let's bring in our panel, elise jordan, co-host of the words matter podcast, lisa of co-host of amanpournd company on pbs. political analyst eddie gloud junior is with us, princeton university and chairman for the center for african-american studies. alexi mccammond reporter from axios covering the midterms. alan lichtman a professor at american university in washington, d.c. associate editor for commentary magazine andm snbc contribute ker, noah rothman. elisa, pick up on jacky rosen's big win. >> for a long time, there have been democrats who argued that democrats ought to look to the southwest in order to either expand their mam or to build a firewall because demographically account la tip know growth in the southwest poses an opportunity. there was hope going into tonight if democrats could win nevada, arizona, texas, even if they didn't win texas but came within striking distance that it gave credence to the argument that rather than focus on the midwest and voters in the midwest, the democrats could focus on the southwest, on latino votes. we have one of the three coming through. f

bush white house elise jordan.host and executive producer of showtime's "the circus," john heilemann. jonathan swan and co-founder an managing editor of "the beat d.c.," tiffany cross. willie, i was going to talk about donny deutsch being a legendary ad man and marketsing guru but he showed a picture last hour that i couldn't shake from my mind. i fear it may haunt me for the better part of the weekend. >> if you're having breakfast push the bowl aside for just a moment here. that's donny deutsch, guys, no easy way to say that. that's donny deutsch in 1980 on "the match game." >> i won "the match game" with betty white. i have my epstein from "welcome back kotter." >> did you get dates during this period? >> amazing. i think they were pity dates. people felt bad for me. sad part that was the peak of my tv career. >> you won five grand that day in 1980. >> with a 43-year-old betty white. joe, just a little escapism. >> and so now, of course, willie he's evolved from that to wearing tight black baby gap t-shirts. so

elise jordan is the co-host of words, the words matter podcast. 's also an msnbc political analyst. and, elise, i want to go first to mississippi tonight. you are from mississippi. i want to get your reaction to that senate race and what we saw there. >> i think what mike espy did pretty much unaided by the national democratic party establishment is pretty incredible and impressive, and he has shown that democrats should compete in the state and that they have a chance in mississippi. he was up against an incredibly weak candidate. donald trump pulled her over the finish line. and you look at where mike espy did make inroads in places like desoto county, suburb of memphis, tennessee, more educated population. it mirrors the national pattern of educated professionals moving away from the republican party, even in mississippi. but then you look at other more rural areas of mississippi and cindy hyde-smith managed to even outperform, you know, say mitt romney and was at a very trump level of support. so donald trump is as strong as ever in the rural p

danielle pleka, helene cooper, doris kearns goodwin and elise jordan. going to start with the president when he was asked what he is thankful for. because it sort of allows us to kick off all of this conversation. take a listen. >> what are you most thankful for, mr. president? >> for having a great family and for having made a tremendous difference in this country. i made a tremendous difference in the country. this country is so much stronger now than it was when i took office that you wouldn't believe it. >> and then here's what kathleen parker wrote. when reality is ignored or recharacterized in ways that defy national rebuttal, then new normal becomes drip by drip just another category of current events. this bizarre thing happened and the president said this looney off the wall obscene thing. wash, rinse, repeat, danny. >> first thing i thought when i saw him say that, we were all talking about turkey before is, you know, everybody at thanksgiving is thankful for turkey and i guess president trump is thankful for a turkey as well. i did not think

. >> elise jordan, former aide in the george w. bush white house, now an msnbc analyst and host of "words matter," the best pod cast in america. so, first of all, i watched all of oprah's events yesterday. oprah has become obama and obama has become oprah. but they are really undeterred by trump's -- they are embodying michelle obama's when they go low, we go high. the difference is they want that to translate to big victories. >> oprah yesterday just really blew my mind in how she was so inspirational. and she was urging everyone to be part of something that's bigger than themselves and it's bigger than their day-to-day sacrifice that's about our ancestors' sacrifice, about their ancestors' sacrifice. and that's something you just never see in donald trump's rhetoric. it's not ever about serving your country. >> it's not about anybody but him. >> it's always about him. so that's why it's refreshing to hear a message that's about what you can do for other people. what you can do for your country and make yourself better in the proc

nbc news political analyst and elise jordan. >> caleb, you've been covering this election. you were there the day cindy hyde-smith made the public hanging contest. you said, it is that reporting these remarks didn't occur to me. i heard public hanging as a play upon the senator's background as a farmer. more bluntly put, i heard what i heard because i am white. i've had limited life experience and that experience has been influenced by the history of whiteness in the american south. i have no relatives who were threatened with lynching. it's a personal aversion to the spectacle of public executions. i had the luxury of hearing those comments only with pop culture western. this is not ancient history. not an old and forgotten wound. there are people alive today who are old enough to have had family members lynched by a white mob. if we white southerners are proud of the pragogress, we mus have a willingness about education. do you think they're representative? >> i'm not sure. i've spoken to a lot of people. some of whom were at the rally who heard the comments. what i heard

