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hour. do not forget to set your clock back this sunday and get an extra hour of sleep or campaigning, daylight saving time, i will be here live at 4:00 p.m. and special coverage leading onto the big day. coming up next, mtp daily starts now. >> yes, it is friday, we are in the final count down whether you want to make america great again or be stronger together, this is it. >> tonight it is all about that bass. >> i approved this message. >> i approved this message. >> why the up beet report could be bad news for hillary clinton >> our economy is poised to really take off and thrive. >> after an october full of surprises, should we still be
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holding our breath for one more november shocker. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. ♪ good evening, i am chuck todd, nbc election headquarter here in new york city. welcome, one of my favorite expressions is, everyday is a week. right now every hour feels like a day with four to go. >> here we are four days to go and campaigns are framing this race as a choice between a dangerous, sickly corrupt criminal and a unhinged woman neuroscien izer that could cause armagedon. those are your choice, america. >> while trump fired up chants
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of "lock her up" and clinton attacked trump's character. >> how can hillary manages this country when she cannot manage her e-mails. she's be under investigation for years and with trials. >> chanting: lock her up. >> think about what it would mean to entrust the nuclear codes to someone with a very thinned skin who lashes out anyone who challenges him. >> you ain't see nothing yet. here is just a sampling of trump's campaign ads airing. >> hillary clinton is under fbi investigation after it was found under weiner's laptop. she does not have the attitude
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to lead our world. >> dictator. >> hillary clinton's policy is going to allow people in to the country just like the one what murdered my son. >> the which here is the samplir most recent spots. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> and when you are a star, they let you do it and you can do anything. >> a person who's flat chested is hard to attend. >> this is me 1964 of the fear of nuclear war and i never thought our children would have to deal with that again and seeing that coming forward into election is scary. >> i want to pause, mr. tru trump -- with my son, would my son have a place in your america? >> clinton holds a decisive
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financial campaign. it is the same story in ohio, it is a 2-1 tv advantage in north carolina and same story in pennsylvania. everywhere you look, clinton has the financial advantage and the only exception is wisconsin where trump out spent clinton. if you have proof. look at both campaigns' final schedules. trump is figuring out the path to 270. they're all over the map. it is pennsylvania and new hampshire and nevada and colorado, iowa and michigan. some of that schedule changes happened in the last 22 days >> clinton's schedule is more focused. pennsylvania and ohio and they think they know how they get to 270 or how they could block trump from getting there. >> folks, this historic ugly
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finish create as huge opening to one of these candidates to attempt to rise above the negativity. we do have our first look of the trump campaign closing ad of their two-minutes spot. i would not be surprise if clinton does one, too. it is a big one, in battleground states and national. it is narrated by trump. we have not heard trump in his own words. this one is all trump. here is a clip. >> to political establishment is trying to stop is the same group responsible for our disaster trade deals. massive and illegal immigration and economic and foreign policy that is have bled our country dry. the only thing that can stop this corrupt to be seen is you.
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the only force that's strong enough to safe our country is us. we'll take back in country for you and we'll make america great again. >> that's the trump campaign closing spot. we don't yet know have a clinton's closing spot yet but i would not be surprise if we see a similar two-minute version of that may air over the weekend. lets talk about this. lets bring in our top strategists. brad, let me start with you and get your initial reaction of the trump's closer spot. it is more message on populism. do you think it is effective? >> he's had a cause and when he had a worse day, it is a candidacy about one person. the clip, that leads more towards the cause side. that's the way trump could rise
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above the ugly fray and not him the candidate. >> stefanie, i would like your reaction and what you would advise clinton to do and their version of a two-minute closing spot. >> well, i think, excuse me, i am losing my voice but on the trump's spot, i think is effectively laying out the choice as he sees it. you know i am not for trump. if i were advising clinton of what to put on air, i would do something similar. she's been talking about his and being unfit ands and untrust worthy and wanting to bring america together and we are stronger together. this is a time where we need experience to do the job.
