joining us. chris hayes is up next. his hair is real. but is he? let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. do you see donald trump has something phenomenal in american politics or as just another version of the same old same old? i'll make it simpler. do you think the republican voters all out rejection of jeb bush is now down to 7%, is real? clearly there is something happening in today's politics. republicans are rejecting the grand old party in favor of trump the billionaire and to a lesser extent, dr. ben carson, the brilliant neuro surgeon. and that is something far harder to sweep aside. something happening on the right and center right of this country

and a far greater revolution than what we're seeing on the left and center left. hillary may herself find some real competition in bernie sanders and possibly joe biden. but the eruption is nowhere near what appears to be the revolution on the right which is very real. today donald trump's campaign in south carolina began like an old time medicine wagon. his opening act, bashing the new york times for running a front page story about latino groups unhappy with trump including one who accused him of wearing a toupee. >> eduardo sanchez, on his spanish drive time radio show in los angeles has taken to calling donald j. trump a name. in other words, the man of the toupee. this was on the front page of the new york times.

i don't wear a toupee. it is my hair. i swear. >> like a carnival mind reader, he then invited a woman on stage to inspect his hair. >> come. is it mine? >> it is. >> say it, please. >> yes, i believe it is. >> thank you. >> and have i ever met you before? no. >> no. >> you're very nice. thank you. nice to meet you. >> he's met her now. for good measure, he then threw "the new york times" into the air for show. joanie, i have to ask you. i know you just mock this stuff. this show business. you won't get anything like this in the summer weekday from anybody else. it's something to go see, i guess. >> we were all watching. it was great television. he brought her up. she touches his hair.

he's reading allowed in his mangled spanish from the newspaper. he is mocking the "times," he is mocking the media generally, he is calling jorge ramos a maniac. it was a rollicking good time for the people there and for those of us watching on tv. it is not for the republican establishment, because i think you're right, chris, to point to not only his 28% in that quinnipiac poll but ben carson has another 12 or 14. >> that tells you a lot. >> four out of ten republican voters are rejecting the career politicians. >> the ones who are the party, those who thought it was their turn. a new quinnipiac show poll shows trump pulling away. his rival is also not part of the establishment. the brilliant ben carson.

the widest margin for any republican so far this season. even more striking. this is powerful stuff. the guy everybody knows, and everybody knows whose brother he was, whose father he was, is down to 7. 1 in 12, i'm sorry, 1 in 14. major national support since two years ago. the hill newspaper sums it up. the businessman's dominance of the republican presidential race is forcing experienced political hands to question whether everything they know about winning the white house is wrong. i think, do you agree with me, the big story here is the apparent rejection this season of the establishment? >> no question. you look at poll after poll after poll. some of the state polls show trump, carson, fiorina in the lead.

they're willing to take a chance with someone who has never spent one day in elected office. they think the town is broken. they want to -- >> if you ask, you ask anybody, the country, what they think of the work of congress. our legislative body. the one that runs the country. it is 9%. >> down to friends and family. that's all it is. >> that tell you why a trump would do well. >> in my column for tomorrow's paper, i stay republican establishment seems to me to be going through elizabeth kubeler ross's five stages of grief. the first is denial. this isn't happening. the clintons could be going through this too. >> that's later. >> who is the anti-establishment candidate? >> nothing is like trump. but the dynamics have. >> reporter: very similar on the democratic side.

>> i think that's more -- isn't that more ideological? if you're for bernie, it is not that you're against the establishment. you want more government activity, more action on the tax front, student loan front. infrastructure. you want things done. >> bernie sanders has a program. some people don't like it and some people love it. there is a command for populism in the democratic party. it is cogent. it is about solutions. with trump, bits telling people what they want to hear. and i think we have to admit, this is part of -- >> isn't that politics? >> this is part of what the republican party has brought this on themselves by making a lot of promises. and i think even matt might agree with me. that the leaders couldn't keep. we're going to repeal obamacare. >> before you dismiss what people want to hear.

bush is an imbecile and we have to get out of stupid war in iraq. i wanted to hear that. >> he had programs, many of which he enacted. he had coherent -- domestically, he had a lot of ideas. wasn't just pie in the sky. this is pie in the sky. >> let's look at this. here's donald trump. he told people today, let's let him describe his message. >> we have a message. the edge many is, we're not going to take it anymore. we're not going to tate anymore. jeb bush, i keep thinking he was the guy to beat. he is going down fast. i don't even know who is second. ists really hitting bush hard. i felt sorry for him. he is such a nice person. he doesn't use his last name. did you ever see a sign that says jeb bush or bush?

