, that's monitor russ. he put people in prison for criticizing them. he sent a lot of his awful an awful lot to places like angola to help other revolutions in process. here is my medical question. why does the left make. it doesn't hurt anything to recognize. >> yes, go ahead. >> there are figures, professor, who are just clarifying. again, if you put dissidence in prison. if people are afraid to speak your name in public. if your secret police keeps orders which his did. i don't think any of those facts are up for dispute. >> yes, they are up for dispute. >> how could anything -- >> -- you're forgetting the factor that the united states has been trying to overthrow castro since august of 1959. so, this has made the government very paranoid there. we try to aassassinate him and try doo all these horrible things to him. nationalism there. keep that in mind there the just government behind all this. >> right, of course, basically what he tapped into was international hatred of the united states. you know the truth which is nobody would defend castro any didn't hate the united states

-- look, that's monitor russ. he put people in prison for criticizing them. he sent a lot of his awful an awful lot to places like angola to help other revolutions in process. here is my medical question. why does the left make excuses for monsters like fidel castro. >> because he has become a symbol not just in cuba but throughout the world for people who have believe it or not seeking freedom and seeking opportunities. remember, he ahe abolished segregation in cuba. he supported national movements across the world in age where there were colonies and empires. that made him very attractive to loot of people. for me it's difficult to say this because i'm really not the extreme left. all my life i have been caught between those who hate castro and those who worship him. and all of my life i have been trying to bring a little bit of the cuban people together there. it doesn't hurt anything to recognize. >> yes, go ahead. >> there are figures, professor, who are just clarifying. again, if you put dissidence in prison. if people are afraid to speak your name in public. if your secret polic

yard. >> not going in our yard, russ, it's going in our living room. >> here some tips on picking the perfect tree. welcome back. >> how is it going? >> you have been doing this nine years? >> nine years. >> you know what you're doing. >> sort of. >> everything is about real or fake trees and i think a lot of people think i have a fake tree because i can reuse it and it might be better for the environment or something like that but real trees have real advantages. >> so real trees are great, basically what we like about real trees, all we deal with our fresh cut real trees, they have the smell that you can't get and there's a lot of nostalgia. people remember going out with their family and getting the tree but there's a lot of other benefits that you get from a real tree. for every one tree cut, three are planted. it is highly sustainable but big industry. it's 1 billion with a "b" dollars that goes into the industry. >> and you can drink hot chocolate. >> it's a family affair. >> this is jobs for local communities and growers and cutters and truckers and i think the question people

most own russ votes that a member of congress can take. what the debt ceiling and this possible, you know, refunding of the government come march presents is an opportunity. paul ryan always says this is when we get deals. maybe a deal on taxes. maybe a deal on bringing down entitlement spending, medicare, medicaid, social security. the biggest drivers of the debt. that's what's going to happen in march. that could be the first potential crisis that donald trump faces. >> you see people chofmping at the bit to replace obama care and repeal. not that easy. >> not that easy. they did that -- the president vetoed it this time. i want to give you a vocabulary term here. budget reconciliation. it's a way that you can sidestep senate filibusters. you can go from 60 to 51. you need 60 to cut off a filibuster. if they bring the garden variety repeal and replace bills to the floor, senates will filibuster that. if theyco do it through a budget reconciliation, they can bring that bar down to 51. the trick here, elizabeth, is they have to pass a budget in the house of representatives. that

russ relationship with even republicans on the senate floor, is this something you would put someone in a position where he may have trouble getting confirmed. >> first, h he has not been appointed or nominated for anything at this moment. to answer your question, there is something called senatorial courtesy and often you see, eric, in these processes that republicans and democrats lay down their partisan, you know, their partisan armor and they come together and they say i'm going to go and vote for someone i served with in the senate. that depends on the position. that's hypothetical at this point since he hasn't been nominated or appointed for something. senator cruz has a very important voice and has shown his courage in pushing through issues when others are crying divided government, we can't do that we have a democratic president. okay. is he absolutely right. we are going to rely on senator cruz to be a very strong voice. we are very happy he visited president-elect trump here at the tower on tuesday. it was a great meeting. >> kellyanne conway thank you for joining us. cong

