that news conference and we'll bring it to you live when it happens. first, other stories making headlines today. a woman who was snatched off the street in philadelphia is now home safe three days after her shocking abduction. she was found more than 100 miles away from where cameras captured her kidnapping. the 22 year old was rescued from the car of her alleged kidnapper after a manhunt that spanned five states, a task force found them in a parking lot in maryland. philadelphia police got a tip from someone who sold the suspect that car and they used that information to hunt him down. >> we were able to track him to jessup, maryland, and we had a task force that was put together. the baltimore field office spotted the car and conducted a surveillance and once he stepped out of the car momentarily, they were able to take him down.

>> her mother embraced the police commissioner last night saying he promised to find her daughter and he did. she was taken to a hospital for treatment. she's in good condition. the suspect had six prior felony warrants out for his arrest including another kidnapping in virginia. he's due to appear in court this hour on that charge. barnes is right now in fbi custody. back in new york, former baltimore ravens ray rice and his wife are both expected to testify in a new york city court as he appeals his indefinite suspension from the nfl. they arrived this morning in a black suv which drove right into a loading dock at the courthouse. it's a very different scene from yesterday when they walked into court together through a crowd of cameras. rice has been out on indefinite suspension since new video emerged showing him punching his then fiance unconscious in a casino elevator. he had originally been given a two-game suspension for that

incident and rice claims that the extended suspension amounts to double jeopardy. on the "today" show this morning, a texas nurse who survived ebola defended her decision to fly just a day before her diagnosis. hearse amber vinson gave her first interview since her release from emory university hospital last week to nbc's matt lauer asking about her decision to board that frontier flight home from dallas to cleveland. >> i'm not careless. i'm not reckless. i am an icu nurse. i embrace protocol and guidelines and structure because in my day-to-day nursing, it's a matter of life and death and i respect that fact. i would never go outside of guidelines or boundaries or something directly from the cdc telling me that i can't go. >> vinson was infected while she was treating thomas eric duncan at texas health presbyterian hospital and it's not known exactly how she contracted the

virus. moments ago at the white house, president obama awarded the medal of honor to army first lieutenant alonzo h. cushing. he won the award for his actions commanding an are ttillery brig back in the civil war. >> this medal is a reminder that no matter how long it takes, it's never too late to do the right thing. >> cushing was immortalized in this painting that you see here showing them at the battle fighting off confederate troops wounded and dying. congress had to grant a special exemption for the award because of the length of time that passed since the civil war. back to our developing news, any minute we'll hear from house speaker john boehner. he's holding a news conference on capitol hill. that will be his first since tuesday's republican route. come january he'll likely be speaker over the biggest gop caucus in the house since 1945.

massive wins for the republicans. today he released a joint op-ed in "the wall street journal" with senator mitch mcconnell entitled "now we can get congress going." skeptics say nothing will be accomplished in the next two years. as elected servants of the people, we'll make it our job to prove the skeptics wrong. joining me, congressman chris van holland, thank you for being with us. they say they want to include democrats and compromise. what are you ready to work with republicans on? >> we're ready to work with them on a whole host of things. for example, we tried to get a vote on a national minimum wage, which we discovered on tuesday night was very popular even in red states. in places like arkansas and nebraska. we would like to move forward on that.

there's a hot of talk about harry reid not having votes in the senate. in the house, speaker boehner still holding onto a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill. we would like to get a vote on that and if we can get a vote, there wouldn't have to be this talk about the president acting through executive order. those are things we can work on. corporate tax reform and trying to invest more money in national infrastructure and modernizing roads and bridges. those are other things we look forward to working with him on. >> i wonder what you make about the messa agage sent by voters week? it was a republican landslide and you saw it firsthand in your home state of maryland. gibbs told me that this election was in part a referendum on the president. do you agree with that? >> i know it's been interpreted in lots of places in that way. what i think it was a referendum on was the dysfunction in washington especially the gridlock in congress and i do agree that ricocheted back on

the president. the irony, of course, is on a lot of these issues, like increasing the minimum wage, like equal pay for equal work, issues that we know are popular with the public on a bipartisan basis, it wasn't the president who blocked it was the inabilit votes in the house on those issues and frankly of republican filibuster in the senate. >> congressman -- >> blocking progress, no doubt it ricochetted on the period. >> congressman, the president did say repeatedly that it was his policies that were on the ballot. the president was saying that the agenda that he tried to get through the congress was on the ballot, but the thing about it is, those issues that are front and center are popular. a lot of the senate candidates should be more clear about where

