. >> joining us now to examine the coverage of the midterms and the aftermath, mary catherine hamm, anarena cox and david with the baltimore sun. mary catherine, giving the magnitude of this victory, you feel like mainstream media are giving republicans full credit or are trying to minimize these results. >> i think there is a tendency to minimize it. before the election, i will never forgive the conventional wisdom for making us stumble through -- >> because he lost by 16 points? >> right. and the margins are what make this striking. i will say, rink there's a vision between local newspapers and local polls to figure out what was going on. then the endorsement of gardner in colorado and the endorsement of browner in illinois. there seems to be a division there. >> we'll come back to this question. the attempt at liberal stand, it's mostly red states, seem pretty lame. >> well, but those things are true. >> it's true, but -- >> if you get a different electorate, it's here. that is simply true. if it's not incorrect to point that out. the fact that whether or not the midterms matter, of cour

melissa: mary catherine, what is your bet, nuclear or pivot?> i have seen no evidence thus far in his presidency he is capable of pivoting. he says he is pivoting but almost never changes tactics. i don't see that happening. melissa: brad, nuclear or pivoting? >> i have better one. republicans should play chess rather than russian roulette. if they win, the ind at your their back. mitch mcconnell, if fortunate to be leader of senate, invite the president up the hill with the leadership of the house and try and get some commonality of interests whether with the keystone pipeline, whether it is the medical device tax, something that they can work together on. start small and build from there. melissa: guys, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. melissa: don't miss fox business's live election coverage. we've got an all-star lineup with neil cavuto at 8:00 p.m. eastern as we await results. i will be there as well at 11. please oin me. we're staying up all night. we can't wait. don't miss it. >>> small losses for stocks as invest

juan williams, fox news political analyst, mary catherine ham, hotair.com, fox news contributor. let's go at it. family dining room right here, okay? mk. what is going to happen here? >> well i think he will probably move on this. i don't think he cares if it messes up the chance to pass a law. in the past he went and did the dreamer executive action while marco rubio was taking a political risk in the senate to bring something dream-like up. when you cut people off at the knees like that taking a political risk trying to do something that is hard, that thing doesn't get done. if he is interested in a comprehensive something then you want to encourage people to do the thing that is tough to do and i think but cut them off at the knees you won't do. that he said in 2012 it would be hard to legally defend what he wants to do now. >> you still think he is going to do it? >> yes, i think so, juan, what do you think he is going to do? >> yeah, i think he said he is going to do it. we don't have to think. certainly by the end of the year, after the asia trip, he is going to use executi