Else because of stinking trade deals because we have weaker, stupid or whatever people making them. He promises to change all this, to start kicking some butt and start shoving back. Lets watch him. Americas lost nearly onethird of its manufacturing jobs since 1997. This is america we are talking about. Since 1997. Driven by these two, Hillary Clinton understood and backed and bill clinton certainly as the president initiatives. They are a disaster. And now they want to go into tpp, Transpacific Partnership. That will make nafta in my opinion look like a baby. Now, we dont play the game the way they play the game. They play the game to win. We play the game in this country to survive. We are going to Start Playing the game to win. Well, the two most pressing concerns for Many Americans right now are terror, of course, and the economy. Donald trump says he has answers to both. Hes going to renegotiate trade deals and get tough with china and hes going to take the gloves off against isis. He says the countrys falling apart, that we have even worse to fear from Hillary Clinton. The Transpacific Partnership is another disaster. Done and pushed by special interests. Who want to rape our country, just the continuing rape of our country. Hillary clinton unleashed a trade war against the American Worker when she supported one terrible deal after another. You will be hurt worse than ever before if she becomes president. Isis was created during the Hillary Clinton regime. If she gets in, it will be massive and we wouldnt even have a country anymore. We will be afraid to walk outside. They are letting tens of thousands of people come in from syria and nobody knows who these people are. A lot of those people are isis. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is in manchester, new hampshire. Is trump back on beam, back on some sort of message thats consistent economic nationalism . Is he back on that . Reporter you know, i think he is. When you look at where he has been in his speeches and his remarks all week long about this, starting at the beginning of the week when he went to pennsylvania, western p. A. , and delivered that forceful trade speech in which he outlined trade policies in many respects a split from some from his party when it comes to tpp, nafta, he got into the war of words with the chamber of commerce. He kept at it again in maine, listing sort of the action steps he wants to take if he were to become president. We heard it again from him here today here in manchester focusing on trade, on the economy, and really taking swipes at Hillary Clinton. He at one point said that it was him, he took credit for Hillary Clintons reversal when it came to tpp saying that she heard a speech of his and then changed her mind after that. I think the clinton team would push back on that. Clinton herself said that learning more about the trade agreement is what caused her role reversal or shift in position. But this is something trump has been hitting hard every single day this week just about. Hes even said theres nothing closer to his heart than trade right now. So no more craziness this week . Can you say that . He isnt talking about mexicans or judges. Reporter that wasnt your question. The question was has he kept up his focus on trade and the economy, which he has. But look at some of the other comments he made. Even here just in manchester he made a joke that kind of raised eyebrows, a plane flew overhead and he said its a mexican plane, they are coming to attack us. He was clearly kidding but it still raised a few eyebrows. He talks about Elizabeth Warren again and again. Hes doubled down on his attacks against her for claims she exaggerated her heritage, including just this morning when he told an interviewer that he believes, he was again joking here, but saying he has more native american blood than Elizabeth Warren does. He hasnt totally backed away from controversial comments. Thats why you are seeing comments on the gop from people like mitt romney and mike lee. Thank you, hallie. Donald trump talks tough on trade and outsourcing jobs, talks about that all the time. The New York Times reports such declarations are at odds with mr. Trumps long history as a businessman in which he has been heavily and proudly reliant on foreign labor in the name of putting profits rather than america first. From cheap neckties to Television Sets, mr. Trump has benefited from some of the trade practices he now scorns. The aflcio has a new video pounding trump on exactly that theme. Where are the shirts made . Bangladesh. Im going to instruct the u. S. Trade representative to bring trade cases against china. Where are the ties made . They are great ties. Made where . China . Ties are made in china. In, in, in the united states. Thats a pretty snappy ad there. Lets talk about this. You guys, you dont like tpp. Hillary now doesnt like it. Bernie sanders doesnt like it. Trump doesnt like it. Distinguish your opposition. You guys are tough on trade. I worked with labor democrats all my life. I know the attitude about the kennedy round ever since then. Its been this trade stuff is screwing us, right . Right. It has. Theres a reason for that. We have lost jobs, lost ground with every trade trumps right . He is right on that. But hes a fraud. Talk about it. Trump was the chief cheerleader and beneficiary of the trade policies until he discovered that out in the hinterlands of pennsylvania and ohio, this is a powerful issue. Now he flips over and is against trade. Hes got the right position right now but nobody believes him, because look what he does. You saw those products. Shirts made in bangladesh, ties made in china, Television Sets made overseas. Then he has taught a course at his university, defunct university, and said outsourcing is great, outsourcing creates jobs. So he will say or do anything that needs to be said or done to help himself. Lets look at this. In the latest nbc news wall street journal poll, the one we use here, he had a big lead among white voters without a college degree, beating clinton among that group. 