there's a reason he doesn't use his last name. it went work too well. >> the thing that i find engaging. there's something engaging about a guy who is externalizing his thinking. the crazy thinking. >> what is he doing? a great performer. >> i haven't seen that whole press availability. i'll bet he slimmed in a low energy person about bush. we all studied this. the most successful, i think, slogan of any candidate in history. 1986. the republican slogan was everywhere. had enough? it just captured it all. time for a change. we had inflation. the there is too much, too much, too. just had enough of it. the shortages, the rationing.

so they said had enough? this guy is like howard beal. can't take it anymore. he doesn't have to be specific. we just don't like these bums in there now. >> it is our turn. >> that's what hillary believes. >> i embrace that i like the bush family. >> is that -- you think of the word bush. >> i think there is no question that the country is willing to give the republicans a chance to make their case. they very rarely give people three terms in a row. >> you think your party has the edge going in? >> i don't think it has an electoral college edge. but i think there is a fatigue game there for any president. george w. bush had it. eight years of obama is a lot. a lot of change. a lot of people that are unhappy with that. it is in the polls. >> i'm looking at the demographics. you see the papers today. it is like philadelphia. frank rizzo needed to take 87%.

it doesn't work. >> a terrible strategy. demographics prove the point basically. you can't just ignore -- >> white people. >> you can't ignore 38% of america. >> the number today was you have to carry -- we shouldn't even be talking about this. talking in group identity. you have to get 65% of the white vote to win if you're a republican. >> if we want to be a majority party, the republican party should want to be everyone's party. it shouldn't just be a regionable party for a white party. >> if it comes to demographics, hillary has the advantage. >> any democrat has the great advantage. especially if they run somebody like donald trump. bush's thing, he was the electable guy. there is a chance. there is fatigue. there is always fatigue after two terms. with these electoral college numbers, there is not much of a chance.

>> you know the numbers as fast as i know them. we have numbers that show a significant advantage if joe biden runs. >> that is one poll. we'll see. we have to keep an eye on it. >> you think it is an outlier. >> do i actually. >> thank you to joan walsh, eugene, coming up. did she go too far? as anti-woman as the world is anti-terrorist this shows joe biden would be doing better than either one. ten years later, president obama goes to new orleans to mark the ten-year anniversary of hurricane katrina. wait until you see the pictures of before and after. on the 2016 front, no filter. we'll tell what you people come out with. a warning. most of those top one words are brutally honest.

and let me finish with some of the reasons why donald trump is commanding the republican field. this is "hardball." the place for politics.

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i have to admit, i take it a little personal when they go after women. when they go after women's health, women's rights, extreme views about women, we speck that from some of the terrorist groups. we expect that from people who don't want to live in the modern world.

but it's a little hard to take coming from republicans who want to be the president of the united states. yet they espouse out of date and out of touch politics. they are dead wrong for 21st century america. we're going forward. we're not going back. >> welcome back. that was democratic front-runner hillary clinton in the swing state of ohio rallying against extreme views on women's health. even comparing them to terrorists. the secretary of state lit into a few of her republican rivals and called them out by name. >> this is happening all over the country. here even in ohio. programs and services to help women take care of themselves are being cut down. marco rubio brags about wanting to deny victims of rape and incest, access to health care, to an abortion.

jeb bush says planned parenthood shouldn't get a penny. your governor here in ohio banned state funding for some rape crisis centers. >> not surprisingly, the republican national committee responded. for hillary clinton to equate her political opponents to terrorists is a new low for her flailing campaign. she should apologize immediately for her inflammatory rhetoric. and jeb bush tweeted, hillary clinton compares pro-life americans to terrorists but defends despicable treatment of the unborn? her priorities are totally wrong. governor, thank you for joining us. do you think that's a little extreme to compare republicans, i guess she was talking about trump but maybe all of them, to islamic terrorists. she was talking about people who don't want to live in the modern world. she is clearly talking to people who want to bring back the

