bernie sanders speaking at a solo rally in new hampshire. that's a place where democratic voters strongly perform bernie's populism in the primary. he beat clinton by 22 points in february. danny freeman covered sanders in the primaries for us. you look at that face. if you watched msnbc in the primaries, that's the face that we associate with that primary campaign. i, tell us in the heart of sanders country, he's beloved. but how is his sale going here now that he's talking to his own core fans about how important it is to get out for hillary. >> reporter: well, it's interesting. when we started the day, we were at a breakfast in manchester, new hampshire, where bernie sanders in his first solo appearance for hillary clinton made that pitch for the democratic nominee. he said that hillary clinton is the superior candidate in every

way when it comes to comparison with donald trump. he went down a list of issues when it comes to wage, immigration, whether it comes to the number of his biggest priorities in campaign finance, hillary clinton is the superior candidate. it's going to be interesting to see what happens at this event here. so new hampshire, this is a hillary clinton campaign organized event where bernie sanders will have the floor totally to himself. so earlier, bernie sanders just spoke and he gave a 20-minute speech about his policies and priorities for the democratic party. it will be interesting to see if he goes ahead and spends the entire time just praising hillary clinton. he should be up at any minute now. take a look at some of the praise he said for hillary clinton today. >> brothers and sisters, we are at a momentous moment in american history.

so i hope very much that from today until election day, you'll do what i will be doing. and that is working as hard as you can to make certain that hillary clinton is elected the next president of the united states. >> so again, bernie sanders is expected any minute. and on this day, that's the starting gun for the final stretch of the 2016 general election. we'll see how bernie sanders can move the needle here in new hampshire. >> absolutely, we're in the real general election time. tim kaine also speaking at this hour. so just a lot going on all over the place. that's a live picture of tim kaine in cleveland, ohio, where we have had candidates and runnirun ing mates talking. as for the trump campaign, both trump and his running mate in ohio, that's a state trump would need if he is going to make a

narrow path to electoral college victory. hallie jackson is here to talk trump and has spent a lot of time on the trail. we know you're filing back here. >> you thought it was going to be a slow holiday. you get to have a long lunch. >> i was hope iing obviously bad a lot of money for people to say that's a good thing that trump perspective as spent a lot of time. she's not out there. she's hiding in all that. what does trump do after two weeks where we have seen more than one donald trump. >> we have seen a couple donald trumps. what republican operatives close to his campaign are going to see is a donald trump who focuses exexclusively on hillary clinton. doesn't get wrapped up in the fits he wants to pick like with

jeff flake. trump as his campaign aids have talked about announcing it publicly, go into key swing states. there's a serious problem for the campaign regardless of what you will hear from advisers who say, listen, our thing suspect about field offices. we're not about trying to put in brick and mortar buildings. he can have an unconventional strategy. >> the trump campaign has

essentially outsourced a lot of things to the rnc. for those who cover this stuff closely, this is down in the weeds. but this is how when they talk about campaigns settled by one or two points, this is sometimes how it goes down. so you have this situation where the trump campaign we know they don't have anything like the ground game or the number of staff that the clinton campaign has so they are relying on the gop committee and its staff and volunteers to turn out the vote. is that going to be a good bet for them? >> it's the only bet. that's the option. they just added 400 folks on the ground. i'm told they now have more staffers in these key areas than they did during the mitt romney cycle. they are feeling good about the staffing they have and where they are at least right now. not all of that is for donald

trump. some of that resources are going towards these important down ballot races. >> we're looking at live pict e pictures here. this is live. you see donald trump and mike pence together here at this fair in ohio. you see donald trump clapping. really doing -- i say that not to be facetious, you see him doing a lot more traditional, political, retail outreach. this is something that in the primary he emphasized he could do without. to his credit as a political matter, he did run a different style of campaign that was victorious in the primary. you think about the black church swaying and trying to do that sunday outreach, you think what we're watching now, this is coming to you live in this fair. this is a standard labor day politics. >> he was na a diner earlier today. this is sort of the shot that you'll see from candidates on labor day for trump.

