gillespie is off balance, bloodied.he gun is pointing directly at her face. >> i could feel god moving my hands and feet. i've told people this before, and some of them think i'm crazy. but it was too perfect. i was there at the exact perfect second to do what i did. >> patrick dennis couglan, a musician, a former monk, and the right man in the right place at the right time. >> when i pulled into the parking lot, i could see that the officer had pulled over a man and was checking his idea. i didn't think anything about it. when i got to the front door, just as i was going in, i saw that he was slapping at her and grabbing for her gun. >> that's when couglan makes a decision that could have deadly consequences. >> as soon as i got out there, i saw that they were struggling. and any man who is struggling with a woman, i'm going to go help the woman, especially if he is two feet taller than she is. whatever was going to happen, it was going to happen to her. >> couglan deliberately walks into the line of fire, calmly, and

but you also heard ed gillespie there.think there's something fundamentally wrong with those polls. >> they think it's going to be a different electorate. republicans equaled democrats as a share of the vote on election day. in a presidential election. that was a country, though, george, that was 77% of the voters in 2004 were white. we're talking about an election this time, it's going to be 74%, 73% or 72%. you see two very different coalitions for the president. sun belt, he's growing up on the minority population and women. states like virginia and florida. in the rust belt, however, in that firewall of ohio, iowa and wisconsin, he's running significantly better than anywhere else in the country among those blue-collar workers. -- blue-collar white voters. the last line of defense that romney hasn't been able to get over. >> well, george, thank you. i think president obama has regained his aptitude following that first debate. he has a slight tailwind in these battleground states. i have been to many of them. people ar

you also heard ed gillespie there.think there's something fundamentally wrong with those polls. >> republicans equal democrats as a share of the vote on election day. in a presidential election. that was a country, though, george, that was 77% of the voters in 2004 were white. we're talking about a election this time, 74%, 73% or 72%. two different coalitions for the president. sun belt, he's growing up on the minority population and women. in the rust belt, however, in that firewall of ohio, iowa and wisconsin, he's running significantly better than anywhere else in the country among those blue-collar workers. >> well, george, thank you. i think president obama has regained his aptitude following that first debate. he has a slight tailwind in these battle ground states. people are so enthusiastic. six months ago, i couldn't get anyone to return my call. they were like, stop it. but they're not only returning calls they're bringing people to the polls. the polling stations opened for five hours and peopl are going out

beyond that it's actually the name of the first chapter in a book that i coauthored with reasons nick gillespie last year the talks specifically about this how do we get not just beyond the physical kind of reality of the democratic and republican camps and the candidates but how do we get beyond the thinking that kind of produces that or that or that it is that it isn't forced by this very stale you know the other guy's evil so i hate him type of thinking

he also predicted, ed gillespie, at least 300 electoral college votes for mitt romney.? >> no, i'm not going to offer a prediction, but i'm very confident that at the end of tonight or early tomorrow morning, barack obama will have enough electoral votes to be elected president. i think we're going to do very well. we have nine battleground states. we think we have a chance to win all of them. the remarkable thing about today, you see our democracy at work. thousands on the streets are trying to encourage people to vote and we like what we're seeing in terms of these battleground states. >> the president did a bunch of satellite interviews with local television stations in some of these key battleground states, including our affiliate here. listen to this little exchange. >> would you do something?shhñ differently if you looked back on this race in how you've handled it so far? >> well, i think overall we've run a race that i can be proud of. obviously i should have probably had a few more cups of coffee before the first debate. but other than that, i feel very good abo

you'll hear from ed gillespie.s, and once again, sure sounds like he's blaming bush. mess. we inherited 800,000 jobs lost in a month. the very first month the president got the jobs report. every one of those statistics has gotten better in the past couple of years because, look, we fell into a huge and massive are we where we want to be? no. we've got more work to do because the hole that we're digging out of, the economic devastation that greeted this president when he walked into the oval office was deep and widespread. >> they have no plan for a second term or won't lay one out, which is simply because it's going to be more of the same. as governor romney has said when he takes office, should he be elected, he won't just take the office. he'll take responsibility for the office. he's not going to waste any time blaming his predecessor for the fact that unemployment is at 7.9% or household incomes are down $4,300, or 15 million more americans are on food stamps. he's going to get to work right away, starting to

