Donald trump said a judge in a lawsuit he was involved in was hostile to him because the judge is hispanic. Trump also retweeted a quote by mussolini and defended doing so. Trump seemed to have a hard time sunday morning disavowing the support of david duke, the grand wizard of the kkk. Will you unequivocally condemn david duke and say you dont want his vote or that of other white supremists in this election . Just so you understand, i dont know anything about david duke, okay . I dont know what youre talking about with White Supremacy or white supremacists. The question from the Antidefamation League is, even if you dont know about their endorsement, there are these groups and individuals endorsing you, would you just say, unequivocally, you condemn them and dont want their support . Well, i have to look at the group. I dont know what group youre talking about. You wouldnt want me to condemn a group that i know nothing about. Well, this morning trump blamed that last part of his comment on a faulty earpiece. Lets watch. Let me tell you, im sitting in a house in florida with a very bad earpiece that they gave me. You could hardly hear what he was saying. What i heard was various groups. I dont mind disavowing anybody, and i disavowed david duke at a major news conference. Sundays exchange with trump was odder, considering what he said friday at a press conference about dukes support. I didnt even know he endorsed me. David duke endorsed me . I disavow, okay . Okay. Disavow that. Even as trump reaches new highs in national and state polls, ben sasse of nebraska said he would support the run of a thirdparty candidate rather than back trump if hes the nominee. The question i started with tonight, is the Republican Party coming apart at its seams, assuming it has seams . Nbcs katy tur is following the Trump Campaign. Katy, where does this stand right now . Did he or did he not effectively disavow the support of the ku klux klan former grand dragon, david duke . Is he with him or against him . Reporter i asked him that on thursday in the spin room after the debate. I asked about the robocalls, i asked about david duke, the white supremacist support. And he said that he disavows it. Thats what he told me. He was very quick to move past that and move on. The same thing happened at the press conference you just mentioned. It is odd considering all of that which just happened a couple of days ago for him to say on cnn this weekend that he doesnt know who david duke is, and he wasnt necessarily sure what jake tapper was asking him. We also found today an archival video from donald trump in 2000 on the today show telling matt lauer he wasnt going to join the reform power and run as a thirdparty candidate because david duke was a part of that party. He called david duke a bigot and a racist. The fact that he wont unequivocally distance himself this time around is questionable. We spoke to people at the law center who said they believe he is doing this on purpose, in order to gain support from people out there who might be on the line when it comes to, i guess white supremacists. Certainly pandering in some ways to that voting block, that sector hes been accused of racial intolerance, and stoking racial fears. Im sorry its so loud in here. I know. Katy well, theres lots of times between the polls tomorrow morning. A secret Service Agent got into a violent confrontation with a news photographer. Youre watching the video of the incident right now, i believe. The photographer, christopher morris, said he stepped 18 inches outside the media pen that he was supposed to stick to, the secret Service Agent grand him by the neck and slammed him to the ground. There it is. Youre watching it. There it is. Anyway, the Trump Campaign said in a statement were not aware of the details surrounding the incident. It should be directed to the local Law Enforcement. They said it was, quote, aware of an incident involving an employee of the secret service that occurred earlier today in radford, virginia. At this time our local field office is working with their Law Enforcement partners to determine the exact circumstances that led up to this incident. Katy, can you shed any light on this incident, and what led to it . Reporter well, from what the reporter said, he stepped outside of the bounds, and the secret service pushed them back in. There was video the reporter swears at the secret service member. I was not ot that rally, but i can tell you from my experience, that the secret service is hitormiss when it comes to reporters at these rallies. Sometimes they will not let anybody out of these pens. They call them pens. Its literally gated off. Until donald trump gets off the stage. 30 minutes before he takes the stage. Weve had reporters that say if they need to go to the bathroom and the secret service said they need an escort go to the bathroom. I and other reporters have asked, whose rules are these and where are they coming from . Is it for the protection of the candidate . It doesnt make sense. Were all swept before we come in here. This is a traveling press corps that goes with donald trump everywhere. Theyre not saying whose rules these are. We get the sense its from the campaign. They dont want the reporters mingling with folks in the crowd, going up to the rope line, potentially asking donald trump some questions. Thats also why this music is so loud, chris. Its because the audio engineers are told to keep it loud so that nobody can hear what donald trump is potentially saying on the rope line. That goes for the folks that are holding their iphones and trying to take videos or pictures. They dont want any sound to come from the