do we know why he was released now. >> it was a lot of reasons. montel williams was a big advocate. 214 days in a mexican prison and now the marine is back home. >> we were going to have a report for you there. but you see montel williams in miami just getting off the plane. a private jet flying the marine and those folks that were with him from california to florida. i'm being told now we also have former new mexico governor governor bill richardson on the phone. ambassador, thank you for joik joining us on cnn. when did you realize your work to free him might pay off and how did this go down. >> we thought he was going to be released on tuesday, several days ago. and i went down there.

with a congressman, a bipartisan effort with montel. and it became very agonizing. because there was a delay on the part of the judge who i think in the end made the right decision based on humanitarian ground to proceed with the release. but we were working the phones. we were working -- not pressuring the -- but diplomacy with the mexican government. the state department helped. but it was a combined effort. i want to visit the sergeant last week at his prison. i told him i thought the release was imminent. but i think it was a combination of factors and the recognition that the mexican government was not pressured. but they made the right, correct judicial decision which is based on ptsd which they don't have much experience with in mexico that they made this release.

>> you talked about diplomacy governor richardson. prosecute president obama never spoke about this case and that was really a thorn in the side of his supporters. the highest who ever weighed in was secretary of state john cary -- kerry. should the prosecute have gotten involved. you know you got to be careful that you don't --. you got to be careful. they have a new president there that's strong. and you can't just blunder bust them. i think we used to correct mix of diplomacy and legal strategy and patience. i know that andrew suffered. because, you know, i visited him in prison. and obviously he has medical

treatment that needs to happen. but, you know, i think this is a good story amidst all this grid locke and bad news. an american comes home. we stand behind our veterans when they are in war and in civilian life. so, you know, we had an ecstatic ride back from san diego tijuana tonight. he just got back. he's with his mother. he's spending time decompressing with his family. he wants to get some steak and stone crabs. so, you know, it is a good story. and i feel good. i'm exhausted. i'm heading back to new mexico. >> i bet. a lot of efforts went into getting him out of prison. and to that point, to the mexican side point. there are some nationals that don't believe his claims that he drove three firearms into mexico by accident. they think he was up to no good. he was facing more than 20 years

in prison. what is your take on that? >> well i think that was incorrect. he is a good young man. you know, he is a war hero. and we have to stand behind them. maybe a mistake was made on the weapons things. i think he took a wrong turn coming into the mexico. and maybe because of some confusion or the ptsd. but he's a good young man. he's served two tours in afghanistan. he's suffered enough. great family, great mom and dad. you know, let's focus on the positive. and i think the mexican judge made the right choice. he got all the evidence. he took a long time and made the final decision because of ptsd on humanitarian grounds he should be released. so it ended well. >> we saw a lot of smiles there on that tarmac. ambassador richardson, thank you for taking the time with cnn. this marine back in the united states after more than seven

months in a mexican prison. >> nick, you have been on this from the start. interviewing tahmooressi. and with his family. thank you. >> now to the mojave desert, one pilot dead, the second seriously injured after the test flight by virgin galactic spaceshiptwo went horribly wrong. >> investigators are still trying to figure what happened here. but the plane broke apart friday shortly after detaching from the whiteknighttwo. the mother ship. cnn stephanie elam is there live in the mojave desert. what are you hearing about what happened here and is it start of this investigation? >> reporter: so many questions at this point, victor and ana. and as you can see the sun has just started to break over the hillside here. and if you look behind me, you can see that is the hangar.

the virgin galactic hangar where a lot of the investigation will happen here. what we know is spaceshpaceship this is the 35th time it had flown freely. it had gone up before. they were testing it out. the two pilots were on there. one in serious condition. the other did die in this accident yesterday. obviously what exactly happened we don't know. but some clues we have gotten yesterday, coming from people here on the ground saying that nothing seemed weird as far as how it happened. it is what didn't happen that was weird with how they normally know procedure should happen with the separation of spaceshiptwo from the white knight. that is where they say some anomaly happened there. and surface richard branson, he is expected to be here in the morning at some point. we're waiting to see if we can

