joining us, senior political commentator, david axelrod, host of cnn podcast the ax files. and senior adviser maria core donna, david gregory, host of david gregory podcast, and trump supporter kayleigh mcenany. so the endorsements from obama, from elizabeth warren, senator sanders not dropping out but says he looks forward to meeting with clinton how to defeat trump. not a bad day for the clinton campaign. >> to say the least. this was a great day for the clinton campaign. it really spoke to consolidation or beginning of consolidation of the democratic base after a long, spirited primary. the president's endorsement was expected but still i'm sure welcome an important. i think the most encouraging thing was senator sanders' rhetoric after he left the white house, the clinton campaign short of endorsement which nobody expected at this moment could not have scripted his remarks better, they sent a strong signal that he will be out there this fall working hard to elect her and defeat donald trump. it was a big day for her. >> maria, donald trump tweeted about the endorsement m

i think by the body language today, the tone he struck today, as david axelrod mentioned, that he is preparing to endorse. this was a picture of a democratic party firing all cylinders with elizabeth warren at the tip of the speer as you played it a couple minutes ago. i think bernie sanders is dealing with first of all, he wants maximum influence, he was given his due, for being head of the progressive wing of the democratic party, and he also has, this is important for hillary clinton, he wants to make sure he doesn't rush this on behalf of all his supporters who may not be as far along as he might be in getting on board. david axelrod said months ago it is important for the clinton campaign to build a bridge that allows sanders supporters to walk over. they need time to do that. and it is going to take more than him saying i met with everybody, i am prepared to do this, he has to respect those supporters. >> kayleigh, interesting none of the former republican presidents or presidential nominees are out there at this point campaigning for donald trump and secretary clinton has the

david axelrod is with us, as well. senior political commentator, former senior adviser to president obama. joining us on the phone. david, your reaction to the video released by the clinton campaign formally showing the president enthusiastically endorsing hillary clinton? >> well, it's obviously a big plus for her and it comes on top of a statement by bernie sanders that must have been very heartening, as well. what you are seeing here is the consolidation of the democratic party. and one of the values of president obama hanging out and not endorsing a candidate until this point has been that he can play a larger role in reyou nighing the democratic party as this primary season draws to a close. so this is a big day for her. you know, it's so interesting, wolf. you think about this process and how dynamic it is. a month ago, it looked like donald trump was about to con l consolidate the republican party as all the republican candidates fell by is wayside and he became the presumptive nominee of the party and hillary cl

david axelrod. thanks for being here. >> thanks, john.rson: we'll be right back with our panel. yand now it's finally here.ear, the edmerces-benz summer event is back, with incredible offers on the mercedes-benz you've always longed for. but hurry, these shooting stars fly by fast. >> dickerson: joining us now for political analysis is "usa today's" washington bureau economy, susan page. chief washington correspondent for the "washington post," dan balz. plus national editor of the "cook political report," amy walter and executive editor of the national review, reihan salam. reihan, let me start with you. how much of big deal are donald trump's comments and -- he's not backing down on the question of the judge. new england said it was huge mistake to hold this position, does it matter? >> it's hard to say because what donald trump does and as he did in his interview with you, he will take one of your questions, he won't exactly answer it. he will take words that you brought up in your quest

in political commentator and former chief strategist for barack obama's presidential campaigns, david axelrodd your political career as something of an ad guru. i want to get your take on the ads hitting the airwaves. here's a newly released one. >> who are you consulting with consistently so you're ready on day one? >> i'm speaking with myself. i'm really good at war. i love war in a certain way. including with nuclears. yes. including with nuclears. >> i want to be unpredikctable. >> i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. >> too dangerous, he says. >> i think that hes temperament, as it relates to foreign policy, is something that resonating with voters, maybe not with his base. it's really effective. it's made more effective, of course, that this is shock and awe. all of these ads are raining down and he has no resources to respond to them. so in these battleground states, they are getting a hefty dose. >> trump supporters continue to ma' hammer away at hillary clinton's lack of trustworthiness, lack of honesty. here's a pro trump ad. >> we turned over anything. >> i want

