President Trump speaks after midterm elections

[0:00] no drone can pierce it there's no bullet can pierce it no matter how big the glass when you [0:05] see it you'll see it coming it's starting to come now it's just thick and yet it's perfect vision [0:11] now it's hard to believe you can do that so it's heavy bulletproof glass it's also drone proof and [0:17] small missile if you can believe it small missile and what happens is you can take a look at it put [0:23] it in front of your face and you can see through it just like i'm seeing you right now it's pretty [0:27] amazing amazing stuff the technology they have today so you have uh the ceilings are drone proof [0:35] missile proof bulletproof before the floor is very thick and all from underneath is totally uh [0:43] designed in such a way it's the safest this is the safest place in washington when when we're having [0:49] a dinner this will be the safest place so you can have world leaders you can have your president [0:53] sitting here they've been wanting a much bigger space a much better space than they've had [0:59] for 150 years president you've heard me say it you know what they never intended was getting [1:04] something like this this is going to be very safe you can just sit here and let let people do whatever [1:10] they want here nothing's going to happen this is the most most powerful building structurally the most [1:16] powerful building they say ever built and it was designed that way so the president can have safety [1:22] if he's having the president of china or russia or any place else when they're having dinner when they [1:29] have 2 000 guests 2 500 guests they're totally safe they uh it's impervious so i just uh want to tell you [1:39] that what you've done is amazing what you what you're building you're almost we're going to be finished [1:43] pretty soon but the hard part is done and uh the one thing that i'm most fascinated with is what they've [1:50] done underneath because what you know this goes down five stories it's five stories underneath [1:56] and the military came to me and they said uh sir we've never had this opportunity at the white house [2:01] because it's fragile and going underneath the building would it be possible we did we did everything [2:08] they wanted and it's uh something this they said that's been their dream for 50 years it's been the dream [2:14] of presidents have a ballroom for 150 years so we have everything on top and you'll start to see it we're [2:20] building a it's a drone port it holds as many drones as you want can hold over 100 drones at the [2:29] maximum size to weight weight is no problem and you see that when you see the power of the structure [2:34] when you look at steel normally that would just be light steel you see it a lot when they build a [2:39] plant where it's very light steel you can barely walk on it it's dangerous it's just it's called a [2:44] rain roof this is a roof that's a structural roof and rarely done because the span is so long that [2:52] it's very hard to do structurally uh we ordered the marble for the floor the marble is a really [2:58] magnificent marble it's a cut it's a vein that people have been after for 50 years and the owner of the [3:08] quarry didn't want to sell it but he liked me and he also was so honored to be doing it for the [3:17] country for the white house and the marble floor you'll see it is the most beautiful marble you'll [3:22] ever see it's a special vein this is a vein that everybody wanted for a long time and i got it and [3:29] i got it for the floor of the ballroom at the white house and it's going to be beautiful the walls are [3:35] going to be very you'll see a lot of glass a lot of you'll be looking at the treasury building which [3:40] is right there you'll be looking at the front of the white house and you see if you look back there [3:47] you're looking at the other side of the white house you have north and south and the kitchen is [3:53] underneath because i put the kitchen on top and we have large staircases coming from the kitchen [3:59] if i put the kitchen on top you would lose three walls because the kitchen takes about 30 percent of [4:06] the space so the kitchen is all the space that you have right underneath and it's going to be top of [4:12] the line so there has never been anything built like this and it's for the country and it's free [4:18] you got it free of charge thank you very much and uh some great patriots have devoted a lot of money [4:25] given a lot of money to get it built and so we didn't use taxpayers money to build this ballroom and [4:31] it's going to be uh when it's completed it'll be the best anywhere in the world you know when i was in [4:37] china we went to the great hall it's called the great hall of china and it's a you know it's incredible [4:44] but this is actually larger this is larger and it will be it'll be the most magnificent when you see [4:51] what we're doing between the marbles and the bronzes and all the different things that we're doing top of [4:55] the line great architects our top architects and we have another man that's worked with me for a long [5:04] time together we were the ones that not only cleaned up washington in terms of graffiti and and open up [5:12] you know the