thank you, jay newton small, and thank you, ron reagan. i think i know where you ended up in the booth. anyway, ron, thank you for coming on. you speak clearly. i'll say, let's look inside the numbers now. we've seen mooucht in the polls in the last couple of days. and which side should be sweating out the race at this point. trump may have some momentum, but clinton still may have the advantage because she had the jump on the guy. she was leading a long time before trump made his move. >>> plus, hillary clinton and donald trump are making their closing arguments, fine tuning the messages on the stump and their new tv ads, which are interesting. who's got the most effective closing argument? and are there any voters out there who still can be swayed? and once again, the issue of race has sadly been socked back into this presidential race, thanks in large part to the fight -- the debate last night in louisiana, featuring david duke. >>> finally tonight, my election diary, and what last night's game seven of the world series could tell us ab

. >> for more, joined now by ken vogel and jay newton small. let's talk with this choice between mitt romney, rudolph giuliani, you have gingrich, huckabee. than mitt romney when they ran against him. do the anti-mitt romney forces have his ear? >> i think gingrich probably has his tear some extent. he was an early adopter that got on the train early. these are loyalists and these are not. one thing i think we have to an appeal, not just to the gop establishment but to the donor class. huge rolodex. devos is a major donor. anthony on the transition committee. will fund rnc and possibly a trump reelection in 2020. >> well, both were fierce critics of donald trump during campaign. >> mr. trump's bombast is already fueling our allies. he creates scape goats of mexican immigrants. he calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. this is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> and nikki haley de

. >> let's talk more about this with jay newton small and ron brownstein, at the atlantic and senior media analyst bill carter. good to see all of you. ron, you first, is this recount sour grapes and is it logical? >> well, it's being driven -- most important point it's not being driven by the clinton campaign in the first instance much as they pointed out in the blog post they would not have launched such a recount because they did not find actionable evidence of anything that required a recount nor has a recount ever produced a change in the vote sufficient to overturn the result in any of the states. the odds of this mattering in the end in terms of the outcome is very slight. look, this has been driven by kind of the online response to the green party. there's a certain inevitability to it. it adds a layer of a.m. moanny. given the way our politics works with so many conspiracy theories floating around, maybe it's better off than not clarifying what happened in these states. >> it's green party driven, is that the difference why the media coverage may be different than during on

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. >> for more, joined now by ken vogel and jay newton small. let's talk with this choice between mitt romney, rudolph giuliani, you have gingrich, huckabee. nobody drove them more crazy than mitt romney when they ran against him. do the anti-mitt romney forces have his ear? >> i think gingrich probably has his tear some extent. he was an early adopter that got on the train early. and a lot of this comes down to these are loyalists and these are not. one thing i think we have to look at with the devos pick. an appeal, not just to the gop establishment but to the donor class. obviously, mitt romney has a huge rolodex. devos is a major donor. anthony on the transition committee. they will bring along folks who will fund rnc and possibly a trump reelection in 2020. >> well, both were fierce critics of donald trump during campaign. >> mr. trump's bombast is already fueling our allies. he creates scape goats of mexican immigrants. he call for the use of torture. he calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. this is the

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let's discuss this with our panel, lynn sweete, good to see you, and jay newton-small. good to see you. ladies this underscoring how differently pence and trump are handling this very issue. so, lynn, how much of this is a sign of things to come? >> well, it's interesting that pence gave a diplomatic and noncontroversial answer meant to move ahead of this story and not create more commentary on it. while trump said something more provocative and controversial. i supposed it's better than being asked about your $25 million trump university settlement that you can't answer. so i think we'll see the two sides of this administration, a more measured conciliatory pence, and trump being his provocative self. and we're all waiting to see if that changes in the presidency. >> so this exemplifies more about the relationship between trump and pence or something greater or bigger about an audience that feeling a willingness to say something when there's access? >> it talks mostly about donald trump, this is his mow t modus operandi. he was fighting with seth meyers, with rosie o'd

jay newton small and lynn sweet. m maeve and allis. good to see all of you. a grand table. good to see you all at the table here. welcome to the nation's capitol. this is interesting. we have been talking about slight strategy changes on both sides leading up to three days away from election day. now we are talking about house speaker, paul ryan. reluctant, very reluctant for a long time to team up with the trump ticket and now being with mike pence. so, lynn, you first. donald trump said he doesn't have jay-lo or jay-z but we are talking the biggest republican star stumping. what does it mean for the campaign? what does it mean for the potential relationship between the gop and donald trump? >> i don't think it means things will be better after the election. i think, especially in wisconsin where they are trying to save a senate seat, senator ron johnson is getting a strong challenge and rematch with former senator russ finegold. you want to tell republican voters don't stay home just because we have differences. that's the point of having ryan come out with pence, who is

