>> phil mattingly, thank you very much. >>> now david gergen, adviser to four presidents. bassos michael and executive editor of politics. disciplined speech, a scripted speech. a teleprompter speech. some things in it you heard phil mattingly reporting, true. the bosnia claim, for example. others, though, not true. debunked. things like the benghazi claim. why not keep it clean? why put in things that have been debunked. >> i think the issue is that it's false. he's metaphorically saying she was sleeping. she should have been there. multiple requests for security that were not delivered. those are facts. we can say the same about hillary clinton, who has categorically called donald trump a fraud and saying that trump university was a fraud. we could painstakingly fact collect her as well. i think fact checkers sometimes are a little off especially some out there that painstakingly check donald trump. but the fact is, he is right. he laid out facts about the clinton foundation, laid out facts about benghazi. cited victims of benghazi's families who said that hillary clinto

cnn's phil mattingly has been talking to gop officials about what they want and need from trump right. >> i will make you proud of your party and our movement. >> reporter: donald trump trying to turn the corner in the wake of widespread interparty condemnation of his attacks on the ethnicity of a federal judge. >> i would like to be able to endorse donald trump but he really has to change the approach that he has taken. >> reporter: trump seeking to calm gop jitters, offering this pledge tuesday night. >> giving me the honor to lead the republican party to victory this fall. i understand the responsibility of carrying the mantel and i will never, ever let you down. >> reporter: the speech marking trump's effort to end or at least pause days of internal gop heartburn and very public backlash all with trump doubling down and tripling down his attacks on judge gonzalo cure yell who is overseeing a lawsuit involving trump university. >> he's a mexican. we're building a wall between here and mexico. >> reporter: trump's remarks coming a day after back-channel phone calls, warnings and ple

phil mattingly and phil mudd as well. stand by.tingly, what is the extent of the breach and what were they looking for? >> it's a deep breach. we talked to dnc officials and the outside that the dnc brought in when they recognize there was an issue. crowd strike has a rapid response operation that came in over the weekend and recognized this. there were two separate stru intrusions. also, a second intrusion that deliberately targeted opposition research related specifically to donald trump. they remove some of the files. now the democratic national committee say the intrusions have been buttoned up and no financial data or intensive candidate data was breached during the breaches but the idea two entities aligned with the russian government were inside the democratic national committee for more than a year in one case and one of the two entities that targeted the dnc was the same entity that had infiltrated the networks of the white house. the joint chiefs of staff and the state department. they have a lot of experience going after

i want to begin, though, with phil mattingly. phil, we have heard so many stories about battle inside the trump campaign. what did today tell us about how the battles are finally shaking out? >> it's family above all else, erin. when it comes to corey lewandowski, one of the longest serving lieutenants inside the trump campaign, it seemed for many, even amid all of the fights he would never be dislodged. but over the course of a couple of weeks, donald trump's family lining up against corey lewandowski, and today his reign came to an end. >> corey, good job, corey. >> reporter: today donald trump's embattled campaign manager, corey lewandowski is out. >> what happened? why were you fired? >> i don't know. i don't -- i don't know the answer to that. >> reporter: lewandowski started the day on a regularly scheduled rnc messaging call. one person making clear, nothing seemed strange or different. yet within hours, he would be escorted out of trump tower by security, according to one source. part angry, part relieved and no longer the

phil mattingly is in new york. we saw a more tempered donald trump tuesday night. that's the donald trump that republican leaders say they want more of. >> no question about it, jake. it's the tension within the republican party but also within the trump campaign. how do you get donald trump to ratchet back to rhetoric a little bit, maybe refocus the attacks on hillary clinton but not lose the candidate that appealed to so many millions during the primary? donald trump is no longer in a republican primary and that, more than anything else, he now has to target why republican leaders want change and fast. >> today, donald trump meeting with top donors and rnc chairman reince priebus as part of his effort to quell growing unease inside the gop. >> i understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle. >> even as some top democrats -- relating to the now defunct trump university. >> i hope he renounces what he says. i'll be watching as others are closely. we'll wait and see what happens going forward. >> reporter: ohio governor john kasich still wary of throwing his

