collar workers who clearly have spoken last night. and they said, you know what? we are voting for you, but you are not taking care of us. >> the numbers with those core constituencies were lower than the clintons expected, anticipated and thought effectively was their birthright. bill: it's 11:00 on the east coast it's when our colleagues take over on "happening now." we'll stick with our coverage live in our hotel in new york city and wait for clinton. but we want from bring in jon scott and jenna lee. ohio and north carolina bothe both went -- both went for donald trump last night. jon: i'm in ohio. jenna lee in north carolina.

both states question marks going into this election and all evening long, the question was, which way will they go. ultimately they both fell into the trump cam. ohio in particular maintains its record with the state with the best prediction record of siding with the ultimate winner. ultimately it was what fairly significant margin for donald trump. one of the guests we'll be talking to, the newly re-elected senator rob portman. he ran a race that will become a model for senate re-election efforts, it seems to me. jenna: during the american revolution the british referred to a part of north carolina as a hornet's nest of rebellion. donald trump did win and that did stun some voters. but we are looking at an interesting race for governor that won't decided for a few

days and maybe even a week. i spoke to a clinton supporter yesterday before the ballots were counted. he was optimistic. i spoke to him again this morning. and he said he is stunned. but he also expressed hope. he's an african-american man, middle age. voted early. fit the profile of a voter in this state. he said although was stunned web also felt somewhat encouraged. a lot of different perspective from voters on the ground and it will be coming in throughout the day. we'll have more from north carolina as everyone digests the results not only from north carolina but the race for governor. bill: back here in new york where the moment is soon pounce. we'll bring in steve hayes and karl rove.

good morning to both of you. i guilt's note a morning if you don't sleep. martha: i think it's still morning. >> endless night. bill: carl, you were -- karl, you were victor cal in 2000 and 2004. have you ever tasted defeat to this degree when you consider a lifetime of effort that went to becoming president hillary clinton? >> i got a taste of it. as a young main went to work for a tall lanky texan named george h.w. bush and remained close to bush 41 the rest of my life. i got a sense of it when he was defeated in 1992. if you read his the diary. for a man who is not

introspective, always forward looking, this is a dark moment. he has a lot of healthy things in his life and quickly recovered from it. but you can imagine way it's like for a woman who sought this note once but twice and come up short. and whose husband held the office, and who thought that she sort of had this, that this was hers. it was her time. she invested this with a lot of emotion. this was the chance for her on behalf of all women to break a glass ceiling. then to come up short with a person she had little respect for, and about whom right up to the end she was saying hard and harsh things. it's going to be a tough moment. martha: we talked a lot about the lack of message of the hillary clinton campaign. and there was this feeling that it was sort of -- there was a destiny to it. and yesterday when she was in

chappaqua voting, she said to a reporter there, how do you feel in this moment? and everything about that exchange was, you are about to become president of the united states. she said i feel so humbled for all of this. i mean, it's dramatic, dramatic stuff as she takes this podium. >> pretty extraordinary. it's not just that she has now lost twice it's that she was the odds on favorite in 2008 when she was running for the democratic nomination, and she was facing this skinny guy who recently voted into the senate. very few people gave him much of a chance at defeating her. she had the entire democratic machine behind her at the time and lost to somebody she thought she wasn't supposed to lose to. that's doubly true now. but in part she did lose because she didn't have a message. if we were to ask each other. what was the central theme of her candidacy?

what was the core message? there wasn't one. we would scratch our head. martha: stronger together. >> it's political pablum. if you look at the democratic primary process and pull from the debates she had with bernie sanders. her main mess and was i will be the third term of barack obama. she defended barack obama at every term for political reasons. but beyond that, she didn't expand on much. it was a sense of entitlement that she thought she was owed this position. to a great extent that contribute to the antipathy people had. you are not owed a job like that. >> i was on a panel with a clinton backer who played a main role in the outside the to support her. i made the observation about the lack of message. i was astonished that he

immediately joined me and said our greatest difficulty is i can't tell you what the message is. there was an enormous desire for change. depending on how it word the question, the country is going in the wrong direction. for her not to have a message that allowed her to be separate and apart from president obama is problematic, as was the decision. i see what they were trying to do by bringing president obama out and putting him on the campaign trail. trying to appeal to the obama coalition was a day he reminded lots of other people, if you like what you got, vote for her. if you want change, vote for him, no matter how risky you think it might be. he is change, she is not. bill: think about the exit polling. 6 in 10 americans for hillary clinton and 6 in 10 americans for donald trump felt they were both unfavorable and not

