innovations join us next time on "techknow". go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com. . >> after a huge night for republicans. promises of cooperation in washington. >> just because you have a divided government, it does not mean that you don't accomplish anything. >> i have an unique opportunity to make this town work. >> what to expect with the new balance of power. >> and taking a look at what it means for your investments and taxes. and fighting in jerusalem.

tensions in the middle east heat up again. >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris. the american political map is a sea of read today as republicans celebrate victories from coast to coast. americans pick upsid up seats in the senate. some of those are in traditionalcally blue states. republicans swept government races scoring upsets in some democratic areas. this afternoon president obama held a news conference to react to the g.o.p. takeover of the u.s. senate. we're live from the white house. what did the president have to say about republican victories and working with the g.o.p. over the next two years? >> well, the president came in

to the east room after that wipe out that the democrats suffered last night. they faced the music for one hour and 15 minutes. and answered questions. why oh why were democrats so unenthusiastic. why were all of the enthusiasm on the republican side? yes, he reached out to mitch mcconnell, the new senate majority leader, he said he wants to find common areas to work w and yet there are some big fights looming down the road there is a tea party base. they're going to see this as a mandate. they could make life difficult for president obama but:m but:mctonal abut mitch mcconnell as well. a lot of back and forth here.

we can see a slew of energy bills coming out of congress, he is at least the house of represents first. one thing you have to keep in mind, tony, it still takes 60 votes to get anything done in the senate. mitch mcconnell will need the democrats and we'll see if he can maneuver and pull them in. >> it seems that the president was asked about key issues. what did he have to say about working with the g.o.p. about finding solutions there? >> repealing the affordable care act, obamacare, that's not going to happen. but there are things that could improve. there is talk and rejection and repealed. a lot of people are against it. there could be democrats on that.

republicans say let's leave th let's leave minimum wage for the states. they won't be acting on that. mitch mcconnell said moving forward on immigration reform is poisoning the well. let's hear what president obama had to say. >> i'm going to keep on doing so. but in the meantime time let's figure out what we can do lawfully through executive actions to improve the functioning of the existing system. >> this is something that president obama deferred until after the election. perhaps too clear deflating enthusiasm as something very dear to his base. he'll move forward with the unilateral reaction.

>> any plans in that area? >> well, the president said during a press conversation that they could get together with some kentucky bourbon. the president was amenable to that possibility. any time this happens we saw this in 2006 with nancy pillowcy taking over the speaker of the house, and we've seen this a couple of times since then. there is talk of a more congenial as not fear, the talk of congeniality. it goes by the way side because the underlying specifics and fundamentals go there that go to the two sides in partisan ship. anything above that is seen as a surprise. >> mike, appreciate it. thank you. kentucky senator michigan mccome was one of the big winners of the night. he held offally con.

>> senator mcconnell said that he has a cordial relationship with the president. >> he said what he'll basically use is the motto trust but verify being a southern gentleman when talking about the relationship he had with president obama, he did give a warning that if the president starts acting on agenda items in this lame duck session there will be repercussions.

>> it's something that we would like to address. it's like waving a red flag in front of a bull to say if you don't do what i want i'll do it on my own, and the president has done that on obamacare, he has done it on immigration and threatened to do it again. i hope he won't do that because i do think it poisons the well on very important domestic issues. >> there are two ways that president obama could move forward. he could try to get some action done during the lame duck session. or he could use that power of the pen and phone that president obama has talked so much about going around congress. you're hearing right there mitch mcconnell throwing down the gauntlet saying if he does that saying we'll be forced to go about it in a less cordial way. but this is how things start out. this is a bit of formality, a bit of give and take.

