she can lay down some interesting straight talk once votes are cast. >> host: alexander burns, senior political reporter for "politico", talking about the new jersey and virginia governors races. , mr. burns, thank you. >> guest: thanks a lot. >> we will have complete coverage of the victory and concession speeches. vote something reported to be strong in virginia races and counties there. we'll have comments via facebook, twitter, on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org beginning 9:00 p.m. eastern. coming up shortly we'll go live to the white house for today's briefing with spokesman jay carney set to get underway in a few moments. live coverage here on c-span2 when it starts. until then a discussion on the gender politics and enda bill being debated in the senate this week from today's "washington journal." >> host: brian moulton of the human rights campaign. he is their policy and political affairs director. thanks for joining us. >> guest: thank you. connell: >> host: the vote enda. what does it mean. >> guest: it is a simple piece of legislation t would add sexual orientation and

joining me to talk about that is senior report for politico, alexander burns. the big question is, does that translate into a national election for president or are there so many for layers to that story? >> i think it's both. there are a lot more layers to the 2016 story. but certainly a necessary precondition for him to be a serious canned dad for the presidency. he has to be able to tell a compelling story about having governed in a democratic state and won approval from the voters. he's going to be able to point to statics from yesterday's elections. if you look at some of the suburbs, that he won the kind of voters that you need in order to take the white house and make the case that he's the guy who make conservatism work in elections. >> now that he's going to be the chairman of the republican governor's association, is he going to get tarnished or is he going to take all of his celebrity and good will and somehow fix that brand. >> that's sort of the question given how much money they raise for these elections. christie is going to have to go into state

this is weird if alexander burns hadn't written this have notice. if you looked, half the mayors were democrats half were republicans. ra ratio was 6:6. when you look across the country. the big cities. all 12 of them. all have democratic mayors. the ratio is 12-0. you have to go down to indianapolis, the 13th largest city in the country before you find one city with the republican mayor. how did this happen? and it is not even just a fluke of the top 12. itch you lo if you look at the top 30. 27 of the largest 30 citiesen the country will be run by democrats three by republicans. our cities in america are a sea of blue. since all of the sunday shows are going to be having the exact same discussion with the exact same guy this weekend. i'm sure this issue will not come up. it seems like an important dramatic change that happened in our country and politics. if republican governance has disappeared from urban america entirely, it really has the, why is that? and doesn't that mean that something is wrong with what is supposed to be our two party syste

this is weird if alexander burns hadn't written this have notice. if you looked, half the mayors were democrats half were republicans. ra ratio was 6:6. when you look across the country. the big cities. all 12 of them. all have democratic mayors. the ratio is 12-0. you have to go down to indianapolis, the 13th largest city in the country before you find one city with the

this is weird if alexander burns hadn't written this up i wouldn't have noticed. if you looked, half the mayors were democrats half were republicans. ratio was 6:6. but after this week' big democratic win in new york, with when you look across the country, look. the big cities, all 12 of them, all of them have democratic players. the ratio is 12-0. you have to go down to indianapolis, the 13th largest city in the country before you find one city with the republican mayor. how did this happen? and it is not even just a fluke of the top 12. if you look at the top 30. 27 of the top 30 largest cities in the country will be run by democrats, three by republicans. our cities in america are a sea of blue. since all of the sunday shows are going to be having the exact same discussion with the exact

this is weird if alexander burns hadn't written this up i wouldn't have noticed. if you looked, half the mayors were democrats half were republicans. ratio was 6:6. but after this week' big democratic win in new york, with when you look across the country, look. the big cities, all 12 of them, all of them have democratic players. the ratio is 12-0. you have to go down to indianapolis, the 13th largest city in the country before you find one city with the republican mayor. how did this happen? and it is not even just a fluke of the top 12. if you look at the top 30. 27 of the top 30 largest cities in the country will be run by democrats, three by republicans. our cities in america are a sea of blue. since all of the sunday shows are going to be having the exact same discussion with the exact same guy this weekend. i'm sure this issue will not come up. it seems like an important dramatic change that happened in our country and politics. if republican governance has disappeared from urban america entirely, it really has the, why is that? and doesn't that mean that so

i want to bring in our company, politico's senior political reporter alexander burns, usa today's washington bureau chief, susan page. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start with the website problems, alex. republicans were adamant that todd park, the chief technology officer, testify today. they went so far as to issue a subpoena. we've seen a handful of these hearings already. darrell issa made a name for himself holding hearings on the irs, benghazi, fast and furious, is this about getting answers or is it as we just heard from e elijah cummings not anything to do with the fixing the website. >> i think it's kind of all of the above. that there clearly are legitimate questions to be asked about how this website rollout got botched so badly. at the same time it clearly is a huge political benefit to republicans in general and darrell issa personally to be asking these questions. you know, what you hear from the democratic side right now is a lot of wait and see. they do want to find out whether the white house can get healthcare.gov working by the end of the month and if at that poi

host: alexander burns, a senior reporter for politico. thank you. >> taking you live to the dirksen senate office building where the senate fornes relation committee -- senate foreign considercommittee will a disability treaty that would extend the display rights of americans to people in other countries. it should get underway shortly, and in the center of the screen, tom ridge, a disability rights advocate, among those testified ying. also tammy duckworth. the chairman of the committee, robert menendez, and john mccain published an editorial calling for the ratification of the treaty. , bobanking republican corker, talks about the treaty, saying since the u.s. already has the gold standard for disability rights with americans heh disability act, he says has concerns about the unintended legal consequences of the proposed treaty, including its pension of federal power beyond the current limits of the constitution. you're watching live coverage. they should gavel in shortly on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 201