Died in vain. Trump then went after secretary clinton accusing her of wanting amnesty. Her plan calls for total amnesty in the first 100 days which means obama care, Social Security and medicare for illegal immigrants. Well, thats not new, and neither is the fact what he said is false. Secretary clinton has not asked for amnesty for undocumented immigrants in 100 days, but does want a pathway after a series of steps to be eligible for citizenship. Nbcs Janet Shamlian joins us from houston and, janet, trump spoke to families about fixing the immigration system in the United States. Did he lay out specifics and proposal how to do that . Reporter none whatsoever, richard. This was a speech of generalities. Lets just say up front he had a very compassionate audience here. Mothers and fathers who have lost their children. Their children have died at the hands of violence resulting from somebody who was in this country illegally, but he spoke only in generalities. This cant happen again. I will stop it. You know what i mean. You know, conceivably, we will hear more specific information at the debate, which is now just more than a week away, but it was just more general speech here, and there were no press questions allowed. So no one could press him on these facts. Yet, as you mentioned up top, he got very specific about Hillary Clinton in ways that misrepresented her actual record saying that she wanted amnesty for everyone, which is not the case. He did allow some of these families to come forward and tell these very compelling stories of how they lost a son or a daughter or a husband to someone who was deported and deported and deported yet again. They kept coming back into the country illegally. A compassionate crowd, but no questions allowed on any topic whatsoever, including immigration which is such a hot topic this election cycle, and in this state, where donald trump is in a fight. Its not its a solidly red state that the republicans usually win, you know, so easily, and yet recent polls, richard, are showing him only winning by about seven points against Hillary Clinton and so many undecides, close to 20 of voters in this state still undecided. Back to you. Janet shamlian underlining the trending is what is traditionally a red state, which were seeing in the south. Thank you. Trumps immigration speech today come on the heels of fridays birtherism fallout as well as his speech about that, if you will. A handful of seconds, if you can call it a speech. After five years of accusations, the president was not born in the u. S. What he said. Trump spending a total of seven seconds finally admitting it was not true. President [ muted make american strong and great again. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and warren did not hold back. Take a listen. Lets face it. Donald trump has more support from aryan nation and the kkk than leaders of his own party. For years donald trump launched one racist attack after another on president obama and only when his handlers tied him down and forced him did he grudgingly admit that the man was born in the United States of america. Nbcs katy tur joins us from washington. Katy, the two days youve watched closely a Common Thread throughout. About those who are not from here in the United States, and it seems he is still courting his base on that messaging. Yet softening his appeal to the white educated swing voters you have been telling us about. What are you seeing in terms of the last two days . Reporter i just talked to a democratic operaty, be it, saying that donald trump is just trying to appeal to his base of supporters, which are white voters, white voters, white voters. Obviously thats coming from the democratic side. So its definitely a little skewed, but when you look at who donald trump has for his supporters right now, they, in fact, are mostly white voters and theyre mostly white men without a college degree, and slightly on the older side as well. In terms of trying to appeal to africanamericans, hes only seeing about 6 support from africanamericans right now. Hes got almost no support in the latino community. Very little support among asianamericans. Why did he end the earther comment right this moment . A lot of people say it was politically expedient of a move for him do. Did it at 53 days out into the election, facing a lot of pressure when his campaign. Surrogates saying he released a statement on his behalf before he actually said the words, but i also want to point out where he did this, richard. He told the press he was going to make a major announcement. We knew he would denounce birtherism and said this would be a press event, that we would be able to ask him questions. He hasnt had a press event for quite some time, since the middle of the democratic defense. Since then Hillary Clinton has a five conferences. Why he came to this conclusion, he did it in seven seconds, as you mentioned, and did it in his new washington, d. C. Hotel. He did not take questions from the press and then he tried to give a tour of his new property. He tried to use it as a photo op with the cameras that were there. The networks declined to