From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Welcome, tonight a look at the midterm elections and what comes after. Im joined by analysts for a conversation about the future of the country. Inside the Republican Party and its look at the future. We go live to Mark Halperin with Bloomberg Politics. The polls in alaska will close at 1 00 eastern time and we will bring you that then. We are being watched around the country not just on bloomberg television, bloombergpolitics. Com, but we welcome viewers from pbs. Polls have now closed in 49 states, everywhere but alaska. A new result, one of the biggest contests with scott walker, he is the apparent winner. Republicans win the big governors races of the night in wisconsin, with scott walker and in florida with rick scott. That is major news, for chris christie, the governor of new jersey. Those races would have given democrats a huge consolation prize. Instead he manages to hold those. Lots of other governors races, where there is no projected winner. In the senate the situation is coming into focus and it is all good news for republicans. Their magic number to get the majority was 6. They are at 5. Five republicans have picked up seats. They have beat two incumbents in arkansas and colorado. There are a lot of seats left. It appears they are going to hold all of their currently incumbent house seats. The republican leader of kentucky will become the majority leader, he won his seat in georgia. David perdue is winning that race without a runoff over michele nunn. In kansas it is being reported by some news organizations the winner is pat roberts. Democrats put in an effort to put republican seats in. These when some piled up or republicans. And a lot of hope and placed on these races. Many people thought george was guaranteed to go to a runoff. It is a surprise, not a vast one but a little bit of one. Michelle nunn did not have enough. We will look at her concession speech in a little bit. Lets keep running through the results for the evening. Pat roberts appears to be headed towards a reelection. That is the big news. That leaves in terms of races we are looking at republicans to get their final pick up, a net of 6. Virginia is closer than we thought. Mark warner and ed gillespie, mark warner has a slight lead. Virtually all of the vote in, that may trigger a recount. The other raise we have not mentioned is louisiana, which is going to go to a runoff. Nobody got close to 50 . That will be a race that gets fought in overtime in december. The polls close at 7 30, yet there is no prediction of that race. Democrats are trying to hold off a challenge from tom tillis. No projection there. 90 reporting. Tom tillis slightly ahead in the rob. There is a opportunity for publicans to pick up the next seat they need. Iowa is at this point the most likely. Joni ernst, all indications are on the exit polls and the reporting we have done, the republican reelected easily. That may be the seed that falls to democrats. To be clear at this point, given what we have just reported, it is the case that all republicans meet to do to get to the magic number of 6, they need to win either in North Carolina or in iowa, or in alaska. Those of the race is outstanding. You only get 13. Bloomberg politics reporting an apparent winner, pat roberts. Republicans will in fact hold all of their incumbent seats. They have play offense for the most part. The have successfully defended kansas, kentucky, and georgia. Republicans are going to lose any of those. That means they need to just pick up one more from louisiana, virginia, North Carolina, iowa, alaska. I suspect that will happen even before 1 00 a. M. When alaska turns for the poll closing them. As we said there are other governors races. Lets stop for a moment and go to our panel. One of the things on the high side, the republicans were to win all those races, put aside louisiana, they could easily add up plus nine. Weve are going to talk to our analysts. Lets hold off. A National Figure in the Republican Party, paul ryan. He is going to go from budget to ways and means. He is a man who appreciates seniority. There is still some money in that seat. Joining us is paul ryan. Congressman, im hoping you were there. I am here. We appreciate it. This is a big nine. Scott walker got reelected. Chris christie is having a good night. Your colleagues in the senate are having a good night. What do you think the president s reaction should be to the Election Results in terms of what he does . He should not try to go it alone with that was Mark Halperin of Bloomberg Politics and albert hunt coming up. One of the results, we look beyond the horse race. Where america is going. We are living through a chapter of pessimism. A majority of adults dont think their kids will have as many opportunities as they did. Pessimism is equally pronounced with the threat of the ebola virus and isis. There are challenges of russia and confident china. Joining me now, doris kearns goodwin. Her most recent book is the bully pulpit. With me here, tom brokaw. Albert hunt is here. And a u. S. Managing editor of the financial times, im pleased to have them here. I saved this