stuff. in our lifetime. that's "the ed show." "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. we'll see you tomorrow night. tonight on "politicsnation," the $10 billion candidate, donald trump puts his money where his mouth is finally. >> also bill clinton admits to a bill mistake. it could affect hillary's run for office -- and a key part of president obama's agenda. plus controversial video of a deadly police shooting in california. it's a key test case of officer privacy versus the public's right to know. >> welcome to "politicsnation." we begin tonight with donald trump saying he filed his financial disclosure report with

the federal election commission. he didn't release the actual form but he did put out a very trump-like press release. basically stating this. >> i'll show you that next time. >> yes, the release saying the s.e.c. report was, quote, not designed for a man of mr. trump's massive wealth. and i love this part. his net worth is in excess of $10 billion. that's $10 billion in all caps. and his income for the year of 2014, was $362 million. some skeptics doubted trump would actually follow through with this but he did file this form here is the headline. he will be on that debate stage in 22 days. and right now, he's number one

if the polls. today he was on "morning joe," vowing he'd win the hispanic vote. >> i would beat hillary. and a vote that i will win is the hispanic vote. i employ thousands of hispanics and i will tell you, i will win that vote. i'll create jobs and i'll get the hispanic vote. i have so many thousands that work for me and thousands that have over the years. and the hispanics love me. so i will win the hispanic vote and you would be surprised to hear that because i talk about illegal immigration, which i'm opposed to. but i will win the hispanic vote because i will create jobs. and by the way, jeb bush wouldn't know where to go to create a job. >> and while so many republicans are running away from him, ted cruz is fully embracing him calling for a meeting with trump today. >> why have you scheduled a

meeting with donald trump? >> oh, donald and i have become friends. we've sat down a number of times before he was a kand and we're sitting down again today. what i salute him for is focusing on the problem of illegal immigration. i like donald he's bold he's brash. part of the reason people are supporting donald trump right now is they're fed up with politicians in washington. >> but this morning, trump wasn't exactly sure why they were meeting. >> ted cruz called me and i don't know why i'm meeting him to be honest but i do have respect for him. i respect the fact that along with a couple of others he came out very strongly and agreed with what i said on illegal immigration. and he came out strongly and early. i like him. he called me he wanted to meet and we are going to meet. >> and tonight, we know trump has a date with nine other republicans at the debate in 22 days. it might be late night at the

rnc headquarters tonight. joining me now is tara dowdell and ed rendell. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> governor i mean it appears trump is for real. what do you make of his press release today? >> well it's not surprising. donald trump's going to have enough money if he wants to spend it. that's the key. if he wants to spend it. he'll have enough money to wage a very well financed campaign for the republican nomination. can he put two, three, $400 million of his own money into the effort? yes, he can. there's no question about that. he may have problems being that liquid, but he could certainly mortgage any of his properties and get a ton of money. he'll be a force to be reckoned with financially. the question for donald trump on august 6th he'll be bold he'll be brash, he'll be attacked. how he responds and does he

look presidential? because in the end, although people want somebody who's tough and appeals to the anti-washington sentiment, they also want somebody who's classy enough to be president. and that's what donald's going to have to convince voters. >> he's number one in the polls, tara. you got to say that he's going to be on that stage, and that he's resonating with certain voters. so how do you deal with him? you're a political strategist -- if you're opposing him in the primary where he's showing popularity? >> one thing people don't talk about enough is the fact that donald trump is a celebrity. he's been a celebrity since the 1980s. he's actually a global celebrity. people know him all over the world. so people are acting like that's not playing a role in his popularity. people feel like they know him because he's been in the news so much. that's part of what's driving this. the other piece is and i've mentioned this on the show a few weeks ago, but in the republican

primary, it's not enough to have a record of conservativism like jeb bush. the republican base particularly the most active and angry part of the base they want you to talk nasty. they want you to say things that are bold brash, and ugly. ugly. and donald trump and being very ugly. >> and i think you hit something that's very important. at the end of the day, though you want someone that will stand up and advocate and in a very direct forceful passionate way, even if it's ugly. but a president, you want to feel, can govern and that is more stable. and when the rubber meets the road, or the vote hits the booth, do they go for the celebrity who's brash, or do they go for the reasonable conservative person that believes in their values but that can govern?

