held. let's cool all the talk this weekend of being the traditional start of the campaign because let's think of this as the traditional start of an enjoyable final three-day weekend until thanksgiving when we do recognize the contributions of american workers. see you tuesday. hopefully i will also see you sunday. "with all due respect" starts right now. i'm margaret. >> i'm john heilemann. with all due respect to summer, adios, amigo. on this special edition, special taco edition "with all due respect," we look back at this wild summer in presidential politics and look forward on what's sure to be an equally rollicking fall campaign. the fbi released notes into its now closed investigation into hillary clinton's er-mail practices as secretary of state.

much of what is in these 58 pages has already been reported but there are a few things we did learn. the fbi for instance says clinton told investigators she didn't know what the "c" markings identifying confidential information stood for. this afternoon the trump campaign put out a statement about clinton saying the fbi notes quote reinforce her tremendously bad judgment and dishonesty, end quote. margaret, this story has been around for a long time. this is another beat in it. politically speaking, does the report change anything? >> there's no smoking gun as far as we can tell in this report. the problem for hillary clinton is not that it overwhelmingly changes the narrative but that it reinforces and further complicates the idea of -- that she was careless with this and her use of this was ubiquitous. hundreds of people potentially several hundred people at the state department knew of her address, multiple devices, 13 devices, mobile devices now in play, at least six when she was secretary of state.

this is fodder for donald trump to go after her further and just keeps the narrative on the story she wants to get away from. >> yeah. i think all that's true. i just say you have the trump campaign puts out a press release that says there are ten things we learned from the fbi report and all of them are, some of them are interesting, some less interesting, but none of them are not just not smoking guns. none of them are anything more than tiny, tiny incremental movements forward in the story. you look at the way the clinton campaign greeted this with, granted, it's the friday before labor day and not getting a lot of attention but they greeted it, brian fallon says we are happy to have this out, it's all good. you can usually tell how troubling a story is for the clinton campaign but how they react. this was not a defensive or freaked out reaction from them. it was there's nothing to see here. in this case there probably really isn't very much to see. >> if they are freaking out they are doing a good job of hiding it, for sure. >> they are not always totally good at that. let's now take a trip overseas

specifically to the russian port city of vladivostock. a wide-ranging interview with vladimir putin in which he denied any involvement in the computer hacks in these united states but he did throw some shade clinton's way, calling the leaked dnc e-mails a public service and suggesting clinton's nomination victory against bernie sanders wasn't quite on the up and up. >> translator: -- hacked the data from the campaign headquarters for mrs. clinton, the important thing is the content that was given, specifically that the campaign headquarters worked in the interest of one of the candidates, in this case mrs. clinton rather than equally for all of the democratic party candidates. >> the clinton campaign responded today with a statement that read in part quote, unsurprisingly, putin has joined

trump in cheering for interference in the u.s. election that is clearly designed to inflict political damage on hillary clinton and democrats. margaret, the clinton people got that statement out pretty quickly. this is a big interview for our news organization. the clinton campaign jumped all over this interview. it does kind of extend i think the story line of the notion of putin may be in league with donald trump, at least in principle if not practice. colluding to put their thumb on the scale and try to get involved in this american election. how much do you think that these statements by putin further that story line and the extent to which you think the clinton campaign will try to play that to their advantage? >> i do think they will continue to try to play it to their advantage. once we get past this labor day hurdle, we will see a lot more focus on the economy and on domestic issues but when you see reports by henry kissinger who say they won't be endorsing in this race, when you look at all the republicans and national security experts who have raised

questions about donald trump, american attitudes about russia, about wikileaks and some of trump's provocative statements in the past, the clinton campaign thinks this is a winning talking point to talk about and to raise questions about, whether trump, because he's not the republican establishment, who is really representing who he's working for. they do think that's an effective tack. >> here's the reality. the reality is according to every computer expert that has ruled on this matter it seems like the dnc hacked leaked e-mails were hacked by russian security services or those affiliated with russian security services. it's been clear for a long time that vladimir putin prefers donald trump to hillary clinton. this is a pretty brazen thing he did in this interview. if we see as julian assange promised, if we see more e-mail, hacked e-mails that come out, especially really damaging ones, the question of what the involvement was of russia, how much putin really is trying to influence this american election is going to be a big question

