i'm live tonight in washington d.c. we start tonight with donald trump surging. a new national abc news washington post poll has trump with his biggest lead yet, 24%. ahead of scott walker with 13%. the poll was conducted in part of trump's controversial comments over the weekend. when he said john mccain a prisoner of war for five years in vietnam was not a war hero. trump later repeatedly said mccain was a war hero but this morning, he would not apologize for that original remark. >> let me ask you this donald would you say to john mccain's face what you said in that one comment and i'm using the one string of sentences together, he's not a war hero he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured. would you say -- >> no if you go on matt see that's what you don't do -- excuse me matt you're the media and do the same thing. the next sentence is he is a war hero. >> we did run the part where you said he is a war hero so please say we didn't because we did. >> why did savannah start off by saying i said he was not a war hero. i never said that. i said he was a war hero matt. you misrepresent just like everybody else. >> trump also saying he doesn't need to be lek turped and blaming the media. >> he lost. he let us down. he lost. so i never liked him as much after that because i don't like losers. [ laughter ] >> let me get to it. he's not a war hero. >> he is not. >> five and a half years later, a war hero and i believe perhaps he's a war hero. >> this morning, senator mccain responded for the first time. >> does don trump owe you an apology? >> no i don't think so but i think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrifice in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in searchrving their country. as lieutenant john pevitlav tee shot down, he was a prisoner and was 90 pounds when patents liberated the prison camp he was in those are the people that frankly that i find it just totally inappropriate for mr. trump to say that he doesn't like to deal with people that are captured. again, what i think he should do is apologize to the families and those who have served. >> senator mccain saying he doesn't need an apology, but a lot of other republicans disagree. the rnc saying quote, there is no place in our party or our country for comments that dis disparapage those who served and honorable. nearly every other candidate is denouncing him. >> i don't think he has the character or temperament to hold the highest position in this country. >> it's not just absurd but offensive and ridiculous. >> we should never, ever, ever question the patriotism and the heroism of someone like john mccain. >> this is a legitimate hero that searchrved this country and mr. trump knows that. he should just apologize. >> donald trump, you're fired. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> it's good to see because while i often disagree with senator mccain, there is no excuse for going after his service record but where was the this kind of response when he called mexican immigrants criminals and rapists? and where was the this response years ago when trump led the birth nonsense questioning president obama's place of birth? did republicans create this problem and is there a way out for the party now? let's bring in joan walsh and tara thank you both for being here. >> thanks rev. >> thank you. >> joan i got to say this new poll is remarkable. what can party leaders do to stop the momentum with controversy surrounding him? >> i don't know rev. they did create this monster by not rebuking him sooner and i spent the weekend and today watching some of our colleagues suggest that he's gone too far and this is the beginning of the end for donald trump but i don't really think that's true. i think that donald trump is speaking to a sizable portion of the gop base it might be 25%, it might be 30 maybe 35 i'm not sure how high he can go but they don't like john mccain. they agree he's a loser, a rino republican in name only and don't like he was instrumental in putting together comprehensive immigration reform more than once. it failed but that's been something to his credit he worked hard on. these people don't like senator mccain do they like him being called not a war hero? maybe not. this is not something that's going to make anyone who thought they wanted to vote for donald trump bump heefore he did this i don't think they would say oh gee, i better reconsider. >> tara republicans gave trump credibility. now that he's telling them he doesn't need any lekctures from him, they didn't stop him with his comments about mexican people coming to this country, they gave him his credibility. did they create this political monster? >> republicans definitely built this. they gave him a platform they celebrated him when he was talking about president obama's birth certificate and questioning where he was born and parroting all of this nonsense. they celebrated him when he did that. with regard to other really nasty things that he said about the president, i don't think that they are out of line with what republicans said. if people recall, they referred to him as running a gangster government, being a welfare thug. they said food stamp president. these are all the things they said about this president and these are high-ranking republicans who made these kind of remarks and that was just a sampling. he's actually not out of line with what many quote unquote main stream presidents said about this president. >> trump was saying he likes people who weren't captured. i want to play that. >> i one portion where you said at the end of one comment, i like people who weren't captured. okay? let me just highlight that moment for a second. if you're elected president, you'll become bander in chief of this country and they got about 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan, about 3500 serving in iraq. they face danger on a daily basis and face capture on a daily basis. >> i agree. >> do you think you sent the wrong message f they are captured somehow