I would say right now, its the best in terms of being united that its been since we began. Were doing incredibly well. Trump has been under fire from members of his own party distracting voters straying off the Hillary Clinton message and seemingly picking fights with other Republican Leaders like House Speaker paul ryan who says hes distressed trump is not focusing all his attacks on Hillary Clinton, but this morning, Donald Trumps campaign chief said theyve righted the ship, and the message is clear. The Campaign Messages are worked out. The themes of this campaign are settled. We know will he follow them, is the question . Well i think he is trying messages out on the campaign trail. Hes been very successful in the primaries. He draws his strength and his messages from the interaction he has with the public, and hes doing that right now. So well see today in portland, maine f donald trump stays on message or whether he strays. Jason carroll, our national correspondent, is there in portland for us. Jason, you were with him in florida yesterday. Does he seem like hes getting more focused . Reporter well it did yesterday in daytona at least for part of his speech, thats for sure. At one point he was hammering clinton on that h400 million payment to iran, and hammering her on her trustworthiness. These are some of the things the gop says this is what we want to see you doing and not other things. Part of his speech, wolf, the reason why, yesterday in daytona he focused on clinton and started to relitigate some of the things we heard before, talking about megyn kelly and whether or not he made fun of a disabled reporter, these are the types of things that the gop says you need to sort of move beyond that but you heard what trump said. He says look, despite what critics are saying, whether its gop or otherwise, he says that this campaign is on track. He says theyre more united than ever, but really, the reality bears something much different than that. You look at whats happening with the gop, clearly there are some problems here that the Campaign Needs to address. They say that his rhetoric is a problem. His inability to stay on message is a problem. They look at what happened with paul ryan, for example, House Speaker paul ryan. They say this is something you didnt need to do by not endorsing him. In fact, paul ryan spoke out about this for the first time and the question was put to him, is there anything that trump could do to make ryan pull back his endorsement of trump . None of these things are ever blank checks. That goes with any situation, in any kind of race, but right now, i think its important that the voters, you know, he won the delegates. He won the thing fair and square. Its just that simple. Reporter ryan also making it clear in that radio interview that, following the rnc convention, wolf, he felt as though what trump has done has been strange and distressing. He really wants trump to stay focused on clinton. That is the best way he and many others in the gop feels he should be moving forward now in the general election. Wolf . Jason, as you know, the Trump Campaign is quick to point out the crowds, as an illustration of Donald Trumps success. They say 10,000, 15,000 people at those two events in florida yesterday. But how many new people based on everything youre seeing are actually coming under that tent, voters hes trying to sway, new voters to support him, as opposed to the fervent base of his support . Reporter well thats a good question and first lets point out, look, it is very clear when you come out to these rallies whether youre in pennsylvania or ohio or yesterday we were in daytona, wolf, the crowds are huge. Theres no question that he has strong support from his base. I spoke to a man yesterday in daytona. You know what this man told me . He said theres nothing trump can say that would make me not vote for this man, but the question is, moving forward in the general election, can he bring in others beyond his base . Can he bring in women . Can he bring in educated whites, latinos, africanamericans and you look at the poll numbers and the poll numbers suggest he needs to do more. He is slipping in the polls, and some key states that he needs to win, places like pennsylvania, for example, so the question is, can he move beyond the crowds that we see here, the supporters that we see here . Clearly it worked for him in the primary, the general election, a much different story. I will tell you this. You hear from the trump camp and what theyll tell you is, polls are polls. They go up and down but the real question will be what happens after labor day and by that point, they expect this campaign to be back where it used to be. Jason carroll hes covering the Trump Campaign in portland, maine, thank you very much. Lets talk more about the message ing from donald trump, backlash from some senior members of the republican party. Here niamalika henderson and manu raju and ryan rogers, washington correspondent for the new yorker. The relationship between donald trump trmp and paul ryan the highest ranking republican out there, the speaker of the house its tense i assume right now after what donald trump said, the response from paul ryan. Though he isnt yet ready to pull i had endorsement. It seems like a hard thing for him to do. He said there of course that donald trump won this thing fair and square. He knows that the people who backed trump in the primary are