Monday, November 07, 2016

Meet The Press – November 6, 2016


Guests:
John Podesta – Clinton campaign
Newt Gingrich – Trump campaign
Charlie Cook
Fred Yang – Dem Pollster
Bill McInturff – GOP Pollster
Kristen Welker
Katy Tur
Chris Jansing
Andrea Mitchell
Tom Brokaw
Nicole Wallace
Chris Matthews
Savannah Guthrie
Jose Diaz-Balart


[ voice over ]
Welcome to A Very Special
Episode of Meet The Press

Todd: omg this is the last episode 
before the end of the wold!

Todd: this election is not about hope! 
It's about fear!

Todd: these are out final polls!

Todd: surprise – it's a tie!

Todd: Hillary only leads by 4 points!

Todd: that poll was before
James Comey tilted the election!

Todd: Trump bragged he will
never be stopped by a Republican
without a gun

Todd: Hillary campaigned with 
Katy Perry and Left Shark

Clinton: I want to represent 
all sharks Left and Right

Todd: Michigan is in play !

Todd: Trump is throwing spaghetti at the wall

Todd: he has to win Florida 
and flip a blue state

Todd: can he win Michigan??

Todd: Kristen what's up in Philadelphia

Welker: Hillary has to turn out black voters

Todd: can she?

Welker: Obama got 93% of the black
vote and she'll never match that

Welker: she has to that in Ohio

Todd: that's a tough one

Welker: but she's got Lebron James

Todd: oh fuck

Welker: she has 1 million volunteers

Todd: and now let's hear from poor Katy Tur

Tur: Trump is back in Michigan

Tur: they say they're in a dead heat

Tur: if Trump wins here he can
afford to lose Pennsylvania and Nevada

Todd: Florida! Florida! Florida!

Jansing: early voting here is
smashing all kinds of records

Jansing: there 200,000 more Hispanic voters

Jansing: but she's still behind
where Barack Obama was

Jansing: and Republicans out-vote
Democrats on election day

Jansing: make no mistake it will
another heart-stopping election here

Todd: let's go to Andrea 
Mitchell in New Hampshire

Todd: how is it in the frozen north Andrea?

Mitchell: Hillary is sad because
the FBI is out to get her

Mitchell: she has some final
uplifting message but it's boring

Mitchell: she's bringing in the big guns –
Barack Obama and the Khan family

Todd: thanks Andrea

Mitchell: brrrrrrr

[ break ]

Todd: 50 million people will vote early!

Todd: the Hispanic vote is way up

Todd: welcome John Podesta

Podesta: nice to be here Todd

Todd: you are struggling with black voters

Podesta: no we're not

Todd: why do black voters hate Hillary?

Podesta: they were her 
firewall in the primaries!

Todd: but she's down with blacks
compared to Obama in 2008

Podesta: well yeah newsflash Ted
- Obama is also black

Todd: is he?

Podesta: we're doing better with
women and hispanics and asian-americans

Todd: Obama said “I don't care if you're
not inspired go vote for Hillary anyway”

Podesta: hells yeah!

Todd: that's not a great message

Podesta: I don't care – Trump
is a dumb bigot and a fascist

Todd: mostly true

Podesta: we called 7 million people

Todd: what about?

Podesta: Hillary fights for 
families and children!

Todd: you're going to lose
Michigan and Iowa

Podesta: if we win Michigan this race is over

Todd: but you're losing!

Podesta: we'll see Chuckles

Todd: Tim Kaine says the FBI
is tying to defeat Hillary Clinton

Podesta: well Comey broke
the rules to help Trump

Todd: should he resign?

Podesta: no he's a good man

Todd: say something inflammatory please

Podesta: the FBI leakers
should shut the fuck up

Todd: what's it like to have your private
risotto recipes exposed to the whole world

Podesta: I've fought tougher bastards
than Vladimir Putin and Julian Assange

Todd: thanks for coming John

Podesta: you've got to stir it constantly!

