we have jackie kucinich and manu raju. manu, he said he wanted to drain the swamp on day one and reduce federal regulations and have x-government officials wait five years to become lobbyists. how much of that is doable? >> some of that he can do on his own. including reducing regulations and freeze government contractors. the stuff he needs to do legislatively, a lot harder, alisyn. yesterday, mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader said term limits well not happen. donald trump has made that a centerpiece his drain the swamp campaign. there are a number of issues

we have jackie kucinich. washington butch reau chief andx berns for the "new york times." both amal sis for us, and jackie, reince priebus. he's defending bannon. bannon is someone who's very different, of course, than reince priebus, but here's what priebus said. >> the white house chief of staff is always generally responsible for the day to day operation of the white house. it's a -- it's an operations role but also an advisory role to the president. you know, the way we've operated last few months is steve and i have formed a great partnership in advising president-elect trump together, and that's what it really is. i think you've seen especially over the last few months that donald trump has been very disciplined and also been very comfortable and on message and clear-minded. >> so you look at these hires. do they bridge the party divide? do they aggravate it? do they do both? >> i think the greatest way you could see that reflected is to the extent that the establishment republicans, the elected republicans, are ignoring the fact bannon is a part of this administratio

let's discuss the meetings and protest with washington bureau chief jackie kucinich. and we have jason johnson. and washington post reporter abby phillip. let's deal with the big meeting that is coming today. you cannot have a starker contrast than trump and obama. clearly, jackie, trump's election is reaction formation in part from president obama. president obama is a man who is known for tolerance of criticism and struggling to find a way to meet with somebody else. trump got in because he tolerates no critics. is this about them today when they meet or is this just a formality? >> this is about the country. this is about the transfer of power. they have to make this work. and these are also two people who don't personally like each other very much. you know, they have to power through it. >> jason, why does president obama have to be gracious? i'm scurious about the optics? will he and michelle obama glue smiles on their faces and greet them with open arms who questioned his birth and citi n citizenship or can they open the front door with an intern? >> this is alw

with me again errol lewis and jackie kucinich. welcome back. glad you stuck around.trump came down hard on clinton's leadership skills when it comes to the military last night. >> you know when i look at these great admirables, and these great generals, and these great medal of honor recipients behind me, to think of her being their boss, i don't think so. >> okay. so, "a," what do you think that trump meant by that? and "b," was it effective? >> to me it sounds like pure sexism. sorry. it always -- it always gets a response from people and they say oh, you know this, that and the other. but that's how i heard that. oh, i don't think so. you know, no further explanation needed, right? a bunch of older generals and admirals would simply disrespect her, no explanation needed. well an explanation is needed. this is somebody who visited over 100 countries, was in charge of foreign policy for the united states of america, has considerablebly more international experience frankly than any of those generals or admirals he was pointing to. so i don't know if that's effective

we have jason johnson and jackie kucinich. if you could hear the audio there, it wasn't great. jobs. yesterday, rudy giuliani was here. he said cutting taxes is the first thing on the agenda. what are you seeing? >> i look at what donald trump said he would do in the first 100 days. he wants to lower taxes. he has a really aggressive first 100 days. from a policy perspective, my concern is the affordable care act. they have every right to dismantle the affordable care act. if they decide to end that on day one, i wonder what the plan will be. i don't think we know. >> for the 20 million people who are already covered. what happens to them? >> and the contract holders. this is a very sophisticated piece of legislation that did not get the benefit of massaging bipartisa bipartisan. this was a play to strength by obama to use his legacy to get it through. you need a year of lead time before they can change what those people are on anyway. does it make sense to go after something that you cannot immediately fix. >> they wanted to repeal obamacare from the get-go. there does need to

