did a big bus tour with scott brown just a few days before election day. scott brown also campaigned alongside new hampshire senator kelly ayotte. there she is outside of a massachusetts deli shouting into a bullhorn that scott brown is holding. it might be mr. brown's famous truck behind them. i can't quite tell. kelly ayotte and susan collins are from sort of neighboring state. maybe that makes sense. this guy is not from a neighboring state. >> this man is the one i want most in the united states senate working side by side with me. >> scott brown is the one i want most in the united states senate. john mccain, kelly ayotte, susan collins are the three republicans. they are pretty much the only three republicans that scott deemed not too toxic to bring to massachusetts during his campaign. now that a senate seat might open in massachusetts, guess who is doing all of the dirty work to make sure that massachusetts senate seat opens up? i know it seems nuts. i if ul will i admit that it seems nuts. it makes a heck of a lot more sense than what john mccain

the elizabeth warren/scott brown race was pretty close by massachusetts standards. the margin in the senate race, this election, had the democrat winning by eight points, which sounds like a lot in a normal state that would be a lot. but in the presidential race, the democrat won the presidential race by a heck of a lot more than 8 points. the democrat won by 23 points. and that is a fairly normal margin by which democrats beat republicans in the state of massachusetts. so given that, scott brown losing by only eight can be considered kind of a victory. it's at least pretty close. and after that loss, that scott brown loss, and than credibly-expensive and hard-fought race, immediately thereafter, republicans wanted to talk about how to get scott brown back to washington. and now today to them it seems so close they can taste it. because although john kerry is still a senator from massachusetts, after his very high-profile role in the obama campaign and speaking gig at the democratic national convention, after that john kerry's name was put forward as one possibility

i don't want scott brown to run for senate next year. powerful person to run against because he's just been senator. i want to see mitt romney in the white house. i want to see mitt romney as secretary of commerce or this new secretary of business role. definitely a talented guy. look, is it just a mean that something is actually not going to happen? probably. 57 million people voted against barack obama. a lot of them would feel an olive branch from picking mitt romney. he was a talented guy, a business guy. it is a shrewd sort of appeasement move. is it going to happen? no. >> i don't know how much the left loves mitt romney now. >> i'm not there. i'm not there. >> interested in giving haim position, but the other thing i want to see -- the other thing i want to see at the treasury is i have somebody who is passionate, brilliant, experienced, passionate and passionate who would be extraordinary choice. run the bite. >> we're sitting here arguing about whether we should do the $4 trillion plan that kicks the can down the road for the pr

in one of the most closely watched races nationwide, consumer advocate elizabeth senator scott brown inican@ massachusetts. >> this victory belongs to you. you did this. you did this. you did this. for every f that has been chipped and squeezed and hammered, we're going to fight for a level playing field, and we're going to put people back to work. [applause] that is what we're goido. >> in missouri, democratic incumbent senator claire mccaskill held on to receive, defeating republican challenger todd akin. the race drew national attention after congress member a can claimed women are able to suppress pregnancy in instances rape." mccaskill celebrated with supporters shortly after the concession. >> things do not always turn out the way you think they're going to. i just called clare mccaskill @and gave her congratulations because the way the numbers are looking, we lost this race. >> and all said it's over, it's done, it is too red. there is no way that clare mccaskill can survive. well, you know what happened? you proved them wrong. but in wisconsin, democratic congressmember tammy

do you think scott brown might run for governor? >> i think he would be better advised to run for governor. now there's also talk and this being massachusetts where the democrats run everything and there are about 11 republicans left to complain, there's talk that they might 15 finagle the rules again that he's not old school democratic enough to do that. there was rumblings in the boston her and would that said that there was some talk on beacon hill that the democrats the legislature might go back to the old system that they changed so that mitt romney wouldn't get appointed to successor to let did he havedeval patrick appoint a successor. >> i was just going to say what do you think patrick will do? >> i think he'll let the process take it. i think he'll serve out his term and move back into the private be world of private enterprise and big money law firms. >> i don't know. i think -- i disagree with you on that. >> you're not buying that. >> i'm not buying what you're dishing out. i think he'll go to the cabinet if not immediat

