the first phase of that is that she would grab her bottle of olive oil, sometimes cooking oil, whatever the shiniest oil she could get her hands on. and she would put it across my forehead. it was a way of a blessing that no harm would come our way. she would say, boy, go to school. mind your teachers. get your lesson, and when they bring that education home, she would say bring it home for your little brother and little sister who don't know what it is yet. bring it home. bring it home for that little boy down the street that you play with. god knows where he'll end up. bring it home. bring it home for your mama and daddy who get out there every single day, going to work on somebody else's job in order to keep a roof over your head and clothes on your back and food on the table. bring it home. as i share with you on the campaign trail, i didn't always

know what my grandmother was trying to communicate, but i would come to learn that what she was saying was it wasn't just about me. y'all, i'm reminded this evening that it is not about me. that it's not about my wife, not chris king, not kristin. it's about all of us. this is about the collective. this is about the belief that if we all do good, we can all do good. and we can do good by doing good, that if we all put our oars in the water and row in the same direction, we can all get further than by ourselves. i still believe that to be true this evening. even in defeat, i believe that to be true. the question is, we have a choice to make tomorrow morning. are we going to wake up and bask in sorrow and defeat, or are we going to get up and reassert ourselves to the mission at hand? are we going to get up and fight for the things we believe in? are we going to get up and say

we still deserve our seat at the table? look, i said before that i believe we have to have a table in this state that is long enough, that is wide enough, that is deep enough to fit all of us. i still believe that we have to have that table. but y'all, we're just going to have to do a little bit more work in order to build that table. we're going to have to do a little bit more in order to make our way to it. if there is not a chair for us, let's pull up our own. >> let's show our work here a little bit. here's what just happened. we got alerted that gillum was giving the speech. we're calling desantis the apparent winner in florida, though this had not happened -- we had not called the race before the speech started. and let us recap a couple of races here at the top of the hour since we just passed into

11:00 p.m. eastern time. in california -- we have a couple incumbents returning to the senate. we just mentioned desantis. we are calling him the apparent winner in florida. let's go out to california. the senate dianne feinstein is going back to the senate. maze eye you -- mazie hirono is going back to hawaii. tina smith, democrat. we have not recapped as we look at republican control of the senate. we have not record kept on a couple house races and a couple big names have fallen here in the last hour. >> let's go through what we've seen recently. let's start with virginia,

seventh district. we talked about this all night. abigail spanberger we are calling the winner over dave brat. one of the big political upsets of north carolina. four years later he is losing his seat in the virginia suburbs. the 17th district, claudia tenney. she is going to lose to anthony brindisi. delgado became a source of controversy. delgado is going to win there in new york. clinton district, we've been seeing this combination a lot tonight. he is going to be defeated. the first district of iowa. this is one of those places that surged by double digits toward donald trump in 2016. northeast iowa, rod blum,

republican incumbent, he is going to lose in iowa. you had that big upset in joe crowley's office this year. also we can tell you about new jersey's second district here. jeff van drew has declared victory according to the philadelphia inquirer here. seth grossman was disowned by the republican party and denounced by the chair for making racist and bigoted comments. the fact it's sitting at 50 and 48 and we haven't called it at this hour is somewhat noteworthy. that would be a democratic pickup there as well. also just coming across the wire, the seventh district of texas. this is harris, houston,

suburban. hillary clinton district in 2015, lizzy fletcher defeating john culberson. a man named george h.w. bush won a house seat here about 50 years ago. seat has been republican since then. no longer. lizzie fletcher takes that over. there were a couple seats that republicans were targeting. one more republicans have picked up. this is the eighth district of minnesota. this is the iron range. this is an area that really swung hard to donald trump in 2016. blue collar, traditionally democratic swung. republican, former hockey player stodsman wins it. you have two republican games in democratic territory, and then

you have 18 to a net at this hour of 23. 20 officially gifves them control. they are very close to crossing that line of 23, and then the question becomes how high are we going in terms of majority? >> i see you have a couple suspects in iowa that you don't still have grossman. >> let's see where this is coming in from. this is a trump plus 27 district here. this is the most conservative part of iowa, sort of northwest iowa right there. steve king leading by about 5,000 votes, about a third of the vote. one more we could just -- david young trailing by 8 points, a 0

