national political reporter, ryan costello, republican from pennsylvania, and u.s. congresswoman, shaerri busto frm illinois. so i wanted to show mcsally in the normal way you concede, even though that was very nice, even cute sitting there with the dog, that was very nice. but you know, when you lose, you lose. numbers talk. trump s out there saying, stealing, fraud, these people are up to mischief. he s got his ckowtowers running along, like lindsey graham, saying mischief. he has all of these people saying this stuff. this is what they say in countries like pakistan, where they hang the losers. where they say, every election you lose is rigged. like zimbabwe, every election is rigged if you lose it. this is the stuff we used to be proud of in this country, that we accept the integrity of our elections. especially when there s no evidence whatever, according to the secretary of state down in florida, of any misbehavior, of any irregularities. and the president s out there trumpeting
some more news coming out of washington. departing republican senator jeff flake now says he s going to try to bring his bill to protect robert mueller from trump administration interference to the senate floor tomorrow. now, we re told mitch mcconnell still plans to politblock it. flake says, quote, we can bring it back again and again. we wanted to give you that update. hardball starts now. sore loser. let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. there s lots of news and lots of fronts tonight. president trump s again calling for an end to the florida vote count, accusing officials there of messing with the results. a milestone on the mueller investigation could be nearing.
hand out and say, let s deal? pelosi. pelosi. and again, i think it s ridiculous that we are sitting here and saying that democrats can t move forward on some of the policy issues that matter to americans while also working to hold the president accountable. voters demanded that, independents, moderate republicans, and a lot of democrats voted they can walk and chew gum at the same time. it sounds cliche, but they can. will trump ever change? why would he want to change? he s the president of the united states. have you ever met anybody who s changed in your whole life? no, wiof course not. how many members of the democratic party who just won their first election said they weren t going to vote for nancy pelosi for speaker and are going to hold true to that in the leadership elections this week? it s not going to happen. this happens every time. they always end up but the point is, they ve made a promise to their constituents and the first vote they make will be
so the problem is not with president trump s rhetoric. the problem is with the incompetence and the mischief in broward county. okay. do you believe democratic lawyers are trying to steal this election? well, the answer is yes. what evidence of fraud do you have in the supervisor of elections office for this race? first of all, i didn t say fraud. i said election lawyers are down here to steal an election. bill nelson is clearly a sore loser. he can t stand the fact that he s not going to be elected for, what, the first time in decades. and he won t he s just here to steal this election. that s what he s done. steal the election. fraud. steal the election. trivial, in arizona, congressman martha mcsally graciously conceded yesterday after losing to democrat kyrsten sinema. let s watch this. hey, everybody. i just called kyrsten sinema and congratulated her on becoming arizona s first female senator after a hard-fought battle. i wish her all success as she repres
you just don t usually see it publicly like this. but what this i remember nancy reagan, when she didn t like donald regan, the chief of staff, she told bernie shaw at cnn to announce on television, he s been fired. well, what this probably means is she s tried another route, right? she s tried i mean, this is someone that has gotten on to cross hairs both at the white house has already been, just like these other people you mentioned, jeff sessions, secretary nielsen, these are people that have got sboten inte president, the first lady s crosshairs over the last few months. so it s someone that hasn t been fired yet. so this was her way of getting it out there. any tradecraft here, corey, that we could understand, how trump does business when he doesn t want somebody there? i think it s very simple. the first lady was clear that this is a person that she doesn t think deserves the right to serve in the white house. she said something very similar when she was overseas an