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hey there, everyone, high noon in the east, 9:00 out west, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." we have developing news at this hour. hillary clinton picking up a key endorsement for president in new hampshire from senator jean shaheen. this scene unfolding a day after clinton addressed her private e-mail controversy in an exclusive interview with msnbc's andrea mitchell. >> are you sorry? do you want to apologize to the american people for the choice you made? >> well, it wasn't the best choice and i certainly have said that, i will continue to say that as i've always said many times it was allowed and it was fully above board, the people in the government knew that i was using a personal account but it would have been better if i had had two separate accounts to begin with. c's kelly o'donnell is in portsmouth, new hampshire, with the clinton campaign. kelly joins us on the phone right now. kelly, with a good afternoon to

you, how is mrs. clinton being received there and can you give me an estimate of the crowd size and who's all in it. >> well, i am inside the crowd which is why i'm coming to by phone and not our camera position just because of the secret service sweep. this is an event that is billed as a women for hillary event and i've talked to a number of voters here. of course new hampshire voters take their vetting of candidates seriously. off mix of die-hard hillary clinton supporters as well as others who want to see her in person and take a measure of what she has to say. because we're not far from vermont i have met some bernie sanders supporters as well because, of course, he has a certain regional advantage here and has been polling very strong and i have asked a number of voters about the e-mails issue, some say it's no big deal at all. others are saying it has the drip, drip, drip effect of damaging her campaign but, again, we've got sort of a subset of democrats who are

turning out here so they are likely to be more inclined to view the female issue differently than if we were in a republican crowd, as you know. but this is a day to try to focus on shoring up an important base of voters for hillary clinton and this is women. new hampshire is unique in the country in that it was the first state to send all women to congress. their representatives in the house as well as both senators and a governor who is a woman and they have a majority of women elected to the state legislature so there's a long history of supporting women as candidates here in fuch and, of course, that's going to be a scene that hillary clinton will talk about today. she is here on the ground doing some meetings with individual behind the scenes right now. just met a woman who is advocating on alzheimer's and had a private meeting with hillary clinton so the crowd is getting restless wanting to hear her remarks but it's a beautiful day if portsmouth and we expect things to get going at some

point soon. so the e-mail issue is real but among hillary clinton supporters there's a sense of taking in the stride and seeing where it goes. i think there is concern it might be harmful to her but individuals have different reactions to it, alex. >> are you getting any sense from inside the campaign about reaction to andrea mitchell's interview yesterday? >> i talked to senior advisors to hunk who say they are pleased clinton was able to say more about what happened, to explain her thinking at the time as well as reiterate that from that point of view she followed the rules at the time. there's a lot of question about that and they expect hillary clinton to do more sit-down interviews, not just on e-mails but other subjects. they want to make her more accessible, they say, they understand people have been frustrated. frustrated was the word used by officials and that they've been hearing so much about these e-mails. they want to move past it. that will be difficult, of course, in this political environment.

alex? >> kelly o'donnell in beautiful portsmouth by your description. thank you so much. also new this hour, republican presidential candidate donald trump lashing out at a radio talk show host again. trump blasted conservative hugh hewitt for what he called gottsch what questions involving important issues in the middle east. abu bakr al baghdadi and so soleimani, those names are misspelled in the tweet. but let's listen to the interview. is. >> are you familiar with general soleimani? >> yes. give me a lilt -- go ahead, tell me. >> he runs the quds forces. >> yes. and i think the kurds have been horribly treated by us. >> not, not the kurds, the quds force, the iranian revolutionary

guard. >> oh, i a'm 'm sorry, i though said kurds. >> haley jackson is with us. afternoon, haley, i understand there's more to this dispute? >> take a look at this tweet sent by a hewitt staffer, a note from donald trump saying it was a great honor to appear on the show. the staffer tweeting this out in a point basically saying, hey, as you see it on the screen there, why would you tell me it was a great honor to come to our "third rate show." that was trump's slam against the hugh hewitt conservative show, this talk radio host who has pressed other candidate this is campaign cycle and previous ones on foreign policy, on national security. something something hewitt has done. this is something we've seen from donald trump in the past when he's made maybe some eyebrow-raising comments or comes under fire. trump then goes on the attack and he's doubling down on that this morning, alex, with those tweets. we all know trump gets online, sends out tweet, those tend to make news when they are part of the news cycle.

it's something trump is good at, figuring out what is making news and how to keep himself in the headli headlines. >> do you get a sense this is becoming the norm for this campaign? is it a way he gets his message out and explains himself from his point of view? >> certainly he's great at social media. he understands by tweeting -- his tweets often gets hundreds of retweets and faves so it seems to be part of the strategy. trump gets it. as to whether or not this is going to hurt his campaign, that's tough to say. his prior controversial comments have done very little to diminish his standings in the polls. in fact, we've seen him go up in the latest national poll after the comments he's made as we heard some strategists say, some republican strategists we've talked to say hey, voters seem to like it. other politician, for example, some of trump's republican rivals, are pouncing on him but the voters are not. >> not so far. okay, hallie jackson at the white house. thank you, hallie. developing now in kentucky,

supporters of county clerk kim davis are holding a rally outside of the jail where she is being held for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. her husband is at the rally and spoke with sarah dallof about how she's doing. >> kim is great. i talked to her last night on the phone. she's happy. we joke and cut up. she said for everybody out here to hold their heads up high because she's got her head up high. >> reporter: does she regret anything she's done up to this point? >> none whatsoever. why should she? she's standing up for what we believe in. she stands up for the bible. why should she feel like that? >> well, let's go to nbc's sarah dallof outside the county jail in grayson, kentucky. sara, let's get an update on the story now. what's happening? >> well, hey, alex, we have about 200 kim davis supporters at a rally on the opposite side of the parking lot here. everything from normal folks coming down to check things out to a marching band, bagpipers, pastors and preachers. a very diverse crowd right here in support of her. davis is inside this detention

center behind me. she's reportedly in good spirits and unaware of much of the frenzy that surrounds her story right now. her supporters herald her as this christian soldier in the fight against gay marriage. she's receiving both local and national attention. gop presidential nominee hopeful mike huckabee planning to visit here next week. he's going to stop by the jail and meet with her. he's also planning a rally here. we spoke with davis' husband about everything that's developed over the past 48 hours just a few moments ago. >> it's not only about my wife, it's about god. that's the main important thing. they're trying to take our religious freedom from us and we want to make a stand and show them that they can't take our religious freedom. sometimes we have to make sacrifices as human beings. >> deputy clerks began issuing marriage licenses yesterday to happy same-sex couples who emerged from the office to cheers from their supporters. they say this is an issue of equal rights and consequences

