including our interview with jen palmieri from the clinton campaign. before we get to that, we need to start tonight with some news that we alone can break right now, right here. kurt ikenwald has struck again. we're reporting this exclusively. this is going to be out tomorrow but we've got an advanced peek and what newsweek is about to publish. this is not an nbc or msnbc work product. what i can show you tonight is what "newsweek" is going to break what they are going to break as of tomorrow morning. do we have a picture of the cover that we can put up there? yes. you can see that better. this is the cover. it's going to press tonight and the cover of "newsweek" tomorrow morning. it says "how trump's business ties have put america in a mind." now, kirk eichenwald is a veteran investigative report and has done work on business scandals, including enron. and with that skill set as a reporter, he has gone hammer and tongs as the intersection of the president-elect as a politician and what the president-elect is dragging into the political field from his

joining me is jen palmieri, clinton's communications director.appy to be here. you guys did outraise and outspend trump 2 to 1. how could you have taken better advantage of your cash? >> there is a -- there's so many -- you know, when you lose three states by less than 70,000 votes, you do spend a lot of time thinking about what you could have done differently that would have made that difference and when there's only 70 votes, there are a lot of things that we could have done that made a lot of difference. michigan, 10,000 votes. wisconsin, 20. so, you know, we made the best decisions that we could based on the data that we had at the time about where we needed to be and, you know, and then we got the result that we did. and it was not that we expected. i'll tell you what we found on election night was basically all the battleground states, we ended up being anywhere from five to two points lower than what we had predicted and in some states, like virginia and colorado, that was okay because our cushion was bigger than that. florida, north carol

i want to share jim palmieri, a washington post op-ed saying this. a reminder of what we might have had, had it been a hillary clinton president-elect period. >> i know how to be a gracious loser, it is time for president-elect to acknowledge how his campaign empowered right supremacist. >> i am so disappointed in that. lou: can we get away from the ignorancof the left. its irrelevan irrelevant. we have escaped through the presidency of donald trump. should we not express our gratitude daily? >> i tell you, i read that with much amusement, jen palmieri has been part of political establishment in washington that has turned politics to a racialized thing like we've never seen before. they used demographic, they slice and dice the electorate into race, they peddle messages to different races, this is the most ununifying thing. democrats far worse about it than republicans are, for her to have lost with that same racialized game, then turn around and say this guy empowered white supremacist, just go, go away, you lost. lou: kellyanne conway told her that

i want to share jim palmieri, a washington post op-ed saying this. a reminder of what we might have had, had it been a hillary clinton president-elect period. >> i know how to be a gracious loser, it is time for president-elect to acknowledge how his campaign empowered right supremacist. >> i am so disappointed in that. lou: can we get away from the ignorance of the left. its irrelevan irrelevant. we have escaped through the presidency of donald trump. should we not express our gratitude daily? >> i tell you, i read that with much amusement, jen palmieri has been part of political establishment in washington that has turned politics to a racialized thing like we've never seen before. they used demographic, they slice and dice the electorate into race, they peddle messages to different races, this is the most ununifying thing. democrats far worse about it than republicans are, for her to have lost with that same racialized game, then turn around and say this guy empowered white supremacist, just go, go away, you lost. lou: kellyanne conway told her th

jennifer palmieri wanted to step up and point to it and name it. that's what she did. >> beth fouhy, jonathan allen, always great of to you. thank you very much for being here. >> take care. >>> happening now, a winter storm blamed for at least one death is dumping up to 19 inches of snow in upstate new york. and forecasters expect conditions to worsen next week across much of the northern half of the country. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in erie, pennsylvania, where a weather warning is in effect. good morning. what is it like out there? >> reporter: hey, good morning. well, we're actually in a little break from the snow right here. but driving in this morning, it was really coming down. a lot of the roads not plowed. i hear that right here interstate 90 traffic only going about five miles per hour. coupled with the cold temperatures, it could be a rough weekend ahead for millions. bitter cold is the story this morning with much of the country seeing temperatures well below average. >> it's like alaska. >> reporter: even bringing a rare snow event to

