This and i think actually this is kind of old news. It was first reported about seven or eight months ago as i recall. So far as i know it had nothing to do with any hostage swap or any other tit for tat. Donald trump warned his opponent represents four more years of the same. We got our hostages back. Now we find out what we actually paid for the hostages and it was in cash, which is terrible. Because that sets a terrible, terrible precedent. And its justing sickening and you will have four more years of obama if you elect Hillary Clinton. Joining the panel this week, wall street columnists, marianne is that estasia ogrady and brett old news . No, its new and very interesting. Because the Obama Administration never admitted back in january that they had sent 400 million in palettes of euro swiss francs. This is fantastic reporting from our colleagues on the new side of the wall street journal. They say that currency was simply to a technical matter the foreign currency, because they couldnt use dollars in any transactions without violating the sanctions laws. This was a part of this transaction. Whats the evidence that it was ransom . There are incredible coincidences of timing. We had one of the hostages, an american pastor who told fox news that he was sitting in the airport talking to an Iranian Intelligence officer saying why are we waiting to be released . The answer from the intelligence agent was we are awaiting for plane to arrive, presumably it was the plane full of cash. The Obama Administration may lie until its blue in the face. The iranians believe it was ransom, because they have since taken three more hostages. Now theyre demanding even more money. Not only that, going back to that moment, the iranian government. U. S. Officials admitted that the iranian government, even though they were separately negotiating the hostages to the Iran Nuclear Deal admitted that iran wanted some cash in exchange for the hostages. So they could show something tangible . So they can show we got to put the money in the middle of the table. There is also a pattern here, if you go back to what happened between the Obama Administration and cuba, we had an american being held by the cubans on gross. The u. S. Wanted him back and what happened, there was an exchange. Congress would not have allowed it, but president obama allowed four spies to be released and in conjunction with that, he also opened more travel with the island and we got alan gross back. So this is the president s pattern of going around congress to get done what he wants to do. And we dont know how the money was used. Cia director john brennan says the money theyre getting hack used for relatively benign they all said before they know iran supports terrorism. The president s statement with edo not pay ransom for hostages, is the obamas version of i did not have sex with that woman t. Iranians believe it was ran some. The hostage, at least one believes it was ransom and the department of justice believes it looks and seems like a ransom. They were warning about it. Although there isnt a sense it was illegal . The money is held over no a failed fine 79 arms deal with the shaw of iran. The attorney general pointsed out the other day, no, its not illegal, but it sets a dreadful precedent because the iranians have been in the business of taking hostages in exchange for money or political favors, 38 years ago. Dan, despite the claims the president made, a lot of his defenders would say, whether or not he was ransom, get over it. This is something if you wanted to get our people back, you had to do. Besides, if we didnt do it, the Iranian Nuclear deal wasnt going to happen. Therefore, this had to be done. It doesnt look pretty, but so what . I guess what were finding is not only money is fungible, the facts are fungible as well. As to the idea that we rad had to do this to get this invaluable nuclear deal, one was to bring it closer to the western spirit. So we have a relationship with iran. How is that working . Boat the iranian president reporting next week, the iranian president are going to have a meet income azerbaijan to discuss a military relationship. The Russian Ambassador in iran has been defending irans recent missile tests. It is not a violation of the Nuclear Agreement and been touting the new military relationship between iran and russia. This is not the direction that that nuclear deem was supposed to take us in. But thats where were going. Briefly, what about these next hostages, the new hostages . There are three of them. They have been taken since the deal. Yes. And theyre now demanding more money . Yes, in 2009, victims of iranian sponsored terrorism want a settlement to impound 2 billion worth of iranian money, the Supreme Leader is saying we want to get that money. Of course, more hostages will be taken in the future inevitably. They will not return unless we ante exactly. You can expect the Obama Administration or likely the Clinton Administration to do it. Ahead, allies urging donald trump to get back on message, so can he . Our panel weighs in after the break. The campaign is doing really well. Its never been so well united. Mapping the oceans. Where we explore. Protecting biodiversity. Everywhere we work. Defeating malaria. Improving energy efficiency. Developing more clean burning natural gas. My job . My job at exxonmobil . Turning algae into biofuels. Reducing Energy Poverty in the developing world. Making cars go further with less. Fueling the global economy. And you thought we just made the gas. 