20-vote gap. if david young goes down in three and if steve king, after this survives in four, after the chairman of the republican congressional campaign committee denounced him, he could be, if he survives, the only republican coming back to congress from iowa, which might taint his stature in a backwards way. >> right now the iowa race is too close to call. in terms of statewide-elected as well. >> kim reynolds is trailing by about 25 votes in that state. >> i do want to give us one additional call. i've been focusing on governors' races tonight, keeping an eye on those. we do have a call from oregon. we think oregon is a deep blue

state, but there is question about whether or not the oregon incumbent winner, kate brown. that is not kate brown. the governor will be gavin newsom. kate brown, the incumbent governor, facing a tight race. oregon has quirky politics right now and has been through some gubernatorial candidates as the antecedent antecedent. nicolle, your r ssu what we've witnessed so far. >> democrats went in hoping to

repeat themselves. republicans are numb inside. if you have a conscience, you're knocked silly, and if you like president trump, this is probably better than what you hoped for. i think they probably can't even cross the finish line, feeling distraught about this role in florida and georgia. but i think the biggest story, the story of more consequence, and we talked about this already. the demes that now control the house is unbelievable. the first time donald trump as president will be accountable to anybody. that is a huge story and a bigger deal. if you think donald trump is what's broken, winning those state houses, winning some of those governor races wasn't going to fix it. but taking control of the house

might. >> donna, you have a question. >> i think for democrats we tried to actually temper our expectations because of 2016. i think tonight is proving to be a really good night. and, you know, when i look at the potential governing majority, i see a majority that's actually going to be able to get some things done. a check on donald trump, part of that check is the president doing thingsavoids. you see with culberson losing, republicans have already lost three chairmen. not just the rank and file members, they have lost three chairmen in culberson, in sessions, in peter roscoe. that's part of heir leadership core and that's dangerous to them inside their caucus. >> steve schmidt, does anybody grow courage within the republican party because the returning congress will see a

shift of power against this president? >> absolutely not. the republican party won't be chastened, they will be emboldened. the republicans who have lost, the lesson that will be taken from this election is they were lost because they didn't engage in trumpism fully. had they engaged in the tactics that would have worked like in the state of ohio, in florida where gillum went down, to desantis. that's the lesson. that's to take away from republicans. but we shouldn't bury the lead here and the lead is this. we know something now that we didn't know this morning. and that is, come january, there is a check on donald trump. democrats hold the subpoena player. the unchecked corruption is out of ten. all trump supporters who have

disagreed that very much. our politics is broken. it's paralyzed. there will be chaos but much less able to abuse his power than he was for the last two years. that's the headline out of tonight. the other thing that comes out of tonight is this what i've called a cold civil war regionally against each other. . we see the battle lines and where they're being drawn. trump was repudiates. and thets going to have enormous implications as we get ready for the presidential invasion. we'll take on slightly steve

kornacki, i'm told. >> and this one is the surprise of the night just in terms of where the expectations were. no one was talking, coming into the night, about the third district of oklahoma. kendra horn is her date. you go all the way to, who switched to the republic democrat in more than 40 years. this is. in issues, obviously, the republican race winning that tonight. they have had trouble in some local concepts, state legislature. >> a surprise of the night so

far. the -- this is the 23rd pickup now. in termds of where are they going to outline the poll. that could be for the docking stagts. a lot of the vote counted for now. he continues to trail there. we've now culled seth grossman denounced by his own party. they trophy support his candidacy. he is glg to lose this one. notable it took until 70% of the vote was in to actually get this call made. this is a lot closer than anybody was expecting, but the democrats do get the pickup here. how about this one, the first district of pennsylvania, brian fitzpatrick hanging on barely.