former obama adviser david axelrod said, while he takes aim at the word that the conversation didn'touch on the probe, it was foolish to create such optics. the democratic senator chris coons also issued this warning. >> she should have steered clear of even a brief meeting with the former president. >> and donald trump reacts on "hannity." >> when i first heard that yesterday afternoon, i thought they were joking. i said no way, there's no way that's going to happen. and it happened. and i am just -- i'm flabbergasted by it. i think it's amazing. i've never seen anything like that before. >> a lot of people today are talking about whether or not loretta lynch should recuse herself. did she create a conflict of interest? >> yeah, and greta said she thinks it really is improper, because evenf she said the conversation was primarily about social and family, that's not enough to exonerate. it's so important when you're the chief law enforcement justice official in the country to not have any impro pryty or even the appearance of it, especially when former president bill clinton is also

joining us, former obama adviser, david axelrod, hoax of the ax podcast, and former republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, david petraeus in iraq, peter mansour who is now voting for hillary clinton and senior trump advisers, steven miller. you plan to vote for hillary clinton should she win the nomination because of trump's lack of foreign policy acumen. did her speech bolster your decision? >> i think it reinforced my decision, she hit on many points i have been making the past couple days and thinking of the past six to nine months, the lack of temperament and character to hold the highest office in the land, his endangerment of our alliances and our allies around the world, his diminishment of america's moral standing with his stances on torture and bombing of civilians and so forth, so i think it was a very powerful speech, yes, it reinforced my viewpoint. >> david, what do you make of the speech. didn't seem to be a lot of policy but didn't seem like new policy was the point of the new speech. >> first of all, let me say hillary clinton hasn't had a

i -- i agree with david axelrod.always known him to be honorable people, but this is a very bad call. it was a very bad judgment call because there's already a lot of suspicion out there. you have a candidate in mrs. clinton and more than 50% of the people in the country don't trust her and this plays right into donald trump's hands and frankly, everybody going to law school know that exparte proceedings with one of the parties at risk is inappropriate. you just don't do that. i don't know how this came about and i don't know why they didn't put out the word immediately to protect themselves and it's only now come to light, but the fact is that this is a blow for the clinton camp. and donald trump has a point. >> hillary clinton has trust issues with voters. she's acknowledged that publicly. what does this do to that? >> she has acknowledged it, but she has got to be very aggressive now and be as transparent as possible and putting everything out there, but you know, this whole issue is now mushrooming tonight becaus

david axelrod a delegate line.has to figure you the what he quants to say. >> he has to bring his plane in for a landing. 7. >> as john king just went through, hillary clinton has won this race. he has to make that transition to help build that bridge to walk across. he was very hard on hillary clinton this weekend, perhaps harder throughout the race raising the clinton foundation. oesht issues he hasn't raced before, i think he's sincere, bernie sanders is sincere when he says donald trump can't be president. that's what he believes. tonight with her as the presumptive nominee, he has to begin building a coalition back together to make that a fact. >> he also said to jake tapper it's really incumbent on hillary clinton to convince his supporters. >> it's sort of alphons gaston. president obama wants to talk about party unity and i think a lot depends on how bernie sanders does tonight. when i was talking to his adviser today, he said to me, look, this would be really great if we had a strong showing tonight, win 6

joining us in "the situation room," our senior political commentator david axelrod.clear politics reports rebecca berg, ron brownstein, atlantic magazine and mark preston. david axelrod, trump now saying really he doesn't necessarily need to raise a billion dollars in campaign contributions as originally claimed he would have to do. will his campaign have the money and organization to face off hillary clinton, going to clearly try to raise that much money if not more. he says he could do it without paid advertising because he could go on tv and get a lot of free advertising. >> i guess necessity as politicians are reluctant to saddle up next to him, republican donors are very skeptical of him. i want to approach this with a certain amount of humility because that was one of the genius who is said he would make it out of winter. there is -- there are things about campaigns that mr. trump is not to know. when you get to battleground states, these are marginal states and the ability to do data analysis and the ability to do very sophisticated targeting and voter contact

