florida, north carolina, wisconsin, early voting period was cut down to mere days. and in your state, 400,000 registered voters were purged from the roles without notice. so what are you keeping your eye on in 2017? >> well flatout shame. my republican colleagues have been trying to strip away voting rights across this country. the gutting of the vra, that is not the way a representative democracy should perform. and that certainly is not how people who are elected, who depend on people to vote for them for a living, should respond. and so we got to continue to push. i'm hoping that democrats will continue to push and also some republicans who believe that the vra needs to be strengthened. we have to do that. many of these things, this is an omni partisan. the whole notion we have one woman, one man, one vote, is an omni partisan issue. and the democracy that all of those beautiful words, how we praise the foundations of this country is really based on every day women and men in this country being able to exercise their right to vote, being able to express their wheel through the pow

table. >> most of the people there were laughing because of the idea, in grn bay, wisconsin, because the peleop realize you don't talk about blowing up france or germany. europe is a small place. you don't drop one bomb one place and not bomb everywhere. >> this is a problem that we were just getting at with that abortion answer is that he mimics, he says what he thinks people believe, people whom he is trying to reach. he is trying to reach conservatives, trying to reach hawks who want to hear he is taking a hard line on nuclear weapons. he will say what he thinks they believe because he doesn't fully understand it. because he doesn't fully understands, he trips himself up. >> i thought he used the phrase i'm not taking anything off the table as a line the hawks use notice middle east. we might bomb iran, i'm not taking anything off the table. it's a line of coverage if you want to appeal to the right. >> here is the problem we have. we're trying to think of donald trump as a traditional candidate. we try to look at his answers and say why did he say that? this is the guy that's the

say is exactly what the hillary campaign said about michigan voters, wisconsin voters and pennsylvania voters. democrats are on defense in 2018. they have got about 10 democratic senators up for re-election. and trump won states. so they can keep assuming that they're going to hold on though these voters but, boy, they keep losing them right and left. >> quick thought, simon before we go, last one? >> listen, we got more votes in this election than the republicans did. don't count the democratic party out of in 2018. i look forward to coming back with both of you many times. >> there is still a heart beat? >> still a heart beat. >> clear? clear? not yet? simon and sarah, thank you very much. next on the rundown, president-elect donald trump, russia and congress, what becomes of all those what becomes of all those sanctions once donald trump oh, how waso good!en house? did you apply? oh, i'll do it later today. your credit score must be amazing. my credit score? credit karma. it's free. that's great! um hm. just whip bam boom, it's done. that apartment is mine! credit karma

manufacturing jobs to the states that won in the election. pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, michigan, he told voters in those states that he was going to bring back the jobs. and that's kind of what george will's getting at, there. >> yeah, and it is a delusion. but, you know, he's doing his best to paper over it with the symbolic measures. so the carrier instance, for instance. he's not saving every job at carrier. half of the jobs are still probably going to be exported and a lot of those jobs will end up in automation, anyway. but we do remember that intervention, because it was so dramatic, he went to the plant, and he took credit for saving the company. or saving that factory, i should say. so, you know, trump, he does have an uncanny ability to be a showman, and that might get him through this. i don't think -- but he's not going to be able to reverse historical trends. let's be honest about this. the exportation of jobs was happening well before barack obama or even nafta, this is a multi-decade-long process here. so of one hand, he has these sky-high expectations that george will

you think that donald trump won wisconsin and michigan because of his stance about marriage being between a man and woman you are dead wrong. >> that's not what i said. >> lost by 80,000 votes. won by 3 million but lost 80,000 electoral college. >> pro-family agenda and the left does not. >> quick footnote bill o'reilly would like to thank you for making his power house history book "killing the rising sun" the biggest adult book of the year. also bill's kid's book "give please a chance" number one in category. go to bill o'reilly.com and become a premium member you can get any one of bill's books absolutely free. my book is a great read as we wrap 2016. just ask president-elect donald trump he wrote a nice quote for the back cover as did mr. bill o'reillyhimself. still to come, is the left denying there is a war on cops? we will tell you about some troubling new statistics about officers killed in the line of duty. the factor will be right back. ♪ ♪ hey there, starting your search for the right used car? i am! you got it. just say show me millions of used cars for sale at the

