the mexican-american vote could have been a great opportunity for the republican party. >> the latino vote right now -- not just the preference but if the turnout is as big as it's going to be it could change national politics forever. >> this is how much fun we're going to be on tuesday. we're just getting started. lawrence o'donnell takes over from here. lawrence. appreciate it. >> you rolled your r. >> this is a special sunday night edition of "the last word." we have a new letter from fbi director comey today about hillary clinton's e-mail. nbc's pete williams is here to translate that letter. and the most likely threat to our voting machines is not hacking. it is the old age of those voting machines. some of them are definitely going to break down. we'll tell you what to do if that happens to you on tuesday. a november surprise. >> the review of these new

e-mails is over. the recommendation from july that no charges should be brought stands. >> aides on clinton's plane relieved. >> i don't believe it's politically good or bad. we have not made this the centerpiece of our messaging. >> if she were to win we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial. >> the only one facing trial is going to be donald trump because of trump university. >> at trump university we teach success. it's going to happen to you. >> this campaign has taken away his twitter. >> real geniuses. >> if somebody starts tweeting at 3:00 in the morning because snl made fun of you -- >> this whole election has been so mean. >> i just feel gross all the time. >> then you can't handle the nuclear code. >> we have arrived at a moment of reckoning in this election. >> going to be called brexit plus. >> vote. vote. let's finish the job!

♪ hillary clinton has not yet commented on the letter released by the fbi director seven hours ago. what appears to be the last word from the fbi investigation of secretary clinton's e-mail. fbi director james comey sent a follow-up letter to the republican and democratic leaders of the congressional committees today about the fbi's investigation of e-mails found on a laptop shared by anthony weiner and his wife huma abedin. the letter says the fbi investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of e-mails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. during that process we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from hillary clinton while she was secretary of st e state. based on our review we have not changed our conclusions that we

expressed in july with respect to secretary clinton. joining us now, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, i am struck by the last words of the operative sentence in that where they say they have not changed their findings with respect to secretary clinton. does that mean that it is possible that there is still some exposure here for huma abedin and anyone else who has been investigated in -- through the hillary clinton state department e-mails? >> i think the answer to the question is that it doesn't mean that they're out of the woods but it's not what that sentence was meant to mean, if i can parse it that way. all they're saying is, all we looked at here were whether there were problems with new classified documents that we didn't know about and what the fbi director says is, that doesn't change the bottom line. what i am told is that the review of these -- remember, we've heard this number 650,000.

that's the total nr of e-mails on the computer. they narrowed it down to those sent or received by huma abedin and then those that she sent to secretary clinton while secretary clinton was secretary of state. so you have subsets of subsets there. they found that most of them were duplicates of what the fbi had already seen during its months and months and months of looking through hillary clinton's e-mail server. some were strictly social, non-governmental. what time do you want us to pick you up, that kind of thing. they did look at some of them. they concluded that there was no substantial change here that required them to rethink the processcution thing. what else does it mean? who else is off the hook or on the hook? that is not anything they were focusing on. the whole goal here was to try to get through these e-mails and answer the question, if they could, before tuesday. >> and pete, the trump campaign tonight saying absolutely impossible to search 650,000 e-mails in a week. >> i guess it depends on how you do it. because what the fbi says is

that most of this work -- most of the hard work was automated. they already had a database of all the e-mails that were found during all the months that led up to the director comey's announcement in july. they could compare that using a system, a system called d-duping to find out which were not duplicates. the task of figuring out which were hers, what time frame, could be done relatively quickly with an automated system. it's an automated system as well that did most of this work. that's the fbi's answer to how did they do it so relatively fast. >> pete, do we have a sense of the number of e-mails that the fbi actually had to take a closer look at? we have this -- somewhere we got the notion that there are 650,000 total. we don't know how many of those belonged to anthony weiner. >> right. >> they looked at only those that were to or from secretary clinton. do we have any idea what the number was of those?