54 to 31 . How is trump doing among Union Workers . Dennis williams, president of the United Auto Workers said in may an internal poll of his members showed trump getting 28 support from the rank and file there. What do you think it is . Among you guys . The Huge International union and all the internationals, youre laughing but what is trump doing . A third . A quarter . It would be less than that. Hes absolutely tapped into the frustration and anger thats out there. Its justifiable frustration and anger but hes a fraud. Because he says one thing but benefits look, hillary is a great candidate in many respects but on the trade issue, a year ago, i saw bill clinton in japan supporting the tpp. Hillary clinton, look at this. Earlier this week, the Republican National committee blasted out this 2012 video of Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, praising the tpp, a deal she now is against. Watch her in australia. This tpp sets the Gold Standard in trade agreements to open free transparent fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field. Gold standard. Now its not the Gold Standard. What happened . You trust her . We said the same thing. We said the same thing about tpp. We hope it sets the Gold Standard. We hope it is the Gold Standard. We hope tpp does the same thing. When you look at the details, it wasnt a Gold Standard. It was more like a lead standard that would sink every one of us. So she did the right thing. She said this agreement you think she didnt change her mind . Of course she did. But heres the smart thing. You have a trade agreement that doesnt work. Its going to hurt people. Its going to lose jobs. So what she said is, this doesnt work. Trump was a cheerleader for that same trade. Youre not accusing him of changing his position. Im trying to think out this democratic ticket. Tim kaine has had bad press the last few hours. He may well get by it. Im looking at Sherrod Brown. I think hes a perfect running mate. I have been saying it for a year. Ohio has kind of a tough guy atmosphere about him, hes an ivy leaguer but doesnt play it up too big. He seems like a regular labor guy. Hes one of your guys. Great guy. Hes a champion of working people. Wouldnt he be a great running mate . Great running mate. Theres one down side to it. If he left you have a republican governor. You have to think big here. Got to go for the mandate. Not squeak it out one vote at a time. I agree about that but i think he would make a great ticket. Hillary needs a great ticket, not just her. Got to put that thing together. Like biden. Wasnt biden great . Think about it. He is. Chilling how good hes been as a vp. Totally loved guy. Lot of people would like to see him as president. Thank you. You get me in a good mood. I like this labor feel. President obama has been making it clear hes not going to let donald trump claim the mantle of populist champion without a fight. Lets watch. Somebody else who has never shown any regard for workers, in fact, has worked against Economic Opportunity for workers and ordinary people, they dont suddenly become a populist because they Say Something controversial in order to win votes. Thats nativism. Or xenophobia. Mr. Trump embodies and of course has taken full advantage of it, his entire life so hes hardly a spokesperson for a legitimate spokesperson for a populist surge from working class people on either side of the atlantic. People navarro is professor at the university of california irvine and economics advisor to donald trump. Let me ask about this, professor. When did donald trump become an antitrade warrior . When did he decide we got to fight these trade deals . Do you know . Go back to the clip on oprah. Its a classic. Chris, you ought to be having a flashback here, a page right out of your book, tipping the gipper. Remember early 80s we cut this trade deal with japan and all they did was cheat on it and the next thing you know, tip and the Democratic Congress is pushing on reagan, pushing, lets have some tariffs. You know what . Reagan imposed tariffs on japan. He was a free trader like trump is, but reagan also understood that fair trade was more important and we got a good result. Thats where trump is. Reagan also got 2 million the minute he left office from the japanese. Remember that . 