♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president obama today chalked up democrats' big election losses to voters' frustration with washington gridlock. he told reporters he'll try to cooperate with republicans, who'll now control both the house and senate. >> as president, i have a unique responsibility to make this town work. i hear you. to the two/thirds who chose not to participate, i hear you too. >> woodruff: at the same time, the president said he'll take action on immigration by year's end, unless the lame-duck congress acts first. we'll have full coverage of the election, including more of the president's remarks and the republicans' take, after the news summary. >> ifill: advocates of legalizing marijuana scored new victories tuesday. alaska and oregon voted to allow use and sales and washington d.c. decriminalized possession of small amounts. elsewhere, alaska joined arkansas, nebraska, and south dakota in voting to increase the minimum wage in their states. and washington state approved expanded background checks for private gun sales. >> woodruff: violence flared in jerusalem again today, with two incidents of palestinian vehicles slamming into pedestrians. the first came early in the day, whe a palestinian militant drove his minivan into a crowd killing one person. geraint vincent of independent television news reports. >> between the jewish and arabarea, the ambulance will ct in what was a deadly lunchtime attack. on this tv footage, you can see a group of people waiting at the tram stop on the left of your screen. from the right-hand side a white van appears and goesnñthrough th speed. a few moments later the same vehicle is stuck in traffic. the driver has got out and runs around the junction before being confronted by police. >> he got out of the vehicle, attempted to attack a number of innocent people. the police officers arrived at the scene shot and killed the suspect. >> that suspect has been identified as 38r>abehaim. they say he isñh f a martyr andcalled it a glori. >> this is the second incident of its kind to take place in jerusalem in as many weeks. it has long been a religious focus between the conflict between israel and palestinian. rightmífor the violence itself. >> these streets are used to violence. towards the jewish parts of the city, it's becoming ever more dangerous to stand by the road. >> hours later police said a large commercial vehicle with palestinian license plate struck and injured three pedestrians.m a search was under way for the driver. >> ifill: in yemen, a drone strike overnight killed a senior al-qaeda official wanted by the u.s. reuters reported the man was identified as shawki al-badani, a leader of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. he's wanted by the u.s., and the yemeni government has offered a $100,000 reward for his capture. >> woodruff: back in this country, the election outcome and a rebound in oil prices pushed wall street mostly higher. the dow jones industrial average gained 100 points to close at 17,484; the s&p 500 added 11, to finish at 2,023; but the nasdaq fell three points to close at 4,620. >> ifill: we devote the rest of the program to yesterday's political earthquake. what will republicans do with their big win? what will the president and his party do about their big losses? two members of congress talk about the way forward. how the election is resonating around the country. how it's resonating around the world. pivoting to the next campaign. and, the winners and losers you may not have heard about. >> woodruff: on this day after the elections of 2014, the nation's capital city was beginning to take stock of the fundamental changes wrought by what the voters said who showed up at the polls yesterday. >> ifill: sunrise found the u.s. capitol looking much the same in its scaffolding, but many of the people who will fill the building changed overnight. a republican wave rolled across the land, handing the g.o.p. control of the senate, and a beefed-up majority in the house. iowa's joni ernst was one of seven republicans to win a democratic senate seat. >> people ask me all the time what my favorite part of the campaign has been. well, i think tonight, nothing is going to beat tonight. thom tillis scored another takeaway in north carolina and today, he said he'd make good on his pledge about obamacare. >> i suspect that there will be a repeal bill that will be sent to the president, i also suspect he'll veto it. so then what we'll need to do is take a look at things we can delay like employer mandates, a number of the things if we can delay them and replace them with something more sustainable that's what we'll ultimately need to focus on. i made a promise i would vote for a repeal bill. i intend to follow up on that promise. >> ifill: in louisville today, the man who will likely be the new senate majority leader, kentucky's mitch mcconnell focused more on possible cooperation with the white house. >> american people have spoken they have given us divided government. question is what are you going to do with it? i want to first look for areas of agreement. that's what we're going to be talking about in next few weeks. >> ifill: mcconnell said he had just spoken by phone with president obama. he warned against unilateral action on immigration, but vowed there will be no government shutdowns or default on the national debt and raised trade and tax reform as areas of potential agreement. >> we're going to pass legislation. this gridlock and disfunction can be ended. it can be ended by having a senate that actually works. >> ifill: to that end, there will be at least 52 republicans a net