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joining me now is the republican congressman from oklahoma's fourth district, tom cole. congressman, thank you for joining us on this very big election eve. i want to ask you a question i'm sure you've been thinking about all day. are republicans going to rule the upper chamber come dawn tomorrow morning? >> i think so. the numbers look awfully good. they have gotten better over the weekend. there's an old saying in politics as you approach an election, good gets better and bad gets worse and most of the news is pretty good. it looks a lot better in georgia and north carolina than it did. it looks neck in neck in new hampshire so we feel pretty good going into the election, but there's still several hours to go. we've certainly been disappointed in the senate before so we need to finish the job. >> if the republicans do take the upper chamber, is mitch mcconnell going to be majority leader? there seems to be some debate within your own party on that question. >> i don't think much debate. i mean, again, obviously is allowed to run, but i don't have much doubt that leader

[inaudible conversations] >> each month oklahoma congressman tom cole releases a reading list on his web site. heirs his recommend titles for november which focus on native american history. charles mann looks at the america before the arrival of klister columbus in the book 1491. in the real all americans, sally jenkins recount this carlisle indian industrial school and its football team which included jim thorpe. also on the list is pulitzer prize finalist gwen's empire of the summer moon and james wilson's the earth shall weep, which explore the struggle between nailtive americans and european settlers. next, congressman coll recommends the biography of the tribe leader, tecumseh, and an account of the battle of little big or, and wrapping up, the recounting of the forced removal of the cherokees from their land in "driven west." to see what other titles recommended visit cole.house.gov. >> the basic idea of clean glass of drinking water, which i central to ghost map as a book that we live in a world for the most part here in the developed world where you go to the faucet and get

things i hearhe about so much on the road talking to people at tom cole meetings. this huge continuing gap. i sponsored a piece of legislation with the finance chairman and republicans. we have not had a tax reform since 1986. all the special deals put in there over the years are benefiting the top and. this these of legislation does something very basic. it flattens the rate. it ensures middle-class americans have their deductions. the childhood tax credit. mortgage interest on her homes. the basic things of make a difference to the middle class. we also strip out these loopholes. we give tax breaks to corporations who send jobs overseas. itstrip that out and lower so we are more competitive. we also raise the minimum wage on the national level. that will make a big difference. >> mr. sullivan. same question. >> income inequality is an issue. i think the broader issue of the last several years has been economic growth. we did have a major recession. no doubt about it. what is typical in american economic history, when you have a deep recession, the recovery is gre

. >> congressman tom cole told "the washington post," quote, you can issue all the executive orders you want, if you don't have any money to enforce them they don't go very far. we're going to be pretty aggressive in using the power of the purse. could they do real damage here? >> well, they have that power. that is what congress can do. but the president with veto it. and then you're stuck with the question of a shutdown and the government gets blamed for it. now, we saw what happened a little over year regarding obamacare. i suspect, that is why you hear hal rogers saying it, if the congress doesn't like it they should pass immigration legislation if they can't get their act together to do that well they can take on the president with the power of the purse and see how it plays with public opinion. >> maria, isn't that the options? does the president move forward or the republicans ought to come up with an immigration reform plan? >> well, this is the thing, the president with move forward, the moment they provide something for him to sign, the executive action becomes obsolete. it is

but many congressmen including tom cole disagrees with that. >> i think the president is being politicalnd cynical. he had plenty of opportunity to do things when he had complete control. said he would act -- so it's been a political weapon rather than a problem to be solved from the president's stand point. >> joining house speaker john boehner in saying republicans will look to stop the effect of republican immigration strategy. truth is, says the gop, they can't see why the president thinks his -- ask the right one for the country. >> i represent millions of people, tom cotton represents millions of people, there are millions of people scattered around the united states that think like us and the president thinks only these few crazy conserve tys think like this. they don't have a problem with immigration, they have a problem with illegal immigration. >> well the is already on his way back from the g-20 summit in australia, expected to be back in the white house about three hours from now. and preparing to issue his executive order from what we hear. according to the "new york times"

