july 4th. >> "with all due respect" to the staff members leaving donald trump's campaign, are you sick already?g >> on our show tonight, a swing dance. supreme court encore. a special performance by johnny. first, the attorney general or was lynch changed key she singing offpitch to begin with? the ag acknowledging the poor

optics of her private meeting this week willon accept whatever investigation about anys make chance of indictments in the clinton'sillary private e-mail. the story suggested that lynch would essentially move herself from the case. a firestorm. i was on morning t.v. news talking about this story, and i a word, contacted by a justice department official, who suggested that the times story was incorrect in at least one critical respect. this official said that lynch the right torving overrule what the justice department prosecutors and f.b.i. recommended. that the probability of that happening was, according quote, very,ial, very low. >> and to make things a little more confusing, lynch appeared the aspen ideas festival in colorado where she expressed some regret about her chat with the former president. she also seemed to send mixed about her exact role in

the ongoing investigation. here's lynch suggesting that is like anygation other case and that her role has indeed in fact not changed. >> as i've always indicated, the matter is being handled by career agents and investigators of justice.artment they've had it since the beginning and they are acting independently. law.follow the they follow the facts. they will make recommendations thosehow to resolve what facts lead to. the recommendations will be supervisorscareer in the department of justice and in the f.b.i. and by the f.b.i. director. the commons is process, they present it to me. and i fully expect to accept their recommendations. >> but when pressed in that conversation, lynch muddied the water a bit more by suggesting that she would defer to prosecutors and f.b.i. investigators. >> while i don't have a role in those findings, in coming up or making findings those recommendations as to how to go forward, i'll be briefed on it. be accepting their recommendations.

i'll be informed of those findings, as opposed to never reading them or never seeing them. but i will be accepting their recommendations and their plan for going forward. >> now, mark, i was sitting next to you on morning t.v. and, of the times reported it. then you spoke to d.o.j. and well, maybe there is a little wiggle room. later in the day, no wiggle room. confused. is there any wiggle left? >> the proper way for her to exactlyhis would be what her aide told me. the way she said it, which is defer to the prosecutors, the career people and the f.b.i., probably do what they do. in her judgment as attorney general, they made the wrong recommendation, to change it. that's what she wants to do. this cover story about how this is some special plan for this procedure.s standard what she's doing, i think, is caving to the pressure, after the meeting with bill clinton, to pretend and try to have it both ways and say i'm just gonna recommendations.

>> it's basically, look, she clearly made a mistake, he made a mistake. look, nothing happened in that meeting. purely social. my role as attorney general is i say.ve final that is my job. in the overwhelming amount of i will go with my people. i will not interfere. other case,ke any my role will not change in a 20-minute meeting. >> the attorney general herself this event, on a couple of occasions, if you listen to her acting likehe's she's going to rubber-stamp this. that's not her position. beingk the way it's reported by some organizations is ridiculous. she is trying to have it both ways. she's doing it. but man! it's confusing and it only is situation. the if she gets a recommendation to indict, i assume she'll let it go through. she gets a recommendation not to indict, i assume she'll rubber-stamp that as well. but at this point, she's leading people to believe that no one is in charge, except the career people, who are not being named.

there's no accountability. it is a problem. that thisstounding went down, the fact that -- we're going to talk about clinton and his brand. seems to be going off the rails a bit. but the fact that she was in even aseasy position, we talked about earlier, staff to staff. it'sy, president clinton, not appropriate. the judgment is astoundingly bad. >> if he had showed up in her said i want to come in for a meeting and say hi, i would have said no. i think the airplane confused them. hearn't surprise you to that donald trump is jumping all over this latest development in the loretta lynch-hillary story, while speaking at the western conservative summit out in denver this afternoon. the presumptive republican presidential nominee suggested clinton'smore to bill conversation with lynch than mere social matters. thee just happened to be at airport at this time. think of it. you know, when i first heard the story, i said, no, you're it.ing, i don't believe i thought somebody was joking.

