at's the amount the hillary clinton has spent so far in the jex election. 4 million by the donald trump campaign. joining us on the phone is an associate of the hill newspaper. thank you very much for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> to the headline, hillary clinton is bearing donald trump. how significant is this? >> i think there are number of elements to this. one is this your disparity in the numbers you have mentioned. -- sheer disparity in the numbers you have mentioned. that is highly unusual for this campaign. to not have campaigns on equal terms. the other important factors is that this is relatively early in the campaign. the height of summer and we have seen for one nominee to paint the opponent in the corner during this kind of phase of the campaign. it happened when george bush attacked senator john kerry. so i think when you put those two factors together it is significant. >> we are just talking about the campaigns, not the super pac. those numbers get even higher especially for the pro clinton campaign. >> the clinton super pacs have outspent the trump super pacs by significant

jeff zeleny is traveling with the clinton campaign. >> reporter: ryan and alison, the back and forth ump and clinton may continue as hillary clinton campaigns in florida for the second straight day in the battle ground state. 29 electoral votes are at hand in the state. this one in particular is important. the clinton campaign believes that donald trump's negative ratings among hispanic voters will destroy him here in the state. that is why she is coming back to the state again and again to campaign. she made a plea directly in kissimmee, florida about the help she needs. >> i need your help. i'm not beating around the bush. i need your help. i need you. i need you to be sure that we get everybody registered to vote who is eligible to vote. i invite you to be part of the campaign. >> reporter: the clinton campaign is registering voters across the state. nowhere more than the i-4 corridor from st. petersburg to the ocean across central florida in orlando. that is where so many puerto rican voters live. the clinton campaign reaching out aggressively believing young people can help deliv

. >> the clinton campaign taking their own swipes at donald trump. they said that clinton would be there for all three debates. he says he has conditions for the debates, leaving the door open for the fact that maybe he won't show. >> jeff is in miami, and he is covering the clinton campaign, the clinton campaign with a very quick and forceful response to donald trump and his comments about maybe the second amendment people can take care of hillary clinton's ability to appoint justices. you heard what the trump campaign says. but a lot of people in washington, including people in the national security apparatus didn't take it that way, they thought he was making an inappropriate joke about someone shooting at hillary clinton. >> that is right, the clinton campaign did react quickly. with the campaign manager, specifically saying that violence should not be part of this campaign, this is all part of what the clinton campaign is trying to do, saying that donald trump is an unacceptable nominee. even if they not voting for her, they don't have to vote fo

their case for a federal perjury investigation into clinton, and now the fbi is opening up its clinton files, but not without a fight from the clinton campaign. after being pressed by house republicans, the fbi is sending members of congress high little sensitive non-public information about the interview they conducted with clinton during their investigation into her private e-mail server. you'll recall that the fbi eventually cleared clinton of legal wrongdoing, but delivered a scathing rebuke of how she handled classified information in the first place. now, all of this comes just 24 hours after house republicans laid out their case in a letter to the u.s. attorney's office in washington for a perjury investigation into clinton. in the letter, they note discrepancies between clinton's sworn statements and fbi director james comey's findgs. here are some of the contradictions noted. >> nothing was marked classified at the time i sent or received it. >> was that true? >> that's not true. there were a small number of portion markings on, i think, three of the documents. >> i provided the department with all of my work-related e-mails. >> sec

virginia, up 14 points for the clinton campaign. we remember from 2012, virginia was one of the closest states barack obama beat mitt romney only 3 percentage points. the fact that virginia is a double digit state, colorado as well, the clinton campaign feels confident about that at this point. we see the numbers on the screen right there. it's still a potential for shifting. polls are not predictions. they are a snapshot in the moment. in this moment, donald trump is losing both of those states. >> what are we, i guess what is our assessment of what's happening with donald trump right now? he's had this shift in his campaign management. he did have a couple of days -- he says things that are controversial but seemed like he was sticking to topic. top he goes on a twitter tirade against the msnbc morning show hosts when he's supposed to be focused on immigration. >> this is not what his campaign wants him to bo doing now. they want him to stick to one topic. make it unique every week. this week is immigration. next week is education.