2 million in speaking fees for one trip right after coming out of office. Donald trump is going to run the table with organized labor and with nonunion labor. Think about this. How about in his private business . Has he been consistent . Aflcio opposed the World Trade Organization entry. Aflcio opposed south korea trade deal. Hillary clinton supported all those. Her husband chimed in and thats why theres this disconnect. The rank and file are going to go in droves. It will be reagan democrats all over again. It will be over half of organized labor voting for donald trump because they understand this billionaire has their interests at heart. Every time somebody wants the working guy to vote for him, they drop their gs . Theyre not going to be voting for him, they will be votin for him. We can go to cleveland or new jersey or new york, we all speak funny. Its not the kings english. I dont have a trump here. Do you want to respond to this . This guy basically says he agrees with you on trade policy but doesnt agree with your candidate. If you actually believe that our members are going to vote in overwhelming numbers for trump, i have a u. S. Made trump tie i will sell you cheap. I will take that, richard. Heres the thing, richard. I understand your decision was tough. You guys had a choice to make. But donald trump has a platform that you guys are dreaming about. He is taking every step hes a fraud. The aflcio has ever recommended hes a fraud. The president to take. Well, that may be. We are going to find out. Your workers dont believe hes a fraud. Im trying to follow your thinking here, sir. Donald trumps a guy thats going to actually follow through. Hes not beholden to special interests like Hillary Clinton. Im sure hes going to follow through. I dont want to take you, professor, but if you were one of my students, you said it may be that hes a fraud. What do you mean . You just said it may be that trumps a fraud. What did you mean by that . Heres what i mean. Trumpka says hes a fraud. Were going to find out. My view is your workers dont think hes a fraud. I dont think hes a fraud which is why im supporting him. Heres the thing. Hes different from any politician we have ever had running for president in the last 50 years. He can fund his own campaign. Let me ask you hes not beholden to let me get back to let me ask you this. Hows the market doing now . We have numbers that look okay. The markets about where its been. It hasnt jumped too much because of brexit. We have a 4. 7 Unemployment Rate technically. What do you think in this country right now . What grade would you give it right now economically . How we doing . If you are in Donald Trumps shoes, you are getting an aplus. Economys great for him. If you are a worker, those hes trying to woo and give fraudulent products to, you give him ccminus. We had flat wages for over four decades. He says wages are too high. Richard trumpka is giving Donald Trumps speech. If you look at the speech in new hampshire, thats exactly what donald trump said. [ speaking simultaneously ] no growth in wages, no growth in the economy and people sitting on the sidelines, 20 Million People want a job at a decent wage. Donald trump is the guy who will bring prosperity and wealth back to america. I learned one thing. By cracking down on trade cheaters. What more could you ask for, really . Its really right in the center of what workers in this country need. Its interesting, gentlemen, no one is defending the way things are in this country. Thats probably a healthy situation. Its a terrible situation, chris. Thank you. Professor peter navarro, thank you for joining us. Thank you, richard. Coming up, new polling shows trump losing ground among some republicans. Hes picking fights with his former rivals, the guys that ran against him. Now senator mike lee of utah, a close ally of ted cruz, is going off on an epic attack against his partys pick for president. That would be donald trump. With the Republican Convention less than three weeks away, can trump reunite the fractured party . Doesnt look like it. Plus big developments as clinton and trump look for running mates for the democrats. Does tim kaines disclosure he accepted gifts make him too much of a liability for secretary clinton . For the republicans, could trump be zeroing in on here it comes, Chris Christie . Can he cross that bridge . Lots of news on that front ahead. The hardball roundtable is here. They will tell me something i dont know about this president ial race. Let me finish with this Vice President ial hunting season we are in. It is something. Its all going to happen this month. Donald trump campaigned today in new hampshire, a traditional swing state. Traditional swing state. Esterday he was up in maine which hasnt voted for a republican since 1988. One reason trump went to maine is because its one of only two states in the country that split their electoral votes by congressional district, meaning trump could lose the state but pick up an electoral vote there. The other state that does that, nebraska. Coincidentally, the Clinton Campaign went up with ads in omaha today, hoping to snag that electoral vote in an otherwise red state. My hope is that hes beginning to pivot and become what i would call a more serious and credible candidate for the highest office in the land. That was Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell yesterday expressing his reservations about donald trump. Less than three weeks until the convention for the republicans, his comments reflect the concerns of his fellow lawmakers, many of whom are still hesitant, thats putting it lightly, to lend their full support to their partys nominee. As senator dean heller of nevada told politico today, im opposed to this campaign. He did a lot of damage. Its very difficult for him. As far as im concerned, to recover from his previous xhebts. Comments. I will give him a chance but at this point i have no intention of voting for him. Well, a new fox poll out today reveals that those concerns are also shared by a majority of Republican Voters as