>> with all due respect donald trump, we are getting the impression you are a one trick pony. >> here is jeb bush, donald trump is not a true conservative. charles krauthammer, donald trump is not at 50%. poor mitt romney, donald trump should not run. donald trump. glenn beck. donald trump. lindsey graham. donald trump's strategy does not work. donald trump wants to let give and go nuclear donald trump does not like nato. he will not do well here he does not know foreign policy.

he should not be allowed on the debate stage. donald trump is not question -- christian. trump is a con man. donald trump. donald trump. donald trump. donald trump. donald trump will not become the president her. ♪ >> welcome to the best of "with all due respect." the nation was focused on violence in the streets of a major american city. we discussed how the latest police shootings in oklahoma and north carolina and the state of race relations in america and how they impact the 2016 presidential race. >> another police shooting that has captured the nation's attention. protests are rubbed it, north carolina after police shot and 43-year-old keith lamont scott, police say he emerged

from a vehicle with a gun before he was killed. his family has disputed the police account saying he was unarmed. all that, demonstrations turned violent last night as protesters vandalized businesses , threw rocks at police and at one point blocked a highway by looting a truck and setting fire to a pile of boxes. this happened a day after police and also, oklahoma released a video showing an officer shooting an unarmed african-american men terence crutcher who appeared to have his hand in the air when shot. on penny today in ohio, donald trump was asked about that. age.age -- tulsa foot >> to me it looks like he did everything you were supposed to do and look like a good man. maybe i am crowded because i saw his family talking about him after the fact so you get different image maybe but to me somebody who a -- was doing what they were asking. this young officer, i do not

know what she was thinking. i do not know what she was thinking. but i am very, very troubled by that. i am very troubled by that and we have to be very careful. terrible, thate was in my opinion a terrible situation. we have seen others. the police are aware of that. the police are troubled by it. scared, was she choking, what happened? maybe people that choke, people that do that, maybe they can't be doing what they are doing. >> hillary clinton commented on the latest shooting, taking a moment during her speech today in orlando to address the matter. >> there is still much we do not know about what happened in both that wes but we do know have two more names to add to a list of african-americans killed

by police officers in these encounters. it is unbearable and it needs to become intolerable. i have spoken to many police chiefs and other law enforcement leaders who are as deeply concerned as i am and deeply committed as i am to reform. why? because they know it is essential for the safety of our communities and our officers. latest policee shootings of african-american men be impacting the presidential race and how are the two candidates handling the situation? >> we talked about this yesterday. before the situation in charlotte have unfolded, we only knew about the oklahoma shooting. this is the second time where in the last couple of months there have been more than one subtly shooting and they have broken through in a significant way. this is a huge problem in cities

across the country. a real challenge for both candidates. i thought donald trump and hillary clinton handled it well today. donald trump took a different line that he has taken in the past, different from what his campaign manager and vice presidential running mate took a few hours earlier, expressing more sympathy for the victim in the case in tulsa at hillary clinton talks about it with great fluency. i do not know what the political influence will be but it is something that will be a topic of discussion so long as these even happening as we head toward election day. >> no question that donald trump's remarks were more striking than clinton, not because he spoke with more compassion but because they were penceent than what mike talk but the way he has largely talked about these matters. it is great in the face of tragedy for both to take time to reflect on it and to give us a sense of the kind of leaders

they would be if they were pregnant starting in january of how they will deal with this. it is clear, although there is a national debate about remedies, this is still a problem that will be double the country for some time. -- if you think this is a systematic problem and one that is related to race and -- it isas, there is not a mystery that a lot of the victims in these cases have an african-american men, in some cases justified police cases come in way too many, unjustified or apparently unjustified, that qualifies. hillary clinton talks about this in a more comprehensive way the donald trump but he took a different tone today. interesting to see where it goes. >> we check on the state of the presidential race with two reporters from our nations capital. stay tuned. ♪

>> the best political reporters in america pedroia from washington, d.c.. thank you for being here. about the same question, how do you think, based on the performance on the candidates this past week and into the debate monday, how do they look to be ready for the showdown? >> they both need work and a lot of practice over the next few days and they will do it in their own way. hillary clinton will be down much of that time between now and the debate going through rigorous debate practice and probably a series of mock debates. donald trump will do it his own life which will be, i will not call that a relaxed approach but a different approach, he will not cram his self look backs and figures.

