Questions about the bitter divisions that plague our country and how they might influence our collective future. An esteemed group of panelists consider howto this election might shape this nations legacy. From boston, president ial historian doris kearns goodwin. With me in new york walter isaacson, founder and c. E. O. Of the aspen institute. Jeff greenfield of politico and pbs newshour. Weekend. Kurt andersen, host of wnycs studio 360 and Cokie Roberts of abc news. I make this point to our audience, we are doing this on monday afternoon before the nation votes on tuesday. We do this not knowing who will be elected president. But we do this in the spirit that the problems and the challenges are the same for whoever is elected. We have significant challenges. It is an important time. And ive asked these people to come here and think about the future regardless of who holds the oval office. I begin with walter isaacson. Tell me where you think we are, walter, and whatever the new presi
President elect of the United States area and we have not seen him much until today, when he held his first public event. Trump is kicking off his victory this week,ou tour but the first event took place this afternoon and indianapolis, where he basked in the glow of the deal with the Carrier Airconditioning Company to keep a thousand jobs for moving to mexico next year. In the speech, there was no shortage of selfaggrandizement, but is demeanor was calm, measured, and is tone was optimistic. Hes tone was often his tone was optimistic. Mr. Trump i want to let the Companies Know that we are going to do great things for businesses. Your taxes will be at the logan did joe, and your unnecessary regulations are going to be gone. , andll be at the low end your unnecessary regulations are going to be gone. Its becoming an industry, the writing of regulations. These companies are not going to be leaving anymore, they are not going to be taking peoples hearts. Trump is headed to cincinnati for
The setting is the today show when the target is bill clinton. Mr. Trump they called him a racist. He did very poorly. They are bringing him out again. He is being wheeled out. He failed in 2008. He failed really badly. He did a very poor job at campaigning. If you look at the different situations, we can name many of them. I can send you a list. There were certainly a lot of abuse of women. You look at whether it is Monica Lewinsky or paula jones or many of them, that certainly will be fair game. Certainly, they played the womens card. With respect to me, that will be fair game. With all of these attacks, will anything stick . John he basically suggested that people called bill clinton a racist. He called him geriatric by saying they are wheeling him out and he called them a qualify sex offender. Talk about Monica Lewinsky, that is in the stock. I think the memories of 2008 are still fresh for a lot of voters. The real question is not whether they will stick but how does bill clinton
Weekend. It doesnt have to be, but it probably will be and kind of according to the liturgy should be. So im back just in time for the Vice President ial announcement. Missed you terribly, lawrence. Welcome back. Thank you, rachel. Thank you very much. Post office, post office, post office. I say that tonight in the spirit of my friend and colleague tim russert who famously told us on Election Night 2000 that it was all going to go down to florida, florida, florida. This time it is all going to come down to the post office. If the Postal Service can deliver the mail as it always has when delivering mailin ballots, donald trump is going to lose the president ial election. Thats what the polls say anyway. So the undermining of the post office that were seeing now did not begin with donald trump. It began with republicans pretending that the post office should turn a profit or at least break even from the sale of stamps or maybe be privatized. And the key to that kind of thinking was a ph
Word with lawrence odonnell. Welcome back. The one regret i had about taking vacation last week was of course i was going to miss the big Vice President ial announcement. But now i have no regrets. Glad i did. It was nice of joe biden to hold that for you so that you could have a more exciting return to work. Do you have any idea when its going to happen . It has to be this week, right . It has to be between now and the weekend. It doesnt have to be, but it probably will be and kind of according to the liturgy should be. So im back just in time for the announcement. Missed you terribly, lawrence. Welcome back. Thank you, rachel. Thank you very much. Post office, post office, post office. I say that tonight in the spirit of my friend and colleague tim who famously told us on Election Night 2000 that it was all going to go down to florida, florida, florida. This time it is all going to come down to the post office. If the Postal Service can deliver the mail as it always has when deliveri