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The ttp, you don't think that is an issue? >> no, that is what she will do as the presidential candidate and the president, hopefully. >> how much do you think bernie sanders is in her rear-view mirror on that issue? >> i think there is a myth that hillary clinton is a johnny come lately to progressive ideas. people can go way back to her history, to children's defense fund, rural aid clinics, and then they can go much more recently to the campaign where she talked about regulating wall street. the idea that she is a johnny come lately and is responding to the elizabeth warren wing or the bern...

Marketplace of ideas -- and i always think the democratic party has the better ideas. and if we have to take those ideas or share them from the working families party, or from others, and through part of our process in order get candidates the most votes to win, we sit down and work through these things, i think it's good. but ultimately, this is not parliamepa parliamentarian. >> dan, why did you start with the working families party and not the liberal line? >> the liberal line, in a sense, had abandoned its value when is it went over to mayor giuliani. listen, we think there's a big audienc...

Promises need to be put into actions and achievements, let's face it, we can sit here and blame the koch brothers, i like to do that, and all the bad stuff coming from the right. and you know, nothing that they have done can match the frustration and anger of what those in public office have done to reduce the hope we have for change in this country, good change. we know the facts, the health care bill was great history, great progressive success, but the raw has been what it has been. you give it a name, we know that one reason things are not getting done, is not just the republicans always s...

Governor of new jersey would certainly be formidable. his big problem, though, is going to win that republican nomination. he's got to win in conservative states like iowa or south carolina. that's not going to be easy for chris christie. but still a lot of time between now and then. >> finally, wolf, new york city the first democratic mayor in two decades. bill deblasio. what do you make of that? >> he's a very, very liberal guy. a lot more liberal than a lot of democrats probably thought would be winnable, if you will, because there hasn't been a democratic mayor in such a long time. but he ...

So-called progressive ideas. it's going to be a shift from michael bloomberg and certainly from rudy giuliani, the former republican mayor of new york. >> wolf, fantastic job as always tonight orchestrating events for us. thank you very much indeed. governor's race in virginia was a lot closer than just about anybody expected, but in the end former dnc chairman terry mcauliffe eeked out the victory. joining me is cnn's chief congressional correspondent dana bash. dana, more exciting tonight than we expected. the significance of ken cucinnelli losing in the way that he did. is it bad that he lo...