Clinton hopes to turn a white house win into a big night for democrats down the ballot. Shes running against someone who refuses to stand up to donald trump. Joining me for insight and analysis are tom friedman, eliana johnson, Stewart Stevens and yamiche alcindor. The press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Its too early to declare this election over. Remember tom brokaws theory. Theres no question the election is trending in Hillary Clintons direction. Whats in store for the next two and a half weeks . Does Hillary Clinton play it did she try to quell the talk of a rigged election by pushing hard into utah, georgia and arizona, sensing an opportunity for the biggest electoral victory since the last time a clinton was on the ballot . What about donald trump . His tone, if not his words, has been noticeably more reserved in the last two days. Trump is seeing the same polls we are. Does he try to win or lose with grace . Does he try to save down ballot republicans or does he even care . Donald trump is delivering his closing argument, outlining plans for his first 100 days in office. While acknowledging, he may never make it to the white house. You know, these guys have said, doesnt matter if you win or lose, theres never been a Movement Like this in the history of this country. I say it matters to me whether we win or lose. With the senate and now even the house in the balance, republicans are bracing themselves for the scorched Earth Campaign trump may run seats in any way they can. I will keep you in suspension. Trumps threat that he may not accept the Election Results sent the party into a tailspin. Republicans rushed to condemn trump. I dont believe in that theres a rigged election system. Senator john mccain said in a statement, in every previous election, the loser congratulates the winner and calls them, my president. Thats not just the republican way or the democratic way. Its the aman poll shows that 45 of republicans may not accept the results of the election if trump loses. The integrity of the electoral process is at risk. I think its already rigged to be perfectly honest. Red states from arizona to georgia, even utah are now in play. The rnc is focusing trump where he can do the least harm, pushing him to Schedule Campaign appearances in traditional if trump himself may not win that state. Because getting out trump voters still matters. We are going to win the state of wisconsin. The debate about trumps actions is now the main issue in competitive races across the country. Pat toomey and donald trump, theyre just wrong for the women of pennsylvania. Kelly ayotte stood by him. And on saturday, an 11th woman came forward to accuse trump of sexual misconduct. The events never happened, never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over. Republicans in tough races are trying everything from complete disavowing. No matter who the next president is, New Hampshire needs a strong voice in the u. S. Senate. That senator kelly ayotte. One hillary in washington would be bad enough. Reject jason kander. To half hearted acceptance. Im a change agent. Somewhere in between. I am still in the same mode i was monday night, which is feeling stuck. Joining me is senator tim kaine. Welcome back to meet the press. Chuck, good to be with you. Let me start with whether you believe this race is over. Your running mate, secretary clinton said yesterday, shes done responding to donald trump on anything. And then added, as were traveling were emphasiing electioning democrats down the ballot. Neither hillary or i believe its in the bag. If you look at our schedule, you know we are not taking anything for granted. Its been a season of surprises. We like what we see now. We like the early voting activity and the absentee ballot requests coming in in other states. We are not taking anything for granted. Were going to hammer to do everything we can before the polls close on november 8. Maims, wikileaks. I know you have a blanket statement here. You dont want to respond because you dont believe that they have been confirmed. Theres been out of 25,000 some emails, i think theres been a dispute about two or three. Why shouldnt the public look at these wikileaks emails and have it be something that informs them about secretary clinton . Well, you know, chuck, again, these are connected to a russian goverme destabilize the election, to affect the outcome of the election. Is that but does that change whats in the emails . The motive for them is very, very important for americans to understand. Because this is near historic. And then the one that has referred to me was flat out completely incorrect. So i dont know whether it was doctored or whether the person sending it didnt know what they were talking about. Clearly, i think theres a capacity for much of the as you know, i want to bring up a story from earlier this week. Wikileaks poisons hillarys relationship with the left. We were kind of suspicious of where hillarys instincts were. Now we see she is who we thought she was. The honeymoon is going to be tight and small and maybe nonexistent. Is it fair for progressives to look at the emails and have doubts about secretary clintons electioneering switching . I dont think so. I think folks should look at this as a historic election if were able to win, it will be america moving one step closer to our quality ideal, making history, which is what we do when we do our best work. That should be a cause for excitement. But look, were all going to have to come together, democrats, republicans, independents, because the nation has serious challenges that were going to have to tackle together. I was with hillary in two great rallies yesterday. She laid it on in terms of her am president , i have to be president for everybody and we gotta reach out to everybody to craft