going tot is slowly leak, and the clinton campaign is aware of that. re approaching this the way they have approached a lot of this, relating to her e-mail. they say, let's give everybody everything to look at. i think what will happen, if that happens, is that it creates so much that nobody can come up with any clear conclusions about what is going on. what they are afraid of his selective leaks. they are not in a position where they can go themselves and ask democrats to leak it, because much of it is classified, but republicans may choose to leak bits and pieces, and that is problematic for them. >> i would also have selective leaks come from the democratic side too, and the first that we have heard is the advice that she got about having the private server coming from a republican , and i think it can work both ways. colin powell is who i am talking about. one of the things we all have to remember to do, -- to remember too, we have debates coming up. americans are starting to pay attention after the lithic swimmers come home. -- after the olympic sw

than half the people outside the government who met or called hillary clinton while she was secretary of state gave money to the clinton foundation. tonight, the clinton campaign responding saying the story relies on utterly flawed data. it cherry picked a limited suset of clinton's e-mail and comes amid whether in one email, noting good friend of ours. a few days later, abedin arranges a meeting after his goes through his diplomatic channels. this would not necessarily violate laws or ethical agreements the clintons signed. >> it's a huge new target for the trump campaign to dive on top of and a huge new bunch of targets for the clinton campaign to have to defend. >> reporter: a headache for the clinton campaign that could last until the election and be. news, washington. >>> donald trump meanwhile is coming under fire for the way he's attempted to appeal african-american voters. anybody's kristen welker looks at why critics say that appeal is falling flat. >> reporter: tonight donald trump raising eyebrows with his new pitch to african-american voters. >> what do you have to lose? >> reporter: trump's arguments, democrats take black voters for granted, he ca

>> last night, the clinton campaign fell short failing to meet the fund raising goal this past weekend. clearly, the clinton campaign leadership does not want that to become a trend. doug? >> we are hearing the candidates are already in a war of words about the general election debate or debates. what's going on with that. >> reporter: late last night, they said hillary clinton looks forwards to all three presidential debates. they signaled they are not interested in having a debate about debates or bargaining about them. this afternoon, trump said he looks forward to participating but expressed he hasconcerns, potentially concerns about moderators and he also was told two would be against nfl football games. the businessman may be trying to cut a better deal. doug? >>> a long time aid to hillary clinton pressured her ian jor aides to provide a job for an unidentified associate according to a report in the hill. an e-mail exchange through the freedom of information act. it is part of the organizations lawsuit, which is seeking to demonstrate conflicts of interest between the state depa

i should say we have the clinton campaign here. they will come on the next block of this show to respond to this information. in the meantime, now to an event so big, it makes the super bowl seem like pop warner, the stakes higher than a grateful dead concert on mount everest. with the pregame spin so ferocious it makes a pit bull seem like my little pony, the first hillary clinton-donald trump face-off, less than one month away. we have brand new details about what's going on behind the scenes to get ready or perhaps i should say what the campaigns want us to think is going on behind the scenes to get ready. the trump campaign is said to be a free wheeling debate, chats over burgers. for clinton, they say a surgical thought process, forensic-style analysis of trump's earlier debate performances. here to discuss the details, patrick healey, cnn political analyst and "new york times" correspondent, great details in a new article in "the times." lanhee chen, cnn political commentator and mitt romney's former public policy director who

and what it is, no one knows, officially, the clinton campaign is not going to engage with this untilomething more concrete comes out >> defend her from what? but in advance, >> thanks storage for coming in. >>> sarah palin back in the news defending donald trump, and saying she's not worried about claims he's gone soft on aggravation, which is creating a lot of buzz. >> she said trump didn't garner a lot of enthusiastic support by being soft on anything. the chairman of the northern virginia republican political action committee joins us. thanks for being here. is sarah palin right? she went in a little bit on him being wish she wash she, saying if he did it the outcome wouldn't be right. >> i think it may have been portrayed in the beginning as a tougher policy than it was. he's been consistent on he wants, whether you like the idea or not, people can see he's been consistent on wanting to build a wall, wanting to secure the borders >> didn't he is he wanted to support the 11 million undocumented immigrants >> what he's talked about is when people are brought in by the justice syste

