blood. just watching yesterday the sun crying, you know, destroyed. >> and the 4-year-old having to tell her mother that, in fact -- >> i'm here for you. >> and heard that her father was dead. >> that is "all in" for this evening. steve kornacki is up for the rachel maddow show. >> thank you for staying with us. rachel has the night off. we have a very busy news night. donald trump was in the nation's capitol, he was met with a lot of skepticism, a lot of cold shoulders, a very awkward encounter with some elected officials from his own party. we have all sorts of detail on that and what it means. that's ahead. we're also going to talk to one of the members of congress who was on capitol hill today for james comey's unprecedented

testimony. but we begin with the outrage of police shootings in this country. for the second time in less than 48 hours now, images circulating on social media of a black man dying after being shot by a white police officer. first in baton rouge, louisiana, now the latest in a suburb of st. paul, minnesota. tonight protesters have gathered outside the governor's residence by the hundreds to protest the shooting death of 32-year-old philando castile. earlier in baton rouge, people in that city held a prayer service to honor the life of alton sterling. he was killed by police there early tuesday morning. meanwhile, here in new york city, protesters have been marching through the city streets for hours now, demanding action in the wake of both of these two fatal shootings. these two incidents this week become the latest entries in

what is a grim timeline, if you start it back in july of 2014. in fact, nearly two years to the day ago it would begin with this video you're seeing here of eric garner. you probably remember this, who died after being placed in a police chokehold. police were attempting to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes on the sidewalk in staten island, new york, july 17th, 2014. then there was laquan mcdonald killed in chicago after being shot 16 times by police. dash cam video shows the officer continued to shoot the teen as he lay bleeding in the street. that was in october of 2014, although it took a while longer for the video to come out. in november of 2014, police in cleveland responded to a call in a local park, 12-year-old tamir rice had been playing with a real-looking pellet gun and within seconds of pulling up on him, one of the officers shot

and killed him. following february police in pasco, washington, shot a man who had been throwing rocks at them. he was shot 17 times as he ran away from officers, and then he died. in tulsa, oklahoma, a reserve deputy in the sheriff's department there shot and killed a suspect in an undercover drug sting. that reserve deputy, a 73-year-old insurance executive, he said he meant to draw his taser, but instead he accidentally pulled his gun and shot eric harris fatally. that was two days before the shooting death of unarmed walter scott. that confrontation began with a traffic stop. it ended with the officer firing multiple times at scott's back as scott fled across a vacant lot. shortly after that incident, video emerged of freddie gray's arrest by baltimore police. he suffered a spinal injury in police custody and died a week

later. all these fatal encounters with police happening in less than a calendar year. a ten-month time period, to be exact. in some cases, the officers were charged after independent investigations, in others they were not. and that list is by no means complete. but the videos, you probably remember them, those videos seared into our public consciousness, and now the new images out of baton rouge and falc falcon, minnesota. less than 48 hours of alton sterling being shot and killed by police in louisiana, another black man was fatally shot by an officer during a routine traffic stop. that latest shooting happening in a st. paul, minnesota, suburb yesterday evening. we mentioned his name earlier, 32-year-old philando castile. he was traveling in a car with his girlfriend, diamond reynolds, along with her 4-year-old daughter who is seated in the back seat. miss reynolds said the couple was pulled over for a broken

tail light. now, we don't know what happened in the moments leading up to the shooting, but the immediate aftermath of that shooting was streamed live. it was streamed live on facebook by the girlfriend of the dying victim. as a warning, obviously, the video here, it is graphic and it is disturbing. >> they killed my boyfriend. he's licensed, he's carry -- he's licensed to carry. he was trying to get out his i.d. and his wallet out his pocket and he let the officer know that he was -- he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm. we're waiting for -- >> just keep your hands -- >> i will, sir, no worries. he just shot his arm off. we got pulled over on -- >> i told him not to reach for it! i told him to get his hand out! >> you told him to get his i.d.,