an agenda that will work in all parts of this country. Its interesting you bring that up. I heard her say that. Shes also described half of Donald Trumps supporters as deplorable. Shes also criticizing, for instance, pat toomey for supporting donald trump. Does that mean you are not she wants to pledge to be president of all the people, but are you going to be able to work with republicans who or when you campaign against republicans who support donald trump, does that mean you dont want to work with them once they come to washington . I think the best evidence of that, chuck, is of our track records. Hillary had a super track record, working across the aisle. She had that record as first lady. Im struck as a senator from virginia how many of my republican colleagues talk up their respect for hillary. And i know that thats the way she will approach governing. That doesnt surprise anybody. After election day, the public experts us to reach across the aisle. Thats what i have done in my career in virginia and now in the senate. Thats hillarys track record, too. This one was allegedly from ron klane. He says this why shouldnt her new position on tpp from the campaign be referred to as a flipflop . Why isnt it a standard definition of flipflop . Well, look, i mean i will use my own example. I voted to give the president the fast track ability to negotiate the best trade deal possible. But at the time i cast that vote in 2015, i said, look, i have a couple of concerns and youve because im not guaranteeing i will vote for it on the merits. The concerns werent addressed. My concerns were around enforcement issues. Hillary had the same view that there were a number of things in it she liked but other things she didnt. And as was the case when she was a senator, remember, hillary voted for some trade deals and she voted against others. If they didnt meet her standard of raising the number of jobs, raising wages and focusing on the enforcement and National Security against them. Her conclusion about the tpp, which is required to be voted on up or down, no amendments, is it falls short of the standards. Was it a requirement you come out against tpp . No. It wasnt at all . You didnt come out as forcefully until after you joined the ticket. Well, it was because, look, were still months away from a vote. I will tell you where i was. I was in the middle of meeting with various groups about the final product. 2015 deep concerns that i had, especially about the enforcement provisions. Those concerns were not addressed. And you know, i tell you, trade deals if theyre good enough can be okay. But if you embrace a trade deal thats bad, you deepen peoples skepticism about trade in general and its better to wait and try to find deals that meet your standards and not embrace deals that are substandard. After the election, president obama will travel overseas, probably talk tpp and an asian trade agreement. If you guys are elected, will you pursue an asian trade agreement, even if its not the tpp . Hillary and i havent talk btd that question directly. We arent against trade. We want to find export markets for american businesses because they will be able to add workers the more they export. Thats very important. And whether its in asia or jobs, higher wages and good for National Security and good enforcement provisions, were open to them. So, no, you never close the door. If you can get a deal thats good for American Workers and our economy. She could pursue a version of tpp . We havent talked about that in particular. We are not sure what the process is going to be for whether the Republican Senate and house are going to bring tpp up for a mcconnell and paul ryan are going to be. If im in the senate, im going to vote against it. So we have to wait and see what they do. But again, hillary has laid out the standard. A deal has to meet three pillars. If it doesnt, we cant support it. Tpp doesnt. If you were elections, do you think it will be appropriate or inappropriate for you as vicepresident elect to still serve in the lame duck senate . Well, its pretty common to serve, at least during part of practical, again, were not getting ahead of ourselves, im not assuming im going to win, but if i do, then the governor of virginia would have to make a decision about who to appoint to replace me. That decision isnt necessarily automatic. So rather than leave a gap where virginia would only have one senator, i would want to at least serve until theres a replacement to be named. Im curious if as a catholic you were offended by one of the wikileaks that came out. It wn included the campaign spokesperson. One person wrote that referring to rupert murdoch, that they are both catholic, they are attracted to the faith because of the, quote, systemic thought and severely backward gender relations. Jennifer reportedly weighs in. I imagine they think its the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldnt did that bother you . First, i dont know whether those folks wrote those emails or not. I cant comment on the a lot of catholic americans have heard that. And some of them are offended by it. What do you say to them . Here is what i say to them. Hillary clintons feeling about faith and about catholicism in particular is most demonstrated by the fact that she asked me to be her running mate. She described one of the reasons that she felt a connection with me was because background, my missionary service in honduras and my education, which she felt was a pretty close match in some ways for her methodist upbringing. Thats the most direct evidence of about what hillary thinks about catholics. One final question here. Last week i asked vicepresident biden why the Obama Administration wasnt implementing a nofly zone over aleppo. I know secretary clinton endorsed the idea of a nofly zone over syria. Said