impact on you? and they said no. that was sort of baked their vote was already baked in before that came out. they already knew where they were going whether it was for her or whether it was not for her. that was sort of part of their opinion of her. and that was reinforced, if you look at exit polls. i believe that 72% of the people had already made up their mind before that even happened. and you saw that when you talk to people. and basil, you know, you just heard selena, comey didn t seem to have an impact with voters she was speaking to in wisconsin. you heard jeff. and the campaign is saying this is director comey s fault and the media s fault. isn t it just their fault? well it may not have impacted the people that actually came out to vote but the comey decision may not have impacted turnout. talking 55% of voters turned out. particularly low. 20 year low in turnout
they did blame this on the hostile media and also that the fbi s director s decision at the 11th hour helped contribute to her defeat her. i really pressed her advisors so say why is that and the college educated voters in the center were not sold on her necessarily. but the comey decision set them off against her entirely. so they blame his decision. but erin, we have to remember it was her decision to set that up private e-mail server back in 2009 that created this whole situation. and a lot of people also looking at in particular, there are a lot of places they are looking at, counties and demographics. but in particular at wisconsin, as a test case of the heart of the matter t core of really went wrong? no question. in the ten electoral votes in wisconsin, a state that s voted democratic in presidential races since 1984, one number that really sticks out to me are
about this fbi thing. this is a very volatile thing. no doubt about it. that is a shift. the campaign says oh, no, no, no. without question. talk to the people who know this, speaking honestly at end of the campaign, that comey decision, right or wrong, shifted the campaign. every campaign has an eeyore. oh, no. what comey did was reverted this race. in 2016, democrats have a structural advantage on the map versus republicans. before this happened she my may have had that plus a little bit. thinking about georgea. this was going to be a convincing win for her before this now she clearly has an advantage and is on track to win. this is a more familiar dynamic. i think she has the advantage. the question is, remember, in some of these states let s
that was a doj decision. he took the recommendation seriously and he made a decision based on that. president trump made the right decision at the right time. to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general. but in an interview with lester holt on thursday, the president said not only had he already decided to fire comey before getting deputy attorney general rod rosenstein s recommendation, he had the russia investigation on his mind when he did. when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election they should have won. reporter: mr. trump also said he pressed comey in a private dinner on january 27th to tell him if he was under investigation. the dinner was held three days after the fbi interviewed now former national security advisor mike flynn and one day after
good sunday morning and happy mother s day to all the mom s out there. after the firing of the fbi director, james comey, conflicting administration explanations and what president trump and james comey said to each other at a dinner, what is like a per fek capstone to a whiplash week. tweeting james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversation before he starts leaking to the press. are there tapes? here s what the president later told fox news. that i can t talk about. i won t talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest. just something else for congress to try to subpoena, all of which leads us to our brand new nbc news wall street journal poll just finished overnight. 29% of those we polled say they approve of president trump s decision to fire james comey, 38% say they disapprove. roughly a third say they don t know enough to say, that tells see the story hasn t quite penetrated the national consciousness when you have undecided that high.