it's hard to remember that there was an original crazy eddie and his prices were insane. >> ladies, gentlemen, reindeer, start your engines for a crazy eddie christmas blowout blitz, fm stereo radio, car alarm, even a cellular phone. it's all on sale now. remember, we are not going to be undersold. we cannot be undersold and we mean it. car stereo blowout blitz. communications on sale now! crazy eddie prices are insane! >> like i said, his prices are insane! starting in 1975 and running through the end of the 1980s, there were more than 7,000 of these various, deliberately manic screaming crazy eddie ads. they all end with that tag line, his prices are insane!

the guy who actually appears in those ads was not crazy. he was an actor. there was a real crazy eddie. there was a real crazy guy named eddie running the company. his name was eddie antar. i think it's fair to call him crazy not just because of the name of his business but because eddie and his cousin cooked the books at that company really terribly. they ripped off something like $100 million in cash out of that company. crazy eddie, according to court documents, he would tape wads of cash all over his body and then fly overseas and stash the money he was stealing from the company in cash in all sorts of various foreign hidey holes. they were ripping tens of millions of dollars out of the crazy eddie stores for years. in the end, the worst thing uncovered, when they got caught, eddie fled the country but his cousin did not.

the cousin with whom he had been stealing all the money, the cousin stayed behind and the cousin ultimately went state evidence against crazy eddie. he also found time to do this crazy eddie's crazy cousin interview on cnbc. >> it was one of the most successful electronic chains in the u.s. >> blowout prices are insane! >> crazy eddie, controlled by the brash eddie antar dominated the market. but there was a dark side. >> built on deceit. >> behind the scenes, eddie's cousin sam antar was cooking the books. >> what i did was pure evil. i'm probably going to fry in hell for many years before i get upstairs. >> they scammed shareholders more than $100 million.

eddie fled with the cash. sam turn's state's witness. >> you turned around and turned on your family? >> yes. i put them all in jail. >> he did put them all in jail, including crazy eddie himself, his cousin, who got seven years in the pokie. now, speaking of pokey, stick a pen in that for a second. you know how donald trump's sister is a federal judge -- it hasn't really been a big point of discussion in this campaign but his sister is a federal judge. it came up a little bit during the republican primaries. he asked who he wanted to put on the supreme court and the first name suggested was his sister and then we all had to check to see if he was joking. he said he was joking. but his older sister is a well-regarded moderate federal judge on the circuit court of appeals. donald trump's sister, the federal judge, was married to the man who was the lawyer for

crazy eddie all through the crazy, crazy eddie scandal. his name was john barry. he did white collar defense and corporate litigation. he's passed away now. but he was crazy eddie's lawyer through the wads of cash, taped to crazy eddie's body and the cousin narking them out and the whole thing. crazy eddie's lawyer was married to donald trump's sister. crazy eddie's lawyer was also donald trump's personal lawyer for years. and on top of all of that, john barry was also the lawyer that is freaking out the party right now. new jersey is one of those states that holds its statewide elections in off years. their race was not in 2012. it was in 2013. the next one will be in the fall of 2017. they hold their statewide elections in odd number of years. new jersey has been that way for a long time. virginia is the same way. there aren't many states who do

that. one of the consequences of being an off-year election state is when they elect their governor in these weird, odd numbered years, they don't have a lot of competition for attention, right? there are not a lot of big ticket races going on to compete for everybody's dollars and the national parties to get involved. just by virtue of the weird schedule. they can get a bunch of national attention and that's what happened in 1981. so in context, that was a year after ronald reagan was elected to the presidency in 1980. the year after that, november of 1981, new jersey had its governor's race. and in that governor's race in 1981, the national republican party newly energized from that huge win with reagan and how they took the seats in congress and the senate, republican party decided they had another shot to go for another big race and they decided to basically flood the zone in that new jersey

governor's race in 1981. the republicans flew in national political operatives. they launched this very aggressive scheme where they challenged the registration of thousands of new jersey voters who turned up to the polls in newark, camden and trenton. and in about 75 minority heavy precincts across new jersey that year in that race, they put up these four-foot tall warning signs. when i first saw images of these signs online and in old newspaper articles and stuff, i thought these were like flyers and the piece of a paper and put them on telephone poles or something. they were sandwich board posters, four-foot tall signs that they put outside of polling areas saying, warning, this area is being patrolled by the national ballot security task force. it's a crime to violate election laws. and they were not bluffing.