this is a clint district. here's a name. i did want to go to one of these during the and before entering congress and the seizure -- surface campaign, nobody will notice. >> this is a real easy one to see, but very few votes left here. i said easy, now i have to go across the country. two candidates tell the story. this is the republican kaye. it might be closer.

in a fight against the political seven. >> tom malinowski, if he beats leonard lance, that will be the start for him. >> lance was a moderate republican outside the suburbs of new york city. stabenow reelected. another break for us. we'll have more when we come back. still more live vote returns coming in.

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. we are back, and a couple races we have not record kept on, and that is projected winner of the ohio governors' race. john kasich, of course, was not in the race. mark dewine and tim walz in

minnesota for governor. georgia too early to call, all in terms of the counting of the vote. >> a milestone here. we said democrats need to get a net gain of 23. they lost those two earlier, but a net gain of 23 just came in. it is the second district of minnesota, jason lewis. we were talking about him a minute ago. he has been unseated. we're projecting angie craig defeats jason lewis, and what that means, we have 25 democratic pickups here on the target list. we look at the seats republicans were going after. they pick up two, one in iron range, one in california. that gives the democrats the net gain of 23. that's what they needed to gain control. >> amy klobuchar was live on the air saying democrats will flip house seats in minnesota. we see that there. we also see democrat tim walz

who ran for governor taking the house, too. >> over 100 women elected to the house. >> for the first time ever. >> yep. >> hey, wow. that seems like we should have a cake or something. what we do have is lawrence o'donnell in california for us. lawrence, the polls have been closed for 22 minutes. we have seen a call in the governors' race. gavin newsom will be the new governor of california. dianne feinstein has also been handed the race. you were bullish on democratic races saying you thought the democrats would flip a lot of those seats in california. how do you feel now? >> so far what the democrats were working on, what they were trying to do they have achieved. they basically were flipping the seats they were targeted to flip and they picked up a few more

along the way that they weren't necessarily expecting. this looks like there will be a democratic flip, a flip of over 30 seats and a pickup of probably about 30 seats. there is seven very likely flips for democrats right now in california. that's without any surprises. now, if there is a surprise or two, and there could be, then we'd be even higher. but it's starting to look like, by the end of the night, by the time we've counted what's happened in california, the democrats will have flipped at least 30 seats and picked up possibly 30 thereabouts. >> this is a night that is going to stretch into the wee hours, and we sort of knew that was going to happen. lawrence, i also wanted to get your take on what we're seeing in terms of these governors' races. we've seen chris colbach lose

those races. we've seen governors win in tennessee. we've seen places like south dakota too early to call, and iowa. how do you think that changes national politics heading into the next couple years? >> i think it puts the united states senators, the 22 republican united states senators who are running for reelection two years from now are all tonight looking at their states and saying, what does this mean to me? pat roberts running for reelection in kansas, for example. what does it mean for him that kansas has just reelected a governor of the house. mitch mcconnell, 76 years old, has to look at these results tonight, look at the loss of the house of representatives, and will he look at it and see what paul ryan saw when he took over the speakership for the last two years? it seemed pretty clear to me a couple months into paul ryan's run in this term of the

speakership that he was not going to run for election because it seemed to him they would lose the house. can mitch mcconnell come january take a look at the way things are and decide he's not going to run for reelection. what will that do if there is an open seat in kentucky? mitch mcconnell knows what it means to lose the power of majority leader. i don't know if he thinks they would lose the senate that he would want to sentence himself for six years as the possible minority leader. >> do you know what to expect from nancy pelosi now that she's going to ascend back into the speakership? she's the only woman ever to hold this ranking, she's been the person -- that was a good

movie, wasn't it? she's now been sent back to the leadership and there is a lot of noise about how she's potentially in danger, a leader. it seems to me that she definitely is going to be speaker, and even if there are some votes against her, that's fine. she's perfectly comfortable with it. she's got a really thick skin. what do you think she will be like as a speaker heading back up there since she's been done. she has joined this skwugs of what happens next? she definitely wants to be the next speaker. she will be, there is no question about that, but she announced early on that she is not running for reelection, for example. the only time we saw an orderly, voluntary release of the speakership was tip o'neil.

