in the party. john mccain is someone the republican party nominated for president seven years ago. he has a following in the party. trump ought to want those people to come to him. they won t now. many people i saw a lot yesterday in reaction to this. a lot of trump fans said i like donald trump but this is beyond pale and that reaction will be widespread and will be quite damaging. he needs to apologize and it remains to be seen if he has sense enough to do that. if he does, is that enough? it will help. i m not sure it s enough because it was saying he s not a hero. i mean, does trump really have any idea of mccain s war record? what he did in captivity and refused to do and things he did before he was captured. it s breathtaking that he would say this. the fact he was offered an early release and refused to take it because he wanted to keep faith with his fellow prisoners.
you have been around politics for a while. what do you make of the fact that up until this point that trump had made a lot of comments that a lot of people were offended by especially about illegal immigrants being rapists and drug dealers. that didn t sink him but rocketed him to the top. in the latest fox news poll he was number one. people are fed up with washington and politics as usual. i think trump is getting exactly what he wants because you re leading with this story on this show instead of leading with iran, which is a really big story of the week. he s disgraceful. i want to make a comment about john mccain, who we ve had our small disagreements from time to time. we basically do agree. i ve been all over the world with him. he uses his moral authority in very impressive ways. there is no one else like john mccain. he can talk about torture like nobody else can and why sequestration and this brain dead idea is killing our defense
all right now on fox news sunday. hello again from fox news in washington. we have a lot of news to cover today. the latest on the investigation into that terror attack in tennessee and the debate over this week s nuclear deal with iran. but we begin with breaking political news. republican presidential candidate donald trump s comments about senator john mccain questioning whether he is a war hero. senior political correspondent mike emmanuel reports from ames, iowa. reporter: donald trump escalated his war words with arizona senator john mccain and created a big new controversy. when panel moderator called mccain a war hero, trump seemed to question that. he s not a war hero. he s a war hero because he was captured.
slain and police officer that was wounded saying the person that perpetrated this horrible crime does not represent the son they knew. they did give us possible insight into abdulazeez s state of mind saying he suffered from depression for years. the number of victims rose to five yesterday. randall smith passed away from his wounds. he leaves behind a wife and three young children under the age of seven. the fbi now following more than 200 leads dispatching agents to jordan to determine what abdulazeez was doing during a lengthy visit there back in 2014? did he meet with islamic terrorist groups? the fbi is looking into a text message he wrote to a friend the day before the shooting. a lot of talk now about force protection across america. this man in virginia where there are open carry laws with weapons took it upon himself to stand guard outside a recruiting center but governors were
we can stop some of these and a lot of these but not all of them. this raises an interesting question. if it turns out, as it may, this was a terrorist organization inspired or directed either way, the question arises to what degree is the ability of isis and other groups to inspire lone wolf terrorists as this man appears to be. dependent on their military successes in the middle east and if it develops and it may be hard to tell in a short-term time frame that it s a big deal and a big part of it that isis is marching across the middle east giving rise to this in a major way, then it raises a very important question for this administration and the next one and that is does that mean in order to be safe here we have to crush isis? and perhaps other terrorist organizations. this is at least the ninth attack on the u.s. military in this country in the last six