that's prime minister netanyahu but what about that mr president what about the divides in this country mr president what about healing the divides in this country what we want to see you know that we want to see it here that we're one of the things i think that can help heal is the success of our country we are really successful then we've got to leaven point seven trillion dollars and in worth. if you know china's come down tremendously tremendously china would have superseded us in two years as an economic power now than not even close china got rid of their china twenty five because i found it very insulting i said that to them i said china twenty five is very insulting because john a twenty five minutes and twenty twenty five they're going to take over economically the world set aside happening and we've done it way up they've gone down and i don't want them to go down we'll have a good meeting and we're going to see what we can do and i have to say this.

billions of dollars will soon be pouring into our treasury from taxes that china is paying for us and if you speak to mr pillsbury who probably is well the leading authority in china he was on the other day saying he has never seen anything like it and you know who else hasn't china has mr president we're going to try and make a deal with china because i want to have great relationships with president xi as i do and also with china you're talking about the looking at how do you see your role let the world leader mr president you know how do you play the role of the moral go ahead or the so many people answer as a moral little i though i think i am a great moral leader and i love our country go ahead list. baker you said earlier in the press conference that democrats had a choice that you would not work with them on legislation if they were investigating you do you not have a choice in the matter as well i don't know what worse it was appropriate no no i think it's very inappropriate we should get along and get deals time that we can

investigate they look at us we look at them it goes on for two years then at the end of two years nothing's to now what's bad for them is being in the majority i'm just going to blame them you understand i'm going to blame them they're the majority honestly it makes it much simpler for me i they will be blamed but i think nancy pelosi and you know i put that statement out on social media today about nancy pelosi that if she's short of votes because frankly i think she deserves and a lot of people thought i was being sarcastic or is getting i wasn't i think she deserves it she's been fighting long for what she's been fighting i really mean this this was nothing sarcastic about it or it was really meant in it with very good intentions i think she deserves it she's fought long and hard she's a very capable person and you know you have other people shooting at or trying to take over the speakership and i said if i have it's appropriate i said if we

can and if we will she has a problem i think i would be able to very easily supply her the necessary votes that's not said in any way other than i really believe she deserves that position i also believe that nancy pelosi and i can work together and get a lot of things done along with mitch and everybody else that we have to work with i think we'll get a lot done mispresent why can't i have it's what i said why can't you get out while subpoenas are coming excuse me why can't you work together while there are subpoenas or while there are investigations and process i think we will it look now that the election's over the election's over. now everybody is in love but then i see the hostility of questions in there i come in here as a nice person wanting to answer questions and i have people jumping out of their their seats screaming questions i don't know the election's over and i'm you know very i am extraordinarily happy i really am and by the way i tell you if i was a look at what happened in florida look at what happened in george look at what happened

in so many locations with governorships nobody talks about the governorship you look at the amount of work that was given to these other candidates against my candidate and i mean i'm extraordinarily happy and if i wasn't i'd let you know there's nothing wrong i mean look you look at midterms and you look at elections elections generally you see it's very rare that a party who has the presidency does well we did unbelievably well to win florida both the senate and the governorship against two very talented people i'll tell you what we did incredible to win georgia when you had some of the biggest stars in the world campaigning endlessly including president obama. you know i tell you what this was a great victory for us and again from a dealmaking standpoint we are all much better off the way it turned because i really believe if the if the democrats want to we can do

a tremendous amount of great legislation yes please go. should we keep this going for the woman yes yes yes i think you should keep it snowing when you get bored would you please tell me seriously tell me i don't want to hopefully no i don't want to overstay but please go ahead mr president p.b.s. news hour on the campaign trail you called yourself a nationalist some people saw that as emboldening white nationalist now people are slipping away to such a racist there are some people that say that now the republican party is seen as supporting white nationalists all have your rhetoric and what do you make of that i don't believe i just well i don't know why do i have my highest poll numbers ever with african-americans why do i have among the highest poll numbers with african-americans i mean why do i have my highest problems that such a racist question honestly i mean i know you have a great and down and you're going to tell me let me say it's a racist question and mr president i don't have you know what the words i love our

country i do you call you have nationalists you have globalists i also love the world and i don't want helping the world but we have to straighten out our country first if a lot of problems and this excuse me but to say that what you said is so insulting to me it's a very terrible thing that you said mr president mr president people have to you talked about you talk about the middle you talk about middle class tax cuts on the campaign trail how will you get democrats to support that policy you have to ask them well what do you what's your choice madame you know how. you know my plan is alaska and if they say yes i'm all for it and if they say no there's nothing you can do because you need the votes good. yes thank you mr president francesca chambers daily mail dot com you said many times on the campaign trail that you didn't want to be speaker at least you suggested that you spend a lot of time talking about her in charge of want i would've so let me let me answer would i have preferred winning by two or three or four i would almost have

