he's the offspring of what this kind of political bombast leads us to. but also an expectation of the -- we should expect this out of what they've been saying. >> dr. frankenstein and the monster, they are related. thanks for your time tonight. "politics nation" with the dr. reverend al sharpton starts right now. tonight on "politics nation," who's afraid of donald trump? everybody. we'll show you what his rivals are saying today about trump's wild debate performance. plus new buzz about what jon stewart will do next. and attorney general loretta lynch talks about the fight ahead on policing and voting. and remembering michael brown one year after his death. i'll talk to brown's father about what has changed and what hasn't.

thanks to you for tuning in tonight. i'm live in st. louis. today the gop candidates hit the road after their first big debate heading to a right-wing conference in atlanta. donald trump will speak there tomorrow and his rivals from last night, the guys he beat up for nearly two hours, spent most of today trying to duck questions about the front-runner. >> at first it was trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump. what did you think? >> look, i got enough on my own plate to sort out, to try to analyze. donald trump is way above my pay grade. >> is this appropriate language for someone who is a republican candidate or quite frankly for anyone? >> well, certainly i think donald trump can speak for himself. >> all of us can only be responsible for ourselves. i said all along about donald

that he'll be as serious a candidate as donald wants to. >> do you think donald trump has what it takes to be the president and commander in chief? >> well, i don't know. i don't think that's been answered about anybody in this race. >> you don't get this kind of support in a republican primary unless you're touching a nerve. >> is donald trump an authentic republican? >> i don't know. you'll have to ask donald trump. >> they're still afraid to criticize him after what we saw last night. for his part, trump spent the day trashing the fox news moderators. he says they were not fair and balanced. >> i thought the questions were unfair, but i can live with it. it's probably you're number one in the polls and they ask you a little bit tougher question. but even the other candidates, they got off stage and they said to me, it's amazing that those questions were so unfair. the questions asked of me were much, much more difficult and poignant and really unfair than other people were asked, but

that's okay. i guess that's part of the game. >> trump dominated the debate and a lot of republicans think that's not necessarily a good thing. but trump is giving himself high marks. >> if i go by drudge, which is a great group of people, or if i go by "time" magazine i have give myself an "a" or if i go by "the new york times," the front page of "the new york times," i have to give myself an "a." >> msnbc's benji sarlen is live at the redstate conference and also with me is ed rendell and clarence page. thanks to all of you for being here. >> thank you, reverend. >> i want to start with benji. what are conservatives there saying about donald trump? how did he do in the debate in their opinion? >> well, i was here watching the debate last night. they had a watch party for the red state event for people who had shown up early.

let me sum up the reaction for you when donald trump took the stage. wild applause, cheers, hoots, hollers especially for his first few answers when he made fun of rosie o'donnell in one answer, when he denounced political correctness even when talking about running for a third party candidate, wild applause, laughter, cheer, people were entertained. i atalked to people after the debate tonight and today heard a lot of positive things. they think he's, like you said, touched a nerve, brought something to the debate. they said they wished other candidates would talk about them. but the people he makes uncomfortable. the reince priebuses, how much it irked jeb bush to have to share a stage with him in a presidential debate. here's what i did not hear, people saying they were committed to voting for donald trump. i didn't hear many people who said he was at the very top of the list. people are enjoying the trump phenomena here among this conservative crowd but not in the context of a serious

presidential campaign. i think this might be driving the polls a bit, too, this dynamic. >> now, what do they expect to hear from trump when he speaks tomorrow? >> i think that's why they love donald trump. nobody has any idea what he's going to say when he speaks tomorrow. it's so unpredictable. you could hear it in the debate, people were hanging on his every word. no one knew what was coming next. one thing i'd be interested to see, he has a bit of rivalry going on with fox news and specifically megyn kelly which he retweeted someone calling her a bimbo, taking heat for that. fox news very popular with conservatives. it will be interesting if he continues that fight tomorrow when he comes here and what the reaction might be if he decides to really aggressively take them on. i for one can't wait to see it. >> benjy sarlin.

