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Ainsley: $5,000 how much hillary clinton is giving to democrats running for house seats. clinton making the maximum donation to each those candidates for the 2018 mid terms through her onward together political organization. $1,840 that's how much that lee louie vitton bag carried by tom perez that's how much it's worth $2,000. dnc says he was carrying it for a staff at washington's reagan airport. do you want one of those bag, pete? pete: no. i don't. looks like a duffle bag though. ainsley: think younger people would do running the country. average age of an senator 62, 58 for members of the...

You know, donald trump makes this big point of saying he doesn't read books, he doesn't learn history. but he might find this interesting. in the 1840s was begun as you know, ari, something called the know nothing party. and their whole thing was anti-immigration. there were a lot of new immigrants, newcomers to america coming, in irish and germans, very catholic in the 1840s and 19 -- and 1850s. and this whole -- the party's idea was that these people are taking your jobs away, you old americans, and they are challenging the old white protestant supremacy and they make big efforts to get in t...

>> you have to go back all the way to the 1840s. donald trump makes this big point of saying he does not read books or read history but he may find it interesting in the 1840s was begun and as you know, ari, something called the no-nothing party. their whole thing was antiimmigration and there were a lot of new immigrants and newcomers to america coming in and very catholic in the 1840s and 1850s. this whole, the party's idea was these people are taking your jobs away and you owe americans and they are challenging the old white protestants and they make big efforts to get in their way. one thi...

Week and even after partly folding still wants to run on immigration. and what has been playing out so vividly on the border under that theory of the case is not an accident. it is the result of a policy and it has supporters who think this is politically beneficial and a president saying in public even after all this, even after the caving, that this is still somehow a winning campaign issue. for more insights on this strange state of play we turn to michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. as always, great to have you tonight. >> thanks, ari. >> as you can tell us better than most...

Immigrants, newcomers to america coming, in irish and germans, very catholic in the 1840s and 19 -- and 1850s. and this whole -- the party's idea was that these people are taking your jobs away, you old americans, and they are challenging the old white protestant supremacy and they make big efforts to get in their way. one thing they wanted from congress was to take 21 years for a newcomer to become a citizen. and this thing was so powerful that by 1856 the ex-president millard fillmore ran as the candidate of the know nothing party, third party candidate. he did better than any other third pa...