i'm maria bartiromo. i'll be back tomorrow morning. take a look at where to find sbn on your cable network or satellite channel. . % lou dobbs. over the past 24 hours president obama and house speaker boehner have made it clear. even membbrs of the president's own party expressing dismay at dismissiveness of the mid term election results during his press conffrence yesterday and today making it clear that petulance and unilateralism will have consequences. here is the speaker warning the president about what will happen

if he does issue an executive action legalizing millions of illegal immigrants. >> i made it clear to the president that if he acts on his own outside of his authority he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this congress. it's as simple as that. when you play with matches you take tte riss of burning yourself. he is going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path. >> and it was revealed today that president obama is dismissive of more than just election results and expressions of the popular will. it turns out our president has been secretly corresponding with the supreme leader of iran. "wall street journal" reported today that mr. obama described a shared interest with iran in fighting islamic state terrorists while stressing any cooperation was contingent upon

reaching n agreement in the future of tehran's nuclear programm >> i'm not in a position to discuss private correspondence between the president and any world leader. i can tell you the policy that the president and hiss administration have articulated about iran remain unchanged. >> also here tonight we are joined by one of the men who have put republicans back in charge of the senate in almost a colorado senator elect corey gardner flipping one of seven seats backkto thh republicans. he joins us in moments. we begin with iran. the white house failing to notify the white house in the middle east to the president of the supreme leader. joining me now, retired major

general fox news military analyst. thanks for being with us. the white house press secretary seemingly speaking on behalf of the iranian government today. if you would, let's listen to what he said. >> there is a pretty clear interrst that iran has in this fight against isil. there is no interest of iran or other regions of the world to have this extremist group rampaging and carrying out terrible acts of violence. >> your reaction, general? >> i think it is fairly clear that the united staaes should never ever make a deal with the devil because it will always turn out to be a bad deal. remember iran is the world's largest exporter of terrorism. they export far more terrorism than isis does. if things don't go right over the next three weeks they could very well be on the quick path

to a nuclear weapon. there should be no quid pro quo in any of this for the united states. we should never hve to trade off the complete abnegation of the nuclear weapon for iran just to get a little bit of help for frankly, i think iran can promise the white house they will help with isis and they won't do anything. and that may very well open the door for iran to accelerate its nuclear weapons program. at the end of the day the nightmare scenario for all terrorism acts of the world, god forbid, is a nuclear weapon that detonates or israel, western europe or the united states. that needs to be job o the impa that this administration is obviously feverishly pursuing with iran on its nuclear program deadline of november 24 extended

to november 24, are we going to see all of the administration's efforts cull minate in a deal in. >> i don't think so. if there is a deal i don't think there will be a deal. i don't think the iranians are capable of striking a deal with their devil which is us. i don't see it happening. they are probably the world's most untrustworthy regime. they know their entire situation will change fundamentally if they get a nuclear weapon. there is no benefit to them, to the iranians for not buulding a nuclear weapon. and a letter between the president, who knows, maybe that is just a means for the administration to say when the deal falls through that we gave it our best shot. who knows? please don't make a deal with

the devil in the middle of a shooting war in the middle east. >> turning to the group. strikes are believed to have killed the leadership of the group, the principle bomb maker. >> let's be careful here. the grouppis more like an elite brotherhood of technological experts when it comes to bomb making. this organization, this group's sole purpose soo build a bomb to get through the security of the west and detonate an airplane. they keep attracting bomb makers and technologists into their little brotherhood because it is in safe zone, they have a sanctuary. they have technology that they

have access to. it is an evil band of brothers effect where they are able to exchange ideas and ome up with a new thing that allow them to get through our security. they are the most sinister force in the terrorist world today. isis is right behind them in that regard. >> the strains on u.s. military, our troops, our forces are being deployed around the orld in the global fight against terror. a new republican-controlled senate at the beginning of the year, are you more hopeful that we will ee more resources for our military? >> i am. >> are you concerned that we may at the same time see new missions as a result of some of the committee chairmanships that might be assigned? >> i think the key is one man, senator john mccain, a great national hero. this is a no nonsense chairman

who will not lettthe military industrial complex off the hook but in his heart of hearts has enormous empathy for our men and women in uniform. i think senator mccain at the helm will go a long wwy to reduce the udgetaay squeeze the military is under. this hidden hand of terrorism will expand in the world and right now any soldier i talk to, any friend of mine who has been deployed doesnnt see any of that ending in the future even hough the administration says we are pulling out of these regions. we are not pulling out of these regions. >> great to have you with us. the republican party with huge wins at every level of government. state legislators, governors, congressmen, senators, it's a republican shift in the balance of power.

