house, the u.s. senate, governor, state legislators top to bottom this is a hugely important midterm election. so, what is this election going to be about? and i try to think in terms of metaphors. and i've got two. one is boring from charles dickens the tale of two cities, but this is the tale of two elections. and we have one election this year that's for the u.s. senate. and it is being fought in a very red america, where of the 17 most -- excuse me, of the 13 most competitive u.s. senate rices this year, 13, ten out of 13 are in states that president trump a carried. of the 17 senate race where there's the slightest bit of doubt about the outcome, 14 out of 17 are in states that president trump carried. so, this is the most one-sided advantage to one party u.s. senate map we've seen in modern history, and it's largely being fought in states where president trump's approval ratings are higher than his disapproval ratings. it's being fought in one america. then you have the house and everything else. and

whichever party was in power had u.s. senate seat necessary 29 -- excuse me, 19 out of 26. 73%.is wait a minute. hy is this 73 so much lower than the 92, 90, 93%? because with the senate, with only a third and of the senate up every two ofrs, it matters which third the u.s. senate seats are up. so that is a very, very mportant variable and that makes a big difference and you always want to look at what this ed 12 years ago when specific group of senate seats were up, what happened six years really, can make a really big difference. these mid-term elections, they the y are referenda on incumbent party. why is that? the party in the white house. why is that? scientists have all kinds of reasons, but to me, the reason is that in presidential election years, lots of people vote. election years, it's usually about a third fewer vote. and so you ask yourself, tends totionately, who vote more in mid-term elections than not or mid-term elections? me, and i'm going to use a phrase my mother used to use not in a a kid, political setting.

there has not been a lot of national attention of the u.s. senate race. much of the attention is going to the states with the democratic incumbents running in senate districts in states the president won to years ago. and a couple of states were republican incumbents are in battle this well. host: our guest joins us to talk about pennsylvania in the midterm cycle. if you want to call and ask terry madonna a question, it is (202) 748-8000. all others, (202) 748-8001. living2.8 million people in the state. the governor is tom wolfe. six democrats, and two vacancies. donald trump won the state over hillary clinton. when it comes to that winning of the state by donald trump, have much of that is a factor this in helping republicans? guest: donald trump is not on the ballot literally but figuratively he is. here is what is going on in pennsylvania and many other states. political historians often talk about midterm elections being essentially about the president, about his incumbency. the fact of the matter is that that is true not just a bit, but usually so th

u.s. senator. i hope you continue to allow me the privilege of serving you. , senatorrst question hyde-smith. evening, senator hyde-smith. pettyf us own agricultural exports. how long can mississippi farmers ffs,omically cope with tari and would there be a point where you would try to step in to protect farmers and asked the president to reconsider? sen. hyde-smith: as commissioner of agriculture and commerce in this great state, i am well aware of the challenges. i have met with the president in i proudly support him negotiating these trades. all mississippi farmers want a fair deal, and i'm excited the president has stepped up to renegotiate these deals so congress can level the playing field that we have the advantage, and not the imbalance of every other country having a bigger advantage than we do. >> rebuttal? sec. espy: this is a policy by this administration, something i worried about in march, in an article called "be careful what you ask for." curryesident tried to favor by putting tariffs

this debate is about 50 minutes. >> good evening and welcome to the u.s. senate debate 2018 with republican senator cindy hyde-smith and democrat secretary mike espey. we have three panelists with us tonight, beginning with the clarion ledger and courtney and the billion.aleb the order for the opening and closing statements tonight and who will take the first question is random. they will have two minutes to answer each question and one minute for rebuttal. candidates may also have an additional 30 seconds to respond to some of the questions tonight. the league of women voters will take care of our time tonight. they will be. keeping track of our time. and we want to go to our opening statements, which will be followed by the first question tonight. we begin with secretary espy. to maggie wade, to senatorkeepers, highsmith, thank you for i thank youdebate, for doing that. also, thank you for participating in this debate. i appreciate you. we have thanksgiving coming up. we hope you share it with your family to enjoy the bounty. tonight, we are here to discuss our