they agree with the president and where they disagree. instead of saying they don't know who the guy is. >> that didn't work out for them. >> the core economic message, we didn't punch through on that. it is popular and if we were more able to do that, we would see differe historically it's a bad time anyway obviously for the incumbent party in the white house. >> let's talk about the last 24 hours. we've seen nancy pelosi and steny hoyer say they are running for re-election as party leaders and this morning this looks like the same old, same old. do you think the democratic party needs new faces? >> i think if you look at nancy pelosi, for example, she has the same energy today that she did when she was first elected leader. she's been very focused and has the full confidence of the caucus. i think when we get back, the caucus will talk about not new leadership but what we need to do to answer some of the

questions that came up as a result of tuesday's election and as i indicated, i think the real focus will be how do we get back to focusing on those core economic issues, helping the middle class, help people who want to climb out of poverty into the middle class. clearly we were not able to punch through on those issues. we can talk about all of the reasons why. the reality is we have to do better next week. >> on that piece, obviously minimum wage is a lift in the minimum wage very popular across the country as you point out. five different ballot initiatives all passed easily lifting the minimum wage. democrats have really focused on that as the centerpiece of an economic agenda and while i think it's very important, it's not a complete economic vision. what is the democratic vision overarching vision for helping the middle class? >> i agree with you that's just one piece and it's a small piece. a large part of our vision is

trying to make sure that pieces are in place so people can climb that ladder of opportunity. that does mean investment in education. beginning with early education, k through 12, and making college affordable to more students so they are not crippled with debt the minute they walk out. number two, i have a measure that we introduced as part of our agenda that says we should not be providing corporations the ability to get a tax deduction for the bonuses they pay to ceos and others over a million dollars unless they are giving their workers a wage increase. yes, there's been a lot of talk about minimum wage increase, but that obviously doesn't help all of the other workers who have seen stagnant wages. this is an idea to say taxpayers won't subsidize these big corporate tax write-offs for ceo bonuses if they don't keep pace with increases for workers. that's the kind of thing we can

look at. it's not a total solution. we want to create more incentives not just to put people back to work but a decent wage that can support a family. >> thank you for your time today. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. did voters send a clear message on tuesday and if they did, is the president hearing it? politico framed it as if the president's message was asking midterms, what mid terms? this is what the president said yesterday to all those people that checked gop. >> everyone that voted, i want you to know that i heard you. to two-thirds of people that chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you too. >> joining me now is david axelrod, he is former senior adviser to president obama and now nbc news political analyst. david, thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> so what's your take on that? did voters send a message to the president this week and do you think he's choosing not to hear that message? >> i think voters sent a message to washington. i agree with chris van hollen,

there's a great deal of unhappiness about the nature of politics in washington and the gridlock that we've seen and acrimony we've seen. part of that was expressed by voters. and when the president referred two-thirds who didn't vote, i assumed they were expressing that as well because they chose not to vote. they were making a statement of some sort. i think it's important to not overreact or underreact to these results. there's an historic pattern to what happens in the six term of these presidents. i think only two presidents in history have escaped this and certainly this president didn't. >> doesn't the president -- >> people are very unhappy. >> doesn't the president have to show that he is responding in a serious way to voters who did send a message? i'm sure you'll agree with the fact that these losses for democrats were much more than

anyone was expecting. >> well, some of us were concerned about this election because of the turf on which these races were being fought and the historic pattern that wasn't in favor of the president. some of the events leading into the election weren't helpful as well. absolutely the president should respond. you have to look forward. the important thing is you see senator mcconnell and assume speaker boehner will do the same, suggesting that they want to work together, and i think the president has to test that proposition and has to be forward leaning in doing so. perhaps he could have been more forward leaning yesterday. politics is all about when your interest align. it may have been in the interest of the republican party in the last six years to try and block the president at every turn, but their brand is degraded by what they've done. their numbers are far worse than his and heading into the 2016 election, they have a lot of

