former obama campaign manager jim messina.abinet palm it is a big round number we like to talk about even though the dow is price weighted, not market cap. it is dow 30,000 for the first time ever. mean record highs we continue to see on the s&p 500 and the russell 2000 also fresh record highs. ons is "balance of power" bloomberg tv and radio. ♪ kevin: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. i am kevin cirilli in washington, d.c. taylor: i am taylor riggs in new york. time for our stock of the hour. we do a deep dive into individual stocks like marijuana stocks also spiking after the dsa approved a transition to a -- after the gsa approved of a transition to the biden government. emme chandra with a look at what is next. emma: we are seeing double digit pops up some of the biggest and best-known names. the likes of tilray, sundial, aurora. as we bring up the chart, that will show the industry as a whole benefiting from this investor enthusiasm. we should show you mj, the biggest pot etf, daily moves are u

. >>> and joining me now, jim messina, former white house deputy chief of staff for operations underresident obama, and michael steele, former rnc chair and senior adviser for the lincoln project. michael, what's going on with the republican party down there? >> it's a desperate play, because georgia, you know, has shown a little bit of blue in this presidential election. the fact that you now have two senate seats, hotly contested senate seats hanging in the balance for the gop and for the democrats, it will be all hands on deck. but the reality of it is, the republicans could run the risk of overplaying their hand here. these outside influences, influencers, like a lindsey graham and others, mechanisms o georgia. it's one thing to go try turn out your base for your candidates. it's another to call the secretary of state and make the types of inquiries that lindsey has made. and i'm sure the secretary of state is not going to go on national television and lie on a united states senator. so the conversation was probably accurately reflected by the secretary of state, at least as he h

messina.house chief of staff to president obama, and ran his 2012 reelection campaign. also with us, pulitzer prize winning jim robertson. good to see you this morning. >> i want to start with something i said off the top of the show. joe biden has won over 306 electoral votes, going to end up winning by over 6 million votes in the popular vote overall, but he's having the discussion last night with a friend, and we were talking about how close this race was, how surprisingly close it still was after four years of behavior that i considered abhorrent from donald trump, and i think a lot of americans did. but you know, we have been telling ourselves for four years, i have been telling myself at least, that you know, maybe putin interfered in the election as far as wikileaks goes, and maybe that impacted some people. the comey letter made the big difference. hillary clinton didn't go into wisconsin, if only she had gone into wisconsin, and more. if only she had run a better campaign, and it ende

with them and for possible it's just this is my home, the ease in river valley and nor in all my messina. but i think for both our sakes i'll move my camera back up. so i log on to the old barn, the motorway suitable pass right through the eastern valley. it's hard to believe i'm going to go all that tire dust, brake, dust and dirt will get washed into the easing river and the tributaries whenever there's heavy rain. the easing of the plane pressure can often strain. we still have stone crayfish, bald head trout, you only see here with red spots. the last push for vanished with the motorway in one small straw city and the high profile fast looks like we'll have to be careful today with the snake. he says if it strikes we are in a tricky situation. because the gaboon find there is one of the most venomous snakes there is going to become american 1st, and the spirits of it's hard to imagine. the snake will be just half a metre away without a pane of glass between us knows it's venomous. and if you step on it, it's your own fault. if you start passing out, you know, it's over. so, all we do

the 19th msnbc contributor erin haines and ceo of the messina group jim messina served as white housef of staff to president obama and ran his 2012 re-election campaign. a.p.'s jonathan lemire still with us as well. talking a allegations of election fraud. election officials in states across the country report to the "new york times," no evidence of widespread voter fraud. the "times" reached out to top election officials in every state to ask whether they suspected or had evidence of illegal voting. heard back from 45 states and none -- none -- reported any major voting issues. four other states where they didn't hear back from the top official, the paper spoke with other statewide officials or found public comments from secretaries of state. it found none of those reported any major voting issues. that's all 50 states. meanwhile, according to the "wall street journal," a team of international observers invited by the trump administration issued a preliminary report that praised state and local officials for efforts to facilitate voting during the pandemic and found no evidence of th

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transitions, the top obama transition official and former chief of staff to president obama, jim messinasee you, jim. you may be biased on this one, i will say that straight out, but what is biden getting at when he so quickly says this is not going to be a third term of obama? because from your perspective, would that be a bad thing? >> look, i think it's true, the world changed because of the pandemic. we walk into a situation where we're going to have to reinvent health care delivery, the economy changed in ways we're now just starting to grapple with. and we have world leaders on the world stage that has drastically changed in the fough years since the vice president left office. so i think he's honest and right that everything changed and he's building a team to confront those challenges, not the challenges we walked into in 2008. >> what does it get to though? obviously even lester holt said, speak to people who think this is going to be a third term for barack obama. what biden is getting at is something even deeper than that? >> what he's getting at is what he wants to do and, an

jim messina is the former campaign manager for president obama. stewart stevens, a former chief strategist for mitt romney's presidential campaign. gentlemen, good evening. still we're talking about chaos and very well could be some. so let's discuss. so jim, joe biden was elected president. the people have spoken. it's very much -- looks like tonight there is a coordinated plan afoot to deny the will of the american voters. what's going on? >> first of all, what's going on is ridiculous. and you have a few people at the very top including the attorney general of the united states -- this is beyond watergate. the attorney general attempting to use the power of his office to go after not unsubstantiated claims, there literally aren't claims. there aren't legitimate claims about anything here. and we're talking about not close elections either. as you know, right now joe biden leads in the big three states of the midwest by almost three times what donald trump won by. you're not going to find any sort of voting pattern that would allow you to overtu

also with us, ceo of the messina group, jim messina.e deputy chief of staff to president obama and ran his 2012 re-election campaign. good to have you both. jonathan capehart, president obama's touching on something that we've been talking about a lot on the show over the past few days. it's disinformation. it's truth decay. it's churning up lies to the point where you have growing numbers of people from all walks of life believing them that is leaving scars or creating more damage to this country than i think it's -- that's the sort of untenable part of this phase of donald trump's loss. he lost most know, but this effort to debunk his loss, i don't think there's an understanding across the board as to how damaging that can be. did the president address that? >> yeah, so i asked the president about what was happening in michigan to get his reaction to the fact that there are people out there who are using the word coup to describe the actions being taken by the president, rudy giuliani, and republicans there in michigan, and i asked hi