get more guidance on that. he did sent out only tweets to give us an idea what he's thinking and feeling. in one "space is hard but worth it. we will persevere and move forward together". and in another tweet, "all our thoughts are with the brave pilots and families effected by today's events in the mojave". and one other point is that here in the community there are a lot of people involved in aeronautics and space exploration so this community has e felt this sort of pain before. not that it makes it any easier at all. >> so many questions but there are some people already taking aim at virgin galactic. what can you tell us about that. >> true. and yesterday when this news broke we had some very impassioned voices speaking out about how this project is going on. the idea of getting civilian travel to space. you are talking about going 62

miles up above earth for about 6 minutes of feeling what it's like to be weightless and gliding back down. and one of the people a journalist and writing a book. she knew the pilots. listen to what she had say. >> this engine that exploded today, even if they had had a successful flight, and even if they had not stolen my friend's life -- okay. >> right. >> they would not have ever gotten anywhere near space. >> and the criticism coming out about this also raising questions about when they would be able to take people up. they are expected to start that as early as next year. and keep in mind they already have some 700 people who've paid $250,000 for this ride.

>> stephanie elam. thank you so much. and stay with us. later this hour we'll talk with leroy chow, former astronaut about what may have gone wrong here. if republicans gain control of the senate what is going happen to the rest of the obama administration? as the campaign winds down and we head into tuesday's midterm election. [ male announcer ] tomcat bait kills up to 12 mice, faster than d-con. what will we do with all of these dead mice? tomcat presents dead mouse theatre. hey, ulfrik! hey, agnar! what's up with you? funny you ask. i'm actually here to pillage your town. [ villagers screaming ] but we went to summer camp together. summer camp is over. ♪

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swing and cnn's executive editor for politics is joining us from washington tracking all this for us. fill us in mark, what are the key races to watch come tuesday. >> reporter: it really does come down to the number six and in politics it is all about mathematics. let's break it down to see how republicans could take the senate majority. you have west virginia, south dakota, montana. races currently held by democratic senators that potentially wiare going to go republican. many think they are. that magic number switches now down to three. so republicans thn then only need three seats. the next group of seats states that democrats hope they can take back. kentucky mitch mcconnell is running for reereelection. also looking at kansas and pat roberts is trying to win reelection. and georgia, where michelle nunn

is trying to win back that seat. if republicans were to keep all the seats let's look at what they would to v to do to maintain the majority. alaska, arkansas, colorado, iowa, louisiana, nn new hampshire, north carolina. soifx six of those are held by democratic incumbents. they are on the verge of losing right now. for them to maintain that majority they would need to win five of seven of those seats. a difficult task ahead but if you look at the poles the race are very tight. >> we had if spokesman on for the dmc earlier and he said tuesday will be a long night. but there is a chance if we won't know if republicans take control on tuesday night because of the runoffs. >> right. here is the wild card right now. mary landrieu down in louisiana right now. there are eight people running in that contest.

we don't expect actually to have a call in that race or a projection because we don't think anyone is going to get to 50 plus 1%. if that happens, that runoff is going to take place in december. and then go to georgia polling e will get to the amount they need to win that state. so potentially we could go all the way to january and have an election in january that would decide the senate majority. >> mark, look into your crystal ball for a moment. if republicans do control congress, what is this going to mean for president obama in his final two years. >> let me say this. even if republicans don't control congress the next two years are going to be really difficult for president obama. if republicans are able to take back the senate you are certainly going to see a lot of cooperation between the house republicans and senate republicans to try to push through agenda items they think are not only good policy but

good politics heading into 2016. but even if senate republicans don't win the margin democrats will control, the senate will be so small you are talking about gridlock for the next two years. >> mark thank you. keep us posted. now back in 1994 the gop beat the democrats in that so called republican revolution. >> the man who helped orchestrate or led the orchestration of that victory, former house speaker newt gingrich is with us now. and first off and i guess this is the softball question out here. do you expect a big republican win on tuesday? >> sure. i think we're somewhere between a tide and a tidal wave and we don't know untilti tuesday nigh or wednesday morning but clearly every analysis indicates republicans will gain in the house, in the senate, in state legislatures. they may even end up surprising everybody and gaining in governors. that clearly as a minimum is a

