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, tennessee. grief counseling has been happening all day long inside of this elementary school there. the school, its teachers, its students grappling with the unspeakable loss of five young lives. these students died monday in a school bus crash, fourth graders, a first grader, and a kindergartener. the man who was behind the wheel, johnthony walker. he has been charged with multiple counts of homicide and reckless driving, police say he was speeding along a winding road when he lost control of the bus and swerved off the pavement. the bus flipped on its side and wrapped around the tree. the impact was so tremendous a witness said it knocked the power out in her own home. one of the young survivors described the moment before the wreck. >> he wasn't paying attention, he was going real fast and he had hit a garbage bag and he had hit a mailbox and then we flipped over and hit the tree real hard. >> 35 children were on board that bus. 12 are still in the hospital. six in intensive care. cnn spoke with the bus driver's mother. she asked for compassion for her son saying the crash was g

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devastating fires wurning in tennessee plus a new controversy over something president elect trump tweeted just this morning. we begin with the dinner date few would have predicted a few weeks ago. not far from here president elect trump is having dinner with mitt romney. the same who did his best to derail president trump from the election. this is their second meeting. jim acosta booked a table in the same restaurant and joins us now my phone. >> we see the president elect sitting at a table with mitt romney who i suppose he's interviewing for secretary state right now,of state right now, along with outgoing chair reince priebus. from what we can tell so far trump sort of started out the conversation, talked for a good five minutes or so and then mitt romney chimed right in. i can tell you right now both men are very animated but smiling. it is warm. there is obviously no animosity whatsoever that is left over what from we heard during the primaries when mitt romney referred to donald trump as a phony and a fraud. and donald trump talked about mitt romney's choking like a dog in the 2012

bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. at least five children killed when the school bus ran off the road and hit a tree. police arrested the bus driver charges him with vehicular homicide. cnn's martin savidge joining us now from chattanooga a city in mourning. dispatch tapes released. what are we learning? >> reporter: they're begun to give you a sense of horrific imagery they found when they came across the scene. of course, they knew it was a school bus accident but you don't know how bad in you're there. listen to what they found. >> i have an mvc with a school bus. the bus is flipped over, occupied with children. it's going to be an mbc involving a scoot bus flipped over with children. they believe there are ejections. >> i can see an arm moving but i don't know if anybody can get to it. >> reporter: so you hear the description of ejections, children being thrown from the bus and then that last call where you hear the description of an arm waving out of the bus and authorities aren't sure how they'll get to them. it took firefighters hours to eventually free all the children fr

last time there was a close election like this al gore would have won his home state of tennessee he would have been the president of the united states. >> if -- democrats made so much about heavy hitters, surrogates that hillary clinton has. given all of the heavy hitters she has why is the race so close? the democrats seem to be saying early on we have president obama, joe biden, elizabeth warren, michelle obama. is she that bad of a candidate even with all of these surrogates. >> hillary is in the strongest position on this day of the election as barack obama was in the last election. >> you know it? >> i know it. i'm not going with feelings. i'm going with data. the data are clear. hillary is in a strong positioning to win. donald trump has to pull an inside straight to win. the president of the united states is wildly popular chris christie is trying to avoid testifying in court. none of them are. he hasn't been able to unify his party. >> yes, he has. >> scott walker. >> that's two. >> ben carson has been on the campaign trail. >> can i mention something? one thing we talked ab

for a tennessee community where five children were killed in a bus crash on their way home from school. a kindergartener, a first grader and three-fourth graders all lost their lives in monday's crash in chattanooga. nine-year-old cordasia jones was one of them, her count called her a bright little girl and said got was ready for his angel to come home. we're hearing from one of the grieving moms about the moment she found out her only child, six-year-old timon brown, had taken his final breath. >> i know where my babysits on the bus, i know he sits on the front, i know that because i see him every morning and evening and he gets in the same spot, so when they told me the front of the bus had been removed, i automatically had the mother instinct that my baby was up there because i had been waiting for the kids and i hadn't seen my son yet. so then i made my way to the emergency room because they kept telling me that several kids were already at the emergency room and you just need to go there and they'll try to identify them. from there i was about 4:00 something until 11:40 last night