the clintons for decades now. that's the interesting element here. the clinton campaignious all week about the reporting related to the e-mails, the reporting related to cheryl mills going to new york on personal time to interview people with the clinton foundation. >> making a lot out of a little. >> out of something that doesn't exist. there is nothing to say that she had anything to do with the e-mails. but it feeds into the idea the clintons have a different set of rules and that the foundation is a corrupt pay for play organization. there is no smoking gun. there is no direct evidence that there is pay for play. this is what people think of when the trust numbers for hillary clinton are in such a bad position. the more these things come out, they give donald trump and his campaign opportunities to talk about the trust issues and hopefully for their cases, build that case against hillary clinton. i think that's the biggest issue here is that she has major trust issues to begin with. all of this stuff feeds that narrative. >> beyond the public outrage thing, we're all

alex: on the flipside, if you were advising the clinton campaign, what should she be doing about the foundation and press conferences in general? >> it's a myth. i think she ought to have press conferences. i think the foundation is something they should get out of. let other people run it, turn it over to other people. if it is doing good work, it can do good work under other stewardship. just break any connection to the foundation. john: looking at this day that's played out with the clinton campaign going after trump for the alt-right. as an analyst, are you looking at that saying they are trying to win the news cycle or do you think they are heading into a new stage in the campaign in which this will become a more central element of their strategy? >> look, um, there's a tremendous problem that donald trump has with white voters. these latest numbers he's getting half the lead that mitt romney had an white voters. mitt romney won white voters 59%. donald trump's doing much worse. and particularly with white educated college and more voters, and particularly with women. i think it

the clinton foundation. the clinton foundation says it simply is not true. now, the clinton campaignon the defensive here about the foundation already changing rules, just earlier this week, president clinton said he would step down from this foundation. he would stop raising money from the foundation if hillary clinton is elected president. so this latest report is one more example that the nexus between the secretary of state office and the foundation will remain an issue throughout today. today, secretary clinton is in california raising money, looking forward to a speech tomorrow in nevada where she will question donald trump's temperament in what some call the trump lecture series. >>> trump's taxi on hillary clinton not confined to her family's foundation. the republican nominee also going after her stance on immigration saying she wants to open the floodgates at the u.s. borders. >> hillary clinton wants a totally open border. she wants catch and release. she wants obamacare and other things for illegal immigrants, in many cases, more than hour great veterans get. >> just a fe

the two top strategist from both campaigns. hack attack as a russian connection, wiki leaks founder why it looks as if he's more interested in sabotaging the clinton campaign. >> joining me for insight in analysis are david brooks, doris kerns good win. alex, and nbc news campaign correspondent halle jackson. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> good sunday morning. we're at one of those critical junctures where a campaign can freeze for about a month, during the olympics, end of summer and labor daybreak. we've heard two remarkly different visions of america offered by the candidates at their convention. donald trump sees a troubled nation that needs to be rescued. >> our convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. the attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities, threats are very way of life. any politician who does not caress this staging is not fit to lead our country. >> hillary clinton's america, was to the use the word, certainly a bit more optimistic. >> a country where all our children can dream and those dreams are within reach, where families are strong, communities are safe, and, yes, where love trumps hate

the trump campaign. whenever he's faced with a controversy they blame it on the media and hillary clinton's campaign. is that going to be enough, given how controversial what trump had to say yesterday? >> well, ryan, you're exactly right. this is the textbook response in the campaign to another controversy, just blaming the media, you know, kind of forcing the conversation back on the people who are kind of saying that there's a controversy. but, you know, i think, this is something that they've done throughout their campaign since june 2015 when the trump campaign began. i think, you know, they'll call it part of the same playbook that they have in the past where, you know, this controversy will play out for the next few days and they'll try to move on. a week ago, we were talking about his fight with the khan family. his fight with speaker ball ryan. he gave a speech on tuesday that was praised widely and yet here we are in another controversy. >> but, steven, it seems with this one, though, as much as the trump camp was quick to react with a statement, that doesn't seem to be much continuity, talk