from the beginning, this is not a program that will look at the Election Results. We dont know what they are. Youre are talking about the country. Those will be the issues that whoever wins will be facing. We can also try to reach into what has led us to these places where they look at a campaign and the electorate is described as stolen, in a bad mood. I begin with that because you have spent enormous amount of time reaching out and looking at america, and where it is. In my lifetime, i was born before the world war, there were a big ideas. The g. I. Bill of rights, candidate saying we are going to the moon, civil rights acts, relations with china, the cold war. And you go to Silicon Valley, that is a big idea. The disruptive, change, find new ways to do something. Were trapped in little ideas in this country. They dont seem to be serving anybody particularly well. You dont have anybody with an overarching vision. Ronald reagan won the presidency talking about a city on a hill. He had an idea. He said you watch, this guy knows how to get at the American People. That is missing. The midterm elections are about local issues inevitably. We dont have in my judgment the big idea, the country that longs for some that will bring them together and excite them again about the american ideal. That person with the bully pulpit is the president. Regardless of whether there is a republican or democrat senate, the president is at the white house and he has the bully office. It is his responsibility is it not, to offer this leadership and to take the lead and set the tone for the final two years of his presidency. There is no question the president sets the tone as to whether the electorate remains a grumpy in the doldrums, as it is now, feeling like there is nothing much that can change. Fdr said problems are created by human beings and can be solved by human beings, yet the electorate doesnt sense that. Is it less of a strong force than it was . The time of linking you ready speech, everybody read it in the newspaper, so you heard the words over and over. By Teddy Roosevelt the mass newspapers were printing every word he said. Fdr is on the radio. And construction workers are going home, i have to be in my living room. Three networks are covering speeches. Now you have a fragmented audience. Before the president even finishes, someone is giving a response. There is a lack in the electorate of paying attention. We know money is poison. We are doing nothing about it. This is the most expensive in history. Somewhere we have lost our mojo as a citizenry and the leadership is part of that. I agree and i think it may be even worse than tom said. I was at an event, the most content frame election. Contentfree election. They ran against obama, who was not on any ballot today. The democrats ran on women. There was no talk about the war, no talk about immigration, no talk about infrastructure. I think doris makes a good point. I think the republicans have been nothing but negative. I blame obama a bit. If you look at where we are today versus four years ago, the stock market has gone up 50 . Unemployment has been cut. We are doing better than any other western economy. We are not doing great. There have been people left behind. The country has made progress. I imagine if fdr was there today, i cant imagine that he wouldnt be out there telling people we are back, we are doing things, we are moving. One doesnt get that sense from this president. Days are here again. Absolutely. The issue is, fdr did not exist in an era of social media. What has changed is not just the fragmented conversation. It is a loss of experts and trust in authority. The Government Group did a survey, and what is clear that this idea of trust, it is crumbling. They trust facebook friends. We have gone from vertical world trust to horizontal. It is acrosstheboard. This is an antiestablishment election. We are seeing across the board. What is frightening is that it is a recipe for fragmented politics. You get flashbulbs of people around a single issue to make a protest. Trying to build any kind of rational base in this mood is hard. That cannot be put back in the bottle. It as it has mystic idea but couldnt charismatic leadership, isnt it possible whenever we say, following jimmy carter, there was Ronald Reagan, someone that had the power of leadership. Even though it is about washington as well, and gridlock, it is the president whose at the core of that. Are they embracing an entire part of the political life form . It is single issue politics. A little comparison, imagine if bill clinton had been in office. He would have been all over the country. When the president came back to his reelection and wanted to reach out to congress, he took them to dinner at the jefferson hotel. I couldnt believe that. I dont know anyone who dont have an ease that buckle may walk into the white house. Come to the west wing and put his arms around them. He was taking them to the jefferson hotel. A lot of this has to do with the fact that he gets hammered by fox news on the right and by talk radio, which is a huge voice in this country. I was in the midwest listening, i dont know who the guy