any less essential to our operations. your dedication, your intelligence, and your sound judgment are the brick and mortar elements of all we do. we all depend on your good work. and i know it will continue. one of the great [ applause ] one of the great challenges and thrills for the state department staff is deciding how to confront changing conditions in every corner of the world. and i encourage all of you to use your that much and well-developed skills to adapt to changes here at home as well. i know this was a hotly contested election and we do not all feel the same way about the outcome. each of us is entitled to the expression of our political beliefs. but we cannot let other personal convictions overwhelm our ability to work as one team. let us be understanding with each other about the times we
600. is that right, ben? correct. this is a number of votes that there is no chance, no potential that any recount will change the outcome. so i think, and what i m hearing, is that this is about something else entirely. ben, while i have you, we mentioned you re a partner at jones day, the law firm in d.c. your colleague there, dan mcgann, was selected to be white house counsel which our friend hugh hewitt predicted, hoped for and agrees that it is one of the most important selections a president-elect can make. because you don t have to see him now at the holiday party, you can be totally frank and candid. what do you make of him and him in that job? we ll still have him at the holiday party. that s your business. don is a terrific choice for this job. he s a great lawyer with sound judgment. he is somebody as he demonstrated in his years on the
in that job? we ll still have him at the holiday party. that s your business. don is a terrific choice for this job. he s a great lawyer with sound judgment. he is somebody as he demonstrated in his years on the federal election commission is not a yes man. he is more than willing to call them as he sees them and to keep people sort of on the straight and narrow. so he is a terrific choice for this job. ben ginsberg from jones day. not disappointing when asked to critique a colleague from jones day. ben, thank you very much. nicolle, our thanks to you as well. another break for us. coming up, a prominent life has ended at the age of 90, but mourning goes on for people lined up in cuba tonight. this is the 11th hour.
trump, we don t know. is he investigating the clinton foundation? we don t know. is he investigating the trump foundation? we don t know. and that s how it should be. either he has a case or he doesn t think about if the fbi were to announce tomorrow that it were investigating a company, that company s stock would crater. that s why career prosecutors are meant to be very careful about what they say. people aren t left with enough information on this to make a sound judgment on who s in it and who s not. director comey has said he won t make any clarifications or give any updates, you think he should? yes, i do think he should give clarifications and updates before the election. it s urgent he do that. i have respectful differences with fareed on where we started on this. the fbi director stays out, i think there are exceptions to
ready to lead in a dangerous world. it s 3:00 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. who do you want answering the phone? joining me now for pennsylvania governor and former dnc chairman, ed rendell and beth fooey, senior editor at msnbc.com. good to have both of you with us. governor, i ll start with you. what do you think hillary clinton has learned, based on those two ads, as a candidate, since 2008? well, actually, i thought the 2008 ad was very effective as well. it made the point, do you want an experienced leader? and no one, i don t think anybody in the field, republican or democrat, has the experience with the military and with foreign leader es that hillary clinton has. i think she s got sound judgment, she s strong when she has to be strong, she knows when to negotiate. i think her experience sun rivalled and she s smart to keep pushing that in every way she can. you know republicans are