you said that candidate recruitment was an important factor of the rnc. keep the republican -- y perfect >> you are guaranteed to have a divisive primary with ideologically diverse factions. how do you plan to keep it civil? and do you plan to tip the scales a little bit? to keep them out of debates if they are low in the polls. trite to make it a more perfect process. the first part of that question, i will tell you that people that invest in the rnc are buying what we are doing and what we are selling. as you saw, in our fundraising over the last couple of years, we have been able to out raise the dnc. million to $2018 million or more. understand donors that what we're doing on the ground matters. it works. what you will see is that the people who have been funding the rnc will double down on our program because they know that investing in mechanics is the way that we are going to be able to win in 2016. that is the first piece. the second piece is that i understand while i can't always control everybody's mouth, i can have an influence over how long we

he's not talking about the rnc. he's not talking about what we're doing here.s actually part of our entire engagement effort in black, hispanic and asian communities. i agree with him in the sense that unless we operate on a four-year basis in black and asian and hispanic communities, we're not going to get better. but the beauty is that's what we are doing. and we're doing better with black and hispanic voters across the country. colorado is an example of that and what cory gardner is doing there. in some ways, he's doing better with hispanic voters than any candidate in recent history. we're making gains and what rand paul is saying is an add-on to what our growth and opportunity report said 18 months ago, which is what we've turned around at the rnc in an historic way. >> reince priebus, chairman of the republican national committee, thanks very much for joining us. we'll check in with you obviously after the election tonight as well. appreciate it. >> thank you, wolf. >>> up next, what is the obama factor in this election? i'll ask the head of the house con

and i want to thank the rnc and their victory staff, led by josh daniels. the tip of the spear was the ad for senate campaign. the tip of that tip was our campaign manager, chris leavitt, who is tireless, smart, committed, and unrelenting. chris, thank you. [applause] our political team was the backbone of our highly if ground game. the field director and regional directors were fantastic. we did a lot of outreach, as i mentioned. our coalition team was wonderful. helped us make so many new friends and go places we had not been before as a party. i want to thank our coalition directors for their hard work. we were a policy-driven campaign. and i appreciate the hard work of policy director ryan robinson, brendan paddy, and others, for a positive agenda, the ed gillespie agenda for economic growth, which resonated across our commonwealth. we raised a lot of money for a campaign that nobody thought had a chance. [laughter] our finance team, led by elise and including rob nelson and caitlin collins, did a fantastic job. i appreciate the hard work of our communi

and in january of 2011, became rnc chair. he was reelected in january of 2013.the chairman and his wife have two young children. thus endeth the biography portion of the program. please no live blogging. in short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is under way, to give us time to actually listen to what our guest says. there's no embargo when the session ends. to help you resist that relentless selfie urge, we will e-mail several pictures as soon as the breakfast ends. if you'd like to ask a question, please send me a subtle nonthreatening signal. i will happily call on one and all in the time available. one more than -- one more thing. we strive to operate in a strictly nonpartisan faction, so we've invited mr. priebus's counterpart to have breakfast with us, and hope she'll accept soon. we'll move to questions from around the table. thanks again for doing this, sir. >> i want to get to your questions quickly. i just have a few comments to make before we open it up. number 1, tuesday's election was a big night. it was a wave election. and we didn't sque

if you look at fec reports, what you're going to see is that the rnc has been investing in texas for about a year and a half on the ground with hispanic engagement operations, regional offices, and i would say that the texas gop itself is one of the best parties in hispanic engagement that there is in this country, along with great candidates like greg abbott. so i do believe that battleground texas did a lot of work down there in registering hispanic voters and, again, i just think that they woke up the party in that if we don't start paying attention to recruiting volunteers and engaging hispanic voters in texas, that it's possible the party could have a problem in the years to come. but what i will tell you is that we don't plan on slowing down in our engagement in texas. i already know what our budget is going to be for next year in spending on the ground in texas. and it's going to be because we know that we have to hold and get better in texas because while i don't think it's going to be a problem in 2016, if we were to just forget about texas and think everything is going to b

what do rnc candidates say ahead of tuesday's election. >> rnc chair says he thinks the numbers of those favor republicans and so does a push by the party to gain minority groups and women, approximate pointing to races in kentucky and arkansas where she says the gop is ahead with women, and that's not all. >> the problem-if you look at colorado, cory gardner is tied with mark udall. we're whipping them in arkansas, we're at a dead even early vote right now in iowa. >> he also says he will be disappointed if republicans do not take control of the senate following these midterm elections. >> what kind of counter argument are democrats making. >> when it comes to a ground game, debby wasserman schultz says the democrat who lives in the white house, president obama will drive voters to vote democratic because of the way that she says the way he listed the country out of economic ruin. >> i would stack up our surrogates, we have got president obama, vice president biden, secretary clinton, president clinton, and they've got rand paul, chris christie and ted cruz. the advances that we have ar

