In the region . And japan and south korea going on alert to head of a possible north Korean Missile launch. Could kim jongun soon have a missile that could reach the United States . Wolf blitzer is off today. Im president obama wiamela bro. Youre in the situation room. Now trump may be facing a real threat and hes lashing out once again. A prominent conservative Weekly Standard editor William Kristol is hoping an independent candidate will enter the race. That candidate will have a strong team and a real chance. Donald trump is calling him a dummy and a loser and warns that republicans better rally behind his own candidacy or face defeat. And u. S. Allies are putting their militaries on alert. Whats looking like another north Korean Missile test. Theres growing concern that kim jongun is getting closer to a weapon that could reach the u. S. His regime is trying to score points by showcasing the sons of an american defector. Donald trump may be feeling the heat. And hes going after those he feels are putting him under pressure including supporters of a third party challenge. We begin with cnns phil madingly. Reporter look at this way. Four months ago donald trump decided to skip a Republican Debate and hosts what he said would be a fundraiser for veterans. 6 million. Thats how much trump said and his team raised for veterans organizations. A big question as to how much was raised and which groups got the money. That, according to trump, changes tomorrow, behind me at trump tower. Donald trump plijting hell reveal the specifics of cash he pledged to raise and donate to u. S. Veterans organizations. All of the groups that have gotten the money will be announced on tuesday. Were having a big press conference. The full accounting of the 6 million trump claims he raised in january when he skipped the fox news debate just before the Iowa Caucuses expected to be providing tomorrow for the new York Press Conference one day after memorial day. We just raised almost 6 million for the vets. I didnt do a television showing. Since that event questions about how much money was raised have followed him on the campaign trail. Trump, on sunday, vowing to do right by veterans groups. We have to take care of our vets. In many cases, Illegal Immigrants are taking much care much better care, really, by this country. Taken care of by our veterans. And taking a swipe at his general election opponent Hillary Clinton and the veterans fairs department in the process. Hillary is she doesnt know anything about jobs. She thinks the va is doing good. Even as the new york billionaire sounded disappointed by the crowd size. I thought this would be, like, doctor Martin Luther king. Where the people would be lined up from here all the way to the washington monument, right. Unfortunately they dont know. This as republicans still oppose to trump continue to push for a possible third party challenge. Conservative Commentator Bill kristol teasing that an impressive independent candidate is on the way with a strong team and a real chance. Trump firing back in a string of tweets calling him a, quote, dummy, embarrassed loser going on the gop to mock any third party effort saying the party has to, quote, be smart and strong if they want to win in november. Trumps push back coming as another problem emerging. The libertarian ticket featuring two former governors. Gary johnson and bill well. Johnson pledging to take on trump directly. Taking him on to build a fence across the border. Thats nuts. Taking him on when he says that mexicans are rapists and murders. Reporter trump and his team target the ethnicity over the trump. When i have a judge that is hater of trump. Hes a hater. So what happens is the judge, who happens to be, we believe, mexican, i think thats great. Fine. Reporter as they seek to play down the rivalries and tensions that beset their own campaign as it struggled to pivot for the general election. This is media hype. This team is very cohesive. Its small, lean, a fesht and going to come at Hillary Clinton for the presidency come november. Reporter its a lean team. Donald Trumps Campaign 70 people. Hillary clintons more than 700. Another way the campaign is bucking traadditibuck ing tradiadditions how campaign are run. It makes operatives nervous. But one that trump cites why they are different but will be successful in the fall. All right. Well have to wait and see. Thank you so much. Lets bring in cnn correspondent dana bash. How serious is bill kristol . Very serious. Hes been serious for months in trying to figure out how the people who simply will not tolerate a donald Trump Nominee at the top or somebody like him at the top of the ticket how they can find an alternative. Going from being very serious to actually finding a candidate and doing it properly is the very different things. For example, what they have to do is find somebody who is palatable to people. And not just palatable but recognizable. Kristol said before it doesnt have to be somebody with huge name id. But to get somebody for somebody to get attention who is not a clinton or trump would be difficult. They have been told by