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policy speech in california as poll numbers show the race between her and bernie sanders is very tight in california. she's instead though focusing on donald trump later today and we'll tell you her focus. good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. coming to you live from our msnbc headquarters in new york, we begin with donald trump and his legal battles which we're learning number in the thousands. "usa today reports it has 3500 actions over past three decades, including 70 new cases just since he announced his candidacy a year ago. they note the sheer volume of lawsuits is unprecedented for a presidential nominee. we have reporters on the story, including the usa today reporter who broke the news. it follows hundreds of court pages in a class action lawsuit against the now defunk the trump
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university. some employees calling the school a lie and scheme. that's been countered by a video released by the trump campaign showing some students saying that they were pleased with their experience at trump university. it all provided hillary clinton for ammunition for one of her harshest attacks yet of trump. >> his own employees testified that trump u. -- you can't make this up, that trump u. was a fraudulent scheme, where donald trump enriched himself at the expense of hard working people. this is just more evidence that donald trump himself is a fraud. he is trying to scam america the way he scammed all of those people at trump u. >> hillary clinton who lies -- i mean, she lies.
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she has no natural talent to be president. i'll tell you what, folks, she doesn't know what the hell she's doing. it's going to be another four years of disaster. >> president obama also jumping into the fray, launching a new attack against trump during a visit to indiana yesterday. not mentioning trump by name and trump was quick to fire back later yesterday. >> the republican nominee's tax plan would give the top 1/10th of 1% a bigger tax cut than the 120 million american households at the bottom. that is not going to make your lives better. that will help people like him. >> this is a president who doesn't have a clue. >> why don't you mention donald trump by name? >> you know, he seems to do a good job mentioning his own name so i figured -- you know, i'll let him do his advertising for him. >> he's going to start
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campaigning. well, if he campaigns that means i'm allowed to hit him just like i hit bill clinton, i guess, right? hallie jackson joins us from san jose, california. trump has a rally this afternoorn and you reported yesterday donald trump did not discuss these documents that were released regarding allegations directed at trump university and how it handled customers and its business. >> reporter: after that late night rally just north of where we are in sacramento that wrapped up overnight for our east coast viewers, talking about a lot of topics, hillary clinton and president obama but not about trump university even after clinton called him a fraud. coming out with her sharpest attacks on this topic over the last 24 hours, this lawsuit, these class action lawsuits back in the headlines after a federal judge unsealed those new records and we're getting a glimpse of that testimony from former
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students and employees. trump's team trying to fight back but trump himself really didn't bring it up the way we've heard him bring it up in the past at that rally in sacramento. instead he chose to kind of let's call it preemptively lash out about what we expect to be that fiery speech about hillary clinton and also in california taking trump to take on national security. i'm told by a top clinton aide that clinton is expected to hammer trump when it comes to his policies on nuclear proliferation and temporary proposed muslim ban. all of this strategically meant to chip away at these republican never trump folks who have concerned about trump when it comes to national security. the aide also tells me there is a possibility of trying to win over those republican women, so-called security moms who may not be huge fans of hillary clinton at the moment but who want to see the country protected an who are concerned that trump may not be the best person to do that.
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hillary clinton according to our polling does better when it comes to foreign policy and fitness for commander in chief but she trails trump on other topics for example the economy, at least according to voters that we have polled. a lot happening today in the world of politics. trump himself, we expect to hear from him later tonight in prime time actually, his rally here in san jose, not set to begin until 7:00 local time. 10:00 eastern. when we have these late rallies one of the things we often talk about is the possibility of protests and san jose police tell us they are ready and have been prepared, just like what we saw yesterday in sacramento and what we saw last week down south in southern california as well. >> thank you so much. now to that headline story in usa today about the 3500 lawsuits donald trump has been involved in in the past three decades, joining me now, one of the reporters behind that story, washington bureau chief, susan page. thank you for your time. >> it's great to be with you. >> as noted in your article, an attorney, one of the lead
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council members who is a general council for the trump organization says that these lawsuits are the cost of doing business and they are on par with other companies of a similar size. we have far less litigation companies of our size. that's their response in the piece. but what you and your team laid out, obviously is incredible and what you say is unprecedented. >> you know, we found 3500 legal actions and we looked at five other well known real estate moguls to see what kind of records and numbers they were generating in terms of lawsuits. sam zell and larry silver stein and three others and trump has more legal actions than those five real estate develop epers combined. so clearly a huge number of lawsuits and when you look at the political system, we have never had the nominee of a major party, the presidential nominee with so many legal actions over such a period of time on such a
