Im john berman. Hello. Im kate would jua by our count it has been about 12 hours since Donald Trumps last comments on the feud with the family of the fallen u. S. Soldier. Well have to see what he says when he takes the stage. Were also watching the white house right now. President obama about to hold a joint News Conference for the Prime Minister of singapore. Thats the main subject. You can bet the president will be asked about donald trump and about gold star parents khizer kh khan. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say about that. In the shadow of a new cnn dorc poll losing ground. After the Republican Convention trump was ahead 48 to 45 . Now after the democrats had their turn, Hillary Clinton is on top 52 to 43 . Maybe this explains why donald trump is calling Hillary Clinton the devil and claiming that the election could be rigged. Cnn National CorrespondentJason Carroll is live at this trump rally in virginia. Jason, what do you see . Well, the rally is about to get under way any moment. Before things have started to get under way, a few protesters have been escorted out of the venue. First we should talk about, you mentioned them, the first time weve heard donald trump refer to hip as the devil. Certainly in the past weve heard him say that Bernie Sanders sold his soul to the devil, but that was him when he said the general election might be rigged against him, we heard him say that yesterday in columbus. Certainly a number of people in this room agree the system is stacked against political outsiders like a donald trump. Trump trump is expected to speak on a number of issue when he takes the stage a few moments from now. Weve got poll numbers to suggest where the candidates stand on some of those issues that trump will be talking about. Want to share some of that with you. The first one has to do with the economy. A lot of folks thinking that perhaps donald trump is a businessman, he would be better equipped to handle the economy. A new cnn poll shows that 50 of people feel clinton would be better to handle the economy rather than trump at 48 . The next issue is terrorism. Because of clintons Foreign Policy experience, former secretary of state, she would top trump in terms of better handling that particular issue. Recent cnn polls, theyre both tied, both at 48 . The next issue being illegal immigration, a cornerstone of trumps campaign. Every time you come to a rally like this, you hear about build the wall, build the wall against mexico. We have clinton at 55 , trump at 43 in terms of who would be better able to handle the issue of illegal immigration. Trump expected to take the stage in just a few minutes, expected to talk about issues such as immigration, illegal immigration, the economy as well. Again, he will be expected to go after clinton. How he ends up doing that, that remains to be seen. John, kate. Jason carroll, some pretty dramatic leadup music. Background music for jason which he deserves. Jason, thank you so much. Lets talk more now with alice stewart, cnn political commentator and former Communications Director for ted cruz. Alex cone net from marco rubios campaign, now a partner with firehouse strategies, a democratic strategist. Alex bernstein, National Political reporter for the new york times. John phillips, cnn political comment tart, talk show host on kabc and a donald trump supporter. I think i got everybody in. I love the brady bunch effect. Were smaller than everyone else. Everyone else gets their own box. John phillips, first you. As we said by our count, its been about 12 hours since donald trump has commented on the feud with the gold star family. He did not talk about this from the stump yesterday. Do you get any sense that donald trump in the campaign is trying to move on from this . Yes, as soon as he stops talking about it, its going to go away. Ive never been more of the belief that melania should tell him its time to go on vacation. Thats go on one of these kathie lee cruises, let this thing blow over and talk about something else. Hes the guy making sure this story stays in the news. I was on with john in the morning, the day after the father spoke at the democratic convention. We talked about it. But it didnt become the story until donald kept talking about it. I would advice him to shush. Alex, eric trump said on cbs today saying this is something blown hugely out of proportion, the Trump Campaign saying its all the media making this up right now. Josh hill, a trump supporter saying trump should just shush. How responsible is he that the story has the life . Absolutely hes responsible. Khan spoke thursday night. Friday morning really bad gdp numbers came out. Yet they spent the morning talking about the speech on thursday night and not the gdp numbers. They need to be talking about the middle class, about jobs. Instead theyre talking about what clinton wants them to talk about. People spoke at his Convention Rather than at his convention and his message. One thing people are talking about, alice, is the system is rigged. He said last night hes afraid the system is rigged. We thought it was interesting because theres no suggestion that there is fraud that is coming, but that hes returning to a theme that worked in his favor in the primary. What do you think is behind it . The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is exactly how he carried out during the primary when ted cruz beat him at the colorado convention. He said its a crooked system, a rigged system and played off that to distract from the fact that he lost. This is exactly what hes doing. Hes had a terrible several days with the media starting with the khan story and his inability to understand the ukraine and also several other stories that just