John happy national respect for parents day, sports fans. We are just 98 full rotations of from electionway day as we enter this postconvention phase, team clinton his enjoying a healthy postphiladelphia boost in the polls. A cbs News National survey shows the democratic nominee leading her republican, rival a sevenpoint swing from a week ago. Cnn has a full that just came out that has clinton up 52 to trumps 43 , another sevenpoint the bounce coming as donald trump is enduring one of the worst news cycles in a campaign that has seen more than its share of them, as trump grapples with the fallout from his comments this weekend in an interview with George Stephanopoulos about the parents of captain kahn, a fallen soldier of muslim faith. Gold star families of u. S. Servicemembers killed in combat are demanding an apology from the republican nominee who tore into the appearance of his mother and father at the Democratic Convention and their subsequent tv appearances. Trumps political opponents are pouncing, too, including president obama who spoke about gold star families in atlanta today. Trump and his team have tried to mop up this release with press releases and tweets, though trump made no mention of the khans in columbus this afternoon. Mark, we can play sound on this all day long, but we have not. Lets focus on the question, there is damage here how big . Mark hes wasted three days. Is not three days insignificant, three days not talking about the economy, Hillary Clintons record on Foreign Policy, not selling himself in a positive way, and i believe if you look at the groups impacted by this, republicans, veterans, parents, i think john large group. Mark i have been one to stop saying, this is the end of trump, in the nomination fight, but i think this one will be a lasting topic. On more tv. E booked it doesnt seem like they are going to disappear anytime soon. Its like this is an opponent trump cant stop fighting with seemingly, and its opponent an opponent not afraid of him and willing to fight back. Its a disgrace what he said, and the truth is in this instance, there is only one sacrosanct group in american life, which is people who go and fight for the country and are killed. Their parents have a right to say whatever they want, and the right answer is to say, i respectfully disagree. Lets move on. That would have eliminated all of this problem, but he cannot resist getting into a fight with anyone who hits him. He has to hit them back. Its a terrible quality for a candidate. I would never say anything is the end of donald trump given what we have seen. I do think this is going to go on for some more time. 22 million veterans, thats a lot of voters out there. Are 22 million American Veterans who today are done with donald trump. Mark you look at the people he has attacked judge curiel, he has not fought back. If the judge were in the room with me right now, i wouldnt recognize him. John mccain, politician, tough. Uy megyn kelly. The other people he has fought with have either chosen not to engage with him or are in some ways less sympathetic than these lovely parents who, sure, did they allow themselves to become politicized . They did, but it is their right. John they decided that they came forward, they had something they wanted to say. They said that thing. Trunk could have easily disagreed with them. He couldve said, ive read the constitution, and move on. Instead, he offer this criticism fe with a cleari antimuslim sub text. Now you have roger stone tweeting things about how he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood or how he is behind people who funded the 9 11 attacks. They still have not stopped today. Mark we will be talking about this more. Donald trump has faced a range of reactions from his fellow republicans over this controversy. Bush, johnrival jeb kasich, and Lindsey Graham have been more willing to call out the parties a standardbearer than other top standard boyars, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, whose statements focus primarily on honoring the khan family. Ryan posted some new photos of the speaker on his government website. The first picture is an image of ryan holding up the constitution, a mirror image of the way mr. Khan held of the constitution in talking about his son last week. Republicans up for reelection this year are distancing themselves from trump more than they have ever done before. Kelly ayotte in New Hampshire says she was appalled by trumps remarks. John mccain, also facing real action, put out a statement saying his partys nominee doesnt speak for all republicans and doesnt have unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us. The most extraordinary comment came from trumps own running mate, mike pence, speaking for both trump and pencice captain khan gave his life to defend our country in the global war on terror. Trump himself at an event today did not echo those remarks in any way and avoided the topic completely. How is the Republican Party handling what trump has said about khan . John some of them with a little bit more honor than they have handle these rings in the past. Handled these things in the past. Republicans seem to have convinced themselves that this tod of thing isnt going keep happening again. This is part of a pattern. We see this with trump with great regularity. The point passed where anybody believes there is going to be a pivot. I think they have a huge political problem. The ones you pointed out, the ones running for reelection, has spoken out most strongly, but there is going to come a time i dont know if this is the moment where people will have to reconsider whether they can stand by their endorsements of trump and start to actively walk away. Mark no one else we have ever covered who has run for any office would say what trump says. John no one ever has. Mark trump is lucky that this happened in a summer weekend when there is other stuff going on as opposed to a weekday when congress is in session. Paul ryan putting that picture on the