>> and coming off not the way they expected yesterday to face the press after the mid-term elections. he said he's ready to compromise with the republicans but he' still has that veto pen. >> the american people made it clear they don't want every day going forward being a constant negative battle. >> we'll talk to amy cklobuchar when she joins us this morning. >> this is where things stand in the house, 209 for republicans, 191 for the democrats. there are 35 -- 35 races that remain uncalled. of these republicans would need

to win nine and democrats would need to win 27 if they wanted to take control. and the question you're getting across this morning is is there a chance? is there a chance that democrats could do this? well being look at the uncalled races. democrats actually lead in 24 of them, republicans lead in 11. so republicans have what they need. but if you're a democrat you're saying we're close, it's close. let's take a closer look at some of these races to see if in some of the races, and these are the uncalled races where republicans are leading, if democrats have a chance. in california, california counts slowly. a lot of mail vote there. a lot of the races there are very close. you can see. in california's 13th district, just 203 votes separate them, it's only 40% reporting. go to the 22nd district. david is an incumbent who has done well. this is a d plus 12 seat but

still only 30% reporting. could there be room to grow there? you go all the way down here in california, it's sort of the same story. this one's a little bigger of a margin, kim 55% there, here only 52%. so democrats maybe, maybe could make up some ground there. so it isn't over in the house, even though republicans have a clearer shot but there's still a lot of counting to do. >> when it comes to these very tight races, it's all about where the votes left to be counted are, where they're coming from. >> in california that's hard to tell again because there's so much mail coming in. we're just going to have to wait there. the senate situation, three races undecided. we don't know nevada and arizona. the situation has changed overnight. in nevada, adam laxalt.

when people went to sleep, he was ahead by 23,000. they counted some of the vote in clark county. there's 110,000 mail ballots left to count. and if the margins that katherine cortez won those two ballot boxes last night, she could overtake adam laxalt in the next few days. >> you take georgia off the board and you look at this, nevada is that -- is that for all the marbles right there? >> both. >> both. >> in terms of where they're leading, georgia right now if you take it off the board is 49 seat for republicans but if both of these are blue, it would give democrats 51. if both of these are red, it would give republicans 51. so we could know control of the senate in the next week or it

could take until december. i want to quickly show you arizona also. mark kelly leads by 95,000 votes. they have at least 560,000 votes left to count in that state. we got some new count overnight. his lead grew from the 80,000 region to about 95,000. that came from mail ballots they counted that were received before tuesday in maricopa county. again, blake masters has the runway to overtake this margin but he has to do well. he'd have to get about 58% of the remaining vote to overtake mark kelly. not impossible but a steep hill to climb. >> interesting. all right. thank you very much. stay there. i want you to help me out with this interview. i want to bring in the chairman of the maricopa board of supervisors, bill gates, as the ballots were coming in and being counted. maricopa is the most populous

county in arizona where there were an estimated 400,000 remaining ballots left to count as of wednesday night. good to see you. thanks for joining us. can you give us the exact number of votes left to be counted, sir. >> yes, well, thanks for having me. we're right there between 400 and 410,000 ballots left to count. >> 400 and 410,000 ballots left to count. specifically they say usually they say if it's mail-in ballots it leans democrat or we don't know if it -- what happens in the state because that has all changed since covid. can you give us some direction on that? >> yeah, that is really tough to predict where these might lean. obviously that's not our focus anyway. our focus is simply on counting these accurately. but as we've seen in the last couple of elections, the mail-in ballots tend to lean democrat,

but as you get closer to election day, we know the republicans are really turning out in big numbers. so we're now getting into what we call late earlies. these are early ballots that would have been -- that we would have received like over the weekend or in specifically 290,000 that were dropped off on election day at our vote centers. >> that was going to be my next question. so 290,000 is election day, okay? >> that's right. >> so 110,000 that were received before election day? >> well, a little bit less than that because we also have 17,000 ballots yet to be counted that were in that box three. so these are ballots that were attempted -- you know, were not red by the tabulateor on election day so those are people who came in to vote in person. >> just to clarify, that was on

