matt lewis. peter buy nart. erroll lewis. kayleigh mcenany. democratic strategist simone. and carlos watson, editor in chief of ozzie.com. do we have david gergen with us as well? okay. we don't have david gergen with us. i thought we might. matt lewis, in terms of the scope of this plan to begin with on day one, how ambitious is this? >> well, i thought it was somewhat reserved. obviously it hits his core messaging around nationalism, make america great again, get manufacturing going here again. part of that is rolling back, you know, onerous regulations, you know, there's a book by robert hineland, "the moon is a harsh mistress" there's a whole house of congress devoted to canceling bad laws and there's a regulation that donald -- there's something donald trump is actually proposing that every new regulation they will roll back two previous regulations. so this is something that could spur the economy. i don't think it was the most charismatic video i've ever seen, but, you know, this is a guy who's telling the american people basically what's consistent with what he ran

political analyst jackie k kucinich and matt lewis and david gregory. guys, thank you for being here. i don't know where to start. every day is no longer an october surprise. it is an october smorgasbord. it sounds, jackie, as if we have to live with ambiguity. voters have to make their decision without figuring out what's on a laptop. it doesn't sound the fbi will give us anything in the next week. >> that is what they said in the onset. we don't have time to look into this in terms of before the election. that is why you see the clinton campaign coming out so forcefully. the fact she is addressing this from the stump is something that hillary clinton really hasn't done this forcefully through the other scandals throughout the election. she tried to move on. this time, they know this is potentially damaging and they will not take it. >> so, matt, spin is good. the intersection of law and politics allows one to play to advantage. the donald trump campaign is ignoring the ambiguity of this. the fact that comey and making this controversial disclosure so

i want to bring back matt lewis and lynn sweet. good to see both of you.ll of this, as you see it dominating the cover of the l.a. times, "the chicago-sun times," "the washington post," new york times, all in the midst of seeing these protests, anti-trump protests sweeping across the nation before we talked about this potential cabinet, what must it feel like for a donald trump inside trump tower in new york with his transition team and outside thousands of people are gathering protesting? >> well, i mean, do you have to go back to lincoln to find an example of a president taking over that kind of turmoil based on their election. it's got to be difficult. there's always the fact, frankly, that, i guess trump pulled a lot of transition staff off that and on the campaign. they are behind the curve when it comes to getting up to speed. there are positions that need to be filled. it's going to be a lot of work. >> how might the tension that we are seeing unfolding in the protest, how might that influence his selection of cabinet members? we are hearing the nam

we have richard quest, cnn-i, jackie kucinich, and matt lewis. let's start with what donald trump has announced that he wants to do in his first 100 days. matt, we'll pull this up on the screen for everybody. he wants to withdraw from t.p.p., we knew that from the campaign. negotiate bilateral trade deals. slash restrictions on domestic energy production. cut two old regulations for every new one created. national security he has a plan to create infrastructure. immigration, investigate abuses from the visa program. that's quite different than build a wall or deport 12 million people or even 2 million people. ethics reforms he says five-year ban on lobbying for top officials. that increases the time and a lifetime ban for top officials lobbying on behalf of foreign governments. you don't hear, again, the wall, the deportation. you don't hear anything about obamacare. what do you make of the first 100 days? >> most of these things are things he can do on day one. the second is he gets around to the wall on day two. most of these are things he could

cnn political contributor matt lewis. the subject of his column today in "the daily caller." ry interesting column. if you haven't rode it i suggest do. matt, thanks so much for coming off. you ask a pretty direct question in your column this morning. should you be afraid of president trump so should we? >> well, i think we should -- i mean, we should always be vij lab. i'm of the opinion that all politicians, republican, democrat, we should always be skeptical of them. we need the media to help us to keep an eye on them and to hold them accountable, and in the case of donald trump i would say there were a lot of people who were very concerned about his authoritarian tendencies, his -- a sense that he didn't fully respect the rule of law, understand or appreciate the balance of powers. but then he got elected, and i'm starting to see a re-emergence, maybe of a realization that this is very real and that this -- there could be a guy who -- who has these -- this streak who is going to be president. we're seeing it happen right now with the tweets about the flag burning where he

