We begin this hour with another donald trump controversy. Hes once again distancing himself from some controversial comments. Accept this time they arent comments made by the billionaire front runner but a close adviser to his campaign. Heres our jeff zeleny with more. Reporter Donald Trumps president ial campaign weathered one storm after another. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. Reporter but a new controversy over offensive language is hitting closer to home. Whos doing the raping . Reporter tonight, as he keeps riding high in the polls, his team is trying to clean up another set of comments. This time it has nothing to do with illegal immigration but trumps own marriage. His longtime counsel and spokesman Michael Cohen is under fire for telling the daily beast, you can not rape your spouse. Those five words set off a firestorm. Stunning response to decades old allegation against donald trump. Donald Trumps Campaign is issuing a strong response this morning. Reporter cohen made the comment while trying to keep the daily beast from reprising a 1989 allegation made by trumps first wife ivana. In their Divorce Proceedings she allegedly said that trump once forced her to have sex against her will. A statement she later recanted. Today cohen backtracked saying in my moment of shock and anger i made an inarticulate comment which i do not believe and apologize for entirely. Marital rape is against the law in all 50 states. The Trump Campaign famously unapologetic quickly distanced itself from cohen whos been one of the most prominent faces of trumps candidacy. Trumps Campaign Manager told cnn, Michael Cohen is a corporate employee and is not affiliated with the campaign in any way. In the middle of it all ivana trump issued a statement saying their divorce was a time of very high tension but she added have nothing but fond p fondness for dial and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Mr. Donald trump. This with a week to go before the first republican president ial debate as trumps standing soars. Tonight a new poll of New Hampshire voters shows trump is on top of all gop candidates with twice the support of his nearest rival jeb bush. He is doing well because hes speaking his mind because hes a breath of fresh air. Hes not like all the other politicians who have focus groups and who tell them what to say and how to say it and exactly what words to use. Reporter jeff zeleny cnn, New Hampshire. Cnn spoke to donald trump on tuesday evening to ask about his advisers comments. Trump admitted while he disagreed with Michael Cohens comments regarding marriage and rape hes not going to fire or get rid of him and he said that cohen speaks for himself. Mr. Trump was with also asked about the upcoming president ial debate. Listen. Now this debate is coming up. Are you ready for it . I have absolutely no idea how to answer that question. I am me. I dont have pollsters. I have a lot of money, much more money than all of them put together and all of that of their phony contributions put together but you have to understand i want to be me. They pay pollsters millions and millions of dollars, don. You know that better than anyone and they wont answer your question. You see with jeb bush, with the simple that was asked about iraq. It took five days to get the answer out. I think jeb is probably a nice person. I dont know jeb but i think she probably a nice person. But you cant rely on pollsters every time there is a question. Same thing with Hillary Clinton. I mean, she doesnt want to answer any questions. She doesnt deal with the press. Everything is done by pollsters. And you know my expression is if the pollsters were any good why arent they running for office . Donald you will be on the stage and have a timer and be against the other candidates. Are you preparing . Do you have a debate coach . Are you ready for this . I am what i am. I am what i am. Debate coach, look romney had a debate coach and obama had a debate coach. Frankly i thought obama was terrible but romney got worse with and worse every time there was a debate. By the time they had the third debate he was catastrophic. I dont know what happened to him. I have to be myself. If it is not good enough thats okay. I will go on to other things. I will ride in though sunset and do more buildings and create more jobs and thats okay. Im doing this because i want to make America Great again. Thats why im doing it. I am what i am. Is anybody else going to be able to speak during the debates . Is anyone else going to get a word in . I doubt it. The first debate will be august 6th in cleveland, ohio. On to other stories we are following. Jonathon pollard, a convicted spy for israel will be soon free after spending nearly 30 years in a u. S. Prison. He was a former u. S. Navy Intelligence Analyst sentenced to life behind bars for giving top secret u. S. Government information to israel. Israeli Prime Minister netanyahu said he is pleased with the u. S. Decision and went on to say, quote throughout thiz time in prison i consistently raised the