President ial nominee Hillary Clinton. She is clean of any possible charge, innocent after fbi has looked at all the emails on Anthony Weiner laptop. Thats the blockbuster after combing through all the emails. The fbi realized those emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton during the time she was secretary of state are either duplicates are ones discovered earlier or have nothing to do with state department business. Nine days ago fbi director james comey rocked the election and announced to congress that the bureau was reopening the investigation of Hillary Clintons use of personal emails. Emails found on aide huma abedins husband Anthony Weiner. The political equivalent of a nuclear bomb at that point. The fbi director rocked the race again giving clinton a clean bill of health. In his letter to Congress Comey said based on our review we have not changed our conclusions we expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. In other words, cleared her. All duplicates previously seen by agents or otherwise unrelated to government business as i said. Neither clinton nor donald trump reacted to the news yet. Clintons Communications Director palmieri had this to say to reporters earlier today. We have seen director comeys latest letter to the hill. We are glad to see that as we were that he has found, as we are confident he would, that hes confirmed the conclusions that he reached in july. Were glad this matter is resolved. Joining me right now Washington Post hallie jackson, chuck todd and andrea mitchell. Shes up in manchester, New Hampshire, where Hillary Clinton is holding a rally. I want to go to you, andrea. Is Hillary Clinton going low key not wanting exoneration in the last 48 hours be the main story . Theyre trying to stay as far away from the email controversy that cast a shadow over their camp for the past nine days. She did not mention it in cleveland. Were told she will not mention it when she comes here. Shes trying to get back to trying to end on a positive note. They are planning to have khizr khan, the gold star father, introduce her here. In cleveland it was lebron james. They want to get back to their message. Its undeniable this has damaged their campaign. They had to pivot from a positive message to go on the attack to try to defend herself for the past nine days. It has certainly given more momentum to republicans in states like New Hampshire. Wait a minute. Shes been completely exonerated today. Why doesnt she get up to date. Shes clean as of now. Why doesnt she brag, spike the football and say im clean as whistle. I won this argument. Why doesnt she do that . Because they think that anytime she is talking about emails is a negative. Let her talk about bringing the country together. Shes got a twominute paid ad on nbc and cbs tomorrow night. I think you can understand the strategy. They have been playing defense for nine days and going on the attack against donald trump. All that negativity has caused her support, they believe, of Many Republican women, suburban women, other independents in swing states like New Hampshire which decides late. The less she talks about all of that and the personal server and Everything Else the trump people, mike pence are still talking about tonight even after the exoneration, the worse off she is. For them they want to get back on message with lebron james and khizr khan and a closing paid video. Hold on andrea. I want to go to chuck. Chuck, seems she would want to drive that news out and make sure everyone hears shes been cleared. Why doesnt she push it . Because youre talking about fbi and emails. Youre still reminding people, you know what to me, the thing that always was the bigger negative for her on the comey announcement was it was the reminder that with the clintons come drama. Because that was the reaction i heard from some voters. I remember people who are going to still vote for clinton, oh, its always so exhausting with the clintons. Even folks would say that, yes, it may be the republicans fault but theyre the magnet for this stuff. Why are they the magnets for this stuff. Somehow the obamas are not the same level of magnet for all of these investigations and things like that. So you know, i think that to talk about it more . I mean, its done damage. Its probably cost democrats one, maybe two senate seats these past nine days. They still may get control, but its hurt them. Thats the real story. Why is she not talking about it . Because her supporters never believed she actually had an issue with it. The people at the rallies. The media will talk about it. She doesnt need to. The story chuck is talking is the real one. How does this affect down ballot races . Youre starting to see talk now. What does this do now . Does it put them more at risk . Probably not. There was a lot of discussion when this first happened of what it could do and frankly boost some of the republicans. Theres two extraordinarily close that any Tiny Movement missouri. North carolina . More North Carolina and New Hampshire. I think thats where it would be the most. Which way is missouri now . I think missouri is i think blount is bailed out by a trump surge in rural america. Part of that surge i saw when i drove across pennsylvania the last few days, seemed like moderate republicans, republicans