donald trump during a rally on friday kaine tried to link trump with the values of the ku klux klan. >> hillary clinton gave a speech in reno, nevada, calling out donald trump on a lot of things on this equality idea. calling him out on the fact that he has supporters like david duke connected with the ku klux klan who are going around and saying donald trump is their candidate, because donald trump is pushing their values. ku klux klan values, david duke values, donald trump values, are not american values. they're not our values and we've got to do all we can to fight to push back and win. >> i think senator kaine's comments, hillary clinton's comments, on thursday night sound desperate to me. i mean to be honest with you i don't talk a lot about the polls, jake, but i know the polls are all closing up and the fact that you see democrats, and hillary clinton and her running mate rolling out the same old playbook of racial divisiveness sounds a little bit to me like an act of desperation. >>> democratic vice presidential nominee tim kaine was campaigning in florida. he made several

kenley jones reports tonight that the overriding issue is duke's past involvement in the ku klux klan. >> david duke sounds like a republican. >> read my lips, george bush, no new taxes. >> but the republican party wants nothing to do with him. >> and this man's got a 20-year history participating in ku klux klan and nazi activities. there's no place for this in the republican party, not as long as i'm chairman. >> duke's opponent is getting extraordinary national party support for a state legislative race. >> john has always worked for the traditional values and principles which you and i cherish. >> reporter: ronald reagan recorded a radio commercial for him and president bush sent a letter calling treen the clear choice. >> duke cried foul. >> it's not only heavy handed, it's unethical. >> that was in 1989. former grand wizard of the clu clucks clan, david duke, was running for a legislative seat in louisiana. lee atwater and the immediate past republican president of the united states, ronald reagan, and the sitting president of the united states, george h.w. bush, they call

who vote for republicans. >> the problem is -- >> donald trump associated himself with the ku klux klan. >> that's hogwash. let me tell you something -- >> donald trump consistently said -- >> jason finish your point. >> he consistently said things that alienated the black community. rather than addressing those things and saying, let's reach out to the black republicans and tell them there's a space for them. they're treated as if somehow black people haven't been hearing what he's saying over the last year and a half. >> hillary clinton has called black men super predators. hillary clinton worked with her husband bill clinton -- excuse me, excuse me. this is my time to talk. excuse me. >> you interrupted me. >> go ahead, sean. >> excuse me. hillary clinton has also worked with her husband to insure she has incarcerated more black men than any other lawyer in the history of this nation to the point where the federal government is having to bill prisoner how many black boys are in third grade. don't tell me this because it was 20 years ago that all of a sudden hillary clinton is no

-- >> shoes. >> trucks. >> barnicle. she still hasn't got her truck. he welched, ku believe that. what a time by speech yesterday. did you write that? >> no, but i did watch it. >> we managed to get bloomberg politics and host "with all due respect" mark halperin. also council on foreign relation richard haass. correspondent kasie hunt and in washington senior editor and white house correspondent for the "huffington post" sam stein. so richard, what do you make -- there's so much to talk about this morning. marco rubio says that donald trump is a con man but he's still supporting him. rudy giuliani forgot about tuesday morning -- minor detail, forgot about tuesday morning in 2001. the speech. what did you think of the speech, trump's speech? >> two parts or three parts. one is the history. one, selective in who he opinions responsibility on. shouldn't say something about previous administration, really. left middle east off the hook. the real reason we have this problem in the middle east is deep flaws in the world. secondly introduced what i thought was the -- >> richard we're at the top of

interview whether he would disavow the support of david duke, a former grand wizard of the ku klux klan, trump wouldn't do it. and only later again under mounting pressure did he backtrack. of course, there's always been a paranoid fringe in our politics. a lot of it arising from racial resentment but it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it and giving it a national megaphone until now. >> earlier the clinton campaign put out a video showing kkk and other white nationalist speakers praising donald trump. let's watch the ad. >> the reason a lot of klan members like donald trump, is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in. donald trump will be best for the job. >> for president. >> yeah. >> i'm a farmer and white nationalist. support donald trump. >> sending out all the illegals, building a wall and a moratorium on islamic immigration. that's very appealing to a lot of ordinary white people. >> running against donald trump at this point is really treason to your heritage. >> well, donald trump called hillary's ad a brazen attempt to distract from oth

