Albuquerque, new mexico welcome to happening now. Im jon scott p7 im Heather Dower to come in for jenna lee. Police in albuquerque calling it a riot , take a look. [shouting] you can see the protesters as they clash with police, throwing rocks and bottles. That peaceful demonstration as you can see quickly turned to chaos. Officers responding with smoke grenades and pepper spray pickup inside the convention center, presumptive nominee mocked those proposals and had several removed from his rally. Jon lets go to National Correspondent John Robertson alex Anaheim California right now. Reporter good morning, people starting to arrive for a trump event which begins in about four hours time. Unclear whats going to happen here. We are not too far away from costa mesa which a month ago violent antitrump demonstration just a short distance away from disneyland. Space mountain there, we could have a bit of a thrill ride here today as well. There was one last night in new mexico, thousands of pr
But some of the protesters did make their way inside. They disrupted the presumptive nominee multiple times. He responded the way we would expect. Hillary is having a hard time. She has a lot of surrogates. You can get them out. Get them out. Get them out. How old is this kid . How old is this . Get out of here. Still wearing diapers. Look at this kid. Martha john roberts, good morning. A few people are starting to line up for the trump rally at the Convention Center. We are expecting between now and the time donald trump speaks the complexion of this place will speak. In costa mesa, california, there was violence after a trump rally. In new mexico. 600 to 1,000 protesters on hand. Everything was fairly peaceful. But as the sun started to go down, thats when it got out of hand. Despite calls from protest leaders. There were those who were there to take on the police and disrupt. They tried to get tine the Convention Center. Police on horseback had to get between them to push them back.
The 90s from page news today. Nbcs halie jackson is in new mexico where trump will be campaigning today and Kristen Welker, she will be joining us shortly. Halie, lets talk about the trumps strategy. Is this a smart strategy given the fact that certainly the ben foster suicide plan we heard him with independent swing voters. Reporter and thats the question, andrea, having a little bit of difficulty hearing you here. I think you are talking of the conspiracy of ben foster and what that could do with voters. You talk about this idea of trump talking about it or raising with this. This is not new for him. We saw it at the end of the Ted Cruz Campaign when trump talked about possible links again, debunk Conspiracy Theory tieing ted cruzs father so this is not a new thing for donald trump. With that said, there is a question whether this speaks to sort of the fringe group that buys into and propagates Conspiracy Theory. Clearly trump feels as though he wants to throw everything against the