>> he tried to demonize boehner. >> okay, boehner's yin side. >> we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned the trust of the people that it serves. when we have a government that honors the constitution and stands up for the values that have made america, america. [ applause ] things like economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. listen, i hold these values dear because i've lived them. i've spent my whole life chasing the american dream. [ applause ] >> is boehner's emotional extra version helpful or hurtful? >> i think it was great. hillary was a hero for showing a human side. john boehner lived the american dream. he came from nothing. midwest guy, 11 brothers and sisters and he is rising to being third in line for the american presidency. that is quite a story. if that's his first impression to most of the american people, i think it was a very good one. here's where his power lies. this is why strategically for the republicans to control the house and not the senate is very important. because the republicans led by john boehner, they are going t

and john boehner is a smart politician. and he understands that he took advantage of that last night, but two years from now, they could swing right back to the democrats where they were two years ago. >> reporter: in this relationship, the personal is always political. two guys with very different backgrounds and now they're going to try to search for common graupd, we hope. >>> when we come back, the palin effect. that's what we turn to next. we look at how much a sarah palin endorsement helped or hurt candidates in last night's election. hi, may i help you? yes, we're looking to save on car insurance, even if that means we have to shop all day, right, honey? yep, all day. good thing you're starting here. we compare your progressive direct rate to other top companies', so you can save money! look! we saved a lot! and quick, too. and no more holding her purse! it's a european shoulder bag. it was a gift. mm-hmm. shopping less and saving more. now, that's progressive. call or click today. you can take the heat. 'til it turn

boehner's republican colleagues voted to give him the top job today-- boehner's 61st birthday. the next speaker is a pragmatist who has strong support from business. but as darren gersh reports, boehner's most important work may take place behind the scenes. >> reporter: almost four years ago, it was john boehner's job to give the speaker's gavel to nancy pelosi. in a few months, he will get it back. when he does, political economist andy laperriere expects the new speaker to make his mark as a consensus builder. >> you're going to have tea party republicans who are going to want to take an aggressive posture, they're going to want to do things that are controversial. then you're going to have other republicans who aren't going to want to go that far. i think it's going to be difficult for anybody to manage the internal dynamics of the republican caucus, and i think boehner is pretty well suited to do that. and without that kind of management ability, you could have a civil war among house republicans over the next two years. >> reporter: boehner's views on business are conside

>> well, i hope john boehner will be the speaker in a way that he leads. i hope that he's not held back by the slowest ship. we always say around here, you have a convoy theory, that the whole congress will go as slow as the slowest ship. well, the american people are waiting for jobs, can't have that convoy theory. >> reporter: it's a high school question, but do you like him? >> of course. yes. we've had a good rapport. as i did with president bush. i'm always very respectful of my colleagues and the people they represent. >> reporter: looking at what happened last night, will president obama win in 2012? >> i believe that barack obama will serve eight years as president of the united states. i believe that he will also demonstrate to the american people, and he has, that what we had to do in the short-term is because we had an emergency situation. some people interpreted that as too activist. but it was emergency, and it saved us from a depression. >> reporter: you've talked about the marble ceiling. and i would like to show you a moment. >> tonight, i

john boehner for speaker. and i just congratulated him and also told him to get a little bit of rest because i can't tell you how many -- how many campaign stops he made, but he probably set a record for campaign stops for members of congress. and i told them to go, he and his wife to go get some rest and kind of enjoy the moment because he won't have too many late. >> host: juliana gruenwald. >> mr. barton, the committee has a broad jurisdiction. what were those telecom issues follow on the priority is? >> guest: the number one immediate priority is going to be health care because of the emphasis on appealing obama cared and then replacing it with something that is much more in tune with what the american people want. telecommunications is going to be a high priority, especially preventing the fcc for regulating the internet. and as i said earlier, if we can put together a bipartisan reform package in the universal service fund, i think i would be something that we could move. so health care would be number o

