ad fromis a humorous mitch mcconnell. >> a lot of people try to tell -- >> that sounds dangerous. tch. >> that has been done before. that is not going to work. maybe it is enough to say mitch fights for kentucky. >> how big a sense of humor does he really have? >> he has a dry sense of humor. he is a funny guy. he is a fanatical sports fan. 's dream job would be athletic director. -- his dream job would be athletic director. he knew his stats. he has watched every game, he knows his football. >> and he takes it personally. got into a big fight with a democrat over conference realignment between their respective alma mater's. they yelled at each other on the senate floor. >> why did you to come to washington? >> i moved down here in 1989. i was looking to change up from new york. >> what was the draw? the politics draw. >> it was by accident, to be perfectly honest. i ran copy, i was a part-time copy clerk. i fell into politics by accident. >> you? >> family reasons. we'll located to the -- we relocated to the area. >> where did you guys go to school? >> new york, state university.

not a kentucky conservative. >> i'm mitch mcconnell and i approve this message. >> it is hard, it is direct. you are going after bevin's strengths. he is claiming to be this conservative alternative to mcconnell and you are raising doubts about his integrity. another story -- we had said bevin claimed he was against the wall street bailout but he was actually for it. they had a book on bevin long before he got in this race. they knew exactly what they were going to use against him and they did. they even told him, we are going to run these ads. >> i would add that what was remarkable about it is that it came up the day he announced he was going to run. there was a statewide ad going after bevin. on the day he announced. think about it. no one had even heard of matt bevin, but they were going after him on day one. >> how badly did he beat bevin? >> 60%-30%. >> they claim this was a good margin because bevin spent $5 million on this campaign, and he was supported by outside groups. >> in your article, you say that mitch mcconnell spent $2 million of his own money. my memory is, and you

mitch mcconnell at the last second said no we're not going to let you do that. reason pat leahy stood in the way of allowing more changes to campaign finance laws that mcconnell wanted to be added to the bill. so a little bit of petty fighting over only about $200,000 at the most, but it didn't happen and leahy loses all the trappings of the office. >> life is the fifth grade, that's what i always say about the congress. julie? >> we got some interesting hints in the spending bill drama this past week about what next year may look like if president obama has to use his veto pen which we anticipate he probably will have to do at least a couple of times with republicans hoping to thwart some key elements of his agenda. nancy pelosi and the house democrats lost in taking out provisions of the spending bill democrats were concerned about, this wall street provision and the campaign finance provision, they were able to keep together enough democrats to show they could sustain a presidential veto if indeed one is needed. and that was a big subtext of what they were doi

i don't think which mcconnell -- mitch mcconnell will ever be barack obama's best friend, but it is aonstructive sign they are meeting and talking. we talk about how little contact the president has had with mitch mcconnell and they are now forced to do some business together. he has been the loudest voice saying no government shutdown, no threatening america's debt rating in the world. a lot of the chicanery that took place, he has been loudly outspoken on not allowing that to happen and that makes him and odd ally in many ways for barack obama. >> if these guys talk about the first few months of next year and the president says here's what i'm going to say, what do you want me to talk about? tax reform and trade -- those are two things those guys want to get done and if you build off the budget deal, this -- it may not be his best friend but this could be the guy who gets stuff onto the president's desk which is something harry reid was rarely able to do because of the split control between house and senate. mitch mcconnell -- no shutdown no debt ceiling breach, he wants to get thin

why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell, they asked. really? you get a drink with mitch mcconnell. >> that was president obama at the correspondence dinner two years ago. this was president obama after the midterm elections last year in which mitch mcconnell became the new majority leader of the united states senate. >> are you going to have that drink with mitch mcconnell now? >> you know, actually, i would enjoy having some kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. i don't know what his preferred drink is, but my interaction with mitch mcconnell is he has always been very straight forward with me. >> i think that his favorite drink is a manhattan, but i won't tell you how i know that. >>> tomorrow's schedule for president obama. and wouldn't you know it? turns out, hey, private meeting between mitch mcconnell and the president, at last. a midday bourbon summit. i would like to say that 2:40 in the afternoon is a little early for bourbon, but i would never say such a thing. as for what these two men might be talking about tomorrow, that story is

