Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Donald trump taking aim at americas generals. Hillary clinton says no more troops in iraq as polls show trumps lead shrinks. Plus the Putin Obsession is, is it a smart political move or is trump being played . What is aleppo . The three words haunting gary johnson tonight. Lets go out front. Good evening, im erin burnett. Bitter battle, Hillary Clinton, donald trump in the biggest clash of the campaign so far launching nasty personal attacks on who is fit to lead america at war. Tonight clinton slamming trump saying hes scary and dangerous. Its hard to forget what trump did last night. It was a test and he failed it. He trash talked about americas generals saying that they have been, quote, reduced to rubble. He suggested he would fire them all and hand pick his own generals, since he knows so much about what it takes to be a general. Trump firing back citing clintons use of her private email server saying
How can he serve all americans . This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Meanwhile trump insisting he was against the iraq war from the beginning and he says his interview with esquire magazine proves it. And in august of 2004, very early in the conflict, extremely early in the conflict, right at the beginning, i made a detailed statement in an interview to esquire magazine. Tonight the writer who did that interview tells me what else trump said. Plus libertarian candidate gary johnson finds himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo . About . Aleppo. And what is aleppo . Youre kidding . No. Will johnsons voters jump ship and who will get their support . I want to go to executive editor mark preston. Were doing to talk about that. What a stunning moment. I saw it happening live. Lets talk about the fallout from last nights military forum, a lot of backandforth attacks today. Does any of this change the state of this race . I think
Theres new hope. The bombs and the gunfire in syria will stop at sundown on monday. The u. S. And russia have announced a ceasefire deal. Our Nic Robertson has the details now on the peace plan. Reporter so key to the association of hostility is working. Secretary kerry said for the United States to put pressure on the opposition to keep good on their obligations and for russia for their part to keep assad good on his obligations. He said the United Statess assessment was that was what russia would do. This is how he put it. Today the United States and russia are announcing a plan which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume Movement Towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in syria. The Obama Administration, the United States is going the extra mile here because we believe that russia and my colleague have the capability to press the assad regime to stop this conflict and to come to the table and make peace. Reporter another key point of this Peace Agree
questions have been popping up about whether he s eligible for running for president because cruz was born in canada. my mother was u.s. citizen so under law i was u.s. citizen. senator ted cruz renouns his canadian citizenship. a spokeswoman said he formally gave up his citizenship in mid-may. the tea party is anti-socialism and anti-immigration so it makes sense their hero is a cuban from canada. . [ crickets ]. [ jeopardy music ]. got all this stuff twirling around in my head. jeopardy geniuses are stumped by herman cain credentials.
i just want to make sure we are talking about the same thing before i say yes, i agree. i know i don t agree. i don t agree with the way he handled it for the following reason. um. nope, that s a different one. i ve got to go back. uh. got all this stuff twirling around in my head. like herman cain said, we should all become ambassadors of intelligence and follow what s going on. if herman cain thinks stupid voters are to blame for his party losing the 2012 election, he can keep on pretending. i love that just washed freshness,