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she's maureen dowd, this is overheard. (upbeat music) (applause) let's be honest, is this about your ability to learn or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa and elsewhere? you could say that he'd made his own bed but you caused him to sleep in it. you know, you saw a problem and over time took it on and-- let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually. yeah, this is over. (applause) maureen dowd, welcome. - thank you evan. - nice to see you. - thank you. - here we sit a few weeks from the election. please tell me it's going to be okay. (laughter) what reassurances can you bring me? - i can't bring you any. - [evan] no? - i think we're headed for a zombie apocalypse here. - do you? and that's regardless of the outcome? - no, i'm teasing. i just think that we've never had two candidates who were so unpopular and everybody is trying to decide who to vot

it miss great pleasure to introduce maureen dowd. best selling author, pulitzer prize winner and columnist. it's safe to say nat any of our author here this week would be frilled to have one those titled. the signature style and schapp credit -- sharp critique of both said my have not made her friends politically but have brought her acclaim. we are lucky to have her with ups one week after us were counting votes and we were with my eight-year-old dour and she had blue and red pencils we colored in the electoral college map and has a lot of questions. and maureens a latest book is pie the year of voting dangerously." a collection of her insend area takes and take downsom the presidential race, which i think we can all agree was probably the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive race of modern political history. she is hear in conversation tonight with map we all recognize by name and by voice, if not by face, mr. tom hudson, who runs the wrn -- florida roundup. know we have lot of of gonzalez our audience tonight, not just cecelia's

so please come help me welcome the comparable, marine doubt -- maureen dowd. >> evening, everybody. i'll come back to miami. so, "the year of voting dangerously." will we survive? >> i don't know. you know, william goldman, a famous screenwriter, butch cassidy and the sundance kid at a famous line, nobody noticed any he demanded some line. we have to think of when we think of washington now. we have a lot of people on tv 24 hours a day, trying to tell us what is going on. trust me, no one knows what is going on. nobody knows what is coming, especially tamil trout you his dumbfounded. he is stunned to find himself they appeared you can see it in his face. and so, we are all in for an incredible right here. >> are described as the dog who caught the bus. notice he do with it? do you hold on? >> it's interesting you bring up the dog metaphor because one of trumps biographers, tim o'brien used to work with me at the time at a wonderful metaphor for why trump won this week. he says that, you know, a lot of a lot of people on the left think that the price just didn't mix one in who donald

she's maureen dowd, this is overheard. (upbeat music) (applause) let's be honest, is this about your ability to learn or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa and elsewhere? you could say that he'd made his own bed but you caused him to sleep in it. you know, you saw a problem and over time took it on and-- let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually.

dowd will not like it one bit? kurt: it depends on the audience at the moment, and who he is trying to get over at a certain moment. the "new york times" meeting is going -- was really telling. i think you are going to like what i do on the first amendment, with climate change. we will see how passing and glancing that is, or if that's just what he had to say that our in order for it to not be uncomfortable, or if you want a more meaningful affirmation from the elite, which he will get your yet if he were smart enough, he would not have to do that much to make plenty of people say, well, i was surprised. they would say, i'm surprised. he really did do this big infrastructure thing and did not do this crazy constitution busting thing. it would not require much move to the center precincts for him to get the credit that he has always craved. john: what do you think about what people think about hillary clinton at this point? if i would be enraged at the clinton campaign and the ways in which they failed at some basic

dowd, featuring the 8g band with dave lombardo. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers, this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] doing well? fantastic. always nice when people are in a good mood on a monday. let's get to the news. organizers have announced that donald trump will attend 2 inaugural balls during his first week in office. one in washington d.c. and then of course the real one in moscow.

dowd won't like it one bit. >> well, i think it was, again, it depends on the audience in the moment and who he's trying to get over at a certain moment. that "new york times" meeting was very telling. oh, i think you're going to like what i do on the first amendment. or, you know, i think you're going to like what i do with climate change. well, so, we'll see how passing and glancing that is, or if that's what he had to say that hour in order to have it not be uncomfortable. or if he wants a more meaningful affirmation from the elite, which he could get. which, if he were smart enough, he wouldn't have to do that much to make people, plenty of people, you, john, me, all of the elite say, you know, i was -- they would say, i'm surprised. he really did do this big infrastructure thing and he didn't do this crazy constitution-busting thing. it wouldn't require very much move to the center sane precincts for him to get the credit that he has always craved. >> do you -- what do you think about what people think about hillary clinton at this point? and how much -- i mean, if i were a part