sell was donald trump. his career would finally make trump into a household brand." guest: this was an interesting transformation from the real estate developer role, holding buildings in new york city and around the country to realizing that he didn't need to put up his own money. he didn't need to finance projects. he could make a lot of money simply by selling and franchising his name. of hisecent years, most projects in the united states and around the world have been cases in which donald trump has rented out his name for a guaranteed annual income that he perceived, whether those projects received or not. likent reporters to places panama who look at some of the donald trump projects that are not donald trump projects. other people put up the money. other people create these buildings and golf courses and donald trump rents his name. get if the building doesn't off the ground, he has a guaranteed stream of income. much more secure than the type of risk that a developer takes as he did earlier in the c

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donald trump is still running against donald trump.hey come to grips with that, they are just not open, a huge part of the country is not open to anything that donald trump has to say. he needs to talk more about himself and about donald trump and what he would do. he these to be more specific in his regret, so it has some actual meaning and resonance with people. then i think americans will always give someone a second chance but only if they ask and say they need it. john: you mentioned the debates and we are at a where people started talking about debate prep. mitt romney did pretty well in his first debate against barack obama. what advice would you give hillary clinton as she begins thinking about taking on donald trump? >> the best practice is to have done it. that will really help her. going into these debates. everybody has a different strategy. i've done this going back to then governor bush's. it was very interesting when i did governor bush's debate prep and dick cheney's debate prep. vice president cheney loved to have a ru

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donald trump wanted to do this. i am told by a source with knowledge of this decision making process that this impetus here was really steve bannon, the trump campaign's new ceo. he believe this is sitdown could be a game changer. it is potentially politically risky for donald trump, which we'll talk about in a couple of minutes, given that he has that major immigration speech tonight. if anything goes badly with the mexican president, it could potentially over shadow what is a key speech for him. two quick notes. number one, we have reaction from donald trump's running mate mike pence wo sho says his prouf his running mate for dropping everything to travel to mexico. we also have words from the former mexican president. he says the mexican people reject donald trump. they don't want him in their country. mexico city is not a place where donald trump is popular. he's set to land there right around the noon hour. >> that's what the former president is saying. but trump's campaign manager kellyann conway was on the tod

he said he would vote for donald trump. work for donald trump, support donald trump.mp said he is not quite ready to do the same as far as paul ryan is concerned. exactly one week before his primary. >> well, if paul ryan's role as speaker is to chair the convention. so he's doing his job. and mr. trump appreciated paul reason doing what he did at the convention. at the same time, it is still a primary and donald trump simply stated he is not ready to endorse. that's not an attack. >> why is he tweeting nice things about paul ryan's challenger for the republican nomination? >> well, paul ryan's challenger has said nice things about donald trump. as you know, donald trump returns the favor. there is really nothing to see here other than what's making the headlines in the media is some orchestrated attack that never occurred. >> what said to donald trump trying on unite the republican party two weeks after the convention? >> we're still talking about uniting the republican party but we have yet to hear about the disarray at the dnc with debbie wasserman schultz leaving

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senator jeff flick of arizona has not endorsed donald trump and joins us now. senator flake, we just played sound of this 11-year-old kid asking governor mike pence if his job in a trump administration will be to clean up after donald trump. that seems like something of a problem if that's your job as the number two in an administration. >> well, i think the world of mike pence. he's a good friend and a good man. i think he has a tough job given some of the statements that donald trump has made and continues to make. so it's a tough job. i think mike does it well. >> do you think he should be doing it, senator? >> well, i don't think that donald trump ought to be making the statements he's been making. i think he needs to change not just some of his positions but the tone and tenor of the debate certainly need to change. >> have you seen any evidence he's capable of change? i'm asking because this could have been a good week for donald trump. he had weak gdp numbers coming up, hillary clinton continuing to make false claims of what fbi director comey said about

