get to the hospital and get fixed up and get back out there. let s not forget he does have an incredible following. he can raise an incredible amount of money. and he has an attraction. i just think that tonight he s going to get bad press tomorrow. bad press in a couple of hours. people pick up the papers. i don t think that s the end of him necessarily, but i will say this. when you do look at the john delaneys of the world, i would say the tulsi gabbards of the world, i don t see them moving much beyond perhaps the cnn debate in july. i just don t see how they do that. here s why i think that the june of this year argument is maybe a bit different from what it was in 2015. people like to say remember this time in 2015, jeb bush was leading the primary and look what ended up happening. at this point, though you have joe biden commanding such a huge swath of voters, at least based on this early polling, it was not like that in the republican primary. the disparities between numbers
captured. that s what he said in july of 2015. people thought that was the end of donald trump s presidential campaign and political career. he was far from it and in that sound bite you just heard a few moments ago the president was referring to that famous thumbs down vote from john mccain when he voted against the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. i talked to a former aid that says the president just had his facts wrong. he didn t signal how he was going to vote. that he was not telling the white house one thing and then doing another in the words of this former mccain aid are you surprised that the president lied? so there s terribly ill feelings going on back and forth between this white house, the president and his inner circle. there s white house officials that say we salute his service.
so that s disgraceful. plus there were other things. i was never a fan of john mccain and i never will be. it s one thing taking issue with statements john mccain made or issues he took, the president isn t accurately portraying things in his comments but even during the campaign, before the health care vote, before anything, he was insulting john mccain for being a pow. that s right. who could forget when he said i liked soldiers that aren t captured. that s what he said in july of 2015. people thought that was the end of donald trump s presidential campaign and political career. he was far from it and in that sound bite you just heard a few moments ago the president was referring to that famous thumbs down vote from john mccain when he voted against the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare.
think they can enter the country illegally and then he goes on to say, if we had a wall they wouldn t even try. so unpack that for me a little bit. i mean, is there any shred of truth in that, that there is a perception from these migrants that are making their way through central america to the united states, that there is an easy way to get into this country? is there any truth to that? secondly, if we built a wall, would that be enough to keep from coming here? desperation drives them from central american countries, not democrats or the absence of a wall. in countries like honduras, where there s a 30% poverty rate. el salvador is the most violent country on earth not at war in 2015. people are fleeing not because they think it s a walk in the park but because they re so desperate to improve their lives and save their children that they make a difficult journey. i work with the u.s. fund for unicef and they estimate thousands of children are at risk of trafficking and sexual viol
saudi arabia saying this is turkey trying to drive a wedge between them and the u.s. and to break up their strong relationship. dana? dana: turkey all struggling under the sanctions of president trump s administration put forward after an american pastor was not released as asked. what are you hearing about that today? reporter: welsh dana, in fact, we came to turkey to cover brunson s trial. he had been held for two years in charges of terrorism and espionage in connection to a coup in 2015. people believe those are trumped up charges. we spoke to his lawyer who said this is about much more than that. it was a deal being done between the u.s. and turkey. turkey wants sanction relief on its major bank and a fine reduced. just today we are hearing that a deal may well have been done and they are optimistic that pastor brunson may be flying back to the u.s. his lawyer pointed out the same