and good evening. thanks for joining us. there's breaking news and it is big. donald trump will name his running mate on friday. we just got the word on that, and that's not all we're learning tonight. cnn's jim acosta has been working his sources. joins us now. what more do you know about the timeframe of his decision? >> right, anderson, as you just said, trump campaign, he just

arrived in cleveland after attending those meetings with the vice presidential contenders earlier in indiana and manafort told reporters that trump will make his announcement in new york city on friday. i've been told by a couple of sources in the last hour no decision has been made yet and trump will spend the next 24 hours mulling all of this out during a fund-raising trip and in the end, this is shaping up like a decision that looks more like a reality tv season finale. >> donald trump's season of the apprentice veep stakes edition has come down to this, an indiana cliffhanger. that's where trump and his family huddled behind closed doors with indiana governor mike pence. a trump campaign source told cnn their meeting over the last 24 hours went, quote, fabulously. >> i'm narrowing it down. i'm at three, potentially four, but in my own mind i'm probably thinking about two. >> nothing was offered. nothing was accepted.

>> pence got his trump tryout in indiana last night and showed off a skill that is prized by the campaign, attacking hillary clinton as untrustworthy. >> to paraphrase the director of the fbi i think it would be extremely careless to elect hillary clinton as the next president of the united states. >> the presumptive gop nominee sounded impressed, but unconvinced. >> i don't know whether he would be your governor or your vice president, who the hell knows? >> which explains why trump not only met with pence, but other vp contenders and newt gingrich and jeff sessions who was there in indianapolis as an adviser and while he talked about the number two spot chris christie calling in from washington. >> it was a little bit like the apprentice. you find out sooner or later who the last one standing is. >> of the three finalists, gingrich, christie and pence, it comes down to selecting an attack dog that doesn't end up biting trump. christie's vetting turned up the bridge gate scandal.

the gingrich is a fierce debater but he also has vetting issues such as his campaign debt from the last election, contrast that with pence whose vetting of completely clean, but low key. >> i'm not doing this for surprises and not doing this for games. i want to pick somebody that's going to help me get elected. >> we need once again, to have a president who puts the safety and security of our citizens first. >> but it's christie who is viewed by some inside the campaign as trump's top choice. >> i tell you, chris christie is someone i've liked a long time. he's a total professional. >> first ex-rival to endorse trump, he's a close adviser and he's known trump and his flair for the dramatic for years. >> the governor thing doesn't work out "the apprentice" would be a good deal for me, but donald is a good friend and he's been very kind to me and supportive. it's always great to have donald trump talking about you because donald trump is as good a salesman as anybody. >> jim, has trump given any other indications about which way he may be leaning? >> anderson, keep your eyes on

mike pence. the indiana governor is favored by some of the family and senior campaign advisers and trump is expected to announce all of this on friday. any movement of that unveiling to the weekend before the convention would all, but eliminate pence who would inform indiana officials that he is dropping out as governor of indiana, and anderson, we are getting late, major mixed signals from donald trump himself and last night he said he wanted an attack dog as a vice president and he told fox tonight that's not the case anymore, anderson, as someone who was covering this all i can say is, woof. jim acosta, thank you very much. the drama builds and we have the drama critics here to talk about. errol lewis and gloria borger, former reagan political adviser, jeffrey lord and clinton supporter and former bill clinton white house adviser richard socarides and john lovell.

>> can you explain? >> you have to give trump credit for saying what comes into his head. he says i know there's three or four and it comes down to two and one attack dog and not so much anymore. >> it's this internal conversation that he's having that he's actually telling us what his internal conversation is, two, four, attack dog, no attack dog and inside trump's head is this fight he's having with himself. if you were listening to his head and maybe some of his children he'd maybe pick governor pence because he's the safe choice. >> there's been reporting that some of his kids are leaning toward pence. >> some of his kids are leaning toward pence. >> right. and some like newt. the gut of donald trump and he's a gut guy as he's always tells us might be chris christie or newt gingrich whom he feels very comfortable with, particularly christie, but some of the kids like newt.

