claire mccaskill, that was not the video i was hoping for, although we were going to show that, too. a long assembly. i tried to cut it together too late. we're not going to have it. but it included tony blinken talking about his stepfather, that emotional scene that he described of his stepfather escaping nazi custody and rushing up to the american troops with the only english words that he knew, god bless america. other inspiring stories by our ambassador to the united nations who joe biden has chosen, homeland security secretary, and it was a presentation unlike anything we have seen for the last four years, to put it mildly. >> yeah, you know what i noticed immediately is that none of the nominees said, you know, joe biden is the best of all best and he is so smart and isn't joe biden wonderful and he had the most amazing land slide victory and he probably won by even more and, you know, his transition crowd is the best. none of that, lawrence. these were people -- in fact, averill haines, the first woman to be put in charge as the director of national intelligence, she even said

kasie hunt, rich lowry, editor of "national review" and former democratic senator of missouri, claire mccaskill. welcome to sunday and a special election edition of "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news headquarters in new york, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of "meet the press with chuck todd." >>> well, good sunday morning from our election headquarters right here at rockefeller center in new york city. we are just two days before the strangest presidential election in our lifetimes, fought amid the deadliest pandemic in a century will finally come to an end -- or will it? yes, on tuesday, millions will go to the polls to either re-elect president trump or make him a one-term president in favor of joe biden. not only do we not know who is going to win, but because nearly 92 million people, so far -- a record -- have already voted and some battleground states count votes very slowly and late, we don't know when we're going to know who's going to win. but here's what we do know. our final nbc news/"wall street journal" poll completed overnight

correspondent kasie hunt, rich lowry, editor of national review and former democratic senator claire mccaskill. will to sunday and a special election edition of "meet the pres press". >>> from nbc news, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good morning from our headquarters right here at rockefeller center in new york city. ment we're amid the strangest election of our life time, fought amid the dangerous pandemic during a century will finally come to an end. or will it? yes, on tuesday millions will go to the polls to either re-elect president trump or make him a one-term-favorite of president biden. not only because we don't know who will win and 92 million all right voted and some battleground states count early votes very, very slow and late, we don't know when we're going to know who wins. but here's what we do now, our final nbc news/"wall street journal" completed overnight shows joe biden leading president trump by 10 30i79s over registered voters 5rks 2/42. that 10-point spread is the biggest for any presidential candidate in our

claire mccaskill is here. she knows truman more than anybody. columnist and editor for the "washington post." and historian and at vanderbilt university. who advises elect joe biden. >> let me ask you. you were the first while i was developing writing the book and sort of developing my thoughts. drew parallels between tru man and biden. saying if biden ended up being elected there would be some parallels between the two. that were too hard to miss. >> coming to power at a moment where the infrastructure of the world is either under stress and strain or is fully broken. it's a moment of global consciousness. not simply intellectually. in a tactile sense. because the pandemic is a global phenomenon. fdr was articulate in the way clinton and obama were articulate. and bush too. on globalization as an idea and emerging fact. but the what we're living through now is that this is no longer a subject of kind of blue sky conversation. but the world has in fact become so interconnected that our fates are linked. trueman was a long time legislator. who wa

senator now an msnbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill is here.he knows truman more than anybody. columnist and associated editor for "the washington post," david ignatius. historian and rogers chair and the american presidency at vanderbilt university, jon meacham, who unofficially advises president-elect joe biden. >> so, jon, let me ask you, you were the first while i was writing the book and sort of developing my thoughts, you were the first to draw parallels between harry truman and joe biden and saying at the time if joe biden ended up being elected, there would be some parallels between the two that were too hard to miss. >> yeah, you know, coming to power at a moment where the infrastructure of the world is either under stress and strain or is fully broken. it's a moment of global consciousness not simply intellectually but in a very tactile sense. the most tactile sense because the pandemic is a global phenomena. fdr was very articulate in the way that bill clinton and barack obama were arctic late and george w. bush too in an emerging fa

