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Different than election voters. >> i don't think i agree that respectfully and here's why. i worked for a guy named ted kennedy. he will always be my original political mentor. he was so-called liberal lion of the senate, a proud progressive who understood when it was time to cut the deal. he understood that and he used to say if anyone asks you what wing of the party you're from, tell them you're from the accomplishments wing because you want to get stuff done, and that's what i always have in mind. our job is to move the ball down the field from the american people. and i'm a proud member of...

We believe in level playing fields. and we believe in one another. we believe this election more than any other will impact our ability to get ahead, to raise our families, and to ensure that our kids have a higher quality of life than we do. we need a president who can get stuff done, who is going to solve the fundamental problems. [ cheers and applause ] >> we deserve a president who is going to help us improve education, protect our fresh water, clean up our drinking water, close the skills gap so we can get into higher wage jobs and, yes, help us fix the damn roads. [ applause ] >> so we i...

I don't do that with my toddler. >> me neither. me neither. they're treating him like an infant. that's obviously not how you treat the president of the united states but there are a lot of dangers to that as well. this is the white house i think the president has wanted for some time, that he built up every time somebody is fired, he kicked them out because he disagreed with them. there's pattern after pattern. what happens then is he creates a white house where everybody agrees with him as you said and it helps people rise who are appealing through his worst instincts. i would say someone li...

Congressional correspondent, kasie hunt, up there and in the room when nancy pelosi and chuck schumer came in. do they have any concerns that the president has a bigger megaphone than they do, and he can say, i want to get stuff done, but they were just engaged in investigations and name calling, which is not polling very well. >> reporter: that's always a concern, andrea, and it's always one of the central challenges of being a leader here on capitol hill, instead of being in what we've long called the bully pulpit, even before what may be the quintessential embodiment of that afraid entered ...

Watcher. by the way, david, looking at this in cross-currents, the first thing you have to ask is that census for split government, markets like that, don't they? >> markets generally prefer split government. gridlock is a dirty word in the world of politics, it is enlightening, they can't get stuff done, can't spend more government money, that tends to leave wall street and private sector off the hook. no matter what happens tomorrow, there have been 18 mid-term elections since 1946, 18, and in every single one, 18 out of 18, the 12 months following that midterm election, the markets are gene...