when he made that comment about john mccain being a p.o.w. and that he wasn't as brave of a man because he got caught. what do you say? do you believe donald trump should apologize for that comment? >> i certainly do. one of my best friends, you know, one of my closest two or three friends is john mccain, and i'm going to try to get trump to issue an apology. i mean, john mccain suffered, tortured, broken arms, what do you expect? you know, this young man at the time did everything that you would want a serviceman to do, above and beyond the call of duty. he was doused -- as you know, he had a chance to go home early, but he stayed there because he knew he was going home early because of his dad who was an admiral and very important admiral, but, you know, donald -- that's the one area i'd hope nominee trump would do is start honing down his rhetoric and there's nothing wrong with apologizing to the governor of new mexico or john mccain or anybody else he's insulted. >> what about mexicans or muslims or women? >> pardon? >> are apologies nece

. >> will her former runningmate john mccain join her? exclusive interviews with both mccain and palin. will she join the trump ticket? and hillary clinton, sharpening her line of attack against trump. >> we can't have a loose cannon in the oval office. >> is she ready to deploy a secret weapon? >> i told my husband he's got to come out of retirement. >> and the best political minds will be here with insights from the campaign trail. hello i'm jake tapper in washington, d.c., where the state of our union is reeling. wild week in american politics, as donald trump becomes the presumptive republican nominee, following the surprise dropout of his rival krtz kted cruz and this shocker with i played out live right here on cnn. >> to mr. speaker, you have said throughout this process that you will support the republican presidential nominee. now you have a presumptive nominee, donald trump. will you support him? >> well, to be perfectly candid with you, jake, i'm just not ready to do that at this point. i'm not there right now. and i hope to, t

we could lose senator mccain in the senate. pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, new hampshire, illinois are all states where republicans need to keep the senator in order to have a majority in the senate for the next cycle. >> and if trump gets the nomination, do you go silent? what do you do? >> we work really hard to make sure he doesn't get the nomination and i think ted cruz has a good chance to win tomorrow in indiana and that will put him on a path to win. i can tell you this. we won't support hillary clinton. but we'll probably focus on those senate and house races. the second thing that george will pointed out. they'll need protect what they have in the house and the senate. >> extraordinary moment with ted cruz walking right up to trump supporters and engaging with them despite them first hurling insults at them and it was fascinating to watch. >> reporter: and remember that on the campaign trail, lawrence, cruz has engaged with protesters before. this seemed an ink blot test for how you view ted cruz. supporters saw som

i mean, this is john mccain. is that much difference that you see there between what he's saying and what trump is saying about building a wall? >> you know, it's another example of how john mccain has changed. yeah, he ran on build the dang fence, you know, and he says whatever, you know, he thinks people want to hear. he changes his position depending on who he's talking to. so he's told dreamers that he'll support the dream act and that he's voted against it. he's changed. he's not a straight shooter. he is not a maverick. he doesn't stand for anything. >> now, you look at the breakdown of your state, 1.9 million hispanics, 1.9 hispanics, 30% of the population, it's the 6th largest in the country. so there's no wonder that mccain is saying in private this could be the fight of his life, or he could end up defeated if he wou -- people come out and vote given the numbers that you see of the hispanic population in your state and given that donald trump is at the head of that ticket. >> look, arizona is very diver

he has said, with respect to john mccain, that p.o.w.'s are losers. we are going to throw out all the filth that has been here. you are out, bro. all of you. enjoy the last few weeks left that you have got. security,to social giving them social security that comes out of my paycheck. >> we are going to have a say now. >> many in the crowd seemed to have forgiven trump for his mocking of senator john mccain, a former prisoner of war. >> he tells it like it is. he tells the truth. i think it is time to clean house. >> the idea of an empty inspiresment candidate veterans. -- the idea of an

mccain: i want to thank -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. mccain: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: and i address the senate as if in morning business. i want to thank the senator -- senator warner and senator schumer, the senators from virginia and new york. they're committed to the veterans in their states and in this country, and i believe that we have worked out an agreement to try to get them the vet ran services that -- veteran services that they have earned and are not receiving at this

