then, robby says diren suddenly walked off in a different direction, and robby lost sight of him. >> i was like, he's not coming. i'll continue walking. >> reporter: robby says he called out to diren, but there was no answer, so he kept walking, figuring diren would catch up. >> that is when, like, i heard someone yelling. "you're there. i see you there." something like that. after that just the shots, like, three or four shots. and i just started running. >> reporter: gunshots in a quiet residential neighborhood. a now-terrified robby ran back home. >> he was faster than i am. i said, he's probably coming. i was almost sure that he was coming. >> reporter: but diren wouldn't return. and what happened to the german exchange student would simultaneously make headlines around the world and get americans asking, how far can you go to protect your home and family? >>> coming up -- >> 911. what are you reporting? >> a robbery. >> an urgent call to 911. >> somebody entered into our garage. shots were fired. >> and an urgent question. was it diren? >> that's terrible. i think i screamed for

robby mook declined to appear. joining us now, someone who has studied the history and processes of wikileaks, josh singer who wrote the film about julian assange and wikileaks. josh, you studied wikileaks from the ground up and apparently, they have technical abilities and systems in the early years that they don't have now. is wikileaks just julian assange alone in a room now? >> wikileaks started as a whistle blowing organization. their whole drive was to present, was to have a submission platform where whistle-blowers could anonymously give information that would expose corruption. you know, they did some great work early on. they exposed corruption in a bank, people who were not paying their taxes. >> donald trumps. >> exactly. that's kind of person they would have gone after back in the day. you know, there was a big mutiny at wikileaks right around the time of the american data dumps, when they released the iraq war logs, the u.s. diplomatic cables, where i think certain people in the organization suddenly d

certain questions robby wouldn't answer. i mean, that's sort of robby's mo in general. i think that there are certainly issues like on wall street where they just were trying to stick to being on message when their message is she's not going to be influenced by wall street. that's not answering the question of is she answering these wall street questions, because i don't think anybody that she answered it well last night. who knows how she'll answer what i assume will be more on that from sanders tonight. >> tell me what you think about the bernie bros thing and the fact that brad fallon as the wing man, they raise thing, they seem like they're trying to go there a little bit. >> yeah, it seemed like he sort of maybe fell into it a bit in the conversation over the course of the breakfast and it was toward the end of the breakfast that he -- he got into it. he brought up the term bernie bros and everybody said to him what do you think of the bernie bros. he said bernie bros. and you know, it's clinton in this magazine with "people magazine," i think we're making people o

i want to come back to uhyou, robbie. looking at the incident that occurred with uh you doing so in light of the other cases that have come out. mike brown, eric garner just looking at those cases has that informed the way you view what happened to you? >> you know i'm normally a pretty private person. i don't bother people. i don't like to be bothered. so sometimes, you know when dealing with the emotional scars i want the crawl in a hole and disappear. but i feel like i have an obligation to speak on behalf of the people that can't speak for themselves anymore. i don't know if you knew this. on the same day i was shot, osser car grant this oakland and adolf grimes in new orleans were with shot. we were all shot within 36 hours of oh each other. when you hear cases like that and trayvon martin, michael brown, jordan davis, jordan baker in houston. you know i have an obligation. i am the voice for the voiceless. that's what i try to focus on. >> i want to bring the table p in. i'm struck by the fact that when the shooting

i'm sure robby can back it up with research from the clinton campaign. i want to say about this race that's going on for the heart and soul of the country and the democratic party. look, people are mobilized across this country. our revolution, the group i head now has over 120 events tomorrow -- yeah, tomorrow across the country. people can go to our website and find out about them, ourrevolution.com. we saw women's march, incredible turnout. we saw the protests at the airport. there's a tremendous amount of energy right now. that's the grassroots energy that helped propel senator sanders, frankly. the democratic needs -- that represents almost 50% of the party f you look at the primary results. and the problem is, is that, you know, we had an opportunity. i think robbie will remember, he and i worked very hard after the primaries were over to bring the party together at the convention and afterwards when senator sanders campaigned very hard for secretary clinton. now we have an opportunity to move forward even further with keith ellison, clearly the fr