[ break ]

Todd: welcome Newt

Gingrich: you are lucky
to have me here Chet

Todd: Donald Trump – what went wrong?

Gingrich: He is very likely insane

Todd: that's true

Gingrich: but on the other hand
his ideas like fighting corruption
and helping black people are good ideas

Todd: right

Gingrich: he's a brilliant
marketer who says nutty things

Todd: Trump lost this election
on day one by insulting Mexicans

Gingrich: Hillary may regret
abusing national security

Todd: okay

Gingrich: did you know she
used to work with Barack Obama?

Todd: yes I did actually

Gingrich: I met a 90 year who is
voting for the first time in her life

Todd: she's 90 and never voted before?

Gingrich: she was waiting
for the just the right racist

Todd: Kelly Ayotte hates Trump's guts

Gingrich: Trump represents
grass roots populism

Todd: he does?

Gingrich: Trump's campaign
was a hostile takeover of the GOP

Todd: wow

Gingrich: Kelly Ayotte is a corrupt leftist

Todd: do you really mean that?

Gingrich: yes I do

Todd: okay

Gingrich: Hillary Clinton is guilty
of violating 100 counts of federal law!

Todd: I see

Gingrich: the wikileaks burglary
finally revealed how much
lawlessness there is!

Todd: right

Gingrich the media is corrupt too!

Todd: if Hillary wins will there be a civil war?

Gingrich: if Hillary wins there will
be endless criminal investigations
and if Trump wins the 100 foot tall
gold statue of him on the mall in
Washington will bankrupt the country

Todd: golly

Gingrich: either way there
will be decades-long civil unrest

Todd: that's scary

Gingrich: labor unions will destroy America!

Todd: yikes

Gingrich: I wish this wasn't true

Todd: we all agree Ned

[ break ]

Todd: this is the spinal tap panel

Todd: we go to eleven!

Todd: omg John Poesta questioned
the FBI and Newt called for civil war!

Brokaw: I have never seen the
country more fractured than it is now

Todd: wow and you're like really old

Brokaw: we're in tribal warfare!

Todd: outwit outplay outlast

Brokaw: Newt Gingrich is right

Todd: you don't hear that much nowadays

Brokaw: Bret Baier is a wonderful
man who reports lies about Hillary

Brokaw: this is no way to run a democracy

Todd: can Trump win?

Wallace: he can sweep the table and still lose

Matthews: time for some
street money in Philadelphia!

Todd: how does that work

Brokaw: you pull people
out of bed and get them to vote

Todd: Hispanic is the new black

Diaz-Balart: Trump woke 
the sleeping Latina Giantess

Guthrie: the Republicans saw all
this coming four years ago and
still screwed it up

Wallace: Trump branded himself
as toxic with Hispanic voters

Brokaw: he mistakes crowds for GOTV

Todd: Team Clinton is really very nervous

Guthrie: she has utterly failed
by not winning in a landslide yet

[ break ]

Todd: welcome big brainy pollsters

Todd: give me some numbers nerds

Yang: Trump has gained ground

Yang: but she's winning independents

Todd: that is shocking

Todd: what should give Trump hope?

McInturff: literally anything could happen

Todd: yay!

McInturff: but it won't

Todd: Trump leads non-college
educated men by 40 points!

Todd: but loses educated men

Yang: it's killer for him

Todd: sadly people care more
about his insanity than her e-mails

McInturff: if it weren't for Trump
being a groping creep Hillary would be losing

Todd: Trump voters think Hillary is crooked

Todd: her supporters says
he's a racist and misogynist

Todd: how do we heal?

Yang: who knows?

Todd: it's horrifying

McInturff: most Americans
liked Bush and Gore

McInturff: but no one likes Hillary
and they despise Trump

Todd: [ shakes head sadly ]
unbelievable

[ break ]

Todd: geek for us Cook

Todd: predict the US Senate

Cook: Kirk is out

Todd: Khaaan!

