i'm not attacking ken vogel. he carries water for hillary every day. i've been flat out rooting for hillary clinton so maybe this was legitimate and their coverage is or not. >> i think sometimes reporters do this to make sure they're getting it right. i write a column on occasion i've done this, if it's something that involves complex legal arguments or something and you want to make sure. i will say i'm not changing anything for opinion, but if you have a substantive issue factual, and 99% of the time no one has anything to say so on occasion this happens. >> also fascinating debbie wasserman schultz complaining to chuck todd about the kris simple from mika brzienski. it didn't happen. they don't like criticism from the press on the democratic side any more than the republican. let's move to donald trump. start with the speech. the media pretty much savaged the speech, too dark, too scary, fear mongering. it wasn't a usual speech, it was or anti-trump sentiment? >> obviously the latter. trump explained what he thinks. you don't have to agree with any

i thought ken vogel was very unprofessional as a journalist there.l tell you what shocked me even more, the cfo of the democratic national committee is from kentucky or west virginia, unclear which, but he sends an email to the ceo saying if the people in kentucky and west virginia knew that he was a jew and not a christian, that might make a difference in the primaries. well, first of all, helping hillary has a really low opinion of the mind-set of the people of kentucky and west virginia. >> thinks they're stupid.ceo ba interesting, rather than that's a really stupid idea, come and see me about it. i want to talk to you about it. >> unbelievable. maybe he's not jewish, he's an atheist, doesn't believe in anything. >> even better, he says in my part of the world, kentucky and west virginia, being a jew is almost as bad, is like being an atheist. >> wow. >> what that says about his mind-set and what the dnc thinks about the people of kentucky and west virginia is astonishing. the ceo, in charge of the democratic national committee, reports to the cha

ken vogel tweeted out this. he says, that's it? pence gets two minutes in the middle of a rambling off-message steam wineder, then has to retweet to the background and force a smile. we know that people like paul ryan, for example, the house speaker and mitch mcconnell have really tried to insert mike pence as much as possible to rationalize how they have come to accept this as their ticket. and part of what donald trump did today in this -- in these remarks, kelly, was essentially say, it's official. you've got me, you brought up the supreme court, and really, again, laying down the gauntlet of what choice do you have? >> reporter: it almost suggests that if he could have done this without a running mate, he would have taken that option. but it's required under our constitution that he have a running mate, so he picked one. and i have heard in speaking with leadership in congress that they have tried personally to say to donald trump, it's okay to not make news. it's okay to be boring. that has been the washington playbook. he is

>> this one instance with the reporter named ken vogel submitting a story through the dnc official ricery. i talked to a political executive denis says it was a chance to allow the dnc to comment and that this is not the normal this for this bullet to kill a reporter. some of these e-mails show a cozy relationship with anyone criticizing or the party. it's almost like they expect a positive coverage. stuart: fascinating stuff. all good stuff. thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. >> good to see you. stuart: president obama has $4.5 billion worth of taxpayer for recharging stations across the country. this peak still with us. that is a great subsidy and it's a big one. >> obama has made many pledges about how many electric cars about public cars on the road by certain dates 2015 with the latest million cars. all they have to million now out there functioning. that is insight of the $7500 credit that people get if they buy one and i'll kinds of other newsmen. he is about to leave office. he pushes forward on the things he hasn't gotten done and this is one of them. at some point, someon

>> any time you have an e-mail from a reporter, in this case politico's ken vogel with the subject linems like it's kind of cozy. most journalists i know would never share a story before publication in advance. you certainly want to give the dnc, the rnc, anybody else a chance to comment, run the points by them, but sharing the story in advance is questionable. i did talk to a politico executive who did not want to be named and this is what he told me. ken made an agreement to share this story to confirm facts and figures for a complex piece about joint fundraising agreements. politico doesn't typically do this, nor does ken, but in this circumstance did to make sure we had it right. >> i remember back in my old hard news days if you had a question after you had written the story, you called back and asked about that particular fact or two, but just the fact that the whole story is out there, that's substantial and prefaced with that agreement earlier, it doesn't smell right. >> i don't know whether there are other instances of this or not. this is the only one we know of involving poli