but it's not a joke. he really -- it think he really opened it up. a pandora's box and it shows what's going on. happeningws what's with our laws and with our government. about golf and grandchildren! i love my grandchildren so much. about them for more than nine or ten seconds, you know -- i love my grandchildren. i love, love, love, that one. and look at the beautiful -- i kids!hese after that, what are you gonna say, right? >> so it's a friday, a holiday weekend. so there's not many people around in the political world. but at the end of this week, meeting between bill clinton and loretta lynch, after what loretta lynch has done, how much worse off is hillary clinton politically, whether there's an indictment or not? this two base.r first, in terms that there are 100-some-odd days left in the election.

one more day to frame her as isrustworthy, as clinton playing footsie, above the law. it still is not going to affect her. there's no news today about hillary other than, you know what? one more time that clinton is trust wo trustworthy. if she's indicted, it's game over. but at the end of the day, to still vote,g what is better for my same way ifthe donald trump said one more stupid mexican comment, that the mexican are attacking us. >> i think it's a little worse do, because if there's no indictment -- i think both of that.ect the thing is undermined now. the credibility. she does not get the same kind of health now, because people are going to say there's something messed up about that. would have said that anyway. >> but now there's something to to, which is very specific. the meeting. no one is going to be able to prove -- if you think there's a way to -- it plays into trump's

themes, that the clintons are corrupt, the barack obama administration is corrupt. to pointow a big thing to. there's now an event that point to that's tangible where they was cooked. thing >> i'm going to go back and say one more thing. i don't think one vote is either way. if you think hillary clinton is untrustworthy, one more support point. you -- >> what if she's indicted? >> completely different story. >> why? a felony athat's that point. very different discussion. >> here's the thing. can -- minimum, it can rev up the republican base and that's not nothing. again, i think it was one day of loss and beyond that, not that much. >> what does the story tell us about bill clinton's ability to help and hurt mrs. clinton in this campaign? he still has enormous capacity to hurt her. he's mostly stayed below the radar. i have heard from so many thecrats, baffled, yes, attorney general probably should

have barred him from the plane. it's hard to say no to a former wants to get on your plane to say hi. you can psychobabble and try to explanation.an at a minimum it shows he has termsore than a step in of his political judgment. >> i think he's lost a bunch of steps. you see him, everybody he's talked at -- he doesn't look as strong. elderly, frail. he does not have that kind of his eye anymore. there's something that trump has, the very thing that you don't like about him. don't know what's coming next. he's a little devilish. >> he's vibrant. >> that gives him testosterone, power. right now, clinton, it's just gone from the eyes. we're seeing his behavior. and i hate to make age a statements- agous but he's seeming like a bit of wacky uncle bill. going to bee is not

bill clinton. it's going to be barack obama. view was that bill wasn't going on this to try to influence the case. guy.a social you know how many times he's been on a private plane? i'm almost certain that's what it's about. it points to two things. one, we already mentioned, he's lost a step. for aher, it's been true long time. he doesn't travel with david axelrod or somebody who is going to be thinking every step of the way, what are the politics of what we're about to do? in this non-union restaurant? he's under a microscope now and that they're going to think again about fever again of his -- think about every minute of his schedule. this guy can create a lot of negative news if he does the wrong thing. >> the greatest politician theoretically over the last 30, a guy who is going through his own legal battles. >> he hurt her. an unforced error. >> it's astounding that -- of ofrse, hillary was a part it. you know hillary was pulling her

hair. what is he doing! >> got on the plane. have done it. more after this, on the political and legal implications the attorney general has done in the last 24 hours. we'll break it down, just ahead. ♪

>> the issue is, how does it impact the work that the department of justice does? acause i think it has cast shadow over what it should not, over what it will not touch. was the attorney general of the united states, loretta lynch, speaking at the aspen earlier today about that meeting with former

president bill clinton. joining us now from washington, talk more about this, nbc news chief foreign affairs theespondent and one of best political reporters in the history of north america. universe! >> of course. thank you. >> to you agree with me that the attorney general is trying to act as ifth ways, she's leaving this solely up to career people and the f.b.i., but at the same time reserving the right, if she wants to, to overrule it? i am told,, according to all of my reporting, that she is saying them.ll not overrule she's taking herself out of it, and that she has to really appearancere is the of impropriety here. there's the appearance that the case will be influenced everyoney, even though who knows her and has watched her over two terms as the says that in brooklyn she is absolutely impeccable in her integrity. unfortunately, what happened on that plane has cast a shadow over it. and the people i've talked to,

