paul ryan and reince priebus are both from wisconsin. they grew up together in politics. iebus was the chairman of paul ryan's very first race for congress. and i'm told that he just feels that after all that priebus has tried to do to try to maintain as much of the calm within the party and try to kind of push things along and help donald trump, that this was, again, a bridge too far, too much for him to take, and he's expressed his frustration and disappointment to the trump campaign about trump's refusal to endorse ryan. >> the other thing hanging out there this morning, we all know because donald trump has said so that he hates to lose. there's some speculation donald trump may drop out of the race. is that real? >> who knows. i think the answer to that right now is no, it is not real. however, i was just talking to an official from the republican national committee who on his own is working on the what ifs. because this official told me that he believes donald trump is so mercurial, you know, who knows, maybe by him talking more and more in the past few days about the

in fact, reince priebus was the chairman of paul ryan's very first congressional campaign. so that was kind of a bridge too far for reince priebus who felt that he had taken out a lot of political water by trying to help donald trump through this entire process but a lot of people in the establishment and beyond were not necessarily happy about reince priebus doing that. so there's that situation. and then there's another situation going on amongst some rnc officials. not, i'm told, at the apparatus of the rnc, but some committee men are looking into the what if scenario. what if donald trump gets so upset and so -- in the words of this source i talked to, is so mercurial, that he just says, enough, i'm out, and drops out before the election in november. so there's a move, again, this is a small number of people, but they are trying to figure out what would happen and what they can do if there is a vacancy. there's a rule, it's called rule nine. if anybody who's kind of political nerds like us wants to look it up that allows for a mechanism to go into place if there is a va

road happy. >>> more now on the renewed support from rnc chair reince priebus.ou saw it introducing trump at rally in pennsylvania. boris epstein, campaign advise for the trump team. good afternoon. jamelle green just gave me an earful and i expect you will now, too. reince priebus, how significant is that he was there in person. >> it's expected. the rnc is fully behind the trump campaign. something i know from behind the scenes being at trump tower, from talking to people on the rnc team. there's no issue there. >> seemed to me like this was a suggestion of unity. >> symbolism when you think about how many republicans, prominent, have been out this week saying they can't support trump. >> of course it's important to have the chair of the rnc there, important to quell people who are screaming and crying, well, the republican party is not united. it is absolutely united. 40 million people voted for donald trump in the primaries. more than ever for any g.o.p. candidate. more than for reagan or eisenhower, of course somebody s going to write a letter. somebody alw

this along with reince priebus to get him to tone down his rhetoric. we have more from the campaign from jim acosta. >> reporter: alison and ryan, trump referred to president obama as founder of isis. he said the president bears responsibility for the rise of the terror group because he did not leave a relatively small farce force in iraq. here's more of what trump had to say outside of orlando. >> barack obama is the founder. if he would -- february tos, we should have never been in iraq. we were going to destabilize the middle east. i said it. i was a civilian. nobody cares. we should have never been in there. they should have understood it. they made a mistake. we should have never ended it the way they ended it. by ending it the way he ended it and he got everybody out and he let them know when and we're leaving and they just sat back. they just sat back and they went in. >> reporter: before trump started addressing the crowd, there was an incident. they men refusing to take down the confederate flag. eventual eventually, they were convinced to tak

there is a symbolic embrace between reince priebus and donald trump on the stage.you have to listen to chairman reince priebus, don't believe the hype and the -- >> i didn't get the sarcasm of saying that hillary and barack were the co-founders of isis and it's my fault for not understanding the great humor of donald trump. >> are you ever going to vote for him, alan? come on. i guess he's not voting for donald trump. >> hugh hewitt tried to give him an exit ramp and he doubled and tripled down. it took him until today to say he was being sarcastic. >> everything is being thrown at him. and look at crowd. >> he defies conventional wisdom. there are some tough polling numbers in key swing states that we saw today. as we've discussed, early voting starts in some of these states in 30 days. so if he's saying i'm going to finish strong or counting on the debates, people will start voting before the debates are over. >> the dirty secret is that alan and all the trump haters never thought he would be within 20 points, never thought he would have been within 30 points. he

rick wilson, i don't know reince priebus. i just know the guy who plays reince priebus on tv.annot imagine him lighting into donald trump on the phone or anywhere else. >> look, reince priebus gave up his manhood to donald trump the day he scurried up to trump tower to have trump sign that pledge, and i don't think he's ever recaptured it. there is no way that donald trump respects reince priebus. he doesn't respect anyone, much less anyone he's vanquished, and he looks at reince priebus as someone he has acquired or vanquished. priebus might be an interesting pet but he's not somebody that trump respects or listens to. >> rory cooper, we have reports of paul manafort having just given up, that it's hopeless to try to manage this thing, and that he's phoning it in. but at least he's still willing to deny that on tv. >> well, i mean, i think it's interesting that only in trump world is paul manafort seen as a voice of reason. if you look at where we are right now, we're only 14 days out from the convention. the idea that we require an intervention for donald trump, i frankly do