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john boehner is my rep. like to say that the government sent a message, especially to nancy pelosi. i want all the democrats and everyone to realize that you voted for change but what is the change that you wanted? he has taken this nation in the wrong direction. this is very very scary. he is responsible for everything going on right now. he was going to get unemployment down, capt. trade is a disaster. we need the tax cuts to continue. if he does not, that will kill everyone. wait until people see that they'll get more taxes taken out of their checks. we're going in the right direction and i think that is great and thank you for taking my call. host: we will be hearing from harry reid in about seven-8 minutes. we were told that he will come out in 10 minutes and that was a few minutes ago. he is in las vegas. we're joined from casper, wyoming. caller: i'm very excited that it looks like -- might pull out. the one thing i just want to say to voters about this election is something my angelou said, people fo

boehner. >> mr. boehner. >> mr. boehner. >> mr. boehner. >> mr. boehner. >> the whole time the republicans have been standing on the sidelines. they've been fanning themselves, sipping on a slurpee. >> listen, it's politics. you know, when you get into the election season, there are a lot of things that get said, a lot of things thrown around. >> reporter: the president has extended an invitation to come, meet together. what's the first sentence you're going to say to him? >> hello. nice to see you. listen, i have no personal animosity at all towards the president. i get along well with him. >> reporter: a slurpee summit in the future? >> i don't know about a slurpee. how about a glass of merlot? >> so, look for wine, not slurpees ahead. jon karl is with us, and i understand you have news about the current speaker, nancy pelosi? >> fascinating development here. you know, in the wake of what happened, that shellacking that we saw, democrats suffer on tuesday, the expectation has been house speaker nancy pelosi, soon to be former speaker, would step

ethics. >>> john boehner double-teamed.e tea party is mad at him and supporters of ethics in congress, if and. the sanity break and the tweet of the day. he's a dead ringer. andy borowitz. chilean minors to appear on cnn. why would they want to go down into another deep hole? to get some time away from the spotlight. let's play "oddball." >>> buenos aires. we wander into the upper house of the parliament. this lawmaker is in the process of giving a speech. the fellow lawmaker decides to give a clever resort, using her hand of the god. she later explained herself by saying, he wore me out. i've been putting up with him all yearlong. he kept shouting without putting out a single proposal. >> decatur, alabama, on the move a runaway cow steering his way through the streets. residents looking at his hoofed it up down the roaded. when the owner was informed that his cow had had escaped, he was in utter disbelief. >>> the internet's the wonderful world of infomercials. the video is in spanish. i'll provide a translation. cool. loo

boehner is something of a newcomer. the republicans are hoping that boehner does not copy newt gingrich. i remember 15 years ago karen tumulty spent a week or two weeks trailing gingrich -- gwen: she was working for "time" magazine at the time, let's be clear, she was not stalking him! [laughter] >> right. "time" could not get so much as a posed picture with boehner this week because they are so concerned about making those mistakes. gwen: he's also a very different person than newt gingrich. he's not that much out there. he came up from humble circumstances in ohio but his reputation in washington is being someone who hangs out with lobbyists and -- >> i think they're very concerned that the tea party people will see them as just another round of old-fashioned republicans in washington. gwen: right. >> i also think that the white house is hoping that they will play their role just the way the republicans did 15 years ago. >> unlikely they would be as lucky as bill clinton was in their choice of enemies. gwen: on the se

john boehner and mitch mcconnell, they want 100%.n't want to compromise. >> caller: been ready to lead and being able toledo two different things. i think he can do it. >> we've got to find a way because this polarization -- is taxing. >> host: it is, billy. i agree. i agree, but i'm telling you the message from bain and mcconnell is my way or the highway. listen to the statement. they are not saying let's see and take a look at this health care reform bill and see many parts of it we have to modify, or, no, no, no. they are saying the whole damn thing out. that's not what the american people want. it's not what barack obama is going to you, or should even try to do. should he try to compromise with these naysayers? 866-55-press. >> okay. i love those c-span callers. not the one in their cars. is it safe to assume that the ones calling from their cars are not watching c-span? >> you never know. >> i hope it is. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> these are the shots of c-span lives for, as eating -- us eating. >> i

