american express' timeless safety and security are now available on apple pay. the next evolution of membership is here. >> a few minutes ago in norwood, massachusetts a half hour south of bostons, donald trump wrapped up a rowdy speech and press conference. he talked about gun violence, how many jobs he is going to create, his feelings for quarterback tom brady, and his fellow republican candidates for president. >> you have a problem of mental health in this country. and we have to take care of people and we have to find out who these people are. we also have an illegal immigrant problem. a lot of the gangs -- it's true. a lot of the gangs in st. louis and ferguson, a lot of the gangs in chicago and the toughest and the meanest, the worst dudes in

baltimore, you've seen it, they are illegal immigrants. i'll tell you one thing. if i get in, they are going to be gone so fast out of this country. they are going to be gone so fast. i mean you take a look what's happening. and you have illegal immigrants and gangs that you wouldn't even believe. they are going to be gone. >> why is jeb bush a frequent target of yours? >> i would say jeb bush is a frequent target because when this whole thing started i thought he was going to be the primary competition but he drifted very much to the middle of the pack and rapidly disappearing so we're going to have to look at somebody else. >> you think brady should settle? >> leave tom brady alone. right? we love tom brady. as you know he is a very good friendch mine. i know tom brady. tom brady is an honest guy, he is a great guy, he is a great champion and winner. leave him alone. you know we had a tremendous crowd at the airport, it was

amazing. i hope they were able to come over here. we were greeted with hundreds and hundreds of people at the airport. there is something happening, there is a movement going on. call it silent majority, whatever you want but there is a movement going on. thank you all very much. >> fascinating. donald trump playing to the crowd and the cameras at an event billed as a private fund-raiser in massachusetts. although donald trump said this was not a fund-raiser. and that he is doing just fine without raising money for his campaign. >> you have said you boasted that you didn't need money to run for president. >> right. >> here we are at a fund-raiser. >> this is not a fund-raiser so you understand. we are, i guess they are paying for some of the basics in terms of we have food, i guess 1500 or 2,000 people. but this is not a fund-raiser. we're not doing anything in terms of fundraising. some of the people many of the people are coming in, they can pay whatever they want, but i think they are doing something to offset the tremendous cost of food for 2,000 people.

but this is nothing -- this is not a fund-raiser. >> how is your money situation. >> it's going great. i'm turning down millions of dollars for the campaign. millions. >> okay. it is clear that donald trump does not want any one to think he is raising money though the sign at the entrance reminded folks to make your checks payable to donald trump for president inkd or have your cash ready at the door. >> in advance of tonight's maybe a fund-raiser, the host of the event, a local car dealer, ernie boch jr. told "the boston herald" that quote hundreds and hundreds have reached out to him including his enemies to get a ticket and quote, you've got to admit trump has changed the game. all right. i mean there is kind of something to that last point. donald trump has insisted he is so wealthy that he does not need anybody else's money to be competitive in this race. and this is become a cornerstone of his stump speech. he is so wealthy he doesn't need

to -- that he is a self made man who is really rich and not beholding to no one but himself. that insistence made all the more believable when he asks for $100 to help cover the price of food at a campaign stop as compared to other candidates busy headlining fundraisers charging up to $100,000 a head. here's most surprising about donald trump's insistence on the vastness of his personal wealth. it's attracting voters who are anything but wealthy themselves. as pointed out in "the new yorker" magazine recently, that billionaire donald trump reminds us from time to time how rich he is. has in a way become the candidate of choice for working class voters. a recent "washington post" poll shows that trump holds a sizable lead among voters. what is the appeal? there is no doubt his populous and nativist rhetoric play a

role. but they also like that he is portrayed as quote someone who embodies the american dream. making your own fortune. and that can be a big draw for voters. donald trump has managed to win over a sizable portion of the republican primary electorate being the ultra rich guy. which is something that even mitt romney had a hard time doing four years ago. perhaps in an effort to further his appeal to that part of electorate donald trump will appear as a guest of former alaska governor and vice presidential candidate sarah palin who has a hosting gig that is not fox news. so against steep odds donald trump has been able to frame himself as the man of the people, independent of contributors or donors or special interests, self made, embodiment of the american dream and now we find ourselves in the unexpected position of asking, can donald trump really win the republican nomination? by being the choice of working class voters.

