what do we know about mitt romney?n evangelical, ivy league-educated, and he's from massachusetts, so just at face value, he's not a natural fit. - i was seen abeing moderate because i was from massachusetts, and-- and that obviously was a challenge. - yes, sir. howdy. - when rick g rry got in, ate governor, he was 10 to 15 points ahead. shot t natural kind of guy that republicans would nominate. - one of the areas in which they went after rick perry was to position tt romney to his right on the issue of immigration. - everyone said, "oh, if rick perry gets in the race, it's his to win," and i knew we had a secret weapon on our side, which was my dad. - mitt is incredible debater. he always walked onto the debate stage for that particular debate. - texas has had 60% increase in illegal immigrantin texas. - the high point of illegal immigration was 1995 to all: el pueblo unido jamás serádo. - we as latinos are being made the scapegoats for the socio-economic problems in this nation. - we are a nation of immigrants, but

mitt romney in the speaker's office. what do you think about his vice presidential bid and how he campaigned in 2012? guest: it was an extraordinary moment for conservatives and wisconsin conservatives. i think he did a pretty good job. the results of that election were not about paul ryan. that was about president barack obama and mitt romney. i want to go back to something which was before, important. you had the tea party movement, needryan talking about the to get a handle on the deficit in the -- and the debt. it turns out the republican party or the electric were not that interested in fiscal restraint. as craig pointed out, trump comes along, completely redefines the approach to those issues. republicans who were all in on the tea party go we are not that interested in entitlement reform, the debt and deficit. it was like a switch. in 2012, you looked at paul ryan, and i think a lot of republicans and conservatives said this is the future of the republican party and conservative movement. that was obviously not th

i think -- >> i think that's the tone mitt romney is going to take. >> romney gave a speech we are all going to play every time -- >> he gave the most scathing anti trump speech of anyone, i think, who wasn't running against him. >> so a lot of people in the media are going to hold him to that standard. so he's going to have to, you know, either live up to or live down those words from that speech. >> there was an election -- we talked about nancy pelosi and how she's going to fare. house republicans met and they elected kevin mccarthy, who was next in line to become speaker, or not speaker, i guess, minority leader, because they lost. and so that did happen. but i also just want to bring in this new news. this just happened. senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, is blocking an effort from a fellow republican, jeff flake, who we were just talking about, to force a vote on the senate floor on legislation to protect special counsel robert mueller. this coming even after the president just fired attorney general jeff sessions. republican senator jeff flake attempted to force a vote tod

might be the exact mitt romney number. 5643 was the mitt romney barack obama number. again, the question with the same day vote is any kind of republican surge there. check in miami-dade county as well. we're getting again well over half the vote out of miami-dade county. you can see here this is a bit of a fall back so far from what clinton got in 2016. 64%. 59% from gillum right now. those are the big wons that come in. hillsborough as well. tampa coming in. gillum is up for the advantage there. look at the senate race. it looks pretty similar there. see if you get any different numbers. about the same out of miami-dade county. he's getting about the same out of brevard. if you look in hillsborough there. some kind of surge to get them back to trump levels. on the house side, one competitive race the democratic haves been targeting. starting to get returns here. vacancy. open seat i should say the republican incumbent is aside. decided not to run for re-election. two counties coming in here. hillsborough, half of the population. carries population by couple of point

. >> mitt romney has been a mentor, in a lot of ways, to you.ou're still good friends. >> yeah. >> did he call you up and ask your advice? was there a hesitation where you said, mytromney, get out of her >> we're good friends. we talk all the time. he knows my phase of life. he called me the day i announced he said you're the one friend in washington and you're leaving? he said i was going to get a bedroom apartment and offer you a room so you didn't have to sleep in your office anymore. >> it probably would have been a big apartment. >> right. >> he's got a little bit of coin. >> yeah. >> he still has a lot of public service left in him. and i think it's great he's coming. i think he feels a sense of civic duty. i think with john mccain passing, for example, mitt romney believes there's a role for him in our party in being, you know, a statesman and a standard bearer party. i've encouraged him to go on the foreign relations committee to help -- i was not a big traveler earlier in my career. when i became speaker i decided to go to nato, reassur

