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weather. what was once hurricane hermine is now regaining strength as it moves slowly up the eastern seaboard making a mess of the holiday weekend. two people were killed. hundreds of thousands lost power as the storm packing high winds and heavy rain barreled from florida to virginia leaving behind a path of destruction. officials are calling the storm life threatening and governors along the coast announce emergency preparations. hermine expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves as far north as massachusetts. we have several reports for you this morning. meteorologist bonnie schneider tracking the storm. gabe gutierrez is in ocean city, maryland. we begin with tammy leitner. what's the latest? >> reporter: a lot of wind. it's kicking up. i just lost my hat it's so windy out here. i want to point out this is labor day weekend and there's not many people on the beach. the beach was closed since

yesterday. they're telling everybody to stay off the beach and that's because of those rip currents out there. very, very strong. and in fact, one kite surfer found out the hard way and had to be rescued by the coast guard. he wasn't injured but it points out how dangerous the water can be. down south in norfolk, virginia, they got hit with a lot of flooding it. cars under water. 55,000 people without power. now back here in seaside heights, prep has been under way since wednesday. they started really doing a lot of serious prep yesterday as things increased out here. the water, the wind, that type of thing. homes. they are sandbagging outside of their homes and they've obviously cleared the beaches. back to you. >> joining me now is msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider. it feels like the real threat has passed but you say that's not the case. why not? >> we're looking at the threat for coast alfloal flooding as w through a good portion of the

afternoon today especially at the time of high tide. that's what wee looking at across virginia and into the carolinas. if we could zoom in on this map for a second, i want to show you that we're looking at quite a bit of precipitation across a good portion of the carolinas but a lot of that rain is working its way further away from areas that we're seeing it. we are of course tracking this storm. hermine is now a post-tropical cyclone. the satellite shows a long area of cloud coverage. a lot of that sweeping across maryland and delaware. this is typical for a post-tropical cyclone where we would see a lot of the activity working its way kind of elongated. there's the low. the computer models push the low further to the east. that's good news. the problem is we're still running the risk for that coastal flooding. so as the storm, the post-tropical storm continues to work its way to the east-northeast at 12, there will be a turn to the north and it will get a little bit closer by the time we get to tuesday. our latest track has these jumbled.

it shows you that we look at the storm turning away on tuesday. notice that bulge here. it's coming close enough to the coastline to give us that threat for coastal flooding particularly south of atlantic city on that southern tip of new jersey and even into long island. as the low sits here for the next couple of days, maybe not as long as originally thought it will bring about those ocean swells, high waves and wind. not as much rain and not as much wind damage. really that coastal threat for flooding is our concern right now with post-tropical storm hermi hermine. >> no time to relax with sandy so fresh in our minds. thank you very much. new to politics and reaction from the trump's campaign on fbi's votes from its interview with hillary clinton. >> it's just more evidence that hillary clinton is the most dishonest candidate for president of the united states since richard nixon. >> that's a tough charge. >> it is a tough charge, chuck.

come on. it truly does disqualify her from serving as president. >> governor pence said he'll release his tax returns in the next week and reiterated the campaign's promise to release donald trump's tax returns after an audit. the republican ticket is off the campaign trail today after trump's controversial trip to detroit. we're getting a sense of what's next for his outreach to african-american voters. >> i asked him if he would talk to the urban league, ask him to talk to you. these are men that you need to sit down and talk to them. would you talk to cornell brooks, naacp, and dr. chavis. he said he would do that. i believe he's trying to come in and do what's right. >> democrats are also off the campaign trail today ahead of several labor day events tomorrow. hillary clinton and former

president bill clinton will be on opposite ends of ohio. hillary clinton will take part in festivities in cleveland. her husband will march in cincinnati's parade. hallie jackson is covering donald trump. what's the mood of the campaign following yesterday's trip to detroit? >> look at the mood from donald trump himself. he got on twitter after that trip talking about the large and wonderful crowd inside. you can see him there inside the church in detroit yesterday. it was an interesting moment for him. because remember, this was the first time he had done a campaign event like this so folks were wondering what would the reaction be afterwards? we've started to hear some of that as you played from bishop jackson. i want to play more of what he had to say. listen. >> i think it went well. i asked the questions. it was an interview that was basically things that i felt in my heart concerning our community, concerning black