election day there were certain ballots put in a special box because of a printer error, correct? >> that's correct. almost all of those. we call them box three. it for whatever reason those ballots were not tabulated. most of them are going to be that situation that you described. >> so north of 90,000 received before election day and some of the others were those segregated votes. can you give us a sense of each day how is this going to play out? how many of these votes are you going to count each day? which votes are counted next? will it be the votes that arrived before tuesday next or the votes handed in on tuesday in. >> so we can't really zero in on that with specificity. they would tend to be probably those that we received earlier first and then as we move on we're getting into more of those election day, the mail-in

ballots that we received on election day that people dropped off. here's the issue -- adjudication. if for some we have fwhballots t were dropped off, say on one of those races the voter marked both and maybe they circled that one and said i mean this. that goes into adjudication. we have boards of one republican, one democrat and they look at those to try to determine what the voter's intent was. that's a little thing that might impact which votes are being counted on what date. but, generally, as we move forward in the count, we're getting closer and closer to election day. >> bill gates, the chairman of the maricopa board of supervisors. we appreciate it. we know it's a busy time for you. 400,000 is not an insignificant number. >> if blake masters can hit 58%

of the remaining vote, he would have enough to overtake. it's about 90,000 before tuesday. some of those were released overnight and we saw mark kelly winning 55 to 60% of those. so he actually is doing better than blake masters in the batch that would be down here. you might expect masters to do better up here but is it enough? is it that 58%? hard to know. >> john berman, appreciate it. democratic candidates rode a blue wave in places like minnesota on election night, not so much in deep blue new york, though. why is that? we'll ask amy klobuchar. she'll join us next.

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>> well, as you know, first of all, the average year in a mid-term election since '74 we lose -- each party loses about 23 seats at least. and in this case, sometimes 50s, in the 40s, the party that has the presidency. in this case, as you know, there's still a chance we keep the house but even if the republicans take it, it is going to be a very narrow margin. how we did it? first of all, candidate quality. we had some incredible candidates in the senate and the house. number two, when you have a situation that defies the tides of history, it's got to be something monumental going on, and in this case it was a rejection of the orthodoxy of the republicans' positions. you have so many of their candidates basically wanting an abortion ban put in place. every state that considered that this cycle, every single one

basically rejected that idea or actually advocated for codification of roe v. wade in referendums. you have economic policies that while everyone knows people are going through tough times costs have gone up and the like, which party had people's backs? and in this case the fact that at the very end the republican leadership was raising changes to social security, changes to medicare i think was a huge mistake because that messed with people's economic stability. and finally democracy was on the line. if the republican party wants to keep allowing donald trump to pick their candidate, you're going to see the kind of results that you're seeing in red states, blue states and purple states. >> to get more stuff down for the american people, you guys are going to have to work together even more. i was reading our hometown they were this morning, let me show you the editorial headline there. they write "one minnesota, fresh off a stunning election democrats have to do more work

to unite a divided minnesota." doesn't that apply nationally, too, for you guys? >> well, of course it does because i think the message from this election was a number of people, despite their party affiliation, voted against extreme candidates on the right. so what they're voting for is not that they buy every single thing that a democrat says. what they're voting for is getting things done, civility, working across the aisle when that happens. and in our state, as you know, poppy, we have one of the biggest surpluses in the country. that's going to be number one for the governor is to make sure we spend that wisely. number two, in washington we have a bunch of things on our plate including getting the defense bill done with ukraine right before us and the strides that zelenskyy is making against vladimir putin.

on our plate is the end of the year budget bill to make sure we get that done. the electoral count on, so we don't have january 6th happen again, all of that is immediately when we get back. and senator schumer has made it very clear that he wants to get a lot done before the end of the year. and so that's our plan. and from there i always believe that courage in washington is not standing by yourself and making a speech, it's whether or not you're willing to stand next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of this country. we have a lot to do. >> i'm exhausted just listening to what's on your plate. i got to ask you, if things turn out the way that it looks like it's going, we don't know -- i'm going to preface that by saying we don't know, it's going to be a divided government, right? so then how do you get all of those things done you want to get done when there was already gridlock before this election? >> well, first of all, the

