, fire trucks are outside and a decontamination unit is set up there. >> jim is joining me live on the phone from the white house. what are we hearing and seeing about this suspicious package here? >> reporter: well, we are not hearing anything. we are seeing an awful lot. the white house went down into a lockdown and maybe about 20 minutes ago. but, it was only about 15 minutes ago that fire trucks started to arrive and as you saw it just a moment ago in that picture, they had set up a portable decontamination unit. we have seen firefighters and emergency personnel getting into hazmat suits and as you can see through the fence in to the white house's grounds there are firefighters there with their oxygen tanks and air tanks on their backs and in hazmat suits at least partially. we were told originally that somebody had apparently tossed a package over the fence. it did not appear to be too much medic activity inside the white house, but as you see here for the first time according the veterans here at the white house. this is the first time they have seen a portable decontamination un

subject. she gave a speech in which she compared this to jim crow law and says it needs to change. people transgender or lbgt need the same rights as everybody else. what's the legal argument. are states arguing they don't have the authority and not getting into the actual policy? >> no, they will do both. they will either say we heard this politically about states rights, they will say we shouldn't be forced by the feds to do this and one of the hooks has been the threat of reduce original eliminating federal funding or they got it wrong, just to get into it, what's the detail here? what the federal government under the obama administration has said basically to do anything but allow people to go to the bathroom of their choo choosichoose ing is itself sex or gender discrimination. there are already laws against any kind of discrimination based on someone's gender or gender identity. what's new is the idea this is something the feds will now order. they've been doing that a few years but the directive is new. >> with federal funding on the line as well. thank you. we will continu

went out and spoke against him. with that said, remember when donald trump met with jim baker a couple weeks ago, they talked about strategies. it is a lengthy meeting, peter, you stand out here trump's tower and you see people come and go. >> corker has a history of some heated fights of his own, obviously, his fight against harrell junior. he's the kind of person that could help donald trump as he tries to frame his fight going forward. we have another dirty and ugly season ahead. >> reporter: that traditional attack of the vice president it is all cruel. absolutely. >> halie jackson, thank you very much. we want to get to steve cornacki at the wall street journal, steve. >> all right, we are seeing a tight race and in our journal polls, just three points a month ago. people were saying this is going to be a blow out. the biggest answer is right here, it is donald trump in his support among republicans. remember, among the republican primary was still basically playing out. there were a lot of questions about could trump unify the party? well, the answer is when it comes to re

jim bennett last week, he said his father informed and imparted by his women faith and of the muslims ban was felt strongly on his death. donald trump really hurt the party and he was apologizing individually to muslims he met at the airport for donald trump's comment. >> i saw senator bennett and i knew him well and respect him and it is a great loss with him. i feel that he has to be more inclusive. politics is a game of addition, it is not a game of subtracting. people want to see inclusiveness, we are all americans welcoming to a republican party. as ronald reagan says if you agree 80% of the time and if you disagree 20%, you are not my ene enemy. >> how does he say about things he said about muslims and other minoriti minorities? >> action speaks more than word. you have to prove that you are inclusive. >> fred mallic, thank you very much. >> up next, will hillary clinton will be able to win if she's the nominee. a lot more coming up on our washington journal polls coming up next on "andrea mitchell reports," msnbc. it's hard to stop a trane. really hard. trane. the most reliable

policy, trump takes these conversations wherever he wants to take them. look at his discussion with jim baker a few weeks ago. focused much more on political strategy than anything else. than on foreign policy or international relations. we're hoping to get a read out after this meeting ends, and we'll keep you posted. >> all right, hallie jackson. thanks for that. >>> more on trump's fund-raising issue. let's bring in alex burns. he wrote the article this weekend that is key gop donors still deeply resist donald trump's candidacy. who are these people? how much are they worth in terms of campaign money? >> over the last three election cycles, it was worth 90 to $100 million to republican candidates and outside groups that typically spend heavily to support republican candidates. donald trump is operating from a serious organizational deficit as he enters this general election. only appointed a finance chairman this month. that's really unusual for a presidential candidate. still no sanctions superpac to raise money for that heavy outside advertising that's conventional in these campaig

