♪ i'm michael smerconish. thrilled to be home in philadelphia. and ready to welcome the dnc to the city of brotherly love. the gop unconventional convention was constant entertain. ment. but did donald trump leave with any bump? and can tim kaine, a nice guy from virginia, make hillary clinton warm and more inviting? and roger ailes ousted from fox news amidst sexual charges, but he gets millions in severance and may be a full-time adviser to donald trump. but first, i'm just back and pondering what i witnessed. from here at xm radio and sirius

radio i ha radio i am playing devil's advocate. i'm asking myself, is he what i've been waiting for? i abhor talking points thinking. that rigid ideological thoughts can solve big problems. i don't believe the new compromise is the new c-word. and i've been waiting for a candidate not tethered to either spectrum. donald trump checked many of my boxes in front of 5,000 delegates he thanked evangelicals while saying he wasn't sure he e deserved their endorsement. he accepted the republican nomination without referring to ronald reagan or saying the word abortion. he thanked the audience for applauding after defending lgbtq rights. he broke with traditional republican views, he supported law enforcement and said that it was time for our alleged allies to carry their own weight. there's a lot for me to like in

those ideas. of course, i worry that none of it is backed up by deep thinking or deal nighted policy. but he barnstormed the q center while ted cruz was speaking and slayed the dragon of orthodoxy. if only it was that simple. unfortunately, he got this far by playing to sorted nativist instincts, mexican rapists, blood coming from her wherever and this raises the trump coen in drum. no matter how great the appeal of his nonidentity logical thinking, it comes with so much baggage making it difficult to accept when he says, i am your voice, that he's speaking for me. joining me, karl bernstein, half of the most famous reporting team in american history, woodward and barn steen, they broke the watergate story. and the award winner covering so

many of these, jeff greenfield, any response to what i had to say? >> i think you missed the essential. >> tell me. >> it's the character and temperament issue, not what he says about policies which can change by the minute. for me, this line that most underlines trump is, i alone can fix this. that is caesarism. but you like no reference to reagan. no reference to anybody in that speech. no one else existed. not the founding fathers, not lincoln, not reagan, no one. and for anybody to look at this process that we have and say i alone can fix it, it's not just narcissism or egomania. it is so fundamental a break with how the united states is supposed to work that i find the most important and consequential law not inadequate but irrelevant. >> i admired ronald reagan.

what i admire about trump is he didn't feel the obligation to say ronald reagan was my hero, karl. >> above all else, he's a capital deep demagogue. he's a demagogue in a way we have never had a candidate who has received the nomination of one of the major parties for president of the united states. what we saw at this convention was a very successful convention and speech by donald trump based totally on nonexisting mythology, meaning this portrait of america is not what he gave in that speech. we're not under siege from terrorists every day in our cities. we don't have hundreds of murders going on every day. it doesn't exist. it's an attempt to scare people, to say i'm the demagogue, i am the maximum leader to undo all of this, which he has no ability to do, as he seems to be a caesar, a juan perone, on top of

which he presented he and his family as the master builder, when in fact what we know from his real existing non-mythological business career is fraud, lawsuits, businesses that cheat people. trump university. so now we especially in the press at a very late time need to start looking at the real donald trump, the mythology of the country that he's presented, just as we need to look at the real hillary clinton and her real likelihood. >> but i saw inside that hall, jeff, the negatives, they don't matter, at flooes the q center. he's a guy with no bs and can get it done. that's what he was selling. >> and i think what has to be emphasized in two ways. one, as is true of any leader like this, you don't succeed without real grievances below at the core. there are real grievances about the system, about what has

happened to large working white class. secondly, this is a political matter. donald trump has crossed an enormously significant bar, that is he's now seen as a plausible alternative. being the nominee of the party means he's one of the two people who is going to be president. and unlike him coming out of the convention to my surprise, to some extent, having make the institutional ruling by the republican party by and large, all right, he's our nominee. and just by doing that, he has taken a huge step forward. >> carl, where are we? where are we post-rnc, we are in philly, the dnc is about to get underway. in the big picture sense, where does this thing stand? >> we have the two most unpopular and disdained candidates of the two major parties running against each other. never had a situation like this in our history. and there is a reason for the disapproval, the distrust, the disdain factor. hillary clinton has been baked partly by comey, the director of

