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Voters, between the ages of 18 to 34, by 2020 theyll be the largest segment of the american electorate. Theyre not part of this trend. White millennials will almost certainly not vote for donald trump, young white people. The children. Heather mcghee, fernand amandi. Well be right back here on saturday after joy reids bonus hour. Well be here, if my voice makes it. Be sure to tune in for that. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything . Ill go right to your office and steal them. They sell them at my bodega. I think theyre illegal. Thanks for being with us here this friday night, this friday before the election. Its very exciting. Im very excited. When john f. Kennedy beat midmanhattan with our rca 501 computer. Only onetent of the total vote is in, were going to have what we call projections. Thats estimates on what the final vote will be in a popular and then what the final vote will be in the Electoral College. Heres how that projection will be made. The rca 501 computer is connected with nbcs Vote Gathering equipment up there with you in midmanhattan. Down here in wall street, the computer takes in vote totals, punches them out on tape. That tape is fed electronically into banks of magnetic tape storage reels. Now, the information can be called up with other information from the electronic console. I think we can call it a wedding of Political Science and electronic science. It achieves its Election Resultswhich ill be reporting throughout the evening by doing some computations. The political equations and the experts tell me to accomplish these equations humanly would take the work of 60,000 clerks. This is Richard Ardness with the rca 501 computer. Its now about ten minutes old. It puts them out pretty fast. Projects the popular vote for president like this. 51. 2 for kennedy, 48. 8 for nixon. Which i believe is the same thing its been saying all night. The odds it figures i didnt know Electronic Computers figured odds, did you . No, ive never heard that before. That was new to me tonight. We may be able to find some other kind of work for the 501 when the election is over. It can compute odds . Maybe there will be some other kind of work for that there computing machine after this election is over, fellas. Nbcs Whiz Bang Rca 501 computer. It did get the Election Results right basically, on that Election Night in 1960. The nbc computer did pick kennedy. I should tell you that abc and cbs also unveiled their own Computing Machines on their Election Night broadcast in 1960 and the abc and cbs computers were wrong. Both of their computers picked nixon in a landslide. Computers have gotten better since then. And they use less tape. When Election Nights are big blowouts, they can sometimes be a little forgettable. When Ronald Reagan just rolled jimmy carter in 1980, nbc news called that election that night at 8 15 p. M. And, you know, however consequently that election was in the long run, and it was consequently, no one remembers all that much about the very end of that president ial race let alone what happened on Election Night. Its when things are close. Its when things really go down to the wire when they tend to get a little nuts and things tend to get memorable. In terms of this race were in now, the polls have definitely tightened in the last few days. There are people who say that the polls are less useful now at this point in the race than they might have been in previous elections because early voting is so popular now because so many people have taken advantage of Absentee Voting and cast their ballots already, more than 37 million americans have already voted. So because of that, because such a huge chunk of the vote is in, theres an argument to be made that looking at the early vote totals, that tells you a lot more about who is going to win than looking at polls for these last few days. Steve shale out of florida tells us that he thinks by the end of the weekend, 70 of the vote might be in in florida, ahead of election day which doesnt come around till tuesday. Election forecasters rely on all the various data they have to work with. They have been moving states from lean democrat to tossup or tossup to lean republican. Youre definitely seeing the polls tightp in the estimation. The polls and the prospects for each candidate youre seeing those tighten in the eyes of the people who make projections about these things. One very blunt but indirect sign that the election is getting closer is that the markets have been freaking out a little bit. Since Donald Trumps numbers started going back up last week, the stock market has been a little nauseous. And you are seeing this interesting correlation throughout the general election campaign. Markets have tended to react negatively whenever things perk up for donald trump. Over the last nine days the stock market has been very negative. It has dropped every single day of the last nine days. Market analysts are attributing those drops Town Easiness with the prospect that donald trump might have a shot at winning this election. Nine Straight Days of losses on the stock market is the longest uninterrupted decline in the market in more than 30 years. So from lots of different angles, you can see the tightening of the race. But Hillary Clinton is still favored to win the race in the end by all the 21st century iterations of the rca 501. At fivethirtyeight. Com theyre giving her a 64 chance. The New York Times gives her an 84 chance of winning. A lot of other analysts make election projections like this and they have Hillary Clintons chances of winning higher or lower depending on who you ask. Looking at them real quick, the Huffington Post as a polling aggregator, theyve got clintons chances at 98 . The princes Election Consortium has her at 99 . The professional prognosticators like cook and roth and larry sabato, theyve got the race forecast as either likely democratic or leaning democratic. So theres a range of projections out there depending on the methodology of the different forecasters and what they consider to be the relevant data at this point. But all of the nationally recognized forecasters, all of them, are now predicting that its more likely clinton will win on Tuesday Night Than Trump will win. But if you have been feeling a little tension in the reair, thats real. As we get down to the wire, get down to the very end, in a close race getting down to the very end, were getting a lot of dramatic news. Today was a lot of dramatic legal news. Actually today Down The