Platform of white supremacy. When things were a bit more calm when conway appeared with robby mook a short time later, that didnt stop either one from continuing their attacks. I think theres a lot of things we need to exam coming out of this. Congress has got to investigate what happened with russia. We cannot have foreign aggressors intervening with the electio election. I think the biggest piece of fake news in this election was that donald trump couldnt win. The federalist, david wall joins us in a moment. First to Trace Gallagher with m more. It got heated. Theyve all been civil until now. In fact the moderator at harvard kept reminding the dam pain this was meant to be a first draft of history for generations to come. Future generations will now how bitter this campaign was. One of the most contentious back and forth came when Clinton Communications director jen palmieri con deemed steve bannon for providing a platform for white supremacy. You think i ran a campaign where White Supremacists had a platfo platform . You did. Do you think this woman who has nothing no common with anybody yes. Over 200 counties that president obama won and donald trump just won. Do you think thats because of what you said or people arent ready for a woman president. How about its Hillary Clinton. She doesnt connect with people. How about you have no economic message. Did you hear you guys are pathetic in the background . Clinton Campaign Manager robby mook said there were miscalculations in the come pain saying younger ve eer voters di turn out enough but mook pointed fingers at james comey for reviving the email controversy at the 11th hour. And things got heated again when benson reminded the trump team that his candidate won the popular vote. Watch. Dont act as if you have some popular mandate for your message. The fact of the matter is more americans voted for Hillary Clinton than donald trump. And there was nothing that said the road to popular vote. Its the road to 270. I premised my statement by saying that. Hey guys, we wont. Y you dont have to respond. He talked about Hillary Clinton being truthful and forth right and both of the campaigns said the media wasnt fair to either one of them. Well, well leave that to be debated further. Trace, thank you very much. As if the sore loser syndrome wasnt enough, were seeing more and more signs that the future of the Democratic Party itself may be in trouble. Senior editor molly hemingway, david wall and Julie Roginsky going us now. Good to see you on this fine friday evening. To that point i want to play a Little Something that congressman Emanuel Cleaver had to say. This is coming from a democrat and then ill have your response. At the present time i got to say we had no strategy, we have no plan. But at least we have some proven leadership that can you know take us into whats going to be a new era. Julie, okay. No strategy, no plan. He does say proven leadership. They did reflect nancy polocy. A lot of people, including democrats rolled their eyes saying that just means they didnt get what happened in the election. On the one hand congressman cleaver saying we dont have a plan or a strategy. He may be right about that. If thats true, that makes me incredibly fearful. But then hes saying we have to stick with the people that dont have a plan or a strategy. If you dont have a plan or a strategy, got to change the general on the field. And nancy pelosi served for a long time with distinction. If he cant get it done, hasnt been able to get it done in several cycles, it might have been time to look in a different direction. I would urge hem to take a look and see if the person that cant great you over the finish line time after time is the person leading you might want to find a new leader. It wasnt just a few votes here and there. There were dozens of votes that didnt go to nancy pelosi. David, this thing has gotten really ugly. We heard the back and forth from that conference, that forum that happened yesterday. Theres been a lot of talk supr. What was leveraged in a way to get people to the polls to vote for trump. What is your response . You know Kellyanne Conway. If Something Like that had been going on, she would have left the campaign in one second. To spew that kind of toxic venom was disgraceful. Do you know how many times i tried to get to a Court Hearing in l. A. And couldnt get there on time because roads and streets were closed because president obama or Hillary Clinton or some other democrat was hobnobbing with celebrities and movie stars and at the same time mr. Trump was in ie has, indiana, ohio, hobnobbing with the people that counted. It was strategy and bannon is a great strategist, great guy. I met him at trump tower. Not one shred of racism in his bones. Think dont get it. They didnt have a plan, they didnt have a platform or ideas. They lost and theyre reeling. To spew that venom at Kellyanne Conway who is an absolute graceful pen who handled it well. I wouldnt have been surprised if she stood up and slapped that woman for saying that. Were not advocating physical violence here. But molly, i got to think, if Kellyanne Conway was on the left, id be seeing her on the cover of vogue. This is a mother of four who ran an upset president ial campaign. But the