tomorrow he is set to reveal details on his signature issue and his campaign says he'll go after donald trump. will trump abandon his deportation policy that is based, clearly, still supports. it's primary tuesday, voting under way at senators john mccain and marco rubio, as well as congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz fight for their political lives. we'll take you to the ground fight in all of those states. and new this morning, maine's embattled republican governor, paul lepage, says he's considering resigning. this new development comes amid mounting pressure from democrats and members of his very own party over a threatening voicemail the governor left to one of his opponents. we'll have that coming up for you, as well. good morning, everyone, i'm tamron hall. coming to you live from our msnbc headquarters in new york. we begin with a new look at where voters stand now with 70 days to go before the presidential election. our new nbc news survey monkey weekly tracking poll shows the race is narrowing again slightly, clinton with a six-point lead nationally over

donald trump, 48-42. that is, by the way, down from an eight-point lead last week, and a nine-point lead the week before. we are one day away from what could be a make or break moment for trump's campaign, what he himself is calling, a quote, major speech on the core issue of his campaign. immigration. that speech is happening tomorrow night in phoenix, arizona. it was postponed from the originally scheduled speech that was supposed to happen in colorado last week. the big challenge, though, for trump, will he walk back his vow to deport the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants and betray his base? his surrogates, including his campaign manager, kellyanne conway and mike pence have been struggling to answer that for days. >> he's going to lay out with great specificity his commitment to ending illegal immigration in this country. >> i can say there are many tenets to his plan. i think they're incredibly important for everyone to

remember. build a wall, which has been the signature of his campaign since practically day one. that's there. no amnesty, no legalization, no sank area cities. ful. >> no amnesty. >> no amnesty, and he will talk about those who committed a crime leaving immediately, enforcing a law and talk about the 11 million as he said on a different network last week. >> why can't answer whether he is in favor of a deportation. >> he hasn't talked about that a very long time. >> is he in favor of it or against it? >> he hasn't talked about it for a very long time and you have to wait until wednesday. >> the surrogates' job tougher this week after donald trump flip-flopped multiple times. here's a bit of what trump has said over the past few days since declaring last november he would create, a, quote, deportation force to deport america's 11 million undocumented immigrants. >> we are going to have a deportation force and you're

going to do it humanely. there certainly can be a softening, because we're not looking to hurt people. >> you have used the word softening. >> i don't think it's a softening. >> but 11 people. >> it's a hardening. we're going deport many, many people. >> so if you haven't committed a crime and you have been here for 15 years and you have a family here, you have a job here, will you be deported? >> we're going to see what happens once we strengthen up our border. we're going to build a great wall on the border and institute nationwide e verify, stop illegal immigrants from excessive welfare and develop an exit entry system it to ensure those who overstay their visas they're quickly removed. >> nbc's hallie jackson joins us live now from trump tower here in new york. so hallie, the question is, who has donald trump's ear regarding this speech tomorrow or will we hear simply what he has planned,

put aside all of the input from his team? >> reporter: let me split that into a couple different chunks. first of all, who has his ear. i think it's the influence of his current campaign manager, the people that have been installed in place over the last couple weeks. also, hispanic leadership advisory council he has pulled together. by several accounts, trump has taken in some of these comments from his advisers, some of his surrogates when it comes to issues that are important to the hispanic community. and has listened to them. this is something that trump sometimes will do. he will take something in, he will listen to it, possibly begin to shift on policy, and right now there is that big question mark when it comes to the deportation force. i want to get to the second part of your question of what we might hear from donald trump in this speech tomorrow night. i think largely, you are going to hear him go after hillary clinton. i was told that by a campaign adviser last night. reitated again by a different source this morning that he is going to hit clinton hard on quote, unquote, amnesty. i expect that donald trump will go after her for what is being

phrased by the campaign as unprecedented policies when it comes to immigration enforcement. remember, this has been a cornerstone, one of the bed rocks of donald trump's campaign for the last 14 months. on the issue of the deportation force, does he have it, does he not, what does he do with an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living here and on deportation forces, he's rul referring to the current immigrations and customs enforcement agents that exist. talking about i.c.e. that was an interesting new line for me to hear and i think for others to hear, as well. because donald trump himself has not made that explicitly clear and i.c.e. deals with undocumented immigrants who also committed other crimes. i will be curious to see how trump delineates this tomorrow night after comments from his new campaign adviser, ankkellya conway who says, hey, he hasn't talked about deportation forces in months. we do expect to hear trump talk