this october and this is just kind of set the stage for what i think could be a very very explosive element of the fall campaign. all right. donald trump is heading to detroit tomorrow where he will visit a black church as part of his ongoing effort to reach out to minority voters. apparently his campaign's a little nervous about the trip. the "new york times" is reporting that trump's scheduled q & a with a local african-american pastor which will be recorded and released by the campaign or was going to be, has been entirely or was entirely scripted. the paper got its hands on eight pages of pre-approved questions and carefully worded answers that aides were proposing for trump, covering sensitive topics like police killings, racial tension and the perception among some black voters that trump is racist. after that "new york times" story was posted last night, the trump campaign said the nominee's plans had changed. he will apparently now address the church congregation for a few minutes after the q & a and also visit some neighborhoods around detroit with ben carson. so we have been talking about

trump's outreach to african-americans and minorities the past couple weeks. we understand the politics of it. it seems like every time trump takes a step forward, somehow he ends up taking three steps back. is this just the final prenail in the coffin on this potential effectiveness of this outreach effort? >> it's unclear whether he's actually really trying to pump up his numbers in terms of african-american supporters. this is to a large extent been about appealing to white voters in the center who are concerned that he isn't sensitive enough to racial issues, and the whole problem with scripted questions and answers is that it seems like a campaign ploy or campaign tactic rather than a genuine interest in getting to have a back and forth and understand the issues. i think he's probably put himself into a difficult corner here, if the audience that he's really trying to reach are that sort of centrist block of voters who don't like hillary clinton but are not convinced that he's

sensitive to these issues. >> look, if you have a surrogate as was the case with donald trump a couple days ago who puts out a tweet with hillary clinton in blackface, that's bad. this i think is worse in some respects, because i think you're right. we have talked about it a lot on the show. a lot of this minority outreach is about trying to reassure white college educated voters in suburban swing states that trump is not as racially insensitive as he has seemed at some times. this is sort of the ultimate tell. it's like i'm going to go, i'm going into the african-american community and i care so little about it and i'm so uncomfortable speaking to it that i need to have the entire event prescripted. for white college educated voters, what could be more offensive in some ways? it sort of speaks to the whole thing being a sham. i think that puts him in a deeper hole than one he started out with and that was pretty deep to begin with. >> once you get beyond all this, is it working in terms of his appeal to white voters? it's still the united states of america. you still can't win a general

election if that's all you have got. beyond that kind of core question of the center we are talking about comes, the question of african-american vote, hispanic vote, women voters. >> incrediblec dumb and condescending thing to do. when we come back, two west coast strategists weigh in on the presidential race. that conversation and more after these words. the lights go out. people get anxious and my office gets flooded with calls. so many things can go wrong. it's my worst nightmare. every second that power is out, my city's at risk. siemens digital grid manages and reroutes power, so service can be restored within seconds. priority number one is keeping those lights on. it takes ingenuity to defeat the monsters that live in the dark. ♪ using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework...

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welcome back. since i'm here in l.a. i figured i would catch up with two famed political strategists who live here. bob shrum and mike murphy, who ran jeb bush's super pac right to rise. we started out talking about what to expect from the final stretch of the general election. traditionally labor day is the start of the general election. this summer has felt like it started a long time ago. does labor day now mean anything? >> i think it's the end of the election. i think we will look back and say this period from the republican convention, democratic convention, the

aftermath, the trump tweets, the attacks, is ridiculous performance this week on immigration first in mexico, then in phoenix. i think we will look back on it and say that's when the election was decided. he didn't have much of a chance to begin with, i don't think, but this was a really fateful period. >> you think the election's over? >> i do. >> you? >> i called him a zombie for a long time, politically dead, yet still moving. >> you called him that when he was competing with the people in the republican party including your guy and you were wrong then. >> in context, i said he will never be president of the united states. >> but you used the zombie thing when he was very much alive. >> no, no. i'm going to fight you on this. i use the zombie thing because i thought he would never make it to president. i didn't think he would win the nomination but you never know. i'm sure he wouldn't win the presidency. >> i take your point. i think it's right. the elections do get decided earlier and earlier. it was true in '12. it's probably true in this cycle. these things get set in stone.