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both sides are laying out the choices in the closing days. >> i wonder if the two-minute spot for either one of them will take it, you know what, i know you do not like this campaign or having issues like me but for trump is showing him on humility and trust issues. it does not seem like either campaigns are going in that connection? brad, let me start with you. >> i have been waiting for one of these two candidates to talk on the elephant in the room. you have to meet the voters where they are. frank frankly, everybody that's left to decide is not favorable to either candidate. you can try to meet the voters where they are and accept the barriers they had and help them get over that or focus on the
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agenda control and keep them on the spotlight that favors them the most. >> stefanie, where are you in this case acknowledge the trust elephant in the room for her side of things. >> i think you are probably going to hear that on the campaign trail whether or not to put it on the air. and then to convince a small number of voters left that have not made a decision. large portions of them have voted. >> i ask you both of what you thought the best trump 's ads o hillary clinton's? here is a quick clip of it, it
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is called "role model." you can tell them to go [ bleep ] themselves. i can stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoots sboomeby and i would not lose any voters. >> our children and grandchildren will look back at this time of the choices we are about to make, the goals we'll strive for and the principles we'll live by. >> brad, why did you pick it? and what made it effective? >> this ad were a essential movers in our campaign. the 60 second of this ad where you just played had a portion of hillary clinton on the back end of the spot. i tested that spot, every time we tested it, as soon as he came on screen, that spot fell apart. it worked great when it was all about trump and it fell apart when she came on. i have seen a 30 second that did not include hillary clinton. when she's front and center, voters turn her off.
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>> stefanie, this was the ad that you thought it was trump's best. >> i am going to do this one here. it is "unfit." let me play a clip and ask you why. >> hillary clinton is under fbi investigation again after her e-mails were found on pervert anthony weiner's laptop. exposed by hillary clinton of her staff and anthony weiner. >> this is the most recent attack spot from the trump's campaign. why did you think this was the best one they had >> let me first say that the ad is not factual our true but it is an effective ad. it is so hard to breakthrough right now and the ad war is so clutters and there is little information that you can introduce that's new on both of these candidates.
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if you listen to that ad, the thing that jumps out at you is "pervert" so you will look up and get the viewers' attention. >> quickly for both of you, brad, i will start with you, we know the clinton out spent trump on tv, who bought smarter? in 2012 it was president obama out bought tv spots of romney. what about this cycle? >> what remains to be seen is where the offset happens. if donald trump sneaks through a northern strategy, those are place that is hillary's campaign ignored for ra long time. i think that she will not bought sma smarter, i think trump would not have bought smarter if he does not make it. he's a wealthy man, he did not start advertising until late in
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the game, i think he should have started earlier. >> i agree with that. he did not start until the last several months and he's going and which we all know is difficult when you are running advertising, you have to reenforce the message over and over otherwise people forget it. hillary has been employing a lot of data technology that we develop in 2012 and making that much smarter and how to target our voters on what they want to hear. >> i have to say, you guys embraced the analyst part of this segment. i appreciate it. stefanie cutter and brad todd, good stuff. >> thank you. >> going in the final weekend, we'll get the views for the two campaigns and forget our special coverage continues through the
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mess. >> i mean we went through it with him with the impeachment and the lies, are we tired of this stuff? >> hillary clinton and donald trump both talking tough in battleground states today, clinton is in pennsylvania and donald trump in new hampshire. polls showing trump pulling more or less with clinton. >> joining me now, missouri, a long time supporter of hillary clinton. welcome back to the show. >> thanks chuck. >> let me ask you this, what happens to "when they go low, we high." >> it feels like this is an ugly close for the campaign, what do you think? >> they are challenged of what he's doing and what comey did. keep in mind ads that you have been loogiking at, one is accusations and innuendos and flat out lies and the others are his words. they are what donald trump has
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actually said and done. >> and obviously, i would prefer that we would be able to talk about how great a president she will be because i think she will be. it is important to remind people who this man is. >> i am curious, you brought up comey, do you think james comey has changed the outlook of this race? >> well, i think what he did damaged the law enforcement of this country, i certainly think it changed a little bit of the momentum in the race. i think it blunted some of hillary clinton's momentum. i don't think it changed the fundamentals of who is fit to be president. who we want to be a role model for our children and when he o repaired to be president.
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those fundamentals are still in place. the margin he may have impacted of the margin. i feel optimistic that the american people is making right choice. if mitch mcconnell is still director, do you think that's due to mr. comey? >> no, i don't think he will be. we have a terrific candidate and one here in missouri that surprising all the people who think they know best buy a fresh and different approach and i think we are going to have a democrat and the senate race is going to have a good night on tuesday night. i would be surprise in mitch mcconnell were majority leader in january. >> senatoor schumar said he los confidence in director comey. have you lost confidence in him?
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>> well, i worked with the fbi for years as a prosecutor. i was a prosecutor and i could not get information out of him. the notion that he said we are going to begin an investigation, he had no knowledge or facts when he wrote that letter. >> why do you think he's doing that? >> i think he's worried about how he's going to look. i think he's not thinking through the consequences and i think he kind of thought, well, i said i would do this and let the chips fall where they may. that's not what you do to law enforcement and you stay married to facts. no one has been investigated by law enforcement in the history of politics. there is never been factual evidence to support any criminal activities. this guy is running for president running all over country and saying she's a criminal and allowing people to chant lock her up.