joining us now is patrick murray, director of the monmouth university polling institute. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> so when you look at trump's polling what is the single most surprising finding you have? >> the biggest finding that we had is if we go back a few months ago in as late as june, a majority of republican voters said i do not like donald trump. i do not like him here or there i do not like him. >> i do not like him on a train. >> and within six weeks a majority of gop voters said i do like donald trump. he is somebody i want to look at for president which means at least a quarter of the republican electorate from no way no how to donald trump's my guy. >> so political science 101 tells me one of two possibilities at work. one, all that any kind of polling this early is, is really a name recognition test. whose name do you know best. and that somehow donald trump who i would have thought was at a saturation point has managed

to have more of a main. the other possibility i think more surprising, that people have learned something about him as a political candidate and in fact are the actual like, not just the know. is something higher. >> yeah. usually when we see a big change in somebody's approval rating is because they started out as unknown and they did something to become known. they burst on the scene somehow. positively or negatively. with donald trump we're talking back in the june numbers everybody knew who donald trump was. this was not an unknown commodity. what did he do? the big thing he did was announce he was running for president, said he was going to build the most beautiful classiest wall and that somehow sparked people. and i spent time out in iowa recently interviewing individual voters to try to get a handle on this. and there does seem to be a dichotomy. the trump voter and the non-trump voter who would never vote for trump. the trump voter there are other

people they go to but tell me that i think we just need somebody mean, somebody who is tough, i think we need somebody who is going in and kick some butt. and that's what really the appeal is. it has nothing to do with ideology or issues, it has to two with him coming off as somebody who doesn't talk like a rich person and somebody who talks that we never see in politics. >> has the republican party, are they basically reaping the whirl wind of their own government is awful sort of narrative? part of what donald trump is is not playing by any of the typical rules of running for president or behaving in a way we would expect a politician or government official to. so given that there is a strong discourse coming out of the right that government itself is bad, that government is the problem, is this then kind of the natural outgrowth? >> yeah. this is the problem that's happened with what's going on in washington. we ask democrats and republicans what they think of the democratic and republican party in congress, democrats have a better opinion of their own party's representatives in

congress than republicans have of their own party's representatives and yes, that's what seems to be happening right now is that we don't need a real republican. all of this news about donald trump and his former liberal policies and then sending money to the clintons, that doesn't matter to them because they say he is outside of politics and the career politicians have been lying all along. so why not go with this guy. >> how much of this, then, is about the particular discourse around -- on the one hand we need somebody mean but in a specific way. the discourse very much about immigration and about sort of these bands of gangs of illegals even dropping ferguson in that discourse. if the white working class vote just an anti-people of color vote? i don't want to think that it is but it feels like maybe that's what's happening. >> there is a segment of that. and that he's latched onto and he's gotten people out. but got to remember that you know, in most polls, donald trump is topping out at 30%. which means 70% of republicans

are preferring somebody else. we're look at the polls, the one person who is surging the most is ben carson. so he is tapping into that. but it's because we're talking about a 17-candidate field i think we're seeing more because it's coalesce around one candidate whereas voters of other issues and concerns are -- are dispersed among the field. >> ben carson shares with donald trump not being a politician, not being sort of not even having specific policies for the most part. >> this is interesting because when i went to iowa i would say more than half of the iowa voters said we do want somebody who is not in politics. but they are split in two camps. the trump camp and the carson and fiorina camp. the trump camp said i might consider carson. carson and fiorina said no way no how i would vote for donald trump. they feel carson and fiorina are presidential in their bearing, donald trump is not.