t . he said it would be his last reelection campaign. he told the voters, this is the last time you'll reelect me to the house. also telling the house it's the last time i'll be censor. paul knew what lfs a chance to hold onto this house to be part of looking for what is next. do you think people are quickly going is to start to look at another californian, adam schiff. >> the night, as we say, is dwung. -- >> the night is even younger on the next flight. we'll be checking back in

with you. we have on the set a former chair of the republican party. here's my question for michael steele, a serious question. if you were chairman today and you had your chief lieutenants in a staff meeting next monday morning, what would you say? what would be your damage assessment and your call to arms? >> the first thing would be the damage assessment. take a look at the field of play. find out where we were the weakest and then begin to understand exactly how the democrats were successful. i had to do that in 2009. i walked in the door. barack obama is across the street, down the street, and winning with that big election. we just lost in '06 and '08. we were hemorrhaging leadership, we were hemorrhaging activists,

we were -- what i fear is that we will not learn anything from this because donald trump won't allow them to learn anything by this. by them i mean republican leaders, republican activists, the men and women who actively began the success we found in 2010. we won't end because the personality will rotate around one personality, and the idea s is. >> do not be so quick to start taking out and tax returns. because to do that, you're playing exactly into donald trump's hands. you are on page 1 of his play

book, which begins with a possible tweet in three hours. >> they're saying preexisting conditions, they're not saying grandma's republic understand what brought you to this moment. >> you know who the perfect person to talk to in this conversation would be? >> who would that be, jeff. >> that's one of the odds. adam schiff of california, when we speak about him, sometimes he peers. congressman, really, really glood to hear you take out the chairman and the. whaet your recollection to that news and that big new responsibility i've just been

given. >> well, i'm very grateful to people throughout the to make this happen to terribly retake the the. we want to make sure the, so i feeley norm usually grateful for all of those that worked so hard, and this is a big responsibility. look, it's a big vote contents by the american people, and we'll set the policy going forward, making sure that people can afford their health care, if they have preexisting conditions, they can keep their health care. that we address the needs of so many americans that, yes, are working but not earning enough to get by. we also contend that the oversight role that the republicans so completely abdicated, the president once more overtakes and does so

responsibly. the committee's investigation basically cut short. he tweeted overnight, you, as a member of the roger stone or palma fort? do you know what you're able to do from the chairman and you told me what you want me to bring back. >> we're going to look at the work that we're able to do. we're going to look at the gop struck by my committee. the majority went further, to be explicit on the president's attacks on the independence of the justice department, on the manor woman of the fbi or our intelligence community. we also need to restore the relationsh

relationship. at the time we formally take. that's in january january either by vai -- guide what we intend to do in our national committee. >> legislation was never passed to protect robert mueller's investigation, making your work and your economy's being allowed to work his work with donald trump it's some sort of endorsement of his presidency. >> i think the chances of the motor improved for a vel. which under republican

leadership sifrk, to -- all of that -- you have tearing down of these mental abuse situations. that. in the rule of law and the interest of justice, but it does mean we're better able to protect our institutions and see this investigation, i hope, complete. >> congressman, we're going to join nancy pelosi in progress. just in the closing seconds before i do, i have a question about the integrity of our election system. how thorough and complete, in your mind, is russian intervention into our government and our systems? do you look at any numbers on a night like tonight and worry if there are any shenanigans going on? do you think we have integrity in all the numbers we've