>> how much do you think will come down to sort of gut feeling? >> i think gut feeling is going to drive it. if there's anything we've learned about donald trump over the last year is he will change his mind. he will change his mind based on his gut and frankly, i think we've seen this in a lot of cases going back to bill clinton in 1992 that you can line up the electoral votes and all of the party alliances that might be strengthened and so forth, but in the end, the top of the ticket and the candidate has to be comfortable with his number two and so, you know, again, 1992, bill clinton breaks with all political convention and gets another southern guy from right next door and they go on to victory. so a gut check is not necessarily the worst way to do this. >> jeff, as a supporter, who do you think he should? >> i'm a newt fan, hands down, no question. because you think newt gives him what? >> i think newt knows washington and i think he knows a great deal about how the world works here, literally the world and also the media world.

i worry about governor pence that thrown into this sued lean -- suddenly as the vice presidential nominee and people will be going after him and i worry about the dan quayle kind of situation. >> it's not like being a member of congress and not like being a governor and newt has been around the track. so, too, for that matter, has governor christie. i think when that situation -- i mean, in the sense he's running for president, if you see what i'm saying. i'm a newt man for all of these kinds of reasons. i know him. i think he's terrific. he's very smart, very capable, et cetera, but at the end of the day this is donald trump's decision and he will make it in his own fashion. >> maria, does one --sa a clinton supporter, does one worry you more than another? >> no, and the reason i say that is because all three of the ones that we've been talking about and by the way, it could be somebody else that we haven't been talking about because we're talking about donald trump's gut, right? none of them really scare the democrats because all of them

would underscore how not just the top of the ticket, but the whole ticket is out of touch with mainstream america. all of the ones that he is considering would repeal obamacare, would want to restrict women's health care rights, are not a friend of the lgbt community, would want to deport 12 million immigrants and all of that gives fodder to the democrats to talk about just how out of touch and just how much this vp pick will not help him to broaden his support which is what he desperately needs. >> let me go to joe, another trump supporter to respond to that. >> he's got three great choices whether it's chris christie, newt gingrich or mike pence. >> you don't believe they're out of touch with the mainstream? >> absolutely not. i mean, chris christie, you have a former prosecutor, a successful governor in a blue state. he's very ethical individual, he's someone who is a get it done type of guy. >> bridgegate over his head. >> he's not involved in bridgegate. you go to newt gingrich and

brought a balanced budget to america and intellectually he's phenomenal and mike pence, some may think he is new, but he is someone who was in congress for ten years and the leader of the republican conference and he's now governor of indiana. >> do you think this really matters the vice presidential pick and we focus on it, obviously, because it's what we do. >> it's kind of interesting. >> and it can secure a base, i mean, paul ryan last night on the town hall at cnn said he would like to see a conservative to really make sure that conservative values are paramount. >> i think it's interesting. donald trump faces the same kind of issue that people have faced recently in this choice, and that is who's going to hurt you the least. i think none of the three people on this short list tonight are people that will probably help him a lot, and he could get in trouble with pen and he's inexperienced and christie has bridgegate and gingrich has ethics issues and trying to impeach bill clinton and he was

having a secret affair and close to the government and as democrats, we look at this and say how you do this selection process says something about the kind of leader you will be and the kind of president you will be and in two weeks, you'll see how hillary clinton does it and i'll bet you it will be very different and it will not be like a reality tv show. >> no matter, any of these three, for those who are worried about donald trump as president about, you know, his ability to be president. all of these are choices which kind of should -- >> serious, substantive, people and people who have washington experience or governing experience. >> which by the way says volumes about donald trump himself and it's the first time, i think, that people from the nominee's own party are rooting for somebody that they can actually say, okay, well, at least the vice president nominee is going to be saying and making that decision. >> you can argue about joe biden and candidate obama. >> and right on the money with that statement.

barack obama needed a joe biden and he was from delaware and what does that bring to the table? i don't think the comparison between obama and trump is -- >> and he complimented and the choice must be someone who complimented you and you identify your strengths and weaknesses and if you look at someone who will join the weaknesses? >> i don't think states matter anymore. >> is chris christie going to get a new jersey. >> absolutely not. trump said indiana was good to him. it's going to be good to him, so he, you know, and newt doesn't get you anything and he's not picking anybody geographically here and first of all, it's your first presidential decision, what we're watching is the way donald trump might operate as president of the united states and either you like that or you don't like that, right? and this is also a man, he is going to have to be with every day a lot of hours and we know that.

