opposing the gop nominee take their fight to the steps of trump tower. we're keeping an eye on that event playing out not very far from our headquarters. and the final countdown, hillary clinton hoping to clinch the nomination by tomorrow night as she and bernie sanders sweep through california with the state's primary just hours away. and the loss of a legend. tributes to muhammad ali pouring in from all across this world as the city of of louisville, kentucky, gears up to say good-bye to its favorite son. the reverend jesse jackson will join me with a look back at ali's legacy and a tweet sent out over the weekend that's gotten so much attention. good morning, everyone, i'm tamron hall coming to you live from our msnbc headquarters in new york. let's start off with donald trump refusing to back down on his comments about the federal judge overseeing the case involving trump university. that's left top gop leaders scrambling to explain their continued support. trump's latest comment just this morning. here's what he said. >> all i'm trying to do is

figure out why i'm being treated so unfairly by a judge. >> he's a mexican. we're building a wall between here and mexico. this judge is giving unfair rulings. now i see why. well, i'm building a wall. it's a wall between mexico, not another country. >> he's not from mexico. >> in my opinion -- >> he's from indiana. >> he has mexican heritage and he's very proud of it. >> if you are saying he can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism? >> no, i don't think so at all. >> no? >> no. he's proud of his heritage. i respect him for that. >> why did you refer to his ethnicity, donald? >> because his heritage is mexican. >> so what? >> because i want to build a wall. and i'm getting along great, i think, with hispanics, but i want to build a wall. some people don't like that. >> but the numbers don't indicate that. do you think you have to dial it back? >> i have to be what i have to be. >> if it were a muslim judge, would you feel like they wouldn't treat you fairly because of that policy of yours?

>> it's possible, yes. that would be possible, absolutely. >> isn't there a tradition in america that we don't judge people by who their parents were? >> i'm talking about common sense, okay? he's somebody -- he's proud of his heritage and i think that's great. >> but you're saying it's a barrier to him doing his job. >> he's not treating me fairly. >> and trump has been escalating his comments about the judge for over a week, now triggering a backlash from top republicans. although none -- not one of them so far taking back their endorsement. >> look, the comment about the judge the other day just was out of left field from my mind. it's reasoning i don't relate to. i completely disagree with the thinking behind that. >> this is one of the worst mistakes trump has made. i think it's inexcusable. this judge was born in indiana. he is an american. period. >> i don't condone the comments. i think that he's going to have to change. >> is it a racist statement? >> i couldn't disagree more with what he had to say. >> okay. but do you think it's a racist

statement to say? >> i don't agree with what he had to say. >> nbc's katy tur has been covering the trump campaign since he announced almost a year ago. i see several people behind you. set the stage to explain to our audience what's going on there? >> reporter: there is going to be a press conference in just a few minutes with people protesting donald trump's comments about judge curiel. as you just saw, there's a number of people out there that do not agree with this, a number of party leaders that have endorsed donald trump who are now trying to distance themselves from that. today we're going to see from the other side this is organized or at least alerted to us by the dnc, so certainly politically motivated in that respect. but these comments are getti getting -- all people across the spectrum including people from inside the campaign. for the first time i'm hearing advisers inside the campaign and

those close to the campaign saying they are basically pulling their hair out right now over these comments. that it was an unforced and unnecessary error that only strives to make his relationship, building a relationship with latino voters even harder. i've sarcastically heard that, yeah, we don't have a problem with latinos. basically that they don't recognize or the candidate and those very close to him are refusing to recognize that they might have a giant gap right now in the latino vote and that could potentially hurt them later on. i'm also told these sort of comments from sources are the sorts of things that will end up killing this campaign. and so donald trump is pushing back, he's refusing to back down, as we've seen him do for the last 11 months. but donors, members of the rnc, campaign staff and party leaders now all telling him to tone it down. i'm told from sources that he hasn't done so yet because he didn't want to look like he was backing down. they are hoping, though, the sources that i'm speaking with,

