kumar: other questions? >> since president bush -- [indiscernible] did it change what they did in the 77 days which turned out to be not that many days. mr. bolten: yeah, we did not have semi-seven days. we had, i think 30. clay was the transition director and he remembers every minute. so, clay, i hope you will have to addressa chance the first 39 days of the transition, it was uncertain who was going to be the president. clay had gone to work on preparing the stuff, but the focus of everybody was down in florida. not everybody, but almost everybody who was involved in the bush operation, most people were down in florida trying to make sure the true president was recognized. in the same was happening on the gore side. yeah, so it was a difficult thing. think, clay, you would agree it worked out ok. .7 days is a very short time not a whole lot shorter than 77 in this context. i think if you are well doneized enough, it can be . i think it has more to do with who is involved, what is their whattion, is there

then kumar, he wouldn't let him go. he starts grabbing and pushing, and he gets the money back, and he's trying to get the gun back, and with all the grabbing and pulling, he gets shot. well, the medic says he's gonna be all right. tch! maybe. what's he know? report of an indian man with a gun in tompkins square park, vicinity of the playground. that's gonna be raveen. report says the e y's brandishing a weapon, threatening to kill himself. let's get out there. hey. what's your name? cheryl. i'm not gonna give you my last name. yeah, well, listen, cheryl, your boyfriend used raveen's car to rob and assault people. so he did a couple of robbbbies. it was an adjustment hassle me moving here from harrisburg. he's trying to adjust to a whole new country. watch yourselves. take cover. this guy's having some kind of despondent fit. started d inting the gun when we tried to approach him. he shot his brother. so there you go. we're gonna need a couple of vests. hey, raveen! listen to me! this is detective martinez, e! i wanna c

komal sri-kumar is with us from sri-kumar strategies as well.ou sitting in the room, if you had been in that room of media types. i say this with great respect for your decades of work. should the media have lectured back to mr. trump? marty: it depends on what he told them. i think that there is some kind of disconnect between what the role of media is and what donald trump thinks the role of media he is a master at using the media for his own advantage. so i would be respectful, but i think i would be firm and what our job is. tom: i see charlie rose there. onck todd, who appears sunday on "meet the press," and others. where is this relationship going as we stagger to january 20? --l it be business as mutual will it be business as usual, or absolutely original? marty: it is absolutely original. donald trump's youtube video is a great example. he bypassed the media completely and went directly to social media to deliver a message, albeit a message he had delivered in his campaign. there was really nothing new, but he went directly to the people

and a nbc political analyst, maria theresa kumar. and elysse, i want to go first to you. these are your republicans we're talking about. and in florida, we have 28% of registered republicans voting for hillary clinton. >> that's absolutely staggering if the number holds. i really had in my head that donald trump probably was going to win florida, all be it, it was still going to be a very close race, but this would basically, if this percentage holds and republicans are coming out in such a strong percent for hillary clinton, he's in huge trouble in the sunshine state, you know, consider that exit polls in 2004, republican voters, 6% voted for john kerry. in '08, 9% voted for barack obama. if 28% of republicans in florida are voting for donald trump, he has a huge problem on his hands, and you know, he can't win the presidential election without winning florida. >> maria theresa kumar. marco rubio running for senate in that state. the guy who called donald trump a con man hit him very hard, running on the same ticket with donald trump, and here we see this massive crossov

joining me to discuss, shalli, kumar. what do you make of the economic conditions?people need to was the job report means. you need 250,000 new jobs created every month because of the population increase to say even. second thing is, how about all those people who have gone out of the workforce? so that really tells you ways happening with the economy. and more than that, i'll tell you how this economy is. in the 80s, i'm from the 80s period. i was a member of the islamic business advisory commission for president reagan. there was a thousand factories there, electronics manufacturing, p.c. board manufacturing. you go there today, and one out of 10, nine are gone. those factories are no longer there. charles: how realistic is it we can bring it back, considering automation and some of the other things out there? >> sure, we can do it. why do we have to reinvent the wheel? when president reagan introduced the taxes, he followed jfk's policies. and he fruit economy. >> voters are angry. there is a reason bernie sanders gained so much traction and donald trump gained s

and join meing me martha kumar.mp says, the people have spoken, and the election is over and as hillary clinton herself said on election night, in addition to her conceding by congratulating me, we must accept this result and then look to the future. this is a scam by the green party for an election that has already been conceded and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused. symone, pretty strong word there from donald trump. democrats were up in arms at the mere suggestion that trump may not accept the election result if he were to lose. are clinton and others not doing the same thing by pushing for this recount? >> absolutely not. no one has said we are not accept willing the results of the election. democrats haven't said that. i don't believe the clinton tam pain has said that. there is evidence across the board that the russians were campering in our election process from the fake news, to hacking and the democratic national committee, the clinton campaign, persona