donald trump the commander in chief is not in favor of them? >> i do respect greatly people that aren't captured. nobody talks about them. >> how much damage is he doing to the gop? >> he's a disgrace. nobody is talking about people who aren't captured. my god, this man was a playboy, a pampered playboy while john mccain was suffering in a prison camp. it's unbelievable. this is the kind of thing he says. he'll keep digging this hole deeper. you got people defending him and saying maybe he didn't mean what he said and he was a war hero. he oozed contempt for john mccain and said that because he was looking for a way to completely dismiss and dispararidge him and this committee is face with a nightmare. we can't call jeb bush the front runner. he dropped to third place. >> he's at 24%, tara not only the front runner he's more than double digits ahead of scott walker. i mean, and republicans are criticizing trump now but in 2012 rick perry and mitt romney were both reportedly going through his endorsement. perry was asked about the party's embrace of trump. listen to this. >> is this an issue for the republican party, there was the party embracing trump four years ago. mitt romney sought his endorsement and a lot of you did one on one meetings in 2011 after he dropped out during his birther craze at the time and you actively reached out to him. in hindsight, was that a mistake for the party in general to embrace trump four years ago? >> his twitter handle is the real donald trump and i'll suggest to you, we're seeing the real donald trump now. >> i mean so this is the person that they built, the point that i'm trying to make is that he said very ugly things about president obama, very ugly things about any number of people and mexicans and there was none of this outrage from his opponents, tara. >> exactly. part of that is because again, i want to push the point is that a lot of the things that trump has said, so have other republicans and when you look at what they did to john kerry for instance when he was running for president with the whole swift boat thing diminishing his service to his country, when you look what the republicans did to max when he was running, look at the injuries that he suffered and look at how they disparaged his service. i can go on and on and on. >> i remember the '04 race well. joan talking about '04 and what they did there, listen to what now secretary of state john kerry had to say. >> to think that a man who makes the decision to go and fight for his country is flying a very dangerous mission, happens to be shot down and then spends a terrible time period being tortured in prison and when he's offered the opportunity to go home because his father is an admiral he says no and lives by the code of military conduct and refuses, i mean, that is the definition of heroism and to not understand that is to neither understand what it meant to serve, what it means to serve or what heroism really is and i think the situation just screams for itself. >> i mean, joan, here you have john kerry who in '04 they did the swift boat attacks thrown and he was a hero and he's standing up for john mccain who clearly is on the other side of a lot of his political decisions. i remember '04 after the primary where we ran against each other, we went out there for john kerry, they were giving all kinds of distortions and he's standing up for them. they made donald trump a political king maker and now it seems they are reaping what they put in and have sewn. >> chuck todd said it right. i'm so glad you and to ra brought up the issue of that. john mccain did criticize that. jeb bush wrote a letter thanking some of the swift vote veterans for their service to his brother's campaign. so there are so many double standards at work here this week, reverend, al al. we got to stay busy and on top of them. >> that's what we'll do. joan walsh and tara thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. coming up just when you thought it couldn't get any worps for worse for the gop, rush lynn because is coming to trump's defense in a big way. >> no, no no trump can survive the this. trump is surviving this. you know this is a great, great teachable moment here. >> is donald trump just saying what the right-wing base wants to hear? 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"the daily beast" spokes to a bail bonds man that said she tried to post bail before her death. these accounts may show a different sign of bland than a facebook video that the prosecutor said could be relevant to the case. >> i got to be honest with you guys, i am suffering from something that some of you-all may be dealing with right now. it's a little bit of depression as well as ptsd depression and posttraumatic stress disorder are things that affect everyone black, white, it does not matter. we all deal with them. >> investigators are going to release dashcam footage from her arrest part of which was appears to have been captured on this cell phone video. though nbc news cannot verify that that dashcam could answer some key questions including whether bland assaulted that officer as stated in her arrest report. joining me now is andre bland's sister sharon cooper and the attorney for the bland family kenny lambert. thank you both for being here. >> thank you so much rev. >> thank you. >> sharon let me first say how sorry i am for your loss and how many of us around the country are really concerned about this matter. first of all, how is your family doing tonight? >> thank you, rev, and i appreciate that and we receive that. i will tell you that we are doing as good as you possibly can be doing in the situation given. we've had the opportunity to be a part of some great community efforts down here where we had dig dig tarries and the lieutenant governor here. we had the state congresswoman here. we had so many people here the mayor of prairie view was here. they feel like something just simply does not add up. >> now, attorney lambert, i spoke with you briefly on friday