john: i'm john heilemann. mark: i'm mark halperin. with all due respect to tom brady, would you say your enthusiasm for donald trump has deflated? ♪ on the program tonight, donald trump's rigged rhetoric and democrats are shouting quid pro quo whoa. the suggestion in fbi official might have discussed a change of the classification of one of hillary clinton's secret e-mails -- possibly an exchange from our

bureau overseas. we will talk about the merits and applications of that story later in the program. first, the polls are little confusing. yesterday, two national surveys told very different tales about the state of the race. one from nbc news and "the wall street journal" shows hillary clinton leading by 11 points among likely voters. another highly respected poll from abc news and "the suggests thatt" hillary clinton only has a 4% lead over trump. and monmouth has put out its own poll showing clinton up by 12%. inther bowl, clinton up 8% colorado and tied. another cnn-orc poll shows clinton leading by 4%. cnn has clinton well within the margin of error in north carolina and within the margin up to in nevada.

and we want to mention our wbur thaty, clinton leading in state by just three percentage points. and she has expanded her edge by percentage points by a widely respected survey out today. john, a whole lot of pulling data. what is the actual state of the race today? say: mark, i would like to on behalf of of our friend john ralston, who we will be sitting in nevada -- we will head to las vegas in a day or so -- we do , not do it, nevahda nevada. that our friend david plouffe has made, you look at all these polls, a couple things are clear.

hillary clinton has never been behind in this race. donald trump has been behind, is still behind nationally, and in the battleground states. when you look at the battleground states, there has been less erosion than on the worstal level since the of total problems begun, but it is still the case she is in a better position in the battleground states than barack obama ever was in 2012 against mitt romney and we all know how that turned out. was the incumbent and a stronger candidate in a lot of ways. for still the underdog. national polling is catastrophic for him. if he loses by five points nationally he is not going to win the election. it will be a landslide. but the state polls show he can win. take a look at this map. give him all of the romney states, including north carolina, a state where he is behind, the trump people concede, but the state polls are closer.

give him florida, ohio, iowa, the state where las vegas is, the name of which i cannot pronounce -- give him those. to win. five more giving them all of those states is a mental exercise. he is probably behind in at least three of them, maybe a little ahead in ohio and iowa. as dire as things are for trump right now, if he has a little bit of a roll nationally and he can win those states he could get to 255 electoral votes. he is the underdog. he has been all along. he has had a horrible stretch. in the state polling, it shows this thing is not over. john: right, but here's the thing. a mentalaying, it's exercise to give him all those dates. i think it's an exercise and mental gymnastics. you are saying he is within striking this it's, but behind -- striking distance, but behind in a whole bunch of states he has to win all of. he's within striking this is a

pulling an inside straight. it was one or two state that were must win states for him that he was behind him, i would see there was more of a path, but we're talking about a national wave moving against him, and in these states where, you're right, he has not lost that much altitude, he is still where he was a few weeks ago. needs to overcome obstacles and run an inside straight -- by one.ke them one ohio, he has generally been ahead. clinton folks think he could win there. he could win iowa. the silver state is a question, but he has been ahead at times. he could win florida and nokia lumia. huge influence in florida. i don't know he will win it. he could. in north carolina, he is behind, but in three of them, i think he is even or ahead. you are just basically -- you basically said you do not know he is ahead in florida. he is behind in almost all of

the florida polling. again -- [bell rings] john: you are giving them everything and he is still at 265. mark: give him the three where he is even or ahead, he has to find a way to win florida and north carolina and the last five is really tough. that is why he is deeply the underdog in this race. john: all right, we agree then on that for sure. while j. trump for a now has been doubling, even quadrupling down on his whole the election is rigged ring, even though his running mate mike pence said on the sunday shows that their ticket would honor the will of the voters even if hillary going to wins. trump tweeting up today, of course there is large-scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. why the republican leaders deny what is going on? so naïve. to which hillary clinton fell mook saidanager robby it this way -- donald trump's