and i would say bigoted notion that president obama wasn't even born in this value. ku klux klan values, david duke, donald trump are not american values, not our values. >> kaine will be more complaining in florida. hillary clinton is off the trail. pence is in virginia for a rally. >>> let's go to the exclusive interview with the doctor who somewhat controversial said donald trump would be the healthies doctor ever. kasie hunt. this is interesting. tell us what he said. >> reporter: it was interesting. long, low week, hillary clinton and donald trump trading accusations of bigotry. there's also rumors about hillary clinton's health and her medical condition. now there's questions about donald trump's bill of health. everything americans know about donald trump's health was written in five minutes. >> took five minutes to sit at the desk and write a letter while the driver waited. >> this is the letter from donald trump's doctor for three decades. the 70-year-old republican nominee would be, quote, healthie individual ever elected. bornstein telling nbc news, tried to get it dow

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stations tomorrow. >> as long as we are mentioning people who endorse somebody, the ku klux klan endorses donald trump. >>> all right. coming up, donald trump's comments could mean we are in for a wild ride in the presidential debates coming up, that is if trump agrees to the debates. will trump even show up? that's coming up next. >>> paul ryan defeated his opponent who sounded a lot like donald trump. just as donald trump is trying to make his comeback this week, he suggested hillary clinton is to blame for the execution of a nuclear scientist in iran, the latest in a long line of conspiracy theories. >>> finally "hardball" round table is coming up. it's a special late night edition of "hardball," the place for politics. isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a check seem so effortless. easy to use chase technology, for whatever you're trying to master. isaac, are you ready? yeah. chase. so you can. >>> we have an exclusive with paul manafort at 7:00 p.m. "hardball." we'll be r

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are mentioning people who endorse somebody, the ku klux klan endorses donald trump. >>> all right. coming up, donald trump's comments could mean we are in for a wild ride in the presidential debates coming up, that is if trump agrees to the debates. will trump even show up? that's coming up next. >>> paul ryan defeated his opponent who sounded a lot like donald trump. just as donald trump is trying to make his comeback this week, he suggested hillary clinton is to blame for the execution of a nuclear scientist in iran, the latest in a long line of conspiracy theories. >>> finally "hardball" round table is coming up. it's a special late night edition of "hardball," the place for politics. it's not a quick fix. it's my decision to make beauty last. roc retinol started visibly reducing my fine lines and wrinkles in one week. and the longer i use it the better it works. retinol correxion from roc. methods, not miracles. >>> we have an exclusive with paul manafort at 7:00 p.m. "hardball." we'll be right back. >>> everybody caught it. welcome back to "hardball." that was donald trump sa

disavow the ku klux klan. i totally disavow david duke. i've been doing it two weeks. you're probably the 18th person that has asked me the question. russia if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> when i'm being sarcastic with something -- >> of course i'm being sarcastic. >> do you believe in punishment for abortion? >> the answer is that, there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yeah. there has to be some form. >> this is the same stance as ronald reagan. if in fact abortion was outlawed, the person performing that act is responsible, not the woman. >> i'm joined now by our roundtable. victoria, a political reporter for the "boston globe." and jason johnson is the politics editor. you start. what is this guy's problem? >> he is from queens. he should understand, say it to my face. this is the thing. he keeps saying this stuff and he keeps backing off of it. when i talk to my friends who are trump supporters. that's what makes them angry. we like him because he says what he means. >> does he know what he means? >> i

think we're doing a good thing there but we hope to carry that message. >> ku get valid access? a lot of deadlines have passed obviously. ku get on some of those states where ballot access has come and gone. >> there's misconceptions and a lot of people don't know all the details about getting onto ballots actually. there are many ways to do it. one is through petitions. there's still states that we can petition onto. but there are other ways to get on those ballots. i have a very experienced team that's been studying this for quite some time. we intend to have broad ballot access across the country. >> how about money? you know, we all know contributors, donors, they love to talk. they will talk a big game. >> yeah. >> they went ahead and pushed you off the diving board. is there going to be water when you hit the pool? are they going to give you support you need. >> it's a good question. i jmpd into the pool yesterday and i didn't know if there was going to be water and i'm going to tell you there is. we had a tremendous amount of dollar donations across the country. >> big donors.

