sarah palin and enjoy the words like r.a.t. and the comparisons there. >> let's get liz in here. >> and news flash, hogan, obamacare and abortion are here to stay. going back to sarah palin, there is a saying, you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. calling republicans rats is pretty bitter vinegar right there. from a broader perspective, i don't understand the political calculus behind bringing her out. the gop establishment doesn't like her. people in the middle, democrats don't like her. add this to the long list of baffling things donald trump has done. >> if there's a strategy here on the part of donald trump, not only is she somebody who is willing to go on the stump with him, but i want to play you something from mitch mcconnell. what hogan said is what republicans actually feel, that they elected these people who have promised them they would overthrow barack obama, virtually. they haven't been able to do that. they never explained to them that there's actual procedure in congress that prevents them fr

i love sarah palin.ess her. >> you don't think that was utterly bizarre by sarah palin, running around and speaking like in nursery rhymes? she was a governor -- vice presidential candidate. come on. >> tara, look, we have a process in this country. when you win the nomination, everybody rallies behind the person. you don't run. i supported mitt romney and didn't agree with mitt romney and supported john mccain, i didn't agree with john mccain and had i been old enough -- >> want to jump in on this. i want to show you something that donald trump tweeted out today. this is pretty serious stuff, on left was his first tweet, crooked hillary makes history, the star is a star of david. presumably he didn't realize that when he tweeted it out. this is not a retweet, what he tweeted. then he deleted it then followed it up with a more inknock cuous circle over this. jeffrey what happened and what is it with this unforced error? >> i think it's silly. as you know -- >> is it silly or offensive? >> incompetent. >>

sarah palin was not a top-tier contender in 2008, and mccain picked her. i think she would qualify because she served some time in the house, but i don't think o she is a favorite. >> for those who would be interested in being donald trump's running mate, how do they campaign for it? what do they do? >> that's a great question. joe biden 2008 was saying i don't want it,, i've never had a boss, which was true. but behind the scenes, his campaign was working to get the job. they were meeting with obama officials and noting his legislative experience, also talking about his gaffes, but saying it's not a big deal. they say you need this experience. there is a bit of the dance that the would-be candidates -- the y're tryouts. john edwards, before he was picked by john kerry, went on the campaign trail and made the case for him forcefully. those are big things. it is a tryout, because hillary clinton donald trump, they are considering multiple people, and they are looking at them on television, what they are doing, their loyalty. it's very important. a lot of th

do no harm, it is and we saw that in 2008 with sarah palin.: yes, and you do not want to outshine a person at the top of the ticket, and a think it was a consideration with mitt romney and chris christie and will also be a consideration for hillary clinton with elizabeth warned. when ryan joined the ticket, it was clear. ok, we really need your help. ticket,lad you on the but remember, mitt romney is at the top of the ticket, and you are number two, and that can be frustrated for some people who are in the number two spot, but they have to realize they are not at the top of the ticket, and they have to have some humility there and do what their boss once. we are two weeks out from the republican convention. we saw the stage unveiled this past week, what it will look like in cleveland. donald trump has said he wants to make his announcement during the week of the convention, but you reported last week that it could come this week or even the week following the convention. top: yes, i think the interest in this is really going to catch fire afte

>> john mccain to donald trump. >> sarah palin was his running mate. how is it any different to say i couldn't vote for sarah palin that you can't vote for donald trump. >> because the vice presidency and the presidency is different. we had 17 candidates running this time, or 18, and i would have been -- i would have gladly supported -- >> ben carson? >> any of the candidates -- i don't know ben carson ever got to the point where he was tested. a lot of the governors i would have been very comfortable. >> son and brother of two commanders in chief, we live in extraordinary times -- >> i respect people going through the process and saying, this is a binary decision, i heard that term. >> current number one, current number two. chicken or fish as obama says. >> i can't do it. >> what should i do? >> i need to -- you need to sort it out yourself. if you have a different way to approach this and it's a binary choice for you, fine. >> commander in chief to us, what is the choice, chicken or fish? >> neither for me. and you're not going to get me to change t

mark: get on google and read about what happened with sarah palin. what happened with joe lieberman. john: i cannot believe that less like the men was saying, we cannot possibly have a press conference tomorrow out of respect for people in nice, and this morning he is tweeting that he made his big earlier than the scheduled press conference. that is a respectful way to treat the tragedy? mark: why would that have an impact on whether mike pence is a good pick? john: i told you that will rise or fall on substance. but i still don't think you can say this was your average conventional rollout strategy. do you think this is how they planned it? mark: to think the sarah palin or joe lieberman plan was like that, the dick cheney one? of them had me get twists and turns that the campaign could not control. john: i remember this takes, and none of them seemed quite as control at the. mark: on going to get you google for your birthday. we're going to break down donald trump's vp pick. more on what mike pence means to america after our sponsors. mark: the ear

