There she is. There she is. Theres the picture. Theres the full screen picture of judy from the diner. At barnes noble tonight. She told you this wild idea she has about maybe i should run for president. I told her that i would very, very happily accept the Vice President ial nomination on the maddow odonnell tick. I thought you were going to say judy. I like that Vice President ial job. You know . Judy has very good taste in diners and very good taste in late night hosts. I know i think show knows who to run for president. Judy spillman, new yorks most famous political strategist. Well done, my friend. Thank you. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Republicans woke up this morning clinging to the wreckage of trumpism and now republicans cannot honestly see any success in their future that involves donald trump but theyre still trying to pretend that there is a future with donald trump. What happened last night all across the country is tired of this. You could smell a wave coming. There was a coalition of the decent in this country that rose up yesterday. The rejection of Donald Trumps fear and divisiveness. The margins of victory, the turnout, the energy are astonishing. Its important for republicans to self reflect. Bing, bing, bong, bong. Doesnt change my reading of the current moment. I think it means we have to deliver. What last night signaled was if you keep going on this path, you will be annihilated. This is a big deal. And really gratifying that our democracy still works. Are you worried about next year . No. I like a good fight. Republican friends better look out. Last night we saw democracy in action. Last year we saw the Electoral College in action. The Electoral College is not democracy. Last night the candidates with the most votes won their elections. That is democracy. And the best way to win elections last night was to have nothing to do with donald trump. Nothing. And last night even the word republican beside your name in many cases meant that voters decided that you were too close to donald trump just by being in the same party with him. And so, republicans in washington today are privately panicked while publicly pretending not to be panicked. As they watch control of the Virginia House hang in the balance while they await the final count of votes in four districts that could flip control of the house to democrats and that is paul ryans exact nightmare scenario. One year from now. With the United States house of representatives. The message to Washington Republicans last night is that they are on their way to a restoration of the nancy pelosi speakership or desperately clinging to an even thinner majority than they have now. Maybe a majority of just one or two seats in the house when the dust clears next year. Republican strategist mike murphy said today the canary in the coal mine didnt just pass out but its head exploded and it exploded because of the head explorer in chief, donald trump. Its a personal rebuke of donald trump and of course donald trump tried to pretend the opposite saying that ed gillespie lost because he did not embrace me or what i stood for. Did not embrace me. Okay. Well, President Trump sure embraced him. Like me, ed is tough on crime and on the border. Ed will protect your family from crime, drugs and violence, something northern will never do. And ed loves the vets, loves the military and loves your second amendment. With your help, ed gillespie will help make America Great again, a phrase that i like a lot. Vote for ed gillespie. Like me, ed is tough on crime and on the border. Like me. Those are the worst two words donald trump could have said about ed gillespie. On sunday, two days before the trump wipeout at the polls, steve bannon was telling anyone whos still listening to him just how much ed gillespie really embraced donald trump. And how smart ed gillespie was to embrace donald trump. Hes really embraced the trump agenda and here in the last four weeks and the Washington Post reporting tonight he may be up one or two points. Look to virginia to see grass roots are fired up copping out to embrace the trump agenda and as gillespie articulated it, the grass roots show up, we win. Yeah. The grass roots showed up. You lost. Donald trump lost. And steve bannon lost and steve bannon proved to anyone in republican politics who still wasnt sure what a complete and total loser steve bannon really is that thats all he knows how to do. Exit polls show that virginia voters rejected the trump bannon poison 57 of virginia voters said they disapprove of the way the president is handling his job with 47 disapproving strongly. Only 17 of voters said the reason they cast a ballot was to support trump. Twice as many, 34 , they turned out specifically to oppose donald trump. President trumps efforts to repeal the Affordable Care act also played a role in Ed Gillespies defeat. Health care was the most important issue for them and those voters broke for democrat candidate ralph northern by a 3 to 1 margin over gillespie. Today congressman taylor from Virginia Beach blamed donald trump. I think it was a referendum and the division and thedy visive rhetoric in the country right now. I think its important for republicans to self reflect all the way starting from the top all the way down. I think it was a referendum on the national policies. On donald trump . I do believe so. A cnn poll shows how bad things look for republicans in next years congressional elections. 51 of americans say its bad for the country that republicans currently control congress. 