sir, his driver's license. oh, my god, please don't tell me he's dead. please don't tell me my boyfriend just went like that. >> now, in both that video and in a statement today, reynolds said the officer had asked for her boyfriend's license and registration. she said that as castile was reaching into his back pocket for his wallet, he told the officer that he had a firearm in his possession. reynolds said he stressed that he was licensed to carry that weapon. the police officer involved in the shooting is on paid leave, pending the investigation into the matter. and that's standard procedure in a case like this. minnesota governor requested to the justice department to begin an investigation into this case. that's also being done in baton rouge, the justice department involved there as well. but the department has said that for now, it will simply monitor the state of minnesota's investigation and offer assistance. dayton, the governor also offering up this very blunt assessment of the shooting. >> would this have happened if

the driver and the passengers were white? i don't think it would have. so i'm forced to confront, i think all of us in minnesota are forced to confront this kind of racism exists. >> that's the assessment of the governor of minnesota earlier today. and just a short time ago, president obama arrived in warsaw, poland. he's there for the nato summit. but after landing, he addressed both the shootings in baton rouge and in minnesota. he spoke for close to half an hour. he said that incidents like these are not isolated, but symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities. and he closed his statement with this. >> i would just ask those who question the sincerity or the legitimacy of protests and vigils and expressions of

outrage, who somehow label those expressions of outrage as quote/unquote political correctness, i just ask folks to step back and think, what if this happened to somebody in your family? how would you feel? to be concerned about these issues is not political correctness. it's just being american. and wanting to live up to our best and highest ideals. and it's to recognize the reality that we've got some tough history and we haven't gotten through all of that history yet. and we don't expect that in my

lifetime, maybe not in my children's lifetime, that all the vestiges of that past will have been cured, will have been solved. but we can do better. people of good will can do better. and doing better involves not just addressing potential bias in the criminal justice system, it's recognizing that too often we're asking police to man the barricades in communities that have been forgotten by all of us for way too long. in terms of sub standard schools and inadequate jobs and a lack of opportunity.

we got to tackle those things. we can do better. and i believe we will do better. >> that was the president earlier tonight. joining us now from a protest in front of the governor's mansion in st. paul, minnesota, pastor danny givens, the clergy and liaison for black lives matter in los angeles, also a friend of philando castile. he spent time with the family today. pastor, thanks for joining us. let us know, how is the family doing tonight? >> i mean, the family is doing as expected. they lost their loved one, their son, their friend, brother, all of that. so -- but their spirits are strong in the face of -- there's a strong spirit of resilience that rests upon the family and they're ready to fight for justice. >> you knew philando castile.

all the world knows of him now, what we saw in the facebook video. tell us about the man you knew. >> i just last week was with him and a friend of mine hanging out in the garage, playing chess, he was commending me on the work we've been doing in the community, with black lives matter, saying that he supports us. so it's now dishearting that it's now somebody that i know, it's that close to home and the community that i grew up, a friend of the family, this is somebody that i know who was very near and dear to me. >> can you take us through, what we've seen around the world is just that video, which is the video begins after the shooting. you know, we have his girlfriend saying he alerted the officer that he had a gun. the officer asked for his paperwork, he was going to get it and that's when this happened. can you add anything else to that, about what the sequence of

events here was? >> well, i had a chance to speak with his girlfriend who posted the video. what she was sharing, she didn't want to record the actual shooting because she didn't want that out there, it was too traumatic and she was in a state of shock. basically he came up to the car and asked for the driver's license and registration, and we've all heard the story, the narrative, i should say. and the response of the officer, unfortunately, i've had a similar experience out in falcon heights myself during a traffic stop. an officer pulled me over and have a firearm exposed for a normal traffic stop. >> you're saying "out there" again. we don't know the geography. this is a suburb of st. paul. historically, have there been issues with police in this area? >> there's a history of brutality with police and how they've been treating us in st.

paul and minneapolis for years. even in the suburbs, we've never been welcome in the suburbs, we've always been profiled and pulled over, being normal citizens in the world. we do the same things that every other american does, but yet we're getting killed, ostracized, maimed. >> we can see the crowd behind you, outside the governor's residence in st. paul. you heard the governor today, blunt statements from him. what did you make of what he had to say today? >> i don't believe it. it's a bunch of mularkey, same thing he told us when we were protesting jamal clark. he called us terrorists for our work of peaceful, non-violent action. i don't believe it. >> you're saying governor dayton called you terrorists before? >> governor dayton called us terrorists for stopping the airport during black christmas,