for government officials when they don't follow the law. is meanwhile, davis' attorney are questioning the validity of the marriage licenses since they don't have her signature on them. the county attorney and attorneys for the couples involved in this story all say those marriage licenses are valid, alex. >> very quickly, you said mike huckabee is planning on visiting her next week. so that indicate she is has no plans to leave or di do anything she might need to do to get out of jail? >> that's correct. and when i talked to her husband i asked is she sticking to her guns? is she going to change her mind? all she needs to do is say she'll comply with the law and she'll be released from jail and he said no, she's instructed him what to do to keep the house going, pay the bills, she is in this for the long haul right now. >> sarah dallof, thank you so much from grayson, kentucky. in other news now, cucumbers imported from mexico have spread salmonella to at least 27 states. officials say one person has

died, 285 others are sick. the cdc and the fda is investigating. the importer has recalled the cucumbers but if you have any doubt about the source of yours, toss them out. two new jersey day care workers have pleaded not guilty to child abuse charges. they're both accused of making the children between the ages of four and six fight one another and then posting video of the scuffles online. they were allegedly inspired by the popular movie "fight club." today rescuers will try to free a 75-foot blue whale tangled in fishing line off the southern california coast. crews from noaa arrived friday and attached a buoy to keep track of the whale but decided to hold off efforts to cut or detach the line until today. experts say it's very unusual to see blue whales entangled and authorities want to proceed cautiously. let's go from there to the weather. here's a look outside of 30 rock here in midtown, manhattan. clear and sunny, gorgeous this afternoon as we begin the labor day weekend. meteorologist veronica johnson has headed up from washington to join us. thank you for that and for

bringing us the rest of the weather headlines. >> it's a great weekend, alex, across the northeast. even the mid-atlantic. we were sweating last week, sticky, our shirts sticking to us but now it's feeling better across the area. we can thank this front right here. it came through late yesterday, sitting down now around north carolina, the outer banks and fortunately there could be showers or a thunderstorm or two but all the action over the next couple days will be with this front in the northern rain ins down through the rockies. you know it's a strong one when you have 90 degrees on one side of the front in areas of south dakota and 60s and 70s on the other side of the front. that's the one to watch. for areas throughout the northeast we go from low 80s the start of the weekend to around 90 degrees by monday, labor day. look at new york city, 90, philadelphia 90, 90 also in d.c. that will come with a little bit of humidity but remember that front i told you about over the areas of the midwest? look at fargo from 86 to 76. we'll see a big cooldown with

that system and also some of the rst snow here for late summer early part of fall, indeed. severe thunderstorm chance across the midwest but also some high mountain snow expected around idaho, down through areas of montana. above 6, 500 feet, they could have one to three inches. again, that's how you know summer is over with, alex, when you start talking about snow. >> i've got friends in telluride dealing with the rain there. okay, thank you. my next guest just decided how he's going to vote on the iran nuclear deal. he's a congressman who very specifically outlined his rationale, including highlights some risks involved and i'll talk with him next.

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yesterday when senate democrat ben cardin, ranking member of the foreign relations committee, announced his opposition to the agreement. in an on ned the "washington post," the senator wrote "if iran violates the agreement, building international support for new sanctions would take too long to be effective. a military response in this scenario would be more likely, although disastrous." joining me now is democratic congressman matt cartcartwright. thanks for joining me. >> hi, alex, how are you? >> i'm well. i know, sir, you announced your support of the deal but you said in your statement the deal is "obviously imperfect on several levels." what convinced you to support it and what are those levels that you deem to be imper text? >> in my view the most important strategic goal in the middle east right now is to make sure iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. i think this deal is the better avenue to that goal.

i have spent -- between me and my staff we have spent hundreds of hours analyzing this deal up, down, and sideways. i've attended classified security briefings. i've reviewed an enormous amount of classified material and i'm satisfied that the better course -- it's not perfect but the better course is to support this deal. if you're in a hurry to get to war with iran, you're against this deal. i say let's give diplomacy a chance to work. let's give iran a chance to behave itself before we consider the military option. >> now despite cardin's opposition, it's pretty clear the president has the votes to overri prevent a veto override. however, he will need to veto it. what message does that send? >> well, we see the nuclear deal

becoming a political football and i regret that so deeply because when you're talking about foreign policy, you shouldn't be getting into democrats versus republicans. our support for israel needs to be bipartisan right down the line and so i regret it when i see the republicans voting in lockstep. so much of it, you know, is just because they don't want to see the president score a victory in foreign policy. it would be a major victory if he could succeed in bringing iran out of the shadows and into the civilized world giving them a chance to do that is what this deal achieves. >> okay. i want to get back to your statement and some of what you have it rated here but i want to ask you about the one thing you write which is "of all our nation's goals in the middle east, i believe preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is paramount." you've said that here, but is the potential for a weapon, potential, more paramount than ending the crisis of hundreds of

thousands of dead and millions misplaced happening right now in syria and iraq and across that entire region? >> well, it's heartbreaking, when we sue the images of the three-year-old little boy, when we see people crammed on trains and buses and walking 100 miles across hungary, it breaks your heart and makes you want to reach out and help these folks. is obviously the iran deal had nothing do with that issue. the iran deal itself is obviously imperfect. it doesn't address a whole host of bad activity that the iranians have got up to. but to me the most important issue about iran is keeping them from getting nukes because if they get nuke there is becomes an arms race, a nuclear arms race in the middle east like we've never seen and all of that imperils our dearest ally in the region, israel. >> and to that end and getting back to the politics of all of this, in a new interview with the huffington post, secretary

of state john kerry dismissed claims from some republican presidential candidates that they will throw out the iran nuclear deal if elected. here he is. let's listen. >> if a new president came in and said -- this would be absurd. the country will be 90% supportive by that time in time because they will see that it is, in fact, working and it has eliminated the threat of a nuclear weapon. i cannot see a president willfully taking the united nations, five other nations who supported us in this negotiation and saying "sorry, we're going to walk away from this" and create a more dangerous situation in the middle east. i don't see that happening. >> so sam cartwright, i know you had a town hall. tell me what your constituents are telling you. are they 90% supportive of it or not? >> i've been talking not only to town halls but to everybody i run into and what i do hear is that when we talk about war in the middle east, the answer is,

alex, we've seen that movie. we charged into iraq. we had countless lives lost and young men and women coming back with one leg and not to mention all of the expense associated with all of that. we've seen that and i think that the great weight of the view and --in my district is let's give diplomacy a chance to work. i get it. the dick cheneys of the world want us to charge right back to war, they think being at war is america's natural state. i can't tell you how much i disagree with that and how much the people in northeastern pennsylvania disagree with that as well. >> there are those still, a few more members of congress yet to decide. do you think the fact that they know there are not enough votes to override a veto, does that give them more license to vote their conscience? >> it's possible.