and you seemed like a very careful and methodical lawyer that wants to make sure you not only protect your clients but uphold the truth and i understand you watched the dashcam video that has not been released. can you walk us through what it shows? >> sure. rev, what it shows is that the officer makes contact with sandy on the passenger side asks for the license, asks for her insurance. gets that license and insurance. goes back to his car, runs her name goes back to her a few minutes later and then presents on her driver's side. when he does so he asks her, you know anything wrong? you all right? she says no not really. you stopped me and i'm trying to get out of your way because you were coming up on me and i trying to get out of your way and you pulled me over. the officer then asks her to put out a cigarette and she says why do i have to put out a cigarette when i'm in my car? i don't have to put out a cigarette in my car. the officer gets agitated at the answer and asks that she gets out of the car, instructs her to. sandy says i don't have to get out of my car for a routine traffic stop. why? the officer opens up her door and commences to try to order her out of the car. she then because he opens her door reaches for her phone so that she can record the incident and then he steps back pulls his taser, she then voluntarily cooperates and gets out of the car and is walks back behind the car where she's ordered to put her phone done. she does that and they leave the view of the camera. >> so on the camera he pulls out a taser. she then voluntarily comes out and as she comes out, we start losing footage. there is nowhere in that encounter, though, until it's cut off that we see any assault on the police officer? >> you know i was looking for that. i didn't see it. >> now at what point does it cut off and before it's picked up with what we saw with the cell phone footage? >> well, what it does is it actually over laps. you'll hear the verbiage on the cell phone footage from the witness that is also on the dashcam, obviously. but you do not see sandy being taken to the ground either for that matter. you hear the officer saying put your hands behind your back and she's saying all of this for a dog gone traffic stop? all of this for a traffic stop? and then she starts to assert that she's being hurt and feels like she's going to have her arm broken. that's what you hear outside of the view of the camera. >> now sharon the texas commission on jail standers say it found the jail was out of compliance in two areas, jail officials did not observe inmates every 60 minutes, the jail did not properly train its staff in supervising inmates who were maybe mentally disabled or potentially suicidal. the sheriff says these findings would not have presented sandra's death. what do you think about this information? >> appreciate the question. i just want to be clear. i want to primarily focus on the note about the mental illness piece and even what's been out there with regard to the facebook post. i want to be clear about the fact it's hard to make an informed decision about something when you're not looking at the totally f. you look at the video referenced since the march video that was four months ago she ended that video by saying she offered words of inspiration and remanence of hope in that video. so i want to be clear about the fact that if you go on sandy speaks because it's still there for public consumption, while everybody goes through something she's anchored no god. i know what's been thrown out there is sharon cooper said it's unfaithble that her sister could commit suicide and i stand by that because everything i see, i don't understand why i have to buy into the notion simply due to the fact that everything i'm seeing does not add up with that and that video she says i'm holding on and anchoring to god and giving inspiration to do the same thing. >> you're an activist. >> she says that everybody black and white goes through something, she didn't act like this was any different but also i point to what attorney lambert and sharon, a bail bondsman said she was arranging to post bond. >> she was. she was. she called home. my older sister was the last person to speak to her on saturday, july 11th at 1:50. she said to her, hey, i'm in jail over a routine traffic stop. however, this is the bond. my sister said hey, sister don't worry, we've got you, let me work on some things not at any point did she seem she was in high spire ridits and knew this family would work to get her out. >> we'll stay on this and be in touch with you and sharon. again, thank you for your time and our prayers with your families and thoughts and prayers with you and whatever investigators determine about this case we should remember that it's a tragedy for sandra gland bland and her family and we hope her loved ones can find comfort in sandra's own words posted in a video on good friday just a few months ago. >> i want you to go out there, be protective, have a great day, make it a good friday do what you can to be a positive light in someone's life. i hope that i've done that for you. know that somebody loves you. somebody is out there praying for you and hoping the best for you. sandy speaks. push your enterprise and you can move the world. but to get from the old way to the new you'll need the right it infrastructure. from a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. hp helps business move on all the possibilities of today. and stay ready for everything that is still to come. ♪ ♪ ♪ it took serena williams years to master the two handed backhand. but only one shot to master the chase mobile app. technology designed for you. so you can easily master the way you bank. benny's the oldest dog in the shelter. he needed help all day so i adopted him. when my back pain flared up, we both felt it. i tried tylenol but it was 6 pills a day. with aleve it's just two pills, all day. now i'm back! aleve. all day strong. so many on the right are denouncing donald trump's comments about