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Our friend john sikes in wisconsin. nicolle, how many days are we since the election, 22, 23? >> i was still counting in hours. i said to you before we came on that my new years resolution is to stop saying weve never seen this before, but since its not january 1st, weve never seen this before. you always pointed out in a split screen moment or theres something happening on the other side of the political aisle, i think we have to start covering trump speeches in the split screen that theyre exp...

They voted. these people in portland, they voted forren had hrn, and they were handed something that was unjust. thats why people take to the streets. >> interesting book, i cant wait to read it. >> starting here tonight on cnn with don lemon. >> youre on the daily show tomorrow night? >> we are. >> congratulations. can america move from anger to unity and can comedy help? >> weve actually elected an internet troll as our president. the whites are furious. never seen anything like it. havent s...

>> joining me now, david, head writer at funnyordie and joke writer in chief. that was the more emotional part of davids monologue. daves monologue, but it was a build and what was your take? >> i think for a large chunk of the country, this isnt yet something that we can laugh about but snl is a comedy show and i think that was the tone that made sense for the moment. you could see that in his face, he felt sad and disappointed and thats the way a lot of us feel but finding a way to laugh throu...

Talk about -- i dont -- i want to follow up on something you said, but i also dont want to ignore the part of the split screen we showed. we showed -- one level we talk about the sort of -- the normal transfer of power, and in some ways there are certain ways that thats important. normal. because those are -- those are part of the civic bullwork. those stories that were seeing, theyre -- now, you know, people post things on facebook and we as a journalistic enterprise have to make sure thats vet...

Mention enough. this is someone who has no experience in governing. president obama was criticized on the campaign trail because he was a one-term senator. because he didnt have the kind of experience he acknowledged that hillary clinton has had she been elected president. so hes coming into this, i think, certainly at an institutional deficit. its important to surround himself with people who understand the way government works and i have to believe hell ask questions of the president about jus...

Fastest agreeing minority population. if they are indeed in the clinton camp going forward that could be a significant issue for republicans in future elections. >> brian, trump speaks for trump, right? we saw that play out tonight. who was on the stage with him? it was him. for clinton, it was the obamas, the boss, bruce springsteen, bon jovi, over the past days, ferrell, lebron james, you name it. is that an acknowledgment by the campaign do you like this person or this western or this person ...

Tomorrow, stick with msnbc for a full coverage of election day and night. live from rockefeller center and democracy plaza, the skating rink. welcome back to "hardball" from philadelphias independence mall where were waiting for one of hillary clintons final rallies of 2016. over the weekend, the "new york times" got behind the scenes access to the trump campaign and reporting reveals a candidate privately concerned or even worried about tomorrows results. they described the closing days of his ...

Hillary clinton, because prior to this, it was a really interesting split screen and theres beyonce over there without any graphic explanation. but now weve got it. and we also have the breaking news, which deserves to be on the screen too. which is that sam wang is giving this now a 99% certainty, josh, that hillary clintons going to win. >> yeah, i wish were as confident as sam is. >> thats because you cant do calculations with -- what was it? 72 quadrillion possibilities. >> i think he can. >...

The movement disproves darwinism. we start there. a couple of forces taking shape in the bush years that have produced this moment. one is the intersection of celebrity and politics. it used to be that politicians would borrow the techniques of celebrity to make a point. richard nixon on "laugh in." >> "sock it to me." >> "sock it to me." now we have celebrities who have moved in to politics. reflexive partnership. president bush as you remember, famously made a budget deal that broke a campaign...

>> you dont think theyre doing the split screen there of our show. >> im struck by the idea that professor wang only looks at state polls and never looks at the national polls and is that strikes me as probably the best way to do this. >> yeah, well, in his research, theyre more accurate so that makes sense. he also talks about how he uses the median rather than factoring in these outlier polls, which also makes sense. i mean, look, i think, obviously, theres still uncertainty here. you dont kno...