. . . . Teammates, close friends, medalists tonight in rio, biles and raisman. That brings us to a look at the medal count of day six. Presented by m supporting athletes on their journeys toward olympic gold. Another big day and night for the americans, with five golds overall. While the United States owns more gold medals than any other country in olympic history, fiji won a gold in rugby for its first medal of any kind. A nation with a population less than delaware, fiji loves rugby like no other sport. Children grow up with a ball in their hands. Entire villages huddle around play. And today, fans packed the 15,000seat national stadium. There you see it, in the capital city. And they watched the gold medal match won by their countrymen there tonight. Meanwhile, turning back to the headliners here in rio, a group that included aly raisman, winning a silver medal and the performance of her life in the all around. Raisman has five medals in her distinguished olympic career, three of th
Back to you. Lets sort through the blizzard of reactions to trumps offhand but highly controversial comments well bring in steven sloan, cnns politics managering editor for content. Steven, good morning. Good morning. I want to start with how Trump Supporters are trying to explain away what happened yesterday. Take a listen to what former mayor Rudy Giuliani said yesterday during a rally of his own. They spin out that what he meant by that was, that it was a joke and that what he meant by that was that they would kill her. Now, okay. Now, to buy that, you have to be corrupt. Because if you said that to me, i would say to you, are you out of your mind. I saw it. I heard it. I know what it meant. So, steven, this seems like a pretty typical response by the Trump Campaign. Whenever hes faced with a controversy they blame it on the media and Hillary Clintons campaign. Is that going to be enough, given how controversial what trump had to say yesterday . Well, ryan, youre exactly right. This
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