good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. a lot to get to. we begin with issues that continue to dog hillary clinton's presidential campaign. new court papers show the number of e-mails from her private server flagged with potentially classified information tops 300, 305, to be exact, and this number could increase. this is only a preliminary review of e-mails from clinton's time as secretary of state, and that it is part of a standard process. the state department also says there is, quote, no indication of negligence or wrongdoing at this point. meantime, in an iowa radio interview from the weekend, clinton suggested the e-mail controversy would not be public if she didn't ask that the e-mails be released. >> i never sent nor received any classified e-mail, nothing marked classified, and i think

this will all sort itself out. and in a way, it's kind of an interesting insight into how the government operates, because if i had not asked for my e-mails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena. but i want people to know what we did. i'm proud of the four years that i was secretary of state. so i know this is all just going to work itself out as we go forward. >> nbc's kristin welker joins us live now from north las vegas, nevada where clinton will hold a town hall in a few hours. before we talk about the latest developments regarding these e-mails, i know we have an update on whether vice president joe biden wants to enter the race given the issues hillary clinton has had with getting the scandal cleared up here. >> reporter: tamron, that's exactly right. we know vice president biden has been speaking to his allies and

supporters about a presidential run. i just spoke with an analyst familiar with the thinking inside the white house, and apparently several people inside the white house think it's unlikely that vice president biden ultimately decides to run. the reason is he doesn't seem to be putting together the type of grounding, putting together the concrete steps that one would take at this point to actually launch a bid for the white house. having said that, those in the democratic circles say he certainly has earned the right to have space to make this decision. we know that's what he's been doing. he's also been consulting with family members. it's expected he's going to make a final decision at the end of this month or possibly next month, but you're absolutely right, tamron. this e-mail issue, this nagging question about secretary clinton's e-mails is one of the things that is fueling those discussions, and concerns in some democratic circles that she might be vulnerable as a general election candidate. i asked the strategist if it would put the president in an awkward position if vice president biden were to run. i again was told it's premature

to even consider that. if vice president biden throws his hat in the ring, clinton will deal with that if the time comes. he has not officially made himself a candidate at this point. >> let's go back to the state department. 305 e-mails that were flagged for potentially classified information. as i pointed out, and we need to emphasize this, the state department attorneys say that this is a preliminary review, and they go on to say there is no indication of negligence or wrongdoing at this time. so as we see the number of e-mails flagged here increase, that does not mean that there is a smoking gun here, kristin. >> reporter: really important point to underscore, tamron, you're absolutely right. it doesn't suggest there is a smoking gun. instead it suggests these e-mails need to be further reviewed before they can be released to the public. as you know, the state department is in the process of reviewing more than 30,000 documents from clinton's e-mails, and they're going to release all of those to the

public ultimately, but they want to make sure they're not releasing any classified information in the process. what happens is you have a number of agencies now looking at those e-mails and saying, wait a minute, maybe this document should have been classified. let's go back and review that. and the clinton campaign says that is what you would expect when you have so many eyeballs on these documents. they also underscore that president clint oon said she ner received e-mails that said they were classified, but the broader issue is this is a drip, drip, drip that continues to draw on secretary clinton's campaign. she wants to be talking about issues like college affordability, but yet all these events get overshadowed by the e-mails. she will likely get some questions about the e-mail issue as well, although she would like to talk about other things. she'll be taking questions from folks as well.

chr tamron? people have been reacting to donald trump's immigration plan, specifically the birthright citizenship plan in the united states. >> honestly, i think we should put all of our energies, all of our political will over finally getting the border secured and fixing the the illegal immigration system. >> i think the better approach is to deal with the 11 million people here illegally in a way that is realistic. >> i have my own, which is to finish the fence and let people know that once it's done, there is no more sneaking across the border. >> our constitution has said over the course of time that that's the case. what i have said recently is that's got to be something that's discussed in the course of an entire reform package. >> so trump's immigration plan includes deporting all undocumented immigrants, and he says he plans to fight isis and repeal president obama's health care law. how much would all of that cost?

nbc's halley jackson did the math. >> reporter: swarmed by media at juror duty in manhattan, trump ignored questions on how he would pay the policy he's flushing out, on immigration, on fighting isis -- >> we have to take back the oil. >> -- on health care. >> we have to repeal the health care. >> reporter: he turns out to be a big spender when it comes to his unprecedented proposals. deporting undocumented immigrants? it would be $138 billion. taking back iran oil fields? $22 billion. and repeeling the affordable care act?