joining me now to discuss, democratic congressman gregory meeks and maria theresa kumar. congressman, let me start with you. you look at some of those tests and choices he has to make. do you think he has proven thus far that he would land on the right side of those choices? >> no. look at every decision he's made as a senator. when you look at the shelby v holder case, dealing with voting rights which helps suppress voters, he's wrong on that. you look at where he was on citizens united that put all this money into politics. he's been wrong on that. so someone was talking about, well, that's 30 years ago, you don't have to go back 30 years with this guy. you can look at the last two, three, four years and what his opinions have been. but it doesn't surprise me, because we know that donald trump, when he talked about taking our country back again. we see where he's taking it back to. back to the confederacy? or back to the times where folks didn't have voting rights and there was times when there was jim crowism? so i am really concerned that the electoral college elected

. >> reporter: kal penn, everyone's favorite stoner from "harold and kumar." >> that was the best meal of my life. >> reporter: famously left hollywood to serve in the office of public engagement in the conditions inside the beltway and inside hollywood? >> you can't, absurd. >> oh, come on. >> i have an air conditioned trailer and somebody will bring me a coffee if i want it, here. there -- >> you're in cramped quarters. >> i'm eating vending machine sandwiches and working 19 hours a day. >> reporter: on set, penn became a de facto fact checker. >> if you get the kal penn seal of approval that's a good thing? >> flattering unthat ran it's little things. how many people would be in a particular office. woul this person or are we taking creative license with it? >> that's weird. >> reporter: while they might not get everything right, no doubt all the drama will feel true to life. for "nightline" i'm juju chang in toronto. >>> next, dwayne johnson on going from action hero to animated hero for disney's ? ? ? ? how else do you think he gets around so fast? take the reins this holiday and

. >> reporter: the never trump app is the brain child of silicon valley ceo ahmed kumar. despite the name of the app, he says it's more about the democratic process than the democratic kab ic candidate. >> people in deep blue or deep red states realize their votes don't matter as much. if there's a way for you to have that vote count, the participation rate, the citizenshi >> reporter: it might seem hard to believe, but vote-swapping is actually legal. >> voes-pairing is perfectly constitutional and legal and it's heartland first amendment expression. >> reporter: it's not a new idea. maryland state senator jamie ras kin proposed vote swapping in 2000 to help green party candidate ralph nader get enough of the popular vote without taking votes from al gore. >> i was trying to figure out a way that progressives could get behind al gore and give him in return, nader could get votes in safe red states. >> reporter: vote-swapping websites popped up but they were called into question. >> a number of republican secretaries of state and attorneys general sent threat letters to t

douglas brinkley, dana bash, david chalian and martha kumar. dana that was your home away from home for many years on capitol hill. and we'll throw the photo back up if we can. you had melania trump, donald trump, speaker ryan and mike pence. and what -- quickly what i can make out is we'll work together. >> i'm thinking of the beginning of the presidential primary season he was making it abundantly clear without saying it that he didn't think there was a snowball's chance in you know where that this moment would ever happen. >> we're staring at it. i've been trying to think about the way politics works, think about the moment and been trying to sort of approach this in a very much a glass half full way in that in paul ryan and donald trump you have a policy wonk and a deal maker. and there's nothing that paul ryan likes more than to dig into tax reform, than to dig into budget reform then he has a past of digging into immigration reform and wanting immigration reform and then you have donald trump who wants to be successful. getting the presid

hey, you're not being a wise guy, are you, kumar? no...i'm not. just be available. keep to your usual spots. all right. i won't go anywhere. yeah. half a wise-ass. he hadadhe car at the time of the stickup. he give up anything? nothing. we got nothing to hold him on. somebody saw the car at the gas station, that's all. scene of the stickup, we got nothing. maybe you'll get him later. we sure ain'n'got him now. sipowicz: for example, uh, if a policeman is out on the street, those are strictly for him to call the station house. that's their sole purpose. they're not going to hurt you, you know. uh, lieutenant, this is our witness cynthia trumbull. yeah, we certainly do. uh, you're very important to us. are you ready to go? yeah, we're all set up. ok, let's have a look. mrs. trumbull? no. no? not unless you meet my conditions. i didn't hear about any conditions. i think cynthia's gonna lay that all out for you now. i want your surveillance cameras shut down, i want all recording devices turned off, and d don't want anybody zeroing in on me all right. um, i'll meet your

