kayleigh mcenany, this was not a donald trump event. this is people who were there who say they also support donald trump. but the statement from the trump transition team tonight, which said, you know, we continue, always have denounced racism of any kind, why not be specific? why not just say that this event was awful? when they are questioning whether jews are people, when they're talking about minorities in the way they were. when they are saying, you know, clearly using nazi salutes, you know, nazi representations. why not just say that's wrong? >> i don't think he wants to highlight a certain event. i don't think he wants to give these people a platform that they absolutely do not deserve. by saying we repeatedly denounce racism, it's uncalled for, has no place in this administration, he's calling them out without naming them, without elevating aem then giving them prominence on the national stage. donald trump repeatedly denounced this. looked into the camera on the "60 minutes" interview when asked about french people creating v

and kayleigh mcenany and more. there was a lot to discuss about that. let's start with the business side of this. maggie was talking about christine the fact that donald trump really won't budge on the idea there might be conflicts of interest between how he's behaving during this transition period and his own personal business interests. what do you make of his answers there? >> i find it bizarre that if you are the president of the united states you can have no conflicts. it is like a mega papal blessing he gave himself that he's ab solved from all of this. it makes so sense.absolved from. it makes so sense. in government you have to be particularly careful disclosing all of your outside interests. recusing yourself from any business that has anything to do with it. we would have counsel members recuse from votes on school funding for schools where their children went. that is how specific it gets in government. nonetheless, what multi national, international foreign interests he might have and we're hearing reports if they are true of him meeting wit

joining me is kayleigh mcenany, donald trump supporter, christine quinn and maria cardona are here. , i'll put the question to you. it's interesting. there's a fiery debate here inside the new york studio about what happened in washington, d.c. there's a whole country out there, many of whom voted for donald trump and many who didn't. these voters in these states that we were just talking about right now, they know this discussion's going on. they must know this discussion's going on. what do you think they're making of it? >> you're referring to the hate conference in washington, d.c., right? >> yes. >> i think most voters are watching and they know donald trump is not a racist, they know no one he's appointed to his cabinet is a racist. they understand that the left is desperately trying to paint them as so. they understand that his campaign and his presidency and his cabinet has no affiliation with the group of 200 racists we saw gather in that d.c. hotel. what they're concerned about is how they're going to get food on the table for thanksgiving, how they're going to ensure they

van jones, political commentator, kayleigh mcenany, and symone sanders, former national press secretary for bernie sanders and jack kingston, senior advisor to the trump campaign. thank you-all for coming on. here's new hampshire's senator kelly ayotte, in an awkward position having to dance around donald trump. >> i have a 12-year-old daughter. >> okay. would you want -- let's fast-forward four years and your daughter's 16 years of age would you have wanted your daughter to hear the kfrgconversation that donald trump engaged in with a reporter from "access hollywood" on that bus? >> i think we all know the answer to that. >> at any point in time would you want your 16-year-old daughter in a room with bill clinton? >> i wouldn't want my daughter in the room with any of them, but the point of this is that you know why would i want my daughter in the room with them? you know, and this isn't about my daughter. i love my daughter and obviously being a mom is very important to me. >> why would she want her daughter with any grown man alone? she's in a tough position. a lot of republicans are

kayleigh mcenany. van jones.ith us, conservative talk show host, dana loesch, once worked at breitbart. dana, did i introduce you? >> that's okay. >> dana bash here as well. dana, as somebody who knows steve bannon, worked for steve bannon, what do you make of all this? one man described as, quote, one of the worst people on god's green earth. >> he definitely wouldn't be my pick, anderson, thanks for having me. definitely wouldn't be my pick to advise the president-elect and, you know, like so many people, i want to give voters a chance and i want to give the president-elect a chance and i think that you need to give the new administration the best shot that they have so they can hit the ground running and unfortunately i don't think it's with this choice. i was pleased to see reince prebusinespr prieb priebus, a lot of credit due to him after the victories on election night. steve bannon, there's a reason why the website has a high turnover rate there and there's a reason why i have a history with steve bannon

