run bycation jared kushner, who is married to o ivanka trump. refused to endorse donald trump. one yahoo! news political columnist has called him a classic halfway pick. there lacks a chemistry with donald trump. sounded likeence a newly married couple trying to persuade immigration they had fallen madly in love despite the fact they had met a week before and one of them needed a green card." >> donald trump got a wall. >> it's not the wall he was expecting i think. this artist called plastic jesus erected a six inch wall around donald trump's hollywood walk of

it's unthinkable to people who know the chris christie, jared kushner world.there's been an alignment behind the scenes. it would be an incredible story. but chris christie putting jared kushner's father in jail ten years ago, humiliating him. it wasn't just prosecuting him, it involved prostitutes, crossing state lines, he prosecuted him under a hundred-year-old statute. there's a history there, it's hard for me to see how that would happen. >> if it's pence or gingrich or somebody else who we're not talking about, is there a vice presidential pick in the world who could radically change the trajectory of donald trump's national election prospects? >> here's what i always think when that question comes up, in any scenario like this. 9888, lloyd benson, dan quayle. the ultimate line in any political debate in history was loit benson saying to dan quayle, senator, you're no jack kennedy. it's the all-time best comment in a political contest. did lloyd benson help dukakis at all? there's zero evidence he did anything. he lost in a landslide. >> it will be fun to

before you knew it, jared kushner became a senior adviser to donald trump. >> reporter: recently, kushner photography. he helped in the apac conference in march. he has tried to smooth the jagged edges but it hasn't always worked. he hired the speech writers for melania which she rejected. >> you want hard fpolitical new making their mark on the presidential race. >> ivanka has a sizeable role. even perhaps more than jared, even though jared has become very hands-on as one campaign adviser told me when ivanka speaks, everyone listens. >> reporter: ivanka trump is playing a role we normally see from a candidate's spouse and, charlie, remember, she was also a registered independent so in addition to helping with women, she could help her father reach out to independent voters in building next phase of the campaign. >> nice to see you up there in the rafters! >> we see you way up there! >> really interesting. >> cbs news contributor bob schieffer is with us and our former and "face the nation" moderator. >> people say why didn't you stay retire and why did you decide to come back? you can't

her husband jared kushner is with her there.has been a -- really a surprisingly influential family member give than he doesn't have political experience but someone who speaks to donald trump almost like no one else. there's trump at the lectern now. let's see if he might test the mik mike. >> kelly can you tell if there's text on the prompter right now? >> they use a place holder text which is the gettysburg address which is safe for everyone and they can scroll that to judge if the distances work and nobody is going to plagiarize abraham lincoln. that's there for everyone as a place holder. >> he's practicing his wave and thumbs up as well. we see paul manafort. there seems to be a slew of folks on that stage. who else do you see there? >> we have manafort. i'm seeing of the family just jared kushner, ivanka, the man with the headset has been sort of the stage manager for all of these events and he's been working with each of the speakers to help them with some direction on the use of the microphone, space to stand back, all o

jared kushner is donald trump's son-in-law. at one point in time, former prosecutor chris christie prosecuted jared kushner's father, who spent some time in federal prison. that would be a complication for any two groups coming together in the same orbit. it was part of what you needed to discuss. >> it's in the news. it's rumored to be a factor in the vp selection process. so we felt like we had to ask him about it. and the interesting thing to me is that at the low points for trump's candidacy, it has been the family ivanka, jared, the other two older sons, and chris christie who have been in the trenches as a team pulling for donald trump to make the adjustments he had to make first to win the primary and to get more scripted to a little more discipline. i think they were all operating as a unit when the campaign has made its moves toward more conventional campaign stuff such as having people like paul on board. so chris christie and jared kushner have worked hand in hand as some of the closest people in the kitchen cabinet.