>> no. they have not given us that detail. they don't really want to give us that detail now. i suspect eventually we'll get it. what i said to one fbi official today is, you know, you gave us so much information after the clinton investigation, including the number of documents that contained classified information. will you supplement the record with that sort of information? i got the impression that they would but not before tuesday. >> pete, do you have any sense that today's letter was, in any sense, rushed by director comey because of the pressure he had been experiencing in the last several days and including this, what seemed to be a cross-current of leaks from the fbi? >> i think whatever pressure that they -- that they were working under was self-imposed. i think, after they sent the letter to congress two fridays ago, they have always wanted to try to get whatever answer they could before election day. what they told us repeatedly is, if by tuesday we can't give you the final score, we're not going to give you a partial.

we're not going to say we're 80% through and this is what we've found. they would only say something if they were done. but they did try to get it done quickly and thoroughly. i think it was self-imposed more than anything. they say that was always their goal. >> pete williams, thankou very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> you bet. here is how donald trump reacted to the news tonight. >> hillary clinton is the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the presidency of the united states. the investigations into her crimes will go on for a long, long time. right now she is being protected by a rigged system. it's a totally rigged system. i have been saying it for a long time. you can't review 650,000 new e-mails in eight days. you can't do it, folks, hillary clinton is guilty. she knows it, the fbi knows it, the people know it. >> we're joined now by joy reid,

msnbc national correspondent and the host of a.m. joy. also jay sykes from milwaukee also an msnbc contributor. joy, so it's -- there is another day left. so there's time for at least one more letter from the fbi. >> sure. absolutely. you know, when they did this sort of "oh, never mind" letter today when comey put this letter out, the thing that's so maddening about it is that it's quite clear they could have gotten ahold of the laptop, done the exact same thing they've done for the last nine days, gotten a court order, looked in the laptop, seen what was there. if you really felt he needed to send a letter, he could have sent that letter saying we have this laptop, we looked through it, there was nothing on it. that's your update. if he felt so compelled. the reality is instead of doing that he throws a grenade into the election. there are nine days in which people are voting based on that information, which one campaign

is allowed to dine out on that information, and even make allegations that hillary clinton was going to be criminally indicted or that she should be impeached for nine days. so you can't take that nine days back. i think comey -- they should stop talking. they keep talking. >> yes. yeah. charlie, the -- the former justice department officials i have talked to -- i haven't found any who can make sense of what's happened with the fbi, especially as of today, because some of them were saying up until today, well, it must be that he -- that comey knew there was something serious. they're more flummoxed now than they were before, and they kind of all say that -- the ones i have talked to -- that he should have relied on the principle that you don't say anything while a campaign -- this close to an election day. and what the -- what they stress is, that principle, that practice, has been initiated to

protect the fbi from the accusation that they're being partisan by, in effect, being accused after the fact of withholding information. that that principle is there to say, well, the reason we didn't say anything about it before the election is this. but here we are tonight. >> yeah. and what a total farce. and the damage james comey has done to the reputation of the fbi is really amazing. you think about the damage this whole campaign has done to trust in american institutions. you know. and including institutions that had once been considered to be above politics. and where do we go to get that last nine days back. look, i know that democrats have been upset about this, but republicans would be absolutely hair on fire if something similar had happened. of course, we're now going to go into this campaign with the back and forth. somebody needs to tell donald trump, by the way, how computers work and that we have computer programs that do this kind of thing. i understand the trump world has now gone into full, absolute denial about all of this.

but, you know, this was not necessary, to go through in the last nine days of this campaign, and i think the fallout from this is going to be awful no matter what the results are on tuesday. >> can we get the video of donald trump up again, or at least a frame of him in that speech that we just showed him giving where he was talking about the -- there. now, that guy, joy. that's the guy who is telling you that the fbi is rigged, the investigation is rigged, and um, i don't know, but -- no, no. not that video. not that. the one that we just had up before. >> yeah. >> it seems to me that the one thing you want to see is the candidate's face when he is offering these conspiracy theories about how the world works. instead he looks like some movie villain. >> doesn't he have an investment in the hat company that makes his hats? that hat is way too big. he actually maybe needs a stylist in addition to some other things his campaign could have used to be more

professional. that hat is way too large. charlie makes a good point that, by doing what he did, james comey triggered and news cycle in which not only did we explore on the republican side whether or not hillary clinton is some sort of super criminal, but you also then explored the fbi. so now what we've had is some great reporting that has exposed this pro-trump cell, if you want to call it that, in the new york office of the fbi. there are further stories coming out about the fact that agents were insisting upon using a book that has a financial connection to donald trump through steve bannon as the basis for launching investigations. that is terrifying for american citizens who now understand that a group of politically motivated agents armed with that much power can go after anyone they want based on partisanship alone even though what they're doing is actually financially connected through their resource material to one of the candidates for president. that in and of itself shatters