was, but he is saying obamas voters are people who live in excrement. They expect us to lift them out of excrement. Im not going to lift a hand. That was the language. That penetrates. I think he has been an imperfect president. You look back on moving the line in syria, the rollout of obamacare. And being kind of uncertain. The most telling thing about the last election was when he was in the first debate, they are preparing him. He says, this is not will. I. Am. Who i am. If that is not who you are, why are you running for president . A lot of the policies have worked. The stimulus worked. The Affordable Health care worked. The jury is out. So far its pretty good. We havent had the kind of inflation critics worried about. The deficit has come down to less than 500 billion. The policies are working better than the perception. Some of that has to do what he conveys. The bully pulpit may not be the size that it was but it is still there. A guy from california was in town, he said he had nothing to do with it. That is what he is fighting against at this point. He was at fault. They did manage it well. It is the president s responsibilities that the narrative and tell the story. Somehow the gap between what you are saying has happened in the economy has not been felt by people inside. Part of that is what is magic about leadership. One of the times fdr said to orson welles, you and i are two best actors in america. Im not sure who is one and who was two. You have to project. Everybody wants somebody they are. If we are going to feel joy you need to feel that. It is a hard time to be president. It is not as much fun as it was. It wasnt fun in world war ii and somebody said to fdr, how do you get up every morning. He said, who what you want to be president . When bill clinton was counting down and Ronald Reagan said i dont understand how you could do this job if you werent an actor. There is an authenticity, but it may be part of the responsibility. The reality is the economy is expanding. Income inequality. Much has been gained and gone to a tiny minority. We are seeing a fascinating experiment, can you actually try to [indiscernible] he said he did not want to stress income inequality because he would be accused of class warfare. Twothirds of americans are concerned about income inequality. On the right and the left. They blame different factors. It is a big issue. Hillary clinton is talking about it more and more as a campaign narrative. Shes trying to get traction on that. Lets not let the republicans off the hook. This year we lost one of the great statesmen, howard baker. He back the panama canal treaties. He was opposed by three quarters of the members of his party. He was an unpopular president. I cannot imagine a republican leader in the senate doing that today. Mitch mcconnell, if he wins reelection, maybe will grow in the job. He is no howard baker. Nor can you imagine the institutional loyalty that people used to feel to the senate or the house. They thought they were proud to be part of an institution. That is gone. The whole political culture has changed. They dont Stay Together on the weekends. They dont drink together anymore. All they are our tribal enemies looking for Interest Groups to support. We still have to come back to money. Nothing is going to change until two things happen, money is less in politics, and the gap between the rich and poor is changed. Mobility is what the American Dream is about. If you dont have a chance to get out nowadays everything used we stood for is being undone. We know this is happening. Two things i was going to say, kids are not going to do as well. There is an upper limit on how well you can do economically. The American Dream, my children will have better lives than i will. That translates into higher paying jobs and a bigger house. You cant go anywhere and there are houses for sale that are 700,000 for sale. The middleclass cant afford them. Rentals are going up. People cant afford to buy homes. We cant overlook the impact of that. The ceo pay has gone way up. There is a skill set issue. And in absence of the jobs that people i grew up with could always get. They were the people who could live on that kind of a waste. Of a wage. That hasnt happened anymore. Even what is going on with the stock market. Why is the u. S. Leading the Global Economy . Why is it that the employment rate is down why arent there payoffs for beginnings of the economic recovery . In terms of the voter perception, the reality is you look at the numbers and most of the gains in terms of income are going to the top percentiles. The 1 getting richer. It is not a broadbased recovery. Is there a new normal in which we can expect will not being there because technology delivering efficiency and people found out they could do with less . One of the Biggest Challenges is not so much international competition, it is about digitization. What you are seeing on digital networks, if youre optimistic you say this is just like the cultural revolution. And in the nextgeneration they found new jobs in manufacturing and cities. They hope that will happen again. If you think about it, every time you use Computer