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>> we begin with the midterm fallout and the impact on the gop. republicans are dissecting their failure to win control of the senate, and lackluster performance of the house. now they have still not clinched house control nearly one week after election day. they are, though, in a better position than democrats to win a majority. they need just six more seats. >> but republicans' underperformance is prompting questions about the party's future. who should be their leader, and whether donald trump should play a role. his hand-picked election-denying candidates were largely rejected in battleground states. jake tapper is here with us. you spoke exclusively with a charlie baker, the outgoing republican in massachusetts. how does he explain what went wrong? >> let's look at who charlie baker is. he's the two-term republican governor of one of the most democratic, blue commonwealth states in the nation. he's leaving office with an approval rating about 75%, even

higher than the election rate of the democrat governor healy who was just elected. he is somebody maybe republicans could listen to and learn from in terms of governance and in terms of winning elections. i asked him why he thinks his party did so poorly, underperformed so much in these midterms, and in one word he put it this way, "extrem"extremism." >> i've never really seen a midterm election like this. you have a substantial percentage of the country d disapproving of a democratic president, thinking the country is on the wrong track and yet so many people in battleground states rejected republicans. democrats are going to hold the senate, if not, pick up a seat. if kevin mccarthy becomes speaker, and that's an if, he'll have the slimmest of majorities. what went wrong for the republican party? >> well, i think the biggest issue that played out in the midterms is something that i have talked about a lot over the

course of the past eight years which is voters generally speaking especially in battleground states aren't interested in extremism. they just aren't. they want people who they believe are going to be reasonable, who are going to be cl collab collaborative and understand the fundamental democracy and it's supposed to be a decision-making model and you're supposed to be okay with that, and in the midterms, i think one of the big lessons that the republican party nationally needs to take away from it is that voters want collaborative election officials. they don't want extreme. >> he knows from this because the republican nominee for governor who ran to replace him is one of those extremists and he was trounced at the ballot box by the democratic governor-elect. governor baker also talked about elections across the country, victor and alisyn, including in neighboring new hampshire, where it was possible that republicans

could have picked up three congressional seats, one in the senate against maggie hassan in the house, and pappas and custer. these extremists were pushing election lies and democrats were able to hold onto all three of those seats even during a midterm year when so many voters are discontent. >> you're so right. the election results proved that voters for the most part don't like extremism, and so he's been proven right. jake, thank you very much for sharing that. there's so much more of jake's exclusive interview with governor baker that you can see on "the lead" at 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. donald trump is moviing ahed with his special announcement tomorrow. an adviser to the president said he will launch a run for the white house. american republicans have criticized trump for being a drag on the party in midterms and now some of his closest former allies are coming forward with new criticism of trump. >> let's bring in cnn's

political correspondent sara murray and paula reid. mike pence just gave one of his most candid rebukes of donald trump. what did he say? >> that's right. this is perhaps the harshest we've gotten as far as criticism from mike pence of, you know, donald trump. he's talking about what was happening as the riot unfolded at the capitol on january 6th, and at the time trump fires off a tweet while this is all going on saying that pence did not have the courage to block the 2020 election results. so in a new interview with abc news, pence is reacting to what he felt in that moment, what his reaction was to this tweet. take a listen. >> it angered me. but i turned to my daughter who was standing nearby, and i set, it doesn't take courage to break the law. it takes courage to uphold the law. the president's words were reckless.

it was clear he decided to be part of the problem. >> you hear him there saying trump was part of the problem. this is only a little bit of what we're going to hear from pence. he has a book coming out. he has also teased a possible 2024 run although no decisions are made. look, in that interview he went on and he was asked about all the calls he was making as the riot unfolded, trying to get more help, to get more support at the capitol. he was asked why donald trump was not making those same phone calls and he said, you would have to ask him. >> paula, trump's one-time chief of staff kelly told "the times" that the president repeatedly asked him for some of his perceived political adversaries to be investigated. let's put this up. mr. kelly said that among those, mr. trump said we ought to investigate and get the irs on with the former director of the fbi, james comey, andrew mccabe. what do d