wont die because they continue to feed into them. What hes doing, classic trump. Hell call the system rigged and crooked. Now hes calling hillary names like the devil. Its unfortunate hes talking about a different electorate here. He needs to broaden the base and bring in independents and start focusing on the issues people are concerned with. Thats jobs, the economy and National Security, and stop blaming the system and stop calling names and stick with the issues. Thats going to go a long way. I suspect we will see some of that when he takes the stage in virginia. He had two events yesterday where he didnt bring up the khans. It seems the campaign is making an effort not to bring it up. Alex burns, where are we right now in this race . The Hillary Clinton campaign released fundraising numbers. To put it in clinical terms, its a blankload of money they raised. Very technical. A lot of that 58 million of it i wrote it down. 63 million. For the campaign, 58 million in the bank. Our new poll has Hillary Clinton up nine right now. Where do things stand . I think you have to say right nowality the outset of the general election where each candidate has had the biggest opportunity they will have to make their case until the debates, assuming that they happen. We have to say right now that trump enters that phase of the campaign. Its why you start to hear him talking about things like a rigged election. I was at a trump event last night in central pennsylvania where he was saying the polls, you cant really believe the polls because back during the primaries the polls always underestimated my support. He said some of his supporters are embarrassed to tell a pollster they like donald trump. But in the privacy of the voting book, nobody is watching and they can vote for it. Ive heard that, too. This is how a guy who is down in the polls and looking at potential defeat tries to keep his supporters energetic and engag engaged. Emily, when you look at the polls with the Clinton Convention which i know youre going to say you think went off perfectly with this huge fundraising haul and this feud with the khan family exploding, and you look at the poll numbers, trump is down anywhere when you look at a fourway race between four and eight points. Some might say why not ten to 20 points down. Do you see a sign of froubl here for Hillary Clinton . Trump did start the week after his convention with above after his convention as well. What i think people are feeling is not just the convention bump, but it really was a very different vision for the country and a very different vision to vote for each candidate. Trump went in. It was about himself, about him, nothing else, as he runs everything else. It was about inciting fear. If youre fearful enough, i will be the guy for you. He juks posed that to the democratic convention. Look, the thing clinton had to do, she did accomplish. She didnt put herself in as an alternative to trump, but having a positive vision for the country. For the economy, it was inclusive, diverse. People feel positive about it. The reason we were talking about the khans on friday is because it was an incredibly powerful moment. Ive experienced almost nothing like that, where everybody in the room said this is the kind of america i want. Clearly people at home felt that as well. When trump turned around and attacked them, people you would never expect saying totally unacceptable, hes totally unfit to be commanderinchief. John mccain, vfw. John mccain didnt say he was unfit to be commanderinchief, to be clear. He was not happy about it. I think lit hurt him in the end. How much do you respect do you have for a candidate when you repeatedly say his actions are totally irresponsible and really offensive to a lot of people . Its not just that its the left coming after trump on this. These are gold star families. These are people that have lost their children in honor of the country. To try to write them off or say you can change the narrative, which is i think thats what hes doing by saying, shes the devil, its rigged. Hes trying to change it again. But this is not who you mess with. These people are not political. Its too much. Alex, let me ask you this. This episode, i think we can call it, this feud. It has columnists we saw this this morning both liberal and conservative openly opining, wondering, asking the question if donald trump is dealing with a mental illness. Youve seen that from republican and liberal columnists today. What does that say about this conversation . In fairness to trump, hes never been the favorite of columnists. Aguirre alice burns had a smart piece saying the only way trump can win is ohio, pennsylvania and florida. To me this is pretty simple. You go to those three states, find issues that motivate voters in those states, figure out a way to get to a majority, you hammer that message. You make it sound so simple. It is so simple. Instead, hes in new york, virginia. On his way to california. Right. So he needs to i think this is very simple. Needs to find a way to get to a majority and go do it. Stop wasting time. To be clear, praising alex burns, praising the media is a dangerous tactic. The failing new york time times. Military veterans are a giant constituency. You look at north florida, North Carolina and virginia, you cant win those states if the military Community Turns against you. Were about two minutes away from hearing president obama take the stage. John phillips, trump supporter, you can see the almost joy that president obama takes in engaging in this election, engaging with donald trump. For Trump Supporters and the Trump Campaign, what kind of opponent do you think the president poses . Hes looking for Hillary Clintons first term which would