lives, police officers, like i said, we respect all of our police officers. he comes across very personable. you know, it's a different donald trump that's on television than you see in person. >> and that's interesting, todd. that's something that you sometimes hear from folks that didn't know donald trump before. he's different on tv than in person. there were protests outside the church. detroit heavily democratic city. you saw that in philadelphia on friday as well when he went to visit with african-american leaders there. trump getting back out on the campaign trail this week likely to continue his outreach to the minority community. we've seen that from him over the last few weeks. the issue has been that he hasn't been delivering his message to black voters to actual black communities. he's been going and delivering them to white communities. that obviously has changed over these last 48 hours or so. there are some who wonder is his message maybe intended more for white republicans to show that he can be a more inclusive

candidate. we'll see how it plays out. joining me now is niles and betsy. my first question is to both of you. what struck you most about trump's speech and overall visit to detroit? betsy, you're up. >> i thought it was interesting that in his speech at the church yesterday he called for a new civil rights movement and then suggested that would involve having perhaps more police presence in some of these communities. he talked about his law and order emphasis that's been really central to his campaign. of course that has potential to come across as tone deaf given that what galvanized activism in the african-american community and over the last couple decades is real and tense tensions with police and disproportionate use of police force against african-americans and the fact that trump would conflate with a

civil rights movement is interesting. >> betsy mentioned the issue the policing and importance of charter schools. they are legitimate issue. i speak here as step father as someone that went through public schools in harlem. a divisive issue in the black community. you have the law and order issue. i thought that donald trump seemed ill at ease in that church. he spoke in not the more self-confident performance that we typically see from mr. trump. >> he did seem slightly different. that's a good point. he's a very results orientated person. we've seen shows like "the apprentice." will this visit buy him any points with black voters? >> it's very difficult. it's interesting to me that one of donald trump's criticisms of hillary clinton and the

democratic party is the idea they pay lib servip service to african-american community. donald trump after making comments about african-americans and other minorities going into a church and speaking for ten minutes and then leaving. i think that it's difficult to see how that changes all that has gone before or removes or rejuices the kind of resistance that we see in public opinion polls to him from within the black community. >> let's leave detroit for a moment. "the new york times" is reporting about another round of tension between trump and the rnc. what are you hearing about this and how are you reading it? >> i think what's really telling about this is that setting aside some of the behind the scenes drama and intrigue which is really important, just on a public level there's a big glaring gap between trump and rnc on the issue of immigration. i spoke with the outreach director a few hours before he gave his speech last week about immigration. one thing that she emphasized

was that the republican party believes that illegal immigration is good. the republican party wants less illegal immigration and supports legal immigration but then in trump's speech that evening, he actually said that we need to reduce the amount of legal immigration. he suggested that legal immigration is bad for americans particularly low income americans and we need to roll it back and limit it more significantly. that's a major difference and given the support comes from corporations that have a strong vested interest in having a larger workforce in the united states. that's a huge gap. i think there's just some tensions that are quite obvious just on the surface level that are probably going to speak to larger divides in the gop. >> one of the stories on your homepage is clinton running out the clock strategy. your colleagues point to the latest foundation controversies and of course the new fbi notes coming to the surface while she's off the campaign trail the

last couple weeks. can she afford to stay quiet until the first debate in a few weeks? we have american football here starting up. college ranks, pro ranks, is it going to work here? >> i think what the clinton camp wants is for this election to be a referendum on donald trump. they look at his poll numbers and how many people find him unacceptable. they think if they can keep the focus on him that that will be to their benefit. now, the issue then becomes the controversy that you have mentioned. i think it's a tricky dill dilemma for hillary clinton. there's a phrase that if you're explaining, you're losing. this is what my colleagues addressed in that article. you can't just purely run out the clock, but you have to find some way to address it without making the story bigger or giving the story fresh legs and that's the conundrum for the

