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Think the fact that the connellies never accepted the fact that this upstart, preppie new englander would come down there and beat connelly in his home state of texas. he been governor, he had been secretary of the treasury under nixon. he was nixons candidate for the ideal president of the united states. and they really could never get over that fact. you remember when we started that primary campaign, tom will remember, george bush was an asterisks in the poll. nobody knew who he was. he didnt...

You off course. youll be our president when you read this note. i wish you well, i wish your family well. your success is our countrys success. i am rooting hard for you. good luck. george. today president clinton wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" calling his relationship with the man he succeeded one of the great gifts of his life. here is anderson cooper with more on the two men who went from political adversaries to close friends. in the 1992 presidential election, they were bitter po...

I remember i was in college and i worked at a radio station in cincinnati and i remember getting reports from the stations in washington about what was going on.what struck me was that he went back on that promise. and with that in the clip, the democrats held that against him. but what initiated was newt gingrich. newt gingrich was the whip. i remember him going on abc that weekend and kind of throwing the president under the bus.and that kind of was the rise of newt gingrich to develop his ups...

Twice in a year, right, where its not just your local representative but your representation in your state is decided by a margin of zero votes, and ultimately has to come down to maybe the luck of the draw, because its that close, or maybe one ballot that was put in the wrong box and nobody knows whether or not to count it, if you get that happening in your country twice in one year, those are signs from the news god heavens that your voter registration matters and your efforts to vote matter, ...

And it may all come down to you. so tonight, at the bottom of the screen, you can see we are running this live ticker, as we get in the vote and watch the results of the last u.s. senate race from this years elections. we are watching this unfold in mississippi, its a runoff between incumbent republican senator cindy hyde-smith and upstart democrat mike espy, who is a former cabinet official in the clinton administration and a former mississippi congressman. this, of course, is bright red deeply...

Was put in the wrong box and nobody knows whether or not to count it, if you get that happening in your country twice in one year, those are signs from the news god heavens that your voter registration matters and your efforts to vote matter, and it may all come down to you. so tonight, at the bottom of the screen, you can see we are running this live ticker, as we get in the vote and watch the results of the last u.s. senate race from this years elections. we are watching this unfold in mississ...

Letter demanding new leadership. incoming freshman from kansas who flipped her seat from red to blue just announced this afternoon shell be backing pelosi. upstart freshmanu alexandria cortez did the same thing and cited lack of challengers in the field. how is pelosi looking? lets bring in senior political correspondent for the washington examiner cnn political analyst david drucker. david, according to new polling, democratic pollers favor pelosi for speaker by a margin of 2-1. should house me...

Water is warm. >> we are seeing a defined nancy pelosi confident she has votes to be reelected speaker again. lets see what the editor of the halftime report chris stierwalled thinks. we will play what nancy pelosi had to say about how she is feeling. >> overwhelming support in my caucus to be speaker of the house and many people in our caucus could serve in this capacity. i think im the best person for that. shannon: your challenge from younger and upstart people. a lot of new members, 17 who s...

The waters warm. >> shannon: ed henry, thank you. as a mention, overseeing a defined pelosi to make confident she has no votes to be elected speaker again so does the math work. lets see what fox news politics editor and editor of the halftime report chris stirewalt thanks. good evening to you. >> happy thursday. >> shannon: want to play more of what nancy pelosi had to say. >> i have overwhelming support in my caucus to be speaker of the house and certainly we have many, many people in our cauc...

And finally i am looking at the texas senate race. ted cruz won in 2012. he was the upstart. he is being stalked by a democrat. i think cruz is going to hold out and win it, but i also think this is propelling -- >> at what cost? >> this is propelling orourke into the presidential race. hes raised between $75 and $100 million. people like him. jeans, trucker hat, photogenic family. look for him to run soon. >> we have seen a lot of races where a lot of money has thrown in and at the end of the d...