mitch mcconnell does have the notion of yes in his d.n.a. at heart he has more institutionalist lover of the senate in his ways. the names mentioned, two of the names. paul, crews and rubio. it caused a whole lot of problems. i would add that some of the newer names, the people we don't know as well, tom cotton, and others, they'll be difficult for mitch mcconnell as well. >> there's a dipolitical situation facing this country involving the shooting of two new york police officers and the protests operating around the country. let's talk about the politics of policing and what is happening in new york. former mayor rudy giuliani said that bill de blasio holder and horts contributed to the atmosphere of hate for police, for criticizing this. george pataki sent a tweet staying he was stickened by the acts that are an outcome of anti-cop rhetoric. of eric holder and mayor bill de blasio. rejecting all of this, one of the things, the concern at the moment is the issue is starting to go down bipartisan lines, this is something to bring together.

>> i think it will be mitch mcconnell. ted cruz can make mischief but his influence has waned some of the fellow republicans feel that in 2014 he went too far few times. last last week had to apologize toe fellow republicans because he tried to maneuver ended up making them stay in town through the weekend, members of congress like nothing less than everything to stick around here especially at the holidays. i think mitch mcconnell, will put the pipeline up for a vote, it's passed the house and like three pass the senate the big question will be does the president veto it. then i think see series of jobs bills. republicans want to rack up early wins to look to pass some bills that they thinking get some democratic support as well. things like making easier for veterans to transition in to the civilian workforce, things like restoring the 40 hour work week threshold and obamacare. feel that lot of people have been put on to part-time work because companies are trying to evade that threshold in obamacare. they want to restor

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inside the parties, 2015 and 2016. >> give us an assessment, how do you think majority leader mitch mcconnellext month when he comes back to all of this? >> the one thing about the incoming majority chief, senator mcconnell, is that he is a tactician. he understands the senate and he loves the senate. now, it is on him to get the senate to work, because both he and john boehner, the speaker of the house, have to prove that republicans can run things, and both of them have institutional pride in the house and in the senate and in the congress in general. i think that it bodes well for some of the not tough stuff, but you're not going to get compromise on the really tough stuff but they'll be able to pass some stuff. >> candy crowley, we look forward to seeing you today. thank you so much. >> thanks. >> stay here. "state of the union with candy crowley" starts at the top of the hour, 9:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> hydigh drama at low speeds, mother in utah is facing charges after she leads cops on a low-speed chase. we'll tell you why these charges have been increased. we've got detai

i think that -- i know that mitch mcconnell will be wanting to be helpful and move that forward. i also think tax reform is possible. i think they kind of tripped over things last week. they were getting close to having the big $400 billion tax extender package with make something of the extenders permanent, and then the president threatened to veto, and it fell apart, and now they're moving just to one-year targets extenders. some -- tax extenders. some say that might be a move to get extenders in a package next year. i'm a little nervous because it seemed like everytime they get started in the right direction, something trips it up and they lose their momentum. but it needs to be a comprehensive package. it is about jobs and the economy. so i really hope they'll do that. there's a good possibility in the energy area. they are going to have to deal with some of the energy areas. we recommended they the bipartisan policy center, some reforms that would actually put somebody in charge of energy policy. nobody is in charge. something like 17 agencies, commissions,, bureaus and depa

now, mitch mcconnell, come on, he rocks, mitch mcconnell, a guy the presses love to hate for a long time. >> he is a winner of 2014. >> and a guy that people predicted would lose if kentucky in the primary. they were wrong and would lose in the general election him they were wrong. he won going away. man, he is in a position to have great impact in washington in '15 and '16. >> his career and taylor swifts are just like remarkably similar to me. >> all right. >> i do feel mitch mcconnell is a clear winner. this is someone who wanted to be leader since elementary school. he got his wish. you know, i guess you know christmas can bring great gifts, for mitch mcconnell, it's to run that capitol building behind me. >> and hasn't ka is coming up, too. >> he is. >> he will have to do something. >> that's why he'll be on our biggest losers list next year. >> i want to talk to a side of mitch mcconnell i have never seen, you have never seen. trying to reach out. lets hope it works. >> election night, you know, it gets to sam's point, probably a year from now he will be among the biggest losers, b

