. >> jon: al, we're going to go up town to john oliver. john, what's it like up there? (laughter) >> it's a total hell scape up here. for starters-- and i don't want to cause a panic-- serendipity has run out of mocha sprinkles. (laughter) which begs the question, john, where the (bleep) is fema when you need them? (laughter) i will say, though, i don't know if you're tried serendipity's he can of a job brownie but it is to die for. >> jon: jessica, is that you? >> yeah! >> jon: are those rats on your jacket? >> yeah, you buying? free range. fresh. (laughter) very fresh. >> jon: jessica, is everything okay? >> i knew i should have moved to the upper west side but, no, lower east side is where it's at. lower east side is cool. they have indian food! >> jess, jessica, please understand that life up here is no picnic. we're barely making do. (laughter) my book of mormon seats tonight? obstructed view. (laughter) >> all i've had to drink today is urine. (laughter). >> jon: your own urine, i hope, al, is that -- >> no! everyone's. because this is a community! okay? there is

john oliver, let's start with you. what is obama campaign's closing speech and pitch to the american people? >> simply this, john. the obama camp feels the choice is simple. maybe obama hasn't been the president you wanted him to be. perhaps he didn't meet the high expectations he set himself. but the other guy, jon, is a total dick! (cheers and applause) i mean that. jon, he's a six-foot shaft with tiny ballses for feet. he may not fire you himself but you know that when he's looking at you he's unemploying you with his eyes. (cheers and applause) now, if you will excuse me, jon, i'm going to stare at aasif while he's talking, thereby dominating him visually. (laughter). >> jon: well, all right, seems like a relatively low-brow closing argument from the obama campaign. aasif, you've been with the romney campaign. what's their closing argument? >> well, what do you want it to be? (laughter) (cheers and applause) look, jon, um, mitt romney has been running for president for seven years. these are two short weeks left in

john oliver joins us. john? [cheering and applause] >> hi, jon.last night i assembled my own panel of experts the watch the debate, a body language analyst, a pageant judge, an expert on auras, a man who works at a tie store, a yenta, a woman who doesn't speak english, someone who recently had knee surgery and an easily bored teenage girl. >> jon: that seems like a ridiculous group of people to put together to analyze the debate. >> that's because it was, jon, so to give their expert analysis, i give to owe the john oliver focus group. i'm here with a diverse panel of experts to gauge in real-time their reactions to this debate. let the debate commence. >> welcome. president barack obama and governor mitt romney. >> okay. so let's stop it right there. who do we think is winning so far? >> obama. >> obama. >> pageant judge? >> right away obama came up with a hi, hello, the hand up high with a big smile. >> aura expert? >> just you could feel from his various body language. >> so far it's equal. >> they both walked on to the middle of the stage and

we'll check back in with john oliver. the combination of a decades long battle between governor mitt romney of massachusetts and current president barack obama saying from m nairobi. jessica, we'll start with you default scribe the mood that obama had described in chicago. >> it's intense, jon, everyone is glued to their computers and smart phones. >> jon: checking the polling. >> no, they're second out fund raising e-mails. jon, they're down to the wire and this campaign is saying cannot make it through in the next two hours unless everybody in this country chips in $8. >> jon: it's 11:00 p.m. on election night. >> wait a minute, i'm sorry, it's $12. apparently this costs more than they anticipated. they ordered smacks for like 10,000 people but it looks like, hold on. $15. apparently biden ordered hot wings. >> jon: really. read the elf mails. > -- e-mails.>> sure. hey girls it's joe biden. can i borrow $15 you know for some hot wings. pretty standard biden form letter. >> jon: is the romney campaign still making a push

we'll check back in with john oliver. the combination of a decades long battle between governor mitt romney of massachusetts and current president barack obama saying from m nairobi. jessica, we'll start with you default scribe the mood that obama had described in chicago. >> it's intense, jon, everyone is glued to their computers and smart phones. >> jon: checking the polling. >> no, they're second out fund raising e-mails. jon, they're down to the wire and this campaign is saying cannot make it through in the next two hours unless everybody in this country chips in $8. >> jon: it's 11:00 p.m. on election night. >> wait a minute, i'm sorry, it's $12. apparently this costs more than they anticipated. they ordered smacks for like 10,000 people but it looks like, hold on. $15. apparently biden ordered hot wings. >> jon: really. read the elf mails. > -- e-mails.>> sure. hey girls it's joe biden. can i borrow $15 you know for some hot wings. pretty standard biden form letter. >> jon: is the romney campaign still making a push