Line uniformly was a good day of legal news for the democrats. In all these various states theres been various legal fights to stop Voter Intimidation Tactics by the Republican Party and by the Trump Campaign. Also there have been a lot of legal efforts to block republican efforts to make voting harder by various means. Today in kansas and in ohio and in arizona and in North Carolina, democrats won legal battles over Voting Rights and voter intimidation in all of those states today. Democrats basically ran the table in terms of their big legal fights in the state. Well have updates on all those legal battles coming up later on in the show with one of the lawyers that has been spearheading that voter rights fight in the courts. The other battle that i think was a legitimate shock to the system at this late date in the race, the friday before the election, was the bridgegate trial. Guilty on all counts. New jersey governor Chris Christie, of course, came very, very close to being Donald Trumps Vice President ial running mate. He did not get the Vice President ial job but trump then gave christie instead arguably the most substantive job he had to offer in terms of shaping what the trump administration would be like if he wins. Donald trump put Chris Christie in charge of his transition effort. Which means hes basically choosing staff, choosing personnel for Donald Trumps federal government. Today back home in new jersey, two of the senior people who Chris Christie chose for his own administration were both convicted on all of the federal felony charges for which they were being tried. This is the scandal involving political retribution on christies behalf using the George Washington bridge between new york and new jersey as the means of punishment. The Clinton Campaign has already called for trump to drop Chris Christie as his Transition Chief given these guilty verdicts today. We dont know whether to expect that might happen but the Trump Campaign did announce that christies planned trip to New Hampshire to go campaign for donald trump at three separate New Hampshire events tomorrow, that trip has been called off. No explanation as to why. Well have more ahead on that as well. But as we head into these final days, one thing is starting to seem very clear, and im trying to think about this from sort of a 30,000 foot perspective. Looking at that Archive Footage from 1960, looking at Archive Footage from some of the other races and stuff that happened three and four days out, four days out in the 2000 election when the george w. Bush dui was exposed, for example. Looking at the kind of things that happen at this point in the race, i think its clear that we do now know for this race that when the history of this years election is written the standout nutty thing that surprised everybody at the end that historians and journalists will talk about forever when they talk about this election, we now know what theyre going to talk about. What theyre going to talk about will be the political intervention, the brazen multifaceted, political intervention into this election by the fbi. Hes got a surprise or two that youre going to hear about in the next few days. Im talking about some pretty big surprise. I heard you say that this morning. What do you mean . Well see. Youre lucky because weve got to go. Were out of time. I want to keep pressing you. Were not going to go down. Were certainly not going to stop fighting. Weve got a couple things up our sleeve that should turn this around. Weve got a couple of things, some pretty big surprises. What did you mean . Maniacal laughter. That was Rudy Giuliani rubbing his hands together in glee, saying something was coming. That was on fox news two days before the fb director sent a letter to congress about Hillary Clinton, a letter that made no specific allegation of any wrongdoing but because it was from the fbi director and about Hillary Clinton it nevertheless shook the Plings Olitics of thi president ial race right to its core. Rudy giuliani said two days ahead of that that he knew something was coming. Last night on this show we asked was it possible that Rudy Giuliani was tipped off to what the fbi director was about to do . How did he know . Did the fbi tell him . This morning he bragged that, yes, in fact, he had gotten advance word. I did nothing to get it out. Did i have a role in it . No. Brags that four days before the political election, theyve been getting tipoffs from the fbi about Donald Trumps political opponent. Theyre given a heads up over at the Trump Campaign before anything is released to the public let alone to congress. Ranking democrats on the Judiciary Committee and the Government Oversight Committee in Congress Today asked the Department Of Justice Inspector General to look into these bragging claims by the Trump Campaign that they had advanced word asking the Inspector General at the Justice Department to find out if in fact there were people in the fbi who were trying to influence the election in that way, who were trying to help the Trump Campaign in that way by feeding them Insider Information ahead of the public. That happened today. The Fox News Channel today itself also made a remarkable retraction today. All the time but especially in the heated election on a topic this explosive, every word matters. No matter how well sourced. Which brings me to this. I explained a couple of types yesterday the phrasing of one of my answers to brit hume wednesday night saying it was unartful, about saying how the investigations would continue after the election. I answered that, yes, our sources said it would, they would continue to likely a indictment. Well, that just wasnt inartful. It was a mistake. And for that im sorry. Thats the reporter and anchor bret baier at Fox News Channel today. I dont usually do this on stories like this, but im going to take a point of personal privilege here. I will tell you in my view, in my personal view, i think that bret baier is a good reporter and a good anchor. I also think he is a good person. He made a mistake on this story. In this business, that is a very hard thing for people to admit. But not only did bret baier admit that he made a mistake, he explained the mistake and i think this is important, he didnt talk around it. He had the courage and decency to use the word mistake in saying what had gone wrong and then saying he was sorry. And thats really, really hard to do in this business. Theres a reason you dont hear a lot of onair corrections in this business, but that was well done and the right thing to do