Democrats margin of victory in the house increases by two tonight for a net pick of it 32 seats. With the majority comes the prospect of investigations into the president and his administration. And speaking of investigations, the special Counsel Robert Mueller is inching closer to issuing his report on the russia investigation. White house officials telling cnn President Trump is pissed at damn near everyone. Staff shakeups are almost certain to be on the horizon. Trump reportedly telling advisers he wants to the fire Homeland Security secretary Kirsten Nielsen and considering replacing john kelly. Theres the mystery surrounding is mira recardale. A day after the first ladys office publicly said she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this white house, she show had had up for work anyway how. Word from the house is she will be reassigned to a new role within the administration. Multiple Officials Say they have no idea where that might be. So lets talk about all of it now. Michael dantonio is the author of the truth about trump. Joan walsh for the nation and steven moore the author of trumpenomics. Mike blue wave in the midterm. The mueller investigation. A chaotic white house. Trump is blaming everyone but himself. The defense mechanism to this president is to point to anyone but himself, right . That is his he tries to project his own pain out onto the world. So if he can call someone stupid, if he can say everybodys being unfair to me, thats his set point. The problem is here that there are so many problems that i think its penetrating even his personal ability to deny them. And you know, denial is a very powerful force, and when he was on the campaign trail, he was able to basque in that adulation to say well, Everybody Loves me and really at those rallies everybody does love him. But he comes back to washington, its still the swamp. Hes still dealing with all these problems and now hes facing a house that is going to investigate him 24 7 for the next two years. Thats got to bothser him. Let me read that quote again for you here and the quote is trump is pissed at damn near everyone. Im talking to you, steve, right . At what point should the American People be concerned about drama getting in the way of governing. We know he likes chaos. What point should they be worried about that . Look, donald trump is pissed. Donald trump is a winner. He likes to win and hates to lose. Thats one thing i like about the guy. He also is running the white house like a ceo of a company and he doesnt tolerate failure. Look, you can say well its Donald Trumps fault himself. He cant fire himself. There are going to be changes in this white house. Its quite possible that there will be a new chief of staff in the next few months. Whats wrong with that . I always say with donald trump you want to look at the results of how his policies are working, not get caught up in the day to day malaise going on in the white house. I mean, its the results and the results have been pretty good. His feeling is look, weve got a booming economy. How did we lose 30 seats in the house. Thats a good house. It will probably be. The result in that election would have been a lot better if he had conducted himself. God, yes. Those suburban republicans paid for his sins. And steve, if he was a ceo, the board would fire him at this point. Are you kidding . With this economy . Hold on. You guys keep talking about the economy. Have you looked at the deficit . I keep saying this. The deficit. The former president set the table. This man, the president who is in office now got an amazing economy. Of course, this should be a great economy. It should be all good news. If it started to falter, we should be concerned about him screwing up the economy. The economy was growing about 1. 5 . The key word whats the key word. The key word is growing. When the president before him took office, was the economy growing . No. When obama took office, was the economy growing . You mentioned the debt. Barack obama took the National Debt from 10 trillion to 208 trillion. More money. Im sick and tired of hearing this because its a bunch of crap. What is . What economy did obama inherit . It was a horrible economy. It was horrible. What was it called . What was it called. A recession. By june of 2009, were out of it. We had the weakest recovery. We werent out of it by 2009. Oh, my god. It was the worst recovery forever recession since the great depressioning. It was it the only one. The economy was so Hillary Clinton would have won the election. That has nothing to do with the price of tea. Let me ask you this, when you talk about jobs, for the first two years, the first two years of the Trump Administration and the last two years of the Obama Administration who, created more jobs . Theyre about equal. No, theyre not. Who created more jobs . The last two years. Equal amount. We created about 200,000. You didnt answer my question. Obama created more. Ill answer it. Its very difficult to get employment rate down, down, down. Stop with the economy thing because this is president did not screw up the economy. You want to give him plaudits for doing his job . I could have gotten in there and not screwed up the economy. I want to do the same thing the last president did and the economy would grow. How is it that in eight years. Im not an economist but i did not just fall 069 durn nip