hallie jackson outside trump tower this morning. thanks as always, hallie. more now on the backlash over that blackface tweet sent by donald trump supporter, pastor mark burns. and i'm joined by roland martin, host and managing editor of "news one now," and tv 1 cable network. always good to see you. >> likewise. >> you talked with pastor burns a short time ago on your radio show this morning. this is just part of what he said. >> i truly apologize for the offensive blackface image of that cartoon and the depiction of the blackface is offensive by itself and as an african-american man in america, i don't stand by anyone portraying themselves in a blackface. but the message that i intended i still stand behind. but my apology is because i think my message got lost in the translation. >> so pastor burns, still apologizing for that image, apologized last night and apologized again this morning. said he still believes that clinton is taking the black community for granted. what else did he say to you, sir? >> well, again, he texted me about 9:00 last night and s

hallie jackson covering all of the angles from texas. appreciate it, hallie. >> reporter: thanks. >>> and in addition to those e-mails released by judicial watch, more documents could be coming. a federal judge is ordering the state department to review another 15,000 e-mails for public release. hillary clinton last night laughing it off during her appearance on "jimmy kimmel live". take a look. >> my e-mails are so boring. i am embarrassed about that. they're so boring, so we have already released, i don't know, 30,000-plus so what's a few more? >> i want to bring in the "new york times" white house correspondent, mark landler. great to see you. thanks for being here. appreciate it. >> great to be with you, kristen. >> i want to talk about that very point. these new e-mails focusing on the clinton foundation and clnlt state department. they do show a coziness, but they don't show a quid pro quo, necessarily. they have yet to actually prove that. but i guess the broader question, how problematic are these e-mails just before labor day? >

lester. >> hallie jackson in new york tonight, thank you, hallie. >>> now to the flooding disaster still impacting tens of thousands of people in the south. that tropical system that devastated louisiana is bringing new flashflood watches in texas this as the scope of destruction grows across the region. we get the latest from gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: tonight parish, more rain and a rising river. blayne grew up in this home and now he hopes sandbags can save it. >> my jaw dropped and said, wow, i've never seen anything like this before. the river is not finished climbing yet. >> reporter: among the latest communities slammed by the powerful surge of water. louisiana's record rainfall started friday, further north near baton rouge. for five days that water has flowed south towards the gulf of mexico and lake pontchartrain carving a path of deio million people in texas are under flashflood watches. while in denim springs, louisiana, the water is finally gone. for neil mccleary and his son, the pain is not. >> it's hard to see them because that's what they've done. my dad. >> reporter:

criteria sten welker, katy tur and hallie jackson. kristen, first to you. we have been in touch with people close to huma abedin, close to the clintons. we can't overemphasize how important huma is to hillary clinton. how crucial her role is in this campaign, in the state department before that. having started as an intern in the east wing of the white house when hillary clinton was first lady. >> one point hillary clinton referred to her as her second daughter. that's how close she is to huma abedin. first, to some of the reporting this i'm just getting, andrea, i spoke with a friend of huma abedin and want it is protect her privacy andomething he asked for and says she was out on long island, has been there since saturday along with other clinton aides and been there with her son jordan, other family members, as well. i'm told this is something she does every year about the time that secretary clinton goes out there to engage in fund raising or vacation. and that the timing is coincidental. that this was not planned. that she just happened to be out there

hallie what are you hearing behind the scenes regarding pressure to have the candidates fall in line or change his tune to some degree here? >> reporter: that pressure has existed throughout the entirety of donald trump's campaign. here is new reporting from nbc news, key allies of donald trump are plotting a kind of intervention, planning what's being called this sort of reset campaign for donald trump, hoping to meet with him in the coming days. we're talking about people like rnc head reince priebus, former new york mayor rudy giuliani, additionally newt gingrich, the former house speaker. all supporters of donald trump. sources tell nbc there's growing concern about specifically these last 48 hours for trump. the final straw coming when he refused to speak out about any kind of endorsement for paul ryan as you noted. this is all in its early stages. it should be note tld's no guarantee the campaign will entertain the idea of this, quote, unquote, intervention since the candidate, frankly, has not done anything up to this point to indicate he is willing to follow these calls for h

