that i see how he is the subject of ridicule and attack. >> mark halperin. as you were speaking tonight i was taking notes and your exact quote and since your name was invoked what did you make of that exchange? >> melania trump could have done her riff on cyber bullying and said "therefore i'm endorsing hillary clinton for president." it's such a strange thing it's literally one of the things he's best known for and criticized for that she says is a problem for the country, she once said i wish my husband would tweet less but of all the things she could have chosen, the best thing we can say is she has a good sense of irony. >> steve schmidt, we know there can be communication issues between the number one and two on a ticket but twine spouses at the top is rare that that issue wouldn't have gone through the issue machine generator. >> i wonder if it's not purposeful. look, i think that we shouldn't discount what melania trump said. that was melania trump speaking and melania trump through this campaign has handled herself with class and with dignity. there

mark: i am mark halperin. john: and i am john heilemann. with all respect to king trump, it looks like the democrats have this one in the bag. ♪ on a day when the new york times delivers thrilling details from a new tribe called west album we strike a musical theme , on the show tonight. including donald trump's change of student -- change of tune. but first, the polls pick up tempo. can barely keep up with the onslaught of surveys from key state polls that flooded our inboxes today. with less than a week before e-day, florida remains a razor thin race. in one poll, clinton is up by one point among likely voters, in another, she is up by two points. in ohio, donald trump is ahead by five percentage points. north carolina, clinton leads by three. pennsylvania, clinton leads by five points in one poll and four in another. in wisconsin, where donald trump campaigned yesterday and mark halperin was, clinton is still up and six. her advantage in colorado has shrunk to three points. in virginia, she is up by five percentage points. in arizona, th

on msnbc, mark halperin. good to have you onboard. political reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst robert costa on set with us. and back by popular demand, we've been trying to get this guy. he's hard to get. >> it's impossible. >> former chairman of the democratic national committee and former governor of pennsylvania, and nbc news political analyst ed rendell at the table this morning. >> ed, how are you doing? >> doing good. hidden trump vote. called it. >> you certainly did. you certainly did. in pennsylvania, more than just about any other state, pennsylvania and florida especially, you just saw that hidden trump vote. just didn't show up in the polls. michigan, pennsylvania, or really in florida. >> and wisconsin. same thing. >> wisconsin, yeah. close in minnesota. all over the place. so we're going to talk a little bit about what that means. and i'm glad you're here because we're going to talk about a lot of transition picks. these names that could get past the senate like jeff sessions. it's going to b

stop there, mark halperin. any conflict?> there are a lot of people tauted for jobs in this government that have private business dealings that deserve a lot of scrutiny. the united states current government considers turkey an ally and has not always sided with civil liberties and individual rights and held turkey's feet to the fire. his policy positions aren't necessarily out of whack. it's a question of whether he's received financial bits from the country and allied troops that deserve more attention. >> my understanding is he has a little bit of a reputation for saying things that are a little bit inappropriate to say the least. he has spent a lot of time with donald trump. i know that they have a good relationship. what are the risks here? >> his appointment if it comes will be a manifestation of what is guiding this transition and a lot of transition wihich is loyalty. he's been very influential. temperamentally a lot of people have questions about whether he's the right person for the job. a lot of people had questio

what's your gut, mark halperin? how's that going to go?nd this period, the last 48 hours, is exactly the way it always works. and it's extraordinary, the meeting today, president obama greeting the guy who was the leader of the birther movement, a guy who questioned his legitimacy as president and the president yesterday, and i suspect today, is being gracious and hopeful for the country. >> it goes the other way, too, obviously. donald trump saying all of these things about barack obama, barack obama spending the last month -- >> savaging. >> savaging him, saying he's unqualified to be president of the united states. i'm sure he said it because he believed it. but this reminds me so much, harold ford, of that book "the preside presidents' club" that talks about michael duffy, we had him on the show a lot to talk about it, where you have people killing each other on the campaign and when it's over, they come together. not happy about it, but they come together. and then two years later, they realize they're in a club, and there's only like