so i think what we're going to see, here is the key, is that what we saw in 2012 was this six-week trend where these candidates like a rick perry or santorum or herman cain would rise on six weeks, and then plateau. then at the end of six weeks we see them go down. donald trump just hit six weeks. >> we should note. >> let's start -- we'll pay close attention next week with thele polls. >> if he ticks up you have to come back and explain. >> we'll be stumped further. >> thank you very much. >> my pleasure. there is a lot more ahead including hillary clinton ramping up her campaign with a page out of president obama's playbook. plus on the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina there is one person visiting new orleans today that might make you say really? seriously? him?

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>> yep. on the day that senator barack obama entered the 2008 race he was rated at 16%. 16%. senator hillary clinton looked unstoppable. 61 straight polls showed her as the inevitable democratic presidential nominee. 18 months later the democratic nominee was not hillary clinton, the win and the nomination belonged to senator obama. now it's been more than eight years since his campaign kicked off so reasonable most have forgotten how he secured the nomination. most of what we now remember as the soaring rhetoric, the innovative social media, memorable speeches, the cool and compelling campaign captured on magazine covers. undoubtedly we think those are the things that won the nomination. behind the flash and the facebook of obama 08 was a good war room where old fashioned campaign professionals assessed every step on the path to the

nomination. flash is great for media minutes but what wins campaigns is rolling up the sleeves and slogging through. and for all of its virtues that's what the obama campaign excelled at in 2008. they knew to win a nomination they needed to count delegates, not votes. obama 08 worked to lock in the delegates because those are the people who actually select the presidential nominee and delegates come from everywhere, even places like north dakota, from caucuses and primaries. the obama team was working on delegate map long before hillary ahead in 61 polls clinton was. here is what a senior clinton staffer had to say. quote, very hard to gain a big advantage in small states. well, as the "washington post" noted at the time of course he was wrong, the small states did matter between idaho, nebraska,

vermont, maine, mississippi, north dakota, washington, d.c., hawaii, alaska, senator obama would amass 118 delegates to clinton's 57. this was strategy. targeting tell gat by delegate. senator obama's campaign manager said it this way. every delegate counts. it was that strategy and that focus that led to this moment. >> senator barack obama is as of this hour the presumptive democratic nominee for president of the united states. as the polls close in south dakota, nbc news projecting he cleared the plateau with delegates needed to clinch. >> we're in the midst of deciding who will be the next democrat to clinch the party's nomination. and there is this sense among many people that hillary clinton could lose her front runner status because she doesn't have the flash that president obama had in 2008. there is a sense despite her lead in the polls, her fundraising, that she is

vulnerable. balls of someone more compelling got in like i don't know, maybe, say, vice president biden they might be able to take her down. well maybe. but despite the growing focus on a possible biden bid one thing is crystal clear. hillary clinton seems to have learned the lessons of 2008. this time she's taking a page from the obama play book. today senior clinton campaign officials claim she has secured one fifth of the delegates needed for the nomination. every delegate counts. >> this is really about how you put the numbers together to secure the nomination. as some of you might recall, in 2008 i got a lot of votes but i didn't -- i didn't get enough delegates so i think it's understandable that my focus is going to be on delegates as well as votes this time.

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>> i don't want to mention names. i think it's inappropriate at this stage so early. a long way to go. my sister's great. i have a sister on the court of appeals. she is fantastic. i think she would be phenomenal. but frankly, i think she is -- we'll have to rule that out at least. i do have a sister very smart and very good person. >> that was donald trump this week praising his sister. mary ann trump berry a judge on the third circuit court of appeals. most had no idea he had a sister who is a federal judge. after that the national review labeled her a pro abortion extremist judge and wrote when candidates praise relatives who have served in public office, voters are entitled to keep the records in mind. the jeb bush campaign apparently agrees. bush's campaign manager retreated the piece and made it sound like mr. trump said he would nominate his sister to the