38 say its good. When asked which party they would choose in a generic congressional race, democrats are preferred 50 to 38 over republicans. Now, im about to show you what speaker of the house paul ryan had to say today. But remember, before you watch it he is a politician. And remember that paul ryan had exactly one job in his Public Comments today. To try to prevent the outbreak of public panic among professional republicans. Paul ryan shows that theres a wave out there. Paul ryan knows that the wave is headed for him. And that the wave can wipe out not just his speakership but it can actually knock him out of his congressional seat. He would not be the first speaker of the house who lost his own reelection in his home district in a wave election. Last time that happened no one even saw that wave coming. That last time. In 1994 when the democratic speaker of the house tom foley was defeated in his own Reelection Campaign in his home district and the democrats lost the house of representatives for the first time in 40 years. It was the most shocking wave election of my lifetime or paul ryans lifetime. And no one saw it coming. Not one person. Not one pundit predicted that the republicans would win the house of representatives first time in 40 years. And that they were going to win back the senate, the very same time. No one predicted any of that but here we are a year out and paurnls looking over his shoulder and he can see the wave coming very clearly because the polls are telling him its coming. And the voters last night told him the wave is coming. And now listen to paul ryan trying to convince fox news radio and the republican members of the house of representatives that theres nothing to worry about because were with trump. Do you have to make a choice as republicans either side with president bush and his politics, 43, of more free trade and maybe some type of immigration compromise, or do you have to go with donald trump . Is it going to be a choice for republicans . Bush or trump . We already made that choice. Were with trump. We already made that choice. Thats a choice we made at the beginning of the year. Thats a choice we made in the campaign. We merged our agendas. Were with trump. That used to get you into some sleazy nightclubs in new york if it was at least half true but were with trump if youre with trump last night, you dont have a job. You dont have an Elective Office job anymore. Paul ryans Republican House members know better. None of them are going to risk their careers for donald trump. Its every man and woman for themselves in the Republican House of representatives now and they know it and some will be best served in their Reelection Campaigns sticking close to donald trump. But the others, the others who can only get reelected by rejecting trump will reject trump. And the ones who arent sure which way to go, watch them. Republican house members who have some doubt about whether to stick with trump or strike out on their own and convince their constituents theyre not trump puppets. Watch them because if theres any doubt at all with those members after last night which way do you think theyre going to go . There f theres any doubt at all the only safe direction for Republican House members is as far away from donald trump as they can get which puts the tax cuts bill in even more danger than it was before last night. Were in trump. Yeah. Sure youre with trump. Until youre not. Joining us now, john heilman, National Affairs analyst for nbc news and david frum for the atlantic and Stewart Stevens for the daily beast. Senior strategist for morns 2012 president ial run. Stewart, i will go to you as the senior republican strategist here. Youre a republican strategist looking to 2018. You wake up this morning and you think what . Well, listen. I think some interesting stuff happened last night and didnt get talked about enough. Im conflicted here. I love ed gillespie like a brother and i just think the campaign didnt really give him a chance to show who he is and happens more often than not in campaigns. But remarkably, the Lieutenant Governor and the attorney general who didnt embrace this sort of cultural war on the republican side that top of the ticket did overperformed. He had a very unusual situation where the female Lieutenant Governor led the ticket. And got more votes than the top of the ticket. I think theres probably a message in that. They still lost. And its still they did a lot better when there was a dropoff on the democratic side between the governor and Lieutenant Governor. Theres an increase on the republican side. And in the attorney generals race. So i think just if you look at in it a poly sci sense, it was a little test and less cultural war message did better last night. And, john heilman, you have it. Its right there. But of course, republicans are going to try to deny it as much as they can publicly. Its overwhelming. I mean, you know, we have been talking about it all day on every show. You know . You think its not just virginia. Its every place. Just across new jersey. It is measures in maine. All the way stretching to the west coast and washington state. You know, its a wave. And, you know, stuart is close to haley barbour, one of my spinners in the Republican Party and likes to say in politics good gets better and bad gets worse. Last night was pretty bad and the momentum coming out of this, you have a couple of concrete things to happen. A lot of republicans in the house of representatives right now, theres at least a couple dozen that i know of who are thinking about retiring before last night. A lot of those people two of them announced last night theyre retiring. There will be more. The retirements will open up vulnerable seats the democrats will be very much be in play. Youre also going to have the Democratic Party now tom perez was on the hook here. You know . This was the first big test for the new dnc, organizing model, investing