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where is sarah palin, an early endorser?e have not seen her since speaking of awkward, somewhat strange iowa speech. >> it is curious because she's been on the trail very sparingly. i think she and trump have had a good personal relationship, but i also think that this campaign has wanted to not revisit some of the challenges that came with the '08 campaign, and fair or unfair, i think having a little distance with sarah palin is something that those inside the campaign wanted to do. their personal relationship can be what it is, and now with a mike pence, he can speak to many of the same audiences that would work for sarah palin. >> kelly o'donnell, i knew you'd have the answer, thank you. >> thanks very much. >>> and coming up, on trail after chris christie prosecutes the case against hillary clinton. clinton supporter california congressman javier will be joining me here. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. live from cleveland. we got another one. i have an orc-o-gram for an "owen." that's me. ♪ you s

an example of this comes from sarah palin speaking at the susan b anthony breakfast, the speech that was pretty publicized, the first time the term mama grizzly was introduced to the political mexican. what sarah palin said was she was warning political leaders to, quote, be wary of moms who are rising up in the tea party fighting against big government. she said, quote, these women i getting involved because they want a better life for their kids, all our kids in these policies coming out of dc, fundamental transformation of america we were warned about in the campaign. a lot of women were concerned about their kids future, saying we don't like this fundamental transformation of america, this road we are on towards national solvency. the last motherhood frame talked about being related to the other two in a lot of ways, that we should have limited government because the large government usurps the role of the family fostering integration. a lot of conservative women i interviewed were active in the tea party framework quite a bit. this is an example of that. i mentioned the dc direc

sarah palin. sarah palin, in 2012.you look at what he did and if we remember, john mccain actually went ahead after the republican convention. been just thes whole thing. the quality of the speeches, literally breathtaking. it is a difference between meryl streep and scott bayo. it kind of started there. >> that was the bar. charlie: in fact, the bar was not in the celebrity supporters are. >> you do not hear a lot about freedom. charlie: john allen is speaking tonight. >> if we can pick one or two out of their. i have seen excerpts of hillary's speech tonight, i'm sure you have. i am struck by her talking directly to coal country. if the defense tactic. earlier this year she went to west virginia and promised she would put the coal industry out of work. that's a little bit defense. i think the trump-pence team will take that comment and go right through the east where there are coal miners who appreciate the industry in the hard-working men and women who were offended. james: i think there are bigger stakes than west

is that the kind of group that will be missing sarah palin? >> they may but this whole right-wing world of the republican party is being reshaped by donald trump. this is not a country club group of delegates here. they are aggrieved. talking to them on the floor about their jobs and how they feel frustrated with their economic standing. the excerpts that have been released, this is someone speaking to a country not just as an emblem of change but as someone who is going to really represent transformational populism, changing the way the country is run, railing against the elites. >> robert, before we let you go, anything on the genesis and makeup and constriction of tonight's speech that we need to know? >> yes, brian. steven miller, a longtime adviser to senator jeff sessions of alabama, he's the main speechwriter for tonight's address working with donald trump. together those two are not just writing an introduction to the country, they're, in essence, rewriting the republican party. this is a speech that will like ly go after the iraq war,

.>>> and sarah palin, initially they were excited about her and then she did the interview with katieouric and people got more familiar with our and it ended up to be at big down slide to the campaign. mike pence will have to go under the microscope, and whatever that thing is may come back up. >> you have to make sure that you do not grant interviews. if sarah palin had never granted the interview, the myth about this thing that came out of alaska, no one would have known that she looked out of her bedroom at the downtown mosque. nobody would have known that.>> and is it a question of getting something out of the deal, or are you making that selection in deciding whether something could hurt you in some way.>> you are trying to bridge the gap, but with someone that is not going to make it worse, and someone like mike pence can calm down the truck followed worse -- followers for trump. >> but sometimes you consider picking someone that needs no vetting. everybody knew more about land and then they did jk, -- jfk, and lyndon was chosen to neutralize the south, and that is what he did.>

what mccain didn't realize was that sarah palin was his demographic. he thought he was appealing to younger women, and in fact, sarah palin appealed to people who were like mccain, old white guys, who thought she was sexy to skin a moose. that was a miscalculation, it didn't work. they didn't do the vetting, they didn't do the polling. i doubt trump's done polling either, but i do think he probably wants a more establishment person so he can connect and have a dialogue with these people he's offending every single day in his own party. >> i'm rooting for gingrich because i think they'll be the most entertaining. howard dean, appreciate it. still to come, ruth bader ginsburg isn't backing down from her criticism of trump, and trump is rapidly escalating his attacks on justice ginsburg, as you might imagine. the latest on that after this short break. >> it's pretty rare that politicians, much less the speaker of the house, are asked to remark on comments made by a sitting supreme court justice, comments that have nothing to do with that justice's officia