guest: john boehner, the media outlets were making light of it -- it is not an unkept secret, john boehner is a very emotional guy. he tears up a lot. he is notorious for doing that on the house floor. i think more of the country will see the emotion he has pared -- he has. host: we got to meet his wife. guest: and harry reid's wife was right next to him. if you hear them talk about her but never see her. caller: good morning. i am an independent progressive and i would like to make two points about this election. i don't think the democrats stood up to the republicans enough in the last two years. there was a lot of misrepresentation and outright lies put forth by the republican party. and they did not stand up and fight for themselves. democrats would have come out and voted more if they fought harder. also, i think they should have pointed out that -- and i want to repudiate the things the republican woman from illinois had to say -- the congress under nancy pelosi passed a tremendous amount of legislation. a lot of it was really excellent. it all got stalled in the senate and it got st

boehner, where are the jobs at the offi

boehner goes back with steve clark. these are all financial services lobbyists.y're going to bring in the same old guys who were if place back when tom it delay and dennis hastert were running things. it will be business as usual. >> is this the first domino in a cascade of a million? there goes the ethics office. what's next on the immediate targets of either being blitzed or defundeded? >> they made a lot of promises about procedure, specifically with putting cameras in the rules committee and making sure all the bills are available for public perusal for 72 hours before they're voted on. i think they'll make a lot of promises there. my sense is they were never going to follow through with that. neither party made go with promises regarding reforming procedures. i don't see that really happening. >> great. just what we need, richer people voting on stuff for the middle class with no one to watchdog them. fantastic. it sounds like we ought to be standing outside washington wearing cloex aaks and infracam. >> this is the place where there could be a positive plac

boehner, mr. leader, i know that all of you-- and, senator mccconnell, this is for you, too-- i know that all of you have been reading about '94 and how, you know, the mistakes and pitfalls of your colleagues that you were actually part of. i wonder how... what are the lessons you take away from that? how will you govern differently this time? and, senator mcconnell, how does it affect what you will do in the senate if you don't have a majority? >> well, i think clearly the election yesterday did not transfer full control of the government to the opposition. it was a first step in the direction of changing what we've been doing in washington. there are two opportunities for that change to occur. our friends on the other side can change now and work with us to address the issues that are important to the american people, that we all understood. or further change, obviously, can happen in 2012. >> we know that house republicans are pledged to repeal and replace the president's health care reform. yo

that goes against john boehner's grain. he has said i'm going to decentralize power away from the speaker's office and give it back to the chairman. that means it won't be a revolution. he won't get much done as fast as gingrich would have liked but it will be more of a normal congressional thing. at least that's what he's planning. he's a very different character than newt gingrich. >> john boehner is a grown-up. he really is. he's a laej lateor. i mean edward kennedy worked with him on no child left behind. he's somebody whose word has been trusted across the aisle. he came here to make it work. not to sabotage it or blow it up. i'm not as confident, david, that there aren't some real constructionists and troublemakers in that republican group that is coming in. >> lehrer: we'll be back. >> ifill: a short time ago we heard from west virginia democrat joe manchin who won the senate seat held by robert byrd. >> i want to thank all the people in west virginia for believing in me. i really truly appreciate every one of them.

boehner's office about that. this is a scheduling snafu, they want to meet with the president, they want to talk about creating jobs, talk about the agenda, getting the tax cut issue off the table to give certainty to business but the scheduling didn't work out. and they actually blame the white house. they told the white house they couldn't meet on this day because of all of the orientation meetings. i do not think the answer to the question this is not about disrespect. this is scheduling. >> you know washington better that this is carefully stage managed. a snafu, i don't think so. there are two thing, one may be waiting out the clock on this congress and two, maybe the republicans remember that nasty meeting they had in baltimore in january with the president where he just wiped the ground with them talking about health care. i think they may be worried -- >> you think that baltimore incident has everything to do? >> i do. >> let me -- >> they're not going to bring cameras into this meeting so i don't think t

they will make efforts to reach out to soon to be speaker boehner. the president made more than 60 phone calls, largely those who were sorry to hear the bad news phone calls to members of the democratic caucus. >> that skepticism goes both ways. every time i talked to republican leaders over the last few years, they said the president used them as props. we saw the speaker to be, john boehner, say last night the president has to change course, joined by some democrats. this morning, evan bayh writing this is not a communications problem. the president has to have a change in direction. how much of that can we expect to hear in a couple of hours from the president? >> the wous is not convinced they need major course direction. they believe it was an admonition to the president, that the world wants washington to work together. they see a lot of economic anxiety in the exit poll numbers. >> we'll have a special report of the presidential news conference at 10:00 a.m. west coast time. >> let's talk to david wright. he's in los angeles to talk about the