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reince priebus is probably not going to change based on the stuff he's said so far. but the argument is, he's the chairman of the republican party at the moment, and they have so much in resources. they have to use it somewhere. we're saying, don't use it for donald trump. use it for the rest of the party. not only because we need those people to win. and trump is not going to win. but make sure he doesn't win. so do not put the resources of the party behind this nut case. and that's what we're saying. are they going to listen to us? i don't know. and i know i'm not being politically correct, so i'll be in trouble. right? but the fact of the matter is, that the republican party needs to put its resources behind serious people. serious republicans, who can do a good job in congress, can do a good job in the states. and that's what we're asking the party to do. >> and do you think reince priebus then should not get another term? do you think there needs to be a wider reckoning in a republican party that allowed donald trump to be the nominee? >> well, that's not part o

reince priebus, i'll leave it there. good luck. >> it's been a good two weeks for donald trump and it's been a bad two weeks for hillary clinton. >> we'll let the panel assess that very question right now. >> you bet. >>> the panel is here. hugh hewitt, andrea mitchell. robert costa and joy reid. all right. costa, you. that question, a good two weeks for trump and bad for clinton. >> coming in trying to get populism back on track for trump and getting trump more disciplined in the message but this is a candidate uncomfortable stay something on script. we'll have to see how long it lasts. >> has he done damage on immigration or not, hugh? >> new york city i think he helped himself a lot to bring more humanity. it was a terrible two weeks. letters fara, fcpa. in trouble on the two complex laws. >> andrea, where are you on this? >> i think donald trump has helped himself on immigration by muddying the waters and making it a little bit less controversial, if you will, on deportation but he has to venn actually be more specif

what do you make of reince priebus saying there's still time?. >> well, labor day is next week, and that's a pretty high bar to set in such a short period of time, particularly when you're up against such a vast network that the clintons have. and they've been running -- she's been running for this position for years and years and years. and the fund-raising -- just look at the fund-raising that she did this past week in hollywood and then in nantucket and martha's vineyard. it's a tough bar to meet. but, you know, the chairman is saying what he has to say and putting confidence in republican voters that there's a path here. >> yeah, and i keep saying that hillary clinton, bore isz, is taking some time off this week and a little bit of next. but she is still fund-raising, and she still is attending those finance meetings to make sure their strategy is sound there. we've got 73 days to go. what is it going to take for reince priebus and his party to turn things around and let that trump campaign shine? what is it going to take? >> first of all, a

so the fact of the fact is we didn't know that reince priebus was going to come out and speak. l trying to dig on exactly what happened backstage to make that happen. but the fact that priebus did come out was no doubt a signal. just his presence there was a signal that they're trying to kind of keep the band together at this point. >> your reporting had been, and appears very correctly so, that this sort of meeting in orlando that was billed as a "come to jesus" moment between the rnc and trump camp may not have been so much that. >> reporter: right. there was a report that there was, as you said, sort of a "come to jesus" meeting in florida. my understanding according to my sources and our jim acosta and others is that it is a routine meeting which they're supposed to have, and they need to have be with to troo, to try to get up to speed with is a whole nother story with field offices and staffers in key battleground states. florida certainly one of them. >> dana bash, thanks so much. >>> lots to cover with our political panel this hour. including a hillary clinton just releas

host: chairman reince priebus talking, and going on to say it was a well-earned victory, saying that paul ryan has faithfully represent to the people of wisconsin and making the statement that conservatives have never changed and that his principled public service has made him a leader in our party. i know that paul will continue to articulate his vision as a confident and strong american. i look forward to seeing him return to congress as another term as speaker of the house. joining us from janesville, wisconsin, the hometown of speaker ryan, good evening, patrick. caller: thank you for having me on. we cannot be more proud for speaker paul ryan for his integrity, his leadership, and all of the visions he has shared with us to make america a better place. solutions are growing, real solutions to growing problems. with the current administration, trying to find a better way to make and the agenda our government smarter and more efficient. i really think we have a great future. ant: and as he indicated, overwhelming victory now with about 85 percent of the vote in the primary, about

