al sharpton: so the task is clear. those that have led the century, we for a were the generation that fumbled the ball and dropped it and we of 50 years ago because we were too busy being entertained, being human, ego backbiting, deciding who will be out front, whether then what we are in front of. baton when thehe parade is not going anywhere? cares who has the baton when the parade is marching backwards? it is time to keep the parade going straight. this is our time. this is the beginning of an era when the first white will replace the first black president. we need to make sure they understand that president obama is going home. we are not going anywhere. thank you and god bless you. [applause] another front-line soldier recognized as one of the hardest working leaders in the social justice and civil rights movements is none other than melanie campbell, president and and the convener of the black women's roundtable. sister, she has the unique ability to build powerful coalitions that bring diverse people together fo

al sharpton had to pay him $65,000.ed to pay $187,000, but only paid a small portion. sharpton did not return calls seeking comment. the cnn film "evocateur" airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. a live q & a about the case happening now on our facebook page. thank you for joining us tonight. it's been a pleasure. and "ac 360" starts right now. >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight barely a day after their duelling town halls in new hampshire a new boost for donald trump and body blow for jeb bush. last night in derry, mr. trump openly taunted the front runner about his campaign event. >> you know what is happening to jeb's crowd as you know right down the street? they're sleeping. >> today the wake-up call just might have arrived. here it is. new polling showing donald trump out in front in florida. governor

al sharpton: so the task is clear.century, we for a were the generation that fumbled the ball and dropped it and we of 50 years ago because we were too busy being entertained, being human, ego backbiting, deciding who will be out front, whether then what we are in front of. baton when thehe parade is not going anywhere? cares who has the baton when the parade is marching backwards? it is time to keep the parade going straight. this is our time. this is the beginning of an era when the first white will replace the first black president. we need to make sure they understand that president obama is going home. we are not going anywhere. thank you and god bless you. [applause] another front-line soldier recognized as one of the hardest working leaders in the social justice and civil rights movements is none other than melanie campbell, president and and the convener of the black women's roundtable. sister, she has the unique ability to build powerful coalitions that bring diverse people together for the common good. and sh

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they allow sharpton to interview his allies. sharpton gave the story to new york's daily news and says he likes the shift to sunday morning because i wanted to be martin luther king and not larry king. happy preaching, reverenreveren. >> dr. nancy snyderman left nbc after breaking a self-imposed quarantine after coming into into ebola. they said a senior center refused to give her 88-year-old mother a shot. i saw the mean side of social media and the number of people that wanted me dead or worse. it was a traumatic time. i never wanted to be famous but, man, did i see the ugly side of too many people know who you are. i swear to god. if it had been salem, i would have been burned at the stake. a reminder that when media people make a mistake, they can really get tarred and feathered in the public square and, yes, they are also human beings. >>> ahead, hillary clinton likens republican candidates to terrorists and largely gets a yawn from the mainstream media. but first, the senseless murders of the roanoke, virginia, journalists

. >> al sharpton and two lawyers took over the case. >> i have been privileged to be involved in this tawana brawley. >> there was quite a bit of stir about who was raped her, whether it was true. . >> i'm not a liar and i'm not crazy. i simply just want justice and then i want to be left alone. >> that was the perfect kind of story for morton downey. >> it is amazing to me that you can do morton downey's show and call something i do a circus. >> mort and al sharpton became close. >> i agree. you always have to have a clown. >> wait a minute. wait a minute. wait a minute. we're coming back to -- >> they saw something in each other they were using. >> tonight reverend al sharpton, hero? >> mort say it for what it was, a ratings grabber. >> a brutal rape. >> it had it all. >> the story is developing every single minute. >> we needed material. let's do the tawana case. >> i have a new angle on it. >> i saw a box she was in. >> i met her sister. >> yeah. >> mort downey certainly squeezed every bit of blood and rancor out of tawan a brawley's story. >> my name is steven pa goen as. i am th