trustworthy. martha: unfit and unqualified for the office. and that really says a lot, too. because of the people. we talked about this. the people who said i don't think either one of these people are fit for the office. of that sliver who said don't give me either one, they went overwhelmingly for donald trump. this vicious battle we saw, the clinton foundation and the benghazi stuff and his past and the things he said to women, he won that battle. >> he did. it was always going to be the case that a lot of voters this election would be voting for somebody they didn't like. the question was what would be the overriding factor. if you are hillary clinton's team you had things like president obama's approval rating that you could grasp on to. it's true that three out of four -- 50-plus percent. you had three out four people in

the country who said they wanted a change in the country. but 6 out of 10 said i approve of the job president obama is doing. they obviously decided that was the path that they should stay on, was to embrace president obama through the end. i go back to the finding about candidate qualities. 4 out of 10 thought that the most, 4 out of 10 people thought the most important candidate quality can bring needed change. and donald trump went 82% of those. that is the story here. as we talked about earlier. this is -- if you look at the past six elections the past decade. there has been one election you could argue wasn't a change election. each of the other ones, 2006, between, 14, this one has been a change election. >> you can argue about

symbolism. barack obama followed historic symbolism. and hillary clinton was at a convention center so our viewers at home understand this. it has a glass ceiling. and that was pretty intentional. how many cracks are you going to put in that glass ceiling from 2008. with an expected victory celebration in new york last night which did not happen, it did not material eyed. they stayed at a hotel last youth night, the peninsula hotel in midtown manhattan. it has a beautiful terrace and it gives you one of the nicest views you will find in new york of the trump tower. that, too, i suggest was intentional for ought overnight stay. o-2 on both counts. >> we had the symbolic mistake of ordering up the fireworks five days before, then canceling them.

i want to go back to what you said. that was a brilliant insight you dug out of the polls. i think it wants that he won it. i think it was she lost it. he gave as you window from the last sort of speech he gave on the 22nd of october, starting on the 23rd, they kept him disciplined and focused. talking about things people care about, obamacare, our military, our veterans, making america respected again. for abrief period of time people said i have deep concerns about him, but she looks like she is out of control. she looks like she is nothing but the third term for president obama. that's all i see is michelle and barack and bill and hillary, and it's the third term of bill clinton and the third term of barack obama and two strikes and you are out.

>> that time that he was so disciplined -- this was in a sense -- this was the pivot his supporters promised since he won in indiana and won the republican nomination. he said he will be more presidential and he will pivot and he can behave it coincided with her problems. she dominated the headlines. there was speculation about what james comey was going to do, what we would find in niece new emails. whether the clinton foundation was under continuing investigation. new questions raised by a generally friendly media. she was the story for the final two weeks of the election. martha: she ran against, when you look back, two phenomenons. she ran against barack obama who was something the likes of which the american public had not seen. he was a great charismatic

speaker, bright young man, aspirational figure. then this amazing sort of television billionaire donald trump phenomenon. it's very hard to run against a phenomenon when you are a human being. and the other thing, she never really did during the course her campaign give what i would call the quinlt sense woman president speech. this is a historic moment, she never for some reason she side away from grabbing that. >> she might have been wise to avoid that. i'll tell you why. american crossroads leadership fund super pac, we did an enormous amount of focus groups on this. with women not committed to her but were not closed to voting for her, tore were mildly for her. whenever we would show footage of her talk being breaking the

glass ceiling anding about first grandmother in the white house. they would say, we don't want to be journaled thatway. there will be a woman president but don't appeal to us on the basis of -- martha: i don't think that issue rels naits with women. but she could embrace the and go for it. but she sought a middle ground which got her beneather in that vote. and i think it's very true that women care about the same issues everyone else cares about. bill: ed roll linls said you are witnessing the death of two polite tall families. the children tons and the bushes. and now you are about to see the beginning of the third, and that being the obamas. is there truth in that? >> there may be some. you have george p. bush down in texas. who knows what chelsea clinton's future as per races are.

