>> i think it's a good read. >> yes. that's what we agree on. there's this discontent out there. >> all right. that does it for us today. stephanie picks up the coverage right now. have a good day. goods morning. i'm stephanie. this morning a wild weekend on the campaign trail. it is about to get even wilder. donald trump and hillary clinton battle it out in the same state today. heavy hitters campaigning with clinton for the first time. >> i'm with her. >> and a prominent senator . and a firestorm, is this anti-semitic, what the trump campaign is saying now. clinton speaks to the fbi then to nbc news. >> i never received or sent any

material that was marked classified. plus, breaking overnight. hello, jupiter, nasa engineers as their satellite makes it into the orbit. it was a journey five years in the making. we have got a lot of politicso cover this morning. we have got them again with donald trump firing back, trying to explain away the images others have described as anti-semitic. he is looking at it from the trump side and chris twhere do stand now? >> donald trump is tweeting about his meeting over the weekend. so the campaign wants to move on from this quite obviously but it is still ongoing.

right now dan scavino is now claiming that he is not anti-semitic and he did not get this image of what could be considered a sheriffs star. after that tweet was sent out yesterday or sunday it was quickly covered up with a circle before being tleeted entirely. it prompted a ton of backlash online for what that might look like to somebody who potentially is jewish. the campaign has been trying to push back. dan scavino is saying no i'm not anti-semitic. my wife is jewish. we got this from th the #crookedhillary scraping. the campaign hasn't told us where this tweet originated from, where this image originated from and whether it

was a white supremacist. it did have that sort of hate on it but they are not being very clear about where it first appeared despite the repeated questions to that effect. >> all right. tweeting and counter tweeting is not what trump did all weekend. he met with mike pence and today he is campaigning with core - core -- corker. he is the highest ranking to go to trump tower and meet with donald trump. so he was certainly in the running for a while. we didn't hear about him. to have him come up is a sign he is one of the top contenders. this is somebody who has been

unpredictable this entire time. it is unusual for anyone to see who he might be considering. there is a lot of talk amongst sources. we cannot hear about somebody entirely different when he makes the announcement. >> all right. thanks, katy tur. president obama is joining hillary clinton for the first time on the campaign trail today. kristen welker is live. how might it change the dynamic of the race? >> reporter: well, in a couple of ways. first, in the near term it helps clinton to turn the page from the negative headlines over the weekend. she was interviewed about her e-mails but more broadly they seized president obama as one of her most effective surrogates. they have been itching for him

to get out on the campaign trail. the campaign believes he is uniquely suited about what is required to be in the oval office and about clinton and her experience and what it is like to not only work with her but to go from being rivals with her to the closest of confidants. of course he has proven himself to be a very effective attack dog against donald trump. not clear we will hear him mention donald trump by name but you can bet he will draw sharp distings. president obama out on the campaign trail. the reason why he is hugely popular, his approval rating, 56%. he helped clinton in north carolina.

he won this state in 2008 and lost in 2012 and polls show it is a tight race here this cycle, stephanie. >> all right. thank you. this weekend saw a wave of terror attacks around the world as the holy month of ramidan comes to a close. bombings rocked three cities including one of the holyist sites in medina. bangladesh police continue to investigate friday's hostage stand off which left 28 people dead. we are live from istanbul. this has been a weekend of attacks. >> reporter: it has been a front of attacks. it ends tomorrow in many parts ft muslim world. we have seen dozens of of

terrorist attacks. it's thoord list them all, from istanbul, bangladesh, iraq with that refrej rated killing at least 200 people. there are still 80 bodies burned beyond recognition. this is exactly what isis called for. it called for high profile and cia warned that these attacks were coming. we reported that isis deployed the militants with the intention of carrying out ramidan attacks. we have seen an organization that made good on its threats even if it is losing power at its home base it is trying to

gain relevancy by striking outside of the comfort zone or power base in iraq and syria. >> thank you. in otherhe -- other headlin a man had to have part of his leg amputated after stepping on a homemade explosive device. authorities say they do not believe the incident was related to terrorism. and big news in the nba. kevin durant is taking his talents from oklahoma city to the bay area signing a 2-year-deal with the already super stars. he inplained on the review. a malfunction in massachusetts caused a fire on

