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>> so steve schmidt, a dual question for you to start off. what's your battle damage assessment on the effect the lincoln project had on this presidential election? and are you on the ground in georgia? what can you do there that a stacey abrams isn't doing or hasn't already done? >> look, i think that we're part of a coalition that spans from bernie sanders to disaffected republicans that helped joe biden amass the most votes in american history. i think we took the fight to donald trump. i think he spent a lot of time attacking us. days that he spent fight wg tinh the lincoln project for days he wasn't fighting with the biden campaign. so i think we played a key role in the counties we targeted, in the states that were determinative, and we made a stand against trump and trumpism. we fought for what we believed was the right, and i think that's what you are called to do as an american citizen when you see a wrong in front of you. and we all believe that trump is a profound wrong for the country. in georgia the senate will hang in the balanc

steve schmidt, thank you very much, my friend. we will see you after the election >>> still ahead -- former attorney general eric holder on the ongoing efforts to keep your votes from being counted. >>> plus, keeping expectations in check on when we'll know the final results of this election. >>> a couple important reminders, if you haven't returned your mail-in ballot, don't go near that mailbox. you can still vote in person tomorrow. and if you're still not registered you actual can register and vote in the states listed on your screen, including michigan and wisconsin. they have same-day registration. so vote, vote, vote. don't go anywhere. a live bookkeeper is helping customize quickbooks for me. okay, you're all set up. thanks! that was my business gi, this one's casual. get set up right with a live bookkeeper with intuit quickbooks. on the sleep number number's 360 smart bed.ale you can adjust your comfort on both sides, your sleep number setting. can it help me fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can i

and i hear my friend steve schmidt calling out, crying out demanding what he's demanding, and i want to call him and say, steve, i know you're doing this -- i know you know better. you are not going to get what you want because it is the case that donald trump, brian, just got -- failed to get re-elected, lost this election, but got 8 million more votes than he got in 2016. he got 70 million votes, the second-most votes than any presidential candidate has gotten in the history of the country. if you are republican right now and you're looking at what it is that made you loyal and is uply can't to donald trump for the last four years, it's been his grip over a large swath of the republican party. that grip is not lucent. in some sense trump can claim he has a stronger grip over the republican party. they witnessed four years of his incompetence and corruption and perfady and malice and meanness, yet 70 million of them voted for him in the face of a pandemic that's cost 250,000 american lives. if the republican party is not abandoned donald trump at this point, they will not abandon him

number one, there is a reason why there is a cocktail shaker not far behind steve schmidt.ryone should have one nearby touring this time. number two, donna edwards, and i know you think about such things, how do you best advise biden/harris, should they prevail, to govern during a time where we can just look at the math, look at the turnout in this race, we couldn't be a more divided country. >> well, you know, i think we have to acknowledge, we were divided in 2016, and i think what we do is what donald trump did not do, and that is come together from the beginning with a message of unity. that has been the tone and the tenor that joe biden and kamala harris have struck, is especially in these days as we are waiting a final decision about who is going to be the president-elect and the vice president-elect. and i think that they will demonstrate exactly that same kind of tone starting out. i think joe biden and kamala harris have an advantage of having served on capitol hill. they know those institutions. and i think that they will be able to at least borrow some of that st

why aren't there more people saying that and saying what steve schmidt just said?s right now are chortling. they've having a great time watching this. and they're using this to say we told you democracy doesn't work and it is just as corrupt there as it is here. we told you that you shouldn't put your faith in western democracy as a institution and as a tradition. and they're using it both to undermine any opposition to vladimir putin in russia, by saying, see, there is no alternative and using it to destabilize us at home and with our allies around the world. and i think there is a consequence to this, to this uncertainty and the idea that a president of the united states would call into question the very institutions of the democracy he provides over. >> olivia i'll give you the last word. because out of the four of us, you've been in the room. do you share the concerns, there is no check on trump's autocratic impulses. >> absolutely. and i think that i have a community of over 500 national security officials that have stated this openly and repeatedly to the ame

and i hear my friend steve schmidt calling out, crying out, demanding what he's demanding. and i want to call him and say, steve, i know you're doing this, i know you know better. you are not going to get what you want. because it is the case that donald trump, brian, just got elected -- failed to get re-elected, lost this election, but got 8 million more votes than he got in 2016. got 70 million votes, the second most votes that any presidential candidate has ever gotten in the history of the country. if you're a republican right now and look at what it is that has made you loyal and supplicant to donald trump for the last four years it's been his grip over a large swathe of the republican party. that grip has not loosened. they witnessed four years of his incompetence and corruption and p perfity and meanness and malice. if the republican party has not abandoned donald trump at this point they will not abandon him, and if they do not abandon the senior ranks of republican leadership will not abandon him because they know there are only two places to be in the world going

not the kind of person who would get on msnbc and hold force with my own anger and wrath like steve schmidt, a man who buy just absolutely love listening to what i couldn't do that. but i can be very perverse and subversive and get nothing in my own way. which is with satire. >> you've had a chance to both two readings of your poem and have full actors and actresses and friends read them as well. how did that come about for other engagement? what does it feel like? >> i was just so thrilled with that. because it was covid, you couldn't do a proper book tour. when i was releasing the first book, dumpty, just a year ago i was right there in san francisco at your city arts lecture being interviewed for an audience of a thousand people, maybe some of your listeners with her in the audience and they had a fantastic time doing book readings and book signings everywhere. i went to three different cities, all that was out this time. we arranged things like this, a lot of virtual interviews and appearances. the couple of months ago i thought, wait a minute, let's get creative about this. why do i --

