let's dig deeper with cnn commentator errol louis and tom bianco. good morning. >> good morning. >> in essence, trump won and i see a lot with the cases that drag on. how signature is the settlement? >> i would take issue of characterization that, quote, trump won. a word from a press release from the attorney state attorney general, who was also a party to the suit, pointing out in his opinion, it was a freud lent university that trump will pay up to $1 million in penalties for the state of new york calling it a university when in fact it was not authorized as a university in new york. i don't know if i'd call it a win. i think politically, sure, it would enable him to move on. but also tips everybody off to the fact that he's got lots of litigation involved. and this won't be the last case that falls on the desk of the president-elect or in fact the sitting president. >> tom, ms. major flip-flopping going on. let's play some of what trump said. >> i will win the trump university case. i already am. i will win the case in the end. i didn't want to

we have errol louis and rebecca burke. let's talk north carolina. it's a place where there is a lot of division. this is historical blue. you see people cannot agree when it comes to north carolina. here is what we know. in the poll of polls, let's pup the number. the poll of polls is the cnn averaging of the last several polls. every set of numbers is a snapshot. 46% to 42% and 5% for johnson. not good for democrats. yes, obama won it in 2008. they only one it two or three tea times in the last several decades. >> i think the enthusiasm for barack obama. black voters coming outs in droves in charlotte and raleigh area. >> can the african-american votes change? >> absolutely. that is why obama is going there again and again trying to re-tap that enthusiasm he had in 2008. he lost some in 2012. it is an open question over how much he can drive voter turnout for somebody else. >> errol, why are all eyes on north carolina? there are a lot of battleground states. >> it's a big one and it is a true swing state. unlike the other battleground states. you h

. >> well, errol louis cnn comm t commentator. rol, with you we hear trump's talk about building the wall along the border of mexico. that is obviously propelled him to presidency. this interview shows, though, a bit more wiggle room for him. what is your immediate thought when you hear from him? >> well, when it comes to repealing and replacing obamacare it had to be understood to be a process all along. it's not surprising to hear he wants to maybe modify the expectations of people who thought it was going to simply be struck down. it doesn't really work that way. there are elements of it that are really quite popular. that even many opponents of the law don't think were all that bad. you've got the primary one that he refers to is the notion that pre-existing conditions should not be a condition for being barred from insurance. there's another one in which you can't be -- and this is part of the law -- that you can't be barred from coverage simply because of your gender. there are 18 million people that are receiving insurance t

political anchor of time warner cable news errol louis, philip bump and jackie kucinich. errol, about a 30-hour period through his sit down with president obama, which seemed totally subdued and conciliatory where democrats were hopeful, maybe he is a different donald trump. >> but then it didn't last. >> the pivot and then the tweet about the media, about the protests being unfair. ducking and dodging the press pool and it seemed like campaign trump was back. where are you on all this? >> listen, something that shouldn't need to be said but it ought to be said is that the way the president-elect acts is by definition presidential, since he's going to inherent the job. he's going to redefine some parts of it. that's not going to go over easy with a lot of people. i will remind everybody of what happened when ronald reagan took office. you couldn't possibly have the inauguration on the western side of the capital. well, that's what he did and every president since then has done the same. you couldn't name al hague and remember these names from the past. all these people wer

errol louis, a political commentator for time warner news. good morning to you. as well as eric radner, cnn's political reporter. eric, what do you think about the tone of this interview and statement that this interview is making, as donald trump moves forward with bannon, as his top adviser. trump's top adviser, in trump's newly formed national security team. >> this explains why steve bannon likes to stay in the dark, right? first of all, he's explaining he prefers to operate that way. second, his role models, darth vader, satan and dick cheney, not exactly the folksidols. it's a fascinating article. he's trying to say that not only can donald trump achieve some of his goals, but if he does, it can turn into a new permanent governing approach. for both the democratic and republican establishments. it's really an aggressive view of this idea of populous on the campaign trail. i'm interested to see what exactly that means in terms of actually governing, once we see trump pickins for u.s. trade. positions that people don't really know that will have an impact on