it not about donald trump. in is about paul ryan's failed fol -- policies of globalization and giving jobs to foreign workers opposed to creating jobs here at home. >> you've heard dana bash say house republicans are telling her this may backfire. what's your reaction to that? are you there? okay. apparently he can't hear me. paul, can you hear me? >> now i can hear you. i lost you for a moment. sorry about that. >> that's okay. it's live and technical difficulties. dana bash just reported house republicans are telling her this may backfire. what's your reaction? >> i don't know. all i can focus on is what's going on in this district. i will say time and again i've been focused on trade deals, bad trade deals that paul ryan is pushing and immigration policies. enforcing existing immigration law. i don't know -- is a tweet going to turn into a huge problem? is a comment of donald trump going to turn into a huge problem? i'm knocking doors and talking to residents here about creating jobs. i've run fortune 500 bu

nancy, who should play donald trump? >> i, too, was able to narrow it down. ffigan as colonel sanders. but the winner is don king. he's a trump supporter, but if my memory serves me correctly, he also had these strange flights of -- his way of thinking and his verbal skills match. >> very similar to trump. and don king is a perfect match for donald trump on command of the policy issues. so i didn't think i had an answer to this until the commercial break. and i know think -- i have a good answer. my first answer, which i rejected, which was chuck schumer. a lot of this weiner thing. new yorker, tough guy thing. then i realized it has to be al franken because it has to be someone who understands the bad comedy impulses of donald trump and how they would work and also someone who knows something about political debate and knows a little bit -- knows trump's issues and knows how to throw them around. >> it's like the former editor of harpers, but she said you have to know fashion rules to be able to break them. franken works perfectly in that. that's pretty good.

a donald trump fanatic who hates hillary clinton? and has a gun. it only takes one. one trump supporter. that's all it takes. rudy giuliani seems to think the trump rallies are filled with potential assassins. this morning he insisted that donald trump did not in any way imply that hillary clinton should or could be assassinated, and then he said this. >> with a crowd like that, if that's what they thought he meant, they'd have gone wild. >> so there's rudy giuliani saying donald trump's crowd would have gone wild if he had even more directly suggested the assassination of hillary clinton. the crowd would have gone wild. and it only takes one to go really wild. joining us now is dan rather, former anchor of the cbs evening news. he is currently host of axs tv's "the big interview." dan, when we're reaching for historical precedent and in big historical moments like this, we turn to you. you were there in dallas on november 22nd, 1963. you saw what this country went through in a presidential assassination. that anyone near our politics

trump took aim at muslims. >> donald j. calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> reporter: and his poll numbers did not change. then in february, he spoke up on how the u.s. fights isis. >> i would bring back waterboarding and a hell of a loss worse than waterboarding. >> reporter: the polls did not budge. in may he went after the father of ted cruz in a bizarre claim. >> his father was with lee harvey oswald prior to oswald being shot. >> reporter: and trump's polls still stood firm. sure trump's support has gone up and down, and his favorability is unusually high for a major party candidate. but his supporters have shown fierce loyalty and the polls suggest what others see as outrageous, they see as courageous, plain spoken truth. so he tweets a picture of his opponent with what looks like a star of david and his critics go wild. but trump seems to have figured out the reaction of this long ago. >> i cou

paul ryan takes questions, he'll be asked about donald trump's comments today. and trump campaign spokesman will join us in one of those rare appearances by a trump campaign spokesman. he will defend donald trump's comments today about his second amendment supporters finding a way to end hillary clinton's presidency after she is elected. according to polls out last week, if the election were last week, hillary clinton would have won and new polls out this week, right now tonight indicate that a lot more land would slide on to donald trump. >> hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the second amendment. if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is, i don't know. but i'll tell you what. >> if someone had said that outside the hall, he would be in the back of a police wagon now with the secret service questioning him. >> donald trump is clearly saying, was that people who cherish that right should be involved in the political process and let their voice be heard. >> they should understand that