let's get more from cnn's phil mattingly. he's live outside of trump tower this morning. hi, phil. >> reporter: hey, carol. well, anybody who has been watching the trump campaign over the course of the last 10 or 11 months would be surprised at this fact. donald trump is not backing down. in fact, he's doubling down, escalating a little bit when you saw his remarks about a potential muslim judge being biased as well. the issue here, carol, is not necessarily that donald trump hasn't said inflammatory things in the past or isn't backing down currently. it's that republican officials looking at the electoral landscape this year and for the future of their party are growing increasingly concerned, and that's why you have seen some of the latest condemnations. take a listen to what we heard just yesterday. >> this is one of the worst mistakes trump has made, and i think it's inexcusable. he has every right to criticize a judge and he has every right to say certain decisions aren't right, and his attorneys can file to manufacture the venue from the judge. but first of all, this

phil mattingly has more on that.hat are you hearing how yesterday's speech came together with the key players in trump's campaign? >> it is an amazing thing, anderson. you look at it, more than 24 hours prior, donald trump was on a private conference call with surrogates, urging them to go on offense. there's a good reason why. he believes he is in the right. he believes the rulings that have come from the judge have been unfair, that the only rational reason is the judge is biased, he believes he is right through the process. what we saw last night in the 700 plus word statement and the rather toned down remarks that you and manu talked about, he at the urging of family members, including his daughter, ivanka trump, rnc members, new jersey governor chris christie and most importantly chief strategist paul manafort willing to if not back down, ratchet back the rhetoric. anderson, worth noting that this isn't some major pivot, if you talk to advisers, they say major change is not in the ofg, but this is a shift, he is

phil mattingly reports. >> it is going to happen again and again and again because we're not doing whatbe doing. >> reporter: donald trump raising serious concerns on the campaign trail today in the wake of the devastating attack at an orlando gay club. >> we have to maybe check we have to check respectfully the mosques. check other places because this is a problem that if we don't solve it, it is going to eat our country alive. >> reporter: attacking hillary clinton and again swinging back at president obama's broadside of his foreign policy. >> he gives a speech yesterday, a long speech that at the end of it nobody knew what the hell he was talking about. >> reporter: after this retort tuesday night. >> and i watched president obama today and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter. >> trump is calling on meeting with the nra to keep those on watch lists from gun purchases. the nra said they will welcome the meeting but say the position hasn't changed. continues to support republican legislation that expands the ability of law enforcement to block such sales. this as many g

you've been saying that for months now, phil mattingly. to see you, phil. >> thanks, kate. >> he's a broken record. >>> donald trump supporters, jason osbourne and tara setmeyer and executive chairman of the new york state democratic party, smigel and he also is a hillary clinton supporter, sorry, i couldn't get it out of my mouth. let's begin. the intros are always the toughest for me. with friends like these, with republicans like these who needs democrats when the infighting continues? what is donald trump's role as it's going to take time. what is donald trump's role in bringing the party together? >> his role is to speak with the republican voter because, look, he ran against the political class, the political elite and some of the political elite includes my party, the republican party and the democratic party, as well. he ran against politicians. it's no secret that politicians don't like donald trump and wish they had something else. it's his role to speak to the american voter with the consistent message that i'm putting you first

phil mattingly has tonight's big number. >> i think it's something that is going to be a great tributeand is and also a great tribute to the world of golf. ♪ >> reporter: donald trump landing in scotland as the uk makes history. the presumptive gop nominee talking to the press, mostly about his golf course. >> brand-new sprinkler system, the highest level, many of the holes have been jiggered and made even longer and new greens, new everything. >> reporter: his hotel -- >> and the hotel opened about two weeks ago, and it's been amazing. we have had very few complaints, almost no complaints about the rooms. >> reporter: and how the vote that sent shock waves through global markets may actually be a good thing for his business. >> and when the pound goes down, more people are coming to turnberry, frankly? and a candid admission that for trump, there is no separation between his business portfolio and his campaign. >> well, i don't think it matters while i'm running. >> reporter: a position voters appear to disagree with. the latest cnn orc poll showing nearly 70% believe trump should ste

phil mattingly, what are you hearing? does the trump team feel somehow like they've turned a corner here? >> i think they felt like last night was a good step forward. but to tim's point, the idea that some massive pivot is going to happen and donald trump is going to turn into general election donald trump, i think when you talk to donald trump's advisers, they knock that down pretty consistently. there was a recognition yesterday, and kate and i joked about. donald trump was off twitter for 18 hours. donald trump was meeting privately with chris christie. rnc sources say donald trump had a phone call with the rnc. yesterday was a reality moment realizing you can't keep doubling and tripling down. this is a real problem. members are publicly speaking out. donors are losing their minds over it. the reality of losing a robust house majority, slim senate majority were on the table. therefore, donald trump needed to do something about it. donald trump put out a 700-word statement and did not apologize and seemed diskcombobul

