UNDER THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL

DEBATE, AND ONE MAJOR STORY IS

DOMINATING THE NATIONAL NEWS.

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.

THE SECOND NIGHT OF VIOLENT

PROTESTS AFTER THE POLICE

SHOOTING OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN

MAN ON TUESDAY.

TODAY, SALADS CHIEF OF POLICE

SAID THE VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING

SUPPORTS THE OFFICER'S VERSION

OF EVENTS, BUT DOES NOT

DEFINITELY SHOW SCOTT POINTING A

GUN AT POLICE.

THE CITY REFUSES TO RELEASE

FOOTAGE TO THE PUBLIC, BUT

INTENDS TO SHOW STOCKS FAMILY.

ALWAYS FOLLOWED ANOTHER CHAOTIC

NATIVE GUNFIRE AND TEAR GAS IN

CHARLOTTE'S CITY CENTER.

NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR HAS

DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY,

THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS BEEN

DEPLOYED, AND LORETTA LYNCH IS

SENDING DOJ OFFICERS HELP

POLICE.

POLICE RELATED SHOOTINGS HAVE

BEEN ONE OF THE MOST EXPLOSIVE

ISSUES IN AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR

IS ANST FEW YEARS, AND IT

ISSUE THAT BOTH PRESIDENTIAL

CANDIDATES HAVE JUST ON THE

CAMPAIGN TRAIL.

HERE'S DONALD TRUMP, SPEAKING

TODAY.

MR. TRUMP: MANY AMERICANS ARE

WATCHING THE UNREST IN CHARLOTTE

UNFOLDING RIGHT BEFORE THEIR

EYES ON THE TV SCREENS.

OTHERS ARE WITNESSING THE CHAOS

AND VIOLENCE FIRSTHAND.

OUR COUNTRY LOOKS BAD TO THE

WORLD, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE

SUPPOSED TO BE THE WORLD LEADER.

HOW CAN WE LEAD WHEN WE CAN'T

EVEN CONTROL OUR OWN CITIES?

WE HONOR AND RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT

OF ALL AMERICANS TO PEACEFULLY

ASSEMBLE, PROTEST, AND

DEMONSTRATE, BUT THERE IS NO

RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN VIOLENT

DISRUPTION.

AS MESSAGES WERE DECIDEDLY

MIXED TODAY.

AT TIMES THEY DISPLAYED AT THE

DEEPER THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN

COMMUNITY, AND IN OTHER TIMES

FROM SAID HE WOULD GET TOUGH ON

CRIME AND SUGGESTED THAT DRUGS

WERE A VERY BIG FACTOR IN THE

VIOLENCE AMERICANS ARE SEEING ON

THEIR TELEVISIONS EVERY NIGHT.

HILLARY CLINTON WAS ON THE

CAMPAIGN TRAIL TODAY, BUT

YESTERDAY CALLED THE REASON

POLICE SHOOTINGS, "UNBEARABLE

AND INTOLERABLE."

MARK, THESE ISSUES ARE SURE TO

COME UP IN THE DEBATE ON MONDAY.

IN TERMS OF POLITICS AND POLICY

ON THIS TOPIC, WHERE DO THE

CANDIDATES STAND AT THIS POINT,

AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEBATE

BETWEEN THEM IS LIKELY TO LOOK

LIKE?

NEWS TODAY,EAKING

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN TULSA,

OKLAHOMA CHARGED OFFICER BETTY

SHALL BE WITH MANSLAUGHTER.

SHE IS THE OFFICER WHO SHOT

TERENCE CRUTCHER, WHICH PRECEDED

THE CHARLOTTE EVENT, BUT

SUPERCHARGED THE REACTION THERE.

THAT WILL BE MUCH DISCUSSED OVER

THE COMING DAYS.

CHARLOTTE PROBABLY WILL REMAIN

THE CENTER OF ATTENTION BECAUSE

THAT CASE IS STILL PLAYING OUT

AND THERE ARE STILL SOME

QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY

HAPPENED, AND THE VIDEO BEING

SHOWN ONLY TO THE FAMILY WILL

CREATE CONTROVERSY.

THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT BOTH

CAMPAIGNS HAVE SURRENDERED TWO,

RECOGNIZING JUST A MOMENT OF

LEADERSHIP THEY NEED TO STEP UP

TO, BUT IF THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT

THIS, IT WILL LIKELY KEEP THEM

OUT OF THE NEWS.

HOWARD CLINTON IS DOWN BETWEEN

NOW AND THE DEBATE ON TUESDAY.

SHE DID NOT, TODAY, BUT DID SHE

DOES HAVE POLICIES ON THIS,

MOSTLY INVOLVING MORE WASHINGTON

SPENDING TO TRY TO CREATE

PROGRAMS ON BEST PRACTICES AND

THINGS LIKE THAT.

HAS NOT BEEN VERY

SPECIFIC.

I THINK THIS WILL BE LESS ABOUT

WHO IS PROPOSING WHAT SPECIFIC,

AND MORE ABOUT WHO SEEMS TO BE

STEPPING UP TO BE READY COME

JANUARY TO DEAL WITH WHAT IS

SURE TO BE A LINGERING AND

PERSISTENT ISSUE FOR THE

COUNTRY.

HILLARY CLINTON IS

RELATIVELY EASY TO EXPLAIN WHERE

SHE IS.

SHE HAS MADE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE

POLICY PROPOSALS AND HER

RHETORICAL POSTURE, WHICH IS

FOCUSED TO A LARGER ON ENDEMIC

RACISM AND RACIAL BIAS IN POLICE

FORCES, AND HER POSITION ON GUN

VIOLENCE.

SHE HAS A RELATIVELY CONSISTENT

POSITION.

DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN TRYING TO

WALK A TIGHTROPE.

A SPIRIT OFD ABOUT

TOGETHERNESS, TALKED ABOUT THE

NEED TO WALK A MILE IN SOMEONE

ELSE'S SHOES AND SEE THINGS IN

THEIR EYES AND FIX OUR WOUNDED

COUNTRY.

LAST NIGHT AT ONE POINT, HE

TALKED ABOUT STOP AND FIRST AS A

POTENTIAL SOLUTION.

HE SAYS THAT ASSIST IN CHICAGO,

THE CLEVELAND.

THIS INCENDIARY COMMENT ABOUT

DRUGS BEING A PART OF WHAT IS

GOING ON IN THESE CITIES, HE IS

TRYING TO STAY OUT OF THE RACIAL

MINEFIELD, BUT AT THE SAME TIME

HE STILL WANTS TO BE THE LAW AND

ORDER CANDIDATE.

HILLARY CLINTON IS CONSISTENT.

CAP IS RIGHT NOW TRYING TO HAVE

IT BOTH WAYS, AND THAT MIGHT NOT

WORK THAT WELL FOR HIM ON THE

DEBATE STAGE.

FOCUSTHE LATEST NATIONAL

ON THE TRAGEDY OF A POLICE

SHOOTING OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN

MAN IS OCCURRING IN THE MIDST OF

THE ENDGAME OF THIS PRESIDENTIAL

CONTEST.

IT IS AN EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.

NATIONAL NEWSE

CREWS BACK UP AND GO HOME, THIS

SHOOTING OF A PROTEST ARE SURE

TO LINGER IN THAT STATE FROM NOW

UNTIL ELECTION DAY.

NORTH CAROLINA IS ONE OF THE BIG

THREE BATTLEGROUND STATES THAT

WILL PLAY A BIG ROLE IN PICKING

THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

IT IS THE ONLY STATE BARACK

ITMA WON IN 2008, BUT LOST

2012.

HE LOST THE TAR HEEL STATE BY

ABOUT 100,000 VOTES TO MITT

ROMNEY.

EARLY VOTING IN NORTH CAROLINA

STARTS IN LESS THAN ONE MONTH.

