tower. you see there, police got involved, this pretty bold, pretty daring. i guess you'd say it's a rescue. the guy didn't want to be brought back inside. they did it anyway. this was quite a scene that played out. it was on local tv here, national tv, more than two hours. this looked like the only thing people were watching. if you caught a glimpse of this, you couldn't take your eyes off it. you don't see it every day. again, that was at trump tower here in new york city. thought we would show you what played out this afternoon. a bizarre scene. meanwhile, away from trump tower today, on the campaign trail, the fall-out continuing for donald trump, from his comments yesterday, that supporters of the second amendment could maybe do something to stop a president hillary clinton from appointing judges. some saying it was a clear and blunt incitement to violence by donald trump. some saying it was more of a tasteless joke, a joke about violence against hillary clinton. and some seeing it more as trump being rambling and incoherent and spitting out a half-formed thought that just sounded terrible. but what everybody sees is yet another massive headline dominating controversy starring donald j. trump. that's the story of this campaign. played out over and over again. donald trump is provocative, he's inflammatory. he can be outright crude. he spews insults, he stirs outrage, disparages opponents, tears into the media. just one explosion of controversy after another. it's been non-stop for 14 months now and counting. and there are consequences for trump from all of this, for the 14 months of controversy that he's been stirring. some of those consequences, let's be honest, some of them are good for him. he's built a base. that base was big enough to beat a field of 17, and to win the republican nomination for president. basically donald trump used all of that outrage, and all of that controversy to rile up enough voters to engineer a hostile takeover of a major political party. that's no small thing. donald trump did achieve that. but, but, that comes at a price. a big price. all of that outrage, all of that controversy, it's rubbed even more people the wrong way, among all voters, not just republican voters, among all voters, the people who will vote in november, donald trump's unfavorable number has shattered records among modern presidential candidates. he's the least popular nominee for president on record. he's also right now, falling behind hillary clinton by large margins. four polls in the past week have clinton up by double digits over trump. those are margins we were not seeing at the same time in the presidential race four years ago. donald trump is facing major defections from his own party. senator susan collins from maine said this week, she can't and she won't vote for donald trump in november. she's not the first republican senator to say that. she is the sixth. these are the negative consequences for donald trump, of the kind of campaign that he's running. here's another one for you. this man right here, do you recognize him? he's running for vice president this year, on the libertarian party's ticket. his name is william weld. william weld is a former republican who left the party this year because of donald trump. william weld has a serious resume. he was the governor of massachusetts back in the 1990s, back when he was a republican. he was a republican who won in a very democratic state, a very blue state, massachusetts. and how did bill weld do that? how did he win in massachusetts as a republican? it's funny you should ask, because you answer has everything to do with why donald trump is in such a hole right now. if donald trump doesn't win in november, this will be the biggest reason why. and it's the same reason that bill weld was able to launch his political career in the first place. so that's my set-up for you. now return with me, if you will, to the fall of 1990. it was a different time. president george h.w. bush is threatening war against saddam hussein. good fellas is just hitting the theaters. the cincinnati reds are on their way to an unlikely world series title. and in the commonwealth of massachusetts, a political earthquake hits when a man named john silver stunningly wins the democratic primary for governor. john silver, if you don't remember him, i you didn't know who he was back then, john silver was a serious man, the president of a major institution, boston yufrt. he was a scholar of philosophy, a writer, he had served on a presidential commission. so he had a serious and heavy resume. but no one, and i mean absolutely no one saw this comi coming. sill ber had been buried in that race, barely made the primary ballot and he looked like a really bad fit for the democratic party. he was conservative on a lot of issues, on a lot of social issues, a lot of cultural issues. he had been an ally of ronald reagan. but the biggest reason why people thought he had no chance, he had a volcanic temper. and he was a candidate who was defined by controversy. let me give you a taste. when asked about the cost of health care for the elderly, john silber cited king leer and he declared, when you've had a long life and you're ripe, it's time to go. that's a candidate for major office saying that. silber called massachusetts a welfare magnet for people who are used to living in a tropical climate. he suggested some women were guilty of child neglect, in choosing careers over home life. those are just some of the things he said in that campaign. there was also this, the