back with our panel now, chris alyssa, kasie hundredt and kell o'donnell. rump do next to try to recapture the energy and momentum? >> well, he has one speed, andrea, and that's sort of full force forward. i think he tries to get back on offense, lead the conversation in you know talk about crooked hillary. talk about sort of the fact that the democrats painted what he believes to be a two rosy picture america. that they are out of touch with america. remember, he needs the industrial midwest. he needs white working class voters who believe that sort of the american dream is no longer attainable but has left them behind and politicians don't care. that's who he needs. he needs to sell in some ways that vision that he painted at the republican convention. i know a lot of people say it was a mistake, but for his coalition, that's the message that i think they respond to. i think you're going to see if he's smart, he should spend time basically 90% of his time in ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, and florida. because without those states, it's very diffi

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joining me now to talk about all of this are two people who could drove down on it, chris alyssa of the. i think this is a very human explanation. this makes sense. it sounds like someone who is not a professional speech writer, who was a family friend, a writer, and has other experience in her life, but not a speech of this magnitude. takes from melania trump some observations, melania trump, i think it's charming this explanation that she admired michelle obama's speech and sent it along and without the quotation marks which you as a writer, you sam as a writer would put in note taking so that you knew that these are direct quotes. >> right. >> not just thoughts. and concepts and so, macgyver takes these as melania's wishes and thinks they are her writings. the rest is history. >> totally fine. before sam and i were waiting off camera and i thought, is it tuesday? because -- i mean, this isn't the explanation that makes sense that we all expected at some level, some kind of explanation yesterday. we had total radio silence, paul manafort saying it was a hillary clinton idea, the media

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telling chris alyssa what he has in mind.is chris alyssa with the daily fix. msnbc contributor, fix blog, well, chris, what did he tell you because there's a lot of talk about whether it's going to be a political figure, military person, and we know jennifer griffin from fox just interviewed general flinn, he says i'm not in favor of choice, last 24 hours switched his position on abortion. >> look, i think donald trump has shown throughout this campaign, andrea, that he can change his mind very quickly. so here's what it was as of this morning. he said he was leaning toward a more political pick rather than a military pick. by political, he means someone in politics before, that would be a mike pence, the governor of indiana, chris christie, the governor of new jersey, newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house as opposed to general flinn. now, he didn't rule him out, he said he had a list of five people, the three i named and general flinn as well as one more person o are on that list. probably make his mind up or expect

. >> chris alyssa and i could never have predicted in 2016 with donald trump rewriting the politicaln hillary clinton and bernie sanders. joining me now for our daily fix, chris alyssa, founder of the washington post fix blog and nick, chris, i thought you would appreciate that tour of your, i can't say receding hairline, but -- >> you can say that. it was less hot in these places than it is right now. >> gloesbal warming. let's talk about what's happening here. i don't know if you heard bob, what should debbie wasserman schultz do with her presumed gaveling down at 4:00. and he said she should get on a plane a go back to florida. >> i'm not sure there's a good answer for her. after the delegation breakfast which i wrote a piece using the footage you shot on your phone was really ugly. and this is the florida delegation breakfast, this is theoretically people who at least in part should be on her side. a broader convention gathering is going to be ugly. if she can weather it, she can, but does hillary clinton want day one, full story, debbie wasserman schultz, the e-mails, is this ho

and joining us now, chris alyssa, msnbc contributor and founder of the washington post and wall streetrnal, political editor jean cummings, she's trying to rebalance her campaign. she got through this speech and the focus on atlantic city, but there's a lot of attention obviously on jim comey going to the hill tomorrow. >> absolutely. look, andrea, i think what you saw was a very good and effective speech in which hillary clinton laid out a blueprint for how she's going to atrack donald trump. he says he's a successful businessman. let's look at his businesses and let's look at how he made his money which she argues is on the backs of middle class voters. she's always better on the attack than she is on the defensive. i think that's true of most candidates, but she is much better as a candidate in. back and forth trading jabs, than she is on any other format. this is an attempt to get her leaning forward again. obviously they're not going to do it wholeheartedly because you have james comey and loretta lynch, there's a lot going on around the fbi investigation, but i think this is an a

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joining me now for our daily fix, chris alyssa and founder of the washington post fix blog, reporterand her in north carolina, the washington post john wagner who wrote a detailed story today on the political fight here in battleground, north carolina. chris, first to you, the criticisms we just heard from matt miller, former eric holder spokesperson at the justice department saying that the fbi director has no business going into detail, saying how careless she was, criticizing her handling of classified information in if he is not recommending an indictment. his job is to recommend to indict or not to prosecute. >> right -- >> and also the statement from brian fallon. >> well the statement from brian fallon is, you know, does the best to spin a negative situation, yes, look, legally speak, this is a great outcome for hillary clinton. she is not going to be indicted for her decision to set up a private e-mail server. in every other way including the court of public opinion, what james comey did an hour plus ago was very tough. he directly disputed the fact that she said she had neve

joining me now for the daily fix, chris alyssa, founder of the washington post fix blog and politicalutor. well, i don't know how you draw the conclusion that it was the clinton team, but i have to tell you, whoever spotted it and whether it was the guy who tweeted it out, it wasn't who spotted the flaw, it was the person who put that speech in the teleprompter. and i think the victim here is melania trump who beautifully performed, elegantly, and eloquently a speech that was very well written, except that two very important paragraphs were written by sarah eight years ago. >> the problem here is -- look, this isn't a good story for the trump campaign no matter, right, but the attempt to turn it into this is about hillary or as i've seen lately, this is melania's fault. that's a fight you're never going to win that fight. so this is about at this point, managing what is not a good situation and shrinking the news cycle of it for as long as possible. they keep saying we're not going to fire anyone, everything is fine. it is hard for me to believe if the candidate's wife is out there pu