Coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. Trump clarifying those comments this morning, no apology. Could this help or hurt his run for the white house . You are in the cnn newsroom. We are so glad to have you with us as always. Grateful for your company. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Happy saturday to you. We are following breaking news and reaction coming in from everywhere at this point. More on that in a moment. We want to get to donald trump to give you the back story. New comments on cnn about debate moderator, megyn kelly. If youll recall, during the debate, kelly pressed him about past controversial comments concerning women. Here is what trump said last night about kelly to cnns don lemon. I dont have a lot of respect for megyn kelly. She is a lightweight. She came out there reading her little script and trying to be tough and be sharp. When you meet her, you realize she is not very tough and she is not very sharp. I skrus tjust dont respect her journal
Today that he will run until the very end and does not mind running from behind. Trump says he knows what its like to be the underdog because he wears one on his head. And hillary, mom on the republicans she wants to win. If i say one or the other it might influence some people. And i dont want to have any influence on them. Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joique me. Donald trump on the defensive for the first time in months the relationship hopeful scales back his assault on gop rivals. Instead hes begging for help from the voters in iowa after slipping in the poll zwls iowa will you get these numbers up . Will you get these numbers up . I promise you, i will do such a good job. By the way before i forget. Will you get the numbers up please . This is ridiculous. And please do me a favor. Let me win iowa. I refuse to say get your asses in gear. I will not say that. But will you please do me a favor and work with my people
involved in the deadly shooting of an unarmed teenager there. officials say lieutenant mark tiller shot and killed zachary hammond during a drug investigation last july. the officer told investigators he shot hammond because he feared hammond was trying to run him over with his car. cnn s victor black wewell is following this story. reporter: carol, good morning. the solicitor in this case says the shooting must be examined from the perspective of this officer, lieutenant mark tiller, using the information he had at the time. the investigation found that he had about three seconds to determine if he was facing a deadly threat. he determined he was. the state agreed, and therefore no charges filed or the recommendation, therefore, of no charges filed in this case. we ve got newly released dash cam video. i want to set it up for you first. it s july 26th of this year. there s a drug investigation in senn seneca, south carolina. the silver car on the right, in the passenger seat is to
you get put in a predicament sometimes. you know when you sign up to be a police officer, during that potential, you might have to use deadly force. an unarmed teen gunned down by a police officer. this is a shooting that happened nearly two weeks ago. a lot of people are saying why are we just now talking about it? the victim s parents say because he is white. so many unanswered questions. let s start with why the police say this officer had to pull the trigger. this story garnering a lot of national attention even though it happened more than two weeks ago. police say the officer quite simply feared for his life. they are calling this shooting justified. the family of the 19-year-old say he didn t have to die. reporter: july 26th, 2015, 19-year-old zachary hammond is on a date with 23-year-old torre morton who is the target of a drug sting. when they pull into a hardy s