vladimir putin deterred her from competing in pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan, states that donald trump carried for the first time as a republican in decades. >> the thing a lot of people want to know is of course the president elect can reverse all of this when he takes office in very short time. will he reverse these actions taken by president obama? >> i won't make a statement on that at all tonight? >> i will tell you that even those sympathetic to president obama on most issues are saying part of the reason he did this today was to quote, box in president elect trump. that would be very unfortunate if that were the motivating factor here, politics. but we can't help but thinks that often true. even the "new york times" characterize it as such. that is not the way that peaceful exchanges of the administrations work in this democracy. -- >> do you think these very series and unprecedented actions that the president obama took today, expelling diplomat, sanctioning foreign intelligence service, you think president obama did that just to box in donald trump? >> no, i was actually

know that podesta's e-mails, like we read them in d.c., like they're being read by voters in wisconsin and michigan and that was the reason. i think that is the central focus now of why this election came to be and i think the trump campaign is a little frustrated by that. but when you have john mccain and lindsey graham and a lot of republican senators saying we need to investigate it, we should because they're afraid next time it could be republicans. >> next time it will. molly, david, thank you so much. really appreciate it. >>> coming up, two icons gone in two days, debbie reynolds dies one day after her daughter carrie fisher. we'll talk about that and what some call the broken heart syndrome next. [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette and her new mobile wedding business. at first, getting paid was tough... until she got quickbooks. now she sends invoices, sees when they've been viewed and ta-da, paid twice as fast! see how at quickbooks-dot-com. . >> look at the date, it's three years old. >> well, it's been in the freezer. >> but how cheap was it that you wanted to buy this much

. jamil, tell me something i don't know. >> the university of wisconsin has a new class called the problem with whiteness. this is a class that's actually designed to get to the roots of white supremacy and understand how whiteness has been defined over the years. but a republican state assemblyman is now threatening the state funding because of the class, it says that white people are racists, which it doesn't. >> i did not know that. >> i want the take donald trump back to his promise to create jobs and i want him to focus on the real job killer which is automation. not china, not immigration, not globalization, 45% of our jobs can be done by automation including all of ours. he should address that. >> it seems very clear that barack obama now sees his primary legacy besides obamacare as being the environment. he said aside acres for national monuments. he's used the antiquities act more than fdr. he has 2-1 the ratio from any other president. this is clear this is something he wants to do. going back to harry reid one of the monuments set aside today is important to harry reid.

battleground states, he also swept wisconsin, michigan and north carolina, traditionally blue states where clinton seemed to have a lock. striking a conciliatory tone, the new president-elect heaped praise on the woman he mocked throughout the campaign as crooked hillary. >> we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country. >> reporter: within days of his win, trump met with president obama who promised a smooth transition process. green party candidate, jill stein, however, was not so cooperative, filing recount petitions in several close states citing the possibility of election fraud and computer hacking as a reason. >> this is about the american voters who deserve to have a voting system we can trust. >> reporter: one of the big issues of the presidential campaign had to do with a future makeup of the supreme court. that point was underscored by the death in february of conservative justice antonin scalia who died of natural causes while hunt in texas. >> he will no doubt be remembered as one of the most consequential judges and thinkers to serve on the supreme court

all of the things happening in the water, in the sinkholes, and all that. wisconsin is next, they are like buddies, bosom buddies, our governor and snyder. i want people to be aware, when they say states rights, they need to be careful who is running the state. host: perhaps you can pick up on the interaction between the federal epa and some of the state agencies. emily: when we have been saying epa on the show, we've been talking about the federal agency for things we are about, like the clean power plan. and if agencies at the state level that focus on the state issues. the federal epa is looking at things that would impact -- state epa is looking at things that would impact state issues. maybe you have pollutants going into another state, that is something they would be regulating. yes, states rights, it depends on what your state wants to do, maybe something you want to support. you might be more aligned with what the federal government wants to do. or what the state wants to do. dependent on your political leanings. host: al, good morning. caller: thank you. a couple of quest