statues and the fountains and we fixed everything up made it beautiful and everybody's [5:17] talking about it but a man that helped us a lot with crime because crime is almost non-existent now in [5:25] washington we went from one of the most unsafe cities in the country to one of the safest cities [5:32] in the country and people all day long and white house i walk in and people that work there thank you [5:38] thank you sir thank you thank you so we have a white house where people can walk to work when i first [5:46] came in two years ago my first term was it was different it wasn't you didn't have the kind of [5:50] crime it developed during the biden administration it may have had to do with covet and nobody [5:55] knows exactly but it was a killing field washington dc and we worked together with experts and we brought [6:02] in the national guard which who were fantastic and we worked with washington police and we have now one [6:08] of the safest cities anywhere anywhere in the world but anywhere certainly in the country and uh again [6:15] this was a place where a young man would leave iowa come to see the lincoln memorial the washington [6:22] monument jefferson come to see whatever come to see the white house and they call up the parents i'm [6:29] sorry but your son has been killed and they send the son home in a casket or the daughter in a casket [6:40] three a week we're losing three people a week three murders a week by savages and we moved them out we [6:47] moved over 5 000 people out of washington dc they came in through the open borders and they came in [6:54] viciously and violently and we had a lot of problems with democrats because they wanted to protect [6:59] killers i mean i don't understand it but who does who does makes no sense but we got them out of here [7:06] we moved them back some were so violent some killed many people that we didn't want to send them even [7:12] back to their country we hate to take the cost of having them in jail for the next 50 years but we didn't [7:18] want to take a chance that they'd be able to come back and you know speaking about being able to come [7:24] back for the last 17 months zero illegal migrants have been allowed into our country zero which is [7:33] something that nobody thought was possible so we're very happy about that we're very happy about washington [7:38] dc people are coming to washington uh all the restaurants were closing because of crime and [7:44] now all the restaurants you can't if you're a restaurateur you can't get a space you can't get [7:49] a space and people are dining and they're having a good time and they have a safe it's the capital [7:55] it's the capital of our country we have to make it beautiful and we have to make it safe and this [8:00] will be down this building when it's completed will be one of the great one of the great buildings [8:05] in washington dc and they'll understand that most people understand it just this whole magnificent space [8:11] will be a very important space in the future life of our country so with that i'd like to have the [8:18] secretary of the interior a great man a great success fantastic governor for eight years in north [8:26] dakota a very successful businessman and he's done a really great job running the interior and thank you [8:33] very much doug bergam everybody thank you very much thank you mr president uh today of course is the day [8:45] well from the ballot box to now talking about the ballroom it's a very mellow and different [8:50] president donald trump today as we are hearing from him uh they're right within the construction of uh [8:56] one of his passion projects but clearly a tough day for the president as that blue wave has completely [9:04] changed uh the face of politics and the legacy of the president's future for the next two years the blue [9:35] wave crashing into the shores of georgia and maine we did it working people did overrunning the beaches in [9:42] the carolinas reaching the red flood walls in texas tonight and tonight we defeated goliath [9:57] democrats flipping the house and taking back the senate with commanding majorities and making historic [10:04] gains in state capitals from coast to coast a stunning review of president trump the historic [10:22] midterm win the likes of which we haven't seen in more than 50 years tonight we celebrate this victory [10:31] and tomorrow we get back to work the way that turned into a tsunami right here on abc news live [10:42] a democratic dream and a gop disaster good afternoon everyone i'm kira phillips from our nation's [10:48] capital democrats sweeping back into power in a historic landslide as voters deliver a stinging [10:54] rebuke of president trump mike johnson was correct the polls were wrong it wasn't simply a blue wave [11:07] it was an american tsunami against all odds democrats have won the senate and we have five words for [11:16] the american people relief is on the way relief is on the way but votes still being counted in several [11:25] races democrats already securing more than enough seats to take back the house and senate something [11:30] that seemed unthinkable as recently as this summer leading the upsets adam hamilton in kansas and james [11:37] talarico in texas they'll be the first