don jr., eric, ivanka, her husband, jared kushner. a trump advisor says the younger trumps are pushing mike pence but we are told trump's own instincts are telling him to go for another governor, new jersey's chris christie, the one guy on earth not in indiana today. but i suppose there in spirit, at least. he did meet with some of the trump family yesterday. so what is going on? cnn chief political correspondent dana bash in indianapolis right now. dana, tell us everything. >> reporter: okay. well, first and foremost, donald trump is still here in indianapolis. remember, he was supposed to leave yesterday but ended up staying to have dinner with mike pence. he had breakfast as we were report being real time on location with mike pence and his wife, and the adult trump children this morning. then he came back here and had a meeting with newt gingrich. that has wrapped up. we saw newt gingrich leave, along with trump's family and his -- the person who's running his campaign right now, paul manafort. they have all left but again, donald

donald trump's kids, in particular his son-in-law who has been a more and more influential force, jared kushner. i've been told, number one, as you said, all signs lead to mike pence. however, within the last hour as far as we were told, the actual phone call has not been made. donald trump has not called mike important because, until that phone call goes, his campaign apparatus can be planning all they want for mike pence. but unless he gets the call, unless donald trump makes it formal, it's not mike pence. having said that, mike pence and donald trump i'm told spoke late last night where during that conversation trump leaned in to the negotiation that mike pence would be the guy that he's going to pick. and then the other thing is that the sort of apparatus of team trump has been gearing up in preparation for mike pence to be the pick in so much that, even pence's deputy campaign manager in indiana who is helping run his indiana governor's re-election campaign, he's on a plane right now heading to new york. our colleague jeremy diamond was on the plane with him. i think we have some sound of

run bycation jared kushner, who is married to o ivanka trump. refused to endorse donald trump. one yahoo! news political columnist has called him a classic halfway pick. there lacks a chemistry with donald trump. sounded likeence a newly married couple trying to persuade immigration they had fallen madly in love despite the fact they had met a week before and one of them needed a green card." >> donald trump got a wall. >> it's not the wall he was expecting i think. this artist called plastic jesus erected a six inch wall around donald trump's hollywood walk of fame star complete with razor wire and keep out signs. the french interior minister is launching an inquiry into policing after harsh criticism about the way things were handled. security breaches and a lie. that is the headline. there was only one police truck patrolling. at the moment that the killer drove his truck into the crowd, there was no police officer on side to block off the cy way. >> in direct contrast with what we have been hearing from the government. >> the government's assured everyone they had enough po

. >> then you have jared kushner, his son-in-law, who is ivanka's husband, she's converted to judai judaismmployee writing saying, you need to condemn this and writing, he's a great guy and he's not anti-semitic. >> and jared kushner when he responded to this, said my father-in-law has an open heart and he loves jewish people, but he said the campaign was playing fast and loose with twitter. i think he said the campaign was carelessly tweeting things. and trump of course has gone in the opposite direction and said, no, no, no, this was not careless. >> and he should have left it up there. >> should have left it up there. >> see if we can get through a full week without this. thanks for joining us. >>> coming up, no charges for hillary clinton, now an investigation of the investigators. didn't go according to plan. that story coming up. [burke] hot dog.seen it.covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ & in a world held back by compromise, businesses need the agility to do one thing & another. only at&t has the networ

she converted a few years ago when she married jared kushner, and jared kushner is now a major behindplayer at his father-in-law's campaign. megyn. >> peter, thank you. and says he's never known his father-in-law to be in any way anti-semitic. joining me now to respond, katrina pierson and julie ra begin ski. what is it about the tweet that is anti-semitic? >> on top a pile of money, i think if you're jewish, your tentacles are incredibly raised by this. the source is an anti-semitic tweeter. more importantly than that, you've got people from david duke to now paul ryan saying this is an anti-semitic image. clearly the message is very obvious to people who understand this. and the history of this is so repugnant because if you know anything about 20th century anti-semitism, this was the kind of imagery thats with used consistently in 1900s russia, in 1930s germany. donald trump has a history of this. it's not just this tweet. it's the fact when he was asked to refute all of the anti-semitic things people were saying about a reporter that wrote an unflattering story about his wife, he

and so i see those three, jared kushner and ivanka and donald jr., as being essential to the decision. eric is a less forceful person. i think he's less inclined to get involved politically. but very loyal to his siblings. and they all really do have their father's best interests at heart. and they're aware of how he comes across. it's funny, i once said to each of them, does your dad know that there are a lot of people who view him as a rather extreme character and are turned off by his behavior? and they said, absolutely, he understands it, but it doesn't change him. i think there are times when they would like to change him, and that might be happening right now. >> it may be happening right now. that's an interesting point. michael smerconish, to you, we are if cleveland together, kicking off what is going to be an extraordinary week by any measure. no matter what your affiliation, you'll be watching. >> how could you not? >> how could you not? when you look at who's not here, no living republican president here, you don't have the governor of ohio here. have you ever seen anythin