romney something mitt the senator might take on? lanhee: i think he's going to play a productive role in a number of areas. he has always been a really forceful, articulate advocate for a couple of things. first of all, to ensure we've got a policy that should cures the border at -- that secures the border and a rational immigration policy that values skills that will help the economy. he is positioned to do so coming into this new congress. we got a fight over immigration before we get to the new congress in this lame-duck session over the next couple of weeks. david: we have the g20 coming up at the end of the week and is a lot of anticipation that's built up between president trump and president xi. what can realistically be accomplished in that meeting? lanhee: i think the most valuable accomplishment will be the leaders talking to each other and demonstrating some form of progress. i think there's a reasonably good chance we will see some progress coming out of this g20 meeting between resident xi and president trump. numbers.x

it is official in the senate race of utah, mitt romney has won the race and will be utah's senator.hat kids, if you want a story to inspire you look at this. like at mitt romney the guy was a governor running for president and lost and disappeared out into the woods but no he didn't. he fought, he came back and now he's a senator. do you understand this guy had nothing when he started out. all he had was a dad who was governor and $500 million. look at him today. now he is combining all the jobs trying to get president. that's president. congratulations to you. we're joined by our special guest tonight jamil smith everybody. [crowd cheering] welcome back to the show. >> thank you. >> trevor: this is one of the craziest nights in america when all the results are flying n everybody's trying to predict everything. do you think judging by what we've seen so far this was a good night for america or too soon to call. >> it was definitely america that's for sure. we saw in florida unfortunately it looks like andrew tbillal has con-- gillum has consided the race to ron desantis. that's some

mitt romney come in, paul ryan going out. of it is so unfortunate. >> paul ryan is not going away. paul ryan is going to be there somewhere. he has an ambition to be president some day. lou: he he'he's going to line hs pockets. >> he'll go back to politics in wisconsin and run for something. lou: what is the republican party going to do. they look like damn fools. >> the republican party is donald trump. the vast majority of americans self identify as republicans, even more than when i worked for ronald reagan are trump supporters. lou: trump supporters have got to be scratching their heads tonight. mike pompeo has just hired a never trumper want pro-china mad fanatic free trader at any cost to america, mary kis l. how does she get hired? >> i have no idea. i'm shocked by it. i like her personally but she is not a trump person. don't believe in the policies that the president advocates. and for her to be going in as a senior advise tore the secretary of state to me -- lou: he called, for example, the helsinki summit with puti

wireless bill when you include xfinity mobile click, call or visit a store today. ♪ ♪ >> glor: mitt romneyhead elect for utah, his adopted home state. jan crawford on romney's rise to the senate. >> i will be only one of 100 united states senators, but i eslieve that one person doing the right thing at the right time can have a lasting impact. >> reporter: for mitt romney, it was finally the right time. in 2012, he waged a hard-fought presidential campaign. >> i so wish that i had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction. >> governor romney, go out and get 'em. n.u can do it. >> thank you. >> reporter: complete with an endorsement from then- businessman donald trump. >> there are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. this is one of them. >> reporter: after losing to president obama, romney stepped ept of the public eye. but four years later, with trump heading for the republican nomination, he came back swinging... >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> reporter: ...hitting then- candidate trump harder than he haer went after o

mitt romney, the first person to be a governor of one state and elected to the senate from a differentn 177 years. >> wow. >> how about that? >> the last person who did it, sam houston was a governor ofse tenn and became senator of texas. how crazy is that? >> that's crazy. i know. >> i love it. >> crazier that you ow this information. >> it was in the paper, i didn't actually know it. irknow it becau know it because read. >>> temperares areostly in the 40s to around 50. there's a few outliers out there across parts of northern virginia. 58re d in national airport. light wind will be with the rest of the day. 39 in manassas. 41 for gtwarr and leesburg. there's a chill there across parts of northern virginia. suburban maryland isld . 54 at joint base andrews. so your planner then for yourco ute today, might actually need the sunglasses once again after two rainouts in aw. it will be a mix of clouds and sunshine today. mostly ithe 40s for the ride in. low 60s at noontime and falling into the 5 uppers by 5:00. sun's down at 5:01 tod and t sun will be down before 5:00 starting saturday and

