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Involved in im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, brand new poll just out Shows Hillary clinton getting a bounce from the Democratic National convention. She regained her lead topping donald trump in a head to head matchup. 52 of 43 . Poll also showes a growing share of americans think clintons policies remove the country in the right direction. But the needle hasnt moved much when it comes to what voters think of clintons honesty and trust worthiness. We are standing by for a Clinton Campaign rally this hour. Donald trump is getting an earful from Top Republicans. Veterans of foreign wars and gold star families. For his clash with the Muslim American parents of a fallen soldier. But trump is making no apologies and in a rally of his own just now he defended his controversial statements on russia and stepped up his attacks on the news media. Ill speak with the Republican National committee chairman, Reince Priebus. Lets get to breaking news, new cnn roc poll showing Hillary Clinton picking up sevenpoint bounce following the Democratic Convention regaining her lead in head to head matchup with donald trump. Thats slightly bigger boost than trump got from the Republican Convention. But the glow may not necessarily last long for either candidate. Political director and chief National Correspondent john king. Let me go to you and talk about the significantians of these numberes. Take a look at where the race was before convention and where the race is now. If you look preconvention, Hillary Clinton was at 45 . Now she is at 52 . Thats that sevenpoint spread youre talking about there. And you can see the fourway matchup. And you see the race is pretty much the same. And you see the same level of bounce approximately for Hillary Clinton. Here is what you need to know. Hillary clinton got a sevenpoint bounce in this poll from her convention. Donald trump got a sixpoint bounce in this poll from his convention. What we dont know is if Hillary Clintons bounce will sustain and so thats why looking ahead, she got the last word of conventions. Does this give her an ability to sustain this bounce or is there a real bounce of those that go up and down. Thats what we saw with donald trump. Going up and down. In the headtohead matchup, at least four candidates in the ballot in all 50 states. But head to head, look at the numberis, and before the convention i want to be specific on this. Hillary clinton at 45 for Democratic Convention. Now at 52. He is down to 43. Thats a pretty significant bump for her. It is. To dave aid point, can she sustain it. Later in 2012 cycle, and the election is pretty quickly to labor day and into the final stretch. Can she sustain and democrats think the bus tour has gotten them National Press and press in key Battle Ground states. And going state by state for the next 99 day answers in ohio and pennsylvania they also think wolf this whole controversy donald trump pickinging a fight with the gold star father, mr. Khan is probably also helping democrats sustain momentum post convention. One key point about the fourway race, this is something it keep in mind. If you look at all four candidates, 24 of americans are saying im not for clinton or trump. Either nor gary jo johnson, jill stein, or no one, someone else, i dont know. 21 of americans are not endured by major nominees tells you there could still be turmoil out there. We is asked voters are you voting more to support Hillary Clinton or deny donald trump. Most say they are voting to support Hillary Clinton, 41 say they are opposing donald trump. And we also asked trump voters, take a look at this, david. Are you voting more to support trump . 47 opposed clinton 50 . What do those number say to you . We asked that question in the spring and about even of people saying that they were voting for her to oppose trump and support clinton. I look at if you are in brooklyn and you say okay one Mission Accomplished for the convention we have more people now energized enthused to go out and support our candidate. Thats a big motivational push on the clinton side. The trump side obviously you would expect in trump Head Quarters to approve numbers and a majority of people support you rather than being reliant upon people going out to vote in opposition. We also asked voters their opinions, john, of Hillary Clinton. Does she have the right experience, registered voters 67 says she has experience. Right experience is she in touch with ordinary americans. Half bb 50 . Will she unite the country . Is she honest and trust worthy . Only 43 . It is a giant character cloud and as Donald Trumps opening because his case is you dont want the status quo, you want change. She is politics as usual. Even worse than politics as usual personally. Thats his only case here. If you look at first number, 67 has the right experience, only 31 view that about donald trump. She can make the case, these are troubled times. You need a steady hand. I immediate the experience, she doesnt. Her super pac friends are hitting donald trump saying he is unfit to be commanderinchief. They are trying to take advantage of her good flashing right. Has experience. In touch with people. Negative for clinton is still there. I talked to a trump adviser who said donald trump is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory under this fight with the gold star father they are trying to inside the Trump Campaign to back off and he wont but their hope and they say that even those that dont like the Trump Campaign can say he can still win that number. Before the Democratic Convention and after the Democratic Convention, before Republican Convention, i should point out, that was two weeks ago, she was at 68 who did not think she was honest and trust worthy. 66 right now, not much difference at all. Look that there. 34 call her honest and trust worthy. She got beat up for a whole weekend in cleveland and what does her convention do . Returns her to the dismal number of 34 . John is right. This is Donald Trumps opening. Not a clean kill of an opening. His numbers havent changed on the honest and trust worthy issue either . No. Only 35 of americans think donald trump is honest. 