directly, link him to white ku)xsupremacist, white nationalists. as they did in that strong and pretty forceful campaign ad earlier today using donald trump's lack of disevow on@1$ dd using supremacists, white nationalists, supporting donald trump. man in a kkk costume saying he supports donald trump. this is something that the campaign does not want out there. this is a narrative they are trying to push back forcefully on i can tell you this is one of the quickest responses we have seen from the campaign itself when it comes to an attack against donald trump. usually trump will go out and twitter and fight back or he will fight back himself at a rally but the campaign$or very early on this. almost immediately trying to spin this message. trying to say it was disgutting that hillary clinton was trying to paint him this way. they are clearly sensitive to it. especially at the moment they are trying to make a more forceful appear to black and hispanic americans to get them to support him. he is using language like what the hell do you have to use to those communities. still, it is done i

kus on a new health and wellness line up. >>> a new fire storm of controversy taking on the when it comes to terrorism. >> isis is honoring president obama. he is the founder of isis. he is the founder of isis. he is the founder. he founded isis. i would say the cofounder would be crooked hillary clinton. >> it is time now to bring in national cochair, sam clovis. do you believe president obama founded isis ? >> i think the foreign policy for the last seven and a half years has lead to the creation of the cells around the world. i really do, because of the abandonment because of support of measure imbrotherhood, all of these have furthered the cause of terrorism and radical islam. >> i would say that's a fair and a reasonable argument to be made that it's about foreign policy. it's not what donald trump is saying. is that not a dangerous thing to say from someone running to be president of the united states? >> i don't think so. i think you have to look at it from the audience perspective. i don't think the audience will have any trouble saying what he is saying. i this the issue is

his deanyi denying that he even knows who david duke for a ku klux klan member, claiming he doesn't know who he is. i think it is trying to make it difficult for donald trump to make the rhetorical shift he has been trying to make in his so-called pitch to say he could change the way he can change things and express for once some sort of concern for the african american community or for latinos for that matter tlchlt is one year and two months worth of rhetoric and position and supporters who will basically show that what he is doing isn't meant to favor with african americans. it is meant to give a certain cast of white voters enough to click the lever for him in november. >> thank you. your digital piece is up on our websi website. >> thank you. >>> in kabul, 14 people killed on the attack on a university. we have details how the gunmen were stopped and where afghanistan goes next. you're watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla (apremilast). otezla is not an

idea. calling him out on the fact that he has supporters like david duke connected with ku klux klan going around and saying donnell trump is their candidate because donald trump is pushing their valus. ku klux klan values and donald trump values are not american values. they're not our values and we have to do all we can to fight and push back and win. >> did tim kaine go too far over the weekend in talking about donald trump and so-called values of the clan? we'll talk about how we got to this infliction point in politics when historian jon meacham joins us. you live life your way. we can help you retire your way, too. financial guidance while you're mastering life. from chase. so you can. financial guidance while you're mastering life. ♪ aand so many businesses rely on the united stes postal service. to get it there. because when you ship with us, ur business becomes our business. that's why we make more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. the united states postal service. priority: you you may be muddling through allergies.oned with... try zyrtec® fo

ku tell us today? >> what i hear, joe, steve bannon, the campaign chief executive and most importantly steven miller, longtime speechwriter who worked for senator sessions, having a heavy influence over the speech. kellyanne conway, what we hear from trump, a lot of tough rhetoric that we've heard from him for a long time. when it comes to this question of 11 million, those undocumented who are here, that's where he may try to thread the needle a bit and move the way he positions himself a bit. but he's going to have to offer clarity. this is a test for him more than anything that we've seen this summer because this is his key policy plank. there's been confusion for weeks. has he to clear it up. we're only 69, 68 days out. >> chris cillizza, it seems that trump, if he backs off deporting, and if he talks about legalization, he is going to be facing a firestorm from his right for the rest of his campaign. sounds like that's what he may be doing, backing off deporting. >> i think the whole calculation -- let me say, i'm not totally clear how much is calculated. this last cou