mccain: mr. president, this morning we'll be voting on a joint resolution of disapproval for the rule that establishes u.s. department of agriculture's catfish inspection program. as i mentioned yesterday, i would remind my colleagues that the general accounting office, a watchdog organization that we rely on for their views, particularly on fiscal issues and matters that i have -- i think of all the institutions of government right now probably the g.a.o. is arguably the most respected. g.a.o. i has more than ten different reports between 2009 and 2016 that the responsibility, and i quote, "responsibility of inspecting catfish should not be a sign to the usda. calling the program is wasteful of tax dollars and duplicative of f.d.a.'s existing inspections on all other seafood products." that's an interesting item here, i say to my colleagues. the f.d.a. performs inspection on every seafood product that comes into the united states of america. and guess what? guess what? that's only one and that's

when john mccain was running, i was never mccain. there is no way i'm a know-how. no how.as no way, mark: you're comparing trump to mccain? saying we did not like our eventual nominee. mark: there's not a single issue that donald trump has embraced that is a self respecting conservative say that i actually believe that. and that he will govern with. >> that is your opinion. nicolle: so you and i worked for a lot of the same people. i believe that the people we work with believe at the time. where did we lose the base of our party? >> there's a complete crackup going on in the economy and the electorate across europe and the united states are it everyone is saying this intense -- look at what is happening with the republican party. we are experiencing the symptoms of an accurate -- electorate across the board. i think there's a lot to learn on this process that we have lost some of our party as the democrats have. the idea that the vessel for frustration, that loss, should be a guy who does not believe in anything. cost to beat the trump campaign to not have all rhine right

a spokeswoman for senator john mccain told nbc, as john mccain said he will support the nominee of the republican party who is now presumptively donald trump. he's opposed to the continuation of failed policies of president obama that will occur under pill ri clinton and have led to a world more volatile and less safe than any time since world war ii. there's also a number of activists who say they refuse to back trump even though he's won the nomination. george w. bush and george herbert walker bush say they will stay out of it. donald trump told lester holt that his negative numbers will calm down. let's watch the latest. this is a few minutes old. >> negatives are staggering. disapproval, 69%, women. african-american, 80. how much of that is self-inflicted by some of the rhetoric from the primary campaign and how do you heal that while still respecting those who got you here? >> the highly respected rasmussen poll came out. i haven't started on hillary clinton yet. i don't know what you're talking about with the negatives. i will say, i think i'll do well with women and in the last

john mccain tonight just endorsed trump.ot goinged to the, not going to the convention though. >> he's on the ballot though. >> he is on the ballot. >> so if you look, you know, two former republican presidents, former republican nominee in mitt romney, not supporting the nominator. the party is unprecedented. unprecedented. >> yeah, and i mean, which brings what the convention will look like. will look like. who is going to be the keynote speaker. who's going to put his name into nomination? you know, i think some of it will be revealed in the days going forward, maybe somebody like chris christie has endorsements, rick scott, paul lapage. the next couple -- >> can i say that a nominee normally has his or her pick, who says no, no one says no. this might be a different dynamic. >> the clinton campaign weighed in on donald trump. we'll have that when we come back. we'll take a short break. here's the plan. you're a financial company that cares, but your logo is old and a little pointy. so you evolve. you simplify. you haven'

real challenge for john mccain going forward. he says to me, this is going to be one of the toughest races of my career. i'm going to work incredibly hard. he's facing ann crook patrick if he wins, as we expect he will in the fall. very difficult race, largely because of donald trump. >> manu, thank you very much. >>> "outfront" now, donald trump's son, eric trump. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> your father speaking in west virginia. you just heard yet another republican say it will be hard to support your dad. of course, the breaking news, house speaker, paul ryan said he's not ready to back your father. what is your father's reaction when he heard what paul ryan said? >> you know, when i heard it, i actually thought -- first of all, i thought it was a little silly and also a benign. my father has become, you know -- he's a republican nominee for exactly, what, 48 hours at this point, right? my father doesn't know these people. he's not a washington insider. he's a business guy who stepped into politics. he's going to h