margins were in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, that jim comey was the deciding factor. >> they do. they will also say that, okay, we could have done a thousand things differently. we could make one tweet here. put bernie sanders on the ticket. spend two more days in wisconsin or two days at all in wisconsin. >> i'm not saying they're right. this is what they believe. >> you are right. they deeply kind of have internalized this and there is very much a sense of we're talking about how the president feels about this. the clinton campaign very much believed that donald trump's election would be apocalyptic for the country, the democratic party, and there was from the very beginning when it became clear that he was going to be the nominee, a sense that they better not mess it up. if they did, consequences were going to be much different than if, say, they were running against jeb bush. the reality is mistakes were made and they lost. there's been a lot of grappling with what role the campaign may have played in that. i'm not sure. they seem to have settled on comey as the reason. i

money for at the university of wisconsin, madison that says, the problem with whiteness. it is unbelievable. this is not an isolated incident. higher education has been completely corrupted by the far left, and, you know, we are happy to play a role. >> yes, it has. >> to expose this. but the media needs to highlight how off the rails higher education has become and this is another example of that. >> we're certainly hearing more about it. i want to go to another level of craziness and scenes that are playing out all over the country at malls. take a look at this. and as you can see, i mean there are all kinds of fights, hysteria, reports of gun fire at malls across the country. some of this is, they say, being instigated by individuals, some of it is, you know, supposedly sales. what -- is this a new phenomenon we are going to be seeing? i'll start with dr. loudon. >> well, this is a mob mentality. this is similar to the same ano, ma'am anymority people feel they have when they get on twitter and spew their rhetoric and people join in thinking, well, nobody knows who i am. if

didn't really care about her the 10,000 votes that she lost by in michigan. 20,000 wisconsin. 40,000 pennsylvania. that guy and his sister and tens of thousands like him would have come out. they didn't come out for hillary. >> very good, lisa. what do you think? was that president obama taking a shot at hillary. >> i think it was taking a shot at hillary clinton obviously donald trump as well. as you mentioned earlier in the show president obama said his legacy was on the ballot in 2016 and essentially what it was was rejection of that legacy what ca did he do doer rad occasion of president obama's. he talked about unraveling iran deal. even if you look at something like the supreme court. 21% of voters said that was the most important issue for them when deciding which candidate to vote for. those voters overwhelmingly went for donald trump. that's a rejection of what president obama would have chose supreme court nominee as well. >> now with that richard, president obama himself said. i remember this on the stump he was saying a vote nor hillary is a vote for my legacy, guess what

barack obama might have won if he had focused on those three states, michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. hillary clinton playing barack obama wasn't going to win. >> very quickly, i want to talk about this poll. there's a new poll out from pew research that shows that president obama will end his presidency really on a high note. 45% of people surveyed say he will be remembered as an outstanding or above-average president. you think those numbers, howard, are going to help the democratic party going forward at all? >> yeah, i think they will. i think the biggest help to the democrats going forward is trump is going to be unbelievably erratic and scare the hell out of a lot of people who voted for him. and they already are. if a lot of those folks in kentucky and west virginia lose their health insurance, which is absolutely going to happen, because those are the two states that are most dependent on obamacare, there's going to be hell to pay for the republican party. if they go and try to privatize medicare, there's going to be hell to pay for the republican party. and ther

ready to handle the weight of the ice house. it collapsed. over in wisconsin, we got pictures of ten people out there fishing. they like to fish as well. the ice started cracking around them. they had to be rescued there in wisconsin. going forward today, air travel is still in pretty good shape though if you look we have the misery map here. there are delays, but just a little over 600 or 700 this hour which is good. only five to seven cancellations. all in all, smooth travel in the air. not so much on the roads. peter? >> always a good sign when there is green on the misery map. ron mott outside helping us out today. thank you very much. mall mayhem across the country yesterday. fights breaking out at several shopping centers. >> oh, my god! >> there is a look at it. in some places police in riot gear were called in. nbc's morgan radford in garden city, new york. one of the sites of the fhts where they erupted yesterday. morgan, do we have a sense of what might have started the fights? was there a connection between them on social media or elsewhere? were these just independent eve