you can see his secret service detail surrounding him there. and mike pence, who has been a surrogate for trump on the trail, what's interesting today as we look at what has developed in the last couple hours, trump being more accessible with the voters, but is the press. he brought that protective pool on board his plane to travel with him. >> protective pool is smaller press corps that goes with him just to keep an eye on where the candidate is. it's really protective because trump doesn't have a full-time protective pool. why does it matter? think about you're always going to have somebody that can share with the public what that candidate or nominee is up to. every nominee has had that kind of protective pool. you think about the president during 9/11. somebody on that plane. >> historically, the gentleman there is secret service in that striped shirt. what we're looking at is live

footage, so he can only get as close as he's getting. we can see uniformed secret service and out of uniform what is sometimes considered undercover. but when you look at them together like this, what you're e seeing is as rough as we're seeing it because this is the live shot. you can see basically from what i can tell our cameraman is hitting a bit of a secret service protective circle. as we think about trump and pence together, this is something i wanted to get to you. the donald trump campaign was all donald trump all the time up until adding this running mate who is of a different character, different style. what do you think about them today in ohio together and the way they are complimenting each other and the way pence is trying to sell donald trump as much as he can, finish the thought. >> i was going to finish your sentence. while still cleaning up his

messes. frankly, that's what mike pence has had to do at times. you look at what's happening now with immigration. the mixed messaging that trump has delivered in the last two weeks about what he would do with some of the undocumented ip immigrants who haven't committed other crimes. pence has had to be a messenger. we have a sound byte on his campaign plane about the immigration policy when asked about a path to legal status. >> one possibility in that determination? >> i'm not ruling out anything. they'd have to go out and come back in. >> republicans plan to talk about letting people have a legal status. just live here, work here, the people who lived here for a long time and contribute to society. >> we're going to make that decision into the future.

good question. i'm glad you asked. that decision will be made. >> it's a decision that will be made in the future. >> what i u hear what i hear is someone who doesn't understand where the political lines are. what i mean by that is if you talk to republicans who are looking for a certain hard line immigration stance, they don't feel that on the question of the undocumented who they believe are here completely illegally and must be removed or put to the side that there's a decision with regard to citizenship. they believe that is settled and those people should not become citizens. when donald trump says it's a backdrop for him, we'll look at that and we'll see the decision will be made.

we're negotiating. we'll see what the price is. there will be a price sooner or later. but with regard to citizenship, for folks working on this issue for years, path to citizenship is what sunk the gang of eight deal. he sounds muddled. >> are we going to hear r this? this is imprompt tu. let's hear what he's saying live. >> we're going to bring jobs back to ohio. >> this is what we were discu discussing moments ago. we're seeing donald trump do retail politics. >> this is also not unfamiliar to me as someone who has been on the the campaign trail. this is like very classic get out to the fair and do your

thing kind of politicking. it was very different for trump last year in iowa when he landed his chopper and hospitelicopter waved to the children. >> i'm trying to read one of those signs. one is a supportive crowd for trump. he's in front of the republican party booth there. >> what we tend to see are scripted encounters. we see the speech at the african-american church was widely covered. that's how scripted it was. we see speeches in the front of the room. that's why there's so much secret service doing the protection. we don't see the candidates launching in. although for big parades and

labor day events, that's a tradition. the path to legal status. who you'd give legal status to. while there are advocates who believe any immigrant living here illegally should leave i think there's also a fairly large segment of the conservative population, even among those who favor stances who still believe that mass deportations and i'm talking about members of trump's hispanic advisory council that. >> the camera is showing this here. what from what i can tell they are giving a big wave. they are getting a strong crowd

reaction here. they are both in the back of that suv. ul tell you having covered and worked on some campaigns getting the motorcade out of a picnic like this is no picnic. >> i can only imagine. >> that's a slice of life. >> what do you think about on that in the pictures we saw, i ask that looking towards this debate. where there will be a one-on-one debate and that will be more so than all the other fireworks a chance to show this is who i am, this is how i relate to this is the ultimate test.

they are trying to dial back personal spats and questions about policy and say this is what he looks like. he can stand on that stage. you see him there. to give him the benefit of the doubt, you're walking down that crowd there, e he look ed to me more into it than some of what i saw on the trail in the primaries. >> you asked about his evolution as a candidate. i think it depends on who you talk to. he's not evolved in any way. supporters will say he has and that he listens to some of his advisers in a way that he may not have used them.

the idea has come up that this is not a guy that's done this before. he's never been a politician. you have to give him a little slack. i do think what you see at his strategy often times is similar to what you saw in the primaries. trump said u won this thing. that may or may not be an attenable strategy. but on the debate, it's something else he said. and that's something we have been talking to folks about. he said i'm going to do what i did during the primaries. here's the difference. it's him and hillary clinton most likely on that stage. it's going to be a substantial amount of time where there's no other candidate that's going to jump into make a point.

