columbia, south carolina, i wouldn't have that much politics on my mind. >> a lot more fish. >> you have a fantastic week. thanks for joining us at this hour. rachel has the night off. she will be back on monday. i will try not to break the furniture while i'm here. tonight is officially the first summer friday of 2019. it doesn't feel like it tonight in the news. for starters, a couple of hours ago a federal court unsealed something that we not only did not see coming, we didn't even know it existed. a series of hundreds of text messages between trump campaign chair paul manafort and a fellow he calls shawn. that would be our friend shawn hannity of the fox news channel. apparently mr. manafort and mr. hannity were exchanging text messages on a nearly constant basis in 2017 and 2018 starting a few months before manafort's indictment on multiple felony tax and bank fraud and conspiracy charges. pretty much right up to the moment mr. manafort went to jail. the judge in manafort's case was examining these text messages to determine if manafort and his lawyer may have violated the gag order o

segregationist senators. we'll go live to columbia, south carolina, where several white house hopefuls are headed today. tell me about this phone call between biden and booker yesterday. >> reporter: stephanie, our sources say it was the former vice president who called cory booker on wednesday night essentially as you said to try to smooth things over and put the flames out here a little bit and let the two men who have been very public about this incident or at least cory booker has, have a private conversation to try to turn things down a little bit. we know what didn't happen is neither of the two men apologized to each other and cory booker tried to reframe the conversation here a little bit around not just the segregationist senators but the conversation before that where biden talked about one of the senators referring to him as son, not boy. booker trying to explain why exactly that is so hurtful talking to lawrence o'donnell last night. >> i have an opportunity to explain to him even further why african americans, african-american men who have been called boy before, why racist se

to address the south carolina democratic party convention. we'll take you to columbia, live. add not one, but two amazing sides. and top it off with dessert. this aussie abundance starts at just $14.99. hurry in now! play it cool and escape heartburn fast with new tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tum tum tums woman: (on phone) discover. hi. do you have a travel card? yep. our miles card. earn unlimited 1.5 miles and we'll match it at the end of your first year. nice! i'm thinking about a scuba diving trip. woman: ooh! (gasp) or not. you okay? yeah, no, i'm good. earn miles. we'll match 'em at the end of your first year. (rates vehicles for safety, andr hsome reach a level of yeah, no, i'm good. top safety pick. but only a select few of the very safest vehicles are awarded a top safety pick plus. the highest level of safety possible. how many 2019 top safety pick plus-winning vehicles does your brand have? one. two. how about eight? subaru has more 2019 top safety pick plus awards than honda and toyota brands combined. there's safe, and then there's subaru safe. >>> thi

mini series has renewed focus on the case and generated public outrage. there's a columbia law professor had to leave her post because she was a prosecutor at the time. but eddie, you know, there are some things you can abate, there are some things where you don't know exactly what happened 20, 30, 40 years ago. here, dna evidence. >> clearly. >> open and shut case. there are not two sides to this. >> not at all, and you know, these were babies. these are children. 14, 15, 16. and the fact that donald trump at the time, because at the time there was a discourse around super predators, around these kids that john delilio, talking about these crack babies who weren't able to submit themselves to social norms, they were monsters. >> this was 1989, we were talking about it before, in the middle of the crack epidemic, when chaos, i mean, large towns, small towns, chaos sweeping over america, which led to the crime bill. >> and the fascinating thing is that the social scientists who put forward the idea of super predators, came back a decade later and said they were completely wrong.

, texas. according to the director of the immigrants rights clinic at columbia law school, some were wearing dirty clothes, covered in mucous or urine, teen age children were stained with breast milk. and no soap and they had not showered or bathed since they crossed the border. some of them more than three weeks ago. there was a stench that emanates from some of the children because they haven't had an opportunity to put on clean clothes and to take a shower. dhs officials tell nbc news the children have been taken to a tent detention camp in el paso, texas, where they'll remain under the custody of border patrol until they can be placed with the department of health and human services. >> gene, your latest piece for "the washington post" is entitled this is the reality of trump. it's crossed the line from gratuitous cruelty to flatout sadism. perhaps he enjoys seeing innocent children warehoused in filth and squalor. perhaps he thinks that's what america is all about. is he right, trump supporters, is he right republicans in congress? is this what you want? this is a humanitarian c