for more on the ramification for election night we turn to john oliver. >> thank you, jon, thank you.(cheers and applause) >> i think everyone watching tuesday night can agree on one thing, the president [bleep] up, jon. i mean he [bleep] up. (laughter) >> jon: that's your-- what are you telling, he was re-elected. >> exactly. you think he was expecting that? of course not. 16 trillion dollars in debt. 7.9% unemployment, i'm sure he wanted no part of that [bleep] pie. in fact, i'm even more sure that obama was looking forward to watching president romney having to choke it down for him. >> jon: you're telling me obama was planning to lose to romney. >> i don't know about planning to lose but he was sure as hell trying to, two words, jon, first debate. two more, in denver. they provide some contest to the first two words. >> jon: you are saying obama took a dive. >> of course he took a dive, of course he did. >> jon: in denver he took a dive you're saying he took a dive. >> exactly we said it four times together. the point is obama is a smart man, jon. and a notoriously brilliant speak

for more we're joined by senior military analyst john oliver at the pentagon.heers and applause) so now that the scope of the scandal has widened, how is the military going to respond? there's got to be firings! >> skwro *epb, a few symbolic firings is no longer going to do the trick. we have to do something about heterosexuals in the military. (laughter) we've got to get rid of them, jon! they have got to go. >> that is a drastic step. i don't know than that's the answer. it's a drastic step. >> no, absolutely not, jon. they've got to be banned. if we think about it, it was probably a mistake to let them in in the first place. traditional armies were always gay, jon. as demonstrated in this documentary of a spectacular group of ripped gay spartans repelling what was at that point a much bigger even gayer persian army. (laughter). >> jon: many straights have served honorably and have not cheated on their spouses. >> jon, read the bible. these people are incapable of monogamy. it goes all the way back to the garden of eden. it's like the old biblical saying goes

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we're going to go uptown to john oliver. what are things like up there?was describing, jon, it's a total hellscape up here. for starters, i don't want to call it a panic. serendipity has run out of mocha sprinkles. which begs the question, jon, where the [ bleep ] is fema when you need them? >> the horror. >> that's pretty funny. >> it's pretty good. did you see this clip? it was shooting around the web yesterday. a little girl, 4-year-old in colorado named abigail evans. >> yeah. >> literally driven to tears. >> uh-oh. >> because she's heard so much about this election. too much about this election. she was listening on the way to the grocery store with her mother to an npr report about the never-ending race for president. here she is when they arrived at the grocery store. >> i'm tired -- i'm tired of barack obama and mitt romney. >> that's why you're crying? oh. it will be over soon, abby. okay? the election will be over soon, okay? >> okay. >> oh. >> she's tired of hearing about barack obama and mitt romney. >> i think she thinks for everybody. abigai

because -- control -- >> he needs to do is extend an olive branch to john boehner.say, let's -- >> actually -- >> -- able to smoke the peace pipe with bill clinton he can certainly smoke a peace pipe with obama. >> a couple things. first of all you saw last night the president's speech as well as the speech from speaker john boehner that actually was an olive branch. far different from senate minority leader mcconnell. we talk about this fiscal cliff. the bush tax cuts will expire. now on the one hand folks say oh, my god that's bad because what's going to happen, taxes go up. but also, if those taxes continue, the deficit increases. and so every time we talk about this folks act as if somehow that's not there and the deficit is real. >> let me take a moment to read what john boehner said, the american people want solutions and tonight they responded by renewing our house republican majority. with this vote the american people also made clear there's no mandate for raising tax rates. americans want better solution that will ease the burdens of small businesses, brin

. >> paul: house speaker john boehner extends an olive branch, how much will they give >> the american welcome have spoken and they've reelected president obama and reelected a majority in the house of representatives. a mandate for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to the challenges that we all face as a nation. >> that's house speaker john boehner vowing to work with president obama on the challenges facing the nation the first the fiscal cliff, a toxic combination of tax increases and automatic spending cuts especially in defense that could take effect january 1st. so, we pointed out in the last segment, republicans held the house with minimal losses despite a big democratic year. can boehner think, look, got as much mandate as the president? >> i think he should absolutely think that, paul. the president made clear, didn't really run on the second term agenda and didn't talk about it much. i'll tell you what the mandate is right now, the mandate is that fiscal cliff, the bipartisan mandate. >> paul: to go off it is the mandate or not to go off. >> i think the stock

in a fairly intransigent and saying we're not going to raise taxes on rich people well john boehner did put an olive branch out there in his first statement after your action he did say that he rejected it with a tweet well he's got eric boehner standing behind him with a shiver you know you know just you know you know as you move back a half an inch an eric scott and you know it nicolle your thoughts on this my thoughts are i think the president is open and willing to listen i think he has always from the very beginning has been willing to you know work with those across the aisle and you know when did things he had talked. it has been comprehensive tax reform and so that is something where i think there could be room for compromise i think that is something where both parties are able and willing to work together so you know he did extend all of the bush tax cuts in two thousand and ten so maybe hold do so again this time around i don't think so i think if you look at previous negotiations between the president and congressional republicans you know you had during during the debt talks speaker boe

