both of them is that they have the benefit now of hindsight because they watched what happened to bennet and the fact is that -- >> yeah, but democrats saw this crap coming for a year and couldn't do anything about it. >> but it wasn't just that bennet wasn'tu than they didn't view him as being conservative enough, it was also he wasn't working his base. and that's what happens when you're in washington for too long. let me totally be clear about something, if i lived in delaware i would have voted for mike castle in the republican primary, but having said that, the fact that a guy who's been in washington this long couldn't get 30,000 people to vote for him in a republican -- that's all that you need in delaware to win a republican primary and he couldn't do it. he ran on being -- he ran as being part of the establishment. as having experience and he was a little tone-deaf. >> take a look at these, steve, look at these, the republicans who are going to face the heat the right if conditions continue with the bad economy and the anger against anything that looks like centrism from the rig

. >> colorado, michael bennet, to close to call? >> tossup, but michael bennet has a slight lead, a couple of points. >> to close to call. >> it is possible that voters will record as he is a good guy and deserves to be there. -- will recognize that he is a good guy and deserves to be there. >> what about barack obama's illinois senate seat? is that leading republican? >> yes. it is surprising that it is not more so, but that race is tightening up. we have to focus on turnout. >> washington state, patty murray is the incumbent. >> tossup. >> i was in chicago earlier this week, and there are nasty advertisements. >> they are everywhere. i was on the colorado, new mexico, and arizona last week, and i learned that nancy pelosi is was possible not only for the deficit and unemployment, but also for the declining honeybee population, you name it. [laughter] connecticut, attorney general versus the wrestling ceo. >> that is leading in his direction. >> only in this year would even be close. she is kind of a ridiculous candidate. >> millio

he defeats conservative incumbent bob bennet, defeating him in the primary, that is, foreshadowing then pennsylvania, it's neck and neck between retired navy admiral joe sestak and former congressman, against passionate antitax man pat toomey in the ultimate swing state we're watching carefully, joe sestak ahead by two percentage points now but it is too early to project and too tight to project a winner in that race. in the state of illinois, alexi giannoulias running against mark kirk, republican -- this is really important because it is barack obama's former senate seat, so this has a lot of sentimental meaning and significance for the white house, and they are watching this race very, very carefully. also in the state of wisconsin, another race that is very tight. too early to project, senator russ feingold, a maverick senator running against ron johnson, a plastics manufacturer from oshkosh who has put a lot of his own money into the race. in nevada again -- actually, in colorado, rather -- michael bennet who was appointed to fill in secretary salazar's seat is running against ken

obama was close to bennet. he was a conservative, bennet. but they could do business together.er bennet left, nobody wants to do business with obama. and the difference between '94 also, beyond the ones richard said, is i think the power of fox news has moved this political agenda, rush and fox. i think the tea party movement has a forum there. if you look at some of the news stories of the year, glen beck is one of the ones that has been kind of pushing, sort of a spokesperson for the tea party movement. gingrich didn't have that back in '94. there was cnn. you know, he didn't have a media forum like that. so, history will show the tea party and fox working together, i think, helped to start this turn-back of obama-ism. the fatal mistake i think president obama made, i think he did a good job out of the gate. i think he did the right thing by bailing out gm. i think the stimulus was right and maybe should have been bigger. but over that first summer he did not take the right serious. and when they started those town hall meetings and the tea party movement started, it was kind

. >> reporter: michael bennet was finally declared the winner in colorado's senate contest.emocrats held that seat. a win for barack obama after a midterm he called a shellacking, democrats losing the house. >> it feels bad. i've got to do a better job. >> reporter: the president said he's done the right things for the economy, but many voters hadn't felt the effect. >> i think i have got to take direct responsibility for the fact that we have not made as much progress as we need to make. >> reporter: but the soon to be new house speaker, republican john boehner, says voters told the president to change course on taxes, spending, and the debt. >> it's pretty clear that the obama/pelosi agenda is being rejected by the american people. >> nancy pelosi's laid low, aides say she is considering her future. republicans made her a target and stripped the speakership from the woman once called the most powerful in washington. >> no regrets because we believe we did the right thing and we worked very hard in our campaigns to convey that to the american people. >> president obama says