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I think he has the potential to win the election. I think he has the potential to be a historic president. But to do that, he has to grow into the size of the job and not be stuck where he has been, which frankly has been disheartening over the last week to most of his supporters. But controversies could be taking a toll. A fox news poll Shows Hillary clinton with a tenpoint lead. We are back. And wall street Journal Editorial Board member also joins the panel. So, dan, when future gipg rich, who has been kind of the unofficial trump translator for the Republican Party. When he criticizes donald trump, you know things are going badly. How bad is it . Well, its quite bad. I mean, we had the fox poll. Hes down by ten points and the wall street journal poll. He is down ten points, the marist poll, hes down 15 points. That is not going in the right direction. As newt said, he has the potential. Paul ryan said he won the primaries fair and square. He defeated 16 other candidates. Donald trump has this extraordinary gift for checking to the American People or to some segment of them. He has a ska ris a charisma you simply cant buy, boughting his supporters, why is he using that to attack the khans and john mccain and not using it to take on Hillary Clinton. That is the main bout. Hes got these gifts, he should be using them against his opponent. What is this telling us . He said the election may be rigged, extraordinary for a president ial candidate to basically tell the American People the election might be stolen from them. Thats the kind of thing you hear in third world countries. What is this telling us about trump as a candidate . Well, the main force of his effectiveness in the primaries was to talk to people as if hes on their side and that the establishment, everything concerning the establishment is against them. So the idea that the election is rigged is an extension of that way of thinking and he believes that that is why hes where he is today. So he wants to continue playing it. It also i think his big problem is that hes blaming the media, again, he thinks that that has resonance with the american public. But hes bringing this on himself because hes making it about himself, and hes missing all these opportunities to just talk about jobs, and the economy and terrorism and, instead, it always comes back to donald trump and how someone picked on him and how the media is against him and that just doesnt have a lot of resonance with the broader public. Bill, i have been talking to trump support, some of his advisers, what they say is, look, hes got to get on message. This is a change election. The country is unhappy. They want a change. Hes got to make the case against obamas policies and clintons policies and say i can bring that change and here are three or four ideas that i think will help make your life better and america safer. Its just that simple. Right. Why wont he do it . I think because hes not disciplined. This week i wrote a column likening him to the little rock coach, who is always on high school. The High School Coach. The High School Coach who always goes for it. Never punts. Its a great offense, but donald trump, to do that offense, you dont send your linemen after your own people or in the stands for something, you got to direct it at the opponent and what you mentioned is there is a lot of material for him to work with. The 1. 2 economy the hillary emails, now the iranian deem and hes giving mrs. Clinton a free pass, but worse than this, her best line at the convention i think was a man you can bait with a tweet is not someone you want to trust with nuclear weapons, so the worst thing about this is its playing to her portrayal of him as unhinged and that, so its not just that hes missing the stories that he could be doing, hes confirming the way shes trying to paint him and the polls, you know, at least for the moment, seem to bear her out. And his politics, joe, is so personal. Its all about donald. Right. Democrats want to make this a referendum on donald trump and donald trump seems thrilled that democrats want to talk about his favorite subjects, which, of course, is donald trump. Thats just who he is. And for people who say were being unfair to trump, think, if you look at the transcript of the Washington Post interview he gave this week, it was probably i dont know 30 minutes, 40 minutes. There was not an idea in here. There was not a policy in there. You dont see the trump people defending him on this, its an important statement when someone like newt gipg rich comes out like this, because hes a trump supporter. What is worrying is this is not the first time this message was delivered to him. He doesnt seem capable of changing. I want to hold onto the idea that perhaps he can. But hes heard this over and over and over again and he doesnt respond. Who does he listen to, joe . I think he listens to paul manafort, a variety of talk show hosts, his kids. Does he listen to them enough . Can he stay focused on message . There is only 100 days left. Theres fewer. Can he stay on message . Maybe. I mean, he has to talk about things he talks about instead