mark halpern, if we go back to the top of that list, elizabeth warren versus scott brown, tight all the way. what did elizabeth warren do in the end to win? >> she ran as a democrat in a state where the president won by a big margin. >> that helps. >> very difficult. they knew if the president won by 20 seats or more, it will be difficult to overcome. she made very few mistakes. and now she'll become one of the leading voices in the senate for progressives around the country. >> what does she bring to the senate? >> she brings that passion. and from a real liberal left perspective in terms of economic issues. she is a consumer advocate. she will be aligned with bernie sanders the independent and several others on that side of the spectrum. she may make it very difficult for some of the regulators who are trying to do bank legislation and go along with business as usual. i think she will be a very strong voice. she has that spirit. she's proved she can be independent. she's not really reliant on any sources. i think brown was really hurt by taking the bank money, voting against t.a.r.p.

the race on my mind is in massachusetts, elizabeth warren, scott brown.roken in elizabeth warren's favor. she's favored to win tonight and i'm wondering about this post-election scenario that could kick off. we know hillary clinton is leaving as secretary of state. john kerry would very much like to be secretary of state and i look at it this way. if john kerry is picked to be secretary of state and elizabeth warren wins the senate race tonight, then it means that thereto will be a senate vacancy in massachusetts that will be filled by a special election and it means scott brown who is a popular politician in massachusetts even if he loses tonight would be able to run in that special election and win. i wonder if that possibility would give the white house pause when it comes to picking john kerry as a secretary of state. >> i think it's legitimate to say that and i think it's legitimate scott brown could win in a special election. he did it the last time. it's not like they don't like him. i think -- he's take an couple votes that were not the smartest v

right before the polls closed, scott brown was predicted.the atlanta acquirer -- inquirer is predicting a elizabeth warren is the winner. nbc news is projecting yes to the california question no. 3, which is on medical marijuana. >> there are so many things to talk about. washington post apologized for prematurely saying elizabeth warren would win. >> let's talk about the tammy baldwin victory. that was hugely significant. all of us remember her role at the center of support for community uprising against scott walker, and when you combine that kind of pushed back of so many of us witness and her courageous position of that in the sense of aligning herself with not just the trade unions, who have showed up with tremendous support on her behalf, but also grass-roots groups, but young gay and lesbian organizations that got under covered in their role but played a big part. she is somebody who has been debated in this race. the propaganda groups tried to pick up on video she recorded on gay pride day and say, what an enforcer of trends gender b

. >> in massachusetts elizabeth warren defeated scott brown. warren'sed a socksy work led to the founding of the u.s. consumer financial protection bureau. >> republican hopes evaporated months ago after the legitimate rape comments came out. mccase cast kill returned to capitol hill for another term. >>> another candidate trying to rebound from controversial comments about rape, richard mourdock. however, he too lost the indiana senate race to joe donnellly. he will replace richard hugher who lost to mourdock in the may area. >>> we go to jessica doyle with more on this. jessica? >> you've come a long way baby. the 113th congress will have at least 19 female senators. that's a record and two more than right now. kate shepherd from mother jones

elizabeth warren defeated republican incumbent scott brown in massachusetts. donnelly defeated tea party favorite, richard mourdock, in indiana. it should have been impossible. joining us now is steve kornacki, co-host of "the cycle," 3:00 weekdays here on msnbc. happy aftermath, steve. >> i was just checking unskewedelectionreturns.com and they said republicans have 67 senate seats now, so i'm not sure what you're talking about here. >> also, mitt romney won with a anonymous vote. >> yes, in d.c., that's right. >> that's right. what happened yesterday in the senate specifically? obviously, the expectations were leaning much more toward the democrats by the time we actually voted, but the distance between patty murray having to be essentially arm twisted into taking that job and what happened last night, what happened? >> you could have put a headline from something i wrote in 2010 up there, because i was saying there was no chance for the democrats after the last election too. but what you can see now, it's a reflection of the conclusions the republicans drew

