happens next year is important for sherrod brown up for reelection in 2018. while there are areas he is in disagreement with donald trump there is one area they are in agreement. dead. >> donald trump supported and sherrod brown opposed. >> i want more trade but undifferent rules. >> donald trump opposed it as he does nafta where brown sees an opportunity to work with the new administration because its is not an easy bell to unring. >> i don't think president- elect donald trump has thought about these issues, he doesn't like trade agreements but it is more complicated. >> brown wrote a letter offering to help trump he issued a call for him to dump >> when he appoints bannon that

joining me now senator sherrod brown of ohio. look, donald trump won this election and, you know, this is not a senate-confirmed position. they get to dance with the ones that brung them. >> of course he can appoint whomever he wants to those kinds of positions, but that was either his first -- i'm not sure -- his first or second appointment he's made of any consequence. he's said earlier, he looked in the camera during "60 minutes" and said stop, stop the hate, stop how far he said that. then he appoints a guy to a number one or number two position. he's kind of the karl rove whispering in the ear of the most powerful person on earth. and he's clearly a racist, he's clearly a misogynist, he's anti-semitic. and it's a moral question to me. i don't know if this is good politics or bad politics to criticize him, but you've got to call out, just like people in communities when people say racist things and feel it's okay now to be a sexist or a racist or a misogynist or a bigot, individuals have to call them out. i have to call them

shame he's a pennsylvania one a be but we welcome him here as our here please welcome senator sherrod brown. [applause] senator brown: thank you. thank you. it is a thrill to be here with them. a thrill always to be in a labor hall with firefighters and ironworkers and us and steelworkers and that's you know planned parenthood, fight for 15, thank you for all of that. this is my real boys. i'm not sick, i don't smoke, i just talk this way. my wife who many of you know through facebook. several of you said that my wife and i were an event one time and we were in a room about the size but no tables and chairs. so people were crowded in together is a true story and the three or four of us were on the stage like this and i took the mic. this really happen. this guy turned to my wife standing right next to her, never seen a before and he said, i really hate that guy's voice. and she said really? and he said, yeah, that guy speaks like your nails on a blackboard i can't stand listening to. and she said, you know what i like? voice whenlike his he leans over and wakes up in the middle of the night

>> denise: yeah, well, in fact, senator sherrod brown will be here this morning at william patrick day head start program here. he uses this place as a backdrop to urge congress to help him pass a bill he has right now that will help schools and head start programs like this one regularly test for lead in their water. if you've been watching our station, you've been seeing all the stories that we've been do you about high levels of lead found in cleveland stills. wilbur wright elementary is one of the most recent where the water there tested positive for high levels of lead. the school district flushed the systems of 69 schools and replaced the faucets and fountains. they also did bring in bottled water for everyone to drink. school officials have said that they obviously want parents to feel like their children are safe. >> i don't think the parents to panic. we're okay and fine.

now, the legislation that senator sherrod brown is here to talk about today will actually help pay for the testing of water to discover if, in fact, there is any lead in some of these schools' drinking water. he'll be here at 10:30 a.m. this morning. coming up in the next half hour, principal about what she had to say to parents after lead was found in her school's drinking water. for now we get answers -- issing questions and getting answers here in cleveland. denise zarrella, cleveland 19. >> nichole: the elyria chronicle telegram is reporting this morning that three tow motors are to blame for the carbon monoxide at lorain kpt automotive systems in elyria. it was evacuated on wednesday after high levels of carbon monoxide were found inside. the chronicle tow motors in question have been removed. at least ten people were treated, but everyone should be back to work this morning. >> brian: cleveland police say a man shot two men who tried breaking into his home. he killed one of them. the men tried to break into that home on east 38th street around 9:30 last night when the guy that li

dead. >> donald trump supported and sherrod brown opposed. >> i want more trade but undifferent rules. >> donald trump opposed it as he does nafta where brown sees an opportunity to work with the new administration because its is not an easy bell to unring. >> i don't think president- elect donald trump has thought about these issues, he doesn't like trade agreements but it is more complicated. >> brown wrote a letter offering to help trump he issued a call for him to dump >> when he appoints bannon that is racist anti semit and he is karl rove whose office is outside. >> brown says the party needs to reconnect with working families and the senate has new democratic leadership he failed to support tim ryan's decision of nancy pelosi in the house. she has been a good leader. without her the biggest cut for workers making between 20 and $40,000 my bill for the senate, it would have never passed in a republican house without her skills. tim has got to build a better case than just time for a change. >> brown faces challenges in two years when he seeks re- election to the seat in two year