. ♪ >> running us now is gene sperling, and economic advisor for the clinton campaign. at is joining us now. joining us now is gene sperling, the economic advisor for the clinton campaign. president obama made a full throated argument for why the tpp is in america's interest. are you know in disagreement with your president on this issue? gene: it's always hard when you are the child and mom and dad disagree. i think president obama come , he ising he does directed towards helping workers and that's what he believes. on this issue, i think hillary clinton is in the right place. we have to put our focus as a behindf progressives investing in manufacturers, ensuring that we don't have a tax code that encourages outsourcing and inversion. she sees real challenges with this and i think she wants to put tpp in the rearview mirror and be focusing. these are two great people i'm honored to have worked with. they disagree. i think trade is always a difficult issue, but as we say, i'm with her. the secretary clinton think globalization is good for american workers? of the great c

the u.s. presidential campaign today. we're expecting hillary clinton to deliver a major speech this hour, trying to contrast her economic plan with the one donald trump outlined on monday. clinton will be speaking at a plfrg plant in warren, michigan, outside detroit. you're looking at live pictures right now. her running mate, tim kaine campaigns in louisiana. donald trump is on the campaign trail in florida today while his running mate mike pence stumps for votes in wisconsin. doubled down on calling trump - president obama and hillary clinton the co-founders of isis. >> our government has unleashed isis. i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. they're the founders. in fact, i think we'll give hillary clinton -- if you're a sports team, most valuable player, mvp. you get the mvp award. isis will hand her the most valuable player award. her only competition is barack obama. between the two of them. iraq has some of the greatest oil reserves in the world, and we handed them iraq chl we handed it to iran. >> sara murray is joini

campaign saying that the russian's motivation is to hurt the clintonlp donald trump. >> i think, they have a strong interest in seeing donald trump be the next president given all the admiring statements he made of putin. so, you could see all the reasons why, but there's another reason too, and that is that he may want to damage secretary clinton, she is a formidable adversary, and the russians believe we are interfering with them. >> there's a report that the u.s. intelligence community knew of the hack of the dnc e-mails a year ago and deliberately did not tell anyone at the dnc because it could have compromised sources and methods and under mined u.s. intelligence gathering capabilities. what can you tell us about that? >> i cannot speak to that. i'm not allowed to comment on what we were briefed on. i can say this, when the intelligence community is made aware of foreign hacking of u.s. institutions. whether it's government agencies, private parties and nonprofits. they do make an effort to notify and put these organizations potentially on notice

the clinton campaign responding. what additional materials the justice department may have located, but if the state department determines any of them to be work-related, then obviously we support those documents being released publicly as well. now also today, the conservative watchdog group judicial watch released some documents they have uncovered claiming 20 new hillary clinton work exchanges along with e-mails from

>> last night, the clinton campaign fell short failing to meet the fund raising goal this past weekend. clearly, the clinton campaign leadership does not want that to become a trend. doug? >> we are hearing the candidates are already in a war of words about the general election debate or debates. what's going on with that. >> reporter: late last night, they said hillary clinton looks forwards to all three presidential debates. they signaled they are not interested in having a debate about debates or bargaining about them. this afternoon, trump said he looks forward to participating but expressed he has concerns, potentially concerns about moderators and he also was told two would be against nfl football games. the businessman may be trying to cut a better deal. doug? >>> a long time aid to hillary clinton pressured her ian jor aides to provide a job for an unidentified associate according to a report in the hill. an e-mail exchange through the freedom of information act. it is part of the organizations lawsuit, which is seeking to demonstrate conflicts of interest between the state dep

and when we come back, the clinton campaign chief strategist. a real honor to see him here, in set, after on this sponsors.s from our ♪ ♪ alex: fresh off hillary clinton's scathing critique of donald trump in the alt right, we are joined by democratic pollster in senior strategist and clinton's campaign, joel benenson. thank you for your time. an important in time for hillary clinton. the donald trump campaign seems to be suggesting that the speech today was trying to pick it away from her worst week in politics. >> i think donald trump has been -- the wheels are coming off his campaign, he is on his third campaign manager, claims he hires the best people in the world. i think we are in a phase now where the issues have to be put front and center. he's in trying to make some statements. whether he has been fed them by advisers, people putting them in his teleprompter, who knows. but we will hold them to account on positions he has taken that have been divisive and dividing, that have been hateful, and we will hold him to account for the next 75 d

