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one another, our refusal to be divided by ethnicity or nationality or religion, in the face of humanitarian crises, we're going to deliver help and hope to those in need. in the face of aggression, we'll stand up for the sovereignty of nations like ukraine. and in this moment of uncertainty in europe, we'll remain steadfast allies through nato, the strongest alliance that the world has ever known. so, team rota, all of you embody the spirit of cooperation and resolve as well as anyone. and my main message here today is to say thank you. thank you for your service on behalf of a safer america, a safer spain, and a safer world. and to all our spanish friends, thank you for your friendship, and thank you for your service. to all the americans who are here, i know it's never easy serving farway from home. although i must say, if you've got to be away from home, this is not a bad place to be. but even in a place as beautiful as this, you're missing holidays and birthdays and family reunions. but each and every day you stand up for our country, and you do it with honor and you do it with courage, and you do it with commitment. so, on behalf of a grateful nation, let me just say that we're proud of you. we honor you. we thank you for your service. and we thank your inspiring families as well for all that they do to make sure that you can do your jobs. you know, at a time when sometimes the world feels uncertain, sometimes people ask me, how do you stay so calm? and what i tell them is, as tough as the challenges are, as serious as the threats that we face, the one thing that i have learned during the time that i've had the privilege to be the president of the united states is that the american people are good and they are decent, and we have the finest fighting force the world has ever known. we have great partners around the world. and i am absolutely confident the people of goodwill will ultimately overcome those forces that seek to divide and destroy us. you give me confidence. you give me hope! god bless you! god bless the united states of america! god bless spain! thank you very much! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> to rousing applause there, and "the stars and stripes." there is the president, and he is getting a standing ovation from those members of the military and their families who are part of the u.s. station there in rota, spain. he had toured earlier the "uss ross" and made a point of seeing all those on active duty there. we've been following all of this with the help of our good friend, criminal jack jacobs, of course, medal of honor recipient. colonel jack, first of all, the president going there now and making this speech. of course, it was a big thank you, but the timing, what's that about? >> well, it's on the heels of the nato summit, at a time when there's a great deal of consternation inside europe about what's happening to europe, and ultimately, to nato with brexit on the one hand, russian aggression, which the president mentioned, on the other, and a concern that the united states is not necessarily going to be there when the europeans need them. and we've done a number of things, including this speech, to generate more enthusiasm among our nato allies. among other things, nato is moving troops into the baltic countries. and maybe more significantly, the united states is adding to its forces in eastern europe, and in particular, in poland, right on the russian border. these are things to try to dissuade putin from more aggressive action. we know that putin in many respects does a lot of things for his domestic consumption. this is one move to make him think twice about further expansion. but most of all, as the president's remarks would indicate, his message was more -- the president's message was as much for our european allies, to give them confidence that we're going to be behind them, than it was for even the kids there in rota, spain. reinforcing america's commitment to nato, the president thought it was important to do that right now, at a time when europe seems to be fragmenting, alex. >> yeah, and your point there, when you say kids, the president even referencing it, these 21-year-olds that are put in charge of so much responsibility. the president saying he couldn't have done that at 21 and tipped his hat to them. let's talk about all of that which came out of the nato summit and how this either adds or detracts from the president's foreign policy legacy. how do you read that, jack? >> well, i think he's making a really big effort to plus up his legacy. it looks like he hasn't been paying very much attention to our requirements overseas in an era in which he said, oh, we're going to pivot towards the pacific, but the chinese don't seem to believe that very much. he's had to go to our pacific allies and reinforce our commitment to them. looks like we were not paying very much attention to a europe that was fragmenting. important for him to go there as well. he is attempting in the last vestiges of his administration, to at least make a demonstration that he is doing his best to reinforce our commitments to our allies, because the perception, both among our allies and among our adversaries is that this administration has not done enough. and remember this, too. he has presided over the greatest reduction in the size of the military establishment in the united states since the end of the war in vietnam. we're about ready to have the smallest army we have had since 1940 among great criticism from both people in uniform and people without about our