midnight on the east coast. this is "cnn tonight." i am don lemon. in breaking news tonight an anti-trump wave sweeping democrats to power in virginia. ralph northam claiming a huge win in the governor's race. at least 13 seats in the statehouse flipped from red to blue. the question tonight is will that wave hit president trump in the gop in 2018? but the victory doesn't stop in virginia. democrats also winning the governor's race in new jersey. currently in the hands of crist criminal casy. and new york's mayor easily winning a second term tonight, phil de blasio that is. my political dream team is with me. and we're live tonight with the latest in the election. let's begin this hour with the coveragef our senior political

analyst. you've been going through the exit polls of tonight's races. what do they tell us of what could be in store in 2018? >> we're going to focus in on virginia because the state is racially economically and geographically diverse. so it gives us an idea of how things could play out across the country. let's look at what the approval rating is right now, don, in virginia. if you see that his approval rating was at 40%. his disapproval rating was at 57%. we have released a national poll that basically tracks these numbers, don. so these exit poll numbers are seeming to track with what we're seeing across the country nationally. if we can flip it, why did people vote tonight? you see this right here, to oppose donald trump. i mean look at those numbers right there. 98% of those people supported ralph northam and of course only 2%, you know, supported

gillaspie. however, what we're not showing right there, though, and let me just tell you right now is when you look at it right there, to support donald trump, 16% of people went out to vote to support donald trump. look at that number, 34%, more than double of people went out as an opposition vote against donald trump. as we talk about this election, as we talk about 2018, clearly trump had an effect on this race. >> that's the president mark. what are people saying about the republican and democratic parties in virginia? >> good news for democrats, bad news for republicans. if you look at there, it shows that democrats right now had a 51% approval rating coming out of this exit poll. if you look at the disproval rating was 45%. now, if you look at the republican numbers, their approval rating was only at 45%, don. if you look at these numbers right now it just goes to show you that democrats were doing

very, very well in virginia. we released a national poll earlier today that showed that democrats right now have a 37% approval rating. that doesn't match up to the 51% approval rating democrats have in the state of the virginia. what it does give us is an indication when democrats are out there campaigning, their message is selling. and as i just said if we show the republican numbers right here, the republican numbers tracking what we saw in our national poll. right now their favorable rating was only 37% in virginia. nationally, nationally don, this is what a big concern it is for republicans, just shows their favorable rating is at 37%. if you're a republican running for re-election in 2018, you have much concern. >> he said a resounding defeat tonight for president trump. voters around the country

rejected the ugly politics we have seen this past year and instead said they chose candidates who inspire us. do you think tonight it sends a potential challenge to president trump and vice president biden maybe? >> yeah, i do, don. i think for the very simple terms if we just look at virginia again, if we look at ralph northam, he's someone able to bring out the liberal side of the base and the more moderate side of the base that came together to support his candidacy. if you're going to run against donald trump in 2020 here's two things to keep in mind, and a lot have said they've told their candidates don't talk about donald trump, talk about the economy. talk about jobs, talk about how the democratic party is better for america than what we see from donald trump. let donald trump make his own mistakes. let him tweet, let him trip himself up. that's why, don, if you look at his approval rating we just talked about, that's why donald trump is doing so poorly right now.

it's really self-inflicted wounds. >> the big win for democrats tonight, exactly one year after donald trump's stunning victory over hillary clinton and the presidential election. joining me now cnn political analyst joshua green, national correspondent for bloomsbering business week, cnn reporter henderson, cnn political commentator david axelrod, and dave begala, simone sanders, jason miller, and political commentator amanda carpenter. before i play this, i want to pl play what happened one year -- is biden running? >> he seems to be talking to people about it. he's going on a 40-city book tour which is often a prelude to something. and i expect that he's very much down the road. >> a couple of weeks ago he was in western virginia campaigning