, sarah palin didn't really say. but now you think she did, 'cause tina said it. - it's become, yeah. - like with dana carvey, ya know like let me finish, or not gonna do it. not really things that they said, but then now that's the only thing you remember they said. - well very quickly, the other thing that occurs to me is that you used to have this space the fake news space to yourself, weekend update i mean. - right - and now you've got jon stewart, trevor noah. you've got stephen colbert, you've got larry wilmore, you've got john oliver. - sure. - you've got all the late night guys, who some of whom used to be the weekend update guys. - of course. - so it's salad days for fake news. - there's a lot and so that's the other challenge is during the week, you have to find how to tackle the biggest stories, that they may have also tackled in a way that's different, a different angle. - yeah - a way that's more personal to you guys. you know, whatever it is. that's the other challenge is finding your own space with all

many -- the selection of sarah palin -- that had more twists and turns. case, the last 72 hours or so, people thought it would be pence and it ended up being pence. there were some reporting that suggested trump was thinking of mind but i think nothing that happened at the end of fall. or fall on whether or not he's a good pick. >> i think the entire thing was wild, uncontrolled goat rodeo of the highest caliber. the pencee leaking of name, the reporting that pence was the pick, then the walking name, then thece cancellation of the event, now the scheduling of the event. get on google and read about -- remind yourself what happened with sarah palin. remind yourself what happened with joe lieberman. >> i cannot believe that last weht the man was saying cannot possibly have a press conference tomorrow out of respect for the people in nice morning he's tweeting he's made his pick. like that's the respectful way to treat the tragedy? >> why would that have an impact on whether mike pence was a good pick? >> i said i agreed with you, in the end the pick will r

i remember that the selection of sarah palin had more twist and turns. would bele thought it mike pence. it ended up being mike pence. some people reported trump was thinking of changing his mind. but i think nothing that happened, in the end, will matter. pence will rise and fall according to what happens in the next few weeks or so. rodeo.t was a you had the leaking of mike pence's name, then the walking back of the name, then the cancellation of the event, now the rescheduling of the event. and remindn google yourself what happened with sarah palin, joe lieberman. john: i cannot believe that last night the man was saying we cannot possibly have a press conference tomorrow out of thenct for the people, and this morning, he tweeted that he had made his pay. mark: why would that have some impact on why mike pence is a good pick? you just can't say this was a conventional rollout strategy. mark: do you think the palin pick was like that, lieberman, john edwards, dick cheney? them had media twists and turns that the campaign could not control. john: i reme

sarah palin says that it is too far. how will security hold up?ds of protesters got national attention this year and they are expected to converge on cleveland. the new york police officers from california will be in town to keep the crowds under control and the fbi will monitor potential threats. reporterthese are questions we l answer for you this week. anchor: all right. some people are taking a break from politics. they went out to the festival of the americas. it was supposed to happen in june. they got rained out. no rain today. said, aerson: like you little hot. not too muggy. it is not for long. you expect this in washington, d.c. the sun is setting and, with that, temperatures are in the 90's in a lot of areas. 91 at reagan like 92 degrees. we only have one additional degree. what is going on is the high pressure with us and a cold front stretching through iowa and it will make its way up. it will bring us rain tomorrow and some of it will stick around for tuesday. the high-pressure does us a favor and it will be clear through the night.

a lot of people talk about sarah palin and how much damage she did to john mccain's campaign.e out there that can completely just wipe a candidate? >> well, i think sarah palin is evidence you can make a choice so disastrous that it can move the needle. now, importantly sarah palin did not cost john mccain that election. >> she did not. >> that election was about much bigger forces and dynamics. i don't see donald trump or hillary clinton making a mistake on the magnitude of sarah palin. i think everyone learned a lesson there. >> all right. frank bruni, thank you so much. >>> this morning, we're remembering the towering influence of writer and holocaust survivor ellie wiesel. president obama called him the conscience of the world. >> one world trade center lit up in colors of israel in his honor. best known for his relentless campaign to make sure the world never forgets one of history's darkest chapters. >> just 16 years old when he was freed from a nazi concentration camp in 1945. his parents and sister did not survive. his experiences in buichenwald and auschwitz later bec