commitment to defense. he's trying to shore that up with these meetings overseas. >> well, indeed, this week, as you know, the president made the announcement he's not going to reduce the number of troops in afghanistan quite as fast as he had originally said he would. in terms of politically, jack, is that perceived as a failure for him, to leave office with 8,400 troops still on the ground there? or from a military perspective, is that exactly what you want to see? >> well, i think you want to see more troops overseas. those who know that it always takes more resources to hold on to an objective than it does to take it in the first place will argue strenuously that the next president will probably have to make that decision, either withdraw completely, because the mission can't be accomplished with such a small force, or to add to it significantly. yes, it's perceived that his policies generally have been a failure because he couldn't do what he promised to do, that is to win the war in afghanistan -- this is what he promised when he was campaigning in '08 -- to win the war in afghanistan, the good war, as he called it, and to withdraw from iraq. and he's done neither of those. and it's going to be perceived among people who wanted to see the united states with draw from the region, because we haven't wi withdrawn and will probably not withdraw completely, that that's been a failure as well. neither fish nor fowl, nobody's going to like what he's done. >> colonel jack jacobs, med yol of honor recipient, thank you as always. >> you bet. >> ron allen is in madrid, following the president through this nato summit and now with the last leg of the trip. what's next for the president after this, ron? >> reporter: he's about to board air force one and head home, alex. he'll arrive in the united states some time late this evening, be back at work monday morning. we still don't know exactly when he's going to go to dallas. it was unlikely that monday would be a quick -- it would be too quick to turn around after arriving late tonight. perhaps tuesday. but again, we're not sure. and we also know that later in the week, after he returns from dallas, he's going to convene this series of meetings, basically around this idea of his 21st-century policing task force, trying to come one ideas to bridge the divide between some police communities and some communities that they served. obviously, there's tension out there. the president has referenced it a number of times during his trip. in fact, it's demanded his attention from the moment that he arrived here, the violence, the confrontation, some of those other police issues that have happened in the states. earlier today, in talking about this, he was asked about the protests specifically and black lives matter and other groups that are out there. and he issued a very strong defense of the idea of protests and how it has, his words, made america better, and how it can be messy at times and how a few people who act, as he put it, stupidly, don't necessarily speak for the entire group. but he talked about how protests was part of the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, the union movement, women's rights, so on and so forth. so, he tried to give what's been happening lately in the united states a broader historical perspective. and that word perspective i think has been the theme of his remarks for the most part about what's happening in the united states over the past week or so. this very tough week that the president said is sending him back home. so, again, on his way back home later tonight and off to dallas early next week. >> yeah, and not to seville, spain, as originally planned for today into tomorrow. okay. thank you very much, ron allen. let's get a bit more on the aftermath of those shootings in baton rouge, minneapolis and dallas. police in st. paul, minnesota, say they have arrested 102 people. there was a massive protest there overnight. protesters blocking off the interstate. that brought traffic to a standstill for nearly seven hours, and 21 officers from various law enforcement agencies were injured in that standoff. that was just one of at least a dozen protests erupting throughout the country last night, all in response to the killings of two black men by police in louisiana and minnesota earlier this week. then, in spain, the president condemned the week's outbreak of violence, saving his strongest words for the attack on police officers in dallas. >> whenever those of us who are concerned about fairness in the criminal justice system attack police officers, you are doing a disservice to the cause. any violence directed at police officers is a reprehensible crime and needs to be prosecu d prosecuted. >> dallas police have revealed new details today about the man who carried out that attack, micah xavier johnsjohnson, who when police threw an explosives into his hideout. >> we're convinced the suspect had other plans and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to make law enforcement -- and target law enforcement -- make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement's efforts to punish people of color. >> let's go right now to dallas. that's where nbc's gabe gutierrez is standing by for the latest there. certainly a city on edge. so, gabe, what more did the police chief reveal? >> reporter: hi, alex. good afternoon. well, the police chief said that the suspect, that the gunman had enough explosives to do damage all throughout the north texas area, that he had been planning some sort of attack for quite a while, well before the recent police shootings in