ed gillespie live with us.ad that private jets are streaming in, and they are shooting them in to logan airport, lots of donors coming in from all over the country planning for a big night. >> we got a lot of folks coming in. it is going to be a rocking party. as you can tell, it has already started. >> great to see you. thanks so much. a lot to do, and in a momen some of our viewers are going to go away for local stations to update them. these trends you are seeing on the national level can trickle- down to your local as well. your local anchors and correspondents will bring a that as well. we will be back with more calls at the bottom of the hour. glad to have you with us. you are terrible. i can't see. ooh, turn up the brightness. it's already up oh, oh, ooh, sorry buddy, you know some of us destroy zombies and some of us feed em. how am i suppose to win? your screen is like as big as my phone. not everything's about winning. i like to win. you like to whine. vo: buy any samsung galaxy handset, get up to $10

he has studied and recorded with jazz masters and dizzy gillespie and many others. he was born in san francisco california. he was raised in puerto rico and his traditions of his family always had music and his studies of afro latin music have included trips to new york, puerto rico and columbia and brazil and i know the director of the theater of women in the arts will let you know he's playing in the days ahead. [applause] so senor santos thank you so much for your contributions to the arts community here in san francisco and we thank you for your service. [applause] >> thank you very much wa wean. i want to say thank you to the mayor also, to the nominating committee. i also want to acknowledge my family, my inspiration. my father who passed away last week who was also a san francisco native. my mom in the hospital right now after a knee replacement and also a san francisco native. this means a lot for us. i know i speak for 99% of the latino and jazz musicians who are not playing commercial music whose photos are not on the covers of magazines or in the newspape

let's ask former presents psychiatrist theodore dalrymple as pez laws are needed but nick gillespie saidharm them good. >> id the dispassionate analysis, any dollars and cents and cost benefit analysis says to the extent they do anything good in terms of violent of the brought up -- black-market and the disruption of the education policy and medical policy. john: the law creates more problems than it addresses. john: i agree with him but you don't? >> i do not. a lot of the problems of drug taking is not from the illegality. the biggest problem at the moment is legally prescribed opiates. 2 million people have been turned into attics legally. oxycontin and those sorts of things. >> government is not making hundreds of thousands of arrest over oxycontin but marijuana. do we want a massive federal state local project where fills up the prisons to take time away from necessary purposes? in some people get addicted to a type of drug that does not mean all drugs should be legal. we don't say because there of politics we should get rid of alcohol. john: we tried that. >> but it did reduce the

let's ask former presents psychiatrist theodore dalrymple as pez laws are needed but nick gillespie saidore harm them good. >> id the dispassionate analysis, any dollars and cents and cost benefit analysis says to the extent they do anything good in terms of iolent of the brought up -- black-market and the disruption of the education policy and medical policy. john: the law creates more problems than it addresses. john: i agree with him but you don't? >> i do not. a lot of the problems of drug taking is not from the illegality. the biggest problem at the moment is legally prescribed opiates. 2 million people have been turned into attics legally. oxycontin and those sorts of things. >> government is not making hundreds of thousands of arrest over oxycontin but marijuana. do we want a massive federal state local project where fills up the prisons to take time away from necessary purposes? in some people get addicted to a type of drug that does not mean all drugs should be legal. we don't say because there of politics we should get rid of alcohol. john: we tried that. >> but it did reduce t

let's ask former presents psychiatrist theodore dalrymple as pez laws are needed but nick gillespie saiddo more harm them good. >> id the dispassionate analysis, any dollars and cents and cost benefit analysis says to the extent they do anything good in terms of violent of the brought up -- black-market and the disruption of the education policy and medical policy. john: the law creates more problems than it addresses. john: i agree with him but you don't? >> i do not. a lot of the problems of drug taking is not from the illegality. the biggest problem at the moment is legally prescribed opiates. 2 million people have been turned into attics legally. oxycontin and those sorts of things. >> government is not making hundreds of thousands of arrest over oxycontin but marijuana. do we want a massive federal state local project where fills up the prisons to take time away from necessary purposes? in some people get addicted to a type of drug that does not mean all drugs should be legal. we don't say because there of politics we should get rid of alcohol. john: we tried that. >> but it did red