so i think mccain is being pragmatic.ublican and he falls under the category of republicans who say, i will support the republican nominee, be it who it be but john mccain will have to wage his own very independent campaign from donald trump because donald trump can be and will be toxic in arizona with a large swath of the population. >> let me move on. kayleigh, talk about donald trump's decision to come here to washington on thursday. he's invited to a meeting with the house speaker, paul ryan. some other republican leaders as well. what do you think? is there any real chance things could be smoothed over between the two of them, that they would emerge from this meeting on thursday basically united? >> absolutely. i think there's a great chance. i think donald trump has been trying his best to extend overtures to the other side and the establishment and i think this meeting will be very productive, particularly because we've had leaders in the party like dick cheney and rick perry and mcconnell saying we support the rep

lou: but it seems voters may have a bigger problem with mccain than trump.on 47% of the vote during the arizona primary in march, and mccain has been in a virtual tie with his democratic opponent, congresswoman anne kirkpatrick, since january. that, despite the fact that mccain has raised more than $10 million for his campaign compared to kirkpatrick's less than $3 million. voters may be, well, they may be having a little problem with the republican establishment right now, certainly mccain representative of such as an insider for the past 33 years. joining us now executive editor for "the weekly standard," fox news contributor, fred barnes. fred, great to have you here. >> thank you. lou: this is becoming a spectacle. let me start out with the good news. governor ricketts of nebraska endorsing donald trump as did governor perry. as did dick cheney, governor mike pence, sheldon edelson -- i mean, the list goes on. huge numbers of supporters. paul ryan looks to be a man near, near isolation in his petulance and rather shocking breach of his word and public pl

this is john mccain.meone a lot of republicans listen to. >> and a lot of americans respect but service to our country. look. john mccain has run -- >> right. >> -- for president. he knows what it takes and he also understands that the hispanic vote is a demographic both in this country and if you look at the registration numbers, whether it's texas, california, nevada, et cetera, arizona, people are angry at the kind of hateful rhetoric that they heard from mr. trump and that's -- they want to go out and register and participate. you know what i say? good. >> hmm. that's donna. tana, you want to respond? we got to go. >> i was going to say i know a lot of people are upset but a lot of people, a lot of hispanics -- i was in nevada when mr. trump won the hispanic vote and in arizona. and there are a lot of hispanics that are 100% behind securing the borders. mr. trump is resonating with a lot of them. i agree with john mccain. this is a tough struggle but at the end of the day he is a republican and donald

what he said about me, john mccain, that's fine. i don't require any repair of that. were captured, then there's a great -- there's a body of american heroes that i would like to see him retract that statement, not about me, but about the others. >> quoted as saying that him at the top of the ticket puts -- makes it difficult for you. is he good or bad at the top of the ticket? >> what i was saying is is that there is a hispanic vote which i have to continue my good relationship with because of the turmoil that exists in this whole national campaign. and so anybody who doesn't agree that there's great turmoil and any incumbent doesn't recognize that and have to campaign as hard as they possibly can is unaware of the passing scene. that's what i was talking about. >> would you want him to retract those statements about undocumented mexican immigrants and called them rapist and criminals, would you want him to retract those statements? >> i don't know. i think that it's important we understand the importance of the hispanic vote in america. many states in arizona more t

mccain: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i note with some interest that the senator from wyoming did not have the same zeal for the $1.1 billion we passed in emergency spending for zika not paid for. but the important thing here is that this is a program that 1.4 million for veterans who would otherwise wait for delayed care, 450,000 choice care providers. the list goes on and on. and all i'm asking for is an extension of a program that is in effect and helping our veterans. the fact is that the chairman of the veterans' affairs committee said last night what senator mccain is trying to do to improve access to health care, maintain the access through the choice of a private-sector provider or v.a. provider, there's no additional cost unless you assume that you want to take away a benefit that we've given two years ago in the omnibus bill we passed. so all i can say -- and he goes on to say he would support this amendment. who's taking advantage -- the majority of the people are taking advantage of this choice card? i