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changing demographics is part of what drove last night's overwhelming republican victory. 47% oaf women voted republican up 3% since 2010. 10% of the black vote going o the gop up from 8% two years ago. 36% of latinos pulling the lever for republicans up from 30% and joining us tonight former democratic presidential campaign adviser joe trippi, fox news political analyst ed rowlands.. let's start contributing.

let's talk about the demographics. 43% of millennials backing republicans. this is pretty impressive really. >> those numbers are of those who voted which means a lot of it i think had to do with o cfo millennials who may have voted democrat stayed home. very depressed on the democratic side much more than anticipated. i think you can read a little bit too much in the numbers. they were good gains for the republicans but a lot of it were women who stayed home, african-americans who stayed home. >> the key is both parties have about the same amount of voters, 36% to 38%. 95% of the party vote for their own party. the 28% that are independents where we did well this time is we got 54% of that and then we actually got a plurality of women independent voters which made a big difference.

it was a two or three point difference. >> and the mistake is for either of these two parties to believe that once independents fall in love with them for one election that that will happen again two years from now. that is why you get the big change. >> i think that's a terrific point. let's take a look at the governors mptd a lot of folks o weren't paying attention to the big story going on. we are talking about now 31 republican governors. we have races outstanding. that number is powerful. picking up democratic strongholds like massachusetts, maryland, illinois. this is impressive. >> that is the big story. i think verybody was so focused on the senate last night that the two stories, governor -pmansions and the house were kd of lost in it.

hogan's win in maryland, that just doesnnt happen. >> especially that is one of the few places he was campaigning. >> the former governor of maryland was chairman of the republican governor's association. fabulous executive director, phil knox. he has just put together a plan. he really had a lot to defend this time. he not only defended it but won some new seats. one of the stories is we had some very fine operatives in the field. we matched democrats just about race after race. >> reince priebus told me they have a ground game. a ground game. e republicans had >> they made big strides. i think a lot of democrats didn't see coming. and so it will be interesting in

2006. democrats had a huge advantage there in ground game. i think a lot of democrats put a lot of stock ii that was going to make the difference. >> the koch brothers invested their money in florida which is very hard to organize these big media states. they put a big chunk of money into ground game in florida which made a significant difference ii that senate and governor's race. >> rick scott, one of the republicans thought could go down. he reversed back. governor chris christie in new jersey working his tail off. -p>> he did a tremendous job. knox did the technical side but christie did a great job of raising money, traveling round the country basically giving support and made a big diffeeence. >> there are a lot of tips out there that he and others have

built up. >> let's turn to the legislative map now. this is a very important development. that is the republican dominion over state legislative chambers. 59 of the 98 were controlled going into the election by % republicans. to me this is an astounding number. republicans with 67. this is important for 2016 and on. >> this is what happened with just the legislation that the republicans held in the last go around for drawing up congressional maps and things. if they hold this kind of advantage goingginto the next census, they could literally keep the democrats out of the house majority for maybe a decade or two. >> the untold story here. both in 2010 and this election the roots went deep. it wasn't just focused oen the

senate. winning the legislative races and building state organizatioos gives you leaders that you can basically add to your bench. democrats always had a great bench. we now have a great bench. >> does in this context with control of the senate and control of the house, this lame duck session in which republicans remain the majority of the houss, the president insisting he will sign executive order or action 45 million illegal immigrants to be given does he have it to do it now given the absolutely repudiation of the policy? >> i think he will try to ome to agreement with mcconnell and republican leadership. p think if he can't -- i'm not saying it will be because they are being entrenched, but if he can't get some agreemenn, he

cannt possibly think it will happen in the new senate. i think he probably will. he seems determined to do that today. >> to say that he is listening to the two-thirds of people that didn't vote in that election and heard only a third and suggests he listening to the majority and divined the will of the american peoplee >> they didn't bother to turn up and vote. this immigration thing i think there can be serious immigration that republicans -- >> republicans have put forward a plan that works sensibly. >> if he does this he is throwing a hand grenade and will destroy ability to work. >> the polarizatiin just gets locked into the ress of the way. i don't know that he will actually do that. you don't see a lot of movement there. >> as a democrat do you hope he

does or does not? >> it is a tough call. if he can't come to some agreement with the republicans that would be the best way to go. if he can't he will have a lot of pressure. >> it seems like it is pretty clear. he is saying this new congress expression of popular will either overrule people that put him into office and deny expression of popular will and agree with him. >> the ooher thing you have going is the republican party, there are candidates who want real immigration reform before they stand on the ballot in 2016 for resident to have a real shot at attracting hispanic votes. right now this lame duck may be a way to pull that off. >> this would be a poor time indeed were it not for republicans to be too clever. >> the president really wants to work on an immigration reform bill that has a long-term impact

