and so,nd in terms of you question related to young people what think happened and it's exciting is that we had young people on our team. we were supportin young people. our work in pennsylvania and pennsylvania was a key election this cycle was led by a young woman, brittany smalls, who is unde the age of 30. we have30 women who ran our work in alabama under the age of 30, the woma who ran our work in louisiana under the age of 30. >> unfortunately we are out of time so i really appreciate you coming on and would like to thank latasha brown, founder of black votes of matter but we will have you back on and we appreciate your time.

thank you so much. >> thank you. >> we are back with: the president of the network of enlightened women and she is here to talk with us about the republican women made in the general election. >> morning. grea to join you. >> first of all, tell us what is thed network of enlightened women? >> night work of enlightened women is a nation's premier organization for conservatives diversity women. we work to educate, equip and empower young conservative women to be leaders to a free society. a practice that means we got chapters on college campuses across the country and we also have been around now more than 15 years that have a professional networker must full of alums and other young professionals that want to community of like-minded conservative women to truly empower them to live their best lives and speak up and to be

community leaders. >> when you write out the name of your organization use a small eat and enlightened. could you tell us why? >> i can. i started the organization while it was a student at the university of virginia and while i was there there were lots of other clubs and as a college student he learned very quickly that the names of organizations and the acronyms matter. with that lowercase trumpers -- lowercase e stood out to the people on campus and contrasted with the uppercase zero and now we seem to be yelling at women but we are more an intellectual women focus on reading books and bringing women together and bringing opening and really bring women together so we thought that lowercase e struck the right tone. >> you work with young conservative women on campus but did you work with the conservative women with the elections that from last week.

>> we are a 5013c organizations are focused on educating and training. i would say a lot of our women who are involved in the organization look up to some of these women who won elections and that is the story that i'm excited to talk about with you today. our students, some of them, read magazines like cosmo and glamour and some of the younger women an organization even pay attention to teen vogue and you look at those magazines in the headline was all on the election and women in the main story they focused on was one new member of the squad and the four women of the squad being reelected and then one new member, corey bush who would be joining them. i think the real story when it comes to women in the 2020 election is the republican women in the house. before this election there were 13 republican women in the house and in the 2018 midterms only one new republican woman was elected to the house.

well, that is a completely different story this time. we got at last i looked, 16 newly elected republican women in the house so their ranks will more than double. that is the big story and that's what i would like to see the women's magazine in the women's movement overall talk about because these women come from diverse backgrounds and they've gotten different reasons for running and really have great stories. >> let's look at some of those numbers are talking about here. we're seeing the numbers correctly the record number of republican women ever serving at the same time and u.s. house was 25 that set back in 2006 but when congress begins next year there will be a record number of republican women in congress and there will be 28. that's almost double the number from the current number of her public and women in the house right now. what made this change? >> it's interesting a few things

happen. elise's to phonic, the congresswoman from new york during the 2018 midterm worked with the party and recruited a lot of women in many of them lost, only one new woman was elected among republicans. she started a new pact call e packed and we played in primaries to work to get more women elected and this is an organized effort to get more women elected starting by working with them in the primaries. i believe that made a difference. i also think the left, you know we all heard the story about four women on the left winning elections but those women didn't speak for all americans. we are in the hundredth anniversary of women winning the right to vote in this country and it shows that women have diverse or monolithic voting blocs and conservative women saw the women on the left standup and they didn't speak for all

women and they wanted to run and make sure their voices were heard and make sure their policy positions were discussed and from a pro-business background who focused on cutting regulations and making sure that all americans have the chance to start businesses and those don't get overregulated by the government. there were issues that we didn't see in some of the women on left talking about and that motivat motivated. >> let me remind our viewers that you can join in on this conversation and we can open up our regular lines that means democrats call (202)748-8000, republicans we want to hear from you, (202)748-8001, independence your line is (202)748-8002 and always text us at (202)748-8003 and always on social media, twitter and on facebook at facebook .com /

c-span. in those congressional elections one by conservative women were there unifying issues between these candidates that seem to resonate around the nation? >> one issue that i think will emerge out of this election is the anti- socialism. we seen socialism gain a renewed popularity on the left and i've seen it on my work on college campuses and there is over 100 chapters of the young democratic socialist club of america and chapters of that organization on college campuses and when i was a student 15, years ago there were some socialists on campus but the democrats and the university democrats tempered them i would say and i don't think there was a line item people wanted to put on their resume but it's gaining popularity part because of aoc and what i found interesting was trying to get to know some of these women who won the election is the newer public and house