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conversation former missouri senator and our colleague here, current msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill, and the reverend al sharpton, host of "politics nation" on msnbc. you two have often played the roles over the decades of sort of being the ones to call for calm and to call for more patience. joe biden has co-joined that effort. but what i see more than anything is this almost, you know, delayed relief, delayed jubilation. and without knowing the result officially and for sure, that, claire, as much as anything, seems to be creating a really complicated sort of emotional experience for the biden campaign and his supporters. >> well, the interesting thing about this is that joe biden has already slipped into the role of being very presidential. he is the one that is hollywoodihollywooding back his campaign in terms of his patience. he is the one saying, there's no hurry here. we've got to make sure every vote is counted. we've got to give all these people time to count these votes. we need to be respectful of the fact that some of these votes are tough because of all the mail-in ball

joining our discussion now is ben rhodes, president obama's depos deputy, and claire mccaskill. it's here, the final nbc news projection that joe biden is the president-elect and kamala harris is the vice president-elect. >> there is not a happier person sitting in this bright red state than i am. i am fortunate to have worked side by side with both of them. i know who they are and they are going to be terrific leaders for this country, particularly at this moment. i have to tell you, lawrence, the thing that i am -- you know, there have been so many times in the last four years, i couldn't believe that my republican colleagues were not stepping up. today is probably the worst. today is the worst. because all they have to do is say congratulations. i mean, is that so hard? is it so hard for a republican senator, knowing they have worked with these two people, knowing that they probably would say they consider them friends, colleagues, and the notion that you have republicans parsing words about the media doesn't get to decide, and this needs to be decided in court -- the very no

let's bring in former democratic senator from the great state of missouri claire mccaskill. former rnc chairman michael steele, both of them still alert and awake and taking nourishment. so, michael, i'd like to begin with you. we have a lit stage and podium set up in wilmington, delaware. we have vote coming in, in pennsylvania that we are told in its margin favors joe biden. if that one's called, it's ball game. we've got a race in georgia that's under 3,000 votes different now. we have vote coming in, in arizona. we have vote coming in, in nevada. what are you watching? >> i'm watching pennsylvania because that's -- that's the play. we turned the corner in that race. we're now -- the margin for the president is very much done. he's not going to enjoy much more after what's left to come in. so pennsylvania is the play, which is why you're probably seeing the stagecraft put in play for joe biden because once you hit that number, you turn that corner, those 20 electoral votes, it's over. and to steve's point, you know, nevada and arizona, georgia, all of it becomes, you know

so that sun belt of course is surplus electoral college. >> claire mccaskill, senator claire mccaskill of missouri, from your vantage point, what you're seeing, how likely is it that joe biden could put the bricks back in the blue wall of pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin? >> well, first of all, i feel really good about wisconsin and michigan. pennsylvania i'm not going to say it's a done deal, but i like our side better than theirs. let me say something about the midwest, i know something about the midwest. yes, there was a poll last night that had trump way ahead in iowa and had joni ernst up by four. guess what, there is a really respected poll out this morning that shows trump only up by one in iowa and, in fact, greenfield beating joni ernst by the same four points that the poll last night said she was losing by. and look at the emerson poll this morning on ohio, i think that's a sleeper state for joe biden. >> wait. claire, what does the emerson poll say about ohio? >> that biden is up by one in ohio this morning. so that's a big deal in the midwest. that is a state that trump

. >>> joining us now, my friend, former missouri senator claire mccaskill, many other friend, former maryland congresswoman donna edwards. both are msnbc political analys analysts. your wisdom and inner strength and your honest, i think, have gotten me and a lot of our viewers to see that there might be light after so much of the dark of the last four years. and i wonder what your thoughts are about the importance of the speech tonight. if nothing else, joe biden understands from all of his experience that he's not just talking to the cameras. he's not just talking to his supporters. he's talking to the whole country. he has said that uniting the country is his goal as president and he's said about having the actions trying to match that goal. just talk about the task before him this evening, donna. >> you know, i've been listening to these interviews all day long and listening to the hopes and the dreams and the aspirations that are reflected by the american people. listening to the joy and the celebration -- and i think that tonight joe biden is going to speak to that. kamala harri

we're back with jeremy bash and claire mccaskill.e question about the pentagon, ratcliffe is there, he was nominated once and didn't seem likely to be confirmed and snuck in again. he's over there still pressing for the declassification of sources an methods around russia. still putting pressure on professionals at the cia and how does she take that portfolio from someone so political and so devoted to donald trump and steer it without a reel -- with a real jarring transition there. >> and if anybody could do it, avril haines could. she was deputy director of the cia and she over saw collection and analysis and krocovert acti and had to preside over langley and high marks for her responsibility and over seeing the national security transition for biden and you're right, out at liberty crossing which is where the office of the director of national intelligence is, it is been decapitated by political cronies of the president trying to do some bidding talking conspiracy theories about russia. and this is the hart of the american intelli