. >>> a new campaign video released by hillary clinton explicitly ties donald trump to ku klux klan members. white supremacists and others. the ad has drawn compares to the 1964 campaign of president lyndon johnson. clinton's campaign seems to be following lbj's playbook when he cast his republican opponent barry goldwater as a dangerous fringe extremist. take a look. >> the reason a lot of members like donnell trump is because a lot of what he believes we believe in. >> we represent the majority of the people in alabama -- >> racist and all sort of other ists. >> donald trump would be best for the job. >> when we come to senator goldwater, we're up against a very different kind of a man. >> donald trump, he's a different kind of man. >> this man scares me. >> governor romney, he said goldwater's nomination would lead to the "suicidal destruction of the republican party." >> the bullying, the greed, the showing off. the absurd third grade theatrics. >> one, two, three. >> all it takes is one wrong move. >> i would bomb -- >> just one. >> vote for president johnson on november 3rd. t

with sarah dallof who is -- do we have sarah? >> reporter: hey, ayman, ku hear me? >> sorry about that. we're having technical problems. i'm glad we connected with you. let's talk about concern officials down there have with this weather pattern developing off the coast of florida. why does anything that brings rainfall to florida pose a potential risk for the fight against zika virus? >> that's a great question, ayman. basically this wave of tropical weather moving through, we don't know if it's a tropical storm, hurricane or bring rain to the region. initially it's going to blow all the mosquitoes out of the sky. after that the moisture will leave behind standing puddles of water just perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes, especially those believed to transmit zika virus. officials urging ahead of the storm and after to dump any standing water around the house this as health officials go door to door in the two areas believed to be responsible -- or local transmissions believes to be occurring in these two small areas. officials putting emphasis right now on battling zika. >> we mad

are having a fundraiser. ku see on the screen. some of the famous names hillary clinton is going to be appearing with, cher who wrote a fundraising e-mail for her, jimmy buffet, tobey maguire, leonardo decaprio. clpt doing a series of fundraisers in l.a. before she has one campaign event potentially in reno, nevada. otherwise this is going to be the last chance to wrap up those millions of dollars she's going to need to stay on tv and continue her campaign through the fall. there's not much of a chance to do it after labor day. >> nbc's kasie hunt. thanks, kasie. >> shake-up and regret. trump campaign senior adviser joins us. >>> first general election foray into the tv ad war. up next on a.m. joy, joy reid takes a look at what took trump so long to air campaign ads. i am proud of you, my man. making simple, smart cash back choices... with quicksilver from capital one. you're earning unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. like on that new laptop. quicksilver keeps things simple, gary. and smart, like you! and i like that. i guess i am pretty smart. don't let that go to

apologizing for her despicable commercial where she equates donald trump voters to the ku klux clan. and i will tell you personally as a hispanic and catholic, i find it deeply offensive she would try in any way to connect those of us who support mr. trump to a bunch of hateful bit bigots. steven, it's important to note there is an opportunity early on for mr. trump to distance himself from david duke, and he pretended like he didn't know who david duke was. >> well, in one interview, i think he was confused about questioning, but he has repeatedly disavowed david duke and any racist. and look, it's always possible to go out and find some hateful, ignorant idiot who supports a candidate and that's what she did. but it's totally unfair to then try to connect those remote individuals with the masses who are supporting donald trump. and we can do the same thing to hillary clinton, but it would be totally irresponsible, and that blackface was irresponsible. we need to rise above this. we have real problems in america, we have slow growth. we have a rise in violence, particularly in the

