jason paige and michael robinson, thank you for joinings us. i'm steve kornacki.re at 7:00 for "hardball." first "mtp daily" starts right now. >>> if it's monday, donald trump has some more explaining to do on his border plan. tonight, mixed messages. why donald trump's upcoming immigration speech can't come soon enough for his campaign. plus, how a clinton aide's marital split is turning into a costic political plot line. >> i don't like huma going home at night and telling anthony weiner all of these secrets, okay? >> and the debate club. >> he's an unconventional candidate. >> a look at the trials and traps of prepping for the first big clinton/trump face-off. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now.

jason paige and michael robinson, thank you for joinings us. i'm steve kornacki. i'll be back here at 7:00 for "hardball." first "mtp daily" starts right now. >>> if it's monday, donald trump has some more explaining to do on his border plan. tonight, mixed messages. why donald trump's upcoming immigration speech can't come soon enough for his campaign. plus, how a clinton aide's marital split is turning into a costic political plot line. >> i don't like huma going home at night and telling anthony weiner all of these secrets, okay? >> and the debate club. >> he's an unconventional candidate. >> a look at the trials and traps of prepping for the first big clinton/trump face-off. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. >>> hello. happy monday. welcome to "mtp daily." i'm kristen welker in washington in for chuck todd. we're in the final stretch of the summer now with 71 days until the election. both campaigns are spending the day off the trail. both donald trump and hillary clinton are fund-raising today. and both candidates are starting to prepare for the up

back with michael steele, eugene robinson and joined by molly ball, staff writer for "the atlantic." molly, your thoughts on this. take your time. i think trump has a strong brand first of all. i think it appeals to people i know in pennsylvania who do like that shove back. they have been shoved around as a working person and shove back. that has a lot of people for working people. until this week he's been running evenly with hillary on just that. your thoughts on whether that supports that brand or hurts it? >> i think it's totally consistent. i think the nationalism that donald trump espouses is not the sort of abstract patriotism of like the american idea and the founders and the constitution as much as some republicans wish he would talk more about those things. it's about muscularity, about strength, about not being a victim, not being kicked around. if you are a working woman, you don't let yourself be a victim of sexual harassment. you're too tough for that. if you are the american leader, you sympathize with putin because he's strong, he's tough, he doesn't let anybody boss

closing the "closing bell" exchange today, michael robinson of money morning.com, ben willis of princeton securities and rick santelli, if it's tuesday ric t rickster is back again. hey, ben, so bill dudley seems to suggest -- he says a rate increase in september is possible. >> always like that guy. >> does the market believe that? or, does the fed have enough credibility that the market believe that is or not right now do you think? >> i don't think the fed has any credibility. you have to lean on people like dudley and commentary lock hart, non-voting member. the u.s. economy may not be performing to the standards that most people grew up with watching, greatest recession of all time and recovering nonetheless. there's inflationary pressure and anybody that's paid a health care premium recently understands the idea of inflation in the pocketbook and the inability to pay the obamacare bill. so that being said, the u.s. economy is doing just fine and it should let rates naturalize. it's not a tightening. it is just naturalizing. >> interesting thing, rick, i want to go to you next, is wh

friend -- >> reporter: you can't help that -- >> well, eugene robinson did an op-ed today and the headline is trump just plain crazy? but michael series of things that have happened, what he said about the khans, then he's going after firefighters, then he's making comments about sexual harassment that many people find offensive, particularly at a time when he needs to figure out a way to get some more of those suburban women voters, what's your analysis? it's just trump being trump, not thinking this through, does he think all publicity is good publici publicity? >> i think to be honest, it's a lot of all of that. it's a lot of all of that. i mean this guy has from the very beginning, from the moment he came down that escalator started redefining how he was going to run this race and how he would play out these cards. and from his perspective, looking if you want to do the psychoanalysis from his perspective, he's been successful at vesting 16 of what the gop had to offer, he's competitive with the democrats, you know, you know, transformative candidate and historic candidate in hillary clinton, so from his perspective, there