robby hook joining us from washington, he ran the clam pain. jen paul mary, one of your cleelgs on the campaign, she said on msnbc about the trump cam make and the russians, i believe that there was collusion. i believe that the trump staff, trump associates in some form, were at a minimum coordinating with wikileaks. in the timing of the leaks they were way too prepared. when wikileaks came oud with their leak due your in the morning the trump campaign was ready to go with their statement about that." she's saying her impression. what is your view on that point, what did you observe in that regard? >> there is a lot of connections to the trump campaign and russia that we need to fully understand. so yes, what jen is saying, i agree with. i think every american, whether they're a trump voter on are a hillary voter, deserves the answer to this very, very important question and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> when you were seeing stuff happen in realtime, did you feel the wikileaks stuff that was happening and the trump campaign stuff, did

it's not fair, as robby mook was saying. but that is the state of the game right now. >> before we go, is hillary clinton's team taking the wrong approach? tim kaine saying hillary brings her a-plus game. why say she needs to deliver an a-plus when donald has the bar so low? >> she feels as though she does. part of her prep ragdz is to have her former top aide at the state department play donald trump. he's not afraid to pull a punch. anyone who has worked with him knows that. if you're a member of the press, you know that. he's had a lot of tussles with the press. he has taken some really sharp, personal jabs at her over this weekend. she knows that the stakes are incredibly high for her tonight. because there is so much pressure for her to perform, not just an a-plus, but for her to exceed expectations. by the way, when you talk about style over substance, substance is so important. we live in an era of not just tv but twitter, and one sentence could dominate how we look back and view this debate. >> you know who has style

exactly. >> i want to turn robby to foreign policy. we had an an hour ago one of the leaders of the syrian opposition. she's in town for the unga. she painted about as bleak a picture of what's happening inside that country as you can imagine, particularly in the city of aleppo. hillary clinton was secretary of state when this crisis began. what's her biggest regret about the way syria's been handled? >> well, obviously she's been out of office for some time now. >> she was there when it started. yeah. >> well, right, but, you know, she -- i think she's well regarded for her leadership as secretary of state. she came out of that office with a 70% approval rating. she in contrast to donald trump has released a clear and decisive plan to defeat isis. donald trump has said that he thinks he knows more about it than the generals and refuses to tell us what his secret plan is. >> i understand, robby. what about in syria, though? she supported the drawings of the red line. obviously she was out of her office when assad used chemical weapons.

i'm joined here by robby muco. we've seen gabbie fif gourds's long struggle to recover and to see her there with hillary clinton and speaking so well with her husband, mark kelly. >> it's really inspiring, absolutely. >> let's talk about new hampshire first of all the republicans already going after hillary clinton, as they have been. there was a tweet today from matt katz, new jersey reporter covering chris christie and this is what chris christie had to say about hillary clinton. this wasn't on camera, but this is the quote. i'll beat her rear end on that stage, meaning in a general election, and afterwards, she'll believe i didn't serve her with a subpoena. clearly going right after her on electability which has been one of her arguments against bernie sanders. >> well, andrea, as you mentioned, the republicans have been attacking hilary relentlessly. they pulled her into the hill for 11 hours of questions about the benghazi hearing and found nothing. republican super pacs have been attacking hillary relentlessl

