♪ my interactions with mitch mcconnell, he's always been very straightforward with me. to his credit he's never made a promise that he couldn't deliver. >> the relationship i have with the president has always been cordial. there's no, not a personality problem here or anything like that. i think my attitude about all this at this point is trust, trust but verify. >> good morning. it is thursday november 6th.

welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, former communications director for president george w. bush and co-host of "the view," nicole wallace. and in washington, sam stein. and white house correspondent for the "wall street journal" carol leigh. >> i'm looking at these headlines, after shocks of tuesday. you got the "boston globe," a republican governor in boston. again. "the washington post," you will look at all of the voice, all the new voices that are coming to washington, d.c. the president saying i hear you. here's the interesting thing. average age of the people that won going to senate, 16 years younger than the people they replaced. this is a much younger u.s. state senate. >> a lot more women. president obama appears to be heading towards a showdown with the soon to be republican-led

senate. he's promising to work with republicans in congress after the gop regained control of the senate and expanded its margin of power in the house. but at the same time he says there's no reason to change his policies because of the mid-term results and he's vowing to still take executive action on immigration reform. the speech led politico to describe president obama as defiant with the hill calling him quote unrepentant. although the president extend an olive branch to mitch mcconnell's new majority, "the washington post" said the tone of his speech made him seem numb to the results. >> obviously republicans had a good night and they deserve credit for running good campaigns. beyond that i'll leave it to all of you and the professional pundits to pick through yesterday's results. to everyone who voted i want you to know i hear you. to the two-thirds of voters who knows not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you too. i think that every election is a

moment for reflection. and, you know, i think that everybody in this white house is going to look and say, all right, what do we need to do differently. but the principles that we're fighting for, the things that motivate me every single day and motivate my staff every single day, those things aren't going to change. >> what tuning, mika >> doesn't look defiant or unrepentant to me. it looks like he hears us. i don't know what possibly could get done with this new dynamic. what do you think? >> i think a lot of things can get done. first of all the president will wake up one day and realize for the first time in his life he'll actually have to deal with republicans. he doesn't know how to deal with republicans. he looks at republicans and people in his white house look at republicans even if they like them as kind of alien, off

kilter. their characters are flawed, they do. i have a lot of friends in the white house. that's their attitude. >> who you talking about, the republicans or obama? >> i'm talking about president obama. this is because he's never had to deal with republicans once in his life. ekept them pushed away and they are alien. bill clinton, he either worked with conservatives and republicans or got nothing done in arkansas for 12 years. rsh either worked with liberals in sacramento, california or got nothing done. that's why ronald reagan did some things conservatives to this day still complain about. but he's going to get things done. republicans will have to get things done because they don't want to repeat what happened in 2010. in 2010 they won a huge majority. we win. we're on top of the mountain. two years later, they are wiped out. that's not going to happen again. they know they have to get things done.

yesterday, that was opening statement from mitch mcconnell and barack obama. quite frankly mitch mcconnell looked more gracious. i'm stunned those words just came out of my mouth. but de. i will say there was a part, willie, that just even though i'm optimistic that things are going to get done, the president of the united states saying well, i'm going to let pundits, you professional pundits read the tea leaves and try to figure out what happened yesterday. listen, my 6-year-old boy while playing mind craft could tell me what happened yesterday. democrats got shellacked. the president got rejected. after saying this is about me, about my policies the american people rose up and said we're not only going to beat you in red states, we're going to beat you in massachusetts and in

maryland and in illinois and in michigan and in wisconsin and in some of the bluest of blue states that you carried by 25%. that's the only part of the attitude that concerns me. i'm way above this, i'm just too cool. you pundits, you tea leaf -- no! that's like frazier, you know, knocking ali down with a left hook and i have to read the tea leaves to see what happened. >> he knows what happened. everybody in the white house knows what happened. you know, we're listening to all this -- i'm looking at an op-ed column in the "wall street journal" that john boehner and mitch mcconnell wrote we now can get congress going. but when you know the history of the relationship between white house and mitch mcconnell and white house and john boehner, you worry a little bit because the first thing that the president talked about was

executive action on immigration reform and mitch mcconnell said you better not do that. mitch mcconnell wrote about repealing obamacare, obama said you better not do that. >> they went to their separate corners. >> listen, i guess the reason why i'm not concerned about any of this is they have to do two things at once. they have to come together -- >> which we know is hard for them. >> they also have to play to their base. barack obama has to let his base know i'm not going to cower in the corner because i was once again wiped out and i would do the same thing. i would start strong. i would start with executive action. they've done nothing. they begged me to wait until after the campaign. my own party did. i'm sick and tired of doing nothing. i'm going to get this done. which is basically what the president said. i understand that. mitch mcconnell is saying what he's saying. but the best part of yesterday's press conference was when he said, you know what?

i'm just going to wait and talk to mitch mcconnell instead of hearing you talk to me what mitch mcconnell said. that was a reason for americans to be helpful. >> i thought the questions at the press conference were so refreshing. it took them six years to be that aggressive with the president is somewhat disappointing, but as a republican i'll take it when it comes. i thought his answer, i'm going to wait and hear from the sources instead of taking your word from it was the first sort of window into how on the fence of becoming peakish he is. he chose yesterday to narrow cast. he had a national audience but only speaking to the people who are still behind him and reassuring them. i think that's where some of the disconnect -- everybody was watching but i think he was only speaking to a very small slice of the country now which is the people who are still squarely behind him which really doesn't even include a lot of democrats on capitol hill. >> again, that makes sense.

so, carol leigh, what was your take in there at the press conference yesterday other than the fact that major garrett somehow managed to squeeze in 47 questions. okay, here's the deal, major, you pick one. you just pick one. okay. which one do you want me to answer? >> neither is famous for that in the white house press conference. i mean there were a couple of things that stuck out to me. to your point you were making earlier in terms of the president not wanting to read the tea leaves that was something his senior advisors were adamant about in the weeks leading up to the election. they knew it would be bad. they didn't expect it to be as bad as it was. he were adamant but not uttering a single word about shellacking. the press corps tried to get him to say something along those

lines in a number of ways and he never did. they were successful at that. he left at any time republicans had a good night. in trying to do that he made himself seemed so distant from the results as if he had no bearing on it. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. you can't say that your policies every single one of them is on the ballot and then say i'm not going to look into that and i'm not going to change my policies. another thing to watch for what he does with immigration. there's a number of things that he can do. he can go really far. he can go halfway. and so how he calibrates that in terms of not wanting to poison the well or in terms of going out there that would be an interesting thing. >> we ought to play the sound bite again. both were gracious. both went to their corners. you know what? the president made a point about the pundits and the chatterers

because if you look at all the names he was called for being gracious and getting in his corner i'm not sure what else really can back up -- i mean they call him numb, they call him unrepentant. i don't get it. he says i hear you. he did exactly what mitch mcconnell did. exactly. they were equally gracious. >> but he didn't do what george w. bush did in 2006. he got shellacked or got a thumping. he called it a thumping. you pay a price with the public, with congress and media when you look like you're disconnected from what just happened. >> that's always been a narrative with him. i don't think the republicans have gotten that. >> that's the biggest problem. his narrative he's been disconnected. it didn't play well yesterday as it would have with somebody else, an observer. ? >> democrats find themselves in

the same position republicans did two years ago performing an autopsy on what went wrong. the impact of characterized best by democratic senator joe manchin who told o'keefe of the "the washington post" the outcome was a real whooping except he put it less delicately. in a sprawling article published early wednesday morning there was back biting on the record harry reid chief of staff called out the obama administration said reid's camp was beating their heads against the wall. >> reid's camp spent tens of millions of dollars going after kansas businessmen that nobody knew. this is harry reid's loss as much or more than barack obama's and sam stein, you may disagree with me but there's -- i am starting to hear from democratic senators who said you know what? he should of let us vote on a few bills instead he and barack

obama killing absolutely everything, except for what they wanted us to vote on. so i had to go back to my state and say i had a 97% voting record with barack obama. it was stifled and democrats didn't like it any more than republicans. >> yeah. i mean there's two threads of thought i'm picking up from democrats. the first is that we didn't stand for anything, right. if you were going to distance yourself from barack obama, if you were going to run away from the health care law, if you were going to punt on immigration executive action then you weren't presenting your voters with much to go vote for. that's one thread of vote. second thread of thought which is from the hill they couldn't associate themselves with the president because his approval ratings were abysmal. they couldn't associate themselves with the health care because rollout was a calamity. when you take those two threads you're left with nothing and that ended up being the problem

for the president and his party that they couldn't agree on any sort of platform. they were light on get out the vote tactics. when you can't get voters to get out and vote for something you won't win. >> the president was very disappointed in his party and the candidates who fell for the poll numbers which are accurate and real and represent the way people feel but there was a narrative they could have attached themselves to that has successes that are attached to this president despite the republicans. on any of the positive things that are going on in this country due to him starting with the economy, the auto industry, foreign policy. look, he can even do it. he tried three times the other day. he said okay you're a democrat say what you would say. >> if you're a democrat, if you believe in what the president believes in there are a lot of things. i thought yesterday the president was great talking about obamacare saying okay listen here's the deal. maybe there's some problems. the problems are fixed. but let's be careful about