region. nbc's jim miklaszewski is live at the white house. what do you know about mansour and why do you feel the united states needed to take him out. >> they wanted to strike at the heart of the taliban. to do that, they went after their leader, the leader of the taliban for a little less than a year. nevertheless he was considered to be the cement of taliban holding it together. now the way this happened, surveillance drones had actually watched mansour and others get into a vehicle and drive off and then not one but several drones launched hell fire missiles which as we've seen from the photographs of the site, obliterated the target. u.s. officials are confident that mansour was killed in that strike. now, there are some analysts who believe that this will fracture the taliban, without mansour's strong leadership it will splinter and diminish their military strength. but quite frankly, over the years, the taliban has proven very resilient. after all, they've suffered 15 years of u.s. military strikes, america's longest war and have still survived. so while they could be a signif

refused to drop his weapon. nbc's jim machetsky has more. he's at the white house. jim, what is the latest on this investigation? >> alex, this is being handled by deep seat police becau.c. po shooting on the outside. given what's happened the last several years, by all accounts, they handled this one by the book. the white house suddenly exploded. with shouts of "shots fired," the secret service took their posts. the suspect identified as justin oliviera was openly carrying a handgun as he walked around the white house grounds. >> he had a gun out just in plain sight. it wasn't hidden. >> she said it looked like he was in a trance. larry samples said secret service officers repeatedly ordered the man to halt. >> drop your guns, and he walked toward the officers. he just kept on walking in. >> reporter: one secret service agent fired a single shot, striking the suspect in the chest. he was seriously wounded and rushed to george washington hospital. it's only the latest in a long string of bizarre and potentially deadly assaults on the white house. a pilot killed himself when he flew

man carrying handgun approached a check point and refused to drop his weapon. nbc's jim miklaszewski has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the scene at the white house suddenly exploded with shouts of shots fired, secret service officers scrambled to posts. >> we have a shooting. >> reporter: the suspect identified as jesse olivieri of pennsylvania was openly carrying handgun as he walked directly toward a security outpost at the southeast corner of the white house grounds. >> so he had a gun out, just in plain sight. it wasn't even hidden. >> reporter: taylor said it looked as if he was in a trance. >> he had a mission cdoing that. >> reporter: officers repeatedly ordered the armed man to halt. >> drop your guns, he walked toward the officers, he kept on walking in. >> reporter: one secret service agent fired a single shot striking the suspect in the chest. he was seriously wounded and rushed to george washington 4079. it's only the latest in a long string of bizarre and potentially deadly assaults on the white house. a pilot killed himself when he flew his plane into th

powered and sniper rifles on the roof of the white house. jim miklaszewski is in the white house briefing room, temporary mandatory home for a lot of members of the media. jim? >> the lockdown here in the white house has been lifted. reporters and camera crews are now permitted to go outside onto the white house lawn. and since we're able to move here from the building itself, one would imagine that we could also exit the white house grounds proper and get outside the fence onto pennsylvania avenue. but i'd like to stress again that the white house itself and anybody in the white house, was not in any apparent threat, because the shooting occurred at a guard post, a secret service guard post on the opposite side of the old executive office building, which, as you walk, is about -- at least a block and a half to as long as two blocks from the white house itself. and while we are told that this individual had a gun and was apparently at least brandishing the gun, and had been ordered several times to put down the weapon and did not and was subsequently shot, we've had nobody tell u

white house, the white house on lock-down. let's get to jim miklaszewski, you're inside the briefing room, yes? >> that's right. we're on lock-down you mentioned a moment ago. it was a little chaotic when there were reports shots were heard fired at least in the vicinity of the white house. there are conflicting reports some of the shots may have been fired or at least some shots heard outside the gates of the white house. others that it occurred on west executive drive inside the white house. i can tell you, we watched for a short period of time while we were permitted outside and we saw the usual scrambling of secret service, some on the rooftop with sniper rifles appearing to take aim at some unknown target. no shots fired as far as we can discern from any secret service inside the white house grounds. it's all b being sorted out rig now. the secret service is in a br f briefing to come up with an explanation what happened. some of the nbc crew members were actually outside when the shots were purportedly fired. they heard nothing. it appears if there were shots fired it did not h

