Government. And then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. Eliot romney claimed the president wooed young voters with free contraceptives and forgiveness of College Loans. For hispanic voters, something special. Romney what the president did is he gave them two things. One, he gave them a big gift on immigration with the dream act amnesty program. Number two put in place obamacare which is by basically is 10,000 a family. It is a proven political strategy which is give a bunch of money on the government to a group and guess what . Theyll vote for you. Eliot an analysis that left romney lamenting his loss with this. Romney the giving away free stuff is a hard thing to compete with. Eliot kind of brings back memories of romneys infamous 47 video. White House Press Secretary jay carney disagreed with romney telling reporters and i quote i think that the view of the american people, of the electorate and of the election is at odds with the truth of what happened last week. But romneys harshest critics have been leading republicans and as fast as romney tried to tear down bridges louisiana governor bobby jindal tried rebuilding them. Absolutely reject that notion that description. I think thats absolutely wrong. That is not i dont think that represents where we are as a party and where were going as a party. I think thats got to be one of the most fundamental take aways from this election. Eliot karl rove had a different take on romneys electoral problems. He told an audience in erie, pennsylvania last night mitt romney what what i scientifically call a buttugly primary. Chairman Haley Barbour echoed that with this comment on the g. O. P. s electoral ground game. Weve got to give our political organizational activity, you know, a very serious proctology exam. Eliot hmm. There you go. Thats quality political analysis. For more on romneys remarks and the future of the g. O. P. And the hispanic vote, im joined by a great friend, Luis Gutierrez democrat of illinois and a member of the hispanic caucuses. I have to ask you after hearing mitt romney, what gifts did you get, buddy . You gotta fess up to get your vote, what were the gifts . Eliot i called my wife right away. I said check the mail. She said we get everything by direct deposit honey. We gotta wait for the bank account to clear it. It is pretty silly. You and i remember we talked about the 13,000, 14,000 young people who stood at navy pier who signed up after the president said im not going to deport anymore young undocumented youth. You know what they came with . A check for 465. Right . And the patience to wait in that line. You know what they get . You know the gift they get . A Work Authorization permit so they can go and work in the United States of america. And see their way through their education. You know, this is silly. So in other words if you run on a campaign that people should have the same kind of healthcare that members of congress, thats a gift. Well guess what. Thats a gift that i got first then. If you say to the American Public you should be able i get i send my kids to school because i make 174,000 so they dont have a problem going to any college they want but if we ensure that everyone has an opportunity to go to school and save money and going to school, it is almost like hey, you dont have to pay the College Loans back, i think it is really sad eliot, when i hire young people, the first thing i ask them when i hire them is how much do you owe . The first thing i think about when i set a salary is how am i going to help these young people who come to washington. Kids are burdened with debt. We have to help them out of that. They have to pay it back. It is not free. We took the wall street bankers out of the equation but thats about it. I think it is really sad. Eliot congressman youre so right in the way you articulate and through our conversations, all over the past couple of months you have been consistent and articulate on this. Mitt romneys statement is offensive. To guess to the very core of why he does not understand the folks who dont want to vote for him. Because he thinks people are bought. He think everything is a transaction. That it is mersary. Mercenary. These folks signing up for the deferral, they want to work. They dont want anything for free. Think about this. This is a man who admitted after he fixed his tax return so he could pay a little bit more in the one year he revealed to us, he was paying 13 14 taxes on hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth. And hes going to talk about the gift that but let me say this. I think it is very important to understand when he says that immigration was a gift, we worked tirelessly and you and i both know we demanded this of our president. We wish he had done it earlier. Was it smart politically to do it . Was a great Public Policy . Thats what was essential. Let me say this. Mr. Romney, we passed the dream act 216208. 55 u. S. Senators stood up in the senate to pass the dream act. What the president did was the will of the people transmitted through their legislative body. Youre just angry because we were able to get over your filibustering in the senate. Eliot thats exactly right. The interesting thing is the Republican Party at least those who are thinking about the future are rejecting mitt romneys view. Theyre saying this is a world view of the past. They know for the politics of the future and what some of them believe, theyve gotta change their views. The dynamic is going to be different Going Forward i think. I think it is going to be. This morning, i saw my friend, congressman paul ryan. We talked a little bit this morning. You know what the first thing he reminded me, he said luis, i was a cosponsor of your original comprehensive immigration bill along with other republicans. We had a wonderful conversation. Im not committing him to anything on this program. We had a wonderful conversation but the fact is there are republicans who dont who look at the election, including paul ryan who are saying you know what . I used to be on the bill. Luis maybe you and i should have