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variety of subject. >> some involve the size of a flag he wanted to post to other allegations ever not wanting to pay some of the bills racked up by different companies with his name on it. >> what we found was donald trump is very quick to use the legal system as a negotiating tool and tool against those who would challenge them. we have lawsuits on the size of the flagpole at his florida estate and trees that were planted on a gulf course and efforts to minimize the number -- the amount he's paying in property taxes. 100 cases involving payment of property taxes and disputes about that. so some of these are multimillion dollar lawsuits and some are really small amounts. in both kinds of lawsuits he pursues them with enormous legal fire power. >> your article also makes the point when a business is a success, donald trump applauds it and wants his name associated
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but things like trump university and other failed business ventures, whether it's the casino or konds min yum development, he found a way to distance himself, the condo lawsuit, he wasn't really the developer. >> he says doing the developing is different from being the developer. he sells his name as brand which he puts enormous on and quick to protect and says that associating his brand with a condo, for instance, gives it extra sheen and makes it more valuable. when these condominium developments went bad, there was legal fine print in the documents that shielded him he argues from the consequences when they went bankrupt or weren't built and condo buyers would domestic back at them and try to get money refunded. >> as we've seen in polling, some of the questions out there about trump and his presidency, if he were to be elected involved his temperament, how he would attempt to handle other
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branches of the government and when you look at his history of bankruptcies and these lawsuits just related to bankruptcies alone, this for some provides the logical question of how would he handle the economy and these major decisions that need to be made regarding how this country functions and whether or not he clearly understands. >> tamron, we don't have a public record for donald trump in office to examine as we do with hillary clinton and other candidates and nominees. what we have is his record in business. it tells us something about the temperament deals with challenges and controversies and americans can look at this and decide if this is the kind of leadership trial that they are comfortable with in the white house. we give a lot of evidence to make that judgment. >> some of that evidence includes government and taxes.
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we know that donald trump still refuses to release his taxes but he has lawsuits and some of these class action situations involved what he does not want to pay in taxes. >> americans may identify with that, trying to minimize his tax -- i think property owners would be in favor of that but very aggressive about pursuing that and that led to confrontations with any number of local and state governments, including in new york in particular where there have been a series of leiens against his holdings sfwl people can draw their on conclusion but it is a great wealth of information that i think we have not seen before. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we turn to the class action lawsuits against trump university by former students who claim they were defrauded in response the trump campaign has just released a video that features three people identified as former trump university
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students providing testimonials. >> i must tell you the courses i took were outstanding. >> amazing learning experience. for me the teachers were positive and patient with me in the class. they were very helpful. >> we never felt pressured to do anything we didn't want to do or never felt pressured to go another direction we didn't want to go, sign anything we didn't want to sign, pay for anything we didn't want to pay for. it is all just offered and opportunity we took. >> joining me now, former trump university student, a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits against trump university. thank you for your time you've seen the response from the organization that is donald trump. what's your response to it? >> my response is that trump university was a total fraud. first of all in new york state, not allowed to use the word university until you obtain the approval of the department of
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education. somehow the significant liability was filed with the department of state without that approval and took the department of education about four years of being stalled by trump university personnel before donald trump changed the name to trump entrepreneur initiative. >> what made you decide to spend $36,000. >> $34,995 and son paid and subsequently got a refund for 500 when i told them i knew how to organize limited liability companies. >> what were you hoping to get electric from trump university? >> for three days i was at a retreat and james harris kept playing the video we just saw about that trump university is
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going to teach you trump's methods and you'll be a successful billionaire like him and even said donald trump doesn't need me money from guys like you. he's a multibillionaire and doing this to be benevolent and be successful like he was. >> what were you paying for? >> he claimed he had former students showing videos that his instructors were the best in the world and that they would show us methods of selling and buying real estate and that we could become very successful they told us to go home, write a blank check payable to yourself for $1 million and bring it back tomorrow and keep it on the table. that's what i did. >> in a deposition donald trump said he was not hands on and you made the point in other interviews that you believe
