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years. i'm rachel maddow. thanks for watching. >> where are we going to begin? >> so i think we should begin at day one. >> oh, yeah. where else? >> it was bare bones, nerve racking. >> i can't believe it's been 20 years. >> msnbc was such a cutting-edge place when we election year 2016, a political year without press tense. a clash of political titans. >> i call her crooked hillary. >> he's temperament tally unfit to be president. >> campaign fueled by anger. >> they're saying what happened to my america. >> the ultimate politician.
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>> no one who has been on center stage as long as hillary clinton is. >> he used the art of the deal to build his real estate empire. >> i look at people as being in many cases pretty vicious. >> he speaks off the cuff. >> they're bringing drugs, crime. they're rapists. and some i assume are good people. >> she's more deliberate. >> i never count any chickens before they hatch. >> how did two people so different get to the same place in history? >> her mother taught hillary so much by her strength. >> i like to win. >> this is a story of how we got from there -- >> lying ted. >> the artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out. >> -- to hear. >> we've reached a milestone. >> nastiest general election in the history of our country.
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hello. i'm chris matthews. hillary clinton versus donald trump. talk about two people with virtually nothing in common. different careers, different personalities, different whatever. clinton, a classic democrat toting a top drawer political resume. trump, an electoral ifphenomeno. but let's begin with a grand event when these very different people chose each other's company. think billions, we're talking an event the wealth of the host. jac january 22, 2005, not just the height of the palm beach social season, but the event of the season. donald trump's wedding.
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like a modern day great gatsby, he brought on the paparazzi and dazzle. >> as soon as i walked in the church and i saw shaq sitting next to hillary clinton, i said this is going to be some who's who of a night. >> what began with a high tone church wedding ended in a gilded high mirrored ball room. donald trump sprawling where he and his new wife melania pose for a warm wedding candid with a world famous couple. hardly a decade later, both groom and guests try to denny true regard either for the invitation or the acceptance. hillary speaks as if her attended dabs at someone's wedding even this it grand was some spur of the moment affair. >> i happened to be planning to
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be in florida and i thought it would be fun to go because items always entertaining. now that he's running for president, it's more troubling. >> i think the clintons probably wish that that photograph had never been taken. >> trump treats it as no more than a routine business expense. >> he told me he invited them because he might need something from them. >> he says i make up their social calendars. i invite them and they show up because i pull the strings. >> in truth trump has regularly supported politicians with his checkbook, including hillary's run for president in 2008. when clinton announced her quest it for the 2016 democratic nomination -- >> every day americans need a champion and i want to be that champion. >> she was immediately anointed the favorite. on the republican side, it looked to be a crowded field filled with ambitious politicians like jeb bush, marco
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rubio and rick perry. then donald trump haumlaunched bid. >> i'm officially running for president of the united states and we are going to make our country great again. >> experts weren't exactly sure what to make of it. >> the huffington "post" initially said they were only going to cover this campaign in their entertainment section, not their politics session. >> i looked at it and thought come on, going down the staircase of trump tower, the gold, the super models? all of those trappings, what does that tell an iowa voter? >> a john zogby has been charting elections since 1984. >> we get a poll and i said i hate myself. i've been doing this for a long
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time. i missed this by a mile. >> but zogby wasn't the only one who didn't initially consider trump a serious candidate. >> mexico is not sending their best. they're bringing drugs, any's bringing crimes, they're rapists about and some i assume are good people. >> people thought, oh, this will be the end of donald trump, you can't say something like that. >> later frutrump would ensugge the 2008 republican nominee. senator john mccain over being captured in vietnam. >> i like people that weren't captured. >> and pope francis for his immigration stance. >> for a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. >> then trump's chief antagonist sent out this wild tweet. maybe donald negotiated a deal with his buddy hillary clinton, continuing this path will put her in the white house. tweeted david friedlander, all
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i'm saying is there is more evidence that trump is a clinton clan than evidence he isn't. his evidence, that photo of the politicians and celebrities smiling together only a decade earlier. and many of clinton's supporters had a hard time viewing trump as a threat to the two time new york senator and former secretary of state. >> everyone said he was going to be a summer fling. i think everybody wholesale did not think that he was going to have any traction. >> in fact at times clinton herself didn't seem to be taking candidate trump seriously. >> donald trump finally a candidate whose hair gets more attention than mine. >> like clinton, democratic consultant already knew trump. in this case from when she was a contestant on the apprentice. as the tycoon ramped up his rhetoric, she was stunned by what she heard. >> the donald trump that i'm
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seeing now is not the donald trump that i saw then. the donald trump that i met was engaging, charming, and the donald trump i see now is angry, vitriol lick. and i think reckless. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. >> a lot of common at a time tors scratch their chins and they say, my god, how can a candidate for president say the things that donald trump has said? >> some of these pundits who are among the most dishonest people in the world by the way -- good clearly they haven't spent 30 seconds over the last decade listening to talk radio in this country. >> some day they're going to name that wall after donald trump. >> this tone is a reflection of the tone that 50 million plus
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people here every day -- >> i'm a person that loves people. >> a significant segment of the population often overlooked by raug washington elite. glt glt. >> the angry white male. and what has happened is we have three decades of, number one, status anxiety. real anxiety over whether or not i'm going to stay in the middle class. whether or not my children will be in the middle class. all the talk about the huge demographic changes, growth of nonwhites, immigrants, latinos, muslims and they're looking out and saying what happened to my america? my country and my world has gone to hell in a hand basket and i'm angry. >> this was my first take here the day after trump announced. comes down to salesmanship, this guy has it. it may be bs, but only 10%, 20%.
