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from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour, the final votes. they are being counted this weekend as control of congress

is up for grabs days after the midterm elections. right now, the senate sense at 49 to 49 with two key races undecided. late last night here, arizona nbc news officially projected democratic senator, mark kelly, won reelection over republican, blake masters. moments ago, kelly spoke at a victory rally, saying, it is time to all come together. >> the way these southeast problems is not by pointing fingers. it is not by dividing people. it is by listening and finding common ground. and as we see the results here in arizona and across the country this week, no one party has a monopoly on good ideas or the support of voters. but i have seen that when we seek to represent everyone, not just the people who voted for us, we are capable of extraordinary things. >> two races will now determine

who controls the senate. first, we have nevada, where a call could commit soon as this afternoon. democratic senator, catherine cortez masto, trails republican challenger, adam laxalt, by about 800,000 votes. georgia's senate race is headed to a december 6th runoff between democratic incumbent, raphael warnock, and republican, herschel walker. at this point, in order to take control of the senate, republicans would need to win both georgia and nevada. democrats only need to win one of those seats to maintain control, but vice president kamala harris is the tie breaking vote. as she has been the last two years. meanwhile, control of the house is also undecided today with 22 races uncalled. democrats need to win 15 of them to take control. republican state just seven. nbc news currently projects republicans taking a majority 220 seats. you see there to the democrats 215. that is within the margin of error. last hour, democratic congressman, natalie dean, gave me her reaction as we wait for a winner.

>> it is important that every vote count. we know in georgia, we are headed to a runoff. so, i'm patient, believing that every vote should count and believing that what it really reveals is there was no red wave. democrats did extraordinarily well. >> meanwhile, as some republicans point fingers that former president trump over the parties underwhelming performance, it's apparently not keeping him from announcing another white house run. >> going to announce on to say that he's running for president and it's going to be very professional, very buttoned up announcement. -- on the golf course and talked about tuesday's focus he said, look, there doesn't need to be any question. of course i'm running, i'm going to do this. and i want to make sure the people know that i'm fired up and we have to get the country back on track. >> reporting for us now, nbc's stephanie gostin north las vegas. vaughn hillyard is in phoenix and antonio hilton's standing by in atlanta for us.

welcome all, let's go for so you, von with that mark kelly victory rally happened last hour. we could not even hear you, the music was allowed. so, certainly there celebrating going on. but let's also talk about the tenor of things as we await the results in the arizona governor's race. >> right, look, republicans nash nationally thought the issues were on their side from inflation to the border situation, to the fact that president biden had slumping poll numbers heading into this november election. and yet, what you've seen around the country, including here in arizona, what's voters rejecting these republican candidates from these you at senate seats. here in arizona, this race being called in favor mark kelly last night and i asked him specific question just a few moments ago, was this a symptom of voters rejecting trumpism or here in the state of arizona, in which voters, for the third election cycle in a row, selected a democrat to serve them up on capitol hill. which one was it more? and his answer was pretty

straightforward. that it was a matter of voters in the state wanting individuals to get along and try to find out solutions. and he hit sort of that sentiment when talking about the former republican senator here, late senator john mccain, who used to serve in the seat that he will now serve a full term in. take a listen. >> for the past two years, as we face these challenges, there has not been a day, not a day has gone by where i have not remembered that i am sitting in the senate seat of senator john mccain. senator mccain embodies everything it was to be a leader. and at a time when our state and our country remain divided, his legacy, his legacy of building bridges and focusing on arizona is an example of what we all should do and what we should look to. >> on the campaign trail, alex,

that message resonated and it's what he contends the type of role that he intends to play up on capitol hill. again, in 2020, he won initially and what was that special senate election to fill the remaining two years of john mccain's term. and now the, he will be serving a full six years and democrats, they're looking for just one more senate seat to hold on to the senate majority, alex. >> -- senator john mccain certainly a favor of arizona. let me ask, you vaughn, when we will have the results for the governor's race. >> we are going to be expecting in about the nine, ten, 11 pm eastern hour tonight. another batch of several tens of thousands of ballots out of maricopa county here. those ballots, again, could provide us an idea of where this election is heading. that has been the case the last several nights, but it has not been defining enough for us to call that race here. katie hobbs expanded her lead last night in order to change the course and the trend line here. kari lake meets with this batch of ballots drop tonight, needs to cut into katie hobbs's lead right now or else is going to