>> and everything this tells me of it is going to be christie. i think it will be christie because he says he's a gut decisionmaker and christie was on the campaign trail with him, it matters a lot. >> christie also does get him something because christie is not really from the right. >> he said don't undercut loyalty. loyalty for donald trump will be -- >> it will be christie. you heard it here. >> some new poll numbers to talk about and bad news for hillary clinton in some of the battleground states particularly in florida, an amazing turnaround there for donald trump and just ahead, a high-stakes court hearing about the controversial trump university and we'll bring you that and a trump university instructor who claims he's a real estate expert and doesn't exactly want to talk about his credentials and drew griffin tonight, keeping them honest. sorrow and salute at funerals for three of the five officers murdered in dallas and how they

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the breaking news tonight according to a senior trump adviser donald trump will likely make his vice president decision within the next 24 hours and he'll make the announcement on friday in new york. in the meantime, a hearing was held in a california courtroom. federal judge gonzalo curiel who trump accused of being biased because of his mexican heritage heard arguments and decided whether to release a video during a deposition that is part of a lawsuit and one of the several lawsuit that's alleges trump university was not a university and did not teach trump's real estate secrets and misrepresented teachers and mentors who were neither real estate experts nor hand picked by donald trump. jim harris is a former instructor at trump university

who claims he was one of the best salesmen helping the business to rake in millions. when drew griffin sat down with mr. harris he didn't want to talk about his real estate background show he had a lot to say about how he convinced people to fork over as much as $34,000 for seminars. >> we were bringing in the money. >> a lot of it. >> a lot of money. >> were you -- you said you were the top guy. were you the top guy? >> i don't know if i was, i just know i'm really good at what i do. >> you said you were the top guy. >> okay. maybe i was the top guy. i don't know if i was or not, i just know from week to week to week, my numbers were in the top one or two. >> james harris' job was to get people to believe that they, too, could be as successful in real estate as donald trump and to reel them in, sign them up and get them to pay as much as $34,000 on the promise that the next seminar, the next class would teach them all they would need to know. >> what do you know about real estate? >> real estate is a very wide, huge business i got involved in real estate in the '90s.

>> and if you attended a james harris, trump university seminar, you would hear more about harris' claims of success and experience in real estate. claims made in this verbatim transcript of a trump seminar he gave in san bernardino, california. >> do you remember when you said this? i'm a former licensed agent broker and at 29 i became the top 1% broker in the country. i built homes in atlanta, georgia, and i used to live in beverly hills? >> yes. if i said those things they are true. i did live in beverly hills. >> we have no record of you ever living in beverly hills. >> okay, well -- >> we can't find your broker's license anywhere. >> okay. >> and i have no idea what homes you built in atlanta, georgia. you built homes in georgia? >> i am not prepared to answer those questions today. >> this is part of your pitch. >> is any of that true? again, i'm not going to answer those questions because i haven't seen that.

>> you certainly know what you've done in your life. >> i don't know where that's coming from. i don't know where -- >> this is a transcript submitted in court -- >> i don't know -- >> of a taped presentation that you gave in california. >> it's a court document. >> well, what do you know about real estate? >> again, i'm not prepared to answer those questions today. this is about trump university. >> he kept walking up and down the aisle flashing his rolex in our faces. >> bob guillo was one of james harris' students. he was part of a lawsuit trying to get back his $34,000. he said the school was a fraud and so was his teacher. >> he bragged that he had dinner with donald trump. >> did you ever have dinner with him? >> i never had dinner with him. >> bob guill was in one of your conferences and you said you had dinner with donald trump. >> i -- i don't have any recollection of that. >> james harris admits his main