caliphate. comparing them to republicans. >> terrorists, people who are extreme, people who don't want to live in the modern era, people who don't want to allow people to have health care. i love it. >> terrorists. >> she didn't say they were terrorists. she said people, you would expect to hear that from people like terrorists or people who don't want to be in the modern world. you don't expect it from republicans. she wasn't calling them terrorists. she was saying why is the republican party so out of date? and truly, if you look at what these candidates are espousing, no exceptions for rape or incest? i mean, come on. >> no apologies. >> that's ironic, don't you think? coming from the party with donald trump with such inflammatory wild rhetoric. no, i think she is totally right to call them out on their extremism and i think most women

across the country believe the same. >> is she pulled back on this? >> i think she will stick to it for a little while and then she'll pull back. which is the cycle that we've seen with secretary clinton. we saw it yesterday after insisting that no one was paying attention to her e-mails, she said she understood why it was a big deal for people and she got it. i want to say i have a lot of almost for governor grand holm. i couldn't agree more. they're wrong in their position on abortion no, exceptions for abortion. but i think that is a very far cry from a taliban type treatment of women. and it would behoove secretary clinton to not compare the two. >> yesterday in iowa, secretary clinton sounded more could not . >> here's what i want the american people to know.

my use of personal e-mail was allowed by the state department. it clearly was not the best choice. i should have used two e-mails. one personal. one for work. and i take responsibility for that that decision. and i want to be as trans parent as possible, which is why i turned over 55,000 pages. why i've turned over my server. why i've agreed to in fact and asking to and have finally gotten a date to testify before a congressional committee in october. and i'm confident that this process will prove that i never sent nor received any e-mail that was marked classified. >> let's take a look. it may be too late for what she said. according to the quinnipiac poll. liar is the first word that

comes to mind, more than any others in an open ended question when voters think of clinton. these polls are rough. name one word you think of. that includes a lot of conservatives and far right people. but still the leading number. the leading word used to describe her. >> yeah. i think yesterday was a pivot point. i think that you will see her move in this new direction of saying that she really regrets having made the decision to have one server than two. i think she was honest. >> what was wrong with doing -- obviously it got her into trouble. she. you apologize for something that gets you into trouble. what was essentially in character wrong with a decision to use her private e-mail? what was wrong with that? you apologize for something, it should be for something you did wrong. she said she didn't do anything wrong. >> in retrospect shelf didn't violate any laws.

what did she do wrong? >> in retrospect as this played on it, it wofbl better to use two servers. here's what i think about this. because of the quinnipiac poll and the concern that we've seen among, especially based democrats. the fact she's leaning into this, and that she is saying, i regret that this happened. i wish i had done it a different way. and that she is going to testify in front of the benghazi committee and she's asking the department of state to release the e-mails quicker, and that she voluntarily turned over her server. all of that should eventually put this behind us. how much more money can the republicans put into creating this story about her as a liar? that's exactly what has gone on. they've spent a huge amount of money trying to craft that particular image you see. >> i think liar is a terrible word. i hate anybody using on it this show. it ends the conversation.

i think a softer word may be, too secretive too, afraid of exposure, maybe because of her years of dealing with us. what she did wrong, if she did anything wrong, she didn't trust her e-mail to get into public circulation. i think it was just political mail. of course she should keep to it herself. my view. it was political mail. >> it would be political malpractice to not have some private e-mail. they have some i don't think it was about funerals and weddings. i think it was, this is wonderfully and positive. whatever it was, it was talked about yesterday as a pivot point. the really relevant question is why did it take so long to get to this pivot point? why isn't the data little more adept at being able to respond before you have all the people saying liar? >> do you know what i've noticed.

i don't give advice but i'm giving some now. the campaign is, it looked wonderful yesterday. the way she came out and presented herself. the clothes and hair and all that that gets you into trouble. her presentation yesterday about the horror in virginia was so presidential, so perfectly tuned. so with it. and then this stuff happens. how come one day, it is like following the phillies. they win one, they lose two. they win one, lose three. this is driving me crazy. >> we don't agree on this. >> you think it is an evenly run campaign. >> i'm not saying that. obviously the campaign has had to catch up on this e-mail thing. i think the strong statements about women's health. i disagree with you on that. >> terrorists. >> but i would say that yesterday's two comments, both about the shooting and about joe biden which were very sensitive, and about this e-mail, were