to me. I want to ask you about it on the other side. The first things first. We must defeat isil. Dod has told us in the beginning that the assets we need to be able to do that would have to be diverted. We could not do both. The Obama Administration says both cant be done. Secretary clinton believes they can. Why do you think the Obama Administration is wrong . Well, look, im a strong supporter of the president. Strong supporter of the president. But since february of 2014, i have suggested that the United States and other nations should help implement the u. N. Security Council Resolution passed during that month to allow for the cross border delivery of humanitarian aid into safe spaces in northern syria. I dont think it would be easy or automatic. In that sense, i agree with vicepresident biden. But back then, i felt like if we didnt do it, we would see what we have in fact seen, which is a refugees themselves and destabilize other countries. My concern is if we dont do that, we will continue to see an exodus that will continue to cause security challenges. Quickly i meant to ask you this. Theres a report over the weekend, at t will buy time warner. Democrats, including al franken are skeptical of the merger, including donald trump as well. Al franken said, im skeptical of huge media mergers because they can lead to higher costs, fewer choices and worse service for consumers. Are you a skc i share those concerns and questions. Weve got to get to the bottom of them, generally, pro competition and and less concentration i think is generally helpful, especially in the media. But this has just been announced. I havent had a chance to dig into the details. Those are the kinds of questions we need to be asking. Senator tim kaine, the democratic nominee for vicepresident. Thanks for coming in. You bet. When we come back, we will conway joins you. I will ask her about some of the poll numbers that just came out. As we go to break, we will give you a little light moment here with snls take on the election last night. In the first debate, i set the table. In the second debate, i fired up the grill. And tonight, i feast. Welcome to the world 2116, you can fly across town in minutes whole communities are living on mars and solar satellites provide earth with unlimited clean power. In less than a century, boeing took the world from seaplanes to space planes, across the universe and beyond. 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The poll has Hillary Clinton up by double digits nationally, 12 points, 50 to 38, a fourway race. This is according to them likely voters. Last week they had clinton up by four. Joining me is the Campaign Manager for donald trump, kellyanne conway. Welcome back to the show. Hi, chuck. Let me ask you about all of these National Polls that have come out. Most of them have shown a large lead for secretary different methodology that have shown a tighter race. Where do you see this race right now . Do you acknowledge that you are behind . We are behind. She has some advantages like 66 million in ad buys in the month of september. Doubling her ad buys from august. Most of those are negative against donald trump, classic politics of personal destruction. And she has tremendous her, the current president and first lady, more popular than she can hope to be. But shes seen as the incumbent. Our advantage, we are behind in some of the swing states, our advantage is that donald trump is just going to continue to take the case directly to the people. He doesnt expect to cut through the noise or the silence and the way were treated by some. So he has taken the case he will visit swing states as is governor pence. Under 50 in some places, even though she has run a traditional and expensive campaign, that we have a shot of getting the undecided voters that have said, i know who Hillary Clinton is, i dont want to vote for her, i dont trust or like her. We need to bring them aboard over the next couple of weeks. So yesterday then it made a lot of sense that you had a reset speech. Donald trump going to gettysburg to try to he quoted lincoln at the top, talking about healing divisions. Before he got to his first 100 substantive a speech as he has given in a couple months, he started out talking about threatening to sue all of the accusers that have come out alleging sexual misconduct. Is that a way to reset the last 16 days of this campaign . Its a way to its a way to defend himself and remind everybody what he has said many times, which is none of this is true. Theyre fabrications. Theyre all lies. He dispensed with that in a sentence or corrupt system. It did include some in the media. Not most. Not all. It does include some. We see revelations, 96 of the donations politically went to Hillary Clinton by working journalists, 96 . Theres no argument there was no political journalists in there. Its a i get where you are going. That includes people that cover sports or entertainment. Im just saying. Lets at least give it some nuance here. Okay. Lets give it nuance. Theres no nuance in some of the revelations. You have a print reporter from a major outlet saying, im now just a hack, john podesta. Do you like what i say . Here is editorial latitude for if you would like to change anything. When he talks about the rigged, corrupt system, remember, he is standing up for the forgotten man and woman. This is not about him. This is about the people. This is about folks who are white knuckled atteden month trying to pay the bills. People feel like they are pressing their nose against the glass of the rigged system and cant get in. He is speaking for them. He has legitimacy. He was once an insider. He said that i understand that. But he didnt speak about that. He instead focused on himself. He talked about the allegations. He brought it up. This is campaign it was a s