be a very difficult for her over these next coming days. alex? >> talk about a nail-biter, von. thank you for being on watch. let's go now to nbc stephanie gosk, standing by in north las vegas force. stephanie, welcome again. what are you seeing there as we await an update soon from the elections officials? >> yeah, we are going to get another press conference, which is what they've been doing basically every afternoon. these press conferences have not been especially illuminating, alex. but they do give us some sense of the numbers and what we're looking to hear today from joe gloria is whether or not they really are going to finish here in clark county, the largest county in the state, with more than 70% of the population. whether they are going to finish the majority of those mail-in ballots today. now, he told me in the press conference yesterday that as soon as they wrapped up, they are going to get those results in. so, while we've been getting these vote dumps every evening from clark county, he did suggest that if they finish earlier, we can get those results earlier. and right now, this race is as

close as it possibly could be with the difference between adam laxalt, who has a slight lead, less than 1000 votes to cortez masto. now, in the last hour, adam laxalt has actually posted on social media. he acknowledged that the math, really, and what he said, looking at these votes tonight, he said, if they are gop precincts, or slightly damp leading, then we can still win. if they continue to trend heavy damn, then she will overtake us. what is interesting about this is, one, he's acknowledged the math is not in his favor. but also, you may remember that adam laxalt headed up trump's challenge to the presidential election results two years ago. what you don't have here is a criticism of the process in nevada. at least not yet, alex. >> i was going to say, he's not taking an apparent page out of the trump playbook. again, that he headed up. so, that it's good. let's just say that for this point. stephanie gosk, thank you. let's go from there now to

atlanta and nbc's antonia hylton standing by. so antonio, let's talk about warnock and walker, and how they're gearing up for their big runoff in three weeks and two days. but who's counting? >> who's counting? i think most of the country, alex, right now. but the good news is this runoff is shorter than the last one. it's under four weeks, as you just mentioned. and no newly registered voters are going to be able to take part, which means both candidates are really going back and have to fire up the base of people who just cast a vote for them and make sure they cast that vote one more time. and hopefully bring some extra people along with them. both campaigns have already kind of hit the road, so first we saw raphael warnock, the democratic senator, host an event in atlanta where he spelled out a new message, one of unity, one of trying to reach people in the middle. he kind of described this as a race that's going to be about competence and character. and then we saw republican, herschel walker, have a rally in canton, georgia, where he

had a lot of supporters there with him and was seen side by side with senator, ted cruz. an interesting choice because that is a colleague that often senator or talk mentions as someone who he has like working with across the aisle on various projects that, you know, he's got voters with the sort of proof of his work and why he decides to be back in the senate. take a listen to both of their messages as they start back up this campaign. >> y'all can tell i am not a politician. i don't look like one, don't talk like one, don't act like one. i'm that warrior forgot that he's been looking for. >> you can call me old fashioned, but i still think that character matters. my mom and my dad instilled that in me. character matters. integrity matters. telling the truth matters. competence matters. and georgia, you deserve a senator who will tell you the truth and who will actually do

the work. >> the warnock camp tells me that they feel like the wind is out there back. they are feeling very confident in this environment coming out of tuesday, when we really didn't see a red wave materialize with the news that former president trump may be announcing that they are going to have a very successful and easy time trying to talk to people who are those middle of the road split ticket voters who may have liked, for example, republican governor kemp, but don't feel comfortable voting for trump backed herschel walker. so, they now think that combined with the base that they already have, the democrats here in georgia, but also some of those middle of the road voters, that they have sort of a good environment ahead of them. but this is still going to be a really tight race and it's just going to, be winner takes all, really. so, who gets the most votes? that will determine who gets the seat here in georgia, alex. >> listen, these guys have been running for quite awhile. they've got a few weeks left that really have to hit the pavement. do we know anything about surrogates were going to come in and really help with the

enthusiasm and keep them going? >> the staffers i've spoken to say that they are strategizing around that right now. who are they going to have with them? i think imam republicans, there's a big question of whether or not it's going to make sense to have someone like president trump, who has had herschel walker's back, be present here. for the reasons that i just outlined. with that actually hurt him to be seen with president trump at this time? then, you know, when it comes to the warnock camp, they're also trying to figure out what democrats are going to help him bring new people into the fold. no one's really answering and uninformative way yet, who we are going to see. but we are going to see some surrogates. of course, walker already had ted cruz with him, so i think we can expect some colleagues to be here in town. and for there to be a lot of events, they've been trying to really get out the vote, make sure that people are willing to vote a second time for them. but who exactly is going to end up here in georgia? i will keep you posted, alex. as soon as i found out. >> i know you will. as soon as they figure it out,