the rnc did actually invent something called a ballot security task force and put these guys on patrol in minority heavy precincts. it's interesting. nobody had advanced warning that they are coming. they just showed up on election day and nobody knew to expect it. they had off-duty police officers and sheriff deputies carrying walkie-talkies wearing ballot security task force arm bands. many were openly carrying guns and they stalked around polling places in minority-heavy districts while they demanded that election workers strike these people off the election rolls. >> several of these signs were reported at polling places at newark's fourth ward. poll watchers, some of them off-duty policemen wearing guns and arm bands were also near the polls as part of the task force set up by the republican and national state committees to

guard against fraud but democrats charge it was a scare campaign to intimidate voters primarily in minority neighborhoods. >> yeah, you think? who knows how many people were blocked or intimidated from voting in that election in new jersey in 1981. but as voter suppression schemes go, this one clearly worked. both parties would claim that it definitely worked. there were 3 million votes cast in that governor's race. it was decided by less than 1800 votes. and the republican won. and then the democrats sued. the democrats sued the republican party over this ballot security task force stunt. and you know who the republicans used as their lawyer to defend them in that case? donald trump's brother-in-law. the crazy eddie guy who was married to donald trump's sister. he was the lawyer for the republican party in that case in new jersey.

and he got creamed in court. i mean, the damage was already done in terms of that governor's race. the republicans won that election by this many votes, right? and the democrats weren't going to be able to get that election back. but what the democrats did get was something called a consent decree, which bans the republican national committee from doing this kind of thing again, from doing anything like this, that problem hib bits them from being involved in any poll-watching shenanigans that targets minority voters. and now today, in 2016, now the snake starts eating its own tail. in 2016, it's not donald trump's brother-in-law, it's now donald trump who is losing that exact case all over again for the republican national committee. >> go down to certain areas and watch and study and make sure other people don't come in and vote five times. >> so important that you watch other communities because we

don't want this election stolen from us. >> so go and vote and then go check out areas because a lot of bad things happen. >> when i say watch, you know what i'm talking about, right? you know what i'm talking about. >> take a look at philadelphia, what's been going on. take a look at chicago, take a look at st. louis. >> every time he says that, you can go ahead and picture reince priebus hiding under a desk, because that's a really dangerous path for the republican party to be on legally. the republican party is still bound by that consent decree from that case in 1981. that case that was lost by donald trump's brother-in-law on behalf of the republican party. because of that case, the republican party has promised they are legally bound to not do

the kind of racially charged poll watching they got caught doing back in the battle days in new jersey in 1981. they've promised not to do it. they are legally bound not to do it through the end of that consent decree and that consent decree was put in place by one way or another since the early 1980s. it is finally set to expire next year. in 2017. the republican party would desperately like to get out from under that consent decree that they have been under since the 1980s but they will not get out from under it if they get caught violating it. they won't get out from under it if they get caught doing racially charged, racially targeted poll watching again like they used to do and that they got caught for. they will not get out from that consent decree if they actually do what donald trump is now asking all republicans to go do now on his behalf. >> go down to certain areas and watch. >> watch other communities. >> go check out areas. >> when i say watch, you know what i'm talking about, right? you know what i'm talking about. >> take a look at philadelphia,