vicente fox versus donald trump and the former president of mexico in a fierce war of words with the republican nominee. fox is my guest tonight. new polls show the race is tightening. is trump making a major comeback? let's go "out front." >> good evening, i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news, donald trump face to face with the president of mexico talking about the core campaign issue that he has had since the beginning and that is the wall. major questions tonight about what really happened behind those closed doors. trump sharing the stage afterwards with president enrique pena nieto. the republican nominee speaking in softer tones about the relationship between the two countries calling mexicans tremendous, even though as he stood by his call to build the wall. >> we did discuss the wall. we didn't discuss payment of the wall. that will be for a later date. >> trump's visit came hours before he's scheduled to give a major speech outlining his immigration approximately see and that is tonight and as we count you down tonight jim acosta begins your coverage in mexi

donald trump's running mate. what's the point you're trying to make about the clinton foundation and can you point to any actual evidence that as secretary of state she actually changed a policy because of this access that donors allegedly had? >> it's a fair question. but access is also very valuable. and this week we learned from the "associated press" that more than half of the individual meetings that secretary of state granted during her tenure -- >> not including government officials or foreign officials. >> of course not. these are individual meetings that she has discretion over. more than half of those meetings were granted to individuals who contributed tens of millions of dollars to the clinton foundation. look, you know, this has been unfurling over the past few weeks. we learned from a congressional investigation that the so-called e-mails on wedding plans and yoga, that she eradicated with some high-tech software called "bleach bit" which completely eliminates the capacity, in most cases, to recover

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donald trump is still running against donald trump.ve to have your favorables a lot higher. hillary clinton has not been great but they're starting to get better. so if he's in the 30s with favorables, it's just -- no one has ever been elected president with those kind of numbers. >> the gallup poll did one of those polls that makes you feel like, oh, okay, the world isn't completely crazy. it's about the acceptance speeches of the nominees. it showed that 44% thought hillary clinton's speech was excellent or good, 35% thought donald trump's excellent or good. they're about tied on just okay, 17% and 18%. and then on poor and terrible, 20% thought hillary clinton's was poor and terrible and 36% thought donald trump's poor and terrible, so donald trump scored higher -- more people thought his speech was terrible than thought anything else about it. howard dean, the world starts to make sense when you look at a poll like that. >> that, i do think matters. that's basically his unfavorables that's a very strong numb ger and bad. once peopl

sway over donald trump. as one person told me this morning, this race's destiny is in trump's hands alone. >> thank you, hallie. let me bring in katy tur, she's covered the trump campaign from the beginning, joining us live outside trump tower here in new york. just listening to hallie's reporting that there may be some type of family intervention this weekend. donald trump is holding a rally later today. we know he stays glued to the television, glued to twitter, he sees all this happening today, a rally this afternoon, if he's upset or offended by these reports. >> reporter: this is donald trump's comfort zone, tamron, what we've seen for the past 13, 14 months. we jumps from one controversy to the next, extinguishing one that is lingering by moving on to something that might be more shocking or more eye opening, jaw dropping, if you will. this is exactly what is happening here. does donald trump get angry about this coverage? he does when he lashes out. i'm not so sure the campaign is angry about it right

sell was donald trump. his career would finally make trump into a household brand." guest: this was an interesting transformation from the real estate developer role, holding buildings in new york city and around the country to realizing that he didn't need to put up his own money. he didn't need to finance projects. he could make a lot of money simply by selling and franchising his name. of hisecent years, most projects in the united states and around the world have been cases in which donald trump has rented out his name for a guaranteed annual income that he perceived, whether those projects received or not. likent reporters to places panama who look at some of the donald trump projects that are not donald trump projects. other people put up the money. other people create these buildings and golf courses and donald trump rents his name. get if the building doesn't off the ground, he has a guaranteed stream of income. much more secure than the type of risk that a developer takes as he did earlier in the c