the fbi, in this perception of her as dishonest. >> extreme carelessness. >> untruthful. and, in fact, the server situation is indefensible. and she carries that baggage into this election and has to overcome it somehow. how does she do that? by showing who the real donald trump is. that's what the democrats have to do. >> does tim kaine help her? make her more warm and fuzzy. by all accounts, some say boring and vanilla, but nice guy, competent guy, executive is also what you hear. >> two things, i have a piece out in politico about defending the last vice presidential picks, dan quayle, sarah palin, maybe not the way to go. more fundamentally, this is a four-day story. unless something happens, he's at best, as all vice presidential runs are, marginal. it is her signal to the country that, look, i am the stable, safe, cautious one. this other guy is a five-alarm

fire. >> your name is synonymous with investigative journalism. you said something interesting to me in cleveland and hope you'll repeat it now. have these candidates been vetted? >> i'm going further. these two candidates represent the most egregious failure by the press in the history of modern -- >> how can that be? >> in non-political reporting. thatry the two greatest celebrities in our culture today worldwide. and yet no major network, no cable network, no major of the three old networks has done a single investigative biography of either of the candidates up to this point. not even a documentary about their real existing lives. only recently have "the new york times" and washington post and the wall street journal started to do really great reporting, which they are doing, finally on trump especially. and a little bit on hillary clinton. these two candidates, the most famous people in the world, are unvetted by the press.

look, i've written what is the standard biography on hillary clinton, "the woman in charge of hillary rodham clinton," and even with the biographies of these theme that go deep, the press has been focused on the 24/7 debate, the talking heads, which all of us are, great analysis, what about their real existing lives and records? >> do you agree with this? >> november 1979 there was a one-hour cbs report special on ted kennedy. by tend of that one hour, ted kennedy's prospects are substantially diminished, partly by his own inadequacies and partly on what roger mud reported. i think carl is exactly right. i think there have been plenty of really good stories about both of them, but the idea of the major broadcast networks simply not doing it, maybe they thought the ratings were tight, maybe kim kardashian has a new selfie out, i don't know what it is but it's been a failure. >> let's talk specifics.

why haven't we had hour-long specials on trump's businesses? on hillary clinton's foundations? these two candidates are unvetted by the press. it is astonishing. it is an egregious failure. >> i feel compelled not just to carry water for cnn but because i believe it. >> all the networks. >> but i want to say this, i think in all the debates and the questioning from my colleagues was extraordinarily well done. >> they have done a great job on debates and analysis but that's different than reporting sending out reporters to look at these candidates. the best on hillary clinton to some extent in the foundation has been done by political enemies. that doesn't make it irrelevant. >> i agree. "the broken clock" was -- final word. >> if it were done with large chunks of the american electorate saying we don't believe you, you're his enemies,

two plus two is five, that's all i want to know. but that's fine. we would have done our job. but we have not done our job. great analysis and debates. >> cnn will be the first to welcome the dnc. i said bernstein and greenfield, please, thank you for being here. >> pleasure to be here. >> thank you for saying that. hillary clinton picks a vp. does tim kaine bring added value or does this alienate bernie sanders supporters? what do you think? tweet me. i'm read some later. here's one, jarso, @smerconish, where's the wiki leaks coverage regarding dnc, msm and hillary corruption? i'm going there next.

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climbed them. i'm here to tell you there's great art behind those doors as well. we are back in philadelphia. it's the site of this week's dnc. and now that hillary's vp choice has been made, what does she have to do to overcome the inevitable convention bump of the trump/pence ticket as well as her steadily rising negative poll numbers? and what of this wikileaks document drop pertaining to the dnc? joining me now, columnist sally cohn, sally cohn supported bernie sanders in the primaries but now is on team hillary and is working for the dnc as a speaking coach. and one of the speakers a in the week's convention, former south carolina state representative mccarry sellers. mccarry, the wikileaks members were for hillary and not for bernie, questioning his religion, what do you make of it? >> that particular piece as a

jewish american, as a jew, that is messed up. i can use stronger language but i won't, but we always know there's lots of ugliness in opposition candidates. the more disturbing part here is it feeds into, look, as a senator supporter, i would like to see the democratic party process reforms. but it did work. he did lose fair and square. the problem is this feeds into the perception he didn't lose fair and square. that the system was rigged. that the party was rigged against him. and that is how it felt and now to see these leaks, it's bad timing. >> mccarry, on top of it, i know you're with hillary clinton, but on top of it the sanders folks are smarting with the selection of tim kaine because they wanted someone more progressive than he. >> there are a few things i want to comment on. i think questioning anybody about their religion is outside of the bounds of political discourse. i've never done that in my political career and don't think that is something you delve into. but it doesn't replace the fact that the secretary won based on