. >> very confident, coming out of the former mayor of columbia, georgia here. >> let's go to jamie here. you know your state and you know jim clyburn very well and somebody that's under the house. south carolina is tougher though. georgia is 60% white and 32% african-americans. it south carolina is 68% and 27% african-americans. deeply red. if georgia is getting pink-ish, how are you going to win against lindsey graham. >> i don't think south carolina is as red as people think. we flipped the state's senate seat that was held by republicans for 30 years. when georgia in 2008 went for barack obama by seven points, barack obama lost by seven points, he lost south carolina by eight. he lost south carolina by nine. we are not far off from our sister staying in georgia. we are going to send lindsey graham home. he's the most powerful and glorified candidate in the country. it is time for somebody go to washington, d.c. and on behalf of the working people here in south carolina. we don't have that. he wants his own personal power and trying to be bff with the president and he does not be

people. 41 districts of columbia. we now we have the over the wall poverty. when you look at the justice systematic system and ecological devastation and the economy and religious nationalism, they are very real and impacting 140 million people. let me put that into context. our 39 million children in poverty, 74.2 million women are in poverty. 26 million black people in poverty. but, 66 million white people in poverty. 40 million more than the number of black people in poverty. >> i am from the south jonathan. one-third of that 40 million is from the south. low wages and lack of healthcare states. most of the people are being heard in the states they are getting elected are poor, white people. we are bringing all of those together, latinos and asians and saying we are in a moral crisis and we can't have another season of election where we talk about the wealthy and the middle class and tax cuts and we do not talk specifically about what are the agenda items for the poor 43.5% of this nation. >> there are ten democratic candidates who are going to be on the forum tomorrow. have a

clear the air today? >> one of the interesting things i've heard while i've been down here in columbia, south carolina, with reporters and other activists, i want him to further talk about the comments that he made. he wanted to have a conversation reaching across the aisle and being able to work with people you disagree with. the problem is he was mentioning senator eastland and tomlin who are in his party and are segregationists. if they were successful in their agenda, and they had been in that particular wing of the party at that time, people like myself and people of other color in this country wouldn't have the advantages we have today. that being said, it also happened around juneteenth, and then to make it worse, he demanded the only african-american man running in the presidential race alongside him apologize. it was just bad optics on so many different levels. i've heard a lot from people not wanting to dismiss him outright. certainly i would say over the age of 50 who know him fondly as the guy who was the wing man to president obama, but they definitely want to hear him tal

with all of us. >> and for more i'm joined by nbc news political reporter ali vitali in columbia, south carolina, john podhoretz and mara gay. ali, just about every democratic candidate will be where you are but all of the attention i think sudden suddenly, we talked about the importance of black voters in particular in the south carolina primary. a controversy on racial issues now coming right into this event. maybe an attempt there by joe biden to cool temperatures a bit last night. but what are expectations there in particular for biden and for booker and this controversy over the weekend? >> reporter: yeah, steve, you can't come to jim clyburn's world famous fish fry and not look at what jim clyburn himself is saying. a lot of the voters showing up here are politically engaged democrats, many of them part of that majority black electorate that we saw in 2016 pushing democrats and energizing that democratic base. when i caught up with clyburn in d.c. a few days before coming down here, there were two points he made that stood out to me. first, he talked about joe biden having

but give them a cookie and a star. >>> big day for democratic candidates in columbia, south carolina this afternoon. we're waiting for john hickenlooper who is set to sp k speak. he and many opponents are hitting the stage today. reverend al sharpton host of politics nation. nbc senior politics editor, julia manchester, reporter at the hill. adrian elrod republican strategist and also larry sab o sabato, director of uva politics. garrett haake has been there all day, watching these candidates come you up, it started ending with some of the more recognizable names in this race it's crucial for those lower tier candidates to get their names out there. >> great opportunity for the lesser known candidates to get their name out there. >> for folks who have the patience to listen to the candidates. you heard eric swalwell tackle issues. you're hearing from some of them about this more aggressive idea that they're interested in south carolina won't stop next february, they see this as an interesting target in fall at the blue state. it's been a very popular name for these democrats they wou

is going to do just that. >> i was in columbia, south carolina, yesterday, interviewing many of the candidates as they spoke at the south carolina democratic convention including joe biden. but i was really wanting to be in virginia with you at an event you had 400 years -- >> we missed you. >> well, i missed being there. 400 years since the first enslaved were brought to this country. was a big event. tell us the success of the event and it's happening on the same week that congresswoman sheila jackson lee had the hearings to start toward hr40 and a commission on reparations. >> you know, reverend, it was a powerful event. it was well attended. we had great weather. we had a great town hall meeting afterwards where we marlparticuy missed you because you would have been a wonderful moderator. when you realize the first 20 -- as the records reflect, 20 some odd negroes came to the shores in jamestown in chains. to reflect on the fact that 400 years later, 56 of their children serve in the united states congress, all you can say is god is good. we're making progress. sometimes it's in