mitt romney has been a mentor and a lot of ways to you. did he call you up and ask your advice? was there ever a hesitation we said, get the hell out of here. >> that was about a year ago. we are good friends. we talk all the time. you know what i said, he knows my phase of life. he called me up the today annod and he said the one benefit in washington and your leading? visit i was going to get a two bedroom apartment at all for you room so we didn't have to anymore. he has a pretty good sense of humor. >> probably would've been a big apartment. he has a little bit of going. >> he's going to live on the hill i think. he still has a lot of public service left in him, and i think it's great that is coming and i think he feels a sense of civic duty. i think with john mccain passing, for example, mitt romney please is a role for him in our party in being a statesman and a standardbearer in our party. i've been coaching to go on the foreign relations committee to help -- i was not a big traveler in my earlier grip of one of the can speak i decided to do some landmark hotels, for inst

the photographer on the left, his flash is lighting up mitt romney as he kisses the bride. it so happened that one of his rallies in sioux city, iowa, or one of his events, it was the same time these folks were getting married at the hotel. on his way out, he greeted the groom and bride and gave a good luck kiss. ben: did any of you cover both of the romney campaigns and have any observations on how that changed over time? chip: i did not cover 2008, no. carolyn: no. ben: you only got him when he was ready for prime time. chip: exactly. again, this is senator mccain. this is in plant city, florida, along the i-40 corridor. it stretches from orlando over to tampa and it bisects the state. if you want to win the white house, you have to win florida. and if you want to win florida, then you have to win the i-40 corridor. this is a famous -- it's a farm stand, but they're also famous for making these incredible strawberry shortcakes. i'm trying to remember the name of the place. yeah, parksdale farms. right on the side of the highway. every presidential candidate, if they want

i did chat with mitt romney and i think he would make an excellent senator and i believe he will be the next senator from tah. can he do what i do? probably not because i have been here long enough and i have chaired three major committees and the most viable committee in the congress right now, the finance committee. that takes time and seniority to get there and an awful lot of hard work. he will still be effective because of who he is and his reputation. and how hard i think he will work. it is not given, but i think he has a really good chance of becoming the next senator from utah. host: in your 1976 campaign, your first one, your campaign slogan was, what do you call a senator who has been in washington for 18 years? you call him home. who came up with that? sen. hatch: i think i did. it could have been some of our advisors. keep in mind, senator moss was a nice man but he was a total liberal. he was not acting in the best interest of utah, or really the country in my opinion. that is why i felt he needed to be called on. host: here you are 42 years later. at the time, when you ca

mitt romney in the speaker's office.t do you think about his vice presidential bid and how he campaigned in 2012? guest: it was an extraordinary moment for conservatives and wisconsin conservatives. i think he did a pretty good job. the results of that election were not about paul ryan. that was about president barack obama and mitt romney. i want to go back to something which was before, important. you had the tea party movement, needryan talking about the to get a handle on the deficit in the -- and the debt. it turns out the republican party or the electric were not that interested in fiscal restraint. as craig pointed out, trump comes along, completely redefines the approach to those issues. republicans who were all in on the tea party go we are not that interested in entitlement reform, the debt and deficit. it was like a switch. in 2012, you looked at paul ryan, and i think a lot of republicans and conservatives said this is the future of the republican party and conservative movement. that was obviously not the ca

it was blatant race baiting then to call mitt romney that and i didn't think it was right.sident to lead us on this, because this has been going on for too long. some day, some political leader is going to lead us out of this and into a better conversation. if it were donald trump, that would be great but i hope it's somebody some day soon. >> april, i want to play for you what president trump said to axios about his continued attacks on the media. take a listen. >> tens of thousands of people go into a stadium to listen to you and then people go on social media and they get themselves so jazzed up. there's got to be a party that's, like, damn it, i'm scared that somebody is going to take it too far. >> it is my only form of fighting back. i couldn't be here if i did that. >> you won. you have the presidency. >> no, but i did this before i won. >> you cover the president every day. what's your reaction to that? >> it's the only form of fighting back by putting us in harm's way. well, it's sad if that's the only way he knows how to fight. when you are a president of the unit