to think about that but certainly i like to win and if i win she's not going to be speaker what did she say to you though yesterday that made against her nurse support honestly we had a very warm conversation you know she loves this country. and she's a very smart woman she's done a very good job she was really i mean she's had a very good she promised that they wouldn't seek to impeach him at a very very good we didn't talk about impeaching we didn't talk to what do you do and you impeach somebody because he created the greatest economic success in the history of our country let's impeach him because the country is so successful let's impeach him has he done anything wrong they are somebody has he done anything wrong you know what let's impeach him anyway and they also said let's impeach justice kavanaugh ho let's impeach him and now they have the second woman coming out that the first the second and i hate to say this but it was public and f.

to him we're going to impeach the vice president we're going to impeach mike pence mike pence doesn't get impeached for anything so let's let's impeach the president and then we'll impeach the vice president these people are sick and you know what they have to get their bearings really they have to get it back and when you ask about division they're the ones that cause the division they cause tremendous division ok regarding all the retirements in a house regarding all their retirements and ows mr president really quickly you you you suggested has retiring you said that many of the retirements that happened in the house made it very demanding were terrible and that made it very difficult for you in this election cycle and that it was because they were chairman they were chairmanships they were vacated but jeff flake was a chairman of a committee and paul ryan also retired this cycle so why do you think that is whose fault it is it that there was never last case it's me pure and simple i retired him i'm very proud of it i did the country a great service go ahead give him give him he's retired i'd like to call it another

word but we're going to treat him with great respect. thank you mr president like that's another beauty go ahead. two questions please one one one one to many people right so right you seem to enjoy this venue very are you going to make the standard press conference a staple of the remaining two years or no will you have more briefings with another at sanders you know when i don't do the i think there is fantastic we're so where sarah sarah's so great i think sarah you've represented me so well and been abused that she's been horribly treated by a lot of oh she's got his eye on an oppressor it's very interesting because there was so we're talking about the at that so i had a period where i figured you know what i'll do i won't do any real interview and then there's i say why is they doing why you know they're all coming up with oprah then over the last couple of months i decided i'll do a lot with top of the helicopter will do this will do a lot of and then they say why is he doing so many press conferences what's wrong

what so when i don't do him you say what's wrong when i do dhoom you say what's wrong and when i go in the middle you say what's wrong but in the mean you know that's right yes senator. no no you did i choose very well you complained about access when i purposely just stayed away from the press for a while because i wanted to see how it would work and could i be honest with you it didn't work well mr president i did it didn't work well as john so sarah will stay on as press secretary ok please go ahead now go ahead. first off i personally think it's very good to have you here because of free press and this i do today and actually i do too as it's vital to talk turned to media that's worth billions go ahead so i have two questions for you if that's all right it's rare opportunity first just a point of clarification on the tax returns issue you brought up the audit that

doesn't prevent you from releasing them i know but i did say it prevented me i said lawyers will tell you not to do it but you had better next question if you come up with this guy just on the more exciting question than that play second one michael cohen recently said you called black voters stupid that's false omarosa has accused you of using the n. word and the rapper that's the rapper littlejohn has said you called him uncle tom what's your response i don't know who littlejohn is i don't i really don't need a print i don't know how he was i know i see have you ever i don't exist remarks no i would never do that and i don't use race and remarks and you know what if i did you people of you would have known about it i've been hearing there are tapes for years and years there are tapes number one i never worried about because i never did i never use race as i have never used racist remarks ok one hundred you don't want one. for you why you're so quiet all along i look at america as it's just eight percent star single digits she when you talk about division it's people like this that cause division great division great point of fact is that i've never used

a racist remark that's the point of fact where who you from. yahoo yahoo you know good good i hope this i hope they're doing well. where you from if you have been on lebanon eleven thank you mr president we're so happy to be as well have this opportunity mr president to gun it said he's not going to follow your sanctions and he's going to keep buying oil from who said the president of the gun. turkey i know i know and you can i meet him soreness can understand is it ok you can i meet him so now you can have this talk and some company i got take the same steps that present are the guys doing so let me just say about the euro. so we're poor we opposed just recently the strongest sanctions in the history of our country just about oh i guess north korea is there too but i gave some countries a break on the oil i did it