in terms of president obama's legacy, this will cause fair minded his torans and analysts to take a second look at what most people thought was going to be a good legacy it wasn't my view, but if you looked at the you are vaits of historians, they were giving him pretty good marks. his three main accomplishments. the stim luls to jump-start the economy, obamacare and the iran deal. the stimulus it's fair to say failed. it didn't do what they said spit was going to do. the obamacare is in the process of failing. depends on how donald trump handles that issue going forward, it could be repealed and walked back. the iran deal, inthink it will fail, it's an open question, i suppose. but there is no doubt donald trump will try to do what he can to bring that back. martha: it will be up to donald trump to prove those three

things wrong and fix them. that's a tall order. >> he will have to fix them. but these are the main pillars, the three legs of president obama's legacy stool and none of them looks sturdy at this point. >> back to your points. i don't think this was the political end of the bushes. their presidential ambitions ended when jeb bush lost. we had four families in america's history who had two family members serve as president. adams, harrison, roosevelt and the bushes. we have john kennedy, we might have had robert kennedy if not for an assassin. but ted kennedy didn't make it. and the clintons thought they would be add to it as well. george p. bush is a rising star in texas politics.

he's likely to be a governor soon. bill: is this the death of the clinton dynasty? >> i don't think the politician gene has been passed down in a strong form to chelsea clinton. bill: we are seeing paul ryan, house speaker in janesville, wisconsin. >> let me just say this is the most incredible political feat i have seen in my lifetime. this is something you heard me say time and again, 7 out of 10 americans do not like the direction our country is going. many much our fellow citizens feel tail nateed and have lost faith in our core institutions. they don't feel heard, and they don't feel represented by those in office. but donald voice heard a voice in this country no one else heard. he connected in ways with people

no one else did. he turned politics on its head. and now donald trump will lead a unified republican government. and we'll work hands in hands on a positive agenda to tackle this country's big challenges. i want to congratulate my friend mike pence. he's a good man, a principled conservative and he will make a great vice president. i want to congratulations reince priebus. we are so proud of reince priebus in wisconsin. what he has done to rebuild our party is remarkable. i want to congrats late mix msh connell and our republican colleagues in the senate. i want to congratulate ron johnson. ron, scawts wearing and i spent four days on a bus urging republicans to come together to unify to win and that's exactly what happened. sit was close quairlts at times and eight was worth it to get ron back the next six years.

i'm immensely proud of the campaign our house members and candidates made. i want to congratulate our house leadership team. look at it this way. our house majority is bigger than expected. we won more seats than anyone expected. and much of that is thanks to donald trump. donald trump provided the kinds of coat tails that got a lot of people over the finish line sow we can maintain our strong house and senate majorities. now we have important work to do. many months ago republicans in the house united around a bold, specific agenda for this country. and offered a better way forward for america, and it will help us hit the ground running as we work with donald trump to do this. we'll honor the timeless principles our country was found on. liberty, freedom, free enterprise, could be sentsd of the governed. we'll apply those principles to the problems of the day.

this is the kinds of unified republican government we set out to deliver. there is no doubt our democracy can be messy. and we remain a sharply divide country. but now as we do tef four years, we have to work to heals division of a long campaign. i think president-elect donald trump set the perfect tone for doing just this. i know president obama and secretary clinton are working to bring the country together. nees to making america great and make it a more perfect union. with that, let me take your questions. >> [inaudible] today you are praising him. you have not embraced donald trump enough during the campaign. is your relationship with the

president-elect and your conservatives in the house. >> i have spoken with donald twice in the last 18 hours. we spoke last night and again this morning. i spoke to mike pence twice as well. we are going to hit the ground running. we are talking about getting our transitions together. when i say 7 out of 10 americans don't like the direction the country is going. what donald trump just pulled off is an enormous feat. and he just earned a mandate and we have a unified republican government. if you listened to us in the closing daysth of this campaign. we were making an appeal to our fellow citizens and republicans to come home to unify. that's what we did. >> in your conversations with the president-elect did you assure your support. >> we had great conversations about on you we'll work together

to make this work together. we are trying to get our schedules together to meet to flesh out how we build our transition. i'm excited about our ability to work together. >> what do you think the voters in wisconsin and nationwide who are concerned [inaudible] president-elect trump's comments about women and latinos. >> i will say to wisconsinites what i said before the election. look at the issues, the potential for our country. look at the direction we have been going and what direction we need to go. i'm proud of the fact for the first time since 1984, wisconsin's 10 electoral votes went to republicans. this is an enormous feat. we didn't think it ask happen. donald trump turned us on his head. donald trump delivered those 10 electoral vote and he helped

