this time he's got backup. it's thursday, november 6th and this is "now". >> when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself, what looked to be a temporary truce lasted 24 hours. >> mitch mcconnell talked about repealing obamacare. we'll pass it. does the republican caucus, and we've got a bunch of people in congress that don't see any reason to do it, but my way or the highway. >> this is not a game. >> will they want cocompromise with the president? >> it's not like the president hasn't tried to compromise. will the president protect the base and his agenda? >> i'm still not sure exactly where the areas are of compromise, immigration and sounds like it's not one of them. >> if he acts unilaterally, he will poison the well. let's let the house of representatives decide if they want to move forward. >> the president doesn't have

the power to make law. >> when you play with matches you take the risk of burning himself. if he donees to this path. john boehner revived by a new republican dominance and he wasted no time coming at the president with a fiery warning on potential executive action. >> when you play with matches you take the risk of burning yourself. he will burn himself if he continues to be on this path. >> matches, supported by a broad majority and a bipartisan majority of congress. boehner's press conference had a joint op-ed in today's "wall street journal" declaring an opportunity to begin anew by renewing our commitment to

repeal obamacare authorizing the construction of the keystone pipeline and, quote, more good ideas aimed at helping the american middle class. as with the current majority leader it did not take long for harry reid's office to fire back saying that one day after the election, senator mcconnell is letting senator cruz set the agenda. conspicuously absent, the world compromise, the compromise kumbaya could be over before it really began. as democrats shake off an electoral beating the president has his own priorities and the white house showed no sign of backing off those red-hot matches. should he take executive action that he thinks would be good for the country that the economists believe would be good for our economy that those along the

border think would be good for border security. will the president take that action and the answer is yes. >> he will take the highest-ranking members as well as leadership teams for lunch at the white house tomorrow. no word yet if there will be any candle on the table. joining me now is white house director of communications jennifer palmieri. jen, good to see you. thanks for taking the time, busy week at the white house there. >>. >> happy to be with you. >> given all the talk it seems like the olive branches of yesterday turned into sharpened swords today. what's your expectation for the tone of this meeting between the president and republican leaders tomorrow? >> the tone of the meeting will be productive. the first thing that we have to do is there is a lot that the president has to achieve and the initiative we put before congress and the president wants to hear from them and the republican leaders about what

they may want to work on with us, but we're also recognizing that this is all very new. you know, the election was just two days ago. so i think that we should give everybody a little space and time to figure out what those areas are that they want to work together on. there is, i think there's a lot of areas that clearly could be bipartisan support for. i think it's a question of whether or not you want to cooperate on moving, for example, an infrastructure bill and some tax reform. >> there just hasn't been this incentive on the republican side to do that. they're partners in governing now and the republican congress and the democratic president and we'll see tomorrow will be the first time we'll have the chance to talk about that. >> >> speaker boehner issued a stern warning suggesting the president would get burned if he

would move forward with executive action and we heard from cecilia munoz that he will do immigration reform or it will happen by the end of the year. the congressional hispanic caucus were told the president would act by the holiday season? are those timeframes still feasible and still on the table? >> they are. the president has been clear about this and it's something we've made clear to the hill to both democratic and republican leaders along the way that the president would act on immigration by the end of the year. our preference would be that congress would pick up the senate immigration bill that passed and a lot of bipartisan support and get that now and the chances aren't very high and the president has been holding on this for the policy and it will help a lot of people and it's just not credible for us to sit back and not do something when we can impact the lives of people who are living with ungodly uncertainty in their own

lives. so he'll act to help these people and, you know, congress has free will. if they want to pass legislation, that's great and the president would be thrilled to find it and if they want to pass something else, they're tree to do that, but presuming they're not going to get this done by the end of the year he's going to act. >> before we let you go, in terms of the results on tuesday night, as the president was watching what happened happened, was he surprised by how badly the democrats did. >> i'm not going to characterize the president's personal reaction. >> was the white house surprised? >> yes, we were. and it was for a bad night and it was worse than we expected and a lot of democrats that served the country well, and kay

hagan and mark pryor and mark udall and it's a big disappointment and loss and a lot of great gubernatorial candidates like mary burke in wisconsin did win, and it was a very tough night for us and the president said he got the message from the voters who didn't go our way and concerned for the people that felt they didn't have enough stake in the elections to turn out. so i hear of these concerns like we were buckling down and getting to work to work with the republican congress and do everything he can within his own power to make some progress. >> white house director of communications, jennifer palmieri. thanks for your time. >> thanks, alex. joining me now is political correspondent at the huffington post, sam stein. how do you grade the white house response in the wake of what has

