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You are in arizona. did mccain have anything to say about any of this? >> i am in phoenix. i talked to an advisor to senator mccain just a few moments ago, and he said the senator will not have any comment on this at least at this point right now. you know this really is the old political adage if someone is digging himself a hole why help him out of it. theres no love lost between john mccain and donald trump. they have been going back and forth a little bit with some other comments not quite t...

V.a. scandal proves politicians are inept. joining us now, cnn politics executive editor mark preston. cnn political analyst ben ferguson and senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. mark lets start with you. we saw trump surge in the polls after he made comments criticizing mexican immigrants calling them rapists. has he gone too far with this comment? >> you have to ask yourself has the donald trump schtik run its course. today with these comments about john mccain, it very well might have...

You can say what you want. i know you like him and i like him, too, rick perry, did he a lousy job on the border. what a horrible job he did. worse than him is jeb bush. jeb bush is a disaster in so many different ways. i have to see, shawn, who wins. >> mark lets dig into this a little bit. donald trump is going to be on that stage. there is no way fox keeps him off the stage. front page of the times, there is a joint talking about trump as potential problem now but also maybe a third party can...

I think herve to takeeverybody had to take a step back and say i have to look at this different. now the policies the devil and pun intended is going to be in the details. >> thats right. the flag again comes down at 10:00 this morning in columbia south carolina. well obviously have that for you live here on msnbc. lets move to politics now. former president bill clinton and george w. bush shared a stage as we showed you a minute ago in dallas last night. they were on the campus of southern meth...

Mark lets start off here with the new e-mails released by the state department. >> well and tamron when you end up looking at most of the e-mails from the state department last night, as my colleague put it last night, it almost looked like something out of "veep." there were a lot of e-mails about hillary clinton where she and her staff were going to get takeout. another one was working on the fax machine. another e-mail came to the conclusion, am i being included in this cabinet meeting? those...

Spokesman called the reports utterly baseless. this is obviously on top of this private e-mail controversy that hillary had to g through as secretary of state. mark lets start with you. do you think the allegations are going to haunt hillary? >> i think everything hillary clinton does will haunt her. the bur ree toe bowl will also haunt her next year. people are look for excuses to bug out on the clintons. its unfortunate. there are plenty of reasons not to like the clintons. i wish they would u...

To choose building a fence across the border. i think that thats really crossways with libertarian ideas, milltarian intervention. lets top with the military interventions, lets balance the federal budget. that does mean cutting the military. there are many where hes crossways with military ideas, beliefs, but he is out there trying to get the nomination from the republican party and this is what that involves. >> so roger simon, let me bring you in. your thoughts here. there were very specific ...

Time for our first read of the day. the white house is trying to minimize the number of democrats willing to break from the administration by backing legislation that would allow congress to reject the nuclear deal with iran. senators ted cruz and rand paul are all in but the gop presidential field will soon get a lot more crowded. the question is whos next and when. marco rubio is expected to kick off his campaign early next week. what about jeb bush, scott walker, chris christie? the same ques...

Conservatives but it will not be a general issue. >> were going to be talking about this right through the primaries. republicans cant help themselves. >> i hope president obama moves to repeal the legislation he voted for. >> lets talk about iran very quickly. chris, and i want adolfos concepts on this it seems the president got a lot more than was expected by some even though there seems to be obviously a lot of details to work out through the end of the summer but is this going to be a politi...

Yorktown. thats an interesting place for him right now from a policy perspective considering whats going on with iran and isis. hes in a place thats a little different from the rest of the republican field and could be problematic in the long run. hell conclude his tour in iowa with a rally at iowa state. i think you can expect to see a lot of the enthusiasm there that drove his fathers presidential campaign in 2012. >> and, mark lets talk about the numbers when it comes to senator pauls poll nu...