Cook: and Feingold wins

Todd: good news for Dems

Cook but Rubio wins

Todd: ru-ru-rubio!

Cook: Pat Toomey is out

Todd: sounds like a 
bad night for the GOP

Cook: well Even Bayh loses

Todd: oh that weasel

Cook: but Dems hold on to Nevada

Todd: the first hispanic woman in Le Senata!

Cook: Dems win New Hampshire
and North Carolina will end in a tie

Todd: so Dems win control of the Senate!

[ break ]

Todd: our long national
nightmare is just beginning

Guthrie: I just learned that division
won't end after the election day

Todd: oh really

Guthrie: all of America feels sick to their stomach

Todd: no one trusts any of our institutions

Brokaw: right

Todd: even Obama doesn't trust the FBI

Obama: Justice is being weaponized

Brokaw: the FBI was investigating
failure to protect confidential information
and they can't protect confidential information

Todd: both sides are driven by hate!

Wallace: gaze your eyes up the
human carnage wrought by this
campaign and despair

Todd: say what

Wallace: my party chose Trump over
16 qualified people plus Ben Carson

Matthews: the Democrats are equally to blame!

Matthews: Trump tapped into frustration
over the Democratic invasion of Iraq

Matthews: the Democrats didn't win this

Todd: what if they do?

Matthews: they still wont

Brokaw: the social media on Left
and Right are destructive monsters

Todd: whoever wins will be impeached

Wallace: or arrested!

Todd: oh my

Wallace: both candidates have been crippled

Todd: how ever could that have happened

Todd: what about the millennials?

Brokaw: they hate Hillary Clinton

Todd: that's right

Brokaw: they love their ipops
and their bookfaces and their snipchats

Diaz-Balart: Cubans hate Obama and Clinton

Matthews: if a woman wins it will blow minds

Todd: she hasn't run as a woman

Matthews: the whole world
is terrified of Trump

Wallace: I'm obsessed with the hidden vote

Todd: for Trump?

Wallace oh no Trumpers are loud and proud
Todd: that does seem to be the case

Wallace: I'm talking about
the hidden Hillary Clinton vote

Guthrie: imagine if James Comey
had tired harder to elect Donald Trump

Todd: he did his best Savannah

Guthrie: I suppose he did

Todd: and that's another
episode of Meet The Press


Monday, October 31, 2016

Meet The Press – October 30, 2016

Guests:
Pete Williams
Gov. Mike Pence
Robby Mook – Clinton Campaign Chair
Andrea Mitchell
Larry Kudlow – GOP Trump Supporter
Mike Murphy – GOP Trump Non-Supporter
Audie Cornish – NPR


Todd: omg this is one of the biggest 
October surprises ever!

Todd: Justice officials told Comey
not to influence the election

Todd: it's reinvigorated the Trump campaign

Comey: hey congress I found 
some new e-mails

Clinton: it's unprecedented and troubling

Todd: they're investigating 
sexts to a teenager

Trump: she purposefully broke the law

Trump: the FBI is rigged!

Trump: or maybe not!

Pollster: it's a lifeline for Republicans!

Todd: on Friday it looked
like Trump was doomed

Todd: now he may win!

Todd: but 20 million people
have already voted

Todd: Trump and Clinton agree that
Comey should give out more information

Todd: will he do that?

Williams: no

Todd: Comey's logic was
this was going to leak anyway

Williams: yes the FBI can't
handle classified information

Todd: of course

Williams: also he had to reveal
it because Republicans would 
say mean things about him

Todd: but they don't know 
what is it in the e-mails?

Williams: that's right

Todd: so what do they know?

Williams: they just found some
e-mails sent to the server

Todd: if everyone had security
clearance then why would this matter?

Williams: correct – it won't change anything

Todd: so who is the target ?

Williams: the bottom line is the FBI's
mission to investigate every e-mail
Clinton ever sent or received

Todd: Trump is loving this

Trump: her criminal and illegal conduct!

