we have it all covered tonight starting with nbc's halle jackson. halle? >> reporter: good evening, lester. tonight, donald trump looking to turn the conversation to terrorism as his critics keep on questioning about his temperament and his ability to comfort the families of the fallen, all of this now putting new pressure on republicans to answer for their nominees, as some trump supporters including here in columbus shrug it off. on stage, nothing new about the khans, but online, trump once again hitting the gold star family for their blitzing broadcast to make their point. ghazala khan today remembering the last conversation she had with her son. >> i love my soldier, so i will be -- i will take care of them. >> reporter: celeste zapala understands that pain. her son was also killed by an explosion in iraq. >> in a way, they have already gone through the worst days of their lives, i don't think there's anything mr. trump can say to them that will be more painful. >> reporter: the zapalas just one of the gold star families lining up against the gop nomin

>> halle jackson, thank you. there are still many unanswered questions in chicago tonight, two days after police released a series of videos showing officers shooting at and apprehending a suspect who was killed. the police >> reporter: scattered peaceful protests and demonstrations across chicago this weekend. >> we do not need white officers policing the black community. >> reporter: outrage sparked by the fatal shooting of unarmed paul o'neal who was fleeing police in a stolen vehicle. >> a lot of people are upset by what they saw and quite honestly they have a right to be upset. >> reporter: chicago police superintendent johnson speaking out for the first time. >> i was concerned by some of the things th we took such swift action. >> reporter: unprecedented swift action from a police department under fire and under federal investigation for prior shootings. while the department acted quickly in releasing the video, several officers appear to fire in the direction of each other and a police suv while shooting

halle jackson comes to us on the phone. she's on the road to jacksonville, florida, where tonight trump will hold the second rally of the day in that all important battleground state. now, as you can see, that's just one of the many battleground states the candidates are hitting today. so halle, you've been reporting that it's the trump's children that hold to key to how donald trump does or does not recover from this. tell us a little bit about what you know about the intense pressure on him and your reporting that he needs to get his act together. >> and one of the takeaways chris from the conversations that we've been having with people in and around donald trump's orbit is just that. it is going to be -- >> we have lost, obviously halle jackson on the phone. so because she is traveling. do we have john harwood? okay. so let's, let's move on. where are we going now? despite his campaign being in a state of chaos, donald trump is plotting ahead, he's hitting the trail, you saw that. up next -- we're going to talk to one o

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we have got it all covered starting with nbc's halle jackson. >> reporter: in the last of wisconsin nice, donald trump's playing nice, not with hillary clinton today, a new attack on her in iowa. >> she's really close to unhinged. >> reporter: but trump is expected to endorse paul ryan after refusing. ryan standing by his candidate for now. endorsement of anybody, there's never a blank check. >> reporter: for trump, the endorsement with a rare backtrack. >> taking that money off that airplane. >> reporter: for days, no one's known of what footage he mceant of an iranian cash payment. after days of doubling down, today tweeting, the plane i saw on television was the hostage plane in admitting he's wrong, maybe trying to show he can grow. for the first time since january, hillary leads with men, white voters overall and those with no college education. struggling in some battlegrounds, but his team hoping for a turn around before it's too late. >> reporter: i'm kristen welker, tonight hillary clinton on the trust factor. >> people have count on me and trusted me. speaking to the associatio

. >> halle jackson tonight. a hospital has moved its newborn looking into whether the deaths of two infants could be related. >> reporter: all nine infants at a neonatal care unit have been moved to other hospitals after the discovery of bacteria that can be deadly for fragile newborns. a hospital official says two infants in the unit recently died. >> there's been no the infection itself. >> reporter: three of the nine patients tested positive of the bacteria, but none of them showed symptoms of the bacteria. it's called pseudomonas and it can be deadly for newborns who don't have hearty immune systems. >> it's a big deal when we find this in a neonatal care unit because these infections can have grave consequences for the children. >> reporter: the centers for disease control says hospitals 6700 drug resist stand cauing 240 deaths, mostly adults. two newborns died from it ten years ago at a los angeles hospital and it killed four infants in 2012 in the uk. hospital officials insist it was routine testing that

ha halle jackson. >> reporter: i'm katy facing questions that he doesn't know about world affairs. >> putin is not going to go into the ukraine, you can mark it down, you can take it any way you wanted. >> he's already there, isn't he? >> he's there in a certain way. russia going into the ukraine, i said very simply, they're not goes to do it on my watch, essentially. >> reporter: in the same interview, trump ukraine. >> the people of cri crimea would rather be with russia than alone. >> he said we would look into giving, acknowledging the annexation of crimea, he said he would stop talking about democracy and human rights, he said he would re-evaluate and our allies. >> reporte . >> reporter: trump is now distant. >> i have no relationship with putin. i don't think i have ever met him. i have never met him. >> katie tur, mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. introducing clinton at a rally a while ago. and he challenged trump in a duel for his tangs returns. >> i want to make him an offer, i hope he can't refuse. i would be delighted to meet him any place, any time between now and election, i'