elise jordan is an msnbc political analyst, the co-host of "the words matter" podcast.usan del percio is an nbc political analyst. and down at the end of the table we pulled up a chair for him real special like, jon meacham, the presidential biographer and historian, also an msnbc contributor back in d.c. jonathan lemire for the associated press and an msnbc political analyst. also with us adrien elrod, strategic director of communications for hillary clinton's 2016 campaign. an outstanding probably a better panel than i deserve at 4:00 in the morning. thank you all for being here. john, you brought some dry-cleaning with you. >> did. >> you've taken some notes on it. >> did some research. >> that's a dry-cleaning cardboard. >> it's from marsha blackburn's statement. >> let's start in tennessee, the state where you live. surprised by the result and how quickly it was called? >> surprised by the margin. >> yeah. >> tennessee has a tradition, a complicated state. so it's 4:05. let's talk about 1860. so we were a state that was the last to secede, the last to get back in,

he was interviewed by journalist elise jordan and answered questions from the audience. this is one hour. outello, thanks for coming everyone in los angeles. we are here today with governor one ofhristie, who was the contenders for the 2016 republican nomination for president. view toad a front seat politics and how they are shaped into the way it is now, but also was a two-term governor of new jersey. thanks for being here. thank you.e: you were a u.s. attorney and were pointed the day before 9/11. you dealt with a lot of terrorism cases. i believe daniel pearl was under your purview because it came through new jersey. what you make of the recent debacle, foreign-policy crisis, with saudi arabia and circumstances surrounding the death of the saudi writer, jamal khashoggi. mr. christie: we have a lot to learn still, but you are not supposed to go into a building and not come out. let's start with some basic principles. you are not supposed to go into your own embassy in another country and not come out alive. the whole fist fight gone awry thing, as a prosecutor, you kno

news analyst and elise jordan in words matter podcast and msnbc political analyst.ard, i want to talk to you. you know, it is frustrating in florida, i agree on part of it. i want election night that night. i want it over. i don't want to hear about absentee ballots and provisional ballots. when you have a close election you have to count every ballot. >> you have to count every ballot and let the process work as imperfect as it can sometimes be. as you pointed out, florida legal officials who have looked into it have not found any -- they have not heard any evidence of fraud, reported to them, let alone found any upon investigation. there is none. the system is working. >> the pile of information as the president had his notion, where is he getting this stuff from? >> he gets it from pure -- with the president, an accusation by a friend of his or an ally of his is as good as fact. and that is a very dangerous situation to be in. time and time again he's gone after every institution of american society, to go after an election where the counting hasn't finished and

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my thanks to jonathan swan, kimberly atkins, jonathan lemi e lemire, and elise jordan. i'm going to be at work. i'm going to be here. that does it for this hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts now. >> you got that right. the 96 hours. get ready. >> i'm going to watch it on my phone. >> get ready to get sedated. thank you, nicolle. happy friday. >> if it's friday, 96 hours to go. and i want to be sedated. >> good evening. i'm chuck todd, not joey ramon here in miami, florida. four days to go, and we begin with a question of enormous importance for tuesday. does the president's rhetoric on immigrants save the senate for republicans or backfire. it feels like a day of rhetoric, who vowed to end birthright citizenship. he's sent 5,000 troops to the border and wants to send more. he paints democrats as complicit in murder and on and on. you're looking live at the president holding a rally in west virginia where he continues to push the immigration issue. >> democrats want to totally open the borders. they have the caravans. let them in. you want to let them in? does

elise jordan, former aide to the george w. bush white house. my friend jason johnson, politipolitic s editor at the root.com. he says cohen's a liar but the president's attorney says cohen and trump are telling the same story about the moscow project. >> it's not going to work is the short answer. first of all, if he was lying when he was making the statements outside of congress about how there was never a russian deal, and the president knew he was lying and he just let him lie, that's a problem in terms of misleading the country. remember, the key thing in mind, article one of nixon's impeachment was misleading the country. if now he's telling the truth, then we have a different problem and that is don jr. apparently went into congress and said there was no deal, cohen never reached out. he didn't think cohen reached out to anybody in the crekremli. now what happened? don jr. has lied. what's going to happen because of the cohen plea is all the transcripts from the house committee are going to mueller. now they'll have to get in their happy