and is that what someone like ted cruz is banking on that he's going to act supportive of trump, but he's going to act like i'm one step on this side of i am more of a governing or a policy kind of guy? in fact, moments ago, he was asked about that whether he was supporting trump out of self-interest. let me play this. >> donald trump is one of the opponents that you have in this race. do you see him as a plausible occupant of the oval office plausible president of the united states, or are you simply defending him because you expect him to collapse and you want to inherit his votes? [ laughter ] >> well let's be clear, i'm running to win, so i expect everyone to collapse i'd like to inherit all their votes. >> would you be comfortable with him as the republican candidate? >> i will support the republican nominee, whoever the republican nominee is. >> so is that cruz's strategy? he doesn't think trump will

last he thinks he will collapse. and he doesn't seem too at ease with a trump periodcyresidency either. >> no no one does. donald trump appeals to a certain percent of the electorate. maybe 17 18%. can he get higher than that without convincing people that he could be a plausible occupant of the white house? no he can't. what chris christie and ted cruz and scott walker are banking on they'll inherit the tough-guy mantel when donald trump goes away? so the question, is he going away or does he have staying power? can he get the 17% to the mid and high 20s, and those things are to be determined. he can keep the side show going, and that will get him the 17 or 18%, or he can pivot off that and try to build. but if he collapses, ted cruz is well positioned to enherit some

of that vote. so is chris christie. he's the other tough guy in the race who tells people what he believes and not what they want to hear. so it will be interesting, if donald does collapse, and i'm not saying that he will who will get the mantel of those trump voters. >> i want to go back to something you said tara. because a gallup poll just said that 25% of americans take trump seriously, but 41% of the republicans do. now, what is it say about the republican base that you were talking about? >> the republican base for them, donald trump is saying the things that they want their candidates to say. they're saying the things that they are thinking but they know are not even remotely appropriate to say, so donald trump is basically channeling that part of the republican base and saying what they want to hear and saying what they want to say. and that is a big part of that appeal. make no mistake about it. >> talking about appeal, i said

in the set-up governor that donald trump keeps saying he's going to win the hispanic vote but when you look at the facts, the polls say 61% of people in the country, of all americans, view trump negative he. but 81% of hispanics do. he would have to really perform a political miracle to win the hispanic vote given those numbers. >> and it's not going to happen. if donald trump gets into a general election and he wins the hispanic vote i will eat 100 tacos in 60 seconds. >> will you do it on "politicsnation"? >> absolutely. right at the top of the show. >> we gonna need the top of the show for that one. you know jeb bush is one who's criticized trump tara but now he's trying to tie him to president obama. that was interesting. listen to this. >> we need to focus on the things that tie us together.

and whether it's donald trump or barack obama their rhetoric of divisiveness and wrong. a republican will never win by striking fear if people's hearts. a republican can win, and will win, if we have an aspirational message that gives people hope that their lives will be better when we apply conservative principles the right way. >> well will that work, governor? >> will it work? i think jeb bush is right, in a general election that's what you've got to do you got to be aspirational and give people a reason to photo for you, not just give the people a reason to vote against the other guy. >> will it work, tara? >> what jeb bush is doing, he's playing the obama card. the base wants to hear obama insulted. so if he ties trump to obama, that's something that he's thinking will resonate with the base, but i think they see through that.