. >>> want to discuss this further errol louis and cnn political analyst josh rogan. at one tweet from kellyanne conway and there was more in this public campaign. and we're loyal and we're loyal. we should put the loyal word there in bold. good checklist. i have never seen anything like this. this public campaign now from people loyal really to rudy jewgiuliani against the idea of mitt romney being secretary of state. it's something to see. >> i'm not sure so much if this is pro-rudy giuliani as it is part of a faction fight that has been going on. there are some people and kellyanne conway surprised some people in the wing of the party that were not just disenchanted with mitt romney, but didn't like anything he stood for. they thought he had the wrong policies and wrong style and they thought he wasn't the right kind of candidate to build the party that they wanted to see that was more tilted towards the working class. to see him after that and that barn burner of a speech he gave in march back in salt lake city where he absolutely tore down donald trump to see that

let's bring in our cnn political correspondent dana bash and political anchor for time warner news errol louis and "new york times" national political reporter alex burns. errol, reince priebus is the easy part of the story. rnc chair and they were sideways during the primaries and he came over and started helping trump and he gets his position. that's fine. the story is bannon. bannon is not a journalist. he's not a political operative. he is not conventional in any way. he runs an attack site for the alt right. >> it's not about steve bannon himself, although that is somebody who will get more press attention. i don't know if it will be favorable to him but what breitbart has represented. describing his own organization. those are his words. not people putting something on him. what is the alt right? you start to look at it and you start to look at what it has meant and where it is going and what the people themselves say. the members of the alt right or the activists in the alt right. what they, themselves, say they are doing. it is very disturbing. for the southern poverty law center and f

and political anchor of spectrum news errol louis. good to have you all here. maggie, you were in the room where it happened. what was it like? >> it was very tense initially. when trump came in, you know, he shook everyone's hands and moved around the table and there were, i guess, about 20 people there. he stat down sort of very stiff. he had his armed folded and almost like he was waiting for some kind of blow back or waiting to say something. he did criticize our coverage pretty forcefully. it was not nasty in tone and not aggressive, but he did say that he thought "the times" had been incredibly unfair to him. the most unfair of anyone. i had heard him be clear make that accusation against "washington post" at various points in the campaign and then he basically moved on and took a number of questions. the most surprising thing that he said was on climate change where he appeared to at least be open to the possibility of the paris accords where he said he thinks that there is "conductivity between humans and the environment." >> that is very different. he

errol louis, donald trump is in florida in the morning. raleigh, north carolina in the afternoon. pennsylvania. then new hampshire. ten finishing in grand rapids, michigan. he is going with the theory of the case i need a landslide. >> there's partly that because we have that with the magic wall. he has to flip normally democrat states. these are states that don't have early voting. whatever they get, they have to do it at the end. to a certain extent, it is not a hail mary pass. loading them up at the end and over the weekend, stops in minneapolis where there has been little polling. the last republican they voted for was nixon. that was a sign of desperation. >> if you go some place, go some place with a higher number of white college voters. >> something big is happening. we are accelerating fundamental change in the electoral college and balance of power. the popular vote five of six times. they have done better in the rustbelt than the sunbelt. ohio, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and iowa is higher than the average share of the vote than any of the sun or swing states. yo

errol louis and jack chi sin ku. is there nor going on with black voters? >> i think there are a couple things going on. without obama there, when is the whole thing, not so much that people are turned off by clinton, but you had historic numbers because you had historic candidacy the last time around. the other thing, there is a conservative streak within black communities especially those tied to the pen that cost or holiest churches, they've had doubts about some of this stuff. you know, this hasn't been an easy time for them around same-sex marriage. about the woman's right to choose. this is not thanksgiving that goings over easy for them. and to a certain extent not going to the other side. or maybe deciding this isn't for me. i'm going to stay home. i'm going to spend more of my time on a different kind of politics. they didn't quite find the answer they were looking for, it seems like. >> and mike, there's something else going on, donald trump talking it's happening to him but it's happening in pockets of early voting areas which is that the system