candidate thats not controlled on the stage. Okay. There it goes again. Katy tur, thank you for the reallife there we are right in there again. Thank you, because of you. If trump secures the nomination, it looks like there could be a shattering of the Republican Party. Jeff sessions of alabama became another bigtime backer of the billionaire. Others insist they will never support trump. Ben sasse. Is that how you pronounce him . Hes not exactly a major name. If donald trump ends up as the gop nominee, conservatives will need to find a third option. Meanwhile, this weekend, senator rubio and donald trump seemed to descend even further in their battle of schoolyard taunts. Here they go. The guy with the worst spray tan in america is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face. I see him starting to sweat. Like i have never seen anything like it. Thank god he has really large ears. The biggest ears ive ever seen. Because they were protecting him. Donald is not going to make america great. Hes going to make america orange. Hes like 62, which is why i dont understand why the size of his hands are of someone whos 52. You know what they say about men with small hands. You cant trust them. Was it possible to get below donald trump in your behavior . He has done that now. Congratulations, rubio, youre worse than trump in the language front. Joining us also is a texas reporter. T i think hes in austin. This republican fight, first of all, trump, how does he deal with this . My hunch, he better straighten out this david duke matter before people vote down here tomorrow. People will say a lot of rightwing people down here have racial problems will vote for him because of it. Hell never get real credit for those votes. The piling on on trump has been occurring forever, okay . But mostly from the center and the left. This is legitimate. He has got to clear this up. He disavowed them on friday. Sunday maybe he didnt hear. The earpiece, im not sure. Not his finest moment at all. He said he didnt know anything about david duke. Weve got the quote here. He said, i dont know anything about david duke. Hes got to be unequivocal. Why doesnt he fix this . Because he only has one gear which is forward. His personality is never to apologize. But he has a political subtext here. Which is that a lot of his people, and i go to a lot of his rallies, are not theyre not necessarily going to be deeply offended. Theyre not going to be offended. But he won these i think its bad for him. Yesterday i was at the lakewood church, one of the largest churches here in houston. I talked to a lot of people at that church. They had heard about this. And a lot of people were not going to vote for trump in part because of this kind of thing. So hes losing some evangelical support that he could otherwise get away from ted cruz by not clearing this up. Thats where the rubber meets the road at these primaries and caucuses with these evangelical voters. They dont like this. They dont like it at all. If theyre listening to the sermon in the church, theyre not liking what donald trump is saying. Ive watched a lot of politicians over the years, white politicians, democrats, both parties, use these very clever, we call them wedge issues, wedge statements. Im not going to get all of them, because it will incriminate most politicians. Trump identified himself for whatever reason on sunday with david duke. Ive never seen anybody do that before. Or refuse to disavow, let me put it properly. Hes either stupid, or he knows what hes doing. And i dont think hes stupid. There is an element in the Republican Party among the constituency that supports them, the secessionist element of the party. Thats a very small group of folks. But the attitudes about race, and more importantly, attitudes about a bunch of folks who feel theyve been screwed by the establishment, and trump is speaking up for them, and have attitudes about too much diversity these days. Father knows best is still not on tv. You cant pray in school. These are the people who would, despite what i think howard just said, and i would never secondguess howard, but im thinking theres still evangelicals who say our world is changing, we dont like it, this guy is tough, he will fix it, and if he sides with some of the white supremists, so what. Thats outrageous. Are you kidding me . Youre saying theres an element within the Republican Party that would agree with not disavowing the kkk and david duke . Thats ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. What about do you want to clarify that . Chris, let me ask you about a couple of things. Thats ridiculous. What about the huge element thats admitted in the polling in the Republican Party that thinks obama is a muslim, or not an american . Theres not a huge faction of that, chris. I disagree with you. Thats a huge leap by saying that theres some type of white supremacist faction within the Republican Party. Theres a problem with racialism, is that thats not right. That hes not really an american . A kenyan. Thats racism . I dont understand. Why do people like birtherism . Whats that about . I dont know what thats about. That hes not a legitimate president. Thats ridiculous. Thats five years ago, eight years ago. It has nothing to do with whats going on right now. Do you think hes a muslim . Why do people make those claims . All the polling asks people or what kind of data are you presenting . What type of data . How many people think hes a muslim . 50 , up there. 