don't try to do too much to go after donald trump? let him do his own damage? >> he's certainly been doing a lot of damage. but she hasn't pulled back. she has been aggressive, she's going to go after trump today in this economic speech. she did speak out -- she was very guarded, but did speak out about his comment about the second amendment people, you know, and that comment, of course, very controversial. her team has basically been saying we should never have an candidate who is advocating violence. in that case, she is letting him hang himself on the controversy, but not refusing to get into it. she has a big, robust calendar of fund-raisers, going out to california, in the hamptons. she's raising money, she is campaigning hard. she is not acting like a candidate who is way ahead, as we have seen in these polls. for now, she is. she knows, her team knows, things can change and the worst thing she can do is hang back and act like things are over. >> one thing i want to point out, the second amendment issue, this isn't some drummed up media thing. the secret s

towards donald trump.ualify donald trump. disqualify him as being a good messenger on the company. being someone you can trust in the president of the united states. >> the trump campaign says they're doing to spend $10 million on this ad by, in terms of national campaign is not a big number and we believe they've spent 10 million when they spend it because they've made such claims before. but what about this huge gap in the tv advertising between the clinton campaign and the trump campaign and can the trump campaign ever close that gap? >> no, they're never going to close the gap. and the gap on television advertising is going to be something that we're going to be talking about between now and the end of the campaign. the scariest moments of the romney campaign four years ago were during the summer because of the way the rules work, we weren't able to raise any new dollars, any new general election dollars and we're limited to how much money we can spend and the obama campaign had over $100 in the bank a

donald trump has other ideas. n the break up after brand new allegations that weiner has been sendi ining sexy charged texts again. it allowed weiner to get close to highly classified information. trump is preparing to give major speech on immigration on wednesday amid new question cans about whether he's softening any of his hard line positions. top campaign advisor saying trump will make securing the border first priority and delay the conversation about what to do with millions of undocumented immigrants. >>> a new poll shows clinton is down 7 points ahead down from her double digit lead after the convention. voters have historically negative views of both nominees. let's go first to our washington correspondent. you're learning more about the decision to separate from her husband. >> the decision came very abr t abruptly over the weekend after friends say she was furious and sickened when she saw the photo of their young son together on the bed. hillary clinton's right hand in the spotlight again tonight. inter

donald trump jr. says there's no change and no softening, all undocumented immigrants have to go it was breaking news and revelations about how his dad is preparing for the presidential debates. jorge ramos is also here. breaking news on the clinton e-mail story, the fbi about to make public the details of what led them to recommend against criminal charges in the case. it's a big primary race tonight for very big names and arizona senator john mccain in florida and marco rubio who also made news by declining to say whether he'd finish his term if elected and the poll his close in florida and cnn's manu raju is there. what's at stake and we don't have results just yet. >> florida has become ground zero for the battle for control of the senate which is why republican leaders urged lobbied marco rubio to run for the senate seat and he ultimately did. what rubio wants to see tonight say large margin of victory and that will be critical for him tonight and he wants to see a 20-point loss that he suffered

[applause] donald trump: thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] donald trump: thank you. an america first economic plan looks like. first, let's talk tax reform. taxes are one of the biggest differences in this race. hillary clinton, who has spent her career voting for tax increases, plans another massive job killing $1.3 trillion tax increase. big increase. one of the biggest ever. her plan would tax many small businesses by almost 50%. recently, at a campaign event, hillary clinton short circuit it -- you know this one. hillary clinton short-circuited famousto use a now she accidentally told the truth and said she wanted to raise taxes on the middle class. [applause] donald trump: i am proposing an across-the-board income tax reduction, especially for middle income americans. this will lead to millions of new and really good paying jobs. the rich will pay their fair share, but no one will pay so much that it destroys jobs, or undermines our ability as a nation to compete. [applause] as part of this reform, we will eliminate the carried interest deduction. [crowd boos] d

