then she's going to be questioned by kristin welker. our sister network. here, an unusual session of hillary clinton addressing the press. >> good morning. >> i am so pleased to be here. i want to thank you all for the invitation, for the introduction to everyone associated with navj and nahj. i want to just mark the moment because you were created in this hotel. i don't know if there are any original founders, but if there are, could you stand up and we could give you some recognition. [ applause ] i am dpliegted to thank you for the important work you do every day and now more than er we need you to keep holding leaders and candidates accountable. and in the tradition of path breaking journalists, like ethel payne and ruth salazar, we need you to make sure that america's front pages and nightly newscasts an online information reflects the great diversity of our nation. someone that i had the privilege of knowing, the late, great, bob may ard, former owner of the oakland tribune once said, and i quote bob, it is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin

my colleague kristin welker asking should donald trump be apologizing now to the khans, and this gives ewe glimpse into how the campaign and those close to them republic responding. listen to what sam clovis had to say. >> i think mr. trump has clearly had the calculation here that he is fighting back. this is normal for this. i think that a lot of the turmoil that you bring up, and i'm not trying to down play it, i think is what happens. a lot is the dust-up inside the beltway or inside the new york media circles. >> reporter: and chris, i'd be surprised if that is not a line we've heard echoed from donald trump when he takes the stage here. you can hear that familiar pre-rally sound track. . looks he may take questions up until the podium set up, there was a chair and microphone maybe he would take some quares from the audience. but expect donald trump, remember, this is his first rally really since friday night, since all of this developed. i would be surprised if he did not directly address this head on. chris. >> nbc's halle jackson, thank you for that, now during their interview

and that's a choice before us. >>> and very good day to you, i'm kristin welker in for andrea mitchell crashing on to the trump campaign. the latest controversy during an interview with the "washington post," trump refused to endorse paul ryan and john mccain. all this causeding senior party officials to reach a breaking point with the candidate they're just unable to control. there is some good news for trump, this morning the campaign announced a big fundraising number, $80 million raised by the campaign and joint events with the republican national committee. nbc's katie tur covers the trump campaign and she is live outside of trump tower, so katie, thanks for being here. i want to start with these reports about disunity and chaos within the campaign and also some buzz about republicans considering an intervention, what are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah, i just talked to one of my republican sources, and they can confirm that donald trump, an intervention will be staged. they're looking at staging an event for donald trump. people like rudy giuliani involved, reince priebus and new

kristin welker follows the campaign from des moines.s in there that does look troubling or illegal or whatever? >> good evening. there are about two e-mails that we are focused on. in one, this was written in 2009. a former top aide to the chin family foundation, e-mails, two top officials at the state department, cheryl mills and huma abedin, and tries to set up a meeting with a billionaire donor to the foundation with the u.n. ambassador, the u.s. ambassador to lebanon. it was written, it is very important and the advisers say, okay, we'll work on this. by the way, i'm told that meeting didn't happen. in a second e-mail, that same adviser requested that they look at one of the former workers for the clinton foundation for a potential spot at the state department. this is the type of exchange that does go on quite frequently with people recommending people to the state department. the clinton campaign saying that, look, there is nothing untoward about the e-mail exchanges. i'll read you the statement. neither of these e-mails involve t

. >> let's get the details from kristin welker. wea we've heard this all morning.eporting do you have here? >> they're pushing back hard. they essentially say this a.p. report is cherry picked, that it ignores the more than 1700 other meetings secretary clinton had with other government officials and other folks and that it is not a kplacomplete picture of w happened. there is no quid pro quo established in the a.p. report, but there's no doubt the optics are bad. it gives donald trump yet another opening to attack here. yet again in austin last night he called for a special prosecutor to look into this. >> political analyst hugh hewitt, also host of the hugh hewitt show. tell me, is this foundation issue a field day for you? >> it's a big news story. i spent most of this morning talking to people like politico and the "washington post" who had been investigating the foundation for a number of years. the biggest question is what were people buying when they gave money to the clinton foundati foundation? did they think they were getting access to official government

joining us is kristin welker.states, specifically the one you're standing in? >> reporter: their strategy is to reach out to working class voters, those voters who could make all the difference in these critical swing states, particularly here in iowa. she's going to be here touring a small business later today and speaking here at this school. they are also eyeing some new polls in some other big battleground states. in ohio secretary clinton has opened up a lead 49-45% according to the latest quinnipiac poll. in our latest polling, 43-38%. in florida it gets much tighter. i think we're going to be spending a lot of time in florida. she does have a lead but it's within the margin of error 46-45%. she's opened up a much bigger lead in the quinnipiac poll, 42-37%. tim kaine was talking about they're even eyeing that state as they look to expand the voters who are interested this them. take a look to what he sad to say about that and also he weighed in on the second amendment comments. >> we are serious about texas.

