let me get back to yamiche. jeff sessions, an alabama senator, if he is picked for trump's cabinet it wouldn't be the first time he faced a confirmation hearing in the senate. years ago in 1986, the "new york times" reported a prosecutor said sessions referred to the american civil liberties union and the naacp un-american. he called a prominent white lawyer a disgrace to his race for representing black clients. another witness said session joked he thought the ku klux klan was okay until he found out they smoked pot. some of those allegations sessions acknowledged and said he considered the matter settled. let's watch this. >> issues that have been raised before the judiciary committee have been heard and argued and settled. no further comment about it. >> you know, we want to put this in context, at least i do. i want to put in context 30 years ago in the deep south, alabama, but there are some questions that are -- a credit to his race sounds like 100 years ago, the us grace to his race or whatever that was,

let me get back to yamiche, your paper has been active on that front, too. jeff sessions, an alabama senator, if he is picked for trump's cabinet, it wouldn't be the first time he faced a confirmation hearing in the senate. when nominated to be a federal judge 30 years ago, in 1986, "the new york times" reported that sessions referred to the american civil liberals union and the naacp as, quote, un-american. he also called a prominent white lawyer a, quote, disgrace to his race, for representing black clients. and other witnesses said that sessions joked and thought that the coku klux klan was okay unt he found out they smoked pot. whatever that means. those allegations were enough to torpedo his nomination. he said at the time, that he considered the matter settled. let's watch this. >> issues that have been raised before the judiciary committee have been heard and argued and settled. that matter is over and i have no further comment about it. >> you know, i want to put this in context, this was 30 years ago in the deep south, it's alabama, but there are so

and yamiche alcindor of the "new york times." gwen was a mentor to her.tor lamar, i want to start with you. you knew gwen in a way none of us at the table did. besides church every weekend, coming up through the church, the ifill name meant something. >> indeed. gwen's farther was the secretary general of our denomination. so all initial denomination literature and statistical reports carried his name. so i don't remember a time not seeing or knowing the ifill name. as i came through the ranks of ordained ministry, her brother is a tremendous voice and leader in our denomination. so when i had the privilege of pastoring her, i knew her pedigree and ancestry. >> sreenivasan: she was a woman of deep faith. >> she was there every week, generous, a mentor, and little girls could come, hug her and she would share and was a great gift to our community. >> woodruff: rick burke, you knew gwen going back to the 1980s as a young reporter. tell us a little bit about that. >> gwen and i covered city hall together 35 years ago at the baltimore evening sun, then years

joining me are amy walter of the cook political report and from the "new york times," yamiche alcindormara keith is away. eight days to go. welcome to both of you. so, aim's thumbs up. >> we're so close. >> woodruff: where does the race stand and how much is this f.b.i. news having? >> seems like the race stands at a place where it's always wanted to go which is basically between a two-point and four-point clinton lead. even before the notes of the f.b.i. investigation came out, we already started to see a tightening of the race that hillary clinton's big, big lead, in some cases double digits, was narrowing down, in part because whenever the focus is on one candidate, the other candidate benefits. for most of october, the focus was on donald trump and all of his problems, whether debates or his other troubles. for the last week, even before the f.b.i. story, it was about the clinton foundation. it was about obamacare rates increasing. what we're starting to see is that republicans started to come home, the focus was on her negative trait. so i think that this race still is a hillary c

yamic yamiche, that's news. "amended" is a word of conciliation. but there is the squaring of a circle problem. we went through this whole thing. yes, the middle class would like to have their kids be covered before the kids have jobs and a way to pay for, even the responsibility to take upon themselves to insure themselves in their 20s, for example. of course, people who have diabetes ii or something like that, they have something which is a pre-existing condition would very much like to be insured. but if you only insure people who have serious health conditions and have extra kids as dependent, it's going to run out of money quickly. so you can't have one without the other. so i don't know where trump's headed with this. is he headed towards an acceptance of the large part of obamacare? >> it's really unclear what he's going to accept if obamacare. i've talked to so many people, so many supporters over the last year who really, that was their driving force, was the fact that he was going to replace this with something completely new. so i think

thank you, yamiche alcindor. i'm just teasing, a little bit. >>> coming up, more warning signs that trump is mixing business with politics. he's now tweeting, as yamiche said, that everyone knew of his business interests before the election, they still voted for him anyways. is trump planning as running his business empire as a tycoon of the world out of the oval office. and trump's plans to rebuild the country's roads, bridges, airports. i talked about that with kelly and said he wants to put american workers to work, but they better stop talking like that. and the "hardball" roundtable on how the far right is angry with trump over what they're calling broken promises. tough. they want trump to make good on his campaign promise to investigate hillary clinton. good luck with that. and i'll finish tonight with this day in history, november 22nd. do you remember? this is "hardball," the place for politics. mary buys a little lamb. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppl

. >> yamiche, those on the left might also believe that, that that's hopeful. but the question is when will we know, right? because there's a lot of possibilities and they were saying yesterday, yes, we could get some announcements today. what are you hearing from your sources in terms of who is in the front of that list right now and when we might actually hear something? >> i think it's still a lot of it is still up in the air. i've talked to some republicans who have no insight on whether or not or when these appointments might be made. when i look at the images of donald trump parading people and posing for the cameras, i feel like he-in some ways he's in a real-life "apprentice"er, that he gets to have all these people come and kiss the ring and explain why they deserve to be in his administration because he's someone who felt pushed back by the republican party, someone who felt he had to come in and fight all the odds to make this happen. i think in some ways he's reveling in this moment as he should. he was someone who shocked his party and the democrat

yamiche, more time for you next time. these guys took all the ideas tonight. you're the best. i love the "new york times." i hope it's getting over its efforts to prevent us from having trump because they didn't work. >>> coming up, the path forward for democrats. what's the best strategy for progressives. elizabeth warren and bernie sanders say they're willing to work with him, but they're drawing their battle lines for the fight ahead. this is "hardball," the place for politics. when you find something worth waiting for, we'll help you invest to protect it for the future. financial guidance while you're mastering life. from chase, so you can. or the freedom to choose whatt doctor you want to see. so if you're on medicare, consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any standardized medicare supplement plan, you'll be able to stay with the doctor or specialist you trust... or look for someone new -- as long as they accept medicare patients. and you're not stuck in a network... because there aren't any. so why wait?

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