let me think your senator, sherrod brown -- thank your senator. let me thank your amazing, absolutely indefatigable congresswoman. let me thank your county executive. and let me thank and hope you ill vote for your former governor, ken strickland, to be your next senator. [applause] sec. clinton: i want to thank the dj for his musical performance, and i want to thank a very special young man, youseff, who was out here. [applause] sec. clinton: a young man who turned will was a very bitter and unjust experience into an opportunity to try to help lift others up. i was thrilled to be here on friday night with jay-z and beyoncé. eyoncé even had her dancers in blue pantsuits, which i loved. but what was most important without beyoncé and jay-z talk about what this election means for their daughter and for all of our daughters and sons. that is why i am so grateful to them as well as to lebron because this election really is about the future and it is about your kids and grandkids and every child in this country that we hope will have their own shot at

let me thank your senator, sherrod brown.et me thank your amazing, absolutely great congresswoman, fudge. let me thank your county executive. and let me thank and hope you'll vote for your former governor, ted strickland, to be your next senator. i want to thank the dj for his musical performance, and i want to thank a very special young man, who was out here. a young man who has turned what was a very bitter and unjust experience into an opportunity to try to help lift others up. now, i was thrilled to be here on friday night with jay-z and beyonce. beyonce even had her dancers in blue pantsuits, which i love. but what was most important was how beyonce and jay-z talked about hwhat this election means for their daughter and all our daughters and sons. that's why i am so grateful to them, as well as to lebron, because this election really is about the future. it's about your kids and grand kids and every child in this country that we hope will have their own shot at the american dream. they may not all become champion basketb

of ,eople, party leaders in ohio who get in a room and commission a lot of polling and research sherrod brown and their potential candidates and take a vote and decide who would be the optimum candidate? that would be the way it should work, but not the way it does anymore. you would have quite a few republicans running for that seat and they may or may not get the optimum person. -- optimal person. myo not know off the top of head who would be the optimal person. courts the supreme istice who said i do not -- cannot define pornography, but i know it if i see it? you will get someone and you know they would be a good challenger. for example, -- but sometimes that does not work. for example, democrats were really excited when they recruited patrick murphy out of florida. however, the republicans dismantled the guy. we don't know yet. >> you provided a lot of interesting exit polling data, -- obviously it tracts tracks differently with what we saw the for the pre-election polling. can you give us an excellent nation for why the pre-election polling was so off, particularly from the campaign sta

senator sherrod brown on the democrats first real fight to remove steve bannon. and the facebook effect. mark zuckerberg denies fake news on facebook affected the election. tonight my interview with a former employee who disagrees. when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. during the presidential campaign, paul ryan described comments by donald trump as racist and decried trump's muslim ban as un-american. he nominated him and ryan put his misgivings behind. >> i talk with donald trump virtually every single day. i spoke with mike pence this morning. we're on the same page, we're working hand in glove and we're going to make sure this is a very successful administration.

. >>> as president-elect donald trump fills his cabinet, ohio senator sherrod brown has reached out to him. while he disagrees with trump agreement on some issues of trade. brown says in a letter to trump that he is willing to work him and offer his help for renegotiating nafta and he sports trump's stance on the partnership and hope the administration will seek his counsel and others to learn about the deals that they have had on ohio manufacturing jobs. >> i don't think that the president-elect donald trump has thought about the issues he don't like trade agreements but it is more complicated and i am hopeful that he will listen to people that know these things from the view point that he has and mostly i have, i think on these trade issues. >> now, brown says the key for democrats going forward is finding a way to reconnect with working families. >>> on news 5 investigation uncovers one of the deadliest secrets in hospitals. why patients are dying that could have gone on to live long healthy live. fight against crime to a new level after she falls victims to a couple of burglars, ho

that's sherrod brown on stage warming things up. clinton's third stop of the day. trying to turn out young people and african-americans who don't appear to be turning out at least quite at the 2012 levels according to polls and early voting. those two groups have been targeted by republican efforts to restrict or repress voting founded by donald trump's claims of voter fraud. he'll issue a restraining order against the trump campaign and longtime trump ally and associate roger stone barring them from harassing or intimidating voters on tuesday. donald trump campaign is appealing the ruling. that case is one of several filed by democrats this week. decisions are still pending in pennsylvania, new jersey, michigan, nevada, arizona. donald trump and his campaign continue to exploit and distort fbi director james comey's vague disclosure last week of new clinton-related e-mails with apparent help from people connected to the fbi itself. two nights ago on fox news host bret baier previously reported to have led nowhere was moving to a likely indictment. that came direct