. >>> 6-year-old robby richardson seems to be destined for law enforcement. he called 911 on his dad for allegedly running a red light. >> dad, you went past the red light. in a black truck. he was in -- he was in a brand-new car, my mommy's car. had to go through the car wash and get past the red light. >> he did? >> mm-hmm. >> talk about tattling on dad. well, the police dispatcher eventually spoke to his dad. >> you ran a red light? >> oh, no. [ laughter ] i apologize. >> no problem. >> well, now robby's dad knows his son won't hesitate to call 911 if he ever breaks the law. >>> now to sport, game 2 of the stanley cup final, san antonio battling in pittsburgh. the sharks down 1-0, five minutes to go. tie it up on this justin vaughn goal, to overtime they go. off the face-off in penguins territory. >> one to the back, letang has it. he gave it over to sheary. he scores! >> pittsburgh goes up 2-0 in the series which now heads to san jose. >>> and now to some baseball games with innings so similar it's spooky. all right. first up, over in atlanta, freddie fre

joining me now is hillary clinton's campaign manager robby mook. robby, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thanks, chuck. >> let me start with getting your -- to react to how democrats talked about james comey before friday. here it is. >> this is a great man. we are very privileged in our country to have him be the director of the fbi. >> no one can question the integrity, the competence. >> wonderful and tough career public servant. jim was in the u.s. attorney's office in the eastern district of virginia when i was the mayor of richmond. he is somebody with the highest standards of integrity. >> robbie, the final sound bite was from hillary's running mate tim kaine, a and he said it two weeks ago. does secretary clinton and senator kaine still believe those things about jim comey? >> i think the director does have a long and distinguished record. i think that's why people are particularly puzzled about this letter that was sent to the hill. first and foremost, it was three paragraphs. it didn't provide any details whatsoever. he said that ther

is robby mook right? i know you are a republican who is not a trump supporters. also not a fan of hillary clinton. given that context, was comey's action here reckless, maybe dangerous? >> i think it's really hypocritical on both sides of the aisle, the response to these allegations. republicans were so angry at comey back in july. the clinton camp was happy that he dismissed the investigation. the investigation though was never technically closed. i think when you have a figure like tomorrow comey making thef making this investigation so public that, yes, this is -- we shouldn't be surprised that this has come to the forefront. i think that in the end, it probably will be somewhat beneficial to hillary clinton just because i do think that it energizes her base of supporters to go out and vote for her and for down pal lballot republican this couldn't be a greater gift. >> do you think it will energize her supporters? >> it will take some of the trump supporters who are reading the polls were saying, no reason for me to vote, donald says it's rigged, i'm not getti

-- >> thank you, robby. -- question to you. we've now had a number of primaries in which we've discovered that donald trump has durability across different regions, durability in the south. explain to us a little bit, robby, you've done a lot of research on this, what is that about? what is trump's appeal basically about? >> i think the most surprising thing, really, has been his performance across the south. at this point in the race after super tuesday one would have thought that ted cruz would be coming off super tuesday with winds at his back with winds across the heavily evangelical south, states like south carolina where white evangelicals make up two-thirds to three fourths of primary voters. but instead we see donald trump, and continuing louisiana, kentucky, southern states is, heavily evangelical voters. i think what's going on here is that trump has actually successfully converted what we were all talking about as values voters back in 2004, the white evangelical protestant voters, converted them to nostalgia voters.

. >> i want to go to robbie, nice to see you. >> how is she feeling? >> everybody knows hillary, she's tenacious and hard working person. >> is she or taking it easy? >> i am expecting he's laying in bed for a while. >> she's getting some much needed rest. she's right back out this morning calling and e-mailing and we are looking forward to get her back out on the trail. >> let me ask you a couple of questions of what happened yesterday. did she lose consciousness? >> right now our understanding is she did not. obviously, i was not there personally. she got in the van. you see her feet dragging and i mean she's lifted into the van. >> yeah, again, my understanding was when people who were not there, she did not lose consciousness. she stumbled to get in the van. >> from the van, she was calling aids and we got her to the doctor as quickly as she could. >> she went to her daughter's apartment. who made that call and when did they make it? hillary just wanted to go to chelsea's apartment. she was over heated. and obviously, was feeling the e if he ca eff