been called a thumping, shellacking? >> you're right. in the absence of any new word. i think, look, i am more optimistic than most people about the prospects for compromise and it's the word jennifer palmieri used, incentive. i think the incentives are changing for the better. until this point in the presidency, the republican position was anything that passes that's good, obama gets all of the credit and we don't get any. that's really changed now. they control the legislative branch of the government and also the economy's better. they don't want to be in a position where they say, hey it's obama's watch because that would involve getting credit for things going well and it's also the case that the dynamics change around the tea party and who they're running against, you know, in 2014, republicans went into the cycle still worried about still being challenged from the right. i think they're going to 2016

worried about whether the fight will be in the center and that means that they have more of an incentive to accommodate as opposed to just obstruct everything. >> sam, there's so much loaded conversation around when we talk about compromise. the first issue and the biggest issue before the end of the year is clearly immigration reform. john mccain issued a plea that only john mccain can earlier today and i have played that sound on andrea mitchell reports. >> i literally am pleading to the president of the united states not to act. give it a chance. we have a new congress and a new mandate. it would be a devastating blow if he acts unilaterally. >> you just heard from jen palmieri who said he will act by the end of the year. they should be pleading with themselves because john boehner can take a vote on this in the house today. and almost two years at this point to act on the bill and

nothing ever happened, and you haven't earned necessarily our trust that you will go and do something the next year if we delayed it again and that we are legitimately concerned about the human cost to this and deportations continue and they feel the research is better spent on the border and they've made a promise and they've kept reneging on the promise to the hispanic community and at some point they have to fulfill what they promised to fulfill and i'll make the case in a weird, roundabout way that it's in mcconnell's interest that the president does act unilaterally because he does have a lot of people up in 2016 in blue states with the hispanic populations who might welcome this because it would take the issue off the table and it wouldn't necessarily paint the republican party as obstructing on the matter. >> it would take it off the table which i think makes it easier, but given how much -- how fraught this decision seems

to be. would it not just bring out the conservatives and would they not call for impeachment on something like this. >> who knows what they would call for? mcconnell has a very diverse caucus. he has three people, potentially who will be running for president who who will be going very hard right on immigration. so if the president acts on this unilaterally, he basically gives it to each member to do as they want to. he doesn't have to necessarily take a position. his own caucus can take 54 different positions and so, in some respects it's in mcconnell's own interest to go unilateral on this. >> it lets the republicans focus on the process issue instead of the substantive issue and you did it without us and they never have to cap the vote and they can leave ambiguous what vote they have to cap. it's a little bit don't throw me in the briar patch. >> let me ask you, jake, before

we go. >> a new slate argues that this was a victory for the last because republicans ran on progressive issues and they're courting minorities and they're talking about income inequality. they may not be doing anything, but they're talking about it. if you accept that premise, can you expect that they will govern on those issues even on issues like reproductive choice and i believe in a woman's right to choose. will it be the first to shut down the personhood amendment. >> there are all points of view, but i think what happened in 2012. they lost senate seats they could have won because they nominated wackos and this time there was a party establishment and money that came in to protect the sort of old stalwarts because they would be better candidates in swing elections and that worked. and those people were either more moderate themselves or they tried to sound more moderate than they were. they have maybe still a ways to go before being more moderate,

but the movement is in a positive direction. >> that is the yirnd statement of the year, my friend. >> the movement is not toward the tea party. it's away from the tea party and however much movement there is it's a positive thing. >> someone needs to send that memo to ted cruz. after the break, we will look at why the majority of americans chose not to cast ballots in this election and why it may be an even bigger problem for democrats in years to come. plus governor rick perry meets the bench facing two felony charges. later, the guy who said global warming would be, quote, beneficial to human kind is about to be the most powerful senator on environmental policy. all of that is ahead on "now." huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know genies can be really literal? no. what is your wish?