beyond the debates, the post labor day period, is there any kind of meaning to that? we turned the corner, now there's going to be a different character to the campaign, a different texture to it? >> first it's clear trump is never going to pivot. i hate using the word. trump is going to be trump. he's going to keep tweeting, he's going to keep going off his prompter script. by the way, he is a zombie when he reads a prompter. he really doesn't know how to do it. he knows the crowd knows it and he goes off and says something crazy. he needs the debates. he desperate -- if there's anything he needs or could help him it would be that first debate. because he has to pass the threshold of acceptability as a potential president. and a potential commander in chief. i don't think he can do it. i think the debates could actually make his situation worse. for lord's sake, his idea of preparing is to sit around with chris christie or rudy giuliani and laura ingraham -- >> roger ailes. steve bannon.

that's a fun kind of sunday brunch crowd, right? >> he doesn't want to practice. >> ailes could help him but what i think will happen is trump will keep doing what trump has done. he will react to the daily news cycle and try increasingly maniacal things to try to make himself feel he's doing better in the polls which are his big touchstone of what he thinks is going on in the public polls, so he will just keep spinning along, ricocheting between ideas like this crazy trip to mexico. >> this is a big moment, the immigration speech, and the trip to mexico, as kind of a landmark thing. this is a key issue for him. they previewed it in a variety of complicated ways but they made a big deal out of it. this wasn't something that was kind of spontaneous moment. this wasn't -- they planned this speech, right? then he went and gave it. why -- i don't understand if he was going to end up in exactly the same place that he always was, why did this become such a big deal? >> because there are people inside his campaign who did want him to soften. there are people inside his campaign who understood that he

has no path to victory unless he moves on this issue, unless he gets some latino votes and unless, by the way, he reassures college educated voters, white voters who tend to vote republican, that he's reasonable on issues like this. so i think they went out, they spun the press, they said he's going to soften. >> he said it. he suggested it. hinted it. >> he suggested it after they planted the idea. i assume there was a huge fight inside the campaign and trump's end won. but it always wins. >> yeah. i think it's a mistake for the trump campaign to think there's any strategy or any plan. there's the daily whim of donald trump. so you have these advisers who will talk to the media which is built to receive this kind of information, oh, here's our clever narrative of change, we are going to shift the website to all pictures, whatever that is, but the media is trained to kind of bark at those cookies. trump, he's not on the same frequency. he's not checking with his

advisers what's the plan today. he's trying to figure out where to take the plane, the toy. so he's out doing whatever he feels like. >> to mississippi. >> wherever he feels like going. so there is no them there. there's just trump and these people flittering around him who are talking to reporters. >> we all agree, not a great summer for donald trump. didn't do much to advance his cause. has hillary clinton done anything affirmatively right or is she just strictly the beneficiary of his issues, problems, self-inflicted wounds? >> i think the democrats ran a great convention. i think from beginning to end, the convention was choreographed brilliantly. i don't think they could have predicted that the khans would give -- or mr. khan would give the most memorable consequential speech of the whole exercise. the other thing she's done that's very smart, she's obeyed an old political adage. never get in the way of a train wreck on the other side. she hasn't felt the need and this goes to what mike was saying, she hasn't felt the need to chase the daily headline. she does have an overall

strategic argument that she wants to make and they have been doing it. the other thing that they have done right, i think, is get out there with television advertising early, heavily and the critical states, go into places like arizona, open a field office in utah. i think they have had a pretty good summer. >> yet her unfavorable ratings are now almost at his level according to polls. she continues to have the overhang, there are questions about the e-mail, questions about the foundation. they won't go away. she -- maybe that's because the press harps on her according to the left, that's what they say. it seems to me they have done various mechanical things pretty well but she still remains an imperfect candidate. >> they are doing all the blocking and tackling right but that's the easy part. they are not doing -- >> don't tell your clients that. >> i'mank, that secret's out. but she could make her biggest

problems a lot less if she would go to a secret laboratory and get a contrition gene inserted into her gene code. she just digs in on some of this stuff much more than she should and she keeps creating this narrative which drives the can't trust hillary thing which is real. if it wasn't donald trump, a republican with some appeal, jeb bush, john kasich, would be beating her now. so i don't think they are doing that much to win but they are letting trump lose and he's sure doing a great job. >> so why is it still so tight in some of the really key battleground states if the thing is over, sign, sealed, delivered? >> north carolina is a very iffy proposition. obama carried it once, lost it once. it was going to be very narrow anyway. all the states you mentioned, she could win without carrying a single one of them because there are so man pay pathways for her. >> i don't understand why it's so close in nevada when she's up by eight or nine in virginia. what explains that? >> the main thing i learned in 28 years of reading polls for a