on the fence, they are tilted toward trump because of what the fbi did last week. Now with the fbi coming out and saying a different story, you wonder do the moderate republicans who a few days ago were saying, im going for trump now, i cant have clinton in there. Do they stick home, go for her . What do they do . Does trumps turnout change . I think they already voted. A lot of them early voted. The only ones left thats why the only ones left may be New Hampshire. Andrea, im looking at this race as it was moving towards hillary, momentum was with her, until friday a week ago. Two fridays ago. All of a sudden it was like the world series somebody hits a home run. The whole thing is even money again. Hillary overran that. By wednesday she was getting back her pace, getting a point or two a day. She had outrun the thing. Today they feel they had already outran the thing so didnt have to jump and make a decision about comey to exonerate her tonight. They frankly because of all those leaks, Rudy Giuliani and the rest, they didnt think this would be settled before the election. So they had come up with an alternative strategy. Go on the attack and try to ride the closing days and get all flood the zone with president obama, michelle obama, all the surrogates out there. Now they want to just stick on anything that does not remind people, as chuck said, that she had a private server. Thats what some would call the original sin that she cant really properly explain. Shes apologized now for it. Cant blame the fbi. They are to investigate it. The clinton plan, just to stay on her for a minute, changed three or four times. Original goal were hold is a big highroad ending. They go low, we go high. Then the thing in the old days with monica, we just have to win. Remember that line from mr. Clinton, we just have to win. Then the strategy flood the zone, political stuff to overcome it. Now were again tonight back to high road. Right . I dont know about high road. I think its ignore the bad and grind out last 48 hours, let the machine do the work. Its a hybrid between high road grinding it out is on the road. Run against Republican Party right now, democrats and secretary clinton because you can look ahead and say republicans want to investigate. Is this what you really want . The fbi has cleared me. Were safe here. Were looking at a culture in washington all about investigations. Lets move beyond that, elect democrats and elect clinton. By the way, thats something we havent talked about. It takes some air off ut trumps Closing Argument. Comey gave trump a cohesive Closing Argument of essentially, you dont want this clinton mess, shes going to be investigated the whole time she is there. It does take a little bit of air out of that balloon for trump. You just anticipated my Closing Argument tonight. Ive already written it. I basically said this was his Closing Argument and it was founded on this fbi report they are looking at emails. He was able to say thats evidence in its self, egregious crime, worse than watergate the fact that they are looking at the emails. Look at the tv ad with wiener, the pervert thing. Thats strong. A strong ad, certainly stuck out. Look, here is comeys first announcement nine days ago. Trump made it a centerpiece of his Closing Argument. Lets watch that. Thats what were talking about. The fbi would never have reopened this case at this time unless it were a most egregious criminal offense. This is the biggest scandal since watergate. Shes likely to be under investigation for many, many years. Also likely to conclude in a criminal trial. This is not what we need in this country, folks. The work of government would grind to a halt if she were ever elected. Shell be in court for her entire tenure. Shell be convicted. This whole line of argument nothing. Still talking about it. Still talking about what he calls a potential indictment against Hillary Clinton even though theres no evidence to support. Based on . The issue came out on a Different Network that was then walked back. Hes going to keep talking about it. Fbi leaks. Hes going to keep talking about it. What i think this did for him was teach him more than any other moment in the campaign, if he really does what all his advisers want him to do, stay on message, he would see polls tighten. He gave himself the pep talk about it. His supporters picked it up. Is he on message . The race is tight. Hes going after her constantly, going after Affordable Care act constantly. The thing were also hearing in trumps closing message. Its anticlinton but also a brew of populism and nationalism steve bannon is whispering in his ear. Thats part of this twominute closing for trump. Hes going to minnesota, blue states. He thinks if there is a record turnout of white, working class people he could somehow have a narrow path to victory. Thats the way they are thinking about it. Chuck, people in Clinton Campaign apparently believe they have been able to thwart him, prevent him from talking his message. Hes been so busy talking this stuff he hasnt been able to talk about the reason he was up 40 , the reason he beat 16 guys in the primaries. He hasnt been able to talk about trade, illegal immigration and wars. No. He did make the mistake frankly, this is a similar mistake that mitt romney made in the