a little bit because they really asked for some help but i really did it because i don't want to drive oil prices up to one hundred dollars a barrel or one hundred fifty dollars a barrel because i'm driving them down if you look at oil prices they've come down very substantially over the last couple of months that's because of me because you have a monopoly called opec and i don't like weight and i don't like that monopoly i don't like it and oil prices are coming down so rather than deciding to be as tough as i am on most of the sanctions what i've done is i said we're not going to do it that way we're going to let some of the u.n. go out to these countries that really do need it because i don't want to drive the oil prices up to one hundred or one hundred fifty dollars but which could happen very easily it's a very fragile market very very fragile i know it very well and it's the absolute right decision and they'll get tougher as time goes by maybe but i don't want to have any effect on the oil prices worldwide where drive them up because i consider

that to be a tax and i don't like taxes i have a peace process. but it's the peace process is over who congratulations to john tester congratulations i'm sure you're very unhappy about the. godhead. can you address that will take a couple of more and we'll go can you address concerns in places like georgia where people waited in line to vote for hours where voting machines weren't working in certain districts that it was a reason that the candidate lost what there are concerns being raised that that is what i was going to george i know but i did that and other than i love the state but as the president of the united states are you concerned about the access that people are having to voting i heard it was very efficient in georgia i heard it was very efficient but again you'd have to ask the state governments because just one of those things you can have to ask them. yeah go ahead place.

thank you thank you mr president you expressed some concerns about social media companies unfairly censoring conservatives during the election do you anticipate working with democrats to regulate these companies or are you sad what i would do there i would look at that verse i think it's a serious problem at the same time you start getting into speech that's a very dangerous problem that could be the beginning so it's very dangerous believe it or not i'm one that really likes free speech lot of people don't understand but i am a big believer in when you start regulating a lot of bad things can happen. but i would certainly talk to the democrats if they want to do that and i think they do want to do that yes your former president former president barack obama famously said that he had a pen and a phone to use executive power on issues like immigration do you see yourself using executive power to get some of your immigration agenda done. i do i do i think that

some of it i can use executive power on some not all but i mean he certainly is that he used it on daca and when he did it he said something to the effect that i'm not allowed to do this it will never hold up but i'm doing it anyway and he did it end. they found judges that approved that we also found judges that didn't approve it so it's obviously going to be determined in the supreme court and if the support if the court rules in favor of what president obama thinks they should rule which is what he said then i will probably have a deal with the democrats in a very short period of time we were very close to having a deal until we got that very strange ruling. you also made some promises about immigration during the campaign i want to know if you're going to follow through with them are you going to regret twenty you talking about birthright citizenship are you going to sign an executive order they are looking at it very seriously absolutely if yes or no and i go i believe we have the absolute right but that's

another case that will be determined by the supreme court of the united states are you to send fifteen thousand troops the border you've been reading the same documents as i have you know exactly what i'm doing you know exactly what i'm doing so what's your next question also undertook a shogi matter ignore than a month since the death of mr show you the journalist first said thing very terrible thing do you think saudi arabia is guilty of of having to murder and if so what kind of motorcycle your opinion on that subject over the next week and i'm working very closely with congress we're working together some very talented people and we're working with congress we're working with turkey and we're working with saudi arabia and i'm forming a very strong opinion. mr president to just a quick follow up you said something about nancy pelosi you said the nancy pelosi she loves our country. do you regret some of the things you said during the campaign i mean are is times you said democrats want to put a wrecking ball to our future or i believe we are

a country live there with their current policy they're using a wrecking ball in our country i believe that one hundred percent this would be a wrecking ball but i think there's a compromise somewhere and i think that could be really good for a country ok but one more here at the add to get the ad that you did that was branded as a racist ad and even for model i was would an area n.b.c. would marry i doubt it works surprise you ask me that question i do not go ahead please and. thank you sir and i think we'd all love to have more of these if you're willing to in two thousand and seventeen shortly after you took office your homeland security department shuttered a program to counter a homegrown right wing extremism white supremacist them and related terrorist groups domestic terrorist groups and redirected that funding towards fighting islamic terrorism do you believe that white supremacist terrorists right wing

terrorists these homegrown terrorists on that side of the spectrum are a problem sir and what is your administration neutrally about believe all hate is a problem but i do believe that is a problem what are you going it's a problem we want to solve what are you going to do about it sir sir sir what are you going to do about it you cut off the funding. mr president you know that given funding for that a lot of money but i do believe it's a problem and can i tell you it's a problem that i don't like even a little bit go ahead. with hearst television you've said pretend i'm on the ballot yesterday you called it a referendum on your presidency many local districts across the country rejected your midterm message particularly suburban women how do you bridge that divide now also with the. well received i mean just look at the results midterm elections are disasters for sitting presidents and administrations this has been a very successful and look you can write it any way you want and if you disagree