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to everyone who voted, i want you to know that i hear you. to the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you, too. >> president obama's comments on turnout may have been primarily a warning to republicans not to interpret tuesday's results as a broad mandate, but it was also a frustrated acknowledgement of his own party's tendency to show up at the polls only every four years. as expected, key democratic constituencies, young voters, african-americans, single women and latinos turned out with less force than in the presidential year. at 12% of total voters, the block share of the electorate was down 1% since 2012 and the while the share of young voters were down 6%. >> all of this resulted in a considerably smaller midterm election which was older and wider than the general population. the revenge of the white male voter and a whopping 64% of

white males voted republican, the widest margin since reagan's reelection in 1984. if the constituencies voted less in firm terms of overall numbers they voted less. the black vote increased to 10%. republicans grabbed 36% of the latino vote up from 27% two years ago and the gop actually achieved a majority of the asian vote, obama carried handily in 2012. they're biting their nails as jonathan chase wrote, liberals may still own the future of the american pol iks it, but the future is taking a very long time to arrive. from minneapolis, contributor to the daily beast, ana marie cox. >> let's talk about what you're

pressing on postmortem on. he writes, the obama movement is withdrawing from politics even before the new president had taken office. ouch! >> it's hard. the obama movement was always one that was built a lot around the president himself. there are people who turned out to reelect him in 2012 who came out for him and they'ren't going to come out for any senate candidate especially when they were distancing himself from him. we saw what happened when he tried to turn his 2012 campaign into a new issue advocacy group, and it didn't yield a lot of victories and it was hard for him to get these people back in the saddle to help him with his agenda in congress, let alone senators in congress. >> matt has a sort of aerial

view of politics in so far as it informs our political preferences. it's a little bit long, but the disappearance of the new democratic map, he writes is the obama surge never belonged to democrats in the first place. it belonged to obama and his celebrity and his ironic deta detachment and his story, and it's about the visceral connection and symbolism that the candidate brings to the moment and not the platform committee or slogans or one can say, perhaps, policy. do you agree with that? >> well, one can never discount the power of personality and the power of charisma and obama has that and had an incredible story to share and there was a sense of history and there was history, not just the sense of it, but i think you can't just brush off the idea that policy is a big part of this because some people, i don't feel like we're talking about this enough, democrat candidates lost in the election, but democrat policies

actually did pretty well, focusing primarily, of course, on the minimum wage. that white, older electorate that voted for all of those white republicans mostly, they also voted in favor of minimum wage. sometimes they're very large margins. that's not a personality issue and that's a policy issue and it seems like people are agreeing on. so i don't think you can count policy out, either. what i'm hoping for is democrats, i do think democrats shouldn't go away from the president as they did, and that was the problem and pay attention to the policies and being close to these policies and go ahead and advocating them fully will make a difference for voter turnout, as well. >> jake, part of the issue when you talk about the call to personality and the fact that the president can carry a big portion of the wave of the electorate and it matters that someone carried the wave in the midterms and not a lot will get done when you have what you have between the executive and the legislative branches and if you look at it, if democrats cannot

get their people out to the polls it is a real problem for democratic progressive policy. >> and it's diverging more. >> the electorate that we see in midterm elections versus the electorate we see in presidential cycle elections is almost like two different countries and in fact, the presidential electorate looks more like the country looks demographically and how it will look in the future and the midterm electorate will look more like the country in the past and fewer minorities turning out and in that divergence continue, you start to get what's been happening in this election and in the last few ones is the natural separation whether the democrats control the legislative branch and if the democrats most of the time control the executive. i think that's where things are going to head and i think republicans have much more of a lock on the legislative branch going forward than democrats do on the executive branch. >> now that they own statehouses

and governor seats. >> when we talk about democrats and the lock on the future, there is a tacit sort of acceptance or thinking that minorities will always vote for the party and it's worth that the latin vote and latin on voters and asian voters and they voted more republican in the last races than they did in 2012. the fact that those two constituencies both have a reason to be at the table in the republican party expectations on perhaps economic issues if you look at the analysis. democrats should not take them for granted. >> that's right. >> texas, right? in colorado and other races, you saw that democrats tried often to rely on social issues on abortion and immigration. it did not get them as many votes as it did in a presidential year. it didn't work. >> ana marie, the other piece of

this is women and this is the best place to read long-form journalism. but i think this is very interesting. we talk a lot about reproductive rights and there was legislation on ballots and there wasn't as much discussion at the top of the ticket and amanda writes there are two ways to interpret the news and this is in the piece the revenge of the white male voter that the woman is no longer for democrats and that the war on women isn't just a democratic campaign slogan, but a brutal fact of the modern political landscape. it is baked in the cake. which do you think it is? >> i'm going to go with c. all of the above. >> it's a safe choice. >> i think there are truth to both of those things. >> i think it's too strong a wording and it's easy for republicans to say there is a war on women and they're not working as far as the rhetoric goes, but yes, women are being targeted and our reproductive rights and economic rights are being targeted and i think it's

