. >> outgoing speaker of the house nancy pilosi says today she has no regrets. so said that watching so many democratic seats fall to republicans was difficult. there has been much speculation that pilosi would step away from her leadership roll if the house fell to republicans. nancy pilosi has not decided what to come next. she could seek to be minority leader. pilosi plans to discuss her options with the democratic caucus and her family and then pray over her decision. >> for nancy pilosi and her party the losses are deep and wide. but here in california it's a different story as long-time senator barbara boxer won a fourth term. today her opponents conceded the defeat and made a few remarks while boxer did not appear in court. rita williams has our report. >> reporter: a national turn to the right did not include california's liberal lion, even though she was in the republican cross years. >> we stood up to every special interest in this country and we won. thank you. god bless you. god bless california. and god bless america. [ applause ] >> i love you. than

. >> outgoing speaker of the house nancy pilosi says today she has no regrets. so said that watching so many democratic seats fall to republicans was difficult. there has been much speculation that pilosi would step away from her leadership roll if the house fell to republicans. nancy pilosi has not decided what to come next. she could seek to be minority leader. pilosi plans to discuss her options with the democratic caucus and her family and then pray over her decision. >> for nancy pilosi and her party the losses are deep and wide. but here in california it's a different story as long-time senator barbara boxer won a fourth term. today her opponents conceded the defeat and made a few remarks while boxer did not appear in court. rita williams has our report. >> reporter: a national turn to the right did not include california's liberal lion, even though she was in the republican cross years. >> we stood up to every special interest in this country and we won. thank you. god bless you. god bless california. and god bless america. [ applause ] >> i love you. than

jennifer davis reports now from washington, d.c. >> reporter: outgoing speaker nancy pilosi will stay on as the party's leader. there will been great debate among the rank and file. but house democrats overwhelmingly chose her. despite her party's mid-term election losses. >> i am proud to be part of this leadership team. our consensus is that we go out there listening to the american people. >> reporter: pilosi didn't have everyone's support. 43 voted against her. >> she is the face that defeated us in this last election. and it seems to me that at some point in time you have to put your personal agenda and ambitions aside for the good of the country. >> reporter: there was no descents among house gop members who voted to make minority leader john baener the new house speaker. but the top republican isn't so happy about the democrats still in charge of this lame duck session. >> i would be remiss if i didn't discuss concern about the priorities on the other side of the aisles. >> reporter: it is time to tackle the issue of bush era tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. >> we

jennifer davis reports now from washington, d.c. >> reporter: outgoing speaker nancy pilosi will stay on as the party's leader. there will been great debate among the rank and file. but house democrats overwhelmingly chose her. despite her party's mid-term election losses. >> i am proud to be part of this leadership team. our consensus is that we go out there listening to the american people. >> reporter: pilosi didn't have everyone's support. 43 voted against her. >> she is the face that defeated us in this last election. and it seems to me that at some point in time you have to put your personal agenda and ambitions aside for the good of the country. >> reporter: there was no descents among house gop members who voted to make minority leader john baener the new house speaker. but the top republican isn't so happy about the democrats still in charge of this lame duck session. >> i would be remiss if i didn't discuss concern about the priorities on the other side of the aisles. >> reporter: it is time to tackle the issue of bush era tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. >> we

. >>> it appears house speaker nancy pilosi will remain head of the house democrats next year as her party takes the minority position. pilosi also brokered a deal which will head off an ugly internal spat from the number two spot. maryland representative hoyer currently majority leader would remain second in command. while south carolina congressman jim claburn is set to serve in a newly created third ranking leadership position. well, this deal allows house democrats to avoid an internal fight between claburn, the highest ranking african american in congress and hoyer. >>> former president george w. bush is making some public appearances promoting his new book. he spoke for about 20 minutes at a retirement about his book "decision points." the one chapter deals with the september 11th terror attacks. the former president today recalled that september day. >> i still marvel at the bravery of the firefighters and the compassion of strangers and the matchless courage of the passengers who forced down that plane. september the 11th redefined sacrifice. it redefined duty. and it redefin

. >> outgoing house speaker nancy pilosi may have gotten a ceasefire battling over leadership in theght now pilosi is speaker. hoyer is number two the majority leader and cladhorn is number 3 the party whip. but when republicans take over in january, democrats will lose that speaker position and pilosi says she will run for minority lead. so that pits hoye against claburn. pilosi stepped in by asking hoyer to be the number two guy the whip and creating a new position for claburn. >> i will be very honored to nominate four congress jim claburn to serve in the number 3 house democratic position. i will also ask the caucus to designate that position as assistant leader. suggesting he will report to pilosi not hoyer. on the other side of the aisles they are are dualing over events for lawmakers. it is organized in part by the claremont institute and some in coming gop lawmakers saying it is. but the tea party patriots have an event the same day and see the other event as competition. "trying to push the tea party aside and co-opt the in coming congressmen." tea party patriots said they w