you heard claire mccaskill has some confidence there. as the numbers have come in, this has really tightened. it was a four-point spread when we started at 6 a.m. this morning. we're now down to less than a percentage point. the difference is 45,000. it all mail-in vote. we know there's a lot more -- >> the orange is the mail-in vote, the yellow is the -- >> we know there's still over about 850,000 votes to count and it's a 45,000 vote difference. this is why democrats feel i would say cautiously confident about michigan. and, by the way, kasie, in case you're wondering, the senate race and presidential race in michigan are starring to align and that is not good news for john james -- >> john james is the republican challenger -- >> tho go gary peters. it does look like those two will go together. then we've got pennsylvania. let's just be honest here. this is a lot of ground for him to make up and yet there's a lot of votes still out there, nearly 1.8 million uncounted votes. >> where are those coming from? >> everywhere. i mean, again,

claire mccaskill and rich lowrie, editor of "the national review," both of them joining us and have beenup all night as well. rich, let me start with you. you look at the map. there were a lot of surprises for the president, pleasant surprises, starting with florida early in the night. he took a commanding lead in florida, which some people thought was more competitive than it ended up being. >> trump overperformed almost everywhere and in florida he had a very robust team working it really hard. this is one of the things underappreciated by trump. everyone was focusing on the various distractions and the gaffs, but there was a real concerted effort to build a very serious get out the vote operation that we now know was very effective and had considerable proficiency. and it's gotten him on the cusp of reelection. now, as we're seeing, you know, in realtime here, his leads in the blue wall states, he's going to need at least one of them and perhaps more are vulnerable to the late-arriving, late-counted absentee and mail-in ballots. so it's up for grabs now. but he wouldn't be here if he

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and don't worry, claire mccaskill, and john lipinski is doing the homework. we will be close, and it is headed in the direction that it is leaning. and you would like to see a 3/1 split there which is what we have been estimating the whole time. and pennsylvania, it is just not, and we will be getting the vote in all day, and we are a long ways away, and this is razor tight. if this is the fight for 270, we are revisiting 2000. okay. pure and simple. michigan is looking better and better for biden, and i will show you where we are now. what is coming in, that we are waiting for more out of wayne county and numbers coming in, and that is going to increase it, and the question is the senate race. this is going to be probably, super, super tight. the models think that peters is going to be up by a literally a nose hair. it is going to be that kind of tight. but, we'll see, but again, michigan, you know, you'd rather be biden than trump right now. wisconsin, so, we are basically what our team is doing right now is triple-checking all of the data. we think that it

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senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill. e new york times," mark leibovitz and christina greer. a great panel. claire, i'll start with you. come on, man, you have worked with some of these guys, these republicans in the senate. what in the world at this point is keeping them from asking the president to act like an american citizen and a patriot? >> well, it's interesting, it appears to me at this point they're not loyal to trump. they're loyal to the lie that trump has fed his base. and that, frankly, is even more concerning because they are clearly looking with a political eye towards the future knowing that trump has successfully sold this lie to millions and millions in their base. what's really astounding, mika, when you think about it is what we have stood for as a nation with robust republican support is kind of one of the world police on free and fair elections. and since 1950, only 12% of the dictators in the world have peacefully left office. we now have diminished our ability to go into the parts of the world where

let's bring in claire mccaskill. i know, claire, there's so much to say about joe biden's path to the presidency, but i have to say as i looked up, i think i heard something. wit as crack. a crack in the ceiling. i think it's worth talking about kamala harris in this as well, first black american woman of indian descent to be the first vice president of the united states of america. >> first of all, congratulations to america and congratulations to the biden campaign who stayed focused where they needed to be focused. and sincere congratulations to my friend joe and a double congratulations to cakamala. you need to look at her path. this is not somebody who was tapped on the shoulder of a preppy school. this is anything but someone that the other side would call elite. this is someone who went to a historically black college and university at howard and then found her way into the very top levels of our government through intelligence, hard work, balance, listening, and an incredible ability to communique. she deserve