and the reverend al sharpton is a tree shaker. ladies and gentlemen, please greet and welcome back to the national urban league the founder and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. [ applause ] ♪ >>> thank you. first of all, good afternoon to the national urban league. i'm honored and happy to be here with my friend and colleague, the president of the national urban league who's done a great job in leading this organization and leading us around this country for the last decade or more in this capacity. and even before that as mayor of new orleans. give him a big hand. marc morial. [ applause ] as we meet at the convention this year, we need to be clear that we are facing a dilemma that we've not seen in decades. we are at the crossroads of real decisions that will impact and effect where this country and our community is going for the next half century. you will hear tomorrow from some candidates for president. and they have reduced so far this presidential race to a beauty contest and a sound bite cont

let me bring in the reverend al sharpton, host of politics nation here on msnbc.e bitter that i put in a request to speak to hillary clinton but the reverend al sharpton, of course, p snagged that interview. good to see you, my friend. >> is always good to see you. >> she was very specific in saying that she wanted to see a return to opening the process of americans -- >> what jeb bush meant -- >> how we need to have registration open and automatic registration when one gets to be age 18. and if they wanted to opt out fine, if not, they automatically are registered. she talked about how we need to stop the impediments we've seen in over 20 states in the last few years, 14 of which were not going to affect until this election. so we still don't know the impact, but she also cited how yesterday a court in texas ruled that the law that the texas authorities implemented after the decision by the supreme court, shelbey versus holden decision, had in effect taken out the impact of section 5 of the voting rights act, how it was ruled by the courts yesterday to violate se

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you heard melanie, you heard reverend sharpton. they were talking about the issue of voting.cp august 1 to starting their 800-mile journey for justice. i had cornel brooks the ceo on my show today and i said you are going to arrive in d.c. september 15 i said that the question i have is are we going to drop 500 to 1000 people on capitol hill every day until the reactor is voting rights act? this is where organization comes in and the question that i have and what you have to answer is chapters one you are right they can't endorse but they can be involved in the issues. you believe that individual urban leaguer chapters should be right now asking the question who are the members of congress from our city and our area and we are going to hit their congressional offices every week and demand how they are going to vote when it comes to voting rights act because you don't have to always come to d.c.. you should be making some noise in your respective cities. >> you all can pick up on that. >> datasets with a datasets with the case and in fact i want to go back to what reverend bry

i'm al sharpton.starts right now. >>> could it really be trump versus hillary next year? let's play "hardball." good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. if you didn't think donald trump had a prayer of going against hillary clinton next year, don't be so sure. if you don't think hillary had fire in her belly, you didn't catch her today. tonight we await another one of

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. >> no one sees them, reverend -- c-span, reverend al sharpton and others. and then presidential candidate hillary clinton talking about college costs. and then media coverage of the presidential race. sharpton and civil rights activists talk about african-american views of the criminal justice system. this event, a part of the national urban league conference held last month in fort lauderdale, florida. first speaker absolutely needs no introduction whatsoever.

this is probably something that al sharpton -- black lives matter has made this guy do this.o be fair, you should have them on. what was the story you had on -- all the democrats and the katrina thing? host: that was the 10th anniversary of the katrina storm that hit the gulf coast. why do you call it a race baiting program? aller: oh my gosh, it's democrats. you are blaming republicans for katrina, and you have that corrupt man down there -- corrupt mayor down there. commit crimes,ys a don't talk about it. be fair to everybody. host: thank you. appreciate the call. that is the purpose of this program, to hear from all of you. it was a memorial service that took place last night to pay tribute to that police officer that was shot and killed. ouratrina coverage -- katrina coverage included president george bush who was there on friday. we hope you check it out on c-span.org. on facebook, you can weigh in as well. sheridan is next from columbus, ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you so much for c-span. thank you for taking my call. let me tell you. brief history.