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

"daily beast" "washington bureau" chief jackie kucinich professor of political science at morgan state university jason johnson and "washington post" reporter abby fig. this is some test of president obama's ability to swallow the personal in favor of patriotism. he's known for this, but donald trump is the face of the resistance. he wasn't born here, obama is not one of us. the otherism. now, as president-elect, how does he regard him? >> look, i think obama is at his core, a patriot. he loves this country. i think he means it when he says, look, we're all hoping for the best here. we really need this to go well. i know a lot of my democratic friends are angry and they want to see them fail. no. i think president obama has a vested interest in this country and will want to see trump do well, even despite all the personal, despicable things trump may have said about them. >> jackie, there is so much bad blood. of course president obama hopes for the best for the country, but what are the optics today? do you see at the front door or wherever the equivalent is at the white house, mrs. o

joining us, cnn political analyst, washington bureau chief for the daily beast, jackie kucinich. princeton professor julian selzar and cnn political director david challian. there's a lot to discuss. i covered two of his presidential campaigns, mitt romney, the former massachusetts governor, former republican nominee, former harsh personal critic of donald trump. had a meeting in new jersey yesterday and over the last 24 hours, no one has done anything to knock down the idea that mitt romney could end up as secretary of state. >> that's right. you remember before the meeting, a lot of folks in romney's most inner circle sort of said well, this is going to be very difficult for mitt romney to sort of get to the pleaace of saying something like this. we haven't seen anyone knock this down yet. we knew a lot would hinge on how that meeting went. the fact that after that meeting, from the trump side which clearly they would like this, they would like romney on board with this idea of being secretary of state, pence went out yesterday and said how active and real the consideration is

let's discuss with jackie kucinich and david drucker.guy doesn't like what happens at "hamilton." he doesn't like what happens on "snl," and he'll go off for hours about it in detail. but nazis stand up and talk about him, david drucker, and he's anonymous about it. they're mild about it in their pushback, and they always have been. why? >> it's never really made sense to me. you know, trump has an opportunity here and had throughout the campaign to deliver a speech very similar to what barack obama did with reverend jeremiah wright. in that campaign, the way president obama dealt with wright, was to give a very pointed speech in which he not only disavowed wright by name, he disavowed the things that wright had said, the things that wright stood for and was very specific about it. then barack obama never had to talk about it again. and if trump would deliver a similar speech, he would never have to talk about it ever again. it wouldn't cost him an ounce of political capital. his supporters really don't care what he does. but the way tru

joining us, cnn political analyst jackie kucinich, mary katharine ham, senior writer at the federalistirs columnist at the "washington post." jackie, first of all, beyond his position, is this draining the swamp to have somebody so affiliated with these energy industries to be in charge of energy policy? >> i mean, there's -- i feel like there's two parts to draining the swamp. this is draining the regulations. this is about regulations. it's not about necessarily what you just said, having maybe some interest that you shouldn't have if you are the secretary of energy. that said, it just -- it -- this is what donald trump said he was going to do. this is what -- why some people particularly in places like coal country voted for him. because he said that he would roll back these regulations. if this surprises anybody, i guess you weren't paying attention during the election. >> absolutely not a surprise. mary katharine, you know mr. ebell. >> i've worked with cei in the past and done events with them. so -- >> so. >> i am a libertarian radical on this regulation stuff, to put it nicely.

john avalon, david gregory, jackie kucinich and john berman.ou seem like you want to say something. >> yes, i was giving my eager eyes and holding my sally rafael glasses. i think trump tapped into something even with his inexperience about foreign affairs. where he can say the leaders in the republican party got us into afghanistan and iraq. these were apparently all the smartest in the republican party, what good did that get you. hillary clinton has all of this experience in foreign acompaffa look what happened in libya. i think there's confusion with americans on what power means in the world and how effective it can be. and i think he tapped into the kind of reluctance of projection in american power that we seemed to out our history in times of conflict. i think that's striking. >> just the complete blank slate of what he intends to actually do beyond the bumper sticker is itself. >> i'm talking about the wariness. >> and that's a good point. even that, it's a little pressing because it actually skips a point. we need to see where we are

