texas lieutenant governor dan patrick said i to blame people on social media with their ha hatred on police. last night there were peaceful protests across the country and here in dallas, as well, until the last moments pl "black lives matter" released a statement that says this is a tragedy both for those who have been impacted by yesterday's attack and for our democracy. black activists have raised a call for an end to violence, not an escalation before yesterday's attack was the result of the actions of a lone gun man. to assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible. joining me now, co-founder alicia garza. there is the written response to there is dan patrick and others who have essentially said the rhetoric of this movement has created a rhetorical situation that has essentially given kind of tacet okay for people to act in a violent matter to police including last night. what do you say? >> first and foremost, it's important for us to just acknowledge that anytime somebody loses their life before its time, it is a tragedy. "black lives m

i want you to listen to texas governor dan patrick -- lieutenant governor dan patrick and the formermayor of new york city. take a listen. they were on the air today. >> all those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. what hypocrites. i do blame former black lives matter protests. last night was peaceful, but others have not been. >> the reason that there's a target on police officers' backs is because of groups like black lives matter. they make it seem like all police are against blacks. they're not. they're the ones saving black lives. black lives matter is not saving any black lives. it's the police officers who are doing it. >> i have my own feelings about those two sound bites that you just heard, but i want to give you an opportunity to respond. >> those type of ignorant statements, and their magnitude, is the reason why we have the rhetoric that we have, and why we have so much hate. that's only feeding into the problem which everybody is protesting about. that's not going to bring -- if they feel l

i want you to listen to texas governor dan patrick -- lieutenant governor dan patrick and the formerayor of new york city. take a listen. they were on the air today. >> all those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them. what hypocrites. i do blame former black lives matter protests. last night was peaceful, but others have not been. >> the reason that there's a target on police officers' backs is because of groups like black lives matter. they make it seem like all police are against blacks. they're not. they're the ones saving black lives. black lives matter is not saving any black lives. it's the police officers who are doing it. >> i have my own feelings about those two sound bites that you just heard, but i want to give you an opportunity to respond. >> those type of ignorant statements, and their magnitude, is the reason why we have the rhetoric that we have, and why we have so much hate. that's only feeding into the problem which everybody is protesting about. that's not going to bring -- if they feel li

assume you could hear my interview with the governor, these quotes from the lieutenant governor, dan patrickout calling the marchers last night hypocrites in dallas. >> well, it's clear to me, brian, that the lieutenant governor doesn't know the entire story. from my understanding from stories on the ground, is that police and protesters were getting along with each other fine, first of all, during the actual protest, taking pictures with one another on social media, but then once the shooting actually started, the protesters and police were helping one another. the police were so brave, they went right into the line of fire despite not having the same caliber weapon as the shooter had. but they still went in with bravery to try to subdue him, and my understanding was that the protesters were actually aiding the police and giving them directions and any intel they had on the ground with cell phones and things like that. like you just mentioned, the man that was wrongly identified in the picture that he was helping with traffic and i think the important thing to take away from this, brian, in

[applause] >> they say black lives matter, the governor and dan patrick said every life matters.lives matter as well. [applause] >> i had an african-american guy in the street say that to me, thank you because cops lives matter and they do, cops lives protecting us. we need a new commander-in-chief that will lead our military to greatness, restore the greatness of america. as i said last night, islamicist terrorists, the first shot, rest assured the last. [applause] >> it is my great honor, one last point, this administration won't call it what it is, the basic military principle is you have to define your enemy to defeat them and i have been saying this for years, we can't put our head in the sand and call whatever, the enemy is radical islam and we need to understand that and defeated and we need to say that. [applause] >> my honor to introduce speaker of the house paul ryan who is here today. i consider him to be a good friend and colleague. paul came in, vice president of canada, chairman of the budget committee, chairman of the powerful ways and means committee which determi