more about entry/exit forces. i think at the beginning of the speech you are going to hear fire away at hillary clinton, trying to stick to the message he has been making for weeks now. >> thank you. sara huckabee sanders, thank you very much for joining us. >> good morning. great to be here. >> thank you. who is influencing donald trump, the most, regarding this immigration speech tomorrow? >> oh, i think in large part, it's the american people. one of the big differences that you have between donald trump and hillary clinton is that he's not afraid, one, to go out and talk to the american people or to the press and takes a lot of things he hears and he makes his own decisions. donald trump has always been his own person but very willing to listen to the american people and that's why i think he would make a good president and why i think he is starting to close the gap on hillary clinton in recent polls we have seen over the last couple days. >> but i think if you look at the polling, you would say what

portion of the american public is he listening to? when you look at polling, for example, there is support for comprehensive immigration reform, the support for the so-called wall has lessened. and i ask that because i want to play this moment from rush limbau limbaugh's show yesterday, someone who was very in a rage that donald trump supporter, i guess at one point in time who now feels betrayed. let's play what he said. >> you're doing a disservice to all of us republican primary voters who didn't vote for trump that are struggling with whether or not to vote for trump, when you diminish the impact of the single policy he ridiculed all other candidates for for over a year. >> and the first place, i don't think trump has actually changed that much from what he said. i never took him seriously on this. >> but 30 million or 15 or 10 million people did. >> yeah, and they still don't care. my point, they still don't care.

they're going to stick with him, no matter what. burchlts this is why trump is going to get annihilated. >> so sara, this man said he did not vote for trump but was debating whether or not to vote for trump. he now believes he's going to get annihilated. this has been his single issue, why you and others have said donald trump changed the primary game in discussing immigration. and here we are, still unclear, even his advisers on what his plan is. >> look, i don't think donald trump has changed his position at all. he has been extremely clear and extremely consistent. he said from day one, we're going to build a wall. that hasn't changed. he said from day one that there wouldn't be amnesty. that hasn't changed. he said he would end sanctuary cities. that hasn't changed. he has said these things time and time again. you put that in contrt to hillary clinton, who wants to open our borders, give amnesty and has support for sanctuary cities. that's the thing voters are going to look at and when you put those next to each other,

donald trump wins hands down, and i think that issue is a winning issue for him and one of the reasons he's win in november and has been very consistent on the big parts of that policy. >> the big part of the policy, hillary clinton agrees she would deport violent criminals, terrorists, anyone who threatens our safety, supported measures, including 2013 bipartisan senate immigration bill that would have allowed those living in the united states illegally who committed fewer than three misdemeanors, not including minor traffic violations to stay and also the bill that supported our barred convicted felons from becoming legal residents or citizens. that has been her platform where she stood. donald trump and you heard the sound there, clearly as anyone watching this television program right now who said he would have a deportation task force. now we know the campaign refers to i.c.e. the bottom line, the majority of those 11 million people we're talking about are not felons. what will happen to those

people? >> i think donald trump is planning to outline that and you're going to hear a lot of specific details on that in his speech tomorrow night. and i am certainly not going to spoil that for you. because i think you should tune in. but what i do know, that is very direct contrast, hillary clinton may want to get rid of dangerous criminals, but also wants to open up the border so others can come in. she wants to keep sanctuary cities and has support for that. donald trump doesn't want that. he has a radical amnesty plan that would make the problem we already have infinitely worse. those two plans and those two policy stand points could not be more different. and i think that's what voters need to look at on election day in november. i think they will, and i think that's why donald trump will beat hillary in november. she has no plan to -- >> president obama and hillary clinton in saying that he would uphold the rule of the law. the bottom line, this is the essence of the question, sarah, 11 million undocumented people in this country. donald trump has said he would deport them.

he also said he could provide a legal status, not amnesty, not forgiving them being here illegally, but provide a legal status. if he does not keep to what he said on "morning joe" again in that video you heard, is he betraying his base? if he does not keep that specific part, not hillary clinton's plan, i'm asking you about donald trump. >> not at all. donald trump has been very focused on first, we have to secure the border. look, when you have a leak, you don't clean up the water first. you plug the leak before you deal with the water. that's exactly what donald trump is going to do and what he said he's going to do from day one. you have to prioritize these things, number one, he will secure the border. and that contrast is what is so imperative. our national security is at risk by not doing that. and then the second parts of that plan will be dealing with the 11 million people, priority number one in that would be to get rid of dangerous criminals. i think all of america can agree that should be the number one priority. and then dealing with those as