. >> we have our political panel ron brownstein, errol louis, jackie ku skrcinich. are you surprised that he breached protocol? >> to me as an outsider looks like chaos within the fbi. leaking like a sieve, statements from people like rudy giuliani saying we have something up our sleeve and i am hearing from people in the agency and then this back and forth. it seems like some of this is being driven by comey trying to get ahead of leaks out of his own agency, of which he has clearly at least partially lost control. >> he did really make it about him. he had an insurrection this summer. he felt he had to come out in july and explain why he wasn't recommending charging. and then went completely breaking protocol said, nobody would have charged her. it was not even a close call and then also criticized her. starting something he couldn't stop. and then he kept putting some on the scale nine days ago, putting out this letter when it was all hands on deck and look at this and make a determination, why publicly announce the probe. >> but he had to come out and do this la

joining me, errol louis, cnn political commentator, jamie weinstein, senior writer for the daily caller, and josh rogen, cnn political analyst and columnist for "the washington post." welcome to all of you. good morning. happy friday. so errol, kellyanne conway says she's not saying anything publicly she hasn't said privately to the president-elect, but are you surprised that she tweeted out that there's this rift among trump supporters between romney and rudy giuliani? >> i interpret it as maybe kellyanne conway thinking that she's got to go public, because it is one of the tested and true ways of trying to sway donald trump. we saw this in the campaign, where people would quite openly acknowledge newt gingrich among others that one way to get to him is to sort of put something out there on twitter or on television discussions like this one, because he watches a lot of television. it's a little unusual. most of us would expect that maybe a policy memo, political memo or conversation, maybe a meeting would be the way to convey this stuff, but i see kellyanne conway as doing something we

ross douthat from the "new york times," errol louis for new york one news and julian selazer from new york university. welcome to all of you. ross, you were present when donald trump was interviewed by the "new york times." what went through your mind as trump ticked off these differing apparently softening policy positions? >> a couple of things. one is that trump is a salesman, right, and if you put him in a room with a collection of journalists whose views tend to differ from his own, i was probably the most conservative attendee at the "times" meeting. my colleagues won't complain about that characterization. if you put him in a room like that, you will get a different trump than you get on the campaign trail, at a rally where he's trying to rally conservative votes against hillary clinton. and you know, my sense throughout this campaign has been that there are few issues that trump is really invested in, particularly his economic philosophy, the idea that we need to be building more buildings and cutting better trade deals and so on, but then on most other issues, he can move aro

. >>> cnn political commentator and political anchor of time warner cable news errol louis and matt visor and daily beast washington bureau correspondent jackie kucinich. errol, do you agree six days out we're now hearing the candidates' final arguments? if so, we'll start with hillary clinton, is she making the argument not so much about her vision or her plan, but that his on fitness is just disqualifying? >> she's going right back to the argument that donald trump has disqualified himself. you can sort of read between the lines. this wasn't the argument they had hoped or intended to make in the closing days, but different events and we can thank fbi director comey for this, i think, in part. have made it impossible for her to get to that. she's going to go with what has worked so far and what the polls, the focus group and everything else suggested works. which is disqualify him and you sort of get a twopher. you rally the democratic base and you also sort of cream ohis. even cross lines and come to hillary clinton. on the other hand, she doesn't seem entirely happy about it. she seems

errol louis is back with us.l hughes, who supported donald trump, also political editor for right alerts.com. jonathan, before we get to pressing news, i want to ask you about trump tower news today and the word tulsi gabbard, congresswoman from hawaii who was a bernie sanders supporter, is in there meeting with him and could be up for some jobs. what do you make of her being there? >> frankly i just learned about this recently so i can't comment or go deeply into it. i will say tulsi gabbard had what i consider to be more conservative, if you want to use the term, positions on things like gun control and on immigration. in my view, just speaking personally. i don't want to necessarily reflect bernie sanders himself in my view wouldn't be seen as a nina turner or someone like that very prossive across the board. >> what would you say to other bernie sanders supporters right now looking at the next four years thinking maybe we should work with donald trump is a good strategy? >> no. i've said this before. actually

