but truman was a compromised candidate. because a compromise none of the conservative south democratic and it's the same conservative south but they changed party of them would ne have accepted wallace. burns other hand, james who was another person that roosevelt thought of as a vice resident would not have been accepted by the north. he liberal north didn't want burns. he was a south carolinian. he was a racist, a bigot. he had changed his religion. catholic to marry. the urban catholics in the north them.not have accepted so burns was out too. who was there left? they wanted that somebody who would fall between they put it. somebody who was the middle of the roader, who had a lot of turned out to be harry truman. job.id not want the he felt that he was going to go into something over his head. his wife didn't want the job taken away from her that she was holding as the secretary in truman's afs. she'd lose her job. she had to lose her job anyway. and truman did not meet often the you aring the campaign. couple of times.

that turned out to be harry truman. truman did not want the job. he felt that he was going to go into something over his head. and besides, his wife didn't want the job taken away from her that she was holding as the secretary in truman's office. she would lose her job. she had to lose her job anyway. and truman did not meet roosevelt often during the campaign. a couple of times. that was about it. they did not discuss the future. they did not discuss truman costs becoming president. truman told one of his friends as they left the white house on one occasion, i had an nightmare that the president had died and i had become president. it was a nightmare. it was nothing he felt was in his ambition. but he succeeded, i think, brilliantly as an accidental president. >> i want to thank everyone for coming. -- coming to the national portrait gallery at the smithsonian. i encourage you all to stay if you have additional questions. if you would like to take a look at the book we have copies over here. mr. weintraub will be signing. please stick around and j

light, but i have no idea whether that's absolutely true or is something that truman ca capote invented. she included my uncle alex and

truman saw that. and he decided that he would use his executive order to outlaw such stuff, and to integrate the armed services. that's how the armed services got integrated. so i'm pleased that the president is moving on this. he will take his place alongside abraham lincoln and harry truman and many others in using the executive order to do big things. now, are we going to have the government shutdown? i hope not. will there be rumors of it? rumors have already started. i saw a headline where the senior senator in my state is asking his people to stop talking about impeachment, the fact of the matter is they are discussing it. and i have always maintained that there's an element that would love to see this president go down in history with an ask risk next to his name, and that's what this is all about. there are going to be lawsuits. you know, what president hasn't been sued? all of this high level discussions of a lawsuit is all about driving a narrative more than doing what they have the authorit

hari truman, when -- harry truman when he leavees the white house, gets a new york chrysler as a gift, and the president and bess drive 1200 miles up through new jersey and then over to michigan, he gets pulled over for speeding, they eat in diners. there is no security. there is no advance team. it was just the two of them. we fool and trick ourselves, doug. we say we don't want great, and yet we really do, except we wanted packaged in a way that is consistent with our own aversion to the quote-unquote trappings of conventional power. we want great as humility, with great humbleness, but we do want our presidents to be quote-unquote, greater than we are. so, we in some respects are already conflicted, and i think that's a -- the crucial point in understanding and validating your point. there's a quote in that book by john steinbeck, i think on page 179, which i think is actually -- i don't want to use this as a prop -- >> you did this. >> i hope i'm right. here it is. in short we may be too ambivalent about greatness to appreciate it but certainly we are ambivalent enough to love and

have a meeting with all of the top advisers, and truman says -- they all tell him, that it, you know, absolutely can't happen. and truman is in the oval office and is talking to one of his top diplomats, and he says: "the president cut him off with a roar. there is no discussion on that point. we stay in berlin, period. and then the president's advisers knew better than to argue that this was a difficult or unpopular course. in response to such statements, truman would point to a framed motto of mark twain's written in the author's hand, that he had hung in the oval office. 'always do right!' it read. 'this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.'" and, if, you know -- if there is a message in this book, it's that. it is always do right. you know, what's right, you know, we can talk about vietnam you can talk about iraq and say, you know, that it's -- it's easier to tell it from the vantage point of a quarter century or a century later. but -- but this book is all about presidents who in that moment in history did what they thought was the right thing. c-span: you also bring

