Government trap. Three of those officers were killed at the scene, three others injured, one of them in Critical Condition and now fighting for his life. Investigators saying the 29yearold shooter was gavin long, a marine veteran from kansas city. They say he may have spent several days staking out the side of the shooting and new that police were often in the area. Jon will car live in baton rouge where hes been following the investigation. Well, whats the latest . Reporter one officer in Critical Condition in the hospital behind me. Authorities tell us hes fighting for his life after he was shot in the head yesterday morning. Three other officers were shot and killed, their names are 41yearold matthew gerald, 45yearold Brad Garafola and 32yearold montrell jackson. Jackson had an emotional perspective from a black Police Officer in baton rouge on social media that heposted over the last week which in part stated , in uniform i did nasty, hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat. Ive experienced so much in my short life and these last three days have tested me to the core. Jackson became a father this year and members of Law Enforcement who spoke to his family at the hospital yesterday tell us that is one of the hardest things theyve ever had to do. Listen to governor john bell edwards. We simply have to do better. And we have to root out this hatred and weve got to stop targeting Police Officers. Reporter as for the suspect, weve learned that he was wearing body armor when he ambushed the officers yesterday morning. Also members of Law Enforcement tell us at this point theyre not ready to say that he acted alone. There have been reports that the government had links to radical groups across the country. I spoke to one highranking member of Law Enforcement, i asked him about that and he said there have been copycat have gone on social media purporting to be the shooter so right now both local and federal authorities are working together to sort out fact from fiction, john . Jon will car reporting live. Melissa americas election headquarters now at the Gop Convention in cleveland, tonights theme is make america safe again. Donald trump working on his speech set for later in the week but his wife melania Takes Center Stage tonight as we learn who will be introducing her. John roberts is live in new york city helping us hold down the fort back here in new york, john . Reporter good morning to you. After the events in baton rouge and dallas a week before that, what happened in france, what happened in orlando, the trunk campaign believes law and order and the National Security is going to be a dominant theme of the election and its one they can draw sharp contrast with Hillary Clinton and barack obama on. Look at what donald trump tweeted out yesterday after president obama gave that press conference in the wake of baton rouge. President obama at a News Conference but he doesnt have a clue. Our country is a divided crime scene and it will only get worse. You mentioned that the theme tonight, make america safe again, the key point in that trunk believes his Immigration Reform and Border Security and thats where his wife melania comes in. She will be talking about her experience here in america, reliable country and reiterate as he has many times before on the campaign trail that she came into this country legally. Donald trump portrayed himself and his running mate might pence as the law and order candidates on 60 minutes. Correspondent leslie stall duo if they are ready to take on the big problems facing the nation and the world today, heres what they said. Where both ready. I have no doubt. They need toughness, we need strength. Obama is weak, hillary is weak and part of it is that, a big part of it. We need law and order, we need strong borders. One of the reasons why i said yes in a heartbeat to run with this man is because he embodies american strength and i know that he will provide that kind of broad shoulders american strength on the global stage as well. Reporter the Trump Campaign is making the point that law and order is not a topic lori clinton can talk about with credibility, particularly after she was so admonished by the fbi over her handling of topsecret emails on that private server. Donald trump will be in cleveland tonight, hes going to be there for melanias address and will be introducing her to the crowd on stage this evening. Melissa . Melissa thank you so much. Jon brandnew numbers in the president ial election. As new National Polls of the race getting tighter. The Washington Post abc news poll has Hillary Clinton ahead with 47 percent Donald Trumps order three percent still puts them within the margin of error. Very similar results in an nbc wall street journal poll which also gives Hillary Clinton the edge 46 to 41. Clinton has a slightly bigger lead in the cnn orc poll where she leads trump 49 to 42 percent. Joining us now, john mccormick, sing writer at the weekly standard. Were getting ready to essentially coordinate donald trump the candidate at the Republican National convention. But the mood of the country in light of the dallas and baton rouge attacks on police , pretty grim right now. Is that the kind of thing that can sway these numbers, john . Reporter its evidence, International Event and certainly could one way or the other. All the holes you mentioned, those were taken after the dallas attack on the Police Officers down there to whether this might take a long time to play we dont