, those numbers get each higher especially for the pro clinton campaign. >> yes, that's right, the clinton super pacs have outspent the trump super pac is as well. last week, the most recent data we have has reached over $100 million, about 104. that outspends all of the pro trump advertising by a margin of around 9-1. >> the clinton campaign is focusing on key battleground states. the trump campaign, at least so far with a focus on florida, ohio, pennsylvania, and north carolina, four states that the trump campaign insist are must win if he has a chance to get to 270 electoral votes. let's look at some of the ads now on the air. >> i'm hillary clinton and a proved this message. >> clear thinking. >> i know more about isis than the generals. >> calm judgment. >> you can tell them go [beep] themselves. >> all it takes is one wrong move. >> i would bomb the [beep] out of them. >> just one. >> hillary clinton's america, the system stays rigged against americans. syrian refugees flood in, collecting social security benefits, skipping the line. our border open

that is the goal of the clinton campaign. we've seen it every day almost there is a new web ad released. a lot of paid advertising as well simply playing back donald trump's own words. that is the sound track of this campaign on their side. her ads use his own words. i mean, markedly more than her own words which is often how it is. think how many hours of tape there is of donald trump, all the interviews he's done. and they are happy to play them. >> one thing i was really struck by in my reporting this week is trump himself has often thought of himself as a public figure who had some popularity with african-americans, with minority voters, because of his lifestyle, his wealth, and success. but when the trump campaign and the trump organization have done research they've shown themselves internally that ever since 2011-2012 when he was doing the birther crusade against president obama questioning his love country and his credentials his numbers with those specific demographic groups have plummeted and that's left him in this

the west. here is what's happening. clinton campaign out with 90-second ad which points out the times donald trump has made offensive comments. this comes two days after trump said he regretted making various comments on the campaign trail although he did not get specific about which ones. >> i regret it. >> you look at his wife didn't have anything probably not allowed anything to say. >> do you regret at all engaging in these back and forth comments. >> avenues war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured, i have to tell you. >> do you regret saying that? >> i like to not regret anything. >> comes on the heels of a federal judge ordering her to answer written questions conservative watchdog group, judicial watch, after it filed a lawsuit over her private e-mail server. in a statement saying judicial watch is a right wing organization that has been attacking the clintons since the 1990s. this is just another lawsuit intended to try to hurt hillary clinton's campaign, so we're glad the judge accepted the offer to

i don't see evidence that the clinton campaign is ginning this up. donald trump should get his facts straight and chill out. the trunk campaign and donald trump himself are continuing to attack. they are working themselves into this hole, and they are complaining they are in the hole that they are in. i don't see any involvement or participation from the clinton campaign. you are right if that were evident that it could be a problem at some point, but right now, it's the trump campaign manager itself. >> it's also the difference between the primary and the general election. the general election started last thursday night when hillary clinton took the nomination were accepted the nomination. in the primary, trump could bulldoze through these controversies because there wasn't enough opposition to sustain the conversation, to sustain the spotlight on this. now that we are in the general, you do see the dnc and the clinton campaign and every senate candidate coming under pressure to comment on this from reporters, from their opposition, from democratic

clinton's top economic advisers. you can also listen to us on the radio radio on 99.1 fm. be right back. ♪ ♪ john: joining us now is an economic advisor for the clinton campaignsor for president clinton and obama. they differ coming on the show. we are going to talk about the campaign momentarily in the outsourcing push the campaign is putting out but i want to ask about president obama that made it really strong argument why tpp is still in america's interest. what is your view about that? are you now and a disagreement with the president on this issue? >> it is always hard when you are the child and mom and dad disagree. i think that president clinton, i mean, president obama, everything he does, he is directed toward helping workers and that is what he believes, but on this issue, i think that hillary clinton is in the right place, which is that we have to put our full focus as a party, progressives, on uniting behind clear job creating measures like infrastructure, investing and manufacturers, like ensuring that we do not have a tax code that encourages outsourcing and inversions. she sees real challenges with this and i think she wants to put tpp in the

still ahead, strong polling numbers came out for the clinton campaign this week. we'll break them down, trends and digits when we come back. >>> the polls have been coming in fast and furious this week. same story. the hillary clinton is getting a solid bounce out of philadelphia. today a new survey showing 50-42.n leading trump yesterday we talked about a new cnn poll showing her beating 52-43. we're going to take a deeper numbers with these our chief pollster who joins us now from des moines. it seems clear that clinton gotten some edge out of her convention. et's talk about independents first. what has happened? >> convince those that -- we've to look at.polls one conducted before the emocratic convention and one conducted after. same methodology. so it gives us a good confidence we're looking at real change. in poll that cnn published july showed trump leading by 15 points. the poll published after the emocratic convention had hillary clinton up by seven points. so those independents either were loosely affiliated with trump or had not really chosen a candidate

