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Ballot audit. back with us, cornell belcher and veteran of the obama campaign. -- wolf good to see you. cornell, in that letter, the republican chairman called the never ending review an adventure and never never land, which points to what biden said earlier today. so cornell, in your mind, which is fight like hell look like faced with reality in today. so cornell, in your mind, which is fight like hell look like faced with reality in states like arizona? >> when you look at the

I think we had a lot of support from the leadership in the african-american community. those leaders knew me. weve been -- this is -- ive been around for a while. i may look young and pretty, but im really not. i -- ive been around for a long time. and those leaders knew me and they knew my background and they knew that they would have a partner in the united states senate. >> with me now, cornell belcher, msnbc political analyst and democratic pollster and amanda litman, hillary clintons former...

So cornell, let me start with you on two of the most striking takeaways. one of the cross tabs of how white voters and black voters voted in this race, roy moore won white voters by quite a bit. he won them going away by 38 points. he lost black voters by 92 points and black voters made up crucially around 29% of the electorate, far exceeding what the models or some models have projected. what do you make of it? >> i make this. you know, this has been the formula that weve been looking for, for ...

>> okay. so cornell, youve always been a fair dealer and youve been in democratic politics long enough to have any cockiness drained from you -- >> zero cockiness. >> -- how do you do this with the primaries and wont they lose a couple followers as well? >> taking the democrat and republican label off, this is a problem for the country, right? you see the civil war thats all is foul and all is fair. there is something not right in

>> well, and i think thats a reality. the concerning moment tonight is the reason this is newsworthy is because we are living through trumps republican party. bob corker would not be a news story if it wasnt the fact that he was challenging what is the norm of the republican party right now. and that is what we are living through and deciding, is this a temporary anomaly of the republican party or is there a permanency to this renting of the republican party of donald trump right now? and it is ...

Because we are living through trumps republican party. bob corker would not be a news story if it wasnt the fact that he was challenging what is the norm of the republican party right now. and that is what we are living through and deciding, is this a temporary anomaly of the republican party or is there a permanency to this renting of the republican party of donald trump right now? and it is a very frightening moment for establishment republicans, but the reality is, establishment republicans a...

The way to engage in the apologetics of white nationalism. when you ask whether or not he is a racist, what we do know is this -- the policies he supported, the rhetoric hes offered, the positions hes taken are racially de lly detri to the whole of the country. >> when you -- >> white nationalism is dangerous. deadly dangerous. >> im not going to condone what president trump said today. im just not going to do it. but having been around him, erin, as i was during the campaign, the way that -- yo...

Stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. finally the hardball roundtable. big time to make predictions. this is a big night. so cornell. >> something you dont know is one, my books a really good read. >> punch it. >> but also -- >> i didnt know that. >> well come back for an interview with you after the election. if you look at florida right now, they have banked more african-american and hispanic voters in florida than they had in all o...

"access hollywood" video, that people have been talking about nonstop. and people are bothered by it. and its not something that appears to be going away. while we were in the field for five days, we didnt really see concern about it grow all that much. there was normal variation from day to day. but since we finished the polling on tuesday night, this has continued to be a big part of the conversation, and when an issue like that has legs like that, we can expect to see people who were already ...

investigation into the fast and furious gun running operation. tonight, the mother and cousin of slain border patrol agent brian terry, the man you see right there, who was killed in connection with the gun running operation, they are speaking out on this program. speaking out for the first time since the indictments were unsealed on monday, charging five people in the shootout that resulted in the death of agent terry. the shootout, which happened in december of 2010. now, two guns we...