. >> reporter: philanthropist christina lewis halpern launched all star code two years ago to addressthe tech industry's lack of diversity. she saw organizations dedicated to getting more girls interested in stem-- science, technology, and math-- but nothing comparable for boys of color. >> people kept on expecting me to come in and talking about girls. i had to do so much explaining of making the case that boys of color are underrepresented as well. >> reporter: halpern's inspiration for all star code came from her father, reginal lewis. he grew up in the segregated south and made it to harvard law school, became a successful wall street financier, and the first black american to own a billion dollar company. after her father died in 1993, halpern discovered that a summer program for black students at harvard law had been instrumental in her father's path to success. >> if my father were a young man today, he would want to be in tech. and that's why we exist, i wanted a program that could help young men who were like my father, who are talented, who are driven, but didn't have access

please join me in welcoming jack halpern, who is the c.e.o. and founder of my elder advocate, who has had more than 41 years experience as a former nursing home executive. good to have you here. >> thank you very much, ken. thank you for having me. >> thank you. what led you to create my elder advocate? what was the impetus and your mission in that? >> the impetus was i started to work in nursing homes when i was 24 years old. i'm now 66. at first, i thought i was a little crazy, but when i got into a nursing home, i started to meet a lot of the elders. and i discovered from them the way they wanted to be treated and had sort of an epiphany. i met a guy named sam, who's a quadriplegic, and he taught me a lot, and i decided that this is the field that i was going to stay in and help elders get dignified, safe, and good care. >> okay. well, what are some of the most common care-related crises are affecting elders today? >> some of the most common care-related crises are certainly people over 65 or 70 have a very good chance of ending up in a hos

after months and months of cleaning the house, charles halpern, who had been giving that task, was making one walk-through and in the attic he looked over and he saw an itelope with a green seal on and walked over. he noticed the date was an 1832 documents. he removed a single nail from a panel in an upstairs attic room and discovered a trunk and books and portraits stuffed up under the eaves, and this was the treasurer of dolley madison's things. greensboro andn guilford county formed the , andy madison association their task was to acquire this collection. birthday, may 20, 1963, they donated the collection to the historical museum. since they came in in 1963, we have had this story available to the public. i am displaying different items from time to time. trying to include her life story from her birth in guilford county to her death in 1849. some of the items we currently are thedisplay medallion that was given to mrs. mattox. john quincy adams notes in his that of these awards or medallions, several were struck, only one in silver, which was given to mrs. madison. and ivory calling

this has to be driving him crazy, mark halpern. and guess what, we don't want him in a mohair suit. was always great except when he tried to be the country music guy that ate pork rinds, driving around washington, d.c. >> i'm cutting him slack because he lost like 40 pounds. jeb bush, i continue to believe if he continues along the path he's on, may benefit from the summer of trump because he's got the money and he's got the policy expertise, and the name i.d. but he is picking his spots. you notice they did not attack back on the barbara bush video. they were silent on that. what they want to do is use trump's policy proposals to tlie to introduce jeb bush to the country. that's their problem. jeb bush has to introduce himself. he's taking the immigration stuff and trying to explain himself. he'll do that on economics after labor day to try to contrast himself with trump to say he's the real conservative. here's his record. if he's disciplined, it could work. >> by the way, what we're seeing around here as everybody in the media, jeb bush would say when he watched "morning joe" eve

we have mark halpern, sam stein, turtle, and richard haass back with us.th carolina yesterday where he railed against his coverage in the "new york times." >> i wake up this morning and "new york times," and i love the "new york times." it's great. but i see a story on the front page. i'm always on the front page of the "new york times" now. we're going to set a record for that, too, like almost every day. so you mind if i put on my glasses? does anybody mind? the print gets smaller and smaller and smaller as they lose more and more money. it's tough. it's true. trump gets earful in spanish as latino outlets air disdain. i'm just saying, what does that mean? and they start off -- now think of this, the front page. so they say here, this is a different person. the front page. ricardo sanchez, his spanish drive time radio show in los angeles, has taken to calling donald j. trump el hombre de el hombre del pelequin. in other words, the man of the tu toupee. this is on the front page. i don't wear a toupee. this is my hair. i swear. come here, come here. come

with us on set, we have mark halpern and steve rattner.und echelon insights, kristen solstice anderson. kasie hunt is coming up. a lot to talk about, but i want to get your sense of where things stand right now with the whole political campaign and the donald trump factor. >> i said it on wednesday or thursday. the world's upside down. the political world is upside down. and you have donald trump who is sort of this mad hatter of american politics, but here's the catch. he may be mad, but he's driving everybody else in this process mad, too. or at least driving them wildly off their game in a way that feeds right in to his strengths. take the "washington post." mark halpern, and i'm going to be talking now about people whom i love and respect. papers that i love and respect. journalists that i love and respect. but this is a diagnosis the mainstream media better pick up on fast because they're getting it wrong time and time again. the "washington post" wrote an article yesterday morning where you could cut and paste, mark, the gop establis

