sorry for the truncated time. letting you know, markets up and right now rod rosenstein a few moments ago leaving the white house. all good, we are told. no one getting fired are being asked to quit, we are also told. "the five" is now. ♪ >> jesse: i'm jesse watters with martha maccallum, juan williams juan williams, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five" ." fox news alert. a lot of breaking news to tell you about. attorney general jeff sessions resigning at president trump's request. the president already naming sessions' chief of staff matthew whitaker is acting attorney general. sources telling fox news whitaker is in charge of everything at the doj, including the russian investigation. this resignation follows president trump's news conference today where he was repeatedly asked about sessions

in the mueller investigation. >> reporter: can you give us clarity, server, on your thinking about the attorney general and deputy attorney general? >> president trump: i would rather answer that at a little bit different time. we're looking at a lot of different things. i'm happy with most of my cabinet. >> reporter: do you consider removing mr. mueller from his position? >> president trump: i could've ended it anytime i wanted. i didn't. there was no collusion. >> jesse: will have a reaction to this news and the president's epic clash with the media later in the show. first, the historic midterm elections. democrats retaking the house by republicans making key gains in the senate. president from calling the a major success. >> president trump: carlos curbelo, mike coffman. too bad, mike.

mia love gave me no love and she lost. too bad. sorry about that, mia. barbara comstock. she could have won that race but she didn't want to have any embrace. those with some of the people that decided for their own reason not to embrace. >> jesse: the president slamming republicans which you just saw, who lost for not backing his agenda fully. >> president trump: i thought it was a very close to a complete. president obama campaign very hard in georgia. oprah winfrey campaigned very, very hard all over the television. i said this is going to be tough. i only had me. then we went to florida. they had celebrities all over the place. a man who happens to be a very smart person was running. ron desantis. people didn't give him a chance, and i went and we had -- we did

some great work. >> jesse: you like how i set those sound bites up, didn't you? [laughter] >> greg: it was excellent. >> jesse: i want to make sure everybody knows i basically nailed my prediction the night before. i said the house, the democrats were going to pick up 20 to 28 seats. i said in the senate they were going to gain four. they gained three. i am basically a genius. greg, big wins for republicans in the senate and key governor races but they did lose the house. >> greg: i don't think you could get a better outcome than this for president trump. i want to say i am kidding. today it's about teaching liberals a lesson about losing. nobody this morning was out setting fire to a car because they lost the house. no one was hitting someone in a resistant shirt in the face because they lost the house. i went to the gym. that's what conservatives do. they get on with their lives. i'm really happy for the

democrats. i think it's important to share power. i don't think -- they may not feel that way but i think it's good for them to have a voice in government and granted, it's the house. i mean, who cares. but i think it's good news. the people that won aren't crazy progressives. in the suburbs, a lot of them are veterans. some that loss, beto o'rourke, and others were progressive. so that's good. the good news is the dems get the house of the kids get to play with the toys. the republicans get the senate so the adults handle the heavy machinery. creates a new story line for us in the media. it's like your favorite sitcom getting a new neighbor. now you have a whole new thing, the nemesis. it's like the 6 million dollar man when they brought in the bionic woman. it's great. martha, you are staring at me like i'm crazy. [laughter] >> martha: i was just sort of

watching. i am on the show now? >> jesse: martha, you took us down to the wire last night very late. you saw it right out of the gate until the very end. you don't seem tired. what's your take away? >> martha: i think we ended up with a map that looks like america. america is very divided. you have a house that's dominated by the democrats, and that's going to change things dramatically. they are already sort of chomping at the bit to get their hands on a number of these committee leaderships which is going to i think -- one of the things i think that's very interesting this morning is that the day after the election, it was sort of the feeling and i'm talking about the presidential election, you sort of have the feeling wow, this is an incredible outcome. president trump won so i guess it's the new reality and everyone is going to sort of excepted and the country moves on and you see where it goes next. no, it was like bam, right out of the gate. i felt that way this morning as