clinton campaign. >> a question we've been asking for months now, will questions about her private e-mail server fade by election day? >> i think the big takeaway is that they won't. the new information that we got from the fbi about how her one of her aides frantically moved to delete some of her e-mails after she said publicly that she wanted the public to be able to read them. that's a big problem. it's easy to explain. it's not super wonky. we don't have to get into technicalities on how servers work to understand they were hustling overtime to make internal workings of her time at the state department less transparent. it's such a big problem for hillary clinton because it undermines a central premise of her campaign. aides spent the last year arguing that part of the reason that americans should support her is that she's not the risky candidate. she's competent. she gets how government works. she's responsible, stable, level headed, maybe not the most dramatic and exciting choice but they are pitching her as the

risk-free option. when you couple that with the fact that we now know she was sending e-mails about planning drone strikes over an unsecure server, it just undercuts that basic central premise of her campaign and i think that's why the issue has done her so much damage. >> to the point of the general public being able to wrap their heads around something, the image of the phones, clinton's phone being destroyed by hammers and all those sort of ways you can destroy a phone, even if that's the way you ultimately destroy a phone, it just doesn't feel right to the average person. >> thank you very much. up next, one of trump's most ardent african-american supporters, how does he critique his candidate's performance. and the ongoing threat from hermine. we're tracking the surge storm threat and has potential to cause flooding across the northeast. - that i was on the icelandic game show. and everyone knows me for discounts, like safe driver and paperless billing. but nobody knows the box behind the discounts.

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welcome back. in his first ever campaign speech to a black audience, donald trump looked to the past to describe his vision for the america of the future. >> becoming the nominee of the party of abraham lincoln, a lot of people don't realize that abraham lincoln was a republican. has been the greatest honor of my life. it is on his legacy that i hope to build the future of the party but more important the future of the country and the community. i believe we need a civil rights agenda for our time. >> let's bring in the director of african-american engagement for the republican party of texas and a trump supporter. hello, sir. trump has repeatedly referenced abraham lincoln when he talks

about race and you did, too, when you introduced him at a rally last month. does trump have a grasp of issues that are important to black voters now today? >> i don't see how you can say it's backwards thinking. it's forward thinking. the same divisions we saw then we see how. there's racial division as there was racial division there. the republican party is no different than it was then. it's still in the business of freeing people from a mindset where they are enslaved and so now we see the progression of time catching back up with us and like lincoln and his time, we need lincoln of our time if donald trump is nominee of the republican party, it makes sense he looks at the past in order to press toward the future. >> how does an issue like police brutality fit into that. obviously the late 1800s police brutality appears to be a

situation that has really taking hold in our country right now over the course of the last couple years. how do you respond to that? >> we look at history. it's easy to equate police brutality to the same brutality of slavery. often times a white man would beat the backs of african-americans and african-americans backs are still being beaten. it's just different now. you may not see the correlation between the two. anyone who has intelligible thought would. >> i will say that there is obviously an opportunity for you to understand things that i may not necessarily understand. ive i have to give you that. if trump cares so much about black voters, why did it take over a year for him to talk to a crowd that we saw yesterday? >> that's the misconception of being a candidate. there are two things when you're campaigning in any candidacy. there's the general and there's the primary. and in the general you have to focus and curtail your campaign

toward winning the general and so the bullet points that you have, the contentions that you have, those things are geared toward winning your base. and then once you move onto the general, you shift gears. you have a broader group of individuals that are listening to you and so now you have to adapt to that audience. so it's no different than what candidates have done in the past. you think about in the 80s when ronald reagan right after he won the nomination, he went straight to brooklyn. he went straight to mississippi. he spoke to a broader audience. in '82, clinton went to l.a. right after he won, right. he went to speak to the churches of l.a. even spoke on the arsenio hall show and played the saxophone. we have to look at content of how candidates do that. some say those guys are pandering but they won the election because they paid attention to how campaigns are ran. >> how do you respond to those who say this outreach to black

voters isn't actually about black voters and it's about proving to on the fence white voters that he's not a bigot? >> it's perfect timing. you think about black lives matter. black lives matter is a movement started because they wanted to be heard. here is donald trump stepping into the black community saying i want to hear. i want to listen. that's different than someone that's a liberal that took a stance that i know your problems. i understand what you need. i'm going to bring this to you. it's a different posture. the posture of donald trump is a more superior posture because he's there to hear. he's there to learn. that makes sense to me. >> let's break down the numbers. trump hasn't broke single digits in support for donald trump. can he catch hillary clinton in the next two months? >> i'll answer the last one. i think he will catch hillary clinton. i think he'll surpass it. when you talk about the polls, i

