serve. we have to turn that corner and we have to put service first and take a service mentally. serve and protect. >> that's a fitting point to pause on and continue as the conversation will continue, conversation will continue. dometri and phil, carla, thank you. this conversation will continue. but up next is rachel maddow. >> he signed a public law that was called public law 107. it authorized what was defined in the statute of a national memorial commission. he signed the last day in office was to build a building that would be a memorial and tribute quote to the negros contributions to the achievements of america. 1929. calvin coolidge. the creation of this national

memorial and tribute. it also provided exactly zero dollars to do that with. and so, the idea of a national memorial and national tribute and physical commemoration in washington, d.c. of the contribution of african-americans to the achievements of the united states of america. that idea, although law, that idea, although officially something we are working on its just sort of held negative space for decades. that commemorative space existed in theory, but not in practice. it was not until 40 years after calvin coolidge signed that law. not until the late '60s when the idea got revived and energy. not until 20 years after that in the late '80s when congress started considering bills to actually do it.

most from congress member john lewis from georgia. start really working toward building this tribute and memorial. not until the 21st century that they finally passed actual dollars and actual money to plan in earnest. it was not until now. it was not until almost 90 years after we supposedly started working on this as a nation that it finally did get done. now, tomorrow, the national museum of african-american culture and history will open to the public on the national mall in washington, d.c. honestly, i cannot do it justice here. i can show you through your tv screen a little bit what it looks like. we can describe some of the collections. i'm not going to be able to do it justice. the right thing to do is plan to

g go. i know this broadcasts more than the united states. if you plan to visited united states you should go. the tickets are free. they are hard to get. september is already sold out. i checked before i got on the air. there was one day left in november that had one time slot left. that was the last thing left for all of november. there were still a bunch of time slots available in december. the tickets are free, but you have to sign up for a specific time to go. think about the timing. if you are going to go, when it comes to telling your friends or your kids or your grand kids about the way you lived and what you did in your big long life. you may want to be able to say you went to the national museum of african-american of culture and history.

you may go while the nation's first african-american president is still in office. you can get online and book. you may want to try to get to the museum soon. they started building the inauguration platform this week. we don't know who the next president will be. it will not be barack obama. president obama hosted more than 700 african-american culture leaders. people who were key to the hard fought long slog that it took to create this museum. >> you know, the timing of this is fascinating. because in so many ways it is the best of times, but in many

ways, these are also troubled times. history doesn't always move in a straight line. without vigilance, we can move backwards as well as forwards. and so part of the reason that i'm so happy the museum is opening this weekend is because it allows all of us as americans to put our current circumstances in a historical context. my hope is that as people are seeing what's happened in tulsa or charlotte on television and perhaps are less familiar with not only the history of the

african-american experience, but also how recent some of the challenges have been upon visiting the museum may step back and say i understand. i sympathize. i empathize. i can see why folks might feel angry and i want to be part of the solution as opposed to resisting change. my hope is that black folks watching the same images on television and then seeing the history represented in this museum. can say to themselves the struggles we're going through today are real and yet all that progress we made tells me that i cannot and will not sink into

despair because if we join hands and if we do things right -- if we maintain our dignity and we continue to appeal to the better angels of this nation progress will be made. [ applause ] >> that is president obama today at the white house event celebrating the opening of the new national museum of african-american culture and history. it opens to the public for the first time tomorrow. as you heard at the top of his remarks, the president said the timing is fascinating. he referenced tulsa and charlotte and in tulsa, oklahoma, a police officer who killed terence crutcher in the street after his suv stalled in the street. the police tasered him and shot him while he appears to have held his hands in the air. that officer who killed him has