$137 billion. he dodged katie's questions about where the money would come from. >> it's something we have to do. >> so the total for trump's proposals on immigration, fighting isis and health care, $297 billion. our thanks to nbc's halley jackson for that report, and joining us now ken vogel, chief investigative report for politico. thanks so much for joining us, ken. good to see a huge number there, but no answer from donald trump approached by katie terr how he would come up with the money for this, other than he would use some leverage over mexico to pay for the deportation of millions of people. >> yeah, one of many ways in which his rhetoric seems to be inconsistent with the traditional contours of what we think of as the republican orthodoxy. he talks about getting the fiscal house in order, he's sort of running as a fiscal

conservative, yet his hallmark proposal on immigration reform would cost an astronomical amount of money, and as such, should conceivably draw some fire from these other republican rivals, yet they are largely holding their fire on him. in fact, you see a number of them talking in ways as if they, too, are up for reexamining immigration citizenship, which is a surprise. >> you have this challenge kind of thrown out there. you have men and women saying they are going to be fiscally responsible to make america great again, but they are walking away from a $297 billion proposal here, and perhaps they did not do the math as our own halley jackson did, but a mere mention of deporting 11 million people would instantly raise your brow to no, that we're talking billions of dollars here. >> that's right, you do see jeb bush and some others sort of saying, hey, now, that's not

really consistent with the constitution and it's also not consistent with fiscal responsibility. instead, you have him driving the conversation. a number of these candidates are talking about his proposal. they're talking about reexamining birthright citizenship, just another way in which donald trump has totally hijacked this presidential republican primary. >> so what do you think is the strategy here with the laid-back attitude? jeb bush said he knows this is not a marathon, he's got the cash to really stick it to trump or whoever emerges as his chief competitor when the time is right. but when you look at this cnn poll out this morning, i know you see donald trump increasing his lead. in the same poll taken before august 6, he now holds an 11-point lead over jeb bush, a third over scott walker and ben carson. what is this theory of not challenging donald trump?

>> i think there is support for him and support for his policies and support for his positioning in the republican base. so a number of candidates are wary of alienating his supporters who, as we saw in that poll there, obviously comprise a significant percentage of the base of the republican party that will be necessary to win the nomination, so they're leary of that. >> but isn't this the party who guards the constitution, so to me it would seem if you go after or you would like to get those supporters, you say the guy you're behind is challenging the constitution, the document we p uphold for everything, including the repeated challenges regarding the health care law. >> that's true, and i think there is probably a lane for republicans to come out and aggressively challenge donald trump. we've seen it a little bit from carly fiorina, but most of the candidates either say nice things about him and his policies, like ted cruz, or they take kind of a laissez faire

approach like jeb bush, but i think the longer he's in the polls, the better it will be for one of these candidates to take him on in an aggressive way. developing now, another explosion in bangkok, thailand this morning just a day after a bombing of a popular shrine killed 22 tourists. a pipe bomb was thrown from a bridge towards a pier in a tourist area this morning. it bounced off a pillar and into the water when it exploded. no one was injured, but police are not sure if it is related to yesterday's attack. earlier today police released this surveillance video of a man who they think is responsible for the shrine bombing. he's seen inside the shrine leaving a backpack on the bench and then walking away. the bomb went off minutes later. coming up, nearly 200 military troops have now been activated to battle dozens of

wildfires burning out west. it is the first time in nine years that such a drastic step has been taken. we'll have a live report for you. and also right now, governor scott walker is unveiling his plan to repeal and replace the if the's affordable health care act. but critics call his idea, quote, recycled and say that it won't reduce the number of uninsured americans or even lower costs. we're going to dig deeper into it. it's part of this morning's first read on politics. and you can join the conversation on line. you can find the team on twitter @newsnation, and you can find me on twitter and instagram. we'll be right back. three spreadsheets later you finally bring home the one. then smash it into a tree. your insurance company's all too happy to raise your rates. maybe you should've done a little more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident.