the number of ballots cast fair and square and doesn't replace the fact that we have made so much progress in terms of having the most progressive platform that this party has ever seen. it doesn't replace any of those things. and unless you live inside of a bubble, tim kaine is a liberal. tim kaine has a very strong record, especially he has 100% voting record when it comes to planned parenthood. he challenged the nra in his own state and stood up to them. his record as a mayor of richmond, as a united states senator, i think is strong. there are going to be questions, why didn't you choose elizabeth warren or thomas booker or tim perez, but wednesday night people will look forward to seeing him blossom. it's a big stage for him. >> are you okay with this? i saw you wince a bit. >> i winced, yes. look, first of all, yes, tim kaine is 100% pro-choice voting record in the senate. but he has also in other offices

he supported a ban on late-term abortions, parental notification laws, et cetera. >> license plates -- maybe that's not a biggie. >> that i care less about than actual restrictions than access to abortion. and he supported very recently said he still supports the transpacific partnership trade deal. so he has a lot of -- he has a lot of things that make progressives very weary. but the larger issue isn't just -- you want to make a similar pick, although that's important, hillary clinton missed an opportunity here. while she has the steady hand case to make to the american people, she also has to be made aware of the populist yearnings in this country, not only in the democratic base, but donald trump for all his hate mongering is also speaking to that. >> he's tapped into something. >> hate doesn't help her. he hurts her in that regard. that's my concern. >> the team, i think you have to look at this as a team. when you have the messengers we have, there's a message that elizabeth warren can go out to

make, a compelling message. a message that bernie sanders can make. there's a message president obama and michelle can make. i think tim kaine will be a strong advocate to the african-american community based on his position on immigration reform. and he's the only person to ever deliver a speech on immigration reform from the well of the united states senate influencing spanish. so i think this is going to be important. and i think he meshes with the team very well. >> you're speaking, what are you going to say? >> i'm still working through those things. right now -- >> maybe sally will coach you. >> until my nerves calm down, i speak early in the thursday program. it's exciting because the person coming on the stage later will be hillary clinton accepting the nomination. so my goal is to make my mom and dad proud. >> i want to show you both, sally, react. peter teal spoke at the rnc with interesting things. roll that tape, please. >> when i was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the soviet union, and we won.

and thou we are told, now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. this is a distraction from our real problems. who cares? >> you care? who cares? gay guy getting applauded at the rnc. >> yeah, because he slayed every gay sacred cow in the stake. i guess i agree with this. hey, republicans, let us focus on that. don't have a party platform that wants to roll back our advances in gay rights and civil rights and on choice. i for instance would also love it if we would stop focusing on abortion rights in this country. settled law can be a separate issue. but the republican congress, the first five bills they introduced when they took congress were anti-choice bills. so i am more than happy to stop the culture war.

they have to stop starting it. >> does the lbgtq community, not have a friend in donald trump? seriously? >> look, the first speaker chosen that day was jerry falwell. and donald trump said, we're going to protect the lgbt community from terror. so i cannot give donald trump credit for now saying we should stand up for slaughter against the homosexual community. when he stands there against conversion therapy and stands against same sex marriage -- >> you don't think he believes any of that, come on. >> let me just say this because we're not giving him enough credit. peter thiel, he and ted cruz showed the most tofortitude, whether or not you appreciated what ted cruz said was courageous. and peter thiel went up there and reading the speech beforehand, i thought he was going to get booed at that

point. and he didn't. you have to put context to it. >> guys, welcome to philly. good luck with your speech. that's really cool. >> smerconish, your son is helping me write it. >> you could do a heck of a lot worse, i'll tell you that. up next, what does the resignation of fox news chief roger ailes mean for the network and the campaign for donald trump of which roger ailes has been talking. steve redmond, @smerconish, tim kaine seems like a decent guy. decency isn't a word we've heard much in this election. that alone makes a unique this year.