chicago, st. louis. >> or don't. or don't. or don't. thanks to that old case, lost by donald trump's brother-in-law in the early '80s, one of this year's more unexpected freakouts within the republican party is now officially under way. the republican party has issued a special request to all rnc members to please not do what donald trump is asking them to do, to please not gather around polling places in philadelphia and st. louis and chicago or anywhere no matter what the republican presidential candidate is saying on the stump. the national party sent a whole -- the whole rnc a memo to, quote, remind you of the restrictions placed on the rnc by the consent decree. quote, you are encouraged not to engage in ballot security activities even in your personal

state party or campaign capacity if you elect to do so, please be aware that the rnc in no way sanctions your activity. i mean, right now, as it stands, the republican party is legally bound to not do any racially specific poll watching through next year, through 2017. if they get caught doing it, though, the consent decree gets extended until 2025. and the republican party does not want that. they really do not want that. crazy eddie's lawyer is now long gone. but it is kind of amazing that it is now his brother-in-law, the republican nominee for president this year who's the one screwing up that big case, that john barry lost for the republican party back in the '80s. i mean, in the waning days of these elections, in the last two weeks, donald trump is telling his supporters that he doesn't trust the polls anymore and neither should they. he tweeted this this morning. we have not edited this in any way. see if you can figure out why i'm saying this. "major story that the dems are making up phony polls in order to suppress the the trump.

we are going to win." democrats are making up phony polls to suppress the the trump. is that the the so? anything could happen. election day may be a hulla-ba-loo. if they do go try to have a task force or what have you, anything could happen. but right now, "the new york times" probability that the the trump will lose this election is 93%. the 538 probability is more conservative. they put it at 86%. those are pretty high numbers. it may be that the actual drama in this case is moving down. 538 says there's a 74% chance. the democrats are going to take the senate. new york times puts that probability slightly lower at 67%.

because of those kind of numbers, democrats are thinking about long term, right? democrats are thinking about how they can make this a big win for the democratic party beyond winning the white house for hillary clinton. we've got a bunch of interesting reporting on that subject still ahead tonight, including one race that the democrats are really screwing up. on the other side of the aisle, though, republicans are also thinking long term. republicans are looking at donald trump and thinking about what else it is that they have to lose this year besides the presidency. the republicans basically know now that picking donald trump to be their presidential nominee has almost certainly cost them the white house. what they have to worry about now is whether that's it, whether the price of choosing donald trump might actually be sort of insane. we've got more ahead tonight. stay with us. his prices are insane.

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it's a big day for news and politics. i think we'll have a lot of those in the next couple of weeks. i got something very, very wrong on this show a couple of days ago. i'll correct it this evening. there's something that i think the democratic party is currently getting very, very wrong but in that case i have no expectation that they will correct it because i don't think they think that they are wrong. but i do. and that story is next. he thinks that because he has money, that he can call

he thinks that because he has money, that he can call women fat pigs and bimbos. he thinks that because he's a celebrity that he can rate women's bodies from 1 to 10. he thinks that because he has a mouthful of tic-tacs he can grope any woman within groping distance. i've got news for you, donald trump, women have had it with guys like you. [cheers and applause ] >> and nasty women have really had it with guys like you. yeah. and get this, donald, nasty women are tough.

nasty women are smart and nasty women vote. and on november 8th, we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever. >> elizabeth warren i think coining nasty feet for the first time in political history. we keep saying things are unprecedented and then we keep saying, oh, yeah, in the 1860s. i think nasty feet is first. i think that was a first. elizabeth warren on the campaign

trail with hillary clinton. this is the first time they have campaigned together in the same place since the democratic convention. as you saw there, elizabeth warren scorched donald trump but she saved some of her other best bolts for one of the senate colleagues for kelly ayotte of new hampshire who is up for re-election who may not survive. >> donald trump, call latinos rapists and murderers, trump stayed with him. trump called them thugs and kelly stuck with them. trump attacked a gold star family and kelly struck with him. trump even attacked kelly ayotte and called her weak. and kelly stuck with him. >> i mentioned at the top of the show that the chances of the democratic party taking control of the senate are pretty good right now. that's 67% from "the new york