members is that three of them have had direct family connections or have faced problems from socialism. victoria hart from my home congressional district in indiana is from ukraine and you have maria salazar who one of her parents is from cuba so you have women who have had direct relationship and directly faced socialism and their lives and i think they have had a very different experience than the socialism than aoc and the squad is selling americans. i personally am excited to have new spokeswomen against socialism and to have them speaking out and talking about the real problems of socialism today. >> you were talking earlier about the diverse background of these conservative women going to congress and christian science monitor has a paragraph here, they talk about the

backgrounds and i want to read it to you. they point out that george's marjorie taylor green made headlines for support of the conspiracy theory while colorado's lauren owned a gun themed restaurant that divide pandemic shutdown orders and where servers openly carried firearms. in florida, salazar is a longtime journalist who worked for the spanish-language network telemundo. she flipped her district, as did stephanie bice of oklahoma, michelle fischbach of minnesota, and nancy mase of south carolina, all of whom had served before in their state house, with mice by bush, former lieutenant governor. meanwhile, cynthia louis will be the first woman to represent wyoming in the u.s. senate. she is an attorney and former state lawmaker. these conservative women are coming from all different types of experiences but they will be presenting their district in their states in congress. how are you all getting this diverse group of women into

these races and into these primaries and having them win? >> i'm glad you mentioned that many of them have a lot of state legislator experience because i often think when there's conversations or when i'm asked questions about how there is fewer republican or conservative women at the federal level i like to take it back to the state level. the state legislators are often those pipelines to leadership and on the right there's been a concerted effort to ask more women to run for state legislator seats. that leads to more women being on the bench and ready to then run of four congressional. as i read through bios during this election season i thought was interesting that again we have many candidates who were outward against socialism and another theme was many had experience at the state and local level and one other thing i saw emerge is that many had experience in business so they

had a bad business experience with the government and that was a modine active work them to run but i don't think we can undervalue having that state and local experience and it's important and a great motivating factor for women who were considering running and maybe want to have national influence where they can make a difference and start getting themselves ready at the state and local level. >> you are talking about the pack earlier that help conservative women get into primaries. did anything change in the public and party approach in supporting women candidates in 2020? was the establishing gop helpful in this process? >> i thank you would have -- those in visual candidates that can tell you from what i saw there was a lot of support from this local state and national level for these candidates. once they got to their primaries. i think where e-pact made a difference was a primary level helping more women when those primaries and then i thank you saw the party coalesce around many of these candidates.

>> let's let some of our viewers take part of the conversation. we will start with beverly who is calling from brooklyn, new york on the democratic langford beverly, the morning. >> caller: yes, good morning. how are you? i just would like to ask, i see the concern about the criminology in reference to [inaudible] could you offer a clear understanding to the american system about what are the tenants of socialism and how do they get tied to fellow americans? i would like some complication on that. also, on the rising gop women, to think any of it is the possible backlash to just some of the behaviors that are seen by trump and that now more women are trying to step up and participate in the election process? that's it for me.

>> guest: thank you so much for your question this morning. you ask about socialism. the way i would look at it is the question of what is the role of government in our lives? as a conservative i see the government as not the answer to all my problems. i would rather have more governance happening at the local and state level and i think we are seen in this branch of socialism that is emerging with aoc leading and now is she talking about things like the green new deal and medicare for all and just a much bigger role for the federal government and that is what concerns me and she is selling it as a softer, gentler, socialism but we seen historically it doesn't work and it is not going to stay soft for long. she might sell it as it will help people but i really think we should be worried about what it will do to our lives.