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this comes three days after clinton's interview with the fb if i about the use of her private e-mail server. she spoke exclusively with chuck todd about it. joining me now is assistant director, bill gavin. as you heard her speaking to chuck todd she said she was anxious to bring this to a close. hillary clinton wants this investigation over. what information do they want, do they need to shut this up? >> basically, you know, there are two different things to look at here. hillary said she was glad to

appear and wanted to appear. politically she had to appear. the problem that i had is she brought a cast of at least a half dozen people with her which isn't a usual thing. in three and a half hours there is no way she has the ability to answer all of the questions that the fbi has. >> but why? given the investigation has been going on for years in three and a half years. at this point they have had to have asked everything. >> absolutely not. if you consider that this case has to go or made very well on recommendation of the bureau going to the justice department and they say have a grand jury this case could go on for a week or more to present the facts. there are a ton of questions. she has to understands a couple of agents flew everything abokn

the case. they knew how to interpret the answers. this is a very dangerous thing. while she is not under oath if she didn't tell the truth to the fbi she opened herself up to another prosecution. >> if she was not under oath but she didn't tell the truth would that be breaking the law? >> if she didn't tell the truth, you have seen it a thousand times, that people are interviewed by the fbi and do not tell the truth, they may not be tried and convicted for the violation but they do get in trouble for lying during the course of the inquiry. yes, she would be vulnerable to prosecution. >> and as you mentioned earlier, this was voluntary. had she not done it what would happen? she could get subpoenaed while on the campaign triail. it would look significantly

worse. >> i think probably the next step would have been to determine whether or not they will have a grand jury. if they do she would be subpoenaed. >> we learned james comey will be speaking today. how closely tied is he to this investigation? >> director comey knows everything single detail of this investigation. he is a tremendously bright giechlt guy. he knows what has gone on. he has directed the investigation and he will leave no stone unturned until he is ready to present it to the department. >> and you don't think three hours of questions would close that down? >> absolutely not. it isn't even close to being enough. they have all of the questions they have drafted for the interview. not only do they have the questions, they knew what the answers were. she could add maybe some clinton

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hillary clinton will fly with president obama on air force one before appearing on a campaign vent in north carolina. donald trump continue to explain a controversial tweet. it featured a six-pointed star. critics said it shows an anti-semitic imagery. and the death toll risen to more than 200. this is a deadliest attack in baghdad in nearly a decade. switzerland, the plane eventually landed safely in israel. in kentucky a firework suddenly misfired. several people were treated by an emergency crew. and donald trump's v.p.

short list got a little bit longer. it was ton 4th of july the day before. donald trump tweeted that quote the only people who are not interested in being the vp pick are the people who have not been asked. kelly, what have these two potential candidates bring to the table? >> part of this is that donald trump is reaching into the heartland. it may also be a signal to the party that he represents something important to republican supporters. he is a governor in a heartland state where trump wanted hugely to use a word trump would like in the indiana primary.

he worked here in leadership roles and can understand how this place works, so he offers that. he is also a social conservative. so he can speak to that wing of the party where donald trump does not have that part. she was chosen to deliver the response for the republican party after the president's state of the union. that is a high profile role. she also served for about 20 years and retired and was deployed to iraq. she has some of that experience as well. one of the questions will be is this a vetting meeting where donald trump is considering both of these people for a running mate spot or could it be something different like a keynote speaking address. these are things we don't have nailed down and perhaps it's not even resolve yet but being more public about potential vp

candidates as a way to get interest up. bob corker will be traveling to north carolina today. he will have his sort of moment and time behind the scenes with trump. we know the short list is getting longer and we know that the time is getting shorter for donald trump. he has less than two weeks until the start of his campaign. sources have told us before that he would be willing to make his announcement and try to drum up some of the response. more interviews to do. >> that is certainly not the heartland. >> well, this is the face. what i mean by that is talking to pence and ernst he respects

and understands rural america and the kind of constituencies. it doesn't mean they will be the final choice but making sure when you have a gingrich or christie that he was sort of balancing that. neither of them have that sort of credibility and they don't have the roots there. it is about trying to sort of set the table in a wide way so that everybody in the party might see something in this list before the big announcement. >> thanks for joining us live from capitol hill. controversy continues. we'll take a deeper look to see whether they may have gotten that controversial imagery from a place they are not so proud of. trump isn't the only candidate that had a rough weekend, how they react to clinton's interview with the fbi. (vo) stank face. a universal expression of disgust,

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tncht six-sided star slamming hillary clinton. the question is where did it come from? we are looking into it. cal, the campaign has said it didn't come from them. if it didn't come from them who did it come from and where exactly did this image come from? >> it is hard to say. it gets complicated. here is the tweet shortly after 9:30 in the morning. we replaced the questionable imagery with a circle. we have heard from the digital director. it doesn't show up very well on tv. he said we retweeted and found this from a twitter user that is anti hillary. you can find them on every day google images. here is where we think the original thing came from. it is a trump supporter.