mark halpern, final thoughts? >> look, i think do you want to show strength in the debate.bility and you also want to show, i think, some command. and trump throws off a lot of dynamics because again, not just physically, but in terms of the moxmoderators, he'll be the center of attention. you need to make an impression tonight. for almost everyone up there, people like rubio, people like ben carson, this is their chance. we have all heard their lines. but for millions of people watching tonight, it's literally the first time they have seen these people and thought, would that be a good president? the stakes are really not overstated. there's not that many debates. >> by the way, ron fournier, your sort of light touch advice for marco rubio. >> i got in trouble for this. >> be a grown-up. what do you mean by that? >> he's got the same problem, challenge, that obama did in '08 and bill clinton did in n'92 where he's young and experienced and he has to show he can rise above it. which gets me back to walker and these other governors. in '92, i had a lot more hair and a lot le

with us on set, we have mark halpern. and richard haass.three days away from the first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign. we're going. it's going to be good. >> we are going. i want to before we start talking about republicans, what about the joe biden news. maureen dowd's column people start talking about it early on. you have been saying for some time you thought joe was going to run. >> i'm not surprised by it at all. i think it's -- for a lot of reasons, since i'm extremely sad, i think the timing is right for him. but for a lot of reasons in terms of dynamics on both sides of the aisle, i think this could be an effective time for him to think about jumping in. i think he really is. >> yeah and the draft biden movement, which has existed for some time sort of under the radar, is now staffing in real ways and hiring people who are serious about this. and i think it points to the same thing donald trump is tapping into which is authenticity. somebody who is real. somebody who says what he thinks. someone who lets you know what they

. >> meantime, chuck, a new report from bloomberg's mark halpern that hillary clinton's campaign is telling democrats she has about one fifth of the delegates sewed up. >> this is the so-called super delegates. if you followed the 2008 campaign between obama and clinton, whoever is winning in the prielary, the super delegates gravitate to. hillary clinton is winning, there's no doubt she's secured a big chunk of super delegates in her favor. now, the party rules, they have ratcheted back the number of super delegates now, but when you have a big chunk of them, like an establishment candidate like hillary clinton does, it's a reminder and a message sender by the way, to joe biden. this is not going to be easy for you to capture this nomination. >> what do you have? >> we have a sit-down with scott walker. he's had a tough august. this was a guy that a lot of republicans thought would be the voice of the outsider against the establishment in jeb bush. he's sot of lost that a little bit. we're going to go down the foreign policy lane with him a lit. the whole show, we'll look at two big storie

let's bring in mark halpern from blumberg politics. he's at the iowa state fair. good morning. >> good morning. >> seems like trump was listening to critics saying he was all sizzle, no steak. he spoke to chuck todd on issues like immigration, iran, isis. was it worth the wait? >> reporter: the immigration plan is relatively specific by the standards of a presidential campaign. chuck took him through issues and people heard him talk. the trump candidacy is doing it to punch the ticket, talk about policy. the big thing was at the fair. the day chuck interviewed him he took people in the helicopter. i went up. he was in the best mood i have ever seen. then he walked around. people yelled stuff at him. not "i love you on celebrity apprentice." they yelled you're the only one who can beat hillary. there are clearly flaws but he has the ability to say imfwrags is a big issue, here's what i think on it. >> compare what you saw in terms of the reaction to donald trump at the iowa state fair with how people there reacted to the other candidates because basically all of th

daniel halpern is with us. welcome to the program. come on camera please.l interrupt for one second because i have news, hold on a second, i have news from his on the joe biden campaign. >> a spokeswoman for john edwards's campaign. a lot of campaign experience and has held senior media communications roles in the white house. stuart: are you there? you heard that. >> amazing news. no reason to stop him from running except if he is worried about embarrassing himself which never prevented him before from running so i think he will run and i think the next big news is defection from the clinton camp. you have a great rollout, wonderful almost endorsement from the white house, you need to hire somebody away from the clinton camp, that would be huge. you talk about how entertaining the race is still will get more entertaining. joe biden camp from the white house is competing and sparring with the hillary clinton camp from the state department and they're trashing each other, you can't wait for that, on the republican side. stuart: listen to this, a new poll jus

now to mark halpern, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's start with the hillary clinton e-mail controversy. now you have her e-mail server in the hands of the federal investigators. if nothing else it will follow her into the fall campaign. >> politics important. this is really important. it's august of 2015, but between the poll with bernie sanders and this e-mail development, hillary clinton's campaign is in a very tough position. they could find more secret information. they could get the server and recover her personal e-mails they deleted. what if they do that and find either more secret information, or what if they find government information that she didn't hand over? this is peril for her. she's sworn under oath she handed over everything she was supposed to. >> potentially a legal problem. >> and even if it doesn't go legal, the political problem will linger a long time. >> we should caution, that poll is a small sample size, but what a headline, bernie sanders beating her in new hampshire? >> and the trend has been in that direction. he's gotten closer and closer, dra