50 of americans think president obama is a muslim . Thats surprising. I didnt say americans. You said it. You just said 50 . Of republicans. Oh, republicans. No, i dont think a huge percentage of the trump i dont think thats accurate. I disagree. If youre wrong, youre wrong, and i can post these numbers. Youre saying 50 of selfavowed republicans believe that president obama is a muslim . No. Either im right or wrong. I believe im right. It wasnt just trumps comments on david duke this weekend, that earn him criticism, retweeting a twoet from mussolini. Its okay to know its mussolini. Mussolini was mussolini. Its a very good quote. Its a very interesting quote. I saw what i know who said it. But what difference does it make whether its mussolini or somebody else . Its certainly a very interesting quote. Its probably why i have well 14 million do you want to be a do you want to be associated with a fascist . I want to be associated with interesting quotes. Let me tell you, this guy said in my ear, 43 of republicans according to a cnn poll this past september, 43 believe barack obama is a muslim. According to the cnn orc this last september . You said 50 . I still dont buy that 43 . Were quibbling over that, seriously . Youre really quibbling over that . Well, i dont think its 43 . You dont believe the poll . It doesnt matter what the poll shows . Whats your point . That its okay to make these its okay to make these you think theres another way of asking it . Sure. You can ask questions thank you for coming on. Absolutely. I think we established the facts here. Howard, these numbers are all over the place. I dont like the fact that republicans say it. Im not rooting for them to believe the president is a kenyan. Not an american. Illegitimately elected. Its just a fact. I will take up my side argument with wayne slater later about evangelicals. In the meantime, the important point is, based on what i see from the events i go to, there are a lot of people at these rallies who are not going to at the rallies who are not going to be the least bit offended or let the bit about david duke get in the way of voting for donald trump. That states something. That states a lot. There are some evangelical, mainstream evangelicals he will lose because of what he said. You should fix it. Chris, Howard Fineman and wayne slater. Still ahead, this hour, Hillary Clinton heads into super tuesday after a commanding victory in south carolina. The state to watch tomorrow that will decide whether bernie can stay fully competitive is massachusetts. You heard it here. Plus, were deep in the heart of texas here. A look at what this state means to super tuesday. And home state senator ted cruz and whether he can survive. Did he keep his chances alive . This is hardball, live from houston, texas. Every Auto Insurance policy has a number. 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They say you shouldnt spoil your kids. But your grandkids . How about front row seats to the best show in town . And that is why you invest. The best returns arent just measured in dollars. Td ameritrade®. I really regret the language that is being used by republicans. Scapegoating people, finger pointing, blaming. That is not how we should behave toward one another. That is not how we want to be treated. And were going to demonstrate, starting tomorrow on super tuesday, theres a different path that americans want to take, and that were going to do that. Welcome back to hardball. That was Hillary Clinton, of course, campaigning earlier today in virginia. One of the 11 states where voters head to the polls tomorrow on the democratic side. Republicans are also having a vote up in alaska on this super tuesday tomorrow. I wanted to point out some numbers. We were having a dispute there. A poll came out last september showed 66 of donald Trump Supporters believe barack obama, the president of the united states, is a muslim, not a christian. 61 believe he was not born in the united states, he moved into the country illegally, never got naturalized and is illegitimately serving as our president. Those are facts. Higher than 50 . 66 . Believe hes a muslim. Secretary clinton is expected to do very well in five southern states. The two as, alabama, arkansas, and tennessee and texas and georgia. And shes also targeted virginia where she is today. Meanwhile, senator sanders has focused his efforts on the caucus states of colorado, and minnesota. Also hoping to get an oklahoma victory. Apparently oklahoma democrats are much more passionately progressive, maybe because theyre so outnumbered. He also clearly expects to win, and will win vermont. The big battleground for the democrats is shaping up to be massachusetts. I believe its one state bernie should win if he wants to be the nominee of the democratic party. I think he has to overtake her to get even with her again. Clinton leads there by eight in the latest poll. I dont know how you poll this one. Independents can vote up there. According to the latest poll today, shes up by eight. Kasie hunt is covering it tonight. Hillary is ahead, but independents can vote in this. They can take a democratic ballot and vote. How do you know hillary cant be beaten up there . Reporter well, chris, im not a pollster but i can tell you this is a place where senator sanders needs to do well tomorrow, in part because there are so many of these, as you say, independent voters, who are these kind of White Working Class voters that are really the core of sanders support right now. I think if you looked at these rallies, in lowell, massachusetts, where people came out by the thousands to see either donald trump or now here south of boston, thousands coming out to see Bernie Sanders, whether you call them scott brown voters or whatever you want to call them, they are the kind of people who have been particularly