columbia and dana mill bank. the generation that taught us how to make a selfless silent gift of patriotic courage. ilent gift of patriotic courage. you try hard, you eat right... mostly. you make time... when you can. but sometimes life gets in the way, and that stubborn fat just won't go away. coolsculpting takes you further. a non-surgical treatment that targets, freezes, and eliminates treated fat cells, for good. discuss coolsculpting with your doctor. some common side-effects include temporary numbness, discomfort, and swelling. don't imagine results, see them. coolsculpting, take yourself further. ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded chicken fajitas. now only $10.99. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient applebee's new loaded chicken fajitas. originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. driven each day to pursue bioplife-changing cures...ers. in a country built on fostering innovation. here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by arming a patien

columbia yesterday. i asked about that, were they paying attention to the back and forth, especially with vice president biden and cory booker and some of the other candidates there over this issue of segregationists, and there was one gentleman in the barbershop said it didn't offend me. i don't think vice president biden needs to apologize. another lady said no, i have a problem with that, you're looking on relationships with people who aren't likeable people, people who shouldn't be praised. you have a mix of both. the main thing i hear, the common thread with every voter i talk to is the priority on president trump. they don't like when their candidates are going back and forth. they want attention focused on president trump. >> that focus on beat the republican at the moment, donald trump specifically, definitely in the mix. great to have you as always, shack brewster. thank you. >>> a story getting attention from democrats in south carolina, the president's sudden delay of i.c.e. raids that were set to start today to round up undocumented immigrants across the country. trump says it

the district of columbia. and the district of columbia case, the judge has rejected this very narrow reading of the emolument that's the president has urged. saying it is not given by law. the plaintiffs congress in that case, the ability to move forward with discovery. so that means they'll be able to investigate in essence in the context of that legal case what the president is doing in regard to his businesses. and ultimately, that discovery may prove very interesting and very harmful to the president. >> joyce, always good to see you. thank you for joining us today. joyce vance, for the northern district of alabama. coming up next, democratic candidates need to get the black vote to win north carolina. how two candidates are making their case to voters today. any moment from now we're expecting to hear from officials at west point in new york after a deadly crash involving west point cadets and soldiers. you're watching velshi and ruhle. velshi and ruhle. here are even more reasons to join t-mobile. 1. do you like netflix? sure you do. that's why it's on us. 2. unlimited data. us

>>> welcome back to "politics nation." we are continuing our coverage from columbia, south carolina. we're here at the state's democratic party convention where throughout the day, nearly two dozen presidential candidates made their case in what is a crucial stop in this early voting state. as you can imagine, south carolina is first in the south primary. it's critical for democratic hopefuls and winning will depend lively on the support from its black community. in just a few moments, vice president joe biden will be right here taking my questions. but right now i want to bring back my panel for discussion, ja. jace s jason johnson is editor for politics.com and we also have atima omara. what do you want to hear from joe biden tonight? he's made statements around segregationists and has been called upon several to apologize. what do you want to hear from him? it doesn't sound like it's affected him tonight. >> it doesn't sound like it's affected him in this room, but of course it's a lot of his supporters that are here. i would certainly love to hear if he has taken to heart some o

debate of the 2020 election. joe biden in columbia south carolina meeting with african-american leaders after fallout over remarks he made about working with segregationists back in his career. senator cory booker told nbc news, they two discussed and clearing things up on the phone. >> i had an opportunity to explain to him further how why african-american men who have been called away before. or why racist senator like those would look at him and call him son as seeing themselves in him and seeing in a black man and calling him boy because they don't see themselves because they see someone they are dehumanizing or degrading. having conversations like that, that's the kind of dialogue that's a constructive thing. >> joining us now from columbia south carolina, garret haake. what are people on the ground telling us? >> reporter: the biden campaign would like to turn the page on this. you saw they had a number of surrogates out yesterday and talking about this on tv, trying to put on his comments in his fundraiser in that context and explaining what he meant. he got some air cover from m