really on point and shows her to be a strong leader. in that quinnipiac poll, it asks the basic questions about who was a strong leader. do you think this is a strong leader, do you think this is someone who cares about you. do you think this is someone that you could trust in a crisis? hillary clinton wins hands down in all three of those measures. >> it also showed, however, that joe biden is significantly more powerful running against the possible republican opponents, so why is the vice president leading in that poll? >> you said significantly. it was a couple points. >> the lead was four times as much in one case. eight compared to two. >> okay. let me say, everybody knows that when you are not a candidate, you do better in polls. and the minute you become a candidate, all bets are off, right? this is to take nothing away from the all joe biden who we love dearly.

this is about campaigning. but the let me say the coverage of this poll has been surprising. she beats all the democrats by 22 points plus. and of course, all the coverage is totally the opposite. >> do you know why? it is news to me that joe biden is doing better against the republicans than she is. that's why i'm reporting it. it is what we call news. thank you. we come from a really political back ground. i have some journalism in my back ground. >> your hair looks great. >> i got a hair cut. it's real, too! >> let's put it to the test. a trip back to new orleans tonight. ten years after the devastation of katrina. this is "hardball." the place for politics. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic,

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what started out as a natural disaster became a manmade disaster. a failure of government to look out for its own citizens. >> welcome back to "hardball" of that was president obama in the lower ninth ward of new orleans today. he is there marking the ten-year anniversary since hurricane katrina devastated new orleans and much of the gulf coast. back in 2005, i was on the ground reporting on the immediate efforts to try to save lives and restore some semblance of order down. there it requires the use of special forces. >> i visited a command post not far from here and i talk to the soldiers about the challenges they're facing as they try to save the city of new orleans and clean up the city. we're here at harry's casino. i've been here before in brighter days. what's going on there? >> we're assisting the efforts with the new orleans police department on getting assets out

to the water borne areas. using boats to continue the search for tifrs. >> kind of a surreal quality. veterans of the iraq war sought to help find survivors. >> i feel like i'm on patrol here. in an urban situation. an american situation. >> we're here to protect american lives and property. >> not a familiar sight. >> it looks a lot like baghdad, sir. >> i think i put on some weight since then. gary covered the treenl catastrophe. he is out with a new book, katrina. let me ask you a brutal question. if this all happened again. the same weather that conditions, the same flooding, would new orleans be flooded again? is there any improvement from what happened?

>> new orleans is in. better shape right now handle the it was ten years ago. the federal government spent almost $15 billion rebuilding the levee system. if it was the same exact storm, a category 3 hurricane hitting new orleans, yeah, i think people are very confident that they would fare much better. and you go through that trauma. you're going to be more prepared the next time. not as many people will stay and there is a better plan in place to evacuate people. >> you know, i'm going to help new orleans out. maybe you want to help too. as well as push the book, too. katrina after the flood. people love to go to new orleans. unlike las vegas, which is a manmade place. new orleans is real. a certain atmosphere. it is old and french ask southern and cajun. you go listen to some real jazz at night to a club. the food is fantastic, places like emerald's.

give never pitch for visiting new orleans as a family. right now. >> that is part of the story that new orleans ten years later, i was here for eight months after katrina. there was a long period where wasn't clear that new orleans would come back and look anything like it does now. from a tourist point of view. new orleans is in fantastic shame. 20% less people but thrumming with energy. the other half of the story is the neighborhoods. the eastern half of the city, the black half of the city. there is a lot of suffering there. one man said the water isn't here but we're still drowning. there is that part of story. >> what could the government do? would there be money to help continue this restoration? >> there were fundamental mistakes made in the early years that just set the die.

black working class, black lower income communities, and they're still struggling. the president is in the lower ninth ward. only one-third of the population is black ten years later after katrina. black middle class, some neighborhoods only 60% back. the largest federal recovery housing recovery program in u.s. history. and it went to court. a federal judge five years after katrina said it is racially conservative. at that point there were only which $150 million left. >> do you think it makes sense for money coming from all over the utah to benefit people living below sea level? if s&p a reasonable investment? if you're building below sea level? >> and people live in the earthquake zone in the west coast and along rivers.

