, john harwood sent this e-mail to hillary clinton's campaign chairman, john podesta. he says what should i ask chad and speakeasy interview tomorrow? so here he is asking john podesta clinton campaign manager for question to do it interview with jeb bush. of course a month later mr. harwood moderated nbc's widely panned republican presidential debate and we know from previous week female's harwood boasted to podesta about his trump questions, which even the mainstream media here were shockingly biased and just bad. here's the kicker, folks. john harwood, who kind of seems like you can bet that the clinton campaign is actually a major part of the election night coverage and chief washington correspondent. to me from our analysis, fox news contributor where murdoch. good to see you guys. your contributors. in fact do can catch is right here. >> out as clearly as i can. trish: john harwood is the chief washington correspondent, which means his obligation as kind of middle-of-the-road but the facts on both sides. shall we are learning basically inoperative. what's going o

you know john harwood of wikileaks fame. you wonder how that is going to all play out over there but he is getting rewarded for this. just interesting for viewers to know as they go and watch. howard, thank you. go ahead. you want to comment on that real quick. >> if he was commentator i wouldn't have my from with it. he is chief washington correspondent. he offered him a chance to comment but he has declined. melissa: if he were commentator, no problem but don't present yourself down the center when you are not. if you don't want to watch john harwood's coverage on hillary clinton. we'll have fair and balanced election night coverage tuesday. live coverage from the first vote, final results. much, much more, you don't want to is in it. you know wherever one stands. a lot of people from both sides enjoy the coverage. david: we'll do it live overnight all night. berkshire hathaway is reporting, after hours right now. this is warren buffett's outfit, beating revenue but not earnings per share as you can see. the stock price is

it's wide open right now. >> john harwood, thanks very much. john harwood in new york city. >>> on wall street, the trump rally took a breather as the financial sector weighed on the broader market. even the small cap russell 2000 index fell back after rising for 15 straight sessions. the dow jones industrial average closed lower by 54 points to 19,097. the nasdaq fell 30, the s&p 500 was off 11. despite today's pullback, though, there has been a massive run-up since the election but are retail investors getting bullish and buying stocks at the wrong time. >> if you're a little skeptical about the markets hitting historic highs twice last week, you should be. the market is on a little bit of thin ice right now and here's why. first, investor sentiment has gone from skeptical to extremely bullish. that's not a good sign, particularly when you see it happening among retail investors. at the end of last week a survey of retail investors spiked to almost 50% bullish from 23% bullish just the week before the election. it was the highest reading in n

there he is john harwood and jeb bush. the day before john harwood had emailed mess acknowledged john podesta, chair of the clinton campaign iing, what kind of questions should i ask? >> i'm not going to call that journalism. it's incredible. a good way of look at it, ask you imagine john harwood calling up donald trump and say i'm going to be interviewing hillary tomorrow. what should i be asking her. >> he's a washington correspondent for cnbc. stuart: i have got another one. gossip. >> this is a whole long chain of emails regarding hillary's use of the private email server. this involves a political activist, big ally of hillary clinton's at the very end john podesta says to tanden, at least we now know why cheryl didn't want her to run. cheryl mills being the person cited there. she was very concerned, cheryl mills about the email server. she said who aloud her to have that email server. whoever that person was should be drawn and quartered. and tanden said whoever it ways should have been drawn and quartered. who said

john harwood joins us from washington. john, good evening. how did the meeting go? >> reporter: it went very well. president-elect trump and president obama were cordial with one another. they said all the things that the country and the markets wanted to hear about a smooth and peaceful transition. this is just the beginning of it, of course. but they continued the spirit of what donald trump expressed on election night, what president obama expressed yesterday, and i think that's as much as we can hope for, especially given the fact that donald trump who is taking direct aim at core elements of president obama's legacy. >> and the transition from george w. bush to mr. obama went presumably pretty doggone well. there was another meeting today almost equally sort of propitious, i suppose, between the president-elect, the speaker mr. ryan, and the majority leader of the senate, mr. mcconnell. what do we know about those meetings? >> reporter: tyler, that's one of the unique things about this campaign, is that president-elect trump had a relationship as strained with