>> thank you, tara dowdell, and ed rendell, we're looking forward to you and that 100 tacoses. >> not going to happen, rev. >> thank you both for being with me tonight. straight ahead, a court releases this video showing california officers fatally shooting an unarmed man two years ago. why did police fight to keep it private? and tonight's president obama's growing legacy from his historic iran deal to cuba to same-sex marriage. and bill clinton's crime bill has made mass incarceration worse. it comes as the president is ready to make history tomorrow on criminal justice. but first jimmy fallon talks about the donald. >> we'll be taking a look at the pros and cons of going to a donald trump rally. pro, hearing his plan on how to

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disturbing newly released video of a shooting in california is raising new questions about police transparency and accountability. a judge just ruled that the california city of gardenia cannot stop the public from seeing this dash cam video of a deadly shooting in 2013. the city appealed and received a stay on that ruling. but not before the l.a. times posted the video on youtube. it's a bit hard to see what's going on in the video. the two men you see were looking for a stolen bike but the officers thought they were the suspects. lawyers for the men in the video

say it's clear they were unarmed. but police say they thought one man was reaching for a weapon. nbc's k nbc affiliate in los angeles has more. >> reporter: a federal judge today ordered the release of these police dashboard videos showing officers shooting to death one man and wounding his friend. both men were unarmed. the chief says officers were justified and no criminal charges filed. >> he was not complying with his orders and the officers could not see his hands at one point. the detailed analysis is in the district attorney's opinion letter. >> after gardeena settled for $4.7 million, the judge ruled taxpayers should see the videos. the chief said the city respectfully disagrees. >> we don't want our community members to feel distrustful of us because they know at some point their situation may end up

on video or the internet. so there's a balance approach. >> the prosecutor decided the shooting was justified. all three officers are now back on the job. across the nation cities and states are moving to videotape more of police interactions with the community. but there's one big question we must answer. once that video is recorded who should be allowed to watch it? how do you balance a police officer's right to privacy with the public's right to know? joining me now is former federal prosecutor paul butler thank you for being here. >> great to be here reverend. >> did the argument to keep this video private stand a chance? >> no. when the taxpayers spend $5 million to settle a case they have a right to know what happened. in this case the police shot a man who was unarmed. he had one hand in the air. the other hand, he had a

baseball cap on. that's reckless homicide. i don't understand how this is not a criminal case. the police don't get to shoot you because you take off your hat. in this situation, what they should have done is take cover. you don't expose yourself and then use that as an excuse to shoot. yesterday the president talked about how the united states is the world's leading jailer. it seems like we don't have a problem prosecuting anybody except a cop who shoots an unarmed civilian. >> and now they're fighting, as we have been involved in these police accountability movements, now that we are successful in some places, not nearly enough getting the dash cam cameras and the body cameras, they're fighting the release of them which brings another hurdle to fight in transparency. the judge's order, and it goes back to something you said paul. the judge's order to release the video, talks about the

settlement the city paid to the victims and the public's right to know. the judge writes this right is rooted in citizens' interests in keeping a watchful eye on public agencies. the fact that they spent the city's money, presumably derived from taxes, only strengthens the public's interest in seeing the videos. isn't the judge's point here about transparency? >> absolutely. look there are legitimate privacy concerns. if i'm at my favorite dive bar at 2:00 a.m. and a fight breaks out and the cops respond, i don't want a video online of me out at the club popping bottles. the police go to a lot of private places where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, but that has to be balanced against the public's right to know against the transparency of our public

agencies. they fought tooth and nail to keep it private. >> two years. >> it wasn't because they were concerned about privacy. they didn't want the world to see what these cops did. >> the case brings up questions about what will happen when cities and states start using body cameras right now. in rge judge, there's a proposal to release the body camera video to only those involved in the case. in oregon a proposal to allow for the release of the video if it's part of a court proceeding or a use of force case. seattle, they put the video online, but it's blurred and silent. where do you draw the line here paul? how will this issue be resolved? >> so eventually there will be a technological fix. we'll come up with a way to blur the faces of people who are private citizens but still allow us to see what's going on. in the meantime we have to figure out how these new body cam videos apply to other kinds

of information that the government has, that they release through the public through these open disclosure records. so there's some clear people who ought to have access to the video. people who are depicted in the video. defense attorneys and prosecutors. and like the judge says if a city spends millions of dollars to settle a case the public has a right -- >> let me bottom line it. because a big advocate in this area, as well as on my radio and tv show. bottom line more transparency or less what do we need? >> we need more transparency. >> that's all i want to know. paul butler thank you for your time tonight. >> great to be here. ahead, a big surprise from president clinton on a major issue, saying he was wrong on criminal justice. what it means for the right's fight for reform. plus the iran nuclear deal and the new chapter in president obama's legacy. and uncovering the donald trump

