Donald trump in the wake of the shootings in louisiana, minnesota and of course, dallas. Today, though, brought a shift in tone from the Presumptive Republican nominee at a Campaign Event in virginia beach, where he read an extended statement from teleprompter about his candidacy in the wake of these tragedies. I am the law and order candidate. Every kid in america should be able to securely walk the streets in their own neighborhood without harm. Everyone will be protected equally and treated justly without prejudice. We will be tough. We will be smart. We will be fair and we will protect all americans. Those words were barely out of trumps mouth and people were already comparing what he said to the remarks Richard Nixon made using comparable rhetoric when he won the white house in 1968 during his comeback for the white house. So let us have order in america. Not the order that suppresses dissent and encourages change but the order which guarantees the right to dissent and provides the basis for peaceful change, and tonight, its time for some honest talk about the problem of order in the United States. So john, as the nation continues to grieve the tragedies of last week, wrestles with how to respond to them appropriately, how are both candidates, trump and clinton, dealing with them and what is the potancy of this message from trump . We have to step back to friday. We hadnt seen Donald Trumps video or heard Hillary Clintons message. It was surprising synergy between the two of them in a lot of ways. Trump spoke of both the tragedy in dallas and also spoke of the tragedies in louisiana and minnesota with equal weight. You could have expected him to play the law and order card there and focus on the Police Officers in dallas, did not. He and Hillary Clinton said things that as we spoke about over the weekend, you couldnt imagine them saying the same things. Today Donald Trumps in a different place. He is nixonian in what hes doing. This comes on the back of Rudy Giuliani really kind of staking out an aggressive argument against black lives matter saying they are putting targets on the back of Police Officers. Thats where the republican partys rhetoric seems to be drifting. Trump seems to be embracing that. He hasnt gone as far as giuliani did over the weekend but thats the unmistakable drift we are headed right now if trump keeps going this direction. Trump also did mention the two victims of the Police Shootings last week. So hes not going all the way on one side. But this is a change and it is a change that republicans have used effectively. It plays to trumps strength. David critics of president obama would say hes been weak and has not done enough to bring the country together. Trump is saying hes a unifier and is tough and strong. It will be fascinating. Hillary clinton has not commented since friday. It will be fascinating to see if she tries to compete with trump on this notion of being for law and order. Its hard to imagine that she would. Given just the politics of it where she wants to be and where her base is. Except if you think about the clintons in arkansas, you never want to be outflanked on law and order. They moved a long way to the left in Hillary Clintons candidacy. Shes no longer a new democrat. If you mark her words over the way shes campaigned to fend off sanders. I really think the 1968 analogies are sometimes overdone. We are still in the middle of the summer, theres a long way to go. We are here in cleveland. There could be demonstrations and worse on the streets right below where we are sitting and this could look a lot like 1968 soon. These echoes, trump has not gone full George Wallace on this issue yet. There have been those who compared him to wallace and to nixon. Is Hillary Clinton the Hubert Humphrey here . As you point out, Richard Nixon won that race and he won that race but the key was that he won it when there was a scared white majority, silent majority as he called it, not what we have now where the demographics of the country have changed a lot. In an interview last week with some of the clinton high command on trump that aired, we said is there anything that trump has done, the Trump Campaign has done to put you on the defensive, made your job harder . This is something, crafting of that speech today, it certainly puts them in a position where they have to figure out how to respond. They may not be threatened by it and may figure it out. But trump saying hes the law and order candidate is something they have to look at and say how do we respond to it. We havent heard from Hillary Clinton yet on that. I think again, one doesnt want to make these things too schematic or too black and white. Interestingly, the point of trump the criticism, remedy trump is providing, you also hear those on the left who are criticizing president obama for having been too equivocal, trying to strike a balance when from their point of view, he should be and presumably they will think Hillary Clinton should be staking out very strong argument on the opposite side sympathizing mainly with africanamericans, not at all with the white Police Officers. These are very tough issues for the country and for politicians. We