left is not big fans. Its really amazing. Shes done this historic fete of being the first female to win a historic president ial campaign. She handled sort of all comers very well and it really is interesting. This whole ever since the election was over weve been talking about how is it possible that Hillary Clinton lost. I think really people are starting to realize the question is more about what are the things that the Trump Campaign did so well. That Harvard Forum mixed in with the blame game and the conspiracy theorizing that you heard from the clinton people, we heard a lot of the smart things that the Trump Campaign did. They had innovative approaches to advertising, relying less hand television advertising, more on Digital Campaign advertising because they were able to get their message out. I mean they were really doing some interesting things that go completely against the nair tiff that they were a mess of a campaign and the Clinton Campaign was a welloiled operation. Three weeks out from this victory for trump, you would expect the democrats to come to terms with it and start learning some lessons. They dont show signs that theyre learning. What do you make of that. There are people, when they heard that back and forth from last night, said this is exactly why trump won. They dont get it. They think its leveraging of the extreme altright. You cant win an entire election on that alone. Do you think democrats are doing any soul searching, like the republicans are . Are the democrats going to take some lessons there. First and foremost were the autopsy of the completely out of the window. Secondly, look, i spoke at great length today to one of the people on the panel on the democratic side who told me and ive read in reports as well, it doesnt the head lines theyre talking about the racist allegations and other things. They took a lot of ownership of things they could have done better, including reaching out to working class white voters, focusing on other states that they didnt focus on. I think there was a lot of responsibility taken. I know the media loves to sensationalize the allegations. But ive known Kellyanne Conway an awful long time. Shes lovely and i like her a great deal. But steve bannon ran a website that he said himself was the leader of the altright. To me the altright is not the altright. Thats another word for neonazi. Please. Come on. Youre saying hes not racist. Breitbart had a section entitled black crime, not crime in general but just black crime. Thats racist. Steve bannon has rebutted saying hes not part of this. Hes been mischaracterized. I want to let you address this. You know bannon. I was good friends with Andrew Breitbart before he passed away. Ive met all kinds of people that work there. Not one shred of racism among any one of them. Remember, trumps soninlaw is jewish, his daughter is jewish. Hes going to hire a white supremacist to work on his campaign . Its garbage. Early on in the Campaign Donald trump made this clear. He was going to be an inclusive president of the united states. The nonmainstream media ignored it. Hes inclusive and he believes in diversity. Were you reassured at all by the comments he said last night where were going to be inclusive, im denouncing anything other than that, anything that is racist or extreme and thats not part of what i want to do. Did that reassure you at all last night . I would love for donald trump to do. When he was asked specifically about that march that took place or that rally that took place just mere feet away from the white house of neonazis doing the nazi salute, he said i disavow. But he never said what he specifically disavowed. What about what he said last night that was very specific. He specifically said i want to be inclusive and then he followed that up with we beat Hillary Clinton and everybody started chanting lock her up. Thats not racist. Youre talking about inclusive. As long as this is not directed at Andrew Breitbart. This is directed to steve ban n bannon. As long as he ran a website that had black crime on it, thats the definition of racism. Donald trump in his remarks last night made a very clear statement and hopefully for many people that will lead us to the next step. He is going to be the president. Thank you all for you time. Less than 24 hours after it was announced that one of the most distinguished generals of our time is nominated to be secretary of defense, some democrats are suggesting they may block him. Well get reaction to that from a member of the Trump Transition Team coming up. Plus with president elect trumps carrier deal on the way and jobs numbers out today, new questions on what the Trump White House economy will look like and how the media is already spinning the success that the president elect may have. Chris stirewalt and rick lowrie are here on that. Plus School Classics band from a school near you. That report coming up. I was a little disappointed that we would go that far and it scares me, how Liberty Mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. Liberty did what . Yeah, with Liberty Mutual all i needed to do to get an estimate was snap a photo of the damage and voila voila sigh i wish my Insurance Company had that. Wait hold it. Hold it boys. 