34 think Hillary Clinton is honest. This is not a love affair. People out there looking at this race and to the point about voting for or against honest and trust worthy, people are not happy with their choicees. This is what they got. Which is why i still say you have to keep an eye on third party candidates. Not that they would win but as they go up and down we have to go state by state and see who it hurts. People are open to looking for new options but bottom line here is these are good numbers for Hillary Clinton coming out of her convention and question is can she pour cement on it. Whats the answer . I dont have an answer for you. Powerball number. But ill tell you this much, they feel it gives a better chance of cementing numbers rather than the new cycle was going in a different direction. More on these new numbers coming up. Thank you very much. Thanks to you, john king. Donald trumps fight with the muslim parents fauflen american soldier is earning him rebukes from old gold star familyes. Veterans of foreign wars and top republicanes. But gop nominee is not backing down as he campaigns in key Battle Ground states. Our senior White House Correspondent is on the campaign trail with him in pennsylvania right now. So for no apology from mr. Trump. Is that right . Thats right, wolf. No apology. Everything swirling around with the khan family, donald trump is not laying low. He will be in one of his targeted states later this evening. He was in ohio. He avoided any mention of the gold star family. The 9 days until election and it is kazir khan, not donald trump, who is all over the air waves. He should listen to america and what world is telling about the remarks. Father of fallen Muslim American soldier in iraq, accusing trump of islama phobia and he hasnt let up demanding that the Republican Party reject its nominee. Enough is enough. Every descent republican has said i apologize if i am a little emotional about this. Every descent republican rebuked his behavior and nobody stood up and said enough. Stop it. You will not be our candidate. Trump who is not one to let an take go unanswer said causing major heartburn inside the gop. Tweeting back mr. Khan who does not know me viciously taked me from the stage of the dnc. And is now all over tv doing the same. Nice. But trump is also hearing back from khans wife after his comments over the weekend. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there with nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. Her silence at the convention, she told cnn, is due to her grief, not her faith. I can say that my religion, on my family, on pli culture, never stopped me saying whatever i want to say. Without saying a word, i had lots of love. I touched lots of hearts. Democrats are seizing on the controversy from the president. No one has given more for our freedom and security than our gold star familyes. To Hillary Clinton. Mr. Khan, paid the ultimate sacrifice for his family, didnt he . And what has he heard from donald trump . Nothing but insults. Top republicans trump critics john kasich and Lindsey Graham are stepping forward to defend the khan family. Senator john mccain, who felt trumps furry before, released a scathing statement saying i cannot emphasize enough how much i disagree with mr. Trumps statement. I hope americans understand that remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers or candidates. Latest uproar thrushed mike pence into a unique role as running mate from a attack dog into rescue dog. Campaign releasing a statement from the indian governor saying donald trump and i believe that captain khan is an American Hero and his family like all gold star families should be cherished by every american. A top aid tell meg why the mildmann mildmannered governor from indiana brings a balance. And that was long need before this controversy. And donald trump did not talk about the khans earlier today in ohio. We will see if he does it in ohio. Jim acosta, thank you. Up next, the bounce in trumps post convention controversy. Chairman of the National Committee Reince Priebus is standing by. 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That jumped from 43 before to 48 now. The number of voters who said the same about trumps policies and went down from 40 before the conventions to 308 and Republican Convention achieved what was deemed. You may recall wolf a week earlier you were describing Donald Trumps bounce which was the biggest bounce in 16 years after convention. Hillary clinton apparently in the same poll got a bounce i think both parties got about the same bounce out of their convention. And suspecting that we are back to normal numbers here pretty soon and got the convention and now turning into august which tends to be more slower leading into labor day. And keeping momentum going and obviously the polling that you have shown really for us the biggest number is that Hillary Clintons trust worthiness is in the same exact spot as it was before their convention. So they didnt do anything to improve that number. Which is giving the republicans an enormous opportunity, the Washington Post gave her four pinocchios today after claiming that she didnt send any classified information to her emails. So she just got problems. She is in a ditch and cant get out and we have to make the case on our side that were a bet are option than she is. Still in that twoperson race, she is right now 52 . Donald trumps at 43 . And but thats reflects the bounce she got out of the convention. Instead of coming out of the convention though unified and talking about Donald Trumps vision for the future, vision for the country, we have heard prominent members of the Republican Party condemn his remarks on the khan family, senator mccain, as you know, senator representative thornberry, chairman of the Armed Service answers jeb bush and Lindsey Graham among others, they thought his remarks about the family were disrespectful. Do you agree with that . Here is what i think. I think our gold star families are precious and they are to be honored and love end cherished and i think that it is something that we believe in as a party. So yeah, i think his family should be off limits and i love them and i cant imagine being the father after little girl and boy going through the unbelievable grief of them not coming home one day in battle. And there is just nothing more sacrificial than that. And we believe that and we know that and i believe that donald trump and mike pence also know and understand that and so, look, there is nothing but honor and respect for this family and all families that go through these types of horrific things in their life and it is an unbelievable place to come from and that where i think that we just, we dont go there and i dont go there. Trump went there, he said he went there because he was supposedly in his words viciously attacked by the khan family. Do you agree that that family viciously attacked him . Well, look, i mean, donald trump is going to speak for donald trump. I mean, he want to defend himself and it is understandable. But look, like i said before, this is a family that is grieving and they have a right to and then we have a and we have an obligation to honor them and love them and to cherish them and thats where im thats where i come from. Thats where our party is coming from. Wouldnt it have been better if donald trump wouldnt have simply said anything about this gri grieving family . Look, hindsight is 20 20. But obviously i am who i am and im talking for the party and i believe that these families, these gold star families are off limits and they are to be loved and cherished an honored. Should he apologize to this family . You know, look, it is up to donald trump. I love these families. Our party loves these familyes. And like i said before, they are heros. They are cherished. And i mean, everything you can imagine. It is just an unbelievable burden to carry and you know, whatever sacrifices that i think ive made or whatever sacrifices you think youve made, wolf, there are crumbs on the floor compared to these families. Of course, i totally agree. As you know veterans of foreign wars, countryes