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we're back with sam stein, mara and sam schmidt. stevetein, where do you put the calculation here? obviously, it's easy to say they won't do anything. they began the obama presidency saying they would make sure he was unsuccessful but it's different when 260,000 americans have died and the economy is in shatters because of the pandemic. what do you think? >> is it different? i mean, i think so. but that doesn't -- >> should be. >> that doesn't necessarily -- it should be. but that doesn't necessarily translate into congressional action. what we're seeing right now already is that steve mnuchin is trying to restrict some of the financial authorities that the fed and treasury have to help with a economic collapse related to covid. that's trying to tie the hands of the incoming biden administration. there's no indication that i get from our reporting that republicans are particularly eager to up their total on covid relief, so you know, biden's going to have his work cut out for him. i think in an ideal world, he'd like to see some sort of d

. >> steve schmidt with nicole wallace this afternoon.ing to show you now is donald trump's campaign is setting in. according to a new poll, over half of the republicans surveyed consider donald trump to be the rightful winner of this election, which has already been called for the president-elect, joe biden. let's talk about all of it with bill krystol, editor at large of the bulwark these days. i'm going to show you something john kasich said on cnn tonight. we'll discuss it on the other side. >> you have a group of doctors who are saying to the administration, we need the information. we need the information to protect our front line workers, to protect our patients, to make sure how to distribute the vaccine. and they're losing patience? what the hell are they doing down there? stand up, start speaking out. >> so, bill, i mentioned earlier the trembling supplicant alex azar, crippled in fear of this president. when does this start to become actual malpractice? >> he's the secretary of health and human services, he can tell his people

on election night, i was at an anchor desk with steve schmidt and james carville and they knew what was happening 25 minutes before everybody else did. i was sitting in that room and i kind of knew what was happening. i realized 24 hours from now i'm going to have to do a show. and i don't know how to do it, but i also knew rachel was going to have to go first, and so i -- i saw you go out there. i saw you go out there and do it. and when the time came, you turned and smiled to me, and that smile got me through that night and that smile has gotten me through four years and you've gotten a lot of people through four years, rachel. thank you very much for getting us to where we will be tomorrow night. >> you are very kind to say so. i don't deserve one iota of any of that, lawrence, but it's very kind of you to say. and i do, you know, i do feel like -- i know you feel this way, too, it is an incredible honor to be able to be covering something this big and this important -- particularly with the colleagues that we have and the organization that we're in with all of its resources. but it

steve schmidt, co-founder of the lincoln project and former adviser to george w.and john mccain. this is what i do not get. they say they're afraid of trump because he's so powerful. but no one made that argument about hillary clinton in 2016. she won more than 65 million votes. trump won more than 70 million votes. how is he a kingmaker and she was a loser? >> because hillary clinton was the democratic nominee. she was the head of a political party. trump is the head of a cult of personality. they are very different things. in 2016, the democratic party had a platform that talked about the issues and policies that the party would stand for. in 2020, there was no republican platform. it was an oath of obedience and loyalty to donald trump. and so what this is fundamentally about is the georgia special elections because they are terrified that trump will take retribution and basically say, screw you, to mitch mcconnell and to the senate majority. so even senator lankford who on the one hand is being modestly responsible, i suppose, by saying the president-elect sho

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on election night, i was at an anchor desk with steve an anchor desk with steve schmidt and james carvilles happening 25 minutes before everybody else did. i was sitting in that room and i kind of knew what was happening. i realized 24 hours from now i'm going to have to do a show. and i don't know how to do it, but i also knew rachel was going to have to go first, and so i -- i saw you go out there. i saw you go out there and do it. and when the time came, you turned and smiled to me, and that smile got me through that night and that smile has gotten me through four years and you've gotten a lot of people through four years, rachel. thank you very much for getting us to where we will be tomorrow night. >> you are ver t

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fails in court, which he will because they have no evidence, this is just, you know, as my friend steve schmidt this is a fairy tale. and now he's going after the courts. so he'll go after another institution and convince this group of his supporters that there is no institution left in america that they can trust. and what a legacy for the president of the united states to leave behind. >> you know, claire, let me just challenge you a little bit or push you to say a little bit por. because i think that is precisely the legacy he seeks to leave behind. a trump ally told me that it far -- in his mind it is one wrung above losing fair an square. so his devotion to the fairy tale is deeper than his devotion to any institution he led, deeper than his loyalty to themill who he called suckers and losers and deeper than his commitment to prevent the coronavirus. if you take it as the one thing that trump actually cares about, the fairytale, that is the hill he's going to die on. >> it is the hill he's going to die on. and what is astounding to me is that his supporters, look at north carolina, it was

viewers have pointed out steve schmidt appears to do a karate chop.'m being told to wrap it up as is often the case around here. just kidding. thanks to both of you. we have to fit in a break. when we come back, we have an update on something very important around the nation. the biden administration getting ready to deal with this, the transition, the covid cases surging. we're going to take a look at the strain it does put on hospitals and health care workers from a very hard hit area in wisconsin when we come back. we're helping change the future of heart failure. understanding how to talk to your doctor about treatment options is key. today, we are redefining how we do things. we find new ways of speaking, so you're never out of touch. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. when those around us know us, they can show us just how much they care. the first steps of checking in, the smallest moments can end up being everything. there's resources that can inform us, and that spark can make a difference. when we use it to improve