martha was martha washington's granddaughter, one of the four children of john park custus. ten years before martha married her first husband. four children were born to the marriage with two dying at a young age and two surviving. daniel himself died in 1757 leaving martha a young widow. her two surviving children are son jackie and a daughter martha known as patsy to the family were adopted by george washington and raised as his own. in the spring of 1773, 19-year-old jackie announced his engagement to 15-year-old eleanor calvert. two were married the following year linking the custus family of virginia to the calverts of maryland. jackie and eleanor had seven children, four of whom survived. martha, who i will focus on, being the matriarch. nelly born in 1779 and finally a brother george washington park cust urc trc custus known as washy. martha was born in the blue room upon hearing news of her birth, george washington wrote to his stepson congratulating him on the birth of another daughter. less than three years later jackie kustus died of camp fever and the children we

martha: all right.rty has to come together for donald trump to win if that is, if you know, play out that way. >> right. martha: you have to get 65 million votes from the american people. >> yeah. martha: so the arena is one question over the course of this week but you're out there trying to sort of stretch that group to bring over independents and even democrats. >> right. i really think, this is the thing, i talked about the last 36 hours we had a dust-up. a lot of pundits and party officials and media folks gone out here to get to four decimal places tearing campaign apart, speeches apart, no other issues, what nobody is talking about the american people. nobody is talking about what their lives are like and why donald trump, this whole phenomena, movement even occurred in this country and nobody is talking about it. that is the one of the most astounding stories getting away from everybody. this is the impact we'll see on this candidacy and what that will do with the electorate in this country. mar

back to martha in cleveland. martha: it's always a huge moment. the announcement of the vp is always one of the largest announcements at this point in the game. chris stirewalt is here. the trump campaign has been saying the campaign is going to start when we get to cleveland. how's it looking from how they are going to rule out. >> it's looking like a more conventional convention. certainly the discussion of mike pence as a frontrunner for running mate. i think it reflects more on the power of donors that you would go with somebody pass boring and conventional. you never know with donald trump. he might say he doesn't want the donor class to have that much say and scramble things up and do a newt gingrich or do anything. that's what makes this interesting. the speculation part is just fluff. we are sustaining ourselves on nutter fluffer sandwiches. martha: eventually you will crash with as delicious as they are. look at how he makes decisions. does he go with mike pence? and what does he bring in for him or does he stick to his sort of manufactur

martha: day two is on. i'm martha maccallum. donald trump is not expected to speak until later in the week. watch this. that was something. we are the champions blaring in the background. some cam paired it to a wwe moment. it had a television feel to it. he was like a rock star entering the stage. he introduced his wife melania. mrs. trump delivered one of the biggest speeches of the night. she was there to tell the full story of her house, the man he is and shoe she sees him with stories of her own upbringing. >> my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life. that your work is your bond, and you do what you say and keep your promise. that you treat people with respect. they showed me values and morals in their daily lives. that is a lesson i continue to pass along to our son. and we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow because we want our children in this nation to know that the only need for your achievement is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to

martha: economic.s about the security. >> that is overplayed by republicans significantly. martha: really, how so? >> security means my job. martha: talking about -- >> you're talking about national security. martha: talking about somebody taking a truck through times square or any other part of american city. people getting slashed. >> here is the thing. retired rear admiral, former cia director. martha: i heard them all. >> they told us, they said the other guy, donald trump is trying to play on your fears, yet he is totally incompetent and scary as a commander-in-chief. he is not your security answer, okay. hillary clinton actually rates quite well among a lot of people, who is tough and who is ready to command. that i think is someone, more assurance. sorry about my voice. martha: okay. >> other thing is, this is a point i think a lost bernie sanders people have brought successfully to this convention,. martha: quickly. >> security means an economic sense of security, as wells. when you leave that

martha: i'm martha maccallum, welcome to cleveland. it's a great day, and it's good to have you back, bill, after some difficult time on the road reporting. bill: you will hear a lot about it in prime type. when you look at the scope of world events, when you think about nice, france and or land co-and dallas and baton rouge, and san bernardino. it fits under the same umbrella. there are a lot of thing that are a mess. the candidate who addresses security for people at home and around the world will get a leg up in this election. martha: threads of the fabric that hold everything together are strained. we have three officers who were killed. another three who were wounded. yesterday's round of breaking news was another huge a swath of anguish we feltth this country. the shootings in louisiana. in cleveland thousands of delegates are gathering for the big convention. onroberts is live at trump tower in new york city as donald trump prepares for day one of his convention. will car is on the ground in baton ruining. let's start with john