elect a strong majority in the senate and house. >> you said a mandate. how quickly will you repeal and replace obamacare. what do you say to those folks who don't feel like he's going to be their president? >> i think after a tough campaign where people believe that they were pitching so hard for one side or the other to heal and unify. this healthcare law is not a popular law. it is collapsing under its own weight. so to your specific question about repealing and replacing obamacare, this that majority has already demonstrated we can pass that legislation on put it on the president's desk. the problem is president obama vetoed it. now we have a president trump who has promised to fix this. it's not just the healthcare law we can replace. we have own the willingness and ability to do it. there are so many more things i'm excited about. think about the laid off coal

workers who see relief coming. think about the farmers who were being harassed by the epa. think about the laid off timber workers. there is relief coming. this is good for our country. this means we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state and restore the constitution. think about the conservative constitution respecting judges that will be nominated. this is very exciting. tim? >> [inaudible] conservative principles [inaudible] part of that also the republicans in the house and senate stated as well that there would be a check on the republican president. i wonder as speaker ways a

[inaudible] >> i think the mistakes of the republican government is we didn't do the right thing at the right time. in the past we didn't seize the opportunity when it presented itself. the didn't is now here and the opportunity is here and the opportunity is to go big and go bold and get things done for this country. there are different kind of conservatives, and republicans. the key is to not only unify and merge these approaches but to also invite everyone else to get us focused on our solutions. what i see here is great potential. i see a unified government and not more of this protracted government that has been plaguing us. i see the opportunity to get back to work tore the american people. donald trump pulled off an amazing political feat.

he deserves amazing credit for that. it helps us keep our majorities and it showed the country people don't like the country we were going. what i'm excited about is we in congress along with our nominee who is now the president-elect offered a specific and clear coherent agenda and which direction we should take the country and that's the direction we are going to go. that's why i'm excited about working with our president-elect and vice president elect to hit the ground running. >> you say you want to unify the country and bring people together. [inaudible] worried about civil liberties being violated? >> i don't think people should be worried about civil liberties being violated. take a look at the judges he said he would choose from to put on supreme court. these are judges who respect the

bill of rights and the constitution. one of the biggest issues is the constitution itself. for those people who didn't want the republicans to win, we have a clear agenda. we believe in the principles that built this country. we believe in the constitution. we have an agenda to get people back to work. we want to bring accountability to the federal government. we want the federal government to respect the states. this is exciting. for those people concerned, this is a time to unify, this is a time to heal. our president-elect, he set the right tone last night with his speech which was to be magnanimous, to be presidential and to bring people together. >> [inaudible] donald trump -- >> i don't worry about things like that. i don't worry about interparty issues.

i feel very good about where we are. we have had fantastics" in the last 18 hours. mike pence and i had a great conversation about the transition meeting. when he is sworn in as president we are hitting the ground running. bill: we have gotten the message from paul ryan loud and clear. talking about donald trump hearing a voice and seeking that voice and making it convert into votes and eventually a victory. he says he will lead a unified government. they are on the same a page from janesville, wisconsin down to manhattan, new york. now hillary clinton will appear in this room in a matter of moments we do believe. we are standing by for that. >> louisville, kentucky, mitchell mcconnell has been waiting for this moment since

the moment he began thinking about i want to be a senator and i want to be a senate majority leader. martha: there is a tremendous amount of pressure on them to make this moment count in. >> big way. we know how long it takes to make things happen. donald trump said he wants a special session of congress to deal with obamacare right out of the gate. there are a number of executive orders he can peel back. he can deal with regulations against u.s. companies and corporations. he can work on cutting the corporate tax rate. >> and congress and the kengsal regulatory act and under its own powers has the ability to undo a lot of rules and regulations imposed by the obama administration. i wouldn't be surprised to see a vote in the house sometime soon, starting with the waters of the nation proposal bid the administration to literally allow the epa to regulate any wet place in america.

if you are in agriculture -- it's onerous to family farmers and ranchers. bill: kelly ayotte is in a tough battle with maggie hassan in new hampshire. she is claiming victory or ayotte and in all likelihood it will go to a recount. >> right now it's 51 without louisiana. but louisiana -- the republicans' combined vote i think is approaching 75% of the vote among four republican candidates. so in fact 70%. i think it will end up being 52 members of the senate will be republican, plus i suspect we'll get a new member, maybe an independent who caucuses with the republican in the form of overman showofjoe manchin of we.