debate is about 50 minutes. >> good evening, and welcome to the u.s. senate debates 2018 with cindy hyde-smith and mike sb. we begin with secretary. >> thank you. to our panelists, to our timekeeper, to senator highsmith, thank you for agreeing to the debate. thank you for the audience listening in, and thank you for participating in this debate. i appreciate you. have a thanksgiving to enjoy the lord's bounty. tonight, we are here to discuss our approach to the issues. i will just tell you my approach. my approach is mississippi first. that means mississippi over party, over person. i don't care how powerful that person might be. it means i will not let anybody run over you. , it'st gets to the issues when you think your social security and medicaid might be threatened. if you live in mississippi, we want you to stay here. we want to make sure that you have prescription drugs. in this race, everyone is talking about qualifications. i'm the most qualified candidate in this race. and servedngress four times. --e served as the segregated secretary kerry -- secr

looks like the republicans are even going to pick up a few more seats in the u.s. senate well a big story coming out of the state of texas ted cruz has been reelected as a senator for that state cruz was in a battle with his a democrat challenger but there were wark who tried to cause an upset in the traditionally republican states three democrats had high hopes of taking texas and poured millions of dollars into campaigning there are going to take this story now all the way over to the capital of the united states our washington bureau chief alexander phenomena is standing by good evening to you alexander the republicans retaining control of the u.s. senate with the democrats retaking the house of representatives we've still got a deeply divided political landscape in the us as a result of this vote dont we. yes you're totally right but it doesn't come as a surprise we have to say let's talk about the democrats first as you said they are projected to take over the house of representatives and this is good news for the democrats and they are already talking on twitter abo

let's look now at what it means for the balance of power in the u.s. senate. right now 36 democrats. 42 republicans. we still have 22 senate seats that remain out, and, of course, 23 you look at the number in the upper right, 51 is the number of seats that democrats could need to have at the end of the night. the end of whenever we're counting in order to gain control of the u.s. senate. >> thanks very much. let's take a closer look. joe manchin in west virginia gets reelected. the president went there to try to defeat him. >> this is one of the races the president made personal. he's been to rallies. it had been more than any other

for the next hour we were here from the three candidates vying to represent name in the u.s. senatelet's meet the candidates in alphabetical order. republican eric brakey of auburn has served in the main senate since 2014. he was state director for the 2012 ron paul presidential campaign in maine. he graduated from ohio university. independent angus king of brunswick is incumbent turkey

u.s. senators and how they reacted. this is pretty unprecedented one after the other u.s. senators came before reporters using pretty harsh language to describe saudi arabia and its crown prince we understand that saudi arabia is an ally. of sorts and of some important country a despotic dishonest dictatorship it's time to send saudi arabia a message this after the u.s. secretaries of state and defense gave a classified briefing to senators they again tried to protect the crown prince do you believe i've read every piece of intelligence plus in the last few hours i think i read it all there is no direct report connecting it to the murders of officer we have no smoking gun that the crown prince would involve many senators say they disagree and they wanted to hear directly from the cia director but senator say the white house refused to let her come to the capitol prompting this highly charged threat from a usual ally of the president not going to be denied the ability to be briefed by the cia we have oversight. about whether or not their assessment supports my belief that th

this is when you have a two democrats topping the list for the u.s. senatend this go round dianne feinstein longtime incumbent, kevin -- feinstein declared the winter it is the winter. >> he's from los angeles and rather short political history chile compared to senator dianne feinstein but she is the line of the senate as far as california is concerned. she's been there a long time. >> she did take some hits during the cavendar hearing because she had the letter written by dr. christine in a four. there was a lot of contagious discussion about her holding onto that letter because dr. ford water ivc nonetheless it eventually came out. she took some hits for that as you said kevin de leon is considered the progressive. not a surprise feinstein one but nonetheless how do we move forward with this? >> reporter: we are going to talk about the governor's race. as you said gavin newsom has been declared the winner and one reason those numbers show cox up ahead as we speak is there no results in from los angeles, san francisco, alameda county had. with regard to ga