the fbi's reputation. >> charlie -- >> this is -- >> go ahead. this is scary stuff. she is right. this is very scary stuff. i am really grateful for the reporting that pete williams has done. he actually came on my radio show friday to debunk the completely bogus report that was on fox news about the expansion of this mythical investigation into the clinton foundation. i am sure there are issues to be dealt with here, but you think about what has happened in the final days of this campaign, what was leaked out. what was leaked out with an intent to influence a presidential election. this can go either way if in fact you have rogue national security employees, whether it's the fbi or anybody else, and i do hope that, when this is all over, we look back on this and ask what exactly happened and why were we so credulous about it. >> charlie gets the last word on this segment. thank you for being here tonight. up next, "new york times" has a new report from inside trump-land where donald trump doesn't sleep and has, quote, a

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you may have heard that this was just announced, i just read it, so i can't confirm it's true, but apparently this campaign has taken away his twitter. in the last two days they -- they had so little confidence in his self-control, they said we're just going to take away your twitter. now, if somebody can't handle a twitter account, they can't handle the nuclear code. he read it in the "new york times." the "new york times" is

reporting today, aides to mr. trump hav finally wrested away the twitter account that he used to colorfully, and often counter productively, savage his rivals. the "new york times" report from inside the last few days of the trump campaign, depicts, quote, the neediness and vulnerability of a once boastful candidate now uncertain of victory. the "times" describes the trump campaign staff as aband of squabbling and unfireable advisors with confusing roles and inability to sign off on basic tasks. advisors cut loose from the campaign months ago like corey lewandowski still talk to the candidate frequently offering advice that sometimes clashes with that of the current leadership team. the "times" also reports, not even staff members who volunteer to be dismissed are let go. the senior communications advisor jason miller offered to resign after he was spotted at a las vegas strip club the night

before the final presidential debate. the offer was rejected. joy reid is back with us, and joining us now, rick wilson, a republican strategist who has been a part of the never-trump movement. an advisor to evan mcmullin who is running for president as an independent. joy, it's as crazy in the trump bunker as you imagined, i think. >> that was the most extraordinary story. it's kind of sad. you sort of see donald trump sort of begging his staff to tell him he's winning. he can't seem to handle the reality of his situation. and it seems to be just utter chaos. it's sort of pathetic, to be honest. >> rick wilson, so there is a campaign where you can't get fired if you try. [ laughter ] >> you know, this is like an inesco story. these people are trapped -- you know, hell is donald trump's organization. this is a guy who is trapped -- >> that is king lear, i mean

donald trump, live walking off of his airplane with, of of course, the hat. >> a better fitting hat. >> the hat covering his thoughts and his face. go ahead, rick. >> this is an obvious organization in distress. i am looking beyond donald trump right now at the fact that he is dragging republican leaders down with him. i mean, you saw the paul ryan tweet tonight. felt like they had a family member hostage because these people are so desperate now to defend the terrible decision they've made. everyone warned them this was what was going to happen and trump is collapsing mentally, obviously, and he has lived in this bubble for so long and his supporters have lived in this bubble for so long where they cast this reality distortion field around themselves and thought that trump was going to win california, and compete in new york and connecticut, and he would roll up places that -- the joke about trump expanding the map has been made extensively. he did expand the map, for the

democrats. this is a guy whose campaign is so far off the rails now it almost defies description. the fact of the matter is he is right now being eaten to bits by piranhas and his staff are standing on the river bank going, it's okay, it's fine. don't worry. we got this thing. >> joy, it's unclear who is going to tell him on wednesday there is no place to fly to to give a speech tonight. >> one of the sort of saddest moments in that terrific "new york times" story is when kellyanne conway, the campaign manager supposedly says to him, what would make you happy again? you don't seem to be a happy candidate. and he says, i just want to go around the country and give rallies. he seems to -- it's almost like his friends are the rally crowds. he doesn't have like actual friends he can hang out with. he needs, needs, needs. what is going to happen when there are no more rallies to go to. being a candidate for president has to be a high. all these people chanting your

