Obamacare was a huge legislative mistake has fouled up the Health Insurance market, put states in a deep hole in terms of the Medicaid Expansion in their own ability to finance it a few years from now. If i had the ability carl obviously i would get rid of it. Obviously its also chair he is still there so we will be discussing how to go forward on this issue when we get back. I will say this for sure there are pieces of it that are deeply unpopular to the American People. The medical device packs which has exported an enormous number of jobs, the loss of the 40hour workweek, a big mistake. That ought to be restored. Individual mandate. People hated so i think we will be addressing that issue in a variety of different ways. Host Jackie Kucinich this morning the Washington Post george will talks about what he says is a fresh start for congress and he makes reference to what senator mcconnell referred to as the medical device packs following a 29 billiondollar blow to an industry that has a 40,000 jobs. The president yesterday saying, to me with good ideas in the tail on a look at them but i wont undermine a key component of the Affordable Care act and thats one key component because it funds the Affordable Care act. Guest i think i will probably get vetoed and i want to point out that mcconnells rhetoric changed from im going to repeal that he had during that campaign so he sounding softer. The tough thing for mcconnell when it comes to obamacare is going to be conservatives in his caucus. Theyre going to keep pushing this. They are going to keep pushing obamacare related measures and attaching them to all search of bills. He will have to find a way to manage that. Host does it help having someone like senator ted cruz as a foil for senator mcconnell . Guest i can help in her. Its a doubleedged sword in a lot of ways because republicans get blamed again for derailing any progress in the senate if they keep on talking about obamacare for the next two years. Host if you are in the cabinet room tomorrow morning if that is where the meeting will take place between the president and congressional leaders do you think the dynamics will be most notably between the president and senator mcconnell . Guest their relationship is not as bad as people think. Mcconnell is a professional through and through. Nobody knows procedure better than he does and probably no one knows his caucus better than he does. Dont underestimate him and you heard in the president s speech yesterday a lot of respect for him because he felt this as someone who when he says he can deliver his caucus he can. I think thats going to be a basis for working relationship of sorts. I think the president s real problem is actually with democrats who bitterly resent the impact that he had on their races. The occasional remarks he makes. He said at one point its good that there is a Republican House and Republican Senate because now we can negotiate it. What does that sound like to a House Democrat . Who in effect gave him everything he wanted at the beginning and since then have seen their ranks continue to decrease. Host let me pick up on that point because interesting insight from your colleagues and extensive Pieces Available on line at Washington Post. Com the battle for this and how the gop did it. As a a name and is that most viewers may not be for me with, david crow who is a key player in his role as chief of staff to harry reid. He said quote the president s Approval Rating is barely a 40 pay what more is there to say that he wasnt going to play well in North Carolina or iowa or new hampshire. Im sorry it doesnt mean a message was bad but sometimes the messenger isnt good. This is coming from a democrat who is the chief of staff of the Senate Democratic leader. Guest he is not off the reservation. Hes a very close confidant to senator reid so its not like he ran out and decided he would talk to this was obviously something that was sanctioned. That peace throughout shows the frustration Senate Democrats have with the president throughout the election particularly when it came to money. The president can raise tons of money and wanted him to raise money for the Senate Majority pac. His advisers kept on coming up with these legal reasons why he couldnt. I feel like they felt obama uses network just for his reelection and kind of let them out to dry. There are also the comments the president made during the course of the election in the last two or three weeks where he said my policies on the ballot, every single one. I was looking at the debates. Republican candidates and democratic candidates. On cspan, indeed and it was like an echo when you look throughout them with republican candidate saying the president said his policies are on the ballot. That didnt help. Host lets go to don from valeo california on the democrats line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Steve you talk too much. Cspan is another conservative station. That election was nothing but another example of supremacy in america and america is going to forever going to be white supremacists. The earth is given into the hands of the wicked. The book of job in the bible and that is my comment. Host okay. We disagree with your perception of the network but thank you for sharing your views. We go to danny in South Carolina on the republican line. Caller good morning. I wanted to make a comment about the what the president had stated. His figure is that one third of the people voted and because of that he is going to invalidate the Election Results but if you look at the time he was voting as president