Putins play. New questions about his possible influence over donald trump after he takes his praise of putin to a Surprising New level that his opponent calls scary. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton exchanging fierce new attacks portraying one another fit to be Commander In Chief. Trump accuses clinton of a criminal cover up in her email controversy and producing policies that produce ruin and death. Trump trying to shift the focus to clintons controversy as he faces new criticism for remarks he made during a National Security forum overnight. Clinton is ratcheting up her rhetoric as the race against trump tightens. She claims that isis is rooting for trump to win the presidency. She slams trump for trash talking about americas generals when he said u. S. Military leaders have been reduced to rubble under President Obama. Pence also is standing behind trumps claim that russias Vladmir Putin is a stronger leader than President Obama. Hillary clinton is calling trumps praise of putin scary and unpatriotic. Ill talk about all this with the leading house republican. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by as we bring you the full coverage of todays top story. Sarah murray in ohio where trump has been campaigning. Whats the latest . Wolf, trumps set out to talk about Education Policy today in ohio but he could not help rehashing some of those issues that came up during last nights security forum. He insisted he was an early opponent to the war in iraq despite evidence to the contrary and didnt pass up the opportunity to lay into clinton over her use of the email server. Waging warfare over who is qualified to serve as Commander In Chief. Last night was another test a and donald trump failed again. Reporter trump launching into a lengthy defense today. I opposed going in, and i did oppose it despite the media saying yes, no, yes. I oppose going in. Reporter theres no evidence to prove his early opposition. In fact, his earliest public statements suggests he supported the war. As for clinton, she took to the tarmac today denouncing trumps preference for Vladmir Putin over President Obama. Thats not just unpatriotic and insulting to the people of our country, as well as to our Commander In Chief, its scary because It Signatures he will let putin do whatever putin wants to do. Then make excuses for him. Reporter thats after trump lavished praise on putin wednesday night. I think i would have a very Good Relationship with putin. Hes been a leader far more than our president has been a leader. Reporter clinton also taking task of him offering details. He says the plan is still a secret but he doesnt have one. Thats not only danger but should be disqualifying. Reporter trump explains he has plan. Hes just not ready to reveal it. I have a substantial chance of winning. If i win, i dont want to broadcast to the enemy what my plan is. Reporter the gop nominee saying hell rely on the input of generals to help craft his antiterrorism agenda. I think under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where its embarrassing for our country. Reporter as clinton seized on the moment to lash out against trumps temperament. We saw evidence thats hes unfit and totally unqualifiered to be Commander In Chief. He trash talked american generals. Reporter trump also generating controversy last night for standing by this tweet for Sexual Assault in the military. In 2013 on this subject, you tweeted this, quote, 26,000 unreported Sexual Assaults in the military. Only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men and women together. Its a correct tweet. Reporter trump says he left with the impression the Intelligence Community isnt pleased with the obama administration. I have pretty good with the Body Language. I could tell they were not happy. Reporter an assessment clinton scoffed at. I think what he said was totally inappropriate and undisciplined. I would never comment on any aspect of an Intelligence Briefing that i received. Reporter now donald trump did eventually turn to Education Policy today but there were a few awkward moment whence talking about the threat of terrorism when he was calling Hillary Clinton a liar when it came to the way she used her private email server all at a Charter School of cleveland in front of a couple of rows of children. Thank you. Lets go to brianna keilar. Whats the latest there . Hillary clinton still had to address her emails and not put this issue to rest. Today taking questions about why shes taken the option of conventional forces on the ground in iraq or syria to fight isis before even, perhaps, winning the election before she taking this off the table before she would step foot in the white house. Reporter Hillary Clinton still sensitive to liberal worries about her iraq vote made a promise to voters. Were not putting Ground Troops into iraq ever again and were not putting Ground Troops into syria. Were going to defeat isis without committing american Ground Troops. Reporter today shes facing questions about whether shes ignoring the fact that Special Forces are already in combat in iraq and syria. And if shes restricting her options for defeating isis. I think putting a big contention of american Ground Troops on the ground in iraq and syria would not be in best interest of the fight against isis and other terrorist groups. I think it would fulfill one of their dearest wishes, which is to drag the United States back into a ground war in that region. Reporter clinton is criticizing donald trump for a lack of command when it comes to Foreign Policy and National Security concerns. Its like hes living in his own celebrity reality tv program. You know what, donald, this is real reality. This is real people. This is real decisions that have to be made. Reporter President Obama providing back up from his foreign troop to laos. I dont think the guy is qualified to be president of the United States and every time he speaks that opinion is confirmed. Wow. Reporter clinton is again tangled up in her email controversy for parsing words about whether she and aides transmitted Classified Information through her unclassified email system. She did the fbi, said, but