name, waving signs with your name. the centrality of yourself. if you're narcissistic as him it has to be a drug. i don't know what happens wednesday morning when they're cleaning up the hilton hotel that he isn't going to be president and he is a joke again. >> quickly, before we go here, one of the elements of this story talks about trump musing about revenge. after election day all he will care about is revenge. he is talking about creating a super pac to take revenge against republicans who were not strung enough for him. >> the trump supporters believe they're about to enter the armed phase of their revolution. i have news for them. this is a guy who will go down as a historical joke, a footnote, an object lesson to others on how you don't, you know, lead a party and how you don't lead a campaign, and regardless of all the lift he got out of his celebrity and out of the media coverage that

darkened the sky for him, this is a guy who still blew every possible opportunity. they took his twitter account away way too late. they took his power to go out and abuse people by being off-message all the time away way too late. and frankly, he sowed the seeds of his own destruction in the if he first speech he made in the campaign. it would never get better. there was never a better version of trump. >> joy reid at 10:23 p.m., your week of work is over. >> i can't believe i get to leave the building. >> you can dance outside the door. >> what does outside look like. >> i will. >> we were about to play the music as we know. we know joy reid will be dancing. >> rick will too. >> i have to do one of these coming up things. our next guest, a candidate for vice president. bill weld, on the libertarian ticket. also a former federal prosecutor

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the watergate impeachment investigation in 1974. bill weld went on to serve as republican governor of massachusetts after being chosen by president reagan as the u.s. attorney for massachusetts. he was promoted in 1986 by president reagan to head the criminal division of the justice department in washington where he supervised over 700 employees. two years later bill weld resigned from the justice department as a matter of principle in protest of the conduct of his boss, u.s. attorney general edwin mease. the attorney general resigned from office under pressure after bill weld testified to congress against his former boss. joining us now, the 68th governor of massachusetts and the libertarian party's vice presidential candidate bill weld. thank you for being here. tell us about your days on the watergate committee with hillary clinton and what you observed about her then and what that tells you about her now.

>> she is a straight shooter. we were supposed to be and were a unified staff under john doer who was under some pains not to have the staff being partisan. i was hired by the republicans and hillary rodham was on the majority side hired by the democrats. but she and i worked together closely on the legal book as to what constitutes grounds for impeachment of a president. no politics involved. >> in the justice department you were once, in effect, in the chain of command for all of the federal prosecutions in the united states. you have extensive experience working with the fbi on a daily basis. >> correct. >> your read tonight of what we've seen the fbi go through in the last ten days, ending with director comey's letter tonight saying they found nothing new in this investigation of huma abedin, anthony weiner's laptop and, therefore, the original findings of this summer on

hillary clinton's state department e-mail hold. what was your reaction to all of that? >> my first reaction is thank goodness all of that is over. it begs the question, where did it all come from? i heard a united states senator from the judiciary committee say they're going to hold hearings on where the original letter from the ten or 11 days come from. was it a result of pressure from members of staffers in congress? i'm not saying it would constitute a criminal offense by anybody. the members would be totally shielded and director comey whatever he did for whatever reason would be completely privileged as an official act of a federal law enforcement official. if there was back and forth with the hill producing that letter ten or 11 days before an election i think the judiciary committee would want to know about that. people would want to know about that. and so, you know, it may be that we haven't heard the last of this. the effect of that letter, ten or 11 days ago, was to interfere with a federal presidential

election. and in terms of impact, that's actually much more problematic that an obstruction of justice in a small, single, federal criminal case. the latter is good for five years in the slammer. again, i am not saying there would be any criminal proceedings as a result of congressional hearings, but i don't think we've heard the last of this. >> and when you were in the justice department, you would have been one of the people that the fbi director consulted before making his first letter public and sending it to the committee chairman. what would you have told him? >> no, no. i would have been the person because the public integrity section, which is part of the criminal division, is the place that you're supposed to go when a sensitive electoral matter like this. that was kind of my flagship unit in the criminal division. i did a great deal of work with them. now, this was an unusual situation, arguably, you know,

ag, loretta lynch was somewhat compromised by the visit by president clinton so they wanted to leave it to james comey, a former deputy attorney general in the justice department. he almost wore a prosecutor's hat back in july. i thought he did a good job in july. he said no reasonable prosecutor would have brought this case. because of lack of criminal intent. lack of evidence of criminal intent. i thought he nailed that one. that's exactly what i would have said. i would have also said no reasonable prosecutor would have put out his letter of ten or 11 days ago that close to an election. would i have said, no, don't do it, which i think everyone from loretta lynch on down did say to him before he put out the letter. they're really saying it's too close to the election. and p.s., more to the point, there is no "there" there. it was almost obvious that those would be duplicates. they already had 30,000 e-mails from huma abedin.