. >>> plus, cnbc's chief washington correspondent john harwood is joining us live with the countdown to election day. and what impact this comey news may have. we'll take a look at the final push by both campaigns. stay tuned. you're watching "worldwide exchange" on cnbc. hey, jesse. who are you? i'm vern, the orange money retirement rabbit from voya. orange money represents the money you put away for retirement. over time, your money could multiply. hello, all of you. get organized at voya.com. >>> good morning. stocks are rallying after the fbi didn't find criminal evidence in newly-discovered hillary clinton e-mails. >> which brings us to the final countdown. we're going to get ready for election day, the strategy and the market reaction. >>> plus alex baldwin and kate mckinney break character on "snl" and urge people to vote. i was there at "snl" on saturday. it was awesome. it is monday, november 2016. you're watching "worldwide exchange" on cnbc. >>> good morning. welcome to "worldwide exchange" on a monday. i'm sara eisen. >> and i'm wilfred frost. straight to the market actio

john harwood: let's be honest, is this the comic book version of a presidential campaign? donald trump: no, it's not a comic book and it's not a very nicely asked question. sharyl: behind the scenes, harwood offered compliments, helpful thoughts, and analyses to the clinton campaign, even asking, "what should i ask jeb in speakeasy interview sesno says some of the dealings clearly crossed an ethical line. frank: when i was covering george herbert walker bush, i was invited to go interview the president, provided i asked him about only one subject, and i said, no, i can't do that. i'm not going to do that. i will not agree to that. even though it was a hot subject, i would -- i refused to take on those, that burden and those rules and those constraints. sharyl: i think a lot of journalists are saying yes now. frank sesno: a lot of journalists are saying yes now. sharyl: the big miss may reflect growing global skepticism of information provided by once-trusted institutions, like -- like we saw after the wrong predictions about the u.k. vote to exit from the european union or

john harwood with us now. what do the latest polls show, john? >> bob mentioned that "washington post," abc tracking poll that showed donald trump for the first time in months, one point ahead of hillary clinton. that remains an outlier. and the reason that campaigns tend to look at averages of polls is because you could have one that goes one way high or low. in the averages, politics down to 2.5 points in favor of hillary clinton from 6. so that lead has been cut in half. also down in the "new york times." still has a lead, though, and we will see just in the next couple days whether the movement that has closed this race, which is largely republicans coming home to him continues. >> the question really is, how close is he getting in some of those key battle ground states? he's got to thread a lot of needles, most especially florida and ohio. but even that doesn't get him there. >> exactly. mitt romney won 206 electoral votes in 2012. donald trump has got a chance to pick off florida, ohio, iowa, nevada. okay? that's good. if he gets all those

. >> john harwood is outside trump tower in new york city. good to see you, john. let's start with ms. chow. she will play a crucial role in shaping the president's-elect big infrastructure agenda, and she is no stranger to washington. tell us more about her. >> reporter: well, she's been around in washington a long time, as you mentioned. she served as labor secretary under president george w. bush. she is married to mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. that serves only to underscore donald trump's ties with the republican congress, just like tom price does. one potential conflict she may have is with her family's shipping company, her father founded and her sister now runs a shipping company. that's one of the issues that's under the purview of the department of transportation. but i would expect an easy confirm medication for elaine chow, nervertheless. >> now moving to industrials and wilbur roth. he certainly knows about steel. he knows about manufacturing. he will probably be involved in renegotiating trade deals. but his business interests could pose

. >> john harwood is in washington tonight. good to see you, john, as always. the president is about to embark on an overseas trip. what did he tell the press corps that he's going to tell foreign leaders about president-elect trump when it comes to nato specifically? >> well, he indicated he thought that president-elect trump would be a supporter of nato, notwithstanding some of the rhetoric about getting other countries to pay more. more broadly he's going to emphasize the continuity of american government. he talked about government being an ocean liner, not a speed boat, you can't turn it quickly and those are words meant to reassure foreign leaders who have made agreements with the united states of various kinds that you can't just turn on a dime and things will not be disrupted too rapidly. >> what did he say, if anything, about the iran deal? any changes to that or, for example, to the paris climate accords? >> well, on both of those things, tyler, he expressed the same view as an orientation as he did about obamacare, which president-elect trump has ind