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welcome back. i'm todd piro. here's what we're monitoring. we're tracking a strong and deadly storm slowly moving across the east coast. it first hit florida on friday. this is drone video of flooded downtown area. flooding is a big concern for millions in the line of the storm's path. check out this other drone footage in alligator point in florida. an area hard hit by the hurricane. the onrushing surf washing out a stretch of road along the peninsula. gabe gutierrez is in ocean city, maryland, where there's been a bit more sunshine today. gabe, weather took a different turn where you are. what's it like right now? >> reporter: as you can see some beautiful sunshine this morning. this was a place believed to be heavily impacted by the storm. there's still of course the concern for dangerous rip currents up and down the east coast. the beach patrol today is here making sure people are staying out of the water.

however, this is a very popular tourist destination. especially on labor day weekend. on a typical busy summer holiday weekend, this boardwalk would have hundreds of thousands of people. now yesterday we spoke with several of them. they were getting out of here in advance of the storm. thankfully today as we widen out you can see there are many people walking up and down the boardwalk. still a lot of families, a lot of these businesses lost a lot of business yesterday because of the fears about the storm. we spoke with several folks yesterday. here's what they had to say on why they left. >> it is horrendous. the wind picked up last night. we were playing miniature golf. it was taking our ball all over the place. we don't want to stay with this weather. we planneded for this all summer. we're very disappointed. we come all the time. this is the first time it happened to us. >> we saw on the news the damage it was doing in florida and we talked to my mother-in-law this morning and damage that was in

south carolina, we saw the storm path was going to go the whole way up the east coast so we thought we better get out now and go to safety. we're about two hours west of here. so we wanted to get out of the way of the storm. >> reporter: the tourists here in ocean city, maryland, many waking up this morning pleasantly surprised. high tide last night did not bring some of the coastal flooding. again, the concern throughout the day is rip currents and really up and down the east coast places like new jersey and southern new england. there is still a threat there. hermine moving just a bit further offshore but still expected to bring that water into parts of the east coast. there is still more than 100,000 people without power throughout the east coast. ear in ocean city expecting waves 6 to 8 feet or so. there is still concern for places further up the coast. todd, back to you. >> gabe, thanks. stay safe. joining me now is msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider.

you expect the storm to reach hurricane strength. what's impact on coastal areas along the mid-atlantic and northeast. >> the problem is the turn of the storm. it's off to sea. models take it further east. it's going to edge further to the north and possibly to the northwest as well. so right now we're seeing the storm pretty much about 300 miles south-southeast of the eastern tip of long island. that's where the center of circulation is. this is a post-tropical cyclone so it has different characteristics. it's not perfectly symmetrical like we would see in a hurricane. more elongated cloud coverage. the movement will slow down. our track takes it to the northwest by the time we get to tomorrow afternoon and takes it up to hurricane strength and that's why we still run the risk for coastal flooding particularly here atlantic city, new jersey, southward into coastal delaware and even further north toward the massachusetts south coast. that's where we're looking at the threat for flooding as well. as the low sits here for tonight and into monday, it will stall

offshore. it's going to take a while. normally these would zip off to the coast. even though it's a couple hundred miles away from land, we're going to see the impact. we won't see heavy downpours of rain or strong rain inland. we'll see the risk for coastal flooding and emphasize that even if the storm is further away, we are still watching high tide tonight and on monday. labor day. three to five feet. that's not changed since yesterday. right from the virginia, north carolina border straight to new jersey particularly some of the worst flooding would be south of atlantic city toward cape may and some of the lower lying areas, barrier islands tending to flood. at the time of high tide tonight and tomorrow we'll watch for potential for flooding. now, the south shore of long island and the north shore including coastal connecticut also run the risk for flooding. about two to four feet again particularly tomorrow at the time of high tide. that water funnels into the long island sound running the risk for flooding. to the north we have a tropical storm warning and watch extended

well into new england. we're watching for the south coast of massachusetts and even into rhode island coastal areas for moderate flooding. areas that tend to flood easily, watch that high tide. that's where we run the risk for not only that but beach erosion as well. >> we know you'll keep us posted. thank you very much. back to political news now, new reaction from former new york city mayor rudy giuliani on whether donald trump should apologize for raising questions about president obama's national origin. >> should he just apologize for this if he really wants to reach out to minority voters? >> you know, if everybody apologized for all of the things they said in politics, all we would do on television shows is apologizing. maybe a lot of democrats should apologize for calling donald trump a racist or calling him all kinds of terrible names and it gets a little silly. let's get down to the basic issue here. for years people say republicans don't reach out to the african-american community.