i'm sure there will answer your questions and you will show me answers to those. thank you my friend, appreciate that. let's go now to the breaking news from overseas, where president biden was on a whirlwind trip to attend multiple summits. in his agenda includes a highly anticipated sit down with chinese president, xi jinping. and receives josh slandering is traveling with the president now in -- cambodia. so josh, big welcome to. what do you know about that very high stakes meeting on monday? what are they going to discuss? >> well, there is no question, alex, that president biden's meeting with xi jinping in indonesia will be the most closely watched moment of this entire trip, with white house national security adviser, jake sullivan, saying, a goal for the president is to really establish a floor in a relationship where the bottom has truly fallen out over the last few months, including over tensions over taiwan and speaker pelosi's visit to taiwan. but in addition to that, there's going to be a big

effort by the president throughout his meetings here in southeast asia, in cambodia, to talk about china, which is really the elephant to the room for all of the meetings that president biden has been having. and the whole point, really, of u.s. presidents coming to this asian southeast sees a conference is to try to strengthen americas relationships with these countries in asia that are really pulled into different directions, between their desire to have strong relations with the west, with the u.s., and the fact that they're in china's backyard and certainly have important relationships there as well. so, the u.s. hoping to be able to form a counter weight to china's influence in the region, by bolstering its alliances with the countries here in southeast asia. president biden elaborating on what else will be discussing while he's in the region, as he spoke to the austrian conference earlier today. watch. >> we will build better a better future we all say we

want to see. we are going to see, for all, but all one billion people in our countries. we will also discuss russia's brutal war against ukraine and our efforts to address the words global impacts. including in southeast asia. >> and so, that's really the other major topic here, right alex? the war in ukraine. efforts to try to get some of these asian nations to increase the pressure on president putin. president biden, as he met with camp ot's leader earlier, praised the cambodians for issuing a clear condemnation of putin's war. he will also be speaking with president xi about that, trying to get china to really ramp up the pressure and economic sanctions on russia, to try to starve it of the financing that it needs to be able to fund that were in ukraine, alex. >> well, it's important meeting on so many novels and it's also that first one between the presidents, as joe biden has become president, so thank you

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control of the house of representatives. and at this hour, republicans appear to have the broadest path forward to doing that. still though, the balance of power could tip either way in the days to come, with 22 house races across nine states still waiting to be called. joining me now, we have former california senator, barbara boxer, as well as julián castro, former hud secretary, former 2020 democratic presidential candidate and an msnbc political analyst. welcome, both of you. senator, you first hear because as we watch to see which party takes control of the house,

your state, my state to, by the way, california has 11 races that are still not called. there was certainly plenty of fair warning that the results could take a while, but what is it about california that there are so many races outstanding? but >> so many races, so many voters, so many people. you know, we have almost 40 million people. we have so many ways for people to vote, so everyone just has learned here that you have to become calm about it. but you've got -- i'm sorry about that. this is live, this is terrible. sorry about that. >> it happens. >> oh gosh, i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry. >> that's okay! >> it just shows that we haven't rehearse. so, i guess what i want to say is it's harder here because there are most voters, for sure. and there are so many different ways to vote, which is so wonderful. because you can vote, you know, on the same day even, you can vote by mail, you can vote at a

drop box, all these different ways. so, it's all happening and it's all happening safely and soundly. we have a really great record for secure elections. >> yeah, very true. secretary, the day before the election, the new york times warned that the biggest surge of misinformation may arrive after election day, saying people who study disinformation are warning that far right influencers will seize on ballot counting police and other routine issues, as evidence of fraud. so, with both chambers of congress still uncertain this weekend, are you worried that there is a disinformation problem brewing? >> well, of course that concerns me. after what we saw happen in 2020, that was their trial run. look what it led up to, everything that happened on january six. they've been continuing that kind of chatter whether you go on twitter, facebook, youtube, you've had politicians as well, more high-profile ones, including donald trump, that are beating the same drum, trying to delegitimized our

democratic process. they're doing that not only for the purpose of trying to undermine the results in 2022, but also, of course, for his presidential run if he makes one in 2024. so, absolutely. not only that, alex, you add in the fact that twitter has just basically imploded and folks can do this up until 48 hours ago, twitter blew and -- put something out that seems legitimate, makes it even harder to tell whether it's accurate or not, it's real. and you have a very firm situation for misinformation. >> yeah, i've got to tell you, that's just wild what's happening to twitter. but let's move on to this, senator, with nevada among the states still, rather, to close to call in the senate. politico is reporting on a republican conference call that happen on thursday. senator lindsey graham suggested, fraud if adam laxalt is not declared the winner,. reportedly saying, quote, there is no mathematical way laxalt loses. if he does, then it is a lie.