john harwood is with us in studio tonight. good to see you, john. that is the key question. where do we stand? >> take a look at the polls. a series of national polls, five of them out today, all showing either a four-point margin for hillary clinton or a three-point margin. that is very consistent, and they're converging around that reality. so hillary clinton clearly has an advantage, but, of course, you have to win this in the electoral college. >> what does that four-point margin potentially translate into, in the electoral college, and how do these numbers today compare with where we were on election eve four years ago? >> it's really interesting. four years ago, barack obama in the average polls was ahead by less than 1 percentage point over mitt romney. looked like a very tight race. he ended up winning by four. hillary clinton is doing better. however, the -- some of the odds-makers say her chances of winning are not as great. why is that? because she's throwing away some votes in traditionally blue states, running up the score in places like california, which gives

when you talk about john harwood, john podesta, the e-mails. >> but that's not why these voters are lining up early to vote for hours. >> fare point. let's take a short break. who has the easier path to the presidency. it could come down states. we'll take a look at that. coming back on "sunday morning futures." see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what works. discover cosentyx, a different kind of medicine for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. proven to help the majority of people find clear or almost clear skin. 8 out of 10 people saw 75% skin clearance at 3 months. while the majority saw 90% clearance. do not use if you are allergic to cosentyx. before starting, you should be tested for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur... ...tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms... ...such as fever, sweats, chills, muscle aches or cough. or if you have received a vaccine or plan to. i

there is a wikileaks email where john harwood writes john podesta, he is clinton's campaign chief and he says i'm about to interview, paraphrasing, about to interview jeb bush, what questions should i ask him. jeb bush has been public fick 25 years. you're a reporter. how hard is it to come up with questions on your own when you cover politics of, that is all you do? why do you have to go to podesta for that. david: by the way if he went to all sides that would be one thing. we don't get the impression he went to the trump side to get their answer. >> produce an email saying you did that i still disagree with that to certain extent. do your own research. it is not that hard. answer i get, not so much with harwood and other people i confronted like "politico," they sent stories to the clinton. david: beyond the pale. >> answer you get back, part of the research process. american people at home say, come on. david: that is not research, that is actively engageed. newspapers there were extraordinary, 57 newspaper endorsements for hillary clinton. for donald trump, two. what does that tel

in one e-mail, cnbc john harwood was consulted with john podesta on an upcoming interview. what should i ask jeb. >> is this a comic book version -- >> he moderated a debate and is no stranger to the wikileaks dumps. e-mails revealed harwood boasting about his tough questioning of trump at that debate. in other e-mails, harwood shared his final on mike huckabee and advised podesta on how he considered ben carson a threat to clinton. all of that may be embarrassing but clinton aids seem to be far more worried about something bigger dropping soon from wikileaks. spokesperson jennifer palmieri tweeting, if you see a whopper of a wikileaks in the next two days, it is probably a fake. >> in the the hedge, it is probably going to be a fake. though they have challenged none of the e-mails. including the number one with podesta writing the private server was the idea of cheryl mills and reveals that may be why she urged clinton not to run, something we had not heard before. ed henry, fox news. >>> as ed's report indicated, what we have learned from wikileaks is the relationship bet

you have john harwood trying as hard as he can to help john podesta. >> what i reasoned is john harwood and other people presenting themselves to be journalists when they are nothing more than political hacks for one particular viewpoint. people are supposed to be the referees start wearing team jerseys and tipping the scales the system is rigged. donald trump is right, bernie sanders is right, the american people are disgusted with it. if they want to stop it they can't change the media but they can change the election outcome. john harwood in that nbc debate was the worst example of media bias, a cooked deal where they were going after trying to make all of us attack donald trump. it was a disgusting debate. maria: you are at the debate. >> the question i got is, is donald trump morally fit to be president? it was a stupid question. we didn't talk about healthcare or transportation or anything. we talked about stupid stuff because those moderators were out there to embarrass the republicans. dagen: if you read the other emails that came out that praised john harwood lavishes on hillar