in the down ticket races. Big, huge win for him. Thats going to reinforce money to flow into the Democratic Party. Candidate recruitment to find better people to win the races. Good gets better. Bad gets worse. I think, you know, paul ryan, that was one of the most unconvincing things i heard a politician say in recent memory. Any republican right mow who doesnt recognize that they are on the wrong side of momentum and that to the extent that donald trump is anything hes a giant albatross around the partys neck right now. Nothing is guaranteed in politics but, man, theres no doubt whose party hand you would rather play . David frum . I think, lawrence, your reading of the intensity is prophetic, true, right. But theres more to the story. One risks underestimating how intense the struggle for power is going to be. And i think that there are people who woke up in the Trump White House this morning and said, we have to get more serious about voter suppression. Probably we cant win this thing in a fair fight but that doesnt mean we will be content to lose. One of the things that was background fact in the result in virginia was that felons regained the right to vote in virginia. Because people who had been pardoned from the crimes voting and the result was illegitimate. You will hear a lot about that. And what it is very hard i know this world well. One of the things it is deep conviction of the conservative world is they speak for the people. When they get evidence of that they dont, they dont respond by confessing it but they redefine who the people and a theme is redefinition of who does and who doesnt belong to the american people. Lets take a look at the nbc news exit poll of virginia by party i. D. And you had democrat on the turnout was 41 democrat. It was 30 republican. Independent 28 . And, stuart, does that tell us something about the energy on the parties . Sure. Theres more energy on the democratic side than republican side. Theres one other thing that happened last night that i think we ought to take a look at and that is that women did very well. Like in pennsylvania, there are a bunch of judicial races and in every race a woman won the race. Even the republican District Attorney candidate who lost in philadelphia did better i think by 2 1 2 times than the last time a male ran. I think theres something to this that theres an energy with women. Im not sure if its just a result of a reaction to donald Trump Presidency or if its part of maybe this sort of awakening of the me too movement but i think it bodes very well for women in 2018. Were going to talk more about that actually in the next segment but listen to what the Washington Post said today about the 2018 outlook for republicans. All told republicans can only afford to lose 23 seats in the house next year. And retain the majority but democrats have their eyes on dozens of su sur ban gop seats that are competitive in president ial or other statewide races. It just so happened that 23 republicans like comstock sits in seats that Hillary Clinton defeated trump in last year as well as another 13 that previously backed barack obama in his president ial races. John heilmann, those are the districts you target if youre the democrats and trying to take control . Right. What we saw was ed gillespie trying to repeat trumplevel numbers in the south and west and rural parts of virginia but he was swamped in the northern suburbs and Loudon County, a collar county, Northern Virginia, that he won three years ago. Ed gillespie won running for the senate three years ago. And he got beat by double digits yesterday. You look at the overall raw vote up i believe 13 in virginia over the last midterm election. The last off year election in 2013. You are looking right at Northern Virginia and there are districts just like that in pennsylvania, in ohio, across the industrial midwest, in the mountain west. Aural over the place. More than the number of the Washington Post pointing to there. Theres got to be like 50 or 60 districts around that are going to be prime battlegrounds that again where democrats remotely guaranteed to win and theyre now in the absolutely in the strike zone for democrats again with this trump drag on the republican ticket. I was watching Steve Kornacki yesterday and when he pointed to what was happening in Loudon County right. He was almost jumping up and down because as you mentioned it was stunning to him and i think steve knew. He told me later that he knew as soon as he saw that that this was over. Stuart and john, thank you for joining us. Coming up, women were a big part of the wins last night. For democrats. You will meet one of them, Ashley Bennett, she challenged a local republican for his seat after he mocked the womens march. Ashley bennett went after that seat and took it away from him to punish him for mocking the biggest inauguration protest in history. When it comes to heartburn trust the brand doctors trust for themselves. Nexium 24hr is the number one choice of doctors and pharmacists for their own frequent heartburn. And all day all night protection. When it comes to frequent heartburn, trust nexium 24hr. Last night we saw was enough. Enough. But now its real. Right . And decent people. This was a mix of democrats and independents and republicans. It was a coalition of the decent in this country that rose up yesterday. Women have been leading that coalition of the decent since the day after the inauguration when the womens march became the largest inauguration protest in history and it was the first worldwide inauguration protest in history. Heres what women were rising up against yesterday. A firstyear president with the worst disApproval Rating in the history of polling. The disapproval he began earning with women before he was president. When youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. 