[John Vause, Cnn Anchor:] Ahead this hour, Donald Trump takes aim at Hillary Clinton again. Critics saying he's gone too far this time. Trump says, "Give me a break."
[Sesay:] The most decorated Olympian ever, does it again, Michael Phelps, wins his 21st gold medal.
[Vause:] And later, an inside look into France's so-called super jihadis and the network which is recruiting young Europeans to fight for
[Isis. Sesay:] Hello and welcome to our viewers around the world, I'm Isha Sesay.
[Vause:] I'm John Vause, great to have you with us, Newsroom L.A. starts right now. Well, his poll numbers had some good news to Democratic Hillary Clinton in two wing states. First, state of Florida where their race remains tight. Quinnipiac University has Clinton with 46 percent of likely voters to Republican's Donald Trump's 45 percent.
[Sesay:] She has more of an edge among Ohio voters, leading Trump's 49 to 45 percent there and she's got a solid 10 point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania. Well, those numbers comes as Trump is the center of another controversy. It began when he attacked Clinton's stand on gun control but then took it a step further.
[Vause:] Sara Murray has what he said and the outrage sparked.
[Sara Murray, Cnn Correspondent:] Donald Trump setting off controversy with another off hand comment when some believe amounts to a violent threat against his political opponent.
[Donald Trump, U.s. Republican Presidential Candidate:] Hillary wants to essentially abolish the second amendment. If she gets to pick her judges nothing you can do folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is I don't know.
[Murray:] Trump suggestion that second amendment voters have the power to stop Clinton instantly raising questions about what the candidate meant, whether he was simply looking to coalesce gun supporters behind him or is he meant something more nefarious. The Clinton campaign quickly seizing on Trump's comment as a sign that GOP nominee is inciting violence. Saying in a statement, "This is simple, what Trump is saying dangerous. A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way." The Trump campaign swiped back, billing the issue as a media driven controversy, and insisting Trump was simply trying to rally gun voters. In a statement the Trump camp says "It's called the power of unification. Second amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified which gives them great political power. And this year they will be voting in record numbers and it won't be for Hillary Clinton. It will be for Donald Trump." But Trump's latest off-the-cuff comment on a week when he was striving to stay on message is exactly the sort of flair up giving members of his own party pawn. The latest defector, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who appended an op-ed saying she will not vote for Trump. The GOP senator even telling Jamie Gangel that Trump poses a risk to the nation.
[Susan Collins, U.s. Senator Republican:] Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous.
[Murray:] Her announcement coming soon after a group of 50 GOP national security official said they can't back Trump either. Arguing he would put at risk our country's national security. Trump quickly dismissed the snub.
[Trump:] These are 50 people that have been running our country forever and they said we can't support Donald Trump. The reason they can't. You know why because I'm not going to hire these people. I don't want these people.
[Murray:] But as he struggle, to keep his party in line and logs in the polls, Trump says the key to victory is more the same.
[Trump:] I've always had a good temperament and it's gotten me here. We beat a lot of people in the primaries and I certainly don't think it's appropriate to start changing all of the a sudden when you've been winning.
[Murray:] As well as finding opening to handler his Democratic opponent. Today, mocking Clinton for saying she short circuited her handling of the e-mail issue.
[Trump:] Could you imagine if I said that I short circuited? They would be calling for my execution, electric chair. They'd bring back the electric chair. It's one thing to make bad decisions, it's another thing to be wacky and make bad decisions.
[Murray:] Now, Donald Trump's second event of the day in North Carolina, he made no mention of the earlier controversy instead just saying the second amendment is under siege. But in a few interviews, he made it clear that he was talking about the political power of second amendment voters, brushed aside the notion that he was talking about violence towards Hillary Clinton or whatsoever. Sara Murray, CNN Fayetteville, North Carolina.
[Sesay:] Well, two more gold to the most decorated Olympian of all time. U.S. swimming superstar, Michael Phelps, led his team to victory in the 4x200 meters freestyle relay, taking home his 21st Olympic gold medal.
[Vause:] Know the bad holes. The big win came soon after Phelps won gold in the men's 200 meter butterfly that was one of his personal to him. Phelps faced off against Chad le Clos, the South African swimmer who beat him at the same event four years ago in London. This time le Clos finished fourth.
[Sesay:] Well, Christina Macfarlane joins us now live from Rio. Christina, good to have you with us once again. You know it's hard to actually fathom the success of Michael Phelps, but more gold and I mean such a special achievement and this time he came with, with some emotion.
