Fighting for, the things that motivate me, every single day and motivate my staff every single day, those things arent going to change. The president s press conference, kimberly clocked in at an hour and 13 minutes. And it was exhilarating. And you were riveted into television. Lets just hear our reactions and i think i will save bob for last. I thought he hit the right tone begrudgingly, he tries to set up so i will work with them, and i could count on their cooperation, now hes going to have to back whack up what he s. Whether he wants to admit it or not, the party and the presidency took a beating last night. The question was, what did you think about last nights elections . Im talking about the he didnt talk about anything he wants. Im anxious to say. You dont have to correct him, kimberly, i like that reaction. I want to talk about the president s comments right now as a reflection on what happened last night. Is that okay with you . I was just trying to be helpful. Thanks, bob, i appreciate your cooperation. The best part was that he wanted to drink some kentucky bourbon with mcconnell. My overall impression last night was it was a big, big win for the republicans, i dont think anyone can deny it, i thought it was an Incredible Movement in the right direction, but they cannot squander the game, they better show that they deserve it, they have earned it and now pay it forward. Eric, when New Hampshire was called early and republican scott brown did not win, were you starting to get nervous for the republicans . Mcconnell was called real early, so everybody was like okay i see where this is going to go. And then georgia was call fairly early, they thought it was going to be a runoff, then the florida governors race, if this is going to be a big wave, how is crist going to give scott a run for his money in florida. Its just one after the other, they turned, they turned, governors races in blue states falling one after the other, those are all indicators, and you can see the ground swell happening. Can i just touch on president obama today . Sure. He still will not admit that his policies, he said it before, im not on the ballot, but my policies are, and he will not admit that the American People stood up and said we dont want your policies, we want to go in a different droekation. He continued to say, he talked about things like isis, immigration, minimum wage, hes going to push through hiss policies, even though the American People said, hold on, slow down, were not necessarily on board with all of them. When you look across the races last night, so there was the senate that was obviously very important, but historic gains in the house, 24in the house, also state legislatures all across the country, you saw huge gains, and a lot of improvements on the ground game for republicans, but they werent sure, this is like the first test of whether they had improved in that area, that needed a lot of help. All right, all those things are facts, its not projection, its not imagine what if that happens. It happened. Thats why i look so forward to the press conference, which got started almost on time, which is the first time in a long time. This is the change we were hoping for. The gop wins, early wins for gop. Everyone most people who are Clear Thinking describe it as a thumping. To quote your exboss. So i think im the last optimist left to think that the president s going to see this and its going to change. Im not filling it up with any accomplishments, except challenges in falling short, im hoping that hes going to say heres what were going to change, i called mitch and this is what were going to do, we have had problems in the past, ive got to put it behind me. Executive action is coming down the pike, all my policies are going to stay the same, if you dont give me what i want you to give, its just going to sit on harry reids desk. The questions were great, Jonathan Karl and others. The questions were grate. And then im wondering, its been a minute, has he answered anything . After an hour, i thankfully had to go, i had an interview. I was looking so forward to it. The president is not getting the message, and theres no one Strong Enough like a david gergen to say, i have been down this road before. Watching some of these returns, some of the things were not surprising, like you, i think thought that New Hampshire would go the way that it did. But the other ones were a little bit more surprising, especially because of the margins. A couple things, first of all, the democrats ran into, this is not you know, people are going around this is a historically what happens, but you had an unpopular president , and you had red States Running for the most part in a low turnout, that means disaster for the democrats and it was. Now, the question is, on the margins, did you notice that every one of those close races ended up being five, six points for the republicans . Which means that nearly every undecided voter broke at the end against the incumbent. They broke against democrats, all right, fine. The question is, what happens what else did we learn from this thing . We learned that in my view that the map is found to be colored permanently. We now have red, we have blue and we have four states what about colorado ro . I was about to say, there was four of them, theres north carolina, theres virginia, theres virginia, north carolina, florida, ohio and colorado. Thats it. Now the rest of these states are now locked in. If Jeanne Shaheen can survive that last night, New Hampshire will be a blue state. Now the question now is, whos going to win over those states . And now the legislature is there and the governors there, its a mixed bag, in colorado you have a governor that survived barely. You mentioned virginia, which had been a red state then a blue state and back and forth. And ed gillespie, we told you here on the five to watch that race. Its still not called. Would you put virginia in that category as well . Lets get back to that press conference, we have a sound bite for you from major garrett. Mitch mcconnell said and i quote, that if you in fact use