>> i want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you, and i think by now people know i don't quit. >> her challengers are already taking her on. >> it is hard for me to understand how you can run for president of the united states and not be. take me out to the ball game. president obama's pitch for a vote on trade goes into extra innings as he heads to capitol hill, try to rally house democrats today. >> did you convince anyone? >> i'm standing next to one of the top warriors. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the pressure is on in the capitol. president obama paid a surprise

visit on the hill today after visiting him at national park at the baseball game last night making last-minute urgent appeals on critical trade legislation. a top priority for his white house. chuck todd is nbc's news political reporter and moderator of "meet the press." there are three votes back to back today. it's in the house and he needs democrats. he needs the democratic leader. what role is nancy pelosi playing here? >> look there is a fight inside the house democratic caucus that is essentially the same fight inside the house republican conference i've since they took control of the congress. it's a very similar thing. you have some dyed in the wool labor, pro labor democrats who are fighting nancy pelosi on this. they're mad at her for not coming out against. she's probably for it. she's been hedging simply because of where her members

are. but the fact that she hasn't come out against tell use she's for it. the question is is she going to work for it. she made one concession to the nos a couple of days ago said hey, john boehner, it's on you. don't rely on me to do this. but the white house is counting on her. they feel as if not only do they have her, that it will be enough to provide the cover for whatever wavering democrats they need. >> even as the white house was telling me telling everyone this week that she's in their corner, i had rich the head of the afl-cio the head of the seat right now saying, no nancy pelosi is with us. >> look she's not with them that's clear. the question is is she going to go out on a limb for the president on this. that's what's unclear. although i think there are -- pelosi people would say she's going out on a limb by not being against him on this front. i tell you, it's fascinating to watch this. this is basically president obama who, if he loses this, the

seeds of this loss will have been planted seven years ago and this inability to court congress. but if he wins, this is such a blow to labor. already a weak political chink in the democratic armor. if they lose this one, what can they win anymore? >> and the president, i mean, you covered the white house. i covered the house. we know that when they tell you, okay, the events of the day are up -- are over. there's a lid. you can all go home. all of a sudden they scramble. they got together reporters and here he went to nationals park where there was a congressional baseball game and this whole trip to nats park was a cover for him huddling with nancy pelosi for 15 minutes one-on-one and putting to her how important it was to him and strategizing. there he was looking like we know -- first of all, he doesn't love baseball. he doesn't go there. >> i'm watching him do this and i'm thinking where was this five years ago, where was this six years ago, four years ago. the white house is going to roll their eyes as they hear us talking about this about his

inability to court congress very well. he's scrambling. you know one person on twitter responded to me when i said this and said he's like the guy cramming for finals. suddenly realizing, oh, man, now i've got to go court congress. look what i'm doing 2349 last 48 hours here. it does feel like he's cramming a little bit. we'll see if it works. you know i would be surprised if the -- this would be a real embarrassment. this ask basically the last thing he's got on his big second-term semi domestic agenda. this trade is obviously something that's both. it would be a big blow to him. >> and now we have hillary clinton speaking cramming. hillary clinton a five-minute video they just posted online. they are portraying her as a fighter, a fighter for people like you, the average voter, the middle class voter. they're showing her biography. they're going to have her at roosevelt island between manhattan and queens in the east river tomorrow. i'll be there reporting for all

of us. on this new rollout. this is her first public event. she's not been -- they all been -- >> in my count some of the new hampshire events are publicish. >> they were all for small groups of people or she gave a speech in houston on voting rights just before a select group on campus and a speech to women legislators. john q. public or mrs. whoever have not been able to get a ticket or come in to any of these events so far. >> it is. by the way, we're transitioning hillary clinton, somebody who was for these trade agreements before she became a candidate and now trying to stay neutral, trying to carve outertory like nancy pelosi. i will be curious to see what happens today if it has any impact on what she might si in her speech tomorrow. there's a bunch of things i'm curious about. number one is, the first time she's attempted to answer the why question. she never did it in '07 and '08 and it came back to haunt her.