fixing it because health care inflation is at its lowest rate in 50 years. that's going to save us well over $100 billion over an extended time period. i mean there are a lot of good talking points. many democrats were cowards. republicans were cowards as well. both sides were afraid to talk about what they really believed in. it cost the democrats more this year because it's their president in the white house. >> he could have talked about deficit reduction, the unemployment rate coming down. >> new news yesterday on that. private-sector jobs. >> what we learned again is that voters are a lot smarter than these campaigns. they don't believe cory gardner will ban condemns in colorado. they don't believe koch brothers will take over america. they want jobs. they want things that matter in their lives not other things that harry reid and others beat

the podium about that didn't work. >> if i was a democrat running i would keep it simple. here's the deal. when we got into power we were facing the great depression. we were in a great recession and facing a great depression. the president saved us. he saved gm. that saved not only gm but saved the car industry, that saved michigan, that saved ohio, that saved the midwest. that saved a lot of us. unemployment drops to under 6%. that's peg. the deficit slashed by over a trillion dollars down to $450 billion. that's pretty good. health care, look at health care. health care is growing at its slowest rate. in a generation. i mean, again, if i'm a democrat -- >> if i'm a democrat -- >> that's pretty darn easy to do. >> poll numbers say i can't say that. i don't get it. >> one of the best lines this

week came from steve schmidt, and he said it may be hard but there's only one way through that pass, through that mountain pass. you don't have any other choice. and sam, it's what i would say months ago. i had a guy i campaigned against back in '94 who wouldn't admit he voted for bill clinton two years earlier. let me get this straight you don't support his health care plan? no. you don't support his crime bill? no. did you even vote for him? well i -- he wouldn't answer. and i was like please come on give me a break. >> exactly. >> the democrats were cowards and paid for it. >> i talked to a bunch of people who feel this way. it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. the president is not popular and his health care law is not popular i can't go out there and champion it. if the health care and president don't have public champions then

they don't gain in popularity. the other point they make democrats spent a generation more than a generation, 50 plus years trying to get universal health care reform and they took -- it took a lot of effort, a lot of hard work just to get it passed. and what do they do after they pass the law? they completely abandon it. this is what i'm hearing from democrats. so, yeah, of course these laws aren't going to be popular and the president won't be popular because he doesn't have people touting what he does. >> we have to go to break. when i think about that story you tell when you were running and how you actually told -- this is so weird the truth. >> yes. >> when it wasn't popular to senior citizens. >> i got elected in '94. had to cut medicare in '95. bill clinton said we had to do the same thing in 1993. they are cutting medicare for

tax cuts for the rich. i got hammered the first couple of stops. i got so pissed off. this campaign from now on will be a referendum why i cut medicare. you can ask me about education i'll talk about why i had to cut medicare. you can ask me about military i'll tell you why we had to cut -- we went on and on. i went through the entire campaign. there was only one way, it wasn't a cut but by liberal standards it was a cut. by campaigning standards it was a cut. there was one way through that pass. it's all i talked about at the end of the campaign. i had somebody from public opinion strategy call me we polled over 100 districts, what are you doing with seniors? i said why? because you got the highest approval rating of any republican, of the 100 people

we've done among senior citizens. i said i told them the truth. they responded to the truth. tell people the truth like you said. they can handle it. >> we've got a big show ahead. white house press secretary josh earnest will join us. we can ask him about all these things. actor jake gyllenhall is here. governor daniel malloy and cedric the entertainer will be here in our 8:00 hour. but first a-rod does something he has never done before. >> whatnot take drugs for a week? >> president obama answered a lot of critics including michael jordan. we'll play you the president's

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the more you switch, the more you get. verizon. time now to take a look at the morning papers. we'll start with the "philadelphia inquirer." carleesha freeman abducted last weekend in philadelphia has been rescued. the case became national news when this shock surveillance footage of his abduction was released on monday. wednesday afternoon atf agents found her hearn kidnapper in his car in a maryland parking lot. barnes who has a criminal record and apparently attacked her at random will face federal charges. she's listed in good condition and expected to recover from her

injuries. last night her mother thanked the detective who promised her he would find her daughter. >> he sat in my kitchen in front of me and told me i'm bringing your daughter home. i'm bringing your daughter home. he said i'm bringing your daughter home. he brought my baby home. >> thank you. good job. >> how sweet is that? did you hear the story how they found this guy. >> amazing. >> threw a bag much trash into somebody's driveway. had a receipt from a supermarket and an empty bag of potato chips. this woman finds it in her driveway, thinks it's strange, called the police. they go to that supermarket, go the surveillance tape. find him buying the potato chips and then they catch up with him in a parking lot. >> are you kidding me? >> they had a gps tracker in his car because he had bad credit so when they sold him a car they put a tracker in your car so

they can find you. he a lot of things -- this woman finds a bag of trash. i'm going call the cops. >> and she was well. >> she's well. >> thank god. >> to "miami herald," recently reinstated alex rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs during a meeting with federal officials in january. ron mott has the story. >> reporter: alex rodriguez always has denied using performance-enhancing drugs but behind closed doors with immunity nbc news learned he told federal official as very different story. at a meeting last january with dea at and prosecutors investigating a now defunct south florida clinic sources say rodriguez admitted buying banned drugs about $12,000 worth a month, injecting human growth hormone into his stomach and claimed use his cousin to keep it secret paying him $900,000

for his silence. >> this was a world series champion and now he's on the same level as lance armstrong. >> reporter: 18 days before his alleged confession an arbitrator ruled rodriguez would have to sit out the entire 2014 scene minorities role in the scandal. baseball's highest paid star responded then with another denial saying i did not use performance-enhancing substances and in order to prove it i'll take this fight to federal court. he dropped that fight weeks later. >> two weeks after he admitted to the dea. rodriguez still has three years left on his deal and is owed -- >> you want him out, obviously. >> i think they should find a way to get him to miami, he'll be a draw down there. we don't need him. >> somebody needs him. the yankees don't need him. >> why can't the yankees get rid of him? >> he's under contract. >> even if he was breaking the

laws? >> there was a way if they can find out he's medically unfit to play they can collect insurance money. they are thinking about these options. >> if he admits using steroids they can't break the contract? >> i don't think so. >> even though he was using steroids when he was hitting the home runs. >> they are trying to restart the yankee franchise post-jeter. not a good way to do it with rodriguez. >> let's get to the "new york daily news." first she fulfilled her dream by stepping on the college basketball court and now lauren hill who is suffering from terminal cancer has land on the front of a wheaties cereal box. lauren brought thousands of feet to her feet as she scored four points for mount st. joseph university in cincinnati last sunday. the ncaa moved up the game by two weeks to allow hill a chance to suit up for her team as she

deals with an inoperable brain tumor. >> "the washington post" the president is now firing back at michael jordan. >> good for him. >> yeah. >> you got two heavy weights. michael jordan and the president of the united states going back. the president firing back. remember michael jordan went after president obama for his golf game. >> i never played with obama but i would. but, no, that's okay, i would take him out. he's a hack. i would be all day playing with him. >> you want to say that to the president of the united states he's a hack. >> i didn't say he wasn't a great politician. >> well, in a radio interview with earl scopes the president responded. >> but there is no doubt that michael is a better golfer than i am. of course if i was playing twice a day for the last 15 years then that might not be the case. he might want to spend more time thinking about the bobcats or maybe the hornets but that's a

whole another issue. >> oh, my god. that's so great. >> carol lee your thoughts? >> that's some classic trash talking. if you're the president, you don't want to be seen as this great golfer, first of all. that just means you're spending a lot of time on the golf course. he gets enough criticism for that. >> i always say don't trust anybody that has a handicap in single digits. i would never hire him. >> on "way too early" don't attack somebody's golf game when he has drones. >> houston chronicle a dozen people are injured after an suv slams into a restaurant. it was all caught on camera. security footage shows the suv plowing through a glass window during a crowded -- >> oh, what's going on here. >> several customers are sitting at tables. >> we should able to say -- nobody was hurt.

>> four people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. according to the restaurant's owner -- >> can you put it in super slow mo. >> the driver said she accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brake. >> i worry about that. that's why i don't drive any more. >> that's why i don't take ambien any more. >> 50-50, you'll hit the gas or brake. >> it's thursday. god. >> i thought yesterday was the end of the week. >> just thursday. >> we're not coming tomorrow. >> no. >> still ahead on "morning joe" connecticut governor daniel malloy will be here with us. >> he'll host the show tomorrow. >> up next cokie roberts and reverend al sharpton will be here for the must read opinion

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network reverend al sharpton and from washington, nbc news political commentator and npr senior analyst cokie roberts. good to have you both on board. let's start with "the washington post." worst than 2010. for democrats the 2014 election of not the 2010 republican landslide, it was worse. after a defeat of this scope, the sensible advice is usually don't overreact. in this case such advice would be wrong. dismissive shrug is inappropriate. democrats had pieces of an economic message. but they need a comprehensive and more ambitious answer for voters angry about stagnating incomes. they took out their rage on the party in the white house. for obama, there is no escaping the urgency of restoring for energy his administration and confidence in his leadership. >> this is what danamilbank wrote. >> obama is numb to this latest

shellacking. >> obama spoke on wednesday as if tuesday was a minor irritation. president george w. bush was rarely one to admit error but on the day after the mid term thumping republicans received eight years ago he responded dramatically. bush announced the ouster of defense chief. he set into motion a new iraq policy. obama was blase by comparison. he wasn't about to acknowledge fault or the need for change. >> cokie roberts, what was your take on yesterday's duelling press conferences and the elections? >> mcconnell was certainly gracious and reaching out and actually he was quite funny. the person that he thought was most curious to have called him was ted cruz. but the president, you know, has a certain amount of making up to do on that score, having made the joke that he made at the white house correspondent's incident berea drink with mcconnell.