i wanted to point out the rnc. not necessarily supporting candidates but laying infrastructure so the party could be successful. covered a lot of ground closing the gap between the republican parties -- republican and democratic parties. this will be the most pro-life congress since roe v wade with all most every new gop senator being strongly pro-life. this is significant. liberals will start launching a new battle plan as their fictitious war on women failed to serve as the d kelly -- the decoy they hoped it would be to detract from the failed policies of barack obama. president obama was not on the ballot but his policies were. the american people have chosen to send a message by republican express. they sent a message that americans have had enough of the president's failed policies that have hampered our economy, endangered our national security, threatened our families, and trampled on our religious freedoms. now the ability of the republicans to take and keep this new congressional majority and pave the way

. >> are you running for another term as rnc chair? have you made up your mind on that? >> i'll probably decide the first week of december. but i'm -- i'm leaning to do it again. >> and just a -- >> but i have to talk to -- that being said now, my wife is going to see this. i mean, i've got to talk to -- [laughter] i haven't really had that serious conversation at home. [laughter] which is -- yeah. i guess it's going to happen tonight. [laughter] oh, i got a text. you know, the thing for me isn't that i wouldn't want to do it again. we have put ourselves in a four-year plan. i think we've got a long way to go to be ready for 2016. so granted we're excited and proud of where we've come. i think we've got to be about perfect, as a national party, to win a national cultural vote in this country. i think the democrats can be good and win. we've got to be great. in order to do that, you have to have a national party that's obsessed over all the boring stuff like the mechanics and the ground game. nobody ever wants to talk about these kinds of things. but i'm convinced that th

head of the rnc. he was the head of the rnc when richard nixon had to resign.e wrote him a really fascinating latfascinate ing letter the day before, he resigned on august 8th for the good of the country and the presidency. he was there for the watergate, almost every big moment in the last two generations of history. >> yeah. he was. and, you know, prepared him to be president. >> yeah. >> and he was -- i tell people that george bush was the best one-term president we have ever had. nobody knows it. and this book is a way to start letting people understand why i say that. >> you know, we often hear the story on the day that president reagan was shot by hinckley. and we hear what happened in the white house. we knew al hague said he was in charge. your dad approached it differently, they wanted him to land in a helicopter. >> that's correct. >> and the cabinet meeting, he would not sit in the president's seat even though he was sort of filling in. what does that tell you about him? >> that he's got good perspective. he knew his job. and he wasn't going to try t

. >> you're the first person to film ever at the political department in the rnc.o it is a real exclusive. >> reporter: thank you. thank you. we got that. explain what everybody is doing here. you see everybody hard at work but what are they getting? what information do you need from them? >> well, for a couple of years, we've been working on models and trying to figure out what types of people and voters need to come into the box in order for us to be successful in these races across the country. what the folks behind us are doing are comparing what vote everi ers are coming in and then the models that we preprogrammed to determine whether or not we're on track to make this thing work. >> and how are you -- i know that you haven't gotten returns yet but just in terms of the getting out to vote precinct, captains around the country? >> well, you can tell that. at different points in the day, 12:00, 2:00, 5:00, you can see how you're doing compared to your targets. so if your targets are not coming in the way that you think your models should, that changes what peop

again, what we are focused on at the rnc at the republican party is engaging what voters listen, and earn trust, mobilizing, or asking for their vote. >> good to see. thank you for being with us. i want to catch the viewers up on the results. we had a number of results, a number of races hadn't been called. >> a number of votes is we may not know the balance of the senate. the associated press saying a run-off will happen in louisiana. the numbers are there, republicans bill cassidy facing off against mary landrieu, getting 42%. this is a jungle primary, meaning that the third candidate you see there. rob mann us, garnering 12% of the vote probably took votes from cassidy, neither able to get the 50% needed to win it outright. we will not have the run off until december. >> this one is impose. thank you. >> now, let's see - where are we going? let's go to wajahat ali, following online communities and their reactions. >> we are talking about my people, the millennials, all 80 million of us. people know we tweet, text, we what's that, instagram, stream, take tell fizz and some poke - n