essentially romney voters, the same sort of run of the mill Republican Voters voting republican all the while, so its hard for him, and i think its hard for a lot of these elected officials particularly elected officials in red states to come out against donald trump and go against their word to endorse donald trump. Theyre in a tough position. There is a republican congressman from colorado, tom kaufman. Hes a republican. Hes actually putting ads out there severely distancing himself from the republican president ial nominee. Watch this. For me, country comes first. My duty is always to you. So if donald trump is president , ill stand up to him, plain and simple. Pretty extraordinary, when you think about it. It really is. Mike kaufman has a difficult reelection race in a colorado, denver suburbs and who comprises that district . We have College Educated whites, hispanics, suburban mothers, all voting blocks where donald trump does not do particularly well so he is working very hard to distance himself from donald trump. Its interesting whether senators can do that. Theyre in more difficult spots even ones in targeted races because they need donald Trump Supporters to come out to the polls at the end of the day, not just the independent voters and swing voters who may be alienated from donald trump but the core donald Trump Supporters. One interesting thing to point out in the New Hampshire poll, kelly ayotte, the New Hampshire senator is now down 10 points in her race largely because of donald trump, but shes in a mind. Donald trump won the New Hampshire primary and he has passionate supporters in that state so a difficult spot that a lot of the republican senators are in, even if they distance themselves from trump. Adam kissinger republican congressman from illinois, hes an iraq war veteran. He made it clear he cant vote for Hillary Clinton but also cant vote for trmp trdonald tr. He was one of the republicans on the fence for a long time, wasnt sure, very antitrump and finally decided hes had enough. He cant vote for him. Trump is in maine today, susan collins, the senator from maine still has not endorsed donald trump, last i heard shes still undecided and was considering still actively considering supporting Hillary Clinton. So we have to wait to see what she decides. I think the bit of leverage trump has with some of the races is not every republican is out of their primary. So if youre paul ryan, hell have an easy primary looks like next week. He probably, if he was ever considering unendorsing trump he probably wants to wait until after that primary is over. John mccain in arizona, not a tough primary but something that his Campaign Staff was always monitoring and worried about. They start early voting right now in august in arizona, and so hes going to wait until labor day until hes clear of his primary, so once all of these republican primaries clear, the elections where the trump voters are the most important i think if trump is still engaged in the same kind of controversies, thats when you might see more of a larger scale movement away from him, if he hasnt, you know, changed. I suspect Republican Leaders and you can confirm this, i know youve been talking to a lot of them, they see kaufman, the congressman from colorado, kinsinger, congressman from illinois moving away interest donald trump, others are distancing themselves. Theyre afraid this going to encourage a bigger avalanche if you will. Let alone what republican elected officials do, who are on the ballot and some facing primaries, some in the tough swing states. What about actual voters . If you look at that fox poll which has Hillary Clinton up by i think ten points, 12 of republicans are thinking they will vote for Hillary Clinton come november. Thats a troubling number. I think its Something Like 3 or 4 for republicans or dpm democrats who might want to vote for Hillary Clinton. This is a problem if they start seeing this actually at the ballot box, and i think according to these polls, a lot of actual voting republicans are having a hard time actually voting for donald trump. Theres no sense that its going to get better if he keeps behaving this way. The paul ryan model is something a lot of republicans are following here, which is to criticize donald trump on key issues and as paul ryan said he views himself as defender of Republican Values and the republican brand, but not unendorse him because they need donald trump to do well even if he loses to do reasonably well so it doesnt wipe out the congressional majority. We do speak to House Republicans all the time, manu, how upset were they in the interview in the Washington Post donald trump said hes not quite ready to endorse the speaker of the house . Very upset. Hes well liked. Hes well liked and won overwhelmingly his speakership. They said why . I talked to tom cole the Oklahoma Republican close to paul ryan. Why are you picking fights with your own party . Focus on Hillary Clinton, thats the one thing that actually you nights us and i think thats why were hearing the Trump Campaign doing some damage control over the last couple of days. Even just from basic electoral strategy, the Trump Campaign is really puzzling. Hes in maine today, hes in portland, maine. Republicans havent won maine in a president ial election since 1988. Nebraska, they split their electoral votes. I know were fighting for every electoral vote, theres one in nebraska, too, but you