well. 51 , a majority of Republican Voters, say they prefer someone else. Brand x as their nominee instead of donald trump. Thats powerful stuff at this point. Itlso shows Hillary Clinton with a National Lead of six points, 44 to 38 . Yesterday republican senator mike lee of utah went further than many of his colleagues in explaining why he wasnt ready to endorse trump. Heres what lee said in an interview with news max. Look, i get it. You want me to endorse trump. I dont understand why youre not. Well, we can get into that if you want. We can get into the fact that he accused my best friends father of conspiring to kill jfk. We can go through the fact that hes made some statements that some have identified correctly as religiously intolerant. We can get into the fact that hes wildly unpopular in my state in part because my state is people who were ordered sternl nated by the governor of missouri. That hes going not going to be an autocrat or authoritarian, somebody who is not going to abuse a document i have sworn an oath to protect, uphold and defend. Im sorry, sir, but that is not an unreasonable demand. Im joined by republican strategist Kelly Ann Conway and dave weigle of washington post. Kelly, lets talk about the situation with trump a couple weeks out from the convention in cleveland. You are the expert on this. Do you think if you tried to woo the republican establishment, the big shots in the senate, the governors, if he gave them a wet kiss and everything else, whatever phrase you want to use, would they have come running to him . In other words, did he really have an option in the way hes approached them . Possibly. But he also may alienate the millions of voters who have supported him and will support him. Part of his entire campaign has been built on not needing the donor class, not needing the consultant class, running against washington, not wanting to be part of washington. Thats not going to change. The one thing thats not going to change between now and november is that who is the washington candidate, whos the outsider. Whos the insider, whos the insurgent . He should welcome elected officials who want to support him but i would rather be him who cant get a handful of senators to say nice things about him than to be her, who has got 58 in that fox poll saying shes corrupt, twothirds of the voters in this country saying they dont trust her, they think shes dishonest. In the fox poll you mentioned, trump, for all this trash talk about him, hes winning independents, winning white voters by 14 points, winning men by double digits, winning middle income voters, winning middleaged voters. With hillary having all the kings horses, all the kings men and donald trump quote unquote not being able to unify the party because some officials representing the same class hes running against doesnt support him, why isnt this woman at 70 . It seems to me, kellys a friend of mine and i like the way she did this because you have to bring up Hillary Clinton if you want to unite republicans. But both parties are running two scare crows against each other. Dont go in that place, theres a scarecrow or dont vote republican, theres a scarecrow there. They are running negative. But theres an outlet pass here, to use a football term. These guys are saying okay, im a republican, im senator from utah, mike lee, totally republican state, and i wont be a republican booster of this candidate. They are opting out for some third world out there, the romney crowd, the bush crowd. They are all saying im not voting for hillary. I may vote for johnson, gary johnson or sit home. It works with voters, you got to vote against hillary but it doesnt work with republican leaders. So far its not devastating the republican party. First, mike lee is not in danger this year. Second, hes on the rules committee. He didnt say there and hasnt said he would vote to remove trump from the nomination. I think hes one of these republicans willing to play an outsideinside game, where he criticizes trump, makes sure his brand is not tied to him but doesnt try to why does it work in utah . Why does he want to be the outlier in utah . Trump is unpopular in utah for the reasons he brought up. That state is not quite an outlier. Do the lds people out there really fear they will be threatened by this guy as president . Oh, yeah. For the reason he said. If you are a religious minority, you hear what he said about muslims, you can cast that on to yourself. There are places where that doesnt matter for trump. Utah is a place where it does matter. I sense that among jewish people, too. Any small religion in terms of numbers is worried about trump. You think thats true . No, i dont think thats true. I just i can only go by my experience. I still think peoples partisan affiliations are very important to them. Those who practice their religion and believe their religions important to their political decisions, that those people regardless of their denomination, muslim, jewish, christian, agnostic, they could be evangelical, they could be catholic, they say my religion is important to me when i vote, but look, i believe mike lee in that interview, the most important thing to him, hes an amazing senator, i think hes fabulous, the most important thing were the words ted cruz. Hes defending his friend. I ran ted cruzs super pac. I think thats a great defense of a friend. Explain that story. Tell that story. Well, really, the last day, i think the last dayof the indiana