main people who are going to make the argument to the people against donald trump this fall. >> david axelrodogether to win the presidency twice, can he and michelle obama help do that for hillary clinton? >> yeah, i think they can and i think donald trump is helping right now. between all of them, i think she can recreate that coalition but that's the motivating the voters to the polls is the real challenge and as i said, they're going to do their part, seems like trump will do his. >> finally, ron brownstein, the violence we saw at the donald trump rally in san jose, we have seen it at other rallies as well, how how is that going to play out politically? >> it is utterly inappropriate for supporters on either side to physically threaten those who disagree with them. and, again, it is -- it is just another indication of the way this election could pull at the seams of an inexbly diversifying country. you can't overlook the racial development of all of these conflicts. it's usually nonwhite critics of donald trump squaring off against white supporters of donald trump. and i think both sides h

david axelrod tweeting, i take loretta lynch and bill clinton at their word that their convo in phoenix didn't touch on probe, but foolish to create such optics. the president not answering a question about it late today. >> thank you very much, everybody. >> reporter: but tonight, a growing uproar as judicial watch, a conservative group that sued for clinton's e-mails, is demanding an inspector general review, claiming the encounter undermines public confidence in the e-mail investigation. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> just as millions of americans prepare to get some sand and sun this fourth of july weekend, florida's governor has declared a state of emergency over a massive invasion of toxic algae in communities and beaches nbc's gabe gutierrez has more on what's forcing swimmers to keep their distance. >> reporter: tonight the hopes of florida's treasure coast are sinking. rivers and beaches coated in toxic blue-green algae. the stench forcing some to wear masks. >> it's awful. it really is. >> reporter: the governor declaring a state of emergency in four florida counti

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joining us, former obama adviser, david axelrod, hoax of the ax podcast, and former republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, david petraeus in iraq, peter mansour who is now voting for hillary clinton and senior trump advisers, steven miller. you plan to vote for hillary clinton should she win the nomination because of trump's lack of foreign policy acumen. did her speech bolster your decision? >> i think it reinforced my decision, she hit on many points i have been making the past couple days and thinking of the past six to nine months, the lack of temperament and character to hold the highest office in the land, his endangerment of our alliances and our allies around the world, his diminishment of america's moral standing with his stances on torture and bombing of civilians and so forth, so i think it was a very powerful speech, yes, it reinforced my viewpoint. >> david, what do you make of the speech. didn't seem to be a lot of policy but didn't seem like new policy was the point of the new speech. >> first of all, let me say hillary clinton hasn't had a

let's bring in david axelrod. year, to the bbc, president obama called these mass shootings the most frustrating issue and the most stymied, when an issue of gun control or mass shooting would come up. >> you've seen it many times. each time, the president walking into that briefing room at the white house and speaking to this, his frustration level growing. i think after the events in newtown and the murder of those young children, the fact that he couldn't move congress to act was one of the low points of the presidency. but you know, we live in a constitutional democracy, and congress has its say. if congress is unwilling to move, we're in a stalemate here. these things are going to continue to happen. so it is a source of great frustration to him and i'm sure to people around him that we are where we are. >> well, it gets complicated so quickly, right, axe. you have the political reality in polls, which is everybody says they want change, but they don't get to the polls and vote that way. you have people that