issue of his release in my meetings and conversations with the leadership of successive administrations and we are looking forward to his release. Despite his happiness over pollards release, israelis Prime Minister is strongly opposed to the iran nuclear deal. The sentiment is shared by many americans. Secretary of state john kerry went to capitol hill trying to convince congress they should approve the deal. Irans Supreme Leader sends a chilling message to barack obama. This image portrays the president holding a gun to his own head warning if any war happens the one who will emerge loser is the aggressive and criminal u. S. Only giving fuel to opponents of the nuclear deal. We are presuming iran will change its behavior and that behavior did not change last weekend when they were chanting again death to america. Chairman please with all due respect. Were not presuming any such thing. Theres one objective, make sure they cant get a nuclear weapon. Reporter on capitol hill another bruising for secretary kerry trying to defend the deal against Firm Republican opposition. We stand for america. You represent america. Congressman, i dont need any lessons from you about who i represent. I have represented and fought for our country since i was out of college. God bless you for your service, sir. Dont give me any lessons about that okay. A cnn poll finds 52 of americans Want Congress to reject the deechlt 44 say it should be approved. In africa president obama blamed fast and loose attacks from republican president ial contenders like Mike Huckabee who evoked the holocaust. He is so naive he would trust the iranians and take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. The particular comments of mr. Huckabee are i think part of just a general pattern that we have seen that would be considered ridiculous if it werent so sad. Reporter while the harshest push back to the deal is coming from republicans, the president is struggling to keep his own party on board to override a veto. Even the chairwoman of the Democratic Party is at best noncommittal. There is a lot of merit to the deal but a legitimate cause for concern. I think this is a decision no member of congress should make lightly. Reporter the white house did pick up an important democratic endorsement. Congressman sandy leaven the longestserving jewish member of congress has come out in support of the deal. But senator Chuck Schumer on tap to become the next Senate Majority leader remains undecide. Despite mounting pressure from the president to support it. Cnn, waupg. Washington. Another big story making headlines in the United States. The National Football league upheld a fourgame suspension for tom brady in his role in the deflategate scandal. The commissioner said he tried to hide the evidence destroying his cell phone. Investigators say the phone may have held incriminating Text Messages. A lot of patriot fans upset about this. The controversy started when the patriots were accused of under inflating game balls to get an edge in januarys afc championship game. It seems the bottom line is the cover up is worse than the crime. If brady had come clean right away chances are he may have received a stern talking to and nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Now his legacy and relationshipation are tarnished. Rachel when brady destroyed the cell phone, did he destroy his credibility at the same time . First, i have to make it clear, tom brady had an assistant destroy his cell phone. I dont know whats going on in the tom brady, giselle entourage. Maybe they have cell phone destructor as a position open to them. He claims this is something that is usually done by someone who works for him. That he will switch cell phones and regularly have the cell phone and sim card destroyed for priefs sif reasons. Clerly as much as i am joking around they have a public life. There are people who probably go through their trash wanting to get tidbits on them. It is not so out of the really that this is something he may do or have someone do for him. What is suspicious and got to nfl investigators is that he did it on the day the nfl investigation came to him to meet with him. Thats suspicious especially since he was aware before that day they would want his electronic records. Also in addition i just got to jump in and tell you that a cell phone previous to this fourmonth period that is really in question has surfaced. So the nfl is saying wait if that phone wasnt destroyed why was the important cell phone destroyed . A lot of question marks here. Didnt he have three cell phones and only one was destroyed and the one that was destroyed was the one with the 10,000 Text Messages on it that were pertinent to the investigation. No one can say how many cell phones tom brady has or hasnt had. But the one that was destroyed is the one they wanted to see and at least one other one they found that was not destroyed. Sleelly, brady can argue he was under no obligation to turn the phone over. Absolutely. Will that be the basis of a federal appeal. They will not appeal