website is cute. Its cute. Its not a condemnation. My hope is that everyone is going to have to own up to it on camera. We will look to find republicans reacting on videotape. There have been almost nine. They know how horrible it is politically. Im certain knowing a lot of people that we just talked about, they are offended by what trump said, as offended by anyone in the press talking about it or the Clinton Campaign, and their silence about this speaks to the fact that the election is 100 days away, and trump is their nominee. They are damaging their souls by not speaking out more clearly. John it raises this issue that goes beyond politics. I know we talk about politics on this show. It was raised most pointedly with ryan in the past. Mark he has said, i will speak out john he has not today. Many of these people are not merely offended. Many of them believe that these kinds of comments, comments like this and those in the past render donald trump unsuitable for the oval office. They believe that in their hearts, and they are either leave either nominally endorsing him, trying to stay clear of the trouble. I dont know how as a human being you live with yourself if that is what you believe. If you believe he is fit for office, fine. Mark this is not insulting a federal judge. This is more, and a lot of people spoke out about that forcefully. Im amazed at the relative lack of forcefulness. John as if all of this wasnt enough trouble for donald trump, his campaign is also dealing with a different controversy from over the weekend or this one, as it happens, also arose from trumps interview with week in which the nominee fielded questions about russia and why the republican platform language showing solidarity with ukraine against russian aggression was softened at the partys convention. Trumps response was you can see for yourself. He is not going into ukraine. He is not going to go into ukraine. You can lock it down. Hes already there, isnt he . He is there in a certain way, but im not there. Obama is. That whole part of the world is a mess under obama. John with foreignpolicy experts slamming trump for his unawareness that russia has been in ukraine since 2014, trunk tried to clarify or amend his statement. He tweeted what i said in an interview that putin is not going into ukraine, you can mark it down, im saying if im president. Already in crimea voters, obviously, not speaking down to them, but they dont know generally a lot about crimea or ukraine, and they are not interested in the details of foreignpolicy. Given all of that, why does this matter . Mark because the filter is powerful. What trump has done about putin, talking about praising putin through the middle of last week, through the stories about Paul Manafort and ukraine, to trumps statements about what happened with the platform, it adds up to near universal condemnation of trump by not just foreignpolicy elites but by a lot of members of congress. What this does, the combination of these two things, it plays into what the democrats are trying to do. Our colleague did an interview with guy cecil who runs the super pac for Hillary Clinton, and guy told him they are going after trump on two things. Other advertising, one is that trump is dangerous, that he cant be commanderinchief, that he is too unhinged, and that is the dangerous lane, and that speaks to the russia stuff. Then there is the socalled jerk lane, the stuff related to the khans. Trump has in the last week or so basically given them all sorts of new fodder, which they have turned into a new ad to go after trump on the two things they want to go after him on, too dangerous on Foreign Policy and that he acts like a jerk. John one of trumps main political assets has been, when it comes to fighting terrorism, hes the strong man. He has correctly diagnosed that he has done well by adopting those postures. It is problematic for someone whom people have reasonable in their about capacity as commanderinchief, to have that political asset, and then be in a situation where you are saying things where across the board, not just democrats or republicans, the echo chamber of all of them saying, this guy is clueless, he doesnt know what is going on. Russia went into ukraine two years ago. That was in the news. Thats just bad for you. Not strong. How are you going to stand up to putin if you dont know where he is . John it undercuts a key asset for him. We are in 100 agreement. Mark when we come back, weve got another debate about debates and what it means for your fantasy football league. Mark the first of the three general election presents a debates is still two months away, but donald trump is a his nomination fight challenge of rigged system, seeming to challenge the commission on president ial debates legitmacy and the proposed schedule to the nominee has been complaining that two of the debates involving the president ial candidates are up against nfl primetime games. The Bipartisan Commission that set the dates nearly a year ago says it took into account religious and federal holidays, as well as baseball playoff games, to maximize viewership, but team trump still says they want to discuss alternative nights. The clinton told reporters she plans to be at the debates as scheduled. John, what is trump up to . First of all, one of the things he is up to is he is telling a lie about the fact that the nfl wrote him a letter, which is not true. More importantly, hes beginning the quadrennial ritual of the debate about debates. We see this every four years. We have had some question about whether he would want to do all three debates. That question has been lingering for months. I dont know what his endgame is, but again, to put this in the context of normal president ial campaigns, a debate about debates, scheduling, that every four years. Trump has made his opening bid. Mark the reality is coming the nomination debates, you see debates about debates. The commission has generally gotten their formats, their moderators. A look, and the reality is, theres