covering the initial campaign swing that governor scott walker of wisconsin was making in south carolina to show that he had national standing. and he was really one of the establishment heavyweights of the race. and i was at one of his events at a harley-davidson dealership early in the morning. people were lined up to see him. and i wanted to ask them what they thought of this huge republican field. and i was just surprised how many people without any prompting mentioned donald trump. he was speaking to them. they knew he wasn't being taken seriously by some of the other candidates and the media, but to them, he was saying something important. and i came back thinking, you know, trump is a real thing. at that point, most people weren't regarding him as such, including most of the other campaigns. >> what do you think that the primary motivator was for his momentum? i mean, it seems to me, and we've talked about this before when we had you on the program, it's a sense of the lack of fair ness in the system and the lack of willingness to fix that by the establishment. >> i think

wisconsin where i came from, that's how they voted. no other explanation. the mistake was made that we did not go out into america and get to know who those people were. we relied on somebody in new york or washington or wherever giving us poll data telling us what they were in a statistical profile instead of really old-fashioned legacy journalism. and god knows as stripped down as the media is today, we have enough resource to go to wisconsin and talk to people. and by the way, we can do better than going to a diner and talking about how much pancakes they eat and how silly their sweatshirts book. really engage the people in this country in a conversation. if we had done even a little of that, megyn, we would not have missed this colossal cultural shift. the story of donald trump's victory is one of the greatest stories in decades and we missed it cold. everybody missed it. >> yeah. >> i take that back. i don't want to get carried away. everybody didn't miss it. some of us were saying, just what you did, the segment you ran, he caught up. >> don't write him off. >> exactly, not everybody

michigan voters, it's the wisconsin voters, it's the rust belt voters who are so disenfranchised and feel so left out in the cold. those are the voters that put the president-elect over the line and he must, has to deliver for those voters on trade, on taxation, and finally on obamacare. i think if he delivers, then i think we have learned all the lessons we need to learn and he'll have many terms -- he'll have one more term to come and the republicans will do well going forward. >> kayleigh, angela, matt, david here with me in washington, thanks very much. >>> a lot more coming up tonight including president-elect trump's announcement that he is dissolving his charitable foundation. and the state attorney general who says not so fast, we're still busy investigating that foundation. that's right after this. when standard cancer treatment no longer works for patients like lynn, advanced genomic testing may lead to other treatment options that can work. learn how genomic testing is changing the way we fight cancer at cancercenter.com/genomics justice is spelled b-o-x.hero, say hello to

their case. had they pent more times in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, some small towns, they would have rerailed. >> he repeated the suggestions that the democratsic in order those segments of the population. >> see, i think the issue was less that democrats have somehow abandoned the white working class. i think that is nonsense. the affordable care act benefits a huge number of trump voters. there's a lot of folks in places like west virginia or kentucky who didn't vote for hillary, didn't vote for me, but are being helped by this. the problem is that we're not there on the ground communicating, but that we care about these communities, would bleeding for these communities. >> a bit of monday morning quarterbacking there by the president. >> yeah, but it is consistent with the way he ran his campaigns. in 2008, and 2012, he had an economic measure that was geert toward walking away from the democratic party in this election. so he won counties like mccomb county in michigan that hillary clinton lost by quite a margin, luzerne county near your hometown up by scranton, where he --

, wisconsin, you saw the largest amount of trump voter -- or obama voters vote for trump. so, trump took away that in theory should have been clinton voters. that obama sort of won over and won over their doubts. i think that was a little bit of a dig at clinton. >> and you're right about the crossover vote. i saw a lot as i was out covering it in ohio and other places. >> you could see it everywhere. >> you could. >> it was significant. thank you both for joining us today. >> thank you. >> thanks. >>> next up, a massive search is under way after a russian military plane crashes with 92 people on board. now investigators are looking to try to pinpoint a cause. >>> plus, from brexit to the rio olympics, we'll take a look back at some of the biggest and most impactful moments from around the world over the past year. more after this break. type 2 diabetes. listen up. we're not professional athletes... but that doesn't mean we're giving up. i'm in this for me. for me. along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes, lowering a1c by up to 1.2 points. d