rehabilitation to do not just to win the presidency if that's their goal but also to elect a lot of senators who are in blue states, republican senators, their map is worse from that standpoint than the democratic map was in 2014. they need to show they can work with this president. he ought to take advantage of that and see where they can. >> to that point, the president is still planning to move forward with executive action on immigration. republicans not too happy about that. senator mcconnell said that would be "waving a red flag in front of a bull." certainly on people's minds. white house press secretary josh earnest was asked about immigration in today's braiefin and senator mccain was cautioning against it too minutes ago on "andrea mitchell reports." let's take a listen to senator mccain. >> i am pleading with the president of the united states not to act. give it a chance. we've got a new congress. we've got a new mandate. let's let the house of

representatives decide whether they want to move forward on immigration reform or not. it will be a devastating blow if he acts unilaterally with executive order. >> what would you advise the president to do here? >> well, i would have been more reserved in answering that question. i know he wants to keep faith with all of those americans who want him to act and all those who are suffering with this broken immigration system. the fact is a strong bipartisan bill was passed by the united states senate. if i were the president, i would go to john boehner and say i'm willing to withdraw my plan for executive action if you're willing to put this bill on the floor for a vote. i'll live with the results of that vote. there's a very good reason to believe that a majority of members of the house support this bipartisan senate bill and while the republicans are

warning about taking what they consider extraordinary action on the part of the president, it's also extraordinary to keep the house of representatives from voting on a bill that a majority want to pass and so the speaker if he wants to demonstrate that this is a new era, he can do that by putting that bill on the floor. that would alleviate the need for any executive action. >> it looked like the bill had a majority in current congress. next congress i don't think it's so clear. putting back on your 2016 democratic strategist hat, there was a piece called "revenge of the white male voter." democrats doing badly with white men in this election. they say millennials didn't vote. single woman voted less democratic than usual. what do we need to do to make the democratic party attractive to white men? >> i quite agree with chris van

hollen. the fundamental issues facing most people in this country is the issue of the economy. the economy overall is improving. i think the president's actions early in his administration had a lot to do with breaking the fall that we were in, but most middle class families and people who are aspiring to become middle class are still struggling. wages have been flat. there's still a sense of insecurity and the democratic party ought to be the party and is, i think, the party that has ideas to address that. if democratic party doesn't run on those ideas and put them front and center and make this the state of the middle class in this country, the fundamental issue of 2016, they will find themselves in deep straits. >> indeed. we got to get that message out there and make it believable that something could actually be done. david axelrod, thank you so much. always great to get your analysis. >> good to be with you.

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congressman-elect ken buck. he won 65% of the vote in colorado's fourth district. back in 2010, he ran for the senate and loss and we see boehner here so let's go to him now. >> hope he didn't believe it. i'm going to start by congratulating my friend, senator mitch mcconnell. mitch and i have worked very closely together over the last eight years and i don't think i could ask for a better partner or do i think the senate could have a better majority leader than mitch mcconnell. also going to express my gratitude to the people of ohio's eighth congressional district. my mission is the same today as it was in 1990 when i was first elected to build a smaller, less

costly and more accountable government. and right now i believe that means continuing to listen, to make the american people's priorities our priorities and to confront the big challenges that face middle class families starting with the economy. you heard me talk many times about the many jobs bills that the outgoing senate majority has ignored. those bills will offer the congress, i think, a new start. we can act on keystone pipeline, restore 40-hour workweek that was gutted by obamacare, and pass the hire more heroes act that would encourage our businesses to hire more veterans. again, this is just a start. i have a been going around the country outlining my own personal vision for how we can reset america's economic foundation. the energy boom that's going on in america is real. i think it provides us with a

very big opportunity. but to maximize that opportunity, i believe that we need to do five things and that is fix our broken tax code, address the debt that's hurting our economy and imprisoning the future of our kids and grandkids. reform our legal system. reshape our regulatory policy to make bureaucrats more accountable and give parents more choices in a system that isn't educating enough of america's children. now finding common ground is going to be hard work but it will be harder if the president isn't willing to work with us. yesterday we heard him say he may double down on his go it alone approach. i have a told the president before. he needs to put politics aside and rebuild trust and rebuilding trust not only with the american people but with the american people's representatives here in the united states congress.

this is the best way to deliver solutions to get the economy going again and to keep the american dream alive and well. this will be the focus of our new majority and i'm eager to get to work. >> is that going to poison the well for any type of cooperation between this new republican majority and the white house? >> you all heard me say starting two years ago yesterday that our immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. i have made clear to the president that if he acts unilaterally on his own outside of his authority, he will poison the well and there will be no chance for immigration reform moving in this congress. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: mr. speaker, you mentioned obamacare and 40-hour workweek. the second paragraph of your op-ed in "the wall street journal" talked about obamacare.