with this has been an incredibly success when you look at the races how about ohio i didn't even mention i mention florida i mention georgia how about the governor of ohio fantastic because women voters shows me a fantastic man who is down in the polls and everybody was talking about this person that was so great and i went up there and they did a rally and they have now a great governor you're going to have a great governor of ohio for hopefully a long period of time but for four years and mike de wine is a fantastic person and i went up there for two reasons because i felt that his opposition was not a good person and we know a lot about him and i felt that mike was a fantastic person and he won and not only did he win and he won easily so add that to florida and add that to georgia and add that to all of the other races that we won outside even of the senate races which were the biggest of all because these

were races that and mike pence could tell you and some of the folks over here could tell you these were races that. we're going to be unopposed we're going to we were not going to oppose certain of the people running certain senators they said they couldn't be beaten they said heidi could be beat please don't do it they could this was a year out what about in the suburban just right now don't forget tell me about you tell me about popularity they said many of these people when i said nine out of eleven but i said when many of these people these weren't like easy race these were tough races and so i think the level of popularity of the first question i was asked was about well what have you learned what about your own popularity i think that's what i learned is my part i think i was very well received by this great country by the people of our great country and i'm very proud of it because i love the people of this country these people we are the greatest people i love the people of our country the women and i'll tell you something when you look at the

races that we won in florida which we were expected to hand and georgia which we weren't expected to win and ohio which we weren't expected to win and won i mean you look at some of them the number of votes that we got is incredible so i'm really happy with not only the way it came out but the response to me as your president and as your president i've made our country safe. i've rebuilt and ever in the process of rebuilding our military and the jobs are here every one of them built here. would have the struggle virtual who could have the strongest military our country has ever had i've done more for the vets than any president has done certainly in many many decades with choice. and with other things as you know with other things but the our vets are doing better than they've ever done but if you look at choice choice alone i mean just take

a look at what we've done with choice but the people of our country are very happy with the job that i'm doing and you know one of the independents one of the one is one of the things that they want so much is security they want security both at the border they want it with our military they want it with law enforcement they want with ice you know we've take it out thousands of m.s. thirteen gang members thousands out of it hard to believe thousands out of our country women of our country who are incredible people they want security they want safety they want financial security also we've done that but they want physical security and we've taken out thousands of people that shouldn't be in this country but we have to get strong immigration laws so they don't come in we want laws where they don't come in where we don't have to take them out per se and again i'm very honored to be with all of you. it was a great day yesterday it was

a great evening i think we had a tremendous success and hopefully the tone can get better hopefully that hopefully the tone can get a lot better and i really believe it begins with the media i really i we used to call it the press is a big but i really surprise i really believe it begins with the media if you would cover and it was a very interesting story written in a very good paper recently that talked about the fact that it isn't good what the media is doing and that i do have the right to fight back because i'm treated very unfairly so i do fight back and i'm fighting back not for me i'm fighting back for the people of this country thank you all very much thank you. you're watching al-jazeera president donald trump's first media conference since the midterm elections which at times descended into a bit of

a back and forth with journalists at the white house who began by a taking up talking up rather has republican party's achievement of holding back an anticipated blue way of victories by their viable democrats the democrats ended up winning the house of representatives while the republicans held on to the senate the result will set the stage for a slew of investigations that could end gulf trumps administration over the next two years keep hearing about. investigations fatigue like from the time almost from the time i announced i was going to run they've been giving us this investigation fatigue it's been a long time to get nothing zero you know why because there is nothing but they can play their game but we can play it better because we have a thing called the united states senate and a lot of very questionable things were done between leaks of classified information

and many other elements that should not have taken place and all you're going to do is send him back and forth and back and forth and two years is going to go up and we won't have done a thing. or the most stunning moments of that news conference was trump becoming an incensed when challenged by a reporter about his stance on immigration. there are hundreds of miles away there hundreds and hundreds more no way that that's not an invasion honestly i think you should let me run the country you run c.n.n. all right and if you didn't well your ratings let me ask you if i may add to the question this present right by me i don't know why sure you worried i set up that sort of president that says and ask one of the other folks that said for me ma'am on this wednesday that's enough the president had one of the dumbest guy may ask you on on the russian vest a geisha are you concerned that that you may have not could i cared about anything with you may have a joint investigation because it's