all across the party and in the rnc and in this campaign, they are hoping that he's going to start backing off now, but they're all going to wait and see because donald trump ultimately does what donald trump wants and that is the big positive of this campaign but it's also very much the big negative of this campaign. >> katy, going back to what you are hearing from people within the campaign pulling their hair out, as you described, donald trump, according to what you're reporting, did not want to do this hard pivot to the middle or to some other place, but these comments regarding not just the judge who was from indiana but also this hypothetical situation that someone happened to be muslim, i mean at this point i think people are absolutely perplexed how the gop leadership, whether he moves away from this or not, can ever escape these words. they will never go away. they are ripe for a hillary clinton ad or bernie sanders ad at any moment. >> reporter: it's really problematic and we saw an

editorial in "the washington post" today telling republican leaders who have endorsed donald trump to rescind their endorsement over these comments. eric erickson, a leading conservative who has not been a supporter of trump so far didn't say that these comments were racially tinged but that they were outrightly racist, and we heard this on "morning joe" this morning. joe scarborough saying that they were racist. reverend al sharpton saying they were racist. this is a problem not just for donald trump's campaign but the party itself. we're already seeing down ballot candidates having to go up against potential threats in their own districts. senate races and even republican congressional races that are dealing now with their rivals using donald trump against them. and that is a bigger issue and that goes much farther than just this presidential campaign. and this is very interesting, tamron, because donald trump only two years ago -- i'm sorry, four years ago in 2012 told news max he broke down what happened with mitt romney and he broke

down what happened with the gop and why they lost that race. he told news max that it was because they were not nice essentially to immigrants. they weren't being nice to latinos, and this is what he's doing in this campaign right now. he's being accused of that same thing, of stoking this fear among people in this country of the other, of the immigrants, and so it's very interesting to see how he's been able to completely do a 180 on that for this campaign. many are wondering why exactly he's done this. i think it's because, and what we have seen on the campaign trail, is when he talks about building a wall and even when he talks about judge curiel, the supporters that come to his rallies, often diehard donald trump supporters, react with applause, they react with cheers. he feeds off that and he goes further. i don't think it's necessarily enclosure that he's getting through to a general election audience right now. >> katy, it's interesting as you stand there on fifth avenue, it is that very street where donald trump said he could pull out a gun and shoot someone and he would still have his supporters.

so he has those supporters. it is what happens down ballot, it is what happens to the political career of someone like a paul ryan. newt gingrich was on the list or perhaps is no longer on the list to be a vp pick. he's saying it's the worst mistake donald trump has made. we know that even within the party if trump is criticized by someone, he likes to attack back. so what does that mean for newt gingrich and bob corker who both criticized him but newt gingrich taking it on, are they now on the hit list? >> reporter: we're going to have to wait and see. donald trump told us this morning on "fox & friends" said it was completely inappropriate for newt gingrich to say that his comments were inappropriate. i don't know if this takes bob corker potentially off the vp list or newt gingrich potentially off the vp list. if it does, that list is certainly shrinking by the moment. i've been told by sources it's hard to hire for this campaign because many of the top level people don't want to work with this campaign because they believe what they do behind the

scenes, ultimately donald trump will come out and say what he wants to say. i should say what donald trump has been saying about our reporting on judge curiel and what's going on in the campaign today. he's been tweeting about it saying that he's getting bad marks from certain pundits because i have a small campaign staff, but he says small is good. flexible, save money, and they're number one. he's also calling out me in particular for my reporting, claiming that i do not have any access because they don't talk to me because they think that i'm a bad reporter, which underscores the point of the article that they're not going out there and talking to reporters or giving anybody access and that is a larger problem, as has been snow bawling on this campaign trail so far. >> he's criticizing reporters but is on fox news and other places and will continue to be. joining me now, susan del percio and joe watkins, david corn with us as well. joe, i'll start off with you because you are a republican, obviously, and so is susan, but your reaction to this. donald trump's comments, is it a racial litmus test? is it bigoted?

