they will be in the majority in the next united states senate. >> the mainstream media giving gop are some minimalizing because of the losses. and did the prognosticators miss the magnitude of this by leaning too heavily on polls? many turned to be out wrong. president obama being portrayed as some, set up, resigned and resentful. is the press wright him off as a failure? the tv reporter who says they wouldn't run her pieces, the

they're voting for congress and state senators and state legislatures. check this out. something funny just happened in this part of the country. >> last week, the school board made some news when they decided they were going to where i happen pages out of the biology textbooks. the zexz of the biology textbooks that mentioned contraception and abortion, a local school board decided to cut those pages out of the textbooks. an arizona law signed two years ago which man dates that instruction and public schools in arizona be explicitly anti-abortion. and, based on that law, they decided in gilbert, arizona, that the page of the biology textbook that explains that there is such a things as abortion, they decided to cut that out. that was last week. that was a 3-2 vote on the local school board. sort of tea party majority on the local school board decided that those books should be redacted. they came and gave a prentation to that school board encouraging them to do it. the senate president and two other republican state senate nors came toet school board meeting and encour

period of a 20-year service in the united states senate. bob la follette was primed to repeat on a national level some of his successes in wisconsin. la follette's methods of politics had to change because he was dealing with persuading a majority of 96 senators to support his position. la follette was a master tactician. just like on the state level, he data on to gather who would support him, who he needed to contact. he was a master of rules in the senate. bob la follette used the filibuster to stop legislation he felt was harmful. he was recognized in the u.s. senate as a leader of a small group of progressives whose votes were needed by the majority to pass legislation. la follette was a republican, as were most progressives in the u.s. senate. that group of 12 or 14 votes he controlled allowed him to negotiate. in terms of bob la follette spreading the progressive idea nationally, he used two techniques. one, he started a magazine called " la follette's magazine,'s great at promoting his name. todayagazine still exist and is called "p

in the united states senate. we have some other key race alerts to go with right now. we cannot make a projection in georgia between michelle nunn, the democrat and david purdue, the republican, we don't have enough information yet. and similarly in virginia. mark warner, the democrat billion challenged by ed gal espy. we don't have enough information to make a projection in virginia. but we can make other projections. take a look at this. south carolina for example, lindsey graham easily gets re-elected for another six years. lindsey graham beats brad huddo for another six years. south carolina stays with the republicans. also tim scott, he will have -- actually another six year term. he wins a special election and will fill out the term left by jim demint who resigned to become head of the heritage foundation here in washington. let's look at where it standed right now with the -- where it stands with the mitch mcconnell win. 34 democrats coming back and 33 republicans. you need 51 to be a majority. 51 for a re

people complain how partisan the united states senate is. if we cast votes and decisions were being made, we could resolve some of these issues. i would say to start with you could have a senate that would pass a budget. something that didn't happen in a long time and 12 appropriation bills that fill in the blanks. we would address spending, one. two, we would give better direction to the obama administration how the money can be spent and currently all we do is pass a continuing resolution that lets the agencies and departments pretty much do what they want to do. >> this is an important point. pass a budget. that's number one priority. give me one or two top sectors or policies that you want to get done in the next two years and how do you do it? what's a practical jobs bill? >> a practical place to start, again, jobs front and center. but energy issues can really help our country. this has to do with what you pay when you send the check to your utility company at the end of the month to pay for your light bill. this has to do with what yo

senator for the state of colorado, cory gardner. [cheers and applause] >> i have a quick question for you. is there anybody here from yuma? tonight we shook up the senate. you shook up the senate. your message was heard from nevada to pennsylvania avenue. as republicans in colorado, we've gotten used to the saying, wait until the next election. well, i've got news for you. that next election, it finally happened. [cheers and applause] a few minutes ago i spoke with senator udall and i thanked him for his incredible commitment to public service and the sacrifices that he and his family have made. in the name of making colorado a better place. and our commitment together to work for a smooth transition. [applause] nine months ago in boulder i stood before you to accept the nomination for united states senate. it was there that we realized together the great challenge that we would face to get to this day. saying then, we have signed up to be the tip of the spear, the van guard of the moament that is sweeping our nation, to pick the sh

