Run up the score to shut down any talk of a rigged election . And clinton hopes to turn a white house win into a big night for democrats down the ballot. Shes running against someone who refuses to stand up to donald trump. Joining me for insight and analysis are tom friedman of the new york times. Iliana johnson of the national review. Republican strategist Stuart Stevens and Yamiche Alcindor of the new york times. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. While its too early to declare this election over, remember my colleague tom brokaws ufo theory, the unforeseen will occur, its trending in Hillary Clintons direction. Whats in store for the next 2 1 2 weeks though, does Hillary Clinton play it safe and try to lock down 270 electoral votes or does she go for a big win, a landslide . Does she try to quell the talk of a rigged election by pushing hard into red states like utah, georgia and arizona, sensing an opportunity since the last time the clinton was on the ballot. How about donald trump, his tone and his words have been more reserved. Hes seeing the same polls we are. Does he try to win or lose with grace . Does he try to save down ballot republicans or does he even care . If i lose, if i lose donald trump is delivering the closing argument. Outlining plans for his first 100 days in office. While acknowledging he may never make it to the white house. You know, these guys have said, doesnt matter if you win or lose, theres never been a Movement Like this in the history of the country. It matters to me if we win or lose. With the senate an even the house in the balance, republicans are bracing themselves for the scorched Earth Campaign trump may run over the next 16 days. Scrambling to protect vulnerable seats in any way they can. Ill each you in suspense. The unprecedented threat he may not accept the Election Results sent the party into a tail spin. Republicans rushed to condemn trump. I dont believe in that theres a rigged election system. Senator john mccain said in a statement, in every previous election, the loser congratulates the winner and calls them my president. Thats not just the republican way or the democratic way. Its the american way. In a new nbc news surveymonkey online poll shows that 45 of republicans may not accept the results of the election if trump loses. The integrity of the electoral process is at risk. I think its already rigged to be perfectly honest. Red states from arizona to georgia even utah are now in play. The rnc is focusing trump where he can do the least harm, pushing him to scheduled Campaign Appearances in traditional battleground states with Competitive Senate races even if trump himself may not win that state. Because getting out trump voters still matters. We are going to win the state of wisconsin p. But the debate about the actions is now the main issue in competitive races across the country. Pat toomey and donald trump, theyre just wrong for the women of pennsylvania. Kelly ayotte stood by him. A top adviser to donald trump. And on saturday, an 11th woman came forward to accuse trump of Sexual Misconduct. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over. Republicans in tough races are trying everything from complete disavowal. No matter who the next president is, New Hampshire needs a strong voice in the u. S. Senate. That senator, kelly ayotte. One hillary in washington would be bad enough. Reject jason candor. To accepted im a change agent. And somewhere in between. Im still in the same mode i was monday night which is feeling stuck. Joining me now is the democratic nominee for Vice President , senator tim kaine of virginia. Welcome back to meet the press. Chuck, good to be with you. Thanks. Let me start with whether you believe this race is over. Your running mate secretary clinton said yesterday shes done responding to donald trump on anything and then added as were traveling in these last 17 days well be emphasizing the importance of electing democrats down the ballot. Do you believe this election is in the bag either . No, neither hillary and i do. If you look at the schedules for the next 17 days were not taking anything for granted. Its a season of surprises. We like what we see now. We like the early voting activity and the absentee ballot requests coming in in other states but were not taking anything for granted. Well do everything we can before the polls close on the evening of november 8th. I want to go to the hacked emails, wikileaks. You dont want to respond to them because you dont believe that they have all been confirmed but there has been out of 25,000 some emails released i think theres only been a dispute about two or three. Why shouldnt the public look at these wikileaks emails and have it be something that informs them about secretary clinton . Well, you know, chuck, again, these are connected to a russian government propaganda effort to destabilize the election, to affect the outcome of the election. Does that change what but does that change whats in the emails . The motive for them is very, very important for americans to understand. This is near historic and then the one that has referred to me was flat out completely incorrect. So i dont know whether it was doctored or whether the person sending it didnt know what they