificate, which turned out to be a lie. we found out he said something about 9/11, muslims were celebrating in new jersey. we find out that is a lie. he is insulting megyn kelly, he is insulting the pope. can you imagine? we are talking about hillary clinton's e-mails, but this man day in and day out everything that comes from his mouth is lies. host: that is john from maryland. zoe carpenter, has the media been doing its job so far this campaign season? guest: there are people doing their job and people letting trump slide. it is hard to paint with a broad brush. i will say that trump has gotten a lot of free

so what voters are hearing is the narrative as repeated by the media. so this sounds like a circular thing. molly saying, we need to tell voters what they're hearing, but they're hearing it from us. >> right, those narratives don't drop down from the sky on stone tablets. they're created over the weeks and months and years, on the decisions that journalists make the decision on what things to report. with the clintons, you have this 25-year history, where they've done a lot of things that rn questionable, or skated close to the line. and you have a lot of non-scandals that were successfully whipped up to the point where there's a presumption on the part of a lot of people in the media, that whenever something like this happens, even if the facts don't really support any kind of nefarious goings on, then there's something there. if there's smoke, there must be fire. and you see that in a lot of the way these stories get covered. when you have a batch of e-mails that gets released and you see somebody tried to get some favor but didn't get it, it's still r

role of the media to hold these candidatesountable, to hold both the democratic and republican and presidential candidates accountable. when you lose that, start celebrating restriction of the media, start mocking the media, that becomes a serious problem for the very foundation of the democratic project and the american political system. >> dillon, can anecdote in saddm hussein's palace, my driver yelled at me, put your eyes forward on the road. stop looking. we're going to get in trouble. we were on a freeway. we were on a freeway and my driver was terrified i was staring at saddam's palace. so there's the other side of this. dylan byers, thank you, appreciate 2. continue to tap into what you find out today about the pool event that wasn't. >>> coming up next, hillary clinton's campaign just responded to donald trump's comments made this morning saying, yes, okay. i'm okay now with this. president obama was born here. whatever. i'm paraphrasing, of course. we'll bring you what she said, next. what i love most about tempur-pe

pence, it's not just the national media. let me read you -- we counted since april of 2011 and that's the year that barack obama gave his long-formed birth certificate from hawaii. we counted 67 times where donald trump tweeted or retweeted messages questioning his birthplace. he has kept this going. he has been a leader in this birther movement. >> well, i know there's news reports that trace this birther movement back to hillary clinton's campaign back in 2008. >> you believe that hillary clinton started the birther movement. >> look, i'll let the facts speak for themselves. >> what's the proof of that? >> martha, look, as i travel across this country, i say this very sincerely and very respectfully to you, this isn't what the american people are talking about. donald trump put this to an end. >> why did it take him so long to put it an end? it's not over. >> he's been talking about the need to have a stronger america at home and abroad. look, i understand why hillary clinton and many of her defenders in the national media

he is now with the middle east media research institute. hughes is now with george washington university. is the deputy director there. when you hear the phrase "radicalization of cyberspace," what does that mean to you? an explosioneing of the use of social media of individuals to isis. which was atter, platform choice for a number of years. you see these one and two individuals in the u.s. who were finding like-minded people and are reaching online to find those recruiters and radicalize rsers. guest: something a little broader. certain --phase were a space where reality is for trade which is part of the tool used in the radicalization process. there is a misnomer that exists and people think a guy watches and isis video and automatically becomes a jihadist. is more complicated. that is one element of a larger intellectual, psychological and emotional process. it takes a person from being one thing to something else. love, hate, anger, fear. complicated things. the social media aspect is important, but i think sometimes we go exaggerating

clinton took questions from the media aboard to florida. trump goes to virginia and north carolina. >> john, good morning, to you, you can imagine the donald trump campaign is over the moon about the new poll numbers, they had been predicting and donald trump is starting to close the gap. when you take a look at the numbers, among likely voters, ahead 2 points, 45 to 43. likely voters, say, yeah, we are going to go out to the polls. if you look at the broader range, registered voters, hillary clinton still leads about 3 points there, but that is a big difference from the numbers at the end of july when she led by 8 points. so there has been a move of 5 points toward donald trump's direction. one of the reasons why, take a look at this. he leads hillary clinton by 20 points, 49 to 29 among independent voters. today he's at the sand her center this afternoon 2:00 o'clock for a big military event here in virginia beach this morning campaign releasing letter of support from 88 retired flag officers saying they are throwing support coldheartedly

and the same goes for the friends in the media. and on foreign policy we've got another huge disconnect. hillary clinton can't say radical islam. but the elites in the media, they don't care about that either and they're refusing to acknowledge that death and destruction that she created as secretary of state. they went to talk about birtherism. isis is now spreading all other the globe including right here in america. libya complete chaos. iran the largest sponsor of state ter arorterror. they got $150 billion richer thanks to hillary clinton and obama. ramadi, tikrit, fallujah and mosul has been given back to isis by way of hillary clinton and barack obama's bad policies. hillary says it's a mistake. but what if it was your son or daughter that died. flat out ignoring the thousands and thousands of american kids who lost their lives and limbs and her saying it's a mistake? we need to learn from it? d.c. politicians and the media, they don't seem to care much because they're not bleeding and dying and they're not the ones suffering

now despite the strong performance, the media this morning on the attack. the title of an opinion piece from the "new york times," the duplicity of donald trump, the paper accuse him of political gymnastics, these are some of the words used in the "washington post." xenophobic, circus, trite. we've been trumped for days, the republican nominee bashed for possible softening of immigration stance and now bashed for not softening enough. howie kurtz from media buzz is here with more. if you are donald trump, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't when it comes to the media? >> you don't have to go to the opinion pieces. politico called trump's day a farce. most of the press really liked trump's visit to mexico, his meeting with the president. i was sitting on the fnc set with charles krauthammer and steve hays and said it was his best campaign and he looked good on the world stage, most hated the speech in arizona feeling it was too harsh, too hot, and didn't expand his base beyond those who love him and hid the fact, or trump hid the fact that trump wou