And fascinating. I have met so many great people that want to be part of government and do wonderful things for our country. America has been great to me and i want to be great to america. I want to do something that will put us back on the right course and make America Great again. I am not, and i will never support any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty. Marco rubio was a gang of the eight trying to secure amnesty. You are giving legal status to people who have broken the law. It was marco rubio who was a member of the gang of eight. Ted cruz wasnt. I am ted cruz and i approve this message. I think you might want to say hello to somebody. Hello he is honest, dependable, loyal, relatively funny. He does not brag like some people we know. Who who are you talking about . I cannot remember. He has the same values that american seems to have lost. American needs him. What do you list marco rubios top accomplishment . He won a tough election in florida. Can you name his top accom
Course, budgetary challenges. At the center of all this, is admiral john reich ardson richardson who, since september, has served in the capacity as the 31st chief of Naval Operations. He is a 1982 graduate of the u. S. Naval academy and a Career Navy Submarine officer. He served on several boats, and he commanded the uss honolulu. He served as commodore of submarine Development Squadron submarine group eight as commander of the submarine allied naval forces south, as commander of Naval Submarine forces and as director of naval reactors. Admiral richardson will discuss the u. S. Navys role in this Global Maritime environment. He will lay out his strategic guidance to the fleet and how the u. S. And its partners can maintain maritime superiority. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm National Press club welcome to admiral john richardson. [applause] well, thank you for that very kind introduction, mr. Hughes, and id also like to just pay my respects to our distinguished members of th
Desk. Republicans are edging closer to the magic number they need to gain control of the senate, starting with the senate race in arkansas. The incumbent, mark pryor the democrat, has been defeated by tom cotton, a firsttime congressman, a decorated iraqi war veteran, beating him by a wide margin. Taking a look at the other pickup for the g. O. P. And in West Virginia, the republican Shelly Moore Capito taking Jay Rockefellers seat, beating natalie tenant. The first female senator from virginia. In New Hampshire we do not have a decided race, but the incumbent democrat, sheen shaheen leads matt brown, 53 to 47 . In an undecided race in North Carolina, senator kay hagan, the democratic incumbent leading thom tillis, 51 to 46 , with 24 of the precincts reporting. I want to look at virginia, its a decidedly tight race. The democrats thought it was a safe seat for incumbent senator mark warner, with 78 reporting, the republican challenger, political stratist ed gillespie is beating him 514
America goes to the polls tuesday, and the economy remains the overriding concern for voters. A poll finds job creation and Economic Growth are the most important factor for 41 of voters in congressional elections. This is the highest of any single issue out there. Lets assume you just arrived on earth from mars, and i tell you since the last election, the u. S. Unemployment rate has dropped to 5. 9 . America has created a fairly healthy 192,000 jobs every month since then, but you the martian might reasonably think that americans are happy. And Economic Growth 3. 5 . This all looks pretty good, but welcome to america, martian, the same poll shows that just 36 of americans, of registered voters are satisfied with the state of the economy. 64 are not satisfied. The reason for this gets to the heart of what is happening in america now and what has been happening for the last several decades. It is a story of continued growth in income inequality that this chart makes clear. Since about 1
Just beginning for the republicans. They have taken back control of the senate for the first time in eight years. And for the g. O. P. , the victory was loud and clear. For the democrats, a lot of secondguessing, a lot of work ahead to figure out what went wrong. Lets first go to stephanie sy who is following the news. Democrats had to defend seats in seven states in which obama lost in 2012. All except alaska. The republicans have won all of those seats tonight. Starting in North Carolina, tom til is beating out kay hagan, the democratic incumbent in North Carolina. That was thegol pickup that chair changed the power in the senate . West virginia, this was an expected pickup. Shelly more capism to beating with 62 of the vote in west virginia. That was former democrat Jay Rockefellers senate seat. Another flip there. In the senate place arkan saw, representative tom cotton, a first Term Congressman unseats mark pryor, the Democratic Senate in arkansas. In south dakota, former govern mi