here as soon as she heard the news. >> it really is remarkable when you think about the fact that john testerix years ago.n tester is a democrat in a very red state who won six years ago. up until election day, it was razor thin race and he was able to pull out because it's sort of the way rahm emanuel and other democrats began to run several years ago, he matches the state. he is conservative, is he a rancher, he wears his flannels and he talks like they do and connected with them. >> how much does luck play a role? a lot of senate democrats benefitted from the weaksness of their opponents. >> not in this case. denny rehberg, many republicans thought that he was going to be a good candidate. i will say in the end he had some bad press about some voting accidents and thing -- boating accidents and things like that. he's laughing over there. >> but initially they felt they were going to be in pretty good shape because he is somebody who has won in montana and in the house. but, yes, they didn't have the greatest candidate there at the end of the day. but this was supposed to be the seat just l

john tester a members of the banking committee. >> thanks, andrea. >> thanks very much for being with us. you're from one of the reddest of red states, you squeaked through. congratulations on that victory. what does it now bring you right into the middle of these negotiations and a tough vote. what are the people back home telling you? >> the people back home have been telling us some time we need to work together as americans, not as democrats or republicans. i think the folks back home are really sick of the hyper partisanship in washington, d.c., which has resulted in really a lot of dysfunction and so especially when it comes to the issue of debt and deficit it's going to take folks working together as americans, put the parties aside, do what's right for the country and move on. >> you're willing to vote for higher taxes some changes in medicare, including eligibility age, tougher means testing. some kind of reduction in benefits for future beneficiaries not the current. >> i tell you what i want to see, i want to see a big p

john tester in montana, looks like the democrat will hold. they will lose probably, definitely, north dakota and nebraska where bob kerry is coming back, but they very well might pick up indiana, benefit of richard mourdock and maine, angus king who is an independent and will caucus. you probably won't see a change. everyone believes the democrats will remain in control and that is not something, tom, they thought was going to happen at the start of the year. >> and let's look at the road map. mitt romney, three events in that virginia. the president heading out west to wisconsin, on the way to colorado and nevada. what do they do the next few days and what does it tell us about where they chose to travel on the few days remain something. >> there was a front-page story in the new york times. i think it's -- in terms of the latino vote. the president leads by 50 points and their idea is in colorado and nevada, a state which david axlerod said they would definitely win and a large latino vote in central florida, which is, when i was in the con

mitt romney won the state of montana but democrat john tester a first term incumbent keeps his seat in montana, that is the projection from the "associated press." jenna: when we take a look at the make up of the house and senate this is why it's important because we have the big fiscal cliff that we are facing regardless of who is reelected president. we now know barack obama will continue for a second term. take a look at the market today, you see them down more than 2.2%. at the lowest point which is right about where we are right now, down 300 points on the dow. this is the lowest we've seen the market as far as a sell off in one day since june. a lot can happen in the next couple of hours in trading, you can see a turn around. what investors are saying right now is there is a big concern about that fiscal cliff. there is a big concern about a recession in europe, and a big concern overall about the health of the u.s. economy. of the stocks that are actually up today, and there are a few, they are related to healthcare and providing healthcare facilities, because of the healthcare

hundred million dollars to try to defeat climate realists and they lost in every case so people like john testerare coming back to the senate people like martin heinrich were elected. with no i was having a ball but. their argument just didn't sell with the public the public wants once their leaders to base decisions on the facts of reality and i think people at this point they can see the effects of climate change all around them so despite that unbelievable influx of fossil fuel money they really almost nothing to show for it a doctor a minister i had one of these one of these fellows on my show a while back and i said you know the glaciers are melting this is one of the myths according to you and he said no actually snow fall in antarctica is higher than it's ever been in the glaciers are growing cities but the truth is that glaciers all across the globe are melting at remarkable rates i mean we're uncovering land in artifacts that we haven't seen in hundreds and hundreds of years and the sea ice in the arctic this year smashed the previous record by significant amount in i mean the loss of s