palmieri says: "i would rather lose than palmieri says: "yes conway says: "no you wouldn't / palmieri says: "it did kellyanne it did." blanchard on-cam tag says: "although the election is over, the vote counting continues, as the green party candidate forcing a recount in wisconsin, underway right now and she is still fighting for one in michigan, despite push back from the trump campaign and news this morning that the state's attorney general is moving to block the recount. in washington, lauren blanchard, fox news." meanwhile-- new york city is fining anthony weiner 65-thousand dollars. the city's campaign finance money to cover a personal phone and dry cleaning, among other infractions during his run for mayor in 20-13. a spokeswoman for the weiner for mayor campaign declined to comment on the fines. weiner finished fifth in the race for mayor, after a second lewd-texting scandal surfaced. he resigned from congress in 20-11 after his first sexting scandal. looking across america... a former n-f-l player has been police say joe mcknight died in an apparent road rage incident. witnes

and jen palmieri saying, yes, yes, i do.i think that, you know, the bitterness that was on display throughout this election and the cultural divide that was underscored in this country was very much on display in the room. you had trump aides who basically wanted to come in and celebrate. they frankly weren't recognized for what they were doing. >> let's listen to a little of what you heard. let's play some of this. >> do you think you could have just had a decent message for the white working class voters? how about it's hillary clinton? she doesn't connect with people. how about they have nothing in common with her? >> let's also be honest. don't act as if you have some popular mandate for your message. >> i can tell you're angry, but wow. #he'syourpresident. >> lisa, what's your takeaway from this? it was supposed to be a discussion. i don't even know why we thought they would get together and have a civil conversation given the campaign we had, but what do you take from this? >> it's important to talk about what this for

what happened last night in montreal...the canadiens' carey price in net, when new jersey's kyle palmieri goes full force towards price and takes him out by the legs.the gets up unharmed but plenty mad...and starts raining fists on palmieri while he's still face-down on the ice.the canadiens had the last laugh, beating the devils, 5-2. yesterday was cloudy, windy and cold with highs in the 20, winds gusting to 30 mph, wind chills in the single here! the wind diminished overnight, but with lows in the teens, wind chills remain in the single digits. we get to enjoy more sunshine today under a partly cloudy it will be breezy and cold with highs in the low 20s, and a brisk wind to 15 mph. tonight is mostly cloudy and cold with lows in the teens mostly cloudy and quiet for most of the day with highs in the mid 20s and a light wind, but snow showers move in after 4pm saturday, and become heavier and widespread saturday 2-3" of snow by saturday morning, and the snow continues into sunday evening with an additional 2-4" of accumulation by 7pm. highs wind. light snow continues into monday morning,

history will analyze everything jennifer palmieri did wrong, what they missed. candidate hillary clinton was. what sycophants she had surrounding her. she is having a hard time. i said earlier in the week on the couch, these people will not get hired to do anything interesting again in politics. final nail in the coffin. sandra: i remember that. meghan: big, big upset having donald trump win. all that being said, i think they're acting incredibly unprofessionally. they're acting like very poor losers, sore losers, if you want to reach out to the demographic donald trump earned this is the fairs way not to do it. >> meghan reminded me of something. practical reason not to be sore losers. they need jobs. they need democrats to hire them to run other campaigns. harris: meghan alludes to a good point. it isn't so much donald trump won, the fact that the best of their party lost and they shut out a portion of a big voice in their party, a la bernie sanders. they have real problems. they have got a fire inside of the house. so they have got some real problems to solve

bring kellyanne back, jen palmieri. >> maybe we won't have anymore tweets next three months that would very likely. connell, take it away. connell: something completely different, something completely to watch this weekend. the world will be watching italy. they have a big vote on major political referendum, could be the next big thing, "brexit," trump, italy. voters will decide whether to amend their constitution, give the government more power and the prime minister, matteo renzi, has pledged to resign if the referendum is voted down. speaking of "brexit," former uk independence party leader, nigel farage, who spearheaded separation from britain in the european union, he says the eu is dying before our eyes and this vote could send shockwaves through the global economy much like the exit in britain did. >> if he loses his position as prime minister is tenuous. he will probably have to form a emergency administration and the four big italian banks are basically on the edge of bankruptcy. connell: all right. so there you go. that is something, this weekend, italy, big vote. by sunday n