maine in the u.s. senate. republican eric brakey of auburn has served in the main senate since 2014, the maine state director for the ron paul presidential campaign in maine and graduated from ohio university. independent angus king of brunswick is the incumbent and first elected in the u.s. senate in 2012. before that, he served two terms as governor of maine and a lecturer at bowdoin college, the owner of an alternative energy company, and television host, a bachelor from dartmouth college. he also earned a law degree from the university of virginia. democrat zak ringelstein of your -- from yarmouth developed a program to connect classrooms around the world and taught in the portland public school district from 2016-2017 and earned a bachelor's from columbia university and a masters from arizona state university.

they have also taken extra seats now surpassing the fifty seats needed to control the u.s. senate in texas republican ted cruz he has survived what was considered the most serious challenge to his seat in the u.s. said it cruz held his ground against the democratic challenger but over wark democratic challenger earned almost a celebrity status in his bid to unseat the incumbent but in the end it was not enough despite. the democrat being able to for in millions of dollars into his campaign coffers for the senate race cruz is still the u.s. senator from texas in the last hour the us president donald trump he has given his first reaction to the outcome of the elections in very typical trump style he tweeted simply this tremendous success tonight thank you to all our those take the story now to our washington or spy and maya slater she joins me now from capitol hill good evening to you maya so we've got the u.s. president saying it was a big success was it. well that very much depends which party you were rooting for brand is not necessarily a loss for the republicans as you said you

i know the u.s. senate has passed a resolution calling on the government to end its support for the saudi led intervention in yemen despite opposition from the white house as more. well the vote was sixty three to thirty seven with support on both sides of the aisle the resolution called for the united states to end any cooperation with the saudi led attack on yemen now one of the voices speaking in favor of the resolution was us senator bernie sanders of vermont this is some of his argument in favor of the resolution we have been providing the bombs that the saudi led coalition is using we have been refueling their planes before they drop those bombs this is a vote. that says to the world we are going to end. the whole rip the humanitarian. that is killing tens and tens of thousands of the pencils children in yemen there was opposition to this resolution from the white house very strong we heard that there was a closed door session in congress with mike pompei oh the secretary of state addressed members of

u.s. senator from the great state of florida. lou: i love the language that grows up around these if you will, controversial election results. everyone talking about now, in florida the case between nelson and scott. that he is now outside the margin of fraud. how confident are you on a scale of 1 to 10 that that is indeed, out of the margin of fraud and that rick scott will be the center?>> i think the margin of incompetence in bridal county and palm beach county is just astounding.-- i think we have a lot of fixing to do the counties when election is over. supervisor snipes and broward county, supervisor booker in beach county, clearly had to go. and you know, i know people are calling off republicans to sort of like get them out of office. what does that fall upon republicans to get them out of office? democrats need to start taking responsibility, the chairs of both of the counties in palm beach and broward county , should come out publicly and asked them both to resign their positions. because democrats need to prove to ever

we've got a projection right now in the u.s. senate. tt romney will be the next united states senator from the state of utah. he beats jenny wilson. mitt romney, the former republican presidential nominee, the former governor of massachusetts. he will be the next u.s. senator from utah. in nevada, too early to call right now. a very competitive race between jacky rosen, the democrat, dean heller. in montana, similarly, too early to call. the incumbent democrat jon tester facing a very stiff challenge from the republican matt rosendale. too early to call in montana. let's take a look at the balance of power in the senate where things stand right now with these projec

