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((steve sebelius)) tonight on politics now... reaching across the aisle to work together. democrat catherine cortez masto wins as nevada goes blue. what republican senator dean heller has to say about their relationship.... (( jacky rosen: "well, i think president-elect trump has already talked about investing in infrastructure)) ((patrick walker)) i think president-elect trump has already talked about investing in infrastructure... >> congresswoman-elect jackie rosen also sits down with us to talk about her plans once she's sworn in as a member of congress in january. s >> and the blue wave washes over the legislature, we look at the shift and balance of power and what it means for the 2017
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is there can i believe it? election day is past us, and it was a historic one here in nevada across the country. thanks for joining us. i'm patrick walker. >> and i'm steve sebelius, more than 1.1 nevadans went to the pollsht to cast an early vote, a turn-out rate of about 77%, slightly less than the 80% that's typical in presidential electionf years. >> here the turn-out was slightly lower it brings it at about 75%. thate was lower turn-out than e 2012 election, so steve, why do you think we saw those numbers trending down? i think one of the reasons is the top of the ticket, you know, people were not excited to vote for either one of these two candidates. look at the return that none these candidates got in the presidential race. at 2.57%, it's never broken 1%. there were more votes cast for
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of these candidates in the elections of 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 combined. so all of this mill. >> and those are the people who actually went to the polls as the one that stayed home. >> nevada's senate seats5 will stay blue. katherine cortez beat republican joe heck 47 to 45%. heck was casualties of the blue wave here in nevada. here's what cortez told supporters after that win. >> we have some things that we have to fight for. there is no doubt that we have to fight for an economy that works for all of us. right. we have to ensure we have a living wage, increasing that minimum wage for people who are still struggling across this stated. >> now, republican joe heck didn't speak to his supporters on election night but sent a
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cortez masto good luck. >> and she will be one-half of our team of senators in washington and the other will be republican dean heller of course in true 2018. i caught up with him to ask him about workingp with president trump. >> we know your support for donald trump, where it has been in the past. but he is now commander in chief. talk to me about the working relationship going forward now with the president and folks in the senate who maybe weren't supportive of him. >> right. well, you know, i believe it's a you know, we turned blue here in nevada but the rest of the country went red. i lated to see hardy and some of these others that weren't able to get past this election cycle and it's gonna be my job and others to make sure it doesn't happen two cycles in a row obviously going forward. now we have a new president. i will tell you this i've been around the state since tuesday and insists a convenience store
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coming up. people are talking that it's a better day and people are really happy with what they see. so it's my responsibility and my job is to go back there and work with the new president. if i like his policies, i'll support him. and we will reconcile any differences that we may have had but my job is to work with both sides of the isle, work with the new administration, and get things done for the american people. so i don't think it's gonna be that difficult but just take work. >> and your colleague, the new katherine cortez masto. when you look at just the breakdown how she won nevada she won clark county, you traveled the state, you represented rules -- rural nevada. >> first of all, i have no doubt and will do everything i can to supporters to make sure that she does. i've talked to her on the phone and told her we have a lot of
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i think we're both gonna have ideas and the country as a whole. so i think it's a very positive position of making sure we get things done and we're together for the benefit of the state. >> well, some of you may. remember years ago nevada's senators harry reid and john enson had the non-aggressive path where they wouldn't pass each other as senators in public. do you think that's a possibility between cortez and hal center. >> well, i think it's probably again. it was unique in the history of the state. i think because they had run against each other andm because the race was so close, 428 votes after a recount had been done, that it was just really i think we'll probably never see a relationship like that again. we'll probably with these two candidates see a conventional relationship between senators from the opposite parties on to
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congressional district 4 and jackie rosen knocked off republican danny tarcanian in his fifth attempt at office. that was the close of all the races. you can see here very, very tight. i sat down with rosen to talk about her plans now cominga up n congress. >> congresswoman-elect jackie rosen thank you for sitting down with us. i think the last time you were here we talked about -- i asked you the question about working in washington and what it would be like if -- with the republican still in control, donald trump as president. you said at the time you don't want to live in a world where he's the president. that has happened, so now looking forward to going to washington, what are you hoping to get done? what can you get done? do you kind of have a game plan yet as to when you get there of what you want to do? >> i think it's a great question and one thing i think make america great is our peaceful transition of government. countries around the world look
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best sports and i spoke with dr. hack, his office, we're gonna continue, we're gonna transition from his office to my office, to constituents and things that are in the pipeline. we're gonna make sure that we don't drop the ball and have that wonderful transition. i think it will be a time of healing, a time for us to come together and we're gonna do what america does best, come together to serve our nation and we're gonna agree where we can and where we don't we're gonna have to stand up and make our heard whether or not are some of the areas you think you can work at in congress? >> president trump has talked about building an infrastructure, we need to rebuild our roads, bridges, dams, airports. that's one way we can usually help all of our communities for the better. so i think that that's one thing.