campaign is spiraling. he is desperately trying to attention from his own disastrous campaign. he knows he is losing and he's trying to blame that on the system. this is what losers do. and were not going to give it any credit by amplifying it. it's not true. the system is not rigged. mark, the conventional wisdom is has been laying the groundwork with a bunch of excuses so he can justify his failure. but you think in the short-term, i.e. pre-election and the immediate to long-term, i.e. postelection, are there other objectives he is pursuing a advancing this line of argument? is doing itk he mostly out of immaturity and impulsiveness, because he is surrounded by a bunch of people who believe in conspiracy theories. i think it is more that and not achieving a short time objective. it is crowding out news. the press will focus on it. he will fight with democrats and republicans about it. if trump has a chance to win --

and he doesn't have a good chance right now -- it is talking about change, washington needing to be shaken up, i don't think he is laying the groundwork as much as he is just impulsive and he likes to, you know, prattle on. but for his own chances, it's ridiculously stupid. it's also -- think look, this is incredibly dangerous the stuff he is saying. mark: oh, that, too. john: it is ridiculous. there has been a fair amount of study on voter fraud the last few years. we have had debate in state after state over voter id laws and there has been a miniscule to minimus proven cases of voter fraud before or on election day. that is the first thing. second, it seems like what they are trying to do -- and we have said this before -- they are trying to depress turnout in general and while up the base to turn out. maybe that is trying to rile up the base.

if you don't get out and vote, they will steal the election. the other, longer-term thing, they are trying to build some kind of movement. i don't know if that will be a business or what, but some kind of anti-hillary clinton movement after she gets elected president, if she gets elected president that he can capitalize on in terms of power or money. [bell rings] will be fascinating to see how many days he talks about things that will help him get elected versus not. of next, why the state department and fbi released statements today about hillary clinton from e-mails. we will talk about that story when we come right back. ♪

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world is of an arms about the release of new fbi documents about the agency's investigation into hillary clinton from e-mail practices as a greater state. the disclosures indicate a secretary -- as a department official urged the fbi to downgrade the classification of one of clinton's e-mails. kennedy made the no request to an fbi agent, who in turn asked about getting the agency more office space overseas, leading to accusations of a possible wood pro quote. it's ambiguous who brought up the idea and what that quid pro have been. who suggested it, who might have, who didn't. we do know that kennedy's suggestion was rebuffed. no classification changes were made. republicans are seizing on the story. donald trump has been tweeting about it all day. house speaker paul ryan put out a statement of his own, saying the situation "there's all the

signs of a cover-up." mark, what do you make of this and where might it go? will be a again i critic of the fbi. they should not be putting this stuff out. put iting decided to out, they should put it out with real transparency. there are so many reductions. i do not blame the republicans for demanding more information. we do not know enough. it's not the role of the media or the republicans to give the benefit of the doubt to people in government. it's just not. and while some of the initial reports of this have overstated what we know and how definitively a state department official might've been involved in the discussions about a quid pro quo, there are a lot of questions begged, and the fbi, i do not know what they are thinking. they are releasing these documents on an ad hoc basis, heavy reductions, only leading to more confusion, not clarification. john: i agree with you. we have differed with things on

these topics, but the fbi, the totality, how they have handled disclosures talking about this case, for months now, it has been less helpful rather than more helpful and more confusing rather than clarifying. the clinton campaign is on the record today showing patrick kennedy's request was just part of the normal interagency haggling over classification that takes place. i think it is strange that it would have -- i don't think they this should be regarded as just customary given that it was happening and would become a matter of great of like controversy. there may be more smoke and fire, but there may be more fire here. i think the story will linger for days until we get answers to the questions you and i have raised here today. mark: republican should not be accused of being political asking for more information -- although trump and others are going to far based on what we know.