she has made a huge pivot to the left. she has flipped on a whole series of issues if you look at it over a ten-year span. all the flips toward the progressive side of the aisle. how does she convince democrats that these are changes of conviction, not changes of convenience. i think that's a challenge for her. and of course the other part which they've telegraphed is they want to reintroduce her as hillary rodham. meet hillary hodrodham. you know the former first lady. dorothy rodham's daughter. it makes sense. same challenge jeb bush has. it's something she needs to do. probably something she needed to do eight years ago but better late than never. >> just to share with you i'm told now that secretary kerry is going to be released from the hospital later today. the broken leg to his home in boston. >> i hear no cast too. it's unbelievable. his recovery everybody has been -- everything you hear is how good of healer he is. it's impressive how he's pulled this off.

>> we're going to be hearing from bernie sanders in a few moments because he's got a lot to say about hillary clinton not having -- holding interviews and straddling the issue on trade and "meet the press" coming up. >> which i'll see you there on sunday. don't be late. >> and you've got candidates. >> yes, ma'am. so we'll see. mitt romney, he will have done his -- he has his whole shtick in utah. john a john, the campaign chair, and deep in iraq. that's been a mess all week. >> thank you very much. we'll be there. in new york today, 800 law enforcement officials involved in the search efforts combing the woods not for from that prison where richard matt and david sweat broke out of. jail break. the daring break almost a week ago. schools are closed. families are huddled in their homes. many of them with guns at the ready, being told don't go outside. officials are revealing new details about prison worker joyce mitchell's relationship with both inmates and how she brought them contraband. >> i'm not going the get into

the details of exactly what she brought in to the facility. i've been consistent with that in this investigation and i'm going to continue to be consistent with that in in gas. to confirm she has not brought power tools into the that sillity based on our investigation. >> john yang joins me now from morrisonville morrisonville, new york. john, what is the focus now or the search? it's still intensive in the area that you are? >> reporter: it's still in this little area south of the prison. we're on a southeast corner of this triangle. they know that she this woman, joyce mitchell, says that she was supposed to be area dogs picked up the scent on wednesday night. they found candy wrappers. they found footprints.

they continue to search. there are dogs on the ground. license plate from 2,000 feet. they've got infrared detectors, tracing heat. they go up at night when everything is cooled down. look for heat patterns look for -- actually look for heat in the form of skout of the prison literally walking distance of the prison. andrea andrea? >> joining me is how a manhunt like this is run is lenny depaul retired.

>> certainly the leads are not going cold and the trips are coming in. there are several hundred they're vetting now and prioritizing. however, their focus is on this area at this point, especially where the bloodhounds hitting on that scent and picking up the new track is very important. john was right. they stumbled on to on area where they apparently were bedded down. the wrappings that they found. the food wrappings were consistent with what came out of the jail. so if they are contained and inside this perimeter, that's huge for law enforcement. they're going step by step. i mean there are areas in the -- the terrain is tough. homes have not been opened up yet for the summer that they could have broken in to. they're doing it by the numbers and rightfully so. >> how unusual is it for a prison worker to get involved or

co-oped by inmates? aren't workers, not just the guards, but the other prison employees screened and checked and a whole lot of other things? >> they are. no, they certainly are. again, this mrs. mitchell was involved. you know, i don't want to get involved with an ongoing investigation and jeopardize that but my opinion, i'm hoping she's cooperating 100% and giving law enforcement everything that went on with respect to, you know, the two inmates and what she provided for them. did she give them a cellphone before they left was there money involved, did she meet anybody on the outside. all allegations at this point and it looks like she is cooperating with law enforcement. so that's huge. >> all of our information is that she's cooperating and that that's one reason why there have been no charges at this point. >> right.

