Saying that because we are members of the mainstream media. Dont take our word for it. Listen to Rush Limbaugh. Trump is finished. Trump does not have a prayer. You hear stories. There are fundraising problems at the rnc. Republicans down the ballot are not to spendc money on trial. It is a waste of money. We have 50 former National Security aides, republicans, all writing a letter citing that donald trump is outrageously unqualified and unfit. He is so far down in the polls. There is no way to make any of it back. This seems to be the narrative. Mark across the fruited plain, that is what we call a Rush Limbaugh classic. You need to take the tone with a fine grain of salt worried our suspicion and experience a just that mr. Limbaugh is saying this because he recognizes there is more than a peppercorn of truth in all this. For example, these are the news reports you are seeing on tv. Trump today doubling and tripling his claims that president obama and Hillary Clinton are the founder of isis. Mark that may not be the right question to ask. Tromp responded with this widely read tweet. Like fall president obama and clinton the founder of isis. They dont get sarcasm . Trump, the first president ial Candidates Campaign is largely based on sarcasm. Trumpight help explain 2016, could i be any lower in the polls . The polls are so bad that donald inmp himself even conceded at least one state that he is concerned big league. I have a tremendous problem in utah. Is anyone here from utah . I did not think so. We are having a problem. Mark a quick piece of advice, maybe dont refer to these United States as a different place. You think utah is bad for your candidate, you will not want to look at these new surveys of more a lector of he important states. Electorally important states. By nine pown virginia, down by 13 good color, down by 14 points. Twitter lit up more than a Michael Phelps after party. If he loses all four states, his chances are doomed. If our researchers can figure this out, so can trump, and also leaders in congress. Noweast one republican is saying that donald trump is a most certainly going to lose. On the record, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky said that the chances of the Republican Party keeping control of the senate are very dicey. While we are on the topic of congress, consider steve king of iowa, one of the few not hiding at the convention in cleveland. Theelivered a speech at iowa state fair that gave the impression that he could work with the next president of the United States because he has worked with her before. I have set across the table with Hillary Clinton. She is somebody i could work with. Loses susan collins, meg whitman, but steve king . Steve king made comments last month that were called literally white supremacy. Yes, that steve king. That explains why republicans are holding a come to jesus meeting in florida with the trump camp lane. Zikafree mosquito on the wall there. In politics, good gets better and bad gets worse. The other one says nothing is ever as good or bad as it seems. Which barbarism is true for trump right now . Fullfledged crisis for the republican nominee or is this just an august trump slump . A crisis. Bvious a the numbers dont lie. The battleground states are going away. It is hard to imagine a path. Into solve aalled lot of crisis sees throughout my career. Crises throughout my career. Dont go at the media. Give a checkered speech. I have to take you guys the way i communicate. I say outrageous things to open up the discussion. Of course every clinton and barack obama are not the founders of isis, and i got the conversation going. Of course i dont want anybody to take out a gun on Hillary Clinton, but we need to talk about the second amendment. While i am at it, i want to apologize to the kahns. It showed his core. Have not been sleeping at night. I am wrong. Take it all off the table. The bullets continued to fly. I believe he can reboot it. I believe it has to do be done the right way. It cannot be done attacking the media. High for stakes are so a lot of voters. What i am hearing from republicans is that hes not giving people a sense that he understands it is important to stop Hillary Clinton from being president and that he gets he needs to fight back. There is too much business as usual for a lot of republicans who say if this is what hes going to keep doing, making mistakes, being sarcastic, fighting the media, not focusing day today on the news cycle, he is going to lose, and that could be the numbers hurt by donald trump if he does not turn things around. He needs to do something dramatic to turn this around. He cannot wait until the debates. To his guys, iy am not doing this anymore. He needs to take a step backwards. Those droppings on the floor are not going to go away. You cannot leave it on the table and move on and not do it again. If it is the right tone, a tone we have not seen mark if he has it inside of him. The media wants a raise, so they will go, here we go. Trump finds himself in an unprecedented spot. Just fact checks in time todays case studied his most recent comments on obama, clinton, and the founding of isis. Donald trump tries to do miss his claim as sarcasm. He repeated a false claim about the president. Why does he keep repeating it if it is not true . Havingfact checkers are a field day with this one. President obama did not found isis. For clarity, they are not the founders. A founder is a person who establishes an institution or settlement. Ifounder would be like if founded the wolf blitzer fan club. This is suggesting that president obama and Hillary Clinton believe in the cause of isis, which is simply not true. Day, trump was quoted and corrected trump at the same time. Asent stories on the claim patently false and exaggerated. We are not saying this is wrong. On morning joe, a Washington Post