Todd: welcome Mike Pence

Pence: hello Charles

Todd: what is Trump talking about?

Pence: she had classified
information on a private server!

Todd: he's raving

Pence: its incomprehensible
she wasn't charged with a crime

Todd: do you think she committed a crime?

Pence: the FBI director concluded
she had classified information!

Todd: also said no reasonable
person would prosecute

Pence: also she's a criminal on pay to play

Todd: I see

Pence: frankly Hillary is a risky choice
unlike Donald Trump who
presents no risks whatsoever

Todd: do you think it's fair to 
issue this vague statement?

Pence: she had a private server!

Todd: yes we know

Pence: she endangered 
American troops down range

Todd: um okay

Pence: why doesn't Hillary release
all her personal and work e-mails?

Todd: does the FBI have a duty
to share more information?

Pence: no

Todd: got it

Pence: why wouldn't Hillary's
aides release all their e-mails?

Todd: do you agree with Trump
that this is lowest point in American history

Pence: Comey indicted Hillary Clinton!

Todd: not really

Pence: there is such a 
double standard for the Clintons!

Todd: do you agree with Trump that
Comey was pressured not to bring
charges against Hillary?

Pence: I kind of like Comey

Todd: do you believe he was pressured?

Pence: it's troubling

Todd: so why would not prosecute?

Pence: I won't speculate

Todd: I see

Pence: no one is above the law!

Todd: you are saying that 
James Comey is corrupt

Pence: let's start again

Todd: okay

Pence: Bill Clinton bribed 
the Attorney General!

Todd: Loretta Lynch recused herself

Pence: at least James Comey said
Friday he's going to arrest her

Todd: will Trump spend his first
100 days suing these women

Pence: well maybe

Todd: he's really going 
to sue these women?!?

Pence: no he's going to cut taxes

Todd: that's better

Pence: on Friday we were going
to lose this election and you now it

Todd: yes I did

Pence: now we're going to win!

Todd: is he going to release his tax returns?

Pence: they under audit

Todd: not they aren't

Pence: make America great again!

[ break ]

Todd: welcome Robby

Mook: hiya Todd

Todd: Democrats used to praise
James Comey and now they question him

Mook: well he is a great man which
makes his weasel letter so puzzling

Todd: that's harsh

Mook: let's get all the information on the table

Todd: I see

Mook: now we're hearing he
hasn't even seen any of the e-mails

Todd: Podesta says Comey is helping Trump

Mook: we're raising lots of cash too

Todd: well good for you

Mook: Comey's actions are unprecedented!

Todd: does Huma have access
to her own emails?

Mook: we don't actually know
these are Huma's emails

Todd: true

Mook: also we don't know what
the hell Comey is talking about

Todd: no one does

Mook: anyway Huma already
turned over all her e-mails

Todd: are you 100 percent certain of that?

Mook: well we don't know
what Comey is talking about

Todd: fair point

Mook: hell even Comey doesn't
know what he's talking about

Todd: are you 100% confident
Huma turned everything over?

Mook: yes

Todd: okay

Mook: that's why we're so puzzled

Todd: will this cost you the election?

Mook: we have an insurmountable 
lead in Nevada

Todd: don't get cocky

Mook: but we don't take anything for granted

Todd: thanks for coming Robby

Mook: you too Teddy

[ break ]

Todd: first of all I want to explain
that we have a balanced panel
because we have zero Democrats
and two Republicans but one hates
Donald Trump and one loves him

Todd: the FBI's reputation on the line!

Mitchell: Clinton went nuclear on Comey!

Todd: but if she's elected
she has to live with Comey

Mitchell: that's true

Todd: she literally has to live with him
James Comey lives in the Lincoln Bedroom

Mitchell: Comey has no idea
what's on the e-mails which is weird

Kudlow: I heard from District Attorneys
that the FBI is in full revolt

Todd: do you even know 
what a District Attorney is

Kudlow: it would have leaked! 
He had no choice!

