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When they knew that this was a question, john kerry raised among the principals of the national security council, maybe we should have a 9/11-type independent commission. and the obama administration, president obama, finally felt that that would politicize the issue and they said no. and underneath all that reluctance was this confidence or overconfidence that hillary
>> i have to bring up something, mika. i know it's a sore subject. i'll say it and we'll go to break. you said something about this campaign the last two months and you got in so much trouble for saying it. you told them -- you said this as a democrat that would vote for hillary and wanted hillary to win. you said get off your high horse. start campaigning like you haven't won this thing. get off your high horse and everybody went crazy. it was their arrogance and overconfidence that cost them the election. >> this was their candidate. >> if their candidate had gone into wisconsin five times l...
Establishment with her. she had a popular president, first lady, vice president out stumping for her. bernie sanders out to recruit the millennial vote. what happened? >> i think -- you said it this morning on the set already. i think the campaign itself there were some shortcomings and holes there. an overconfidence leading into the very end. we're where we are. i think to -- he got off to a positive start with the speech. as crazy as this, western europe's politics have changed over the last 12 to 18 months. you saw in south america they rejected war and now they come to us. this is a rebuke...
Campaign, here's the person who's supposed to be the architect of his victory, and i have to say, should he lose, as horrifying as it is to say that, the idea of being overconfident about this, and then you get even a poll like cnn, which puts it at 5%, you know, 5% is not nothing. >> 3.5% margin of error. >> so it is my expectation as most peoples, that he will lose. but any overconfidence is misplaced. >> when i say it here, i mean to express it, according to the polls, if the election were held today. a lot of times i leave that phrase out, that's what i mean. it doesn't mean that i believe...
I can't imagine another couple weeks of this. it's getting intense. hillary clinton who's putting a good deal of her campaign energy into down-ticket races, some worry is overconfidence. she's extending her coattails to senate candidates, trying to take advantage of the one senator who's been known to get under donald trump's skin. more on that from brianna keilar. >> reporter: hillary clinton making a campaign swing through new hampshire. >> we are more than our disagreements, we americans. there is so much more that unites us than divides us. >> reporter: and she's got help from liberal da...