we get the border secure. until that's done, you can't even think about anything else. >> but sarah, is a wall a pivot though? and i ask you this, because obviously in the next 77 days, a wall cannot be build. he will say i will build a wall. you continue to say that as other politicians have said, for example, they won't raise taxes and then famously raise taxes. so the wall can be a smokescreen, because it is not something that can happen in the next 77 days, and then if he's elected he can go back on that pledge and that promise. but the core, again, of his immigration plan, the cheers were when he would say -- was when he would say, excuse me, 11 million people will be out of this country. he's even gone so far as to say removed from this country. >> look, and i think he's going to detail out exactly what his plan for those 11 million people is tomorrow night. and i've said that. but i think what we do know is

he's define consistent on the other really big parts of his immigration plan. and that in contrast to hillary clinton is the big thing that voters are going to be voting on. again, he's going to address that 11 million issue tomorrow night. i encourage you to tune in and see exactly what he says about that. but the big, big issue is who is going to secure the border, who is going to protect our national security, who is going to protect american workers, and who is going to protect american jobs. and that's donald trump. not hillary clinton. >> the big deal for his campaign for the past 14 months, has really been what will happen with the 11 million undocumented, that he vowed it at the beginning of his campaign would no longer be in this country through efforts that he would take with the deportation task force. let me transition to the tweet sent out bypass to pastor mark . let's put up the tweet. it shows hillary clinton in blackface, he has apologized for this. black americans, thank you for your votes in letting me use you again, see you again in four

years. pastor burns on with roland martin from tv 1. here's what he said. >> pastor burns, as we were talking, for your apology, was this asked for by the trump campaign, would you make it on your own? >> absolutely not asked by the campaign. not at all. >> sarah, knowing that donald trump is going into detroit, why did the campaign choose not to get involved with this and let pastor burns know this is not where the candidate wants to stand, especially given his last few weeks of courting the african-american vote? >> well, look, i think pastor burns is an incredible person and i think mr. trump certainly is thankful for his support and efforts he has made on his behalf. but that doesn't take away from the efforts that donald trump is making, and going into the african-american community and talking to those voters, listening to those voters and trying to tell them why he would

make better opportunity for them than hillary clinton. and i think that's the big point of his focus and that's where he is going to continue to keep it. >> all right. thank you, sarah, for your time. we greatly appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. joining me, democratic congressman from arizona, initially backed bernie sanders and now supports hillary clinton. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you, tamron. appreciate it. >> let me get your response to sarah huckabee's comments and the campaign of donald trump over all the last 24 hours that hillary clinton is softer on immigration, that she plans to allow more violent people or not get some of those out who have committed felonies, contrast is going to be his speech tomorrow against hillary clinton. >> well, it's the same political grab bag on immigration that she's bringing up and saying over and over again. the attacks on people that are rational about solving the problem and the issue of immigration in this coury is

always to say therefore open borders, therefore amnesty, therefore allowing terrorists and criminals to come into the country unabated. and, you know, trump running as the strong man in this election, is going to obviously attack hillary on issues that are not real. they're not factually correct. they are not policy correct. and but that's -- that's been the game plan. i mean, the propellant for his whole primary victories and his continuing run for the presidency for trump, the propellant was immigration and immigrants, muslim bans, demeaning and the bigotry around comments about mexicans and immigrants in general. that's been the propellant. and now i don't see him softening, i don't see him moderating. i don't see him taking a step back. i just think it's unfortunate and become even more cynical than it was at the beginning and more damaging as it was in the

beginning when he started his whole campaign built around it's us versus them and he identified who them was and has been running ever since. >> which is why i think some people with the argument you made and that you believe are still missfied why the race, at least in the polling, it appears to be still very, very close. you also have the "new york times" editorial today asking why the clintons should cut ties to the clinton foundation. they s the clinton foundation has become a symbol of the clintons laudable transitions and the alliance opacity. the bottom line, when you look at polling it appears the clinton foundation lack of transparency here. do you believe it is time for them to do something different? >> yeah, i do. and i think that there is a lot at stake in this election and i think if anybody knows that it

is secretary clinton and the strength she has been speaking to is powerful and certainly has my support. but we have got to get rid of extraneous issues and if this foundation is he an extraneous issue whether it's the heart or trust or transparency, then get rid of it. there is so much on the table right now for the american people and for the future of this nation that extraneous issues such as the foundation which if that is something that needs to be cut off, then it should be cut off. >> i think that's a big statement from you. we heard very few supporters of hillary clinton and especially democrats in office say that. so we appreciate you coming on. thank you so much. >> let's go to kristen welker covering the clinton campaign. you have him now saying they should shut down that foundation one thing for the "usa today" to