is it racist? what is it? how do you describe what he said about this judge and a potential muslim judge? >> i wouldn't have said those things. i'm an african-american even before i'm a republican. when people see me, they see an african-american man and i don't want to be jujds or prejudged by anybody because of the color of my skin. i don't want anybody to make a judgment about me because of the color of my skin to figure out that they can figure out what's in my heart. i want them to see me for who i am and to judge me fairly on that. so i wouldn't have made comments like that, but i'm not running for president, of course. but i don't agree that the comments that were made. >> would you support donald trump? >> well, i don't support the comments that he made. the challenge for every republican is the whole package. in other words, where they stand in the whole series of issues that matter. and then whether or not the person is able to dial back some of the comments that have been made. people say things sometimes for which they're sorry and everybody can forgive somebody

for something they said that might have been out of sorts or out of bounds. so if a candidate is willing to dial it back and stands the right way on a host of issues that matter to republicans, then i imagine they would get the support of republicans. >> susan, you are a strategist. maya angelou says once someone tells you who they are, you have to take them at their word. it's been 24 to 48 hours since donald trump made the comments about the judge's heritage. he is from indiana, we have to keep saying this over and over. this made-up scenario of a muslim judge. by the way, when paul ryan says this has come out of left field, i believe it was chuck todd and others who documented for some time now donald trump has referred to this judge as a mexican and referred to his heritage. it's just picking up steam because he won't, as joe watkins said, he's not trying to seek forgiveness or say these were wrong things to say. >> and on top of them being wrong things to say and frankly they were racist things to say, they were also out of self-interest. he wasn't yousing his bully pult

to unite the party or make america great, he was doing it for self interest. he wants to publicly put this judge in a very hard position, a judge who's been ruling not in his favor, and wants him to recuse himself. then he went on to say that when he becomes president, he can also take civil action. he's making this personal. this is about donald trump and wanting to win and not wanting to lose in court. and that's a really disturbing turn as well, that this is taking, because he is saying -- it's not america first, it's donald trump first. >> why is it you believe that here you are within two seconds, you are able to say that these comments were racist. i know we've noted that reverend al sharpton is someone who is going to be outside trump tower. it's easy maybe for trump and his people and some conservatives to dismiss reverend al sharpton. but eric erickson, you're a republican strategist yourself, two white people, i'm guessg you're white, now saying, joe scarborough -- i don't want to

make assumptions about anyone's identity, joe scarborough who is also white, southern, is saying straight out this is racist. how is it that the three of you can say it but bob corker, newt gingrich even declared it to clarence thomas. he said if liberals had said this about clarence thomas, that republicans would say they're being racist. so why is it such a struggle for this man, paul ryan, speaker of the house, who is supposed to be the most dignified of your party? >> i think what is happening right now with the elected officials, just speaking to that group, they're hoping and praying that donald trump does walk it back so they can say i'm thankful that donald trump walked back these comments. >> how do you walk it back? just give me an example. i know, david -- >> i'm not suggesting -- >> just give me an example. >> he'll have to say i was wrong, i could not have said that. of course i don't believe religion or ethnicity matters when it comes to judges. that's how come i put in this list of judges that had a diverse background. he will have to -- it won't

work. >> right. >> but that is something that at least if he did, it would give a little bit of cover to some of these elected officials. that being said, again, it's trump first. it's not party first. >> david. >> we've got to cut for the chase here. i feel for joe and susan and others and the republican party that is stuck with trump because the base voters like -- they like his hatred, they like his extremism, they like his bigotry, and, yes, they like his racism. he started off as a birther, which was a racist notion, and that didn't disqualify him with republican elites. mitt romney embraced him after he had been a birther because he helped mitt romney. this is all about republican party being held hostage by a base that is really motivated by anger, hatred and in some cases racist. and to say i'm sorry, joe, that if donald trump would apologize and take it back, we could move on. he wouldn't be telling the truth. he doesn't -- he's never apologized for anything and we've had a whole series of

remarks, bigoted remarks, racist remarks. when do you say, joe, and i like you, you're a friend, enough is enough. he can't dial it back because it wouldn't be meaningful at this stage. he's been given the chance multiple times and he keeps repeating himself. i think susan hits it on the head because it's in his interests. >> so, joe, to answer david, what do you see playing out moving forward here? >> i see playing out moving forward what he's con in the past. he's had arguments with other people. he's had some pretty big arguments on national television with reporters, with other candidates, with lots of different people in society, and on a number of occasions he's made up with folks and dialed back what he said. he said, you know what, that person is a good person and i shouldn't have said that. maybe i was a little too harsh or too tough on that person. i would expect him to do the same here. he wants to, i think, win this election and he wants to be the republican -- he's going to be the republican nominee for president. he wants to win the general election. in order to do that you've got