i notice the rnc has put out a good ground game.i feel like obama has dropped the ball on the hispanic and latino vote. i feel like he let them down. this is the republicans' chance to do something and pick um the ball and go with reform. this is our chance. whether or not we do it, i don't know. it's very obvious. we're going to have division within the party with the ted cruz. you know, he's got a 2016 platform, everybody. even knows this. but, you've got people saying, especially boehner had said he's kind of lost his edge with the house. he may not have the support. >> you know, jimmy, i'm just thinking out loud because you have the president promising some action and on the right they're going to go nuts if he does it. and some on the left of the president, for example congressman gutierrez said if he doesn't go big, he's going to have an internal war in the democratic party. that's kind of a tough situation to handle. >> i think the president and his team made a huge mistake by not doing the executive order. again, he has the

much like the rnc's group did an autopsy after the 2012 elections.hing about that autopsy, though, republicans pretty much ignored all of its recommendations and they swept this year's midterms. so what should that tell the democrats, if anything? i want to bring in our panel right now. writer and political activist, who's been thrown in jail by vladimir putin. ed rollins is former principal white house adviser to president ra reagan in both of his terms. he's been a long-time business analyst. ceo and editor of the fp group, the publisher of "foreign policy" magazine. so i just want to point out it's 29 years to the day since you won the championship. i'm so happy you're here. >> 1985. >> congratulations, gary. good to see you. i want to focus on your expertise in term of strategy. do you think president obama now pivots to work with the republicans? >> i'm not sure we can apply more strategy to what obama has been doing. i think he will be forced to deal with the republican majority in the senate because it's likely that some of the democrats, espe

the elder president bush announcing his support for the former rnc chairman. now, gillespie is also or also made an appearance on the eve before the electi with ann romney in sterling and encouraged people to get out to vote. and that's what it all comes down to. all of the campaigning, all the canvassing, the ads, all of that is winding down here. and it gets down to the actual voting. and the polls open in just about 15 minutes at 6:00. reporting live in mcclain, megan mcgrath, news4. >>> you'll also get a chance to give some financial relief. the military families in virginia choose a constitutional amendment on the ballot. it exempts spouses of military members who died in action from paying property taxes. this is only for a spouse's primary residenc and not valid if they remarry. >>> in west virginia the winner of the u.s. senate race will make history. shelley capito is running against natalie tenant. either candidate will be the first woman elected to represent west virginia in the u.s. senate. moore-capito was the first republican senator from virgini

the donors who gave big to the rnc now say that we got a great return on our investment.at is a huge win. >> i have been as critical as of chris christie than anyone. it is kind of amazing that he managed to put in a lot of time and miles. my winner is a guy who actually won the race, john kasich. we both agree he does not get nearly enough attention. he won his race in ohio by a 31 point margin. one of the most important states. if you put aside the mustard stains and add, put aside those things, john kasich has to be considered a serious presidential candidates on the merits. >> my loser from last night, hillary clinton. i can't spell this out exactly. the party is now in disarray. herehillary clinton and her team are overcautious. they overthink and over analyze everything. this gives them new complexity to deal with. i think whatever plan they had about how to proceed after the midterms in terms of potential announcement, it is all thrown up in the air because no one expected the result they got. it means distancing themselves from president obama and dealing with the

joining me now is former rnc chair michael steel. he's an msnbc analyst and way too early lover. that's why he's here. >> oh, my gosh. yeah. >> so good to have you. >> talk about maryland, our home state. there was a big show down that took place there. didn't go the way people expected. for the view of what it means for the republican party. this is good for the brand. but how do you think there could be problems moving forward if people aren't, you know, thinking consciously about what the victory means over the next two years. >> two words come to mind immediately discipline and message. and that means having the discipline to put in place the message that builds off of what happened last night. so you're going have now this pressure point in the gop between the house and the senate. as we all know the house has been very active over the last few years and putting a lot of things out there from repeal of obamacare 50 plus times to talk about impeaching the president and all of this. the senate now is going to have to moderate that. the balance of power between the house and se