energized in this election process. And i think the challenge for sanders is going to be convincing many of them to come out and vote for him as he possibly can. He, of course, has been on defense over the course of the last week or so, if you think about the fact that Hillary Clinton is coming up here to massachusetts. You dont see him spending a ton of time in many of those super tuesday states. We think that she is going to probably walk away with. One interesting thing today, i will point out, its not massachusetts related, but sanders himself tends to wear his strategy on his sleeve a little bit. He did a gaggle with reporters after we got off of his plane and he said, hey, keep your eye on texas. We think that we might do better than expected in texas. That means, of course, somebody thats looking at their data is telling the senator that that could be a place where they might do well. They had about 10,000 people show up in austin. Of course, kind of the one Progressive Center of texas, if you will, over the weekend when he was campaigning there. Just to keep your eye on as we go into tomorrow, chris. I love your carefulness in the way you describe austin. Its not a typical part of texas anyway. Thank you, kasie. A Hillary Clinton supporter and cornell. Madam mayor, thank you for joining us. You have a unique perspective. Youre up at harvard now, and from down here, the city im in now. Can Bernie Sanders win there . No. He will mobilize supporters. Hey has a strong streak of support in texas. But hillary probably takes it 21. And im really sorry that im not there in houston with you, that i have to be up here. Did you get to vote yet . I voted by mail. Okay. Let me ask you, cornell, this election. Im trying to figure it out right now. What does he have to do . I think ive been trying to calibrate it. But ill let you do it. I think bernie should win three or for states to look good tomorrow night. If he wins four or five, he looks very good. How do you see it . I think senator sanders has a headwind. If you look at part of his predicate early on, he would energize and bring a lot of people to the process, especially young people. But if you look at the states weve had thus far, turnout among democrats has been down. In south carolina, we had almost 00,000 less voters this time around than the last time when we had a competitive primary. When you look at massachusetts, yeah, the independents could be helpful to him there. But he has not hit the mark on energizing and bringing new independents into the process. Weve seen our turnout down a great deal. When you look at the exit polling from south carolina, youve got to be worried. Even voters who say inequality was a top concern, they chose Hillary Clinton over him by 26 points. Among noncollege whites by 14 points. Part of his coalition hes been doing well in, youre seeing erosion. Chris, i would argue when he gets beat by 71 points among nonwhites, his pathway to the nomination is tough. Let me ask you, madam mayor, about crowds. You know, i think politicians are overwhelmed by crowds. They think a crowd tells them how many people will vote for him. Yet history is full of great crowds, and losing campaigns. Jack kennedy thought he was going to win ohio in a landslide in 1960. Just to give you an example. Nixon beat him. I just wonder, what do you think of these crowds . Im not sure theyre great measures of support for whos actually going to show up and vote. Theyre not, no. Bernie is able to generate large and enthusiastic crowds, and theres no doubt that bernie appeals to a lot of young folks. And that is something that is exciting for the democratic party, but its also something that we worry about a little bit because you have to translate that enthusiasm, those crowds into people who actually show up on election day. And it remains to be seen whether that can be sustained through the election. Yeah. I also think, just to add to your thought there, i think caucuses are like going to a rally. It brings the real passionate people out. Fair enough, one of the reasons barack obama defeated Hillary Clinton eight years ago, he did very well in caucuses, where all the really passionate people showed up. Cornell, well have you back again as always. I have to go on to the next guest. Up next, msnbcs jacob catches up with poll workers. 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Think about Something Different rather than whats going on around you. Reporter nice break, right . Thats right. Break in the monotony. Reporter thank you for your service. Thank you. 30 years. Reporter 30 years as an election judge . No. Reporter 30 years in the military . Thats right. Reporter what do you expect here in ter rant county . We hope that we have a great turnout. That theyll be at the polls bright and early. Reporter do you think it will be a big turnout . I do. Let the best man win. Reporter or woman. Or maybe just men. Im not going to commit myself. I said the best man win. Reporter what do you expect to happen . Any idea who might win on tuesday . Im not making any predictions, but what i would hof to see is for hillary to win big in ft. Worth. Reporter do you want to make a prediction . No, but she and i are on the same page. Reporter do you have any prediction who will win on tuesday . I think ted cruz will win. Reporter the hometown senator . Yes, sir. I think Hillary Clintons going to do wonderfully. Reporter thats on the democratic side. Whats it looking like on the republican side . I dont even call their elections. Reporter sounds like youre a democratic poll judge. Absolutely. Reporter can you tell im an Investigative Reporter . Yes. Reporter