. >> the person to watch, brian, senator-elect mitt romney of utah. he was one of the rare republicans who issued a statement today in light of the attorney general's firing and he said, you have to protect the mueller investigation. does it become more than a statement in the coming weeks from senator-elect romney? does it become an actual speech, an actual statement, talking on television, talking to his colleagues in the upper chamber? does he become someone who could be a counterweight or the same way as senator graham, a republican who's on the trump train and going along with the president. >> romney was almost alone among prominent republicans in saying that on social media today. it's why we had these three guests start us off tonight. our great thanks to jeremy bash, to joyce vance, and to robert costa. we really appreciate it. >>> and coming up, before president trump fired sessions, he held the longest solo press conference of his presidency. it was over the top and off the rails and has tonight resulted in the punishment of a cable network

like if mitt romney -- the most offensive thing mitt romney did about immigration, other than his -- you know, offensive in quotes, was talk about self def defd deportation. >> if i had gotten a call from a reporter about that, i would have said obviously i don't want you to write the story yet, because i'm going to offer as, you know, harsh a denial on this, and offer every single evidence -- piece of evidence i can to refute what your claim is. so i would have a great deal of confidence in that. but i do think this goes back to my earlier point, which is that we would have normally been inside a huge meltdown phase inside of a campaign or potential white house. knowing that something like this happened. and -- or even having a charge like this out in the public. but, you know, that is -- that's the difference between the old politics of normal times and the politics we have today. >> yeah. everyone stick around. we have a lot more to talk about. it's not only vile, it's also factually wrong. we fact-checked that racially charged ad that trump tweeted this week. that's coming up nex

i think mitt romney is a major figure.re are plenty of other people that can step up that have been cowed a bit or haven't seen much point in sticking their head above the ramparts. lal mar alexander, plenty of people who have been around the senate who the are serious and should, i think, liberate themselves from the president and liberate from the extreme of their party, same with the democrats. i talked to a fair number of young players coming in, democrats and republicans obviously and i do think they are coming not simply to be rubber stamps for leaders but to try to get something done. you could have back bench rebellions maybe led by an elder statesman like mitt romney against the partisanship or the leadership of the president. >> i have to ask a question that may reveal me as a lily livered good government type but during the mcconnell harry reid years, it was so much about the game. it was so much about the inside game between those two guys and when i hear observers of house democrats say pelosi's probably got i

mitt romney has a storied history with president trump, for lack of a better term.sting to see whether the pressure comes up. i was struck i what the congressman told us in the last segment. essentially, they still are uncomfortable with the president's tone on geopolitical issues. shery ahn: true. the house firmly in democratic hands. the next step would be for democrats to get a house speaker. it looks like, the opposition we have seen for nancy pelosi, there is no declared rival. whon: i think marsha fudge, had emerged as the hope of some progressives, who wanted to see she was announcing she would not do that challenge. a win for nancy pelosi. when i was in new york, i was talking to aids, they had even said this would be a difficult challenge. look to see how nancy pelosi turns to the left, how she works with new congresswomen, including alexandra cortez, the progressive democrat from new york city, to see how she meshes, and what exactly the power of the gavel means for this speaker. shery ahn: one week away from that members only meeting in the house. democra

this is a district that mitt romney beat president obama by 18 points. trump beat hillary by 13 points there. say, there'sing to going to be a race that surprises you, i will confess that that wouldn't have been where i would've picked. the underperforming early in the evening was something that had our heads scratching. governors, it was a good night for democrats. there are still races that are the one int between, alaska, the open seat where the independent was running and he dropped out. that is very close. the other is the open seat in connecticut. finally, georgia. forquestion is, does it go a runoff on december 4? it's a close call. campaign, werams were on a conference call with her folks over the weekend. trying to winly without a runoff. they thought it was possible because a libertarian was not getting anything. they thought it would be so narrow. i don't think it was overconfidence. they hadt was that considerable doubt about what would -- what it would be like in a really short runoff time, up against the state -- secretary of state. the sta

