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Effort that crystallized this issue of keystone as a key decision for the united states when it comes to being serious about climate change, it seems like that movement, at least as of tonight, has won. at least it's gotten the company behind keystone to stop asking for it. joining us now is elana schor, energy reporter for politico.com. ms. schor, thank you for being here. really appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you. >> short notice for to us book you tonight because we didn't know this was going to happen tonight. were there signals? were there indications leading up to this that keyst...

Nominee. >> this is how bankrupt can we get? just how broke can we become? so help me i will take it a stem further. >> vowing to commit a federal crime as a candidate has never been, no one has ever really won that way. >> no way to continue trying to get the vote out. >> it is not the way to do it. let's go across the room. best political move of the year. >> well i'm with you on the immigration action although i think of it a little differently. i think the president's approach mid terms in general has been the best political moves. there is thought talk about the shellacking. he came out s...

When i disagree on first impulse, after a couple days, i say, you know, he's probably right. i thought the way he did immigration wasn't the legitimate notion, you got to get congress to do it. i thought, you got to open the door at some time. like with civil rights in '64. johnson could have waited for the constitution to be amended. to acquire public accommodations rights and an end to white only. but he said i'm going to use commerce. sometimes you got to be a little bit rough. he's saying, i'm going to do this because nothing's moving without me. >> on cuba, on immigration, on climate -- >...

Take this and what will your response be that you and your administration has been talking about all week. he has been, as you and jake and jim and others have been talking about, a lame duck on the loose lately, sort of the bear on the loose that we heard about over the summer. i asked the president at that midterm -- post midterm news conference, are you a lame duck? he said, technically i am but he's been trying to rewrite that playbook by going out on his own on these various deals that you saw cut with china, for example, on climate. last month, cuba on normalizing relations with the comm...

Know, "up with chris hayes" people of actual power. >> president obama is exactly who he wants to be. >> right. that's who president obama wants to be. >> one, "a," i think this model of strong and vigorous debate, obviously, i believe in that. that's what i try to do that here. that's what i do for a living. politics to me seems like i'm a realist on this. pure will to power. i'm not quite sure these exchanges ever -- like, do we have some idea that these exchanges back and forth improve things. and i'm not sure how much that's ever the case. but the other question is like how do we get -- li...