high court. look, even when you are battling donald trump it's a little low to go after someone for praising his sister. and when you're jeb bush i'm thinking it's best not to start talking about people's siblings. you are jeb bush you have a sibling with baggage of his own. you are jeb bush today this is what your brother is doing dancing in new orleans on the tenth anniversary of a disaster that is synonymous with his administration's mismanagement of one of the defining moments of loss. yeah, also encouraging people to remember that moment as a time when good things happened. >> hurricane katrina is a story of loss beyond measure, also a story of commitment and compassion. i hope you remember what i remember, 30,000 people were saved in the immediate aftermath of the storm. by u.s. military personnel.

by louisiana law enforcement. and by citizens who volunteered. i hope you remember what i remember, that was the thousands who came here on a volunteer basis to provide food for the hungry and to help find shelter for those who had no home to live in. there are people all around our country who prayed for you, many of whom showed up. so they could say they helped a fellow citizen who was hurting. laura and i are here in new orleans to remind our country about what strong leadership means, and we're here to salute the leaders. >> for some of us that was nearly impossible to watch. so let me say that what i hope we'll remember is a bit different. i hope you will remember that more than 1800 people died, i hope you remember what i remember, that it took three days before anyone was evacuated from the superdome or the convention center. i hope you remember what i remember, that in the aftermath

of the storm survivors given one way tickets to evacuate so many could never find their way home. i hope you remember what i remember, that as the waters of lake over the canal president bush was delivering a birthday cake. that as thousands of people found themselves trapped with no food or water or sanitation, president bush remained on vacation for two days. hanging out with the country music star among other things. part of why it's so hard to hear and to watch as president bush seems to be taking a victory lap 10 years after his decisions undoubtedly contributed to the suffering and loss in the city of new orleans. and president bush is not the only one taking a victory lap. new orleans mayor has a project katrina 10 touting the city as america's best comeback story. there are plenty who see a more complicated narrative.

that's where katrina truth comes in. it's designed as the mirror of katrina 10 with a couple of tweaks. resistant new orleans. joining us is jeanna walmack. her organization along with the advancement project are behind the initiative. thank you for being here tonight. >> hi, melissa. >> talk to me about why you felt and the advancement project and others felt it was necessary to offer alternative truths to a lot of what we're hearing in recent days. >> yes. i think it can really be summed up when one of our parents said that listening to what's going on and what's happening in the city this week, is much like visiting some people who are celebrating like a wedding and for some it's a funeral. and so, i think that really sums up why the katrina truth.org website was so important to give

a counter narrative to what was being said and making it feel that this situation was more like a wedding for a celebration, where many black americans were really focusing and seemingly like a funeral. >> sue one of the biggest claims that we've heard made from local leadership and national leadership is that the school system of new orleans is fixed. and that it is a model for the nation. you work with young people and families there in the city and have for many, many years. what is your experience? >> yes. so our experience is definitely like a tale of two cities. so even post -- prekatrina we knew some of our families, their children were attending failing schools. however, what is happening even after katrina is that many of those children now are actually having to travel across the city to attend failing schools. so when we're putting forth that parents have choice, many of our

black families actually do not have a choice because none of us would choose to send our child to a failing school. >> you talked a little about the kind of continuing racial divide that exists in the city. and one of the big demographic shifts is about a loss of african-american population, sort of 100,000 african-american persons lost in this city versus fewer than 20,000 white americans and of course also a loss of political power that has been part of that. how does that loss of power and population for african-americans figure into this narrative about a better stronger new orleans? >> well, i mean, i think it's really exacerbates the situation that we at families and friends of louisiana's incarcerated children have been working. our black families have been left out of the narrative for decades, right, so black families whose children have been caught in a juvenile justice system have really been -- not having the power

necessary to change the laws that see their children as children and actually see the families as humans and people that have been looking for assistance, so rather what we are continually seeing is that our families have been are being erased. and they are easily forgotten, so what the katrinatruth.org website intends to do is resthais narrative and say black lives matter and they -- their voices need to be heard. >> so talk to me a lit basically this challenge. obviously you live there in the city of new orleans, you actually have seen the resilience of people, that language used over and over. people have come back under tough circumstances. they have made lives in that city. and it does feel like a decade out we want to celebrate the work that ordinary people have done, on the other hand, three presidents in town in three days, all sort of saying that everything is all good here.