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these teachers were hand selected or people who had been trained by donald trump and they would pass along this knowledge. when you learned in this deposition he said he was -- not hands on, that was the direct quote there, what was your reaction to that? >> i knew beforehand because i obtained documents under the freedom of information law from the department of state, department of education and attorney general of new york, and i read all of these depositions and one thing that they made a big mistake on like nixon did, they rerecorded all of these workshops. and and i read all of them and know he never picked anybody -- never even met with anybody. >> what do you make on the campaign trail you have hillary clinton bringing up trump university now, an attack line against donald trump. he chose last night anyway at the rally not to discuss trump university. do you believe that it's a fair measuring stick as to what kind
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of president he would be? >> absolutely. he made promises to us and he's made promises to the country and he didn't keep his promises trump university students and he's not going to be able to make those promises come forth if he's ever elected president. >> you also heard the report from usa today, the number of lawsuits that have been filed involving donald trump. there are also reports that he's always willing to strike harder at someone than they are at him. have you worried about the trump organization coming after you, lawsuits, anything of that nature? >> well, i was reluctant to start anything but i'm a resident of new york state and i have somebody called the attorney general of new york and i filed a complaint in his office and he's representing the people of new york including me. as a member of class action, i didn't have to take any action, i'm a member of the class and lawyers in california are filing
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a class action in california. >> there will be some who say you're politicizing this, you have veterans protesting in front of trump tower earlier in the week and accused of being hillary clinton supporters and having a political agenda. the attorney general here in new york that trump campaign accused him as having a political agenda. some might say that about you. are you affiliated or associated with any candidate? are you doing this to further the success of hillary clinton in her campaign? >> i'm doing this to try to get my money back. thank you very much, bob, really appreciate it. >> after staying mostly on the sidelines this election, president obama is diving in with his strongest attacks yet against donald trump. >> the republican nominee for president already said he would dismantle all of these rules we passed. that's crazy. >> president obama goes out of his way at a town hall to avoid mentioning trump by name. we'll dig into this tactic that
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may be used a lot on the campaign trail later. plus, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are now just two points away -- apart in california. that's according to the latest nbc news/wall street journal pool. what the first read is calling a real horse race. we've heard that a lot. and game one of the nba finals is tonight. biggest stars in basketball, lebron james steph curry facing off for the championship. we'll be right back. the right things working together
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in less than an hour president obama will give his last commencement address as president. he's making sure that he's final month in office does not go
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unnoticed by the donald trump campaign. in a town hall that aired on pbs, president obama took jabs at the presumptive nominee. >> trump is a more colorful character than some of the other republican elected officials. but a lot of the story that he's telling is entirely consistent with what folks have been saying about me or the general story they've been telling about the economy for the last seven and a half years. the arguments are not born out by the facts. >> after obama's town hall, trump made his own comments at his rally in california calling president out on his campaign g campaigning. >> this is a president who doesn't have a clue and this president is very interesting -- he's going to start campaigning. if he doesn't, i don't care. but if he campaigns and i think
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he wants to, because he wants to keep this terrible agenda going. >> as president obama winds down in the white house and revs up for the 2016 campaign, it will be interesting set of events. let's go to michael steele. we couldn't wait to talk to you about this. let's start with donald trump saying he is ready to hit president obama as he has with bill clinton. what do you think he means by that? >> i think he's going to go full bore. it would not surprise me to hear the birther stuff come up again and a lot of other charges donald trump has raised in the past and there will be arguments about the state of the economy, questions of war and peace. there's a full pan plooe of stuff donald trump will go after. it's a smart strategy for the white house to get in this game a little bit but it's one they have to do with some degree of carefulness, they don't want this to be an all consuming
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trump obama hillarylinton as the nominee on the defensive to come to the president's aid and argue for policies that she may disagree with him on. it's a very interesting space that donald trump is creating in trying to draw the president out, which i think he real lie relishes the opportunity to do. >> do you think -- president obama has a 51% approval right now. i think we have where the other presidents stood around the same time. 51%. i think that donald trump and a candidate can say they want a fight but do they really want it? is it bluster? if his response to that 51% approval from president obama is hey, you were born in kenya, how fast do republicans run from donald trump, those who haven't already run from them? >> they'll run from that argument, no doubt about it. it would not be wise for trump to raise it. my earlier point, it's not aside the realm of possibility he