huma a hume huma abedin. it was vanishingly unlikely that anything would come of that in the first place. all the less reason to put it out. >> bill weld, i'm probably not the first person to tell you that it is unlikely that you and gary johnson will win the white house. >> i have been reading that. >> what are you hoping for your candidacy and for the libertarian party on tuesday night? and what are you hoping in terms of the outcome, who are you hoping will win on tuesday night? >> well, we're hoping to get over 5% of the vote which would give the libertarian party official status, no more ballot access woes, qualify for federal matching funds which would greatly improve the financial position of the libertarian party. i actually think that would be good for the united states to have a third party at the table in washington with the rs and the ds. i think that monopoly in washington has outlived its usefulness and the water is full

of vile and venom down there. gary's and my approach is socially inclusive, unlike the republicans, it's fiscally reason unlike the democrats. conceivably the two parties would not be threatened by us because we're not the other one. we're not the r for the ds and the ds for the rs so we could perhaps make a contribution to the conversation down there. that's number one. number two, i have said many times i don't think mr. trump is fit to be president on account of stability. >> bill weld -- >> that's a clue to where i would come out. >> i think by process of elimination i think we figured it out. i think you're going to be in favor of the way your state votes on tuesday night. bill weld, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, who is swinniwin the early vote in ohio? we actually have a look at that. we have exclusive information about who is winning the early vote in ohio. that's coming up.

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as ohio goes, so goes the nation. that's the old saying, commemorating the fact that ohio tends to vote for the winner of the presidential election. in fact, in the 20th and 21st century ohio has voted for the winner of the presidential election more than any other state. tonight we have an exclusive look at a new survey of likely ohio voters that includes responses from actual early voters that have already voted for president. the survey is from target smart and the college of william and mary. joining us now with the results of that survey is the ceo of target smart, a political data firm. tom, what do we know about the early vote in ohio? who is winning the early vote? >> lawrence, so this is the first look not only of our surveys but of any survey of the

early vote in ohio. we have seen over 1.6 million votes cast early in ohio. as of this morning, likely many more after today. and what we're showing in the polls is secretary clinton with a 7% advantage among voters in ohio who have already cast a ballot. >> according to my notes you have hillary clinton at 48, donald trump at 41 in ohio? >> that's correct. and so, when we look at what that means going into election day, when we look at the -- again, you know, the early vote in ohio will continue through tomorrow afternoon. so we're looking at potentially two million or more ballots being cast prior to polls opening on tuesday. what that means is secretary clinton goes into election day with a lead likely of 100,000 votes or more. >> and on election day will voter behavior be different from what we've seen in the early vote? >> it will. it will. the early vote in ohio, as is

the case in many other states, tends to skew historically more democratic. i will say the pattern that we are seeing in the early vote in ohio thus far and what is reflected this this pretty substantial lead in this survey is somewhat unique. and i will say, so this survey is conducted among all voters, not just early voters. so we did get a look at the entire electorate. looking at the early vote in ohio, what stands out the most to me is the fact that 57% of voters who have voted early in ohio thus far are women. and while women generally outnumber men in the vote overall, we're generally talking about numbers in the range of 51% to 52% of the electorate being women when all is said and done. the 57% number actually puts ohio above every other battleground state thus far. so that's substantial. and it's potentially something that we're going to look for in