need to win the industrial midwest first before you concentrate on that single electoral. Susan collins is maine is not going to be at this trump rally today in maine . No, but the governor is a big trump fan, he will page, one of his early backers. Newt gingrich we seem to get some conflicting words from him in the Washington Post said the other day, he said he, referring to trump cannot win the presidency operating the way he is now. She cant be bad enough to elect him if hes determined to make this many mistakes. Trump is helping her to win by proving he is more unacceptable than she is. He later tried to clean things up, tweeting this, media has wildly misinterpreted my critique of a bad week for trump. Trump is vastly better than hillary as president. This is a position Newt Gingrich has been in often. Hell deal out the criticism and. Tull back. He sometimes plays sort of the explainer of donald trump for instance when the russia thing came out and donald trump seemed to call on russia to break into Hillary Clintons emails. He said oh, he was just being sarcastic. So this is his role in some ways to come out, he seems to criticize him, sometimes he gets blowback from donald trump and he pulls it back. So listen, i mean, the think the request he is whether or not anyone is in the position to criticize donald trump and change his behavior. We have much more to assess. Also theres breaking news, were following right now, the 2016 olympic games, more than 100 athletes were just banned from participating in the games. Were going to update you on that and a lot more, when we come back. Nutritional needs. All in one. Purina one. Healthy energy, all in one. Strong muscles, all in one. Highly digestible, and a taste he loves, all in one. Purina one smartblend is expertly blended. With 100 nutrition, 0 fillers, always real meat 1. Lifelong smart nutrition. Its all in one. Purina one. Theres no such thing as adverse discoverconditions. Lexus suv for a limited time get some of our best offers of the year at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. 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The International OlympicCommittee Just announced more than 100 athletes have tested positive for doping and will not be allowed to participate in the olympic games. The 2016 games. While the decision on the russian athletes who have been at the center of this scandal is not expected until later today, russia says it believes 265 and 270 of their athletes will be able to compete. Nick paton walsh is in rio. What else was announced today . Reporter this is a key moment really for the future of russia in these olympic games. Weve always known about 100 were going to get banned. It was 287 or so, the numbers are always hard to precisely track down who were having their cases reviewed by their own separate sporting federations. They were supposed to announce at some point today we thought perhaps later on exactly how many of those 287 were going to get a clean record, a clean bill of health to be allowed to compete. I just heard from a spokesperson for the russian team here that theyve received documents, information that suggests between 265 and 270 of those 287 or so are going to be okay, are going to be allowed to compete in the games. That is a quite substantial victory, you might argue, for the russians. They even go on to suggest the remaining 17 or so, i again say the numbers are never precise the remaining 17 are looking to appeal judgment so may try and still compete. They also point out obviously its the International Olympic committee that make the final ruling. Thats what were waiting for. At this stage this process launched a few weeks ago in which it wasnt going to be the International Olympic committee that made a judgment. It was going to be those separate sporting federations for each sport would have to rule on each russian athletes bill of health. That process has gone massively in russias favor, talking about at least 265 out of 287 having their cases looked at, and now going to compete in the games. So only under about an 8 or so are not going to be allowed to compete. Thats massively gone in their favor and may perhaps leave some to be increasingly critical of the iocs decision to devolve who is working out in the games. This all came about because of substantial massive body of evidence from investigator, whistleblower, antidoping agencies theres been a staterun industrial scale doping problem in russian sports, and that led to this review, and were now going to see instead of the russian team entirely excluded which was something american officials had pushed for, were going to see 100 of the track and field and other athletes banned, a lot of these were big medal hopefuls, big potential shining Success Stories russia wanted to have, theyre not going to have. The others who could have stood a chance theyll have about a 90 success rate in getting through to the games. This will be a very controversial verdict in sporting history. Wolf . When did you say the announcement would be made of this decision . Reporter well were thinking in the hours ahead. Thats what the International Olympic committee is saying. Russian officials giving us information to suggest its going to go pretty massively in their favor. As we get literally within 24 hours or so of the opening ceremony, we still dont know which of the russian athletes that have flown here, about 290 or so im be