times," the highest probability "the times" has put on that yet all year long. and that is just one number for an overall probability that the democrats will win control of the senate. but it's not just one election, right? taking the senate doesn't happen in one fell swoop, it happens race by race and candidate by candidate. that's why the top campaign events now sound like this. >> marco rubio said donald trump is a con man and donald trump is dangerous. therefore, i support -- whoa, whoa, whoa. wait a minute. how can that work? if he won't stand up against donald trump and there are plenty of republican who is are standing up against donald trump and calling him out. marco rubio won't. and patrick murphy will be a great u.s. senator. >> tim kaine taking some shots at republican senator marco rubio who is up for re-election in florida. senator kaine there also talking up the democratic candidate in that race, congressman patrick murphy. and you would think things would be going reasonably well for patrick murphy right now. the polls have definitely

tightened in that race. the latest poll in florida shows him within two points of marco rubio. last week, patrick murphy got the endorsement of marco rubio's hometown paper, the miami herald. he's been endorsed by all four of florida's largest newspapers, three of which backed marco rubio when he first ran for the senate. also, the prevailing climate looks good for democrats in florida. hillary clinton leading trump by about four points at the top of the ticket. democrats running a huge ground operation in that state. and so, mystery, here's the mystery. why is the democratic party just pulled its money out of the senate race? last week, the campaign arm of the senate democrats canceled millions of dollars of florida ads they were going to run against marco rubio and for patrick murphy. that followed by a couple of weeks the biggest democratic super pac doing the same thing. why is that?

i mean, i know that the democrats have to make choices. i get that, obviously. democrats want to win as many seats as possible advertising florida as expensive. the amount of money it takes to advertise a week in florida, you could spend the same amount of money and advertise in two or three cheaper states, states like north carolina or missouri. the timing and strategy of this is still weird. florida would really appear to be a winnable race for the dems. these are the last three polls. they've either shown a tie or it's within two points. early voting has started in most florida counties. democrats are psyched with where they are. they believe they are ahead of where they were four years ago when romney beat obama in florida. the latino vote in florida is up, oh, i don't know, 99%, from this same point in the race four years ago. 99% increase in the latino vote. how do you think donald trump's going to do with the latino vote? by all objective measures, marco

rubio would appear to be beatable in florida in a race which could determine control. he got shellacked there in the presidential primary. now, he's going to win there while donald trump likely loses the state? really? why are democrats giving up on this race? does it make sense? joining us now is steve, former state director for the 2008 obama campaign in florida and senior adviser in 2012, now a democratic strategist. mr. shell, it's really nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me on, rachel. >> do you think -- i mean, first of all, am i describing the democratic calculus here right, that it's so expensive to spend money in florida that maybe you're better off spending that money in the same states in is that basically the map that they are doing here or have they got other factors? >> they viewed this very anti-septically. the reality is, patrick murphy shouldn't be standing and i think they were right in september when down 7 or 8

points to slow walk the race. but the last four polls have shown even two and down one in two polls and down in another. we're basically in a dead heat. 14 days out, it's like it was and i don't understand the decision at this point. >> well, and is this the sort of thing where in these last two weeks money from the democratic party is what he needs? obviously you think that he's in shooting distance but in terms of what he needs to do to win, would tv ads and radio ads be the sort of thing that would make the difference here? >> yeah, absolutely. there's an old saying in florida that the win state you have to lose statewide and it comes from name i.d. or without money. murphy really shouldn't be standing. he's out 4-1 since the primary but he is. and what he needs is help with hispanics, which the president has cut an ad in spanish for him

and needs help with name i.d. and the i-4 corridor. places like tampa and orlando and i think with the clinton turnout operation, today the early vote numbers and major i-4 counties are phenomenal for us. i mean, really almost shockingly good. i think he's right in this thing. >> in terms of the more personal picture here, it's also not that it's just any senator. it's marco rubio. >> yeah. >> and i wonder, within florida, having been beaten so badly in his home state primary, i mean, he lost the republican presidential primary badly but he really lost at home, what's marco rubio standing in the state and what are his long-term prospects as a politician coming from florida right now? >> well, i think there's two ways to look at it. first of all, if you look at our u.s. senate races, in the same term as presidential elections, our democratic nominees are

