"the ed show." that is "the ed show" for this friday evening. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. tonight on "politics nation," breaking news from the death of sandra bland, a trooper involved in the case is put on administrative duty as activists march for answers. also was the tennessee gunman inspired by isis? new questions tonight as people gather to mourn the victims. and making a splash. how donald trump's belly flop into the gop field has them running scared, and how they plan to hit back. welcome to "politics nation." we start with that amazing cover of "the new yorker" magazine. they say a picture's worth a thousand words.

this one may be worth 10 billion words or should i say dollars? a shirtless donald trump belly flopping off a diving board. he's taking a big leap into 2016 waters and look what's happening below. there's marco rubio who normally likes water, running away. rand paul looks completely stunned. governor christie is looking up at trump. they're scared. because donald trump is for real. his finance forum is in he's stumping in new hampshire, and oh, by the way, he's number one in the polls. he's leading the gop field in a new fox poll. just like he's leading the latest "usa today" poll. and leading the latest economist poll. folks, trump's leap is real and he's picking fights with all of

them including john mccain who accused trump of firing up the crazies. trump fired back with an insult tweeting that he quote, graduated last in his class at annapolis -- dummy. and today trump kept at it. >> it was an unbelievable day, and they weren't crazies. they were great americans. i know crazies, believe me. when he called them crazies, i think he will lose in the primary. if the right person runses against him, they'll win. he's not very popular there anyway. >> rick perry tried taking on trump saying he was offering nonsense, and trump fired back tweeting governor perry failed on the border. he should be forced to take an iq test before being allowed to enter the gop debate. and then there's that other guy looking worried at trump's jump. that's jeb bush hoeding on to the railing for dear life.

and trump has been hitting bush harder than he's about to hit that water. >> jeb bush will never take us to the promised land. he doesn't have it. jeb will be very poor as a president. poor energy jeb bush couldn't answer a simple question on iraq. was iraq a good thing or bad thing? took him five days to get the answer out and get the answer right. can you imagine i'm dealing with bush. if i don't win that one, i think i'll just quit. >> it's been a nonstop barrage of ridicule. and now some like christie governor chris christie saying it's starting to get to bush. >> it's pretty obvious to me that you know donald trump has gotten inside jeb's head or under his skin if he's talking that much about it and not about the issues that we really need to be talking about in this country. >> so yes, trump is coming into that water, and it doesn't look like he's getting out any time

soon. let's bring in msnbc's abby huntsman and "washington post's" jonathan capehart. thank you both for joining me here tonight. it's a crowded pool. and you have the picture on "new yorker" magazine cover, donald trump jumping in. >> that photo is unreal. >> a big belly jump. >> belly flop. >> belly flop would be the right term. >> it is an unbelievable photo. here we thought chris christie was going to be the bulldog in this race coming in and saying ridiculous things and having that strong personality that he has, and i think donald trump has surprised everyone, including the media. we're all kind of watching this and saying wow, he's still in this thing. and he's probably surprised. i didn't realize i was going to do as well as i have. you look at the pols and how well he is doing, and i do think there is something about him speaking his mind. and you look at what the american people have agreed on,

which is not much over the past few years, and that's a frustration in washington. they don't trust their elected officials. donald trump is not a politician. he's someone who says it like it is. you don't have to agree with him, i don't have to agree with him on a number of things. i do think the folks that are out there supporting him feel that there's a refreshness about donald trump and also everyone in the media continues to talk about it and hit on trump and makes them more want to coalesce around this guy and say i'll keep fighting for him. >> i don't know if he tells it like it is or how he sees it. and i think, jonathan the magic of trump may be he is authentically inauthentic. everybody knows that he says whatever, and that's his authenticity. he's the -- he'll say anything and everything. >> right, he'll say anything. he will say anything that benefits him, that benefits donald trump. >> authentically. >> inauthentically inauthentic. here's what's so troubling

opinion he says things that are so impolitic, so in some cases, hateful, so in some cases, racist, that he's gaining support. and that says a lot about where the republican party is today, where the base of the republican primary voter is today. and if the republican party, once again, if they're going to move out of being a regional reactionary party and going back to being a national party that actually wins presidential races, they can't be in a bear hug with donald trump. they need to be in a bear hug with the other people in that "new yorker" cover who are quivering in fear of the belly flopping donald trump. >> but he's not just going after jeb bush. he's going after others as well. look at this. >> jeb bush will never produce a job in his life. forget it. you're kidding yourself if you think he will. can you imagine him negotiating with china. >> what about marco rubio? >> he's highly overrated.