wildfires raging near the resort town of gatlinburg, tennessee. right now, rescue crews are going door to door searching for people reported missing. the fires have devoured hundreds of homes. john maid madewell is joining me on the home. he a property manager in gatlinburg. i understand 25 of your properties are damaged or totally gone? we've got some photos of some of what you've taken. what is -- you've described this as a war zone. >> yes, ma'am. i was able to gain access to a couple of areas yesterday, and really, it was -- it was unbelievable. it was totally devastated. probably 95% of the homes burnt all the way to their foundation. >> how about your own home? is it okay? >> fortunately we were -- you know, probably about a mile, mile and a half away. everything was good at my home and all the staff here and their homes and families. everybody came through really well. i was talking with some other local businesses today that, you know, a lot of the employees were affected, losing their homes, have nowhere to go. so i'll tell you, the red cross, just the authorities down here, have

this. if al gore would have won his home state, tennessee, he would have been the president of the united states. >> let me ask you, so much, democrats made so much about the heavy hitters, the surrogates that hillary clinton had. given all the arguably heavy hitters, why is this race still so close? the democrats seem to be saying early on. you have president obama, joe biden, elizabeth warren, michelle obama, they're all wildly popular. is she that bad a candidate? even with all these surrogates? >> shl now stronger position this day, the election, than barack obama was in the last election. >> you believe that. >> i know it. >> it bears out in fact. >> i'm not going with my feelings. i'm going with data. shl in a strong position to win. trump who is the pull an inside straight to win. but they're acting on this. the president of the united states is wildly popular with the folks hillary needs. he is going to turn them out. she does have a greater arsenal. some of this is called leadership. bernie sanders is out there campaigning for hillary clinton. none of trump's opponents are

student, 8-year-old boy, has now died from injuries in a school bush crash in chattanooga, tennessee. we'll have the latest on the investigation next. >>> this is the worst kind of update and the worst kind of story to report. an eight-year-old boy died from his injuries tonight, two days after that horrifying school bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. that brings the death toll to six young lives. the bus driver has been charged with vehicular homicide and reckless driving. nick valencia reports. >> reporter: good evening and thanks for coming. federal investigators say 24-year-old johnthony walker was not on the designated route home when he flipped a school bus killing six children, the youngest a kindergartener. police have released only a few details about walker but at a press conference they answered some of the many questions still outstanding. >> we received toxicology reports back today from the tennessee bureau of investigation that shows no trace of alcohol or drugs in the driver's system. the driver's driving history did include a minor wreck in september of this year i

tomorrow, as is tennessee senator bob corker. so, let's talk more about this. andrea bower, a cnn political commentator, trump supporter and ryan williams, former spokesman for governor romney. nice to see both of you. andre, first to you, let me just throw this possibility on you. david axelrod tweeting, this is the alternative theory. kellyane was assigned the role of trashing mitt romney, otherwise it's an unbelievable breach. which is it, do you think? >> you know, i don't know. i've tried to analyze it myself. i can't really figure out what the angle is. i think it's magn aanomus for president-elect trump to consider mitt romney. i understand the other side as well, the folks who say, he engaged in a process to derail the nominee for the republican party, so i can see it from both sides. >> why take it so publicly? there's a thing called decorum. >> well, wouldn't be how i'd handle it, but there's a lot of people that are rifted and willing to stand up and say that. when they publicly say, i disagree and here's how i disagree. >> ryan, i'm coming to you in a second. but folks

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people back. >> yes. >> tell me about some of the stories. >> thomas from tennessee -- >> the gay male who voted for trump. >> right. from everything we heard leading up to this election we would have put thomas in a certain category. i was really interested to hear his side of the story. he even told me. i face a lot of backlash from my gay communities openly supporting trump. he said i am a single father. it came down to economic issues. he voted solely based on obamacare. >> you? >> for me what was surprising was the people who you wouldn't expect to vote the way they did. i talked to a woman named alexis who lives in texas. her parents crossed over the border illegally from mexico. she was born in the u.s. she is for the wall. she has family members who are crossing over from mexico. she says, i get that that they're crossing over, but i think we need to deport some of the illegal immigrants. we need a wall. it isn't okay. i called her back. she was really impassioned about it. people like alicia, the transgender woman. she said she grew up in a liberal town in massachusetts.