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would. here's the key thing, you're seeing stories about obamacare premiums going up this fall. that will hit just in october when the premiums start hitting people. you're talking in the state of texas, a 60% increase in the cost of premium for health care, that's going to be obama is engaging donald trump watch out, that's going to be a toxic issue for both the president as well as hillary clinton in right before the election in november. you don't want a national discussion about the fact it's costing 60% more than it did last year. >> that seems to be an easy counter, talk about the number of people now insured and many years of the threat of replace and repeal, republicans have yet to come up with what to replace it with. donald trump has not provided a blue print, footprint of any sort as to what he would put in its place. you can make the point about the premiums but it seems to be an easy counter what the obama
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administration can point to as a success -- >> go ahead. >> it's not as easy as you think, remember, only 12.7 million americans part of obama care. the administration projected a much higher number than that. you've got more sick people in the system now and more people who are not -- who are taking the government subsidy. there's a huge cost, why the premiums are going up 60%, you don't have the bodies in the system to offset those indication and put up a counter proposal on obama care. in fact, not just dekrungting it but creating an opt into or out of obama care into a different system. there is some talking points that republicans make on that issue is my point. >> we'll be back to fighting obama care essentially. >> absolutely because it's going to be relevant. premium --
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>> look what happened in his home state? >> look, there are two sides to every story for sure. in terms of an argument that can be made the administration wants to engage, there are substantive policy issues that donald trump and republicans can argue going into the fall campaign. >> what is old is new again. the presumptive nominee potentially talking about birtherism or whatever it's called these days and potentially relitigating for lack of a better description obama care and what it should be replaced with. i want to play one more thing, the president picking that city for specific reasons regarding the economy and turnaround and using it as an example. here's what he said about trump's tax plan. >> the republican nominee for president's tax plan would give the top 1/10th of 1%, a bigger tax cut than the 120 million american households at the
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bottom. it would explode our deficits by nearly $10 trillion. i'm not making this up. you can look you can look at the math. that will not bring jobs back. that is not fighting for the american middle class. that will not help us win. that is not going to make your lives better. that will help people like him. >> so michael, is donald trump ready to go against as morning joe said this morning, you have this image of president obama and joe's quote was and the guy in the hat referring to donald trump. >> i mean, that's ab image but the guy in the hat is the one a lot of people are identifying with right now. he is an every day man for a lot of voters. >> whose tax plan as the president just said provide the top 1/10th of 1%, not just the top 1%, the top tenth of the top 1%, a bigger tax cut. this is going along hand in hand with these allegations of trump
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university being a scam and ripping people off. are we seeing the breakdown of this every day guy who happens to live in a guilded tower. >> i don't think so. i was just with voters in my home county who are very much interested in hearing what donald trump has to say. they understand exactly what you've just said. but there are other issues and other elements that resonate. here we go, the reality is going to be a campaign that changes commonably once you get past the conventions and hillary and donald trump. policy becomes more central and donald trump will be tested by that i think early on, tamron. you may -- your argument may hold some water but my point is that the voters are looking at the elections a little differently. i hear what the president is saying about the top tenth of 1%. some identify with donald trump on the bottom 90%.
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>> we've seen that throughout the primaries. we can hear more of president obama going after donald trump, about to deliver the commencement address at the u.s. air force academy in colorado. obviously trump would not be a focus but foreign policy and nation's security and those are all issues that would factor into the general election conversation. we do not expect the president to bring up donald trump in this important commencement, however, defense and foreign policy will be a big focus. plus -- >> my son fell in the zoo exhibit at the gorillas the cincinnati zoo my son fell with the gorilla, there's a male gorilla standing over him. >> authorities just released a frantic 911 call made by the mom of the little boy who fell in the gorilla enclosure. what authorities are saying about the investigation next. ils on your airline credit card. now you just book a seat, right? not quite. sometimes those seats are out of reach, costing an outrageous number of miles.
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the gorilla enclosure. we're hearing newly released 911 call made by those who witnessed it all, including the boy's mother. joe friar has the latest. >> reporter: tamron, in these calls. the mother isn't just talking to the dispatcher. we can hear her calling out to her son and she's not the only one who called 911. so did others who watched this drama unfold. >> my son fell in the zoo exhibit at the gorillas, cincinnati zoo,my son with a male gorilla standing over him. >> with her 3-year-old son trapped in the gorilla enclosure. the boy's mother made a frantic call to 911. >> be calm. be calm. he's dragging my son. i can't watch this. >> reporter: the child had fallen 15 feet to the moat below coming face to face with a silverback named harambe, he swifted dragged the boy across the enclosure. >> like a rag doll, boom, boom.