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developing now, nearly 200 u.s. troops have arrived to reinforce firefighters battling nearly 100 fires still raging

out west. it is the first time, by the way, nearly a decade active duty service members have been mobilized for fires, but with fires still burning in at least eight states and no relief in sight from the heat that has fueled the flames, resources are running out. in california, 4,000 prison inmates have now been called in to help battle the flames. the low-level offenders are helping on the front lines as part of a volunteer program. other areas needing the most help include a large portion of washington state, where many large fires are still burning. nbc's miguel almaguer is in the resort land of chelan where firefighters are battling to fight several fires nearby. let's talk about the force and the impact it's having on this effort out there. >> reporter: tamron, as you may be able to see, the smoke is wau wafting all across our area right here. in conditions like this, they simply can't fly their

helicopters during those routine water breaks they make, because there's too much danger here. the mountains here are also very rigid and it's difficult for crews to move in that area. as we mentioned, this place has torched more than 60,000 acres. it's more than several wildfires burning across the state, and they are making the call for help. this morning across the west, it looks like a war zone and now the military is here. first the national guard and now for the first time in nearly a decade, 200 active duty service members from across the nation join in a different fight here at home. >> we know that when the military is coming that we are going to get really good trained help. they come fully loaded with all the support they need. >> with 7 million acres torched so far this year, moreland in the state of vermont, 25,000 men and women are on the front lines. this is what they face.

today they're dropping retardant from the air and smoke jumpers, too, parachuting to hot spots difficult to reach. but in states like washington, they're losing ground. and in some neighborhoods, the battle. >> i had a lot of stuff. the stuff wasn't that important. >> reporter: resources are spread thin. the feds are going to bust through their $1 billion budget by the end of the summer. that's not in addition to all the money that states are kicking in, states like california, for example, will spend an additional $1 billion, so this fire season certainly setting records in terms of acreage, and of course money spent to fight those fires. tamron? >> thank you very much, miguel. coming up, the irs says a recent cyber attack was three times larger than the agency first made public. the new worries related to the hacking as the irs starts sending notifications to people potentially affected by this. plus, the new questions over the white house's

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offering free credit monitoring and new identification numbers to verify next year's return. joining me now with more nbc news, justice correspondent pete williams. this is so fascinating, pete, because it was just 2013 the irs paid out $5.8 billion in phony refunds, so we've known of a problem the agency has known but yet they're still vulnerable as our taxpayers. >> well, this is the biggest scam now going against the internal revenue service, has been for several years. this part of it involves something called your tax return transcript. you may not have realized you could get it, but it's basically a summary of your tax returns from previous years. if you go on the irs website right now and try to get your tax return transcript using the get transcript function, you'll see a little box right here. as you get close, you can read it. it says the on-line get transcript services currently unavailable. if you want your transcripts, you can get them by mail. we apologize for any

inconvenience. this has been bakesically down since may when the internal revenue service noticed this problem. when they use other resources to get taxpayers' names, social security numbers, addresses and other information that allow them to go on this website, get the transcripts of previous taxpayers and use that information to file the phony return. that's the scam here. they originally thought, as you know, that it was about 100,000. it's about 300,000. that's a lot, of course, but to put it in perspective, it is 1/1000 of 1% of all taxpayers. >> unless you're one of 1,000, then that's a different perspective. you just pointed out there three times the number than originally reported, do we have an indication that in a couple months the irs will come back and say actually it's really 600,000.