martha: we have seen headlines crossing of leaders in europe there are some who expressed dismay with the outkovment u.s. election. merkel says she is not quite sure what to make of it. the door they say is open to donald trump and they look forward to working with him. abroad that's going to be interesting to watch howe tries to build those relationships, given some of what he said. >> i don't think they have much of a choice but to say that. we are the world lone super power and they are wise to do that. i think it will be incumbent upon donald trump to build those relationships and take the time to build those relationships. throughout his campaign he sounded a neoisolationist for

non-interventionist notes. he will be meeting with people surrounding him on issues of foreign policy and national security. i hope they can impart to him the porchls reeve maining engaged in the world. i think they will. you also have to raise the what does vladimir putin do. it's easy to see him making an aggressive outreach to donald trump. i kind of always believed in you when a lot of people didn't believe in you. you have an opportunity now to show the american people that you can be a world-changing diplomat. saying you are a nation change politician. i think trump will be wise to treat those en death treaties with scepticism. bill: trump's campaigns has not been focused on overseas affairs. what he talked about in the

closing days is the forgotten man and forgotten woman in america. she goes into the new deal with fdr in 1932 and how that emerged and whether bigger government is better government. that was the argument she took on. how does the forgotten man and the forgotten woman of 2016 in the rust belt of the upper midwest who had to readjust to a new way of life -- a new opportunity, perhaps to put their faith and trust in a man who has never held public office before. >> interestingly enough, the phrase actually came from an dmift of the 1800s who wrote a

book entitled that. martha: applause for huma abedin. >> to think about those people who feel left behind in tour economy is going to require to us rethink it funds &al premises of the great society. this is a small example. the bridge program we have to help workers who have been displaced by trade. in the early 1960s, it doesn't work any longer. now we'll have to find new mechanisms to help those people. and the question is, are they going to be guide by the conservative principles of limited government and individual responsibility and local control that have governed the republican party? martha: tim kaine has just taken the podium in new york city. he will introduce hillary clinton moments from now. what a moment in new york city, midtown. let's listen in.

>> i'm so proud of hillary clinton. i'm proud of hillary clinton because she has been and is a great history maker in everything she has done as a civil rights lawyer and first lady of arkansas and first lady of this country and senator and secretary of state. she has made history in a nation that is good at so many things but has made iteau peek inly difficult for a woman to be elected to federal office. she payment first major nominee to be president. and last night she won the popular vote of americans. [cheers and applause]

that is an amazing accomplishment. it is an amazing accomplishment. i'm proud of hillary clinton because she has held fast to dreams. she was inspired at a young age to an epiphany that if families and children do well, that's the best barometer for whether a society does well. in everything she has done, she has focused on that. we know she would have made history as a president who once said we have never had a president who made their whole career about the empowerment of families and children. i was as excited about that in the oval office as i was to have my friend hillary there and make history as the first women president. i'm excited and proud of hillary because she built such a wonderful team.

there is a parable in the new testament about a vineyard owner who hires people and says i'm going to pay you for the whole day, and he hires people later and says we'll pay you the same. they said hold on. you are treating everyone late just as well as you are treating us. here is what i have come to know about hillary. the team of people she has assembled of people so deeply loyal to her because she is so deeply loyal to them is inspiring. but i have seen that same degree of loyalty and compassion and sensitivity extended to the most recent folks who joined the team, the folks who came to the vein yard with just one hour to go. her loyalty and compassion to hillary and bill.

if you are with you, you are with you. and i'm proud of hillary because she loves this country. country. country. [applause] >> nobody had to wonder if hillary clinton would accept the outcome of an election in our beautiful democracy. nebraska had to doubt it. she knows our country for what it is. she knows the system for what it is. she has been in battles before where if it didn't go her way she accepted it and woke up and battled the dreams she held fast to. that love of country is something that's obvious to everyone. i want to thank hillary clinton for asking anne and i to join this wild ride.