republican tide. if it's as as it could be. it could be a tidal wave. >> politics and controversy seem to fit together like this. but take a listen to lindsay graham said at a private gathering a few weeks ago it was caught on tame. >> if i get to be president [inaudible]. are going to do great in my presidency. >> he said white men and all white clubs are going to go great in my presidency. and everybody laughs. that being said it is not particularly sensitive to other populations. what does this do for the images of the gop and does it reinforce a sense of lack of inclusiveness of gender of other minority groups. >> first of all, i wish you would balance that by putting up the ad that is being run in a number of states suggesting that if republicans get elected there will be more fergusons and saying protect our children vote against republican. >> we talked about that on our

show this morning as well. >> each party has differences. the fact is the democratings were paying ads to run in a false and racist way. he was talking stupidly in a private gathering and making a joke probably a sign that they should learn nothing is private and everything will be taped eventually. in the case of the democratic ads that are racist, it is a distribute and i think deliberate effort to terrify people with falsehoods. >> 21st anniversary of the contract with america this year. week back you wrote an op ed. you wreet americans need a clear and unambiguous account what we need to do and believe the reform required their explicit support and if we broke faith we

wouldn't deserve power. so inviting people to vote us out again if we didn't follow through. what is the plan on which republicans are running this time around? that agreement with the country that these candidates are saying if we don't hold true to these and we can't get those done, get rid of us. >> probably the clearer statement of that which is captured in an article yesterday by peters roth as a speech by boehner. he outlined six big areas of reform. he's going to r pursue these areas. as the powerful and compelling spech speech. that's been reinforced by the kevin mccarthy. and by republican national committee chairman who gave a speech outlining key principles virtually all republicans agree

on. i think they would have been better off to a more comprehensive and better committed program. but it's not trivial you have the speaker saying look if i'm speaker we are going to go in these directions with these reforms. and i think it does give you a sense that they are going to challenge president obama. and they are going to say do you want to dpoesnegotiate on this veto it but we're coming at you with ideas. >> 2016, we know rubble need republicans need to get more latino voters. what is the. >> i suspect they will pass a series of reform bills not a single comprehensive reform bill but a series. and if you look -- and we'll have to wait until tuesday night or wednesday to see. but if you look in colorado there is good evidence that cory gardner has broken through and doing very well with latino

voters with a committed and comprehensive program that. does include, education, jobs, take home pay. it is not just immigration only. and i think there are a number of positive things. >> i'm sure you can say he has broken through. i live in colorado. >> okay. >> and i've been receiving dozens of fliers from latino backed groups as supporting his opponent mark udall. >> we'll know sometime late tuesday or wednesday night. but the polling shows he's going vastly better than romney did. and we'll see what happens. >> indeed. >> former speaker newt gingrich. thank you. >> thank you. >> and remember to get all your election night coverage on cnn this tuesday starting at 5:00 p.m. president obama has been on the campaign. >> but what would his impact be if any now? i have $40, $21. could something that small make

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i don't think there is anyone questioning that the republicans will hold onto the house on tuesday of course. but democrats are hoping to hold the senate on tuesday. >> and one of the keys if they were to do that is that critical voter group, women. president obama was out on the campaign trail this week with the middle term elections just days away. in maine, rhode island yesterday. cnn's aaron mcpike is joining us with more from washington.

aaron? >> reporter: president obama making a last ditch effort to push women to the poles, hoping to keep republicans from controlling the senate. >> we've got to raise our voices to basically do away with policies and politicians that belong to a madmen episode. madmen is a good show but that is not who we want making our decisions about our workplaces these days. >> but he made those remarks in rhode island where there is no senate election tuesday. he hasn't campaigned in the eight state ts with the most competitive senate races. republicans are using him to drag down democrats. >> i'm not on the ballot this fall. michelle is happy about that but make no mistake these policies are on the ballot. >> republicans say it is

president obama's incompetence driving women away. >> in january, president obama refers to the islamic state as a jv team. days later the armed services committee holds a meeting on new global threats. senator kay hagen, absent. >> these four democratic women who've spent months distancing themselves from the president could be key to his last two years in office. especially if michelle nunn in george pulls off an upset. the state that catapulted barack obama to the white house and kept him there could give the gop the upper hand in the final chapter of his presidency. >> back out to aaron now joining us in washington. aaron, i understand the republicans are saying this whole idea of war on women and all of that is played out. tell us more. >> ana, usually democrats polled

much higher than democrats with women. but this year the democrats have been able to shrink that gap considerably. and both parties are finding what has worked for democrats the past few cycles like suggesting it is democrats only who can promise access to contraception is not cutting through anymore. >> aaron mcpike in washington, thank you. two tragedies in one week for the space industry. first the unmanned rocket exploding off the coast of virginia and then the deadly incident in california. so what does it mean for the future of american space exploration? ? to your company, your customers, and all your data.