john king, gloria borger, kayleigh mcenany, bakari sellers, and jack kingston. and yes, you will be quizzed coming up. gloria, i guess the million-dollar question, we don't know the answer but i'll ask it anyway, does this have an impact on voters? do voters care? and we won't know until a couple of days later with polls. >> i think you have to say voters care, but i think we're not sure of the impact. as john was saying earlier, you have to take this state-by-state. and i think that clinton voters are probably could be more enthused to go out and support her, because they think that comey did her a bad deed. >> and the democrats are certainly trying to hit that idea. >> they're trying to hit that. and on the other hand, any story that's about hillary clinton and e-mails is bad for hillary clinton. >> john, anytime it's not about donald trump's character, it's probably bad for hillary clinton. >> that didn't happen by accident. she did not walk into that rally today and decide to say, i'm sorry i did this. she didn't say "sorry." she said, i regret this, i won't

. >> i want to bring in matt lewis, tara setmire, kayleigh mcenany, and angela rye.is new york. we let you know how you feel. what do you think? >> i think it's a shame that some people booed. comments at the end were fine and appropriate but i have to say i love the "hamilton" sound track. i haven't seen the musical but it's one of the best things that's happened for america in years and i think it's cool that mike pence wanted to go see it. >> he's saying work -- he said work on america on behalf of all of us. >> i have to say for me watching that and i grew up you know going to the theater. my mom was in theater and i love broadway and it's such a integrated, you know, environment there. everybody -- there's no race, there's no color, there's like -- everybody gets along and i look at that and it actually saddened me that we're at a point in america where people feel as though our elected representative, as vice president and president does not represent everyone, there's this palpable fear with so many in this country that they would have to do that. we've got to

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

and david, you know, again, you work in communications, last hour kayleigh mcenany was saying, donald trump and the transition don't want to call too much attention to it, call it out by tham. there's no statute of limitations that says you can't name thing as awful every time they happen. >> if the that's closely linked to one of the top two people you've named to your team on the white house, silence is acquiescence. i don't see how he run unless he gets assurance on this shall. it represents our values and our culture and to have people like the alt-right suddenly becoming normalized within our structure. that's way beyond what anybody had -- would have imagined during this campaign. >> and you know, john, it's not just that. but remember, dylan roof, sadly enough, was not that long ago, and there are a number of us that still remember timothy mcveigh. >> let's hope this does not become normalized. what we saw this weekend should never be considered normal. >>> next, the man many believe will be offered the defense secretary job, maybe even so. why his status as a retired general w

atlantic, corey lewandowski, former trump campaign manager, and op ed from the "new york times" and kayleigh mcenany i just want to you look at the screen there. we're going to put it up there. this is the electoral map. there are six true battleground states here. there's nevada, arizona, utah, ohio, north carolina, and florida. all six of those states go to trump. if all go to trump that only puts him at 264. he's campaigning in these blue states. does he have -- what's his best shot of turning any of these blue states red? >> well, the good news is he's ahead in early voting in florida and ohio. you're right he definitely has to turn a blue state. i think pennsylvania's a good bet. the latest polls show he's behind by two or three points. he wins if he wins florida, ohio, pennsylvania. i will point out the momentum is clearly going in his direction. he gained 13 points in the avc poll in one week, that's a big deal. when you do that you start to put unconventional states in play. newt gingrich has been pointing out there was a state wide election in high school students, 77,000 high school studen

kayleigh mcenany, a trump supporter, van jones former obama official, and brad jenkins of funny or diec. thank you-all for joining us. that was what i wanted you to react to, the two panelists that were here earlier. van, what do you think of how she handled that? >> i think she handled it, as well. we are seven days away, tempers are flaring, nerves are tight, and i think she handled it as well as you can. part of the thing when you -- in a situation like that, if you don't respond, you're kind of letting the guy interrupt and get a lot of air time. if you do respond, you are maybe giving them an even-bigger spotlight. i think her supporters want to see her push back and so you know they pushed back. >> and she did. >> and she did push back. >> she did. >> cory what did you think of her response? >> and i've thursday when donald trump is in the middle of a rally, i thought there was a time and a place for people to protest and they usually dedicate an area for that to do -- for those people to do that. when candidates rents a facility out they should have the right to have their peopl