the truth will come, though, in the next couple of weeks when we find out what moves the white house will do, how democrats will react, and if they're going to give republicans the excuse to move forward on their agenda items without taking democrats in consideration. >> what can we expect in the way of let's call it a leadership style from mitch mcconnell and the g.o.p.? >> well, senator mcconnell really focused today as he had this first platform as the expected majority leader right here in kentucky and his alma mater. he talked about the importance of tradition in the senate, and trying to restore some order to that body, some civility to it, also some productivity. that may seem like sort of nuts and bolts type stuff, the accounting, if you will, but it's really important to mitch mcconnell to try to get the senate in washington more. have more time for conversation, have more time for productivity.

that could ultimately yelled some results. now the question though is how he'll be able to corral his own party. even within the republican ravens there are a lot of different personalities, and he was asked about a reporter about those strong personalities, and they may be pursuing their own agendas. take a look at mcconnell's response. >> i have no problem with people's ambitions. i serve with a bunch of class presidents. look, i'll not troubled by ambition, and i think we can accommodate that and still make progress for the country. >> sharp elbows and big egos.

it makes you want to move to washington, d.c. now one thing to county out senator mcconnell said that he got a phone call from president obama. he got a phone call from speaker boehner. and he got a congratulat congratulatory phone calls from ted cruz. >> where are you? that shot behind sue gorgeous. where are you? >> that is beautiful downtown louisville along the ohio river. it's starting to drizzle here but looking at the louisville skyline. >> is that bridge pretty sound where you are? >> we're actually just down by the river in a van, actually. but we're near a bunch of the brunches in thi bunch rivers.

we've met great people and we've had a fabulous couple of days in louisville. >> there are some states where neither matter frankly can claim a victory yet, and louisiana, the fight for mary landrieu's saturday won't be over for another month. >> senator mary landrieu challenging challenger cassidy on six debates. just hours after the results came in, landrieu was dropping by a new construction side. trying to focus on opposition to federal aid for louisiana. landrieu said she's running on

her record as a three-term senator who has a lot of accomplishments. >> the question facing us tonight, the voters for louisiana will be a simple one. which candidate has the proven record of standing up, fighting and delivering for our state, and which candidate has a record of running scared and trying to hide his record from the voters? >> congressman cassidy's strategy, the one use by republicans all over the country wants to stick to his theme. >> if you want a senator that represents you, not barack obama, i look forward to getting your vote on december 5th. >> in the run offseason cassidy is likely to have an advantage and spending over landrieu are

now sitting it out. >> randall pinkston for us. connecticut incumbent governor dan malloy gave his victory speech after tom foley conceded. the battle was tight throughout the night close to seven points at one point. democrats also picked up the governor seat in pennsylvania, tom wolf beaten come bent governor tom corbett. but democrats winning was not a common site. the g.o.p. had a number of pick ups in several deep blue states. among them in maryland, electing larry hoagland over anthony brown, and in imill taking bruce rauner over pat quinn.

and in massachusetts charlie baker over mart shah coakley. some of the policies that passed last night are once that republicans typically oppose. we're joined now with what that means for the american public. >> american voters had a lot to say. they did not just decide who to spend to washington, but decisions marijuana and hikes in minimum wage and reforms. ballot initiatives shared center stage with spotlight shining brightly on pot. vote necessary california, oregon and the david shuster voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use. >> showing them that they have a stake, and showing them that their vote will matter and on issues that they truly care about. >> and in florida voters failed

to make the 23rd stayed to legalize marijuana for medical reasons. another hot issue championed by president obama raising the minimum wage above the federal level of $7.25. four red states arkansas, nebraska, south dakota and alaska all voted to raise minimum wage by $1.25 or more by 2016. with voters in illinois saying yes to a non-binding measure asking whether the hourly wage should be raised from $8.25 to $10 next year. >> prop 47 is a bad idea. >> in california it was a decision against mass incarceration with the passage of proposition 47. under the measure non-violent felonies like shoplifting and drug possession will be downgraded to misdemeanors for all but the most violent offenders. more than 8,000 prisoners could be eligible for early release