ohio on election day that really could change the result. >> and what do you expect to happen in ohio on election night once all the votes are counted? >> well, so our survey, as i said, we looked at the overall electorate as well. when we look at the people who haven't voted yet as of the time the survey was conducted, we do show donald trump with a 6% lead. so, again, secretary clinton with a 7% lead among early voters. donald trump with a 6% lead among the rest of the voters. there are more voters who haven't voted than have already voted. and so simple math there actually comes out showing donald trump with a 3% lead overall. i would call that lead very tenuous at this point based on what we've seen in the early vote. we haven't taken what we have learned, frankly, from the early vote. we aren't going out and looking at election day in our survey and putting our finger on the scale and saying, well, this electorate will clearly be more

favorable to secretary clinton because of what we've seen in the early vote, but i think it is safe to say that the signs are very strong for secretary clinton in what they've seen in the early vote. also just a sign of the difference of the organizational strength between the democratic operation in ohio and what we're seeing from the republican side. >> tom bonier thank you for joining us again tonight. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. coming up, rick wilson, we'll process what we just heard about the ohio vote and other votes and what we'll hear on tuesday night. [burke] hot dog. seen it. covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

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the votes are coming in all over the place. and we are doing very well. with the hispanic community. we are doing very well. everyone is saying, what's going on. because they get it. they're smart. they get it. they get it. they're tired of being ripped off. >> i am afraid donald trump doesn't get it. that's as delusional as everything else he's ever said. data on early voting does indicate turnout among latino voters is up in key battleground states, but those votes are probably going to hillary clinton. the "new york times" reports that one democratic polling firm told the "times," as of the end of early voting on thursday, five states would surging hispanic populations, arizona, colorado, florida, north carolina, nevada, had already

cast ballots equivalent to over 50% of their total turnout from 2012. and in florida democratic strategist steve shale found that in florida at least 200,000 more latinos had voted early as of friday than did during the entire early-voting period four years ago. rick wilson is back with us. joining the discussion now maria kumar president and ceo of voter latino and an msnbc contributor. donald trump thinks the latino vote is going to him. >> i think he was saying we're on to him. >> they get it. >> oh, and we got it! it's interesting because i think for the gop this is their worst nightmare. in orange county in florida, the bastion of orlando, puerto ricans. 49% latino. he is effectively actually increased the electoral base but

not for his party. >> rick, i want to look at something in nevada that john ralston is reporting. he is saying the total votes cast so far, 770,000, are well above 2012 after early and mail voting of 705,000. latino vote was higher than the usual percentage of the early vote, more than 13%. >> lawrence, what we are seeing here is everything we predicted would happen in 2012 if the republican party didn't reform itself, didn't adjust its message and didn't realize that there is a changing world around us. and instead we've become the party -- we -- i got to tell you, i don't know how much longer it's going to survive as the party of breitbart and steve bannon and walls and calling mexicans rapists. this is a guy and a party so profoundly off the rails that we're going to face electoral consequences downstream for decades in places like florida

and nevada. look, i have worked in florida politics my entire adult life. we've won a lot of races in florida, often with plenty hispanic support. guess what. that's now been poisoned and thrown out the window. donald trump and reince priebus and the enablers and supporters of this incredibly insane policy of alienating an enormous block of voters in this country, they've bought a problem that is not going to go away easily. this will not be fixed by some rebranding effort in the gop tomorrow. they're going to have to take a real hard look at the fact that you have told hispanic voters with the guy at the top of your ticket for a year and a half that you hate them, that you loathe and despise them, that you want to deport 14 million of them, this is -- this was a suicide pact made by the republican leadership with donald trump. they should have stopped this guy in the beginning. they chose not to. that's why you'll end up seeing the conservative movement that has to break out of this if it's going to be politically viable in the future.

>> let's listen to lebron james today in ohio with hillary clinton. >> we have to get out and make sure we vote. we have to get out and be knowledgeable about what's going on, about what we see that our future entails, and this woman right here has the brightest future for our world. [ cheers and applause ] >> maria teresa. we just got survey data indicating that hillary clinton is winning the early vote in ohio. >> lebron james doesn't consider himself a political person. the fact he is throwing so much weight behind her. saying this is the person who will get you over the top. trump and the republican party should be really afraid. i shared this with you -- 18 months ago on this show i shared that we have an opportunity to make this a pete wilson moment for the republican party. where pete wilson did his first anti-immigration law for latinos. california before then was a swing state. solidly blue. they should be afraid that's