that mccain quote, yeah, that's how they are all going to be thinking. and not wrongly so. their own necks first. if that means throw trump overboard that's what that means. >> do you believe in the future what the trump experience has taught your party is they may actually need to abandon some of these ideas including on things like minimum wage. if he will make that pivot and that's already popular with populist working class white voters who vote republican, is trump going to shake up the idealogical firmament of the republican party? >> we need to stop enabling the wrong kind of ideas, stop encouraging the wrong beliefs, that government's their enemy. trump cannot pivot on immigration because you can't put the xenophobia genie back in the bottle. that was the original foundational lie of his campaign, we were going to round up, transport, house, guard, feed and deport 12 million people, twice as many as joseph stalin managed in 30 years. it was unbelievable and could only be believed by fools and a man who exploits the credulity of fools is a charlatan. i would be stunn

this bill is not john mccain's bill. it's not jack reed's bill. it's our bill and i want to make sure this bill comes out in a way that is good for the american people. my view of what's good for the american people may be different from others but i think we have a responsibility to do everything we can to proceed in a very orderly fashion. as soon as we get on this bill, i'll be able to do my very best and move along as quickly as possible. so i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: mr. president, is the senate in a quorum call? the presiding officer: it is. mr. rubio: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. rubio: thank you, mr. president. i came to the floor a few weeks ago to bring to the attention an abuse that's occurring in our welfare system and it involves cuban immigration. in sum, let me describe it, the situation we face t

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mccain, of course, running for the senate in arizona this fall. uniting the republican party, i want to bring in susan page, washington bureau chief, and rick tyler, former senior communications adviser for the ted cruz organization. you're a republican, worked with ted cruz. are you going to support donald trump this fall? >> you know, steve, right now i'd like to leave my ballot a private affair. but i will tell you that donald trump has done nothing to sort of earn me over as a ted cruz pp

romney's map was john mccain's plus indiana and north carolina. yet as you see still not enough to become president. the question is, what states does donald trump carry that mccain and romney couldn't get to win the republican party, their first ticket to the white house, in over a decade, almost a decade? with me to go through different scenarios, mitch stewart, battle ground states director for obama's 2012 campaign, former senior adviser for ready for hillary, founding partner of 270 strategies, show the mitt romney map again. this is the 2012 map of what happened in 2012. the toss-up states. let's go through what we think the toss-up states are. >> 2012 we basically had ten battleground states. starting west, going east, you had nevada, colorado, iowa, wisconsin, and then at that point michigan was considered relatively safe. we went to ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire, virginia, north carolina, florida. >> okay, so that's -- you think that in this race, trump/clinton, you're looking at the same turf more or less? or do you think michigan be

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when john mccain was running, i was never mccain. there was no way, no how. wrote him a check and voted for him. dan you're comparing trump to : mccain? no, i'm saying we did not like our eventual nominee. dan: there's not a single issue that donald trump has embraced that is a self respecting conservative say that i actually believe that. and that he will govern with. barry: that is your opinion. nicolle: so you and i worked for a lot of the same people. i believe that the people we work with believe at the time. where did we lose the base of our party? dan: there's a complete crackup going on in the economy and the electorate across europe and the united states. everyone is experiencing this intense socio-economic stratification. you see it in the u k. you see it in france. in austria,election poland, hungary. look at what is happening with the republican party. look what is happening with bernie sanders. it is happening all over the place. we are experiencing the symptoms across theorate board that just wants to blow the whole thing up. i get that. i think

mccain not knowing he's being taped. here he is. >> if it is donald trump in the top of the ticket, here in arizona, with over 30% of the vote being the hispanic vote, i have no doubt this may be the race of my life. people are angry. they're upset. they feel there's disconnect and all of that, and frankly, there's an element of nativism in it add well, as you know. the first wedge this donald trump had that gave him notoriety was build a wall, rapist, murder. the hispanic community is aroused and angry in way i haven't seen in 30 years. this will be a tough campaign for me. >> there's an honest assessment. >> they say, all we're trying to do at this moment is navigate. it's not about really for trump or against it. it's can you survive a year of up previously. can you have an isolated race where ever you're running and really define the race on your terms and not get it get nationalized. >> how do you offer on the menu, how do you say i'm a republican but i want to take a substitute. instead of mashed potatoes but i wan