he reached out to the african-american community. >> let's bring in robert and jonathan. i want to get your reactions to what we heard from mayor giuliani. robert, let's start with you. >> two things. obviously mayor giuliani artfully dodged a question. i would push back slightly that just showing up at african-american church where it was heavily ticketed and obviously the questions were prepared -- and answers prepared in advance, i'm not sure that's outreach. outreach is when you roll up your sleeves and listen to the community and don't just show up on one day but a concerted effort days, weeks, months and years. i'm not sure the trump campaign has done that. time will tell. good thing is that donald trump did in fact show up at that church as i mentioned before. that's a good thing. reality is that there's much more work that needs to be done

in the community. >> jonathan, you're reaction to what giuliani said? >> frankly i think it was rather pathetic. what donald trump did in the 2012 campaign and for years before and even after barack obama produced his birth certificate was flat out racist. he kept insisting in the face of all evidence that the president had not been born in the united states. he implied that he was covering this up and covering up his college transcript because -- this was trump's point -- the president was stupid and didn't want everybody to know it. it went on and on. words matter. you can't just leave them behind without issuing some kind of apology or being accountable in some fashion for the racist things one says. so right now donald trump is getting almost zero support in the african-american community. maybe he can get it up to 1% or

2% but he's going to have a very hard time going beyond that. >> let me ask you this follow-up question that some trump proponents may want to ask you in light of what you just said. how does it have anything to do with what donald trump is going to do for black voters going forward? >> it just relates to his basic attitude toward the african-american community. you know, although he's said in the past i think the quote is the blacks, they like me, there's no history here of relations between trump and the african-american community where he has produced for them so all you have now are a bunch of very late, empty promises that don't have credibility. >> now to hillary clinton. she spent most of august at private fundraisers rather than on the campaign trail. she's far out-raised trump.

why is she spending so much time going after the money? >> she wants to crush trump financially, and she is doing so. i don't think she'll get to a billion dollars but she wants to outspend him in all of the battleground states. trump is not spending any of his own money that we can tell. todd, i don't think this sends a good signal from hillary clinton for her to be spending so much of her time with wealthy contributors and never holding a press conference. i think it's more than 260 days now since she's held a press conference. that's not just whining on the part of reporters. it's showing lack of respect for the basic accountability structures that we have in presidential politics. she's making a political mistake in doing that. not just because she ticks off the press but because she continues to look like she has something to hide even when she doesn't necessarily do so. >> a lot of commentators saying you could have had a baby in the time since her last press conference.

robert, donald trump criticized clinton of course for her low profile in recent days. does he have a point? >> he does have a point. look, two things. one, there's a lack of transparency here. what secretary clinton's campaign is doing is running the clock. they have internal polling that shows the average american could care less whether or not she's had a press conference or not and that may be true but the reality is that she's not assessable to the american people and that really leads to the narrative that she's not very transparent, which leads to the narrative about the e-mails and about everything else. and also leads to her trustworthiness. that's number one. number two, i suspect that all of the fundraisers are probably over with now that we're in the labor day homestretch and probably going to be more assessable to the press. i read the other day she's going to finally let the press travel with her on the campaign trail and to your first question, todd, i believe that secretary clinton really wants to play offense on states that democrats have not played offense probably since bill clinton was in the white house and that's in georgia. that's in utah. that's in arizona. that's in places where secretary

clinton is out polling donald trump or within striking distance so she'll probably run the clock and win an electoral landslide and probably wants to do a thumping as george w. bush would say come november. >> let's build on the points that you and robert both made. political reporting that clinton's advisers are confident of a win in november and maybe even a landslide. how risky is that to be that sure at this point in the game when quite frankly we haven't really seen a landslide quite like that maybe since reagan/mondale and maybe clinton/dole but not since social media. >> it's complacent and not smart politically for them to let that word out. look, politics a week can be a lifetime. a lot can change in that first debate. donald trump is within the margin of error in some battleground states. he's cut hillary clinton's lead