they're voting for congress and state senators and state legislatures. check this out. something funny just happened in this part of the country. last week, the school board made some news when they decided they were going to where i happen pages out of the biology textbooks. the section of the biology textbooks that mentioned contraception and abortion, a local school board decided to cut those pages out of the textbooks. they cited an arizona law signed two years ago which man dates that instruction and public schools in arizona be explicitly anti-abortion. and, based on that law, they decided in gilbert, arizona, that the page of the biology textbook that explains that there is such a thing as abortion, they decided to cut that out. that was last week. that was a 3-2 vote on the local school board. sort of tea party majority on the local school board decided that those books should be redacted. they came and gave a presentation to that school board encouraging them to do it. the senate president and two other republican state senators came to the school board meeting

a big flip in the united states senate. now let's switch a map to take a look at the united states house. another big change here. i'm going to start with this map. this is when the president took office. and at this point in time, the democrats had 257. remember that number. i want you to look at this again. just look at this. this is when the president took office. look at this blue, look at this blue. look at it everywhere. the northwest in the southwest, in the south, in the northwest and even up here in new england in the north. look at all that blue. this is where we are tonight. look at how much red in the house. these are the house districts. we now know republicans started at 234 tonight. they will be in excess of 246. they will pick up at least 13 seats and that's their previous high water mark. they will pass that tonight, exceeding that number. so dramatic turnaround, republicans take the senate. not just taking it, but a couple seat cushion. and a big boost to the republican house majority again. again, this wi

senator for the state of colorado, cory gardner. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> i have a quick question for you. is there anybody here from yuma? [applause] tonight, we shook up the senate. you shook up the senate. your message was heard from nevada to pennsylvania avenue. , weepublicans in colorado have gotten used to the saying, wait until the next election. i have news for you. that next election has finally happened. a few minutes ago, i spoke with senator udall and i think tim for his incredible commitment and the second phase he and his family have made in the name of making colorado a better place. and our commitment together to work to a smooth transition. [applause] , in boulder, i stood before you to accept the nomination for united states senate. we realize together the great challenge we faced to get to this day. signed up to be the tip of the spear, the vanguard of the movement that is sweeping our nation to pick the shackle of gridlock and fundamentally change washington dc. we have indeed reached that historic day. we h

i appreciate his devotion to the state of kentucky, to our country, to the united states senate. he knows i hold him in the highest regard. i am ready mr. president to work with him in good faith to make this institution function again for the american people. i saw first-hand how a strategy of destruction was debilitating to our system and i have no desire to engage in that manner. i have been as i mentioned before and i mention again minority leader. i've been able to strike a compromise with my republican colleagues and i'm ready to do it again. regardless how you may interpret lasix adults is clear the american people want us to join together to get things done for the middle class and all americans. we should be able to do that. after all helping working families is not a partisan issue. just last week we saw for a very red states, alaska, arkansas nebraska and south dakota vote to increase minimum wages. clearly mr. president republicans outside this building don't object to giving american workers a livable wage. the minimum wage is just one example. there are other issues

amendment with his name on it on the floor of the united states senate. no democrat senator elected in 2012, two years ago, none of them, elizabeth warren, has not had a single vote on a single amendment on the floor of the united states senate with her name on it. so, these are senators who offered hundreds and hundreds of amendments and harry reid says, no. i think it was hill or "roll call" yesterday says he tied the senate in knots to protect his members from taking votes on anything of substance. so when the president comes out and says, it is my policies that are on the ballot, and they vote with me 98 or 97 or 99% of the time, that to me make this is a referendum much more on the president and his policies and the fact that nothing gets done with a democrat-controlled senate which is why i penned the editorial time to put republicans in charge, back to regular order where we actually have votes onments up or down and deal with budgetary issues, appropriations and even nominations. you have secretary of commerce out here a few minutes ago. she got c