great conversation with my fellow road warriors, hallie jackson and katy tur. thanks for joining us. >>> now i bring in bruce level for donald trump. thanks for joining me, i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> you heard me talk with hallie about the immigration speech coming up on wednesday. a lot of expectation, particularly after this weekend, a lot of people felt as though the messaging coming from the trump campaign, what we were hearing from mike pens. what are you anticipating? >> well, i represent the national university for trump, a volunteer organization that comprise a lot of different ethnic groups across the country. i can't speak in terms of details or what the campaign is going to come out. i will tell you this. it's not uncommon that a candidate during the process of becoming president, running for president, sometimes, you know, a lot of times, you know, the plans change in terms of where they're going to go and how they're going to be. and, you know, this whole immigration mess has been going on for years. democrats and republica

joining me is hally jackson. let me ask you this, hally, why did we all believe what he said, hugh tried to talk him off the cliff there, he said, no, no, he's the founder of isis. at 6:30 he says, that's not what i meant that was sarcasm or something. how do you figure? >> this is a pattern that fits into trump's play book in the past, i think you nailed it with the repeated times that he was given an opportunity to get out of what he said, he was asked point blank, what did you mean? didn't you mean x, y or z he said, i meant he was the founder of isis. i think what happens he sees the reaction, he floats these trial balloons, he look how others are reacting he decides how he'll walk it back or not. they're only semi walk backs he came out right before the morning shows, tweeted about it being sarcasm, talked about it being sarcastic, he acknowledged not totally. so even then walking back the walk back, if you will. but for trump we have seen this. remember what he suggested that the russians should have hillar

let's begin with hallie jackson covering the trump campaign in austin, texas. hallie, a lot of movement when it comes to trump's immigration policy over the last few days or perceived movement. he cancels the speech he was to give in colorado on thursday now more comments from him and his aides. is the policy shifting? >>. >> i got off the phone with one of his top campaign aides within the last hour. this aide telling me nothing has changed with donald trump's policies. we knew this, we can go to donald trump's web site. his immigration position paper is still there, his policies are still outlined even though as you talked about some of his aides and surrogates have come out and begun to what may be sort of float these trial balloons that trump could soften his stance on the so-called deportation force. trump not doing much to clarify this muddled message but he went on television overnight and said "hey, what president obama is doing has worked, trump's argument is he would do it better." there's a question of what this force would look like. how he would im

hallie jackson is at trump tower. this news breaking a few hours ago that huma abedin, she's obviously been through a lot publicly with anthony weiner the last few years with stories like this. this new one breaks in "the new york post." now huma abedin says she's going to be separated from anthony weiner. donald trump trying to make this a campaign issue. >> essentially trying to use this, steve, to link hillary clinton to what he calls and what his campaign calls bad judgment, attempting to hit her on judicial security. i want to read part of the statement trump came out. as he says, huma abedin is making, in his words, a very wise decision. trump says i know anthony weiner well and she will be far better off without him. he adds, i only worry for the country in that hillary clinton was careless and negligent allowing weiner to have such close proximity to such information. who knows what he learned and who he told. and, steve, this is, in a way, kind of similar to what we heard trump talk about last summer in norwo

nbc's hallie jackson is standing by. >> reporter: hey, chris. donald trump took the stage about four minutes ago and we expect tonight as you hear him talking about radical islamic terrorism as he often does, about law and order, continuing the themes of the speech that started on tuesday night, again making the kind of direct appeal to african-american voters as we saw him do to a largely all white crowd back in wisconsin earlier in the week. what's interesting, you can see behind me, he's reading off teleprompters again. this is not a policy speech. it's been billed as a rally. you can see there's a big crowd. people are excited. this is the second time now this week we have seen donald trump work off prompters in front of a crowd that's ready to kind of see unfiltered off the cuff trump like we all have seen this these events. so far they have been fairly into it for what that's worth. you got to wonder how comfortable trump is getting on prompter given that this is something that sources tell nbc news he will be doing more of. >> in the news

hallie, we have this speech on the calendar now. donald trump going to head to new york, talk to a black church. it's not the idea he's trying to target a message towards the black community. the way he's choosing to deliver this message just talking about black life in this country being seemingly never-ending series of threats of violence and all sorts of problem in their life. what is the strategy behind talking about it in this way? >> reporter: that has struck some as you know as sort of an insensitive, tone-deaf way of going about this outreach particularly because until we see him out over labor day weekend in michigan, trump won't have delivered this message to any actual black communities, to any actual african-american voters directly in a way that we have seen others speak to these communities in the past. the strategy is to go after some of these minority voters in a way to build up trump's numbers with these folks. when you look at where he stands, it's about 1%, at least in our latest polling, in some battleground stat