. >> reporter: i'm halle jackson in pennsylvania, where less than 48 hours after he accused president obama of founding isis, even donald trump can't decide whether he meant it. >> obviously i'm being sarcastic. then, but not that sarcastic to be honest with you. >> reporter: the surprising sort of walk back followed the day when trump did more than double down. >> i meant exactly that, he's the founder of isis. >> i know what you went, you meant that he created the vacuum and he lost the peace. >> no, i meant that he's the founder of isis. >> reporter: now saying that the media misrepresenting him. remember when he said that the russians should hack the clintons? >> of course i'm being sarcastic. >> to trump, it's real daring clinton to go after republican vulnerabilities with isis still launching deadly attacks. >> they're expanding. >> reporter: today to reassure republicans and help keep the candidate on message, a rare campaign cameo from party head reince priebus. >> in spite of the media, this man is going to win. >> reporter: not if these numbers win, maris polling out tonight

but let's start with msnbc's halle jackson who is in columbus, ohio, ahead of a trump valley that's scheduled to begin in just a few hours. halle, if you look at his feet, if you hear what he said, donald trump seems to think he's not the one in the wrong here, but what's going on inside his campaign? >> reporter: this scramble, chris, and you're seen it from donald trump's tweets and from what his advisors have been saying over the last 24 hours to try and change the conversation and not talking about the khans, but instead to shift the focus to radical islamic terrorism. that is want point they keep going back to, both trump and his surrogates when asked about this. and it is illuminating in how donald trump is handled these kinds of controversies in the past, not backing away, not apologizing, but instead abling the media and trying to talk about something else. this again, chris, is putting many republicans in the uncomfortable position of supporting their gop nominee, but not supporting some of what he is saying. and we have seen reaction coming out now from a number of top-ranking gop o

nbc's halle jackson. go for it. >> reporter: thomas, i always want to say more things but i would note that what people like rubio talk about acknowledging the presence of other candidates in the race realistically, the person elected president comes from one of the two major parties if history holds. >> thank you. i look forward to hearing what you have to say next time. >>> president obama addressed supporters at a fund-raiser saying, quote, if we are not running scared until the day after the election, we are going to be making a grave mistake. he also took a dig at trump saying i don't have to make the case against her opponent because every time he talks he makes the case against his own candidacy. christen walker is following the race and we're learning more about the transition team. if hillary clinton is to secure the white house come november. >> reporter: that's right. we're learning that ken salazar, the former interior secretary to head up that transition team. but they have really recruited s

ha halle jackson, nbc news, jacksonville. >>>. >> reporter: today obama injected politics into a visit with a foreign trump is unfit to serve as president. i said so last week and he keeps on proving it. >> reporter: alongside the prime minister of singapore, mr. obama condemning donald trump with his strongest words yet. >> he's woefully unprepared to do this job. i think i was right and mitt romney and john mccain were wrong on certain policy issues, but i never thought that they couldn't do the job. >> reporter: calling on republican leaders support for trump. >> if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him? >> there has to be a point in way you say, this is not somebody i can support for president of the united states. there has to be a point in which you say enough. >> reporter: these blistering comments come as the president presidency and help elect hillary clinton. military families especially enraged by trump's comments. >> this seems to be above and beyond the usual kinds of legitimate comments

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halle jackson has late details. her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is, i don't know. >> reporter: the clinton campaign believes trump's suggesting violence. saying, quote, what trump is saying is dangerous. democratic senator chris murphy calling it an assassination threat. listen again. >> if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people maybe e know. >> reporter: trump's team argued second amendment people are, quote, tremendously united which gives them great political power. a top advisor saying it's totally ridiculous that trump made an assassination request. and and trump is right, if hillary clinton gets to pick supreme court judges, there's nothing we can do. opponent, i think most americans would say that's something we don't condone and you should not be president of the united states. >> reporter: a fire storm yet again for trump, new signs that the gop candidate is in trouble with his base. >> everything i'm thinking, i'm going to say and some

halle jackson has late details. under fire for this. >> if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is, i don't know. >> reporter: the clinton campaign believes trump's suggesting violence. quote, what trump is saying is dangerous. democratic senator chris murphy calling it an assassination threat. listen again. >> if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people maybe there is, i don't know. >> reporter: trump's team argued second amendment people are, unified which gives them great political party. you don't think he was threatening any violence to hillary clinton? >> of course not. >> reporter: and a top advisor saying it's totally ridiculous that trump made an assassination threat. and trump is right, if hillary clinton gets to pick supreme court judges, there's nothing we can do. >> if he's suggesting violence against his opponent, i think most thing we don't condone and he shouldn't be president of t

>> that was halle jackson reporting. trump says he will reveal more in the next week and a half or so. >>> today, vice presidential candidate mike pence will take a break from the campaign trail to tour parts of home state that was torn apart by tornadoes. people in indiana are just assessing the damage. one of the neighbors hit hardest was the city of cocomo. >>> a police officer accused of kicking off a southeast street gang. what officers found in their raid. pl plus -- >>> the mother of a nurse hurt on the job says the workers comp system let her daughter down when she needed it most. fighting chance to get better. our investigative unit is digging into a system >>> some folks in the workman's comp system says they don't have a fighting chance at getting bet. a system that has california's injured workers saying they're unfairly denied medical care. liz wagner talks about the appeals. >> most of the time, reviewers agree. people don't need the medical treatment they requested. this proves the deck is stacked against

. >> halle jackson went to find out in trump is soft everyoning his voice d undocumented immigrants. >> reporter: a new week and a new tone for donald trump's team, seeming to softennen his stance supporting a so-called deportation force, to remove the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the u.s. will he actually use that force? >> to be determined. >> reporter: the candidate himself still silent about it. his immigration policy still standing on-line, with trump still struggling to win over minority voters. african-americans, from whom he has about 1% support. >> you're living in poovierty, your schools are no good! you have no jobs! 58% of your youth is unemployed! what the hell do you have to lose? >> reporter: that argument to black voters delivered to mostly white communities. >> i live in a white community, i'm white. i was very moved by his comment. in other words, he is trying to tell americans th better. >> reporter: now, as trump tries to stay on message for another week, and on attack against hillary clinton, one of his top surrogates is raising eyebrows, raisi