essentially be the third term of the obama administration, his affirmation that hes done a good job. He wants voters to give him that pat on the back. That being said, 69 of the public think the country is going in the wrong direction. I dont know how effective thats necessarily going to be. I guess the Hillary Campaign would assume he can help drive up turnout among minorities which was so effective for them back in 2008. I dont think thats necessarily transferable to her. Alice, while youre critical of how donald trump is handling this feud with the khan parents. What do you think of how his running mate mike pence is handling it . Hes taking a very different tactic in responding to questions about it from a military mom at a rally and also to reporters where he sticks very firmly on message, where he says that donald trump have said i have said captain skaun a hero. Let me stop myself and lets go to the white house with president obama taking the the microphone right now. Once again, im honored to welcome my good friend Prime Minister lee and his delegation back to the white house. Ive been fortunate to work with the Prime Minister throughout my presidency. I always value his insight, his counsel and his outstanding partnership. Let me say our thoughts today are also with the former president and we join the people of singapore in praying for his full and speedy recovery. As president ive rebalanced american Foreign Policy so were playing a larger and longterm role in the Asian Pacific, a region critical to our security and prosperity. As i said this morning, singapore has played a vital role in that rebalance. With singapores support, the United States is engaging more deeply than ever across the region including through asean and the east asia summit. Given the strategic location, singapore is a foundation for stability and peace. Mr. Prime minister, i want to thank you for the invaluable contributions that singapore has made to a central pillar of our Foreign Policy. Today we agreed to continue building on this process. The u. S. And sng pour are united in our commitment to advancing Regional Security and stability. Our defense relationship remains one of the closest in Southeast Asia with hundreds of american ships and aircraft rotating through singapore each year. As i told the Prime Minister, we welcome singapores interest in purchasing the f35 aircraft and well explore the possibility of singapore troops training on guam. At the same time well work to strengthen institutions like asean. We reaffirmed our shared commitment to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully, including in the south china sea. We agreed to do more to encourage Economic Growth and innovation among our economies. With a little over a decade, trade between our two countries has grown more than 50 . Were collaborating to jump start greater Digital Innovation including research and development into technology and data to prove and promote smart cities concepts that can improve the daily lives of our citizens. Well do more to connect our vibrant startup communities so an engineer in singapore can collaborate more easily with a entrepreneur in Silicon Valley or ous tin, texas. With respect to trade, an issue that stirs great passion. Globalization means economies around the world are more integrative than ever and jobs and capital move across borders. Automation means goods and products can be produced with fewer workers. These forces of globalization and technology have not always benefited everybody evenly. There are fears an anxieties that people may be left behind. These anxieties are legitimate. They cant be ignored. They have to be taken seriously. As ive said before, it means we have to do everything we can to make sure everybody shares in prosperity. That we have strong rules to protect workers, to promote high wages, to make sure that our citizens are getting the education and the training that they need. But the answer cannot be to back away from trade in the global economy. It is here to stay. Its not possible to cut ourselves off given how integrated our economies are and try to pull a drawbridge up on trade would only hurt us and our workers. The answer is to make sure globalization and trade is working for us, not against us. Thats why today were reaffirming our commitment to the transpacific partnership. Im a strong supporter of tpp because it will reduce tariffs, taxes basically on american goods, from cars to crops and make it easier for america to export into the Fastest Growing markets in the world. Tpp levels the Playing Field for our workers and helps assure countries abide by strong labor and environmental rules. This is an opportunity to grow our economies and write the rules for trade in the 21st century in a way thats equitable. It gives us a chance to advance american leadership, reduce economic inequality and support good paying jobs, all while strengthens critical strategic relationships in a vital region. So i think not only is tpp important, but the Prime Minister and i agree that we need to extend our partnership beyond just regional efforts. We have work to do on a global scale. Singapore was the first country in Southeast Asia to join the Global Coalition to destroy isil. Were grateful singapore is making new contributions to this effort by providing valuable medical support to coalition forces. As two nations on the forefront of Digital Innovation, we recognize the growing threats of Cyber Attacks and were going to continue to work to strengthen Cyber Security and to promote peaceful norms on how nations should operate in cyberspace. Singapore, the gar dn city, helped to achieve the paris climate agreement last year. Mr. Prime minister, thank you for your commitm