last month of the campaign in 2012, which is follow the news cycle. News cycle candidates theres some of our colleagues in punditry that talk about who wins the news cycle, those things matter. No, it doesnt. You get caught following the news cycle, it can feel good in the moment. Its like taking a b12 shot but it doesnt last. Fundamentals matter more in the long run. There were larger fundamental issues in the country that trump was tapping into correctly and he got off the message a little bit longterm. They almost got around to it a little bit. Bannons problem is hes got one part of it right, the populism. The conspiratorial and illusions to antisemitism, that is stuff that is just going to cost him the ability to go mainstream. Thats not a 51 strategy. Andrea mitchell, has trump been able to stick to his message, or has he gotten caught in investigative politics, which is fun but gets you off your positive message for being president of the United States . I think probably so especially because of the way this has turned out. Just one point. In cleveland tonight with lebron james of all people, Hillary Clinton said, look, i know theres anger out there and i know a lot of it is directed at me. But anger is not a plan. We have to get past that. Thats the closest shes coming to acknowledging the problem and the change message that shes not been able to have, of course, because donald trump has changed. She hasnt changed. Shes trying to talk more positively. Finally shes got all these surrogates, celebrities, beyonce, katy perry, now they announced tomorrow night not only bill clinton and of course michelle and barack obama but Bruce Springsteen in philadelphia. The closing rally. Thats going to be a fascinating event tomorrow. Well be covering it live. I think youll be with us at Independence Mall on the reality of the greatest place in american history, independence hall. Well be there and were going to have bon jovi and the estreet band and a couple philly people here. Theyre from the burbs. Youre from the burbs. Hallie jackson, robert costa. Coming up you also count, chuck. Youre moderator of meet the press. Coming up reaction of fbi directors clean bill of health. What a story the sunday before the election. Shes clean as a whistle. Clean as a houndstooth. As general eisenhower used to say. Trumps Campaign ManagerKellyanne Conway will come with us in a moment plus elijah cummings. They may disagree. This is hardball, place for politics. Welcome back to hardball. Last week donald trump praised fbi director james comey in his decision to continue to investigate Hillary Clintons emails. I have to give the fbi credit, that was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for director comey to make the move he made in light of the opposition he had where they are trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. What he did, he brought back his reputation. He brought it back. Hes got to hang tough, because theres a lot of people want him to do the wrong thing. Now that director comey announced today that the fbi concluded the review of clintons emails and has not changed its recommends that she should not Face Criminal Charges does trump still feel the same way about comey that he did last week . Lets ask trumps Campaign ManagerKellyanne Conway who joins us now. This topsyturvy situation with the fbi director, when he made announcements in july, conservatives and others didnt like it at all. Announced two fridays ago democrats didnt like it. Now democrats are elated, i dont know. Popping the champagne bottles. Or whatever on the plane. They are thrilled with this exoneration of their candidate. Whats your reaction . Then why in the world did they go so viciously personally and professionally after jim comey and his reputation and his Job Performance when this was all announced . They basically spent all last week for nine Straight Days impugning the integrity of jim comey because they didnt like his latest move. Thats unfortunate. Even the president of the United States got into the act saying we dont deal with innuendo, we dont deal with speculation. You shouldnt be interfering with an election. Do they think this announcement two days before the polls close is, quote, interfering with an election . I think they were way out of bounds in the vicious attack on jim comey because they didnt like the result. We think the fbi investigation was mishandled from the beginning. Thats pretty obvious. Because we just learned overnight that she asked her maid to print out information that was classified. This woman does not have a security clearance. Its not her fault. The woman was put in a bad position. Hillary clinton should know better. We know she left materials out in a hotel in china. We know there were materials in humas front seat of her car. The list goes on and on. I dont think it changes what most people think about Hillary Clinton. Those who were defending her agreed with her they had made up their mind about the emails but it also doesnt change the mind of swing voters and independents who just arent there, who just wont put her at 50 in blue states where we have them on the run. They are following our lead because of what comey said. They are in michigan because were in michigan. Here is donald trump. The fbi would never have