reported tonight? >> reporter: well, i certainly hope that we have integrity in the numbers you reported tonight. honestly, as we approached that day, i was more concerned about what russia was doing, or i was not working over the elections' equipment in texas over what was going on in nebraska, which even might be self-inflicted wounds in terms of our election. these still do not have a paper trail, and i think. we're going to do far better than that in the future. >> congressman adam schiff. mr. schiff, thank you. on the left-hand side of your screen we'll listen to this. this is, in effect, the management structure of the new

house of representatives on the democratic side. >> abby finkenauer for west virginia, ed hugh for california. d. k. butterfield of north carolina. barb lee of california. clay r. of texas. karen bass of california. don byer of virginia. and brendan boyle of pennsylvania. we all join in thanking all of you. many of you are vips, the volunteer in politics. the men and women have organized in historic numbers who saw what

congress was doing and refused to stand still. every call you made, every door you knocked, every text you sent, every conversation you had made the difference between winning and losing in this election. thanks to you, we owned the ground. thanks to you. thanks to you, tomorrow will be a new day in america. remember this feeling. know the power to win. and almost all congratulations to those whodynamic and diverse members of the house. let us salute all of our candidates. all of our candidates. today is more than about democrats and republicans, it's about restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the trump

administrati administration. it's about stopping the gop, medicare, medicaid and the health care act of 130 million americans living with preexisting medical conditions. let's hear it more for preexisting medical conditions. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's about ending wealthy special interest free reign over washington. but more than anything, it's about what a new democratic majority will mean in the lives of hard-working americans. that's what it's about. democrats pledge a congress that works for the people. for the people. lower the cost of health dare by lowering the cost of prescription drugs, raise workers' wages with strong economic growth by rebuilding the infrastructure of america. clean up corruption to make

washington work for all americans. we will take real, very strong legislation to mark down prescription drugs to seniors across america. we will deliver an investment in america's infrastructure to make more good-paying jobs, rebuild the schools' water systems, broadband networks and housing and beyond. we will drain the swamp of money in these elections. when we do, americans have greater confidence in everything their congress works on, from health care to guns to clean air to clean water for our children when they know that the people's interests will prevail, not the dark, special interest. in short contrast to the gop

congress, the democratic congress will be led with transparency and openness. so that the public can see what's happening and how it affects them and that they can weigh in with the members of congress and with the president of the united states. we will have accountability and we will strive for bipartisanship with fairness on all sides. we will have a responsibility to find our common ground where we can, stand our ground where we can't, but we must try. we'll have a bipartisan marketplace of ideas that makes our democracy strong. a democratic congress will work for solutions that bring us together, because we have all had enough of division. [ cheers and applause ] >> the american people want

peace, they want results. they want us to work for positive results for their lives. our founders believed in a principle that they knew must guide our nation. first in our declaration, they promised life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. but they gave us guidance, e.pluribus unum. they never knew we would be so different from each other, but they knew we had to be one. unity. unity for our country. and today the american people have spoken to honor that division. there will be a country having a deliberate debate but remembering we're one country. we'll honor the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform and their families who have made us the land of the free and the home of the brave.

to build a better future worthy of their sacrifice. and we must honor and respect the aspirations of our children. elections are about the future and what we do for our children's future. so thank you, all, for making the future better for all of america's children. god bless you! god bless america! thank you all very much. >> i suppose she could be referred to as speaker-elect of the house of representatives. nancy pelosi of california. while i'm sure she didn't mean it this way, she just said let's hear it for preexisting medical conditions. that's a heck of a quote. anyhoo, we'll rush to a break and come back with more of our election returns as we cover this momentous night of american politics still playing out from

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it's an important state. a tough state to figure out politically because it's several states in one, as so many of them are, but here is your new projected gop senator from the great state of missouri. we had an interview with claire mccaskill earlier this evening. she knew she faced a tough road. this one will hurt the democratsment they wantdemocra s democrats. they wanted it badly. claire mccaskill is giving what amounts to a concession speech. let's listen. >> you don't even know how nasty they were. it was terrible what they tried to do to him. and then look at this, huh? these are my siblings and my children and my stepchildren, and a small part of my grandchildren. many of them are too young to be up this late. so how can i look to the future and be anything but blessed?