i think a lot of people are voting their consciences either way. it's a tough call. this is not a perfect deal, alex. it would be a much stronger deal if we had written it ourself bus we had all these partners, russia, china, germany, france, uk. when you have a committee drawing something up, it's imperfect and even just the nature of diplomacy. diplomatic agreements are not perfect for any one side or the other and the problem is if we walk away now russia and china are not coming back to the table. they're going to relieve sanctions and it's a lot of misinformation out there. it's not american money, it's iranian money and it's not held in america it's held in places like hong kong. that money is going back to them no matter what we do so my view is the better course is support this deal, watch it, make sure it works, but never take the military option completely off the table. >> all right, congressman matt

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lesbos. bill, how are officials coping with this surge of people. >> the truth is they are coping very poorly. they are overwhelming by the sheer numbers of migrants arriving on this island, less bowes, and many other islands, thousands everyday. we were down on beach this is morning watching more boats full of syrians and afghans coming on shore and from here they're trying to get to athens. at the port there have been chaotic scenes. it was cleared yesterday by riot police after clashes when several hundred migrants tried to board a ship for the greek mainland, police use bag on thes and tear gas to disperse them. they closed the port. it's now been reopened, things are much calmer but things could erupt at any moment here. greek authorities are overwhelmed. people don't have enough food. they don't have enough water.

they're complaining bitterly about conditions here. some people have been waiting here for five, six days for the registration forms they need to get off this island and make their way towards western europe. most of them seem to want to go to either germany, sweden, or the uk but at the minute many of them have no chance of doing that. they need to get off here first. >> oh, bill, the pictures that we're seeing are just gut wrenching to see what these people are going through. the conditions in which they are living, though, on the island. food, water places to sleep, is that being provided by at all or are they just on their own? >> alex, i have to say i find it astonishing that hardly a single aid agency is here. we've known about this crisis for months. it was predicted at the beginning of the year, it's been

building for months. it's the biggest refugee crisis to hit europe since world war ii yet as i walk around the camps and walk around these beaches there is hardly an aid agency here. the u.n. seems to be missing all together. i've seen a couple of u.n. officials but these people are desperate and it's local volunteers. it's greek, it's tourists who've come here on holiday who are driving up and down the coastline in their hired cars giving out food, giving out water. i mean, many greeks have opened their hearts to these refugees but a lot of greeks just also feel that their island -- remember, there are 80,000 to 90,000 people who live here, more than 90,000 migrants have landed on this island. so more than the population. so it's, to be quite frank, alex, the response of the authority has been a shambles. the response of the aid agency, the same, a shambles.

and europe's response has been muddled and divided. you only have to look north of here to hungary to see a hardline and north of hungary you see germany which is welcoming migrants with open arms. they simply don't know how to cope with this. >> bill can i ask you, the manner which they arrive on this island, are they at least on sturdy boats? we've heard just deplorable conditions, lots of times people are traveling via smugglers, dying on board these boat, they are stacked literally on top of each other in sort of the underbelly of the boats and not even making it for their crossing. what are the conditions like for that these people on lesbos? >> most of the boats that cross from turkey to greece on this island are inflatable boats meant for 15, roughly 15 people and usually crammed with three times that number. the boats you are describing usually come from the libyan

coast on to the coast of italy, so those are the much, much bigger boats with hulls where people can be accommodated in vast numbers underneath. the boats that come across are little inflatable boats and people are scared. afghanistan, for example, is a landlocked country. many people have literally never seen the sea before never mind been on it and this morning we saw one boat full of afghans and one girl had fainted or collapsed midway through the short journey from turkey. people were crying and laughing and celebrating and giving thanks to god that they had landed safe ly as we know earlir this week a little brother died on that beach and we heard today from one of the volunteers that four children had in fact drowned earlier in the summer when a huge tanker went close to their inflatable rafts.

the boat slipped and four children drowned. when you see the kinds of life preservers, they shouldn't even be used in a swimming pool never mind in the open sea. these people are very, very -- out at sea with very little protection so this is almost the most terrifying part, this sea journey. but then, of course, begins the very long walk, the very long journey to their destination to germany, sweeten, and all points north. >> a very uncertain story. bill neely, thank you so much for talking about it. appreciate that. to politics back here at home, democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton is in new hampshire today where she is picking up a key endorsement from senator jean shaheen. we're getting a live look at hillary clinton on the stump. she's at that rally. this comes after a "washington post" report that clinton and her family personally paid a state department employee to maintain the clintons' private e-mail server. clinton spoke about the e-mail controversy in an exclusive interview yesterday with msnbc's andrea mitchell.

where you sorry? do you want to apologize to the american people for the choice you made? >>, we it wasn't the best choice. i have said that. i will continue to say that as i have said many times. it was allowed. the people in the government knew i was using a personal account but it would have been better if i had two separate accounts to begin with. >> joining me in studio, republican strategist del percio and the democratic strategist in london. he served with president bill clinton's white house. he was a deputy director of the 1996 clinton/gore campaign. good to have you both with me. ladies first here. what was your interpretation, susan, of the interview? the tone of hillary clinton? >> my guess is a lot of people are wishing she did that instead of what she did back in march. it was a great setting. andrea is a tough interviewer so people knew she wouldn't get

away with much, but that being said, she still can't answer questions. she can't say "are you sorry?" she can't say "i am sorry. "there's so many drips, drip, drips. no matter how many interviews she does it won't go away. this is going to be so problematic. on the other side she was able to talk about other issues which i think was help to feel her. >> i want to be clear. she did not say she was sorry for using the private e-mail. she did say she was sorry for the con nugs this has kauded so when you see soundbites that say she said she was sorry, that's the specific angle. >> but she doesn't take responsibility for it. she should say "i am responsible for this." instead she said "i was busy, i didn't know who was doing what, i didn't know what kind of e-mail" when the default would be use the e-mail that's been used by every other secretary of state, the state department e-mail. so it just doesn't jibement i think she's going to have a big problem. >> morris. it's a rare interview from clinton at least thus far and the opposing front-runner donald

trump he seems to be available to everyone. do you think clinton's inaccessibility is taking a toll on the campaign? >> i think this situation is taking a toll on the campaign. as you know, in washington, d.c. it's never the act, it's the coverup and the actions that happen afterwards. they have to get this behind them so she can move on and tell a positive message. on the flip side you have donald trump who is welcoming anyone and everyone who wants to talk to him because he is really trying to promote himself. he's promoting his candidacy the same way he promoted "the apprentice," anyone who's interested he would like to talk to them. ultimately, both candidates have to get on the right foot and talk to the american people about what they plan to do if elected. >> and donald trump is on the phone all the time. i want to take a listen, morris, right no to another part of the clinton interview with andrea mitchell. here's that. >> i was not thinking a lot when

