war he is going to have and it s a war he is going to lose. [cheers] tucker: nobody was fooled by that. knob apparently except for the new york times. in a piece published over the holiday weekend the paper suggested that, you guessed it, sexism was to blame for gillibrand s campaign failures. the times thought that even though gillibrand had as much support among women as she had among men 0%. tammy bruce president of independent s women s voice and host get tammy bruce on fox nation which is fantastic and worth paying the subscription for to see it she joins us tonight. tammy, almost rhetorical question do you believe sexism killed the gillibrand campaign. no i don t believe that the new york times accusing of that other democrats. they are accusing the democratic base of this. because those are the people who have not been responding to her candidacy.
headlines starting with. this jeff sessions telling fox news in exclusive interview he has opened 27 investigations into who is shaving classified information. we are going after this aggressively. i have directed it personally. some of the matters involve this matter and some of it is a matter that i m not recused on and we are pursuing aggressively. jillian: prior to taking office, the attorney general says there were only three open investigations. former hillary clinton campaign chairman john podesta gets grilled about 2016 campaign failures in the midwest. how is it that these russian operatives knew to focus on purple states like michigan and wisconsin and your campaign didn t? well, of course we spent a lot of time and energy and effort in all those cases. hillary clinton herself did not spend much time in those states. we had was there, barack
be in the guest spot. plus, i have a new book out. you re going to love it almost as much as you love the cycle. question for you. can better outreach to people of color save the gop? that s what the rnc is placing its bet on. rnc chair reince priebus rolled out the 200 plus recommendations of the so-called 2012 autopsy report. wait, autopsy? did they die? any way, what has the gop learned from its campaign failures? a weak message, terrible ground game and excluding the voters is not how you win elections. that steve core knacky is 1-1. they hope to reverse the massive losses. over 6%, i m told, of black voters back mitt romney.
out four months after he lost the presidential election, and he and his wife aren t quite over it yet. a little moran than the governor. a very candid mitt romney acknowledged campaign failures and ta can youed about the agony of defeat. i still care and believe there are principles we need to stand for. i look at what s happening right now, i wish i were there, it kills me not to be in the white house doing what needs to be done. shannon travis live in washington, d.c. with more. good morning. reporter: good morning, soledad. i was part of the team that covered mitt romney during the campaign. i have never seen him this candid before. admitting in that quote that you just saw that it kills him not to be in the white house, that he dent have a lot of credibility with the republican party on advising them how to win. and he talked about the very moment he realized he lost the election.
and a couple bad weeks on the campaign trail, first of all, are sort of parse and parcel of every campaign. b, i don t think they speak to the kind of leadership failures that obama s presidency have. i don t think we should be comparing obama s presidency, four years of it nearly now, to romney s campaign failures. i think you can be honest about romney s mistakes, and i ve tried to be, without speaking in epilogue. so you re not going to shut down the republican party after the election? how does anyone do na? that s the thing that jumped out at you? the party will live on. i promise you. you re saying stop hyperventilating. we had laura ingram and rush limbaugh saying the party this is the end of the republican party as we know it. right. what s fascinating to me about this is we re seeing now a