maria teresa kumar is here with us in our newsroom. maria, the clinton campaign has been pointing to spikes in the latino vote for some time. what do you know, what are you learning tonight? >> one of the things that we founding is that basically 36% of the latinos that have cast a vote in florida are first-time voters, meaning that they didn't vote in 2012, more than likely not before, so that's a big deal. for the democratic party the fact that donald trump helped increase the base is going to be significant and the republican party will have to come to jesus with that community. also in florida what's interesting is you have roughly about 100,000 republicans that voted for hillary clinton but then went ahead and voted for marco rubio. so one of the things i'm looking at as we look at how close this election is in florida is how many republican areas are still going to continue voting for marco rubio but they're going to switch their ticket to hillary clinton on the top. >> all right, maria teresa kumar, thanks. another break for us

so are you an actor known for comedies, extreme comedies like "harold & kumar," having a great time.h. >> trevor: how do you go from that to working in the white house? >> yeah, sure. >> trevor: like, is that one of those things where obama's watching tv and he's like, "guy's funny. bring him in." >> i wish. that would be-- that would be the simpler way to do it. i guess if you put it that way it sounds completely ridiculous. it's a naght a lot of people have gone down before, taking a leave of absence from the private sector and serving in government for a couple of years. i was in the company of a lot of people who did it. in my case there was a writers' strike pifs on "house," and he couldn't shoot any episodes and i had read the president's books and thought i want to help him out. i went to iowa to vote in the primary process and moved there for a couple months to volunteer for his campaign >> trevor: you moved to iowa? >> i moved to des mones, iowa, yeah. >> trevor: what was your favorite part of working at the white house giworked in the office of public engagement, which was

. --, all, sri-kumar komalmar joins us -- sri-kumar joins us.audience. as you see things, though normalization of the term premium, how significant is that? komal: in terms of the term premium, the term as a premium thispposed to reflect petition for future growth and inflation, both of which is reflected in the premium investors are seeking to get when they're going for 10 year or 30 year versus a two years treasury. that increase in year old -- that increase in yield has been overdone. i do not think trump's policies are likely to push of economic growth significantly in the first year. it will take a wild. it will take other than personal consumerto boost spending. you will see it is more likely in 2018 or 2019. to makeit is too early a call on that. second, inflation cannot rise to stage, givenurrent how inflation is either depressed or we are in a deflationary situation in the rest of the world. and there are around $7 billion in negative yields. so i do not -- there are $7 trillion. jonathan: in negative yields -- $7 trillion in neagtive y

maria teresa kumar, president and ceo of voter latino. senior national correspondent at mtv news.ichael steele former rnc chairman and with us. and elyse jordan, former adviser to senator rand paul. i'm going to ask the pam to do the unthinkable, which is to try to compete with the visuals of lady gaga. >> i'm done. between beyonce and lady gaga, where do i go? >> don't forget about springsteen or -- >> well, jameel, as our mtv news person, i'll start with you. >> yeah, right. >> this is not just theater. this is from what we've seen in the reporting a very targeted get out the vote operation. it is not that lady gaga or jay-z are necessarily changing minds. but they are trying to reach people who either are sporadic voters or according to the data were more excited about obama than clinton. >> i mean, one of the key messages of another one of her celebrity endorsers, lebron james, is that look, this system that you think that your vote doesn't count in, that you think that is passing you by and just kind of disregarding you, this system is actually one that you can change. this s

former white house chief of staff joshua bolton, lisa brown and transition project director martha kumar. , bought. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] morning. there has never been a better time to discuss a presidential transition then now. for over 40 years the washington center for internships and seminars has welcome college students from across the country and around the globe. in washington dc, our our students immerse themselves in professional academic internships and become citizens and our global society. the events of last week have reminded us of the important work that we do here to foster civic engagement and active participation in civil discourse in students lives. our discussion will cover from campaign to governing, the white house transition process. our feature panelists include lisa brown who served as codirector in the obama item transition project and josh bolton who served as white house chief of staff in the outgoing george w. bush administration. both have intimate knowledge of the transition process from the vantage point

