i'll talk to steve schmidt about this.r i let you talk and do your, oh, i'm a newscaster thing. republicans have home field advantage. off year election. they're fighting in red state america. democrats are -- it's a political pickens charge, but they're running straight uphill. if republicans can't win tonight, older, wider, more republican, more conservative, fighting in high ground whether kentucky, arkansas, louisiana, georgia, north carolina, alaska, kansas, they can't win tonight, they can't win. you know, i woke up this morning actually thinking how bad it would be if my party couldn't win with 100-mile-per-hour wind at their back. it would be pretty bad. so the stakes are very high for barack obama. they're very high for harry reid. but they couldn't be higher for this republican party. >> having said that, the white house is confident about the midterms predicting democrats will hold on to the senate. did you just smirk? >> yes. >> i was thinking about that lo that lose in a agains. >> "washington post" election l

i don't think -- i think steve schmidt's point earlier was the right one.n't take the wrong lesson from this. >> i think you're right on that. >> they better find a way to be constructive or they're going to get booted, as well. >> impressive message disciplined tonight by these winners. you get a sense there was almost a memo that went out from, perhaps, mitch mcconnell or john -- because every single senate winner had the same tone and the same message. i didn't see ted cruz jr. out there. >> no, and i'm wondering if the washington post will start a meter that will travel back and forth to hold some of these statements to account. like harry reid congratulating mitch mcconnell on becoming the new majority leader and pledging a new era of cooperation. we're going to take a break and we'll be back with more of our coverage. for retirement. but when we start worrying about tomorrow, we miss out on what matters today. ♪ at axa, we offer advice and help you break down your retirement goals into small, manageable steps. because when you plan for tomorrow, it he

i think what steve schmidt saidierier is right. if a foreign stem student garage waters, they should have a green card stapled to their diploma. i think that's not going to happen right now. >> he actually addresses that idea of stems. you're going to see folks not go to other countries or to competitors. they're going to stay in the country because they can actually realize the education that they had in this country. >> it strikes me if there are areas of greemt, i would hope that that would be the case that everyone can act together and sort of pass those. we just had this happen last week. a bipartisan majority voted for a bill. but the president said you know what, i'm not going to pass a pipeline that's going to make a lot of jobs for union workers. >> thank you very much for your time. our coverage of the president's speech continues now with rachel maddow. >> i'm not at your left elbow anymore. thanks, chris. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it was a hot dad in june the summer before the 2012 election

steve schmidt said, hey, it may be hard.ountain pass. you don't have any other choice. it's what i would say months ago. i had a guy i campaigned against in '94 who wouldn't admit he voted to bill clinton two years earlier. >> so you don't support his health care plan? >> no. you don't support his crime bill? no. i took him down this debate. did you even vote for him? well, i -- and he wouldn't answer. i was like, please, come on, give me a break. >> exactly. >> the democrats were cowards and they paid for their cowa cowardi cowardice. >> it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. you say, well, the president's not popular enough. his health care law's not popular enough. i can't go out there and champion it. if the health care law and the president don't have public champion, then they're not going to gain in popularity. the other point they make is democrats spent a generation, more than a generation, 50-plus years, trying to get universal health care reform. they took a lot of -- it took a lot of effort, a lot of hard work an

joining me now republican strategist steve schmidt and i think it's a karl rove line when you're arguing process you're losing and i feel like the republicans do not want to talk about the substance. they just want to talk about the process. the president's a king, the president's an emperor and do not want to talk about depo deportati deportation, am i right? >> there are important constitutional principles at stake with regard to the separation of powers and may not make for good tv but they're essential to our ability to function as a constitutional republic. let me make a couple of points about his speech tonight, first off, for much of that speech, it was remarks that could have been given by george w. bush or by john mccain celebrating the spirit of immigration in this country, i am a longtime advocate for immigration reform. what we saw tonight marks the end of any possibility to pass comprehensive immigration reform over the rest of the president's term with this republican congress. i think it is extraordinary that he gave an address to the nation where he did not state the numb

still ahead, steve schmidt, andrea mitchell join the conversation.and later, monty python fame. join us on set. we'll be right back. >>> a lot of this is how they get to 2014, mitch mcconnell -- >> could that be me? >> no, it's something ambient. >> no, i'm afraid it is. the alarm goes off and there you go. >> i thought you were -- i thought you were a fire. >> yes, i will remember to bring home the milk and -- don't worry about it. i'll feed the dog in the morning. just sleep in, it's going to be okay. i'm sorry about that. anyway. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? that's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees, from the bank where no branches equals great rates. ♪ ♪ i'm on expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about yo