well, watching the president's news conference this afternoon. you felt like after last night, maybe things settle in. you have divided government which is a very american reality situation and right out of the gate, we have an incredibly contentious, i know were going to talk about it later but incredibly contentious news conference and a very clear new reality in america. >> jesse: looking at juan's face, he doesn't seem as happy as i thought he would be considering. it was not the blue wave that a lot of people predicted, juan, and there were some worrying signs for the trump campaign about going forward in 2020. you don't seem that excited about retaking the house. >> juan: to me, i love the idea come as martha was suggesting, a check that the congress, the house is now a check on the president. i think that's what the founding fathers intended. i embrace it. i think it's terrific. ruth regard to the blue wave, i feel more like i got

ruth regard to the blue wave, i purple rain [laughter] because i was so disappointed by what happened with the governor and the democratic governor, would have been the first black governor of florida -- or stacey abrams. i think lots of democrats were heavily emotionally as well of financially invested in beto o'rourke. in texas, came close. to me, it was terrific in terms of looking at the house races. as i say, the big news is the democrats now control the house. when greg says that's really good news, i was pleased to hear my friends say that. but i think it's big news in part because it's change the political landscape. we had one party rule in our country for the last two years, you now have democrats in position not only to act as the checkbook to participate in terms of the legislative process. ideas and policies, in ways that we've grown unaccustomed to.

i come back to the idea that when we have such a divided country, it's dangerous. i think there are a lot of feelings. i'm disappointed and i would have liked a stronger sort of signal to president trump that people don't like the divisive rhetoric and the anger and the kind of things he does. you look at it and the results are that women, especially white women in the suburbs, went for the democrats. the independents went for the democrats. in rural america, president trump had a very successful political strategy which is i don't care about the suburbs. i only care about my base and i'm going out and i'm going to talk to the biggest red base and give them culture wars and migrant invasions and they bought it. that's a shock. >> jesse: the president has a lot of work to do in the rust belt, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. some warning signs there. and in the suburbs. in health care played a major role in that democrats' victory.

>> dana: i was interested in the deepening divide, not just partisan, but geographically. rural america versus urban america. if you look at the map, there is red in the rural areas. republicans are so strong there. but in the cities, big major population centers including in texas, austin, san antonio, houston, dallas. those are growing cities that republicans are going to have to keep, i'm thinking 20 years down the road, you've got to think about it. republicans usually had won the suburbs for a couple decades. to see background to democrats democrats -- >> jesse: what do you think it signals? is it more about the presidents style? >> dana: i don't know. i think we'll have to see how things shake out. certainly health care is a thing but in our voter analysis it shows 50% of people want to go sort of the progressive way in 50% of the people like the conservative way. how do you get those minds to

come together? >> greg: you don't. may be divided government reduces the divisiveness in the country because, my libertarian streak likes the fact that it is self canceling. it's good. >> martha: one of the problems about divided government in this environment is that it doesn't work. what we see is gridlock. the ideal situations where you have republicans and democrats but they find things they agree on and move forward on. >> greg: i don't want them to move forward, that's the thing. as a libertarian, i want them to be stuck in the mud. i am pro-gridlock. >> juan: men still voted strongly for trump. >> greg: i can't believe women vote for democrats. >> juan: women voted by 20 points for the democrats. the marriage isn't working. they are at each other. >> jesse: may be the man can't tell the women they are married to. maybe hillary got that wrong. juan is going to listen to

"purple rain" during the break. attorney general jeff sessions has resigned, our reaction next. president trump's epic clash with the media earlier today. >> president trump: that's enough. that's enough. that's enough. that's enough. >> jesse: that's all coming up on "the five" ." today, 97% of employers agree that skills like teamwork, attention to detail, and customer service are critical to business success. the kind of skills, that work for you.

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>> martha: breaking news out of washington. jeff sessions residing at the request of president trump. a rocky relationship this has been and it's been documented in the media. sessions recused himself from the mueller investigation. president announcing matthew whitaker who served as chief of staff to sessions will become the acting attorney general. in a tweet, president trump -- you could call him president tweet. [laughter] >> greg: i like it. >> martha: thinking attorney general sessions for his service. dana, i heard you saying reminded you of your days at the bush white house. >> dana: leading into the

midterms in 2,006, the iraq war in 2006, we suffered many casualties, many more iraqi casualties. the american public was getting frustrated. the war was considered not to be going in a good direction. it was right after that for the surge was created. what happened was everyone was mad at secretary rumsfeld, not necessarily president bush, but he news the frustration was pent-up, especially on capitol hill. so you lose. you should make a change. you should -- make you should e on, try to fix something. i believe it was the next day, president bush did let rumsfeld go, said goodbye to him. thinking back on it, so many people in the senate were so upset and said if you had fired rumsfeld before the midterm, we wouldn't have lost all the seats. i don't know if that's necessarily true.