. >> texas governor dan patrick, at the same time we were watching the video, people were crying. those officers did not deserve to die. >> always good to have you on the road here. >> thank you very much >> all right, a short time ago, i spoke to the man that was falsely identified as suspect and he attacked his brother. i started by asking what happened. >> i decided to come to the protest. everything was peaceful and it was a historical moment and then chaos broke out. once chaos broke out, i was thought to be a suspect. >> how did you find out that your picture was circulated as a suspect? >> i received a phone call that i had just been seen on the media outlet because my brother had just interviewed me and i was in the background. i took it as they saw me on the news and they identified me as a suspect and the shooter. >> you saw that image of your brother circulating. what did you do, corey? >> i went to panic mode number one then i went to defense mode. i thought it was time for me to reach out to authorities that hey, my brother was accounted for the weapon he brought down

just like with lieutenant dan patrick said, when people were running back in. oh, they're a hypocrite because they wanted the police to protect them. what are you trying on establish here in texas? or you are trying to militaryize our police? or to protect and serve the people? they can what they were supposed to do. and no one was hurt. >> you feel they protected and served friday night. >> they protected and serve. however, at the same time, what happened that night, no one, no one in our wildest dreams would have thought that happened. it is time for this community to have real dialogue and real actions from that dialogue. and bring the change that is needed. and not bringing out the local pastors, addressing the issues that don't be in the community. >> to be cheer, it sounds like you feel like the moment will be swept under the rug. >> as always. the people addressing the issue in dallas and all across the country, the activists are not listening. they bring the people in to represent the community that is not representing the community that has the proble

he is lieutenant governor dan patrick of the great state of texas.e you again. >> great to see you again, brooke. you get combat pay here. the lights are hot. >> i need shades. i need shades. so how is it that politicians, including yourself, can go from one end of the spectrum to the other and say we like him now? >> did ever work for a network and switch to another network and suddenly they became the best? >> are you go ifg me credit? i'll take it. >> my point is ball players, trade teams. if you're on the field of battling with politics is a battle, you go all out to win. then you get traded or you switch networks or you now support another candidate. >> isn't that part of job function versus character. one's character doesn't change. mr. trump is mr. trump is mr. trump. >> i think when it comes to politics, people say things in the heat of the battle that afterwards they can sit down and say -- and, look. >> do you regret being -- >> -- the last negative i said about donald trump was back in august of last year. i stayed out of that. i was the c

you do are -- your you're commissioning to protect and be the people just like with lieutenant dan patrickaid when people were run bag can into the thing, they're a hypocrite because they wanted the police to protect them. what are you trying to establish here in texas? are you trying to milty rise our police or to protect and be the people? they did what they were supposed to do. and no one was hurt. you know -- >> you feel they protected and served on friday night. >> they protected and served. however, at the same time, what happened that night no one, no one in our wildest dreams would have thought that happened. it's time for this community to stand together. it's time for this community to have real dialogue and real actions from that dialogue. and bring the change that is needed and not bringing out the local pastors addressing the issues that don't be in the community when these issues are brought up. >> i want you to be clear and just give you one more second. it sounds like you feel like the moment will be swept under the rug. >> yes, it's always because the people that's address

let's bring in texas lieutenant governor dan patrick for more on this you heard our reporting, lieutenantgovernor. you're with us? >> yes i am, harris. harris: first of all our condolences across the nation. >> thank you. harris: we're all praying for what happened in your state and your home city. just big questions now about the reporting that just happened. some of the assets that are coming to you. first of all, what help you're getting and what help you need? >> one of the, one of the areas we needed this morning and we still need are counselors. we're solving that issue. because every police officer involved in a shooting has a chance to sit down with a counselor and quite frankly there were some police firing last night, we were short of counselors. we're bringing that assistance from around the state. you know, harris, i heard a lot, i've been sitting here listening to the show and i want to bring us back to real people who died last night and were wounded. brent thompson, married two weeks ago, shot 10 or 12 times yesterday. had a bulletproof vest on as they all did, bullets pier

let you go, i know that you're aware of the lieutenant governor's remarks, lieutenant governor dan patrickmade some critical remarks of the protesters here saying essentially, and i'm paraphrasing here, that they were hypocritical in thinking that the police they were protesting against, in his words, should be expected to protect them when all hell opened up early friday morning. he's caught a lot of flack for those comments. i know you had a conversation with him at a prayer service yesterday. what did you say to him? what did he say to you? >> well, let me put it like this. i think that if you were to talk to him again, he would say that those were poorly used words. i don't think he used the correct terminology. i would hope that y'all would visit with him again to see whether he retracts those words and puts them in context. i think he will based on the conversations we've had with him. >> the invitation to the lieutenant governor to do just that. state senator royce west. senator, thank you for your time. our thoughts and prayers continue to be with you and the people of dallas, sir.