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i think it's working class republicans will say you know, what the rest of these guys are just pencil neglect intellectuals, this is a real street guy, he can get something done. if hillary clinton was joking about trump's kachbd daes over the summer, by december 2015 when she appeared on "late night," she wasn't laughing it off anymore. >> you know, i have to say, seth, i no longer think he's funny. >> as also cal dep lar turned from 2015 to 2016, both candidates were are about to face serious battles within their own parties and the people enjoying each other's company in this picture came to represent two very different versions of america's future. >> we have an old system and instead of expectationses it seems to be crumbling. it's very difficult being the pollster these days and figuring all this out. learer skin. be the you who controls your psoriasis with stelara®
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as primary season began in early 2016, among the crowded field were two candidates who have known each other a long time and voters knew too. >> they created isis. hillary clinton created isis with obama. >> he was referring to the original backing of the 2003 invasion of iraq. >> donald trump cultivated outrage, that's his brand. >> that's a pretty disgraceful situation. >> the united states is being ripped off. >> reporters can make things up and as you know, they do because they're a vile lot. >> hillary clinton has been controversial in her own right as well. >> donald trump to make money off of people's misery. >> donald trump has succeeded in getting in the heads of republican opponents and i don't think that will ever hapn to hillary.
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she's not letting him phase her. >> nothing funny about the hate he is spewing. >> it seems hillary clinton and donald trump might be heading for a political showdown. but to understand how they got there, we need to know where they came from. >> she was born in the midwest, daughter of a staunch republican an anti-communist. >> hugh ellsworth recognized his daughter's extraordinary intelligence and urged her to compete for positions previously limited to men. >> he also taught her that any show of emotion was a show of weakness. and that's one of the reasons why she is so buttoned up when she's performing. and off stage, so much more open and friendly and charming.
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>> i'm so happy to see you. thank you. >> clinton said her mother fled an abusive background as a teen, a tale that resonated with her daughter. >> her mother taught hillary so much by her strength, her ability to get back up, and hillary often says, i'm still standing. they've come after me for 20 years and i am still standing and she credits her mom. >> i can still hear her saying, life's not about what happens to you, it's about what you do with what happens to you. so get back out there. >> with her parents' encouragement, hillary rodham worked from suburban illinois to wellesley where she became the first to deliver a commencement speech in 1969. >> the challenge is to practice politics, the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. fear is always with us but we don't have time for it. not now.
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>> from wellesley, she went to yale law school, met bill clinton. >> boys always were intimidated by her. she was just so smart and saw very early they could make a great political pair. >> in fact, clinton's drive at that time can be compared to that of a young donald trump. >> if there's anything that links the two of them together, it would be ambition. >> born just a year before clinton, trump grew up as the favorite son of a new york real estate developer. >> i grew up with a wonderful family. >> in eighth grade, trump's parents sent him to the new york military academy where he attained a rank of captain and it toughened and shaped him. >> he knew how to set goals for himself. >> i want to keep the cost down to a low coin. >> notice the knot on the tie. this is something he learned to do in the military. it's an even "v." it's ingrained into us.