here to discuss, charles blow, op-ed columnist for the "new york times," kayleigh mcenany, john phillipslers. let's discuss this. we have more to discuss because we spent a lot of time on in the the show but donald trump says he didn't do anything to energize the white supremacists but his appeal to them goes back through his entire campaign. here's the chairman of the american nazi party speaking in september. >> now if trump does win it's going to be a real opportunity for people like white nationalists acting intelligencely to build upon that and to go and start. you know how you have the black political caucus and what not in congress and everything. start building on something like that. >> trump disavowed them, kayleigh, but can you deny that they -- not him -- are trying to build on his victory? >> well, look, you have elements of this racist nazi group that tried to build on the presidency of ronald reagan and they were slapped down as they should have been. you have people that -- from fringe groups on the left and right who will attempt to attach themselves to a presidency that

kayleigh mcenany. bakari sellers. paris stenar the and george cord anyway. thanks all for being with me. obviously at this point the electoral, that is over. but that is still a victory for her to be able to say she has new hampshire. >> right. >> for her supporters. i heard a yes -- >> she lost though. the bottom line is she's lost twice and she's got nowhere to go from this. to maria's point though they did pick up a senate seat in new hampshire which is critical. democrats are going to do have a lot of trouble in congress going into 2018 where the odds are stacked against them. no matter what happens in the trump presidency in the next couple of years, democrats have an uphill battle but the fact of the matter she wasn't able to excite her base in key states. so. >> and we're going to talk much more with a definitive electoral college win. the popular vote right now still indicating that she'll have that. that split we've only seen once this century with al gore. dow futures plunging last night. traders outside of the united states sending it down nearly

kayleigh mcenany is a donald trump supporter and amanda carpenter, former communications director for ted cruz. congratulations, i'm sorry. i don't know what to say to you. >> buckle up. >> joan, let me begin with you. the supreme court is a huge piece of this conversation now that we have a republican-controlled congress and president-elect in the white house. we know that mr. trump had once upon a time released this list of ten shl justices. can you remind us who they are and their backgrounds. >> sure i can, and i can tell you it's a real free-for-all now not just with those 21 fliems but probably pressure for other people. you're right, brooke, he -- in two batches he suggested there were 21 individuals he was looking at e. they were people distinctly from beyond the beltway, for example judge william pryor of alabama, judge thomas lee of utah. people who have respected conservative backgrounds but who are not the sort of leading lights of the conservative movement such as paul clement, the former u.s. solicitor general or brett cavanaugh, george w. bush bush appointee on the d.c.

kayleigh mcenany and jeffrey lord. middle, clinton supporters paul begala and van jones, we like to call them fired up and ready to go. van's a former obama senior adviser. let's take a look at philadelphia right now. this is the scene there. before we get to the panel, a massive crowd out at this clinton event. bruce springsteen is going to be playing, bon jovi has already played. we're going tbe hearing from bil clinton, chelsea clinton, we're told, president obama, michelle obama and also hillary clinton. they are trying as much as possible to get out as many people as possible. in the state of pennsylvania. in that philadelphia area which is so critical to democrats and to turnout. we're going to be bringing you as much from this event and also from any donald trump events over the course of the next two hours and beyond tonight. events going even past midnight tonight. cnn's going to be continuing to cover all of that. as we continue to look out at that scene, gloria borger, i mean, there is -- there is so much to

kayleigh mcenany and van jones. these allegations against senator sessions are from decades ago. he vehemently denies them. they were never proven. should those allegations be a disqualifier? >> look, i think that they are troubling. but you have got to give everybody a fair opportunity to have a hearing. this i think is going to raise a lot of concerns. ernl you want the head of the department of justice to be someone everybody feels is fair. and given the tensions with law enforcement, black community that is going to be an even bigger concern. but i don't think you want to just look at things somebody said about somebody 0 years ago. he's got a 0 year record since that that would be looked at. -- 30 year. >> and i don't think we should be in the situation where rushed into labeling people based on thirty years ago. >> i couldn't agree with van more. that is absolutely right everything he said. i also want to point out on behalf of the senator sessions that arlen specter, one of the democratic senator whose voted