this guy john tester up a point or two and the question is does that save him?e tester. >> all right. next one? north dakota right next door. >> berg wins. it's very very close. >> the same way you feel about montana. >> yeah. >> not quite as close. >> yeah. >> let's stick in the red states. nebraska. >> it tightened up, fisher wins. >> bob kerry keeps it under ten. >> missouri? >> mccaskill wins. it's like philadelphia in the east, pittsburgh in the west and alabama in between. kansas city, st. louis and alabama in between. >> indiana? >> close but i think donnelly edges, which again obama is going to lose a state, but donnelly i think will win. but it will be very competitive. >> you know, we skipped one of the big swing ones, wisconsin. what's going to be closer, wisconsin or virginia? >> i have you silent. i have you silent. is wisconsin that close? who would you put on tammy or tommy? >> i think i would go edge to tommy but very close. >> you don't even know what the makeup we've made here. >> maine, massachusetts, connecticut. does anything go red in those

john tester, the other one that is still up in the air, fairly moderate. it looks like he may survive. tim kaine won in virginia. the republicans, their brand is hurting them -- their candidates -- in certain kinds of places, even the kind of candidates that should have chances to win in traditionally republican states. think about how far to the right mitt romney had to go to mail tell that nomination. one of the things people will say -- nail down that nomination. people say, what impact did the superpacs have tumbled -- have? had adelson not kick in the money for newt gingrich, he would have been out of the race a long time ago. if not for foster freeze, rick santorum would have been out of there. romney had to move to the right to nail down the nomination. it made it more difficult, more awkward for him to go back toward the center to win a general election. if you are going to say two issues -- one of them might not be fair. the automobile bailout, i do not know how much of that was political and conservatives not liking government interference and ho

john tester saying he has an ad bragging he voted against the bail-out and auto industry and says heats if they win is because they ran against the president. bad sign. >> bob: they ran against him in two con seventive states -- conservative states. >> andrea: 15 seats up for grabs. >> bob: i haven't seen one democrat who isn't running with the president. there is a lot of mistakes that depend on electricity for voting. states who are particularly close like virginia, still has a lot of power outals; particularly, in rural areas. if they don't vote by electronic ballot, they have to take the provisional ballot and vote by handwritten ballots so they won't be counted for three or four day days. it will be true in new jersey and maryland. they're going for obama anyway. but pennsylvania another one. hope they get the electricity gets back to the voting machines. >> eric: it may be the best thing. given what is going on, there is a lot of alleged voter fraud going on. some of the machines people are voting for mitt romney and it's coming up barack obama. they say it's because of the sal

it is a red state, but it has a democratic senator, john tester.been fighting for his political life since the day he was elected six years ago. his republican opponent is denny reberg. the two of them have been virtually within a one-point difference for a year plus. and we just simply don't know where this is going to come, but republicans really need to topple john tester in order to take control and so once again, all of these races are those that are very competitive and we're going to be watching all of them as we see who wins the balance of power tonight. copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher

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late into the night or early into the morning depending how you look at it, montana, john tester and the congressman there, danny weiburg chlgs and in north dakota, rick burg there against his rival, that race is too close to call. the races from missouri and indiana, if democrats won. claire mccaskill, joe donnelly, they both made controversial comments about rape and lost. in massachusetts the heavyweight of this campaign, elizabeth warren has been elected, the first female senator from the bay state of massachusetts defeating scott brown. one other history-making race to tell you about in the state of wisconsin, it was tammy baldwin beating the former governor tommy thompson. kenny baldwin becoming the first openly gay member of the united states senate. >>> the asian markets are now closed and the london markets are now opening. let's get to christine romans with a look at how the markets are reacting. >> first let's look at asia that closed mixed watching the status quo. you have a u.s. president that is the same u.s. president and then you have a house and a senate of different