story is the zika virus, president obama callingen congress for funding. nick m jim miklaszewski joins me now. the white house and congress have been at odds and now the cdc say 300 women are being observed for having the azika virus m. 0 are are virus. what's the president's next move? >> he said in the oval office before a press corps, there's no reason to panic. there's not an epidemic of zika in the united states. currently there are 500 cases contracted while people were traveling and none from mosquito bites in the united states and 10 cases contracted during sexual intercourse. he did try to light a fire under congress, though, to come up with a 1$1.9 billion that all te president's health advisors say is necessary for research into mosquito control, diagnosis and development of effective vacc e vaccines. he's particularly concerned because congress is due to go out on recess in a few weeks. he's afraid that they won't come up with any kind of meaningful money for all that's needed in combatting zika in the meantime. the president himself, even talking about zake cika, he cout a

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and suggests they may get answers pretty quickly. meanwhile, we are hearing from our own jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. the american defense officials, u.s. defense officials are saying that they did not from their satellite imagery pick up any sign that this may have been some kind of a terrorism related attack. they did not see an explosion in the air around the time the plane disappeared. and you remember that same u.s. monitoring did spot some kind of an explosion over egypt when that metrojet flight went down. they did spot an explosion when it went down over ukraine. perhaps another piece of the jigsaw while the people here who really are at the center of this want more than anyone else to know the answers to so many of these questions. wait here and try to understand as everybody is what happened to a flight that took off last night from charles de gaulle airport on a routine flight to cairo with seemingly nothing wrong and no signal from the plane before it disappeared that there was anything untoward aboard that aircraft. >> keir simmons, thanks. >>> i want to che

state jim bakker. always a double-edged sword. it seems he is trying to make nice with the establish he spent 9 to 10 months railing on the trail. >> we expected that pivot to come. jacob outside henry kissinger's office and pointing out trump went over to kissinger's home on the upper eastside. >> thanks so much. we're also pointing out details in trump fashion, i filed my pfd, i'm proud to says the largest in the history of the fec. despite the fact i'm aloud extensi extensions, i have filed my report, 104 pages on time. bernie sanders on the other hand has requested an extension for his small report, the difference between a businessman and all talk no action politicians that have failed the american people far too long. what we've learned from trump's financial disclosure. besides the swipe at sanders pretty obvious, the numbers for donald trump, what are the takeaways? >> this is a document required for all presidential candidates to submit to the federal election commission, not the tax return that donald trump has resisted releasing those tax returns. this form he filed on tim

heels, of course, of the meeting with jim baker last week, for example, where we understand the two talked political strategy. not so much the nuts and bolts of foreign policy. that said trump over the last week or so, the last couple of weeks since he's made the turn to the general election, has clearly been looking to solicit more input and advice from longtime conservative leaders, influence republicans, in many ways republicans who have been around for a long time, folks who have experience with this and looks to build his connection with washington and beef up some of those policy roles and views of how he looks at the world, you could say. we expect to have that happen at the kissinger meeting today and in a sign of other meetings trump has taken, craig, he just walked out of a meeting with influential evangelical leader van derplouffe, he had an endorsement of it ted cruz. now meeting with donald trump telling myself, katy tur, that he has not endorsed trump yet. he told that to the candidate in their meeting, but that was a possibility. he's firmly in the #never hillary camp

substance of the higher education, the graduate school of dr. kissing er and jim baker and others, let me give you what was handed to us from the clinton campaign this is from jake sullivan who is foreign policy adviser, former state department official, former vice president biden official from the nse as well. let me get this straight. he's now, of course, with the clinton campaign. donald trump insults the leader of our closest ally, david cameron, then says he'd love to talk to kim jong-un. i also praised him for executing his uncle and seems to have a bizarre fascination with foreign strong men like putin and kim. his approach makes no sense for the rest of us nor does his start to up-end the major international agreement or to rip up a financial reform bill created to protect our economy from another meltdown. is this an unusual statement? this new foreign policy agenda and i've been told they are planning a major foreign policy speech from hillary clinton to show the contrast against trump in the next couple of weeks, maybe after she goes over the top. that remains to be se