starkly in wisnsin where he told paul ryan, i'm with you and told the crowd don't boo wisconsin in paul's home state, if you're not with me, i'll cut you off at the knees. message received by paul ryan and all republicans. he needs to take it to the next step and needs to do what we've all been hoping he would do and that michael has talked about and you're talking about, and that is reach out to americans who are nervous. who were worried. that think a trump presidency is exclusionary and only for angry white men. that if you're a muslim american, you have a reason to be afraid. if you're a black american, you have reason to be afraid. if you're an immigrant to this country, you have a reason to be afraid. boy, you just aren't going to have a bigger platform than you will have at the inauguration to again deliver your message but at the same time, send out signals. >> i think that's right. first of all, the angry white men have been replaced by very happy white men. but the thank me tour, the parts i don't like it really are the relitigating of the whole election and how hillary l

, racism, bigotry, everything except for the fact that maybe we should have campaigned in wisconsin, for example. >> yes. the election was relatively close in the electoral college. >> and she won the popular vote. >> you're talking about 100,000 or so votes and three states that could have swung this thing her way. so the democrats, you know, all of these factions have a plausible explanation here. did the fbi stuff tip it a little bit? did wikileaks tip it? was it bernie sanders? was it jill stein? whatever faction you're in, you can plausibly point the finger and say, it wasn't my fault. it was your fault. so i think the democrats do need to decide on why they lost so that they can move forward and learn how to win. the other mistake they want to worry about making is, you know, maybe they're all right, and maybe donald trump is a unique political figure and should she change their entire game plan because of, you know, to take care of the next donald trump? maybe they didn't do anything wrong. >> well, there's no examination so far, mary, at all about the agenda. no examination

?" , the book,tevi troy "shall we wake the president?" wisconsin, democrats line. lou, go ahead. caller: good morning. merry christmas. i want to thank you for the program. my thought here was fema. and your guests had mentioned that the politics really do not play in issue -- i am misquoted him. .t should not be an issue in this day and age where we have the deniers or people who are pushing back, a lot of us are seeing down here, you just mentioned the north pole and temperature changes, the mad swings. how it affects cities and, i guess, my point being, fema is us.cted and come and save and we have the republican party who is so federalist as they want to assume that kind of power, you know, we can take care of ourselves in the state until we have one these natural disasters. my question is, when i was growing up, i am 64 years old, those were to say, the spots where you really did not -- you cannot defend on anything because of the weather. you know what? you were not the own. we live in a day and age now where if something is happening to florida, everybody anticipates a multibilli

the fact that maybe we should have campaigned in wisconsin, for example. >> yes. i have a little sympathy for the democrats here. the election was relatively close. in the electoral college, you're talking act 100,000 or so votes that could have swung this thing her way. the democrats, all these factions have a plausible explanation here. did the fbi stuff tip it, was it bernie sanders? jill st ein. you can point the finger and say it wasn't my fault. it was your fault. the democrats need to decide on why they lost so they can move forward and learn how to make. the other mistake they want to worry about making is maybe they're all right, and maybe donald trump is a unique political figure and should they change their entire game plan because of -- to take care of the next donald trump? maybe they didn't do anything wrong. >> well, there's no examination so far at all about the agenda. no examination about the economic policies over the last eight years. no examination about their identity politics of focussing on ethnic and gender groups as opposed to the broader public. >> well

after safely landing at a wisconsin airport. members of the vikings going up against the packers this morning posted videos as they were removed from the jet in a fire basket. one writing, cross this one off the bucket list. fortunately no injuries were reported. >>> how will the weather impact your holiday travel? let's go to bonnie. >> good morning. unfortunately we have a storm brewing. on time for christmas, watching for plenty of rain through las vegas and arizona at this hour. it's the beginning of a storm ramping up with strong winds in southern california. a lot of rain in san diego and los angeles this morning, and the heavy snow building in the sierra. as the low works north and west, this is going to produce a blizzard. we're look agent blinding conditions with snow and wind for rapid city, bringing us cold air. changing conditions for minneapolis. freezing change over to rain. treacherous travel for northern minnesota. there's also severe storms we're watching in the center of the country. with snow south north and west, we'll be watching for heavy amounts into utah and co