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it is outrageous. >> one final question here, would you advise secretary clinton to deal as we are talking in the previous segment dealing with the elephant in the room for her which is this trust issues with votevoters, would y have her tackle that on monday night? >> she's got to do what she's comfortable doing. authenticity matters. she's addressed the fact that she's not the best candidate in the world and likable. she keeps her head down and does the work. hard work is the only thing that change in this country. so i think she's got to stick with what she feels she needs to feel wis with the american peop. all of us to keep reminding people that there has never been
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a factual bases to support my criminal activity by hillary clinton. >> senior senator from missouri, senator mckaskill. >> let me start with where you are headed here, there is some confusion. you guys are going -- looks like to be eight to ten states. you have an updated schedule for us? >> we are adding more. we got a map up here of what we think of your final blitz here. >> adding sunday and tuesday. mr. trump will be over in a dozen states and i believe today is three events and four and five events. here is the important part. we are offense with the campaign. yes, we have the traditional
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battleground in florida, north carolina and ohio where we are seeing mr. trump campaign. we are campaigning states that have gone blue and we talked about colorado and new hampshire, we are in office of this campaign. the map has opened up and mr. trump is in pennsylvania several times c times. it started off today. >>. >> lets talk about offense, two times when you are ahead or sometimes when you are behind. it was 40-14 and tampa bay got nothing but offense. >> the reason i say this is your travel schedule looks like bob's schedule or romney's schedule. you guys are searching for one more state some where to give yourself a credible path. are you short a state? >> we have five or six or seven different paths to get there.
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there trump will go past 270. we are feeling good. you take a look at michigan where we have is a dead heat and colorado. a state that's a dead heat. i don't think mr. trump gets enough credit for and mr. trump, we feel good that he's going to be able to win it. you look at a number of absentee of early votes and a number of these states, we are ahead of the pace. we are the ones on offense. >> lets me address the criticism. if you come up short and michigan is a four point race. the question is going to be, should you have done more or did you make a mistake not trying to campaign sooner or spending more
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time to advertising in wisconsin and michigan. if you feel like you can go back in time, change your strategy? >> no. i think heading into the final weekend, we are where we want to be. there is something that i heard from senator mccaskill, she did not lay out a compelling reason to vote for hillary clinton. >> that's remarkable. >> we had a two-minute positive closing message from mr. trump. >> that's a loose step. i sounds like a contract to me. you are showing clips of clinton with calorihinese leaders. >> mr. trump's positive message and mr. trump is getting voters and not just someone but something to vote for. we are talking about lowering taxes and going into communities
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where democrats are left behind. there is a positive reason to be for mr. trump. what uninsided voters waking up on tuesday, either they want to make a change or a good chance they'll not come up and vote. >> why not take the criticisms head on and has there been any thought where maybe my rhetoric was too off and i did demean some people that i did not mean. any thought of him doing any type of -- >> well, i think there are a couple of things mr. trump has taken that on in the past in his speeches and in wisconsin, where he did a lot of that. we saw melania who looked like a
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future first lady and talked about their family and her love for the country. what i think people really appreciate about mr. trump is telling like he sees it. he's going to be straightforward. he's not a blow dried politician. >> kellyanne conwayweeted a picture of herself and corey lewandowski, is he apart of the trump's campaign? >> i thought he work for a television network? >> he does not work for the campaign. >> is he campaigning or make decisions? >> he's evolved but he's not a former part of the cal pampaign. he's support i'ive. >> it is going to be a long and short four days >> thank you. >> don't you love those.