Technology to get something done. All the people that used be travel agents, it is now computers. Those are the people that arent losing jobs. Are losing their jobs. That is the reason my middleclass isnt there now. Republican senator from ohio, one of the more reason republicans in terms of wanting to get something done, he said this is what we are going to do. A job creation act, lower Corporate Taxes, and my immediate thought was how are you going to do with the democrats . What you going to give them . An increase in the minimum wage . Immigration reform . Mitch mcconnell has set on going to get rid of the Affordable Care act. He is not even talking about it. He changed his mind. Or maybe i cant. We never know what is going to happen once they get back there. The early indications are ted cruz, rand paul, we have to change this party because [indiscernible] so there is a lot. It is hard to say this is whats going to happen. We dont know. All the markers are there going to retreat, beginning tomorrow morning. That is what is coming out of the election. How can they get the white house back . That means there is a window of opportunity for the president to do something. The attention shifts to the race for 2016. The president has a window of opportunity but not very long. And hopefully he moves in two directions. Trying to work with the congress to get something done, but also executive orders. He is going to have to have it. He can use it to deal with immigration to some extent, and that power, he has to keep going. It is important. Peoples energy is diminishing. They are starting to send resumes. They want other jobs. In lbjs final month, he sent a memo, you are here until the final moments. He has to suggest that to this people. Keep racing until it is over. I think toms scenario is the most likely. Constant confrontation. There is a chance there could be some rather big things done. Doris mentioned immigration reform. It is a Republican Partys interest. President ial elections are different. They dont want to be the antiimmigration party. You have to dial back the senate bill. They didnt do anything before the midterm elections because they didnt want the president to campaign on immigration reform. There are other potential business from the moves they could take. The question of tax reforms, Corporate Tax reforms. I would watch trade. Republicans are much more sympathetic to the president agenda trying to push the trade deals with europe and asia. People suggested it may be possible the president will be able to deal with Mitch Mcconnell been with harry reid. [laughter] [indiscernible] he refused to bring a bill up. The democrats refused to bring up a bill. A longterm operative, they are goldplated in terms of right of center. What is the best outcome . Mcconnell gets beat and we still win the senate. There is a feeling they cant take the party into the modern age until they moved aside someone like Mitch Mcconnell, who is beginning to refine his positions. Bob dole once said to me in an interview the best job in washington other than the president is to be the Senate Majority leader when the president is held by the opposite party. Edit was him. As it was for him. He got things done. If you were to add trade, immigration, tax procurement, that is quite a bundle of potential action you may seem. That may be too optimistic. Lets not write off congress. It is an interesting idea because the deficit has been reduced and because it is less of a weapon for republicans to argue with they will be more amenable to agreement on the budget. I dont think that is crazy at all. They need to show the electorate that there was more. We havent talked about the reduction of the influence of the tea party. This has not been good for them. Quite honestly. Republicans learn something about how to deal with the tea party. They got their candidates in. They took them on in a sleightofhand fashion. But they removed them as a threat to their own party. Whether that continues when you have rand paul and other saying we have to change our brand, we will see. When you mention the fact that when president came to office in 2008 he had a commitment to end 2 wars, afghanistan and iraq. We find that a test for the United States again in isis, tell me how you think the country feels about this, and did it change because of the beheadings, and because there was a new fear that this somehow was a threat . The country is of two minds. They are terrified of the threat of isis in part because of the beheadings and the irrationality of the acts going on. The other 70 say we cant send troops on the ground. The war has not been an issue at all in this campaign. We are talking about what congressmen like to call the blood and treasure of america. They go to collect more treasure. It is still less than 1 of the population that goes in the military and pays the terrible price. 