nick gillespie gave it to me. >> oh that's nice. kennedy says my book is funny. >> and nick loves the cultural references. >> i know. we are about the same age. something he could understand. still rocking the v neck and the blazer i see. >> stilling roughing it. >> or not rocking it. i thought it was an apple reference and then realized what you are saying. terry, you said the timing of this is convenient. is that because of the election or benghazi hearings or both? >> i think both. >> do you think there is a connection with the benghazi -- >> i don't. it is funny to talk about and interesting, but -- by the way, do we know. we do want anything. anytime they get information i would like to hear it. kennedy you said an extra marital relation in kennedy is no big deal. you can't have a cia chief or intel person be in a position where they can be black mailed. you can be black mailed for anything. bill you said wasn't she being imoosh -- the biographer, going through his e-mail. >> that's what they are not scawsing. that would be som

beyond that it's actually the name of the first chapter in a book that i coauthored with reasons nick gillespie last year the talks specifically about this how do we get not just beyond the physical kind of reality of the democratic and republican camps and the candidates but how do we get beyond the thinking that kind of produces that or that or that it is that it isn't forced by this very stale you know the other guy's evil so i hate him type of thinking that we have and if you look around in all other aspects of our life beyond politics we actually don't really believe or a participating too often leads the way we do we don't affiliate with brands the way that we used to affiliate and be a chevy family or be a toyota family or whatever the hell it was we've all moved on we enjoyed and participated in this kind of great. scrum of life politics is where the good stuff in life happens last and i think an essential first step into creating the world that we all of us here regardless of what we think philosophically which which definitely differs that we all want to inhabit the way that we do it

ed gillespie, a senior adviser to the romney campaign. going to be a long day, ed.hank you for your time this morning. >> we want to take a turn and show you a live picture. this is greenville, delaware, where the vice president is now entering the voting booth. his wife, dr. jill biden, is also there in line with him as they vote. i should tell you that governor romney is expected to vote at 8:30 this morning. he'll do so in belmont, massachusetts. congressman paul ryan will cast his vote in his home town of janesville, wisconsin at 9:45 eastern, and as we know, matt, president obama cast his vote early in chicago last week. i guess it's just that fast. >> we saw the vice president in line earlier. imagine the pressure on the woman in front of him online as they were standing there discussing the vote today. i wonder if she was completely honest with the vice president. >> well, we're going to have more on the election throughout this morning. we want to remind everybody that nbc's election night coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. that's 4:00 pacific time right

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mean i tried during my tenure i know it gets -- ed gillespie tried a little during his tenure, ken mehlman. in each of the last three or four chairmanships we've t towards this reality. but i feel in many respects we took major step backwards in the last two years because it wasark. the language the way the people reacted to us our party, our language and how we expressed our points of view. i reverend touched on something which is for me at least is going to be very is#- important in the ongoing debate that isn oursn't want do it the right doesn't want to do it but both sides will have to find the consensus around those principles they share common in order for us to move this fo to the president for because he is the one i think who can set the toned the pace with the leadership and say look okay we've been in this room before.'ve done this crazy dance. now the american people have made it very clear what they want and this is a direction i think we should lead in. whether it's the issues that mark raised or other issues that the ry thinkleadership can come together. has to come from rep

we will check in with rudy giuliani, ann coulter, marco rubio, he had gillespie. we want to update you with the latest stores. we start with the racemessen tracking survey. romney up over the president, and this is our final glimpse into the minds of voters across the country before they head to the poles. and gallop, it, too, shows gov. romney beating his opponent, close margent, 49-48. we will have in-depth analysis from the key winning states, including encouraging news for team romney. but first joining we, former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani. how many stops did you have? >> we did about 20. we did ohio and florida and we just finished in pennsylvania. >> you had five stops? >> norm coleman and i did all of them together. we had john voigt with us today in pennsylvania. and i was very encouraged by pennsylvania. i campaigned there a lot. i was, i was there in '04 when we came two points away from taking it. i was very encouraged by pennsylvania. i think there's a tremendous amount of activity there. the party is really energized. every group that we met