i got in. there was so much work to be done. we had so many problems around the world. i didn't really stop and think what kind of e-mail system will there be. >> does it raise judgment questions? well, i don't think so. i think the facts are pretty clear that we had a lot of hard work, hard choices to make in those four years and i'm very proud of the work we did, i'm very proud of the people that i worked with. i think we served our country well and now the state department has everything that they could have so at the end of the day i am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions but there are answers to all these questions. >> i want to pick up on what susan was saying. morris, she argues there was so much going on in the world she couldn't think about what type of e-mail to use but obviously someone put considerable thought into this and if this walk article is correct she and her family had the time to personally pay someone to

maintain the server. so does the argument hold water for you? >> no, it doesn't and i believe that it's important for her to deal with this once and for all, apologize, show contrition and move on. this is the stumbling block, if you're a democrat like myself, this is one of the major issues. you worry because she's a slow campaigner she's wasting time on something she could put behind her if she'd just level with the american people "i made a mistake, i shouldn't have done it, i won't do it again. let's move on to something that's more proactive." >> let's talk about donald trump again, susan. why? because it's fun. is this time it's the conservative radio show host hugh hewitt who trump is accusing of giving him a gotcha interview. do you think these fight, the back and forth that he engages, whether on the phone, calling names, the tweets, whatever, is

that going to hurt him? >> i don't see it happening any time soon. the fact is donald trump turned the interview around and said "it is a gotcha question." so now going into the debate when hugh hewitt who is going to be in the cnn debate, he's going to have someone being able to say oh, here's someone who has more gotcha questions, someone trying to confuse me. but the fact is you don't do a hugh hewitt interview without being prepared and that's what he's shown. the last debate you could see chris christie, scott walker and others got prepared and boned up. >> carly fiorina, too. >> carly fiorina was fantastic. now the question is what home work will trump be doing between now and september 16? if he can come out and answer these questions it will bounce right off of him like everything else. >> teflon don. how about, morris, a fair interview? what do you think? >> well, this works as -- what are we? labor day, 2015? this won't work labor day of 2016.

you're able to accuse other people and point the finger and be flamboyant but when it comes to american people wanting to know who will be the next president you have to come up with solutions. it's not enough for him to do what he's doing right now come this time next year so we'll see if he's a front-runner when it matters. >> you're already booked a year from now. susan del percio, morris reid, thank you. it's a wrap for the summer box office after this holiday weekend. a look at the summer's hits and misses. gives you the spunk gives you the spunk for an unsanctioned selfie. that's that new gear feeling. all laptops on sale, save $230 on this dell 2-in-1. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gear up for great.

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transforming. we're so much more about what we do for people than what we have for people. >> reporter: more than 90% of public libraries offer technology training, e-books and free wi-fi. >> this is just a whole new way of delivering information. >> this charlotte, north carolina, library has what it calls a maker space, described as a collaborative environment where locals can get help turning their ideas into reality. >> this is a vinyl cutter. >> reporter: patrons can use the tools and software for free or take a class to learn how to use them. >> 3d modeling, 3d design, laser cut programs, we have coding programs. >> reporter: everything from crafts to robotics and this is one of the more than 400 libraries nationwide that offers 3d printing. >> we're a place where you can create content not just read and learn about ideas that other people have developed. >> reporter: libraries often serve as a community center.

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by the end of the holiday weekend, this summer should rank as the biggest in history in the box office with films like "jurassic world" universal pictures which is owned by the parent company of msnbc set a record thomaz the installment brought in $640 million in north america alone thomaz. >> we have our first genetically modified hybrid thomaz.

>> evacuate the island. he's a highly intelligent animal. she will kill anything that moves. joining me in studio, nikki novak pv thanks for joining me. besides "jurassic world" what was the big hits? >> it was a summer for is women. we saw melissa mccarthy and train wreck with amy schumer, this was the summer of amy schumer so it's fantastic to see fresh new content out there. >> what about the films that did not do so well and why.

>> well, "tomorrow land didn't do well." i think it was the marketing. they did a wonderful job marketing "jurassic world" they had a big new star that you didn't see in the trailers into -- you didn't even see them until 40 minutes into the film. tomorrowland just didn't have a purpose. it was all concept with no story. and i think people didn't know what it was. was it a teen movie? was it going to be like a "divergent"? and they didn't know so it didn't draw audiences. >> yuan universal has done well but right on their heels is disney. that was one of the great ones. what about the other studios? how much does it hurt them to have a summer that they're not block buster? >> one in four ticket sales went to universal film this is summer so they'll have to regroup and i think what universal did really, really well was, number one, marketing, and, number two, fresh contempt. "straight outta compton" was the late summer hit. people want to see diversity, they want to see women and see

something fresh and new. even though superhero movies did well this season, even though marvel had a great year, they didn't have as good a year as they've had in the past so it might be time to regroup and think about marking things in a different way. at the end of the day, audiences are smart and they want a great concept but it's all about the story. >> i have to say with "straight outta compton" they are trying right now for a fourpete this weekend. >> fourth in a row and it looks like they'll do it. >> how about the next installment in the "james bond" series and then talk of whether idris elba will play 007, this after the writer of the latest "bond" novel said he was too street for the role. >> he did say that. >> is there an appetite for a black james bond? >> i think there is and i think "straight outta compton" is a perfect example of this shows you what audiences want to see. it's tough. you're dealing with british audiences who want to see a british james bond and somebody more classic but at the same time this is 2015. why not make it fresh and new?

he's a phenomenal actor, calling him too street for a writer was a poor choice of words. i think it was more of a classist statement than racist and he did apologize for it and he was called too street but idris elba took the high road and tweeted "keep smiling" and he said himself, though, he doesn't think he will play james bond. >> >> nikki novak, do not go too far. he's at it again, donald trump channels his anger at one interviewer through new tweets. we'll tell you about the fight spilling into this weekend. we've got trouble in tummy town.