i think it was maybe baked in the cake. the president, from a communications standpoint, very smart not to reveal he was going to fire jeff sessions after the press conference that he did for 87 minutes. he gave a couple tales. one of the things was throughout the press conference, the president said over and over again the mueller investigation is costing the american people too much money. it's too expensive. matt whitaker is on record saying it's within the power of the attorney general's office to whittle down the budget of the special counsel. i don't know if that's what's going to happen. but that's a tell to me. >> martha: he might suggest defunding the investigation. he's also indicated he felt the investigation has run amok of its purview in terms of investigating the actual russia attempts to potentially hurt, affect the election. sort of blood into the family finances for the trumps and all

of that. in terms of rod rosenstein, he's the deputy attorney general. he was not moved up. matt whitaker was bold and which is an odd succession for sessions. >> jesse: they sidelined rod and put whitaker at the top. so when the mueller report comes in, it goes to whitaker. it doesn't go to rod. whoever gets this report, they can disclose whatever they want. they can keep it close to the vest. they could disclose everything. it's really up to whitaker to do what he sees fit with this report from robert mueller. i was talking to your cohort stirewalt and he was briefing me on the politics of it and he is a lot smaller than you give -- smarter than you give him credit for. i think i might do a podcast with him. he said it's all about leverage with the negotiations about the interview the president disposed to give to mueller. they have been jockeying for position. is it going to be oral or written? they put it off until after the

midterms. now you're basically at the finish line. as the president going to sit down and answer questions recycle all going to be written? what it does by pointing whitaker to oversee it, it gives leverage to the president. it signals to robert mueller that i am in charge. i have more control than you do. let's wrap it up based on what whitaker has said in writing and in the past. people call him a political operative. i understand why. i think the next two months, were going to see the end of the mueller investigation. >> martha: one of the things that surprised me was how surprised everyone wants. there's been talk of this for months and months and months. even suggestion it was going to happen after the midterms. suddenly there is shock and outrage. everybody can't believe the president did something that he'd been talking about and has the right to do. >> greg: this is not a big story. it's not a big story. it's the yon of the day. he made it in two years.

in trump years, that's actually eight years. the real casualties jim acosta. he had the 50 seconds of heroic outrage and it's been quickly forgotten, although we will bring it back in the next block. the winner here is pot smokers. your watching marijuana stocks go up. we implicitly knew that sessions was going to be a barrier to decriminalization and whatnot. i think it's going to make it easier. the i love that the firing letter was probably dated and signed ages ago. it wasn't dated. it was signed. i think may be trump does this with his marriages. they are like prenups. he has them ready. >> martha: today's the day. some folks look at this and say that he and jeff sessions had a great relationship early on. one of the first people to come on board. but it soured quickly when he

recused himself from the russian investigation. some people feel like president obama had eric holder. they were symbiotic, on the same page in a lot of ways. the president deserves to have someone he doesn't feel as an adversary in a difficult environment for him leading the justice department. >> juan: i don't think jeff sessions was ever an adversary to donald trump. the question was whether or not he should recuse himself and the president was of the opinion he should not have. what you heard from jeff sessions is that he felt he had no choice because he not only had been in the campaign. he was being questions about contacts with russian officials. what strikes me is whitaker has written articles saying he would have indicted hillary clinton. and that he does not think that the the president's finances should be investigated by robert mueller. >> jesse: sounds like a smart guy. >> martha: sounds like the kind of attorney general president trump would want to.