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>> reporter: a number of helpless witnesses called 911. >> he's taking the baby. he's taking the baby into the cave. oh, my god. >> everybody try to calm down and quiet, be quiet. quiet. you're going to make him riled up. quiet. quiet. >> nouz he's up on top of the child -- he has him by the shirt going back and forth. >> zoo officials made the decision to shoot and kill the gorilla. the child has been rescued. >> reporter: the boy's family released a statement saying our child had a checkup and is doing well. earlier this week police would review actions of the family leading up to the accident but the cincinnati zoo is not under investigation. and on saturday plans to reopen its gorilla world exhibit, following harambe's death, 10 western gorillas remain here, including one other silverback. the zoo has not said if it's making changes before welcoming
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back visitors. >> we've learned police have wrapped up their investigation and passed the case along to the prosecutor who will decide if anyone from the boy's family will face charges and tamron, that decision could come as early as tomorrow. all right, joe friar live in cincinnati. thanks, joe. our new nbc wall street journal poll shows hillary clinton's lead over bernie sanders in california has shrunk to two points. even if clinton pulls out a win, sanders team still insisting it is not over until the convention. >> don't call something that's not true. unless he says i'm out of the race, there's not a democratic nominee until the convention. >> we'll dig into the numbers out of california with the first read team after our break. 't se. what are we gonna do? how about we pump more into promotions? ♪ nah. what else? what if we hire more sales reps?
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democrat is race is a tight one, clinton leads sanders by two points. in our maris poll, that is within the margin of error. senator sanders noted that clinton is returning to the campaign in the state early as the lead narrows. >> i read the newspapers of the new york times and other papers and say the campaign is over then i suddenly saw hillary clinton racing to california. bill clinton racing to california and maybe they think this campaign is not quite over. >> and as mentioned earlier in the show secretary clinton will have what's described as a major foreign policy speech in san diego where she's expected to take on donald trump. nbc senior political editor mark murray is back with us at the first read on politics. good morning, mark. >> good morning, tamron. >> almost afternoon. the poll in california, what's your take here?
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>> it's really close race. tamron, think it reflects a reality that bernie sanders has been camped in california after the last round of primary contests ended up ending and hillary clinton will be getting five days of straight campaigning in california. we'll see if those numbers change at all. i was struck in addition to the tight two-point race, hillary clinton has a 17-point edge among those who already voted and we expect the early vote to be about almost half of the total california vote. so it will be interesting to see if the bernie sanders supporters can make it up on election day voting. >> what role will independents play here. it's not a pure open primary to independents. >> it's going to be a very big case on whether bernie sanders can win or not, tamron. california is kind of quasiopen, that is that people who are independents not necessarily affiliated with any political party can participate. but the catch is they have to request a democratic ballot to
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be able to vote for hillary clinton or bernie sanders. what we've seen in our polling and throughout this entire race is that hillary clinton does very well among self-identified democrats, bernie sanders does extremely well with independents. if a lot of independents can come out to vote, that will help bernie sanders. the question is how many come out to vote and that will be the difference between who wins and who loses. >> you say don't forget new jersey. >> absolutely. it's important to note, we have so much attention on california, deservedly so, it's the biggest state in the country, it's a very close race as our poll shows but in new jersey, it's one of the biggest states in the country as well and awarding 124 pledged delegates and polling shows that hillary clinton is up double digits in that state. there's a possibility even if you have a 50/50 tie in california and bernie sanders does well in montana and south dakota, hillary clinton could end up with more pledged delegates by winning new jersey by double digits and being able to win in new mexico as well.
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>> thanks so much, mark. steph curry and lebron james are facing off in game one. arguably the two biggest stars in two basketball. for many of their fans they are more than basketball players. both have taken on political issues, including transgender rights and black lives matter. coming up, why their cultural significance and political activism matters.