to win african-americans, you've got to win latinos, you've got to win a large percentage of the society. you've got to win 51 pgt of t% society that votes. you' got to win the electoral college. you've got to make sure that people are not working against you. so i expect him to dial it back somewhat and to apologize for some of the things that he said because he wants to win, i think. >> susan, katy tur reported that his campaign believes that he will dial it back, will transition, but he does not want to appear, i guess, to have abandoned the base, those people that david corn referred to who voted for him. do you buy that? >> not really, because if you're going to -- if you want to win, if you're actually going to seek to win this presidency, you have to expand your base. whether you're hillary clinton or donald trump, you need to expand your base to independents, women, minorities, and he has done absolutely nothing to do that. he hasn't done anything but play to his base. hillary clinton's speech last

week on foreign policy, although it was more of a trump hit, but at least it sought to appeal to other voters than her core base. donald trump is doing none of that because donald trump is the only one who is calling the shots and it's hurting him financially. he's not raising the money. it's hurting him with his staff. and it's going to hurt him when it comes to, for example, a state like ohio where rob portman is running for re-election to the u.s. senate. who do you think john kasich is going to help more, portman or donald trump? he's going to put all of his efforts into portman. >> as katy also noted, the list of people who could potentially be his vice president is shrinking. it will be interesting to see who's left. >> not everything is a political calculation, though. what does he have to say to expand his base? he is saying what he wants to say. he has been given chances again and again to dial back, apologize, whatever euphemism you want to use, and he's telling us what he thinks.

he's indicating the type of person he is. he's done this for years now. none of this is surprising. it's just that the gop has been trying to play footsie with his fans and accept him because they don't want to have their own people come against them with pitchforks. and that's the problem here. and, you know, nothing that donald trump can say in the next few days is going to change that basic fundamental dynamic. >> we'll see what he says. we're out of time. david, thank you. joe, thank you so much. always great to have you on. i know you were in the hot seat today, you and susan, but you handled it very well. >> the seat is very hot. very, very hot. fighting to the finish. hillary clinton and bernie sanders making their final push through california ahead of tomorrow's primary. the former secretary of state hoping her weekend wins in puerto rico and the virgin islands will propel her to the golden state victory and to officially become the presumptive nominee of the party. the sanders campaign says not so

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today both hillary clinton and bernie sanders are making one final push in california ahead of tomorrow's primary. a new poll from cbs shows just how close the race is. clinton is ahead but the lead is within the margin of error. california has been a good primary state for the clintons in the past. bill clinton won the democratic primary there in 21992 and hillary clinton won in 2008. kasie hunt is in los angeles following the campaign for us. >> tamron, good morning. the clintons have both been across california the past several days.

both of them have packed schedules again today. hillary clinton ending her day with a major concert here in the l.a. area featuring john legend and all those other headliners. the question, of course, whether or not it's enough to get her over the hump and to beat bernie sanders here in california, which is, of course, the biggest prize that's up for grabs on tuesday. she won in puerto rico over the weekend and she's within reach of clinching the democratic nomination and becoming the first woman presumptive nominee for a major political party. that really, i think, is the tone that the clinton campaign wants to set right now and hopefully for them their plans are to look ahead to tuesday and to treat it as such. and i think you've really felt that on the campaign trail over the course of the past couple of days. it started with that national security speech that she gave against donald trump that was so well received by democrats and gave a lot of people hope.

people who were concerned about how she might be able to perform against donald trump, democrats in particular, that she could in fact take it to him in a way that they weren't quite sure about. bernie sanders has been out arguing that he's the best person to beat donald trump. that sort of took that argument and made it a little bit harder for him to make that argument after that switch from hillary clinton. but of course the question, whether or not independents are going to come out here in california and help bernie sanders beat her here. and then of course if he does, win or lose california, what does he decide to do next? the pressure is going to escalate on him from democrats to bow out of this race and to let hillary clinton focus on donald trump. a lot of clinton's top advisers starting to come out and talk about how that's the best way for bernie sanders to beat donald trump. but of course sanders was out over the weekend talking about how he's going to take this all the way to philadelphia and it's going to be a contested convention. so some pretty -- language that went farther having covered