tonight, burns is standing by and defending that tweet even as he was pressed hard by my friend, kristin welker at msnbc whether it was appropriate. he is saying it entirely is. >> thank you very much. you sit here as an african-american supporter of trump. is that tweet too far? >> it's not a tweet i would have sent out. i do understand the point that pastor burns is making as it relates to hillary clinton and how she takes advantage, and a lot of democrats, in my opinion, take advantage of the black vote and use it as a voting bloc and not something that they're really concerned about. you look at crime, educational stances and position taken against school choice, charter schools and things of that nature as it relates to urban cities, democrats have failed our community. >> you wouldn't have said it in that way? >> it's not my style. >> you would not have done that? >> no. >> keith? >> totally offensive. typical trump. typical trump surrogacy. trump said laziness is a trait among black people. he said he wouldn't want to have a black accountant because he likes to have jews handle his money

. >>> i'm kristin welker in washington in for chuck todd. welcome to mtp daily. deranged conspiracy theories, blood baths, unguided missiles. republican bracing for a vicious new stretch in this race after trump taps a right wing media fire brand as his campaign ceo with the trump unleashed some conservatives see danger ahead. bill crystal calling trump the campaign's problem not its solution. glenn beck warning conservatives now is the time to jump ship. karl rove seeing potential for epic loss in november and jennifer ruben declaring the campaign a lost cause. clinton campaign bracing for nasty turn running for 1-2 punch of trump right wing conspiracy theories and here we go. today the trump campaign blasting out a press release accusing of clinton of quote planning a criminal enterprise when she ran the state department which comes as trump launches a series of attacks questioning clinton's health tp take a listen. >> speeches are so short. 10 minute, let's get out of here. go back home and go to sleep. three days later, she gets up, does another one, goes bac

let's get to the action inside the clinton campaign, nbc's kristin welker is live in philadelphia with the clinton campaign, so, kristin, we look at those numbers, republicans see political opportunity, they've been trying to figure out how to capitalize on those numbers for hillary clinton, now, with the e-mails, with getting the memos, the interview memos from the fbi to congress, they see some opportunity. what is the clinton campaign saying about all of this? >> reporter: well, as you can imagine, they are pushing back quite forcefully on the fact that those notes from secretary clinton's interview with the fbi were released to lawmakers. let me read you a statement from brian fallon and discuss it on the other side, steve. it reads, quote, "this is an extraordinarily rare step that was sought solely for republicans for the purposes of further second-guessing the career professionals at the fbi. we believe that if these materials are going to be shared outside the justice department, they should be released widely so that the public can see them for themselves, rather than allow re

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kristin welker covering the campaign, you had a heated exchange about an hour ago about what the tweets were all about. he was unapologetic at that point. is the tone of his defense different and is there reaction inside clinton world? >> well, his reaction and his defense is the same. he's making the case he was trying to argue democrats and hillary clinton have taken african-american voters for granted and pander to african-american voters. yesterday he was not backing down at all, stood by his tweet. a couple hours after our heated exchange he did apologize. as katie mentioned he was making it clear it was his idea to apologize. be the clinton campaign isn't responding in part because they don't feel it has to, it's making headlines, letting the story tell itself. hillary clinton has been slamming donald trump's efforts to rally african-americans, more about moderates, independents. as katie points out the challenge for trump is he has yet to go to an african-american community and talk about his plans for jobs, dealing with crime. he's going to detroit this weekend. some saying that

i'm kristin welker in washington in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." mea culpa or deathbed conversion. 81 days from a potential clinton clobbering and reality finally sinking in for the trump campaign. the past 24 hours we've seen an unprecedented attempt at a campaign makeover, metamore fa sis, call it whatever you want. paul manafort, trump's campaign chief off the campaign resigning today. the campaign finally up with its first battleground tv ad after being pounded on the air waves by the clinton campaign. then there's the candidate himself. today traveling to flood stricken louisiana for a rare presidential-style photo-on-touring water-ravaged communities after last night's stunninged a mirtion that he regrets some of his controversial comments, particularly those he says may have caused personal pain. it's a head-turning moment for trump who has run a scorched earth campaign for the last 430 days but cutting through all the noise, the only question that arguably matters going forward for trump is this? are voters going to buy it? because it's har