but he will have a sense of strategy that he wants to take into the debate. both of them have to be a little bit nervous. this is a more unpredictable environment. the topics are very broad that lester holt as laid out and we do not know what donald trump will be like. there has to be nervousness on both sides. trajectoryou think wise it is headed toward monday? >> hillary clinton is trying to project a calm and prepared approach, sticking to the facts, her appearance at the u.n., showing off her statesmanlike credentials, she wants to remain calm and unflappable. this is to convince herself she can do that on monday. if she can keep that up and go in there in a i am not going to take the bait kind of mode, that is ideally what she wants. the campaign is afraid of any reason why everybody in the world will tune in his dizzy whether the she can pull that off. >> in terms of what you know

about how they are dealing with debate prep, this is the biggest topic out there, how do you think she is technically speaking going about the process of trying to get ready for the unpredictability of donald trump? >> i will give you educated guesses because we know more about what she is not doing than what she is doing. they have been careful about not sprinkling in many details as we want. we know she is not at a resort outside of las vegas in debate camp. just trying to avoid president obama's ritual and some of his mistakes from 2012 and we know the way she has traditionally done debate prep is to go through everything. she knows what her policies are but to review her own work, what her opponent has said and done in the past and to try to be prepared not only to defend her own positions or explain her own positions, but to check him and cross him if either he says

something that she knows is not true or if the debate moderator fails to go in that direction. i expect that is what she is doing but i would love to tell you, is she in a room in her that sheching video, do it in the kitchen or is there a tent in the backyard, we do not know a lot of those details. the campaign is holding that site. about, you made a comment whereu did not want to go donald trump is handling his prep and a relaxed fashion, what do you think the dangers and the strengths are going about debate prep the way donald trump seems to be, in a much more -- not nearly as rigorous or structured way as hillary clinton generally does? >> let's start with the positive, he is very good online tv settings. -- on live tv settings. he demonstrated that on a lot of

the republican debates. he knows how to make a quip and put somebody off balance and he enjoys doing that. in a performance sense, he comes to it with a naturalness that she might not. he spent many years in reality tv and he likes and enjoys that environment. the challenge i think or the risk is that this is 90 minutes, there is no break, it can be very substantive depending on how the flow of the debate goes. he will have to produce deeper or more complex answers about some of his policies or more consistent or coherent statements about his policies. he will have a greater difficulty skating across the top of some of those issues that he might have done in a debate with 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 people that he did in the republican debate. that is the bigger risk for him. >> democrats who support hillary clinton said to me today they

thought things were going pretty well. the most recent wave of polling including a new nbc wall street journal poll, better news for clinton than last week in the wake of the problems she had over the weekend but they also said it could be that this is such an overwhelming change election, there is nothing we can do, we can run a perfect race and donald trump could overwhelm us, do you get the sense that is a prevailing view within democratic circles, this could be a donald trump year and there is nothing clinton can do? >> no, hillary clinton and her campaign are dedicated to the proposition that the ground game, the infrastructure, the planning does make a difference, particularly in florida, pennsylvania, ohio, maybe, that is not entirely clear. the polling has gotten better since the initial total fallout of pneumonia gate which was a dumb move on their part. to the extent that she is

beginning to put a little thing her and donald trump, these tend to be polls of likely voters. if their presumption is they can actually push that further because they are doing work to turn out people that polls are not building in in the production models then they can feel a little better than they could one week ago. i do not think they think this is a runaway year that they can do nothing about, they firmly believe all of the stuff they are doing, the manpower on the ground, traditional campaign stuff makes a difference. how much we do not know yet. analysts and people in the clinton campaign say states where donald trump is doing well like iowa and ohio, a lot of white voters, in the states where he is doing well, battleground states where he's doing better like ohio and florida, what else is going on, what else is helping donald trump beside white voters?

>> florida is always close and will be close, it has been a battleground over the last several elections and i do not think anybody in either campaign thought that one candidate or the other was going to get a big advantage in florida. closest as i recall in 2012 and very well may have been the closest this time around. the fact that he is doing well is fine. and to be expected. in other states, it is a function of the percentage of the electorate, the white electorate that has college degrees or does not have college degrees. the lower the percentage the better donald trump, the higher the present is the more challenged he is and i think that is what we are seeing in some of these battleground states. >> you are the dean so i will close with you. in this nbc wall street journal poll it says that people were asked what concerns them most about donald trump, at the very top of the list is the -- him not having the right temperament to be commander in chief, later on this is, to about women, muslims, immigrants and the

bottom of the list, six present head the thing is his failure to release his tax returns. looking at that, can we deduce that there is no way we will see donald trump's tax returns? >> even if that number had been twice or three times that 6%, i do not think we would see them, he has made a decision i think that they will stay hidden as long as possible and well after the november 8 voting. i think it is interesting and reflective that the things we talk about a lot are not that important to a lot of people. he is breaking president by not releasing them, no question about that. voting issue necessarily and i think he has concluded that more harm could become -- could come from releasing them then not. >> anything we could do about this? >> he has decided that there is more downside in releasing them than there ever could be in making them public. >> coming up, we have our own press briefing from josh earnest

who paid a visit to our studio in new york on monday. ♪

>> we have a lot to unpack what our next guest, white house press secretary josh earnest joins us from our set in new york. sorry we are not there with you but good to have you on the show. >> directorate for me to your and you're not here, i will rearrange the books while you are gone. good youas the no would be up to. give us an update about where the president, what he thinks about what has happened in the wake of this weekend, he gave a statement today, bring us up-to-date on where things are. >> we have to get credit just give credit to men and women in law enforcement, we saw coordination between local officials and federal officials.