how do you walk this balance without getting sucked back into that being the predominant issue of the congress or is it the predominant issue when you have new freshmen coming in had never had a chance to vote to repeal obamacare and try to tweak this and vote for a full repeal. >> obamacare is hurting our economy. it's hurting middle class families. and it's hurting the ability for employers to create more jobs. so the house, i'm sure, at some point next year will move to repeal obamacare. it should be repealed and it should be replaced with common sense reforms that respect the doctor/patient relationship. now, whether that can pass the senate, i don't know. i know in the house it will pass. we're going to pass that. that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do other things. there are bipartisan bills that have passed the house that would in fact make changes to

obamacare. there's a bipartisan majority in the house and senate for repealing the medical device tax. i think there's a bipartisan majority in the house and senate for getting rid of the independent payment advisory board and rationing board in obamacare and how about the individual mandate? there are republicans and democrats who feel this is unfair. just because we may not be able to get everything we want doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to get what we can. >> reporter: you mentioned three or four different distinctive issues there. doesn't that siphon this congress right back into this obamacare and then the number gets up into the 60s or 70s in terms of roll call votes against obama. >> there are bipartisan majorities in the house and senate to take some of these issues out of obamacare. we need to put them on the president's desk and let him choose. >> reporter: mr. speaker, you

heard the president say he gave you a year waiting for you to deliver on immigration reform and that in this post-election period he's ready to act and then he would pull back those executive orders if you can have legislation that works. could that be a catalyst for you to actually get something done? >> no. i believe that the president continues to act on his own, he's going to poison the well. when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. he's going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path. the american people made it clear election day they want to get things done and they don't want the president acting on a unilateral basis. >> reporter: mr. speaker, how do you expect the president to trust that you really want to work together when out of the gate you say that you want to repeal his signature law that you know has no chance of getting a veto proof majority. how do you expect him to trust you? >> listen, my job is to listen to the american people. the american people have made it clear they're not for obamacare.

they asked all those democrats who lost their elections tuesday night. a lot of them voted for obamacare. my job is not to get along with the president just to get along with him although we actually have a nice relationship. the fact is my job is listen to my members and listen to the american people and make their priorities our priorities. >> reporter: mr. speaker, "the wall street journal" is out with a report saying that president obama sent a secret letter to iran's supreme leader on fighting isis. your reaction, sir? >> i don't trust the iranians. i don't think we need to bring them into this. i would hope that the negotiations that are under way are serious negotiations, but i have my doubts. >> reporter: if having heard your reiterated threats, the president said, fine, i won't take executive action on immigration, could you guarantee him you will hold votes on

immigration legislation next year? >> i want to talk to members about how to move forward. i made my position clear. it's time for the congress of the united states to deal with a very difficult issue in our society. this immigration issue has become a political football over the last ten years or more. it's just time to deal with it. >> your party's presidential nominee -- >> this is not about politics. this is trying to do the right thing for the country. >> reporter: mr. speaker, isn't the idea of repealing obamacare third or fourth line in your op-ed today, isn't that poisoning the well from your angle? >> no. >> reporter: when you go to the white house tomorrow. >> our job is to make the american people's priorities our priorities. they don't like obamacare. i don't like it. it's hurting our economy. the president said i listened to what happened tuesday night.

really? >> reporter: how do you -- >> if you spent as many nights on the road as i have over the last two years, you would hear from employers of every stripe from large to small to medium and every industry and when you listen to these employers talk about the concerns they have over what it means for their workforce, what it means for their employees, and you see them hesitate in terms of hiring more people, it's pretty clear to me. >> reporter: mr. speaker, you have a new crop of conservatives coming into the house that have suggested among other things that women need to submit to the authority of their husbands, that hillary clinton is the anti-christ and that the families of sandy hook victims should get over it. >> no, no, no. now, listen -- >> reporter: how do you deal with them differently than in the last election? >> the premise of your question

i would take exception to. we have some new members who have made some statements. i'll give you that. but when you look at the vast majority of the new members that are coming in here, they are really solid members. whether it's the youngest woman to ever serve in congress to another african-american republican from texas, we have done a good job of recruiting good candidates and we'll have a good crop of members. >> reporter: on immigration you tried to act in the last congress and conservative members yanked you back. >> no. no. >> reporter: how will you work with the president on an issue like that? >> i would argue with the premise of the question. what held us back last year was a flood of kids coming to the border because of the actions that the president had already taken. let me tell you what, the american people from the right to the left started to look at this issue in a very different