reopened the case at this time unless it was an egregious criminal offense, the biggest scandal since watergate. Does that still hold, what he said . Those words . Biggest scandal since watergate. Biggest scandal since watergate, egregious offense. They just decided to look at the emails, wasnt an egregious offense, just looked at the emails. Your candidate said egregious offense worse than watergate based on the fact fbi decided to look at these emails. Is he still saying that . He hasnt said that in a while. More to the point on the egregious criminal offense piece. In a while . Many people said that, chris. He said it. Left, right, and center said there must be Something Big there for him to reopen it or continue it, however the verbiage is, this close to election. Now, i want to commend the fbis efficiency. What about now that they have said they exonerated Hillary Clinton saying theres nothing in emails to justify any kind of prosecution, where is your candidate without his basis . He had a basis, he said, for charging her with the worst crime since watergate. Whats his basis for now saying that. He didnt say that tonight. He said, this is the biggest scandal since watergate. Donald trump said that. He didnt at the time. That doesnt hold . Chris, if you want me to answer, let me know. This doesnt change anything. Here is the answer. Does he still believe shes committed a crime worse than watergate . He said that one time. The fact remains that what she did what james comey said she did on july 12th under oath to the commission under chairman gowdy has not changed i totally agree with jim comey nothing changes from the original conclusion. Lets review. She lied about the private server to within begin with. She lied about whats on the server. She lied about classified information on emails. It was. She also testified about using one device, she had used multiple devices. We believe everything he said under oath july 7th, which was a pretty remarkable spectacle in and of its self is still the true. Thats why the majority of americans including your msnbc polling dont trust her. They dont think shes honest and trustworthy. Thats not going to change. It didnt change last week and wont clang tonight. If mr. Trump wins the election does he want to have the fbi continue its investigation of these emails . I dont know. Well have to see what happens. The fact is for a campaign and for conservatives who generally are critical of inefficiency of government and how slowly it moves, i have to really commend the efficiency of the fbi in this case because they read 650,000 emails in a short period of time. Thats pretty remarkable. He said investigations continue ad infinitum and end up in prosecutions and convictions. And screw up any hillary administration. It suggests that, if youre a hillary person, why bother electing her, nothing but chaos and investigations the whole term. Does he still believe that would be the case if she wins . What should he have said . Hes not the fbi, not director comey. Director comey made that decision and mr. Trump gave his opinion of it. I think its a very logical opinion to have, conclusion to make. It does hurt her. Shes Hillary Clinton. Chris, the idea people started to question Hillary Clintons ethical standards or cloud of corruption that follows her aurnd, the idea that had happened for the first time last friday is a fiction. People dont trust her. Im sorry to interrupt you. I try to hear all your thoughts. Were going to your candidate on stage at a rally in sterling heights, michigan. Lets go to the Trump Campaign. The worst trade deal ever signed by any country ever, chinas entry into the world trade organization, the job killing deal with south korea, another beauty that was a disaster. And hillary now wants transpacific partnership. She calls it the gold standard. Hillary clintons policies have devastated your Automobile Industry all to the benefit of special interests. We will put a stop to all of that or november 8th. Get out and vote, michigan. You know, i dont know if youve been seeing whats happening over the last week or so, but they are going well, the very dishonest media, the worlds most dishonest people. Today i was watching. They are bad people. They are bad people and they are dishonest people. They dont tell the truth. They dont write the truth. I will say this, i was watching the polls. Were leading in ohio. Were leading in iowa. Were leading in New Hampshire. Just out. Trump talking about michigan. Well listen to what he says if he talks about fbis decision well bring it to you live. Joining us elijah cummings, democratic from maryland, Ranking Member of the House Committee on oversight and reform. Mr. Cummings called for Justice DepartmentInspector General to investigate whether the fbi is leaking information that could benefit donald trump. Mr. Cummings thanks for being here, sir. Where are we now fbi has come out and basically exonerated Hillary Clinton saying theres nothing in any of these emails, 650,000 of them that relates to anything more than a duplication of the other emails, nothing to do with the government. Im glad the fbi cleared that up. I must say its very alarming that director comey even put out that letter nine days ago. I think that it was very vague. Keep in mind a lot of people