how under control to do they have this, i guess i'm asking you. >> well, i guess to paraphrase someone, it depends on what the definition of "this" is. in terms of transcript problem, they're trying to get to the bottom of that and see how many times it was accessed. the hard thing is to know whether, when someone uses all the right information which they stole, how do you know that that was an unauthorized intrusion? and that thas a faakes a fair a auditing and that's why we had this higher number. could it go higher? yes, it could. do we know it? the irs doesn't, either. trying to get a handle on this phony tax refund is what we need to gate handle here. someone files taxes in the name of a real taxpayer. then when the actual taxpayer tries to file for rhett futhe r the irs says, you already got it. they say they're using new

auditing techniques, new ways to spot this fraud when it happens, but it's still a big challenge for the irs. >> thank you very much, pete, for the information and the der tai -- details. up next, hillary clinton with black lives matter activists. >> if you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. you're not going to change every heart. you're not. >> we will have more of what hillary clinton said to those activists and what they are saying about the meeting now. it is part of this morning's first read in politics. plus -- >> ♪ i'm officially running for president of the united states ♪ #makeamericagreatagain. >> you don't hear that every day. you're going to hear more of josh groban turning donald trump's tweets into beautiful music? it's one of the things we just

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we have an inside look at that meeting between hillary clinton and a member of the black lives matter movement. right now as well, scott walker is unveiling his plan to repeal and replace obamacare today, but critics are already saying his plan is short on details on how much it would all cost. and senator bob menendez could become the latest democrat to oppose senator obama's nuclear deal with iran. he's expected to reveal his position in about an hour. the obama administration has accepted the first transgender person in the white house in history. the obama administration appointing the first transgender

official in white house history. this news came down just about an hour ago. what can you tell us? >> this is an appointment, and tamron, the news here is that this would be the first transgender appointee in the obama white house, and certainly another milestone that has been broken in the news on that front. >> let's move on to hillary clinton, a meeting with a black lives matter activist. we knew this meeting took place behind closed doors and we're getting a glimpse of what happened. we'll play a little bit more. >> i stand here in your space and i say this as tact ffully ai can. if you don't tell black people what we need to do, then we won't tell you all what you need to do. >> i'm just telling you to tell me. >> what i mean to say is, this is and has always been a white problem of violence. it's not -- there's not much

that we can do to stop the violence against us. ask you're saying that what the black lives matter needs to do to change white violence a heare the policy. >> i don't believe you change hearts. you change allocation of resources, the change the way systems operate. you're not going to change every heart, you're not. but at the end of the day, we can do a whole lot to change some hearts and change some systems and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them. you can keep the movement going, which you have started, and through it you may actually change some hearts. but if that's all that happens, we'll be back here in ten years having the same conversation. >> so following the release of that video, mark, the black lives matter boston tweeted out, hrc lobby to expand drug war and mass incarceration in ways that still impact black and brown people today. they also tweeted out, hillary

also repeatedly called out for tougher police sentences. looking at that glimpse of video, what's your perspective on that meeting, and what, if anything, was accomplished there? >> tamron, it reminds me a lot of the latino and dream protesters we've seen at republican events, and bottom line, you have to be able to interrupt politicians, you sometimes have to request private meetings with them and send your video out to change the system. i think hillary clinton's answer was as activists, that's what you guys need to do. as politicians, here's how the system works, here is what is possible and what is not. but it's always kind of this back and forth, tamron, about the system and trying to be able to change it. i think that we've seen, whether it's the latino protesters and now black lives matter, unconventional ways and sometimes unconventional is the way to break through. >> let's talk about scott walker and his plan to repeal and replace obamacare.