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out for that jailed kentucky county clerk. and fast and furious. a record-breaking roller coaster pushes the limits. just how much faster can coasters get? good day to all of you, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." here's what's happening at 1:00 p.m. on the east coast, 10:00 p.m. out west. hillary clinton has picked up a key new hampshire endorsement from the state's senior senator jean shaheen. clinton told supporters she will tackle all problems big and small. >> i will be a president who takes on all the big problems that fill our screens everyday from isis to gun violence to climate change but i also want to take on the quieter problems, too. the ones that keep us up at night. how are you going to work if you

can't find anyone to watch your kids? what happens if you lose that job you worked so hard to find? >> clinton is working hard for new hampshire votes. her campaign has spent more than $2.5 billion to extend tv advertising in the state through the months of september and october, also new, republican presidential candidate donald trump lashing out at a radio talk show host again. in a tweet a short time ago trump blasted conservative hugh hewitt for what he called gotcha question involving important figures in the middle east conflict. abu bakr al baghdadi, qassam soleimani -- those names are misspelled in the trump tweet. the dispute was sparked on trump's interview on hewitt's radio show on thursday. hallie jackson, who has covered trump is at the white house, hallie, with another welcome to you. there's more to this dispute so let's get to that. >> we're seeing developments on it today, alex. we saw donald trump come out this morning reiterating his

attacks for "morning joe" in which he called hugh hewitt a third-rate radio announcer, essentially slamming the show. this is something we have seen from donald trump before. after that, a staffer for hewitt tweeted this out. a tweet that says "why would you tell me it was a great honor to come on our third rate show?" he posts a note apparently from donald trump that says please tell hewitt it was my great honor, love the u.n. waste question. now this is not a dated note and that appears to be a reference to a conversation that hewitt and trump had back in february so not directly related to the most recent radio conversation which happened on thursday yet here we have again the back and forth. hewitt is known for asking tough foreign policy questions of other candidates. he's known for his national security queries so it was not unusual for him to be moving in this direction. hewitt himself in a conversation with our own chuck todd said he does dispute it's a gottsch that

question but pointed out trump was able to answer the other questions he posed. you heard when trump called in with joe and mika he talked about iran and his position on the nuke deer deal discussed by almost every republican presidential candidate. a couple developments today. tomorrow we could expect more as hewitt will be on "meet the press" with chuck. >> we are so tuning in for that. thank you so much hallie jackson at the white house. for analysis on this let's bring in olivia nuzzi, the reporter for the daily beast and eli fr eli. olivia how do you gauge this? >> i think it's typical the way he's reacting. donald trump doesn't like to feel stupid. he doesn't like to feel like he's not the best, the biggest, greatest, most tremendous huge person on every topic. so it's typical to see him reacting by belittling hugh hewitt and attacking him personally but i don't think in

tend it will matter in terms of his support. his supporters don't care whether or not he knows a lot of facts that might matter to hugh hewitt or other journalists. they like him no matter what and i don't think in the end this is going to do much damage to trump. >> interestingly, eli, one of your colleagues is among those reporters who has been comparing trump's exchange with hugh hewitt to sarah palin's exchange with katie couric when she was asked about the newspapers she reads. when it comes to trump is it easy for voters to move past this one as we have seen with the apparent missteps? >> i think so. there's a lot of the stuff that's baked into the cake with donald trump where people just assume that he's a businessman so maybe his foreign policy knowledge isn't that deep. then he says i'll figure it out when i get to office. a lot of his supporters seem to be wok that even though a month or two ago we were looking at this as a primary dominated by

questions of national security and foreign policy. but donald trump has been masterful in his manipulation of the media and what he's done. we're seeing the support in the polls. into this next debate we know hugh hewitt will be asking questions in los angeles. trump cagey in trying to set expectations early so if hewitt goes after him again his supporters will say oh, it's that third rate radio announcer he was talking about, of course he's going after him. >> olivia, do you think it was a gotcha question posed by hugh hewitt? >> i think it's perfectly fair to ask a candidate for the highest office in the country whether or not they know thing about the middle east. i think it was a perfectly fair question and -- but we see this all the time where people -- whether it's megyn kelly or other journalists asking trump fair questions and him responding by saying they're gotcha questions or they're mean and unfair and not nice. i think any time he's made to feel stupid or small he will react this way. >> let's get to two items worth noting from this week's nmonmouh

university national poll which shows trump expanding his lead but here's something interesting. in a head-to-head matchup, ben carson beats trump by almost 20 points. eli, how do you interpret these results? >> i think with any head-to-head matchup with donald trump, donald trump is doing well reporting live from now because the field is so large and he has 25% support. it's hard to see his support growing too much beyond that. once the field narrows that has goes along, down two or three candidates, whether ben carson or jeb bush, marco rubio, someone else it's hard seeing trump win a one on one for the republican nomination at the end of the day given that his pool of support is deep but may not be as wide as other candidates because for all the bluster and quote/unquote success he's had so far, maybe a majority of republican voters don't want to see him as the standard bearer for the republican party. >> let's switch gears to hillary clinton. her event in new hampshire comes

a day after she sat down with my colleague andrea mitchell for an interview. olivia, take a listen to how clinton characterizes her decision to use that private e-mail server. >> are you sorry? do you want to apologize to the american people for the choice you made? >> well, it wasn't the best choice and i have said that. i will continue to say that as i've also said many times it was allowed and fully above board. the people in the government knew that i was using a personal account. but it would have been better if i had two separate accounts to begin with. >> olivia, overall, do you think hillary clinton helped her cause with the way she handled that question? >> i think so. i think it was a very measured answer. she didn't seem to try to admit that it was a big issue for her campaign. i think at the end of the day no one's mind is being changed about hillary clinton by this issue of the e-mails. people are set in stone the way they feel about hillary clinton and her supporters are not feeling any differently about her because of the e-mails and

people who already hate her don't like her any more, hate her any more because of this issue. it's just the democrats don't care about it and republicans do care about it and it's the way we would expect these camps to respond to this scandal. >> eli, listening to olivia right there, though, the latest "washington post" story about her family paying the staffer who's pleading the fifth about maintaining the personal e-mail server, does that change the equation at all? anything there? >> well, this has been a drip, drip, drip and that's another pretty large drip. anybody saying "i'm taking the fifth" when people hear that they say "they're hiding something." the larger sense that hillary clinton is hiding something, even as i can knonnocuous as mo these e-mails were, she said she didn't think about it but they were paying someone out of their own pockets to make sure they didn't cross lines with the taxpayer dollars, they thought about a little bit in terms of that. so it's difficult. you hear hillary clinton say