and finally, in colorado's senate race, democrat michael bennet and the republican are in a very tight race, ken buck. too close to call. that one may end up in a recount. >> tracie potts in washington. tracie, thank you. >>> what does all of this mean in the coming months and years for governing in washington? with insight on that we go to joy ann reid, political columnist for the miami herald, and, joy, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> you and i know in this business, headlines are everything. what's the headline here in the midterm election? >> i think if i had to write a headline it would be revenge of the mccain voter. if you look at the exit poll, the demographic of the polls that came out, excited about this election are basically the demographic of people who voted for john mccain and prefer him in the 200 presidential election. they came out. older voters, white voters. suburban voters who were really ready to deal a blow to president obama. >> for the first time, president obama going to have to deal with a republican majority any a house of congress

bennet was a liberal. where are we?n you can say to them you are really deceiving the american people when we can show you tax rates that have been reduced to 8% andÑi 14% and 23%, i'm not listening to your babble on the other side, it's time to just cut them off. they become irrelevant. >> rose: peter orszag talked to me about the social security benefits cuts. he said the main flaw in the proposal of the security plan is it relies too little on revenue increases and too much on future benefit reduction. >> i think peter'd rather see the ratios at 50-50. he has said some good things about the progressivety in our plan. >> rose: right. >> but i think he'd rather see it more on the revenue side. >> rose: he's also a man who's on record saying the bush tax cuts for middle-class should also be eliminated two years from now because he thinks we'll need that trillion-dollar revenue. >> peter's comments were totally appropriate. he was right on track that last comment within the last part of his statement. but the rest of it

in colorado, senator michael bennet narrowly defeated his challenge in tea party republican ken buck. in washington state, democrat patty murray maintains a small lead over her republican challenger dino rossi. state officials say the final result may not be known at least two more days. in alaska senator lisa murkowski was forced to run as a write-in. election officials hope to have a winner by next week. >>> the fbi says the same gun that was used to fire shots at a coast guard recruiting station was used in a string of similar washington-area incidents. the shots were fired at the coast guard station in northern virginia on tuesday. last month, shots were fired at the national museum of the marine corps, then a few days later at the pentagon then a marine corps recruiting station. no one was hurt. the fbi believes one shooter is responsible. >>> this morning, tropical storm tomas is bearing down on haiti, where over a million earthquake survivors have been ordered to evacuate. tomas is strengthening, expected to be a hurricane when it hits haiti tomorrow with torrential rains and p

late today in colorado, michael bennet declared a narrow victory over tea party republican ken buck. no decision yet in alaska where incumbent lisa murkowski mount an independent write-in campaign after losing the g.o.p. nomination. and no decision in washington state where incumbent democrat patty murray has a small lead over republican challenger dino rossi. nancy cordes is our congressional correspondent, and nancy, i understand you could almost feel the winds of power shift today on capitol hill. >> reporter: you really can, katie. we're starting to see a shift in demeanor among republicans here on the hill as they embraced their new position of power. >> what a great night. ( cheers ) >> reporter: it was in fact the greatest night for house republicans in modern history. the party scooping up even more seats than it did in the republican wave of 1994. >> let this serve as a warning to congress. we don't work for you. you work for us. ( cheers ) >> reporter: a huge new crop of co n coming to washington with what they see as a mandate for change. >> we really do believe you can't

so might bennet -- so mike bennet is the winner. mr.ers is going to be declared the victor in that race. the incumbent in the georgia second race is also the winner in those races. that leaves 11 outstanding house races that we're keeping track of. coming up, we will be taking you live to the republican leadership news conference. we told you -- you cannot see the -- you can see the room there. wheaton that mike pence -- we told you that mike pence put out a letter earlier. "the republican leader asked me to help lead house republicans back to the majority, and i felt it was my duty to do so. people should keep their promises and complete the assignment they had been given. i have declined offers to run for the u.s. senate." he goes on to say that, "the bold and courageous. to not allow political wins to sway you from standing up for the basic principles. we have been given a second chance." prove to be true to our world, the american people will stand with us." he has resigned and he will not seek another term as conference chairman. w