that benefits the country he come. >> wouldn't it be fascinating to see this president go out to the nation and try to build a national consensus as ronald reagan did in 1986 as you well remember and build one within both chambers of the house. this is a president who is not so inclined to e engaged in popular democracy it seems. it is always greattto have you here. >> thank you. our next guest had to defeat not only an incumbent democratic senator but the first lady, president bill clinton and former secretary of state hillary clinton and the hillary clinton and the democratic machine. synchrony financial partners with over two hundred thousand businesses, from fashion retailers to healthcare providers, from jewelers to sporting good stores,

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our next guest not only defeated democratic incumbent senator mark udall in coloraao but defeated the democratic machine and an impressive group of democratic all stars campaigning in the state, first lady michelle obama urging voters to back the fifth generation coloradoen.

they did but they weren't referring to -- former president bill clinton reminding colorado democrats of the symbolic weight of this year's elections and former secretary state hillary cliiton. joining us tonighh coloradd's senator elect congressman corey gardner. good to have you with us senator-elect. >> thanks for having me. >> you had a few obstacles, a lot of uphill wook. how did you get it done? >> we worked hard across the state of colorado to present a message that i think the people of colorado wanted to hear, how we were going to get the job done, focus on economy, energy and talk about a vision and something that makes the people of colorado's future a little bit brighter instead of a single issue campaign like my opponent focused on. going into office next year tors you're 40 years old.

one of the things we looked at here was the average age of the u.s. senate and this new cropp if you will, of senators going in, you're going to take the average down by 12 years. that's how significant a generational shift this is. senator-elect, tell us what you think the impact will be. will there be new ideas along with the fresh faces? >> we talked throughout the campaign about shaking up the senate. let's shake up the senate was a line we used regularly. we talked about a new generation of leadership for the next generation of coloradoens. that is why we will continue to put forward ideas and solutionss in colorado they vote for people based on their vision. they don't want to talk about something that is bad all the time or something you oppose all the time. they want you to be for something. that is somethhng ttat will be

new to the senate and will shake up the senate. >> you did something that the senate majority leader to be didn't. you got a phone call and conversation with president obama. how was that? >> it was a good conversation. we talked about getting things done, working together. of course, i think that is the intention that everybody has going into the new congress. i hope that intention will become reality and stick through it for the next several years, the remaining time in president obama's term because that is what the american people spoke about, ending dysfunction, making sure we are putting % forward solutions and that is what we have to do. >> any amusemeet on your part to hear the number of people on the left, liberals talking about it is a time for bipartisanship and compromise precisely the two things they wouldn't hear of for the previous four years?

>> we talked a lot about those areas where they didn't focus on bipartisanship, the health care bill, affordable care act. my opponent one of the deciding act. that was one of the most partisan policies ever pushed through the united states congress. there is a chance for us to be let's put it on the president's desk and give the president the opportunity to work with us. have you with us. we wish you all of the very best. congratulations to congressman corey gardner. >> thank you for having me. what is going on with the republican party? a big tent strategy and it worked. did it ever. women aad minorities front and center in the grand old party. the first woman in history to be

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a historic victory for my next guess. she becomes the first senate pickup for republicans in mid terms last night. >> we were one of the first states to send a message to president obama tonight that his policies were on the ballot today. and it can be heard loud and clear in the white house, i believe, that this president's agenda isn't working for west virginia. >> joining us now west virginia senator-elect congress woman shelly moore capito it is great to have you with us and call you senator-elect. congratulations. >> thank you. that sounds great to me. >> is president obama taking something of a defiant tone

after what is an historic defeat for democrats, as well. your reaction to that on the part of the president in the day after tte election. >> well, as i said in my statement, it was the president's policies that were on the ballot here in west virginia. we lost a lot of jobs directly attributable to the policies of our presiient. i think by denying his policies were really what caused this really tsunami throughout the best interest. it is the day after the election. i am going to remain optimistic. the president did call me lass night along with other people to congratulate me and offer a hand of cooperation and a certainly appreciate that. >> and becoming the first woman senator from the state of west virginia it is, i found it,