>> rick perry? >> well i don't want to be nasty to him. really he failed at the border. he failed totally. the governor of texas. he's got a hurdle that nobody else seems to have at this moment. it's a herding and somebody could certainly look at it very seriously. he was born in canada. >> now, let's deal with this seriously for a minute. the candidate's under attack by trump leading in the polls, don't they have the dilemma of do they fight him or do they ignore him. >> from the beginning there was a sense of he won't last long. let's just avoid talking about donald trump or responding to him when he says insulting things. now they're left without a choice. you have the debate coming up in a few weeks. that will be fascinating to watch because somebody has to stand up to him. whether that's chris christie jeb bush. do find it fascinating that ted cruz has supported him and stood

behind him on his comments because if anything he's direct competition to a ted cruz. they're going after the same type of voters here. the party is at a reflection point. where do they want to go from here? someone like a donald trum or -- >> here's the problem, jonathan. when you look at what he's saying, like he's saying mexicans are -- they're sending rapists over here. then you look at a poll where they are polling that 70% of republicans say that he's basically right, i mean what do you make of this? >> that gets to the point i was making in my earlier answer this is where the party is. and if that's where the party is, well good luck getting latino voters which, you know the next nominee is going to need about 40% of the latino vote in order to win the presidency and mitt romney got 27%. so good luck with that. and to your ted cruz point, ted cruz is latching on to donald trump because i think senator

cruz has made the calculation that senator cruz is the long-termer in this donald trump is short-termer. he's the beneficiary of those people. >> if you don't drown in the pool after the belly flop. he's a sound bite machine, there's no question about -- >> i don't know where it comes from because i could not think of those responses to sound bites the way he does. >> he's a sound bite machine and he's entertaining, but listen to what people say. in new hampshire, you talk to people on why they like donald trump. >> first of all, when i heard his comment about immigration, i said this guy is talking what everybody thinks. this guy just says it the way it is. >> he has a lot of money, and he doesn't have to pay anybody for anything that he wants. any vote that he or is going to put through, he'll be just great. >> i came out because i believe in his message that he's going to make it great.

he's lived the american dream twice. he built an empire it wept bankrupt or whatever and he built it back again. >> so this is what republican voters are saying that went out in new hampshire. how do you, if you're running against him in the primaries -- republican primaries, how do you deal with those feelings? >> the folks that are supporting him are loving the fact that he's not a politician. i spent a good chunk of time in new hampshire last go-around of primaries. there was a lot of anger from the primary voters at this point about government about president obama, and i think that anger has only continued to build with these primary voters over the past few years. that's why they're coalescing around him. if you're running against a jeb bush or chris christie. he's only campaigning in new hampshire. you've got to be worried when donald trump is leading the polls and not really spending any money on advertising. >> why does he need advertising? >> i know.

because right here we're talking about him. everybody is talking about him. >> but he's number one in the polls. you can't ignore it. >> you can't ignore him. but i do think at some point the gop, the grown-ups in the gop are going to have to do something not just about donald trump but about the primary voters and what their claim to him means for the party. they know this because of the gop autopsy that was done back about the 2012 election. they know what their problems are mitt -- i'm sorry, donald trump magnifies those problems and they haven't done anything to mitigate them. >> the problem is when all the grown-ups in the pool are not good swimmers themselves. abby huntsman and jonathan cape capehart, thank you for your time. don't forget to catch abby on "the cycle" weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. coming up breaking news on the jail death of sandra bland. a trooper involved in the case is put on administrative duty as

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tonight we're learning more about the four marines who were killed in that shooting rampage in tennessee. gunnery sergeant thomas sullivan won a purple heart during two tours of duty in iraq. staff sergeant david wyatt served one tour in afghanistan and two tours in iraq. sergeant carson holmqvist was

deployed to afghanistan from 2013 to 2014. and 21-year-old lance corporal skip wells was the youngest victim of yesterday's tragedy. he joined the marines just last year. our thoughts and prayers are with all of their families tonight. coming up new details on the gunman and new debate about why some attacks are considered terror and some aren't .. you focus on making great burgers, or building the best houses in town. or becoming the next highly-unlikely dotcom superstar. and us, we'll be right there with you helping with the questions you need answered to get your brand new business started. we're legalzoom and we've already partnered with over a million new business owners to do just that.