you served with lindsey graham in the senate. i'm curious of your response to that and that kind of rhetoric from him. does it surprise you? >> not at the least. this is a guy who said he is in love with donald trump one day, and donald trump's a master the next day. something is wrong with my friend. he has lost it. because nobody is buying this. excuse me, if something is wrong with the electoral count, why isn't he saying that the republican be declared the winner? in the governor's race, that that is not true. so, they are so full of it and they're so afraid because if you look at the math. it is the opposite of what he says. the votes to be counted are the ones that are leaning democratic. so, i think lindsey graham has to look himself in the mirror and say, which lindsey am i going to be? the good lindsay or the bad lindsey? and if he doesn't pick the good lindsey, then he's going to be

rejected because people are sick of all this baloney. look, i lost a race my very first one. it is tough. you better just step up and say, i lost, i got to do better the next time. you don't start pointing fingers around. that is what they're so frustrating. they expected a red wave. instead, they got a read stop sign. stop, we don't want to kind of america you are talking about. that is what they got. >> secretary, you are part of the obama administration when republicans had control of the senate and the house. if that repeats the next two years, what does it mean for the democrats agenda? what can and what can't get done? >> well, alex, first of all i think a lot of folks are overjoyed that we didn't see that red wave, as senator boxer said. we've seen exactly the opposite. so, i hope that doesn't come to pass. but if it does, what we're going to see are a whole bunch of groundless investigations the way that they did benghazi

and several other investigations a few years ago. we are going to see them blocking president biden's agenda and maybe most distressingly, we are going to see them go after such important programs like medicare and social security. we are going to see them attempt a national abortion ban. all of those things that the american people in this election said, no, we don't want this. that is what they are going to try because i think this party is so extreme and they're marching to the beat of donald trump still, even though, you know, right now they're queasy about it. i think they're getting him back in line. they are going to find themselves -- won't carry out his agenda and at least try it. thankfully, as president biden has said, he's there to veto the extreme pieces of legislation that they would put out. >> you really think they're going to get back in line, considering what we're seeing in terms of the vote and what apparently the people in this country are saying? maybe they don't want him to be in line with donald trump and

maga. >> here's why i think they may well get aligned. because the republican party today it's deadly afraid of their base and the base still has been quite loyal to donald trump. if and when that base that gets out there, remember, in party primaries, really is people that are super motivated. it is that base. as long as that base is behind donald trump, then most politicians on that side of the aisle will ultimately carry out his agenda. >> let me just ask you this. where would that base go? where would the maga base go? >> instead of donald trump, it might go for ron desantis, somebody that has less baggage, but basically has the same -- >> wouldn't that be good for republicans in many ways? i mean, wouldn't that add, if they did go there, just away from maga and all this associated with donald trump. wouldn't that makes maybe bolster the republican party? >> these election results would seem to say so. but, i mean, you still do have

a lot of areas in my state of texas and a number of other states where because of the gerrymandering, it's very firmly base republicans in those district controlling who gets elected. so, that's not how these politicians are going to act. remember, these politicians are always going to look out for, you know, i don't want to lose an election, i'm going to save my job. and if they think that saving their job means loyalty to donald trump, then they will continue to be loyal to donald trump. >> hey alex. >> -- joining. >> for just a minute, if i could weigh in here, here's the deal. if you look at ron desantis, he preaches trumpism. so, i think you're making a good point. it's going to be better? hey, it may be better for the republican party. but for the people, they've just rejected abortion bans. he's got the worst one in the country. they rejected the politics of hate, where he put innocent people on buses and tracked them across the country, making

them look like fools. i mean, everything he does, he's telling parents if you've got a child that needs certain medical procedures, you can't do it until they're 18. i mean, he's telling people what books to read. so, you go on and on, and, you know, if you look at the deaths through the pandemic, the one of the worst states. so, you know, it may be true that at first, the republicans do better. my hope for the country is they not only dump trump, but they dump trumpism. that is the key. >> senator, let me ask you in the brief time we have left, because -- los angeleno am curious about that mayoral race. i mean, it has been neck and neck for sometime. incremental back and forth horse race. what is happening there and do you have a sense of who's going to pull it out? >> all right, what's happening is that -- taking over the lead there. >> slightly.