manager editor of bloomberg politics, mark halperin.tzer prize winr jon meacham. >> breaking news. >> donald trump is back in new york and begins his week with another full day of transition meetings. over the holiday weekend, more public jockeying for the secretary of state position, especially by rudy. rudy out front. out there again, the former mayor of new york, touting his credentials to the "wall street journal," saying, quote, i probably have traveled in the last 13 years as much as hillary clinton did in the years she was secretary of state. then he went out front even more. i have been to england eight times, japan six times, france five times. >> no, he did not. did he really do this? >> china three times, once with bill clinton, by the way. i don't know what that means. is that good or bad? you can't say i don't know the world -- >> then he started singing the third verse of never been to spain, but been to oklahoma. >> after rudy -- >> hold on a second. i have to ask this question. i know we have breaking news coming up here

mark: and i am mark halperin. with all due respect to 7-eleven, allegedly donald trump is a wawa man. ♪ mark: we are just one very endless week away from election day. we are in eau claire, wisconsin, where donald trump is holding a rally tonight. questions swirl about whether his narrow path to presidency is maybe widening a bit. they are making a final push for votes everywhere. trump announced today, he is spending $25 million over the next few days for tv ads here in the badger state and other blue states, including colorado, virginia, michigan, and new mexico. clinton's campaign intern is making six-figure buys in each of the states that seem to save in her column. trump is on a bit of offense here in wisconsin. tim kaine is appearing, bill clinton going to colorado. hillary clinton today had some harsh words for political opponent, and this explanation of why the race might get more negative before it is over. at a rally today, clinton went back to her tried-and-true tactic of this campaign for her, she appea

. ♪ mark: i am mark halperin. john: and i am john heilemann.l respect to king trump, it looks like the democrats have this one in the bag. ♪ on a day when the new york times delivers thrilling details from a new tribe called west album we strike a musical theme , on the show tonight. including donald trump's change of student -- change of tune. but first, the polls pick up tempo. can barely keep up with the onslaught of surveys from key state polls that flooded our inboxes today.

mark halperin, we have said it a thousand times. it's always about trend lines.ome massive trend. so the polling all seems to be going in hillary clinton's direction. it makes sort of a surprise tonight by trump voters less likely, does it not? >> depends on where you start the trend. the trend has been over the last ten days in trump's direction. it just hasn't closed enough -- >> but has it not broken back towards hillary clinton? >> in some of the national polls. in the state polls, there's not enough good data to say that for a sure thing. i have been asking republicans in the last 24 hours, including sean spicer yesterday, on "with all due respect" do you imagine a scenario in which trump wins the electoral college and loses the popular vote. they claim they're not thinking about it. it's hard to see him winning the national popular vote and it would take an aberration to lose the national popular vote and still get to 270 electoral votes. >> yeah, mike barnicle, again, just the pictures we're looking at right here, not a political statement. a statement of

mark halperin, do you agree with me? that baby was going? >> and if it ran, it would run, mark, then with the bow on top of the justice department and fbi were covering up an investigation into 650,000 e-mails? >> i am purely speculating here. i am not so sure they would have run it. that story was super well reported and it clearly had been in the works for a while. my suspicion, just pure speculation, is that they were not going to run it before the election and they did because of the comey letter. that thing was not turned around from friday to monday. >> can i ask you a question, joe, i happen to agree with mark, but none of us know, and the question i have, what is more important, mr. comey's representation, and he could defend that by saying we are looking at this or democracy, our presidential election and tilting the outcome, and i happen to think the latter, and a strong and compelling argument can be easily made, and if a single source story is correct it races more questions than just mr. comey's judgment, and it would raise quest

mark halperin.holas confessore joins us as well. >> this is the fall card again. >> what's going on? >> trump era is a casual era. dress down. >> better than a coat and tie. >> i was thinking about wearing my paisley smoking jacket. >> i have run out of clean ties. >> wear that to our christmas eve special. john denver. >> we're recreating the bin crosby drummer boy. >> we're doing christmas in pajamas this year. >> i think we have a responsibility to end this week, the last show of this week, by actually talking about something that's very serious. we need to give people about perspective about some things. i talked to my 13-year-old daughter yesterday who said actually lly in her school whi a lovely school, the debates following the election became so heated that they actually had to call an assemblynd tell everybody to just calm down and not talk about it. >> funny you should say that. >> i know you got an e-mail from johns hopkins. >> they're setting up places where kids can go and talk in a pea