donald trump is set to deliver his big immigration speech tomorrow night. his running mate mike pence is promising trump will lay out his plan in great specificity. meantime, trump surrogates have been forced to interpret his message as best they can. earlier today, former georgia congressman jack kingston, trump supporter, saying on msnbc his plan will include a deportation force. >> why doesn't the campaign know yet whether a deportation force is part of his immigration policy? is it or is it not? >> it is part of it. we are going to learn more wednesday. >> so there will be a deportation force? >> craig, i can't let the opportunity go, though, to remind you hillary clinton hasn't had a press conference in 270 days. it would be great to know details on any of her plans. >> trump's campaign manager kellyanne conway had a very different take when i asked her about it this afternoon. >> i think you have to go back to mr. trump's speech at the convention in cleveland which was just a month ago and to see there's no deportation force mentioned in there. he spea

donald trump is bad.g hillary clinton make this a referendum on donald trump and if it is a referendum on donald trump, hillary clinton will win and if it's a referendum on hillary clinton, donald trump will win. >> he's a warrior for the people, plain and simple. >> that's nice, but i would think he would want to win. >> you expect him to play by the political playbook and do the disingenuous thing and the scripted lines. >> that's laughable. >> he is not that. donald trump is real. >> i'm sorry, you can't say that. like i said, he's gone down and addressed the house. he's gone down and addressed the senate republicans and again, look at his convention and look who had them, and they had the political establishment. >> donald trump likes and respects paul ryan. no question about it, but he is a messenger of change. he is a mess earninger that on behalf of the people there are some substantial things that need to change in this government and the republicans need to be responsible for those changes, as we

she won't be voting for donald trump. a neighbor republican senator of hers who has decided not to vote for donald trump will join us. but first, what donald trump needs to learn about the value of a dollars, actually the value of a nickel. to be perfectly precise, i actually mean 4.3 cents. donald trump needs to learn what 4.3 cents can mean to the multi trillion dollar budget of the united states of america. >> today i will outline my economic vision. >> if you look at this as strictly policy speech. >> poverty, poverty. >> it's a hot mess and you just give up. >> i am proposing an across the board income tax reduction. >> he wants to repackage, trickle down economics. >> the rich will pay their fair share. >> you know, that old saying, fool me once, shame me on you, fool me twice -- >> full me, you can't get fooled again. >> trickle down economics does not help our economy grow. >> these reforms will offer the biggest tax resolution since the reagan tax reform. >> it made me wonder or not he wanted leave it to beaver t

donald trump made his own bed. he's -- everybody has justified it, he chose to use the most incendiary language on every issue because he was trying to essentially run a con campaign. but when you call robert bird a former clan leader, your mentor, i'm not sure you're the one that necessarily ought to be throwing stones here, that's all. >> so there's so many things here, i can't even know where to start with this, steve. let me bring in robert costa on this. from the incendiary language to all of the -- the exaggerations, quite honestly, from what steve just said. and i'll get back to you, steve, in a second. to the substance of all of this. will this get some traction for hillary clinton? how does donald trump, if heca recover from this -- if this is just about bringing in suburban white voters, can he recover from this, this weekend? who is advising him, robert? >> well, the clinton campaign believes it can have traction, especially with suburban voters in places like ohio, north carolina and pennsylvania, where

we can't assume replacing barack obama with donald trump will yield better policy where donald trump'sorld view and vision for america is incompatible with the prosperity of block and brown people. >> paris, why does donald trump address black voters in front of basically only white voters? >> i don't work for the campaign, so i can't tell you why they choose what venues they choose to go to. >> then let me rephrase that. should he do it that way or not? >> i think, if i were in the campaign, i would advise him to go to a black organization or a black event or organize one hymn self. >> like naacp. >> i don't know if the naacp is the right one. he could go to the thurgo marshl college fund or what he did today. what's more important is he has a message. the venue doesn't matter to me. what matters is the message, what matters is what he's saying. he q go to a television audience and have a broader reach than going to a small church. the point is, he's been meeting with african-americans -- >> let me challenge you on that. he's had event where you have a lot of black pastors supporting