break in tennessee. in chattanooga six families have empty seats at their thanksgiving day tables. six children whose young lives were cut short when their school bus crashed monday on the winding narrow roads in tennessee. they were on their way home from school and these are five of the young victims here, including eight-year-old keonte wilson, he died yesterday from his injuries, putting the number at six. we are learning the 24-year-old bus driver was not on his normal designated route when he ran off the road and hit the tree with 37 kids on board. why he wasn't on his designated route, we still don't know. investigators shared toxicology reports showed the driver, johnthony walker, didn't have drugs or alcohol in his system at the time of the crash. this was his second crash involving a school bus in just two month's time. the principal at a neighboring school, who also happens to be the cousin of this young victim, nine-year-old cordayja jones, said that the driver's sister actually reached out to him. >> she called very emotional and obviously grieving and she was sharing

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, inside meeting with donald trump. also tomorrow he'll be sitting down with tennessee senator bob corker. >> sunlen, thank you so much. there were live pictures moments ago of the naked cowboy with kellyanne. fortunately, for many of you, you missed it. oh, no, here we go. never a dull moment in that trump tower lobby. let's move on. >>> president-elect donald trump making headlines on twitter, claiming the race he won was tainted by massive voter fraud. this is a trump tweet from just yesterday. quote, in addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, he tweets, i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. but here's the thing. there is absolutely no evidence to back up what he's claiming, that he won the popular vote. so, where is trump getting this from at all? let's go to dylan byers, it's totally false. where is he getting this? >> the claim is totally false. how often do you have the guy who won the election alleging fraud in the campaign he won. where he's getting it is something that bubbled up through conspiracy theory sites. starte

heartbreaking school bus accident in chattanooga, tennessee. six children have died. the driver has since been charged but we're now learning he had apparently worked a second job at amazon on the overnight shift before this drive. it was his last shift, we're told it was overnight last saturday. so with that news, danny cevallos has been seated next to me, our legal analyst. i'm learning this as everyone else is. so he was up all night working at amazon and then hot behind the wheel, driving 36 kids the next day. two days later. >> very interesting. it's sort of an area of the law that's undeveloped. we have rules about, say, police officer s who moonlight or take jobs but that's more about abuse of the office. there's not a regulation in private industry as to whether someone has one job, two jobs, three jobs. there isn't a way to check how much sleep somebody had the night before if you as a private company don't have control or access or information about where they were the 12 hours preceding their shift. so it's an interesting legal area of liability. >> so i'm crystal clear. if we're ta

bus described the crash that killed five children monday afternoon in tennessee. >> in the back i can see an arm move zb move. >> the driver 24-year-old jonathan walker has been arrested for vehicular homicide and the focus now is speed. >> the police are aware of a following car, so that witness we have, but we're looking for other witnesses that may know not only about this event and also we have talked about previous behavior of the driver. >> according to an arrest affidavit, he was traveling and d driving at a high rate of speed. >> he was going real fast and he had hit a garbage bag and a mailbox and then we flipped over and hit a tree. >> the witness statements said that the bus went off the road and hit an elevated driveway and the mailbox and then again hitting a telephone pole and a tree. >> broken ribs, legs, broken arms, bleeding kidneys. our hearts have been going out to these families. >> 37 school children ranging from kindergarten to fifth graders were riding the bus when it crashed. a dozen remain hospitalize and some being treated in intensive care. >> there are no w

relates to the blood draw, we receive toxicology reports back today from the tennessee b bureau of investigation that shows no trace of alcohol or drugs in the driver's system. the driver's drifing history did include a minor reck in september of this year investigated by our agency. it's also part of the investigation. as for the patients, at this time hospital officials tell us six children remain hospitalized. out of respect and privacy for the families impacted by this tragedy we will not provide you names. again, the chattanooga police department's priority is helping the families heal. part of that healing process is reassuring them that our department investigators are committed to a complete, thorough, and fair investigation. i'll take a couple questions. >> reporter: what have you learned about this driver? >> we've heard those reports, that's part of the investigation currently being examined by investigators. that's part of the investigation. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> part of the affidavit that is on file. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> part of the i