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it's the same thing with the honor code. it's ingrained into us. >> i think that when somebody signs an agreement, they should live by that agreement. >> if you are having a quarrel with somebody, you can't go home to mommy and deal with it that way. you have to take on these other people. you have to be a winner or you're going to be a loser for life. >> i do look at the world as being a tough place. i look at people as being, in many cases, pretty vicious. and unless you're going to have a certain way, you're going to be eaten alive. >> like clinton, trump graduated from the ivy league wharton school. and focused on the bright lights of manhattan becoming a national personality as he altered the city's skyline. >> one of the interesting things about any national convention is the surprising people who show
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up on the floor and here tonight is real estate tycoon and best selling author, donald trump. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> in 1988, trump appeared at the republican national convention offering a window into his future ambitions. >> you said if you ran for president, you'd win. >> i like to win, and i think i would probably have a pretty good chance. >> when bill clinton was elected president in 1992, trump was quick to publicly applaud the voter's decisions. >> i think they made the right choice. he's got energy. >> also a fondness for hillary clinton who quickly set out to redefine the role of first lady. >> she was a first lady who got involved in policy discussions and policy debates in the white house. >> it was bill clinton himself who championed his wife's future. >> when i asked him, what do you see in the future after eight years of bill clinton? he said, eight years of bill, eight years of hill.
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>> hillary became the junior senator from new york. and despite the fact she was a newcomer, clinton won at the election as well as reelection in 2006. among her donors, donald trump. in 2008, clinton lost to barack obama who rewarded her support in the general election by appointing her secretary of state. >> thank you for this honor. >> she was a very unusual secretary of state. particularly one who had a large potential political future in front of her. there was an extreme obsession with her popularity, her staff was constantly sifting through polling data. it says that hillary clinton is at heart, a politician. she's always calculating the odds. >> by contrast, trump is largely viewed as a political outsider. in 2013, michael caputo tried recruiting him to run for new york governor.
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and oust andrew cuomo. >> when i showed up in trump tower, one of the first things he said, i think i would rather do that big thing. he called it the big thing. and i asked him what that was, he said, i think i'm going to run for president. >> in addition, there was another obstacle blocking the long-term goal. >> thank you so much. >> and trump was determined to transform himself from hillary clinton's donor to her chief adversary.
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trump rallies don't feel like political events. at all. the music is blaring. people are dancing. people are in trump gear. it feels like a sporting event more than a political rally. >> most politicians has supporters. donald trump has fans.
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>> throughout the primary season, the candidate from the other side challenging the old order. and getting a similar reaction from his crowd. >> it is not just about electing a president. it is about creating a political revolution. >> i don't think anyone thought bernie sanders was going to make it as far as he has with young people. >> says the wealthiest people with largest corporations have to start paying a fair share of taxes. >> never seen two candidates tap into the anger that's out there in the country, a group that thinks the political system is rigged and both bernie sanders and donald trump talked to that group. >> the republican side, trump started out with 16 opponents. all representing different ideologies and agendas but united on one issue. >> no matter what ted cruz was saying, marco rubio, what happened throughout this entire
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primary process, they continued to attack hillary clinton. >> you put me on that stage against her in september. >> i continue running for president. no way to elect hillary clinton to continue the policies. >> before any republican candidate could fully concentrate on a democratic opponent, there was the issue of winning over the gop faithful. >> jeb bush looked like he was the frontrunner to be the nominee, had $100 million committed in super pac donor money and boy, did not pan out. >> donald trump decided he had to get rid of jeb bush and he had to get rid of him by belittling him. >> he's a total stiff. if he weren't in government, you wouldn't hire him to do anything. >> and the longest while, jeb bush didn't fight back. >> don't fall asleep when i mention the name, please. >> low energy jeb. >> he's a low energy person. >> he's low energy.
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>> people didn't think he actually wanted it and didn't think he had the strength to be the president of the united states in very difficult times. >> we're going to keep winning, winning, winning, and we are going to make america great again. >> you can tell how he's going to attack someone because he nicknames them. it was little marco. marco rubio who he just sort of brushed off as impotent and weak. >> i look at little marco and say, there's something happening with him and he's like, melting. >> of all the republican candidates, ted cruz initially appeared to have the most civil relationship with trump. >> ted cruz was largely on the sidelines saying, i like donald trump. i'm not going to mud sling with him. >> we have lying ted cruz. >> we saw how quickly that changed. >> lying ted. >> very specific how it's spelled. >> l-y-i-n with an apostrophe. >> it hit the mark when random people in the crowd would start chanting lying ted.