i'm joined by political commentators, matt lewis and david and cnn global affairs david. matt, let me start with you. these two men had a rocky relationship. that's putting it mildly. why would trump be considering mitt romney or is he considering? maybe this was a pr stunt, what do you think? >> it could be a pr stunt or just the two men patching things up or it could be donald, if you want to be cynical, donald trump pummeling mitt romney, summoning him to meet and not giving him an appointment or, if you want to be optimistic, it could be donald trump sincerely considering him for secretary of state and building sort of a team of rivals, you know? so far, we have seen trump go with a lot of loyalists. he did pick mike pence for his running mate for vice president. pence, of course, endorsed ted cruz in the primary. i don't want to write that off. i think it's within the realm of possibility. i wouldn't bet on it. if he was secretary of state, a huge, huge deal and a positive sign for those of us concerned about trump. >> there are a lot of people who would like that. da

we have matt lewis, the political reporter of the boston globe. we have errol louis and rebecca burke. let's talk north carolina. it's a place where there is a lot of division. this is historical blue. you see people cannot agree when it comes to north carolina. here is what we know. in the poll of polls, let's pup the number. the poll of polls is the cnn averaging of the last several polls. every set of numbers is a snapshot. 46% to 42% and 5% for johnson. not good for democrats. yes, obama won it in 2008. they only one it two or three tea times in the last several decades. >> i think the enthusiasm for barack obama. black voters coming outs in droves in charlotte and raleigh area. >> can the african-american votes change? >> absolutely. that is why obama is going there again and again trying to re-tap that enthusiasm he had in 2008. he lost some in 2012. it is an open question over how much he can drive voter turnout for somebody else. >> errol, why are all eyes on north carolina? there are a lot of battleground states. >> it's a big one and it

to bring in contributor to the atlantic, director of special projects, political comment cater matt lewis and richard cohen the president of the southern poverty law center. you have raised concerns about the alt-right movement going mainstream on this show before and yet you say maybe it's not a bad idea to have steve bannon in the west wing. explain your thinking. >> it is fair to say i'm one of the first people to talk about alt-right here and warn about them but probably the person on this panel they hate the most arguably because their big problems are conservatives who are not with their program. so, you know, that is sort of where i come from. having said that, i've known steve bannon five or six years. we don't go to movies together on the weekends or golfing or anything, but i've known him. i think some of the concerns about breitbart, not my favorite site. i think some of the concerns are overwrought. i think steve bannon is a very energetic, brilliant, eccentric person. i would not want him to be the sole adviser of my president. however, i think that with a panel of people whi

matt lewis, author of too dumb to fail. i'm going to read this.to read -- i've already read too dumb to fail. it's amazing. tray, you're the liberal red neck. how guys like you are out there? >> i tell you what, more than people think, i can promise you that. i grew up in the middle of nowhere, all the of my closest friends, the guys i grew up with, they're like liberal red necks, that's like five dudes but i graduated with 45 guys. not a bad percentage. it's definitely more than people think. people tell me all the time you're like a unicorn, you know, and i'm really not. >> matt, speaking of a unicorn, he's still working class. up employment is down to 4.9%, wages are up 2.8%. does that impact working class voters and how they may vote? >> no because number one a cllo this is a culture war, but a lot of it, too, is how people feel and a lot of working class americans don't feel like things are good, don't feel like things are going to be good for their kids and so there's a lot of angst, that's why one of the big reasons bernie did so well. trae

a clinton supporter, a trump supporters and matt lewis for the daily caller. that's all the time we have left for the show. can you believe we are here? less than 48 hours before the election and comey said the probe is over. does this change the state of the race here? how does it hamper this race? >> i think to me the biggest story that people don't talk about much because it's not as sexy is the u.s. senate. i think that the comey story saves it to republicans. they will narrowly maintain control. hillary probably still wins, but i think the senate which is a huge deal. >> does this thwart his momentum and affect it at all or hers? >> i think the problem is that if you are talking about the fbi and you are talking about hillary clinton's e-mails, she loses. this could give trump another little bump. this was starting to fizzle. over a week ago that the story broke. she was starting to get her mojo back and she had the jay z and beyonce thing and now we are talking about e-mails again. >> she lost nine days. she can't get that back. >> she can't get it back,