gain of seven seats. democrats will have at least 43, there are two independents, and three seats are still up in the air. in louisiana, democratic senator mary landrieu was forced into a december runoff against republican bill cassidy. in virginia, democratic incumbent mark warner has declared victory over ed gillespie, but may yet face a recount. and in alaska, republican dan sullivan leads incumbent mark begich, but votes are still being counted. as for the house, not since the days of president harry truman has it been so republican as it will be come january with nearly 250 seats in g.o.p. hands. voters also delivered stunning verdicts in a number of governor's races. maryland republican larry hogan claimed a surprise victory in the heavily democratic state, and recapped his win today. >> even though we were hopeful and optimistic and confident last night it still was kind of a shock when state troopers showed up at our hotel room and said we're here to protect you governor. >> ifill: republicans reclaimed the governor's mansion in illinois, as well as bruce rauner ousted incumbent pat quinn. combined, the two campaigns spent close to $100 million dollars. and republican governors in wisconsin, florida and kansas fended off stiff challenges, giving the party at least 32 state houses. along with electing more governors, republicans made headway in state legislatures. they picked up at least three chambers the nevada senate, the minnesota house and the west virginia house. with resounding victories coast to coast at every level of government, our next guest had reason to celebrate last night. reince priebus is the chairman of the republican national committee. he joins us now. welcome. hi'm congratulations. was last night's victory due to the democratic message and the candidates or was this the strength of the republican candidates and their message? >> i think it was a little of both.number one, i think we didt great candidates out in the field and that's first and foremost what you have to do. but i think what really happened last night was pretty stunning and you hit on it very well. on one hand president obama and his policies were totally reputated and so was anybody connected to those policies. that's the first piece. the second piece was, is that the governors, the republican governors that were advanced conservative governing principles were all embraced. whether it was in maryland, massachusetts, wisconsin, you name it. so not only was the president rejected, republican principals were embraced. the last thing i will tell you that is important is that we beat the democrats on the ground. i mean the vaulted democrat groundgood job, we did a littlet better and we beat them at their own game. i think that's a big story coming out of last night. >> ifill: i want to ask you about that night because after the last elections you embarked on what you yourself termed as an autopsy of why the republicans did not do well. is what we saw last night the fruit of that autopsy? >> well, right. and what we got out of that report was that we needed to be a party that wasn't just an organization that showed up once every four years a few months before the election. we didn't want to be a part of just a u haul trailer of cash. we needed to be a party that was obsessed with the data the ground game andtw3q all the borg stuff people never want to talk about. but that really is the way you have to win these elections and you just did a much better job. we either beat the democrats on the ground or we at least places. they used to steam roll us in some these states but they didn't yesterday. >> ifill: that's certainly true. that go into politics but÷uñ:ñ a lot of americans, the frustration is about washington and what washington was or was not doing. how much how far that do you take to hearthe majority not one but the÷state legislatures, govs mansions. this is going to go pretty deep. >> yes, i think that's true. i think people are tired of a lot of things in politics and maybe all of it. but i think that's why one of the things that the president should do is say okay i'm going to go to harry reid's office, soon to be mcconnell'sy8kand i'h these 260 bills that are there and i'm going to tell the republicans here are the bills i'm willing to work with you on and starth,because there's cleao be something the president is willing to work with out of 360 bills sitting there. so we can pass a budget. as you know, you don't need the president's signaturebudget. we can work on the keystone pipeline and a lot of other things i think will help get the economy back on track. >> ifill: it's interesting. i wonder if you think last night was a mandate. >> well, it was absolutely a mandate. it was a mandate really opposing the principles and the policies of barack obama because he himself made it about his principles. one thing if i was just spinning some political spin. but the president actually went out of his way multiple times and he was irritated with these democrats that were running for senate. he went out of his way to say no, no, no, my policies are on the ballot, you all supported these policies. >> ifill: my question is it's a mandate for you to do something or for you to just wait for the president to do something?d$>> no. i think it's incumbent on everyone to try and work together. i mean there's no question. i think it's a mandate for everybody and i guess that goes back to your question a couple questions ago which is do people expect republicans and democrats to work together and i think the answer to that question is yes. but what i'm suggesting to you is that we can't erase the fact that the