and i think its worthy of respect. Okay. What bret baier initially reported and has now retracted and called a mistake and apologized for was this claim on fox that there was an active fbi investigation of Hillary Clinton that was likely to lead to indictments. That was a fox news claim from earlier this week. But to be clear, what bret baier did today was he took that back. Indictment obviously is a very loaded word, john, especially in this atmosphere, and no one knows if there would or would not be an indictment. Nobody knows if there would or would not be an indictment. It was a mistake when fox said there would be. Hope it didnt create a false impression. Hope that didnt affect the race. At the end of a president ial race, especially when its close, things go a little nuts. And the fbi director apparently trying to influence the election, fbi sources leaking false information to generally protrump news outlets. Fbi sources giving advanced notice about politically damaging information to the Trump Campaign. One Fbi Field Office reportedly using materials created by the head of the Trump Campaign and funded by trumps biggest donor. Using that as their fbi research, as their fbi evidence to try to open up new investigations on Hillary Clinton which they then leak about to the Trump Campaign and to protrump news outlets. Yes, stuff always twos n goes n the end of a president ial campaign. But this is not just actors behaving in a nuts way, this is an unsettling way for it to go nuts, right . Its been intense enough to know that in the u. S. Intelligence community the russian government has been trying to disrupt our election through deceit and political operations. Its another thing to think that parts of the fbi are doing the same thing. Theres a lot to cover tonight. Theres a lot just to watch in terms of whats happening in the last flurry of activity in this election. President obama is full time on the hustings now. Two big events in North Carolina today. Hillary clinton is at a jayz Concert In Ohio Tonight with beyonce and Big Sean Performing as special guests. Donald trump was in New Hampshire and in ohio and in pennsylvania today. Trumps doing florida, North Carolina, nevada, colorado, iowa and wisconsin this weekend. Clintons doing ohio, florida, pennsylvania, Rachel Maddow<\/a> show starts right now. Do you know that i have magic throat lozenges that cure everything . Ill go right to your office and steal them. They sell them at my bodega. I think theyre illegal. Thanks for being with us here this friday night, this friday before the election. Its very exciting. Im very excited. When john f. Kennedy beat\rmidmanhattan with our rca 501 computer. Only onetent of the total vote is in, were going to have what we call projections. Thats estimates on what the final vote will be in a popular and then what the final vote will be in the Electoral College<\/a>. Heres how that projection will be made. The rca 501 computer is connected with nbcs Vote Gathering<\/a> equipment up there with you in midmanhattan. Down here in wall street, the computer takes in vote totals, punches them out on tape. That tape is fed electronically into banks of magnetic tape storage reels. Now, the information can be called up with other information from the electronic console. I think we can call it a wedding of Political Science<\/a> and electronic science. It achieves its Election Results<\/a>\rwhich ill be reporting throughout the evening by doing some computations. The political equations and the experts tell me to accomplish these equations humanly would take the work of 60,000 clerks. This is Richard Ardness<\/a> with the rca 501 computer. Its now about ten minutes old. It puts them out pretty fast. Projects the popular vote for president like this. 51. 2 for kennedy, 48. 8 for nixon. Which i believe is the same thing its been saying all night. The odds it figures i didnt know Electronic Computers<\/a> figured odds, did you . No, ive never heard that before. That was new to me tonight. We may be able to find some other kind of work for the 501 when the election is over. It can compute odds . Maybe there will be some other kind of work for that there\rcomputing machine after this election is over, fellas. Nbcs Whiz Bang Rca<\/a> 501 computer. It did get the Election Results<\/a> right basically, on that Election Night<\/a> in 1960. The nbc computer did pick kennedy. I should tell you that abc and cbs also unveiled their own Computing Machines<\/a> on their Election Night<\/a> broadcast in 1960 and the abc and cbs computers were wrong. Both of their computers picked nixon in a landslide. Computers have gotten better since then. And they use less tape. When Election Night<\/a>s are big blowouts, they can sometimes be a little forgettable. When Ronald Reagan<\/a> just rolled jimmy carter in 1980, nbc news called that election that night at 8 15 p. M. And, you know, however consequently that election was in the long run, and it was consequently, no one remembers all that much about the very end\rof that president ial race let alone what happened on Election Night<\/a>. Its when things are close. Its when things really go down to the wire when they tend to get a little nuts and things tend to get memorable. In terms of this race were in now, the polls have definitely tightened in the last few days. There are people who say that the polls are less useful now at this point in the race than they might have been in previous elections because early voting is so popular now because so many people have taken advantage of Absentee Voting<\/a> and cast their ballots already, more than 37 million americans have already voted. So because of that, because such a huge chunk of the vote is in, theres an argument to be made that looking at the early vote totals, that tells you a lot more about who is going to win than looking at polls for these last few days. Steve shale out of florida tells us that he thinks by the end of the weekend, 70 of the vote might be in in florida, ahead of election day which doesnt come around till tuesday. Election forecasters rely on all\rthe various data they have to work with. They have been moving states from lean democrat to tossup or tossup to lean republican. Youre definitely seeing the polls tightp in the estimation. The polls and the prospects for each candidate youre seeing those tighten in the eyes of the people who make projections about these things. One very blunt but indirect sign that the election is getting closer is that the markets have been freaking out a little bit. Since Donald