you don't know what this person has said in the past. some of it has been a bit suspect. this is the sort of images you can find on microsoft. you have got what was used. unclear how it came to be but certainly one of the problems is the trump campaign has been pretty sloppy on shrinlineonlin. >> thanks, cal. >> i want to bring in joe watkins. steve is a democratic strategist who served as deputy national campaign manager back in 2008. joe, i want to start with you. trump is trying to pin this controversy on hillary clinton. he said clinton through her surrogates is trying to -- is that a better strategy than

simply saying i'm sorry and putting it behind him? >> i think that the campaign wants to get past this. this is a huge thing. this is what you don't want if you're running for the presidency. i was a former staffer for a presidential candidate. when the staff doesn't do its job right you have these kind of distractions. they are try to go move forward obviously. i think he was very smart to say hey, i screwed up. i should have done more research. i didn't mean to address anybody. >> why not? it is a huge distraction. seeing that hillary clinton has given a time to focus on why couldn't he simply say sorry, our mistake. >> good question. very good question but that's just not been the mind set of

the campaign at least thus far. i worked in the white house too. when staffers messed up the president is the one that takes the blame for it. it is a big distraction and i know dan scavino didn't appear to be anti-semitic but you have to do your homework so you don't give the other side something to shoot at. >> what do you think? does this trump tweet have legs? >> well, stephanie, let's be clear here. this tweet came from donald trump's official twitter account. so we could blame all of the staff we want but the bottom line it came from his twitter account.

he has made racist tweets for months and there's never an apology that goes along with it. he offended virtually every race and religion there is. he should own all of it. >> all right. donald trump may have that issue. hillary clinton seemed to be plagued by a trustworthiness issue. when does this end for her? i want to remind you james comey is speaking at 11:00 a.m. today. >> is that for me to answer? >> steve. >> i'm happy to take this. you know, the bottom line is there's been a long-time investigation about her personal e-mail account. she has been as forthright about it as any person out there. she has been investigated. the house has spent millions and millions of dollars

investigating her as has many government entities. the bottom line is until she is -- until there is some real proof that she did wrong people should stop saying that she is a crook and that includes somebody who is a republican presidential nominee calling her crooked hillary all of the time. it is irresponsible on his part to even do that. >> if he answered every question out there, earlier he said she only answered questions on saturday for three and a half hours. it doesn't scratch the surface. what's the right answer here? >> well, first of all he is a former fbi director so he doesn't know how it all transpired. she has been available and willing to answer all questions. she hasn't run from this. she has been very forthright and people should understand that until there is something that

proves she did something wrong we should stop blaming her for it. >> all right. joe, i want to ask you about president obama joining clinton on the campaign trail. he was tweeting taxpayers are paying a future for the use of air force one by president obama and crooked hillary, a total disgrace. is this real outrage or donald trump on the same narrative? isn't it standard practice and if clinton's campaign reimburses him! >> i think you want to take advantage of every opportunity you can to point out what may seem to be a weakness. he has a 56% approval rating.

for obama to accompany her to take him with her to campaign is a huge boost for her. this race will be won in the electoral states that matter. they all matter but north carolina, virginia, florida, ohio, pennsylvania are some of the key battleground states that will matter in the fall election. the president going to campaign is a big boost for her. donald trump is doing the right thing to maybe the cost but nonetheless it's a boost for hillary clinton. >> is there one if she ties herself too close to president obama. we are looking at two different economies. >> well, i think it's very clear that hillary clinton is her own person. she is not steered or directed or torn by others. she is her own person. she has a close relationship with president obama.

she served president obama as secretary of state. president obama believes that hillary clinton is very well qualified to be president and he is going to work very hard on her behalf. i think that voters are going to understand she is her own person but she has the support of this very popular president at the same time. house democrats vowed to continue the gunfight. congress returns today. will the democrats return to their sit-in? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ take on any road with intuitive all wheel drive the nissan rogue, murano and pathfinder.