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philadelphia. how hot is it? that guy's showering in the fountain at logan circle. he's not buck naked, is he? my god, man, we have company coming to town. the dnc is here. meanwhile, roger ailes is out at the fox news network. that's big for the gop given that fox is usually the primary oracle for the republican party. here to discuss someone who worked at fox for seven years, known roger ailes for 35 years, is his next job counseling dr p donald trump and playing a role for nixon and reagan, i speak for ailes? >> i have taken showers like that in my old age when i was drinking. but the answer to it is, look, roger ailes advises every republican presidential candidate. so this is not a big surprise to me. if we went on and became campaign manager, that would be a big surprise. but i'm not at all surprised

that he's going to try to help trump. you have to understand, this is a guy who really, really doesn't like hillary clinton. >> did you ever, in your association with fox, did you ever, i mean, look, you're not a politically correct guy. did you ever see any evidence, any sign, any symptom of anything going on? >> no. i not only didn't, but i have had roger say on occasions to me, bob, you have to be more politically correct. i'm a liberal and can get away with it. but i never once saw this. and the big surprise to me was that in both gretchen's case and also megyn, i'm surprised it took this long to come out. i've talked to gretchen several times during the course of her career there, she never once mentioned anything about it. she would have to me, i think. so i'm a little surprised about it. go ahead. >> don't you think in the end whatever it is that megyn kelly said behind closed doors is what called this shot? i mean, she right now is the

marquee talent. and don't you think that's how it would have ended based on what she said? >> beginning and end. look, if this thing was a close call, because it was gretchen who said, what, he said, she said, but when megyn kelly said it, you're right. she's got a lot of weight there. she's a former lawyer. and i think that was the beginning of the end of roger. >> so what is the future of fox news as a conservative oracle? all i know is what i read, but i read of this split between merdoch and the kids. what do you see happening? >> i don't think they are going to try to change it dramatically even though the kids want to. look, i haven't worked there other than a liberal, but the fox news channel sent a billion to the bottom line of murdoch's company. they are not going to want to mess with that. when the old man says murdoch is going to run the place as ceo,

he's not. my guess is number two ailes will do that. but it is very dangerous to bring somebody in to run the network because so much of it was built in ailes' personality. and the idea of disrupting it, and particularly now in the middle of this campaign, would be a terrible mistake. >> do you see any prospect that some of the talent over there, some of those who came out in support of ailes, they get together and all go to a different network. >> well, the question is, which network will they go to? there are rumors that roger will take his 20, 30, 40 million severance pay. >> i think he has a non-compete. >> that's right. sean hannity said to me several times if roger was out he's not going to stay around. sean is a marquee talent very important. is that the case? and if bill shine takes over, sean may stay. if somebody is brought in from england, i don't think he would.

so there may be a drain there. but more importantly, the idea of a day at that network without roger ailes is just unthinkable to me. >> bob beckel, that fellow says there's room in the shower if you need it when you get to town. >> can you give me the left-hand side of that? because it has better flow. i'll see you up there. >> still to come -- look forward to having you, thank you. trump defined this as an election about law and order. well, the former police chief charles ramsey who said the nation is, quote, a powder keg over cop shootings and assassinations, he's speaking at the dnc this week. but first, he will speak here. and here's another tweet. carlos nino. since you're obviously a hillary clinton supporter, why don't you a dnc speaking slot? it's so funny, i get criticized from the left and criticized from the right. that means it's a good day.

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welcome back to the site of the dnc, the democratic national convention. my next guest will deliver a speech at the dnc this week, charles ramsey, the police commissioner in washington, d.c. and is the co-chair of president obama's task force on 21st century policing. great to have you here. >> good to be here. >> are you as excited that the nation is in philly and all eyes are on our town? >> i am. i am excited ever since it was announced that philly would host the democratic national convention. >> i hope philly goes well. what concerns do you have? >> well, you always have some

concerns. but to be honest, i'm biased, nobody handles large scale events better than the philadelphia police department. so i'm not that concerned. i was concerned about the rnc simply because of the protests we have had before, but i do think the assassinations of the officers may have brought the temperature down a bit. >> there's a criticism of the dnc and secretary clinton in particular for welcoming into the debate lineup in addition to charles ramsey some of the family members of victims of police shootings. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, their voices need to be heard as well. there are two sides to everything. and i think that it's nothing wrong with having those voices heard. but we also need to think about the families of our police officers that have been injured and kill in the line of duty as well. there needs to be balance. >> i don't know your party affiliation and you need not tell me, but how big of a decision for charles ramsey to accept the invitation? i don't think of you as a political guy but as a law

enforcement professional. you'll be on the stage and making an address. talk to me about that calculus. >> i'm not a real political guy. and had it not been for dallas and baton rouge i probably would have turned down the invitation to speak at the dnc only because i don't really consider myself to be that political. but i think our environment is such where my voice can maybe add something to the discussion. and that is why i have chosen to participate. >> what will you be seeing? >> well, it's about gun violence, that will be the topic. and i'm going to talk about the impact it has on the community and also the men and women of law enforcement that have to deal with the constant and relentless violence that takes place in many of our neighborhoods. >> will you be making an endorsement or speaking favorably of hillary clinton in particular? >> well, i'll be honest with you, i do support secretary clinton. that's no surprise. i guess i'm speaking at the dnc. and i'm not afraid to make that announcement, but i also think that in this time we have to be very careful about our choices.

