senators will try to force a vote that will protect the russia special council after new documents highlighting the president s rage at robert mueller. as house democrats meet to pick their leaders republicans get an early taste of the big midterm shift. most of the reporters now off covering the party about to take power. maybe we are in the minority. this is what it will be lieb. like. we are not in the minority yet. we are waiting to hear from the secretary of state. she about to address reporters after intense foreign policy meeting. pompeo and mattis briefing senators including some who say if the president won t punish
the wind energy industry already. the fact that our economy can continue to grow and thrive as we transition to clean energy. it is so helpful to hear that it is not hopeless. thank you very much for sharing your science with us. thank you for having me. john? i love the idea of a billionaire scientists rolling around in cash at some exclusive club somewhere for studying climate change. i know. she actually would break it down for you. after she got a million dollar grant to do research, at the end of it, she got $2,000. fascinating to hear. all right, a big midterm surprise overnight. we re going to ask an outgoing republican what went wrong for republicans in that state and around the country. that s next.
i m going to disagree just with you for a little bit, bret. i think what we saw november 6th is that american people said enough. they were tired of it. they are not stupid. i think during 2015, there was a lot of distraction. people weren t really some folks were not excited about the election. they weren t paying attention. and he got in. i think the last two years, people, we ve seen it in 2017 elections and now this big midterm election that just passed by is that folks are like, no, we re done. we re going to put democrats back in the house. they flipped some gubernatorial seats, took back some state houses, and i think the american people have finally said, no, no, no. and the president lies not just about big things but about little things. he lies in between and says a lie after a lie after a lie. and it s exhausting. it really is exhausting. and what s the most dangerous part about this is he s the president of the united states.
is that american people said enough. they were tired of it. they are not stupid. i think during 2015, there was a lot of distraction. people weren t really some folks were not excited about the election. they weren t paying attention. and he got in. i think the last two years, people, we ve seen it in 2017 elections and now this big midterm election that just passed by is that folks are like, no, we re done. we re going to put democrats back in the house. they flipped some gubernatorial seats, took back some state houses, and i think the american people have finally said, no, no, no. and the president lies not just about big things but about little things. he lies in between and says a lie after a lie after a lie. and it s exhausting. it really is exhausting. and what s the most dangerous part about this is he s the president of the united states. and there is going to be one day where he s going to actually say something that we need to believe him on and we re not. now that s the
dehumanizing the people on the other side of the political fight or a particular account of one set of facts that we re debating. let me ask you this, because this is ultimately political in the sense of electorally political because it comes down to what gets folks elected, what works. there s a big midterm election coming here. your colleague, soon to be outgoing colleague jeff flake, made a very honest point recently and said listen, i couldn t say this stuff, i couldn t win as a republican if i criticized the president in the way that i do now. as long as that is the dynamic, right, where to win republicans, not all of them, because i will give you credit for occasionally differing with the president on issues, but as long as that is the reality, how does this change? you could say the same on the other side. i hate this both sides thing, but there is a reality on the other side, not a lot of democrats are going to win races by praising the president, but