Republican nominee. And i am someone who keeps his word. But now after wars over wives, socalled lies and just about Everything Else, this campaign season, all three republicans left in the race are somewhat backing away from that promise. No. Well see who it is. The pledge you took is number and void. Whoever the republican nominee is, you say you will no longer guarantee i have been treated very unfairly. Im not in the hasnt of supporting someone who attacks my wife and my family. I think that is going beyond the line. I think our wives, i think our kids should be off limits. They dont belong in the attacks. If the nominee is someone that i think is really hurting the country and dividing the country, i cant stand behind them. What a difference a few months makes. Jed die a, no doubt this has been a turbulent time. All three candidates believe or say that they will be the nominee. They plan to be the nominee. So the question is a little dill to answer. I would have never made this pl
Billion a year trade deficit and mexico, as you know, theyre taking all of our companies. Were going to build the wall. We have no choice. Were going to build it. Whos going to pay for the wall . Mexico 100pk. Its important what were doing together. Were doing it together. Im only the messenger, folks. Im going a good job as messenger. Im only the messenger. Because we have to take our country back. We spr to bring intelligence to our country, we have to bring common sense to our country and i am a tough cookie. Were going to have the biggest, strongest, most powerful military and nobodys going to mess with us. Nobody. Were going to win with our military. Were going to win on the borders. Were going to win with health care. Repeal and replace that garbage known as obamacare. Were going to win with education. Get rid of that horrible common core. We are going to win bigly and save our 2nd amendment. And as you know, and as youve heard, the nra endorsed me three days ago. Were going to w
Following outcry about his remarks senator mccain released a statement saying that, he quote, misspoke but the senator appeared defiant when pressed on the matter later on thursday. If the president had not if the president had not pulled everybody out of iraq bears responsibility so i want to be clear. You want me to be clear, im not backtracking on anything, im saying that the president of the United States actions, actions, were responsible because of the full withdrawal of troops from iraq which led then to al qaeda going to syria which led to isis and our failure to have a strategy to destroy isis has led the attacks on the United States of america and europe meanwhile president obama insists the United States is not letting up on campaign against terrorism. We will continue to be relentless against terrorist groups like isil and al qaeda we are going to destroy them. We are going to disrupt their networks and their financing. And the flow of fighters in and out of war theaters. J
Plus, o say can you see the controversy . Nfl quarterback Colin Kaepernick doubles down on his anthem protest but this time hes not alone. And he says hes not stopping there. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning, im carol costello. Thanks very much for joining me this morning. We begin with breaking news. Of course the big president ial debates are coming up very soon and we now know who will moderate those debates. Brian stelter is here to break the news for us this morning. The announcement just out from the commission on president ial debates. It is so intriguing this year. This was a pretty hard process this year. The donald trump factor and the Hillary Clinton factor, both made this a very hard process for the commission, this Bipartisan Commission picks the moderators every four years. Just looking at names here now, the first debate, september 26, a few weeks from today, lester holt, the nbc nightly news anchor. Of course this will be the biggest stage of his career.
Barely a week after the Republican Convention and all those calls for party unity. Hedging his bets on speaker paul ryan, senator john mccain of arizona and new hampshires kelly ayotte in a wideranging interview with the Washington Post here is what donald trump said about speaker ryan. Quote, im just not quite there yet, mirroring language ryan used about him this year when asked if he would support donald trump. Trump indicating a bit of a flirtation with ryans challenger in the upcoming republican primary in wisconsin. Saying his opponent is a big fan of what im saying. A big fan. All of that prompted this statement from zach roday, speaker ryans press secretary saying neither speaker ryan nor anyone on his team has ever asked for Donald Trumps endorsement and we are confident in a victory next week regardless. In an interview to air on the Oreilly Factor in a couple of hours, he asked about senator john mccain and senator kelly ayotte. Ive never been a big fan of john mccain. And i