>> i think there's evolution. i know you're a big fan of the literature. there's a walt whitman quality to donald trump's core argument that do i contradict myself. i contain multitudes. there's a comfort with the range of positions that he's taken. when you talk to his support issers, they are comfortable with it. there may not really be a wall, but i like that he's trying. people are in on the evolution, but is that a 40% support network that's in or is he getting near striking distance of a majority. that's what campaigns are all about. we're going to wrap out of what we saw at the county fair. i want to thank hallie jackson for joining me having some fun. happy labor day. we have live remarks from tim kaine. we're keeping an eye on that and news he might break. and bernie sanders making the case in new hampshire. all of that ahead on a busy day. you're watching msnbc. picking up for kyle.

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we are back with our live election day coverage. hillary clinton just took the stage in cleveland, ohio, after an introduction from tim kaine. her campaigning together today. she took the stage 45 seconds ago and you can see her there having a little water and getting ready to begin. let's listen in. >> boy, we have 63 days to go. >> listening to hillary clinton here about to begin her remarks in cleveland.

>> well, thank you. whoo. well, you just heard the next vice president, didn't you. in addition to thanking marsha fudge, let me also thank your great senator sherrod brown. excuse me. also two other great members of congress, tim ryan and joyce

beaty. and your mayor, thanks to mayor jackson. and i hope, i hope that ohio will send ted strickland to the senate. now behind me are some of the great labor leaders of our country. randy weingarten, lee saunders, i'm proud to be on the same stage with them. because they are always fighting for working families. once i get over my allergic

reaction. let me say that we're here in part because we know how important this election is to ohio. it's not just as tim said that ohio is one of those battleground states you hear about every four years. it's that ohio represents everything that's great about america and all of the challenges and the opportunities that we face. that's why this election is critical to every person in this state. and what i want to emphasize is i know we can't face our problems alone. we have to work together.

and that is in stark contrast to donald trump. remember what he said at his convention. he said i alone can fix it. think of what that leaves out, my friends. that leaves out all of our troops on the front lines. it leaves out our police officers and firefighters who run toward danger. it leaves out doctors and nurses who care for us. it leaves out teachers and educators who care for the most important people in our lives. it leaves out everybody except him. and when he says i alone can fix it, that clearly demonstrates he doesn't understand how america works. how we got great and why we are great today. and what we need to do together.

>> we have been listening to hillary clinton speaking in ohio. that is tim kaine right behind over her right shoulder speaking about the type of campaign she wants to run and the optimism she has and she had quite a coughing fit at the beginning of the address. she even joked at one point it's part of her allergy to donald trump. joining me to discuss is the center for american progress action fupd. she's out there campaigning a lot. she would get these in the primary as well when your voice gets hoarse. bill clinton lost his voice completely in a run up to the new hampshire primary and made

it about his work ethic. what did you think of what we just saw there? >> it's labor day. we're celebrating hard work, campaigning is hard work. she's been at it for awhile. she coughed a little bit and seems to have regained her footing and back at it. but she's talking about making the contrast for the election. particularly in the swing states and americans are really coming around. >> i want to ask as well about mike pence rolling out a charge that he clearly practiced because he said it repeatedly. so it's a special attack on hillary clinton. and he said it on "meet the press." >> hb healthcaillary clinton is dishonest since richard nixon. it's a tough charge. >> even richard nixon produced his tax returns. if you don't meet the ethical standard of richard nixon, god help you. >> a lot of nixon there.

but is that really a substantiatable charge that hillary clinton is that dishonest? >> i don't know. maybe we should ask the american people. google searches show that the one word associated with her is liar or dishonest. >> are you citing google? can this be substantiated. i'm interested in your answer. are you saying google searches to support the charge? because that doesn't scan. >> i said first cite the american people. the american people have decided she's dishonest and is a liar. and i'm telling you when american people go to their computers, that's the word they associate with her. whether you want to agree or not, that's just the facts. >> that's just silly garbage. you have a story brewing in florida where donald trump paid the attorney general there not

to investigate trump u, a pay-for-play scandal. that's dishon haddest. >> and you have a whole pay to play scandal as it relates to hillary clinton in her e-mails. >> what are you talking about? >> hold on. we're going to go one at a time. lawrence, go ahead. then we'll come back to egor. >> as it relates to hillary clinton and people getting meetings with the secretary, we can't just talk about donald trump and not talk about hillary clinton. >> how about that? because while i gave you my thought on the google evidence, there are certainly real substantiative questions. i gave my thoughts on the google, but i think lawrence makes a fair point there are real questions about the funding of the clinton global initiative and how the clintons basically dealt with those questions and transparency. >> there have been questions. those questions have been answered. there's literally zero evidence