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that sounded like a wack at republican, john boehner put out the olive branch this week and barack obamaa baseball club. that's not the way to get this done. i agree with charles, i heard you earlier today on fox business, this is not the time when you have a really weak economy to be raising tax rates on businesses and investors. the big problem with this economy right now, liz, you have businesses that are not hiring, there is a real slowdown in investment. i do think, this is a point that i think the republicans have to make more forcely, if you raise the rates, there is a real danger of a double dip recession in january. he took defense spending out -- >> that's right. >> i mean, this is a very slow economy. but you know, i will say this, the white house, i know this white house 8s are reaching out to the people in banking industry, saying, listen, we are ready to compromise. there is a lot of happy talk behind the scenes. when you talk to the executeuf who is have dealt with president obam athis is one of the least economically serious presidents we have had -- he shows up to the jo

i think he has to reassure the american people he has been getting a lot of olive branches thrown to him by johnically saying, look, we want to deal. we want to cooperate. we got the message. we understand we need to compromise. there are certain things i can't do but there are certain things i will do and many willing to do. i'm reasonable, responsible. come deal with me. i think the president will talk about the economy. i think he's going to talk about the importance of the fiscal cliff, vis-a-vis the economy and not falling off that cliff. as some may be in post-election celebration and some may be in post-election depression, certainly most people agree we don't want to fall off a cliff and worsen the r en the recessi >> pete, ana says john boehner is offering these olive branches but -- >> he's not. >> because he's not offering any sort of negotiation over tax hikes on the wealthiest americans. >> and we've entered the theater of the abseurd. the president won, campaigned on raising taxes only for the wealthiest americans specifically and american people overwhelmingly support that in poll

host: read extend the olive branch to john boehner and mitch mcconnell ahead of a lame duck. i look to the challenges that we have had that i reach up to my republican colleagues in the senate and the house. let us come together, we know what the issues are, let us solve them he told an audience and the ballroom at the capitol hill hotel. there will have to hash out a deal by the end of the year to avert the vesco cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts. slated to begin in 2013. ron in ohio, good morning. give us your take on last night's election or yesterday's election. caller: good morning, sir. i do have respect for the office. i am not a fan of the obama curator previous caller proves what i am going to say. i think that mr. romney choosing paul ryan made the decision for me. the tea party overstepped their bounds. the overstepped. i couldn't allow that to happen to america. i love my country. it just went too far. for 10 years of president reagan opposed the administration there were still blaming jimmy carter for everything. historically, president obama things. bush for

i have to say, i was surprised by how quickly john boehner after the election extended an olive branch to the president. so not out of the question that they could do it but i would not expect that, sue. >> john, we're going to listen to the remarks earlier today of john boehner. this is sort of -- if it were a test question, it would be compare and contrast. let's listen to mr. boehner. >> the problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest americans is that more than half of them are small business owners. we know from ernst and young it would slow down our economy. >> he's saying the problem with raising tax rates. the minute you start to hear speaker boehner talking about raising taxes and not following it up with that word "rates," that means the deal is maybe getting a little further away. as long as he is talking about the problem being raising tax rates, i think you can see a path to a deal still here. >> john? >> i agree with that. i think that's exactly the point. that's why boehner said "rates," and it is why obama said "revenue." they're feeling their way toward a way to h

in on the demand for more tax money for people at the top, no, they did not get an olive branch on that today. >> john, you know very well that the gop has a hard road to climb because it is a lot easier to sell a couple of percent on rich people than it is to say we're going to rip away some deductions and loopholes to help increase revenue. taxes are complex. that's a much harder political sell. john, we'll talk to you in a bit. thank you. >>> the president is now just minutes away from meeting with business leaders, a meeting that's ruffling feathers on wall street and maybe even some on main street. all right, eamon, who's going to be there? who's not going to be there? >> well, obviously one of the big issues here has been that there's no big bank ceo who is in the room right now. but obviously all of those ceos would have had access inside the white house here to the president's press conference. they were going to be listening for that specific olive branch. some big names in the room there. we saw jeff immelt of ge walking in. also the ceo of american express. ursula burns of xerox. a variety