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and the new senate majority leader is mitch mcconnell. is he here to go "on the record." this is his first television interview since his 15 point thumping of alisyn grimes of kentucky. senator mcconnell in just moments. first, breaking news. you are looking live at protests breaking out across the nation. protests in response not to indict chokehold death of a citizen. developing now. the stage is set for a blistering showdown between congress and president obama. a short time ago, house republicans with the help of three democrats voting to block president obama's use of an executive order on immigration. the house passing a bill declaring the president's executive action null and void. and mark meadow joins us. >> good evening, great to be here. >> you had the republicans and three democrats gave the president a little bit of a set back, 219 to 197. but in name only, right? reilly it was more of a message. we know as long as harry reid controls the senate that bill probably is going to sit like 387 other bills right on his desk and not go into law. but we need to start

it's speaker boehner, mitch mcconnell and the president.ç, mr. president, you make a deal on trade, you make a deal on a nominee, you let republicans slip in. erosions to dodd frank into some bigger bill, you are going to have to deal with me. you may get it passed because i can't stop you but i can make you pay for it politically and make the left of this party, the progressive and liberals who are up set this party got kozey with wall street, i can make them very mad at you. >> woodruff: dow look at these divides we're watching in both parties getting bigger or what? a frantic effort? >> i think it's really important to understand, at least where the divides are. i think on the republican side, there are some serious policy differences that are significant and i think are going to continueç to dog republicans going into its 2016 presidential, especially in an issue like immigration. on the democratic side, there is much more unity around policies, procedure they may have differences. so that's number one. the second part, when we talk ab

>> you have to be careful trying to give mitch mcconnell advice because he is an experienced hand.knows what he has in doing and i mean bring them in, talk to them, make sure they don't go off abdicating some process or -- advocating some process or position that's procedurally not going to happen or politically dynamite without any real good results. senator mcconnell has been working for this opportunity for many years. i saw him today and he feels good about the challenges and opportunities he will have. i get agitated when we have new people come to washington who trying to that start trying to dictate what the leadership should do or how they should proceed. when you've got a leadership team you elect, you should listen to them a little bit. we have a lot of potential leaders in washington. what we need is a few more of is followers who will help produce a result. >> you said senator mcconnell needed to co-op some members and you say he needed to kiss off some of the renegade conservatives. i wonder if you could be specific about who you are referring to. >> well, there are so

mitch mcconnell had a private meeting with the president at the white house and said, we'll try to get things done. speaker boehner in his opening says every time he opens his mouth, his proposals become less possible. mitch mcconnell saying this is a butt-kicking for the president. >> if you look at the way the president reacted to what could only be described as a butt-kicking reaction, so i've been perplexed by the reaction from the election as a in your face move to the left. >> mcconnell and boehner, their old dna loved to cut deals. is this proof they have the grass root conservatives, tea party and others looking over their shoulder? do mcconnell and boehner feel propelled to have this anti-obama bravado? >> as much as old passions from the tea party remain in the gop, there's a pragmatic strain we're seeing emerging. mcconnell, boehner, these are people who want to make deals. look for vice president biden to be a key player . >> washington has been at its best, which isn't saying much, under the lame duck periods. why is that? because that's typically when the sword over the c

what does it mean to mitch mcconnell to be the senate majority leader? >> a ton, a ton. >> holmes said mcconnell will push a culture change in the senate, going back to committees and amendments on the senate floor. to pass tax reform and start to balance the budget. >> there are big things out there that can get done. he's the kind of guy who can do that. he's. willing to come to the middle and do that, and the vast majority is very interested in getting these kind of things done. it comes at a really perfect time for incountry. >> after working so hard to make mcconnell the majority leader, holmes says he plans to leave the senate and look for a new challenge. >> i don't take jobs. i take a job that i know i want to live for every single day, and i really want to accomplish and i want to win. i'm still settling on what it is i want to do. i know senator mcconnell will be a piece of the puzzle. >> holmes said mcconnell wants to change the way the senate operates. he predicts a year from now people will be surprised the senate will actually be getting thi