jessica schneider, cnn, new york. >> just moments ago a new statement from the clinton campaign readsote, hillary clinton has released a detailed medical record showing her to be in excellent health and her personal tax return since 1977 while trump has failed to provide the public with the most basic financial information disclosed by every major candidate. it's time for him to stop using shameful distractions to hid his own record. that prompted hannity to call stelter little pip-squeak on fox this morning. >> that's a little -- >> you know. well, i was kind of amazed that sean hannity did put that sort of analysis of that ridiculous head moving video which was obviously just her having a faycal most spit-take reaction to what a reporter was saying. >> anderson, sean hannity is an excellent broadcaster and he's entertaining. he's definitely an entertainer, but he's doing a disservice to his audience by peddling these conspiracy theories and the clinton campaign they are right tonight to be saying these are just conspiracy theories. they've been debunked time and time again and unfor

that donald trump has been calling on for really several days to put an end to the clinton foundation. now the clinton campaign on the defensive here about the foundation already changing rules. just earlier this week, president clinton said he would step down from this foundation. he would stop raising money for the foundation if hillary clinton is elected president. so this latest report is one more example that the nexus between the secretary of state's office and the foundation will remain an issue throughout the rest of this campaign. today, secretary clinton is in california raising money, looking forwards to a speech tomorrow in nevada where she will question donald trump's temperament in the latest installment in what some call the trump lecture series. >> thanks for that, jeff. joining us to talk about the clinton foundation. cnn's josh rogin he's a columnist for "the washington post" and a good friend of the show. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start here with this line of attack by donald trump about hillary clinton and corruption. he was on teleprompter yesterday delivering again and again

but those numbers get higher especially for the pro-clinton campaign. >> guest: yes, that's right. the clinton super pacs about spent the trump super pacs by a significant margin as well. when you put it all together, last week the most recent data we have, reached over $100 million, around about 104. that outspends all the code from advertising by a margin of around nine to one. >> host: the clinton campaign is focusing on key battleground states are the trump campaign at least so far with focus on florida, ohio, pennsylvania and north carolina, four states that the trump campaign insist are a must win. let's look at some of the ads now on the air spent on hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> america depends on steady leadership. >> knock the crap out of him, would you? seriously. >> believe me. >> and you can tell them to go to be blan -- i would not -- >> hillary clinton's america, the system stays rig against americans. syrian refugees flood in, illegal immigrants convicted of committing crimes get to stay, clicking salsas get it benefits

clinton private servers. the response from the clinton campaign, once again this right wing organization that has been going after the clintons since the 1990s is distorting facts to make utterly false attacks. no matter how this group tries to mischaracterize these documents, the fact remains hillary clinton never took action as secretary of state because of donations to the clinton foundation. >> look, the pattern of them saying one thing and doing another and having a set of rule and everyone else has gone back 30 years. they've used the same line of response, that this is a right wing attack, yet every time there's been evidence that it happened, and textbooks tit waso said she exhibited gross negligence. the fact is that fbi is run by an appointee of barack obama. that's not a republican national committee appointee. the fact of the matter is, over and over we're seeing a pattern of them using the clinton foundation as a cash cow for them to get rich and influence acts of government. she's the insider's insider. if you want more of that, vote for hillary clinton. if you want an element of change, you want to

the clinton foundation. this is been something that has been teed up for years. the fact that the clinton campaigns still taking foreign donations seems highly questionable. john: i want to try to do them one by one also. hillary clinton should have press conferences. alex: yes she should. do american voters care? john: is it important to accountability. 260 days without a press conference is bad. alex: yes. i am called the managing editor and i manage no one and edit of thing. the clinton foundation is a huge problem and it is a problem 53% of with our poll, the people in the country think that the fact that the foundation accepts for donations is problematic. that is a number that starts to get into the area that i care about which is actually persuadable voters, people out there that are not already committed to donald trump or hillary clinton, and importantly, a set of voters that i think are another interesting subset which is a subset that is not deciding between clinton and trump but deciding whether it will pull the lever for hillary clinton as a normally would for a democrat or donald tru