election yesterday was a repudiation of the president's policy. so we're not going to work to advance the president's policies but we are going to work with the president to see where we can find common ground to get the country back on track. >> ifill: reince priebus, theq< hnational committee. i think he can use some sleep right now. thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: one of the key questions facing president obama after yet another major midterm loss: what kind of message and changes would he signal about his leadership style and agenda? the president came out to face those concerns. at one point, he was asked why he didn't sit down and socialize more with senator mcconnell and others during the past six years. the president said he would work harder on that front, but also made it clear there was a limit on how far he would go. here are some of his remarks. >> obviously, republicans had a good night, and they deserve credit for running good campaigns. beyond that, i'll leave it to all of you and the professional pundits to pick through yesterday's results. what stands out to me, though, is that the american people sent a message. one that they've sent for several elections now. 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 done. all of us, in both parties, have the responsibility to address that sentiment. i'm eager to work with the new congress to make the next two years as productive as possible. i'm committed to making sure that i measure ideas not by whether they are from democrats or republicans but whether they work for the american people. and that's not to say that we won't disagree over some issues that we're passionate about we will. congress will pass some bills i cannot not sign. i'm pretty sure i'll take some actions some in congress will not like. that's natural, that's how our democracy works. >> reporter: despite the optimism that you're expressing here, last night was a devastating night for your party. given that, do you feel any responsibility to recalibrate your agenda for the next two years, and what changes do you need to make in your white house and in your dealings with republicans in order to address the concerns that voters expressed with your administration? >> the american people overwhelmingly believe that this town doesn't work well and that it is not attentive to their needs, and as president, they rightly hold me accountable to do more to make it work properly. i'm the guy who's elected by everybody, not just from a particular state or a particular district, and they want me to push hard to close some of these divisions, break through some of the gridlock and get stuff done. so the most important thing i can do is just get stuff done and help congress get some things done. i do think there are going to be areas where we do agree on infrastructure, on making sure that we're boosting american exports, and part of my task, then, is to reach out to republicans, make sure that i'm listening to them. >> reporter: are you going to have that drink with mitch mcconnell now? you joked about it at the white house correspondents dinner. >> you know, actually, i would enjoy having some kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. i don't know what his preferred drink is, but, you know, my interactions with mitch mcconnell, he-- you know, he has always been very straightforward with me. to his credit, he has never made a promise that he couldn't deliver. and, you know, he knows the legislative process well. he obviously knows his caucus well. >> reporter: moments before you walked out here, sir, mitch mcconnell said, and i quote, "that if you, in fact, use your executive authority to legalize a certain number of millions of undocumented workers, it would poison the well," direct quote, "and would be like waving a red flag in front of a bull." do you not believe that is the considered opinion of the new republican majority in the house and senate? >> i have no doubt that there will be some republicans who are angered or frustrated by any executive action that i may take. those are folks, i just have to say, who are also deeply opposed to immigration reform in any form. i just want to re-emphasize this, major. if in fact there is a great eagerness on the part of republicans to tackle a broken immigration system, then they have every opportunity to do it. my executive actions not only do not prevent them from passing a law that supersedes those actions, but should be a spur for them to actually try to get something done. >> woodruff: republicans won so many seats last night, in part, by deriding president obama's policies. but he still has two years left in office. can the two sides bridge the gap and work together on anything? we get the perspective of two lawmakers. representative david schweikert, a republican from arizona. and, maryland congressman chris van hollen, a former chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee. both men were re-elected last night. congratulations to both of you. congressman swierk and congressman van hollen. to you first, congressman schweikert. they spoke and said loud and clear about the grid lock. is there going to be less grid lock now. >> i do hope so because many of the voters actually were able to understand much of the grid lock may have been at the senate majority leader's desk. what will happen now if we actually go back to sort of normal ways of doing business, conference committees going back and forth. actually putting legislation on the president's desk for him sign or veto or kick back saying what he's willing to do. i may be optimistic butvó5tx looking for some normal