Transcripts For CNNW Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 201608

CNNW Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer August 1, 2016

Involved in im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, brand new poll just out Shows Hillary clinton getting a bounce from the Democratic National convention. She regained her lead topping donald trump in a head to head matchup. 52 of 43 . Poll also showes a growing share of americans think clintons policies remove the country in the right direction. But the needle hasnt moved much when it comes to what voters think of clintons honesty and trust worthiness. We are standing by for a Clinton Campaign rally this hour. Donald trump is getting an earful from Top Republicans. Veterans of foreign wars and gold star families. For his clash with the Muslim American parents of a fallen soldier. But trump is making no apologies and in a rally of his own just now he defended his controversial statements on russia and stepped up his attacks on the news media. Ill speak with the Republican National committee chairman, Reince Priebus. Lets get to breaking news, new cnn roc poll showing Hillary Clinton picking up sevenpoint bounce following the Democratic Convention regaining her lead in head to head matchup with donald trump. Thats slightly bigger boost than trump got from the Republican Convention. But the glow may not necessarily last long for either candidate. Political director and chief National Correspondent john king. Let me go to you and talk about the significantians of these numberes. Take a look at where the race was before convention and where the race is now. If you look preconvention, Hillary Clinton was at 45 . Now she is at 52 . Thats that sevenpoint spread youre talking about there. And you can see the fourway matchup. And you see the race is pretty much the same. And you see the same level of bounce approximately for Hillary Clinton. Here is what you need to know. Hillary clinton got a sevenpoint bounce in this poll from her convention. Donald trump got a sixpoint bounce in this poll from his convention. What we dont know is if Hillary Clintons bounce will sustain and so thats why looking ahead, she got the last word of conventions. Does this give her an ability to sustain this bounce or is there a real bounce of those that go up and down. Thats what we saw with donald trump. Going up and down. In the headtohead matchup, at least four candidates in the ballot in all 50 states. But head to head, look at the numberis, and before the convention i want to be specific on this. Hillary clinton at 45 for Democratic Convention. Now at 52. He is down to 43. Thats a pretty significant bump for her. It is. To dave aid point, can she sustain it. Later in 2012 cycle, and the election is pretty quickly to labor day and into the final stretch. Can she sustain and democrats think the bus tour has gotten them National Press and press in key Battle Ground states. And going state by state for the next 99 day answers in ohio and pennsylvania they also think wolf this whole controversy donald trump pickinging a fight with the gold star father, mr. Khan is probably also helping democrats sustain momentum post convention. One key point about the fourway race, this is something it keep in mind. If you look at all four candidates, 24 of americans are saying im not for clinton or trump. Either nor gary jo johnson, jill stein, or no one, someone else, i dont know. 21 of americans are not endured by major nominees tells you there could still be turmoil out there. We is asked voters are you voting more to support Hillary Clinton or deny donald trump. Most say they are voting to support Hillary Clinton, 41 say they are opposing donald trump. And we also asked trump voters, take a look at this, david. Are you voting more to support trump . 47 opposed clinton 50 . What do those number say to you . We asked that question in the spring and about even of people saying that they were voting for her to oppose trump and support clinton. I look at if you are in brooklyn and you say okay one Mission Accomplished for the convention we have more people now energized enthused to go out and support our candidate. Thats a big motivational push on the clinton side. The trump side obviously you would expect in trump Head Quarters to approve numbers and a majority of people support you rather than being reliant upon people going out to vote in opposition. We also asked voters their opinions, john, of Hillary Clinton. Does she have the right experience, registered voters 67 says she has experience. Right experience is she in touch with ordinary americans. Half bb 50 . Will she unite the country . Is she honest and trust worthy . Only 43 . It is a giant character cloud and as Donald Trumps opening because his case is you dont want the status quo, you want change. She is politics as usual. Even worse than politics as usual personally. Thats his only case here. If you look at first number, 67 has the right experience, only 31 view that about donald trump. She can make the case, these are troubled times. You need a steady hand. I immediate the experience, she doesnt. Her super pac friends are hitting donald trump saying he is unfit to be commanderinchief. They are trying to take advantage of her good flashing right. Has experience. In touch with people. Negative for clinton is still there. I talked to a trump adviser who said donald trump is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory under this fight with the gold star father they are trying to inside the Trump Campaign to back off and he wont but their hope and they say that even those that dont like the Trump Campaign can say he can still win that number. Before the Democratic Convention and after the Democratic Convention, before Republican Convention, i should point out, that was two weeks ago, she was at 68 who did not think she was honest and trust worthy. 66 right now, not much difference at all. Look that there. 34 call her honest and trust worthy. She got beat up for a whole weekend in cleveland and what does her convention do . Returns her to the dismal number of 34 . John is right. This is Donald Trumps opening. Not a clean kill of an opening. His numbers havent changed on the honest and trust worthy issue either . No. Only 35 of americans think donald trump is honest. 