really? why don't you have a drink with mcconnell. >> i thought that was actually one of his better jokes. >> but, you know, it's not going to work is the real problem. i just don't see how these duelling sides or the duel inside the republican party works in a way that you get anything done. >> al sharpton, what was your take on the president and his response? you met with him yesterday. >> yeah, the president met with five or six of us that lead civil rights organizations, that was already planned. i think the president basically in the meeting was the way he was at the press conference is that he's going to drill ahead and try and get done some of the things that he is very committed to and going to try to work with republicans where he can. i don't think that he is one that cries in his milk, nor is he one that doesn't hear the message. i think he's committed to certain basic things but i also

think he's tried to work where he can with republicans. on the other hand, i think mcconnell has a dual problem. he's dealing with how does he work with the president and how does he deal with tea cruz. >> the thing is, ted cruz -- i heard ted cruz's name brought up in the past several days. you never heard he has to deal with ted cruz and. he has to deal with ted cruz and mike lee. ted cruz and i don't say this about ted cruz -- ted cruz is running for president. i got no problem with ted cruz doing what's in his best interest. make no mistake when you walk through the senate it's only ted cruz. now ted cruz has a following in the house. that's more of a problem. they got like 500 vote majority in the house cokie roberts. i think the senate it may be overstated. mitch mcconnell will get a lot more of what he wants than he might have before this election. >> well, one of the things is, of course, we're not sure what

he wants. and so far what he has wanted is to stop obama. so now the question is does he cooperate or what do the 2005 them do together? it seems pretty small. medical device tax, you know. that really gets people excited. but i think that, you know, they just sort of plowed along. i do think the president wants some backing on dealing with isis. he wants some backing on ebola. i think the congress will do that. but the rest of it, what else is there? >> mika, a year ago or so somebody said there would be immigration reform. a year and a half ago. i said it will never happen. republicans won't support it. it was after the last election. never going to happen before mid terms. i'm telling you now i think it will happen. i think we're going to see some things get done over the next two years. nobody else seems to think that this morning.

i think actually because it's in both parties' best interest this time we're going see things get done. >> i don't disagree with that. i think everyone is assessing oh, my gosh president obama mitch mcconnell what are they saying to each other, will they get along. i see a president disappointed in his party and candidates. >> i think you're right. he's disappointed. and should be. because i think the party in many cases ran away from -- >> they ran away from everything. >> that leaves a potential opening or a problem for mcconnell. the opening is that he can now define what it is that everyone voted against because it wasn't -- >> if mcconnell can figure out how to get something done and work with this president in some way they both will win -- he's not stupid. >> he's not running for president. >> knees how to do this. >> we were rallying against war in iraq. they rallied against president obama.

there was no specific policy. >> we got to go but there's something bigger too in the senate. i think most senators on both sides would just be thrilled if they actually get to vote. >> can you imagine. >> harry reid did not let them vote. harry reid's legacy will be such a horrible legacy for what he did to the institution of the u.s. senate and i'm not piling on him i'm just saying what democrats and republicans have been telling me over the past two years. just let them vote. >> so cokie and reverend al stay with us. gyllenhall takes us to the underbelly of news in the new film "nightcrawler." we'll be right back.

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♪ with us now democratic congressman from maryland ranking member of the budget committee, chris van hollen. i could ask you what happened across america but actually i could ask you what happened in the state of maryland. we won't do that. let's talk about the next two years. let's be optimistic. >> i want to know what happened. >> tell me and then you can answer mika. tell me why i'm right why things will get done in the next two years. how is that for a question. >> great. i think there's the potential to get some things done. i think there's a potential for negotiations between the senate and the president. the one thing i do continue to have concerns about, though, is that the dynamics in the house have not changed a lot. if you look back over a year ago, speaker boehner did not want to shut down the government. but he was pressured into doing

that by some in his caucus and some in the senate caucus. so i don't doubt the fact that mitch mcconnell wants to try to work things out and the president wants to work things out. they have to get stuff through house to. joe you ended the last segment saying just let them vote. we have a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill that passed in the senate. just let us vote. in fact i think the president should consider saying to john boehner look i don't want to do these executive actions. i know i can't do executive actions that will replace the comprehensive immigration bill but i'll tell you what speaker boehner, i won't go forward with them, just threat be a vote. bipartisan senate immigration vote. let the chips fall where they may. you can vote against it. >> just vote up or down. let's go to carol lee with the "wall street journal." she's got a question. >> congressman, i was wondering one thing that the president has talked about and senator mcconnell has talked about is tax reform.

i'm curious what you think the prospects of doing some sort of tax reform are and how far they can go with that. >> there is one area where overlap between the principals laid out by our republican colleagues especially with respect to corporate tax reform. there's general agreement we should lower the rate which is higher than other countries but that we should expand the base because as you know our effective tax rate is not so high but we do have a high rate. then we can in that process generate some savings at least, one time savings that can be used to invest in our infrastructure. so, those proposals have been out there. now i should say the position the house republicans have taken to date is that they won't do corporate tax reform without also doing individual tax reform. individual tax reform gets into a whole bunch of other thorny areas. if we can focus on corporate tax reform, we understand there's a

business issue but we can address those things. >> congressman chris van hollen, thank you very much. >> cokie roberts, there's a reset of sorts after any election like this and in this op-ed the "wall street journal," john boehner and mitch mcconnell tick off what they want to do. tax reform. immigration reform. working on obamacare. is that just happy talk a couple of days after the election or do you believe there's something different about the way the government will operate? >> well, you know, look historically you get a great deal done when you have the president of one party and the congress of another. the problem that we've been having is that this congress is different from other congresses and it gets back to all the conversations we've been having about the way district lines are drawn and all that, that members do not see any mileage in compromising. and i think this election just under lines that. so, you know, you've got a bunch of people in congress who don't

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credit for running good campaigns. beyond that i'll leave it to all of you and the professional pundits to pick through yesterday's results. >> welcome back to "morning joe." we have different theories on this. reverend al sharpton and sam stein and cokie roberts are still with us. joining us in washington we have white house correspondent for the associated press julie page. >> what's your theory, mika. >> my theory is he's annoyed with his party and detained that ran terrible campaigns and ran away from him. fine. you won't talk about it. >> then he spend all this time online. we know he read all the things his pundits wrote. >> wouldn't you find it annoying. >> it furthers the most negative narrative about him that he's detached. >> do you think he can say i'm mad at my party. it would have helped him. >> he could have said the voters were angry but it would be very easy to say the voters are angry. if i were a voter i would be

angry too. i don't think he helped himself. cokie roberts, we had a really fascinating situation with a democratic president that really doesn't seem to like democratic congress and senate, and a democratic congress and house and senate that don't really like the president. >> that's the case. to say he's mad at his party they are furious with him. and this whole election was about him. and they feel like sees totally let them down, and there they were just out there hanging. and you can't say they all ran away from him. he lost in states that he went to for the candidates in maryland, in michigan, in illinois. >> why? in those states, though, there were democrats that thought it was safe to run with the president in maryland and illinois. they still lost. why is that, cokie? >> because the voters are furious and any time the

president shows up, apparently that is a signal to voters to vote against the person the president is showing up with. you look at these numbers, people think the country is way off on the wrong track and they have been saying that for years. 72% of the people in the exit polls said they were fearful of a terrorist attack. now that is basic fundamental what the government is supposed to be doing is keeping you safe. and if people don't feel that the government is keeping them safe they don't -- they don't think the government has got any use. 28% said they trusted the government. so it's a real repudiation of what's going on here in washington. >> mika, you really do, and in running for office and seeing people going to vote, i wouldn't go watch them vote on election day. like because it was so frightening because i look at and say okay wait. i am so into the weed on this

stuff. and i just since -- i always sense from the beginning that voters looked at the very, very big picture and lot of times you don't control it. i always said in 2004 people were like george w. bush, how could george w. bush win again. very simple. if you were children were in a log cabin out in the woods who do you want on the front porch with a shotgun, this was right after 9/11 guarding it. john kerry who might talk them out of it or george bush that aims the gun at them and says get off my property. you might say that's about fear. that's about people worried about their security. cokie brings up security. we had something -- we had two things happen in this election in the last month or two that i think had a huge impact. one was isis. and the beheadings. and the image of the president, mike barnacle said this from the beginning, democrats told him they were horrified he went golfing 15 minutes after he talked about how sad he was that jim foley's head was chopped off

by isis. number two ebola. everybody can talk about fear mongering all they want. when i had liberals all over manhattan tell me they couldn't believe this guy was running around going to bowling alleys and going on subways, that fear and the lack of response from washington drove a lot of this election. >> i agree that happened. but -- >> there was no fighting back. the problem i think is i agree with cokie and you that there was a lot of fear. i think that in the fear the democrats failed to give the argument on behalf of the president -- >> al he traveled the country. he touted the economy. he went out there and -- >> he was by himself. >> you know what they were doing >> how do you want him to come in and comfort guys that ran away from their only message. >> al, can i tell you something else. we always accuse trebs of

playing for the cheap seats. the democrats did this time. there was nobody in them. >> they weren't playing for seats that wasn't even in the stadium. who were you playing to. >> i would be pissed. >> why was he alone? >> he was alone one you had some candidates that didn't have courage. some were bad candidates. others were intimidated. i would have said look you want to run on the affordable health care this is what we did. >> but, al, it's personal. yesterday i'm watching tv with the a re, a hard core right-wing republican. you come on tv, reverend al. i like reverend al. i don't agree with reverend al. he doesn't agree with me. he's got my back, i got his back. i like him. there's a friendship. there's a bond. we can work together. if somebody is going after you i'm going to defend you. i might go to the side like you do i disagree with what you did

and i wish -- but we'll talk to each other. barack obama doesn't have a single relationship like that on capitol hill. forget about with the republicans, forget about with the republicans. cokie he doesn't have a relation like that with the democrats. so why are they going to fight for him? this is a cumulative impact of six years of the president having no good relationships on the hill. >> absolutely right. and that really does come back to bite you. but i also just -- i don't understand how you keep saying that mika and al keep saying that the president was all alone. he went to states and campaigned for candidates that lost. they lost. >> cokie, he went out two weeks ago. >> the narrative was set. >> clinton went all over the place. is it a clinton defeat. bill clinton -- >> that's a good question. >> bill clinton and hillary clinton, the calvary came in. the calvary got beat.