right? [ applause [ applause ] >> but i want to say my big ges thanks to the people of missouri. >> we love you, claire! we love you! everything you've done! >> the people of missouri allowed me, beginning when i was 28 years old, to serve the public, to serve them, to be a public servant. and for decades, i have been blessed to get up every day and work in a challenging and interesting job, trying to make things better in people's lives. it has been such an honor. and this state drives me crazy, but i love every corner of it. i really do. i mean, i even love the reddest

of the red counties. there were a lot of them tonight. because the people of this state are down to earth and they're kind, and they are -- well, they're like family to me. and so i feel like we've run ru elections together, missouri and me. my record ends at 22-2. not a bad record. >> senator mccaskill, you hear her record, 22-2. john hawley is your new senator-elect of the great state of missouri. i'm told mr. kornacki is ready to catch us up on some races we have not paid close attention to all evening. >> we got a squeaker in wisconsin. a 12, 000 vote lead for evers.

a big batch of votes came in from dane, wisconsin, think university of wisconsin. this thing was separated by a couple hundred votes as of a few minutes ago with that big batch from dane that just came in. about a 12,500 statewide lead for tony evers over scott walker. where is the vote left? probably the biggest, single place, about brown county. this is green bay and surroundings. scott walker doing very well here. you expect him to make up some of this here. also in baron county, a place where donald trump got about 60% of the vote in 2016, you can expect walker to make up some there. these are smaller counties down here. evers might do well here. one thing i've been looking for in wisconsin, this state was home to proportionally -- they call them pivot counties.

20 of them in wisconsin. a lot of them right down in this corner of the state. you can see evers winning back -- i think he's winning back a half dozen pivot counties. that's the development in wisconsin. in montana, jon tester trying to hold off matt rosendale. you see tester leading statewide. here's what i can show you quickly. tester had a close re-election in 2012. in a lot of key counties, if you just start looking at them, flathead county, republican county. in 2012 when tester won re-election, he only got 37% here in this core republican county. he's doing eight points better. he won statewide getting 37% of the vote here. how about lewis and clark, helena, a democratic county. tester got 54% of the vote when he was narrowly re-elected in 2012. he's running seven or eight

points better than when he won re-election. it's too early to call but you see tester out in front in montana. >> steve, can i -- there are five democratic senators who are up for re-election tonight who are not just from states that trump held but from states that trump held by double digits in 2016. mccaskill, heitkamp, donnelly, manchin and tester. manchin has definitely held onto his seat and tester, as you said, too early to call. looks like he's well situated compared to his previous election campaigns. >> you would rather be testing than rosendale right now. >> one other thing you mentioned, that squeaker of a governor's race in wisconsin. can we possibly go to iowa and look at the governor's race in iowa. i've been watching these numbers come in and that's wicked close. >> kim reynolds has just taken the lead. i have to catch up where the vote is left to come in. obviously story county probably the biggest single gap we have

on the board. what is the margin statewide? it's a 20,000-vote lead for reynolds. about 10% to come here. i have to look closer to find out if there's one party with an advantage. a 20,000-vote edge for kim reynolds. >> one other governor's race, it is the excruciatingly, slow-moving georgia governor's race. >> yes, yes. it is a slow-moving race. brian kemp -- i think the question right now, and you can see most of the vote in. the question right now with kemp leading by three points, is he going to finish over 50% and avoid that runoff? the guidance from our decision desk is they think he's more likely than not to do that, but they're not calling it just yet. i do want to point out one other aspect of this georgia governor's race to keep an eye on. take a look at gwinnett county, stacey abrams winning by 12 points. look at the modern voting history. hillary clinton, fifty democrat to ever win this thing in 2016.