hallie, thanks so much for being here. >> very belated. course, good to be with you. >> correct me if i'm wrong, they don't usually run more than an hour late when they have other television things that now the candidate is going to step on and other networks and stuff. what's going on? >> reporter: yeah, it is unusually late for trump. sort of a confluence of events of just how the day unfolded here in wisconsin. he had some otrs, some meetings, a roundtable this afternoon and other media events as well. the crowd, it's a pretty packed house, it's also about 85 degrees in here, it feels like. so you've got people that are waiting to see donald trump and i'll tell you, they're getting something unusual tonight as you notice. look at what's behind me here. that's teleprompters, which we almost never see at trump rallies. in fact, at trump rallies, we never see them. we see them typically at policy speeches. so, yes, this is a late change, it's now a law and order speech, presumably discussing some of the events that unfolded over the weeken

>> hallie jackson in florida, thank you. >>> a new study out today reveals an alarming trend. more car crashes are being caused by falling debris often with deadly consequences. a 40% increase in the last 15 years. as nbc's gabe gutierrez reports, the study says these happen in an instant. highway cargo breaking free turning into missiles. >> there it goes. boom. >> reporter: this mattress on a new jersey highway forcing drivers to swerve. a truck tipping over bursting into flames. >> i feel like it could have been so easily like prevented. >> reporter: holden amore was almost killed in florida when a heavy piece of sheet metal smashed through his windshield. >> i was driving on the interstate when a torpedo essentially went through the windshield and hit me in the face. there's really no reason why i should be here. >> reporter: a new aaa study finds between 2011 and 2014 dangerous debris played a key role in at least 200,000 crashes, causing more and 500 deaths. two-thirds of those wrecks involved objects falling out of a vehicle, most in the middle of the day on freeways. j

savannah. >> hallie jackson, thank you. lots to chew on. moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd. i think you agree this is a pretty high risk move, did it pay off? >> as political theater goes, yes, it learn how it went after the speech in totality. it does matter, what is his position and what does he plan to do with the 11 or 15 million undocumented folks here. does he soften his stance and is his tone truly different how he wants to tackle immigration. that we learn tonight. i have to say the bar is extremely low for trump when it comes to staying on message and things like that. i thought he exceeded that bar and looked presiden. what was the mexican president thinking? i think he's in more hot water tonight than anybody. >> chuck, thank you very much. with many polls showing a tightening race now, hillary clinton was on the trail as well today making her pitch to veterans even as she continues to grapple with sinking favorability ratings. here's nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: tonight, hillary clinton attacking donald trump for his drop-in visit to mexico. >> it certainl

already exists but that's news, savannah and a link trump himself hasn't explicitly made clear. >> hallie jackson at trump tower tonight, thank you. >>> moments of chaos and fear last night at los angeles international airport. a false alarm that had passengers running on to the tarmac and for the exits, a scare that then led to hours of delays and inconvenience. miguel almaguer with the story tonight. >> reporter: the sprint to the exits nearly became a stampede, thousands of passengers at l.a.x., racing into the streets, even rushing the tarmac after reports of shots fired. the panic and fear cascading like a wave across the nation's second busiest airport. just before 9:00 p.m., a loud noise mistaken for gun fire inside terminal 8. then terminals 4 and 7, more 911 calls, with guns drawn, police swept the airport. >> report of shots fired. >> reporter: traveling on vacation, lester was at l.a.x. reporting live on facebook as the drama unfolded. >> people started flooding out, security people were saying shots fired when we saw two police cars coming down the taxi way at a very, very hig

here's hallie jackson. >> reporter: rugby's tough. jillian potter, tougher. not even a broken neck could stop her dream of making it on the rugby sevens team. new to the olympics this year. >> it was a broken bone. they were able to fix it. like hey, you can play rugby again. >> reporter: the freak accident on field didn't keep her off it she would face her toughest opponent yet. mouth cancer. stage three. >> i was pretty naive about cancer. so when they discovered the tumor, i was like, okay, no big deal. >> reporter: the diagnosis coming just weeks before the 2014 cup. potter played. >> i was like -- >> this is where my life changes. >> yes. >> reporter: she started chemo, then radiation. >> when i starlo or my eyelashes and my body image started changing, i had to look in the mirror and i still had to smile. >> reporter: carol watched her wife fight before but never like this. >> seeing the person you love most in the world battle something that you can't do much about is about as intense as you get. >> reporter: support came from jillian's sport. the tigh