louisiana and minnesota. but it may have been those shootings that prompted him to kind of up the ante, so to speak, and go and carry out this horrific attack here in dallas. he also gave new details about how the suspect managed to catch police officers on guard, that this, initially, police had been told that this was going to be a static protest at the belo gardens here, but there was a spontaneous march, and this gunman went and started shooting and would move around. that's why initially there was thought to be multiple snipers involved here. but when the suspect or the gunman was shot, he went to the second floor of this parking garage, and he managed to give one mysterious final message, writing the letters "rb" on a wall in his own blood. extremely disconcerting. but authorities are right now trying to figure out what exactly he meant by that. in his interview with cnn, he also discussed the decision to use a robot to detonate a bomb that ended up killing johnson. here's what he had to say about that. >> we believe that we saved lives by making this decision. and you know, again, i appreciate critics, but they're not on the ground, and their lives are not being put at risk by debating what tactics to take. and i'll leave that to them for later discussion. >> reporter: so, right now, investigators are going through his digital trail and through his writings. he had a journal where he described combat tactics. and neighbors had said that they had seen micah johnson in his backyard practicing tactical, you know, different tactical moves. now, we just spoke with the owner of a school in richardson, texas, a self-defense class. and it's the academy of combative warrior arts in this dallas suburb. he says about two years ago that micah johnson had attended that class and taken part in some basic self-defense class. now, that school does offer some shoot and move classes, but the owner says that he, to his knowledge, micah johnson never partook in any of those, but he said he took part in the basic hand-to-hand defense classes, something that authorities are going to be looking at, how long he had been planning this, and you know, what might have set him off. again, the police chief said that another detail that we're learning is that he asked to speak with only a black negotiator, black police negotiator, and he was singing and laughing while this horrific negotiation unfolded. alex? >> rather chilling, that last detail there. thank you very much, gabe gutierrez, from dallas. the week of tragedy, two years since ferguson, and a grim statistic emerges that may only validate the cry on the streets. ♪ take on any road with intuitive all-wheel drive. the nissan rogue, murano and pathfinder. now get 0% apr for up to 72 months, plus $500 bonus cash. ♪ dog chow for 36 years now.d i've been making my dog girlfriend is 17 years old. she's been eating dog chow from her very first day and she can still chase squirrels. she can't catch them, but she can still chase them. after 17 years i'm still confident in feeding her dog chow because i see the high quality ingredients that go into it. i'm very proud to make dog chow right here in edmond, oklahoma. president obama in spain today spoke to reporters about the shootings in dallas and possible ramifications for antipolice violence from demonstrators. >> whenever those of us who are concerned about fairness in the criminal justice system attack police officers, you are doing a disservice to the cause. >> let's bring in marquez claxton, a retired nypd detective and with the black force alliance. we heard what the president had to say there. do you think thursday's attack has moved the conversation away from an already tense relationship that exists between the police and the african-american community? >> i think it definitely has shifted some of the focus more towards what happened with the death of the five police officers, which is quite understandable. we have a nation that is grieving right now and trying to come to grips with, trying to make sense out of that which makes no sense whatsoever. then you also have the law enforcement community that is on high alert and really concerned about what is going to be the next move. you already have a contentious relationship between many segments of the community. and now you have a possible threat moving forward against law enforcement itself. >> yeah. there are reportedly, as you know, more than 300 million firearms in the hands of the american public. the president also talked about how the proliferation of guns in the public and that would affect policing, and here's part of what he said about that. >> police have a really difficult time in communities where they know guns are everywhere. and as i said before, they have a right to come home. and now they have very little margin of error in terms of making decisions. >> talk about how police have to behave, and is it differently in a community where there might be a high concentration of firepower? >> one thing for sure, and that is that the recent events have really reinvigorated this conversation and the examination of gun violence in the nation. the fact of the matter is that professional police officers realize and have indicated across the nation that the ready availability of firearms is a tremendous concern. it has great impact in communities, not only communities of color, but broader community as well. it has a great deal to do with the level of violence throughout the nation. and it's something that needs to be under control. i think most professionals will agree that there needs to be a national set