Hello, everyone. Im alex witt here in new york at msnbc World Headquarters. Its just past 1 00 a. M. In the east, 10 00 a. M. In the west. With nine days before the election, the race is growing uncomfortably close for Hillary Clinton whose lead has evaporated. Just one point nationally. The polls are just as close in the battleground state of florida where clinton garners 45 of the vote, trump 44 . Clinton has been working overtime this weekend to widen that gap. Hosting a starstudded concert in miami last night. Hitting an early voting event there just an hour ago. The Trump Campaign is playing up fridays announcement by the fbi its reviewing emails that could involve clinton. Mike pence drove the point home this morning on meet the press. The American People are focusing on the big issues but they have come to the conclusion that Hillary Clinton is a risky choice to be the next president of the united states. And fridays announcement just reaffirms that. Why doesnt she release all t
Allstar panel reflecting on 2016, our stories and politics and culture and reasons to be hopeful for the holidays. We begin with a major development, though. President obama taking Decisive Action today to block donald trump from creating a Muslim Registry. While obama has mostly focused on paving a smooth transition, todays move reflects the first use of his powers as president to thwart trump. The message from obama today is clear. He is still president and if Donald Trumps even thinking about religious profiling, president obama is going to make that not a smooth transition at all. Obama is basically blocking potential religious profiling by ending an obscured government Registration System. Well explain it to you. Basically, the Obama Administration issued an official notice today and it states this Registration System ends now, with an immediate effective date. That means the program is dead. But the notice also says the system had proven to be quote, redundant and ineffectively a
Mounting inside trumps Transition Team. A source described this internal confusion and jockeying for white house cabinet picks as a quote unquote knife fight. Another source told cnn this is like the game of thrones. Can Vice President elect mike pence now at trump tower bring order to this process . Pence officially leads the Transition Team, that happened friday it is a team thats having second thoughts about Rudy Giuliani filling one of the pop positions in the cabinet as secretary of state. Giuliani, whos stuck with trump through many challenges, made it Crystal Clear he would like the job. Heres what he told the wall street journal. John would be a very good choice. Is there anybody better . Maybe me, i dont know. [ laughter ] [ applause ] lets go to Phil Mattingly who has the details about this possible concern theyve hit through giuliani vetting. Whats the potential roadblock, phil . Past business dealings. What have they done in their Business Career that could raise red flags
States ordered wiretapping of his Campaign Last year. I dont know if its true or not, but if it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since watergate. Senator graham went on to say if the Obama Administration was able to secure a warrant to wiretap, that would be concerning because it meant there was a reason the court would allow it. Meanwhile, heres what congressman mole ton who sits on the Armed Services Committee Told thomas robertss this morning. I dont want to speculate on this one tweet from a president who is a serial liar. He gets up every day and lie to the American People. If under the Obama Administration they were simply monitoring contacts with russian officials, not trying to wiretap into the Trump Campaign, but looking at who russian officials were talking with and the Trump Campaign officials got ensnared in that net, then its a totals mischaracterization to say that president obama was wiretapping trump. No, we were just protecting our own Nati
So what were talking about here really is the very high potential for a direct military conflict between the United States and russia. And an alarming message from at least one member of congress about potential war with russia. New today, a report about the options laid out by President Trump by advisers to deal with north korea. One of them involves nuclear weapons. And another directly involves the leader of that country, kim jongun. Its an option that might shock you. We begin with new reaction from President Trump tweeting this past hour. He says congratulations to our great military men and women for representing the United States and the world so well in the syria attack. His praise for the military coming as were learning the inside story of how he went from America First to striking syria. The Washington Post said it wasnt just the horrible pictures of suffering that led to this 180 but also, quote, he has been eager to show a clear victory more than two months into his tumult