>> ask jennifer palmieri that? she's writing an "the washingto had a scathing piece about me, which led to some death threats today, which will be on their doorstep. this campaign ran a race that reached into those working class voters. they were the base of our support. we also managed what could have been bigger deficits among women, since we were running against the first female president. we figured out a way to reach women in our messaging, otherwise, how in the world do you explain hillary clinton only getting about 55 to 56% among women and not 60 to 65%, chris, where she would have won. we ran the abtables among union households and rural voters. we did much better with white women, in which hillary clinton is in that demographic, than people expected. 53% of them. we managed our -- we managed to win voters over the age of 55, able. 55 to 64, 65 plus. you can't take that away from us. we busted the blue wall in states like michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. and for them to pretend it was because of this iss

but secondly, what palmieri was saying, lots of democrats and the clinton people, they cannot handlehis defeat it was a sweeping defeat with trump and then all over the states and they cannot accept it. they cannot handle it. so their response is not saying we have to study this, we are going to get our democratic party together and we'll be ready in 2018 with a better campaign. they are making demands and accusations about trump and other republicans. lou: it's pitiful. entire left in this country is pathetic. they will carry out a campaign against the not only the trump administration and presidency, but the entire -- against america. they will not be satisfied until this is no longer a constitutional republic. and i say simply to them, to hell with you. if you want to battle, you have got a battle. i will tell you the truth. in kellyanne conway and the rest of the administration, they have chosen off far more than they can contend with. >> absolutely. these democrats and the clinton people think some cosmic injustice has happened. lou: i don't care how the little darlings feel. i

(sot jenn palmieri) "it did, kellyanne. it did." (sot kellyanne conway) "how about, it's hillary clinton, she doesn't connect with people?" in cincinnati...the crowd was mostly silent as mister trump addressed lingering divisions...(sot trump) we condemn bigotry and prejudice in all of its forms. // we're going to come together, we have no choice."-nats-...but became fired up when he unveiled yet another cabinet pick -- retired general james mattis:(sot trump 20:16.13) we are going to mattis as our secretary of defense.in the past...mattis has said that responding to 'political islam' is a major security issue facing the country.he's expected to face a tough challenge in getting senate confirmationsince he retired only three years ago...not seven...as the law requires.roxana saberi cbs news. during the ohio rally, the president-elect pledged, once traveled to indiana...to officially announce a deal he helped reach this week -- that will keep hundreds carrier air conditioning jobs from moving to the country. 3 supporters of the stand

in just a couple of minutes, we're going to have the first interview since the election with jen palmieriplayer in that campaign, very close to the candidate herself. i should tell you that jen palmieri worked herself so hard during the campaign, she ended up in the hospital with exhaustion. it is just over one month since the election happened.

jennifer palmieri was there firing her bigot pistol.er eight years, he ran out of bigot bullets. >> sometimes people stay mad, i have somebody mad at me right now that should get over it. but you can't always control that. >> by the way, when you're using the bigot pistol and the ones you want to vote for you are the ones you're shooting, you're insulting half the country. >> the strange thing about it, the reason she lost ultimately is people did not trust her. they did not believe what she was saying and she never attempted to address that. >> exactly! >> a self-inflicted wound. it was the most thing i've ever seen. an act of political suicide, because no one could say to her, ma'am, people don't trust you. >> on that note, why one pretentious fashion designer go, go! [ rock music playing ] have fun with your replaced windows. run away! [ grunts ] leave him! leave him! [ music continues ] brick and mortar, what?! [ music continues ] [ tires screech ] [ laughs ] [ doorbell rings ] when you bundle home and auto insurance with progressiv

palmieri suggesting that the trump campaign was based on a platform of white supremacy. when things were a bit more calm when conway appeared with robby mook a short time later, that didn't stop either one from continuing their attacks. >> i think there's a lot of things we need to exam coming out of this. congress has got to investigate what happened with russia. we cannot have foreign aggressors intervening with the electio election. >> i think the biggest piece of fake news in this election was that donald trump couldn't win. >> the federalist, david wall joins us in a moment. first to trace gallagher with m more. it got heated. >> they've all been civil until now. in fact the moderator at harvard kept reminding the dam pain this was meant to be a first draft of history for generations to come. future generations will now how bitter this campaign was. one of the most contentious back and forth came when clinton communications director jen palmieri con deemed steve bannon for providing a platform for white supremacy. >> you think i ran a campaign where white supremacis