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>> tomorrow president obama will be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison in oklahoma. trying to draw attention to his push to change federal sentencing laws. today he talked about the need for reform. >> this huge spike in incarcerations is also driven by non-violent drug offenses where the sentencing is completely out of proportion with the crime. and that costs taxpayers enormous amounts of money.

it is debilitateing communities who are seeing huge proportions of the young men in their communities finding themselves with a criminal record rendering them often times unemployable. so it compounds problems that these communities already have. >> also today, a major admission from former president bill clinton, admitting he made a mistake, signing the violent crime bill when he was in office. >> i signed a bill that made the problem worse. and i want to admit it. [ applause ] and most of these people are in prison under state law, but the federal law set a trend. and that was overdone. we were wrong about that. that percentage of it, we were wrong about it. >> the 1994 law imposed tougher sentences and gave nearly $10 billion in funding for new

prisons. >> so the good news is we had the biggest drop in crime in history, and the first eight-year decline in history, the bad news is we had a lot of people locked up who were minor actors for way too long. the larger problem is the one president obama is now trying to address, that people who just have sentences that cannot be justified in their length compared to what they did, and that's important. >> this comes as there's growing support for reform and a historic push from the president. let's bring in "chicago tribune" tribune's" clarence page and msnbc political analyst jonathan alter. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, reverend. >> thanks, reverend. clarence president clinton admits he made a mistake in signing that bill.

and i remember protesting it 21 years ago and for him to admit it is striking to me. what do you make of his timing though? >> it's striking when any politician admits to making a mistakes or repudiates one of their own moves. the timing of this particular move by president clinton comes after president obama has made his moves toward reforms. it comes after several years of growing bipartisan efforts to reduce sentencing across the country, a move back to sensible sentencing, you might say. this has especially come in red states like texas and georgia, where the incarceration rate has been highest. so has the cost. and therefore, you have a lot of people on the right who see this as an inefficient spending of money and people on the left to want to see more humane reforms. we can get a along sometimes. >> the cost is weighed a lot on the right, jonathan but also

today president obama spoke about four ex-offenders he met yesterday and what struck him most about their stories. watch this. >> what was remarkable was how they had turned their lives around and these were some folks who had been some pretty tough criminals. in each instance somebody intervened at some point in their lives. once they had already been in the criminal justice system once they had already got in trouble and said you know what i think you can live a different way, and i'm willing to help you. but the point was, somebody reached out to that person and gave them a chance. >> so this is not just about fixing the criminal justice system, it's bigger than that jonathan. >> yeah, it's about saving a whole generation of young people who have been caught up in something that has, in some cases, ruined their lives, or potentially ruined their lives and giving them a chance at redemption. so this is big, important stuff for our society.

i'm fascinated that president clinton admitted the crime bill was a mistake. that was one of the biggest achievements of his first term and what they didn't do in the early '90s, partly because they were coming out of the crack epidemic, you know coming out of this three strikes and you're out mentality, they didn't draw the bright line that president obama did today between violent and non-violent. >> yeah it was everything. >> when you think about it they were putting people in jail for long periods of time who were sick. drug abuse is an illness more than a crime. so we put in thousands and thousands -- >> but let me ask you -- >> thousands of people were ill. >> you've been covering things in politics a long time. what do you think of bill clinton admitting this today? >> i think it's a very important move. as far as i know other than admitting he was wrong on

rwanda, when he didn't intervene in the case of genocide this is the first thing i can remember where he admitted error. and it's very appealing when politicians or former politicians do it. i think the public is very understanding of it. even people who have kids or other relatives who have been in jail for long sentences because of something that president clinton may have done i think they will respond positively to this. >> clarence, you know many will say he's doing it to help hillary's campaign. one of her first major policy addresses on the campaign was on criminal justice. watch this. >> there is something profoundly wrong when african american men are still far more likely to be stopped and searched by police charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms

than are meted out to their white counterparts. it's time to end the era of mass incarceration. we need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population while keeping our communities safe. >> is it clarence a genuine reflection and apology, or is it a set-up for hillary's campaign this admission by president clinton yesterday? >> well, either way, i'll take it, first of all. >> i will too. >> secondly you know i don't know how much of a political advantage this is going to have because this has become a bipartisan issue now. you've got people like rand paul and ted cruz wanting to abolish mandatory minimums. both the right and the left want to make some moves here so i think hillary clinton is on the right track. president clinton is on the