who are, you know, law professors and ethics experts inappropriatehly and really audacious of the president to have gotten on that plane. >> all right. i know that there are people at the justice department saying that. suggested today, at times, she was fully out of it. i fullyalso said today, expect to accept their recommendation. and a senior justice department official said to me today she reserves the right, with a very it.probability, to overrule >> they're saying that, i think, to give her a little bit of an out. told definitively that she is not going to take part in this case. thought in fact, even she says she can take part in decisions leading up to the final decision, that the final the whole ball game. it's whether or not you're going to indict. and that that will be left to prosecutors, that she uncertain terms she cannot recommend, if they indictment. that was already going to be a

very high threshold, because the appropriate rule of thumb is you don't indict anyone if you don't convict. can and it would be a real stretch convict jury in d.c. to hillary clinton on a case if given howcted, vigorous the argument would be in her defense that she didn't not or that it was mishandling. they have to establish that they mishandled classified information, not intent, by the way. simply that they mishandled classified information. ifeven if this -- airplane-gate did not happen, this is not a petraeus situation. this is someone who is running for president. if the department of justice comes forward and says we are her, she's not even in a position to overturn it, because by definition, she's point.d at that >> first of all, if there is a recommendation to indict, and it, you to overrule think that would be a secret for

minute? the f.b.i. director would have resigned. such highheld in regard. our colleague, joe scarborough, has been saying that for a while he's absolutely right. i don't think she had any real option. and the unfortunate part, to the legal experts, is that this is a career herself, until, you know, she took this job. she was known as one of the best business.s in the she has wisdom o that cannot be used in this case. recusingnot formally herself. she's just accepting reality. one is this is standard procedure. as you just said, she couldn't possibly overrule a decision not to indict or it leak and he'd quit. i will say again the standard to haveuld be for her not done anything. her hand was forced by bill clinton, right? >> exactly. >> otherwise, this wouldn't be

happening. we'd love you to address what we were talking about, which is, with bill clinton? >> well... that's not whole story. look, he is the smoozer in chief. is a man who went up to ted cruz on the tarmac who months he saw the secret service details all talk amongst themselves obviously. they're going to be notified when someone else is arriving at withame location, people guns, and that there's another detail arriving. they work together. you know what these private strips are like. you know what the plane looked like. one of a bluey and white gulf streams, so it clearly identifiable as someone of cabinet rank. said, oh, she's coming. the detail. so he waited for her. and then got on board the plane clintondo you think the campaign thinks about what happened this week?

>> oh, my god. look at the facts. in cincinnati. i was there. incredible event. elizabeth warren literally embracing her. next tuesday she's going to be forcely riding on air one, i'm told. that's not quite decided but riding with the president of the united states possibly and then to a rally and then whatever events they do, in the critical state of north carolina. man whofriday, the wanted to run and has always sibling rival is going to be embracing her in scranton, place.th in pennsylvania, which we have just put on the battleground map at nbc into the toss-up now. pennsylvaniar -- is so important that scranton is the heart of the gun-toting, you know, trump trade deal hating constituency. it's not philadelphia. and so that is the best place that joe biden could be with her. and that's the place where her dad was born and where they had

a family cabin on a lake when she was a child. it's the perfect week, if they could deal with bernie sanders, completely perfect. but the warren thing kind of obviates that problem to a certain degree. now she's got this. and the f.b.i. hanging over her head. >> andrea, i talked this morning and you were disagreeing with me -- my feeling is this is more same. as long as she's not indicted, this is part of the bigger narrative here. is old news, this a complete nonevent. but you disagree with that? think that -- what i was trying to say is that there still is the character issue, the trust issue. she wouldn't have been addressing it in chicago last monday, saying i know some trust me, if she wasn't anticipating another e-mail. the and the deposition this week, her thann closer to anyone, other than the immediate family. and so there's a lot out there. uncertainty. of and she has to deal with that

and donald trump, at some point, focus and we expect -- he's going to do some damage. >> andrea, in the end, loretta lynch, again, i think is ofuggling with the sort mentality of a career prosecutor. but dealing with the highest moment i thinkal she's ever dealt with. >> absolutely. sense of thee any pace of the investigation? there's all sorts of talk about when her interview is, about left to do.ve seems to me we're getting close enough to the convention and don't doif they something quick, they're going to have to hold this over until after the election, which is controversy in and of itself. >> absolutely. you should know there is some reporting that that f.b.i. interview is this weekend. at her home. >> right. that they're being very cagey about it. deadlinee we past the where -- or when is the deadline where they can't do anything because it's too close to election day? i feel like we're there.