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good to have you. >> we will persevere. those are words in response to yesterday's spaceshiptwo disaster over the mojave disaster. one pilot is dead. another seriously injured after parachuting to the ground. it is still unclear exactly what happened but eye witnesses say the space plane started to break apart moments after it detached from the mother ship. branson is still due to visit the crash site today as he joins his colleagues ow out there. >> joining us to talk more about the disaster, leroy chow a the former nasa astronaut logged more than 229 days in space. i want to ask you specifically about what might have happened here. we're not getting any specifics from the mojave air and space port. but they're saying it is what did not happen. when the someplace plane separated from the white knight,

what information from what you know is possible that went wrong here? >> of course it is early to speculate on what's going on in the accident investigation team will be looking at everything. but for as you mention the eye witness photographer reported that not long after separation the spaceshiptwo started its rocket engine and then he witnessed an explosion and the vehicle break apart. so, you know, it is difficult to say but it could be something to do with the engine. it is hard to speculate. but perhaps it may or may not have something to do with the reformulation of the fuel. it could have been an airframe problem. could have been a structural problem. so really it is just too early to tell and we're going to have to wait for the investigation board to, you know, look at all the data, look at all the debris. look at all the video and photography available and make a determination of the root cause. but i'm confident they will find a root cause and there will be lessons to be learned and i'm confident that those will be

applied and a more robust spacecraft will be built. >> you bring up the reformulation of the fuel. the company that employs the two astronaut, one deceased, one seriously injured -- the two pilots there. they say virgin galactic switched from the rubber based mix to a plastic based mix. what is the impact of that? what is the value of letting out that little information, that nugget of news there? >> well it is certainly something to look at. and the accident investigation board i'm sure will key on that to see if it did or did not contribute to the accident. any time something is changed in the business, in the aerospace business, it can have unintended consequences. so, you know, the fact it was changed and this is the first flight with that reformulated fuel may lead one to think okay this may have played a factor in it. >> space exploration is hard.

this is going to be difficult, i think everybody new, from the beginning. but for someone in your position like these two pilots, what is the mind set before you start this type of mission. you weren't doing a test flight. these two pilots were trying something that had never really been done before. where are you mentally as grow into this type of thing? >> being a professional astronaut or test pilot. a lot of professional aus naughts were test pilots before. it is the same attitude. you are extensively trained and doing something you love and you are passionate about and you understand the risks. you know what can happen. and you have been trained in procedures and you know there are certain things, what we call "black zones" in nasa, where there is not a lot you can do. and you have had a chance to think about it and you accept those risks because you are doing something you love and you want to contribute to advancing the state of the art. so these two pilots who were on board spaceshiptwo, obviously very well trained professionals.

and knew what they were getting into. i'm sure they had flown the vehicle before. so unfortunately, whether a new spacecraft or the high performance aircraft for the military, in any test program unfortunately sometimes you are going to have mishappens like this. >> and everyone knew there was great risk. the questions will be if everyone did everything possible to minimize those risks and make sure everyone is safe. and of course the continues. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. well the voting has begun already in some states. the balance of nopower in washington could shift. and if it does what, if anything, will president obama be able to accomplish in the next two years? >> first this. a young woman is awakening that age old art of portrait

painting. and on huge scale. her canvass stretch more than 13 feet high and capture a whole lot more than just a photograph. >> i wouldn't call myself portrait artist. that doesn't fit what i'm doing. i'm depicting a human face. i can't really look for that long a time at somebody's face if i don't really love that face. i have to truly feel connected to it in order to spend eight months with it. i simply randomly find people by encountering them absolutely by chance. with marie torres it was an absolute chance encounter. we were working this museum and she was passing in front of me. and i just, it was just like a bell ringing in my head. my god, this is the face. this is the face.