truck. Why is it in eight years in the white house, barack obama never got us to 3 growth. You answered that question when i asked you. In 18 months. When i asked you the first question about what economy did the former president inherit. But it took him eight years and he couldnt get to where we are. I dont understand why we let steve change the subject every single time. The economy is not all that matters. Its great but its temporarily great. We are heading for a fall. Well see. What were really talking about is a man that he hits new lows all the time. For me the new low, don, was telling staff that he was so angry that nobody told him that it would look terrible not to go to the cemetery in france on saturday. That he was blind sided by the public reaction. Steve, i give you credit. You would have gone to that cemetery that day. My dog would have gone to the cemetery. My daughter, i mean, that he needed to be told to go to the cemetary . If he was a ceo, he would be out. I dont know what his political people told him. Thats tragic. Whether will he shut or shouldnt. And you would have gone to a Veterans Memorial on monday. I would have gone to arlington. You can walk to arlington. He should have gone to arlington cemetery. Does he need a staff to tell him those things. You need a political director to tell him if you dont do a, b, c. What a whiny. Wouldnt john kelly know na . He has a chief of staff . That may be why john kelly might be on the way out. Oh, god. There is a profound mistake when people think the economy is the nation. The economy is not the nation. The nation is 3g 30 million people. I think trump has fantastic political instincts. Thats how he won the election. Thats why hes howevering understand 40 approval. He won the election with 30 . He lost the election. He lost the popular vote. Won the presidency. He won the presidency. I do have to say, i think he actually does have very good innate political instincts. Im not sure. I think his compass may have been off when it comes to the midterms. With going so hard. You may very well be right. His compass has been off for a long time. He doesnt within the presidency without jim comey and the russians. He doesnt have human instincts. This is the problem. You can lack the humanity to treat people well. Wait a minute. With respect. Hes letting these people twist in the wind. We hear rumor after rumor. Youre asking like this is going to slam on donald trump and this was a typical midterm election. Look, i lived through 1994 when after two years of bill clinton, every democrat in the country. Heres the difference. The same thing happened in. I conceding your point. Obama won reelection. Thats why donald trump is going to win reelection. Heres the difference. Bush said what . My gosh we did terribly. Obama said we took a shellac. This president said what, this was great. It was a huge victory. We won. Then he went to his bedroom. It wasnt true. Because what happened was, i was elated on Election Night because it looked like they had won all these races and then we had the mysteriously all these democratic votes came in. Its not mysterious. Stop saying that. We lost. Oh, my god. Im not saying why are you laughing . That is destabilizing of democracy. Its not a mystery. People have to count the votes. Were moving into the 21st century where more people are vote big mail. Democrats would never question account legitimacy of an election right. They would never question the legitimacy of the 2016 election. You said all these votes mysteriously came in. Just remember when you mentioned the towel election. Al gore won that, right . And you mentioned the 2016 election and who won that. Who won the 2016 election . George w. Bush. No, 2016. Donald trump. So 2000, george w. Bush, a republican. Right . 2016, donald trump a republican. Yet its rigged . Is it rigged in the republicans favor . Im not saying its rigged. Im saying the reason that we all thought it was going to be a very good election for the republicans is that the there are three or four big races that turned the next day. The nevada race, the arizona race. Its democracy. Its the way we vote. My gosh. People need to. I like democracy. Im in favor of democracy. Ive got to go. Ive got go. Come on, you guys are being hypocritical to say how dare we question the legitimacy of an election. We need more than a wardrobe change. Thank you so much. The incoming congressional freshman class is the most diverse in u. S. History. Notice the difference between the democrats and republicans. Were going to discuss next. Eedo create a better visitor experience. Improve our workflow. Attract new customers. Thats when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. Yeah now business is rolling in. Get started at fastsigns. Com. Well you remember what happened last year. You cant bring a backup thanksgiving to my sisters house. Its not like were going to walk in with it. Well bring it in as we need it. Phase it in. Phase it in . Yeah, phase it in. 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Now, i want you to take a look at this flyer that circulated on capitol hill that breaks down the new lawmakers by party. On the left the republican class overwhelmingly lightweight with only one woman. On the democratic side to the right of your screen, women and people of color are the majority there. Heres how the incoming class breaks down by gender so far with some races is still undecided. 