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it is being led by the fbi's joint terrorism task force, and we will continue to investigate it as an act of terrorism until the proof shows us otherwise. >> officials today talking about the deadly shooting in tennessee that left four marines dead. the head of homeland security committee said he thought the attack was inspired by isis. >> my judgment and any experience is that this was an isis inspired attack. and it has been opened as a terrorism investigation by the fbi, which is a very significant event in this case. >> authorities are now investigating the gunman's travel in the middle east including one trip to jordan and a possible visit to yemen.

they say he spent several months in the region. his electronic devices have been sent to the fbi crime lab in virginia for analysis. and investigators are looking into his past including a brief career as a mixed martial arts fighter and a stop for drunk driving back in april. joining me now is dr. errol southers a terrorism expert and former fbi agent and author of "homegrown violent extremism." thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you reverend. pleasure to be here. >> first, what's your reaction to the homeland security chairman saying this attack was inspired by isis? >> well i think it's always challenging when a speculation gets ahead of the facts. as of yesterday's shooting the only thing that we knew for sure was the fact that we had an individual with an arabic-sounding last name perhaps a muslim and had attacked several military

locations, and that in and of itself was certainly cause to rise to a suspected act of terrorism because of the pronouncements made by isis to attack government locations and because of it being the last day of ramadan. but again, no specificity to suggest that it was isis inspired at that time nor any that i know of as of this moment. >> now, there's a lot of discussion on the difference between how this case has been described and how people talked about the massacre in charleston. i want to play you some sound from the very first press conferences following both tragedies. listen. >> we are conducting this as an act of domestic terrorism. >> we will treat this as a terrorism investigation until it can be determined that it was not. >> i do believe this was a hate crime. it will be investigated as a hate crime. >> so how do officials decide whether they're investigating terrorism or not? >> well reverend you know,

terrorism is a term that has typically been used over the years as it related to state-sponsored groups. but in a more contemporary sense we're using terrorism to define or attach to individuals or nongovernmental groups. there are thee things to think about when we think about terrorism. we need to think about the threat or the use of violence. we need to look at whether the targets of those violent acts are civilians. and then we need to determine whether or not a political was met. in the south carolina shooting we had a whole list of items readily available, unfortunately, when that shooting occurred that would suggest an act of terrorism. we had a manifesto by the suspect, we had connectivity to supremacist websites statements made to the victims who were in the church at the time and the pronouncement that he wanted a race war to start. seems to me that in that individual instance we had enough to start with a terrorism

investigation perhaps even before mr. roof was even apprehended. >> you agree when former attorney general eric holder talked to the huffington post about charleston. i want to read how we define terror, he said. we have a young man who apparently becomes radicalized because of an incident and becomes more radicalized as a result of what he sees on the internet, then goes and does something that by his own words apparently is political/violent act with a different set of circumstances than if you had dialed in religion there, islam. that would have been called an act of terror. you literally wrote the book you did, on homegrown violent extremism. do you see any difference between the charleston shooter and the tennessee shooter? >> i see no difference at all. as i mentioned previously i see more evidence to initial gate a

terrorism investigation in charleston at least as quickly as they did in chattanooga. terrorist actions strive for specific ideological goals or objectives and dylann roof had goals and objectives spelled out both physically and verbally when he was in the church that day. so i would think that i would have to agree with former attorney general holder that in fact a terrorism investigation was warranted in charleston at the onset. >> i have to take note that african studies professor william jelani cobb he points out the first anti-terrorism law in u.s. history was the klan control act. so we have a lot to look into here. i'm sure we will continue the discussion. dr. erroll southers thank you for your time tonight. have a good weekend. >> thank you, reverend. coming up next breaking news in the jail death of sandra bland. a trooper is put on administrative leave. we'll go live to texas.

