Her mother embraced the Police Commissioner last night saying he promised to find her daughter and he did. She was taken to a hospital for treatment. Shes in good condition. The suspect had six prior felony warrants out for his arrest including another kidnapping in virginia. Hes due to appear in court this hour on that charge. Barnes is right now in fbi custody. Back in new york, former Baltimore Ravens ray rice and his wife are both expected to testify in a new York City Court as he appeals his indefinite suspension from the nfl. They arrived this morning in a black suv which drove right into a loading dock at the courthouse. Its a very different scene from yesterday when they walked into court together through a crowd of cameras. Rice has been out on indefinite suspension since new video emerged showing him punching his then fiance unconscious in a casino elevator. He had originally been given a twogame suspension for that incident and rice claims that the extended suspension amounts to double jeopardy. On the today show this morning, a texas nurse who survived ebola defended her decision to fly just a day before her diagnosis. Hearse amber vinson gave her first interview since her release from Emory University hospital last week to Nbcs Matt Lauer asking about her decision to board that frontier flight home from dallas to cleveland. Im not careless. Im not reckless. I am an icu nurse. I embrace protocol and guidelines and structure because in my daytoday nursing, its a matter of life and death and i respect that fact. I would never go outside of guidelines or boundaries or something directly from the cdc telling me that i cant go. Vinson was infected while she was treating Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital and its not known exactly how she contracted the virus. Moments ago at the white house, president obama awarded the medal of honor to Army First Lieutenant alonzo h. Cushing. He won the award for his actions commanding an are ttillery brig back in the civil war. This medal is a reminder that no matter how long it takes, its never too late to do the right thing. Cushing was immortalized in this painting that you see here showing them at the battle fighting off confederate troops wounded and dying. Congress had to grant a special exemption for the award because of the length of time that passed since the civil war. Back to our developing news, any minute well hear from House Speaker john boehner. Hes holding a News Conference on capitol hill. That will be his first since tuesdays republican route. Come january hell likely be speaker over the biggest gop caucus in the house since 1945. Massive wins for the republicans. Today he released a joint oped in the wall street journal with senator Mitch Mcconnell entitled now we can get congress going. Skeptics say nothing will be accomplished in the next two years. As elected servants of the people, well make it our job to prove the skeptics wrong. Joining me, congressman chris van holland, thank you for being with us. They say they want to include democrats and compromise. What are you ready to work with republicans on . Were ready to work with them on a whole host of things. For example, we tried to get a vote on a National Minimum wage, which we discovered on tuesday night was very popular even in red states. In places like arkansas and nebraska. We would like to move forward on that. Theres a hot of talk about harry reid not having votes in the senate. In the house, Speaker BoehnerStill Holding onto a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill. We would like to get a vote on that and if we can get a vote, there wouldnt have to be this talk about the president acting through executive order. Those are things we can work on. Corporate tax reform and trying to invest more money in National Infrastructure and modernizing roads and bridges. Those are other things we look forward to working with him on. I wonder what you make about the messa agage sent by voters week . It was a republican landslide and you saw it firsthand in your home state of maryland. Gibbs told me that this election was in part a referendum on the president. Do you agree with that . I know its been interpreted in lots of places in that way. What i think it was a referendum on was the dysfunction in washington especially the gridlock in congress and i do agree that ricocheted back on the president. The irony, of course, is on a lot of these issues, like increasing the minimum wage, like equal pay for equal work, issues that we know are popular with the public on a bipartisan basis, it wasnt the president who blocked it was the inabilit votes in the house on those issues and frankly of republican filibuster in the senate. Congressman blocking progress, no doubt it ricochetted on the period. Congressman, the president did say repeatedly that it was his policies that were on the ballot. The president was saying that the agenda that he tried to get through the congress was on the ballot, but the thing about it is, those issues that are front and center are popular. A lot of the Senate Candidates should be more clear about where they agree with the president and where they disagree. Instead of saying they dont know who the guy is. That didnt work out for them. The core economic message, we didnt punch through on that. It is popular and if we were more able to do that, we would see differe historically its a bad time anyway obviously for the incumbent party in the white house. Lets talk about the last 24 hours. Weve seen nancy pelosi and steny hoyer say they are running for reelection as Party Leaders and this morning this looks like the same old, same old. Do you think the Democratic Party needs new faces . I think if you look at nancy pelosi, for example, she has the same energy today that she did when she was first elected leader. Shes been very focused and has the full confidence of the caucus. I think when we get back, the caucus will talk about not new leadership but what we need to do to answer some of the questions that came up as a result of tuesdays election and as i indicated, i think the real focus will be how do we get back to focusing on those core economic issues, helping the middle class, help people who want to climb out of poverty into the middle class. Clearly we were not able to punch through on those issues. We can talk about all of the reasons why. The reality is we have to do better next week. On that piece, obviously minimum wage is a lift in the minimum wage very popular across the country as you point out. Five different Ballot Initiatives all passed easily lifting the minimum wage. Democrats have really focused on that as the centerpiece of an economic agenda and while i think its very important, its not a complete economic vision. What is the democratic vision overarching vision for helping the middle class . I agree with you thats just one piece and its a small piece. A large part of our vision is trying to make sure that pieces are in place so people can climb that ladder of opportunity. That does mean investment in education. Beginning with early education, k through 12, and making College Affordable to more students so they are not crippled with debt the minute they walk out. Number two, i have a measure that we introduced as part of our agenda that says we should not be providing corporations the ability to get a Tax Deduction for the bonuses they pay to ceos and others over a Million Dollars unless they are giving their workers a wage increase. Yes, theres been a lot of talk about minimum wage increase, but that obviously doesnt help all of the other workers who have seen stagnant wages. This is an idea to say taxpayers wont subsidize these big