what makes it so complicated. the high ground was pretty much taken in new orleans by the time african-americans had a channel for ownership. there was a plan put in place. four or five months, that would have told them. we're not going to move you. >> to a large extent, people think of new orleans as jazz. this thank you. you made good case for they know worst off. up next, can any action come on gun safety reform in the wake of the tragic on air shootings in virginia yesterday? what do you think?

welcome back to "hardball." 24 hours after two journalists were killed live on the air, their colleagues in roanoke, virginia, paused in the broadcast for a moment of silence and to pay their respects. >> we are approaching a moment that none of us will forget. it was yesterday around this

time that we went live to alison parker and photojournalist adam ward. we thank all of you at home. this hurts all of us so much, as you can see. the time and the blessings of our many friends out there, all of you, we will heal from this. >> that holding of hands meant something to me there. the killing by vester flanagan. he was a report he. he said he purchased a gun two days after the charleston church massacre. he called himself a human powder keg waiting to go boom. those were his words and he praised the columbine and virginia tech shooters. he said he was making it his life's mission to keep guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people. let's listen. >> my grief which is still apparent and will be that way

for a while, it has turned to anger. you know, how many times are we going to see an incident like this happen, you can, newtown, charleston, the movie theaters, you name it. it has to stop. it has got to stop. nationally, locally, we've got to find a way to keep crazy people from getting guns. mentally unable people. look at i. the people who do this are mentally unstable and somehow they're able to get guns. and the nra is fighting it tooth and nail. and my goal is to call these people out which i'm doing now and i will do it on national television every chance i get. >> i'm joined by tonight's round table. the great clarence page, political reporter for the guardian and chief investigative report he ken vogel.

i'll start with clarnls. we've been through this so many times. every time somebody has been killed in gun violence, whether it is senseless or whatever it is, rational or insane or a political killing or a crime. we say we'll do something with guns and two weeks later we're talking about something else. we're talking about hurricane katrina. the gun people are still talking about it. passion and focus is what wins for the, in, are, a. >> you've got it. some kind of sensible -- >> other interests. >> yeah. people on the whole are not as committed to it. and as well funded as the anti-gun control side. and this is, this means that unfortunately, the numbers are being built up in their ranks by tragedy. this father sounding like the sandy hook parents or the family of those in charleston.

we're going into a presidential election year. >> let's watch hillary. i was very impressed. you can pick up on this. she promised she would take the issue of gun violence on. she called it a difficult issue and said too many politicians turn away from it. >> yesterday once again, this time, horrifically on live television, we saw the terrible consequences of gun violence in america. i know that we have a majority of americans and a majority of gun owners who support universal back ground checks in america. and i strongly believe we've got to have common sense reforms to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, the violently unstable gles abusers and even

terrorists who find it pretty easy in our country to get ahold of a weapon if they so choose. >> meanwhile, republican front-runner donald trump was asked on cnn if he would do anything to change gun policies. >> well, i don't think i would. this is a mental problem. a case like, this he snuck up on them. a gun or a notify, whatever it would have been. you're not going to get rid of all guns. if you try to do it, the bad guys would have them, to use an expression, and the good folks would abide by the law. it would be hopeless and a homeless situation for them. and i think it is a big mistake. and i am vex a second amendment person, chris. and i know the arguments both ways very well. i'm vex into the second amendment. you need protection. >> well, donald, this is one bad guy that had a gun.

so with his whole principle, tonight good guys will be kept from having guns. politically, can she sell this in 50 states? a lot of it is pro gun states. >> i think not banning assault weapons. the far-reaching measures, you could have that support. >> is that the way second amendment people look at it? a slimry slope all the time. no republican candidate is going to show any interest in any support what so ever. the object way they can zoit how tolled politicians more accountable. >> size this up. the immediate tragedy. we all watch it on tv. we saw it on tv. what do the american people need at.

in this case a person who shouldn't have had a gun had one. >> a couple things. you would think the social media might grim folks in ways it hasn't. the fact this video is out there for everyone to see. >> twitter. >> and it was played -- >> i think it was taken down by some of the people. >> it was eventually, nonetheless, you don't need. more evidence. >> is it going to matter a year from now? >> it is tough to say it would. because you look back to sandy hook when 20 innocent school children. yes, i have trouble believing it will overcome the entrenched politics. >> we've talked about: the killings in this city.

there will be an enormous number of shootings. family disputes. guys dising each other. the stuff on a hot summer night? happening in the city because there are too many guns. there's no need for guns in d.c. >> that's not the best example. because urban crime and homicide has been in decline. >> not this city. >> they always go up and down. why can't a common sense reform. polls show over whelming majority. >> there is no argument. >> the round table is staying with us and it is in dispute. coming up, what's the first word that comes to mind when you think about donald trump? think about it. and what about hillary clinton. a look at voters' first impressions. this is "hardball," the place for politics.