his beautiful daughter, ivanka, her beaming husband, jared kushner, and those three grandchildren. >> come on. they want you to walk over. and jared, come on up. >> reporter: never far from the candidate's side. and tonight, kushner, an orthodox jew, is defending trump in "the new york observer," a newspaper kushner owns. "my father-in-law is not an anti-semite," he writes. at issue, this controversial tweet from trump, showing hillary clinton next to a pile of money, stamped with what many say looks like a star of david. trump's campaign soon deleted the tweet, replacing the star with a circle. tonight, trump said that was a mistake. >> i didn't think anything. it could have been a sheriff's star. could have been a regular star. >> reporter: but critics point out the image was first circulated on white supremacist message boards. one of kushner's own reporters at "the observer" accused trump of "repeated accidental winks to the white supremacist community," and called kushner out, writing, "when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his jewish son-in-law, you're giving his

attorney, he did prosecute jared kushner's father. that is some history that comes into this. how much that weighs on kushner now that he's so influential with donald trump, hard to measure from the outside. trump has a long-standing relationship with governor christie over a dozen or so years. and christie has already been very involved in the campaign behind the scenes as the transition chairman. so that prior relationships with the father-in-law offive van ka trump did not stop that participation from christie, but weighing it for something as significant as the running mate, maybe that's a factor. we know that the adult children of donald trump have a lot to say about this as their trusted a visors of their father. rerelies on them and they want to make sure he makes the right choice. they have been much more involved than you might otherwise see. i think in this case there's a lot of interesting history. and when you use the word safe regarding governor pence, i hear that again and again for the reasons you pointed out. safe kind of at a distance, there's not a long relati

to the right you see jared kushner, her husband, who is with her as well. contributor, donald trump supporter. scotty, this is going to be for ivanka trump and for donald trump, i would argue probably the two most important speeches at least to date of their lives. >> absolutely. there's no better surrogate for mr. trump than ivanka. she's proven that time and time again. she shows grace, competence, stability. she shows the fruit of the tree is strong. i think every parent would love to say we would love to have a daughter just like ivanka. tonight she's the best person to show the warmth of mr. trump before he comes on stage and he shows the leadership qualities and the type of character he will be. >> scotty and kellyanne, all of us know and i do it all the time, it's not that easy getting that feel, delivering a speech, making it feel like you're just talking but you're really reading. you need some coaching. >> the teleprompter isn't in front of you, either. it's to either side. you have to be very careful that you don't look like you're watching a ten

his son don junior and eric and daughter ivanka were there with her husband jared kushner. the meeting comes hours after pence introduced trump last night at a rally in the hoosier state. >> i often joke, you'll be calling up mike pence, i don't know whether he's going to be your governor or vice president. who the hell knows? >> we have just five days to go before the republican national convention and trump is promising to reveal his running mate by friday. the latest development as poll numbers show trump neck and neck. trump leading 42% to clinton's 39%. that's a significant drop from the eight-point lead last night. in pennsylvania 43% to 41. in ohio the race has tightened with trump and clinton tied at 41%. meanwhile the list of fluids has gotten longer. trump calling for supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg's resignation after she doubled down on comments criticizing him. twum tweeted, justice bins gurg of the u.s. supreme court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political comments about me. he was responding to comments she made last week in separate inter

. >> trump's daughter ivanka arrived at the center holding hands with husband jared kushner. the mom and fashion mogul's speech was clearly designed to appeal to women voters,

up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the influence of ivanka trump and her husband jared kushner speaker of the house newt gingrich. and mo rocca hits the streets of cleveland with delegates as they explore the city. that is the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ,, ,$8drw >>> this is a live look at the golden gate bridge this morning. it is thursday, july 21. good morning, i'm kenny choi. >> i'm michelle griego. let's check in with gianna and roberta. good morning. how are you? >> good. >> good morning. >> you look good in purple. >> i got purple, too. >> matching. and we're matching. >> okay. [ laughter ] >> all right. this tie rocks! [ overlapping speakers ] [ laughter ] >> good morning. getting ready to figure out what you're going to wear out the door, we have a very deep expansive marine layer. causing condensation in the form of drizzle along the shore and into the bay. temperatures into the 50s. 57 degrees in san jose. 53 in santa rosa. and later today, if you liked it yesterday, you'll enjoy it today. a bit