trump, though, it seems to me that i ought to be able to get robby mook's counterpart from the donald trump campaign, right? it seems to me i ought to be able to get newly announced campaign manager kellyanne conway to come on this show. i would love to talk with you, kellyanne conway, about the campaign, the way that i have twice now been able to talk with your counterpart, robby mook, about the campaign. it only seems fair. kellyanne conway is great on tv. she has done a ton of tv over the course of her career, at this network, at other networks. she's available unavoidable for comment on cable news, right? i'm cable news! come on! it will be fun! kellyanne conway, hello! it will be great to have you here. you are most welcome here. i would love to have you. and here's a sweetener. i'll help you cheat. if you do agree to do an interview here on this show, i'll tell you what i'm going to ask you first. my first question is going to be this. where do you start? with a problem as big as the problem you have right now. larry sabato is director for the center of politics at the universit

i saw you talking to my two friends, karen dunn and robbie kaplan. you know, when they took on that case against the neo-nazis and the white supremacists coming out of charlottesville, you know, a lot of people were sort of scratching their heads. i remember talking to both of them, particularly karen, whom i have known and she has worked for me and i admire her greatly, about why they were doing it. you know, it was very simple. somebody had to do it. we have got to end impunity. we have to hold people accountable for their actions, particularly when those actions threaten our way of life, our rule of law, our future as a democracy. so i am determined to continue to speak out, to do whatever i can. in fact, in the book we wrote, "state of terror," as you know, there is a plot against the country by people who truly want to turn the clock back. they believe that the progress we've made on all kinds of civil rights and human rights, the cultural changes that have taken place, are so deeply threatening that they want to stage a coup. now, think about i

we heard that from robby mook. democratic senator dick durbin. he said on "morning joe" there should be an independent commission. but i ask you the same question that i asked of robby which is this. given the realities of the hill and your numbers in the senate, what are the chances that that happens? >> first of all, senator mccain and lindsey graham have voiced some support for this early on, and they've been way out there on this. their focus, i went on a trip with them to ukraine and the baltics. we reassured those leaders that our country stood still with them against russian aggression. and so those -- there are a number of members who may be interested in this going forward. the judiciary committee is going to hold hearings. lindsey graham is focused on that and we think senator grassley will as well. so i think the previous discussion was so important. yes, you need this intelligence committee to aggressively continue to get the classified materials to sources and to declassify whatever they can. but at the same time, we can do both thin

me now, robby mook, he's the campaign manager for hillary clinton. all right. your case. i think -- i talked to a bunch of democrats in my friends circle over the last, you know, 24 hours and they're all like, okay, who's going to beat donald trump? this sort of idea he's going to be the nominee. what is the case that it's clinton? >> well, look, this is still a very competitive primary. we are very focused right now on winning south carolina, as you know. very focused on super tuesday. sanders is going to win some states in. >> yep. >> we're going to win some states. we're focused on those delegates. >> i'm going to hand this to you on a silver platter. i'm talking to jeff weaver after you. i'm telling you to make this case to a democratic voter who's going into the voting booth in south carolina and what is on the topped of their mind and i don't think this is unrealistic. about to nominate on the republican side. do you honestly think there's political gravity in plans not adding up in a general election? >> the issue on sand erssanders' he's goin

>> i completely agree with robbie. this is a really big problem. there have been a lot of concerns about disinformation campaigns but what facebook is dropping the ball on here is there's going to be a lot of campaigns for americans run by americans. it's not just necessarily the russia propaganda machine trying to influence our elections. when i saw that statement, that has been facebook's status quo for a while now. but when i read that, i had to read it a few different times because facebook had this whole different information war team and as long as they put up apn a append append appendix, they're not going to remove. if youtube can remove it, facebook can remove it. at the end of the day no action has been taken. we just saw in france they actually put a regulatory body inside a facebook for six months and put out a report giving advice on how the government now should actually regulate facebook and that's something that mark zuckerberg endorsed n in -- why haven't u.s. lawmakers gone ahead and done that yet? >> when you look at lending legi

robby mook and here, hillary clinton's campaign manager. thank you for being here. >> thanks so much. >> it must be a hard call. why did you make this call? >>ell, in this particular case, donald trump himself had begun advancing these theories and the campaign itself had weighed. and we thought it was appropriate to get the facts out there. as you mentioned in your remarks, this tells you something that the campaign donald trump is running and what kind of president he would be, that he peddles these conspiracy theories, it's very troubling and it's not fit for someone who wants to be president of the united states. so we wanted to get the facts out there and point out how absurd it was his campaign would advance a theory like this. >> do you worry that you are further spreading the conspiracy theory that sort of mainstream americans, people who consume mainstream news sources wouldn't otherwise hear about? that you might be helping the conspiracy theoryists get this idea across? >> what we're advancing is that donald trump is temperamenta