jackie kucinich, this has always been arguably a war of attrition. who is less bad. donald trump is supposed to be a change agent but so flawed as an individual that he gave hillary clinton an opening when she was supposed to be the only truly flawed person over time in this race. so, as you come near the end, do you really have another option other than to just keep swinging at your opponent and hoping they're more bloody than you at the end of it? >> it it did seem like the clinton campaign wanted to talk about her policies in a more positive message but they don't really have that opportunity. to the extent that this has sort of been a race to the bottom in terms of favorability, i think that's why you see donald trump not giving the deep health care speech i've seen in my life but talking about policy and what he wid do rather than tearing hillary clinton down. now, there is quite a bit of that and still continuing to hammer her on the e-mails. you do hear him trying to turn the page a little bit and talk about what he would do rather than how bad hillary clinton

. >>> and bring in david chalian, jackie kucinich, political analyst and molly bowles, for "the atlantic." these positions presumably could come fast now and so important. >> critically important. you heard president obama say that one of the things that donald trump and president obama talked about in their oval office, how important it was to staff up the west wing, the closest advisers, obviously the cabinet officials and the most sort of national security economic positions that are important. it's not that long, wolf from now until january 20th. you want a team standing up, because donald trump is often an outsider to all of this. finding the right mix of people for him, for someone that doesn't have experience doing this i think makes it all the more. >> critically important decision and clearly mike pence is now in charge. the kr vice president-elect in charge of this transition. donald trump will have a huge say. he's the president. >> the assumption he's going to talk to every one of these people before they actually end up in that position. and they're contending, we're just st

and jackie kucinich is with us. thank you for being here. your read on what rand paul said there, jackie, just in terms of where you think all the leads are going to fall here. >> well, i mean, you did have, this is classic rand paul. i mean, john bolton is kind of the opposite of rand paul's libertarian noninterventionalist ideology. on the other side of the coin, you had lindsey graham tell reporters is actually an asset. but it shows that trump -- this isn't a clear shot for some of the people that he is talking about for secretary of state and it will be up to him and his transition team to figure out how to navigate this. because that, that process of confirming these folks can be messy and it looks like it might be. >> now, one of the good things about covering this new administration will be we don't have to wait to know what the president will be thinking about thinks. he watches these shows in real time. he has been tweeting all morning his pushback to different headlines and different areas of reporting. he just tweeted, the failin

david gregory, ron brownstein, jackie kucinich, and abby phillips. good to have you all here. last night we saw both campaigns end where they began. very different and defined messages. we saw star power. we saw pageantry. david, what is the takeaway at the end of that last night into this morning? >> you know, it is an amazing contrast that we have. a nasty campaign, very unpopular candidates, two candidates who are scrubbing this electoral map, looking at the shape of the electorate with very different messages. you know, donald trump is trying to restore an america he says is lost. he represents radical change, crude change to a lot of people, but radical change when, what a of voters wanted. he's reshaped the republican party. here's hillary clinton, the ultimate insider, a kind of party chief within the democratic party, trying to assert her hold over the electoral college. the ultimate insider, the ultimate outsider. he finished kind of dark and angry, she finished a little more upbeat. >> to david's point, we had a billionaire from new york city in the backyard of walte

political analyst jackie k kucinich and matt lewis and david gregory. guys, thank you for being here. i don't know where to start. every day is no longer an october surprise. it is an october smorgasbord. it sounds, jackie, as if we have to live with ambiguity. voters have to make their decision without figuring out what's on a laptop. it doesn't sound the fbi will give us anything in the next week. >> that is what they said in the onset. we don't have time to look into this in terms of before the election. that is why you see the clinton campaign coming out so forcefully. the fact she is addressing this from the stump is something that hillary clinton really hasn't done this forcefully through the other scandals throughout the election. she tried to move on. this time, they know this is potentially damaging and they will not take it. >> so, matt, spin is good. the intersection of law and politics allows one to play to advantage. the donald trump campaign is ignoring the ambiguity of this. the fact that comey and making this controversial disclosure so c

