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We know grimmie was performing a concert last night that started at 6 00. It brand up around 10 00. After the concert was over, she was in the lobby area signing autographs and selling merchandise when Orlando Police tell us an unidentified suspect approached her with two guns and shot her. Witnesses tell us they heard between four and five gunshots. They saw what looked like a bullet wound in the back of her head, her on the ground. What happened after the shots were fired, grimmies brother actually jumped in, tackled the suspect, and police are calling him a hero tonight saying he could have pre vented even more deaths, or this could have been a much worse situation. Theyre calling him a hero tonight. This is what police told us last night. The suspect walked up and shot christina. At that point we know her brother tackled the suspect and thats when the suspect shot himself. This is a very tragic event. It should have been something very fun and exciting, and for Something Like this to happen is just a tragedy. Reporter this unidentified gunman is also dead. Police right now dont know if or how he knew grimmie. Thats something theyre looking at right now. Alex . Okay. So matt, im curious about security. She was a relatively recent phenom and celebrated with her success. Did she have security traveling with her, or that area of the lobby so often when you go to any group thing, you have to open your bags or there was some sort of a checkpoint. Was that in place last night . Alex, i dont know what kind of detail she had with her. What i can tell you from what fans are telling us, there were no metal detectors last night. Sometimes there are. This was supposed to be a lowkey event, a Family Friendly event. What were hearing is the venue did have security, they were checking bags, but there were no metal detectors. Obviously this person who has not been identified again, police are not saying if or how they knew each other, but he was able to get in with two guns and unfortunately take ms. Grimmies life. What a tragedy, a shocker to wake up to this morning. Matt grant from wesh 2 in orlando. Lets go from there to politics. Five protesteders detained outside Donald Trumps rally in richmond, virginia, last night, one charged with disorderly contact. Inside the rally, the 11,000 capacity venue only about a fifth full or so according to an msnbc reporter on site. That didnt stop trump from taking a swing at his democratic opponent and the president. You have a president coming out and endorsing somebody thats under criminal investigation. Criminal investigation so you have a president , he comes out, shes under criminal investigation, and he endorses her. Is this supposed to be the way the country is supposed to be working . I dont think so. Also on the attack, twotime republican president ial candidate mitt romney who weighed in on trumps recent comments about a Mexican American judge. I dont want to see trickledown racism. I dont want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of americans that are following. President s have an impact on the nature of our nation and trickledown racism, trickledown bigotry, trickledown misogyny are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of america. Well, trump hit back in a tweet posted just under an hour ago saying romney, quote, choked in his own president ial bid and repeating his claim that hes, quote, the least racist person there is. The former Massachusetts Governor is hosting a summit. Among the attendees, paul ryan. Hewlett packard Ceo Meg Whitman asked ryan how he could endorse trump who she called a demagogue and compared to hitler and mussolini. He said he backed trump to preserve party unity. Joining me right now, nbcs jacob rascon, getting ready for the trump rally in tampa. Jacob, good morning. What do we expect to hear today . We expect to hear more about Hillary Clinton. Hes prepping his remarks coming up on monday, another one that may be off a teleprompter. By our count, hes given six speeches off a teleprompter. Is it a change of tone . Were not sure about that. What weve seen is he has really two tones. He has one where hes given more high profile speeches like the apac speech, Foreign Policy speech, where he decides to go with a teleprompter which hes made fun of for months. At rallies hes never used a tell prompter. Last night in richmond he didnt use one. He swings through New Hampshire, pennsylvania, texas, we expect the same off the cuff trump that weve always seen. There is more pressure it seems than ever for him to change his tone a bit. During the primaries we noticed he could say just about anything he wanted and he would still win the primary and his poll numbers would still go up. In the last couple weeks, in the last week and a half, he hasnt seen any polls that had him beating Hillary Clinton. Even the fox poll or rasmussen poll that had him ahead by a few points now has him down. There is pressure growing within the Republican Party. You saw speaker ryan, mitch mcconnell, other Top Republican leaders saying we dont agree with what donald trump is saying. Well see if he shifts that at all. Whats he going to say about the judge, for example . Will he even mention it, and so forth . Let me talk about the size of this rally and whats expected. As you know last night one of our msnbc reporters on site said the number of people attending the rally in richmond about 2,000. This was in an arena that holds 11,000, 12,000. Trump books these big places because he was filling them. Behind you, given the hour were three hours ahead of when hes expected to begin speaking, does this look like what he has garnered in the past in terms of attendance . Reporter that was surprising to read that note about last night. I wasnt there. Here we probably have a few hundred people here, were still a few hours ahead of the rally. It is normal sometimes to see this and then people will go into the convention center, for example, up until hes supposed to speak and hell end up getting thousands and hell fill it up. 90 of the time he fills up whatever space hes booked. That note was surprising. Okay. Jacob rascon in tampa. Well keep our eyes peeled and see what happens. Joining me now francesca chambers and msnbcs jane timm. Good morning, ladies. Jane, ill be ginn with you. By many accounts, donald trump has had a tough week, especially with respect to his comments about the judge. Whats the major fallout. When you look at gop support, do you think he can recover . Theres a couple reasons this sticks, republicans care about their judges. They see it as a big way the country has changed. I think