things i was talking about were things we literally have to do in the next two months, including, by the way, our plan because we believe we have the republican votes to codify marriage equality into law. going into next year, i think the focus should be on cost. i think we should do more in funding law enforcement and helping out when so many of our localities are having issues. i think that we have to do things like even though we got a start on bringing down pharmaceutical prices, there's even more we can do on that front. >> but how do you do it, though, with a divided government? >> you do it by finding common ground. by the way with the president's leadership and senator schumer and speaker explopelosi's leade, let look at what we did -- gun safety law, making sure we have the semiconductor, the chips bill done, that was leader schumer working with todd young,

making sure that we got the infrastructure bill implemented and didn't just talk about it. we passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill. so, yes, that was with thin, thin margins but in the senate that required -- and a bit in the house, that required in the senate, every single one of those bills i mentioned was bipartisan. so we've clearly shown we can do it and we can do it if we have a divided government. i like those numbers coming out of nevada last night. it's gotten much closer with many, many more ballots to count. so to me the chances of keeping the senate seem good. >> we are watching that very closely in nevada, tracking the magic wall almost every hour this morning. another question facing congress is big tech and how they will handle that. i wonder what you think about twitter and whether you like the direction that twitter going under the new leadership of elon musk. >> i see that smile. >> i have expressed my concerns

about this multiple times. because there are three things we have to do on tech and this goes beyond twitter. number one, we need a federal privacy law. we're one of the only developed nations that doesn't have that. that's crazy. number two, we need to do something about monopolies. this is a much bigger issue and this deals with companies like amazon and google and the like where they're self-preferencing their own product and many countries are working on this. we haven't done anything on it except got the bill i have with senator grassley to the floor and we need a vote. the third thing is what you're getting at, the misinformation and having some rules of the road. one of the things we should look at is getting rid of the immunity these companies have from immunity when they amplify lies. it when they're making money off the amplification. there is bipartisan support for

a number of them. we need to take the time and move forward when it comes to tech rules. >> section 230, it's critical what you're talking about and what it could mean for twitter and the direction. thank you so much. >> stay warm in minnesota. >> congratulations on your new show. >> i was going to say i enjoyed listening to you two minnesotans talk. >> thank you, senator. >> coming up next, he knocked off the congressman in charge of getting democrats elected. and he did it in deep blue new york. congressman-elect mike lawler is back. >> he won! >> i think that made a difference, poppy. he was here on this program and then he won hours later. >> thank you. the flavor, and twice the choice. sirloin salisbury steak and all-natural salmon. perfect for lunch or dinner. only at ihop. download the app and earn free food with every purchase.

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a gop sweep across new york. republicans flipping four congressional seats and putting up a competitive candidate for governor in a traditionally

democratic stronghold. joining us for a look at what is happening in the suburbs across the state is john avlon. we were watching these so closely and new york, it was so fascinating what happened there. >> no republican has won statewide since 2002 but while nationally democrats exceeded expectations, in new york it was that red tsunami that had been predicted particularly in the suburbs. and john maloney was the chair and he lost his seat. that's almost unheard of, particularly ones that aren't wave elections. you saw the story top down throughout the suburbs north and east of the city, redistricting, crime and a lack of focus on democrats on winning over suburbs. >> and the suburbs on long island, we saw how that looked. also, new york saw way more competitive than it typically had been when it comes to the

governor's race. obviously leave zeldin did not win that race but he still came from within five points. did hochul cause a drag on the other democrats who were on the ticket with her? >> first of all, long island hasn't had four republicans representing it since 1994. that republican revolution wave. and lee zeldin had been a congressman from new york's first district from long island so that had a positive effect. i'm hearing that kathy hochul invested her money in getting out the vote in the scities and didn't pay as much attention to the suburbs. that's where all these wins are coming in, that's going to cause a hangover. something hammered that and felt acutely in the suburbs that democrats didn't seem to have a strong response for and helped created by bail reform laws in new york that hochul didn't really address and that hurt democrats big time. >> some big questions going