a largest Major Veterans Organization said in Statement Today and i will read it to you. He said these are certain there are certain subjects that no amount of word smithing can repair once crossed. Do you expect these veterans, military families, do you think they should accept an apology from donald trump if he were in fact to apologize . He hasnt done so yet. Well, sure. I mean, look, everyone can choose words more wisely this their life and i think everyone understands that. We will wait and see what happens. But clearly, folks at dfws across the country should be honored. Families, my dad was in the 101st airborne. My sister an officer in the navy. My dad taught at Great Lakes Naval base in north chicago. I grew up with this. Certainly im no hero. I never served. And quite frankly cant remotely compare to these families. Dont try to. I dont go there. And im not doing it here. As you know, donald trump, he doesnt apologize. When he said negative things about the pope, certainly negative things about john mccain, suggesting he wasnt a hero because he was a pow. That didnt stop him from capturing the republican nomination, beating 16 other republicans, governors, senators, with a lot of money. Do you believe he is capable of overcoming this particular controversy . Is this different now that he is in a general election . No, look, ive spoken about those other things. But donald trump is far better option than Hillary Clinton. The fact of the matter is you look at where this country is at over the last eight years and Hillary Clinton forgot that she and barack obama were in charge of the country for the past eight years. So she didnt talk about where we were as a party. She didnt talk about ice ans what happened under her watch. She didnt talk about libya or benghazi. Look, this is an issue that she is going to have to deal with pl fbz they didnt choose the change candidate. We did. And so i think that donald trump is going to be in a great position to win the race and he will govern effectively and thats where you saw when a he delivered that speech in cleveland that he had the biggest bounce in 16 years out of a convention. And it is because people saw a person ready to lead. Saw a person that they could see in the white house. And he delivered an effective message which was number one, things are on the wrong track. Number two, Hillary Clinton cant be trusted to actually change the things that need to be changed in this country. As you know, donald trump has been tweeting about these three president ial debates that are scheduled suggesting they are rigged. Second president ial debate by wait conflicts with your home teams game, the Green Bay Packers. They will be playing the new york giants. Debate schedule as you know released last september. Nfl schedule was released seven months later. Why are we hearing about these concerns now . And i know you have concerns about the debate schedule. I do have concerns about it. I dont consider it finalized until candidates sign on the dotted line. These debate schedules and how the debates are conducted, moderators chosen, thats a product of both candidates sitting down and agreeing to it. No person from this commission ever contacted me. They are not in contact with donald trump. And i dont think they were in contact with the dnc either before Debbie Wasserman schultz left. So the fact is that they are operating in a vacuum and if you read the report of all of the problems that commission needs to address, i think is part of it. Which is weve got a commission that operates in a vacuum and doesnt remember that theres two major parties and two major candidates that need to be in agreement. I dont want to have debate on sunday night, wolf. I dont think anyone out there want to have debates on sunday night. They should be on tuesday, wednesday, maybe thursday. But this will be the subject of conversation in the weeks to come. There are nfl games sunday night, monday night and thursday night. I know youre a big Green Bay Packers fan. From your republican thats why it started with tuesday and wednesday, by the way. I know that. If if were up to you, leader of the Republican Party, right now, youre the chairman, how would you overcome this . What would you propose . I would propose the Commission Finding tuesday and wednesday nights to hold these debates. If it had to go to thursday within fine. But they would come up with some plans. And other thing i would suggest is pick up the phone. And call the people that are most responsible for these nominees to pick the right times for these debates. Reince priebus is chairman of the Republican National committee. Reince, thank you very much. You bet, thanks, wolf. Coming up, our brand new rnc poll showing Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from the convention. She hits the campaign trail. We are standing by for a rally. Stand by with us for that as well. Stay with us. Youre in the situation room. This is how you apply the first paint that kills bacteria. Sherwinwilliams paint shield continuously kills 99. 9 of bacteria. Totally breakthrough. Surprisingly the same. And its only avaiblble at sherwinwilliams. Month after month. Year after year. Then one night, you hydroplane into a ditch. Yeah. Surprise. Your Insurance Company tells you to pay up again. Why pay for insurance if you have to pay even more for using it . If you have Liberty Mutual deductible fund™, you could pay no deductible at all. 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He is facing that criticism from his own party. This is now a cycle, wolf, that we have seen several times now where he says something that seems beyond the pale to even many of his own party and then they are put in a bind as you just experienced with Reince Priebus to continue to express support for trump and candidacy while reputating his words and what he said. That is becoming an increasingly uncomfortable position for many republicans, especially in this scenario because you are dealing with the most sacred of americans, the gold star families. Is this a general election as opposed to primaryes. There is no doubt. We are in a different context. I look to see what has donald trump done on a daily base toys add voters to coalition . Because we know how loyal his supporters are and controversy like this has not proven to strip away a single vote of his. And yet now that he is in a general election context we also know his loyal base of supporters is not enough to get to 270 electoral votes most likely. In a story like this hard to see how that adds votes. He has a lot of criticism from republicanes. But some of them still havent pulled their endorsements or support even though they clearly were upset senator mccain for example about what he said. Many of them havent pulled endorsements which is the question democrats are asking. How far can he go for you to continue to support him. And paul ryan as well. Statements that ryan and mcconnell put out, they condemn the travel ban on certain religions. But democrats will continue to ask the question, how far will you go here . And we are already seeing republicans dropping out of a party. Jeb bush advisors, Sally Brad Shaw