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Served in public office or the military before has ever held this office. you have experience as a politician. do you feel like were on some strange uncharted world right now? >> i think a lot of people feel strange and i share that sentiment. part of it is the things that are kind of unspeakable that the president-elect keeps saying and the flagrant denial of reality, whether its consensus, highest level of certainty and confidence, conclusions of the intelligence community or the virtually una...

Gay rights, the focus on gay rights, the advances for african-americans, the kind of visibility of the advancements of these other americans so a lot of trump voters, this is what they want. they want the change sfo-to-a more traditional president, they feel theyve gotten it. >> i think the enduring question and maybe something the president will address tonight is how much the backlash subsume what is came before it. in a substantive sense. does the affordable care act survive? those are the so...

Now. his economic record alone in terms of saving us from the great depression, if thats the only thing you knew, even if he hadnt been the first african-american president doing it, that will put him in the top 10 presidents in u.s. history and nothing else that anybody says about him. >> well now take the national anthem and rachel maddow, my friend and colleague will pick up coverage on the other side. [ applause ] nit note oh ♪ oh, say can you see by the

This stuff. i have a question, i guess, about how common it would be to include essentially third party or raw intelligence in this sort of thing or maybe this is kind of not that surprising in terms of the protocol? >> it is to me a little surprising, frankly, because its not corroborated, it also had some roots in opposition research that was allegedly started by republican opponents or at least one republican opponent of mr. trumps and then embraced later by democrats as well. its been floati...

About the president-elect and his campaign dealings with russia was prepared to be briefed directly to the president-elect? >> that is correct. chris. thats the significant thing and why we are reporting it. it was included, a two-page addendum, was included in the highly classified compartmented version of the intelligence report on russian hacking and interference in the election that was prepared for president-elect trump, president obama and leaders of congress. so highly classified stuff. s...

Seen as erica. one of the things we cant undercut -- >> you dont? >> he had to be constantly understated, as ta-nehisi coates said, the calmest black man in america. the idea of backlash is baked into each of our reconstruction so we have this incredible civil war where we kill 600,000 american citizens and free the slaves and then you have this sort of golden era of reconstruction that is destroyed by a back thrash is vicious and horrifying. then you have the civil rights movement in the 1960s,...

These final days because what he was able to pull off politically is remarkable and the election of donald trump is a reminder that there was not a fundamental structural change in some ways that happened in america. in some ways this particular unique figure was able to pull off things that maybe someone else could not have. >> thats right. and i think one of the things you and i have talked a lot about and covered a lot about in terms of the obama era is the distance between his success as a n...

Have begins to erode so quickly and, by the way if the unemployment rate starts going up again and we have a bad trade deficit again -- but ive said this before, the rules are unfair. if donald trump had won the popular vote by three million vote there is would have been problems in this country. >> and lost, i agree. >> on the other hand, if the republicans had tripled the dow in a presidency, tripled the dow, took on the guy who owned 7,000, suddenly he owns $20,000, thats a good return on the...

All the special interests out there. >> sure. >> youll still have everybody that has their hand in that. how do you get this through? this is a big undertaking. >> its not big. its huge. one thing i want to stress because ive heard friends on the other side, you guys complained about it. its your baby. you take care of it. weve inherited a very bad law. president lincoln said if you want to see a bad law repeal, aggressively enforce it. this is an administration that has not done the full enforc...

Candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom. >> we will make america proud again. we will make america great again. >> you are looking live at the dnc in philadelphia where the gavel is about to slam down. but it will not be outgoing dnc chair debbie wasserman schultz doing it to angie moreli. are you prepared to support hillary clinton? >> no, sir, im not. >> were going to work for angies vote. >> lets build a better tomorrow for our beloved children and our beloved co...