here are some comments from al sharpton. we must begin now, whether it is the national urban that we are on the brink of a post-obama era. we have had for seven years a black president and a black first lady and a black first family. whoever wins this election will in thefirst whites history of this country to succeed a black president. we have never been there before. [applause] onee need to say who is the that we feel is qualified to follow eight crosses were burned and people were beaten for not acquiescing demands. conservatives quickly retook of the south. without black legislators to stand in opposition, what follows is the era of jim crow. the poll tax. the literacy test. it destroyed the dignity of life for african americans in the south. at the heart of these policies and tactics was not just the desire to win elections, but also the deep-seated, ugly, racist hatred against african-americans. in response, starting with the landmark ruling in brown versus board of education -- followed by the most significant experie

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we could have a long list but when we look today, we see very often, jesse jackson and al sharpton. they? >> they are around they are around you look at the people who are the dreamers, who mobilize the sit in, the florida state conference. that's youth leadership, raising hell, shaking a lot of noise. they are going to make it again. >> is the raising hell working? >> it is. it's not working as well as it might. but give them some time. this will give you some hell. >> you think it takes time? >> it takes a little time, yes. they have to get together, say we are going to do this, we are going to do that. you can't just say bam, we are going to do this thing. you have to figure out what you are going to do, what plans you have. you have to be organized in ways i think that often people are not organized today. >> we all see the video of these fraternity brothers at oklahoma state singing that song. we react a certain way. do you react in a particularly deplated way when you see that? >> i think my lord, do these kids ever learn anything? have they learned anything at all? where did

let's look at the history of al sharpt sharpton. >> you ain't nothing. you a punk [ bleep ].thing. we learned to admire them, but they knew to admire us. we built pyramids before donald trump ever knew what architecture was. you wanna be the only [ bleep ] on television. only [ bleep ] in newspaper. >> should chris matthews, eric guster, be critical of al sharpton for playing the race card considering it's such an important issue to him? >> the important thing that republicans need to do, they need to start talking to minority candidates and groups and start appealing to them. if a person feels totally ignored by a group like the republican party has ignored so many minorities for so many years, of course they're going to be ignored. that's part of the problem the republicans have. >> that's not the question we're asking. every election season your party, the democratic party, plays the race card. chris matthews did it. here is a montage. he plays the race card nearly every day but he won't criticize his fellow host. watch this. >> up next, what did paul ryan mean when he bla

reverend sharpton was here earlier talking about something very significant.t these major institutions then you see in many cases they don't have members members of the board of directors board of directors or senior executives or managers. they don't have the procurement policy. and they don't have a charitable engagement support with the african-american community. those are the kind of things we were talking about getting information out dining it to be known in the community so people stop supporting these companies because we give them the same money and they will not turn around and give to us so that's where we need to change the information dialog across the country. >> you can't be satisfied because they gave $50,000 for an event. follow me here. because if you could pay structure of some of your corporate folks, folks are making six or seven figure salaries they have the capacity to be able to give back to the organization to the corporation. it's opposed to the larger tracks. the other piece is here and yesterday praising reverend jackson for what h

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> it's come to this.he republican party's biggest dove has gone to war with donald trump. let's play "hardball." the good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. grab some popcorn. we begin with the must-see tv of this election. the bomb throwing fireworks assault on the latest assault

"politics nation" with the reverend al sharpton starts right now. to. >>> tonight on "politics nation," hillary clinton slams donald trump's outrageous comments about women and calls out the rest of the gop field, too. also, the fbi will help investigate the police shooting of an unarmed teenager in texas. and rand paul blames inequality on some people working harder than others. welcome to "politics nation." we begin tonight with hillary clinton weighing in on the latest donald trump controversy. his comments that many believe suggested fox anchor megyn kelly asked him questions, tough questions at that because she was hormonal. >> while what donald trump said about megyn kelly is outrageous. what the rest of the republicans are saying about all women is also outrageous. they brag about slashing women's health care funding. they say they would force women who've been raped to carry their rapist child and we don't hear any of them supporting raising the minimum wage, paid leave for new parents, access to quality child care, you cequal pay for or any

i'm al sharpton, "hardball" starts right now. >>> biden is time.dball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. that's what friends are saying to do. jumping in may be the smart thing and begin building truth worthiness. the buzz about a

"politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> right now on "politics nation," to trump or not to trump? jeb bush targets donald trump. but is he starting to sound just like him? wait until you hear this. also, a police group's new study on justifiable shootings. and how to reduce them. former president jimmy carter's extraordinary strength in the face of cancer, and food for thought. for right wingers attacking the first lady's school lunch plan. welcome to "politics nation." we begin with jeb bush's donald trump problem. he can't beat him and he can't join him. today, jeb bush struggled to defend himself for using trump-like language on immigration. >> the term anchor babies yesterday? i don't, i don't regret it. do you have a better term? >> i'm asking you. >> you give me a better term and i'll use it. i'm serious. >> don't yell at me behind my ear though. >> the language anchor baby, is that not -- >> i said it is commonly referred to that. that's what i said. i didn't use it as my own language. do you want to get to the policy for a second? i think people born

. >>> "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> right now on "politics nation," donald trump launches a new attack on jeb bush, some are comparing it to willy horton and dick cheney trying to sell books by bashing president obama. the white house wants to know what the kanye west campaign slogan would be. and tennis star serena williams already making history today. welcome to "politics nation." we begin with the political attack some are comparing to the infamous willy horton adds from the first president bush but this time it's donald trump going after jeb bush on immigration. >> yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony. it's kind -- it's an act of lov love. >> donald trump smearing millions of undocumented immigrants for the crimes of just a hand full of people, but apparently, this message is working. trump is once again at the top of a new poll. of iowa republicans, he's tied with dr. ben carson who we'll talk about more later, but jeb bush is down to single digits. trump wants to make this election all about immigration, and the other candidates are

al sharpton today tweeting, as of today, no justice has been served with regards to this case. for now, live in union square, kemberly richardson, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> the search for a missing kayaker continued today on the hudson river. 32-year-old ian generals and his girlfriend were kayaking near mills mansion when their two-person kayak capsized. the woman who is the daughter of rock star separated from jones and was picked up by a passing boater. the sheriff says neither was wearing life jacket. >>> a major firefight in queens. coming up on eyewitness news, flames jump from house to house as firefighters climb on a rooftop to try to knock the flames down. >>> and the donald on the defensive. donald trump remains center stage on the campaign trail and refuses to apologize. >>> we have one more decent day before drenching downpours develop in the trista grandma, your biscuits are the best. oh, these are from dunkin'. granny! i have a life, you know. [ ringtone plays ] oh. that's for me. oh! dunkin's chicken biscuit sandwich -- tender breaded chicken on a southern-s

i'm al sharpton.ight now. >>> the trump tenor in peres out, yes it's oops again. let's play hardball. >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. well, we've got the lineup. it's trump at the top, john kasich just squeezing in. we now know that ten republicans will meet in a primetime debate two nights from now that could well decide who goes on to iowa and new hampshire and who begins to fall by the wayside. here's the lineup announced by fox just in the past hour. front and center, donald trump, he's followed by jeb bush, scott walker, mike huckabee, ben carson, ted cruz, marco rubio, rand paul, chris christie and finally, yes, john kasich made the cut.

"politics nation" with the reverend al sharpton, starts right now. >>> tonight on "politics nation," the trump rules on immigration. gop candidates are flipping and flopping all over his extreme plan to deport millions of people. >>> also a new push from the president on pollution and climate change. >>> dramatic testimony from the accuser in the prep school rape case. >>> and a powerful statement on gun violence from stevie wonder. >>> welcome to "politics nation." how to talk about something, anything besides donald trump. today these candidates wanted to focus on health care and national security, but all the attention is on trump's push to end citizenship for babies born in the united states to undocumented parents. some say he's wrong. >> i'm open to doing things that prevent people who deliberately come to the u.s. for purposes of taking advantage of the 14th amendment, but i'm not in favor of repealing it. >> i don't support amending the constitution to kick out kids who were born here. >> to suggest that people born in this country are not united states citizens and they don'