it really should be investigated and republicans will talk a lot about it, for sure. another headache and the clinton world has to do with the slow drip of wikileaks revelations that keep coming from john podesta's inbox. those e-mails, which allegedly are authentic -- at least in some cases they seem to be -- started dropping about a week ago, starting with excerpts from clinton's wall street speeches, alleged communiqués, daily disclosures, campaign gossip, or insider stuff, including one in which a longtime clinton aide described chelsea clinton as "a spoiled brat." at the staff level, they seem to mock evangelicals and conservative catholics. there was one reportedly showing clinton allies pulling on president obama's ties to the islamic faith and his past drug use during between you a eight campaign. then the release of what was

once considered the anti-clinton holy grail, the transcripts of her three paid speeches to goldman sachs. that came out, and again, interesting stuff, but no game changing revelations. john, a lot of disclosures. no mega bombshells so far. where does that leave the current damage and potential threat of what we expect to be continued drumbeat of disclosures? john: great. i agree a lot of these things are interesting and some of them wayquite damning, not in a that are surprising to me and you. we talked about this to david axelrod. he basically said, you know, some of these things that were revealing about clinton fell campaign culture and -- clinton's campaign culture and he had a very dyspeptic view in 2008 about what clinton fell campaign culture was like and he sees that laid bare. to me, the ones that are most dangerous are the ones that

touch on president obama. i find it incredibly intriguing he had an e-mail account that he e-mailed under an alias, and it seems like he may have been in communication with hillary clinton under that e-mail. the things that touch directly on president obama, and the e-mail controversy -- it's potentially damaging. potentially. has: i think the press accepted the narrative that these e-mails in their totality show a window into the kind of culture of a clinton operation that says one thing and does another. that's not unusual for political operations. but i think that has primed the pump. and people also recognize it's whoever is controlling this disclosure is not necessarily leading with the lede. for ak people are primed big disclosure. that will help of some thing comes up that is worth it. [bell rings] part, this isst

lowered expectations about what might come. all right, taking a break now. up next, the great story -- the title is "donald trump echo chamber of conspiracies, grievances, and vitriolic." that is quite a headline. we will talk about that. ♪

♪ mark: welcome back. lots going on politically today. joining us to talk about it all from the nation's capital, slugger, reporter from "the washington post." ok, looking at donald compel actions, do you think using a different place in terms of his rhetoric and his mental state than he has

been? phil: i do. he has been moving this direction. he is clearly deciding to turn inward and talk directly to his base and talk about dark conspiracies and. wafer in the core messages that animated his campaign early on and a lot of republicans believe could give him a better chance to win the election and focusing instead on things like the polls are rigged and corrupt and the media is biased and part of a global conspiracy and even saying, as he repeated again today, that the election is rigged and stolen. the voter fraud is happening and rampant and cheating is underway. it is a pretty dark turn. know let me ask what you about this. my reporting is some of his advisers think this stuff is great. he thinks it will help win a base election. he has other advisors who say you should be talking about the economy, change, hillary clinton being part of the problem. are there divisions, and why is

trump not listening to the people arguing for the latter message? : a lot of traditional republican strategists and operatives are deeply comfortable with the direction trump is taking, but he's getting a lot of cues from stephen bannon, who used to run breitbart, stephen miller, and they are helping to feed a lot of this to trump. him every day. that speech on florida thursday night was, really, i think a turning point where he went full on with the global conspiracy and talked about the clinton campaign, the media, banks, multinational corporations all ways tong in dark steal this election from him and his movement. , just explain what the theory of the case is, how this helps him win. obviously it appeals to his base or a subset of his base.