our action that we did to raise awareness, to demand the tapes and demand justice. for that act that i participated in, he called us all terrorists to our face. >> so when he said today, i will vow justice in this case, you don't necessarily believe that? >> i don't believe it. he has his political jargon on. doing what he got to do, a song and dance, because it's in front of his house. he don't want us out here. lot of multi million dollar homes, ain't no black people here. i've never laid in the grass here, because we haven't been welcome. he don't want us here, us standing and holding him accountable. >> pastor danny givens, a friend of philando castile, thanks for the time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> as if we needed reminding, the protesters in the streets in many cities across the country tonight make it clear that the problem of police shootings is not just confined to minnesota

or louisiana. joining us now, cornell brooks, president of the naacp. thanks for joining us tonight. let me just ask you, big picture about the responses we've seen here, the political response we've seen in louisiana, the investigation already turned over to the justice department. calls for that in minnesota. that's not necessarily the case, at least right now in minnesota. but what do you make of the response to both of these incidents? well, the response largely has been one by the protesters of grief and determination. the response by those in authority is one of grim recognition of the problem. namely this. we have a form of policing all across the country that has resulted in a young black man being 21 more times likely to lose his life at the hands of police than his white counterparts. those are the facts. we understand that all across this country there are police officers who see black skin as a

robe of vulnerability and victimhood and see white skin as a kind of flak jacket of credibility and respectability. and over and over again after one horrible video after another, one hash tag after another, we see young african americans profiled and victimized. and so the recognition on the part of the authorities is often late and insufficient. the fact that the justice department is involved and looking at these tragedies is good. it's heartening. but the challenge is, what is being done in these state legislatures? what is being done in terms of passing racial profiling laws? what is being done in terms of establishing standards for excessive use of force? with respect to training police officers to treat african americans as not objects of predation, but rather, subjects

of protection? those are the kinds of questions that have to be answered in real time. that means people in communities all across the country, of every hue and heritage, calling on their police departments to establish standards of accountability. that means going to the polls in november and voting in a way to suggest that the way you protect us in the streets matters when we go to the polls. we cannot simply watch these videos one after another, wringing our hands or scratching our heads in moral befuddlement. we have to take decisive action, and that means across the country. this is a moment. we are in the middle of a post millennium moment, we see acts of civil disobedience in the country, a cry for reform. that means specific policy reforms, in legislatures, at the state level and certainly in congress. >> what about in minnesota?

take a look at what the governor had to say there today. he said he was offended this had happened in his state. he said he looks at it and asks himself if this motorist were white would this have happened, he concludes, no it wouldn't have happened if the motorist were white. we just heard from danny givens on the scene there in st. paul, a friend of philando castile, and he said he listened to the governor today and he didn't buy it. what did you think of what the governor had to say? >> i will simply say, the governor's words are true to the extent that he recognized the grim reality that a white person, with a broken tail light, with a license to carry a firearm, would not likely be subject to having their life taken, beside their fiancee with a little girl in the back seat. that's not highly likely. the governor acknowledged that. i too have sat in a meeting with the governor. people measure governors, they

measure mayors, they measure congressmen and women and senators by their legislative actions, by the policies and reforms they bring about. we've had enough talk. we've had enough sound bites on all sides. what we have to move to is specific reform. where we have seen in the last year, a thousand people die in police custody, this year, thus far, over 500. what did we do? do we wait until the next tragedy, to the next hash tag, to the next video? or do we move decisively? note this, in the last century, the naacp stood against a form of racialized violence called lynching. we brought that largely to an end. in this century, we're dealing with a form of racial violence called misconduct, we can end it by turning out at the polls and

enacting legislative reform, policy reform, at the municipal level, the state level, and the federal level. >> we'll keep an eye on the protests taking place across the country tonight at the end of what has been a very busy news day, also with many political developments as well. we'll get to that in just a moment. after a long day,

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we have an update tonight on how donald trump's republican establishment outreach program is going, now just days ahead of the republican convention. the early results not necessarily encouraging for the presumptive nominee. that story was some reporting from inside a big meeting trump held with republican members of congress and senators today. that's ahead.