on any of this stuff, not on the merits of did he or didnt he deflate the footballs. They wont talk about the cell phone. The appeal process will be on the procedure. Thats the only thing you can appeal to an outside federal court. They will make the claim of hey, Roger Goodell and his office made the initial punishment for tom brady. Then and then Roger Goodell was the appeals hearing officer on his own punishment and a witness in the case. So Roger Goodell, the judge was overseeing a Roger Goodell decision while Roger Goodell was with witness in front of Roger Goodell the judge. The collective Bargaining Agreement allowed for that procedure but they will say to a court, hey, laws of the shop which is a labor law in the country that he should not have been allowed to do that. At some point it is too ridiculous. It is especially sad that brady has been done in on what seems to be a really old, dumb rule which is ignored by almost every quarterback . My personal opinion is if you cheat you cheat. All rules are there for a reason and you cant have players decide which are or are not important to follow. That being said this is minor. If it wasnt cheating it is in the smallest way. Not something influencing the outcome of games and you wish that tom brady and the naval could have stopped the train earlier. There are so many ways they could have downgraded this conflict. Instead at every turn more lawyers, more appeals, more arguing and we find ourselves with the most powerful man in american sports, Roger Goodell, facing off against tom brady, the winningest quarterback of the century in a sport that americans hold the most dear. They are on opposite sides of what has really become tawdry. Thank you for your insights. We appreciate it. Thank you. Certainly having that cell phone destroyed it is a cover up like richard nixon, bill clinton, arod. Always a cover up. A fourgame suspension is a big deal. They only play 16 games in the season. Thats why it is a stiff penalty nmplgts texas authorities released hours of video in an effort to quell rumors that sandra bland was dead before she was brought to jail. They say the woman wearing the orange jump suit in the video is sandra sgland she was found dead in her jail cell three days after arrested for a traffic citation on july 10th. Officials say she hanged herself with a plastic bag. Her family and others have questioned that account. Rumors quickly sprefd on social media that bland was in fact dead when this mug shot was taken. Officials say rumors are not true. The new york prison worker who helped two Inmates Escape is facing prison time herself. Joyce mitchell tearfully pleaded guilty. See her wiping her face on tuesday. She pleaded guilty to promoting prison contra brand and facilitating the escape. Charges that could bring up to seven years behind bars. While police searched the for the two men in June Mitchell talked a how she delivered tools to help them break out. She talked about the plot to kill her husband and how she had a sexual relationship with one of the prisoners. Meantime an american dentist is sought in the death of a prize lion in zimbabwe. Walt wither palmer said he hired professional guides and thought it was legal. Zimbabwe Officials Say the 13yearold lion named cecil was killed illegally wchl with ve more on the death and renewed calls to change hunting regulations. Cecil is one of africas best known lions. A major tourist draw for zimbabwe. Police say he was lured out this National Park and killed by an american hunter. Alleging it is this man, dr. Walter palmer an avid Trophy Hunter in his 50s and a dentist from minnesota. In a statement, palmer admits to killing cecil, but he says he didnt know the lions significance and relied on the expertise of local guides. Cecils killing has sparked outrage on social media and renewed calls to ban trophy hunting. This is a very large male. Reporter conservationists have been calling for a ban for years. Just because you want a picture or skin on your wall. To me it is a form of sickness. Does it make you angry . Extremely angry. Reporter she runs a sanctuary in south africa that rescued scores of big cats. Many of them were bred just to be hunted. When he was just a few weeks old, he was taken away from his mother. He was bred to be killed and Trophy Hunters for a gorgeous mane like that will pay tens of thousands of dollars hunting groups say that money can be funneled back in to conservation. But lion numbers are plummeted up to 90 in africa. Wow. Should trophy hunting be a crime . This is murder. It is cold blood killing of creature that can defend. If she can defend we are equal. And other conservationists want the killing of cecil to spark change. David mckenzie, cnn, south africa. We will have more on the story later this hour. We will speak with an animal activist that believes the whole system of selling licenses to raise money to protect endangered species is wrong. Walter palmer said he only knew the identity of the lion after he killed it. 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