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governor scott walker is officially running for president, but he's starting off with a walk down memory lane. he brought tv cameras with him to his old stomping grounds. the mcdonald's where he worked as a teenager. but it was striking to see him there since he's so opposed to raising the wages for the very workers he's using for political

props. here's how he justifies his position. >> i started out just like paul ryan did down the road from me working at mcdonald's. jobs that involved the minimum wage are for young people starting out in the workforce. >> governor walker the minimum wage isn't just for young people. the average age of a minimum wage employee is 35 years old. 27% of people earning the minimum wage are parents and 46% have some college experience. plus, many of those workers you visited don't exactly look 15 or 16 years old. at least not yet to my eyes. so what else does walker think about the minimum wage? >> i believe the state should be focused on helping people create jobs that are much greater than the minimum wanl. i was paid the minimum wage when i worked at mcdonald's as a kid. >> sure he wasn't supporting a

family. but that's not true for everyone. a full-time minimum wage worker in walker's own state earns just over $15,000 per year. that's $4,000 below the poverty line for a family of three. any thoughts on the minimum wage you'd like to share, governor? >> the left claims they're for american workers and they just got really lame ideas, things like the minimum wage. >> lame ideas like the minimum wage? it's not lame governor. it's life changing. nice try but we gotcha.

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for failure to use a turn signal. the d.a. says they'll release dash cam video that shows the stop and her arrest. they'll also release surveillance video of the jail hallway. there is none from inside the cell itself. the d.a. promised transparency as he talked about the videos. >> it is not yet been made public and that's for a very good reason. we've asked the fbi to thoroughly examine the individualvideos to confirm they've not been tampered with or changed in any way before they are made public. >> the video could shed new light on what plays out in the cell phone footage. bland's family believes it shows her arrest, but nbc news has not verified that claim. this video doesn't show what led up to her arrest when

authorities say she became argumentative, they charged her with assaulting a public servant. and tonight a trooper has been put on administrative leave for violating policy during her traffic stop. all this comes as protesters march from the county jail to the courthouse demanding answers. >> what happened. >> to sandra bland. >> what happened. >> to sandra bland. >> the medical examiner ruled bland's death a suicide by hanging. the fbi and texas rangers have launched a joint investigation into what happened. msnbc's trymaine lee is live outside the county jail where sandra died. also with me is texas state senator rodney ellis who is calling for a full investigation of that jail. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, reverend. >> so trymaine a trooper has been put on administrative duty.

is that part of what people down there are asking for? >> rev, i've been talking to protesters and people have been marching in support of sandra bland all day. and they want a few things. they want transparency in their investigation. they want answers as to how this young woman with such a promising future ended up dead with apparently a trash bag wrapped around her throat but ultimately, sir, they want the truth. it's almost cliche at this point where we have these incidents in the community rally and they just want transparency and truth. when i spoke to people who knew sandra and they say she was starting a new chapter in her life and she was so excited. take a listen to people i spoke to earlier, and this is what they had to say. >> that's just not who she was. you know i never would think that she would do something like that. >> she was passionate about the community. she was involved with the community. and she really cared about what happened to people and what went on in the community in which she

lived. >> rev, that's why it's so inexplicable for so many people. she went to prairie view a&m. she return here in a homecoming to take a job. she was so happy and called her family and was almost giddy with excitement. i spoke with one protester who said how do you go from cloud nine one minute and next you're killing yourself inside a county jail. that's what people want answers to, rev. >> senator, what are your concerns about this case? >> well first of all, my condolences to the family. i mean just tragic. reverend, as you know i have two daughters at new york. >> yes. >> i'd just be so heartbroken for a child to get a stop and end up dead. getting to the truth, transparency, but then add to that what reforms can come out of this unfortunate tragedy? i'm looking at issues like how common is it to stop someone for not signaling when you change lanes? i know three categories of people who don't signal on a

regular basis. politicians, the press and students. issues like a better bail bonding procedure in that rural county or counties in texas in general. i'm told that about 82% of the people in odwalla county jail are people awaiting trial. they've not been convicted of anything. many don't have the resources to post bond. so i want to before i dig too deep into the facts of this case because i just don't know what i don't know. but what i do know is there's a need for serious criminal justice reforms in this country and texas is ground zero for that. >> now along those lines, the texas commission on jail standards is investigating the county jail now. "the houston chronicle" says that so far it found two big problems. jail officials did not observe inmates every 60 minutes, and the jail did not properly train its staff in supervising inmates who were mentally disabled or potentially suicidal. senator, what's your reaction to