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>> so terrible. he's a liar. >> by contrast, the democratic contrast got off to a respectful start. at the first debate on cnn, sanders emphasized he had no intention of pouncing on clinton for using the private e-mail account of secretary of state. >> the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails. >> thank you, me too. >> he got what's called candidate's disease. we think, darn it, i never thought i could win, but maybe i can. he started saying some tough things about secretary clinton. >> i don't believe she is qualified. she is through her super pac taking tens of millions of dollars. >> she never lost the spot as democratic frontrunner, but sanders' message was gaining
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traction and clinton was fighting back. >> it's time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks. >> by this point, trump was including some of sanders' rhetoric in his arsenal. >> hillary is a disaster, folks. she has bad judgment. that was said by bernie sanders. he's giving me a lot of my best lines. >> trump was making inroads with traditional republicans, but sanders attracted constituents the clinton campaign expected to rally for them. millennial women who didn't remember the days when the thought of a female white house nominee seemed impossible. >> young women carrying more student debt than men and specific health care needs that are expensive and bernie sanders has very strong responses to both of those issues. >> there is no economic reason for women being underpaid. it is just old fashioned sexism. we will end that. >> after trump vanquished his
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here is what is happening. hillary clinton has selected tim kaine to be her vice presidential running mate. she matt announcement to supporters via text message and on twitter. kaine was on clinton's short list and vetted for the job by
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president obama in 2008. and ten dead including a gunman in munich. 21 others hurt. the attacker with us a german with no criminal history. now back to our program. trump, trump! >> hillary rodham clinton. >> in the race for the presidency, donald trump and hillary clinton emerge as the frontrunners of their respective party but victory no guarantee just yet. >> i never count any chickens before they hatch. >> a contested convention looking like a real possibility. >> donald trump is not getting to 1237 before cleveland. we're going to a contested convention. >> and in the other party, clinton was feeling the bern.
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>> you may have heard senator sanders say i'm unqualified to be president, well, seriously, i've been called a lot of things over the years, but unqualified has not been one of them. >> tuesday, april 19th. a big prize at stake but gave both donald trump and hillary clinton a home field advantage. >> let's be the people that we know we can be. >> and yet, the votes in it, it was a sweet homecoming for both candidates with deep ties to new york. >> today, you proved once again there's no place like home. >> i can think of nowhere that i would rather have this victory. >> both hillary clinton and donald trump scored decisive wins in a pivotal week, putting their competitors on the ropes. >> god bless new york. >> a complicated history. a collision course with each other. >> i think this election is between two americas. >> if the battle would
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eventually come down to clinton versus trump, it would be important to note the war would be waged in the same geographical areas and also with what seemed like two opposite americas. >> hillary clinton and donald trump won in similar states but won different constituencies within those states. >> in their primaries, while not facing each other, both candidates conquered 15 contiguous states from louisiana and mississippi but drawing from different bases. >> clinton will win women. trump men. clinton more educated. trump uneducated. >> i love the poorly educated. >> trump will win more down scale voters. >> why clinton and trump are winning different constituencies within the same states is that he's winning whites in areas where whites are feeling a lot of racial threat from the rise of minorities and she's winning minorities within those same states.
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>> he wonders is it all about race. >> google, for example, looked at heat maps of racist searches for racist jokes, it seems to strangely or perhaps tellingly overlay quite well with donald trump's support. so it is possible that he's winning among whites who feel racial tension with the blacks and hispanics that hillary clinton herself is winning. >> her strongest support is actually african-american women. women who see in hillary who have withstood a lot and still standing and feel connected to that. >> and once and for all, guarantee equal pay for women. >> fo you believe punishment for abortion? >> there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yeah. >> it was a declaration he was
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forced to retreat. but for people who see the bluntness as a detriment, wonder if it may be one of his greatest assets with voters. >> waterboarding is fine but not tough enough. >> he's totally the opposite of being politically correct. he says what he means. and he means what he says. which is refreshing. >> on a personal level, it's interesting. donald trump wins among people who say he tells it like it is. hillary clinton does poorly on authenticity. a lot of voters think she's lying a lot of the time. and as a result, bernie sanders has had tremendous success winning constituencies that she won eight years ago. >> there is nothing we cannot accomplish. >> nbc producer covering the trump campaign since august 2015. she says the demographics from trump and sanders are different but a similar hunger for change. >> it's the electorate of the campaign that was different.