. >> hey, why is the rnc doing this? >> maybe the party finally got the memo about gays or at least lesbians. >> oh, my gosh. i mean can we talk emmy? i'm kidding. that was so fun. >> best supporting actress. >> that was a great time. but it's a fabulous put together. ten episodes right? >> ten episodes in season two. it's just about four republican senators who live together in a man cave. >> yeah. >> on capitol hill. the scene that you just saw is a gay wedding between two republican aides. that is strangely enough sponsored by the rnc because they're trying to get gay votes. they realize the issue is changing so quickly in american politics they want to get on the right side. >> i didn't even tell my director -- i stole this. this was a prop but it says you know the republican national committee presents julie and kathy. and on the back, republican national committee seal. and so it certainly begged the question, made sense i had that question in the script. it was really fun. thanks for having me. thanks for joining

they have gave big to the rnc raising tons of money.w same way that on christie and a great return on investment. i think a lot of them will be money people. >> i have been as critical as christie for anyone. it is kind of amazing that he managed to put in a lot of time and miles. my winner is a guy who actually won the race, john kasich. we both agree he does not get nearly enough attention. one his race in ohio. a 31 point margin. >> the swing nearest. >> certainly one of the most important battleground states. there is no way in which if you put aside them mustard stains and add put aside those things john kasich has to be considered a serious presidential candidates on the merits. it's my loser or, hillary clinton. -->> my loser last night, hillary clinton. they are so cautious. they overthink and over analyze everything. this gives them new complexity to deal with. i think whatever plan they had about how to proceed after the midterms in terms of potential announcement it is all thrown up in the air because no one expected the resu

. >>> let's bring in former republican governor of virginia jim gilmore, the chairman of the rnc andunder of the conservative super pac called growth. let's start off by asking you about the minimum wage. isn't it interesting that, again, in state after sate the minimum wage was increased. voters chose to increase the minimum wage while voting in republicans? >> well, i think it's a localized issue and it's been under some discussion but i think that the real issue that we've got to do here is to try to think about the people who will probably be thrown out of work now as a result of the increase in the minimum wage. we have to be making plans to accommodate those further unemployed people. in the meanwhile, the real thrust of what we need to do is build up the economy and create more jobs for people and get wages coming up. i think part of the reason for this result that we saw yesterday is because people are frustrated because wages are not going up in the united states. >> hang on one second here, governor, because we have some breaking news just into cnn. cnn can now project one

people that have been funding the rnc will double down on our program because they know that thesting in mechanics is way that we are going to be able to win in 2016. controlcan't always everybody, we can influence how long we fight each other. we are working on a reasonable number of debates that allow candidates to make debates but not so many that it creates an unnecessary amount of fighting and bickering and unproductive activity. is goingrimary process to start somewhere after february 1. i don't see much of a chance of having an avalanche upfront competinghe penalties with outside the window. and i think the winner take all contest is going to be a pretty massive day. it will be a winner take all. >> [indiscernible] >> i think it is pie-in-the-sky but i think there is a very .trong feeling republicans slicing each other apart. there will will be a high level of disdain for candidates who spend their time trying to destroy other republicans. you will see people very vocal and less concerned about getting involved in the middle of candidates. be less concerned. refraining from bei

don't take control of the senate when these midterm elections are all wrapped up wednesday, then the rnc chair says he will be very disappointed. but his hopes are high and here's why. >> we're winning on the ground. you can just look at early vote, absentee ballot voting and their message isn't working. if they had such a great message, they should be winning across the board and they're not. >> democratic candidates in close races, they tend to win. even though mitt romney said he thinks democrats are getting desperate and they are complaining that president obama is a drag on the ticket this year, they say president obama is actually an asset. >> yeah, i stack up our surrogates. we've got president obama. secretary clinton, president clinton. they've got rand paul, miss christie and ted cruz. the most important thing is that voters will be asking themselves is who has my back. >> she's also sighting what she thinks is a stronger ground game as a reason she believes the gop will not take control of the senate. and the way maryland sees things, he thinks a strong economy and specificall

an rnc committee woman won her race for delegate to congress from the american samoa. it's been a good night. at this point i want to introduce governor luis fratuna. >> thank you. it was a historic night for the republican party, and i will talk about how historic it was at the state level. actually it was a reaffirmation of the policies that republicans across the country are implementing at the state level. we're proud to say and announce this morning that republicans are at an all-time republican high at the state level both in the number of chambers and number of seats that we control. i'll go into more detail right away. voters across the country, red state, blue state, purple states spoke clearly they want policies that republicans are implementing across the board. and actually i will add that our success has to do mostly on the one hand with the policies they're implementing and number two with the candidates that actually are espousing those policies. and we made it a special effort to recruit and get elected more diverse and female candidates across the coun