let's turn to ed rendell and clarence page. governor, to you first, are you surprised that these other candidates aren't hitting trump today? >> a little bit, although i think, first of all, let me say i think donald trump is right about the questions being unfair. i think either rupert murdoch or roger ailes told the moderators, we have to take trump down and make him seem like a buffoon. the questions were more hostile to him. even lindsey graham came out and said the questions were unfair and overly hostile and aggressive. that's number one. number two, i don't think any of the republican candidates think that donald trump is going to be the nominee. but they believe he's got a following. and i would suspect he's going to go down in the polls from that performance, but you never know because this has been a phenomenal year and reaction to him has been unpredictable. but even if he goes down in the

polls, someone wants to inherit the donald trump voters. so everyone is tip toeing around. and i think based on the debate last night, the person who is most positioned to inherit the donald trump voters is ted cruz. i thought ted cruz gave a very solid performance, and i think he's the man most positioned to absorb the trump phenomenon. >> clarence, your assessment of donald trump last night and how the reaction has been to date pretty nonconfrontational in terms of anyone really attacking his performance. >> well, i largely agree with governor rendell. i only disagree with the nature of the hostility of the questions. and i've been in arguments with other people about this since last night, but as a journalist like my fox colleagues, i see nothing wrong with those questions. quite the opposite. these are the questions people have of donald trump. particularly here you are at a

republican debate. are you going to stand by the republican nominee if it's not you? and that's a question everybody had on their minds. and brett baer got it out right away. donald trump was free to answer or not answer and he answered. and we learned a lot, especially his fellow republicans. also the question about how he's spoken about women among other people. that was all factually accurate. megyn kelly was right on the mark in presenting the question. donald trump should have expected it and he showed his own amateurishness or his own fragile ego, if anything, if he hout that was really a hostile question. but boy, he just can't stop tweeting about it. i find it interesting. right now among the republicans, they are loathe to criticize trump partly because he does fire up the base. look at the ratings they got last night. 24 million people. those weren't all trump fans. that was just all of us curious people wondering what's going to

happen. i think that's good for democracy and this will all shake out eventually. >> now, let's go back to him saying that he would not commit to support the nominee, governor. because today trump doubled down on the debate issue that got all of that attention and the possibility of him running as an independent. listen to this. >> many people want me to do the independent thing. i don't want to do that. i don't want to do the independent thing. but i do keep it and it is leverage. >> i mean, will he hold this over the gop's head for the entire campaign? >> well, for as long as he stays in. at some point he could pull out and say he's considering running as an independent. that's all possible. i mean, i don't think that when we get to march donald trump will still be on the ballot in the republican primaries.

i think he'll have pulled out and then say he's considering running as an independent. and clarence, i didn't think that the question in and of themselves were unfair. i just think he got infinitely more hostile questions than anybody else in that stage. they flipped ben carson a softball. they went after scott walker and things that he could address. but nobody got the intense scrutiny and the hostility that donald trump got. and again lindsey graham -- lindsey graham who is no trump fan, he came out and said that today. >> as you know, the policy nail gets hit first, as they say. >> clarence, i thought about as i watched it, if there had been -- this had been another debate, other people on the stage, the answers he gave surprised me more than the questions. i mean, he doubled down. >> right. >> when they were talking about 1200 people laid off from his

bankruptcies. he seemed like that was a nonissue to him. he kind of took a shot at his investors. he doubled down on the woman's statement. so the questions may or may not have been harsh, but i think his responses to me is what possibly hurt him with general leaked voters if he ran independent or was the republican nominee. >> i agree. that's why the questions sounded harsh, because they were -- because trump made harsh statements that resulted in those questions. i think what was interesting, though, is you're right, how trump handled them. he could have easily said, you know, i apologize to all who were offended. that's the standard answer for this sort of thing. no, that's not donald trump's style. he comes right back crying political correctness, blah, blah, blah. and believe me that rings -- that resonates with a lot of conservatives out there. i was thinking about how four years ago a fellow by the name

of herman cain was leading in the polls and he got in trouble over sexual harassment. a lot said that political correctness brought down herman cain. that's always there in the background. the more established republican candidates do believe trump is going to hit his ceiling here. they don't want to antagonize him so he may run third party. he's been candid about that talking about his leverage. that's what he's talking about, i'm sure. and at the same time they don't want to sound like they're cozying up to him too much. so they're kind of walking that tight rope right now. >> governor, i have to ask you before we run out of time, today trump talked about his phone call with former president bill clinton, which has become an infamous part of this campaign. listen to this. >> the truth is we talked after, actually long after i decided to