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, at his little conjoined desk in the senate state chamber was this senator. her name was penny sovereigns. yes, barack obama was an impressive politician right from the beginning. but this senator who became barack obama's mentor, she is also a bit of a shooting star. penny had been elected to the senate even younger than barack obama had been. she was 34 when she was elected to the senate. when she was only 20 years old, she had been elected to be a delegate at the national convention. ever to have been elected a national convention delegate. she ran for congress in 1980. she won a city council seat thereafter. she then ran for the senate. penny ran for the senate against a ten-year, republican incumbent who's not seen as endangered at all. he was a member of the leadership and everything. but she beat him. see the sign there? hello, penny. good-bye, jim. >>> in 1994, illinois democrats decided that for the first time in the history of the democratic party, or the republican party in any state in the country, they would run an all female ticket for governor

they're voting for congress and state senators and state led legislatures. check this out. something funny just happened in this part of the country. >> last week, the school board made some news when they decided they were going to where i happen pages out of the biology textbooks. the zexz of the biology textbooks that mentioned contraception and abortion, a local school board decided to cut those pages out of the textbooks. an arizona law signed two years ago which man dates that instruction and public schools in arizona be explicitly anti-abortion. and, based on that law, they decided in gilbert, arizona, that the page of the biology textbook that explains that there is such a things as abortion, they decided to cut that out. that was last week. that was a 3-2 vote on the local school board. sort of tea party majority on the local school board decided that those books should be redacted. they came and gave a prentation to that school board encouraging them to do it. the senate president and two other republican state senate nors came toet school board meeting and encour

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, at his little conjoined desk in the senate state chamber was this senator. her name was penny sovereigns. yes, barack obama was an impressive politician right from the beginning. but this senator who became barack obama's mentor, she is also a bit of a shooting star. penny had been elected to the senate even younger than barack obama had been. she was 34 when she was elected to the senate. when she was only 20 years old, she had been e legislated to be a dell gat at the national convention. ever to have been elected a national convention delegate. she ran for congress in 1980. she wan a city council seat there after. she then ran for the senate. penny ran for the senate against a ten-year, republican incumbent who's not seen as endangered at all. he was a member of the leadership and e and everything. but she beat him. see the sign there? hello, penny. good-bye jim. >>> in 1994, illinois democrats decided that for the first time in the history of the democratic party, or the republican party in any state in the country, they would run an all female ticket fo

jeremy moran is the united states senator from knsas where pat robes is one of those hotly contesdraces. senator, good toave you on the program. thk you for being here. >> i'm glad to join you. i know all amerans are anxious for tuesy to come a results to be determined. raur sta havef the we don't know who is inharge until january? >> well, i hope we have evy result and outcome determid on tueay nht wednesday rninbuthere are a coup states in which runoffs are predicted. only a few states moly in e south that require 50 plus percent. two of those are georgia and louisiana and again raceshat could determe the outcome of the united states senate but my best prediction is we' know more tn that come wnesday morning. >> i guess come weesday morning the focus will turn to if in fact we wetosee gop take control of both hoes, what'she agenda. give me your one or two or three ghlits that you want to se bo houses get toork on right after eseidterm electi >> maria, yo outlined it in ur intro which is the economy. it's jobs. it's middle america. it's every day american it's the middle class. people

verizon. [ cheering and applause ] >> jon: tonight, texas state senator and democratic gubernatorial candidate for texas, please welcome to the program, state senator wendy davis. [ cheering and applause ] how are you? there we go. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. jon: would you prefer to stand i know you like to stand. >> i'm fine. jon: how long was your rose toe prominence on a national level with fill buster, 13 hours? >> just under 13 hours. jon: 13 hours against some legislation going on in the texas. >> that's right. and i was texas senate. it passed unfortunately in a special session. it resulted in exactly what we feared, almost all of the women's health centers that provided that constitutionally protected medical care closed. >> jon: there's no way to gain that back? can austin do sort of a planned parenthood food truck thing for everybody? get a taco and a -- i don't know how they can do it. they can do something. >> unfortunately the supreme court stepped in, they halted some of those closures we have had some reopen and we'll continue to fight the fight. >> jon: t