Trumps<\/a> numbers started going back up last week, the stock market has been a little nauseous. And you are seeing this interesting correlation throughout the general election campaign. Markets have tended to react negatively whenever things perk up for donald trump. Over the last nine days the stock market has been very negative. It has dropped every single day of the last nine days. Market analysts are attributing those drops Town Easiness<\/a> with the prospect that donald trump might have a shot at winning this election. Nine Straight Days<\/a> of losses on the stock market is the longest\runinterrupted decline in the market in more than 30 years. So from lots of different angles, you can see the tightening of the race. But Hillary Clinton<\/a> is still favored to win the race in the end by all the 21st century iterations of the rca 501. At fivethirtyeight. Com theyre giving her a 64 chance. The New York Times<\/a> gives her an 84 chance of winning. A lot of other analysts make election projections like this and they have Hillary Clinton<\/a>s chances of winning higher or lower depending on who you ask. Looking at them real quick, the Huffington Post<\/a> as a polling aggregator, theyve got clintons chances at 98 . The princes Election Consortium<\/a> has her at 99 . The professional prognosticators\rlike cook and roth and larry sabato, theyve got the race forecast as either likely democratic or leaning democratic. So theres a range of projections out there depending on the methodology of the different forecasters and what they consider to be the relevant data at this point. But all of the nationally recognized forecasters, all of them, are now predicting that its more likely clinton will win on Tuesday Night Than Trump<\/a> will win. But if you have been feeling a little tension in the reair, thats real. As we get down to the wire, get down to the very end, in a close race getting down to the very end, were getting a lot of dramatic news. Today was a lot of dramatic legal news. Actually today Down The Line<\/a> uniformly was a good day of legal news for the democrats. In all these various states theres been various legal fights to stop Voter Intimidation Tactics<\/a> by the Republican Party<\/a> and by the Trump Campaign<\/a>. Also there have been a lot of\rlegal efforts to block republican efforts to make voting harder by various means. Today in kansas and in ohio and in arizona and in North Carolina<\/a>, democrats won legal battles over Voting Rights<\/a> and voter intimidation in all of those states today. Democrats basically ran the table in terms of their big legal fights in the state. Well have updates on all those legal battles coming up later on in the show with one of the lawyers that has been spearheading that voter rights fight in the courts. The other battle that i think was a legitimate shock to the system at this late date in the race, the friday before the election, was the bridgegate trial. Guilty on all counts. New jersey governor Chris Christie<\/a>, of course, came very, very close to being Donald Trumps<\/a> Vice President<\/a> ial running mate. He did not get the Vice President<\/a> ial job but trump then gave christie instead arguably the most substantive job he had to offer in terms of shaping what the trump administration\rwould be like if he wins. Donald trump put Chris Christie<\/a> in charge of his transition effort. Which means hes basically choosing staff, choosing personnel for Donald Trumps<\/a> federal government. Today back home in new jersey, two of the senior people who Chris Christie<\/a> chose for his own administration were both convicted on all of the federal felony charges for which they were being tried. This is the scandal involving political retribution on christies behalf using the George Washington<\/a> bridge between new york and new jersey as the means of punishment. The Clinton Campaign<\/a> has already called for trump to drop Chris Christie<\/a> as his Transition Chief<\/a> given these guilty verdicts today. We dont know whether to expect that might happen but the Trump Campaign<\/a> did announce that christies planned trip to New Hampshire<\/a> to go campaign for donald trump at three separate New Hampshire<\/a> events tomorrow, that trip has been called off. No explanation as to why. Well have more ahead on that as well. But as we head into these final days, one thing is starting to seem very clear, and im trying to think about this from sort of a 30,000 foot perspective. Looking at that Archive Footage<\/a> from 1960, looking at Archive Footage<\/a> from some of the other races and stuff that happened three and four days out, four days out in the 2000 election when the george w. Bush dui was exposed, for example. Looking at the kind of things that happen at this point in the race, i think its clear that we do now know for this race that when the history of this years election is written the standout nutty thing that surprised everybody at the end that historians and journalists will talk about forever when they talk about this election, we now know what theyre going to talk about. What theyre going to talk about will be the political intervention, the brazen multifaceted, political intervention into this election by the fbi. Hes got a surprise or two\rthat youre going to hear about in the next few days. Im talking about some pretty big surprise. I heard you say that this morning. What do you mean . Well see. Youre lucky because weve got to go. Were out of time. I want to keep pressing you. Were not going to go down. Were certainly not going to stop fighting. Weve got a couple things up our sleeve that should turn this around. Weve got a couple of things, some pretty big surprises. What did you mean . Maniacal laughter. That was Rudy Giuliani<\/a> rubbing his hands together in glee, saying something was coming. That was on fox news two days before the fb director sent a letter to congress about Hillary Clinton<\/a>, a letter that made no specific allegation of any wrongdoing but because it was from the fbi director and about Hillary Clinton<\/a> it nevertheless shook the Plings Olitics<\/a> of thi president ial race right to its core. Rudy giuliani said two days\rahead of that that he knew something was coming. Last night on this show we asked was it possible that Rudy Giuliani<\/a> was tipped off to what the fbi director was about to do . How did he know . Did the fbi tell him . This morning he bragged that, yes, in fact, he had gotten advance word. I did nothing to get it out. Did i have a role in it . No. Brags that four days before the political