movement of legislation at least an attempt of it. >> woodruff: congressman van hollen are you as optimistic. >> i'm an optimistic and i hope certainly we're able to move forward on these things. but dave mentioned the fact that there are all these bills in the senate for example that harry reid hadn't had a vote on.q2s but if you look at the house, there's a whole pile of bills that1which is interestingly last night saw strong public support for. so raising the minimumpassed inh dakota, passed in nebraska, passed in alaska. we haven't had ñ chance in thehouse to vote ons blocked in the senate. so there's some initiatives that we'd love to see that we've not had a chance to. >> woodruff: before i ask you about specific pieces of legislation, congressman schweikert do you see congressman coming together on minimum wage? >> i don't. i could actually see a discussion if the left is willing to work with us on concepts of training wage, what actually really affects urban unemployment. because some of the data's actually a little dodgy in this debate. there's some fascinating numbers. if you look at what states went from blue tow red.take a look at the energy s around the country and there must be public policy which we're hoping both the right and left might be ;@le to find a way to hold hands and move forward on. >> woodruff: i do want to turn to some other potential &(van hollen that were raised today both by senator mcconnell who we assume is going to be the new senate majority leader. one of them is trade. another one has to do with tax reform. the president at his news conference this afternoon mentioned both. do you expect tangible progress on these? >> well, they both mentioned those things as you said. i think there's a possibility of moving forward on the infrastructure issue. there's wide spread agreement i believe that ourukod infrastruce in this country has become badly degraded and we need to modernize it. the next question is how to pay for it. there are some proposal the president has put forward and others have put forward where you can close some of the tax breaks that actually encourage american jobsnaby shutting downx breaks generate some revenue you can invest hereinfrastructso ite were meeting of the minds on that issue. on trade i think people will look on individual merits. what does any proposed agreement do help the american workers and the american economy. >> woodruff: congressman schweikert what about those two, do you see potential agreement in any of those areas. >> trade will be fascinating. it's already in the house for the trade promotion authority. i know that's difficult particularly for many democrats that have large union bases that may oppose those. on things such as transportation, infrastructure finances, many members have been working on trying to be much more creative in the funding of it. because right now even those tax breaks they help but they don't do, create enough capital, enough revenue. we're had discussions of could you use energy leases across the country and bondj9kso you get af infrastructure capital in a short period of time. so there's ideas out there. will we now do what's supposed to happen which is you battle through the ideas and hopefully come together and move legislation. >> woodruff: let me also ask bothwe heard senator mcconnell y to the president it would be a big mistake inuxwkf fact he sair the president to do executive action would be like waving a red flag in front of a bull. the president said that's exactly what he intends to do. congressman van hollen what do you expect on immigration. >> let's start withnñ ñ the fact new congress it goes away.he's e house and the new leader in the senate mitch mcconnell]"sto thee work this out. but the president n had beenafq8clear. we have to work something out. the president knows$cannot enace immigration bill through executive authority. the question is whether he could take some limited steps within hisoivúecutive authority as previous presidents have done. >> do you see grounds for agreement oil graduation, congressman schweikert. >> i hope the words are working out limited. the bored states are really hit heart. i must share with you i president takes unilateral action i believe he will turn the immigration issue toxic for the next decade. so this needsdisciplined andfol. and actually i think many of those in the house, being fromda border state. it's a complex issue with lots of moving parts. >> woodruff: in the final seconds we have left i want to ask both of you, do you feel the american people are going to see a congress that is?=0hñ functiog better after thisñw? election? congressman van hollen. >> the answer is, it depends on whether people are coming to washington ran on a platform of trying to work with the president and trying to engage in compromise for the common good. my fear is that too many of the candidates, especially a lot of of the tea party candidates continue to run on ano compromi. and therefore to deliver on their promise to their constituents, they have to continue to be up structionist. if people want to reach out and find common ground that's what the american people want that would be great. i'm an optimist like dave i hope that's happening. >> woodruff: congressman schweikert. >> there's huge issues and the votes are there with mechanics and negotiations but it's going to take the president to do something both, communicating with his left, with those from the right. actually showing up returning phone calls. he needs to basically do a bill clinton or george bush and that is engage in the process. not just in the bully pulpits but the human relationsthat