how do you balance that? >> well, for us, if you're black and if you're in new orleans, if you're in louisiana, in this country, we actually have always had to struggle and we made do and have come and tried to work through the situations that have been presented. so, for me, and for our families it's really a time that we really want to say again that what our families, what we're experiencing as black people need to continue to be a part of the narrative. >> gina walmack, executive director of families and friends of louisiana's incarcerated children, thank you for joining us this the evening. and take care of yourself at the moment of this tenth anniversary. >> thank you, melissa. thank you for having me. >> there is much more to come tonight. new orleans native and "straight outta compton" star joins us live in a moment.

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programming note. a big weekend here on msnbc. we'll have valerie jarrett. i had a chance to ask her about the president's visit to the crescent city. that's tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on msnbc. also we'll have lieutenant general russel honore on the show tomorrow. you'll remember the general's leadership after hurricane katrina earned him the respect of the nation. again that's also tomorrow here on msnbc. on sunday i'm going to be a guest on "meet the press" with chuck todd. see my first appearance on the longest running news show and then catch msnbc live from d.c. at 10:00 a.m. two days, three shows, summer vacation is over. join us. and yeah, there is a lot more to come on this show including jason mitchell the star of straight o"straight outta comp."

third-grader at lusher elementary school in uptown new orleans. creative and smart, high achieving, madeleine loved writing. that same year 18-year-old jason mitchell, a recent graduate spent his days washing dishes at the ritz-carlton hotel on canal street and hustling in his neighborhood to get by.

madeleine and jason were two young people in new orleans. 10 years ago. when the levees failed. and the city flooded and their lives changed decisively as their homes and belongings were destroyed and families uprooted. now madeleine and her family evacuated first to nashville, then to texas. they eventually they found their way home back to new orleans. jason and his people landed in texas. but jason was back in new orleans within six weeks of the storm. like so many others they came back and found both their city and themselves transformed. ten years later these two young people are each making their own mark on the world. madeleine has become an accomplished poet and creative writer. next month she is going to begin her first year as a college student at princeton university. she was appointed as a national student poet at the white house and introduced by michelle

obama. madeleine had the honor of introducing another former teen poet at this year's white house poetry workshop. >> i would like to thank mrs. obama who has been a champion for the national student poets and all students. and now introduce former teen poet and president of the united states president obama. >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. everybody, please have a seat. well, first of all, let me thank madeleine for the wonderful introduction. >> all right. and you may have seen what jason mitchell is up to. after working a few odd jobs he enrolled in acting classes in new orleans and cultivate add talent that has taken him to hollywood. right now he is giving a commanding performance as

hip-hop legend easy e in the number one movie in the country right now, "straight outta compton." >> let's give them nwa. >> this is only the tip of the iceberg, gentlemen. >> what's going on? what do you have in that bag? are you kidding me? you can't take that on the bus. >> "variety" named jason one of the 10 actors to watch in 2015. by the way, that is an honor received in previous years by oscar winners like adrien brody. tonight i had these two new orleans natives joining me, jason mitchell who stars in the number one movie "straight outta compton" and madeleine who is the national student poet. so nice to have you both. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> jason, let me start with you. your performance is extremely powerful. let me ask -- >> thank you. >> incredible.