99 of the country they go on with your lives, dont pay a price of any kind. Going to war is a big idea. It becomes the burden on those volunteers fighting. Congress and going home, going home to campaign before they voted on this war is the most irresponsible thing since vietnam. It is unconscionable. I agree. We need to talk about this and the American People. This is going to define obamas presidency frankly. Yes, he committed the United States to the war with good reason. Isis is a highly financed military machine moving across the middle east. It terrifies everybody in the west and scares everybody in other countries. Continuing to win on the battlefield. Notwithstanding american airstrikes. The tragedy is it is in a worse position than it was six years ago. I was going to say the short term republican and democratic support for isis removal after the beheadings is not necessarily a longterm commitment to sending in troops or carrying out this war if it is going to be a greater proposition. Isolationism is still out there. A narrative is going to have to persuade people if this is going to be a longerrange commitment what is necessary, and we have to understand that header. Understand that a lot more than we do now. Do think this president has the capacity to change . Or is he so confident in himself or so fatigued by it all that he just wants to go home . I hope it is not the latter. One can imagine after todays results when it becomes clear that the senate has now gone to the republicans, it does give him a fresh start to think again, what do i do with my next two years. That is the one thing they do. They let you reboot. He is going to have to do that to figure out his strategy. They may have to be executive orders, agreeing. Once the republicans are in there they have to do something. They cant keep obstructing and think they are going to look good in because they had 2016 control. Lets hope each one of these gives you a push and you change what you are doing and you think out a different strategy. What do you think . I think he can. I dont know if you will. But i think he can. Is it within him to want that . I suspect. We talk about lets have changes at the white house. That doesnt matter. It is his approach, thats what matters. To some extent it depends on what the republican approach is. It is symbiotic to a degree. I think there is a chance that both will do what doris just enumerated and get some things done while still fighting on other things. What would you advise the president . To get out, to really look at the exciting things happening in the grassroots. Dont look at washington. Look at the experiments on the ground. Brother brokaws song. He could expand his inner circle. Everybody talks about it has become more constricted all the time. A bold move would be to reach out into the middle and find some conspicuous american man or woman who could come in and say here is a new way of looking at it. Not make it a constitutional law seminar but a big political move. I thought they missed an opportunity when they were trying to fight back against the recession. We misread that, we went to Affordable Care. Because we thought the recovery would be a v, and it turned out to be a hockey stick. If you talk to other people involved in American Business they would have said, this is not a recovery in the same way that you think it is. No one in the cabinet had had any real handson experience with dealing with the economy. That was the number one issue. Now it is fuzzier on why people are not happy with the economy. It has to be with middleclass jobs. Can i count on having a middleclass job that will pay for my kids to go to college, and i can go on vacation, own a house . This is what the president said today, what went wrong for president obama. Special reading with the president. With respect to the issue of mandate, i have one mandate, to help middleclass families working hard to get into the middle class. He said that in the east room of the white house. He acknowledged the dangerous of overreach and put forward an expensive agenda, major fiscal reforms, and action on climate change. Two years later he registered progress only on addressing climate change. That sums it up. I dont know anyone who wished. He president is ill we all want the president to succeed. Some of the most prominent republicans say im a republican, i didnt vote for him. I want him to succeed. It is good for business, for our children. They feel more separated in terms of opportunity for him to succeed. There is still this gap. He was not a born politician. He was a constitutional lawyer. He does a walkthrough of the u. S. Senate and he is the chosen man in the election that he won on the first pass. Sam rayburn was right. It helps to run for senate. You get some experience. After 2012, he won. He did move toward using the bully pulpit on gun control. He did everything he would hope you would. He mobilized people live in her fight. He gave speeches. He said this is important. The very thing he wanted done, overwhelmingly, and it still didnt work. That is a tough one to take on even with the emotional content. You look at the nra and their lobby, and their adherence, you are up against a hardcore law. Wall. H brick jon tester, a sender for montana, after he talked about gun control he walked into a tractor show and they said youre going to take away my 3030. That is not what the discussion was about, but in their minds