wil. >> woodruff: congressman schweikert and van hollen. again congratulations to both. >> thank you, judy. >> ifill: let's dig a little deeper to see how what the candidates did, and did not, do, to influence the voters they were trying to persuade. for that, we turn again to stu rothenberg of the rothenberg political report, and amy walter of the cook political report. ni want to start by asking you guys, as you look through all last night and what actually happened, one of the things we sawzwas democrats play-by-play t worked for them before and that was appealing to women voters. how did that workr!time? >> well we still saw a gender gap. so republicans winning over men by double digits. democrats winning over women by0 single digits. so it still exists. thee7 problem for democrats ag women voters was they made up a smaller percent of0úelectorate a presidential year. and in some of the states colorado where they made the issue of been women's productive health really the main focus, they weren't able to actually change the make up. in fact, in colorado, less than half of the electorate were made up of women 48% which was down from even 2010. >> in 2012, women constituted 53% of the electorate and this time it was only 51%. iowa and north carolina the drop off was actually bigger, three points. >> ifill: cfjo there were women involved in the senate races. >> it's matters who votes. there's some evidence in a couple places republicans improve among certain subcategories, some singleyt women. but generally, absolutely. there's still a gender gap. >> ifill: another thing democrats were missing as part of the base was people who make less than $50,000 a year. we can take a lookin 2012 that t was 36% of the vote. doesn't sound like a lot but made a lot of difference in lot of places. >> when you talked to democrat they knew two things they needed to change the make up at the electorate. if it looks like a midterm electorate they were going to leave. they needed to expand it. and they also wanted to make the issue about the economy and talking)]"r about the voters ane same things president obama did in 212. making those contrasts what republicans did and what democrat does. they're talking about minimum wage or equity and nothing got through congress. and national issues got in the way as well. we talked more about ebola and isis and ferguson than we did about the economy and it showed. >> let me just add when you look in the exits in terms of how people felt about the economy, they felt that it is worse than they did a couple years ago and. it would be worse in the future. >> ifill: objectively so. >> it doesn't matter. what mattersv"ip is how they t. so kind of the democrats had tw. they had a fall-off from the lower socio-economic voters but they also had this perception the economy is getting worse. >> ifill: there's another piece of the play book which democrats tried to use against republicans kind of going after the rich guys. let's take a look at a piece of an ad that aired in georgia against david purdue who eventually won in his race. >> when it closed down, it was pretty much devastating. i don't think david purdue understands what happens to the people. they will runx#ci as fast as thy could with as much money as they could get out of the company. and pretty much left this hanging. >> ifill: not only did david purdue winmy&g in georgia, butk scott one in florida, who i think put $36 millionzñcampaign. and also in illinois he put $26 million into his campaign. sowó that didn't really stick. >> these guys are looking for the rich guys they are outsourcing jobs. part of the reason it didn't work goes back to what sue was saying voters don't believe that democrats are doing a better job on the economy either. when you're saying the contrast between what these guys have done and what you're going to get for having a democrat in that job there wasn't the belief democrats were going to make it better. >> two other points. first ofrrgin a presidential cah a presidential nominee. all eyes on him. and this was a very different kind of campaign. this is kind of part of the larger mix of the midterm election. the other thing is, this is a classic caseruzíd of democrats attempting localize. if they had been able to localize they wouldn't have made the election about these guys, their wealth and behavior as businessmen. they couldved8x localize that is too strong. >> ifill: one more thing about the democratic base. we talked last night about the obama coalition and how it seemed to shrink. last night single women and minorities who we always expect to see part of that coalition didn't show up in the same kinds of numbers they did in 2012, did they amy. >> no. when i looked at just the approval ratings among those voters in those we talked about so much last night, north carolina, iowa, colorado, you saw that it was not just a drop off in their interest in the race but the drop off in their approval rating of the president. significantly from 2012. not only did they not turn out because they didn't feel good about their current situation but they didn't feel good about the president. >> ifill: and they didn't show up. >> i made a quick list gwen of the group how this wasyzó0@6c0@. this was more male, it was older, it was less liberal, more republican, wealthier and they thought the country was headed more off on the wrong track and the wrong direction a couple years ago and that explain it. >> ifill: the end voters. stu rothenberg amy water thank you very much. >> sreenivasan: north carolina and georgia are two southern states that are changing demographically. but both went republican last