Trump wouldnt do it. And only later again under mounting pressure did he backtrack. Of course, theres always been a paranoid fringe in our politics. A lot of it arising from racial resentment but its 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. Lets 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. Im a farmer and White Nationalist. Support donald trump. Sending out all the illegals, building a wall and a moratorium on islamic immigration. Thats 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 hillarys ad a brazen attempt to distract from other issues. He said she was fearmongering, his campaign put out a statement from an africanamerican supporter, pastor mark burns, that said Hillary Clinton and her campaign went to a disgusting new low today as they released a video tying the Trump Campaign with horrific racial images. This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting. And completely beyond the pale. Meanwhile, trump used some very harsh language of his own last night, calling Hillary Clinton a bigot. Lets watch. Hillary clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes not as human beings worthy of a better future. Shes going to do nothing for africanamericans. Andrew weinstein is former Deputy Press Secretary to speaker Newt Gingrich and has endorsed Hillary Clinton. Hes come under attack from members of the fringe right Wing Community online. Michael steele is the former chair of the Republican National committee and msnbc political analyst. Joan walsh is National Affairs correspondent for the nation and msnbc political analyst. Let me start with michael. This campaign and you and i have been covering this for a long time, has gone into a ditch. Yep. Whos leading the way into that ditch . Trump or hillary . They are Holding Hands at this point as far as im concerned in many respects. This is one of my big concerns. When you start throwing around these terms and i have always said this, bigot, racist, all of that, it undermines the National Discussion we still need to have on race. When you bring it into the politics the way its been brought in, in such a demeaning way, in such a way that just, you know, makes your skin crawl, its offensive. Look, both of these guys need to move off of this stuff. Donald trump i think learned the lesson of not repudiating those initially who have come out for him and support him who are racists and who are part of the kkk. Hes paying that price. Hillary clinton Running Campaign commercials sort of bringing all that into that space again, its playing that race card and i think in a way that is undermining the body politic and certainly the country. Andrew, what do you think of showing a kkk image on television, associating that with donald trump . Is that fair ball . Well, let me start by saying i think i bring a little bit of unique perspective in terms of this panel. Just answer that question first. Okay. Is that fair to say donald trump to say donald trump is associated with the kkk . It was 100 fair to discuss the ties the Trump Campaign has allowed and the growth its encouraged within the altright hate movement, because there have been dog whistles from day one of this campaign to those groups on issues large and small from retweeting hate sites to not disavowing david duke to explicitly not repudiating the haters when trump himself has been asked to do so. So is it an issue that should be raised in the campaign . Absolutely. Cohave made the issue go away if he hadnt actually drawn all these groups closer throughout the course of the campaign. Historically began of course after the civil war and was engaged actively in lynching and killing people who are black. Is that a fair connection . A murderous outfit. To tie trump into a murderous outfit. Is that fair . Its your call. Absolutely. The kkk has endorsed donald trump in this. You have the grand wizard of the kkk looks at donald trump and sees a sympatico character. Who is the grand wizard . Bring me up to date on this. I dont know anything about the kkk these days. Who is the grand wizard today . Im happy not to know his name. I know that hes been cited in news reports, as have many of the leading racist antisemetic figures. We will check that out. The fact you say the grand whatever the hell hes called is now called for donald trump to be the president. I didnt know that. Im not sure thats true. Let me turn to joan walsh. Your view about this escalation and this imagery of racial hatred. Look, chris, its powerful imagery but i dont think we can equate what Hillary Clinton is doing with what donald trump has done. I mean, yes, the symbolism of the hood is kind of shocking but these people are. Shes not making up their words. These are the people who are supporting him. They are not the only people supporting him and we are certainly not saying that all of his supporters are racist because they are not. But there is enough of a subtext to this campaign, its not a subtext. You are one of the first people in some ways the only person to really hammer away in 2011 at the birther issue and to hear the dog whistle in the birther issue, it didnt start then. I was very impressed, im sure we will talk about secretary clintons speech, i was very impressed by the speech today where she went back to the Trump Organization writing c on the applications of black residents to live in their apartment buildings and they had to pay a settlement for discrimination. These have old roots. I think that a lot of the guys that are now supporting trump like richard spencer, leading White Nationalist, he dresses like a hipster. He doesnt wear the robes anymore but talks like one of them. He talks about black inferiority. In Hillary Clintons speech today she also said trump has pushed