it is one of the things i hear about so much on the road talking to people at tom cole meetings. this huge continuing gap. i sponsored a piece of legislation with the finance chairman and republicans. we have not had a tax reform since 1986. all the special deals put in there over the years are benefiting the top and. this these of legislation does something very basic. it flattens the rate. it ensures middle-class americans have their deductions. the childhood tax credit. mortgage interest on her homes. the basic things of make a difference to the middle class. we also strip out these loopholes. we give tax breaks to corporations who send jobs overseas. we strip that out and lower it so we are more competitive. we also raise the minimum wage on the national level. that will make a big difference. >> mr. sullivan. same question. >> income inequality is an issue. i think the broader issue of the last several years has been economic growth. we did have a major recession. no doubt about it. what is typical in american economic history, when you have a deep recession, the recovery is

. >> tom cole is the deputy majority whip in the house. i want to talk about that in a moment. first, your take to the climate deal with china. what will the house gop make of that? >> i think they will be a little worried the deal is not going to go before the congress of the united states for approval. but, again, without seeing the specifics, it's hard to say beyond that. they are always a little worried when the executive branch bypasses the legislature, gets agreements with foreign countries and doesn't put them before the senate the way it should. >> let's talk about what congressman clyburn just brought up there. were you at this point rule out any effort in the house to bring up impeachment proceedings? >> the only people i ever hear talk about impeachments are democrats. i think it's always for political purposes. >> congressman, you know that's not true. you have heard from your republican colleagues over the past six months talk about -- >> very seldom. usually in response to something democrats have said. no impeachment legislation is pending. i know of no one who f

folks like tom cole know that. a long-term budget agreement will give stability to the political situation, also give our managers an opportunity to manage. >> congressman, according to nbc news today, senate democrats may bring the keystone pipeline up for a vote even as soon as in the coming week. senator mary landrieu was just on the floor a few moments ago asking the senate to consider the bill even as early as tomorrow. do you think the keystone pipeline could pass in the next congress and is it something you would support? >> i wouldn't support it. but if it were brought up in the senate and pass there, it would pass in the house, i do believe that. >> and the president would sign off on that as well? >> i don't know what he would do. that would be a tough call for the president. it's still under review with the state department, so the normal permitting process has to be done. and the question is what kind of bill would they pass. if it was too eliminate all kinds of permitting requirements for any project a

joining us now congressman luis gutierrez democratic from illinois and congressman tom cole, republicanoklahoma. gentlemen, let me start with you. congressman, why move on this executive action now? >> because -- >> why not have some good will with the new congress, wait six months. >> i think it's excellent question. number one, we said to the republican party, we want to work with you and the president has attempted to work with them. we passed a senate bill. when the republicans said, can't include gay people, it was hard for us, but we said okay. when they said there couldn't be citizenship for everyone right away, we said okay. when they said, hey, we have to do it in bits and pieces, we said okay. each and every time we said okay, they refused to act on the issue, and why must the president act now, because millions of american families are depending on the president fixing a broken immigration system because i and i know that my colleagues are tired of seeing u.s. servicemen being called to be deployed in defense of our nation and at the same time when they receive that deploymen

. >> dovetail this with tom cole that we saw yesterday of oklahoma of the fourth congressional districtust south of oklahoma city. is oklahoma and louisiana on the exact same page on keystone? >> louisiana is not on a separate with anybody. it is its own unique american place. the politics are really hard to compare actually with other places. , what peter cook said, is we are really seeing a small class of democrats that unlike the last congress are going to work with republicans. >> let's bring this over, rob waldner of invesco, energy is a lot of high yield. our investors staying upload nights analyzing? the high yield index, and it has grown a lot over the last 10 years, so about one-third of the s&p 500 capex is energy now, and that has resulted in a big growth of energy within a high yield market. the key issue there is that with oil prices where they are, you start to have some fundamental issues in the energy sector, company viability, which is important to be able to look at the individual companies very carefully. >> do you have scrutiny for next year or not? am i worried abou

