Most recent publicly released National Polls in the republicans choice for nominee for 2016, trump is leading with 17 . Former Florida Governor jeb bush is second with 14 . Wisconsin Governor Scott walker rounds out the top three with 10 in the most recent Washington Post abc news poll he is way, way ahead of both of those. Lets discuss whats going on. Joining us in our studio is david chalian, political director and Gloria Borger political analyst. The speech he just delivered was a very very direct assault on several of his major remember president ial challengers. Direct personal attacks, wolf. Calling Lindsey Graham an idiot. Giving out his personal cell phone number. I thought it was after Lindsey Graham called him a jackass. Well exactly, exactly. Saying that rick perry wears glasses to make him look smart. He gave out Lindsey Grahams personal cell phone number. Right. Said that has already said that john mccain is a loser. This is not the kind of political debate the Republican Party was hoping to have. These are ad hominem attacks. More like a High School Twitter war than anything else and in long run the question is whether remembers who support him are angry enough to say, okay yeah its fine to call Lindsey Graham an idiot, its fine. But donald trump, david, hes very community have about this. If somebody slaps him, hes going to slap harder, hes going to really punch back. Thats the way hes been throughout his career and if Lindsey Graham calls him a jackass hes going to come back and hit him hard. Which is why were getting foreshadowing for what this debate will look like. This is what the campaigns will figure out because if you take him on in some direct way you have to be ready to receive twice as hard of a hit. This supreme confidence has been his brand. He is doing this fearlessly and unafraid and completely divorced from whatever rules we thought we understood about president ial campaigns and politics. Its served him well in business and right now its serving him well with the electorate. The republican nominating electorate. That poll you cited, that abc news Washington Post poll hes not just a little ahead. Hes got twice as much support. 24 . Hold on i want to play this clip. Here he is going after senator Lindsey Graham who is also a republican president ial candidate. This guy Lindsey Graham gets out and hes out there and he calls me a jackass. Im trying to be nice. Im working hard to be nice but every time i turn on i have i have some guy that is hitting me hard. The reason theyre hitting me, in all fairness, is when you register zero in the poll, what the hell they have nothing to lose right . Then i thought to myself about Lindsey Graham i thought it was a bad statement. You build a fortune, youre a smart guy, im giving up millions of dollars. I had macys terminate a deal because, oh don, youre controversial, talking about illegal immigration. I said its illegal he also said Lindsey Graham couldnt get a job in the private sector if he tried. So the background to all of this is that Lindsey Graham is. John mccains closest friend in the senate has been a huge supporter. John mccain a huge supportier of Lindsey Grahams candidacy for the presidency. John mccain and trump dont get along too well and Lindsey Graham was defending john mccain. He had come out before and in this donald trump is right. The folks who are scratching in the poll they have theres no reason they shouldnt attack donald trump because then they can get a little bit of publicity publicity, get oxygen get in the ring with him a little bit to try and get into that. But from Lindsey Grahams point of view i would have to say that this was more about defending someone he believes is a true American Hero and thats john mccain. And he minced no words in going afterformer Texas Governor rick perry also. Rick perry has been going after donald trump in tough words. He basically said that rick perry is what . He said hes wearing glasses to make himself look smart he said he was terrible on the border then went on to praise perrys successor, governor greg abbot, abbot. I want to go out to the scene, politics reporter mj lee is at the speech in bluffton South Carolina. What kind of reception did he receive, mj . Wolf i think people here were extreme lily excited to see donald trump in action. They said their favorite thing about donald trump is the fact he will say whatever is on his mind. People know he was the host of the apprentice and were excited to see him in person. I know david and gloria talked about the attacks he unleashed on some of his fellow candidate, including rick perry, Lindsey Graham, the fact he read off on stage what he said was Lindsey Grahams cell phone number because he isnt happy with Lindsey Graham these day ss all of those things gave the audience what they were looking for. Here is donald trump speaking at this event moments ago. I was coming up and i see your senator, what a stiff. What a stiff. Lindsey graham. [ laughter and applause ] by the way hes registered zero in the polls. Zero hes on television all the time. So this morning they told me mr. Trump because bush said my tone is not nice. My tone. I said tone . We need tone we need enthusiasm we need tone. Its true. And Hillary Clinton said i dont like his tone. We have people vg their heads cut off, christians in the middle east. Donald trump mincing no words. Joining us is michael cohn Vice President for the Trump Organization and special counsel to donald trump. Michael, thanks for joining us. Does donald trump is regret the initial comments he made about senator john mccain having served as a p. O. W. During the vietnam is war . The answer to that and i discussed this at length on many cnn siege then segment, donald trump did not say anything that should have been taken the way that it was taken by this liberal media what me said specifically four times is that john mccain is a war hero and that john mccain should be acknowledged as a war hero. This is one of the reasons why hes disappointed and angry with the likes of the marco rubio or the rick perrys. Hes angry because theyre looking to grab a soundbite, a distorted soundbite and looking to jump over it in order to give themselves name recognition and tv time. Last night when he was being interviewed by bill oreilly on fox he seemed to back off and maybe acknowledge he should have phrased it better. I assume you saw that interview. I did see it and he did. He wanted to clarify the statement he made. Now unlike many of the other politicians, donald trump does not read off a teleprompter he does not come in with prepared speeches. I watched on your cnn the president just prior to mr. Trumps speech and its beautiful rhetoric by the president. Unfortunately, what it is is its a scripted