"i'm sorry if people were confused." when i tell my girlfriend i'm sorry that your feelings are hurt she says "no, apologize for what you did, not for my feelings." well, if hillary clinton could say i'm sorry once and for all. i don't know that that would end the republican attacks but it might help move on. >> i hope, eli, then that you do then apologize to your girlfriend. i'm going on record. just own up to it. >> i get it right in the end. >> thank you guys so much, olivia and eli, see you again. let's head to the developing tragedy overseas in germany. hundreds of migrants arrived in munich this afternoon after boarding a specially chartered train from vienna after austria and germany agreed to allow the migrants mostly fleeing war-torn countries in the middle east to enter on humanitarian grounds. nbc's kelly cobiella is monitoring the situation from our london bureau for us. how big a breakthrough is this, kelly? >> it's a moderate breakthrough you could say, alex. there are now hundreds of

refugees in germany, both germany and austria have agreed to relax asylum rules and allow them free passage through their countries to wherever they prefer to go. germany said syrians who reach their country will be allowed to apply for asylum. the result of that at this point is officials in germany expect anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 refugees today alone and more are sure to follow after days of chaos in hungary. people there are now leaving that main train station today in budapest on foot, they're walking to the border with austria, that's 110 miles away. and last night we saw the same thing. hundreds of people on the main highway to vienna. the hungarian government deciding to send 100 buses to pick them up and take them to the border but the hungarian government saying that was a one off, that they're not going to repeat that again today and they're still moving forward

with their plans to build a fence on the border and potentially, alex, send the army down to enforce border laws. >> that's extraordinary to take those measures. how much is this story dominating the news? bbc, sky news, the newspapers, what's the reaction there? >> oh, it's been covering every single major broadcast. several stories deep. there are stories from all angles including the political angle. this has been an issue for months and months and months now and it's just now when some governments are starting to change their policies seeing these massive amounts of people in central europe, the struggles in hungary in particular has really moved some politicians to do more and be more vocal about it. here in the uk the policy is -- has essentially changed slightly but not enough for a lot of politicians.

the new policy being thousands of asylum speakers will be allowed in but no exact number and none of them will be from the huge groups we're seeing in central and southern europe. they'll all from refugee camps. so it's getting a huge amount of play. people are very sympathetic but when it comes to doing something and allowing people into these countries, that's a whole other matter and the debate continues in this country and other countries across europe. >> kelly cobiella, thank you so much for a comprehensive look at in story from london. developing now in kentucky, supporters of county clerk kim davis are holding a rally outside of the jail where she's being held for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. her husband is at the rally and he spoke with our sarah dallof about how she's doing. >> kim is great. i talked to her last night on the phone. she's happy. we're joking and cutting up. she said for everybody out here to hold their heads up high because she's got her head up high. >> does she regret anything up to this point? >> no, none whatsoever.

why should she? she's standing up for what we believe in. she stands up for the bile. woi why should she feel like that? >> let's go to sarah dallof outside that jail. sounds like there's still a demonstration going on nearby. >> hi, alex, that demonstration just wrapping up. about 200 people at its peak. people beginning to leave. you had everything from people walking by to see what the us if was about to an organized marching band. a huge range of people. we talked to some of them in the crowd and here's what they had to say. >> here is a hero. you don't see that this day and time people standing up and -- for what's right even if they're persecuted. >> we have to stand firm on the word because it does not change regardless what the law says. >> god tells us to obey him rather than obey man. one of these days she'll get he

rewar reward. >> "her" in this case is kim davis. she's reportedly in good spirits, has been leading a bible study and is unaware of much of the frenzy and controversy surrounding her supporters. her supporters herald her as a christian soldier in the fight against gay marriage. this sport is not only local but national. mike huckabee planning a visit next week not only to visit her in jail but to also hold a rally to support her. we talked to her husband about all of this a little bit ago. >> it's not only about my wife, it's about god. that's the main important thing. they're trying to take our religious freedom from us and we're -- we want to make a stand and show they can't take our religious freedom. sometimes we have to make sacrifices as human beings. >> now, while davis is in jail, her deputy clerks began issuing marriage licenses to happy same-sex couples who left the office to cheers from their

supporters. they say this is an issue of civil rights, equal rights and holding government officials accountable when they don't follow the law. i spoke with one member of a same-sex couple yesterday who had the license. he said he's going to go home and take a close look at it after davis' attorneys are questioning the validity saying they don't have her signature and therefore are no good. the county attorney and the attorneys representing the couples say those licenses are valid, they have 30 days from the date of issue to get married. this particular individual i spoke to said it was going to be a small ceremony more them followed by a party for close friends and family. alex, back to you. >> nbc's sarah dallof. the black lives matter movement becomes an issue in the presidential race but are activists being unfairly criticized? an organizing leader is joining us next. [ school bell rings ]

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members of the black lives matter movement are making waves in this presidential campaign. members of the group have disrupted campaign appearances by a number of candidates. ben carson and south carolina senator tim scott are critical of the movement's tactics. >> when it comes to the black lives matter movement let's find a solution. yes, we all agree that black lives matter but we're not going to get anywhere by pointing fingers. >> all lives matter, black lives, white lives, police officers, jurists, all of us, even politicians. all of our lives matter. if that is somehow offensive to someone that's their issue not mine. >> let's bring in molina abdullah, professor of pan african studies at the university of california and also a leader in black lives matter. with a welcome back to the

broadcast, thanks for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> what is its about all lives matter versus baerm. why is the distinction so important? >> well, i think that everyone agrees that all lives matter. however if people really believed that all lives matter then they shouldn't have a problem saying black lives matter. there's a now famous cartoon that shows firefighters responding to a fire and there's two houses side by side, one of them is ablaze and the other is not and they're spraying water on the one that is not ablaze and the caption reads "all houses matter." and so really you know if we take that and apply it, the folks who are under constand atta attack, the ones who are killed now -- we're seeing preliminary data saying that it's up from every 28 hours the now

well-known statistic to maybe something more like every 18 hours. so when we look at that kind of data and the regularity of police killings of black people we have to get to the necessary f -- specificity of black life and that's what black lives matter is about. >> that depiction you characterized there, interestingly, a "new york times" editorial on thursday charged republicans of trying to demonize your movement. here's the quote "the intent of the republican campaign is to cast the phrase black lives matter as an inflammatory or even hateful anti-white expression that has no legitimate place in a civil rights campaign." do you see black lives matter as being an expression of anti-white sentiment? >> absolutely not. our movement is called black lives matter not white lives don't matter. and so we are absolutely about the love and protection and

upliftment and liberation and freedom for black people and we want the same for all people. we're operating under the philosophy that if you lift from the bottom then all boats rise. >> how about another aspect that's being criticized, because there are at least two republican candidates, scott walker and ted cruz who have said that your movement is evidence of an anti-police culture. can you see how some may perceive the movement as being into place? >> well, we are police brutal y brutality. we are anti-police killing. we are anti-police abuse and really that kind of policing is so embedded in our system that when we confront those very real issues that are dire for the black community then some people see it as an assault on police. we really want folks to reimagine public safety and understand that public safety means also kind of creating a system where we invest in

communities, where we think about how economic issues, how community self-determination issues and funding for these kinds of programs leads to greater public safety. so we're not anti anyone. however we do want to reimagine public safety and we are pushing for that. so, yes, those who are wedded to this old school model of policing where policing is really done to oppress and keep down particular groups, spesly black, poor, and working class folks, we are anti that because we're reimagining. we're imagining and working towards something bigger and something that brings safety for all of us. especially black communities. >> and these disruptions of the presidential candidates. are you getting a sense they're working? are you seeing evidence of that? >> well, receivevidence is that