have already voted since that letter came out. So we dont know exactly how it may have affected them but it does concern me. I still think that the Inspector General should take a clear look at the fbi and try to figure out where are all these leaks coming from. Because, in my 20 years of practicing law and my 20 years of being on this committee, i can tell you i have never seen a situation where we had so many leaks coming out of the fbi. I think that weve got to take a look at that. Lets talk about the law. Suppose theres a fellowship, i imagine there is, among former and current fbi agents, so you retire at 65, whatever, whatever the official age is. You retire and keep in touch with men and women you work with. Call them up at a party and say whats happened back there. They say were not happy about this investigation of Hillary Clinton, blah, blah, blah. Just in general terms say they are steamed up. Is that a criminal violation or just shop talk . I dont think thats a criminal violation, but it is not the way they are supposed to proceed. Lets look at what mayor giuliani did. What he did was he took information from agents and then he says former agents. Yeah. I said he took information from former agents that he said they had been taken from current agents. Well, then he puts that information out. I know hes denied things, hes walked it back. But the thing is, what he did was basically launder the information from the current agents. Thats just not the procedure. Ive talked to five or six people in the Justice Department type, fbi type over the last day or so, and they told me that just doesnt work that way and he shouldnt have done that. How would you track that . Tracking a leak is difficult. Theres leaks on capitol hill all the time from staff people or members. How do you track a leak thats so amore so amorphic, somebody talked to ruddy giuliani or a friend of ruddy giuliani. I have to tell you im not sure. I use giuliani as one. Chris, keep in mind, come on now, weve had leaks coming out of fbi almost every day, sometimes two and three times a day coming out. At some point that needs to be dealt with, because we have a situation here in this country, its not so much what the fbi eventually finds. Just a person being under investigation can be extremely damaging. Now, going to this case, weve got all of this information being leaked out about these cases. But again, thats not fair. It was not fair to Hillary Clinton. She couldnt defend herself against it. Ive got to tell you, i think the one thing i demanded of our committee and of the agencies that come under us, i want them to be fair. I want them to be honest. I want them to treat the American People appropriately. To make your point, we had a big politician in philadelphia about 34 years ago won a huge libel case for a leak coming out given to local broadcasting affiliate. They put out the fact he was going to be indicted. He won a big killing on that. You cant do that. Cant throw out theres an indictment, something is coming when its not clear. Elijah cummings, thank you, sir. Up next we continue to follow our top story. This sunday, november surprise from the fbi the Clinton Probe is over, kaput, goodbye, clean bill of health for Hillary Clinton from the fbi director himself, james comey. What a showstopper two nights before the election. Reports of surging. We thought this would be the biggest story. Latino vote. We battleground states like nevada, hispanic people, latino people, are voting big time. You can assume which way they are voting based on who wants to be called rapists and murderers. Thats ahead. This is hardball, place for politics. Welcome back to hardball. If Hillary Clinton needs to win tuesday night shell need a strong showing from coalition of hispanics, africanamericans and women. This week multiple outlets are reporting a surge of hispanic voters already voting. According to politico in florida hispanics have so far cast 14 of the 5. 7 early and absentee ballots cast. That puts hispanics far ahead of where they were in 2012. When it comes to nevada john ralston writes, donald trump may have been here this weekend believing polls are competitive here. Like bruce willis in the sixth sense he does not realize hes dead. That surge in the hispanic vote, 10 00 friday night to accommodate long lines. Look at the lines there. Last night the chairman of nevadas Republican Party complained the move keeping the lines open favored what he called a Certain Group of people. Donald trump said thats further evidence the system is rigged. Gop chair Michael Mcdonald followed by trump. They kept a poll open until 10 00 at night so a Certain Group could vote. Polls are supposed to close at 7 00. This was kept open until 10 00. You feel free right now . Its being reported that certain key democratic polling locations in clark county were kept open for hours and hours beyond closing time to bus and bring democratic voters in. Folks, its a rigged system. Joined by maria teresa kumar. Lets get to the facts here. The polling place is supposed to close at 8 00. They stayed open at 10 00 because there was a line at 8 00. We all know if youre waiting in line anywhere in the country you get to vote. The charge is made apparently the buses started arriving after 8 00. I dont know how much give