the latest on devastating fires burning in tennessee plus a new controversy over something president-elect trump tweeted just this morning. we begin, though, with the dinner date that just weeks ago few if anyone would have predicted. right now at a new york restaurant not far from here in fact president-elect trump is having dinner with mitt romney. the same mitt romney who did his best to derail trump's bid for the presidency is now a contender for the cabinet position of secretary of state. it is their second meeting. reince priebus, trump's incoming chief of staff, is dining with them. our jim acosta booked a table in the same restaurant and joins us now by known. what's the scene there like, jim? >> anderson, what we can see right now is the president-elect sitting at a table with mitt romney, who i suppose he's interviewing for secretary of state right now, along with outgoing chair reince priebus. who's going to become white house chief of staff. it's been a warm and friendly discussion, pretty engaging discussion for the last 20 minutes or so since they arrived at this restau

tired claiming wide spread voter fraud. >>> and the tennessee's deadly wild fires. we're live at the scene. let's go "outfront." good evening everyone. i'm kate baldwin. out front tonight. breaking news. donald trump and mitt romney. who gets the nod remains open. but tonight's dinner, their second meeting in the last two weeks should go a long way to answering that question, we think. also breaking one official telling cnn trump is tapping his campaign finance chairman, form form former goldman sachs partner. and trump turned to former secretary of labor elaine choi to be his secretary of transportation. >> it is still the most high profile cabinet post, that of secretary of state, which tonight is still very much on open question. tonight donald trump is taking major steps to fill out his cabinet. >> we want to be in a position where in the first hundred days we can execute the economic plan. >> the president elect having form former goldman sachs partner steve minchen. and also naming gop congressman tom price as his pick for secretary of health and human services. >> as a positio

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texas, is the latest example. bob corker, the senator from tennessee, also potentially in line to be secretary of state. he also is from washington. so a very largely traditional cabinet up until this point, by and large from washington, which certainly is interesting given the tone against washington during this campaign. >> i want to loop around and ask you about governor romney and the big dinner out tonight. before i do, to our friend on capitol hill, manu. tell me about your conversation with senator mccain. >> i asked him about the issue of flag burning which, of course, donald trump relitigated this morning through his twitter account by saying people who burn flags should be prosecuted, possibly thrown into jail, possibly even lose their citizenship. of course, the supreme court has upheld the right under the first amendment for people to burn flags, even if you disagree with that act. so john mccain, of course, a war hero, a veteran, who actually voted for a ban on flag burning back in 2006. i asked him about donald trump's tweet, and he had this to say. >> he said that the

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circles and then tennessee senator bob corker who said in the past he would be willing to serve in the trump administration if asked. he wasn't necessarily the most vocal trump supporter during the campaign but he is someone with a bit of washington experience but also someone considered an outsider, a businessman himself and someone whose politics could marry that of donald trump. we don't know what direction donald trump intends to go in but we know that announcement won't come today. we mentioned he put the two staff announcements out earlier today. he and his family will relax over the weekend at mar-a-lago. they'll return back to new york on monday and that's what vice president mike pence will join trump again. that's when they'll start to get after this list of cabinet positions that need to be filled. brooke? >> have another mega meeting on monday of eight other people. lots of names to take in. ryan noble, thank you so much at mar-a-lago. >>> let's get reaction to this news here. let me bring in jesse burns, associate editor of the hill and cnn politics reporter eugene sco