. >> today, mccain broke his silence over trump saying he was not a war hero because he was captured. >> what he said about me, john mccain, that's fine, i don't require any repair of that, but when he said i don't like people who were captured, then there's aody of american heroes that i would like to see him retrack that statement, not about me, but about the others. >> so mccain actually plans to vote for trump, but even they thinks truck needs to make amends of former prisoners of war. what do you think, should he apologize to former prisoners of war? >> there's a benefit to being a nonpolitician for a long time, and of course there is a negative, and as senator mccain is out there saying, the republicans, including himself very importantly are now coalescing around donald trump. >> but should he apologize is what the question is? i want boris to answer that. should he come out and apologize? >> that's up to donald trump, but does he need to? i don't think he needs to. >> here's the thing, it shouldn't be about what is best for the campaign but for doing the right thing for vetera

senator john mccain weighing in as well, saying like it or not, trump is the nominee. it's foolish to not listen to the voters. take a listen. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantered as in eric candidater. his political career is over except for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people. as the leader of the gop, the convention certainly, he is to remain neutral and for him to already come out and say who he will not support was not a wise decision of his. i think why paul ryan is doing this, jake, is it kind of screws his chances for the 2020 presidential bid that he's gunning for. >> want to bring the party together. does the party have to be together? i'm very different than everybody else perhaps that's ever run for office. i actually don't think so. >> should the leadership listen to those folks a little bit better? >> you have to listen to people that have the chosen the nominee of our republican party. i think it would be foolish to ignore them. i think joanie ernst would be tremendous. i think there's a number of members of the senate.

suggesting joanie earnest from iowa. >> what he said about me, john mccain, that's fine. i don't require any repair of that. when he said i don't like people who are captured. then there's a body of american heroes that i would like to see him retract that statement. not about me. about the others. >> donald trump will be on cnn live. he joins "new day" during the 7:00 hour. >>> donald trump ramping up the rhetoric against hillary clinton and bill clinton. saying she is quote married to a man who got impeached for lying. he accused mrs. clinton of being an enabler. the clinton campaign responded with a tweet to say it is nice to have no regard for the facts whatsoever. >> i think saying that he's a loose cannon really focuses on some of the statements he's made which i find concerning. going back to torture. killing terrorists families which would be a war crime. those are just some of the concerns that i hear people talking about which i think does fit the definition of a loose cannon. >> clinton said the fbi has not contacted her about the private e-mail server to inter

john mccain said if donald trump asked me i would advise him.at the convention because i will be campaigning for my election and support the nominee. john mccain on the receiving end of some of that is in fact getting behind donald trump, kelly. >> he is getting behind donald trump for perhaps different reasons. one, someone has been the nominee of the party, is there enormous pressure to support the party. the party's voters have chosen donald trump and john mccain said he would support the nominee of the party and by extension is donald trump. that's different than embracing trump. mccain is in a tough election for his own seat in the senate. when talking about democrats that couldly. arizona is one of those often talked about because of the demographic that changed and john mccain will be on the ballot with hillary clinton on the top of the ticket for democrats and patrick, and that may be additional cover to his good friend, john mccain who has a tough re-election fight. graham was in the race himself and a rival and on the receiving end of

nobody had to say, oh, i wonder about john mccain. no, no, you knew. mitt romney, he's a republican. he's a conservative. in this race, you don't know and that's why people are up in arms. i think people have real legitimate questions. paul ryan is concerned about the future of the republican party. down ballot, he starts losing members in the house because he had truch at the top of the ticket, he is no longer speaker. >> and i think that's the thing here. looking long-term, i think hillary is a lot less dangerous to this country because when her policies fail, they're going to plame socialism, a mixed economy, but when trump's fail, the businessmen. the capitalists, then it's discredited and there's nothing stand ng the way of dick tor yal rule in this country. >> i love the idea of trying something new. look, we've had eight years of president obama. basically told the world we don't need to be exceptional anymore in america. what makes it? what are the ideas? >> hillary -- >> what it does do, ss not telling the world you're going even with them. yo

take a listen to how he validated, justified his comments. >> frankly i like john mccain and john mccain is a hero. also heroes are people that are, you know, whether they get caught or don't get caught, they're all heroes, as far as i'm concerned. and that's the way it should be. >> so do you regret saying tt? >> i like not to regret anything. >> of course. >> you say things and what i said, frankly, is what i said. and, you know, some people liked what i said, if you want to nope the truth. many people liked what i said. after i said that, my poll numbers went up seven points. >> reporter: and, craig, unsurprisingly he refused to back down. also unsurprisingly he's using his poll numbers as justification for that comment. >> you've had conversations with trump officials about general election strategy. it sounds very scorched earth. >> reporter: what they want to do is paint as somebody with questionable character. they believe her character is her biggest weakness right now. voters don't necessarily trust her, don't necessarily believe what she says, and they don't necessarily like he

