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♪ cause this is thriller thriller night ♪ >> that is the president and the first lady, michelle obama having a thrilling halloween at the white house today. and later there he is, he met with the lame duck. you get it? hes a duck and hes lame. he has his arm in a sling. there he is. that was pretty smart. always fun, always nice at the white house. we needed that little bit of levity after whats going on. this is the craziest election ever. back now with my panel. i was telling everyone to h...

Funny. did you have any in-person briefings? i dont find it funny at all. >> im sorry. a little note of levity at 7:15. >> that was more than seven hours into hillary clintons 11-hour testimony at the benghazi hearings. it was supposed to be the shining moment for a congressional investigation that already stretched on longer than the watergate committee. surely getting her on the record would justify the millions of taxpayer dollars spent trying to prove there was some scandal with regards to s...

There were stretches of no levity and a lot of worry in the air. it is a little bit of a different experience these days. she seems to be celebrating without getting complacent, is how she puts it. >> they say complacency, thats what jen palmieri told us. thats the biggest fear. that people will see a poll or average of polls showing shes up a couple of points, doing better than president obama did four years ago with battleground states. and not get out and vote. thats their biggest concern. >>...

Course president obamas a masterful orator. look, i think what has been so successful about the first ladys speeches at the convention and on the campaign trail is that, you know, shes speaking from the heart. shes not speaking as a politician, shes speaking as a wife, as a mother, and as a woman. when you have a candidate like donald trump with his misogyny, racism, the power of her words is even greater than you might expect. shes terrific. now you hear folks, oh, god, shes so wonderful, she s...

How this was a day of very bad political news for the trump campaign, there is also one other piece of news to add to that list. weirdly from the al smith dinner last night. the al smith dinner not technically part of the political contest between trump and clinton. its actually supposed to be kind of a nice thing. a memento detente, levity as the two candidates gibe each other and themselves in this room of incredibly rich people in penguin suits. even that didnt go well for trump. the room rea...

Last night. the al smith dinner not technically part of the political contest between trump and clinton. its actually supposed to be kind of a nice thing. a memento detente, levity as the two candidates gibe each other and themselves in this room of incredibly rich people in penguin suits. even that didnt go well for trump. the room reacted poorly to a number of the shots he took at hillary clinton. he ended up getting heckled and jeered and booed as he finished up his remarks. it didnt seem lik...

Lets discuss this with cnn political commentator carl bernstein the author of a woman in charge the life of hillary rodham clinton. we also have bill kristol the editor of the weekly standard. you want to start with a little levity? >> sure. >> something funny -- >> lets do that. lets play a little moment from last night. >> here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate catholics. everyone knows, of course, hillarys belief that it takes a village. which only makes sense after all in pla...

Know, its been a tough couple of months. it was nice to be able to laugh at what trump said about hillary clinton. to laugh what hillary clinton said about trump. that was good. humor, humor is important in all of this and also, look, "snl" is going to have some great fodder between the debate and last night. >> if only we can inject more humor and levity in the next couple weeks. >> voters have made up their mind. it wasnt a policy speech, it was fun. >> but it was nice tasee themo in that ligh...

Voter impersonation at the polls on election day. ten cases over ten years. thats not a lot of fraud. while the report did find that fraud does occur the number of cases are exceedingly small and certainly not enough to swing an election the way donald trump says is happening. >> all right. thank you, chris. now lets talk about last nights charity dinner with cnn senior political correspondent brianna keilar. this is a fund-raising event for catholic charities to help needy children in new yor...

Come to think of it, do you know what would be a good number for a woman? 45. but i digress. >> so brianna? >> i thought it was a good joke. it was probably the most clever jock becau joke because it had that sort of after burn, where she said thats right, she kind of looks like a four so that connects to you donald trump rating women, which is something that is in one of hillary clintons ads. but its also really stinging. you know, and if this had sort of been one joke, positioned among many, t...