>> host: we talked earlier about thdiverse backgrounds of some of the conservate women were headed toward congress but one of our social media followers has a question about the topic and this is from brad from dayton, ohio who says i think it's great to increase the participation of conrvative leaning women and i applaud thr achievements. is the network of enlightened women asocially diverse and do u allow lesbian women and couples to equally parcipate? >> guest: our chapters are based at the college level and we do a lot of events bringing people in from across the political spectrum and with different views for that is one tng were excid about as an organization. at our national conference each year for example, we wl bring in to people with opposin views, sometimes democrat and republican and sometes to republicans to talk about issues. we are focused on that intellecal diversity as an

organization. i think we need to see more of our clege campuses. a new stu came out earli this year from the cato institute that found that liberals self censor left conservatives over 77% of consvatives who responded said they self censor whi 52% of liberals said they self censor. i think as an organization we want to prote that intellectual diversity and prome people coming and learning about ideas, whether their ideas they belie in or want to learnore or even if they just want t learn how to engage and try to turn someone's mind on something and try to change someone's mind on something for it we try to bri in people to the organization. >> host: telus by what you mean by self censor in that context you are using just now. >> guest: yes, in the polls coucted by the cato institute who is there director of polli polling, emily they looked at

data and asked people if they kept their views qui. if they, for example, whe they are at a job might not mention what their politics are and overwhelmingly the conservatives didn't more an this is a historical trend. it wasn't just the past iteration of the poll that conservatives generally felt theyey censor more and what i found interesting is college students theyound the republicans on campus theonger they were in higher education so if they were getting advanced degrees they wouldelf censor even more and it's interesting in our work and many college students decide to keep their views private. i was fascinated that two yea ago we put out a book she's conservative triumphs and triumphs on americans campuses an we share the story of over 20 women and a tme that emerged is that many of them had decided to keep their views

quiet before the stepped foot on cpus. that is something wehould be concerned about it that is something you can fix by legislation or a new policy and that's a cultural probl and that's peer pressure and it's not grade theyere worried about but worried about making friends and college for my students is lifelong friends and there's so muc pressure that many conservative stunts keep quiet that's the problem so i was interted in the data that me out because it confirmed what i had heardn the stories from our college students abo this real pssure to keep quiet and if viewers wanto take a look at the cato institute webse it also goes into hiring and b data and conservatives versus liberal worry about how their views might impact their career prospects.

>> host: let's go toreg calling from crossville, tennessee on the republican line forreg, good morning. >> caller:ood morning. i just want to congratulate all the women that got elected into the house a i hope we get a new speakerf the house out of this. we need nancy pelosi to go. >> guest: thank you for calli in. it interesting that you touched on nancy pelosi and her speakershi because we have seen democrs now speak out and there i in her fighting goi on about socialism in the future and direction of their parties but we seen one congresswomen speak out and sayhe will not vote for nancy pelosi but unfortunately i think that relationship between the current president and nancy closely has become pretty tic and doesn't seem to be effort to work together and it does seem to be personal and watching the democrats furth left which i not the direction that i think

truly erican people want to go. i think you have especially seen this with handling of covid and the smos check and i'm not surprised to hear that you call in and say they are ready for her to go. >>a week ago house speaker nancy closely was asked about philosophical differees in the democratic partynd between democratic and here's what speaker pelosi said. >> with a more narrow majority how do you progress and this is something i asked about with these philosophical differences when there will be more to the left and from a government standpoint whether that legislation has to be more on the middle [inaudible] >> i would like to say this, it's not both end of our clock. ad hoc has its differences and i would not want to lead in a caucus that was a rubberstamp, a

rubberstamp lock step caucus for that is called republican. we are the democratic party and we have several exuberance is in our midst and that is representative of the districts that people come to congress to serve. we respect that but our unifying principle and you agree, frank, is americans working families but everybody is there to make progress for america's working families but i always say in terms of the children. children are children, their health, their education, economic security of their families and safe, healthy environment of which they can thrive, including from gun violence and a world at peace in which they can leash their fulfillment. about the families the kitchen table issues, nobody is more attuned to that were connected to america's working families than joe biden, as president of

the united states. i thank you will see as we build consensus, we don't govern from on high but we build consensus. not everybody and i did not say unanimity but i said consensus. i feel or see this as an opportunity. >> host: that was speaker close he talking about the difference is between the members of her own caucus and what do you see as the differences between the conservative women and the issues they will do before they get to congress between the differences of the conservative women and the democratic caucus and perhaps even differences between the conservative women and their own caucus. >> guest: a lot of these women ran very tight races and we seem to some of them get calls in the last couple of days so they been very campaign focused and so we haven't, it's not clear exactly what they will make their number one priority but we have seen