been booked on first degree manslaughter. in charlotte, north carolina, it has been a different story. a heartbreaking few days since keith lamont scott was killed. charlotte protesters descended in violence on tuesday night and wednesday night. yesterday, the police reiterated and insisted unlike tulsa, they would not release the dash cam and body cam videos of the keith lamont scott. they showed the videos to the scott family. the scott family said they would like them to be released to the public. police and local authorities insist they will not do that. last night was the third straight night of protests in charlotte. the mayor signed a midnight curfew. ahead of the midnight hour at 9:00 p.m. when midnight rolled around, authorities did not clear the streets. they would allow protests to

continue as long as they were peaceful. protests in charlotte were by large peaceful. they went on well into the night and past midnight. today has been a new day of further dramatic and in some cases upsetting developments. today, nbc news obtained the video of the shooting of keith lamont scott. it is a harrowing video. one of the most harrowing things is the video was taken by mr. scott's wife. you can hear her talking to her husband and talking to police throughout the recording. >> don't shoot him. don't shoot him. he has no weapon. he has no help. don't shoot him. [ bleep ] don't shoot him. don't shoot him. he didn't do anything. >> drop the gun! drop the gun! >> he doesn't have a gun.

he has a tbi. he just took his medicine. >> she means traumatic brain injury. in terms of what this captures the video -- i should tell you it does not show the shots themselves, although you hear them. you hear mrs. scott say he doesn't have a gun. he has a traumatic brain injury. you hear police officers shouting. some escalation. it is hard to see what is happening. after this inn conclusive incidence, you hear shots fired. >> keith. keith. keith. don't you do it. [ gunshots ] >> did you shoot him? did you shoot him? did you shoot him? >> the video is disturbing in part because of the woman's vantage point.

you hear keith scott's wife say over and over again he better live. >> he better live. he better live. i swear he better live. yup. he better live. >> this is a terrible thing to see. a terrible thing for us to see her seeing it through her eyes. where we are right now. four nights after keith scott was killed, we still have conflicting accounts if scott had a gun. you hear police officers say drop the gun. you hear his wife say he doesn't have a gun. still the police video, the video from their perspective, the body cam video. the dash cam video. that is being withheld from public view. the family wants that released to the public. we heard president obama today say he wants americans to

sympathize with one another. hillary clinton today added her voice to those calling for the police tapes of the shooting to be released. when she signs her tweets with a hyphen and h, that means it is from her personally. she is calling for the release of the video. the campaign announced she intends to travel to charlotte this weekend. on sunday. the day before the first presidential debate. as to whether or not this will actually happen, i cannot say so definitively, i can say the mayor of charlotte is a hillary clinton supporter. also donald trump would like to visit charlotte next week. the mayor is calling on both clinton and trump to hold on from coming to her city. she said if there were a way to delay those visits, that would probably be ideal. this is a live look at police in the streets of downtown

charlotte tonight where we will be keeping an eye through the evening on protests and throughout the day. tonight is the first night since the country got a look at the incident that brought on keith lamont scott's death. joining us from charlotte is lametia. >> reporter: thanks for having me. >> you are on the ground there and clearly in a calm spot. can you tell us anything about the city tonight? >> reporter: the environment in the city is people marching. there are maybe 100 people in the street. people are very upset that they saw the video today. i have been talking to people about how they really felt the video confirms for them that the police in some way did not act correctly. he hear keith scott's wife

saying he just took his medication. he doesn't have a gun. she is trying to deescalate the situation. people feel police could have given her time and that family time before they took the shots. i say the family's attorney told me, i asked them several times. they do not say whether or not this shooting was justified or unjustified. however, the idea is a lot of people are feeling very, very upset. i should say i was out in the streets last night until 1:00 a.m. it was calm then. i don't think we will see violence. i hope we don't see violence tonight. i don't see any indication of the violence we saw in the past day days. >> when you had the chance to speak with the scott family, they had a chance to watch the video. did they tell you why they decided to make that public? >> reporter: yes. one of my first questions for the attorneys of the family was are you trying to pressure the

city to release their videos by releasing this video? they said no, of course. they want the city to release the dash cam and body cam video. this is about providing another angle and let people know this happened and this is the vantage point of which he watched his life die. the idea is to have people feel like they were here and they were in that moment. to really share in the grief of this family. this family has a lot of children. he is a father of seven. they have been asking for calm. they have been saying they don't want this video to turn into people rioting and looting on behalf of the family. >> new york times national reporter. over the course, night, we want to get good angles there. i appreciate it. >> thanks. big night around here.

thank you for spending it with us. we'll be right back.