you did not support john mccain in the primary process which i did not. i then came around and supported him. i was not for donald trump in this primary process. i was not against them but i did not endorse them. but i will put my full support behind him because i look at the alternative. and for america i believe it's imperative that donald trump win in november instead of hillary clinton. i think a clinton presidency is another four years of disaster for america. >> host: how does he do it? uncharted territory. can't descramble the map of reliable states? how does he do this? >> guest: i think every political professional in this town, they have the we thinking about presidential politics. what donald trump has done in this primary process is really flipped the table that the map is on over and then busted up with an ax because i think he really puts states in play that have traditionally been in the democratic lock column, pennsylvania, michigan, ohio which has gone back and forth. look, there's a lot of blue-collar workers. i invoke the reagan electio

did you have a never mccain movement? if you did, i never heard from you guys.id you have a never romney movement? >> kayleigh, hold on a moment. we haven't met each other yet, i'm happy to meet you. i am somebody who was in politics for many, many years with senator jesse helms, that's as conservative as you get. and then i took a hiatus and i got married and i have been raising five kids. very been a mom and a wife for the last 20 years and i have been in and out of the circles, working in the trenches. i have not been public like you have been for the last several years. >> to her point then, why now debra? what is it about donald trump? >> because now i thought -- all of those republican voters who are going to vote or who are voting for donald trump. what do you say to them. >> we know those people, they don't want to vote for hillary clinton just like we don't want to vote for hillary clinton, i think that some of them have been duped. i think some of them have probably not followed donald trump as long as i have. and i think they don't know what they're g

mitt romney and john mccain didn't flip flop on every issue.re's a difference there. >> are there things donald trump could do to win you over as he needs to win over paul ryan? what sort of statements can he make or what can he do? >> i think donald trump is dishonest, i don't think he believes in anything. interesting in kayleigh's defense of him, said it would hurt his brand, not what he believes. politically, paul ryan gave him an opening to earn the vote of conservatives. that's what he needs to do. >> i believe in limited government, doesn't he have to change some of his positions? >> that's why i don't think it is necessarily possible. it would have to change who he is. he is a political chameleon. it would be pandering back to conservatives if you decide no, i am not going to think about minimum wage, no i am not going to get rid of nato. all these things. that's the problem here. because he has been -- >> talking to people, active republicans, big donors, involved in a number of different cycles, many of them, men in particular more th

when john mccain was running. i was never mccain, no way, no how. the guy is not a republican.e him a check. mark: you are comparing trump to mccain? barry: i'm comparing -- we walked in the same shoes. dan: if you call yourself a conservative, there is not a single issue, come on, that donald trump has embraced that as a self-respecting conservative can say i have confidence he actually believes that, because there are real principles and convictions. he will govern with. nicolle: can i jump in? for a lot ofked the same people, we championed the same policies -- and i believe the people we worked for believe them at the time? where diwedd we lose the base of our party? dan: there is a complete economiesoing on in in western europe and the united states. this intense socioeconomic stratification that is manifesting -- you see in the brexit debate in the u.k. you see the president elected in austria. poland, haungary. this transcends the republican party. it is happening with bernie sanders. it transcends sovereign boundaries. it's happening all over the place. so, we are experi

or lindsey graham who are on this side. >> and they will, and mccain has said that he will get behind, and i don't know where lindsey graham is going to go, but the larger point is the wrong way for trump to proceed. everybody who has reservations on trump on principle, and issues should say, i don't care about that, and i am falling in line, and that is not going to happen. >> lars, yes. but to that point, i mean, do they just rewrite the platform to suit trump's liking? >> pardon me? >> if the alternative is hillary clinton, that is a no-go alternative and disaster of four more years of obama's policies and at least three supreme court justices to hillary clinton. that is the initiative to embrace the nominee that the voters and the members of the republican party have e chochos >> that is the beginning of the case of why republicans should unite behind him, even though they have opposed him on all sorts of policies. he is going to be the nominee of the republican party, and no question that most of them will back him, but if he is going to get the 90% of those who want to back him,