run. and i think you know maybe he was feeling -- we didn't even talk about thatp about and we're not particularly friends or anything. iy tell you what, he's not happy i'm running because nobody has hit hillary harder than i have. >> the clinton camp has a different view of how the thing went down in terms of the phone call. they say mr. trump reached out to president clinton a few times, president clinton returned his call in late may. so bottom line, isn't a trump candidacy good for hillary and for the democrats in general no matter how this phone call went down? >> absolutely. no matter how hard donald trump thinks he hit hillary clinton, the clinton folks would love nothing more to see donald trump on the republican line in the fall. that would be their most fervent wish. so no, clinton versus trump

would be quite a fun election but hillary would win overwhelmingly. >> i suspect their second wish would be they'd settle for him running independent. >> absolutely. >> either way it would probably help them. >> absolutely. >> ed rendell and clarence page, thank you and have a great donald-free weekend. >> thank you, reverend. you too. >> it's impossible, rev. it's impossible. >> that's right. coming up, an msnbc exclusive. attorney general loretta lynch speaking about voting, policing and the fights she's facing at the justice department. also ferguson one year later. i'm here. i'll talk to michael brown's father about what it will take to see real change. and why the big audience for last night's debate could be bad news for the gop. all that plus jon stewart's final show ahead. >> this show isn't ending.

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attorney general loretta lynch is speaking out about the fight for voting rights in america. this week the attorney general joined president obama and civil rights hero john lewis marking the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. attorney general lynch talked about the 2013 supreme court ruling when conservative justices gutted a key section of the law. >> just two years ago in shelby v. holder, our supreme court dealt a serious blow to the voting rights act, one of the most serious blows it experienced in this 50-year

history in undermining the key preclearance section. it was a blow but it was not a death nell. >> and this week we saw evidence the supreme court ruling wasn't a death knell when a panel of texas judges struck down the state's voter i.d. law. today msnbc's melissa harris-perry talked to the attorney general about the impact of the 2013 ruling and other challenges facing the justice department. joining me now is melissa harris-perry. thank you for being here tonight, dr. perry. >> absolutely, rev. >> what did the attorney general say to you about the state of the voting rights act? >> well, you know, i'd seen her -- i saw the attorney general yesterday at the event that was marking the 50th anniversary. you showed a little bit of what she spoke about there. and then spoke with her again today about it. and in both cases, you know, she has the optimism i think that

anyone would feel right now about the fact that the department of justice just had a big win in texas, a win that came under section two demonstrating that, in fact, texas voter i.d. law, the appeals court saying that, in fact, that law is discriminatory against african-american and latino voter, but here's what's important to know, that is a law that would not have even been in place if section five, the preclearance, were still in place. so if the supreme court had not gutted the voting rights act, then there would have been no need for this case. so what i heard the attorney general say is, this is fantastic that we have won. on the other hand, we never should have had to fight this fight because, in fact, we already had a protection that was in place and that protection was section five, which is really the thing that was gutted under shelby v. holder. but i also heard her say very clearly that she is committed to continuing to do the work of

fighting to protect the sanctity of the vote here in this country. >> well, and i think that it should be made clear because i don't think a lot of americans understand that if the new laws like the texas law but it's 21 states that changed laws, voter i.d., early voting days, cancel sunday voting, all of that would have had to have been precleared had they not gutted section five. but the reason is not a death knell is section two says whether it was intentional or not if the effect is discriminatory, it still violates the voting rights act. >> right. it's the difference of saying if someone wounds you, i can bind up your wound. i can keep it from being a fatal wound versus i can keep someone from ever wounding you in the first place. now, obviously in the context of a democracy, you want to make sure those wounds never occur.

you want to make sure that no voters are ever disenfranchised. you want to make sure that the vote is protected, that people have access to the ballot appropriately. so yes, we still have section two. you can take texas, i can take north carolina to court. but if section five were in place, they never would have been able to pass these laws. >> right. >> they never would have been able to inflict the wound. >> now, i'm in st. louis today, in ferguson, and we'll be talking to michael brown's father in a little while. you asked the attorney general today whether anything has changed since the justice department's report on the unconstitutional policing by the ferguson police department. listen. >> i think actually a lot of things have changed since ferguson. i think the importance of that report was that it showed the world what people in ferguson and similar situations have been saying for years, but they just