mark halperin, does it take care of his problem? which tweets don't address, he's giving up an operational role but is he giving up his full financial interest in the business and if kids are still running the business, and particularly if they are running the business and continuing to advise him and sit in on white house meetings, that presents a conflict that a lot of people are concerned about. there's nothing in the tweets that suggests he's not going to address the problems, but they don't speak specifically to liquidation and is he getting out of not just the operational role but out of ownership as well. >> what does he have to do to move beyond the questions that would be raised every single day over the next four years? this is a first step in that direction. how far does he need to go? >> he can keep us in business forever if he wants by not doing anything or take his equity and invest in other equities and put that in a true blind trust or middle ground is to appoint an independent monitor to oversee his companies and ha

. >>> i'm mark halperin. >> and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to donald trump, he may be having a bit of a honeymoon, but it's still the case that not everyone wants to shake your hand. >>> there has been a magnitude 6.9 earthquake off the coast of fukushima in japan, causing a tsunami warning. we'll be monitoring that throughout the show and report with any updates. meanwhile, there continues to be a lot of interest in the potential conflicts of interest when it comes to donald trump's sprawling business empire. so far, the president-elect has done next to nothing to assuage those concerns. and in fact, in some respects, has only exacerbated them. democrats are howling over an argentina newspaper report that says that trump used this congratulatory phone call with the arrangentinian president tok for help with a stalled project. he denies that ever happened, but it's hardly the first accusation that trump might use his new power to boost his family's bottom line. last week, in between administration job interviews, trum

. >> you know, mark halperin, just based on my reporting, forget public polls, one showed michigan at three, both camps think michigan is very competitive. i find that shocking. there's a reason hillary is going there. there's a reason trump is going there. they are all nervous about michigan. >> well, again, they're not that many states in play. clinton team has a lot of big surrogates. shouldn't overread that they are playing defense. they don't want to take anything for chance. if trump is going on offense, they're going to play defense there. i don't think he can cherry pick his way to this. he may not win all of the battleground states. if he's going to become president, he's going to need national surge beyond what he's already had to reshape the electorate in a more national way. she still is having trouble turning out certain members of the obama coalition, and he has had the gift of everything in the news to energize the republican base. a state like michigan, he's going to do well with independents. may not win independents, but he's going to do well. >> i wonder if the clin

. ♪ i mark halperin. n: with all due respect : to donald trump, who suddenly an expert on flag -- pres.-elect trump: i don't know what all of the stripes represent. john: mr. trump, can we ask for your birth certificate? on our political color palette tonight, trump's congress, and the green party's jill sign will -- jill stein will be on the show in a few moments.

mark halperin in that very chair found various paths for donald trump to win, days ago, weeks ago. but as you say, the public polling and as far as we know the internal polling of the campaigns just missed it and the expression is they missed the hidden trump vote across this country. >> there are no certainties, even in these forecasting models we say hillary clinton has an 85% chance or 95% chance. i was often telling people i'd rather be hillary clinton going to get 270 electoral votes than donald trump and there was always the possibility that you could end up having a black swan election but i was chatting with michael beschloss, the nbc presidential historian and you have to go back to 1948, the dewey/truman race to find a contest, particularly in the age that we have so much public polling, so many interviews where you see at least where a race is headed. and to me also very importantly in mid-october before the james comey announcement, hillary >> it feels like we sat down in 1948, nicolle was here -- >> i left you an hour ago. >> we sat down at 6:00 p.m. eastern and got up