setting on his desk truman said i have the power. the president has the responsibility to act even when congress refuses to do so. like the 1950's after truman desegregated the military, it will be time to act for the congress. the gentleman from florida. >> thank you so much. away from the packed with iran for the nuclear. we know iran is not serious about abandoning the nuclear weapons. threat to y iran is a the us security. they have been sponsoring terrorism since 1984. its prox hezbollah and hamas, iran has targeted america and our ally, the democratic jewish state of israel, with violent acts of terror. for over three decades, including the 1979 iranian hostage crisis, the 1983 beirut bombing, and the marine barracks bombing, and the 1992 israeli embassy bombing and the 1994 jewish community center bombing, both in benos aires, argentina. they have been the chief supporter of the rocket attacks in israel like we saw in the year 2006 and 2012 and again just this past summer. in fact, since the iranian hostage crisis in 1979, the

that famous picture of harry truman gleefully holding up the newspaper, dewey defeats truman. the "chicago daily tribune" got the election results wrong. other than the newspaper screwing up the headline, do you remember anything else about thomas dewey. are you even sure his first name was thomas? nobody remembers anything about thomas dewey because harry truman didn't even bother republicaning against him. he ran against the do nothing congress. he basically ignored the republican candidate. truman ran against the do nothing congress and he won. and that congress will forever be known as the do nothing congress. it's the historic benchmark in our nation for the failure of a political institution, right? for the failure to act. that congress did nothing. for comparison sake, so that's the legislative record of the do nothing congress. the 112th congress there, that's the legislative record of the last congress we just had. they say there's nothing new under the sun. we are in our lifetime setting new records for congress doing less than it has ever done before. usa, usa. that

truman. [applause] but the gladness of this high occasion cannot mask the sorrow which shares our hearts. so let us here tonight, each of us, all of us, rededicate ourselves to keeping burning the golden torch of promise which john fitzgerald kennedy set aflame. [applause] and let none of us stop to rest until we have written into the law of the land all the suggestions that made up the john fitzgerald kennedy program. and then let us continue to supplement that program with the kind of laws that he would have us write. [applause] tonight, we offer ourselves -- on our record and by our platform -- as a party for all americans, an all-american party for all americans. this prosperous people, this land of reasonable men, has no place for petty partisanship or peevish prejudice. the needs of all can never be met by parties of the few. the needs of all cannot be met by a business party or a labor party, not by a war party or a peace party, not by a southern party or a northern party. [applause] o

truman saw that. and he decided that he would use his executive order to outlaw such stuff, and to integrate the armed services. that's how the armed services got integrated. so i'm pleased that the president is moving on this. he will take his place alongside abraham lincoln and harry truman and many others in using the executive order to do big things. now, are we going to have the government shutdown? i hope not. will there be rumors of it? rumors have already started. i saw a headline where the senior senator in my state is asking his people to stop talking about impeachment, the fact of the matter is they are discussing it. and i have always maintained that there's an element that would love to see this president go down in history with an ask risk next to his name, and that's what this is all about. there are going to be lawsuits. you know, what president hasn't been sued? all of this high level discussions of a lawsuit is all about driving a narrative more than doing what they have the authorit

in congress worked with harry truman on lots of different foreign policy issues including the marshall plan. there's lots of precedent for the opposing party taking over congress during midterm elections. and then deciding to work on stuff with the serving president even though he's from the other party. that has happened. that has happened a lot in our country in the past. who thinks that's what's going to happen now? >> it is rare that a political party running for office in a midterm election not standing for anything ends up with a mandate, and they have one, and it is the biggest and perhaps the most important mandate a political party has had in the recent era. and it is very simple what that mandate is. it is to stop barack obama. it is to stop the democrat party. there is no other reason why republicans were elected yesterday. republicans were not elected to govern. how can you govern with a president that disobeys the constitution? how can you govern with a president that is demonstrably lawless when he thinks he has to be. the republican was not elected to fix a broken govern

