diverse people get elected and democrats get elected. >> leigh ann, what's your takeaway on what thatoment meant to the country? >> yeah, that's a good question, kasie. so i think it gets back into what we were just discussing about women and the enormous amount of women that's going to serve in congress and how the republican party is suffering with women. i think it's very symbolic of where this country is. this country is quite divided. i think that the kavanaugh hearings continue to divide the country but i also think it was a really seminal moment in the sense that you had this woman come before the committee, tell her story. and that republicans tried, the republican men tried to not bash her. that didn't last completely 100%. but there was more of an awareness then in the anita hill hearings. there's more awareness now than there was back then. i think that's a little baste bit of a progress. >> leigh ann caldwell and karine jean-pierre and eli stokol. >>> inside the movie "vice" which profiles dick cheney and leads the golden globes in nominations. >>> first, political theater

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>> leigh ann caldwell, glad you're on the ground there.ank you for reporting this. >>> in wisconsin, it's a different story. democrats won. they beat the republican incumbent for races for governor and ag. now the republican party there is looking to limit how much power those democrats will get with the proposal on the desk of governor scott walker right now that would present the guy who is replacing him, governor elect tony eavers, from pulling the state out of a federal lawsuit challenging the affordable care act, limit early voting and lawmaker, not the governor, would control the board. they're trying to course correct after walker amassed too much power, they say, but democrats are accusing the gop of being sore losers. democratic senator tommy baldwin of wisconsin, thank you very much for being with us. >> it's a pleasure. >> governor-elect eavers said he was planning to call governor walker overnight to urge him to veto this. have you spoken with governor walker? >> not since this legislative attempt to disrespect the will of the