>> so tonight we are watching protests not just in charlotte, north carolina, but also now in atlanta. georgia's chapter of the naacp is leading a large demonstration in atlanta tonight. in georgia and atlanta, what they're calling for is new laws in their state. they're calling for an independent body to investigate all police-involved shootings instead of the police investigating themselves. they're calling for an independent prosecutor for those kinds of cases and they're calling for a requirement that all bodycam and dashcam footage from police-involved shootings should be released to the public within 48 hours of those incidents. again, this is the protest and those are the demands that we're looking at in atlanta, georgia, tonight. we are keeping an eye as i mentioned on charlotte, tonight. this is the fourth demonstration night after the police shooting of keith lamont scott on tuesday.

some of the most recent reporting we've had out of charlotte is that protesters again are headed toward or blocking parts of interstate 277. protesters blocking major roadways and particular interstates have been some of the causes of some of the most heated confrontations between police and protesters, but as i mentioned with yamiche, we have eyes and ears on the ground in charlotte and we'll be covering this throughout the evening. we'll be looking at that later and we'll be looking a head at the political story that took over the headlines today. it's been a love story for the ages. that's all still ahead tonight. stay with us.

so suppose you were a democrat and suppose you were nervous about the election. oh, but i repeat myself.

on the eve of the first presidential debate which is monday, one of the things we have been keeping an eye on this week is the electoral forecast for which party will control the united states senate. "the new york times" for a long time had been projecting the democrats would regain control of the senate in november's elections and as of this week the times is now projecting that the republicans will control the senate. "the washington post" also now forecasting that republicans will retain control of the senate. we talked about both of those projections for senate control earlier this week, but for you, hypothetical nervous democrat, there was also good news on that front this week. a little something to slow your frantic heart rate. nate silver's outfit 538.com have launched their senate forecast and their analysis is the democrats who are favored to take control of the senate, barely, barely, but still. as of this evening, 538 gives democrats a -- what is that? 58.5% chance of winning the

senate majority. happy friday, nervous democrats. as for the presidential race yesterday we reported on the first real data and the first real vote that has been cast already in the presidential election, an exclusive analysis from an nbc news partnership with the voter data group target smart shows that of the absentee ballots that have been cast in north carolina so far, this isn't polling, this is actual votes cast, registered democrats have an eight-point edge so far on the early vote in north carolina over republicans. the ballots returned in north carolina, 42% are from the democrats and 34% are from republicans. that's only north carolina and only a few thousand votes, but that is way better for democrats than it was in 2012 when mitt romney won north carolina against president obama. soon, we will be able to get similar data from lots of other states besides north carolina. in addition to north carolina, absentee voting has now started in georgia and in alabama. absentee voting started today in

virginia, indiana, and west virginia. regular old early voting in-person and early voting also started today in minnesota, south dakota and vermont. a bunch of states are sending out their first ballots this week and over the weekend. tomorrow is the deadline for absentee ballots to go out to overseas and military voters. if you're wondering why we're getting a big rash of newspaper endorsements right now, why is it happening so far before the debates and so far before the election is because voting is starting and editorial boards feel like now is the time to say their piece. the cincinnati enquirer decided not to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time since 1916 when they endorsed woodrow wilson. it took "the cincinnati enquirer" another, century to endorse, and it gave an enthusiastic endorsement of hillary clinton and an