way. that's why i made it clear that if the president continues to go down the path of taking action on his own is inviting big trouble. >> reporter: what about the 18 months before that? >> i could give you all of my challenges trying to get members on both sides of the aisle to deal with this. they were numerous. >> reporter: what's different now? >> hope springs eternal. >> thank you, mr. speaker. harry reid, the republican party has done what it set to accomplish by acquiring he iafi reid. >> you may want to ask mitch mcconnell about that question. >> reporter: do you see him as being someone who has power to thwart -- >> you know how the senate works. it requires 60 votes to do most

anything in the senate. clearly he's going to have some power. if you look at -- let's take 46 jobs bills sitting in the united states senate held up by the democrat majority in the senate. almost all of those passed the house on a bipartisan basis and almost all of them enjoy bipartisan support in the united states senate. if you're doing as you have heard me say before, i tell my colleagues all the time, if you do the right things for the right reasons, you don't have to worry about anything. the right things will happen. >> that was speaker john boehner in his first press conference since the republicans took back the senate and joining us now, we have nbc news senior political reporter perry bacon and jonathan capehart of "the washington post" and we have jonathan alter and kasie hunt. welcome to all of you. perry, let me start with you.

this new republican caucus sounds a lot like the old republican caucus. >> the key words i heard were obama talked about using executive order and boehner said he's "going to burn himself" referring to the president. that's where we are. that was a pretty frontal thing to say i thought. i heard that boehner had an op-ed in the paper. he spoke today. i'm still not sure exactly where the areas are of compromise between the two sides. immigration it sounds like is not one of them. boehner referred to tax reform a little bit today. i like to see more details about that first because i'm guessing the white house will push tax increases as part of tax reform. you heard boehner say hope springs eternal but i'm not sure it does. >> kasie hunt, what's your take aways here? >> one thing i would say and perry is right. when you play with matches, you run the risk of burning yourself. the thing is that i think republicans in congress run the

risk of burning themselves if they approach this the wrong way. i think speaker boehner and incoming majority leader mitch mcconnell both know this lengs election was a wave for republicans but it's reputation of what's wrong with congress. you heard them say there won't be financial crisis among those. immigration is a huge test. republicans set it up to make the path to citizenship something that they have declared it to be amnesty and something that isn't tenable with their base and wouldn't include in their own immigration bill but for democrats advocates on their side aren't going to accept an immigration reform package without that. i think that's where you're going to see the tension start to move as they grapple with that issue. >> jonathan capehart, it's not like the president hasn't tried to compromise with republicans before and found them unwilling

to give up anything. do we expect anything to be really significantly different here? >> no. no. one of the things people forget is that the president's base was angry with him in his first term because he kept going to the negotiating table with gifts to the republican opposition before they even had a chance to negotiate. so what we're seeing now is a president who has finally learned his lesson in terms of how to negotiate with the republican opposition. also realizing that even though the election happened, democrats are out of the majority in both the houses, the dynamic is basically the same. and to sort of characterize of what the president and administration is facing, john boehner was adamant about the president not doing anything

unilaterally on immigration after the president, and we all know, spent a couple years waiting for congress to do something and then john boehner said this not moments ago, "it's time for congress of the united states to deal with this issue." leaving aside the fact that the senate passed an immigration bill by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and sent the bill to the house where john boehner did nothing with it. >> what do you say to that? that was an amazing moment, right? it's time to deal with this. he's the one person that has kept immigration reform from passing. >> all he has to do is let people vote. this isn't a question of him having to tell them how to vote. just allow a vote in the house of representatives. that's why already the president is being kind of back stout in these public negotiations because they are saying you're poisoning the well or waving a red flag in front of a bull.