here. evidence is that it's constantly talked about so, yes, we need to disrupt. evidence is shown by the democratic party, by bernie sanders by all of the candidates having to talk about black lives matter. were we silent, there is no way that people would be -- this would be part of the national conversation. so it is our responsibility to continue to struggle and use whatever means we have to uplift the point. we don't want to minimize what's happening in black america. we need to understand our communities are under siege. as a mother, as a member of the community it's incumbent upon me and upon all of us to really struggle for our freedom and really to bring in a world where our children are safe to walk the streets and right now please pose as much of a threat, the state poses as much of a threat as any so-called criminal activity that the state sees as

criminal. the state itself is behaving criminally so we need to uplift that and we need to use any means that we have at our disposal to do that. so sometimes it will be uncomfortable. some people are not going to like it. sometimes people's comfort and places of refuge and retreat will be disrupted, including these kind of formal political settings where most of us are locked out. >> i appreciate our new frequent conversations on my show and i know we'll have you back again. melina abdullah, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. in a moment, what happened when a baby tiger was found roaming streets near los angeles. it's the little things in life that make me smile. spending the day with my niece. i don't use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well fitting dentures let in food particles. just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat.

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yamamoto. >> reporter: this three-month-old bengal siberian tiger is recovering tonight. the young cub found roaming the streets, abandoned, declawed and injured. >> we do have an umbilical hernia. >> reporter: the 25-pound cub will need surgery. wildlife expert joel omquest speaking about the incredible discovery, a wild and exotic animal found in a hemmet neighborhood. >> that's dangerous for the average foreign do something like that. >> reporter: it's also against the law for anyone to keep the tiger as a pet or for something else. animal control officers in san jacinto transferred the can unto this sanctuary licensed to handle and treat exotic animals. >> i have never seen a cub come through our doors, anyway, in 20 years i've been doing this. >> they currently house eight adult tigers. this is the sanctuary's first cub. they've used a bottle feed it, given him meat, but it's running around he seems to love the

most. >> he's in real good condition, he's in good spirits. that is not a purr, that's kind of just being a baby and complaining. >> reporter: he's here at forever wild but it will ultimately be up to the california department of fish and wildlife to determine where he ends up. >> kitty. just kidding. that was knbc's jane yamamoto reporting. authorities figured out the tiger cub was someone's pet but the owner has yet to come forward. he entered the presidential race a big underdog but dr. ben carson is soaring in the polls. why? that's next. luckily for all your hard-to-wash fabrics there's febreze fabric refresher febreze doesn't just mask, it eliminates odors you've gone noseblind to break out the febreze, and breathe happy

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it astonishing that hardly a single aid agency is here. we've known about this crisis for months. it was predicted at the beginning of the year. it's been building for months, it's the biggest refugee crisis to hit europe since world war ii. yet as i walk around the camps and these beaches there is hardly an aid agency here. the u.n. seems to be missing all together. i've seen a couple of u.n. official officials but these people are desperate. it's local volunteers, it's tourists who come here on holiday driving up and down the coastline in their hire cars giving out food, giving out water, many greeks have opened their hearts to these refugees but a lot of greeks just also feel that their island -- remember, there are 80,000 to 90000 people who live here.

more than 90,000 migrants have landed on this island. so to be quite frank, the response of the authorities has been a shambles. the response of the agencies the same, a shambles and europe's response habl muddle -- has bee muddled. >> and bill went on to say many of these migrants had never even seen the ocean before. dr. ben carson has been quietly moving up in the polling ranks and he now comes in second place in a new national poll. but will his you dmeek brand of outsider politics and charisma be enough to topple donald trump's commanding lead? msnbc's jane tim the joining me. how does ben carson register? >> what was surprising about that parole is not that he hit second place.

it's august, people rise and fall frequently, august and september. but he went up 13 points. donald trump only went up four points there. >> when something isn't working you look at a different way to get it done. [ cheers and applause ] >> 2016's got a stealth candidate. he's creeping up the polls, surging in iowa and rallying thousands. before last month's debate he barely registered. >> well, about half the people didn't know who i was so i'm sure they were saying "who is this guy?" >> reporter: now dr. ben carson rivals donald trump. in a season rivalled by bombast and braggadocio -- >> you'll see so many victories if i'm elected president. >> reporter: -- he is humbly getting the message out. >> the american people are

responding. >> reporter: fuelled by a rags-to-riches story it has its own tv movie and, of course, that outsider credibility, carson's brand of intimate retail politics has found fertile ground in iowa. >> i want to thank the people of iowa who have been supporting me. >> reporter: but iowa is just one state. strategists say carson needs to make the leap from face time to prime time. that hasn't always been where he shines. >> obamacare is really, i think the, worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. >> a lot of people who go into prison go in straight and come out gay. did something happen when they were in there? >> the retired neurosurgeon says he's not planning to be politically correct, he's running to shake up politics. >> the only one to take out half of a brain -- though you would think if you go to washington that someone had beat me to it. [ cheers and applause ] >> that's so great about that line is that's what he's famous

for as a neurosurgeon, taking out people's brain, half of. >> it crazy, right? he's surging in iowa but what can you tell us about how he's doing nationally overall? we have the iowa pocket but elsewhere? >> iowa is where he'll take his first foothold but the more people see him the more they'll like. this early in the race it can be a lot about personality and he is what people want in a citizen leader. they love that outsiderness and how humble he is. he strikes a very interesting contrast to donald trump. >> for sure. do you get a sense of weaknesses? >> his weaknesses are almost exactly what his support is. he's an outsider. we saw when donald trump was talking to hugh hewitt about foreign policy he stumbled and i think we'll see ben carson do that, too. he's also amount to make these comparisons like nazi and slavery. if you bring up nazis you're always losing in politics. >> you have a good point in

terms of timing political inexperience is working but what point do you gauge it won't work? >> once we see tougher questions and fewer candidates with these debates you get seven minutes on the national stage talking to the country. but once there are five candidates a few months from now, hopefully fewer candidates, we thin out a little bit, then you'll see tougher questions, more time and more chances for them to slip up. >> okay, jane timm good to see you. thanks so much. meanwhile, donald trump today again lashing out at radio host hugh hewitt saying "why would a low ratings talk show host like hugh hewitt be doing the next debate on cnn. very low ratings radio talk show host asked me about suleiman, abu bakr al baghdadi.

