National security. In fact were both supposed to be briefed in the not too distant future. And im saying you cant brief her. Just listen to what mr. Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad. And im afraid the elections going to be rigged, i have to be honest. Of course the elections will not be rigged. What does that mean . Its a crooked system. Its a rigged system. Were running against a rigged system. But this will be an election like every other election. Sometimes folks if they lose they start complaining that they got cheated. But ive never heard of somebody complaining about being cheated before the game was over. President obama, on the record, in a wideranging News Conference touching on topics from Donald Trumps readiness to be commander in chief, to isis, and about that 400 million in cash sent to iran. Plus new poll numbers out this morning paint a clear picture. The campaign before, and after the Convention Show donald trump on a deep slide. And House Speaker paul ryan weighs in. We just came out of our convention and yeah, hes had pretty strange run since the convention. You would think we ought to be focusing on Hillary Clinton, and all of her deficiencies and it is distressing that thats not what were talking about these days. It is just past 5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast, 2 00 a. M. Out west, this is way too early. Good morning, everyone. It is friday, august 5th. Im alex witt. The weekend begins with a startling slide in the polls for donald trump. The newly released nbc wall street journal poll puts him at a disadvantage of nine points to Hillary Clinton. to 38 in a twoway matchup and clinton ahead 43 to 34 in a fourway matchup. Lib tearian gary johnson at 10 , and the green partys jill stein at 5 . Clintons ninepoint lead is larger than any measure by the nbc wsj poll in the 2012 race and the biggest since Barack Obamas tenpoint lead in midoctober 2008. This as a mclatchly marous National Poll shows a 12 point swing in clintons favor since last month suddenly creating a 15point gap between her and trump 48 to 33 . And a new Suffolk University poll in florida shows clinton ahead by six 48 to trumps 42 . Donald trump is taking his campaign to green bay, wisconsin, today. But the states three highest profile republicans, Governor Scott walker, senator ron johnson and House Speaker paul ryan all say they wont be attending trumps rally. Meanwhile both donald trump and mike pence are downplaying reports of a fissure between the two after pence endorsed paul ryan in his primary race. He called me the other day, said do you mind because he likes paul ryan. Paul ryans a good guy, actually. No, hes a good guy. So mike called me, and he said, yesterday, and he said would you mind if i endorsed . I wont do that if its going to cause any complications or problems i would absolutely not hes the greatest guy. Hes the greatest human being. And he said that. But i like him, hes a friend of mine. Would you mind if i endorsed him . And i will not do it if you say know. I say mike, you like him, yes, go ahead and do it 100 . And he endorsed him. Of course i support john mccain and kelly ayotte and all of our republican incumbents. Donald trump and i are are in constant communication and we talked a little bit yesterday. I told him that paul ryan was my friend of many years. Hes a strong conservative leader and i told him i intended to support him and he strongly encouraged it. Now pence initially did not explicitly endorsed senators mccain and ayotte when asked leading to something of an uproar. But at this point trump has declined to endorse both senators. Meanwhile ryan is standing by his endorsement at donald trump though he did hint at a possible future reversal during radio interviews yesterday. Would there ever be a bridge too far where you have ive always said of course there are moments im not going to get into the speculation or hypotheticals. None of these things are ever blank checks. That goes with any situation in any kind of race. But right now, i just think its important that the voters, you know, he won the delegates. He won the thing fair and square. Its just that simple. Donald trump took his campaign back to maine yesterday. It was his second visit since winning the republican primary in hopes of picking off a state that hasnt voted for republican since 1988. The beginning of trumps speech was disrupted by protesters holding up pocket constitutions, a nod to gold sr father cas irchans gesture at the whoemt convention when he asked if trump had ever read the document. Trump spoke of the threat of terror through immigration. Invoking the boston bombings and suggested danger among maines growing somalian refugees. The most important issues facing civilization right now is radical islamic terrorism. Weve just seen many, many crimes getting worse all the time. And as maine knows, a major destination for somali refugees. We admit hundreds of thousands, you admit, into maine, and to other places in the United States, hundreds of thousands of refugees. And theyre coming from among the most dangerous territories and countries anywhere in the world. The boston bombers, remember the boston bombers . What a horrible thing that was. Arrived through the political asylum process. The younger brother applied for citizenship