bernie sanders than i honestly expected to hear from him. but there's also some divisions inside the sanders camp about the best way to press forward. i will say some sources are telling me privately that there have been some somber conversations inside the sanders campaign among the candidate, he and his family were campaigning here in california over the course of the weekend. so some questions about whether or not he's going to be prepared to drop out of this race after tuesday, tamron. >> thank you very much. join meeg now, brian fallon, press secretary for the clinton campaign. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, tamron. >> let's pick up on what kasie hunt reported. we're hearing more aggressive language from senator sanders regarding philadelphia and continuing beyond. what's your reaction to that? >> this is obviously a very tight contest in california so to some extent senator sanders is still in battle mode. he's still trying to win contests. i don't think we can overinterpret comments he's making right now versus what he might say in a week or so. we do take him at his word which

is no matter who's the nominee, and we of course are poised to have a historic moment tomorrow night where hillary clinton goes over the top, he has said that he wants to work seven days a week to defeat donald trump so we take him at his word even if some of the rhetoric right now doesn't suggest that. >> interesting, brian, you say what senator sanders will say a week from tomorrow, the timing of hillary clinton after being defeated by barack obama four days after the final contest and she gave that great speech about the millions of cracks in the ceiling and she endorsed now president obama. are you looking at that timeline, four or five days, when you think about what may happen with the sanders campaign? >> we'll see. we're obviously not going to be able to dictate what senator sanders does. i do think that 2008 set the standard. hillary clinton came right out on the heels of her concession speech and started campaigning in unity in new hampshire for barack obama pretty much right away. i think in a minimum from senator sanders, i think it would be helpful to not seek to delegitimize the process that

has led to hillary clinton clinching this nomination as will happen tomorrow night. this is really a moment for the country to reflect on tomorrow. hillary clinton's mother was born before women even had the right to vote so just think what it means in that one generation, we've gone from that to her daughter being the first female nominee of a major party. i think that's a great moment for the country. i don't think we should delegitimize the process that has led up to this point. >> looking at "the new york times," there's an article saying that president obama is ready to, quote, aggressively campaign for k hillary clinton, starting with a formal endorsement of her campaign as early as this week. is that true? >> i'm not in a position to confirm the white house's thinking of a potential endorsement. we would hope to have the president's support. we hope to earn that endorsement. if we do gain it, we'll certainly want to leverage the president as much as possible. he's obviously extremely popular right now and i think that we'd be willing to use him as much as he'd be willing to give up parts

of his schedule to campaign on her behalf. >> there's a new ad, clinton ad, anti-trump. the latest round of comments that have been deemed racist. let's place it. >> if you are saying he can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism? >> no. i don't think so so at all. >> is that not a racist statement? >> i couldn't disagree more with a statement like that. >> are you comfortable with a potential president attacking a federal judge for his heritage? >> no. this is one of the worst mistakes trump has made. i think it's inexcusable. >> so you see in realtime the struggle gop leaders have with this latest round of comments. but in a campaign where we've heard so much about ugliness toward women, race litmus tests for judges, et cetera, et cetera, do your point this week, tuesday will be potentially history. is the campaign still struggling to find a way to celebrate the

fact that hillary clinton tomorrow potentially would be the first presumptive nominee in this country for a party? are you still struggling with this? >> i don't think we're struggling with it. i think what may be mistaken is hillary clinton does not see this as being about her. i do think that the moment on tuesday will be meaningful in that it corresponds with the message that we've put out there this whole campaign. her campaign is about breaking down barriers. she has one central thought that she promotes throughout her whole career and including in this campaign, which is that our country is better off and we all rise together when we allow everyone to unleash their god-given potential and live up to their true abilities. and that is the story of her mother, who never had the opportunity to attend college, but raised a daughter who is now on the verge of becoming the first female nominee. it's the story that with respect to immigrants that she wants to unleash comprehensive immigration reform so not deporting 11 million people. that's a very powerful message.