narrow road in chattanooga, tennessee. they were on their way home from school. you see their precious faces here. these are the five young victims, including eight-year-old keonte wilson. we have learned the bus driver was not on his designated route when he ran off the road and plowed into the tree with 37 kids on board. as far as why, we don't know the answer. k investigators say toxicology report johnthony walker did not have drugs or alcohol in his system. it was his second accident in a school bus. the principal of a neighboring school who happens to be the cousin of nine-year-old cordayja jones says the driver's sister reached out to him. >> she called very emotional and obviously grieving and she was sharing with me that it was her brother. my was was on the bus as well so reassured he her brother was a good person and she said he was terribly heartbroken at the -- by the accident and she said that he was driving and he hit a curb or something and he tried to overcorrect the bus and caused it to flip over. >> the first lawsuit stemming from the crash has been filed by the famil

proximity to the oval office. speaker ryan, wisconsin governor scott walker, senator bob corker of tennessee, senator lindsey graham all praising the priebus pick. then republicans who went after bannon, such as chief strategist to republican governor john kasich, john weaver who wrote, quote, just to be clear, news media, the next president named a racist, anti-semite as the co-equal of the chief of staff. not normal. it's not just the liberals who are attacking this pick, david. >> absolutely. it's been well understood for a long time that steve bannon is a scorch the earth kind of guy, sort of burn the house down. some would think now we have bannon plus priebus, maybe only we'll burn half of the house down. we'll have to see. i think donald trump has a history of creating rivalries in his own organization. did that at the casinos, for example. and he seems to enjoy that. seems to think he gets good results out of that. that's the way "the apprentice," intentional stirring up conflict. he seems to be drawn to that. the issue ultimately becomes, two-headed leadership system we know never s

accused hillary clinton of doing via her private e-mail server. also under consideration, tennessee senator bob corker who will meet with trump tomorrow. >> really good. >> reporter: and mr. trump is now also calling in mitt romney for a second round of meetings since their first sit-down nine days ago. >> with the case of governor romney, the two, quite frankly, hadn't spent that much time together. and so this gives them a little more time to do so. >> thank you. >> reporter: romney quietly waiting in the wings in the time since, making no mention of the drama swirling around him. tweeting only about his family. "no greater joy than making discoveries together with grandchildren." and as all of this plays out, if you look at donald trump's schedule between today and tomorrow, he will be meeting with three of the people who are under top consideration for this very important job. so certainly a lot of focus right now on filling out this very important position. trump tweeting after a meeting with general petraeus that he is very impressed with him and, of course, all eyes on that d

infrastructure. we have some tweets here. [reading tweets] we have a caller from chattanooga, tennessee on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i agree with the lady. ,e get the money to the states and they spend it on everything else except on our roads. they make bicycle paths. we are -- we used to be an industrial state, and now we are more like a tourist state. all this to bring people in. if the state spent the money on our roads and then the other projects -- i have called and complained, and they changed their numbers so i cannot even talk to them again. host: tom, thank you for the call. guest: it goes back to this point that i do not think you have answered. how do you change the incentive? how do you change the incentives in government? not just the federal government, but the state and local governments so that you spend money that will actually return some in effect for people. -- some benefit for people. there was a recent interview between two experts about what the federal government can do -- the incentives are just not there at all. we have to be very caref

come together and be proud. i run from cleveland, tennessee, fromlican line -- byron cleveland, tennessee, republican line. as the media lost its influence? caller: yes it has come all the yes, all the mediate were talking about educated media wereh the talking about educated voters and they dismissed everyone who was college educated and that bothered me. one of our local newspapers wrote an article in the business section that should have been on the front page of the newspaper. you have to read between the lines. i use facebook quite a bit. that is where i get my news. i read between the lines and understand exactly what they are saying. me dismissed a large portion of the voters. up, queenstown, maryland, democratic line. go ahead. caller: good morning. host: good morning. go ahead with your thoughts, has traditional media lost its influence? caller: absolutely, i am 26 and do not understand what traditional media is, the way we consume media is much more dynamic. i believe the democratic national party needs to do a better job of branding itself through us. in the same way

