Nonsense approach to the sport she loved, her sense of humor and her warm smile, today, june 28th, 2016. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our show on a Tuesday Morning. Tamron in for savannah once again. Such sad news about pat summitt. One person said she made you feel there was nothing to be afraid of. Her legacy for womens sports, basketball, but Overall College and what she did in upgrading and bringing attention to the game. Well talk much more about pat summitt coming up. Let us start with our top story. Its the president ial race and donald trump taking a closer look at one of his most controversial proposals banning muslims from entering the u. S. We have new numbers. Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by eight points, 49 to 41 . Nbcs Kristen Welker has the latest on this. Kristen, good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. With donald trump lagging in almost every poll, his campaign is trying to turn the page beefing up his staff and now looking at the possibility of softening one of his most divisive policies. Trying to get his campaign back on track, there are signs this morning that donald trump could be backing away from one of his most controversial positions, a ban on muslims entering the United States. One of trumps policy directors now telling tthe wall street journal that trump would only suspend temporarily immigration from areas. Overnight, his spokesperson denying there was any change in policy but acknowledging the need for more details. Mr. Trump is going to refine his policy putting out more specific details which everyone has been asking for, but there has been no change. Reporter trump first announced the ban after the San Bernardino terror attacks in december and planned to ban all muslims. Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. Reporter the policy may have helped him win the primary but our latest nbc news wall street journal poll shows 49 of registered voters oppose the muslim ban indicating it could hurt him in the general election. This comes as Hillary Clinton is taking steps to further unify her party. In ohio on monday firing up democrats in her first joint appearance with senator Elizabeth Warren. Clinton is eyeing warren as a possible vp pick. On monday there was no sign of the policy dimpfferences that ud to divide them. They were not only color coordinated but in sync delivering a onetwo punch against trump. What kind of man roots for people to lose their jobs and lose their homes and lose their life savings. Ill tell you what kind of a man. A small, insecure money grubber who fights for no one but himself. I do just love to see how she gets under Donald Trumps thin skin. Reporter now, trump land bla la blasted that event. Hell be campaigning for for the first time in the critical battleground state of ohio. Secretary clinton will be in ohio where shell unveil a new tech initiative. Hillary clintons email scandal and her response to the 2012 benghazi attack are back in the headlines and today her closest aide will be questioned under oath. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Good morning. Dueling reports this morning. An issue donald trump has repeatedly raised during the campaign. The section of the 800page republican report obtained by nbc news sheds new light on the breakdown in the military response to the benghazi attacks and the failure to have an evacuation plan. Among the revelations, the report says 35 americans were saved not by local militias the u. S. Thought were allies but fled but by former military officers from Moammar Gadhafis regime. The dictator that the u. S. Helped topple one year before. Why was ambassador Chris Stevens in such a Dangerous Police . Chris chose to go to benghazi because he understood america needed to be represented there at the pivotal time. Stevens was filling a temporary gap. Most surprising, witnesses told the committee, stevens was also laying the groundwork for a visit by secretary clinton to benghazi the following month. A major focus of the report is a military failure to carry out orders from defense secretary leon panetta to deploy forces to benghazi and a force didnt get to tripoli until the next afternoon partly because of a previously reported failure to have airplanes ready but also because of conflicting orders from pentagon officials on whether marine should wear military uniforms or civilian attire because of diplomatic sensitivi sensitivities. One commander said during the course of three hours waiting on the plane, he and his marines changed in and out of their uniforms four times. Democrats on the committee have a sharply different view. Even before seeing the republican report. Democrats arguing the u. S. Military could not have done anything differently on the night of the attacks that would have saved the lives of the four brave americans killed in benghazi. The democratic report acknowledges security measures in benghazi were woefully inadequate but blast the republicans report as a case study in how not to conduct a credible investigation. Wasting, it says, more than 7 million of taxpayer money. Today the Clinton Campaign continues to attack the committees credibility calling it a partisan sham since its start. The highest ranking democrat on the Benghazi Committee tells nbc news this morning republicans didnt want them to check the report against the evidence that they had obtained. The state department insisting they made great progress for making posts safer since benghazi and one of clintons closest aides is going to be questioned by a conservative watchdog, judicial watch, in her role in setting up the private server. A lot more to come. Thank you very much. Lets bring in nbc news political analyst nicole wallace. Nice to see you again. Lets start with what andrea just talked about. The reports coming out of the house on benghazi and as a result on the email server as well. Hillary clintons base made up their mind on this. Donald trumps base made up their minds on this. How much impact in the middle . If you look at polls just out this week, Hillary Clinton lags donald trump on the question of honest and trustworthy and dont take my word for it. Listen to Hillary Clinton on the stump yesterday where she gave pretty sober and straightforward explanation for why people might find her lacking in trustworthiness when she said im careful with my words not because im hiding something but because im careful with my words. Its a vulnerability. Its a vulnerability according to the polls but big moment yesterday walking out on stage with Elizabeth Warren. I heard you this morning on morning joe saying you may break the internet with the comment but you compared Elizabeth Warren to sarah palin, someone know very well. Hillary clinton and john mccain are sort of in the political word, steak and potatoes. Substance. People who know how to govern. Elizabeth warren like sarah palin pack arenas. You dont think shell be the vp pick and you dont think she should be. I dont think she will pick her. We could be wrong. People who look at what Hillary Clintons pick needs to satisfy dont think shoring up the far left flank of the party is her task come november. Let us end on the subject of Donald Trumps change in stance on banning muslims entering the country. Is this an admission it works in the primaries and will not work in the general election . Its an admission that having a shoot from the hip, fly by the seat of your Pants Campaign is not going to get the job done come november. You still have republicans rebuking you week after week after week, you cant sign on donors, you cant sign on staff and you probably cant beat Hillary Clinton. Nicole, thank you very much. Good to see you. Theres a new twist this morning in the crash of egyptair flight 804. French authorities opening a manslaughter investigation. Nbcs bill neely has more on that for us. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning, tamron. Theres a strong chance that the mystery of flight 804 can be solved. The flight recorders were recorded two weeks ago. They were damaged but now theyve been cleaned of sea salt and memory chips extracted and data from the final moments of the plane is on the flight recorder. Were sure of it they say. Theyre now working on the memory chip of the cockpit voice recorder and then all that data will be analyzed in egypt. Also as you say, french authorities now say there is no evidence of terrorism and theyre not looking into that opening instead an investigation into involuntary homicide, an accident. Remember, no terrorist group has said it bombed the plane. For the families of the 66 onboard, the agony is prolonged but they may know more to explain why their loved ones died. We want to go back to the video we showed you at the top of the show. A bp natural gas plant rocked by an explosion overnight in mississippi. There were two employees on duty at the time but they were in an Explosion Proof room. They were not injured. Officials say residents who live nearby were asked to leave their homes as a precaution. An investigation into how that explosion occurred now under way. To that sad news overnight that legendary Womens Basketball coach pat summitt has passed away. She coached the team to eight National Championship in her 38 seasons. She was the winningest coach in division 1 College Basketball history. Summit was diagnosed with early onset dementia back in 2011 and stepped down after coaching the lady vols for one more season. That year she was the recipient of the president ial medal of freedom. Her son tyler issued a statement saying his mother died peacefully in knoxville surrounded by those who love her most. Pat summitt was 64 years old. Women who play for her have nothing but incredible things to say about her. We want to talk about a consumer alert involving a very big recall. Ikea recalling tens of millions of chests and dressers. Nbcs tom costello has been following the story for more than a year. Tom, good morning. Reporter good morning. The Consumer ProductSafety Commission says every two weeks in this country a child dies under falling tvs and furniture and now ikea stopped selling a unit it says is especially prone to that. Its important. Its asking parents if you have one of these dressers or chests, stop using those unless theyre anchored to the wall. The numbers are heartbreaking. Every 24 minutes a child is injured from falling furniture or tvs. Every two weeks, a child dies. This video from the Consumer ProductSafety Commission shows how fast it can happen. Now, one of the nations Biggest Furniture retailers is announcing a major recall. 29 million pieces of ikea furniture most sold under ikeas malm name. Children see something theyre trying to get thats been left on. They start to climb. The unit falls over. Weve had deaths associated with these types of unit because of it and 33,000 emergency room vi visits a year. Reporter three deaths in just the past 2 1 2 years including a 2 year old who pulled his dresser down on himself. I didnt see him anywhere. I went over and kind of pulled everything apart and i saw the little top of his head trapped between the dresser and the edge of the bed. Reporter the dresser was not anchored to the wall. This morning ikea is asking anyone with a malm clhest or dresser to stop using it if its not anchored to wall. Theyll provide a full refund if customers return the furniture. We would like to ask as a customer to make sure that all chest of drawers are properly attached to the wall. If not, take them out of the room. Reporter for the family now suing ikea, every day still brings heartbreak but the ikea recall is his legacy. This is the worst thing thats ever happened in our lives. Reporter a lot of families say their landlords if theyre renting wont let them anchor something to the wall because they dont want holes in the wall but Safety Advocates say theres no excuse. You can patch the hole later. Dont take a risk on your childs safety and they say if you cant anchor to the wall, bring it back to ikea. Back to you. Great information. Tom, thank you very much. To the desperate rescue effort under way this morning to save a massive blue whale tangled in fishing line off the Southern California coast. Steve patterson is in los angeles with the latest. Good morning. Reporter the young whale was spotted about four miles off the coast by people on a whale watching trip. Rescuers made at least six attempts to cut the lines attached to at that wha that whale but they were unsuccessful so today a team of experts will attempt again. A rescue is under way for a massive blue whale. A team of experts trying to figure out how to free the young whale tangled in fishing lines off the coast of florida. A crew on a whale watching cruise spotted the whale in distress. Its large tail caught in fishing traps meant for lobsters or crabs. They returned to the whale with a rescue team who worked to cut the whale free using a knife on the 25foot pole. We got pretty close. I would say that we were within six inches. Reporter as dust fell, the whale disappeared into the sea. Thats when the whale just decided that was it. He had enough. He wasnt going to let us anywhere near it and just vanished. Reporter experts say its rare for blue whales to get tangled in fishing gear because they dont usually search for good so close to the shore but noaa reports 40 entanglements since january. And officials are hoping that if the whale is found again, they can renew efforts to set it free. Thats all we were really trying to do is get the worst of it all so that the whale had a chance. Reporter officials are now asking boaters to be aware and look for the whale today. The whale has a bright orange buoy attached to it along with two smaller buoys. Tamron . Steve, thank you. Sad. Mr. Roker, a check of the weather . We have a little cloudy sky out here in the northeast and its part of a system thats going to cause probably some airport delays throughout the northeast later today. You can see wet weather stretching from new england all of the way down into the Midatlantic States all part of a front we have a risk of strong storms today from plattsburgh, new york, down into central pennsylvania. Afternoon airport delays likely. Look for wind threats and as you can see, the good news is very light rain throughout West Virginia so they shouldnt have any problems. We are looking for showers and thunderstorms moving offshore as we get in during the day. This is a long stretching front. 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