impressive today to look at the numbers of women and minorities in the republican party. how important is this to the party in your judgment that obviously a big tent has been put in place for the gop now? >> it's absolutely important. and i'm honored to be the first woman elected as a west virginia senator. i say it is about time. i think the republican party that i belong to does represent a big tent, a variety of interests. and i think that you saw that all of these smoke screens thrown up, war on women were basically denied last night. by having more women candidates, more people of color, i think it really helps us strengthen our appeal to the american people and then i think it also hells for people to listen to us whhn they hear different voices. >> the president today and i pnow that ou are in a very

conciliatory and celebratory mood, made it clear that his personal view of things is whatt he is goinggto take to capitol hill. he was less interested it seemed to meeto hear from mitch mcconnell who is presumably the majority leader to be here. is there something that you see right now that would align with the president's agenda that could be forged ahead or is there in this simply an impasse because of the philosophical differences between the two parties? >> well, i think if the president had campaigned in a lot of the states that he just absolutely avoided for different reasons he would have found that one of the fundamental problems that we face right now is the lack of confidence in our system, a lack of confidence in his leadership in terms of strong reaction to national security issues, economic issues

and so i think that he will come to the realization quickly when he sees -- and i'm very hopeful that we can do this, pass things that do have democrat support. i would go to the energy policies. keystone is a perfect example. he will see this is accepted by the american people nd i'm hoping he will get on board because i think it will restore confidence and will also help us move more things forward. if we end p in a total impasse in the first three to four months it will be a miserable two years and a great disservice to the fflks who just voted yesterday. he was eluding to the fact that only two-thirds of the people voted. he was trying to sort of read their minds. i'm not sure he was reading the i think goes to the lack of confidence issue i found across the state. >> the outcome of the election suggests democrats were not

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sergeant andrew tamarissi is in florida with family members after spending seven months in a mexican jail. the former marine and decorated war vet ordered rrlease by a mexican judge on humanitarian grounds. our next guest is among those who helped ead the push to free tamarissi. joining us tonight is

congressman matt sam responsible along with ed royce and bill richardson for getting sergeant tamarissi out of the jail. good to have you here. thanks for what you diddfor the sergeant. why in the world did it take long? >> well, it is great to be here. prison a day much less seven t -pmonths. the reason that it took so long is i think the mexiian legal system is so laborious and complicated. i think the judge was so paranoid because he was getting pressure from the mexican press that he didn't give special consideration because we were putting political pressure on % mexico to do so. >> now that we have rationalized the sort of neighbor of ours to the south, why in the world did the president of the united states not demand his immediate release? he is a decorated war vet, a u.s. marine suffering from post

traumatic stress. >> i can only speculate and i haven't a clue why the president wouldn't lift a finger to help an american hero when he stood in the rose garden with bergdahl's family and said he would never leaveeanybody behind. or the life of me i can't understand that. the fact is there was a lot of people across america that stood up for this young man. for me personally i got to sse one oo the best parts of america over the lasttseveral months that i have been involved in this. even though this ordeal was heroing o andrew himself. he said that the time he spent in afghanistan, the two tours he did there were nothing compared to the ordeal that he went through being ncarcerated in this mexiian prison. he is an american hero just like you said. he is a wonderful young man. his ordeal is not over.

suffering from post traumatic stress disorder has been greatly exacerbated i believe by his and some of the things he had to endure. i think the american people need to continue to be vigilant and pray for his family ann doing everything we can to send our love and our thoughts. >> i think our love,,thoughts, respecc, gratitude. >> absolutelyy >> without question be there for the sergeant, our prayers. i have to say, though, i am not one who is pleased that this government has been so docile and passive with the mexican government who acted like a two bit third world nation, not an emerging partner. there should be repercussions for that conduct on the part of any government on the part of any of our men and women in

uniform. >> ed royce and i are going over to mexico in the next couple of days. we will be meeting with many top level mexican officials. we will be meeting with the president, as well. there will be dialogue on this. i had an hour-long conversation with the attorney general the day that i chaired that hearing back on october 1. phe first ten minutes he lectured me about the rule of law. i said you don't have to lecture me about the rule oo law. folks coming from mexico breaking our rule of law every day in the thousands. if we treated any one of those people the way you are treating our american hero you would be screaming from the loudest roof top. >> if you see the republican party win control of the senate do you think we will see a different attitude in washington towards the ntegrity of this country's borders, ports, sea ports? will we see real change or more of the chamber of commerce sort

of attitude about open borders and irresponsibility towards those who violate our borders? >> lou, if the republicans -- i believe that we are going to win big tomorrow, as you said earlier in some of your commentary, if the republicans do not listen to the will of the people, if they do not get ouu there and dd everything within our power to completely secure those borders and start respecting the rule of law again we are going to pay a price in two years. americans don't vote for us because they llke the elephant over the donkey. they want to have something that goes to washington that actually does something. i'm ready to be bold. i think that our party in the house and senate need to take it to the president and put things on his desk daily that he is going to have to answer to. >> thanks for all you did. good to have you with us. >> thank you very much, lou. it's an honor.