what do you know about that? >> he made it clear those requests were inappropriate, illegal, and against the integrity of the irs. he responded to kelly saying, yeah, but they're writing bad things about me. mccabe and comey, fierce critics of trump were ultimately selected by the irs for intensive tax audits. "the times" notes earlier this year they ran the odds of one person being selected for an audit. those odds are about 1 in 30,600, which raises obvious questions about how two of trump's most visible critics were both selected for an audit. in a statement to cnn earlier this year, the irs denied any politically motivated audits. kelly told "the times" that he believes that he was successful in guiding trump away from seeking out such investigations. still the head of the irs has asked a watchdog to investigate the decision to conduct audits on that pair earlier this year. mccabe told cnn over the summer that it just -- it defied logic to think there wasn't some other

factor involved in this selection for these audits. he described the process as incredibly rigorous and nerve-racking. >> paula reid, sara murray, thank you. let's discuss now with our cnn political commentators, republican strategist alice stewart and the coalitions director for the biden/harris campaign ashley stoke. ashley, let's start with you. this was a candid rebuke when you consider what was treated by the former president. it seems a little light for -- it angered me. >> the former vice president is understated, always, but that was the strongest i've heard him about donald trump. >> certainly, but based on what we've heard, alice, what does this mean for trump? does this hurt him at all, and if pence doesn't run, where does this go? >> well, victor and alisyn, i think what this means for trump is that we can basically set our watch to the time when donald trump lashes out against mike

pence with some sort of ni nickname, which is generally what he does to anybody who stands up to him. look. we're expecting to see the former president make an announcement tomorrow night that he plans to step into the 2024 race and talking to people across the spectrum in the republican party, there are mixed feelings. there's somewhat of a toxic relationship many have with the former president. they like him, but they realize he is bad for us, and we just heard charlie baker, a very popular republican governor who acknowledges that donald trump is a big factor in our losses. we heard larry hogan speak to dana bash yesterday blaming donald trump for the last three elections that we lost. even "the wall street journal" has said that since trump has been elected, he has a perfect success of electoral defeat, but what i hope that rational republicans do is they look at the fact that the voters spoke this week, and we don't have all the numbers, but resoundingly the election deniers and the conspiracy theorists lost, and

the candidates, republicans that had a positive vision, focused on the economy and crime, they fared well. so the goal now is to listen to the people and look at keeping the base on board, but broadening the electorate, and i think the best way to do that is to turn the page from donald trump and find someone with a more positive vision. >> ashley, i know you're not in the repubbusiness of giving republicans any advice, but if you look how far donald trump has fallen out of favor, look at the transformation of mo brooks. you pointed this out earlier. mo brooks said this weekend, it would be a bad mistake for republicans to have donald trump as their nominee in 2024. he has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude, and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and republicans even a candidate who campaigns from his basement can beat him. they're making a statement about joe biden, but just contrast

that to, you know, roughly a year ago where he thought that donald trump was the second coming. listen to this moment from mo brooks for a second. >> thank you, mr. president, and future president of the united states of america, i'm pleased to announce the second coming of president donald j. trump. >> pretty astonishing, ashley. >> yeah. i mean, i actually agree with mo brooks in the way he described donald trump, but it didn't just start today. i think donald trump was an incompetent president, was disloyal, crude when he started running for president back in 2015, and honestly many years even before that. the thing that is striking and very clear is that mo brooks is more concerned about winning than his loyalty to donald trump. it's very clear when donald trump lost his bid for the presidency and second term in 2020, it wasn't just because he

was fueling doubt on our democracy. it's because americans were not satisfied with his performance on many issues including res responding to covid, and it seems like mo brooks is finally catching up to the type of character that donald trump is, and now that the republicans did so poorly this election cycle, he's being disloyal to donald trump because he's more concerned about winning than siding with the person he considered the second coming as you said, in his own comment. >> alice, i want you to listen to a portion of an interview with dana bash speaking to speaker pelosi about republicans, some republican-elected officials' reaction and response to the attack on her husband. >> it wasn't just the attack. it was the republican reaction to it which was disgraceful, and that i think really -- the attack is horrible.