john harwood agrees saying my reports indicates that kelly anne was not defying trump with her comments on romney. >> i am not sure we would trust john harwood's reporting since trump said he was one of those people who mistreated him and was awful as the moderator of the cnbc debate. i am not sure his inner workings to trump land are things we should pay attention to. obviously we are many unconventional aspects of the trump organization and it includes public in fighting like you would see on "game of thrones." which is filleting whose finger and which is bolton and which isy -- which is throwing people off the balconies. >> i think kelly anne, she has to be taking direction from the campaign. do you agree? >> i imagine there is some play there and there is some move being made. kelly anne conway, do you think she is going out on her own and saying -- does she care that much about the integrity of -- she doesn't care. she sent a message on twitter screw romney. who cares? you won. it is over. >> something is going on. >> something is going on. she said, look, the decision is up to him

no apology from harwood, no consequences from management. >> by the way, harwood john hair wood is a major part of cnbc's election night coverage. he's on it. that's what he's going to do. stuart: now, i tack an opinion. i have an opinion. i take a position on issues just do. i label it -- i do. [inaudible] i agree. in my opinion, the audience know what is is it getting. >> an opinion guy for the hill. introduced as a hill nothing wrong with that -- [laughter] >> thank you. >> don't masquerade objective reporter when you are not. when you're actively working for the one side or the other. liz: wish i had more reportsers more journalist on all of the stories digging out stuff. gliewrts thank you for that liz. opinions, opinions and shows look at five which are opinion get good rate physician and people like perspective as much as reporting they can get on their phone they want overall perspective. stuart: glad you said that because we are beating our competition john harwood included. don't forget that juan williams. >> wait a minute, i was quiet but now i can't help myself. you know,

let me bring in my colleague john harwood. we are hearing a lot of names as i just said. you are standing in front of trump tower, you probably just saw patraeus leave. what do we know about the latest and is it a guessing game as to who donald trump is leading towards? >> reporter: well, for secretary of state, it is wide open. the front runner for quite sometime and mitt romney was someone we believe was put on the table and one source tells me by reince priebus presented that option for donald trump and he met with mitt romney. we have a second meeting with romney tomorrow. i don't believe given the way kellyanne conway, the campaign manager was trashing mitt romney a over the week. we cannot assume anything of so i think that's a jump ball at this point. much different from say defense where james mattis is the front-runner or treasury where steve ma nuchian is. >> what do you think of the parade of people and i was looking at the list. it's a lot of rich people who run companies and ceos of companies. is he seeking counsel? >> and interviewing people. one of the peop

john harwood is at trump tower early this morning in midtown manhattan with more. we've been waiting for these two for a while. >> that's right. and you guys were talking about positive economic news. it's clearly a big day for donald trump and his economic team on two different fronts, personnel is only one of them. as you said on treasury, as expected, donald trump later this morning it going to announce that steven mnuchin, former goldman sachs partner who headed up fund raising operations during the campaign will be treasury secretary. he joined the trump campaign in april. had done some business with trump, he had contributed to democrats in the past, that sort of thing, but he will be the treasury secretary. and wilbur ross, the billionaire investor, someone familiar to viewers of our network will be the commerce secretary. both of these men are billionaires. they both have connections to donald trump, mnuchin through business deals. wilbur ross is a neighbor of donald trump, has a mansion near the estate of trump. and donald trump has persuaded carrier not t

john, thank you. john harwood at the white house. "closing bell" will move on. wa warren butch buffett making a surprising investment. we'll have details when we come back. >>> breaking news on berkshire hathaway. becky quick just spoke with warren and joins us with details. >> berkshire hathaway fcc filings that just came out show that the company has taken a stake in three of the four major airlines. that would be american, united and delta. but we can report that warren buffett has also taken a stake, berkshire hathaway i should say is the fourth major carrier as well, and that is southwest. this move into airlines is a spret hobing reversal for buffett. if you follow him, he has shunned the industry for at least two decades ever since he made the big volatile investment in us airways back in 1989. that was preferred shares of us airways. buffett bought $358 million worth. but by 1994, they had written down that investment to $89.5 million. that is just 25 cents on the dollar of the original investment. for buffett, this was a pretty painful experience. he wr