your executive authority to legalize a certain number of undocumented workers, it would poison the well, in the after math of last nights results, that the verdict rendered by voters should stop you or prevent you from taking that action. They will ask you to repeal the medical device act. My executive actions not only do not prevent them from passing a law that supercedes those actions, but should be a spur for them to actually try to get something done. On keystone, theres an independent process, its moving forward. And the im going to let that process play out. Medical device tax, let me take a look comprehensively at the ideas that they present, lets give them time to tell me. I would rather hear it from them than from you. Eric, thats not exactly how the founder has envisioned america, right . The congress is supposed to pass the law, and the president is supposed to sign it or veto it. He said im going to use any executive power, the pen and the cell phone like he promised. Now the senate now, the house and the senate dont like it, they can go ahead and pass a law that will end up on his desk anyway, and hell still be able to say, ill choose the executive order that i signed, or if i dont like that one, im going to veto that one. To then theyll say youre overstepping your bounds, were going toism peach you. And if it does create jobs and it does allow gas prices to come down. Ill give him that, some of the other things i think theyre going to have a hard time with. Keystone pipeline, just my gut reaction, he may be willing to do that. You start small, with a medical device tax, which hes got democratic support for. You would think if it gets there, my plan has to get financing somehow, some way. One the American People overwhelmfully want Immigration Reform and they want people who are here to get in the back of the line, but get a way towards citizenship, they made that very clear. On minimum wage, red states, five states all voted for minimum wage. And how did the governor can you let me finish for a minute . Thank you. I was magnanimous last time. I didnt jump in there. I think the pipeline is going to be a i think he will approve the pipeline, but youre going to get minimum wage, and theres a federal minimum wage. Youre getting a completely different story. This is going to cost how many jobs . None, zero. The nonpartisan people, i forgot the names of the group, came out and said its going to cost 500,000 jobs, from the congressional budget office. The cbo, excuse me. Look, it is, youre right, it is individual states, but the states are looking at this and theyre going to pass minimum wage laws, whether you like it or not, its going to happen. Im okay with it on a state by state level. Thats the way its supposed to happen. The states that passed it did not do a oneside size fits all approach. They passed laws that are going to sit for their state. Thats what the federal objection is. Kimberly, let me ask you this, president obama has suffered two defeats in the midterms, its 2010 and now 2014. I think this one hurt more. What could the president do to not be a drag on democrats in 2016 . Is there anything he could do in the next two years that could actually help democrats rather than hold them back from wins . S there, attitude change, attitude change. You dont think her heard attitude change in the press Conference Today . I think that was a little bit of feigned attitude change and i would like to see him work on something specific, put his money where his mouth is. There are a few things that he can do that make sense for the country, that arent going to hurt him, but shows that hes being a little bit more conciliatory, that hes going to work for the other side, the air again send executive authority and say okay, im listening to the American People, democrats can count on me too, im no longer going to be a burden to you. I dont know that hes going to do it. I still think ed henry stepped in, like i said yesterday, do something, like just move a little. Show a little flexibility. You think the president will do anything in the white house, or at least as in Senior Management or something that will give him a different direction, a new way of looking at the world. Theres going to be a lot of people that are going to jump ship, probably pretty quickly. The Judiciary Committee is in the hands of the senate, and theres a lot backed up. The good news for the democrats is that their base, hispanics 21 again for the democrats. I dont think its bob, i think you have to look at greg abbott, the new governor of texas, 34 . On a national vote, it was about the same as it was. And young people but if they had the turnout that they had two years ago, none of it comes with a loss. That doesnt happen in the midterms. But what i think obama needs to do, he needs to have these guys out on friday and say theres three things we can work on, tax reform , immigration an one other thing. Trade promotion authority. Are you going to stick around for the hour that were to have on trade promotion . Its commercial free, its amazing. And stay tuned for our reactions to the results of we are back in a moment. We heard from the senates next majority leader. Number one, theyre not with the direction of the administration. But at the same time, i heard a lot of discussion about dysfunctionation in washington but maybe theres some things we can agree on. The first thing i need to do is to get the senate back to normal. And that means working more, let me make it clear, there will be no government shutdowns and no default on the national debt. Love it. And the one thing that the president said in this News Conference he gave earlier is that he has found Mitch Mcconnell to be a man of his word, that if he says he can get something done, its true. Mitch mcconnell was minority leader, when president bush lost the majorities in that midterm. One of the things the democrats did was that they said they were going to refund the war. And pelosi president bush didnt lose a single one of those votes, hes an excellent parliamentarian, hes a creature of the senate. I feel like daddys