enthusiastic renouncement of donald trump. the big announcement today was ted cruz, of all people. senator ted cruz last seen getting booed and screamed at at the republican convention in cleveland when he didn't say republicans should vote for donald trump and he instead said republicans should vote their conscience. ted cruz came out today and endorsed donald trump, it was -- i guess we all knew it was coming, but still, reporters struggled to contextualize and struggled to explain the massiveness of the capitulation that this was today for senator cruz. here is a typical lead. here's how a reporter russell berman led his piece for the atlantic announcing his endorsement of ted cruz and this shows you the lengths to which reporters are having to go to explain how bizarre this is. quote, ted cruz set aside his many differences with donald trump on friday to endorse a president a man whom he once

called a serial philanderer, a pathological liar, utterly amoral, and a sniffling coward and who insulted his wife's looks and who insinuated cruz's father was involved of the assassination of john f. kennedy and who said he wouldn't accept his endorsement and who for months mocked him mercilessly with a schoolyard taunt, lyin' ted. he was supposed to be the last line of right-wing republican defense against donald trump. the last line was supposed to be principled resistance to donald trump and that is gone now, too. ted cruz's former communications director rick tyler who was a ted cruz true believer, he told nbc's hallie jackson when he heard this news. quote, it's morning in america for conservatives. we lost our leader today. what it also means is that

donald trump is consolidating the support of the republican party, all of it. he is theirs now and they are his. which is something i am sure his campaign wanted to have sewed up heading into the debates and they were both off the campaign trail today preparing for monday's debate although they're preparing in markedly different ways. sources tell nbc news that clinton will be debating in mock debate with someone playing the role of donald trump and doing timed drills and donald trump is doing nothing of the sort. he's continuing his more laid back approach of sitting around and spitballing with his closest aides. i, for one, don't really believe any of it because they're all spinning this so hard to try to manage expectations about this right now, honestly -- when we're this close to the debate there's no real reason to believe the spin. there's no real reason to even listen to the spin. at this point we just wait it out because on monday night we will get to see them in action and all of the spin will become irrelevant because it will happen live and in prime time.

our debate coverage is going to start here on msnbc at 6:00 p.m. eastern and chris hayes 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and brian williams will be here with the cast of thousands and the action starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern and you can watch the whole thing here, commercial-free. you should watch it with us. it's all very exciting. you're not going to want to miss it. you and 80 million of your fellow citizens are all expected to be there and you actually need a doctor note and an excuse if you're not going to. we will be right back.

governor chris christie of new jersey is serving his second and final term in office. he cannot run for reelection. that's probably a good thing for him right now. a new poll out this week puts the percentage of new jersey residents who view chris christie at an all-time low, 23%. 23% favorable. 23? >> remember when bush approval rating fell through the floor and the whole country couldn't wait to see him go and john mccain didn't want to be seen with him, even in all that time, george w. bush never dropped to 23% of people viewing him favorably, but that is where chris christie is right now, and i'm guessing it may be about to get worse. this is the list of potential witnesses who may get called to testify in the federal trial in which chris christie's deputy chief of staff and one of his

top-appointed officials are facing felony charges for bridgegate, for shutting down access lanes on the busiest bridge in the world in order to punish one of chris christie's political enemies. this is a big case. the potential witness list is giant. we don't assume they'll call everybody on this list, but one of the names they could call to testify is governor chris christie himself and he's on the potential witness list. >> today the star witness took the stand. he's a christie appointee who has pled guilty for his part in bridgegate and he's facing 15 years in prison and his name is david wildstein and cooperating with the prosecution and today his first day on the stand he testified as to what his job was as a chris christie appointee at this agency where he worked. this gigantic, two-state agency called the port authority. port authority runs roads, bridges and tunnels and marine facilities. it's giant. david wildstein testified he operated at that agency by what