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> the donald trump playbook.ack and attack hard. let's play "hardball." ♪ >> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in new york, in for chris matthews. we begin tonight with the most dangerous game in politics today. taking on donald trump. last night trump gloated about the state of ric

reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> tonight on "politics nation," who's afraid of donald trump? everybody. we'll show you what his rivals are saying today about trump's wild debate performance. >>> plus new buzz about what jon stewart will do next. >>> and attorney general loretta lynch talks about the fight ahead on policing and voting. >>> and remembering michael brown one year after his death. i'll talk to brown's father about what has changed and what hasn't. thanks to you for tuning in tonight. i'm live in st. louis. today the gop candidates hit the road after their first big debate heading to a right-wing conference in atlanta. donald trump will speak there tomorrow and his rivals from last night, the guys he beat up for nearly two hours, spent most of today trying to duck questions about the front-runner. >> at first it was trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump. what did you think? >> look, i got enough on my own plate to sort out, to try to analyze. donald trump is way above my pay grade. >> is this appropriate language for someone who is a republican candidate or qu

he has joined at the hip with folks like al sharpton. i think this is just really poisoned the environment in terms of race relations. the important point to make here is this is really a product of the left which has for decades now has been conditioning blacks to see themselves as victims and blacks have come to guard their victim status fiercely. when they hear someone say all lives matter instead of black lives matter, they feel like that is an encroachment on their victim status. i think that's a lot of what's going on here. >> bernie sanders must look at this and say, wait a minute, i was at the 1963 march on washington. most of you guys weren't even born yet. i have been fighting this fight for a long time. how am i somehow, you know, not adequate when it comes to pushing civil rights? is this at all fair or rationale? >> not particularly. i think i agree with jason. it is a piece of the occupy movement. if you like them, you're going to like wlak black lives matter. let's understand something. >> you know what the black youth une

"politicsnation" with the reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> right now on "politicsnation," breaking news, a reporter and photographer killed on live tv. the gunman, a former co-worker who allegedly had a grudge. also in 2016 politics, can republicans stop donald trump? and finding faith ten years after katrina. i'll talk to a reverend of a church from the lower ninth ward who's holding services in his living room. >>> we start with breaking news in virginia. three people shot at point blank range on live tv. the shocking ambush killed a young reporter and photographer and injured the woman they were interviewing. viewers at home could hear the gun shots ring out in the middle of that interview, and the gunman, vester flanagan, posted his own video of the shooting on social media. we will not show you the actual video, but this is an image from what he shot. it shows just how close he got to the victims. the sheriff says this case is incredibly personal. >> it was extremely difficult this morning. i actual did a remote with miss parker and adam about three weeks ago when our schools

he use ad racial slur to describe al sharpton's daughter in facebook in 2007, which came to light in report on a website, insider. despite all the controversy surrounding his campaign trump is flourishing in the poll. sits atop a new nbc "wall street journal" poll. with 19% of primary voters. scott walker 15%. jeb bush, 14%. donald trump did not rule out a third party one if he did not receive the nomination. >> if i'm treated fairly by the republican party i'm not would do that but if i'm not treated well, i might consider that. >> reporter: trump taken center stage in the campaign in figurative sense. in a debate on fox news thursday he may be literally positioned at center stage, according to "bloomberg news" the candidate leading in the polls will assume the middle podium and as of now, that candidate is, yes, donald trump. nine others will surround him on either side. that is the latest live from the newsroom this morning. ben, july yet, back up -- juliette, back upstairs to you. >> isn't losing any steam. >> those ratings i'm sure will be through the roof. >> reporter: ben, you

al sharpton had to pay him $65,000. brawley was ordered to pay $187,000, but only paid a small portion. sharpton did not return calls seeking comment. the cnn film "evocateur" airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. a live q & a about the case happening now on our facebook page. thank you for joining us tonight. it's been a pleasure. and "ac 360" starts right now. >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight barely a day after their duelling town halls in new hampshire a new boost for donald trump and body blow for jeb bush. last night in derry, mr. trump openly taunted the front runner about his campaign event. >> you know what is happening to jeb's crowd as you know right down the street? they're sleeping. >> today the wake-up call just might have arrived. here it is. new polling showing donald trump out in front in florida. governor bush's home state and one of the bush campaigns primary fire walls. mr. trump is also outpolling, florida senator marco rubio tied for third with ben carson. bearing in mind his lead is