a hoax are you that's enough to put down the mike was president are you worried about indictments coming down in this of us. jordan is standing by for us she's outside congress on capitol hill we'll go live to her after we speak to our diplomatic editor james days he's at the white house he's been listening to donald trump and james i do want to talk more about. the way donald trump did speak to journalists in that news conference that will start with the message of his first news conference saying that he thinks he can get a lot of work done with the democrats despite saying that they were using the wrecking ball on the country during the campaign that something he was asked about . well it was quite chaotic an extraordinary news conference and when you cut away all the other stuff yes that was the clear message coming from the president he actually said that he thought it was probably better that republicans haven't got a slight majority in the house and instead that democrats had

a majority now this is his logic that he then can have a negotiation with democrats in the house he can then come up with legislation and then he can get it through the senate with with the democrats supporting it and some of the republicans i think this might terrify some in his own party that he's going to work so closely with the democrats if nancy pelosi is the speaker he says she loves this country very very positive about nancy pelosi and saying that on issues and you mentioned the environment prescription drugs veterans' health care and infrastructure he perhaps can work with the democrats to get legislation through even at one point suggesting that maybe the democrats will work with him on building that wall. james still stand by because i believe that we're actually hearing from nancy pelosi right now let's listen to an immigrant governor. can i

say that we're going to pick up a body of a democratic member of the year to mars in minnesota carly again winning in minnesota so for us you're seeing that the extraordinary leadership of these members going into governor's office and seeing the increased number of democratic governorships it was a great night for the american people and we won from that because from the beginning we focused on health care two years ago today the day after the election the same date the same day after the election. everyone came together and said we see the urgency we want to take responsibility and that gave us an opportunity to protect the affordable care act that was so essential to the health and financial security of america's working families and we knew it

would be a charge that of the trump administration so just for you know that by that sunday we have mobilized many of the groups outside they were self mobilized as well but we all came together depending on where despite where we might be on the spectrum on other issues she said this was her focus we made a plan to launch our campaign on the weekend of martin luther king and that is in january and we did. the president's inauguration as you know something historic happened in our country the women's march and much of that was about health care women's reproductive health. health care the been goes on over the course of that next year and a half working with the outside groups and they deserve a great deal of credit and i'm proud of our democratic unity and the congress of the united states and inside maneuvering that unity was essential to the clarity of

our message and their differentiation from the republicans on that subject that working together. so that is nancy pelosi pelosi who is likely to return as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives speaking about the midterm election results in washington d.c. echoing what president trump was saying earlier in that they want to work together so let's return now to our diplomatic editor james bay he is standing by for us outside the white house so we're hearing that message from everyone we have heard from so far james from nancy pelosi from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and president trump a message of bipartisanship and wanting to work together. yes you're hearing that message but remember president trump also was suggesting that if the democrats use their control of the house to increase investigations into his

administration then he may think again and saying that he has a way to deal with that which is to set the senate democrats investigate them he says he says they have lied and they've leaked repeatedly and he could launch investigations into that so clearly he has a proposal to negotiate the great deal maker he says he is with the democrats but he also sees another possibility which is they start investigating him they start launching fresh probes into collusion with the russians into his business interests demanding his tax returns and them props the deal maker won't want to make deals anymore these are all very important issues james but i want to ask your opinion on what you thought of the way he handled this news conference certain journalists and how much do you think of what he said will be overshadowed by sometimes very

abusive language especially to c.n.n. jim acosta i think we played a clip of that earlier you know saying that c.n.n. should be ashamed of itself having jim acosta work for them also abusing i think n.b.c. any time a foreign journalist asked him a question he said he couldn't understand them. no the the the discussions and the comments from the president towards the media perhaps the strongest he's always very strong but things like you are a rude terrible person this is i think bringing it to a new low he did and saying he wanted a new tone and a new relationship but he said it was all the fault of the media he attacked as you say some of the u.s. broadcast to c.n.n. and n.b.c. he told a reporter an african-american reporter from p.b.s. that her racist question was such

a racist question there really were extraordinary scenes in this news conference we also had the moment when he was asked whether he would run again and whether mike pence would be his kind of that to be vice president and turning to mike pence who was in the room and asking him there and then whether he would be his running mate in a future run for a second term as you say there were reporters from international media asked questions and he didn't be able didn't seem to be able to hear on two occasions the question because of the person's accent a few other nuggets came in there again he was asked about the russian c.z. of crimea and again he deflected the question and said that was during the obama regime he said in answer to that question when he was asked a question by a japanese reporter there was a remarkable aside at the beginning where he said say hello to sions sure he's happy about the terrorists on his cars one last little nugget i think we're marking