a conversation. I look forward there are many, many republicans who dont have the view that mitt romney has. Theyre look at ways to expand their party and to have a different politics in america. Eliot look, there are some republicans who never had that view. Some republicans who had that view who may be changing for political reasons. Thats okay. It is going to succeed. You know what ryan told me . Im not going to do it because its political. He said i want to do it because it the right thing to do. I think that speaks very, very well of a man who just came off a Vice President ial election and i call him my friend. Eliot congressman you have been a clarion voice on this issue for a very long time and i think youre finally seeing the fruits of you your hard work having laid a foundation with your colleagues and the public. Now as you said, the tens of thousands of kids signing up to get that deferral, youre seeing it in real life and the joy in their eyes. It is a remarkable thing. 225,000 have signed up. I look forward to coming back to you. I bet you 300,000 by the end of the month. Eliot i wont take that back. Im glad youre right. Im not going to make a mitt romney bet on it. We wont do that. Eliot is this going to fundamentally change politics as we go forward . You and i i hope it does. That would be healthy for the American Public. Heres what i said. Look, heres the table. Immigration is on the table. The republicans i think have come to understand the democrats are going to continue to run the tables on statewide elections on Congressional Elections and including look, the president got nearly 75 of the latino vote. Moreover democratic senatorial candidates got over 70 . Democratic congressional candidates got over 70 of the latino vote. Were one out of ten voters today. Think about it. You and i will be around, eliot in ten years when latinos represent 25 of all of those 18 or older in this country. Look, it is a demographic that is there that they have said no to but i think there is a lot of republicans that yeah, theyre going to do it because it is politically correct but there are a whole bunch of others who say you know what . It is time to get it done for other good reasons. Eliot this is not karl rove. Lets tweak the get out of the vote. This is a fundamental ideological battle. Does it help . Thats the way politics should be. A community of people get together and defend, united, their selfinterest and go to the polls and say heres how were going to vote to protect our selfinterest and politicians listen. Thats the way it is supposed to work. Eliot it is called democracy. You Luis Gutierrez, thank you for your time tonight. Youre welcome. Eliot for insight on how a democrat can win in a red state it is a pleasure to bring on senatorelect heidi height camp, democrat of north dakota. A string of words we did not think we could say senatorelect, congratulations well, thanks, eliot. It has been great. It is amazing. Eliot you look as though youre still floating as well you should be. How did you pull this off . You were, according to the polling data, until the very end, kind of just a tiny bit beneath what you needed to get then you sprang out claimed victory, got the brass ring on election night. The whole nation was clearing. Tell us what it was like. Well, we had a lot of help from people all across north dakota and people across the country who believe that we need to end the partisan gridlock. We need to move forward in this country and we need to get things done for north dakota and for the rest of the country and you know, people just believed. It was really gratifying and i know that youve been there and youve had Great Electoral success yourself. But you know, when you stand in front of a camera and you claim victory, you know behind you are literally thousands and thousands and thousands of North Dakotans who believed, who talked to their neighbors, who encouraged their neighbors to make this vote. And who said it will make a difference for the country and for our state. Im just honored to be here. Eliot i can Say Something maybe youre too selfef acing to say we heard over and over from the folks in north dakota, the thing about heidi we like her. They dont say that about many politicians but they know you from your days as attorney general. They know from you battling back from cancer. They know you as a person and they all said we like her. We want her to represent us. It was one of those victories that made people feel good. Rarely happens in politics. Enough of that. Im going to ask you the real questions. Thats too easy. Youre coming into the senate. The farm bill is high on your agenda. We had a segment last night with peter welch from vermont. Explain how youre going to do it. It is a combination of nutrition and farm programs that provide a safety net to our producers so that theyll take the risk. I mean right now the average input cost in north dakota are about a million dollars. Who small farmer, what mediumsize farmer is going to take that risk without having some level of insurance and so to me to continue this great economy that we have, in the ag factor, 16 million jobs, we need to provide some Risk Mitigation to our producers. Thats a huge part of this. Crop insurance is a huge part. Beyond that, making sure we have the conservation. We have the biofuels. We have all of the programs to innovate and create for north dakota and for the rest of the country. And in the nutrition programs. You know, whats interesting people say it is all about partisan gridlock, eliot. But the bottom line is in the house, they have the vast majority of votes. They could move that if they wanted to. It has been bipartisan. Huge bipartisan vote in the senate. Were hoping it gets done in the lame duck because our producers and producers throughout the country need to have the certainty to put the crops in the field next year. Eliot senator, youre right. This is less partisan than regional. There is a lot of fighting and bickering over how you divvy up the dairy. Thats a tough issue but its gotta be done because every member