whats the hardest part about being an election judge . Youre responsible for everything. Reporter democracy, right . Democracy. Thats right. Jake is joining us now from ft. Worth. You could be an interrogator, youre so good at this. You get people to tell their they come down and tell you who they want to win the count, that theyre doing. Reporter chris, i didnt realize it, but i guess there be democratic and republican poll judges here in tarrant county, texas. Essentially, really cool area, because its a bellwether, a microcosm of what goes on in this state as a whole. In 2008, and in 2012, the vote in tarrant county, almost exactly mirrored the votes statewide in the general election. Its the last and largest remaining red urban county in the state of texas. Pretty cool thing. Have you ever met a nonpartisan texan . Reporter oh, wow. No, not while ive been here. There have been some folks that have said maybe theyre moderate, but they fall into the democratic category. Maybe some republicans that said they would give Hillary Clinton a look. But not frankly, not really, chris. What can you tell, talking to those election people by the way, they do a real service counting the vote and everything. It didnt seem that sizzling, but is it . Reporter oh, absolutely its sizzling, particularly in this county. Early voting is something that goes on here in texas. There have been 1 million early voters in texas, statewide. The 15 counties voting this. Here in particular, the election administrator, frank phillips, told me 125,000 people have voted early here, and predominantly on the republican side. 75 republican, 25 democrat. And that shatters the record that was set back in 2008. So i think that actually if you look closely here, there is a lot of excitement. But theres this excitement gap youre seeing, not so much on the democratic side, but certainly on the republican side out here. Thank you so much, jacob, for great reporting. By the way, that is a pattern weve been watching for weeks now. Much more excitement on the republican side, probably pumped up by trump. But with all the talk of political revolution, which is interesting, its not happening in the polling so far this year. Texas is the name of the game tomorrow for republicans. If ted cruz wins it gives him an edge over marco rubio. Kelloggs® frosted miniwheats®. 8 layers of wheat. And one thats sweet. To satisfy the adult and kid in all of us. Nutritious wheat for the adult youve grown into and delicious sweet for the kid youll never outgrow. Feed your inner kidult with frosted miniwheats®. 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Im confident were going to have a very good day in texas tomorrow. We have tremendous support here. We have seen texans come together. At the end of tomorrow, donald trump is in all likelihood going to have a big chunk of delegates, and i think well have a big chunk of delegates. And i think everyone else will be way, way behind. It will be abundantly clear this is a twoman race. Welcome back to hardball. Ted cruz is fighting for his home state of texas tomorrow. A poll shows 13 points ahead of trump. But far from the 50 threshold he would need to sweep the states delegates altogether. Even if cruz wins big here, the question is, where else can the senator win a victory tomorrow anywhere among the 12 states. Is it enough to win your own state . Im joined by tonights big texas round table. Lisa is a columnist for the houston chronicle. And a pulitzer prizewin ining journalist. Thank you all. First of all, youve got to explain something to me. I dont get let me put it as temperately as i can i dont get cruz. He has a joe mccarty quality. Hes obviously smart and a great debater. He says, how did we know he didnt get 200,000 from north korea . And trump who has problems of being a tax defrauder. And then the other day saying hes mobbed up. He always goes to the mccartyite plan. Yet people down here are going to vote for him. They like him. Yeah, he plays to the cheap seats. He says what people want to hear. This nasty stuff about opponents . Hell say whatever he needs to to get attention, the sound bytes. I dont think he would sell many other states, but sells here very well. We have a very conservative base. That base wants you to have somebody who fights and dont compromise. For that type of message, he does well among our pace voters. Shutting down the government, calling the leader of the Republican Party a liar. That works . It did. Theyre that angry . Well, a portion of the party is very angry. Not the whole party. Interesting. Lets talk about that portion of the party. Before we Start Talking about cruz, lets remember hes in the senate because of 5 of the voting age population in texas that goes to the primary. The republican primary put him there. Basically we have a million, a million and a half the primary in texas, you win the general . Yes. Decides everything. Anyway, is part of cruzs problem lack of authenticity . Heres what a former texas land commissioner said. Everybody gets elected down here. A rubio supporter told thethe york times, he went to agricultural and mechanical, thats a school, ted went to harvard. I never considered he was an elitist. He doesnt have that warm, folksy demeanor at all. And he just isnt like the other guys. Hes not like the other texas politicians. But he winning. Somehow. And base voters dont care right now if you win the fight, they just want you to make the fight. Most parties have an ideological base. When you get polarized and angry, thats the result. What i say about texas, its hard to get a straight jury down here. Everybody gets rick perry gets out. Everybody loves