i mean, imagine how i feel who was the target and my husband paying the price, and the traumatic effect on our family. >> that turn voters off? >> they tell me so. >> do you think that the less than sympathetic responses from some republicans turned off voters and we saw some of that last tuesday? >> i wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, and look. there were a few voices in the republican party that said some things that are absolutely unexcusable, and anything short of an absolute condemnation of that horrific attack is wrong, and i think i join many of my friends and colleagues in the republican party continuing to offer our thoughts and prayers to nancy pelosi as well as her husband, but i think that attack was just the culmination of independent voters and undecided voters who were looking for something different, looking for a lowering of the temperature. many were already frustrated

again with the conspiracy theories and looking to relitigate the 2020 election, and its attack on paul pelosi and some less than sympathetic voices was just the icing on the cake for many people to look another way aside from the republican party. >> ashley allison, alice stewart, thank you both for your perspectives. former vice president mike pence on wednesday night will join our jake tapper for a town hall. make sure to watch that at 9:00 p.m. eastern. jay leno tells "variety" he is recovering from burn injuries following a gasoline fire. >> cnn's stephanie elam joins us now. what of you learned about jay leno? >> reporter: we know he is alive. h that's the good news here because he has put out this statement, but these sound like scary developments here as we look aet the statement about wht happened. this is what he has told "variety" and i'll read it to you. he said, quote, i got some

serious burns from a gasoline fire. i am okay. just need a week or two to get back on his feet. now cnn has also reached out to his representatives as well. from what we gather, leno was working on one of his vehicles in his legendary car as you know, jay leno is very much into cars and he has one of the most famous car collections there are right here in the los angeles area. he was allegedly there working on one of those cars when it reportedly burst into flames. according to tmz, he is right now in a burn center being treated for his wounds. we also know that leno was expected to make an appearance in las vegas yesterday, but had to cancel, and "people" magazine learning through the organizers of that event through an email that they sent out to the participants that he was not going to be able to be there because of a very serious medical emergency that was preventing jay from traveling. that's how they put it in this message and they said all they

knew was that he was alive and their prayers were going out to him and his family tonight. obviously very scary developments for the 72-year-old who is known for his car collection, but it looks like he may be on the road to recovery, but still, very terrifying. >> says he needs a week or two to get back on his feet. i wonder if he's trying to put a brave face on this, but when he describes it as serious burns from a gasoline fire, that can be life-threatening of course. >> scary. stephanie, thank you very much. an emotional reunion in kherson. ukrainian soldiers see their friends and family after being liberated from russian forces. we have more to show you just ahead. and president biden holds a high stakes meeting with chinese president xi jinping where biden says he raised concerns from everything to human rights to the standoff over taiwan. we'll discuss. hat dogs eat food. as soon as we brought the farmer's dog in, her skin was better, she e was more active. if i can invest in her health and be proactive, i think it's worth i it. visit betterforthem.cocom

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the leaders of the world's two biggest economies met in person today for the first time since joe biden became president. biden said he talked to xi jinping for 3 1/2 hours on the sidelines of the g20 summit in indonesia. relations are at a low because of trade, taiwan, and russia's war in ukraine. president dewhe the meeting wa. >> we were very blunt with one another about places where we disagreed or where we were uncertain of each other's position, and we agreed. we set up and did mechanisms whereby we would meet in detail with our key people in each of our administrations to discuss how we could resolve them. >> cnn's senior white house

correspondent phil mattingly is in bali, indonesia following the president. if i give us more on this first face to face between president biden and president xi. >> reporter: you know, it was a low expectations moment with extraordinarily high stakes to some degree. one that was an absolute necessity given the kind of deep freeze that had kind of been cast over the course of not just the leader communications, but also their top officials underneath them and their counterparts over the course of the last two years. this was a three-plus hour meeting where a range of topics, pretty much anything you can think of whether it's trade and economic issues, whether it's public health, obviously climate change as well, certainly military issues probably the most consequential and contentious issue with taiwan, all of them covered in this meeting where two leaders at least according to u.s. officials really tried to lay out and sharpen their perspectives, priorities and where there were going to be clear disagreements. that was kind of the core of the entire meeting, trying to set the stage for communication in

order to avoid conflict. the very real concern when you talk to u.s. officials is that someone will just make a mistake, and that's how they will dip themselves from competition into conflict. one other thing to keep in mind here, both leaders came into this moment kind of with a tail wind to some degree that underscored their political strength. president xi just securing his third term in china a couple of weeks ago. president biden really bucking historical trends to have a better midterm than anybody expected. both of them really kind of focusing on that as the win and the president focusing on it after. take a listen. >> what we saw was the strength and resilience of the american democracy, and we saw it in action, and the american people prove once again that democracy is who we are. there was a strong rejection of election deniers at every level from those seeking to lead our states and those seeking to serve in congress, and also those seeking to oversee the elections, and there was a strong rejection of political violence and voter intimidation.

