counting their ducks already, but i feel like every time you ask nancy pelosi or chuck schumer, they basically think the democrats are going to walk through this. the average, if the president s approval rating is under 50% over the last decades, the party in power has lost 40 seats. i think that s a baseline that democrats are eyeing. it s early, but the signs are edging that way. thanks, carrie. that does it for us. we will be back with you next week from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern live from washington. for now, good night and we leave you with this from saturday night live. steve, do you think they ll ever let you back into politics? yes and on the cannon s terms, too, as a kingmaker. i convinced this country to elect donald. and i can do it again. already auditioning candidates. got some prospects. logan paul. party strelli, the subway game,
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what they had just heard. and i think the overarching feeling that i ve gotten, and i ve talked to three or four people who were there, is that this is a man who is pursuing his own personal agenda, defending himself, his own personal views, at a time when national leadership is required. so that s what s going on this week. a collision between his extreme personalization of everything, and what we normally view as the role of a president. it s a great point to end on with you and to begin our discussion with my panel here. glenn thrush, i await your 8:30 phone call from the president tonight. don edwards is senior fellow at the brennan center for justice and a former democratic congressman from maryland. sarah facten is a cnbc contributor and mark murray is nbc news s senior political editor, i mamy partner in crime along with carrie dan, on all things first read. welcome all. sarah, you worked in the white house. i ll give you the first dibs on this. not to say there s any parallel
many, many more times in the future. joining me now nbc news political editor carrie dan. a lot of analysis on the sunday morning programs but in real time this transition seems it needs to move faster for necessary reasons. absolutely. a lot of the next couple of days and the past few days have been looking at what the media and specifically pollsters got wrong about this. going into tuesday night almost everyone s modeling and this includes republicans who thought donald trump was going to come up short of 270 electoral votes. a lot of the soul searching on the part of journalists and pollsters is figuring out what they missed and the way they looked at the electorate. the votes are still being counted. there is a lot we don t know about the coalition that donald trump put together. one thing we can point to is in rural america donald trump s
gutierrez, anita mcbride. a lot of folks who have been through thick and thin. co-charz ponying up $32,000 and attendees price tag of $2700. you re seeing big money here, but a tough audience day after the debate. organizers seen an increase not decrease since last night. figure out if they come out of the event they re in a good mood not depressed mood. carrie dann thanks very much. jeb bush soldiering on. it s clearly situation critical. look at headlines today. some of them declaring campaign agony, onlife support in a death spiral. in new hampshire bush is about to hold his first post-debate town hall in an hour. he bemoaned the debate and blamed it on washington and, guess who, the media. right now washington s not