today. I any donald trump continues to go down the path you are see more and more of that. What about the Clinton Campaign . Clearly they think this will help them. The way they see the beauty of this is that they dont have do much, right . She could not do much. Tim kaine could not do much. It is an unforced error. The thing with hillary is with White Working Class voters. She was on this bus tour. They were worried about pennsylvania and ohio. And what they are really worried about is having time to convince people in the middle. They feel like once someone goes over to donald trump, they are gone. They arent getting them back. Something like this buys them time to make an argument. Certainly they tried that with the convention. She tried that with the bus tour. She is going to continue to make the case. We heard patricia smith, the woman who lost his son in benghazi. She spoke at the rnc and she was on cnn earlier today. She loathes Hillary Clinton. And yet she was asked about this insulting a gold star family and she is squarely on the side of the khans and clearly connected with the loss in that regard. And this is by design. This error on the Trump Campaign. The Clinton Campaign put captain khans parent in their Convention Program on their final night of the convention. Not only did they want the message out there from them, but there is no doubt there is a strategic decision made it perhaps that might engage donald trump back in a back and forth and it is proven to be just that. I dont think they could have had it play out any better. In fact i think they dont they are sort of counting their lucky stars it played out. They didnt expect this to unfold the way it did. Is that what youre saying . I dont think they expected it. If he is taking the bait on this, he really couldnt have taken the bait any more. Those are her own words, right . Talking about donald trump taking the bait. Chris, we showed numbers earlier. Once again, sevenpoint bounce. She was before the Democratic Convention 45 . Now at 52 . Trump was 48 before Democratic Convention. Now gone down to 43 . What does she need to do to maintain this momentum . Obviously the bounce theory has held and held for trump in the beginning and holding for her and democrats. You look at one of the numbers in the poll and 35 she she is dishonest. Or 35 think trump is dishonest and about 34 think she is dishonest. I asked on the democratic floor and they think she should stay the course, focus on substance and it helps with the other candidate doing what he is doing. 34 she is honest and trust worthy. Thats a disturbing number from Hillary Clintons perspective. And a consistent number. Thats the problem is that four nights of prime Time Convention coverage, aimed at talking about, trying to address trust in different way webs trust her to fight the fights on policy grounds. That trust number hasnt budged. It took a dip in the Republican Convention because they were hammering her. But four nights of their positively designed coverage cant get her above that mark. This is a very engrained deficiency. How do they handle . . I think wait they handle it is they are talking about not trying to increase her trust worthy numbers. They were talking about doing that in the convention but i think they understand it is what it is. You cant rewrite history. When you talk about the clintons, you talk about decades where the line has been about legality and not necessarily pro pri pro propriety. So she maybe cant bring herself up but she will try to bring him down. Everybody stand by. We have more to discuss. Much more indeed. Hillary clinton is out on the campaign trail getting ready to address a crowd in omaha, nebraska. We will have that and more when we come back. This is the summer. The summer of this. The summer that summers from here on will be compared to. Get out there. Find hotels at up to 50 off and more ways to save at expedia. Com save50. Seconds can mean the difference between life and death. For partners in health, time is life. We have 18,000 people around the world. 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A turn around from a week ago when trump was ahead by three points after the Republican Convention. Would you rather have a, youre fired president , or a youre hired president . With a little help from her running mate, virginia senator tim kaine, clinton is hoping to widen that lead looking for support from white blue collar voters on the fence about which candidate to deport. He goes around saying he wants to put America First and america workers first. And then just today we learn once again hes asked for visas to employ Foreign Workers at his country clubs because he says he cant find any american workers. Shame on you, donald trump. Shame on you. Fresh off a bus tour through pennsylvania and ohio, clinton will campaign in nebraska and will be introduced by billionaire Warren Buffett who endorsed her in september. I will be delighted when secretary clinton takes the oval office. While kaine heads hope to head up things in his state. We have a very momentum collection. Emails are front and center again after she said this. Director comey said my answers were truthful and what i said was consistent with what i have told the American People. That there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails. The Washington Post fact checker gives her four pi noek yoes. Worst rating possible. In part because of this statement from fbi director james comey. Seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret Special Access Program at the time they were sent and received. Those chains involve secretary clinton both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails about those same matters. A direct contradigs of what clinton told the american public. I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified materials. I am confident that i never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and rereceived p. Now the Clinton Campaign still stressing that what clinton told the fbi is completely consistent with what she said in all of the public settings where she has been asked about her emails. But it is clear, wolf, that what she told the public was not accurate nor was the characterization that she just made about fbi director about james comeys comments about email practices while at the state department. Briane Brianna Keilar thank. A note about a live cnn town hall hosted by anderson cooper. Please be sure to watch. Wednesday night, 9 00 p. M. East enhere on cnn. Coming up, new developments on the war on isis. United states is now carrying out air strikes on isis targets in libya. Will it make a difference, though . We are also standing by for Hillary Clintons Campaign Rally where she will be introduced by the billionaire, Warren Buffett. See me. See me. Dont stare at me. See me. See me. See me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. Im not contagious. 