what's going to happen in arizona, colorado, nevada. possibly ohio and possibly virginia. >> rick, you have a lot of expertise about florida. have you seen enough data to make a call on florida? do you believe you can see who the winner will be in florida? >> my friend steve shale has done outstanding work on the numbers in florida, and we're sort of the republican and democratic counterparts of each other in the great state of florida. steve's numbers i think hold up to scrutiny that the incredible rise in hispanic turnout will not be offset by donald trump increasing the voter percentage of republicans. you just -- the math just doesn't hold up with the chase of what you've seen come out. as maria said, out of orlando and also out of broward county and other places in florida where the hispanic vote has been activated. the thing about donald trump, he really does bring people together, because you've got cubans and puerto ricans who are -- >> that's right. >> -- taking up the cause of

people trump directly insulted, mexicans. trump has turned this into a national cause by hispanic voters to turn out against him. as evan mcmullin tours the country we meet with hispanic voters. the shock has been unbelievable from the republican party itself. >> if hillary clinton wins florida we have an early night. thank you both for joining us. coming up, the biggest threat to our voting machines is not hacking. it is the old age of those machines. some of them are falling apart. they are definitely going to break down. some of them. you need to know what to do if your voting machine breaks down. we'll tell you what to do next. the pursuit of healthier.

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hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we'll find them in our subaru outback. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. it's being reported that certain key democratic polling locations in clark county were kept open for hours and hours beyond closing time to bus and bring democratic voters in. folks, it's a rigged system. it's a rigged system. and we're going to beat it. >> donald trump was, of course, lying to his supporters about all that. those polling places were kept open because people were already in line waiting to vote. there will be some long lines on election day at polling places

across the nation. some of those long lines will be because of voter turnout and some of those long lines will be because of the voter machines. the biggest likely threat to our voting machines on tuesday is not the possibility of russian hacking or anyone else hacking. it is simply the old age of those machines. we are sure to have breakdowns with some of our voting machines in some parts of the country. you need to be warned about that now. you need to know what to do about it if it happens to you. joining us now, a man who has studied this problem. lawrence norton, deputy director of the brennen centers democracy program. tell us about what the likelihood is of machine failure and why we see machine failure. >> first of all, for the vast majority of people, of course, machines will work. >> mm-hmm. >> but we are -- we have old equipment around the united states. that's just a fact. any machine, if you use it long enough, you're going to start to have problems. in the united states, in 42

states this november, they will be using machines that are over a decade old. most of those machines have a life span of -- projected life span between 10 and 15 years. it doesn't mean not all the machines will work come tuesday but it means that the kinds of problems we've seen in the past in elections, we may see them a little bit more frequently. >> one of the problems we've already seen in early voting is what's called vote flipping. you vote for hillary clinton and it shows you voted for donald trump. we had some people had that happen to them in north carolina and mecklenburg county. they say they were all able to correct it. >> yeah. >> what -- the vote flipping is one of the failures of these machines? >> it is. part of it is it's old technology. these machines all predate iphones and ipads all the time. this equipment, as it gets older, sometimes you just have more problems with it.

>> two scenarios. you're in the voting booth, seems like the machine isn't working. what do you do? or you discover you're in a long line because the machines are not working. do you stay in that line and wait for them to solve the problem? >> look, this is such an important election. it's critical that everybody votes. if you are at the voting machine itself and you have some kind of problem, you should immediately call a poll worker over and ask for assistance. if it freezes, if it reboots, if you see something like this vote frippi flipping, the poll worker needs to know. they need to diagnose the problem. if it freezes or something, you should ask for a paper ballot. if it flips -- >> if you're in the line and they tell you the machine is broken, should you hang in there? >> yes. call 1-866-our-vote. it's run by the lawyers committee for civil rights and a bunch of other civil rights and voting rights groups. lots of experts on the phone

there to help. they can call election officials, and they can make sure that people get paper ballots if that's what's necessary. >> we'll make sure we get that message out again tomorrow night. lawrence norden thank you for joining us. appreciate it. important work. special edition of "hard ball" with chris matthews is next. fbi to hillary clinton, you are innocent. let's play hardball. good evening, i'm chris matthews in new york. with just hour to go until election day breaking news from federal bureau of investigation. director james comey late today told every member of congress that fbi has found no evidence of any wrongdoing by presidential nominee hillary clinton. she is clean of any possible