not a day in october you can find that doesnt have some conflict with either a holiday for major sporting event. There are a couple days right around the time of the first debate that dont seem to have conflicts. Be surprised if they moved the debate away from the monday to tuesday or wednesday. Those seem to be the only days within a timeframe of these debates where you can go. I suspect that will happen. John there arent going to be three debates in a row. Mark you have one with a conflict. John two within three days . Mark one up against an alternative an nfl game. The reality is, the moderators will be hugely important, and that is what i think trump is trying to influence. I think hes fine doing three. John the other possibility raised by someone, not me, that he might be trying to get joel stein and gary johnson on the stage and turn it into a multicandidate debate. If that is insure his interest. Up next, Hillary Clintons fox news moment. A new club for billionaires lineup against donald j. Trump, billionaire. All of that after these words by our sponsors. Donald trump wasnt the candidate who went to the sunday shows this weekend. Hillary clinton sat down with Chris Wallace for a Fox News Sunday interview. For the most part, it was a Strong Performance for the democratic nominee, but clinton was confronted by a topic she should be used to talking about now, her emails. Fbi director james comey said none of those things you told the American Public were true. Chris, that is not what i heard director komi say, and i thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify. Komi said my answers were truthful and what i said is consistent with what ive told the american people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain emails. I made a mistake not using two different email addresses. I have said that, and i repeat it again today. It is certainly not anything i would ever do it again. I take classification seriously. And had every reason to rely on the judgments of the professionals with whom i worked. John a lot of people jumped on that, what some would say is a generous interpretation of the fbi directors findings. Today, Clinton Campaign manager robby mook was pressed on his bosss answer. With the director of the fbi he did notas that see a basis to believe that she knew the information in question was classified when she received it. Important caveat, we cant see these emails. We dont know if they were marked. We dont know if they were marked properly. The fact of the matter is we are having to rely on what he is saying. Included in what he said was, he did not believe that when she receive these emails she had any reason to believe they were classified. John after the james comey press conference, the Clinton Campaign thought they had put the email issue behind them, but here it is popping up again. How much of a political problem do you think this will be . Mark the Trump Campaign is right that the press is not as interested in old clinton controversies, and that is a problem for them. The press is not as interested in old clinton controversies as new trump. Its going to be hard. If this happened with the emails a month ago or two months ago, people would have been much more over it. Weve been around this before. Its not necessarily fair to the trunk campaign, but it is what it is. I think she doesnt want to admit anymore, doesnt want to show any more weakness. The team is rallying around her, both robby mook and brian fallon taking heat on social media for what they said, but they dont want to show anymore weakness, and theyre hoping that the press is no longer interested in what is a rerun. Just true in its general the press is interested in new controversies rather than old controversies. This femalese that thing has taken a huge toll on Hillary Clinton. She has paid a political price. You see that in her honest and trustworthy numbers. Its the main Thing Holding her back from being much further ahead of donald trump than she is. I think the foundation, which has been in my view, for any year and a half, i thought the foundation was the place where there might be more controversy, and people are, partly driven by the Trump Campaign, are starting to turn their gaze towards the clinton foundation. If theres going to be blood, its going to be on that, not so much on the email thing. Mark of course, september, the Clinton Global Initiative will be meeting, so its the peg for everybody to do stories. She doesnt want to admit any more than she has already admitted. She wants to get some universal claim of, i shouldnt have done it, i regret doing it, but we will see. I think theres more to come on the emails. Hillary clinton is hitting the end the campaign trail, but theead of a bus tour, democratic nominee is taking a detour to cornhusker country. She is in omaha, nebraska for an event with billionaire investor Warren Buffett. The state has elect world votes that go by congressional district. This is not the first billionaire appearance. She appeared with another billionaire businessman, mark cuban. He made an endorsement cameo at clintons rally in pittsburgh saturday, and of course, there was the scathing Convention Speech by billionaire michael bloomberg, the former new york mayor and our boss. Outrage, of populist how potent a weapon are these antitrump billionaires . John they are potent in the sense that trump we talked about his asset in terms of Foreign Policy strength the other asset is he is a supposedly successful businessman. The people who have the most credibility to take him on our other billionaires. Whether it is bloomberg were mark hugo and or Warren Buffett, and the constellation of other business people, it undercuts some of trumps claim. In a populist era, this is not a trump card, not to overuse the phrase, but it doesnt hurt. Mark i think they dominate a new cycle, particularly the local coverage, but even the national coverage. They get in there. 99 days to go. How many of those days will trump wins . You bring out