there is, if somebody is five or ten minutes late do they get grace period or not. Hes talking about busloads to come in. No media outlet reported busloads of people coming in. I err on john ralston. He was very clear and said he has not seen shenanigans on the ground floor and basically people were already there in line. If youre in line youre eligible to vote. Yeah why if you really want extra to vote, bring them tomorrow or the next day. If you have a turnout operation you dont worry about what the team is doing. Right. You get your vote to turn out. Thats been the problem here. Lets talk politics. Thats politics. I believe, and i think you would accept, although youre an advocate, a need for a real immigration policy thats rational, progressive and american. We dont have one. Instead of saying that, trump could have said that. He said rapists, murderers, he blamed the immigrants themselves for the lousy system, failed system. He blamed them personally and then criminalized them. Thats one way. To get the vote out. We had mayor frank rizzo, walked around with a night stick in his cummerbund. Highest increase in black registration in the history of the city. Blacks outregistered white people because of him. Sounds like trump. Im sure they registered. Latinos coming out and voting because they are offended with trump. No. Los angeles county you have 25 increase in hate crimes. People in the Latino Community are feeling under the gun. Under the pressure. What kind of hate crimes . Draw the picture. Everything in the high school in the town where i went to high school, up in northern california. Last week watsonville. Windsor, california, right by santa rosa. In that Elementary School they went up and said build the wall higher for a school thats spanish dominant. That for parents is scary of. All of a sudden people feel under pressure. I have to show im american, im going to vote. Undocumented immigrants live with 1. 5 million american voters. This is personal. I still hold trump responsible. Absolutely. No, he said that. Yes. I think you approached the way you stated it is the smarter way. You come out. You know where the concern is in the country. No secret for some time weve been beating each other back and forth on the issue of immigration. You come back and lay down a forwardlooking message, dont demonize. The one thing in politics you learn is you dont attack the very people youre going to need. You had a platform there, the autopsy spoke very clearly about the direction the party wanted to go. I think the mistake made, and ive said this over and over again, was that that critical moment the party didnt go to the Trump Campaign say here is a personalized copy of the autopsy. Read page 47 to 57 and understand exactly where were going from 2012 do that to trump . Dont anger immigrants and dont anger women. First thing he did was said president of the United States africanamerican, first one ever, you keep forgetting is an illegal immigrant. Yeah. Thats the first thing he did. Worse than illegal immigrant. Republicans are going to have a hard time on their hands. In orlando county alone, they had a 29 increase of first time latino voters. Trump has effectively expanded the electorate base for a lot could be republicans. Not in orlando. Not in orlando. Mostly puerto rican. Mexican americans i have a hunch have tremendous potential to be american conservative republicans. What do you think . A little hunch. You want them all to be democrats. No, i dont. I think we need a twoparty system. Depending what generation youre in, third or fourth generation youre more likely to lean democratic versus first time. Thats what goes wrong. You have to get them when they get here. Awesome. Michael steele, maria i believe they dont have great experience with latin america, they dont have to be pro big government. I would think theyre pro entrepreneurial, small business, very much republican opportunity and i do believe in an active twoparty system in all communities. Next Steve Kornacki with where things stand on battleground map. Which states are so close with todays allclear from the fbi, the exoneration for Hillary Clinton could tip the balance towards clinton. I have to believe theres four or five states like that where she could win just because of what comey said today, shes clean. Here is the place for politics. Welcome back, with two days to go, a look at the latest battleground map. Political correspondent Steve Kornacki at the wall. I love that with the latest, youre at the wall. Go ahead lets take you, clinton 268 in pretty good position in states adding up to 268. So the bottom line in terms of where this race is, if youre donald trump how you can pull off an upset win here. Basically look at it this way. If shes at 268 and youre trump, everything thats gray on here, consider that sort of a tossup, a battleground right now. You have to sweep it. Youve got to win everything that is gray on this map. If you slip up anywhere clinton goes over 270. Shes the president elect. The problem for the Trump Campaign, what they are seeing is they are getting alarming indications from early vote, from some of the demographics were seeing in these states, particularly nevada, also florida, and so the Trump Campaign is looking at this and saying if we dont sweep