i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts right now. donald trump taking aim at america s generals. hillary clinton says no more troops in iraq as polls show trump s lead shrinks. plus the putin obsession is, is it a smart political move or is trump being played? what is aleppo? the three words haunting gary johnson tonight. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. bitter battle, hillary clinton, donald trump in the biggest clash of the campaign so far launching nasty personal attacks on who is fit to lead america at war. tonight clinton slamming trump saying he s scary and dangerous. it s hard to forget what trump did last night. it was a test and he failed it.
he trash talked about america s generals saying that they have been, quote, reduced to rubble. he suggested he would fire them all and hand pick his own generals, since he knows so much about what it takes to be a general. trump firing back citing clinton s use of her pr
clinton saying her steadiness makes her the best choice. trump tried to take clinton and the rest of the current administration s judgment to task. president obama meanwhile striking back at donald trump, speaking from laos this morning. the president repeated his feeling that trump is not qualified to be president. to begin our coverage with sun l reporter: what really turned into a small preview of how they could potentially handle themselves, their first real faceoff which will come later this month, both trying to gain the upper hand on the big question, who is ready to be commander in chief. donald trump drumming up more controversy. the man has strong control over a country. praising vladimir putin while trashing our president. standing by his statement, claiming he knows more about isis than the generals do. under the leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. they have been reduced to a point where it is emb
minutes ago she pulled no punches at a campaign event if another battleground state, that being north carolina. a new poll there now shows she is in a statistical dead heat. look at those numbers. with donald trump. now clinton today slammed trump s performance at that commander in chief forum last evening, especially his praise of russian president vladimir putin. it s hard to forget what trump did last night. it was a test and he failed it. he trash-talked about america s generals, saying that they ve been reduced to rubble. even i was shocked by this and i didn t know much could shock me coming out of his mouth anymore. he praised russia strong man, vladimir putin. even taking the astonishing step of suggesting he prefers the russian president to our american president. that is not just unpatriotic, it s not just insulting to the office and the man who holds the office. it is scary! it is dangerous! it actually suggests he will let putin do what putin wants, and even m
i will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy isis. this will require military, cyberand financial warfare as i laid out on my speech on defeting radical islamic terrorism several weeks ago. instead of an apology tour, which you saw president obama give over and over again, i will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the cold war. on the democratic side, hillary clinton got some help out there on the campaign trail from former president, bill clinton at a campaign stop in florida. he said, even republicans trust hillary clinton to keep the country safe. i can never remember a democratic candidate for president that had as many prominent republicans endorsing her as hillary has had. in view of all the attacks on her, i think it is very interesting that the overwhelming majority of them said they are doing it because they trus
thanks for joining us for the second hour of 360. if you thought you heard it all in this election, one candidate says vladimir putin is more of a leader than the sitting president of the united states. the head of the rnc is criticizing the first woman nominated by a major party because he thinks she didn t smile enough last night. there are still two months to go. the first debate just a few weeks away. we have reports from both camps. sara murray joins us now. trump spent a lot of today explaining what he said in the forum last night. reporter: that s right. he did go after hillary clinton. he took another opportunity to take a couple shots at her for her use of a private e-mail server but he launched into a very lengthy defense today of his view of the war in iraq. he again restated that he was opposed to the war before it began and this went on for quite awhile. i want to play just a portion of it for you. before the war, much closer to the war, i gave statements