. >>> i want to discuss now with cnn's political commentators, matt lewis, kale. >> caller: -- it's beening. >> so angla i'm going to start with you, elizabeth warren wasted no time criticizing president-elect donald trump's pick for attorney general. he said instead of bracing the bigotry that fueled his campaign rallies, i urge senator trump to nominate jeff sessions to be attorney general of the united states. so -- and then senator dianne feinstein has promised to be a fair and complete review of sessions, have a fair and complete review of sessions. mow hard to you expect them to push back on the confirmation hearing? >> they've already started. it's interesting to hear him say we're judging him off their record from 30 years ago and there are a number of women who is frustrated this is the same man who voted against the violence against women's act, and the act for fairness in pay of women and men, and he's not advocate for people of color and latinos and other immigrants into the country. he's been a very strong opponent for black people. we can check the record from calling a bla

. >> 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

. >>> matt lewis and our journalist and author and cnn political analyst, carl bernstein and washington post, phillip, we'll start with you of the three picks today when you had michael flynn and sessions. what does this say about donald trump's world view? >> well, it says that donald trump's world view expressed is the world that's coming into the white house. the point that sara murray made that it is valid. a lot of folks are hoping to see a different trump in the white house. he's going to taking us on a strong stance on immigration and embrace this transport of international policies that he talked about on the campaign trail. it is true to him sticking to the loyal folks that's been there from the beginning but it is understandable that why his opponent is different. >> is donald trump doing what he says he's going to do, appointing people who agreed with what he says he believed in during the campaign. democrats should be surprised here, should they? >> if you are saying donald trump is a bigot and a racist and a fraud and is appointing people who are like him. that's correct. >

p matt lewis, and constitutional attorney paigepate. good . good to have you.ou have to get in because these guys will get all over you. i want to start with you. explain why. >> it seems politically motivated, there's no other explanation, and is sort of like the third time he's done this. first he -- instead of we don't have an investigation that's going to lead the charges, he then holds press conference and discloses the investigation, a no-no for any prosecutor, who is concerned about civil liberties, and within two weeks of the election, he discloses that he's going to look at additional information, doesn't know what it is, doesn't know if it's relevant, but he's going to look at it, and now, we have a data dump of almost empty pages he failed to make, he was the one, he, comey, was investigating the pardons, and 15 years ago he came up empty. i like prosecutors who only talk to us when they have a charge, complaint, or indictment. to release everybody's information year, unless they want to influence it. you would think the department of justice going b

let's bring in matt lewis, former georgia congressman and trump supporter jack kingston, good morning. >> good morning. >> jack, the president-elect has a busy day ahead. he had a busy day saturday. what did he talk about in his first statement to people, 6:23 this morning about "hamilton." let's read this tweet. the cast and producers of "hamilton" which i hear is highly overrated should immediately apologize to mike perns for the terrible behavior. i just wonder, he's been so adamant about this ridicule of this cast for what they said but we've covered the hate crimes across this country, the state of degrading and vandalizing the public property and lesley stahl had to pull a statement out of him about that. why is he so passionate about "hamilton" and hasn't said much from the "60 minutes" interview? >> i think there's a part of donald trump that connects with middle america, a little show manship, and a long parade of people isn't as exciting as something like this. on the left you can say, golly, they shouldn't have said that. i'm glad they did. on the right what wiabout the arr

david gregory, matt lewis, john berman, and in washington, we have maeve reston. it's great to have all of you here as we retrace our steps and try to figure out what happened last night. david, what do you think happened last night? >> a political earthquake happened. all across this country. something that was stunning. donald trump knew and understood something that voters in america that we in the media didn't understand. that the political class political republicans and democrats didn't understand and that the establishment at large didn't understand. he understood and harnessed the energy and movement that was tired of the political establishment and really wanted a new day. wanted something completely different. and we have the juxtaposition of someone who never served in office against the ultimate insider in hillary clinton. and the american people on crosslines, primarily, rendered a resounding judgment. a desire for radical change, despite a lack of confidence in his temperament or his qualifications. change is the order of the day. >> hey, maeve, let'