>> juan: i think it's highly politicized. the president tweeted today that most americans, they don't think the investigation should continue. >> martha: there's a cnn poll that says most people think -- >> juan: the point i was making is that the poll is based on a disproportionate number of republicans, trump supporters saying this, not independents, not democrats. the president has made the case that it's all politics. it has nothing to do with any real investigation. they are just going after me. you, my supporters, ignore it. >> jesse: at least the pot smokers can be happy. >> greg: let's get out of this segment. >> martha: president trump ready to brawl after democrats are already threatening several investigations. hi, i'm joan lunden with a place for mom,

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>> dana: now that the democrats have taken the house, they are already threatening to launch investigations against president trump and his administration. the president says he welcomes the challenge. >> president trump: almost from the time i announced i was going to run, they've been giving us this investigation fatigue. it's been a long time. they've got nothing, zero. take a look at us, we can look at them and it will go back and forth. it could be very good for me politically. i think i am better at that game than they are. >> dana: jesse, in 2006 when the republicans lost the majority, we immediately had the investigations. one of them was the stupid u.s. attorney scandal. i tried to answer every question appropriately. i wish i would have i would've had a little more about "bring it on. we don't care." >> jesse: that's definitely you, dana. pelosi can launch investigations all day.

mcconnell can sit around and confirm judges. if they want to play that game, they can play that game. trump said we could negotiate. pelosi was a mess last night when she was celebrating. she didn't look good. she was reading off the teleprompter. at one point she said let's give a hand to everybody with pre-existing conditions. what was that? she regained her composure today and i thought she said some good things about unity. there is potential to do deals on health care and infrastructure. >> dana: can we play the pelosi bipartisan bit? >> it's going to be a big problem for president trump going forward if he thinks that the media is annoying, wait until he meets a democratic house that has subpoena power and has the legal ability to force them to turn over documents. we are going to look like nothing compared to that. he's going to find an opposition that he has never really

encountered before. >> greg: pelosi got a lot of work done. >> dana: how about i just read to you what pelosi said? conversation with the president about how we can work together over the years we've been able to work together bipartisan income across the aisle and across the capitol and pennsylvania avenue. i hope we can do that. is it going to last? >> martha: they both threaten each other with the same thing. she said the other day we do have subpoena power. and when we need to use it, we will use it judiciously. if we don't need to use it, then of course we are open to negotiations. the president says the same thing. president says i'm happy to deal with you. happy to talk about infrastructure. he says nancy and i could get along well. it's possible that they could. if you hold this acts over my head with more investigations, it's not going to be on the table. i think they're both sort of in their corner, taking questions about who the bigger person is and let's try to work on

something. it's all about 2020. do you want to have something you can say this is what we accomplished across the aisle? i don't know. i don't like it looks very optimistic. >> dana: jerry nadler, likely to be the democrat who takes over the judiciary committee, he was up in arms with the yawn of the day and he said maybe were going to have to investigate. >> greg: i was watching another network and they were laying out the investigations. they were so excited. they mentioned puerto rico, to investigate what happened there. they're lining them up. one thing i have learned about donald trump, reciprocity. if you do right by him, he will do right by you. for example, he's a salesman. he's always willing -- he talked to kim jong un. he can talk to anybody. there is helped there that they can negotiate. however, if you do something bad, then it's me -- mutually assured destruction.

if he has a pie he will throw the pie. it's better to share the pie negotiate. >> dana: a lot of what the president was able to accomplish is been by executive action because of the merchants in the congress. now he actually can talk about the gridlock in congress. it's not his fault. it's because of the democrats. having someone to fight against. >> juan: that your premise would that he has to say something different. what's interesting to me, i thought it was machiavelli in today. did you see this when he tweets out that in fact nancy pelosi deserves to be speaker of the house. this is the same woman that he's been demonizing as the face of the democrats. >> greg: he is being conciliatory. >> juan: he said he would get a republican vote. >> greg: you should thank him.

>> juan: thank him for giving me a lesson in machiavelli and policy. you are saying it's about 2020 and he loves having her as a foil because he says to his backers, even yesterday on the set, and pelosi's picture came up, you could hear people outside in fox square doing. >> greg: that was her family. >> juan: i didn't know they were invited. >> juan: pelosi is now in a trap because democrats don't want her to play with donald trump. >> dana: a lot of these new members of congress, they have already pledged that they would not vote for nancy pelosi. one of the ways they figured out how to win. president trump asking these members of congress for the first vote to be for her to be speaker of the house. >> jesse: obviously good republicans lost the house. we have them right where we want them. your point, i think democrats are going to follow the media over a cliff over these investigations. they are going to egg down and

fall in the same trap which lost on the house. the last time they went far to the left and later republicans won 60-something seats in 2010. pelosi doesn't want to go out like that. it's the end of the road for her. she wants a legacy, really on health care. i think the president and nancy can get together on health care and do something which is going to be good for the american people. >> dana: are you making that prediction? >> jesse: take it to the bank. >> dana: let's bookmark it. president trump's news conference, fireworks at the white house next.