that's what i'm hearing also. again, we're more on the manhunting side and i certainly hope that these two vicious people, if in fact they are cornered, that you know with their mindset, suicide by cop. we don't know what's going to go down. the law enforcement has their hands full. they're doing a great job. >> lanny, thanks very much for being with us. and two men have been charged today with conspiracy to help isis connected to that foreign terror plot to kill police officers in boston. law enforcement officials tell nbc news that u samsaama rahim met with them two weeks ago to discuss the pamela gellar the organizer of last month's contest in texas. the fbi says rahim later changed his mind and decided to attack police instead. rahim was killed on june 2nd when he was stopped for questioning by an fbi agent and boston police officer. and up next, the challenger

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hillary clinton's chief challenger bernie sanders is going to talk about trade and campaign spending. moment ace go he was here and we talked about that. you're heading to iowa. first of all, hillary clinton's relaunch. what's your response to this whole re-introduction of hillary clinton, her first public events of this campaign that's less than two months now? >> hillary clinton will run her campaign. i'll run my campaign, my style has been to do town meetings all over iowa all over new hampshire. we had a huge meeting in minneapolis. we got out. we talked to people. we take questions. and what we find is that the world outside of the beltway is

very different. people are deeply concerned about the disappearing middle class wealth and income inequality. the fact that the young kids can't afford to go to college. those are the issues that we are talking about and the need to take on the billionaire class, the need to transform our economics and politics of the billionaires can't buy elections. frankly, andrea, those are the issues i think the american people are resonating towards. >> she says she's been on a listening tour and she's talking about the need to get money out of politics. so what is different between you and hillary clinton if you're a democratic voter and you have a -- >> let me start with one simple difference. i don't have a super pac. i'm not going to be getting huge sums of money from millionaires and billionaires. we are, have received well over 100,000 donations from individuals who have gone to berniesanders.com. you know what our average donation is? $40 apiece. working families all over this

country are saying bernie we're standing with you. >> bill clinton said in an interview that nobody sought any favors, no donors to the family foundation, and he said i don't think that hillary clinton either, as secretary of state, would know who those donors were. so he said basically there's no conflict of interest to worry about. >> andrea, here's the problem. it is that when you run for president today you need so much money for virtually all of the candidates have to reach out to very wealthy people. it's not just hillary clinton. we don't talk about the role of the koch brothers. she's people the second wealthiest family in america are going to be sending more money this this campaign than the democrat party or republican party. they want to end social security, medicare medicaid and the environmental protection agency. do you think we should be talking about their influence? so i think the issue is that we

need radical campaign finance reform take big money out of politics. >> but is bill clinton correct when he says there isn't a conflict of interest between donors to the family foundation and what she did as secretary of state, what she would do as president if she were nominated and elected? >> i have concerns about anybody who is dependent on huge calm ina contributors. but you will have to ask hillary clinton for more details on that. >> do you think there is a trust issue? polls show that she is losing support of people that more people now don't -- will not think that she's not trustworthy, that she's upside-down in that? >> what i've said throughout this campaign is i'm not running against hillary clinton. i am running to take on a billionaire class which has enormous power to make sure that every kid in this country, regardless of income can get a college education, that we leave the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and deal with climate

change, that we in fact raise the minimum wage to a living wage. we have more problems today than since 1929. those are the issues that i'm addressing. the american people will have to decide how they feel about hillary clinton. i have known hillary for 25 years. i'm not going to wage personal attacks on her. we differ on issues and those are the areas i will focus on. >> let's say trade. you've been specific about trade. what about hillary clinton on the trade issue? ask that is an issue that we have very substantial disagreements. i believe and voted against all of the trade agreements since i've been in congress. nafta, permanent normal trade relations with china. i believe those trade agreements have cost us millions of jobs and led to the race to the bottom lowering american wages. what is hillary clinton's position on this? trans pacific partnership. apparently she has no position. she's not for it she's not against it. it is hard for me to understand how any candidate, hillary clinton or anybody else cannot have a position on what is a major, major issue facing the