. >> so cnn's phil mattingly is outside trump to youer in new york with much more on this. you're hearing from a lot of donors about this awkward and uncomfortable position that a lot of republicans feel right now. what are you hearing, phil? >> reporter: that's exactly right. one of the key issues is a lot of donors over the last two weeks looked at the joint fund-raising agreement the rnc signed with donald trump as a sign of sorts. it was time to coalless, top party leaders would get behind trump. donors are growing increasingly unize uneasy. senate republicans are defending 24 seats this cycle. house republicans, they have a 54-seat majority. that's far more robust than they have in the senate, they're defending a lot of seats too. donors are looking to help those candidates right now and every time they hear donald trump make statements like he has over the last 48 to 72 hours, they become increasingly uncomfortable that no matter how much money they put in, it's not going to help. all you need to do is look behind me to find out why. democrats have set up a protest in

i'm going to go to phil mattingly and we're going to talk about this is clearly going to be an issueor both kapd dates going forward. how will this play going forward? >> i think interesting thing, the clinton foundation is a real issue for clinton campaign to deal with and one they've been dealing with over the course of the entire campaign. the interconnectivity at the state department and foundation and bill clinton raised money and foundation raised money, they are very real questions there and real issues there and there has been a lot of reporting done on those issues and i think you'll see more going forward. interesting thing with donald trump, you take a businessman, a very successful by his own account, many times over, businessman, who enters the political arena, you're going to receive scrutiny on every aspect of your business record. plenty of republican candidates no longer in the case will argue maybe it wasn't done at the level it should have been, when there's 17 candidates and you're digging into all of them, maybe there's truth to it. whether it's trump university

carol. >> all right, phil mattingly reporting live for us this morning. thank you. >>> let's talk about that. the executive director of the new york state democratic party, also a hillary clinton supporter, and joseph barrely, council man for the 51st district here in new york city. joseph, we have to talk about the backdrop. mr. trump was standing in front of, aluminum steel, but he was doing that for a purpose. what was it. >> talking about some of the manufacturing jobs that have been shifted overseas over the last two decades from both republican and democratic presidents. trade deals like nafta have resulted in 50,000 manufacturers going out of business in this country. that's manufacturers. we're not talking about jobs. each one of those companies employ between 100,000 people. the interesting thing is to compare the speech, hillary is in the right place, ohio, tied there, might be losing there, but talking about job killing proposals like taxing corporations out of business, and advancing more environmental regulations. in ohio and even pennsylvani

phil mattingly covering this for us. >> reporter: goods morning, carol. he comes back from scotland but still facing serious questions, serious new questions. here is kind of a good way of looking at it. i spoke to six top gop officials over the weekend and asked what is their biggest concern as he hits the main pathway into the republican convention. all six had different answers. one said infra truk stir. one said fundraising, another the fact he was in scotland, it isn't exactly a swing state. these are all major concerns that you really heard from senate majority mitch mcconnell, leader, this weekend. >> do you believe he is qualified, and how do you convince all those voters to think he isn't? >> well, look, i think there is no question he has made a number of mistakes over the last few weeks. i think they're beginning to right the ship. it is a long time until november. and the burden obviously will be on him to convince people he can handle this job. >> i didn't hear you say whether you thought he was qualified. >> look, that would be up to the ame

let's discuss the different takes and the impact with phil mattingly. n political reporter m.j. lee, and global and economic affairs analyst ali velshi. phil, you're close to the trump campaign in covering it. he had a big day with his trade speech. it had ideas, it had substance. we'll get to that. this is what's going to get the headline though. his saying we should match tactics. who's he targeting with that? what's going to be the pushback? >> he's targeting really the electorate that he's targeted up until this point. i think the question becomes, it's an electorate that already supports him, right? it's the republican primary electorate that's for him. the question i think is, first off, the idea of bringing back tactics that have been labeled terrorism and banned -- >> illegal. >> they're illegal. they're quite literally illegal. it's unsettling to a lot of people. what it taps into is fear about kind of the broad picture that isis creates and that we as a country are not tough enough to deal with them. isn't that at the core of donald trump's mes

let's start with phil mattingly. inton and donald trump spent the last couple weeks sizing each other up, testing new lines of attack. no more. thursday marked the