the slogan stuck, and harry truman had the last laugh 66 years ago today.loved the paper and they're still collector's items. >> "your world" with neil cavuto is coming up right now. >> thank you, shepard. what the hell was harken thinking? tonight a beauty of a dustup over a beauty of a blunder. the senator who is trying to dial it back. the would who wants to be senator is giving it back, and the former republican presidential candidate says comments like those are why democrats should never come back. today, more like running away. it's that ugly. welcome everybody, i'm neil cavuto. let's just say the reaction has been do taylor swift and for one tom harken not at all pretty. >> i was offended that senator harkin would say that. it's unfortunate that me and many of their party

harry truman instead was selected, and we all know what happened. he was president a few months later, when roosevelt died in 1945. given roosevelt's ill health, barkley's stance in defense of the senate may well have cost him the presidency. throughout all of these challenges, few people knew the barkley was also dealing with his wife dorothy's failing health. beginning in 1944, dorothy required constant medical attention. mounting medical expenses put the barkleys in a tough financial situation. in addition to his day job as a lawmaker, senator barkley continued to accept speaking engagements across the country, often requiring him to work and travel through the night to make extra money to pay for her health expenses. dorothy passed away in 1947, dealing a heavy blow to barkley. as one would expect, barkley used his high position to help the commonwealth. particularly western kentucky. the story goes that the gaseous diffusion plant was placed in paducah because of alben barkley. dottie barkley, granddaughter of the senator, explained how the pla

. >> harry truman was an artillery officer in the first world war.charles de gaulle was badly wounded twice on the battlefie battlefield. douglas macarthur was an officer in the first world war. there was very strong memory of that war that was carried later into the century, wasn't it? >> yes, certainly one of the things that truman carried was a distrust of regular army officers. he was a national guards man and bore against regular military and did not think that they were trustworthy. mussolini was a world war i veteran. >> adolf history letter. >> he actually won the iron cross of first and second class, an unusual distinction for an enlisted man in the german army. what a lot of these people carry especially on the german side was the fact that they were on the losing side and hitler was much more interested in reversing that, as well as his own expansionist ideas and so on and so forth. certainly wanted to reverse the versailles dictat as it was called in germany, and that sentiment appealed to other places as well. a lot of successor states t

>> look, another saying harry truman was, the buck stops with me. the buck stops right here, at my desk. so whatever as head of the party, it doesn't do well. i've got to take responsibility for it. the message that i took from this election, we've seen this in a number of elections, is people want to see this city work. and they feel as if it's not working. the economy as improved significantly, there's no doubt about it. we have a jobs report for october that show that once again over 200,000 jobs created, now created more than ten million. unemployment rate as come down faster than we anticipated. just to give you some perspective, bob, we've created more jobs in the united states than every other advanced economy combined. since i came in to office. and we're making progress, the people still feel like income hasn't gone up, still hard to save for retirement or send a kid to college. and then they see washington gridlocked and they're frustrated. they know one person in washington and that's the president of the united states. so i've got to mak

it took truman's fair deal to remove some of those labels. it was truman and the executive order. the armed services back in 1948. it was an executive order by abraham lincoln really that implemented the emancipation proclamation. what people didn't realize was the 13th amendment was important because lincoln just knew if he didn't get the 13th amendment passed the moment he stepped out out out of office's executive order was going to be resending by the next executive. these things are interrelated and we just cannot really separate them out. so when you look at the new deal and then you get to the fair deal, you get to the great society with lyndon johnson, a lot of people felt and i have heard them say some of my colleagues the war on poverty failed. the war on poverty did not fail. in fact the war on poverty that speech was made in january 1964 and the following june and july the civil rights act passed and 64 the voting rights act and 65 the fair housing law 1968. he became state and local governments in 1972. all of that is part of the great society. i would not be where i a