. >> reporter: that contradicts what his son-in-law jared kushner suggested, defending trump in an op-ed but calling the tweet careless. >> trump is good at commanding free media attention, but most of the time it hurts him more than it helps him. that's why republicans are now so incredibly nervous. we've never had a situation where we're right on top of the convention and our nominee is in a cold war with his own party. >> reporter: trump's team pushing back against any suggestion today's meetings were anything but positive, calling them substantive, claiming members were in total agreement. many here in washington speculating about who trump may pick as his running mate. chris christie on that list. and late tonight nbc news has learned that christie will travel with trump tomorrow to the battleground of florida. lester? >> all right. hallie jackson in washington. thanks. >>> a terrifying tragedy on a texas highway today. debris from a bridge damaged after a garbage truck ran into it fell on to a car traveling below. inside a mother and her two young children. one died. as our tom cos

we know jared kushner, run things for the trump campaign.ave it to melania trump, and who knows what happened from there. >> when someone in the immediate circle makes a mistake, that usually means it's the principal's fault whatever offending language ended in there. we don't know that for sure. but it certainly seems to be the case. >> you can't fire melania trump. >> it's all about feelings, not about words that words don't really matter it she spent quite a lot of time going over it, where she was sort of adapting, but no one has yet drawn some sort of line between her being on the internet. there's no word that has occurred -- >> i think you want speeches to be in your own words and reflective of what you feel but the curious thing is why didn't anyone vet it before she delivered it or did they. >> there isn't a whole lot, so that's not unusual for the environment we're in but i think one of the most fascinating parts, if the campaign said this was a mistake, we're sorry, move on. we'd probably still be talking about it two days later.

how influential ivanka, eric, don jr., jared kushner. >> supremely.eople have always had his back and protected him. especially the three adult children. they've intervened in the past. they actually told me that they'll get together and if they think that their father's off on the wrong track as a group they'll sit with him. now he doesn't always take their advice. >> i was going to say, does he listen? >> no, not always. sometimes they'll have a cover story. like there was a moment when the birther issue was raging and it was reported that the kids went to him and said, look, you've got to back off a little bit on this. later they had deniability but i'm pretty sure they did it. because they have a different sensibility. they're aware of what a variety of people perhaps outside of donald's orbit may be thinking and how they're responding to his performances. and so they will rein him in and protect him from himself. >> you know, the next obvious thought is, if trump were to be elected and we're watching how close he is with his family and their infl

. >> reporter: trump's husband jared kushner has emerged as the de facto campaign manager.ether they're the power center of the inner circle. now ivanka's also running her father's company, including overseeing major construction projects as an executive vice president. trump signed her first modeling contract when she was 14, and like her father, graduated from the university of pennsylvania's wharton school of business. building her own brand, she started a fashion line of affordable dresses, shoes and handbags for professional women. >> one of my life's missions is to disrupt these dated concepts of what it really looks like and means to be a working woman. >> reporter: trump also happens to be friends with another famous daughter, chelsea clinton. scott, it's an unlikely pairing, especially now, but just this morning ivanka trump said that politics will not be a factor in their friendship going forward. >> pelley: julianna goldman outside the hall for us. julianna, thank you. nancy cordes has discovered that there are democrats in cleveland, too. >> this has been ugly.

. >>> now trump's son-in-law and campaign adviser jared kushner, meanwhile, is deflecting criticism of the use of the controversial image. the writer of the new york observer, the newspaper that kushner publishes, posted an open letter online yesterday urging kushner, who is jewish, to rebuke the tweet. but kushner didn't. and he released a statement saying in part, quote my father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our judaism. since i began dating my wife. i know that donald does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-semitic thinking. end quote. now speculation is rampant over who trump will choose as his running mate as he begins showcasing and vetting potential picks. today newt gingrich will join trump for a fund-raiser in a rally near cincinnati, ohio. same time nbc news has learned that senator bob corker of tennessee has submitted materials to be vetted by the campaign. corker held a series of meetings with trump at trump tower, spending time with campaign officials and family members, and last night the senator joined trump o

according to the new york times, the path to plagiarism began innocently enough with jared kushner, the husband of trump's daughter ivanka. kushner commissioned speechwriters matthew scully and john mcconnell to come up with a draft. they sent it to melania last month, but heard nothing back. without telling them she discarded most of the draft and turned to mciver. on monday she delivered mciver's rewritten speech without informing campaign staffers of the changes == or apparently recognizing the word for word plagiarism. that your word is your bond that your word is your bond >> reporter:mciver says she offered to resign but that donald trump told her it was an innocent mistake and she should learn from it. as for melania trump, the last we saw of her, she was being hustled out of trump tower yesterday afternoon. donald trump was reportedly furious at the plagiarism, and at the news coverage. today he tweeted that the media is spending more time analyzing her speech than the f=b=i did on hillary clinton's emails. >> grant: put the ball closure because of a vehicle and until the west o