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. >> that's senator sherrod brown. he's taken 500 grant from drug former house speaker and ohio congressman john weiner was gifted more than $1 million for commands to elyria congressman nearly 800,000. former senator and current ohio attorney general mike dewine and the 500,000. commerce in germany see nearly hundred 80 grand. >>> that makes term limits look very appealing. >> big pharmaceuticals are largely unrelated. congress even banned medicare from negotiating prices in 2003. janet snyder is recoveri heart transplant patient. permits have gone up by more than 500%. >> it kills us. it literally kills us. >> reporter: we did some digging and checked out voting records. senator brown received high marks. thousand eight at eight times on healthcare according to medicare votes.org. raise record tends to favor the industry. he received a thumbs down on 15 of 16 votes. he denies doing the drug companies any favors.>> this is pencils. >> reporter: representative fund received all positive ratings, 2020 thumbs up. partner

of ,eople, party leaders in ohio who get in a room and commission a lot of polling and research sherrod brown and their potential candidates and take a vote and decide who would be the optimum candidate? that would be the way it should work, but not the way it does anymore. you would have quite a few republicans running for that seat and they may or may not get the optimum person. -- optimal person. myo not know off the top of head who would be the optimal person. courts the supreme istice who said i do not -- cannot define pornography, but i know it if i see it? you will get someone and you know they would be a good challenger. for example, -- but sometimes that does not work. for example, democrats were really excited when they recruited patrick murphy out of florida. however, the republicans dismantled the guy. we don't know yet. >> you provided a lot of interesting exit polling data, -- obviously it tracts tracks differently with what we saw the for the pre-election polling. can you give us an excellent nation for why the pre-election polling was so off, particularly from the campaign sta

party leaders room andwould get in a commissioned a lot of polling on focus groups and research sherrod brown, let's say, and on their various potential candidates and take a vote and decide who would be the optimal candidates. maybe just the way it ought to work, but that's not the way it works anymore. is you willguess probably quite a few republicans running for that seat, and they may or may not get the optimal person. i do not know off the top of my head who would be the optimal person. who was the supreme court justice who said i cannot define pornography, but i know it if i see it? you think you know who would be a good challenger. sometimes that does not work. for example, democrats were really excited when they recruited patrick murphy to run for senate down in florida. republicans were really, really worried. then they did their research. they said well, there is a lot here to work with, so they dismantled the guy. i may punt on that it is a good one. question, we do not know yet. >> you provided a lot of interesting exit polling data, and obviously it tracks differently with what w

mapped the genome of the republican party in ohio, what kind of candidate would you have against sherrod brown in 2018? what would be the sense you have? how conservative would candidates be that cruz could use in 2018 to get in 2020? mr. cook: we certainly are making the turn. in my mind, you had all the se circumstances that were working against republicans this time. you know we know that in , presidential election years, the turnout is big and broad and relatively diverse and looks more or less like the country. in midterm elections, the turnout is 40% lower, older, whiter, more conservative, more republican. and so, and we knew that, you know republicans had 24 seats up , this time, democrats only had 10. republicans had seven seats up , senate seats up in states that president obama carried. there were no democrats up in states that mitt romney carried, but that for 2018, it was like everything was on the other foot. that ok, it is a midterm election, so it favors republicans. we thought that it was going to be a midterm election with a democratic president. and we know that just using t

shame he's a pennsylvania wanna-be but we welcome him here as our own, please welcome senator sherrod brown! [applause] senator brown: katie, thank you. erin, katie, and doyle. it's a thrill to be here, a thrill always to be in a labor hall with firefighters and iron workers and uscw and steel workers and sciu. thank you for all of that. this is my real voice. i'm not sick. i don't smoke. i just talk this way. my wife, who many of you know through facebook -- several of you have said that -- my wife and i were at an event one time and we were crowded together. as i took the microphone and started to speak, this guy, turned to my wife, he said i hate that guy's voice. she said, really? he said, yeah, that guy speaks, it's like fingernails on a blackboard, i can't stand listening to him. she said i like his voice. you know when i really like him? i really like him when he wakes me up in the middle of the night and says "i love you, baby." true story. [applause] senator brown: before we talk about katie, i want to talk about why it's so important, all of you do in the labor movement. i was in