job wasn't to teach real estate. it was to sell real estate seminars. always with the goals of hooking his audience into buying more classes. >> i was hired to sell the trump university packages and the programs that they were offering and that's what i did. they had to pay a fee to come to further their training at the next event. so it was -- it went from event to event to event. >> is that step by step upsell by upsell to upsell. >> kind of sort of, yeah. it's upsell, if you pay this amount, we'll teach you this much and if you pay this amount we'll go further with you. >> here's an e-mail you wrote. i just spoke to austin and irene, the older retired couple who had to pull the 30,000 balance for the gold and she said it's done and should be in monday so that will be another 35k. we will easily have another $100k hit by friday. yahoo. your associate brian respond, we've always been a dangerous

team, brother man. these peeps don't have a chance against us. smiley face. >> that's called sales. >> is that called ripping off an old couple? >> absolutely not. >> named austin and irene. >> i never saw that e-mail and that's a typical sales e-mail between two sales people working on a deal. i don't know if those people had the money or not. they could have -- they could have been putting up their last dollar. i don't know. all i know is -- >> do you care? >> of course, i care, i was doing my job. >> regardless if they could afford it or not. >> regardless if they could afford it or not. that was not my position. that was not my job. other people did that. i don't know if they could afford it or not. we were -- we were told to show them all of the ways that they could afford it and could come up with the finances to get into the business. period.

end of story. >> is there any evidence that this guy even knows donald trump? he was supposedly the university's top salesman. he's told people he went to dinner with trump. >> in fact, anderson, there is evidence trump does not know this guy. under oath in a deposition for one of his lawsuits donald trump didn't recall the name james harris, didn't recall the name of a single live events instructor that supposedly was hired, hand picked by donald trump to teach these classes so the answer is no, he doesn't know james harris. >> talking about depositions, was there a court hearing today dealing with releasing donald trump's videotaped deposition to the public which was something demanded by news agencies and cnn i think was party to that, are we likely to see video of trump's deposition any time soon? >> the answer is we don't know. the judge heard arguments today on both sides. the media arguing that we should be able to see this videotaped deposition. the trump side saying that it could be used in the campaign negatively against him.

judge curiel out in san diego took it under advisement and he told the lawyers i will give you my review in writing. we don't know when. >> drew, thank you very much. drew griffin. that was quite an interview. hillary clinton launches her toughest verbal attack on trump. a new polling has plenty to say on how tough their battle may be this fall state by crucial state. min do more for your immune health? now one a day has the first multivitamin with probiotics to support the 70% of your immune system that's found in your digestive tract. new one a day with probiotics. your multi with more. world saleilton is on honors members save up to 25% on brands like hampton, doubletree, hilton garden inn, and waldorf astoria so stop clicking around. book direct at hilton.com now that's satisfaction.

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hillary clinton says donald trump is in her words dangerous. listen. >> his campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our lifetimes. it is built on stoking mistrust and pitting american against american. it's there in everything he says and everything he promises to do as president. >> speaking today in springfield, illinois, where abraham lincoln famously said a house divided itself cannot stand. the party of linkon had become -- the party of lincoln had become the party of trump. whoever has claim on the party's soul these days and whatever you think of donald trump's message

we have a poll on how that message is received in states in november. cnn's john king here to break it down. john dressed identically to me >> the tie. >> a couple of battleground states today. what do they show? -- they show a dramatically close race with 117 days just as we head into the convention. hillary clinton can be happy about the numbers in colorado and numbers in wisconsin and she's in the lead there and the virginia numbers are out tonight and the clinton campaign can be encouraged, but look at ohio, pennsylvania and florida, essentially tied and one candidate or the other may have a small lead and a split verdict and trump leading in one and clinton leading in the other and ohio, pennsylvania and florida. it shows there's been a lot of talk with numbers with latinos are bad and women are bad. there is no way he can win this election. guess what? as we get ready for donald trump's convention, this is a very close race and trump has a path to victory. >> in states where obama won, if they flip for trump, how