usually within a point or two of the top of the ticket. the only exception is bill nelson who outperformed president obama in 2012. marco rubio is no bill nelson. he didn't get a majority of the year when he ran and, you know, we go into this thing and republicans acknowledge it's a race at this point and, again, i don't really want to have this conversation with you in 2019 and say, wow, if we had only spent 4, 5 million more, we could have taken him out when we had the chance. senior adviser, 2012, democratic strategist, steve, thanks for being with us. nice to see you. >> thanks again, rachel. >> all right. still ahead, some surprising and slightly nauseating news from a person who i think is the most surprising senate candidate of the year. that's ahead. stay with us. eliminate odors you've gone noseblind t

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if you're up to date on your favorite american racists, you will recognize this as david duke, former imperial wizard of the ku klux klan. despite being a well-known, full-on white supremacist, proud racist, wearing a bed sheet with arm holes, david duke really did win a seat in the louisiana state legislature in 1989. he served just a single term. since then, he's been to prison for a good long stretch but now he's back in politics and running for a united states senate seat in louisiana this

year. it's the race to replace republican senator david vitter. there's a giant field of 16 candidates in that senate race. david duke, for his part, says he has benefited in this race from having donald trump as the republican nominee at the top of the ticket. he says trump voters are duke voters. naturally. well, now we have news that david duke, former imperial wizard of the ku klux klan and republican hopeful, he has qualified to participate in the next debate for that louisiana senate seat. he needed to clear 5% in a statewide poll to make the stage. he made it with 5.1%. that debate is going to happen next wednesday, including the klansmen. if your stomach is turned by that news, it's about to turn further when you hear the rest of it, which is at the location of that senate debate is an issue here. that senate debate is going to be held at dillard university in

new orleans. dillard is an historically black university. michelle obama gave the commencement speech there a couple of years ago. now it's 2016 and the former klansmen is on the way to the black college that did agree to hold the debate but honestly they did nothing to deserve this. this election is going to be over before you know it this year, but in a lot of places, its stink might last longer than a few weeks. watch this space.

if you're former speaker of the house john boehner, retirement looks a little bit like this. >> this is the coolest wine opener ever. i don't remember the last time i did an interview with a glass of wine. [ laughter ] cool. >> he's pouring like fish bowls

full of red wine there. the key to a happy retirement, everybody says, is to keep busy. now that john boehner has escaped washington and floor votes and object stin nant caucus goers, he can drink wine and take care of his lawn. also, hitting the open road in his rv on his youtube channel he says he's out in freedom one in this clip, that's the name of his rv, freedom one. he says he's, quote, somewhere upon america's asphalt prairie. retirement looks different for everybody, right? president obama is about to have his own political retirement, forcibly thrust upon him as of late january. we've now got word that his retirement is apparently going to involve a lot more politics than what john boehner has been doing. we've got some of that reporting ahead. stay with us.

last year, you might remember this, msnbc did an interesting thing called seven

days of genius. everybody, pick a genius. my colleagues here picked people like the genius behind the broadway show "hamilton," also singer and songwriter carole king, judd apetow. i picked this guy. it's okay if you don't recognize him. his name is chris jankowski, a republican political operative. here's what i think is his genius. after president obama won in 2008, republican political operatives started a project they called the redistricting majority project, red map for short. the idea behind red map was to flip as many state legislators from blue to red. and the timing was important because every ten years when