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it is not too much of a leap from sarah palin, who was backed by all of the republican establishment the vice presidential candidate to donald trump, that the distance between those two and what they advocate is not so great. and so that clearly trump has gone somewhere that has frightened the republicans who were willing to go along even with sarah palin. >> do you agree with that, douglas brinkley? >> i agree with a lot of what was said. he have to think about newt gingrich. he's exceedingly smart, he's media savvy. he has criticized trump recently. but he was speaker of the house, he was liked by mainstream republicans. he's one person who trump can pick, who can say forget bill clinton's presidency, it's about the republicans forcing clinton into try ainge you lang iangula. christie's poll numbers as government of new jersey are abysmal but he's leaving the governorship and he has really nowhere else to go, chris christie. so probably with the slim pickings that want to tie their kite to trump, gingrich and christie are the two best characters standing on the national scene right

it did not work with sarah palin. if anything sarah palin helps with conservatives. what you see in the republican realm, good vice presidential pick coming in bringing party alignment rounded out, trump was considered nonpartisan, didn't attack planned parenthood as strongly as other conservatives did. mike pence is a pro-life governor. most republicans are pro-life. i don't think it necessarily hurts. as far as the religious liberty debate you have this open question in our extended party of how to approach it. you can be for protection of separation of church and state at the same time making certain policy clarifications and as a governor you have to make. you don't just talk about it. in that respect pence can talk about his governmental experience which is a strong suit for trump. >> one thing they have to react to is what is happening in france as they move in to that. great to see you. be sure to tune in tonight, sean hannity with an exclusive interview with mike pence at 10:00 pm eastern, it will be right here. >> fox news alert on the horror we just saw hap

i appreciate that sarah palin was able to come. [applause] so i wrote notes. sarah has a big group.ove sarah. wow. i am not surprised. for good reason, by the way. >> i want to give you the goals, just quickly and easily and you will understand what they are are. and the other night on television, i was looking and certainly terrorism is number two. it will probably be number one because of what is going on today in israel there was a horrible killing and another one in oregon. what is going on now is unbelievable. people that shouldn't be allowed in. people that shouldn't be here and we are going to have strong borders, folks, we'll have the wall and let people come that should come and they are going to come in legally. [applause] >> and we want them to come in and they are going to come in legally. but one of the things i noticed on one of the network withes. they had them listed in order. i am number one on the economy and in fact rasmussen came out with a poll and trump is thb one. i am up four points. [applause] we are going to do very well. [applause] >> in the primaries, one

sarah palin, dan quayle, bob dole, spiro agnew.ne might have the most positive and negative impact. guest: that is a great question. it is a complicated answer. let's start with the negative first and then move into the positive. it is difficult to say that a running mate has cost a presidential ticket votes, but there has been some recent scholarship on this. for better or worse, sarah palin has been the subject of a wide variety of research studies. not tested in clinical science for political communication, gender studies. there is a cottage industry examining her candidacy. it's really a mixed bag in terms of the imperial results. one study suggested sarah palin could have cost john mccain as much as 2.1 million votes among moderate and liberal voters. there is another study that was just published last year in american politics research by whitney court and michael lynch which shows her candidacy energized the conservative and republican base. there were a number of voters who probably would not have palin'st for sarah selecti

this is when sarah palin was the surprise pick for vice president who ran alongside senator john mccain. here is how ktvu covered the event. >> reporter: with that gavel, the republican national convention was underway. >> it's fabulous and i feel fired up. i really do. >> reporter: first lady laura bush introduced the president who delivered his remarks via satellite. >> we need a president who understands the lessons of september the 11th, 2001. the man we need is john mccain. >> this year when you vote for president, vote for the person you believe is best for our country. not for the party you happen to belong to. >> reporter: lieberman, you may recall, was al gore's vice presidential running mate in 2000. reportedly, up until last week mccain wanted lieberman to be his running mate this year. but because lieberman is a former democrat and favors abortion rights, conservatives threatened to bolt. that's perhaps why mccain turned to sarah palin late last week. >> before i became governor of the great state of alaska i was mayor of my hometown. and since our opponents in this presiden