>> this is mitt romney already injecting himself into the washington scene. i think he's going to be ultimately a thorn in the side of the president for a long time. mitt is the one who made the speech that the president then candidate trump wasn't qualified he changed his tune when he was running for the u.s. senate. now he's coming to washington, d.c. i heard he was shopping for an apartment today in washington. look we -- this president has been very clear. bob mueller is going to finish his investigation. you can't have an investigation that goes on. bring this to a close. let the american people see exactly what i already know. there was no collusion or cooperation or any way, shape, or form. let's end this investigation. we can get on with the people's business. >> can i ask you real quick one of the things is the president -- the underlying premise of why the president fired sessions is because sessions mislead him frankly sessions took a job knowing he would have to recuse himself. he was going to be the faithful stewart and leader. shortly after taki

you worked with mitt romney, relatively speaking a traditional mainstream candidate.onald trump is anything but that. is he redefining and making it that much more difficult predict? lanhee: it is. his impact on voters is that predict. difficult to traditionally midterm elections are about individual members of congress trying to make the case for why they ought to be reelected. usually that happens independent of the national environment. yes, the national environment influences things, but individual members are trying to get at what is their case for being returned to office. in this election, the overwhelming question voters are asking is what do i think of donald trump and what he has done? that is driving public impressions of individual candidates down to a microlevel. but we are seeing is an almost unprecedented nationalization of midterm elections. it will be a referendum on donald trump one way or the other. david: the president yesterday said as much. this is really about me at this point. i am not on the ballot, but it is about me. i think he likes that po

mi mitt romney wins big tonight. mia love's seat, 58% in, she's losing quite significantly right now. a woman who became a national democratic story, won that seat, spoke at the republican convention. a lot of republicans looked at her as a voice of the future. right now she's losing. move over here, republican corrupt chris stewart, losing. now only 25% here. doesn't mean he's going to lose but you see the sweep of the democratic competitive races, competitive out here in utah. we just called the race in arizona. iowa, the midwest. look at the governors races. senate races maybe not so much at least when it comes to indiana. but democrats poised, pickup opportunity here. it's only 11% but they believe they can beat ron blum here in the eastern part of i would. let's come over to the southwestern corner. the democratic challenger 54%, starting to stretch out a lead. democrats think a pickup opportunity here. let's check this race. it's not on the list. this is close. this was not on the democratic list until recently

mitt romney is in the senate.e craziness it's an interesting story there. >> it's not the senate anymore. we'll have a healthy majority. it's in the house. if the house which will now be run by democrats hopefully by nancy pelosi, because, you know, she is a has been. >> bill: i thought the line from mike lee was cute.be calle junior any time at his age. >> sandra: breaking news out of the justice department. we're hearing the doj issued an opinion supporting acting attorney general matt whitaker. we'll bring it to you in a few moments. >> bill: waiting the arrival of james mattis at the u.s. southern border. where do things stand with the caravan of illegal immigrants? we'll put that question to ken paxton. he is our guest live coming up right here. >> game on. the administration is ready. cbc has got more resources down there with the military building the infrastructure and the fencing. you've got a lot more inspectors and asylum officers ready to start the interviews. whoooo. here's a trip tip! when you search