. >> before we trot off to a break, let's listen to lieutenant governor dan patrick of texas. >> 92.here every texan has the back of our law enforcement office officers, i am proud to report our vote for marco rubio, three votes. for our dear friend, a great conservative, our favorite son who we love, ted cruz, 104 votes. and for our new friend, our latest adopted favorite son, for the man who on the night of november 8th is going to get a phone call from a lady named hillary when she concedes the race to the next president of the united states, donald trump, 48 votes. >> on the floor of the convention, our coverage will continue right after this. >>> we are back. you can drop as we have been saying, you can drop the word presumptive as you see our banner at the bottom of the screen. donald trump has officially clinched the gop nomination. in those early days of the trump campaign, just as the heart is a lonely hunter, endorsing donald trump in congress was a lonely place. someone had to go first in the house of representatives. andrea mitchell up near the podium is standing by with

matter movement who have chanted anti-police slogans in the past and later lieutenant governor dan patrickng that people have a right to row test, but police officers deserve the public's support. others expressing anger at president obama, including former illinois republican congressman joe walsh and joe walsh joins me now. congressman, thank you for joining me. last night, you sent out a tweet and let's take a look at it. it says three dallas cops killed, 7 wounded. this is now war. watch out, obama. watch out black lives matter punks. rural america is coming after you. it has since been deleted. why did you do that? >> because, hey, don -- and thanks for having me. i'm pissed off a lot of americans are pissed off and a lot of police officers are around the country are upset because there really is a war on our cops and a lot of police officers, don, just like i think a lot of americans believe that it started with barack obama. you go all the way back to ferguson, missouri. from that point forward, the last couple years, barack obama has done nothing but hate on cops. accusing cops of

. >>> texas lieutenant governor dan patrick has just ordered flags to fly at half staff across the statel be sharing all of the developments about the police shootings on the nbc washington app today and will be sending out breaking news alerts as well. it is our top story online. >>> after the break, signs of recovering in west virginia, after deadly flooding. >>> and does the heat wave last all the way through the weekend? >>> a symbol of west virginia pride that was damaged in last month's flooding will reopen for business next week. the historic greenbrier resort will open on tuesday. the grounds and some of the rooms at the hotel were pretty heavily damaged by the flooding. cancel the greenbrier classic because of the damage. it was supposed to start yesterday. hundreds of people who lost their homes in that flooding have been staying at the resort while staff works to reopen the hotel. >>> if you think you are hot and sweating in this weather, just imagine those dealing with the high temperatures while wearing heavy gear and fighting fires. some florida firefighters are getting a b

first i want to get your response, there's the written response to, there's dan patrick, and there are who have essentially said, the rhetoric of this movement has created a rhetorical situation that has essentially given a kind of tacit okay for people to act in a violent matter towards the police, including last night. what do you say to those people? >> first and foremost, i think it's important to acknowledge that any time somebody loses their life before its time, it is a tragedy. black lives matter has never, ever called for the murder of police officers. what we have said over and over again is that it is time in this country for policing to be accountable, transparent, and responsible. that's not rhetoric. that is what communities in the united states want to see from the people who protect and serve them. and so quite frankly, we can at the same time that we grieve the loss of life of several officers who were killed last night, we can also push to demand that there be accountable, responsive, transparent policing that has oversight from communities and that is accountable to

we heard it from the lieutenant governor of texas, dan patrick, with police officers killed in dallas a few days ago. i want you to talk about the fact that here in cleveland we have hundreds of police officering coming from all over. and i want to be careful about the language we use but it is what it is. you have a lot of police officers coming here. >> we have a lot of police officers. >> and they are targets. >> absolutely this is targets. this is proof they are targets. it asked for him to ban any open carry weapons in cuyahoga county. anybody that will have an open carry weapon will be treated and looked at in a hostile-type environment. this is what i meant, plolice officers being ambushed, we are look at people very, very hard. the governor needs to seize the moment and take care of this issue with some type of order or whatever he needs to do to outlaw or ban open carry weapons here. i don't know what the details of baton rouge are but i assure you anybody with a weapon slung over their shoulder will be looked at in a much different light given the circumstances and what this