. >> reporter: even democrats like senator chris coons and david axelrod question the wisdom of such meeting. >> reporter: fox has also confirmed separately the justice department filed a motion late yesterday on behalf of the state department, seeking a 27-month delay in producing correspondence between former state department clinton aides and the clinton foundation. the number of relevant documents and e-mails has grown to 34,000, we've learned. the state department explained it's inundated with requests and the requests from the justice department is not political. bret? >> so they're just saying it has to do with foya and a backlog and there's no connection with these meetings and anything else? >> reporter: that's what they say. >> thank you. >>> turning to what administration critics are calling one step forward, one step back. a significant coalition air strike, killing hundreds of isis fighters in iraq, touted by the white house today, while another horrific terrorist attack in afghanistan raises questions about the way forward there. kevin cork reports from the white house.

i want to actually even go to former obama senior advisor david axelrod tweeting this out. i take loretta lynch and bill clinton at their word that the conversation in phoenix didn't touch on the probe. that means the email probe but foolish to create such optics. this is coming from a former advisor who worked with the obama administration. >> right. deirdre: it just looks bad, right? even if nothing untoward was discussed, why would either one, why would the particularly the u.s. ag sign up for this scrutiny. >> the phrase -- always a pleasure to be with you. sorry i can't be in the studio at the moment. appreciate you taking me by phone, deirdre. the phrase lawyers and judges use the appearance of impropriety, the appearance of i impropriety is profound. attorney general lynch has over 150 people who work for her, fbi agents, clerks, federal prosecutors, other investigators investigating wife of the person she just spent 15 minutes talking to on a private jet. she wants us to believe that these two private jets just happened to be near each other in a remote area of the

president obama's former senior adviser, david axelrod, took to twitter saying, take loretta lynch and bill clinton at their word that their combo in phoenix didn't touch on probe. but foolish to create such optics. one senator says lynch should have steered clear of clinton at all costs. the white house is claiming lynch's justice department will make a fair determination on whether to indict anyone in this case. >> she answered the question directly about what exactly transpired. and so, you know, she spoke to this. i don't have any insight into that meeting or the investigation. but the president's view is that this is an investigation that should be conducted free of any sort of political interference. and the attorney general has indicated that that's exactly her expectation as well. >> reporter: republican senator john cornyn says a special investigator should be appointed in this case. he's also tweeted lynch and clinton, conflict of interest? an attorney cannot represent two parties in a dispute and must avoid even the appearance of conflict. donald trump has weighed in on this

>> and to hear david axelrod, we've heard a lot, what did you make of it?e spoke in values. sometimes she gets bogged down in sort of policy, and the themes don't come through. this was a speech about values, american values, values that not just democrats, but most americans share. and i think that was very powerful, the second thing was the way she delivered her speech. sometimes she can be very labored in her speaking. she seemed very comfortable, it was almost an intimate speech, even though -- >> conversation. >> she's talking to the american people, and it was conversational, and it wasn't the shouting we've heard at times, and it was much more powerful. i've always said she could draw people in by being more intimate rather than blasting them out. here she did, and you can see it was a very good affect. >> you know though she went big at first, she talked about being the first female nominee the history-making part of it. after she went big, she kind of went right to sticking the shift at donald trump. and you know, it seems to me that she's found he

she said to david axelrod on his podcast, he makes a lot of news on the podcast, i am always quotingent of donald trump could hinge on who donald trump picks as his running mate, that that american would need to fill gaps, especially on foreign policy, that she thinks he is lacking. what do you think of that? >> people have been interested in what susan collins had to say. in an earlier interview with the new yorker, i remember her saying she might be open to voting for hillary clinton, although she walked that back. i think she's looking for reasons to get to endorsing donald trump. a lot of people aren't there yet. >> find a smarter way to yes. >> if he says this, maybe i could. that's better than what mitch mcconnell is doing, saying no, he's not credible, but yes, i'll endorse him anyway. collins has to have something to look for. i doubt that donald trump will probably nominate a vp, or is it a vp that would be acceptable to susan collins. >> does chris christie fit that bill do you think? >> it would be hard to say. this short list is so short for donald trump by default becaus