forward, how it affects the elections. one of the republican wins, mike lawler, he defeated the incumbent congressman sean maloney, who was also the chair of the committee dedicated to reelecting democrats. he talked about the expectations that he faced early on in the campaign. >> what we were able to do in this time was truly remarkable because this is a district joe biden won by ten points and we were running against the chair of the dccc. when i announced, a lot of people thought, oh, that's nice, he'll make it a race but he's going to lose. >> he did not lose. he in fact won. joining us now is republican congressman-elect, mike lawler of new york. you were a rare bright spot for republicans on tuesday when they thought there was going to be a wave. there obviously was not. what do you think your victory

says about tuesday night and what's the big takeaway for you? >> i think especially in new york, as i've said many times, this was the first time in our nation's history that democrats controlled everything in washington, albany and new york city. and voters in new york especially were looking for balance and common sense restored to every level of government. i think what we saw by picking up four congressional seats and now sending 11 members of congress to washington speaks volumes to that. and, you know, the redistricting process certainly played a big role. i think democrats got very greedy in trying to gerrymander new york's maps and when the courts threw them out and drew a fair map, it really gave us an opportunity to swing the suburbs back to republican. >> when we talked to you last week before your victory, we asked you what kind of congressman you wanted to be if you won and you've often said you wanted to be like peter king. he was someone who has long supported former president trump. there are big questions about

trump's role following tuesday night. he said "i strongly believe he should no longer be the face of the republican party, saying the party cannot become a personality cult and saying that trump's self-promotion and attacks on republicans like ron desantis and mitch mcconnell were largely responsible for republicans not having the red wave." do you agree? >> i think the president is going to make a determination as to what he wants to do with respect to running. i would like to see the party move forward. i think any time you, you know, are focused on the future, you can't so much go to the past. and i think people are really excited about the opportunity to address the challenges that we're facing as a country and i think more focus needs to be on the issues and the substance of those issues than on personalities. >> you want to see the party move forward from trump. >> yeah. i think moving in a different direction as we move forward is

a good thing, not a bad thing. but ultimately, look, the voters will decide what they want to do and the former president will decide what he wants to do. but i think my objective in going to congress is to tackle these issues. i didn't run on somebody else's platform, i didn't run to be a rubber stamp or one of. i ran on the issues that are facing the american people and facing the people in the state of new york and i have offered real solutions and that's what my objective is as a member of congress. >> president biden essentially echoed that yesterday saying he thinks the american people want things done when he was asked about potential investigations and proceedings against members of his administration. it sounds like you agree with the president. are you interested in focusing your time of investigations and potential impeachments of this administration or not? >> i think the top priority is to deal with inflation and the cost of living. that is what i ran on and that

is what my focus will be. obviously congress has oversight authority and there is responsibility with that, but what i don't want to see is what we saw during the trump administration where democrats just went after the president and the administration incessantly. if there is really reason to look into something, absolutely. that is the obligation of congress to do that. there is oversight responsibility. i don't want to go from one issue to the next without dealing with the issues that got me elected. >> and there are issues for oversight -- >> no, but it was at times so over the top and so partisan and it doesn't help the country. we're going from one extreme to the other and back and forth every two years. that doesn't help the country move forward. when you're talking about oversight, there needs to be a level of seriousness and there's a responsibility with it.

it can't just be political. >> we just had christiane amanpour interviewing president zelenskyy of ukraine and there's a real question about what the level of u.s. support of ukraine is going to be. marjorie taylor green said no another penny will go to ukraine. what do you think and are you confident in sustained u.s. support of ukraine if the republicans control the house? >> so my wife is from moldova. her family lives about 30 miles from the ukraine border as the crow flies. i am fully committed to supporting ukraine. >> at the same level? >> absolutely. we have an obligation as a country on two front. vladimir putin is a vial thug and needs to be contained. if ukraine falls, many of those former soviet satellite says are in real danger. number two, when ukraine gave up

its nuclear power, we committed to supporting them and protecting them and we have an obligation to fulfill that commitment. for me this is personal on a number of levels, and i just think we have a responsibility, both from a national security interest but also to ensure that vladimir putin does not advance any further in his quest to reestablish the former soviet union. >> before we let you go, are you hearing from democrats? for those of us who live, you know, in new york, not necessarily in the city, i live on long island, i work in the city, i don't think any of us, a lot of folks in the studio, we were not surprised. we saw the red wave coming. you go out to the diner and restaurants, you felt it. are you hearing from democrats about your win? >> oh, absolutely. my district has 70,000 more