home. I think its going to be really solid. On friday, what should they do . God gave you two ears and one mouth and you should use them accordingly, use them in proportion. I think on friday when president obama invites you down, they should do a lot of listening, they dont have to tell president obama everything they feel at the moment, they should just go and be respectful and listen, at least to establish some basis of trust to Work Together i think that would be good. We have not talked about the problems in the middle east in the past couple of weeks, but they are dire and getting worse and the president is going to need republican support in order to do the right thing there. So how should the presumptive minority leader use this new power. Many people on the right respect Mitch Mcconnell. I like what he said, number one, repatriating funds of offshore funds, American Companies doing business offshore, leaving it there, because if they bring it back they will be taxed at 35 . President obama said i would also like to entertain that, that will be one way they can get it together and have a bipartisan agreement to make the economy better to create jobs. Great idea. Mitch mcconnell, hes got to wait and see what happens. Already there are people on the right taking shots. He is the presumptive, but hes definitely not vote in the yet. Its presummitive. I think he made a mistake when he went public early on when he said my goal is to make sure president obama is a one term president , of course everybody in the opposite party wants to get their guy in there. Ill go with you, dana and do some listening, but one thing about if the, when you talk to lawmakers, i would say hey, listen, you want tax reform, heres our plan, it came from the house, tell me what you like about it and dont like about it. Heres what i would like to do with the defense budget, heres what i would like to do with the military budget. So specifically after them. I think its important not to dont get people to say look at the back biting and look at how petty theyre being. Show respect for the office, but also show we got a mandate, mr. President , its a new law and order scheme and we have to pays attention to it. Because you cant go on. That press Conference Today made me feel as though its going to be another two years of nonstop filibuster. Like sticky taffy, stretched out. You just want to eat it. Enough. Bob . Im a parliamentarian, and the only person i can think of that makes harry reid look exciting. Its not a guy whos going to get in front of the cameras and feel like they have a daddy in charge. Hes not an aerobics instructor, bob. Whats wrong with boring . I like boring. Of course you do. Its nice to have a senator whos not running for president. Someone who actually wants to do the work. What he said last night in his acceptance speech, he said i understand that the president s world view did not change tonight. Mine did not either. Maybe you can work with somebody who can understand. Youll never see Mitch Mcconnell come to the senate floor and complain about tom stier over and over again. I think boring is exactly what i found that to be encouraging, i just dont frankly think its the republicans. There is something he said is very interesting, to go back and appeal that nuclear option, which would mean its a more debated laws and bills that passed. I just have one quick thing to to add. Are you done after six years of doing everything the president said . Because oa lot of people lost their job because your voting step was locked in with the president. Who will go along with what agenda and see if theres other people besides joe manchin that can be reasonable on the other side. How refreshing, we actually have somebody who gets something done. You just led the way for the republicans to earn back the majority in the senate. That is a big deal. He did that . You can definitely say that he was the leeader of that, absolutely. Hes been working tirelessly on that. That wasnt easy. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Dont move. Our reactions and results of some of the races we have been talking about for months here on the five. Thats next. Plus Greta Van Sustren finally got an exclusive interview from the marine who was held in mexico. Welcome back. In case you havent heard, republicans have seized control of the senate. They gained seven seats last night and they may be gaining even more, races have not been called yet in virginia and alaska and louisianas going to have a runoff next month. In the house, republicans have a gain of 14 seats, and expand the majority to the biggest in a decade. And the victories didnt stop there, in the governors races, republicans defended seats in the electoral states of wisconsin and florida and scored huge upsets in deep blue states like illinois and maryland. Were going to go around the table very quickly. Were going to pick onedana, th want to highlight. Elise stefanik, shes 30 years old, she will be the youngest woman elected to the congress. Shes a friend of mine, she used to work in the white house, she was the assistant to chief of staff josh bolton. She won handily in the general, she outmessaged him, she raised a ton of money and she was able to bring that home, so there was a lot of energy that she brings to the congress and i wish her very well. You want to comment on the youngest female congressman being a republican . I think thats terrific. Fantastic. Brian . Okay, have a little dialogue over virginia, dana parino is the only one that i knew of who said i think ed gillespie has a great chance in virginia. And the guy th and. Rolled their eyes, said that was stupid. Didnt say stupid. But dreamed that you were so friendly with him. Turns out. He was down double digits four weeks as, then single digits, then his internal poll showed he was up one. I was like wait a second, i dont think thats right. The republicans didnt support him because they didnt think he could win. Only joe trippi came out and said he doesnt have a big enough lead and Northern Virginia hasnt come in yet. I wrote gillespie, i wrote him