he called by his one constituent rule. meaning he had one constituent. meaning the only person that mattered to him and the only person his actions were designed to benefit was governor chris christie. david wildstein said under oath today that the port authority was used as an instrument of chris christie's re-election campaign. that he was expected as christie's appointee at the port authority to use the port authority's assets to reward or to punish people based on how they treated chris christie. the whole port authority was to be used as leverage to get chris christie endorsements from other elected officials for his re-election campaign. he said that order to use the port authority that way to get endorsements for the real act, he says that order came from governor christie himself and also from christie's aide, deputy chief of staff bridget ann kelly who is one of the defendants on trial, and he said it mostly came from governor christie's campaign manager, a man named bill steppian, he is

the national field director for the donald trump for president campaign, and he was running the scheme? oh, tell me more. tell me everything. the great news for the popcorn industry is that david wildstein, the star witness for the prosecution is expected to continue his testimony for all of next week. we'll be right back. i just saved thousands on my loan at lendingtree.com. in less than a minute, i found out how much home i can afford. i like how you shop for loans the same way you shop for flights online.

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black lives matter! black lives matter! black lives matter! we're keeping an eye tonight on charlotte, north carolina on this, the fourth night of demonstrations since the fatal police shooting tuesday of keith lamont scott. these protests started up tonight largely within the past 90 minutes or so. so far, it's clear there are a lot of people out in the streets and there's a lot of energy and no reports of any disturbances. these are peaceful protests. earlier in the day we saw

student-led protests at high schools and hopewell high and vance high and charlotte's northwest school of the arts. but again, starting at around 8:00 p.m. local time tonight protesters did start marching once again through the streets of charlotte. you heard those chants, black lives matter and we're hearing stand up, fight back. no justice, no peace and repeated chants of "release the tapes." >> release the tapes! release the tapes! release the tapes! >> protesters in charlotte tonight calling for local officials to release the police video of the keith scott shooting. they're asking people also to watch the video that was taken by keith scott's wife which nbc news released today. charlotte leaders are also, in a sense, nationalizing their response and they're asking people outside charlotte who agree with them and empathize

with them with the protests to protest where they live. tonight, we're seeing some of that. this is a live shot from atlanta, georgia. this is one of the large marches that's happening in the country tonight. this was organized by the naacp in atlanta tonight. it shows there are other signs of it, but this big crowd tonight out in atlanta shows how this response to the shooting in north carolina is spreading. joining us now is corinne mack and she's part of the branch of the atlanta naacp. thank you for talking to us tonight. i know this has been a difficult few days. >> thank you for having me. >> how would you describe the community reaction today to seeing the cell phone video that was released by keith scott's wife? >> i think there was a definite anger, initially and most of us

began to think about the family once again, just imagining how the short -- mr. scott should have been seeing her husband die before her. that had to be traumatic and she was in our hearts and prayers for the day today. >> there is a tremendous amount of pressure in the streets tonight that local authorities should release the police video, as well and the dash cam video and the body cam video and the family, when they look through their attorneys and when they have seen those videos which the police have shown them, they also don't believe they conclusively define what happened in that incident. do you think those police videos are released that it would materially change the way people feel about this incident? >> i know it would change the way they feel with the relationship between themselves and the police department. the incident, i'm not so sure, but i do know this, the videos probably have very different angles which would give a different perspective. i know the videos that the

family scott already said they could not determine, there were a lot of blockage and areas that they could not see anything. in terms of transparency, i think it's important that the p.d. does release the videos. we have a long way to go. a long way to go to build that bridge, but at least in doing that, that's a small olive branch towards what we're trying to get done which is a conversation, an honest conversation and possibly building trust again. >> in terms of the protests, obviously, this is four straight nights and we're seeing large crowds out in the street and last night people were out until the wee hours and large, peaceful protests and energetic protests and can you tell us anything in terms of how the organizing is going on behind these protests and it was organic with people showing up and is this a tightly organized effort across the city? >> i think it's both.