>> who killed martha moxley. >> we know who killed martha. we have proved it. >> it was a very intense case. >> it's a throw down now. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline". >> is it hard for you to fathom that 40 years after the murder of your sister, there's still legal issues surrounding this case. >> 41 years is a long time and i can't tell you how many times we have been in the courtroom and it's mind boggling in a lot of ways. >> every time there's a legal twist or turn, what does it do to your peace of mind? >> i don't know that there are legal uncertainties, we have proved it and he was convicted and he was sent the jail. >> but the case has been turned upside down. the man convicted of killing 15-year-old martha is out of prison. michael skakel's conviction has been set aside and judges are got to decide whether he gets to stay free. his famous cousin, robert f. kennedy jr. has listening defended him. >> there's no way that michael skakel could have committed this murder and there's no way me did. >> now he's naming the people th

martha: good to see you, sean.ers supporters do you honestly think trump can attract? >> it doesn't -- bill: is it one, two is? >> i think it will be a lot. they need all of them. their coalition to win is made up of a bunch of niche coalitions. sanders coalition is big. enough people are upset with the system, upset with the government that doesn't understand their needs, if we get, five, 10, 15% of the sanders supporters -- bill: 15? >> recent polling number has gone up 40%. martha: a lot are young people don't feel affiliation with one party or other. they're looking for outsider. >> what you see all week is the status quo and establishment. if you want status quo, you will see on the stage. bill: thanks, sean. jon scott back in new york for "happening now." >> already major drama. the head of the dnc fired. she was booed at her delegation's breakfast. the threat of more leaked emails hangs over the democrats heads. catch you up on the latest drama. plus new polling shows donald trump got a bump from the republi

martha. martha: he alleged that the white house had a hand in getting hillary off the hook, right? reporter: he said repeatedly thanked comey's statement yesterday shows the system is rigged for hillary clinton. now he says the white house has a hand in it because they like hillary clinton the best. the question now becomes what is hillary hiding. trump had a capacity crowd at the memorial auditorium and they were as excited as any one * at the primary trump events. >> 110 emails in 52 seem chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information. there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. that any reasonable person in secretary clinton's position or in the position of those with whom he was corresponding about those matters should have known an unclassified system was no place for that information because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers, not even supported by

martha: the f.b.i.at the request of the state department those thousands of emails that were deleted from their servers. the f.b.i. is filing a letter with federal court yesterday on that matter. john bolton, former ambassador to the united nations and fox news contributor. the state department said you are done. we would like everything back now. now what happen to the these documents. there are a lot of people including judicial watch who would like to get -- to get their hands on them. >> i wouldn't hold my breath. it will be after thanksgiving, two or three weeks after the convention. even though the f.b.i. recovered emails that were deleted. there are probably tens of thousands lying in electronic pieces in the so-called slack space of the various servers because her lawyers and aides removed the architecture that gave them coherence. the state department is not going to rush to get this out in response to those foia requests. martha: if they are state department documents they should be a matter o

martha? martha: jennifer, thank you.hile trying to move on from the email, server and benghazi scandals, but fallout from both could stretch well into november. new washington poll shows following. 56% of the americans disapprove of the fbi decision not to recommend charges against clinton. 35% do approve. governor john sununu, former chief of staff to president george h.w. bush. author of the quiet man. happen monday to you. >> hi, bill. bill: how many independents in the 56% category, wow? what does that tell you? >> tells me america is doomed to an election shy kel which the biggest asset for each of the candidates are the shortcomings of the other and there is no question in my mind that donald trump will exploit the specific comments that mr. comey made about mrs. clinton in ads that he is going to put on television. and, with the receptivity of that poll, i think they're going to be very devastating ads. bill: wow. here is another one. same poll. does the email issue make you worry, that is the key word here, about

martha: good morning. i'm martha maccallum last night the democratic convention was all about bernie sanders. he tried to smooth things over in the wake of the leaked emails that had his support officers outraged. the vermont senator gave the endorsement that team clinton so have much wanted him to do, but his fans said they weren't having that. >> hillary clinton must become the next president of the united states. bill: that is how if the night went. sanders supporters not happy about any of this. they were all booing. speakers urged the crowd to support clinton. >> bernie sanders has lost his energy and lost his drive. i think he's exhausted. but who can blame him. i think his supporters are not exhausted. and his supporters are liking what i have said in terms of trade and trade deals. we'll getting ripped off. i think we'll get a lot of those supporters to come with us. martha: byron york and chris stirewalt, welcome, gentlemen. chris, that's what donald trump wants. he's saying to these people, you d

martha: it is a great point.act that he had to run for governor again in indiana, in many ways donald trump making this announcement allows mike pence to not file those papers without it becoming a story in and of itself. it is a done deal. as you decca out, donald trump has had so many twists and turns through the course of this campaign and that is completely new for a presidential race. we have the first vice presidential candidate and governor of indiana mike pence. there is also a lot of buzz this morning. will he take this opportunity to change his mind, could it be newt gingrich, chris christie of new jersey, also wanted to put all that to rest, making those people come up in other administrative positions and in the spotlight over the course of the week. >> reporter: when you look at somebody like chris christie is he better suited to be vice presidential candidate or better suited to be attorney general, newt gingrich, is he a vice presidential running mate or better suited to be white house chief of sta