Todd: of course

Cornish: there's always something
with the Clintons

Todd: so sad

Cornish: Comey violated protocol
to cut a campaign ad for Trump

Murphy: the problem is Comey's letter
was so vague it leads to wild speculation

Mitchell: Trump is waving Comey's
letter has proof she's a crook

Mitchell: that letter was ridiculous

Kudlow it was not artful letter

Mitchell: ya think?

Kudlow: everyone is a hypocrite on Comey

Kudlow: Loretta Lynch shouldn't
have met with Bill Clinton

Todd: that's a lot of innuendo Larry

Kudlow: it's not fair but that's the Clintons
fairness goes out the window

Murphy: they angered the Election Gods!!

Todd: heretic!

Murphy: Huma should crowdsource her e-mails

Kudlow: Weiner is the gift 
that keeps on giving

Todd: hold on we have to pay for this show

[ break ]

Todd: time for data download!

Todd: Obama won Iowa twice
but Trump is winning there

Todd: Obama painted Mitt Romney
as an out of touch rich asshole

Todd: Trump on the other hand
speaks to uneducated white people

Todd: cause he's a regular guy

Todd: this dork Evan is on 
the ballot in only 11 states

Todd: but he's one point behind in Utah

Todd: he could swing the whole
election – just look at 2000

[ break ]

Todd: welcome Evan

McMullin: hi Todd

Todd: are you comfortable
swinging the election

McMullin: both candidates are deeply
corrupt so I'm trying to block them both

Todd: huh?

McMullin: my goal is block them 
both from the Presidency

Todd: you want it thrown to
the House of Representatives?

McMullin: yes then I win

Todd: you want to re-make
the Republican party

McMullin: I'm not sure I want to do that

Todd: oh no?

McMullin: we need liberty and equality

Cornish: what the hell does that mean?

McMullin: we need to destroy
the GOP – it's horrible

Mitchell: is it the racism or big spending?

McMullin: the big spending

Kudlow: I admit Trump is imperfect

McMullin: that's putting it mildly

Kudlow: but he's not corrupt

McMullin: he's highly unethical

Kudlow: but he's not a law breaker

McMullin: he might be

Murphy: you are handing
Hillary Clinton the elections

McMullin: it's not binary

Murphy: that's the choice!

McMullin: no it's not

Todd: I love how weird you are

McMullin: we're building something!

Murphy: you're helping the Democrats

McMullin: were going to block them both!

Todd: thanks for coming weirdo

McMullin: you too

[ break ]

Todd: ignore all the polls!
We've got a bombshell from the FBI!

Todd: Florida is neck and neck!

Todd: Clinton up six points in North Carolina!

Todd: but that was before
she was arrested by the FBI!

Murphy: calm down Chuck

Mitchell: Obama is going to
Carolina to lock this down

Cornish: the new registrations are non-white

Todd: that's not good for Trump

Kudlow: in my expert opinion on elections

Todd: how are you an expert?
Kudlow: I'm a white man in suit
I'm expert in everything

Todd: true enough

Kudlow: the people in America
want one thing above all –
tax cuts for rich people

Todd: of course

Kudlow: he's got to say on message

Todd: but that's not Trump

Murphy: he's crazy

Mitchell his tax cut would explode the budget

Kudlow: JFK cut taxes!

Mitchell: Anthony Weiner will hand
the House of Representatives
to the Republican party

Todd: also because of Weiner
the Supreme Court will have
8 people for 8 years

Cornish: that would have happened anyway

Murphy: Democrats don't 
want a Democratic Senate!

Mitchell: Paul Ryan is a dead man

Todd: Larry Kudlow gets the last word

Kudlow: we need to cut taxes for rich people!!

Todd: happy birthday Andrea Mitchell

Mitchell: awww

Todd: and that's another
episode of Meet The Press