mississippi's u.s. senate contest will end with a post-thanksgiving run-off election between republican cindy hyde-smith and democrat mike espy. military and provisional ballots in the georgia governor's election are still being counted. democrat stacey abrams is refusing to concede in the race against republican brian kemp. >> we did not need to sit down and take the trump agenda. >> reporter: democrat harley rouda, a real estate executive, declared victory against 15-term pro-russia republican dana rohrabacher in their california house race. cbs news has not yet projected that race. >> we have boxes of votes just appearing out of nowhere. >> reporter: the trump administration is alleging fraud in florida. state election officials are reassuring voters, while ordering machine recounts of the governor's race and the u.s. senate race. senate republicans, like the re-elected ted cruz, are in lockstep. >> any time you have a recount, you have an invitation for people to ah-- to-- to violate the law and try to adv

u.s. senators have defied donald trump and moved forward with legislation calling for an end to u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's their strongest signal yet that they want to punish saudi arabia for its role in the murder of john s. jamal khashoggi. the senators were largely unswayed by an early a briefing from the u.s. defense chief and secretary of state who warned against downgrading ties with the kingdom. and ukraine's president petro poroshenko has warned of a full scale war with russia after a naval confrontation in the black sea earlier this week. colombians have been back out on the streets protesting about tax reforms and university funding student groups faunas and unions have joined forces and are planning more demonstrations if the government doesn't respond to them and asunder m.p.'s he reports from. it's the largest protest yet against the government of president even twenty thousand students took to the streets of. various routes across the city protestors are calling it the takeover of the capital. public universities are in a terrible state within th

. >> hawaii u.s. senate debate between the democratic senator and the republican challenger. real clear politics has declared the seat safe democrat, with polls showing senator hirono with a wide lead. now to our guest running for senate. republican ron curtiss is a retired systems engineer who move to hawaii in 2009. he attended an elementary school where his father was stationed. is thet senator hirono only immigrant in the u.s. senate, born in japan and moved to honolulu with her family when she was seven. she earned a law degree at georgetown, a psychology degree of the university of hawaii and was first elected to public office in a 1980. thank you both for joining us. we have a relatively short amount of time, so you can go ahead and jump into some of these questions. i will start with you, senator hirono. this has been in the media so much. local, a bit of a long question for you created the last year and a half of the trump administration, you used the f word in a national media interview. in your confirmation hearings, that we have seen and heard so much about, for u

the u.s. senate will be in one america and everything else was going to be over in a purple and with some blue mixed in. that's exactly the way things panned out. the senate races were fought redely in conservative, states. states that had substantial small-town populations. the other races had a strong component of suburbs and urbanized areas. that panned out a lot like what we thought. made a really mbc good point that if you look at the state exit polls and you look at the results that they withed up really closely where president trump's job approval rating, where his approval ratings were over 50% republicans did pretty well. real well, in fact. to the extent that they were below 50, not so well. , i know luke has already gone through this so i should skip through it quickly. it looks like republicans -- that are still some out -- republicans knocked off three incumbents. indiana, north dakota, missouri. then they lost game killer. we are still waiting to hear about arizona, florida and montana.

u.s. senator. will she win this race or is she going to get appointed to replace john kyle when he is expected to step down. that is likely to happen. florida, it looks really likely that it's gonna win. the scenario that was either nightmarish or delicious. if they have picked up one seat. with an overtime game in mississippi. that is not the case. depending on what happens. you can still see that they go all the way up to the net gain of four. just incredible win for them. it wore the other direction down. we will see how that in the outcome that we are expecting. this was a very good one. in the senate for republicans. and one yes, they were blessed with the best map that either party have but they took full advantage of it i you have to give about because this was certainly a challenging environment in the house some of us have a little bit of shock early in the evening because in the earlier hours when we started getting returns in. they would probably clear the 23 seats they needed to get the

to do this -- the u.s. senate to do the same thing, as we speak, the ten republican have filed aeral major lawsuit in the texas court protections for people with pre-existing conditions. i have been totally focused on the need to protect people with pre-existing conditions. that is millions of people. curtis: the affordable care act is going to implode. i have to drain might retirement account -- my retirement account to get health care coverage. i take good care of my health and i am spending far less than $16,000. plan is based on a health care act introduced in the senate in 2009. it was introduced by senators wyden and bennett. it was based on the federal employees health benefit program, which is what civil service gets. it uses that health care coverage and it changes the providedfrom employer care to employer subsidized health care. economy ofyou the scale of 140 million people. you can accept all the pre-existing conditions. moderator: there are aspects of the affordable care act you don't necessarily disa

