Alaska the polls have closed. First of all one of the biggest contests in the country with Scott Walker Bloomberg politic is reporting thats the apparent winner. The republicans win the two big races this wis and florida. Thats major news not just for scott walker and rick scott but for Chris Christie the governor of new jersey. If the democrats would have been able to win those races would be a big blow to Chris Christie. He holds those seats. A lot of other governor races well be talking about where theres still no projected winners. But in the senate the situation is coming into focus and its all good news or almost all good news for republicans. Their magic number to get the majority was six. They currently are at five. They picked up republicans, they picked up democratic held seats in west virginia, arkansas south dakota, montana and colorado, beating two incumbents in arkansas and colorado and there are a lot of democratic seats left. The big news for republicans is it appears theyre going to hold all of their currently hold incumbent seats three the republicans tried to put in the seats becoming the majority leader won his seat in georgia. It is now being reported by bloomberg politic that david purdue is winning that race without a run off over Michelle Nunn and finally john in kansas the projected winner there is pat roberts the incumbent. Democrats put in an effort to try to put republican seats in play and they knew it wouldnt be good and it would come up short. While the wins pile up for republicans a lot hopes on those races. Thought georgia is guarantee a run off. Its a little bit of a surprise michelle not a very strong candidate but didnt have enough to send that thing. You can see right here Michelle Nunn giving her concession speech in georgia. Our colleague will bring some of that to you. Lets keep running through the results for the evening. In kansas pat roberts aptz to be headed toward reelection and that is big news. In terms of senate races republicans get their opinion pick up they need for six. Virginia much closer than anybody thought. Yes. Much much closer. A race between mark warner and ed gillespie. No one expected that race to be close. Its poor close. Right now mark warner has a slight slight lead with virtually all of the vote in. That race may trigger a recount. The other race that we have not mentioned is Louisiana Senate race going to a run off. No one got close so that will be a race that gets fought in overtime in december. The polls in North Carolina closed at 7 30 thats many hours ago and yet theres no projection of that race. Another democratic held seat where democrats are trying to hold off tom. No projection there, 90 of prevince. Tom slightly ahead in the raw votes. Thats another opportunity where the republicans could pick up the last seat this need for the majority. Iowa though is probably at this point the most likely one to fall next. Very little of the vote, joany hearns the republicans. All the indications are from the exit polls and the reporting and the governors race where terry the republican was reelected easily. That may be before the night is over the seat that falls from democratic hands to the republican hands. To be abundantly clear at this point given what we just reported, its the case that all republicans need to do in order to get to the magic number of six at this point is they need to win either North Carolina or iowa or alaska. Those are the three races that are still outstanding which means they only need one out of three to get the six and they could end up winning all three of those. In alaska the polls havent closed there yet. Bloomberg telling you the definitive winner is pat roberts. Republicans will in fact hold of their incumbent held seats. Theyve been playing offense for the most part but that means theyre successfully. Kansas, kentucky and georgia, those are the three races that democrats really put a challenge in, south dakota as well. Republicans arent going to lose any of those it appears. That means they need to pick up or one as john said from louisiana, virginia, nor care, iowa and alaska. If they pick up any one of those seats they win the major that and i suspect that will happen before 1 00 a. M. When alaska turns to poll closing there. There are lots of other governors races but lets stop there for a moment and go over to our panel. Lets just be clear. One of the things, on the high side, the if the republicans were to win all of those races the ones current six, seven, eight nine ten. Put aside louisiana because its an overtime they could end up plus nine. All right. We were going to talk to our analyst but lets hold off because well be joined by someone who is a National Figure about to take over the new congress a pretty Important Committee chairmanship, paul ryan going from budget to ways and means. He doesnt like to talk about the publicly because he likes seniority senior and theres still one on that seat. Here is paul ryan, the nominee for his party. Congressman ryan they told me you were there. I dont see you yet. I am here mark. Thanknk you for joining us,e appreciate it. So this is a big night. Your friend scott walker gut reelected your friend Chris Christie is having a right good night and your colleagues in the senate is having a good night. Ill ask you the inverse of the question i asked steve israel which is what do you think the reaction to be tonight in terms of what he does and what agenda he pursues . He should not try to go along rose that was Mark Halperin and John Heilemann of bloomberg politics. Doris kearns goodwin, tom brokaw, gillian tett and al hunt coming up. Rose what are the results of these Midterm Elections challenges and opportunities facing our country remain constant. Tonight we look beyond the horse race to ask this question. Where america the economy is growing at its fastest pace in a decade and unemployment is at a six year low. Frank has written in the New York Times were living through and pronounced pez missal. When majority of adults dont think their kids will have as many opportunities as