does that play out across the map? >> so this is what both campaigns do, they look at the last map and you see the obama-romney race and 206 for romney and the republicans and that's an electoral college blowout. >> remember the big three we just talked about, pennsylvania, ohio and florida. >> trump is in play in all three of those states and let's flip them. if donald trump could flip those three states and i'm not saying it's easy and it won't be easy, but if he could flip those three states, donald trump is the next president of the united states and if nothing else changes from 2012 except ohio, pennsylvania and florida. if trump can flip those and if that's his strategy, he can win this election. >> and sanders endorsement with clinton yesterday do you think that has an effect on her numbers at all? >> the clinton campaign certainly hopes so. they think one of the reason the race has change side because of the damning comments from the fbi director jim comey. at first he gave a news conference and he gave the testimony and the decision was not to charge her, but he said a

lot of unflattering things about secretary clinton and the optics of the last ten days are pretty bad and now you have the sanders endorsement and you have the optics of the rally in new hampshire and now you tried to get him on the road some and pennsylvania and michigan and they very much hope that the sanders' endorsement and the future campaigning by sanders turns the page from what they acknowledge was a pretty tough two weeks. >> john king, thanks very much. >> thank you. >> john thanks, very much and let's go back to our panel and errol, the clinton campaign be freaking out about these numbers particularly in florida which was a complete reversal? she was up eight points. >> every campaign they're going to freak out about ohio and florida and we know those are always going to be swing states and there's some evidence that there's stuff that will not quite show up in the polls just yet. >> which is? >> florida, for example, something like 130,000 because of the crisis in puerto rico and 130,000 puerto ricans have moved to florida? have they been registered yet? have they been mobilized yet? we don't know.

will she show up on election day? we don't know. >> and there's some of that going on and a lot of brand new voters that haven't been picked up by the polls. >> pennsylvania, i think we've seen has been a mirage and it's been a temptation for since the last time they've won the state in 1988 and every cycle they say we'll make a late run because it's such a trove of electoral votes. they make that late run and it never materializes and we'll see if it happens this time. >> if i were hillary clinton's campaign i would be looking at the internals of the poles and the problems of the internals of the polls is what is dragging her down is the honesty and the trust worthy numbers in one of those polls in florida today trump is considered more honest and trustworthy 50% to 37%. >> huge. >> huge. so for hillary clinton, i mean, she knows that's her achilles heel. james comey didn't help it very much and this is an issue she's got to work on, because when you vote for president it's a very

personal vote and you have to trust the person you're voting for because this is a person that could send your child to war and so, this is a real problem. >> maria, the trump folks have been saying, look, hillary clinton has spent a lot of money in florida and trump really hasn't and yet the numbers are going down. >> first of all, i don't believe that quinnipiac poll because quinnipiac oversamples republicans and notoriously doesn't know how to poll latinos and african-americans very correctly. now, i will say this, the clinton campaign should wake up every day and i know that they do and believe these polls and believe that she is the underdog because that is the only way that she will win. complacency among democrats and it's easy to be complacent with all of the crazy stuff that donald trump has said and his proposals are out there and everything that we talk about in terms of how divisive he is and he is, but that leads a lot of democrats to think hillary clinton has it in the bag and

complacency is how it went. >> cnn approves of these quinnipiac polls and there are reports we don't report on because the methodology is suspect and quinnipiac is not one of those. >> presidential elections are always close. >> do you think -- speaking against -- >> the truth is if you look at the average of the polls and if you look at the people who actually study these polls and predict, hillary clinton today is the overwhelming favorite and she'll be the overwhelming favorite tomorrow and she'll go past labor day as the overwhelming favorite and the election will be close and it will probably be a four or five point election and she is much better positioned than he is. >> john, it's interesting in the wall street journal poll you have donald trump polling 0% with african-american with african-americans in ohio. >> 0%. >> he's got to do better than that. >> he'll get 1%. >> donald trump exceeded the poll numbers when it came to the ballot box and hillary clinton fell short. hillary clinton's right, donald trump is dangerous to certain people.