let's discuss with comedienne trey crowder, and matt lewis, author of "too dumb to fail." have already read "too dumb to fail." an amazing book. trey, you're the liberal red neck. how many guys like you are out there you think? >> i tell you what, more than people think, i can promise you that. i grew up in the middle of nowhere in tennessee, tiny place. all of the guys i grew up with i'm close to, they're all liberal red necks. it is like five dudes, but i graduated with 45 guys. not a bad percentage. definitely mor than people think. people tell me all the time, you're like a unicorn. i'm really not. >> matt, speaking of like unicorn, part of the working class. the economy is still top priority to voters. new jobs report out shows 161,000 jobs created, unemployment down to 4.9%, wages up 2.8%. does that impact on how working class voters might vote? >> no. because, number one, a lot of this is a cultural war. it is the god and guns, you know, the bitter clingers. a lot of it, too, is how people feel. a lot of working class americans don't feel like things are good, don't

. >>> back with me now, alan dershowitz, yoni appelbaum and matt lewis.s is from dan rather, he posted his on his facebook page. he said" when i see neo-nazis raise their hand in terrifying salute i shuder in horror, when i see that action mildly rebuked by a boilerplate statement by the president-elect whom these bigots have praised the anger in me grows. i hope the president-elect can learn to rise above this and see the dangers that are brewing. if he does and speaks forcibly and with action, we should be ready to welcome his voice but, of course i am deeply worried his selections of advisers and cabinet posts suggest otherwise. matt if he gave a speech, how do you think that would be received? >> i think it could be received well. >> you think he'd do it? >> the devil's in the details. it depends on what he says and how he says it. i don't even know there needs to be a speech. it's not a bad idea. but i do think that, you know, what is it barack obama said "don't tell me words don't matter." words matter, presidential rhetoric matters. going back to b

we have analyst ron brownstein and author of "how's your faith" david gregory and we have matt lewis and jackie kucinich. >> it takes an entire segment. >> david, what did you think of the final pitches? >> i think it indicates what they're thinking about and what the big priorities are. hillary clinton in philadelphia with a real end game. that's a lot of pageantry. a lot of stars. you had michelle and barack obama. all of the star power. really an example of where she wants to close. turn out a strong minority vote in a state like pennsylvania. turn out college educated white vote and the counties of philadelph philadelphia. and ending in north carolina to tap into the historic turn out and surge among latino voters which could be divisive where trump is in michigan showing he has signs of real concern. it may be tough for him to tip the balance of working class white voters in the midwest which could be in his favor. it shows you where they are nervous and focus in that last time of argument. >> what do both campaigns need to happen today? this is where they are. they are not work

. >> 50%, so matt lewis, you were sitting there nodding? >> i was a never-trumper during the primary. i did not support donald trump. i did not vote for donald trump in the general election, but now he is our president-elect. i think we should be rooting for his success. and part of that is allowing him to surround himself with the advisers -- hopefully he has a team of rivals, different people whispering in his ear, offering different advice -- >> but you haven't seen any evidence of that? >> i've seen mike pence, a mainstream republican, reince priebus, an establishment republican, but not with these picks. three picks today that are pretty consistent. so i would like to see more diversity, not just in terms of ethnicity and gender, but also in terms of world view. we could see that. we could see michelle rhee, for example, with education reform. we could see a mitt romney possibly. i don't predict that, but it's within the realm of possibility. it's very early to say this, but, look, mike flynn served in the military for 30 years, headed

matt lewis promises were made. this campaign was a function of very specific intolerant talk from trump. now he comes out and says we'll all be together like never before. those two things don't go together. someone is going to be disappointed. how do you lead? >> i thought he could be this authoritarian strong man and be horrible for the country and i think he can be theodore roosevelt. i know that sounds grandiose. >> what does that mean that he could be theodore roosevelt? >> that could be good or bad, but the other thing is that he is not anidia log and some form of immigration reform and i know that's a conversational thing. >> he was not elected to build a bridge and not elected or tweak a system. they want him to build a wall and drain the swamp and lock up hillary clinton. does he have to deliver on those things? >> build a wall and then maybe have some sort of, we won't call it amnesty but immigration and infrastructure and let bygones be bygones. i think a lot of voters who supported trump knew he was bra