table, sheryl, heather childers, dr. steve o'brien, russ cagniglio, gigi stone. i'm very appreciative. kyle nolan, thank you for all your help for producing that, helping with all of that, and my friend who designed by dress which was absolutely -- >> we need the music ae iic at oscars. >> you can't wrap me. i'm in charge of this. most importantly, "today is a day" we're immensely proud of her here at fox news channel. god bless arinsley and her daughter who was the inspiration. again, ainsley, wonderful job, super proud of you. >> yay. >> i'll go next. thomas jefferson, known as dec independence, words "all men created equal" although he was a slave owner is father of the library of congress and also father of the university of virginia. so get this, some uva students now want to forget about thomas jefferson due to tension on campus following the election results, uva president teresa sullivan sent an e-mail out with a quote from jefferson meant to encourage students tooin hands, to unify, and act together in a spirit of harmony. apparently, 469 students and faculty found the mentio

type of democrat. if you were a populist like russ feingold in wisconsin, a centrist like murphy of florida, you lost. >> big, big losses. with president barack obama on his way out and the clintons fading after a devastating loss, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren emerge as leaders for liberals. both acknowledge they will work with mr. trump to help working class americans, but will also fight to defend minorities. they both say the current democratic party establishment has lost touch with america's working class voters. the same blue collar working who gave mr. trump upset victories in michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. sanders tweeting, quote, the democratic party has to be focused on grassroots america and not wealthy people attending cocktail parties. backed by sanders, representative keith elslison - former governor martin o'malley has emerged as a possibility for the position. democrats have little time to regroup. they must define 25 senate seats in 2018, 13 of which are in states president elect trump won or narrowly lost. >> fascinating, bryan llenas reporting. thank

you were a populist like russ feingold, if you were a centrist like murphy of florida, you lost. all wings of the party have some soul searching to do. everyone paid a price tuesday night. there's no way around it. >> we just saw two pieces about this. what is your assessment of why it's happening? is this about president owe comba obama? is this about messaging? is this about the party going too far left? >> president obama is a popular president. if you believe the polls and of course the polls haven't been the most accurate. here is what i think is the big problem. there's an economic crisis in this country which is this. there are these huge forces, technology and globalization, and i think neither party have addressed that for the middle class. they have not figured out how to make those forces work for people rather than work against people. they are throwing out each party, they are giving them four or eight years and then they are throwing them out. if they don't deliver. it's most difficult policy problem for government to try and solve. but voters feel this is not happening

like russ feingold, if you were a centrist like murphy of florida, you lost. all wings of the party have some soul searching to do. everyone paid a price tuesday night. there's no way around it. >> we just saw two pieces about this. what is your assessment of why it's happening? is this about president owe comba obama? is this about messaging? is this about the party going too far left? >> president obama is a popular president. if you believe the polls and of course the polls haven't been the most accurate. here is what i think is the big problem. there's an economic crisis in this country which is this. there are these huge forces, technology and globalization, and i think neither party have addressed that for the middle class. they have not figured out how to make those forces work for people rather than work against people. they are throwing out each party, they are giving them four or eight years and then they are throwing them out. if they don't deliver. it's most difficult policy problem for government to try and solve. but voters feel this is not happening. that's what we sa

defending his seat against russ feingold there. that was considered one of the most vulnerable seats in the senate and democrats in the late days poured in millions of dollars, $2 million or more in the last two weeks alone, which is a lot of money for that state. florida senator, marco rubio defeating patrick murphy. ohio's rob portman fending off ted strickland. pennsylvania senator pat toomey winning a tight race against katie mcginty. richard burr beating deborah ross. two races have not been decided yet. it's too close to call in new hampshire. the republican senator, kelly ayotte leads democrat maggie hassan by less than 2,000 votes. ayotte pulled her endorsement of donald trump last month after the "access hollywood" tape was leaked. still to be determined what the impact of that will be. then louisiana, open seat. we'll head to runoff election next month. it will be the democrat foster campbell against republican john kennedy. let's talk about the house. democrats made some gains. a net gain of six seats with a few races that are still outstanding at this hour. republicans still