let me ask you, do you draw on your experiences growing up in new orleans to inform that performance? >> absolutely. it has been a gift and a curse. i lived so much life and as an actor it helps you. it helps you prepare, helps me you know, find certain things that i can pull out, you know. turns into gold on camera. >> mad a linl, speaking of gold you are headed to princeton, congratulations. >> thank you. >> did you write about new orleans in your experiences in new orleans in your college essays? >> i actually didn't write about new orleans. i don't write about new orleans very often, just because it has such an intimidating history of inspiring art. but i would say that in my writing there are always themes of displacement, loss, and just genuine concern for home. so it definitely permeates everything that i do. >> that idea of displacement and

loss but also this idea of home, jason, you and i met when you were here in new york to do the mhp show. one of the first things i asked is where you went to high school. in new orleans that's the first way you form where somebody is. where they are from, what's important to them. >> right. >> there's a funny thing about the high schools that both of you went to. lusher and forshea. >> you went to lesher? didn't tell me this. >> maybe you want to tell the rest of america what's going on there. >> the school i went to, it was infamous for being pretty much the worst school up town. and after the storm they didn't bring it back. and they gave to the lesher. they were like more of the nerd kind of people. but they gave it to them and it's a beautiful school now. it was more like me when i went there. it's a beautiful school now.

it's immaculate to see what it came from. >> so madeleine, talk about that. what it means to be at lusher, but also to know that it was a place that before the storm did serve very different students and in a different kind of space. >> well, i can say that when i originally attended lesher elementary school the majority of the students were students of color and low income. since katrina, the demographic has shifted and i can say that it's not representative of the student body and the school that i grew up in. it's a majority white, and it's a majority of students that live in a neighborhood that was heavily gentrified following katrina. so i would say that katrina definitely shaped the school i went to and i can't say it's for the better. i'm lucky i did get to go to such an amazing school but i have seen both sides of it and i prefer it before the storm.

>> i want to ask you both about being artists. madeleine, you're a poet and writer. jason, you're an actor. how is your art help you to navigate this world that is post-katrina new orleans? >> i think in art, everybody speaks from an honest place. and in life you don't always get to speak from an honest place. everybody has a job they work at that they can't talk over, you know, there's just a protocol in life. and you know, manners that people have to follow. but in art it helps you express all of those things that you have built up inside. and for us, i think we're just in a special position because even though we were together or something we see our city come together with katrina, it was unlike anything that we'd ever seen. and it builds up something in you that you don't know how to release. and in art it kind of helps you ground.

>> i would probably say that the way that i approach art is just considering it as pure emotion, something that doesn't have to be explained, and i was only 9 when katrina hit so that was really the first time that my world kind of became inexplicable. it was something i couldn't put back together and it was the first thing i really lost, so to lose your entire city is having that be the first thing you lose is an incredible lesson in life. and you can't piece it together no matter how hard you try. so i approach art as being a place where i don't need to make sense, i can do whatever i want and i can kind of find beauty in the chaos that i create myself and it's chaos that i control, which is something that i need after being a child of katrina. >> jason, what is your next project? >> i just got the news that i

was booked yesterday so i'll be working with samuel jackson and corey hawkins to do this move ef king kong movie. this is going to be great. it's going to be great. i'm really, really excited. >> congratulations, jason, and madeleine, if you are at princeton you're just 45 minutes from "30 rock." come and see us. we'd love to see you again during your time. jason mitchell and madeleine la send, thank you so much for everything that you have done. and continue to do. thanks for being here tonight. coming up, a special edition of debunktion junction. who else is wearing this cap? who does that? start the interview with a firm handshake.