let me think your senator, sherrod brown -- thank your senator.r absolutely in d50 of all -- congresswoman. let me thank your county executive. and let me thank and hope you will vote for your former governor, ken strickland, to be your next senator. [applause] thanklinton: i want to the dj for his musical performance, and i want to thank a very special young man, yous eff, who was out here. [applause] man whonton: a young turned will was a very bitter and unjust experience into an opportunity to try to help lift others up. i was thrilled to be here on anday night with jay-z beyonce. beyonce even had her dancers in blue pantsuits, which i loved. but what was most important without beyonce and jay-z talk about what this election means for their daughter and for all of our daughters and sons. grateful toi am so them as well as to lebron because this election really is about the future and it is about your kids and grandkids and every child in this country that we hope will have their own shot at the american dream. he may not -- they may not all bec

. >>> senator sherrod brown is pushing for support for a new bill he hopes to get our children safe. under the proposed law, schools and day car centers get $100 million in grants every year to test for lead in their drinking water. right now the test is not mandatory and costs schools a lot of cash. >> no parent should ever have to worry about lead levels, should ever have to worry about their son or daughter, their little boy or girl turning on a drinking fountain and getting >> brian: the bill moved through the senate. senator brown hopes the house will do the same by the end much year. >>> we have to check weather. >> samantha: the weather this morning, you know, big improvements after we had rain blow through overnight, and we had very gusty winds overnight as well. the winds, although still breezy, have backed off. so that's wonderful news for those out and about early in the morning. it's also very warm outside. 54s in cleveland. that is 9 degrees warmer than the average high for today, which is only in the mid-40s. so we are seeing really here unseasonable warmth. no rain, ag

senator sherrod brown says it's not draining the swamp. >> they know how to win and they know how to win themselves. he's not just a former goldman partner. he's the sun of a goldman partner. he goes to a hedge fund and gets involved in film finance, which is a business filled with government loopholes but to make matters worse, he ran bank one, which was involved in 36,000 foreclosures tied to the subprime crisis. john paulson became famous in the financial industry from becoming a multibillionaire and betting against subprimes. so it's why people have been so you be set, the financial industry bailed out, not one person went to jail. they have only risen through this. they say we're going to put this person as secretary treasury. wall street itself is amazed. >> bringing corporations back is the first priority for this post. take a listen to this, though. >> our number one priority is tax reform. this will be the largest tax change since reagan. we've talked about this during the campaign. wilbur and i have worked very closely together on the campaign. we're going to cut corporate

in stark county senator sherrod brown will try to spark negotiations between the lewisville teachers union and the board of education. we're in the third week of the teachers strike there. today senator brown will meet with both parties and attempt to get the two sides back to the bargaining table. have to feel really bad for the lewisville schools. rye now students are in class but taught by a substitute teaching firm. >>> police are looking to who attacked a police delivery driver in akron. the papa john's worker is a 22-year-old woman. she knocked on a door and two men pulled her inside and threatened to rape and murder her. thankfully she escaped with minor injuries. police say the house was vacant. >> tia: we are continuing to get answers for people in berea. theye quality of the water after we received test results showing one house tested positive for lead. if you're on your phone this morning down load our free app. find our investigative team coverage getting answers and breaking down everything we know about the berea water situation. >>> this is adorable video to show you,

he only won by three percentage points in 2012 and 2006 when sherrod brown and ted strickland won, the height of the culture of corruption in d.c. and i really think that is at its core a republican state. demographic trends show that donald trump is probably going to win iowa, but the rest of it is where it gets tricky. has to win florida and is doing much better in florida right now. he has to win north carolina, and that is why you are seeing the clinton campaign pull out all the stops -- >> which could explain -- if you gave north carolina to clinton, things get hairyier. >> i think this is the only path. he has to win colorado and we did just see that university of denver poll come out this week that shows them both at 39%. there's a libertarian streak out west that could throw things off. voters could go for the third-party candidate. so he has to -- >> who that's third-party candidate. who are they taking votes from? >> that's the tricky thing. we have to watch on election night itch think gary john is so the one who gets the vote but it's anyone's guess who gary join would -- j

senator sherrod brown of ohio accused trump of allowing bigotry, while elizabeth warren.sterday. >> responsibility that say it is not normal for the kkk, ku klux klan, to celebrate the election of a president. if trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of steve bannon. it will be impossible to take trump's efforts for the nation seriously. >> i find myself sitting here listening to the latest tirade by the democratic leader against the president-elect and his team. surely he's entitled to his opinion, but he does nothing to contribute to the healing of our country after a very polarizing hotly contested election. to come here after the election after the american people have spoken and made that choice and continue to disparage their choice for the next president, as well as the leadership in the house and the senate, really just smacks of, well, we used to call people like that sore losers. >> three buildings here in new york city bearing president-elect donald trump's name will be getting a facelift and dropping his