for those urging this on him, surely they think it is the way to win. in their world, how do they explain how this is a path to victory? two: i think there are pieces. first of all, it is his base. he is saying things he thinks will galvanize, motivate, energize his base of aggrieved white people, many of them working class. there is a belief in the trunk campaign that the more of his people that are out there prepared to vote for donald who haved the people not participated in elections before, so he is trying to motivate them, to give them a reason to turn out. the other piece is he is trying to suppress a hillary clinton's space and give voters who might be going to the polls for hillary clinton a reason to think twice or feel uncomfortable about doing so or feel like something is wrong with the process or there is going to be too much friction or tension at the polling places. i was talking to mayor michael nutter, the former mayor of philadelphia today, and he said

this is his big fear in philadelphia, that the trunk campaign -- trump himself talking about voter fraud in go to his supporters to the polling places could be an intimidating force and suppress the african-american vote in that city, which of course would help donald trump. john: phil, i just want to ask you about infowars. for anyone who is not familiar with alex jones and infowars. we have seen him talking about hillary clinton being on drugs at the last debate, which is straight out of that world. and dow jonesrs and why is trump taking pages out of their playbook? it's a website. it's one of the darkest corners of the media online, if you want to call it that. they don't do traditional journalism, but they spread a lot of theories, including 9/11 truther series.

that it was some kind of germanic government plot, the terrorist attacks of 2001. alex jones certainly -- is someone he is on interviews with. he listens to what he has to say. and roger stone, a long time trump advisor, frequently appears there, pedals ideas. a lot of conspiracies that trump brings up on the campaign trail like hillary clinton's drug use -- which, by the way, there is no evidence of -- originated with the site. it is like breitbart, probably less known to the mainstream public, but one of the sites online. mark: do you know how the conveyor belt works? is trump reading this himself? are people pitching it? how does it go from it seeing on infowars to trump saying it on the stump? phil: i wish i knew. witharted on infowars

roger stone advancing the theory in an interview and all of a sudden it came out of trump's mouth at that rally in new hampshire. somehow or another, trump is getting this information. i don't know if it is stephen bannon, his chief executive for the campaign, or someone else. there is some conduit. tok: it would be fascinating know if people are pitching it to him or showing it to them and he is using it himself. particularly with the debate coming up, all campaigns worry that if you say something to the candidate he or she may blurt it out on the stump. he had a teleprompter at that speech. i wonder if it was on the prompter or in ad lib.. phil: yeah, it would be really striking if that was in the prompter. he said it, so he has to live by it. mark: we have the debate on wednesday. any sense if the truck campaign thinks this is their last, best hope of cutting into hillary for

lead, or they are not building up that way? well, it is his last, best hope. it's the last chance he will have to speak to a hundred million people in the country directly with clinton. he prepared for sunday with some of his advisers, but he is clearly not putting in the time that hillary clinton is. he has taken two full days, three days rather of the campaign trail and is in new york doing debate prep -- she has taken two full days, three days rather of the campaign trail and is in new york doing debate prep. trump is doing rallies instead. rucker, thanks very much. we will be talking more about the campaign trail after this. ♪

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appropriate. it's not acceptable. ann's i was support -- and i was surprised. that is not the man that i know. the cameras were not on. it was only a mic, and i wonder if they even knew that the mic was on, because they were kind --boy talk, and he was egged on from the host to say and bad stuff. >> you feel the host, billy bush, was egging him on? mrs. trump: yes. this stuff you had heard him say before? no. trump: i have heard different talk, the

boys talk. the boys, they want to grow up and sometimes show each other, oh this and that and talking about the girls. but yeah, i was surprised, of course. ♪ mark: that was just part of rump's interview with anderson cooper that is later today. she did an interview with fox that will air tomorrow. joining us, jack kingston, a trump campaign adviser and a democratic communications consultant who is now a senior adviser to the democrat national committee. thank you both for joining us. congressman, is the political fallout from the "access hollywood" tape and donald trump's accusers and ongoing story or is it done? >> it depends how we handle it. i was listening to a law your yesterday who said you have to

er yesterday disproveyou have to these cases, but you don't have to litigate them. another case, a family member had come out and said, well, you know, my cousin loved it donald trump until he turned her down to come to a restaurant. another one is saying she does not really remember where it took place or when it's a place. -- or when it took place. i think donald trump has to defend himself, but not dwell on it. i think it's very important to acknowledge it. these are very serious charges. allegation.rious but at the same time, he needs to say i dealt with it. talk about this economy. i want to talk about 94 million people who are underemployed or unemployed in america. we are not doing well in the middle east.