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we are back. well, the latest quinnipiac poll released today asked respondents what is the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the three presidential candidates, hillary clinton, jeb bush and donald trump. the answers were very telling and some were disturbing. here's what people said about hillary clinton, the top six words. number one, liar. then dishonest, untrustworthy. they're all about the same, all bad. experience, that's good. strong, that's good. and here's a mixed statement, bill. we're back with our roundtable.

sabrina, evening a lot of that is just republican haters. your thought? >> yes, it shows some of the struggles amid the e-mail controversy and the campaign's inability to break through on the messaging there. at the same time, she leads republicans in all the hypothetical head-to-head matchups. she also has a sizeable lead over joe biden and bernie sanders. >> but not in the matchup with the republicans. biden has taken the lead there, which is weird. what did you think of the words on hillary? how about secretive? >> yeah, she's a liar but at least she's our liar. i think the question is -- >> oh, god. you're tough. >> have you ever been to chicago. >> let's look at the words to describe jeb bush. the top six were, this is a killer, bush. family, the same thing. honest, that's not bad. weak, like freddo in the godfather, brother and dynasty. these aren't positive. >> it's a struggle for both of them frankly, for jeb and for hillary. so much of this is baked into the cake. there's not a whole lot they can do. i agree the e-mail controversy

may be increasing the frequency with which people would think of the word "liar" when they're asked about her. >> how about bush? trump was making fun of him earlier today by saying he never uses the word "bush." >> i will say that having been on the campaign trail following some of these republican candidates, the thing that primary voters always say to me about jeb bush still is that his name is going to be a problem. they just can't appoint another bush as their nominee. >> finally, the top words used to describe donald trump. this is no surprise. arrogant, blowhard, idiot, businessman, that's good. clown, honest. >> i'm not so sure how good that is. businessman -- honest is good, but blowhard, arrogant. >> i'm reassured that the public is not as stupid as a lot of people think they are. >> those are remarkable, talk about with jeb and hillary, it's long track records. with him, you only have to go back a few months and he was actually kind of respected. he did this to himself and he did this pretty quickly. i think this is a pretty

indelible impression that's not going anywhere. >> is arrogant a killer? >> i don't know. you talk to his supporters -- >> they want self confidence. >> i think there's a difference between republican primary voters and the general electorate in america. which is why you know donald trump cannot actually be the nominee. >> you don't think? >> if he is, then they're in deep trouble. >> you ask the trump supporters and they'll tell you what they like about him. >> thank you all. up next when, we return let me finish with some of the reasons why donald trump is commanding the republican field, and he is. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics.

let me finish tonight with my explanation for donald trump. first, there is no one reason why he is commanding the republican field right now. there are several reasons, only some of which i think i've got figured out. let's start with the candidate himself. a smart canadian pollster, alan greg, once told me there's three elements to any successful politician in any country. motive. you know why they're running. passion. they're getting you know when they're excited by something and angered by something. and spontaneity. they can think on their feet and react to a situation, even something they said themselves as a real, live human being. trump's got all of this. he's running to blow apart the country's establishment and he is clearly capable of reacting when someone tries going toe to toe with him. there's other factors,

nationalism being the strongest but a lot of others of tried speaking to this but only trump has powerly succeeded. the key to trump is the message that outraged citizenry and trump himself. nobody out there or in recent memory does it better, in fact nowhere near as well. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. tonight on "all in" -- >> i don't need his endorsement. i certainly wouldn't want his endorsement. i don't need anybody's endorsement. >> amid reports of support from white supremacists, trump distances himself from a former kkk grand wizard. and others. >> i'm not a fan of hitler. then, the president in new orleans. >> what started out as a natural disaster became a manmade disaster. >> what the federal government is doing ten years after the storm. senior advisor valerie jarrett joins me. >>pl