. >> reporter: we caught up with harris in west columbia, south carolina. she was in town to talk with and about teachers. >> there are two groups of people who are raising our children. parents with the assistance of grandparents and aunts and uncles and our teachers and we are not paying them their value. >> reporter: harris says we cre teacher are proof a plan like hers are needed. she claims teachers make 11% less than other comparably educated professionals. she wants to give them a 13,500 raise. >> what's the price tag. >> it's 315 billion dollars over the course of ten years. we'll pay for it by increasing the estate texas. let's give them $13,000 each. is this just play to that crowd? >> absolutely not. i will tell you my entire career and my entire life i've been focused on education. my first grade teacher, mrs. francis wilson, god rest her soul, attended my law school graduation. we are a society that preadviser to care about education but not so much the education of other people's children. >> reporter: giving teachers a raise. that's kamala harris's big idea. harry s

obama's economic advisers. he's at the school of business. steve benjamin, mayor of columbia, south carolina and president of the u.s. conference of mayors. he joins us on the phone. also with us, cnbc's washington correspondent caleb tochi. the president was calling in to cnbc to criticize the chamber of commerce. the international affairs had said the terrorists appeared to have hurt our country. that appears to have gotten under our skin. the president is saying without tariffs we'll be taken advantage of. his own economic adviser larry kudlow has said the opposite. >> there is a real divergence not only between the president and the business community that were sort of lock step on things like tax reform and deregulation. there is a clear split here over tariffs and the president called cnbc to hit back against one of the members of the chamber, and president trump was saying the chamber is part of the problem. the chamber has been pushing these policies that help the bottom lines of its own company while not prioritizing the united states. what i found interesting, stephanie, w

show" starts now with ali melber there. >>> if i were at a fish fry on a friday night in columbia, south carolina, i wouldn't have that much politics on my mind. >> a lot more fish. >> you have a fantastic week. thanks for joining us at this hour. rachel has the night off. she will be back on monday. i will try not to break the furniture while i'm here. tonight is officially the first summer friday of 2019. it doesn't feel like it tonight in the news. for starters, a couple of hours ago a federal court unseale

to columbia university who's looked at my proposal. that also cost 3% of what bernie's vision for medicare for all costs. we're going to litigate all of this during this campaign. i think that's phenomenal and i think we need it because i don't think the american people know what the national democratic party stands for. >> you agree with -- it seems like it stands for a lot of things. you agree with bernie sanders that there should be a higher minimum wage. what does that look like? there are big guys who know agree with you, the ceo of walmart, but they're small businesses who say we can't do it. >> look, no question that we should increase the minimum wage and we may want to take account of regions where there are lower costs and a higher cost. we might want to think about that. we're learning stuff about that from seattle and we know from rural parts of america, small businesses are barely hanging on as it is. so we need to think that truhre. we need to increase the earning of tax -- >> what would the number be? >> i don't know. i think the number would be let's say $12 everyw

party feels. democrats put up economist, phd, brilliant writer. republicans put out columbia junior and an nfl player from the 1907s. the absolute refusal to even have discussions, this is just a bill to research it. >> have a discussion. >> people don't realize, jason, this is just for a bill to discuss how do we improve things. >> mitch mcconnell's attitude is i don't care because mitch mcconnell isn't overly concerned about the lack of humanity large swaths of america are perceived. reparations are not just an issue about feeling good. i don't care about feeling good. i feel about a nation that is justified in its behavior. i feel that a nation should treat me and people that look like me fairly. this didn't end with the civil rights movement and martin luther king killed massive discrimination in our economy, government, criminal justice today. to the degree mitch mcconnell doesn't want to address that, defines the republican party today. >> the ignorance and abhorrence, we elected a black president evens the score of deplorable history of who we were with slavery as a country.

different, that is not what i intended. >> in columbia, joining us now. we did not play clips of all 20 of the candidates. >> let me read there. no candidate was willing to go after anyone else perhaps to keep the peace for one last weekend before they get on a stage and are forced to reckon with politics and policies. help us what that looked like. having them talk to the audience but not really addressing each other or controversies there. report a good way to talk about this was a dress rehearsal. a lot of candidates fine tuning their debates. getting them down into sound bite format. they got between five to seven minutes to address the crowd. you have to have an idea of what you want people to leave with. the idea that they would have gone after each other on that stage would have been a misreading of that room. getting them pumped up for local races. the idea that any of these would have turned their knives on each other would have been a mistake. >> you have that video of kamala harris coming in with that high school drum line. these are 13 candidates that don't break on the poll

