That americas generals have been, reduced to rubble. I think he was talking about the Commander In Chief reducing the influence of generals to rubble. You know who doesnt agree . Hillary clinton. He trash talks about americas generals saying that theyve been, quote, reduced to rubble. He said he would fire them all and hand pick his own generals because he knows so much about what it takes to be a general. Mark, im going to start with you because donald trump and Hillary Clinton arent holding back attacking each other today. Take a look at this. Let me be clear. Last night was yet another test and donald trump failed yet again. We saw more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be Commander In Chief. Hillary clinton is always complaining about whats wrong. I just watched her on the tarmac. She tried to make up for her horrible performance last night. It was a horrible performance. So she went on the tarmac and told more lies. I think what he said was totally inappropriate and undisciplined. I would never comment on any aspect of an Intelligence Briefing that i received. Shell be saying a a wonderful job shes going to do, shell get your vote and say see ya in four years. She might even say see ya in four years suckers. Theyre making their case again today. Did either candidate come out on top after last night . I dont think so. Hillary clinton was very defensive last night and you could blame that on the format and the timing and how the moderator chose to pursue the Forum Last Night where they were discussing Foreign Policy and terrorism and what have you but donald trump offered no Policy Specifics himself, what really was very broad. Two things came out of it, don. One is donald trump talked about the u. S. Generals and he basically said that they were reduced to rubble, that they had really no influence and no power and was very critical of them. He was also in some ways laudatory of Vladimir Putin and President Obama. Very puzzling. The Pew Research Center did a poll of countries about their views on Vladimir Putin. No surprise, 75 of americans did not think Vladimir Putin would do the right thing when it came to global affairs. I dont know why donald trump is embracing Vladimir Putin. Do you think it hurt him, david geerg rgen, to embrace Vladimir Putin . Its bizarre. Hes one of the most hated men Around The World. I think so far he hasnt paid much of a price for it but the Big Enchilada is coming up. What do you think, dana, about Vladimir Putin, the dictator . I think the most fascinating part of this putin Trump Worldwide Romance Is trump says very explicitly why he says nice things about Vladimir Putin and thats because putin says very nice things about him. Period, end of story. He said it to matt lauer against last night. If Vladimir Putin started saying nasty things about donald trump, its a very different approach. If youre Hillary Clinton and her came pain, the question is really, is that how youre going to approach geo political diplomacy if youre in the white house . Yeah, yeah. The interesting thing is there are populous parties that have grown up all across western europe. There are ten countries where there are major populous parties. Most of them are right wing and all of them are having this romance with Vladimir Putin. Its like the populous authoritarian movements in the United States, the Populous Movement thats leading trump is very similar to whats going on in western europe. This sense that putin is somehow heroic or strong man or hes effective i think is bizarre. Where does that come from . I dont know why. Its clearly giving putin, you know, incentives to keep testing us, to keep pushing because he may get away with it. Dana, why are you saying ahha . Because i think david is exactly right, not only on the mirror that were seeing between what is happening here with the movement backing donald trump and many countries in western europe, but more importantly on the kind of backing thats giving Vladimir Putin. He already has the support from within russia. There are lots of reasons for that but we can put that aside. But for him to have praise from other countries Around The World when if you go back, i remember george w. Bush, what we wanted to do more than anything else was get inside Vladimir Putins head to understand him and the thing that he would say is the most important thing to know is that he wants to restore russia to the time of hundreds of years ago, he wants to be the next peter the great. So for him to have this adulation is what he wants. Youre talking about the electorate in europe and not necessarily the politicians. Here in the United States, politicians and dana, you as well, especially the marquis and establishment politician, they are denouncing what donald trump is saying about Vladimir Putin without denouncing the candidate himself. Isnt it amazing, too, dana bash is out at the Reagan Library and were talking about how the republican nominee is embracing Vladimir Putin at this point. Lets just go back. Remove Vladimir Putin from the discussion last night and you saw donald trump really make a play for the real hard line conservative defense republicans. I mean, that has been his play, what should have been his play, quite frankly, for the past three, four months but that has been his play over the last couple of days. He tried to do it last night as well. Whats also strange and bizarre is donald trump appeared on r. T. This evening, which is the government funded Russian Television thats shown here in the United States. So, which again, i dont know why he would choose to do that either but certainly some strange decision making. Lets move on and talk about Hillary Clinton now. Dana, this is for you. Hillary clinton on that tarmac, that was her First Press Conference in nearly ten months. I was watching it and said, whoa, an impromptu press conference, whats going on . Why now . What is the strategy here . She needs to get her message out. She hasnt needed to do that for various reasons over the past many months. I think one of the main reasons is the clinton campaign, they were very okay with donald trump being the story because he kept stepping in it, frankly. He was perpetuating bad news just because he would talk and that was completely okay with Hillary Clinton campaign and they didnt want to get in the way of that. Now its different. She did spend a lot of august raising money, not on not doing Press Conferences but not really doing a lot of rallies and now it different. Now she has to get out there to be the person to combat donald trump. Its a bar we dont ascribe to other candidates but its true, hes much disciplined now and its making it more competitive and she needs to get out there and they know that. I hate to say many people because it sounds like donald trump but its true, especially people are saying. Yeah, people are saying. Where has this Hillary Clinton been, the one who is transparent now and is Holding Press Conferences . I think shes been too hidden. I think theyve been sitting on their lead. Frankly she seemed rusty last night in that debate. She would have benefitted from taking more questions from supporters. I sort