common themes that have emerged. things like lowering taxes, making sure there's not too much relation coming out of dc in addressing covid and at the national level but leaving some of that to the states to figure out in their local communities and at the state level. it is interesting to the speaker talk about the diversity that have intellectual diversity in their party because i think one of the things she will has to grapple with is she doesn't have the numbers i think she thought she would have after this election so she will have to work with aoc and the squad and i think that will be a bigger challenge for her than maybe she is anticipating. >> host: how will these new conservative women bring their voices into the role begin caucus? it's a lot tighter in the house that it was of this current congressional session. that means voices of the republican caucus will become more important as well so what will these women bring to those

discussions? >> guest: first, at the campaign level is amazing that eight of the ten seats that flipped from democratic to republican were won by republican women. we talk about the, you know, big picture number but also focus on the lips that's a huge number. at the campaign level there will be even more enthusiasm for supporting republican women candidates who won. then at the national level i'm excited that there will be more spokeswoman and more women out there talking about different issues and maybe some of the same issues that men could talk about but it's great to have some more women out there talking about them and things like the left brings up the issue of equal pay. it will be great for conservative women to be out there talking about that issue and how additional legislation actually impacts women and all americans. i think what we will see is then they will find their different committees and become leaders on

them whether it's mary miller from illinois who has a background as a farmer or candidates who have backgrounds in business and we got one who was a pharmacist i think they will find these committees where they can leave their expertise to issues and then become national leaders on those issues. >> host: you bring up one issue we hear women politicians talk about all the time and that is equal pay. do you see that becoming a big issue for conservative women in the republican caucus, either pro or con? >> guest: republicans, democrat women we all want equal pay for women in the issue at hand is what is specific used to measure that and what is the impact of additional federal legislation, equal pay is the law of the land in this country and we had legislation requiring equal pay

so the issue is then what other steps do you want the federal government taking when it comes to business and their relationship with employers and employees so what i think we will see is women becoming national leaders on those issues that they've really cared about. you see even elise's to phonic and first-term second term really focused on the issues in her home district and i think having her as a leader for many of these are public and women will follow suit focusing on those issues at home and working in continuing to earn the trust of their constituents so they can be reelected and then emerge as national leaders. elise did not, the congresswoman did not take on this issue in her first term and she's just won reelection for her fourth term did she first put her head down and worked for her district and i think that will beat one message we will see and that at the national level again they will focus on the issues they

know and i'm sure those get assigned to committees with a focus on those issues and we will see them emerge as leaders. >> host: let's talk to barbara calling from hollywood, florida on the democratic line. barbara, good morning. >> caller: good morning. i'm calling regarding the terminology and republican on the right and conservative and if you are a democrat here on the left and a socialist and now that you have women who would stand that and how we go about changing those definitions and i find it difficult to be who i am with those kinds of terminology

and how do you see your conservatives women handling those kinds of [inaudible], shall we say? >> guest: i'm glad you called in in this is a label question i'm interested in and one label that we see the left has owned is the label of feminism that they have a version of feminism that they sell women and see that as speaking to women and i think the victory of some of these conservative women and also one issue we not talk about yet this morning is amy coney barrett and her victory. actually the label that i think might have the most room for change is what does it mean to be a feminist and what does it mean to be an empowered woman? one of the things we talk about is a new brand of feminism, opportunity feminism where you focus on policies that give

women the opportunity to build the lives they want and that might look very different and in fact, we should consider it a victory to look different because it means then that women are choosing what they want and they are empowered to choose what they want. i'm excited of another part of this that i'm looking forward to with more conservative women in the house is rethinking what they women's empowerment movement looks like and rethinking what feminism looks like today. you ask americans if they self identify as feminist numbers i think a lot lower than might be expected. young women want some type of empowering movement and what the left is selling isn't resonating and i think some of the values in the focus from women on the right might change that. i think all americans should speak out for the way the left treated amy coney barrett.