terrorists and people that are beneficiaries of bad trade deals and people that are sending american jobs overseas and the most important person he's most dangerous to is hillary clinton's career path. donald trump is on track right now and he's very focused and an 11-point swing in florida. that's amazing. as long as he continues on that path, you will see this and you will see a lot of new voters, by the way. there will be new voters that we're not catching just like we saw in the primaries and they're going to elect donald trump for president. >> donald trump has said he will do well among african-americans. obviously polling according to the wall street journal and 0% is not good and last night on o'reilly, he said he can relate to the african-american experience because the system is rigged and he went on to say that he can't fully understand what life is like unless you're african-american and he came under criticism like that and he didn't accept the speech with the naacp and do you think he's

doing enough? >> think he'll do more. first of all, i don't think the naacp will hurt him. president bush, 43, did not go for some of the same reasons. he was a liberal group and it was no longer the naacp of old and he didn't go and mitt romney went to this and they booed him and it really didn't do anything for him. i think he can -- he has a real opportunity here with the african-american community and again, newt gingrich who as a close friend of my old boss jack kemp knows that what you do is when you go into the black community and you appeal directly to folks on the bis of economics and you talk to them about jobs and this kind of thing and, you know, stay away from this republican country club sort of mentality here and go -- and engage. i think he can do that. the other thing, in terms of pennsylvania as a pennsylvanian, i can tell you he won in the primary, 67 counties and it's never been done before by any candidate of any party and that's an intensity factor that will help him.

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looking at protesters out in numbers on the streets of boston according to one of our local affiliates. about a thousand people began marching in support of the group massachusetts action against police brutality and they're being escorted by officers in the city. there was more breaking news tonight with police in phoenix, asking for the public's for a serial shooter. seven people have died ranging in age from 12 to 55. as with most serial killers there is a pattern offering some clues. investigators have a sketch of the suspect. they hope someone will recognize him and help solve the cases. more now from our brian todd.

>> 12-year-old malia ellis shots and killed along with her mother and a friend as they listened to music inside their car. their murders, the latest in a series of shootings in the phoenix area which police are tonight calling the work of a serial killer. malia's grandfather says the shooter was indiscriminate. >> they didn't care if there were little babies in the car. they just wanted to shoot somebody. >> reporter: tonight phoenix police tells cnn they believe the same man has killed seven people and wounded two others since march. police released this composite sketch. the suspect believed to be a white or hispanic man in his 20s and he may have an accomplice. >> we have no prior known contact between our victims and our suspects. >> but police tell cnn they do know part of the killer's m.o. all of the shootings have been at night targeting people walking or in vehicles seemingly at random. police say the killer arrives in a vehicle, a sedan, gets out of the car and opens fire and quickly departs in the vehicle. >> he's hunting people that he knows that he can have access

to, that they are vulnerable and that they are accessible. those are the two keys and that they have no idea that this individual is behind them or in front of him so he's looking for the best targets. >> another key part of the pattern, the target area. most victims have been shot in the western part of phoenix, a cluster of them in a neighborhood called maryvale. >> what does that tell you? >> the individual committing these crimes knows this area very well. >> he has two major thorough fares that he can come into and get off on. >> two killings have been outside those neighborhoods. in total they've occurred over 50 square miles of the phoenix area. phoenix police tell us the same weapon was likely used in each shooting. a system automatic handgun. -- a semi automatic handgun. as the man hunt intensifies tonight, experts say the killer could be watching the media coverage and could become more cautious or careless as a result. >> these individuals can be arrogant and grandiose because they're holding west phoenix as hostage.

people are frightened. that for the offender is a rush and that in and of itself can cause that person to take more risks and possibly make more mistakes. >> brian todd joins me now. i understand the law enforcement are adding more resources to try to catch whoever this person is. >> right, anderson. phoenix police bringing in every possible resource tonight into this case, the fbi and the u.s. marshals have joined in this man hunt. there is a $30,000 reward for information leading to the capture of this killer or possibly more killers. he could have an accomplice, we are told. we are told by experts that you can expect the phoenix police to use license plate scanners in these neighborhoods and these are the scanners that are on these police vehicles that can read license plates and every license plate coming into and out of these neighborhoods and they'll use surveillance footage and they'll comb the pawn shops and they're intensifying this man hunt tonight, anderson. >> brian todd, thanks so much. and let's get the latest and joining me now is sergeant john howard and thanks