michael bennet, the democratic incumbent in colorado has hung on against ken buck. and both sides say right now, that one could go down to the wire. >> reporter: that's probably the second-closest race in the country right now. republicans are looking at these two. if they're going to have any prayer of taking over the senate, they have to win both. i talked to a republican strategist this morning who says they probably have a slightly better chance in colorado. but ken buck is one of the tea party candidates that knocked off the choice of the republican establishment, jane norton, in colorado. he's faced a problem in terms of women voters. how badly does he lose that? you remember a comment he had not long ago that colorado needed a senator who wore cowboy boots, not high heels. >> i remember that. independent voters key in the state of colorado. especially women. okay, jon karl, thanks very much. robin? >>> let's talk three more races right now. the high-proe fight battle out in california. david wright is in los angeles for us this morning. >> reporter: in the u.

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michael bennet, the colorado senator who has been there a very short time decided he didn't want to do. i have heard from a few people who suggest it may not be done on tuesday. they may not be able to find someone by tomorrow. so this may drag out. not a good sign for a party who wants to start rebuilding. >>> and this weekend, sunday in fact in philadelphia, vice president joe biden joined other leaders at the opening of the first new museum on independence mall. the national museum of american-jewish history. the museum encompassed 350 years of jewish life in the united states. officially opens to the public the day after thanksgiving. i was privileged to take part in opening this museum. it will explore immigration and civil rights and a broad sweep of u.s.-jewish history as the vice president described. >> when we embrace diversity, america becomes more than a beacon of freedom. more than a sum of its parts. it becomes a magnet. >> directly across from the museum, the national park services is rebuilding president george washington's home during the continental congress. the home

this week, the republican, ken buck, pulling ahead of michael bennet in two of the polls. it's a four-point race or tighter than that. president obama's former seat in illinois, still a close race, mark kirk a slight edge over alexi giannoulias. to nevada, no race more significant, symbolically, with majority leader harry reid in the fight of his political career against tea party candidate sharron angle who, in two polls, has that edge, four points over harry reid. the open seat in pennsylvania where democratic congressman joe sestak in a tight race against pat toomey, new poll showing it's toomey with the edge, a two-point lead turnout is so important here. washington state now, the democratic firewall. senator patti murray and republican dino rossi, showing murray up slightly, personally popular. the real enemy there is washington, who she's up against. three-term democratic senator russ feingold, slipping away from ron johnson. this is now a seven-point race in johnson's favor. recent polling in the much-talked about republican seat of florida. what a crazy week this w

bennet is not a good candidate. obama say much stronger candidate than those two.icans lose colorado and nevada they lose the election. >> he got -- governor, you got 53% nationwide last time. i would argue, you would know this. you're better at knowing it, you're at home there. 53%. i think a chunk of that 53, maybe 3%, 4% were sort of high-minded eisenhower republicans who wanted to give the first african-american a shot at the presidency. and they are not going to be there next time, are they? those moderate republicans? will they be with him against a guy like mitt romney or against a guy like somebody else, this sort of generic republican as opposed to sarah who is not generic at all? >> first of all, the republicans aren't going to be smart enough to field mitt romney. they'll give us somebody a lot easier to beat. that's number one. >> that's true. >> that's number one. >> you are selling romney when you said that. that's best pitch. >> that's number one. number two, there's a lot of time between now and then. and i think president obama can recover the mode

they watched closely what happened to bob bennet and lisa murkowski. and they do not have right in provisions in their states. they will be cognizant of the fact that this was a couple of years where they cooperated. that may spell real trouble for them. orrin hatch already has a very likely challenger, and jason take this region -- jason chaffatz. it will be like fritz hollings, nobody getting on my right this time around. it makes it more difficult to understand how you can make policy. >> in the back, and then we will take this one and then we will have the panel answer. >> henry olsen mentioned provincial conservatism which will be a big push to repeal obamacare. would you recommend that? second question would be, this is a divided government now, much like the u.k. and a number of other countries. do you ascribed any importance to that question margin and then we will take this question and then anyone on the panel can answer. >> other than the housing market, the trade deficits, public deficit, there's a decision as to whether other countries con