for ralph northam. by the way, terry mccullen the democratic governor of virginia, a huge winner here am. a lot of people are going to look to him to run. >> the question is what lessons candidates should take from this. the fact is that in both parties candidates have to go through a nominating process. and sometimes a nominating process has different demands than the process of winning a general election. and i think one of the challenges for the democratic party is do candidates position themselves in such ways to win the nominating process and make themselves less electable in a general election? and that remains to be seen. >> so can you guys believe it's been a year? it was one year ago tonight. what'd you say? >> feels like ten. >> hopefully it'll be seven more. >> well, it'd be one more

election. >> many more years. >> each year for me with president trump is like a dog year, a female dog year. it's very difficult. >> here's what was going on on cnn a year ago. watch this. >> donald trump suhead. he has 242 electoral votes compared to hillary clinton's 209. he is ahead of hillary clinton right now, but there is still several of those yellow states that are out standing right now. so we'll see what is happening in those states. he's clearly doing now, dana, what he did during the republican primaries, surprising a lot of folks. >> that's absolutely right. >> right now a historic moment. cnn projects donald trump wins the presidency. the business tycoon and tv personality capping his

improbable political journey with an astounding upset victory. defeating hillary clinton in a campaign unlike anything we've seen in our lifetime. >> it is interesting. i remember being and people are looking -- >> shocked, right? >> i actually think he watches that. >> every night before he goes to bed, i'm sure. >> it's been a year. a lot has changed in the political landscape in a year. >> yeah, donald trump hasn't really changed, though. he is essentially the same person as he ran as, the kind of tweets that stir things up, the bullying in terms of people in his own party, talking about the president the way he does. i was in this chair a year ago, and i think i am surprised at how little donald trump has actually been able to do. ithink i remember texting back and forth with somebody in the

obama administration essentially saying, you know, the whole obama legacy is over, and they're going to be able to run the table on any number of things in terms of overturning legislation or passing new legislation, and that just hasn't happen immediatech and i think we saw the results of that tonight with folks in virginia and different states essentially saying what we signed up for something in terms of voting for trump, but he hasn't necessarily delivered. and not only that he's tweeting wild and crazy things at other republicans and it's not amounting to anything. >> that was the concern. it was a republican house, republican senate, republican white house and that there would be legislative accomplishments democrats would not like. that has not happened. >> not at all. trump stated i want to be president for all americans. and that sent a message, very short-lived, but it sent a message that he really might reach across the aisle and maybe lead with something like

infrastructure. so you had a lot of democrats, chuck schumer, worried that trump would steal a big part of the democratic base. blue collar, white workers who are tempted by him in many ways. and had he governed differently, he might have. but that's not the trump we see here a year later. >> we talk about the president constantly reaching out to his base. that's a strategy. reach out to his base, reach out to his base. he only does interviews on one network, which many people labeled the trump network now. if you look at the poll numbers, he's not gaining and he hasn't reached across the aisle. he hasn't brought in any new voters, any independent numbers. does the strategy ned to change, jason? >> well, i think part of what the president needs to do is go back to the strategy that works so well on the campaign trail. i was with the president when he went into cleveland and talked

about school choice, went into african-american neighborhoods and talked about infrastructure, how we're going to bring back jobs and opportunity. >> he said he needs to come off of offense or go back? >> he needs to go back on offense. hold on. but on the campaign trail, i felt like the president really took on big issues and thought really big transformative agenda items. and i feel that we're getting too much of the president's success or failure right now is being dictated by what 100 knuckle heads on capitol hill give a thumbs up or thumbs down to. when we talk about things that can truly change people's lives for the better, things people can say, wow, i did not expect you donald trump to make good on these promises or do these big things. keep in mind during the campaign one of the things that made donald trump stand out so much, he would go to news outlets that

typical republicans would never go to, and he would do great. and he would take this message -- >> when he needed them he's like of course oh, yeah i'll do the interview -- >> he should go and take advantage of that, take offense -- >> won't it be hypocritical if he goes back and does interviews with fake news organizations -- >> no, the one cool thing about election night -- i get to brag for just a minute. >> go right ahead. >> i wanted the opportunity to tell him they just called the race and he became president. so a minor footnote in history do be backstage and said mr. president, mr. president-elect, they called it and you're the next president of the united states. >> hold on. what was his reaction? >> i think it was a kind of a