there was an emphatic statement that in america, the will of the people prevails. >> reporter: that statement was not for a domestic audience. it's one he said for u.s. voters, for the u.s. public. that was for an international audience. it reflected what i'm told, are conversations he had with other world leaders over the course of this three-stop trip up to this in point, but it was one he wanted to underscore for his counterpart, xi jinping, and the democracy construct the president always talks about, democracy has shown results in the last couple of weeks, at least in the president's view, guys. >> phil mattingly for us there in bali. thank you. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy made an unannounced visit to the newly liberated city of kherson. there were joyous chants. you can hear them there, and people sang the national anthem. ♪

>> cnn's nic robertson joins us now live from kherson. a significant day, but zelenskyy himself acknowledges this is far from over. >> reporter: he does, but he said they're moving forward. he said he's ready for peace, but he made it clear on ukraine's term that is peace for the whole of ukraine which means not putin's terms, which is a peace that would keep part of ukraine in russian hands. so a very clear political statement from him, but a message from the people of kherson as well to say that, you know, i hear your problems. the city doesn't have water, doesn't have electricity, no heating. obviously it's very cold at this time of year, so this was a message that he will try to get things done. the first aid shipment came in today just after he had been in town. while he was there, engineers were putting up a cell phone transmitter tower which will give cell phone service and some internet connection to the

people of the city which has been deprived since the russians destroyed it before they left just a few days ago. there was a domestic political content to it, but a very big international content to it and perhaps as close as president zelenskyy has been to the front lines since the war began. you heard me here saying the front line is just across the river here and we understand that ukrainian forces are continuing their advances, president zelenskyy said with moving forward, and it seems that they are. >> nic robertson, thank you very much for the update. closer to the capital of kyiv, banksy, street artist showed a new piece. it shows a woman balancing on a pile of rubble damaged in russian strikes. >> speculation had been mounting that banksy was in ukraine after a series of murals appeared in the small town.

only this one though has been verified by the artist on instagram, and i know that banksy typically likes these to stay as public exhibits, but often because of their value, people just carve them right out of the wall and they go to auction houses. >> it's incredible to see them and how he was able to do that sort of under the cover of, well, wartime. >> yeah. billionaire jeff bezos tells cnn that he plans to give most of his money away. we'll have more on that. also his advice on how to handle a possible recession, next.

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it was wide-ranging. we covered a lot of topics. we spoke for over 20 minutes at their washington, d.c. home. it was their first ever sitdown interview together since they first debuted as a couple in 2019, and we spoke about these tough economic times, and also what is he going to do with $124 billion and what he said to me was pretty interesting. take a listen. >> i don't know whether we're technically in a recession. economists argue over that, and they have certain technical definitions. what i can tell you is the economy does not look great right now. things are slowing down. you're seeing layoffs in many, many sectors of the economy. people are slowing down. the probability, say, if we're not in a recession right now, we're likely to be in one very soon, so my advice to people, whether they're small business owners or, you know, is take some risk off the table. if you were going to make a purchase, maybe slow down that purchase a little bit. keep some dry powder on hand and

wait a bit. try to reduce some risk in your business or your life. >> the nation is very divided right now on many issues. do you think that the american dream is something that really is still attainable right now? >> well, i'm an optimist. i think the american dream is -- is and will be more attainable in the future. look. one of the things that i don't like about the current environment is i think there is a lot of division. i think that people use conflict as a tool to achieve their own ends. i don't think it's a good tool. you see in our sphere, politicians criticize other politicians, criticize their motives and character. they call them names. once you've done that, it's hard to work with somebody, and that's why we created the courage and civility award because we want to highlight people who don't do that. >> and we wanted to amplify their voices, you know, because we -- the voices that are really negative seem to get amplified in this world. >> when you go and you look at your net worth, it's too much money to even spend in a

