i think it was elissa slotkin -- was it elissa slotkin, up in michigan, talking about how democrats haveot to move away from the word socialism, that defund the police, that she almost lost her seat because of that rhetoric. what do you see changing within the democratic caucus? do you see anything changing in terms of the politics, or in terms of leadership? >> yeah, absolutely. leadership is going to be huge here. i think sherry bustos, who is the chairwoman of the democratic campaign committee, she's going to face a lot of scrutiny and the other behind-the-scenes leadership will, too, sort of about what kind of outreach they're doing to the rest of the country, for example, on reaching out to hispanics, reaching out to young voters. it's definitely going to be a big reckoning. nancy pelosi will absolutely face some scrutiny as the house speaker. and you know, throughout the whole leadership, they think we're going to be hearing a lot more about that in the coming months as, you know, challenges get mounted. >> tia, let me stay on this -- sorry, i apologize because of the delay there f

being counted.gh to i'll speak to ohio's republican governor, mike dewine, michigan congresswoman elissa slotkin, noah feldman and norbert rottgen will join me with an allied view. the primary question on most americans' minds no matter how this shakes out, d we have a

by the way, elissa slotkin, a freshman democrat, said the turnout was with big, president trump reallyut that was possible to surmount. i want your reaction to the media, the media not picking up the wake-up call, not seeing these trends in the electorate. let's listen to cnn's van jones here. listen. >> this country is not what we thought it was. i don't care who you are, nobody predicted this outcome. we predicted it was going to take longer, etc., etc., but it turns out that the outreach from republicans to african-americans, latinos was effective. elizabeth: hold the phone. hold the phone. nobody -- he's indicated nobody saw these trends? [laughter] did you hear that? did you hear what he said -- [laughter] nobody saw this. kt, you and i have been talking about this for two years, okay? we've been watching the polling numbers. you and i have been talking about hispanics, blacks and latinos. what is going on over there? what are they talking about? i'm sorry, it's rare that i lose my cool, but really? the cook report said house democrats lost because of the president's support for h

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some of the centrists, elissa slotkin, aoc, abigail spanberger, have different conclusions for why someents lost their seats. >> well, look, i think as nancy pelosi says, the democratic party and the democratic caucus is really a wide range, it's a very diverse caucus. so i'm not surprised by that. i do think there is a natural tension between those who are running in the strongest trump districts and others, people like myself, who had a solid blue district. at the same time, you know, we have to understand that in order to form the majority, it's going to take all of them. and i think that united behind a president biden, that people are going to come together on an agenda for the american people. and these differences that we like to talk about in the press and write about, really within the caucus, i think those things will be worked out. i've seen nancy pelosi operate in a caucus like that before, and i think that she's the right person to be leading the caucus in this really important environment. >> and kevin madden, i wanted to bring to your attention mitt romney's statement. be

one of those is congresswoman elissa slotkin.s from michigan she says, you know, what about us? what about midwesterners and southerners. everyone in leadership positions is from california or new york. we need to be represented because your ideas are so progressive that's not how the rest of the country feels. so she says she won't support nancy pelosi as the speaker again. this is what she writes. i will not be voting for nancy pelosi. i believe, i just lost the prompter. okay. i believe and can we roll it back a little bit? guys can you read it? brian: yeah. here we go. i believe we will need new leadership, i would love to see more midwesterners because if you look across the leadership, i respect these people but it's new york and california. ainsley do you want to finish up the final thought there? ainsley: you keep going. oh, finish up with my thoughts? no, that's the end of it. really quickly. being from the south, and, you know, steve, you are from the midwest, brian, you are from long island. long island is extremely co

. >>> let's bring in elissa slotkin of michigan who won re-election to michigan's 8th congressional districtman, congratulations on your victory a couple of nights ago. it was close throughout, i know it was a fight for you all summer. what was the deciding issue here? was it coronavirus? what was front and center as people went to the polls on tuesday? >> i certainly think that the president's response to the coronavirus was a big deal for a lot of people. we had a pretty big swing this our district. the president won the district in 2016 by over 25,000 votes and won it by under 2,000 this time around. i think that's a big part of it and also health care. just the idea that people with pre-existing conditions were at risk of completely losing their coverage, really we started to get a lot of questions about that. so those two issues for sure. >> so congress woman, you're one of the people warning over the summer that michigan as a state was much closer than polls were showing in terms of the presidential race, that it was going to be a dogfight, in fact, it has been here. what did you see o

i'll tell you back in the spring, elissa slotkin and i were concerned about what we were seeing and hearingdent's desire to use our military troops in ways that we thought were against the constitutional norms of the country, suggesting even later he might have them at polling places. so in july, we had a house armed services committee meeting where we asked secretary esper and we asked general milley did they understand their constitutional duties and did they understand the uniform code of military justice and general milley is the highest ranking member in uniform and he was adamant he understood his constitutional responsibilities that our troops should not be used in a partisan election. so i think he is working very hard to uphold these norms and the military has been the one -- the one nut that the president has found hard to crack in co-opting them into going along with his violation of the constitutional norms so i know that general milley is work hard to ensure that the decisions made now don't disrupt the foreign policy for many years to come. >> it's willie, good to see you this