standard, and there needs to be sensible gun laws. and it doesn't necessarily mean that you will take away people's guns, as members of the nra, you know, the board of the nra has been putting out there. but sensible gun laws and sensible restrictions, and that will have a significant impact in communities across the nation. >> so, marq, here's a question in terms of sensibilities. we heard the president speak yesterday about the gentleman in dallas who was marching peacefully with the black lives matter protesters. he was carrying an assault rifle with him. upon the outbreak of violence there, which he had nothing to do with, he handed over his gun to police. but the president actually addressed that directly. and he said, look, it's not smart, it's not good sense. it wasn't sensible for this man to come to this rally carrying this, and yet, it is his second amendment right. he had a permit to carry that gun. talk about that and trying to find that balance of safety and sensibility. >> i think in many states, it's open carry law is inciteful and provocative. and i think it places additional burden on resources, law enforcement resources. and it makes the community feel less safe. and i think it seems to be more of a power play, more of an assertion of what people perceive to be their god-given rights, let alone the constitutional rights. and it's senseless, you know. like, once again, we have to make laws and deal with regulations that are sensible and meant to improve the quality of life for the largest group of people possible. then one other point, alex, too, is that open carry in the black community, you know, there is a different level of open carry. it is one thing for a black man to be walking with an assault rifle anywhere and another thing for a white person to be walking with an assault rifle. so, even the application of the open carry laws have a certain bias built into them. but they're illogical and inciteful and unnecessarily provocative. >> i've just got it say personally, if i see anybody carrying a gun, i don't care the color of that person's skin, i get a little bit nervous and tense and just want to go away from that. marques claxton, always good to see you, though. thank you so much. >> thank you, alex. in the wake of the dallas shooting, security changes are in store for the republican national convention. details ahead. you stay up. you listen. you laugh. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and when it's time to plan for your family's future, we're here for you. we're legalzoom, and for over 10 years we've helped families just like yours with wills and living trusts. so when you're ready, start with us. doing the right thing has never been easier. legalzoom. legal help is here. it takes a lot of work... but i really love it.s. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost® to get the nutrition that i'm missing. boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein to help maintain muscle. all with a great taste. i don't plan on slowing down any time soon. stay strong. stay active with boost®. but my back pain was making it hard to sleep and open up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. now i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. ♪ using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework... wire... and plants needed to give my shop... a face... no one will forget. see what the power of points can do for your business. learn more at chase.com/ink see what the power of points can do for your business. searching for a great used car? 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>> all right, well, that is awfully good news. tammy, very quickly, do you know how many still remain in the hospital? i believe this accounts for all of the d.a.r.t. officers, right? but are there still officers in the hospital? >> reporter: there are still dallas police officers in the hospital. we have not gotten a lot of information, actually, not any information on their conditions. they are being very tight-lipped in order to protect the officers and their families. but we do know there are still officers being treated, some with some very serious injuries. we know that some of the officers were ambushed and shot in the back, so they'll be there recovering for a while. >> well, we certainly wish them well. nbc's tammy leitner there from dallas. thank you, tammy. the robot bomb, a life-and-death decision. ♪ take on the unexpected with a car that could stop for you. nissan safety shield technologies, available in the altima, sentra and maxima. now get 0% apr for up to 72 months, plus $500 bonus cash. ♪ does your mouth often feel dry? 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what kind of person he was, the kind of police officer he was. >> i did. i actually knew him less from his work as a police officer on the streets, where for over ten years i've worked with many of our amazing police officers. but i knew michael from church. he is the -- he served in a security role at watermark church here in dallas and was just an amazing part of that body. and it's been -- you know, you see him every sunday, you wave, you go by, say thank you for your service. and now we have a tremendous loss, both in our church family, in the city, but so much for the family. >> i want to ask you if there's been any controversy regarding the way the police took out the gunman, using the robot and the explosive device to kill him. they did it, of course, rather than risking police lives, but are people talking at all about that? because it's the first time, to our knowledge, that has been