that's what john boehner told me they're going to do.ng to them tonight, people want to work on the economy. that's what is the overriding thing that bothers people. >> couric: but they want tax cuts, and they want to reduce the deficit. jeff, is that really possible? >> reporter: i think, to be blunt, a lot of americans believe in the hot fudge sundae diet. they hate entitlements, they don't want social security or medicare cut, they want spending cuts but they don't want theirs reformed. that's something every congress has to deal with and the tea party may ratchet that difficulty up. it's going to be a tough next year in washington, katie. >> couric: do you think we're going to see a lot of gridlock, bob? >> the first thing that's going to happen is how are these republicans that are there now, the leaders, going to deal with these new republicans? because they're a different breed of cat here. >> couric: they've got an inner battle before they deal with the white house. >> yeah. >> couric: some cbs stations thousands of mail in ballo

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boehner constituency wants to see spending cuts. things you can't necessary dloi if you're trying to stimulate the economy to create jobs and they want to see cuts, but not in social security on medicare. very contradictory and difficult for him to do what the tea party part of his base wants him to do. >> out west we know there's still uncertainty. what did you make, especially of alaska? this too early to call? we don't know the outcome, possibly for week. incredibly interesting race really from the beginning with the element of a write-in candidate? >> a crazy year, independent candidates interesting and exciting. rhode island, lincoln won there. in alaska unprecedenteded. there have been write-ins before for senate, no one's actually won one. lisa murkowski would be the first. 116 candidates on that write-in ballot to confuse voters. it would be a story and she will, if she wins caucus with republicans. a victory for the establishment over the tea party. >> and have to spell her name correctly, part of what the process will be.

of a clarification of the rule, what john boehner has said and also some of the other senior republicans, is that is something to take up with the transition team. greg waldron is in charge of it. there is also the republican study committee. the current chairman is tom price. it appears the new chairman is going to be congressman jordan. they are looking at some rule changes also, but the straight answer to your question is, in my outreach efforts, i am being very positively received for my chairmanship in terms of the rule -- that is something the transition team will make or recommendation to the leadership and to the full conference. >> election night, as john boehner was finishing his speech, we happen to notice you at the bottom of the stage shaking hands with presumptive ehner.r braine >> a relationship with him is very cordial. we work together in the education committee and we have are together when he was majority leader and in the minority leadership position. we are both very positive, and i would say we are both adults. we have both been around the block a little bit, and kn

from president obama to republican speaker-to-be john boehner. republicans made it clear they are going to reset the agenda. >> the american people have spoke and it's clear that the obama-pelosi agenda is being rejected by the american people. they want, as i said last night, they want the president to change course. and i think it's change course we will. >> reporter: while a chastened president tried to put the best face he could on the results. >> every election, regardless of who wins and who loses, is a reminder that in our democracy, power rests not with those of us in elected office, but with the people we have the privilege to serve. >> reporter: asked repeatedly what went wrong for democrats, mr. obama accepted some responsibility. >> i think the overwhelming message that i hear from the voters is that we want everybody to act responsibly in washington. we want you to work harder to arrive at consensus. we want you to focus completely on jobs and the economy, and growing it. >> reporter: and he admitted his campaign promise to change wa

the democrat lost the majority the title goes to john boehner of ohio. pelosi tried to hide her disappointment. at one point during the press conference, i think i saw a tear roll down here ear. but many americans have ever heard of john boehner whose name is spell b-o-e-h-n-e-r. today his people released a video to familiarize him with the people of the united states. >> who is john boehner? he's a life-long ohioan, with 19 years of service in the haufs representatives and a powerful love of his country whose name is pronounced boehner, not boner. he fought for smaller businesses and taxes, and for people to pronounce his name boehner, not boner. sure, boehner knows some people make little jokes, there goes john boner. ha, ha. you think you're funny. all his life. hey, boner, where you going, boner? guess what? thousand that boner is speaker of the house and you'll all pay. john gainer, the speaker whose last name isn't boner. >> jimmy: glad he cleared that up. it's the reason his brother dick stayed out of politics all together. an election of decidedl