from progressives like jamal in "the new york times" to mainstream democrats like claire mccaskill, tondrew sullivan who wrote, trump's core message was seared into one of our major political parties for the foreseeable future and realigned american politics. that realignment is real. winning nearly a third of latinos and record levels with black men, doubling support from black women and higher with lgbt americans and working-class americans and jewish americans and over half are native americans in the highest share of the nonwhite vote for 60 years. president trump has turned the republican party into a modern multiracial working-class coalition and that is a historic shift and a once in a century shift and meanwhile trump has helped turn the democrats into the party of the coastal and urban elites and look where biden is and got his support wall street, lawyers, professors and all of this gave biden huge advantages. you big money and over twice as much is the president but he had something else, money can't buy and the alignments of bias. big media and big tech. early study found b

. >> claire mccaskill, we're moments away from president-elect biden taking the stage. we will also hear tonight from vice president-elect kamala harris. we have a headline in the "washington post," and kristin welker adding context here of a flurry of activities, but most notable as the president-elect, it appears he has already spent more time trying to heal the country from the coronavirus pandemic than donald trump has in recent weeks and months. this seems like -- you know, if you want to unite the whole country, the whole country wants to get past the coronavirus pandemic. these seem like very well-considered, well-thought-out first moves for president-elect biden? >> look for some news on monday when joe biden will announce a group of people that he will depend on to move forward in terms of doing what needs to be done in the middle of this public health crisis. by the way, raging this week. we've all been consumed with getting the ballots counted but we've lost a lot of americans this week. we have record numbers all across the country. so i think monday he will

. >> i want to bring in claire mccaskill. from missouri.onight. >> i think that i see the trump campaign walking down a field with mines. any of the states could blow up and they're in trouble. they may get passed the first one. florida. it looks like it will be close. it doesn't look like it will be a decisive victory for either side. they have the next land mine. which georgia. and north carolina. and then of course the mother of land mines in pennsylvania. trump has to win these states. biden doesn't have to win all these states. so, i still see that biden path is clear. and he's got a lot of them. and i'm of course waiting to see more votes on the senate races where i'm paying very close attention to iowa, maine, north carolina particularly. to see if we'll call schumer majority leader. >> when the sun comes up? >> if you look at states where the senate race are in play, most of them can count votes today. and previously. in other words we think we'll get results in georgia, north carolina, we should get results in iowa. obviously color

former senator claire mccaskill, lawrence o'donnell, thank you for being here. eat your wheaties.us. >> -- alongside trump. one was his impeachment, which was so obviously corrupt. republican senators came out and said they knew he had abused power. but because the senate was in republican control, there was nothing they could do about it. and then the confirmation, the ram-through of amy coney barrett. i think the senate is on people's minds. >> mcconnell adjourning the senate without doing any covid relief. he's like, no, no, no. we're going to steal this supreme court seat and not work on covid at all. >> running small businesses out of business forever. >> we were talking about black voters earlier. we didn't talk about the mike espy race in mississippi, which if i had to default the democratic senate campaign committee and the senate minority leader for anything, it's really not leaning in enough to some of these southern races that are seen as unwinnable because of where they are. i think the doug jones race deserved more investment to be blunt. i don't think that the campai

claire mccaskill said the democratic party had to find new way to talk to voters, win them back. there way for the democratic party to reframe their argument? economy generally does better under democrats if you look at numbers. is there a way to reframe the message and make it -- i guess make it more appealing to voters that have peeled off over the past decade? >> i have two lines of thought related to that. first is that in terms of messaging, certainly joe biden is going to have message of hope and unity, also a message of how getting covid under control will be way back for the economy. for rebound. but democratic county needs to be less concerned about winning back the trump voters and more concerned about continuing to invest in and mobilize the core and base of the democratic party. for example, we're waiting for the final tally for pennsylvania. and part of that tally is philadelphia county, which is 43% african-american, majority minority overall, those voters are going to turn out for joe biden. in part it is making sure that the message and mobilization is consistent,