this morning ed gillespie was on, and he asked about the auto bailout ad for the last couple of weeks. it's been the hot button issue. gm and chrysler chiefs say the ad was misleading. it may in the end be the ad if the working white voters in that state are sfil upset with romney, it may be the one with the nail in the coffin if he loses the state. let me play what ed said this morning. >> the fact is the ad is accurate. the head of fiat came out and said they were going to open production in china for jeep. that's what the ad says, and that's accurate. look, if you -- >> that's a different idea -- >> mark, they're still standing by this ad being accurate despite every fact checker and the chiefs of these automakers coming out say it's not true. >> the reason they're playing it in ohio and standing by it is because one out of eight jobs in ohio is related to the auto industry in some way. 80 of the 88 counties have auto industry stuff in it, and this plays big. you have nothing to lose by making the charge. technically accurate but out of context. >> you have this to lose. if the iss

glef los gillespie thanks fg with us. our correspondent in virginia, wyatt andrews has been looking at the vote there, and wyatt you have some new information. >> scott we just learned the state board of elections here in virginia has temporarily suspended the reporting of election results f z there now. >> pelley: there really has been two presidential campaigns in this country. in 41 states people have watched the presidential campaign on their newscasts. in nine states, they had not been able to get away from the relentless bombardment of presidential campaign ads. >> a lot of those ads talked about were focused on the women's vote in virginia which in 20089 was 54%, according to exit polls it's 52% which is down, which is not good news for product who usually has been among women. here's something interesting that debate we had where they talked about, mitt romney talked about having binders full of women to fulfill some jobs in the massachusetts state house. immediately after that the romney team was concerned they w

joan, mitt romney's tour of lies has not finished because ed gillespie appeared on the "today" programhis morning and he continues to claim that the jeep lie is an accurate advert. they have continued this lying throughout the campaign. if the president wins, does that mean that it's a victory for the truth? >> yeah, i think that's exactly what it means, martin. and i think it will be a victory for the truth. the only thing that bothers me about today is i think those of us who are democrats, and i am, would be having a much calmer day if it wasn't for our concerns about voter suppression. the only way that they win if they win is going to be because we've had voters standing in line for seven or eight hours in florida. we've had the secretary of state of ohio making last-minute decisions that are very questionable. you know, i heard our colleague andrea mitchell today call these lines to vote a poll tax and that's what we should all be talking about. if it was not for their efforts to suppress our vote, we would be sipping tea and talking about cricket today, but these things concern

i think that just for one example on bain, there was a story where ed gillespie said very specifically that they were going to respond to the ads, have people from staples and sports authority saying how great it was that bain came in and helped out their communities. they probably read that in the newspaper like, okay, we don't have to do that. but the romney campaign never did it and romney never ended up getting the defense of his business sector experience that he needed. >> let me ask the larger question. anything that happened in this election make either of you think that the future of the super pac, that there, big donors who say, how effective was it really? i mean do you feel as if donors are going to go to you and say, we wrote you all this money, and didn't win. >> our donors weren't just giving in august during the convention when things were going well or october after the debate. we had a lot of donors giving in the doldrums of september that were giving in july. they knew this was an uphill battle. presidential elections are dramatically structured to favor the incumben

david plouffe and ed gillespie.t 2:00 p.m., chris wallace sitting down with david axelrod, obama campaign. strategist and then the political adviser for the romney campaign. "state of the union" welcoming chicago democratic mayor rahm emmanuel, haley barbour, and democratic strategist steve almendorff. "face the nation" with bob schieffer. the someday network talk shows a rehearing on c-span radio brought to you as a public service. they begin at noon eastern with "meet the press," of the union" and then "face of the nation." 90.1 fm in d.c. area, xm 119, on your blackberry, android, or iphone. visit cspanradio.org. [video clip] >> why would they want to assassinate william henry eward? >> in the events of the death of the president and vice president, the secretary of state was tasked with organizing an election. i don't think so. booth was not a lawyer. he was an actor, a shakespearean actor who played julius caesar park for them for words. -- played him forwards and backwards. he viewed seward as a co- tyrrant. >