it's going to be a very strong contrast in this general election compared to donald trump who's openly engaging in bigotry and misogyny. this is a moment that will linger on well past tuesday night. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. we are keeping an eye on trump tower where right now democrats and other groups opposing trump are speaking out passionately against the presumptive nominee after he said that the judge overseeing the case against trump university is biased because he's mexican. he is from indiana, but next i'll talk to reverend jesse jackson and we'll discuss a little bit of that with him as well as of course the passing of muhammad ali who until the day he died remained a political figure, even commenting when donald trump proposed this idea of banning muslims. we'll look at the plans to lay ali to rest and also hear from his daughter, laila ali, earlier this morning on "today." here's what she said. >> we're sad. i personally have been sad for a long time. my father has been struggling

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seriously though, stacy went to a great school and she's really loyal. you shou give hea shot. sanjay's a team player and uh... welcome back. muhammad ali's body is now back in his hometown of louisville, kentucky, where two public ceremonies are scheduled for later this week. on thursday his family will honor ali's wishes with a muslim funeral prayer. this is followed boy a multi-faith funeral service on friday. the boxing legend passed friday night from septic shock at an arizona hospital after decades-long battle with parkinson's disease. this morning on the "today" show, laila ali said she takes comfort in knowing her father is no longer suffering. >> i know that my father, one of the things that he was afraid of was death. and he definitely wouldn't want to just move on, but we're not in control. obviously god is in control and everything pretty much is written. it was time for him to go.

and i know he's in a better place now and he's talking again and moving again and doing all the things that he couldn't do in this body. i'm happy for that. >> joining me now, long-time civil rights activist and founder of the rainbow push coalition, reverend jesse jackson who, of course, new ali very well. reverend, thank you so much for your time. it was your tweet that you sent out this weekend that caught so many eyes. you wrote when champions they ride on people's shoulders. when ali won, he rode on his shoulders. describe more of what you meant by that. >> well, when champions hit the big home run and knock someone out, we lift them up and they're on our shoulders. heroes go beyond the ring, beyond the ball field. we ride on their shoulders. and so in that lineage, ali took us to another place. one, he was a great heavyweight boxing champion. that was his platform, a heavyweight boxing champion who

conquered all foes, but he did not stop there. his sense of racial dignity and justice. there was a context to his strength. in louisville where he grew up, he came up with a gold medal from the olympics and could not use a public toilet. there was more care for horses at the track race than young black children. he grew up in a town where he had money but could not buy a hamburger, so the racial degrading of louisville, where now there's a street named after him, he could not be able to walk down that same street. he comes out of something that is powerful. he took us all to another place in terms of his willingness to sacrifice. i mean it's one thing to give a gesture for freedom, but to give up $6 million gates, to have make so much and gave it all up for dignity, putting dignity over dollars, that's a big deal.

>> i want to play what jim brown said yesterday on "meet the press" about ali. let's play that. >> muhammad ali loves people, and he had white friends as well as black friends. and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism. and so that's the way that i look at him and that's how i'd like to close out my talking to you today. >> reverend jackson, he picked that out because you also wrote about the notion that people describe him as controversial. we overuse that word, but when you look at history and who was on the right side of it and the wrong side of it, where ali took the stand, he was on the right side and we all came to his side. >> there are two things here. one, i remember april 4th, 1967, in the halter room with reverend young and reverend abernathy and working on his speech that night for the riverside anti-war

speech. chauncey eskridge brought ali and jim brown into the room. both of them found comfort in each other because both were under real attacks about their anti-war position. the fact that ali and jim brown worked on economic development together and anti-war together and nondiscrimination, that was a glorious moment. april 4th, 1967. but in some real sense some said ali was controversial. segregation was controversial. you had to pay taxes and couldn't vote. that was controversial. segregation was controversial. ali was maladjusted. socially maladjusted and would not rest until the society adjusted to justice. >> reverend jackson, thank you so much for your time. we greatly appreciate you sharing those stories with us and your thoughts today. thank you. >> thank you very much. after the break, the latest out of cincinnati where we expect to hear if there will be charges filed against the family