>> the reason i can tell you what's going to happen, well, he was in the league since the get-go and she just took overly there. so, what i can't tell you is the characterization of what vote is left. you know? where is it coming from? would it be strong caruso? would they be strong bass? so sadly, i'm not, you know, i can't be a few tourists here, but i can say these are two democrats, he became a democrat from being a lifelong republican. my sense is, karen has some momentum and with all due respect to everybody, i have endorsed her. so, i want you to take that for what you think it is. but i do think the momentum has shifted and depending on where these votes are from, you know, we could find out. i just don't know the answer to that. >> okay, well i thank you for the answer you did give us because it was pretty good! i want to thank you both as well, secretary, senator, thank you both. coming up next, a check on the georgia senate race and then later on, we are going to talk about this headline and you are

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stop. i talked about that phrase. whether i was in the most red parts of the district, which was a lot of, they put their head down and they agreed. >> that with colorado democratic house candid, adam first, on msnbc earlier today. his unexpectedly close race with incumbent republican congresswoman and trump ally, lauren boebert. it's expected to stretch into next week. outstanding ballots overseas and out of state need to be counted ahead of wednesday's deadline. and to nevada, where incumbent senator, democratic senator that is, catherine cortez masto, is closing the gap against republican, adam laxalt. the latest ballot drop. cortez masto within about 1000

votes. and from there now to georgia, where the race between incumbent senator, raphael warnock, and gop challenger, herschel walker, is heading to a runoff and control of the senate is at stake. right now, democrats need to win at least one more seat to keep the upper chamber. joining me now is greg bluestein, msnbc political contributor. political reporter for the atlanta journal-constitution. and author of flipped, how georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on republican power. greg, good to see you, welcome back. let's get into this because campaigning, as you know for this runoff, that certainly underway already. so, who's coming to georgia to boost warnock and walker? i was asking my correspondent, antonia hylton, about that. she says, the campaign has not really gotten back to the details. do you know any? >> yeah, i expect both senator warnock and herschel walker to bring in all sorts of high-level surrogates. this week alone, we've seen ted cruz, we will see rick scott, we will see other republicans, u.s. senators, who really want

to win that seat. to flip control of the chamber. come here to georgia. then senator warnock is going to bring his surrogates as well. i won't be shocked to see former president, barack obama, come back to georgia. he was just your few weeks ago. i won't be shocked to see him come back because you might be the biggest motivator on the planet for democrats right now. >> yeah, greg, you didn't mention donald trump. there are reports republicans are trying to keep him away from this runoff election. what role do you think he plays in this? considering walkers one of his endorsements, right? do you think trump might risk closely associating himself with walker, given this narrow potential margin of victory? if he even wins. >> yeah, the same question could be flipped to see, does walker want donald trump? because he did not want donald trump in the general election phase. if he did, we would've seen donald trump here. you want to every other battleground state, but he did not come here to georgia. one of the other reasons why because governor kemp, attorney general chris, carlo these are the republican incumbents were faced trump back challengers who they quashed way back in

may. so, they didn't want him here either. this is a different sort of election. this is a base turnout election, where you're trying to get the core conservatives and democrats are trying to get those court liberal voters back out. so, donald trump might actually help herschel walker here. there is the sort of rift among republicans in georgia. some believe he could hurt more than he could help. and some say, hey, it's all hands on deck, bring them on. >> timing wise though, according to a new report from the hill, there are members of the senate gop who are worried that trump is going to derail their chances of winning that runoff, if he announces his 2024 campaign in the next several weeks. of course, we believe it's scheduled to happen sometime on tuesday. but how much of an effect could that have on this election, in your opinion? >> i can tell you, democrats are basically begging for him to go further with this announcement on tuesday because they think it injects an even more polarizing wedge issue into the campaign. that is donald trump. who's kind of, you know, we are sort of in the background. he was not a focus of these elections in november in georgia by any means, because