cnn's phil mattingly has it covered for today. phil, the clinton camp responding to trump's attacks on the judge already. >> reporter: that's right, ashleigh. with a very strong statement. if you track back where this is coming from, donald trump has been attacking this judge who's overseeing one of the trump university lawsuits over the last couple of weeks on the campaign trail. he really doubled down on those attacks last night in the "wall street journal" as you noted saying he has a conflict of interest in the case. and now hillary clinton's campaign is responding in a statement saying in part, quote, the fact that donald trump doesn't see judge curiel as america american. hillary clinton attacking donald trump. advisors saying morse trying to de-legitimize his candidacy for president of the united states. donald trump firing back with some of his strongest language yet and that's a big deal. take a deal. >> after what she said about me today and her phony speech, that was a phony speech. that was a donald trump hit job. i wil

phil mattingly, thank you so much. joining me more to tuck about trump is adam kinsinger of illinois. former air force pilot who served in iraq and afghanistan. much to talk about. i do want to ask you about the new phase congressman because donald trump he may say that there's no 2.0. but we are certainly seeing him temper his rhetoric at least at times. what do you make of this? >> well i hope he is. i hope this is long-term. every time i've gotten to the point where i think he is tempering his rhetoric, he's not. he says something else. i think the unfortunate comments about come to his golf course because the pound's falling and that's great for his golf course is one of those for instance. but i've always said myself, i'm not a never trump guy. i want to support the republican nominee. but as an american before a republican, i need to see some of that. my hope is, you know, truly we are seeing trump 2.0. he is taking very seriously the fact he is running for abraham lincoln and ronald reagan's job and leader of th

phil mattingly is covering the trump campaign. phil, there's still a lot of anxiety about trump.est? >> as the democratic party moves quickly to come together, the gop is facing struggles. wolf, it is a tension that goes beyond capitol hill, it is governors, state lawmakers, donors. it is a party that desperately wants to shift into general election fight against hillary clinton, if only the candidate will let them. >> reporter: donald trump today huddling with top donors and reince priebus, part of an effort to quell growing unease within the gop. >> i understand the possibility of carrying the mantle. >> reporter: top republicans are on the fence over his attacks of ethnicity on the judge in the class action lawsuit related to the now defunct trump university. >> i hope he renounces what he said, i will be watching as others will, we will see what happens going forward. >> reporter: ohio governor john kasich wary of throwing his support behind trump. >> you don't even sound like you're on the fence. >> no, i'm giving him a chance. >> doesn't sound like it. >> he is trending the

phil mattingly is in atlanta where trump had an event earlier today. ry clinton over national security. what's the latest? >> reporter: no question about it, wolf, he's not backing down at all. the hope amongst some republican officials over the course of the last four, five days are that donald trump would ease off some rhetoric, disappearing, whether the ban on muslim immigration, the mosques, or the nra. donald trump splitting in so many ways with the republican party. >> it is going to happen again and again and again because we're not doing what we have to be doing. >> reporter: donald trump raising serious concerns on the campaign trail today in the wake of the devastating attack at an orlando gay club. >> we have to maybe check respectfully the mosques, and check other places because this is a problem that if we don't solve it, it is going to eat our country alive. >> reporter: attacking hillary clinton and again swinging back at president obama's broadside of his foreign policy. >> he gives a speech yesterday, a long speech that at the end of it

>> phil mattingly, thank you very much.gal analyst jeffrey toobin, and "the washington post" assistant editor david swerdlick, and chief political analyst gloria borger. what do you think, gloria, first, i want to ask you about donald trump talking about his cabinet, about saying i am going to rule this out long before the election. obviously that would make his cabinet members targets months ahead of when they normally would be. do you think this is ignorance about the process or him saying i have serious people to be part of my organization. >> i think he is trying to beef up his political resume, if you will. we don't know whether he is definitely going to do it or not. he seems to think it sounded like a good idea, wasn't sure if anyone had done that previously, but for him on one hand, he might say okay, these are the really smart, talented experienced people who i want to put in top policy positions. when you haven't been in government service before and you don't have a government record, you know, that might be an a