rnc chair ryans priebus joins us.ongratulations in order for the republican party tonight. >> thank you. it's a great night. now we have to get on with getting things done÷o6 and building o2016. how does the president work with the president and how does the republicans work with the president. he. >> he declared during the stimulus bill that he is going to listen to all the republican plans. he didn't listen to any offp Ñ them. he went to the blair house and declared all the healthcare ideas that the republicans had he would work with the republicans. he hasn't done it he is really good at giving these press conferences but is he really lousy at following through on these promises. what i would suggest if the president was serious go down to harry reid's office,ul$ jzok into his desk. get 370 bills that are sitting there."b and tell mitch mcconnell which of the 370 bills that many of which were voted on and drafted by some democrats, which ones is he willing to deal with? >> he says now that he will. he says now that

and i want to thank the rnc and their victory staff, led by josh daniels. the tip of the spear was the ad for senate campaign. ourtip of that tip was campaign manager, chris leavitt, who is tireless, smart, committed, and unrelenting. chris, thank you. [applause] our political team was the backbone of our highly if ground game. the field director and regional directors were fantastic. we did a lot of outreach, as i mentioned. our coalition team was wonderful. helped us make so many new friends and go places we had not been before as a party. i want to thank our coalition directors for their hard work. we were a policy-driven campaign. and i appreciate the hard work robinson director ryan , brendan paddy, and others, for a positive agenda, the ed gillespie agenda for economic growth, which resonated across our commonwealth. we raised a lot of money for a campaign that nobody thought had a chance. [laughter] our finance team, led by italy's ise and including rob nelson and caitlin collins, did a fantastic job. i appreciate the hard work of our communications

stood on that issue n order to get more women and more minorities in the party the chairman of the rncame to an agreement look we have to focus on the economic prospects of this nation. >> we are out of time on this topic. sorry. let us know what you think. follow me on twitter @bonnieerbe @bonnieerbe from elections to ma certainty leave. >> maternity leave programs may attract female employees but they are linked to fewer women in the executive ranks. a new study by mercer says companies offering paid leave hire more women but tend to promote them at a slower pace. this may be because the companies do not help women after they return from maternity leave or it may be due to bias against working mothers. the study concludes unless men take leave and the culture is changed formal policies may not have their intended effects. changing cultural values about women in the workforce may be a global issue. there is no country in the world which women earn the same as men for the same job according to a report. the report ranks the u.s. 65th worldwide in wage equality. here women are saying yo

i was at the rnc a couple of days ago, john. i was in a top republican stamp's office on. on a white board, he had 19 names listed. those are 19 potential republican candidates that are reportedly thinking about the race or quite obviously thinking about the race. let's talk about one big winner from tonight. scott walker in wisconsin. a lot of people thought he was going to be defeated. a resounding victory for a republican as it was the republicans all across the country. scott walker tonight. ted cruz not endorsing the candidacy of mitch mcconnell to be the majority leader. he will make a lot of waves. randall paul tweeting tonight pictures of hillae clinton with candidates around the country, who have lost chris christy, ditto for him picking up a lot of chits, campaigning around the country. jeb bush, marco rubio and the usual folks on, some sort of repeat candidates. mike huckabee and rick santorum. ben carson is an individual a lot are talking about. moving over to the democratic side, the list is a lot shorter. might have some emerge. no one needs to be reminded of

they're set the table for what the republicans have in mind for the country is the chairman of the rncce priebus. he joins us from washington. mr. chairman, good to have you on this program. >> hey, thank you, tavis. thank you for having me. >> my pleasure. let me start by asking what it is that you heard, what did your party hear the country say last week? >> well, if you don't mind, i think there are three thing. i'll keep it short. number one, people were not satisfied with the direction that the president and his lieutenants were taking this country. and so those bills and that piece -- those pieces of legislation were rejected. the second thing was people in the states were satisfied with many of the republican reformer out there like scott walker and people like rick scott and others. but the laugh thing is the piece that i think people -- last thing is the piece that i think people said they wanted thing to get done in washington, and/ thy wanted the president, they wanted republicans, they wanted everybody here to start getting some reasonable things done for the good of this c

they butted heads with the rnc saying they are not connecting with voters and wasser man schultz says voters will sign with democrats because president obama is doing a good job. both chairs also predicted strong results for their party because of that he have strength on the ground. >> i think we are going to hold the senate. the reason is we have a ground game i know rice would take ours every day of the week. >> the government suspect working. our ground game is whipping their ground game. >> the "washington post" gives them a 90 percent chance to take over the senate. >> let's keep talking about the mid term. if republicans win the senate and keep the house what do you hope their first move will be? log on to fox and friends first facebook page. >> a huge pump for republican senate candidate joanie earnrns one taking a cheap shot saying it is all about her looks. >> good morning to you. there's an old saying beauty is only skin deep. the latest polls say voters in iowa say he is more than just a pretty face. they show ernst over the democrat 51 percent to 44 percent. republicans v