momentary, he just kind of looked and like you're kidding? and everyone started hugging each other and it was a pretty cool moment. >> something jason said i want to go back, these 100 knuckle heads on the hill, that is our government. the fact tat donald trump has not been able to grasp that concept in this short year i think is really important. it's going to dictate what the next year looks like not just for him but republicans down the ballot. so going back to whatever he did on the campaign trail was only speaking to specific group of people. if you really want to be president of everybody, you have to act like you'd be president of everybody. when we come back, president trump urging the cia director to meet with a consconspiracy theorists that doubts russia hacked the dnc. we're going to talk about this with james clapper. that's right. t-mobile's got your netflix subscription covered... ...when you get a family plan with two or more lines.

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the president addressing south korea's national assembly tonight and bluntly warning north korea's regime not to mess with the united states. >> the weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer. they are putting your regime in grave danger. every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face. north korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. it is a hell that no person

deserves. yet despite every crime you have committ committed against god and man, we are ready to offer, and we will do that. we will offer a path towards a much better future. >> joining me now cnn national security analyst james clapper, the former director of national intelligence. so good to have you on. thaeng very much ach after watching the president's speech tonight in your opinion do they decrease or increase the conflict with north korea? >> i don't think they change a whole lot. i think it was a strong speech, but it was absent of the careless and inflammatory rhetoric we saw before. it's not going to intimidate the north. i thought the litany about human rights abuses was kind of striking, that he would do that.

the idea of suggesting, i think he was messaging the chinese and russia about serving relationships. i'm not sure what that means. i think the chinese are going to be hard-pressed to do that. and the greater strategic imperative for the chinese is north korea not implode violently and particularly and they lose their buffer state. i think that is the overriding strategic imperative for the chinese. but the speech was mostly stiff and not much carat. i wish he expanded a bit on his press conference remarks about the ordeal and offered something about the path to negotiation. if i ever drafted a speech, which is unlikely would ever happen, i think i would have tried to insert some language in there about the fact that the

united states has no -- enemies. >> what he did not do in this speech is put north korea back on the terror response list. >> i don't really think there's much to be gained by that in terms of what that he'll actually mean by north korea. that's something they ought to hold back. they don't want be put on that list, so i think it was good not to do it. >> he said north korea should not underestimate his administration. this is new and different administration. i'm wondering where diplomacy stands right now. it wasn't long ago he said tillerson was wasting his time negotiating. >> yes, and i personally don't think the secretary of state is ever wasting his time through diplomacy. that's his job. and as secretary mattis has said, we're always looking to

negotiate. and again the inference of his press conference remarks was there's something afoot here, hopefully diplomatic. i don't know what that means, and i was looking for that in his speech. i was hoping it would be more on a path ahead for negotiations. i don't try or didn't when i was there, the north korean great interest in a peace treaty. because all we have is an armistice that's there for 64 years, a cease-fire. of course that wasn't in his speech. >> all of this is happening and russia's in the background. russia's still playing here even as he's overseas, and then we have this where at the urging of the president, we have mike pompeo who's a cia director, the president met last month -- or he met last month mike pompeo with a u.s. intel official who denies that russia meddled in

the election and has this conspiracy theory that it was an inside job. how unusual is that made? >> well, it's unusual. and in fairness to pompeo, i think when the president asks you to meet with somebody as much as you may not want to, in my sensing is as much as it took to meet, he didn't want to do that. because he understood the impact that was going to have on the intelligence community at large. and i was gratified when he did ratify the findings and the evidence that it wasn't an inside job is pretty substantial. >> but it seems like the president, he is still questioning the intelligence community that russia meddled in the election. >> it shows the lengths at which the president would go to grassp straws in try to rebut that

assessment. it was very solid. and so i think he just won't let it go, and he's looking for any way he can to attack the notion that the russians interfered. and they did and quite substantially. >> new details are coming out about carter page, that capitol hill testimony. on a trip to russia he interacted with a russian deputy prime minister. and also said top officials like coren lewandowski, hope hicks new about that trip. what does that all mean because they're still some in the administration? >> well, this is continuation of this drip, drip, drip. implicating people associated with the campaign and in some cases with the administration about this interaction with the russians. that's why it's so important that this come to closure at some point. and of course the great hope here for me is that special