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debunktion junction. what's my function? we have so many good ones that rachel is letting me drive the train. i introduce you to pennsylvania attorney general kathleen cane. she is a democrat elected in 2012 and took office in 2013. the national radar when she refused to defend pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage. recent headlines about her have been more of the is she going to prison variety. kathleen kane was charged with illegally leaking secret documents from a grand jury in order to embarrass a rival. she was also charged with lying to investigators to cover it up. so this has been the year of state attorneys general getting indicted in pennsylvania, utah, texas, attorneys general getting in trouble all over the country. in the case of pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane,

this week she had to appear in court to find out if she would have to stand trial over the charges. it must be daunting for the top law enforcement officer in the state to have to stand trial and to stand there simply as a potential defendant on the wrong side of the courtroom. so true or false? this was pennsylvania attorney general cath leenl kane reporting to the courthouse this week in pennsylvania. is that true or false? that's right. false. weirdly, this is not kathleen kane. let's roll the whole tape. okay. the woman walks by who looks a lot like kathleen kane. but then another woman in red follows. who also looks like kathleen kane. the first woman basically distracted the press and had a lot of pictures taken of her. that's not ag kane. that is her twin sister ellen.

ellen goes out and gets lots of pictures and then kathleen follows behind in red. everyone is confused. doesn't know what to do. genius. just like parent trap except instead of a plot to get your parents back together this is a state official facing seven years in prison. the twin sisters switch did work to distract some of the media of pennsylvania's attorney general who was ordered to stand trial. her next court appearance is scheduled for october. note to rachel. send two cameras. next up, maine governor paula page crowned america's craziest governor by politico.com, currently facing potential impeachment by the main state legislature. he responded to that threat by saying publicly he doesn't need to be impeached. he will quit if enough maine residents write him telling him they want him to go. the governor is one of the high

ranking politicians to endorse chris christie's long shot presidential campaign. he made that endorsement right after governor christie announced that he was running. but then this week governor lepage stabbed chris christie in the back, maybe, at a conservative talk radio interview in boston. maine governor paula page wearing the trademark donald trump for president make america great again baseball cap and he got it in black. very slimming. that's got to be a shocking photo for chris christy to see. but, is it really true, didmaine governor paula page switch support from chris christie to donald trump? true or false. that is false. according to the radio show governor lepage is still back christie. it's fun with a hat. and while the jury is still out on whether this qualifies as,

quote, a good hat, apparently chris christie can breathe easy. he has the support of governor paula page though you have to wonder if maybe it's a bit shaky. and finally, gerrymandering gone wrong. in april the city council voted to create the business loop 70 community improvement district. it was a district drawn with no registered voters, which was supposed to give local business owners the power to impose a small sales tax. revenue from which would then go toward, well, improving the district. however, this week it was reported that the council oops, accidentally left one registered voter inside the district lines. meaning the fate of the proposed tax rate is in the hands of one voter. one deciding whether to raise taxes in this port of colombia, missouri. is that actually true or false?

yeah, that one is true. allow me to introduce you to business loop 70s voting majority. her name is jen henderson, a college student at the university of missouri. go tigers. here is a district that was drawn up in april and you can see that the city council rest miss henderson's home squarely inside the boundaries. luckily once the group behind this move found out they made a mistake, they decided to bring the district's only voter in and present their present their ideas to her as fairly as possible. no, they tried to get her to give up her vote. the more she researched and the tax thing didn't seem to be as good as the group was telling her. it culminated with them trying to get her to unregister her vote. she has not relinquished her vote. she's not sure what she will decide but leaning away from the tax. as for the business loop 70 community improvement district, well, they learned that every vote truly does matter.

now that does it for us tonight. rachel is going to be back on monday. i'm going to be back in the morning a few hours, on my own show. melissa harris-perry. up next, "weekends with alex witt." cold-blooded. that's how police describe the late night execution style shooting of an officer in texas. the manhunt is now on for the killer. tropical storm erika left a trail of death and destruction. will it hit florida? the latest forecast next. at it again. donald trump strikes hard at his rivals now singling out a hillary clinton staff member. 10 years later, looking back at hurricane katrina and a report whether the city of new orleans could survive another similar storm. good morning. welcome to