john mccain but not ted cruz. he praised mccain but refused to attack trump, which brings me to our 2016 burn of the day. it goes to senator claire mccaskill. there's something unseemingly about cruz following trump around like a lost puppy hoping to get his leftovers when he finally flames out. she might be on to something. here is what cruz said about trump's immigration comments last week. >> it's one of the reasons, january, why i've been so vocal in the past couple of weeks defending donald trump because you've had a whole slew of 2016 republican candidates running out of their way to smack donald trump with a stick, and not only am i not going to do that but i've been singing his praises. >> ted cruz is not the only one singing the donald's praises. here comes rush limbaugh defending donald, next. in the nation, we know how you feel about your car. so when coverage really counts you can count on nationwide. ♪ love ♪ because what's precious to you is precious to us. ♪ love is strange ♪ just another way we put members first. join the nation. ♪ baby... ♪ ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ ♪ to steady betty. to steady betty. fire it up! ♪ am i the only one with a meeting? 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in iowa the crowd reacted to trump with some boos but also laughter. >> he's not a war hero. >> he's a war hero. five and a half years -- >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured, okay? i hate to tell you that. he's a war hero because he was captured, okay? you can have -- and i believe perhaps he's a war hero. >> it wasn't exactly an all out rejection, and afterwards msnbc's anthony terrell who was covering the event had no trouble finding people supportive of trump. >> i think donald trump was just telling the truth, just simply because you were captured doesn't mean you were a hero. what he went through was worthy of admiration. >> i don't believe in politically correct speech which so many of the candidates do speak that way, and trump has nothing to lose. >> i guess what donald trump said i mean it's not a lie, just being captured doesn't make you a war hero but it doesn't, i mean you have to look at the whole picture, i think, rather than just base it on that little bit. >> and that's the gop's problem in a nutshell. some in the base actually like his extremist rhetoric even his comments about mexican immigrants. nbc caught up with trump's supporters in new hampshire last week. >> first of all, when i heard his comment about immigration, this guy is talking what everybody thinks. this guy just says it the way he is. >> he is a salesman but isn't that what the president is supposed to be a leader salesman and supposed to sale america, not china, not the pacific rim, not mexico. >> like he said, we don't have time to be playing with each other's feelings. we need to take action and get things done. >> is this the real story of donald trump's rise? joining me now is anthony terrell who was in iowa at the trump event this weekend. and democratic pollster cornell belcher. thank you both for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> anthony, what did you hear from people in iowa including trurp support trump supporters? >> i spoke to people after the comments he made and they love how blunt and direct mr. trump was and i asked how does this play in iowa? >> i think it's 50/50. some people say i can't stand him, i don't, i think he would be a terrible president. other people like me enjoy the way he is stirring things up and i like what he says. >> i think it's received well by some. others that have been around politics a long time i think probably it's not received super well. >> with me it's played very well. iowaens for the most part speak the truth except politicians. >> that's what i heard truth the summit. one thing is clear, they do not like john mccain making him a perfect opponent for donald trump. >> so you are finding that people are 50/50 in terms of the presidency part but it seems like they like this kind of blunt, not politically correct rhetoric to say the least from donald trump? >> exactly right. they are looking for the anti establishment non-washington d.c. candidate. i speak to two senior operatives in iowa this evening, one on the way here and one earlier this afternoon working for rival campaigns and each agreed donald trump's surge is for real and one thing that makes him a serious threat in the race is that he has a lot of money. he can't be bought by donors making donors nervous. one told me the caucus of people that like donald trump is the f.u. caucus they do not like folks being told what to do. trump continued to say our leaders in washington d.c. are incompetent, they feel the same way and so donald trump is a real threat and we asked him at the press conference afterwards how much money is he willing to spend and he told us as long as he's surging in the polls, he's staying in the race. >> cornell, is the this the base of the republican party that they want somebody like donald trump or is this they are making a statement and they will want somebody more established and balanced to really be the next commander in chief and president? >> rev, i'm shocked at how shocked political washington and main stream media pretend to be about trump. trump is tapping into something that's been participant of american politics in the south for a long time. there is a place for resentment racial aversions, politics in this country. look, it is not like he's far outside the republican main stream and fox poll i think just came out and showed 70% of republicans agree with donald trump on immigration. so it's not like he's far outside the main stream on this. he's someone and look, just from a political strategy he's someone who speaks authentically to what he believes even if we disagree with it and not politically correct and doesn't seem to be filters things through politics and just speaking bluntly what his mind is and tapping into this racial resentment and the