where president obama's problems with 2010 and then he got reelected over mitt romney.here is not a predictive value. what is worth looking at is to think what were the states that caused democrats so many problems in 2016, and is there anything about what you can look at here. in michigan, democrats gained the governorship and won the senate seat easily. so, what ever problem democrats may have had in michigan in 2016, and maybe it was a clinton-specific problem. whatever it was, it did not work against democrats as much as this time and last time. or ohio where you had sherrod brown winning and democrats coming close to winning the governorship there. wisconsin, winning the senate seat easily. and then beating scott walker. -- wisconsin winning a senate seat, tammy baldwin winning the senate seat easily in wisconsin and beating scott walker. with walker, i have a theory that god didn't intend governors to serve more than two terms. [laughter] charlie: and there's a reason why a lot of states don't allow it, because it is unnatural. andrew cuomo is cheating the gods. h

if you're from north dakota the state that mitt romney won by the 20-point margin in trump by 36 points or from west virginia where romney won by 27 or trump and 42 or indiana trump by 19 or from missouri romney by nine. montana. i am not predicting all five of these democrats will lose because i don't think they will but they are in really, really tough places and mentioning to others. one is bill nelson and florida. florida is a state that obama won by one point then trump carried it by one.it is a swing state. butnt his opponent is the governor rick scott the last i heard writing a check for $48 million personal. after-tax. notd race is really, really really, really close and also menendez from new jersey. the senate races almost always go democratic however if you have been indicted on bribery charges and it's a hung jury that just means they can get the guilty so new jersey is the one senate race where president trump is no influence whatsoever basically al question how do you feel about this? this is where menendez had a lead but it's very tenuous that we are being cautious. there

that is what barack obama got with mitt romney.roadly isquestion do you see shifting across the country? ohio seems to be growing more red while western states seem to be going blue. is there a shift? tectonic shifts. ohio is the new missouri. these used to be tossup states. ohio is not anymore. we saw republicans do very well in ohio even as democrats were having a good night elsewhere. republicans retained the governorship in ohio. these things are tectonic plates. things in mississippi move a bit more slowly. mississippi is probably still in a shift to the right. david: we also have on the house side indecision about to be made about the leadership. i think most people expect that nancy pelosi will recover her gavel, if i can put it that way. if that happens, what does that mean for the democratic party? >> certainly nancy pelosi's position seems to be pretty decent. the opposition to pelosi is not consolidated around an actual alternative. we have seen some softening in the opposition to her within her own caucus. position.a de

all four of the districts were won by mitt romney in 2012 and four years later won by hillary clintonand all four of the districts have above average education levels, and then in that 2018 they all flipped to blue. keep in mind all of these districts, not only did they flip to blue at the end of the day it doesn't look like they will be close. we can take a look at them. this was young -- you kept talking to me, she was a great candidate. now it's a two-point marchin. and rogers, an incumbent. this race not close. walters was talking about running the nrc, she was so sure she was going to win. and then this is a blowout. this is racing towards seven percentage points. and then the 49th district, this was darryl's district. orange county is a place not only did ronald reagan credit that to his rice, but in 1984 reagan won this county by 50 points. >> is it just changing demographics? >> orange county incapsulates everything about the blue wave. if the story was white working class voters in the north were beginning to vote like working white class voters in the south, and whites with

unfold yesterday, the new senator, the incoming senator from the state of utah, a man by the man of mitt romney tweeted for the mueller investigation to proceed he said unimpeded. do you think romney is going to be potentially a headache for the trump white house? >> the senate is going to be without some of its most prominent critics because senators jeff make and bob corker nearing their retirement and the late senator john mccain is no longer in the chamber so there is a position that mitt romney could fulfill as a conscience, so to speak, on the republican side of the aisle, but it's worth noting that despite his contentious relationship with trump in 2016 when he was one of the leaders of the never trump movement he then, as a candidate in utah, took a more cordial tone. he said he was going to criticize the president sparingly. now i think it will really come down to the difference between words and action, and so he has criticized, for example, the president's rhetoric towards the media, towards minorities and immigrants, muslims, but is he going to vote in line with the president's agen