election, theyve been getting tipoffs from the fbi about Donald Trumps<\/a> political opponent. Theyre given a heads up over at the Trump Campaign<\/a> before anything is released to the public let alone to congress. Ranking democrats on the Judiciary Committee<\/a> and the Government Oversight Committee<\/a> in Congress Today<\/a> asked the Department Of Justice<\/a> Inspector General<\/a> to look into these\rbragging claims by the Trump Campaign<\/a> that they had advanced word asking the Inspector General<\/a> at the Justice Department<\/a> to find out if in fact there were people in the fbi who were trying to influence the election in that way, who were trying to help the Trump Campaign<\/a> in that way by feeding them Insider Information<\/a> ahead of the public. That happened today. The Fox News Channel<\/a> today itself also made a remarkable retraction today. All the time but especially in the heated election on a topic this explosive, every word matters. No matter how well sourced. Which brings me to this. I explained a couple of types yesterday the phrasing of one of my answers to brit hume wednesday night saying it was unartful, about saying how the investigations would continue after the election. I answered that, yes, our sources said it would, they would continue to likely a indictment. Well, that just wasnt inartful. It was a mistake. And for that im sorry. Thats the reporter and anchor bret baier at Fox News Channel<\/a> today. I dont usually do this on stories like this, but im going to take a point of personal privilege here. I will tell you in my view, in my personal view, i think that bret baier is a good reporter and a good anchor. I also think he is a good person. He made a mistake on this story. In this business, that is a very hard thing for people to admit. But not only did bret baier admit that he made a mistake, he explained the mistake and i think this is important, he didnt talk around it. He had the courage and decency to use the word mistake in saying what had gone wrong and then saying he was sorry. And thats really, really hard to do in this business. Theres a reason you dont hear a lot of onair corrections in this business, but that was well done and the right thing to do and i think its worthy of respect. Okay. What bret baier initially reported and has now retracted and called a mistake and apologized for was this claim on fox that there was an active fbi investigation of Hillary Clinton<\/a> that was likely to lead to indictments. That was a fox news claim from earlier this week. But to be clear, what bret baier did today was he took that back. Indictment obviously is a very loaded word, john, especially in this atmosphere, and no one knows if there would or would not be an indictment. Nobody knows if there would or would not be an indictment. It was a mistake when fox said there would be. Hope it didnt create a false impression. Hope that didnt affect the race. At the end of a president ial race, especially when its close, things go a little nuts. And the fbi director apparently trying to influence the election, fbi sources leaking false information to generally protrump news outlets. Fbi sources giving advanced notice about politically damaging information to the Trump Campaign<\/a>. One Fbi Field Office<\/a> reportedly using materials created by the head of the Trump Campaign<\/a> and funded by trumps biggest donor. Using that as their fbi research, as their fbi evidence to try to open up new investigations on Hillary Clinton<\/a> which they then leak about to the Trump Campaign<\/a> and to protrump news outlets. Yes, stuff always twos n goes n the end of a president ial campaign. But this is not just actors behaving in a nuts way, this is an unsettling way for it to go nuts, right . Its been intense enough to know that in the u. S. Intelligence community the russian government has been trying to disrupt our election through deceit and political operations. Its another thing to think that parts of the fbi are doing the\rsame thing. Theres a lot to cover tonight. Theres a lot just to watch in terms of whats happening in the last flurry of activity in this election. President obama is full time on the hustings now. Two big events in North Carolina<\/a> today. Hillary clinton is at a jayz Concert In Ohio Tonight<\/a> with beyonce and Big Sean Performing<\/a> as special guests. Donald trump was in New Hampshire<\/a> and in ohio and in pennsylvania today. Trumps doing florida, North Carolina<\/a>, nevada, colorado, iowa and wisconsin this weekend. Clintons doing ohio, florida, pennsylvania, New Hampshire<\/a>, more ohio. On monday night on election eve we now know that donald trump will be in New Hampshire<\/a> with his Vice President<\/a> ial running mate mike pence. On election eve Hillary Clinton<\/a> will be in philly with President Obama<\/a> and michelle obama. And basically no one sleeps between now and tuesday. But do past close elections give us any advice, any useful\runderstanding for knowing what to expect in these last few crucial nutty days . Joining us now is our friend michael beschloss, nbc news president ial historian. Are you eating protein . Are you sleeping . Are you adequately hydrating . Im not eating at all, and i dont think im going to breathe for the next four days. Im turning to you for historical context. I raised the proespect of 1960 because i wanted to show that great footage you unveiled for us with nbc and their computing machine. The polls say this will be a close race, too. Is that what well be looking at in the next few days . I think it is. Its almost become the rule that these things that happen in the last days and weeks affect Public Opinion<\/a>. Its difficult to measure Public Opinion<\/a> when things are moving. Best example was two tho2000, t that george w. Bush had been arrested for a Drunk Driving Charge<\/a> in 1976 was released. Some of bushs aides said they felt that that moved as many as 20 million votes away from him. Votes that are hard to get by pollsters in the last few days. Late breaking stories like that, we talk about them as october surprises. This year theyre like november surprises. Like the world series is in november now. Thats exactly right. Weve seen the bridgegate story itself is a bit of a november surprise given the importance of Chris Christie<\/a> and the trump ticket. The transition director. Weve got the fbi intervention which is turns the out to be not just one story but sort of an ongoing story. Is there a way to look at\rhistorical context and which kind of late breaking stories do tend to