. >> you have been saying he's got to transition from primary mode, and even david axelrod of all people, i actually found myself in agreement with some of his comments which is very rare. suggested that withdryou got to transition from a primary mode into a general election mode. do you feel he accomplished that tonight after a couple of tough days? >> well, i think he certainly made a huge step in the right direction. if he can stay on this path and stay this disciplined, he's going to be very formidable and he's going to beat hillary very badly this fall. she will not recover if she's caught up in a big-issue election with a disciplined donald trump. they won't be in the same league. >> you know, he talked a lot about very specific things and the message was clear, putting america first on foreign policy, on energy, on the economy. fixing our schools, getting, bringing back jobs, infrastructure. all of these things, america first and here's what america first means. so there seems to be now he's drawn that line in the sand. all right. here's hillary, she's corrupt, i'm giving a full s

analyst, fareed zakaria, also cnn senior political commentator and former obama senior advisor david axelrod. president obama has obviously been briefed on this, made a statement about this. what is happening in the white house at a time like this? when there's an incident like this? >> first of all, ascertaining what the source of this was. it appears to be isis. they need to run this to ground and how this happened. i think they want to offer the assistance they can to the turkish government in dealing with the aftermath of this, and determine what the holes are here that have to be plugged. this is an ongoing struggle and sadly, i think it's going to continue. so what lessons can be learned here in terms of security. >> fareed, you have obviously looked deeply into this in your documentary, "why they hate us." the efforts to combat isis, a lot of it is dependent and we have seen advances on the ground, we were just talking about with michael weiss in iraq. obviously the civil war continues in syria. yet, it's almost as if these actions abroad by whether it's isis or other groups, is in re

. >> david axelrod put out a tweet yesterday, ax says purge of corey lewandowski reflects what a tough business politics can be. things don't go well, you can't fire candidates so you fire staff. you responded simply by saying -- >> yep. >> you've been there. >> i have been there. >> what's it like to be at that moment in a campaign? >> well, it's never a good thing when you have to fire the campaign manager. obviously things are not going well. but usually, and i'm not speaking directly from experience, usually the not going well comes from the top, and the fact that donald trump who should be having the best sort of six weeks of his campaign is not just stumbling but crashing over whether it's the hispanic judge, racial comments against the hispanic judge and his trump university lawsuit, or his remarks on guns after the orlando shooting, he just can't get beyond himself during this campaign. so firing corey lewandowski may be a pivot point but really the real problem is donald trump himself. you know, i thought corey lewandowski's interview yesterday with dana bash was really great.

. >> first on the repudiation point, david axelrod, his former strategist made this point months ago,h election people have a psychological shift to the opposite personality type. so we went from george w. bush, gut, to the head from obama and now from obama we're going to from the whereever donald trump. so sa so there are radically different personality types. and i think there is something for axelrod's point, people do look for something different. on the economic point, i think he's right and wrong. he's right about the gross numbers that the unemployment rate is coming down, job creation has been pretty good. but it say two tier thing. if you look at manufacturing, especially over the last 19 months, it's been hit by week demand, from abroad, so many company countries in recession, hit by the high dollar. those sort of industrial places like elkhart, michigan, upstate new york, central pennsylvania, those manufacturing sectors have been worse off now than they were even a couple of years ago because of sort of weak manufacturing. >> sreenivasan: what about this idea there is a d

that sanders ad, i think it's really a powerful ad, david axelrod said that you know t music plays aole in that piece. he says you know, you could just have footage of a dump truck to that song and voters would love it. >> it's a great ad. certainly memorable. appreciate it. >>> more back lash over the stanford sexual assault case. the protest as graduation ceremonies get under way. e test heating and cooling systems so reliable. if there's a breaking point, we'll find it. it's hard to stop a trane. really hard. trane. the most reliable for a reason. it takes a lot of work... but i really love it.s. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost® to get the nutrition that i'm missing. boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a great taste. i don't plan on slowing down any time soon. stay strong. stay active with boost®. great time for a shiny floor wax, no? not if you just put the finishin