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now, this is the part of tho show is a favorite at the obama white house. a few comments on the new washington, d.c. featuring a republican party that now holds a much stronger position and share of government power. class citizens in our nation's capitol, no longer junior partners in power sharing. that should be clear to everyone, but strangely it is not. one person at least doesn't get the message, the change in political circumstance and thh consequence of the imperious obama presidency eludes the man

most responsible for change. president obama doesn't fully comprehend or aa least accept the profound importance of the mid term election outcome. the people have spoken but our president is either politically deaf or indifferent to their message. the president insisted before tte elections that his policies were on the ballots everywhere and now voters have rejected his policies. i would argue that voters not only repudiated mr. obama's pooicies but rebukeddhim for his often antagonistic rhetoric and his usually incompetent governance. in his post election news conference yesterday president obama insisted the election results weren't a reflection of his policies but rather the product of laziness, theliesiness of, he said,

tww-thirds of the voters who chose not to participate in the mid term election, not to vote. but there is considerable rich irony in the president's view as he rationalizes what must be a bitter defeat to his n narcicisstic nature and tries to delegitimize an election because of what he sees as low turnout. >> as president i have a unique responsibility to try to make this town wwrk. to everyone whoovoted i want you to know that i hear you. to the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday i hear you, too. >> and some of what he hears may well be a dog whistle, simply nnt apparent to the rest of us, not perceivable. the president himself was only elected in 2012 by about 30% of those who were eligible to vote.

but the president still took the oath of office, didn't you, mr. president? it is a funny thing how mathematics and national politics work. we're commng right back. up next, the costliest mid term election in history producing results for republican party leaving democrats hurting at the polls and the bank. we take a look at big money spent on this election. and an outcome that didn't please a lot of donors. we will be talking with one donor who is very pleased next. (vo) rush hour around here starts at 6:30 a.m. - on the nose.

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>> well, the first thing is this is no time to gloat. if we look at the election results it was pretty much a rejection election. now the challenge is for us republicans to gather together and unite. for a number of years i have been trying to coalesce a commo% health care plan. it is like pulling teeth. everybody is such an individualist. agenda and imprint on a bill. the test is to come. we have to prove the solutions we have will benefit the people% that is a difficult job for republicans to articulate. we get a little bit wonkish and talk to the brain. >> i think that is a very fair criticism and apt criticism. i think that republicans are starting to -- i was thrilled to hear speaker boehner talk about the middle class. i mean, i was basically cheering

from my office here in new york city as he used the words middle class talking about the men and women who create the foundation women, the small businessman and women of this country and those who aspire to it. phe republican party with those few words from speaker boehner said to me that there is the opportunity for a new direetion and a new message from the republican party and i heard it throughout the campaign in various states. did you? >> i think it's not a new message. it's what we have been saying for years but just being articulated better. i think the term middle class, rick santorum shrills. he hates the term class. he likes to use the term middle americaas, hard working miidle americans. and apparently donald trump read his book and he make as very

good point that ww don't talk about the 70% of the americans who haven't graduated from college. that's a very important part. we talk about the job creator and the entrepreneur. so we finale tuned our message. we have to learn how to articulate it. >> i might argue with you a little bit about how solid it has been or how thrilling it has been. gooernor romney in 2012 couldn't stand up even ttough he is a tremendous leader and tremendous businessman couldn't stand up and say in a debate i'm not going to put up with your nonsense, here are the facts and this is the way it is. those were simple elements to articulate. i didn't see a sense of entitlement among any of the candidates running this year for

the republican party. they meant business about sending a message and persuading voters to listee and to vote for them. i mean, to me this was a water shed year. >> i think you're right. in 1892 our nation was declared a christian nation and harry truman 1946 said in this great country of ours proven fundamental between christianity and democracy. a classic example is what you talked about. envy at one time used to be sin. now it is embedded in our fabric of the government and spawned entitlement mindset. values of our country and look at people interested in serving, they have a servant heart. p think that is more important than someone in it for the power. i am just stunned with the quality of joni earnest and

corey gardner. i am so excited about what the direction of the attitude of the country. we haae to get rid of this divisive bitterness we lost over 1600 men. must lien any was the man that sought power and prestige. >> he is a radical revolutionary. >> but his alliance with adolf hitler. >> there was great joy for the downfall of fascism. >> that is next on war stories.x news channel.