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78% of those people said they voted for northam. what's interesting is that was far more than a number of people who said that immigration, for example, was their main concern. in fact if you added immigration and guns together it would be less than the number of people who said health care was an issue. i think there's something going on in this country, and you saw it well enough not just in virginia but in other places around the country tonight. and we've seen this at times when there's an unpopular president, unpopular policies, the opposition party gets a burst of energy. and we saw that burst of energy in virginia tonight, and elsewhere at a magnitude that i don't think anybody expected. again, i'd say the dpufbner's race was surprising because of its margin. the legislative races were mind-boggling. the fact that democrats who were 2 to 1 in the minority today could tomorrow or the next day actually be in control of the

virginia house of delegates. that's a big warning sign for republicans. >> keirsten, i want to ask you what's going on, because the exit polls in virginia and the governor's race showed that 1 in 6 virginians made up their minds during the last week. 62% to 36%. do you think voters are fed up with the scandal or fed up with what's existing or what's going on? >> the race got ugly in the closing gate. that definitely could have turned them off. i was saying earlier i wouldn't read too much into the governor's race. but i think it's right to look at the house of delegates because those are more of an approximation of a generic ballot race. because they don't have the kind of television ads and the people are less well-known. in recent polls democrats are polling better on the generic ballot. i think it's saying that people,

it's a reaction to trump, you know, in large part versus in the governor's race it's a democratic state, democratic governor right now. these are people that are taking republican seats. >> it's also a measure of organization. organization is driven by enthusiasm. lots and lots of people showed up in the state of virginia and went door-to-door for these legislative candidates, and that actually makes a difference. >> go on. >> you cannot win if you cannot play, from a mississippi songwriter. "d"s put candidates up in races that most people didn't think they could win today. democrats have learned a lot from 2016, which is you've got to reach out to people. you can't just say we're going to tend to our base, but you can't ignore that base. right nutow the democrats look

like they've got both wings together. that's a really impressive thing from my party which is never united. >> it's an interesting thing. do most people under the table agree the russia thing played into the voters -- >> i think it's a part of the overall anti-trump sentiment. but in terms of issues that were on their minds, like they said health care was an overwhelming issue. >> but i don't think specifically anti-trump. because what we've seen democrats do run on anti-trump and they're just talking about donald trump, they're not necessarily successful. so it was also that democratic races across the country had a message to speak to voters. but the chairman of the black caucus just texted me and said, we can't except the ball on the line. we need a long-term plan to engage voters of color, young people. so there's more work that democrats have to do. >> let's say one thing about this race. i think there's a lot of democrats went to the polls, pulled the lever and didn't know

anything about this candidate. i'm not taking anything away from him, but i've heard people say it, and i think it's also true. he also flew very much below the radar. what would have happened if he'd gotten into a twitter fight? that st. not really a do-able thing in 2020. and so you can't -- there is an anti-trump vote, but that's not everything. >> but you don't fight fire and fir. you fight fire with water. mr. trump is bellicose. donald trump is divisive, ralph northam is uniter. this is thing that democrats can learn. it's everywhere we need to be anti-trump in the best sense of the word. not just against everything he proposes. but it's against this most unlovely and undignified campaign the way that ed gillaspie ran it.

he ran a racist, divisive set of ads and he should be ashamed of himself. >> are you calling that ad racist because what it did is call-out racism. >> i would say that was gis gusting and shameful. >> what's gis gusting is ed gillaspie sparking the worst parts of people -- the ad was was kids of color running. and what they were running from was a truck with a bumper sticker with a confederate flag with it. if you don't like that type of stuff don't -- >> we'll find the ad and then we'll talk about it. >> it wasn't a democratic ad at. >> we'll be right back. coaching means making tough choices.