of the fact that all the trump backed challenger's went down in flames with the exception of herschel walker, who probably didn't need donald trump's endorsement anyway. -- high name recognition in the republican primary. he was ahead in the polls before he even got in the race. and there's one other -- lieutenant governor nominee. he also had trump's endorsement. every other trump backed candidate here in georgia in the contested primary went down and this would be trump back to the focus. democrats would not mind this at all. but the question is to, it could help energize republican voters as well, especially that maga base. there was a little bit more new turnout in the last week than republicans expected. so, there are some republicans who say, bring them on. >> yeah, what about what's happening right now with raphael warnock? in the lead, but more than, what, 81,000 votes were cast for that third party candidate who is now out of the race. who's going to pick up the majority of those votes? and as that third candidate derail either walker or warnock from getting what they need?

getting that vote total. >> that's a really good question and that third party candidate has, you know, he was not a factor in the campaign trail. he's the home of a lot of protest votes. there's a significant number of voters who said, hey, especially republicans who are concerned with her walker, who signaled that they were going to support this third party candidate out of protests because they could not vote for senator warnock. the bigger question is not who they will back. it's whether they come out at all. a lot of these voters won't come out at all and this is number six runoff. and so, that's why the focus is on the base, base, based. for senator warnock, he's trying to get back there skeptical republican voters who might have held their nose and voted for herschel walker. he wants the windows back in this final stretch as well. >> yeah, for sure. we've got three more weeks until that result, could take next weekend again, greg. i want to get an update for you than. thank you. let's face it, everyone, about this time last week, you are concerned about this election and then you heard this.

>> just got to dump all the stuff out of your head, don't be in a place of despair, and trust that your fellow americans do not want to go backwards. >> michael moore was right. yes, american stood in line, they exercise their civic duty to vote. so, michael is coming back tomorrow. we are going to ask him about the way forward after these historic elections. that is at one eastern on sunday. but first, we have a robert gibbs on many factors that you likely see on the deal for ceta key democrats. the power lessons for the gop. r the gop. time to switch. connect with a verizon business expert, november 10th through 23rd and get our best offers of the year on business internet. plus, a complimentary tech check to find the right tech for your team. call or click to book an appointment. help your business stay ahead with the reliable connection and coverage your business deserves. at verizon small business days. from the network america relies on. verizon.

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senate race. >> if cortez masto ends up winning nevada, on top of what we just saw in arizona tonight, democrats would win both of those seats, would have 50 senate seats with that, they would be guaranteed to continue their control of the chamber with kamala harris's tie breaker vote. and that georgia runoff, which will still take place on december 6th, would only be to decide what the democrats have 50 or 51 seats. for control that in his scenario would not be an issue. >> and on the house side, nbc news projects republicans are on track to take control with 220 seats to democrats 215. but that remains all within the margin of error at this point. i'm going to bring in rob -- former white house press secretary in the obama administration, now at msnbc political analyst. a good friend of ours, it's good to see, robert. let's get into it here. how much of the results we are seeing today do you think could be credited to your former boss stepping into those tight races and playing the role of closure and bringing all the enthusiasm

up a bunch of levels? >> well, look, i think he played a bit of a role, particularly in some of the swing states, alex. i think you have to give credit to a lot of the different circuits. you're showing a picture of current president, joe biden, and former president, barack obama, who both descended on pennsylvania last weekend. and we saw big results there. joe biden went to places like new mexico, and oregon, and new york, thought to be worrisome going into tuesday than reelected democrats overwhelmingly. so, i think certainly former president obama played a role and current president biden played an important role. and i think you just served to get democrats were enthusiastic than they already likely were. >> i've got to say, i wish my director would keep that photo up, that video going over the two of them walking. that's a lot of fantasy. speaking of tune, the main factors, robert, that appeared to have driven voter turnout for democrats were donald trump and the supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade.