romney got it by ten points in 2012. mccain got it by 11 points. it was a bigger republican margin before that. you see the trajectory here. abrams now, this is one of the best democratic performances ever in this county. you know, in a governor's race in modern times. what that has done, that performance, i think, take a look at this in the house, the seventh district of georgia, this is a republican incumbent. carolyn bordeaux, it's because of gwinnett county. it rounds up to a little more. bordeaux, you can say potentially here powered by that stacey abrams campaign in part, getting a huge vote out of gwyneth county. it looks like on the verge of taking out rob woodall, incumbent. >> here's a squeaker. 800 votes, 100% is in.

handel leading by 800. i'll look at the three component counties. this is dekalb, the democratic base here. you're looking at about what osoff got out of there. this is about what she got. this looks very close to a repeat of that special elections last year with handel night quite as strong in -- make sure it hasn't changed. an 805-vote margin. karen handel looks like barely -- again, the democratic strength around atlanta. kemp is leading in the governor's race. but the democratic energy in the atlanta area brought this thing four points closer, basically, than the special election we saw last year. i think has rob woodall on the verge of defeat in the seventh district. >> in that mcbath/handel race,

handel lots of name recognition because of the special election. an amazing story. >> steve king just won. >> steve king in iowa, absolutely. there are two seats that have flipped in iowa, are there not? >> the first district, rod blum has been defeated. we've been keeping an eye, the third district, david young continues to trail 15,000 votes behind republican incumbent. if this holds, steve king goes back to washington as the only republican who made it through 2016 in iowa. >> nutmeg state, land of steady habits, recovering from a democratic governor, one of the most unpopular in the country. ned lamont trying to replace dan malloy. malloy had some of the lowest or the lowest approval ratings of any governor in the country.

a 25,000-vote gap. if you're a democratic you're saying hartford, there's no vote in from hartford. hartford, a city of about 115,000, no vote in from there yet. no vote as well in from bridgeport, the two biggest cities. that could give lamont a boost. it's balanced. they're not big bursts, but you have these outlying republican areas, too, that are going to come in, too. stefanowski leading by 12,000. lamont challenged lieberman in the democratic primary. lost to lieberman who ran as an independent. 35,000 votes behind, about two-thirds -- a little more than two-thirds of the vote in in connecticut. >> if that lead holds for stefanowski in connecticut, we could be talking about republican governors in connecticut, massachusetts and

rhode island. all of our stereotypes has gotten ugly. >> massachusetts is the state they lost general electric to. >> massachusetts has charlie baker. i'm convinced as a massachusetts resident, he's as popular as sunshine. i'm convinced the reason is because he doesn't seem at all like trump and people are so excited to have a republican in mind who has nothing to do with trump. >> there's a drama in every state. >> yep. >> nicolle wallace, what do you have your eyes on? >> i think these governor races are in some ways -- they're more exciting and we're keeping an eye on them, but i keep coming back to the big political earthquake in washington, d.c., that tomorrow morning democrats will be figuring out how to run these committees. you know, we have had a trump presidency, which has been, you know, norm-busting and has debased the dialogue. most people with kids don't let them turn on the tv when there's political talk on. all of that is unchanged. what changes is there is now,

democrats will control all the committees that can investigate the other half of sort of the scandal that is the trump presidency. that's the rampant corruption. the rampant corruption at the agencies. the stories you make time for but a lot of us don't. at every agency there's been an ethical scandal. it gets scant media coverage and has no oversight in congress. that all changes tomorrow. >> the other thing is the control the house has over all fiscal matters. everything has to originate in the house. the president cannot have a new tax bill without nancy pelosi's approval, which is unlikely. can't change the entitlement questions about social security, medicare, medicaid. can't do any of the stuff mitch mcconnell was talking about a few weeks ago. now is under control of nancy pelosi. it's powerful stuff. >> which leads me to believe donald trump will be cutting some deals. he's at his heart and his core transactional. we've seen he doesn't have a problem making those initial entrees to nancy and chuck. now that nancy has t