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you would tell him what truth that he needs to understand if he's ever going to have a chance of winning this election? >> that he's not going to win. >> i asked tyou to take it seriously. >> i would tell him he's not going to win and the way he conducts himself will have an enormous impact on how he's perceived the rest of his life, beginning tomorrow all the way through the concession speech where he can't stand up there and say it was rigged, i was robbed. >> right. it would never happen. >> i know. that's why i said fantasy. >> i will give you the absolute honest answer and it's a boring answer. i would say you lack the character to be president. you should drop out to save the party. >> debate prep. you would go to donald trump and say what? >> oh, this one's easy. you have got to stop acting on instinct. you actually have to learn what you are going to do in this debate. you got to have a strategy. you have to practice. you have to learn issues. he wouldn't do any of it.

>> no shouting, no bullying and try to present a picture of how everybody in america benefits from your presidency without anybody getting beaten up. >> your heart-to-heart with hillary clinton is what? the hard thing she does not yet get. >> you go out there and you seem to think that you are supposed to have a different persona when you are in public than when you are in private. the truth is, your private persona is pretty terrific. you got to let more and more of that show and be less guarded. >> you would tell her what? >> get out of the defensive crouch and keep stopping a bad actor on television pretending to be what you're not. tell your debate team the number one negotiation point is no audience. so trump is alone. take away his oxygen. third, start to debate with something well-written, not by you, you are a terrible writer, we all saw the speech. something well written and short that frames him as a bully on the first minute of the debate and puts him on his heels. >> one of the most colossal mistakes in american political history was richard nixon won the flip to decide who would ge

first in the first 1960 debate. he said i would like to go second because he was a high school college debater and thought i can refute anything he says. kennedy went out there and brilliantly set out his theme, his message, and nixon ended up just responding. i think what she does in the first minute is really critical. she sets the tone. >> should she, do you think she should play head games with him and try to get inside his head and make him blow up? is that a reasonable thing to have a candidate try to do? >> he will blow up if you start winning. no three-dimensional chess. i would put comedians on the road doing an insult comedy about trump two weeks before because he will see it. >> i know you both think trump is going to lose. there's some small percentage chance he wins. >> sure. black swan. >> what's the scenario that haunts you given that you don't want him to win, what's the scenario that haunts you, what kind of thing could happen that would allow the black swan to

flap its wings across the stage? >> the nightmare i have is a flying saucer lands and an enormous orange alien gets out and says bring us our king. and the ray guns come out. other than that scenario which is alcohol-infused, i would say some sort of late terrorist attack where there's a rage impulse and trump is the hammer. i think the other impulse would be sober leadership. i'm not at all sure it would cut the trump way. that at least if we have a paris style attack in chicago and atlanta simultaneously and there's a national fury at the right time is trump the instrument of rage and revenge. >> i think the problem with that is, a, that people might say we can't in this kind of volatile and dangerous situation rely on someone like donald trump and b, he would sort of prove that case. he did after orlando, he did after the shooting in chicago the other day by tweeting out see i told you so, i'm right, so that everything is about him,

never about the people who lose their lives. >> i have two really simple hard number kind of questions or hard name and number. who's the most valuable endorsement out there right now who you would want? >> i think colin powell would be a very valuable endorsement for hillary clinton. that may be a little problematic or seems to be a little tension there. i tell you, i don't know him very well. i know him a little. i can't imagine colin powell ever endorsing donald trump. >> i'm not a big believer in endorsements but if trump were put on sanity pills and somehow really pivoted and all the dreams of a new improved trump ever came true which i will bet heavily against, george w. bush saying okay, this guy can be president of the united states, it would have a huge impact. >> last, on the record right now here, the weekend before labor day, hillary clinton wins the election because you both predicted that already, with how many electoral votes? >> 348. >> how many? >> 326. >> wow. >> i just made that up.

