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Hope and optimism in a year where voters were really angry and wanted to send a message to washington. that is fundamentally why our message was beat by donald trump's message. i will give credit to donald trump. he ran a very smart campaign. it was lean, quick, aggressive. and he used the new social media in a way none of the other campaigns had done before and he continues to do. you just played that clip of joe biden saying that trump needs to grow up and not tweet. he needs to keep tweeting. that's how he won this office in the first place and how he connects to the american people. i thin...

You just played that clip of joe biden saying that trump needs to grow up and not tweet. he needs to keep tweeting. that's how he won this office in the first place and w he connects to the american people. i think that's a gat asset for him moving forward. we can argue could the tweets be better, better timed, the topics be more on message and more effective. but i think he needs to keep tweeting. i think twitter is part of how he beat my former boss marco rubio and won the nomination and the white house. >> respond to alex's outrageous defense of the twitter in chief. >> having been in the w...

And he said after the debate that he would not discs the wikileaks becae this timit affected the democrats, but in the future it might affect us. and we cannot set the precedent where this sort of leaked material is fair game for partisan hacks. >> alex, where do you think our party -- or the party formally known as republicans should be when it comes to putin's russia and their aggression on their neighbors and their rampant hacking, if you trust the information from all the different institutions they sought to hack? >> we should look to the example ronald reagan set -- >> how about the exam...

Against and just how it is for her in campaigns. it is -- but she did think in the end she was going to win. so i don't think it's hard for my life or her life and in many respects our lives are easier and more enjoyable to -- we're able to enjoy it. but she's devastated that she didn't get it done for the country and that's a very hard thing. >> we're going leave it there. thank you so much to jennifer and alex. that does it for this edition of "the 11th hour." brian will be back monday. thanks for being with me all week. have a great night. tonight on "all in" -- >> who actually is the ben...

Discuss the wikileaks. this came up because we had several senate debates. we anticipated he would be asked about the wikileaks, because it was all the media was talking about. and he said after the debate that he would not discuss the wikileaks because this time it affected the democrats, but in the future it might affect us. and we cannot set the precedent where this sort of leaked material is fair game for partisan hacks. >> alex, where do you think our party -- or the party formally known as republicans should be when it comes to putin's russia and their aggression on their neighbors and t...