well, said palmieri, jane was wearing pajamas when police arrived. the laundry room they found her jeans rolled up in a towel tucked between the washer and dryer. her top was lying there as well, inside out. it looked like they had been removed quickly, stashed away. when an officer tried to administer a gunshot residue kit to jane's hands, standard procedure in a shooting investigation -- >> when the officer doing the test began getting the test ready, she did go into the bathroom and either wash her hands or wipe her hands on a towel, one of the two, before coming back to the table and before the test was done. >> so odd things. anyway, police scoured the place, didn't see any murder weapon lying around. and they were about ready to take dave's body off to the morgue when some instinct told the lead detective to look here. he cracked open the doors of the grandfather clock in the dining room, looked down inside, and there it was. >> this is more than likely the murder weapon. >> a ruger six-shot revolver. surely no prowler would have dropped a weap

>> that was kellyanne conway and clinton communications director jennifer palmieri displaying lingeringelection. joe watkins, strapt jist and former aide to president george h.w. bush, and rick tyler, political analyst and former spokesman for ted cruz. great to have you with us. how unprecedented is this public fight especially after an election? >> it was kind of a shame, not very graceful. the problem with palmieri's argument, the reason it doesn't work is, a, you'd have to believe there were enough white supremacists to swing the election. b, you would have to believe that those white supremacists used to vote for democrats in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, and ohio. particularly eastern ohio. so it was her argument really that white supremacists used to vote for democrats and now vote for republicans? there's no basis to the argument. it came up a lot during the campaign. now everybody wants donald trump to somehow distance himself. that reminds me of when richard nixon said, you know, the people deserve to know if their president's ape crook. i'm not a crook. and every politic

to jennifer palmieri's point, look, they have a point that the trump campaign was veridy visive and i think some of the responses that were reported out by kellyanne conway for instance in that same forum that democrats didn't do a great job of messaging also is a point. you could go back and forth on this endlessly. democrats feed a shake-up. whatever they're saying now they need to move forward and think about 2018, 2020. >> time to move on. >> yeah. >> well, beyond. >> do you think the clinton campaign is still in denial? >> yes, definitely in denial. if you read about what happened there, they're totally in denial. because that's a piece of it what jennifer palmieri is talking about, but the much bigger problems as much as i think dras would like to make themselves feel better and say the only reason he won was because of racism, it's just not true. a lot of these voters not a lot but a certain number of voters voted for hillary before. you have union people. so democrats have to look at this and say what happened, how did we used to dominate in these states? how did they used to

>> just note that very last quote that was attributed to jennifer palmieri was said by karen finney. at that point -- very hard to figure out who's talking in those conversations but that was a quote by karen finney, not jennifer palmieri talking about hashtag i don't want a president who doesn't reach out to different groups. i've gone to this forum before and it's not that it's so friendly usually because these are partisans but it's pretty civil and respectful and this was fierce. this was much like the campaign that we've just seen, it was bitter and divided and you get the feeling that it's not over yet. >> what to you -- and then i want to move on to folks who see things differently, though -- what to you was the most, i don't know if it's inflammatory, rude or just but if you hadding thing you heard in all of that. >> well, they have totally different perspectives, i think, on why -- what happened in this campaign. in some ways they have the same perspecti perspective. both agreed it was a change election and that was a big force but the reasons for trump's rise, the reasons f

to jennifer palmieri's point, look, they have a point that the trump campaign was very divisive and i think some of the responses that were reported out by kellyanne conway for instance in that same forum that democrats didn't do a great job of messaging also is a point. you could go back and forth on this endlessly. democrats need a shakeup. whatever they're saying now they need to move forward and think about 2018, 2020. >> time to move on. >> yeah. >> well, beyond. >> do you think the clinton campaign is still in denial? >> yes, definitely in denial. if you read about what happened there, they're totally in denial. because that's a piece of it what jennifer palmieri is talking about, but the much bigger problems as much as i think dremts cou-- democrats wo like to make themselves feel better and say the only reason he won was because of racism, it's just not true. a lot of these voters not a lot but a certain number of voters voted for hillary before. you have union people. so democrats have to look at this and say what happened, how did we used to dominate in these states? how did