big debate right before the primaries. silber was asked why he hasn't given any speeches in inner city boston, where crime rates were higher and there was a larger non-white population. this is what he said. >> i will tell you something about that area. there's no point in my making a speech on crime control to a group of drug addicts. i think it's far better for me to stand on the steps of the house of the state house and make my address there. you can imagine the reaction that that comment provoked. there was a name for comments like that, for comments like the ones i was reading just a minute ago. they started calling them silber shockers. and silber shockers were the story of the 1990 campaign for governor in massachusetts. every day, a new headline, a new controversy, a new outrage, an angry candidate insisting the media was twisting his words, was trying to beat him. that played out over and over again. there were people, plenty of people, who loved it, who loved john silber for it, who thought he was shaking up the system upon there were enough of them that silber pulled off the shocking upset and won the democratic primary for governor in massachusetts. his coalition was blue collar, it was lower income, it was white. does that sound at all familiar? does that sound at all like the coalition that donald trump has been trying to put together? but when silber won the primary, he had to turn around at the democratic nominee and had to get elected in the general election. that's where bill weld came in. weld was a moderate, more liberal on social issues, more conservative on economic issues. silber in the general election campaign, he kept on being silber. he called weld an orange-headed wasp, and a back-stabbing son of a bitch. that's a quote there from john silber. some people ate it up. other people were horrified by it. a specific type of voter was horrified by the silber shockers. suburbanites, white collar professionals, people with one or more college degrees. these are people who are very similar to the people who are turning against donald trump right now. they were horrified by silber shockers in 1990 and they're horrified by things that donald trump says today. that was the story of that campaign. it was close. days before the election, it looked like silber was on the verge of pulling it off. people had their doubts about him, but they were angry in 1990, very angry. silber agreed to do a television interview. a local television woman was going to come to his house and show people the personal side of him and his family. this was a gift to silber, this was an easy way to score points to, soften his image, to make people overlook all of the controversy, all of the outrage. and so, with hundreds of thousands of voters watching just days before the election, this is what happened. >> what do you see as your strength, and if you will, if you think you have one, a weakness? >> i think that my strength is competence. and my strength is honesty. >> and your weakness? >> you find the weakness. i don't have to go around telling you what's wrong with me. the media have manufactured about 16,000 non-existing qualities that are offensive and have attributed them all to me. they're had a field day. you can pick any one of them. >> you don't think that's a fair question. >> maybe you have no faults. >> well, i do have some. >> i'm not interested in your faults. >> i wish you weren't so defensive, because this is not a defensive posture here that i'm hoping to create. rather than one of understanding so that people watching this could get a better sense of who you are. if you ask anybody what do you see as your strengths and weaknesses, that's not meant as an antagonistic question. it was meant rather to have insight into how you view yourself. >> well, i take very seriously responsibilities that go with offices. and if my job is to represent the people of massachusetts, i'm going to do that. and i'm not going to worry about the hurt feelings of people who are standing in the way of those in need. i'll clear them out. >> you could almost see the exact instant there when john silber realized he overreacted. that was days before the gubernatorial election in massachusetts in 1990. people in massachusetts still talk about that interview to this day. a few days later, a few days after that aired, john silber lost the election to bill weld. but things happened in that election that you will never see again in politics. think about this. john silber, he was the democrat. he lost some of the most liberal bastions, not just in massachusetts, but from america. silber lost brookline, cambridge, province town. those places all voted republican. they voted against him in 1990. the white collar suburbs of massachusetts, they voted overwhelmingly republican too. all of that put together was just enough, just barely enough to make bill weld, republican bill weld, the governor of massachusetts. and the one word to explain what turned all of those people off, what turned them away from the democrat, what turned them into the arms of bill weld, the one word that made bill weld the governor of massachusetts, temperament. after all of those silber shockers, only 37% of voters on election day said they believed that silber was temperamentally suited to be their governor. the number for bill weld, 66%. look at that gap there on basic temperamental fitness for office. and that was it. too many controversies, kept too many people from being able to pull the lever for john silber. temperament is what cost him the election. now, john silber is not donald trump. and i say this, by the way, as someone whose introduction to politics was the john silber campaign. i was in sixth grade then. we had a mock election. i got to play john silber, i still have my button. 