primary, donald trump insinuated, said there were reports that perhaps rafael cruz was involved in the jfk assassination. What was his source for saying that . I have no idea. The National Enquirer. Donald trump was saying the National Enquirer says this guys involved with killing jack kennedy. I can understand why mike lees upset. Let me just say this to you. I can understand why ted cruz, heidi cruz, mike lee, people feel a personal slight if you have said something about somebodys father, somebodys family. Nobody likes that. How would you handle it . How do you handle it . The important part of mike lees interview is hes defending his friend. How do you handle the fact, you supported ted cruz, how do you handle the fact trump said cruzs father had something to do with dallas . I didnt like it. I said so publicly at the time. I support donald trump and will do whatever i can to help him be elected president. You may think its a parlor game to mention Hillary Clintons name but those are the people running for president. I supported your decision to point to the binary nature of president ial politics. I accept that. You dont believe ted cruzs father helped kill kennedy, do you . Of course not. I dont believe that at all. Why would trump say that . You have to ask him. I think hes explained it. I also dont think its a useful conversation going into the convention. We should be focused on who they are its not useful. Okay. Its not useful. Why did Elizabeth Warren criticize Hillary Clinton as beholden to banks and now is her bff . Know who brought this up . Mike lee. He brought up the fact that trump had accused his best friends father of being some kind of assassin. Him in that direction. If you are going to swing wildly and make the media report on this goofy stuff, at least do it to them. Theres such a thing as bad manners. Its going to be pretty rough. Thank you, kellyanne. When i try to support you even fight that. Up next, how the pentagon became more inclusive to the Lgbt Community and they did it today. These are astounding developments and coming quickly in the sense of daytoday. All of a sudden, wow, another change. Im alex trebek. If youre age 50 to 85, i have an Important Message about security. 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For more on the impact of this decision, im joined by Navy Lieutenant blake dreeman and gregory angelo, president of the log cabin republicans. We have been talking about this stuff for years. How does this fit in the history of liberation, recognition, if not celebration, certainly respect . Well, yeah, this goes back to integration of africanamericans into the nations military, this goes to integration of women into the nations military. As your viewers know, log cabin republicans spent years fighting dont ask, dont tell to allow open service for gay and lesbian Service Members in the military. Now we are able to welcome our transgender brothers and sisters to serve in the military. They enlisted because they love this country, they want to protect our freedoms, they should be allowed to serve openly without fear of being discharged because of who they are. My dad was in the navy in world war ii. My two brothers were naval officers. My dad was no liberal. Okay . He was no liberal. He said there are a lot of gays in the military. Thats the way it is. What does your experience tell you . I have been in the navy ten years, commissioned out of ocs in 2006. Deployed all over the world. You came in, your identity was what . Female. I deployed all over the world. I have done 11 operational deployments throughout my ten years of service. How did it go personally . Personally its been great. I did actually, i did the integration of women on submarines in 2011. I was one of the first femalebodied individuals to serve on submarines. How did that go . Thats often pointed to by people who havent been in the service, its very confined, claustrophobic to most of us, what was it like in those close circumstances . Perfectly fine. We adapted to managing our own privacy and in fact, we had were there other people . The crew. You had three females on the boat and we had to manage our own privacy with each other. In fact, we had a flip sign for the restroom and male and female for the officer restroom. That only lasted a little bit of time before we moved the flip sign from the outside door, because there were two doors, from the outside to the inside so it was on the shower door so we could all share the restroom without interfering with the privacy of somebody taking a shower. We adapt to the different privacy situations. What do you make of this, you have to go first because youre in the military, about this causing problems with readiness, these terms like readiness come up. What does that mean . They are afraid that transgender people are going to not be deployable. When in fact thats just not true. How would that physically be the case . What would stop somebody like yourself from doing the job . Theres nothing that stops me from doing the job. What do they say . They are worried about surgeries and things like that. We deploy, dod deploys transgender civilians. The state department employs transgender civilians to remote locations. So the fact that we would be nondeployable is a moot point. The same boogeymen that you heard brought up when log cabin republicans was fighting for open service for gays and lesbians in the military, oh, this is social experimentation in the military or oh, my