my understanding is that reince priebus is trying to shake off his anger about the fact that donald trumpthe house speaker. not just because they're good friends but he's the highest ranking republican official and because priebus has done so much to try to unite the party behind trump. i suspect the two of them will have a conversation. they both have to. they both are in this together. he is relying heavily, almost entirely on the rnc not just for joint fund-raising but field operation which is huge when you're talk about getting out the vote. >> you've seen the reports and heard the reports. they are taking a look at the rules, republican party leaders. some of them worry that donald trump might drop out. >> this was in and around the time when donald trump had been even more mercurial than we have seen him in the past. i talked to a couple of republican officials who was working on the what. he was worried that he was acting out so much that he might drop out before the election. it doesn't seem as though based on the way things have gone today, that's in the cards, but they're planni

and rnc chair reince priebus. from abc news, it's "this week." here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. >> so is this the week? the week we finally see the new and different donald trump so many republicans are hoping for? back in the spring, trump mused about it. >> by the way, i can be more presidential than anybody. i can be more presidential, if i want to be. i would say more presidential, and i've said this a couple of times, more presidential than anybody other than the great abe lincoln. he was very presidential, right? >> his campaign chair paul manafort promised the gop change was coming. >> you'll start to see more depth of the person. the real person, youl see him in a different way. >> after a summer of bad news and tanking poll number, trump fired manafort this week. vowed to run his own way. >> i am who i am. it's me. i don't want to change. everyone talks about, oh, well, you're going to pivot. i don't want to pivot. i mean, you have to be you. >> then came thursday's surprising admission. >> sometimes in the heat of debate, y

what do you think reince priebus is thinking right now?d that reince priebus for a number of weeks has been tearing his hair out, because there is very little he can do. i understand reince priebus continues to support the candidate. i think he has to. but paul ryan is in a different position. it is an odd election, i understand that, and this would be an unusual mood for a house speaker to essentially disavow a candidate from his own party. >> david haynes with the "milwaukee journal sentinel." >>> let's go live to daytona beach, florida. >>> what a crowd. what a crowd. florida, we love florida. and we love nascar. right? we love nascar. what a great crowd. so you have 3,000 people that are coming in as we speak. this place is packed. thank you. thank you. thank you. so i just want to tell you, the campaign is doing really well. it has never been so well united. we started on june 16th. i would say right now, it is the best in terms of being united that it has been since we began. we're doing incredibly well. we're leading in the state of

reince priebus worked very carefully with him to forge a partnership and is in regular contact with mr. trump about all facets of the campaign. we reported that last week, precip priebus told trump that internal polling suggested his campaign is on the wrong trajectory and needs to turn it around and if that doesn't happen all options are on the table to redirect the party machinery going forward. >> so priebus tells him, turn it around. what is your reporting enthusiasm responded? >> well, trump has -- one thing he mentioned to us he listens to people much more than people realize. he believes reince is a friend, says reince is a great guy. the trusts his advice, and as we have seen, he has attempted at the urging of priebus, and many other republican strategists to temper his tone, to dial back the rhetoric. so he is listening. whether or not he continues down the path or everts to the more attacking style he deployed during the premiere is an open question. >> i know that writers and editors don't make covers but is this "time" cover reflective of the campaign, based on your reporti

people like rudy giuliani involved, reince priebus and newt gingrich. calls going on right now and there's conversations going on right now about who else would be involved in this intervention. who else would be affected. the issue is that it's unclear who donald trump would actually listen to. and that's been an ongoing concern among the gop sources that i've been speaking to for some time now. can the gop just back away from trump? can the party back away from trump? can the party officials who don't agree with him quit their jobs? these are all conversations being held right now. because they fundamentally disagree with donald trump on so many issues. and the way he's handled his campaign. controversy after controversy, there was the khan controversy, there's the melania plagiarism controversy, there's donald trump taking the purple heart from a soldier, now donald trump says that he wouldn't necessarily support paul ryan or john mccain. these are problems for the gop, not just because donald trump is saying them, but because they have to try and fi

trump said reince priebus is a terrific guy. he never said that, asking why would they state when i'm raising millions of dollars for them. so he is raising millions of dollars for the rnc and for other candidates, republican candidates running this time around. so why would the rnc say such a thing? >> yeah, we went back to the two senior gop officials who gave us the reporting and they confirmed it after mr. trump made his denial. it is clear that donald trump is raising a lot of money through what is called a joint fundraising committee. there is about an 80/20 split between what the trump campaign gets. trump will keep the 80%, that's where the vast majority of what he has raised in the last couple of months has gone. but the 20% of the rnc package, that's going to the field program on the ground and where it goes is ultimately the rnc's control. donald trump doesn't control that. given the importance of that ground game, that's going to be, you know, ultimately at the discretion of rnc chairman reince priebus. >> you know w

