A crucial face to face, House Speaker paul ryan and Congressional Republicans will have their highly anticipated meeting with donald trump today. After announcing the endorsement of seven house chairman on the eve of sit down, trump said if we make a deal that will be great. If we dont, we will trudge forward like i have been doing and winning all the time. Yesterday nbcs Hallie Jackson asked speaker ryan if theres a situation in which he would not endorse trump. This is a big tent party. Theres plenty of room for different disputes in this party. We come from different wings of the party. The goal is to unify the various wings of the party around common principles so we can go forward and unify. Trump has also softened his stance on a host of issues calling his muslim ban, just a suggestion. Planning fundraisers and now reversing course on his own tax return, suggesting he will not release them if an irs audit is not finished by november. He said, theres nothing there. Heres an exchan
A woman who was in the car streamed video on social immediately. The video is graphic and it is disturbing. Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back. The police, he is covered. He killed my boyfriend. Hes licensed. Hes licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his i. D. And his wallet out his pocket and he let the officer know that he was he had a firearm and he was reaching for a wallet and the officer just shot him in the arm. No worries. I will, sir. He just shot his arm off. We got pulled over. I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand up. You told him to get his i. D. , sir. His drivers license. Oh my god, please dont tell me hes dead. Please dont tell me my boyfriend just went like that. Keep your hands where they are, please. Yes, i will, sir. Ill keep my hands where they are. Please dont tell me this, lord. Please, jesus dont tell me hes gone. Officers performed cpr after the shooting. The man was later pronounced dead. The interim
Theres no direct evidence that he was part of a larger plot. Today we have new images from inside the nightclub where the terror attack took place and we now know minute by minute how a single gunman carried out that attack. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer has details. Reporter new images inside pulse. A gay nightclub during its popular latin night. Music. Dancing. And then gunfire. Made alvear who captured the shooting is among the dead. Today survivors describing the scene of terror. Gunshots to the head, legs, arms, shoulders, stomach, backs. I can just smell the ammo in the air. This is a gun. Its awful. Just to experience this with my fellow family. Oh, my god people are getting shot. At 2 00 a. M. An off duty officer in uniform engages omar mateen, armed with the ar15 Assault Rifle like this. A handgun and plenty of ammunition. Nbc news has learned from authorities that the engaging officer retreated. Backup arrived in two minutes. The injured pouring out. But others like Eddie Justice trap
Pivoting to a general election, Hillary Clintons campaign the past 24 hours making moves which suggest shes looking ahead to the general election. Youre watching msnbc, the place for politics. Lets get right to president ial politics with three days until the indiana primaries, republicans are instead focussing their efforts on california today. Ted cruz will be the last to speak at the convention. John kasich will campaign in san jose. Their events in california come less than 24 hours after hundreds of protesters surrounded that Convention Hotel ahead of Donald Trumps speech. At one point, protesters knocked down the barricades and they tried to get inside that hotel. They reportedly threw eggs and rocks at riot police. And it all forced trumps motorcade to pull over on the shoulder of the freeway. As you see there, he had to walk under a fence in order to enter that hotel safely. While trump joked about his unorthodox entrance by comparing it to crossing the u. S. mexico border, joh
Im betty nguyen. Were one day away from donald trump revealing his Vice President ial pick in a planned new york city event. Trump held a series of private meetings yesterday with some of the vp apparent finalists joined by his adult children, trump met with indiana governor mike pence and spoke to both Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie in recent days. But there are new distractions that have arisen from the campaign. Theres now news that trump filed a 10 million arbitration claim against a former Campaign Aide accusing that aide of spreading rumors about Senior Campaign staffers. That aide released an exclusivestatement to nbc that simply said, im not guilty, im beautiful. Its the latest in a long line of struggles for the campaign. Trump and his lawyers were also fighting in San Diego Federal Court arguing against the release of deposition videos trump gave as part of a class action suit against his Trump University organization. Trumps lawyer in the case argued that the videos, if re