that there's been any pay for play. you look at the trump situation. >> hold on, gentlemen. it is labor day. we're all working hard. i said we're going one at a time. lawrence, i'm asking you to wait. >> so in florida and t, you had investigations into trump u whether or not it was fraudulent. donald trump gave donations to the lawmakers there. those investigations were then dropped. why aren't we looking into that? his entire career has been littered with examples of just this. that's the real fire and that's the real smoke. that's much more of a story than you have hillary clinton taking meetings with people. oh my, she's meeting with people. >> right, and they are giving money to her as well. millions of dollars to her first down dags. but that's just so cool. >> lawrence, i'm going to raise one other item. al sharpton on his show was interviewed p. diddy and before

people make any kind of assumptions about where he may or may not be, although he did start a voter outreach group a couple years ago, he had some interesting sharp words about hillary clinton. take a listen. >> hillary clinton, i hope she starts to directly talk to the black community. i just really -- it really makes me feel almost hurt that our issues are not addressed. we're such a big part of the voting bloc. >> not just rhetoric, but really addressing. >> over an breitbart they carried a story saying the trump campaign embraced that saying, quote, diddy is right. hillary clinton should stop assume iing blacks will automatically vote for her. all this coming on the heels of the trump campaign trying to do more outreach.

your thoughts on what's going on here. >> puff is right. puff knows the pulse of the community. he's been in the community donatie ining scholarships. i don't care where you go in the black community, everybody e knows that the black community is frustrated not only with hillary clinton, but the democratic party. because they make a lot of promises, but never deliver. they have a prime opportunity to actually show up in the community, talk about economics because at the end of the day, we ain't got jobs. our unemployment is double the national average. people are tired of the gun violence within the community. so he has an opportunity to do it. is he going to do it? i think he's having a great start right now. >> lawrence jones and egor, thank you for joining me. a special announcement for wednesday. it nbc news and the veterans of america hosting both nominees for a live televised forum that

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hillary clinton debuting a new campaign plan today. she also made a pop in to speak with reporters. the larger plane enables the media to travel with hillary clinton for the first time. clinton has refused to hold a single press conference as the nominee. she's also heading later today to a speech in illinois. kristen welker will be riding that new plane and joins us with more. when you look at this address today, and you may have to keep your voice down being on site, but what are the key themes as the fall campaign begins? >> reporter: well, ari, she's echoing some of the the themes that we have heard. effectively that donald trump

doesn't fit the commander-in-chief test and she just started talking about the plans it to create jobs are hollow. started talking about his business background and the fact he says he knows more about how to combat isis than the general. so essentially, trying to paint him as a fraud. this has fit into the broader narrative that we have seen for several weeks. hillary clinton has been off the campaign trail for several days fundraising. so this really marks a ramping up of the final sprint until election day. she is here with her vp nominee tim kaine and will be in illinois later today. tim kaine goes to pennsylvania. she has her surrogates out in force. so the plan is to really blanket all of these critical battleground states, bill clinton is going to be out, the vice president as well as bernie sanders. by the way, president obama is going to be out in the next coming days. the polls are getting tighter. as you said, she hasn't been

that accessible to the press and we're hoping that we're going to be able to ask her a whole lot more questions on that plane. >> and kristen, another question i have is "the new york times" has an analysis today basically saying even as some of the national polls tighten, as long as the coalition that we currently see holds, donald trump won't really make up enough white votes to deal with his deficit among blacks and latinos. you ticked off several states where the action is where she happens to be heading chrks is a blue state. each of those places are very diverse. does the clinton campaign have any concern about reversing his fortunes there? the data and polling doesn't suggest he's doing that. >> here's their main concern. their main concern is the coalition is not going to turn out on election day. so the focus from now until election day is going to be making sure that folks who are going to turn out for hillary clinton are signed up to vote and have a way to get to the

polling places. part of the reason they are going to philadelphia is because that is two weeks before the registration deadline there. so i think they are less concerned about enclosing the gap with the critical voting gaps that voters are going to stay home. that's the focus right now. >> i didn't know they were doing surrogate deployment based on that kind of state by state voter deadline, which is savvy. kristen welker in cleveland, thank you. for more we turn to bob franken. hay, everybody. your thoughts on what we just heard there and how this scuffle is sort of playing out because it sounds like you have a very organized and ground level operation from clinton. we have had multiple reporters attesting to that and trump doing something that's more improvisational at this point. >> that's been the difference with these candidates. hillary clinton has a