columnists made a convincing argument for why they think the media will have to decide and continued to decide how do you deal with this. When you have a guy that makes a flat out false statement every day repeatedly, president obama founded isis, how do cover that . You have to write a news story. Trump said, which is not true. Pin him down in the news stories. You have to call it what it is. On top of all this, unlike any election we can remember, columnists are ganging up and advocating for his total defeat. The Media Coverage of Hillary Clintons untruthful claims, but it pales in comparison to the certitude of the type of scrutiny that donald trump speeches are getting. How much of this being framed by the media is dooming trump or can he make a move here . Mark it is death. I have always advocated not he said, she said, but if somebody is not telling the truth, call them out for it in a factual way and hold them accountable to the public interest. I think it is great people are doing it for trump, and they should do it for clinton as well. They are bringing it upon themselves when their candidate goes out every day and does something new. We should be doing it for both candidates. I have never seen straight News Reporters basically calling people a liar in news accounts. Saysntrasting what trump trump and spires such passion on both sides, even reporters, because they are human beings. Some of the things he has said have been so offensive. I think they are feeling a responsibility. This is the most passionate reportersd we can put under people, have ever been about any candidate, and that is what is driving this. One of his main arguments against every clinton that he is trying to make is that she is a liar. If the press day today is explicitly calling donald trump , and Hillary Clinton and the foundation says she says this and other people say this, that is a losing position for donald trump no matter what else he does. Needs to take in a razor to the board and start over. Mark up next, the great 2016 tax work and we will show how much money the clintons made last year right after this. One day after an economic speech in michigan, Hillary Clinton is trying to put pressure on donald trump and his campaign by releasing her tax returns. She is calling on the republican nominee to do the same. She and president clinton earned 30 4. 2illion last year, percent federal income tax rate and donated 9. 8 of gross income to charity. The clintons have released decades of tax returns. Mate released 10 years of his tax history. Donald trump has refused to release his returns citing an audit by the irs. Turne is katie do you think this will cause him to relent . No. He will not release his taxes. It is not going to happen. Zero chance. Warren buffett was under order. I feel strong about this. We all have one job as a citizen , pay taxes and not break the law. Taxes are a peek into the soul of how you live your life and conduct this is. Ossibly zero tax we could get a Real Estate Tax attorney in here and explain the business, a lot of funny business. Always been rumors that he is the least charitable rich guy around. Mark i thought maybe this is it. Instead, they are going on the attack and saying she is dishonest about her emails. He said the one thing she released his what nobody cares about. Despite that, i think they will have some fun with it and say look at how much money she made in speeches, book deals. They paid 35 taxes. The Trump Campaign does not necessarily use logic. Mark you can bet they thought lets take the right the directions. Are two people who basically run for office for a living and are making as much money as they are. Is, you are running for president , you show your taxes. Donald Trump Supporters dont care. Not do it byoes the first debate, it becomes a big issue. Zero chance. Unnamed federal official, the fbi was considering opening a public Corruption Case against the Clinton Foundation, but no investigation materialized after they got pushed back. If any of this is true, pretty big deal. Commenting. S not the fbi is not commenting. The Clinton Foundation is not commenting on it. It does feed into the narrative shadyhere was something going on, that she was using the foundation and her role in the Defense Department to serve herself. , and is no official denial that lens the Trump Campaign the ability to attack her on this issue. Mark reporters are really interested in this story. You think about the announcement on the emails. We are recommending no investigation. In this case, if the reports are right, they did want an investigation here it investigation. Until there are more specifics, its hard for the Trump Campaign to make that much out of it. Inthe press covered mcclendons emails nonstop before donald trump got on the scene and started saying covered Hillary Clintons emails nonstop before donald trump got on the scene and started talking about it. Ifsome ways it may be better he went dark for the entire month. Could be entirely on a mcclendon of what donald trump said. Mark how could he spend his time more profitably . If im Hillary Clinton, just go away. Just let trump continue. When we come back, we will talk more about donald trump and life on the trail and birds. Birds . Mark swans. Right after this. Tur. Back with katie her, yount recognize may know her from the pages of marie claire magazine. The latest issue features her reflections on covering the in an article called my crazy year with trout. That is not the only glossy magazine. She is also in an issue of town and country on their list of 50 modern swans, the worlds most stylish, talk about, and emulated young women. Here is the picture of the magazine shows to illustrate her swanness. Does that make me an honorary swan. Congratulations. Shouldnt it just be worlds most influential women . You are right. You are one of