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maria -- state senator, we hear this will be an announcement today. how is your community preparing? >> well, have i to tell you, we have been having meetings every single day. in fact, there's a meeting this evening on how we are going to respond. i will tell you that people on the ground are going to stay out and continue to protest because they want their voices heard. i have to tell you, now we're going into phase three. phase three is either an indictment or no indictment. there is not an indictment, we need to figure out legislatively what we are going to do so that this -- this situation is not repeated again. so, i'm quite concerned but i do believe and have faith on the people in the ground that they are going to act responsibly and look towards the future so that we can make sure that justice is served and we no longer have another mike brown. >> state senator, are schools, in fact, closed or are they open in st. louis county today. >> well, i will tell you the school district in which i serve in, that is open today. university city. we were

and 30 years here in the united states senate. i think anybody looking at that would say that is a remarkable and distinguished record of public service. after 40 years of representing , my friendongress tom will soon leave behind the halls of the u.s. capitol. he will also leave behind a legacy of fiery floor speeches, passionately delivered on behalf of individuals with disabilities . also for iowa farmers, also for the elderly, also for child laborers, and for many causes such aschampioned, early childhood education, nutrition and wellness, conservation of renewable energy, and the environment. and lots of others, but those are things that everybody knows he has worked on. throughout the years, tom and i have served side-by-side in washington for the good of our home state. for three terms, we worked together in the u.s. house of representatives. senate our in the shared commitment to give rural america voice at the policymaking table was solved. years, we worked together in the agriculture committee, looking out for the millio

that is what they want from their next united states senator. i think mike needs to come clean tonight. >> rebuttal on this issue, mr. howie, what do you have to say? >> i believe we have seen an exercise in professional deceit in this whole race, and frankly, i'm not going to vote for rick weiland. that is not a surprise to anyone, but it aggravates me and more south dakotans when we hear a candidate say something that he knows is not true. governor rounds, you know that rick weiland is not going to close ellsworth air force base. while you're at it, why don't you give over the million and a half dollars that you and your company took from folks of south dakota? are you ready to do that tonight? let's come clean and maybe restore trust in your candidate. >> mr. pressler, on eb 5, what would you improve about this program? >> governor rounds, would you stay tonight why you think mr. -- committed suicide, why his autopsy has been suppressed. the people of the state want to know. that's good to the heart of the matter. he was your secretary of com

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, at his little conjoined desk in the senate state chamber was this senator. her name was penny sovereigns. yes, barack obama was an impressive politician right from the beginning. but this senator who became barack obama's mentor, she is also a bit of a shooting star. penny had been e legislated to the senate even younger than barack obama had been. she was 34 when she was elected to the senate. when she was only 20 years old, she had been e legislated to be a dell gat at the national convention. ever to have been elected a national convention delegate. she ran for congress in 1980. she wan a city council seat there after. she then ran for the senate. penny ran for the sthat against a teb-year, republican incumbent who's not seen as endangered at all. he was a member of the leadership and e and everything. but she beat him. see the sign there? hello, penny. good-bye jim. >>> in 1994, illinois democrats decided that for the first time in the history of the democratic party, or the republican party in any state in the country, they would run an all female ticke

motor trend's 2015 "cars" of the year. [ cheering and applause ] >> jon: tonight, texas state senator and democratic gubernatorial candidate for texas, please welcome to the program, state senator wendy davis. [ cheering and applause ] how are you? there we go. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. jon: would you prefer to stand i know you like to stand. >> i'm fine. jon: how long was your rose toe prominence on a national level with fill buster, 13 hours? >> just under 13 hours. jon: 13 hours against some legislation going on in the texas. >> that's right. and i was texas senate. it passed unfortunately in a special session. it resulted in exactly what we feared, almost all of the women's health centers that provided that constitutionally protected medical care closed. >> jon: there's no way to gain that back? can austin do sort of a planned parenthood food truck thing for everybody? get a taco and a -- i don't know how they can do it. they can do something. >> unfortunately the supreme court stepped in, they halted some of those closures we have had some reopen and we'll continue