a week before she asked if i would be a running mate. i went unto west chester and we sat down with hillary and bill and chelsea and mark and charlotte and aiden for three hours of conversation to try to determine whether we would be the right people to be on the ticket. when we got in the car to head back to the airport after the three-hour discussion. i said i don't know if we are going to be on this ticket or not, but i do know this, we'll remember that three hours for the rest of our life and now we'll remember the 105 days we have had with this fantastic couple of public servants for the rest of our lives. hillary and i know well the wisdom and word of william faulkner. he said they killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet. they killed us, but they ain't whooped us yet. because we know -- we know that

the work remains. we know that the dreams of empowering families and children remains. in that work, that important work that we have to do as a nation. it's so comforting to know that hillary clinton is somebody until her very last breath is going to be battling for the values that make this nation great and the values we care so deeply about. please join me in welcoming secretary hillary rodham clinton. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you. thank you all. thank you. thank you all have much. thank you. thank you all very much. thank you so much. a very rowdy group. thank you, my friends. thank you. thank you. thank you so very much for being here. i love you all, too. last night i congratulated

donald trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. i hope that he will be a successful president for all americans. this is not the outcome we wanted or we worked so hard for, and i'm sorry we did not win this election for the values we share and the vision we hold for our country. but i feel pride and gratitude for this wonderful campaign that we built together. this vast diverse creative unruly energized campaign. you represent the best of america and being your candidate has been one of the greatest honors of my life. [applause] >> i know how disappointed you

feel because i file, too. and so do tens of millions of americans who invested their hopes and dreams in this effort. this is painful, and it will be for a long time. but i want you to remember this. our campaign was never about one person or even one election it was about the country we love and building an america indianapolis hopeful, inclusive and big hearted. we have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. but i still believe in america, and i always will. and if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.

our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power. we don't just respect that. we cherish it. it also enshrines. the rule of law, the principle we are all equal in rights and dignity. freedom of worship and expression. we respect and cherish these values, too, and we must defend them. [applause] let me add, our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time. so let's do all we can to keep advancing the causes and values we all hold dear. making our economy work for

everyone, not just those at the tomorrow, protecting our country and protecting our planet. and breaking down all the barriers that hold any american back from achieving their dreams. we spent a year and a half bringing together millions of people from every corner of our country to say with one voice that we believe that the american dream is big enough for everyone. for people of all races, and religions. for men and women, for immigrants, for lgbt people and people with disabilities. for everyone. [applause] >> i am so grateful to stand with all of you.

i want to thank tim kaine and ann holton for being our partners on this journey. [cheers and applause] >> it has been a joy get to go know them better and gives me great hope and comfort to know that tim will remain on the front lines of our democracy representing virginia in the senate. [cheers and applause] >> so barack and michelle obama, our country owes you an enormous debt of gratitude. [cheers and applause]

>> we thank you for your graceful determined leadership that has meant so much to so many americans and people across the world and to bill and chelsea, mark, charlotte, adyden, our brothers and our entire family, my love for you means more than i can ever express. you cress -- crisscrossed this country even 4-month-old ayden who traveled with his mom, i will always be grateful to the talented, dedicated men and women at our headquarters in brooklyn and across our country. [cheers and applause]

>> you poured your hearts into this campaign, to some of you who are veterans it was a campaign after you had done other campaigns, some of you, it was your first campaign. i want each of you to know that you were the best campaign anybody could have ever expected or wanted. [cheers and applause] >> and to the millions of volunteers, community leaders, activists and union organizers who knocked on doors, talk today neighbors, posted on facebook even in secret private facebook sites. i want everybody coming out from behind that and make sure your

voices are heard going forward. [cheers and applause] >> to anyone that sent contributions even as small as $5 that kept us going, thank you to all of us and to the young people in particular, i hope you will hear this i have as tim said i have spent my entire life fighting for what i believe in. i've had successes and setbacks and sometimes painful ones. many of you are at the beginning of your professional, public and political careers, you will have successes and setbacks too. this loss hurts, but please never stop believing that fight ing for what's right is worth it.