ony spoke to the rnc chief working with president obama. >> with a republican majority in the senate,ll have no other option than to work with republicans to get things done. we should have been doing that for the past five years. >> writes previous of the republican national committee. --reince previ the president will come out and give the olive branch? >> i think he would be smart to fight for his presidency. we have a lame duck session with the current congress and then in january, the new congress sworn in. , one year of the year from now, people will be talking about the iowa caucus and new hampshire primary. unless he finds a way to get a head of steam up really quick. casual, ites to be will set him back in a big way. he has to come out and say that he has heard the message of these midterms. a "but"ere going to be in that sentence? >> that is the way the president tends to speak. he needs to fight for his presidency. he wants to get things done. time becomeover very pessimistic about his ability to work with republicans. he wille places where only go so far. >> let's talk abo

also the rnc sending troops to the ground. they did a great job in colorado with hispanics. when they saw that, robert was in trouble in kansas they sent out the cavalry to help out what was not the best of campaigns not the best campaign. we saw that. understatement of the year. >> it is hard to escape any other conclusion. with the scott walker victory. and, democrats, holding on to, to, barely holding on to the virginia senate seat. we don't have a conclusion of that. this really does seem like a wave. not as much of a wave as 2010 felt. there were so many house member that fell and so man others that fell. but this is, this is incredibly strong night. one other thing i do want to say, we are not really doing house races this evening. but it does look like for the first time, history, 100 women are now in the house of representatives. which is a milestone that i think this bipartisan in nature we can all applaud. that there is, still not 50% in the house. but, 100 women in is, is much improved from, just -- >> gloria, do you see the wave? >> i do. is it a tidal wave or a

then the republican national committee will give their analysis of midterms including comments by rncr writes previous -- reince pribus. >> the 2015 c sent student cam video competition is underway, open to all middle and high school students to create a five minute to seven minutes dr. memory on the theme of the three branches on you showing how the policies, law, or action by the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the government has affected you or your community. the prizes total $100,000. for a list of rules and how to get started, go to studentcam.org. >> joni ernst defeated democratic congressman bruce braley to take the seat held by retiring five term senator tom harkin. the first teamow all senator in iowa history, spoke to reporters from her headquarters in west illinois. >> thank you. thank you, oh, my goodness, thank you, iowa! oh, my. much for being here on this special evening. just a few minutes ago, i got off the phone with bruce braley, and -- no. i congratulated him on running a phenomenal campaign. he was a worthy opponent. , and he worthy opponent was wil

and so the good news is that we have several former rnc members that will be in the senate in 2016 and i have already talked to every one of them and i said if you don't mind i would like to come over and work together so when we work are in the house and coming up with these positive conservative achieveable solutions that we find the ones that will pass the house but will also pass the senate. so in some cases that may mean not only be pushy with the house leadership but the senate and the senate leadership. but i think we will have opportunities for great success in all of those areas where we're pushing. , thank you very much for being with us this week. the incoming chair of the republican study committee. thanks for your time. >> thank you very much. i've enjoyed it. >> christina, our guest on "newsmakers." let me start with the discussion that you had with the congressman about his relationship or his intended relationship with the house leadership. speaker boehner's problems were often in his own conference. i'm wondering what you think about what you heard from him and his app

rnc has tried to get some logic. -- putting some restraints so that it does not crazyike it is, you know, parade day in school and we do not have debate after debate, where people are trying to make a name by saying colorful and memorable -- >> 9-9-9. >> it looks like ben carson, rand paul, are going to run. ted cruz is scoping out space. peopleill be a lot of running. myself throughd a lot of therapy and liquor that it is a good thing. with somethis conviction. it is good. to have these kind of primaries because, as painful as it may you,s entertaining for soul-searching, at the end, you come out with a defined voice. runningyou may see some know,nnot do that, you shift to the right. it did not work for romney. i am not sure how far to the right chris christie could turn, assuming he runs. or, rob portman. records. solid i don't think they can do the metamorphosis quickly and not shoot themselves in the foot. you will see a realm of voices. some on the right and on the more moderate side. we are going to come out with one nomine -- nominee. >> i love the campaign slogan, navarro -- ther