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go to our reporter ton the ground. before that we have to take you to washington where the house of representatives returns to work and is expected to take up republican gun control measures. what's unclear is whether democrats will try to shut down the house again in the bitter fight over gun control. luke joins us from capitol hill. glad to see you're out of the car and you're on the hill. walk us through specifically what don't democrats like about this bill? >> well, they see this as something that is backed by the nra and essentially says you have a 72 hour window for the government to prove that a suspected terrorist on the list is not in fact a -- or is in fact a literal terrorist. they say the burden of proof is too high ton the government. if you were on this list and

you're specifically pinpointed then the idea is that you have gotten there because there are real factors that have determined the likelihood that you have dangerous. they say that the burden of proof is way too high in order to get somebody off of this list. all of that being said where the real question will be this week is what exactly moves forward on the floor. there are competing democratic proposals. ryan believes giving those a vote would in some way knowledge that the protest on the house floor and he does not want to set that precedent. the leader has a meeting tonight with speaker ryan. take a look at what he would like to see and what is capable of being done on the house floor regarding this gun issue. >> when we have come back here on july 5th they will continue to push, to pull, to stand out

and if necessary, so sit down. >> we know how dramatic this sit-in was. they could be the real impact? is this smoke and mirrors? it costs a lot of taxpayer dollars to do this. what's really moving the needle? >> i think what moves the needle is the social media campaign that came out of that last sit-in. and there is palpable frustration around the country with this seemingly inability of congress to get anything done with gun violence. these issues the democrats are pushing forward no, fly, no buy, if you can't get a gun there should be universal background checks at gun shows that, has 85, 90% polling support. the republicans realize this is an election year, 125 days until the house is up in november. they don't want to go against the nra. so what the democrats see is an opportunity for them to say, hey, we're doing everything in our power, it's politically

popular for our base. and the republicans say the most motivated voters are gun rights voters, we can take a stand against these democrats. so to some capacity, this works for both sides this week if they have another standoff. >> thanks for joining us, luke russert on capitol hill. i want to go back to the story of the university of wisconsin student killed in italy. we're live from rome. what led to this arrest? >> reporter: well, stephanie, so far the investigators have given us a lot of details about the man they arrested in connection with the murder of beau solomon, but not much about why they would have murdered him. this morning they arrested a 40-year-old homeless man from rome and they charged him with aggravated murder for futile motives. what could this future i'll motives be? this is a robbery gone wrong.

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million. powerball stands at $257 million with slightly longer odds for wednesday's drawing. listen, you do have to be in it to win it, even if it's a long shot. we've got to talk about the fourth of july, because rain didn't stop the fourth of july celebrations at the white house. i wish i was invited. the event moved inside where kendrick lamar and janelle monáe performed. it's the father singing happy bisht bisht day to daughter malia who just turned 18. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday dear malia ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ safe to say, singing and dancing will not be the next move for president obama after he leaves office. and as i said earlier, the weather in d.c. was not so great for the fireworks.

but if you watch pbs' broadcast of the capital fourth, the weather looked pretty darn good. as soon as the show ended, producers actually fessed up with a tweet, quote, well, we showed a combination of the best fireworks from this year and previous years. it was the patriotic thing to do. apparently this is the first time the show recycled some of the fireworks displays. we've got to talk about hot dogs. why? joey chestnut set a new record at nathan's hot dog eating contest competition in new york's coney island. chestnut managed to snarf down 70. that is 7-0 hot dogs and their buns in just ten minutes. ten minutes, 70 hot the dogs. jaws meet runner up matt "the me mega toad" stony. defending female champion nikki suto spoke about their wins on

the "today" show. take a look. >> 70, joey, in ten minutes. you've got your title back. how did you do it? >> i came in hungry. last year i lost. and i went back to the drawing board and figured out my body a little bit better. and nobody could keep up. >> ooh i met with joey on saturday. i watched him eat some dogs. it's aggressive. it's aggressive. congratulations, big one. that is going to wrap us up for the hour. i know i'm doing one thing. not having a hot dog for lunch. i'm stephanie rule. coming up, more news with thomas roberts. >> thanks so much. breaking news to cover this hour. something you told everybody about in the last hour. the big development of fbi director, james comey, making an address coming up to reporters in roughly about an hour. so we have got a press e-mail telling us the director would give a statement at 11:00 a.m. we don't know at this time what the statement is regarding. we do know it comes just three days after hillary clinton met

with the bureau investigators at fbi headquarters. she was questioned for more than three hours saturday over her use of a private e-mail server to conduct official business during her time as secretary of state. it's widely believed that clinton would be one of the last people to be interviewed during the open fbi investigation. so with her interview being done, could this be wrapping up? nbc's kelly o'donnell joins me now on the phone. and kelly has traveled to fbi headquarters to get in place in advance of director comey's statement. kelly, right now we can only speculate about what this means, but why would director comey kind of send out a cryptic briefing update at 11:00 a.m. if it didn't have to do with the three-and-a-half hour meeting with hillary clinton? >> well, i don't want to presume to know what's in the mind of the fbi director. but i can tell you i'm at the j. edgar hoover fbi build