do that, at one moment even the stage behind me falling apart after donald trump left the room. So the birtherism seemed to just be a move for him to get attention for his new hotel yesterday. It doesnt seem like, at least from the experience that ive had on the campaign trail, that donald trump came to a fully fledge denouncement of this Conspiracy Theory that hes been perpetuating for five years. After all, he didnt tell us why he was doing it just at that moment and whether or not he believes president obama is a christian now and whether her earned his degree rightfully. Things we dont know. Not just the birther comments, richard, also for his temperament as a whole, and his fitness for office. Former defense secretary robert gates writing an oped in the wall street journal, remember, hes a former defense secretary for both bush and president obama, and he basically said that on National Security i believe mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform, unqualified, unfit to be commander in chief, as you would xpex donald trump tweeting a response almost immediately saying he never met former secretary gates, knowing nothing about me. Look at his guidance, a total disaster. Richard, not the only tweet. Going after more saying no slight is too small for donald trump to respond to. A lot to cover in the last day or so. Katy tur, there for including the stage mishap, when not taking questions. Katy, thank you for fills us in. Also in ohio senator Bernie Sanders today rallying millennial voters. So important for the Clinton Campaign. Also handling trump on the birther issue, which their katy was telling us about. We can argue about the issues, but we cannot in the year 2016 accept bigotry as the cornerstone of any candidate running for president of the United States. Joining me now, jennifer jacobs, National Political reporter for Bloomberg Politics and a political analyst and host of the filter on sirius xm. Start with you, susan. Do it with birtherism. Now a whole 24 hours later, and at the moment, this is whats coming out of washington, d. C. The Congressional Black Caucus saying this is racist. This is more than about africanamericans. We need an apology. We need to know who, when, what, where, all of those questions answered, not just the seven seconds. And doing that because its a smart political thing to do. To keep this side of donald trump alive and well. The side that most moderate republicans and independents do believe the president was born in the United States. They really resented this Birther Movement to begin with and being labeled as potentially, him beingart of it. Makes a lot of sense. Interesting or troubling about how donald trump handled is he didnt allow the followup questions which will are going to happen no matter what. When did you decide to believe this . Hes going to again make this another day. Whenever he has his next press availability or interview, this is going to come up, or maybe it will wait, hold, until the debates and hes going to have to answer that, and, again, this is something that Hillary Clinton can seize on and it can work to her advantage. And the narrative has changed, because he has now come out and said those seven seconds. Negative, net positive, here for the Trump Campaign, and the Clinton Campaign . Donald trump knows he has three quarters of his is a parties are birthers. Theyre not going away. Totally locked down with donald trump emotionally invested, on the journey 15, 16 months. Theyre not going away so he can pivot to the center, to the independents and make a move like that. But it is an Incredible Opportunity because Hillary Clinton right now, look at pennsylvania. She has higher support with africanamericans than barack obama did in pennsylvania. 94 of africanamerican support in pennsylvania and she needs them to turn out, because pennsylvania could be a key for us. In ohio, in florida. Its not as great in florida but up there in the 90s. We need africanamericans and minority and hispanics to turn out. Thats where arizona comes into play as well. And theyre not motivated look at the polls . Motivated for donald trump. What were getting. And enthusiasm isnt there to show up, not working for Hillary Clinton by over 14 points right now. Donald trumps voters are showing up. Hillary clinton supporters may not be. Very different dynamics. Jennifer to you on this and first of all play reaction. You know how voters are reacting to the birther news and they were speaking with nbcs hallie jackson. Take a listen. He dont need it. Say im sorry to obama. Obama has to say im sorry to us, to the American People i. Believe what trump says. Reporter what part . That hes born in the United States. Reporter should donald trump apologize to the president , then, for all of those years spreading a false rumor . No way. Reporter why not . Because obama destroyed this country. No way. Jennifer, if you saw there on the screen, these are trump supporters. Theyre republicans that were reacting to that question. But the need to apologize. He might not have to do it to them, but theres those other voters hes going after, and theyre going to