martha: difficult for general palmieri it was a white sue prem civil movement, allowing them to havelatform. a lot of people voted for donald trump would fine that offensive. we'll dig into this. bill: there is a lot. this went on for quite a bit. we'll play that for you. much more on that. clinton pollster joel benson, clashing with conway, arguing whether the president-elect trump will take the oval office with a clear mandate from the american people. that heated exchange a bit later followed by a fair and balanced debate on it. we'll take it on do. martha: who will emerge as the new secretary of state? now that we have a secretary of defense, this question has returned to the forefront. they say it is down to four or maybe five candidates for that job. former white house chief of staff andy card, will be here to shed some light on all of that. plus there is this. >> he says, i'm going to negotiate a better deal. how, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? what magic wand do you have. bill: remember that are those words coming back to haunt the president. soon to be successo

kel kellyanne attended and had this exchange with jennifer palmieri. >> i would rather lose than win the way you guys did. >> no you wouldn't. that's clear to me. now you wouldn't respectfully. do you think i ran a campaign where white supremacists had a flat form in. >> you did. >> you think this woman who has nothing in common with -- >> i'm not saying that's whou how you won -- >> how about it's hillary clinton. she doesn't connect with people. how about they have nothing in common with her. >> wow. pretty unbelievable. pretty pathetic. now the clinton campaign, they're still trying to play the race card. now her failed campaign, they refused to admit that their candidate hillary was a terrible candidate with no vision. instead they're throwing out insults and wasting their time with this ridiculous so-called recount event. the abusively biassed press, well they're now sinking to a disturbing new low. yesterday before president-elect trump's announcement of carrier, the website ftb live obtained a va of a cnn producer joking about donald trump's plane crashing. really? take a look

jennifer palmieri also wrote an editorial this morning and she basically said look, i know how to lose do so at the harvard forum a week or so ago, she chose not to do that because she felt it was important not to do it to her. so she is continuing to follow up on that. today she published this in "the washington post." i don't know whether the trump campaign needed to give a platform to white supremacists to win, she writes, but the campaign clearly did, it had effects of empowering white nationalist movement. trump provide ad platform retweeting white nationalists giving their fuse an audience of millions. now what are your thoughts on this? you look at some of these things passed along, retweeted, dangerous or not? >> i think she's wrong. we live in a world of social media where things get retweeted all the time and white supremacist, white national its truly a marginal group in american life, because of the media -- martha: you wouldn't think so given a lot of discussion going on out there. the most prominent fake tore of electorate. >> that is because a lot of mainstream media mad

and that is why i asked jen palmieri, communications director for hillary clinton, if she would look me in the eye and tell me i ran a campaign that would allow that. >> she had yes, she would. >> well, and that is unfortunate. i took that personally and i know it's not true, gayle. element of that awful movement. he's never met these people. he doesn't ask for their endorsement. he denounced on-the-record interview with "the new york times" last week. i think some people are stuck in the permanent campaign and ought to realize that donald trump won 306 electoral states and counties that president obama carried are in the donald trump column. it tells you people across the america were attracted to message and his message of growth and job creation and patriotism and better trade deals. what happened just yesterday? that's what presidents do just yesterday. president-elect trump and vice president-elect preence wednesd to indianapolis and announced carrier would keep a thousand jobs in indianapolis that were thought to go to mexico. leaders make good on their promises and keep americ