might be able to fill in for him. ku prepare for a debate? >> you have to prepare. but i've watched a lot of his debates during the

campaign released this incendiary web video that features a ku klux klan wizard praising the republican nominee. >> the reason a lot of klan members like donald trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in. donald trump will be best for the job. >> for president? >> yeah. >> i'm a farmer and white nationalist. support donald trump. >> sending out all the illegals, building a wall and a moratorium on islamic immigration. that's very appealing to a lot of ordinary white people. >> donald trump himself was holding a roundtable with minority groups this morning in new york when that video dropped. later, he responded at a rally in manchester, new hampshire. >> hillary clinton is going to try and accuse this campaign and all of you and the millions of decent americans who support this campaign, your campaign, of being racists which we're not. to hillary clinton and her donors and advisers, pushing her to spread smears and her lies about decent people, shame on you. >> the trump campaign also put out a statement saying quote, hillary clinton's attempt to delete the single worst w

back someone. on our side it would have been idiotic -- ku imagine the controversy we'd have right now if we allowed iran to get money back but hostages, prisoners hadn't been released. that's the nature of this. it has to do with language but doesn't have to do -- >> when you look at language and specificity you're talking about, saying it's practical the money will not be given until released then there are those that say, you've heard the criticism, the association is made by such groups that they can demand ransoms quote, unquote, for such trades. >> ransoms imply in part it would be u.s. taxpayer money, blood money paid. this is trust money, iran's money itself we froze. a judgment was pending against us for holding that money. that money would have gone to iran one way or the other i think it's important people understand this is not money out of their pocket that went to secure u.s. prisoners release freddie iran. >> i understand. i want to get your brain around this before we have to run. this eggs what some are saying needs to be done, some republicans out there, speaking

challenged on this again and when he's asked about the ku klux klan, when he's asked about david duke, don't let him get away with saying his ear piece wasn't working because there is a pattern here of not pushing back on these darker elements, by the way this is something that means a lot to me as a conservative because you and i have talked about this, joy, i spent 20 years trying to say that conservatives are not racists, not misogynists, this is not what we stand for and now suddenly we have the republican nominee who has become associated with these darkest elements of american politics. >> well said, charlie psychs, very much appreciate you being here, thank you. >> thank you. >>> let's bring in our panel. match welch of "reason" magazine, tara dow dell, hunter walker and katy tur. katy, you have been covering the trump campaign from the beginning. when stephen bannon was hired by the trump campaign it shocked people in the political world because he has no experience but the one group of people who hered were members of the at right, this dressed-up neo-nazi world. is it possib

. >> i have to ask you. you said that donald trump is more dangerous than the ku klux klan yet you won't vote for hillary clinton. how do you reckon spil in your mind? >> i don't want to vote from a position of fearful i want to vote from a position of power. to my mind, he live in a relatively blue state. i can actually vote my conscience. if you live in a battle ground state it makes sense to vote for hillary clinton. with you hillary clinton's politics are not high politics. as she is courting republicans, she is taking progressives for granted. we don't need to let our fear of donald trump keep us from vetting the policies of hillary clinton. >> thank you for coming. we'll have you back more time soon. coming up, donald trump's secret teleprompter after this. it's less useful like a hat for your cat surface has touch and a beautiful screen you can see things like they've never been seen this mac doesn't quite compare it's slower, heavy, and a bit square fold it in half, hello when you start lighter than air, you can doodle a heart yes it's plain to see the surface pro 4 is made

ku klux klan ad, trump hit right back with the video. that i think was bannon. he was brought in to be much more aggressive, get the campaign to be a little more nimble, more adept at using social media beyond just donald trump's twitter feed. so i think that's what he's been focused on in the week or so he's been there. >> heidi, let me ask this. the steve bannon has proudly said breitbart is a flagship media enterprise for the alt-right. do people who actually are part of the alt-right, for example, white supremacists, the kind of people you talked about earlier, do they look at breitbart as the main source of their news? how do they see this media enterprise that he built? >> they love breitbart. i mean, they are absolutely thrilled with the direction the site has taken in the last year. they are constantly retweeting and commenting on headlines there that they find attractive and for them, for the white supremacists in this movement, they feel like breitbart has finally validated them. they have finally broken into mainstream news through that website. >> josh, i'm curious what