33 female and 21 male democrats. One female and 30 male republicans. The class includes the first two native american women elected to congress, deb holland of new mexico of Sharice Davids of kansas. Davis will be the first lgbt person to republican sass in congress. Also ra shift ta of michigan and minnesota. They will become the first muslim women in congress. Omar will be the first somali member of congress. She came to the u. S. More than two decades ago as a refugee. Nine now africanamerican representatives will serve in Congress Next year including joe lana hayes and iyona pressley, massachusetts first black congress woman. There are eight new latino members of the house including rauner na escobar and Sylvia Garcia the first hispanic woman to represent texas. Iowans are sending women to the House Democrats abby fink naur and cindy axny. Fink naur along with alexandra ocasiocortez of new york are now the two youngest women ever to be elected to congress, both 29 years old. List of firsts for this democratic class goes on and on but the bottom line is, democrats heading to capitol hill are younger, theyre browner, and definitely more female than the republicans. So lets discuss now. Democratic congressman Cedric Richmond from louisiana chairs the Congressional Black Caucus. Good evening to you. Thanks for having me. This congress is starting to look closer to what the rest of the country looks like, right . Absolutely. The Democratic Party is starting to mirror what the country looks like. Thats a good thing. Do you understand how some people may be concerned not that you know, condoning any of that, but they may be concerned, you look the names of the people i just read. Their backgroundsings, ethnicities, their religions and on and on. If youre used to having the preeminent voice and being the preeminent ethnicity and you see this, it may be a little bit concerning. You may be threatened by it a lit. If youre talking about the other side, the day of everybody being named billy or jane, that day is over. Why im so proud of the democratic caucus, because we accepted the diversity. If you look at people like joe han nab hayes or Lauren Underwood or lucy mcbath, colin allred, they all represent districts that are not black districts. I will say again that the black caucus represents 78 million americans but only 17 million are africanamerican. We take our job seriously. We fight to make this a more Perfect Union or less imPerfect Union depending how you look at it. Its not all about race but the Democratic Party i believe is starting to embrace people of all races, all religions, all genders and thats a good thing that congress will start to look more like the people it governs. Perfectly answered. Thank you, representative richmond. Lets talk about nancy pelosi. Shes confident shes going to be the speaker of the house. There are democrats who oppose her. Do you support mel pel . Does the cbc support her. Im chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. I dont put my fingers on the scale of many races. I wouldnt bet against nancy pelosi. She was a great speaker. She ushered in the Affordable Care act. Many people in the Congressional Black Caucus support her. But there are things that i think people bring up valid reasons and right now, im tunnel vision on one race. It has im not for or against nancy pelosi. I love nancy pelosi. I love steny hoyer. Im for jim clyburn. Out of the three leadership positions, only the africanamerican male has opposition within our party. Theres no announced opposition to nancy, nor steny. But theres opposition to jim clyburn and if you take out jim clyburn, that means out of the top three leader positions we would have no diversity because the person running against him is not a minority. So i think this talks about who we are as a Democratic Party. Were good fluff to vote and get elected but not good enough to lead . Thats a real issue. As chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, thats something i wont bite my tong about. Im sure ill ruffle a couple of feathers but jim clyburn having opposition in this party after traveling to 100 districts and doing all he did, i believe is insulting. Well, and we have you on because of your candor. Thank you for saying that. The president made wild claims today by florida. He said the republicans dont win and thats because of potentially illegal votes. When people get in line, they have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. Its really a disgrace whats going on. If you buy a box of cereal, you have to have a voter i. D. They try to shame everybody by calling them racist or calling them something, anything they can to think of when you say you want voter i. D. I mean, besides the desperation in that tweet, whats your response . Don, if we had all day id count to ten before i respond. I know you have a time limit. The president s delusional. The president is a liar. He still thinks more people went to his inauguration than president obama. He still thinks he won the popular vote. He tells more stories than little cedric and little cedric is 4. We cant spend much time i believe giving the president much attention on those types of tweets and those types of responses. He knows who hes talking to. Hes talking to people who need a reason to believe that. Hes talking