. >> jennifer palmieri and kellyanne conway tangling over steve bannon. >> if they bury -- very important moment in our history of our country and i think as his presidency goes forward, i'm glad to have been part of the campaign -- >> do you think i ran a campaign where white supremacy had a -- >> you did. >> do you think you have a message for the white working class voters? this woman who has nothing in common -- >> a post mortgage 'em on -- erupted in this series of extraordinary exchanges. at the institute of politics at harvard university's kennedy school of government. the advisers looked one another squarely in the eye across a table as they argued about clinton winning the popular vote and trump the electoral college. >> it's hard to say we lost popular votes. >> there was nothing that said the road to popular vote anywhere -- >> kelly anne, i started, i premised my statement by saying that. >> we won seriously. why is there no mandate? you've lost 60 congressional seats since president obama got there. you've lost more than a dozen senators and governors. 1,000 state -- you re-e

it was at that point that jennifer palmieri decided to make her argument about the elephant in the room until then it was a civil discussion but one thing to keep in mind. it may look like emotions were running out of control. that's partially true but the clinton campaign team came in there with a purpose of trying to be the last time to defend hillary clinton. this is viewed as a first draft of history, i've gone to the last five of these since the bush v. gore one in 2000. i can tell you this was much more heated than even that one was but the clinton team was trying to get on the record for one last time some things that they wanted to clear the air on but, look, trump won, they lost, onward we go. >> okay. jeff weaver, we kept hearing kellyanne conway say "why can't you acknowledge she was just a bad candidate?" what do you think? >> well, obviously i work for bernie sanders in the primary and thought he would have been the better candidate against donald trump and history i think shows that that was the case. on the other hand i have to say the trump people came in there with a lo

in just a couple of minutes, we're going to have the first interview since the election with jen palmieri. she was a senior player, key player in that campaign, very close to the candidate herself. i should tell you that jen palmieri worked herself so hard during the campaign, she ended up in the hospital with exhaustion. it

that's why i asked jen palmieri, communications director for hillary clinton, if she would look me in the eye and tell me i ran a campaign that allowed that. >> i get there are very raw feelings, but the clinton folks and media need to come to terms with donald trump's victory. why is donald trump going after a major network anchor? that and more when "media buzz" returns in a moment. >>> why was the newly elected president of the united states going after abc's martha raddatz. we talked about the cincinnati rally earlier in the show. here's donald trump. >> how about when a major anchor who hosted a debate started crying when she realized that we won. how about it? tears. no, tell me this isn't true. >> well, here's the context, and we'll show it to you. it was late on election night, and martha raddatz, abc correspondent and anchor who spent a lot of time in war zones with the military was quoting tim kaine saying his own son was serving in the military and he wouldn't trust donald trump as commander in chief. and then she added this, so let's play it for the viewers. >> that's a pr

exchange with the clinton campaign's communication director, the one and only ever so kind jennifer palmieriwatch this. >> that's right. no, you wouldn't, respectfully. >> do you think i ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? >> it did, kellyanne, it did. >> do you think you could have had a decent message for the white working class voters? do you think this woman who has nothing in common with -- >> i'm not saying -- >> with anybody you want -- we flipped over 200 counties. how about hillary clinton doesn't connect with me, they have nothing in common with her. >> pretty unbelievable and pathetic. the clinton campaign still trying to play the race card. they refuse to admit their candidate hillary was a terrible candidate with no vision. instead they are throwing out insults and wasting their time with the ridiculous so-called recount attempt. while the sore losers continue with their collective hissy fit, the abusive biassed press are seeking to a duss tubbing new low. yesterday before president-elect trump's announcement of carrier, fte live obama tanld a video of a cnn

with us now to look at trump's tariff threats, i.n.n ron insan tara palmieri. ron, doable? don't think it's repeatable on a grand scale. you can't go company by company and try to do this. there's also questions of legality of imposing that 35% tariff on the reimportation of american goods. and we're signator to the world trade organization rules as well and they might be challenged there by companies in our own country. it does represent a number of hurdles that may be difficult to repeat. >> tara, your thought? >> he's right. it would likely violate some competition rules as well. obviously, just favoring some companies. even more so, if we see president-elect trumpl and as president targeting individual companies on his twitter account or just during his speeches, you know, this could lead to just consumer backlash against these companies. he could actually orchestrate boycotts against countries that he thinks are not kowtowing to his pressure. you know, his approval ratings are pretty high right now and he does really touch to the voice of many people in this country, s