i personally feel she's best suited at this point in history. >> donald trump stood there last week in cleveland and said, i am the law and order candidate. >> well, i don't know what that means. law and order means different things to different people. if it means more police, aggressive policing and in some of our neighborhoods, that can add to the problems we have. we need to sit down to discuss the best way forward. whether it is mr. trump or secretary clinton, someone has to address the issue of crime and violence in our communities in the best ways to be able to deal with it. >> as a civilian, my head spins on the crime stats. it reminds me of liars figure, figures lie. you can read into the data. i'm thinking of donald trump's speech where he said it and many said, here's the justification and then came the fact checkers who said, well, that's not entirely correct. speak to me on that general subject. >> well, crime over the last 20 years has been declining in the last decade and we have seen the lowest crime rate since the

1950s and '60s. if you have a slight uptick percentage wise, it will jump out at you as you compare yourself to lower years. when you look at the trends over time, crime is really moving out. >> how about killing of police officers? >> well, it kind of fluctuates year to year. you just had five in dallas and three in baton rouge. that will skew your numbers a bit. one is too many. but i don't know if by the end of the year there will be that big of a dramatic increase. >> good luck in your speech. chief charles ramsey. >> thank you. up next, there hasn't been a president since 1960 who hasn't won at least two of the three crucial battleground states. i'll talk to two of those states, democratic chairs and democratic pennsylvania senator bob casey who hails from scranton pennsylvania. he has that in common with hillary clinton. another tweet i see. chris says, don't agree with smerconish with everything.

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the city of philadelphia looking beautiful on a hot day as we are psyched to welcome the democrats to town. the democratic national convention. of course, pennsylvania is one of the swing states that hangs in the balance in this election. recent polls show that its 20 electoral votes leaning democratic could go either way. joining me, senator bob casey, who not only represents the state but is a speaker at this week's festivities and hails from the same hometown as hillary clinton has roots. senator, good to see you. >> thanks, michael. >> her choice, a white senator from a swing state, catholic, a reputation for not being flashy but well liked and a nice guy. is it bob casey?

no, it's tim kaine. off you have a lot of common in him. >> well, i had the opportunity in the senate to get to know him, but also to sit with him every tuesday. look, this is a choice hillary made. and i had a sense she would make this kind of a choice, meaning a governing choice, not necessarily a campaign choice. i think he's both competent and compassionate. but i also think he's the kind of tough leader we're going to need in tough times. >> he has something else in common with bob casey, that is in a very public way in 2008, you were for barack obama. he was for hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton's campaign has done that. she's a unifying force and likes to build bridges rather than walls and tim kaine reflects that. but i think it's a great choice. >> my parents are coal crackers from hazelton. know the northeastern part of the state like you do, white guys, working class, lot of appeal for donald trump. he won 67 counties in the

republican primary. never been done before. does he have you on the run in your backyard? >> i think it's going to be a close race in northeastern pennsylvania. but i also think that's true statewide. michael, you know the numbers, pennsylvania has been blue for six straight presidentials. but always close, always contest ed. i think hillary is probably ahead but we'll fight hard until the last minute. this is a state she has to win, especially because of the economic message focused on the middle class. >> give me the 60-second version of what bob casey will say from the podium at the dnc this week. >> i'm going to talk about hillary's economic plan. in a very specific way, how it applies to pennsylvania. focusing on manufacturing jobs, moving our state forward with the partner, i think she's going to be the kind of president who will work with us to either strengthen or rebuild parts of our economy, especially when it comes to the jobs of the future in manufacturing. >> donald trump says your constituents are suffering because she buys into all the trade deals he sees through.