is this a clinton defeat. >> cokie, let's talk about this. >> that's true. the surrogates who stuck seed were on the republican side. >> yeah. >> okay. so julie pace, i heard your questions but how did the president do yesterday in the news conference when you were sitting there in person watching him? >> well there was a sense throughout the news conference that, you know, maybe the president didn't quite pay attention to what happened in the election, he was so optimistic. he was so upbeat you wanted to say, you know, mr. president your party had a toughing night here. part of this was strategic from the white house. they were insistent the president wouldn't go out there, have a repeat of the shellacking moment from 2010. the risk in doing that makes it took like the president is not going take any lessons from this election. he's not going to make major changes. not only with personnel and his staff, those sort of obvious things but in how he deals with republicans.

he basically said i'm going to continue talking to republicans as i have been, i'm going to don't look for areas of compromise, it just did not sound like a president who was looking at this as a pivot point and an opportunity to change course over the next two years. >> don't you guys think now any time you get past the last mid-term or second term of the president's it's legacy term. he thinks health care was good, he got bin laden. don't you think it's in his best interest now to work with mitch mcconnell. i know mitch mcconnell hasn't come halfway out for him. he said he wanted the fobt a one term president. don't you think the president whatever he's done in the last six years and not having the republican leadership over to the white house it's in his interest to build these relationships just so he can put some points on the board and get some things done whether it's immigration reform or tax reform. >> willie, the democrats and i keep talking about democrats because republicans obviously have been against him from the

beginning but democrats have been saying for years this president has checked out. he doesn't want to be there. he does not think like bill clinton thinks about legacies. he just doesn't seem -- there's always been this sort of passive approach to the presidency that absolutely dumb founds his friends and his critics. i don't know. >> lindsey graham spoke to joe biden the night of the elections and lindsey graham spoke to the president and said it's been reported that biden was much more atune with the depth and breadth of the discontent not just among voters but among democrats. >> i think his legacy is important to him and i think his legacy will be established. what i marvel at is the democrats looking at their own future. half of the democrats that joe is referring to that doesn't have a relation with the president some of them don't have a relation with anybody and

they better start getting some things done so their constituents will vote for them. where are they going to be 2019 years. the president will be somewhere building the obama library and building his legacy. where will they be. they won't be in a position to say anything to their constituents. so while everyone is evaluating the president they better evaluate how people say wait a minute you didn't stand up for him, what do you stand for? and that's what happened in a lot of these races. >> they were a little bit lost. >> they were. >> joe, do you think would have been a different outcome for some of these democratic candidates if they had been more forthcoming about what they support in terms of president obama's policies. >> i said it yesterday my attitude has always been nobody stops you when you're going 90 miles per hour. that's my political attitude. at least as, i think we don't know the answer to that question but we do know that steve schmidt was right. there was only one way through that pass, and that was going with the president. if you're a democrat that swroetd the president 97% of the

time, cokie, there was only one way through that pass and they didn't take it and they looked so silly in colorado, across the country when they swroevoted wie president 97%. >> colorado race was the worst. take a look at georgia. michele nunn did have a plan. she was very much out there saying and very much on message about people in the middle class and working class being shut out. that's the stuff people care about. and she still lost badly. it was a year that democrats were just not going to get votes and particularly in the south. look at north carolina. people thought kay hagan was very close. she not only lost now north carolina has two republican senators, a republican governor, veto proof republican majorities in the state legislature, and ten out of 13 republican members

of the house of representatives and the three that are democrats are in districts drawn for them. so it is is a real problem for the democratic party in the south to just say they didn't run with the president or run -- it's beyond that. >> cokie, that's a really important point. it's an important point because michele nunn i felt ran a great campaign. >> great campaign. >> still got shellacked. more important point, you're talking about north carolina, what a great point. it's dominated by the republican party and yet most of the media thought it was ready to tip purple because barack obama won it in 2008. democrats are in danger of making the same mistake that republicans made for 30 years. 30 years. i didn't see a conservative columnist say that ronald reagan's policies and ronald reagan's genius was not transferrable to any other candidate but ronald reagan. democrats now believe that they inherit barack obama's america.

no, they don't. they are not going to win virginia most likely in '12. they are not going to win north carolina in '12 because only barack obama could have done that. only barack obama could have brought out the voters barack obama brought out and cokie i think that's one of the reasons, like you said, what a great point about north carolina. that is the reddest of red, red, red states right now and their state legislatures have been hard right. like republicans should have victory fridays because that's where the state is right now. >> you're absolutely right, joe. what you just said i have to agree with because i think that until a lot of democrats understand that you got to go and do the work, you are not barack obama, that is a one time person like reagan was on the right, and you got to do the work. and the excuse is not that the president didn't invite me over for tea, i don't have a relationship, your problem is you're not doing the work, you got to go in there and you got

to identify with something and rally people around it. people would care less whether you played golf with the president. >> i totally agree with cokie it was other things as well that played into this loss. we're talking about the president's reaction, unrepentant remember numb. i'm just saying he's disgusted with his own party. that's what i saw. i saw nothing else. >> i do think there's a big part of that which is hey listen -- >> you guys are a joke. >> how bill clinton felt about al gore. hard to cry about a guy that was a changed my name dimension after i put him in as my vice president. barack obama got a lot of these people elected. >> i would be disgusted. >> got a lot of people elected six years ago. if i'm barack obama -- >> i'd say something. i would actually have -- >> all right, joining us now u.s. senator from oklahoma, republican congressman james lankford, senator-elect.

congratulations. >> thank you. good morning. >> it's great to have you here now. now we expect to you be just as difficult and just as angry and just as rough around the edges as our favorite tom coburn. >> exactly. >> those are tall boots to walk in. >> you can do it. >> those really are. so let's ask you a couple of questions as you go to washington, d.c., do you think your victory, the republicans victory was a victory for be the conservative ideology or a victory for people who said we'll go to washington and make it work. >> it's a mixture of both because there was a lot of that. people around the country said let's re-engage, let's do appropriation bills again. people said they were running against the president but you heard an awful lot about harry reid as well saying harry reid hasn't done an appropriations bill in seven years. we should legislate again. it's really both.

>> sam stein. >> congratulations. >> can we get a split on these two guys. they are both so young. i think i'm just going to go ahead and shop for a burial plot for me. >> feeling your age. feeling your age, joe. >> i am, man. i am. >> at some point these ageist comments will stop. senator-ele senator-elect, since the majority leader mitch mcconnell was talking about this proposed executive action on immigration, equating it to a red flag in front of a charging bull. what happens in your estimation if the president promises to go forward with this executive action. >> what happens if the president decides he's going to do something without going through congress. same things that any congress go. republican or democrat, congress

should step up and say we have a constitutional responsibility, we're going to follow the rule of law. the president, whether you're george washington or whether you're barack obama just can't decide i'm going to do something and not go through congress. this is our legal system. >> what does that mean in practical terms. do you pass a bill to fund the implementation of executive action, do you hold hearings, what do you do to stop him? >> sam you do all of the above. we have to wait and see what this executive action is. many of these executive orders that come out a lot of bluft ber it but it's playing to the base and doesn't do anything. so we have to see what the executive order is. i can tell you if you go back two and a half years the deferred action that caused, it led to the rapid move of a lot of these juveniles coming across the border last summer. we saw the acceleration. i went down central america. visited with leaders down there and asked them what cause this rapid increase. i heard over and over again when the united states did the

deferred action for minors the coyotes and everyone took advantage of that and said now is the time to come to the united states and it spurred that. no question executive action will do that again. that's not what the american people support. we support the rule of law. >> senator-elect this is julie pace. congratulations. to follow up the president did pledge to move forward with his executive action before the end of the year. if he follows through with that promise does that poison the well for working next year tonalist of things that senator mcconnell and the president talked about trade, tax reform and things like that? >> sure it does. i'm not sure the president doesn't want to do that. you go back to the recess appointments from two years ago, the president knew the congress was out of session. i'll declare when they are in session inconsistent with the constitution when always the supreme court said you can't redefine for the senate when you're in session. that's not the power of the president. the president doesn't have power to make law. knows that. he said that to immigration

groups before when they asked him why don't you act. he said i can't do things unilaterally. he has to work through congress. you have to work through congress. now in the republican house we passed bills, for instance about high skilled work via sasse. that's an area we have wide bipartisan support. let's work on those things where we have support. don't make some unilateral statement that doesn't have the support of law that doesn't help long term, it doesn't help now. >> if the president moves forward on immigration, executive action will you fine it impossible network with him on other issues next year? >> i have no idea what it is what he's bringing up. i can tell you i firmly believe in a representative republic you have to do the legislative work for this. the president can't declare what he wants to do. let's sit down and do the work together. if he says we're not going to work with congress then we have a hard time getting something done. >> senator-elect james lankford thank you so much.

