which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> very shortly after the presidents news conference today, the news announced that jeff sessions was leaving the justice department. resigning as attorney general. he wrote the president in a letter that was undated but released today.

president,uest, mr. i am submitting my resignation. i have been honored to serve as attorney general and have worked to enforce the law enforcement agenda based on your campaign for the presidency. some of the news happening after president trump's news conference today. from that, some indication as who may be taking over that position. that sources say outgoing florida attorney list of thosethe being considered as a permanent replacement for ousted attorney jeff sessions. here on c-span for the next half hour or so we will continue to take your phone calls, your reactions to the elections of 2018. a 27488000.e to 724800 one.

the president talking about the number of senate races that have gone the republicans way, just to take a look at some of the seats that have flipped across the country. let's look at indiana. joe donnelly is out. the republican is in. in north dakota, congressman kevin cramer winning over heidi heitkamp. the democratic senator in missouri ousted by the attorney general. and in nevada, it is dean heller, the republican who is out and jacky rosen wins that race in nevada. a few races to still be decided. in arizona, the battle of the two congresswomen, martha with a swim one point lead. point 1%.8 in florida it is the incumbent bill nelson's trailing the florida government -- governor.

senator nelson with 49.8%. a runoffat will go to election in mississippi. a special election here, the current senator there, the republican, 41.5%. the democrat with 40.6%. neither of them winning a majority, that will go to a special election on november 27. here is how things stand in the u.s. senate. andepublicans, 44 democrats bernie sanders and angus king who caucused with the democrats. let's get to your thoughts and comments on this night after the election. in columbus, indiana, first up on the republican line. thank you for having this opportunity to speak something about this midterm election.

i -- i am sorry. ok. host: meet your television and go ahead with your comment. caller: ok. host: turn off your television. caller: sorry about that. thank you. forst wanted to thank you having this opportunity for the americans to speak about the midterm election results. i am -- i do support president support thatlso everybody gets to have their own opinion. i think that is very important. i liked when someone asked him about god. i know that great pants is a very religious -- pence is a

very religious person. what i would like to see -- it would be a blessing if this time we could see democrats, republicans come in unity. that is what my greatest prayers. i hope that that is ok to say. aneally believe that we as american -- we are so blessed to be an american and be in this country. thatnk it is great president trump is going out to several different countries and really trying to work and make things effective for relationships. it is very important. i am so thankful on how he -- excuse me, our military. it is very important. that theyrry for all go through. i have seen a lot, we have all

seen a lot. i just would like to ask your listeners, if i may, to consider , no matter what they are, a republican, democrat or independent, to just take time and say prayers for our country and for the president. for the democrats and for the republicans and finally help them come to some unity. when everything gathers and when everything changes. i know that god answers prayer. i know that there are a lot of people who want to argue over different topics. i understand that because the topics are very important. and they are serious. host: we appreciate your sentiments in indiana. one of the states where they

flipped the senator. the outgoing senator losing that race to republican businessman mikebran. -- mike bran. flagstaff, arizona. hanks for taking my call. i pretty much want to say i am very happy that the democrats have taken the house. it is pretty disappointing that they could not at least -- the senate could not be half/half. which i really support the democrat who is running in my state which is sinema. i am still very nervous about that. democratbe the first in a long time to be a senator from arizona. no matter how the race

goes you will have the first female senator from arizona, correct? caller: correct. that does make me smile very much on that. the other topic that really how the me today was president handle that press conference. i was just very, very appalled by his behavior . my entire life seen any of our presidents behave that way or speak that way. i just cannot believe it i am really disappointed with him for that. it is not hard to answer a simple question, and he was not trying to be insulting, none of them were. he went too far in lashing out at them. lily is talking about the

back-and-forth between president trump and cnn's jim acosta. press secretary sarah sanders releasing a statement and a series of tweets, have revoked 's pressstas -- acosta pass. they said they are suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further notice. the new white house correspondent associate president sent out a statement saying that the association strongly objects to the trump administration's decision to use u.s. secret service security credentials as eight will to punish a reporter with whom it has a difficult relationship. revoking access to the white house complex to the reaction out of line to the reported offense and is unacceptable. we go to -- we go to middle for, maine on the independent line. caller: it is pronounced biddeford.

listened to president .rump's press conference personally, i think he had a great success yesterday. i think the man is a genius. he you notice how many facts had at his fingertips in a matter which question he threw at him. -- they threw at him. i was just thinking back to the summer when hillary clinton was trying to be elected. she could not make a speech, she could not answer questions. what a mess we would be in if we had someone who could not make a speech. obama never, never could answer questions. something that bothers me is called the media. used to be the press as president trump pointed out where they reported the news. ole our i just watch

they were out to get the president. i don't think that is news. i think that is a mean-spirited media. that is the mean-spirited media that is the enemy of the american people. i am appear in maine. here in maine. it is appalling. i heard on the nbc news. all of the exit polls said that his approval rating was only 60%. that is a lie. polls. not take exit i was at the polls working for a candidate yesterday. there was no one pulling the people. thedo they know -- polling people. how do they know what trump's approval rating is? i am upset with the media. host: is it possible that they did not do when i your polling place but other places? caller: i have never seen an

exit poll done in maine. if they do them someone should point them out to me. host: what was the experience in maine for you? was it a busy day at the polls? busy.: it was hugely they have never had that many people turn out. it was very disappointing. i would have gone more republican than the state went. the unfortunate thing is, we had a candidate here and all his ads were funded with out-of-state money. appalling how much democrat money had flown into the state at this time. host: have they decided the race and a second district with bruce pollock when? uin?oliq caller: not yet. his opponent is a man named golden. he came up with this huge amount