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>> it was from a latino victory fund. i thought it was totally unfair, and it came off right away but somehow that is the equivalent of putting his name on an image of race based ads day after day after day. >> let's watch this ad. here it is. >> is this what donald trump is ed gillaspie mean by the american dream? >> so let me say i think that ad is, one, latino victory fund i think first of all the team said they knew that ad was -- there are lots of people in america specifically virginia that felt directly attacked by ed gulaespy

candidacy, the type of race he was running. many other people i think it was also right for ralph northam to also disavow the ad. but the fact of the matter is ed gillaspie ran a really racist campaign. if folks are upset about people calling out racism, i think you should be more upset about the racism than the racist tactic -- >> this is the ad people thought people were racist. here it is. >> the dangerous street gang ms 13 are responsible for the recent murder in bedford county. >> crimes have been increasing in our region. >> ms 13 is a menace. get ralph northam voted for sanctions -- ralph northam's policies are dangerous. i'm ed gillaspie, candidate for

governor. and i sponsor this ad. >> racist ads are fear based. those people in that ad, by the way, that photograph was taken in el salvador. they're not in virginia. virginia has the third lowest crime rate in america. and for ed gillaspie to say oh, scary latinos are coming to your -- >> was it wrong for gillaspie to bring up the fact that northam -- you have a president that threatens federal funding. why is it racist to talk about the policies? >> leaving the question whether it'seratesest or not racist are, do you think anyone who watched that ad who had no other

information would know there are no sanctuary cities in virginia? the clear implication is there are and that's why there's this problem. >> i think people are threatened by the idea of -- >> i understand exactly what the intent of it was. and it did help jen up ed gillaspie. >> not only did ralph northam win, democrats also elected the first latino house delegate in virginia tonight despite ads like these. so voters were obviously seeing these ads -- >> that was a calculation gillaspie had to make. he wasn't winning, and he made this calculation he was going to get off the economic message on tv and go to mismessage to try to arouse his base. but it's very hard to jen up your base and not jen up another at the same time.

i think you had this turn out because of the backlash. >> he played the culture wars in that way not only with the nfl and he sent out ads with the nfl players kneeling, embracing robert e. lee. anyway coming into this the thought was maybe this would work, maybe this would be a play book you could repicate if you were a republican in any other state. but it backfired. i think everyone is surprised at how much it backfired. >> vanity called it trumpism. if thing going tonight is if republican win big is that -- >> a republican strategists across the country looking at this oh, maybe we should back off, maybe we shouldn't be so close, maybe it shouldn't be trump or trumpism? >> yeah, i think probably. but this wasn't intentional. they were trying something out

and they really believed this was going to work. and if it would work in a state like virginia, it would work in other states. and they made the immigration issue central, the cultural issuewise the nfl and those types of things because those are things trump uses to divide people in the country. it's how he opened his campaign with the immigration issue. >> so what does this mean for the president's agenda moving forsqurd inbecause now taxes. and every republican will tell you i think he's got to get something done. we'll answer it right after the break. e may weigh on your mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go, and how to work around your uc. that's how i thought it had to be. but then i talked to my doctor about humira, and learned humira can help get and keep uc under control... when certain medications haven't worked well enough. humira can lower your ability to fight infections,

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westchester county republican lost by 16 tonight. senator crist murphy tweeted that all over connecticut town leadership change from republican to democrat, that's a very suburban state. there is a problem with there is a problem with independent and republican voters in should have these raers. and the turnout issue is huge. our colleague ron brownstein tweeted that wortham -- sorry. north that will. >> it's late. >> it is late. i'll col him governor-elect. the governor-elect got 330,000 more votes than either terry mcauliffe or mark warner in 2013 and 2014. 330,000 votes. ed gillespie got 100 more votes than he got when he ran in 20 train. but that was dwarfed by the turnout. and this was in those suburban areas. so yes, i think -- and this is

the battleground in these congressional races in 2018. so i think republicans have a lot to think about. i do think they'll go in, the leaders will go into their caucuses tomorrow and say, we got to pass tax reform because if we don't pass, this is what we're going to get if we don't do something. >> i'm glad you asked that,my yeah you heard what he said about health care. more people cared about health care than thought of. now these same people, these blue state republicans, are going to be asked to vote for this tax plan that could hurt their constituents. >> yeah, and that's why you see some of them already saying they can't back it. if you're from new york, for instance. if they do away with the state and local deduction, that's not a good thing. there are all sorts of things. getting rid of deductions for student loans, adoptions, all sorts of things buried in medical expenses. all sorts of things buried into this very republican approach to taxes. it doesn't seem necessarily to be a populist approach to taxes.