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brain trust now. joins me now from new york. tomorrow is the big day for the rally. what are you hoping to accomplish with this speech? >> thanks for having me andrea. we're happy to be here and really happy that we're going off tomorrow with the launch of the campaign i was shullm officially with her announcement speech. what's going to happen tomorrow is secretary clinton will deliver her speech laying out her vision for the country, why she believes she's the right candidate for president to help everyday americans and their family get ahead and stay ahead. how we're going to make this country competitive going forward into the future in the 21st century so that we're creating good jobs that give back to the middle class, the meaning that they're seeking in terms of stability and security they want for your lives. their families and future. >> it strikes me that she announced last time with highly produced campaign video this is her first campaign speech saying here is why i want to run for president as a launch speech.

>> as a long speech i think -- >> launch speech. >> launch speech i'm sorry, andrea. no i think she laid it out in the initial video. and she's been around the country meeting with people in smaller settings. that was a very clear choice that she made and how she wanted to go out in the first months in six weeks or so of this campaign. obviously there's a long campaign here. we've gotten months 11 months to go in the the first votes are cast. and we're going to be campaigning and secretary clinton will be campaigning in the number of different venues. tomorrow as we always said even in april we would officially launch this campaign several weeks after that ramp-up period and that's what we're doing tomorrow. >> it's been two months. in that period polls show there is a decline in her trustworthiness. people are now saying that more people than not say they don't trust her. how do you counter abt act that? >> look i think polls ask questions lot of ways andrea. you and i know now i feel about

how the polls come out by media and other public outlets and universities. the question for voters going forward, who are they going to count on and who are they going to trust to fight for them every day in the white house from that oval office to make sure their kids have the future they want for them that they can have jobs that give them a fair wage and real rewards when they're putting in work that's contributing to making their companies more profitable so their productivity is rewarded. and i think they want to know who is going to be the tenacious fighter on their behalf every day, their president. when you measure where hillary clinton stands on any poll who cares about people like them and who will fight for people like them she's out performing her opponents. her campaign is to make that case and make that case to the mesh american voters, the primaries and through the rest of this campaign that that's the champion she will be for everyday americans and their families. >> how do you persuade them that she's a champion for everyday americans when she is taking so

much money, political money, bernie sanders we interviewed earlier and the money the hillary and bill clinton money? does that create an image problem? >> i think, look the american people have had presidents who have been -- come from different backgrounds. they've had roosevelt, kennedy. i think with the american people are really going to judge people by is do i get a sense from you that you understand my life that you know that to me middle class has to mean something again, that i want my children to have more options for the future. do you believe that top-down economics has failed people like me and my life because giving more to just those at the top is not how we build a strong economy and it's certainly not how we should measure our success going forward. and i think when people judge hillary clinton on those measures, that's why she's outperforming opponents on either side. right now she's the person that they actually believe is best

equipped, most tenacious, to make that night on their behalf. >> bill clinton will be with her tomorrow. what role is he going to play tomorrow and throughout the campaign? he's doing enterinterviews, something that she has not done. >> she talked to the press. this is a long campaign. she's going to be -- >> far less than any of the other candidates. >> we've got 17 months to go. i think you're going to see a lot of her. she's going to see of a lot of you. you will be talking to her a lot. as for the role that former president clinton will play in this, i think everybody knows he is a great asset. he is a real political force on the stump. he's campaigned i think, for every democratic candidate since he left office. and we're expecting him to do the same. we think she and president clinton share the same belief about making sure we have an economy that puts people first, that takes on the top-down policies that fail us. and we expect them to be a strong advocate for her and that

case on the stump. >> does he have a speaking role tomorrow? is he going to introduce her? >> i'm not going to raise the curtain on anything that goes on tomorrow, andrea. we will all know soon enough. >> joel, thank you very much. great to see you. >> thank you. >> thanks for previewing tomorrow's big rollout. we will be seeing you on the campaign trail. and just ahead, the road to freedom. the last of the angola three could be released today after serving more time in so dare.