the clinton exam pain sees it. nancy cordes has the that. nancy. >> scott, the clinton campaign said there is no disputing what trump meant. campaign manager, issued this statement. this is simple, he said. what trump is saying is dangerous. a person seeking to be the president of the united states should not suggest violence in any way. weighed in from texas. >> it just revealed a sort of complete temperamental misfit with the character that's required to do the job and in a nation with, we gotta be pulling together and, violence is not something any leader should be doing. >> massachusetts senator, elizabeth warren -- donald trump makes death threats because he handle losing to a girl one thing democrats are not expression is surprise. the same man who encouraged violence against protesters at his rallies and joked that he could shoot someone and still not lose votes. >> nancy cordes reporting. thank you very much. >> clinton opened a rally near orlando yesterday. by paying tribute to the 49 people who were murdered in june at the pulse nightclub. father of the orlando gunman.

many democrats sided with the clinton campaign who called the remarks dangerous. former arizona gaby giffords who was shot in the head during a mass shooting tweeted we must draw a line between political speech and suggestions of violence. political misstep. it's an assassination threat. house speaker paul ryan, who easily won his state's primary tuesday, also spoke out. >> it sounds like a joke gone bad. you should never joke about something like that. >> reporter: trump has been under fire from members of his own party to stick to message. yesterday, he took aim at the media for allegedly ignoring the presence of orlando shooter omar mateen's father at one of clinton's rallies this week. >> if that were me, this would be a headline all over the world. >> reporter: the clinton campaign has since disavowed mateen's support and said he was is not an invited guest. clinton is scheduled to talk about jobs today in iowa, before delivering what her campaign calls a major economics speech in detroit on thursday. >> brian webb here in new york, thank you so much. >>> com

this is clearly an awkward situation, a horrible optic for the clinton campaign and it is frankly an this rally took place in kissimmee, florida only 30 minutes from the site of the pulse nightclub. as hillary clinton was talking about that massacre just at the beginning of the rally, thank youing the orlando police, there he was, sadiq mateen, prominently sitting behind her. our affiliate caught up with him after the event and asked him why he showed up. >> clinton is good for united states versus donald trump. i wish that my son joined the army and fought isis and destroyed isis. that would be much better. >> reporter: bizarre indeed. during that interview sadiq mateen displayed a banner showing support for hillary clinton for, among other things, her position on gun control. mateen says he is a democrat and he was invited to the rally. we reached out to the clinton campaign, a campaign aide told us this was an open door event for the public but this aide said, "in individual was not invited as a guest," and the campaign was not aware of his attendance until after the event. a key q

the clinton campaign is focused on -- they have to focus on e-mails,ith her it is where are they focusinge now? it's the clinton foundation has become the center of this. the e-mail issue is something that has been ongoing, that has been extremely distract you it is one of those things we never know what might happen. dnc,acking of the dccc something to worry about. the clinton foundation, it is clear they have gone through this in a methodical way, they have been working on this for a long time. they decided the second to last week in august is the best time to let everyone know how they will handle it. e-mailou do have the issues coming to a head with these judicial watch e-mails show communication. no real smoking gun, it is one or two lines back-and-forth and the clinton campaign saying that retrowas never any quality special treatment for donors clinton foundation. if something like that were to surface it could be particularly automatic and it is clear that they areon just that very involved in trying to figure out how to make sure that the foundation does not present a problem with

the ties between the clinton foundation and what exactly happened when hillary clinton was secretary of state. all stemming from the expanding clinton e-mail scandal. the clinton campaign insists there is no evidence of quid pro quo of any action taken by secretary clinton that benefited the clinton foundation donors. but newly released e-mails and now a new tally of secretary clinton's meetings with foundation donors has sparked new attention. even from some of the most prominent mainstream news orgs in the country. fox team coverage tonight. katherine harrige. we begin with the math behind the meetings with the then secretary of state, senior political correspondent mike emmanuel is traveling with the clinton campaign in santa monica, california. mike? >> reporter: bret, good evening. hillary clinton's state department logs reveals more than half the people she met outside government during her time as secretary of state, 85 of 154 were donors to the clinton foundation, either personally or as part of approved. it's estimated they gave as much as $156 million. this hour, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani is accusing clintons of selling access and actions for m