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holly who beat claire mccaskill largely running against the aca. your state he joined the lawsuit that we're hearing before the supreme court. he was trying to they want to over turn the whole thing. and today there is a hearing on the appeal of that case. what would it mean to people in your state if the aca were to fall? >> we're having trouble with the audio. let's stop for a minute. i don't know if you are on mute. let's make sure you get your audio together. what are we thinking? >> do we have it? >> i can hear you. magic. what would it do to the -- mean your state? >> we just recently expanded medicaid. we had to vote the august 4. this year. so the issue is we just talk about children. so many children have been knocked off of the medicaid roles and it's been okay by the local government. when talk about the aca and how we have people who have preexisting conditions that need the aca. we have thousands of people. we have tens of thousands of people in many area. we talk about the state. millions of people will be effected if we don't have th

nbc news political analyst peter baker, former missouri senator and nbc news political analyst claire mccaskill is also with us. and we have valerie jarrett, a former senior adviser to president obama. thank you all for being here and waiting patiently with us. peter baker, let me start with you because you have studied and watched so many of these transitions. this really unlike any other. the president-elect taking over after four years of just an unbelievable roller coaster, politics like we never imagined. i don't think that it could be. what are your takeaways from what we just saw unfold and how this team is going to position america in the world, as well as the challenges that they have to face? we have significant ones. >> yeah, i think, look, this was the president-elect who has promised to restore normalcy to a capital that's been whipsawed by volatility in the last four years. and with that, to restore normalcy to america's relations with the outside world. you heard him say the words america is back. linda thomas-greenfield said the same phrase. you'll hear that a lot. it's a reassu

clair mccaskill, democrat, great state of missouri. eddie claude who chairs the african-american studies department at princeton university. eddie, i would like you to go first. i want to hear you react to the news today. we should also remember there's not going to be any living with any of the howard university bison or any member of aka after this. you understand that, don't you? >> oh, absolutely. as a morehouseman itch -- i have to endure that. we have been enduring donald trump and the minion for four years and some ways contributed to the erosion of our democracy and democratic norms but we have made history today and i think we need to enjoy it, celebrate that. i think as kamala harris in particular ascends to the vice presidency as the first black woman to hold that position, i'm thinking about the atlanta washer women strike of 1881. i'm thinking about matilda crawford and the women's council in montgomery so central to the busboy cot. i'm thinking about ida b. wells and ella baker and she has an enormous wind at her back. po

. >> and claire mccaskill, there are a number of ways in which many believed joe biden might be the man of the moment right now. his belief in the value of bipartisanship and the fact he has relationships with a lot of leading republicans right now, he has worked with them, that would be number one. and i think it's not too early to talk about our relationships around the world. he was chairman of the senate foreign relations committee as well as vice president, and there is work to be done on both fronts. fair enough? >> absolutely fair enough. first, let's acknowledge that joy is spontaneously breaking out all over america right now. i predict that you're going to see large crowds all over the country celebrating what has just happened. and it's okay for us to wallow in that for a while. you know, my party stayed unified, and that's not always easy. there are very strong opinions within the democratic party. but we also have to stay focused on the fact that we did not have the victories up and down the ballot that we hoped for. and we've got to figure that part out, and we've got to f

also joining us political analyst claire mccaskill and jason johnson is back, journalist and professort morgan state university, jason, i'm thinking of as mike memoli is talking about joe biden's dna. which is simply that he's always cognizant of the fact that even when you come out on top, millions and millions of people voted for curtain number two. you and i have already, wednesday i think, the days have all blurred into one, had this conversation about how joe biden should position himself to achieve his own stated goal. which is not to governor the red or the blue states to be the president for all americans whether they voted for him or not. what do you think as joe biden is being deferential to the traditions and the practices. let me just assert this, too. if the shoe were on the other foot and the networks hadn't made the calls donald trump would be having the gaudiest victory celebration in the goldest gaudiest ballroom at mar-a-lago or some state owned property to be honest. so joe biden is reverting back to norms and traditions and i wonder what you make of it? >> yeah, i d