they do the census, state legislators get to redraw election districts. in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm election, red map starting raising money to flip districts, to flip legislative seats, to approach that whole problem systematically. they raised a little over $30 million and that's a lot of money. it's not a ton of money for a political project. but here's the genius. instead of pumping that $30 million into high-profile senate and congressional districts and all of the big races, instead, they put all of that money into states where the legislators would have the most control over the redistricting process that was going to happen after the census. they focused scientifically on finding flipable seats in key legislatures around the country and because they were obscure races, they had to spend very little money to flip these seats. they flipped a bunch of these seemingly obscure seats in places like new york where they ended up losing control at the new york state senate and alabama, where they flipped the house and the senate from democratic control to republican

control and they picked off these key seats that they targeted around the country, they executed this plan that basically had them strategizing all the way down the ballot, specifically so they could get control over redistricting. so by doing that in that low-profile way out of that one election, they were able to impact the results of their congressional districts for at least a decade, until the next census, in 2020. you want to know what everybody keeps saying, the way the house districts are drawn, even if the democrats have a huge night on november 8th, this is why. because the districts are drawn in the way they are drawn and they are drawn that way because of some genius political strategizing went in to who would be in power to redraw those districts. at a certain civic level, you probably hate this, right? redrawing congressional districts along party lines

feels flat-out wrong but it is, in most cases, how the system is built and republicans really did pull off this amazing trick in 2010 with very little money and no hoopla and republicans have had nothing equivalent to this in their toolbox. after president obama won in 2008, republicans mobilized this little thing, they were able to mastermind it and execute this plan. it was political genius. mr. jankowski, welcome to genius week. i think you were a genius. president obama has 87 days last in office. he's almost done. we have now learned a little bit about what he's going to do next after leaving office. and so, behold, the national democratic redistricting committee. he's going to be focused on redistricting reform for democrats. they are going to organize initiatives and legal challenges to redistricting maps and push for democrats winning in down-ticket races. president obama's former attorney general eric holder is going to chair the group and

president obama has decided he wants this to be the main political focus of his post-presidency life. redistricting. what a better time to start than now. and as of right now, president obama is taking his first presidential jab at those key down-ticket races. he's doing something he's never done before. this week, president obama is endorsing 150 candidates for state senate and senate assembly across 20 different states. he specifically is targeting state candidates who win might flip a state legislature. this is a huge effort. this is something that president obama has never done. it's something no president has ever done. but what does this mean for democrats down-ticket in this election cycle and in election cycles to come? is this a good answer which republicans did so effectively after president obama was first elected in 2008? how effective will this be? joining us now, steve kornacki, host of the 4:00 p.m. hour here on msnbc and an all-around smart man.

>> how you doing? >> president obama is -- am i right to say that president obama is doing something that presidents otherwise haven't done? we've never seen this kind of an effort systematically. >> yeah. we've entered into a new era. it's on people's radar in a way it hasn't been before. it's a strategy and on the minds of democrats and they feel they need to do something. there's a structural component of this, too, where republicans can come up with a plan they came up with and they are sort of running downhill. they are at an advantage when you start talking about redistricting, when you start talking about congressional district lines or state legislative lines. this is the legacy of the obama era, how the two political coalitions have evolved. the democratic coalition right now probably has the numbers to win a national election. you talk about it all the time. it's young people, single women in particular, nonwhite voters, white collared professionals. those people more and more ever are packed more and more tightly

into cities in metropolitan areas. the geographic reach, if you're talking about square miles, if you're talking about land mass, area, the geographic reach arguably has never been smaller. so the numbers are there but they are increasingly packed into smaller and smaller -- really into smaller numbers of districts. >> uh-huh. >> it's much easier, if you're a republican and want to draw lines to give yourself control of the state legislature or congressional map, it's much easier to do that because you don't have -- your voters aren't -- in these rural areas, you might not have 90% but you've got 60%. democrats are sitting on 90% in a lot of -- here's the stat that i think explains the evolution of politics better than anything else. go back to 1988. michael dukakis got wiped out in a landslide loss. a solved victory for barack obama.

he wins 690 counties. the gentlemen graphic share shrinks that much that in a big win they lost ground. >> if em democrats don't want to concede, that geographic is destiny. if they want to roll that stone up that hill, is this the way to do it, to try to be strategic about winnable seats, to try to flip legislatures in a way that's advantageous? >> absolutely. it's a longer-term question and the best news for democrats on that front is, look, in 2010, which is the legislatures that were seated is a result of the 2010 election. it was an off-year election and a mid--term election with a democratic president. this is the way that the elections have evolved. steve kornacki, host of the 4 p.m. hour here on msnbc and all around smart man. am i right to say that president obama is doing something that presidents otherwise haven't

done? we haven't seen this kind of a down-ticket effort.

