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Transition was seen as reassuring to some establishment republicans. but rogers said it was, quote, absolutely the campaigns prerogative to let him go. >> they said they wanted to go in a different direction. it was easy for me to hand it off to mike pence and his capable hands coming in. so, i think that was kind of a combination. i think there is some confusion going on about a chain of command coming ought e ing out . hopefully, theyll get that settled soon. signing theyre going to need to do...

Transitions have been methodically planned. this one was treated as an afterthought for a number of reasons. that increases the chaos. you can call it a scrum, call it a knife fight if you want to be dramatic. you have a bunch of people who see unusual opportunities with massive ambition trying to curry favor while the clock ticks. theyre big jobs with real responsibilities, and theres no clear process by which to select those people thats already been prebaked. >> lets look at some of the names...

Trying to figure those sorts of things out and theyre really hard to figure outssentially until election day, but what they can tell you is -- and this is like why clinton is, you know, has put forward such an effort. trump would say hes also in trying to build out this effort. they want to bank vote early. so we are looking at all of these states to just see, what is the partisan splits in these states. and its really important. and we benchmark it to what obama did in 2012 because thats how he...

Tuesday night and the clock ticks, do you feel the pressure of the competition or do you just seal yourself off in that room and say, were making this call when we know what the call is, and we dont care -- >> were completely insulated. i dont know what others are doing and that was a policy decision that was made a long time ago at nbc news. just for that reason. because you could imagine, like, you know, if it was everybody was like sort of feeding off, you know, competition, then it could cre...

>> i went to sleep shortly after that. >> i took a nap for 30 minutes this afternoon. >> you only slept 30 minutes? >> come on. >> i slept in the stair well. >> oh, my got. >> it was fine. >> i generally dont sleep during hack-a-thons. >> do you start getting increasingly more nervous as the clock ticks? >> if you are not getting through a certain problem, you will feel more pressure and like the world is closing in. >> these kids have been staring at security screens for 24-hours and they are s...

Calls he made to newspapers, he indicated he might be thinking about having an event tonight potentially in new york where he talks to supporters trying to reshape the narrative going into tomorrow. it will be interesting to see if that ends up happening. certainly the fire around him, he needs more than reshaping the narrative. he has a lot more explaining to do. >> i want to bring in a former cnn washington bureau chief. so, frank, this is remarkable. sunlen put it right, we are in unchartered...

Ahhh! aw man are you kiddin me? as the clock ticks towards the iowa caucus, according to the latest fox news polling, more than half, 65% of primary voters view trump as a serious candidate. compare that with june of this year when 64% viewed his candidacy as, quote, a side show. lets bring in the fox news political insiders. in charleston, south carolina, pat caddel and john onset with me here, former republican congressman for new york and next to him doug schoan and a

Listen. >> he pulled a key out and started a timer. i heard the thing ticking when he did it. its going to go off. >> for 20 tense minutes, police keep their distance, waiting for the bomb squad to arrive. in obvious distress, wells pleads with police as the clock ticks. >> why is no one trying to come get this thing off me? >> he seemed to be having a conversation with the police. just very, very eerie stuff. media crews are warned to move back. >> state police are urging us to move from this l...

In "the washington post"/abc poll, the former secretary of state gets the support of more than half of those surveyed. senator bernie sanders a distant second with 23% and the still-undecided vice president joe biden with 16%. the nbc/"wall street journal" poll painting a similar picture with himself on top followed by bernie sanders and then the vice president. were going to have much more with our political panel in the next hour of "happening now." jon: congressman paul ryan returns to capito...

Its going to go off. >> for 20 tense minutes, police keep their distance, waiting for the bomb squad to arrive. in obvious distress, wells pleads with police as the clock ticks. >> why is no one trying to come get this thing off me? >> he seemed to be having a conversation with the police. just very, very eerie stuff. media crews are warned to move back. >> state police are urging us to move from this location because if this bomb goes off and theres shrapnel, we could get hit, but i think were ...