i know that the charlotte -- as well as the naacp have been working collaboratively to get things done and there are some organic, you know, areas in terms of the protests. the thing is i think that this oneness, we're all frustrated and we're all angry and sick and tired and we're seeing african-americans being killed by police and nobody is accountable. there is not one incident we can think of where someone was found guilty of shooting an unarmed person and we're sick of it. so i think just based on that and when you look at the systemic problems we have in this country and systemic racism and oppression. when you look at north carolina itself being number 50, in the country in terms of the vulnerability for black people, we understand there is a problem here beyond the fact that we're being killed. there is a problem in terms of the educational system, the pipeline problem we have here

and prison industrial complex we have here and there's a whole host of problems that need to be resolved. >> corine mack, your organization could not be more critical in terms of what's going on there and the eyes of the nation being upon charlotte and thank you for taking time to help us understand what's going on there. >> thank you. i appreciate you. >> much more ahead tonight. stay with us.

breaking news. we have just got a new statement from the clinton campaign. i mentioned earlier this hour that hillary clinton's campaign had announced she would be going to charlotte, north carolina, not tomorrow, sunday. the day before monday's debate and had said that might be in question because charlotte's mayor had expressed that visits from either hillary clinton or donald trump, she would hope, they could be delayed. charlotte feels like they've got a lot on their plate right now and not least of which is a continuing state of emergency in

that city. a statement from hillary clinton's communications director tonight john palmery, hillary is grateful for and intends to honor the invitation from faith leaders. after further discussion with community leaders, we have decided to postpone sunday's trip to want impact the city's resources and she will visit next sunday provided the circumstances allow. her prayers are with the people of charlotte at this time. hillary clinton now not planning on going to charlotte this sunday. stay with us.

if you remember back to the days when iraq was in the news every single day. when the iraq war was such big american news that we all learned at least a little bit of iraq geography by heart, you'll remember that the northern part of iraq up in the northeastern part of iraq there is a part of that country that isn't really run by the national government and that's the kurdish-controlled part of iraq. up in the northern part of iraq sandwiched between the kurdish-controlled region on one side and the syrian border on the other side, there is a major iraqi city called mosul and mosul used to have about 2.5 million people making it the third largest city in iraq, but then a couple of years ago, mosul got taken over by isis and now nobody knows how many people live there anymore. maybe it's down to a million people? we don't know. we also don't know what condition that city is in since isis has been running it for so long. other big, well-known cities in

iraq like ramadi and fallujah, they've been taken back from isis control, but mosul is the one that isis still has. they've got it now, but maybe not for long. for months now there have been reports that iraqi forces of some strike presumably with u.s. help and they've been positioning and moving weapons and forces into place to get ready to take back the city of mosul from isis and to take back the single largest city that isis controls anywhere. the iraqi prime minister has recently expressed that he wants the mosul operation to take place by the end of the year. i can now report that there are new signs that that incident, that operation may be imminent. even just from a u.s.-involvement perspective. a couple of weeks ago the u.s. sent 400 more american service members into iraq. many of them were presumably sent to a u.s. logistics hub just south of mosul in that spot that we've marked there on the map with a star there.

that u.s.-run facility made news just this week when isis, apparently, lobbed a shell into the facility that appeared to have contained mustard gas. oh, great. nobody was hurt, but that's ominous. in addition to those 400 americans that was sent in a couple of weeks ago, now u.s. officials have leaked to "the wall street journal" a new request for 500 more u.s. troops to be sent over there now. again, this is just a leak and not an official announcement and if we are sending another 500 american service men and service women over there that will bring the total number of u.s. service members deployed in iraq well up over 6,000, and it probably means that the invasion of the biggest isis-controlled city on earth is coming up fast. things to watch for in imminent. watch for cities and towns on the way to mosul to be taken. we have seen those announced in

the last week. we will also be watching for a plan to take care of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who will flee the city when the bombardment starts. this thing is coming and it's going to be a big deal and my expectation is it will happen before the u.s. election. watch this space.