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first thing out of the box, they repealed arithmetic. >> reporter: in colorado michael bennet made hiscing for a likely gop takeover of the house, but with just hours to go, democrats across the nation made their closing arguments in a final push to keep republicans from gaining control of the senate. >> someone says we want to send a message to washington. i'm asking you to send a messenger and i'm volunteering to be that messenger. >> reporter: for democrats the latest abc news/"washington post" poll had bad news. while democrats have narrowed the gap, americans still prefer republicans by four points in house races. sarah palin is up in arms over a report on the next election. politico used anonymous sources to say that the republican establishment was trying to stop her from running for president in 2012. palin called those reporters child molesting, puppy kicking, chain smoking, porn producers, and she got it from -- you guessed it -- an unnamed source. rob and vinita? >> millions of election eve robo calls jammed up the nation's phone systems. the new hampshire democratic party s

senator mike -- michael bennet has 47% and ken buck has 47%. if you have been watching the past couple of hours, it keeps flip-floping. but right now we don't know who the winner is. you go to alaska. you talk about this one. lisa murkowski, writes in candidates, as it shows up on the associated press, it is the total write-in. lisa murkowski with 40% or 41%, followed by joe miller, 34%, to end scott mcadams, the democrat, 24% but they will start counting november 18 and it will take three days. lisa rakowski said to cnn she thinks she has won this race. go to california. carly fiorina is not conceding this race. but look at the projected winner. senator boxer, democrat, the incumbents, going to return it looks like for another term. she has 52% to the vote to carly fiorina's 42%. quite a wide margin. as carrie budoff brown said, not sure what carly fiorina is waiting for. in the washington senate race, this is still not called. 60% of the -- votes were counted. patty murray, the democrat incumbent, 50%, dino rossi, about 50%. they will start c

. >>> and in colorado, michael bennet and ken buck are neck and neck there. >> that could be heading for a recount as well. you have to talk about the tea party. they brought so much energy no to primary. one of the earliest leaders, south carolina leader jim demint. i spoke to him earlier this morning. i know you don't take credit for the tea party movement. what do you think those voters were saying tonight? what are you going to do to advance their cause? >> the most exciting thing that came out of the election is the realization that the power here in america is in the hands of the american people. if they want to stand up and take it. i think that will maybe realign politics in the country. force a discussion on the role of the federal government in the country. this does give the republicans a second chance. i'm glad to see the determination from boehner and others in the house that this time, we'll do it the right way. >> your republican leader in the senate said last week in number one job is to make sure that president obama is not returned to the white house. is that your n

and there were things i decided on tuesday but yesterday we learned that michael bennet is, in fact, new senator, the next senator from colorado. yesterday we learned that pat quinn is, in fact, reelected as governor of illinois. good news for democrats. and we also learn that patty murray is now confirmed in fact, reelected as the democratic senator from washington state. she was happy to accept yesterday. >> i'm just grateful for this tremendous opportunity so i want to thank all the photos. and a want to thank mr. rossi who was gracious, called me just a while ago to congratulate me. i never want to thank him and his family. i know what a sacrifice it is. >> and patty said -- shut that kid up a -- patty says by the way, i want health care. she's not a vote for repeal. >> we move forward on health care reform. it is very important to do. we will now see what republicans have to offer, but i will say this. i am not putting our families back at risk again. >> good for you, good for her, and glad she is back in there. and alaska still -- know, no resolution there. they say they will s