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You need him because america just isnt great anymore. Everybodys entitled to their opinion. I disagree with him on that subject, which ill say a bit about more later. Its how he explains what he would do about that. Im going to quote his exact words. Im going to read this. Well continue to watch warren buffet. Well take a quick break. Well be right back. Squuuuack, lets feed him lets feto the sharks sharks yay and take all of his gold and take all of his gold ya and hide it from the crew ya. . Squuuuack, theyre all morons anyway i never said that. They all smell bad too. No you all smell wonderful i smell bad if youre a parrot, you repeat things. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Squuuuack, its what you do. He wrecked the rec room this summer. His stellar notebooks will last through june. Get back to great. This week, these items just one cent each. Office depot officemax. Gear up for school. Gear up for great. Breaking news. Bouncing back. An exclusive poll Shows Hillary clinton regaining her lead over donald trump following the Democratic Convention. Can she stay on top . Review of donald trump facing sharp criticism from fellow republicans shocked by his war of words with family of fallen Muslim American soldier. How will trump weather this latest controversy . Russia uproar. Trump is trying to defend and clarify remarks about russia and ukraine raising questions about his grass on the very tense situation between the two countries. Dig trump misspeak or was he unaware of Major International crisis. Hillary clinton accused of sherry picking statements by fbi director. She claims he said she was truthful but Fact Checkers disagree. Will the uproar hounds her all the way to election day. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The breaking news tonight, a shake up in the president ial race. Hillary clinton regains her lead following her convention in philadelphia. An exclusive poll shows her nine points ahead of republican rival Donald Trump Thanks to a sevenpoint convention bounce. Trump is mired in new controversies of his own making. His very public feud with theparents of a fallen Muslim American soldier is drawing sharp criticism from Top Republicans and now the veterans of foreign wars which calls his remarks out of bounds. Trump also raised eyebrows with an interview in which he appeared to be unaware of russias annexation of krimea. Lets begin with our poll showing Hillary Clinton with a postconvention lead of nine points over donald trump. Our cnn political director is here with a closer look. Take us inside the numbers. Take a look at this new horse race that we have between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. 52 for Hillary Clinton. 43 for donald trump. Thats a ninepoint race. Thats outside the margin of error. What we should be careful to note is this is part of Hillary Clintons postconvention bounce. Just like we saw donald trump, he went up plus three over Hillary Clinton after his convention. Shes bouncing back. A ninepoint lead. Thats a significant lead. Thats where Donald Trumps assignment, if you will, begins after Hillary Clintons convention to start digging in at that. Talk about the notion of a convention bounce. We look, what was Hillary Clintons support . What with her vote number before the convention versus after . You see that 45 is what Hillary Clinton had prior to the Democratic Convention. After, shes at 52 . Thats the sevenpoint bounce. Thats what were referring to as the bounce. Think of a bouncing ball, wolf. It goes up and it goes down. Thats what we saw the donald trump. We saw his number go up and then it fell down. The big question, looking at this poll tonight, is how does Hillary Clinton sustain this now . She got the last word in the back to back conventions. Thats an advantage for her going into this week. Obviously, compounpounded by th controversy that donald trump finds him in. Does her ball come down or is she able to sustain it or reset the race at this new ninepoint lead. Is this like the new normal . Its going to go up and down as we go along . After the convention, voters got a lot of information. Four notes on the republican side. Four nights on the democratic side. They got a lot of information. It settles down. Well see heading into labor day and the final sprint where the race has settle to before the debat debates. Now the Trump Campaign, the republican president ial nominee is flailing amid some late controversies he sparked with war of words with parents of a muslim soldier who died fighting in iraq. Jason is in columbus, ohio. Several Top Republicans, the veterans of foreign wars, the gold star families, theyre all rebuking donald trump right now. Whats the latest . You have to wonder if all that criticism is getting to him. He spoke about a number of different topic, including he mentioned that the general election might be rigged in some way against him. No mention of the family. Far cry from what he had to say about them this morning and over the weekend. Tonight donald trump blasting the media. Were battling the press because the press is dishonest. Reporter facing a bipartisan backlash over his attacks of family of a slain u. S. Muslim soldier. Trump not backing down and neither is the family of the army captain who was awarded a bronze star and purple heart for helping save fellow soldiers in iraq by walking toward a carloaded with explosives in in 2004. This is proof of his ignorance and arrogance. I ask his advisors to get him in a room and close the door and set him right. Trump tweeting, mr. Viciously attacked me from the stay i stage of the dnc and is now all over tv doing the same. Nice. The war of words starting after trump was rebuked during last weeks Democratic Convention. You have sacrificed nothing and no one trump responding by suggesting his muslim faith might have been the reason she did not speak at the convention. I saw him. He was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. Prompting this response. I can say that my religion or my family or my culture never stopped me saying whatever i want to say. Anybody can see how difficult that time was when i was standing there this front of america without saying a word, i had lots of love. Arizona senator john mccain who trump once said was not a war hero because he was captured issued a lengthy state denouncing the gop candidate write, i cannot emphasize enough how deeply i disagree with mr. Trumps statement. I hope americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of the Republican Party, its officers or candidates. Other prominent republicans step forward for the family and House Speaker paul ryan. President obama weighing in on the issue this afternoon. No one has given more for our freedom and our security than our gold star families. All this as Hillary Clinton accuses trump of, again, crossing the line with his remarks. To have trump do what he did, i dont know where the bounds are. I dont know where the bottom is. Wolf, despite criticism coming in from a number of different sides, the people that i spoke to here in the room still support trump. They say he may not say the right thing in the right way, but they still support him. Many say this is something that has been created by the media and the Clinton Campaign. Wolf. Jason, thank you. Joining me republican congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of tennessee. Thank