sherrod brown who is a good friends of mine in ohio. an amazing senator.arly elizabeth warren is a great senator. so i think those are kind of the, you know, party people. we got to get new people into the democratic party. people talk about us not having a bench. part of the problem is there's a concentration in the house of representatives. you should see the talent we have in the house of representatives. young people. guys like jeffries and rice and so many talented people here in new york but across the country that really quite frankly if they don't start moving up they will do something else. >> what is your message today to demonstrate. what is your vision for future for the democratic party? >> what is america 2.0. what's it took like? i believe it's multi-cultural, it's progressive and innovative. what is the democratic party 2.0 that can help us get to america 2.0? we've lost aspiration, i think in the country. so negative. it's about i'm not like this, i'm not like that. where are the hopes and dreams? where's the juice of politics. what are ca

sherrod brown and i served in the house together.so played on the congressional baseball team. as a better legislator than a baseball player. he is a cleveland guy so be nice to them, ok? let's cut through all of this way noise on the television. this is pretty basic stuff. blue-collar kid. my dad worked at a steel mill. my grandfather worked at mercury furnace in rankin. knew i would represent the people i grew up with, working class families here in pittsburgh. i did not have to think of that. let's break down the election. you have trump and to me. pat toomey. -- you have donald trump and pat toomey. donald trump, born with a silver spoon in his mouth. his whole life he has been a millionaire developer thanks to loans from his father and he deals internationally and finance. witnesses history? -- what is his history? he has gone through for bankruptcy. has built, if he did not have to build a union, he did not. read the art of the deal. it's a stupid ever you have to do, say whatever you have to -- it says do whatever you have to

whether sherrod brown would move them forward, probably he would and we will get nominees.hat would be nominated. david: what about health care? it is something a lot of people will talk about. michael: that's will be an interesting one to watch. the current chairman health and education labor committee and if he is no longer in charge, we do not know. patty murray is the ranking member but she could take the spot on appropriations. everybody wants to build appropriations committee because you get huge campaign contributions. she might want to do that. she will be the point person. judiciary is one everybody wants to watch. not only immigration but the supreme court going through on the senate side. it will be interesting to see who controls the senate. a lot of what happens will be determined. alix: what happens if we are gridlocked? what will be the narrative tomorrow? michael: a tie? alix: no change for congress and clinton in the white house. if the: if clinton's -- republicans are charged, real gridlock. we may not know until december 10. there to do for the senate in

sherrod brown would, if the dems took the senate. but you know, she's going to play a role.arly if hillary clinton gets elected. particularly if the democrats win the senate. that is where she could really flex her muscles. have a good time on the floor of the stock exchange, by the way. liz: thank you, we are. with eight minutes left before we hear bells behind me ring on the ball communist they are loud, but before then, up next the market maven who says not so fast to everybody who says the market stays up if hillary wins. in fact he is warning of a possible black swan event. a little nerve-wracking but you have got to hear what he has to say because he said it could disrupt your money. citigroup economics head bill lee to break it all down. stay with us. "countdown" is coming right back. see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. pro

i like elizabeth warren, i like sherrod brown.re a lot of good democrats out there, with i mean, good from my point of view. but i want to point out two things. first of all is that we have to get past the liberalism that i describe in "listen, liberal." it's kind of liberalism of the rich. martha's vineyard liberalism. this has to go. we have to move away from it. and -- what was the other thing i was going to? >> you know what i want to say? i fear what donald trump is going to do to this country, but there is one very bright side to all of this. you know what it is? this man just destroyed the establishment wing of both parties. he just ended two political dynasties. the bushes and the clintons. he showed us that anything is possible in american politics. and that is a wonderful thing. >> if he delivers on the jobs, those voters are not returning to the democratic fold. you'd agree on that? >> i think that's -- you might be right about that, yeah. >> i mean, it's all about -- yeah, it is the economy. it is certainly not -- i wo