this one doesnt necessarily affect donald trump as much as it affects the rest of the party. We saw Donald Trumps first unendorsement, senator mark kirk said he would not be voting for the republican nominee. Hes in a vulnerable seat and got hit very hard. His rival Tammy Duckworth said what took so long. A muslim ban was okay but attacking the judge wasnt. Hes in a tough situation, hes in a more moderate state and needs to appeal to more moderate republicans. Francesca, you have a surge of unity among democrats, Vice President biden, Elizabeth Warren all officially endorsing Hillary Clinton. First of all, what is expected to be his role in the campaign . A unique role this Campaign Cycle as in outgoing president s dont typically campaign for the person who is going to replace them. George bush wasnt very popular when he left, neither was bill clinton. This president is very popular so its someone Hillary Clinton wants on the campaign trail. He will talk about a hopeful message for america and also talking about the economy and talking up her Foreign Policy experience. One thing i found very striking in his statement of endorsement for her, alex, was he talked about how we got osama bin laden, not i. Hell be talking up the Foreign Policy experience for her in green bay. Theres going to be upsides and downsides to anyone. If we look at Elizabeth Warren, a big pro is shes very progressive, well like by that wing of the party that was endorsing and supporting Bernie Sanders before. That would be a way that clinton could pull in some of those dis affected democrats who might be considering sitting out this election. On the other hand she doesnt come from whats considered a swing state this election cycle. If she wanted to go that route, she would pick someone from virginia or ohio. Shes looking at tim kaine and shared brown for that position. Jane, looking at your latest article about gop donors, hearing this pitch from donald trump this week, who are these donors and are they sold on trump or still with reservation . The group of 60 or 70 donors that gathered at the four seasons this week, they were the usual suspects, a lot of typical republican donors. What struck me the most is how much they came up with the idea, oh, nothing to see here, everything is great. Were all unified. This is not a unified party. They have a lot of questions and the donor class has largely stepped back from this race. Theyre looking at down ballot races more. There are a lot of donors who wont give money to donald trump because he is so inflammatory in many ways. These donors felt it was their duty to come together and try to bring the party together. They definitely stiffened up when i asked them, what about the controversy and judge cure yell remarks. Jane, whats the conventional question on the vp . Are there people he might want to choose who will say i dont want to be your running mate. Donald trump has made it clear he wants to bring someone in with experience on capitol hill. He needs to have somebody that has strong conservative credentials. By all accounts Donald Trumps positions have evolved quickly, rapidly, and over the years hes had more moderate positions. He needs someone to shore up his views, convince people hes as conservative as he says. I think well see somebody like a Newt Gingrich character, somebody on capitol hill that has a history and voting record. Francesca, relative to the Hillary Clinton email matter, lets listen to what press secretary josh earnest had to say on thursday. Thats why the president when discussing this issue at each stage has reiterated his commitment to this principle, that any criminal investigation should be conducted independent of any sort of political interference and people should be treated the same way before the law. Was that intended . For the first time calling it a criminal investigation, any fallout or explanation afterwards. Well, he did try to play cleanup on it a little day the next day, on friday, backing away saying the point he was trying to make is the president doesnt interfere in independent investigations and that he couldnt possibly know if it was a criminal investigation because they dont get involved in that. It was very striking, though, because Hillary Clinton has said it is not a criminal investigation at all, but what does the fbi investigate, alex . Good point. Francesca chambers, jane timm, thanks so much. Thanks. 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Whats your take on the response and the position hes in making a response like that as leader of the party. The question is unite the party behind what . Thats becoming a bigger question mark every day. In my hometown of hackensack, new jersey, yet the republican mayor left the Republican Party because they couldnt justify to hackensacks very Diverse Community as Republican LeadersDonald Trumps divisive comments. This is happening all across the country. We saw scott walker yesterday, mark kirk earlier this week. The Republican Party is in total turmoil. At the courageous conservative pac, we want to make sure the Republican Party remains a conservative party and donald trump is not a conservative. So were petitioning, we launched a petition drive this morning to get republican signatures to unbind the delegates, unbind the delegates going into the first ballot so that donald trump has to go into that convention and prove himself to those delegates. Those delegates have the moral obligation to find the best candidate to defeat Hillary Clinton. Right now donald trump is not uniting the party and he will not beat Hillary Clinton. How will this work, whats just gone up on your website . Any petition is to drive public messaging and get attention to the fact. What were saying is donald trump should not be sitting there thinking hes got it all locked up, doing the things hes doing which is hurting the Republican Party, possibly destroying the Republican Party. We want to go into this convention and make it what it is. This is not a populous vote. The Republican Party is not meant to be a place where you took the nomination because you won a beauty pageant. He has to prove hes a conservative, the principles hes going to back and unite the party. Its obvious to everyone, i think even the other 60 who think its better to stay with him to unite the party, that hes not doing it. It seems to get worse every day. We could wake up tomorrow with another cataclysmic trump statement as far as i know. Steve, do you think hes taking a read on any of this. Is there anything you think he could do before the convention that would change your mind . Hes have to make since the day after the indiana primary, a