it's already been noted that he does not discuss cost or how many people would ultimately be insured with his plan. >> right, tamron. i think we're still looking for some of the more specifics and he's in the process of giving his speech right now. but the context of scott walker's obamacare repeal speech today, he's in need of a little conservative mojo. this person, scott walker, was the darling of conservatives a few months ago before we all started to focus on donald trump, and really before donald trump really took the immigration issue away from scott walker, and scott walker being able to hit on the issue of the health care law as well as to really try to hug donald trump on immigration are his paths to be able to get some of that donald trump support if donald trump does ultimately falter. >> right now the rate of uninsured americans dropped 6%, to 11.4% since 2013. that is the lowest since

tracking began in 2008. if it is appealed, which we've discussed over and over, the key is what do you do with all those people who are now insured? >> well, tamron, that's right. and the obama administration can point to the uninsured rate going down, the fact that premiums aren't as high as many had expected as well as other successes that they believe from the law, but the political reality is this. it is so hard to change a system that's already up and running. and it's why you saw republicans really trying to be able to eliminate the law before it really took off, before it started, and come 2017, and again, you would have an enrollment this year and then the year after, it becomes more entrenched and that's the real big challenge for whomever if the republicans end up taking the white house in 2017. >> mark, thank you. a reminder, bob menendez will announce his position on the iran deal at 1:15 and we'll carry that for you as well.

the white house is unveiling a new plan for heroin overdose deaths. between 2002 and 2013, heroin deaths in the u.s. almost quadrupled. the new face of heroin is described as mostly women, between 20 and 25 and many with higher incomes. many started out addicted to painkillers and switched to heroin because it is cheaper. the $2.5 million program focuses on treatment rather than prosecution of addicts. it pairs law enforcement officials with public health workers across the northeast where heroin is exploding. they'll work together to monitor youth, flag the public if a dangerous batch of drugs hits the streets and track down what is being brought in. and joining me now is ann blythe, a recovering addict and coach who has been sober now for 23 years. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> this is so personal for you on a number of levels.

>> yes. >> it affects your daughter? >> yes. >> tell me about her struggles right now. >> she's 15 years old from the white suburbs of new jersey, honors student, plays softball. started with an addiction of oxycontin pills, which become very expensive, and she moved on to heroin which is cheaper and very easily available in our neighborhood. she grew up in a household with a mom that is sober. she never saw alcohol or drugs in the house, and it affected her, anyway. >> when she described to you the lure of it or how she became addicted, what were the words she used to explain how this got a grip on her life? >> you know, she talked mainly about the pain that she had felt before, some anxiety, and then the pain of using and needing to use. i think that's what happens with addiction, that once you take one, you never know what's going to happen after that. she doesn't want to be addicted, but she is, and now she's in treatment and 60 days of

sobriety, abstinence and really looking forward to recovery. >> she's 15. >> 15. >> and the addiction started, as you pointed out, with painkillers. were those prescribed to her? >> they were not, but i think they were prescribed to parents, maybe, in our neighborhood, maybe some kids in the neighborhood that then go into the medicine cabinets, take it and sell it on the streets or in school or wherever. kids have easy access to this stuff. >> and i think some people might be surprised when you said the heroin was cheaper than buying the illegal pain pills. >> yeah, it's cheaper and it's easier to get on the street. it's easier to access. if going to patterson or north, she gets it nearby. >> it's interesting as well, whether you're talking about addiction to crack cocaine or heroin, many people have always been on the front line of saying you can't just throw people in jail. this is about recovery. >> right. >> and getting the right programs in front of the right

people. and now we're seeing the obama administration focusing on that rather than just mass incarceration of people who need help. >> absolutely. and i think it's phenomenal that the discussion is turning towards treatment, and therefore, turning towards recovery. because recovery is possible. there are over 22 million folks in recovery in this country. it's possible for anyone with the right treatment, and there's a saying, help, not handcuffs. this is a chronic illness that can be treated. treatment does work. >> in your daughter's case, for example, what a big difference in her life being 15 years old. she could be in some type of juvenile institution right now, but she's getting help with the hope she can get back out and own her life. >> part of that is she has a parent who is an advocate. i know how to talk to the system, i know how to work the system, i know what needs to be said to get her in. i think that's part of the message, we want treatment for all folks, whether you're familiar with recovery or whether you're not. we want to make it simple and available to everyone who needs it. >> everyone meaning