when harry truman went back across independence, missouri, drove across the country with best truman. >> the reality is you can profit even more handsomebly as being -- >> yes. once you've been elected to congress or a high-level job on the hill, you can punch that lottery ticket for life because i'm the former chief of staff or secretary or whoever. >> who are the most egregious, without asking you to identify specific people right now, unless you want to, and you certainly identify people who may not have been famous to the masses in the book who are now more known because of what you work, but generally classify them. who are the most egregious actors in this drama that you're righting? >> there's a lot of egregiousness to go around. i would say -- i would say it's the people who yell at each other, basically, for money. the people who go on tv and sort of as a carnival act, divide -- or give the perception of debate or division, who, in fact, are making business deals in the green room, or who are going into business together. >> with the people they seem to be in opposition with?

nationbuilding in south korea with harry truman. everything always starts further back than when you say it starts there and it is the undeclared naval war with france with thomas jefferson. it is always something before the example you end up giving, and many you wish we had given another one. the modern era, since war.ring were -- since that, germany declared war on us. harry truman declares police action, etc. i think everybody will be talking about it. rand paul says, i am going to move for a declaration of war when congress comes back in december. it is like, ok. i am thinking, ok. to before harry truman and i read the resolution, which has a lot of quotes from james madison, and then he says, we will not put food -- who's on the ground except for this and that. will notost like they bomb the bridges, not bomb north korea, and we will micromanage and have these almost privileged sanctuaries. the oneike come on hand, it was this, and on the other hand, it was that. good luck, congress. you sorted out. -- sort it out. host: mike

truman saw that.and he decided that he would use his executive authority to outlaw and to integrate the armed services. that is how the armed services got integrated. so i am pleased the president is moving on this. he will take his place alongside abraham lincoln, harriet truman and many others and using the executive order to do big things. now, are they going to have a governor stepped down? i hope not. will there be rumors have it? the rumors have already started. the senior senator from my state is asking his people to stop talking about impeachment. the fact that the matter is they are discussing it and i have always maintained that there is an element that they would love to see this president go down in history but the next campaign and that is what this is all about. there are going to be lawsuits. you know, what president -- all of this highest level discussions of lawsuit is all about driving the narrative more than doing what they had the authority to do. i used to run a state agency. i ca

truman was actually the first president to receive a turkey from the national turkey federation. industry group started giving ceremonial turkeys to american presidents in 1947. so who was the first president to pardon a turkey? lincoln, it appears, was the first on record to spare a bird. but it was a christmas turkey that his son had taken a liking to. president john f. kennedy was the first to pardon a thanksgiving turkey. in 1963, despite a sign hanging around the turkey's neck that read, "good eating, mr. president," kennedy sent the bird back to the farm. richard nixon also gave the birds a reprieve, sending his turkeys to a nearby petting zoo. ronald reagan was the first to use the word "pardon" when he was talking turkey in 1987. the turkey pardoning became formalized in 1989, with president george h.w. bush. >> let me assure you and this fine tom turkey that he will not end up on anyone's dinner table. not this guy. >> reporter: the virginia farm where that turkey was sent was the ironically named frying pan park. that became the home of future presidential turkeys for t

was kept out of things, so -- >> harry truman, a person who had heroic training for any of the role did an amazing job. think about some of the things he learned from the treaty of versailles they did not have a punishing training, all that stuff and roosevelt has such contempt for him he didn't take him into his confidence. >> it would have been fascinating to be a fly on the wall the day truman was inaugurated, i assume it was general marshall, the chief of staff, said mr. president, there's something you need to know about what is going on in mexico. >> and hitler, you give him a great point for being a great politician that none of us given points for being a great human being but a question always wondered and i think the same thing about napoleon, why? why russia? why couldn't they just stick to europe? and be happy with that? may be that is not part of a personality like that. >> it is not. i think the one thing napoleon and hitler had in common was they believed their own pr. the bridge linking their own kool-aid. >> and alexander the great. >> was the same. >> the great cap