on which is on the khashoggi affair that he said that he's going to have some more things to say in the next week and that he's forming now a very strong opinion on that james thank you very much for that for now that is that diplomatic editor of jane's joining us live from outside the white house let's go now to rather than jordan she is joining us from capitol hill with more broads. runs can you hear me. elizabeth certainly. remarks closely one of those people watching is one of our regular guests here at al-jazeera the political analyst bill schneider bill the president and congress if it persists in conducting investigations into his personal finances and into his

new relationship with russia what do you make of his response it's scarface politics you go after me i go after you i mean it's a threat that's trump he's a warrior and certainly congress is going to investigate the president especially after they received the mueller and the result of the mueller investigation now but they'll have to follow up so it could be open warfare just the president's tone indicate a lack of respect for the process or is the president using a bigger calculation by threatening congress he's a warrior often a happy warrior he can be an angry warrior but that's how he operates he has already divided the country worse than ever and he's certainly challenging the congress waits wait and see what happens if you try to investigate eight and his base months that the country is not too happy with that he's not a very popular president but his core supporters really like that attitude and it's

also worth where mom remembering that the president technically has been running for reelection since the day after he was inaugurated january twenty first two thousand and seventeen so this could be considered a ramping up of his bid to be reluctant it's a campaign look he likes politics i'm not sure he likes governing so much but he really loves politics he's at his best at his most comfortable during a big rally where people thousands of people in to worship him he likes that part of the process sitting in the oval office going to something that's not what he wants to be sequels he has said that she's not so much interested in the matter of impeachment because one would assume she's also looking ahead to two years. so now when her own constituents in capitol hill need to run for reelection. should she be taking impeachment off the table well look she has to be responsive to her caucus i think impeachment is something that divides democrats many democrats in

the rank and file democrats in the country would like to see the house democrats impeached president i think it's going to split the democrats in the house i don't think they're ready to take that step yet and tell you something when impeachment happens it takes over the whole agenda there are no other policy issues it took all the the gender for an entire year with bill clinton in one nine hundred ninety eight i remember when he had missile attacks on afghanistan in sudan in retaliation for the attacks on the american embassies in east africa everyone's said he was wagging the dog and trying to distract attention from monica lewinsky that's what impeachment does it takes control of the whole agenda and finally how much more realistically do you think congress can achieve in the next two years in this next session that starts in january well look if there's a crisis congress will respond in the president will probably be with them without

a crisis they're going to be at war i mean that's the condition of american politics right now the house can't act entirely on its own whatever it passes has to go to the senate has to be signed by the president and if they want a veto or discover get a two thirds vote it's going to be very tough that's the way the constitution was designed it won't work very well unless there is a matter of overwhelming national urgency which could be something like the opioid crisis or failing infrastructure anything that presents a crisis congress will act and the president will probably join in that just coming up with a regular bill to fill potholes repair bridges improve public buildings improve education something of that nature probably isn't likely in the next two years well i think you make both agree that these. it's have to be done but the question is going to be where's the money coming from i'm going to raise taxes i think this will be a big fight over every item in the budget because everything they want to do is going to cost money. i will leave it there bill schneider political analyst joining

us here on al jazeera english and one other point it is worth noting that members of the current congress those who were going through the elections on tuesday will be back on capitol hill next week and the question is going to be whether or not the republicans who still control both houses are going to be able to make good on something that the president promised during the campaign trail which is a middle class tax cut if the truism in u.s. politics is that people vote their pocketbooks there is a possibility that they could try to get this through at least to make the political way easier for donald trump but that's a big if because there are still democrats they just don't hold the majority until january thank you very much for that that is roslyn jordan live from capitol hill now demographics from maine and women problem for republicans and a nation that is continuing to grow more slots get more on this we're joined by cheeky. the book boom and the former senior vice president for political advocacy

for unique vision that's a spanish language television network and she's joining us live from new york very good to have you with us on al-jazeera before we talk more about the latino electorate and how they vote i do want to ask you what you made all of the president what he had to say in his first news conference i think you were less than an especially when asked about whether his campaign was divisive some of it racist even. well there's no doubt that it was both divisive and racist you know from the pulling out of the use of the caravan as red meat for his base to you know the ads that he posted i mean i think it was the the actions speak for themselves and what effect do you think that campaign rhetoric had on latino voters and this election well i was looking at the