see the headlines. Donald trump lied. Reporter right. So what i can tell you is that the Trump Campaign has been trying to plot out how to deal with this far a while now. Every time he was asked by a reporter about this he would say i dont want to talk about that. Its a distraction, but his campaign, we are told, was thinking about apologizing next week. Thinking about having him go in front of a group of black ministers saying it then, and they wanted to be able to control and it say it in their own way. Then you know, this has just come up so many times. So many reporters asking over and over again do you finally believe that obama was born in the United States and it came to a head thursday night and he was kind of forced friday morning to do something about that. I talked to his aides before and after that event at his new hotel in d. C. , and even that morning he wasnt quite sure what he was going to say. He was still kind of piecing through this. He sat down in a holding room at that hotel with several of his chief strategists, his campaign ceo steve bannon and Deputy Campaign manager dave bossy and policy director steve miller and hope hicks, longtime spokeswoman and went around the room one by one, how do you think i show handle this . Keep it short. Unanimous decision. Democrats saying even though they put out a Campaign Statement he believes he was born in the United States they needed to hear it from trumps lips. Needed to hear it from him himself. His advisers saying, just say it. Flat out say it and move on. Then their strategy, turn it around and start tarring Hillary Clinton. How they thought they could energize supporters by turning around and blaming it on her campaign. Not saying she started it but saying her 2008 campaign started it, and their thinking was theres a nugget of truth to that. There was this 2008 memo from Hillary Clintons then chief strategist mark penn who wrote a memo released saying we should think about attacking obama b for his lack of american roots. They see that as a nugget of truth there. Nugget of truth, also a nugget of untruth on this one, the Hillary Clinton campaign did not start this. Absolutely not, and its come out. Theres been fact checks, fact checks, fak chects the past ten years about this. The fact were bringing it up again. The closest weve done to truth to this it was a former staffer who sent out a picture. Even then, not attached to the campaign. He was fired. This was way after this guy was fired. The closest connection we can find. Get to this on this, susan. On friday we had the issue of birtherism and, therefore, walking away from his base, if you will. Then today walking towards his base by going back and talking about undocumented immigrants and murders. So it sounds like you know, he walked away a little but is giving that, hey, im still on your side when it comes to this, not from here issue . Yeah. The thing is right what naomi said. His key supporters arent going anywhere. Even when he says i believe barack obama was born in the United States, some of his supporters just say, oh, hes just saying that. Saying that because he has to. They dont care. What donald trump has to do is get some moderate republican women and independents on his side in order to win this. Thats what it comes down to. He has to add to that base. Hes juggling around and thats what his skirting around. What they belie all of the things why he was talking about that earlier in the week, but almost cant help himself but to get involved and it started with one interview from the weekend update thursd update the washington post. Breaking news now were following for you throughout the day. 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We want to keep our community safe. This is our community, this is where we live. We need to make sure that we have a beautiful place for our children to live. Together, were building a better california. Breaking news were following today. First out of new jersey, a News Conference expected to start at any moment at these microphones. This after a pipe bomb exploded inside a trash can in seaside park, new jersey, just as thousands of runners were about to take part in a charity 5k run. That run was to benefit the military. According to the new jersey attorney general, no additional explosions or secondary locations were identified. Nbcs tammy leutner is on the jersey shore with the latest. Tammy . Reporter hey, richard. This happened around 9 30 this morning here in seaside park, a device went off inside of a trash can. It exploded. It was actually the start of a race. There were about 5,000 runners set to run in the marine corps charity race. If you look behind me you can see theyre still investigating. Atf and fbi both onscene trying to figure out what exactly the explosive device was, if is was a krucrude device or something e developed. Something with knowledge of bombs. Luckily nobody was injured in this. Back to you. Tammy, thank you so much for that. I want to bring in msnbc analyst atf retired special agent in charge jim cavanagh. Looking for a suspect at large, devices simple, several reported that were to