from state prison with an estimated 40,000 fewer felony convictions every year. there are two high profile gun initiatives both in washington state. one would ban back drowne background checks. that was defeated. and another would increase background checks including those at gun shows and that passed overwhelmlying. >> thank you. >> president obama is likely to face hurdles, one of those challenges is in foreign policy. dana lewis has more. >> certainly in the headlines president obama appeared to be weaker, his party took a rubbing, but the address at his door that voters turned against president obama, and it was a referendum on his presidency to date. the fact is that european leaders at knowledged that the president, the commander in chief in the united states is the one that sets foreign policy

and not much has change there had. certainly the president will use foreign policy issues as a bridge with new congress and senate. he talked about ebola and he would meet with the leaders of the democrats and republicans and they would approve $6 million more for the ebola funding to fight the disease. and then on syria. he would bring new action on the ground in syria. >> the world needs to know that we're united behind this effort, and men and women of our middle deserve our clear and union need support. >> and next week president obama will travel to the far east. there is some speculation that he will run in to president putin at the summit that is

taking place there. they could hold a bilateral meeting. it is possible but not likely and at the same time people are warning that president putin, if he sees a weakened american president as a chance to take advantage of the situation in ukraine that might be a critical miscalculation on the russian president's part. if anything the americans want toughest actio tougher action on russia. >> on wall street ali velshi is next with a look, also some of the races people are talking about for all the wrong reasons. david shuster has some of the low lives.

>> the stocks have closed at record eyes after g.o.p. claim control of congress and senate. we go to ali velshi the host of real money. we want to get here with you. the budget, what do you see happening there?

>> the reasons talk about a balance the budget but if you recall other republicans. the republicans want to boost defense spending and if you increase defense subpoenaing and you want to have a balanced budget you would have to cut other things and the budget is one a complicated video future. in march republicans will also have to find a way to pass an increase to the debt limit but this time the majority party. this is going to be a very tricky issue with tea party comfor conservatives. then there is infrastructure spending. the president said he would give

support for private-public infrastructure spending, but that brings us to energy. the push for the approval of the excel pipeline from canada. there are knew enough people in the senate to put this over the top. there were 57 senators supporting it in the first place. now they want to expand oil and gas exploration and approve new energy. those are the general trends you'll see. the stock market gains has less to do with the election than anything else. you see the swings in the last months, to see 100 points on the do you has much as to with it. >> pretty interesting night last night. and then looking at the results from last night and some of the issues that were on the ballot. minimum wage, five states across the board. it seems like a bunch of

disconnected to me. >> societily. on the ballot in five states and passed in all five states yet none of the democrats who were backing it voters did vote on the issues, and a disconnect. i will tell you this, tony. one topic that you and i talk about there has been a bifurcation of splitting of wealth of americans that goes back to 1970, and so this isn't about this administration or the last administration or the one before that. for 40 years we have been separating, and that's the effects. >> i can't wait to see your show "real money" on al jazeera

america. you may have missed the outcomes of a few races that were notable for their campaign gaffes and quirks. david shuster join us with that. >> new york's 11th congressional district michael grim threatened to throw a reporter off the balcony and break him in half. >> now after threatening to throw the reporter off the flipin' balcony, you would think that this would have been an easy race against grim. right? the problem, democrat michael recea, perhaps the most

inarticulate candidate the district has ever seen. grim beat him by 13 points i.d. and all. michael grim going back to congress. in illinois' 12th congressional district, this race with bill ennert trying to defend mike bost, after bost proudly shot a neighbor's dog, and then blew a gasket as a state lawmaker. >> enough! i feel like someone wa is asking me to let my people go. >> and what could make washington worst? bost won by 11 points. the law firm of dave trott served as a foreclosure mill when people could not pay on their home, and he was trott with hit with this. >> he has made millions foreclosing on michigan

families. trott profited from human misery as tens of thousands of michig michiganer were victoried from their homes. a woman thrown out of her home of 50 years was was put on the streets. he has caused too much misery. >> that was probably the most brow tall ad of the campaign. trott still won by 16 points. and in minnesota's eighth congressional district, stewart mills there on the right faced off democratic incumbent rick mills. democrats took aim at his wealth and his air. >> it costs a lot to get this look. lucky for stewart mills iii, he inherited millions. but that's not enough for mills, so he's running for congress to give millionaires like himself another big tax break.