is elizabeth lederer who is at columbia university. is that the correct response that they should not have celebrated careers after what they did? >> you know, you can't give back what these five men lost. there is no -- there is no amount of money that you can give them, there is no amount of people you can fire, you know, that can give these five men what they -- what was taken from them. what i would love to see is a public apology. no one has apologized to these men yet to my knowledge. i can't speak to what banning her books would do to her, if it's going to change her mind or soften her heart to the truth, but i would hope that that would happen, that she would come to some light or some of these people that had a part in this wrongful conviction would be driven to -- would be moved to apologize, at least just say i'm sorry for what you went through. >> yeah. yeah. i want to turn and talk about your project. you have a project called "ra d "raised in the system." tell us about that project. >> i found myself talking to then president obama and he was asking me my opinion on

opportunity for the city. but the reality is, we are from the whole country. i'm from columbia, missouri. i grew up there. i went to the university there. i went to a land grant university. most of my colleagues are from all over the country because we came here to work on national policy. and research we are doing. >> kevin hunt, vice president of the scientist's new union. this is moving fast and it's an urgent matter for you and your colleagues. we are interested in the story and we want to keep our views up on it. for. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back, stay with us. you >> we'll be right back, stay with us. s huge. it has available led cargo area lighting. lights up the entire bed. it even offers a built in 120 volt outlet. wow. plug that in for me. whoa! -holy smokes! -oh wow! and the all new silverado has more trim levels than any other pickup. whoa! oh wow! -very cool. there's something for all of us. absolutely. it's time to upgrade. (laughter) i swibecause they let metual, customize my insurance. and as a fitness junkie, i customize everything, like my bike, and my calves. l

morning and welcome to "a.m. joy," live from columbia, south carolina. that is just a small portion of what democrats heard last night at congressman jim clyburn's world famous fish fry. over the next several hours south carolina democrats will hear more from the candidates who are running for president as the party's state convention gets under way right here in columbia. we're here to cover all of that for you this morning, but this is one of those weekends where there is literally more major news than we have show. just in the last 72 hours donald trump ordered and then called off air strikes against iran. a prominent advice columnist and a front page story in new york magazine and in a new book accused the president of the united states of sexually assaulting her years ago, something trump denies. which on any normal news day during any normal presidency would be a huge blockbuster story nationwide, but of course with this presidency the news constantly meets the fire hose. so on top of new horrifying details emerging about the filthy, dangerous and in some cases deadly conditions

caught up with harris in west columbia, south carolina. she was in town to talk with and about teachers. >> there are two groups of people who are raising our children, parents often with the assistance of grandparents and aunts and uncles, and our teachers and we are not paying them their value. >> reporter: harris says recent teacher demonstrations across the country are proof a plan like hers is needed. she claims teachers on average make 11% less than other comparably educated professionals, so she wants to give them a $13,500 raise. what's the price tag? >> the price tag is $315 billion over the course of 10 years. we will pay for it by increasing the estate tax. >> reporter: the teachers union, massive, millions of people. let's give them $13,000 each. is this just a play to that crowd? >> absolutely not. i will tell you my entire career and frankly my entire life i've been focused on education. my first grade teacher, mrs. frances wilson, god rest her soul, attended my law school graduation. we are a society that pretends to care about education but not so much the education of o

. you often hear this ridiculous nra talking point, well, the district of columbia has these tight gun safety laws and it does not do that good because they had a high rate. guns are coming from virginia across the bridge. in new york city, there are a lot of virginia guns. virginia can move forward on this after the next election, it could have an effect. other countries don't have this problem. it is not like they don't have mentally ill people, those countries are killers, they have common sense gun safety and they do not have anywhere close to the gun violence that we do. we can address this problem. we can save lives. we just have to have a political will to do that. i think a lot of people as susan mention are getting motivated to get really active in politics and not just at the federal level but at the local level to change laws at the states. and when they do so, they'll see over a five or ten years period of a discernible difference of gun violence. >> we can only hope. >> susan and jonathan, thank you. >>> what would make the president believe that the britts love him? get i

to ken hubbard, now running the business school of columbia. and i'm also going to be back at 8:00 p.m., hosting. >> you're getting a whole lot of she velshi today. you should check out his piece on the death of the business suit. tomorrow i'll see you here at 9:00 a.m. eastern, and velshi rhule. >> thank you for the promo. >> i loved it. >> velshi all day today, it sounds like. ali, see you in an hour. good afternoon to all of you. i am kasie hunt in for katy tur. it's 2:00 p.m. here on capitol hill, where in just moments the house judiciary committee will hear from the man whose 1973 testimony in the watergate investigation marked the beginning of the end of richard nixon's presidency. it's been nearly 46 years since john dean's pivotal appearance here at the capitol. today he's here to talk about the mueller report. expected parallels between what he experienced at watergate with accusations that president trump may have committed obstruction of justice. ahead of dean's testimony, the president took a swipe at nixon's former white house counsel, calling him a, quote, sleaze bag