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he was taking on a system that made them largely in the past feel marginalized and expanding the base of people who would have been republicans except they didn't feel like anyone was talking to them. >> we are going to make america great again. >> i will stand for and fight for you. >> as the weeks raced by, clinton and trump each continuing to amass the delegates they would need to win their parties. heading toward what seemed like an inevitable showdown and becoming more apparent that this was one of the most unusual match-ups in modern political times. >> i think this election is going to boil down to who do voters fear less in the white house? >> andrew wienstein is a lifelong republican. this year, he will vote for hillary clinton. (lock clicks)
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let's go forward. let's win the nomination. >> it was a pivotal day for hillary clinton. she won four out of five eastern states including connecticut and pennsylvania. the wins pushed her in the delegate territory that at the time seemed difficult for bernie sanders to beat. >> we have to keep winning. we have to win more. >> even a better night for donald trump. >> a bigger win than we expected. >> eight days later after trump also carried indiana, all the talk of a contested republican convention was silenced when his only two remaining competitors, ted cruz and john kasich, dropped out of the race but even as the political rivals rose within their parties, they continued to encounter intense anger. >> there are hillary haters just
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as there are trump haters. >> the hillary clinton, the most brutal campaign organization i've encountered. >> donald trump brings hate to every speech. he brings hate to this country. >> hillary clinton is a very polarizing figure. >> even ones who don't particularly care for hillary clinton are absolutely frightened at the notion of a trump presidency. >> i think most people undecided right now are undecided because they hate both candidates and try to decide which they hate less. >> they share the dubious distinction of being the most unpopular in u.s. political history. a poll showed results similar to early counts. 59% unfavorables for trump and 54% for clinton. >> they are unprecedented at least in terms of how far back we can go with polling data.
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>> john zogby believes it will be tough for trump and clinton to reverse negative numbers. >> i think to a large degree, they're really not going to be able to change their image very much. they are very well known characters. >> judgments about health care too often seem divorced from common sense. >> there's no one in the history of the country who's been on center stage in the american political life as long as hillary clinton has been who's actually being considered for the presidency of the united states. so when you're center stage for that long, you become a divisive figure. >> torture works, okay, folks? >> donald trump, the method by which he secured the nomination, while successful, certainly raised his negatives higher than any other successful nominee for president in the history of either party. >> he is a deeply insecure narcissistic juvenile man who is blatantly dishonest.
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>> elise jordan, a former aid to republican senator rand paul among those who just can't bring themselves to embrace their party's frontrunner. >> he needs to stop the offensive language and behave like a statesman, not a carnival barker and until that happens, i think there are a lot of people who can't, you know, get on board with him. >> in march of 2016, 60 prominent republican former national security experts vowed to actively oppose donald trump. among their concerns? trump would jeopardize national security. major republican politicians including george bush, lindsey graham and mitt romney either refuse to endorse or spoke out against their party's frontrunner. >> this recklessness is recklessness in the extreme. >> we shouldn't accept ugliness as the norm. >> seven weeks after slamming trump's campaign style, speaker of the house paul ryan and other gop leaders met with him in an
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attempt to unify their fractured party. >> we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified. >> the speaker called the meetings encouraging but fell short of endorsing trump. not only were there some republicans having trouble stumping for trump, they were actually crossing into enemy territory. >> the problem is that one of the candidates actually is qualified to be president, although i disagree with her on almost everything, and the other is not and actually represents a much more fundamental risk. >> andrew wienstein made his living as a republican strategist. he decided to join the reluctantly hillary block. >> hillary clinton is a migraine headache, but will be gone in four years. donald trump is a like a cancer that could do lasting damage to the institution. >> there's rancor and fury on the other side as well. >> all the smart people have decided before the campaign began, it was actually over and
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hillary clinton was the nominee. >> democratic rival bernie sanders was tapping into the same emotion trump was fueling. overwhelming anger. but unlike trump's rival, refusing to throw in the towel. >> big percentages of the bernie people are going to vote for trump. you watch. >> what bernie sanders and donald trump represent is this temperament, i don't have to rely on political allies. i don't have to rely on the status quo. >> harlin hill is a supporter and like andrew wienstein, can't back his own party candidate. >> hillary clinton's negatives are sort of informed by 30 years of lies, deceit and fraud. we're not beholden to restrictions of the past. >> donald trump and bernie sanders are running against some of the economic policies of the '90s. trade, wall street deregulation, things like that. does that concern you?