>> apparently touching your hair is more effective charge than getting indicted. nolan did rain that race. he beat out long-haired stewart mills by 1700 votes. and in louisiana advance mcallister got in trouble earlier this year when caught on surveillance video kissing a campaign staffer who was not his wife. he finished fourth. oops. finally there was an election glitch in texas. republican gubernatorial candidate greg abbott was left off the ballot. in his place, david dumeros. this was an insult to dewhurst because he lost his lieutenant governor prime minister to a tea party challenger. all of us on this show will remember this primary race because a dewhurst staffer put

together a creative video mocking dan patrick who won for having changed his name from danny gob ♪ won't let them in ♪ won't let them see ♪ that i'm a phoney radio disjockey ♪ i try to lie ♪ why should they know ♪ well now they know ♪ danny geob. that's my name i can't lie to you any more ♪ i got lies to answer for ♪ dannie don't care. dannie goeb, dannnie patrick, whatever you want to call him. dannie goeb, dannie patrick,

he'll take office in january. >> that's amazing. we're going to talk about this race at election night for a long time to come. david shuster. back in a couple of minutes. coming up in the program. a lot of talk on both sides of the aisle today about working together. we'll see if that can actually happen. plus more than half of eligible voters in the united states did not bother to cast a ballot. what's behind that.

>> one day after republicans scored major victories, we're talking about in the senate, the house, governor's races president obama and the man who is expects to be majority leader of the senate mitch mcconnell.

>> i'm committed to make the next few years productive as possible. i'm committed to the american people. >> we'll see if we can work with the president, we'll find out. >> president obama said he will meet with mcconnell and other house and senate leaders to work for ways to work together. david shuster is back with us and michael shure and we have john with us live from new orleans. he is a republican strategist and spokesperson for former house speaker dennis haster. good to see you. john, we'll dive right in here. so the president has promised, as you know, ex-sive action and immigration form. if he follows through, will this be the end of bipartisan talk we've been force fed the last 18 hours or so. >> well, it could.

the problem for the president he has promised to do this, and he's got to keep some sort of promise or he loses all credibility. if he blows up the place then he gets blamed for dysfunction over the past few years. the president has to figure out a way to reach out to republicans so whatever he does by executive order it does not necessarily alienate them. listen, republicans do want to do something on immigration. i talked to both republicans senators and republican members. they do want to do something. they just didn't want to have happen in the last bill and they also don't want to alienate. >> they don't want what was done in the senate moving forward. >> yes, they want to go back to the drawing born. i think speaker boehner will first security the border and then those here who are

undocumented, you have to deal with that issue. >> what does the president want to do with the 11 million here undocumented. >> if you don't deal with it, then you don't fix the problem. every republican i talk to said that we have to come up with a solution to that. not an accept citizenship. >> that's something that republicans don't want. to now is the moment. you get to articulate what they want. we're clear on what they don't want. can you help me with what they want in this particular area of no path to citizenship. >> there is a way to get legalization process, some sort of--pay a bunch of finds and then at some point you get a green card. there is a way to do that. they want to secure the border. they want to increase visas, visas for farm workers.

there are plenty of things they want to do that have been fairly articulated throughout the past few years. >> despite what they want to do there are still some in the republican party who would describe even that, that amnesty, path to citizenship, whatever. as far as the timing goes would it make sense for john boehner to hold session next month rather than wait for the new congressmen? >> david, as you know, john boehner has to stand up to be speaker and get the vote on the house floor. to do this in a lame duck session that alienates a lot of people who would vote for you as speaker. i don't think he'll do that. he'll do a step by step process. send a bill over to the senate. because mitch mcconnell is now the leader they'll have faith in mcconnell not to stick it to them. that's why they did not send anything over to the senate in the last year. >> john, michael shure, question for you.