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there come this january. jeff sessions, as you can see, being applauded at the moment. this is right outside the justice department on constitution. that's his new, the new attorney general mr. whitaker, shaking hands with him. [applause] looks like he's about to get emotional air and you can understand why. it's been a rough road. that letter, as jesse pointed out, it was unsigned as he had given it to the president. the president releasing the letter today and jeff sessions leaving tonight. this was all done in rapid fashion. sessions getting into a car there right outside the justice department. surrounded by senior staff. back to "the five." president trump's first news conference after the midterms turned out to be must-see tv. the event featuring some very wild moments, including clashes

with the media. there were also some classic trump lines. watch this. >> president trump: here we go. >> reporter: if you don't mind, mr. president. >> president trump: i think you should let me run the country. you run cnn. if you did it well, your ratings would be better. that's enough. peter, go ahead. that's enough. that's enough. that's enough. that's enough. that's enough. you are a rude, terrible person. you shouldn't be working for cnn. >> reporter: why are you pitting americans against one another? >> president trump: what kind of question is that? let me tell you. such a hostile media. it's so sad. >> juan: i don't know where to start so i go to the former white house press secretary. >> greg: okay, well. [laughter] >> dana: jim acosta was not at the white house when i was ther

there. helen thomas comes to mind. sometimes she was a bit of a character. she liked to get a little tension going. this is a little bit different because the president handles it differently. he likes to push back against the media. republicans have complained about the media for a long time. conservatives have always felt that the media is unfair to them. sort of call it out as your weekly magazines as you get. this is not a whole different scale. some of the polling from last night about the dismal state of affairs for how people believe the president or don't believe the resident, believe the media or don't believe the media. it's also part of this polarization. i felt bad for the young woman there. she works for the president. he is telling her to move the microphone because that's what her job is and jim acosta was holding onto it and she got caught up in the cross fire. she did as best as she could. >> juan: jesse, i put this question to you, someone who likes donald trump i think.

>> greg: no. >> jesse: i think i cover it pretty fairly. >> juan: i can't believe, i've been a white house reporter. i've asked questions. my job is to hold powerful people accountable and ask difficult questions and try to break news. he seems to me to have had a tantrum. >> jesse: are you talking about jim acosta? listen, you know how these things go. they've been doing this for three generations. reporters and the tv age. they stand up and the president gets to pick who wants to ask in the president gets to wants -- answer however he wants. never have i ever seen, no one else has, someone refusing to let the president move on, refusing to hand over the microphone to the point where he's actually instigating a physical confrontation with a young female white house staffer who's just trying to move the press conference along. he is arguing with the president. he's hostile to the president.

this is not a question about a watergate era scandal, the future of the republic, war and peace. this is about how he's characterizing the caravan. it's a difference of opinion. >> juan: he doesn't get to choose the question. >> jesse: he can choose the reporter and choose how to answer it and he can choose which next reporter to call on. >> juan: one peter alexander stood up, he said i don't think you're the best either. it was unbelievable. i >> jesse: he was sharing his opinion about another reporter. >> juan: martha, the other part was the president said last night's was close to a complete and total victory. in terms of the midterms. see if i think the president walked into that room today feeling good. he's thinking, i thought i was going to get shellacked, president obama's word after he lost 63 seats. i think the president thought let's go out there do a news conference because i'm feeling good. we picked up some significant seats in the senate. we didn't do as poorly in the houses they thought. significant governorships. he walked in there and didn't realize that a lot of the folks in the room had something