it was a tough time when harry truman changed the laws and said that now black americans were now full-timers. and i thought, whoa, i have some south boys. i wonder how it's going to work. it worked the day it happened. we never batted an eye. it never changed anything in the corps. in fact, the corps was better because we had social tolerance. i always tell young people, there are things you can do that can make a difference. and some of them are small. and i'm going to tell you about a couple of them that i did. when i came to washington as the assist ant commandant, there were two festering issues, one was the marine corps marathon. for those of you who don't know, the marine corps marathon was put together by a very small group of reserve officers, period. they did all the work. they did all of the things that were supposed to be done, but now it got to be too big to handle. so the only answer was, it had to die. i held a meeting for those interested in the marathon and i established two prerequisites. i said all young marines supporting the marathon had to be volunteers and all funds, al

truman. speaking before a group of scientists in 1948. this gives you an indication about how far we had gone. this is before mccarthy. we're still talking 1948. and the problem that scientists ran into. okay. so finally -- then i will wrap up and open up for questions. how much did the spying matter? how much did it make a difference? the first question. would they still have gotten the bomb? a great quote. the only secret about the atomic bomb was whether or not it would work. it had been answered. the man doing the quote is glen seborg, discoverer of plutonium. chairman of the atomic energy commission. he is somebody who knows. then there is a longer quote i'm not going to read all of. but a man named samuel goossmith. the chief scientist for the american mission discovered what the german atomic bomb program was doing. so he understood scientific intelligence. this is after the bomb, right after the soviet bomb came out. and said recent revelations of the early leaks of atomic information to russia reflect the state of mind that shoul

truman nationalized the coal industry.ithin two months, the supreme court ruled, well, i'll let movie tone tell it. >> there seezure by president truman was held illegaa by the supreme court. the. >> maybe that's what stopped president's bush and obama from nationalizing the banks when the housing bubble burst. but the constitution has slowed the growth of government. in 1895 congress passed an income tax, but the supremes said, no, the constitution does not give you the power to do that. the income tax was struck down. waat a second i have to pay income tax. i pay lots of it happen approximate 20 years later politicians and state will do that and more than two-thirds of congress managed to amend the constitution to allow an income tax. that's why i say the constitution at least slowed down the government. for a long time the supreme court ignored theesecond amendment, but now they've started to enforce that too. five years ago they ruled that individuals do have the right to keep and bear arms. some places still haven't g

obama said today about the election results. >> another saying of harry truman is that the buck stopsight here with my desk. as the head of the party, when it doesn't do well, i have got to take responsibility for it. the message that i took from this election and we have seen this in a number of elections, is people want to see this city work and they feel as if it's not working. >> so the president said in this interview that the buck stops with him when the party doesn't do well and he repeated that argument that it had a lot to do with anger on both sides. let me begin with you. one thing that really stood out to me, harry reid's chief of staff saying the president's approval rating is barely 40%. what else more is there to say? he went on to say that i don't think that the political team was truly up to speed and up to par on doing what needed to get down. that is criticism to the president blaming him coming from a democrat. >> wow, you can tell when the president is in his last two years, everyone says what they are really thinking and feeling all of the sudden. this is a reall

. >> scott truman gives us a preview of what we can expect on capitol hill. >> this is when politicsgets really exciting. we are 24 hours from polls closing on the east coast. his is what they are all fighting for. we are talking about the balance of power. all night long, we will track these races. the gop needs six seats to take the senate. it is in reach. that is why you are seeing heavy hitters on the trail. you will see this all night long. right now in virginia, northern virginia, between barbara comstock and john faust -- you have a in maryland, you have a fantastic race setting up between larry hogan, a businessman republican, tried to take the governor posse. only a handful of republicans have ever gotten that seat in maryland. all across the country, we are going to see great races. in middle america, pat roberts trying to hold onto the seat he has had for decades. andew england, scott brown lost in massachusetts. he is trying to win in new hampshire. 2 potential runoffs could set the stage for december or january votes in louisiana and georgia. it should be a really exciti