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♪ i probably will wear more jeans. [ laughter ] [ applause ] you might even see me in sneakers sometime. >> it took a if you extra hours but we officially have a winner in the connecticut gubernatorial race. joining us now the newly re-elected governor dannel malloy. didn't take him long. he knew he won. >> yes, exactly.

so, governor, thank you so much for being with us. we've been talking a lot about barack obama, whether he helped or whether he hurt, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. what did you find people were most interested in on the campaign trail? >> well, you know, we had a lot of discussions over the last six months, the people of connecticut and i. clearly they supported 10.10-minute mum wage. they supported the concept of paid sick time so people don't go to work in a restaurant or nursing home sick and spread disease. they supported the best implementation of aca in the united states and halving of the uninsured rate in the state of connecticut. they supported our job growth initiatives. there's a lot of discontent out there. it continues to be a tough environment, obviously election night showed that but here in connecticut a race that republicans had been claiming they were going to win for the better part of two years, i was re-elected. >> you didn't talk about your

sweeping gun control legislation. did they support that or did that hurt you >> they do. no. that was an issue that i think republicans in connecticut used to gin up the base, basically. they were speaking to themselves in a tunnel, and they didn't realize it. the vast majority of the people in connecticut support good gun safety legislation. they believe in universal background check. they believe in limiting the size of a magazine. people of connecticut are not at war with guns, but they believe that appropriate regulation is the way to go. >> it's interesting, willie, a couple of days ago steve schmidt was talking about guns. i was agreeing. guns would be a big issue that might cost some seats and michael bloomberg support of candidates might cost them. governor malloy ended up winning, the governor won in colorado. chances are good, i don't know about in dannel's race but in colorado bloomberg went in.

bloomberg didn't have the disastrous night that a lot of people predicted he. he a pretty good night. >> go ahead, governor. >> he participated in connecticut as well. he had ads running in the new york market which really covers fairfield county which gave you guys an opportunity to see those ads. he was running those. again, i think that you have to understand the gun issue. the vast majority of people do support reasonable regulation. they don't want to take other people's guns away but they want to make sure that people with mental illness or criminal backgrounds don't have them and they want sensible limitations on things like how many shots can you get off in a short period of time. here in connecticut we had a vicious and disturbed young man kill 20 babies and six adults. that's pretty jarring. >> governor malloy it's willie. congratulations on your re-election. i want to ask you i know you

were focused because of the tightness of the race but when you woke up on wednesday morning were you surprised to see what happened around the country that some of your colleagues thinking about places like illinois, maryland, florida, wisconsin, all across the map that democrats fell so hard across the country? >> well, you know, some of those you mentioned, democrats didn't fall. the incumbent got re-elected in florida, the incumbent got re-elected in wisconsin. in places where they thought they had a shot to win i think the last poll i saw scott was still up a point and a half or two points. same thing in wisconsin. and, you know, in my own race we went in a little bit better shape than we did four years ago when we were three points behind, we were slightly ahead and won by about 30,000 votes. some of those are surprises. maryland was a surprise and massachusetts was a surprise. but other, you know, other places we did pretty well in. i think if there were two --

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♪ here with us now ceo and editor of the fp group which publishes foreign policy magazine, the author of the new book "national insecurity." david rothkopf. >> an age of fear. probably had to do with election results a couple of days ago. talk about how bad the situation has devolved in the middle east over the past several months, and what our policies over the past decade, how they have contributed. >> the situation in the middle east right now is as bad as it's been maybe since the flood. you have wars from north africa straight across to pakistan. we don't really have a clear strategy. there are no clear alliances

forming to address these things. people in the region who are problem people they have the ability to project force to us just as they did before. there are more terrorists. more terrorist groups. more terrorist casualties today than there were around 9/11. >> you talked over 100 people that work both in the bush and the obama administrations. how do they describe this national insecurity and why we're here? >> i think they describe it as a swing from one extreme to the other. where early on we overreacted, iraq was the result. barack obama was a reaction to the overreaction and has underreacted. the irony is both for bush and for obama, the signal failure is a war in iraq. >> yeah. >> they each have had this problem. >> overreacting and then under. >> i went to the bush surge, the bush alumni. you write about a second term

and write right here that, it under scores bush's approach with the military but shift in management of style that marked his second term. anything in the obama press conference yesterday that suggested that he might at any point in the next few days consider a shift in his management style. >> zero on the press conference. they have been denying it. one of the things that got underreported burg the bu-- dure bush era he recognized things went wrong. he changed his defense secretary, his chief of standpoint, moved condoleezza rice to state department, promoted steve hadley, went to the surge, went to a different foreign policy approach. the last two years he finished strong. the last two years clinton finished strong. last two years reagan finished strong. they all made a transition. i don't see any sign that barack obama is willing to change his team or change his approaches so that he can finish strong in the same way they did.

>> david, if you believe as a lot of people do that american power has waned in the last generation, decade, whatever, why exactly has that happened and how do we get it back. >> i don't believe american power in the sense of our sources of power have waned. we're the richest country in the world. we're the only country that can project force at any time from the land, sea or air. we have the power. do we have the will to use it. do we have a strategy to use it. particularly in the course of the past six years we've shown we don't that have will to use it. we have been reactive. there's no strategy. doesn't mean that these people aren't trying to do their best but the system isn't working very well eat per this president doesn't use his cabinet, doesn't delegate power, doesn't use the whole of government and when you got as many crises as we do that's no way to manage this. you actually have to use the whole government. >> david, cokie roberts is in washington. she has a question. cokie. >> hi. what should he be doing?

that's the question we all keep coming back to. what should the president be doing in this situation? is it just forming alliances, is it using more military power. clearly what's going on is not working. what should he be doing? >> i think first of all the president has to be more involved himself. he has to delegate more power to his cabinet. he's got to work more to build coalitions. can't just say he has a strategy. we don't have a strategy against isis. we don't know what this coalition is doing. we can't just do it with air power alone. what are we going to do to fill the void there? we can't send putin a telegram every couple of weeks and say we may do something stronger. i think we have to be more assertive systematically using the system properly. >> okay. thank you so much. >> wait, do you not have any brzezinski quotes. you always go to the back. >> no. >> extraordinarily positive.

you brzezinskis -- >> sounds good. >> on this issue said he was right to a degree. >> this is how brzezinskis judge you. >> it's like a democrat taking a compliment. >> with brzezinskis like the mafia you get no credit. >> i see what it was like four growing up. you get 99 on a test and that's a failure. >> trust me a lot worse. >> he practically dictated the book. >> 99 on his test if that could ever happen. unfortunately i let him down a not. the book is "national insecurity." cokie roberts thank you as well. >> thank you, cokie. >> good to have you on. coming up, jake gyllenhall takes on one of his most challenging roles ever and he joins us next to talk about it. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches?

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and the atlantic, they said you channelled a young diniro. that don't suck. the "atlantic" said you were channels a young deniro. >> i'll get whatever i can get. >> they are not the only outlet making comparisons. i thought jake did an amazing job. >> why did you decide to do this. >> the reason i decided to do this because the script was extraordinary. the script that dan wrote and then directed was one of the best scripts i've ever read. the character was unbelievable. the dialogue was unreal. you see the movie, you see the dialogue. corporate speak tony robinesque. dan wrote amazing script. >> dan, you obviously are making a statement on sort of the 24/7 news cycle that's just churn and burn. >> particularly in los angeles. when i uncovered this world of

"nightcrawler" stringers, they go out and cover crime and crashes. when i started to research local los angeles news. >> it's fantastic. >> particular beat. you have to wear sunglasses when you watch local television news in los angeles. i was aware there was a narrative of fear there's some level if you're not watching you're in danger. what i uncovered through the research it's a more nuance story. a story of urban crime creeping into the suburbs. urban crime is underreported. suburban crime is overreported. the fact that crime in los angeles is basically trending downward not something that's addressed, and the stories as presented lean very heavily to graphic violent images. >> thomas you and i did a little local news in our day. i think he's like a scatter person. i was a scatter person. >> you have to carry the gear in the car. >> yes. i slept to the scanner. >> wake up to the beeps beeps.