. >> mitch mcconnell and the gop, but also sadly isis. very brutal extremist group, very rich extremist group. terrible tactics. >> tom? >> the government of iran because of their expansion of theological power in iraq and beyond. and mark? >> it has to be the republicans who came out of nowhere and won both houses of parliament. i mean of the government. it is a huge victory for them. >> the envelope, please. write my file, will ya? >> prepare the jacket. >> yes, there you are. >> that's really it over this. let's see if i could get this out now. you know this routine, pat? >> it is the current act of the magnificent. >> the current acts. >> you give the answer and they give you the question. >> who did this? >> they need to get it out. >> ed mcmann. >> taking it out. what do we do? >> they would blow in it. right. >> and then what? give it to mcmann as they would give you questions. here we go the biggest winner of 2014 is the united kingdom. last september a referendum on independence for scotland nearly severed scotland from the 307-y

hillary clinton at -- >> the new york daily news, president obama and mitch mcconnell, the two have apening today. it is the first one-on-one since the midterms. no word if bourbon will be involved. the white house can't explain why soap opera producer just became ambassador to hungary. colleen bell works on "the bold and the beautiful." take a listen. >> well, let me say it this way, ambassador bell has the president's confidence. >> where does the president get that confidence? in her confirmation hearing, she couldn't even name a single strategic interest the united states had. >> she certainly is somebody, again, that has had her own distinguished private sector career. >> as a soap opera producer. >> president obama goes 3-d. the smithsonian is behind it. it is the first ever 3-d printed presidential bust. look at that. how is it done? by using 50 custom built l.e.d. lights and eight sports photography cameras. that is cool. >>> and you are. u.s. presidents are actually forgotten in 50 years. that's a word from the journal of science, and that means by 2016 most won't remember ro

why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell? >> sometimes there's a colonel of truth in the most of jokes. speaking of drinks, the republicans took the senate and quickly thereafter there was a lot of suggestions, gretchen, about a bourbon summit with the president. it's 2:00 eastern right now. 2:40 eastern they meet in the oval office just over my left shoulder. we'll have to see whether that's too early to break out the kentucky bourbon. >> 5:00 somewhere, isn't it? all right. keep us updated. thanks. >>> so plenty for those two political juggernauts to discuss, right? especially after senate minority leader mcconnell says their middle ground appears to be getting a lot smaller. >> if you look at the way the president has reacted to what could only be described as a butt kicking election, by any objective standard the president got crushed in this election, so i have been perplexed by the reaction since the election as sort of in your face dramatic move to the left. i don't know what we can expect in terms of reaching bipartis

that's going to be mitch mcconnell come january and i'll tell you what, mitch mcconnell is a little sternr. >> than people understand. >> than john boehner does. john boehner is essentially a nice guy and i don't think mitch mcconnell would like to be accused of being a nice guy and he'll have to take on ted cruz and that will be one of the big dram as of the coming year. >> mitch mcconnell fan here. >> kentucky. >> so, frank, the underlying truth to all of this is that republicans would actually like, secretly or behind closed door, they expect that this executive action is legal and also it conveniently takes immigration off the table ahead of 2016. sure. i believe the american prospect said this week, however much they oppose the move in the first place, undoing the executive action, and no republican has said let's start deporting -- >> and we keep talking about republicans as if it's one unified group of people. most would agree with everything you just said and the problem with washington and the problem baner is dealing with is a minority of republicans and one of the questions tha

why don't you get a drink with mitch mcconnell. bill: there is your baseline, happy hour. >> there will be no bourbon summit between the two, probably not. that was a truth wrapped in a joke. i think the president fees that way and republican leadership on the hill feels they have been lied to by the president and details of their previous meetings have been leaked and they feel burned by them. i think the white house feels the opposition to the president's policies are based in bigotry. they are not reasonable adults and cannot be and should not be negotiated with. bill: thank you, sir, from washington, leading our coverage. martha: the man who will replace chuck hagel has reportedly been selected. an ex-pentagon official ashton carter is the leading in the contender for this job. leland vittert is live at the white house with this. what are you hearing so far? >> reporter: so far things are quite. nothing on the schedule today. they are trying to walk that fine line between saying nice things about ash carter and laying the groun