that? >> that's a serious problem particularly when it's a jail that just had a suicide about 2, 2 1/2 years ago. just commonsense issues like if you're going to have that many people in a rural county jail should you give them trash bags as an example, to clean their own room. so whether or not this was a suicide or not, i don't know. but that is a serious problem. if you're going to incarcerate such large numbers of people particularly for minor infractions. look at that case from rikers island, of course that man was there much longer but a whole host of reforms came out of that, and i hope that comes out of this tragedy in texas. >> the family is en route to texas. i spoke with their lawyer today. they're going to meet with officials and really press for justice here. do you know whether or not they're going to get an independent autopsy? >> that's what a lot of people are calling for, rev. i spoke to someone earlier who

said they really want to push for the fbi getting their own autopsy. as you know families who are searching for answers have a few limited tools at their disposal. you have to imagine that this would be one of them. i want to also reference back to the d.a. said apparently 85 people in this jail on friday night over the weekend. if you ever come to this community, rev, it's a very small country little snap of a town. to have 85 people in there is very interesting to say the least. she was one of the folks by herself. to your point, the family's coming down for answers from chicago. on monday they'll meet with texas rangers. they're hopeful they'll get some answers or insight into what happened to sandra bland. >> we're going to stay on this story. trymaine lee and state senator rodney eye lis,llis, thank you for your time tonight. coming up will joe biden run for president? it's a long shot but when does the speculation become serious, and what does it say about the

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time but there's buzz about another democrat not on that stage. vice president joe biden. he's been very visible lately. this week selling the president's iran deal on capitol hill and from the iran announcement to the supreme court upholding obama care to re-establishing ties from cuba, biden has been there for all the administration's success this summer. and we're seeing a lot of speculation in the press about a biden run. even a report saying his late son beau was reportedly pushing his father to run. now a biden run is more than a long shot but he said whoever gets the nomination they've got to defend the obama legacy. >> in my view those seeking the lead the nation should protect and defend and run, yes, run, on what we've done own what we

have done stand for what we have done acknowledge what we've done and be judged on what we have done. some say that would amount to a third term of the president. i call it sticking with what works. >> so what does the speculation say about the democratic field? and could biden still have an effect on the field? joining me now is political strategist angela rye as well as will pierce of the draft biden group. thank you both for being here. >> thanks rev. >> let me start with you, will. why do you want joe biden to run? >> reverend i want the vice president to run because, myself, i'm a army veteran. i deployed to iraq and afghanistan. i want someone like the vice president who has own 30 years of foreign policy experience and domestic experience to help lead our nation. >> angela we've talked a lot about the warren effect. is there a biden effect

possibly? >> i think there's 100% a biden effect. the reality of joe biden is that he is an individual that everyone loves. i think that article after article says that the republicans say, i don't agree with his politics but there isn't anything about that guy that i don't love. the biden effect is possible and it does equate to a third term for president. >> what kind of response are you getting, will? is there in your opinion a groundswell or admirers that are advocating this? >> we're seeing people from everywhere in the country coming out to support the vice president. we have over 100,000 people who have signed our petition draft biden 2016. myself i was just down in south carolina this past week. and south carolina especially is very organized and ready for the vice president. we've seen just a national movement and are ready for him. >> angela i mentioned earlier,

but when we talked about joe biden's future we have to remember he just lost his oldest son. but according to "the wall street journal," quote before his death, beau biden encouraged his father to get into the race. and hunter biden told a friend in recent weeks he too, would like to see the vice president wage one more campaign for the white house. how much could this affect his decision? >> i think it will have a tremendous effect. lately the president's been spending a lot of time with his family and to the extent -- >> you mean the vice president. >> i'm sorry, the vice president, yes. he's been spending a ton of time with his family. and they could very well be putting the same ideas into his mind. beau biden was, as he described, his soul. he wants to make sure he does something, one of his son's last wishes, i think he could do it the other thing that i think is important you want to have a candidate in a general is to make sure they're vetted and

that's tested and tried on a stage with other qualified candidates. >> i got to say this to you. when we think of the 2016 race and the field, it's clear that democrats don't want hillary clinton to have a free pass. a "washington post"/abc poll last month showed 55% of democratic-leaning respondents think that other democrats should run. is that's what's behind the joe talk and the warren talk, democrats don't want a coronation here? >> i don't think they do want a coronation. i know for me, a democrat, i don't want a coronation. what could be done for the potential candidate who will be a nominee is they've been properly vetted tested and tried in debates. joe biden, as we know is an excellent debater. >> have you or any of your group had any direct conversations with the vice president or his senior advisers? >> we haven't had any direct conversations with the vice president. we've been doing this by march.