>> that's relatively tight. that's got trump in the 200s. >> voters of illinois love amusement. no, i haven't tried to look at it because i just see him losing. i haven't tried to get into the details of the rubble. >> but neither one of you sees her, for example, surpassing barack obama's electoral votes? >> i think if trump keeps behaving this way, and she doesn't encounter a big bump in the road, she could win a lot more than 348 electoral votes. right now, he's not ahead in any battleground state that i know of. that's amazing. and arizona is a tie. >> he put some republican states in semi-play for them. >> our thanks to bob and mike. when we come back, a season of hot weather and hot takes after this. s a complex challenge. people want power. and power plants account for more than a third of energy-related carbon emissions. the challenge is to capture the emissions before they're released into t atmosphere. exxonmobil is a leader in carbon capture.

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congratulations. you survived your second, yes, second summer of trump. for us here at bloomberg politics the last couple months on the campaign trail flew by so fast we thought we would take a

moment on the eve of labor day weekend to reflect back on all the plots, sub plots and sub sub plots of the republican nominee's summer. >> if you are saying he can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism? >> no, i don't think so at all. he's a mexican. we're building a wall between here and mexico. >> many republicans are watching this in horror. >> claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. >> the condemnation of the speaker of the house of his own party's presumptive nominee is extraordinary. get used to it. there will be more of it. >> when i'm elected i will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there's a proven history of terrorism against the united states. >> i do not think a muslim ban is in our country's interest. i do not think it is reflective of our principles. not just as a party but as a country. >> right now the biggest thing going on in this presidential race is a lot of the media and a lot of republicans, mostly ones who don't want trump to win but including some who do, think that this thing is being cooked

right now in a way that will be difficult for trump to recover from. >> you know the republicans honestly, folks, our leaders have to get tougher. this is too tough to do it alone. but you know what, i think i'm going to be forced to. >> the notion that you can go it alone, that you can become the president of the united states as the nominee of the republican party with no help from anyone, it's all me, it's all going to be me, is not in touch with reality. >> donald trump used his signature line you're fired today. >> donald trump with a message for his campaign manager. you're fired. >> why did trump get rid of cory lewandowski? >> after months of tension having two people trying to run the campaign, bickering over personnel decisions, over how trump operates, et cetera, donald trump's children and some other advisers convinced him that this had to be done now. >> hillary clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the united states. >> i thought the themes trump

chose about changing washington, about the country not being able to rely on hillary clinton to change things, questioning her veracity, those were well chosen. i think he will keep those up. >> the billionaire presumptive republican nominee happened to be in the united kingdom today and reacted to the brexit news. >> i really do see a parallel between what's happening in the united states and what's happening here. >> saddam hussein was a bad guy, right? but you know what he did well? he killed terrorists. >> the saddam thing has gotten as much if not more attention than the stuff he said about hillary and her e-mail practices. >> it's the republican veep stakes speculation that has reached critical mass today. there are a lot of news outlets including cbs news reporting pence is the choice for trump. he is a steady influence, he's a policy guy. he's the opposite of trump in a lot of ways. that will reassure people. >> i have a great deal of respect for john mccain. >> you think he went too far? >> you could say yes. that's okay. you can say yes. >> clearly this man is not a

politician. >> for a lot of people, the performance of the two of them on "60 minutes" was cringe inducing in some ways. you have mike pence saying these things about various issues that he doesn't clearly believe. >> melania speech, flajrism. twitter says she copied michelle obama. >> this has set a lot of republicans back to being concerned about the competence of the campaign. they have done nothing to turn the page on a narrative which is killing them. >> stand and speak and vote your conscience. >> everyone here is still talking about the fallout from last night. ted cruz's endorsement-less speech. >> no doubt he hurt donald trump. >> i humbly and gratefully accept your nomination. >> i thought it was pretty good. i think it certainly ended the convention on a high note as compared to what they were facing the day before. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> there's no upside for donald trump to give ammunition to the democrats in this moment. >> gold star families of u.s.