going away. not only linda fairstein, but another prosecutor who teaches at columbia law has had to resign there her position. this is not going to go away, especially if the president continues to focus on criminal justice reform, as something that he has really passionate about. it's really difficult to convince people that this is something you care about when you cannot even apologize for the times you got it wrong. >> eugene, thank you for the article and for continuing to follow this. eugene scott is "washington post" political reporter. >>> when we come back, we are looking at 2020 contenders and their big ideas. next up, beto o'rourke and his plan to combat voter suppression. you're watching "velshi & ruhle," right here on msnbc. (vo) the insurance institute for highway safety rates vehicles for safety, and some reach a level of top safety pick. but only a select few of the very safest vehicles are awarded a top safety pick plus. the highest level of safety possible. how many 2019 top safety pick plus-winning vehicles does your brand have? one. two. how about eight? subaru h

streets and happened to find one bystander, shall we say, there in columbia. shaq, let's go over now. bill de blasio speaking live on stage right now. mayor de blasio of new york. first we get to reverend al sharpton who has been live there at the democratic convention all day. rev, you've got yet another great guest to talk to. >> yeah, thank you, richard, and we are here with michael bennet who is a candidate who just spoke here at the convention. i've known you since you worked in your office very diligently around education equality. are you dealing a lot with that in your platform running for president? because that's a real big issue. >> i am, reverend. it's so good to see you again and see you back in those old days when i was superintendent of the denver public schools. what i said today was the reason i'm running is that we're at risk for being the first generation to leave less opportunity, not more, to our kids and grandkids, and today in america, i'm sad to say this, but our public education system is reinforcing the income and inequality that we have rather than liberati

that it is uninhabitable for the generations that follow. [ cheers ] and then right here in columbia, walking the grounds of the state house with the house minority leader who tells me that if we cannot pull down the statue that honors ben tillman, a white nationalist terrorist, then we should at least tell the full story of what he did to the people of his state and make sure that we elevate the stories of those on whose backs the wealth and the greatness and the success of this country was built in the first place. it is only when we tell everyone's story that this country is going to live to its full potential. it is only by bringing everyone in that we defeat donald trump and bring this country together and achieve our true success as a country. thank you, south carolina, for having us out. [ cheers ] thank you, south carolina democrats. [ speaking spanish ] thank you, thank you. ♪ >>> good evening and welcome to a special edition of "politicsnation" live from columbia, south carolina. we're here at the state's democratic party convention where throughout the day nearly two doz

. ancestrydna was able to tell me where my father's family came from in columbia. they pinpointed the columbian and ecuador region and then there's a whole new andean region. that was incredibly exciting because i really didn't know that. we never spoke about that in my family. it just brings it home how deep my roots are and it connects me to them, and to their spirit, and to their history. 20 million members have connected to a deeper family story. order your kit at ancestry.com. what you need and so much more. at wayfair, you'll find just you get to spend less time searching and more time loving every room, even the ones you never thought could look good. you get great deals on the things you need and actually want. you get fast and free shipping on thousands of items and finds for every home, and every style, at every price. that's what you get when you've got wayfair. so shop now! why didn't you book your on a travel site?on at hilton.com, i get the price match guarantee. and i can choose from their 14 different hotel brands, so i get the right hotel for every member of my family. like a d

deal with the issues of black women. >>> next saturday i'll be in columbia, south carolina, to cover the state's annual democratic party convention. 21 presidential candidates expected to speak. and we'll be there live. for politics nation, that's next saturday, 5:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. >>> up next, another strong black woman, how atlanta's mayor is putting a criminal justice reform platform into action, be right back. new shell v-power nitro+ premium gasoline has four levels of defense against gunk, wear, corrosion and friction. that helps keep your engine running like new. it's fuel for thought. what you need and so much more. at wayfair, you'll find just you get to spend less time searching and more time loving every room, even the ones you never thought could look good. you get great deals on the things you need and actually want. you get fast and free shipping on thousands of items and finds for every home, and every style, at every price. that's what you get when you've got wayfair. so shop now! for people 50 and older colat average risk.ing honey have you seen my glass