cnn's phil mattingly is live at new york's trump tower. >> reporter: now, good morning, brooke. donald trump has had no shortage of opportunities to walk those attacks back, and no shortage of republican officials telling him both publicly and sources say privately to do just that. he hasn't. at least at this point, it appears he won't and that is only raising fears inside the gop. donald trump now musing that a hypothetical muslim judge might not remain neutral if presiding over the case against trump university. >> muslim judge, would you also feel they wouldn't be able to treat you fairly, because of that policy of yours? >> ah -- it's possible, yes, yeah. that would be possible. >> if you are saying he can't do his job because of his race is that notes definition of racism? >> he's proud of his heritage. okay? i'm building a wall. he's a mexican. >> you're invoking his race whether or not he can do his job. >> jake -- i'm building a wall. okay? i'm building a wall. >> reporter: trump's comments increasingly raising sharp concerns insid

thanks, phil mattingly reporting. that the house speaker, paul ryan, calls the comments racist, next day confirms his support for trump's candidacy. >> i think it is a mess, wolf. what we're seeing is stunning, astonishing. i don't know any other way to put it. you had all these people in republican leadership, people run are for re-election in the senate, who twisted themselves in a pretzel, having endorsed other people or being on the fence to finally come around in the last month or so, to kind of coalesce around donald trump as the party's nominee because they felt it was for the good of the party, party unity, pretty good for down ballot races as well. now what they're finding they have to do is distance themselves to a degree and say look, i'm for the republican nominee but i think what he said is completely inappropriate or as paul ryan said racist, and it's a very difficult position for them to be in. for paul ryan to say i believe what he said is racist but i continue to endorse him is twisting yourself into

i just want to bring in phil mattingly now for more on the politics of gun control. hington post" had some interesting analysis on mccain's comments. this article reads in part that the effect of trump's willingness to go there raer toically is that it ups the ante for every other republican. so, phil, "the washington post" calls this trumpism and says it has had a strong influence on the republican party at large. you've been talking to gop officials. is this something that's real inside the party? >> reporter: the landscape has shifted, shifted actually might be an understatement. it's been an earthquake of sorts for republicans running up and down the bat lollot. what does donald trump actually mean. the real question becomes on the other side. you have seen even more republicans, particularly those running in tough races in november, walk away from donald trump, criticize his statements, distance themselves on a regular basis. the reality is this, pam, if you look across the republican party. this has been a paradigm shift. you haven't seen something like this in

phil mattingly on the conference for us.hat you know about the leak. >> the call itself, brooke, high level surrogates and staffers with donald trump, former arizona governor jan brewer, former governor scott brourn and others out talking on a regular basis and one of the issues brought up on this call was how are we supposed to respond to this issue? these attacks on the judge which donald trump has faced no shortage of criticism not just in the media but the republican party on a whole and donald trump says he believes he's wrongly maligned here and needs help getting the message, the side of this out and told his surrogates and top staffers to continue on that point. an interesting element here is just the day before a memo had gone out saying, look, this is an issue for the trump organization. not the campaign. if you're a surrogate, defer it to the trump organization. if you think about this case specifically, brooke, it makes sense. why on a trump organization issue would the campaign be forced to deal with this for a

let's turn to phil mattingly. >> it is the tale of two donald trumps. there is the donald trump we have seen repeatedly on the campaign trail, on the attack, whether it is hillary clinton or hillary clinton's top surrogates. then the donald trump who is watching a campaign to prepare for the general election and that strategy now involves a policy paper that will ratchet back his muslim ban. now, it pertains according to advisers to just people coming from terrorist states, not all muslims. another sign that at least on the campaign side of things everybody is focused on the general election. but where is donald trump? that remains the question. off the campaign trail yesterday, back on it today. two very important appearances in battleground states, pennsylvania and ohio. but no question, donald trump is not going to pull off his attacks. neither is his surrogates. listen to what former massachusetts senator scott brown had to say when it came to elizabeth warren. >> she's not native american. she's not 1/32, no native american background except for wh

phil mattingly with more. >> we are a little more than a month away from the convention, 33 days to bethis is the moment where the party is supposed to be coalescing behind the nominee. everybody deciding that this is the presumptive nominee we wanted and this is the presumptive nominee we have. it looks like the riffs are growing deeper, and donald trump saying if you're not behind me, just shut up. >> our leaders have to get tougher. this is too tough to do it alone. but you know what, i think i'm going to be forced to. >> donald trump, ready to turn his back on gop leaders. threatening to go it alone if they fail to fall in line. >> we have to have our republicans, either stick together or let me just do it by myself, i'll do very well. >> coming days after backlash of republicans refusing to back trump's proposed muslim ban in the wake of the terror attack. >> don't talk. please, be quiet. just be quiet, to the leaders, because they have to get tougher. they have to get sharper, smarter. >> house speaker paul ryan, continuing to rebuke trump's views. >> i actually think a muslim ba