>> well, i think that there's another argument for getting it way.f the if it's not to indict, even though it's going to cause a storm among those who think, you guilty, guilty, said donald trump today. i think in august, they can do something. it gets into september and october, it's too close. back withhat happened weinberger and that whole issue in 1992, when, on the weekend election, the special weinbergerwent after on iran contra, all of that? >> yes. have a great holiday! >> have a great weekend, guys. >> up next, trump is in the homestretch of his search. we're talk about where that stands and more, right after this. ♪

>> washington post is reporting governor gingrich and chris christie are among the top prospects for donald trump. consideration.r nbc news reported that the governor of india, mike pence, reportedly meeting with trump this weekend, is also, quote, in play. so donny, if it's true and my reporting matches this, that while some people in trump world, including trump, are christie and gingrich, that others are strongly urging other options, including pence. that say about the state of the search? >> i think at the very least, a littlets to throw nugget out there for the conservative base and say we're talking to him. guy.is cruz's number two i still think it comes back to christie. the more i think about it, a, you double down -- instead of doing a brand extension, which a be, go core brand and say, you know what? inre pugnacious, outsiders,

your face. it's the equivalent of good-looking two southern guys. so you have one face of the brand. gingrich would be a devastating mistake. gets to be good cop. he got an attack dog. in trump does not have to be the mud all the time and act more presidential. the more i think about it, the time goes by, i think christie is the choice. >> i thought christie for a while. got the feel of mccain's search in 2008 in the following sense. that maybeported they'd move the timetable up and announce it soon, next week, week after.the they're just now asking mike pence to be vetted and just now pence. with mike this stuff should all be done by now. if they're expanding the search -- the dynamic that is big is that trump was fine with the small list. were saying to him, there's nobody on this list who you should pick.

getting recommendations from rice and haley and other were not being closely looked at. fullyds someone who as is vetted, who actually is qualified to be president. a good mike pence is choice but he's just meeting with the guy? >> yeah. >> i think there's never been a less important choice for vice president. you're either voting for donald trump or you're not. >> all right. >> up next, we're going to do some more veep takes. also, stat changes there that are kind of interesting. we're going to talk to reporters the donald trump beat right after this. get ready for the rio olympic games

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there you are. how are you doing? the trump camp, word coming that maybe the person that trump really, really wants kasich. of course, he thinks he can deliver ohio. what are you hearing? >> yes. beens exactly what we've hearing for a while now. you mentioned pence a little bit earlier. just doesn't -- it just doesn't ring right with what we've been hearing from the trump, now for a couple of weeks. as you know, there's one person is gonna ultimately make that decision, and until he does, it's a lot of speculation. the folks that trump has been talking to about this, he's had stars in his eyes over kasich, which sort of sounds odd, given their combative relationship on the trail and particularly kasich's reluctance indication that he'd even consider the position. has the experience in washington, which trump has told a qualitycally is that is the top quality he's

a vice for in presidential candidate and also high on trump's list is kasich's ability to bring votes in ohio, well, nohat you know republicans won without. differently,ear kasich has been at the top of the list, from what we're hearing. >> mike, it's funny, because the earliest person i ever talk to about,in trump word early, well before he won the nomination, was kasich. very was said to be attracted to the notion, for all the reasons you said. given that, we've come full circle now. is there any indication that trump himself or any emissary has reached out to try to make the relationship solid enough to even put it in play? >> well, we understand that he's tried to go around and tried to get into kasich's world. shut down at every turn. and kasich himself, as recently ago, is justek

refusing to even consider this publicly. thatmaybe that's something even, you know -- trump a keyons himself as such negotiator. maybe trump is even more attracted to that as a negotiating tactic. but by all accounts, the kasich an inchaven't given yet. >> i want to shift gears to the convention. probably fill up every night with who we think the democrats are going to put up. to see on stage there? >> that is going to be a very good question. we know some of the entertainment around the trump trump convention now, bands like journey we are being brought in. one of the interesting things bands, this those entertainment, is being used to draw donors, to try to bring s into cleveland. reluctant to come to the convention are being dangled