because you're still in louisiana, and can't get enough of this election stuff we know what the challenges are. does bill cassidy have a challenge? and what challenge does he have in louisiana. >> well, i think cassidy's biggest challenge is to make sure that the voters come out this was a bitter primary with those two forces. they have to make sure that they turn out for the base. mary landrieu knows politics and she is a survivor, and they can't take this for granted. >> they seemingly through the pollin polling, why should

anyone believe that the lame duck session and congress get any more done than the wrong has accomplished since, say, 2011, 2012? >> well, i wouldn't put a lot of stock in the lame duck. i think it's going to be nasty, but i would think in the next year republicans have a vested interest in restoring their brand. they have a vested interest in getting some legislative things done. tax reform. immigration, keystone pipeline. maybe job creation bills that they had thrown over to the senate. they have to prove that they could governor. when i worked with danny haster, our approval ratings were in the toilet. we worked with the democrats and bill clinton and get some things done and we were able to restore the brand of the republicans and i think john boehner and mitch mcconnell will try to do the same thing.

>> thank you. david shuster and michael shure. it's been fun, thank you. >> the elections brought many firsts. for the first time there are 100 women who will vote in congress, wow. eighth' go to roxana saberi. >> the youngest woman in congress and the first plaque republican woman. women have a long way to go before they're already making history. it was a big night for female candidates across the country. >> people ask me all the time what my favorite part of the campaign has been. i think tonight. >> republican joni ernst will be the first female republican from iowa. >> wow. utah's mia love will be the first black republican woman in

congress. >> my generation cannot just complain about our problems? we have to help solve them as well. and age 30 elise stefanik will be the youngest elected to congress. after all the ballots are counted that number could reach 106. >> i am hoping that the presence of women and thei will be able to work together. >> women make up 20% of congress. research predicts they won't hit 50% for another century. for that to happen it will take more young women like saira

blair of west virginia to go into politics. >> i'm trying to do this for a greater purpose, and to help all young people in the state of west virginia. >> at age 18 she just became the youngest state lawmaker in the nation. >> it is significant if young women are getting on the electoral ladder at a young age. that means that the pool of women sort of grouped for leadership whether it be in the senate or presidency, the pool just gets bigger. >> another interesting first this year for a man. republican scott brown became the first man to lose to two women in senate history. he lost to massachusetts two years ago and if in massachusetts this year. this year so far there have been 13 women. >> joni ernst winning in iowa.

that leaves mississippi the only state in the union not to ever elect a woman to congress. >> maybe that will happen in two years. we'll see. come on, mississippi. roxana, thank you. projection show fewer than half all eligible voters in the united states cast a ballot on tuesday. that's compared to 60% of voters who turned down 2012. jake ward takes a look at why. >> let's look at what effect that has on the country. first of all, turn out in the united states is always awful. there are always 239 people eligible to vote. roughly 145 million chose not to during 10's midterm election. that means more than 58% of eligible voters simple di didn't vote. who is it vote? no 2010 only 9 90 million voters showed up to be heard. that number does not show enough

alone. bear with me. when 90 million people vote, it's a country one-third the size unfortunate united states. it's not just the country. when i say another country, i'm serious, it really is like another country. for one thing. it is a whiter country. it's made up of richer, older people, and they decide the fate of a more diverse, poorer group who do not vote. our country would, in fact, be very different if everyone who could cast a ballot did to. groups like the pew research center has studied this. they found for one thing that the democratic party would enjoy much more support, more than half of all non-voters identified or lean towards democrats. compare that to those who lean republican. 27% of non-voters. this is why democrats have so much more to gain by getting new voters to the polls. only 21 million people who lean republican and don't vote to the 40 million or more none voting

americans. nearly twice as much who lean democratic. there are simply far more potential democrats in the united states than there are potential republicans. if all eligible voters did vote, the make or break political issues also could be vastly different. let's consider income for a moment. 32% of americans make less than $30,000 a year. in that group makes up more than half of people who do not vote. that's more than 35 million people hovering just above the poverty line and not being heard. >> jake ward for us. and earlier i spoke with john, a fellow in governance studies at brookings in washington. i asked him how this year's low voter turn out compared to previous midterm years? >> that is quite a low number for midterm. really, for any national election. and like you said in the lead in, mid terms are always lower than presidential years, but it appears this year is quite low.