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>> let's go in the way, way, way back machine to november of 1979. presidential race for 1980 is about to start. that a sitting president is in grave danger of losing his own party's nomination. jimmy carter is the president. his approval rating is rock bottom, under 30%. and ted kennedy is about to challenge carter in the democratic primaries. polls put kennedy ahead by 30 points. think about that, the sitting president getting absolutely demolished in his own party's primary. that's how bad it was for carter. but then the embassy siege in tehran, the american embassy, 52 americans held hostage, an international crisis and all of a sudden the entire country, democrats, republicans, independents, everyone, they

rallied around their president and carter, he looked dead in the water politically before this, but the embassy siege changes everything. his approval rating rockets up, he erases all of the deficit in the polls and zooms ahead of kennedy. carter starts cruising, wins new hampshire, florida, all the early states. he looks like he's rolling. but the rally around the flag effect, it starts to wear off. the hostage crisis lags on and on and on. there's a botched rescue mission. and carter's numbers start to fall back to where they were. soon enough, it's kennedy who is on a tear. he starts winning primaries. he starts picking up momentum and he finishes with a quick. he takes five of the last eight contests, including the biggies, california and new jersey. but then kennedy is out of states because the primary calendar is over. so it's a strange situation, because he started so strong, because of the embassy siege, carter has more delegates, he has enough to win the

nomination, but now at the end of the primary season, carter's poll numbers are terrible again. once again he looks like he's a sure loser in the fall. so democrats are asking, why are we nominating this guy? how are we stuck with him? so the kennedy forces came up with a plan. it was a chance to give democrats a way to dump carter, even though on paper, he has the delegates he needs, even though he is the presumptive nominee. their plan was this. put a motion on the floor at the convention to unbind all of the delegates, to free them up from being forced to vote for carter. free the delegates. that was the plan. it was promoted as a movement to free the delegates, and it was loud. >> it's a supporter of president carter and speaking in favor of the rule binding the delegates. let's go down to a very noisy convention hall and see if senator rube kof is getting through.

>> there's senator rube kof, there's a kennedy demonstration going on. actually everybody is waving his or her sign. there are carter signs, kennedy signs, everybody shouting and senator rube kof hasn't quite had a chance to start his address. a lot of people on their feet in the hall, however. it is rare at conventions of either party to get this much emotion into the first evening session. but the kennedy people realize that their candidate's future is deeply tied into the outcome of the vote, which is coming later this evening and the carder people realize they have got to hold the line. that's why there's a lot of emotion on the floor. >> so there it was madison

square garden 1980. a chance for a party to dump a nominee. if they voted to free the delegates, they'd be able to vote for kennedy and the nomination would be taken from carter. that was the plan. but of course you probably know the history, it doesn't work. carter's delegates resisted the pressure, they stuck with the president. he won the nomination, and then he lost big in november to ronald reagan. that was 1980. now fast forward 36 years, switch parties. it's deja vu all over again. donald trump is the presumptive republican nominee this time around. he has well over 1,500 delegates. hundreds more than the magic number of 1,237. now this report from the "wall street journal." a last minute effort to derail trump at the republican convention is afoot, pretty much

the same play we saw back in 1980. a push to free the delegates. they say trump is doomed in november, that he could drag the whole party down. this is a long shot that this would work out any better than the stop carter campaign that failed back in 1980. but if nothing else, the fact that this movement even exists is further evidence, it is further dramatic evidence of just how far from unity the republican party is with only days to go now until its national convention. there are other developments too on this front. trump said for a while that he was going to release today, a list of vips who will speak at the republican national convention in cleveland. he suggested the names of celebrities, of friends, of family members. we still don't know who is on the list, but we have an idea of who will be missing from it. john kasich, the governor in the state that's hosting the convention, he will not be speaking.

he hasn't even endorsed trump. senator marco rubio from florida, once touted as a rising star in the party, he's not going to be speaking at the convention. he reversed his position. back in may, he said he would go to the convention. now he says he's not going to. how about both living former republican presidents george bush 43 and george bush 41, jeb bush, any bush family member for that matter, none of them speaking at the convention, none of them even attending the convention. one surprise today, it does look like ted cruz will be speaking at the convention. trump said that he wouldn't give cruz a slot without an endorsement. and there still isn't an endorsement, but now there is a deal. >> can you tell us about it. >> good afternoon. we had a positive and productive meeting with morning with donald trump. donald asked me to speak at the republican convention and i told him i'd be happy to do so. >> what else was discussed