. >> host: professor kumar, welcome to "after words." i'm delighted to be here with you and anxious to hear much more about your book, "before the oath: transition of george w. bush and barack obama and how they managed a transition to power." certainly, this transition period is an important period not real well known by the broad public, and you pull back the curtain on the inner workings of this particular transition and refer to it as a model and a template. and i was struck by a number of revelations which we'll get into including the level of cooperation and trust. >> guest: yeah. >> host: but before we do that, let's start with kind of a hollywood thriller. [laughter] let's go straight to the inaugural that was almost complicated or maybe even postponed with the terrorist threat. so just what was that threat and how did the bush and obama teams deal with it? >> guest: okay. well, thank you very much for being here and for talking with me about the book. when you look at the front of the cover of the book here and you see bush and

mark: according to ben kumar, it could happen before the next fed meeting.ext 1000 points or 5% could happen before the next fed meeting. as you consider the last 1000 took two years, that is a great call. beats that? idea you wouldo be talking about startups in the u.k. during this segment. we are on the save that same wavelength -- we are on the same wavelength. i put together a few different indicators from the major index and the upshot of something surprising, startup activity has hit the highest level of the year. line is line, the aqua interesting, it shows exit which are on the rise. it has been higher but they went through a slump and there have been more exits. million has got into startups in the last few weeks. we are far below the level we were in the mid-summer range. it means that maybe people are getting excited about new ideas and innovations. who knows what will happen next year with that segment. better to get your first round of funding now. mark: very cleverly playing into the fact we talked about syntax. love,doing the chart i talking a

. >> host: thank you very much come martha kumar, thank you. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily.n 1979, seized and was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> when the tea party initially emerged in 2009, arguably the largest supporters, politically speaking, nationally known figures were women, people like michelle bachmann, congressman from minnesota, served that he party caucus in congress and the original mama grizzly, sarah palin, with the tea party. in my own research i studied conservative movements for a long time including the christian right. i would say in earlier right wing movements women have become part of the movements but really more behind the scenes rather than front and center. there have been some notable exceptions to that rule. phyllis shapley is the best known exception to that, she is best known for having stopped the era in the 1970s. one of the women i interviewed for this book used to have the office of legal forms and the first thing said to me when we sat

vonnie: senator kumar you saying you are hoping you could vote -- senator, are you saying you are hoping could vote for him but at the moment you will vote against him? sen. blumenthal: i want to hear what he has to say as the nominee and what his position is, for example, on trade. i'm against the tpp. so is the president. i'm assuming he will be, too. there are a wide range of issues. vonnie: what about stephen mnuchin for treasury? sen. blumenthal: at this point i am not going to say one way or the other. hopefully we will explore whether in fact the trump plan for building roads, bridges, rail, desperately important to the state i represent, because it means new jobs and hopefully new projects, are going to be , thed out of tax credits 82% tax credit that is part of his plan, which is supposed to generate $1 trillion. the question is whether it will, or whether it will have a real public-private partnership, bringing back, for simple, some of the money parked overseas for profits made up short -- made offshore, and other forms of investment from the private sector, but also a public

kal penn, best known for his lovable stoner role in "harold and kumar." >> no eating until we get to white castle. yo, let's roll. >> reporter: and for his unusual sabbatical. unlike the rest of the cast, he's an actual west wing alumnus. he left a lucrative career in hollywood to work for president obama as the associate director of the office of public engageme >> what do you say, no, you're not going to serve your country if you have that kind of opportunity? >> reporter: did you talk to kal penn? >> yes. a lot. >> reporter: does he ever stop and say, this isn't authentic? >> absolutely. yes. >> reporter: and i assume you guys all listen. >> yes we do. we wanted to create a sense of chaos. and kal said, "these people wouldn't be allowed in here." but in the circumstance." he said, "no circumstance." >> reporter: did you change it? >> oh yeah. right away. >> reporter: one thing the show nailed, perhaps to an extreme, is the degree to which any president is under constant scrutiny and stress. >> i didn't hear the question. >> the muslim teenage whole was beaten by police, mr. presid

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. >> joining us now, maria teresa kumar. kurt, that was such a brilliantly-chosen example.anted to let it play out. because it's completely neutral. it doesn't say anything about donald trump, that thing about i'm bad at filing and sorting and that's my closest thing to the president. i'm sure i'm worse than he is. he came as close as he could to this issue of this guy being, up to now, anyway, temperamentally unfit. >> the other time he said oh, i gave the president-elect this piece of advice as well was when he said, when you're president, you find out that there are norms and rules and laws. and the people who work for you find out that there are norms and rules and laws. now for most people, that would be like a rhetorical statement. for him, it was actually as though, and i told donald trump this, so that he would understand that. the >> a. >> and maria theresa, you know that the work here is governed by rules and laws and stuff. >> right. and i think the enormity of the job is finally starting to sink into the trump campaign, as when we saw his son-in-law wanted to kn