let's discuss this with ron brownstein and david gregory and we have errol lewis and jackie kucinich. david, let's start with you. the comey effect. it changes every week. what today has the comey effect of the last nine days been? >> the legacy of this can be debated for a long time. no question this letter stopped clinton's momentum in a huge way. up until that time, this was a debate in the election about his fitness. donald trump's fitness for office. it switched and became more about her and her bad judgment and e-mail server. that stopped the momentum. she came out of that and it is trending her way. the damage has been done in the focus on this and another sign of why it was so unfortunate that comey allowed himself to be inserted into the political process. >> the fact they were able to review this so quickly using the software they had, makes the initial decision to go forward before you review the e-mails more defensible. >> no source i have entertained the idea if this is hard to cultivate. to david's point. the letters from comey showed clinton at her most vulnerable. the

we have richard quest, cnn-i, jackie kucinich, and matt lewis. let's start with what donald trump has announced that he wants to do in his first 100 days. matt, we'll pull this up on the screen for everybody. he wants to withdraw from t.p.p., we knew that from the campaign. negotiate bilateral trade deals. slash restrictions on domestic energy production. cut two old regulations for every new one created. national security he has a plan to create infrastructure. immigration, investigate abuses from the visa program. that's quite different than build a wall or deport 12 million people or even 2 million people. ethics reforms he says five-year ban on lobbying for top officials. that increases the time and a lifetime ban for top officials lobbying on behalf of foreign governments. you don't hear, again, the wall, the deportation. you don't hear anything about obamacare. what do you make of the first 100 days? >> most of these things are things he can do on day one. the second is he gets around to the wall on day two. most of these are things he coul

joining me now cnn political analyst david gregory and jackie kucinich and senior political reporteer nia-malika henderson. great to see you. nia, let me begin with you on the nevada number. you have trump ahead, a big wow for the trump campaign, good news for them but when you look in your trusty cnn election night research book i saw that nevada went obama the last two elections. what do you make of what's happening in nevada and might this be part of the reason why you see hillary clinton going after latinos? >> i think so, i mean nevada, that vote out there always looks different on election day than it looks on the early voting days that precede. they seem to be overperforming where they thought they would be so they feel good but nevada will always be a tricky state for them because of sure there is that latino population out there but there are also those working class white voters as well and a pretty big union presence as well so that's why i think you see donald trump feeling good about those numbers. and i think you have a and on we've seen a mixed bag in term who was was l

and cnn and daily beast washington bureau chief jackie kucinich. great to have you here. errol, the fbi letter from comey which has been a massive nonevent, right? because he didn't giver any new information. has allowed trump to read into it. so, he's saying, wow, look at what he learned. it's all so terrible, hoping that people don't read that next sentence which is combly didn't say anything. clinton is using it how? >> she's using it to say, the dark divisive, all of those things she said in that big rally that the system is against her, too. 7 up until now, donald trump has owned the sense that the system is rigged and things aren't right. >> and saying it right now, by the way. >> by the way, director comey not so bad all of a sudden. now hillary clinton gets a little bit of that as well. frankly, there has been this resentment that's been building. she hasn't really drawn on it. you mostly see it in fund-raising. but there are other parties out there, they don't like donald trump an they don't like how the candidate and party has been portrayed. you're also startin

jamie gangel, john avalon, jackie kucinich, clinton supporter van jones, patty nell hughes. just to be clear, there are some states you can vote in early and some you can't. you look at north carolina and florida, how do you interpret the numbers we heard from mark? >> i think it's pretty clear if hillary clinton is going to win on tuesday, it's going to be different than the obama coalition. she's very much counting on those hispanic numbers to hold and grow, that that is a real sort of opportunity for her, college-educated whites, particularly, college-educated women and younger voters, the bernie sanders and elizabeth warren can move out. but those numbers are not great. that sort of enthusiasm that bernie sanders supporters were showing during the primary season and hillary clinton supporters weren't quite capturing, i think you're sort of seeing the same thing here in terms of hillary clinton's early vote and barack obama's early vote. he got a lot of -- i would say there are hispanic numbers in states like nevada that we didn't get in to. it's a big deal. >> big growth