. >> well, her campaign manager robby mook made the sunday talk show rounds yesterday. and e-mails were one of the central issues. let me play a little of what he had to say. >> the right wing and republicans in congress are not satisfied with the answer that the career professionals at the fbi and the justice department gave. they said there was no case here. this is just another gmp exampl a right wing group trying to keep the questions coming and keep this issue alive. the american people have all the information. the e-mails have been released. they have enough to make a judgment at this point. >> so, robby is saying the right wing, republicans in congress, and there certainly are many members that, i guess, could come under that heading that have really gone after these e-mails. but there's a recent poll, a national poll that says 64% of americans don't believe clinton is honest and trustworthy. so, you know, and you said you have some concerns about the e-mails as well. as somebody who supports her and believes hillary clinton should be the next president, i guess

robbie said it's typical from the rhetoric we've heard. he is saying that senator sanders, the campaign has been a lot tougher and very personal. >> and, you know, that's politics 101. when you do something, you blame the other one for it. the fact is that we have run a very positive campaign right from the beginning focused on the issues. robbie mook and the clinton campaign were the ones that said our new strategy, they change strategy every couple of weeks and when they realized he was serious, they said, we're going to disqualify, defeat, and worry about uniting the party later. we heard surrogates and secretary clinton herself go on and say maybe not in so many words how unqualified he was, unable he was. so we watch that for a couple of days and then bernie said, let's look at the issues. if you're talking about qualifications, let's see what qualifications are you looking for? are you saying somebody, and his feeling is the qualifications are if you're for regime change and constant intervention, it's a different approach. if you're

i saw you talking to my two friends, karen dunn and robbie kaplan, when they took on that case against the neo-nazis and the white supremacist coming of charlottesville. a lot of people were sort of scratching their heads, and i remember talking to both of them, particularly karen, who have known, and she's worked for me. and my her greatly we, about why they're doing it. it was very simple, somebody had to do it, we had got to and impunity we, have to hold people accountable for their actions. particularly when those actions threaten our way of life, our rule of law, our future as a democracy. and i am determined to continue to speak out to do whatever i can, and in fact in the book we, wrote state of terror, as you know there is a plot against the country. by people who truly want to turn the clock back. they believe that the progress they have made on all kinds of civil rights and human rights the cultural changes that have taken place are so deeply threatening that they want to stage a coup. now think about, it because that is truly what is behind trump and his enablers, and those

. >> to robbie mook. and then there was an obama call to modesta. about four calls. >> how many times the presidents and the candidates? >> two. >> for sure? >> yes. >> you stand by that? why are they arguing about there one fact thing? >> i can't explain their strategy. >> your voice is getting lower, by the way, you are not belting it out there, john. >> absolutely, two calls in, let me say this, too, this is -- the story that we do here the t tic toc on the peninsula hotel as she is finding out she is losing the presidency is the time in this book and reality where she is the most sympathetic throughout this spire campaign process. >> hearted, inside hillary clinton's doomed campaign. >>> coming up the academy award actor christian bale is with us, he plays a journalist in the movie "the promise" in the armenian genocide. this is requested hardball." the action news. my insurance rates are probably gonna double. but dad, you've got... ...allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart k

joining me now, robbie mook. what is her strategy is she going to initiate a conversation tonight about the trump debate -- the trump tape in the debate tonight or will she wait for someone else to bring it up? >> she is going to address this issue tonight and we'll let her do that. this is what's great about a town hall format. the discussion can go in a number of different directions, we're excited about that. >> the format itself, you have 40 people, 20 people on each side. it's a very small gathering, very intimate and then the two moderators, martha raddatz, anderson cooper. they're also supposed to present social media questions, not questions per se but issues that have arisen in social media which could take them in any direction they want, not quoting a tweet but raising an issue. so this is a free-for-all. >> and we like that. any time hillary has had an unfiltered opportunity to speak directly to the voters about the plan she is has to make a difference in their lives whether it's the biggest investmen

