And i believe perhaps hes a war hero senator john mccain taking the high road. Hes had no comment but plenty of other people have chimed in. I want to bring in mark preston, executive editor for cnn politics live in iowa today. Also with us in studio our digital correspondent for cnn politics. Mark i want to start with you. How is trump trying to stop the bleeding from all this . Theres no question that he is definitely trying to at least address the issue if not outright dismiss it. Hes done this in many ways. Hes done it via a tweet putting something out on twitter saying that in fact that anybody who has been captured u. S. Soldier, is a hero. Hes put out a statement and he has also addressed it on camera where he has come out and said that john mccain is actually not a very good senator when it comes to issues surrounding veterans and then he did back off a little bit but not very much. He is in very full damage control. Before trumps comments today, he had some real momentum. You