in the polls in just the last ten days. and in some cases significantly. so it's dangerous to sit on a lead in politics. it's dangerous to sap intensity by being over confident. they need a turnout. this is a change election. in that sense it favors trump. so if he can get it together a little bit in the next few weeks, he can continue to be a real serious threat. the clinton people i've been talking to know that. they know this is not over yet. they need to be careful in terms of getting their own people out to the polls that they don't convey overconfidence. >> there hasn't been a poll that shows clinton with a massive lead among black voters. do you think they're taking their support for granted continuing this theme of taking this election for granted? >> yeah, i do. that's the narrative that a lot of african-americans have been saying for the last six or seven presidential cycles is that we, our, our vote is always taken

for granted. we want to do courted by all of the parties, not just the republican party but also the democratic party and independent party. i want to go back to something a few moments ago which jonathan said. reality is that donald trump has spent very little of his money up to this point and he's close in the polls. that doesn't say a lot about donald trump but it says a lot about hillary clinton. candidly speaking if anyone else running against hillary clinton, the numbers would be even higher. my point is that even though donald trump has invested very little of his money, there still is a ceiling that hillary clinton has yet to crack because a lot of people going back to my earlier point don't trust her and don't like her. if it's donald trump, it's donald trump. but to jonathan's point, i think to my earlier point, this race is not over with. it's airirrogant for the clinto campaign to release stories that they have multiple paths to victory. text moments on the tarmac. why did a chinese official

confront a member of the u.s. delegation just after president obama landed for the g20 summit and happening now on what was tropical storm hermine, the concerns along coastlines across the northeast even though it's over the atlantic right now. coming up next hour on msnbc, how latino voters could decide the presidential election. the impact they could have from florida to arizona.

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trying to downplay what happened. the most generous explanation of this is that there was some confusion. it was also a reminder that we're in a communist nation that has a very different idea about what the press can and cannot do. this happened as the president arrived. the first problem is chinese did not have a set of stairs ready for arrival of the president to greet him at the front of air force one. that wasn't in place. the president came out of a back door of air force one. the press comes out. it's a pool of 25 people and they're not in normal position and chinese aren't prepared for this so they start to try to restrain people and we're trying to get this picture of the president which is so traditional that we always do. in the middle of that susan rice was also coming off the plane. she didn't like or was treated

in a way she couldn't go somewhere. bottom line, a lot of confusion. one official said one of the problems is that we're not in beijing and they're not used to this high level visit. the bottom line, this is how the president explained what happened when he was asked about it at a press conference earlier. >> i don't want to over crank the significance of this. it's not the first time these things happen. it doesn't just happen here. it happens in a lot of places including sometimes our allies. >> reporter: there can be some confusion but again in the past as well there have been incidents where the chinese have tried to restrain the press. there was a situation during president obama's first visit when president of china was reluctant to answer questions. there have been times when some events didn't go the way they planned. the president trying to downplay

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and we're all created by the same god, we must love each other, and support each other, and we are in this altogether. >> joining me now is ileana garcia, founder of latinos for trump and some corrects are giving him credit just for showing up in detroit but how could we assess how genuine this is when he questioned the origin of the first african-american president even after proof was given. >> i find those are small details in reality. it is a continuum of some type of divisiveness that is part of the whole election campaign to begin with. i think that he needs to be judged on his past, on his work with the black community in the past. just as he has with the jews and the hispanics. what i find interesting is how they could take something and macro it and generalize it when in reality it is not that way. perception is reality.

and it all depends on who is saying it. i don't see it that way. >> i want to play for you what trump told our studios. >> i guess nationally, we're making america great again. >> once the border is secure and we've stopped this horrible flow of immigration, once that is done and then we sit back and see where the country and what is happening and we make a determination for the people that are here that weren't criminals, that weren't -- other than the fact that they came in illegally, and we make that determination at a future date. and hopefully it will be a very positive determination. >> referencing the second sound bite, do you have clarity on what trump says there will be as he says "softening." >> i think one of the things he

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