goodness, we will have to worry about showers, whatever will our military do, look at the lieutenant here. This is someone who served his country, continues to serve his country, and the military isnt the one that has a problem with the implementation of this stuff. Its the politicians. Just to get the sense quickly, people identify how they identify in terms of gender. Its not as important as the duty you have. People do identify, they know they are not at a club. They know they are on military time, right . People adjust to the circumstances. They adjust to the circumstances. Absolutely. I think thats what happens. Thanks for your service. Yes, sir. Thank you. I have seen das boat. Thats the only thing i know about submarine life. Hell of a movie about the germans in world war ii. They got the meat hanging, everythings hanging, like youre living, everything is close together. Anyway, thank you. Keep coming in with the progress. Up next, veepstakes. Chris christie. Do you believe it, Chris Christies on the list. Tim kaine in the headlines as possible number two. Are these the best running mates . Thats a pretty good question. 330 Million People and Chris Christies at the top of the list . Anyone with type 2 diabetes knows how it feels to see your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. But what if you could turn things around . What if you could. Love your numbers . Discover oncedaily invokana®. Its the 1 prescribed sglt2 inhibitor that works to lower a1c. A pill taken just once in the morning, invokana® is used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. 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Unlike his successor, former governor bob mcdonnell, all the gifts were properly disclosed publicly on paper. Meanwhile, on the republican side, the New York Times reports that new jersey governor Chris Christie quote, is among those being vetted as mr. Trumps possible running mate. According to people briefed on the process. Mr. Trump has said in interviews mr. Christie would have a prominent place in a trump white house. Lets bring in the hardball roundtable. Jamal simmons, Laura Bassett and the Senior Writer for u. S. News and world report. This guy has taken a lot of gifts, it seems to have a certain scent to it because we had this Big Supreme Court case about his predecessor down there. Apparently he took gifts, according to politico, went to a donors house in the caribbean, went to a basketball game but in virginia these things are allowed. Explain the clothes thing. How does somebody give you clothes . Hey, anybody, want some clothes . I got clothes for you. Seems like an odd gift. A steak dinner, thats one thing. Come on, ill buy you some clothes. It seems strange. He reported the gifts. Does it smell . I dont think it smells. He stayed at a friends house in the caribbean, paid his own expenses. He overreported everything. He didnt do anything illegal. Its all within the bounds of so hes still in the running . Still in the running . Hes still in the running but is not the best choice. He is the best choice. Hes still in the running. He can overcome this. Has anyone ever given you clothes . No. But look, i think he can overcome this if hes conciliatory, talks about reform. Does he have to say it was wrong, what he did . No. He should stress that it was completely legal in virginia. Look, donald just my theory is democrats leaked this story, perhaps even tim kaine. They have no inoculate them if they are going to appoint him Vice President. A spokesperson tells hardball during his eight years as Lieutenant Governor and governor, senator kaine went beyond the requirements of virginia law, even publicly disclosing gifts of value beneath the reporting threshold. Hes confident he met both the letter and spirit of virginias ethical standards. Are virginias ethical standards good enough . No. Okay. Lets talk about christie. Hes involved with the bridge scandal. We beat the hell out of it here. Everybody on this network and everyone else beat the hell out of it. He started off by saying oh, yeah, im the guy that went out and put the cones out to stop the traffic. But its a fact, they stopped traffic to make some kind of political message to somebody they didnt like or tried to squeeze some mayor in fort lee. Is he still the credible candidate for Vice President . I recently spoke to a trump aide who is urging against a christie appointment. But told me that christies in the mix because christie is in trumps ear and frankly, christie wants it. A lot of people dont want it. There are time relapse pills coming down the road here. All the people who will testify in these cases against them, a lot of people have to squeal here. They might point to him. Its certainly bad timing with the trial coming up in september. I also think christies a really dumb choice for trump, because its basically trump choosing his mirror image. How so . Christies a bombastic blowhard, hes from new jersey, and nothing wrong with that. He doesnt help trump pick up constituents he doesnt already have. Trump is from new york. Doubledowning on it. Doubledowning on attitude. Perfect philadelphia accent and one of the words i looked for was attytood. Trump, christie versus clintonwarren is quite a choice for the american people. You think its warren . I do think its warren. Want to bet . You got to get the bernie voters on her side. Want to bet . Ill bet you. It screws up my commentary. Whats the question . Lets get back to square