by now the vice president and his inner circle they could have come out and said hey, let's stop doing this. we've seen nothing but great response. talking about numbers, a recent poll came out this week over 30% of polled americans say they would support the vice president if he gets in. the most important thing, the primary kind of like the playoffs before the super bowl. we want to make sure whoever is the nominee in philadelphia is ready to go against a republican. >> the staff of the vice president or his advisers have not talked to you, but they've not discouraged you or encouraged you to stop either. >> we haven't had anyone say no let's stop what you're doing. what we've seen is past supporters of the vice president, people who endorsed him when he ran in 2008 as well as back in '88, they're coming out and supporting the vice president. >> if he runs angela what do you think the immediate reaction would be? hillary clinton is way ahead in the polls. does he get traction quickly?

what does it do to the field, what does it do to the race if vice president biden all of a sudden jumps in the race? >> i think it's exciting for the democrats right now. the primaries have been kind of slow. people are excited about bernie sanders but he's still in the teens. but i think if he's in the race you might see something a little different. >> the news has been trump late ly ly. >> pun intended. >> pun definitely intended. angela rye, will pierce thank you for your time tonight. eric garner's family fighting for justice exactly one year after the chokehold death that sparked a national conversation. (glasses clinking) ♪ (ground shaking)

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the street. athletes and celebrities drew attention to the case by wearing shirts that said "i can't breathe." and president obama talked about it. a grand jury refused to press charges, but last week governor andrew cuomo announced that all police-involved deaths would be handled by a special prosecutor. and this week i was with the family when they learned that they'll receive a $5.9 million settlement from new york city. my colleague joy reid spoke with eric garner's daughter about her dad. >> people don't think of my father as a human being. he was a human being, he was a father, he was my best friend he was my counselor, he was my daughter's grandfather. we want justice not just for the past but for the future. >> i was honored to be part of a church service this week remembering eric garner's life. "politics nation" film crew was there and captured the emotional

service to help a community come together. a symbolic moment at the eric garner memorial. the police commander lighting a unity candle with garner's mother. the service brought the family together with police community and faith leaders all joined in prayer. >> i'm afraid we all gasp with eric as we admit we can't breathe. >> police officers sitting with the garner family as new york mayor bill de blasio talked about his impact. >> brothers and sisters, eric garner did not die in vain. it should not need to be said but until we make more progress we will say it again. black lives matter. >> many in the community still frustrated by the tragedy. >> i'm thinking back to rodney king.

where are we at 2015 we're still having the same conversation? >> they can learn a whole lot from it. but learning is not the thing. it's doing something about it. >> but still others have hope. >> what are we supposed to do stand as a people and do nothing? that's not fair. but hopefully one day something will change. it has to change. ♪ amazing grace ♪ ♪ how sweet the sound ♪ >> as a community looks for a way to move forward and find justice. >> we can reach out and try to heal each other's pain and maybe healing can begin. >> i know his mother misses him. we think about him all the time. we never forget him. >> it's been a year a year that has brought the nation and many of us all over the country, but the garner case was the first one. there's been a lot of talk on all sides, attacks and praise

hope and despair, but at the end of the day, it is undeniable that something is wrong with how we deal with our criminal justice system when it relates to these cases. all police are not bad. most are not. but there must be a way to hold those that are accountable and those that are not to have the benefit of the trust in the community that the inquiry into their behavior was fair. but let us also remember we're dealing with human beings with families and loved ones. they're not activists, they're not the once out front like us that chose this life. they're ordinary people whose lives are gone who leave families who just want real straightforward answers. that's what this country should stand for. that's what this is all about. we've made some incremental steps toward that but we've got to make longer and stronger

steps. we can't rest until we can all breathe in a nation that has equal protection under the law. we owe that to all involved. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. have a great weekend. "hardball" starts right now. the search for a motive in the chattanooga attacks. this is "hardball." good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. we're learning new details about yesterday's shooting at two military facilities in chattanooga, tennessee, and the gunman behind them. according to federal investigators, the attack is being looked at as an act of terrorism. mohammad youssuf abdulazeez was armed with two rifles and one