thank you, kristin welker for joining us this morning. >>> despite a late stage party divide, paul ryan easily won his gop primary last night in the state of wisconsin. the house speaker rolled over his little known challenger, taking 86% of the vote. it wasn't until friday night when ryan finally got the endorsement of donald trump. >>> in ferguson, missouri, gunfire erupting at what should have been a peaceful protest on the second anniversary on the fatal shooting of michael brown. >> jesus! oh! oh! >> not a sound anyone wants to hear. police ordered a group of protesters to clear the street shortly before a car drove into the crowd striking a young woman. fortunately no one was hit. police are looking for a suspect. >>> now to the olympics in rio where our own american hero michael phelps dominated the night, snatching up two more gold medals. his 20th gold came in the 200-meter butterfly, his signature event which he lost in the 2012 games. an hour later his 21st gold came. and get this -- i love this fun fact. the most decorated olympian has more gold medals than more than 150 cou

hillary clinton -- before the national association of black journalists, you sere her talking to kristin welker right there, national association of hispanic journalists. the first time rel we have seen her in 244 day answer a series of questions from the press. and you heard one of the people pointing out she would do it more often. she has not had a press conference and it's something that donald trump and his appearances often hits her on, but we have a lot to cover. i want to talk to howard fineman whose global editorial director and malcolm nance, national security expert at msnbc analyst, and i thought, howard, that kristin asked the question a lot of people have been asking recently is why on sunday, after her statements about what was said i did fbi director comey did she -- given four pinoccios by the washington post why she repeated them essentially on a sunday talk show. i wonder what you thought of her explanation in this press conference overall. >> well, i thought you saw several stages of hillary clinton there. you saw the all the different types of hillary clinton. the first one

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kristin welker in washington today and has the latest on it. >> good morning to you. the chorus of voices of outrage, the company's ceo is in the hot seat and even that is doing very little to quiet the criticism. with the firestorm building this morning over the pharmaceuticals and the price of the life-saving epip epipen, answering tough questions. >> nobody is more frustrated than me. >> the price skyrocketing from $90 to more than 600, blaming what she is calling the broken health system. t higher premiums on their insurance. >> she's now on defense about her own condensation, jumping millions. >> you understand how that looks? >> brian, look, i understand better than anybody that facts are inconvenient to headlines. >> with calls mounting for a federal investigation, the controversy is putting her father, west virginia senator, joe mansion, in a awkward position. he said i look forward to working with my colleagues to lower the price of prescription drugs. >> i think one of the reasons he had the guts to move this price up so rapidly is because they do have a mon

kristin welker with the latest on that. >> hillary clinton is out west today on a fund-raising blitz our new news poll shows clinton holding on to the lead from message and on the hunt. >> donald trump sharpening his attacks in ohio monday for the first time calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the clinton foundation. >> the justice department is required to appoint an independent special prosecutor. >> the tough talk comes after hundreds of e-mails surface, raising questions. in one dated 2009 a foundation official e-mailed top clinton aide, hue ma be a adean. tion do prince of bahrain described as a good friend of ours. >> the clinton made the state department into the same kind of pay for play operation as the arkansas government was. >> the clinton campaign calling the criticism pure politics and earlier in the day bill clinton announced if his wife wins the white house, he'll step down from the last night on "jimmy kimball live" hillary clinton says she's not worried about the revelation the state department could release thousands of additional e-mails. >> my e-mails

we have two reports this morning and we will start with kristin welker. good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you today. the clinton campaign is grabbling. anthony weiner. hillary clinton and abedin are so close at one point she referred to her as a second daughter. this morning anthony weiner seen in this photo from daily mail.com on his own and out of work. leave from new york one as the new york daily news says it will no longer publish his opinion columns. the news coming hours after huma abedin announced her split with wiener saying after long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, i have made the decision to separate from my husband. adding the two remain devoted to doing what is best for our son. it follows a new york post report that wiener sent messages to a woman online including a picture of wiener in his underwear laying instead to a toddler who the post says is his son. wiener saying he and the woman have been friends for some time insisting their conversations were always appropriate deleting his twitter account on

the very first question at this event came from kristine welker of nbc and she asked mike morell endorsede, tucker. invitations to attack trump. my personal favorite was the woman from telemundo who asked, are you taking latino voters for granted? this was wivleball. this was the first time that the national press corps got a chance to question the democratic nominee? >> maybe the most shocking part of it was what they didn't ask but how they behaved. here's the press applauding the democratic nominee. watch this. >> 60% approval rating -- ask yourself. they have tried to expand my musical taste, i'm going to respect the friendship silence. thank you all very much. >> secretary clinton we're out of time. thank you very much. everyone, give a big round of applause for secretary clinton coming and answering questions. >> it's self-defeating to be this obvious about this. >> i never applaud for politicians of any party. people who were there said this was a minority journalist, most of them weren't reporters -- most people applauding weren't reporters. they implored her to more news conferen