landrieu will take the seat of charlie melancon. he owns an oil and gas contamination cleanup company. the affects of last week's elections are discussed at a conference on the bipartisan policy center event in new orleans. democratic and risk that -- and republican strategist and pollster talk about whether cooperation between president obama and republicans in congress is possible. from tulane university, this is about one hour, 15 minutes. repor>> we're wanted talk aboute thing that everybody loves to hate, the media. i will start by introducing our moderator. he is the father of lee hall wood, who will be an incoming freshman here at tulane university this fall. we're particularly delighted to have john here. when you talk about people in journalism, john has done everything that you would think. he started with the washington star, graduated magna cum laude. i graduated thank the lord. he was at cnbc, meethe press -- everything that you think of when you think of a big, giant guy as part of the media establishment. i do not kno