>> mark halperin, you're in wisconsin because wisconsin is on the minds of both campaigns. what a difference a week makes. a week ago you were accused of being a neo-nazi for simply saying this race could still be competitive. you were right. here we are a week later. i cannot believe the hatred spewed at you for saying the race wasn't over last week by fools in the media who decided to go cheerleaders instead of being reporters. it's been that way for too long. here you are right again and right in the middle of it in wisconsin. who would have believed that last week? what's going on? >> an election. >> hillary clinton still has the advantages she's had from the beginning. democrats have an electoral college advantage. they have a demographic advantage. she's got more resources. she's got -- >> it's all over. it's not even competitive. that's what we heard. it's not competitive. if you say it's competitive, you're a neo-nazi. >> here's what's changed. right now look at what donald trump has. he gave two very strong speeches yesterday. he's closing on the message that a lot

i mark halperin. mark john: with all due respect : to donald trump, who suddenly an expert on flag -- pres.-elect trump: i don't know what all of the stripes represent. john: mr. trump, can we ask for your birth certificate? on our political color palette tonight, trump's congress, and the green party's jill sign will -- jill stein will be on the show in a few moments. donald trump nominated georgia congressman tom price, a six term as republican, and longtime arch enemy of the affordable care act and medicare system. >> the president is delusional. this is real-time stuff for real people and real people are getting hurt because of the president's program. this is unconscionable. the description he is causing for the men and women out there trying to care for patients in this country is astounding. we must get a handle on the spending in this country. it has to be few medicare reform, medicaid reform, and social security. they are destined for failure. we have a plan i hear, a positive plan that puts p

. ♪ mark: i am mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. ben carson, you had one job.n the show tonight, conflict about trump's conflicts of interest. the state of his paper secretary of state. first, more transitions for trump's transition team. mike rogers abruptly resigned, removing an establishment national security voice and prompting the liberations about how trump will build his cabinet. he called his work a privilege

mark: and i am mark halperin. 7-eleven, allegedly donald trump is a wawa man. ♪ mark: we are just one very endless week away from election day. we are in eau claire, wisconsin, where donald trump is holding a rally tonight. questions swirl about whether his narrow path to presidency is maybe widening a bit. they are making a final push for votes everywhere. trump announced today, he is spending $25 million over the

eastern with a two hour with all due respect posted by mark halperin and john heilemann and from 7:00o bloomberg election special, hosted by washington news bureau chief megan marciano's. cameos all my long. -- all night long. mark: coming up, we speak with the german deputy finance minister, jens spahn, we will ask him up from the u.s. election, brexit risk, georgia back woes. -- deutsche bank woes. ♪ this is donald trump live butgo, not moments ago, he voted on the east side of manhattan at ps 59. that is moments ago. he told fox earlier he decided to vote for trump and he is a little bit superstition but it has been a beautiful process. the clintons cast their vote a little while ago in chappaqua. market as weat the await some reaction. major indices up a quarter of a percent and index is a little bit lower than it was earlier, just about 18. time for the latest is newsflash. canadian drugmaker valeant has but it's an overcast after posting a third-quarter loss, a $1 billion goodwill impairment to write down the value of some of its u.s. businesses. they became the focus of outrage

mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. and "with all due respect" to donald trump, maybe having a bit of a honeymoon, but not everyone wants to shake your hand. ♪ mark: there has been a magnitude 6.9 earthquake off the coast of fukushima, japan, causing us in on the warning. we will monitor that throughout the shorw and report any update. there continues to be a lot of interest in conflicts of interest when it comes to donald trump's sprawling business empire. so far he has done next to nothing to assuage this concern, and in some respects is only exacerbated it. democrats are howling over a newspaper report that says he received a congratulatory phone call from the argentina president, to ask for help with a salt construction project that will bear his brand. the spokesman denied ever happened, but said that he might use his new power to boost the family's bottom line. last week, he met with three indian commercial partners who are building a luxury office building south of mumbai, and seem eager to capitalize on their new

mark: and i'm mark halperin. th all due respect" to mitt romney, who is reportedly having dinner with donald trump, would you consider secretary of steak? ♪ mark: it has been a news filled more fallout from fidel castro's november monday. and an attack on the campus of ohio state university this morning. we start the week with three unsolved mysteries. we would get to the mysterious case of the green lady's recounted in a moment, but first, the riddle of kellyanne conway and an ongoing secretary of state thrilla.