heidi, a senior politics reporter for "usa today," jackie kucinich and dana bash, cnn political correspondent. you mentioned this in the commercial break. we didn't hear a lot about this during the campaign season from donald trump, and here i think this is an issue that is becoming very real, very fast. >> we heard a lot about undoing obama care for sure. what we're talking about now and everyone at this table knows this because we all cover congress, is that the republican establishment that is now being put into these positions of power in the cabinet and elsewhere have long wanted to take a much bigger whack at the entire safety net system, including social security, including medicare, including medicaid. so the question is, to what extent is donald trump going to go back to his populist roots and put his foot down on some of this stuff? while he campaigned on obama care, i think it will come as a surprise to many of his base that the republican establishment is now wielding power to go ahead and make some of these cuts and will have to make them if they pass this tax cut plan. >> he was

analyst ron brownstein and author of "how's your faith" david gregory and we have matt lewis and jackie kucinich. >> it takes an entire segment. >> david, what did you think of the final pitches? >> i think it indicates what they're thinking about and what the big priorities are. hillary clinton in philadelphia with a real end game. that's a lot of pageantry. a lot of stars. you had michelle and barack obama. all of the star power. really an example of where she wants to close. turn out a strong minority vote in a state like pennsylvania. turn out college educated white vote and the counties of philadelph philadelphia. and ending in north carolina to tap into the historic turn out and surge among latino voters which could be divisive where trump is in michigan showing he has signs of real concern. it may be tough for him to tip the balance of working class white voters in the midwest which could be in his favor. it shows you where they are nervous and focus in that last time of argument. >> what do both campaigns need to happen today? this is where they are. they are not working it. right now, y

. >> it's a shift, jackie kucinich, because last week he seemed to be brushing off concerns about possiblerns of interest. why do you think he changed his mind? >> it seems that his lawyers probably told him to do this. you heard michael cohen said earlier this month this is something he might do. so at this point, he knows that the time is coming very close where he's going to become president, and these things are going to explode. even the appearance of impropriety will be -- will hamper donald trump in his first days in office. so they want to get this off the table. but to gloria's point, this is a really tough thing that we're looking at. something like the gsa, which is leasing the post office to donald trump, who is then going to be the head of the federal government, this is an unprecedented situation. so i think that we're going to see a lot of these agencies find their footing as this goes on. >> michael cohen being his counsel for the trump organization over the past ten years or so. david axelrod, how difficult will it be for donald trump to unwind his business relationships?

kayleigh mcenany, bakari sellers, jackie kucinich and strategist kevin madden.he new polls from cnn/orc shows the race tightening considerably. trump is up by 5 in arizona and 6 in nevada. clinton -- how much do you think this is because of james comey and the fbi? >> well, there's a natural tightening but you see a lot of goppers coming home not just because of the fbi but a confluence of events. the obamacare announcement last week about rates going up, the wikileaks and the fbi all serve to bring it home. and i think there are a lot of conscientious objectors who didn't want to vote for donald trump and they were going to vote for hillary clinton and now that support has sort of softened. as a result, you're seeing a tightening of these polls and a crucial time for donald trump when he's trying to get people out to vote. >> what do you see going on out there? >> one of the things that struck me was the gender gap and how in several of these polls it's not as wide as it has been and makes hillary clinton's recent attacks make a lot more sense. the fact that sh

