claims to. he really put himself out on a limb by campaigning as much as he has and maintaining his message against the advice of the speaker of the house. that s what we focus on will the democrats get to what they need in the house. will the republicans keep the majority. could they gain a seat or three? is there a path for the democrats? there are, we talk every 25 years or so about a realignment going on. ari fleischer who worked on capitol hill said what it means to be a republican is being rewritten as we speak. donald trump has the pen and his handwriting is not always very good. the last part is the tension in the republican party. he sounds like george wallace. a lot of republicans are incredibly uncomfortable with that. think of how much president trump upended these republican philosophies on so many issues. trade has been one of the biggest tension points between the classic republicans on
fine with having this released. they are delivering those memos to congress later tonight. et we should hopefully get access fairly soon. what s your reaction to the giuliani news? it s clearly, as you were talking about, it s a big pr move in one realm because here s a big player who can command attention, talk to reporters, get out in front of stories. and there s a behind the scenes aspect to see what the lay of the land is. but before we go down the road of thinking that bob mueller and remove get giuliani are best of friends, they are not. there s been a lot of tension points in that relationship. so it is a relationship that has existed tr decades and there have been a lot of tension points across the years. joey jackson, you re our legal analyst. what s your reaction? cnn learned that the deputy attorney general told the president the other day when he was at the white house he s not
cost her. joining me now jonathan allen, head of content at sidewire, and amy parns, senior white house correspondent for the hill. and they are the co-authors of shattered, inside hillary clinton s doomed campaign. thank you both for being here. amy, i ll go with you first. your book shows the clinton team internal wrangling about why they lost the michigan primary. what did they believe cost them michigan? you know, that s an interesting little anecdote that we have in the book. post michigan we have a story where secretary clinton comes in the room and she s really frustrated about what happened there. she s saying our message didn t get through, we need to do a better job with that. that was one of the big tension points in the primary explained to us by her aides that she didn t quite understand what was happening there, why she couldn t really penetrate and get through that particular message.
message didn t get through. we need to do a better job with that. and that was one of the big tension points in the primary, as explained to us by her aides. that she didn t quite understand what was happening there, why she couldn t really penetrate and get through that particular message. but specifically a question of whether or not they were going after enough white working class voters versus voters of color, right? right. that s exactly it. and there was always this tension. they relied a lot on our book reveals this. they relied a lot on data and analytics. and kind of gave up a little bit on traditional polling. and, you know, i think a lot of people explained to us that you really try to do both. and so i think that that was that was a problem for them in the campaign. and jonathan allen, there is a pretty extraordinary excerpt from your book that says that even trying to create a slogan and a rallying cry for the campaign was problematic and said they were stumped f
obama has to reverse it. but this is what we see out of the homeland security department is the dismantling of a system that theoretically could be the basis for a muslim ban, a muslim ban, importantly, that just yesterday president-elect trump talked about as it seemed like a good idea that he s been right all along in the context of speaking about that attack in germany. so it does seem like there is a wariness to give the incoming administration tools to do some of the things that the outgoing administration really doesn t agree with. just today i think the transition team spoke very highly of the current president s efforts to try to make this transition smooth. do you think that s lip service or do you think there s truth to it? president obama has been speaking with president-elect trump. they ve been talking about a lot of thins it seems like, but there are clear tension points and not just on all the politics that we ve seen going on through the course of this xap.