gin upge passes to interest in the convention. >> you've got to get journey to up the convention, you've got problems. >> journey in cleveland. that's a problem. staff departures today, not super senior level people but people who the trump campaign just hired. what's the dynamic where people are coming for a cup of coffee, in the campaign? growing pains or a systemic problem? what yourt depends on view of the trump campaign is. if it's something that's only going to begin after the it antion, i'd call growing pain. but given that we're a year into systemic.it seems you mentioned earlier, your question about only being interested in pence now. aligns withink that some of the problems they're having on staff, some of the folks who have left recently and of the folks who are there, we understand, have had trouble getting paid. some lower-level staffers, similar to the positions that today, haven't heard

from their superiors or who they believe are their direct reports if not months. this is not good news for the campaign, whether you believe this is a growing pain or not. >> mike, really appreciate it. thank you, man. >> when we come back, more reporters on the veep stakes and the supreme court's big month. and of course, if you're watching the nation's capitol, you can now listen to us on at bloomberg 99.1 f.m.

>> joining us now from washington, kelly o'donnell, and from denver, traveling with and covering his speech from earlier today, nbc .ews correspondent katie

we'll start with kelly. on paper, worked on capitol hill. governor of the state. strong with conservatives. pence this late in the process, do you think? >> well, from what i have wasned, that pence interested in having this conversation at a time when his be re-elected as governor is tight, that this could be something that also the state of india, because we -- indian, indiana,e know -- because we know donald trump innched the nomination indiana. i've learned that pence will be traveling to meet with donald trump. a private meeting, a conversation. and pence was very careful to thursday,esterday, that he had not spoken to the candidate since the primary had happened. so now that's going to change. campaign does acknowledge that he accepted this invitation. they qualified it, saying this those conversations with national leaders, but it

certainly goes more deeply than that. i think pence does offer donald trump the keys to a few key constituencies. social conservatives, he speaks their language, has credibility there. way around capitol hill. and he could be that kind of a theson if he were to be running mate and they were to win. it's those kind of things that help. he's also pretty good on camera, pretty comfortable in his message. could probably play the role of look strong, reassuring get in the way, in a very contentious campaign. >> i agree with everything you said, but katie, i don't know time you spent with mike pence, but i know you know him well enough, which is he doesn't seem to me like donald trump's kind of guy. doesn't seem they're going to chemistry.of what do you think about that? >> well, he adds what he needs, he adds factors that would have people take him seriously in washington. i'm sorry. mic check behind me. it's getting in my ear.

panacheoesn't have the that newt gingrich or chris christie has. those are personalities that tends to move closer towards. and that's why they have been so so far on the campaign trail. so mike pence, while he has legislative experience, he's got an ease on camera, a discipline desperatelytrump needs and that he would give him credibility in washington, he's not necessarily the type of that normally gels with donald trump. we're going to see how their meeting goes over the weekend whether they find some common ground and are able to move forward together. but pence right now is certainly not high on the donald trump likability list, i guess. is that a donald trump -- >> i'm going to predict that away from the meeting incredulous. expecte, what can we from our good friend, mr. trump today? verye going to see the disciplined, prompter-reading

presidential trump or are we off the see him going rails on bill clinton's journey on the airplane? >> well, we already saw him speak. he finished about a couple of hours ago, an hour and a half or westernere at the conservative summit. there were teleprompters there. out, he did not use teleprompters. he was reading from notes and he tends to ramble. you can see he wasn't quite as disciplined or concise as he has been. he did go off a little bit on bill clinton meeting with loretta lynch. that totallyhing plays into donald trump's narrative, that the clintons are themselves and that they are doing a shady back dealings, they are not doing it for the 34er7 american people. when talking about the lynch they said they were talking about golf and their grandkids. then donald trump went on a bit tangent about how he loved his grandkids but could only 10 seconds,hem for trying to sow the seeds of doubt