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miscarriage of justice. tell us what you expect to happen next. >> well, what's happening here, andrea, as we stand outside the parish jail where mr. woodfox is waiting to hear from the court is everybody is on standby. we have not yet heard from the court. he's in there. his lawyer walked in a short while ago, escorted by the ward. we're told that if the court in new orleans does rule that he is to be released today, that could happen fairly quickly. a spokesman for the jail says he just has to do the paperwork, then he walks out the door. he will probably come here. might make a short statement. he has to be careful about that. his lawyers will watch that carefully buzz he's still on appeal. then he goes away. if the judges rule that he is to stay in jail for the length of his appeal he would stay here. he would not go back to angola. we're told this is a small facility. 39 people is all it will hold. and that mr. woodfox is not in solitary confinement here. as you said he was twice

convicted of the 1972 stabbing a brutal stabbing of a prison guard. both those convictions were overturned but he was indicted again, a third time, but earlier this week a federal judge stepped in and said that just too much time had passed too many witnesses had died too little physical evidence for there, again, to be a fair trial at this late date. he ordered mr. woodfox released immediately. the state immediately also stepped in and said, no, we intend to go to trial and that he should remain in jail. so that's where we are now waiting to hear from the fifth circuit court in new orleans, andrea. >> mark potter, thank you so very much fshlgs growing outrage surrounding a prominent civil rights activist in spokane, washington. rachel dolezal heads the lowal naacp. she's presented herself as an african-american. but now her parents have come forward to say that she has no black ancestry. the city is investigating where she misrepresented herself when she applied for another minority

position chairing a police ombudsman commission. nbc michelle jones has more on this unusual story. >> reporter: did rachel dolezal violate policy by lying about her race on a job application? dolezal serves as chairwoman of the city's office of police ombudsman commission where she identified herself as black, white, and american indian for the voluntary appointment. he she is head of the chapter of naacp and teaches africana studies at the university. >> she wants to recreate reality. she wants to joe scarborough invent it herself. >> reporter: now dolezal's parents, both white, have come forward telling the nbc affiliate khq their ancestry is czech, swedish, and german with a touch of native american her tanl and for years their daughter has been misleading people. >> she knows it's false but i think she's told herself as well as she's told others this

erroneous identity of hers enough that by now she may believe it more than she believes the truth. >> reporter: dolezal made headlines in spokane back in february when she said racist and threatening letters had been send to the naacp pos office box. when a reporter for television station qxly interviewed her about racial incidents she was asked about her racial background. >> is that your dad? >> yeah that's -- that's my dad. >> this man right here is your father? right there? >> do you have a question about that? >> yes, ma'am. >> okay. >> i was wondering if your dad really is an african-american man. >> that's a very -- i mean i don't know -- i don't know what you're implying. >> are you african-american? >> i don't -- i don't understand the question of -- i did tell you that yes, that's my dad. and he was unable to come in january. >> are your parents -- are they

white? >> reporter: the story quickly went viral trending worldwide on twitter overnight. many asking for dolezal to be removed from her job saying don't talk to me about how rachel dolezal understood knew the black struggle when she could pick and choose when to be black. >> nbc news was unable to reach rachel dolezal and she had no comment to our affiliate. dolezal told the local newspaper the spokesman review that the situation is nots a easy as it seems and there are complexities she's also dismissed the controversy of a byproduct of a contentious family lawsuit. and the naacp is coming to her defense releasing this statement today, one's racial identity is not a qualifying cry tearia or disqualifying standard for naacp leadership. the naacp alaska oregon washington state conference stands behind ms. dolezal's advocacy record. payday major changes of how los angeles does business. the mayor is just ahead.