democrats to represent their respective states in the senate in [11:44] decades republicans also seeing major losses pile up in the house we're already seeing a shake up in [11:50] leadership and sources saying that speaker mike johnson will not run for minority leader white house [11:56] correspondent karen travers joins me now wow a lot to unpack karen so much to unpack kira and remember [12:03] the president's message when he was out on the campaign trail at those 28 rallies over the last [12:08] month was pretend i'm on the ballot to try to get his supporters out and make sure they voted well it [12:14] was a very different message from the president last night as the results were coming in he said he was [12:20] not on the ballot but if he was the results would have been different that republicans would have won [12:26] in a landslide last night he spoke to fox news and weighed in on what last night meant here's what the [12:31] president had to say i don't view it as a hit on me i think what we've done uh we've had the greatest [12:39] two years in the history of the presidency in terms of the economy in terms of all the things that we've [12:45] done and i think the democrats did a good job i really do i think they did a good job they fought [12:51] hard they were um you know they've been fighting for a long time they've been fighting me for a long [12:56] time this fight's been going on for ages kira we have heard presidents in the past talk about their [13:05] midterm election losses in some pretty stark terms george w bush talked about a thumping barack obama [13:11] talked about a shellacking we haven't heard that type of take from this president yet but he has [13:16] also been talking about what it might mean for his agenda and working with democrats mixed messages on [13:21] the one hand he has said sure i could work with democrats he has also indicated though kira he will be [13:27] vetoing anything democrats send his way that was his message in the lead up to yesterday saying he would [13:33] block their agenda and veto whatever democrats try to push through kira yeah it's pretty remarkable to [13:39] hear the president united states say democrats did a good job well vice president jd vance says the iran [13:46] war is the reason that republicans lost what does the data show this is an interesting post from the [13:51] vice president today trying to separate himself from a signature policy of course of this administration [13:57] the war with iran vice president jd vance says the reason we lost republicans is the war he said the [14:04] president said so himself last night and in this lengthy post here he goes on to say if you'd like [14:09] to argue it was worth it that losing the senate for the next six years was worth it then do so [14:14] argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay agree or disagree that's at least honest but when you look [14:20] at the numbers from the voter poll last night the war with iran was not the top issue that was driving [14:26] voters decisions last night we really saw that it was about the cost of living even corruption was [14:31] crucial to voters decisions now of course when you look at cost of living the war with iran is driving [14:37] a lot of that because gas prices going up and diesel prices also seeing record highs right now but i [14:43] think when you look at this post from vice president vance kira it is certainly an indication of trying [14:47] to separate himself from the policy of the president right now on a very unpopular war with iran [14:53] all right karen travers from the white house thank you with those twin victories in the house and [14:58] senate return the democratic party to full control of congress now for the first time since 2023 now [15:03] creating a new era of divided government our alex roche has been working all through the night for us [15:08] uh alex uh let's just take a look at the current balance of power now i mean we're also still waiting [15:15] for some results yeah so still waiting for some results and i want to start on the house right now [15:20] here we've been talking a lot about the senate but listen you remember the magic number for the house [15:24] democrats needed to net three seats a total of three seats they've got 25 so far and still they [15:32] could continue to pick up some ground here and if we really kind of focus in on some of their targets [15:38] right this was the list of of potential democratic flips and you look at how many of these have turned [15:46] blue the only the only one that republicans were able to hold thus far is here in kansas kansas too [15:52] that was in a trump plus 15 area if we're looking at republican targets areas where they look to gain [15:59] ground uh democrats really held and so that's part of the reason why you're seeing them uh going back to [16:06] congress with the biggest majority in the house basically since 2008 that was barack obama's first term [16:13] we're also we're talking about this house redistricting specifically in texas right you heard [16:18] republicans talk about the president talk about wanting to carve out ground so they could gain [16:22] five additional seats well this shows where they were hoping to gain ground with those redistricted [16:29] districts if you will so many in texas democrats held across the board some uh they even managed to uh [16:37] managed to stave off republican challenges from seats that had been vacant so really really kind of [16:42] painting the picture uh for uh this historic night for democrats yeah it was all right alex appreciate [16:48] how hard you've been working through the night for us thank you all right well we have been discussing [16:53] as you know all afternoon the blue tsunami crashing into the lone star state as democrats uh flipped for [16:59] the first time in decades james talarico now projected to be the state's next senator coming out on top [17:06] over trump endorsed ken paxton gina hinojosa also slated to become the first latina governor of texas [17:13] after beating incumbent greg abbott by a seven point margin that race all about the economy affordability [17:19] and the cost of living democrats in the state now celebrating a victory no longer out of reach [17:26] i was not expecting this because i spent my whole life not seeing this the fact that we can do this [17:33] means that we can do anything it means that we can we can be better and we can do better things this [17:41] is feels what texas voters are to me that i've seen on the doorstep this this is exactly right [17:50] so yeah i feel like texas is finally seeing proper for who we are now 10-4 all right straight back to [18:01] president trump he's apparently taking uh questions from reporters let's see uh how this conversation [18:06] goes the speaker was fantastic the uh the people under him were fantastic all good people i guess [18:15] right now you have two candidates right did you ask the speaker to soak down no no no no mr president vice [18:21] president vance says the reason republicans lost the war lost last night was the war in iran well i think [18:28] it's uh largely true because it drove the gasoline up a little bit short term and probably that's uh [18:36] probably it's true but at the same time if i had it to do again i'd have to do it again because long [18:40] term uh it's the only answer you can't let iran have a nuclear weapon i do yeah i mean well you have [18:46] no choice i mean i thought the oil would go up a lot more and i did it on that basis you have no choice [18:52] you have to do it you can't let iran have a nuclear weapon or everything that you see here [18:56] some day might not exist and uh maybe this but this building might be the only one that does [19:03] so yeah i i think that uh look i mean i'll get along probably with the democrats unless they want [19:10] to be destructive but they have the power of the veto so if we don't like what they're doing or they'll [19:15] they've already called and they want to talk about things and that's fine but yeah people [19:20] pay the iran thing we had to do and we continue to do it uh we have tremendous oil flowing out of [19:26] the hormone straight now at the beginning there was none and uh probably that's the primary reason [19:33] the the price not the war the price no look i mean if i were on the ballot we would have won [19:48] you saw the people that were packed thousands and thousands of people at every rally and if i was on [19:53] the ballot we would have won but they just you couldn't transfer that love there was such love [19:58] at those rallies it was incredible uh we weren't able to transfer the love to candidates did you [20:04] think they need to try to talk about and just bring that that speech on monday which one are we talking [20:10] about the one at the reflecting board did any marie advise you to do something i heard it was a very [20:15] good speech got great reviews that was only a speech on the reflecting board that had nothing to do with [20:20] anything else that was a speech very much like this is today on this incredible place that we're [20:26] building at the white house it's going to be here for many many years and serving our country well [20:31] that that was only a sort of a ribbon cutting because the reflecting pool hasn't worked since [20:36] 1922. it's uh you know over 100 years it's never worked so it's leaked and was always a mess and we [20:44] fixed it we made it great that that was not a speech that was just talking about the reflecting [20:49] pool and then a couple of other comments i mean our speeches were really the speeches made at the [20:55] 30 rallies and those speeches were that was tremendous love it was it was pretty amazing [21:05] i can't tell you that they may tell you but i can't tell you [21:10] no no no are you concerned about it not even a little bit it would i think it would destroy i think [21:16] it would destroy the democrat party if they did that because impeachment for no reason what for [21:21] having a successful country our country is more successful now than at any time in its history [21:26] watch the beam go up [21:34] okay so here's what's interesting as we're listening to the president uh there um calm not chaotic right [21:44] now it actually appears that the president is accepting the results of the midterm elections even [21:50] saying democrats did a good job and it's a bluer political map for sure and also a potentially [21:56] narrow path to contest it even if the president