. >> at the same time, donald trump, met with jim bakker, former official, jim bakker during difficult time. he's meeting tomorrow with another person that hillary clinton has praised in the past. he seems to be more mainstream and being more acceptable to the traditional leaders and leaders of the republican party. >> before tim bakker had that meeting with donald trump, he testified at a hearing at the senate foreign relations committee and was out by marco rubio of some of the policies they were talking about and dangerous suggestions of taking apart nato of our strongest alliance. jim bakker's response to that is almost unbelievable. i cannot remember his exact words, he thought it would be dangerous and creating in security for the american people. it would be interesting to see where jim bakker is coming out. his estimation about bob gates and michael hayden, all respected republicans who understand national security is that this is a reckless and dangerous guy. we had a situation where london just elected the first muslims to be the mayor of london, sadiq khan who's a accomplish

understand, for example, with jim baker last week that focused more on the political strategy, less so on, let's say, foreign policy or some of these policy positions. trump has gone out and sought counsel now from these old guard conservative leaders to find out, it appears, what his strategy should be moving forward. the risk for trump, of course, is that he has run this campaign and been successful in this campaign bucking every trend, being unpredictable, not doing what the other traditional politicians are doing. it has served him very well. the question is whether that will serve him equally as well as he turns into a general election matchup with hillary clinton whose campaign has already been in a word professionalized to use the word that you used and the word luke used as well. trump for a long time has had that really small core of top aides. that has been expanding more and more as we've seen. and so we will see whether that behooves trump down the road when it comes to maneuvering in this world where he's now bringing in the rnc and bringing in people from speaker ryan'

military figures, like general mcchrystal and general jim mattis. who's realistic? probably a former senator, someone like ben sasse or john kasich. but the person behind all these talks who's most intriguing is former governor mitt romney. he's the one who's make get overtouove overtures to sasse and to kasich. >> some of these are commissioning private polling, trying to line up some fund-raising. number one, what are the polls saying as far as something that's really plausible and, number two, who's out there with that much money and that deep pockets saying, you know what, i can do this. let me back him because it could happen? >> there are some top donors in the republican party who are talking to people about the possibility of funding an independent bid. we found out in our reporting that dan senor is trying to pitch people, bill kristol is trying to do this. these people told us top republicans are commissioning polls to find out is there a viability for a candidate who comes from the right, is independent and has some crossover appeal. but it's mid-may. at this point polling

clean for six months. >> jim baker, using the term for the republican establishment forever. >> yeah. >> and if sometimes gets really stretched out of shape because we don't know what it means. who is one human being hon planet earth who most embodies the republican establishment, james baker would be that person, so what was he doing in that room? >> let's pick through a couple of things. first of all, in the last three minutes since we've been talking we received word from secretary barrack's office officially now confirming his meeting with donald trump today saying that that meeting was requested by the trump campaign adding that baker has had conversations with other gop candidates at their request and that baker would have no further comment at this time. so that's sort of the news in just the last five minutes. you can say hot off of the presses of the iphone. when you talk about barrack being part of the establishment, look at his resume. former chief of staff for president reagan, bush 41. obviously the secretary of state, head of the treasury department as well. he has a lo

days back in 1980. it was jim baker who helped him team up with ronald reagan. it was jim baker who ran the legal strategy for the bush campaign, lot of people say got george w. bush into the presidency. if there's any kind of a move there on the part of somebody like baker moving towards trump's direction at all, that's noteworthy just given his ties to the family that trump has savaged in this campaign. >> bush said again, i'm not going anywhere near donald trump, not even a paper endorsement from jeb bush. >> you have the realists, the realist camp in the republican party of foreign policy. a lot of people thought maybe there was distance created between jim baker and the bush family because of the foreign policy that george w. bush pursued. james baker wasn't as eager for affirmation after the 9/11 attacks. baker was on capitol hill today and it came up marco rubio actually asked a question at this hearing, james baker was testifying on foreign policy. rubio asked about one of trump's proposals, which is basically, do we really need nato anymore. that's something trump has been

