So theres a lot of drama around that. That was actually at some point, an expectation that he might cancel the event, so he wouldnt be seen as pouring gasoline on the flames in that city. On the other hand, some people saw that might be a real opportunity for him to demonstrate his president ialness, his ability to calm people in times of crisis, to try to bring the country together. President s often have to do that in difficult times. So what donald trump was gonna do around that situation, there was a little drama leading up to the night of that speech. What he did in the end, he didnt cancel, but he made a somewhat unusual choice. He went to not milwaukee proper. He decided to go to an event about 40 minutes outside milwaukee, to a basically 100 allwhite milwaukee suburb. And he gave a speech there on race. He gave a speech there specifically, as if he was talking to a black audience. It was like his first ever outreach address to African Americans, but he was speaking to an allwhite room. So that was the sort of surreal decision by the Trump Campaign. It then became a laughoutloud moment from the Trump Campaign, when they put out their press release about that speech, bragging about all the praise they say they got from reporters and observers about this brave speech on the needs of the African American community, that donald trump gave to a room entirely full of white people. And one of the things that the Trump Campaign distributed in their selfcongratulatory press release about that speech was this tweet from an Associated Press reporter named jill colvin. Trump sounds like hes talking directly to African Americans, thats their quote. What was funny about that, what jill colvin actually said, the tweet they were quoting from her there, it did not end after trump sounds like hes talking directly to African Americans. What she wrote was, trump sounds like he was talking directly to African Americans, comma, but i dont see a single nonwhite person in the crowd. So when you only take the first half of that, it sounds like admiration. But if you take it, including the comma, and the rest of the sentence, admiration is not what she was trying to convey. The Trump Campaign did that in mid august. It was very funny at the time. They have just done it again in a way that made people in newsrooms all laugh and squirt coffee out our noses at the same time. Today trump was in washington, speaking at the values voter summit, a conservative event, meant to reinforce antigay and antiabortion orthodoxy in the republican party. One of the reporters who was there to cover the speech, a young reporter from the toronto star in canada, whose name is daniel dale. So Donald Trumps there at the values voters summit, finishing up his speech. Trump campaign sends out one of their patented selfcongratulating press releases, listing the praise and admiration donald trump is getting for their speech. Quote, trump was in fine form stylistically, good spirits. Heres where they quoted that from. Daniel dale did quote from the trump speech in washington. What he tweeted was this. Quote, trump was in fine form stylistically, good spirits. He also made stuff up and called for regime change while denouncing regime change. That was the whole quote. But they only quoted the first part which was the ironic setup for the joke. Daniel dale responded minutes later, haha haha haha. The Trump Campaign just quoted my tweet as praise. This is the equivalent of somebody telling you theyre quoting the lords prayer, but they say, into temptation, evil like that conveys the gist of the prayer. Theres more to it. That comes at a really important point in the plot of that prayer. So haha, the Trump Campaign is occasionally funny, laugh out loud, despite itself. But its weird that that happened on a day when such serious stuff is happening. The big serious news, the headline story in every major news website across the country right now is that a nationwide ceasefire has been negotiated for syria. The u. S. And russia have been slogging it out for weeks now. Secretary of state john kerry and the Russian Foreign minister jointly announced that a nationwide ceasefire has been called in syria to begin at sunset on monday. Nobody knows if its really going to go into effect. Nobody knows if it will work, if it will hold, even if it does initially go into effect. After five years of increasingly apocalyptic civil war in syria, a prospect for interruption or end to the fighting is a source of desperate, desperate global hope for those poor people. Right . We expect to learn more about the details of the agreement and its likelihood for success over the course of this weekend, possibly into late tonight with the time difference between here and europe and here and the middle east. With prayers for syria, you will want to keep an eye on the news out of there and out of geneva into the late night tonight. Well be live here at msnbc through the night and through the weekend heading toward what is scheduled to be a