. >> it happened in 2008, the teleprompter broke during sarah palin's vice presidential address, and had rehearse it had so many times she had it memori memorized. teleprompter failed in 2004 during smaeg schwarzenegger's address. he had rehearsed it so many times he had it memorized. i remember john mccain making the point, please, god, i hope that teleprompter doesn't go out tomorrow night. he said we're screwed if it does. >> however sarah palin worked out, she nailed it at the rnc in 2008. >> she did. >> to know she did that with only partial teleprompter assistance, props to her. >> and for part of the country that didn't know the phrase hockey mom, they certainly did after that. >> the reason we're having a brief dance interlude and somebody should do a choreographic study of the way people dance when not instructed to do so in large numbers because we've seen it a lot and rnc delegates in general are pretty good dancers. >> start with weddings and bar mitzvahs. >> nobody says come to the rnc, make sure you're wearing your dancing shoes. a lot of dancing over the last four days

sarah palin, carly fiorina and hugh hewitt also set to be there. >>> bernie sanders denying reports he'sofficially endorse hillary clinton for president. vice president biden telling npr's rachel martin in an interview set to air this weekend, i've talked to bernie. bernie is going to endorse her. this is going to work out. the democrats are coalescing even before this occurs. but sanders says, not so fast. that's just not the case. not yet, anyway. >> we are working. as we speak, we are work with the clinton campaign trying to be able to come forward and say to my supporters out there, here's the progress we have made. i hear what secretary clinton is saying on this issue and that issue. that means a whole lot to you. i hope we can reach that goal. we are not there at this moment. >> neither clinton nor sanders has any scheduled events today. >>> the u.s. military lifting the ban on transgender people serving openly in the armed forces. defense secretary ash carter says new regulations ensure no one can be discharged or denied re-enlistment based on gender identity. the policy will set

sarah palin actually made things worse for them.te married women that is how they win, despite how they know will be a deluge in donald trump's favor with white men. so i feel like this presentation was really zeroing in on a suburban probably older married white woman, who maybe is interested in having a first woman president but sees hillary clinton as somehow i don't know, overly grasping, or somehow not feminine enough or not woman enough or normal enough or trustworthy or honest enough. and in 2008, remember, rachel, she ran as i'm the competent one, i am a wartime president. i can take that 3:00 a.m. phone call. this time she is running as i'm a mom, a grandmother. i am the woman who these mothers who have lost their children to gun violence, i'm the person who wraps my arm around them. i'm the woman who goes to see a 9/11 victim in the hospital and then remains friends with her and calls her. i'm chelsea's mom. they're reframing her for an electorate that is focused, i think laser talked specifically on women. so i actually t

>> let's don't play stupid games like sarah palin, okay. trish: i don't think he would do that. >> oh. >> listen, honestly i think newt's a fine choice. he balances out. he actually knows some stuff. he has experience in washington. reality, trish, that the folks who have active, hopeful future political careers, by and large aren't interested. he is going back more toward the pass and newts and chris christie who has no political future outside of new jersey. those are the ones who are interested. trish: joe walsh says this doesn't matter, in terms of demographics and area of the country that he needs to reach, new york and new jersey, got that both on one ticket, could that work? >> well, let me tell you if those two states are play, donald trump will be the next president. i would go somewhere like florida or ohio. kasich would be obviously example but he says he is not interested. trish: kasich hasn't endorsed him yet. >> doesn't want to do it. trish: yee. mike pence -- >> that is problem. by the way, trish, that's the problem. that's t

when mccain introduce us to sarah palin it was in ohio.e got get this guy into someplace where there are voters who might actually make up their mind and it might help you. i do not understand doing it in manhattan. i do not understand giving a 28 minute rambling, you know, like the opera warming up, me, me, me, me, me, i don't understand anything trump does. >> kaley, we did hear obviously terrorists front ander in right now as we continue to cover what happened in france this week and we've got the uprising the attempted coup in turkey. trump addressed it very briefly this morning and he said basically, i'm paraphrasing, looks like they have sorted everything out there in turkey. my last guest, josh rogen said come on, where are the specifics. how does mike pence helm help him on that on specifics on fighting terror? how does the pence pick hi help him on that? >> i think being on the foreign affairs committee mike pence is privy to a lot of foreign information regarding big events. he has been in the meetings -- >> when he was before, n

in 2008, sarah palin stormed on to the scene. it was a big surprise announcement.made sure everyone knew and this speech scared the democrats. take a look. >> i love those hockey moms. you know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? lipstick. >> she just set the place on fire, and that campaign didn't win, but i think because i know the speechwriter for this speech, if nothing changed, i think you'll see something very similar to what she gave in 2008. >> so greg, what are you looking for from mike pence tonight? mike pence, by the way, according to all the polls, not known by most americans. she'sing with introduced to the american people. >> he knows how to give a good speech and he looks like a vice president. i have a problem -- not a problem with the theme, but we are first. the problem is we don't feel first. so the issue really -- somebody has to bring that home that we spent the last eight years being told we're honor mention. but we are first and we need to remember that. >> today we heard reporting from john roberts that when they w