the hour and jim in tennessee. what is up? caller: the trump surrogate that was talking about health care. it is amazing to me, these surrogates always drop these little untruth bombs that are hard to detect -- i don't know, they are very slick edit. -- slick at it. she was saying someone was getting treatment for health care, and when asked about the medicare expansion, she said you can get 10 care here -- tenncare here. that is not part of the medicare expansion. it was for people who could get health care to save their lives. when the republicans started taking control of the state, they cut it to the bone. you have to have a $3000-$4000 for your income to get it right now. thom: i remember tennessee was one of the states, you had a democratic governor, who had adopted the medicaid expansion part of obamacare, correct me if i am wrong on this. you are saying that when the election two years ago happened, you got a republican governor and he did away with it? caller: this was back in 1990, they got a waiver that created this program. thom: i'm thinking of kentucky. tennessee never

states, they moved to tennessee, alabama, florida, texas. why? because those are right to work states. i was interesting, south carolina recently. a few years ago, we had a few debates about boeing moving the plant to washington. if you fly to the airport in charleston, the biggest plant you have ever seen. it is for city blacks why -- it is four city blocks wide with thousands of workers. you got thousands of jobs in south carolina. those workers are very well-paid. i do believe in right to work. if you want to join the union, sir, you have the right to do so, but if i don't want to join, i have the right to do so. host: donald trump talked about reviving union -- manufacturing jobs. guest: she is the one that stuck the knife in the back of the coal industry with her regulations. we are not point to stop climate change by shutting down american energy. there was an article in the "wall street journal" that did not get a lot of publicity. china has hundreds of new coal plants and increase their coal capacity. how in the world are we reducing greenhouse gases by shutting down our energ

my -- i'm revealing weaknesses, calling from tennessee from our democratic morning, carolyn. caller: thank you for taking my call. called california that in said the top pay for social security, take it out of your payheck was $250,000. dealt just like having with helping people fill out their income taxes, the i would like c-span to correct that. the last i checked, it was only $118,000, which is gone up year after year. first started paying in tmaxed out at $7000. 120,000, it is 118, would you please correct that? thank you for taking my call. guest: this is why i love c-span. she's right. $118,000, it is $117 or indexedg up to $125,000 amount for next year. she's right, stunning. reviewers, i love the resource of c-span, i do this every time it.on here, make a plug for as someone who lives and breathes capitol hill in my greatest , it is the resource, your viewers see almost everything that i see and intelligence of the viewers is great. she is right, the number is level and she's right just dexd and increases about every year. legislative n the process do earmark come in and ow

not the best plan but the only plan that will work. host: john, tennessee republican, you are up next. caller: just to hear that last caller, it is amazing. [laughter] they think that you can just make this a socialist country. they do not really believe in freedom. freedom is you go to work, you pay for what you get. you go out and pay for what you can get. yes, republicans are christians, and we stand on the side of god and there is nothing wrong with that. look, [indiscernible] whether you are atheist and you believe it or not, i call out democrats atheist. they side with baby murders, it is just craziness. i cannot see how you can be a christian [indiscernible] and knowing all the stuff she does, at least donald trump does give us christians a voice. host: what about the republican leaders in congress? are they giving you a voice? caller: obama will not to that same he wants. whatever they try to do that is good, first of all, we need to restructure how we both for people. host: how so? caller: how? not have one party with 14 states. i understand that they have to fit millions of

out of that public area. arthur in memphis, tennessee, a democrat. what do you think about what the president-elect had to say? caller: i do not think too much of it because once he shows his taxes he will be -- host: richard in massachusetts, an independent caller. like what he is doing with the transpacific agreement. i like the nafta, to go over nafta. just two things that i really would like to see done. host: if he can accomplish that, making changes to nafta and renegotiating the transpacific partnership, would you be happy? yeah, if he wanted to negotiate i would be happy with that, i would have no problem with that as long as he is trying to do what he figures is best. if it happens, it happens, and it is up to congress most of the time anyway. a make the big decisions. host: the white house has to negotiate these trade deals and congress has to ratify them, but it is going to be the president elect's white house team doing the negotiating. caller: he is doing the negotiating and not congress? host: that is right. caller: he should consider congress too. talk it over and mak

president-elect has no moral authority. on the independent line, james is next from tennessee. good morning. welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. host: go ahead, james. you're on the air. caller: thank you. thank you for taking my call. want to say this. donald trump hasn't changed anything. and i don't know why the republicans, people who call in act like, well, we won. so what? i don't care who won. he's not going to do nothing for no one. he's not going to do nothing for women. so i don't see why they all up in the air. this man have talked about winning, and i don't understand white women who voted for trump. when he say he going to grab them. and then he holler around, you can grab mine. what is wrong with people? i don't know. thank you. host: james, thanks for the call. we'll go to kathy from michigan. welcome to the program. caller: good morning, steve, c-span. i don't think that the cast has anything to apologize for. the actor who was playing aaron burr, the third vice president of the united states, that was the appropriate pers