viability and prospects in some cases they believe it's just the right thing to do, but i am told to reince priebused to top that's okay if it happens and as the guy at the top of the ticket told him it's not personal. it's the tough love that priebus has played for the better part of a year and one that seems to be getting tougher. >> it sounds like the godfather. it's just business. you have a copy that cell phone signed by 75 staffers on up. what do these say? >> these are mostly all never trump republicans and some former congressmen and former gop campaign officials and hill staffers asking reince preeb us to shift party resources to save the republican majorities on capitol hill and i'll read you part of the letter. it says we believe that donald trump's divisiveness, recklessness and record breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a democratic landslide and that only the immediate shift of all available rnc resources to vulnerable senate and house races will prevent the gop from drowning with the trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck. i can tell you sources who i'm talking to,

if you were a donor, a party official, you went to reince priebus, he was a way to get to donald trump, a whisperer within the gop. remember, priebus is also a former wisconsin state party chairman. he's someone close to paul ryan. that paul ryan vacillation by trump, that was a breaking point in some ways for priebus. he was forced to have some tough conversations with trump based on my reporting. >> then you saw trump in an odd, almost awkward move for him, coming out late that night last week and saying i endorse this guy, i endorse ryan. that looked like he was under pressure, like' p.o.w. at this point. sometimes he seems to buckle to priebus but the other times he's back to him again, the old self again. >> he's capable of using the teleprompter when he needs to. he stayed on message for, we lost count, i think about 36 hours during which he gave his economic speech, but time and time again we have seen this candidate resort to his gut instinct. his gut instinct seems to take him in the direction of making statements the way that he did last night about president obama founding i

reince priebus a reince priebus among those to talk to trump. and trump attacked the pamedia. >> i'd say we wouldn't have 40 or 50 people here. h >> senator john pk cain says he will stand behind his candidate. >>> a fox news poll released today as clinton leading trump 49% to 39% in a head to head matchup. >>> cnn . >>> clinton is taking aim at her opponent for making tinhings outside the country. >> if he wants to make america great again, he should start by making things in america. >> clinton attended a rally in colorado. >>> vice president biden takes a break from politics to focus on cancer. >> it's taking pmy involved one and yours. >> he accepted award for fighting the disease. >> we we need the urgency of no >> reporter: he says we can and should be making more progress, pour quickly. >> we haven't been fighting cancer, we've been studying cancer. instead of soldiers, we've been students, majoring in cancer. >> reporter: he lost his son and couldn't brielieve how difficul it was to share information. he wants to make sure they share tes

you heard reince priebus say, they're not ready to walk away from donald trump. they're embracing him. in 1996, the republican party walked away t >> i think you're likely to see that. right now, some of those kptds are hanging on. they're doing better than donald trump this their own races. maybe they think they can continue to thread the needle. i think, as we go into october, there's going to have to be some triage in some of these candidates. >> i think there's a real question for the republican establishment. what is the health or the party in the aftermath of an election like this. it's changed. a different group of voters will stay with them. for a candidate, for all of his problems, george, as you said, he started before the convention, he was four points down. two con vepgss, two horrible weeks, he's basically five points down. the republican pear establish thinks going into the debates, he's 3 or 4 down. he has winning this. they're worried about the party. >> you can't win in states unless the presidential nominee makes you viable. rob partman may end

the ryan snub is not sitting well reince priebus. he's been defending donald trump and trying to get the party behind their nominee. adding to trump's troubles are comments from republicans like meg whitman, a major republican fund raiser, a former ceo of hewlett pa-packard is not alone jumping ship. quoting her, i will vote for hillary. i will talk to my republican friends about helping her. i will donate to her campaign and try to raise money for her. from the outside, these interior battles point to a fractured campaign and party. donald trump tweeted, this there is great unity in my campaign perhaps greater than ever before. i want to thank everyone for your tremendous support. beat crooked "h." dana bash has been doing lots of reporting on this. da dana what's the latest you're hearing on the division, disruption emerging inside the gop. >> the very latest is at least in my experience in covering presidential politics which is a few cycles, something that was pretty unprecedented which is about an hour ago a little more i got a