know what Hillary Clinton is still ahead, a little bit closer, you will have to see if theres more of a backlash and donald trump is saying hes a law and order candidate. I think emphasized that to be the law and order candidate he needs to bring order to his own campaign. Hes been very erratic, even unstable at times. His First Response this morning was to criticize obamas body language that hes somehow unfriendly to the police. That was more of an irritable mental gesture than an argument. If you want to make an argument, he needs to make an argument and persuade people that he can be a unifier and a law and order candidate. Jon hes been using the phrase make america safe again. Hes referring to those of us who want to go out on the street, Police Officers as well as ordinary citizens and feel like they are safe in their own city. Thats been a big theme and i think it helps that he picked might pass as is running mate. Mike pence is a sober minded candidate, a sober minded politician and in light ofthe other candidates , theyre a little more erratic, a little more trump in their rhetoric so people are reassured that he has a steady hand behind him, someone who has served in congress and held executive office. Jon we had these numbers at the start of this segment. Hillary clinton leading in the polls. Every candidate usually gets something obama out of his or her convention. When they are back to back the way they are, i would expect trumps numbers to elevate this week, maybe Hillary Clintons elevated next week but in terms of the horse race, is really insurmountable . Certainly not. Look at the real clear politics average, all people together, Hillary Clinton is about three points. Mitt romney lost by three points and if she holds out at the election its a blowout in the Electoral College but its not unthinkable especially if events keep going the way they are. Things could change and i think that threepoint lead is easily overtaken. Right nowshes in the lead , the 538 prognosticators give Hillary Clinton a two to one advantage. For trump to have a one in three shots, thats not hitting the powerball, more like winning a dollar or two office out ticket so its not inconceivable she could pull this off. Jon she is tied to the obama administration. Many suggest, many republicans are suggesting that essentially Hillary Clinton would be our third obama term. When the right track, wrong track numbers are so widely spread, Something Like three quarters of americans think the country is on the wrong track, is she going to have a tough sell trying to come up with what some suggest would be a third obama term . I think so. Thats her biggest liability, those right track wrong track numbers would indicate that would be a huge advantage for republicans but the president s job Approval Rating is improved greatly over the last few months as trump has locked up the nomination, thats because a lot of swing voters see obama as preferable to trump. These attacks on Law Enforcement could provide an opportunity, i think theres a to be made that some elected officials have perpetuated this lie that these attacks on innocent black men are more common than they are, there certainly is a real problem, think of Walters Scott in carolina, garner in new york but the idea this is happening on a daytoday basis is untrue and i think the media and politicians need to put that in perspective and be honest and accurate about whats going on. Jon but from your point of view, you think donald trump is not responding in a president ial way . Not so far. I think he has an opportunity to do that tonight in front of all the cameras but the art this morning was that he didnt like obamas body language. Thats just not an argument. If you want to saythat obama , his response to the ferguson shooting was completely inappropriate, i think theres some merit to that. The whole idea of hands up, dont shoot, and i was alive. This was based on live. We know the gentlemanin question was killed , he did not have his hands up. He grabbed the officers gone and ran for the officer but there are cases that innocent black men have been killed. Walter scott, he was running away and got shot in the back. Theres never an excuse for violence but i think a real candidate who wants to unite the country would be able to talk about this in a measured way, condemning violence, standing with the police and talking about the problems that exist but putting them in proper context you want we will see how the voters size up donald trump and mike pence against lori clinton and whoever running mate turns out to be. John mccormick from the weekly standard, thank you. Melissa police releasing new information about the man who shot six officers in baton rouge, three of them. What we are learning about data and lawns pass plus, how donald trump and mike pence responded to questions during the pairs first tv interview together. 