one of them, a ride with mitt romney.e compared it to the butter and jelly savages for everybody who is hungry at that moment. traveling around with senator campaign on his bus was legendary because he was so relaxed and so in his element with reporters, which was completely unusual because most politicians are not that comfortable. there are other moments i give in the book. john edwards is an example. he was a leading contender in 2008. he had won the south carolina primary in 2004. he got out of the vehicle, very angry, upset at his step. you noticed his body length. my photography went and got the b roll of edwards together. when we looked at the tape, we noticed that night that john and elizabeth edwards were not holding hands, when they were walking in a parade. we do not know what that meant. we noticed it and a month later, turned out that he had been having an affair, and she had known about that during that time period. things begin to make sense through body language and through some of the reactions of the can

kevin: i thought it was going to be secretary of state mitt romney, now we have senator mitt romney. even 10:10 p.m. no shocker there. anding iowa as was montana nevada. i have my eye on nevada. this is a state that president trump was not able to carry in the 2016 presidential election, also intor dean heller, the 2016 presidential had a contentious relationship with president trump. now he is fighting against the democratic challenger, so we are looking to see how that will play in particular. and we have to focus on the democratic pickups. in florida you have debbie mucarsel-powell, first-generation ecuadorian immigrant pulling off an upset of sorts and defeating a moderate republican, a very moderate republican. that is a point i want to make. carlos curbelo was very moderate on immigration, as well as environmental. he try to attract a new generation of republicans, trying to win over republicans who were fiscally conservative, but potentially more liberal. and now he is out. so this is very indicative, because it is an illustration of the democrats trying to win suburbs. in vir

so it will be interesting to see as mitt romney gets to square off against his once-rival, president trump. >> by a pretty good margin there, too. >> we'll have to get used to calling him "senator romney." >> as the polls have closed in utah she have spend some time to talk about mayor brent tailor, a major killed in afghanistan. a proud member of the army national guard, mitt romney saying after we learned of his passing, this is another immeasurable price that is paid for freedom. and i think many people referred foaft he made on facebook saying, i hope everyone-- this is before he died-- he said, "i hope everyone exercises the precious right to vote." >> and how much it meant to him and how ironic that his body would be returned to this country on election day, the day when he encouraged everyone, whether you're a democrat or republican, he just said, "please go out and vote today." it was very touching. >> deeply moving on that same message about what he fought for and gave his life for. >> he and his brothers all enlisted after september 11. >> it was his fourth tour of duty. he

mitt romney doesn't fit in the donald trump republican party. he just doesn't.eff flake, i think the small government conservatives really misread the trump base. they're not small government people. they're culture warriors. this is different. mitt romney was never a comfortable cultural warrior it will be very interesting. he is an odd fitp'n donald trparty. >> he is a fiscal conservative, a real old-fashioned republican so he doesn't fit at all. another example is that joe biden called him to congtulate him on his victory tonight, which is an old fashioned courtesy you don't see very much in the current senate. t >>nk the other thing, i think you raised the important point, warrior.s a culture he's going to fit in, in an odd way into a senate surrounded by trump people, who got there becae of donald trump. i mean 99% they're responsible for it, and then the question is what does donald trump have in e mind forext couple of years? how often will we see him out there? he made the courtesy call tonight, but i don't think that's what he will be abo. this has work

. >> mitt romney did a documentary. >> harris: can we get to something brad just said?at you're talking about, certainly not on the senate side. >> republicans were expected to lose around 31 seats so democrats had a good night, it wasn't like anything that republicans experienced in 2010, that's a referendum. democrats had a great night, who knows what 2020 brings. we would love to move past hillary clinton, she keeps popping up. hillary clinton will never be president for three reasons. one, i wrote a column about this for foxnews.com.com. she's inauthentic, david axelrod has spoken to this. she is not likable, this came up during the 2008 democrat campaign. and she's out of touch. president trump said -- that's exactly right. >> i am not flocking for hillary clinton to be president of the united states but this idea that she should go away -- mitt romney lost whites, he's an united states senate. >> harris: on the house -- >> the largest sweep of democrats since watergate. >> harris: who called hillary clinton and to help them? >> that's for every democrat. >> harris