a grateful bennet winning senate race. he received about 48% sign of the vote to 47% for can book -- ken buck. a democratic hold an, roddick. "the l.a. times" with the results of the california senate race. barbara boxer getting just under 50% nearly 45% 4 carly fiorina. today the former ceo of hewlett- packard conceding. she also tweeted it, and if you want to read it, it is available on c-span.org. here is the republican senate candidate from california earlier this afternoon. [applause] >> good morning. good morning. well, good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. last night at around 11:15 p.m. when i talked with hundreds of our supporters, the outcome of this election was not yet clear, but this morning the outcome is clear. i have spoken with senator boxer, congratulated her and wished her well. we had an exceptional campaign. i am so proud of our base of supporters, so many republicans across this state worked hard, got out, voted, got others to go. we won with independents, but in the end, we could not over

he defeated robert bennet, he then won 62% of the vote in the general election. defeated nnell.ine o'do >> here are some programs c-span is airing on thursday. jeff bridg talks about his work to you reduce youth under. jane goodall of her love of nature and animals. the role of the supreme court, and lawyers discussed the retirement of supreme court justice john paul stevens. president clinton presents medal ttony blair thangiving day on c-span. >> stanford professor siegfried hecker return for north career where he was given a tour of a secret nuclear facility reportedly capable of enriching uranium. the u.s. has said its ambassador to the six-party talks in the regi. he presented his findings at the korean economic institute. this is 90 minutes. >> it is our great please to host this event. as you can see by the turnout, and the interests, this is in fact a very significant event. what i like to do is tell you how we will run things. i will give you preparation in terms of the trip that we went on one week prior to dr. hecker 's and bob karlyn's trips. a few in

they all watched fer closely what happened to bob bennet, what happened to lisa murkowski and most of them don't have right in provisions. what happened to bob inglis, and they're going to be very cognizant of the fact that if this turns out to be a couple of years where they cooperate, that may spell trouble for them. orrin hatch already has a very likely challenger, jason chaffetz, house member from his right. and i see you're going to see in orrin hatch was not going to talk about all that he accomplished with ted kennedy, and it's basically going to be the old fritz hollings and nobody going to get to my right this time around, and i think we are going to see that electromagnetic pulling some of them away from cooperation which makes it more difficult to figure out how you can make policy. >> to a question in the back and then if there is one over here, right over here we go to both questions and have the panel answer. james, if you could -- clark. >> court judge, white house riders' group. henry olsen mentioned provincial conservatism. there is going to be a big push to retial ob

. >> i suspect everyone is going to agree with what senator bennet said. is that true?s >> no. >> yes. >> yes. >> and yet here we are. >> if i may, we spent at the center a lot of time trying to answer that question. why does that servicers have failed to modify and produce this report, looking very carefully at the legal and financial incentives that they face and to keep charging and reproducing the testimony submitted today. third three key recommendations we believe would do a great deal to aligned servicer incentives for homeowners, investors and the american public at large. of those three are web of senator merkley on senator bennett have talked about, and in the true track system and not cases with a valuation for the modification be performed before the foreclosure process is initiated and requiring a loan modification be offered to the homeowner if in fact it's going to provide a net benefit to the investor. so the investor will profit you should be offered to the homeowner before his feet get tacked on the foreclosure process starts down the road. that's one.

michael bennet has declared victory, was declared the winner in u.s. senate race over tea party republican candidate ken buck. washington state and alaska needs more time of according to the ap counting all the write-in ballots that could give alaska senator lisa murkowski another term. that count will begin until november 10. in washington state, two-thirds of the vote have been counted. the remaining third consist of mail in ballots, will be tabulated over the next couple of weeks. also latest number that we saw this morning, a handful of house members, tent races, will have updates throughout the day here on c-span2, also on her website, c-span.org. again, waiting for the cq roll call forum to get started. should be underway shortly. as we wait we will bring you that interview with speaker nancy pelosi interviewed by diane sawyer. >> what are you going to do next? >> first of all today i'm talking to my members who courageously fought the fight, kerry do better, took the tough votes. that's what i'm doing today. when i told you into doing that i wil