john harwood with the latest in d.c. i think the appropriate question is at what point, if any, do some of the appointments characterized by john as hardline and maybe others, hardliners, do they become a risk at all to the market? does the market take a point of view that while they think now that trump will be positive for the stock market, that's why the market has done what it's done, is there a reversal of opinion if you continue to get what some characterize as hardliners, as cabinet appointments. >> i think you will get hardliners overall. >> it depends what they actually do. the attorney general, what cases is he going to bring, says and indeed is he going to be a hardliner against exactly what he said and john cited from last year? if he is, then, yeah, those same tech companies that he might want to deny h1b visas to, apple, google, facebook, and those guys, they would probably get the focus of analysts to downgrade those stocks if that happens. if that happens. >> the market has been going up because everybody

john harwood the latest at the wall. dr. j. we saw you before yesterday's 2% rally. you were raising cash. >> i said to folks that could not have, if you recall on the desk, i was saying, if you are somebody who could not hedge, did you want to take the risk of that 5% decline? i said for our clients, we put on that vix trade i described. >> you were certainly cautious two days ago, that's what i'm trying to find out. >> i am still cautious. we have the 56 hevix hedges. we put it up on our website. i paid about 1%, judge, in other words, a portfolio, paid $1,000 to hedge through the election. >> that will be good until tomorrow morning. >> that particular hedge. i provided all the protection last week. so none of the portfolios impacted at all to the down side. now with the lrally, we are up 2.5% from friday. >> that 1% cost means you are only up 1.75%. i can live with that. >> in two days, you got back all the costs you lost in the nine-day losing streak and then some. >> on friday, it's so hard to time this whole thing. who knows how it will plan itself out. it see

let's get right to our john harwood outside trump tower with all the details. john? >> reporter: carl, these are two of the big ones. steve mnunchin has been selected by donald trump to be his nominee for secretary of the treasury. he, of course, is a former goldman sachs partner who was the fund-raising chief for donald trump's campaign. also, wilbur ross, who is going to be the commerce secretary, billionaire investor, well known to viewers of cnbc, neighborhood of donald trump's in florida where he has his marioa lago estate 37 and he moderated the trump economic message in a few ways. instead of talking about outright scrapping dodd/frank, as donald trump did during the campaign, steve mnunchin talked about modifying parts of the law that discourage lending. that's one signal. secondly, donald trump said during the campaign his goal was 4% economic growth. when steve mnunchin was asked what was a realistic target, he said 3% to 4%, softer target. finally, on taxes, donald trump's tax plan when scored by all the analysts who took a look at it gave disproportionate

john harwood has the latest. >> we've got three hard line

john harwood has the very latest on where we stand this hour. john. >> scott, we are in tip city, says ohio, just outside of dayton, and the question is going to be whether ohio in the midwest can tilt this election to donald trump. also tilt the senate away from the democrats who had been favored and keep it in republican control. let's take a look at where we stand. first of all, in the senate race, rob portman, the incumbent republican has a comfortable lead over ted strickland, the former governor. he looks very safe at this point. that is good news for the republicans because this is one of those states that barack obama carries twice that republicans had a seated up on the ballot. if you look at ohio in the presidential race, donald trump also has a lead. he is up three points in the rear clear politics average. if you look at the map, we see hillary clinton is still having enough states leaning in her direction or solidly in her direction to be over 270. what's the national picture? well, take a look. it's 2% lead for hillary clinton over

you know, who is going to hold john harwood of cnbc -- >> i tell you who. >> who? >> the american consumer. >> they already did? >> you can see it in the ratings. when ratings go down revenue goes down. i think the corporate parents of the organizations should be holding networks responsible. it should go further than the chairman of the networks, it should go to the corporate heads. they should be answering for this. but you can vote with your remote control, and you can vote with your subscription to the "new york times." of course. >> there's a kabal. i know for example you're kind of a lone wolf. there's the pipsqueak, you know, jeff zucker stenographer, this kid brian stelter who lives in jeff zucker's office, i'm told. him and dillon buyers, they don't report on their own network. they are fox obsessed, stalkers in many ways. if there's one thing they don't like on fox or "hannity" is not a journalist and he has a show. hello, i've been here 21 years. shocking revelation. fox news alert. yet they don't report on their own networks and their own collusion and