the republican strategist, very reasonable guy, friends of mine doug heye and steve schmidt were so exercised you could see them sweat, so upset about the president being so inappropriate and unconstitutional in this action, i don't think they're faking it. i think they've really talked themselves into this idea that this is something hot that just no other president has done but this president has never done anything this radical. i feel like they're -- that -- their sort of position of conflict toward the president is a sharper edge than it's ever been. >> well, you know, which is so hard to believe given the fact that, you know, you've -- i think republicans, this town, most of america has known this has been coming for quite some time. in fact, if anything, democrats got upset at the president for having delayed what they thought this announcement would be at the end of the summer and now it's -- now it's almost at the end of the year so none of it's a surprise. i do think it puts republicans in a tough political situation. you know, you talk to the beginning of the broadcast where two-th

things got heated between chris hayes and steve schmidt after the president announced his plan. g that stops the president from in january barn storming the country to build public support to pressure congress to change the law. that's what we do in this country. we do things like this by changing the law. >> okay. >> not by executive -- >> the idea that house would pass comprehensive immigration reform frankly, is preposterous. >> now we'll never know. it's not about how many miles you can get out of the c-max hybrid. it's about how much life you can fit into it. ♪ the ford c-max hybrid. with an epa-estimated range of 540 miles on a tank of gas. and all the room you need to enjoy the trip. go stretch out. go further. in a race, it's about getting to the finish line. in life, it's how you get there that matters most. like when i found out i had a blood clot in my leg. my doctor said that it could travel to my lungs and become an even bigger problem. so he talked to me about xarelto®. >>xarelto® is the first oral prescription blood thinner proven to treat and help prevent dvt and

they're coming in bunches, too. >> let's go to steve schmidt and robert smith on this.hink of ed gillespie as like steve schmidt running in nebraska or robert gibs running in your home state. i feel like ed gillespie is a behind the scenes guy who nobody expected to be a candidate on his own terms. it looked like a bad idea when nobody had a prayer. >> he's turned out to be a hell of a candidate. and one of the aspects i think is important to put in context is the republican party gave up six u.s. senate seats with deeply flawed candidates over the last two election cycles. when you look at the map and the way it's playing out tonight, the state of virginia it's certainly going to be the case that if ed gillespie falls slightly short in this race it will be because in the most expensive political midterm in american history, his race was not properly funded. and it's just extraordinary. a lack of imagination, a huge strategic mistake by the republicans. as we move to the purple facilitate states we have the predictable results out of the red states, but we have seep the

steve schmidt and i couple of days before the election buried him prematurely oh, well it looks likeill cost the governorship in colorado, in connecticut and here you have in those two states that were most aggressive in gun control measures, hickenlooper won and dannel malloy expanded the margin of victory in connecticut. >> that's right. and he was the rare democrat, a life long democrat who of course has run as a republican and independent but he's a life long democrat who had a great win/loss record. you mentioned a couple of democratic races he won. but, joe, he played in five republican races, three primaries and two generals and won all of them. he was a backer of charlie baker in massachusetts and he was 5-0 in his republican races and he says in '16 as well he'll look for republicans who have taken on someone in their party are not afraid to cross the aisle, have a record of doing both in addition to an interest to his issues which of course includes guns, soda tax, petroleum reform, education reform. >> that's incredible. i had no idea his won/loss record of that good. when

. >> this election night here on c-span2, booktv is in prime time with eric schmidt's book, "how google works." steve ammon almond and jeff easter brook, and books by robert trotta and anna harvey. booktv in prime time begins at 8 p.m. eastern. and join us on c-span for live campaign 2014 election night coverage. see who wins, who loses and which party will control congress, and engage with us by phone, on twitter @c-span, or at facebook.com/c-span. leading up to tonight's election results, c-span's asking what you think about voting on facebook. do you vote and why or why not? marsha writes: yes, we're blessed with the right to vote. i vote to honor them and have a voice in the process. and jason says: no, it's a waste of time, and it accomplishes nothing. the system is rigged to prevent any real changes, so your vote is meaningless. you can see what others are saying and share your thoughts at facebook.com/c-span. >> the 2015 c-span student cam video competition is underway, open to all middle and high school students to create a 5-7 minute documentary on the theme, "the three branches and you," sh

eric schmidt become the deputy adults in the cheryl samberg. >> one name an exception to that is steve jobs. >> twitter cfo one straight from the anthony weiner playbook mixing of his tweets and direct messages but don't worry, he only thing he is revealing the possible deal tweeting we still should buy them. from december 16, we need to sell him, i have a plan. of course the company that is out there knows who they are at this point in thinking i can't wait for them to sell us on this plan to buy us. >> it is a weiner moment. i don't think he did anything that destroyed his brand. melissa: no, it is embarrassing. the ceo of twitter should know how to use twitter. direct messaging someone and instead he tweeted it shall and everybody how easy it is to accidentally mess up twitter. >> he was the cfo of the nfl. >> heavy ever regretted any tweet? melissa: close-up on charlie, go ahead. >> believe it or not i do think a little bit before i send them. >> heavy ever sent a tweet you regretted? >> no. i have sent e-mails i would like to have back. there was once where i was at another public