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opportunities as well. you're right, we're going to be voting on things in committees and on the floor of the united states senate. >> what else will change? >> well, i think we need to have bipartisan bills presented to the president pretty quickly. things that have passed the house with bipartisan support. things that i know republicans and the senate supports, put those on his desk and have him make a decision about what he is for and not for. but people don't care that much about politics as much as they care about their own lives in terms of job security, affordable energy. those are the things we're going to give the president an opportunity to sign that have bipartisan support, mika. >> all right. let's go to sam stein in washington, sam. >> congratulations on the forthcoming majority. yesterday, he was asked about the prospect of government shutdown fights, of debt ceiling breaches, and he said that stuff is off the table.

should we sper properinterpret n the republican party is not willing to make that a concession, i should say, to the president at this point? >> we're going to actually pass a budget which puts -- which gives us an opportunity to deal with overspending and overregulation. but i agree with senator mcconnell, we need to keep the government open and functioning. and as well as deal with the spending issues. so that's what we're going to talk about with the president tomorrow at lunch at the white house. we're going to have an opportunity to i think spend a couple of hours with the president, talk about all of these things. but we got to key the country moving forward. break through the gridlock. and deal with the issues that people care about, which jobs, affordable energy and the economy. >> senator, this is thomas roberts. you bring up energy. as you're on the energy and natural resources committee, is keystone xl pipeline, is that the first thing right now? >> well, there are things that actually have bipartisan support. that's one of them.

my bill on exporting liquefied natural gas is another one. but we have great opportunities. we have abundance of energy. we ought to be selling that energy to our friends overseas who want to buy it. we can use energy also as a geopolitical weapon to undercut vladimir putin. it helps with our balance in trade bringing dollars into america rather than us sending our dollars overseas. we ought to be taking advantage of this situation we have with energy right now. so keystone is there. export liquefied natural gas as well as getting rid of some of the regulations which make it harder to explore for american energy. >> nicole. >> good morning, senator. i saw that the president is going to turn to you for authorization for the job going war against isis even though he feels he has the authority. is that a good thing? >> i think it's important to have that debate and discussion across the country. i don't think members of

congress ought to be left off the hook in voting on this issue. i think it's an important thing for the president to do. >> where is he? looks like he's on the side of the highway there. >> mika wants to know exactly where you are. >> i'm in casper, wyoming. you're seeing casper and casper mountain in the background and i'm at the nbc affiliate right outside casper. >> all right. senator john barrasso, thank you so much. good to have you on the show this morning. >> thanks for having me. we'll be back with the president tomorrow at the white house. >> oh, that's great. still ahead, white house press secretary josh earnest, republican senator tim scott and actor and comedian cedric the entertainer. one of them we'll not ask about the midterms but i don't know which one. >> stay with us.

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good morning. it is thursday, november 6th. we've got former communications director for president george w. bush and co-host of "the view," nicole wallace. >> sounds so funny. >> isn't it amazing? >> and in washington, senior political editor, white house correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein. white house correspondent for "the wall street journal" carol lee. >> i'm just looking at some of these headlines, aftershocks of tuesday.

you've got "the boston globe." a republican governor in boston. again. "the washington post," you will look at all of the new voices that are coming to washington, d.c. the president saying "i hear you." here's the interesting thing about average age of the people that won going to senate, 16 years younger than the people they replaced. this is a much younger united states senate. >> fascinating. >> a lot more women. president obama appears to be heading towards a showdown with the soon to be republican-led senate. he is promising to work with republicans in congress after the gop regained control of the senate and expanded its margin of power at the house. at the same time, he says there's no reason to change his policies because of the midterm results and he's vowing to still take executive action on immigration reform. the speech led politico to describe president obama as, quote, defiant. with the hill calling him,

quote, unrepentant. "the washington post's" dana millbank says the town of his speech made him seem, quote, numb to the results. >> obviously, republicans had a good night. they deserve credit for running good campaigns. beyond that, i'll leave it to all of you and the professional pundits to pick through yesterday's results. to everyone who voted, i want you to know i hear you. to the two-thirds of voters who choose not to participate in the process yesterday. i hear you too. i think that every election is a moment for reflection. and, you know, i think that everybody in this white house is going to look and say, all right, what do we need to do differently. but the principles that we're fighting for, the things that motivate me every single day and motivate my staff every day, those things aren't going to change. >> what do you think, mika?

>> doesn't look defiant or unrepentant to me, sounds like he hears us. i still don't know what possibly can get done with this new dinahic. what do you think? >> i think a lot things can get done. they can get done for a couple of reasons. first of all, the president's going to wake up one day and realize for the first time in his life he's going to have to actually deal with republicans. he doesn't know how to deal with the republicans. he looks at republicans and people in his white house look at republicans, even if they like him. he's kind of alien. kind of off kilter. there's something just wrong with him. they are flawed. their characters are flawed. they do. i've got a lot of friends in the white house. that's their attitude. >> are you talking about -- who are you talking about the republicans or obama? >> obama. this is because he's never had to deal with republicans once in his life. he's kept them pushed away and they're alien. bill clinton, he worked with conservatives and republicans or he got nothing done in arkansas

for 12 years. reagan either worked with liberals in sacramento california or he got nothing done. that's why reagan did things that some conservatives to this day still complain about. but he's going to get things done. republicans are going to have to get things done because they don't want to preet what happened in 2010. in 2010, they won a huge majority. we win. we're on top of the mountain. two years later, they're wiped out. that's not going to happen again. they know they have to get things done. they're going to work to get -- yesterday, that was opening statement from mitch mcconnell and barack obama. quite frankly, mitch mcconnell looked more gracious. i'm stunned those words just came out of my mouth. there was a part where just even though i'm optimistic things are going to get done, the president of the united states saying i'm going to let pundits, you

professional pundits, read the tea leaves and try to figure out what happened yesterday. listen, my 6-year-old boy, while playing mind craft, could tell me what happened yesterday. democrats got shellacked. the president got rejected. after saying this is all about me, this is all about my policies. the american people rose up and said, we're not only going to beat you in red states, we're going to beat you in massachusetts and in maryland and in illinois and in michigan and in wisconsin and in some of the bluest of blue states that you carried by 25%. that's the only part of the attitude that concerns me. like i'm way above this. i'm just too cool. you pundits. no, that's like, you know, like

frazer, you know, knocking ali down with a left hook and saying i have to read the tea leaves to know what happened. >> he knows what happened. everybody in the white house knows. i'm looking at an op-ed column in "the wall street journal" this morning that john boehner and mitch mcconnell wrote together, saying, now we can get congress going. we're hearing the right rhetoric. when you know the history, the relationships between the white house and boehner, you worry a little bit because the first thing the president talked about was executive action. already mitch mcconnell said you better not do that. writes this morning about repealing obamacare. the white house says you better not do that. we had a good first night. this morning, it's starting to -- >> listen, i guess the reason why i guess i'm not concerned about any of this is they have to do two things at once. they have to come together. >> which is hard for them.

>> they also have to play to their base. barack obama has to let his base know, i'm not going to counter in the corner because i once again was wiped out. i would do the same thing. i would start strong. say, i'm going to do executive action. they've done nothing. they begged me to wait until after the campaign. my own party did. i'm sick and tired of doing nothing. i'm going to get this done. which is what the president basically said. i understand that. i understand mitch mcconnell saying what he's saying. but the best part of yesterday's press conference was when he said, you know what, i'm going to wait to talk to mitch mcconnell instead of hearing you telling me what mitch mcconnell said. i think that was a reason for americans to be hopeful. >> i thought the questions at the press conference were so refreshing. it took them six years to be that aggressive with the president is somewhat disappointing but as a republican i'll take it when it comes. i thought his answer, well, i'm going to wait and hear it from

the source. was the first sort of window into how on the fence of becoming peakish he is. he had a national audience but he was only speaking to the people who are still behind him and reassuring them. i think that's where some of the disconnect -- i think everybody was watching but i think he was only speaking to a very small slice of the country now, which is the people who are still squarely behind him. which really doesn't even include a lot of democrats on capitol hill. >> again, that makes sense. so, carol lee, what was your take in there, the press conference yesterday, other than the fact that major garrett somehow managed to squeeze in 47 questions. like here's the deal, major, you pick one, just pick one. which one do you want me to answer? >> major is famous for that in

the white house press corps. there are a couple of things that stuck out to me. your point you were making earlier in term also of the president not wanting to read the tea leaves, that was something that his senior advisers were adamant about in the weeks leading up to this election. they knew it was going to be bad. they didn't expect it to be as bad as it was. they were adamant he did not utter a single word like shellacking. they thought it would put him in this position of being a pundit and maybe sound winhiny and looking back instead of looking forward. the press corps tried to get him to say something along those lines and he never did. they just left it at republicans had a good night. but in trying to do that, he made himself seem so distanced from result as if he had no bearing on it. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. because you can't say that your policies, every single one of them, are on the ballot, and then say, well, i'm not going to look into that and i'm not going

to change my policies. one thing also to watch for is what he exactly does with immigration. there's a number of things he can to. in terms of poisoning the well, that will be interesting to watch too. >> both were gracious. both got in their corners and set the scene for the future as they faced each other. you know what, the president made a point about the pundits and the chatters. because if you look at all of the names he was called for being gracious and getting in his corner, i'm not sure what else, you know, really can back up -- i mean, they call them numb. they call them unrepentant. i don't really get it. it kind of backs up his point. he said i hear you. he did exactly what mitch mcconnell did. exactly. they were equally as gracious. >> he didn't do what bush did in