senator, john mccain. >> he's not a war hero. he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured. >> reporter: those words still not sitting well with decorated veteran bob dole, the only former republican nominee to endorse trump. >> i am going to try to get trump to issue an apology. >> reporter: but many in the veteran community here say they give trump a pass. what they like most about trump is that he speaks his mind. >> i like the fact that mr. trump speaks the truth. >> reporter: trump now calls mccain a good man, but in an interview earlier this month said he has no regrets about his original comments. >> i like john mccain, and he is a hero. there are many people that like what i said. after i said that, my poll numbers went up seven points. >> reporter: tonight, here press conference on tuesday to finally reveal the veterans groups who will receive money from that fundraiser he held back in january. tom? >>> now to a civil war cemetery looted by thieves. here's karen travers. >> reporter: tonight, this sacred ground a crime scene after

. >> john mccain says he's in the fight. he's facing the campaign, the battle of his life in arizona. what does this mean for the gop house, the senate races down the line, does it make it harder for them? >> they will probably lose house seats anyway. but if you look at the senate, states such as ohio, new hampshire, wisconsin, all states right now, pennsylvania, where these candidates could be in trouble if donald trump turns out to be a bad leader at the top of the ticket. >> you kind of know what you're talking about. >> if you are just making it up, it is not a lie. >> when we come back, some conservatives are singing the third-party blues, but is it too late for another candidate to enter the race? and who would take up that challenge? ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's whe

john mccain's comments yesterday.d trump went after john mccain so personally on his status as a war hero. mccain says he called himself a happy warrior. he'll support the nominee. mccain running for re-election to the senate. has to be careful not to alienate those trump supporters. george w. bush, we had a statement from him yesterday saying he's not going to have any role this fall. george w. bush his brother jeb attacked so personally, so effectively by donald trump. george h.w. bush, jeb is his son. george h.w. bush saying, hey, i'm retired from politics. don't look to me on this one. and then bob dole. bob dole in 1996 republican candidate for president. he's actually said some nice things about trump at least compared to ted cruz. ted cruz is the one dole didn't like. this is a fresh statement. we'll have to wait and see how the convention plays out. usually it's automatic. the republican party picks a candidate in tgs primaries. all the former presidents and former nominees get behind. but this year at this mo

but john mccain, john mccain say war hero. >> i honestly want to know who is paying ann coulter to speak other than-- . >> this is a bubble. this is a bubble. college has become a bubble. a lot of these schools, georgetown, boston college, this isn't happening at nas awe community college and-- . >> larry: john mccain was disinnighted with gnaw saw community college? >> yes, they would be so hyped. >> the point here is that they were invited. >> larry: yes. >> if they were not invited, of course, it's no issue. and if i was in charge, they would never have been invited. >> larry: it's clear, arianna, if you were running a college, it's clear. it's clear who is going to get invited. >> larry, would you have gotten invited. i don't know if you would have accepted. >> larry: of course. >> but my point is it creates something incredibly is dangerous that is a tyrant's view. i find your views offensive. >> there is a different between torturing someone and just saying i don't really want to hear what you have to say. they're not the same. >> you have that right, to not invite them. but we're

i prefer what mitch mcconnell did and john mccain did. they said game's over, we have a nominee, i am with him. harris: your father says he thinks he's in dangerous places politically in arizona. >> my father is in the race of his life, and a lot of people said he was caught off camera. but everything that was public is on the record. he and other republicans, the down ballot voting is a real thing. i don't have the luxury, i'm from a border state. you have got to get 45% of the hispanic vote or you won't win. i think donald trump continues to ignore this. harris: are republicans poised to take on that issue of demographic? i fail to understand how he complicate that matter particularly. >> calling them rapists and murderers will probably compromise the hispanic vote. >> i think the party has done a poor job of reaching out to minority and ha -- and hispanics specifically. people make the argument that hispanics are a naturally conservative base and republicans have just done a bad job of mess anding there. i think what donald trump has d