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>> they're not running against 23 million new jobs and incomes going up for every american, not just those at the top. >> she was pandering to corporate interests and wouldn't release the transcripts. my distrust of her as a person, it disqualified her in my mind. >> bernie sanders said she's not qualified because she suffers from bad judgment. >> while donald trump continued to use sanders to his advantage, clinton tried to direct the negative attention back to trump. >> i said he was unqualified to be president. i believe that deeply. i do not want americans and good thinking republicans and independents to start to believe this is a normal candidacy. >> it's safe to say this has been one of the most unusual elections in modern history and the biggest question remains. what will this country look like after november? who hugs a friend. who is done with treatments that don't give you clearer skin.
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this could be the nastiest general election in the history of our country. >> jeb bush, we call him low energy. lying ted. >> it was spring. donald trump had become the presumptive nominee on the republican side and the general election in sight. throughout the primary year, trump slapping with insulting nicknames that stuck. >> you go to his rallies and people say lying ted. they know his lines because he drills it home again and again and again. >> we were all waiting for the hillary clinton brand to come out. >> when i can focus on hillary, crooked hillary, when i focus on hillary, she'll go down easier than any of the people we just beat.
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>> and crooked hillary is what he's come up with. >> we all go against crooked hillary clinton and beat her. >> when he started calling her crooked hillary, we knew we reached a point he was looking towards the general election. >> shortly after trump debuted crooked hillary, he added another line of attack. >> the only card she has is the woman's card. nothing else going. >> mr. trump accused me of playing the quote, woman card. well, if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in. >> clinton had the woman card website. >> we came up with the idea of a woman's card which unfortunately doesn't give you a discount even though we don't get equal pay for the work we do. >> running against hillary
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clinton is different than any one of those people that we ran against in the primary. and it's going to be a very difficult battle. >> we're going to wage a positive campaign. i'm not going to respond to anything he says about me. >> hillary cannot get down, dirty and the trenches with donald trump. if she responds, she runs the risk of being marco rubized. when you go down, you're the one who comes out with the sewage. >> in early june, including california and new jersey, clinton had not won enough delegates but seemed to turn her attention from the direct democratic opponent to trump. launching a blistering attack on the presumptive nominee. >> donald trump's ideas aren't just different, they are dangerously incoherent. they're not even really ideas. just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.
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>> as clinton went on the attack, trump accused the mexican american judge in the lawsuit against his failed university, trump u., of having an absolute conflict because of what trump said about crossing the rio grand into the united states. the judge who happens to be mexican, i think that's fine, they ought to look into judge curiel because what he's doing is a total disgrace. >> it's indefensible. >> paul ryan joined others in his parties strongly condemning the presumptive nominee. the same week, hillary clinton was making history. >> hillary clinton pulled off a monumental win in the state. the cap of her historic achievement. june 7, the big primary win in california gave her a decisive lead over bernie sanders in both the delegate count and the popular vote.
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>> thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. first time, the first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee. >> during the victory speech, a restrained trump used a teleprompter, something he'd like to ridicule. >> to those bernie sanders who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of super delegates, we welcome you with open arms. >> but sanders was not ready to give up. july 12th, more than a month later he stood alongside clinton and offered his formal endorsement. >> i intend to do everything i can to make certain she will be the next president of the united states.
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>> and it seemed the battle between trump and clinton would continue to escalate. >> hillary clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency. >> he's written a lot of books about business. they all seem to end at chapter 11. >> hillary clinton is in a much stronger position now than eight years ago. more experienced candidate. donald trump has to convince americans that hillary clinton is the wrong type of person to be president right now, that her past makes her unacceptable. >> i hope, in the end, the american voters will say to themselves, all this back and forth, all of these charges and countercharges, sort of fun to watch as a spectator sport but it's now time to get serious. >> what's at stake in this election is one word. everything. >> who will be the victor? during this election year, even seasoned professionals are unwilling to hazard a guess. >> i'm not going to.
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because i've tried to before and only god knows and she's not talking. >> the 2016 battle features two candidates with very different weapons. clinton offers something more familiar. conventional policy. stronger background in foreign relations and more professionalism across the board. she promises to be simply better than what we had before and better than what we have now. trump offers something about the country itself. his ideals run along nationalism. in trump's eyes, it's us against a mexico that won't stop illegal immigration, a china that manipulates currency to steal american jobs, against europe, the middle east and asia who benefit but refuse to bear their fair burden. it's about this country getting shoved around and donald trump ready, eager to shove back.
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one less exciting but more assuring. the other, seemingly the opposite. one set on firming up the system and the other on shaking it up. come november, the country will choose. i'm chris matthews. thanks for watching. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons, into a world of chaos and danger. now the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> built in 1852 and home to california's death row, san quentin state prison is bursting at the seams due to overcrowding.

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