say it, here is a supporter seeing potential smoke and fire. >> reporter: you have a number of reporters, tamron, saying the clinton campaign, the clinton family needs to go further in terms of distancing themselves from the clinton foundation. here's what they have announced. that if secretary clinton is elected president, all foreign donations, all donations from large corporations would stop. the "new york times" today saying "go a little bit further. cut off the ties right now. and make sure that bill clinton and also chelsea clinton step down." because remember chelsea clinton saying she plans to continue with the foundation. let me read a little bit more of that editorial, tamron. it says if mrs. clinton wins it could prove a target for her political adversaries. it's not only necessary to ensure its effectiveness, it is an ethical imperative for mrs. clinton. i have reached out to the clinton campaign to see if they have any reaction to see if they will take this to heart. and actually go a little bit further.

no response yet. but there is no doubt that this does feed into exactly what you were talking about, which is secretary clinton's struggles in terms of earning trust. our latest survey, monkey poll shows she leads donald trump by six points but that's down from the eight-point lead she had last week. >> kristen welker, thank you very much. congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz facing re-election battles today. how the presidential race is impacting the primaries today at we are watching. we've got live reports on the ground. plus, are russian hackers trying to break into voter databases in arizona and illinois? the nationwide warning coming from the fbi. and the latest polls showing a majority of voters still dislike both donald trump and hillary clinton. we'll have the very latest on those poll numbers when we assemble a panel to discuss. we'll be right back.

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it's being called the primary palooza. three important races in two key states. the results could show just how big of an effect donald trump and even bernie sanders have on the state of play in congressional races. moments ago, senator john mccain and his wife cindy cast their ballots in today's arizona senate primary. mccain expected to defeat his republican challenger today, former arizona state senator kelley ward, who continued to attack mccain's age in an interview with stephanie rhule this morning. marco rubio also on the ballot today, too expected to beat his primary challenger, florida businessman carlos beruf and debbie wasserman schultz fighting in her primary against tim canova who is endorsed by, as you might recall, bernie

sanders back in may. we have all these races covered. first we do to kelly o'donnell covering scenarenator mccain to. how is the environment there for senator mccain even though he is up in the polling last week. >> reporter: certainly, his challenger is a trump supporter. there has been kind of a tepid back and forth between trump himself and senator mccain, each supporting the other, but not talking about each other very much. and it is a place where immigration is a big issue, concerns about all of the things that have ignited a lot of the trump voters. so for john mccain, he wants to be certain that he kind of is careful to not alienate those voters, needs to get through this primary today. big challenge from kelly ward, a polling shows him way out front, but she has been a vocal critic as you referenced. we saw mr. and mrs. mccain after they cast their ballots and ward

attacking him about age. notice what mccain talked about when he greeted supporters a while ago. >> you can see we have been inspired by so many of our young interns. well over 200 of them that have been working incredible hours. and getting out the vote. and that's why we're very confident about the outcome today. and we look forward to moving for the election in november. >> reporter: so there were a few dozen young people for mccain here cheering in the parking lot as he arrived, giving some of the campaign atmosphere, as mccain noted, assuming he gets through the primary today and kirk patrick, the democrat, getting a lot of attention, because democrats look at arizona as a possible pickup for the senate, and a place where hillary clinton may perform well, also. so money will be flowing into this race. tamron? >> and just a followup here. it was revealed yesterday that russian hackers targeted

arizona's election system. this may also have happened in illinois. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, we don't have any reports about the extent of that. what i can tell you is early voting is a big piece here. so one question would be, would they have had any access to votes that have already been cast. because voters are able to do that here. it's a primary day, but especially given the heat and the conditions of voting in advance is popular in arizona. and so we'll have to see what the secretary of state can tell us, if anything, when the votes are tallied tonight about any possible intrusion. >> thank you very much. msnbc's kasie hunt covering senator rubio's primary. an interesting turn of events for senator rubio over the past year. and here we are, out with this battle for him. >> reporter: that's right, tamron. if looks for a long time like senator rubio had no interest in remaining senator rubio. after he lost the presidential primary to donald trump, he