service members killed in combat are now demanding an apology from the republican nominee who repeatedly tore into the appearance of captain khan's mother and father at the democratic convention. as if this wasn't enough trouble for donald trump, his campaign is dealing with a different controversy from over the weekend. >> he's not going into ukraine just so you understand. >> russia went into ukraine two years ago. it was in the news. this is not a head line you need to be an expert to know about. >> the campaign is in very good shape. we are organized. we are moving forward. >> make no mistake, while it could be worse, below the scenes, there is panic in the republican party. >> we are reducing your taxes from 35% to 15%. i am going to cut regulations massively. >> more than he really ever has in this campaign since the general election started, he said here's a coherent set of ideas that republicans and he hopes others can get on board with. >> if she gets to pick her

judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don't know. >> he loves to be a showman. he loves to joke. this is a joke that was not appropriate. >> i call president obama and hillary clinton the founders of isis. they're the founders. >> ratings challenged cnn reports so seriously that i call president obama and clinton the founder of isis and mvp. they don't get sarcasm? which might help explain his new campaign slogan. trump 2016, could i be any lower in the polls? >> donald trump has shaken up and expanded his senior staff with just three months left until election day. if kellyanne conway gets on the plane with trump, goes to events and keeps him focused, that improves his chances of winning. >> paul manafort, the trump campaign chair, out. >> my father just didn't want to have that distraction looming over the campaign and quite frankly, looming over all the issues hillary's facing right now. >> you're living in poverty. your schools are no good. you have no jobs. what the hell do you have to

lose? >> the nihilism of what do you have to lose, that's as arguments go, you have to hand it to trump for innovating. >> flew to mexico city for his first meeting with a foreign head of state. >> we did discuss the wall. we didn't discuss payment of the wall. that will be for a later date. >> we will build a great wall along the southern border. and mexico will pay for the wall. believe me. >> coming up, special with all due reflect on hillary clinton's summer when we come back. 'm thi, just by looking in my eyes. but what they didn't know was that i had dry, itchy eyes. i used artificial tears from the moment i woke up... ...to the moment i went to bed. so i finally decided to show my eyes some love,... ...some eyelove. eyelove means having a chat with your eye doctor about your dry eyes because if you're using artificial tears often and still have symptoms, it could be chronic dry eye. it's all about eyelove, my friends.

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the weather report in hillary land this summer was a little sunny, a little stormy, a little breezy and definitely heated. here for your viewing pleasure is a quick recap of clinton's summer non-vacation. >> i believe the person, the republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job. >> it was a sustained attack on trump. she showed that she could do it with humor and i would say elegance and despite what trump said about her, pretty good performance skills. last night, the associated press reported that according to their calculations, clinton had reached the mega-majestic magic number she needs to advance to the general election as her party's standard bearer. >> bridges are better than walls. >> she leaves this race now with a bigger head of steam than a lot of people expected that she would. >> democrats have more confidence in her performance abilities than they have had in

months. >> i'm fired up. i cannot wait to get out there and campaign for hillary. >> the coordination between this president and his chosen successor, is tighter on a staff level than anyone in modern history. >> the orlando terrorist may be dead but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. >> she's playing at a very high level now. i think she still has room to grow. her biggest weakness as i started to say is still the record. >> i have clearly said that we faced terrorist enemies who use a perverted version of islam to justify slaughtering innocent people. so if donald suggests i won't call this threat what it is, he hasn't been listening. >> economists on the right and the left and the center all agree, trump would throw us back into recession. >> i thought this was solid, sharp, strong and mid the case she wanted to make. not as effective i think as the

first one, the first speech, the foreign policy driven one. partly because that one had the element of surprise. >> i'm here today because i'm with her. yes, her. >> does she look to you off that event like hillary clinton's running mate? >> if hillary clinton was smart she would consider elizabeth warren seriously for this job. >> after more than two years and $7 million spent by the benghazi committee out of taxpayer funds, it had today reported it found nothing. >> republicans could not have played more into hillary clinton's hands and her campaign's hands on how do you investigate a clinton. the clinton campaign is getting blowback today for an ordinary and in another way, extraordinary private conversation on monday between bill clinton and the attorney general of the united states, loretta lynch. >> bad judgment, horrible judgment. >> this will add to the partisan tint on the decision in a way that was unnecessary. >> although we did not find

clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless. we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case. >> the story here is binary. indictment or no indictment. if hillary clinton was indicted or director comey suggested that criminal charges should be brought against or recommended that, this would be one of the worst days in hillary clinton's life. she might not be the democratic nominee and might not be president of the united states. >> please join me in welcoming the president of the united states, barack obama. >> hillary! hillary! >> the crowd here was in love with what they saw onstage and the clinton people were in lo when it, too. they think that's very powerful that he was once a critic of hers, now is a convert. they think that's a big powerful political plus. >> no reasonable prosecutor would bring the second case in 100 years focused on gross negligence. should have known, must have known, had to know, does not get

you there. >> hillary clinton i think won the day. comey helped her a lot. so did the republican committee who weren't ready to have the kind of strategy. wasn't as bad as benghazi hearing. they did not have the strategy. >> hillary clinton will make an outstanding president and i am proud to stand with her today. >> it's already a rocking, raucus convention and we are just getting started. supporters of sanders infuriated by the revelations brought to light by the dnc's wikileaks e-mail leak this weekend. >> can i just say to the bernie or bust people, you're being ridiculous. >> i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party for president of the united states. >> i accept your nomination. >> democratic convention made its total composition all of those speakers across those nights prosecuting that case and that frame is the reason why it

is more successful than the cleveland convention. >> director comey said my answers were truthful and what i said is consistent with what i have told the american people. >> this e-mail thing has taken a huge toll on hillary clinton. she's paid a big political price. >> these e-mails show a pattern of clinton doing exactly what the critics suggest which is moving stuff along so that everybody wins except in some cases, critics would argue, the american people. >> hillary understands that the most damaging thing to a parent is to look at a sick child or child in need and not be able to do anything. >> the biggest hole they need to fill quickly is around the clinton foundation. this has been something that has been teed up for years. the fact that the clinton campaign is still taking those foreign donations at this point seems highly questionable as a piece of strategy. >> today, the a.p. reported that more than half of hillary clinton's meetings with people outside of the government while she was secretary of state with individuals who gave money to the clinton foundation in some

way, it is clearly the case that if there is ever a quid pro quo that gets established where a donor asked for something and the state department changed foreign policy on that, it's going to be explosive. we don't have that yet. but there is still something seedy. >> donald trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. he is taking hate groups mainstream. >> they have gotten very good at flipping the bit, getting people to focus on trump because he gives them so much ammunition. >> you don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. you do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships. >> coming up, our most scintillating, fascinating summer interviews. mastery is a journey of continuous improvement.

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over the course of the summer we heard from a lot of different voices. politicians, writers, entertainers. here are some of our favorite moments from the past couple months. >> there are an incredible array of good stories in this book. what's the most relevant story in the book to understanding what's happening in 2016? >> you got to go to wallace in '68. just because wallace tapped into an anger and disappointment with regular blue collar workers and the elites, and got really at the crux of it which was that the fancy pants elites makes all these decisions that you pay for and we are not going to stand for it anymore. i feel like that is a very similar sentiment. then of course you get the idea that wallace was basically, the voters always said he speaks his mind. there was this sense that -- and the sense that wallace said something other people weren't. >> first presidential candidate i covered was bill clinton. i thought wow, presidential candidates are really interesting and great speakers and they work 20 hours a day. your first presidential candidate equally unusual. >> yes. >> trump. so give us the sense of your

article about what it's like to cover him day to day? >> it's a wild roller coaster ride or as i said in the article, a hurricane making land:fall on a daily basis. you never know what's going to happen with trump. you cover him. you could be doing one story up until 5:30 that day and 6:30 is when nightly news comes around and he will tweet something or say something that upends the entire process. i don't think i ever thought in my life that i would hear somebody running for president say that somebody else was schlonged. >> you will see more pop culture in politics, more in the movie business we call preaware titles move into the space. i think the voters after the trump thing are going to develop more of a filter where maybe a kardashian is not such a good idea but somebody who has done their homework like clooney on the left or gary sinise on the right could be an attractive candidate. >> if espn came to you and said make a long-form doc on o.j. simpson, you are not thrilled by that topic initially. what turned you around?

