profound. and also one more thing, the media we on the east coast and, you know, the so-called conventional wisdom and all of that and certainly pollsters and certainly the democratic party ignored the anger of white working class people in the middle of our country and in our neighborhoods. and the people that we saw in pennsylvania and in west virginia and elsewhere. just did not tune in to the real thirst for change. and katy, you spoke about this a little bit on our sort of shot we always do in the mornings, this idea of his supporters being firmly in his corner this entire campaign. and for me one of the more striking moments was after the access hollywood video came out, the audio came out, and then i think it was a next day in a rally saw and there were women with signs donald trump can grab me by an arrow.
we will hear from somebody a lot of folks weren t sure would keep his title of senate majority leader but did, mitch mcconnell. we re going to start off though doing some reporting today. we ve got our team of reporters, chris jansing at the white house, katy tur covering the trump campaign and andrea mitchell who is just over in midtown actually at hillary clinton s concession speech. chris, toipt stai want to start. you are standing in front of what is president barack obama s white house. in two and a half months it will be donald trump s white house. what does that look like? well, right now it looks very somber. i mean, the transition that they ve been planning for for a year they expected there to be a rose garden speech today about hillary clinton, the president-elect. they expected there to be a meeting in the oval office between hillary clinton and barack obama tomorrow. now i think everyone is trying to wrap their heads around what has happened here in their exhaustion beca
melania on their one-year anniversary. that s where she says she was inappropriately groped by donald trump. donald trump denied all the allegations. we ll begin with katy tur covering the trump campaign since the very beginning. katy, how much of a back-and-forth is this? because it is melania who said this was factually incorrect. points in the story is that her lawyer wrote a letter to people about it saying melania and stoynoff never met on fifth avenue and those would call the credibility of this whole story into question. reporter: absolutely. but now people magazine is coming out with their own corroborating witnesses who say that it did happen. right now it is still very much a he said/she said or she said/she said at this point until there s concrete evidence that they met on the street. but there are more people now that are coming out and backing up natasha s story, saying that she spoke about it in the immediate aftermath. donald trump when it comes to
clintons and question ted cruz s canadian birth. marco rubio scoring a key endorsement in congress even as much of the talk focuses on his fashionable new boots. we ll get to that. chris christie s momentum in new hampshire turning into cash and announcing a series of new hires in early states and ted cruz, his new immigration ad asks voters to imagine the uproar if lawyers, bankers and journalists were crossing the rio grand. hillary clinton hitting the trail in nevada as bernie sanders accuses her of lacking the courage to stand up to wall street. joining me now to start it all off, nbc s katy tur covering the trump campaign. beth fooey here in new york with me. katy, trump gave an interview to the hill on capitol hill and said i ll close the deal and win the nomination and pointing to states like new york and pennsylvania an saying he s got those wrapped. reporter: yeah. he says he has crossover appeal
trump is playing right into their hands. we have two reports now on trump and how the republican party is being put on the defensive. first nbc s katy tur covering the trump campaign. katy, the latest interview with donald trump live on kelly and michael today. when you characterize this about being muslims entering the country, it is about the constitution. he says there s something wrong there and they could be undercover radicals, we wouldn t necessarily know. he s saying essentially he wants to figure out exactly what is going on, figure out how to vet these people and then allow them into the country. there s a lot of backlash against this because a lot of people are saying that this is, not just an illegal idea, but a racist idea. an idea that s only going to divide america further and create more people who hate america and potentially more