changed his mind. so here we are today running against carlos beruf in some ways a tramp style candidate. rubio all but ignored him expected to face patrick murphy in the general election this fall. and, of course, the challenge here for rubio is to potentially, if trump loses here in fro, run ahead of trump to hang on to the seat. this is going to be one of the centers of national attention. watching in particular whether rubio can appeal, say, to hispanic voters in a way that's more effective. we just talked to one republican voter who went in here and voted for rubio in the primary. but who has no interest in voting for donald trump this fall. rubio, of course, has had some challenging times defending the things he said about trump during the primary. he says he stands by all of them, including that line where he called donald trump a con man. tamron. >> all right, kasie. msnbc's alex seitz-wald also in florida for us, covering representative debbie wasserman

schultz, like marco rubio, an incredible turn of events in their political careers over the past year. what's the latest on her race, given bernie sanders' possible influence? >> reporter: right, tamron. this race really became a proxy war for bernie sanders against debbie wasserman schultz, the former chairwoman of the dnc who they say did not handle the democratic primary well. her opponent tim canova, anti establishment, raised close to $4 million, a huge sum, a lot of that were bernie sanders' supporters across the country. but wasserman-schultz representing the district for 12 years, her first primary, involved in florida politics long before that, a deep well of support. so the question is really how much that time at the dnc, the bad headlines that came out this summer for her are going to influence people. a lot of voters aren't paying too much attention to it, though they do know it. ahead about 12 points, canova saying the polls miss his

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strategist jamal simmons. jamal, if we had two other candidates, would the poll be similar? does that reflect the candidates are where we are as americans? >> both hillary clinton and donald trump are two of the most popular people to ever run for president at the same time. and they have very form impressions from the american people. so it's just a tough election. the reality, though, people trust you for different reaches in the militant of middle of a presidential campaign. they may trust you to babysit their kids but may not trust you to run the country or vice versa. some have decided hillary clinton is the one who will lead the country and keep us safe while donald trump could take us over a cliff we can't recover from. >> david, when you look at this poll, some of the movement on hillary clinton's side may have something to do with views of the clinton foundation and the donors. 54% believe that they were given special treatment. 26% think nothing out of the

ordinary. 20% have no opinion. again, this idea that these donors were given special treatment. it's as if no one has paid attention to how perhaps washington works, meetings, anything of that nature. that may sound cynical. but -- is it not true. >> the details of the most recent story, which had nothing in it, about trading favors, just that she met with people, including many people you would expect her to meet with. nobel prize winners and such. it seems to me that every couple weeks a story comes out raising issues about hillary clinton, and we see a dip or two, a point or two in the polls and then it goes back to what it was. while donald trump has literally decades' worth of controversies that get to his -- issues of personal integrity, as well. this was a guy who had to pay -- people don't even know this, had to pay the justice department, $750,000 for a -- when they went after him for something akin to insider trading.

i mean, he's done this again and again. the consent decree on housing, cited by the s.e.c. for lying about profits at the casinos. and yet these things bubble up about hillary every couple weeks, and we're just going to see more of these stories. but jamal is right. we have two very unpopular candidates, and they're unpopular for different reasons and they're both not considered trustworthy. for a different set of reasons. >> jamal, when you look at some of the things that david just pointed out and if you go all the way back to the beginning of the primary when people started to hear about trump university and all of the scandal involved with that, we are though now on the eve of donald trump's immigration speech. and, you know, we had sarah huckab huckabee-sanders on who said that donald trump has been consistent. that is just not true. she can say t anyone else can say t it's just not true. what his motivations are for changing, we don't know. we have an idea. but it's not true that he's been consistent. >> it is not true he has been consistent. you can say, well, he's

consistent about a wall, but that depends on how you define wall. if you define wall as lasers and helicopter flights, not a structure, maybe that is consistent. the reality is, it's not really the same thing and we don't have policy from donald trump. we have speech text. this is not the same thing as a policy, you can't go to his website and download it, can't have experts pull it apart and compare it, one thing to another. and until we begin to get policy from donald trump, it's hard to even know what he really truthfully believes in. anyone of us who had to write an op-ed, memo, it forces you to have a certain level of discipline about what is your saying, because you've got to be able to back it up and prove it. he doesn't do that. >> back it up and prove it -- looking at the polls and how close this race is right now, are we in the policy-free general election? will these -- this be a part of the analysis or the autopsy after this is over? no matter who wins? >> you know, tamron, it looks like we're not in a policy-free part of the election, because

donald trump is losing, consistently throughout all of the polls. i think the american people have gotten the joke. this guy can't really be trusted with the white house. now, they may not like hillary clinton for a voter of reasons and may not all vote for her. but it's clear they're not all voting for donald trump for president either. >> david, let's talk about the big debate here, the "new york times" is saying that hillary clinton's advisers are talking to donald trump's ghost writer of the "art of the deal," which -- this is really going to be interesting thing. they have also -- they're getting some advice from a psychology expert. >> yeah. >> to help create a personality profile of donald trump to gauge how he may respond to attacks and deal with a woman as his sole adversary on the debate stage. the ghost writer on its own, i mean -- listen, he spent more time with donald trump probably than anyone. we know that trump likes to sue people, particularly those who write books about him. what do you think is in his mind when he reads that? >> in his mind, i'm going to do great.