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los angeles, california voting to hike the minimum wage up to $15 an hour phasing it in over the next five years, making it the largest city in the u.s. to do so. it is a huge victory for labor groups but opponents fear the negative impact on businesses there could be really a problem. the mayor was behind the push to raise the minimum wage and joins me now. mr. mayor, thank you very much. what is the economic logic here in terms of how this will help people working at the minimum wage and most people understand that the minimum wage has not been raised nationally and it really is an outrage for a lot of people. >> sure. >> what is the economic impact? could not this cost jobs if businesses move outside the city? >> we feel we've had tremendous economic growth here in the last two years in los angeles. untoer nately about one out of

four or 1 million of our residents still live in poverty. many of them are working full time earning a minimum wage that as american workers have had a tremendous boost in our productivity. those at the top, those of us who have seen a 17% raise over the last 30 years, those at the bottom have seen a 12% decrease. it's just unamerican. i would pose the question back the cost of poverty for all of us, whether it's food stamp, emergency room visits failing high schools, it is too much for us to bear. and we believe that this can help businesses because people will actually have spending power at the bottom of the economic ladder. right now people are struggling between rent and buying food and that's just unamerican. >> what would be the contrast with surrounding area if l.a. does -- well, l.a. has taken the lead here. >> sure. we see a lot of other cities and for instance the county of los angeles which represents about a million people taking actions to follow what we have done. i fully expect a lot of other cities around us to do the same. i think that you will have two

affects. some people have talked about a wage island and people won't want to bring their businesses to the city of los angeles. but the opposite effect is even more true when you look at the evidence where we've raised the minimum wage across the country. is that you can create poverty pockets in nearby municipalities that keep our wages lower so the best workers will come into cities that pay better. the people who have fewer sick days, the best education, the folks that you want as a business and that can help you save money because you're able to not have as much turnover et cetera, will come to places where we pay a decent wage as we have in the past in america but we have fallen behind for so many decades. >> i also wanted to ask you about a problem that is plaguing so many cities and that is the conflict between the police and the community and you've got a case there. you've been criticized for not having a stronger response let's say, to the azeal ford case unarmed mentally challenged man. this is in the aftermath of the michael brown case. it did not get as much attention as others might have expected.

what is the status now? do you think you've been aggressive enough in getting the police to take you know, to take ownership and to take responsibility? >> absolutely. the son of a prosecutor so i never prejudge a case but i'm very proud of los angeles and the system that we set up because we went through the pain that other cities are going through right now 20 years ago with rodney king with the christopher commission led by warren christopher that set up third-party investigations and we saw that work this monday when the officer who shot and killed this individual was found out of policy. we're very resilient city. i think it's important for mayors and other people not to prejudge and to make sure those decisions are not made politically but made by those inpartial investigators. i'm very proud of los angeles. it shows that nobody is above the law, that we love our officers but if anybody steps of tefr line there will be consequences. >> still waiting to hear on the disciplinary action. >> correct. the next move now is the police chief will have to take the police commissions finding that this was out of policy and

figure out what the appropriate discipline is. then our district attorney which isn't part of our city will determine whether there's criminal charges to be filed. >> before i let you go i want to can you about the drought and how you're all dealing. i think i read that jerry brown, the governor, is thinking about taking fewer showers. i don't know if that's the case in the city of los angeles. i don't want to get too personal there. >> i still shower every day and i encourage the governor to do the same. we have plenty of water in the state. in los angeles we use the same amount of water today that we did 40 years ago even though we've added a million more people. that's just by being smarter by tearing up some of our lawns and in the city of l.a. we're being very aggressive. i'm subsidizing people switching out their lawns to beefl other plants. that's 50% of home use of water. i'm trying to refrain people and we're going to in the next 20 years make our dependence on imported water cut in half by being able to take more of our local water, recycling it reusing it, and just being smarter about our choices. >> mayor garcetti thank you for

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when american leads, the world is safer, for freedom and for free enterprise. when we don't lead we're allowing and frankly essentially inviting china to go right on setting the rules of the world economy. but we're americans, aren't we?