phobia which is certainly a large part of politics and certainly part of the republican base. >> cornell, he's not only not politically correct, he's not even politically accurate when you look at what he said about mexicans and president obama. but he is now been joined by rush limbaugh. rush limbaugh is defending trump today saying no apology is needed. this is what he said today, cornell. >> trump can survive this. trump is surviving this. you know, this is a great, great teachable moment here. people make the mistake of assuming one thing and that is this, they make the mistake of assuming that the collective outrage of the washington establishment and the media is reflective of american public opinion. >> now, if rush limbaugh knows one thing, he knows his audience cornell. is this a signal that the republican base is ready to rally around donald trump? >> if donald trump stays out of the weeds, look his lane here is clearly that resentment speak truth to the base in a way that jeb, you'll never hear jeb talk like this or paul or main stream candidates talk like this. if he can stay in the lane reverend and build infrastructure and this is a big missing thing, right now he's rising but if he can bill campaign infrastructure and hires people who actually know how to win a caucus in iowa and win primaries in new hampshire, he's trouble. >> reverend al i think cornell is dead on on that. i talked to some senior advisors to other campaigns that told me the national party should be concerned for that reason because if he doesn't buckle to the establishment and he continues, there is a calendar issue and delegate issue they have to contend with because of the condensed calen derpdar with rubio, bush and walker taking splitting some establishment vote, trump could be a real threat. >> i say it all the time, don't let them push you around, donald, go for it. go for it. don't change. stay like you are, in my book. and i think he knows what i mean. anthony terrell and cornell belcher, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. is the gop war on women back? 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think again. it's ramping up just in time for 2016. this morning in wisconsin, governor scott walker signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. it bans non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest. walker signing the law just in time to polish his conservative credentials for voters in the presidential race. wisconsin joins ten other states with similar laws on the books and republicans in congress are getting in on the act, too. political says the gop is going hard on abortion politics this year. senate republicans are planning a vote on their own bill that would ban nearly all abortions after 20 weeks. that's set for september. with a final vote expected shortly after. one of the least talked about issues on the campaign trail but is part of a larger assault on rights that could affect millions of women. joining me is terry o'neil president of the national organization for women. thank you for being here tonight. >> great to be here, reverend. >> first, terry, what was your reaction to governor walker's 20-week ban on abortion? >> it's unconstitutional. the core holding of row is that pryior to viability abortions cannot be banned by any state or the federal government. 20 weeks is well before viability and so this is a completely unconstitutional law and devastating to women's health. >> now, we notice that we're not hearing anything, we're not hearing a lot about this issue on the campaign trail despite the fact in september the senator is planning and bill and you have walker signing a bill and the timing of it i already raised is curious. why so quiet about this? will we see mobilization and women groups come out and really deal with the issue? >> absolutely we are. clearly the republican field, they want it both ways. they want to go very right wing on abortion rights for their base, but at the same time they know how this alienates women voters and in particular ma lynn yell voters. every single republican candidate for president obama is so anti abortion rights they are going to lose the women's vote and lose the mill lynn-- vote. >> let me share this statement about hillary clinton. >> first of all, i don't think arguing vote for me because i'm a woman is enough. the gender card alone is not enough. >> okay. no, they did not. so you got -- so you're -- i mean, the gender card. >> i hope she plays the gender card. our candidacy and the real possibility of her becoming president of the united states is historic. maybe they are too prowoman but she's historic and i hope her campaign is proud of the historic anature of the campaign. >> i haven't heard raised the fact she would be the first woman as her preamble to every speech or emphasis and a policy speech has been around income inequality and others matters first. where does he come with the genlder card? >> i wonder that. you have to ask yourself what is he talking about? if you look at the comments it looks like he's been looking at polling and not what hillary clinton has been saying and the polling is that they are losing women of all ages, of all races, losing women because they are so in with the attitudes of the women and mcconnell is calling that a gender card. >> are these bills like wisconsin. will that backfire on them politically? >> hugely absolutely. one in three women will have abortion by the age of 35. and the only way a 20 week abortion ban is constitutional is if the supreme court overturns it all together. the gop starts pushing for an overturning of it at their parol. thank you. a photo showing a black officer helping a white sup preliminary mist at a clan rally goes viral. that is coming up. ♪meow, meow, meow, meow...♪ it's more than just a meal it's meow mix mealtime. with great taste and 100% complete nutrition, it's the only one cats ask for by name. ♪ whoa what are you doing? 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