we've got a projection right now in the u.s. senate. mitt romney will be the next united states senator from the state of utah. he beats jenny wilson. mitt romney, the former republican presidential nominee, the former governor of massachusetts. he will be the next u.s. senator from utah. in nevada, too early to call right now. a very competitive race between jacky rosen, the democrat, dean heller. in montana, similarly, too early to call. the incumbent democrat jon tester facing a very stiff challenge from the republican matt rosendale. too early to call in montana. let's take a look at the balance of power in the senate where things stand right now with these projections. 38 democrats. they will be in the senate. 45 republicans in the senate including one pickup. 17 seats right now remain outstanding in the u.s. senate. we're watching those 17 seats. democrats must pick up three republican seats and not lose any more of their own. three republican seats in order to get closer and closer to the majority. it's looking tough for the democ

tomorrow she will face off in the final u.s. senate debate before the last senate election in this country this year against democrat mike espy. should be fascinating to watch. that election in mississippi, that runoff is a week from tomorrow. so tuesday after thanksgiving. >>> and now we know actually that the week after that there is going to be yet another big important statewide race with national implications in georgia. in georgia, of course, democrat stacey abrams did not win the governorship against republican brian kemp. i realize that is an awkward way to phrase it's. but you can't say that stacey abrams conceded the race to brian kemp because she didn't. abrams has acknowledged that she did not win and that kemp will ascend to the governorship. but she has been steadfast and firm in her criticism that the reason kemp won is because of the systematic racially specific voter suppression efforts that he ran as georgia's elected republican secretary of state, as the man responsible for running elections and mainta maintaining th

seat that opened up when jeff sessions moved from the u.s. senate over to the justice department to become the trump administration's first attorney general. roy moore's senate campaign was the point at which pedophilia and its public defense became part of the trump era of republican politics. it's also how we got a democrat in the united states senate from the great state of alabama. when alabama decided they couldn't stomach roy moore in that capacity. so alabama has had a busy few years in general on ethics issues, but on environmental stuff, alabama has been even worse than that. i mean, it has been a poop train couple of years in alabama. that same administrator of the state's environmental agency, that one who got referred for prosecution, the one who left office under this cloud of mushrooming ethics controversies, after he left office as the top environmental official in the state, he left to go work in his private business career. in his private business career, he became a key player in the worst criminal environmental scandal to hit that

mississippi's u.s. senate contest will end with a post- thanksgiving run-off election between republican cindy hyde- smith and democrat mike espy. military and provisional ballots in the georgia governor's election are still being counted. democrat stacey abrams is refusing to concede in the race against republican brian kemp. >> we did not need to sit down and take the trump agenda. >> reporter: democrat harley rouda, a real estate executive, declared victory against 15-term pro-russia republican dana rohrabacher in their california house race. cbs news has not yet projected that race. >> we have boxes of votes just appearing out of nowhere. >> reporter: the trump administration is alleging fraud in florida. state election officials are reassuring voters, while ordering machine recounts of the governor's race and the u.s. senate race. senate republicans, like the re- elected ted cruz, are in lockstep. >> any time you have a recount, you have an invitation for people to ah-- to-- to violate the law and try to

u.s. house, while republicans have expanded their majority in the senate.e will have live coverage as congressional leaders, president trump, and the candidates react to the makeup of the next congress. here is the balance of power in the senate now. republicans hold 51 seats, democrats 43, independence 2. 4 races have yet to be decided. republican representative marsha blackburn delivered heard victory speech after winning the u.s. senate seat left by bob corker. we will hear from her first. then democrat phil bredesen who lost the race. [applause] ]crowd chanting corker thank you all, so incredibly much. i tell you what, i think our country has done 2 things loud and clear.