our friend, elise jordan, is mio penned a column about the race and specifically hyde-smith.rites, "i worry mississippi is about to send a senator to washington lacking the critical character traits of common sense, judgment and the humility positive apologize. i know many mississippians worry about sending a democratic senator to washington but i worry more that cindy hyde-smith, who gave only a belated and kersey apology for comments about voter suppression and of all things, public hangings, will be a constant reminder of the darkest days of our history. is that a risk mississippi can afford to take?" tim is lack but let's start with you. >> i don't think i can express strongly enough how devastating cindy hyde-smith's public comments have been for the state of mississippi, for our reputation, for the attractiveness of our state, for businesses to come in and send their executives to live and worship among our people. it has been very bad for mississippi morally and economically. and this is not anything new, it's the reason that plenty of businesses stay add wed away fr m

bush white house and a mississippi native elise jordan. at the big board, concei conceive -- steve kornacki. steve, we're still talking about the midterms. >> hasn't ended yet. another statewide election. espn, hyde-smith, compare this back to the end of 2017 for democrats and what they're trying to pull off here in mississippi. at the end of 2017 with, they went into alabama. doug jones, a democrat, won the senate race over roy more. he won that thing bay hair. and everything, i mean, everything had to break right for democrats for doug jones to pull that out. to win in mississippi, to have a chance of winning tonight, mike es espy, same thing is going to have to happen again. hyde-smith did finish in first, barely ahead of espy. you had mcdaniel, the third republican come in there and gobbled up some of the votes. the other challenge if you're a democrat in mississippi, this probably the most racially polarized electoral you're going to find in the country. they tend to hit a ceiling. 41% espy got in the preliminary. that's basic areally

aide to white house and states department, elise jordan.aase and reporter for the washington post eugene scott. mika has the morning off. election updates coming in as a democratic candidate makes history and vice president mike pence jo insurance the president in denying defeat for republicans. four term congressman jeff denham conceded his roo rachis . and the representative tom mcarthur conceded to andy kim. a former aide, andy kim will be the first korean to serve in congress in 20 years and the first ever to represent the state of new jersey. the updated count in california's 39th district shows the lead of korean american republican young kim has shrunk to 122 votes over democrat gil sisn cisneros. but in an interview with nbc news this morning, vice president mike pence says, he thought the democrats failed to make sizable gains. >> we made history by expanding our majority in the senate. we won some great elections in governor's offices around the country and we didn't really see that blue wave in the house of representatives come o

. >>> elise jordan worked for the george w. bush administration. she is now an nbc political analyst. elise, good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> we will start in florida with the state split evenly among the parties. tammy leitner said they suggest a razor thin margin for the governor race. is this almost like we are looking at what could happen in the 2020 election? >> it is a microcosm of what could happen in the race. it will come down to 12,000 votes for rick scott and bill nelson. the 67 counties, only three fluctuate between democrat and republican. it shows the very tight margins that divide the country. it comes down to about 1%. who will govern us? >> talk about another headline today. the analysis that the cia has assessed that the crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the killing of "the washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. saudi arabia is crucial to the administration's strategy in the middle east. jared kushner is very friendly with the man known as mbs. the sanctions on 17 saudis this week. is there more pressure to do mor

we have mike barnacle, former aid to the white house state departments elise jordan.he pawn herrold kimberly at kinls. "new york times" reporter michael schmidt. the new york attorney for the u.s. district of alabama and contributor joyce vans. joe and mika have the day you a. a day after paul manafort wants to scrap a plea deal, president trump is talking act a pardon. in a new york post article yesterday, president trump left opened the possibility of a pardon. telling the paper, it was never discussed. i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table in thin that interview, h claimed that manafort, roger stone and stone associate jerome corsi were all asked to lie. he said this, if you told the truth, you go to jail, trump said. you know this flipping stuff is terrible. the president went on to say, quote, but i had three people, manafort, corsi, i don't know corsi, but he refuses to say what they demanded. manafort, corsi and roger stone. he went on, it's actually very brave, the president said, of the trio. i'm telling you, this is mccarthy-ism

as you can see, we have elise jordan, political writer for the "new york times" and nbc political analystk, and for political report, david rosser m rosserman is with us. and co-host and executive producer of showtime's "the circus." also with us, columnist for the "washington post," karen tumulty. great to have you. >> i have so much to ask. these are like the smartest people we've ever had. other than all the other smart people we had. >> yeah. >> so we did show a poll cleared up by three points in st. louis. wow, does clair have a shot at stealing another one? >> i would say before that poll, we've seen two polls in which the race was tied, dead-up, straight-up tied. you saw her, she went out -- you talked about kavanaugh before, she went out and was voted against kavanaugh, not just voted against him but announces his opposition to him quite early. but she's like one of these red state democrats who is a rare red state where there is a big chunk of traditional democratic base in st. louis and in kansas city. she knew that's where politics had to put her and she had substantive issues

he was interviewed by journalist elise jordan and answered questions from the audience. this is one hour. outello, thanks for coming everyone in los angeles. we are here today with governor one ofhristie, who was