early exit poll results from last night this morning and it shows that thirty percent of those people who voted in this election were nonwhite that is the highest ever in twenty sixteen the high was twenty five percent so i think there's. a rude awakening right for politicians in washington and although we did see a blue wave i think it had a very red undertone but the enthusiasm among diverse voters was very high we had an estimated one hundred fourteen million voters yesterday on that compares to eighty three million voters in the last midterm election that's a big big swing and which way did those you know did those minorities vote. well i think the really the hit in secret of this

election and i want to look at the numbers more they're still being crunched as i speak really is the latino vote i think the latino voters have traditionally been taken for granted by the democrats because they just believe latinos are born voting for democrats and that's not the case that tino's are very mixed there's thirty percent who are independent about forty percent who are. registered democrats and only about fifteen to twenty percent that are registered republicans but when you ask them their ideology you see that latinos actually relate a lot to the conservative our ideology and to the moderate ideology so let's emails are really sort of this last last electorate which is growing by force today there are twenty nine million eligible latino voters that is equal in size to the african-american vote which is huge the problem is that african-americans vote

ninety percent democrat latinos did not and i think it cost the democratic party to the races in texas races in georgia and reached races in florida and the by no means then they thought of a monolith but did both parties do enough to engage them in this campaign. not at all that first of all latinos are not a monolith. changes from state to state you know how they vote there are republican latinos most famously in texas and florida and then there are democratic latinos but but most importantly latinos people always forget this latinos are the most swingle boaters they voted twice for obama but they also voted twice for george w. bush who got forty forty four percent of the latino vote back when he was running so the both parties are doing a terrible job of reaching out to the latino community they they assume they know

what lead to what the democrats stand for but they don't and most importantly they're still using the old playbooks right. this year one week before the election literally seven days before the d. triple c. rana eight market t.v. campaign and that was it i mean i really think that cost some races in florida that including the governor in the senate race and races perhaps and in georgia limit let me just quote you in georgia there are two hundred fifty thousand latinos registered to vote and abram's lost by seventy five thousand votes i think had her campaign done a better job of reaching out to those latinos who knows she could be governor of georgia same in florida rhonda santiso won by fifty five thousand votes in the state were two point five million voters are latinos and guess what not all of them

are cubans in fact cubans are no longer the majority of voters in that state so very very terrible job at reaching out to two critical critical of voters in in in light of the selection of this kind of the head it is so interesting to get your expertise on this we really appreciate your time that if you can comprehend and joining us live from new york thanks so much. no problem. now let's wrap up all the reaction to the midterm elections including the president's fiery media conference not long ago a way to describe the volunteers when for him and the republican party reynolds reports from washington d.c. white house spin zone despite the major loss of the house to his democratic opponents president donald trump declared victory citing republican gains in the senate and was a big day yesterday incredible day and last night the republican party

defied history to expand our senate majority while significantly beating expectations in the house control of the house gives democrats power to block much of the republican legislative agenda and launch investigations into trump's russian business dealings taxes and ethical issues that are dogging several senior officials to do more than about democrats and republicans it's about restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the campaign. many democratic voters say the house should begin impeachment proceedings against trump but the senate republican leader had a warning for democrats drawn from republicans own experience i remember when we tried in the late ninety's. we impeach president clinton his numbers one often are going down and we underperform in the next election so the democrats in the house

will have to decide just how much presidential harassments they think is good strategy i'm not so sure it will work most washington observers predict trump will shake up his cabinet soon likely headed for the door attorney general jeff sessions homeland security secretary jeh nielsen and white house chief of staff john kelly several senate races are still too close to call it may be headed for recounts but republican control of that body is a certainty there's not very much common ground between the parties on major issues like immigration and health care so the forecast for the next two years is lots of talk but little action robert oulds al-jazeera washington let's move on now to some other news in the age group save the children says one of its health facilities and yemen has been damaged by an airstrike a pharmacy providing lifesaving supplies in the port setting of. despite u.n.

and international. coalition has escalated its military offensive against the rebels in the city over the last three days one hundred and fifty people have been killed save the children as calling for both sides to stop fighting saying hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk. now boeing has issued a safety notice to airlines operating its seven three seven max aircraft. on air flight crashed into the java sea it advises pilots on how to handle false readings from one of the plane senses which could cause the aircraft abruptly and to a state dive the plane. crashed off the coast of indonesia killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board. now at first they deny their existence but now china's government as little as three defending a detention program and the far western hobbles of. it's facing growing