the senate in his state. in which state did this party-switching state senator give the republicans control of his state senate for the first time since the great depression? was it a, kentucky, b, tennessee, c, indiana or d, west virginia. >> d. >> steve? >> let's check the segment from last night's show. >> a state senator in west virginia, a democrat, left the democratic party and flipped his registration to republican. >> the correct answer is d, just like laura anne said. >> nick, did laura anne win a prize? >> she did, congratulations. >> you're the first person who has gotten them all right. i think you might be our first extra credit winner. second? first? well, anyway, you got all three. you only needed two. if we do have a piece of tom butt campaign swag around the office somewhere, we'll mail you that as extra credit along with your tiny shaker. thank you for playing. >> super. >> that was awesome. >> thank you so much, guys. >> happy alphorn. if you think you have what ift takes what it does to wi

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today as the united states senator is one who 13 years ago this week a letter was sent to me, addressed to me, it was so deadly with the anthrax in it that one person who touched the envelope addressed to me that i was supposed to open, they died. they died from that. and we still don't -- haven't caught all the people involved with that. but notwithstanding that, mr. president, when people came to me and said, well, maybe we should do away with some of our search and seizure, maybe we should do away with our laws and wiretap, after all, somebody tried to kill you, and if you had touched that envelope, would you have died. i said no. this is more than one senator, more than one person, more than one individual. this is the constitution of the united states.

that is if republicans overtake the united states senate. it's been a real uphill climb for alison lundergan grimes in the state, very conservative state in a lot of ways. the last polls actually showed that mcconnell was up by as much as nine points. but the question, of course, is what's that turnout going to look like here in the bluegrass state and will mitch mcconnell become the next majority leader, ashlei ashleigh? >> if you turn on the cable news or consume the commercials, that place is absolutely electrified. but then you're actually there, you're actually standing there. does it feel the same where you're standing as it looks on the tv? >> reporter: i tell you, this is a very interesting state. i've gone around this part of kentucky and talked to a lot of people. and it's very interesting when you look at the people who are going to the polls. a lot of people say they don't like mitch mcconnell that well. they don't see him as popular. but they really do see him as a politician who's done a very good job for their state and is act

he was a conservative democratic state senator in the 1980's, pro-gun, strongly pro-life. when he ran for attorney general in 1992, he actually ran as a candidate who opposed the school desegregation programs that allowed for voluntary busing of students from st. louis city to st. louis county, black students to mostly white schools. he is a history of being a very conservative democrat, strong law and order by. 16 years as the attorney general. they used to call him the eternity general instead of the attorney general. he has always been a strong lawn order guy. that is been his posture. what we are seen over the last few months has been consistent with that. >> you are former missouri state senator. what kind of political reform do you think is needed there in the aftermath of michael brown's death? >> there are many reforms needed. the first thing needed is some new statutes that reduces the percentage of invisible revenue -- municipal revenue that can be brought in from traffic stops. right now, a lot of the minas apologies in north st. louis county -- municipalities i

and maybe who controls the united states senate. meanwhile ex-florida governor jeb bush, son of one president, brother of another, mulls a possible presidential bid of his own, as his son george p. bush heads toward likely election as texas land commissioner. kentucky senator rand paul, son of a former texas congressman, is also eyeing the white house as is the spouse of another former president. and robert kennedy's 34-year-old grandson joseph kennedy iii is on his way to another term in the u.s. house. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: so whatever the fate of landrieu and the other embattled second generation democratic incumbents, the family business of american politics is very much alive and well. >> sreenivasan: only months ago, tens of thousands of children crossed into the united states from central america, creating what president obama called a humanitarian crisis. many of those children are now living with relatives in this country, pending immigration hearings. a few thousand ended up here in louisiana, where a catholic o