wanted to i mean he will more than likely find [22:03] himself little room now to fight back because the blue wave results have washed out trump's wave of [22:09] legal challenges now simply because fewer races came close enough to trigger post-election litigation and [22:15] it appears the president is seeing that right now this week the supreme court even denied the doj's [22:22] efforts to temporarily block california from counting mail-in ballots it tried to argue you know were cast [22:28] by non-citizen voters and then in alaska it's expected to certify its election results despite the [22:34] legal challenge there over allegations of partisan tricks to recruit the other dan sullivan candidate with [22:40] the hopes of confusing voters and impacting the vote i thought this would be a great time to [22:45] bring in our legal contributor uh james sample um as we were listening to the president there um you [22:51] know we've been talking all about the ballot box he's in the ballroom focusing on that i i think if you [22:59] look at what we just witnessed it's a very different different president this morning um and i don't [23:06] think there's a scenario where we could actually see his doj um you know take on these legal challenges [23:14] in alaska uh especially if senator sullivan wins kira i think you're absolutely right and that is [23:20] a remarkable split screen to be thinking about the results of last night's election and then to have [23:25] him at the ballroom uh and then taking questions talking about uh the idea of for example the speech [23:31] at the reflecting pool getting in his words great reviews i think that speaks to a certain level of the [23:37] bubble and the sort of feedback loop that he's been in and that some voters at least uh reacted to last [23:43] night but with respect to the litigation you are absolutely on the mark which is to say that the the [23:48] these the election margins were too big to contest and so voters voices rather than litigation in [23:56] courtrooms ends up being uh the basis of the way this election was decided we don't have [24:01] 60 seriatum one after another lawsuits to go through uh for a stop the steal kind of scenario [24:07] because the margins were simply too great now there could very well be some litigation that [24:12] grows out of alaska i think that that's going to take a couple of weeks because the margin right now is [24:18] so small that it will take time but even get to determine whether or not uh that we go to rank [24:23] trace voting for example so then does the scale of republican losses here across the country [24:31] indicate that we could see you know fewer challenges to the results than if more races were close i think [24:40] that's absolutely right karen i think that that's a credit to the voters it's also a credit to some [24:45] of the work that was put in before the election by lawyers by non-profit groups by legislators and [24:52] by judges around the country who stopped the efforts before they started you know rejecting the save [24:57] act you referenced the california litigation that case involving those 20 000 ballots was rejected by [25:02] four courts over the span of less than 10 days james sample uh appreciate you thank you so much [25:10] yeah it's it's a it's a new era that is uh for sure different time a new era and speaking of that [25:17] um let's take it to tom abrams from our abc station and ktrk you are in the center of one of the biggest [25:23] headlines uh without a doubt uh tom and that is in the state of texas i mean the last time texas had [25:30] a female governor it was the tough no nonsense democrat uh ann richards so what do you think [25:36] ann would say about uh gina hina hosts win here it's probably fair to say she would say something very [25:44] clever uh she'd have a quip i'm sure and would make people uh feel at ease and laugh at the same time [25:50] uh you're right this is a historic first for the state of texas uh having the first hispanic [25:55] governor first hispanic woman as governor also the first woman lieutenant governor in vicky goodwin [26:02] i've spoken with a lot of republicans and democrats throughout the night last night and again this [26:06] morning all of them seem very surprised not that a democrat broke through and won statewide but that [26:13] it happened up and down the ballot and by the margins that we've seen so let's talk about [26:20] the races down the ballot and and how did let's just talk about how everything turned out and what [26:26] this means now for the lone star state it's pretty remarkable uh no democrat has won statewide here in [26:34] texas as i know you've reported uh many times since 1994 some 32 years uh there were a lot of people who [26:42] thought okay maybe james tallarico could win or maybe john rosenthal was running for uh the state [26:47] railroad commissioner which regulates oil and gas here maybe he could win nobody thought it would be [26:53] up and down the ballot of all the constitutional offices from governor lieutenant governor u.s senate [26:59] attorney general agriculture commissioner comptroller who basically handles the state's purse book uh along [27:07] with the railroad commissioner i mean it was a complete and total sweep