scurrilous and bigoted notion that president obama wasn't born here. ku klux klan values, david duke values, donald trump values aren't our values. rnc chair reince priebus said tim kaine sunk to new lows with dirty attacks with no place in this cpa desperate he is distract from hillary clinton's corruption scandals there is no excuse for these smears. tim kaine holds two events in florida today. trump will be at the iowa state fair while mike pence is in virginia for a rally. let's bring in casey hunt. she's just outside of new york city in west chester county where hillary clinton received an intelligence briefing a short time ago. casey another good day for you. what can you tell us? >> we are so close and yet so far. we can tell you that hillary clinton received her intelligence briefing this morning. her first intelligence briefing, likely the only one she'll receive before election day. she came here with no aids and was inside for two hours and 17 minutes. approximately. it's interesting that there were no aides that went in with her. some have been ensnared in the e-mail brouhahbrou

. >> he's got guys connected with the ku klux klan who are out there claiming him. and his record of -- i'm saying sometimes he doesn't disabuse that. sometimes he wants to take advantage of that. i find that troubling. >> meanwhile, donald trump believes his message to african-american voters is starting to resonate despite the criticism he's receiving. here's what trump told supporters at the iowa state fair yesterday. >> -- has seen what's been happening over the last two weeks or three weeks with me. and i'll tell you, i think we have a lot of support out there. they're very, very tired of what's been going on and the hispanic. community likewise. by the way, how quickly people have forgotten that hillary clinton called black youth superpredators. remember that? superpredators. and they were very, very insulted. but now people have forgot. >> as trump ramps up his pitch to african-american voters, a front page "new york times" report today is revisiting a 1973 lawsuit filed by the justice department. officials accused him and his father of turning away potential black tenants in

they choose. when you say he has the support of the ku klux klan he doesn't have the support in the sense he's engaging their help. they are white supremacists and white nationalists but it sure took barack a bam a long time to disavow the black. >> -- people don't have to agree but it can be healthy to have the discussion and hear each other's point of view. >> absolutely right. thank you for talking to me this afternoon. >> thank you. >> for mor of trump's efforts to appeal to minority voters. let's talk about it. shall bedig in guys? my goodness. tara, let's say that you are advising donald trump. what would you tell him he has to do medical record to really resonate with the african american community? >> well, if you want me to be very candid at this point. >> i'm trump. i'm donald trump. look at me. what would you tell me? i'm. >> i'm not in the business of advising donald trump but if i were to do it i would tell him to stop being condescending towards the african american community. to stop patieinting the african american community with one broad brush. >> is he going to ch

registration databases. correspondent pete williams is following this story. pete, what ku tell us? >> a couple of points. first what officials tell us, russia tried to get into voter online registration system in arizona and couldn't in late june and tried the same thing with more success in illinois in july. got about 1% of the data. didn't change anything, didn't erase or modify records. copied about 150, 200,000 names, which officials say is about 1% of the names. the first point is that these systems are entirely separate from the systems used to count votes. what state officials are saying, when do you something like you're looking at right now, you punch a card or put a piece of paper into an optical scanning machine like that, those machines aren't connected to anything. they are plugged into the wall. that's it. no way to hack into the individual voting machines. the only way to hack into anything would be when the individual machine votes are typed in and sent to some pla for election night reporting. but the individual machines put out a paper readout, and that isn't cha