month in columbia, south carolina where he was campaigning and we talked about his difficulty of connecting with voters of color, specifically. here's part of what he told me. i've seen a number of your rallies. they are fairly homogenous. >> part of it is by laying out an agenda on the issues black voters are asking me about most often, democracy and the way that a lot of voters of color have been excluded or found their voices diminished or the issues that really are going to be tackled by that democracy. home ownership, entrepreneurship, health, education, criminal justice reform. a lot of it is about relationship. it takes a lot of work to make sure people get to know you. >> this new controversy in south bend, do we think this is going to have an additional impact on how voters of color view pete buttigieg? >> well, pete buttigieg may be viewed as a wonder outside of south bend but when you go to south bend there's a long history of tension not just between the black community and police, but with his administration as well. so trying to balance running for president but als

columbia bureau chief of the post and courier which conducted the poll and cornell belcher is a former obama pollster and msnbc political analyst. andy, i thought there were so many real interesting things in q4 poll. joe biden still the front runner and almost under any circumstances a 20-point lead would have you feeling pretty good. but could you also look at this as sort of the glow of his announcement fading? what's your take on how this poll treats joe biden? >> well, he certainly got a bump after his announcement. our last poll was taken about two weeks after he formally joined the race and he certainly got a big bump from that. the numbers we saw come from last week are more in line with what he was getting back in february and april. so he's back in that high 30s, where he's been pretty much at in south carolina. and so he's still holding it largely but not after the lead he held after his announcement. >> talk about what's behind those numbers because that's where it gets interesting. what is it that people find is his biggest strength and what are his biggest problems? >> we

campaign trail friday night and i was with him saturday in columbia, south carolina, where he seemed to be his normal campaign self. he was walking down the streets in south bend with half a marching band behind him. walked in that south carolina democratic party convention to a boisterous crowd. gave his normal stump speech and mentioned what was going on in south bend at the top in a very succinct manner. i think that's both the immediate and long-term question, how is he going to be able to juggle his day job with his campaign responsibilities? >> and on your last point there, if you're going to run bragging on your day job and your executive experience, this sure is a lesson in the responsibilities of that. on top of everything else, i noticed this weekend video started popping up of a tornado in south bend, indiana. sooner or later, you're going to really start feeling that your job compels you to be there even though he is due to be onstage in glamorous miami, florida, with nine of his closest friends thursday night on this network. >> uh-huh. and what's going to be interesting about

southernmost sliver of the district of columbia traveling at 68 miles an hour, about what we've been doing on this trip. it takes you three seconds to get through the d.c. portion of 95. consider d.c. done at this point. we can now move on to the next part. you see it right here at the end of the bridge. see that sign? let's zoom in. we are heading into the commonwealth of virginia. and what you notice right away? that slogan. how long have you been hearing and seeing that slogan? virginia is for lovers, the official motto, the official tourism slogan for the commonwealth of virginia. there was a survey a couple years ago of marketing writers, some marketing professionals. they said, what state has the best from a marketing standpoint sloc began? they said number one, they ranked it virginia is for lovers. they love the old i heart new york campaign. nevada, a world within, a state apart. texas, wyoming, they also registered on this. did not make the list, by the way, but we thought we'd give an honorable mention to nebraska which said last year, their tourism board said, we've got some ch

family came from in columbia. they pinpointed the columbian and ecuador region and then there's a whole new andean region. that was incredibly exciting because i really didn't know that. we never spoke about that in my family. it just brings it home how deep my roots are and it connects me to them, and to their spirit, and to their history. 20 million members have connected to a deeper family story. order your kit at ancestry.com. to a deeper family story. did you know comcast business goes beyond fast with a gig-speed network. complete internet reliability. advanced voice solutions. wifi to keep everyone connected. video monitoring. that's huge. did you guys know we did all this stuff? no. i'm not even done yet. wow. business tv. cloud apps and support. comcast business goes beyond at&t. start with internet and voice for just $59.90 a month. it's everything a small business owner needs. comcast business. beyond fast. >>> that's a wrap for me on this hour. i'll see you again at noon eastern. now it's time for "up about david gura." he's in d.c. >>> this is "up." i'm david gura in