55 of women in new jersey voted for democrat phil murphy running against Chris ChristiesLieutenant Governor, a woman, kim guadagno. In virginia, the virginia governors race, democratic Ralph Northam won 61 to 39 . Thats a 22point spread, better than Hillary Clintons win with women voters in virginia in 2016. Better than senator mark warners win in 2014. Terry mcauliffes gubernatorial win in 2013 and better than president obamas win in 2012. Joining us now, the president and ceo of voter latino and contributor and neera tandan. Neera, you look at the numbers tonight and you see this, that women simply decided this was their night. They were going to take over these races as voters. Women really turned out. There were a lot of women candidates who ran and women candidates who won. But it was really fueled by a diverse coalition. White, College Educated women, women of color. You know . Women of all stripes, really decided enough was enough. They believed enough was enough at the beginning of this administration when the womens marched and have thought its enough is enough throughout this. I would also say that health care turned out to be the decisive issue in virginia. Women have led the resistance to the Health Care Bill and the ones making calls to congress, fighting members of congress on it. Ralph northam was a pediatrician and ran on a medicare expansion. It is the issues and the fact that women saying that donald trump is a threat to the children and to our future and were going to do everything we can to stop him. Im going to quickly recite a selection of women winners. Race for mayor in seattle. She will become the citys first woman mayor in 89 years and the citys first opinionly lesbian mayor. Vi lyles, first africanamerican woman mayor of charlotte, north carolina. Elizabeth guzman, first elected and the first latinas to be virginia delegates. They both beat out incumbent republican white men. Replacing them. Cathy tran, asian women delegate in virginia baetding a republican woman for an open seat. Democrat joyce craig became the first woman mayor of manchester, new hampshire. Thats new hampshires largest city. And maria trace, as you know, thats the tip of the iceberg. Absolutely. We also have the first time a sudanese refugee elected to a local city council. The list goes on. But i thought what was most telling yesterday of the results was that one we finally have a diversified demographic of america, really representing the map of what america is looks like. And people came out bold and they came out and voted. Others putt themselves out there but i also think that its interesting and where the republicans should really, you know, be concerned is that we saw a surge of women from the suburbs come in under the fold of the Democratic Party. Thats been rare. The soccer mom has usually historically be independent and republican. This is not just a wave. That is tsunami heading their way an they have to change course. Neera, what can the republicans do in the face of this . This seems like a very personal, very energetic rejection of donald trump. Well, i think the first thing they could do is stop, you know, basically joining him at the hip. I mean, remember, Chris Gillespie ran very divisive, very racialized campaign. What i was really heartened by and maria raises this is that there was a surge of latino votes in response to the ms13 ads, the antiimmigrant ads we saw from him. Ed gillespie who said a few years ago he was for immigration reform. So i think he made himself i mean, basically trumpian politics was on the ballot and it lost and the first thing republicans can do is to distance themselves from Donald Trumps agenda and donald trump himself. And the fact that paul ryan today is joining himself even more closely, if i were a republican from the suburbs whos facing the wrath of women voters in 2018, i would say that speaker is not representing me. And sorry. Go maria teresa, go ahead. A thing that neera touched upon thats true is 113 increase by the latino vote from the 2013 election this past midterm sen tells me, lawrence, this for them is personal. They are basically putting a stake in the sand saying stop going after the families. Youre being unfair, racist and jeopardizing the safety in the communities and will go out and vote and i can share with you im crisscrossing the country. Logged in 147,000 miles this year and bananas and in the conversations whether its omaha, nebraska, mid land in california, every single Latino Community is having the same conversation. How can we stop this . Thank you both for joining us tonight. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Coming up, well be joined by Ashley Bennett. She is a new jersey now politician who was not a politician who was offended by a new Jersey Republican who insulted the womens march. Ashley bennett took that personally and decided to run against that politician. And now that politicians out of a job and Ashley Bennett has his job. She will join us next. D then yo. You two had been through everything together. Two boyfriends, three jobs. Youre like nothing can replace brad. Then Liberty Mutual calls. And you break into your happy dance. If you sign up for better car replacement™, well pay for a car thats a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. Whstuff happens. Old shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. When you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Last night there were some amazing movies written in the Election Results. Movies that would be hard to believe until last night. Ashley bennett wrote one of those movies for herself. And she will join