. >> that brings us to our analyst, claire mccaskill, former senator, rich lowery, editor of "the national review," and a conservative. rich, is this a legal strategy, or is this a political strategy? because it seems like the ultimate goal here on the trump campaign's part is to just sow doubt and questions. and where does that ultimately lead? >> well, first i want to keep this alive. and that means forestalling the organizations from calling the race for joe biden. this is why there's been such an obsessive focus at the white house. on fox news, calling arizona for joe biden. which turns out to have been a premature call. they don't want a trump-friendly network being the first one potentially to call the whole presidential race for joe biden. the optics would be terrible. there are a couple of other layers to this onion. there's rhetoric, it's what the president says, does he say it's fraud and not accept the result. that doesn't change anything concrete. but it accepts -- it affects the sentiment within his own party which is potentially significant. there's the legal aspect, and they

but as claire mccaskill pointed out in her prediction that it would go blue, it went blue.he margin that we're working now. 53.5 to 44 and change. here is where the road to 270 is. 220-213 but it's early yet. >> the minnesota result, i should note, it is a sigh of relief for democrats. they did not think that minnesota was their biggest vulnerability in those states. but the fact that it went so early -- >> that's a nice and comfortable lead. i'm going to go back to something charlie sikes said. the kinds of voters, and ohio didn't go the democrats' way. and again, this came out of donald trump's mouth. we know from donald trump's mouth that he is the leading suburban voter. those are the kinds of voters th that, those are the voters that the biden campaign is thinking about when joe biden comes out and says we've got this. >> and they felt pretty good for ohio. that's a bit of our breakthrough for the ohio sigh. even in ohio if you look at the places where biden ran up votes. it is the same again. not winning ohio is a tragedy but for biden's side, but trump is not winning

let's bring in claire mccaskill. much to say about joe biden's path to the presidency, but i have to say as i look up, i think i just heard something. and it was a crack. it was a crack in the ceiling. i think it's worth talking about kamala harris at this month as well. first black american woman of indian descent to be the vice president-elect of the united states of america. >> it's -- first of all, congratulations to america and congratulations to the biden campaign who stayed focused where they needed to be focused and sincere congratulations to my friends joe and a double congratulations to kamala. you need to look at her path. this is not somebody who was tapped on the shoulder at a preppie school. this is anything but someone that the other side would call elite. this is someone who went to a historically black college and university and -- at howard and then found her way into the top levels of our government, through intelligence, hard work, balance, listening and an incredible ability to communicate. she d

have white house reporter the "assorted press kwgts jonathan lemire and let's also bring in claire mccaskillyou were feeling really good, and then the next day you weren't feeling bad, so where does claire mccaskill's analysis stand now? how are you feeling? >> i'm back with james brown. i feel good. listen. >> i figured. >> i'd love to spend a minute talking about the only conspiracy and fraud that's going on right now and that's the lawsuits that are being filed by donald trump's team. you understand they have filed dozens of lawsuits across the country. they have won none of them. yesterday the former acting head of dni did a press conference saying we're going to file a lawsuit in nevada. i want you to know the lawsuit they filed last night was almost identical to the lawsuit that had already been thrown out of court by the state courts in nevada. the same lawsuit that they've already lost, and i really wish the hearing in philadelphia about the only case that they've settled, it was not a loss, it was a settle, i wish they could have televised this hearing because the federal judge said

and former senator claire mccaskill. for being here, and claire i'm going to go to you first on this. because you know, it is prumd that when people people run for public office, that they have a great respect for and adherence to core american principles and that they want to serve because they want to advance those principles and do good things. what we've seen so far from republicans is a pretense that they don't understand how dangerous it is for joe biden to be delayed in being able to look at the books, to look at what's under the hood, to get in and begin to do the work of doing his transition. he's being very calm and cool about it, but there is a real issue here, and what we're seeing is republican senators, members of the house, denying it. what do you make of it as you're watching that happen with your former colleagues? >> well, i think they all have this mistaken notion that somehow this isn't damaging, that they're humoring the president. it's almost like they're grief counselors. well, if we play along for

claire mccaskill and phil rucker and our friend tim miller, former rnc spokesperson contributor to therk and republican voters against trump. tim miller, you didn't do enough. we needed to get into a situation where republicans didn't think they could do this. i mean, he will be gone january 20th, i believe that. but we'll still be stuck with ted cruz and mitch mcconnell. >> well, i take your criticism, nicolle. we did the best that we could. >> we have that kind of relationship now, right? >> we do. we do. this is the second biggest electorate margin of the 2000s. it is bigger than w.'s re-election in 2004 and bigger than the minority vote of last time. i think it doesn't matter how close it is going to be. the republicans were going to act like this and feed his ego and give him a participation trophy and allow him to, as you said, be a wrecking ball on the way out. i think this is a moment, i haven't been back since you since we won last week so this is a moment to appreciate what was accomplished. i think it was not preordained that he be defeated. he ran the most, i would say, cri

