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Have not been irrational. >> the selections have been find and to the extent hes deferring to them, right, hes behaving very well. the presidential words are deeds, you cant take them back and cant pretend they didnt happen. hes conditioning the atmosphere in which these sober measured men that you just talked about have to operate in. its going to complicate it sooner or later in a dangerous way. >> were passed almost 100 days and were all here. thank you. coming up, the comey effect and new lo...

Wikileaks hacks and also, on october 19th before all those comments you saw from donald trump, marco rubio, the republican senator of florida was saying, hey, i think people shouldnt even touch the wikileaks story given its a foreign state that has involvement in our elections and donald trump and his campaign kept pressing the issue. >> and mark, the latest and part of the media involvement is that its stolen information and theres now criticism and we have to reflect as the media on the report...

So whats so interesting is even a campaign and candidate with all of the resources and all traditional metrics and really far superior polling, ground game, theyre still going to michigan. theyre still going to pennsylvania. with seven celebrities. theyre in ohio with lebron james. theyre still doing these things because theyre not totally positive. >> ten days ago, this was not the schedule. this is the comey effect. this is what jim comey did to the election. he put donald trump in minnesota a...

Schedule and theyre going to have to knit together what youve been talking about. that the reason theyre in blue states reliably blue states is their vote breaks down. the reason theyre in pennsylvania shoring it up is because they are not positive that there arent enough. theyre prosecutet shia sure, b wouldnt be in michigan if they were positive theyre not enough of o those voters, so whats so interesting is even a campaign and candidate with all of the resources and all o traditional metrics ...

Out there, its just an extraordinary moment. >> any idea what effect it has had all of this comey effect. >> not just hillary clinton where her momentum was clearly hampered and the entire sort of brand. the democratic brand took a serious hit so that people and maybe had some hesitation and who knows what those tens of million people did. >> over 6 million people have voted. this is an incredible number and they were all voting with this kind of nonevent kind of -- >> but you had 40 million. 41...

>> ten days ago, this was not the schedule. this is the comey effect. this is what jim comey did knot to the election. he put donald trump in minnesota and hillary clinton in michigan. thats the way, thats the effect of the momentum change in this race that was put on this race by the external actions of the fbi. and thats, i think its unforgivable sin for the fbi, but i dont know that its something we know how to project from. >> for our viewers friday night who did not see chris matthews repor...

Kucinich. david, lets start with you. the comey effect. it changes every week. what today has the comey effect of the last nine days been? >> the legacy of this can be debated for a long time. no question this letter stopped clintons momentum in a huge way. up until that time, this was a debate in the election about his fitness. donald trumps fitness for office. it switched and became more about her and her bad judgment and e-mail server. that stopped the momentum. she came out of that and it is...

>> thats what well never fully know. lets say this is what the electoral map looks like or maybe she gets slightly more because she wins one of the sunbelt states. well never know if this is natural tightening, republicans, quote, unquote, coming home or is this a comey effect. is this a motivator for republicans? i think if we see that its a motivator, then do these states, all of them, go under five points. do we see that that final result is somewhere under 5? i think we see that, then its no...

Donald trump and russia. >> the term double standard is one most women would respond to. she has taken an aggressive stance against the decision comey made. and frankly she should. because that decision has created what i call the comey effect. and it has indeed energized the trump forces. it has brought some wayward reluctant republic partisans back to trump. comey, i dont think he ne necessarily intended it, has hurt hillary clintons campaign. but its time to move on. she needs to get back on ...

Popular vote goes down, as maybe she loses some of the really close battlegrounds, if this story continues, youre going to have democrats who might have won senate seats and might have won house seats not win. its the comey effect. >> is that lee atwaters picture behind you there, larry? >> it is. he gave that to me years ago. >> i know im knocking it, but he was the guy who infamously, notoriously said he would make willie horton, the guy who got charged with rape and everything after he got ou...