weren't believed because it was outside the consciousness or outside the reality of people who didn't share the situation or didn't share their background or hadn't had those experiences happen to them. so i think it opened the eyes of america and, frankly, the world to what many minorities are saying when they talk about feeling a level of disrespect and a lack of inclusion in their own government particularly at the municipal level. >> yeah, she -- >> it opened the eyes of america. that's a strong statement, melissa. >> absolutely. she was very clear about this. i challenged her a little because we just saw data that were released yesterday saying that, in ferguson, there are still tons of these stops for very small and petty infractions and that it still seems to be be raising revenue for the local government, but she was very clear with me to say, look, part of what that ferguson report

did -- and we know it was a searing report. part of what it did was to clarify, to make it so that there is no question that there are these practices, patterns and practices, of course being the department of justice that are discriminatory and that what the work of the department of justice does there is to back up the reality of ordinary people there on the ground where you are, people who were saying this is what is happening to us, this is what is happening to our community and here is the power of the federal government backing them up, having data and saying, yes, in fact, that's true and it's unconstitutional and these police departments must change. she's very soft spoken woman. she's very careful and thoughtful. but i tell you what, it would be a mistake, i think, to under estimate the current attorney general. >> well, as in the word of dr. melissa harris-perry, absolutely. thank you for your time tonight, and make sure you watch melissa

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but over at fox, they made it sound like the economy was taking a nose dive. >> 215,000 jobs were added last month. that's 8,000 fewer jobs created than the month before. >> wait a minute. can i see that graphic again? the job market is going up. so why is their big scary red arrow pointing down? innocent mistake or something more sinister? reverend al reports. you decide. but in the meantime, i'm giving fox a "u" for their upside-down view of the jobs report. for my next grade, let's go to an nfl training camp and a surprise appearance during an interview. >> as a receiver, we just work on, you know, running routes and getting our legs in preparation for camp. we do some agility drills.

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25 million people watched last night's gop debate. but for the republican party that may not necessarily be a good thing. because it was the first chance many people had to see what those guys really believe. and it turns out they're out of step with most americans. look at how they went after women's health rights. >> would you really let a mother die rather than have an abortion? >> well, i'm pro life. i've always been pro life. and i've got a position i think is consistent with many americans out there. >> this notion that we just continue to ignore the personhood of the individual is a violation of that unborn child's fifth and 14th amendment rights. >> what i have advocated is that we pass a law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. >> no exceptions for rape or incest or maybe even for the

life of the mother? the public disagrees. 74% say abortion should be legal if the mother's life is in danger. and 74% think it should be legal in case ks of ras of rape or in. but they didn't stop there. here's what the candidates said about immigration. >> mr. trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. they want to see an end to illegal immigration. they want to see -- and we all do. >> there are far too many in the washington cartel that support amnesty. i have never supported amnesty. >> secure the border, enforce the law, no amnesty. >> but a recent poll shows 72% of american voters support a path to citizenship including 56% of republicans. you never get a second chance to make a first impression, and that could be bad news for the gop.

joining me now are victoria defrancesco-soto and dorian warren. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you, rev. >> thank you, reverend. >> victoria, no exception for rape or incest when it comes to abortion? how out of step is the gop on women's issues? and women's health? >> well, you just indicated, reverend, that the vast majority of the american public is for keeping a right to an abortion in circumstances such as saving the mother's life. i think here we see the republican party boxing themself in yet again. after 2012 we saw the republican party saying we'll do a much better job of reaching out to women, to latinos, to the lgbt community but out of the gate they're already backtracking on that. we know women vote. we're consistently higher voters

than men are. you need these votes if you want to win the white house. and comments such as rick santorum said not even to save the life of the mother are going to alienate women and alienate men as well. >> dorian, the candidates talked a lot about building a wall instead of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. how's that for minority outreach? >> i can only laugh and it's really sad. you know, there are tears of sorrow for the republican party, because as victoria just pointed out that 2013 autopsy of why the republican party lost the presidential election pointed out and supported some kind of plan for comprehensive immigration reform. this is a sure way that backtracking on that support and the hardline and frankly racist lines from donald trump and others in that party around the question of undocumented immigrants is -- it's an appeal