quote, discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones and tied him to a far right radio host alex jones. Lets watch. Its also what happens when you listen to the radio host alex jones, who claims that 9 11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He even said and this really just is so disgusting, he even said the victims of the sandy hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there. Trump doesnt challenge these lies. He actually went on jones show and said your reputation is amazing, i will not let you down. Well, i think youre right there about this. I just heard that through my ear that if you listen to the actual tape right there, the grand kliegle endorses donald trump. You started the conversation by saying you havent had experience with these altright people. I have actually had experience i never hoped to have with these groups. I helped organize a letter to the rnc last week signed by 123 republicans urging the rnc to focus on saving the house and Senate Rather than the president ial race. And after that letter was sent, due to my last name and the fact that its a traditional jewish name, the flood gates of hate really opened and it started with some of the hate sites, they were posting my home address, my phone number, my social Media Contact information, and i started receiving tweets and images and voice mail that were both horrible and threatening, including images of me with my photo in a gas chamber and someone pushing the button to gas, including images of me or sorry, of a jewish caricature being stuffed by a boot labeled trump into an oven and with a head line on it that said get in that oven, andrew. Another one saying i would make a good lampshade. This is who are they . Help us out. People want to know. Historic antisemitism has been with us for centuries if not millenia but this thing happening right now with this particularity of references the holocaust and you because of your last name, who are they . Can you give us names of these organizations . Is it the kkk . Is it citizens council, who are these people . Im not well enough informed of the shadowy networks behind them to know whether these are individual actors or whether they are part of organized groups. I do know they are motivated to action through organized websites, daily stormer and others out there that are leaders of the hate group. But to be honest, they are also actively used and supported by breitbart, which is part of the awful thing michael, let me go to you on this because this is actual politics. Should trump differentiate himself from these groups . He already brought in the breitbart guy, bannon. He already has a guy from what might be called the altright. Absolutely. I think even with bannon on his team, trump has to draw a very clear, bright, i mean thick bright line between his campaign and potential presidency and these groups. There is no wiggle room here. You dont get to pretend you dont know someone, you dont get to pretend to say oh, i just retweeted their tweet. You have to be very clear and emphatic. Certainly when it comes to what we just heard when these groups are saying and doing the types of things where its getting personal to people, the campaign has to be out in front of this. Because if you are not, then you become part of that narrative in a way that you will not be able to extricate yourself from, period. Its that simple. Can i jump in there one second . Im sorry, one quick thing. I think this is a really important point. Donald trump was actually given the opportunity by wolf blitzer to repudiate these people who are issuing these Death Threats against another person, against another jewish surnamed reporter, who also received just a torrent of Death Threats and hate mail and attacks and wolf asked him what is the message you have for your quote unquote, fans who are sending these Death Threats to her. And his response was almost verbatim, i have no message for my fans. So even though now he said well, i dont really like these hate speech folks, i dont want them involved in the campaign, he actually has been given the opportunity throughout this campaign to repudiate them and has turned it down. I will add, its important to note, these hate groups, it doesnt go unnoticed. This is the daily stormer, one of the web sites, and after he announced that he was going after he refused to repudiate the people attacking this other reporter, the headline is, glorious leader donald trump refuses to denounce Stormer Troll Army and the text says trump responded to the request with i have no message to the fans which might as well have been hail victory comrades. Let me go to joan on this. I want to give you plenty of time on this. We dont have much time left but its yours. I think youre right. In the beginning there was a seed of this racialism, if you will, with this birther thing. To take the first africanamerican president and nail him as an imposter, usurper, the whole thing is so ridiculous, snuck into the country and sort of put an asterisk next to his name. So he really isnt a president to these people. Was that the beginning of this slippery slope to hell were looking at here . You know, i think we probably could go back even further but thats the beginning of a real paranoid, completely devoid of fact attack on the president and you know, also remember we never saw his college transcripts, chris. No ones seen mine or yours, whatever that meant. We know what it meant. Michael talked about trump drawing a bright line between himself and these groups. You cannot do that when you have hired steve bannon to run your campaign. Hes the ceo of the campaign. He has deliberately made breitbart, he has bragged about it being a clubhouse for the socalled altright which