. >> now as you know, you and and we have declared the -- that john tester has overnight won in montanah race for him. the democratic incumbent. what do you think is hpening with heidi high camp? >> i'm hearing she's ahead. don't know for sure. you know, we know that even in nonwave years, the toss up races don't break down the middle, two-thirds one way or one third the other. whatever is -- if you have a bunch of races within a point or two, that last gust of wind, one way or the other, kind of tips them over. nine out of ten, wow. at's really, really quite something. and the take away for me is that you had an election where moderate democrats like joe donnelly -- senate candidates like joe donnelly in indiana and hei heidi hide cam p and she pulls ahead and they were able to win, moderate republican counterparts running in -- excuse me running in blue states like scott brown in massachusetts, like linda edgele in hawaii, they were not able to win and i put that as brand damage. you had a great panel on earlier that talked about how the republican brand is so badly damaged right now,

in montana, john tester has retaken the lead 48-46 over dan imr rehberg so the democrats democrats mightead over tommy thompson. these days, 3 points is significant and i've seen more polls where she's more comfortable. when you look at all that you go damn! might not only the democrats lose seats they might gain seats in the senate. which leads us to connecticut where we had joe lieberman retiring so-called democrat, and chris mcmurphy, real democrat, running against linda mcmann. linda mcmann said it's tough trying to run as a republican in connecticut so let's deceive people to think i'm running on the same ticket as president obama. >> i'm supporting linda mcmann and barack obama. >> i'm voting for barack obama and linda mcmann on the independent line. >> i'm voting for president obama and linda mcmann. >> almost everyone in that is black. hilarious. nonsense hasn't worked. chris murphy leading 52 to 43, a sizele lead in connecticut according to the latest poll. and chris murphy joins us now. congressman murphy, thanks for coming on "the young turks." this will be the same tradition

john tester has been declared the winner. there is another senate race, one senate race outstanding in north dakota. we do not know who the winner is. they are split. moving on to the house, this is alan west's seat. in this seat as well. he has asked for a recount. we may not know the answer to this for a while. moving on to arizona, three races that have not been called in that state. arizona's first, second, as well as the ninth congressional district of all not been called. in california, there are four races. the seventh district, 26 districts, 36, and the 52nd district as well. just a quick glance of those that have not been called. michigan's first district also not declared. north carolina's seventh district also won. that has yet to be declared. you can go to our website to find those results. if you want to watch the national journal event, you can still have your laptop and follow along in real time with our website and find out when those races get called, if they get called today. to go there is an interactive ma

tomorrow on the show, honeywell international chairman and ceo david cody, democratic senator john testers mike allen. tamron hall with a look at what's next on "news nation." >> next hour we are following big breaking news right now. senator joe lieberman is meeting with ambassador susan rice hours after she met with mccain, ayotte and graham. we have new reaction. plus a live report from capitol hill and joel reuben will joan me coming up. president obama takes a page from his election success by using the power of the people when it comes to the fiscal cliff. we have the latest on the president's plan to take his message on the fiscal cliff negotiations right to the public. [ female announcer ] you can make macaroni & cheese without freshly-made pasta. you could also cut corners by making it without 100% real cheddar cheese. but then...it wouldn't be stouffer's mac & cheese. just one of over 70 satisfying recipes for one from stouffer's. to provide a better benefits package... oahhh! [ male announcer ] it made a big splash with the employees. [ duck yelling ] [ male announcer ] find ou

john tester is your vafd a tight race to win by four in montana. the third was west virginia's joe manchin. he literally flipped romney's numbers completely securing a 25-point victory in a state where obama took a 26-point loss. how about the republicans? nine republicans will hold senate seats in states that voted for president obama. that list includes senate veterans chuck grassley, susan collins of maine as well as wisconsin' ron johnson, mark kurt, rob portman, pat toomi, marco rubio and kelly ayotte. nevada's dean heller was the only to win in a blue state in the 2012 cycle. he narrow will he won over shelly berkeley despite the president winning the state by six. they have a none of the above. susan collins was the only other senator on the list to face voters while president obama was on the ballot. she won her third it term in 2008. the other seven were all elected or re-elected in the big republican wave of 2010. could republicans take back some of that territory in 2014 is this joining me now political analyst and editor and publisher o

those are still white because even now there are two outstanding races in montana, the democrat john tester had a very tough race. we still don't know if he was able to hold onto that seat. and in north dakota, the democrat is still running for her political life against the republican there. we're going to watch those. it's still not over in the senate. let's go to the house. it's not over there entirely but we do very much know that republicans still have control of the house of representatives. let's look at some of the more interesting races when it comes to the house. first of all in florida, look at that, patrick murphy the democrat is giving allen west the republican a run for his money. big time. allen west is very well known as one of the most outspoken members of the tea party movement who won two years ago. and we'll see what happens there. it's not looking good for allen west but we're not ready to call that yet. in new york the democrat dan maffei has won his seat back against another 2010 tea party backed republican and this is part of the story line that some of the more voca