voters' minds that that is all that the two were actually talking about. >> kelly -- in the scheme of things, and you've covered some of these before, is it safe for trump to be casting a ballot for new options this close to the convention? >> well, i think one of the perhaps pluses for a figure like is apence is maybe this signal to the social and christian conservatives that thatd trump understands there is a gap there and that he needs to be attentive to the they want to see happen. part of what we've got to expect bringt trump is trying to people together and quiet some of that delegate soul-searching before the convention. ultimately, the pick will have to be someone he's comfortable with. reallye of these names aren't that new to us. i think there's a new urgency inside the campaign. dwindling. and there are big steps, as you

know. that's a vetting process is behind the scenes private. but intrusive and really time in terms of the legal team and those who willingly allow themselves to be vetted. chance for trump to build these personal relationships that he needs to build on that, with someone like pence, who he has met with privately before but you've got wanted thatt trump endorsement before the indiana primary and he didn't get it. hard feelings lingering from that? maybe that's something we'll be able to measure out of this. reporting from that meeting was that trump left the meeting with an expectation wouldn't go things the way they did. kelly is a frequent guest on this program. she has just announced today as advisor to donald trump. she is a longtime advisor to mike pence. extent that the trump command is now discussing the relative merits of pence, there's someone around the table who is a big supporter of mike pence. i think trump would trust

kelly's advice on that. to weigh in onou the personnel stuff. the departures today. the massive hiring they're doing, is this just what happens when you try to hire in a hurry, or is there some dysfunction that is potentially a bigger problem? note. quick kevin mccallum who resigned was a former staffer of gingrich's. is some crossover. there's questions about whether he might be going back to gingrich. but sources tell us, nbc news, disagreements more internally about how things were going. that onceved lewandowski left that things would sort of even out in the campaign. that totally has -- that hasn't entirely happened so far. missinges seem to be a element in the chain of command, and a missing element in terms directives on a day-to-day basis. that's why you saw these

resignations. mccallum only came on to this campaign officially about a week and a half ago. quicks is a very departure. the campaign is trying to staff up. thoseey made announcements today. i've spoken to the r.n.c. and the r.n.c. says they are working expand their staff and they have been somewhat successful with it. is not trump campaign like any other campaign. and it's not one that has an ease of leadership that you would see in what would be a presidential campaign, somebody like mitt romney or president obama or campaign.ry clinton's there is a certain element of unpredictability because the himself is often very unpredictable. going against his advisors wishes. so it's not entirely clear what the day-to-day can be inside the campaign. are hearinghat we led to the resignation of kevin

calum. it's embarrassing for the for somebody to quit a week and a half after they started. kushnerep hearing that has a bigger and bigger role. expect we're going to see a loot more of this chaos. is that fair to say? say.think that's fair to kushner is trusted because he's ivanka's husband. the kids are advisors and they're trying to get their their influence as much as they can, but they're not seasoned politicians. know moreothers who about is the day-to-day process of campaigning. paul is one of those people. we've seen that donald trump is not entirely comfortable with him. conferences, he's thrown him under the bus, saying misquoted, when he says things that are contrary to what donald trump would say. lewandowski was so good at, very adamant about not

boss, whereashis paul will give interviews and he believes donald trump will be backing off of the muslim ban or says if they female vice presidential candidate, then it would be pandering. these are things that have behind thein trouble scenes. part of the reason why there is dysfunction. >> katie and kelly, down in washington. thank you both. you soon, we hope. turning now to the supreme court. big opinions this week on some big cases. involving such issues as abortion, affirmative action, corruption public and immigration, all just in the last few weeks. here with us now to talk about the court's sweeping overviews, our supreme court reporter. the big, what are lessons about this current 4-4 5-3 divide that we see on this court missing a member?

