An unprecedented move by fox, apologizing for alleged actual harassment, and paying out a 20 million settlement. Now other top Network Stars are jumping ship, and ailes assumes an informal role. And unimaginable. An unimaginable disaster as kim jongun is calling for more Nuclear Weapons as he brapraise the latest missile launches. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. The race for the white house is now a virtual tide. Our exclusive new ornc National Poll shows the lead over donald trump is evaporating with the g. O. P. Nominee two months ahead. That puts the candidates neck and neck just nine weeks before election day. Clinton has launched a new attack against donald trump over his donation by his foundation to a group backing Florida Attorney general pam bondi. They deemed the gift illegal and trump had to pay a fine. They think he donated hoping to discourage her from investigating trump university. And a 20 million settlement for gretchen carlson. In the fallout, greta van susgren saying she is leaving fox after 20 years. Also following fiery new rhetoric by kim jongun. He is railing against joint military exercises by the United States, south korea, and threatening to unleash what he is calling unimaginable disaster. He is also vowing to step up his drive for Nuclear Weapons and warns an atomic attack could be coming at this time. Correspondents and expert analysts are also standing by. Well take a closer look at our exclusive new poll. First, lets bring in sarah murray who is following the Trump Campaign for us. Donald trump is very pleased with this new poll. Trump is pleased, but he is still trailing Hillary Clinton on the question of who is best prepared to be commander and chief. That may be why we saw him hammering home his National Security message that looked like a very Public Session of debate prep. The president ial race hat become a dead heat. Putin looks at clinton and laughs. He says he has a secret plan to defeat isis, but the secret is he has no plan. We have problems, folks. We have to figure it out. We have to be careful, vigilant, and strong. A new poll shows hill trailing Hillary Clinton by five points on the commander and chief test, trump appearing with general Michael Flynn as he slammed cliptons leadership abilities and calls for closer ties with russia. Wouldnt it be nice if we got along with russia. We have to get along with certain nations, very important, it would be good to have russia and others with us on major attacks on isis. Also rolling out 88 retired military leaders saying their backing the bombastic millionaire. I think theyre working in the right direction. Some of the people on his campaign reached out to me. Amid the National Security focus, trump is still facing scrutiny. Through his Charitable Foundation to a group backing the Florida Attorney general pam bondi in 2013. The Washington Post said the irs fined trump for the improper donation. She dropped the investigation, but trump says that was not the goal of the investigation insisting they never spoke about it. He is a fine person, never soak to her about it. The American People deserve to know. The attorney general did not proceed with the investigation. Both sides are saying they did have that conversation. She asked donald trump for a koe nation. She knew her information was looking into it at the time. They also say that they did speak about that donation, but not about trump university. Thank you very much. Lets get more on our exclusive new orc poll showing donald trump and Hillary Clinton locked in a virtual tie. Clinton has 43 . Third Party Candidates are in single digits. Lets dig deeper. David, what else do the polls indicate. Lets first look at the key independent voters. Donald trump is besting Hillary Clinton by 20 points, 49 to 29 . You see gary johnson there with 16, and jill stein with six. Remember mitt romney won independent voters by five points, but he still lost the election, a 20 point gap among voters. Now look at the next fact vor. Looking at the state of the race. Enthusiasm. Take a look at this finding, wolf. 58 of donald trump voters tell us in this poll theyre very or extremely enthusiastienthusiast. Only 46 of Hillary Clinton supporters say the same thing nap is a big gap there. That is something that the clinton folks will want to work on if they want the kind of turnout theyre trying to get from this election. And the honest and trust worth aniness. Something that is dogging Hillary Clinton. Take a look when we ask about who is more honest and trust worthy. It is clearly turning into a disadvantage for Hillary Clinton and you see donald trump trying to take advantage all of the time on the campaign trail. Putting all of this into a perspective, this was a National Poll. The election will be run in the battleground states. What is that picture looking like right now . It is a really important question. We all know you win the white house by the state by state battle in those battleground states. You see there, the election, if it was to come out, Hillary Clinton would be elected president. Nothing in this poll out today says trumps path to 270 votes got easier. We will be on the lookout for more state polling in the days ahead. Right now she has an advantage in nearly every battleground state. David, thank you very much. Supporting donald trump, the first member of congress to endorse trump, im going to get through all of that, lets clear up right now the issue, and Hillary Clinton made a big deal of it today. The 25,000 donation that donald trump gave to pam bondi when they were looking into the trump university. They insist there was nothing wrong, but it looks like a moment, and the accusation is pay for play. You give a member of congress you give a politician some money and they do something for you. Hillary clinton is desperate at this point in time. He took a double digit behind in the polls. And Hillary Clinton is doing what they teach you in politics 101. Im not surprised in the least. What mr. Trump did, it pales in comparison. So this is not surprising, she will continue, Hillary Clinton will, to attack donald trump on every front because she cant defend the indefensible. He used to say i would give democrats and republicans thats how you get things done, you give them money, it sounds like in this particular case, he didnt want florida to get involved. She was the attorney general i will say there was no quid pro quo here. Nothing of the source. She asked for a donation, clearly it was not something that should have been done. She paid a fine of 2500. This was a distraction from the drip drip drip, and now donald trump is clearly in the lead. He seems to be shifting his position on immigration here in the United States and the undocumented immigrants in the United States. It seems apparently moving closer to your position. Let me just give you the background right now. In the latest interview, he said this about undocumented immigrants getting a legal status in the United States without necessarily leaving the country. He