i'm going to do great. i don't have to prepare. i'm going to be me. i mean, this is a guy who -- if you listen to his speeches, closely, particularly the ones not on a teleprompter, he can't carry through on a thought for more than ten seconds, seems to have a version of adhd, and doesn't know policy details. he can't even talk convincingly about his own policy at the core of his campaign about immigration. >> but they say in the other bts debate when you would see the scoring, minus maybe the drudge report, a balanced views of it was that he beat out 16 other seasoned debaters. >> well, and those debates were interesting, because at any point that attention was focused on him, he could deflect to make a jab, usually a school yard type jab at another candidate. one-on-one, he's going to have to show some mastery of substance or policy or faceder rigs. >> all right, david, thank you, jamal. great pleasure seeing you, as well. thanks, gentlemen.

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in front. then that brings us to three more potential pick ups on states that seem to be determined by the presidential contest. and those are in places like pennsylvania as well as new hampshire and north carolina. so that gets you to six seats. and then we end up having four additional seats that we kind of put in the landslide, if somehow the bottom just falls out for the republicans, you can end up seeing races like ohio, florida, as well as arizona being able to be won by the democrats. the one bright part -- good news for republicans is in the state of nevada. that's also a state where the presidential contest might end up playing a very big role in who wins that seat. and republicans, that is their one big pickup opportunity on this map. >> all right. thanks for running down the numbers. we need to get you back in front of the boards though. >> i can't wait, tamron. absolutely. >> we'll be right back with today's born in the usa. they feel good?

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extremely expensive to give cleeb food to the table for families. this is a sweet treat that happens to be clean. >> absolutely. and that was part of the strategy starting out was, you know, trying to make a real whole food treat for people. you know, what i was finding out there was full of high fructose corn syrup, natural flavors even, and i wanted to make something that was made with whole ingredients. i don't have, you know, a food science background. i know, you know, fresh juices. that's where the idea came from. using organic ingredients, local ingredients, whenever we can, we're based in austin, texas, there's a lot of great produce in texas. and fair trade ingredients as well. >> you mentioned fair trade ingredients. that's something that people are becoming more aware of and how people who are producing our foods are treated and not just the big companies that end up benefitting when we're willing to shell out a few bucks for.

>> fair trade is one of the main pillars. it's how we differentiate ourselves, it was more about the ingredients, it was about doing good and not just for the local communities that, you know, support us, but also for the farmers. and so that's where fair trade come in. >> i know you reached out to communities when there's been devastation because you want to be more than a brand that we can assume you again want to be part of the community, part of the lives both good and bad when things happen. >> yeah, i think being at this day and age, it's not enough to have good ingredients. you have to have a conscious mention. and nas what good pop is about. back in april, 2016, ecuador where we have 350 fair trade banana farmers that we get our bananas from and our banana cinnamon in order to, you know, help with the relief empts, we donated 1 dlarks for each case who in turn turned it into 6700

meals for people in need. >> that's remarkable success. congratulation i had only one complaint and you know it, daniel brought in boxes, but they're all empty. so, there you have it. i'm going to go to the store and purchase some just to celebrate your company and your success and all your employees. congratulations, this is remarkable. >> thanks tamron, we'll bring you -- >> nothing is too small. we'll be right back. ♪ using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework... wire... and plants needed to give my shop... a face... no one will forget. see what the power of points can do for your business. learn more at chase.com/ink

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>> but the picture is designed to draw attention to the very fact that hillary clinton do pander out to black people. she do pander. >> psychological warfare at hillary clinton prepares for her first show down with donald trump, how important is to to get under his skin? and log off with donald trump promising to clarify his position on immigration tomorrow. his new campaign manager isn't giving any hints. >> why can't anybody in the campaign answer the question whether he's in favor of a deportation -- >> he hasn't talked about that in a very long time -- >> so is he in favor of of it against it? >> he has not talked about that in a very long time. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a senr campaignerson says they will not back away from mark burns who