people familiar with their process. They have been doing polling. They have been looking at data. Theyve been talking to big money people, which is an important part of this, to be able to fund a process where they would have to get people on the ballot. They would have to, you know, fund campaign. These are huge, huge hurdles to get over. Again, he is insisting by twitter in this very mysterious tweet he put out today theyre close to finding somebody. Well see who that is. Because we havent been able to find them. One of the big hurdles is many potential candidates have ruled themselves out rather than in for a third party candidacy. The number one person who a lot of never trump forces have been hoping to recruit is mitt romney. Of course, was the nominee for the republicans last time around. He has said no. He doesnt want to do that before. Ive talked to a couple of sources close to him today say he doesnt want to do it. One actually said, no, no, no. I promise you. No. [ laughter ] point clear. And another interesting potential candidate was adam kins ger. A well respected young republican illinois congressman. Hes been in the air force. At least the reserves. A source familiar with his thinking was interested in considering it. Quote, literally to save the union. Because both trump and clinton, im told, scare him. But he doesnt see how the effort actually comes to fruition. How theres a path to getting on the ballots in all the states. Then theres ben sasse who is a never trumper. Respected senator from nebraska who said no. Retired military, retired republican senators, you know, we dont know if somebody has finally been convinced by, again, finance people, by political people. You name it. The waybill kristol suggested. Right. Wait he suggested it made it sound like theres somebody willing to do it. We dont know it yet, right. We dont know. We have to wait. Its a holiday. Absolutely. Thank you so much, dana bash. We appreciate it. Joining me now tanna gerts. Talk about the fact trump has been calling Weekly Standard editor bill kristol a quote, embarrassed loser after he promised an independent candidate will soon announce a run for president. Trump boasted about knocking out candidates in the primary. Why does he sound so concerned about a third Party Challenger . Well, first off, pamela, thank you for having me here today on memorial day. A day where we honor and celebrate all of our brave men and women who have served this country. So thank you for that. And the answer to your question about bill, mr. Trump, more or less his philosophy is that bill has all the answers he should run for president of the United States. Okay. Dana bash was reporting that senator from illinois. Do you trump the ongoing concerns about candidacy. Clearly there are people in the Republican Party who are he assistant to coalesce around him. They will coalesce around him. Of course they will. Hes the nominee. Hes going to win this thing. So of course the party is going to get behind mr. Trump. And many have. I just saw recently and we were in our state convention in iowa and people who thought they would never come aboard have come full circle and are supporting mr. Trump. At the end of the day, they want donald trump in the white house and they do not want a Hillary Clinton in the white house. So they will do whatever it takes and they will rally behind mr. Trump. It makes it that more difficult, tana by going after bill kristol and so many in the party hell need to win in november. No. Hes not making things difficult. Hes just reacting to them. Theyre attacking him and hes a counter puncher, as we know. If you dont want to be attacked, dont attack trump doctor. His supporters, the American People who vote for him love him. They love the fact that mr. Trump will not lay down and take it. Thats what we need. We need strength. We need a strong president of the United States. Thats why so many Million People have gone out to vote for trump already. Okay response i want to talk to you about what went on in washington, d. C. , yesterday. Donald trump speaking at Rolling Thunder at this event for veterans. Less than a year ago donald trump had this to say about former prisoners of war. John mccain hes not a war hero, he was a war hero because he was captures. I like people who werent capture. Has donald trump changed his stance on this . Absolutely. Mr. Trump respects an admires anyone who served our country. Including mr. Mccain he respects all soldiers. Anyone, any veteran. Thats why hes doing so much for the veterans organizations. Ive been with him since day one. He raised almost 6 million, and ive been a part of that. I personally handed over hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations like 22 kill who are bringing awareness to the fact that 22 veterans are committing suicide every day. Before trump none of us knew anything about the serious cases and serious issues that our veterans are facing. Age li think a lot of us kne about the serious issues. Before we get to the donations and nearly 6 million. I want to follow up on the fact that donald trump said this about