international criticism of reports up to a million muslim men and women are being held in so-called reeducation camps are china correspondent adrian brown reports from pashka. islam is the dominant faith in shin jenning but it cashcard it come osc worshippers are reminded of a higher authority of sign at the entrance proclaims love the party love the country close by photos of president xi jinping are projected onto a giant screen in one he's surrounded by a group of forming local muslim leaders the pictures are more than four years old the streets are quiet in this ancient oasis city on the old silk road you're closer to baghdad than beijing here but one thing strikes you quickly where are all the young men the invocation or education in training state t.v.'s been providing answers some of these men and women are getting an education in what are described

as vocational training centers that offer occupational skills language cultural and psychological training skills their parents prevented them from learning at school says one political commentator but they cannot find productive employment in the cities and other areas where they would need these basic skills reading writing communication in chinese human rights groups say wearing a veil or growing a beard is enough to get you sent here at first the government denied the existence of the camps now it's proudly defending the internment policy. jin is the editor of the global times newspaper a tabloid mouthpiece for the government he says there are more than a thousand violent attacks a year in shin jang there's no independent evidence to support that. through

tough control she has avoided the same extremism that has happened in a lot of other places in the world. china's leaders argued that these harsh measures are needed to prevent bomb and gun attacks associated with separatism violence that they say has cost the lives of hundreds of han chinese people in the past decade one attack in a room she in two thousand and fourteen happened the day after a visit by president xi jinping it was at about this time the president xi jinping began promoting what was to become a key economic policy the so-called one belt one road initiative the plan to bind china to europe and the middle east through infrastructure trade and investment but for that ambitious plan to work has to work during our time in shin jang our

movements were tightly controlled by government minders who later forced us to delete much of our video we were warned not to talk to anyone even about the silk road project. this is a replica of cashcard old city the original we were told is still being rebuilt just as it was three years ago when i was last here. here we were presented with a picture of ethnic harmony an elderly wego man and chinese tourist dancing a spontaneous moment insisted on minders but like the setting it felt contrived a dream brown al-jazeera in cash go. now all of the students kidnapped from a high school have been released the seventy nine people were taken by armed men from a presbyterian boarding school and amanda. says four people are still missing including a driver two teachers and principal amend one of kamma. speaking regions where

separatists have been fighting to create an independent state. but. it is time for sports now for liz thank you very much formula one has announced a new race with vietnam chosen to host a grand prix from twenty twenty it will be a street race through the capital city of how noisy parts of the sports asian expansion f one have released a promotional video has vietnam joins the other asia pacific races in japan china singapore and australia malaysia has already dropped off to twenty seventeen while india and south korea had only brief dips into the sports football and a couple of champions league matches have reached half time of one nil up away from home against c.s.k. moscow and valencia two all up at home against young boys meanwhile months as

united kick off against events in just over an hour with paul pogba so he was not affected by being stripped of the vice captaincy earlier this season the french world cup when a captain united's first two premier league games but in september coach jerry said marino told him he'd never lead the side again comedian the forms to playing in the i'm really happy to play. the manager. is do want to choose who is going to be corrupt in the mirror for who i was the second one. after. then. if you takes me to be the. those in change don't see anything for me i just want to play perform that's my job when a series is gearing up for one of the biggest much as an argentinian football history river plate and baka juniors will meet in the cup at liberty doors final on saturday supporters have already been out in force but away fans are banned from

both legs of the final due to rising football violence. though also won't be allowed into boxes or a stadium on saturday as he's serving a suspension oxygen is kept in public as says the build up to the biggest moment of his career is stressing him out. i take it very seriously but i'm not enjoying it when the game is over if we have the chance to be champions i will enjoy it now i try to treat it as a world cup final and i'm thinking about the game all the time so that i don't forget the details the truth is i'm not enjoying it very much to some action on briefly off the court in the n.b.a. now it's usually a good thing to get your hands on courtside seats but one fan probably regretted getting so close during the hornets hawks game hawks forward omari spellman just couldn't stop himself. but then what about this from the hornets miles bridges missing the three pointer but making sure of that so.

very much impressing his teammates in the process there was also an impressive alley oop from tony parker tamale monk the hornets going on head to win one hundred thirteen two hundred. england batsman benefits has made a century on his test cricket debut against sri lanka in goal he resumed on day two thirteen runs short of his hundred folks would make one hundred seven as he became only the fifth wicket keeper to score a century on debut england eventually made three hundred forty two all out. out for two hundred three the english reached thirty eight without loss of the close that's a lead of one hundred and seventy seven we're going to finish with some incredible shots of world motocross champion thomas teamed up with dragon filming pioneer tom petty and the results were pretty amazing as you can see the dragon was able to stay very close sometimes flying within centimeters of his head as a french rider on a summer x. games gold medalist. house always prefer thank you very much paul and that does it

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