she made different choices that many of the women have made pit she has seven children. she is now on the supreme court and she can be a role model just as a speaker pelosi is to some women on the left as being a role model. i'm excited about this new version of what an american woman wants to be and what true empowerment means for women today. >> host: debbie walsh is the director of the center for american women in politics at rutgers university and she's pointing out that while many republican women ran and one in congress women are still very underrepresented on the revolving inside and here is a quote from her. in many ways cycle for the republican women is a very simple story. you can't see numeric gains officeholders unless you have increases in the number of candidates. these are important gains. they need to be celebrated and

they need to be acknowledged but women are still very underrepresented on the revolving in the side and going to turn to a story here at buzz feed that says according to the pew research center about 30% of registered women voters in 2018 train 19 identified as a republican while only 6% of republicans in the house were women at that time. how do you change those numbers? you have a large almost 40% of women identifying as republican but only 6% of women last session in congress who are women. first of all, should that change and if it should, how do you change it? >> guest: you brought us a representation question and i think what i mentioned earlier about building a field team or a pipeline of women is so important in this. most candidates don't just run for president or don't just run for congress but they are on their school board or michelle

steel on our orange county board of supervisors and there are elected at that state and local levels so one thing i think we have seen republicans do more of to women to run is first asked and we've seen data that asking women matters and makes a difference so there are women out there asking other women to run and then secondly, not just focusing on may be an open congressional seat in trying to find someone to run for it but instead taking it a step back and trying to find great women candidates at the state and local level. to get them in the pipeline so when there are open seats or, you know, there is a chance to run there are people ready to run. >> host: let's go to read calling from ocean shores, washington on the republican line. read, good morning. >> caller: good morning and good morning to your guests. i have a question for your guests but i want to make a quick statement about socialism.

nikita khrushchev said the people will not fight communism. if you sell them socialism in an incremental way they will wake up in a communist world. as his partner stalin said it is not how the people vote that matter, it is who counts the votes that matter. another quick comment before the question, why does c-span's theme all blue? video overlay is blue. the logos are bluebird the c-span bus is blueprint the carpet's blueprint table blue. walls are blue. the badges they wear on the bus are i assume the same in the control room and all blue. >> host: first of all, the carpet is here to heavenly not blue and neither is the desk but go ahead and ask a question. >> caller: thank you. the question has to do with when your guest is in the university environment to what extent would you report that the democratic

generally democratic run management layer of the universities, how much to push back? >> guest: thank you for calling and with that question and bringing it back to our new chapters on different college campuses. i think it varies by school but some of ministrations we find are very actively engaged for better or worse all some have more of a hands off approach but one of the challenges and sometimes there is bureaucratic challenges put in the road of our chapters getting started or growing in one challenge some of our clubs have faced is that many campuses require new clubs to have an advisor and a faculty advisor. i imagine if you are a woman at a university, liberal who wants to start a woman's club, there is an amazing number of faculty you could go to and ask and they don't seem to be as many conservative women faculty at

the universities so sometimes our students have a challenge finding an advisor who wants to support them and that is one challenge. you mentioned the administration but that a study came out that it's not just faculty who are liberal that people interact with on campus but there seems to be a growing layer of administrative bureaucracy on campuses and more and more vice provost and deans and assistant deans and someone compiled data and feel that the ratio of conservatives to liberals was 12-one. twelve-one among university administration and that is the staggering number because a lot of those are filling the student activity center and helping with figuring out budgets for different programs so that can be an issue but i'm proud of the women who are part of our organization and to be creative

and reach out sometimes to the faculty members and business school and we can find a faculty member there. they try to find those advisors and then try to find programming that does doesn't just educate their chapters and members but great for the larger campus community. one of our chapters has been a program on the problems of socialism and we've had debate and had cohosted events with liberal women's organization where they will agree to do that together but they just got to work through their own school systems and it's a good wife building skill of how to get something done. >> host: let's talk to alexis calling from wilmington, north carolina on the independent line. alexis, good morning. >> caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'm retired and i've been retired maybe five, six years and every job i ever had i had

to take because of the insurance. it wasn't to further my career but for health insurance and when you say medicare for all like, you know, we are going to communism and socialism, i understand how important that is when you are sick to be able to see a doctor and not have to worry about scraping a co-pay together but i had a hygienist, dental hygienist, bragging about only paying $600 a month for her health insurance and i don't know what she paid for coinsurance but that's a devastating amount if you ask me. you don't hear lower income people calling in asking about medicare for all. they are too busy working and

someone has to speak up and we can't turn our back on people's who need medical help. to say oh no, we can't do that because of socialism i think it's pretty selfish. >> guest: i appreciate you calling in and i can hear the passion in your voice and i thank you are like a lot of americans who really care about an issue and it's personal and makes a difference in your life and health care is one of those issues and as a country we've not figured out and i don't think obamacare was the answer and i don't think medicare for all is the answer. i think that is something that republicans should be tasked with and come up with a great alternative that they can work on to help all americans because of course, we want you to have opportunities to have the healthcare that you need and americans need and it's just a question of the right policy is for that. >> host: let's talk about this