law-enforcement on the street walking the beat and doing the good police work to track the individual. you have fbi experts using the forensic skills and technology to trace this person. in the space of a little over 24 hours ago from a device going off somewhere in manhattan to a name being released by the fbi as a potential suspect and that person a few hours later being brought into custody. this is a testament to the heroism of the men and women and law-enforcement. the investigation is continuing and we want to learn more about this individual, what motivated him, what ties he had two other people that may have been involved, that work is just beginning. >> do you agree with the clinton campaign that donald trump, through the words he uses can actually hurt america's security? that denying the rhetoric we have heard from a lot of republicans including the nominee is contrary to our guys and does undermine the argument that we are making against isil.

the president has organized an international coalition to go after them and we have taken 14,000 airstrikes in iraq and syria combined and had success in taking senior isil officials off the battlefield come into dust including two extra no plotters in the last couple of weeks and we also know that they are trying to propagate a radical ideology, a bankrupt false mythology, and trying to aspire vulnerable individuals -- inspire vulnerable individuals. we want to measure we are not just taking the fight to the ground but we will destroy the terrorist organization and make sure we are doing this can is that with our values and with a strategy that does not allow them to successfully make the case that somehow they represent true islam and -- in a war against the west. >> you commented about how the battle between the west and isil was about narratives and the donald trump campaign said

you were out to lunch and out of touch by framing the battle in those terms. how do you respond? >> no denying we have different views about the way to take on the fight but the rhetoric we hear from republicans does often undermine the case that we are making against isil. our first and foremost priority is protecting the mark and people and that includes using our military power, our intelligence, our law enforcement to keep them safe. the president has demonstrated a willingness and a success in making those orders and designing a strategy and implementing it. the fact there is a battle that isil wants to win over narrative, they want to drive the narrative, that they represent islam and are represented islam and the war against the west. that is false, not true. there are millions of patriotic muslims in the united states now that are serving in our military, serving in our law

enforcement, that are also our teachers and lawyers and doctors and nurses. they make an important contribution to our great country. to deny that fact or two at your that fact to win political points is shameless and inconsistent with our values and undermines our effectiveness to degrade and ultimately destroy iso--- destroy isil. >> the rare executive -- exception is people who come here and commit terror, donald trump cedi system needs to be changed dramatically to keep that from happening, is that a fair charge? are there things that need to change to that people who come in to keep those instances from happening as rare as they are? >> something our critics do not a knowledge is that refugees who come to the nonstate are subjected to more betting that any individual that enters the country, more than somebody who enters on a tourist visa or business visa. refugees have to do a background check, they have to undergo an

in person interview, biometric collected, then the information is run through a variety of national security databases and can by our military, intelligence community, international law enforcement organizations, they are thoroughly vetted. i will say that if there is more we can do to strengthen that further, we are certainly open to that. we should not enter into a situation where we are doing some republicans have suggested which is to impose a religious test on people who seek to enter the united states. a muslim ban. ,> shortwave or religious test are you saying that short of a religious test, are you saying that is the cost of doing business or we should not accept the fact that some people are welcomed into this country and they commit acts of terror, we should change the decision to stop it -- the system to stop it? >> the most effective way to deal with this is not to keep people out of the country but we should seek to ensure that we

have strict vetting of refugees entering the united states and that is what we have done and we need to implement and effective homeland security strategy in terms of law enforcement and making clear to people who are at risk, of potentially being radicalized by isil that they have a home in the united states. >> i want to point out what seems to be two events that seem to be in contradiction, the versus president obama on friday when donald trump any terse and tepid way he did withdrew himself from the posture of asserting that president obama may not have been born in the united states. the president said, i do not want to talk about this, we have more important things to focus on it. the next night he was in front of a congressional black caucus as fired up as i have seen him at a campaign event saying that if people do not vote for him, for hillary clinton that is, he will consider it a personal insult.

it seems he is riled up about donald trump and around the birther thing he tried to slough it off. what is his emotional state relative to the cause of stopping donald trump? >> he is energized about this campaign and understand the stakes. the stakes in this campaign are serving -- about refuting donald trump, they are about building the progress we have made over the last eight years, let's make sure we build on the affordable care act and expand care to more markets and build on the economic progress we have made by continuing to raise wages for low and middle income families. making sure we are continuing to reduce the deficit. make sure we are building on her progress in fighting the causes of climate change and make sure we are more effectively and limiting wall street reform strategy in a way that strengthens our economy. that is why the president as fired up and ready to go. ♪ >> next up a call to capitol

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john: joining us now is senator david purdue. thank you for joining us. david:ole -- senator good to be with you guys. favoritedonald trump a underdog or a tossup? senator david: voter turnout was up 60% and i lived that same thing in my race in georgia and i think he has touched a nerve. i do not believe these national