during the meeting? >> there was no discussion of any endorsement. he asked me if i'd speak at the convention and i said i'd be glad to do so. i'm going to do my best to point to the policies and principles that we should be unifying behind and that give a better direction for this country going forward. >> was there any discussion about a vice presidential pick? >> i would like to be a fly on the wall in that meeting today, trump sitting down with ted cruz and inviting him to speak at the convention. that sitdown was after two big meetings trump held on capitol hill today, one with house republicans, the other with senate republicans. apparently it didn't all go smoothly. some complaining afterwards about trump's quote, uncomfortable language, criticizing his understanding of the constitution. there was reportedly a particularly tense exchange between senator jeff flake of arizona, he's been an outspoken of trump's comments on muslims and immigration, so far he

hasn't endorsed trump. flake took umbrage with trump's comments about john mccain not being a war hero because he was captured during the vietnam war. a source telling nbc news that flake introduced himself to trump as the other senator from arizona, the one who didn't get captured. he told trump, look, i'm not part of this never trump movement, but i'm in a very uncomfortable position where i can't support you yet. according to the source, trump responded by threatening to quote hit hard at flake and told him he wouldn't win re-election. flake then reportedly reminded trump that he's not up for re-election this year. he's not going to be up until 2018. >> tell me how you introduced yourself to him. >> i don't want to comment on it prch. >> it's out there. >> it was reported accurately and i'll leave it at that. >> was it tense? >> yeah, it was tense. >> are you any closer to making up your mind about whether or not you can vote for him? >> i'd like to support our

nominee. it's not a comfortable position to be in, to not be supportive of the republican nominee, but given some of the statements that have been made, particularly about the judge, the muslim ban, calling those who cross the border murderers and rapists -- rapists, i guess he said, we can do better than that, and we've got to do better than that if we want to win the white house. >> there were also some notable snubs today. four senate republicans facing tough re-election races in swing states were all notably absent. mccain of the one of them. rubio from florida, mark kirk from illinois, kelly ayotte from new hampshire, all awol at the meeting today. michigan congressman fred upton told reporters he missed it because he had a long-standing appointment downtown. another republican congressman had to go to the doctor's office at that time. another said he had a breakfast meeting which he wrote into his calendar after a politico

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kind of detail, this kind of decision. comey defending repeatedly his decision not to recommend charges over clinton's use of a private e-mail server. it made for quite a drama, and for nearly five hours today, that drama played out live on capitol hill. >> i think there's a legitimate concern that there's a double standard. >> your recommendation conflicted with the predetermined outcome they wanted. in their eyes, you had one job, and one job only, to prosecute hillary clinton. >> my conclusion was and remains, no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case. you know what would be a double standard, if she were prosecuted for gross negligence. >> so the former secretary of state, one evof the president's most important advisers on foreign policy and national security had a server in her

basement which had information that was collected from our most sensitive assets, and it was not protected by anyone, and that's not a crime? that's outrageous. >> the bureau investigating tens of thousands of cases. the director only gets involved in a very small number of them. >> how about how many? >> i think i've been deeply involved in probably 10 to 20. >> have you ever been called before congress on any of those other decisions? >> no, this is the first time. >> so you're suggesting that a long length of time that she had no idea what a classified marking would be? that's your sworn testimony today? >> what's your question, congressman? >> well, again, i want to know who counselled you -- >> look me in the eye and listen to what i'm about to say. i did not coordinate that with anyone -- the white house, the department of justice, nobody outside the fbi family had any idea what about i was about to say. i say that under oath, i stand by that.

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today's hearing is political theater. that's not even the pretense of trying to get at the truth. this is a desperate attempt under an extraordinary set of circumstances, an emergency hearing. i don't know what the emergency is, other than one side is about to nominate somebody who is a pathological narcissist, who is talking about banning muslims and mexicans crossing the border who are all rapists, and women who are pigs, and terrified at the prospect of the consequences of that in the election. so let's grab on to whatever we can to discredit or try to discredit the other nominee. and you took away their only

hope. and so the theater today is actual trying to discredit you. >> that was virginia democratic congressman jerry connelly today just over an hour into james comey's five-hour testimony, calling the whole spectacle political theater. joining us, jerry connelly, one of the congressman who question the fbi director today. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> great to be with you. >> you're calling it political theater. so let's great the performances here. what did you think of the performance of james comey today? >> he gets an a. they didn't lay a glove or a finger on james comey. and he walked out of that room with his integrity and honor intact. >> so you have no problem with his credibility here. i guess the question is, if you don't believe hillary clinton should have been prosecuted, do you believe that some of the things he said in terms of