>> how different are mid perms and presidential elections and why the disparity in the number of people and from the various groups who actually participate? >> frankly presidential years there is always a competitive race. when you get to a midterm some people don't have to vote on a senate race. everyone has to vote on a house race. but those races aren't necessarily competitive either. as gerrymandering increases. the competitiveness of house races decreases. some senate races aren't competitive, and then some states don't vote on senate races in a given year. that lowers the interest that the public has because they don't feel that it's going to make a difference, their vote. >> that's part and parcel of cynicism, apart of it. >> well, it certainly is, but it is a reflection of reality. if you have your congressmen winning with 80% of the vote every time he goes up for

re-election, then really there is, well first off there is very little chance that your vote is going to be the tie-breaking vote any way but that's especially true for a comfortable incumbent. >> it seems to me that we want to broaden the franchise and make it important for more and more people to vote. how do we surgeon this around? there are always these get out the vote campaigns. we're aware of that. is there something more that needs to be done here? >> well, i think there is. we need to find ways to convince voters that, a, their vote matters, and individually coming out to the polls won't have much of a difference, you but if he start increasing different demographics then as a whole they'll have an impact on elections. but convincing voters in the aggregate as opposed to talking to them as an individual is always a tough situation to be in. and the efforts have not been

working. >> let's look at stories making headlines across the united states. >> police released surveillance video showing a man abducting a young woman. the 22-year-old meeting the man on the streets sunday night. he grabs her and a second angle shows him dragging her down the street. her mother is pleading for her daughter's return. >> please give me my child. please. >> the police also released photos of a man using the girl's atm card in maryland. the lava flow in hawai'i has stalled. it has not advanced for nearly a week. it stand 480 feet from the main road. however, they say the lava flow

is still active and could resume its advance at any time. the appeal of ray rice a he suspension from in football is under way. rice and his wife arrived for the start of the two-day hearing. nfl commissioner roger goodell suspended rice definitely after the video surface of rice punching his fiancé. the miami herald reported that a-rod admitted to using drugs. he always publicly denied using them. a-rod was suspended for the entire 2014 season. >> that's a big deal. >> it is. >> a lot of people felt he was not being completely truthful, now he has admitted it. >> it's a big development. >> we'll see you a little later. one person is dead in an attack in jerusalem. more injured and fights breaking out between protesters and police. we'll have the latest on the

situation. that's next. also calls for a nationwide strike and demands to return 43 missing students in mexico.

>> people across mexico are demonstrating and university students are calling for a strike. per' demanding for information on the 43 students missing. this comes after the arrest of former mayor and his wife.

rachel, what are the people hoping for? what are they hoping comes out of these demonstrations? >> well, tony, as you can see there aren't a lot of people yet. the protest is a few blocks away, but we did speak to the families and they're demanding justice. they're demanding answers. they're saying, look, the government had a huge coupe of the mayor and his wife. but the question remains where are the students? obviously hope is dwindling that they will be found alive. it's been over a month. there have been no calls for ransom. there has been no signs of life of these students. but it seems that something that the parents feel is impossible that the government has failed to located these students either dead or alive. that's what this protest is going to be about. it will be about demanding justice and trying to put more pressure on the government. >> rachel, you mentioned the