discuss with cnn's senior political analyst and senior editor for "the atlantic" ron brownstein and jackie kucinichheard your knowing murmur there, ron. where do we think we are with mitt romney? >> it's very interesting, if you think back to the campaign the biggest, most systematic breach between donald trump and the republican establishment was in foreign policy. you had these two extraordinary with dozens of former top policy official os saying they do not consider him to be qualified to be president. too reckless to be president. appointing michael flynn as national security adviser does very little to heal that breach. many of the kind of -- >> why? >> because they view him as someone out of the main stream, as well. brilliant but erratic, as well. >> he said incendiary things about islam. >> exactly. appointing mitt romney if he could, in fact, find a way to get to mitt romney as secretary of state could be his best opportunity to build a bridge back into the existing foreign policy infrastructure. rudy giuliani would see like michael flynn as secretary of state. not ownthry personal issues

joining me is jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for the daily beast and david fahrenthold, reporter for "the washington post." i'm joined by cnn politics executive editor mark preston. thanks to you. where shall we start? with the attorney general pick? let's start with jeff sessions, shall we, because there is some controversial things about jeff sessions that should be brought up in his confirmation hearing. 30 years ago, jeff sessions' chances of being a federal judge were sunk after a justice department prosecutor testified to congress that sessions called the naacp un-american because quote, they try to force civil rights down the throats of people, and because sessions reportedly joked to the prosecutor that the ku klux klan was okay until he found out ku klux klan members smoked pot. so jackie, how much will this enter into jeff sessions' confirmation hearing? >> we should say jeff sessions has denied the allegations in line with that. but that said, democrats will certainly bring this up. that said, i would be really surprised if jeff sessions does not ultimately become conf

cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief of the daily beast, jackie kucinich.d white house correspondent for urban radio networks, as well as author of the upcoming book "at momma's knee, mothers in race in black and white." lynn, if i can begin with you, looking at this theory, really, and tom has done a good job of pretty much debunking it, is the campaign, to your understanding, taking this seriously and considering a recount? >> well, even if they are -- excuse me -- a little allergy. even if they are, you can't not wait forever to do a recount. that's the most important thing here. >> if you're going to do it, do it right away. >> there are only a few days remaining. guys, i don't know what happened to me here. >> we'll get you some water and then let you complete your thought. >> i'm okay now. >> okay. >> the point is, you can't wait forever. there are only a few days left in each of these states. the main ones they are talking about are wisconsin, michigan and ohio. if they're going to do something, they have to do it in the next few days. >> jackie, is

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

atlantic ron brownstein and cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief with the daily beast jackie kucinichne of the cute things that trump has done with this is say the law says i could do both. >> right. >> that's misleading. there is no specific law about this because it was never anticipated. but certainly the constitution and the ethics requirements of the office make clear that you can't run a business and run the country so what does he need to do? >> well, look, in fact, almost every ethics lawyer you will talk to, can take out the almost in that sentence, would say that the answer here, the only real answer, is for trump to liquidate his assets and turn them over -- convert them into a blind trust run by a disinterested -- >> not going to happen. >> -- administer. not going to happen. in this case you still have the core issue here which is that interests at home and especially abroad inexorably will view it as a way to curry favor with the new president and new administration to make business deals with a trump company run by donald trump's children. so, whatever he does to kind o

jackie kucinich, david gregory and john berman. for people just waking up, how do you get your head around what happened last night? >> a stunning victory in line with everything that trump has done this campaign season. he understood the american voters who rovoted for him bett than the media and democrat and republican. >> he didn't just get lucky he understood something. >> he understood something that we did not and it it was informed by a gut sense of how to connect this energy that was bipartisan energy. that was rebellion on the left and rebellion on the right. he became the change agent. i think this came down to something very fundamental. this was a sour electorate. a frustrated, anxious, scared. they wanted radical change versus what hillary clinton represented, which was the ultimate insider establishment figure. and he won. he won that bet. >> but now what do you do? matt lewis promises were made. this campaign was a function of very specific intolerant talk from trump. now he comes out and says we'll all be together l