influence the outcome of an election and which end up being trivia . The problem is that when it happens this close to an election, its very hard to separate what is important from what is trivial. One example is 1968, Lyndon Johnson<\/a> on halloween announced a bombing halt of North Vietnam<\/a> in an effort to start peace talks. So a lot of these democrats were angry at johnson and Hubert Humphrey<\/a> who was running as his heir, came flooding into the humphrey camp, humphrey was running ahead of Richard Nixon<\/a> because people thought there might be peace. At this point the South Vietnamese<\/a> said were not coming to the peace table and millions of voters moved away from humphrey back to nixon. Nixon won the election. Later on we discovered that nixons people backstage had been encouraging saigon not to go to these peace talks saying, you know, help nixon by not going, well give you a better\rdeal. Johnson was furious. Johnson thought this was treason. But in those five days those things were happening so fast it was very hard to find out what was going on. And the cross current dynamics with the early vote and so much of the Absentee Vote Being<\/a> in. Its even hard nowadays. Michael beschloss, nbc news president ial historian. I beseech you, eat protein, adequately hydrate, try to sleep over the weekend. Thank you, my dear. I give you the same advice. Secretary clinton is apparently getting ready to go on stage in cleveland. There you see her with jayz and beyonce. President obama just wrapped up in charlotte. Donald trump just finished a rally in pennsylvania. Theres a lot going on right now. Well be right back. The microsoft cloud helps us stay connected. 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On the hustings in North Carolina<\/a> today, President Obama<\/a> drew attention to this Voter Suppression<\/a> phenomenon thats been happening in specifically in North Carolina<\/a> this year. Republican Activist Groups<\/a> have campaigned in North Carolina<\/a> to\rget thousands of people kicked off the voting rolls in the leadup to the election. Well, today in North Carolina<\/a> President Obama<\/a> told the story of one of those people who got purged off the voting rolls. Shes 100 years old. Shes a North Carolina<\/a> Resident Named<\/a> grace bell harvison. Weeks ago she found shed been purged off the voter list. She got attention thanks to reporting at the nation. She was able to get herself reinstated after a fight. Shes lived and voted in North Carolina<\/a> her entire life. Shes 100 years old. She apparently wrote a letter to President Obama<\/a> about her experience which the president Read Aloud On Stage<\/a> today. Yesterday, yesterday grace Bell Hardison<\/a> sent me a letter. I want you to know what she wrote. Dear mr. President , at 100 years old, you can believe ive seen it all. It is by gods grace that im\rstill able to be here with my family. I lived through the civil rights era. I know the blood that was shed in the name of the right to vote. I can assure you, mr. President , that i will keep fighting on. If i havent stopped fighting at 100 years old, then neither can you. Ms. Hardison got her Voter Registration<\/a> reinstated. You Better Believe<\/a> shes going to vote. They targeted the wrong woman. They targeted the wrong woman. There was a really interesting ruling today in North Carolina<\/a> in the democratic effort, in the civil rights effort, to stop that purge of thousands of people off the voting rolls right before election day. It was one of the states today in which democrats and civil Rights Groups<\/a> actually had huge victories in the court. It could be a very big deal for election day. Those stories are coming up soon. Stay with us. G new cars. That said, Chris Christie<\/a>, of course, also has a day job. He works as the governor of the great state of new jersey. As of today, four of the people he hired for his own administration have been convicted of federal crimes, Corruption Charges<\/a> and political Retribution Schemes<\/a> carried out on behalf of Chris Christie<\/a> for his political benefit. Say what you will about Chris Christie<\/a> as a politician and public servant, but his ability to find the right people and put them in the right jobs, that might not be construed as his greatest asset right now with four of his aides and appointees looking at prison time. But thats what hes in charge of for the wouldbe trump administration. The two people convicted today are looking at the possibility of 20 years in prison. Chris christie is picking all the new top staffers for president trump. After the conviction on all counts today of christies Deputy Chief Of Staff<\/a> and one of his top appointees, now well be\rlooking at sentencing, so we will see how much time theyll do. But christie himself may be taking the stand himself. Christie in person. 2 1 2 weeks from now. In a related Criminal Complaint<\/a> that was brought about in the bridgegate scheme. The timing means that if elected tuesday, Chris Christie<\/a> will presumably be taking the stand two weeks later to talk about his own role in the criminal bridgegate scheme. While he is simultaneously serving as the head of the Transition Team<\/a> for the president elect. And that is going to be particularly awkward, not just in the abstract but because its not like donald trump himself complete ignorance or can take christies side in this. He cant. He cant. Not with this on the record. Look. Heres the story. The George Washington<\/a> bridge. He knew about it. Hey, how do you have breakfast with every day of your lives, theyre closing up the largest\rbridge in the world, the biggest in the united states, traffic flowing, during rush hour, people couldnt get across for six, seven hours, ambulances, fire trucks, theyre with them all the time can the people that did it. They never said, hey, boss, were closing up the George Washington<\/a> bridge tonight, no, they never said. Theyre talking about the weather, right . Then so he knew about it. He knew about it. Totally knew about it. Totally knew about it. Donald trump speaking in december. Governor christie put out a Statement Today<\/a> in response to the guilty verdicts insisting that he never knew about the scheme while it was happening despite all of the testimony to the contrary at the trial. Keep in mind at the trial both the defense and the prosecution said that governor christie knew about the Lane Closure Scheme<\/a> while it was happening in september 2013. He knew about it before the media started to pick it up. First in ra