the deal should be that the president withdraws the executive order and does not sign it in exchange for a vote in the house of representatives in the lame duck session in the next few weeks on the senate bill. if it's defeated then, if there aren't enough democratic and republican votes in the house to send this bill to the president for his signature, then all bets are off. we live in a democracy. the idea that the house as well as the senate should be not letting their elected representatives vote, that's the issue that the president needs to highlight and the deal here is real obvious. i won't sign that executive order if you allow a vote. >> john boehner made it obvious there. perry, let's move onto healthcare. same old song on that one as well. john boehner saying they're planning to pass again repeal in the house so no change there. he even got asked the question isn't that poisoning the well

with the president. he said, no. that's what we want to do. i don't know if it will pass in the senate. clearly they haven't gotten off of that piece and accepted that healthcare is the law of the land. >> they made one shift and it's important when we talk about what mcconnell said yesterday. senator mcconnell said we won't have government shutdowns. we don't have government shutdowns. that to me says we're not going to have a government shutdown in order to get rid of obamacare. i thought boehner promised meaningless votes that won't move either. the key question is are there ways to change it in the way they want to? boehner knows they won't get rid of the individual mandate. the president will never sign that. i heard that as more bluster and it seems like mcconnell's comment that we won't shut the government down over obamacare, that's important because that's what happened last year. >> they talk about boehner and mcconnell and others talking about the 46 jobs bills that the house passed and sent to the senate where they died and they

really seem to be basing their economic agenda on what was in those bills. is there anything new or revolutionary there we should be looking toward or thinking a bipartisan group in the senate could potentially support? >> i think that you've seen in some of those jobs bills, you heard boehner wrote about it in their op-ed in "the wall street journal" making changes to the way that hours of working were defined in the healthcare bill. that's one of the things they want to start with. >> that's encouraging part time rather than full-time jobs. >> it pushes americans into part-time work and discourages companies from offering full-time 40-hour jobs. the main difference for this next conference compared to the last one is democrats under senate majority leader harry reid there have been no attempts to make major changes to the healthcare law. major changes, small changes, none. that's part of why senator reid changed the amendment process or

controlled the amendment process the way he did and prevented people from making those changes. i do think there are some aspects to the healthcare law that will make it through. the medical device tax is pretty unpopular with some democrats and in addition to republicans. you could see that change potentially go through. i think the question is just how far along do you get? i think perry is on the right track with the individual mandate. if you remove the individual mandate, the whole house falls down of healthcare. i don't see that going through with democrats. i do think we'll have this broader conversation about the healthcare law around these edges with republicans and potentially with democrats. >> the president opened the door to that yesterday in his press conference. anything that would dismantle the law would be a no go but maybe he would consider smaller changes, the medical device tax seems like it's not a real make or break here. >> all right. i appreciate all of you joining us. thank you so much. perry bacon, jonathan capehart,

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we are back with one thing voters lit up for on the midterm ballots. get it, pot, that's the joke there. recreational marijuana measures pass in oregon, alaska and washington, d.c. on election night. and that puts those states in the high ranks of colorado and washington state. that's another pot joke. several more states follow suit. we have mason, the director of communications for the marijuana policy project, and he is probably sick of all of these puns. but, mason, first off, what do you think the wins mean for your cause?

>> well, it's clear that voters are now seeing through all of the scare tactics and the reefer madness that have been keeping marijuana illegal for so long. people are fed up with it. they recognize marijuana's less harmful than alcohol, that prohibition hasn't worked, and that regulation and taxing marijuana is a much better approach. >> this is an issue like gay marriage, frankly, where public opinion seems to have shifted really rapidly. we've got 23 states that already allow medical marijuana use. we now florida narrowly fell short. they needed 60% of the vote in order to pass a medical marijuana initiative. but facebook does say that pot was the most talked about topic on the social network on tuesday, which is kind of interesting. so, are you hopeful for 2016 in florida and what other states do you have your sights set on? >> yeah, we expect 2016 to be a huge year for the effort to change marijuana laws in this country. our organization has filed committees to run statewide initiatives similar to the oregon and alaska and colorado laws that would regulate

marijuana like alcohol. that would be in arizona, california, maine, massachusetts and nevada. and we'll likely even see some other things, you mentioned florida, of course. >> what do you account -- what do you use to explain the big shift that we've seen in terms of public sentiment? >> you know, for all of our lives, we've been told that marijuana is so harmful that it absolutely cannot be legal, that it is just too dangerous for adults, even, to be able to use it responsibly. and that is just not the case. marijuana is -- it's less addictive, less damaging to the body, it's less likely to contribute to violence than alcohol. and it's just irrational to be spending all of this time, all of these resources punishing adults for using the substance and forcing marijuana into the underground market instead of allowing it to be sold in legitimate tax-paying businesses. >> i think marijuana's an interesting political issue, too. to me, it's not totally clear which party should own marijuana legalization.

you know, the president has not come out in support of it. still, folks would think this was more of an issue. how the pot boon in colorado is sparking a new wave of ganjaprenuers. >> the grass may be greener on the other side of town. >> ready for networking. >> reporter: meet the next wave of entrepreneurs. they're merging weed and technology to capitalize on the green rush, pitching potential investors, like a weed version of shark tank. >> i left the federal reserve bank to do this. so i'm a former regulator. >> what we do is take all the different laws related to medical marijuana, retail marijuana and hemp and bring them into one place that's easy to navigate.