arent trying to overpoliticize it. No doubt trump put a different emphasis on his position today that really puts this thing into play now and makes the events that come up and how they handle them really key to whats going on in this race. Yes. Yeah. Im going to move on. We will talk about this more. Tomorrow president obama and former president george w. Bush are going to head down to speak at a Memorial Service for the five Police Officers killed in dallas last week. They will be in that city with Vice President joe biden, who is also expected to attend funeral for Philando Castile, the minnesota man who was killed in the front seat of his car, is on thursday. The week before a National Convention would be dominating by news of Committee Meetings, running mate announcements and the keynote speaker lineup any other year. We havent gotten much of that even from donald trump yet. My question is, how will the focus and coverage of these tragedies impact just speaking of trump right now, impact the things hes got to do, pick a running mate and roll out his convention . In both of the last two Republican Conventions there were natural disasters leading up to the convention that caused the campaigns, mccain and romney campaigns to have to react. Those were big stories. This is a big story, too. I dont envy the Trump Campaign. As much as they need to pick running mate and still havent announced their Convention Schedule, on any given day now a single violent action involving a Police Officer threatens to put them off the proverbial front pages. They have a real challenge here as they plan because they are running out of time. They have to soon announce whos the keynote speaker, who is the running mate. I know you know this, but the biggest difference obviously, it almost belabors the obvious, those were natural disasters in 08 and 12. They were not what this is. This is the Political Climate that envelopes all of us. The reason this is such a hot moment is the things that happen that led to the shootings in dallas and took place in minneapolis and baton rouge were just the umpteenth in a string of things. This has been building and building and building. Whether we are now ready to explode fully we dont know. Where might the explosion occur . Right here. Thats the thing. Theres going to be, you just know that i dont care how many Police Officers are here, how well trained they are, there are going to be moments of tension and even if everyones on their best behavior on all sides, it will still be problematic. The campaign has a lot of choices to make and have to make them without knowing what the future holds in the next seven days. The thing was, to go back to the 1968 analogy, in 1968, the convention that took place in chicago, the democratic one, was the one where there were riots in the streets. With the democratic mayor. With the democratic mayor. Here, look, we know cleveland was going to try to keep demonstrators outside, far away from the q. Now thats been overruled. The judges have said thats not okay. There are a lot theres a lot of news reporting about protesters on both sides saying they are planning to march everywhere and they are all expecting things to get out of control. That was before any of the things that happened over the last week. I have a hunch they maybe didnt have the entire Convention Schedule ironed out. Now people arent really demanding it even though its five days overdue because other stuff is going on. When we come back, the latest on the veepstakes on both sides. I love my shop, 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 im back. Aleve pm for a better am. Legalzoom has your back. For your business, our trusted network of attorneys has provided guidance to over 100,000 people just like you. Visit legalzoom today. The legal help you can count on. Legalzoom. Legal help is here. One of the biggest questions in politics, even with Everything Else thats going on, is still who donald trump will pick as his running mate. Trump has been floating a new potential sidekick these days, retired Lieutenant General michael flynn. Hes been advising the gop candidate on foreign policy. Trump has also been appearing on the campaign trail with allegedly leading contenders on his purported vp short list. Giving them all a chance to audition for the job today. In virginia beach, virginia, it was Chris Christies turn to describe what kind of president the donald would be. We need a president who once again will put law and order at the top of the priority of the presidency in this country. Our Police Officers, the men and women who stand each day to protect us need to understand that the president of the United States and his administration will give them the benefit of the doubt, not always believe that what theyve done is somehow wrong. I know that he will be the type of president who will put the rule of law first, who will make sure that the law is enforced aggressively and appropriately and who will put people in his administration who understand that the rules in this country and the laws of this country apply to everyone, not just the least powerful but also the most powerful. We need someone who has always demanded