that informs decision-making all the way back to the rnc headquarters.dated, the voter is taking out of the latest canvassing list. >> whatever the answer, you will put that in. >> it takes the name off the list. they have already voted. >> with democrats investing heavily in their own ground game, this investment may make the difference. there is a tried-and-true way to find out. >> this will be judged by how we do with the polls. >> phil mattingly, bloomberg, asheville, north carolina. >> who will win a north carolina? which party will control the senate come january? we have an election on lighter -- all nighter only on bloomberg television. at the top of the hour, mark crumpton is in new york with a preview. >> we continue that theme, and have more on tomorrow's midterm elections. balance of power in congress could shift dramatically. if republicans do win control of the senate, what does that mean for president obama's legislative agenda during his last two years in office? how will wall street responded? we also had back out to las vegas for bloomb

they have the - the rnc has people across the country immobilizing -- mobilizing voters, and rand paul is doing something interesting in reaching out to minority communities, he's been to berchly, ferguson, african american colleges, and talking about the different agendas, talking about economic empower. economic reform, criminal justice, and talking about policies. we talk a lot about, in the republican party, that you need to show up and talk about something. you can't just avoid the communities, if we want their vote. rand paul has down that. he won in his state a large amount of minority voters who won the majority of hispanic vote, and 21% of the african american vote. mitt romney won 24% of african american voters. both men are doing a lot to expand the party. they have two different way to do it. >> betina, what do you think about tomorrow night? the head wind, the tail winds. what kind of a night are you expecting? >> i think it will be a great night for republicans. you have two different sets of areas - the red states for the senate map - it's more pro republican, it's a goo

. >> are you going to spend some time looking at the rnc targeting -- >> frankly, one of the places of bipartisan cooperation -- we have known that it has been real for a while. the second thing is i think -- the second thing is women are not going to mean anything if we are not ahead on the economy. as democrats, the number one do is lay out o economic plan and agenda to a future that ensure that everyone in this country can have a chance for prosperity for themselves and the kids. >> so you sound like clinton in 1992. >> the operation runs -- it is light years better than it was two years ago. we got our butts kicked two years ago and we have learned and we have adapted -- >> by the way, my column today will be on this. make sure everybody sees it this afternoon. >> which is one reason why no one political party ever has a lock on anything. eventually, you get tired of losing and the other party adapts. the biggest warning sign was exactly what was in coming, and that is the inexorable march of the demographic change. the electorate was 2% less white than it was in 2010. it will be 2

are you going to seek a third term as head of the rnc? my guess is it is probably yours after tuesday. >> i'll make that decision in a couple weeks. >> are you going to do it? >> wait a second. my wife is probably watching right now and i have to talk to her about it. >> if she says fine do you know want it? >> i think it is important for us to thin obsession evidence to mechanics, the ground game is the data. >> so if she says yes -- >> i think it is likely. i'm not going to go there yet until i talk to her and the kids about it. >> smart husband. very smart. nice to sigh. thank you for joining us. and joining us, our political panel. byron, you've heard reince priebus, doubt the president is anxious to work with the -- or willing, i should say? >> anxious, no, willing, maybe. it does seem like this meeting we had 28 the leadership and the president was an opportunity for them to recite their talking points face to face. i doubt very much got done although it appears thing got contentious on the issue of immigration. obviously they have

. >>> the rnc is out with a devastating new ad. >> with respect to the notion that i can just suspendeportations through executive order, that's just not the case. >> anybody who tells you that it's going to be easier, that i can wave a magic wand and make it happen has not been paying attention to how this city works. >> i wish some wish i could just bypass congress and change the law myself, but that's not how democracy works. >> what i'm going to be laying out are some things i can do with my lawful authority as president. >> does the president still stand by what he said last year when he said, "i am not the emperor of the united states, my job is to execute laws that are pass passed"? does that still hold? >> absolutely. >> they're going to go nuts because they're going to see it outside the authority of the president. it's going to be a very dangerous situation. you're going to see -- hopefully not but could you see instances of in,anarchy, you could see violence. >> one thing is for sure, with respect to the president, he has a certain freedom with how he acts and then he'll mi

rnc producing an ad called hashtag grubering. >> jonathan gruber is one of the self-respected economists in the world. >> it would be great to give account for things he said about the american people. >> reporter: gruber's very bad week will continue. tomorrow the massachusetts health connector, that states failed obamacare exchange has to be relaunched. he sits on the board. >> the massachusetts health connector is the worst state based exchange under obamacare until today. they do not have a functional website and spent well over a quarter of a billion dollars to get ready to launch one tomorrow. >> reporter: asked how he would improve it, gruber doubled down. >> i think move exactly how we've done it. massive outreach. >> reporter: a longtime staffer to governor romney said i don't think it's fair to single him out. while josh earnest tried to put big distance between gruber's controversial comments and the president. >> i agree vigorously with that assessment. the fact of the matter is this is a difficult undertaking, but ultimately a law that had significant benefits for millions o