plane after it slid off the runway in wisconsin, and snow making travel tricky from iowa where drivers are struggling to stay on the highway, to spokane, washington, a 25-car pileup and nobody was hurt. and many are hoping to avoid a similar fate, putting chains on their tires. a record 103 million people expected to travel this holiday season with nearly 94 million hitting the road. >> now we are just sitting still. >> at the airport so far, a mixed bag. >> i am glad we have a lot of leeway, because there's no way -- if i was here two hours early, i don't think i would make my flight. >> as can you see, there are no lines, no lanes at all. >> in newark, new jersey on friday, getting to the airport, when an airplane got stuck. hundreds stranded, one tweeted send help. and some are not concerned. >> i am not worried. hey, it's the holiday travels. merry christmas. >> reporter: if you are not going to travel this holiday season this live report with these pictures serve one purpose, to make you feel good you decided not to travel because it's slow going. >> kerry sanders, live for us, an

football players evacuated from their plane after it slid off the runway in the snow in wisconsin, snow that is making travel tricky tprrbgs iowa where drivers are struggling to stay on the highway, to spokane, washington, and amazingly, nobody was hurt. drivers in northern california hoping to avoid a similar fate putting chains on their tires. >> and it's more traffic. >> a record 103 million people expected to travel this holiday season with 94 million hitting the road. >> now we are just sitting still. >> reporter: at the airport so far, a mixed bag. >> i am glad we have a lot of leeway, because there's no way -- if i was here two hours early i don't think i would make a flight. >> as you can see, there are no lines. no lanes at all. >> in newark, getting to the airport was hard when this got stuck, and delays flights not a concern. >> i am not worried. but, hey, it's the holiday travels, merry christmas. >> reporter: of course she has the right attitude. it's going to be a trying day, and pack your patience, and remember one piece of the puzzle if you are traveling by air tod

an act of terror. >>> we begin with dangerous weather. a very snowy wisconsin. the minnesota vikings team plane skid off the runway last night. officials say the plane was taxiing when the rear wheel skidded off the runway and got stuck. no injuries and the team was left off the plane after a four-hour delay. >>> for a look at the weather across the country, msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider. are we seeing trouble spots today? >> we are. a busy christmas weekend for so many that are traveling especially in the west. we have a vigorous storm system bringing rain to southern california. snow in the higher elevations. this storm system is on the way. it will develop across the four corners, bringing heavy snow eventually to the northern plains, and across the rockies and sierra. with the wind as fierce as we're projecting especially into north dakota, this will be a full-fledged blizzard. the gusts could get as high as 50 miles per hour. icy conditions for minneapolis. severe storms to the south. so stormy weather through christmas day, as well. if you're looking for a white

sanders. [ applause ] that does it for us here in kenosha, wisconsin. there's much more on our website, allin.msnbc.com. good night. >>> how not to run for president and win. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. when donald trump rode down the escalator at trump tower on june 16th, 2015, to announce his candidacy for presidency, even though who hoped he'd shake things up wondered how long he'd last. it was hard to find an expert who are predicted he'd end up taking the oath of office. but over the next 16 months, he roared past a group of challengers and one of the best financed and best prepared democratic candidates ever. and at every turn, he seemed to check the box for what not to do while running for president. he went to war with a popular news anchor, attacked a beauty queen for gaining weight, called for his democratic opponent to be locked up and said away, said women who get abortions should face criminal punishment and defied republican orthodoxy on war, relations with russia, and trade. he called for banning an entire religion from ente

huge storm right now moving across the great lakes, headed in towards areas of a wisconsin. that might bring two or the inches of snow but we have another one across the west thatting bringing rain and we'll see snow levels get very low here across southern california. >> sounds good what does it look like for christmas day? >> this does become our big weathermaker. we haul ain'ts could of winter weather advisory in effect, including this green. that's a blizzard watch and christmas day that's where the storm will be. moves across southern california around the four corners for christmas eve, making a white christmas eve for northern arizona and the parts of the four corps and then sunday this is our blizzard, very windy conditions fork christmas day across the northern plains and even some severe weather possible. might see a tornado or two and very strong winds, nebraska, oklahoma. as a line of storms moves through. this is our trouble spot. the east will be looking great. miami, still warm. 82. new york city 46. and clear out across the west christmas day. the problem is going be to