26 years later, i have a soft spot for the guy, a guy who was a lot more complicated in real life than all of the controversies made him seen. he had integrated the university of texas in the 1960s. he was different, a lot more interesting and nuanced than all of those outbursts. but in the campaign of 1990, in the election of 1990, that didn't matter. because what the voters of massachusetts heard and saw every single day were controversies caused by donald trump -- excuse me -- caused by john silber, controversies that raised questions every day that raised questions about his temperament. think of that. think of donald trump. think of the trump controversies. think of the outrage. think of the question of temperament. and look at this, a new poll this week, 61% of voters say hillary clinton as the temperament required to be president. the number for donald trump, 27%. it is silber and weld all over again, 26 years later. and that, that may be the biggest problem for donald trump when it comes to this current second amendment controversy. whatever he meant, what it translates into is more controversy, more reason for more people to doubt whether he has the basic temperament for the job of president of the united states. even if donald trump recovers in the next few days, the next few weeks, even if he gets back into the polls, gets back into the race, this is ultimately the biggest threat of all to him, that the voter who goes into that booth in november, the voter who likes some things about donald trump, the voter who is angry at the system, who wants to give the system a jolt, the voter who looks at donald trump's name on the ballot, stares at it, maybe puts the pencil over the check mark box, but then pauses, and wonders, am i sure? should we really do this? that's what the kind of temperament gap we see in this race can do. it did in john silber a generation ago. it made bill weld, want current libertarian candidate for vice president, it made him the winner in massachusetts back then. it made him a political player. it made his career. right now, when you look at those polls, and when you listen to all of the noise generated by donald trump, by that comment he made yesterday, all of the controversy, you realize that could be the thing that ultimately stops donald trump in november. the question of temperament. joining us now is e.j. dee yol, columnist with "the washington post." a massachusetts native, a massachusetts political junkie like me, i was looking forward to getting that story in tonight. i know you remember the silber-weld race very well. the reason i wanted to put this into the show today, election day 1990, the betting money said john silber was going to win the race. we found a lot of people went into the booth and they just couldn't check his name off. >> i wanted to say a couple of things. first, i'd trade all my time just to hear you do your sixth grade john silber imitation. that would be awesome. i was so happy to do this segment, because we both are united in trying to persuade the country that everything important in american politics originated in massachusetts or is connected to our home state. i'm glad you said that silber is not trump in that he was an intellectual guy, but you're absolutely right on this temperament point. the political analysis that is so parallel is about those suburban voters. in this election, it's college-educated suburban republicans who are fleeing the republican party in very large part because they don't think donald trump is suitable to be president. it's not even about ideology. it's about whether they can trust him. it's about whether he flies off the handle. in massachusetts, those same kinds of people, college-educated suburbanites, happen to be lib ralls and democrats. and again the parallel, the other parallel they think at i so striking, a lot of people thought silber would win, just like people are saying trump speaks for a lot of people, he speaks for me, he grabs people's attention with his shockers, to use a phrase from 1990, and he's going to win. but i think it's the quiet voters, the common decency voters who say, we don't want a leader who talks like that, and in the end, they decided that race in massachusetts, and i have a hunch, those voters will decide the race this time. >> it's interesting, maybe for a candidate, there's always the question with candidates like this, who are so volatile, how much of it can they control. but you see this dilemma maybe with donald trump, the things that he would need to do to reassure the kinds of voters you're talking about, about his temperament, to project an even-keeled image to make them think he's more presidential. you can see the part of donald trump that says, yeah, i'm going to stop being interesting to the people who like me already. >> right, i think that is a parallel, but the other difference, i think, is that silber said outrageous things that he believed, even when they were unpopular. to tell senior citizens, who make up a big part of the electorate, that when they're old, they're ripe, and it's time for them to go, that's not exactly a way to win votes. donald trump, and silber had an intellectual arrogance. trump's arrogance is altogether different. it's not clear to me that trump ever says things that would