thate of the lessons is anthony kennedy is still in charge, at least in a significant portion of cases. he made the difference in the case.on he made the difference in the affirmative action case. in both of those, there were that he might go the other way, based on what he had done in the past, particularly action.mative he voted to uphold the university of texas's admission possibility. had never before voted to uphold a race-based program. he frankly contradicted things he had said before. thatficant, but it shows at least for now, he still is a very, very important member of this court. >> in the cases that are lining for next session, if we don't see a justice confirmed anytime what are the ones where implications to be im of that? >> they're trying to avoid cases like that. if i told you what the best case next term, you might start

yawning. excitingly not a very term. that said, very often what the its best casesdd later in the term. the court could take up the plant.ower there are certainly plenty of voting issues that the court could take up. you could see a divided court. it could make a huge difference as to whether merrick garland is confirmed as the next justice or somebody else joins the court. >> are you surprised that made morendidate has of an issue, look, the real legacy is three supreme court for a generation, we can either have a liberal court.r conservative to me, to galvanize either base, i'm hitting that. seem to be coming up in as major a way as you would think. >> they talk about it. himself a world of good with that list of model nominees. i thought it was interesting how they both talked about the abortion case. but the fact of the matter is, although it's easy to think will latch on to this,

for the most part voters who care about the court already most voters,, and it's a little bit too abstract. greg, thank you as always. it!ppreciate have a great weekend. coming up, all due reflects. i look back on the week that was in politics, after this. ♪

>> at the end of every week, john and i like to give our biggest political events. this week, john is not here, so donny is joining me to give our takes on the big events of the week. we're going to start on monday. when elizabeth warren, the massachusetts,

joined hillary clinton on the campaign trail. it was a big boost for clinton warren. a lot of veep talk came up. there was a lot of speculation clinton could use warren to help bring in the populous left wing of the democrat party. donny? >> sounds great, but fox news actually got this right. the matchinge pants suits? >> mrs. clinton, in matching stands right next to her. >> they look ludicrous! suit's a pants extravaganza! >> on tuesday, house republicans long-awaitedr investigation into events surrounding the horrible attack inan american compound benghazi, libya. that was a report that republicans had been wanting to make a dent in hillary clinton's presidential obamagn and against the administration. in the end, there was more damage about the administration at large than about hillary clinton. donny? >> look, this benghazi stuff is but trey couldh, not get off one word.

>> read the report. report. and if you do read the report, read the report. the end of reading that report -- if you read the report, i don't think you'll see any of that in the report. takeaway from the report? i stand on the report. report, whatthe story you do on the report. you read the report. of thosenot see any quotes in the report. >> dude, i got it. there's a report. it's a report. we got it. i got report cards. i know what the word report means. >> thanks, donny. wasednesday, the big event a leader summit in canada. the heads of governments of and themexico united states all joined together. it was a big symbolic event. time when donald trump and others are talking about erecting walls and tightening borders, these three leaders about the importance of countries getting together. donny? that's all fine and good. did you see the three stooges thing?ake

look, guys, just plan a hand shake. low.o high, i'll go i mean, this is embarrassing. >> on thursday, the big event was donald trump in new hampshire talking about manufacturing. he gave a major speech that a lot of people thought was one of trumprst times the campaign acted like a real presidential company, trump text, withpared press releases, trying to put democrats on the defensive on things like manufacturing, jobs wages. this is an issue that a lot of republicans hope trump can drive effectively against hillary clinton in the fall. donny? >> um... this one kind of gave me the heeby jeebies. >> get rid of all these heeby jobbies they wear. we need the veterans back. country.ht for this they'll still do it. thank you. >> you know, and we are looking for that. >> donald, to become president, you have to call people out when they say stupid stuff. yourself. >> great analysis as usual, donny. >> that's what i think. goes better with

captain crunch. >> that's our analysis of the week that was. back.'ll be right ♪

>> you can check out john mccormick's great piece on where hillary clinton's campaign is its t.v. ad bulk of dollars. coming up here on bloomberg -- happy 4th of july. thanks to donny for filling in. week, we'll see you next tuesday!

>> i'm mark. you're watching bloomberg west. let's begin with a check on your news. in bangladesh, a hostage situation in the capital, dhaka, continues, at a restaurant popular with foreigners. storm the holey artisan

bakery. two officers were killed. for than 20 people wounded. according to the intelligence that monitors jihadist activity, islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch has acknowledged her impromptu meeting with bill phoenix airport caused a political firestorm. she admitted people may believe meeting could taint the investigation into former secretary of state hillary clinton's private e-mails. >> i may have viewed it in a is,ain light, but the issue how does it impact the work that i do and what the department of justice does? certainly wouldn't do it again, because i think it has cast a shadow over what it not, over what it will not touch. >> donald trump tweeted that mrs. clinton, quote, probably airportated the meeting.