night. let's turn to two people who were closely following the races in their home states. mac mccorkle teaches at the duke-sanford school of public policy in durham. and merle black is a professor of politics and government at emory university in atlanta. so mac mccorkle let me start with you. the kay hagan race there, was it a surprise. did you see how strong it was. >> i don't know14y if it was a surprise but it was a heart breaker for democrats. i think a lot of democrats felt like that kay hagan had run such a skillful campaign turning the tables on speaker thom tillis and his leadership on the state level that she might be able to break free from the national mood that was so sour against democrats especially in the south. she came close but in the end, the national mood prevailed in!a >> sreenivasan: merle black, what happened there. there was such a strong victory for david purdue. >> well i thinkíago it really le enjoyed a run off. they had done a very?>fh skillfl job of portraying david purdue but a businessman who didn't care about common people. i think that was working fairly well. a couple weeks out, president obama did an interview with a black radio station in atlanta in which he explicitly tied michelle nunn to the success of his program in congress. now this country, one of thewths really as a process candidate. she wasn't running so much as an independent who would go back and forth depending on the ideas. shey.n" mentioned george herbee did president barack obama. and so to appear to white voters and get the white vote up to a level where democrats could be elected, the target was 30%. the biggest democratic problem in georgia is that in the past elections, they have only been able to get in the low 20's among white voters. barack obama got it in 2008 and marybled round up with 23%. what happened when the president interviewed, they created a commercial on radio and television matt went all over the state of georgia, nationalized the race took the interest off purdue. and in purdue march did everything to tie>óç to barack obama. that's nut enough to win ink/=;a state like georgia. >> sreenivasan: i want to asklf north+zway that the democrats fy had possibilities last night and even two years from now. >> yes. the demographics are changing but this was a midterm election. it was a little bigger of a midterm election than in the past. but it still was a midterm election, so it was older, whiter. i think over 70% of the voters were 40 years old or older. and so this wasn't the electorate that obama thrived in in 2008. people knew that and so that.whg but they did feel like kay hagan had a chance to break that and it's just simply the national mood was too strong. >> sreenivasan: merle black john borrow's race in georgia when he lost he became the last white democrat in the deep south. so are we looking at not just ad but also their leadership? >> well yes. the democrats really have a problem among white voters in the deep south. it's been a situation for some time right now and they really need to have candidates who can solve that problem for them. now there is an out for the democrats. agent edwards madeó% the run of in louisiana. he was actually elected in a run off. he would become like john, the last white democrat ina÷-é bigs. >> sreenivasan: mac mccorkle you've watched this for a generation now,prbseen the demoe souths.>> well, north carolina, virginia and florida had certainly changed to the extent that there's hope in presidential years. but i would agree with merle black that in the rest of the south, whether it's a midterm or whether it's the presidential election year, the problem for the democrats with white voters is getting so severe that the talk about demography changing the south and liberalizing the south i think is very questionable. especially in the deep south states. north carolina, the pocket's strength in north carolina for the democrats are the metropolitan and urban areas. but the republicans remain strong in the suburbs and strong in the rural areas. even in a place like north carolina. now that can be different in +north carolina will be in play in 2016. >> sreenivasan: okay. >> virginia will be in play. but is the rest of the south, it'sg>> sreenivasan: mac mccore and merle black, thanks so much for your time. >> thank you. >> ifill: one recurring theme in speeches, debates and campaign ads this election season: how the white house has tackled foreign policy from isis to iran to ebola. but was that just political talk or could last night's results affect u.s. foreign policy and the way we are perceived abroad? for that, we turn to chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner. margaret one of the first things the president mentioned today in his news conference and other people mentioned too in ads is this question about isis and isil and whether the u.s. could be pressured to be more about that. >> the republicans are critical for president obama for not calling on the syrian army earlier so they could build a fighting force and the extremists couldn't come in the back. when the president finally ordered bombing attacks both in iraq and syria, the republicans were supportive. at the same time they didn't want to vote, nobody wanted to vote before the election. so we really didn't have a debate here. the president's sick today that's one of the top items on his agenda on friday. he wants a new updated authorization of military force because the current law really applies to al-qaeda and its allies. it's a new sticking point which is that senator john mccain is expected to be chairman of the house services committee. he's arguing