current in this past election that just ended. looking at exit polls it looks like president-elect biden received 57% of the votes for women while president trump received 42% and looking at a story from here in "the washington post" they note that the gender gap began emerging as a major force of the presidential election in 1980 when ronald reagan one was support for 47% of women and a slim majority fact a democratic candidate since 1986 and the size of the gender gap has hovered within a narrow range. on average, women have been a percentage points more likely to support the democratic candidate in election since 1980, according to the pew research center. how do you change that? how do you fight the numbers that say women seem to be gravitating toward the

democratic candidate for president and national election? >> guest: if you look at some of those numbers you can buy that up and nuggets that emerged in different historical trends so not just breaking down women versus men but also single women versus married women and you can also break it down by education level and i truly think that based on the selection were received republican women do so well in some of these house races that there will be a lot of conferences and daylong programs for people to come together and figure out on the right what can be learned from these women winning in these races and looking at those numbers and seeing what can be learned of the national level. if i was a democrat and counted on women voting one way this election would signal to me there's a concern there and that i would be worried about the next election and how women might vote.

>> host: let's go to james calling from brooklyn, connecticut on the republican line for james, good morning. >> caller: hey, how you doing today? thank you for taking m call. canou hear me? >> host: yes, we can hurt go ahead. >> caller: listen, first of all i want to say i left the republic party but i think that with focusing on looking at e-mails what about the african-ameran that donald trump has bought io the republican party? and african american a look at the numbers the african-american black men joined the vulcan party asell as women. that's one. other thing i you have some very good victories but cannot we can treated to donald trump because he is polized this party like never befor he's gotten more votes for rob

again in any in history. [audio dficulties] i tnk you're doing a wonderful job but wve got to work on that in the futureut thank you for takingy calls. >> guest: thank you so much for your question but you brought up the differentivisions by race with this electio prayed jse, i know that's yr next topic so viewers can stay tuned in to talk more about that but i do think those numbers were unexpected on theeft that conservaves should talk more about that but how thingsroke down by race and some successes the president trump and rob begins had based on race and voting and so that is something i ow many are excited about. you bring uphat will happen going forward and what we can attribute this to. one thing i want to mention is it seems on the left that this idea and approach towards wom and women's march idea, you know, bringing women togher

and encouraging that version of the democratic party and feminism, i don't think that's resonating and i think there need to be a new approach to women if they want to win. i went to a county rally to the women's march here in dc and towards the end of the women's march arrived and started yelling at one of my friends who was there in her small children and it wasn't a compelling version that they were presenting on the left. it wasn't something y want to join. 's almost as ifhey were trying to intimidate women into their side. again, we seen htorically this doesn't work. if you he to yell at someone to try to get them to follow your views or force them that is t going to work in the long term. i'm excited to see more conservative version of feminism and more conservative women speaking up a being spokeswoman fo conservative views and i think this will lead to more of a march towards freedom this country and'm excited about whereere going.

>> let's go to carol calling from houston, texas on the democratic line. carol, good morning. >> calr: yes, good morning. i'm calling i regards to what were talking about about socialism. socialism is great in this country. a lot of people have it. rich people. the people at the top get all the tax break and it goes straight a then go straight to them and we pay for it. it's great. it's great for them. that's why we don't have healthcare and other things and it would work well in these foreign cntries by putting sanctions on people and torturing theell out of them until they can get food. but no, we will let socialism ke root anywhere. orommunism because w go to warver that we don't want to hear like ts lady here in

cahos with the confederates sang all tho organizations [inaudible] host: could you respond for th camera? >> guest: i would say to your viewers again very passionate and i stand for my own views as a conservative, no one else. as we speak as conservatism it does provide a compelling alternative to what the left is sellinwomen and what we want to see going forward. >> host: we wou like to thank karen lipps, president of the network of enlightened women for coming onith us today and talking about the record numbe of conservativeomen heading toward congress b karen, thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you for having me >> welcome back, bob q sect editorf chief of the hill newspaper here to talk for the impact of the november 3 electionn congress and bob cusack i want to begin with a 60 minute interview last night