yesterday entertainment writer dana schwartz wrote an open letter to donald trump's son-in-law jared kushnerg with him to take a stance against the anti-semitic rhetoric. schwartz spoke with lawrence o'donnell last night. >> i woke up, as with many americans on july 2nd, when he tweeted that original image, sort of awestruck that a major political party candidate could get away with such blatant anti-semitic imagery and when i tweeted about it the response i got from people all wearing make america great again hats was horrific. to say the least. i excerpted some of them on the -- in the article i wrote. but they were invoking the holocaust, some photoshopped my image in an oven with donald trump pushing the on button. horrific and blatant anti-semitism. >> kushner replaced a statement that said, quote, my father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and judaism since i began dated my wife. i know that donald does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-semitic thinking. >>> bill kristol is encouraging an all-out floor revolt at the republican natio

he is charles kushner's son jared who is also married to ivanka trump. les kushner often donated to democratic candidates. in 2002 his brother and his accountant filed lawsuits against kushner alleging financial irregularities, according kushner. he struck a deal paying $500,000 worth of fines. he used names of employees for campaign contributions. he said he defrauded the irs by claiming charitable contribution. >> in the course of that investigation chris christie's team discovered something else, that charles kushner had tried to blackmail a federal witness using a prostitute as bait. >> when people decided to take the law into their own hands, to obstruct justice, to attempt to impede the rule of law it is our obligation to act swiftly and surely to end the obstruction. >> reporter: christie charged kushner with conspiring to obstruct the grand jury investigation. turns out kuhsner hired a prostitute to have sex with his brother-in-law. curb ner had the sexual encounter videotaped and sent it to the man's booif, ku s >> he took this activity in order

you had never met jared kushner?e's basically your boss but you wanted to send him a message after the 6-pointed star and the tweet went out. let me read a porshz of this open letter. you say to him, you went to harvard and hold two graduate degrees, please predon't pretend you don't understand the imagery of a six-sided star when juxtaposed with money and accusations and when you stand in silent in the background, his jewish son in law, you're giving the -- >> why did you send that to him? >> immediately i saw that it was an anti-semitic symbol. >> you had no doubt. to you, it immediately smacked of that. >> i saw that first thing in the morning and i was agast and surprised that a major candidate pointed that out and when i pointed it out on twitter, the wave of hatred that came at me took my breath away. >> we have some of those odious tweets that came your way and they are really offensive. so i want to warn everybody you're going to hear disgusting things. so, here's one@houston welder. maybe you're just an inse

free card for donald trump and the fact of the matter is it's not and i would want to know why jared kushnerlling to be so complicit in that. >> kushner arguing trump's not racist and any suggestion he's intolerant is not reflective of the man he knows. >> where's jared, my son-in-law. where is he? my son-in-law is here. >> kushner and his wife, ivanka, powerful preferences on the campaign trail. kushner playing an important part in trump's policy, his strategy and his search for a v.p. late tuesday, a kind of audition for one possible running mate, senator bob corker of tennessee stumping for trump. >> and i have the incredible priviledge today to spend time with this man and to spend time with his family and to spend time with those who know him so well. >> nbc news confirming he's being vetted as a potential vp pick. senator corker appearing with trump at a rally late tuesday in north carolina where trump stirred up some new controversy. you heard chuck mention it a couple of minutes ago. trump praising saddam hussein for how he handled terrorists. listen. >> saddam hussein was a bad guy,