. ♪ mark: i am mark halperin. due respect" to people making political predictions, you ain't got nothing on this guy. >> sure as god made green apples, someday the chicago cubs are going to be in the world series. that may be sooner than we think. ♪ oh, the days are flying by and taking forever. unless this race goes into extra innings we are just five news , cycles away from electing the next president of these united states. it was a busy day on the campaign trail.

mark: i mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. benwith all due respect to carson, you had one job. john: on the show tonight, conflict about conflicts of interest and the secretary of more transitions for trump's transition team. resign from that team today. he called his work with team trump a privilege but report suggests warring factions, those around donald trump's son-in-law and chris christie have gotten this admin adventure off to a slow and rocky start. reporting the department of defense, justice, have not heard ap from trump land. paul ryan was reelected as speaker of the house. he went out of the way to defend his white house staff higher. let's start with the big picture. how is the transition going? mark: not as smoothly as it could predict our factions -- as it could. .here are factions i have covered a lot of transitions. there is always drama. people are overstating the drama and understating the extent to which this happens. the proof will be in the pudding. he has to be ready by january 20. putting christie and t

. >> i'm mark halperin. >> i'm john heilemann.to chris christie, don't worry, man, you can still bring trump his mcdonald's. >>> on the show tonight, the democratic party contemplates its future and the world loses and gains a measure of amusingical genius. but first, the outsider president-elect contemplates an insider cabinet. donald j. trump was holed the up today at his namesake gotham city skyscraper. inside, in addition to sitting down for an interview with 60 minutes that will air

. -- and iron mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann.nd "with all due respect" to donald trump, maybe having a bit of a honeymoon, but not everyone wants to shake your hand. ♪ john: there has been a magnitude 6.9 earthquake off the coast of fukushima, japan, causing a tsunami warning. we will monitor that throughout the show and report any updates. there continues to be a lot of interest in conflicts of interest when it comes to donald trump's sprawling business empire. so far he has done next to nothing to assuage this concern, and in some respects is only exacerbated it.

i'm mark halperin. and "with all due respect" to net romney who is reportedly having dinner with donald trump, would you consider secretary of steak? ♪ of novemberaccused monday. more fallout from fidel castro's on the campus of ohio state university this morning. we start the week with three unsolved mysteries. lady's get to the green recount, but first of the riddle of kellyanne conway and an ongoing secretary of state thriilla. it took a few interesting twists. for some time it appeared that choicesd narrowed his to former gotham city mayor rudy giuliani and to mitt romney, the former republican presidential nominee, and in the past a d j.ferous critic of donald j trump. but his chances were said to diminished. also push back against trump reporters and a brazen series of rebukes from transition adviser kellyanne conway sparked a classic sunday morning tv frenzy. >> this seems like a pretty bitter internal battle going on in the transition team over the nation. diplomat decision. >> for more new york

let's bring in nicolle wallace and mark halperin. good morning. >> good morning. >> by this very nature people are jockeying for positions. some people are up, some people are down, there are factions. is this something different than what we've seen in past transitions in the fall? >> you know, it is different. the transition is not always but everything trump has done in a political arena is, and he won despite the fact that he went through three campaign managers, so i don't think he'll pay a political price for now being on his second transition chief. that said, his central sort of message as a candidate was to bring the competence and the success of his private sector enterprises to government, so he has a little bit more time, but probably not more than about 72 hours to sort of steady the ship. >> when you talk about time, mark, over the campaign there of the candidates would be ready as president to lead on day one. is this the transition a microcosm of leading as president or is it a different animal? >> it's a different an

. ♪ marco: mark halperin. i john: and i'm john heilemann.espect to donald trump, that escalated quickly. >> this is going to be brexit plus. this is brexit times five. this is brexit times 10. this is going to be brexit times 50. it's going to be brexit plus plus plus. a lot of brexits. ♪ john: happy election eve sports fans. tomorrow in all 50 of these united states, voters will pick the next leader of the free world.