democrats than republicans. so i wouldn't have won it without the support of many democrats and independents and, you know, i think people are excited about the opportunity and really looking for change and, you know, this district is home to bill clinton, hillary clinton, george soros. so it's a very diverse district. >> you are hillary clinton's congressman. >> i am now hillary clinton's congressman and i look forward to hearing from them about their concerns and their needs. >> can we stop the music, please? stop, stop, stop the music. thank you. are you hearing from people about appearing here on cnn? >> absolutely. i think at the end of the day, i have always believed in order to win this district, i needed to go everywhere and talk to everyone. and i can't be afraid because maybe there's some tough questions that come. i'm happy to take those on and

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this actually came in a lot better than most economists were expecting. directionally we're moving in the right direction. is this something that folks and consumers are home are going to cheer in the streets about? absolutely not. inflation is still hovering near 40-year highs but going in the right direction. investors like it. it is starting to feel like maybe the medicine is working. maybe all of these rate hikes are starting to work and you're starting to see a meaningfully cooler inflation reports. >> with a lot of layoffs. >> well, yes, that, too. >> and that. >> sorry to rain on the parade. >> wamp, wamp, wamp, poppy. >> we also got news of pretty significant layoffs. at meta, the company had 87,000 workers. it's been 12% of its workforce. this is really happening in the ad space. i'm glad you brought it up. even though job growth is strong and unemployment is low, in the

tech space, that's a very different story. they are really pulling back after growing so much during the pandemic, they're starting to have to pull back some of that growth. i talked to an analyst a few weeks ago after meta's earnings report, he said advertisers know that their ads work. when you're hearing meta and alphabet say they're seeing advertisers pull back, he said it's really saying something. >> we had sarah fisher on earlier and something she said from axios, she said it was reminiscent of the dot.com bubble with these layoffs. >> these are companies that saw explosive growth. these are tech companies that for ten years their stocks seemed to go only in one direction and of that up. i think the nasdaq is still off about 32% this year. these companies are having sort of a come back to earth moment.

whether it will be as severe as the dot-com industry, i don't know or is this very specific to tech? at this point we just don't know. >> more politics now. president joe biden made just one congratulatory call to a republican after the vote. he is republican mike dewine. we're going to ask him what the president said when he joins us next. >> that was great. thank you. >> thank you.

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president trump endorsed dewine. on monday dewine spoke at trump's rally in ohio and received some boos. >> you guys, say a couple of words. [ crowd booing ] >> mr. president, thank you very much. in ohio, mr. president, we fund the police. >> so governor dewine joins me now. governor, thank you so much. appreciate it. good morning to you. >> thank you. >> so didn't stop you from speaking. why not? >> well, i've been booed before. you know, that's the way life goes. but, look, i was there to support j.d. vance. i'm glad he got elected. he's going to be an excellent united states senator, a strong, conservative voice for ohio. >> what did you and the current president talk about? he made a congratulatory call to you. >> well, i shouldn't get into that i don't think.

it was a personal call. i appreciate the call. the president and i served together 12 years on the judiciary committee, i know him pretty well and have had, you know, that relationship that goes back to the time that i was in the united states senate. >> over the last day or so there's been, you know, a lot of sort of hand wringing over what happened. there was supposed to be a red wave, a republican wave. well, it did not happen, which we're still trying to see where the balance of power lies in both chambers. what do you think the lesson is from tuesday night for republicans moving forward. is it a republican party without trump at the helm? >> well, i think people can look to ohio. i mean, we're a center right state but it's still a state that democrats can get elected in. and i think people, you know, supported what we have been doing. we're focused on jobs, we're focused on job training, we're focused on education, early childhood development, dealing

with the mental health problems. these are practical things that i think people expect us to deal with. we won with 63% of the vote. we won 85 out of 88 counties. so it was a very, very good victory. i'm very, very grateful for that. i think if you look across the country, particularly governors who did well who are making the tough decisions, who are leaders and who are solving problems. i think that's really the lesson from tuesday night. people want people to fix problems. we're -- for example, in ohio, we're a great manufacturing state. attracting good business coming in, a good business climate. people like that. they want their kids to grow up in ohio, have good jobs here, good job training, good education, basic things that the public expects. >> you just said -- you