sunset monday ceasefire across the entire nation of syria. Well see. Even before that late night announcement tonight about that ceasefire agreement, we knew from the other side of the world, that today was going to be a very serious day in the news. And we in part knew that because of this lady. She is 73 years old. Shes known for wearing this particular traditional korean pink dress. And in north korea, they call her the cannon mouth. Thats because what she is prized for, as a newsreader on north korean tv is her outrageously shrill voice. Shes the person the north korean government trots out not just for everyday news. They only bring her out for the big stuff. So in 2011 when kim jong il died, she announced it. In 1994, when his dad died, it was her again. Shes now long retired from her role on north korean television, but shes still around and they reel her out for really big stuff. And so this morning, everybody knew to brace for big news out of north korea when they wheeled her out for another impossibly enthusiastic north Korean State Television pronouncement. Translator the Nuclear Weapons institute, the scientists and technicians of the Nuclear Weapons institute tested a Nuclear Explosion at the northern part nuclear test ground for the assessment of power of Nuclear Warhead. At the end of this show last night, just before we got off the air at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, we reported the initial news that let us know that was coming. There are not a lot of natural earthquakes on the Korean Peninsula in north korea or uth korea. Last night, there was a 5 point something magnitude seismic event on the Korean Peninsula and that was not likely to be an earthquake. That likely meant a nuclear test by north korea. Another one. North korea has been setting off Nuclear Explosions since the george w. Bush administration. The first one was in 2006. Since then, theyve been averaging about one every three years. Whats worrying now, this one they just set off last night, thats the second one theyve set off in eight months and it was a big one, the biggest one theyve ever set off, almost twice as big as the last one they set off. Like all the other Nuclear Explosions north korea has set off, its underground. Its worrying enough to be able to set off an underground explosion, to liquefy the inside of a mountain. Its quite another to deliver that explosion beyond your national borders, to weaponize it, to put it on a missile. While china was hosting the g20 summit, north korea shot three new missiles toward japan. They were big missiles, they shot them all off within the space of one minute. When youre talking about increasingly advanced and powerful Nuclear Technology and increasingly reliable and powerful Missile Technology that combination is a very bad thing. The idea of north korea being able to put a Nuclear Warhead on a medium to longrange missile, thats a whole new world. And honestly, north korea does fake a lot of stuff. They faked a Missile Launch from a submarine back in may. They just photo shopped it from somebody elses picture. In march of this year, they showed kim jongun handling basically a disco ball and they tried to pass it off as a miniature Nuclear Weapon. In january of this year, north korea says they set off a hydrogen bomb. They did not set off a hydrogen bomb. They lie about a lot of this stuff. But what they just did with the three missiles they shot toward japan during the g20 and with this largest ever Nuclear Blast they set off in the last 24 hours, those werent fake. So this is serious stuff. This is global balance of power stuff. This is the threat of nuclear war. This is the craziest regime on earth with operable Nuclear Weapons. So to the extent that their nuclear test is a political test for us, right now that means its a political test for the competitors to be our next commander in chief. And its worth noting that these two candidates have handled this moment very, very differently. Hillary clinton convened a bipartisan and Nonpartisan Group of National Security and counterterrorism advisers. They didnt allow the press to cover the meeting itself, but they did allow this shaky camera in at the top to show secretary clinton arting those discussions. Immediately to her right on the left side of your screen, thats michael chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security under george w. Bush. Hes now talking National Security matters with secretary clinton. Shes gone out of her way multiple times in the last 48 hours, to talk about how National Security and Foreign Affairs ought to be bipartisan and nonpartisan and thats how she would approach it. To make her more available to the press, shes done four press availabilities in four days. She gave remarks after her meeting with those counterterrorism and National Security officials. She talked about isis, and targeting the head of isis, al baghdadi. She laid out her assessment of the north korean threat, and the leverage the u. S. And our allies