. >>> joining me now is dan patrick, the republican lieutenant governor of texas. g us at the time of horrible loss for all of texas. >> yes. for all of texas, yes. for all of texas. you know, jim, it's not just a dallas or a texas loss. it's a loss for america and if we don't unite, if we don't come together quickly as a country, our law enforcement will be undermined and our justice system will be undermined. you know, if there are issues in law enforcement, then they need to be addressed but we have to separate that as t.d. jake said today in a prayer meeting today in downtown dallas, you separate the 1% and address that issue if there are wrongs but you cannot continue to attack the 99% of grouping them in with the 1. i'm afraid, jim, we won't have any policemen soon. our ranks are dwindling everywhere in the country. spouses of police officers are saying find a new career. we have got to unite behind law enforcement. >> i think we agree we have to unite as a country. the police arrested three other people at the time of these attacks. are they still suspects in

amy: the texas lieutenant governor, dan patrick, appeared on cnn in cleveland, expressing support forinvestigation following donald trump of the statement monday night on fox news that if elected, he would instruct his attorney general to look into black lives matter. >> well, thankfully, he is lieutenant governor now, nothing had of the depepartment of justice. it is a movemement that is s brt to the foror the issueue of pole misconduduct. black lives matter is fininally put on the national platform, and national conversation, the issue of excessive use of force and the u unconstitutionality of the encoununters with police and are nowamericans themselves being criminalized. they are the ones being criminalized. it is an amazing phenomemenon tt we have a law enforcement commmmunity and those who suppot them saying somehow that the blue shield is more important than citizenship and express and constitutional rights. amy: the number of like delegates, 18, the lowest number believed in more than a century here at the republican convention. >> and i would add to that, so the recent poll t

then some of you a few weeks ago when the brexit vote "the dan patrick show" -- brexit vote passed andhe pound gets hit then more people will come to my golf course, that's me first. i want a kids and families first president. secretary clintoncome to my gol me first. i want a kids and families first president. secretary clinton -- and i have to admit to partiality here, because i like in you what i like about my wife ann, who is secretary of education in virginia. [ cheers and applause ] yeah. when secretary clinton was growing up in illinois and she got exposed it a methodist youth group and exposed to the big challenges outside in the big outside world like we all do when we're young, you can make a decision about whether you make those problems your own or try to avoid them and she decided at a young age i want to make those challenges my own. as a lawyer, working with the children's legal defense fund, first lady of arkansas doing so much great stuff as secretary of state making the empowerment of women and children a fundamental pillar of american foreign policy in every nation o

greg abbott who could not be here tonight, on behalf of our great chairman tom meckler, my name is dan patrickthe greatest job-creating state in the country -- [cheers and applause] >> of the 12-largest economy on state, and we a are really proud of this, where no democrat has won statewide office since 1992. [cheers and applause] texan has thevery back of our law enforcement officers. [cheers and applause] proud to report our vote. for marco rubio, three. friend, a great conservative, our favorite son who we love, ted cruz, 104 votes. [cheers and applause] >> and for our new friend, our latest adopted favorite son, for the man, who on the night of november 8 is going to get a phone call from a lady named hillary when she concedes the race to the next president of the united states, donald trump. 48 votes. [cheers and applause] mr. kent: pursuant to the announcement of the delegation and the rules of this convention, trump, 104 votes cruz, three votes rubio. u.s. virgin islands. nine delegates. chairman, my name is john and on behalf of the united states virgin islands, one of the five u.s. te