campaigned with j.d. vance for senate. you talked about being glad that he won. he also just a few months ago in march said again he thought the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump. that's something you have never said. i wonder if you want him to stop talking about that now that he's going to be a senator representing your state. >> i'm not going to tell j.d. what to talk about or not talk about. i think he's now going to be the united states senator for the state of ohio. he's got big responsibilities, big shoes to fill. rob portman continues to do a phenomenal job for us. i look forward to working with j.d. on things that impact ohio and impact our nation. he's going to be a good, strong voice, and he's got a big portfolio now of things that he's got to deal with every day. >> governor dewine, thanks so much for being here this morning. my question for you, as we're reflecting on what tuesday means

going forward for the gop. in your estimation, who is the current leader of the republican party? >> well, look, we do this every time. we have an election and before the votes are even counted we're thinking about the next election, and there's nothing wrong with that. that's going to play out. i don't think it's time to weigh in on that. we'll see how that works. again, i think people expect us to govern. i think people expect us to get things done and to focus on real problems. we have mental health problems. we're doing some things in ohio that are new, that are innovative. we're moving forward in that area. we have drug addiction problems, things that keep people behind. i think the voters expect us to focus on those things. i'll leave for somebody else the speculation of who is going to be the nominee in two years. we've got plenty of time to work on that. >> can i ask you a question, since you were on the campaign

trail obviously pour the last few months with nan whaley, against nan whaley, your opponent. how much did you hear from voters about abortion? you had very different positions on that. what did you hear from your voters about that? >> well, look, i do a lot of retail politics. i'm out talking directly to people, listening to them. certainly there were people who came up to me and said, mike, i like what you're doing, i think you've been good on education, you were good during the pandemic, you protected us, but i can't vote for you because of abortion. we certainly did have that. we also had a lot of people who said, i don't really vote for republicans, but i like what you've done in regard to job training, in regard to mental health and i'm going to vote for you. we got a number of those voters who don't agree with me in regard to abortion, but there certainly were others who that was a defining issue.

they simply would not vote for me because of the fact that they disagreed with me on the issue. >> governor, we love that you woke up with us, took the time to come on the program. we appreciate it. come back early and often, will you? >> thank you, appreciate it. good to talk with you. >> you as well. notice he didn't say yes. >> he will. always a good conversation. hurricane nicole hitting florida overnight. a weaker tropical storm now but still dangerous. we're live on the ground. we're providing greater access to investing, with low-cost options to help maximize savings. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive.

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so it's not very often you get the chance to speak to a hollywood legend, and "the view" co-host whoopi goldberg. i did this morning, she's weighing in on the midterms and how people feel about president

biden. >> so tuesday, you know, everyone said, well, joe biden, he's too old and his approval rating. what do you believe? it looks to me like he's winning. >> i think the people, they may not like everything he's done, but they like a lot of what he's done. they like that he's trying to get it done. they see what he's trying to do. that's the beauty of all of this. >> well, whoopi has a lot more to say about politics, about civility and quitting. >> not quitting "the view," quitting twitter. >> yeah, quitting twitter. i didn't get that in. poppy harlow saving me. >> don is creating headlines. the reason he sat down and did the interview with me is he she's got a movie she's been trying to do for over a decade, about the death of emmett till and his family's journey and

about his mother and her journey and how she started fighting for civil rights after her son was murdered in 1955 in mississippi. >> she played a big role in the movie. >> not only executive produced the movie, she plays emmett till's grandmother as well. she talks about that and the issue surrounding race, discrimination. but she talks about a whole lot more. there's a reason she's on "the view," because she likes to give her view. >> we get to see it tomorrow? >> tomorrow. she has talked about us coming in to co-host "the view," all three of us. listen, we're a little punch drunk from the election and working the long hours overnight, but we're back. tomorrow we'll have more sleep and be better than today. we'll be greater tomorrow. thanks for watching. what happens now? >> "newsroom" starts now. >> poppy's old shift