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Potential top staff jobs and half of them are kind of republican people who are regulars in the party and in washington. half of them are the trump faction, people who came along with them along the way or were exiled in the party or on the fringes in different ways. im fascinated to see what wins out and if trumpism takes shape over the republicanism we have seen. >> and hes not a reader. he wont go through binders. he wants verbal briefings from the team and trusted advisers. >> it depends who...

Lets assume obama is on the stage. there is a lot of opportunity there. thats why you will see more people. wait a minute. now is the time. its so unexpected. >> everybody will have so many other kids to scramble after. this is the only that is left. i had an e-mail from a reader who said please can you get michelle obama to run for it? >> she is not going to do dnc chair. >> as if. >> i want to play for you, i get what you are saying about washington. elizabeth warren is popular with the base. ...

E-mails were discovered, bigger than watergate. that suggests a central role in your message. >> well, let me ask you something -- do you think that they went through hundreds of thousands of e-mails in a week? because that may strike a lot of americans as unusual. i dont know if id have the capacity to do that. i dont know if id -- i dont know that i want as a taxpayer the fbi stopping everything to reader, mails. i doubt they did. >> its important for me to say, hundreds of thousands of e-mail...

Of the republican nominee. >> right. you hear steve bannon, of course, trumps campaign ceo is a big fan of using that word. roger stone uses that word now donald trump does as well. you see a trickle from the very far alt right to the trump campaign. duke told me that he believes trump listens to his radio show. he said he cant prove it, but he suspects that he does. he also thought he read his books, but i dont think trump is much of a reader. but the radio show seems like its a possibility. wh...

Versus nationalist is a language that now extends, a dichotomy that extends from the avowed racist fringes of david duke into the heart of the rhetoric of the republican nominee. >> right. you hear steve bannon, of course, trumps campaign ceo is a big fan of using that word. roger stone uses that word now donald trump does as well. you see a trickle from the very far alt right to the trump campaign. duke told me that he believes trump listens to his radio show. he said he cant prove it, but he s...

Flipping at the voting booths in texas. people are not happy. big lines. what is going on? election officials say that theyve had some human error basically in some of the tablets, theyve got electronic voting there. but they dont think its a big problem. is he raising this problem to suggest that the entire election system, as he keeps saying, is rigged? >> from my perspective, ive heard the same stories about the voting machines switching votes. we know that dead people across america are stil...

Deeper and i wanted to ask what are the medias biggest flaws in your minds? a common theme was that theres not enough honesty, that reporters are showing bias when people just want the facts. so then i asked the harder question. if you were in charge of cnn or if you were in charge of "the new york times," what would you do differently? >> try to tell the whole perspective, not just one side. >> youre showing all the bad, what about the good being done out there? >> the thing i would change is t...

First of out, he never would have gotten the interview if he was a regular journalist. wouldnt have gotten it if he didnt say he was sympathetic to el chapo cause. and he agreed to let him read the story which is saying cardinal sin, even if no editing happened youre not supposed to show that to a source. >> lets face it, this was a big interview, a big get, maybe negotiated those rules a little differently but i think the vast majority of the people in our industry present wed this interview wo...

Investigation. hes likely to be a witness for one side or the other. >> i think there are also some questions about the time period when he did the face-to-face interview versus the follow-up. what information do they have about el chapo during that period of time? did they know his whereabouts? i dont think its just the time period of the interview then the follow-up that was done over video. so i think theres a lot of unanswered questions. >> brian, when we talk about, you know, journalism and...

Projects leadership. thats what they want america to act especially after seven years of obama. >> bill, im a kennedy democrat, a john f. kennedy democrat. let the word go forth to friend and foe alike we will stand up for freedom and liberty everywhere. that is what we need the next president to do, regardless of party. >> amen. bill: long live january of 1961. >> yes, sir. bill: check out crowleys piece in the "times," the real reason voters are on a rampage. interesting reader. thank you, mon...