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sure they're strong and support american businesses. >> it's interesting, nice to hear your perspective hasn't changed because that's what you told us before, that's an area you would like that go, as well. community assignments, where would you like to see yourself sitting on some of the committees once you're in congress, any specific ones that you thought of? i think transportation infrastructure is really important, especially to us here in bring in all plus million tourists and all the things that support them, so that's really important, not just to us but the nation, and natural resources of course is a really important committee with of course the beautiful south she's and water issues and renewable energy issues. >> much more of that interview. you can see the whole thing online at las vegas.com. the blue congressional
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going up against republican president, and the senate and the house. a question i posed to congresswoman-elect, where are they gonna find common ground to get something done? the house leadership controls the flow of legislation. anybody who's been back there's and been in the minority precinct is frustration. so it's really not likely they get any bills past in nevada. >> our dells has been -- that's where the designation has been with the cycle, senator heller is sitting there and so -- so everybody's been talking about that. >> so if everyone agrees, why
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>> a lot more election recaps to come. next we'll break down the swinging control here in the state legislature and what that may mean for the upcoming session and we didn't forget about the presidential race. our state panel weigh in connection on the historic win the whole country is still talking about.
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african-americans will hold the two most powerful positions in the nevada legislature after in the election. assembly man jason pryor will be speaker of the assembly, the first african-american to hold that post anda state senator a-rod for will be the state senate majority leader. >> some of that video you were just looking at -- by the way, republican robinson will be senate minority leader, so he'll flip sides as for paul anderson expected to be the minority leader over in the assembly. i was gonna say that video, some of that, you remember from eight
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off for the legislature. let's take a look at how it looks. of course, the assembly was the big one and they flipped 10 seats as we hear all the punching. so they've got the 2715 legislature on the assembly side, and the senate side they to flip one seat. it was a tight race but they did it. they have the balance of power in both houses. they have enjoyed a rather warm relationship, democrats have, with the governor, which is interesting, with gno sandoval. so will that play to either side's advantage now in this session? well, i think governor sandoval is well-known as a moderate. i think he's gonna continue that. it doesn't really matter as much in the nevada legislature as it does in washington. and washington parts and control is everything. here it's the same thing as in d.c. in the sense that the majority party gets to control that. but i think the two parties work
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in washington d.c. >> and if you've -- if you have a short memory span, you may forget this point but we were here just a couple of years ago. it was the same make-up. absolutely. in fact, it was 10 seats that flipped to the republicans that gave them control. historic in the sense that they had control of everything, the governor's mansion, all the constitutional offices, the senate, the assembly, the gift shop, the legislature, i mean, everything was under republican control. >> real quick before we move what are the democrats gonna push now that they have control again? >> i think the number one thing i'll be watching for is the esas. what do they do? do they completely kill the esas, use it as a bargaining chip to get legislation? what are they willing to trade for the esas, all of that, i think is the most important thing. and also the budget. we'll see how they go with that. >> yeah, a lot we'll be paying attention to, as well. will the democratic majority cause republican governor brian
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i went2 through my archives to the most vetoed, most overwritten governor in state history, that's jim gibbons. back in 2009 he vetoed a record 48 total bills. 25 of those were overwritten, 12 of them were sustained, and 11 had no action taken. well, let's take a little history lesson here. the previous record was 33 vetoes. that was set way back in 1864. that was the state's first legislative session. >> absolutely. presidentialk race? >> we discounted the level of racism and miscegine in this country. >> up next, the face-off panel weighs in ons why hillary clinn lost. >> and recreational marijuana past. we'll tell you what's next
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well, he won -- she won the popular vote, and all of a sudden -- >> so did al gore. but the only way he's getting in the oval office now is on the tour. why did she lose the electorial college and the presidency? you know, there's a lot of things that i think went wrong. i think we discounted the country. >> oh, boy. >> i think we discounted the real intensity, the anger that's out there, especially among white folks, in this country, because they feel like they don't have a voice anymore because their hour is being threatened. i think those things are real, and i think we have to listen to those things and really deal with some of that in this country.