and was naturalized on september 11th, 2012. The older brother had a pending application for citizenship. Oh, thats wonderful. We take em, right . We take em. How violent and how vicious and how horrible was that . Okay. And if theyre not here, we dont have that incident. Hillary clinton wants to have them come in by the hundreds of thousands. Just remember. This has nothing to do with politics, folks. This is a whole different level. This has to do with pure, raw stupidity. Okay . President obama used yesterdays News Conference at the pentagon to fire back at his critics over the United States 400 million payment to iran saying, claims the money was ransom for four american hostages held by tehran defies logic. Some of you may recall, we announced these payments in january. Many months ago. There there wasnt a secret. We we announced them for to all of you. Josh did a briefing on them. The this wasnt some nefarious deal. We do not pay ransom. We didnt here and we dont we wont in the future. Precisely because if we did, then we would start encouraging americans to be targeted, much in the same way that some countries that do pay ransom end up having a lot more of their citizens being taken by various groups. Now the president s defense didnt stop donald trump from attacking the payment at a rally in portland, maine, yesterday, where he repeated his claim of seeing video of the money being uploaded from a plane. And how stupid are we . How stupid are we . To allow this to continue to go on. To see whats happening, and you know it was interesting because a tape was made. Right . You saw that with the airplane coming in, nice plane. The airplane coming in and the money coming off, i guess, right . That was given to us, has to be, by the iranians. And you know why the tape was given to us . Because they want to embarrass our country. They want to embarrass our country. And they want to embarrass our president. Because we have a president who is incompetent. They want to they want to embarrass they want to embarrass our president. I mean who would ever think that they would be taking all of this money off the plane, and then providing us with a tape. A trump spokesperson had clarified to the Washington Post yesterday that he had seen footage on tv on wednesday, which he believed was the money transfer. That video, which you see here, was actually three of the four american hostages released from iran arriving in geneva, switzerland, back in january. The president also talked about the expanded military fight against isis yesterday the pentagon released new video of a u. S. Warplane taking off from a carrier in the mediterranean headed for targets in libya. According to officials the operation successfully disabled an isis tank. The president says the u. S. Will continue to support efforts against the Islamic State but repeated his past claim that military might not be enough. Even as we need to crush isil on the battlefield, their military defeat will not be enough. So long as their twisted ideology persists and drives people to violence, in groups like isil will keep emerging, and the International Community will continue to be at risk in getting sucked into the kind of global whackamole where were always reacting to the latest threat or lone actor. Thats why were also working to counter violent extremism more broadly. Hillary clinton took her campaign to las vegas yesterday where she continued to tout her jobs plan, and criticize donald trump. At one point, though, she was interrupted by a group of Animal Rights activists. Secret Service Agents rushed to the stage and after a few seconds clinton addressed the hecklers. Keep talking, you handled it. Okay, here we are. Keep talking. Okay. Well keep talking, and well and apparently, these people are here to protest trump. Because trump and his kids have killed a lot of animals. So thank you for making that point. Later in the same rally clinton once again went after donald trump and tried to reach out to some of his supporters. Somebody wants to be for trump because theyre anxious, theyre fearful, maybe theyre angry because theres a lot to be concerned about. We need to talk. We need to talk. Because we dont want you being sold the same bill of goods that the students who signed up to go to Trump University were sold. That message to Trump Supporters comes as the Clinton Campaign launches a broad effort to recruit potential republican converts. At the same time, in a sign of confidence, weve also learned the Clinton Campaign is slated to pause its Television Ads in virginia beginning next week. The Campaign Recently pulled its ads in colorado, as well. Vice president ial nominee tim kaine did not hold back when it came to criticizing donald trump yesterday. Accusing the republican nominee of discrimination. Senator kaine spoke at the National UrbanLeague Conference yesterday and kaine, a former civil rights lawyer, went off trump and trumps father over a 1973 civil rights case for allegedly violating the fair housing act. In 1973, the New York Times reported that the Justice Department had filed suit after donald trump and his father for refusing to rent apartments to africanamericans. It was one of the largest federal cases of its kind at the time. When federal investigators spoke with trumps employees, they said