but in any event that is a little bit of biographical perspective on jim miller. and finally frank rose, now a senior fellow at brookings. he was recently in the state department for president obama as the assistant secretary for arms control verification and compliance. and do not forget that last part, because frank has a hard edge, even though he is a nice arms controller at one level, he is a tough arms strategic thinker at another. and so he will, with contemplating changes in our missile defense portfolio, be sure to emphasize the importance of a robust defense capability, not just trying to maintain fiscal discipline and arms-control pursuits. in other words, we have a panel of open-minded people who wrestled with these questions for a long time and i will begin in a second with my first question to elaine, which will be simply, how have things changed in the last few weeks, and how should both parties be thinking about defense as they fashion bigger, broader messages to the new congress? and for the looming 2020 campaign. but before i do that, i will go th

in the world and i have no idea why he subjected his body to the punishment, but maybe because jim miller could protect him and get the rebounds after mcenroe missed his shots. but that is a little bit of added biographical perspective on jim pack finally, is frank rose, and he is now senior fellow at brookings and he was most recently in the state department for president obama as the assistant secretary for arms-control verification and compliance. don't forget that last part, because frank has a hard edge even though he is a nice arms- control are at one level, he is a tough strategic thinker at another. and contemplating any changes in our strategic or nuclear missile defense portfolio, he will be sure to emphasize the importance of a robust defense capability, not just trying to maintain fiscal discipline and arms-control pursuits. we have a panel of open-minded people who have wrestled with these questions in many directions for a long time and i will begin in the second with my first question to elaine which will be simply, how have things changed in the last few weeks and how shou

i should say this ad, jim acosta is reporting about this ad came from where mr. miller used to work, and this ad, it's a web video, no money behind it designed to inflame the base, but it's a new low. sometimes you get tired of saying that. this is an invasion ad, doubling and tripling down on the word that has been so much in the news that the synagogue shooter used and it's about fear and divisiveness and it will not look good in the eyes of history. >> it's a video designed to have people fight about it on tv. period. >> also scare people. >> when people are fighting about it on tv, if he wanted to scare people without the fighting on tv part they would put money behind it and put it on ads during football games, which they have not done. >> and it's just a tweet. this is an american that announced talks with the north koreans on twitter. this has much more power than a traditional ad because it's going out immediately to 55 million people which he would not be able to do with an ad. >> self selected people that logged on to the president's twitter and follow the pre

out, this white house employee got physical with jim acosta, but not a single protester touched sarah huckabee sanders, kirstjen nielsen, stephen millernnell. i can play the tape for you again. he's a man bigger, stronger than this young woman. his time was up, yet's refusing to surrender that microphone. i found the whole thing. >> it's not a hostage situation. >> i was watching live. i have managed press conferences and i have been a staffer for press conferences. i was upset for that young lady, not because jim acosta was doing something to her. i was upset someone put her in that situation, she is an intern. the manager -- trish: you know what i'm upset about? this guy does have enough manners to know he already got his question. someone is coming and taking the microphone so they can pass it along to the next person. >> i think you are focusing on the wrong thing. for a guy who had such and resounding victory in the mid terms, he was looking cranky and despondent. trish: now you are changing the subject. did you hear the opening of that question. the question was caravan. it's how we heard about the caravan every day for months.

joining us on set, jim messina, former white house deputy chief of staff under president obama and on his 2012 re-election campaign manager. matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department. alice jordan, former aide in the george w. bush white house and state department. and steve schmidt's back. he hosts the podcast "words matter." words do matter. steve schmidt, you couldn't make it up if you wanted to teach donald trump a lesson about the ceiling of the tone and tenor of his presidency. >> well, the thing about this election is that it's such a binary choice, and tonight, the country will make a fundamental decision. are we a geography with warring tribes on it where we look at each other as the other, we pit one group of americans against the other? a tribal war conducted by donald trump, a tribal chiefton pitting the country against each other, toke sto stoking this cold civil war? it will either be validated tonight or be repudiated and there is absolutely nothing in between the two. >> jim messina, i want to show you some voices, surprising voices, including steve schmidt, of people urging midterm election voters