parking lot near erie, pa. those officers responded. the vehicle fled from that area. there was a short pursuit in which the vehicle was stopped. as the officers approached that vehicle steve stephens took his own life. so that nationwide manhunt is over. the manhunt might be over but the national conversation continues. at this hour, facebook founder mark zuckerberg is speaking before developers conference in san jose. we expect that he will in some shape, form or fashion, address this tragedy. it will be the first time we hear from zuckerberg directly. we have the latest on the breaking story from our reporters and analysts as well. jacob rascon stand big in cleveland, former fbi profiler and msnbc contributor clint van zands, msnbc s chief legal correspondent ari melber and on the phone with me msnbc s chief law enforcement analyst jim cavanagh. jacob, start with you in cleveland, at this point what do
wisconsin any moment now to tout his campaign promise to boost employment here at home. he is in wisconsin, i believe, but his refusal to release his tax returns on this tax day, threatening to hurt his domestic agenda. outrage growing over his daughter s overseas business deals as well. we ll talk about that plus clinton campaign drama gripping details about hillary clinton s election night phone call with president obama and why he pressured her to concede. we will have msnbc s first interview with the author of a new book chronicallying what went wrong with the clinton campaign. jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting. .and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. because all his belongings went up in flames. jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic.
all right, kelly o donnell traveling with the president down there in florida, thank you for that. for more now, joining me msnbc military analyst, medal of honor, colonel jack jacobs, thanks for joining us. kelly is talking about and certainly as i mentioned the reviews coming in from the political sector right now, praising or at least expressing optimism in this selection for partly what kelly was just talking about there, how widely respected mcmaster is. you know him, talk about why he is so widely respected. what is it that generates that respect? well, it s actually quite a surprising pick. he s extremely intelligent, very well read, he s a quick study, he s clear-thinking and he thinks outside the box. he doesn t like yes men, and he s not a yes man. he has a low threshold of pain for people who don t think as clearly as he does. he s a great teacher. he instructs those less knowledgeable than he is and he s very, very thorough.
independence and could operate without undo influence from the white house. i think that s the only way he would take it, and i think it s a good thing that if there was a concession made from the white house, we all ought to be grateful that the white house made those concessions. colonel jack jacobs, appreciate it. more now with msnbc political analyst rick tyler and nile, white house columnist for the hill. thanks for joining us. rick, you heard colonel jack there saying look, this is somebody who doesn t just play ball and do what the boss says. i wondered if there was a political factor here where donald trump needed in the wake of the flynn controversy, in the wake of the harwood rejection, if he needed somebody as widely respected as mcmaster and if mcmaster was as colonel jack was able to leverage that maybe for a wider, more expansive role than we would normally see, what do you think of that? the people of sweden are probably grateful that donald trump picked someone who
what the founders were trying to protect. that s become the modern definition of what the press does, but back then, the press was loud and blunt and inpolite and it was very, very port san. wonder why so many newspapers, ian today, have the name of the political party in their title, well it s because when they started out, they literally were the voice of that party. there was no pretense of objectivity. they were for one side, they were against the other side and the journalism was as slanted and unfair as you could find. that s what the founders wanted to protect. opposition, loud and uncivil opposition being published by whoever wanted to publish it. that s the kind of debate they wanted taking place in public. in our modern era, we ve never heard a president attack the media and only using words to do it and not actions, well, that raises the question, is that really a problem? for more, i want to bring in hugh hewitt, msnbc political