nicole wallace and campaign director during the bush 43 campaign, john heilemann. nicole, this dinner has been around longer than any of us and political tradition, as i said earlier, want to see it done right, look up the mccain/obama and romney/obama years. that's how it's supposed to work. not so much tonight. >> not so much. and the success of those nights is that john mccain at least for his part knew he was going to fail, knew he was going to lose. i think it usually falls less than three weeks before election day. and if you know you're going to lose, a lot of people think of it as an opportunity to sort of begin restoring your legacy as the person you were before you ran. so that was the opportunity that john mccain seized. all the jokes were at his own expense. comedy is very difficult, that's why we love the comedians. but the strategy is simple. you make fun of yourself. the jokes are at your own expense. what i heard from sources close to trump is that there are not a lot of funny people at trump's tower. from my point of view, his mission of an epic fai

here's looking at you nicolle wallace. donald trump walking through how he thinks he can get to 270 electoral votes. we've invited steve kornacki to the night shift to walk us through that path to 270. steve. >> donald trump has had a relatively encouraging past couple of days. i want to show you the good news for him the last few days but underscore what a challenge he still faces. t bottom line, hillary clinton is just over 270 in terms of states she's in good shape in. the gray states are the tossup states. one of the problems for trump, some are supposed to be republican readouts like utah, arizona, north carolina, states that went for romney. so the bottom line for trump every state that you see as gray donald trump has to win. he has to win all seven of these states and the congressional district up there in maine. in terms of the good news trump got, you heard him in that clip. today for the first time since the debates took place, we're talking about the past month, here is a poll in florida that puts donald trump

and of course we've got nicole wallace here in the studio. hal halle, over past week, we've seen donald trump saying the election is going to be rigged, even calling for monitoring of voting sites. he's gone after paul ryan on be a nearly daily basis. what do we know about how all those narratives are going to play into his performance tonight? >> i think that's an interesting question, craig. i think they will all somehow get woven into tonight, right, because we have seen donald trump bring all of that up on the campaign trail over last four days. four days in which he has been doing some debate prep. sort of getting in some of that last-minute preparation. but it will likely come up to be honest. i think what's interesting, what's notable, in the last hour, you heard stephanie ruhle talk to kellyanne conway. she said i do not believe there will be widespread voter fraud. so push back on a little of the narrative. saying it's about a rigged system for the media, et cetera. that will almost certainly be a line you will hear from donald trump

wallace. nico nicole, decent people, we averted our eyes at different times during that. what is happening? >> listen, i know we'll get to it later. i think michelle obama delivered the final knockout blow to trump's candidacy today by pointing out that the need for sort of maintaining some decorum, some human decency, some level of discourse where parents aren't afraid to have their children walk by when the news is on, has been lost. i think this has been a long time building, sort of the shackles of partisanship i think have kept too many republicans -- i texted with two republicans who were former primary opponents of donald trump. i said, any regrets tonight as you watch the party implode and collapse upon themselves? they both acknowledged it was really something. >> john? >> to the speech that donald trump gave today in the afternoon, the one innflorida, was one of the more extraordinary things i've heard. >> it was apocalyptic. >> it was manichean. it reminded me of pat buchanan in the early 1990s, when pat buchanan was saying a lot of the same things trump did, he appealed to what

. >> nicole wallace, how high is your fear these days that by delegitimizing whatever the result is in november, there will be a kind of super aggravated core of what i guess is the new banner of the republican party. >> and i think putting the republican party back together again is a far-off fantasy. that will never happen. >> lofty goal. >> and who would lead it to begin with? here's what i think watching that. he's the one that started out and rose to prominence on a couple of ideas that really animated people, talking about -- going and addressing people whose jobs were outsourced, talking about economic despair, understanding that sentiment of economic despair and anxiety was wider than just people who were out of work. i haven't heard him mention any of those ideas. i mean, he's nine points down. so part of this sort of desperation and raging is what happens when people lose. it gives you a greater appreciation for the way john mccain lost. i point people back to the speech he gave that night in arizona when he conceded the election to obama and laid upon him all the power and l