that this bombing only campaign isn't enough. that you got to get u.s. special forces on the ground, you got to get field advisors with the iraqi and kurdish troops and he will use theny chairman of the committee for.j profilehearings and questionine error fectiveness of this bombing on the campaign. >> ifill: secondary spot hot. iran, an ongoing discussion about sanctions and that coming to a head as well. >> absolutely. november 24th, secretary kerry has been working for nearly a year now. november 24th is the deadline to come up with a deal that would restrict the program, that it wasn't going to get wentens andk session now republicans and many democrats have wanted to pass already a bill a triggered sanctions mechanism saying to iran if you don't get serious and do a deal by x date y will happen. harry reid held off because he said that will completely blow, up with the hard liers back in iran. i think secretary kerry and even republicans say he's got still this two month during the lame duck. they don't expect harry reid to flip on that but senator mcconnell said over and over he's going to hold such a vote. so secretary kerry, the negotiations aren't done yet, he's meeting later this week or weekend, the iranian foreign minister. but you got a little wiggal room for twoqçs; onths but otherwisehe's going tn congress that's more hawkish, more suspicious and also more sensitive to israel's opposition to any deal. >> ifill: in ukraine it's more hawkish when it comes to russia. >> absolutely. what you have amongreally i thir that distrust the russians. and putin. it could lead. and they have argued over and over one that the obama administration should have given lethal aid, lethal military assistance to the kiev government not just mres and night vision goggles. and secondly that should have imposed much tougher sanctions on russia than these targeted on individuals and subsectors. i think come january if the kiev government continues to request it, there will be a push to give them so-called lethal assistance. and secondly, that there will be a real push tod6&zñkon russia. if russia, russian troops and its separatists stay in eastern ukraine as they are now, there will be a real pushúñ to impose tough sanctions, sector-wide that do not wait for europeans to coordinate as the president has. >> ifill: briefly are there any areas thaac2; mitch mcconnel today mentioned international trade agreement. >> so did president obama indirectly yes. the president and republican leadership share the goal of concluding partnership. and the president asked asia to look at that andz: i think you maysee some cooper. >> ifill: margaret warrener, a pleasure. thank you. >> woodruff: one thing's true in politics, it's never too early to start thinking about the next election. so what do last night's results mean for both parties as they plan for the race for the white house? we're joined by two veterans of political campaigns. jeff link is a longtime democratic strategist who worked most recently on bruce braley's senate campaign in iowa. he also worked on both of president obama's campaigns in 2008 and 2012. and doug heye is a veteran campaign consultant and a former communications director for the republican national committee. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: so doug heye for you first, what are the matters coming out of the election not only for 2016 but right now before we talk about the presidential. >> first and fusaw from mitch mt our message is going to be today and the coming week as we go from the lame duck session into the new congress. that's one of republicans need to be able to2governance. i can health you working for eric cantor we saw a lot of dysfunction in the house of representatives and the senate. it's important that theuurepuble things we pay awe too much to and make headlines every week like immigration or tax reform but the day to day governance that just hasn't happened in washington. pass appropriation bills. pass the=] basis so far this year that have been stuck in the senate. we can pass trade deals that the president supports but haven't gotten to his desk. those kinds of things can show republicans and democrats andin. >> woodruff: jeff, what would you say the messu9áis. >> i think the message to democrats from yesterday's election was the party in control of the whitehouse, mid terms are tough and i think that's qó2it's similar to 2006,t bush faced a midterm in 2006 where he lost 30 seats in the congress. it's just difficult in these midterm elections for the party that controls the whitehouse. >> woodruff: does the democratic party, jeff link, need to think differently about how it approaches the next presidential election? because were the voters saying something to democrats about we don't like what you stand for, do you think? >> no. i don't think it was as much about the message that the democrats delivered in these races. i thinkuqu-g it's a lot about o made up the electorate. here in iowa for instance, we had slightly lower turnout yesterdayfor democrats to win, o have a bigger electorate. we have to have more people participating in the process. we&5b@ have to have a message t drives people out to the polls. but it's really the make up of these midterm electorates. it's a real advantage for the republicans. >> woodruff: you can talk about that doug heye but i want to ask you abouttby=perceive rio pulses on3rmf the republican p, mainstream part and the part that is what mitch mcconnell said today we want to0zr work withthe president. and other republicans who are saying wait a minute, we're going to washington to hold our ground. >> that's