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work or play outside during the hottest times of the year are, but after the release of this doomsday scenario, the fight in the u.s. against climate change got even weaker. when voters elected republicans, they effectively put oklahoma senator and long time climate change defire james inhofe in charge of the climate change policy. that man is likely to become the next chairman of the senate committee on environment and public works. a man who quite literally wrote the book on climate change denier. the greatest hoax, how the global warming conspiracy threatens your future. for years he's touted discredited science as fact, and has suggested that global warming could be good for humans and has said that man can't do anything to stop climate change because, quote, god's still up there. that guy is likely going to be responsible for climate change legislation and e. a. if time was not on our side on

sunday, it certainly is not now. back with me are jacob weisberg and sam stein and joining us is founding editor of chief science adviser for the emmy-winning tv series, years of living dangerously, joe roam. let's talk about james inhofe and what his chairmanship portends. he was chairman of this same commity from 2003 to 2007 and it feels like the change has shifted and how much damage can one man do? >> you control the senate environment committee. you have all these hearings. you can drag out the usual people who spread disinformation on climate change. so it's a bully pulpit. obviously they'll roll back epa efforts to control carbon pollution. not much is coming out of the senate beforehand so i don't think that a lot of terrible things will come out of it now,

but, we're at a time and the report you referred to says we're going to act now if we'll avoid pretty consequential impact. so every year or two we lose is now, you know, really serious. >> sam, in terms of what may happen, this week the keystone pipeline has been mentioned by both sides of the aisle. josh earnest said it would consider a keystone bill as a writer, what is the likelihood that this becomes one of the first areas of compromise in this new balance of power? >> i would actually say fairly likely because there have been lines that the president has said he won't cross already after the election. we asked him about the individual mandate yesterday and he said i'm not going cross that line. he hasn't used that type of definitive language with keystone. the one thing i will add to what you were just discussing we tend to live in the moment we live

in. these are cumulative. the fact that the republicans likely have 54 seats in the senate means it's that much harder for the democrats to take over in 2016. there may be a new president who is not a democrat in 2016, in which case he would have the alignment of a republican president and james inhofe as the chairmanship of this committee which would be more toxic than barack obama as president. these things are cumulative and you have to actually look two to four years down the road to see what the impact will be. >> quite literally toxic. we were talking before the segment began and it's hard to denow how much it has been in the republican party because the oil and gas industry is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars since 1990. $406 million has been donated by oil and gas. 7 % of that has been to republicans and the question is beyond denying science, at what point do they say for the

benefit of mankind we are going to break the shackles that bind us to a filthy industry? >> when that runs into gop primary politics, chris christie is another example and chris christie was pretty good on climate change and as soon as he became a prospect for president he backed away from it because those are considered. to be rational on the issue of climate change is an untenable position in a republican primary. i think obama was looking for cover from the democrats and from liberals on the keystone pipeline. i think this is an area that he has made compromise. >> do you think he can get some cover in terms it of the epa where they have suggested they are setting their sights on and which some think are far reaching and important in terms of the environment than, say, the keystone pipeline? >> there's no question that the

ep ash epa are very important and that obama doesn't have a friendly congress at all and decisions that are his to make alone like the keystone pipeline which opens the spigot to the most polluting pool of toxic carbon in the northern hemisphere. it becomes that much more important, i think, that he make the right decision and not allow it. >> sam, i was surprised they're pumping $65 million to the mid-term races and he did not get the results i think he wanted. do you think that discourages other environmentalists from taking an active role in 2016? >> i don't think it discourages environmentals because this is a field they have to play on. this is what it comes down to. they can't just ignore politics and elections. i think they should and probably are discouraged by the way the political conversation has moved and just to piggyback on what

jacob was saying. we did a survey on every single republican candidate to see if any of them said on the website to see if they said they believed human activity caused global warming and that was only one out of 70-something. so we moved a long way from the 2006-2007 era when it was fashionable or acceptable for republicans to say that they, too, needed to say something had to change. >> joe rome and sam stein. thank you for being with me. if you think the confederacy is not celebrated enough, then you are going to love a proposed ballot measure in mississippi. that's just ahead. [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] [ inhales ] [ male announcer ] at cvs health, we took a deep breath... [ inhales, exhales ] [ male announcer ] and made the decision to quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. now we invite smokers to quit, too,