you. Sure. Trump is facing some serious criticism including from many prominent members of the Republican Party for his comments involving the kahn family. Do you think the remarks were disrespectful . I think his remarks have been clarified a little bit. This is where i think i differ with a lot of folks on this. I think it would be appropriate that the khan family and also pat smith because of the remarks Hillary Clinton made. Everybody needs an apology on this. Our gold star families deserve our support, our full and total support. Having a military post in my drikts, when you stand wi district and when you stand with these families, you know the grief never goes away. I have a lot of kurdish americans in my district. I have to tell you, those individuals love this country so deeply and they appreciate what this country has allowed them to do. The opportunity and the safety and freedom they have been given. I think thats something also that we need to honor and respect. Do you think mr. Trump should apologize to the khan family . I think that mrs. Clinton should apologize to pat smith for her remarks yesterday on Fox News Sunday. I think it would be appropriate. I know mr. Trump has clarified his remarks but i believe in apologies. When i feel as if i have had something thats been misinterpreted or either i said that didnt come across as i intended that an apology, many times, helps set the record straight. Im a big believer. Accepting that accountability and making those apologies. Then focusing on the people in this country are war weary, wolf. They are so tired of all the conflict and they are fareful of terrorism. I join them in being fearful of terrorism. They want the focus to be on that and getting this country on the right track. Maybe its time for both of the leading candidates to make some apologies, clear the air and then lets move forward and put the focus on some of these issues. Terrorism, keeping our military safe, being certain our military has what they need to fight the war. You know donald trump doesnt apologize. We havent heard him apologize about what he said about john mccain. He wasnt really a hero, about a federal judge from indiana who couldnt be fair in a case because he was quote, mexican, if you will. He doesnt apologize. Well, youre asking me what i would do. Thats the tact that i would take. Then i would show these families that the ones that they have lost, their loved ones they have lost, all of those that lost their lives in benghazi, all of those that were injured in that attack. All of our servicemen and women who have given their lives in the war on terror. Yes each and every one of them, each of them is an American Hero. They deserve and those families deserve our utmost respect and there should never be anything that takes any of that respect away from them. That is something that we, the American People, owe them. Our country is built on a legacy of service and sacrifice. That is what has helped to keep us free. These are individuals who love this country enough to put their life on the line. We need to show that appreciation, honor and respect every day. Well said. I couldnt agree more. Heres the question, did donald trump take away respect from this family, this gold star family who lost their son, captain khan in the u. S. Army, fighting for the United States in iraq when he said why was the mother silent when the father was speaking at the Democratic Convention. Did he take away respect from this family . He has said some things in ways that i would not have and made some observations in ways that i would not have just as i believe mrs. Clinton in her interview on Fox News Sunday when asked to address the situation, it was unfortunate in the wap sy she referenced pat smith. I think both of these families are owed an apology by each of the candidates. This veterans of foreign wars, the countrys largest Major Veterans Organization said today in statement, there are certain subjects that no amount of word smithing can repair once crossed. Do you think these veteran, these military families would accept an apology to donald trump if he were to give one . I dont know. I am not close to either of the families. I would not know. I have tremendous respect for the veterans of foreign wars and do a good bit of work with the vfw and with those veterans this my district. Of course, having a Major Military post, we have a tremendous number of veterans both those that have served some. We still have some that served in world war ii in the korean conflict and plenty of those that have served in our latest rounds with the war on terror. Congresswoman, im going to have you, if you can, stay with us. I need to take a quick break. Well resume this conversation in a moment. You tell your Insurance Company they made a mistake. 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To have a chance to stand before america and to tell their stories because america is story after story and what i want is to provide the opportunity and the support so that every single american can live his or her best story, can make the most of your own god given potential. After the convention was over starting friday morning, tim kaine and his wife wife anne and bill i and i got on a bus and started traveling across pennsylvania into ohio. We visited factories, small towns, bigger cities. We met with so many hard working people who told us their stories and they proved every day that drum donald trump is wrong. America is not weak. This is the greatest nation on earth and our best days are still ahead of us. Now, that doesnt mean we dont have challenges and problems. Of course, we do. I dont believe there is anything that americans cant do if we make up our minds because you know why . We are stronger together. Too many people have gotten a raise since the great crash. Theres too much inequality and too little opportunity. Washington is paralyzed by special interests and big money. Dont let anyone tell you, we dont have what it takes if we make up our minds so solve our problems. Dont believe anyone who tells you, i, alone, can fix it. When donald trump said that in his convention speech, i did a bit of a mental double take. Minutes of it. That speech, 75 it was like he was talking about a different country. Forgetting about every one in america who gets up every day and works together. People who make a difference every single day. Hes forgetting our troops on the front lines. Hes forgetting Police Officers and firefighters who run toward danger. Hes forgetting about doctors and nurses who save lives and teachers who change lives. Hes forgetting about unions who fight for working families and communities that pull together through hard times. I grew up in the midwest. I was born in chicago. Raised outside of chicago. My dad was a small businessman. I mean, really small. It was mostly just him and occasionally my mother, brothers and me. Sometimes hed hire helpers to get one of his orders out because he printed fabrics to be made into draperies. He had a print plant with long tables. He was a very selfreliant man. I dont think he, fora minute, through his growing up in scranton, pennsylvania, his service as a chief