and i think that, you know, thinking about what governor greg abbott and especially what dan patrick had to say, those are words of violence as well. those things incite people to act in ways that are not normal for us. and we have to recognize that. >> i want to ask you about the president who spoke about black lives matter earlier today. here's what he said. >> now, in a movement like black lives matter, there's always going to be some folks who say things that are stupid or imprudent or overgeneralized or are harsh. and i don't think that you can hold well meaning activists who are doing the right thing and peacefully protesting responsible for everything that is uttered at a protest. >> he went onto call the dallas shooting a disservice to your group's progress. so how do you reconcile that when it comes to your group's goal, and those who protest violently in your name? >> well, everything he said was true. but i'd like to go a little further. when i stated earlier that we have to break down systems of oppression and institutionalized racism, that means we have to work with peop

also, if you would join me in congratulating lieutenant governor dan patrick, today is his 45th wedding anniversary to his wife who's a retired schoolteacher. or the one. [applause] so of all the places they could be on their wedding anniversary, he's here, she's not. so please pray for him that his wife will be understanding. >> she's the most patient woman you've ever met. >> she's very kind to allow her husband to be here with us so that you for your service to our state and being here with us. without further ado i'dlike to ask doctor robert armstrong to lead us in the invitation. chairman robert scoble will do the us pledge . rhonda lacey is out of district 31 will sing the star-spangled banner and e kegler will follow with the texas pledge so ... go ahead. >> .dear god we just thank you for this day other. we thank you that you have blessed us this day and called us this day father for a higher purpose lord. invisible with liberty and justice for all. please join me in an incredible anthem. josÉ can you see by the dawn early light. what so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gl

. >> i'll play you what texas lieutenant governor dan patrick had to say because he had a very differentat you've been saying and folks like places at reason.com have been saying about these issues so take a listen to this. >> i do blame people on social media with their hatred to police and i do blame former black lives matters protests. last night was peaceful and others have not been and we have heard of pigs in the blanket. >> black lives matter has disavowed pigs in a blanket chant and stuff like that. what do you make of this blaming black lives matter which is advocating what you had in your excellent piece for the violence against police? >> well, i do think that it's a little bit ridiculous. and as a conservative, i, obviously, don't joagree with t rhetoric you hear at the black lives matter protests and so on and so forth. i think so much polarization on this country on this issue. people tend to fall into one of two camps, one of which says that everything police do is wrong and then there is one that says everything police do is right. i think that both of those are kind of c

as for the political element here in texas, lieutenant governor dan patrick said yesterday that he believed running from the fire or the bullets were hypocrites for asking for police help. however, the governor, dan greg abbot rather said he had asked for people to unite and come together. president obama will be here next week. back to you. >> all right, thanks, william. it's not just dallas we are talking about this morning. overnight police being targeted across a number of states last night. and this one shocked me in valdosta that, georgia. 911 call comes in sent out a police officer to the house in order to fire on this police officer. in baldwin, missouri, one officer in critical condition after being shot. bristol, tennessee one officer wounded, two civilians killed and two wounded. suspect in the hospital this morning. >> i was actually at dinner last night with my husband in the west village and protests are going on all over the country. i watched as these cops lined up to prepare for the night. they didn't know what was going to happen. unloading the car and putting on vests and

dan quayle. if john mccain and george h.w. bush can surprise us, a guy like donald trump can surprise us, too. >> gary, thanks. >>> joining the conversation, cnn political analyst and "new york times" political correspondent, patrick trump all along has said in terms of a vice president pick, i remember asking him this months and months ago, he wants to go for somebody political, not necessarily military because he feels pretty confident on the military side or the economic side, he's a businessman. he wants to go with somebody who can help him out on capitol hill. who do you think it will be? >> yeah. that plays to gingrich's strengths. my reporting has found that chris christie's star has sort of faded in the vp side, that trump would like to give him a senior role in the administration but he's looking less at christie and more at gingrich and pence. i think the question is, does he go conventional which would be more like mike pence, or does he go with someone who is like him, kind of an unconventional choice, someone whose temperament and background may be a little rocky with parts of the party, but who would give him, newt gingrich knows washington, he knows how congress works. he knows he has some of those