>> elena still frequents a nursing home down the road. always searching for that imaginal face, that special connection that drives her to pick up her pencil and draw. when she find it she takes a photograph, and leaves. >> i used to have sitters. but lately it is a photograph. i just have this surface really they work with. it is the surface of a face. it is the skin. such mystery, human face. it is such a mystery. >> detail just amazing. you can catch the full show at cnn.com/ones to watch. stay with us.

so democrats have held the majority in the senate for almost 8 years now. but that could change soon. the balance of power in washington could shift on tuesday in part because of the voter turnout. and a about a dozen too close to call races. key races in colorado, new hampshire, georgia to name a few could decide what if anything gets accomplished in washington. no matter how you look at it or

who you are pulling for, the turnout on tuesday night could be a real nail biter. cnn will bring special live coverage of all the races tuesday. we want to look at with cnn political analyst brownstein and ryan liza. who has momentum though ryan? >> i don't think either side has momentum in the sense that one is surge asking the other is declinings. but there is no doubt republicans are in much better position going into election day. as you have heard a million times they need six seats to take back the senate. looks like three of those are in the back. west virginia, south dakota and probably arkansas. and then there are six other races and they need three of those other six. so you would much rather be the republicans this election than the democrats. >> are there some who would have

expected had republicans to be in a better position going into tuesday? people thought that -- we just heard from newt gingrich that it's either a wave or a tidal wave. >> interesting. these democratic senator u particularly the imcoupncumbente managed to keep it closer. if you go back, the midterm of a second term has been very difficult for the president's party. the only exceptions are the 1996 and 1998. the core of the democratic problem is still what it is always been. they have defending seven seats in states that voted for romney in 2012 and in increasingly it is difficult to win those seats. and then because obama is weak that universe of vulnerability is extended to four seats where

democrats hold seats and in voters who voted for democrat pets in 2012. so republicans have a lot of ways to get there and democrats are playing defense on a lot of fronts. >> the president has reminded voters that he is not on the ballot but the issues is. i wonder if the republicans take the senate, if the democrats keep it. what can get done in this environment. >> the baseline is zero. the last two years basically nothing has gotten done in washington. those not an exaggeration. so it can't get worse, right? so there are some people who look at the dynamics of one party controlling the congress and one party controlling the white house and argue quite a bit can get accomplished under those circumstances. republicans are going to be in a little bit of a vice if they take over the senate. on the one hand going into a presidential election they are going to want to show the voters

they are a responsible party that can pass important legislation and solve problems that americans face. on the other hand, they are going to be going into a presidential election with a very conservative base and a number of senators running for president and who are going to want to push the party to the right. so you will see a battle like you have seen over the last years between the leadership in the senate and house can the grassroots outside pressure and senator and members of the house who respond to that pressure. i think that is going to make governing very difficult. because if you think about the list of issues that obama and the senate and house leadership agree on, it is very short. >> ron, quickly at the top of this next session, whose in control of the senate? >> more likely than not it is the republicans. pretty much everything would have to go right for democrats to hold. but it matters how bad it gets. if the republicans only get a

slim majority, the reality is in 2016 it could easily flip back. that is the modern trend. >> ryan, do you agree? >> absolutely. i think the republicans are likely to take senate. although i i don't think we're going to know on tuesday. i think it will take a while to learn the results in alaska and likely runoffs in georgia georgia and louisiana. >> ryan and ron. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and all the election night kovrng coverage is this tuesday. start at 5:00 p.m. eastern you've come to realize... [ starter ] ready! [ starting gun goes off ] coverage coverage is this tuesday. start at 5:00 p.m. eastern yeah! [ male announcer ] and more of a journey. keep going strong. and as you look for a medicare supplement insurance plan...

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it is our 11:00 a.m. hour of cnn news room which begins right now. a u.s. marine reservist held in mexico for months is now free. sergeant andrew tahmooressi landed in the u.s. for the first time in seven months and in i15 minutes the family holds a news conference in florida. we'll take you there live. and a spaceship breaks up in the sky. >> space is hard. and today was a tough day. >> the pieces plummeted to the ground. we're live in the mojave desert straight ahead. and it is the frenzied last weekend of campaigning before midterm elections. candidates across the countrying are calling in the big