in 2008n mccain did with sarah palin. that is not all the case with hillary clinton. she has a shortlist. it has been narrowed. born, she campaigned with. ren, she campaigned with and have energy. but they don't agree with everything. she is among the finalists. another finalist is sherrod brown, senator from ohio. the worries that the governor of ohio, his seat could go to republicans. the republican governor would pick sherrod brown's replacement. of potentially losing a senate seat, let alone in a key state like ohio makes him a tough pick. >> that also a factor for booker?cory the governor of new jersey's republican chris christie. >> that is also effective for elizabeth warren. democrats are looking for ways around this rules. time resignation in such a way that potentially massachusetts could pick a republican -- replacement with a special election. similar issues in new jersey. the refractors for her are are the people able to help her on the ticket and could they serve as president. there are other candidates. tom koufax, undeserving member of president obama'

all of that makes his speech the most high-stakes introduction president since sarah palin in 2008. when donald trump introduced mike pence as his vice president last week, some observers compared it to an arranged marriage. the trump campaign hopes pence can spark truelove. >> it may be arranged that it has to work for both their sakes. >> reporter: tonight mike pence will undoubtedly described himself as a christian conservative and republican in that order. music to the ears of conservatives skeptical of trump, but the men disagree on issues like trade and trump's controversial muslim band, the campaign chairman dismissing the concerns. >> a less awkward situation than i have seen in many marriages and less awkward than the democrats later. >> reporter: the two don't have to agree on everything but their messages to have to align.>> donald trump is now learning after flying solo all these years he has got a partner, to fly information with him. that will be hard. there will be stumbles. >> a big speech for mike pence. >>> leonard stein home says pence can testify to trump's chara

this is when sarah palin first burst on the scene as surprise pick for vice president by senator john mccain. with that gavel the republican national convention was underway. >> it's fabulous and i feel absolutely fired up. i really do. >> first lady laura bush introduced the president who delivered his remarks via satellite. >> we need a president who understands the lessons of september the 11th, 2001. the man we need is john is mccain. >> this year, when you vote for president, vote for the person you believe is best for our country, not for the party you happen to belong to. >> lieberman you may recall was al gore's vice presidential running mate in 2000 and reportedly up until last week mccain wanted lieberman to be his running mate this year. but because lieberman is a former democrat and favors abortion rights, conservatives threatened to bolt. that's perhaps why mccain turned to quickly to sarah palin late last week. >> before i became governor of the great state of is alaska -- state of alaska, i was mayor of my hometown. and since our opponents in this presidential election

that's perhaps why mccain turned so quickly to sarah palin last week. >> before i became governor ofreat state of alaska i was mayor of my hometown and since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. i guess a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. >> reporter: the political positives that palin brings to john mccain, her anti-abortion rights, conservative religious background has super charged the republican base. >> don't you think we made the right choice for the next vice president of the united states? >> [cheers and applause]. >> reporter: troubles for palin, her daughter's unplanned pregnancy, allegations of abuse of power, and her husband once belonged to a group that pushed for the state of alaska to leave the united states. >> stand up. stand up. stand up and fight. nothing is inevitable here. we're americans. we never give up. we never quit. we never hide from history. we make history. >> if you want to see more of the stories

coming up, with rush limbaugh deeming it it a terrorist group and sarah palin saying it is seeking to weaken america, black lives matter next. >>> suspect stated he was not affiliated with any groups and he stated that he did this alone. >> dallas police chief david brown's declaration the shooting suspect was not affiliated with any group. chief brown also said the suspect stated he was upset about "black lives matter" and the recent police shoots and wanted to kill white people especially white officers. perhaps comments like no have caused some to point the blame at protesters and activists who mobilized over two police shootings. texas lieutenant governor dan patrick said i to blame people on social media with their ha hatred on police. last night there were peaceful protests across the country and here in dallas, as well, until the last moments pl "black lives matter" released a statement that says this is a tragedy both for those who have been impacted by yesterday's attack and for our democracy. black activists have raised a call for an end to violence, not an escalation before