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comedian dave chappelle talking about kanye or ye's anti-semitic comments and nba star kyrie irving's actions. >> he used his guest hosting on "snl." he ended up getting backlash of his own. he's a sample of what he said. >> early in my career, i learned that there are two words in the english language that you should never say together in sequence, and those words are the and jews. [ laughter ] i never heard someone do good after they said that. i have been to hollywood. this is just what i saw. it's a lot of jews. [ laughter ]

like, a lot. but that doesn't mean anything, you know? there's a lot of black people in ferguson, missouri. doesn't mean we run the place. i know jewish people have done terrible things all over the world, but you can't blame that on black americans. you just can't. >> judy gold is a comedian and friend of dave chappelle. she's also the author of "yes, i can say that: when they come for the comedians, we are all in trouble." she's here with us. thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me. >> that was probably half of the 15-minute monologue. what do you think? >> i laughed at a lot of the stuff. i know dave. i love dave, and some of it made me feel uncomfortable. i feel one way as a comedian. i feel another way as a jew, and it's -- it's a tough time for us, and i think the last thing you showed was when he said, you

can't blame a black person for the holocaust, and it didn't get a response because no one ever has blamed black people for the holocaust. so i think there's a, you know, comparing atrocities is not a good -- i don't think it's a helpful dialogue to have, but everyone is talking about this now, and we're in a really -- jews are in a really scary place and, you know, you think about kanye -- or ye, and you think about kyrie, and you think about their reach. they have more followers than there are jews in the world. we are 2% of the population of the united states, and we're two-tenths of a percent of the population in the entire world. so when you are sending a link

about a, you know, a movie that denies the holocaust, you know, it's -- it's not really a careful or thought out thing to do, especially when there's so few of us, and, you know, i would never send -- i mean, i don't have that many followers, but maybe after today, but, you know, i would never, ever send a link that -- denying that slavery ever happened. >> that's the point. i feel like, judy, that's the distinction that dave chappelle who is so charismatic -- i will watch him read the telephone book. he has a winning, i think, delivery at all times. however, he is being a little disingenuous there. >> right. >> nobody is blaming black americans for the holocaust, but they are blaming black artists for anti-semitic tropes. >> right. >> he fudged that a little bit. >> so yes. that didn't make sense to me, and people go to dave to get his

perspective, and that's his perspective, and as a comedienne, i believe he can say whatever he wants. you don't have to agree with it. you don't have to laugh at it. >> you think he can say anything he wants. isn't there a line? >> there is a line, but you decide. the audience decides, you know. george carlin famously said, it's the audience's job to find the line. find the line, cross it, and you're glad you did. you think of other comedians who have been jailed. lenny bruce, a jew who was jailed and they got him on cursing, but it was really that he was talking about segregation and the vietnam war and things the government didn't -- truths. you speak truth to power. that's the greatest comedy of all, you know, and i think it has to be based in the truth, but this is dave's perspective, and people look up to him, and he really is a really nice -- a

nice guy. i don't, you know, some of the stuff did make me feel uncomfortable. >> we were talking during the break about the tweet from the head of the anti-defamation league. he tweeted -- i'll read just a line here. why are jewish sensitivities denied or almost diminished at every turn? we talk a lot about these issues as we should. >> right. >> do you see that jewish sensitivities are denied or diminished at every turn? >> i don't think at every turn. i think he's being specific about comedy and laughing at something that is not really based in reality or the truth. so yeah. i hear people always -- oh, yeah. i saw the movie. oh, yeah. oh, she had to give her kid away. it was sad, but then there's so many people -- i mean, the holocaust ended 17 years before i was born. that's not a long time ago, and yet people know nothing. it's not taught in schools, and

we see what happens when things are not taught in schools. >> yeah. >> like, you know, tulsa, oklahoma. i wish that someone had taught me that when i was growing up, you know? it's about -- it's about fbasin all your comedy in truth and doing your due diligence and realizing, you know, dave, he's funny. he's a great guy, did you he's got a lot of ears. >> did he miss the mark here? >> i think he missed it a little bit at the end, you know, but i laughed at a lot of it, you know? >> yeah. i understand. it can be both those things. >> right. >> judy, thanks for coming in. great to get your perspective. >> thank you so much for having me. appreciate it. >> thanks a lot. another twist in the ftx crypto crash. a source tells cnn federal prosecutors in new york are now investigating that collapse. details ahead. thing on my mind. hey mom, can i go play video games? sure, after hohomework. thankfully, voya provides comprehensive solutionss and shows me how to get the m most out

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