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Bannon announcement come 24 hours prior? as you noted that top, no alec baldwin and no impersonation of trump at all. why? >> i think folks are struggling what this means to give someone a chance. goodi good a new president a chance. what do we do now? he was more vulgar than that. what you hear are these comedians and these artists and kind of thought leaders in hollywood for a lack of a better term struggling with what to do. what to make of this president and the latest example, this is not y...

Gamble, rise, scrutiny decline" the press reveals fact that damage a candidate, the public says, no, we cant accept that candidate. i think to some extent what a lot of us -- me, thought were disabling aspects about trump -- his supporters said no, thats him and were so desperate for change well go with him. so im not sure i buy the false equivalency except in terms of 2 quantity of the coverage. >> mollie what do you think? >> the term "false equivalency" should die in a fire and the proof is t...

President-elect trump has yet to directly address the protesters except for what hes written on twitter. then he makes this announcement, which is sure to fan the flames of those protesters. your take on the timing here. >> i mean, its horrible, but it is consistent, right? so, the track we dont want to take is to -- the false equivalency that racism is ideological, that there is an equivalency between bacala and bannon. there is none. there are republicans who hate racism. this guy, however, is...

Argument to the american people why you need to be the next president of the united states and what we saw in this clip is hillary clinton is not going high. she says when donald trump goes low we go high. she is going after him because she knows the race is different than a week ago. and what we see is donald trump talking about hillary clinton as well, fbi investigation, wikileaks, clinton inc., all of those things they dont want to -- obamacare premiums. this. >> they are both going low. >> r...

Things about donald trump that most lying candidate ever, according to politifact, in history. and so its simple marketing. if you have one mistake that is played 1,000 times and then you have 1,000 things that each get like one mention, whats going to penetrate the most? so i do think that hillary clinton, theres been this kind of false equivalency that the media has done. and by the way, she never lied about her e-mails. even the fbi said she was always honest with them. you know, she might no...

Has remembered booing. he came in and didnt seem to be the difference between being light-hearted and heavy handed and he kept being heavy handed and i think it was like we were continuing in the spirit of the debate last night as opposed to coming in a different event. i thought some of her jokes didnt work very well, she was flat, but some of her jokes were more appealing. the reason of this matter is these events give you an insight into the character and the personality of the person who may...

First time in anybodys memory at one of these dinners because of the harshness of his jokes. >> that we can remember. it could have happened before. >> everyone weve talked to for the last 15 years doesnt remember booing. he came in and didnt seem to be the difference between being light-hearted and heavy handed and he kept being heavy handed and i think it was like we were continuing in the spirit of the debate last night as opposed to coming in a different event. i thought some of her jokes di...

Grappled with, which has been very tough, is how do you cover this race, and how do you cover trump particularly when he says things that just arent true? for instance, i even watched him in this last debate and anderson cooper said to him, do you think you have the discipline to be president? you tweet late at night and you ask us to watch a sex tape, and he said, i didnt. how do you argue that when you did tweet it and how many times do you do that? >> i think the media has been going downhill...

He get its front of people and they cheer and he loves it. >> hes like a salesman. hes sensing the crowd. >> yes, sensing the crowd, so i think that is what has shaped his idealogy as far as it goes. >> one of the things weve all grappled with, which has been very tough, is how do you cover this race, and how do you cover trump particularly when he says things that just arent true? for instance, i even watched him in this last debate and anderson cooper said to him, do you think you have the dis...

And if donald trump comes out wanting to use this opportunity to sort of soil the conversation with the discussion of marital infidelity, i dont think thats going to work with this particular group of voters and i think well see it on their faces and it will hurt donald trump. >> so todd, you think its a mistake if he is to play, ill call it the bill card. how about the wikileaks release? as per the wicks leex information, she delivered to speeches to wall street including her embracing some con...