is just a term that hides White Nationalism and white supremacy. Once you have done that, you have brought them inside. They are very comfortable there. They are speaking their minds and its embarrassing for donald trump that Hillary Clinton is calling him out but shes got every right to do it. This is what his campaign is. Whether trump was saying his transcripts showed that he didnt deserve to be admitted to harvard law school, that he wasnt deserving of being the editor of the harvard law review, which he was able to win by the way on a blind test where theres no reference to last name or ethnicity or race or anything, he won that on merit. By the way, anybody who watches this president , whether or not you like him because hes too far liberal for you or whatever, hes really smart. Thats just undeniable. Early in the afternoon, trump said clinton was trying to distract from other issues. Lets watch. Hillary clinton is going to try and accuse this campaign and all of you of being racists which were not. Its the oldest play in the democratic playbook. When democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one tired argument. Youre racist, youre racist, youre racist. They keep saying it. Youre racist. Its a tired, disgusting argument. And its so totally predictable. Michael, respond to that. Wheres this taking us, this back and forth . Mainly led i must say by trump. But this about whos the racist, the klansman. That goes to my first point. When you start using these terms and throwing them around, they lose their powerful meaning. Look, there is in politics that space that people feel comfortable sort of characterizing someones actions, words or personality in this vein. I think its a real problem. You go out and run your campaign. You associate yourself with people that raises this flag, you have got to disassociate yourself. If you dont do that, guess what, these charges start to stick. On the other side of it, though, you do see and you have a history going back to bush and others, you know, when the policy argument fails, these guys policies are racist. So there is this dynamic that theres some truth to what he says that this is part of a history that we have seen in politics. Now we are in a space we have never been in before where its a daily charge. I think it really does undermine our process in a big way. Both sides just need to cut i out, focus on how you will solve the problems of this country, stop playing to the fringes and play to the people who are actually about moving the country forward. Cant agree with you more. Thank you, andrew weinstein, for that terrible first person account of what you have been through. Absolutely. I hope everyone regales against it in their hearts. Coming up, donald trump makes his pitch to minority voters but whats his goal here, to make headway among these men and women or rather, win over moderate white republicans who havent liked trumps tone . Thats next. Speaking of trump, will his changing stance on immigration policy pay off . Can the businessman renegotiate his policy plans with actual voters . The roundtable is going to talk about that. Plus what happens in january of 2017 . Wheres this election taking us . Look at what we get done in congress, can we get something done no matter who wins . If hillary wins, how will she put it together . We will hear from a biographer of someone who knew how to get things done. Let me finish with where the campaigns headed. I think i know. I dont like it. U. S. Senator john mccain appears well positioned back home in arizona in his reelection race. A new poll has the republican, mccain, earning a majority of likely voters 52 . Well ahead of his democratic opponent, anne kirkpatrick. Mccain served in congress for 34 years. The Oil Companies pollute our air. Putting their. Profits ahead of our kids health. Now theyre trying to weaken californias clean air laws. Im tom steyer. Weve had a million kids get asthma. We need to send the Oil Companies a message. Tell your legislator to stand up to the Oil Companies and protect our clean air laws. Dont let the Oil Companies put their profits. Ahead of our kids. Welcome back to hardball. With Donald Trumps poll numbers among minority voters in the low single digits, hes continuing his purported outreach to those voters. It started early today, when trump headed up a roundtable with africanamerican and hispanic republican activists tied to the Republican National committee. He invited all of them to trump tower to meet with him. During that event, he accused democrats of taking minority voters support for granted. Here he is. Talking about the little work thats been done by the democrats for africanamericans. They have done they have been very disrespectful as far as im concerned to the africanamerican population of this country. We are making it a very important part of our speeches and of our thought process and its had a tremendous impact. This afternoon at a rally in New Hampshire, trump continued his appeal. You see it all the time, the inner cities, parents walking with their beautiful child and they get shot. Theyre shot. Their child is shot. Often killed. Folks, what do you have to lose . What do you have to lose . Donald trump will fix it. We are going to make it better. For more im joined by republican strategist and former adviser to jeb bush, and adviser to the National Diversity coalition for donald trump. Gentlemen, i want to hear both your views on this and what you think its effectiveness will be. You first, al. It used to be that democrats couldnt take hispanics for granted when we were at 40 . Now that trumps got us to about 15 , they might so he might be right in his statement but he probably got us way down there in the process. I wish we could play