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i'll talk to trump supporter rudy giuliani and clinton campaign manager robby mook. >>> plus, a lead opinion lined up against donald trump, but to what effect? i'll take to anti-establishment voices from the left and right. michael moore and glenn beck. >>> also, the vp debate. how much will tuesday's pence-kaine face-off matter? >>> and live from new york, it is "snl." >> he hasn't released his tax returns, which means he's either not that rich. >> wrong. >> not that charitable. >> wrong. >> or never paid taxes in his life. >> warmer. >> joining me is the editor of the cook political report. mark halperin, managing editor of bloomberg politics. maria kumar, ceo of voto latino. and the editor of the "national review." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> surprise, it's october. donald trump's bad week may have gotten a lot worse. today's "new york times" has a front page expose that trump declared a loss of $916 million on his 1995 tax return. which means it could have allowed him to avoid pa

robby, i want to get your reaction to sarah huckabee sanders. would hillary clinton have fired james comey? >> you know, hillary clinton wasn't elected president of the united states, donald trump was. i think this is a classic example of how the trump administration is trying to get us to debate, you know, what would hillary have done. let's go back to 2016 and relitigate the campaign and not keep the focus on the choice that donald trump made here. >> we're going to do that, but i'm not part of the trump campaign. this is me asking you. would hillary clinton have fired james comey? >> i honestly have no clue. you know, we were running a campaign, we were focused on winning votes, and this discussion never came up and never -- we never frankly had the opportunity because she wasn't elected to even make these sorts of considerations. you know what, frankly, it doesn't matter. what's concerning here today is that the same day that subpoenas were coming out in the fbi probe into russia, all of a sudden donald trump decides to fire james comey. and

hillary clinton's former campaign manager robby mook. thank you for joining me. i want to give you a chance to respond. have you heard what congressman chaffetz saying, this was hillary clinton's fault, not james comey. >> the matter at hand is that the i.g is saying something could have gone awry and needs to be investigated. we have seen a number of things over the last few days, including that the fbi was actively investigating donald trump's connections to russia, some of that information has now come out. i don't think it's hillary clinton's fault that the fbi was consistently leaking information, that this unprecedented letter was sent out about new material that may or may not be relevant. so i -- none of that is hillary clinton's fault, and i think -- i am glad that action is being taken now to uncover what may have been errors on the part of comey and the fbi. this was an unprecedented move, there are protocols in place not to intervene in political campaigns. that's clearly what happened here. and we need to make sure that this matter is clear up and so

and former campaign manager for hillary clinton, robby mook. robby, to you first. we keep talking fund-raising, fund-raising. joe biden needs to meet o'rourke's first day which was $6.1 million. is the first day fund-raising numbers the most important thing? we know joe biden went straight to a fund-raiser and elizabeth warren and bernie sanders went after that that fund-raiser was hosted by a big donor, parent company of -- comcast, parent company of nbc. what matters more? >> i think what you're really hitting on from my standpoint is all these other candidates, their name recognition is small. they have to get out there and communicate on television, digital advertising to spruce who they are. everybody knows who joe biden is, so his real challenge here is to survive the scrutiny, survive the spotlight. and in presidential campaigns where the spotlight is the brightest, it's more about earned media when everybody already knows who you are. to his point -- this is just one thing, by the way. he'll have all these hurdles to get over. he'll be vetted. he faces a di