>> look, i think hillary is going to be one of the toughest presidents when it comes to judging trade deals. she's already said any trade deal is going to have to meet a three-part test that creates jobs, has to raise wages and has to enhance our security. that tough test in addition to her opposition to tpp will be very important in the election. >> good luck at the convention. >> thank you, michael. >> nice to have you here. appreciate it. with the general election, you know it's all about ohio, florida and pennsylvania. as a matter of fact, you have to win two of the three since 1960 or you don't get elected to the white house. joining me now, two state chairmen, david pepper of ohio, marcell growan of pennsylvania. marcell, you tell me what happens in the philadelphia suburbs, i tell you who is going to win this race. >> we're going to win. >> of course you say that. but how? >> going forward looking at the numbers from the past 20 years, every year we have been doing better. the moderate republicans in the

suburbs have been voting democratic or frequently become democratic. i'm going to tell you right now, we need to win the philadelphia suburbs by 600,000 to 700,000 votes in your back yard and my back yard. i would have never predicted that. he won all 67 counties. >> that was a republican primary where you have half the vote you have in the general vote, okay, and the same thing with our primary, half the vote we're going to have in the general you'll find out there's going to be a huge turnover. i have never seen so many republicans in my entire life coming to me, person after person saying we're voting for hillary. and it's constant and continuing. and we're going to win those suburbs by the numbers i told you. >> david let me ask you about ohio. i was in ohio doing my radio show from the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland.

john kasich never crossed town and went to the rnc. are you trying to take advantage of that, use that on hillary's behalf in the state of ohio. >> donald trump actually lost ohio very badly just a few months ago. john kasich did very well. and the fact that donald trump declared war on kasich all four days of that convention doesn't help donald trump at all h. kasich is on the sidelines there. that's a big deal given that trump already struggled in ohio to have the guy who won the primary and now the governor of the state not be comfortable with him. it's a big deal and will play out in the next couple of months. >> right. donald trump lost the state. but you had a hometown favorite who was running against him. and as i was making the point, that working class white constituency, those reagan democrats, your state has them, that's a natural trump

constituency. how are you going to crack into that? >> we'll talk about what donald trump said for years. he thinks wages are too high. this is a guy when he made his shirts and ties he did it in china and bangladesh. not in ohio like he could have. he's talking a big game recently. when you peel it back a little bit. donald trump has nothing in common with those workers. we're going to work with our working folk and labor friends to make that point. people lican make the point tha donald trump's business practices took advantage of low wages in other countries. he has said very publicly he thinks wages are too high. he'll go to those places and look for votes. when we're done, a lot of those workers are going to see that donald trump has nothing in common with their values or needs. >> what's it like to be the state party chair of a state that is hosting a convention? i got to believe you're the king this week and that because of

the importance and the responsibility on your shoulder that hillary reaches out and that party leaders at all levels want your time? >> it's a scary thing. but having said that it's also once in a lifetime opportunity. as you might know, i was a little boy who didn't speak english until he was ten years old. for me to be here in this position is remarkable. i'm lucky my mother is 94. she was a holocaust survivor. she'll be watching it on television, it's wonderful, we have to work hard, take one step at a time. we have to make sure things run smoothly. i look back at the end of the week and make sure it worked right. >> david you hear from individuals like myself and media we talk about ohio, pennsylvania, florida. what do you do in this cycle you haven't done previously? >> i'd say we got our act together much earlier than normal. ohio will be close, like

pennsylvania. but as barack obama showed, the campaign that is most organized on the ground in ohio wins. '08 and '12 that worked. last year we put a field team in place in october. it's been building up through the primary. now it's merged into the coordinated. we have a large staff here, larger than donald trump's entire national staff we have in ohio. in the end, that's what wins elections in ohio. having enough people to knock on doors, to make the phone calls, to get the vote out. and while we're building this, donald trump doesn't seem to understand or care about field operations at all. i think he has one state director, no field team whatsoever. in a close election -- >> i have to say -- >> we've gotten -- >> i have to say, he doesn't have a field operation, he hasn't spent money. she is so far out spending him in all the battle ground states. yet he's within the margin of error it's going to be

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i always say you can follow me on twitter if you can spell smerconish. check this out. love how smerconish tries to pretend he is not on the left. what a quack. who sent that to me? jonathan. jonathan were you not here at the outset of the program when i said there was a lot to be admired in donald trump's

presentation in cleveland insofar it was a non-ide logical point of view? watch the repeat of the program. what's next? smerconish, how are you not passing out in the heat? you've got a full suit and tie on. are you wearing shorts? no. i am wearing khakis. i have a fan. it's the crew you should worry about because it's nearly 100 degrees. have a great week in philly, democrats. i'll see you back here next week. for a shooting rampage at a mcdonald's in munich. nine dead, at least ten wounded. >> people are very confused and running and screaming. >> the events of yesterday of this night makes us sad and speechless. >> hillary clinton naming virginia senator and former governor tim kaine as her running mate. >> i want to be sure who i pick could be president immediately. >> you want a