we saw reince priebus getting up there and i guess sort of warming up the crowd in wisconsin. he's going to give a speech on law and order. jason carroll is there in the crowd as well, our correspondent. let's go to jason first. jason carroll, welcome. the speech is about to start. jason, what can we expect to hear? >> reporter: well, rudy giuliani really just set the tone. he said a number of things talking about law and order. he spoke specifically about the incident in milwaukee saying it's been a very, very difficult time, not just for the city of milwaukee but also for the country. he brought up the fact that the officer he says based on the information they have may have been acting in self-defense. he also pointed out that this officer was african-american and told the crowd since he was african-american his life matters as well. then he said something we haven't heard much from from this campaign, not only do we want white voters, we want black voters, we want latino voters. so once again, this is an attempt toe reach beyond his base and reach out to some of those who

sot - reince priebus and don't believe you garbage you read. let me tell you something, donald trump, the republican party, all of you, we're going to put him in the white house and save this country together. night on fox news?trump brushed off questions about his campaign strategy. sot - donald trump don't know that we need to get out the vote. i think people that really want to vote, they will just get up and they're going to get out and they're going to vote for trump. hillary clinton today releasing her 2015 tax returns. running mate tim kaine did the same - 10 years worth. the democratic ticket putting public pressure on trump to do the same - so far he has refused. sot - donald trump i'll release them when the audit is away to charity. and what a difference a year makes - the clintons income dropped nearly 15 million dropped in 2015...due to the fact that hillary clinton stopped giving paid speeches when she started campaigning. kt abc news washington. newly obtained video shows a houston police officer punching a woman in a chair inside

i think reince priebus you know for him, this not an either/or decision, this is resources that kelly raised, he has to pick his battle as best he, can in battle ground states where donald trump needs to win is where many senate races are. charles: let me ask you about ohio. how would you allocate cash there. >> as long as portman is doing well we don't need to spend as much money in senate race, but we still need to invest in the presidential race. two different races going on there. we'll have to spend money in ohio, super pac will have to spend ad dollars in ohio. the problem you know that is going on, there is a false correlation with polls. where donald trump is not polling in a given state well, then sense cat can -- senate candidate is not polling there like in pennsylvania, they claim that coalition is between the two, that correlation does not exist. rubio, for an incumbent is a lousy senate candidate, he lost 67 ou 66 out of 67 counties in the primaries to donald trump. >> kelly, what happens from here. one thing to have these sort of end party disagreements, but they contin

mayor giuliani, newt gingrich, with reince priebus.the way, he did a great job with the convention. a lot of this talk is just bluster and silly. >> speaking of reince priebus there was a story ricochetting around the internet yesterday, they're talking about a doomsday scenario. let's figure out how to kick donald trump off the ticket and reince priebus said that's a complete media invention. nothing to that, right? >> nothing but pure fiction. >> how does it get started and wind up on the facebook pages? >> well, the clinton campaign is great at working the contacts. not every network is as fair and balanced as fox news. >> you're right about that. >> so 70% of the americans according to this fox poll are in the trump camp. mitt romney had 90%, hasn't been able to win. how does it help for donald trump to say i'm not there yet when it comes to supporting paul ryan and said i never really liked senator john mccain? how does it help and does it disturb you when the candidate does that? >> the important thing to keep in mind is that don

>> i think it would be impossible to psychoanalyze reince priebus. he was put in a very difficult position. he was kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't. when he was running the primary, his job was to make sure the candidates were treated fairly and the people had their voice heard throughout the country. he decided not to take steps to block donald trump despite many voices and efforts within the party to do whatever they could to keep him from winning the nomination. now we've seen they are all in for trump at the rnc. earlier today reince priebus deputy sean spicer sent out a memo defending why this election is so important to republicans, pointing to hillary clinton on domestic policy and foreign policy and obamacare and things like that. they're dug in. so the republican party will have an opportunity soon to decide if they want to have reince priebus again. i imagine that that meeting when they have that election for the new party chairman will be something to see. i would highly recommend any reporter get to that meeting and cover it.

. >> dickerson: we'll hear from reince priebus. and jeff sessions along with pennsylvania voters who once supported trump that are now waivering. what will it take to win them back? >> initially being authentic was great. >> dickerson: as hillary clinton right now, i'm not taking anybody anywhere for granted. >> dickerson: we'll hear from her campaign manager about their strategy for the fall. and we'll take a look at the state of play in the battleground states with new battleground tracker polls. plus, the authors of the "washington post" comprehensive new biography hon donald trump. and our political panel, all ahead on "face the nation." good morning welcome we have new battleground tracker numbers from two key states. in ohio, hillary clinton is up 46% to 40 over donald trump. that is a two-point increase from july. just before the convention. and in iowa, it's even at 40% each. cbs news elections director is here, anthony, what does it mean? >> ohio, which is so critical to donald trump he sees it moving her democratic base t