speech and hes a great orator. Hes not a doer. Its all talk no action. Thats something upsetting to mr. Trump. Is he going to reconsider some of his style . The speech we just heard in South Carolina that was very very tough. Well it may be tough but it was received very well by the audience. I heard many Standing Ovations and there was a lot of applause and laughter. Mr. Trump delivered as you recently stated a great performance and it should be acknowledged. One of the things thats driving mr. Trump to continue speaking negatively about these individuals is that they want to come after him and it only makes sense, hes the frontrunner. He certainly is the frontrunner right now if you believe this latest abc news Washington Post poll. By double digits. Although you notice and a lot of poller the sisters have pointed out, michael, that the final day of the polls, numbers in the aftermath of his comments involving senator john mccain being a p. O. W. And vietnam in the final days his approval numbers significantly went down you noticed that right . See, now youre not being accurate either wolf. The bottom line is i spoke to the individuals and its ballpark about 1 . So instead of being 24 , he would have 25 . Im going to tell you, one thing about mr. Trump, hes unscripted hes genuine and he speaks from the heard and thats exactly what people see and thats why hes resonating so highly in the polls. Mr. Trump see this is country as the land of opportunity and what he tells people and if hes elected he will bring that opportunity to their doorsteps. So hes moving full speed ahead. What are the chances, final question that if the other republicans, including the Republican National committee we saw that statement put out by the rnc criticizing him, that all the republicans sort of gang up on him. Do you think he might run as a thirty party ross perot type president ial candidate . Look, if he does that then theres certainly zero chance for a republican to hold the office of the presidency in this upcoming election. I dont believe that thats going to happen. I believe mr. Trump will become the republican nominee, i believe that he will continue with his open dialogue and he look wolf let me just digress for one split second. Mr. Trump has basically brought out the only two topics right now that anyone are talking about. He talked about the v. A. Which is now what the president spent quite a bit of time talking about. And he budget up the issue of illegal immigration. Now, people want to attack him for a word for a clarification, thats what theyre going to do. But its not helping them and thats demonstrated by yet another poll where donald trump is leading. And as you said by double digits. Heres one final question for you, michael cohn. Its raising a lot of questions right now. In his public speech after going after senator Lindsey Graham who earlier criticized him because of his meants about john mccain, at one point donald trump released the personal private phone number cell phone number of senator Lindsey Graham and basically told the audience out there there were a lot of cameras you got a problem with graham call him. And then he read out his phone number publicly like that. Was that really appropriate . You know i didnt see him do that that. I was trying to watch it live stream on cnn unfortunately they broke away. Thats a question you have to ask mr. Trump, its certainly his number and maybe the whole world has that number already. He is certainly their representative and they have every right to reach out to him. But i will tell you what its inappropriate. Whats inappropriate is Lindsey Grahams comment of donald trump. What he did, again, like that others he took a soundbite, a threesecond soundbite which mr. Trump retracted virtually immediately, almost immediately and four times acknowledged that john mccain is a war hero. Four times. But that wasnt good enough for Lindsey Graham because, as i said the other day on chriss show hes where . Where somewhere less than zero in the polls . So he needs to get tough. He needs to show he wont allow donald trump to be donald trump and he goes out there and tries to grandstand off of his friends war record. Off of john mccain being a p. O. W. What donald trump was saying and theres no question about this hes saying that he has ultimate respect for anyone that puts on fatigue, anyone thats willing to fight for this country is a hero. No different than every Police Officer or firefighter. They are all heroes. Including anyone that puts on their pants in the morning and decides to go to work on behalf of their family. Theyre heroes as well. Theres no reason in the world why one person should be singled out and he should be whats identified as a hero. Anyone that fighters in country a hero in mr. Trumps eyes. Well have to leave it at that. Michael cohen is the executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and special counsel to donald trump. Well continue obviously, to cover this story. Donald trump once again is leading in the National Polls. Hes doing well in the state polls in iowa, new hampshire, elsewhere as well. Thanks very much michael, for joining us. Any time wolf. Coming up much more on donald trump but were following other news here including british police. They now say they have foiled an isisinspired terror attack on u. S. Military personnel. We have details. And authorities now say the evidence increasingly indicates the chattanooga gunmans motive was, in fact terror. 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In twirtd they found writings of abdulazeez in which he makes reference to Anwar Al Awlaki, one of the leaders of al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in yemen and he says he supports certain parts of what al awlaki is talking about. Some of his teachings. More recently on wednesday the day before the shooting he made searches on his phone in which hes looking up martyrdom. So these are things that are playing into the fbis conclusion really. They havent arrived at a full conclusion but theyre increasingly certain that this is definitely a terrorist attack something that was politically motivated based on this suspects radicalization. So he may have been inspired or motivated by antiamerican terror groups like Anwar Al Awlaki al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, thats not isis, aqap, but theres no evidence that it was specifically directed by one individual from that organization or any other terrorist organization. Exactly. Theres no signs so far that theyve found of any direct communications or any kind of direction from any terrorist groups. He spent time in jordan as something that the fbi is looking at and they want to interview more people they want to certainly talk to pe