. >>> we have cnn political reporter errol louis and abbie philip and david gregory. abby, i'll start with you since we were just having this conversation. donald trump is going to ban lobbyists from serving in the white house. isn't that already a law? >> he is extending a policy that has been in place throughout the obama administration. >> president obama started that. >> yes. and he's continuing that. he doesn't have to do that. >> wait a minute, but lobbyists can, at the same time, be a lobbyist and serve in the white house? >> well, not right now. but he's continuing the policy of preventing him from doing that. he didn't have to do that to begin with and i think a lot of people in the federal government who would complain that, hey, like, you got to have lobbyists. they know what they're talking about. but the drain the swamp policy, this fits in. >> he is extending the term after they leave the white house which is they can't lobby and they can't make that money. david gregory, you know, i feel like going after lobbyists is an easy target. who is going to stan

back with us, errol louis and david gergen. let's start with the trump video, what was said on camera. this promise of what he would do in his first days in office. what do you make of that? >> well, what you said in the beginning was right, what was not in the statement was as important as what was in the statement. that is, we heard nothing about repealing the affordable care act, so-called obamacare, on day one, and we heard nothing about a wall. the rest of it was sort of to be expected, no big surprises. but nothing as dramatic as one might have thought coming from donald trump. knowing him, he has a lot of drama ahead. >> it is interesting, david gergen is talking about drama right now. donald trump is a guy who during the campaign held rally after rally. he was always on camera, he was always calling in to shows of all kind, did press conferences up until a few months ago, did interviews up until a few months ago. now he's just completely disappeared. you know, he wins the election and for 13 days as president-elect, in

errol louis as well. nd carl barnstein, political analyst, investigative journalist to say the leefrt as. great to have you all. started this conversation earlier with david. early things he's looking out for. ear errol, pick up on that. looking into the not so far future? >> the day to have that tail off, getting real results. it's i think one of the big stories, latino turnout. that registration, mobilization and actual votes are way, way up. it's not just chicanos, not just mexican-americans. it's puerto rican americans. a big, growing movement and it is going to be a critical part of the hillary clinton coalition. see if that coalition comes through for her. in the i-4 corridor, florida for sure, keep an eye on that. nevada, definitely keep an eye on that. frankly even california and texas, in some areas where the outcome of the state is not in doubt but what's going on i think is really important. >> sort of asking, how-to guide to watch the election tonight as results start coming in at 7:00. the fir

. >>> the big battleground blitz with pat and errol louis is a political anchor for time warner cables and rebecca berg is national political reporter at real clear politics. great to have you back. matt, let's start withn north carolina and why they are putting so much energy there. we know a few demographics. 15 electoral votes and, of course, they all want that. it was the second closest race in 2008 and 2012. i think that shows the pres fs on why it teeters. >> the epitome of a swing state. it's very purple. one that either candidate sees opportunity in. but for trump and his pathway, it's a must win essentially. it's hard for him to get to 270 electoral votes without north carolina. that's why you see hillary clinton investing so much time and energy in a state that has some of the demographics of the coalition she's trying to build. college-educated voters, suburban women in some of the key areas of charlotte and raleigh that you see her in greensboro where she spent a lot of her time' african-american vote also very important there. >> when you look at north carolina, errol, is

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errol louis.iscussion was about this neo-nazi white supremacist weekend over the weekend which the trump team did directly announce until today when donald trump asked at the "new york times" disavowed and also said if these groups are being energized he wants to find out why. jeffrey lord say this is identity politics. and anna navarro speaks to the fact there are people who feel threatened by the incoming presidency. the fact that it did take donald trump these days to comment on it directly. does the passion that we saw here before. is the risk by not addressing it more directly that you will raise all of these questions that have been raised by people who are concerned? >> i think it is a positive thing he said. if they are being energize by something i've said or done i want to find out kbr. it is a little frustrating to hear that. i don't know how many editorials or statements were made on the debate stage saying you are waking up a disgusting vicious group of people who have no place in ame