donald trump is more media savvy. whatever happens, he's going to spin it in a way that pena nieto comes up looking bad. he'll show up at his arizona rally and boast about how he talked tough to the mexicans and told pena nieto how it's going to be. i think donald trump wants to use this to cater to his base but at the same time broadly signaling that he is acting presidential and he has the guts to confront folks who have previously criticized him. >> we should point out the meeting was extended to both secretary clinton and donald trump. congressman, let me bring you in, when asking which candidate is better for mexico, clinton 77%, donald trump 3%. we know she leads by a huge margin in the polling here in this country. in the response from the campaign, essentially it was, yes, he can be there speaking the the people of mexico, but it matters what the people in arizona think. they're bringing this all back to home, no matter where he travels. they want to strap donald trump with the words he said on this land in th

it's not donald trump's law. that the american constitution has put into place. >> so him saying now that he would -- he is softening, so to speak, that he wants to work with people and not send them back, does that bother you at all? >> no. >> that's a turn around from what he said. >> that's not a turn around. that's just simply as we're getting closer to the race, he's giving details of his plan. this is -- >> come on. >> this is detailed information. >> pastor. >> i'm not -- >> he never said that from the beginning. from the beginning, he said, they have to -- >> he wouldn't have won if he said that. that's what marco rubio and jeb bush said. >> he was specific and implicit about, they had to go back. and saying what you said, either we have a country or we don't. >> and i think he's still pretty clear on the deportations. he has not reversed from that. >> he's saying we're going to have to work -- i know people are saying that's not amnesty but if you're saying you may not explicitly be saying it's a path to

and tonight, a top republican senator says she will not vote for donald trump. illary clinton slamming each other's economic position. >> all hillary clinton has to offer is more of the same. more taxes. more regulations. more bureaucrats. more restrictions on american energy. and on american production.

district, they want donald trump.ou abandon donald trump, there is no formula for winning a general election if 70% of the base is angry at you. john: and nothing like that will affect the military people. mark: that is interesting. when we come back, we will talk about the cargo of cash the obama administration secretly sent to iran. but first, these words from our sponsors. ♪ mark: welcome back. time to follow the money. the "wall street journal" as we said reported today that the obama administration secretly sent $400 million to iran in january, the same day four prisoners were freed. senior officials say there is no link between that money and the prisoner exchange. they said the timing was early coincidental and the cash was part of a financial settlement with iran after a failed arms deal almost four years ago. donald trump, rnc, john mccain, donald trump was unrelenting, leading to his speech in daytona beach on the criticism today. john, can they use this as an effective issue? john: they can make it an effec

it's been an erratic few days for donald trump. it has a lot of people asking what is going on with him. you know, mayor michael bloomberg said at the dnc last week in support of trump's opponent, hillary clinton, even before the events of the last few days. listen to this. >> let's elect a sane, competent, person with international experience. the bottom line is, trump is a risky, reckless and radical choice and we can't afford to make that choice. >> so he's implying that trump is not sane. do you agree with that? >> well, listen, we have to look at what is insanity. he can be reckless and risky and not be insane. there's two definitions of sanity, one is legal definition. and the legal definition of insanity is somebody who's so out of it, they don't know the difference between right and wrong. that is a very high standard for insanity and very few people meet that standard. you're really not functioning when you're legally insane. clinically, medically, usually when we talk about insanity, we mean psychotic, hearing voices, hall

these are common sense things. >> according to donald trump, jr. deport all 11 million has been let's just take baby steps, baby steps is an amazing phrase to hear coming from the trump campaign. baby steps, it sounds like something donald trump would accuse the obama administration of doing with deportation, even though the obama administration has deported more people than any other, but one prominent trump support, apparently, hasn't gotten the "baby steps" memo. >> why doesn't the campaign know yet whether a deportation force is part of his immigration policy, is it or is it ststeps" memo. >> why doesn't the campaign know yet whether a deportation force is part of his immigration policy, is it or is it not? >> it is part of. we're going to learn more wednesday. >> and here is the way the trump campaign manager today said that donald trump will completely reverse himself tomorrow on having a deportation force to deport 11 million people. >> imagine what happens if people actually enforce a law, if you have a president who worked with congress, de