the most brilliant reporters out there and to turn it into a beauty pageant. I am honored they included me in their list. I like they called me a swan because nobody has ever accused me of being graceful. Ill take it. Mark your article about covering trump. President ial candidate i covered was bill clinton. I thought president ial candidates are interesting, great speakers, and work 20 hours a day. Your candidate is equally unusual, trump. Give us a sense of what it is like to cover him day today. It is a wild roller coaster said in thei article, a hurricane making landfall on a daily basis. Story,ld be doing one and he will tweet something or Say Something that up ins the entire process. I never thought i would hear somebody running for president say that somebody else was , but i did. Why do they call you little katie on the campaign. I am five feet two inches, i dont know. We see some soundbites with angry people screaming, some of the comments, and the New York Times did this three minute thing that was like a lynch rally. There are some rooms that are much more tense than others. Last night, you could feel it from the video. We have this in new orleans as well, columbus, ohio, maybe one in michigan, the room was angry and it feels like they are spoiling for a fight and out to tar and feather somebody. They feel like they have been under represented. You feel it. Absolutely. They come to the press tent and glare at you. I had a grandmother look at me as i was writing on my notepad and she said, you better be telling the truth. Said, wouldher and you talking about . You are a liar. Mark we were preparing to talk about the week in review, and our folks put it together a list of all the things that happened this week. Of all the stuff that happened this week, which one or two do you think will endure as factors Going Forward in the campaign . On the cover of time magazine, the founders of isis, susan collins, then National Security experts, the rnc tensions. Founder of isis. He said that for, 5, 6 times yesterday. I ask him if that meant there was a vacuum, but he said no he is the founder of isis. Then he said he was being sarcastic. But he said it sarcastic. What does that mean . My way, peopleit talk about it. The party needs to find a way to bolster him. Cut the head off and expect the body to survive. They want to maintain a majority in the senate, but it is an internal struggle, how do you who youebody you disagree with on so many issues. How do support him going for it . You cannot just back off and say i will not have this any longer because you does the folks that you does support and you do believe in and you do think are good for the country. Look at the senate race in new hampshire. There are races they will lose if they get rid of trump. Mark thank you for joining us. We will be right back to talk about the latest polls right after this. We are joined by a democratic pollster and super pac backing Hillary Clinton and also back in the wadr studio by popular demand kelly conway. Public pollster and Senior Adviser of trumps campaign. Guys, thanks for coming on the show. I want to start with you. Another day, another magical tour for donald trump. His latest he was being sarcastic about being sarcastic. I started the show talking about that he needs to completely somehow back off of some of those things and, look, i speak this way for a reason. I certainly dont believe there is any chance of that happening. What i saw today was the chairman of the Republican National committee get on the plane with donald trump and go to erie, pennsylvania and introduce him as a sign of unity batting back these ridiculously, unfounded thats what i saw today. If you want to talk about what happened today that is what happened on the trail. Thats not relevant at all. The head of the rnc and the president were on the same plane . The media were running stories yesterday people were trying to dump trum and freaking out. I took a look at the down ballot races where the United States senators running for reelection as republicans were a year ago. They were pretty much where they are now. They were losing to their democratic opponents in many of the blue states for the reelection. If were going to talk about what happened on the campaign trail lets talk about the facts. They had a terrific rally today. Thousands of people. The chairman of the party. You have a new chairman of your party at the d. N. C. Because the old one got booted out unceremoniously by the president of the United States. Nice parry. Because they were trying to i dont know kellyanne, pat toomey was winning a year ago. Kelly ayotte was winning a year ago. I mean, seemingly its absolutely happening. There is a problem with donald trump. Yes the notion that its a win that the head of the r. N. C. And the president ial nominee are on the same plane is ridiculous. Of course that should happen. The fact is people are running away from this guy but arent going to be able to run away. Donnie new battleground states polls. I want your take. 30 seconds. Analyze the polls. They are all showing hillary with a tremendous bounce. She got a convention bounce. Trump got a convention bounce. At this point its more like a pole vault in terms of where hillary is. Her numbers are in all the battleground states youre looking at hillary has a dominant lead, a doubledigit lead in virginia, colorado, states that should be on the map in terms of real, real tight races. Right now all the data shall not only the battleground polls youre talking about but private, everybody, were all seeing the same thing. Kelly, go. Im glad it is august and not october. For some people were listening to the same thing we heard a year ago which is donald trump can never win. Excuse us if we would rather sally forth with a professional campaign. Even though lots of people like to dismiss that bec