i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> the trump show must go on.y "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. hillary clinton to pulverize republicans on women's issues. jeb bush goes back to iraq and rick perry's campaign hits its lowest point since oops. but we begin with the best reality show on television these days, donald trump. we are waiting right now for trump to speak to reporters in michigan. this is going to be i first campaign appearance since thursday night's debate. katy tur joins us from the trump event in michigan. robert costa with "the washington post" and michael steele is an msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the rnc. katy, you're on the scene, let's start with you. 'r

here's al sharpton. >> we must begin to prepare now whether it's national urban league or whether it's the action network or the naacp that we are on the brink of a post-obama era. we've had for seven years a black president and a black first lady and a black first family. whoever wins this election will be the first whites in the history of this country to succeed a black president. we've never been there before. [ applause ] so we need to see who is the one who we feel is qualified to follow eight years of a person sensitive to us that come from us that will not turn around what he has began. we don't intend that when the black family leaves the white house that black concerns leave the white house with them. [ applause ] >> that national urban league conference includes discussion on african-americans killed by police. the 2016 elections and the voting rights act of education and that's coming up at 8:00 eastern over on c-span. >>> news from congress and members of congress traveling, tweet from representative, bradley burn in israel. i enjoyed meeting a young member of the israeli

also, he is enlisting people like rev rand al sharpton to press black religious leaders. obviously very respected organization when it comes to these issues. a letter out this week backing the deal, backing support in congress. >> okay, mike ma kera joining us from washington, always good to see you, thank you. >> taye police are pouring over surveillance video trying to find a man they say was behind a deadly bombing. it happened in bangkok. police have released the i have owe showing the man wearing a yellow t shirt. he is seen waya backpack, and then without it. the prime minister has urged the public to stay calm in the wake of this attack, vironica reports. >> picking up the pieces. this is a shopping district in bangkok, that has seen dramatic conflict several times before, but nothing like this. dozens of people were killed here on monday, among them, victims from malaysia, china, hong kong, and singapore. many were injured. it was an attack apparently designed to kill as many people as possible. it is a high profile target, the shrine. the government acting urgent

shannon says if we really discuss it, that brings in al sharpton. what's that statement about? >> that's a statement about a 30-second sound bite, which television is about. they may give us the immediacy, but newspapers give us the perspective. the situation that's present in belleville just didn't fall off the boat. it's been there a while. as journalists, we need to go back to the beginning. and if it takes six months to tell the story, it takes six months to tell the story. but we should get to the root cause, give it some perspective, and, again, talk to as many people as we can. the trouble with mainstream media is that we don't get in the communities. >> mason doesn't have six months to wait around for the permits and stuff to get in. he needs to get his project off the road, off the ground, correct? >> but whether he opens his multiplex or not does not rest on whether we report the story, which, we should report the story. >> keith is right. people are going to be talking about it. they'll be talking about it on the radio. and if we go interview the kids and their paren

here's al sharpton. >>> we must begin to prepare now whether it's the national urban league, whether it's the naacp, that we are on the brink of a post-obama era. we've had for seven years a black president, and a black first lady, and a black first family. whoever wins this election will be the first whites in the history of this country to succeed a black president. we've never been there before. [ applause ] so we need to see who is the one that we feel is qualified to follow eight years of a person sensitive to us, that come from us, that will not turn around what he has began. we don't intend that when the black family leaves the white house, that black concerns leave the white house with them. [ applause ] >>> part of the discussion from the national urban league conference, it also includes a discussion about african-americans killed by police. the 2016 election. the voting rights act. and education. we'll have it in its entirety tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> tonight, on "the communicators," author and british technology pioneer kevin ashton on the creative process, a