>>> get back to ferguson, missouri, state senator courtney allen curtis joins us again. representative curtis, we understand that the st. louis schools will be given the first notice. they will get a three-hour warning when the grand injury has an a fountains think. what would be the necessary hess tank you want younger people know, okay, the grand jury is coming out with something and they may not like the result? what would you like those young people to know? >> essentially i want them to know that the justice system is at work. this is how the justice system works. i mainly want them to know this is how it works. >> i want to you describe the tension that hangs in the air there in st. louis rights now. >> it's something like i have never seen before. the only thing i can use to describe it is movie scenes, you know, it's essentially a

the senate in his state. in which state did this party-switching state senator give the republicans control of his state snat for the first time since the great depression. was it a, kentucky, b, tennessee, c, indiana or d, west virginia. >> d. >> steve? >> let's check the segment from last night's show. >> a state senator in west virginia, a democrat, left the democratic party and flipped his registration to republican. >> the correct answer is d, just like laura anne said. >> nick, did laura anne win a prize? >> she did, congratulations. >> you're the first person who has gotten them all right. i think you might be our first extra credit winner. second? first? well, anyway, you got all three. you only needed two. if we do have a piece of tom butt campaign swag around the office somewhere, we'll mail you that as extra credit along with your tiny shaker. >> super. >> that was awesome. >> thank you so much, guys. >> happy alphorn. if you think you have what ift takes to win the rachel maddow news dump. before

. >> reporter: chris, i just spoke to state senator anthony williams, democratic state senator anthony williams within the last 20 minutes before he made that official announcement. he is one of three heavy hitter that made that announcement to day all three candidates say they'll going to win. >> i've traveled a lot, talk to a lot of people and many of them will be with me tonight as we talk about how we put the the city together, sort of how we change the do the city's business. >> reporter: state senator anthony williams says it is simple, vote for him and philadelphia will be in good hands. >> hopefully i will offer something that is different, for everybody, then other folks and that is one who is doing across party lines, gender lines, ethnic lines. >> reporter: earlier in the afternoon former d.a. lynn abraham said she wants the city's top job. >> i have got lots of dreams, lots of energy, nobody will out run me, out campaign me, out think me, i have got more energy then all of the candidates put together. >> reporter: other candidates include 10trujillo a city solicitor who met

up the senate. >> david purdue the republican will be elected to the united states senate from the state of georgia. >> i'm telling you, i have chill bumps. >> pat roberts from the state of kansas. >> no. we weren't dragged across the finish line. we took the hill. >> north carolina will go to the republicans. >> i think senator reid's going to have a different office . >>> joannie ernst, the republican, the state of iowa. >> we are going to make a squeal. >> this is the republican way. there is no other way to look at it. >> that is how it all happened on tuesday night. the president says he got the message from american voters on tuesday. what they really want, he says, is for washington to get things done. >> as i said the other night, obviously republicans had a good night and i've congratulated both mitch mcconnell as well as speaker boehner for running a very strong campaign. as i also said the day after the election, what we have seen now for a number of cycles is that the american people just want to see work done here in washington. >> so is it all about working together, or did

tony. >> reporter: a state senator and former president of the state public utilities commission are calling for an investigation into pg & e and failure in its security network. the call for action follows our investigation and the vulnerability we uncovered. >> bay all indications this is a major substation. >> reporter: our investigation and cameras got an up close look at pg & of the substation. thermal imaging camera. 200 yard away. >> the gate is wide open. >> spent an hour, within 200 yard of the security vehicle. he has not moved or asked questions. >> during several visits over several days. we discovered what expert have described as vulnerableability. >> it can be done better. hand down. our investigation included insight from a special ops veteran with two decade of experience, identifying risk and capitalizing on opportunity. how intimidating so far? >> it wouldn't stop me. it wouldn't stop anything. i mean, it wouldn't. >> when you saw what we reported. how did you react? >> upsetting to me. >> earlier this year, jerry hill authored a successful bill forcing california