. >> let me turn now to senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny as well as phil mattingly.ent's statement on brexit. what jumped out to you about it? >> it was really one of those lines you just heard. it seemed almost like a throwaway line, as he was talking about the way forward with the uk and with the eu. that was when he said the vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges raised by globalization. that's exactly right. that's at the core of everything that occurred. not just in the uk, but that we've seen kind of across europe and even in the united states. the president himself has delved into this occasionally in interviews in the past. but there's a lot here to dig into. a lot of people that are disappointed with the current state of their economy, disappointed and disillusioned with their political leaders, with their business leaders, this is the direction things have headed. i think the president, along with a lot of top political leaders, are trying to figure out how to engage with that and perhaps how to figure out a way to solve the problems that that ma

for the latest let's get to phil mattingly. nearly 400 pages of documents i believe. what did we? what more are we learning? this lawsuit has been ongoing and going up for quite some time. what more do you think we're learning? >> these documents unveil the sales and marketing tactics that are used to pursue students. at the basis of these lawsuits this was a scheme that didn't deliver what it was supposed to be, a fraudulent promise, more or less, coming under the trump name. donald trump was going to be heavily involved. what's hand selecting the instructors and he wasn't. people taking these classes were going to become millionaires and you're looking at the playbook of the sales and marketing techniques they used to go after. one of the sales managers is quoted as say gs this is a fraudulent scheme, a number of sales managers or sales employees became very uncomfortable and disenchanted with the way they were targeting individuals and challenging them to max out credit cards and people that were in had enough money to pay but were in financial trouble therefore became easy mar

also, phil mattingly joining me in new york. scottie nel hughes, who a trump supporter. you. phil, wasn't to start with you, because t -- i want to start with you, phil. this is taking place in an african-american neighborhood, a drug addiction center. why there? >> that's right. this is the first plank, the republican agenda, the house republican agenda. paul ryan really over the course of the last three or four years has made focus on reforming welfare programs through conservative policies to better address poverty in the country, a central theme of his policy prescription. so this isn't new for him. what this lays out is a point by point plan of conservative principles dealing with poverty issues. paul ryan has behind the scenes and sometimes publicly gone to centers like this talking to people who are actually on the ground, trying to figure out not just what the top line conservative philosophy would be related to this, but actually what, would work effectively on the ground. what they're trying to do today basically is address that, and show it with their members.

cnn's phil mattingly is here with the very latest. so, phil, my friend, when you see what happened yesterday between hillary clinton and donald trump, it leads one to wonder, this he have campaign events today. where does this go from here? >> continues to escalate. i think if you talk to advisors, they were two heavy weight fighters for the last couple of weeks throwing jabs, testing out attack lines and then they started throwing hey makers yesterday. it's going to continue going forward. it's the reality of this race. each side is trying to define a very negative candidate as more negative than themselves over the course of these next couple months. the pre-convention moment, the moment where barack obama so successfully defined mitt romney back in 2012, both sides are taking a page from that playbook. if you look at what hillary clinton tried to do yesterday, if you look at donald trump's rather ferocious response, implicitly one of her keys was to get under his skin, it clearly worked. now the question becomes how does it escalate

. >> we begin this hour with my colleague phil mattingly joining me on the behind-the-scenes scoop from donald trump said something should be eliminated from speeches, being a teleprompter. saw a very different, more measured donald trump. is this a sign of things to come? >> senator mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader said yesterday, it was time for trump to, quote, get on message. that's what he did last night. when he talked to republicans, some of whom are extremely nervous, slightly terrified after the last five or six days, the attacks on the judge overseeing the trump university case felt very good about what they saw last night. brooke, it's important to note we've had how many moments over the course of the last five months where people have said donald trump has been pivoting. donald trump can be so presidential that you'll be tired of him being presidentialed and he's heading into general election and the question being asked is last night for real, the new reality? if you talk to people inside the campaign, they make very clear. it was a process, happy to get him to the