elizabeth warren is now the senator-elect from massachusetts after defeating incumbent republican scott brown. senator-elect warren, good to see you, good morning to you and congratulations. >> thank you. good morning to you. >> you've become the first woman to be elected to the senate from massachusetts. you will hold a seat that was held for nearly 50 years by ted kennedy. at some point last night, as your victory was announced, you guaranteed that democrats would hold the senate. just talk to me about the significance of your win. >> well, this is a win for america's middle class. this is a win for every family that really has been hammered and chipped and squeezed for a generation now. i got in this race because those

we told you at the top of the show that scott brown may have a chance to get voted back into the u.s.enate should current massachusetts senator john kerry be appointed to a cabinet post by president obama. brown was defeated in his re-election bid for his former seat by elizabeth warren. so if you want to sound smart today tell your friends scott brown was the only incumbent senator to lose his seat in this year's general election. two incumbent senator, pennsylvania's arlen specter and bob bennett of utah lost their re-election bids in 2010. all right, enough of that real news, we'll gather around the water cooler and talk about the angry letters that the white house has been receiving since president obama's re-election. many solidly conservative states have been flooding the white house's we the people website with petition requests to secede from the union of the united states. for help on that john stuart n >> they have received petitions from 20 states who would like to cede from the union. >> wait. i'm not sure exactly which 20 states those are or which people they are in those

warren. >> después nos dice que se siente estupendo pero no puede hablar de romney >> esto por scott brownlas polizas. >> los republicanos son con todo slos hispanos creen que todas las mjeres apoyan a romney esta vz >> sabemos que el es la persona que va a traer el camio economía a la nacion. >> romney corteja este voto también con promesas de trabajar con los democratas >> el director politico dice que romney puede alcanzar 300 votos electorales, una victoria que planean celebrar aquí en el centro de convenciones >> el secretario de estado de ohio esta acusado de los parches electronicos experimentales en el control de votos en el estado, activistas manifestaron su preocupacion de que esto puede afectar a 4 millones de electores, el uso es solo permitido cuando son pocos centros electorales >> la cosecha esperan los cultivadores en lo que queda del año no sera lo que esperaban, >> un ex director de carceles cubanas esta en elojo del huracán en miami >> y tenemos la información deportiva. >> el ejecrito mexicano dio un duro golpe al capturar a ramirez, alias el muñeco o el pelos, el sospe

you saw that in many cases, some of the tactics scott brown is using in massachusetts trying to tie democratic voters to the republican candidate, and we'll see how that is going. >> it's a hard state for any republican. >> brown: and missouri is another one we're watching. >> senator claire mccaskill is one of the democrats playing defense. she was elected in the 2006 wave when the democrats were able to take over the senate. she is running against todd akin, that seemed to be his to lose for a long time-- >> brown: that's another theme we have been talking about. >> it's looking close. we don't have any returns yet but this is a state that is no longer competitive on the presidential level so this is the race most people are paying attention to there. it's a conservative state. it's a lot closer than democrats are comfortable with at this point. >> republicans, though, want the todd akin to drop out of the race after the controversy. >> brown: he got a lot of pressure to do that. >> absolutely, across the board, and he refused, and a lot of republicans believe that single act cost them the s