. you are looking at a live shot from columbia, south carolina, or you will be momentarily where 22 democratic presidential hopefuls are gathered to take part in one of the biggest political events in this key early primary state, namely congressman jim clyburn's annual fish fry. tonight is the first time in the race that so many democratic contenders are appearing together at the same event. also tonight, a bombshell story on the cover of "new york" magazine. here's the headline, this is what i was wearing 23 years ago when donald trump attacked me in a bergdorf goodman dressing room. the president is denying the allegations in that story tonight. we will have that all ahead. because all of that was not enough for one summer friday evening, "the washington post" says that president trump has directed immigration and customs enforcement to, quote, conduct a mass roundup of migrant families with pre-dawn raids in major u.s. cities on sunday. now there's been some confusion about these raids. trump first said the raids would round up millions, then officials said there was no such pla

columbia, south carolina to cover the state's an ya -- annual democratic convention. we'll be there live for politics nation. that's next saturday 5:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> coming up, which state has a system of electing judges to top courts that is inherently racist? the answer after the break. y racist thane swer after the break iand i don't add up the years. but what i do count on... is staying happy and healthy. so, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals your body needs. all with guaranteed great taste. and now try new boost® peaches and creme natural flavor. with 27 vitamins and minerals and 10 grams of protein. boost®. be up for life™. ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. sure, there are advantagesns aand natural talents, but they won't teach patience or discipline. or get you back on the court after a heartbreaker. let this game be your spark. pur

conscious of race and the impact it will have as columbia university said, it would virtually eliminate the racial wealth gap and designed so every low income child would have it. african-americans are disproportionately low income. people want to cast this in some divisive way erode the understanding we have common cause in this and that there is an urgency in america because when an african-american kid born in a segregated community defacto doesn't have wealth is, below the poverty line that, actually affects the well-being of all americans because nine out of 100 poor kids in america will go on to challenge. we're all bereft of the possibility and potential that have child. this is hurting all of america. the criminal justice system which you and i both know is deeply racially disprart in its impact, as villanova university says if we had incarceration rates the same as our industrial peers we would have 20% less poverty in america. we i do the crack cocaine disparity on criminal justice reform, 96% of the people that are being liberated from prison because of that business a part a

earlier this week the mayor of columbia, steve benning e benjamin, he warned 2020 hopefuls, he said, quote, not to assume that all black voters who make up a majority of south carolina's democratic primary electorate are liberal. do you buy that, congressman? >> that all of them are liberal? >> yeah. >> no, i don't think all of them are liberal. my father and mother were republicans. they were members of the party of lincoln. i grew up, went through south carolina state thinking of myself as a republican, until the 1962 -- i'm sorry, the 1960 presidential convention of contest when we had nixon versus kennedy. i found out in 1960 that i was not a republican. and so a lot of people who never voted for me even to this day because they will not vote in a democratic primary, i'm talking about african americans because they still are republicans. and so, no, all black folks are not liberal by any means. >> while i have you here i do want to get your reaction to what we're hearing out of iran. what we're hearing out of the white house as well, this news that president trump ordered the mi

columbia, south carolina where 22 democratic presidential hopefuls are gathered to take part in one of the biggest events of this primary state, primarily the congressman's first annual fish fry. the first time so many are appearing together at the same event. tonight, a bombshell story on the cover of new york magazine. here is the headline. this is what i was wearing 23 years ago when donald trump attacked me in a berged dofr goodman dressing room. the president is denying. . because all of that was not enough for one friday evening. the washington post reported donald trump has directedism gracious and customs enforcement to conduct a mass round up of migrant families with predawn raids on major cities on sunday. trump first said the raids would round up millions. then officials setd there was no such plan. then it was reported a smaller plan had been in the works for a while. we have word donald trump has ordered that operation. the trouble with covering news like this is certainly an operation to round up 2,000 undocument undocumentedi undocumented immigrants specifically targe

columbia, missouri. i grew up there. i went to the university there. i went to a land grant university. most of my colleagues are from all over the country, because we came here to work on national policy and research that we're doing, you know, scientific-based research. >> kevin hunt, gee yoger if at the u.s. department of agriculture, vice president of the scientist's new union there. keep us apprised. this is moving fast and it's an urgent matter for you and your colleagues. we are interested in the story and we want to keep our views up on it. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back, stay with us. s.mint. layered with flavor... it's the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste... ...that outlasts your craving. new nicorette ice mint. for a restless night's sleep. pain settle there's a better choice. aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid and the 12-hour pain-relieving strength of aleve that dares to last into the morning. so you feel refreshed. aleve pm. there's a better choice. you know those butterflies aren't actually in the room? hey, th