resentment." looking at wisconsin and rural america. you are listening to the washington journal. on this friday morning, the 23rd of december. we will be back in a moment. we hope you stay with us. ♪ >> this holiday weekend, here are some of our featured programs. on saturday, we take a look at farewell speeches and tribute to outgoing members of the white house. starting with the senator from maryland. and speeches from joe biden. then at 8:00, christmas at the white house. join michelle obama as she receives the official white house christmas tree. tour the white house and see the decorations. make products with children of military families visiting the white house, and finally the tree lighting ceremony on the national mall. hear from the former house speaker on the trump presidency in his time in congress. and at 9:40 p.m., it's in the portrait unveiling of the outgoing minority leader, harry reid, democrat of nevada. speakers include hillary clinton, vice president joe biden and carl schumer. and then we hear from the retiring member of congress, representative charles rangel of

with the american people. you look and saw pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, states that hadn't gone red since 1980s. i think one of the things that people have to remember is that donald trump is speaking to something that most people haven't gotten. he understands the frustration and anger and concerns that many americans haven't been able to voice in decades. >> let's talk about the tweet yesterday. obviously causing a lot of concern in the foreign policy community about nuclear weapons. there seemed to be a bit of a clarification that came out later on that you're not talking about expanding the nuclear arsenal. donald trump was talking about that but modernizing the nuclear arsenal. >> there's another piece of this. other countries need to understand this president will act if they expand their nuclear capabilities. there's a few countries around the globe, russia being one of them, china, others that have talked about increasing their nuclear capabilities. the president-elect's point is unless these guys come to their senses and recognize that this is not a smart move increasin

economics and middle america. she did not go to wisconsin. she didn't think she had to. she quit advertising in colorado during august because they thought we're just going to get more congressmen and senators elected so we're going to really punish the republicans. she quit listening to the american people after she got the nomination. >> congressman, let me ask you this then. if you say it's about jobs and the economy, and i think in a broad sense part of that is true, what's the benchmark for this incoming administration? you've got -- we've got 3.5% gdp growth, wages that went up according to the data we got in the last part of the campaign, the highest level in 60 years. what is the benchmark? how should we judge this as success? 5% growth, 6% growth? >> i think you'll see about a 4% growth rate. over an eight-year period of time it was a 2% growth rate. you had 43 million on food stamps, the lowest labor participation rate in decades of 62%. >> so you're saying -- >> all those numbers are going to improve. >> that is a very useful benchmark. higher lane participation rate,

all going to be okay. and now we don't need to go to wisconsin for seven months. what's there to do in wisconsin? that's what we have on our side, and that's why we lost, even though we won. and that's why, if the democratic party, if these people who allowed this catastrophe to happen when we had the majority of the americans on our side, if they don't have it together like tomorrow it is going to be one -- i can't say it on basic cable, but come january 21, it's going to be a real legislative bloodbath on capitol hill, and liberals and hillary voters and democrats and just people in general are going to be like, their heads are going to spin when they see just how good trump and the republicans are at getting everything done or attempting to do t and a lot of people i know, especially in place like michigan are also going to be in shock that he wasn't kidding around when he said he was going to do these things. he's actually going to do them. so we better get ready. >> let's squeeze in a little break here, and then when we come back, we're going to do your five rules for all of us

him credited for. she visited wisconsin not once. she visited michigan only toward the end. if she had a real message to those voters in the midwest and rust vet that would have made a difference. >> you are saying had you a bad candidate. >> bad candidate and also a message issue. >> let's go back to the church issue though. it sounds to me like you are saying people in the middle of the country and especially whites and older whites in the middle of the country more likely church-going are the people who did not vote for clinton. >> yes. they did not vote for her on economic message. that's where the democratic party has to focus. because it is unfair and it's not true to say that people of faith are only in one party. yes, that tends to be the fact but those numbers haven't changed since the 1960s. the issue here with this loss is not secularism. it's got to do with the message and messenger in 2016. >> katrina pearson sounds like you are agreeing with jeanne. >> it wasn't the lack of message for the economy. she didn't have a message at all. in fact, hillary clinton was the pos