. >> major statement from the senate majority leader, phil mattingly is "outfront." you know, look, the same day you've got paul ryan, house speaker, coming out, endorsing saying he's voting for donald trump and his office saying it is the same thing as an endorsement and the majority leader saying things like that. and concerned about trump. i mean, it's just pretty difficult. >> reporter: no question about it, erin. a major statement but also a very prevalent sentiment and mitch mcconnell also looking at the future of his senate majority and paul ryan's house majority. that's his focus now and what's most interesting to watch how top republican officials, top donors and potential candidates view the trump candidacy and for some candidates, it actually had a benefit in the sense that donors wary of donald trump are helping them out. and erin, an interesting aspect of this, the top super pac backing senate republicans raised more than $6 million in the first quarter of this year. largely because of donald trump, the top republican house super pac has doubled what it'

more on that and the rest of the day in politics from phil mattingly. >> hillary clinton, and as you most people know, she's a world class liar. >> reporter: fresh off the most scathing attack on hillary clinton, the best fundraising stretch of his campaign, internal shakeup well received inside an increasingly uneasy party. >> yesterday's speech went a long ways to reigniting the members as well as the party faithful. yesterday's speech was very important making that pivot. >> reporter: donald trump is leaving the country, headed to scotland, not to meet with world leaders or burnish foreign policy credentials, instead for reopening of a golf course, his turnberry resort. in a 2014 interview with golf digest called it super trophy, one of the great pieces of art. an unorthodox move raising questions inside the gop. yet another sign this isn't a traditional campaign and trump is far from a traditional candidate. trump's trip coming as a new cnn orc poll finds nearly 70% of voters survey stay trump should step down atop the trump organization as he runs for president. be far from cele

let's start with phil mattingly. h hi, phil. >> reporter: hillary clinton and donald trump spent the last couple weeks sizing each other up, testing new lines of attack. no more. thursday marked the reality this race will be defined by head-on attacks, es calates rhetoric an increase of violence. >> it was so sad to watch. >> reporter: donald trump coming back swinging. >> lyin', crooked hillary. >> reporter: after hillary clinton's scathing foreign policy speech eviscerating the republican nominee with her toughest lines yet. >> i will leave it to the psychiatrist to explain his affection for tyrants. >> reporter: trump calling for the secretary of state to be imprisoned over use of a private server. >> hillary clinton has to go to jail. okay? she's guilty as hell. >> reporter: the pair trading stinging one-liners. >> he says he has foreign policy experience, because he ran the miss universe pageant in russia. >> the tools donald trump brings to the table, bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets. >> reporter: to wa

phil mattingly who covered financial news for years. michael ka pewcaputo and steve elmendorf. doug heye is joining us as well, former communications director for the rnc and for the sake of this conversation we should note he also has done some work with boris johnson's office when he was mayor of london. those introductions can sometimes exhaust me. let's get to the real point of this conversation now. rana, to you. draw from this book i am now walking through, "makers and takers." what does this mean? >> i think the vote underscores there is a complete trust gap between the elites in many countries, the uk, the u.s., many other countries, and the mass populations. if you look at the way in which the markets missed this, the markets were pricing in a 25% chance this was going to happen. sterling was rising yesterday. so elites in washington and wall street and many capitals around the world did not expect this to be the vote. but there is a huge gap between where the markets are and where main street is both in the uk and in the u.s. i see a lot of crossover there with a grou

let's go live to phil mattingly. what's the latest? >> donald trump has said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he could have settled this lawsuit related to trump university and put this whole issue behind him but he wanted to win. his case has no merit so he's willing to fight. hillary clinton agrees and now she's attacking. >> trump and his employees took advantage of vulnerable americans encouraging them to max out their credit cards, empty their retirement savings, destroy their financial futures all while making promises they knew from the beginning. >> reporter: new documents outlining aggressive and alleged predatory tactics from the employees of now defunct trump university. >> this is just more evidence that donald trump himself is a fraud. he is trying to scam america the way he scammed all of those people at trump u. >> reporter: clinton's attacks, part of a day-long assault on the issue, one trump dismissed as without merit. the level of attacks at the impartiality and ethnicity of the judge overseeing the case. >> i co

phil mattingly is following the campaign.his is a lot of discord three weeks away from the convention. >> look, after a very divisive campaign, they knew the healing would take tyke but they made very clear this much skepticism, not to mention the outright lack of support, it is a problem and it is one donald trump is becoming increasingly frustrated with. >> tonight, he is struggling to unite the gop just three weeks from the party's national convention. >> it is like i'm running against two parties. >> the presumptive nominee lashing out at his rivals. they signed a pledge saying they will abide. saying they will back the candidate. they broke their word, in my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again. what they did is disgraceful. >> this is a top advisor to former opponent john kasich balanci blasting out an e-mail to supporters saying that he is still polling better than trump. and mike lee going off in a radio interview about a myriad of problems. >> he accused my best friend's father of cons