totally different for breakfast. they were feeling i think, in some cases, emboldened in their rudeness and that now they could basically knock him around even harder than we usually do because they are empowered i guess. the press should not be aligned with political parties. however, he felt like that. it felt like they were emboldened by last night's election. they wanted to try to push back. there were moments in there today that i actually thought that a brawl might break out. >> dana: it was uncomfortable. >> martha: felt like it was about to go off the rails. >> jesse: walking back from the podium, catching some breaths. >> martha: it's unbelievable what we saw there today. >> juan: greg, the part that i thought was unbelievable was when you push the playback machine earlier and ran a tape of president trump putting down republicans who lost yesterday. >> greg: i did enjoy that,

especially when he said that maia love showed him no love. before trump was up there, i had it on another station. >> juan: do you never watch fox? >> greg: i was at the gym. they don't play fox. cnn was going through the list of possible investigations, and jim acosta was talking about the immigration ad and that stuff and then acosta and gloria, they were wondering if trump would use the word shellacking because it was a shellacking. it wasn't a shellacking. it wasn't even a blue wave. i think jim acosta embarrassed all of those in there with his behavior. in a nutshell, what he said was president trump, will you agree with me that, would you agree with me that you are racist? that's what he was saying, that's what cnn wanted them to say. they cannot move from their bitter emotional position. the president came out there sounding positive and conciliatory. it didn't matter.

it proves cnn can't have nice things. you give them something, they don't know what to do. they throw a tantrum. i thought trump handler pretty well. >> dana: i wanted to say something else. this white house press corps, when the balance of power switches, the attention from the media's which is too. now the people that will be driving the media coverage for the most part are hill reporters, not at the white house. all of those editing decisions are happening on the hill. the white house, if you are on defense coming are constantly trying to figure how to get back on offense. it might not be a problem for this white house but i saw it in 2006 and '07 for the white house reporter student matters much and there's another reason, a lot of reporters and may be acosta will be one of them, will head out pretty soon for the presidential campaign trail. >> juan: it looked like a verbal brawl might was so -- it was so disappointing.

i don't understand why the president is calling reporters racist. >> greg: we are seeing the real thing. >> juan: wasn't a racist question. i don't get it. >> martha: y, asking why are you a white supremacist? she said you used that word. basically everyone understands it's a dog whistle by white supremacy. he said i was offended. >> juan: i don't get it. the park put it back on the people who accuse you of being racist. >> juan: the clash over president trump's supreme court pick. up next from greg on "the five"" gary, gary, gary... i am proud of you, my man. making simple, smart cash back choices... with quicksilver from capital one. you're earning unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere.

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>> greg: the republicans won back the senate where they appoint judges. dems took the house with a fixed parking tickets. the real chums are those who rejected due process. republicans unseated four senators. heitkamp, mccaskill, donnelly, bill nelson. all known for leading the mob and trying to do destroy justice brett kavanaugh. >> i wanted to hear directly from me about why am voting against confirmation of judge kavanaugh. >> i think the vote against

kevin i was going to be tough no matter what. >> i voted against judge kavanaugh because of concerns about his impartiality. >> i will vote no on judge kavanaugh. >> greg: four out of the six vulnerable senate democrats lost. jon tester barely squeaked it out. the one who refused the bait and voted for kavanaugh, joe manchin. he won. it shows many americans which trial unfold before their very eyes and they didn't shrug it off. it's true that the two biggest monsters feinstein and mazie did fine but for the rest of currently actions have consequences. four people lost their jobs. maybe next time they're asked to play fair, democrats might fear for their careers before destroying another's. it will be nice if they didn't resort to such horrible tactics because they are good people, but their politicians. on the evolutionary tribal people we admire, you will find nurses at the top and politicians at the bottom. they do what they do a lot of desire for power.