get himself into trouble because he believes them. i think he says a lot of things because he thinks they appeal to the kinds of voters he's trying to win. >> e.j. from "the washington post" and the pride of fall river, mass, no one else i'd rather talk to you about this segme segment. >> fall river was blue town, by the way. >> that's right. >> good to be with you. still ahead, donald trump just did it again. the latest controversial thing that trump had to say just moments ago, straight ahead. stay with us. both on the track and thousands of miles away. with the help of at&t, red bull racing can share critical information about every inch of the car from virtually anywhere. stay with us. confirmed, daniel you need to cool your brakes. understood, brake bias back 2 clicks. giving them the agility to have speed & precision. because no one knows & like at&t. when age-related macular have degeneration, amd we came up with a plan to help reduce my risk of progression. and everywhere i look... i'm reminded to stick to my plan. including preservision areds 2. my doctor said preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula that the national eye institute recommends to help reduce the 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on the other side of the aisle, though. this was at a donald trump rally in ft. lauderdale, still in florida. the rally is still going on right now. but look at this, sitting right behind donald trump, spot shadowed on the stage, showing a close-up of him there. that's former congressman mark foley from florida. now in 2006, ten years ago, foley left his seat, his house seat in florida, after making repeated sexual advances and exchanging -- or providing sexually charged material to several young teenage pages, congressional pages. that led to him resigning in the midst of that scandal. and tonight, he's on stage in the camera shot at donald trump's rally. right behind him there. so that was the stage craft news that came out of donald trump's rally. again a rally that's still ongoing. donald trump made some news, though, with what he said at this rally. we're going to bring that to you next. for lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads here. introducing drug-free 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ago down in ft. lauderdale, florida. and joining us now, the nbc news correspondent who has been covering donald trump since he started his run for president 14 months ago, katy tur. she's in that arena down there in ft. lauderdale. katy, i believe, correct me if i'm wrong, donald trump has been using that phrase, the founder of isis, in reference to hillary clinton before. has he not used this in reference to president obama before? do we know specifically what the connection is he's trying to make there? >> reporter: i'm not sure if he's ever said -- i'm sorry. sorry, go ahead. in terms of founder of isis, i don't think i've ever heard him say that hillary clinton was the founder of isis, or president obama was the founder of isis. and correct me if i'm wrong, i haven't heard those terms put together for those two people, but he has suggested, in the past, repeatedly, that they basically enabled isis to rise, with president obama's policies in the middle east and through hillary clinton's policies in the middle east, specifically invading libya, deciding to go into libya and interfere, or in his words, interfere there. so calling them the founders of isis, though, is a step further than we have seen in the past. certainly something that's raising a number of red flags already. donald trump trying to link obama in some way to a terrorist organization. remember back after the orlando massacre, he seemed to suggest that president obama might have known something about it or was willingly not stopping it, because he had some ties to terrorist groups. that's what he was suggesting back then. he backed away from that since then. and tonight is the first time i've seen him go that extreme when it comes to trying to link obama or hillary clinton to terrorism. >> now, we know when donald trump veers into this very provocative, even inflammatory territory, you think of last week with the khan family, all of the reporting was that the people around donald trump, the brain trust in the campaign, they were dismayed by that. they didn't like the way he handled it. they didn't like the fight he was picking there. is the reaction the same to this? or is this the kind of provocative rhetoric they want him to be out there doing? >> i gotta tell you, it happened a couple minutes ago, so we haven't had a chance to get much reaction from various sources in d.c. and sources around the country, and within the campaign. but what i can tell you from past experience with his experience, provocative statements have not necessarily gotten much pushback from his aides or advisers, at least in a public way. they believe that donald trump is being himself and that his message, even if it's not politically correct, resonates with a certain number of voters. but if you look at the polls, the support for him is fracturi fracturing. he's not expanding his base of support. he's not expanding the tent. he's solidifying the base of support he's had now for the primaries, 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"are you listening? he just flat out lied about senior staff and steppian," bill steppian, christie's campaign manager, "not being involved." response to this text, "i'm listening. gov is doing fine, holding his own out there." the first