cnn's phil mattingly is joining us with the very latest. phil, this all happened very suddenly. >> indeed, wolf. corey lewandowski started the day on a regularly scheduled rnc messaging call. one person making clear that nothing seemed strange or different. within hours, he would be escorted out of trump tower by security, according to one source. part angry, part relieved and no longer the unlikely insurgent campaign manager for the unlikely insurgent campaign that has turned 2016 on its head. >> corey, good job, corey. good job. >> reporter: today, donald trump's embattled campaign manager corey lewandowski is out. >> what happened? why were you fired? >> you know, i don't know. i don't know the answer to that. >> reporter: lewandowski's sudden departure coming on the heels of long-running tension between him and other trump insiders. the final straw, according to sources, trump family members finally had enough. trump's daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner were n inappropria ininstrumental. but he says he has no hard feelings. >>

phil mattingly, thank you very much. >>> trump's rhetoric regarding latinos is under scrutiny.the judge was born in indiana to mexican immigrant parents. trump called him a hater earlier this week says the judge's heritage is, quote, an inherent conflict of interest. but at a california rally the presumptive gop nominee tauted his support among the key supporting block. >> latinos for trump, that's what i like. i love that. latinos, we're doing well with latinos. nobody knows about it yet. we're bringing so many jobs in. you watch what happens. the hispanics, we love the hispanics. >> so all of it as a recent poll shows trump with a significant deficit among latinos. 74% view him unfavorably. joining me alfonso aguilar. alfonso, thank you so much for coming on. i want to start with what we're hearing from hillary clinton this morning. she has just responded to trump's curiel's attack. she writes, the fact that donald trump doesn't see them as americans makes him unfit to be president of this great nation, a nation of immigrants. do you agree with hillary clinton here? >> sadly,

phil mattingly joins us now. >> when donald trump announced that proposal in december, he called for the complete and total banning of muslims entering the united states. there's no equivocation there. in the months since, every once in a while you've heard donald trump walk away from it a little bit. now that's officially happening. what the advisors are working on right now is a policy memo that will tailor the idea towards just individuals coming from terror states. now the definition of terror states and the specifics are still to be determined. but there is no question at all it is a shift. it's raising questions as to what was the original rationale for the plan and why the shift. one -- take a listen to what katrina pierson told our brianna keilar last night. >> what is the vetting process? >> that's a great question. that is a question for the fbi and the cia who have told us they do not have a vetting process. that is something that as president mr. trump wants to get with congress to filter that out because we do not have one yet. >> can you sort of flesh that out a little

>> phil mattingly reporting live for us in new york. i want to go to capitol hill right now in a move by house democrats. i'm showing you live pictures coming in from the house representatives. they are staging a sit-in and demanding a vote on gun control. our senior political reporter manu raju is on the floor. this is being led by a civil rights movement leader. >> the democrats are trying to push for a vote on either universal background checks or preventing suspected terrorists from getting guns. kevin mccarthy spoke with steny hoyer about getting a gun but there are no deals yet and democrats are prepared to wait it out. >> the sometime for patience is long gone. >> reporter: demanding a vote on gun control after the worse mass shooting in u.s. history. >> we're calling on the leadership of the house to bring commonsense gun control legislation to the house before. give us a vote. >> the business of the house wri grinding to a halt as dozens of democrats press for a bill that they say will prevent terrorists from purchasing a gun.

phil mattingly joins us now. >> when donald trump announced that proposal in december, he called for

we bring in phil mattingly and errol lewis. thanks so much for being here. so, on capitol hill, is this just going to be a pathetic deja vu of everybody ringing their hands and nothing happening? is there any way these competing bills could get some traction? >> no. this has become a very politicized issue. of course, it is in congress, on capitol hill, everything is politicized. the key thing is what nancy pelosi and paul ryan said. neither believe the other party's suggestions are there. as long as there is no trust or legitimate negotiations. there are a few law makers who have negotiated in good faith. party leaders are trying to shut down the negotiations. they don't like this issue or where it is going. monday will be four votes on four amendments to an appropriations bill. >> i would argue we are in a slightly different moment. you have donald trump opening the door to close this terror loophole. if you are on a watch list, can you still buy a weapon? you currently can. >> you see democrats say, let's not try to ban automatic weapons. let's focus on p