. >> a remarkable win if robby is right, it would be a big win. yesterday, i think i saw something that the congressional black caucus was saying if you want us to get excited, because we're not excited right now, but if you want us to get excited, you have to start talking to us. there's just -- i find it hard to believe that they're going to be able to find the excitement that obama had in '08 and '12. >> to dispel the notion that an electoral college victory is slipping from donald trump's reach, his campaign distributed this map yesterday. it designates pennsylvania, colorado, and new hampshire as toss-ups. >> colorado is, if you talk to the campaign, this is the state that baffles them the most. >> right. >> because internal polls actually show for some reason them closer. now, external polls are showing actuallyclipten up comfortably, but i saw a poll last night from an independent pollster that had it much closer. >> and they have arizona, utah, and georgia as locked in for trump. on msnbc yesterday, campaign manager kellyanne conway said t

i listened to robby mook at great length -- >> he's the campaign chairman. >> and his purpose, aside from attacking trump, that's the easy part. >> that is the easy part. >> the hard part is getting those trust and likability numbers to a place where hillary clinton can win. you have michelle obama doing it brilliantly last night. and you had bill clinton who is a witness, the closest witness, not to make a bad pun, somewhat impeachable witness, but a witness nevertheless, the closest guy to testify to her humanity, her caring, her role as a mother, her role as a wife, her role as an idealistic young woman, and that was his aim and i think he did it well. >> i want the senator to get back here, he knows the target audience, look at this, the former president drew a strong contrast to the republican convention, howard, let's watch. >> how does this square? how did this square with the things that you heard at the republican convention? what's the difference in what i told you and what they said? how do you square it? you can't. one is real. the other is made up. [ applause ] you just

. >> still with me are dana milbank, robbie jones and michelle bernard. he's also known, michelle, for some comments that have been completely untoward, like this comment that knight made to connie chung, who was then with nbc, in 1988 about rape. >> i think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it. i mean that's just -- >> michelle bernard, is this an endorsement that in any way benefits donald trump? >> you know, unfortunately, i believe it does. it's -- it is such a sad commentary as we keep saying, you know, with every primary, it's such a sad commentary on where we are politically in the nation. i read a quote earlier this morning that someone wrote this they literally said if donald trump were a basketball coach, he would be bobby knight. if bobby knight were running for president of the united states, he would be donald trump. there is really no difference between the two of them whatsoever and this bobby knight endorsement of donald trump just further enhances donald trump's likability among people who do not like women or, you know, are sca

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young people at the end decided to go with third-party candidates. >> that's what robbie said. i'm amaze at that. you didn't hear any pro trump. it's just that i don't want hillary. >> barack obama will be giving a big counterterrorism speech at mcdill. this will not be the final policy speech necessarily of his presidency. and it might not be the final domestic trip we'll see him take. but the white house is saying, it will be a final opportunity for him to explain why he took the strategy they did. >> i've got to get an interview with him. we only have a little time left. >> the rally that trump did in ohio last night, that he's going to be doing more next week, a victory tour. because maybe all these conflicts of interest around his presidency, we've been getting questions for who's paying for these rallies. we found out from sources that they thought about, and trump said let's use transition money for it. after deliberation, they decided, no, we don't want any confusion, gray areas. they are using presidential campaign money left over for the rally last night and the rally

robbie mook. quite the ride for you being a campaign manager. win or lose, congratulations. >> it has been a great experience. thank you for all your coverage. >> kellyanne conway's county part is voting. she is on the way back from voting. she will be here. i promise. the minute she gets here, we will get her on. okay, you guys poured through the data and heard from him. something caught my eye, the background of the battle ground states. florida, virginia, pennsylvania. did not mention ohio and iowa. it made me think they can win without those two. >> that's what it sounded like to me. that is the plan. he sounded confident that they are doing well. he wants people in north carolina to vote. the last minute plea. >> he definitely threw shade at the campaign for the last minute michigan efforts and said we had a ground game. in truth that is what the difference is going to come down to tonight. they have been out there doing the work all year long. the trump campaign skirted by on the fly and it's not going to pull the election. >> the trump ca