. >> northboubc's hallie jackson wisconsin where donald trump is expected to endorse paul ryan tonight. i'm also joined by msnbc analyst mike murphy and valerie plame, former covert cia officer, a surrogate now for hillary clinton. thank you for coming on tonight. i gues i want you to just take the time now to talk about the issue of nuclear weapons and how the president of the united states has the nuclear football, the codes for using, deciding on whether to launch those missiles which hasn't been done since the days of harry truman when we had the two bombs over japan. what do you think about trump as a commander in chief in the nuclear age? >> the notion of donald trump having his fingers on the nuclear button is absolutely terrifying. it's august now, people are at the beach, but i think they are sort of seeing this through the clouds of their vacation. his temperament simply is not up to it. as has been said, he's a man who is provoked by 140 characters. that is not the sort of temperament you need. you have about 12 minutes when you as the president, when you are warned there's

hallie jackson, nbc news, washington. >>> still ahead tonight, an american gold medal sprinter pushinge. my interview with allyson felix still ahead. >>> we have moved back down to ground level here at olympic park. people going to and from some of the evening events here. >>> attention here in rio has shifted to track and field where four-time olympic gold medalist allyson felix got off to a good start here yesterday in her hunt to medal in the 400-meter, despite the fact she told me she's still recovering from an injury she badly wanted to run here. some wait years to hit their stride. for allyson felix, it takes just 20 seconds. >> i'm the super, laid-back person in real life. have you to get to that aggressive place and kind of turn into someone else when it comes time to compete. >> reporter: that time is now. felix has come to rio to challenge herself like never before. >> the 200 has always been my favorite race. i always call it my baby. the 400, it's a new challenge to me. definitely outside of my usual realm. >> reporter: for people who only follow track every four years, 400

hallie jackson, nbc news, jacksonville. >> reporter: i'm kristen welker. hillary clinton looking to capitalize on donald trump's missteps in battle ground colorado. >> if he wants to make america great again, he should start by making things in america. >> reporter: clinton looking to pick off trump support among working class voters today at a tie company accusing trump of outsourcing. >> i really would like him to explain why he paid chinese workers to make trump ties. >> reporter: and she's picking up an endorsement from california gop gubernatorial candidate and hewlett-packard ceo meg whitman. whitman writing in a statement, trump's unsteady hand would endanger our prosperity and national security. i have decided to support hillary rodham clinton. this following scathing remarks from whitman made in march. >> i think donald trump is a dishonest. >> reporter: campaign sources tell nbc news they're courting the independents and republicans. already winning over mike bloomberg and mark cuban. the first to pledge his support for clinton. but trump is stil

i think the question will be, as hallie eluded to if he can stay on the message. this is a different tact. and i think it's going to be interesting to see particularly once hillary clinton herself is a little more out there in public, she's been behind closed doors fundraising by and large, how she grapples with questions about this. >> and of course what they are saying is that yes, these e-mails clearly show that there was some access that the calls were made, there's no proof, they claim, that any of these meetings led to anything. any quid pro quo happened. the other thing donald trump's been doing and one would say to a lot more criticism is going after, you know, his whole pitch for african american votes, doing it in a rather strange way, doing 12 in kbhiwhoot aread insulting rhetoric, kristen welker, we show certainly new numbers, how unvowed this is in terms of african american support for donald trump. even compared to mitt romney and other republicans. >> absolutely. and he's really struggling to register in the polls with african americans, andrea. and

and that is where we find nbc's hallie jackson. so, hallie, we just asked there, if that last segment there, donald trump, and the question being raised of how much does he actually want to win this, and one of the things people are looking for, well, he's down in the polls, all these troubles we talked about, is he going to do anything in terms of spending money on ads, adjusting his campaign strategy, is he going to do anything to change his strategy to try to get back in it? what are you hearing on that front? >> reporter: so, listen, when you talk about strategy, steve, when you look at money that was spent on the airwaves from hillary clinton, you have donald trump with a pretty formidable war chest, but if you went out and bought a cup of coffee this morning, you have spent more money than donald trump on anything, really, when you look at paid tv ads. so, trump not spending money there, because, look at what happened during the primaries. one of the things that trump often does, and what he did again today is, he points to h