in 2008, 49 of people voted. He was elected with 27 of the people that voted in that 49 blocked. Does that invalidate his presidency and . Thats my question but i have a comment. The only way that this man is going to be stopped is to impeach him. I would rather have a buffoon like biden than a thug like president obama. Host would you like to respond to that . Guest i would love to. Can i talk about it . I was struck by his remarks. If you go back and look at what he actually said he said he has i heard what voters said but that twothirds of voters that did not vote said. The turnout in american elections compared to almost any other standard is very sad but when you break down the states and there are some preliminary things that are just coming out on this. I think its the 535 blog that did the first test that i saw. Its only eight states that hu hurt had turnout below one third and they are interesting states. Texas was 27 or 20 . New yorkers on that list, very low turnout. Maine which is why i hope hope the choleric state on is the highest turnout state in the nation to get Something Like 59 so turnout is an issue but the president didnt say he was going to invalidate the election. I think he was making the point, i dont want to use the word spin but its Something Like that to have people look at it in a different way. Yes one third of the eligible voters that voted the republicans had a resounding victory that went to the other twothirds think and democracy thats an important question. Host the House Democrats losing at least 14 seats in the house presents a presence in office the democrats have lost 69 seats in the house of representatives. That is on par with the worst Midterm Election dating back to harry truman. Guess i think the underlying issue for all of this is the economy great when people can feel the economy Getting Better where they live in their lives than politicians lose elections and particularly for the party that is in charge of the white house. I think thats why we keep seeing this happen. Host . Host jody makes this point in our twitter page. When when the party of no take no for an answer in repealing the Affordable Care act . 50 plus times . It i thing going to happen republicans. Guest i think while president obama she is is absolute right and even if he starts going to be a hard battle to undo. Thats an issue that generates the Republican Base base. They give them out to vote and for a bunch of donors to give them to donate. Host lets go to rick from auburn washington on the independent line. Good morning. Caller thanks for taking my call. First of all want to start out by saying that they develop caller from california is an absolute idiot but im stating something thats obvious and i apologize for that. I just want to say the president acted like it was a spoiled little child when he went on and talk about the twothirds that didnt vote. Are you kidding me . This is is what libertarians and independents back in republicans are all about. You talk about the twothirds on the couch not doing anything and unemployment and all their benefits and we are talking about people that want to get up and do something about this country . Are you kidding me . Host rick, thanks for the call. Guest again i go back to what gale said. I cant elaborate any better than what she said. The president said to look at this in a different way and to acknowledge that. Host let me followup on that point because this is from lynn, do you think of the democrats ran on the progress we have made with a campaign up in different . Guest some of them tried but i think the president so unpopular in this country that they couldnt surmount it. You heard several democrats try to run on the fact that an Mary Landrieu daughters of control because she said he still supports the Affordable Care act. That has been a really tough thing for her to make a good thing even in a state like louisiana. Host she asked for six debates with congressman bill cassidy and whether six or two or one will cover them on the cspan networks. Our guest Gail Russell Chaddock of the Christian Science manager and Jackie Kucinich of the Washington Post. We will take your calls and comments on congress the election and what the 114 congress will look like. Before we get to that point we have to get to the lameduck session. This is a headline from Huffington Post that the lameduck congress will duck the issues that matter most to voters. Guest one thing that matters to voters is the government is still funded which has not been a trivial issue to get to pick i was interested that practically the first thing that Mitch Mcconnell said was there will be no drama over funding government. There will be no drama over debt limits. We are not going to use this as an occasion to leverage concessions. He was really speaking straight to ted cruz who a couple of days earlier senator cruz from texas we have a new majority. Now is the time to press these issues with the power that we have. Mcconnell has said quite the opposite. We are going to go for what is doable. I dont know why the first thing that the house or senate wouldnt do would be to have a boat on obamacare and just keep people on record and have the president veto it and turned to the cameras and say its mouth. We can either keep running this bill by inducing because we dont have to hundred 90 votes or 67 votes in the senate or we can make the best that we can and do something good for the American People at a time when they need government to function. I think that is whats going to happen. Guest wasnt that h. R. 1 . That