colorado's appointed senator democrat michael bennet held off a tea party challenger. >> i'm not going back to washington to play politics. i'm going back there to fight for more jobs, for better jobs. >> reporter: but in washington state's close senate race, democratic incumbent patty murray and republican dino rossi are still waiting to find out who won. talking with both campaigns, the murray people, the rossi people, both see a path to victory, and why is it taking so long? well, in washington state they do their voting by mail in all but one county. so mail-in ballots are still coming in. hundreds of thousands of them yet to be counted. meredith? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you very much. it is 7:15. >>> let's go out to alaska. incumbent senator lisa murkowski appears to be on track to become only the second person to win a write-in campaign for the u.s. senate. kristin welker sat down with her for an exclusive interview. >> reporter: good morning. the last time someone won a senate seat through a write-in condition si was 1954 when strom thurmond did it. lisa murkowski likes her ch

. >> i suspect everyone is going to agree with what senator bennet said. is that true? 's >> no. >> yes. >> yes. >> and yet here we are. >> if i may, we spent at the center a lot of time trying to answer that question. why does that servicers have failed to modify and produce this report, looking very carefully at the legal and financial incentives that they face and to keep charging and reproducing the testimony submitted today. third three key recommendations we believe would do a great deal to aligned servicer incentives for homeowners, investors and the american public at large. of those three are web of senator merkley on senator bennett have talked about, and in the true track system and not cases with a valuation for the modification be performed before the foreclosure process is initiated and requiring a loan modification be offered to the homeowner if in fact it's going to provide a net benefit to the investor. so the investor will profit you should be offered to the homeowner before his feet get tacked on the foreclosure process starts down the road. that's on

. >> i suspect everyone is going to agree with what senator bennet said. is that true? 's >> no. >> yes. >> yes. >> and yet here we are. >> if i may, we spent at the center a lot of time trying to answer that question. why does that servicers have failed to modify and produce this report, looking very carefully at the legal and financial incentives that they face and to keep charging and reproducing the testimony submitted today. third three key recommendations we belie would do a great dea to aligned servicer incentives for homeowners, investors and the american public at large. of thos three are web of senar merkley onsenator bennett have talked about, and in the true track system and not cases with a valuation for the modification be performed before the foreclosure process is initiated and requiring a loan modification be offered to the homeowner if in fact it's going to provide a net benefit to the investor. so the investor will profit you should be offered to the homeowner before his feet get tacked on the foreclosure process starts down the road. that's one. two

i also want to acknowledge my fellow freshmen senators: senator begich, bennet, gillibrand, you, shaheen, mark udall, tom udall, mark warner, and our just departed senator kaufman from delaware. they are tremendous individuals possessing incredible talents and have been a very, very supportive group for me. thank you, my freshmen colleagues. in a broader sense, i'd like to also thank all of those who serve under this hallowed dome with quiet, often unheralded duty, the senate floor staff -- you all do a heck of a job -- the maintenance crews, the elevator operators, the capitol police, the senate train drivers, the dining room servers and the scores of others whose hard and important work ensures the smooth and constant operation of the business that take place in our nation's capitol. madam president, as i stand to address this chamber for the last time, i cannot help but reflect on the unlikely path that led me to this point and upon the challenges we continue to face. when i first came to the senate nearly two years ago, our nation was only days away from inaugurating an african-ameri

they still won two-thirds of hispanic and hispanic say, michael bennet and especially harry reid we're sharon angle backfired on her. the african-american voters state pretty strong at 90%. young people, 57% are college educated white women wavered. i will come back to that. still in the high '40s. their turnout was down. the rest of the white electorate so, by that i mean blue collar white men and women, and college educated white men, all of which tended to be pretty skeptical of government moved sharply to the point where the exit poll, republicans won 60% of all white voters. in the history of the exit poll for congressional races which goes back to 1982, no party had a gut to 60%. not even in 1994 among white voters. only twice before had any party got that high i, 1974 and 1964 for the democrats. the erosion was greatest among the blue-collar voters who had been skeptical of him since the beginning, and have been hit hard by the recession and also tend to be dubious that government is going to do anything to make their lives better. democrats only one in 4% of those voters. the w