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so i guess we still have a few hours to go to avoid the final friday's surprise, the november's surprise. we cleared the business hour in new york. let me go to our analysts and or halie jackson, fresh off the trump's trail. >> there you go, guys. >> relax. >> good afternoon in california, man. >> can anything breakthrough at this point or people paying so much attention that everything breaks through. >> if you are the trump's campaign, you are praying that th that you got no more surprises. >> they don't want to talk about anything else. >> that was such an incredible gift and catching all messages all week. i feel like it did help with undecided voters because it reminded them what they dislike about hillary clinton so much. >> to me, friday's surprise at
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this race is still so close the friday before election day but it is. >> there is a fog of war field to this as we are talking about that where, you know, on one hand, i look at how trump is campaigning this week and and romney did it this way. and the other hand, the clinton's campaign did not exude confidence. >> i think they are scared. >> and philadelphia. >> i have had people asking how it is going to be getting in the polls. >> we have our elections to anger government. yeah, you go back and forth to work and after a while, you are just tired that it was such an effort, do you then go to the polls or go to the polls early
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if the morning or worrying to make it to work on time. this is a problem for the clinton's in terms of turn out. >> it is surprising to me that they are doing more in wisconsin, i think they could have a shot there and ever since i did focus group in wisconsin and early in september, i thought he had a chance of that surprise. >> yeah. >> i agree. >> of those states, like wisconsin that he would need to do well, michigan is not a better bed which is why he focused so much on that. you talk about chuck, well, you look at his travel schedule the next few days, it feels like spaghetti at the walls and going
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everywhere and see where it fits. >> he's got to run the table. usually when you are throwing stuff at the wall what you are hoping pick one there or two or three. >> it is obvious of what the final plan is for clinton's campaign. turning out african-americans. you look at the philadelphia's schedule, the jay z's concert in cleveland. >> what's the deal with georgia? do they have a chance? >> i mean the polls are so close but it is hard for me to believe that, you know, hillary perceives of a liberal democrat, i don't see it that way. >> if she wins, welcome to her governor nightmare. >> way to go bob. >> can she win in georgia?
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that's why they think unlike research, atlanta is not yet a suburban area that democrats can do well in. the polls are close which could tell you at some points of african-americans turn out. texas has been discussed, texas is going to go red but the fact that this year, trump has put the traditional red states into play says something about of unorthodox candidacy. >> a long-term trend as it goes, that's what i think republicans are so concerned about. texas is going purple this early and not necessarily this election but looking towards 20/20 and down the road win and demographics keep on changing.
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>> i want to ask you guys all of these clothing. it is ugly. >> it is ugly and disparity. >> with the closing. with hillary, they did not want to close this way. after the comey, they really have to get the vote out. it is all about that turning out. >> that means, thinking about her. >> and trump is thinking of the same thing, thinking about her. >> i think that makes it difficult for that teenie sliver. it is not about the undecided. >> what undecided? >> it is about trying to - to -- she's making the argument that he's too dangerous and he's making argument that she's of the same. >> all right, i will take a quick break, there is a chance i might sing after this next
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to me, there is nothing better for that perfect song to get knew the game. i have a little pump myself up play list. >> hillary clinton got the "fight song" and "proud to be an american." for me it is the ramones, 24 hours ago, i want to be sedated. i change it to 996 hours to go. i have to sing it. >> from the contract, "one day more," it brings it all home. one day more, you know, maybe we are all going to have a revolution or one day more or maybe we'll all gather at the pup and throw down. either way, it is what keeps me going. i put those two song in my head and make you hum them over and over again and make you get mad at me over and over.
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our goals and have been and should be that our investigators and prosecutors are independent politics that they are not politicized and are not used a as weapon to advantage either sides or partisan arguments. i want to make sure we continue with that tradition and that norm. >> that's quite a phrase there. >> that was the president in an interview, that'll air this sunday morning on msnbc, our panelists here. b bob, your reaction to him. that's a highly charged phrase that's going to be an interesting reaction. >> i did not hear it except the sound was cut-off. >> he was talking about the
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prosecutors should not be used a as weapon. >> oh. >> and have to be in the phrase, the fbi should not use a weapon. he did not say the fbi, he said that prosecutors and things like that should not be used as a weapon. >> it is highly charged, but i agree 100%. and that just flies in the face of everything that i've seen in a long career in the news business. and you just don't use investigations and police powers and prosecutorial powers that way. >> i still just feel hillary clinton has no one to blame but herself for being in this situation. she shouldn't have had the server in the first place. so the aftermath of this, just, the problem with bill clinton, loretta lynch, the airplane, this just only further erodes the electorate's trust in our institution. >> this gets to our november 9th problem. >> i was going to say -- >> james comey's not going anywhere. they've got to work with him, right? >> okay. i don't know. >> or -- >> that's a whole other thing, chuck. >> you've got u.s. senators.