a new poll has hillary clinton leading donald trump 50% to 42%. virginia, esther trump questions the results of some recent surveys. mr. trump: i think we are going to do so great and i see some great holes. i see one from the "los angeles times close to where we are ahead i four or five point. i see one from cnn where we are down. i think there's something about these polls, there's something phony. continuingsign of dissension within the gop, trump said he is not ready to endorse house speaker paul ryan or senators john mccain or kelly i ought. new york congressman richard hanna is the first house member to announce support for hillary clinton. retiringed, the congressman rights donald trump is unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country. reevaluateit will any use of the sicilian airbase to

bridge too far comparing him to donald trump. >> why? >> i am pro music. >> unpredictable. rambunctious. >> i'm not going to shed new tears for him because he did take a bailout. >> i think trump is like the kim kardashian of politics. he's a brand without any kind of real -- i trust kim kardashian more with the presidency than donald trump. >> maybe hillary clinton to at least some republicans is more like the bob dillon. whatever you have done and whatever respect we can have for the service you have provided, you're not where you used to be. what do you think of those attacks? >> i think those attacks will backfire on him. >> do you think they're sexist? >> yes. >> i do too. >> where they will backfire is with women. if he goes down that route of attacking her stamina, attacking her personal life, the people he's hurting the most right now are women. >> right. >> those suburban women romney voters are slowly turning their backs on him and i don't think that's going to work. >> you think it is not only wrong, but dumb. >> it's dumb, yes. >> the panel stays. ahead, donald t

donald trump! donald trump! oh, my god! >> hostile takeover of donald trump on vince mcmahon. >> jeb bush might be having some flashbacks watching that, too. joining me now is republican strategist and msnbc analyst ben ginsburg and lis smith, who advised former maryland governor martin o'malley. ben, let me start with you. we made a montage of donald trump versus the republican field. lot of memorable moments in those debates this year. basically it was donald trump trying to dismiss their attacks with a put-down, with an insult, sort of a very alpha line of attack. in a one-on-one debate with hillary clinton, does that same strategy work? >> probably not. i think they are obviously aware of that. what you have seen with donald trump's positions on immigration, his outreach to the african-american and hispanic communities, give you a hint that there is going to be sort of a different approach to these upcoming debates. >> part of that i guess is the challenge of any campaign, any candidate approaching these debates, is to

it's donald trump playing donald trump.o part of my goal in this paper was to try to get beyond the role, try to get beyond that belligerent, high energy kind of persona that he has and see what's beyond that. and by the end of the article, i come to a conclusion that, well, there's not a whole lot beyond the role. the role is pretty much who he is, but if you do get beyond it, you find a certain set of goals and values that are mostly about self-promotion and a story he's got about his life that's all about fighting, fighting to win, but why is he -- why does he want to win? what does he want to achieve? that's never really played out in terms of the story. so i think what it suggests in terms of his presidency is that this is a big unknown. we just don't know what kind of a president he's going to be. he doesn't come into the office with a narrativephilosophy u abs to achieve for the nation. it's a big mystery i think. >> you say that being narcissistic doesn't make donald trump pathological. explain that. >> well, narcis

why would the mexican president invite donald trump to speak after all of the harsh words that have been exchange between these two men, the rhetoric that emerged, president pena referring to hitler at one time when describing trump. >> reporter: that's a big question that a lot of people are asking. there's not a lot of answers, wolf. president pena nieto has his lowest approval rating since taking office in 2012. so why would he want to be seen in a photo opportunity smiling and shaking hands with donald trump, a man who is deeply loathed by so many here in this country. why did he invite him to mexico and what is essentially an official visit. lawmakers and other mexican leaders have made it perfectly clear that donald trump is not welcome. talk to mexicans, they'll say unless there's a major change by donald trump in the tone and the rhetoric and the policy, then as far as they're concerned the relationship between mexico and donald trump at this point is irreparable. as to president pena nieto, maybe this is a symbol as wanting to sit down and talk with the man who could in fact, co