molly: 2015 expected to be a big year for mitch mcconnell. take over as senate leader after the big win in the mid-terms. his biggest goal is turning the republicans into the party of yes. sadie is a former media spokes for president george w. bush. how big is this challenge mitch mcconnell faces? republicans don't always agree. what can he do to move things along? mercedes? >> what we know about senator mitch mcconnell is he's devoted to the institution of the senate. he wants to follow this regular order, give each senator a voice, unlike senator harry reid where he basically different was all about raw power for senator reid. he would make sure they don't allow amendments to go through and limit debates for senators. for senator inch mcconnell it's his way to take it back to where the founding fathers wanted it. slow it down and allow each senator to have a voice. that creates a challenge with senator ted cruz. but you will see senator scrus align himself -- senator cruz align him well with senator mcconnell. molly: some of those senators

in mitch mcconnell's case over 54 individuals, he'll always take the careful path, and mitch mcconnell is a subtle individual any way. >> mike viqueira at the white house. as mike said today's policy change does not put an end to the cuban embargo. coming up we'll look at the effect that has had on every day life for the people of cuba. plus we'll talk live for a former political prisoner. tell me what is on your mind. tweet me or e-mail me, be back here in two minutes. >> blame the embargo for their country ace economic woes. half a further of poor management under a communist government has left cubans with crumbling homes, power outages, and antique cars and infrastructure. the trade embargo has done its share to degrade the cuban economy. in the 1990's cubans faced even more hardship. during this time the average cuban lost an estimated 20 pounds after soviet subsidies dried up. in 1996 things got worse when the u.s. strengthened it's embargo. it has contributed to a thriving black market in cuba despite reforms made by president raul castro. now with the release of alan gross, pre

how is mitch mcconnell going to govern? we do not know yet. advice onn the becoming majority leader. what is the advice you can give the future majority leader? him have not talked to since he attained the new position. of conversations and i am encouraged that one of his heroes is henry clay. and viewed as a great compromiser. i am encouraged by that. there was ample opportunity across the aisle. there is a long history of experience and comments made by henry clay that are indicative of where his real soul lies and we hope that will be reflective of his decisions. i think it will take meaningful leadership and stepping up to the plate to do things differently. i think he has that capacity. havetalked to mitch and over the years. majority leader's do not ask for advice. they tend to think they already know it. record.s a long senate asn in the long as he has, he knows how it can be done. action.want to take i'm confident of that. that is easier said than done. we have seen this over the last couple of years. andhave the filibuster everything

i think it's good that mitch mcconnell is putting it back on the table. he says he wants to bring democrats to the table and pass things democrats and republicans can agree on. and he will make good on his promise if he can get the 60 votes to overcome the veto come january. there are a lot of vote horse wanted republicans to get into office to get things done. i think mitch mcconnell is proving their votes counted and they will dooring they can to get the things that were stalled in the senate back on the table and back and moving. heather: a closer look at the cost of obamacare. more people getting help to pay for the cost of obamacare. trace: it's being called the city's worst mass murder. it left people dead. heather: the mayor of new york city trying to close a deep divide with his police force. what they accomplished or maybe didn't thinned closed doors. >> our main concern is the safety of our police officers of every ranks on the streets of the city and the safety of the citizens we proudly serve on each and every street. trace: we are learning mo

i have already spoken the speaker bader and senator mitch mcconnell.them is i am prepared to work with them on areas where we agree, recognizing that there will be some areas where we just don't. one of the habits that this tower has to break is this notion that if you disagree on one thing, suddenly everybody takes their ball home and they don't play. i think that there has to be the capacity for us to say -- this is an area where we will have some vigorous disagreement, but here are some areas where we have a common vision, let's go ahead and get that done, build some momentum. let's work those muscles to sign some legislation and give the american people some confidence that those of us who have the extraordinary privilege of being placed in leadership are able to actually deliver for the american people. one final point that i will make , i started off by talking about how generally optimistic i am about the economic future. there are some concerns on the horizon. obviously, japan being weak and europe being weak means that the united states, even