they can understand right and wrong, you they will understand living there crap out inboxes. do you think it had an effect? >> dana: mccaskill declared she would vote against kavanaugh before the doctor forward allegations came forward. she didn't even give them a chance on that. i feel like chuck schumer made a mistake. i said why don't the democrats cave early because he's going to get confirmed. instead of dragging it out, just left the red state democrats vote for kavanaugh and move on and focus on health care or whatever. instead they had to have this moment and it backfired. >> jesse: i can't believe the democrats don't take political advice from fox news. you would think that they would really listen. the question is, you are right, they made a mistake. are they going to repeat the same mistake? i think they probably will. i want to take this opportunity to talk about how bad the polls

four. nbc news, they were eight points off in indiana. nine points off in missouri. seven points off in arizona and i could go down the list. the worst poll i've ever seen in the midterm election in these races. i could go on and on. look at the approval numbers for president trump in crucial states. michigan, 45. pennsylvania, 45. wisconsin, 47. florida, 51%. ohio, 52%. those are really good approval rating numbers going into 2020 and leave people think this was a blue wave, this was nothing. >> juan: oh, stop. who won the governor's race in wisconsin? >> jesse: purple rain. >> juan: going back to the poll numbers, i am looking at poll numbers on kavanaugh. the vote on kavanaugh, very important.

42% of republicans that it was very important but 55% of the democrats say it was very important to them. >> greg: they hate due process. >> juan: they gave the guy due process. you know who didn't get due process? merrick garland. >> greg: he didn't get his life ruined. merrick garland is a murderer to the democrats. he didn't. his family in front about -- >> juan: he didn't get a hearing. mitch mcconnell played brutal politics. >> martha: joe manchin, in the polls before the election, they said would you vote for him if he had voted no on kavanaugh? people said no, i wouldn't. the polls have been all over the place on kavanaugh because some of the once we got yesterday also indicated that that was more positive for democrats and republicans, but that's not always all play out with donnelly either. donnelly said it had nothing to

do with the whole doctor forward thing. it's because he's impartial. democrats were all over the map. it outrage so many people in terms of the issue of wanting a fair process. that's what it really got back to i think for some of the people. we that's such an old delegation without enough corroboration and they just don't want to see someone be hurt for that because it's not provable at that point in the situation. it's something i think people feel very deeply and i think it had a major impact. >> greg: we have to move on. you okay? "one more thing" is up next. or atopic dermatitis, you never know how your skin will look. and it can feel like no matter what you do, you're itching all the time. but even though you see and feel your eczema on the surface of your skin, an overly sensitive immune system deep within your skin might actually be causing your eczema.

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>> juan: did you vote yesterday? won the young man in georgia didn't get to vote. so he threw a tantrum, watch this. >> they didn't let you go vote? >> juan: his mom posted the video, she vote it was a case of voter suppression. as you can see he wanted the real thing. yesterday's midterms, 100 million people voting, the first time in voting history were more 100 million people went to the polls in a midterm. >> jessie: he was physically suppressed. >> greg: the youth vote didn't happen, 13%. got a podcast, the fox news podcast i'm interviewing this lady, dana perino we are going to talk about election stuff. >> dana: ailments.

>> greg: and all of my physical ailments. and it's time for greg's travel news. my book is on sale, you can get it anywhere. one fellow getting in a cap racing in peru to get my book, this is a peruvian taxi. that's an alpaca, it's a busy street, there's a barnes & noble 3 miles away. the animal waits for its owner to get in, tells him what it's going, and there he is, isn't this great? he got packed into the car. >> you're going to like this, there are number of outstanding races from the midterm elections waiting to be called and fox has just received exclusive footage of florida's bill nelson discovering a new batch of

unfound hidden ballots. you can see right there, just how enthusiastic senator nelson is about those boats. >> martha: i'm going to try again. you know how they knight people in england? emma thompson is dame emma thompson and prince william grew up knowing her and asked if i could please give you a kiss and he said no, don't. you're not supposed to touch royalty. my question is for jesse, everyone knows she is a great actress, what would be my favorite movie starring emma thompson? >> greg: "love actually" and it sucks. i saw it coming, it's a terrible film. >> dana: sense and sensibility is fantastic. i can't believe jesse has never

seen "love actually." >> greg: >> jessie: set your dv, never miss an episode of "the five" ," brett is next. >> bret: this is a fox news alert, good evening i'm bret baier. just hours after the midterm elections president trump's attorney general is cleaning out his desk at the president's request. jeff sessions resigned a few hours ago after a call from the president's chief of staff. he departed the department of justice with a handshake to his acting successor and applause from the crowd as you're looking there gathered in the courtyard. the move coming following a split decision in the boat for the midterms, some verbal haymaker's throne at the presidential news conference. it was a busy day, we start off with chief white house correspondent john roberts.