and none of those races were even [27:13] close tom abrams appreciate you thank you tom and it's still a bare knuckle brawl to the finish in [27:22] alaska democrat mary peltola taking on incumbent republican dan sullivan in a fight to control the [27:28] senate as those accusations of dirty tricks continue to swirl around patola's campaign raising questions of [27:34] just how far a candidate is willing to go to win our trevor all remains there in anchorage for us on this [27:41] race that is still too close to call all right trevor bring us up to date where do things stand right now [27:48] well kira as expected it is it is extremely close and we've already seen the lead ping pong back and [27:52] forth with the results coming in last night and then just through the past couple hours so where it [27:57] stands right now is mary peltola has again taken the lead but it is extremely narrow less than half of [28:02] percentage point we're talking about 626 votes or so give or take and we expect a trickling of votes to [28:10] come in it could very easily take weeks before we know who officially wins here and of course we know [28:16] alaska there's a few different complications here so you have ranked choice voting which means in order [28:20] for any of these candidates to win in the first round they're going to need to secure 50 of the [28:25] vote that looks increasingly unlikely which means whoever is last of the four candidates will probably [28:30] be eliminated it will go to a later round all of that semantics just to say it's probably going to [28:36] be a couple weeks before we have a winner declared but as you know we've had a spotlight on alaska [28:41] for the past week or so because of that new york times report alleging the peltola campaign recruited [28:46] this second dan sullivan into the race to potentially siphon some votes away from the incumbent dan sullivan [28:53] it's not clear that that swayed any voters and it's also not clear that that is going to have an impact on [28:58] the race we know that the department of justice tried to litigate it a federal judge over the weekend [29:02] tossed out that lawsuit but we still have some ongoing criminal investigations federal officials [29:07] alaska officials that's all hanging over this as well and so even though the the democrats have [29:12] already established firm control of the senate alaska could be in for a battle for quite some time still [29:18] well the trump administration is vowing to appeal after a judge throughout the doj's lawsuit over the [29:23] race if senator dan sullivan were to lose then trevor what happens next so we do expect that appeal to [29:31] play out although i'm not sure if it would have any legs kira because historically this process of [29:36] ballot stacking has been found pretty much over and over to be legal there is one hurdle that i think [29:41] dan sullivan's campaign and republicans are going to be paying attention to and that is their lawsuit [29:48] was not just trying to withhold the results if dan sullivan lost it specified that they want to block [29:54] that certification if dan sullivan loses and peltola's margin of victory was smaller than the total [30:00] number of votes that the second dan sullivan was going to get now right now if the race ended right [30:05] now that would hit mary peltola's margin of victory is smaller than the second dan sullivan's total vote [30:12] he's getting about 1.6 percent of the vote three or four thousand votes it's possible though as we get [30:19] more and more votes and it seems the peltola campaign is confident that they think their lead is [30:23] going to grow it's possible her margin of victory is going to be even larger than the two dan [30:27] sullivan's combined which would really leave the republicans with no leg to stand on kira [30:32] all right trevorall trevorall we will stay in close contact with you we'll be right back with more [30:36] news don't go far oh and gma see inside princess diana's most treasured possessions from her jewelry [30:47] to handwritten letters what she kept close to her heart tomorrow in gma it's even more intimidating [30:53] than i thought that's why i'm drawn to the direct north face of everest no one in the world has ever [31:01] skied it you can't make a mistake for 9 000 feet then why do it i've lost a lot of close friends [31:12] and the mountains have always helped me to keep going to the 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and it's a bird it's a plane well it's sort of both of [33:42] those things a wild eagle in greece getting a new lease on life thanks to a prosthetic leg it was [33:48] developed using 3d printing technology and designed to support her weight improve her the young eastern [33:55] imperial eagle now learning to walk again and researchers hope that she can eventually take part [34:01] in a captive breeding program to help conserve her species balance and help the balance is helping [34:07] her move around independently now which is great well it's a blue wave across america as democrats [34:21] ride a national rebuke into power truly turning the tide and taking control of congress but even with [34:28] this victory votes are still being counted in several races as we continue to