were talking about. But clearly, i think theres a capacity for much of the information in them to be wrong. As you know, i want to bring up a politico story, the headline is wikileaks poisons hillarys relationship with the left. We were already kind of suspicious of where her instincts were, but now we see she is who we thought she was, said one operative. The honeymoon is going to be tight and small and maybe nonexistent. Is it fair for progressives to look at these emails and have some doubts about secretary clintons electioneering switches . I dont think so. If were able to win, it will be america, you know, moving one step closer to our equality ideal. Making history and that should be a cause for excitement. Look, we have to get we have to come together, democrats, republicans and independents, because the nation has serious challenges that we have to tackle together. I was with hillary at two great rallies today. She laid it on in terms of her own views. But she said at the end of the day, if i am president , i have to be president for everybody and weve got to reach out to everybody to craft an agenda that will work in all parts of this country. You know, its interesting that you bring that up. Ive heard her say that. Shes also described half of trumps supporters as deplorable. Shes criticized for instance pat toomey yesterday for supporting donald trump. She wants to pledge to be president of all the people, but are you going to be able to work with republicans who supported trump or when you campaign against republicans who support donald trump does that mean you dont want to work with them once they come to washington . I think the best evidence of that, chuck, is both of our track records. Hillary had a super track record working across the aisle. She had that record as first lady. Im struck as a senator from virginia how many of my republican colleagues talk up their respect for hillary and i know that thats the way shell approach governing. Of course we stand with our teams during an election season. That doesnt surprise anybody. After election day, were expected to reach across the aisle thats what i have done in virginia and thats hillarys track record too. Let me go back to wikileaks and one on tpp. This one was allegedly from ron clang and it was about the tpp flipflop. He says this, she has to be for it. She called it the Gold Standard of trade agreements. I think opposing that would be a huge flip flop. She can say that as president she would work to change it. Can she say it would better, but i think she should support it. Why shouldnt her new position on tpp be referred to as a flipflop . Why isnt it a standard definition of flip flop . Well, look, i mean, ill use my own example. I voted to give the president the fast track ability to negotiate the best trade deal possible. But at the time i cast that vote in 2015, i said, look, i have a couple of concerns and youve got to address these concerns because im not guaranteeing i eat vote for it on the merits. My concerns were largely around enforcement issues. Hillary had the same view, there were a number of things she liked and other things she didnt. As was the case when she was a senator, remember, she voted for some trade deals and she voted against others. If they didnt meet her standard of raising the number of jobs, raising wages, and focusing on the enforcement and National Security angles, shed vote against them. And her conclusion about the tpp which is required to be voted on up or down, no amendments, as it falls short of her standards. Was it a requirement before you joined the ticket you come out against tpp . No. Because you didnt come out as forcefully until after you joined the ticket. Well, it was because look, were month away from a vote. I was in the middle of meeting with various groups about the final product, but i had put on the record in 2015 deep concerns that i had, especially about the enforcement provisions. Those concerns were not addressed and, you know, i tell you, trade deals if theyre good enough can be okay. But if you embrace a trade deal thats bad, you deepen peoples skepticism about trade in general and its better to wait and try to find deals that meet your standards and not embrace deals that are substandard. After the election, president obamas going to be traveling overseas. Probably talking up the idea of tpp and an asian trade agreement. If you guys are elected, will you pursue an asian trade agreement even if its not the tpp . Hillary and i havent talked about that question directly, chuck, but look, we arent against trade. We want to find export markets for american businesses because theyll be able to add workers the more they export. Thats very important. And whether its in asia or in europe, if we can find deals that meet those goals more jobs, higher wages and good for National Security, and good enforcement provisions were open to them. So no, you never close the door. If you can get a deal thats going to be good for American Workers and our economy. So she could pursue a version of tpp . . Again, we havent talked about that in particular. We are not sure what the process going to be for whether the tpp will be brought up for a vote. We dont know what Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan will do. If im in the senate ill vote against it. We have to wait and see what theyll do. Again, hillary has laid out the standard. If it doesnt meet three pillars we cant support it and tpp doesnt. Do you think it will be appropriate or inappropriate for you as Vice President elect to serve in the lame duck senate . Well, its pretty common to serve at least during part of it. One of issues that would be practical again were not getting ahead of ourselves. Im not assuming im going to win, but if i do, then the governor of virginia would have to make a decision about who to appoint to replace me and that isnt necessarily automatic. So rather than leave a gap, where virginia would have only one senator i would want to serve until a replacement is named. Im curious as if as a catholic you were offended by one of the wikileaks that came out. An email exchange that included the Campaign Spokesperson jennifer palmieri, one person wrote that referring to Rupert Murdoch for instance that they are both catholic, theyre attracted to the faith because of the systemic thought and severely backward gender relations and palmieri said i think they think its the most politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldnt understand if they became evangelicals. Did that bother you as a catholic, senator . You know, first, again, i dont know if those folks wrote those emails or not. But a lot of catholic americans have heard that, and some are offended by it. What do you say to them . Heres what i say to them. Hillary clintons feeling about faith and about catholicism in particular is most demonstrated by the fact that she asked me to be her running mate and she described one of the reasons that she felt a connection with me was because of my own faith background. My missionary service in honduras and my jesuit education which she felt was a close match with her methodist upbringing. Thats the most direct evidence about what she thinks about catholics. One final question here. Last week, i asked Vice President biden why why the Obama Administration wasnt implementing a no fly zone over aleppo and i know he endorsed the idea of a no fly zone over syria. Heres what he said to me. Ill ask you about it on the other thing. First things first, we must defeat isil. Dod has told us that the assets we need to be able to do that have to be diverted. We could not do both. The Obama Administration says both cant be done. Secretary clinton believes they can. Why do you think the Obama Administration is wrong . Well, look, the im a strong supporter of the president. Strong supporter of the president , but since february of 2014, i have suggested that the United States and other nations should help implement the u. N. Security Council Resolution passed during that month to allow for the cross border delivery of humanitarian aid into safe spaces in northern syria. I dont think it would be easy or automatic and i agree with Vice President biden. Back then i felt like if we didnt do it, we would see what we have in fact seen, a mass exodus of refugees from syria that are dangerous to the refugees themselves and destabilize other countries. My concern if we dont do that, well continue the see the exodus that will cause a security concern. Theres a report over the weekend at t going to buy time warner. Almost some democrats including al franken are very skeptical of the merger. Including donald trump as well. He said im skeptical of huge media mergers because they can lead to higher costs and worse service for consumers. Are you a skeptic of the merger as well . I share the concerns and questions. We have to get to the bottom of them. Generally pro competition and less concentration i think is generally helpful. Especially in the media. But this is just has been announced. I havent had a chance to dig into the details but those are the kinds of questions we need to be asking. Senator tim kaine, thanks for coming in. You bet. When we come back, well hear from the other side. Trump Campaign ManagerKellyanne Conway joins us. Ill ask her some of the poll numbers that just came out. As we go to break, a light moment here with snls take on the election last night. In the first debate, i set the table. In the second debate i fired up the grill. And tonight, i feast. You can fly across welcome town in minutes16, or across the globe in under an hour. 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Classic politics of personal destruction, ses pool kind of quad ads. She has a former president campaigning for her, her husband, and shes shes seen as the incumbent. We were behind one, three, four points in some of the swing states that mitt romney lost to obama. Our advantage is that donald trump is going to continue to take the case directly to the people. He doesnt expect to cut through the noise or the silence. And the way were treated by some. And so hes taking the case, hes going to visit all of the swing states many times as his running mate governor pence. We feel with Hillary Clinton under 50 even though shes run a traditional and Expensive Campaign we have a shot of getting the undecideds voters who says i dont want to vote for Hillary Clinton, and we need to bring them aboard over the next couple of weeks. Yesterday it made a lot of