win. if he loses in the suburbs, pat toomey is going down. >> that's right. ku rep you can replicate that in ohio, around the country. that does become a huge problem for them. andrea is making a good point, there probably is a hidden trump vote not showing up in the polls. we don't know but that's possible. the other thing is that it's very, very wise for hillary clinton to spend her money and her resources on getting out the vote, because the fact is that in places like florida, north carolina, pennsylvania suburbs and philadelphia city, that's the key. and you know, a lot of people who hallie grew up with are likely -- kasie grew up with are likely to say, i don't care, i'm staying home. i hate this election. so getting those people out is going to be very important. >> all right. andrea mitchell, hallie jackson, thank you very much. wait. actually andrea wants to talk and andrea trumps you, donny. we've got to go to break so you sit here and we'll hear more from you in the future. let's go to andrea. andrea. >> i quickly wanted to say trump has this strong support in scranton whe

who the ku klux klan are. there you go, multiply that millions of times. >> so my question for mike, given your vast experience with campgn a guy like trump, even if trump can pretend not to be trump, for a few weeks, does that make a difference? >> well, trump's in a bad situation where the preface to trump is, polling loser, and potential madman, donald trump, today, said the metric system -- or whatever the thing is. his boiography is now unsuitability. that's a huge hole to dig out of and it requires amazing discipline, which is the one thing i don't think he has. >> i asked you both about breitbart. neither of you know steve bannon, right? >> no. >> my colleague, josh green, wrote a profile of him in "businessweek" last week, and he described breitbart has a haven for people who think fox news is too polite and constrained. what role does breitbart play in the conservative movement? >> i think the trump campaign made a big decision by double down and win the republican primary by going back to the hot sauce even more. he's never got in the general election. now he's doubling do

sidelined. it is interesting because now you have them on the only 12 years ago he wcharlie ku -- >> and christie would be -- i don't care what anybody says, i know the players well enough to know that chris christie is who donald trump wanted to select as vice president and the kushners vetoed it. >> because christie was the guy th sent their father to jail. i think the influence of this family cannot be under estimated basically. >> mark, what does it say about a campaign that has so many people at the top levels who have never done politics let alone presidential politics? zm. >> well, it speaks to the character of donald trump. you may remember i wrote a book about new york real estate industry which donald was featured. i was actually little vicky long before -- >> yeah. >> and i think what's so interesting is the trumps are a sealed unit. i was told when i went to interview donald they would always be having lunch with each other which is kind of weird actually. >> i would actually love if my children would have lunch with each other. >> in their 30s? every day? >> nothing wrong wi

and hijacks the debate by comparing donald trump to the ku klux klan and david duke. the republican national committee and donald trump hit him. the rnc said what he said was reprehensible. when you are the candidate for vice president and the others come after you that's a victory. even bigger for this reason. i don't know if anybody knew how well tim kaine can blow a dog whistle. the next sentence nobody paid attention to is he talked about the north star we set so long ago. the name of frederick douglas's abolitionist newspaper. the north star polaris at the tip end of the drinking gourd. this was the compass point for escaped slaves to seek freedom and safety in the north. he was comparing donald trump and his supporters to slave owners which you would think the rnc and donald trump would be even more angry about had they been able to hear it. >> the thing that's incredible about the attacks on trump this week on race is the silence of elected republicans and republican surrogates in defending him. nobody is defending this guy. >> nobody wants to stand up for him. that was what

with donald trump? >> i'm here to ask for your help. >> i might be able to fill in for him. ku prepare for a debate? >> you have to prepare. but i've watched a lot of his debates during the primaries. he insulted all of his opponents. he insulted all of the moderators. he insulted i guess about 80% of the american people and the rest of the world. so how do you prepare for that? i think on the one hand it's a serious chance for americans to tune in and if they haven't made up their minds to try to make up their minds. i want to take it seriously. i want to talk about what we can do and how important it is. but you've got to be prepared for wacky stuff that comes at you. i am drawing on my experience in elementary school. >> all right. good morning. it's tuesday august 23rd. welcome to "morning joe" along with joe, willie and me. >> i think donny is wearing poplin this morning. he's wearing green shoes. >> no, they are black. >> they are green. >> get the shoe up, it's green. >> they are black. >> the managing editor of bloomberg politics and co-host of with all due respect o ms