in michigan and wisconsin who voted for him who are going to be quite disappointed. >> nina, what do you think of ira's point there, that you have to change the policies that would give washington power to reduce some of the money flowing in. >> well, let me add ohio to his list. this really comes down to political will. now, president-elect trump ran on the whole notion of draining the swamp. yet, as you highlighted in an earlier segment, his cabinet is worth about $4.5 billion, with a "b," the fact that they are selling off and i put that in air quotes, opportunities to either talk about to the president-elect or people in his cabinet just reinforces more of the same. and that's what the american people are -- they're tire of that. politicians run saying one thing, of which president-elect said that he wasn't your ordinary politician, and then when it comes down to it, they do something entirely different. and there is going to be hell to pay, i believe, if president-elect trump does not follow through on his promises to the working poor and middle class in this country. and it sho

. i remember tweeting the weekend before, if republicans want to win in wisconsin and michigan and industrial midwest in the future, they have to take this populist tack. they did. and trump won those states. >> what you see is that in the industrial midwest and in new england, you had these huge disparities between how he did in the most economically disadvantaged versus the less economically disadvantaged. it's less pronounced than appalachia. the theory is that because in appalachia things have been bad for a long time. in the industrial midwest and in these rural parts of new england, this is kind of a new phenomenon. people are even more unsettled and more unwilling to listen to someone that comes in and has a different story for them. >> to put an exclamation point on this, and i can't say this enough, despite all of those numbers, hillary clinton would have won if she had visited those areas. hillary clinton would have won if she had visited wisconsin. she would have won if she visited michigan. she would have won if she did what barack obama did four years ago and take out

rally in wisconsin, the first stage the two of them shared after being repeatedly at odds during the campaign. >> speaker paul ryan, i've really come to -- oh, no, i've come to appreciate him. he's like a fine wine. every day goes by i get to appreciate his genius more and more. now, if he ever goes against me, i'm not going to say that, okay? >> as far as trump is concerned, this is it. it will be his defining characteristic for the four years of his presidency. now we're seeing the first signs of how that can affect politics and policy making in washington. texas congressman bill flores made innocuous comments about trump's relationship with house republicans. >> i think we'd all agree that some of president trump's proposed policies won't line up very well with our conservative policies. what i would do is i would try to say what are those areas that we have good alignment with where president trump wants to go and where we want to go and tell him, hey, we'll take the lead on this. >> that prompted an onslaught of harassment on twitter, misleading headlines. indignant name check b

rational was this flimsy. and yes campaign made errors especially in wisconsin and michigan but comey must account for his actions too, given how unsupported we now see they were. sean spicer is here. all i've here since the election was it wasn't hillary's fault. it was the russians and comey. >> they are on step 8 of the 12-step program. i hope they can get through this before the end of the year. they were expecting a coronation. they had fireworks out. they didn't understand what was going on in america. and i think is difficult to overcome that kind of loss. they were expecting it to turn out vastly different than it did. i understand it. but at some point for the gf of themselves and their party they need to look in the mirror and understand they add flawed candidate, flawed campaign, flawed message. >> what is the flaw there? i remember four years ago your group reince and yourself put out a gop autopsy. we thought what's going on with the gop. is it a dead party going on. now four years later, flourishing across the board. white house. state legislature. governor's mansions. a

us now, charlie psych, editor-in-chief of right wisconsin. how the right lost its mine. julian epstein is with us. he was the democratic council to the house judiciary committee. also with us david cay johnston, pulitzer prize winning journalist who today founded d.c. report.org, a nonprofit organization that will cover the trump administration. david, you've been covering donald trump longer than any of us, having written the book on him. and on -- also, as a financial and tax expert, your reaction to what we are learning from politico about -- one possible way trump is considering going on this. >> donald trump is going to be donald trump. he is not going to change. >> right. >> donald is about money and the glorification of donald. and the country be damned. donald throughout the campaign showed no respect for the constitution. let's remember this is a man who wasn't willing to say of course he would concede if he didn't win. a man who talks about the presidency like it's vladimir putin's job, that he is effectively a dictator. and won't even take his national security brief