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But general mattis and president elect trump have their own disagreements, not supporting trumps conciliatory statements toward russia. He also thinking ripping up the iran deal would hurt the u. S. He would be thement first general to become defense second fair since 1950. And mattis would need a special congressional waiver. Some democrats, including senator gill debrand would a oppose the manner sayi ining civilian control of our military is a mufundamental policy. In 2003 the general wrote about the importance of reading saying, quote by reading you learn through others experience. Generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men. Hes known for turning a compelling phrase, be po light, be professional but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. Mattis finds himself defending allegations that as a Brigadier General in 2001 he repeatedly refused to send helicopters to rescue a group of green berets. The army captain who led said the general betrayed them. Member of president elect Donald TrumpsTransition Team and chairman of the house intelligence committee. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Any surprise to you that general mattis, although it seems he has wide praise across the aisle and all up and down the ranks, inside and outside the military, there are detractors coming forward immediately with questions about his ability in. Its a little shocking. Donald trumps Transition Team asked me shortly after the election who i thauought would the best secretary of defense. They asked to go out and recruit the very best people. And i said without a doubt that jim mattis would be the very best person. She has a broad Cross Section of both republicans and democrats that support him and i think those that do not support him are probably just playing politics at this point. What do you make of democrat senator kirsten gill brands suggestion that shes going to oppose him, this waiver he has to have and she may push for a 60vote threshold which means that democrats would have to cross over, a handful of them as well in order to get him across the finish line. I would say its rather pathetic because she has not heard general mattis testify before the senate. He should at least get that chance. We should have a debate in the senate in terms of whether or not he should get a waiver, just like well have in the house. My guess is this will overwhelmingly stop. In the senate wants to stop a fourstar general, one of the most revered generals in modern history at a time thats very very difficult overseas, especially in the middle east, and a man whats been right. He was right on iran, right on iraq, he was right on the problems were going to face with al qaedas growth in syria and he was right in withdrawing the troops from afghanistan would lead to problems. I hope that the senate sticks with the facts and donald trump asks us to go out and find the very best person for the job and thats what we did. And i think that donald trump made a very very wise decision in selecting general mattis to be the next secretary of defense. There are hot spots around the world, domestic issues as well within the pentagon that if he is confirmed hes going to have to deal with budgetary issues and dealing with isis. What is the most pressing concern. You know more than we do. Well, just quickly, china, russia, the jihadist problem, iran and north korea that are trying to get Nuclear Weapons and other types of large scale weapons, weapons of mass destruction. And then between all of that you have the cyber activity that all of those bad actors can use on and off. Youre part of the Trump Transition Team, one of his bold initiatives, theres been a lot of talk about overhauling the tax code. A lot of folks are giving him applause in what happened with carrier yesterday but say that getting to the tax code is much tougher and involved process. My advice to the trump team has been to focus on two issues at the highest level. One is the tax code because we need to reform the tax code in order to fix our economic problems. Secondly focus on health care, lets reform, replace and repeal obamacare but make Health Care Better for the american people. But specifically like you heard donald trump talk about last night in cincinnati, he talked about how the tax code was unfair, how other countries are able to charge a tax and at the same time theyre shipping stuff into our country without the tax while it puts or manufacturers, local mafr nufacturers at a disadvantage. Im excited about donald trump trying to repair the tax code and i think its going to be very difficult and theyre going to have to focus on it but we have a lot of people that are going to help him. Good to see you tonight, sir. Thanks. And coming up, religious freedom case out of zoearizona where some vendors are saying theyre being forced to support samesex events. We have an attorney telling us about one set of Business Owners who say tonight, enough is enough. Some of the media running stories about the impending trump economy, arguing that any success is going to be due to this guy, president obama. Chris stirewalt, rich lowrie here with reaction to that. 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