. >> the many lawmakers including congressman from oklahoma tom cole disagree. >> the president i thinkng political and cynical. he had plenty of opportunities to do things and he had complete democratic control, promised to have a bill within 100 days, didn't do any of those things, said he would act this year, then he put it off after the election for political reasons, so it's been a political weapon from the president's standpoint. >> oklahoma congressman james lankford said on fox news sunday immigration is not the issue that many object to but the lawless way it often happens as well as the way president obama indicated he plans to revolutionize the process. watch. >> he has this perception that everyone in the country thinks like him and that is not correct. i represent millions of people, tom cotton represents millions of people, there are millions of people scattered -- the president thinks only these few crazy conservatives think this way and no one else does, he has misjudged the american people, the american people really do agree with the rule of law. >> now back to the man

it is one of the things i hear about so much on the road talking to people at tom cole meetings. this huge continuing gap. i sponsored a piece of legislation with the finance chairman and republicans. we have not had a tax reform since 1986. all the special deals put in there over the years are benefiting the top and. this these of legislation does something very basic. it flattens the rate. it ensures middle-class americans have their deductions. the childhood tax credit. mortgage interest on her homes. the basic things of make a difference to the middle class. we also strip out these loopholes. we give tax breaks to corporations who send jobs overseas. we strip that out and lower it so we are more competitive. we also raise the minimum wage on the national level. that will make a big difference. >> mr. sullivan, same question. >> income inequality is an issue. i think the broader issue of the last several years has been economic growth. we did have a major recession. no doubt about it. what is typical in american economic history, when you have a deep recession, the recovery is

a couple of voices on the sunday shows -- congressman tom cole and congressman luis gutierrez were on the abc program. [video clip] >> i think the president would be much better advised to wait until congress is sworn in. he is tried to pick a fight. >> but we are talking about couple months. >> a couple of things. they want a more border patrol agents. they were included in the senate bill. we just came from an election cycle in which not only was the border not secure, but isis and ebola was coming through. they mixed all of this together and then they say we are poisoning the well. all i am saying is this -- there are 4 million americans this and children. you just heard the speaker say that this is a fight that he is going to have with the president. he is wrong. he will have this fight with millions of americans -- >> this fight is not over immigration. this fight is with the process the president is using, a process the president himself said was unconstitutional a couple of years ago. host: flavor from the hill, the latest debate. anything you want to add, brian bennett? guest:

we're us now from capitol hill republican congressman from oklahoma our friend representative tom coleo be with you. >> okay. so are republicans going to have changes on the way or are we going see more confrontation and efforts to repeal obamacare and just stop everthing? >> probably a mixture of both but frankly we need to get some things done. no question about that. i look at the election as obviously very much repudiation of the president and i think the democrats in the senate -- but if we follow the same strategy that's not take on tough issues not move things through, not compromise then we'll see the same results in two years that the democrats saw. i think it's pretty imperative on us to get something done. >> do you think we'll see movement on immigration? >> i think we probably will. i think speaker boehner wants to do something on that. a lot of it depends whether or not democrats want a solution or they want to use it as a weapon in the next election. look, they had complete control of congress for four years, two different presidents that would have signed any bill they

tom wolf does. live in york, jeff cole, folks, back to you. >> all right, jeff, thank you. >>> there is a closely watchedace for congress in south jersey. state senator donald norcross the brother of south jersey power broker george norcross is the democratic candidate in the first district. broadcaster and former philadelphia eagles linebacker gary cobb is the republican. they are both looking to succeed rob andrews who of course resigned because of that scandal last winter. >> house seats are up for grabs in several other districts in the delaware valley. they include pennsylvania's sixth and 13th districts and new jersey's third. none of these incumbents and we have up to the minute coverage of the elections on myfoxphilly.com. we'll have the returns and results for every single local race in our election 2014 section and of course be sure to join us for life coverage tonight on fox 29 news at 10:00. >>> breaking at 6:00 now, shots ring out in philadelphia's juniata park section leaving a man dead. skyfox was over the scene on the 3900 block of i street just after 3:00. police say the victim was shot