the man at the dais is a united states senator from cans is, specifically from dodge city, kansas. and here is how their conversation went. >> you ever been to dodge city, kansas? >> i have not, sir. but i would love to come. >> well, good. i'm going to invite you. and because we have a wonderful doctor from india, she's in her mid-30s and she's highly respected by the community and another doctor from india that did my carpal tunnel on this when i did a stupid thing, and so i think you'd be right at home. >> he'd be right at home in dodge city because other people from india are also there. yes. welcome to the united states, american citizen who has lived here your whole life. you should try kansas, you'll see others of your kind. thanks to this year's election, senator pat roberts of kansas is coming back for another term in the senate. democratic senator mark begich from alaska, though, may not be coming back. as we reported last night, 50,000 outstanding votes remain to be counted in that race in alaska. as of tonight that number is down from 50,000, now closer to 30,000. that'

she's become a rising republican star even though she's only a state senator. she's a mother, a soldier, a farmer, and a blue collar worker and enough of a threat to bruce braley that democrats this week sent in one of the big guns. >> it's not enough to be women. you have to expand rights and opportunity for women. >> carl cameron is joining us from iowa. >> reporter: thank you, megyn. this state has a long history of being fairly fickle and hasn't been going with the conventional wisdom in the polls. the polls show that joni ernst is in the lead. we've still got four more days of attack waves filling the hawkeye state. joni's campaign began with an ad, with the castration of hogs. that's how it's been dubbed. take a look. >> i grew up castrating hogs on a form. when i get to washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> reporter: bruce braley got off to a rocky start in texas. he started about his career as a lawyer. he made a slur and suggested he was only a farmer and insulted farmers here in iowa, which it wasn't a good start for him. it's been incredibly clos

louisiana needs a state senator who can pass keystone. louisiana does not need a senator that supports president obama 97% of the time. we need a senator who supports us, the people of louisiana hundred percent of the time. representing the people of louisiana is a great honor. december --6, louisiana will choose our next senator. my commitment to you is that if you choose me, bill cassidy, i will do my best to live up to that honor. thank you. god bless america. god bless the great state of louisiana. >> on the next washington journal, christian science monitor correspondent and wall street journal editor examined the political and legislative feature of president obama's immigration proposals. theick clawson of washington institute for near he's policy has the latest on the iranian nuclear negotiations, which have a deadline is monday. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal, live at seven akaka amd eastern on c-span. -- live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> her

we are so tired of the inability of the united states senate to function. every senator, republican and democrat ought to have the opportunity to present their views, argue and debate, and then ultimately votes will be occurring. in the 40 years i've been a member, is a place in which that's not the option. after being elected to the united states senate that i just needed to understand we weren't going to do anything. we aren't going to do anything until after the election. and the probe with that theory, that plan, after the next election, there's always another election. i think there's a second clear message from the american people when it comes to the united states senate. we reject that kind of leadership that says we're not going to do anything. to demonstrate that we have the capability of working together as republicans, but also working with our democrat colleagues to find solutions to the country's problems. it's important for us to do that politically for the 2016 elections, it's important for us to do that in the political sense for the 2016 p

united states senator. [cheers and applause] thank you. >> from the bill cassidy campaign headquarters in louisiana. and again the challenge earlier from senator mary landrieu. as you heard from congressman cassidy if a lot more this the next few weeks. here are the numbers, 93% reportingful bill cassidy ahead with 42 president of the vote compared to 40% for mary landrieu. nine candidates on the ballot. if no candidate receives 50% plus one fls the run-off. rob manus who is the other republican candidate getting about 192,000 votes and that the reference that bill cassidy was making. it will be interesting to see what happens in louisiana over the next few weeks. if there are six debates we'll be covering that debate. some races that we want to bring to your attention outside of rochester. louise slaughter, you can see the number down to a .10. and slaughter 550.2%. and a very close race to under 92,000 votes for mark assini at 49.8%. but 100% reporting in new york's 25th congressional district that includ