34 think Hillary Clinton is honest. This is not a love affair. People out there looking at this race and to the point about voting for or against honest and trust worthy, people are not happy with their choicees. This is what they got. Which is why i still say you have to keep an eye on third party candidates. Not that they would win but as they go up and down we have to go state by state and see who it hurts. People are open to looking for new options but bottom line here is these are good numbers for Hillary Clinton coming out of her convention and question is can she pour cement on it. Whats the answer . I dont have an answer for you. Powerball number. But ill tell you this much, they feel it gives a better chance of cementing numbers rather than the new cycle was going in a different direction. More on these new numbers coming up. Thank you very much. Thanks to you, john king. Donald trumps fight with the muslim parents fauflen american soldier is earning him rebukes from old gold star familyes. Veterans of foreign wars and top republicanes. But gop nominee is not backing down as he campaigns in key Battle Ground states. Our senior White House Correspondent is on the campaign trail with him in pennsylvania right now. So for no apology from mr. Trump. Is that right . Thats right, wolf. No apology. Everything swirling around with the khan family, donald trump is not laying low. He will be in one of his targeted states later this evening. He was in ohio. He avoided any mention of the gold star family. The 9 days until election and it is kazir khan, not donald trump, who is all over the air waves. He should listen to america and what world is telling about the remarks. Father of fallen Muslim American soldier in iraq, accusing trump of islama phobia and he hasnt let up demanding that the Republican Party reject its nominee. Enough is enough. Every descent republican has said i apologize if i am a little emotional about this. Every descent republican rebuked his behavior and nobody stood up and said enough. Stop it. You will not be our candidate. Trump who is not one to let an take go unanswer said causing major heartburn inside the gop. Tweeting back mr. Khan who does not know me viciously taked me from the stage of the dnc. And is now all over tv doing the same. Nice. But trump is also hearing back from khans wife after his comments over the weekend. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there with nothing to say. Maybe she wasnt allowed to have anything to say. Her silence at the convention, she told cnn, is due to her grief, not her faith. I can say that my religion, on my family, on pli culture, never stopped me saying whatever i want to say. Without saying a word, i had lots of love. I touched lots of hearts. Democrats are seizing on the controversy from the president. No one has given more for our freedom and security than our gold star familyes. To Hillary Clinton. Mr. Khan, paid the ultimate sacrifice for his family, didnt he . And what has he heard from donald trump . Nothing but insults. Top republicans trump critics john kasich and Lindsey Graham are stepping forward to defend the khan family. Senator john mccain, who felt trumps furry before, released a scathing statement saying i cannot emphasize enough how much i disagree with mr. Trumps statement. I hope americans understand that remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers or candidates. Latest uproar thrushed mike pence into a unique role as running mate from a attack dog into rescue dog. Campaign releasing a statement from the indian governor saying donald trump and i believe that captain khan is an American Hero and his family like all gold star families should be cherished by every american. A top aid tell meg why the mildmann mildmannered governor from indiana brings a balance. And that was long need before this controversy. And donald trump did not talk about the khans earlier today in ohio. We will see if he does it in ohio. Jim acosta, thank you. Up next, the bounce in trumps post convention controversy. Chairman of the National Committee Reince Priebus is standing by. 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That jumped from 43 before to 48 now. The number of voters who said the same about trumps policies and went down from 40 before the conventions to 308 and Republican Convention achieved what was deemed. You may recall wolf a week earlier you were describing Donald Trumps bounce which was the biggest bounce in 16 years after convention. Hillary clinton apparently in the same poll got a bounce i think both parties got about the same bounce out of their convention. And suspecting that we are back to normal numbers here pretty soon and got the convention and now turning into august which tends to be more slower leading into labor day. And keeping momentum going and obviously the polling that you have shown really for us the biggest number is that Hillary Clintons trust worthiness is in the same exact spot as it was before their convention. So they didnt do anything to improve that number. Which is giving the republicans an enormous opportunity, the Washington Post gave her four pinocchios today after claiming that she didnt send any classified information to her emails. So she just got problems. She is in a ditch and cant get out and we have to make the case on our side that were a bet are option than she is. Still in that twoperson race, she is right now 52 . Donald trumps at 43 . And but thats reflects the bounce she got out of the convention. Instead of coming out of the convention though unified and talking about Donald Trumps vision for the future, vision for the country, we have heard prominent members of the Republican Party condemn his remarks on the khan family, senator mccain, as you know, senator representative thornberry, chairman of the Armed Service answers jeb bush and Lindsey Graham among others, they thought his remarks about the family were disrespectful. Do you agree with that . Here is what i think. I think our gold star families are precious and they are to be honored and love end cherished and i think that it is something that we believe in as a party. So yeah, i think his family should be off limits and i love them and i cant imagine being the father after little girl and boy going through the unbelievable grief of them not coming home one day in battle. And there is just nothing more sacrificial than that. And we believe that and we know that and i believe that donald trump and mike pence also know and understand that and so, look, there is nothing but honor and respect for this family and all families that go through these types of horrific things in their life and it is an unbelievable place to come from and that where i think that we just, we dont go there and i dont go there. Trump went there, he said he went there because he was supposedly in his words viciously attacked by the khan family. Do you agree that that family viciously attacked him . Well, look, i mean, donald trump is going to speak for donald trump. I mean, he want to defend himself and it is understandable. But look, like i said before, this is a family that is grieving and they have a right to and then we have a and we have an obligation to honor them and love them and to cherish them and thats where im thats where i come from. Thats where our party is coming from. Wouldnt it have been better if donald trump wouldnt have simply said anything about this gri grieving family . Look, hindsight is 20 20. But obviously i am who i am and im talking for the party and i believe that these families, these gold star families are off limits and they are to be loved and cherished an honored. Should he apologize to this family . You know, look, it is up to donald trump. I love these families. Our party loves these familyes. And like i said before, they are heros. They are cherished. And i mean, everything you can imagine. It is just an unbelievable burden to carry and you know, whatever sacrifices that i think ive made or whatever sacrifices you think youve made, wolf, there are crumbs on the floor compared to these families. Of course, i totally agree. As you know veterans of foreign wars, countryes a largest Major Veterans Organization said in Statement Today and i will read it to you. He said these are certain there are certain subjects that no amount of word smithing can repair once crossed. Do you expect these veterans, military families, do

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