i think if he talks about changing the washington culture and issues of the economy and whatnal security, that is people are looking for in the next president and i think he can move beyond these. mark: your party and your candidate have largely stayed away from this. the press interest has waned over the weekend a little bit. is this something he democratic party short or will talk about to bring back the accusations and how donald trump has handled them and the "access hollywood" tape? offeredongressman has goodbyes to his candidate. his candidate does not seem to be taking that advice. he is engaging in the 10 blaming and it's really pretty heinous. we saw more and more people over the weekend when press interest was waning, you saw at lisicki there callsgroups, were going through the roof. people were saying, wait a minute, this sounds very similar

to an experience of mine and i want to talk to someone about that. that is what he is essentially -- he had this irruption of concerns and dems who are -- victims who are seeking support. that is the single positive thing to come from this is there are people seeking support. everything else that comes out of his mouth and, it sounds like, coming out of his wife's mouth, to me, it is victim blaming. a new videotape about donald trump talking about this controversy with the state department and the fbi. mr. trump: this is very big and frankly, it's unbelievable. the department of justice, the state department, and the fbi colluded, got together to make hillary clinton look less guilty and look a lot better than she looks. this is one of the big breaking stories of our time, in my opinion. this shows corruption at the highest level and we can't let

it happen as american citizens. this is complicated. we tried to explain a earlier in the show. one question. this is apple. patrick kennedy, state department official at the center of this. he has been a defender of hillary clinton. would you like patrick kennedy to expire himself on capitol hill and clear the air? ms. sefl: i will give you an answer, which is the fbi said this is ridiculous. this was not said indictable. would you like to see patrick kennedy explain himself? to seel: i would like people talk about who is going to drive them to the polls on election day. this is another shade game that trump continues to late. around the country, people say, what about reforming the criminal justice are some? you know, the list of issues

voters do care about -- this is not on it. mark: i last one more time -- would you like patrick kennedy to speak in public and explain himself? yes or no? ms. sefl: i don't think of that interested in it. mark: this is a propagated story. is this something that donald trump should be emphasizing to break through to voters? important it's because it underscores the corruption of the clinton family, the pay for play altar, the family this is i only have one server and it turns out to be 13. mark: what we know so far, what does that have to do with pay to play? kingston: it just fits in with the clinton modus operandi. and this does not come from wikileaks. this comes from freedom of information act. here is what we know. patrick kennedy in the clinton state department goes to the fbi and begs and pleads and vigils,

trying to get something the classified or classified to a point where they can hide it in the archives of the state department basement, never to be seen by the public, and the fbi will not play ball with them. touess they started negotiate to get more slots overseas. it's a little complicated. as someone who was in government, i can tell you, this is not how i want tax funded entities to act. mark: all right. come get it. think you both. congressman, stay right there. we will continue this conversation in a moment. you can listen to us whenever you are in the nation's capital on the radio radio. we will be right back. ♪

mr. trump: believe me, she would not be my first choice. that i can tell you. you condone that language? >> he essentially said he didn't do it. >> he has laid out the map for for sexually assaulting women when he said that is what he did. >> you are obsessed with this point. what about the issues in the poll? john: that was trump campaign earlierkellyanne conway on "meet the press daily." we seniore with the former spokesman for barack obama's andaign back in 2008