mayor and his wife. what is next for that couple. >> yes, this couple was captured yesterday here in mexico city in a pre-dawn raid. they've been taken to police custody. they're in the process of going through very serious questioning. they're hoping through that questioning they'll be able to get some indication as to what happened to these students. they have 48 hours to go before a federal judge and to plead guilty or innocent. those 48 hours could be extended, but people are hoping that by friday they will be presented in court, and enter a plea. the big question here still remains what do these know, and will they be able to give any clues as to the whereabouts of these 43 students rachel levine in mexico city. israelis reacted to an

incident involving a palestinian man who drove a car into a crowd of pedestrians. one person was killed and three others injured, including three police officers. we're in jerusalem with more. >> reporter: after a day of tension a night of protests. this is the palestinian neighborhood in occupied east jerusalem. protesters took to the streets here against what they see as increasing israeli aggression, lighting fires and setting off fireworks. the protests follow what the israel police are calling a hit-and-run terror attack. investigators say that a palestinian man drove his car into a crowd waiting at a train platform injuring several, some critically. capturing the moment officers shot the man dead.

the police shot him because he was trying to attack bystanders with a metal rod. >> in recent days we haves witnessed growing incitement including the condolence lever letter, and calling to prevent jews from visiting the temple mound in rain possible way. this has actual consequences on the ground. the ramming attack in jerusalem is a direct result of the excitement of his partners and hamas. we're in a continuous battle over jerusalem, which i have no doubt we will win. >> the attack happened. shortly after a violent confrontation at thal aqsa in jerusalem. it happen after protesters tried to enter the holy site.

there the police used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse the protesters and dispersed the public shortly afterwards. >> for the first time since 1976 israeli police entered inside the al aqsa mosque. they had their shoes on and had their weapons. this gives us a bad indication for the future. >> there have been near daily confrontations between protesters and israeli police for month. while access to al aksa it has only inflamed things further.

>> there are growing concerns that the increasing tensions between the israeli authorities and protesters in the occupied east could lead to a new palestinian up rising. al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> so the united states has conducted 14 airstrikes against isil targets in recent days. four in syria, and ten near iraqi centers. u. central demand said buildings near mosul were heavily damaged including one where vehicles were built. meanwhile, britain is sending more military officers to iran. they will help advise the army there in the fight against isil but will not be involved in fighting themselves. you may remember the viral video of a woman getting cat calls. i think that's the right form of that word on new york streets. someone tried the same thing in new zealand, but the outcome was very different.

then there is real money in ali velshi. >> reporter: coming up on "real money," come candidates found out the hard way spending does not always spell victory. how the plunging price of oil has opec member nations facing a crud reality. all that and more on "real money."

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>> do you remember that viral video of a new york city woman getting cat calls as she's walking down the street. do you remember the controversy about that? a company in new zealand use the same process. >> reporter: for the sake of comparison i want to show you the video we saw last week. >> okay. >> reporter: the woman walking through new york city receiving 100 comments from men or cat calls in ten hours. this video sparked a lot of controversy, including how it was i hadtied because it shows mostly minorities doing the cat calls.

>> were there any white guys. >> reporter: there were white guys and for various reasons they were edited out because two of the minorities that were following her, so that took up a lot of time in the video. but in the new zealand herald newspaper tried to recreate this video. they have a 26-year-old model walking down the largest street in new zealand. now the model walks for five hours. but no cat calls. she does turn some heads, you'll see that in the video but no verbal comments. she gets stopped twice during the walk. one man asked if she was italian. he then tells her that she looks very nice, and he apologizes for stopping her. another man asked her for directions as they're walking. his reaction in this opinion this is a numbers name.

the population in auckland is much less than in new york city. there you have it. >> i'm not going to say anything else. i always get in trouble when i do. "real money with ali velshi" is next. >> almost $4 billion. that was the price tag of the midterm election. i'm looking at what that money bought for you. hard working americans who are worried about immigration and the cost of energy. we'll look at the 2016 race for the white house, the campaign without a single declared candidate yet, but tens of millions of dollars spent. plus how the plunging price of oil has sparked a different kind of war in the middle east. a price war. i'm ali velshi. this is "real money."