we heard from ed gillespie who came out to the podium who came out to the podium and said, hey, we feelfident and optimistic, the senior adviser to mitt romney, a long history of political experience. so in public, obviously, they are still optimistic and confident. it has to be nerve-wracking behind closed doors. >> sure it is nerve-wracking for both campaigns. let's go to anderson. >> we were watching numbers very closely. keeping an eye on the clock for next round of poll closings, including for iowa and nevada. eight of the last 11 elections went for president obama let's go to poppy harlow in des moines, iowa. >> anderson, polls about to close here. we're in polk biggest county in iowa. the turnout is so huge. some of the counties have run out of ballots, photo copying ballots, those all have to be hand counted. we might have to wait longer for the final count in the battleground state. >> miguel marquez in las vegas. >> this is clark county, exactly where all of the votes will be counted here. in a few minutes, the polls will close, and the first ballots, 700,000 early and absente

we had ed gillespie talking about winning independent voters.ery few independent voters. paint a portrait of who we're seeing emerge about who is an independent voter in this country. what does it say about a m moderate reporter in this country. >> well, is this something that began to emerge in the bush 2004 race which is the reason why when doing that race we did what we did in motivation in turnout. what happens is people find the color of the jersey and this country is getting more and more polarized. independents, while people call themselves independents, they perform as a partisan. you can no longer base your profession on what you think an independent is based on what it is in the past. >> i wonder, gary langer, i know you're there in the back. i wonder if you can tell us what you've seen so far in the exit polls that gives any clues as to how the independents are breaking tonight. >> yeah, let me pull it up for you, george. independents in our current data are splitting very evenly between the two candidates. 45% to 49% contest. but wha

i know ed gillespie talked with you about the extended map. >> donna brazile, you were there with al the big difference in 2000 for the democrats is the sophistication of that turnout machine that president obama has built? >> george, they call it a sandwich program. this is found in the so-called swing voters. the persuadable voters. the base voters, the independent voters. this is a campaign that had 5,100 satellite offices all across the battleground states. they're targeting people where they live, where they're eating, where they're shopping, where they play. to get people out to vote. 28% of the so-called new voters they've registered, 1.8 million americans, they've cast their ballots. >> now one of the things we've seen, the amount of people who voted before election day. by the time the polls open tomorrow, 40% or better of the american public, even more in the bablgts ground states who have already voted? >> nearly 50 million people have voted before the actual super bowl which is what we're looking at tomorrow. it's changed the nature of how you campaign and how things are

genre can hold him any more than science fiction could hold kurt vonnegut or jt ballard or gillespieelmore leonard tonight, let's remember the iron law propounded by vladimir nabokov. there's there is only one school of writing, that of talent. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] [applause] >> this is a nice at to to follow, i will tell you. martin and i have been, we have been making appearances together for the last, oh, several years here in los angeles. what i do is describe martin amis as a complete literary star at the top of his game and that i might mention that i have appeared as a category on jeopardy several times. [laughter] earlier this year, when i began writing a book i am calling blue dreams, which incidentally is taken from the name of marijuana, although the marijuana referenced earlier had nothing to do with me. i thought it might turn out to be my last novel, number 46 to add to the stack. [applause] i was finally, i was finally getting tired. then the first chapter of the book sold to the atlantic is a short story and not long after, a letter arriv

ed gillespie said after the debate here is where mitt romney is on equal pay.ke it back. he doesn't have a position on equal pay. he is still unable to say how he feels about it. he blamed single moms who work incredibly hard for why there s gun crime. there is a lot of things that the romney campaign has done. he did. go back and look at the tape. clearly said if we have fewer single moms we will not have so much gun crime and paul ryan said the same thing. at any rate you you have is consistently seen the president with a clear advantage with women. we are going to see an advantage with women on election day? >> all women, margie in your mind? we talk about the women vote but there is breakdowns. married women and single women. which voting bloc among women in general do you think the president will win and why do you think that is key to his victory potentially on tuesday? >> sure. well, a few things. first there has been a gender gap since 1980 and we may see a situation where the president wins by winning women and losing with men which hasn't happened sin