they did. Pessimistal in the National Arena is pronounced as the spread of ebola and isis is of great concern to the american people. An increasingly aggressive russia and china. Joining me is doris kearns goodwin. Shes a president ial his his torian. Albert hunt is here and gillian tett managing editor of the Financial Times im pleased to have all of them here. I say this from the beginning this is not a program thats going to look at the Election Results because we dont know what they are. Were talking about the country and where it is because those will be the issues that whoever wins the election will be facing. Well try to reach into what had led us to these places where they look at a campaign and the electorate is described as sullen in bad mood tom. I begin with that because you have spent an enormous amount of time reaching out and looking at america and where it is. I thought about my own life john i was born in 1940 right before the john and it was about big ideas in my lifetime mobilizing for the war gi bill of rights kennedy saying were going to go to the moon the civil rights act, nixon saying well open relations with china, Ronald Reagan staring down the soviet union and the cold war ends without a shot being fired and you go to Silicon Valley, thats ada big idea, be disruptive. Find new ways to do something thats unconventional. Were trapped in a lot of little ideas in this country at the moment and they dont seem to be serving anybody particularly well. You dont have anybody with an over a arcing race. Ronald rake had a vision about restoration and american spirit. People back east who has not been in california like i have been, i says i dont know watch, this guy knows how to get at the american people. Thats missing. Now misterm elections are about local issues but we dont have in my judgment the big idea the country longs for something that will bring them together and excite them again about the american idea. Rose that person in the bull pit doris is the president. Regardless whether the senate is republican or democrat and the house will certainly be republican, the president is at the whitehouse and he has the bullet pulpit. And it is his responsibility, is it not, to offer this leadership and to take the lead in trying to set the tone for the final two years of his presidency. I mean theres no question that the president sets the tone as to whether the electorate remains grumpy in the doldrums as it is now feeling theres nothing much can change. Fdr once said problems are created by human beings and can be solved by human beings and the electorate doesnt have a senses of connection to solve these problems. The question isch the bully pult itself less a strong force as it once was. At the time of lincoln, you wrote a speech, you heard the words over and over again by Teddy Roosevelt and the mass newspapers were printing every word he did and his colorful phrases. Fdr is on the radio. 80 of the audience is listening. A construction worker is saying im going home hes going to be there. And jfk and three networks are covering the speeches full. Now youve got a fragmented audience before the president finishes giving a speech somebody is criticizing it, breaking news comes in and we vjn] paion about anythingd we a lack of big ideas but theres a lack in the electorate of paying attention. We know money is poison and were doing nothing about it. The most expensive mid election in history and thats a horrible thing and we just announce it. Somewhere weve lost our mow joe as a citizenry and were a part of that. Rose albert. I agree and i think it may even be worse than tom said. I was out of bed, this is the most conopportunity free election i ever seen. The republicans basically ran totally against barack obama who last i checked wasnt on any ballot today. And the democrats ran for older women they were going to lose their medicare, for younger women they were going to lose contraception. Neither was going to care. There was no talk about the war or immigration or infrastructure. Any of the big issues. I think doris makes a good point and i think the republicans have been nothing but negative. I blame obama a bit. If you look atf where we are today versus four years ago, i mean the stock market has gone up 50 . Unemployment has been cut by 40 . Were doing better than almost any other western economy. I mean were not doing great. There are people who have been left behind but the country has made a lot of progress the last four years economically at least. I imagine if fdr was there today doris, i cant imagine that he wouldnt be out there telling people we are really back, we are doing thing, we are moving, americas can do. One doesnt get that sense with this president. He would be singing happy days are here again. Absolutely. But the critical issue is that fdr did not exist in the era of social media. And what a change with social media is not just a fragmented conversation, its a lot of, perts and trust and authority. The Edelman Group looks at who people trust in the western world. And whats very clear is this idea of vertical axis people looked up for authority with sort of wisdom and inspiration is basically crumbling. People today have facebook friends. They go from a vertical world of trust to horizontal world on trust. Rose institutions across the board. Absolutely. This is basically antiestablishment election and were seeing that right across the board. Whats frightening its also recipe for braver volatile fragmented politics. You get flash bulbs where people coalesce around a sij issue to make a protest. Trying to build any kind of rational broad base political platform is very hearted and that technological jeannie bottle. Rose its a pessimistic idea but couldnt charismatic leadership and i dont want to be too phenowith charismatic leadership but following jimmy carter there was Ronald Reagan. There was someone notwithstanding a different time but it was power of leadership. Even though its about washington a well and grid lock, it is the president who is at the core of that and getting blamed