at this point we want to bring in our political analyst, nicole wallace, former 43 white house director. . and journalist, contributor editor, andrew sullivan. welcome very much to the broadcast. there i was two friday nights ago watching your fabulous and boisterous appearance on bill mar. and your words in way reminded me of our friend, nicole. because in all seriousness, you talk about the journey you have been on to become a hillary clinton person. and all that means. i know this is going to be the first vote you cast as an american citizen. can you talk briefly about that journey? >> well, yes. i mean, i was editing the new republic in the ear '90s. covering the clinton white house back in the day. and learning to not like them at all. it is understanding that people don't warm to the clintons. they are very much the establishment. very much after money. very much after power. they've always been that. and there is something i've always found about their willingness to throw principles out the window to be deeply disturbing. there is almost no scenario i can imagine in which i woul

we welcome back nicole wallace and mark mckennen, truly a pleasure to have you back, i'm going to give you an unlikely job posting, ceo of the trump campaign starting tonight or tomorrow morning, what do you do? >> i just heard your wife gasp. [ laughter ] >> well, the notion of filing a lawsuit against "the new york times" is completely misguided because are you filing a lawsuit against every magazine, every newspaper? >> palm beach post? >> that seems completely miss directed. the double down, triple down, all they're saying is we're going to war with everybody, i'm just saying what they're doing, my advice would be to say would have been to say at the debate when i got asked the question by anderson cooper that listen, there's a lot of things i said and i did that i'm not proud of but i ask for forgiveness and i would like to get to -- >> but the problem with that strategy is that he isn't sorry, he isn't chase and he isn't humbled by any of these revelations and i was told as recently before i got here because i don't get here looking like this. >> you and me both. >> his most seni

our panel tonight, our political analyst, nicole wallace, a veteran of the white house and the campaign trail. rob costa. msnbc political analyst and political reporter for the "washington post." and co-managing editor of bloomberg politics, co-host of "with all due respect." john, i'll begin with you because it is your first welcome. >> i'm wondering why it took so long. >> in the mail. you were border line incredulous on your broadcast tonight as to just how bad a week this has been for donald trump. >> yes. we quoted here, from liberal politics.com with a number of republicans saying the same thing. conservatives, moderates saying worst week in a presidential campaign in the history. all the things were bad. we know the bad things. you made a list of badness. but it is particularly bad in the context of, right before the worst week in presidential nominee history, he was in the best place he's been. he's never been ahead. not for one day has he been ahead. in the hours before the debate, he was the closest to being even. just poised to pull even and then went on this spree of largely

nicole wallace, thank you both, thank you both as always. >>> a packed house for hillary clinton tonight. her largest crowd for the campaign thus far. how she is handling her growing lead in the race and the new attacks from donald trump. >> he is an equal opportunity insulter if there ever was one! >>> on the other side of this break, tavis smiley joins us when "the 11th hour" continues. romantic, why pause s to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all youredical conditis and medicine and ask ifour heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary hypertension, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. tovoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or

nicole wallace, veteran republican politics is here with us in the studio. your reaction? >> you know my reaction because i never do this but as this is happening, i lit up all of your phones and i see this as a moment that will have more to do with what i think is a hot war under way right now in the republican party. trump ace his supporters against gop women and trump once talked about imaginary muslims on roofs celebrating. there will be real life republican women celebrating all over this country when this man sanctioned and normalized ma soj knee and a woman he harassed and made the center of the story for the whole 15 months he has been running. this to me is a moment that crystallizes everything wrong with donald trump's campaign. all personal. all nasty. and they go where thank god no republican has ever gone before but if they ever want to win women back they have to change their tune and i hope that republicans will condemn these comments by tomorrow morning. >> some of this of course are old wounds and old anti-clinton warrior speaker of the house newt gingrich