sarah palin said that she is staying away, it is too far from her alaska home. how will the security hold up? thousands of protesters this year are expected to converge on cleveland. will plenty of cops. as many as 3000 police officers will be in town to keep the crowds under control while the fbi monitors any potential, larger threats. those are just some of the questions we will answer for you begin our weeklong coverage of the republican national convention in ohio. abc 7 will have complete live coverage from both the republican and democratic national conventions. learning today scott will be at the rnc in cleveland and also with nightly specials on our sister station, news channel 8, at 7:00 all this week. jummy: all right, here at home we are checking on the forecast. hot out there. the: there will be -- doug: will be a chance for thunderstorms in the evening to cool us off briefly, then tomorrow upper 80's, a bit of a break. hot, no doubt, -- about that. 88 degrees in rockville. a few clouds, that's about it. as you work to the afternoon and things contin

have been to a number of conventions, i think back to 2008, the buzz was about governor of alaska, sarah palin. that was the big buzz of the day. what is the biggest buzz now with delegates and folks attending? >> i have been to 13 of these conventions, democrat and republican. and i have to tell you, everyone who -- leaves here thinking that they are going to win. the buzz here is, and pence ticket, did not seem to be from the discussion i overheard, not talking to people but overheard, they done think he brought a lot to the table, does not bring electoral votes, indiana has twice gone for democrats, it was going to be going for a republican anyway. >> jim, what is the buzz among folks out there about roster of speaker. >> fire power will be trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, and people i talked to stands here all want to see donald trump every day. it is a show. man. they want to come here and see a show, they want to leave here feeling it is trump, trump, trump, he is not going to disappoint them. >> only time he shows himself to be measured and ordered with a real plan, where there is a t

lawyer who also vetted sarah palin. and the question is he wants to be certain that there is a thorough vetting and so the questionnaires which are more than 100 questions all kinds of things about -- >> very invasive. >> medical, everything you've done, social media habits, all of that asking potential picks to go through that, that's not done yet. the pick needs more time. >> katy, what are you hearing? >> we say, pentz, christie and gingrich could be runners but i have sources that say be careful for a head fake. i mean, these are three people who think on their own, they have their own opinions and would be a real partner as a number two and my sources say donald trump wants his own ed mcman and someone that will yes donald trump him as opposed to somebody like newt who will go out and potentially criticize him -- >> christie? >> no, christie has been the yes man, nobody believes he'll be able to stay that way. they believe he's playing a role and they keep pointing and they keep saying this and we don't believe it,

you know, look, i don't see donald trump going out of his way to get that much closer to sarah palin. there is one that is pure sarcasm. she has a lot of talent that way. i'm sure you're all laughing at her. >> you remember the last scene of the movie game change where they say she will be forgotten in a few weeks and they start hearing the chants. that is what we are seeing. a few years later she is still around. all of these economic nationalists. >> i like harelson. it was a funny line. >>> coming up, bad judgment just as hillary clinton hits her stride against trump. >>> and bill clinton amid the investigation of hillary clinton. you're watching hardball, a place for politics. i get my healthy bowl of beneful, and she eats a cheese stick and a cracker. that's what she ate last night. cheese stick and a cracker. can you believe what some people put in their bodies? (vo) beneful originals is a healthy blend... ...your dog will love. with whole grains, real beef and accents of vegetables. beneful. healthy with a side of happy. fight heartburn fast. with tums chewy delights. the mouth

he doesn't know pence as well, and when you have people like john mccain picking sarah palin, john kerrying john edwards, which is more of a superficial choice, those haven't worked out as well. >> cory, not going to put you on the spot. actually, i will. who do you think it should be? >> what i think is a lot to what patrick eluded to, getting mr. trump's agenda done in washington, that's the most important thing. >> someone who knows capitol hill. >> someone who has the relationships in place, but before you get to washington, obviously, you have to win the election. what you have to look at, can chris christie help donald trump raise money, will chris christie be the person to support donald trump when the attacks come much more so than mike pence would be. what you've seen is chris christie was an early endorser of donald trump, steadfast supporter of donald trump and when push came to shove, 17 weeks from tomorrow, chris christie would be the person standing next to donald trump making sure that his philosophy, his process, his desire to go directly at hillary clinton would be put f

sarah palin wasn't even on the veepstakes list that we were collecting on our own research.ut traditionally you have a good feeling of who the finalists are. usually a group of three people and it turns out to be one of them. we'll see if that plays out or if donald trump surprises the conventional wisdom. >> mark murray, thank you for your insight. we asked whether you think hillary clinton should address the outcome of the fbi investigation over her e-mails? that was the question. here are your responses so far. 77% of you say no. the pulse remains live. you can continue to weigh in but voting right now at msnbc.com. once again, utah republican and house oversight committee chairman jason chaff fets joining chuck todd. this ahead of comey's testimony tomorrow morning at 5:00 eastern here on msnbc. my colleague thomas roberts picks things up right now. >>> i'm thomas roberts. lots of breaking news including the outrage of protests in louisiana after chilling video shows a confrontation with police that left a baton rouge man dead and his family heartbroken. >> this event wi