Traffic Column<\/a> by the Bergen Record<\/a> then in the\rWall Street Journal<\/a> which was the first newspaper to link that mysterious days long traffic jam to a political scheme that was aimed at winning political endorsements for Chris Christie<\/a>. Heres the amazing kicker in this story in terms of our democracy. As the bridgegate scandal that those papers broke, as the bridgegate scandal first went to trial, the Bergen Record<\/a>, first paper to report anything about it, they were told by their corporate owner that their newsroom is getting gutted, cut nearly in half as bridgegate went to trial. This week as the bridgegate case went the jury, the Wall Street Journal<\/a> announced that its gutting the Greater New York<\/a> section of the journal that broke the political side of bridgegate. The two papers that broke this story wide open both got gutted while it was in the courts. Chris christie is still the head of the trump Transition Team<\/a>, at least for now. Tonight christie called off his trump appearances in New Hampshire<\/a> this weekend. But four of Chris Christie<\/a>s\raides and appointees are federal convicts now. Chris christies own political career is likely toast because of all this. All that happened because of smart, local Beat Reporters<\/a>, not pundits, local Beat Reporters<\/a> working for newspapers following lead leads, digging up dirt, not taking no for an answer, not believing Chris Christie<\/a> when he said, no, i never heard about it. In all of it at the end, turns out the Endangered Species<\/a> the local Beat Reporters<\/a> without whom wed have never known that this abuse of power happened. Subscribe to your local paper. Pay to join the website of your local paper. Seriously. Your country needs you. Ove, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . 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When we report on that wednesday night, that Go Fund Me Page<\/a> was way past its 10,000 goal that had been set that morning. All the way up to 90,000. Tonight i can tell you that theyve now raised over 200,000 which is awesome. And theyre going to need it given the amount of damage they went through. But still no arrest. Still no explanation. And that congregation will be without a home church this sunday. Ill be right back. And at progressive, we let you compare\rour progressive direct rate. Great deals for reals . And our competitors rates sidebyside, so you know youre getting a great deal. Saving the moolah. [ chuckles ] as you can see, sometimes progressive isnt the lowest. Not always the lowest jamie. What are you doing . Im being your hype man. Not right now. You said i was gonna be the hype man. No, we said we wouldnt do it. Im sorry, we were talking about savings. I liked his way. Chaching talking about getting that moneeeey talking about getting that moneeeey Savings Worth<\/a> the hype. Now thats progressive. This. This election season does seem to have brought out more than its fair share of unhinged people. Having Law Enforcement<\/a>, having deputies at Polling Places<\/a> to keep the peace is maybe not a crazy idea. But the other way to look at this is we dont have a great history in this country with armed Law Enforcement<\/a> stalking around the polls. Right now republicans are waiting to hear any minute from a federal judge who will issue a ruling on whether the national Republican Party<\/a> has violated legal restrictions its been under for over three decades now, restrictions that were put in place because they sent vigilante Poll Watchers<\/a> into minority precincts during a governors race in new jersey in the 80s. Armed offduty Law Enforcement<\/a> officers to supposedly protect the ballot. But they stalked around minority Polling Places<\/a> wearing guns and intimidated the heck out of voters. The Republican Party<\/a> has been banned from Election Day Poll<\/a> watching stuff ever since\rbecause of that thing they pulled off in the 80s in new jersey with all the guys with guns. A federal judge is expected to rule, we think, maybe late tonight, maybe tomorrow on whether the rnc actually violated that ban with the stuff theyve been doing that this year. Were expecting that as late as tomorrow. A National Ruling<\/a> on the national Republican Party<\/a> and poll watching, but there are similar lawsuits targeting six specific states with similar complaints. In ohio today a federal judge issued a Restraining Order<\/a> against the Trump Campaign<\/a>, Restraining Order<\/a> against the Trump Campaign<\/a> and longtime trump adviser roger stone who has been hyping the campaigns Voter Protection<\/a> efforts. This judge has issued the Restraining Order<\/a>, has ordered the campaign and its supporters to avoid, quote, harassing or intimidating conduct at Polling Places<\/a>. And now tonig in North Carolina<\/a>, a federal judge has ruled that thousands of voters who were illegally purged from the voter rolls in a process\rthat she called insane, those voters have to be reinstated. We reported on this case, this purge in North Carolina<\/a> earlier this week. Reported on the naacp suing over those thousands of people being thrown off the rolls. Well, the judge in that case has now issued a ruling, has ordereded that those thousands of people in North Carolina<\/a> need to be reinstated right now in time for the election. Joining us now is the lead attorney representing the North Carolina<\/a> naacp. Shes also the legal director of forward justice. Congratulations on this win today in North Carolina<\/a>. Thank you for having me. So how many voters are reinstated by this ruling . Is it instantaneous . Will they definitely be able to vote on tuesday . The judge ordered that they will be able they will be reinstated in time to vote on tuesday and i believe that the counties are already working to carry that out and it will be carried out. And it is the injunction applies to three counties and it is\rprobably around 4,000 voters. One of the counties they Havent Ascertained<\/a> the exact number, but we think its around 3,000 in that county alone. Theres always this flurry of legal activity right before every election. I think particularly those of us who arent lawyers, who dont necessarily know how the courts, what the power of the courts is in this, sort of hear this. You hear about that ohio Restraining Order<\/a> against the Trump Campaign<\/a> and Trump Supporters<\/a> that they cant intimidate people. And you wonder if its too little too late. You wonder if with the election four days away that a legal order like this can and will be