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ziron. we do try to stretch things and make a political tie out of things. this is not a stretch. >> this is not a stretch at all. they have used their capital through sports as a way to speak out about politics. lebron james on issues ranging from black lives matter to programs for children, to really trying to raise the profile of northeast ohio in the economic crisis there to the point of which you wonder if he's molding his own political future for basketball. when you fly into cleveland, you're basically what looks like a lebron james based economy. >> i was just there for the primary and it does. you see the impact that one person can have and not just because he's a basketball player but because he's made the investment in can cleveland. >> exactly. and steph curry his comments e are, the whole issue of govern are mckrorry's bathroom bill. he's alive with a church that
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has come under scrutiny. and he stepped up -- >> what did he say? >> that he was against all discrimination and that he hoped that north carolina could move forward in a way that where nobody was discriminated against. it's given curry's place in north carolina and given the fact he is very closely tied to the bay area and oakland and san francisco at the forefront of lbgt rights. what he said meant a lot to a lot of people. >> president obama talked about both men in past and invited them to the white house. not time to make the comparison to jim brown, kareem abdul-jabbar. these are athletes who are g genuine activists. if you could define what you see as their legacy. you said lebron potentially politics and steph curry wholesome family, deeply religious man. >> maybe even deeper for
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politics for both of them. they have cultural capital. that matters more than politics. one wonders if lebron ran for governor for ohio if that would be a demotion relative to his current influence. steph curry, we're talking about someone couple years shy of his 30th birthday. the world is his oyster. whatever he wants to do when this is said and done. >> i have to talk scores with you. >> here we go. game one goes to -- >> game one goes to cleveland and i like cleveland in six games. >> i like cleveland too. >> the first title since 1964 as a city. you know cleveland in the 50s known as titletown usa? >> didn't know that. >> the official nickname. let the champagne flow. >> we were there for the primaries for several days. great people in cleveland. cavs is what i'm thinking. >> air force academy graduation getting under way soon. president obama has just arrived to deliver what will be his
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final commencement address while in office. coming up a look at what he may say and we'll also look at his military legacy. trolling for a gig with braindrone? can't blame you. it's a drone you control with your brain, which controls your thumbs, which control this joystick. no, i'm actually over at the ge booth. we're creating the operating system for industry. it's called predix. it's gonna change the way the world works. ok, i'm telling my brain to tell the drone to get you a copy of my resume. umm, maybe keep your hands on the controller. look out!! ohhhhhhhhhh... you know what, i'm just gonna email it to you. yeah that's probably safer. ok, cool.
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welcome back, president obama is set to deliver his final commencement speech as president at the academy colorado springs. the president plans to discuss security challenges. after today, the president will deliver the commencement address twice in each of the four military academy. with thousands of military forces deployed in afghanistan and iraq, he will likely leave office to serve two complete terms with the nation at war. joining me now, medical
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recipient, colonel, ja jack. >> what stands you to you this morning? >> on the good side, he said he's going to get out of iraq and he did mostly. >> yes, to some 4,000 down. >> he's the boss and he can say where the troops go. battle persists and we got more people in saf stan now. he's still not doing a good job of knocking it off one by one of the bad guys and the hierarchy of the big terrorist organizations. i think of the chain of commands in organization, you don't want to be in those because you are going to get knocked off. what does it count again as it is the head of the snake. when we look at isis, for example, and you have people becoming very in different when you hear a new name of an allege ring leader or master mind taken
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out when the organization itself like isis still exists. >> that's apart of the problem. the president has done a good job following a tactical plan. he's got great tactics, knocking off this guy and taking troops out of here and stick him over there. at last, we adodon't have any strategy worldwide. >> what does his legacy mean for the next person in the white house? >> um -- >> especially if you look at between hillary clinton and donald trump, what will appear to happen? >> it is incumbent on the next president to really get people around and can develop a strategy so we know where we are going. unfortunately, we got a very slow number of conventional forces and the president has presided over the greatest reduction in conventional forces
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in my memory. we got great unconventional warfare capabilities. >> we are walking the president walking out right now to address the air force academy. >> the next president has to sit down and figure out what it is the nation has to do to protect itself. >> we'll go to a break and we'll be right back of this very important commitment with the president, we'll be right back. . and 3% back on gas. kenny used his bankamericard cash rewards credit card to join the wednesday night league. because he loves to play hoops. not jump through them. that's the excitement of rewarding connections. apply online or at a bank of america near you.
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welcome back this morning, police in los angeles is searching for a professor on the ucla campus. they took his own life yesterday. the suspect had a kill list postedpos posted online which included messages about the professor as well as other members. that does it for this hour of tamron hall, thank you very much for joining me.
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andrea mitchell reports from san diego. right now on a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports," live from san diego from hillary clinton is prepare to fire a speedy attack on donald trump's policy. first, trump unleashing his own assault on clinton. >> hillary is not a talented person. she's a person with no naturalal le talent. >> on issue and after issue, we see someone who's unqualified and unfit to be president of the united states. >> allied forces, the president speaking with pbs news. >> well, a lot of times it is easy for somebody to come up zp s and say, if we deport all immigrants or build a wall or if we cut-off trade with china.
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>> why don't you mention donald trump by name? >> he seems to be doing a good job of mentioning his own name. [ laughter ] >> and moments from now, the commandeering chief would deliver the commencement address at the air force academy in colorado springs. good afternoon, i am andrea mitchell, live from san diego, we are here at the balboa park. the race is tight. wall street journal polls showing hillary clinton up just two-points among likely california voter -- california expected field poll shows that clinton is ahead by two-points and down by her six points lead back in april. all voters in california, bernie sanders is ahead by one poi