>> the idea that they came to me with this larger canvas which was we want to do five hours. as soon as i started thinking about the five hours part of it, what i was reluctant to do was a story about his guilt or innocence or regurgitation of the trial. as soon as it happened that i realized i had a bigger canvas to work with, i said oh, i can tell a story about l.a., about race in america and race in los angeles, about who o.j. was from a racial identity standpoint, story about the lapd, story about all these things that actually i am interested in and that i feel like have been overlooked in explaining the events of '94 and '95. >> if donald trump were not our nominee and hillary just had the last couple days like she did, our nominee would be up ten points. if hillary were not the nominee and there was another democrat running against a guy like trump, the democratic candidate would be up. right now we have two flawed

candidates. it's tragic for the republicans we are reminded of another missed opportunity that seems to be the theme of the cycle. >> evaluate how the convention has gone from foithe point of v of uniting the party behind donald trump. >> i think we're moving in the right direction. coming out of this week we will be largely united if not entirely. republicans don't make up the majority in this country any more than do democrats. we have to come out of here ready to appeal to moderates, independents and disaffected democrats. >> where are the people, the bernie people, stand now? what's their mood as they approach the last night and prepare to leave town? >> we have an incredibly positive mood. we worked really hard. we are a caucus state and are used to this, we are used to some protests. nothing is always rosy. keith ellison who introduced bernie as a congressman from our state, we announced our delegate count together and we both worked really hard to make sure that we come together. i think you will see that. we saw that in our delegation. of course you will get people

yelling here and there. it's a convention. it's the democratic party. i think overall, this notion that people that want to do something about climate change are going to go support a guy that says it's a hoax, perpetrated by the chinese or someone that wants to do more with diplomacy is going to go over and support a guy that just said that basically told russia to engage in espionage. this doesn't feel like the bernie supporters to me. >> was there any time during the democratic nomination fight you thought she might lose to bernie sanders? >> i can't say that i wasn't nervous but i never thought she would lose. once i thought about it, it was just like in the general, people call, did you see this. i would get nervous and come back and think well, if you have to have this much of this and that much of that, then i don't get nervous. >> this is what makes me qualified. one of the biggest challenges this country faces is the threat of islamist terrorism. i'm the only credible candidate

who has any experience whatsoever firsthand fighting terrorists. i know exactly what needs to be done to defeat isis and other such groups, and on day one, i can start that process. i have 100% confidence in that. i have zero doubt. this is my wheelhouse. >> i will make you a deal. i will look you in the eye telling you i will look him in the eye and ask him to release his tax returns if hillary clinton releases all the transcripts from the -- i want the 33,000 e-mails. >> there's no precedent for that. >> some smart kid in the silicon valley can get them for us. >> percent chance trump will win? >> looking at the august polls it's 20 or less. no question. >> 20% that a major party candidate would win. >> he said what's the percentage when i look at the polls today. if you look all the swing states, hillary is winning by a dominant thing. i will also say exactly what you said to be fair. it's august. i think there's plenty of time. >> you are both numbers people.

what is trump's floor in the popular vote? >> oh, it's 42%, 43%. >> what's the ceiling in the popular vote? >> with gary johnson and jill stein on the ballot? her ceiling is about 47%. >> then you will win. probably. >> we could win. >> eventually everyone gets tired. everyone gets exhausted from it. that's usually the voting public. once the election is over with, everyone is exhausted. no one wants to be involved anymore. my hope is that a show like hamilton keeps that interest piqued. keeps the 15-year-old, 16-year-old kids saying i'm going to pay a little more attention in civics class. i will figure out a little more about what happened before i was born so that i can understand the context, have a context for what's happening now. >> we'll be right back. when it helps give a lifesaving vaccine to a child in need. ♪ thanks to customers like you,

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time for you to head to bloombergpolitics.com right now. we say sayonara. "hardball with chris matthews" is next. game time for clinton and trump. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. the labor day weekend is upon us. while that means americans will have a three-day weekend to celebrate the waning days of summer, it also marks the traditional kickoff of the general election campaign, the home stretch. now that means less than ten weeks to go until election day and all indications are that the candidates are entering this home stretch on an uneven playing field. politico reporting today that the clinton cig