david axelrod was on the air here for the cure, shaved off his mustache. we called donald.onald, can you call in, give dave $100,000? sure. i'll do it. >> that's a fact. >> privately. sometimes do it privately. sometimes took a little while for the check to go through and everything as far as the whole process goes. >> just calm your self down, that's just a fact. >> this is -- >> i know there are groups that would not take his money. >> iva refuses to take his money. other wouldn't take it. it took a while to get there. maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. hillary clinton attacked him. hillary can raise $6.5 million for vets than attack them. >> as secretary of the state around the world. >> i take your points. whatever the merits of the situation are to conduct a press conference like that. >> i thought the press conference was way out-of-bounds. he was calling reporters sleazy. we haven't gotton that part of it yet. >> fair enough. >> i'm talking about as far as let's talk about the facts if he was upset, i could see saying, hey, i raised $6.5 million, willie, and

we are joined by senior political commentator and former adviser to president obama, david axelrod, jeffrey toobin, mark preston, and chief political correspondent dana bash. jeffrey, let's talk about this order today. listening to president obama, it sounded like he was saying don't worry too much, this doesn't iviscerate the things that i was trying to get done but how this will matter for the next president. walk us through his order and what it will mean for the next president. >> what happened is the supreme court split 4-4, which meant the lower court was affirmed, even though it's not now a precedent for the whole country. what president obama tried to do was, he said this 4 million people whose children are american citizens but they are illegally in the country, he said we are not going to try to deport you and we are going to set up a procedure whereby you can get working papers and start to integrate yourself into american society. what the court said today by splitting this way is that the deportation process doesn't change. they are not going to be deported. but this process of

connell: even david axelrod, bad optics. >> bad optics. looks very mysterious. of people have conspiracy theories. what i say about conspiracy theories you have to be right once to make it all worthwhile. this was foolish thing. might have sent a message, mr. president, we can't have a conversation at this point in time. move on. connell: we do have reaction from donald trump. he is going to be on with sean hannity tonight, an interview taped already. see full interview on fox news channel. here is donald trump on this story. >> when i first heard that yesterday afternoon i actually thought they were joking. i thought the people that told me, i said no way. just no way that is going to happen and it happened. and i am just, i'm flabbergasted by it. i think it is amazing. i have never seen anything like that before. connell: he is flabbergasted by it. you know, the idea here, to your point, even nothing was done wrong the idea you're thinking, everybody thinking in their minds you know the fix is in. there will be no indictment. some people have to assume that wo

senior commentator and advisor to barack obama, david the x axelrod. >> good morning, i'm great.your word, temperament versus ethics, and then what we're seeing in terms of the clinton process toward unity. let's start with warren's impact. what do you think about this tactic using her to go after donald trump in a way that clinton seems slow to want to do. and what does it mean for her future within this campaign, warren? is this an introduction to her as a vp? >> well, look, she has taken on this role herself, even before she endorsed secretary clinton. she has been out there, and she has been hitting trump hard, and obviously, getting under his skin, because he keeps reacting to her, both on twitter and in his public interactions. so she is striking a nerve, and she'll continue to do that, i'm sure. and that, you know, often is the role of a vice-presidential nominee, to take the attack to the opponent, whether she becomes the nominee or not, i don't know. but she is smart. she is incisive, and obviously speaks to a base of the democratic party. >> and let's go to what this me

i actually called up the obama administration, david axelrod. i spoke to him. ballroom, put up all the money, five architects, all from america, i'll build a ballroom. bigger than the tent, so beautiful. it will be great. i never heard back. if i was at the white house, i'd say let's talk a little more. let's go. in our greatness years ago they wouldn't have called, it was before the phone, they would have it built. >> welcome back to "morning joe" tuesday june 16th. >> you actually have tents so you can put them up and take them down. >> what was that about? >> talking about helicopters going to take off. >> canvas. >> made in america. >> worked great in the primaries. so much of this stuff worked great in the primaries. we've got poll numbers showing just how badly things are going right now. >> so we have columnist editor david ignatius. correspondent kasie hunt and joining the conversation msnbc political contributor and editor of "the fix," "washington post," khris cillizza and washington times reporter. >> till in the game. >> still in the game. >> one-yea