it was. Where does it look in terms of 2016 . Completely unformed on the democratic side, hillary clinton, a favorite. We have never seen anything quite like it. I had never been at this stage in doubt about who i thought about the republican nominee. I have no idea. Im not even sure who is going to run. I think it is unformed. The ufo theory works for me. The unforeseen. I dont know what it is. It can happen to any of these people. Jeb bush is getting more buzz because hes leaning forward. Can he survive fratricide in the primaries and weaning the general . Can the Republican Party reform those early debates, and the kinds of primaries they have so they play to the broader population . Rather than just the true believers . I dont know. The electorate is there like a sulky teenager. The thought of having a bushclinton rematch sums it up. Back to the future. Can you ask this question, does america get the politicians it deserves . Does the American Public deserve a demand, a better debate, or are they simply part of this process of which campaigns are won on small the issues . A, nation of the if you look two. Election cycle, mitt romney was an imperfect candidate. His credentials were terrific representing the party. He had been a successful person. He could say, you fit the criteria. Obama running for a second term, and africanamerican, a democrat with primarily a liberal philosophy, a pretty good representation from each party of a candidate. James reston said the higher we flew, the less we know. Planes took the place of trains. Thank you. Well done, charles. Thank you, great to see you. We will be right back. Stay with us. We continue coverage of midterm elections. Joining us is robert costa from the washington post. He is relevant to what we are talking about looking ahead. He has been spending time with the people who will shape the congress over the next several months after the election. Im pleased to have him back. Tell me what you found. Tell me what is the take away from these series of interviews you have done . Myte like ali and i colleague and i wrote 5000 words for the washington post. It looks at the tension behind this election. We have to start with the president. How did he work with the Senate Democrats starting after he won reelection in 2012 . There has been a disconnect ever since. In what way . The president had an infrastructure and Financial Network that was very successful in 2012. One of the key parts is we look at how senator reed and other democrats were fresh and with frustrated with the white house for not doing enough. The president didnt raise money for Senate Democrats. When it came to working with outside democratic super pacs there was an expectation for more from the vulnerable incumbents. They never felt the president was engaged as he could be. That is something we kept hearing behind the scenes. In these conversations were there things that emerged. My emphasis now is primarily on the future. Not what might have been a debate that did or did not take place. Not even what necessarily brought us to the point that influenced the results. What im interested in, how do people who will still be in power look at what they have to do in the future, and how do they assess the possibilities regardless of whether they control the senate or not, in terms of shaping the next two years of the Obama Administration . At the core of our story is a look at the Republican Party. A transformed Republican Party. We saw in the 2010 cycle a lot of tea party fire. Lee andsenator mike senator ted cruz. There was a certain kind of temperament that was coming out of these contests. In this year we are seeing a Republican Party still very conservative, more congenial, a governing temperament. Boehner, tom tillis, even tom cotton in arkansas. These are conservatives, but with more of a inclination to govern. That will perhaps enable congress to change. We sat down with paul ryan, who is likely to be chairman of the ways and means committee. Hes going to go to the president and talk about tax reform. Is something possible in a divided government . To cut corporate and individual rates . That is the mentality republicans have. Can we get beyond the battles . Are they in a mood that they are prepared to have serious negotiations . And give the president an opportunity to come to the table and express his own interests . Work out what is possible for the future . That is exactly right. There is an appetite among republicans because so little has gotten done since republicans took over in 2011. We have seen very little legislatively. Paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell these are the leaders who want , to see something accomplished. Boehner had an appetite to do a grand bargain. That fizzled. Can they come back in some way . Paul ryan mentioned immigration. Something he believes can be done on tax reform and trade issues. He would like to explore this. The balance for republicans, as much as they want to get legislation done, they are looking ahead to 2016 and the political issues. They want to pressure the president. The question is, how do they do that without alienating the white house . You as a reporter who has earned a reputation for covering congress well, are you optimistic somehow not withstanding what has happened in the past two years that something can be hammered out because they are new candidates coming in in the house, senate . And because they realize people in fact in this election ran not only against the president but against washington. Im more optimistic as a reporter. When we sat down with ted cruz he talked about wanting to have a more aggressive conservative agenda, yet we pointed out in the 2014 Republican Senate primary most Tea Party Challengers were defeated. You saw that in kentucky and mississippi. Thad cochran was saved in his seat. Because tea party firebrands did not win primaries this time around the composition of republicans in congress is different. We will see some loud voices like ted cruz push for a certain kind of strategy. The leadership positions at the top have a different mentality. What do they say they expect . From the president . We hear this across the board. They want to see an attitude change. The want to see engagement with the president. When we spoke to the white house they brush aside this idea the president needs to have a beer with more senators. That is really with the members of congress want. They dont think the president has handled congress appropriately, has the relationships necessary to pass sweeping legislation. Republicans and democrats tell me when they were with the white house they are going to mention the president s legacy to get him off of his chair and the oval office and work with congress. He needs to do this for his own legacy. The Republican Party understands the success they are bound to have tonight comes from the fact that it was about the president , about washington, not about all the virtues of their candidates. They understand that the Republican Party has had a real problem in terms of brand identity. They have to reach out more to groups that have not supported them as much. It is a great point. On the demographics front in terms of reaching out to black voters, women voters, republicans feel like their efforts were more effective this time around. On policy there is more disappointment on the republican side. The party never articulated an agenda as they did in 1994. They may win tonight, but do they have a mandate to make a major conservative push . Not so much. It is not there. Made a broad critique of the theymade a broad critique of the president. Not a specific critique or even ideological. Chief figure in this is john boehner. What can you tell us about john boehner . He has had one of the most difficult experiences as a speaker but he will enter this new congress empowered. He will have an increased house majority. We will see them pick up 510 seats. If you were thinking about challenging him for the gavel its going to be difficult. We spoke to jeb hensarling, his chief rival. He will not challenge boehner. He will have more sway and influence. Expect from Kevin Mccarthy . He is called the dude because he has an easygoing play. He is seen as someone who once modernize the party. He has deep ties in Silicon Valley. Look for him to be the Silicon Valley connection to the party moving forward on technology and policy. Do those people who aspire to be president understand that in order for them to run the have to run on something positive that will appeal . Whether it is reducing taxes this is a time for the Republican Party to have something that they can say is what we stand for. They are still trying to get beyond the legacy of president reagan. There is a debate what is that , going to be . They felt like romneys message on jobs fell flat. There was no policy agenda with the midterms. There is going to be an active debate, we said that what as jeb bush and rand paul and whoever else starts to appear. Governor christie of new jersey said the party needs to have vision to talk about leadership, rather than just taking potshots at democrats. You will see competition on that front. In terms of issues what do you think will be the priority . The leadership will like to do something on tax reform. If that fades and the president and congress cannot Work Together i think the leadership , would like to do something on immigration. You look at the changing map of the country, the changing electorate and feel like yes the Tea Party Wing of the congress does not want to do anything but the republicans dont address immigration it could cause decades long problems. That is something they want to address. Even in a small way. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Live from pier 3 in san francisco, welcome to bloomberg west, where we cover innovation, technology, and the future of business. Im cory johnson in for emily chang. First a check of your Bloomberg Top stories. President obama facing the press a day after democrats lost control of the next senate. The president says he wants to work with republicans. The American People sent a message. One they have sent for several elections. They expect the people they elect to work as hard as they do. They expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job