u.s. senators have defied donald trump and moved forward with legislation calling for an end to u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen it's their strongest signal yet that they want to punish saudi arabia for its role in the murder of jon lester. the senate as well largely unswayed by an earlier briefing from the u.s. defense chief and secretary of state who warned against downgrading ties with the kingdom. and ukraine's president petro poroshenko has warned of a full scale war with russia after a naval confrontation and the black sea earlier this week. pakistan and india have started construction of their festival is a free border crossing it's allow seek pilgrims to visit shrines on either side and as a rare moment of cooperation between the new arrivals al-jazeera has shot at best reports . the sikh community have called for this for a long time a car or two to allow them easy movement between india. in pakistan sikh temple. with the founder of sikhism spent the last years of his life but it significance goes beyond religion it's the first a visa free border crossing and th

u.s. senators are voting want to build support for the war in yemen despite calls to reconsider from the trumpet ministration many say they have concerns about the u.s. saudi relationship since she's murder former georgian foreign minister. to be the country's new president with nearly all the votes counted she will be the first woman to hold the position once better relations with russia ukraine's president petro poroshenko has warned of a full scale war with russia after a naval confrontation in the black sea earlier this week. the un envoy to syria says the latest talks involving iran russia and turkey to end the war are a missed opportunity staffan de mistura says he's disappointed with the failure to agree on the composition of the un backed constitutional committee. meeting in. reaffirmed their commitment to no violence in the last rebel stronghold the talks were also attended by representatives of the syrian government and the opposition. reports from a stunner. a new round of talks on syria have concluded with little town jubal progress the meetings over the past two days concentrated on

the u.s. senate and the white house have locked horns over america's support for saudi arabia senators are demanding the government end military aid to the saudi led war effort in yemen your show the u.s. secretary of state reacted to the move they're considering getting a resolution on the senate floor which we think is just poorly timed this is what the decision is all about on the floor of the united states senate passing a resolution this point that would encourage the who these would encourage the iranians we will no longer be part of their destructive military adventurism hopefully get a cease fire in yemen something that we have diplomatically been striving for for months and we think we're right on the cusp of that we were feeling the bombers that the saudis sent in to yemen well the vote comes amid ongoing ungar over the killing of jamal khashoggi the dissident journalist murdered last month inside the saudi consulate in istanbul kill a mob can bring us more now on washington's current defic

congress with all seats in the house of representatives up for grabs and a majority of seats in the u.s. senate as well as of the first exit polls are giving us an idea of what motivated voters today the issue of health care is topping the list and the president himself according to those first exit polls was the deciding factor for more than fifty percent of the voters well a very important part of our coverage of this historic midterm election is coming from the capital of the united states our washington bureau chief alexandra phenomena she joins me now from capitol hill good evening to you alexandra we've got these first exit polls a c.b.s. exit poll reflecting what we've been hearing this midterm election in the minds of most voters has been an unofficial referendum on the trump presidency. yes right and this is not coming as a surprise i have to say because trump is such a polarizing figure a divider in the white house and because he wanted this to be all about him at every reli he was calling upon his supporters telling them to pretend that he is on the ballot even though his name is not

the u.s. senate voted to debate a build support for the coalition in yemen so want to will this mean for us there were nations this is inside story. come to the program. it's a strong messages from us to the white house they will hold sandy arabia to account over its role in the war in yemen and the murder of journalists. the senate has voted to hold hearings next week on whether to end u.s. support for the sandy u.a.e. led war in yemen that despite strong opposition from the trump administration which sound the secretaries of state and defense to persuade senators to vote against the measure we have a lot to discuss with our guests in a moment but first a force from washington. this is pretty unprecedented one after the other u.s. senators came before reporters using pretty harsh language to describe saudi arabia and its crown prince we understand that saudi arabia is an ally. of sorts and a sometime port a country a despotic dishonest dictatorship it's time to send saudi arabia a message this after