john mccain its memorial day. Should he apologize to senator mccain youre a senior advisor. Would you tell him to apologize . There have been calls from mccain himself. Mr. Trump has mentioned senator mccain in his tweets before. He said he respects his service. Admires him. This was back in june or july. I dont recall of last summer. Were almost a year later. Lets talk about the great things that mr. Trump has done for our veterans. I mean, who else name another person who has done as much for the veterans of the United States of america than mr. Trump has. Hes not even yet in office. No doubt about it, he has done good things for the veterans. We want to talk about that after the break and dot nations he raised. Were going to talk about which foundations are going to do. Stick around. Well continue this discussion after this break. The call just came in. Shes about to arrive. And with her, a flood of potential patients. A deluge of digital records. Xrays, mris. All on account. Of penelope. But with the help of at t, and a network that scales up and down ondemand, this hospital can be ready. Giving them the agility to be flexible reliable. Because no one knows like at t. Whatwherever you are. Ing. 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Well, you know, pamela, it takes between six weeks to six months to properly vet the organizations that came to us. When they realized mr. Trump wasnt going to do a fox debate and we were going to be raising money for veterans organizations. There are Many Organizations out there that are worthy of the money. But we wanted to make sure they were properly vetted and the homework was done and we had done the work and now theyre a great organizations that have been on the other end receiving this wonderful money and they are so thrilled. Ive talked with lots of the organizations that said we were closing our doors before mr. Trump came along. We were turning veterans away. Veterans were going home and committing suicide. None of this could have been possible without mr. Trump. Youre saying its taking so long because of the vetting. It was last week that trump personally donated 1 million to the marine corps. Law enforcement foundation. He donated there in the ored at year. What was the hold up there . I mean, the hold up is a Million Dollars a lot of money. Mr. Trump said that night yard line what it was but i know it was before february 1st. But the Washington Post came out on social media and held his feet to the fire reaching out to veterans groups saying have you received the money from trump . It turns out shortly after that trump donates a Million Dollars to dot nation hes been a part of for longer than the last few months showing he didnt have to vet the foundation before donating. Right. That organization was not vetted, but mr. Trumps 1 million was in the Veterans Fund that evening after he left des moines, iowa. That 1 million that mr. Trump gave to the veterans for United States of america. That money was already allocated and it was in the pot waiting to be distributed. So its not like mr. Trump went i think ill write that check. He was always writing the check and the money was there. It was being distributed. And like i said, i cant wait for tomorrow. Well finally put this all to rest and people can actually be saying wow. He did this hes got i dont care if it was 500,000. Once again, show me the candidate what does Hillary Clinton done for other veterans of the United States of america . Nothing. We should be saying way to go mr. Trump i dont care if it was 500,000. It is 6 million or close to that that hes giving to veterans of the United States of america that make our lives easier. Or i can say im free and i didnt have to serve our country. They did if for us. Can you give us an idea of the precise amount that is being donated and some of the charities, the foundations that is on the receiving end of the money . I do not know the exact number. That would be the accounants and the attorneys. I know like i mentioned early the 22 Kill Organization where they bring awareness to the fact that 22 veterans a day commit suicide because of posttraumatic stress syndrome. We have given money to patriots for pets. An organization that allows veterans to have pets that direct them around their home. Also, organizations that build add ones to veterans homes that are disabled. Veteran wheelchairs, i know a gentleman from iowa that mr. Trump has personally helped rebuild his home so he can get around in his wheelchair. The organizations are all fantastic and theyre all deserving. None of this would have done without the help of donald trump, the man that will be our next president of the United States. All right. And we will find out tomorrow the details of the money donated at the press conference. Of course, well be following that here on cnn. Tana goertz, thank you very much for coming on the show. We appreciate it. Thank you and coming up on this monday, the chances of a threeway race for the white house and Hillary Clintons troubles locking up her partys nomination. 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