Corporate Tax writeoffs for ceo bonuses if they dont keep pace with increases for workers. Thats the kind of thing we can look at. Its not a total solution. We want to create more incentives not just to put people back to work but a decent wage that can support a family. Thank you for your time today. Really appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Did voters send a clear message on tuesday and if they did, is the president hearing it . Politico framed it as if the president s message was asking midterms, what mid terms . This is what the president said yesterday to all those people that checked gop. Everyone that voted, i want you to know that i heard you. To twothirds of people that chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you too. Joining me now is david axelrod, he is former Senior Adviser to president obama and now nbc news political analyst. David, thank you for being with us. Good to be with you. So whats your take on that . Did voters send a message to the president this week and do you think hes choosing not to hear that message . I think voters sent a message to washington. I agree with chris van hollen, theres a great deal of unhappiness about the nature of politics in washington and the gridlock that weve seen and acrimony weve seen. Part of that was expressed by voters. And when the president referred twothirds who didnt vote, i assumed they were expressing that as well because they chose not to vote. They were making a statement of some sort. I think its important to not overreact or underreact to these results. Theres an historic pattern to what happens in the six term of these president s. I think only two president s in history have escaped this and certainly this president didnt. Doesnt the president people are very unhappy. Doesnt the president have to show that he is responding in a serious way to voters who did send a message . Im sure youll agree with the fact that these losses for democrats were much more than anyone was expecting. Well, some of us were concerned about this election because of the turf on which these races were being fought and the historic pattern that wasnt in favor of the president. Some of the events leading into the election werent helpful as well. Absolutely the president should respond. You have to look forward. The important thing is you see senator mcconnell and assume Speaker Boehner will do the same, suggesting that they want to Work Together, and i think the president has to test that proposition and has to be forward leaning in doing so. Perhaps he could have been more forward leaning yesterday. Politics is all about when your interest align. It may have been in the interest of the Republican Party in the last six years to try and block the president at every turn, but their brand is degraded by what theyve done. Their numbers are far worse than his and heading into the 2016 election, they have a lot of rehabilitation to do not just to win the presidency if thats their goal but also to elect a lot of senators who are in blue states, republican senators, their map is worse from that standpoint than the democratic map was in 2014. They need to show they can work with this president. He ought to take advantage of that and see where they can. To that point, the president is still planning to move forward with executive action on immigration. Republicans not too happy about that. Senator mcconnell said that would be waving a red flag in front of a bull. Certainly on peoples minds. White House Press Secretary josh earnest was asked about immigration in todays braiefin and senator mccain was cautioning against it too minutes ago on Andrea Mitchell reports. Lets take a listen to senator mccain. I am pleading with the president of the United States not to act. Give it a chance. Weve got a new congress. Weve got a new mandate. Lets let the house of representatives decide whether they want to move forward on Immigration Reform or not. It will be a devastating blow if he acts unilaterally with executive order. What would you advise the president to do here . Well, i would have been more reserved in answering that question. I know he wants to keep faith with all of those americans who want him to act and all those who are suffering with this broken immigration system. The fact is a strong bipartisan bill was passed by the United States senate. If i were the president , i would go to john boehner and say im willing to withdraw my plan for executive action if youre willing to put this bill on the floor for a vote. Ill live with the results of that vote. Theres a very good reason to believe that a majority of members of the house support this Bipartisan Senate bill and while the republicans are warning about taking what they consider extraordinary action on the part of the president , its also extraordinary to keep the house of representatives from voting on a bill that a majority want to pass and so the speaker if he wants to demonstrate that this is a new era, he can do that by putting that bill on the floor. That would alleviate the need for any executive action. It looked like the bill had a majority in current congress. Next congress i dont think its so clear. Putting back on your 2016 democratic strategist hat, there was a piece called revenge of the white male voter. Democrats doing badly with white men in this election. They say millennials didnt vote. Single woman voted less democratic than usual. What do we need to do to make the Democratic Party attractive to white men . I quite agree with chris van hollen. The fundamental issues facing most people in this country is the issue of the economy. The economy overall is improving. I think the president s actions early in his administration had a lot to do with breaking the fall that we were in, but most middle class families and people who are aspiring to become middle class are still struggling. Wages have been flat. Theres still a sense of insecurity and the Democratic Party ought to be the party and is, i think, the party that has ideas to address that. If Democratic Party doesnt run on those ideas and put them front and center and make this the state of the middle class in this country, the fundamental issue of 2016, they will find themselves in deep straits. Indeed. We got to get that message out there and make it believable that something could actually be done. David axelrod, thank you so much. Always great to get your analysis. Good to be with you. Republican leader john boehner will be holding his first News Conference since that republican takeover on election night. Well be bringing that to you live. Make sure to stay with us. Woman everyone in the nicu all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. Everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. I wouldnt trade him for the world. Who matters most to you says the most about you. At massmutual were owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. 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Back in 2010, he ran for the senate and loss and we see boehner here so lets go to him now. Hope he didnt believe it. Im going to start by congratulating my friend, senator Mitch Mcconnell. Mitch and i have worked very closely together over the last eight years and i dont think i could ask for a better partner or do i think the senate could have a better majority leader than Mitch Mcconnell. Also going to express my gratitude to the people of ohios eighth congressional district. My mission is the same today as it was in 1990 when i was first elected to build a smaller, less costly and more accountable government. And right now i believe that means continuing to listen, to make the American Peoples priorities our priorities