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tuesday's election wasn't just a drubbing for the democratic party on capitol hill. it may have created what politico dubs a lost generation. after the republican wave of 2010 and 2014, the party has depleted not just in its major league talent and the aaa recruitment prospects. not least among them, women in red states. there's wendy davis, the texas state senator who lost the governor's race to greg abbott

by over 20 points on tuesday. there's alison lundergan grimes who seemed to have a real shot at unseating mitch mcconnell, but on election day she trailed mcconnell by 15%. even michelle nunn, the daughter of popular senator sam nunn did not turn georgia blue by a margin of eight points and then there were the actual blue states. anthony brown would have been the country's only black state executive. maine michaud would have been the first openly gay governor. nick, does the aaa bull pen or -- my baseball metaphors are all commingled at this point, but does the bull pen matter that in 2004 a state senator

named barack obama was virtually unknown and is now the president of the united states? >> it probably matters less. we have a post-modern politics where you can have twitter followers and become a national presence even without the usual steps and it's a huge problem for the democrats and it's not just that the farm team is being depleted. it's the farm team in the statehouses. you have 4,000 state lawmakers and 59 out of 100 state-house chambers are republicans and you will have purple states or reddish states that only have -- >> republican. >> exactly, in places like college towns and cities, right? you're not going have people who have learned how to run and win statewide or in more purple and state areas. >> it matters less and it doesn't matter. it's about tending to the vineyards, right? it's not about not having presidential candidates.

it's hillary sucking up the oxygen. the problem is as nick was saying, you don't have the cultivation that results in you being able to have an effective political operation at the state level in a lot of states. i am also surprised, ana maria, in terms of the issue you were talking about before. women's issues and reproductive right, the republicans have prominent female figures and we are talking about nicky hailey, and the governor of new mexico and mia love is the first black republican woman to serve in congress and she is a republican. on the democratic side this election cycle a lot of hopes are being pinned on gwen graham, but there were high-profile losses for the female candidates on the left side of the aisle. that's true. i want to piggyback on what nick was saying about statehouses and i think this is where that's a problem and it relates as far as turnout goes and the idea that

the mid-term elections bring out this very, very red populist and they vote in very red state legislatures and it's hard to do the farm team where you have people who are used to running elections. on the plus side this might mean you get people who come in from business which is something that people say that they want all of the time although they tend to not actually elect those people and the other thing, i guess i just want to point out is that, yes, mia love won, and i think that's sort of great, but the republican caucus is actually proportionately even more male and white than it used to be because they elected so many more men than they did women. let's keep that in mind. >> an important caveat. >> i want to go back to what you were saying about the clintons because we're talking about the farm team and they're dominated by the clintons and you suggested that if they weren't there someone else would fill the gap. i wonder can anyone muscle the

clintons aside? do they have this orbit because there's no one else or because they're the clintons? >> i think it ends in the next election. i think it's actually the genuine consensus and it has to do with what hillary has accomplished in government as governor and senator and secretary of state. i think she's unchallengeable not because of a machine, per se and people legitimately think she'll be the strongest candidate. >> one of the things that one of the things that the president talked about was the fact that this coalition and we talked a lot about the obama coalition, but in terms of activists and eefsht all leaders, i think he thinks of that group of people as one of the most important pieces of his legacy. >> right. the question is does that remain

intact? we know that there weren't immediate victories to point to in this midterm, but do the obamas create in their wake a generation of activists turned politicians? i think there are definitely people in the warrior class, the operatives and the experts and there are people who lost office. it will be a few more years until we see them run for senate, for governor and those higher offerses. >> i wonder, ana marie, in terms of progressive activism. how the narrative gets further cemented every year about institutional failure, about an electorate that votes and how dismantling that is for any time in american history for at least the last half century. >> right. i want to pivot on something you said which is that, yes, people are sour on politics, but we do

have young young, progressive people working on advocacy issues and you might see some bleed off of that and young people are more engaged on specific issues like global warming and civil rights. so perhaps that's a farm team we haven't considered when we look at the bench. and i'm sorry to mix my metaphors. >> it's all about mixing them, of course. is it from the advocacy class? >> i know ana marie is right and that's where the energy is in liberal politics. it's less than electoral politics and the issues around climate change and gender equality and gay rights and much as the energy is with governors as opposed to the government. one thing i do want to point out, i do think there are one or two state, and it's not just the

democrat who won and she's a democrat who has challenged her own party on some of the areas that is reactionary. if you want to maintain these pensions and you want to make up with the unions, we can't do anything else. forget any activist government and that's the message that i think democratses need to hear. >> thank you guys all for hanging with me this hour. >> thank you. >> coming up, confederate heritage month. that might just, could just be an actual thing. i'll explain coming up next. i tell them aveeno®. because beautiful skin goes with everything. [ female announcer ] aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion has active naturals® oat with five vital nutrients naturally found in healthy skin. where do i wear aveeno®? everywhere. aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion.. and try the bo washoo.

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