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This election isnt just about november 8 for paul ryan. the speaker has a decision after the election. does he run again for speaker? does he have the political capital and popularity to become speaker again. there is a presidency with hillary clinton at the top. could they work together is for governing bipartisan effort going afoot moving forward? >> robert costa from the washington post. thank you very much to the audience now. vice president joe biden, the pride of scranton, pennsylvania, is...

May not like you and reverse the same thing. its hard to keep both of those republican groups happy. >> well, politically, its a tough spot. theres no question about that. and i think for someone like pat toomey whos been a good senator and focused on policy, hes torn between hillary clinton, who he hates, doesnt think she would be a good president, and trump, who he also doesnt like. hes been very up-front about his opposition to trumps outrageous statements and his policies he disagrees with. ...

Trump, there are still votes to gain for hillary. so were focused on donald trump in those particular markets. and in the philly suburbs, we think were pretty close to maxing out hillarys vote in that respect. >> would you run that ad we just saw up in scranton if it were run for free? if someone paid you to run it, would you run it? >> an ad that says -- >> no, that ad. >> yeah, an ad that says -- >> no -- >> im answering your question, if youll give me one second. would i run an ad in scranton...

Can the country heal amid all of this. thats why donald trump is heading to gettysburg. >> lets talk about with cnns political commentator, errol louis and abby phillip, national political reporter of "the washington post." thank you both for getting up so early on a saturday morning to talk to us. i want to circle back real quickly to what vice president biden said and the criticism of those statements. abby, is the criticism valid? >> i think, you know, given how prominent bullying as an issue...

Why is joe biden doing this? why are we hearing this from him? obviously hes passionate about this. >> one, because vice president joe biden has always been a passionate trans am in the front yard kind of guy and sort of scranton, delaware, attitude has been popular with a lot of americans both on the right and the left. heres what i think the distinction is, victor. he said i wish we were in high school, you know, kids, so i could take him out back and get into a fistfight. plus, i dont believe...

The most three words he said in the speech is jobs, jobs, jobs. weve gone 15 years without increase in our average median income. >> thats not true. >> that is true. >> it is true. >> okay, fact checker. you check it out. >> its here. >> 70,000 factories lost. weve lost 5,000 manufacturing jobs. i would say to you people in fort wayne and scranton arent feeling what youre feeling. theres really misery out in the heartland here and to me and e.j., i thought that speech today really talked to the ...

Minutes -- >> something jumped out. talk nafta. repeal nafta. why does that interest us? nafta was passed in 1993. bill and hillary own that. they promised us 200,000 new pr jobs. weve lost 850,000 jobs. we have a cumulative deficit in trade is up to $1 trillion. what does that mean to the people in north carolina? they were at the tip of that spear? theyve been devastated. when they hear donald trump say im going to repeal nafta, that resonates in places like scranton and fort wayne. >> well, y...

>> lets go to e.j. deon. >> snark and condescension do not answer my questions. everybody stop. were going to have one person at a time. >> i salute mr. navarro for staying on message and it a good lesson what hes doing there to his candidate. but what i found striking today is in a way trumps lost opportunity because two months ago the message on nafta actually did have a lot of appeal in places like scranton or fort wayne or michigan, but a lot of that got washed away by the events of the last...

When he was inaugurated. thats the way america works. thats what makes us different. thats what makes us a beacon to the world. and to be the first major party candidate not to acknowledge that is disgraceful and disqualifying. >> steve cortez? >> chris, listen, i will tell you this. im very honored to be a surrogate of donald trump. its not always the easiest jobs, because at times he speaks very inartfully. and i think he did last night. however, he clarified that today. and i think this is mu...

Its rigged and hes been saying it for a while now. your thoughts? >> thats exactly right. hes been saying it for months and its been exceedingly dangerous for months. and the closer we get to the election, with all of the intense feelings that are appropriate for an election, for him to enflame voters in scranton or anywhere, hes the one whos raising this. theres only one candidate in this race whos suggesting that the outcome would be illegitimate. theres only one candidate in this race, as you...