Before it was sent . The president. Tell us everything about the conversation. Irving he said and you said, to the best of your recollection. He said what do you think of this . I believe i saw the text message or on his phone. I remember saying to him, the wording on the first sentence, i guess its a long sentence. The wording on the first sentence. What leads some to believe he had something to do with the events that happened at the capitol. What did he say . I dont recall him saying in response to that. I believe that was the end of the conversation. Did he change anything in light of your comments . No he did not. What made you think someone may perceive the president in having a role in the violence at the capitol. It was my interpretation of the words. I dont write speeches or anything, but the phrase these are the things that happened to my sounded as if, as if culpability was associated. I dont think its a a tree t act to assault the capitol. Calling them patriots is a stretch
Joining us from london with more on this, nbc newss matt bradley. What do we know . Reporter this is really an evolving situation. What weve heard so far from the u. S. Military and this is in a statement that a combined u. S. And afghan force conducting an operation in nan ga har proch province was engaged by direct fire. We are assessing the situation and will provide further updates as they become available. Thats what weve gotten officially from the u. S. Military. A New York Times correspondent in afghanistan, he said that this might be what you would call a green on blue incident, and thats one in which Afghan Soldiers fire upon american troops, and of course weve seen this a lot in what has now become rekrercently americas longest war, the longest in history. This New York Times correspondent said there may be as many as five or six fatalities. None of this has been verified independently by nbc news except for that statement from the u. S. Government saying that u. S. Soldiers
Between sinking sleepy joe and mayor pete. He has a good guy. He is a great mayor. But guess what . He was a mayor. He is a good guy. But the idea of passing a budget as mayor of a town the size of manchester and managing 900 billion, this guy is not a barack obama. He is right. I am not. Neither is he. Neither is any of us. This is not 2008. This is 2020. Jesse while candidates continue to tear each other apart, top candidates are warning that democrats do not have what it takes to be trump. The problem here is the Democratic Party. The idea of the Political Party is to win collections. Thats what it is about. If you dont do that, you have done nothing. Its not to make a point. Its not to start a revolution. It is to win the election. I have the idea of the Democratic Party that i read about and i see on television, and that is a bunch of people on twitter running around causing trouble. To speak of the other depressing thing about this week was at his best moment, the democrats, they
The headline, Hillary Clinton in a newer poll, her lead down to three points over donald trump. A month ago, it was 11 points. Now 46 for clinton, 43 for trump. What happened, why is this so much tighter . Big part of it is trump bringing republicans home. A lot of concern back then among republicans, could the party unite. Look at this, in the last month, a jump of 14 points in the number of republicans who say sners going to be with donald trump against Hillary Clinton this fall. Hes now getting 86 of republicans. That is the big reason why this is suddenly a three point race. That 86 contrast that to what Hillary Clinton is getting right now from dwm democrats. Clinton still has the campaign with Bernie Sanders and the polls show some evidence that Bernie Sanders supporters are resistant right now to supporting Hillary Clinton in the fall. One of tfof the reasons why the is so close. You look back to put this all in perspective, right now donald trump getting 86 of republicans. Mitt
Close. Make a shortly after mister trumps appearance. Mashing police cars, clashing with from supporters. About 20 people were arrested as right police found finally managed to calm things down. No one was injured. Inside trump storing up his supporters. On june 7, youre going to go and vote. You might send it in but youre going to go and vote and we are going to start winning again. We are going to win with our military, were going to knock the hell out of isis. Were going to win for our veterans, our great veterans. Were going to take care of all that. Were going to win on the second amendment, its under siege. Were going to protect our second amendment. Were going to win with healthcare, were going to repeal and replace obamacare. Were going to be proud of our country and we are going to win and i love to do this and we will do it one last time. Were going to win. Jon correspondent john roberts live in burlingame California South of San Francisco where gop leaders will hear from two