socioeconomic as well. with your daughter, she's 15, affluent neighborhood. yes, that's the focus of morristown, but what about if it's a lower income area, say, part of harlem, i don't know. will that 15-year-old of color get that same help? >> right, and i'm thinking not, and that's also why i'm here speaking out. we're all human lives. this is an illness that deserves to be treated as an illness and we need treatment for it for everyone. >> it's a very interesting program. thank you so much for sharing your story and that of your daughter. i know you're a loving mother and we're rooting for both of you. >> thank you. coming up, a new report finds potential black jurors are being excluded three times more than non-blacks. in at least one part of the south, a procedure that allows attorneys to dismiss prospective jurors without explanation. the larger impact this has on the judicial system, and in many cases, whether a defendant is acquitted or sent behind bars. also ahead, is it time for

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jurors without any explanation. they chose to use peremptory jurors three times more than non-black jurors. it is consistent with patterns that researchers found in alabama, south carolina a& louisiana where prosecutors struck black jurors at double or triple the rates of others. joining me now is civil rights attorney and senior council working for equality. jen, thank you so much for your time. a lot of people, i'm sure, don't know about this challenge or this owning for lawyers to dismiss potential jurors without really offering an explanation. how does that work? >> well, the supreme court recognized in the 1980s under a

case called facet that a prosecutor needs to have some reason to strike a potential juror. in that case they recognized that striking black jurors from a potential jury violates the rights of both the potential juror and the rights of the defendant. and the prosecutor has to come forward with a race-neutral reason. if someone comes forward and says, i need to challenge what the prosecutor is doing here because i believe it's based on race, they have to offer a race-neutral reason. >> and some excluded jurors because they were too young, too old, religious or not. they failed to maintain eye contact, lived in a poor part of town, had served in the military, displayed bad posture, were sullen, disrespectful or talkative, had long hair or wore a beard. when people wear this list, i'm sure there is great outrage. this is in the "new york times,"

and by numbers here, the cato parrish, when there were few black jurors, no defendants were acquitted in cato parish. the acquittal rate rose to 12%. with black jurors, the rate was 19%. >> that's right, and the data we're seeing in this report ais important and it comes in a long line of reports from 2003, 2006, 2012 that shows prosecutors were releasing black jurors from prosecution. >> what is the motive here? >> they might have the potential to move jurors, and they're entitled to do so if it's not based on race. it could be in part that prosecutors are basing their decisions about who might be a good juror on i mproprieties tht

we might all have to some extent. >> in layman's terms, you're saying that a white juror might protect a white defendant and a black juror might protect a black defendant. is that what you're saying? >> right, they might fail to understand from the defendant's perspective and they'll come forward with guilty. >> it's interesting, we contacted the parish for comment this morning. they have not gotten back to us. however, the parish's active district attorney said it's more of an art than a science, and statistics can be misleading. there could be any number of variables that have nothing whatsoever to do with race. but we should note that a study involving this acting district attorney, 38% of the black jurors were challenged while 14% of the non-black jurors were challenged here. >> and we should challenge what

this prosecutor is saying, because the data really does show the reasons for these challenges are not explained by race-mutual reasons. the misuse of peremptory challenge really compounds the use of race in our justice system. he is more likely to encounter release, more likely to face high bail that will then keep him behind bars until a trial comes, and then the trial finally comes and the prosecutor is, based on race, excluding black people from his jury. in this country we like to say that we're color blind, but what we're blind to is really racial injustice, and the answer here is simple, and it's to end the practice of peremptory challenge, which is a common law practice. there is nothing requiring them in the constitution, and given decades of research that indicates that prosecutors are disproportionately and on purpose excluding black people from the pool. really, we need to stop the

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