Donald trumps border war. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Steve Kornacki in for chris matthews. In the past hour, donald trump wrapped up what his campaign billed as a major speech on the topic of immigration. After a year of denigrating the Mexican Government and talking tough on ilLegal Immigration and after weeks of raising questions about his shifting rhetoric on the subject, tonight trump laid out the details of his policy positions. On the key question on what to do about the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country right now trump began the campaign that all of them must leave. Tonight in his speech in arizona, trump said that anyone who entered the u. S. Illegally would be subject to deportation. He said there would be only one true route to legal status, to return home and apply legally. He focused on Illegal Immigrants who have committed crimes. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero. Zero. Day one, my first hour in office those people are gone. [ cheering an
We have got plenty to have wadr, or water, as we like to call it, on the show tonight, sports fans, as Hillary Clinton takes a second day off the campaign trail to recoup from her bout of pneumonia. She was able to call in pretty decent subs to fill her shoes. At an afternoon rally in philadelphia, president obama was on fire as he showed off his stump speech, showmanship, and issued a dire warning to middle class voters about the dangers that he said would come with a donald trump presidency. This is the guy you want to be championing working people . This guy who spent 70 years on this earth, showing no concern for working people. This guy suddenly is going to be your champion . I mean, he spent most of his life trying to stay as far away from working people, as he could. And now this guy is going to be the champion of working people . Huh . I mean, he wasnt going to let you on his golf course. Out here, where i am, in southern california, bill clinton is taking his wifes place at a
Debate high tamgs takes the stage with bernie sanders. Isnt this one of the strangest elections youve ever seen . I i really sometimes dont know what to make of it. Standing on that debate stage the other night i was especially thinking about that. And donald trump ignoring advisors warning him his debate strategy was less than ideal, he says this. I dont think she did well in the debate at all. I dont think she did well at all. And i just walked in and saw some of the great people that represent your state and they said wow you did so great in the debate. First Lady Michelle Obama Campaigning for Hillary Clinton in pittsburgh does not mince words. When making life or death or war or peace decisions, a president just cant pop off or lash out irrationally. No. We need an adult in the white house. I guarantee you. Lets get right to cnn. Politics executive editor mark preston. And the author of rightful heritage. Where do you start . Is someone i guess they finally told him today that his
Is the version that was at his fieriest in the primers. He has a get portion going after the press and Hillary Clinton and the crowd is loving it. We had a man yell that Hillary Clinton is a pig with lipstick. They are yelling cnn stucks. The campaign is doing everything they can to rally his base. We say this a lot, but that is the strategy to keep giving red meat to his base of supporters to drive up their enthusiasm to make sure every person who likes donald trump shows up at the polls. There is little hope of expanding his tent right now and fining a way to reach out to minority voters and moderate gop voters even though conservative voters and of course women. Right now the biggest sign of weakness is in utah. Hillary clinton and donald trump is tied in the polls right now. This is donald trump showing that he cannot hold on to potentially a very red state. He is not able to do that, its hard to see how he can win in november. Im not sure if he can hear it, butchanting cnn sucks a
Mccabe told priebus that the New York Times story vastly overstated what the fbi knows about the contacts. A u. S. Official says mccabe didnt discuss specific aspects of the case but wouldnt say exactly what mccabe told priebus. The white house officials said priebus reached out to mccabe and james comey asking the fbi to talk to reporters on background to dispute the stories. Again, the fbi refused that request. To underline that, pamela, this is certainly not a typical back and forth between any white house and the fbi. Right. For a reason. There are decadeold restrictions on such contacts between the white house and the fbi limiting those discussions only to when it is important for the president s duties and where appropriate from a Law Enforcement perspective. So if the Deputy Director of the fbi, Andrew Mccabe did say this to the white house, he may have overstepped since its an Ongoing Investigation, not to mention an investigation involving the president s associates and russia