i want to bring in kayleigh mcenany, donald trump supporter for well over a year now, to get your reaction to be clear, mike flynn said that islam is a political ideology, masking as a religion. >> right, and it's important to understand why he made that statement. you have andy mccarthy, a very respected former federal prosecutor, nation"national rev columnist, who has written extensively on this and he said 90% of the koran is in fact a legal doctrine, it is sharia. he's not saying that as an insult to the religion, but that's structured differently than typical-type christian religions or jewish religions, the way those books are structured. that's what he's meaning academically. and i think it's completely unfair to say that he called islam a cancer, because when you listen to the whole statement in context, he says, look, this ideology is being used for people to cut off other people's heads, to commit mass atrocities across the globe. that's a problem, that is a cancer. he was referring to the way it is being used, the radicalized version of islam, so to just caricature him as being

john king, dana bash, political analyst gloria borger, trump supporter kayleigh mcenany. heard kelly anne talking about the transfer of power. we saw the images out of capitol hill with paul ryan. how does it seem to be going for you. >> she's right. the american people should watch this. all americans no matter who you voted for or support should feel comfortable we get this part right. i think the president has been extremely gracious. she's right about donald trump's speech. i think the point of the protesters at some point he will have to address the mood in the country. he doesn't have to address it now. he just won an election and planning a transition that is important. i'm sure he's aware of this. he follows the media. we learned he pays close attention. it's his responsibility and job at some point to speak to this and lead in a way that addresses this. to say that donald trump should come out every ten minutes when there's a protest is unrealistic. to your point, had the tables been turned, i would hope if the tables had been turned and the protesters were overw

democratic strategist, paul begala, monica langley, kayleigh mcenany, senior political analyst and journalisternstein, and cnn political commentator and ceo of impact strategies, angela ry. jeff, the record on recounts, it doesn't make that much of a difference. i was looking back at the green party in 2004, i think it was, in ohio and insisted on a recount, raised more than $100,000 to do it, george bush got 300 less votes and still won the state. >> that's almost entirely the rule. 300, 500 votes at the absolute outside. if you look at donald trump's margins in these states, they're narrow by political standards, but they are not within the range of a recount, barring some sort of systemic failure. and there's no evidence. >> and by and large, in ohio, i was looking in particular, back in 2004, it wasn't massive voter fraud, it was some bad, you know, badly trained polling workers, malfunctioning machines in some cases, some ballots had been ruled as, i guess, not valid, and were re -- >> even florida in 2000, which was, of course, the most celebrated and notorious recount of all time, at t

thanks, we're back with the panel, john king, david axelrod, david gergen, dana bash, van jones, kayleigh mcenany. van, you talked a lot of young people out there, that gentleman earlier explaining his position very, very well. >> yeah, the structure of this is going to be the far left in small numbers but loud and sometimes getting a lot of attention but small and bernie sanders and black lives matter. that's the structure of what you could call an anti-trump resistance in the streets that will play itself out. >> does it burn itself out? >> it's going to get cold and finals are coming. [ laughter ] >> because he was saying he wanted to come out because he woke up feeling fear and he wanted to get rid of it. >> the most important thing i want people to hear is fear. he said the word fear four or five or six times. i don't think people understand -- it's an inkblot test, i agree. trump said some things that were good and some things that were off the cuff but those things that were off the cuff landed like a bomb. >> to quote one of my favorite democrats, the only thing we have to fear is fear it