says im going to, by the time we have a secure border, well have a wall. What is he suggesting here . He seems to be going back and forth on the sensitive issue. He says he will get e verify up and running. It could take a couple years, will deal with the 10 million or 11 Million Immigrants that are law abiding. And here is the call i have hear for six months. Lets give the visas, working with the government let the employer control the visa. Let him get his work force. Let the employer, and if he has current workers on his farm. And they would not go back across the border. There is no path way, there is a path way to a legal status. That is the kind of discussion congress can have with president trump, a couple years down the road. There will be no deportation force. Trying to round these folks up. A criminal element. All americans would say lets get them out of there. Once we know we have secured the border. The only way to get legal status and citizenship is for them to apply legally. Some of them are able to stay here, and they say maybe i will. They can leave the country if they want citizenship. I think this is mr. Trump saying he will work with congress. And many of us in Congress Share the concept i have with figuring out a way to process these folks, get them out of the shadows, and move forward with a league workforce. I know you and i disagree on the sensitive issue. We hope so. To discuss more, well take a quick break and be right back. [engine revving] want to know what makes us, us . 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Is he trying to capitalize on the fact that there has never been a woman president . When you see her what, someone looking president ial, i dont think she has a president ial look, what does that have to do with her qualifications to be president of the United States . I think the irony is the liberal press said that mr. Trump did not look president ial. He is looking more president ial. He was criticized for months and months by not looking president ial. When the press said that, it was not because of the way he looked, it was because of the substance of what he was saying and how he was acting. I would say the same thing here. He is not talking about the way she looks physically, he is talking not unlike what the press said about him, she is not suitable given her character flaws, she does not present herself in a way that she would be a true counter. I would not read anything more into that than the same criticism that was coming at donald trump the last six months. One final thing, and it is sort of related. 2 21st century fox, they have now reached a settlement with gretchen carlson. I dont think you need to use the word alleged any more. It has not been adjudicated in court or anything like that, he is now an official advisor to trump, is that appropriate . I cant speak to who is advising him or not. Certainly that behavior is it a liability. I use the word allegedly, you didnt, sexually harassing gretchen carlson. You cant condone his behavior, so we need to win to coach it conservative, move our country in oath direction. If there is an expert out there to give him advice. He is very smart, but is it appropriate for him to be flying in trumps plane, and would you want someone like him giving you advice . No. Okay, a blunt answer, thats why we like having you on the show. Were going to talk about trumps lead coming up, and roger ailes advising trump. And how much influence is he actually haves on the Trump Campaign . 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He seems to be creeping up in this poll a little bit i look at this like Hillary Clinton had a very successful conference. Trump was spiraling over this controversy with the kahn family. I think what were seeing now is a return to what both campaigns expect to be, a close election in the fall. Trump seems to be making his position more confusioniing on illegal immigration. Is he deliberately muddling his position right now in order to win Political Support . First of all, an under statement to say they are muddying it. I think what is happening within in the Trump Campaign is there is a power struggle about how to address this issue and there are those within the Trump Campaign that want him to take a hardline position, wolf, on this, and we saw this after that trip to mexico. It seems very magnanamous. I think for donald trump right now, the last person he is listening to is probably influencing what is going on with the press. In terms of our new poll, he turned things around rather dramatically he has the 25,000 contribution to his Charitable Foundation when she was thinking, or officials were thinking about participating in a lawsuit against trump university. The Charitable Foundation had to pay a pine that was an illegal political contribution. How much of a problem is this for trump. I think considering that donald trump has been out on the campaign trail, when it comes to the Clinton Foundation, this raises serious questions. I will point out that i was speaking with hope hicks today, and she said this contribution was legitimate, sent to the wrong group after a series of errors. It has since been corrected. They used the word legitimate. They dont consider this contribution to be a mistake, they think it was legitimate they paid 2500 to the irs as a penalty. They paid a fine to the irs to clear it up, but donald trump has mainly raised the issue himself. So it is only fair game for these questions to be asked for the Trump Campaign. Im anxious to get your opinion, does not have in the world a president ial look. You heard what Chris Collins had to say, is there a sexist hmt to it . That trump is widely accused of . It is hard to know what donald trump means. But the Clinton Campaign as you expect is certainly pushing that interpretation of this remark. Pushing back saying donald trump was wrong to say this. It could be that donald trump is hitting that Hillary Clinton is too weak to be a president , doesnt have the stamina. So there are plenty of interpretations, one of them of course that she is a woman and of course a woman doesnt look like a president because there has not been a female president before. Hillary raised this yesterday, and then left it, and said ill leave it to you all to figure out what it means. But she introduced that she heard it was said. And donald trump being so vague all of the time. Saying things without considering the weight of his words. And it is also dangerous for us to interpret what donald trump means. I didnt interpret him as saying it was because she was a female, but he does throw these things out and steps back. He made a similar remark about carly fiorina. I think he got an understanding today that if he tries to push this sort of comment during the fall debates, for example, coming up in a few weeks when he said look at that face. Exactly, not having a president ial look. Yeah, that was carly fiorina. And the settlement of a Sexual Harassment lawsuit. Amazing sleep stays with you all day and all night. Sleep number