, versus russ feingold, that was in wisconsin, florida, marco rubio in ohio of course you had rob big one todd young beat evan bayh that was really close in indiana. do any of these surprise you? >> i mean to be frank, no individual race surprised me. i think the aggregate certainly surprises me. i am surprised at how well republicans have done overall in a year where the math was so tough for them. they were defending a couple of dozen senate seats, democrats only had to hold onto i think the number was ten, and it's really just a remarkable victory. it's hard to-you know, it would have been hard to say, are marco rubio's coattails pulling donald trump or are donald trump's coattails pulling marco rubio? i think it's pretty clear trump had a positive effect for the republican ballot. >> you look at this now, and there seem to have been a real disconnect between the mainstream media and how maybe hollywood and others were talking about this and the rest of the country and how they were feeling. >> no question about that. i mean you know, seeing the fact that i'm a little bit closer, i

race they're keeping on eye on is the rematch between democrat russ feingold and republican ron johnson. johnson came from a deficit. he hit the ground hard. got a lot of help from the party and turned this into a dead heat. now early voting in wisconsin has been shattering records. turnout has been very heavy in liberal dane county advantage feingold. it's also been heavy in the population centers, populated counties around milwaukee advantage johnson. this is going to be one to keep an eye on. it's going to be a squeaker. paul ryan, himself, has an opponent, his campaign isn't worried about this guy. they think he's going to make easy work of him. greater concern for fall ryan is the shape of the republican majority when all the dust settles out here and the shape of republican unity following this bruising campaign. bret? >> mike tobin in wisconsin. mike, thank you. >> next in nevada where congressman joe heck has a chance of flipping a solid democrat senate seat red. the seat is currently held by five-term democratic senator and minority leader harry reid who is retiring. ch

about 14 points down and it looks like russ feingold is one of those republican going to lose that seat. what happens in wisconsin that allowed you to close the gap? >> i've been telling the truth. senator feingold who is a 34-year career politician has anything good to show for it. a lot of badff. his campaign has been relentlely negative, false, lies, distortions. class war fare. hillary clinton. he's got his own email scandal. americans are looking for real change. they realize career politicians like senator feingold and hillary clinton made this mess. they built this swamp. no one is going to look at them to fitch it. we need some change agents. that's me. that's donald trump. >> we saw your numbers went up when donald trump went up. do you credit him for your success? >> i've been telling the truth. i've been laying out ads that are very positive, talking bch reuniting families with their adopted children. the joseph project. we've been telling the truth about myself. but also telling the truth about senator feingold in his own words. how he said people are pretending obamaca

whites in western pennsylvania and northern michigan and throughout the russ belt hillary claim their government tomorrow. they will have an opportunity by voting for donald trump. >> we will all be here again tomorrow night. >> we will to wrap it all up. >> we will be here for the historic day. >> "fox and friends first" is next. stay with us at the top of the hour. . . . . >>> so it's now officially tuesday, november 8th. >> and it is november 8th, the day that we make america great again! >> between now and the time the poll closes tomorrow we are going to be living on a prayer. >> this is not the sound of a second place finisher. >> i believe america's best days are still ahead of us. >> if you can dream it, you can do it, you can be it. that's what this race is about. that's why we need your help. let's go win! >> we are finally going to close the history books on the clintons and their lies and schemes and

. russ feingold, ron johnson. rematch here. democrats have said johnson is the most vulnerable republican or the second most close to kirk in illinois. the last two or three weeks the race has tightened. the last couple of polls show a one or two-point race. there's a lot of activists in wisconsin. part of that scott walker machine. if ron johnson keeps his seat, they good sign for the republicans. >> finally, missouri. the show-me state. >> this is the opposite of wisconsin. this is the state that republicans thought they never had to worry about. roy blunt was expected to coast. it's a republican-leaning state. he's struggled. jason kan der has run strong ads on gun rights and other issues. this is a state that, if blunt hangs on to win and he's barely ahead in the polls, he's going to thank donald trump because trump is carrying the state. one important note about all of these things. we talk about these individual states, a lot of years toss-up senate races all break one way or the other depending on turnout. it's entirely possible that either party could sweep most or all

wisconsin. incumbent republican senator ron johnson appears to be closing the gap with democrat russ feingold, whose lead is now less than three points in the latest real clear politics average, down from almost 7 last week. but in pennsylvania, it's the democrat who is gaining with katie mcginty overtaking incumbent republican senator, pat toomey. she now leads in the real clear politics average by almost three points. that race was tied just one week ago. so a couple of weeks ago, dan, the republican senate looked like it was lost. now there is people that i know, pollsters of people saying, they could sneak through with a majority with 51. what's happened? >> well, the senate is going to be tuesday night's undercard and it is going to be exciting. it's going to be so much fun to watch it. because, look, the almighty polls have been flipped from one end to the other in a lot of these races. and some weeks kelly ayotte is down by four. a week later, she's up over -- >> but what accounts for ayotte's rally? >> well, i think because ayotte has been running a pretty strong campaign. mo

