whether or not he s going to read hillary clinton s book i am not sure, but i would think that he s pretty well versed on what happened. and i think it s pretty clear to all of america. i think it s sad that after hillary clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost and the last chapter of her public life is going to be now defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks and i think that that s a sad way for her to continue. steve kornacki and tamara keith remain with us. tamara sat down with hillary clinton to discuss her memoir in an interview out today. more on that in a moment. steve, the better press secretaries have preprepared wording that you can follow their eyes and glance down at it and that was clearly the case today. clearly they were not going to take the high road and are still kind of relitigating the election as is hillary clinton. and we ll see if donald trump s twitter feed has more to say about the book in the days to co
which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro. welcome back to the 11th hour. we re back with our national political correspondent, steve kornacki. fascinating stuff at the board today. happy to be joined by host of the npr politics podcast, tamara keith. so tamara, welcome to the broadcast. let me ask it this way. these republicans we just talked about who are vacating these seats, one way of asking it is, what do they know about what s going to go on in 2018 that others maybe are going to follow them in? well, one thing they know is they ve been in congress and know it s not a very fun place to be right now. since 2010, congress has been