talk about this night of first [34:34] across the country from georgia to new hampshire voters are sending new faces into high offices [34:40] nationwide our hannah patah has all the details democrat annie andrews making history as the [34:47] first woman elected to represent south carolina in the senate also flipping a republican held seat [34:53] previously held by the late senator lindsey graham not only that but you have elected the first pediatrician [35:04] in new hampshire democrat chris pappas breaking another barrier becoming the first openly gay man [35:10] elected to the senate georgia electing former atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms as the nation's first [35:17] black female governor she spoke with abc's lindsey davis before the election about what that milestone [35:22] would mean it speaks to the possibilities of this state in this country only in america i'm a descendant of [35:31] slaves on both sides in new mexico deb holland will become the first native american woman elected governor [35:38] of the state and in washington hakeem jeffries now on track to become the first black house speaker in [35:45] u.s history you will have a congress that recognizes we don't work for the president we don't work for the [35:53] vice president we don't work for the supreme court we work for all of you the american people hannah patah [36:06] thank you all right the news never stops and neither do the election results you can find us anywhere you [36:11] stream live news and if you're on the go we're on the abc news app and abc news.com i'm kira phillips [36:16] glad you're streaming with us a lot more news up next don't go far awesome america wherever we are [36:33] it's good to be home it feels like home the last time we dropped our things and come somewhere that [36:42] we've both never been good morning at the start of the day letting us into your home putting the good [36:52] thank you in your morning man it's good to be home ema hey everybody it's an invitation to come [37:16] together right in your morning and the day ahead hey can we just keep the low profile while we're [37:30] here i.e we're not in the cia nah just not wild horse nine is outrageously funny shocking and wickedly [37:39] entertaining your country's giving up your country's gonna be absolutely fine this friday prayer seems to [37:45] keep his mouth shut what's that a threat john malkovich sam rockwell steve bushani and parker [37:50] foezy i was killing people before you were born on an airplane shut up wild horse nine rated r only [37:56] theaters friday democrats winning big in the midterms clawing back power after two years in [38:20] the political wilderness good afternoon everyone i'm kira phillips votes still being counted but [38:25] democrats already won enough seats to take back both the house and senate the only question now is how [38:31] big their majorities will be the results reflect a collapse of the historic coalition that trump put [38:37] together to win the white house just two years ago one of the biggest wins of the night coming in the [38:42] michigan senate race abc news projecting democrat abdul al-sayed will win after a bitter battle with [38:49] gop congressman mike rogers and in his victory speech el-sayed calling out his opponent as well as the [38:55] president and vice president take a listen enjoy your retirement i know you got a house in florida and [39:03] two yachts see you chose hate and michigan chose hope may we never have to see the likes of you in [39:11] the state again jd habibi there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to [39:26] swear me in january donald look i know you you struggled with my name so after jd swears me in [39:35] in january you can just go on and call me senator deputy political director ben siegel joining me now [39:41] for more ben it is a new dawn for dems yeah it's certainly uh almost exceeding the expectations of [39:49] the democrats i was talking to before election day uh we are approaching 240 seats in the house there are [39:55] still uh you know more than a dozen races that have yet to be counted so this has already exceeded [40:00] the majority democrats had in the first trump term and then when you add the senate on top of that [40:05] really this remarkable high watermark seven senate seats so far two more that are still very close [40:10] have not yet been projected uh this is really an incredible repudiation uh of the first two years [40:16] of president trump's term uh and in some ways uh a mandate given to democrats here for the next two [40:21] years so let's talk about one of the races that's still too close to call could mississippi really [40:27] send a democrat to the senate it's still possible for sure i mean it's coming down really to provisional [40:34] ballots ballots where there are some irregularities with someone's name and how they sign their name [40:40] someone's address there's about 9 000 of them that will be reviewed there was also an independent [40:45] candidate candidate in this race who got 20 000 votes so this is really coming down to the wire [40:50] there's no recount in mississippi but we know it will take several days to kind of comb through those [40:54] ballots and we expect these to be certified