last week and said we're going to do it . >> were going to be right back with the candidates for u.s. senatewelcome back to this senate debate, i'm jennifer rook. now we offered the candidates a chance to ask questions of one another. candidates will have 20 seconds to pose the question and the other candidate will have 1 minute to respond. they can briefly follow-up if necessary. eric brakey will ask angus king. >> yes, sir no question, do you support the central main power cord or through somerset county? >> no. >> angus king, you may ask zach ringelstein a question. >> zach, we can tell a lot about people by who they look up to, who are your political heroes? if there's one person you could have dinner with who would it be? >> i'll take that challenge and i'm going to go with john lewis. anyone knew who john lewis is? these when i got to hang out with recently. he is a civil rights hero and he is somebody who was literally on the freedom ride in 1961 and reminded me as we sat down together that he wasn't even allowed to leave dc next to a white person in 1961 and gave a speech next to mar

u.s. senator from mississippi's reelection campaign to the tune of thousands of dollars. well, one of the bay area's biggest giants fans says he wants other fans to hit the giants where it hurts. >> i'm boycotting, period. >> reporter: bay area civil rights attorney john burris says he's a huge giants fan, but he believes it's time for fans to withdraw their support for the team. >> i would encourage everyone who has social consciousness about the conditions that exist in this country should boycott the giants as long as this person is a principal owner. >> reporter: burris is upset because the giants' principal owner charles johnson, an 85- year-old billionaire who lives in florida, has donated money to the u.s. senate campaign of cindy hyde smith in mississippi. she made headlines after making this statement her opponent says was racially charged. >> hanging, what do you think that means? >> reporter: hyde smith also once put on a rebel hat while visiting a museum for confederate president jefferson davis. the giants owner apologized once a few months ago after supporti

u.s. house and senate. for a long time, i was the first asian woman to get elected to the u.s. senate, so the kind of diversity we bring through our own life experiences as an immigrant and the only immigrant serving in the u.s. senate at a time when immigration is a huge issue. that diversity is necessary. we need more women with our diversity. it is not the professions. moderator: different choices of diversity. let me move to one more question. we have a minute left. 30 seconds each. the atmosphere in washington described by many as toxic. how do you bring civility back? how do you ible, approach it? mr. curtis: walk the walk. i have already talked to some people across the aisle in d.c., they have read my website and said they will support your agenda if you help us solve our problem. they want my services, not vote for vote. that's where we get back to the diversity of skill sets. i like the diversity of population, ethnicity, but you need a diversity of skill sets. if all you have as construction workers in congress you will not get a lot of good stuff done. skilledy verse

u.s. senator is move forward with plans to and support for the war in the. launching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha and also ahead talks and astonished to find a solution for the war in syria and with no progress the u.n. calls it a missed opportunity. another vote in sri lanka takes aim at the controversially appointed prime minister highlighting the divisions that have led to a political crisis. taking over the capital thousands of colombians filled the streets promising protests until the governments meets their demands. hello u.s. senators have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw american support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition in the war and defying president donald trump the bipartisan vote ignored warnings from the secretaries of state and defense that it would be a mistake and damage u.s. saudi relations senators are also calling for more transparency on what the intelligence community knows about the murder of saudi journalist. mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . the yeas are sixty three the nays are thirty seven this was th

house and the u.s. senate are in recess they will not be in town this week it is a holiday here in the united states betty going live for us in washington thanks patty i haven't siegfried is a republican strategist and joins us via skype now from new york thanks very much for being with us so we we are seeing creasing lee now this divide between the cia and the whole intelligence community and president trump. what do you make of that. well this is more of the same divide between the president and the intelligence community the president as your reporter just stated has rejected the intelligence community's findings that russia interfered in the twenty sixteen presidential election he said as said it could have been somebody else it could have been a hat four hundred pound actor even as lee said in the presidential debates he said it could have been china and he has gone out of his way to say or to doubt what the intelligence community tells him in favor of what he is told by authoritarian leaders who engage i