a bit here. again, for our viewers at home, bottom right, that's assistant democratic leader jim clyburn from south carolina, he is talking about the house democratic position on the gop agenda. also they spent some time talking about donald trump as well. on the main screen here, and this is something we should note happens weekly when congress is in session, there's just renewed interest this week of course ahead of tomorrow's big meeting. typically you'll have the republican leadership speak. kevin mccarthy will speak and then house speaker paul ryan usually brings up the rear. he'll address the media and will take some questions as well. let's listen in just a bit on this weekly press conference, the gop press conference. >> a mom in indianapolis lost her son to an opioid overdose. he had been a high school senior at 18 years old, football player, great young guy. he got hooked on heroin. by age 20, he had lost his life. this is after he had been in treatment, recovery. she stood boy him, she worked with him, but he lost his life to a heroin overdose at age 20. so she started

. >> you know who i think is interesting is jim webb. former democrat, critic of hillary clinton. military credentials. >> three of the four i notice military back grounds. >> 25 to one odds. >> so now let's go to what we call our sucker bets. clint eastwood. >> bernie sanders. >> i don't know what it takes for ivanka trump to get the vp nomination. >> people are putting money on bernie sanders running with donald trump. our betting house in london you can call them and request an individual. i can say i want $100 on steve kornacki. >> you can come up with any name you want. >> they will provide you odds. >> we say it is a sucker bet. that sucker bet screen, you know why that is a sucker bet? the constitution says you can't have president and vice president in the same state? >> what happens when they get rid of trump? >> really quickly i want to circle back next week. any of these names on any of these lists that will move next week? a look next week and say the odds on jeb bush completely changed. >> when you put the favorites i saw newt gingrich. i have a feeling that is overvalued and

counters and jim crow era laws is not something they want to tangle with. but talking to voters during the morning rush it was clear that the attorney general's message is not resonating. people understand that skin color is not a choice but local residents think that the choice of whether or not you feel like a woman or feel like a man is not in the brain but something you're just one day deciding, another day deciding not. so whatever the legal future here, there is a cultural and educational battle here that the justice department has only just begun to fight, craig. >> tony dokoupil not used to being stood up, always unflappable. i'll let you track down tammy. ari, let's talk about this thing and moving forward. what's next and how is this going to play out in the courts? >> basically what you have here is these countersuits, but the bottom line is the feds are trying to block enforcement of this law. they're basically saying, hey, north carolina, we gave you a chance, an off-ramp with the letter and the opportunity to somehow narrow this law's application. you've declined that. indeed

. from the jim crow era on to today, lawmakers have been coming here for coffee, lunch, very cheap alcohol. pictures of former governors there on the wall. yesterday attorney general loretta lynch compared this fight over the bathroom law to a civil rights era over access to lunch counters like these. talking to voters, it's not quite clear they're getting that message. it is innate. sexual identity is innate. it's an innate choice, not one you're wrestling with. voters aren't so sure and opponents like the governor and like ted cruz, they think it is a choice. this is something waffling around and to open up the bathroom to being a space where you can go any different direction is exposing people inside that bathroom to privacy issues and also to threats. whatever the legal future of this law, there's an education component here that people like the attorney general have a lot of work still to do. >> some skepticism on the ground there in north carolina. of course there's a governors race there that this year is playing out as part of the backdrop. >>> coming up, a lot of confusio

. we saw it in the jim crow laws that followed the emancipation proclamation. we saw it in the fierce and widespread resistance to brown v. board of education, and we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex unions that were intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian americans might one day be afforded the right to marry. that right of course is now recognized as a guarantee embedded in our constitution. in the wake of that historic triumph, we have seen bill after bill and state after state taking aim at the lgbt community. now, some of these responses reflect a recognizabley human fear of the unknown and a discomfort with the uncertainty of change. but this is not a time to act out of fear. this is a time to summon our national virtues of inclusivity, versity, of compassion and open mindedness. what we must never do is turn on our neighbors, our family members, our fellow americans, for something that they cannot control and deny what makes them human. and this is why none of us can stand by, when a state enters the business of legislating identity and insi