something i dealt with pretty personallym,é5 for the pt sometimes pulled ropes being voted on in the house of the representatives. it will be a challenge for thero march together in locked step especially when there's a complication of and we're already seeing this with rand mall and ted cruz starting to take out their position for 2016. that's why i think it's important we start doing some of things that are the day to day governance. again appropriations bill are not sexy and what people talk about but we can get those done. >> woodruff: you mentioned rand paul. he campaigned in 34 different states for candidates in this midterm election. does he come out of this with a reg up for 2016. >> i think he'scéhe's aggressivs 2016 and that he's preparing to run against hillarynot necessarn voters. he put on his face book page told what he called hillary's losers. everybody who is hillary clinton campaigned for in the past months and who lost. he remarked las ;+ú night multiplethe networks. he's gunningclinton and that's r 2016. >> woodruff: he was in your area for campaigning for a congressman who was in 15 or 20 different states. of the candidates she campaigned for didn't win.does that weakene considers a run for the presidency. >> no, i don't think so. i mean, i think many people here in the state were happy to see her. not only once but twice this fall. and i think she was a big?÷swyñ. it wasn't because she wasn't going to help or bill clinton wasn't going to help but again it's a tough year to run as a democrat. she was traveling around the country for democratic kanlt dates and they weren't all successful. >> woodruff: do you think there was a message in this campaign then for her and for the kind of campaign she needs to think about if she decides to run andwill. >> yes. i think her message should not be just a generic dem7n2nh(c message. i think it has tong+$ relate tor experience and her background and what shaped her and where she wants to take the country. you have to pit issues that really demonstrate who you are and not just the laundry list of democratic issues. >> woodruff: that brings me back to you doug heye for republicans. are they, do they come out of this election with some sort of signal that they can run farther to the right,l jr?mtç that they need tolean to. >> i think they need to show they can get things done and post results. that will be interesting to see what governors run. i think they could be embolden. if jeb bush runs he's always shown to be one of the adults in the room. that would be a real strength for them. they're about legislating and getting things done. for hillary clinton how does she run intheir backs. >> woodruff: doug >> ifill: as we wrap up our show tonight, we want to take a big picture look at the election. what do the results tell us about the ideas and groups that voters like? and which ideas they reject our political reporter and editor lisa desjardins presents a few of the winners and losers. jeff link thank boats.>> one ofg last night was not a political party but an industry. energy. the oil and gas producers of a republican controlled senate means much better odds for the keystone5éfor coal it means greh back against the epa. in some ways yesterday. >> we got?xú>> voters in oregond washington d.c. passed an initiative legalizing the private sale for possession of marijuana. one hit for the movement. medical marijuana failed to gain enough support last night in florida. winner number three, minimum wage workers. five states, arkansas, alaska, illinois, member and south dakota all passed measures approving or endorsing raises for their lowest paid workers. so good night for them. a terrible night for southern democrats with the title senator. >> i must confess, that i have some sadness tonight. >> i will always be grateful for the trust that you placed in me. >> incumbents kay hagan and mark pryor went down in north carolina and arkansas and in virginia democrat mark warner is in front but barely. it's too close to call. that leaves a small handful of democratic senators across the south with one in2 kx louisianastill very much in . they love that but they had a mixed night on one of their big issues. tennessee gave lawmakers more power to implement restrictions onqnanti-abortion movement lostg on measures in colorado and north dakota, which would have defined life at an early stage of development. finally, the last also lost on the issue, the push to labelgenetically modified foods failed. there was a big night but some more social and societal issues except for marijuana went no where. >> again >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. president obama pledged to work with the newly dominant republicans in the house and senate. but he said there could still be showdowns over immigration and his health care law. and the next senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, called for cooperation on trade and taxes. but he warned the president against going too far on immigration. >> woodruff: on the newshour online right now we follow up on a story we brought you last week on teen sexting which is sending nude or provocative photos with your cell phone. in many jurisdictions, it's a felony under child pornography laws. so what should parents know? join us in a twitter chat where we'll address some of the issues details are on our rundown. all that and more is on our web site, pbs.org/newshour. >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on thursday, how one community in indonesia rebuilds ten years after a devastating tsunami. i'm gwen ifill. and i'm judy 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