significant ground operation in ohio and pennsylvania and florida, which are the states that would be the path for donald trump to enter the white house. at the same time, you have the dnc rolling out volunteer efforts and outreach efforts in reliably red states. so they are going after voters in places like arizona, utah, georgia, donald trump is out there participating in retail politicking. we haven't seen that from him before. but the ground operation, the number of people he has on the ground significantly lacks when you compare it to clinton's. >> and bob, one of the things that comes up with regard to the controversy, if you will, about hillary clinton's access is a lot of people in the press myself have pointed out how unusual it is to completely stiff arm any press conference for this long. hillary clinton's fans and supporters point out they feel a lot of the time the press coverage is totally scandal

prone. they say she's waging her effort to talk policy each and every day. you think about nancy pelosi speaking out here. you could think of that as a hillary surrogate. and being asked about the e-mails and she makes the argument this has been done and litigated and literally closed. here is nancy pelosi on cbs this morning. >> 30,000 e-mails, we're talking about a few that may have been marked confidential. whatever it was that hillary clinton dealt with had no threat to our security. this is really much adieu about something. >> too much adieu. >> first of all, nancy pelosi has been a member of the intelligence committee. she knows the extremes that the members of congress have to go through to make sure that they

don't disclose classified information. the fbi director said she was very careless in the way she handled classified information as secretary of state. secondly, you made the point before that hillary clinton is not meeting with the press because her people have decided that the press is going to only ask questions that really off message. well, i don't know how to break this to all those people, but it's the press that decides the questions. not the campaign. that's the way it works in a democracy. >> well put. gabbi, your thoughts. >> absolutely. there's a possibility that the press would be focused on policy-oriented questions and asking about if she first held a press conference where she finally answered the outstanding questions about her e-mails and the clinton foundation. that's the fundamental issue. there's still a numb of unanswered questions and americans by the day are becoming less confident in her

answers and defense on this. a kbs poll showed that 46% of americans think that hillary clinton's defense of her e-mail pr practices has become less believable. she needs to hold a press conference and give an opportunity to ask for questions she can answer to put this to rest. >>. >> she has to be candid with her answers. i mean, she's so careful, so lawyerly with her answers. many prove not to be true as things go down, that she's gotten a reputation with the voters being slick hillary. >> coin away. . i will tellout real solution to bad press is more press. so even if she has a point and her allies have a point that plenty of the press are focusing on the scandal, i heard some aids say, you guys didn't cover

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the republicans don't want to spend that. they want to take from the ebola fund. you don't take from one fund that's still necessary to protect our country and take it to another. i got bit by mosquitos last night. i went to bed thinking could it be zika. it's out there. people in miami, they have identified bites of zika. and this is something we need to deal with for the safety of our people. >> the president says 1.1 billion. what would that do? >> it would give local governments the ability to have more money to spray. spraying is the best way to kill the mosquitos and to avoid the contact with the zika virus. we t would also fund cdc activities that will go into studying which mosquitos and the bites and where they are spreading. >> to state the obvious, i don't think anyone that's an elected

politician is against spraying to stop zika mosquitos, right? >> well, i wouldn't think so, but the republicans won't create funds to do it. they won't have new funds unless they get an offset and they want the offset is to be ebola. two years ago it was ebola they were making were making that such a big deal and blaming the president for everything that happened and wanting to stop people from coming into the country. it was all politics. they need to understand science. they need to understand global warming and they need to understand threats to the american populous. >> turning to one of the president's other agenda items, his nomination of merrick garland. we haven't generally seen in history a time where the senate will completely refuse to do anything with the nomination of this caliber rather than perhaps rejecting it, which is their constitutional right. do you think senate republicans may have miscalculated if they wind up with a president clinton who would put on a younger, more liberal nominee? >> well, that's certainly what could happen if hillary clinton

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montauk. it's important to note this storm is near hurricane force. so the winds are at 70 miles per hour, even though it's a post-tropical cyclone. it's still going to drift slowly and meander where it is, eventually turning to the north and northwest but it will weaken by wednesday. the immediate threat we're watching right now continues to be strong wind, rough surf and even that storm surge. from fire island inlet to block island, nan tucket and province town along the cape, a tropical storm warning in effect right now. one to three feet. that's what we're looking at for storm surge above the time for high tide mainly today. i think as we go through the week we'll later this week be able to say good-bye to this long-lasting storm hermine. >> bonnie schneider, thank you for that update. we will be back right after this. it's time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. some salesmen focus all their energy on selling their products. but not mort. this new york-based political

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