congressman kingston. harvey, i will start with you since you're sitting there with me. kellyanne conway also said something about this comment about this being a rigged election. she said absent evidence of irregularities, of course we will accept the outcome -- if that is her posture -- i think that is the posture of every campaign, if there is no evidence of wrongdoing, we will accept the outcome. what is donald trump saying the opposite question mark of course, there's already voter fraud happening right now and you are naïve to believe otherwise? candidate says there's going to be a rigged election. trumps important here, has shown the last couple of weeks he's not interested in winning this election. talking about rigging the election is not about winning. it's about setting up for what he wants to do afterwards, which is keep the constituency he has built for some other business

venture, and i think it will be trump tv. this talk about rigging election depresses his own vote. that's what i don't understand. his voter enthusiasm numbers went from 91% to the mid 70's in the last couple weeks when he has really been talking about rigging the elections. he's not interested in winning. this is for something else. john: congressman kingston, i want to ask you a couple things about this. donald trump is making this argument with increasing the severus this. he says you are naïve if you don't think voter fraud is widespread. i'm sure you know there is almost no evidence of voter fraud in american history, at least recent vintage. there are stories in which trump supporters are saying if hillary clinton gets elected it will obviously be a rigged outcome and they are talking about things like assassination and coups. there was a story in "the boston this weekend.

how is it healthy or justifiable for donald trump to be saying the things he is saying about a rigged election? mr. kingston: i have been on the 13 different times. i have always had poll watchers. it is a matter of trust, but verify. sometimes there are in irregularities that have nothing to do with party or motive. it's just plain in competency. i think it's particularly important in tough areas for each candidate to have poll watchers, and i think that is a good direction to go in. i don't know of anybody of any credibility who says they think they should assassinate hillary clinton if she wins, john. i mean, there are always outliers who say all kinds of wacky things, but no one affiliated with our campaign. john: congressman, excuse me. mr. trump is going well beyond saying there should be poll watchers. he is saying this is going to be a rigged election.

there is widespread voter fraud taking place. he tweeted that today. he is creating a climate among his supporters that is dangerous. what do you say to that? mr. kingston: i think that's ridiculous, john. we hear this from the left no matter what he says. whose campaign office has been firebombed? the trapped office. i would not say that is under a mandate of hillary clinton, it was there something in her rhetoric? no, the press would not say that. nobody would link that to anything hillary or any of her subordinates have said, but whatever happens on the trump campaign, it's always directly related to his last speech. and i will say this. in my understanding of his theretion of "rigged," is is an overwhelming bias against him, whether it is coming out of hollywood, the establishment, wall street, whether it comes out of the media, there does seem to be a fix against donald trump.

just as morning i was looking, and i know the numbers have changed since them, but 37 daily papers have given an endorsement, 23 of those up onto hillary clinton, six have gone to johnson, and zero as of two days went to trump. i think he picked up one this morning. you think about those numbers. it's hard to believe, well, there's no bias whatsoever. john: congressman -- kingston: delon on, john. i don't mean to ramble. john: i would just point out that many of those newspapers that endorsed hillary clinton are newspapers that have never not endorsed a republican, so they are not exactly liberal newspapers -- kingston: i'm not saying they're liberal. i'm just saying the system is fixed against him. conversely, again, that is a weird definition of bias when

a conservative newspaper that has always endorsed republicans goes against donald trump -- mr. kingston: basically -- to gocongress may, i got to my other gift your. i can just talk to you the entire time. let me ask you this question ,hari. you look at the polls. she is clearly the leader. she is winning nationally by somewhere between four and 11 points. she has leads. some of them are narrow, in most of the battleground states. why is this race still as close as it is? there is still a path for come to win, i think you would agree? and a ceilingoor and he will fluctuate. 80/20will not be an election ever. he will be somewhere between 30% and 45%. there's definitely movement toward hillary. the path for him to get to 270 is virtually impossible. if she wins everything allstate

and the district of columbia -- 19 of them the democrats of one in the last six elections -- she starts at 242. playe are putting them utah, arizona, texas. the hillary clinton campaign is going on the tv in texas. doing that.re barack obama fell campaign in 20 of 12, -- barack obama fell campaign in 2012, he did not put arizona in play. they said, we can get to 270 without it. the clinton campaign does not have that choice. do you think it is smart to spend resources on reach states questio? >> they will have the resources to get to 270. there will be expansion states where they will get votes, and it's not just for them. they are helping the down ballot races and that will help hillary clinton govern. it's also forcing republicans to play defense there.

