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>> it was a tension convention, there were some death ray stares being cast across that dias tonight. the two candidates did make physical contact. trump patted clinton's shoulder on route to and from the he helped her with her chair at one point. then they finally shared a brief cursory handshake. let's bring in our initial guests here tonight. nbc news correspondent andrea mitchell who has just arrived the three blocks from the al smith dinner at the waldorf. and our friend the washington post national political reporter robert costa, who remains, and this raises a whole bunch of questions a...

Base? >> precisely i think that's right. romney had sort of an ironic base playing to go there, sort of a step removed, but i think the -- to my mind, the, you know, biden -- nobody's better at it right now in politics than biden at sort of playing this heavy, more in sorrow, more than anger, nobody is a better knights of columbus dinner speaker than biden. >> it's true. biden has -- this is wildest, hocus-pocus in washington about let's take biden off the ticket and all this kind of stuff. nonsense. the guy is on fire. >> right. >> he connects with the base and with white working class people...

>> con men and sharl tons. i wonder who could she be referring to? could it be mr. and mrs. gingrich who despite having no chance of winning the nomination and told repeatedly to get out of the race continue to travel the country, selling children's books about an elephant. could it be mr. herman cain, whose run for the nomination was so disastrous it left us confused as to whether he was running for president of the united states or the leading proponent of sexual harassment in the workplace. what we do know is mr. herman cain is available as an after dinner speaker. you see, to these candida...