cole haan boots go to extratv.com. >> they're entertaining the superhero world with their new show "the flash." here to tell us all about it is grant and tomrrow. spinning off into its own show and climbing up the ratings at lightning speed, grant plays berry allen the scientist avenging his murders while clearing his dad's name. one lightning strike later we have the flash but moving at superhuman speed means a lot of cardio for graham. how is the training going, by the way? >> we're shooting every day all day long. so i squeeze in as much training as i can. right now it's mostly making a tv show. >> grant is also trying to squeeze in some humility. how do you describe your character? and every handsome superhero needs a mentor. enter tom cavanagh's harrison wells. >> this world is a very refreshing place for me to explore, which sounds kind of lame but i really mean it. the rest of us sort of play the multilevel different things that are going to be uncovered as the season goes on. teaser, teaser, teaser. >> another teaser the flash arrow crossover episode. you mention the crossover episode? >> yeah, crossover episode. >> can we talk abo

tom wolf comes into this thing with a lead tonight. democrats have to be happy. certainly voter turnout will be important and certainly it will be important in philadelphia. live in york, i'm jeff cole, folks, back to you. >> jeff, certainly all boils down to voter turnout indeed in philadelphia. so history about to happen no matter what in pennsylvania as voters decide on that race for governor. >>> fox 29's bruce gordon love at governor tom corbett's headquarters in pittsburgh tonight. bruce are what's the mood there? >> reporter: iain, a as you might expect outward signs of optimism but i have to tell you we'll give you this analogy. let's put it this way. we're in the middle of football season and this is steelers country. the corbett camp is down by a touchdown with just a couple of seconds to go. they need a 60-yard bomb from ben roethlisberger and a two-point conversion to boot to pull this one out. in short, they need a miracle. governor capped his final campaign weekend with a bucks county rally beside new jersey governor chris christie. part of late campaign blitz designed to make up ground. corbett trails badly in all of the pre election polling but in these final weeks,

cole monomy. the president has made clear that in the wake of the failure of congress to really give him an incredible immigration renorm package: that he will act on his oechb tom time before the program. >> what i will tell you is this. we're kwing the be ready. our agency will be shoumderring the primary responsibility. >> we want to make sure that however this works, we want to do it in the way that it actually works. so that's the one commitment that i can make fur you. 2 other thing that's point out is where we think about a broken immigration system. as wety about the yale your to a couplely paz a comp hepsive. >> so not only is it an undocumentd status. they are now part of our society, whether that is recognized or not. they are nou part of our society. that's one issue. the fact that we have a basic immigration structure that is out of line with the needs of our economy is another issue. >> the fact that very often, your access to different kinds of immigration benefits is another simple tom of a pick schur. >> so all of this r that, all of nose kinds of questions are part of the symptom. >> i want to talk about situations on our border as opposed to t

. >> each month tocaloma congressman tom cole releases a reading list on his website and here's a look at the congress and recommended time for november which focused on native american history. to begin, charles mann looks at the americas before the arrival of christopher columbus in the book "1491". in "the real all americans" sally jenkins recounts the carlisle indian ancestral school and its football team which included jim thorpe are also on the list is to surprise finalist s. c. gwynne, "empire of the summer moon" and james wilson's "the earth shall weep" which both ask for the struggle between native americans and european settlers. next congress and coal represents john sugden's biography of the shawnee tribe leader tecumseh followed by kind one, by james donovan. wrapping up the list, the forced removal of the cherokee from their land in "driven west." to see what other books he recommends a visit his website. >> next, naomi klein argues climate change will never be addressed properly into the u.s. gets ri rid of its premarket capital system which she says created and continue