aide writing again, "yes. but he lied. and if e-mails are found with the subpoena or chris christie for governor e-mails are uncovered in discovery, if it comes to that, it could be bad." now, the person who seems to be saying in this exchange that christie lied in that press conference is christina renna. she was then an aide to bridget kelly in christie's office. and here she is in these newly released text messages from the end of 2013 saying that christie was, her words, flat out lying. that exchange, again, december 2013. almost three years ago. christie today telling the associated press that the texts are "nothing new" and he strongly denies that he lied at that press conference. his spokesman today tells us "the governor's statements have been clear. nothing contained in this text message changes that in any way. he stands by those statements completely and unequivocally." and the governor's office also pointing out to us that weeks after that december 2013 press conference chris christie said that it turned out he had been lied to by bridget kelly. so maybe that explains what looks like a pretty big inconsistency here. that is one possibility. the discovery of these texts would seem to raise a lot of possibilities. and we have just the person to help us sort them out. joining us now is matt katz, peabody award-winning reporter for wnyc, author of "american governor: chris christie's bridge to redemption." matt, we are very glad to have you with us tonight. so any way you can translate these texts to us? we just got this exchange suddenly. people are trying to figure out, does it mean a lot? does it mean nothing? what's your best interpretation of what we're looking at? >> yeah, to put it in a little bit of perspective, this is the first piece of evidence we have so far seen in this three-year-old saga from somebody within christie's circle, within the administration, indicating that they believed or perhaps knew he was involved in the cover-up. so we're talking not about closing the lanes to punish the mayor. we're talking about this mysterious three or four-month period after the lane closures when christie was telling us i was in that room that day during the press conference, when christie was telling us there was nothing going on, that the administration's story was that it was a traffic study that they were conducting and that's why there was a traffic jam. now we know that somebody and perhaps many people within the administration and the campaign thought that there was a cover-up going on and that the governor knew about it, and there's also this phrase that christina renna uses. she says christie's campaign manager was involved. i don't know if that means -- we don't know if that means involved in the actual conspiracy to close the lane, to punish the mayor, or the cover-up in the aftermath. there's going to be more that comes out at trial. this trial is coming in a month. and christina renna will be testifying. and there could be a whole lod of new documents and e-mails that shed light on whether the governor was involved in either the closure of the lanes or the conspiracy to cover it up after the fact. >> and we should know christina renna, she testified before the state legislature. they were looking into this. this is about two years ago. she didn't mention this. this didn't come up then. but she mentioned these trials are getting under way. what's her role going to be in the trial? >> she's definitely going to testify. we know that. and her lawyer said today that she won't talk until that point. she's currently a lobbyist and works with the administration and legislators. so she still has ties with christie world. and she was the first person to testify when the legislature did their own investigation. and again, like you said, she never brought this up and she also provided a lot of documents, but apparently did not provide these text messages. so she deleted them. and now democrats are now saying that she should be investigated for possibly hiding evidence, which could lead a whole new road that we could go down involving her and what others close to christie may have been hiding. remember, she also had claimed that her boss, bridget anne kelly, who's under federal indictment now and faces trial next month, she'd said that bridget kelly told her to delete an e-mail that implicated bridget. there's a lot of moving parts here and we're going to find out about christie and the role of all these people in just a few weeks i think. >> matt katz from wnyc, thanks for the time. appreciate it. >> sure, steve. >> that's going to do it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. and now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening to you, lawrence. >> good evening, steve. you know, it always amazed me during the chris christie presidential campaign that so much of the media forgot what was happening back in new jersey in this criminal case which still is going to involve chris christie as a witness probably. >> i always sensed that republican voters knew in the back of their minds and that's why he couldn't get traction. >> yeah. you could see that in the polls. that's true. thank you, steve. >> okay. >> well, donald trump had the whole world thinking about assassination today, not just the united states, because donald trump's words yesterday about the possible assassination of the next president of the united states brought painful memories rushing back, not just here in the united states but in

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