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Sound different to some of the neighbors, probably alarming. chris? >> and in the meantime, hallie, were all eagerly anticipating the presidents press conference today with angela merkel waiting to see if hell be challenged on the wiretapping allegations. how many questions, whats the format, and what are the chances he gets asked those tough questions? >> reporter: lets walk through it, chris, a quick scene setter here presumably about an hour and a half, although they are running behind schedu...

"the new yorker" hotel where hillary clinton will speak shortly. kristen, long night for you. long campaign. what are we expecting? >> reporter: steph, good morning. i think that secretary clinton, when she speaks today, is going to try to strike a note of unity. we havent gotten any official preview about what shes going to say, but based on recent speeches that shes been giving, that is certainly a point that she has been hitting quite a lot. and the campaign thinks that that is going to be cr...

And every, you know, impact of every scene setter that they put her in which is so planned and sometimes hollow, but at least -- this i have to say -- well talk to donald trump ourselves. this makes me really nervous. >> lets go to kasie hunt. we all have been talking about how he gets away saying with whatever is on his mind, and usually his poll numbers go up. but there does seem to be a great divide now between donald trump and the rest of the republican party. i was wondering how aggressive ...

>> there was quite the scene setter leading up to this. this wasnt a sudden decision. in fact, this judge had ordered her more than a month ago to begin issuing the licenses. so here in kentucky this case has been going on for weeks now, thomas. now her attorneys filed an amended notice of appeal that addresses the contempt order. theyre going to argue this was illegal and they plan to ask for an expedited ruling. now yesterday kim davis husband and about a dozen other people were able to visit ...

But we didnt think trump did especially well. we thought it might actually impact him. but gene robinson josh green came back with some pretty strong anecdotal evidence that all it did is ril up his voters more. >> it co. a lot has to do with how -- you cant help but say that tone for trump was set by the moderatmoderators. they were tough on him from the beginning. to put the third party question at the top of the debate it -- its a scene setter. and if youre a rank and file republican voter, y...

His personality. and the last is perhaps the least known candidate, he is an older man, zalmai. hes a distant member of the royal family and close to president karzai. hes his last serving foreign minister. people dont know a whole lot about him, they just know he was close to karzai and considered part of the apparatus of the state and people are concerned about his ongoing ties to president karzai. >> thank you so much, richard engel. thats a very helpful scene setter. interesting how some can...

But then why did i run up the grassy knoll? >> right. >> obviously because i saw the policeman going up and the policeman thought they heard something up there. >> that is -- that is a great scene setter and well take a break and reset with the rest of the panel. hi there, welcome to the gallery. how do you react when you first see this? it looks kind of like a dancer? reality check: some 4g lte coverage maps dont really look like maps. seems like maybe... a bunch of berries. a witch-like shrew....

Is that secretary kerry joined by the foreign ministers of russia and china, the u.k., france and germany met and of course the eu chief negotiator met for the first time at the foreign minister level with the new iranian foreign minister. that was a constructive discussion. but it really was a scene setter in which the iranians underscored their commitment not to pursue a nuclear weapon but peaceful nuclear energy. where we and others underscored that iran had to meet its international obligati...

Respect to the potential of a confrontation over their nuclear program. >> nato is not expected to play any role in striking the syrian regimes delivery systems for chemical weapons. however, the head of the defense alliance said today it would operate patriot anti-missile batteries installed to protect turkey from any widening of the syrian conflict. shan non. >> james rosen, thank you. south carolina republican senator lindsey graham has pushed hard in favor of u.s. intervention in syria. se...

Michigan case it in the pipeline. so here is the big question. is it a narrow ruling, is it broad sweeping, how will this decision impact an issue as you well know, a huge legal issue politically it can become very divisive issue. >> and this is an issue that involves a public university, the university of texas at austin. but private universities will be watching it very closely because so many of those private universities get federal funding one way or another. tom foreman is watching whats g...