for primary voters, but it is a guaranteed recipe for republicans to lose elections not only in 2016 but in 2018 and 2020. if they don't figure out a way to recruit particularly voters of color but especially latino voters going into the end of this decade, they will be a party that will never win national elections. >> you know, victoria, what really struck me was the topics that were not even mentioned in the primetime debate. voting rights, climate change, guns, criminal justice reform, student debt, student debt, inequality or even the minimum wage. i mean, aren't these issues the american public might want to know the candidates' position on? and many of these issues are the top polled concerns of american voters. >> reverend, you're absolutely right when you say the american

public. but keep in mind that these candidates were not speaking to the american public. they were speaking to primary voters. and the topics that we saw last night, abortion, immigration, gay marriage were red meat. and this is what we're going to be seeing during this primary season. sadly, i don't think we're going to get into these substantive issues, the economy, how you make ends meet as an american today. we're not going to see that until we get into the general election or maybe to february or march because it's easy to be black and white. it's easy to say no, this is the line i'm going to take with regards to abortion and let's send all the immigrants home, but it's difficult to talk about the nuance, the details of our economy and jobs and how we're going to make it work on a day-to-day basis. sadly red meat to come. >> well, the only problem is video will follow whoever the winner of the nomination is into

the general election debates and they were part of this crowd that is doing what is being done now. but dorian, one thing i will say that showed some progress is you have to remember four years ago when there was the audience booing a gay soldier. but last night struck a different tone. watch this. >> the court has ruled and i said we'll accept it. and guess what? i just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. because somebody doesn't think the way i do doesn't mean that i can't care about them or can't love them. so if one of my daughters happened to be that, of course i would love them and i would accept them because, you know what, that's what we're taught when we have strong faith. >> now, it was good to see that applause. it was really good. but at the same time, doesn't it also show how out of step the

other candidates are? >> on issue after issue we've been talking about all these issues whether women's reproductive rights, immigration, in this case marriage equality. the republican party is out of step with the majority of americans on issue after issue. now, that was one example of governor kasich actually being very smart and savvy and positioning himself as a moderate particularly on social issues and in this case on lgbt rights. that actually makes him in my mind pretty dangerous and a contender if he were to make it through the primary process and be in a general election with whomever the democratic nominee will be. but that was smart politics from governor kasich's point of view, but for the rest of those folks on the stage, whether it's the junior debate, the jv debate earlier or the primetime debate, they're out of touch with marnt of americans. but as victoria said, they're really appealing to the red meat of their primary voters here. >> no, there's no doubt about it. the only problem is that i'm

sure a lot more than their followers were watching last night. and again, those tapes will be there all the way through the general election. and if you are on that stage and didn't object, it may come back to haunt you. victoria defrancesco soto and dorian warren, thank you both for your time. and have a great weekend. >> thank you, reverend al, you too. >> thank you, reverend. coming up, ferguson one year later. i'll talk to michael brown's father on the progress he's seen and what still needs to change. and jon stewart signs off. the stars come out for an emotional farewell. i hate cleaning the gutters. have you touched the stuff? it's evil. and ladders. sfx: [screams] they have all those warnings on 'em. might as well say... 'you're gonna die, jeff.' you hired someone to clean the gutters. not just someone.

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sunday marks one year since the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. this weekend ferguson will mark the date with marches, protests and concerts remembering michael brown. and also highlights the need for greater progress. today ferguson has a new interim police chief, andre anderson. and the ferguson commission has developed nearly 150 calls to action. it met today and its final report is due to governor jay nixon next month. and yet, "the new york times" reports ferguson residents feel

just as estranged from police as they did a year ago, just as skeptical of the city's leaders, black or white. one resident said, quote, the mind-set is still that it's normal to have the police stop african-americans and harass us and shake us down. one year after michael brown's death, we've seen steps in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go. joining me now is michael brown sr. and anthony gray, the brown family attorney. thank you both for being here tonight. >> no problem. >> how are you doing, al? >> mr. brown, first of all, how are you feeling going into this weekend? >> well, the emotions are still the same. it's like repeating itself, you know. because last year it moved real fast. you know. it was a fast-paced process.