all these states weve got to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Weve got to start flipping blue states. Thats what you see here. Donald trump today, where is he campaigning . Talking about minnesota, michigan, pennsylvania, even looking in virginia from the Trump Campaigns perspective. What do they see that would make them look at blue states, some of which havent gone red in a long time. What youre seeing, ill say it. These are long shots. Minnesota is an ultralong shot. What the campaign is seeing unusual strength in rural areas, unusual strength with sort of white noncollege voters. They look in minnesota. They look at iron range in minnesota. They look at the Upper Peninsula in michigan. They look at mccomb county outside detroit, rural parts of pennsylvania. They look at southwest virginia and they say, hey, maybe, maybe we can run up the score there in ways nobody expected, ways we havent seen before and pull a surprise in one of these blue states. Make no mistake about it, its a real long shot in michigan. Its an ultra, ultralong shot in minnesota. If youre the Trump Campaign and these gray states start disappearing, you lose them to Hillary Clinton, the only thing youre left with is pulling off a miracle in some of these rust belt states. Steve kornacki. Thank you. Moments ago donald trump at his rally in michigan, donald trump addressed the fbis allclear. Lets catch that. The investigations into her crimes will go on for a long, long time. The rank and file special agents at the fbi wont let her get away with her terrible crimes, including the deletion of 33,000 emails after receiving a congressional subpoena. They forget about all of this. Right now shes being protected by a rigged system. Its a totally rigged system. Ive been saying it for a long time. You cant review 650,000 new emails in eight days. You cant do it, folks. Hillary clinton is guilty. She knows it. The fbi knows it. The people know it. And now its up to the American People to deliver justice at the ballot box on november 8th. So lets bring in the roundtable, msnbc kasie hunt. All over the country with these guys. What a year for you. Harold ford, a future ahead of him, tennessee, who knows where next. Visiting Professor University of Michigan School of public policy. Coauthor of Donald Trumps art of the deal. You know what strikes me, we were listening to steve. Hes the best of any networks. This town versus gown thing. For democrats who believe like in small d democratic like you do, the person who looks for people, people who didnt have a break. We have democrats wherever we have College Graduates we win. Wherever they dont go to college the republicans win. What happened to the party of the little people. Have we become the the antiarchie bunker party . Is that what the democrats are . Roosevelt was for the forgotten man. Democrats now seem to be for the ivy league man, dont you think . I think trump is losing those people. Those are typically people who vote republican. Trump is losing more of them in greater degrees in those groups. Which groups . In your ivy league, married white wealthy people. Parts of michigan, mccomb, iron works whatever its called there, minnesota. You go down to west virginia. Its all those places that didnt make it. Those are the people upset about trade and nafta. Those are people able to get a union job. Thats what it is, decimation of unions. The ability for those people to have Strong Manufacturing jobs. That was the core organizing principle. Of the democratic party. One issue they say that can break the voter right now, if you finished college. If you finished college, had the break to go to school, your parents helped you, whatever, youre doing to vote for Hillary Clinton. If you didnt youre probably going to vote for trump. To me its an amazing change in american politics. No doubt. Late 80s to early 90s, clinton emerged as the democratic the voice and democratic Leadership Councils im a part of the democrats we can manage government, not run up big deficits. We understood the limits of government. As a part of that the Business Community became more integrated to the party. Over a period of time that continued. Under george w. Bush it continued. I consider sanders and trump as being candidates who represent this rebellious rebellious takes on a negative tone. There are a number of people who feel left behind, left out, frankly looked down upon. Yeah. Trump is an interesting vessel. Hollywood does that. He is an interesting vessel. Tony can speak to this better than i can. This is a vessel in donald trump who you would not have constructed in the abstract as being the person or force who could pull this together. Secretary understands this community. If she is elected, she will help to reempower she calls the deplorables. These were her people in 2008. She didnt call them deplorables . She called david duke and that group deplorables. She was not calling all his supporters she should not have said it. She apologized for it. Thats what was the problem. Not me saying it. We see in a a fitting potential irony or end game that the latino vote probably is going to be the thing that provides the firewall or pushes hillary over the top and were not talking in that community about an enormous percentage of wealthy. Why are the