michael brown and the tergson outbreak, so during 2014, and i'm going to say their names in tribute to them, this includes ed sell ford, dante parker, tamir rice, laquan mcdonald, natasha mckenna, tony robinson, anthony be hill, megan -- [inaudible] maya hall, walter scott, freddie gray, alexa christian, sandra bland, sam duboise and christian taylor. their deaths have set a new climate for social movements and federal action. the conditions of the police encounters that ended in the loss of eachover their lives and the lives of thousands of other innocent citizens that will never be known could have been entirely avoided had federal policymakers decided to respond in a different way to the civil rights movement and the enlightened protests of the 1960s. questions of intent or the degree to which federal policymakers foresaw the consequences of the choices they made with respect to urban social programs and black communities are only relevant to a certain extent. the issue is to uncover the series of decisions that made contemporary mass incarceration possible in order to discover our own actual history. the domestic policies of the center of this book shape the lives of black women and men,

michael steele who is talking to his accountant with lkd. joining us in d.c. editor at "fix" chris cillizz a&m snbc political analyst eugene robinson and chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" andrea mitchell. gene, what exactly did we see yesterday in donald trump? >> well, you know, i think we saw him attempting a pivot. do i get the asterisk. >> you deserve it. >> there we go. i think he, he made a better speech than he usually makes. he read it from a teleprompter. we've seen this sort of thing before and it's always best to wait 24 hours or 48 hours until he goes back off the rail. we'll see. a different sounding donald trump and one that i think will, if not gladden the hearts of worried republicans at least calm their night sweats. >> andrea mitchell we went from having surrogates on television talking about barack obama's afghanistan war. on "hardball" last night probably turning in the best pundit performance of the year. i was surprised by just how effective she was with kind of a weak deck. >> yeah. and she was, first of all, effective on all the points that we've known in the past. she

robinson on the same team. you can make an argument. with these people standing behind me, i'll say this is the greatest collection of olympians ever. [ applause ] >> can we talk michael phelps for just one second. he had a couple stumbles in did he exceed your expectations at these games? >> not after seeing him in omaha and talking to him in omaha. he was in better shape physically and emotionally than at 27. he achieved what he hoped to. he did not surprise me. nothing he does surprises me. >> what about someone like katie ledecky. is she a once in a generation athlete? >> for this generation, yeah. i don't know that she'll rank as greatest of all-time. she won a gold medal at age 15. it isn't just that she won as often as she did here, she out distanced everybody. if the 1,500 was an olympic event for women as it is for men, she would have won that going away as well. and her range from the 200 to the 1,500 is incredible. >> just a little bit of a footnote here, the glasses, you're not trying to tell me something, are you? >> i'm trying to tell you -- >> i'm leaving tonight. but the power went out on seecrest last night. i had to do last night. i'm on two hour's s

michael steele. and joining the conversation political director and moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd. and pulitzer prize winning columnist eugene robinson? >> we're doing fine. mika, how are you? i had the laryngitis thing last week. >> i literally had no voice for two days and you all couldn't be more pleased. >> michael steele is wishing it comes back. >> michael. look, i'm just being clear and i don't think you're allowing yourself deep inside subconsciously. i don't think you're allowing yourself to be honest. >> mika, i don't think you are allowing yourself to be honest either. you didn't listen to donald trump in the last cut there. whether you like him or not, you have to vote for him. >> you have to vote for him. >> so, great. >> i got your ballot for you. >> thanks. >> the newly released, let me help you out. i'm not going to need it. the newly released nbc "wall street journal" poll puts donald trump at and clinton is ahead 43% to 34% in a four-way matchup. clinton's nine-point lead is larger than any lead measured at this point in the 2012 race. a new mcclatchy poll has clinton up 12-point swing in her favor since last month.

robinson westbound. alternate side, it's in effect city wide. be safe. don't text and drive. chris and mary. >> okay. alex, thank you. >>> n about the olympic games in rio. michael phelps had another golden night in the pool. >>> but first, the latest medal count, team usa remains on top. china and japan are next in total medals won. >>> now, for local sports action, let's get to cbs 2 otis livingston. >> coming up tonight the mets will try to bounce back against in the 3rd. gave up 2-run double to pedroya. this typified the yankee night, maybe their season. chase headley off the monster trying to turn it into a triple, but, yeah, he's out. yankees lose 5-3. >>> looking for just his second win since may 25th. struck out but gave pair of solo homers. the diamondbacks led 2-1. after walker gave the mets a 3-2 lead with 2-run bases clearing. triple as the mets lost 5-3. i'm otis livingston. that's your cbs 2 sports update. >>> okay. this morning's 2 talkers, a special welcome to instagram from iron man. >> first, michael phelps continues to strike gold at the olympics. >> michael phelps lost the 200-meter butterfly at the 2012 olympics in london. last night was his