nbc news can project that john tester of montana has won re-election.heidi heitkamp beat rick berg. there are oth giving a 355 55 to 45 edge. joe donnelly won richard lugar's seat. mr. donnelly, congressman, i am so impressed. you gave up a safe seat in the house, you risked it all, put it all -- i guess you put it on blue, the democratic ticket, and you bet -- were you better off running against mourdock who ended up being a little loosey goosy or would you have been better up against lugar? >> well, what i bet on was the people of undindiana. we have commonsense and we're conservative but believe in getting things done and we are not extreme. what happened was this campaign came down to someone with very extreme positions and what i tried to do was just focus on the middle, the same place where senator lugar has been for the longest time, just trying to do commonsense things, trying to move our country forward. and, you know, i thought that that made a lot of sense, that's that's where hoosiers were and we were very fortunate last night. >> you've bee

it's barack obama and john tester. and if you're satisfied of that record of having the government placing themselves between the patient and the doctor or the patient and their hospital, then there's that path. having the government think they can buy their way into prosperity, having the government believe they can take a small of your small business through a death tax having the government believe they can intrude in our lives. we don't have an energy policy we have an environmental policy costing us jobs and millions of dollars and it's happening all over the nation. the other path is prosperity, freedom, getting government aul off our backs. it's of liberating main street. you can support wall street, you can support main street. we have tax uncertainty. when i go around and ask the question are you better off than your parents or grand parents? ask the followup question. do you think your children are going to be better off than you? no hands go up because everybody is worried about the direction this country is

john tester won this by a very, very narrow margin in 2006. he's now up against congressman denis reberg who has been winning because it's an at-large congressional seat. he's been winning statewide for many years. he's very... he's well known to the states. it's a small state. it's also a state where it's not a very heavy population. they have a governor's race that's pretty interesting but the presidential contest is not competitive there. it's been dead locked from the very beginning. it's been pretty nasty between these two men. it's one of those ones that is really going to send a signal about the direction of the country. if senator tester is able to stay reelected there it might be a better night for barack obama. >> brown: nevada. this is a point that senator dean was appointed to fill the vacancy when the republican resigned his seat. the democrat is shelley berkley. the congresswoman from park county las vegas. interesting race in terms of personalities and style and ideology. of course, this is senate majority harry reid's state. he

we just found out the associated press has called the senate race in montana for john tester.he was once considered one of the most vulnerable democrats running for re-election. we're waiting for the race to be called in north dakota. here's what we know so far -- 52 democrats in the senate to keep the majority. there are 45 republicans and two independents. democrats captured republican seats in massachusetts and indiana. elizabeth warren defeated scott brown and joe donnelly beat richard mourdock. even though democrats secured a few more seats in the house, president obama is trying to -- is trying to try to break through the gridlock. house speak -- house speaker john boehner is already laying his battle lines. he sent as you statement saying the election was not a mandate for tax increases. he and harry reid both have new conferences scheduled for this afternoon. reporting live from washington, d.c., alison burns, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> well, the new session of congress will have at least 19 female senators. the most ever in american history. >> all six who were up for r

ph montana john tester is trying to hold onto his seat against republican congressman denny raeberg.se race turn out senate democrats will have somewhere between 53 and 55 votes and republicans will have somewhere between 45 and 47 votes. >> what is the situation over on the house side, molly. >> reporter: republicans will retain trofplt you need 218 votes in the house for a month skwroert. although 20 something races are still to be decided it looks like republicans will have somewhere around 235 seats. they'll have the majority. that means john boehner will keep his job as speaker of the house. john boehner made a point of saying last night voters kept the gop in control of the house which suggests they do not want the government to raise their taxes. as far as the minority leader it will be up to house democrats to decide if nancy pelosi will keep that job. it's not all over for the lame duck congress. they will be under pressure to come to a debt deal before $400 billion of automatic new taxes, and $100 billion in automatic defense and domestic spending program cuts hit in januar