effort, i want to bring in the panel usa today column yvette, christine powers, contributing writer jay newton small and thanks, to all of you for coming in, the day after thanksgiving, kiersten, you know, seeing this battle kind of bubble up out into the public and on social media, kelly anne conway tweeting about it. do you think he could survive this? mitt romney? clearly there is opposition inside the inner circle. >> that's what we will see, is trump going to be swayed by liss closest advisers or is he going to decide now and say, look, this is the team who got me here, but i need a different team to move me forward? i would say it doesn't look great for mitt rom 90 we don't know yet how donald trump can make these decisions, so he could surprise us. >> the thing is each, none of these candidates is perfect. petraeus has his own issue with having dealt with classified material, guiliani, you were mentioning this before about business confliblths of interest, et cetera. >> uh-huh. the man gave so many features to wall street. that was a huge criticism of hillary clinton, right? everybody s

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. >> for more on the state of the administration, joined now by ken vogel and jay newton small. let's talk with this choice between mitt romney, rudolph giuliani, you have gingrich, huckabee. nobody drove them more crazy than mitt romney when they ran against him. their angle here is pretty clear but it does raise the question donald trump as he makes these deliberations, do they have his ear? does a huckabee, does a gingrich, do anti-mitt romney forces have his ear? >> i think gingrich probably has his ear to some extent. he was an early adopter that got on the trump train early while a lot of other republicans were still dragging their feet. and a lot of this comes down to these are loyalists and these mitt romney in the latter category. rudy giuliani in the former category. one thing i think we have to look at with the devos pick. some of the folks on the transition team executive committee is an appeal not just to the gop establishment but to the gop establishment donor class. obviously, mitt romney has a huge rolodex. probably the best on the right of major donors. devos is

david swerdlick, jay newton small, thanks to both of you. and we're also following breaking news out of baltimore, where a school bus has collided with a transit bus. police say six people have been killed in this accident. no children were onboard that school bus at the time of the wreck. it happened around 6:30 eastern time. investigators now working to find out, you know, what caused this terrible crash in baltimore. >>> still to come in the newsroom, clinton on the offense over this latest e-mail investigation. trump on the attack, but what about voters? do they care? looking for a medicare prescription drug plan that could save you money? at unitedhealthcare, we offer three plans to choose from to help meet your needs- including one that's brand new for 2017. introducing the aarp medicarerx walgreens plan insured through unitedhealthcare. it features $0 copays on all tier 1 prescription drugs filled at walgreens, one of our lowest monthly premiums, and the convenience of more than 8,000 walgreens nationwide, including duane reade. so if

his point about these blue states and where trump could have a chance and also manu is reporting, jay newtonll, author of "broad influence" women are changing the way america works and david wur lich, assistant editor of the "washington post." lynn sweet, the washington bureau chief of chicago sun times and manu raju, great to see you on a beautiful sunday in d.c. with your reporting between the most powerful republican in congress and your republican at the top of the ticket here, it was an almost moment. >> there was an almost moment. last month when he told republicans in a private conference call he would no longer defend donald trump and would not campaign with donald trump in the aftermath of the access hollywood video. it turns out he did campaign with donald trump today in wisconsin. offered to appear at the campaign stop with donald trump. they cancelled the plans and changed the schedule. that didn't work out. yesterday paul ryan appeared on stage with mike pence, trump's running make as they tried to campaign for ron johnson, in a tight race, surprisingly tight race. but it goes t

javon newton and jay cock parks and rashod stewart. >> so i'm running out time were you just exhausted when this was overdue go home and sleep for what i mean? we were getting reports too that both teams were just exhausted you were hoping each other out show camaraderie think that at the end of the day is all about. no doubt. spots man ship. you had a tremendous season. yes. coming back next year. hopefully not this way. no, no, with the title. hopefully so. hopefully so. less of luck to one of you guys in college and when umaic it to nfl i can say i knew them well or by the way, this guy an obsessing with our own lauren simonetti is back with us.happy ea will not be doing biz hits tomorrow or time to get back to business news. lauren simonetti back with us. happy early thanksgiving, lauren happially thanksgiving to you too, guys. investor have lot to be thankful for today. got to tell you record setting run. right now small declines on wall street. but very close to lifetime highs. dow down about seven points still above 19,000 they saw and closed at 19,000 first time in history yest