democrat russ feingold. we saw eric trump show up yesterday stumping for ron johnson. outside groups, 45 of them have swooped in on wisconsin. 16 spending money for air time. the big republican machine here in wisconsin, that got governor scott walker through the recall and then through reelection, now votes that they have knocked on 1.6 million doors on johnson's behalf. >> it would have been nice to have the posse come around a little bit sooner. but bottom line, i'm glad they're here now. i think it will make all the difference. the polls show how close this race is. >> reporter: paul speaker paul ryan has been stumping for johnson as well. the reports that he said he was not interested in campaigning for the speaker are simply not true. when governor pence speaks, anticipate he will clear up any doubt as to whether he supports his longtime friend, paul ryan, for the speaker's position. but the primary goal for governor pence when he gets here, of course, is to support his own ticket, or drum up support for his own ticket and put the johnson race over the top as many people will s

may help blunt pull out a win. >> let's take a look at wisconsin, russ feingold, a former senator is challenging the incumbent ron johnson, the man who beat him, fine gold looks like he is doing pretty good. the average suggests that what do you think, molly. >> this is fascinating people thought this was over weeks ago. now everybody. >> talking about the national republican senatorial. >> they have given up on him. >> they have given up. everybody thought it was done. fine gold popular figure. hillary clinton is ahead. all thall of a sudden people are back in fighting this one out because everything is moving in johnson's direction. i do think fine gold will still pull it out. he has the momentum and advantages just in terms of the state keeping it close. >> agree. latest polls have them in a statistical tie. it's possible that jobs can pull out a win on this. >> tough state. >> it is a tough state. >> and, of course, trump has gotten closer there. and i guess has gone in. >> there yeah. >> which suggests. >> closer. yeah. it's closer for trump but he is still not necessarily going

johnson is the current senator and he's running against russ feingold. it shows they are 45 to 44%. why are they neck and neck now? >> first of all, all those consultants in washington were just wrong. when we were here on the ground we knew this race was going to be a lot tighter and it's showing that it is. listen, obamacare has made a big difference in this. russ feingold was a big supporter of it. he made all the promises to the voters that obamacare was going to let them keep their health care and their doctors and he was a very big deciding vote on obamacare and ron johnson is holding that against him. he's got great ads on obamacare, and so i think that's playing big but listen that bombshell against on friday is another big reason. people want to have a check on the clintons in case they win this election. listen, that marquette poll shows that wisconsin is a six-point race. i think it's much closer than that. although i know that the marquette poll is notoriously being known as a very good poll, in this case, i think it's a little tighter, they oemp sampled democrats by s

actually russ feingold by northeasterly 7 points. >> polling had it for republicans late movement in both parties has convinced me there is some concern on the democrats' part that johnson is not totally out of it but this one does lean democrat. >> new hampshire has been close for a long time law seeing there. >> flat dead heat in new hampshire. ayotte unlike blunt in missouri has had a different relationship with trump. she disavowed trump. she is running with governor hasan and it's been a very close race. >> both of those candidates are popular with the voters, aren't they. >> they are. both have been popular and both have had interesting journeys in their campaign. they have had ups and downs, republicans feel good about ayotte's campaign skills. if trump doesn't win new hampshire. >> then it's not very close up there for him, is it. >> not at the moment. again, this is another state where you can see if clinton falters at the end, even if she holds onto the white house loses a few states like new hampshire wins it but wins it close you can see where ayotte can win and republica

where they are really looking at that senate race and clinton is trying to help russ feingold win wisconsin there. >>> coming up next, behind the scenes of james comey decision to reopen the clinton case. plus, judge jeanine pir row is here live to react to that. there she is in the green room. he gets hungry. why do you spray that? well, it magically keeps the dough from sticking here live to react to that. there she is in the green room. with pam nothing gets stuck. ♪ >>> the president believes that director comey is a man of integrity, he's a man of principle and he's a man of good character. these same character traits are what led a strong majority of democratic and republican senators to confirm him to this job. these are the traits that the president selected him to be the director of the fbi. >> after fbi director james comey recommended against indicting hillary clinton or charges that is to say, and considered the investigation into her email over back in july, he was reportedly overwhelmed with resignation requests and regret, this according to a close source of comey