campaign confirms nbc news let go of a part-time staffer accused of calling inging reverend al sharpton'sghter a racist slur. and a fascist nazi appeaser. >>> opposition groups have organized floods of phone calls and serious ad blitz on the issue. prominent new york senator insists he is still undecided. >>> host john oliver is taking issue with the taliban's new leader who used to be their transportation minister. >> president obama's successor were our transportation secretary, evelyn sergeant. by the way that's a stock photo of a woman we found online and evelyn sergeant is a made-up mind. the point is you don't know who the secretary of transportation is. nobody does. because they're not supposed to be in line for a top job in any organization. that is a morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> 20 minutes past the hour jane timm is here. >> good morning. >> thanks for being with us today. let's talk about joe biden. there is all this anticipation over will he or won't he. is it already a done deal? has he decided and we're just waiting on the official word or is he really reflecting o

news reports last week showed sam none berg's facebook page with incentive comments about al sharpton's daughter and president obama. meantime the field of candidates vying for the republican nomination was out on the contain trail this weekend. they are all looking forward to the first debate. >>reporter: the days are dwindling as candidates push to make headlines some getting terse asked about the elephant in the room donald trump who has shot to top of number of polls. he continues to minimize expectations good maybe my whole life is a debate in a way. the fact is i'm not a debateing and they are. we'll see wraps who knows. >>reporter: former governor rick perry and john kasich took the opportunity to tell chris wallace their executive experience trumps other candidates. ohio has remained his priority. perry says he best represents the party. >> i would like to be there and we just have to wait and see how all tees polls work out. as it relates to the polls i'm governor of ohio i wasn't traveling around the country trying to make a name for myself i was trying to take care of ohio. >

insider came from trump staffer sam nunberg's profile dating back to 2007 with run rfring to reverend sharpton's daughter with a racial slur. he says he did not write those posts but the trump campaign says they confirmed it was his and dismissed him. he addressed transparency in his presidential run, including plans to even reveal more about his personal finances. >> you'll see what i'm going to do with tax returns. i have no major problem with it but i may tie them to a release with hillary's e-mails. >> what's your guess on percentage of income paid in taxes? >> i've said this many times. it's not exactly breaking news. i pay as little as possible. i fight like hell to pay as little as possible. >> expectation has been running rampant for months. will vice president joe biden get in the race for president? if so is he too late to the game to be able to set up a viable campaign? this morning a senior adviser to biden's late son, beau is joining the draft biden super pac. michael isikoff reports john cooper was set to be a so-called hill starter but told isikoff i was trying to come up with a r

i just want to point out the reverend al sharpton is going to be interviewing former secretary of state and democratic presidential candidate, hillary clinton today. 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> in other news, we turn our attention to tennessee where we ernd la new details about the attack on movie theater in antioch, tennessee. here's the 1911 calm from a wit in the attack. >> i was in a movie theater like literally a minute or two ago. this guy, shady looking guy stood up with like two bags and walked to the back of the theater. he pulled out a hatchet and started attacking this family and pulled out a gun. we all ran out of the theater. >> the attacker is identified as 29-year-old vincente montano. police say he wore a surgical mask as he sprayed moviegoers with pepper spray. he also allegedly used an ax in his attack as we heard in that call as well as gun. later determined to be an air soft pellet gun. montano was shot and killed. msnbc's adam riess joins us live from tennessee. ed a sdam, authorities are still searching for a motive on this. and they say that montano

not to mention al sharpton's national action network. democratic party pervades the and yet it isy, far to the right of the black community. democratic operatives represent a right-wing of the black community. the democratic party is actually a clear and present danger in black america to the expression of a left wing worldview. [applause] immortal technique: i know that you to bank may disagree with certain characteristics of the democratic party. occurain of events that to take power out of the community. one thing you probably both agree on is the appropriation of movements by the democratic party, there are corporate elements. the actual cost of what that is on the people. stop, the question is how you stop these appropriations of certain issues like for example the way hillary has tried to appropriate immigration by meeting with dreamers and saying i am the representative of immigrants? the way the democratic party has tried to monopolize the gay rights movement as if they are the only people who support it? similar to the way rand