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Hope and optimism in a year where voters were really angry and wanted to send a message to washington. that is fundamentally why our message was beat by donald trumps message. i will give credit to donald trump. he ran a very smart campaign. it was lean, quick, aggressive. and he used the new social media in a way none of the other campaigns had done before and he continues to do. you just played that clip of joe biden saying that trump needs to grow up and not tweet. he needs to keep tweeting. ...

You just played that clip of joe biden saying that trump needs to grow up and not tweet. he needs to keep tweeting. thats how he won this office in the first place and w he connects to the american people. i think thats a gat asset for him moving forward. we can argue could the tweets be better, better timed, the topics be more on message and more effective. but i think he needs to keep tweeting. i think twitter is part of how he beat my former boss marco rubio and won the nomination and the whi...

And he said after the debate that he would not discs the wikileaks becae this timit affected the democrats, but in the future it might affect us. and we cannot set the precedent where this sort of leaked material is fair game for partisan hacks. >> alex, where do you think our party -- or the party formally known as republicans should be when it comes to putins russia and their aggression on their neighbors and their rampant hacking, if you trust the information from all the different institutio...

Against and just how it is for her in campaigns. it is -- but she did think in the end she was going to win. so i dont think its hard for my life or her life and in many respects our lives are easier and more enjoyable to -- were able to enjoy it. but shes devastated that she didnt get it done for the country and thats a very hard thing. >> were going leave it there. thank you so much to jennifer and alex. that does it for this edition of "the 11th hour." brian will be back monday. thanks for be...

Discuss the wikileaks. this came up because we had several senate debates. we anticipated he would be asked about the wikileaks, because it was all the media was talking about. and he said after the debate that he would not discuss the wikileaks because this time it affected the democrats, but in the future it might affect us. and we cannot set the precedent where this sort of leaked material is fair game for partisan hacks. >> alex, where do you think our party -- or the party formally known as...

Marco rubio, alex, was himself in a league of one who he warned republicans not to use the wikileaks material. he said this is stolen material. these are stolen goods, and well be next. how did he come to make that extraordinary public pronouncement? he was out of the republican primary but still running for a competitive senate seat. >> thats right. marco is on the senate foreign relations committee, on the intelligence committee. hes also very clear eyed about russia and putin, and what their ...

"not" in all caps. >> grow up, donald. grow up. time to be an adult. youre president. youve got to do something. show us what you have. youre going to propose legislation, were going get to debate it. let them vote in congress. lets see what happens. >> that was vice president biden tonight on "news hour" with a warning for the president-elect. alex, how did your boss, who acts very much like a grownup, how did he lose to someone who basically insulted and tweeted his way to the presidency? >> t...

Alex, how did your boss, who acts very much like a grownup, how did he lose to someone who basically insulted and tweeted his way to the presidency? >> thats a good question that ive spent the better part of the last year thinking about that. im sure jen can relate. >> seriously, marco rubio was sort of the establishments last hope, the last one standing. how did he lose to donald trump? >> i think marco was selling hope and optimism in a year where voters were really angry and wanted to send a ...

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>> i dont know how it is when youre inside there -- >> yes, you do. you know how that is. >> the director of national intelligence and the secretary of homeland security put out a statement on october 7 that this was russia and they were directing the leaks. so im not sure how clearer they could have been. that was an unprecedented and bold statement and i think its not surprising to me to see the press come back to the white house and say why didnt you say anything? but what also happened on oc...