wouldn't have bw he's what justhe ra elizabeth warren. >> scott brown very good politician popular inthe pty in a presidential year in the massachusetts. so not a big surprise. disappointed. >> he did run a bad paign that he was capable juvenile campaigni was just there sunday monday. he did this thing was a very is d understanding that this notiat tries to project is an attack on ence. th honored byere. it is as there a by the wise corner of the massachusetts politics which isday of the nerd, the one who does her homework. jockl thing and hi one irrelevo do governing. if you look at the indiana race that y n just by independence and democratic lso significant portions of the republican party as one4o other thing, terms of a skree-upor seople really care about the supreme court and thew: prospect of a republican president in the supreme court and having a republican >> prosecuted that case8 against republican senate. elizabeth warn prosecuted that case brilliantly. >> i want to go to jonathan some news about the race in florida specifically.an you tell us?rachel. anybody at inside th

was elected this passed the senate actually on three different occasions before scott brown was elected and and a public plan option could not pass the senate. i think our big challenge now is to make sure that we fordable care act is implemented effectively just and i think you know make this thing let's build confidence about this and the most important thing is let's make sure that the tens of millions of people who don't have coverage today actually get enrolled and so that's going to require a huge public education campaign and it has to be run like a campaign so that the people who can benefit from it actually know about it and then get a role in there's you know the pushback is you're giving people. yes it's healthier it's a gift we can't have that and there's all these new taxes you know. six taxes eighteen taxes three hundred twelve all these different numbers. how do you respond to those well here's the thing i mean i think i mean obviously after the whole campaign what's really really clear is that there was two candidates one of whom campaign to rebuild the middle cl

i think scott brown tarnished himself with a way he ran against elizabeth warren. think if ed marky jumps in it and he's thought about it for years and years, you know him well, lawrence. he'd be a funded candidate. have a lot of support up there. i think that the performance of john mccain and lindsey graham and now kelly ayotte, is just mostly political theatre as it relates to susan rice. yes, there are legitimate questions about benghazi globally for american diplomats, but the susan rice thing has a sort of measure of insanity about it and really is a kind of thing lawrence and we've seen it a million times. sometimes, washington goes crazy over what is essentially a non substantive high school orkt and i think that's what the thing with susan rice is. acknowledging the legitimate issues, susan rice is not the issue. definitely not the issue. if i were susan rice, i'd be mad at the press people for sending her out there the way she did. they handed her a bad piece of paper, look a good soldier, she went out there and said it on five channels. it's not her faul

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excuse me kerry opening the way for scott brown to get back into the senate as you can see here. susan rice should have known better and if she didn't know better she's not qualified she should have known better i would do everything in my power to block her from being the united states secretary of state she has proven that she either doesn't understand or she is not willing to accept and face so how could she say five days later definitively there is no evidence of a coordinated al qaeda attack when there's a rame of evidence this is about the role she played around four dead americans when it seems to be that the story coming out of the administration and she's the point person is so disconnected to reality i don't trust her in contradiction to what ambassador susan rice said on every sunday show when she first went on on this incident that this was a course not a spontaneous reaction to a video those comments were deeply troubling and that's why we wrote the letter and i have to tell you with the comments she made on the sunday shows that was either incompetence or blatantly

>> the other point i had was scott brown, john kerry susan rice, the whole thing.uis i heard from a friend of mine who knows people. he's actually considering the run if it comes up. he's been talking about it for awhile. >> bill: okay. ed marquee is a great -- duval patrick, even if scott brown were to run there's no -- >> that's right. >> bill: so given all of this controversy, do you think it's more likely or less likely that president obama would appoint susan rice as secretary of state? or nominate? >> i actually think that it is likely that he will. i think he was also just offended at the attacks on her and made that clear in that press conference. >> bill: i was there. >> oh, you were. >> bill: he meant it. he was annoyed. >> well and i'm hopeful that he will make that nomination. i really am. and i was watching one newscast that talked about the potential votes and i do believe if he makes the nomination, that she will get through. i think they'll torture her in the process. but i think that she will get through and she will be confirmed but you know, ulti