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point right now. so what happens after? >> tamron, this is the same process we used in 2008 when barack obama went over the magic number. it was a combination of pledged and superdelegates that got him across. if she ends up going past the 2,383 number tomorrow night, it will be the exact same process that put barack obama over the top. >> so if we're lying now, we were lying then? neither is the case? >> yes. neither is the case. we're just using the same process we've always used. >> so that knocks out about 30 tweets i've received since we talked with brian fallon. next up on our list, how the republican leadership is handling or not handling this donald trump line that the judge is not able to be, i guess, fair to him i believe are his words, and what we're hearing from newt gingrich. donald trump has german heritage so does he believe that the only

people who can judge him are white men are german heritage fairly? >> it's been a lot of interesting verbal gymnastics from republicans because on the one hand, tamron, they say i support donald trump, i'm going to vote for him, i think he's going to end up winning. on the other hand they're criticizing him for these racially based characterizations he's making about this federal judge. >> can they have it both ways? >> they're trying to have it both ways. if this is what the next five months is going to be, donald trump says something controversial, every republican elected official has to answer for it, this is going to be a miserable five months for republicans which is why you want them to say we want to have a top shelf type of campaign. stop making these controversial statements and putting us in trouble. but this is going to be a difficult time for republicans. >> how difficult is it for paul ryan who came out with this endorsement in his local paper and part of his reasoning to defend donald trump is that this came out of left field. is that -- is that a fair description of what's happened here? >> yeah, tamron, these remarks

about the federal judge happened well before that comment that paul ryan ended up giving. i will say as our capitol hill team is writing, paul ryan is trying to run a separate campaign, talking about a positive attitude, talking about ideas and policy. it's so hard when that gets overshadowed by what your presumptive nominee is doing. >> great pleasure having you on. wee talk to you tomorrow for the first read. case os over kanye. thousands storm a new york venue. they were told that they might be able to catch kanye at a surprise performance. well, they didn't see him. we'll tell you, though, who kanye actually called. we'll be right back. new app? we're good. new app? okay... what if a million people download the new app? we're good. five million? good. we scale on mand. hybrid infrastructure, boom. ok. what if 30 million people download the app? we're not good.

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kanye planned a pop up performance late sunday night. more than thousands swarm the concert hall and the performance never happened. before this, kanye tried to make a phone call trying to get a couple blocks down. [ inaudible ] >> reporter with the guardian and not just a reporter but a fan as well. she was there with all the craziness. a lot of people saw the over head shot of the mass of people at one of the busiest sessions of the city. what happened there? >> it was scary for a while

there. >> i feel like a 9 years old. what are they running for. >> it was announced around 12:00. >> how was it announced? >> it appears on two chains and appears on his snap chat and that on instagram and on different social media site. he also put on instagram that there is going to be a show and the time. and immediately kind of going straight to it. >> kanye was supposed to be the headliner of a big concert they have here in the city. he didn't finish the show and because of the bad weather, the show was cancelled. >> that's correct. suddenly, there were 10,000 people expected to see kanye west on sunday night and was not able to see him >> he did make a brief appearance at another festival.

>> which was also cancelled? >> so because he had done this impromptu -- he did appear once where he drove past and he was standing up and kardashian was inside the car. because he had done his impromptu earlier in the day, okay, this makes sense and it is happening. >> were you terrified at any point? >> i was nervous. i jumped up when we were stop running. like if you don't run with the crowd you are going to get crushed. also, they're clearing it out so people getting pushed to the sidewalk. i jumped upton a trash can and could over look and hold to a fence and balance up. i felt much safer. >> is he going to do the show now or not? >> who knows what's going to happen now. i know he was trying very hard and he had snap chats from kim

and working really hard from getting it happening. police were not allowing it. >> i am happy you are safe and no one got hurt. maybe kanye will come back. >> fingers crossed. >> back with politics in a moment. reminder, please stick with msnbc tomorrow and with our non stop coverage. we are headed to cali back-to-back and chuck todd and full coverage with the whole gang, we'll be right back. ♪jakeeese, "day to feel alive"♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪

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the golden state. trying to hold bernie sanders back. sanders supporters turning out on sunday night. >> i don't want to pick a fight. it is election day. >> progressive state helps lead the country into the political revolution. thank you all. [ cheers ] content for the court, donald trump taking his attack on the federal judge to a new level. >> if you are saying he cannot do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of raci racism? >> i don't think at all, he's a mexican. this judge is giving us unfair -- >> he's from indiana. >> mexican heritage and he's proud of it. >> would y