we'll see what happens tomorrow. >> john, thank you. john harwood at headquarters. before you cast your vote for president tomorrow, our next guest has the first move for your portfolio. dennis gartman joins us with his election playbook. hey, dennis. >> how are you? >> i'm good, thanks. we start off with gold. we want to know if you want to buy or sell the yellow metal right now. >> i continue to be bullish of gold, but predicated upon owning it in euro dollar terms or euro terms. i think it makes a far better trade than to own it in dollars. i want to own gold in the currency i think is going to decline in value. we in the united states have already beginning the process of tightening monetary policy. if you look at the adjusted monetary base, it's down almost $1 trillion. down in the last 15 months. on the other hand, the monetary authorities in europe have no choice but to continue to be expansionary. that makes logical sense to be a buyer of gold, but predicate that in euro terms. i think it's a wiser trade with less volatility. >> let's say i'm a simple, strai

john harwood in ohio. >> and lima, my home state. enjoy. important state. >> i would just add one further point. clearly, the electoral college math as john went through is not working in donald trump's favor. but, the real clear politics average is so, so close now. but the prediction markets and the betting odds still have a significant gap between the two, in what is essentially a two-horse race. >> 538 has been my go to. and some of the charts there that show, especially on electoral map, there's a snake chart that shows which states he would need to get to cross over the line and which states she would need to get. based on the polling, it still gives it to her but she's back down in the 60s and that's where she was in september. and it's widened significantly since just friday. >> i just said maps there, i'm real adapting. >> you're learning. yacht words. not all of them. >>> back to corporate news. wynn results falling short of forecasts, the company citing costs related to opening a second casino in macau and how construction of the

thanks so much, john harwood live for us today in ohio. so, the lack of answers notwithstanding, when you look at the makeup of congress, how things could shake out, but the way that the market is trading now in this creep up to election day, it's just clear to me that nobody wants to take any kind of bet one way or the other. look at the activity in the mark. i don't think volume is doing much today. you could see the dow is, what, up six points. people are sitting on their hands, waiting to see what happens, because it's still unknown. >> why would you? you're within the margin of error for the polls. forget about brexit. brexit is not comparable. that was a concept that most people as the survey showed afterwards didn't understand. this is more black and white. do you like trump? like hillary? hate them both? whatever. but it's also the aftermath. it's congress. and then if the republicans hold on to the house and senate, what happens to paul ryan? he's generally viewed favorably as a voice of reason. do you go far right of that to this

john, thank you. john harwood out of trump tower. the news unconfirmed by cnbc that president-elect trump has chosen steven unusualin after rumors of jamie dimon was in the running. gary como going to truchlt. and what do you think of this pick if the reports are true? >> okay. i had thought at the time he signed up to be the finance manager, whatever the role was, i forgot, that that was kind of the idea of it. all right. i'll take a flier. seemed like an absolute flyer at the time. and maybe will end up as secretary of the treasury. >> right. and here we are. >> and here we are. >> look, this is a close link back to wall street. and on some level, there was an attack on wall street and financial firms. so i think this kind of runs contrary to that. and i think ultimately, it speaks very well to the banking system, and even, you know, there are some elements that include the iran deal on the oil side that actually i think -- look, this is a throwback to a more conventional approach. one that probably we have seen before. >> this is

the case of john harwood, of course, prominent correspondent for cnbc is one thing trying to advocate to try to get an interview, we all make pitches for an interview and it's another to cross editorial line take this one to john podesta, thanks for a chance to meet with hrc, that's hillary clinton, this week i did my best to lobby your the first econ interview, economic interview. i doubt they brought up across the river here, our rival organization but what was even more interesting about that is harwood and a lot of other who is are trying to give a heads up to the hillary clinton campaign about threatening candidates about ben carson, what might or might not come up in a debate and i extended to donna brazile in her days as adviser to cnn outlining the exact questions that wld come up at candidate forms, you know, founder, president, that's what's smells to me. >> validates your worst fears. you have the media who have been clearly, not just in the tank for hillary clinton but in a destroying mission for donald trump. there's no question about that. look at the coverage. 91% negat