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Jon donald trump and mike pence sitting down for their First Television interview together since trump announced the indiana governor will be his running mate. Trump and facing questions about issues they have approached differently in the past like the iraq war and negative campaigning. This is a big man whos been talking about issues the American People care about. But namecalling . In the essay i wrote a long time ago i said campaigns to be about something more important than one candidate selection and this campaign and Donald Trumps candidacy has been about the issues the American People care about. But what about the negative side . Hes apologized for being a negative campaigner. I understand that. Ill give you an example. Lori clinton is a liar. Hillary clinton, that was proven last week. Hillary clinton is a crook. Thats negative. I called her crooked hillary. Jon joining us now with their evaluation of the media reaction to all of this from cleveland, alan combs, close to the alan combs show syndicated by fox news radio in new york, and bruce, radio talkshow host and fox news contributor. First of all, you having fun in cleveland rather conservatives . I had a lovely good metal detection as i walked in, good security. The big l for liberal went off but im safe. Jon so lets talk about what we saw last night, melissa and i were talking about it on the set a moment ago during the commercial break and she said watching twitter, it was like there were two different americas watching this interview, some people loved it, some people hated it. Kenny, lets start with you, what did you think about trump and mike pence on tv for the first time. Trump, its to. Hes a man whos taking care of things on his own for some time. Hes chosen a man who has disagreed with him in the past. I think thats fabulous, it means hes serious about mister mike pence, this is what the left have to worry about. Even if they had walked on water, the left would have complained so the fact that they are unhappy with whats going on tells me this is good news but i think the issue is going to be when mister pence is on his own, when hes giving interviews, its going to exposed to the American People that this edition for americas broadbased, its not just mister trump. When you announces his this week they will see the breadth of this revolution if you will and i think thats where pence, its a different approach but as you noted in the interview they are going in the same direction. Its the same vision with a different approach and you will see at the end of the week quite positive spin to it. Jon as she said alan, you didnt much like it. I dont know how the same vision of two different people as trump said, how is it that hillary does not get a pass on having voted for the iraq war but trump said that pence did. At what point did trump take his hand out of the back of my pence because its funny, when pence spoke, trump slips the move and i thought they would. Hes a great ventriloquist. They didnt seem to be on the same page at all, i didnt see any chemistry there. They stand for different things. Pence is a right down the middle conservative, trump is not. Trump is never a social conservative, they dont agree on many issues and i dont know how theyre going to bring this together and make this work. Jon were goingto hit the pause button for a second and be back to you both. Melissa we want to take you to the white house right now where president obama is awarding the medal of honor right now, lets listen. We are honored to be joined not only by him by also ate of talking dance 10 children , three of their grandchildren. Its the kennels Family Reunion here in the white house. We are also honored to be joined by chucks brothers in arms from vietnam. And some of chucks newest comrades, members of the medal of honor society. May 15 1967, started as a hot monday morning. Soldiers from the hundred and first airborne were battling hundreds of heavily armed north vietnamese in a rural riverbed. Our men were outnumbered. They needed support fast. Helicopters to get the wounded out and bring more soldiers into the fight. Kettles was a kilo pilot and as he volunteered for activeduty on this morning he volunteered his two weeks even though he the danger. They called this place trump valley for a reason. Above the riverbed rows of 1500 foot tall hill and the enemy was dug in toan extensive series of tunnels and bunkers. The ideal spot for an ambush. But chuck jumped into the chop cockpit and took off. Around 9 am this company approached the landing zone and looked down. They should have seen a stand of greentrees. Instead they saw a solid wall of green enemy tracers coming right at them. None of them had ever seen fire that intense. Soldiers and the fellows were hit and killed before they could even leave off but under withering fire, chuck landed his chopper and kept their exposed so the wounded could get on and so that he could fly them back to base. A second time chuck went back into the battle. He dropped off more soldiers and supplies, picked up more wounded. Once more, machine gun bullets and mortar rounds came screaming after. As he took off a second time, around peers the arm and leg of chucks door gunner, roland shank area shook fuel was hit. Fuel was pouring out as he flew away. Chuck had wounded men aboard and decided to take his chances. He landed, found another helicopter and lou roland to the field hospital. By now it was near evening. Back in the riverbed, 44 american soldiers were still pinned down. The air was thick with gunpowder, smells of burning metal and then they heard a faintsound and as the stock son started to set a saw something rise over the horizon. Six american helicopters. As one of them said, as beautiful as could be. For a third time, chuck and his unit headed into that hell onearth. Death or injury was all but certain, a fellow pilot said later and a lesser person would not return. Once again, the enemy unloaded everything they had on chuck as he landed. Small arms