. >> another saying harry truman's was the buck stops with me.uck stops with me right here at my desk. whenever as the head of the party, it doesn't do well, i have to take responsibility for it. the message that i took from the election and we have seen this in a number of elections is people want to see this city work. and they feel as if it is not working. >> the president hinted there could be changes coming to the white house staff. >>> former president george w. bush says it is about 50/50 if his brother jeb will make a run for the white house in 2016. and the president tells "face the nation" if jeb decides to run, he is 100% behind him. >> i'll do whatever he wants. i will be one of his strongest backers. if he wants me out there publicly, i'll be out there publicly. if he wants me behind the scenes, i'll be behind the scenes. i'm all in for him. he would be a great president. the country could use an optimistic view like his. >> i agree. >> as for comments by their mother, that enough bushs have run for president, he says sometimes her p

so harry truman integrated armed services by executive order.hink that was the right thing to do. he got a lot of blow back, you may remember from your studies, you are not old enough to remember when all this happened, but bolted the democratic party over that executive order and formed the state's right party over the integrated armed service. these same people who are running around saying how great it is to have all these vet rangran rans and look at the african-american, hispanics, veterans fighting for this country. these people are descended from those who wanted to vote democratic party over integrating the armed services. you should not fight together. shouldn't be in fox holes together. shouldn't die together on behalf of this kuncountry. that is what these people are about. they're narrative is to do what they can. to maintain this narrative on african-americans and never allow an integrated agenda to go forward. >> i appreciate your time congressman. thanks for being on "the ed show" on veterans day. bringing in professor at ufc, the

some compare this manufactured reality to the movie "the truman show." a man played by jim carrey discovers his entire life is actually a tv program. everything he thinks is real is a mirage. created by television producers. do the people here ever feel -- i mean do you ever get the impression that they feel like they're being fooled or duped in any way? >> why should they feel they are fooled? we have a society here? a supermarket is not a show. it's a real supermarket. maybe we're fooling them an say it's okay when you're doing. but that's because we want to help people enjoy life and feel that they are welcome here on this earth. >> for the rest of their lives, because here a vacancy only becomes available whether a current resident passes away. evolve function, and reinvent a category, you attract a lot of attention. chevrolet. the most awarded car company of the year. find new roads. >>> ada has been making music with her husband ben for as long as they've been together. >> how did you meet? >> in a pub. >> in a pub? >> yes. >> did someone introduce

. >> the republicans could wind up with some biggest house majority since harry truman was president. it is not a time of celebration, he says it is time to start implementing solutions for challenges facing our country. >> most likely in the house they will have gained between 11 and 15 seats. the republicans took the senate by taking seven seats held by the democrats. that is one more than they needed. they won in west virginia, north carolina, iowa, south dakota, arkansas, colorado and montana. >> republican minority leader mitch mcconnell won a of tough reelection battle, and likely to become majority leader in the senate. >> we were expecting a good night for republicans but this is almost a complete sweep. >> yeah i mean because as we were saying, even their most vulnerable candidates found a way to pull it out. i was very struck by what you said quoting john boehner here. he has been dealing with a republican caucus in the house some of them going off in this direction some going in this direction. mitch mcconnell is going to get a little taste of that and you got a little prev