the man who said i was donald trump before donald trump. these are certainly explosive issues.arily out of the ordinary, if you have been following his career. >> are they legally in maine? >> i would have to check the state laws. it is not the 19th century any more. i'll double check and report back. >> all right, phil mattingly, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. we'll be right back. if your sneezes are a force to be reckoned with... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. try zyrtec®. muddle no more®. just when you think you know what a computer is. you see a keyboard that can just, get out of the way. and a screen you can touch. and even write on. when you see a computer that can do all that, it might just make you wonder... hey, what else can it do? ♪ soon, she'll type the best essays in the entire 8th grade. get back to great. sixteen gig lexar flash drives just three ninety-nine. office depot officemax. gear up for sc

donald trump's are static. ing worse while the other is staying the same. >> she had a terrific convention. trump not only had a bad convention, he had a terrible period coming out of the democratic convention. where he attacked a gold star family. that really sent trump way down. now it's leveled back out. i think you're going to basically be in statsis. donald trump is not acting like a guy who he thinks is going to win. he's acting like he's panicking. i feel for chris . i don't share any of his views on immigration but i believe he believes them earnestly. trump doesn't. he built trump tower illegally with illegal immigrants from poland. found undocumented workers working there. now a new story suggesting his modeling agency somehow got around the immigration laws. this is all just a con for him. he's softening. now his new hat is going to say "make america make baby steps again." none of this is on the level for him. he'll go to mexico city today. i don't think he'll say the things chris would say because i

that's not who donald trump did. his comments not making headlines because of their nuance, not because of his specific critiques, they're making headlines because of his language, his word choice, because of his blunt statement that the president of the united states is the founder of isis. that's the only thing making news here. not the argument, the wording of the argument. there are a lot of things that are frustrating to republicans about donald trump. he says lots of outrageous, unacceptable things. many which stem from nothing more than personal vendettas. but it's got to be extra frustrating to republicans that even when trump tries to make one of the republican establishments decently crafted attacks on the obama administration and by extension on hillary clinton, even when he sets out to do that, each when he claims that that's what he tries to do, he ends up coming up with crazy sounding words, that become in and of itself the story. even when trump's allies, people that want him to win this election, give

but who has no interest in voting for donald trump this fall. bio, of course, has had some challenging times defending the things he said about trump during the primary. he says he stands by all of them, including that line where he called donald trump a con man. tamron. >> all right, kasie. msnbc's alex seitz-wald also in florida for us, covering representative debbie wasserman schultz, like marco rubio, an incredible turn of events in their political careers over the past year. what's the latest on her race, given bernie sanders' possible influence? >> reporter: right, tamron. this race really became a proxy war for bernie sanders against debbie wasserman schultz, the former chairwoman of the dnc who they say did not handle the democratic primary well. her opponent tim canova, anti establishment, raised close to $4 million, a huge sum, a lot of that were bernie sanders' supporters across the country. but wasserman-schultz representing the district for 12 years, her first primary, involved in florida politics long before that, a deep well of sup

--donald trump candidacy? >> if you are a democrat. >> i think hillary clinton has to be incredibly lucky. what book you have said, she's running the worst campaign because she is using donald trump's words against him rather than addressing the underlying reasons for the anger for why people support him and supported bernie sanders. i don't know about that. some days i wake up and i said, if you're hillary clinton run out, you're saying i'm the luckiest person in the world and some days i wake up and think choosing, this guy is a loose cannon and i don't know what he will do today and i'm the most -- i don't know whether she is lucky or unlucky. i have this project in the field called spotcheck run testing these advertisements in real and i've got people rating and it is on the web. what actually works best is when, the at has worked best, it is not one of hers, it was a republican super pac called our principles pack and they had women just, average women reading from ipads and iphones s donald cap has said