the bottom line is donald trump needs to be expanding the map now. his map is shanking. sevugan, jack kingston. thank for being on the show. we have more after this quick break. ♪

♪ with theht now, i'm cofounder for americans for responsible solutions. he is a retired nasa astronaut, like most of us are. mark, thanks for joining us. donald trump talks about guns in his speeches more than hillary clinton does. are you on the side of the voters, or do both sides have

their here is? mark kelly: gabby and i are both gunowners. the strong support of the second minute. 90% of the voters are with us. when you talk about background checks, that resonates with people. why are republicans still talking about it? mark kelly: he's talking to his base. stay away from actually explaining what the specifics are, the policy you are talking about, you know, when you mention the control word, gun control, people do not like to be controlled. when you talk about things in those terms, that resonates with his base. however, if you want to talk sensibly about the issue, you talk about background check legislation, the mystic violence, 90% of americans support it. mark: you have been traveling by bus and talking to a lot of people. a lot of events. give us a state or a race where your position could break through and affect the outcome. mark kelly: the new hampshire

senate race. kelly ayotte. we went up on tv really early, spent a lot of money. we did an ad about background checks, about how senator kelly ayotte does not support background checks first gun sales. she voted against the mansion-to me bill. a day after we went on tv, she on tv and said that she supports background checks. that wasfor a bill supported by the gun lobby. it does not expand back on checks. if you look at the race from two years ago, a republican senator from new hampshire, would a person say she was supporting background checks for gun sales question mark absolutely not. we have come a long way on this issue. and another races as well. mark, let me ask you about how this issue is being discussed at the presidential level. you have donald trump, donald trump making fairly dramatic claims about what hillary

clinton would do in terms of gun rights. seems among a number of gun owners there is panic about what would happen. some gun manufacturers are doing pretty hillary clinton election sales on automatic weapons and so on. do you think the tenor of the presidential campaign will make it harder to advance common sense gun solutions, ones that you think are common sense, after election day or after hillary clinton office if she is president? mark kelly: i don't want to go down the path that if hillary did not get elected president, but speaking to hillary getting elected and becoming president january 20, and she is committed to this issue. she has a record and policy positions. she wants to expand background checks. she needs the congress to do that. she wants to pass a mistake of legislation. keep in mind, the gun lobby is going to look for every opportunity to sell firearms. i will have a problem with that, as long as they are selling to

responsible people. i'm a gun owner myself. i own six guns. if you sell a gun with a background check and not to a felon or domestic abuser, there is nothing wrong with that. you are giving people jobs -- largely in connecticut and other places. so, we are hopeful we will continue to move this in a positive direction. left.less than a minute if hillary clinton wins, if paul ryan remain speaker of the house, she has been pretty specific about the gun measures she would like to see. what would you say to paul ryan? mark kelly: let's have a vote. let these measures get to the floor of the house of representatives. and we will see then. mark: mark kelly, thank you. we will be right back. ♪

mark: john and i are headed to las vegas in the next 24 hours to get ready for the big debate. do you have plans? poker, lotstakes about all, and i don't know, the free it. how about you? mark: i'm looking for to the debate because i'll be there to work. john: i'll do that, too. coverage of the debate is available now and the next 48 hours on bloombergpolitics.com. partnershipe, our with twitter, we will continue the pregame and the post game. we will see you tomorrow. until then, sayonara. ♪

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