us later to tell that story. In virginia, voters chose danica rome, they first transgender state legislator over a republican who had been calling himself the states chief homophobe. That was a movie pitch thats habl thats too perfect before last night. Danica rome joininged us on this program last night and she refused to say a negative word about her opponent. Starting next year, delegate marshal will be a constituent and im not going to attack my constituents. If theres a lesson coming out of the race this year its that attacking your constituents singling them out, sigma tizing them and trying to make people feel bad about themselves, thats not our virginia. And another only in the movies outcome, virginia voters chose chris hearst, a former local tv anchor who quit his job and became a gun safety advocate after his girlfriend Alison Parker was shot and killed on Live Television as she was doing a report. Last night, he won a seat in the house of delegates over an opponent who had a a rating from the National Rifle association. Heres what he said today. I wish that i was still with alison, was still a journalist working at the television station that we worked at together but that wasnt the plan that god had intended for me and for her. And so, i sought about trying to forge a new path and create a new plan. In montana, voters elected a refugee from liberia, democrat collins as a first africanamerican mayor. In new jersey, voters replaced republican freeholder john carman who got National Attention in january when he posted this on facebook. Will the womans protest be over in time for them to cook dinner . John carman then said this when asked to apologize. Women who are sure of themselves, they didnt get offended by this. If it hurts your feelings, it wasnt posted with any malice. Its not an issue. Okay. Were leaving. Ashley bennett was one of the women who walked out of the meeting in protest. She decided to run against john carman for Atlantic County freeholder and last night she beat him. Ashley bennett drove republican john carman out of office because he insulted her and the millions of americans who joined the womens march all over the country. And joining us now for exclusive interview is ashley ben ned. Ashley, tell us about that moment when you decided to do this. Hi, lawrence. Thank you so much for having me. Well, that moment was just a moment of pure shock. I just couldnt believe that in 2017 we were actually seeing this. And i went to the freeholder meeting after writing him a letter. I didnt get a response and i waited to see what kind of response he was going to give and as you just showed in the clip that was the response. And i took off of work. I used Vacation Time to go to that meeting and i felt like it was a waste. And so i walked out. And for all the people who felt like their voice wasnt heard, i said ill run and be your voice. Did it you say it that day walking out of the meeting, i will run . I went home and i said to my family how upset i was and they said, why dont you run . And i said, well, i will run. And how did you find the time to do that, to mount a campaign . Not an easy thing to do. Holding down your own job and other responsibilities. How did you change your life to do that . Sure. It was not an easy balance by any stretch but i had a lot of support. I had support from friends and family members and my coworkers and my supervisors. Everyone was excited. And they really just pitched in to try to help me where they could, whether it was switching shifts, whether it was ill stay late so you can come in late. Or ill stay later for you to leave early to be somewhere. It was just its not just me. It was a movement of people. And im just really thankful. And have you spoken to john carman since the election last night . I have not. And i understand. Thats fine. I did see a post on facebook and at this point the voters have spoken and i havent spoken to him but i understand. So im just happy to have the support of all the voters who came out in this election. It means so much to me and so humbled and grateful to run in the community where im born and raised and went to high school. It means everything to me. Ashley bennett, you are what american democracy is supposed to be all about. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. And thank you to everyone who came out. Thanks, ashley. Coming up, guess who has the perfect advice for republicans if they want to keep losing elections. Listen up, heart disease. You too, unnecessary er visits. And hey, unmanaged depression, dont get too comfortable. Were talking to you, cost inefficiencies, and data without insights. 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Thats just the gibberish that republicans like Lindsey Graham say publicly after a night when they know they got wiped out. But if you want if you want to get the feeling that Lindsey Graham was making sense, listen to steve bannon because that is a brain out of control, a brain that makes absolutely no sense. Youre going to hear steve bannon Say Something about how nancy pelosi would like to impeach President Trump and use the idea of nancy pelosi and democrats impeaching President Trump as a reason to vote for and preserve the republican majority in the house of representatives but in the middle of it he goes on this insane rant about paul ryan. Its bannon talking. You have to listen to him say it. Impeach the president of the United States. Thats all nancy pelosi lives for. She knows ryans going to play right into her hands and force amnes amnesty down the throats of the Republican Party and the voters of the Republican Party. And break the back of the grassroots and enthusiasm for 18 and we lose those seats. And after they swear