trump supporter kayleigh mcenany, as well as jonathan se seeny and van jones.ing what you make of steve bannon's role in the white house. he's supposed to be on equal par with reince priebus, the chief of staff. >> the real thing about bannon is, he's a killer. >> you don't mean that literally? >> no. but he's there to really go forward, lies, slandery, savage the opposition. that's really what he did during the campaign. and there's a real precedent in donald trump's life for this. and that is his closest friend, the late roy cohn, who was joseph mccarthy's young aide. and cohn specialized in this kind of savaging of enemies, lies, slander, character assassination. >> roy cohn, especially once he became an attorney in new york, which is where donald trump met him, was fighting back hard. >> consistent with his career. and trump loves these fights. and he came to really have great affection and respect for bannon during this campaign. and he helped him win it. there's no question that this tactical assault that is represented by bannon is something basic to tru

kayleigh mcenany. journalist and author carl bernstein. republican strategist, ana navarro.ou were at trump tower today. what did you learn about the president-elect's motivation for these tweets about illegal voters? >> well, you know, he still likes to tweet, and when i was there today, the transition team cannot give an answer about what he's talking about because they had no clue he was going to tweet. >> they -- that was not on their agenda. >> that was not on their agenda. they had no idea he was going to tweet. i asked them what is the evidence? they didn't know. they didn't know that he was going to tweet. i said when will you all maybe talk to him about tweeting less and they said, oh, we're sure it will happen as the date approaches for inauguration. and to be honest, this person, one person i spoke with said i'm not going to be the one to tell him to stop tweeting. so none of them really want to tell him. i'll tell you the one person who can talk to him about refraining from tweeting is his son-in-law, jared kushner. so we'll have to see when that happens. >> kayl

chief and trump supporter kayleigh mcenany and democratic strategist maria cardona and the former -- jack kingston. you heard the talk of the tfr transfer of power. how does it seem to be going to you? >> i think as the remarkable moment and she's right that everybody should watch and this all americans should just feel comfortable that we get this part right. and i think the president has been extremely gracious and i absolutely right about donald trump's speech. i do think he's at some pint he's going to have to address the mood of the country. he just won an election though and he's planning an transition that's very important. and i'm sure he's very aware of this. it is his job and responsibility to now speak to this and lead in a way that addresses this. but to say donald trump should come out every ten minutes when there is a protest that's unrealistic. to the point about have the tables been turned? i would hope, had the tables had been turned and the protests are all overwhelmingly peaceful as they are now. they have every right to go out and bare your concerns. and not only

mark preston, maeve reston, nia-malika henderson, david gergen, kayleigh mcenany, dan pfeiffer, former advisor to president obama, jeffrey lord, donald trump supporter, angela rye, a clinton supporter. thanks to all. let's start with this issue david, of the states. you hear david talk about what he's looking at. michigan. colorado on there as a battleground state. >> and the tossup states, if you look at the cnn map, you give hillary the solid states and ones that lean democratic and give trump the ones that lean red and solid republican, she only has to win one of the tossup a states. he has to win all five. otherwise if he does not he has to pry away the michigan or the colorado and that becomes a tougher fight. >> and nia, he was on this morning on fox news talking about the state he is thought he could win. obviously he's going to be robust. >> yes, very generous to himself. here he is -- oops, sorry. [ laughter ] let's play what he had to say. >> i think we're going to win iowa and ohio and new hampshire. we're going to win a lot of states. i think one that's going to be interest

also trump supporters kayleigh mcenany and jack king don, clinton supporters bakari sellers and paul begala. jack and bakari are former lawmakers. you said comey is not going to speak anymore on this and this is is not going to be done until past election day. seems like you were right on both counts. will anything develop between now and election day on this. >> a lot of leaks from the fbi. >> that's how it's going to happen. >> i think one of the really unfortunate aspects of this announcement of raising in issue is it will contribute to a constant stream of leaks from the fbi, from the justice department, some of which may turn out to be accurate, some which may turn out to be wrong. the number of e-mails. how many e-mails are from, if any, hillary clinton, how many e-mails are classified? i mean, these are the things that all of us who are reporters are going to be trying to find out over the next eight days. we will get answers. some of those answers may be right, and i think this is yet another reason why the fbi and justice department have long-established traditions of not di