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martha: yeah. you guys in the control room, we had that for the last hour, and it was an interesting moment if we can pull that up and play it. but, chris, in the middle of it, he made this smirk face, and he said, i get it. i understand how stuff works. >> right. martha: and that's why i'm uniquely qualified to fix it. and it sort of brought me back to the moment in the original debate we did in cleveland -- >> you got it. martha: -- where he said, i know how it works. i give money to democratic and republican politicians because i'm a businessman, and then i call them up later and ask them for a favor, and i get it. >> the idea that we were going to shift, a new trump, nope. this is the guy. now, the good news for trump is that he did not run in the primary as a typical republican. he didn't say i check all these conservative boxes, i do this, i do that. what he did was instead say i'm more of an incompetent, i have -- independent, i have a different world view and come with me. martha: let's pla

martha: i'm martha maccallum. good to have you with us.y three as we said of the republican national convention. four days all together and we are 3/4 of the way through. last night the big moment was hillary clinton being the first woman ever nominated for the presidency. that's a history moment to be sure. but the evening know all did have its moments of controversy. so we were down on the floor during all that. you could feel the tension rippling across that room. bernie sanders -- there was a discussion during the day, would he or would he not be the person to put her name into nomination. he came into the stadium over shouts of protests. some staged a protest. they said let's get out of here, let's leave. but he put his former rival's name into nomination. >> i move the convention suspends the procedural rules. i move all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record, and i move that hillary clinton be selected as the nominee of the democratic party for president of the united states. bill: wow! they will be talking abou

martha: i'm martha maccallum, we have a big morning on capitol hill. the house judiciary committee is set to get under way in an hour from now. she'll face questions about her surprise meeting on the tar mark in phoenix with former president clinton. she'll also be asked about her decision not to bring charges against hillary clinton. >> we are going to go over that list of things the f.b.i. director found she had done in violation of the law and ask why the attorney general wouldn't exercise her authority to indict hillary clinton notwithstanding the investigators' recommendation. bill: the question now is whether she lied to congress during her testimonies in october. martha: what do you think the focus will be in there today? reporter: we are expecting the attorney general to arrive sometime in the next 45 minutes. this is a situation where the hearing was on the calendar. but given the events the last 10 days, the focus is completely turned to the series of events in the week leading up to this decision not to bring criminal charges in mrs. clinton

martha: yeah .so as donald trump gears up for the biggest night of his political life there is more fallout from ted cruz's stunning refusal to endorse the republican nominee which got cruz booed off the stage last night, some fireworks? the texas senator just double down on his position, i'm jon scott. melissa: i'm melissa francis in for jenna lee.

martha: i'm martha maccallum. jason chaffetz and the other members of the house oversight committee have a lot of questions for the f.b.i. director. despite laying out all the reasons why he says hillary clinton was extremely careless in her handling of top secret materials. he went on to say there was no reason to bring charges. he said quote no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges. jason chaffetz begs to differ. >> i don't understand his conclusions. he has a great reputation and is a man of integrity. that's what people say about him. the role of the f.b.i. director is to gather the fact pattern and hand it to the prosecutor. every prosecutor i have spoken with would have prosecuted. bill: the house speaker paul ryan is asking national intelligence to strip hillary clinton of they are security clearance. there will * sayclearance. loretta lynch says this case is closed. >> the republicans we expect them to go through with comey in his testimony and look at past cases where prosecution did happen with essen

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martha? >> all right, so would you say these minor incidents are due to, you know, better-behaved protesters or better law enforcement? what do they think is keeping things so far under wraps, mike? and we hope it stays that way. >> reporter: we certainly have seen fewer numbers in terms of activists, anonymous. we have tremendous police presence. any time kids with face masks gather up, you'll see a pod of uniforms surround them. last night as spectators left the q, police formed a corridor and put themselves in between any potential troublemakers and the delegates and people leaving the q last night. the only difference today, and speaking with cops, they agree with this, there appears to be more of these kids showing up today, martha. >> all right, we'll keep an eye on it. so far they've been doing a great job and we're grateful to them for that, mike, thanks very much. >>> donald trump's primary rival has been senator ted cruz, set to return to the national stage later this week at the co

hello everybody, i'm martha maccallum, live from cleveland. huge crowds are streaming into cleveland at this hour, delegates, members of the news media as well, everybody ready to get this thing under way. >> this convention will come to order. the delegates and alternates, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2016 republican national conventi convention. >> there you have it, it feels like it's been a long time coming, doesn't it? security is tight, dozens of protests, demonstrations and marches planned outside. so far, peaceful in terms of what's going on out there. the city of cleveland, with help from the fbi, with homeland security. you can see people in every imaginable federal and local uniform out there, i can assure of had you peter doocy is live in cleveland here with us. any security issues so far, from what you're seeing out there, peter? >> reporter: none yet. two arrests, both isolated incidents. we've heard one guy tried to grab a gas mask from an officer, he got arrested. a woman rushed the stage in a protest an hour ago, she w

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