thank you very much, hallie. and donald trump's new campaign ceo, steve bannon, he continues to face questions of his own regarding allegations from a divorce battle. a 2007 sworn statement, bannan's wife alleged that he made anti semitic comments, though bannan spokesperson denied he made those remarks. it comes after a separate 1996 police report includes her allegation that he grabbed her wrist and neck. steve bannon pled not guilty and was never found guilty. the charges were dismissed six months later. a spokesperson tells nbc news the charges were dropped and he has a quote, great relationship with his ex-wife. ari, let's go to the allegations made from the wife in the divorce papers, specifically the ones that everyone was talking about over the weekend. regarding where to educate their children, she said. >> yeah, this getting a lot of attention over the weekend, precisely because steve bannon is now a much bigger figure in the trump campaign. but this history doesn't give us any final resolution on the f

>> hallie jackson, thank you. there are still many unanswered questions in chicago, two days after police released a series of videos showing officers shooting at and apprehending a suspect who was killed. the police superintendent responded this weekend and so did people in the community. demonstrations across chicago this weekend. >> we do not need white officers policing the black community. >> reporter: outrage sparked by the shooting of unarmed paul o'neill, 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: the police superintendent speaking out for the first time. >> i was concerned by some of the things that iaw we took such swift action. >> reporter: unprecedented swift action. 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 at o'neill. the moments before the shooting and after caught on video. but no

hallie jackson, nbc news, san on this saturday night from rio. reminder -- nbc prime time coverage of the olympic games begins at 8:00 p.m., 7:00 central. among the events tomorrow, [thunder] ? ? >> what's going to kill people is going to be water. [thunder] >> hello. i'm steve jerve and welcome to "surviving the storm," a storm team 8 special. welcome to beautiful egmont key state park, a national wildlife park refuge. egmont key is a stunning location. it's filled with history and amazing stories. and it's a window into the power of a hurricane. egmont key is a breathtakingly beautiful spot when viewed from any angle. it's a protected island, part

let's start with where hallie just left off. if tonight after the speech in phoenix it appears donald trump has walked back to a certain extent some of the enforcement, what is that going to do for his core base of support, if anything? >> charlie, good see you, too. i think it's going to do a lot. i think donald trump is a businessman. if there's one thing you learn about in business is adapting, is a big issue, you have to adapt. that's important and you listen. when i was able to speak with mr. trump in his office, it was a moment where you could see he was processing what we were telling him. he was listening with intent and he was determined to try to figure this problem out. it's a problem that's been around for a long time. it's been a political football for many years that just seems to be used as a weapon during election season and then ignored. people are suffering for it. >> rick, this conversation that you had with mr. trump and this adaptation, if you will, are you saying then that, if he does sort of perhaps change

let's get to hallie jackson on the campaign trail from jacksonville tonight. "deadly intent" has never had a two-day period like this. how he acts at rallies like this one will determine whether his campaign recovers or whether some republicans say good-bye for good. publicly everything's fine. >> the campaign is doing really well. it's never been so well united. >> reporter: privately, anything but. multiple high level gop sources telling nbc news of a possible inteti trump supporters rudy giuliani. as they try to get the trump train back on track. currently in, quote, crazytown. even ally newt gingrich calling his candidate unacceptable right now. president george w. bush taking aim at his isolationism. trump trump's team assists there is no intervention. >> the clinton may ma sheen may not like it, but we're prepared for party. after trump's refusal to endorse paul ryan. >> i strongly endorse ryan. he's a longtime friend. >> reporter: partly fueled by this question. could you trust trump with the nation's nuclear codes? one top republican national security

hallie jackson reports it was just one of the new attacks by trump on what has become a human beings in the world. >> reporter: donald trump now lashing out at a rival you won't find on any ballot. >> i'm not running against crooked hillary clinton. i'm running against the crooked media. >> reporter: today in tweet after tweet, trump questioning freedom of the press, unleashing on what he considers unfair coverage of his flailing campaign. i am who i am, trump writes. but that's exactly what the stories he doesn't like are saying. he's not going to before 10, 15, 0,000 people. that shows you the campaign's working contrary to what the media is saying. >> reporter: still new polling shows clinton leading trump in florida, even putting deep red georgia into play. a defensive trump growing angrier at reporters, now echoed by some supporters. >> you're a traitor! >> reporter: questioned on trump's there's time to turn it around. >> it's still early in this campaign. i'm just very confident. >> reporter: the rnc says it's too early to consider shifting resources away from the nominee. a c