john tester, the other one that is still up in the air, fairly moderate. it looks like he may survive. tim kaine won in virginia. the republicans, their brand is hurting them -- their candidates -- in certain kinds of places, even the kind of candidates that should have chances to win in traditionally republican states. think about how far to the right mitt romney had to go to nail down that nomination. people say, what impact did the superpacs have? had adelson not kick in the money for newt gingrich, he would have been out of the race a long time ago. if not for foster freeze, rick santorum would have been out of there. romney had to move to the right to nail down the nomination. it made it more difficult, more awkward for him to go back toward the center to win a general election. if you are going to say two issues -- one of them might not be fair. the automobile bailout, i do not know how much of that was political and conservatives not liking government interference and how much of it was a harvard business school, harvard law school thinking that tha

john tester is the incumbent democrat. he's just in his first term. and danny rehberg is challenging him. this is another race that has been pretty expensive, almost $45 million spent and there is no major media market in montana. that's a lot of money out there. guess how much that's moved the dial? it hasn't at all. went into this race 1% difference in the polls, right now, the day before election day, 1% difference in the polls. it is just too close to call. last one i want to talk about is the marquis senate race of this election year, the one in massachusetts, the incumbent republican senator scott brown is fighting for his political life against his democratic challenger elizabeth warren who is incredibly well funded. going into tomorrow, i can tell you that republicans privately are very pessimistic about holding on to this seat. they really feel that elizabeth warren is going to win. some of the polls in the past 24 hours showed it tightening up, but this is democratic massachusetts, historically. so especially in a presidential year, when mos

claire mccaskill, john tester, heidi heitkamp from the dakota, joe donnelly for sure from indiana, these are people who won because they were saying i am an independent voice, i will not be beholden to my party. and i think that you have an opportunity -- whether or not they take it and not is quite another question -- but you have an opportunity to have a new center in the scented. it would be mostly made up of democrats, unfortunately. but i think it will be interesting to watch all of these people and how they behave, particularly when it comes to tax reform. i think it is one place where they could be tremendously influential and be the bridge that sort of gets it done. >> terrific. ice build think we have a microphone assistance. let's -- i still think we have microphone assistance. let's play stump the band -- >> i think it is stump the chumps. >> anybody closer already have a microphone? >> what do you see the relationship between the hill and the cabinet agencies? committees are usually working pretty well. congressional relations people at the agencies, used the politicals of th

you know, if you look at claire mccaskill, john tester, heidi heitkamp from north dakota, joe donnellyfor sure in the -- in indiana, these are people who won because they weren't, because they were saying i'm an independent voice, i'm not going to be beholden to my party. and i think that you have an opportunity -- whether or not they take it or not is quite another question -- but you have an opportunity to have a new center in the senate. it will be mostly made up of democrats, unfortunately, but i think it could be interesting to watch all of those people and how they behave particularly when it comes to tax reform. i think that's one praise where they could be tremendously influential and be the bridge that sort of gets that done. >> terrific. i think we still have microphone assistance, and let's play stump the band or ask whatever you like about next year's power structure. i see one had shot up -- >> i think it's stump the chumps. >> is there way in the back or somebody who's closer who's already got a microphone? here we go. >> what do you see the relationship to be between the

and to montana senator john tester and republican challenger den any rhee rehberg took part.hey rate it adds a toss up. it's an hour long. courtesy of the montana networking. >>> live from the river side country club. you're watching the 2012 montana senate debate. good evening thanks for being part of the broadcast tonight. i'm the moderator. on behalf of all of us here i want to welcome you to an exciting night of politics. one we hope will help you may be a decision on who shall be the next senate from our great state. 2012 is a water shed year in politics. years come by about once in a blue moon. every race from the president to the bottom of the ballot is up for a vote. we have an historic opportunity to shape the future of our state and nation looking forward to a lively discussion tonight on the issues between incumbent democratic center jon tester and his republican challenger congressman den any rehberg. just a little bit of housekeeping. the debate format was agreed to by both campaigns. we have asked the live audience to not applaud or boo or rather to be here in s