2006. george w. bush was shellacked. i think you do get credit from the other party and from the media when you acknowledge reality. i think you always pay a price with the public, with the congress, with the media when you look like, you know, you're disconnected from what just happened. >> that's always been a narrative for them. i think that's the biggest problem, that's always been his narrative, he's been disconnected. >> an so everybodier. >> as it would have somebody else. an be an serobserver, being pas. >> performing an autopsy on just what went wrong. the impact was perhaps characterized best by democratic senator joe manchin who told "the washington post" the outcome was a real whuppin' except he put it less delicately. congressman israel will not continue as head of the congressional committee. in a sprawling article, there

was already back fighting on the record. called out, reid's camp was beating their heads against the wall. >> oh, whatever. >> reid's camp spent tens of millions of dollars going after kansas businessmen that nobody knew. this is harry reid's loss as much or more than barack obama's. sam stein, you may disagree with me, but there is one -- i am starting to hear from democratic senators who said, you know what, he should have let us vote on a few bills instead of he and barack obama killing absolutely everything except for what they wanted us to vote on, so i had to go back to my state and say, i had a 97% voting record with barack obama. it was stifled. and democrats didn't like it anymore than republicans. >> yeah, i mean, there's two threads of thought i'm picking up from democrats after the drubbing if you want to call it that. the first is, we didn't stand for anything. if you were going to distance

yourself from barack obama, run away from the health care law, if you were going to punt on immigration, executive action, then you weren't really presenting your voters with much to go out for. the second thread of thought, more from the hill, is they couldn't associate themselves with the president because his approval ratings were abysmal. they couldn't associate themselves with the health care law because the rollout had been calamity. so when you take those two threads, you're left with really nothing. that ended up being a problem for the president and his party which they couldn't agree on any sort of platform. they were light on get out the vote tactics. when you can't give voters something to give out for, you're not going to win. >> i would think the president would be veb disappointed in his party and in the candidates who completely fell for the poll numbers which are accurate and real and represent the way the people feel but there was a narrative they couldn't attach themselves to that has successes that are attached to this

president despite the republicans. >> you mean rolling out obamacare, what do you mean? >> i would say any of the positive things going on in this country. the economy, the auto industry, foreign policy. there's a -- look, he can even do it. he tried three times the other day. we said, okay, you're a democrat, say what you would say. >> it was pretty easy to do. if you're a democrat, if you believe in what the president believes in, there are a lot of things. i thought yesterday, willie, the president was great talking about obamacare. saying, okay, well, listen, here's the deal. maybe there's some problems. the problems, let's fix it. but let's be cashful about fixing it. because health care inflation is at its lowest rate in 50 years. that's going to save us well over $100 billion and, you know, over an extended time period. there are a lot of good talking points. democrats were cowards. i think republicans were cowards as well. i think both sides were afraid to talk about what they really

believed in. it just cost the democrats more this year because it's their president in the white house. >> he could have talked about deficit reduction. the unemployment rate coming down. >> there was news yesterday on that, private sector jobs. >> i think what we learned again was voters are a lot smarter than these campaigns give them credit for. they don't believe corey gay ga are going to ban condoms in colorado. that the koch brothers will take other america in their district. they want jobs. not the things that reid beat the podium about every day that clearly didn't work. >> if i were a democrat running, i'd keep it very simple. when we got into power, we were facing a great depression. we were in a great recession, we were facing a great depression. the president saved us. he saved gm. that saved not only gp m, that saved the car industry. that saved michigan. that saved ohio. that saved the midwest. that saved a lot of us.

unemployment drops to under 6%. that's pretty good. the deficit slashed by over $1 trillion down to $450 billion, that's pretty good. and health care, look at health care. health care is growing at its slowest rate. in a generation. i mean, again, this is a democrat. that's pretty darn easy to do. >> the poll numbers say i can't say that. i don't get it. i really -- >> you know one the best lines this week came from steve schmidt. where we're saying, should they, shouldn't they? steve schmidt said, hey, it may be hard. but there's only one way through that pass, through that mountain pass. you don't have any other choice. it's what i would say months ago. i had a guy i campaigned against in '94 who wouldn't admit he voted to bill clinton two years earlier. >> so you don't support his

health care plan? >> no. you don't support his crime bill? no. i took him down this debate. did you even vote for him? well, i -- and he wouldn't answer. i was like, please, come on, give me a break. >> exactly. >> the democrats were cowards and they paid for their cowa cowardi cowardice. >> it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. you say, well, the president's not popular enough. his health care law's not popular enough. i can't go out there and champion it. if the health care law and the president don't have public champion, then they're not going to gain in popularity. the other point they make is democrats spent a generation, more than a generation, 50-plus years, trying to get universal health care reform. they took a lot of -- it took a lot of effort, a lot of hard work and a lot of congressional losses just to get it passed. what do they do after they pass the law, they completely abandon it. this is what i'm hearing from a lot of democrats. yeah, of course these laws

aren't going to be popular and the president is not going to be popular because he doesn't have people touting what he does and touting laws he passed. >> when i think about that story you tell when you were running and how you actually told -- so weird, the truth, when it wasn't popular to a group of senior citizens. >> yeah, i mean, my pundit got elected in '94. we had to cut medicare in '95 to save medicare. bill clinton said we had to do the same thing in 1993 but then he started saying they're cutting medicare for tax cuts for the rich. i got hammered. i got so -- at a debate at a senior citizen's place, i said, listen, this campaign is going to be a referendum on why i cut medicare. i said, you can ask me about medication. i'm going to talk about why i had to cut medicare. i went on and on and on. actually, we were just cutting

the rate of the increase of medicare. >> it wasn't actually a cut. >> still, not a -- >> there was only one way -- it wasn't actually a cut but by liberal standards it was a cut. by campaigning standards it was a cut. there's only one way through that pass. and i barreled through it. it's all i talked about at the end of the campaign. i had somebody from public opinion strategy called me. said, we pulled over 100 districts. what are you doing with seniors? i said why. he goes, because you've got the highest, highest approval rating of any republican of the 100 people that we've done among senior citizens. i said, come on, the truth. they responded to the truth. tell people the truth, like you said, they can handle it. >> coming up next, white house press secretary josh earnest joins us to explain how the president will work with the republican-led senate if that's possible. senator tim scott joins us to discuss this historic victory in south carolina. and later, cedric the

entertainer will be here on set. but first, bill karins is here with the forecast. bill. >> gloomy forecast, joe and mika. this pretty much sums it up. the glow of times square looks like you want to take a nap. you know it's one of those days. the airports are holding up. the radar shows a half an inch of rain in baltimore. the steadiest rains are over d.c. baltimore but it's still soaking rain philly to new york probably about two more hours and then it's all sliding up into new england. pittsburgh's almost had a half an inch. it's so light and it's not that windy. that's why the airport, no delays, even though we have all this rain out there. forecast today, 50s to 60s. it's the gloomy weather you have. we'll see on and off showers later in the day. also some rain along the gulf coast. the forecast for the rest of the country, we're cool in the midwest but we're clear. enjoy this while it last because some very cold air is coming down next week. this is probably some of the warmest air we'll have for denver and kansas city for a while. more "morning joe" when we come back.

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and, you know, he knows the legislative process well. >> that sounds good. >> i know, it does. press secretary josh earnest on set. political columnist for "time" magazine, joe klein. sam stein still with us in washington as well. josh, good to have you back. >> good morning, mika, how are you? >> good. numb and unrepentant are some of the words used to describe the president. i'm not sure i saw that. i would like to ask you, if it's possible the president is a little disappointed with members of his own party today. >> well, mika, the truth is the elections obviously didn't turn out the way the president hoped. it was clear from the comments in the east room that he believes the american people have spoken. the question is whether democrats and republicans are going to hear the message that voters sent. which is they're ready for their leaders in washington, d.c. to stop spending so much time fighting over politics and ideology and start focusing on where common ground exists to make progress on behalf of

middle class families. >> so what's going to change? >> i think that's going to be the subject of discussion when the president sits down with 16th highest ranking members of congress here at the white house. the president invited them to start talking through some of the important issues congress needs to start working on both over the course of the next couple months and years. at the same time, the president's eager to hear from them. we're eager to see what the republican agenda is. i'm confident if we take a close look, we're not going to agree on everything. we may not even agree on most. the question in the minds of a lot of voters is are you going to make progress -- >> where you can find common ground. we've got "time" magazine's joe klein here. joe. >> josh, how are you? >> good morning, joe. >> good morning. you have a couple of very big events coming up. most importantly i think november 24th, the end of the talks, the iran talks. if you get a deal, under these

circumstances, how on earth have you going to get the congress to agree to it? >> i mean, i think the president was pretty sanguine about the situation, with these talks. there are some very difficult aspects of these negotiations that have still not been resolved. it is also clear there are some very important decisions that the iranian negotiators and ra je scre regime need to do. about their nuclear program and their efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon. the president has made a strong case. i think there's bipartisan agreement about this. the best way we can resolve the concerns is to try to resolve them diplomatically. if we can negotiate an agreement that will give the international community clear visibility into what exactly iran's doing, that's the -- ease everybody's

concerns about the program. iran of course is going to try to rebuild that capability if you take a military strike. if you have a negotiated solution that allows the international community to have visibility into what their plans are, that's the way you can assure everybody of the peaceful nature of their nuclear program. and that remains to be seen if they're willing to make them. >> sam stein has a question. >> two questions for you. first is, what type of pen do you anticipate the president will use to issue most of his vetoes? and the second, on a staff level, the president was saying the staff is going to sort of get together and discuss what exactly what they can do wrong. what kind of adjustments are going to be made? what kind of talks are going to be had? what kind of strategic decision, do you anticipate having?