this is a calculated effort by the clinton campaign. don't think they'll get a ton of republican votes in the end but to use those voices to say, it's not use to say trump is unfit to be commander in chief. these are his friends. >> by leaning heavily on conservative voices you alienate some of the bernie sanders supporters. already liberals who will say i don't want a candidate quasi-endorsed by charles kraut haumer. she is going to the middle of the electorate to the suburban voters who are deeply put off by what they see as instability of trump in his campaign. >> one of of the things coming out that the poll last week showed was that democrats change their attitudes dramatically about how they feel about the political situation over all. on the classic question of whether you believe the kwucoun is going in the right direction or on the wrong track. they swung wildly from being pessimistic to afterwards 58% saying we're going in the right direction. democrats and hillary clinton looking for a third democratic term. always a challenge

what is the clinton campaign saying? >> they are trying to, you know, keep these individual bumps in the polls kind of in context and keep an eye on november. but this is the beginning of when polls really start to matter on the national scale. where after the convention, finally getting to a point of kind of equilibrium where we can finally assess, this is a benchmark we should be weighing all future polls against. americans are actually beginning to tune in really for the first time, even though we have been all covering this for a long time. still, again, you've got to keep an eye on the state polls more than the national polls. >> and kelly, very quickly, is the trump campaign very jittery when they look at these numbers? >> i think they are concerned, because they thought there would be a bounce for them, and obviously hillary clinton's convention had a lot of high points and so she is enjoying that now. i think that it will be another news cycle, and trump will find another way to throw a punch. we have seen him sor

clinton. but by drawing attention to it was an important week on the campaign. >> the clinton campaign is making conscious decision to not paint all republicans in the light that they're painting donald trump, to essentially say to republicans, i understand that am so of you disagree with him too. you might not like me and think i am the best choice but i am certainly better than him and you don't want your party overtaken by that. the second was the silence from most republicans in terms of defending their nominee against these charges. i don't think i saw anyone who was not a hard-core trump supporter come out and speak to his defense after that. and that is pretty remarkable at this stage. >> isn't this sort of overture in mentioning the republicans designed to prepare her to governor if she is president? she is saying to the senior republicans, suddenly, i know you're not him, i know he doesn't represent what you are. i need and i want to work with you when i am president? to me that is part -- to me that's -- when i hear that, that's what it sounds like, that she is sort of telegraphing to

>> reporter: jim, the clinton campaign will open its 33rd office in the state of pennsylvania. the clinton campaign is building a team with hundreds of staffers. the trump campaign is relying on what the republican party already has in place. today volunteers like marlene taylor from the clinton campaign set up to register voters. >> it's really invigorating campaign. >> reporter: they're from one of the five campaign offices in the philly area. donald trump's office is closed, empty. >> we are stronger together. >> reporter: clinton has a full team in pennsylvania. 300 staff including a state director, a political director and communications team. the state republican party says trump is relying heavily on its staff. >> we have to get out to the people and let them know that you are serious about running for president. >> reporter: today the clinton campaign has 30 open campaign offices statewide. tomorrow they'll open three more, one in allentown, norristown and philadelphia. >> yeah, the infrastructure is there. >> so far trump is also outgunned on the all-important ads by 10

the trump campaign manager donald trump himself are continuing to attack. they are walking themselves into this hole and complaining they are in the hole they are in. i don't see any for dissipation from the clinton you are right if that were true or evident, it could be a problem. right now is the trump campaign manager itself. mark: it'salso between the primary election in the general election. : it started last thursday and it would hillary clinton took the nomination. i thinkrimary election, trump can bulldoze through these controversies because there is not enough opposition to sustain the spotlight on this, on any particular incident. now we are in the general election you do see the dnc and the clinton campaign and the senate candidates coming under pressure to comment on this from reporters, their opposition, democratic operatives, people like yourselves. that is the difference now. john: if i could, i think alex is right. there was one more element that seems to be present that wasn't during the campaign. it is easy for donald trump and it's only 20 or 25 reporters covering his campaign to bamboozle through them. you have everyone in the world, every reporter and journals in the world pa