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Im joined tonight by richard wolffe and e.j. dionne, msnbc contributor, and author of the book, "our divided political heart." gentleman, great to have you with us tonight. >> thanks, ed. >> good to be with you. >> you bet. richard, you first. i called it a statement election. this means that it was a very clear message. do you agree with me on that, or how would you summarize what we went through yesterday? >> well, all elections are clear statements, especially when the result was as thumping ...

The better the policies will be, for sure, and the more we will begin to put elected officials in who really care about the welfare of all americans, not just one-half or a little less than one-half. >> and we now have a record number of women serving in the united states senate. that number goes to 20. a big victory last night in north dakota. unexpected, heidi hitekamp defeating rick berg. big winners, no doubt. theres a lot more coming up in the next half hour of "the ed show." stay with us. ...

Women turned out in big numbers in support of mccaskill. in indiana, a seat that republicans were not expecting to lose, democrat joe donnelly easily beat richard mourdock. the female vote also turned out for donnelly. and while republicans play the blame game, americans should thank todd akin and richard mourdock for telling the truth for how they exposed the gop and exposed them for what theyre all about. predictably, rush limbaugh lashed out at the gender gap. >> women voted obama 55-43 for r...

Thats the only way they were going to be able to fight the big money of citizens united. and last night the ground game did the job for the democrats and the president. this ground game was dominated by the wage earners of america. because they saw this election as a real threat to their livelihood. these workers were up against millionaires and billionaires, like the koch brothers and sheldon adelson spending millions on super pacs to defeat president obama. but what they couldnt buy was a grou...

And i think what really helped the democrats is that the democrats were willing to talk about it. president obama talked about his support for the paycheck fairness act, which is the next step after passing lily ledbetter, that we need to do. president obama talked specifically about understanding the challenges that women face, when you work an entire lifetime at unequal pay. elizabeth warren gets that. tammy baldwin gets it. lois franklin in florida gets it. tammy duckworth in illinois. i mean...

Reform in the country. it was brought as a challenges to citizens united. supreme court had a second look via this montana case and said we are going to stay with citizens united. we think there is no corruption if there is independent expenditure, if all this money you and your prior guests were talking about, if its independent of campaigns and candidates, what we found was some of these independent groups are using that money to manipulate campaigns, to help run campaigns torque coordinate wi...

Of day is something i think john roberts in terms of the court is more interested in doing than having a political knee-jerk reaction and responseç to the whims and politics of the moment. >> david brooks, "new york times," modest city and audacity. washington full of arrogant people who grab power whenever they get the chance. there is at least one modest minimalist in town and thats john roberts jr. in his remarkable health care opinion thursday the chief justice of the supreme court restrai...

>> reporter: good morning, soledad, negotiations under way in the parliament building behind me here in athens to try to forge some type of coalition. the party that won the election yesterday, new democracy led by samaras, didnt get an absolute majority, only got 129 seats and needs 151 in the parliament to have a majority. so negotiations are continuing. hes got three days to try to bring together some of the other parties as well into a coalition. its going to get greece out of this...

president obama today paid tribute to americas war dead, laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns, he then spoke at the vietnam veterans memorial on the 50th anniversary of their bloody conflict. and milt romney led a tribute at the veterans memorial center in san diego. it was a somber break from the election campaign, but politics has a way of seeping into one of the most somber occasions, dan lothian is standing by, but first lets go to cnns dana bash. and a slight political unde...

Revolution 168888, the a lot of the institutions that it wasnt elite led, it was constrained by the institutions that it created. >> the obvious elephant in the room is the u.s. and the fact that ive written a book that will come out in six weeks, about a lot of the same themes, specific to the u.s. and about the nature of the failure of the u.s. where do you see the u.s. on this spectrum, and ha do you sort of project forward? >> i think in the grand scheme of things, the u.s. has a lot of prob...