but if you look at the last year alone what has been done in the united states senate? whether it's tackling military sexual assault which is senator gillibrand. we've seen women being able to get things done in the united states senate that hadn't been able to get done before. we need more women and that's what this opportunity it. >> you have about a half minute. >> women may be the solution to what people see as the biggest problem in government: gridlock. men are highly combative. they want to fight. women are more reasonable. they'll see women in office as people who can get things done where men who achieve public office all they want to do is fight with each other. >> if we look at the way the senate works, are the con sillators, the people working that bridge, are they most likely to be women? >> yes, generally speaking yes. there are always going to be women on the extremes, but on the whole women tend to be more rational and reasonable in these matters. >> that's brings us to the end of this edition of "inside story." thank you for being with us. thank you for

in the return to the senate for a different state, brown tried to tie her to president obama. he has run ads highlighting threats for isis and ebola. >>> also too close to call. colorado, according to a poll released on monday, shows mark udall has picked up a few points against cory gardner. a poll last week showed him up seven points. you see a different margin in the recent poll giving the udall forces some hope. all of this within the margin of error. this race essentially tied in the purple of states. >>> to iowa, one of the tightest races of the country, so tight, taylor swift is an issue. joni ernst and bruce braley. slugging it out for the seat that tom harkin vacating. and harkin with controversy over the weekend. pamela brown has more on that. >> reporter: the stakes are high for the race in iowa. whoever wins today could tip the balance of power in the senate. it has been a very tight race. competitive. neck and neck. it remains a toss up. a record number of iowans have voted early this year. 400,000. the democrats have had a steady advantage, not as much as they wo

joining me is ohio state senator nina turner. how do you look at it -- senator, how do you look at this role? there was a lot of dispute about the count out there in 2004. there was a whole movie made about it. "swing vote," i was in that movie. >> you were. >> it was a big role. i played myself. it seems to me that the question does revolve around the honesty of past elections. had they been honest in your state before this time? >> not at all, chris. we are really seeing what happens when republicans control it. in 2004, as you laid out, at the hands of kent blackwell, long lines, about 170,000 people walked away from the polling place without voting. the legislature corrected that. we fast forward to 2014 at the hands of another republican secretary of state and a republican-dominated legislature that is rolling back the time by shaving off a golden week, the time where people could both register and vote at same time. the secretary of state is using the power of directive to take away hours and days that working men and women

>> go ahead. >> there's one white state wide senator and there is a black state wide senator and there is an indian american who is governor, who just got reelected.n i think it's okay when somebody suggests this as racist that they take a close look at where the civil war began. >> a, i don't think that's what mary landrieu said. i think she said blacks and women historically have had a more difficult time in the south. second of all, i think the country is as polarized along racial and political lines as ever. one of the more interesting results last night in the house races is john borrow, the last white democrat in the dopamine south defeated by a republican. >> that shows you, these parties had settled into their more left leaning and right leaning locations. >> i just want to say one thing on this war on women. one of the things we do wrong in politics is we sit on the back of the truck. we see what happened in the last election. >> exactly. >> we facilitate it as if it's all transferrable. that's not the way it works. >> they emphasized it not to the degree of udall. they say it

i appreciate his devotion to the state of kentucky. to our country, to the united states senate. he knows i hold him in the highest regard. i am ready, mr. president, to work with him in good faith to make this institution function again for the american people. i saw firsthand destruction wasg to our system. i have no desire to engage in that manner. i have been, as i have mentioned before, i mention again, minority leader. i have been able to strike compromise with my republican colleagues and i'm ready to do it again. regardless of how you may interpret last week's election results, it's clear that the american people want us to join together to get things done for the middle class and all americans. we should be able to do that. after all, helping working families is not a partisan issue. just last week, we saw four very red states -- alaska, arkansas, nebraska and south dakota, vote to increase their minimum wages. clearly, mr. president, republicans outside this building don't object to giving american workers a livable wage. the minimum wage is just one example. there are