very much for being with us. >> these killings, they've been going on over the course of months, if not longer. what was it that alerted police that they might be connected or that they are connected? >> so, anderson, it started with just the general geography of the area. we're talking about two square miles in a city of over 500 square miles. they were occurring, -- the first three were on friday evenings and one on a sunday so we had weekend hours and nighttime hours and crimes that were occurring in the street or right next to the street. so enough similarities and for a lot of us it was most striking that no apparent motive in any of these incidents. >> and you linked initially, i think four and then you look back at past cases and realized wait a minute, there are others linked to these, as well? >> we did. so we went back -- so far we've gone back to january 1st of this year. we looked at all of the violent crimes and all of the crimes that we thought may have should relationship just based on the violence potential, and we linked four additional cases recently. >> two people survived being

shot by this person or persons. your department i know obviously interviewed them, and look, there are probably stuff you can't say and i'll leave it to your judgment, but what did they tell you about the attack and at they saw? >> what we're hearing is an unprovoked attack. we're hearing most on the street, most in front of residence homes and a car pulls up and the shooter gets out and almost without any warning and no conversation, just opens fire and then flees in that vehicle. >> and are you pretty confident that the serial killer, you know, has only been operating since january or do you think it could go further back than there? >> we're certainly going to expand our research. our first incident that we recovered was march 17th. the second was march 18th. so we had at least a couple of months prior to that that we haven't found any incidents that are involved. >> so we're putting up the sketch. >> what's your message to the community in phoenix right now? >> you know, we want everybody to raise their level of awareness.

we don't want people to live in fear, but we want them to have a healthy level of awareness and we want them to know what's going on in their neighborhoods. someone out there has done this and more importantly, someone out there knows who has done this and that's the person we want to talk to. we want them to call the police, if people see suspicious behavior in their neighborhood. if they see unfamiliar people in their neighborhood or unfamiliar vehicles. we have dozens of officers and dozens of investigators working this right now. it is our number one priority. no tip too small and please call the phoenix police department or silent witness. >> thanks very much. good luck to you. >> just ahead, thousands attended funerals today for three of the five slain dallas police officers and they eulogized fathers and police officers and a heartbreaking day for their fellow officers and the community. more on that ahead. ♪

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racial discord in this country. today was a day of focusing on their singular contributions, what made them special and what can never be replaced. cnn's kim law reports. >> reporter: three officers, three lives remembered. lauren ehrens, 48 years old, father of an eight and ten-year-old, husband to a fellow cop. >> everything is bigger in texas and that definitely included lorne with his 6'4", 300 pound frame. not only was he bigger in physical stature, but his personality, his heart, his enthusiasm for police work, his passion for his fellow officers and his devotion to his family were all larger than life. >> you were his best friend.

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>> reporter: dallas area rapid transit officer brent thompson, age 47. two weeks ago the father of six remarried. his bride, also a police officer. >> though i'm heart broken, it hurts, i'm going to put on my badge and my uniform and return to the street along with all of my brothers and sisters in blue. to the coward that tried to break me and my brothers and sisters, you'll know your hate made us stronger. on brent's behalf, i'm asking you all, continue on, press on. he has your six. >> one day i would always say to my dad when he walked out the door was, good-bye, daddy. i love you. be safe. and tonight we say a final good-bye, daddy. we love you. be safe.

♪ i once was lost but now i'm found ♪ ♪ was blind but now i see ♪ >> kim law joins us now. the image to see all of those police officers who were in attendance, they come from all across the country. >> reporter: it's really extraordinary, anderson. you know from covering these stories, you hear about the brothers and sisters in blue, and visually we can see it here. i mean, at this memorial you can see just over here, that's a hat and a patch from the new york police department. look a little further to your right, a patch from maryland district of columbia, virginia, from tulsa. not just from houston but we've

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good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin this hour with breaking news straight from the top man from the campaign. donald trump will name his running mate on friday. got new details in the family's role in the decision. sounds a little bit like they've staged almost an intervention. also tonight, hillary clinton calls trump dangerous to the country. that's far from all she said. cnn's jeff zeleny has the story. sunlen serfaty has the story. how soon does trump actually think he'll make the decision? >> reporter: well, ande