the best from everyone who has worked for him and with him, and who will place the interests of the American People first and foremost. He absolutely gives you the confidence every night when you put your head on the pillow that his number one priority will be the safety and security of your family. Tomorrow, trump hits the trail with another top, perhaps actually the top vp contender, indiana governor mike pence, who is also practicing his audition today. Speaking to reporters out in the world of indianapolis. I think we need strong leadership supporting our troops, strong leadership to get this economy moving again and clearminded leadership to make common sense conservative appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. Im prepared to make that case anywhere across indiana and anywhere across this country that donald trump would want me to. I generally prefer to try to ask you questions i have not ever asked you before because they generally yield more interesting answers but this is a familiar question. Where at this moment do you think trumps veepstakes cogitations stand . Heres the combination of my reporting and spidey sense. Im downgrading the possibility of a surprise pick. I believe that trump with his gut wants to pick christie but his head is telling him pick pence. I dont believe theres anyone in trumps orbit who is against pence. I believe there are people who think Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie have risks associated with them that are not worth taking on. Mike pence is qualified, he will be seen as qualified, there will be some people who attack him for various things but i think hes headed towards picking pence but he could change his mind. Hows that . Thats okay. Not bad. I like those two candidates. I have always thought that i think pence makes a lot of sense on paper. I dont know what the chemistrys like between the two of them. I cant imagine personal chemistry will matter a lot to trump. Thats why i say he would rather have christie in his gut. I think the question, he may just end up there. I think trump is a gut guy. I dont mean that in a demeaning way. I mean i think he goes with his instincts a lot. I do not think gingrich will be on the ticket for a million reasons in terms of head and heart. The general who backtracked and changed his position on abortion, ostensibly in the last 24 hours, illustrated how difficult it is to put someone on the ticket who hasnt had a political career before. But i also continue to think the surprise pick is still conceivable. This is all head fakery and theres a fully vetted, they are just lying about the numbers on the short list, a fully vetted other who is ready to pop. The thing about mike pence is he gives all upside and the downside is pretty limited and hes qualified. People will attack him for being conservative but Everybody Loves acttacking trump. At last, from the point of view of brooklyn, Bernie Sanders is ready to endorse Hillary Clinton. It is expected to happen tomorrow at a joint rally in New Hampshire. Sanders long anticipated backing reopens the conversation of what kind of running mate clinton might and can choose. Hes got shes got sanders in hand. Where does that leave her search for a running mate . Well, the big event in the veepstakes world of Hillary Clinton is thursday when she will be in virginia, northern virginia, suburban washington, d. C. , with tim kaine. Doing her own set of tryouts. Maybe doing that. We saw her do an audition with Elizabeth Warren. Now we see tim kaine. I think theres good reason why tim kaine has always been at the front of her list. He continues to be at the front of her list. My view as and continues to be if she believes the only the thing thats standing in her way to the presidency is getting Bernie Sanders voters over, that makes the case for warren. But sanders endorsement will help diminish her worry about that which will lead her more likely to tim kaine, i think. I dont think theres any chance clinton will pick before trump. If trump picks pence, the biggest rap on kaine for people is its not exciting. If you had dinner with tim kaine and mike pence and were asked to choose which was more exciting you might have trouble picking. They are pretty similar in their resumes and backgrounds. You could have a bilingual conversation with tim kaine. Thats sort of exciting. Theres no reason to worry about picking a guy who maybe is not the most exciting in the world. I thought for awhile it would be tim kaine. Most clinton people i know who have an opinion are either enthusiastic or totally fine with him. I dont think shes getting pushback about picking tim kaine. Therefore, go with somebody vetted by barack obama, the safe choice. But i will say, if trump makes a surprise pick, i could see her making a surprise pick. Look, do not count out the person who popped up recently, tom vilsack. Dont count him out. Also a vanilla pick but someone she really likes a lot. That will matter. Up next, delegates have been busy in the rock and roll capital of the world. We check in on them next. 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. 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