nicolle wallace remains here in the studio with us. i want to welcome mac a national reporter for "the new york times" who covers national politics and social justice issues. welcome. it was something that we heard tonight from donald trump that compels our attention. i'm going to play it. we'll also listen to it and react. >> and we're going to work -- you take a look at what's going on where you have pockets of -- areas of land, where you have the inner cities and you have so many things, so many problems, so many horrible, horrible problems. the violence, the death, the lack of education, no jobs. we're going to work with the african-american community and we're going to solve the problem of the inner city. >> where to begin? >> i think where we begin is this idea that a lot of people feel highly offended by the way this is the way donald trump is appealing to african-americans, the america that he thinks african-americans live in just doesn't really exist for a lot of the people i talk to. i just wrote a story about the fact that a

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. >>> turning now to nicole wallace, you are a veteran of tough campaigns. trump needed a breakthrough night last night. did he harm himself, especially lester. the poll numbers that were up at the end of andrea's piece tell you everything you want to know, if you want to know whether a republican can win a national election. the last time it happened, was 2004. george w. bush did that by narrowing that gender gap. he got the married women, he got the mom vote, something i've been tracking during the general election. and donald trump pushed them much further away. we have to take into account that we don't always hit the the belt way, but calling her a nasty woman, interrupting her the whole time, essentially morphing into the "snl" caricature of himself really sets in as a terrible image for donald trump among the kinds of voters he needs to sway. >> but think about the first 30 minutes of the debate. a much more subdued donald trump, and getting substantive issues, supreme court, very important to voters. >> yeah. >> at that point, did you think he could

nicole wallace has left to -- nicole wallace -- >> doing some reporting. >> yes, she is. ever the gop operative turned working journalist is on the phone with someone and will be, we'll be back with more including this conversation about what if something forces a change in the republican ballot in top of the ticket? bottom of the ticket? the ticket. can you? will you? how would that work? ben ginsburg is the one guy in the country you would want answering that question. we have him. he's among our guests standing by. >>> paula jones is a loser, but the fact is, she may be responsible for bringing down our president and that statement was a bad statement to have been made and it's proven to be false. so -- >> which statement? >> paula jones in the deposition. >> that was donald trump in '98. paula jones, among the women plank flanking him. part of his in quotes debate prep. >> saying at the time that she made, a loser and made false ak sixths against bill clinton, now he's introducing her because that's how he's prepping for the debate by having her attest to why he's a b

let's welcome our guest, former white house communications director and our political analyst nicole wallace with us along with "new york times" reporter michael schmidt. for the sharp eyed, his by line has been all over their developments today. so you get to start us off indoors. anything tonight we should know about? i know there's various reports about what may be thousands of e-mails. >> i was told tonight that there's tens of thousands of e-mails, maybe more than 30,000 e-mails. and the fbi hasn't really had a chance to go through them yet. and they're going to do the same process with these e-mails that they did with the other ones, go through them, are they work related, is there any information, then, that is classified. and that, as we saw, is a pain staking thing that can take a lot of time. this is months, not weeks. >> tonight, walter isaacson was on with lawrence and he called comey just during the a conversation, a boy scout. all the available reporting on the fbi director is that he does not protest that term and welcomes that term. little bit of an "untouchables" situation.

we welcome back nicole wallace and mark mckennen, truly a pleasure to have you back, i'm going to give you an unlikely job posting, ceo of the trump campaign starting tonight or tomorrow morning, what do you do? >> i just heard your wife gasp. [ laughter ] >> well, the notion of filing a lawsuit against "the new york times" is completely misguided because are you filing a lawsuit against every magazine, every newspaper? >> palm beach post? >> that seems completely miss directed. the double down, triple down, all they're saying is we're going to war with everybody, i'm just saying what they're doing,

eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winner, "washington post," nicole wallace, whose wisdom we have put offfor several minutes remains with us. and steve schmidt, a veteran of the mccain/palin effort is with us from new york. good evening, my friend. nicole, to you. first of all, you've got the top of the ticket live tweeting tonight. we assume curated. we assume there are people around him talking about the man whose night it's supposed to be about. how do you approach this evening? and would you be happy if pence were at the top of the ticket? >> watching mrs. pence speak, i was thinking about all the republican hearts breaking from coast to coast that that's not the couple at the top of the ticket. mike pence is so reassuring, he's so, you know, i said he's the yin to trump's yang clang clang this morning. and i think he's going to live tweet is perfect because that's who he is. he didn't cede the moment to pence the morning he announced him. >> before he let pence speak. >> and what struck me about that interview is that i'm sure that's the donald trump that mrs. pence has seen. i'm sur

let's welcome our guest, former white house communications director and our political analyst nicole wallace with us along with "new york times" reporter michael schmidt. for the sharp eyed, his by line has been all over their developments today. so you get to start us off indoors. anything tonight we should know about? i know there's various reports about what may be thousands of e-mails. >> i was told tonight that there's tens of thousands of e-mails, maybe more than 30,000 e-mails. and the fbi hasn't really had a chance to go through them yet. and they're going to do the same process with these e-mails that they did with the other ones, go through them, are they work related, is there any information, then, that is classified. and that, as we saw, is a pain staking thing that can take a lot of time. this is months, not weeks. >> tonight, walter isaacson was on with lawrence and he called comey just during the a conversation, a boy scout. all the available reporting on the fbi director is that he does not protest that term and welcomes that term. little bit of an untouchables situation. as

nicolle wallace, part of the bush administration, had tough words for trump. listen. >> he basically, tonight, laid in the coffin with a hammer and nail and pounded in the lid. lights out in american politics when you say something like that. that single comment will define the rest of the election, all 20 it is a disqualifying comment to say you will not accept the results of the beacon of democracy, the world over. >> wallace said trump had nice moments but the single moments will now define the rest of the race, she says. >>> turning now to hillary clinton's performance, msnbc's chris matthews says clinton was in airplane mode but managed to come out ahead of trump because she focused on key voters. hillary won the following reason. the real battle ground are women in the suburbs who tend to vote republican because of the tax bracket largely, not for big city issues, not on public education. she talked about guns and gun control to protect toddlers, she talked about her work with children and families, ever since wright adelman. she was talking about aborti

>> good morning, it's nicole wallace.are surprised that with people like yourself and former secretary bob gates and i think there were 50 former bush officials in the national security apparatus who have endorsed secretary clinton that she hasn't opened up a bigger lead against donald trump, particularly on this question of national security. i know she has an advantage, but are you surprised her lead isn't larger on the question of national security and foreign policy? >> nicole, i'm not a political pundant. i don't know how arguments translate into leads or how accurate polling is. what i do know is that for people who really care about security, we're at a time when there's a lot of risk out there. it's not just terrorism, it's a very aggressive russia, it's a more aggressive china. what you need is the ability to make steady, good judgments. i think when people go in the voting booth and they reflect upon temperament and upon what people have said about our friends and what they've said about our adversaries, it's cl

here we are this morning, michael steele, nicolle wallace, steve schmidt saying this is disqualifying. if you're paul ryan, what do you do here? >> if you're paul ryan, you had the opportunity to walk away and the opportunity to walk away very publicly. he's facing a very difficult choice every single day. no question that donald trump is becoming a bigger drag, not only on senate races but as we look at the makeup of the house, and even if republicans maintain the house, when they're likely to do, he'll go to be dealing with a much thinner margin and a party that may revolt against his speakership as well. he has got to come out and make more forceful statements about this kind of rhetoric. i want to make an important point. yes, this will be all the headlines about suspense until the election, but let it not overshadow the comments he made. calling the women who made sexualed van eed advanced to hig they were out for fame. those are likely to get overshadowed. a duoubling down of the metdric that made women leave his campaign in droves and with him showing no sign of making any sort