we saw that in 2008 with john mccain and sarah palin.this case, donald trump is really on probation with voters as to whether he has the preparedness to be president of the united states and this really is your first presidential appointment. so people will be looking closely as to whether he picks someone who gives them some reassurance that he can govern. back in 2008 one of the considerations for barack obama in picking joe biden was that joe biden had 36 years of washington experience, was chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and offered some counterweight to concerns that obama was too young and inexperienced to be president of the united states. trump in a different way needs to reassure people and that's why i was interested tonight that he was campaigning with bob corker, the current chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and may fit the bill for the kind of reassurance that trump needs to send. >> john king, who is it going to be? if you can't tell me exactly, at least as we sit here tonight, who is le

a lot of people talk about sarah palin and how much damage she did to john mccain's campaign.didate? >> i think sarah palin is efficient you can make a choice so disastrous it could move the needle. i don't think donald trump or hillary clinton making a mistake on the magnitude of sarah palin. i think everyone learned a lesson there. >> all right. frank bruni, thank you so much. >>> this morning, we are remembering the towering influence of holocaust survivor elie wiesel. he died saturday at president obama called him the conscious of the world. >>> one world trade center was light up in the flag in his honors. he wanted america never to forget one of history's darkest chapters. elie wiesel was just 16 when he was free fred a nazi concentration camp in 1945. his parents and his sister did not survive. his experiences in buchenwald and auschwitz later became the basis of a memoir, "night." he told charlie rose in 2002 why he wrote the book. >> i was convinced i would not leave alive that place. i was sure i would die and here i am and there i was, alive. i felt i have to bear w

sarah palin actually made things worse for them. advantage for republicans with sarah palin on the ticket, but i think that what democrats this year understand is that if they can even the score with white married women, that is how they win despite what they know is going to be a deluge in donald trump's favor among white men. i feel like this presentation was zeroing in on a suburban, probably older, married white woman. who maybe is interested in having a first woman president, but sees hillary clinton as somehow, i don't know, overly grasping or somehow not feminine enough or not woman enough or not normal enough or not trust worthy or honest enough. i think that what he did is he refrained hillary clinton. remember in 2008, she ran as what you just described, rachel. she ran as i'm the competent one, i'm a war tieing president, i can take this 3:00 a.m. president. i am a mom. i am a grandma. >> that's right. >> i am a grandma, i am the woman who these mothers who've lost their children to gun violence, i'm the person who wraps

sarah palin andí/ky carly fiori will also be at that event.ry clinton is trying to get an advantage in virginia. governor mcauliffe and senators are lending staffers to her campaign. kaine is reportedly unwith of the candidates shortly on her list for vice president. >>> today, the minimum wage goes up in maryland, $8.75 an hour. and montgomery county will go to $10.75 an and gas tax will raise. >>> virginia also has a slew of new laws. they include an increase in the minimum marriage age to 18. exceptions for parental consent at 16 were removed. you'll be able to unable to light up if a child under age 16 is riding with you. >>> you might remember 94-year-old betty reed soskin. she's recovering from an attack inside her home. police say a thief broke in around midnight on monday and punched her repeatedly. >> the suspect then continued the assault and dragged hertk"@ of the bedroom into the hallway and managed to scraddle her and nc her face. >> the thief also stole the presidential coin that president obama gave her: at the white house tree

john mccain's running mate was sarah palin. had hoped mccain would serve two terms and sarah palin would today be running for president but alas, that was not to be. >> gary tuchman, thanks very much. having heard from trump supporters, what about undecided voters? millions were watching last night and many are still on fence. did secretary clinton win their votes last night? randi kaye watched her speech with a group of undecided voters in the swing state of florida. a week ago she was with them when they watched donald trump. here's where they stand now after hearing both. >> the choice is clear, my friends. >> reporter: for some voters, that may be true. but in the swing state of florida, the choice is anything but clear for this group of undecided voters. >> i'm like disgusted with everyone. >> reporter: watching hillary clinton's convention speech, nearly all of these voters agreed clinton came off softer around the edges. >> i thought it humanized her in q & as and debates and everything else she seemed robotic. >> report