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senator warren, senator sanders, senator sherrod brown, jeff merkley. i think you also have the ability to hold hearings on things that matter to the american people. bernie sanders asked the department of justice to hold hearings on drug companies collusion. i think you have interesting new progressives in the house who will lead initiatives and in washington state, jamie rasken in maryland, and i think the court becomes vital. i know there's now obstructionism and the republicans vowing they will not permit a vote on a supreme court nominee. i think it's un-american, unconstitutional. trumpism isn't going away. the fact this election is so close forces us to do some soul searching and i think that the fact that -- i think hillary clinton and the democrats need to speak to the white working class in this country. they need to put forward proposals, debt-free higher education, new noncorporate trade policy. all kinds of things that would pull together the obama coalition, which i think will be a defining one, especially hispanics in this election cycle,

kamala harris in california, cory booker of new jersey, a younger crowd of people, i would say, sherrod brownnt to list as well. >> yes, you're listing all the people, we had a meeting of producers. the people we want on the show. cory booker and brown and harris the new senator from california. so it's the young people, the established leaders who have been there forever and will be there for a while. chuck schumer's going to be there for a while. and pelosi. and then you have sort of the progressive, very strong progressive, who have that whole, usually with the moderates, hillary clinton being a moderate, loses and the progressives say, don't blame us, blame the moderates, it's our turn. >> yeah, look. i think the day after the election -- actually, hours after the election, i was just calling all of my sources to ask them that exact question, like, who is the leader of the party right now? who is the leader? and it was a hard question for people to answer. and i think when you mention chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, who you're right, they are the leaders of the matter now, they are from n

challenge," and it is signed, in addition to myself, senator hirono, senator warren, senator sherrod browning, and senator ed markey, senator bernie sanders, senator al franken, who spoke so eloquently a moment ago, senator ron wyden, senator debbie 125 stabenow, senator-elect chris van hollen, and senator tom carper. and i thank my colleagues who have appropriately said this moment, this unusual moment in our history, in our time here in the 21st century, that we have a president-elect playing on hate and prejudice and bringing a white supremacist as a chief advisor is unacceptable. now, some will say that president-elect trump cannot himself be accountable for what is happening across our country. but they are wrong. his words and his conduct are directly connected to the harassment and the physical and verbal assaults that we are seeing. and i'm going to share with you all the comments of the campaign and the acts of descension in category after category to show how these are tied together, how indeed these verbal assaults and that's physical assaults are motivated by and justified by the

. >> thank you senator sherrod brown for making the trip as always thank you for being such a top. thanks to our elected officials that the great us today and your friendship is something that is never forgotten thank you thank you very much. thank you. my final statement as to my brothers and sisters in organized labor today. a billionaire has questioned your democracy. he feels he has the right to say he will accept or not accept what we have died for. think about that. you have a chance to make a statement that our democracy is great and sure. [applause] >> people have questioned the power of organized labor for far too long and as you see, it just keeps coming. as one leader moves, another one .teps and we fight harder as i look at the camera and i speak to all of you right now, people question our labor movement and our power. my message to you is "careful what you wish for." rank you. get out and vote on november 8 -- thank you. get out and vote on november 8. [applause] [crowd noise] >> i hope i have a little more time on my hands, not a whole lot of time on my hands. sure.

what kind of candidate would you have against sherrod brown in 2018? how conservative would candidates be that cruz could use in 2018? charlie: we certainly are making the turn. in my mind, you had all the circumstances that were working against republicans this time. we know that in presidential election years, the turnout is big and broad and relatively diverse and looks less like the country, and it midterms the turnout is 40% lower, older, whiter, more conservative, more republican. republicans had seven senate seats up in states that president obama carried. there were no democrats in states that mitt romney carried, but for 2018, it was like everything was on the other foot. ok, it's a bit term election, so -- midterm election, so it favors republicans. we thought that it was going to be a midterm election with a democratic president. using the house as a yardstick, the party has gained seats in precisely three midterm elections in the last century and that there were 25 democratic seats up and only eight republican seats up in 2018. all the fact

that's sherrod brown on stage warming things up. clinton's third stop of the day. trying to turn out young people and african-americans who don't appear to be turning out at least quite at the 2012 levels according to polls and early voting. those two groups have been targeted by republican efforts to restrict or repress voting founded by donald trump's claims of voter fraud. he'll issue a restraining order against the trump campaign and longtime trump ally and associate roger stone barring them from harassing or intimidating voters on tuesday. donald trump campaign is appealing the ruling. that case is one of several filed by democrats this week. decisions are still pending in pennsylvania, new jersey, michigan, nevada, arizona. donald trump and his campaign continue to exploit and distort fbi director james comey's vague disclosure last week of new clinton-related e-mails with apparent help from people connected to the fbi itself. two nights ago on fox news host brett bair previously reported to have led nowhere was moving to a likely indictment. that came direct