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. >> nicole wallace, you worked for some presidents before. what did you think? >> i saw this the way lawrence and chris matthews saw it, than steve schmidt and mike murphy. i couldn't pick a note, really, because it was impossible for them to talk long enough to take a note. when you're six points up, which is where hillary clinton stands today, i don't think you go out there and act as annoying as tim kaine did. if you're just tuning into the debate you're not following the twists and turn the way we all had. you saw two men, one acting much more like a statesman than the other. i thought pence's presence was far superior to kaine. and kaine went in there, not just a little ahead. she is six points ahead tonight. he had an opportunity to do better tonight. people will find him scrappy. they're fighting over i'm, all 11 of them on the fence. i don't think kaine helped the clinton ticket. i don't think anybody will talk about this. i doubt you will talk about it tomorrow night at 11:00. but in terms of what we just watched 90 minutes of, pence was a statesman. an

nicole wallace once communications chief for president obama george w. bush called it the most perfect political speech i have seen in my career. >> hillary clinton is headed to seattle today after she stopped in san francisco to raise money at the bill graham auditorium and went to her campaign office yesterday. she had this to say about donald trump. >> there's hardly any part of america that he has not targeted. now, it makes you want to turn off the news. it makes you want to unplug the internet. or just look at cat gifs. [ laughter ] >> the third and final presidential debate is wednesday night and you can watch it live here on kpix 5. it starts at 6:00. >>> time now 4:40. a coyote scare after a little boy is attached. fish & game agents are doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen again. a new raiders stadium in las vegas. we're told there were last minute negotations.. so they plan t meanwhile, there >>> nevada lawmakers talked about a new raiders stadium in las vegas. there were some last-minute negotiations so they will meet agai

. >>> turning now to nicole wallace, you are a veteran of tough campaigns. trump needed a breakthrough night last night. did he harm himself, especially with women, though? >> oh, just a little, lester. the poll numbers that were up at the end of andrea's piece you everything you want to know, if you want to know whether a republican can win a national election. the last time it happened, was 2004. george w. bush did that by narrowing that gender gap. he got the married women, he got the mom vote, something i've been tracking during the general election. and donald trump pushed them much further away. we have to take into account that we don't always hit the mark in terms of understanding what resonates beyond the belt way, but calling her a nasty woman, interrupting her the whole time,

. >> nicolle wallace has rejoined us. nicole, i keep saying it. first major party presidential candidate to say prior to the election that the results are rigged. and tonight to repeat that, he will judge it in realtime, wants to stay in suspense. >> it swamps everything else. and, you know, he basically tonight laid in his own coffin with a hammer and a nail and pounded in the lid. lights out in american politics when you say something like that. the tragedy for his base of support, and his base of support likes him very much. and there were a lot of things that they will like about tonight's performances. he got in some comments about the supreme court, about the kind of judges that he would pick which when i was in ohio talking to undecided voters and pro-life women of faith who care about that stuff, that's the single issue they're voting on. so he had some nice moments. a for him, this performance represented real growth from his first debate. so his coaches have done a decent job with him. they just didn't have much to work with. and that si

i'm here with savannah guthrie, tom brokaw, chuck todd, and nicolle wallace joins us now. nbc political analyst. good to have you both here. your first thoughts? >> you know, i thought it was very interesting. i mean, kaine is probably going to get dinged for interrupting and seeming overeager at points during the debate. he did land quite a few punches against pence, but i think the question will be whether or not with people really heard those zingers. then you have pence who did an enabled job of talking about what's wrong with the hillary clinton ticket, but when asked at a point-by-point level to kind of defend some of the things that donald trump said, he didn't do that. so i think this may just go down in the long and storied history of v.p. debates that don't move the needle all that much when it's all said and done. >> chuck? >> if this were two professional prepped. this was as normal of a debate as you could expect to see if we had a convention -- if you had conventional candidates at the top of the ticket. mike pence did mike pence a lot of good tonight. probab