by the way, those names are misspelled? >> i don't think it was a gottsch that cha question. jo general soleimani went to russia to meet with putin. it's important to know what the republican candidates are going to do about the ring of terror surrounding israel, especially in this catastrophic in my opinion and the opinion of most republican candidates deal with iran. >> joining me now is matt lewis, senior contributor for the daily caller. hi, matt. >> hey. >> as i was watching that hugh hewitt interview it struck me me might have regret over that focus over that with his conversation. what do you think? >> i think hugh hewitt has become a rising star on the right in recent years. all of these presidential candidates are going on his raids owe show there's the hugh hewitt primary taking place and he'll be part of that debate. and soleimani is a big deal. this isn't an absecure general

this would be tantamount to know knowing who himmler was during world war ii. go read dexter filkins' peace on soleimani and the quds force. this is the guy who basically installed maliki in iraq, he's very important in iran and the fact that a presidential candidate doesn't know who he is, he that's a problem. >> conservative icon rush limbaugh said these are questions designed to "further the narrative that republicans are not bright." but why would dyed in the wool conservative hugh hewitt want to do that to the leader of the gop pack. what's your interpretation of that? >> i don't think hugh wants to make republicans look back. i think he wants to ensure at the end of the primary process the nominee is somebody who is capable of beating hillary clinton and being the president of the united states. there's two different

philosophies here. one philosophy says conservative talk show hosts and pundits and center right journalists are there to problem up republicans and make them look good. another philosophy says no, the conservative movement is better served when republican politicians are asked tough questions. i think hugh hewitt is right and rush is wrong. >> some are comparing this to 2008, you remember that, when sarah palin could not answer what newspaper she reads daily. that hurt her. do you think this might have any lasting impact on donald trump? >> i don't think this in and of itself will have that impact but if this becomes a trend, if it becomes very clear that donald trump isn't ready for prime time -- and for that matter it's also ben carson, carly fiorina, these candidates who are doing very well yet have never been elected to anything, they need to rise to the occasion. i think donald trump is a smart

guy but if you want to be president of the united states you have to have a certain amount of knowledge going in and if he continues to stumble it will become a problem. >> i think it also highlights -- and you can tell me if i'm wrong -- that trump has no natural constituency in the gop. he's not a favorite of the establishment, they probably want him out. he's not a pure conservative. so maybe hewitt wanted to ding the trump campaign? do you think that might be what we're seeing? >> i don't think so. if you listen to his show, he asks all of these candidates really tough questions, in fact, some are predictable, soleimani is one of the figures he asks everybody about so if you were prepping for an interview, you might want to read "the looming tower" by laurence right or peter baker's book "days of fire" hugh hewitt has these questions he asks. you ought to be prepared when you go on. i don't think he was out to get trump per say. this is what hugh does.

>> okay, matt louis doing what you do, talking with us, thank you so much. >> thank you. president obama's historic trip to the arctic circle. how will it help in the battle against climate change next. give a lifesaving vaccine to a child in need in a developing country. thanks to customers like you, walgreens "get a shot. give a shot." program has helped provide seven million vaccines. make your flu shot make a world of difference. walgreens. at the corner of happy and healthy. they don't worry if something's possible. they just do it. at sears optical, we're committed to bringing them eyewear that works as hard as they do. right now, buy one pair and get another free. quality eyewear for doers. sears optical

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president obama took his climate change message to glacier country. he was in a.q. ankh at an international conference on the arctic and the trip marked the first time a sitting president has traveled above the arctic circle. mrs. obama issued a stern warning to world leaders and potential successors not to turn back on climate reform. that's mr. obama, of course. >> if we stop trying to build a clean energy economy and reduce carbon pollution, if we do nothing nothing to keep glaciers from melting faster and oceans from rising faster and forests from burning faster and storms from growing stronger we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their pacapacity to repa. >> joining us, tad pfeiffer,

professor of the university of colorado at boulder. tad, was the president overstating the problem? is the planet in danger if we don't develop a clean energy agenda? >> the president is not overstating. it's very clear things are happening fast in the arctic, faster than we expected them to happen and these things that are our don't stay in the ork tick. they spread over the globe. it's a critical part of the entire planet's climate system. >> so he was there supporting the clean energy agenda yet, tad, there are new approvals for oil drilling off the alaska osteoporosis. is the president sending a contradictory message? how real are these concerns over energy exploration in the arctic? >> well, it's an action that goes in the opposite direction but it's the compromise i think

anybody in his position has to deal with. he's i imagine making a gesture toward those that want to develop energy exploration in the arctic. it's not necessarily what i would have chose on the do but that's not my job. i think a realistic point of view is that you have to allow some exmore ration. there are a lot of resources in the arctic, we're not going to leave them alone, i don't think, and we had better learn how to do it safely and cleanly, the sooner the better. >> but as this region warms up due to climate change, you have russia and other countries stepping up their commercial activities in the arctic zone. the "new york times" is also reporting the u.s. is seen as falling behind in efforts to claim the natural resources to develop new shipping routes and the like. what's the danger if the u.s. does not assert itself in the arctic?

>> the u.s. is falling behind. the u.s. has taken a backseat in a number of roles, particularly in ratifying the law of of the . the united states is also a member of the arctic council, an eight nation council of nation and the united states has taken the chairmanship of the council. and being in position of the chair and if it is not ratified by the united states is sort of a conflict. the law of the sea is a critical cooperative agreement and if the united states is not part of that, there are a lot of negotiations going on in the arctic that the united states isn't a participate in. and that's critical. >> but what about the new international commercial ventures growing in the arctic as the ice is melting so what is the long-term cost of continuing to exploit the arctic resources. >> it is the growth and the rate of change in the arctic that is

crucial because arctic, unlike the rest of the world's oceans, is changing in a very different way and in a very different pace. the law of the sea dictates cooperative agreements, how countries act in one another's waters. and the arctic ocean and basin is different because it is changing so much. it is not the place that it once was. and as the change occurs, new practices have to be developed and if the united states is not at the table, it is not a participant, it can't join in the discussion and the planning for how we're going to work in the arctic in the future. >> professor tadd pheifer from the university of colorado, boulder, thank you for the discussion. i appreciate that. on the heels of that, we go to new hampshire and hillary clinton is answering reporters' questions fouling the announcement of her endorsement for president. >> let me add. i've been involved in almost

democratic primary since 1976 in the state and i can tell you that the polls are going to go up and down. but the important thing to do is to continue to talk about what voters care about and that is what hillary clinton is doing. >> hi. good. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> oh, come on, liberate yourself and ask the question you want to ask. well i can't do that. that is a -- that is a mixed terrain. >> i want to ask you about your -- [ inaudible question ].

>> no, i don't think so. and we have encouraged everyone to cooperate. i feel strongly that the facts are the facts and we've been repeating them over and over again. we'll continue to do so and i would very much urge anybody who is asked to cooperate to do so. with respect to personal services that he provided to me and my family, we obviously paid for those services. and did so because during a period of time, we continue to need his technical assistance. and i think that's in the public record. >> we're going to continue to monitor what hillary clinton is saying there. but we're not getting the questions so it may not be as beneficial to you. we will be right back. [ school bell rings ]

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