here's robby mook. >> what the experts are saying and what the experts said when this breach initially happening at the dnc was that they believed that it was russian state actors who took these e-mails. i think she, like all of us, is we are reading the same reporting that you all are seeing and the expert, we're reading what the experts are saying. >> reince, the suspicion is that russia, our adversary is trying to tip the election in favor of donald trump. >> well, i don't understand where -- i mean, it's great spin, you know, but the fact the russians didn't write the e-mails. the dnc wrote the e-mails, and they were the ones committing the fraud against bernie sanders, and we'd like to know this evidence is this he has. produce the evidence, but even if it was, the issue is that we're talking about is that the dnc was committing a fraud upon it's own base and it's own grass roots and it's own delegates for an entire year. and so that's the issue they need to contend with this week. it's not who hacked, number one, why were you hacked, but number two, why were your employees the fr

clinton's campaign manager, robby mook has more forceful words. particularly steve bannon, ceo of the website breitbart, what he called a so-called news site that peddles divisive, at times racist, anti-muslim, anti-semitic conspiracy theories. ahead, we'll dive into the latest bonbon. why is hillary clinton being propped up by pillows? >> the great story here for anybody willing to find it and >> i'm alex trebek. if you're age 50 to 85, i have an important message about security. write down the number on your screen, so you can call when i finish. the lock i want to talk to you about isn't the one on your door. this is a lock for your life insurance, a rate lock, that guarantees your rate can never go up at any time, for any reason. but be careful. many policies you see do not have one, but you can get a lifetime rate lock through the colonial penn program. call this number to learn more. this plan was designed with a rate lock for people on a fixed income who want affordable life insurance that's simple to get. coverage options for just $9.95 a

jonathan swan and robby mook. another sort of mixed message because the day after all this happened sean spicer and others in the administration pushed back pretty hard, suggesting this was a very considered decision, they went through all the steps, this wasn't one of these gut reactions. does this make it harder to believe that? >> well, yes, because the president of the united states has said as much, that these images affected him and changed his views of syria. if we take him and eric trump at his word, yes, it was seeing these images. the really sort of thing we need to remember here is that this is explicitly not what he ran on to be president. it was not this compassionate interventionism. it was not part of his platform. >> i want to note that eric was sort of riffing and we don't know for sure that the conversation took place but it does raise questions about the number of people inside this administration who don't have the traditional experience, and i have to admit i thought about your old boss, hilla

joined by former hillary clinton campaign manager, robbie mook. good to see you on a friday afternoon. thanks for kanc out some time. >> thanks. >> who do you think former president obama could best help democrats right now? >> well, i think as attorney general holder hinted at, i think there is a lot of space for him to help democrats organize and mobilize, not just for the upcoming elections but obviously he is helping to build a program to focus on the redistricting challenge and build more power for democrats in that process. we need all hands on deck here. i think the president was very clear in his remarks that he is going back to be a private citizen, and i think he wants to provide a lot of space for new leaders like our new chairman, tom perez, to develop and lead our party, but he's an important part of building that power that we need as a party to start winning elections moving forward. >> you've said that russian interference could have cost hillary clinton the election. now we are learning that the russian ambassador met with a numbe

joining me is clinton campaign manager, robby mook. a day after separation tuesday. >> thank you. >> let me start with something that already came from the sanders' campaign this afternoon. they did a press call with reporters, and their argument is, it's only halftime and the calendar gets better for them from here on out. what do you say to that? >> both campaigns are going to win and lose contests moving forward. secretary clinton said at the beginning of this campaign, she's going to work hard to win every single vote and every single delegate and that's what we're doing. but the fact is at this point, she already had a virtually insurmountable lead going into tuesday. she added 40% to her net lead over senator sanders. and that lead is only going to increase as we pick up more delegates. the senator can talk about a caucus here or there that he might win, but the other way to look at this is the popular vote. and secretary clinton now has 2.5 million more votes than senator sanders in this race. and that is because democrats are c