of wonder today, they need to get the rust off, they better do it pretty darn quick. Theyve got to get her in fighting form. Donald trump did pretty well. A lot of people are blaming matt lauer and i think theres a lot of blame that really is the water cooler discussion. Everyone is being much tougher on her and very light on trump but the fact is that trump came out of last night doing pretty well against her and i think thats got to be a wakeup call for the clinton campaign. Do not take this lightly. Do not assume you can walk over this guy in a debate. He did pretty well in the republican debates. You should beat him, the American Public expects youre going to beat him. The cnn poll shows most americans think shell win. I dont think thats good news for her. Youre better off being the underdog. Right. Because that motivates the supporters to go to the polls and say, oh, my god, shes behind. I have so much to get to. I want to ask you, how do you think matt lauer did last night . This was the wrong format for matt lauer. Do you think he was damned if he did and damned if he didnt . Yeah but the good news for hillary coming out of the matt lauer thing is lester holt will be the host for the first debate. He has got to play it very, very fair. Chris wallace from fox said i dont want to call people if they tell a lie. Lester holt will be under heavy pressure, if either candidate lies, you got to call them on it. You have to do it. It very tough when you sit here every night and having interviewed donald trump and many of his surrogates every night, even when you press someone to answer a question specifically, youre seen as biased. I want to talk about this and talk about the polls. At least people know now what Donald Trumps actual stance was on the iraq war because theres been so much news about it because of matt lauer last night. So stand by, everyone, were going to discuss that when we come right back. My eyelove is finding a all yodifferent angle. Plays my eyelove is season 1, episode 1. My eyelove is making a story come alive. Eyelove is all the things we love to do with our eyes. But its also having a chat with your eye doctor about dry eyes that interrupt the things you love. 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Even today afterwards hes saying its true but its not. Theres no proof at all. Sometimes candidates get very stubborn about this, they wont admit the truth, they look like theyre Stone Walling or indifferent. How does this compare to Hillary Clinton and the emails . Is that equal . I must have tell, i dont think shed been as transparent. Shed been a lot better off having dumped all this off. I went through watergate with nixon. You want to survive, be transparent. Get everything out. Dana or mark, do you think hes going to continue to double down on this even though it has been proven false over and over again. Probably. Probably he will. Knowing donald trump and what hes done on other issues where people challenge him to say theres no proof of that, he does double down on it and i think when you talk about the frustration after last night, Hillary Clinton has said it, it was in esquire magazine in 2004, i opposed the iraq war even before it started, except the war started in 2003. And theres an editors note following up on the story and saying it was 2004 and it was after the war began in march of 2003, more than a year before this story ran, thus nullifying trumps timeline and then they wrote about it again. Lets talk about the poll numbers. Its very interesting. A lot of poll numbers to discuss out today from the two Battle Ground states. Bottom line, it is a tight race. Its a tight race. Our cnn orc national poll, a lot of people didnt think it was right. Clearly it was, were starting to see it in the state polls. Weep should be clear, there are a lot more mathematical ways for Hillary Clinton to win this election than drath. He has a very narrow path. Hillary clinton could lose florida and ohio and still win the presidency in november. She is doing better in states such as colorado, nevada, you know, states that republicans they certainly were battleground states. If you look at a state like North Carolina, which has been a reliable republican, has been trending toward becoming a battleground state, that is a problem for donald trump. Virginia pretty much off the board. Tim kahne is on the ticket, another battleground state. When you see states like North Carolina go, you start to look at georgia. When youre playing defense, youre not playing offense in states such as virginia, wisconsin and michigan. It was a fascinating interview i got to watch with governor pence. You asked him about the debate prep, how it went. What did he say to you . I should say i did have a pretty lengthy interview with him talking about the hop topics we discussed in the lost segment. He defended what donald trump has said about Vladimir Putin saying that President Obama that putin is a better leader than obama. He tried to explain what trump said last night about the generals, but at the end when we were Walking Around this library here, pence really wanted to do a tour, we were talking about the fact that Ronald Reagan was a very, very good debater so i asked about his own debate prep and heres what happened. Reporter are you thinking about Ronald Reagan as you get ready for your debates . How are you preparing . Were preparing in a very traditional way. My running mate is a masterful debater. He did a tremendous job in that forum. Im confident hes going to acquit himself well and articulate that bold agenda reporter what about you . How are you preparing . Ive been governor of indiana for the last four years reporter are you doing mock debates . Do you have Somebody Playing tim kaine . We actually do. Ill leak it to you later. Okay. You could be sure i asked for that name many times and i still am, havent gotten it yet. I thought it was interesting that this is yet another example of how mike pence is a traditional candidate. Hes doing this debate prep in a traditional way with somebody as a standin for tim kaine, whereas donald trump so far at least is saying hes not doing that, hes just sitting around the table having discussions with his advisers. Thank you all. I appreciate it. When we come back, were going to talk about this. What is aleppo . Unbelievable, right . And well talk about donald trump, what he says about generals and theyve been reduced to rubble. What will he say when he goes head to head with Hillary Clinton on the debate stage . Well be right back. f ot steps Crickets Chirping jet engine heart beat Water Splashing rain drops Engine Revving tires on wet road the first paint that kills bacteria. Sherwinwilliams paint shield continuously kills 99. 9 of bacteria. Totally breakthrough. Surprisingly the same. And its only avaiblble at sherwinwilliams. 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But i spoke to folks in the military and they say this has all the hallmarks of a nuclear test. One of size of it but also the location of this earthquake, presumably artificial taking place exactly or very close to exactly where north koreas last nuclear test took place.