the united states merchant marines, from all branches represented here, next to the engraving of a truman whichrry partially reads, our debt to the ichiro men and women in their service to the country can never be repaid. always a poignant and heart out of that. more than 500 world war ii veterans are dying daily. by the year 2036, they will all be gone. i had the pleasure and honor of chatting with two veterans both in their 90's. they tell me today is a special day to remer their band of brothers and an event that shaped the rest of their lives. comrades tribute to my , those that died in combat. >> a special day? >> yes. >> it means a lot to me. bill, i went g.i. back to college, graduated, raised a family. now my two oldest son's were in the vietnam conflict. >> after the ceremony, about 150 middle schoolers from lake braddock cheered and greeted some of the airborne division veterans who fought in world war ii, who came to visit the memorial today. a true example of a young generation thanking our enduring heroes. there are only about one million more war to -- world war ii veterans

to deal with the crisis in the world and i think that was designed of franklin roosevelt and harry truman in establishing the united nations that this would be the primary vehicle to leave you with the crisis and deal with the challenges in the world. unfortunately, the united nations has fought down particularly in the security council and its ability to respond to the crisis. and so, almost anytime a crisis breaks out you would like the un to respond and that is probably the best way to try to get the countries together to do it, then immediately it hits the wall in the security council and nothing else happens. so ultimately it continues to fall back on the shoulders of the united states to respond in as the president himself said when people get in trouble they don't call russia and china they call the united states and as we have seen of the united states isn't providing the leadership, nobody else will. i wish that were not the case. we would love to see nato and europe and countries coming to say let's get together to respond to these crisis but it's the united states that drives t

i headed up the vanderbilt truman scholars program for use. we could never get anybody for years but it took years -- that's such a hard scholarship to get, very impressive. and he received his degree from harvard law school, editor of the harvard law review, another to see which figure in public life who is a former editor of the harvard law forget as well. in any respect i think he offers us, he will offer us a very interesting perspective on counterinsurgency. ganesh. >> thanks so much for that wonderful introduction, and thank you all for coming. i've like to think the humanities not as we'll probably put on this event. i want to take you back to the summer of 2009, and if you remember that summer we had a relatively new president at that time. as of june we had a brand-new commanding general in afghanistan, a guy named stan mcchrystal. and in july of that summer general mcchrystal issued a tactical directives for all forces and against it, and that directive, i read you a little part of it. he said we will not win based on the number of t

. >> the republicans could wind up with the biggest house majority since harry truman.onight it is not a time for celebration. he said it's a time to start implementing solutions to the challenges facing our country. spots -- most likely in the house have gained between 11 and 15 seats seats. the republicans won the senate by taking at least seven seats, currently held by democrats. that is one more than they need. they won in west virginia, north carolina, iowa, south dakota, arkansas, colorado and montana. >> mitch mcconnell won a tough reelection battle in kentucky. as scott mentioned he's likely to become the majority leader in the senate. >> bob schaffer, a much bigger night for republicans. we were expecting a good night for republicans, but this is almost a complete suite. >> yeah. as we were seeing, even their most overall candidates found a way to pull it out. i was very struck by what you just said quoting john boehner there. john boehner knows how hard this is is. he's been dealing with a republican caucus in the house, some of them going off in this directio

it is a difficult stretch because truman was running to get elected. in 2014, was there a case to be made that a brock obama could way,made or ask another was there a case to be made that some of bill clinton's talents could have made? >> i guess i would argue that i think that's a mistake democrats made is the ideas you can localize, somehow hide from the national conversation. politics -- we have flattened it all. >> that is why they made a mistake. you clearly made a statement doing that. with the alternative, making it all local, going full in in terms of being aggressive and offensive? >> i believe the lesson to be learned both parties of this election, all politics is national now. you are running for congress in stockton, california. westchester, new york. national.cs is now frankie, even some of these gubernatorial races have these field. one party sits the national stage and the democrats in this case said, we will let the republicans have the national argument. we will try to have local arguments and when that way. it did not work. the media