have, in terms of pressuring them on their nuclear program, everything from sanctions to Missile Defense to embargo, to the kinds of leverage we might have with china. Which is key. China is seen as the only country that could rope in north korea on those matters. She made those extensive remarks in her prepared statements. She took questions and answered those issues at length. In terms of the other campaign, donald trump is in a little bit of a weird position on this specific issue, because of the previous stance hes taken on north korea. The previous stance hes taken on north korea is honestly just a very unusual stance from a Foreign Policy standpoint. No matter which party youre coming from, or if you have no party at all. This was donald trump, president ial candidate, on july 15th. And then one of the papers called the other day. And they said, would you speak to the leader of north korea . I said, absolutely. Why not . Why not . And they come out, trump would speak to him. Who the hell cares . Ill speak to anybody. Who cares . That is Donald Trumps on the record stance toward north korea. Ahead of todays new Nuclear Explosion that north korea set off. And because thats how he has talked about north korea, it raises interesting questions as to how he would deal with this if he were president right now. How would a donald Trump Presidency deal with this strange, nuclear armed, hermit kingdom. In his speech in washington, he said two sentences about north korea and the blast. His take on the north korean Nuclear Blast is that it is Hillary Clintons fault. This was the sum total of his remarks. Just today it was announced that north korea performed its fifth nuclear test, its fourth since Hillary Clinton became secretary of state. Its just one more massive failure from a failed secretary of state. You know, honestly it is outrageous that Hillary Clinton set off that Nuclear Blast, very irresponsible of her. Especially as secretary of state. Setting off Nuclear Bombs is untoward in any case. That was Donald Trumps remarks. I heard north korea set off a Nuclear Blast, isnt Hillary Clinton terrible . That left it to his Campaign Manager to explain what his plan would be for dealing with north korea. North korea, what would donald trump do if north korea has Ballistic Missiles that can carry Nuclear Weapons to the continental United States . Well, he wouldnt do whats being done now, with the president in asia talking about donald trump instead of north korea. You always refer to what the democrats are doing. What would he do . He wants to be president. What would he do in north korea had the capacity to deliver a Nuclear Weapon to the United States . Donald trump, his entire America First doctrine is he would always look out for the interest of this country. And north korea and the rest of the world would know that President Trump and Vice President pence arent messing around with anybody whos trying to threaten our lives. The generals that i hear and the National Security experts that i hear, talk about Nuclear Capability being nothing short of devastating. What would donald trump do if he would make sure they would never use it. How . Hes not going to reveal all of his plans. Hes made that very clear. See, donald trump would not be messing around. He definitely has a plan for dealing with north korea. It is, of course, a secret plan. In the midst of on a day like today, in the midst of all this Serious International news, and in the midst of this very welcome focus on National Security issues and Foreign Policy issues and the president ial campaign, especially as we come up on the 15th anniversary of 9 11 this weekend. In the midst of all this, theres one other really strange thing that is happening in this current news cycle, and it is that donald trump himself has ended up in the middle of an international controversy. And what is bizarre about it, he appears to have not understood that he was in it at all until he was right in the middle of it. He has no idea how he got there, didnt know it was happening to him until it was over, and now he says he wishes he hadnt done it. Really . Thats next. Remember he at ally, nothing stops us from doing right by our customers. Whos with me . Im in. Im in. Im in. Im in. One, two, wait, wait. Wait wheres tina . Doing the hand thing . Yep we are all in for our customers. Ally. It right. Have you ever had that dream that everybodys had, where you, like, think that youre going to bed and you take off your clothes and put on your jammies to go to bed, but youre dreaming and you dream float through your bedroom door and you find youre on a stage in front of a whole bunch of people and youre wearing pajama tops and not bottoms and youre supposed to give a speech in a language youve never spoken . How many times have you had that dream . Is it just me . One of the president ial candidates had a dream like that, thankfully everybody was wearing pants. And that story is next. 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