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to dig a bit deeper, we are joined by "newshour weekend's" jeff greenfield. are cms jeff greenfield, jeff we can get caught up in the horserace of it all but there's something more to talk about in these polls. >> to me, the interesting high number of voters who are undecided this point or leaning towards third or fourth party candidates, gary johnson or jill stein. i suspect this is because these are two historically unpopular nominees. the other interesting thing is you'd understand why jill stein would be taking away votes from hillary clinton, she's on the left, and gary johnson would be drawing more from the right but if you match these numbers up he seems to be mortgage naly hurting her more. again, i can't match these numbers up but they have not been persuaded to move to hillary. in some states he's in double digits, if he gets 15% he gets into the debates. >> that's a game changer right? >> a phrase i've never heard before. it is indeed, the one thing we know about third party candidates is both the presidential ross perot, you put an independent can

let's go flow to jeff greenfield in sant bar ra, california. you have seen a lot of these. >> yeah, not the lincoln-douglas ones but pretty much every one after that. but if i hadn't seen the last 15 months of this campaign, i would have seen this as a clear and decisive victory for secretary clinton on a lot of grounds. atmospherics, she controlled the room in the sense that she was the calm one, she seemed to be enjoying herself. she could laugh off trump's attacks. and in fact, he was so baited and so eager, impulsively to jump in that she was able to use the same line from her acceptance speech, that you know, if you can bait a man with a tweet, that is not somebody you want with the nuclear codes. but the reason that i'm hesitant is we have seen donald trump behave in ways almost literally from the moment he announced that under normal circumstances would have severely damaged, if not destroyed his campaign. and so the question for me is, for instance, with all those interruptions, and they look pretty obnoxious, are the people who like do

to talk about what the first presidential debate is "newshour weekend" special correspondent jeff greenfield. i'm hearing super bowlesque number potentials for the audience that might be watching this. do most of us wait for the the one liners, the moments, the verbal and nonverbal communications or are we actually paying attention the whole 90 minutes or two hours, or whatever it is? >> certainly not just the audience but the army of journalists waited for those moments. if you ask a journalist to recite the hess tree of de-- debate, nixon looked shallow. reagan said there you go again. du kakis didn't seem it care if his wife was raped and murder. george h-w bush looked at his watch. that is what always makes the next day's stories. but i think that often it's the entire 90 minutes that viewers take away, if you think about the obama-romney debate four years ago t wasn't any one moment that caused people to say romney had won, it was the overall difference between what seemed to be a kind of defensive, sometimes pet you lent obama and very assured in command romney. so that is what i think

let's go to jeff greenfield in california. jeff: not to the lincoln-douglas ones, are pretty much everyone after that. if i had not seen the last 15 months of this campaign, i would have seen it as a clear and decisive victory for secretary clinton. atmospherics -- she controlled the room in the sense that she seemed tolm one, she be enjoying herself, she could laugh off trump's attacks. he was so baited and so eager to impulsively jump in that she was able to use the same line from her acceptance speech -- if you can bait a man with a tweet, that is not somebody you want with the nuclear codes secured at -- codes. the reason i'm hesitant is because we have seen donald trump haven ways that under would haveumstances severely damaged if not destroy his campaign. the question for me is -- with all those interruptions, and they looked pretty of noxious -- are the people who like donald trump because he goes in the face of those people, the media, the elitists, the government, will they take that as rudeness or boldness? i think o

and from santa barbara, california, political columnist jeff greenfield.nd philadelphia pollster frank luntz. and here with me in new york, maureen dowd of the "new york times." she is a columnist for the paper. she is also the author of a new book, "the year of voting dangerously." kaye this evening, katy will join us from the debate site. i am pleased to have all of them here. i begin with mark halperin and john heilemann at hofstra. they are not here yet, so i will begin with maureen dowd. [laughter] so, give me your reaction. maureen: well, i would say hillary won, but not in such a decisive way, not in such a decisive way that my conservative siblings -- which i call my basket of deplorables -- think she won. so, i am not sure she got any of his people, and i'm sure he didn't get any of hers. so, she was able to bait him, not to a total jack nicholson "a few good men" meltdown, but on women, the birther thing, iraq. you know, he ended up kind of admitting and bragging about not paying taxes, and he ended up kind of admitting about the housing bubble w

in tonight's signature segment, newshour weekend special correspondent jeff greenfield takes a closer look at why redistricting can be so contentious. >> reporter: for dr. mark plaster, it's another day on the road, racking up mile after mile on a bus that's seen better days. >> we've worn it out. i mean, we've put a lot of miles on it. all this upholstery that's all beat up right now used to be pristine. >> reporter: but plaster isn't maing rounds as the emergency room doctor he was; he's running for congress as the republican nominee in a maryland district whose shape seems inspired not by geography but by pure partisan politics. was this district drawn that way just because a couple of guys got drunk, or is there a political motivation to this? >> it's pretty clear that it was politically motivated. the idea was to hand a district to the democratic candidate. the state pretty much is about even, roughly, maybe a slight advantage for democrats in registration. but by drawing it the way they have, it now is 7-1 in representation in the house. >> reporter: what plaster is talking abou

jeff greenfield last night on this program after the debate said the first thing she ought to do is go to working class areas of america, whether pennsylvania or michigan or ohio, and say, i know how you feel, and i understand, you know, the issues that you are facing in your personal life and i want to tell you that even if you don't vote for me, i'm going to come back here and listen to you and if i'm president, you have my word that even if you don't vote for me and even if i don't appeal to you now, i will come back here to you, might be something that would be a pathway for her, not to gain votes, but to gain a sense of who she is. jon? >> i thought -- i think that's an interesting idea. i also think i was struck by -- and i just missed it, perhaps this is part of her stump speech now -- >> rose: right. -- but the description of her father's work. you know, she doesn't talk about her father very much. >> rose: because her mother was the principal factor in her life. >> right. to eme, that was striking in that she was trying to present herself as essentially what she is, which is a

. >> well, i think if conventional norms apply, and i remember jeff greenfield telling you the night of the debate he is not sure if they any longer do, but if they do trump has had not only a bad debate but a terrible three days. 's tried to insist he won the debate. is he angry at his advisors and nothing has gone right. and so, so that's the state of play if conventional norms apply. i make one point. the debate, this electorate is not like a speed boat. it's like a battleship. it doesn't move quickly. and i don't think there is a huge change from monday night. i think the two things that are encouraging for the democrats is that he is so turned off a number of young people, apparently. i was at a college in philadelphia and you certainly saw that this week. they weren't that impressed with her, but they really weren't impressed with him. and secondly, i think he offended more african-americans who have been reasonably passive because he is attacking barack obama who has a 52% approval rating in that sense it has been a very good week for hillary clinton. i don't want to exaggerat

but i would also suggest, as jeff greenfield recently commented, it's pretty important to show your nonsupporters, the people that didn't vote for you, that they're important too if you're going to unify the country and govern. 1/3ly, there's all of you, the press. you're expected -- you're expecting to be engaged in a presidential transition in the first 100 days. that's critical. and then there's foreign leaders, because a new president is stepping on the world stage -- in governor clinton's case -- kind of for the first time. that's critical. then there's the governors which i think increasingly play an important role in our governance, our country, so forth, and max and i talked about when we engage with the national governors association, quite interested in the transition. and then there's the washington, what i call, establishment, for lack of a better way to refer to it. and it's a myriad of organizations. not just industry and business, but myriad of organizations that have their own specific focus and agenda that have to be engaged during the transition and during the first 100 days. ag