petty officer in the navy, through his work and business and raising our family, ever thought to himself, i alone can fix it. Thats just not the way we were raised. We were raise to get together. We were raised to follow up on the extraordinary example of our founders, 240 years ago in philadelphia who came together. You see that across nebraska. You see people working. Ive been in omaha. I have visited projects, schools other kinds of nonprofits and institutions where people are working together. Thats what we do in america. We see a problem and we say well fix it together. Thats what were going to do when we get the white house to move us forward in the direction we need to go. Now i know how hard the Great Recession was. It was a terrible time. The worst financial crisis since the great depression. People in nebraska worked hard to come back. I think it was a terrible moment. It could have gotten even worse. I believe that a lot of difficult decisions had to be made. We have come back from that terrible financial crisis thanks to the hard work of nebraskans, americans and president obama, we got out of the ditch that were in. I think if were going to solve the problems we have, we ought to be really clear about where weve come from. We now have 15 million new jobs that have been created in the last seven and a half years. We now have 20 million more americans who have access to health care. We have the highest percentage ever in our history of young people walking across graduation stages to get their high school diplomas. I know we made progress, and i know we shouldnt be satisfied. As americans were asking how can we help more people. Were still facing tough challenges that develop long before the recession and theyve stayed with us. The economy is not working the way it should for every one. Starting in iowa back in april of 2015 until the convention this week, i have met so many people who tell me, they dont expect a hand out. They dont even expect life to be easy. They dont think it should be this hard. It shouldnt be that people feel like they are out there on their own. Like no one cares about them, that theyre not respected. That the dignity of their job is not something that we all support. I know a lot of people who feel that way. I bet theres some in this gymnasium who feel that way. Heres what i want you to know. You deserve a president who will get up every single day in the white house and do everything she can to give you the chance you deserve to have. [ cheers and applause ] i will quickly add as important as it is to have someone who gets what youre going through, i think its also really important that that person tells you what her plans are for producing results. If you saw what i said on thursday night, let me give you the short, punchier version. It starts by making clear we do have to rewrite the rules so our economy works for every one, not just those at the top. My overriding mission as president will be to do everything i can to help our country create more jobs with rising incomes. I believe anyone willing to work hard should be able to find a job that pays well. Enough to support a family. So in my first 100 days, we are going to breakthrough the gridlock in washington and make the biggest investment in new good paying jobs since world war ii. Were going to make the boldest investment in american infrastructure since the highway system. Warren read you some of the quotes from donald trump. Well, he has said so many things that i profoundly disagree with. For the life of me, i dont know why someone runs to be president of the United States who thinks and says we never win anymore. Our country is full of losers. Well, he could not be more wrong. We are going to fix and build the roads, the bridges, the tunnel, the ports, the airport, the Water Systems we need. I want to say a particular word to any of you here from rural nebraska. Were going to bring diverse, Economic Development to Rural Communities to support our farmers and others in small towns who keep america going. One specific way we will do that is to make sure we have an electric grid that can take and distribute energy from clean renewable sources. In fact, i know because ive seen them in the crowd. There are few people from iowa here today. Your neighbor iowa is getting one third of its electricity from clean energy, primarily wind energy. 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Were following our cnn orc poll that Shows Hillary clinton bounced nine points above donald trump. These are registered voters in the cnn poll. Before the convention, Hillary Clinton was at 45 among registered voters. Trump was ahead 48 . After the Democratic Convention now, shes at a 52 . Hes down to 43 . Thats a sevenpoint postconvention bounce which is significant. Thats a healthy bounce. You get the second convention. By all accounts, republicans will say the democrats put on a good fourday show. You just had her in omaha. Trying to sustain it. Trying to build it. They hope this controversy with mr. Khan helps more. The conventions were earlier this year. Theres 99 days now till the election. Can they sustain it going forward. Voters who watched that convention view her add more experience and more in touch with ordinary americans. She has negatives to. Can she get voters to focus on the positive. She has the same negative number as far as honesty and trustworthiness. She does. Donald trumps arent much better even on honest and trustworthine trustworthiness. We know that ri both incredibly unpopular for two people who are running for president and people who are that voters are reluctant to trust. The question is whether or not those are going to cancel each other out and the other issues that the other personality trades will be the ones that voters focus on. How does she maintain the momentum following the Democratic Convention . I think donald trump has made it easier because of his missteps with the comments about the khan family. I think she will continue to drive this message. Their messages are interlinked. Hes making this argument shes untrustworthy and extension of everything you dont like about the obama administration. Shes saying im not donald trump and hes worse. At a fundamental level, shes going to continue pressing. Shes getting severely criticized for his reaction to what the khan family said about their fallen son during the war in iraq. John mccain, in recent days donald trump disparaged a Fallen Soldiers family. Hes suggested their son should not be allowed in the United States. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply i disagree with mr. Trumps statement. I hope americans understand the remarks do not represent the views of the Republican Party, officers or candidates. What does trump need to do to get over this . He should have not engaged in the fight to begin with. He said, you know what, she has the right to speak her mind. Shes a gold star mom. That what im told people urged him to put the phone down and put the computer down, stop and he would not do it. He took the bait from the democrats. He took the bait and then from mr. Khan. He keeps wanting to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. He just delivered a speech in columbus, ohio. Didnt mention it at all. He didnt. One of the other republicans why republicans are so frustrated is since the Democratic Convention, they have been playing on the democrats turf. They have been kind of continuing the democrats narrative that they presented for four days in philadelphia about donald trump. Hes feeding into it with the way hes reacted. Instead of the focus, we talked about it on cnn today, Hillary Clinton interview on sunday about her email issue, about her server saying she didnt say anything publicly that wasnt true, which turns out to not be true which feeds into the honest and trustworthy issue which should be what team trump should be focused on extensively and maybe even exclusively. Well talk about that in a moment. David, the whole issue of Donald Trumps reaction, i think everyone agrees, Reince Priebus said 20 20 hindsight is always better. Maybe he should have ignored and not addressed the family. I see it in two tracks. One is this political malpractice of donald trump not being able to leave the issue alone. Acknowledge the familys sacrifice and move on. We see this over and over again in the kpacampaign. When you look at the interview with mr. Khan and the speech. Theres this sense over and over again that folks in this country, whether its muslims, africanamericans, when they are referenced by donald trump, its this feeling like he wants to put an asterisks by the americanness of people and its not reflecting well among these communities. In this case he was clearly upset about this guy speaking before millions and millions of People Holding up the constitution and sort of metaphorically slapping donald trump across the face. It was hard for him to take, to your point, which is why they did it. Hold on. Theres more to discuss. Hillary clinton still has some problems with her email issue. Fact checkers gave one of her claims the worst possible rating. Much more on that when we come back. Hillary clintons comments on the email controversy and what the fbi director said, Washington Post said what she said about comeys remarks, were totally incorrect. I ran into somebody at a store who recognized me from the Convention Coverage and said i really want to vote for Hillary Clinton but why does she keep talking about these things in way that nobody understands. It makes me pause. Its that kind of problem that she has when she gives interviews like she does. Its the feeling that people get that shes parsing her words. Shes not just talking like a person, frankly. The big question was why she said that the classified information that she was emails about what has classified retro actively when james comey said six or seven emails she was involved in sending and receiving were classified at the time. Its a serious issue. In the poll, our new poll, ill put the numbers up. Right now we ask the question is Hillary Clinton honest and trustworthy. 34 , yes, 64 no. Last week 30 , yes. 68 , no. Not much of a change. She rebounded marginally after the Republican Convention opinion its twothirds of American People dont think shes honest and trustworthy. Donald trump is viewed negatively too. Inside trump, the senior staff is like, sir, please dont engage with mr. Khan. Get off twitter. Stop. He went. Inside the Clinton Campaign, the people wish, and said it was a horrible mistake. Im sorry. It will never happen again. End of story. If she would just stop. She wants to defend herself and go through all this. They wish she could give a straight up im sorry and it will never happen again. Thats the red flag. Said that she didnt lie to the fbi. Which would i a crime. They didnt charge her. She just wrapped up her speech in omaha, nebraska. Did not mention the whole issue of the khan family, the goldstar family, they lost their son. We were expecting she would address that but she decided not to. Dont make it wills an old rule in politics. When your opposition is on fire, just walk away. If hes causing his own problems, dont make it political. Just back off. Its like we were talking after president obama spoke, it was veiled but thinly so, about this issue. Whats he or she going to say thats more powerful than the lengthy statement from john mccain . Not much. Just ahead, donald trump sparks a russia uproar of sorts. Whats the real story behind his relationship with Vladimir Putin . Approaching medicare eligibility . You may think you can put off checking out your Medicare Options until youre sixtyfive, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. Keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. The rest is up to you. Thats where aarp Medicare Supplement Insurance Plans insured by unitedhealthcare Insurance Company come in. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement Insurance Plans, they could help pay some of what medicare doesnt, saving you in outofpocket medical costs. 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Whether you like him or dont like him, hes doing a great job in rebuilding the image of russia and also rebuilding russia period. Forget about image. Reporter and in 2013, trump invited putin to the Miss Universe pageant held in moscow. A year later he bragged about his warm welcome by the russians. And they treated me so great. Putin even sent me a present, beautiful present with a beautiful note. Reporter in those same remarks, trump praised putins aggressive moves. The day after the olympics he starts with ukraine. How smart. He goes in and takes crimea. Hes taking the heart and soul because thats where all the money is. Reporter but this weekend in an interview with abc news, trump seemed confused. Just so you understand, hes not going to go into ukraine. Can you mark it down, put it down reporter well, hes already there, isnt he . Hes there in a certain way. Im not there. You have obama there. And, frank when i, thly that wh the world is a mess and all the power of nato, he takes crimea. Reporter trump even suggested putin might have been welcomed into crimea, doubling down on an earlier suggestion he might recognize the territory as russian and lift u. S. Sanctions if it would lead to better ties with moscow. Im going to take a look at it but the people from crimea from what ive heard would rather be with russia than where they were. Reporter and tonight the Clinton Campaign is using Trumps Campaign to question his knowledge about the world and slamming his agreement with putin that russia was justified in seizing the sovereign territory of another country by force. More evidence, they say, that trump is not fit to serve as commander in chief. Trump is getting ready to address another rally. Well have coverage of that. Thanks for watching. Im wolf blitzer. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront next, Hillary Clinton with a big postconvention bounce as she faces tough new questions about her emails tonight. And will donald trump keep firing back at the familiy of a fallen american soldier. And an outbreak of the zika virus in the United States. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront, the breaking news, donald trump speaking live this hour. All eyes over whether he address