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jennifer palmieri writing op set in the "washington post," our campaign lost the election but trump'sst own up how he won. trump advisor kellyanne conway says it is time for democrats to stop the blame game. here is bruce turkel, turkel brands. we have a lot of things and marketing you had to whip into shape. we had to pick up the hotline to get our own bruce turkel. we start with the democrats. this is typical thing happens after a party get vanquished. it happened both times many, many times. was it way we communicated the messenger, how we got it out or is it core ideas behind it. what do you think is going on with the democratic party? >> i would give them the same advice i give my commercial clients, which is, you can spend all the time in the world debating that if you think it matters, or you can decide that you want to do what is going to sell product or in this create create electability. it doesn't matter, melissa. what matters is figuring out how to get into power. blame games are foolish. backtrack, quarterbacking is foolish. how do we move forward if we want to win? that

trump campaign manager kellyanne conway clashing with clinton communications director jennifer palmieri. who accused team trump of appealing to racists. >> if providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician i'm glad to have lost. i would rather lose than win the way you guys did. >> no, you wouldn't. >> yes. >> no, you wouldn't. >> yes, yes, yes. no, you wouldn't, respectfully. >> reporter: but then, conway defending herself and the campaign. >> do you think i ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? you're going to look me in the face and tell me that? >> it did. kellyanne, it did. >> and that's how you lost. do you think you could've just had a decent message for the white working class voters? how about, it's hillary clinton. she doesn't connect with people. how about they have nothing in common with her. how about you had no economic message. changing the race. >> reporter: joel bennenson reminding team trump that clinton leads by 2.5 million votes. >> don't act if you have some popular mandate for your message. the fact of the matter is mor

the raw exchange at harvard between the clinton campaigns jennifer palmieri and trump campaign manager kellyanne conway. >> campaign where white supremacist had a platform and you're going look me in the face and tell me that? really? >> it did. >> back and forth between the two teams. >>> and breaking this morning, man who shot and killed a former nfl player has been released with no charges. at this point. very latest on what happened and what police described as an extreme case of road rage. we'll have the very latest on that for you. >>> and a live report as the veterans head to the dakota pipeline protest who help out what they say will be a human shield surrounding those protesters as the deadline to leave the area approaches. we'll get you caught up on all of those stories. good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall, coming live from our msnbc headquarters in new york. president-elect donald trump is off the road back in new york for a series of meetings. georgia senator david perdue, retired jay cohen, florida attorney pam bon i did, and former ambassador john bolton as well as he

emotions remain raw, this shouting match between top clinton aide jennifer palmieri and trump campaign manager kellyanne conway during a post election forum last night. >> i would rather lose than win the way you guys did. >> no, you wouldn't. >> as for president-elect trump's call to the taiwanese president, a senior administration official tells me, the white house was not told about that call until after it happened. also late this evening, president george w. bush's former press secretary is warning, quote, china will go nuts. lester? >> peter alexander in washington, thank you. >>> more now on that surprise announcement from the president-elect at his rally last night. james mattis is his pick for secretary of defense. a tough-talking former marine general, and now a battle is brewing over a waiving a law that as currently written bars him from running the pentagon. nbc's hans nichols explains. >> reporter: for president-elect trump, a sneak announcement. >> we are going to appoint "mad dog" mattis as our secretary of defense. >> reporter: 41 years as a marine, retired general jam

jennifer palmieri accused the website breitbart once run by ceo steve bannon of promoting racist views it's providing a platform for white supremacists. makes me a brilliant tactician i am glad to have lost. >> do you think i ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform. are you going to look me in the face and say that? >> it did. >> and kellyanne took issue with pollster joel ben nen son for bringing up clinton's popular vote lead. >> the fact of the matter is more americans voted for hillary clinton than donald trump. >> there is nothing that said the road to popular vote anywhere -- >> i premised my statement by saying that. >> hey, guys, we won. you don't have to respond. >> kellyanne conway and joel n benenson are here now. we will see if there's any more yelling. they both promised there won't be. different versions of the same question, joel let me start with you, are you being sore losers? >> i don't think so. we acknowledged from the start they won, he's president-elect. i was taking issue with the notion there is a mandate and talk about connecting with people over