now to mark halpern, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's start with the e-mail controversy. you have hillary clinton's e-mail server in the hands of a federal investigator. if nothing else it will follow her into the fall campaign. >> politics can be fun and exciting and important. this is important. it's august of 2015. between the poll with sanders and this e-mail development the clinton campaign is in a tough position. they could find more secret information. they could recover her personal e-mails they deleted. what if they do that and find either more secret information or government information she didn't hand over? this is peril for her. she's now sworn under oath she's handed over everything she was supposed to. >> potentially a legal problem. >> and just the political problem will linger. >> let me ask you about the poll. it is a small sample size, but what a headline. bernie sanders beating her in new hampshire. >> and the trend has been in that direction. he's gotten closer and closer, drawing tens of thousands of people, big crowds. his authenticity and heart sh

. >> jamie, how freaked out is mark, as halpern said, the republican establishment at donald trump?eone, again, i hate the term establishment where everything is a establishment where rush limbaugh is not a part of considering he's the largest radio base, i don't know if it's meaningful, but in terms of commentators in washington. >> the d.c. sort ofcommentary. >> they sad thiss is going to kill trump. you would think you get your foreign policy views by watching "meet the press" and other shows which show lack of seriousness and hurt him in the polls, seems nothing hurts him in the polls. >> i think people look to him and they're upset about washington not getting things done. they look to this guy, this billionaire who presents himself as a self-made billionaire, which is partly true, i guess. he had a base to begin with, certainly, and think, oh, well, only if we had a savior, a billionaire savior who would cut through the red tape, a negotiator as he presented himself for 30 years who will solve all our problems. maybe that will change something. i think it might be a bit simpli

. >> okay, so mark halpern, an awful lot to talk about, but we have breaking news. polls.some pretty incredible verbaits. >> lot of things in the poll. >> we'll be getting full screens up for you. >> hillary clinton leads nationally, but joe biden does better than she does slightly in head-to-heads with republicans. >> trump leads nationally. carson is second, which is something we're seeing consistently. and then hillary clinton's unfavorables are very high, but you and i, this struck us. >> listen to this. >> what's the first word you think of when you're asked the name of a presidential candidate? the leading answer for hillary clinton was liar. the leading answer for trump was arrogant, and the leading one for jeb bush, bush. >> that may be a problem. >> it may be. it may not be. i mean, bush is also the last name of one of our most popular former presidents, bush 41, his father. the republican primary voters are aware of his record. i would rather be known as bush than a liar. >> or arrogant. these questions, though, what happens is they ask in these polls what -- it'

. >> that, though, against -- up against mark halpern's reporting on friday about how many committedc party, meanwhile, met in minneapolis this weekend, but it was hardly a united front. the leadership has come under fire from a number of its candidates over the number of debates they're holding in the presidential primary. one candidate in particular who has really had a problem with this, he didn't hold back, then this awkward exchange with the party's chair. take a look. >> the dnc as you know is saying if you or governor o'malley participate in any nonsanctioned debate, then you don't get to participate in the official ones. they're restricting the number of debates. >> i think that that is dead wrong, and i have let the leadership of the democrats know that. again, i think this country benefits all people benefit, democracy benefits when we have debates. i want to see more of them. >> four debates. four debates? four debates. four debates and four debates only, we're told, not asked, before voters in our earliest states make their decision. this is totally unprecedented in our p

. >> john heilemann, mark halpern. >> they're punks, those guys.fferent. >> you can go down the list. people at the iowa state fair. democrats at the iway state fair. people who supported hillary clinton were asking about this. what happened? i want to support her but -- >> i'm a lot that way. >> so wait. we have here two lines, the beginning and end of the story. you guys tell me what's wrong with this picture. a federal judge says she did not follow government e-mail policy in using her personal server for state department business. at this hearing for the foi suit, the judge said we wouldn't even be here if the employee had followed government policy. then we have her campaign staff saying her use of a personal e-mail account was consistent with her predecessors and permissible under department policy. is it or is it not permissible? i just want the answer. i don't want lots of sentences around it. i just want the answer. >> do you follow a federal judge's opinion on the surface or the political spin meister's answer. >> i think it's helpful to

talk about it, we've got katty kay, nicole wallace, ed rendell, sam stein in washington, and mark halpernyou. you were the one following donald trump around a good bit in his magical mystery tour. you said this. most importantly of this weekend, we've reached a turning point with trump. the major establishment campaigns of both parties now think trump could win iowa, and most of them think he could win the nomination. and a significant number think he could win the white house. this is a big change. it was all enough for you, of course, channeling soph clees to say they were in, quote, full freak out mode. take us through this weekend. >> well, look. trump may not end up as a nominee, but right now, he's changed the race. not just leading in the fox poll, but coming to the fair. i have been to the fair with barack obama at his peak, sarah palin at her peak, other candidates, george bush. the reception trump got here was not just about celebrity. i walked with him for 45 minutes after the helicopter ride, and people were yelling things to him with passion. save us. you're the only one who