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>> we've got a historic chance to pursue a safer and more secure world, an opportunity that may not come again in our lifetimes. as president and commander in chief, i am determined to seize that opportunity. >> president obama today calling the iran deal a historic chance to stop that country from building the bomb. it's the latest in a series of landmark moments for president obama, including two supreme court decisions. one upheld the signature achievement, the affordable care act. another made gay marriage the law of the land. just days later, the president was in charleston delivering a

speech and a song that helped bring the nation together. he followed it by signing a 12-nation trade deal and then by announcing the re-opening of embassies in the u.s. and cuba. it's a remarkable streak. and so today, i put on my historian hat to try and imagine what the history books might say about this president. the first paragraph may go something like this. the first black president, president obama, restored the economy after the great recession with a stimulus and auto bail-out passed universal health care, and wall street reform, and was the first president to embrace marriage equality. he ordered the mission to kill osama bin laden, moved to normalize relations with cuba and reached a historic deal on iran's nuclear program. back with me are clarence page

and jonathan alter. jonathan the president's not done yet and there are still questions on things like iraq and gitmo, but how's that first paragraph looking to you? >> it's looking pretty accurate. we don't know on iran. it's going to be many years before we know whether there was a transformative deal or something that just allowed iran to jerk us around you know play hide and go seek with their program. so we don't know on that. sometimes history takes decades before you can really render a judgment. but most of the rest of what you described is secure, and that part of his legacy can never be taken away from him. we didn't know that for sure until this most recent supreme court decision on obamacare. but now these decisions are in the history books, and they will add up to him being a very good president no matter what happens

in the next 18 months. >> and clarence, we're not even adding him fighting to maintain things like the voting rights that the justice department fought for and policing and all. how does that first paragraph look to you? >> it looks impressive. i would think we in the daily press have, of course, our own pathologistsyies of looking at every great event by what happened today. we tend to live in the moment. but when you look at the broad expanse of things we've seen a trend in this part of his second term, where he's moving to do whatever he can that doesn't require the approval of the republicans and the house. and there's a lot that he can do and he's doing it. he's moving a lot of balls down the field. jonathan's right about iran. we don't know in the short-term how well this is going to work but there are enough safe guards

in it then it bodes well for any future prospects for peace. because we are dealing with radioactive materials here, it makes it a little bit easier for iea to hold iran accountable than it might otherwise. so i'm optimistic about it. i'm hoping for the best. >> you know looking at big picture again, and historic jonathan then senator obama campaigned saying that he would do things like talk to iran talk to cuba or go into pakistan and get bin laden. listen to this. >> as president obama of the united states, i would be willing to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate iran leaders at a time and place of my choosing. >> that's the way to bring about real change in cuba through strong, smart, principled diplomacy. >> and we had a chance to take out an al qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. if we have actionable

intelligence about high value terrorist targets and president musharraf will not act, we will. >> opponents criticized him for these statements jonathan but he delivered. >> yeah he looked like a kid when he was making those promises. he did. he's delivered on a very large number of the promises that he made. at the end of my first book on obama, i cataloged all of them and even early on he kept most of them except closing guantanamo, which the congress made it almost basically impossible for him to do that with a vote his first year in office. so it's not like he hasn't tried to do that. the big thing, two big areas where he has not succeeded, one was to get beyond red and blue america. that's how he first came to public attention in 2004, in that convention speech to bring us all together. that's proved to be impossible for reasons largely beyond his control, because of the