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senator mccaskill earlier, she didn't go as far as chuck schumer did, in losing confidence, but there's certainly -- and by the way, it wasn't that long ago that you had a republican saying -- >> right, right. >> and i think you do have a virus now that might be on the basis of both parties of distrust. and that's something that you don't eradicate very easily. >> the republicans are signaling that already. i mean, it's going to be -- i mean, there's the constitutional crisis. it's going to be the republicans and the legislature versus, if hillary wins, the president of the united states. let me ask you, elise, you were hired by james comey right now, crisis management, i mean, y you've got all of these -- you've got political leaders calling you -- you've also got, clearly, some fbi agents who were talking a lot to the press, which is, that's the problem. >> well, he's got -- >> because it becomes fbi sources. >> well, the internal coup that's going on, and how do you crack down on those leaks in the obama administration certainly has been, quite good, at cracking down on leaks. but then when it's actually the
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fbi director, who's dealing with this dissent from within, i just think his initial error was the vague letter. he had to have spelled out a little bit more what exactly they were looking into, and it's made it so hard in the aftermath for him to clean it up. >> i think we've all wondered, would he, last week at this time, we were wondering about the pressure on sunday, would all of this criticism, including now from the president of the united states, it was vaguer criticism earlier, now it's sort of walking up, using a highly charged phrase, like the idea that law enforcement being used as a weapon. i think we all thought we would see comey this week. and we didn't. >> correct. and by the way, what you saw from president obama, that is quite the walk from we will neither criticize nor defend, which is what the press secretary said when this all happened. and i think you're right. we know where james comey is, but does he have an obligation to come out -- >> but -- the strategy of all-out war on the fbi, i don't think it serves the clinton
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campaign well. >> but it's inside the fbi, it seems. >> speaking of the fbi, one thing we ought to note, it's been reported earlier, fox reported that an indictment was imminent and they totally walked it back and bret baer went on air and said that was an inaccurate -- >> and trump's been using this in his ads -- >> and will keep using it. >> what comey should have done, with his vague statement, his first mistake, when he went on about what hillary had done wrong -- >> you mean the july statement? >> yeah. >> but what can he say now? that we haven't found anything or -- i mean, i think he's got a problem. >> elise, i am curious, it is odd to me, you were talking about the vagueness o of that letter. and it was a question i put to pete williams. i said, why are we hearing the explanation from you and not from director comey? no disrespect to reporting. we as reporters, we want to get to the bottom of things. but this seems like one of
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those, like, wait a minute, this should be from the -- we should hear comey say these things, or read it in comey's words. >> i agree, he should spell out as much as he possibly can about the process, about what they are doing, what they are going through. give as much information without completely destroying the investigation. but i do think that more public transparency was clearly warranted in this situation. >> what is the political impact of this for the next three days? is this a turnout mechanism for both the right and left? >> well, i think the impact is, has petered out at this point. >> i do too. i wonder if the president reignites it. that's what i'm wondering. or, no? >> i just don't think so. i think that -- but who knows what's going to happen in the next three days, in this campaign. >> is this your friday surprise? >> i was just going to say! look, it's certainly -- i don't know. i mean, i think it -- i think it could help inspire some democratic turnout. and i think it could help inspire some republican.
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>> right. and they these enthusiasm rht now. clearly, hillary clinton, the only huge wild card that i see is that people who are supposed to vote for likely voters just don't show up, because they're demoralized. she needs those voters to come out. >> i think the republican turnout is maxed out at this point. i don't think you can pump it up any higher. i think the democrats can get more people to the polls and especially african-americans. >> well, i think that's what the weekend is going to be like. as i said, every hour now feels like a day. okay, 96 hours to go. we all want to be sedated. bob, elise, hallie, thank you very much. you can see reverend sharpton's full interview with president obama on tonight, we'll air it on "all in with chris hayes," that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern and you'll see it on reverend sharpton's show later in the weekend. we'll be right back.
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in case you missed it, today is the first friday of the month, so it is jobs report day. it's the last snapshot to have the economic situation before election day. employers added 161,000 jobs in october, lowered the unemployment rate to 4.9%. folks, this will be the third time since 1960 that the unemployment rate on election day will be less than 5%. that sounds like pretty good news if you're the incumbent party, in this case, hillary clinton. but believe it or not, here are the two other times that happened. 1968 and 2000. those are the last two times that the unemployment rate was lower at election time. you probably know where i'm going with this.
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in both '68 and 2000, the party in power found itself the party out of power on the inauguration day. vice president hubert humphrey lost a squeaker to nixon in '98 and al gore lost the ultimate squeaker in 2000 even as he won the popular vote. good economic numbers certainly he, but as you know, in a character election sometimes, they're no guarantee for victory. that's all we have for tonight. we'll be back sunday with special election coverage, "meet the press" in the morning, and a special "mtp daily" at 5:00 p.m. eastern. but "with all due respect" will start right now. >> i'm mark halperin. >> and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to all of you people out there who say this election can't end soon enough, are you not entertained?!
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