one. I think its going to be tim kaine. I think its going to be tim kaine. I think corker, Jeff Sessions or a general for trump. Trump has said he wants someone that can help him in washington, right . Do something with congress. Christie doesnt have any washington experience. What do you think . You have a thought . I think corker is a good choice for trump. Probably the best choice. Absolutely. Jeff sessions. Lets have alabama all the way in it. You have attytood. I know what youre doing. Youre trying to screw these guys. Up next, these three will tell me again something i dont know. We are going to have a really special show coming up on monday, july 11th. Bill maher will join us for the whole hardball that night. He will have plenty to say heading into the Republican Convention in cleveland. Mark your calendar join me with bill maher, monday, july 11th. Well be right back. Time for the hardball roundtable. Tell me something i dont know. Working with a grum called democracy and color, they have Senate Rankings for all five candidates and theyre ranking them and a lot of donors are starting to Pay Attention to whether or not the rankings on diversity and how their outreach to the older Obama Coalition are going to stack up. How do you measure it . Staff, consultants, how much money they spend in field campaigns. They have five different measures and donors are asking questions of politicians about how theyre campaigning. Laura . The national Republican Convention committee has a program called young guns, looking at up and coming people in the republican party. The average age is 49. Ludicrous. And includes a 74yearold woman who worked in the reagan administration. And the issue of guns. Keeping in the themes of veepstakes, im told that john kasich was on trumps veep list initially about a month ago. Then he went out publicly and said he wasnt interested, trashing trump, saying he wouldnt endorse him. Trump removed him from the list. Wheres the surprise in that . The surprise is that he was initially on the list and now theres back channels between the two because they want his endorsement for the convention in cleveland. Because its a big black eye if you dont have a sitting governors endorsement. Ohio, ohio, ohio. So important to both parties. Republicans cant win without it. Democrats can cut their heart if they grab it. Thats why Sherrod Brown makes sense. Anyway, when we return, let me finish with the Vice President ial hunting season. I have some thoughts on this matter. Youre watching hardball, the place for politics. Oh, look. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works. In one week. With the. Fastest retinol formula available. Its clinically proven to work on fine lines and. Even deep wrinkles. One week . That definitely works rapid wrinkle repair. And for dark spots, rapid tone repair. Neutrogena®. See whats possible. Let me finish tonight with this. We are in the Vice President ial hunting season. July, which starts tomorrow, will be the month that donald trump and Hillary Clinton decide who they wanted as their runningimates. Who they want should they win the presidency, working two doors down from them in the west wing. The veep job is not what it used to be. Lincoln went home to live in maine. If they were to meet with the president , they had to get on a horse, in a carriage, or in a limo, and ride down from the hill to see him. Starting with nixons presidency, the veep got an office in the Old Executive Office building across the west wing avenue from the west wing, starting with jimmy carter, the veep got an office in the west wing itself, two doors from the oval office. So its a real close in position these days and in washington, position is everything. The question president ial candidates now have to ask themselves, who do they want living and working and holding a position in such close proximity . Certainly not someone who repels them, someone they cant take, and they dont want someone they dont trust being so close that they can learn their secrets, someone poking their nose into their business and dine out on it, write books about it, or drop a dime on them. You want someone this close to be a secret keeper. You dont want a lightweight. You dont want someone on the ticket that isnt capable of thinking like a president and have the beginnings of the ability to act like one. Weve had beauties of late, dan quayle, john edwards, sarah palin, call them boutique Vice President ial nominees, because of a consultants theory they would appeal to this or that group, country folk, young women, or whatever. One thing we dont need is for trump or clinton to pick a veep running mate based on whose best selling point is some demographic theyre supposed to arouse. Its an insult to the voter and an insult to the office. The one great way to tell a serious president is to see if he or she makes a serious pick of vp. Thats hardball. Thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Senator Bernie Sanders responds to that charge here tonight. Then the ugly attacks on Elizabeth Warren continues. I have more native american blood in me than she does, okay . Tonight Donald Trumps long history of profiling native americans. They dont look like indians to me and they dont look like indians to indians. And the clear and present danger of Climate Change in miami. I suppose for our great, great grandkids, this will be a great snorkeling site. Our special report from florida when all in starts right now