democrats capable of winning minority support from the same class. I think thats a little unfair. This is the first time weve seen an election where these kind of demographics are being discussed loudly. Youre sitting with john lindsey in the 60s. You had italian, all ticked off at a liberal mayor. And reagan was a part of it, too, with a lot of the reagan democrats. So when you add excesses either way, these things happen. These voters rejected the Republican Party, too. Dont forget. Embracing donald trump is not an embrace, if anything, when you look at this landscape stretched out, yesterday, donald trump and Bernie Sanders are opposites, but there are a lot more reasons why Hillary Clinton and paul ryan are more alike than paul ryan is like donald trump. Where are we getting here . I think thats the, thats really the question that i think, paul ryan and his freedom caucus, hes going to step into if trump loses this thing. A giant mess thats tearing the Republican Party apart. Hes going to have to decide, am i going to cut a deal with Hillary Clinton and push this farther away and Hillary Clinton similarly, you already have progressives with warren and Bernie Sanders threatening her. If trump loses, guys, hes still going to get about 40 something . Whats that going to go . Republicans quoing to grab it back . Democrats going to make a bid for it . Youve got two people here who are pundits and you dont need one more. What i do think is that at a broader level, its a, it is a true clash of sifl civilization and we are a at where that 47 remits a group of people who for whom either capitalism as we know it, market free market capitalism and even to some extent, the traditional noex notions of democracy have faileded. Including millennials who are yet to have jobs. So i think youre going to see a realignment, win or lose, thats very dramatic. How do we get bake the Roosevelt Coalition . Lead and deliver to your point about paul ryan. I think she needs a partner this the house and senate to get something done if elected. B i believe shell be elected that night. I hope she talks about winning the trust of americans who have not trusted her i thought that was a most important part of her speech and tin most important pivot thats happened this this campaign in a long time. If she stays there, not only will chef paul ryan, shes have progressives and for r that matter, other conservatives but this happens in cycles. I appreciate some of the dramatic talk around where we are, but politics in america is about leadership. You can lead during moments of crisis, people respond. I also think the next president is going to have a Foreign Policy, a set of Foreign Policy challenges that have eluded the conversation here in the last couple of weeks. Were going to have to make choices and syria, the south china sea, make choices in other part of the world that have not been talked about in a serious way in the latter part of this campaign. And secretary clinton is uniquely poised in position. I think monday morning after the election, ive said this before. Tuesday morning. Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning. Being so helpful here. Being unfair. Get the days wrong. It is late. You sound like trump. I cant remember wh i was yesterday. No, i really do think, youre sukting its all about negotiation and rebilling. Thats going to be the challenge on both sides. Hillary clinton when she was in the senate, she proved she could make republican allies and learn to work with them. Impeached her husband. Shes going to have to decide, okay, am i going to be willing to anger my progressive base and paul ryan is going to have to decide, hey, am i going to work with woman whos become a toxic brand where with basically everyone. Not sure he can do both. I think the second question on wednesday morning assuming that hillary does win is really what is trump going to do because you cannot underestimate amount of range building in this man. Personally and its not you bet hell concede . No. The one exception id say is that if it goes more than 6 and 300 something electoral votes and theres not room to do it, but the odds if its in any way close are that he will not and i think what happens to his rage, which hes been able to use to stoke the fire, the rage of oh people, is the second big question. What is it going to be like, start wg if he doesnt concede and after that, is he going to try to get those people to whip those people into a frenzy. Okay, i think youre right. I dont think hemts to walk away from his audience. I dont think hemts to walk away from an audience. He must have an audience. I do think this is potentially the biggest impact of that fbi news of what james comey decided to do and its because before he did that, they were talking about exactly what you mentioned. They were saying were going win this election. Our challenge now is to win this so big that he has to concede. The conerer sags is totally different now. Zpl we move beyond george bush, well move beyond donald trump. Clear result, one way or the other tuesday night an he does behave. Any way, casey hunt, thank you. Harold ford and tony short. Another hour coming up. Be right back. Our guest will actually improve the next hour. Just kidding. Youre watching hardball. The place for politics