the great young writers certainly of this generation, david foster wallace committed suicide. i became very interested, he and i went to the same college decades later but i wanted to understand what drove david to suicide. let me read the opening paragraph of the book, where the book starts. he left more than a dozen lamps burning, they shone upon the desk, and on the manuscript stacked on top of it, next to the manuscript was a two page letter, this was a scene on the evening, david foster wallace hanging himself. at the age of 46, devastated the literary community. the boldest, most innovative writer of his generation, his novel ingested widely rewarded with critics and thought to redefine postmodern american fiction. the manuscript on the desk which he despaired of ever completing would be published posthumously. the novel many would later argue contained some of his best work. despite wallace's frustration, his inability to complete the book in some ways, his life had never been better. he married four years earlier, comfortably settled with the kitchen job he loved. why t

david wallace went to a neighborhood park with his friend to play with the new app and he said a gunman approached him, took his car, his cash and his phone. >> i still feel like it did not happen but i do know it happen. >> would you have been there except for the app? >> definitely not. >> this is being linked to similar crimes across the country. thieves wait for laces -- places at places featured on the app. >> that is the danger in itself. some people are distracted. >> they could be walking into traffic, all kinds of things. hopefully they will figure this out. it is very popular. >>> firefighters are monitoring a brush fire in livermore. y crews need to stay on scene even though the fire is out. >>> baseballs best face-off in tonight all-star game in san diego. the two giants voted into the starting lineup. >>> good morning. we are looking at a commute where traffic is doing pretty well. we're off to a good start on interstate 80. >>> a little warm up yesterday in the cool down today. but only today. we will have more on your tuesday forecast. >>> breaking news out of washing, dc

david wallace went to a neighborhood park with his friend to play with the apple.t is when a gunman approached him, took his car, his cash and phone. >> i still feel like it did not really happened but i do know what happened. >> would you have been there except for the app? >> yes. >> pokimon go is being linked to crimes across the country. cecil wade for players at places featured on the app. any time the players are so distracted they do not notice they could be in danger. >>> sal is in his office. i know you are watching the commute. you met johnny cueto. do you have any advice for him tonight? >> just be yourself. he has been pitching very well. >>> good morning, everybody. let's look at what we have. traffic is moving okay but it is getting busy on the tracy commute from before mountain house on 205 and 580. it's not terrible but there is a lot of stop and go traffic. at the bay bridge toll plaza you will see that traffic is back up. metering light's went on just after 5:30 pm. -- a.m. there is a little bit of slowing. looks like we have a stalled vehicle on

i would say persuaded my boss to invest in david foster wallace novel infinite jest was a great investment spewing you have to persuade? >> it was a partial novel, 150 pages of a book that would be unspecified length but nor would be very long. it was challenging work. it's hard to see what the big story is going to be. his previous books i, the reasoi was offered but because his previous book was a story collection which i believe had sold fewer than 2000 copies. i was able to get support by the readers and house, i was a wreck before and what this promised, and to get a little brown to support the acquisition of infinite jest. is give me some of the longest term rewards in terms of the way the book has affected people's lives and how much alive it is still in our culture. >> is an acquiring editor somebody come is it different than being the editor who marks up the transcript, manuscript? >> a difference between an acquiring editor and a light editor is usually not large for almost all acquiring editors are also editing the book that way. some acquire so many books they do and turn some

won't go into details of how they did it, but it meant that wallace was the second most popular person in the country behind roosevelt. the david democratic party convention started, july 20, , they released a poll asking potential democratic voters who they wanted as vice president. 2% said they wanted harry truman. 65% said they wanted wallace back as president -- as vice president. , how couldemocracy they get wallace off the ticket if he had 65% public support? the partym was that bosses controlled the convention. the first night of the convention, they had the whole thing cooked against wallace for truman. the first night, wallace made a speech for roosevelt. the place went wild, a spontaneous applause led by adlai stevenson. that, by senator from florida realize that if he could get to the microphone and get wallace is name and is --tion -- get wallace wallace? name for the nomination. he was within five feet of the podium before sam jackson under the order of the party bosses set a half an -- have a motion to adjourn. maybe 5% said i've. , and then carried meeting was adjourned. had he gotten 54 feet to the microphone, h

david duke. >> it's because of donald trump. >> for some people, law and order, that's what george wallace said in 1968 when he was running fory, or maybe it was '72. in any case -- >> nixon said it too. >> it means different things to different people. >> we're out of time, unfortunately. we're going to have to get more thoughts, because joe, jonathan, and david will be back later in the show, save those thoughts, you guys will be back. >>> coming up, more from philly voters on what matters to them. stay with us. if you need advice for your business, legalzoom has your back. our trusted network of attorneys has provided guidance to over 100,000 people just like you. visit legalzoom today. the legal help you can count on. legalzoom. legal help is here. to folks out there whose diabetic nerve pain... shoots and burns its way into your day, i hear you. to everyone with this pain that makes ordinary tasks extraordinarily painful, i hear you. make sure your doctor hears you too! i hear you because i was there when my dad suffered with diabetic nerve pain. if you have diabetes and burning, shooting pain in your feet or hands, don'

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wallace ran as a third-party candidate in 1968. there was the answer to jake tapper on the sunday before super tuesday when he clearly refused to disavow david duke. there was gary johnson, quoting paul ryan, quoted the condemnation of a u.s.-born hispanic job as a mexican who couldn't do his job. there's this tweet, which originated in a white supremacist website, and he's retweeted other tweets from those kinds of sources before. trump has had a consistent pattern. if you look, i think it has clearly cost him in the polls. i think his two biggest personal vulnerabilities are questions about temperament and preparation, also the perception on a big part of the electorate that he is consciously stoking racial division. >> in many corners, his polling has dropped as a result of all those things you just listed, particularly after the judge didn't really seem to take a particular hit. then you listen to donald trump. when he's losing he says, polling, it doesn't even matter. of course when the polling is in his favor, he uses that to help stress the point he believes he is the winner here. >> yeah, here's the conundrum donald trump faces. the

wallace. managing editor of bloomberg politics. >> iding her for new viewers. >> she needs no id. >> host of with all do respect mark halperin. columnist for "washington post" david ignatius. on capitol hill, msnbc political analyst robert costa. in washington pulitzer prize winner and msnbc contributor jonathan capehart. joe has the morning off. jonathan, i'm going to get to your interview with loretta lynch, which was really telling given what happened over the weekend. a lot of international news out of baghdad especially and around the world. david ignatius will join us for that. but first today hillary clinton will appear with president obama on the campaign trail. but that comes after a holiday weekend in which she was questioned by the fbi about her private e-mail server. it's the culmination of 16 months of public scrutiny from clinton's decision while she was secretary of state to exclusively use a private e-mail server for her government and personal e-mails rather than state department's e-mail system first revealed in march 2015. there have been questions every since. clinton left her home in washington for fbi headquarters saturday morning for what a