calling her reckless with her handling of this, do you have any concerns based on that testimony from him? >> well, that's a matter of opinion. that's verbiage. i believe in facts facts show we had a very active secretary of state who believe it or not was doing more than sitting in her bathrobe going through e-mails. she was in this time period, four years, reversing the foreign policy catastrophe of a previous bush administration. she visited over 100 countries. i think she traveled a million miles and she's communicating while trying to do all of that and she might have been just a little bit preoccupied. did she pay as much attention to the process and the correct protocol in the use of e-mails, no neither did her predecessor colin powell or koms. rice.

>> one of the themes i think of the question from republicans here, if there's a double standard and at one point, comey, the fbi director said, look, if one of my agents did what hillary clin clinton did that agent would not be prosecuted. he added that agent would face consequences. he suggested they could be termination, could be the loss of security clearance. do you think short of prosecution, do you think there should be some consequence here for hillary clinton. >> i'm not going to concede that, first of all, hillary clinton is not an fbi agent. secondly we're talking about by his own testimony, tens of thousands of e-mails. we're talking about a handful in question that dubious merit here and even if admitted that the state department changed his mind on some of those so-called classifications, that which indicated confidential has been retrieved, it's no longer

confidential. so what was she suppose to do? there was no crime here. it's not even a matter of crime. this, the republicans are holding on to this, as i said in my questioning, for dear life because that's all they've got as they face arfagedden with trump. >> we've seen the poll numbers out there, it's been around for years, frankly, when it comes to hillary history and trump. she's still leading so maybe voters are making some kind of judgment, she did say she didn't receive or send any classified materials. the numbers are relatively small, the fbi director says said 110 e-mails did have classified information in them. >> she said, to my knowledge, i did not send any classified e-mails. the head of the fbi, unusually

want to talk about double standard, how does he get involved on a case, very rarely? he found no intentional or willful evasion of the law or violation of the law. so maybe we can give her the benefit of the doubt. she's a busy person who inadvertently processed some small handful of e-mails out of tens of thousands that might have had a status that otherwise would have been class fied. >> to be clear. he said there were 110, 110 e-mails. i think it was 52 chains of e-mails. she spent a year assuring the country, i mean, the direct quote here from the most recent democratic vote, she said i never sent or received any classified material. that isn't accurate? isn't that something we did learn from the investigation. >> after the fact we did. here is the question. the inference to be drawn even from your question, steve, that

was deliberate. that's not what the fbi found. if they thought for a second that she had done that deliberately, they would have brought charges against her, that was quite clear. they weren't going to give her the benefit of the doubt and they found no such. i think we have to take a deep breath here and we're making a mountain out of a mole hill because it's hillary clinton. it's hillary clinton and there is a double standard. >> germy connolly, a member of the committee. thanks r your time. >> thank you, steve. >> all right, we'll be right back. and when millions couldn't get health care, this first lady worked with republicans and democrats to fix it. creating the children's health insurance program, so that every child gets the health care that child deserves to have. now eight million kids are covered. that's the kind of leader she is.

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and you are looking right now at the protests happening in new york city tonight. this is demonstrators continue to rally against the resent police shootings, two this week. we've seen rallies tonight in atlanta, in seattle, protesters also shutdown major streets in philadelphia and we've seen demonstrations in dallas and we're expecting a large protest in oakland, california, that's suppose to begin any minute here. just ahead, lawrence o'donnel is going to be interviing a family, that's the most recent shooting victim in minnesota. >>

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vote to narrow a list of potential leaders down to the final two, and the final two are both women, either home secretary theresa mae or energy minister andrea will replace out going david cameron. the only other woman to lead britain was margaret thatcher, she served for 11 years, the final results are going to be in a vote on september 9th. that's going to do it for us. it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnel. >> good evening, steve, thank you very much. change has been too slow, that's what president obama said tonight about police misuse of deadly force. he wasn't talking about the many justified killings when officer's lives are being threatened, he was talking about the bad shootings, the ones we can all agree shouldn't have happened, the ones that were, at best, a mistake, at worst, a crime. change has been too slow.