welcome to symphony hall for a debate between scott brown and elizabeth warren. i am honored to be the moderator tonight. we have rules this evening. our audience of more than 2600 guests have agreed to be silent. no interruptions or applause. each candidate has a minute and 30 seconds to answer each question, and 30 seconds for rebuttal. later, each candidate gets one minute for a closing statement. a coin toss has determined the speaker order. we have received more than 200. every question is based on an idea from the public. elizabeth warren won the first coin toss. just last week, we saw the national unemployment numbers fall below 8%. millions of americans are still looking for jobs. things are especially difficult for minority cities. what will it take and what will you do if elected to support job growth? >> thank you very much. thank you for everyone for being so hospitable. we have nearly 200,000 people unemployed in massachusetts. there are higher unemployment rates here in springfield. it is a serious problem. i look at this as a short-term and long-te

scott brown? >> i think they have to consider that. scott brown lost. he is still a viable. the question is, who would be -- the with the democrats put up if john kerry leaves? >> he ran in an impossible state. i think elizabeth warren is going to be one of the real stars of the new democratic congress, and i can see her in national politics, at the presidential level, really soon. the other really interesting result, i thought, was that initiative in massachusetts -- it is not exactly a party issue. to have legal assisted suicide legalized in the most liberal state in the country, it failed. i think that is because doctors opposed it. >> nina. >> i want to go back to the question of the hispanic vote. i think it would go a long way if republicans did sign-ons to an immigration reform up law. it would not go all the way. the pugh center has shown that hispanics by and large are very hard workers that believe government has helped them succeed. they do not oppose government in the sort of traditionally anti- government way of some of the west, for example. i think it will be

scott brown's pickup truck for sale on craigslist. lol.dan on twitter has a question, does this mean bill graham's website can now go back on youtube as a cult. >> exactly. we have had only one catholic. there was the first race everywhere there were no wasps in the top spot either. mormons should be very very proud. >> and the only protestant was president obama. >> exactly. >> stephanie: john, the important news, diane sawyer absolutely was not drunk. no one has a more exhausting work schedule than john fugelsang. >> i'm the giving tree. >> stephanie: a source close to the situation, whoever gets her wine, for anyone who thinks that diane sawyer was drunk on the air just doesn't know her. she was extremely exhausted from her work schedule. although he just posted that earlier video from the '90s where she is drink wine on set. >> i'm not allowed to make fun of anybody drinking on election night. >> by the way you guys did an awesome job. >> we were on the air for six hours live. and gore was just masterful. >> stephanie: yeah. >> they ar

elizabeth warren closed the gap on scott brown.u-mass poll finds the race neck and neck. they're at a statistical tie. two other closely watched races pushes women's issues to the front. senator claire mccaskill is trying to defend her seat against todd akin whose memorable legitimate rape comment. mccaskill with a slight edge over akin within the margin of error. in indiana, treasure, richard mourdock defeated -- but he stump nld in the general election race against joe donlly when he said rape was something god intended to happen. >>> bill nelson holding a slight lead over republican congressman connie mack. a recent miami herald tampa times poll shows nelson with an edge there. lot more to talk about in those races and the presidential election. voters going to the polls in three minutes. we'll be talking about that on "morning joe" in a moment. still ahead, what are you doing up? i know why you're up. it's election day. your tweets, texts and e-mails next in morning joe live from democracy plaza moments away. try running four.n

. >> we know the polls show the race was neck and neck between her and senator scott brown and sayingerhaps the coat tails of the president, the issues regarding womentu may ha helped the female candidates for his party, erin. >> scott brown also let's not forget allied with the par o re including limiting access to birth control so we have where scott brown is part of the part control, trying to defukt planned parenthood and rape. i think across the board we saw that people, men and women, who are of reproductive freedom, allies of women's rt in society, stood up and made the voices heard. >> quickly, we have heard a lot of republican strategis talk about a curve correction and new strado you believe that conversn will be had regarding women regarding the gender gap? >> we have to look at the fact that women of color really responsible for electing not only the president but the progressive women coming congress and lindsey graham said there aren't enough angry white men. they have to wake up today and look at the demographics of this country, women turning out, it includes women vot