>> well, you know, sam let's talk about the veto pen first. the fact is the president does have a pen on his desk. i'm confident he'll be in a position where he'll have to veto some legislation where democrats and republicans are not able to find some common ground. the president's eager to use that pen to actually sign pieces of legislation that had strong bipartisan support and that's really what we're going to spend a lot of time exploring and that will be the focal point of our efforts at the white house in the weeks and months and even years ahead. as it relates, we'll have conversations, with senate and house leaders on friday. this will be the subject of ongoing conversations between the white house and members of capitol hill. also discussions here inside the white house to look for ways we can work with republicans to make some progress.

republicans have considered it to be in their clear political self-interest to try to block every single thing that the president supports. >> we can talk about harry reid for a couple of hours and see what he's done. >> i think that the shuffling of the deck we've seen in the aftermath of these midterm elections might change the equation of some republicans. now the republicans are in charge of both the house and the senate. maybe now they will see it as in their interest to move on common ground. that could actually mean some very good things for the american people. >> this is thomas. so chaos creates opportunity and the american people want to see opportunity in d.c. is this going to be a drinking lunch tomorrow? that you know of? we're looking at the daily news and saying up knob creek without a paddle. >> i think tomorrow will be business. will there be an opportunity for the president and the incoming majority leader to share a glass

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with us now, we've got republican senator tim scott of south carolina. tim, thank you so much for being with us. >> congratulations. >> and you made history in a big way. how does it feel? >> well, certainly is an exciting time. it feels really good to be back elected to the senate. south carolina voters vote their values and their issues and not my complexion. this is a great sign for what's happening throughout the south. certainly, fantastic sign for the evolution that has occurred in south carolina. >> my good friend, been a good friend for 20 years now, jim

clyburn on. he was talking about racing the south and specifically in his state and how it might have had an impact on the election. i said, okay, don't tell that to tim scott who is going to win. also don't tell that to your indian american governor who's going to win. south carolina has -- i mean, an extraordinary diversity. not just for a southern state, for any state. >> absolutely. i'll tell you that congressman clyburn represents his district because his district agrees with his values and his issues. which is good news. the values and issues i have. if you think about where we want to go as a nation, you can look at south carolina's activity. can america make things? the answer is obviously yes. look at charleston or michigan's expansion.

the question, can america make things again? if you look at south carolina, you'll find we're doing it at a world class level because we have a world class workforce. and these are only indicators the successes possible for all of america. >> it is really hard to grasp. son of the south. you've been going to south carolina for a very long time for primaries. how much has that state changed since carol campbell was governor? it was an old sleepy southern -- part of the confederacy. now you've got boeing, you've got bmw, michigan. i don't recognize greenville. it's amazing. >> i once got on a plane in greenville and i think that everybody else on the plane was german. >> i know. you go there -- you go downtown, you walk downtown in greenville on the weekend and you're going to hear -- you're going to hear a lot of different languages spoken. it's amazing. you have a question for the senator?

>> yes, senator, congratulations. i'm going to ignore your complexion and ask you about your agenda. what happens -- what's your top priority now? what happened? what are you going to push for? what are you personally interested in? >> i'm very interested in creating a foundation of education for those folks in the middle income arena as well as kids living in poverty. kids like myself who perhaps live in the wrong zip code going to underperforming schools. i'd love to give parents the tool of choice. when parents have choice in education, i think their kids have a better chance of success. had it not been for education, i would not be sitting here today. i think of education as the greatway to the american dream. i want to open that gate wider for kids living in poverty, wider for folks in middle income american who are sandwiched. the folks taking care of their parents and their kids. they need access to a better education system that sometimes they cannot afford.

why not give more parents choice? that would lead to revolution. >> could you foresee south carolina and the rest of the country doing what new orleans did, make every school a charter school? >> bobby jindal did such a great job of orchestrating massive change and transportation in where i think the number was 90% of african-american parents in new orleans are happy with the choice in education and charters are a fantastic way of evolving the school system to serve the students. he's been a great advocate and champion along with jeb bush on that issue. >> you said you are concerned. this is thomas roberts. you said you are concerned about kids growing up in the wrong zip code and -- like yourself that had a tough start on the way out. but if we look at agencies that are following some of your voting records, they have concern. and the naacp has given you an

"f" on their annual scorecard. they also say you voted against the aca. you voted to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress. you oppose the congressional black caucuses budget. delayed funding on a settlement between the u.s. and black farmers who say they were prejudiced against because of their race. how do you respond to that, if your true concern is about lower income families and kids? >> let's just ask ourselves as we look back over history when the congress was controlled by the democrats for 40 consecutive years. what has happened in black america. we saw greater poverty. if we take statistics from 1970s to the 21st century, what we see very clearly is poverty's gone from 11% to 15%. these are classic examples of the policies of the left have not worked. i will tell you, if i have an "f" on the naacp scorecard, it's because i believe progress has

to be made and the government is not the answer for progress. i was a kid growing up in poverty. i had a mentor who was a chick-fil-a operator who taught me that the brilliance of the american economy happens through business ownership and entrepreneurial spirit. whether you own the business or not, success is possible if you, "a," have a good education, "b," have a strong work ethic. for the average person who can work. these two key components come together and form a foundation. that is the way that you eradicate poverty. all the social programs that we've had. we've had the largest government we've ever had in the history of the country. we have more nonprofit organizations working on the same issue. we have higher percentage of people living in poverty. the key it seems like is individual freedom and economic opportunity, fusing those together in an agenda that focuses on education seems to leave forward. this is clearly the case in d.c. where the d.c. opportunity

scholarship has produced higher percentage of kids going to college. it's produced 91% of the kids graduating from high school versus 56% for those who are simply in everyday schools in d.c. i want that to be the case for either child. >> senator tim scott, thank you so much. joe klein, thank you as well. >> all right, senator, thank you so much for coming. we greatly appreciate it. joe, you're just -- you're just being devious. >> still ahead, he's teaming up with chris rock, jay z and kanye west for his new film. cedric the entertainer. plus, psyched to see the gop take control of the senate. we go live to the new york stock exchange. stay with us.

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keystone pipeline. getting a particular boost in the session. we've also got the jobs report tomorrow. economists are looking for a strong number. 233,000 jobs added during the month. we just got a good read, by the way, on the number of americans filing for unemployment. that number dropped last week to 278. so that's a good sign. >> interesting. sa sara, thank you very much. up next -- well, no, it's -- >> think the economy's doing well, why didn't the preside president -- >> yeah, kind of. one of the original kings of comedy -- i think they shot themselves in the foot. cedric the entertainer. >> oh, that's awesome.

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crank, you know, sert. want some of that? i'm the [ bleep ] man in houston, man, [ bleep ]ing man in houston, baby. >> that was the scene from the new movie "top five" co-starring cedric the entertainer. he joins us now. nice to meet you. >> i'm so hyped up. even though it's thursday, i'm hyped up because mika's my woman crush wednesday lady. she's so cute. >> every wednesday. >> okay, i'll look for that. >> haircut, eyes, i like it. i think you're really big in the hood. and you got that make it, mika. >> oh. >> everybody like, oh, mika, i know that one. >> yes, sir. >> funny. >> this looks great. you're feeding into a little bit of a stereotype here with the character. >> what stereotype's that?

managers? >> comedy road managers. >> exactly. >> this is -- chris rock is a falling -- or worried about his career falling short as a comedian. he's coming to you to kind of help revive as he's coming to town for his set, right? >> yeah, his character is actually in the movie. this is when chris is actually on his way up. i'm the guy who sends his life down the spiraling road. because it's the promoters that when you -- as a young comedian, we've all met these guys who can they promise you the world and then -- they can only do it locally in their town. they can't give you the world. >> they talk the talk. >> i'm looking at the -- that scene there. did you all go con tem rainious a little bit, improv? >> i improved quite a bit. of course like you said, tracy

morgan crazy. he understands the minds of comedians. >> rosario dawson. is she good with comedic timing? >> she's amazing. she was perfect for this role because she brings, you know, the real acting, you know, chops to it. but she can dive in and out with the -- >> and she was playing a journalist. >> you've got huge names attached to this movie. how did you get all those egos? >> kanye, jay z. >> it's unbelievable. >> whoopi. >> whoopi's in it? >> whoopi's in it. >> i love her. >> whoopi's great. it was all chris. he went through his rolodex and made phone calls and got people involved. kevin hart. so many people make an appearance in this movie. >> step on up. >> my son, type one diabetic, 11 years old. talk about how important it is taking on diabetes.

>> my dad had type two diabetes. we started to notice him dealing with some of the pain that comes with it. things that you don't know are related to diabetes. and so what the step on up campaign is about is bringing awareness to diabetic nerve pain. i want people to know that if you have, like, shooting pain in your feet and your hands and you think it's, oh, my feet are tired, it's been a long day. but you have diabetes. you need to go and have a real talk with your doctor and have this diagnosed. and so november is american diabetes month. partnered with the american diabetes association and pfizer to get out and make this message known. it's a really big part of our -- in our community, african-american, hispanic community, where people just don't want to go to the doctor, man. they hide it. they try to cover it up. you want to check it out. >> do you go? >> i do. i mean, i have to go. i just turned 50 so i have to go for the other thing. >> you didn't just turn 50. >> i did. >> the other thing?

>> you know. >> the colon -- >> okay, yes, everybody needs to go. >> come on. let's go together. >> no, see, that's what we can't do. >> no, can't do that. >> we can't go -- >> is that a little too much -- it's all right for us to have a burger together but you don't want to do that together? >> come on. >> you don't want to share a bottle of go lightly? >> oh, let's not. >> what would the hash tag be of that one? >> let's stop. >> forget the bourbon. >> it's so nice to meet you. thank you for coming up. >> thank you. >> a great cause. it looks like a great movie. >> for more information on the step on up campaign, visit steponup.com. "top five" in limited release on december 5th. >> we are going. >> cedric the entertainer. thank you develop. up next what, if anything, did we learn today.

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