and john boehner as the new speaker? >> well, in the short term it's very bad news for obama on several fronts. he's always prided himself as a big-picture president. a reagan, a roosevelt type as oppose odd to the bite-sized presidencies of some others. there will be no big things he'll be able to do. he might be able to work a compromise on a few things like no child left behind, maybe some trade stuff. no major stimulus. and i think even more upsetting to some of the white house types will be that they will be under constant scrutiny, investigations, inquiries. so it's certainly a short-term bet. what affect does it have on 2012? i don't have the slightest idea. there will be other things that will probably have a greater effect but if history is any guide, it doesn't necessarily injure him for reelection. his camelot moment is certainly over. whether he is judged as a great, near great, or mediocre or whatever kind of president will depend on the success of his financial regulatory reform, health care, whether he get

one thing that might help with john boehner, chris, is they're both smokers.ho knows, he will need everything he can get with the republican leadership at the moment, put fashions behind it. i'm just saying. chris: smokers like the old days. >> the biggest sign what mark rubio enjoys is he was chosen for the post election weekly address by the republican party. they see this cuban-american, republican, smart guy from florida as a real ticketmaker in 2012. chris: and it's the one ethnic group that is pro-republican. has been. >> think what a game-changer that would be. chris: very nationalistic, yes. >> the reason why the iranians are sending bags of cash to hamid karzai is that they don't want to see the taliban come back in control. and in that regard, they're sending strong signals to us, detailed proposals for cooperation with us in stabilizing the western border of afghanistan. chris: tell me about rubio, why do you think he is earned his success in the big state -- well, maybe i'm answering the question. >> florida, florida, florida. chris: democrats can'

-- is john boehner the right person?40 years ago you probably did not see pictures of the speaker of the house much. they were probably not featured on television ads because they were behind the scenes players. i was thinking of a man from oklahoma who is named i cannot remember. these were not national figures. they were not celebrities the way speakers became after tip o'neill. they are not elected by anything like a popular system. they are elected by members of one party of one chamber. they can elect any speaker. they elect the most senior leader in the caucus. whether it is nancy pelosi who did not seem like someone know came from the people, john boehner could have this problem as well. you make a good point which is even if americans don't support his policies still have great respect for the president. this one they think is trying hard even if he has not found the handle. tavis: it was one thing to ask this question on the front side, at it is another thing on the backside. from your perspective, whether or no

that's going to present speaker boehner with many challenges.hrough this with the rest of us in '95, '96, '97 '98. i cannot underline it, saying it all year on the show, the parallels between 1994 and today, instead of the tea party we had people who had support from the republican party and perot groups. i was one of those people and i felt as much pull from the perot supporters as i did from the republican party. it gave me a great deal of independence, along with people like steve largent and lindsey graham at the time, and many others, mark sanford, john sh shattuck, at the same tyke, a headache for newt gingrich. boehner has too figure how to keep the people in line and strike a deal. deals can be done. remember, we balanced the budget. did it four times for the first time since the '20s. reformed welfare, passed tax cuts. still a lot of thing ways president who was hostile to our agenda. yeah, a lot of things are possible over the next two years, but in the end they're going to have to sit down an work together. >> you know, it strike me t

boehner has represented ohio in congress for 19 years. in his home state last night, he criticized the president, but democrats may not be his only problem. he will have a rough time uniting a very independent-minded group of incoming republicans. >> john boehner, he's a creature of the town. he knows how to make the system work. but maybe as many as 60 people in his caucus have come to washington to break that system apart. >> boehner helped draft the 1994 contract with america, but also got caught distributing campaign contributions from tobacco lobbyists on the house floor. >>> as democrats battle to retain control of the senate, one of the key battles being watched today is the close race in nevada. there, senate majority leader harry reid faces a tough challenge from tea party favorite sharron angle. kendis gibson has the latest. >> reporter: foreclosure and for sale signs outnumber the trees in las vegas' mountain edge community. the housing boom had its biggest bust here in nevada. the state's also wrestling with the country's high