a clinton supporter, scott any hughes a trump supporter, matt lewis, defense attorney alan dershowitzde for unaroused voters." we had been talking about the whole e-mail situation and comey coming out today and talking to the panel. my previous panel about whether this changes the momentum. you believe that it hasn't been a close race, as close as people think it is. is that so? >> 18 months ago it's amazing how we have come full circle like donald trump came out and was running when he came down the escalator. he said we are going to build a wall. the irony is that the wall between donald trump and the white house is built by hispanic voters. one thing we are seeing is an operation. i love the individuals who built the narratives which have been crumbling around us. what we have seen the clinton campaign do from the beginning of voting is get their voters to the polls. they have had 25,000 more african-americans, that's before today. that's before souls to the polls sunday in florida. versus 2012 with barack obama. the way it will break down, she has an obama coalition. it will be sl

. >>> let's start there with cnn political commentator matt lewis and politics editor for theroot.com morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> matt, let's start with you. when you look through some of these kellyanne tweets the word loyalist jumps out at me and betrayal. >> subtle, very, very subtle. >> very subtle. what's happening here? >> well, i think there are two possibilities. one possibility is that she's freelancing. that this is, that this is her doing something that, in itself, is remarkable. and politics there's always been this distinction between who the principals are and who the staffers are. principals are people like presidents and secretaries of state. they are seen at a different level than the staffers. staffers are sort of hired help that are to be seen and not heard. and, so, if kellyanne conway is doing this on her own to sort of advise president-elect trump through the media, that is something that would have been, in years past, frowned upon. you can't imagine dana perino dissing bolton during the george w. bush administration publicly. also the chance t

let's bring in cnn political commentator and senior contributor for "the daily caller," matt lewis, kurtdella, who worked for breitbart news before cutting ties earlier this year. you're all conservatives. you have an interesting perspective, i think, on what's going on with the alt-right. first, let's talk about donald trump's response there, tara. has donald trump denounced racism? >> i would say it's been very tepid. the problem is that, you know, when he was confronted with this early on in his campaign, he didn't really take the opportunity to nip it in the bud unequivocally. >> the david duke stuff, in other words. >> absolutely. he played coy with it. he should have taken a page out of ronald reagan's book where ronald reagan was confronted with this not one but twice, both in 1980 and 1984, where the klan came out and supported him. he said absolutely not. he said he would not, quote, tolerate what the klan stands for. he named them. then in 1984, he wrote a letter to -- you know, about this happening again. he called what they believed repugnant and said there's no place for thi

we want to bring in cnn political commentator and senior contributor to the dollar collar matt lewis.nn's political analyst, washington bureau chief of the daily beast jackie kucinich. cnn anchor of early start and at this hour john berman. matt at the beginning of this morning i said that you yesterday predicted that donald trump would win north carolina and florida, but he predicted hillary clinton would still pull out the presidential win. what are your thoughts this morning? >> first of all, i think that -- that you know look we can talk about the fbi comey story -- >> and do you think that that had a big effect? >> it certainly helped donald trump close much stronger than he ran any other part of this campaign. he was on message. he was on script. and of course the wind was at his back and hillary was on defense. you can talk about the obamacare premiums, you can talk about the russian wikileaks story. i think the real story, though, is that this is an international trend. and i think donald trump maybe the reason what he was seeing is that america lags europe and whatever europe

lewis. we have national political matt biezer. and cnn and daily beast washington bureau chief jackie kucinich. great to have you here. errol, the fbi letter from comey which has been a massive nonevent, right? because he didn't giver any new information. has allowed trump to read into it. so, he's saying, wow, look at what he learned. it's all so terrible, hoping that people don't read that next sentence which is combly didn't say anything. clinton is using it how? >> she's using it to say, the dark divisive, all of those things she said in that big rally that the system is against her, too. 7 up until now, donald trump has owned the sense that the system is rigged and things aren't right. >> and saying it right now, by the way. >> by the way, director comey not so bad all of a sudden. now hillary clinton gets a little bit of that as well. frankly, there has been this resentment that's been building. she hasn't really drawn on it. you mostly see it in fund-raising. but there are other parties out there, they don't like donald tru