election. joining me white house bureau chief and msnbc political analyst phillip rucker and "new york times" white house reporter and msnbc contributor annie carney. annie, let me start with you. the president just announced he's meeting with inner city pastors this hour. there's been some reporting about his attempts to reach out to these groups that seems very much to me to be at odds with what he has said publicly about baltimore. >> yeah. the president's tweet was the first public announcement of this meeting. it wasn't on his public schedule for today. i'm trying to get more information about why it was added. presumably, optically, it will put him with black supporters, men of faith in the white house to underscore his point that he's not the racist in this back and forth with cummings. over the weekend we saw what really amounted to trying to