. host: let's hear from larry next in tennessee, democrats line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i've seen ed -- what -- heard -- seen and heard trump said he would -- he trashed the election process and then he recount and then he would say that only if he didn't win. so the election process is junk. if he don't -- if he doesn't win but if he does win, then it's ok. that's ok. i think that is a representation of his general handled e way he has himself through his election process. view it as a tabloid type candidacy. host: larry, thank you. professor. guest: i think that's what's been troubling to some of his opponents and even to some of his supporters, that while calling into question the entire process, plane of trump supporters will have trouble believing in the legitimacy of the outcome if this is over and if he is not the victor. even if he is the winner, in some ways to hear these kinds of statements not once, not twice but as a theme, as a closing argument for the campaign, will just confirm and strengthen some of the cynicism and distrust many americans have in how ou

different groups of people. one is the conservative leaning democrats. jim cooper of tennessee. if you look at the speaker votes over the years, they never voted for pelosi. i come from conservative districts where pelosi is radioactive. they disagree with some of her fiscal policies. there is a handful of them. there are regional concerns, and a couple of ohio democrats have come out in support of tim ryan, just because he is a local boy. of themer head congressional black caucus supports tim ryan. the final group and this is the group that scares pelosi the most. there are a lot of younger democrats who have arrived recently on capitol hill. they are eager and anxious. they are hard-working. they are ambitious. they want to climb the leadership ladder. they have not been in to do so, because -- pelosi's employer is jim clyburn. pelosi has been there 14 years. there is nowhere for these people to go. the agitation among them has been growing. it grows with each cycle as newer members come in. tim ryan is representing them. that is the third group. the question is how big is that group

hear from pat, from tennessee, republican. caller: good morning. the first thing i would do is have a voter id for everyone, and that would fix the cheating part of the election. if you can see who is coming in to vote and it matches in their vote -- you -- and it matches there is no call with that. the next thing i would say is to get rid of the electoral college because that is where obama and the democrats have put all of these illegals which is giving them the advantage. the other change i would do would be immediate coverage, the media cannot force their opinion on the public, they should be -- they should have to do the news coverage and only the news whorage and you can tell msnbc and cnn and the other ones -- you can tell who they are poor because of the way they put their news out there, and i think that should be against the law. host: here is hillary clinton after her vote. >> thank you. i've had 50 years of practice. [laughter] the presidential candidate, hillary clinton and her husband as they cast their vote and talk to supporters outside. other candidates like donald

you what your thoughts are on that today. nick is calling in from fairview, tennessee. you support clinical boycotts. tell us why. -- political boycotts. tell us why. caller: you have to think god now that us deplorables are now ruling, you have your money -- you have the right to spend her money where you want. i'm going out with my grandson today, in the first thing i'm going to do is buy some more ammunition. i might look at the firearms. avoid -- well, i love robert de niro's talents, but i think i will boycott his next movie. it's fine, spend your money where you want, but also don't spend it where you want. theseing to avoid sanctuary cities. when others quite a few of them, but i don't travel that much anyhow. host: have you always voted with your pocketbook? have you always taken politics in mind when you make a choice of where you shop? caller: not always, but i have many times. it's so rages like these sanctuary cities. ,ortunately, where i live nashville is a century city. i can avoid nashville as much as possible. there's other towns around here where i can spend my mon

