david brooks and ruth marcus take on another week of political rollercoasters. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> lincoln financial-- committed to helping you take charge of your financial futuree ♪ ♪ >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems--ro skollfoundation.org. >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation forp public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: it's been just one week since the democratic convention ended, and hillary clinton has surged to big leads over republican donald trump, in virtually every national poll. today new numbers put her ahead by as much as 15 points, and found her trying to win over doubte

and he did so well. >> ruth marcus? >> look, it's really easy if you're donald trump and your daughter is ivanka trump to say oh well if somebody's treating you badly in the workplace, just find another career or find another job. a lot of people do not have the luxury they don't have trust funds, they don't have big bank accounts. they might not be able to find another job. and the notion that it's their responsibility to either go elsewhere, which is outrageous, or to be strong enough to handle it on their own which is a little bit of what eric trump was say, he did say go to hr, is just outrageous. the whole, in fact, donald trump's entire response to the roger ailes situation has been galling for me at somebody who learned a lot about sexual harassment starting, we were there together at the clarence thomas hearings. he has said about the women who have complained about roger ailes, they used to say good things about him, that's not the real world, the trumps are not living in the real world. there's a lot of women

i bet they would, but it's not that simple. >> and ruth marcus, you've brought up one of the donors, abraham, this is what he had to say about why he wanted that meeting rather quickly with secretary clinton. >> i believe that people give to the foundation because they believe in the work that the foundation does. it does an enormous amount of good work around the globe. they have saved millions of lives. they have given drugs and medicines to people all around the world. i mean, you know, to claim anything but good to the clinton foundation is a crime against humanity. >> and he was also saying is that his work between israelis and palestinians is what brought him to the state department. there's no way to tell. >> i didn't quite hear the last thing that you said, but the abraham interview illustrates the sort of mixed motives here, not the mixed motives necessarily on the part of donors, we can't read their minds, he's given millions of dollars to the democratic party, to hillary clinton, and to the foundation. but the mixed motive on the part of secretary clinton, why is he taking

ruth marcus writes beautifully in "the washington post" as always, it's obvious what's going on here.e strength, stamina combo is a gender age two-for, double whack at clinton for the price of one, strength, what men have and women lack, stamina. but the intimations of go all night virility. wow. you are amazing. this is for children, this show. clinton in depiction is both a weak girl and a dried up old crone. is he trying to prove women are the weaker sex but this year's olympics in rio could surely be a counter punch. for the second straight olympics american women set a record for 61, with 61 medals exceeding the previous high another world record of 58 from london in 2012. had the women competed as their own country, they would have ranked fourth among all nations in the overall medal chart putting them behind, just behind u.s., china, great britain, just the women and with that it's time to bring in the roundtable. ruth marcus from "the washington post," david corn from mother jones and jennifer ruben, opinion writer from "the washington post" who wrote those beautiful lines thi

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david brooks and ruth marcus take on another week of political rollercoasters.all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

let's bring in ruth marcus, who i agree with every time she writes a column for the "the washington post," michael tamasky and sarah isger-flores is a republican strategist. thank you all. first, he loves this because trump doesn't know anything about nuclear weapons. doesn't know anything about -- doesn't even seem to remember us kids hiding under the desks. doesn't understand the cuban missile crisis, they are for deterrence, not use, that you can't use them in europe, it's a crowded little country where they are all allies of ours, you don't use nuclear weapons. trump doesn't know what he's talking about. >> you don't think it was a coincidence the president used the word triad? hugh hewitt asked donald trump about the nuclear triad at one of the debates. >> and he didn't know what it was. >> in fact, hugh was pretty kind to donald trump at that debate because he had spelled out what the components of the triad were and donald trump still showed no familiarity with it. in fact, actually it was really interesting, he was "the washington post" awhile after that in march and we also aske

, i want to bring in our panel, susan page of "usa today," national review's ileana johnson and ruth marcusf "the washington post." thanks to all of you for being here. a lot to unpack. let's start with this race in florida, debbie wasserman schultz facing a real challenge. he's fired up, but she has the name recognition, the money and has been there since 2004. can he really win? >> i think he could because i don't think he needs to have name recognition because his name reck nis is inition is i'm debbie wasserman schultz. bernie sanders is not just going back to new york and cleaning up the house after the campaign. he has a political operation that he's launching. he wants to help a lot of candidates. one of the candidates that seems to be at the top of his list, what a surprise, is tim canova. >> and to that point, you expect he'll be out there quite a bit? >> in an ordinary year, debbie wasserman schultzs would be easily re-elected but this may not be a regular year. if people are looking for change and are disgusted with the way politics is working, that could help a candidate like hi