we celebrate truman's courage. it wasn't like that in 1948. we are going to celebrate today the president's courage. >> former pennsylvania governor ed rendell is with us too. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. tough to follow the representative's enthusiasm. >> he's very passionate, no doubt about it. but let me ask you, what are the politics here tonight? >> the politics, i actually believe the president is doing this solely because he believes it's the right thing and because it's a promise he made two years ago and he's right when he says, this isn't about politics, it's about people. but let's look at the politics. i think the republicans will lose in court if they go to court. the president has the discretion to tell the justice department who he wants to deport and who he wants to not deport, where he wants the emphasis to be, clearly within his rights. but more than that, if the republican party can't control itself, if they, in fact, shut down the government because of this, they'll pay a heavy price. if, in fact, they say, we're

harry truman was the first president to pardon a white house turkey and he went out of office with ahole lot lower popular approval ratings than this president has at the moment, with ybut in the end it doesn't matter what the popular approval rating is on the last day in office because guess what? we're the folks who are going to be the ultimate electoral jury, the historians. >> right. >> who decided that harry truman w wasn't near a great president. >> and ask george w. bush about that, too. feeter, let me corner you and ask you whether you think the hagel firing is the beginning of the last two years and some new signal or just like, okay, we're not getting along, i need someone else. >> yes, it's so interesting because it does sound and feel like george w. bush, after his six-year midterm debacle, he comes out, he hands donald rumsfeld his walking papers and that does signal a shift. i don't think this is the same thing. it's superficially the same. it's not substantively the same. because the rumsfeld firing signaled a change of thinking and a dynamic change in power structure

harry truman said it is amazing what you can get done when you don't care who gets the credit. that's a lost art in politics today. i don't know what the answer is, but we're seeing this compromise has become a dirty word on the federal and now the state level. >> in large part what's different we have more polarization in the public in the polls that we do and others do in legislativetive chambers, than we have in modern history. remember how polarized we are. lots of people got elected. half of the state legislature is new in 6 years. >> don't your polls show that the people want compromise? >> of course they do. >> obama gets some, but minimum wage wins on five ballots. >> we've all been through this for a long time. everybody wants compromise, but reelect their people who don't compromise. >> there's the conundrum. >> republicans don't need tom wolf. i don't care what you do, we're safe. members of congress, same way. >> i hope he doesn't go around the country and try to to bring in a whole a bunch of new people. you have to hit the ground with political skill. >> let's mov

house, the republicans widened majority for the biggest margin since the truman association. >> let my people go! >> this republican won despite a legendary temper and this gop congressman won reelection despite facing felony charges. what now for the obama administration and how will the congress govern? >> just because we have a two party system doesn't mean we have to be in perpetual conflict. >> all that and more now. >> welcome into a special edition of power politics. i'm david shuster. >> i'm michael shure. >> what a night last night was. >> nobody could have predicted what happened. washington is now looking ahead to the final two years of the obama administration after republicans gained majorities in the house and senate in last night's election. >> republicans calling their victory a mandate against president obama's policies, the gop is painting to anxiety over the economic recovery as a major reason americans voted against democrats. >> the gop now has their biggest majority in the house since world war ii. >> the party gained control of the senate, picking up seven seats.

harry truman once famously said, if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. >> another saying was the buck stops with me. the buck stops right here at my desk. >> let's talk about immigration. you said you're going to change immigration policy with an executive order. republicans said don't do it. john boehner, you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. why not give them a chance? >> for a year i stood back and let him work on this. he decided not to call the senate bill and he couldn't produce his own bill. >> on this sunday talk shows, plenty of kumbaya moments. newly elected gop senators say they plan on playing nice. >> i think it is important that republicans show that we can govern maturely, that we can govern with competence. >> does that include repealing obama care or going for something the president can sign first. >> i think we need to repeal obama care, but the president named obama isn't going to repeal a bill called obamacare. >> i want to move forward and score some small victories, bipartisan, with the president. >> such as? >> such as keystone