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are you buying mitt romney as the new civility in the senate?sn't come into this role owing anybody anything. he's made pretty clear in the past his views on trump. he ehad the secretary of state position and got spurned by donald trump. it was kind off a cat and mouse. and we'll see how he's going to respond. if he's going to see this as a political moment when he could step up and lead or if he's going to behave like a lot of the rest of the spineless republicans on capitol hill. >> bob corker, jeff flake and others, they would come out and make speeches and speak out at certain moments in time and they would by and large went along with his policies. >> that's the fear we ecome out of tonight and that is some of those that are the most trump, that no matter what he did defended him won tonight. so does that mean you're going to have less people like flake around that will challenge him because by the time he finishes spinning this morning, a lot of them are going to be whipped into line which is going to make the country even more divided wit

but you have people coming in like mitt romney, who is not a fan of donald trump.ole of bob corker or a jeff flake once he gets there. now both of those men ended up voting with president trump most of the time, right? but i don't think even though mitch mcconnell banded his majority, that it will be a blank check or rubber stamp, whatever image we want to use here, on the republican side. there are going to be some thorns in the side of donald trump. mitt romney being one of them. lisa murkowski. susan collins has lost her status as that. i think with kavanaugh, she redeemed herself as a full blown member of the republican party that doesn't really vote independently ever anymore. >> one thing on the politics. one thing that's interesting, we talk about the discussion between, debate between the freedom caucus and more conservative and the rest of them. the thing that's been missing is the group of house members and senators who are really with the president in terms of his populous message in his agenda. if you think about it, all of the members in both chambers

bush, adolf hitler, filmmaker michael moore partners with them, and they want to expletive punch mitt romneyo burn this mother down, that is the group nbc and conspiracy theorist rachel maddow is now helping to organize, promote, radical leftist protest. tom brokaw, what is going to happen when someone gets hurt at your break the glass moment? led by rachel? the on-air coverage was even more dramatic, even sicker, take aa look. >> this is a slow motion, almost a self-coup by which a president pulls power to himself that he is not supposed to have. >> what we saw today is a kind of coup against the rule of law, a kind of action that you see in a tin-pot dictatorship. >> there has been a slow motion saturday night massacre starting with the firing of james comey,r now with the firing of the attorney general. >> are we g seeing a kind of gangster mentality at the white house in trying to control the doj? >> i really do think this is a national emergency. i don't think you can overstate the gravity of the situation, and it is incumbent upon everyone in public life to respond to this like it is a

and mitt romney and ben sasse take up that mantle of that role he had been playing.have a more polarized congress. i don't think this election says that the progressive wave is where democrats need to go, should go to win in 2020 going forward. but look at those suburban swing districts that they were able to pull. not -- you know, this is not pennsylvania won, which actually republicans held on to. this is oklahoma city suburbs, kansas city sub bauurbsuburbs. south carolina home district. that is unbelievable to see a democrat in this district. so those are really significant. those are not democrats who are going to embrace the far left, but it shows a more subtle realignment. >> those pick ups in those suburban districts it really was across the entire map. you have done so much reporting on what the future democratic congress might look like. i know you haven't gone to press yet. so tell us everything you can. what's going to happen with nancy pelosi? >> too early to tell. if your number is right, she can only lose 11 votes on the floor. right now of the candidat

the senate will presumably do that early next year after mitt romney has been sworn in as utah's new junior senator. today mitt romney tweeted i want to thank jeff sessions for his service to our country as attorney general. under acting attorney general matthew whittaker it is imperative that the important work of the justice department continues and that the mueller investigation proceeds to its conclusion unimpeded. as acting attorney general matthew whittaker will be subject to the recusal guidelines that gave jeff sessions no choice but to recuse himself from supervising the investigation of the trump campaign and of the president. if matthew whittaker follows the recusal guidelines and chooses to recuse himself, then nothing would have changed in the mueller investigation. matthew whittaker is 49 years old. he will have a long professional career after the trump presidency is over. he has to ask himself tonight, how much is he willing to risk that career by obstructing justice for donald trump? is he willing to risk getting disbarred as a lawyer? is he willing to risk becoming

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