all right, here's a story you have not heard anywhere else. here was donald trump a few days ago in north carolina in a place he had not intended to be. this is a barbecue restaurant in greensboro, north carolina. and you need to see him in these pictures, first, because mr. trump did not intend to be in that restaurant, but i swear he's there. >> mr. trump, can you take some questions from us? >> mr. trump, will you take some questions? >> mr. trump would not be taking any questions in that barbecue joint in north carolina.

he had started his tuesday just a little down the road with a rally in high point. the crowd there very enthusiastic. noticeably a very quite crowd. and at that cheat, super enthusiastic rally, he made his appeal to african-american voters who were truly not in the room. >> that's worst than the war-torn nations like afghanistan. the schools are failing. the jobs are leaving, and millions are trapped in poverty. millions are dropped in poverty. so to the african-american community, i say, vote for donald trump. i will fix it. i will fix it. what do you have to lose? your education is broken. your communities are unsafe. there are no jobs, what do you

have to lose? >> what do you have to lose. donald trump making that appeal for african-american votes in an almost entirely white room. he spoke in kenansville, north carolina where he stood in front of an almost entirely white audience. making an appeal to black voters. donald trump pronouncing the death sentence for america's inner cities while speaking to a white crowd in a rural town of less than 1,000 people. so that was donald trump's day in swing state north carolina, but it was not the day he intended to have. he started out in high point, north carolina. he ended up here in the evening, making that same appeal, again, to black voters, even though he was speaking to a room full of white people. but between them, you leave high point on the interstate, the first place you come to is greensboro. and the international civil rights center and museum, built around the old woolworth's lunch

counter where the four african-american men started the sit-in movement begun. they sat down at this lunch counter. and today you can visit that exact same lunch counter in the exact same spot at that civil rights museum in greensboro, north carolina. and you ought to see this, unless what you want is not so much to see it but to be seen yourself. that was on the way from one campaign speech to the next campaign speech for trump. he drove right by the civil rights museum. since then we have learned that he intended to go to the civil rights museum before later changing his mind. we think we know why. a representative showed up at the museum and used a very authoritative tone as he

informed the staff that trump security would be coming by, he would show up thereafter so he could be filmed walking through the civil rights museum. when staff tried to ask them about the event, they just told them it was happening, so get ready, period. that happened this weekend. that caused the head of the international civil rights museum to release this statement. the international civil rights center and museum is a non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to advancing an enlightened understanding of civil rights. any reasonable observer can conclude that donald trump is in comprehensive opposition to the value and mission of the civil rights museum. also as a practical matter, the museum is not in a position to suspend its operations to stand as a backdrop to legitimatize mr. trump's ideological positions.

they told him he was right to come as a citizen. they did not want to be a backdrop. so donald trump and his campaign did not go to the greensboro civil rights museum. apparently they decided they didn't want to face that. they apparently did need to stop in greensboro. they got some barbecue instead. he sure surprised all the diners there. they didn't know he was coming. reporters did try to answer ask him questions. >> when did you change your mind about the birther issue? >> that weighs donald trump's tuesday in north carolina. no answer to those questions. no stop at the civil rights museum either, even though they tried to.

still no comment from the campaign on that canceled planned trip to the civil rights museum. we've asked them about it, they apparently don't want to talk about it. but that tuesday in north carolina was the day keith lamont scott was shot. and we have four straight nights of protests since, including good evening. i'm in for chris matthews. the first presidential debate between donald trump and hillary clinton is coming up this monday night and the candidates seem to be preparing in very different ways. hillary clinton has spent three days off the trail this week. she's been studying up 0 debate material and watching video of trump's past debate performances. according to "the new york times," the goal is to get under his skin, quote. mrs. clinton has a thick dossier on trump including analysis and assumptions about his psychological make-up. clinton advisers describe as critical to understanding how to knock mr. um