i am mark halperin. with all due respect to people making political prediction, you ain't got nothing on this guy. >> sunday, the chicago cubs are going to be in the world series. m&a b, sooner than we think. sooner than we think. mark: the days are flying by and taking forever. we are just five news cycles away from electing the next president of these united states. it was a busy day on the campaign trail. hillary clinton and donald trump and plenty of superdelegates across the battleground states from sea to shining sea, making a pitch to the voters. >> welcome to pennsylvania. pres. obama: we have five more days. mr. trump: in five days, we are going to win the great state of florida. >> love for this country is , when i met share donald. he loves this country and he knows how to get things done, not just talk. he certainly knows him to shake things up, doesn't he? pres. obama: this is a guy who spent 70 years, his whole life, born with a silver spoon, showing no respect for working people. mr. trump

coming back to the show, we are going to cut away from mark halperin in iowa.ou are in washington, d.c.. good to see you. give me a sense on the basis of what you know right now, we have been talking about the state of the race, all anyone cares about right now. what is your sense right now? karine: i do not know -- michael: i do not know where the energy is coming from, but donald trump has garnered a great deal of energy from various pockets around the country, in listening to kellyanne conway today, talk about this race, you really get the sense that they have got their fingers on something. it is a figured something out or something is moving in their direction. this may be just a 24-hour thing on the heels of what developed with hillary clinton, but there is a different kind of energy out there. just out today at a starbucks, talking to folks, and it was surprising to me the resignation that trump could possibly win this thing here in the metro area. it is a very different climate, i think, in the last 24 hours or so, and you are seeing it pop up in variou

. >> and managing editor of bloomberg politics and host of "with all due respect" mark halperin and in washington, columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" the very elegant -- willie, joe and me are here. joe is back to the fleece. >> i think steve schmidt said yesterday that america gets nervous when they see me in a coat and tie. >> we get nervous. >> that's exactly what i was thinking. >> i wanted to comfort everybody. i've been saying that a lot lately. >> i know actually. on a serious note people are unnerved. >> on edge. >> still on edge. lot of people on edge. got a couple people behind the camera saying we're fine. we're not on edge. >> okay. fine. >> in a camo hat. we're good. >> it's cool. i'm fine. >> so donald trump received his first presidential daily briefing yesterday. on the front page of "the new york times," this headline. firings and discord put trump transition team in a state of disarray. after chris christie was booted off the transition team last friday, yesterday mike rogers announced he's out too. rogers is a former fbi agent and house intel com

mark: and i'm mark halperin. and "with all due respect" to mitt romney, who is reportedly having dinner with donald trump, would you consider secretary of steak? ♪ mark: it has been a news filled more fallout from fidel castro's november monday. and an attack on the campus of ohio state university this morning. we start the week with three unsolved mysteries. we would get to the mysterious case of the green lady's recounted in a moment, but first, the riddle of kellyanne conway and an ongoing secretary of state thrilla. it took a few interesting twists. for some time it appeared that trump had narrowed his choices to former gotham city mayor rudy giuliani who has been pushing forward his own presidential credentials, and to mitt romney, the former republican presidential nominee, and in the past a vociferous critic of donald j. trump. amidst giuliani frequents of appraisal, his chances were said to have diminished. also, push back against romney from other trump supporters and 80's -- aids and a brazen series of r

. -- i'm mark halperin. john: i'm john. with all due respect to chris christie, don't worry, man, you can still bring donald trump his mcdonald's. ♪ john: the democratic party contemplates its future and the world loses a musical genius. but first the outsider president elect contemplates an insider cabinet. donald trump was hold up inside of his skyscraper. inside, in addition to sitting down for an interview with "60 minutes," donald trump started the process of organizing the government he hopes and plans to assemble. in a stunning announcement, the soon to be 45th president of the united states told the world his number two, mike pence, will take over his transitional endeavor, demoting chris christie to the position of vice chair of the team he's been leading for months. dozens of names have been floated. sarah palin for secretary of the interior is one. others -- some are the swamp dwellers and east coast elites trump spent his entire campaign disparaging. mark: we broke it up into the three types. there are some like