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minorities throughout that don't feel like they're being heard either. so they stayed home. so there's a lot of issues, a lot of underlying tension in this country that we have to deal with. and we have to deal with it in a serious way, because something is broken here. whether it's the party infrastructure that we need to take a look at. whether the electoral college we need to take a look at, it is our own movement we need to take a look at. we need to fix some things and figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. >> well, certainly there are more blacks and latinos that voted for trump than romney. so people are not into this misogynistic thing because i've attended many rallies and trump elsewhere and nobody has ever said anything. people are fine with a woman president, it was just not that we have to have this woman and people didn't care for her. i think that she is seen as
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problems and not that i don't wish her to overcome these problems physically herself, but she's got health problems. i think people are concerned about that. i think that she's got -- there are criminal clouds hanging over her and even though comey said he did not want to ask for an indictment the second time doesn't mean anything. he's still gonna hand things over to the justice department and they could still indict, especially under a new administration with a new attorney general, they could indict. so people heard what he had to say. he captured the imagination while she lost the imagination of the people. it was a tight race as we all know. i think until the end the people made the right is decision. >> so the comey thing, the email thing coming right as it did, a critical juncture of the campaign, you know, whether or not that was intentional or not do you think it had an impact on
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i think anytime there's a reminder of some nonsense like that -- yeah, whatever. >> if that hadn't happened do you think she would have won? >> i don't know. i don't think any of you was know, right. what i do know is it's hilarious to me that he's talking about criminal charges because now our own president may have criminal charges, meaning donald trump in his rape case. >> oh, the rape case. >> oh, alan, the emails are something but raping someone -- >> well, he kissedded me. >> i can't wait to see him get indicted, too. it's complete nonsense when it comes to him actually having to go to court for something. >> trust me he's not going to court. and by the way, that your gal, hill, not going to see the inside of a cell either and neither will bill because i predict before the end of this term, barack is saying, i think he will pardon both of these
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that conversation about the presidential race, why it turned out as it did and whether there's any going back on las vegas now.com, our web site. as a bonus you can watch alan praise harry reid. really? patrick. the department of it's developing relations and tony was here to cheer it on. the rest of the world benefited from what i've been benefiting for years. >> and also passing by the skin of its teeth was question one, the gun background initiative. it won clark county by nearly 100,000 votes and nearly everybody in nevada voted against it.q michaely bloomberg's group pourd
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it. the law approves exemptions and steve, i want to talk about question one again. it passed by a -- passed by a narrow margin. but i start withed spinning early and then i think the nra realized what was going on andn started the money late. it passed only in clark, and only by a very narrow margin. it just shows when millions of dollars can change initiative over the entire stated and also shows how an urban county with basically overrule the rest of nevada ifle it wants something. >> and that's where the north/south divide, i think a lot of it is root. >> that's why they hate us. they hatebe us for our freedom. >> he said it, not me. watching for recounts. coming up next, when that drop dead day will be for the folks who want to contest the result of there race.
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>> well, you have seen many, manyol year, but here's your question, how many of them or which ones were the most air, pro clinton super pack ran this one featuring dontae 17-year-old from nevada with physical and medical ailments, an astonishing 3,366 times. the second ad featured hillary clinton asking why she's not ahead of 50 points.
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and clinton which also dominating the top 10 ran the silo ad 13,342 times at former nuclear weapons officer was saying.) did not want trump to receive nuclear weapons. >> it's time for what to watch beforel we -- where we go over the stories to keep an eye on next week. not only will you not have to watch political ads for a while, k roadways. they actually have a tonight in do this. must be removed within 30 days of the general election. people who do not remove a sign in time may beul subject to a fe of up to $5,000. clark county will officially certify the election results on november 17th, which is next thursday. at that point any campaigns tht demands a recount have three days to do so or the results are final.
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