right now, our trump in the gop looking somewhat self inflicted wounds? >> i think so. but let's also be clear, look, i would say the supreme court was the most valuable player in this election. but understand, republicans, just like the rest of the world, knew exactly what the supreme court was going to do when that decision leaked on may the 2nd. they had six months to figure out how not to land on what about 10% of the american people support. that is no exceptions for abortion. exactly, again, 10% of the people are supportive of that. if you are aligning on policies that 90% of the people oppose, you're not going to do very well on elections. if you throw in somebody like trump and, you know, take the michigan exit poll for example. 33% of the people in michigan think that joe biden isn't the elected president of the united states. we sometimes dwell on that

number, but that means two thirds think he is. and so, they are lining on these positions that are just far, far out of the mainstream. why the republican in michigan did so poorly, why gretchen whitmer focused on jobs, health care, the women's rights to choose, ended up in michigan doing four points better than joe biden did just two years ago. and i think it shows you the strength of the turnout and the supreme court frankly of the bench that democrats have. >> but this particular issue, abortion, i mean when you think about it, if chief justice, john roberts, had been able to flip one conservative judge and then take the issue of abortion off the minds of voters, it really could've changed history for republicans. president biden reiterated plans to -- an attempt at a federal ban on abortion if republicans take control of congress. so, what does it tell you about the next two years if there's a split government? >> well, i think if there's a

split government, i think you're going to see basically the 2024 race come at us starting january 5th of 2023, right? we may see that already, but i think it will play out inside the halls of congress. and you will have two very different and competing divisions. i think the real challenge for republicans, particularly if they control the house, by just two votes, that's, going to be an enormously hard caucus to corral to get anything done. and i think the likelihood that they are going to continue to do things that put themselves outside of the political mainstream is extraordinarily high. i think democrats can capitalize on that for the next couple of years. i think divided government is going to bring a lot of things that americans don't like, a lot of the bickering, a lot of food fights, if you will. but i think right now, the onus is on republicans to somehow get their party and their belief system in line with

where the mainstream america's. because on tuesday, americans decided they were too extreme to support in this election. >> i want to get your quick thoughts to this as we play this remark from president biden post midterm news conference. we will watch this together. >> 75% of voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction despite the results of last night. what in the next two years do you intend to do differently to change peoples opinion of the direction of the country, -- contemplate a run for president in 2024? >> nothing because they're just finding out what we are doing. the more they know about what we're doing, the more supporters. >> does the election, robert, does the outcome give him license to say that? do you agree? >> well look, i will say this. i'm not a huge fan of the question, is the country moving in the right direction? my hunch is that a lot of democrats going into this election didn't think that election denialism was leading this country into the right direction. so, i think if you look at the

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and kind of drives that momentum that they think trump can deliver. i think the rush is because there's not really a good time for trump to do this now. i think a lot of people were talking about how he thinks, you know, -- insulate him from potential criminal charges. but that doesn't seem to be at the forefront of the former presidents mind right now. what seems to be the issue is you want to get in before the georgia senate runoff. he doesn't want to do it afterwards, in case herschel walker loses. then that puts him in a pretty difficult position. >> okay, but to the point you were previously making there, trump's announcement does come a day after he was set to testify the january six committee. but as you reported late yesterday, trump's attorneys sued to block the panel subpoena for his testimony and documents. what are they arguing? >> yeah, it was a bit of a hodgepodge of legal arguments. i mean, it's really an effort to buy time. they are saying, look, justice department -- counsel opinion says that presidents and former presidents have absolute immunity from testifying in

congress. that may be true to a large degree, but that's not binding on the federal courts. and so, kind of a legal experts that i spoke to yesterday, we said this in the story, is that we expect -- whoever's assigned this case to dismiss it if the select committee argues that this is a lawful congressional function. and then, of course, what that sets up his trump -- appeals court and potentially the supreme court has to try to drag this out beyond the life of the select committee. >> but hugo, many political protections from donald trump are partly gone now following that 60-day pause on investigative steps by the federal prosecutors, ahead of the election. so, what are the next move you are going to be looking for in the trump probes? >> yeah, that's the really good point. this is the problem that trump has. you might be able to escape the select committee and the congressional investigation of the january 6th if he just, you know, the laces testimony effectively through january and beyond. but he doesn't really have a mechanism for escaping the

justice department grandeur investigations, with respect to january six and more problematic for him, the mar-a-lago documents investigation. look, the justice department appears to be looking at whether they can mount just an obstruction case. previous justice departments have kind of assess that they can't just charge a procedural crime. they have to charge more substantial crime. but this justice -- appears to be looking in a different light. i think if the attorney general, merrick garland, sees the potential of justice and obstruction charge, he might just do that. the fact that -- not going to instate upon the. >> okay my friend, thanks as always, hugo. that will do it for me on this official edition of alex witt reports. i will see you tomorrow at noon eastern. my friend yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage. friend yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage from santa claus, indiana to snowflake, arizona. from garland, texas to north pole, new york and everywhere in between.

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