mark: i am mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. ben carson, you had one job. john: on the show tonight, conflict about trump's conflicts of interest. the state of his paper secretary of state. first, more transitions for trump's transition team. mike rogers abruptly resigned, removing an establishment national security voice and prompting the liberations about how trump will build his cabinet. he called his work a privilege, but reports suggest that warring factions, particularly those around his son-in-law jared kushner and chris christie, have gotten this building adventure off to a slow and rocky start. legal paperwork installing mike pence as the new head of the transition team is delaying coordination with the white house, and bloomberg is reporting that the departments of defense, justice, state, and homeland security still have not heard ap from trump land. today, paul ryan, who was unanimously reelected as speaker, went out of his way to defend trump's staff higher -- hire. how is the transition going? mark: not as smoothly as it could. there are facti

. >> i'm mark halperin. >> and i'm john heilemann.with all due respect to all of you people out there who say this election can't end soon enough, are you not entertained?! >>>

. >> and i'm mark halperin.itt romney, who is reportedly having dinner with donald trump tomorrow, would you consider secretary of steak? >>> it has been a news-filled november monday. more fallout from the death of fidel castro, a frightening attack this morning, but we'll start the new week with three unsolved mysteries. we'll get to the mysterious case of the green lady's recount in just a moment, but first, the riddle of kellyanne conway

marco: mark halperin. i john: and i'm john heilemann. am with all due respect to donald trump, that escalated quickly. >> this is going to be brexit plus. this is brexit times five. this is brexit times 10. this is going to be brexit times 50. it's going to be brexit plus plus plus. a lot of brexits. ♪ john: happy election eve sports fans. tomorrow in all 50 of these united states, voters will pick the next leader of the free world. mark and i spent the weekend flying around with hillary clinton and donald trump, touching down in battleground states across the country as candidates made their final dash to the finish line of this dizzying come electrifying, exhaustive and sometimes stomach churning race. b t is what brought me to the city of brotherly love where barack obama, michelle obama and jon bon jovi will be there for a rally. mike pence and donald trump are holding a monster rally of their own. all told today was a frenzy of more than two dozen campaign events. ms. clinton: hello pittsburgh. mr. trump: florida is my second home.

. >> and i'm mark halperin.n and cumberland pharmacy, apparently, donald trump is a wawa man. >>> we are just one very endless week a

mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. and "with all due respect" to october, you better hold on to the sugar is been a whole lot than tree. ♪ john: happy halloweener, sports fans. in our pillowcase of candy hillary clinton hits a sour snickersdonald trump, and the fbi throws out a , fireball. but first, federal agents in a whatchamacallit. fbi agents now have a warrant to two searchers is 650,000 e-mails found on the computer of carlos danger, the former husband of hillary clinton's top aide. since james comey informed the congress about this messages which he called pertinent, the agency's previous investigation, we have learned a lot about intra-government feuds, but virtually nothing about what is contained in the e-mails. the election is one weekend one day away. clinton was on the campaign trail at kent state university, trying to keep this story from spinning out of control. >> i am sure a lot of you may be asking what this new e-mail story is about and why in the world the fbi would decide to jump into an election

mark: i'm mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann, and with all due respect to those who think this can be reversed, maybe, but only in postproduction. man, stuff has happened here in america. well, about last night, after more than a year of brain-twisting, reality-based in, you cannot make it up plot twists, the 2016 presidential race ended with one final, tectonic plate shifting 9.5 on the richter scale earthquake. hillary clinton woke up fairly certain she would be the 45th president of the united states. so did basically the rest of the political world. instead, this morning, the democratic nominee thanked a room full of grief-stricken staffers,nd campaign her running mate at her side, as she publicly conceded the race to donald j. trump and wished him well as the soon to be leader of the free world. secretary clinton: donald trump is going to be our president. we all him an open mind and the chance to lead. our constitutional democracy is thenes -- enshrines peaceful transfer of power. we do not jus

. ♪ mark: i'm mark halperin john: and i'm john heilemann.ection is enough. that was a gladiator joke. on our menu tonight, some juicy fbi updates. the deep dish and buffet of other news. a free range cut of the sights and sounds of this busy day on the campaign trail. >> what's up fayetteville? >> i'm happy to be at the hom