for the grid lock. Absolutely. Were blaming far less embracing an entire political platform. Its single issue politics thats driving it in. Rose go ahead. I was going to say. A little comparison. Imagine if bill clinton had been in office and the gains al ticked off had been made about the stock market, he would have been all over the countriment when the president came back from his reelection and wanted to reach out to congress what did he do. He took them to dinner at the jefferson hotel. I couldnt believe that. I didnt know anybody in washington whose knees dont buckle when they walk in the whitehouse. And then come out of the west wing with their arms around him. But he was off to the jefferson hotel. A lot of us also has to do with the fact that he gets hammered 24 7 by fox news on the right and human radio in this country. I was listening to talk radio and hes saying obamas voters are people who live in excrement. That was his phrase. Fv they expect us to lift them out of excrement. Im not going to lift a hand. That was the kind of language that was going on. At some point that penetrates. I think hes been an imperfect president in lot of ways. You look back moving the line in syria, not catching out how the roll outof obamacare or Affordable Care act was not going to go well when we knew about it. And being kind of uncertain. You know the most telling thing about the last election for me is when which he edged up losing to romney. Hes preparing them sitting off in the corner and says guys this is not who i am. If thats not who you are, why are you running for president. Tom i think you can argue modern rose one second and well get right to you. The policies have worked. The stimulus worked. It got us out of that terrible time. The affordable healthcare act, the jurys still out but so far the early returns are good. A lot more people are covered than before. We dont have the kind of inflation. Rose the deficit. It has come down. So i think the policies are working better than the perception. And some of that i think some of that has to do what he conned validate. That bully pulpit may not be the signs during fdr but its still there. I said that to a guy in california, a doctor going out to tennessee. He looked at me and said he had nothing to do with it. Thats what hes fighting against at this point. He was at fault when it wasnt working and they didnt manage it very well in my judgment. Rose doris . It is the president s responsibilityau÷ to set the narrative really and to tell the story. And i think thats somehow the gap between what you are just saying has happened to the economy, happened in our deficits, has not been felt by people inside. Part of that is what is magic about leadership. I mean, one of the times fdr said to orson wells, he said you know orson you and i are the two best actors in america. Im not sure who is one and who is two but you have to be theatrical. Everybody wants somebody there. If were going to feel joy about politics, you need to feel that and its a really hard time to be president. I have no doubt its not as much fun as it was but it certainly wasnt fun in world war ii when somebody said to fdr how can you get up every morning. He says who wouldnt want to be president , greatest job in the world. Rose do you remember when bill clintons counting down to the last days in office. I dont want to go, i want to be here. Rose and Ronald Reagan said i dont know how you can do this job if you werent an uber. Theres a north end tiffany about president obama that doesnt want to project that side of himself but it may be part of the responsibility of being a leader. No matter how much you want to act right now the reality is the economy thats standing most middle americans are not seeing that. Rose why. Income inequality. Very simple. Lots of the gains have gone to a tiny marion two. What were seeing right now is a fascinating experiment in modern politics. Can you create a feel good feelingawhen actually a tiny minority was taking the gain. Rose but he said at one point he didnt want to stress income inequality because he would be awe excused of class warfare. Americans are concerned about income equality both on the right and left. They blame different factors for it but its out there. To ignore it is ignoring what voters are caring about right now. Rose Hillary Clinton is talking more and more trying to get her hands around it. Trying to get a retraction. Lets not let the republicans off the hook. This year we lost one of the greatest statesman, howard baker. He backed the panama canal treaty. He was opposed by three quarters of misare party, unpopular president and the only reasonable it got to the senate was because of the howard baker. I cannot imagine a republican leader in the senate doing that today. Mitch mcconnell if he wins reelection maybe he will grow in the job but hes certainly no howard baker. Nor can you imagine the institutional loyalty people used to feel to the senate or the house. It went beyond party. They were proud to be part of an institution so now thats gone too so that whole political culture in washington has changed. They dont stay stowing, they dont drink or play poker anymore. Theyre tribal enemies looking for the Interest Groups to support or win the next election. We still have to come back to money. Nothings going to change in this system until two things happen. Until money is lessened in politics until the gap between the rich and poor and mobility is changed. Mobility is what the dream is about if youre born in the lower quintilei7 and you dont have a chance to get out thats everything we stood for thats being undone. And we know this is happening and nothings happen to change it. Two things charlie i was going to say. About kids are not going to do as well as they did. Theres an earth limit how well you can do economically. The American Dream has always been my children will have better lives than i will. That trans lates into better jobs, higher paying and a bigger house. You cant go anywhere in america now that there arent houses for sale that are 700,