JOHN, WHAT ARE THE POLITICAL

IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNREST IN

THIS IMPORTANT POLITICAL

PRESIDENTIAL BATTLEGROUND?

JOHN: AS YOU SAID, IT WILL BE

VERY CLOSE.

THERE HAS BEEN SHIFTING

DEMOGRAPHY THAT HELPS HILLARY

CLINTON IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND

SOME OF THE POLITICAL CLIMATE

THERE HAS HELPED HER TO.

THINGS THE STATE HAS

DONE THAT HAVE BEEN VERY HARD

RIGHT HAVE CREATED A BACKLASH IN

URBAN COUNTIES AND ELSEWHERE.

SHE SEEMS TO HAVE A SLIGHT

ADVANTAGE.

THINK THE QUESTION IS, ARE

THERE A BUNCH OF GENERALLY

REPUBLICAN LEADING VOTERS WHO

WOULD BE ATTRACTED TO TRUMP BY

HIS LAW AND ORDER MESSAGE AND

SEEING THIS UNREST?

ON THE OTHER HAND, WILL

AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS, WHO

CLINTON IS TRYING TO DRIVE BIG

TURNOUT FROM IS A BIG CITIES IN

NORTH CAROLINA, WILL THEIR TURN

OUT RISE IN THE FACE OF SOME OF

THESE EVENTS?

IT COULD GO EITHER WAY.

IT IS CLEAR IT WILL HAVE AN

EFFECT.

MARK: THIS IS A TEST OF WHETHER

DONALD TRUMP CAN SIMULTANEOUSLY

,E THE LAW IN ORDER CANDIDATE

AND A CANDIDATE WHO CAN REACH

OUT TO BE A UNIFYING FIGURE.

CLEARLY, HILLARY CLINTON WITH

HER CAMPAIGN SLOGAN, "STRONGER

HAS EMPHASIZED UNITY

MORNING CONFRONTATION.

THEY WILL HAVE TO WIN BACK INTO

THIS ISSUE, NO MATTER WHAT

HAPPENS.

I THINK SOME PEOPLE WILL

ASSUME THAT THIS IS IN SOME WAY

BENEFIT TO TRUMP IN THAT STATE.

REPUBLICAN STATE AND A

LOT OF WAYS, BUT IT IS

INCREASINGLY PURPLE.

ONE OF HILLARY CLINTON'S BIGGEST

CHALLENGES RIGHT NOW IS TURNOUT

CHALLENGES.

TO MESSAGE IS WELL-SUITED

AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS IN NORTH

CAROLINA, AND IF THEY PERCEIVE

THAT THE POLICE ARE OUT OF

CONTROL, IF THERE IS A SENSE OF

INJUSTICE IN THAT COMMUNITY,

HILLARY CLINTON'S MESSAGE MIGHT

BE THE KIND OF THING THAT

CATALYZES THE KIND OF TURNOUT

SHE NEEDS IN OUR COMMUNITY, IF

SHE IS GOING TO WIN IN NORTH

CAROLINA.

IT IS A VERY VOLATILE SITUATION,

POLITICALLY IN TERMS OF PUBLIC

SAFETY.

ONE OF THE BIGGEST

UNKNOWNS ABOUT THE UPCOMING

DEBATE IS DONALD TRUMP'S TONE.

JOHN: WILL WE SEE THE

UNPREDICTABLE INTEMPERATE HARD

EDGED TRUMP, OR ARE WE MORE

LIKELY TO SEE A KINDER AND

GENTLER TRUMP.

SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

TO THEMP:

AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY, TO

THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY, TO ALL

COMMUNITIES, I WANT TO SAY WE'RE

GOING TO MAKE IT RIGHT.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN

SPIRIT AND A CERTAIN UNITY.

THERE IS NO UNITY.

YOU LOOK AT THE LEVEL OF HATRED,

THE ROCKS BEING THROWN AND

EVERYTHING HAPPENING.

IT IS SO SAD TO SEE THAT THIS IS

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THERE'S JUST NO UNITY.

THERE HAS TO BE A UNITY MESSAGE