The extremists will remain extreme and come back to haunt you. An old activist once told me, dont invest in those that carry mess, not if you really have a message. The tea party is going to remind some republicans of that. Thanks for watching. Im al sharpton. Hardball starts right now. The clintons are in the ring. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. Lets start with the best fight in the country, the clintons versus karl rove. Rove started this battle row yal over hillarys health, this brain injury hes mixing it up about. The clintons are hitting back with a combination of punches, the defense of the former secretary of state is 100 , that rove is dealing with some kind of sickness himself, or,
according to bill, the republican operatives charges are so inconsistent as to be laughable. Well, the question now looms up there in the air, is this nasty stupid politics or nasty effective politics . Did rove hurt himself, which really doesnt matter in the big
Thank you, poppy. See you later. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com 6 00 eastern. Youre in the cnn newsroom. Im poppy harlow with you. We begin with this shocking story. The fbi made a startling admission, it is about crime scene evidence and how some of it was used to send people to prison and to death row for more than 20 years in a report published this weekend in the washington post, the Justice Department admits that almost every fbi hair expert that took the stand in a courtroom over a long period of time maybe gave the wrong information. Flawed forensic testimony that helped prosecutors, and some those trials ended with the death penalty. Take a look at this. This is a quote from the washington post. It reads, fbi experts systemically testified to the near certainty of matches of crime scene hairs to defendants backing their claims by citing incomplete or misleading statistics drawn from their casework. In reality, there is no accepted research on how often hair from different pe
Well, the question now looms up there in the air, is this nasty stupid politics or nasty effective politics . Did rove hurt himself, which really doesnt matter in the big world, or did he hurt himself but also hurt Hillary Clinton in the act . This matters. If hillarys forced to play defense on health, will this rob her of a clean, upbeat future campaign, forcing her to play rear guard tie her to the past, putting the focus on what shes been through, not where she wants to take us . Again, we can agree, rove is nasty, but is he nasty stupid or nasty smart . Is he playing the bad guy knowing it will help the republican nominee, perhaps jeb bush be the good guy . Will he take the low road so his eventual candidate can zip up the high road . This much is plausible. Karl rove has done it all before, and now hes doing it again. And somewhere this week, the campaign for 2016 began, and on karl roves time table. Steve mcmahons a democratic strategist and wayne slater is Senior Writer at the D
Why this building was included. It is all happening now. But we begin our second hour with the republican race for the white house. The show down for the empire state eight days away. I am jon scott. I am heather in for jenna lee. Eight days and counting. Democrats and republicans as well. And donald trump is back on the trail and campaigning in rochester, he told supporter ares that the primary process is rigged. He and john kasich campaigning in upstate new york today. He has more support than kasich and cruz combined. We have edhenry and we start with the republican race and john roberts in albany new york. Reporter a lot of complaints with the delegation. The Republican Committee said it is the rules that are the rules. The Trump Campaign insisting where people freely vote he wins and the places where the party votes he loses. That is not true. Cruz has lost some. But in colorado cruz came away with all of the delegates in the state conventions and causing donald trump to tweet tha
Those transformers pop. We have Team Coverage all morning long. Meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio. She has been tracking this storms path as you know. Griff jenkins is live in folly beach, South Carolina. But we start with Aishah Hasnie in charleston, South Carolina where they are worried about the flood surge and aishah, its already started. It has. People are saying time is running out. Guys, time is up. We are in the thick of it. This is where it begins. Its raining down really hard on me right now and the wind gusts that keeps slamming me sometimes i lose my balance sometimes up to 40 Miles Per Hour already. We are seeing some of those tree branches and palm leaves come shooting down on top of us. Right behind me you see one of the many, many flooded streets in charleston. And im not even going to try to go in there to show you how deep it is. I can tell you it was ankle deep about an hour and a half ago. Im not going to go in there now because as you can see its pitc