about this and much more with cnn political director david chalian, cnn political commentator, jackie kucinich, and cnn's drew griffin with our investigations unit. david, first to you, how serious is trump about these picks, do you think, with gabbert and reeve, especially after what he said last week? is this an about-face? >> this is purely speculation until we see an announcement come out. you have to wonder how serious these democrats may be considering joining -- accepting an invitation if they get one to join a trump administration. right now it serves both sides to be seen parading in and out, shows trump is reaching out and serves these folks to have their names out there as potential picks. so far we can only judge what he has named. that is the concrete stuff. that's what we're waiting to see the next pieces to come from that, pam. >> so far to his cabinet he's named white men, jackie, and he's been hit over the lack of diversity in some of his cabinet picks. is this an attempt to quell some of that criticism? >> it's hard to know at this point because kellyanne conway made the poin

joining us to discuss, cnn's phil mattingly, jackie kucinich, cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief from the daily beast, abby philip, national political reporter for "the washington post" and norm eisen, former ethics czar for the obama administration and former ambassador to the czech republic. great to have you here. phil, you have been working the phones night and day. what are you hearing from within trump tower right now, where things stand? >> you kind of have to look at this as if there's two camps. what's going on inside trump tower, what donald trump is tweeting about, what you are hearing from his innermost circle is not necessarily wrong. they believe this is a process that's happening at least in their eyes in orderly fashion. but that's different inside donald trump's offices right now than what's going on on the outside. there's a transition team with dozens of staffers right now and we have all seen over the course of the last two, three, four days that is anything but calm, anything but orderly. i think the problem right now and the issue they are having is tr

jackie kucinich is with me, washington bureau chief for the daily beast. asma khalid is a political reporter for npr. welcome to both of you. thanks for being here. jackie, i know national polls are tightening but clinton still leads in large numbers among women, african-americans, young people and hispanics. help us understand why this race appears to be so close. >> we knew this would be tight until the end. i mean, while we saw the polls sort of air out a week or two ago, because of this, because of a lot of different reasons, you do see that this is narrowing. now, black voters in particular, they are having trouble getting them out in places like north carolina, florida and so that's one of the reasons you see president obama going to north carolina today to really rally people up and make sure they get to the polls. so it's going to be a game of margins. it has been a game of the margins. it's also why you see clinton start talking about trump attitude toward women. her new ad that she's running in some of those blue states right now is about what tru

washington bureau chief for "the daily beast," jackie kucinich. you've been burying me with numbers all morning. does this proposition come down to this? which one of these candidates gets rejected less by the group they are trying to court. donald trump trying to avoid this blue collar coalition looking at him and saying, you ain't us. and the obama coalition of emerging latinos and hispanics and african-americans looking at hillary clinton and saying, you ain't us. >> they both need to -- look, the divergence in the preferences are so great that they both need to max out turnout from their side. i think you have an election that is fast forwarding changes that we have been seeing over the last 20 years but really accelerating our republican coalition that's becoming more dependent on blue-collar, working class white america and will focus more on those rust belt states like michigan, ohio, iowa. a democratic coalition, hillary clinton has really tried to embrace, but as you point out has had problems getting the embrace returned that is increasi

. >>> talk about this with david macanar and jackie kucinich, the washington dbureau chief for "te daily beast ". a big effort for tax reform. is this really going to happen and is there really not going to be a tax cut for the wealthy? because that seems, completely different from what we expect ? ed? >> both sides in washington talked about restructuring tax for a long time and not the will across the aisle. republicans taking charge across the board, paul ryan wants to get moving. the question, how you do it. a lot of skepticism about tax cut for corporations and wealthy, even if the deductions, talked about president obama as well. >> how do you capitalize on the mortgage deduction? people bank on that and don't like change. people do not like change. >> where the resistance is coming from. members hearing from districts saying you can't do this. one of the problems with tax reform is the sacred cows. right? no one wants to give up something that will benefit their district, their people. so that is going to be the pull and tug on the hill we'll see over the next year. >> maybe they'

cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief for the daily beast, jackie kucinich. and cnn political analyst david gregory. mr. bump, you have jim comey, who goes from making a call that it isn't a close call to making a call that keeps this election close. does he deserve the criticism of the political overtones and the timing? >> it seems pretty clear that, you know, people who know this far better than i do are criticizing the timing of this, saying it is a step outside of what normal procedure is. i think it seems pretty clear he deserves criticism for that. the race, however, seemed to have been tightening even before comey. we haven't seen poll results yet which suggest the comey revelation on friday really affected things last week. i'm not sure i really buy it. >> he literally thanked huma abedin and anthony weiner. on the list of i've never heards. i've never heard a candidate for president thank people who brought controversy, even without basis, into the campaign instead of making a case for themselves, ever. >> in theory, down ballot should be thanking t

. >> jackie kucinich, all of a sudden the clinton campaign is putting money into colorado, virginia, michigan, states where they basically stopped doing advertising a while ago. are they worried about these states? what are they doing? >> they're just saying they have a big war chest and they're spending it. it's not that they're spending money. it's how they're spending it. these are negative ads that are going into these states. these are ads that are anti-donald trump. and we had seen the campaign sort of taking a positive turn, there for it felt like a week but it was probably a day or two. all of a sudden now we're back to the negative ads. now we're back to tearing donald trump down. that is more telling than any money they can spend. >> can i just say something about colorado? there is a huge disparity when you talk to democrats about colorado and when you falk to republicans about the state of colorado. there are republicans who are advising the trump campaign who believe that colorado is a very close race, one or two points, and you talk to democrats and they say just what y

about this and more with me now is michael, the media correspondent for "the new york times," jackie kucinich is here the washington bureau chief for the daily beast and jason johnson from theroot.com and professor of political science at morgan state university. welcome to all of you. >> good to be here, carol. >> thanks for coming in. so michael you were in the room when president-elect trump said down with "the new york times." mr. trump also said the big, beautiful wall will now consist partly of fencing. what are voters to believe? >> yeah, you know, donald trump has a chameleon-like ability to kind of speak to the audience that's in front of him. and the donald trump that came to our 16th floor board room yesterday was very different from the one that we see out at rallies, even the one who spoke with television news executives the day before, and by many accounts, ripping into them saying they were dishonest, and unfair. the meeting with the "times" senior personnel was much more civil, more cordial. there were some tough questions but it never reached a point of being i would say heat

revealed" mark fisher and cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief of the daily beast, jackie kucinichk, jason miller, spokesperson for president-elect trump said people like me are pushing division by being skeptical, and critical about what bannon could represent. do you agree? >> well, you know, donald trump is a guy who has two voices coming at him at all times. and he's now putting this into action in the white house. so you have this gift to the establishment in the form of reince priebus. and you have this flame thrower, even hate monger stephen bannon. this is quite typical of the way trump operates. we saw this just the other day with the tweet over the protests in portland. one minute he's being provocative, even offensive, and then just hours later he's being conciliatory and gracious. and i think what he's setting up is a presidency in which there will be this battle royal between those two forces that have been so dominant throughout his life. >> so jackie, it becomes the question of which voice wins and when. donald trump has been said to pay particular attention to put u

cnn's political analyst, washington bureau chief of the daily beast jackie kucinich.nn anchor of early start and at this hour john berman. matt at the beginning of this morning i said that you yesterday predicted that donald trump would win north carolina and florida, but he predicted hillary clinton would still pull out the presidential win. what are your thoughts this morning? >> first of all, i think that -- that you know look we can talk about the fbi comey story -- >> and do you think that that had a big effect? >> it certainly helped donald trump close much stronger than he ran any other part of this campaign. he was on message. he was on script. and of course the wind was at his back and hillary was on defense. you can talk about the obamacare premiums, you can talk about the russian wikileaks story. i think the real story, though, is that this is an international trend. and i think donald trump maybe the reason what he was seeing is that america lags europe and whatever europe does we eebtly do and if you look at berlusconi, maybe he sort of played that model