of money and started these huge television campaigns and that is a problem when it is out-of-state money. it was not funded equally and poliquin did not have that kind of funding in his pocket. oliquin leading that race. there is still 12% of the polls that have yet to be reported according to what we are seeing. that race in maine in the second district. harrisburg, arkansas next. anthony on our republican line. as the democrats and the media, which is mainly democrats, are constantly fighting against the president

and republicans, what good is going to come from their side in winning the house? they have a chance to do one of two things. intotigate themselves another lather like they did two years ago, or start doing things that help the country. when i see a president that has done more in a few months to take care of real and serious problems, things that needed to be fixed a long time ago, what did i see on the other side of the aisle? that is the main reason i called. i did not always have the candidate i wanted to win, win, but i did not go

running and screaming into the night, burning cars and all of the other weird stuff we heard about at the end of the last election. the video you have been seeing. the president at the news conference earlier. we will show that again to you tonight, as well as news conferences coming up for you in the next 15 minutes or so. we will hear from mitch mcconnell, the senate leader, now with a bigger lead for the republicans in the senate. we will hear from nancy pelosi, the likely next speaker of the house. we will hear from the democratic leader in the senate, chuck schumer. one race to tell you about. a victory in the new jersey third district. tom is the incumbent republican. news.s a tweet at kyw claimed victory. this comes more than 24 hours after the polls closed.

he was up with 4000 provisional ballots. no word from congressman tom macarthur at this time. there since has been amy rosenberg from the philadelphia inquirer reach weeding a statement. he is not conceding. tom macarthur saying this has been a hard-fought campaign. see andy kim i am ready to it come to an end. i have set i will be guided by the voters of the district and there are nearly 7000 more that have not been heard from yet. we must be sure that they're both and all votes are counted in a transparent way that protects the integrity of the election. that is the third district in new jersey. wichita, kansas is next. we go to the democrat line. caller: good evening. i have sat here and listen to some of the other callers that have called in. i think the best thing that we

as a p ship -- we as a people of this nation of the united states of america can step back and take a good, fresh breath. that is what is needed right now. ordeal regarding president donald trump. this thing is already a done deal. i heard some of the other callers talk about trump and god. this is already a done deal, it is settled as far as god is concerned. number one, god is not a man. he is spirit and must be worshiped in spirit and in truth. religion. about

that is man-made. host: you're calling on our democrats whine. who did you vote for in the governor's race? for thei did not vote woman. i did not vote for her, i voted for greg. because, in some of the statements that she made, or that was made against her, she did not respond. host: he was the green party candidate for independent? caller: he is independent and laura kelly was democrat. 4% toshe won that race by 5% percentage points. andre in charlotte, north carolina. to say that ied

am an independent voter but i voted all democrat this time. the reason why is i voted donald trump when he came in for presidency. i did not really like hillary clinton. when youened was is, listen to donald trump as an african-american black man, he feeds more to the caucasian americans. when you listen to him now, different from what he was talking when he was running for president. now he is talking to a direct people and it is not all people. go back to 2016 and what did you hear in then candidate trumps speeches and comments that was inviting to you and held promise to you as an african-american? caller: he was talking more

jobs. normally democrats promise the same thing every year. he was talking more small business loans, business ownership, he was talking about those things, which really caught my eye. saying -- you look at who he is. he made a lot of money being in the business world. the business things that he was talking about really caught my eye. to me donald trump is like an old uncle. he says the things that all white americans -- most white americans want to say. i think it makes them feel this is our great white hope. they talk about donald trump, they look at you

winning because donald trump is the president. but trump is supposed to be the president of all people and i do not feel that. i hate i ever voted for donald trump so i went all democrat. press camessociated out about half an hour ago. u.s. house seat in new mexico. this is steve pearce is seat in new mexico. is a final total for you, 50.7, 40 9.3. that means all new mexico congressional delegation will be democratic. the balance of power, democrats at 223 seats, republicans at 196. the 218s are five above needed and still a number of races to be called.

john is in houston, texas on the republican line. worked the preceding -- precinct as a republican judge. wasing that the precinct democratic. the proceeding judge was a democrat. , here inticed was texas it was strictly a straight ticket ballot. you voted all republican or all democrat. was no thinking process required. that is what happened here in texas. there are some seats that flipped over to democrat in texas. what about the area you are in in houston? what was the result there?

caller: one person we lost was our commissioner. this man lost to a 27-year-old, inexperienced, never held office of any sort, young woman. know, are hurricane prone. this man, one of his major responsibilities was to somehow save us all from flooding. he did a good job as far as it goes. but now this guy has over 30-40 years experience and now he has been replaced by a 27-year-old nobody. all because of uneducated, close

minded, individuals. they did what they were told. host: let's go to washington state and a race that has been decided. 82% of the vote in. the republican in that their district in washington beating carolyn. close. 52.6 percent to 47.4%. i want to show you nancy pelosi's news briefing. she has released a statement. she writes to house democrats tonight formally announcing her run for speaker. i am writing to respectfully request your support for speaker and to do so with confidence and humility. and senate return next tuesday, november 13, we do know that the republicans that plan their leadership elections for the 14th both in the house and senate, i do not have the

for democratic leadership, but we know the election for the next congress will get underweight -- underway. from california this is bruce on our democrats line. are you there? caller: i am here. wondering how come you guys take calls from belligerent people? it really bothers me. --ald trump is a big it bigot. he cannot take fall for anything he does. it is a shame that people do not understand that. truth is truth. he has no shame. it makes me feel bad to be an american whe