used, that particular procedure has been used in a police department in this country. >> from our perspective, there's absolutely zero controversy. it was the best option that kept more of our officers out of harm's way. and i believe our chief brown made the right decision. they tried every single opportunity they could to get him to come out and preserve his life and come out in a way that we could continue this discussion in a different way. and this particular murderer decided not to. >> already being here, councilman, that dallas had really been at the forefront of police reform in this country. it is something they had taken on just head on to attack the problems there of potential racial bias and issues and really had been a very integrated police department. do you worry at all that this is going to be a setback for dallas? and i will say, the dallas that i've come to know in the last few years, for familial reasons, i think it's pretty strong and resilient. i'm going to expect it to bounce right back. >> absolutely, it will not be a setback. dallas is a city of love. we're a city of faith. and we're a city of relationship and community. and you've seen that already, and you're going to continue to see more and more of that. no one wishes a tragedy like this on their city, but i believe dallas is going to be an example for this state, for this country, on how we grow together and continue to grow together. we've set foundations and relationships between our police officers and our communities for a number of years, and i'm incredibly encouraged by what i've seen already. and i'm just looking forward to see more and more come together in a way that's meaningful to all those around us and all those that look back and see dallas. >> well, the eyes of the country will be on dallas. we wish you the best of luck and we have our heartfelt condolences for the tragedy all have endured. councilman adam mcgough, thank you so much. as outrage grows over the back-to-back shooting deaths of two black men last week, there is a renewed focus on deadly force by police. since the death of michael ferguson ignited a firestorm, the "new york post" has been tracking police-involved shootings and the numbers are up this year. 491 people were shot and killed by police during the first six months of this year, 6% higher than the same period in 2015. the number of police officers killed in the line of duty also higher, 20 since june. there you see there, up through june, rather, compared to 16 for the same period last year. joining me now, kimberly kindie, "washington post" national reporter. kimberly, with a welcome to you, we've certainly seen the circumstances of the last week, each shooting has a different element to it. but interpret the numbers and tell us what it really says. >> sure. well, as you pointed out, this is the second year of our database effort tracking every single fatal police shooting in america and analyzing more than a dozen details about those shootings. and, you know, those shootings are up. there was much prediction that the shootings would potentially go down, a lot of talk about the presence of cameras being a constant, and that with that, the fbi director and others said they feared there would be a viral video effect or a ferguson effect, where officers would not be as aggressive. but in terms of whether or not those videos are showing any kind of sign of being a deterrent, at least as it applies to fatal police shootings, we're not seeing that. like you pointed out, the shootings are up. and one of our other findings was that there was a 38% increase in the number of shootings that are being captured on video now. >> yeah, that is something that has really changed the equation, for sure. how about this? as the majority of the fatal shootings, kimberly, they involved minorities. is it fair to assume that there is still a level of racial bias in these numbers? >> well, our study showed that we are at, in many ways, the shootings look so much like last year. there's very little change. and one of the things that has not changed is that if you are black, you are 2.5 times more likely to be shot than if you are white in our database. so, yes, the odds of being shot or the instances in which blacks versus white are being shot showed that there still is this great disparity. >> in the analysis of the cases, how much indication was there that some of these shootings were preventible? >> well, we spent a lot of time both last year and are continuing to this year, looking at some of the instances where police chiefs have said shootings could be -- the number of shootings, the overall number of shootings could go down. one category involved the mentally ill. with training, really good training to deal with somebody who is mentally ill, you maybe take cover, you speak to them slowly, you call and you wait for backup, instead of using the traditional training where you rush in and you shout commands. that doesn't work very well with mentally ill, and things can kind of go sideways fast. well, our study shows that this year, so far, 25% of all the fatal shootings -- so, a really significant number -- involved the mentally ill, the same exact percentage as last year. so, we're continuing to see categories of shootings that potentially could be preventible. of course, each shooting is very different from the other, but certainly in those instances, there's a lot of talk about how many of them with different training, different tactics, you could have a different result, potentially. >> it is a very important analysis done by the "washington post." kimberly kindy, thank you for speaking with us. security for the republican convention is being changed. what precautions might be in the works? 