clinton offered this defense. There were no headers. There was no statement, top secret, secret or confidential. I communicated about classified material on a wholly separate system. I took it very seriously. Reporter just as she took the military issues forum. Too seriously, according to the head of the rnc. Priebus tweeted Hillary Clinton was angry and defensive the entire time. No smile and uncomfortable. Upset she was caught wrongly sending our secrets. I dont think take anything seriously that comes from the rnc. We were talking about serious issues last night. Reporter perhaps the part from last night that most frustrated the Clinton Campaign was when donald trump said i was totally against the war in iraq. A statement that is false and there was no pushback. In fact, Hillary Clinton putting out an email, her campaign putting out a fund raising email imploring people to make donations. The subject of it, matt lauer who was the moderator and it accuses him of failing to fact check donald trump who did not voice concern about the war in iraq until the tide of Public Opinion was really already turning and it says many outlets lack the wherewithal to call him out saying the campaign will be responsible for Fact Checking and that will require resources meaning money. Thanks very much. Lets talk about the president ial race with the leading republican in the congress in the last hour. We were joined by congressman duncan hunter. Hes a strong donald trump supporter. Right now Adam Kinsinger is here in the Situation Room. Thanks for much for coming in. Thank ys. You said you dont see how you could support donald trump in part because you said i dont know what he stands for in Foreign Policy. Has he done anything since then to reassure you that would enable you to support him . Not yet. The one thing i wish he was inconsistent on is the area of russia. Hes been consistent. That is an admiration for a very brutal leader. Keep in mind somebody thats been, believe has killed journalist and put down political oppositions and occupies neighboring territory and holds up the Iranian Regime and the Syrian Regime to kill half a million people. They, themselves, the russians bomb medical facilities and innocent civilians. I dont have any i dont think putin is reacting out of strength. I think he reacts and does what he does out of weakness. Any admiration for this guy is extremely disappointing. You served add Commander In Chief in the wars and iraq and afghanistan. Who, in your opinion, would make a better Commander In Chief . Donald trump or Hillary Clinton. Its always a tough one to answer. I havent seen much from donald trump that says he would be a great Commander In Chief when we talk about syria, isis and russia. At the same token, i have the same response for Hillary Clinton. I agreed with going into libya. I think it needed to happen but the idea of leading from behind and the lack of follow up that occurred after that was also disappointing. I think this exchange of ideas between the two is good. It brings Foreign Policy to the forefront. This is something that hopefully over the next couple of months through the debates and everything else, they can really explore these issues and the American People can see what theyre made of, including me. There seems to be a disconnect between trump and his top military advisor, michael flynn. I spoke with him here in the Situation Room yesterday. I want to play these two clips. The exchange i had with the general followed by what trump said at the forum last night. Do you have confidence in the current leadership in the u. S. Military with drumpl accept them or would he want new generals . I think we have all the confidence in the world in the Military Leaders that we have. These are lifelong servants, courageous people who have given it all, and i think what they need to be able to do is unleash our military capabilities as well as other capabilities that we have inside our Government System in the Intelligence Community and some other capabilities that we have to be able to really go after and defeat this enemy. Get this thing over with. Youre going to convene a panel of generals and youve already said you know more about isis than those generals. Theyd probably be different generals. Im looking at the generals today you probably saw, i have a piece of paper i could show it. 88 generals endorsed me today. Those are all retired admirals and generals. When he says hed have a whole bunch of new general, that doesnt express confidence in the current batch. It doesnt. This is unfortunate. He had a good teleprompter speech. To say youre going to fire all the generals. A new commander can fire them and make changes but say they have been reduced to rubble and youll fire them all does a disservice to the men and women that serve with stars on their shoulders. When he said he knows more about isis than the generals do, how do they react . We laugh about it. Its obviously not true. He doesnt know more about isis than the military. The military has been studying this issue for a long time. Many of these generals and high ranking officers and people in military for a while have been engaging the predecessor of isis, al qaeda and iraq. I dont think he knows more than the generals. Youre a republican. Let me ask you about the Hillary Clinton statements. She doubled down this morning saying she would never, ever allow u. S. Combat Ground Troops into iraq or syria. She said that very clearly. Maybe some special force, drone strikes, air strikes but no more u. S. Combat troops on the ground in iraq and syria. Was that smart of her to say that . 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Theres a real sanctity in that and the other thing unless hes a Body Language expert, i dont think thats appropriate to say. Youre still in the military just a couple of weeks this the reserves. A tweet came up that he tweeted back in 2013 on Sexual Assault in the military. 26,000 unreported Sexual Assaults in the military. Only 238 convictions. What did these genuises expect when they put men and women together. Theres 200,000 women serving in the military right now. When you see that, what do these