by counties uh later on in november so uh in the next [41:00] couple days we should get some clarity in mississippi at least well let's talk about what this means now [41:05] for president trump's final two years in office um he's a lot of questions about his legacy yeah it's the [41:13] you heard from uh you know the presumptive uh next speaker hakeem jeffries and his leadership team [41:18] today he said the democrats will be focusing on sort of building out the planks of their agenda [41:23] focusing on lowering uh the cost of living and issues of affordability uh for the american people [41:29] you heard the president as well say that you know there are some areas where he might be interested [41:33] in working with democrats but he also wields the veto pen and at the same time he still seems [41:38] incredibly fixated on on some of the dc uh construction projects that have occupied so much time [41:44] uh in his in his second term here so where will there be common ground we'll have to see but uh [41:50] definitely going to be a lot of pressure on this administration on the in the form of oversight not [41:55] just from the house but the senate as well and also with uh questions around uh some of the other [42:00] companies and and and alleged um profiting that people around the administration have made off the [42:05] first two years of this term ben siegel thank you thanks well it's a state trump carried and democrats didn't [42:14] just compete they conquered delivering a stunning one-two punch for their party we're talking about [42:19] that democratic sweep of the two big statewide races in the buckeye state ohio electing a historic [42:25] candidate for governor and a familiar face to the senate matt rivers was there hey there well it was a [42:31] clean sweep for the two democrats at the top of the ticket here in ohio sherrod brown winning his [42:36] senate race and amy acton set to be the new governor acton will become the first female governor of the [42:42] buckeye state the first democrat to take this office in 20 years after what became a really [42:47] personal campaign that race really turning in october after her opponent the big ramaswamy [42:53] released an ad with acton's estranged mother saying that acton shouldn't be governor that despite the [42:58] fact that her mother chose to stay with her then husband acton's stepfather despite him being charged with [43:04] raping acton when she was 12 years old now abc news polling also showing that acton had high favorable [43:11] ratings among the seven in ten ohio voters who said they were dissatisfied with the economy and [43:16] that economic malaise surely a huge reason that former senator sherrod brown is headed back to [43:21] washington just two years after losing his senate seat to republican bernie moreno this time around [43:26] though he was facing incumbent john houston brown leaned into a populist affordability message and this [43:33] time it really landed winning handily in a state that president trump won by 11 points just two years ago in [43:40] 2024 so much like the rest of the country a lot of very happy democrats today in ohio back to you [43:47] matt rivers thank you well the hawkeyes turning from yellow to blue was a historic night in iowa as [43:53] well for the first time in nearly two decades a democrat will represent in the senate iowa democratic [43:59] state rep josh turk defeating republican rep ashley hinson also becoming the first paralympic gold [44:04] medalist elected to the u.s senate our elizabeth schulze was there hey elizabeth hey kira this was [44:12] a resounding win for democrats here in iowa flipping a governor's race a senate seat and three house [44:17] seats from red to blue a clear rebuke of president trump in a state that perhaps has been hit hardest [44:23] by his economic policies like the spike in gas and diesel from the iran war and tariffs democrat josh [44:29] turk a paralympian and state representative becoming the first democrat elected to the senate from [44:34] iowa since 2008. he told me that his platform was all about common sense policies to improve the cost [44:40] of living and that clearly resonated here voter polls showed six in ten voters are very concerned [44:46] about the cost of gas diesel health care and food and across the country three quarters of voters say [44:52] the economy is in not so good or poor shape overwhelmingly voters are saying that inflation has caused [44:59] hardship for their families many democrats also ran on attacks against president trump's signature tax law [45:05] that slashed snap food benefits access to health care and the message of economic inequality also [45:12] resonating very strongly with voters too here in iowa josh turk talked about prairie populism this pledge [45:18] to root out corruption in washington and work for everyday americans instead of just a handful of [45:25] billionaires kira lisbeth schulze thank you and in georgia democrats celebrating their success turning [45:31] the peach state from purple to blue after sweeping races statewide they are projected to win both the [45:37] senate seat and the governor's race democrat keisha lance bottoms flipping the governor's mansion and is now [45:43] the country's first ever black