former democratic senator claire mccaskill. rich lowry, editor of the "national review."ount in 2000. jeremy, you go first this morning. let's talk about recounts. in wisconsin, it looks like it is going to be on. the trump campaign said, "we will request a recount." we're in that neighborhood and many other states. what can be hoped from a recount for either side? >> what a recount does, savannah, it allows people to manually inspect ballots if someone didn't fill in the circle properly or the ballot was otherwise spoiled and the machine didn't pick up that vote, an election worker can inspect the ballot that usually nets candidates ise maybe a couple hundred ballots, and it could benefit biden as it could benefit trump. i don't see trump swinging the election in wisconsin 20,000 votes via recount. >> jeremy, we hear about all of these lawsuits, and i was just curious, do you see these as hail mary passes by the trump campaign, or is there real hope this could change the trajectory of where the election is headed? >> i do, hoda. right now, i see no overarching legal theo

he said he was on his way to kill former senator claire mccaskill.s of terrorism. >> trace: the number of americans who lost their jobs is down to its lowest point since march. 709,000 according to the labor department. it's four times the number before the pandemic hit. >> sandra: scientists in russia say their coronavirus vaccine is 92% effective. >> trace: fox news alert right now attorneys for president trump's election fight are due in court in arizona. they're set to lay out their case and turn over evidence they say shows that some votes that should have been counted ended up getting tossed. that evidence expected to through a feed from inside a polling place. today's hearing set to last about five hours. fox news will be on top of any rulings or developments. >> the clintons, the mob, the deep state, they all get a pass. what's the point of having laws if democrats get to pick and choose which ones apply to who? >> sandra: sean hannity slamming president-elect joe biden talking with foreign leaders before taking office. some in biden's inner

i was talking to claire mccaskill a few days ago.ok at the failures of his early life, look at the fact that his father was a failed businessman, that he came back from the war a failed businessman in his 30s, not knowing what he was going to do, constantly derided by all those around him. there is no reason why this man should have been as confident as he was, but he had a really strong sense of self. and when he came to washington, he was mocked and derided by "the new york times" as a rube, and you're right. regardless of whatever attacks came his way, he did what he believed was right and as claire mchas said, he always said he slept best after a tough decision and a controversial decision that he knew was right. and one of the things that i loved about truman's leadership was he surrounded himself with the best and brightest. the thing i love about the george marshall story when fdr said you agree with me, don't you, george? marshall said, no, mr. president, i don't agree with you at all. that, yes, fdr elevated him after that,

we want to bring into the conversation now former democratic missouri senator claire mccaskill and conservative columnist and editor of "national review," rich lowry. both are nbc news political contributors. claire, let me start with you and this idea. i think andrea brought up this notion that biden had been painted with a socialist brush very early on, and it was hard to get rid of. do you buy into that? >> i think it may resonate more in some of the communities in miami-dade and in florida, namely, those cuban americans. but if you look at the gauntlet that trump has to run, he may get by florida, but he's got big ones ahead of him yet. he's got to get through north carolina. he's got to get through georgia. he's got to get through the really tough one, which is pennsylvania, before he can think about getting re-elected. so, it's going to be a long night. it looks like florida is not going to be decisive one way or the other for a while. but you know, everybody was hoping it would be over early by winning florida big. you can take a deep breath, grab a bottle of water, and hang in there. it

with us once again, nbc news political contributors claire plk ca mccaskill. conservative columnist and editor of "national review" rich lowry. thanks to both of you. senator, first off, donald trump has just been declared the winner of your home state. and he seems to be doing well in ohio. does it give you great concern about the blue wall and joe biden's strength as this race seems to be pushing now toward the midwest? >> no, because you have to remember that donald trump won missouri by almost 20 points 4 years ago. he won ohio by i think close to ten, eight or nine. so, in wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, it was all, like, less than one point. so, they were close to being in the other column in the last election. that's why the strategy has been from the beginning to take the three states back that trump won in a very close election with a candidate, frankly, fair or unfair, had very high unfavorables, unlike joe biden who still ended up at the end of a presidential campaign with more people saying they like him than not. >> let's go to you, rich