we're not people who stand still. we don't give in to doubt and defeatism. >> the speaker of the house on the floor just moments ago making his case to pass the trade legislation three key votes up for grabs today. joining me now is nbc's luke russert and columnist marcus. both here and on the hill. luke, first to you. the state of play right now, the president in this last ditch effort, first at the ballpark and then the ballpark last night at the congressional baseball game, and then today trying to twist arms on the hill. what's the reaction to the president's appeal? >> most loved that house democrats have ever gotten from president obama, andrea. we often talk about how the last thing he wants to do is try to move members of congress along or hang out with them. they've gotten a big dose of obama last night and tonight in a span of 12 hours, seeing the president in nationals park and here at their caucus meeting this morning. he essentially went into their meeting and said look i think that this is a good deal because

i'm the one shepherding it. meaning this is a progressive trade deal. you mentioned ahead at the beginning of the show. there are three separate votes. the first one is taa, trade adjustment assistance. obama said to his fellow democrats play it straight. what democrats are doing, they're often in support of taa. labor and some progressive democrats say let's vote against this because if we vote against this it kills the entire bill. and house republican leadership said they will not move forward on the overall trade bill for the nor that if taa doesn't pass. complex and a lot of acronyms but this is a play by democrats to kill something that ordinarily they would like because they believe it will take down this entire process. all that being said nancy pelosi we're getting indications is in support of this taa provision just like the president. usually when she supports something she finds a vote. john boehner has indicated he will give some republican support for it.

a lot of republicans few taa as welfare. from where we sit now it's a very close vote but a good chance of passing. >> and the vote last night on a test vote was 217, exactly the number they needed. no margin for error here. here's peter, a democrat from oregon after seeing the president. this is his reaction. >> the president tried to both guilt people and then impugn their integrity. i don't think it was a very effective tactic. there are a number of us who were insulted by the approach. he's saying you're not playing it straight if you use the only tool you have to stop tpa. they've got the votes for tpa and i've been here before. i've seen this seen. once you get tpa, the whole deal is a done deal. >> i guess that's one case where, you know the personal treatment didn't work. >> undecided. >> i mean boy, did that

backfire. ruth? >> well, it might have backfired with him but it is very hard when you are a democrat and this is such an important moment for your democratic president to say no. you don't necessarily want to be identified as the one who's caving and giving in to his blahndishments. in the end and i thought profess professor russert did a fantastic job of walking us three you the stages of votes and the various issues here. i think it's very hard to imagine that the democrats are going to take down what is essentially a democratic pro-labor program in order to torpedo the whole thing. that would be a big surprise. >> that's one thing we're hearing a lot of democrats, who they might not be in support of this overall trade deal. they say we can't kill this program because honestly, if they were to kill this today there's no guarantee it could come back and if it's killed off today, tpa, the authority to go forward on this trade program, that could come back in the future in the senate. this is a high-stakes gamble by

progressives and labor. >> luke russert, professor russert, you're all over this. love it. we will follow you all day. ruth marcus have a great weekend. that does it forred this addition of "andrea mitchell reports." i'm headed to new york to cover hillary clinton and a special, special happy 91st birthday to president george h.w. bush. this picture posted on instagram by his granddaughters, the twins, jenna and barbara, with the caption, birthday selfie with the greatest gampy on his 91st. son jeb bush just tweeted this gem saying to the greatest man i've ever known. happy birthday dad. get the jacket. the red sox, it's great. remember, follow the show online, on facebook, and on twitter @mitchellreports. my colleague thomas ronts is up next on "msnbc live." >> i want that jacket andrea. have a great weekend. thanks so much fshlgs and as you mentioned, during your show, i will have the attorney for tamir rice's family coming up during this hour.

first, authorities are closing in on those two escaped killers now on the run for seven days. urgent new developments as authorities use all the tools in their arsenal to track down these men. also president obama rushes to capitol hill trying to salvage his legacy trade deal but will it fail at the hands of his own party? and it's a story exploding on social media. a local spokane, washington, naacp president who pretended to be black? we'll talk to the former president of the spokane naacp. it's all straight ahead on "msnbc live."

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