invaluable to have you. >>> now, jim cavanaugh, we're in a good place at 3:13 p.m. this afternoon. it's prom night in montgomery county, maryland, and you can imagine the anti-depression s y imagine the anxiety of the parents of the schools on lock-down. >> it gives a little breathing room and the sorrow for these families in the area will be prolo prolonged. what investigators can do is take a breath and don't have a rampaging killer loose and go step by step in frisk to retrieve dna from spent cartridges and fingerprints, if possible, ballistic information matches. he likely had the gun with him because the end game was suicide and possibly he was trying to carjack these people and the first one resisted. the the witnesses alive at the bethesda center can tell detectives what he said and two men came to their aid and one of those was killed and were heroes without question. detectives will know what he was saying to the victim in bethesda and killed a woman in aspen hill. we have to see how that plays out. i think the end game for this guy was suicide and likely had the murder weapon

. >> pete, thank you. jim cavanaugh, former special agent in charge of the chalcoho tobacco and firearms administration is with us. no notably, jim was around during the washington, d.c. sniper case. it has nothing to do with this case, jim, except, speaking of i c conography, these live pictures of shopping center and mall parking lots, in this part of the world, for those of us who were around then, can only bring back one memory. >> no, that's right, brian. i can't say enough about the montgomery county police department and its detectives, of course the law enforcement in the whole capitol region, prince george's county and surrounding counties and state police and maryland will be involved and federal partners as well. you have top cops here, top departments, great the detective bureau s, they're on it and trying to get the answers you and pete were just discussing. the biggest one is, is it the same guy. you posited that at the top. the biggest question is the spent cartridges at these three sce scenes. if they can match that up the answer is it's a center if it's the same weapon.

who are they talking to now? >> as pete and jim suggested earlier, they'll be looking for those federal detective officer who was involved in the homicide last night, we know he's 62 years old. he killed a 44 years old woman last night supposedly followed her to the school where this child was and gunned her down in the parking lot. they'll be looking, first of all, that could be logical to connect him with these other two shootings just because of the time frame and location. they'll be looking to see if there is any information, anybody they can talk to and number one can help them find him because of the alleged murder last night and of course today for the multiple shootings at two different situations again. they'll be looking at balistics for example if the same handguns was used at two locations tonight and the location last night, they'll be looking at videos and talking to friends and relatives of the man they know last night was involved in the shooting as well as looking to see if there is any way they can link these two or three together. now, it is a stretch i think

detectives but luckily we got a top team on here. >> jim, what are the first thing they'll be looking at presumably? >> yes, they're going to be picking up any bullet casings if they are available if the person uses an automatic pistol. if he use a revolver they don't leave casing so they'll look for that. to find the project tile and the bullet inside the victim to be matched to the gun. these are nice shopping center, this is suburban washington and they're going to have a lot of cameras and there will be eye witness and they'll be pulling all that together. >> this is the up scale neighborhood and one of the wealthiest community in the country right across the border of washington dc to the north of washington dc. the ar it had the best school system and expensive housing and these are expensive retail areas. >> right, exactly. sometimes you have crime happening, we don't know here what exactly happened but we had a shooting last night of a domestic situation and the police have said maybe they're looking for a husband or want to question a husband. sometimes you have a situation wher

american young man. people, they just want this. it's like that episode in the waltons where jim bob wants to smoke cigarette. he makes him choke on them. i think we're going to have to let people choke on this until they're ready to hear something different. >> steve, i have -- >> this was supposed to be the revolutionary election and it's between hillary clinton and her donor. >> steve, we only have about ten seconds left. if you're not going to talk about this, what will you tell your listeners to do in november and what will you discuss? >> we're going to cover it because we have to. but i have no advocate. and what it means if we've got to rebuild the foundations. that's what it means. >> appreciate your time tonight. tonight. it's still the afternoon. sorry, steve. thanks very much. be sure to tune in tomorrow morning on morning joe. former presidential candidate ben carson will be a guest. he is helping to lead trump's search for a running mate. we're looking forward to a fascinating interview. be sure to put that as a reminder in your phone. >>> we're asking will donald t

nomination for donald trump. unless jim gilmore is still in this race. we will bring you the john kasich official announcement when it begins. let me check in with hallie jackson. she's in columbus, where we expect john kasich any minute now. we saw that he drove up. we assume they're running somewhat on time. what can you tell us about any conversations, for instance,