enforced and people can have confidence in that. Whats your view of that . I believe that it will be enforced and the courts do become more vigilant in the days before an election because lastminute activities are difficult to police, but the federal government has the power to enforce court orders. I believe that they will be\renforced. In your professional view as a person who has been very active in Voter Protection<\/a>, Voting Rights<\/a> law over the years, with what weve seen specifically in North Carolina<\/a>, so much heat on North Carolina<\/a> this year, do you think that theres potentially enough Voter Suppression<\/a> activity by the state, by local governments, by local officials or potentially enough voter intimidation plans by people and this election that it really could affect the result in that state . Is it a big enough problem that we should worry about the result there . Well, rachel, i do believe that North Carolina<\/a> is ground zero for Voter Suppression<\/a> going back it goes back decades. The type of activity that you describe that resulted in that new jersey nationwide Consent Decree<\/a> was also engaged in by senator jesse helms among others in North Carolina<\/a> in the past decades. But yes, in addition to and then the Voter Suppression<\/a> law that actually North Carolina<\/a> represented North Carolina<\/a> naacp\rin that case where they tried to do the most restrictive photo i. Did in the country and tried to take away sameday registration and take away a week of early voting and take away the wrong precinct battle county. And the court stepped in. So im hopeful with this latest victory that just came out today with the Federal Court Ruling<\/a> and the monster Voter Suppression<\/a> law and with continued vigilance and the fight back empowers voters. So were telling voters do not be intimidated. Intimidation is illegal. And the people who do it should be arrested and they should be prosecuted. People should be vigilant about it and also determined that nobodys going to pressure them out of exercising their right. Penda hair, lead attorney representing the North Carolina<\/a> anyways ip and the legal director of forward justice, a real activist on this subject for a long time. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you. We have much more ahead tonight. Stay with us. Armers, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a rodent ridealong. [dad] alright, buddy, dont forget anything [kid] i wont, dad. [captain rod] happy Tuesday Morning<\/a> captain rod here. Its pretty hairy out on the interstate. Traffic is literally crawling, but there is some movement on the eastside overpass. Getting word of another collision. [burke] it happened. December 14th, 2015. And we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum \r eeeeohmumohweh hush my darling. dont fear my darling. the lion sleeps tonight. hush my darling. man snoring dont fear my darling. the lion sleeps tonight. Woman Snoring<\/a> take the roar out of snore. Yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. You know, at the end of a week like this, the end of a Campaign Season<\/a> like this, i think we can all agree that we can all collectively use a quick trip to antarctica. Its cold. Its quiet. Ice. Pen wins, no attack ads, your uncle cant reach you. Theres just this. You dont really need a news hook to go to antarctica but weve got one, oh yes, we do. Get a hat. Get your gloves, grab a blanket. Probably thought the election couldnt get any other weird little twists and turn in it at this point. Well, heres something to watch in case this election really goes down to the wire on tuesday night. Today, a democratic member of the Electoral College<\/a>, so one of the people who actually casts the vote that elects the next president , democratic member of the Electoral College<\/a> said he will not vote for Hillary Clinton<\/a>, even if she wins his state. Hes from washington state. Hillary clinton is expected to win that state on tuesday, but robert was a Bernie Sanders<\/a> supporter in the primary and today he told the a. P. That he believes Hillary Clinton<\/a> is a criminal and that she doesnt care about american indians. He is Native American<\/a> himself. He told if a. P. Today, quote, she will not get my vote, period. Millions of us vote for president. But its really only the 538\rpeople who are the members of the Electoral College<\/a> who ratify that choice and actually pick the president. The Electoral College<\/a> will cast its votes after the election on december 19. We expect them to be bound by the way their states voted, but expectations i mean, it is unusual, it is exceedingly rare for an elector not to vote the way his or her state voted but technically, theres nothing in the constitution that would block that. And in fact, he says hes perfectly happy to bear the one penalty in law thats supposed to stop him from doing this. Apparently, under state law, theres a thousand Dollar Penalty<\/a> if he Doesnt Cast His<\/a> Electoral College<\/a> vote the way his state votes. He says hes perfectly happy to pay and hes not voting for clinton. Its a far off possibility he could personally throw the election here, though. At 270 to win. Com, there are 97 different permutations in which this election could end in a 269269 tie, and the electoral\rcollege. If he doesnt vote the way his state votes, if he says hes not going to do it, 269 minus 1 gets you to donald trump is president. That could happen. Stay with us. 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John kerry is going to the south pole to ride out the aftermath of the election next week. Does he know something that we dont know . When we got to that news story in todays staff news meeting, the reaction in the room was not what i would have expected. Everybody was like, naekt . Take me with you, john kerry everybody is stressed out about the election. Whether you support trump or you support clinton or whether youre the last Collar County<\/a> Soccer Mom Polling Cliche<\/a> in the country, everybody is stressed out. If youre worried your chosen candidate isnt going to win, the best way to alleviate that stress is to act, to do something about it. Call the campaign you like. Volunteer to phone bank. Volunteer for whatever else they want you to do in this last weekend. Do that. You will feel better. I dont recommend that you spend the weekend fantasizing about fleeing the country, about running off to antarctica, unless youre john kerry, thats not happening. 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