now, before i went there, i was talking to jackie kucinich about president biden's election prospectsthe next year, as we reset here. >> jackie can talk turkey, and she can totally do it. >> he does not want to run afowl of voters. >> there it is. there it is. look, i don't want to spoil the mood for biden, but before this, we were talking about the poll numbers that were not so great, and job approval numbers of voters 18-34, and so from 34% to 26%, and i spoke to some of them in september, and this is what some of the voters told me on the campus at the time. >> reporter: how many of you think that president biden is too hold to be president again? so, why do you feel that way? >> he makes a good president, but there is not a lot of representation for our generation and the entirety of the government right now, and i would like to see more of that. >> i would like to see candidates who are appealing, and biden and trump are fossils. >> fossils, and that is his words and not mine. and so, trump is not that much younger if he ends up to be the candidate for the gop. and why is this mo

let's bring in cnn analyst jackie kucinich who is the washington bureau chief for "boston globe." thank you for being here, jackie. start with the obvious question, why do the american people have to keep going through this, and this is one of congress' number one jobs to keep the government running, and why are we here again? >> well, it has a lot to do with the divided government and not with the house and senate, but within the house republican senate, and they have trouble getting the appropriations bills passed on the house floor, and perhaps a financial services one being pulled today. so while the speaker johnson is new, and believe it or not, he has been here two week, and this is two weeks ago, and he still has not found his footing here, and we are not sure what the plan is going to be to keep the government funded as you said in eight days. >> yeah, it is hard for people to wrap their head around back here now a month after going through this before, and i do want to talk to you about what we heard from chris coons this morning as we had a bill proposed by the democrats

jackie kucinich, very grateful to have you. thank you for being here. >>> former president jimmy carter traveling to atlanta today to attend a memorial service to his late wife the former first lady rosalynn carter. and also in attendance, jill biden and laura bush, hillary clinton, michelle obama and melania trump. today's service is part of a series of events honoring mrs. carter this week. a private funeral will be held in plains, georgia tomorrow. mrs. carter died peacefully on november 19 at the age of 96. she and former president carter were married for 77 years. do be sure to join jake tapper for special live coverage of the memorial service that starts today 12:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of

jackie kucinich, margaret to live, tia mitchell, and cnn special respocorrespondent who e one who obtained this book ahead of its release next week. thank you all for being here. jamie, we can start with orange jesus. but as you mix in orange jesus into this conversation, i want to pull one more quote from this book that you obtained. this is a conversation that liz cheney says she had with kevin mccarthy. mar-a-lago, what the hell, kevin? mccarthy, they are really worried. trump is not eating sorks they asked me to come see him. you went to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating? maccar thi, yeah, he's really depressed. >> so there's been a lot of pickup on this story in various other news organizations. one headline said, the most bonkers explanation for why kevin mccarthy went to mar-a-lago. and i think it's true. that was just three weeks after january 6th. we have to remember. he thinks that liz cheney's going to believe that that's why he went -- these books are full of stunning things. we have heard all of these republicans saying things privately, and then what they say publicly in

and we also have karen finney and jackie kucinich. and welcome everyone. great to see you. glad that you are up with us. matt, let me start with you. you were a gop congressional nominee. given what you saw last night, how should republicans running for re-election next year interpret what we saw last night? >> first and foremost, raise a heck of a lot more money. you can look at the political dynamics, but it is fairly tough to draw a thread between mississippi to kentucky to virginia to new jersey to draw too many conclusions. but one thing was crystal clear, democrats outspent republicans in every single race and by a significant margin. you look at kentucky, you had campaign to campaign andy beshear outspent cameron 5:1. in new jersey races, 4:1. and virginia youngkin raising money for the republican candidates. so i say start raising money because that is what it will take next year. and other thing, you have to keep it focused on local issues. you actually saw some bright spots for republicans even in the northeast. you look at new hampshire, republicans took control