[Christina Macfarlane, Cnn World Sportcorrespondent:] That's absolutely right and just an indication as to what, what such a big night this was. In the stands watching on this race last night was half of the men's U.S. basketball team, some of the biggest athletes in the world, some of the most highest paid athletes in the world, Draymond Green, waving their American flags, taking poses on their camera phones and looking like a bunch of school kids out for the day. And it was such spectacle Michael Phelps, the redemption race of his life coming back beating Chad le Clos but being such a big moment in the pool because of where he's come from to get here. Remember back in London 2012, he retired from the game, he said he no longer wanted to swim. He hated getting in the pool and then, on the years that passed after that and have a very turbulent time away from the pool, he had two arrests drunk driving and he was in a really bad place. But now he's turned his life around. He has a new born baby boy and he's back in the pool. And he says when he came here to Rio that he wanted to enjoy it. And that is what we saw last night becoming the oldest individual gold medalist in Olympic swimming history. And when he won that gold in the 200 butterfly last night, he sat up he pointed his finger at the crowd. He indicated that he was number one. And then he came back 15 minutes later and did it all over again with the men's 4x100 meters relay team a superb performance by all full members of that team. Michael Phelps having a slight scary moment when he snapped his swimming cap just before getting in the pool. He quickly managed to grab another one. By this time he completed his fourth lap, you know, the race was over one the many times so well Phelps was so far ahead that he just had to swim home for glory and then the 21 gold of his career really was an exciting scene.
[Vause:] Yeah. You would imagine it will be a long time before someone beats that record. There is also good news for the U.S. women's gymnastics team. Not only are they still the best in the world but they had a best by country mile.
[Macfarlane:] That's absolutely right, John. And the proof of that came last night of course when they obliterated the field in the team event. They actually won clear of by eight points over its nearest rivals Russia who's ended up in silver. That's the biggest margin in open era. And they were faultless. They won every single event, so, so much to say that by the time the star of the team, Simone Biles came out to do her floor teammate, the team that already wraps up gold that Simone Biles of course, looking to become the first gymnast to wins five gold medal in one Olympic games. And this U.S. team now, they've become the first U.S. gymnastics team to win back to back gold medals since Romania did it in 2000 and 2004. And we're going to see plenty more from them of course, because we got all the individual results events to come later this week. But it was so fun to watch them. The gymnastics is one of the true spectacles of the Olympic Games and these ladies are taking it to another level.
[Sesay:] Fantastic stuff, and Christina for the U.S. Olympic glory and also Olympic despair, I'm talking about Serena Williams who was wiped out a match against the Ukrainian. What a shocker.
[Macfarlane:] Absolutely, there's something strange going on down at the tennis this week. You know, we saw Novak Djokovic the world number one out of the completion yesterday and now Serena Williams out. This is not the Serena Williams we know as well. She hit 37 unforced errors earlier, just yesterday and five double faults in one game. I can't remember a match where I've seen her do that. So, she did seem to be clutching her shoulder and indicating to her coach that maybe there was something wrong there. She was of course knocked out to the competition by the world number 20 Elina Svitolina. Svitolina not the type of player who is seen to be causing upsets with many of the women in the top of the game. So Serena Williams is out, that means that she won't become the first player to defend her Olympic gold medal in the Olympic tennis. But Andy Murray is still aiming at the chance of doing that of course, he's still in the competition. And it also means that we won't see the golden slam, which is also a grand slams and the Olympic gold hasn't been done since Steffi Graf back in 1988 and it's not going to be done now.
[Sesay:] Another time maybe.
[Vause:] Yeah. We shall wait. Christina, thank you.
[Sesay:] Thank you.
[Vause:] What's the name of that Ukrainian tennis player again?
[Macfarlane:] Elina Svitolina.
[Sesay:] Elina.
[Vause:] Oh, there we go, that was the one.
[Macfarlane:] Elina Svitolina.
[Vause:] Thank you.
[Sesay:] There you go.
[Vause:] Yeah, it's difficult for me.
[Sesay:] Thank you Christina. Let's take a quick look at the medal count after the fourth day of competition. The United States is in first as you see there, with nine gold medals. China is close behind with eight gold, while both Hungary and Australia, John that one is for you.
[Vause:] Yeah, what's that?
[Sesay:] Was being top 4.
[Vause:] At the early days. Running at the top six Russia and Italy, with three golds each. The U.S. also lead to the eternal number of medals 26 so far. Japanese gymnast Kohei Uchimura competes Wednesday in the men's individual all round event, he lead Japan to the gold in the men's team all-around.
[Sesay:] And he said team gold is what he really wanted and his inspiration sprang from a devastating tragedy that struck his country.
[Kohei Uchimura, Astistic Gymnast:] My name is Kohei Uchimura. And I am an artistic gymnast.
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[Sesay:] We'll have more Olympic news as the games go on. Time for a quick break now. French jihadists are flocking to Syria and Iraq. And authorities say this man "the super Jihadist" is mostly responsible. Details on his recruitment campaign next.
[Vause:] Also ahead details on yet another sexual harassment claim against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.