and so they are also who free associate on the bench. it was a fun argument. host: from tennessee, anthony, the independent line. you are on with adam liptak. hello. caller: good morning. morning. i want to make a statement and ask a simple question. gays in the ut the bathroom. i'm an independent. used the bly done bathroom for years and nobody has known about it because they go in like a girl and and nobody would really know. the other thing i want to say is and russia. he's the a puppeteer, one sending e-mails and things bout hillary and so forth and so on. he pulls a string and our news up and says t whatever they want and it goes and on.n and on exist.n't one more thing, that f.b.i. guy that said a mistake, he's too to have been making that mistake. about i know a little bit the supreme court, i'm not an expert on putin or the f.b.i., comment. this host: adam liptak with the "new ork times," joining us to talk about the court and other things. time.s for your keep part of an effort to a section of oil pipeline from being built close to indian land.ation learn why from ellen g

will go out and vote for trump. thank you so much. host: all right. linda in tennessee. today's caller in "washington journal," we'll be right back here tomorrow morning 4 a.m. . eastern pacific. the day after the election, we'll start the program at 6:00 a.m. meantime, have a great monday. >> campaign coverage starting live at 11:00 a.m. eastern, with donald in sarasota, florida. at noon, hillary clinton's rally in pittsburgh. and president obama campaigning for secretary clinton in durham, new hampshire at 3:00 eastern, followed by another stock with donald trump as he makes his way from florida to scranton, pennsylvania. move from state to state, the schedule could shift. we will tell you any changes as we follow the nominees on this last day of the election. here is a look at some of the campaign and viewers are sitting around the country. mr. trump: there are some bad hombres here, and we are going to get them out. this is a country where we speak english, not spanish.

showed it would not work. [indiscernible] malcolm in tennessee. go ahead. caller: i am trying to figure out how i am going to teach my grandson about all the stuff that is going on, but you've got hillary clinton lying about this and all this stuff and it is flat, my grandson is asking questions. host: are you a democrat? caller: yes, i am a democrat. [indiscernible] i am thinking of going to the other side if i can't teach my grandson to uphold the standards . host: is there somebody in the democratic party you think embodies those standards you would like to teach her grandson? well, just like hillary clinton, all this lying and stuff going on. likeg like my grandson is -- he is trying to figure out who should i vote for when he gets of age? host: a lot of democratic members of congress are being asked to they will vote for for house minority leader, the election taking place this week. we'll have full coverage on c-span. horatio in-- florida. caller: i would like to supplant -- to express my support for mr. tim ryan. pelosi has failed the american people and democratic party on major

. independents, 202-748-8002. we will start with james in chattanooga, tennessee. a democrat. guest: i was wondering if the gentleman knew what it means to be bipartisan, and if you would be just as willing to work with the clinton administration if the need should arise? guest: i love the question, james. experience,rough and like many people in washington, i have been in the partisan world, and i prefer the nonpartisan stuff. but we do as a partnership, president-elect trump is the pilot on our airplane, and we have to hope he's succeeds -- we have to hope that he succeeds and that our government is as effective as possible. the answer to your question is absolutely. i would be happy to help whoever the president-elect was. we have been helping both sides. at one point, we were helping five different campaigns to make sure that they would be ready if in fact they got the nod from their party and was selected by the american people. host: who were those five? crews in april, we had campaign, kasich campaign, trump campaign, clinton campaign, the romney ready this project we had helped

tennessee, he was a man of the people. that's why they call him a populist. he came to town with just this wrecking ball mentality that you hear trump talking about. washington was a swamp, it was built on a swap -- it is literally a swamp. when trump talks about draining the swamp, one, i say good luck with that. of, it reminds me in a way what jackson was tried to do -- he was an outsider, a rabble-rouser. they loved andrew jackson. jackson was actually a military hero. he had quite a public record before he got into politics. nevertheless, the populist comparison is it. i'm trying to remember why i compared him to reagan -- reagan, in a way, he painted himself as something as an outsider. i never really bought that because -- the comparison with reagan is that people think he ,as unqualified, he was rash irrational, a dangerous guy who all get us into wars -- this fear mongering talk we hear about trump, i would point out that reagan was actually a two-term governor of the biggest and most complex state in the country. which actually represented more executive experience than the prior