>> we have a fund that is entirely dedicated to the cannabis industry, and some of us say that's quite risky. this is one of those moments in time when you're looking at the start of the historical event. >> this may be the cutting edge of the new $1 billion pot economy. but it's not the only game in town. the black market is still thriving. >> a lot of people can't spend $50 for an eighth of weed. they come here get it for $20, $15 sometimes. >> before it was legal, we was still doing this. and still making just as much money off of it now as we was before, even not even more because basically forces people to go to the streets to get the weed. >> he's from ohio. one of the growing number of people who are chasing the green version of the american dream. >> i moved to denver to start growing weed and getting the legal aspect of the business,

but it's going slowly for me. but, you know, i've been doing this since i was a kid. i just came here to make a bigger name for myself. >> have fun, man. >> reporter: in a way, jake represents the old pot economy. >> i don't see myself selling weed on the streets rest of my life. >> invited jake to come back to the weed tech conference where he fit right in with the more butted up crowd. >> nice to meet you, man. >> what's, man. >> jake. that's really cool. >> smells awesome. >> this is provided by good chemistry. >> someone like you coming from the black market, you eventually want to get into the industry? >> yeah. >> we opened a new store and we're looking for people. >> spinoza and the rest of the judges are looking for the next big thing. amanda, the former fed attorney has the winning pitch for her

company, a kind of law library for all things cannabis. >> part of why we did so well, we got a good idea early. and i think everything's still early phase right now. >> as for jake, seems like the skills he honed on the black market could be a real asset in this blooming start-up culture. >> had four or five people tonight tell me they have a place for me in this industry. doing, you know, anything from selling merchandise to growing bud. that goes to show you what denver's all about. >> mason, you're also in denver, does that look like what you're seeing? >> no. you know, we're seeing hundreds of millions of dollars being spent in marijuana retail stores instead of on the street. we're in the first ten months of the system. there's a reason we don't see illegal alcohol distilleries in the basements. we're eliminating the underground market. it won't happen immediately. >> that's changing the marijuana policy projects. mason tivert, thank you so much. >> thank you. up next, we ask you to send

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finally today, for our call to action for this week, we asked you to take a selfie voting. not in the booth, that's illegal. but before you voted or after you voted or anywhere near you voted. whatever worked for you. but we now feature one selfie that did get a little more attention than perhaps this individual expected. that would be this one. yes. that is your regular host for this hour, our very own ronan farrow in a lovely white t-shirt at his polling place in connecticut. twitter promptly exploded and the picture went viral. tina wright tweeted, i wish the democrats could've captured a little bit of that ronan farrow white t-shirt magic.

while another said that ronan farrow and his white t-shirt stole the crown from alex from target. even the "new york times" had to weigh in and they had the headline, finding election day solace in ronan farrow's t-shirt. goes to show, nothing says it better than a simple white t-shirt. looking good, buddy. looking good. and ronan is probably going to kill me when he gets back. and that wraps up things for this edition of "ronan farrow daily." i'll see you back here for "the cycle" at 3:00 p.m. and now another one of my friends is filling in at "the reid report" next. ari melber. what do you have coming up? >> next on the "reid report," the latest on the abducted philadelphia woman rescued wednesday. and the man who police say kidnapped her. also a preview of that meeting tomorrow between president obama and congressional leaders. and generation to generation, how the legacy lives on with his

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hi, i'm ari melber in for joy reid. and we're following lots of news today. a breakthrough in that harrowing story. an abducted woman found alive. the bail hearing underway for the suspect in that case. also, we head to the white house for a preview for the congressional meeting since the election. governor rick perry is in court facing those controversial charges for abusing his office. an update also on those 43 missing students in mexico. and first, we begin in philadelphia, and the dramatic rescue of a 22-year-old woman three days after she was attacked and kidnapped. it was all captured on some surveillance video. the suspect in court this afternoon. the latest on the victim and the details of this rescue.