was h. R. 1 two or three years ago. I dont think thats something they are going to be able to for said members of the Republican Party 50 votes isnt enough. Sure. Host let me get to your reaction about what senator mcconnell said about the current majority leader harry reid. We have had such spirited debates on the Florida Senate about the way the place is being run but we dont have an acrimonious relationship personally. Anyway will usher question . What was the conversation like and are you two going to work Better Together . Well he called obviously having been a leader in a tough race himself a call to compliment me on what a skillful campaign we ran. He obviously paid very close attention to it and as many of us have discussed that has been a new paradigm since daschle was defeated. You have a president ial Level Campaign if you are leader of the senate. So harry said he called followed it very closely and complemented me on a campaign will run. Host he said its not an acrimonious relationship Jackie Kucinich. Do you believe him . Guest i think they have their moments but i thought actually one of the more interesting stories is that moderate democrats in the Senate Senator manchin wrote adam okeefe had a story in senator manchin saying he will have to give give us a insurance is that republicans can get an upordown vote on amendments and some other things. Not that they have control of the floor anymore of course but the moderate democrats were very frustrated with how harry reid ran the senate. We will see degette challenge. Host any chance that joe manchin would switch parties and become republican . Guest thats great speculation at the beginning of any cycle. Their set piece a few days ago that angus king from maine was going to switch end and 13 seconds he was giving an impromptu press conference from his house denying it. I dont know what the incentive would be for joe manchin to switch switch. He has such a wonderful position going back and forth between the two parties. Olympia snowe and Susan Collins has achieved a great deal by being a person in the middle middle and i dont know why you want to give that up. Guest we dont know if Heidi Heitkamp is going to be one of those people and senator warner who narrowly escaped gillespie. That was one of the Biggest Surprises of that race. Host its not yet certified. Guest not yet certified and also not certified alaska so begich could manage to pull out. There is a group of senators that were important before but now are more important being moderate members of the minority apartment. Host some aloe, jessica is on the line with Gail Russell Chaddock of the Christian Science monitor and monitor and Jackie Kucinich of the wall street journal. Caller i would like to ask the guests to give their opinion on the gerrymandering, voter suppression, citizens united, a buyers media unpopularity which i consider to be classic racism. They have the republicans get out to vote strategy and messaging. Thank thank you and i will take my message off the air. Host would you like to respond to that . Guest as far as gerrymandering and how the map looks that has not had an effe effect. We have this urban rural divide now when you look at this map and its map and thats why its been so hard for democrats in recent years to make back the gains that they had in 2006. Guest this is such an important issue. Everything you mentioned is important to talk about but i think the biggest thing again goes back to turnout. When when i started out Walking Around in political campaigns when you registered voters he went while the doors and registered as she went to shopping malls as many as you could. Its completely different now. What if you end up registering someone who is going to vote for the other side . How bad would that be . Who exactly is one of her people and we mobilize them. I think to break the lock on politics as you are describing that thought has to change. I dont know why it ever went because it seems as long as you win by one vote it doesnt matter if five people turned out to vote or 5 million turnout to vote before but for the public it matters a great deal. There has to be a public move to get away from this frankly disgraceful turnout level for the worlds greatest democracy. Guest you are right about the turnout levels. They are sophisticated now. I was out with americans for prosperity North Carolina canvassing with them and they had tablets that had pins and each pin was either someone who they need to vote, they been to that house or was a house they had already hit. We went to the neighborhoods and knocked on doors and reminded people to left and had a conversation with them. If the printer and bring you into the next house. It was an incredible level of sophistication that they have. Host the former and likely chair the Senate Judiciary committee has a piece in the wall street journal and he makes his point. After harry reid the gop should not unilaterally unilaterally disarm it will take years to undo the damage done by Senate Democrats barring filibusters of judicial nominees. Some call it the Nuclear Option put in place by harry reid and Senate Democrats. Now the republicans have controlled dont expect anything. Guest i think you just heard it. One of the very sad things about this business of seizing power, president obama as the senator had great concern about the executive powers that president bush had seized. The same thing happens at the congressional level. When the senate pulled the socalled Nuclear Option this have been bubbling around under the surface for a long time could it