i mean, they sort of lead with this idea of cutting corporate tax rate to 20% and this idea all that's going to trickle down to the little guy, these white working-class voters who are part of trump's base. i'm not sure that's necessarily sexy enough for those voters to really be attached to and really be excited about. >> as jason said, it doesn't pull on the heart strings of the trump voter. >> right. >> but are we looking at another health care fight? >> we could be because one of the things republicans might think about doing to help pay for this corporate health tax is to abolish the individual mandate in the affordable care act, which would have the effect of pulling health care and never jizing a lot of these angry democratic voters who turned out tonight because of health care into this tax fight which might not be something republicans want to fight about right now. >> what happens if taxes don't get passed, tax reform? >> it's a problem. here's the thing.

a lot of republicans went along with trump because he's a dealmaker who's going to get things done. without those deals you can only run on trumpism. that's what ed gillespie tried to do in virginia, it did not work. there's a lot of republicans i think are rirlg now making the calculation, i do not wish to run on trumpism. jeff flake, bob corker, other house seats. they're taking themselves off the field. >> did they take themselves off too early, considering what happened tonight? >> if they don't want to campaign on trumpism and defy the rnc, defy the white house -- look what president trump did to ed gillespie tonight. ed gillespie lost. and president trump knifed him as he went down. >> i'm fine with flake and corker hitting the road, i have no problem there. like i said, we need to get tax cuts ton, then there's a lot more republicans need to do. >> are you hearing what we're saying?

the republicans in blue states got creamed and this is going to potentially hurt their constituency. do you think they're going to be able to -- >> look, they'll tweak it so maybe it's a smaller tax cut for families in blue states. but at a certain point -- first of all, the state and local tax deduction is complete garbage that allows blue states to have out-of-control governments, then they go and get to deduct big chunks from it. but they'll go play around with it and do enough so they can go get blue state republicans on board. so everyone's going to get a tax cut. i'm not too concerned about that. >> christmas, thanksgiving, when is it going to happen? >> if they pass tax cuts in january, even the first or second week of february, still a win. >> what will happen when it's the trump supporters, hey, man, this is not what you promised us. >> that's the problem, this is not a trump supporter tax cut, it's a swamp tax cut, designed

by special interests and the paul ryan and what donald trump ran against. they're going to have to defend this. health care was the biggest issue in virginia, they didn't even pass it, but virginians didn't wanted me caid destroyed. that's the biggest political message you get out of this. 2018 is going to be about tax cuts. do people want to take away tax cuts from families who adopt babies to give a bigger tax cut to exxonmobil? >> this gives the resistance something to run on. >> it gives lots people lots of things to run on. the republicans have the white house, both chambers of congress, and they've not been able to get anything done. folks want results. i have been across the country talking about this, been with lots of focus groups, with trump voters who say, we want to give him a year to see what he can do. coming up on a year. >> 4.1% unemployment rate, record high stock market, the economy's doing great -- [ cross talk ] >> are we living in the same place? >> i want to get in the last word -- get something

accomplished at all costs even fit hurts? >> what do you mean? >> he has to get something accomplished at all costs -- >> get something accomplished because that's what his job is, right? seriously, it's not just to get elected. i think he should -- these are serious problems. and there's a reason a lot of people turned out because of health care, because health care is a major issue in this country that's bankrupting people. and people are dying because they don't have health care. so yeah, he needs to get something done, whether passing health care or tax cuts. but not to get re-elected just because he's president. >> thank you, this is fascinating. i appreciate it. that's it for us, thanks for watching. see you back here tomorrow, i'll be in new york tomorrow. live coverage continues after this with john vause in los angeles. lower back pain has met its match. aleve direct therapy.

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