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. >> joining me now senior advisor to president obama and political analyst and former chair of the rnc. david let me start with you, in many ways, as hopeful as this is for the five million men and women who will not face deportation in the coming months, this in some ways mark the end of president obama's 2008 promise of bipartisan and a washington that could function above partisan politics. how does this moment make you feel in terms of that legacy. >> well, look, that was the -- that was the promise, the hope of that campaign and the nighin. i don't know that this is news that there are big differences in washington. i sat in a room, alex, five years or more ago with members of republicans and democrat who reforped in the past where the president urged them to lock arms and move forward together and they were afraid to do that because of the base of their party would object and we're still in the same place. they passed a bipartisan bill, 68 votes, that's the desire that the american people, republicans and democrats working together, and the speaker wouldn't bring it up on the flo

gruber is u now facing some real life adversaries, the rnc already producing an ad called grubering. >> it would be great to get him to come in and answer and give account for some of the things he said got the american people. >> gruber's very bad week will continue. tomorrow the massachusetts health connector, that state's failed obama care exchange has to be relaunched. >> the massachusetts health connect fors is arguably deemed the worst state under obama care until today, they still do not have a functional website and they spent well over a quarter of a million dollars to get red yea for this one tomorrow. >> you do map it out. >> reporter: a former staffer to governor prom any told fox news, i don't think it's fair to single him out. while press secretary josh ernest tried to put big distance between the controversial comments and the president. >> i think the fact of the matter is this is a -- this is a very difficult undertaking, but ultimately this is a law that has had sfangt benefits for millions of people who have been able to sign up through the marketplaces of the affo

. >> that's what the rnc has said over the past month. red states. >> i was going it say, nobody more fun to sit next to on election day is charlie cook. we have the back of the envelope, doing the math. >> all you need is beer and a cup of coffee. charlie cook, steve schmidt, thank you so much. >> who will win florida too is this. >> i think crist. and it's funny how millions of dollars spent in silly fans. >> do you think it will be crist? >> you know what, i think charlie is probably going to squeak it out at the end. i really do. >> chain gang charlie crist. >> you you remembremember. chain gang charlie because charlie wanted to prove he was a tough right wing republican, he wanted to put prisoners in chain gangs on the side of the road again. >> this is a great country. >> charlie was running as far right as he could a decade ago. and now he's going as far left as he can go. but he's running against a guy at 35% approval rating since his will inauguration. and as far as like at faability go, i think charlie wins it. >> transparency i

who want to i want to congratulate the republicans come in particular i would like to point out the rncand reince priebus and the work they have done in laying infrastructure, not message of supporting candidates but linked the infrastructure so the party could be successful. i think i've covered a lot of ground and closing the gap between the republican and democratic parties. he needs to be commended for that. this what we will see in january this new congress will be the most pro-life congress since roe v. wade with almost every gop senator being strongly pro-life. this is significant. look for liberals to start searching for a new battle plan as their fictitious war on women failed to serve as a decoy that they hoped it would be in attracting attention away from the failed policies of barack obama. now, president obama wasn't on about yesterday, but his policies certainly were. the american people have chosen to send a message by republican express. they sent a message to washington that americans have had enough, and the president's failed policies that have hampered our economy, e

how successful has the rnc been in getting nonwhite voters excited about these mid terms? >> thank you for having me john. since the growth in opportunity report nearly two years ago, under the leadership of ranve prebis, we have started dialogues and opportunities that have led to us as the republican party making inroads in diverse communities across the country including those in black communities. we've had a number of successes, speaking with key stakeholders, whether they be the national urban league, at their convention in cincinnati ohio, or rechartering campuses, that are paying offer and we're seeing incremental gains that look good not just for the republican party but for the country. >> what about, though, these election laws that make it more difficult for minority voters to actually vote. what do you think about that? >> well, if you are referring to voter i.d. there are a number of instances where it's been implementing the right way. and we've seen black voter turnout increase. in georgia for example, we've seen voter i.d. laws pass and black voter turnout