they were instructed to mark rental applications from africanamerican people on the back of the application with a c, c for colored, so that they would know who they wanted to rent to and who they didnt. This was a huge lawsuit. The government took action and filed a lawsuit to stop discrimination, not just at one or two, but at 39 Different Properties owned by the company. Now the urban league says it invited Trumps Campaign to speak but the campaign declined. His campaign pushed back on senator kaines claim citing the previous statement from trumps attorney, quote, there is absolutely no merit to the allegations. This suit was brought as part of a nationwide inquiry against a number of companies and the matter was ultimately settled without any finding of liability and without any admission of wrongdoing whatsoever. Overseas, police in london have ruled out any terrorist links to a stabbing attack that claimed the life of an american. But that is little comfort for the family of 64yearold Darlene Horton. The only one killed in wednesday nights stabbing spree in london that left five others injured. Her husband is a psychology professor from Florida State, teaching in london for the summer, and it was their last night in the city before returning home. As for the 19yearold suspect, police say hes a Norwegian National of somali origin who was mentally unstable. Whilst the investigation is not yet complete, all of the work that we have done so far increasingly points to these tragic incidents as having been triggered by Mental Health issues. And police say the victims of the attack were apparently chosing at random. Protective custody for jailed shooter dylan roof is not foolproof. He was beat up yesterday while showering. An inmate slipped out of his cell, went down a flight of stairs before insulting roof. The inmate hit him in the face and body before officers stopped him. I think he was all in a defensive kind of posture. I dont think that it was a back and forth fight, so to speak. I think he was defending himself from the blows, surprise attack kind of situation. And now the sheriff is trying to figure out what went wrong since cell doors to all the other inmates are supposed to be checked to make sure theyre locked before roof goes to the showers. But according to officials at the time of the incident one officer assigned to the cell block was taking a break. Another was busy getting toilet paper for another inmate. The accused inmate is expected to be charged with third Degree Assault but the sheriff says roof and his toerns say they do not want to press charges. Roof is still awaiting trial for the murder of nine people at Mother Emanuel Church in charleston in june of last year. Still ahead here on way too early, one of the toughest questions on the campaign trail. Yesterday it came from a 11yearold at a town hall with mike pence. Were going to show you how the republican Vice President ial nominee answered it. Plus Donald Trumps policy proposals on immigration now brig new attention to his wifes imbrags journey. Is the story of how she emigrated to the u. S. Going to withstand scrutiny . Those stories and a check on weather when way too early comes right back giving you a live look at rio. 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This is a nice weekend shaping up most places are going to maybe have a little bit of rain to deal with quickly but no ones going to get washed out this weekend. So thats nice. Did watch a pretty good confluence of thunderstorms that is near the st. Louis area. Grab your umbrella. Northern missouri by far the worst and also near wichita, kansas is where were dealing with some of the rain. Weve had this Flash Flood Watch for the last three to four days in a row throughout the four corner region. Still 3. 5 million peopl at risk. Well watch the mountains of colorado from telluride, the san juan Mountain Range towards breckenridge. The heats been relentless throughout arkansas, louisiana, mississippi. Now were spreading into alabama, too. 4. 5 Million People under excessive heat warnings. The memphis to monroe to sleeve port to little rock. The orange is heat advisories. This is how hot it will feel out there about 110 in little rock today. Definitely on the hot side. The rest of the forecast today, another great day from new york up through new england. You will have storms to deal with there in the southeast. Well talk about the weekend forecast coming up in about 20 minutes. Okay. Then we will talk with you again. Thank you very much, bill karins. And we are now just hours away from the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 summer games in rio and also some russian athletes are being sent home amid that doping scandal. The latest on that and a lot more when way too early comes right back. Before taking his team to state for the first time. Gilman go get it, marcus. Go get it. Coach gilman used his cash rewards credit card from bank of america to earn 1 cash back everywhere, every time. At places like the batting cages. [ crowd cheers ] 2 back at Grocery Stores and now at wholesale clubs. And 3 back on gas. Which helped him give his players something extra. The cash rewards credit card from bank of america. More cash back for the things you buy most. 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