. >> and jared kushner published an article insisting that his father-in-law, donald trump, is not an and jared is an orthodox jew. >> when someone who works for the campaign, like jared kushner does, has to write an article that starts with the sentence donald trump is not an anti-semit. this came days ago, and it is continuing to permeate the discussion. they could have just said we're sorry if we caused offense, it was not intended that way but they're not doing that. >> let me let jeffrey lord weigh in as well. >> there is a legitimate controversy, i wrote about it at "the american spectator." once i saw that tweet, without knowing any of the controversy, i thought it was a sheriff's badge because i grew up looking at six star sheriff's badges on the tv. i think we're going to go on, we're already on to the next controversy. >> here is why it matters going forward. not because donald trump is an anti-se anti-s anti-semite, he has run a campaign based on separating people and encouraging other people to -- >> it's an us versus them, be against muslims or gaes ays and lesbians. peop

jared kushner, he released a statement saying "my father-in-law is an incredibly loving and toleranterson who embraced my family and our judaism since i began dating my wife. i know that donald trump does not at all subscribe to any racist or any anty semitic thinking. i've seen him embrace people of all religious and all backgrounds. that's a perfect way to end it. ♪ ♪ and an early morning mode.ode. and a partly sunny mode. and an outside... to clear inside mode. transitions® signature adaptive lenses... ...are more responsive than ever. so why settle for a lens with just one mode? experience life well lit®. ...upgrade your lenses to transitions® signature. now get up to a $90 rebate by mail. when you purchase glasses and sunglasses featuring select brands. ask your eyecare professional or visit transitions.com for details. okay! fun's over. milk! milk! milk! milk! milk! aw. aw. ♪ thirsty? my friend said i had to earn my way to the cool table. oh, sweet jamie. you got to stick up for yourself, like with the name your price tool. people tell us their budget, not the other way around.

trump, one of his top advisors, his son, jared kushner. a noted jewish newspaper publisher. he has been very strongly supportive of israel. in his policies and actions don't reflect the retweet suggests. >> very much so. i think so people in the trump campaign were surprised that any references to anti-semitic could be made. they were like, look. my daughter is jewish. i would never do that. that brings up the question for some critics. if you have so many people so close to you who know that this should not be done and this is a poor look, why do you keep doing these things? this is not the first time that donald trump had trouble appearing to be unsupportive of the jewish community. >> is it sloppy or intentional? we have to continue to follow. let's talk veep picks. >> sure. >> when it comes to hillary clinton. there are so many names. what are we hearing? >> we are hearing a really diverse group of names. we had senator cory booker on "state of the union" yesterday. we had tim kaine. there is elizabeth warren. we are hearing julian castro. it is not clear. it seems to be

and he launched a fairly aggressive open campaign for the job believed to have been favored by jared kushner that's donald trump's son-in-law. it's 24 hours after planned and republican ticket, donald trump and mike pence. >> john, how much is this to disgruntled delegates and does it truly put away any movement from the never trumpers that people were talking about making an appearance next week? >> it's a significant one to them carl. this is going to be a popular choice with republican delegates. most of these are regular republicans. they're conservatives and people that have been part of this party in it's conservative identification over the last couple of decades. that's what mike pence comes out of. donald trump does not come out of that tradition so there's misgivings about him. not enough clearly as we saw yesterday for them to oust donald trump and overturn the results of the republican primaries. the never trump movement was crushed last night but this is going to be something that makes a lot of republicans feel better about donald trump. the ticket is still going to be defined

>> i know ivanka and jared kushner, which is the son-in-law, obviously, of donald, and have good relationships with them. and i value them. i consider them friends. to me, this is about a much larger picture -- >> can i stop you there. you consider them friends. honestly -- i don't know if you can answer this question honestly. but do you have a conversation with them, like what the heck is going on with your father? >> no, i haven't had that conversation. in many ways, that would be disrespectful. i have such a painful understanding of how he ran businesses. 252 examples of donald trump short-changing businesses, short-changing folks and this is all around our state. there's a lot of pain that he caused and as he got rich, was able to declare bankruptcy, and walk away with millions and leaving people in a lot of pain. so for me, again, this is a focus on who should lead this country. if you want somebody that's going to rack up american debt, kill american jobs and in many ways, fail like he did in atlantic city, that's your guy. but that's not what we want. we want somebody with a different

she decided it was to publicly confront her boss in her open letter to jared kushner she said this, i'm? when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his jewish son-in-law, you're giving his most hateful supporters, joining us now, exclusive last word, dana schwartz, writer for the observer. dana, this was an extraordinary thing to read and you -- what struck you about it right away was wow, you didn't have to do this, i mean, no one has to do it. but you're the arts and culture writer. politics is not your place at the observer and it was so perfectly phrased throughout in the political points made so perfe perfectly. how long were you thinking about doing this, is this like a last straw thing with that tweet. >> well, the tweet was one thing and then the response from his supporters really clarified how horrific this campaign has been in my mind. i mean, i woke with many americans on july second when he tweeted that original image, sort of awe struck that a major political party candidate could get away with such blatant antise mettic imagery, when i tweeted about all wearing