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>> you know, i think we've seen so many things change over the last several months. and the volatile environment that you were just discussing before, regarding the dallas shootings -- we've had orlando shootings. i think they're as prepared as they're saying they are, but i think that they have a lot more to go. the one thing that was a bit concerning, if you were that prepared, you're not going to say, now we're going to make some additional changes, and you don't really do that within the last two weeks or a week away from the actual convention. when you plan these conventions, they actually start many, many months in advance. and the u.s. secret service, usually when it's an nsse event, they come in and they kind of take the head, and then they work with all these other agencies so that u.s. secret service will come in and kind of almost be, like the head, kind of create that major security plan. and then you work with the local authorities. the thing is, everybody has to be working together and everybody has to be on the same page. there's also been some concern from inside that the city itself, and i think the mayor as well, they're concerned that they're not taking security as serious enough as they should, and i think that's what happens. and i think with the dallas event, that's shifted. you've got -- look, you have to look at it this way -- you've got a lot of things going on. we're worried about terrorism. look at the orlando shooting. we're worried about the violence against police, these different movements. we've got numbers of protesters coming in all across the board. so, that's another concern. you're not just worried about an attack, a terrorist attack or a shooter, you're worried about these different protesters clashing with one another. so, there's that issue. and the city actually came on and said, look, we can't promise that this group of demonstrators won't clash with this group. so, now we've got that concern as well. on top of it, you have a candidate that's drawing a lot of attention, a lot of negative attention as well, and there's been, you know, numerous attempts on, you know, our candida candidate's life and the volatility behind that. so, there's a lot going on. >> sure is. >> typically, you're just worried about the person you're protecting, the candidates, and the overall general safety event. but now you've got a lot more to deal with. >> you know, there has also been some contention between the police brass and the city's police union chief. the union is saying that frontline officers would be undertrained and poorly equipped. i'm going to read from an article which claims that just these ten days before the event, that cleveland is still in the business of training police officers, and there's been a description, saying that, rather than a security team reinforced by the country's largest police departments, as it had hoped, the city has cobbled together 3,000 officers, mostly from state agencies, who will use borrowed and rented equipment. now, again, that is one analysis in an article. but if that is true, how much of a red flag does that give you? 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>> in the short-term it obviously dominates the head lines as it should. a week ago we were talk about hillary clinton's e-mails and who donald trump is going to pick pick as his running mate. and in the short-term i think, you know, the people aren't paying attention to the presidential campaign as much as they were a week ago. in the long-term it is kind of waiting to see. it was only four weeks ago that 49 people were dmild killed in orlando and four weeks later we're noti talking about that anymore. this has more staying power than some other recent trgtds we've seen. >> we've got to remember orlando. that said the president he's called for unity in the wake of violence earlier this week and then you have donald trump's tweet earlier today which looks like in this. look what is happening in our country under the weak leadership of obama and people like hillary. it is a divided number. do you think that will still fly in the wake of these attacks? >> there were much unrest and so many protests and made voters want to go with the law and order candidate who was richard nixon. also interesting to watch the republicans reaction because if you look at donald trump's reaction over the weekend and the rnc chair statements they both spoke about the police officers in dallas but also about the two african american men who were killed by police officers in minnesota. and i don't think we've seen the rnc chair talk objeabout previo. the fact they are recognizing there are two sides to this issue and in terms of voters you have older white voters more in line with law enforcement b but --. there seems to be a recognition we can talk about both of these things. it doesn't have to be one or the other. >> and plaqblack lives matter movement how do you think that be -- >> demonstrations are going to be crazy in cleveland. i don't think we're gonna see this level since 1968. in terms of democrats it will be interesting to see how much pressure they face. >> i said a few seconds and you delivered. thank you very much. up next on "meet the press," chuck todd examines the issues of the core of a nation divided. i'm alex witt it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? 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