. >> corruption from david axelrod, president obama's chief campaign strategist on his campaign saying to create such optics, meaning the appearance of impropriety is pretty bad and bill clinton generated a lot of goodwill, that is the issue with loretta lynch and why is there not an independent prosecutor? stuart: that is way back. it is not just happenstance. a prearranged secret meeting. >> two private jets, to make that meeting happen, you go through many layers of security, and as loretta lynch said bumping into the former president on the tarmac is not how these things work. talked about grandchildren and golf, give me a break like mrs. clinton said, tens of thousands of emails but they only had to deal with my schedule or chelsea's wedding. >> they didn't talk about grandchildren for a half hour. stuart: a private meeting aboard a private jet that just happened to come over. >> that doesn't happen when you are dealing with two private jets. stuart: a tangential story, hillary clinton's top aid testifying about hillary clinton's emails saying hillary didn't want anyone to see her

david, thank you. thousands of people all around the world are tweeting their best wishes tonight to muhammad ali, who is in the hospital. jim axelrod is here with the very latest. jim? >> reporter: scott, it appears that muhammad ali's health is failing. his family is gathering at a hospital in the phoenix area where the champ had a home for years. the 74-year-old is suffering with respiratory issues, which appears to be much more serious than previous hospital stays. diagnosed with parkinson's in the 1980s, suspected from being hit by repeated punches during his long career, ali's health has long been watched closely. there have been other scares over the years, but as we say, this seems to be different. scott, it seems toe more serious this time. >> pelley: jim axelrod reporting. jim, thank you. tonight, in an interview with our john dickerson, donald trump says, if elected, he would pursue an investigation of hillary clinton for allegedly mishandling classified information as secretary of state. the f.b.i. is already looking into clinton's use of an unsecured private computer server for her state department e-mails and whether s

david axelrod, you know as much as anyone on this subject how rough and tumble primary season can be, taking senator sanders into account, do you think we will see a unity moment? something we saw in 2008, with clinton and obama? >> i do think you will. i think he is the trustee of a movement he helped create, he doesn't want to get too far in front of that movement. he is also clearly committed to the notion that democrats have to win this election in the fall. i expect at some point you'll see the two of them together as you saw obama and hillary >> david, let's listen to joe biden now, the vice president speaking. >> because he says judge ruled against him in light of his anti-mexican proposals. mr. trump is unique in attempting to effect the judiciary. other private citizens tried to pressure the judiciary from time to time. but not private citizens who are placed in close range of the white house by one of our great political parties. it is one thing for a private citizen to attempt to throw his economic or political weight around as an unelected official, to try to influence, he

david axelrod, you know as much as anyone on this subject how rough and tumble primary season can be, taking senator sanders into account, do you think we will see a unity moment? >> i do think you will. i think he is the trustee of a movement he helped create, he doesn't want to get too far in front of that movement. he is also clearly committed to the notion that democrats have to win this election in the fall. i expect at some point you'll see the two of them together as you saw obama and hillary clinton together in unity in 2008 but i have to tell you, anderson, what i am thinking about as i listened to that video is the day that senator obama, president elect obama told some of us that he wanted to make hillary clinton secretary of state. i have to confess, there was a say what moment and he explained he felt she was a friend before she was an opponent, she was smart, she was capable, she'd be loyal, and she would be someone that could land in foreign capitals and be taken seriously as he tended to the economy. >> david -- >> so it was a very big thing. >> david, let's listen to