determined and often ugly opposition. and the other is restoring the american middle class, and raising more people out of poverty. i think this was affected by the great recession, which was the largest -- >> and the obstruction. >> and the obstruction. >> but clarence, in a recent phone call with former staff, president obama recently compared himself to ronald reagan saying he strived for a transformational presidency. now, this is an idea that's always been in his mind. i remember he said when he was running he wanted to be a transformative president, that reagan was a transformative president, and a lot of people blasted him. he's saying reagan but he was talking about he wanted to be transformative. this is what he always really wanted to be. >> that's right. he was speaking of reagan the same way he would speak of fdr, who was a transformative president in moving america in the other direction. i think what we've seen here is

both president clinton and president obama have -- clinton slowed down the reagan revolution, you could say, and obama moved it farther down the track with the affordable care act and other moves he's made. recent polls show remarkably the word "liberal" is starting to get redeemed now. people are no longer running and hiding from the label. that in itself is a transformative moment that i think his administration has had a lot to do with. >> from reagan and two bushes, the ship was headed one way and clinton slowed it down a little but president obama has turned the ship going another direction. clarence page and jonathan alter, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, reverend. straight ahead a theory that's so crazy, it just might be true. what if donald trump is a secret democrat? also giving kids a fair

shot, president obama's new program to bring the web to children in poor homes. (glasses clinking) ♪ (ground shaking) well there goes the country club. the 2015 dodge durango. now with available beats audio.

>> is donald trump secretly a democrat? i'm serious. how else do you explain the huge political mess he's created for the gop?

>> that was me just a few weeks ago. they said reverend al was crazy, they said reverend al had finally lost it. donald trump a secret democrat, how could it be? but now people are starting to see the light. a republican congressman just said quote, there's a small possibility that this gentleman is a phantom candidate. mr. trump has a close friendship with bill and hillary clinton. they were at his last wedding. he has contributed to the clintons' foundation. he has contributed to mrs. clinton's senate campaigns. all of this is very suspicious end of quote. it is suspicious but i've got it all figured out. and this simple chart explains everything. look at it. people, it's all right there,

plain as day. from the clintons to health care to obama, bush it's all connected. look it's all connected. >> hillary clinton is a terrific woman. i'm a little biased because i've known for her years. i just like her. i like her and i like her husband. >> i'm very pro choice. >> i think bush is probably the worst president in the history of the united states. >> i would tax people of great wealth. >> a liberal on health care. >> see the truth is out there. trump's been talking like a liberal for years. once he even said he would hire president obama and agreed he saved the economy. of course trump did his best to deny it all on fox news earlier today. >> so that's what you're doing, you're actually helping the democrats? >> yeah she's my worse

nightmare. from hillary's standpoint the one person she doesn't want running against her is donald trump. >> of course he claims he's not a secret democrat. isn't that what he'd say if he was a secret democrat? now, i'm no conspiracy theorist but i think the evidence speaks for itself. that's what pushes us to deliver smarter simpler faster sleeker earlier fresher harder farther quicker and yeah even on sundays. what's next? we'll show you. ♪ love ♪ in the nation, what's precious to you is precious to us. ♪ love is strange ♪ so when coverage really counts you can count on nationwide.

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children are almost four times as likely as white children to be living in poverty. the latest evidence that the economic recovery is leaving behind some of the united states most vulnerable citizens. to fight poverty, you need action. these children need a level playing field. today president obama announced a new program to increase high-speed internet access to over 275,000 low-income households, and close the 2-- and boths to 200,000 low-income children. >> we cannot hope to have a level playing field, if even in their infancy, even as children they start off unequal. we've got to invest in equalizing it in the younger ages. so as the ages grow and society

grows, equality grows together. it's the only way we can correct the institutional and structural inequality that plagues us. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. go ahead, knock this deal off my shoulders, i dare you. let's play "hardball".." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews in san francisco. dares go first. that was president obama today daring his critics for a better way to keep iran from a nuclear weapon. go ahead, tell us what you would do, how would you drive a harder bargain that keeps the major countries behind us that gets the iranians to accept it? if you can't find a tougher doipic route