that a call has been placed from clinton to trump. we do not have independent confirmation of that. but the big screen in this ballroom has clearly broadcast something that has gone over big league with the trump supporters. and as we get to this point in the night, i think it s also james as you were saying, it s hard to overstate the political import of this. i mean, there has never been anyone in national public life who has proposed banning members of a particular religion from this country. that s never happened in mainstream public life, let alone from an american president. what donald trump is offering in terms of policy is as radical a departure from normal american politics as anything that has ever happened in any of your
john kerry kept his word and called and conceded. but it would not have happened that smoothly, i don t think. we understood it would have agitated efforts on the kerry-edwards side if bush had gone out and done just this, claimed his victory. but it s very, i wouldn t expect trump to do anything different. do you think that trump is going to take the stage to claim victory? i don t know what else he d be there to do. what s he going to say? why would he do anything by precedent? why all of a sudden now he s just going to start everybody keeps telling me he s not going to do any of the things he campaigned on, that he s going to be a normal republican now. i don t see it that way. i m trying to adjust my way of thinking to this new normalizing of donald trump that we re supposed to be doing. i ve never tried to normalize donald trump. i ve been forth coming. we ve had a national conversation about my 15 months of therapy and i didn t vote for him. but i am just dismayed and
end. nicole wallace, james carville with us in the studio. we were watching jon podesta, the chairman, the equivalent of being sent out to pinch-hit in the ninth inning of game seven in the rain. it s admittedly an extremely narrow path hillary clinton has to the presidency. but no one should read anything into what john podesta just did. in 2004, mark rosco who was the campaign chairman, a figure of equal stature to john podesta on this campaign went into a ballroom at the reagan center and sent all the bush supporters home. all that he was acknowledging tonight is that there wouldn t be a result worth waiting around any longer for. they looked sad because they didn t get the result they wanted to. but that act was simply an acknowledgement that they are not going to know in any sort of timely manner to justify those people waiting around. is she probably going to come up short?
benefit of all. it s gonna happen. we have a great, economic plan. we will double our growth and have the strongest economy anywhere in the world. at the same time, we will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. we will have great relationships. we expect to have great, great relationships. no dream is too big, no challenge is too great. nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. america will no longer settle for anything less than the best. we must reclaim our country s destiny and dream big and bold and daring. we have to do that. we re going to dream of things for our country and beautiful things and successful things once again. i want to tell the world
have no doubt that she doesn t think trump knows anything. he doesn t prepare for anything. he doesn t study anything. he has no idea of what s going on in the world, in the country. and i m very confident confident that she s right. and this has gotta be i really feel for her tonight. you know, she won every debate by all standards. every debate. the best ad campaign, the best ground tame. th ground game. she did what you re supposed to do to win and trump came in around the corner we re going to study this for a while. try the civil war. it will be a ken burns film on this. first of all, i don t think we should overlook the human element here either. if hillary clinton does win this, this is potentially i mean it s a devastating end. you ve been so close to them. i wonder what the president is saying to her now as she is kind of trying to process this and deal with it. and i m thinking about president obama too. to have the first african