of the other things that he talks about. I mean, he has raised some of these themes and he actually he had a good fund raising month in july, so there is potential here if he can sort of spear himself in a more constructive direction. All right. Thank you all. Still ahead, forget Hillary Clinton. Donald trump is taking on his fellow republicans . What the continuing feud signals about a broader conservative divide when we come back. Donald trump ramped up his feud with fellow republicans this week, but after a content sus week of fighting within the Republican Party and in a surprising turn of events, the gop nominee decided late friday to endorse House Speaker paul ryan. Ryan is facing a primary challenge on tuesday from wisconsin businessman paul kneeland, who trump recently thanked in a tweet. So correct me if im wrong, mary, he is running against Hillary Clinton, not his fellow republicanswon that battle. Why would he pick a feud like this . He is complaining about members of his own party. If we go back to the convention, you have paul ryan, scott walker, a number of republicans coming to his support. They were there. They supported. Theyve said he won fair and square so we will support him. Right. But he believes, again, that all of his momentum in this is being against the establishment. So anybody who is not on his side has to be branded as a member of the establish. And has to be crushed and without that, what does he have to offer . Nothing . Well, dan, ryan basically endorsed him. Ryan says his endorsement doesnt necessary say he cant take issue with trump from time to time with subjects. Thats what he did with his criticism of the khans, for example. Endorsement doesnt mean a vow of silence. Heres the thing, why does trump not ignore that . And move on . Well, hes marching to his own drummer and everyone in politics has to march to their own drummer, palm. These are politicians running for reelection all across the united states. The rule of thumb as we all know, is at the top of the ticket like in the state senate elections, if at the top of the ticket donald trump falls more than 5 points behind his opponent its hard for the senators to compete. In the current poll in new hampshire, kelly ayotte has fallen ten points behind her opponent. Thats a stunning loss for maggie, for kelly ayotte, who now has to decide whether to stick with trump or to decouple from donald trump. Pat toomey is facing the same thing and raced against katie mcginty. He is trying to struggle to decide if he can stay with trump or follow his conscience. All of these candidates are trying to figure out if donald trump is running as an independent candidate and theyre on their own or whether they should associate with mr. Trumps candidacy . Joe, you have been following the paul ryan primary, which is coming up on tuesday, how much whats going on there . I know i read a lot of money from outside the states come income against ryan, how associated is this with trump, himself in. Its certainly a part of the trump movement. I dont know how much its personally affiliated with donald trump. Some of his supporters, for sure. A lot of his supporters, a lot of his former staffers are helping out paul neiland, laura ingram and coulter, all the trump media organizations are all pulling for him. Look, trump, hes not a policy man. All right. But a lot of his supporters are. What they want to do is purge the ryan wing of the Republican Party and this is a vehicle for that. Based on what issues . Trade, immigration, national security, so i would say those are the big trump themes. If you are a Republican Party that purges the ryan wing. Right. You really dont have a Republican Party . No. I slightly disagree. Im not sure this is driven by issues. Trumps whole thing is on the antiestablishment guy. What i hear from supporters, they love everyone in. In politics with we know, people have big ogoes, the difference with donald trump is hes moved people from a private dislike to public knot nonendorsement or opposition. A lot in his party the problem is, a lot of people in his base like that. You know, they like that. But its not going to help him he already got those people. He has to move to the party. You and i remember when pun pull rain was the insurgent trying to get votes for an insurgent bug reform. I was a rhino. So the point is, this cant help him politically, trump . I mean, if are you going to start purging the speaker of the house because he doesnt agree with you on trade then thats a losers proposition. I think his message is, if me. Going down, im taking you think its that bad . Yeah. I think that again, what did he run on . What brought out the crowds . What made everyone cheer every time his name was mentioned. He was against the establishment. So he really believes this is his one theme that riles everybody up. Hes going with that, if paul ryan wont got on his train, hes going to run the train off the tracks. All right. Thank you, mary, much more to come in this onehour edition of the journal editorial report. Still ahead, Hillary Clinton creating some controversy of her own this week with dubious claims about the fbis investigation into her private email server. Sh it into a tree. Your Insurance Company raises your rates. Maybe you shouldve done more research on them. 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