>> i know ivanka and jared kushner, which is the son-in-law, obviously, of donald, and have good relationshipsh them. and i value them. i consider them friends. to me, this is about a much larger picture -- >> can i stop you there. you consider them friends. honestly -- i don't know if you can answer this question honestly. but do you have a conversation with them, like what the heck is going on with your father? >> no, i haven't had that conversation. in many ways, that would be disrespectful. i have such a painful understanding of how he ran businesses. 252 examples of donald trump short-changing businesses, short-changing folks and this is all around our state. there's a lot of pain that he caused and as he got rich, was able to declare bankruptcy, and walk away with millions and leaving people in a lot of pain. so for me, again, this is a focus on who should lead this country. if you want somebody that's going to rack up american debt, kill american jobs and in many ways, fail like he did in atlantic city, that's your guy. but that's not what we want. we want somebody with a different visi

nbc news says trump's daughter, ivanka, her husband, jared kushner, and trump's son, donald, were also at the meeting this morning. trump is expected to announce his vp pick any day now, and pence is said to be on the short list. pence attend a campaign meeting with trump. >>> a new national poll shows hillary clinton expanding her lead over donald trump by 13%, but key battleground states are still up for grabs. in pennsylvania and florida, a key quinnipiac poll shows trump leading. in pennsylvania, trump has 42 to 31. the two candidates are tied in ohio. nbc's kristen welker reports, for republicans and democrats these days, it's all about party unity. >> reporter: just five days to go until the gop convention. trump is struggling to bring his party together. criticizing some of his primary opponents, for not endorsing him, after signing a pledge to support the nominee. >> it's called a pledge! i pledge that if i don't make it, i'm going to support the nominee of the party. it doesn't say, subject to change, subject to the weather. >> reporter: while trump tries to rally republicans,

prepared remarks that his speech writers, his aids have prepared for him in the past that has been jared kushneranka's husband and steve miller, chris christie has helped in the past with speech writing. i don't know at this moment who is helping with this specific speech. but given all the controversy surrounding melania's speech and the question broefly about don jr.'s speech, i would have to imagine that the campaign is taking donald trump's speech very seriously, wanting it to go off without a hiccup. that's what i imagine is happening behind the scenes. i don't have any indication or any new news on what exactly donald trump will say tomorrow night? >> katy, standby. i want to go to my colleague chris jansing inside the q. tonight we have ted cruz, who will be speaking along with eric trump and other members of the trump team that have been lined up to speak. but what do we expect from ted cruz and being able to speak to party unity as this it team is trying to move forward now that we see the cohesive pair in trump and pence? >> first, i think when you look at this picture what's interesti

a jewish employee of a newspaper owned by donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner has called on him to speak out against anti-semitism surrounding trump's campaign. cheered kushner isn't orthodox jew. he has been a key member of donald trump's campaign. in the open letter observer , entertainment writer dana schwartz wrote -- "when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his jewish son-in-law, you're giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval." this comes after trump tweeted -- an anti-semitic image showing hillary clinton, a pile of cash, and a six-pointed star of david, along with the words "most corrupt candidate ever!" the image originally appeared on a white supremacist message board. in respoponse to the open lettt, jejerk kushner wrote them "trump does not also scrubbed any racist or anti-semitic thinking." iraq, the inquiry to the iraq war has just been released. the chilcot report is 2.6 million words long, about three times the length of the bible. it blames former british prime minister tony blair of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by saddam hussein

one of the biggest problems for christie may be jared kushner, donald trump's son-in-law, doesn't care for him very much. there has been some tension there. back in 2004 when christie was a u.s. attorney in new jersey, he put away kushner's father in prison for political malfeasance so that is something that hangs on the campaign as well. huge, huge stakes. everybody waiting. the governor has not left the house so far but if he does we will follow. >> we know. >> a promise and a threat. >> in the serene and leafy mendham new jersey. >> but wait, there's more. we're also watching the former house speaker newt gingrich. he is also a finalist for the second spot on the trump ticket. last night newt gingrich talked about what he and trump have in common. >> in many ways donald trump is like a pirate. he's jououtside the normal syst. he gets things done. he's bold. in a lot of ways my entire career has been a little bit like a pirate. one of the really hard questions he's got to weigh on the way to california is do you really want a two pirate ticket. >> that is the question that's been ask