[cheers and applause] >> it is, it is worth it. [cheers and applause] >> and so we need, we need you to keep up these fights now and for the rest of your lives and to all the women and specially the young women who put their faith in this campaign and in me, i want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion. [cheers and applause]

>> now, i -- i know -- i know we have still not chattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling but some day someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now. [cheers and applause] >> and to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. [cheers and applause] >> finally, finally, i am so

grateful for our country and for all it has given to me. i count my blessings every single day that i am an american and i still believe as deeply as i ever have that if we stand together and work together with respect for our differences, strengthen our convictions and love for this nation, our best days are still ahead of us. [cheers and applause] >> because, you know, i believe we are stronger together and we will go forward together. and you should never, ever regret fighting for that. you know, scripture tells us let

us not go weary in doing good for in good season we shall reap. my friends, let us have faith in each other, let us not grow weary and lose heart for there are more seasons to come and there is more work to do. i am incredibly honored and grateful to have had this chance to represent all of you in this consequential election, may god bless you and may god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause]

martha: there you have a dignified an emotional but focused hillary clinton who has been one of the most famous people on the world stage and on the stage in this country politically for many, many years. she held it together little bit tiery at times, her voice cracked a little bit when she said this is painful and painful for sometime, a human acknowledgment of the enormous commitment of energy and time that it takes to go through this. you think about all of the different stages of this campaign and the ups and downs that she has gown-gone through, physically, emotionally and all the roller coasters of this campaign. most americans will look at this speech from hillary clinton and the speech that we heard last night from donald trump with a

sigh of relief and say, good for you, good for both of you, gracious, open-arm moment and a plea to bring the country together in most divisive political campaign that we have ever seen in this country and i think the tone of both of the speeches was quite welcomed today. here is karl rove and steve hayes. the first lady of arkansas and the first lady of the united states, a senator from new york, a secretary of state and the first woman to be the nominee of a major political party in the united states. she has achieved in a great deal. >> if we saw the person, i couldn't agree with you more. a picture perfect victory statement and we have now a healing concession speech that was pitch perfect.

three notes hit me. we owe him or open mind and the opportunity to lead. that was a note of national unity that is really important after this campaign. she also had a call to action, our constitutional democracy requires our participation and then finally a note to her young and woman supporters never stop fighting because it's worth. i thought it was terrific for our country and god bless for delivering. >> it was the best speech that i have seen her give and nothing else is close and i thought donald trump's speech was last night was the best speech he's given in the campaign and sort of a fitting end for people who have had so much anxiety throughout the campaign, myself included. it's a promising way to end what's been a very difficult campaign. i think you summed it up exactly right. obviously this was a deeply personal speech. but she hit so many gracious notes. i agree with karl entirely. the most humanitarian that we have seen her not just in this

campaign but going back to the 20 talked about before, was so difficult for her, it's the most human that we have seen her in public life and what struck me as she was finishing the speech, she did have emotional moments, i would have had emotional moments given those same words, but the thing that struck me about is this was a surprisingly strong speech, there was a strength about her as she delivered this, it was not what i expected her to be gracious, i expected her warm words for donald trump. i didn't expect her to finish so strong. >> she finished stray in many ways, she looked very strong when she went through the last several days of campaigning and, you know, this speech obviously as you both pointed out was a strong one.

i'm -- i do think that women across the country it's an women motional moment for them. issues of security, issues of the economy and these are things that matter to men and women aligning but a poynant moment to be sure from hillary clinton. >> it was interesting last night and today we saw their humanity. you saw the pain that she has suffered in this loss but you also saw that sort of sense of awesome responsibility that produces humility and donald trump last night and says something about the character of these people, that these were moments that invested a lot of who they are and what they're about, there's somebody if is looking at both of the statements is going to say how

am i going to match that? that's the third player in the drama, the man that has to deliver the venedictoin of power. martha: what do you expect, steve? >> it was a good moment last night. i hate to be cynical and skeptical about it but that hasn't been the way president obama has been conducting himself. if you look at the remarks after he gave in the 2010 election and 2014 election, he offered, i thought, sort of grudging congratulations to republicans who he had fought so hard in the elections. i hope as karl says, i hope that we see something different from the president today and to this entire last year cycle.

now he has a chance to return. martha: this would be a nice moment to revisit the red america and the red, blue and purple america that he spoke of in the first speech. we watch and wait for the president of the united states to come out in the rose garden and make what will be a momentous statement, stay with us. we go now to bill hammer who will be covering throughout the course of it. bill, over to you. bill: martha, thank you. we have moved from studio f as in fancy to studio d as in what? >> delightful. [laughter] bill: we will take it. sandra: thank you so much. busy guy, good to have you here. a fox news alert for you, at the noon hour on the east coast we just heard hillary clinton's concession speech and now we are waiting for president obama to give his first public remarks on what maybe one of the biggest political stunners in u.s.