we was yanked from left to right, you know, doing a lot of media and everything. and we didn't get a chance to sit down. so it's just like it's popped right back up on us. >> you've called for changes in policing in america. have you seen any progress? >> mike brown made a lot of changes for other families, but personally for me, i haven't seen any changes. >> attorney gray, has ferguson changed or not changed in the last year? >> well, cosmetically it has changed. substantively the change has been very incremental, almost invisible, but you can detect perhaps some movement in the current but just not big enough to be able to report to you a year later that change in the sense of the word made a change has ever taken place because it

hasn't. >> but al, what i was saying -- >> mr. brown -- >> go ahead. >> go ahead. >> no, i was just going to say that the trajectory was in the right direction. i do see from top to bottom there have been some incremental movement. and i think any movement from where we were a year ago is positive. so i did want to make that statement and kind of end on a positive note. >> i understand, mr. brown, that you haven't shaved your beard since your son died. tell me about that. >> right. well, you know, i've been growing it ever since the day that it happened. family members did want me to cut it down some, but i'm going to keep it until i see some type of results. any type of results i see, maybe i start trimming on it. but it means a lot to me, you know. >> and i know from day one how much your son meant.

i remember a year ago when his grandfather called me. i come in the funeral and all. and how do you want your son to be remembered? >> i want his legacy to be, you know, to be remembered, you know, not that person that he was painted but a caring person, a person of love, you know. that's why i'm speaking up for him to show and the support and what his backbone actually was. so that's what i want to be looked at on the positive tip of the situation that's who we were and what america didn't see. >> one of the things that impressed me is the determination of the family to keep going and doing positive work and getting change. tell me about the work that your foundation chosen for change has been doing and what it plans to

do this weekend and beyond, the chosen for change foundation. >> yes, we've been -- we have a lot of events set up for this weekend. we did act of kindness for the homeless this morning. we fed the homeless. this evening we have a concert with a few artists coming in. it's called a benefit concert. it's basically heal our city concert to help bring everyone together and have a good time. tomorrow we have a march from canfield to normandy in remembrance of my son michael brown jr. normandy was the school he graduated from last year in august on the 2nd when he finished summer school because he graduated out of summer school. so we have a lot of events that's going towards the positive image of what we're

trying to get out of our people. >> attorney gray, i know that leslie, his mother, is doing a lot. i know the whole family is moving positive and getting support and has been structured in a way to really benefit the community in a positive way. >> mm-hmm. that's true. chose to change, i'll take a moment to plug this in. we get calls all the time for members of the public that want to support the chosen for change move movement. we recently struck a deal with discover card and we're asking those who want to continue their financial support of this movement that the chosen for change foundation is beginning to look us up on the chosen for change website, get a prepaid discover card, the annual fee that's charged for the card, a portion of that will help be the financial vehicle by which

chosen for change will operate from. so we're now making a broader appeal. we get the calls all the time that people want to help. now they can assist us or the chosen for change foundation can continue its good work in the community. >> and all of it for the community work here in ferguson and around. michael brown sr., certainly we continue to pray for you and the entire family. anthony gray, thank you both for being here tonight. i'll be with you, of course, later today. we'll be right back. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir.

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nothing ends. it's just a continuation. it's a pause in the conversation. so rather than saying good-bye or good night, i'm just going to say i'm going to go get a drink and i'm sure i'll see you guys before i leave. >> jon stewart saying good night to late night. walking away from the "daily show" after 16 years. president obama tweeted, you've been a great gift to the country. other public figures said their good-byes during the show.

>> do you have any idea the trail of hate that you've left behind. roll 212. >> i'm paul brown, ceo of arby's brought to you tonight by jon stewart. jon stewart, it's like your tv threw up on your face. >> i'll never forget you, jon, but i will be trying. >> good riddance smart [ bleep ]. >> don't go. come back. jon, i'm being sarcastic. >> and just when i'm running for president. what a bummer. >> i'm jon stewart. i'm dumb. i'm stupid. nya, nya, nya. so long [ bleep ]. >> comedy central revealed what's next for stewart tweeting that he'll be creating an animal sanctuary on his new jersey farm. it's jon's last day. he's going on to a wonderful life on a farm upstate. no, seriously. that's true. msnbc's special "jon stewart has

left the building" will air tonight at 9:00. i went on camera and shared my thoughts for the special. you don't want to miss it. well, jon stewart has left the building. he's left the stage. but he's certainly left the stage a lot better than when he found it. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. the big fight card. trump versus kelly. let's play hardball. good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. not since bobby riggs challenged to billie jean king have we seen a matchup like this one. everyone on the right is touting the match. megyn kelly with her direct shot at donald trump's demeaning references