to prosecute down here. But when it comes to facts, somebody in the jury somewhere says, this is all political b. S. This is just political prosecutorial politics. Lets not put perry in the same category of tom delay. Its not quite the same. Which one . The recent indictment. What do you mean which one . You think they really were bad people that got indicted . Obviously, its worked its way through the courts, you can say what you will about the courts lets watch cruz, senator cruz escalating his attack on trump this weekend, accusing him on meet the press on having ties to the mob. Pretty serious. Lets watch him. Maybe it is the case that donald there have been multiple media reports of donalds business dealings with the mafia. Maybe his taxes show those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported, regardless of let me stop you there. Thats just thats openly speculative. Do you have any facts to support that donald trump oh, sure, a abc, cnn, multiple have reported their dealings with a Construction Company owned by fat tony solerno. This is mccarthy stuff. Everybody thinks mafia, the whole thing. How would tax returns reveal if they dealt with fat tony solerno or not . It makes it look like hes trying to find the truth here, but hes not. Were very bareknuckle down here. Youre chuckling. Is there a limit down here in texas . I grew up down here. This is the state we had lyndon johnson, you remember. Did he win fair and square in 48 . No. Is that why jack called him landslide . Anyway, tell me how you won your pulitzer prize. All politicians lie. They dont all lie. They dont all lie. Obviously, at some point, all people lie, chris. No, they dont. And so that is not a good explanation. Youre a journalist, youve got to believe in truth. Do you lie . Everybody lies. In your columns . No, in my columns. If i tell somebody i love she looks gorgeous in that dress thats called flattery. What i think what we see with ted cruz is troubling. You expect somebody to at least, you know, most of the time to be standing by your word. And to stop playing games like this. Just grabbing something out of the air without any kind of proof whatsoever hagel was up for secretary of defense. How do we know you didnt take 200,000 from the North Koreans . Without any evidence North Koreans fave him any money. Just made it up. Ill never forget that charge. Anyway, thanks, you guys. Congratulations. Thank you. This is how you get a prize here. No money, no rewards, just truth. Which you will give us. Live in houston at the Harris County smokehouse. But you cant smoke here. Hi im kristie. And im jess. And we are the bug chicks. Were a nanobusiness. Windows 10 really helps us get the word out about how awesome bugs are. Kids learn to be brave and curious and all kids speak the language of bug. 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People would have said i wish rubio would run or i wish cruz would run. Nobody said i wish trump would run. Its not the first team here. We need back up team. Thank you. Steve who is the former chair of the party down here, he can explain it to you if you call him. Thank you very much. When we return, let me finish with this stunning victory of a move i really like. Spotlight. Its about real journalism. Youre watching hardball. The place for politics. Live from houston. But i keep it growing by making every dollar count. Thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. I earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy for my studio. And that unlimited 2 cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business. Thats huge for my bottom line. Whats in your wallet . A 401 k is the most sound way to go. Lets talk asset allocation. Sure. You seem knowledgeable, professional. Would you trust me as your Financial Advisor . I would. I would indeed. 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Ive seen it twice and loved it perhaps, a, i know boston a bit, and bi worked for tip o neil for a half dozen years. The bet r more coter more compe reason is i worked for newspapers for 15 years. Long before the columnists and pundits getting their hands on it. I remember when those stories of sexual abuse by the catholic clergy came out. Why would anyone want to believe thatconfessions, consoling us could engage in such behavior, could be so criminal. It didnt square. It wasnt representative. We didnt want to believe what we were hearing. I didnt want to believe it. It took the boston globe to get to the other side. The side that had been part of the cover up to expose the whole systemic matter that it was carried out. It took Investigative Reporters to get it right. Stay with it long enough and deep enough to make it matter, to make it hurt. I know the heroes of this stories. Im proud of that small connection. Who wouldnt be. What im proudest of is the grit and brains of journali isist wh work a story until they have it right. I think one good thing that could come of this now celebrated movie is it will encourage good young people to go into print journalism because if you dont want to be a journalist after seeing this movie, youll never want to be one. Thank god for spotlight and what it says about truth and our belief that it will set us free. Thats hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. In other words, were winning with everybody. With trump poised for a big day tomorrow, republicans are now doing and saying anything to stop him. Have you seen his hands. Theyre like this. You know what they say about men with small hands. Plus, Donald Trumps selective memory. You have david duke just joined, a bigot, racist, a problem. Why trump is feigning