Under fire from Hillary Clinton, but also within his own part. Clinton now backing more getting more members of the military to back her as a result. Cnn washington correspondent, jeff zeleny, is following all of the developments for us. Jeff. Good morning. The praise donald trump is showering on Vladimir Putin is a traditional break from American Politics. It is outraging democrats and making republicans uneasy about the plurblurred lines of countr versus party. Hillary clinton says this is the latest sign that donald trump is not fit for the presidency. He is really very much of a leader. Amid ongoing criticism of his praise for Vladimir Putin. Donald trump in an interview on a Television Station funneled by the kremlin, telling larry king, he thinks it is unlikely the russian government is meddling through hacking. I think it is probably unlikely. Maybe the democrats are putting that out. If they are doing something, i hope that somebody will be able to find out, so they can end it.
Parties. The main topic today, isis and as secretary clinton is focusing on taking down the defeating, destroying the terror group, her rival donald trump is getting a lot of flak for elevating a controversial world leader. Im talking about the president of russia. Vladimir putin. Trump has praised putin before, but this time the republican nominee seemed to align, at least on certain issues, with putin in an interview that aired on russian television. Campaign representatives say that if they had known the trump appearance would be seen on the kremlinbacked network, that he would not have done the interview. This is what trump has said about whether he believes russia launched a covert operation to disrupt the 2016 u. S. Election. I think its probably unlikely. I think maybe maybe the democrats are putting that out. Who knows. But i think that its pretty unlikely. But, who knows . I hope that if they are doing something, i hope that somebodys going to be able to find out so that they
Y. no american president has ever cared less about democracy has n joe biden. but that didn t stop him from playing make believe. and so he shuffled out to a seaside podium in france earlier today and tried his best to deliver a speech written by his staffers. needless to say, they didn t go particularly well. take a look. they could see.e all they could see was the outline of the shore the sho and the enormity of these cliffs. and i like to look, i know i ll get in trouble. the secret service and i go to the edge and look over. but think those cliffs, as my hostess showed. d fo me, that s a we re standings on top of. there were americans like sergeantli leonard. well, sergeant leonard fromes ay new jersey. does anyone believboelievee the rangers want america to go it alone todawaamericy? w well, we don t talk about about how hard it is, how many ways we re asked to walk away,
abraham lincoln to. the media, i certainly have no sympathy for fox, certainly handling it like that. but where he began? these last five minutes we ve talked about six different things that could have blown up any campaign in history. my point is, they didn t mention it. they didn t mention one that didn t stop him. those town halls are imperfect. especially when let me put it this way, he made plenty of news last night. news in the donald trump context because it s going to really break there next week. forgot the dictator thing. we forgot the vermin thing. it s the same thing as 2016. it s not like you need someone to prompt him this way. this is one of the points. you don t need to prompt him. it s nice once in a while, because there is a lie. we had none of that. so, that s fine. you ve been prompted, in a situation, again, donald trump
quickly. this is quite similar the podcasts. again, if he was thinking this was somehow, mr. trump think this was somehow gonna make it go away, he thought very wrong. but what it did give him his disability it didn t stop him, it didn t give him the ability to say this was all politically motivated, but it certainly didn t stop him, and of course that s the whole spiel right now. that this is a political opponent, a declared candidate, his likely opponent in 2024 using the department of justice to go after him because he s the leading republican candidate right now for the nomination. i want to just say how successful their information warfare has been. we re not prepared as a democracy to understand fully the effects of the assault of propaganda, highly skilled propaganda as are others around