themselves in january 19, what will they do . Whats the first action to take against donald j. Trump . Payback for all of this, right . The incoherent madman says that paul ryan is going to force amnesty down the throats of republicans in the house of representatives. That is, of course, not going to happen. A new nbc news wall street journal poll shows donald trump has a negative Approval Rating in some very, very important counties. The county that is basically give him the presidency, the counties that went for barack obama in 2012. On average, 50 of the voters in those counties now disapprove of the president while 48 still approve. So tonight, with numbers like that on an election held tonight donald trump probably would not win those counties, probably would not win the Electoral College. When we come back, what the republicans are really telling themselves privately about this because everything youre hearing them say publicly is just a lie about what happened yesterday. Jay chooses to run every day. No matter what it brings. Or where he is. And pain doesnt hold him back. Thanks to dr. Scholls running insoles. The only ones proven to relieve and prevent pain from runners knee, shin splints and plantar fasciitis. Dr. Scholls. Born to move. Theyre trying to say last night was a referendum on donald trump. True or false . Well, its definitely false. I think what we had was an establishment candidate, ed gillaspie won a very hard fought primary versus cory stuart and then didnt really try to embrace President Trump or the Trump Program until very late we just kind of basically talked about some of the issues. Okay, steve bannon says that ed gillaspie really didnt try to embrace President Trump or really the Trump Program. He says that tonight, wednesday night. Listen to what steve bannon said about ed gillaspie on sunday night. Hes really embraced the trump ajnlda here in the last four weeks and the Washington Post reporting night he may be up one or two points. And david from is back with us. David, these people who listen to steve bannon, they must have extremely limited Attention Spans to listen to him tonight saying gillaspie didnt really embrace the trump agenda, sunday night saying gillaspie embraced the trump agenda. Steve bannon doesnt use words the way you do, laurence. You use words to describe a reality from minute to minute. Steve bannon uses words to conjure feelings, to elicit reactions. So theres a stability there, not an intellectual stability but an emotional stability. And the emotional stability is to rev people up. Hessert of right. There is an Uneasy Coalition between the gillaspies and the ryans of the world on the one hand and the trumps of the other. Hes right about that. And sometimes they Work Together and sometimes they dont. But i still with that dont understand how anyone can take steve bannon seriously. I mean this is just a hustler out there trying to raise money for his venters, a hustler who will say ed gillaspie and embrace donald trump say that on sunday night. And on wednesday say ed gillaspie did not embrace donald trump. What kind of fools listen to a liarli liar like this . But hes not exactly a liar. Even for a liar the words have meaning. Think of it as music. Hes a musician. These are tones of grievance and anger. And its important to understand because were going to hear more of this ahead. They will say the smart play for the republicans in the next 12 months is to pass the tax cut, make it as top loaded as you can, and even if you lose the house the president s veto can defend the tax cuts in 2021 and anything can happen. But thats not the way steve bannon thinks. He doesnt care about tax rates one way or the other. 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And so imagine my joy when Stephen Colbert began our discussion of the book with the books very first sentence. Now, you say in the first sentence, you talk about roger ales meeting Richard Nixon back in 68. Why start there . Because roger ales met Richard Nixon at a show like this, the mike douglas show that ales was a producer of. He met nixon in the makeup chair. Nixon love this guy, ales, pulls him into his campaign. Takes him out of show business into politics. Roger ales completely changes the way tv campaigns are run, gets nixon elected, goes onto help reagan elected and george h. W. Bush elected and then creates fox news. If Richard Nixon had not met roger ales in that mike douglas makeup chair we dont know who the president of the United States would be today, because roger ales created this amazingly effective Republican Television network called fox news, which supported trump all the way. And without that, i dont believe donald trump would have made the Electoral College outcome go his way. And then theres other sentences after that. There are. Theres a lot. Theres a lot. Playing with fire is out now. And then theres other sentences after that. Stephen colbert gets tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams is next. Tonight what those stunning Election Results mean for the president and his party as the gop assesses the damage and as steve bannon goes on tv tonight to say its the democrats who are in the midst of a civil war. Plus donald trump live in china at this hour. The country once victim to his mockery has rolled out the red carpet. The question now is will they help combat the threat of north korea . All that plus new developments on the russia front tonight. A busy night as the 11th hour gets under way. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 293 of the trump administration. And a year ago tonight we were gathered in this studio watching it happen as donald trump was elected president of the United States. We expect to hear from the