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vice president joe biden apology was presumably imminent, because of something the vice president said on friday afternoon. >> he said, because i'm famous, because i'm a star, because i'm a billionaire. i can do things other people can't. what a disgusting assertion for anyone to make. the press always asks me, don't wish i were debating him? no, i wish i were in high school and i could take him behind the gym, that's what i wish. >> i wish we were in high school and i could take him behind the gym. apology presumably coming from the vice president's office in three, two -- let's check it. for saying on friday that he wishes he could take donald trump out behind the gym and teach him a lesson, joe biden would soon issue an apology.

was that true or was that false? very false. not only did vice president joe biden not apologize for saying that, he said it again today in toledo, ohio. >> i'll get myself in trouble and say something like i'd like to take him behind the gym if i were in high school. all kiddin' aside, wouldn't you? i mean, for real. can you imagine a guy in the locker room talking that way and your sister's out there watching the game? not a joke. if i were in high school. i want to make it clear. i understand what assault is. i'm not in high school. if i were in high school. i ued to be, i used to have a temper in high school. i don't have a temper anymore. i don't ever, nothing ever bother the me. look, folks. i get it, no.

no. >> vice president clearly working it today, restraining himself, having a little fun, but in no way apologizing for saying that he wants to take donald trump behind the gym to teach him a lesson. our playfully pugilistic vice president. i was very wrong about that. we don't know who the next vice president will be. but tomorrow night we will have a chance on this show to get a really close look at the leading contender. democratic vice president nominee tim kaine will be joining us exclusively here in studio. senator kaine has been a guest before, but we've not talked to him since he's running for vp. i'm very much looking forward to that. that's tomorrow night.

we've been keeping track here at the show of newspaper endorsements in the presidential race. it's been a weird year for that.

the names listed on the left are a selection of hillary clinton's formal daily newspaper endorsements. she has a lot of them. the last time we reported on trump endorsements, he had three, one each from tiny papers in santa barbara, california, waxahachie daily light in texas. you guys have been super helpful at tracking these endorsements, particularly, when they're really tiny papers. send us tips, please. it's been very helpful. tonight thanks to you guys we can add the times gazette. there's also for the first time, a big one. shelton adeleson, a big league republican donor, funded the gingrich campaign all by himself in 2012. this winter, when a paper got a mystery owner, it was the las vegas review journal's own staff who was forced to ferret out their own owner.

that was sheldon adeleson. it's not at all weird for super rich people to give money to political candidates nor weird for them to buy newspapers. it was weird that he tried to buy and run a newspaper anonymously, but his reporting staff caught him. he went into this election cycle planning to donate $100 million for the republican nominee. he did meet with trump, reportedly, but he did not reportedly open up his money spigots. he is now in the paper business, baby. when you're buying ink by the barrel, even if you don't want to spend your money, you might want to spend some of that ink for donald trump, donald trump, the right choice for president, which means the las vegas review

journal joins the group of newspapers endorsing donald trump. maybe the waxahachie daily light will pass the coffee. ♪ with two weeks left in the race for the white house, all eyes or the polls. donald trump is hammering home the idea that he is winning, despite admitting to being somewhat behind in recent polling. plus with the clock ticking down, donald trump's running mate mike pence is reaching out to republicans wary about trump telling them it's time to come home. president obama heads to late-night tv to make a pitch for hillary clinton and mocks donald trump for his history of early morning twitter tirades. ♪