of the ag sector, whether new york, vermont or north dakota depends on it. I want to switch gears. Your state is booming because you have oil fracking, natural gas. You want the Keystone Pipeline built. Absolutely. I think that we need to figure out not only how we do all of the above in energy but how we move energy and ive been talking a lot about smart grid, about making sure that our electrical grid system is secure for the future. It is updated but also pipelines and pipelines are a big part of it. We want to be regionally selfsufficient. Thats great for america. Especially as it relates to making sure that were not dependent on the middle east for oil. We just we just need to get this done and theres a balance that can be struck. Ive said over and over again the problem is that you got people on the right who say it is all about fossil fuels whether it is coal, oil or gas. You got people on the left saying tomorrow we can turn on the windmills and that will get us the electricity we need. Theyre both wrong. We need to have a balanced approach. We also need to think sensibly about how we move the energy in the future. Eliot do you think the president is going to have the various departments of energy, e. P. A. , federal level move forward on the pipeline after the new year . Well, its a state department that needs to make the decision and ive said all along that the decision the president made was not the right decision. It wasnt the right decision for american jobs at a time when we need those private sector jobs. It wasnt the right decision for energy independence. I think the state department and the president now that down in nebraska, theyve moved it off sand hills and theyve moved it off the okla la aquifer i think youll see approval. How soon thats going to happen, we dont know. Eliot i think were seeing why you can win in a red state because thats clearly not the democratic position. Filibuster reform something we talk about often on the program. It is necessary to make the senate a functional body. Where do you stand on that . Do you think something is going to happen . Tom udall a colleague of ours when we were a. G. S is pushing this hard along with a whole lot of other people. I just dont understand how one person anonymously can hold up the rest of the country. So we need to stop that. Thats part of stopping the gridlock. Well be moving forward with a rational approach, still looking at filibuster in the traditional mr. Smith goes to washington sense but taking the irrationality out of this process is critically important. Eliot good luck getting the irrationality out of washington. If somebody can do it, will you. Senatorelect, heidi heitkamp, great to chat with you. Byebye. Eliot the when alea was born i definitely was not prepared. I just asked myself, am i doing all that i can, am i doing the best that i can for her . My whole family was so thrilled and so excited. It was just the start of a wonderful journey. I feel lucky every single day that i have my parents, i have my grandparents and that alea has grandparents and greatgrandparents. Sometimes theyll joke around and theyll say, hows our baby, hows our baby . And shes almost like this collective family baby. The fact that all of these generations can live together happily and get to know each other and learn from each other is really incredible. My mom was diagnosed with type1 diabetes when she was 15. When she was first diagnosed they didnt even have any blood sugar monitor. People really didnt know what the future would hold for her but now, today, there are so many Resources Available to her. She has all these technological devices to help her stay healthy. Its sunny out. It is sunny out. Since alea was born, i almost feel more responsible for making the world a better place. We all have the ability to make it better for ourselves and for our children. Brought to you by roche, the maker of the new accuchek nano blood glucose meter. Eliot House Speaker john boehner may not want to raise marginal tax rates on the wealthiest americans but he would probably be surprised to hear the view of one subset of the socalled 1 . They gave us our number of the day. 220. Thats how many folks make up the Patriotic Millionaires. 2yearold group thats asking for higher tax rates on the rich. On themselves. These are certifiably rich people including game publisher carlston and the founder of the mens Wearhouse George zipper. About a dozen of them visited washington, d. C. Yesterday to advocate reasonable policies such as a clinton era top tax rate of 39. 6 . Considering the escalation weve seen on the incomes of the top 1 , they want a new tax bracket for anyone making more than 10 million a year. Yes, these Patriotic Millionaires would like their own tax rates to go up. You have to be nuts to actually want to pay more in taxes . No. Not nuts. In fact, you dont even have to do it as a matter of fairness. One patriotic millionaire told mother jones magazine hes acting in pure selfinterest pointing out that the middle class are his customers and he needs them to be financially healthy. Heres what its come to. Even some of those who would end up paying the most under proposed tax hike are starting to see the big picture. Now, if only john boehner Grover Norquist and the rest of the mathematically challenged members of the g. O. P. Would adjust their focus eliot for the second day in a row violence has escalated. Yesterday, israel in response to a reported 1,000 rocket attacks from gaza, this year killed ma has leader jabari. In retaliation hamas fired over 270 rocket into israel killing three. Israel responded by bombing suspected rocket launching sites as well as other suspected terrorist sites killing 16. Israel has also begun moving troops toward the border and called up 30,000 reservists, muscle flexing to raise the specter of a ground invasion. President obama called Benjamin Netanyahu to pledge his support and morsi to assert israels right to condemn itself and president morsi did not agree. Saying today and i quote. Eliot to discuss the growing violence in gaza, im joined