no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the united states who is a racist. now the key constituency here in south carolina is the african-american vote. they made up 60% of the electorate in the 2016 election. bernie sanders struggled with those voters last time around. his appearance here today trying to make enroads with this key community and cory booker, an african-american candidate himself, also trying to rally those voters ahead of his presidential decision. brooke. this morning, joe biden and michael bloomberg both spoke at an mlk breakfast. they talked about carrying on king s legacy, but also each acknowledged political mistakes they ve made in the past. here s former vice president joe biden. i ve been in the fight for a long time. it goes not just to voting
and then there s this possible funneling of money and back channel, what are you hearing about this. it s a bizarre relationship. sources are telling me it s real anxiety among nra fishes about the potential for an investigation about this long standing relationship they had with alexander torsion, this russian banker and that the nra has gone so far as to begin gathering documents going back years about the various interactions between the nra and alexander torsion as well as wup of torsionings associates who started this group in russia and this is a year s long relationship going back. he built these enroads with the nra to cultivate a back channel with the kremlin. says putin is deadly serious
where they actually departed because from his experience, this is an area where nigerians regularly come under attack. in fact, just last weekend, 13 nigerians were killed in another fire fight that took place within the same zone. and they ve been see iing this increasing terror threat in that zone. we ve seen increasing indications that this isis break away unit is really making enroads into this area. all right, thank you very much for that incredible reporting on the ground. i want to go now to the democratic congressman of california. he was briefed on the niger ambush today. so, let me ask you. arwa damon recording u.s. soldiers had just one money gun. they were wearing t-shirts. they were wearing baseball caps. none of this came up in your briefing today. is my understanding. what s your reaction to that? well, my reaction to that is twofold. first of all, it s a terrible tragedy, the loss of american life and the loss of nigerian soldiers. it s tragic and yes, indeed, it is
gotten a nomination and might have shown us how potentially powerful that is. that s what trump cut himself off from. well, that politics of bobby kennedy is a long way in the past unfortunately, but it was once there because we saw as the train went by in new jersey and by here in 1968, the funeral train of bobby kennedy, there were white faces and black faces and they were all working people and they were saluting this guy as a fellow patriot. that was a moment we have to get back to. by the way, it s a great honor working with you. all of you. the night before the election. up next, hillary clinton s fighting hard in the industrial midwest. she s pushing to hang on to michigan and pennsylvania as trump looks to make enroads into these traditionally blue states and this is hardball. the place for politics. changes to make things right.
who knows? this is one of the oddest campaigns and all things can happen. the fact that donald trump basically brags about the things or lives the things as p aspirationally. can melania help bridge that gap? that s hard to see. you have to remember that a lot of the early voting has taken place and someone like florida of 55% of early voters being women already and 60% of democratic voters in florida are also women. in loops and polls subject that we know that women are breaking towards hillary and they are voting early. i don t see how melania trump can make enroads with them. it is a hard push for her.