and mitch mcconnell can pass any piece of legislation they want.he question is whether the leadership gives this amount of power to both. they have over the past few the resulte see that has been without question gridlock. i think there is some logic. not going to see it all the time some key votes you will start to see collaboration among intentionallyt is designed to isolate the edges. having thewill be same conversation in two years. >> extend an apology to my colleagues that we didn't get to. a number we didn't get to. for comingenators and thanks for doing this. appreciate it. i ask you a quick question on behalf of bill -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> republican congress bill cassidy is the winner in the u.s. senate race in louisiana. defeats three-term senate democrat mary landrieu. republicans are also winners in the two house races tharp decided in louisiana. theave speeches by both of senate candidates. we begin with senator landr

the man behind mitch mcconnell's senate takeover.ight now on "fox news sunday." >>> hello again from fox news in washington. first, some breaking news. the senate voted late last night to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill funding the federal government through next september. the move avoids a government shutdown and we'll discuss it with our panel later in the program. first, that bombshell senate report on the interrogation tacticings used by the cia after 9/11 has led to a number of questions about how far we should go to keep america safe. joining us to debate this, karl rove, one of george w. bush's top advisers in the white house and senator sheldon whitehouse, a former member of the intelligence committee who was involved in preparing the report. gentlemen, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, chris. >> i want to focus on three central questions today first of all, was it torture. >> some of the tactics that were written about in the senate intelligence report were brutal. as i said before, constituted torture in

>> jason you started out talking about how mitch mcconnell is a dealmaker.hat was you, chris, who said that. i think we'll see the republican-controlled senate move within the fix six weeks to confirm the nominations of loretta lynch and ashton carter to be secretary of defense in a demonstration that they can get some things done. i think after that they may confirm no one else. >> and does ted cruz throw a wrench into the gears? >> ted cruz has the ability to throw a wrench into the gears but mitch mcconnell knows how to work the rules and he's eager to show his skills at that. >> steve? >> jeb bush was the republican front runner and hillary clinton is the democratic front runner. i think a year from now heading into iowa jeb bush will no longer be the republican front runner and hillary clinton will look surprisingly vulnerable as we get ready for voters to actually turn out. >> who will be the front runner on the republican side? >> going into iowa maybe scott walker. maybe rand paul. maybe ted cruz. she said scott walker first. >> and hillary will look

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what's mitch mcconnell saying? he's not very happy. steve, mcconnell voted against cruz's constitutional point of order last night. the one that you noted that he was defeated 22-74. there were 20 republicans who voted against cruz. even if they, obviously, all agree on defeating and stopping president's executive action on immigration and what that vote showed was a protest within the senate republican congress by the incoming majority leader himself. who believed what ted cruz was doing was completely counterproductive to defeat the president's immigration move and as well as to stop those nominations from going forward. there was serious, serious frustration on capitol hill from those republicans who had to race back to washington. they thought they were going to come back monday and said they had to come back yesterday. for what? they didn't see what was accomplished because that vote that cruz got yesterday, he was going to get that anyways. the senate didn't have to be there this weekend to have that vote and what you saw from mcc

then if anything goes wrong, suddenly everybody will be complaining about mitch mcconnell-care. applause) of course, another strategy is taking obamacare to the supreme court and trying to get it thrown out. but last time we tried that, it didn't work. i believe there's only one sure fire way to kill this thing. (laughter) (applause) we have to make signing up for obamacare unappealing to young people. (laughter) (cheers and applause) we can scare them away by reminding them that last year's web site rollout was a little bumpy. (laughter) remember the original healthcare.gov web site? i think that's where disney got the idea for "frozen." (laughter) now, the new web site works, and most young people can get covered for less than $100. but how's the president going to get that message out to the kids? (applause) he could try to appeal to them directly through a speech or a press conference, but young people don't watch real news shows like this one. (cheers and applause) they watch comedy shows, and i just don't see the president going on one of those. they're beneath his dignity